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Title to copyright in this software, database and \nany associated documentation shall at all times remain with \nPrinceton University and LICENSEE agrees to preserve same. \n" } ], "entries": [ { "slug": "111", "title": "111", "type": "numbers", "category": "Angel numbers", "tagline": "Three similar marks can be read together or used for different tasks.", "summary": "111 can appear as a label, a quantity or three repeated marks. What you needed to identify or count gives the scene its context.", "aliases": [ "111" ], "status": "DRAFT", "updated": "2026-10-14", "psychological": "111 can be a small, distinct detail in a dream rather than an instruction about starting something. If it identifies your room or request, its usefulness lies in being recognized. A correct label that leads you where you intended can picture an ordinary arrangement working, without needing a more dramatic meaning.\n\nThe three ones may also be noticed for their appearance. If they are drawn as narrow vertical marks, you might see one repeated motif before reading a quantity. This can explore a detail being enjoyed visually instead of immediately translated into a task. A repeated design and the number one hundred and eleven serve different purposes.\n\nWhen 111 is an actual count, the issue can be what belongs in that total. Having more items than you can examine individually may resemble a responsibility described through a figure while the separate needs remain less visible. This is a comparison with the count’s use, not a meaning inherent in the digit one.\n\nA familiar address, record or recently viewed screen can supply this exact string. These possibilities would also fit other numbers in similar scenes. The exact recall helps identify your dream’s detail; it does not establish a special message or make 111 interchangeable with 1111.", "traditional": "No number-specific historical account is attached to this entry. The reading follows the digits’ role in the dreamed scene rather than an angel-number code. NINDS supplies general background on dreaming and waking experiences; it does not validate these original comparisons.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "111 on a room label brings you to the place you wanted", "reflection": "The identifier makes an arrangement usable. This may picture satisfaction with a clear practical step, such as finding where you belong for an activity. The scene’s ease can concern having the information you need at the right point, leaving room to join the occasion itself." }, { "title": "You draw three narrow ones as a repeated motif", "reflection": "The marks have a visual task rather than measuring an amount. This may picture enjoyment in a simple repeated form or choosing how a detail should look. Their regularity can be satisfying within an activity where making something pleasing matters more than giving it an identifying reference." }, { "title": "A box says 111 items but you need to inspect each one", "reflection": "The total does not answer the practical question you have. This may resemble a responsibility summarized by its size while individual differences still require attention. The difficulty belongs to the relation between the count and the task, rather than a hidden warning contained in the number." } ], "prompts": [ "How was 111 being used in the scene?", "What mattered about the separate marks or items behind the number?", "What familiar place or task, if any, connects with this exact string?" ], "related": [ "numbers", "1111", "counting" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "An identifier doing its job", "reflection": "A correctly recognized label can make an ordinary task work." }, { "title": "Marks before a quantity", "reflection": "A repeated visual motif may be seen or made without needing calculation." }, { "title": "A total and its separate items", "reflection": "A figure can describe a group while leaving individual needs less visible." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "1111", "title": "1111", "type": "numbers", "category": "Angel numbers", "tagline": "Four identical digits can simplify a task or make small differences harder to see.", "summary": "1111 can focus on exact matching, a repeated label or how four identical digits are used. Its task differs from the clock display 11:11.", "aliases": [ "1111" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "psychological": "A dream of 1111 can place emphasis on keeping an exact string intact. Four identical digits look simple, yet a task may depend on there being four rather than three. If you are copying the number, entering it or carrying it to somebody, the scene can explore a requirement that seems easy until precision matters. This reading concerns the dreamed task, not a meaning assigned to the digit one.\n\nAn entry code accepted without difficulty may picture familiarity becoming useful. You already possess what the situation asks for, and access does not require an elaborate performance. This could fit joining a group through a straightforward arrangement or finding that a routine you know is sufficient. The satisfaction can lie in an ordinary action working as expected.\n\nIf 1111 is rejected because you entered 111, the small omission matters more than the grand appearance of the number. A waking comparison might be a form missing one detail or a conversation where both people assume the other understands the final step. Repeating the same attempt differs from discovering what the task actually requires. The dream cannot decide the outcome of an actual application or account.\n\nThe repeated form can also make separate things look interchangeable. Several lockers bearing 1111 may leave you without the distinction needed to locate your own belongings. This can resemble receiving the same description for people or responsibilities that need individual recognition. Conversely, four repeated marks on a fabric may be pleasing because no identification is needed; visual regularity can be enjoyed without being decoded.\n\nSomeone pronouncing the digits separately may help you follow a particular string, while hearing a quantity changes the purpose. A recently encountered label or personal reference can supply direct context. An unpunctuated 1111 need not be turned into the time 11:11, and a clock display belongs to that separate reading. The useful question is what the four positions allow or prevent in this scene, rather than whether repetition makes the number an instruction from outside the dream.", "traditional": "No number-specific historical account is attached to this entry. The reading follows the digits’ role in the dreamed scene rather than an angel-number code. NINDS supplies general background on dreaming and waking experiences; it does not validate these original comparisons.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "A code marked 1111 opens the door on the first attempt", "reflection": "A plain requirement is met without struggle. This may picture being able to use something you already know, without needing an elaborate performance. A familiar routine or an uncomplicated welcome may offer a waking comparison when the arrangement itself feels sufficient to let you take part." }, { "title": "You enter 111 and discover that the final digit is missing", "reflection": "The difficulty comes from a small omission rather than lack of effort. This can resemble a practical arrangement where one overlooked detail keeps an otherwise understandable task unfinished. Adding the needed position offers a different response from repeating the incomplete attempt with greater urgency." }, { "title": "Every locker has the same 1111 label", "reflection": "The repeated identifier removes the distinction it should provide. This may picture responsibilities or possessions being treated as interchangeable when individual recognition matters. A shared description can feel practical until a particular belonging, contribution or need has to be distinguished from everything grouped alongside it." }, { "title": "Another person says each of the four digits while you write", "reflection": "The exchange gives a simple string a shared pace and clear purpose. This may picture a task becoming easier through an explanation that fits how you are participating. Cooperation here concerns making an instruction usable, rather than the other person delivering a hidden numerical message." }, { "title": "1111 forms a pleasing repeated pattern across a piece of fabric", "reflection": "The digits are being seen rather than used to calculate or unlock anything. This may picture enjoyment of regularity, making or arranging something whose appearance satisfies you. There need not be a task concealed in the pattern; the pleasure can be part of the scene’s meaning." }, { "title": "A familiar 1111 label appears among possessions from an earlier place", "reflection": "The exact string can locate a particular memory within a new occasion. This may bring an earlier routine, relationship or responsibility alongside your present concerns. That familiarity can be welcome support or an awkward fit, depending on how the older arrangement meets what the current occasion needs." } ], "prompts": [ "What depended on there being exactly four digits in this scene?", "How did the repeated form help or interfere with the task?", "What personal setting or exchange made this particular string recognizable?" ], "related": [ "111", "11-11", "numbers", "password" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Exactness within apparent simplicity", "reflection": "Four identical digits can still require an exact length or a clearly understood task." }, { "title": "Familiar access", "reflection": "An uncomplicated action working can picture permission or competence without extra performance." }, { "title": "Sameness that helps or obscures", "reflection": "Repetition may be attractive as a pattern yet unhelpful when individual things need different labels." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "11-11", "title": "11:11", "type": "numbers", "category": "Angel numbers", "tagline": "A memorable time still gets its purpose from the day around it.", "summary": "A clock showing 11:11 can explore waiting, a shared appointment or an ordinary pause. The digits do not establish a message or an outcome.", "aliases": [ "11:11" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "psychological": "A clock reading 11:11 can make one moment unusually definite within a dream. That moment may be when somebody should arrive, when an activity begins or when you allow yourself to stop. The display gives the scene a time to organize around. Its purpose depends on what is happening at that hour, rather than on a promise attached to the repeated digits.\n\nWaiting for an appointment at 11:11 can picture anticipation becoming concentrated on a precise point. If the meeting matters more than everything before it, ordinary time may feel like preparation or delay. This could resemble waiting for a conversation, a delivery or a decision you cannot advance alone. A calm wait can instead hold confidence that there is room for the arrangement to unfold.\n\nWhen 11:11 stays on the screen while activities continue, the clock ceases to measure the experience you are having. The scene may picture a schedule that no longer describes your circumstances, such as an old deadline remaining prominent after priorities change. It can also make a welcome interval feel spacious. Stopped time is not necessarily experienced as confinement.\n\nTwo people using different clock readings bring shared coordination into view. You may each be ready according to your own information while failing to meet at the same moment. This offers a comparison with expectations that need to be made explicit. The dream does not decide which person is more reliable or reveal how an actual meeting will go.\n\nA routine break at 11:11 can be simply useful: a recognizable cue that allows a chosen action. Ignoring the clock to remain with a satisfying activity raises a different possibility, concerning who sets the pace and whether the current occasion needs a deadline. The exact display may also come from a familiar device or a time recently noticed while awake. Here 11:11 is a time, not the unpunctuated string 1111 or a calendar date. A remembered hour can contribute personal context without becoming evidence of outside guidance.", "traditional": "No number-specific historical account is attached to this entry. The reading follows the digits’ role in the dreamed scene rather than an angel-number code. NINDS supplies general background on dreaming and waking experiences; it does not validate these original comparisons.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "You wait calmly for a meeting due at 11:11", "reflection": "The definite time gives anticipation a manageable boundary. This may picture an arrangement you can leave room for without constantly trying to accelerate it. The calm wait can resemble giving a planned conversation time to unfold while other parts of the day retain their own value." }, { "title": "The clock remains at 11:11 while a long task continues", "reflection": "The display and your experience have separated. This may picture a deadline or schedule that no longer reflects what the work needs. Frustration could concern being measured by an outdated arrangement, while relief could belong to an interval that feels less constrained than expected." }, { "title": "Two clocks disagree about whether it is 11:11", "reflection": "Coordination depends on information that is not shared. This can resemble two people acting reasonably from different expectations and still missing each other. A common reference may matter more than either person making a greater effort; the clocks expose a practical gap in the arrangement itself." }, { "title": "11:11 marks a break you had decided to take", "reflection": "The time functions as permission for an ordinary chosen pause. This may picture a routine supporting your needs instead of merely assigning obligations. The useful element is the arrangement between the cue and the action, rather than the digits possessing an independent restorative or spiritual effect." }, { "title": "You leave the clock unread and continue enjoying a conversation", "reflection": "The activity becomes more important than keeping attention on a display. This may picture choosing participation over constant scheduling when the occasion allows it. Enjoyment can be a meaningful part of the dream; ignoring the time does not have to represent carelessness or a problem with responsibility." }, { "title": "11:11 appears on a familiar device in an earlier room", "reflection": "A remembered clock places a particular routine alongside another stage of life. This may bring the pace or expectations of that setting into the current dream. Recently noticed times can also supply imagery; the exact display need not identify an anniversary, secret instruction or coming event." } ], "prompts": [ "What event or activity gave 11:11 a purpose in the dream?", "How did the displayed time fit the pace you were experiencing?", "What changed when you followed, questioned or left the clock alone?" ], "related": [ "clock", "calendar", "1111", "being-late" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A moment organized around an event", "reflection": "A precise displayed time may concentrate anticipation on a meeting, arrival or chosen pause." }, { "title": "Time that matches or fails the experience", "reflection": "A clock can serve the activity, become irrelevant to it or allow a welcome sense of space." }, { "title": "Sharing a pace", "reflection": "Different displays or different uses of the same time can explore coordination and personal choice." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "1234", "title": "1234", "type": "numbers", "category": "Angel numbers", "tagline": "Knowing the next item can help a task or narrow the possibilities.", "summary": "1234 can explore a familiar order, a predictable instruction or the choice to rearrange a sequence. The action gives the pattern its meaning.", "aliases": [ "1234" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "psychological": "The sequence 1234 can make order easy to follow within a dream. Each digit comes after the preceding one, so a task may offer a clear next action without much explanation. If that feels satisfying, the scene can picture an arrangement whose steps make sense to you. The comparison comes from the visible sequence, not a claim that these digits predict progress.\n\nA numbered demonstration may be especially useful when you are learning something unfamiliar. Being shown one action at a time can resemble receiving the kind of guidance a new responsibility needs. Yet a sequence imposed on people can feel different: everyone may be required to participate in the same order despite having different needs or ideas. Clarity and rigidity are distinct possibilities.\n\nWhen an expected digit is missing, familiarity no longer tells you how to proceed. This may picture a task where the broad plan is understood but a connecting action has not been explained. For example, a project can describe its beginning and result while leaving out how responsibility passes between them. The interruption concerns the arrangement, not a failure assigned to an individual number.\n\n1234 can also be too predictable for the task it serves. In a dreamed code that everybody already knows, access may become easy while privacy loses its boundary. This can explore the difference between convenient participation and wanting something reserved for you. It does not assess an actual password, and the dream’s code is not a security recommendation.\n\nChoosing to rearrange the sequence offers room for play, experimentation or a different method. If an art exercise becomes more enjoyable when you abandon the expected order, the change need not represent confusion. Another scene may involve reciting a familiar count with somebody, where sharing the rhythm matters more than calculating. A recently used list, game or instruction can supply direct context. The digits become useful to interpretation through what their order allows, what happens when it changes and whether you have a choice in following it.", "traditional": "No number-specific historical account is attached to this entry. The reading follows the digits’ role in the dreamed scene rather than an angel-number code. NINDS supplies general background on dreaming and waking experiences; it does not validate these original comparisons.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "A demonstration uses 1234 to show four actions in order", "reflection": "The arrangement makes an unfamiliar task approachable. This may picture guidance arriving in a form you can use, especially when a new responsibility has felt too broad. Knowing the next action can give the occasion a manageable shape without requiring you to grasp every part at once." }, { "title": "The instruction jumps from 2 to 4 and nobody explains the missing action", "reflection": "The expected sequence exposes a gap in how the task has been communicated. This may resemble a plan that names its starting point and result while leaving the transition unclear. Difficulty here can concern missing information rather than your willingness or capacity to follow an instruction." }, { "title": "Everybody knows the 1234 code to a supposedly private room", "reflection": "Convenience and privacy ask for different things. This may picture an arrangement that admits people easily while failing to reserve space as expected. The scene explores who is included and what the room is for; it does not test the safety of an actual device or recommend a password." }, { "title": "You move the digits around to create a more interesting artwork", "reflection": "Changing the familiar order gives you something new to make. This may picture enjoying variation in a task whose usual form has become restrictive. The pleasure of the result matters: rearrangement can be a deliberate creative choice rather than a sign that you have lost your way." }, { "title": "People are required to speak in the order 1, 2, 3, 4", "reflection": "A clear arrangement also determines whose contribution comes first and who waits. This may picture a group procedure that is useful in one respect yet fails to fit the occasion. Your response can concern having room to participate differently, rather than a judgment about the numbered people." }, { "title": "You count 1, 2, 3, 4 together during a familiar game", "reflection": "The shared rhythm helps you join an activity you recognize. This may picture companionship through a small routine or enjoyment of knowing how to participate. A remembered game can supply direct context; the sequence does not need a concealed message to contribute to the dreamed exchange." } ], "prompts": [ "What did the order of the digits make possible?", "Where did following the sequence fit the task, and where did it limit your choices?", "What changed when an item was missing or the arrangement became your own?" ], "related": [ "numbers", "counting", "password", "alphabet" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "An understandable next action", "reflection": "An ordered demonstration can offer usable guidance without implying that life must progress in one prescribed way." }, { "title": "The limits of predictability", "reflection": "An easy sequence can provide convenience yet fail when the task needs privacy or individual variation." }, { "title": "Changing the arrangement by choice", "reflection": "Reordering a familiar sequence can be experimentation rather than evidence of failure." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "222", "title": "222", "type": "numbers", "category": "Angel numbers", "tagline": "A common reference can connect things without making them identical.", "summary": "222 can explore how a shared label helps recognition or hides differences. A quantity has another purpose from an identifying reference.", "aliases": [ "222" ], "status": "DRAFT", "updated": "2026-10-14", "psychological": "A dreamed 222 can bring a shared label into view. If different packages carry that reference, you may expect them to contain the same things. Finding different contents can picture a description that is useful for grouping yet too broad for the choice you need to make. The repeated digit does not establish a rule about balance or relationships.\n\nWhen two people use 222 to identify a joint reservation, sharing the number can instead make participation straightforward. This could resemble an arrangement that includes you together without requiring either person to explain everything again. The connection comes from what the reference is doing, not from the appearance of twos.\n\n222 as a stock total raises a separate question. A large enough count may still include none of the item somebody needs. This can picture a practical mismatch between having something available and having the right thing for an occasion. Quantity and suitability are different kinds of information.\n\nThe exact string may be remembered from an order, a route or another ordinary encounter. Other numbers could serve these same roles. This entry follows the use of 222 in a dreamed scene, rather than treating repetition as proof of guidance; it also does not silently convert 222 into a clock reading of 2:22.", "traditional": "No number-specific historical account is attached to this entry. The reading follows the digits’ role in the dreamed scene rather than an angel-number code. NINDS supplies general background on dreaming and waking experiences; it does not validate these original comparisons.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "Packages all marked 222 contain different items", "reflection": "The reference suggests sameness that the contents do not provide. This may picture a description covering several responsibilities or choices without explaining their differences. Understanding what is actually inside offers a different task from finding more examples of the same label or decoding its digits." }, { "title": "You and another person are welcomed using the same 222 reservation", "reflection": "The common reference makes participation easy. This may picture a shared practical arrangement that includes you without an argument about whose name is first. Being recognized together can feel convenient and companionable when the occasion gives each person room to participate in their own way." }, { "title": "A stock count shows 222 but the item needed for the task is absent", "reflection": "There is abundance in one sense and a gap in another. This may picture resources being described by their total while suitability goes unaddressed. The scene concerns what the occasion needs; it does not forecast a shortage or assign special value to the count itself." } ], "prompts": [ "What did the 222 reference include, and what did it leave unspecified?", "How did sharing or relying on the label affect participation?", "What distinguished the amount available from what the task needed?" ], "related": [ "numbers", "ticket", "box" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A shared category with differences inside it", "reflection": "The same reference can group objects without describing each object adequately." }, { "title": "Joint recognition", "reflection": "One identifier can support a shared arrangement when its purpose is understood." }, { "title": "Available quantity versus useful contents", "reflection": "A total can be sufficient in size yet fail a particular practical need." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "333", "title": "333", "type": "numbers", "category": "Angel numbers", "tagline": "A precise-looking result still needs an understandable scale.", "summary": "333 as a dreamed result can raise questions about what is measured and how it is judged. The number alone does not establish success or failure.", "aliases": [ "333" ], "status": "DRAFT", "updated": "2026-10-14", "psychological": "333 on a score sheet or display can make an outcome look definite before its meaning is clear. Without knowing the scale, the figure may not tell you whether a task has been completed or how another person is judging it. This can picture receiving feedback that appears precise yet leaves the important terms unexplained.\n\nIf somebody celebrates 333 in a game you both understand, the same figure may support shared enjoyment. The useful element is agreement about what the score represents. A good moment does not need a prediction attached to it; satisfaction can belong to participation in the dreamed activity.\n\nA disagreement over the tally can instead concern what counts as a contribution. One person may include work another leaves out, producing a dispute that arithmetic alone cannot settle. This offers a comparison with evaluation needing understandable criteria before a total can help. It does not identify who is right in an actual conflict.\n\nA measurement or result recently seen while awake can supply the string directly. These scenes would also be possible with other numbers; 333 does not possess a verified expression or creativity code. The dreamed scale, agreement and response give the figure its particular role.", "traditional": "No number-specific historical account is attached to this entry. The reading follows the digits’ role in the dreamed scene rather than an angel-number code. NINDS supplies general background on dreaming and waking experiences; it does not validate these original comparisons.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "A report gives you 333 with no explanation of the scale", "reflection": "The result looks definite while its implications remain unclear. This may picture feedback that cannot guide you until the terms are explained. A grade, work target or comparison can feel equally unhelpful when a precise result leaves you without an understandable account of what was being measured." }, { "title": "An informal game reaches 333 and everyone enjoys the result", "reflection": "The score belongs to a shared understanding of the activity. This may picture uncomplicated pleasure in participation or recognizing a contribution together. An ordinary result can become memorable because of the company and response around it, even when competition is less important than enjoying the game." }, { "title": "Two people disagree about which work belongs in a 333 tally", "reflection": "Different boundaries create different accounts of the same activity. This may picture evaluation needing agreement about contributions before a figure can settle anything. The dispute is not necessarily about arithmetic; neither the dream nor the displayed total establishes who is actually fair or more deserving." } ], "prompts": [ "What information made the 333 result useful or unclear?", "How was the scale or counting rule understood by the people involved?", "What did the response to the figure change about the activity?" ], "related": [ "numbers", "counting", "race" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A result without its terms", "reflection": "Precision in a display does not explain the scale or judgment behind it." }, { "title": "Shared satisfaction in an understood score", "reflection": "Agreement can make a result useful for enjoying an activity together." }, { "title": "Deciding what counts", "reflection": "A tally can expose different criteria rather than a failure to calculate." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "3d-glasses", "title": "3D glasses", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "kind": "modern", "aliases": [ "3d glasses", "3-d glasses" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "summary": "3D glasses can explore entering a presented scene, sharing access to it and choosing how close the image feels. The particular display matters.", "tagline": "Equipment for an experience you can enter, share or leave.", "psychological": "3D glasses in a dream can make the way you enter an image especially noticeable. A screen may appear to extend into the room when you put them on, turning an ordinary viewing occasion into something you feel involved in. This can picture wanting an experience to become more immediate, as when a story, demonstration or conversation begins to matter personally. The comparison follows what happens in the dream, rather than a theory about perception.\n\nIf the glasses fit and the presentation is enjoyable, the equipment may simply let you take part in something wanted. Knowing how to join can be satisfying without making the experience a test of insight. A new group activity might feel similar when a small practical arrangement gives you access to its interesting part.\n\nA frame that keeps slipping can place the terms of participation ahead of the image itself. You want to watch, but maintaining the required position takes all your attention. This may resemble a method that offers a useful experience while fitting poorly into your circumstances. The difficulty need not concern the value of the presentation or your ability to understand it.\n\nSharing one pair can give the viewing occasion a sequence. One person receives a closer encounter while another waits, and the exchange may feel generous or frustrating. This can picture access needing an arrangement that acknowledges everyone’s interest. It differs from an encounter where each person has equipment and chooses a different way of viewing.\n\nAn image that seems to come past the expected boundary can be exciting or intrusive according to what you wanted from it. A story becoming absorbing may be welcome; an imposed presentation may feel too close. Taking the glasses off can restore a distance that suits the occasion without rejecting curiosity. Keeping them after the show may instead preserve a memory of how you participated. Recent films, exhibits or familiar viewing objects can supply direct context. These readings concern an imagined display and its equipment; they do not assess eyesight or establish a fixed meaning for visual depth.", "traditional": "No specific historical passage for 3D glasses is supplied. These original reflections follow an identified viewing device and a particular presentation, rather than extending older spectacles forecasts to it. NINDS supports general dream background, not a theory of visual perception or this interpretation.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Entering a wanted presentation", "reflection": "A usable pair can make participation straightforward when the image or occasion interests you." }, { "title": "The practical terms of access", "reflection": "Fit and turn-taking can determine how much attention remains for the experience itself." }, { "title": "Choosing the distance of an image", "reflection": "An absorbing presentation can be welcome, too close or something you want to remember afterward." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "The glasses let you enjoy an image that seems to enter the room", "reflection": "The viewing arrangement gives an interesting scene a more immediate place in the occasion. This may picture welcome involvement in a story or shared activity. The enjoyment can be meaningful in its own right, without the apparent depth proving that you have reached a truer account of anything." }, { "title": "The frame slips whenever you try to follow the presentation", "reflection": "Maintaining the equipment takes attention away from what you wanted to experience. This may picture a useful method whose practical fit needs to change. A group procedure or unfamiliar interface could offer a comparison when the conditions of joining become more demanding than the activity itself." }, { "title": "One pair passes between several people watching an exhibit", "reflection": "Access has a sequence, and everyone’s interest needs a place within it. This may picture a shared resource becoming workable through an understood turn. Waiting can feel companionable or unfair depending on the exchange, rather than the glasses automatically representing exclusion or a special privilege." }, { "title": "A presented object seems to cross a boundary you expected to keep", "reflection": "The image occupies more of the occasion than you anticipated. This may picture a story becoming excitingly absorbing or an imposed account feeling too close. A conversation or presentation can offer a comparison when its material takes more of your attention and space than the occasion was meant to give it." }, { "title": "You take the glasses off and prefer the ordinary screen view", "reflection": "You retain the presentation while choosing another distance from it. This may picture being able to participate without adopting the most involving method on offer. The choice can be comfortable and curious; it need not mean that you reject the story, lack understanding or have failed to enjoy it." }, { "title": "You keep the pair as a reminder after the show has ended", "reflection": "The equipment carries a memory of participation beyond its immediate task. This may picture wanting to preserve a particular outing, discovery or shared moment. What belonged to that occasion gives the object its personal context, rather than the lenses possessing a universal code for memory or insight." } ], "prompts": [ "What did the glasses change about your involvement in the presentation?", "How did the arrangement make access easier or more demanding?", "What distance from the image felt right for the occasion?" ], "related": [ "cinema", "sunglasses", "photograph" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "444", "title": "444", "type": "numbers", "category": "Angel numbers", "tagline": "Knowing a label differs from having a usable route.", "summary": "444 can act as a location or route label. Its usefulness depends on whether the signs distinguish a destination and help you get there.", "aliases": [ "444" ], "status": "DRAFT", "updated": "2026-10-14", "psychological": "444 on a route sign or building can help locate a place in a dream. Reaching a wanted destination through a recognizable label may picture an ordinary system serving your purpose. A clear sign can be satisfying precisely because it does not require you to solve everything by yourself.\n\nIf every turn displays 444, familiarity may stop helping you find a direction. The signs keep confirming the same reference without showing how one location differs from another. This can resemble receiving repeated guidance that acknowledges the goal but leaves the route unexplained. The difficulty concerns orientation, not an inherent message about foundations or support.\n\nA 444 address from an earlier place appearing on a new building can join remembered surroundings to a current occasion. This may bring an old routine or expectation into a different stage of life. Your relationship with that place provides the comparison; a recently encountered sign can also supply direct context.\n\nOther numbers could appear in these same tasks. The exact label preserves what was memorable in your dream, but its digits do not determine whether a route is right for you. Finding, repeating or recognizing the sign gives it a purpose that a fixed number code would miss.", "traditional": "No number-specific historical account is attached to this entry. The reading follows the digits’ role in the dreamed scene rather than an angel-number code. NINDS supplies general background on dreaming and waking experiences; it does not validate these original comparisons.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "A 444 route sign helps you reach the gathering you wanted", "reflection": "The label connects your intention with a workable path. This may picture being able to use an ordinary arrangement rather than carrying all the responsibility for navigating alone. A clear direction or understandable invitation can provide a waking comparison when practical information lets you join an occasion comfortably." }, { "title": "Every direction at a junction is marked 444", "reflection": "The information repeats without separating the available choices. This may picture advice that names a goal but does not explain how different options serve it. More confirmation of the same label would not solve this particular problem; the scene needs distinctions rather than a hidden digit meaning." }, { "title": "A new building carries the 444 address of a place you once knew", "reflection": "One setting has acquired a recognizable detail from another. This may picture an earlier routine or expectation becoming relevant in a changed occasion. The memory can be pleasant, awkward or simply familiar; the address does not decide which response you should have or predict a return." } ], "prompts": [ "What destination or route did 444 identify?", "How did the signs help distinguish the choices you could make?", "What personal history belonged to the location rather than the digits?" ], "related": [ "numbers", "house", "highway" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A recognizable destination", "reflection": "A useful sign can let an ordinary arrangement carry some of the task." }, { "title": "Familiar guidance without direction", "reflection": "Repetition can confirm a goal while failing to distinguish how to reach it." }, { "title": "A former place within a new occasion", "reflection": "An exact address can carry personal memory without defining a universal symbol." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "555", "title": "555", "type": "numbers", "category": "Angel numbers", "tagline": "A memorable string can identify an exchange without explaining its purpose.", "summary": "555 can be part of a dreamed contact or instruction. A reference that reaches someone differs from words whose purpose remains unexplained.", "aliases": [ "555" ], "status": "DRAFT", "updated": "2026-10-14", "psychological": "555 within a dreamed contact can matter because it reaches somebody or identifies a request. If using the reference brings the exchange you wanted, the scene may picture an ordinary means of connection working. The satisfaction comes from being able to participate, not from the number announcing a change in your life.\n\nSomebody asking you to repeat each digit creates a different task. You may know the reference but need to present it in a form another person can use. This could resemble an explanation that becomes easier once the format is shared. Familiarity with the information and making it understandable are separate contributions.\n\nHearing only 555 when you expected a fuller message can leave the purpose unresolved. This may picture an exchange that provides an identifying detail without addressing what you need to know. The gap does not establish secret meaning, outside communication or another person’s actual intentions.\n\nA recently used contact label, screen or instruction can supply the string. No general claim about 555 as a telephone convention is needed for these dreamed scenes. Other numbers could serve the same role; the exact digits preserve the remembered exchange while its use determines the possible personal comparison.", "traditional": "No number-specific historical account is attached to this entry. The reading follows the digits’ role in the dreamed scene rather than an angel-number code. NINDS supplies general background on dreaming and waking experiences; it does not validate these original comparisons.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "A contact labeled 555 connects you to a familiar voice", "reflection": "The reference works as an ordinary way to reach somebody in the dream. This may picture satisfaction in being able to enter a wanted exchange. It does not establish that the person is actually communicating through your dream, thinking of you or about to make contact." }, { "title": "A clerk asks you to say the three fives separately", "reflection": "The task concerns presenting information in a usable form. This may picture a practical exchange becoming easier once its format is clear, rather than a failure to know the answer. Cooperation can lie in finding a pace and presentation that allow another person to follow what you already understand." }, { "title": "A message contains 555 but none of the explanation you expected", "reflection": "A recognizable detail leaves the substantive question unanswered. This may resemble receiving a reference number instead of information about what an arrangement requires. The incompleteness can be explored directly; the dream does not prove that a hidden message, intention or promised change is waiting to be decoded." } ], "prompts": [ "What exchange did the 555 reference allow or leave unfinished?", "How did the way the digits were presented affect understanding?", "What information mattered beyond recognizing the number?" ], "related": [ "numbers", "telephone", "letter" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A reference that enables contact", "reflection": "The number may matter through the exchange it makes possible." }, { "title": "Making information usable to someone else", "reflection": "A requested format can support understanding without adding a hidden message." }, { "title": "A detail without the expected explanation", "reflection": "An identifier may leave the purpose of an exchange unresolved." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "666", "title": "666", "type": "numbers", "category": "Angel numbers", "tagline": "A familiar association can shape a reaction without deciding what a number is doing.", "summary": "666 may bring a learned cultural association into a dream, or serve as an ordinary number. Your response and its use distinguish those scenes.", "aliases": [ "666" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "psychological": "Dreaming of 666 can bring a learned association into contact with an ordinary task. For someone familiar with its Biblical use, the digits may feel alarming before anything threatening happens in the scene. Another person may experience them simply as a room number, total or chosen pattern. The same appearance can carry different personal weight, so the feeling cannot be assumed from the number alone.\n\nIf you refuse to enter a welcoming room because its label reads 666, the scene can explore how an expectation changes your relationship with an otherwise inviting opportunity. This may resemble hesitating over something because of a familiar story or reputation, even when your immediate experience is different. The dream does not establish a curse, danger or judgment about your character.\n\nOther people reacting to the number can create a separate social tension. You may be comfortable with a ticket while somebody treats it as unacceptable. This could picture trying to participate in a setting where another person’s associations determine what is allowed. Conversely, being able to explain your own response without ridicule may picture room for different beliefs or memories in a shared activity.\n\nAn ordinary total of 666 can concern the actual quantity in the dream: whether the items fit, whether you can account for them or whether the number is only an identifying reference. Turning every such appearance into an ominous sign can obscure the dreamed task. A straightforward calculation completed with no unease deserves its own reading, including simple satisfaction that the arrangement works.\n\nChoosing 666 for a fictional costume, illustration or performance gives the association another purpose. You may be playing with an image, testing an audience’s expectation or making something deliberately dramatic. Enjoyment and authorship differ from being threatened by the appearance. A recent story, religious passage, screen or label can also supply direct context. Interpretation can stay with how you encounter and use the number without deciding what you believe, inferring hidden intentions or treating the scene as evidence of an external message.", "traditional": "Revelation 13:18 associates six hundred and sixty-six with the beast in that Biblical passage. This is a specific cultural reference, not a dream dictionary or a rule about the person dreaming. No number-specific historical dream account is attached here. The original reading allows different personal associations and ordinary uses; NINDS supports only general background on waking experiences entering dreams.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "A welcoming room is labeled 666 and you hesitate outside", "reflection": "An association competes with what the encounter itself offers. This may picture an opportunity being filtered through a familiar story or reputation. The tension is between anticipation and experience; the dream cannot determine whether a real place is dangerous, cursed or appropriate for you." }, { "title": "You use a 666 ticket comfortably while another visitor objects", "reflection": "Different reactions affect a shared activity. This may picture wanting to participate without having your own experience defined by somebody else’s associations. The scene can explore how disagreement is handled; it does not establish what the other person actually believes or whether one response is morally superior." }, { "title": "An ordinary calculation reaches 666 and the task is finished", "reflection": "The total performs the job expected of it. This may picture satisfaction in making an account understandable or completing a practical arrangement. There need not be a threatening reading hidden beneath the calm scene; the objects counted and the completed task supply the relevant context." }, { "title": "You choose 666 for a fictional illustration and enjoy its drama", "reflection": "The association is material you are using deliberately. This may picture authorship, playful exaggeration or experimenting with an audience’s expectations. Enjoyment differs from being pursued or frightened by an image, and choosing it in a dream does not establish a belief, intention or character trait." }, { "title": "Someone helps separate a package’s 666 reference from its contents", "reflection": "A label has drawn attention away from what the object actually contains. This may picture an explanation making a situation more accessible when assumptions had taken over. The help concerns a practical distinction; it does not provide proof about supernatural protection or an actual future outcome." }, { "title": "A recently encountered story appears beside the number in a dream", "reflection": "The image has a recognizable personal context. This may bring the story’s feeling or a remembered discussion into another occasion, rather than introduce an instruction you must obey. What the scene does with that material matters; its presence does not establish outside communication or a prediction." } ], "prompts": [ "What personal association, if any, did 666 bring into the scene?", "How did your response compare with what the number was actually being used for?", "What happened between you and others around the appearance of the digits?" ], "related": [ "numbers", "religion", "devil", "reading" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." }, { "id": "usccb-revelation-13-18", "title": "Revelation, chapter 13, verse 18 — a cultural association, not a dream interpretation", "author": "United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (online Bible publisher)", "edition": "USCCB online Bible, Revelation 13:18; consulted 2026-10-14", "url": "https://bible.usccb.org/bible/revelation/13", "rights": "The USCCB page identifies copyright 2019–2026 USCCB. This entry paraphrases a limited passage; no permission to reproduce the translation or worldwide rights clearance is asserted.", "scope": "Revelation 13:18 identifies six hundred and sixty-six with the beast in this Biblical passage. This supports only the stated learned cultural association. It supplies no dream interpretation, curse, character judgment or forecast, and its commentary is not used to assign meanings to individual digits." } ], "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Expectation before an encounter", "reflection": "A learned association may change how an otherwise ordinary scene feels to you." }, { "title": "Different associations in a shared setting", "reflection": "Other people’s reactions can make a number part of negotiation about participation and respect." }, { "title": "Quantity, identification or chosen imagery", "reflection": "The number can perform a practical or playful role without having an ominous purpose." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "777", "title": "777", "type": "numbers", "category": "Angel numbers", "tagline": "A chosen number can be meaningful to you without determining a result.", "summary": "777 can be chosen or assigned within a dreamed game. The rules and your response distinguish preference, anticipation and ordinary participation.", "aliases": [ "777" ], "status": "DRAFT", "updated": "2026-10-14", "psychological": "777 in a dreamed game can draw attention to the difference between a number you prefer and a result you can determine. Choosing it may give you an enjoyable sense of participation. Waiting for it to produce a particular outcome can instead make the activity revolve around something outside your control. Neither scene supplies winning numbers or a forecast.\n\nIf everyone cheers 777 on a display, the response may be part of the dream’s rules rather than a meaning the number carries everywhere. Joining the celebration can picture shared anticipation or play. Feeling excluded because you do not understand the cheering raises a different possibility, concerning participation in an activity whose conventions are unfamiliar.\n\nReceiving 777 as an ordinary contestant reference may simply help you take your turn. The number identifies you without measuring your value or deciding the event. This can picture a practical role being recognized in a setting where enjoyment does not depend on exceptional treatment.\n\nA game, chosen reference or recently viewed display can supply the string directly. These readings are not exclusive to 777 and do not establish luck or special inner knowledge. The dreamed choice, rule and response create the context, including an untroubled scene where the number is useful and little more.", "traditional": "No number-specific historical account is attached to this entry. The reading follows the digits’ role in the dreamed scene rather than an angel-number code. NINDS supplies general background on dreaming and waking experiences; it does not validate these original comparisons.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "You choose 777 for a game and enjoy taking part", "reflection": "The choice gives you a small role in shaping the activity. This may picture pleasure in participating according to a preference, without needing the selection to deliver something extraordinary. The dream cannot supply a winning number or establish whether a real game, bet or venture will succeed." }, { "title": "Everyone cheers a 777 display but you do not know the rule", "reflection": "The response makes a shared convention visible without explaining it. This may picture wanting a place in an activity whose expectations have not been made clear. Confusion concerns access to the rules, rather than your capacity for enjoyment or the number concealing a message meant only for others." }, { "title": "Your 777 contestant label is called and you take an ordinary turn", "reflection": "Recognition lets you participate without special treatment. This may picture satisfaction in having a workable place within an event, rather than needing the label to prove your value. The simple turn can matter in its own right; the number does not determine ability or predict the contest’s outcome." } ], "prompts": [ "How did 777 become part of the activity: chosen, assigned or displayed?", "What rules made the response to the number understandable?", "What did participation offer apart from a hoped-for result?" ], "related": [ "numbers", "lottery", "race" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Preference and outcome are different", "reflection": "A chosen reference can support participation without controlling what follows." }, { "title": "Understanding the shared rules", "reflection": "A group’s response can be enjoyable or unfamiliar depending on how you take part." }, { "title": "An ordinary place in an activity", "reflection": "Being identified for your turn need not imply exceptional value or fortune." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "888", "title": "888", "type": "numbers", "category": "Angel numbers", "tagline": "Digits can be material to look at as well as information to read.", "summary": "888 may be noticed as a graphic pattern or used as a number. Its appearance, legibility and purpose provide different possible contexts.", "aliases": [ "888" ], "status": "DRAFT", "updated": "2026-10-14", "psychological": "888 may stand out in a dream through its drawn form rather than its value. If the eights have rounded upper and lower loops, repeating them can create a pattern you enjoy making or looking at. This can picture pleasure in arrangement or in a detail’s appearance. The comparison depends on how the dreamed marks actually look, not a symbolism assigned to every eight.\n\nWhen the loops are hard to distinguish, the task may shift to legibility. An ornate label can be attractive yet fail to communicate the reference somebody needs. This could resemble an explanation or presentation that needs to serve its audience as well as look satisfying to its maker. Appearance and usefulness do not have to compete, but the scene can put them in tension.\n\n888 used as a quantity has another purpose entirely. A total can become useful when the objects, units and intended action are clear. There is no basis here for calling it a promise of abundance or a statement about your actual resources.\n\nA recently encountered typeface, drawing or numerical display can supply the image. Other digit strings can also be decorative, unclear or practical. This short reading preserves the exact appearance while letting the dreamed use decide which comparison, if any, belongs to your experience.", "traditional": "No number-specific historical account is attached to this entry. The reading follows the digits’ role in the dreamed scene rather than an angel-number code. NINDS supplies general background on dreaming and waking experiences; it does not validate these original comparisons.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "You make a border from three rounded eights", "reflection": "The marks become material for a design. This may picture enjoyment in choosing a repeated form or attending to a small detail for its own sake. The visual reading fits only if the dream gives the eights that appearance; it does not assign a universal meaning to loops or digits." }, { "title": "An ornate 888 label cannot be read by the person using it", "reflection": "The form does not yet serve its audience. This may picture a presentation that pleases its maker while leaving a practical need unresolved. A visually satisfying notice, explanation or arrangement may need a different form when somebody else relies on it to complete a particular task." }, { "title": "A clear 888 total helps you arrange the items for a task", "reflection": "The figure becomes useful through the objects and action around it. This may picture satisfaction in having enough information to make an arrangement understandable. Clear terms can allow a task to proceed without continual guessing, even when the number is large and the separate items take time to organize." } ], "prompts": [ "How did the written eights actually look in the dream?", "What was the relation between their appearance and the task they served?", "What made 888 a useful quantity or an enjoyable pattern for you?" ], "related": [ "numbers", "drawing", "writing" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Enjoying a visible form", "reflection": "Repeated drawn shapes can be satisfying without serving a hidden instruction." }, { "title": "Appearance and legibility", "reflection": "A design may need to communicate as well as please its maker." }, { "title": "A count with practical terms", "reflection": "The value becomes useful through its objects, units and intended action." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "999", "title": "999", "type": "numbers", "category": "Angel numbers", "tagline": "A near-boundary count differs from a label that only happens to use the same digits.", "summary": "999 can sit just below a stated 1000 limit, identify something or show an amount remaining. Those uses do not carry the same meaning.", "aliases": [ "999" ], "status": "DRAFT", "updated": "2026-10-14", "psychological": "999 can make a boundary noticeable when a dream explicitly sets a limit of 1000. You may be one item away from a target, or near a display’s stated capacity. This can picture a task organized around a threshold whose purpose deserves attention: completing a chosen collection differs from reaching a limit somebody else has imposed. The arithmetic does not make 999 a universal completion code.\n\nIf the figure counts what remains, 999 can instead make the task feel substantial. The same digits then describe distance from a result rather than closeness to it. This may resemble a plan whose progress looks different depending on what the display is counting. Its label matters as much as its value.\n\n999 on a jersey or object can be simply an identifier, with no 1000 boundary involved. Being recognized through it may let an ordinary activity proceed. Adding a story of imminent completion would miss that practical use.\n\nA recently seen counter, chosen reference or familiar number can supply the exact string. The scene does not predict an ending, tell you to abandon a responsibility or establish an emergency. A literal boundary, a remaining amount and a label offer separate comparisons; other numbers could serve comparable purposes when their dreamed context makes them useful.", "traditional": "No number-specific historical account is attached to this entry. The reading follows the digits’ role in the dreamed scene rather than an angel-number code. NINDS supplies general background on dreaming and waking experiences; it does not validate these original comparisons.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "A collection counter shows 999 and its chosen target is 1000", "reflection": "The stated arrangement makes the remaining step visible. This may picture satisfaction in seeing the shape of a task you chose, or tension around making a count its main purpose. The literal threshold provides the comparison; the digits do not forecast that an actual chapter of life is about to close." }, { "title": "999 is displayed as the number of items still remaining", "reflection": "The figure concerns what is ahead rather than what has been finished. This may picture a plan being viewed through its remaining demands, especially if completed work has disappeared from view. A display emphasizing what is left can make an achievement feel less visible within the account of the task." }, { "title": "Your 999 jersey lets another player recognize you", "reflection": "The number identifies a participant rather than approaching a limit. This may picture an ordinary role being acknowledged so that an activity can proceed. There need not be a story of ending or transformation beneath the exchange; the practical recognition can supply a meaningful and untroubled reading." } ], "prompts": [ "What, if anything, supplied a boundary for 999 in the scene?", "What did the figure count or identify, and how did that affect your understanding of the task?", "How did that use affect your relationship with the task or activity?" ], "related": [ "numbers", "counting", "race" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A stated threshold", "reflection": "Nearness matters only when the dreamed task actually supplies a boundary." }, { "title": "What the counter is counting", "reflection": "Completed and remaining quantities can give the same figure different uses." }, { "title": "Identification without a limit", "reflection": "A label can work without carrying a story of completion." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "beach", "title": "A beach", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "Finding a usable place beside the water.", "summary": "A beach dream may explore how you use a changing shoreline, find a place for an activity and move between land, water and company.", "aliases": [ "a beach", "beach", "seaside", "the shore", "shoreline", "sand", "coast", "seashore" ], "status": "REVIEW", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-14", "psychological": "A beach places land, water and open space close together, but its role depends on what you are doing there. You might be resting, working, looking for someone, following the shore or deciding where to put your belongings. Begin with that activity rather than making the setting a universal boundary between thought and feeling. A beach can be an ordinary remembered place as well as an invented landscape.\n\nChoosing a position can make the scene specific. You may want shade, room to talk, a view of the water or a surface that supports a practical task. Another person may prefer somewhere different. This could invite reflection on making conditions fit an activity while sharing a setting. A waking comparison might be choosing a place for a group meeting or outing without assuming everyone wants the same thing. The dream’s disagreement cannot establish a real relationship conflict.\n\nThe shoreline can change while you use it. Water may approach belongings, uncover a route or separate two areas you expected to reach. Explore what you move, leave, wait for or choose differently. These actions can help you describe adaptation without predicting weather or treating every rising tide as overwhelm. The particular bag, tool or meeting point may matter more than an abstract idea of the coast.\n\nCompany and distance can also shape the beach. An empty shore may offer room for an activity or make it hard to find someone; a busy one may feel lively or leave nowhere suitable to stop. Notice what kind of company you wanted and whether you could choose a different position. A familiar shoreline with changed landmarks can bring memory into the scene without being an accurate account of the past.\n\nWaking experiences and emotions can enter dreams through trips, photographs, local routines and remembered sounds. How you arrive and what makes staying or leaving possible can shape your use of the shore. The beach may be a home environment, workplace or occasional destination in your experience; a picturesque holiday meaning need not fit. An enjoyable day outdoors can remain an enjoyable dream. The useful reflection may concern choosing a place, keeping an activity possible or changing your route rather than explaining your health, balance or future through sand and water.", "traditional": "This original reading follows using a beach as a setting: its surface, shoreline, access and company. No specific historical account is attached to the entry, and neighboring sea or sand passages are not combined into a beach tradition. The general sleep source supports only waking experiences and emotions as possible dream material; it does not validate these reflections or establish a universal shoreline meaning.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "You choose a patch of shore for a task", "reflection": "Several places are available, but only one fits the conversation, rest or work you want to do. This might make practical conditions more important than the scenery. Record why the position works and whether others share your preference, without assuming one place is symbolically superior." }, { "title": "Water reaches the place where you left things", "reflection": "You need to move belongings as the usable ground changes. The scene could invite reflection on adapting an arrangement while keeping what matters available. Notice what you move first, leave or ask someone to carry; a dreamed tide does not forecast danger or reveal an emotional crisis." }, { "title": "You follow the shore to find a companion", "reflection": "A person is somewhere nearby, but distance and landmarks make the meeting uncertain. This might focus on finding a shared point rather than entering the water. Describe the cues or messages you use; difficulty locating them does not establish distance in the real relationship." }, { "title": "A crowded beach has no suitable stopping place", "reflection": "The setting is lively, yet you cannot find room for the activity you planned. This could resemble needing particular conditions within an otherwise available shared space. Notice whether you change the activity, move elsewhere or wait, without treating crowds as a universal sign of pressure." }, { "title": "An old beach has a different route out", "reflection": "You recognize the shoreline but cannot leave by the path you remember. The scene may place familiarity alongside a changed practical arrangement. Explore which landmarks remain useful and how you find another way; the dream is not an accurate reconstruction or a prediction about that location." }, { "title": "A newly exposed strip connects two places", "reflection": "The water draws back enough to make a short route available. This could bring timing and a temporary option into focus. Record whether you use it, prefer another path or stay where you are; an opening in the dream does not instruct you to take a real risk." } ], "prompts": [ "What were you trying to do on this beach?", "How did your position, company or access change?", "Which remembered coast, outing or shared-space decision gives the setting personal context?" ], "related": [ "ocean", "sand", "water", "childhood-home", "walking" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A place that fits a purpose", "reflection": "The preferred position may depend on the activity rather than one ideal beach experience. Explore what made a patch of shore usable for you and others." }, { "title": "An edge that changes access", "reflection": "Water and exposed ground may alter a route or the place for belongings. Consider your response without translating a tide into a fixed emotional code or forecast." }, { "title": "Company within open space", "reflection": "An empty or crowded setting matters in relation to the contact you want. Different landmarks may also connect memory with invention without proving a lost or forgotten event." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "a-bicycle-lane-disappearing-into-traffic", "title": "A bicycle lane disappearing into traffic", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "When the route stops making room for your way of moving.", "summary": "A bicycle lane ending in traffic may highlight a change in the support around your chosen way of moving and the need to reassess.", "aliases": [ "bike lane disappears dream", "cycling lane ends in traffic" ], "status": "REVIEW", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-14", "psychological": "A bicycle lane disappearing into traffic changes the conditions around an activity already underway. You may still have the same bicycle and destination, but the separation that made the route workable is gone. Begin with that change in the shared space. The dream is not a road assessment or a prediction about an actual cycling journey.\n\nThe point where the lane ends can make the experience specific. It might vanish without warning, narrow gradually or stop beside an obvious alternative. These differences could resemble a change in a work arrangement, a shared routine or a project whose initial support does not continue. Ask what you expected the route to provide and when that expectation changed.\n\nYour pace and position may matter. Being urged forward before you can assess the space differs from choosing to pause. Riding alongside someone can offer company while still leaving each person a different comfort level. The dream may help describe how you communicate a need for time or a different arrangement, without establishing that others should respond in one fixed way.\n\nA disappearing lane can also focus on the environment rather than your effort. Pedaling harder cannot create a marked space. That distinction might be useful when a practical obstacle depends on shared conditions, not simply determination. At the same time, notice what choices the scene actually offers: waiting, dismounting, another route or asking someone for directions.\n\nIf an alternative appears, consider its particular cost. A longer path may feel worthwhile because it supports the activity you want; a detour that goes nowhere may feel like another unresolved demand. Neither choice becomes a general lesson that persistence or retreat is always best. The scene's details determine what feels workable.\n\nActual cycling, route maps, road changes or conversations about public space can supply the imagery directly. Keep any broader comparison tied to a transition in conditions. What changed around you, what information helped you reassess, and which way of continuing respected both your destination and the pace you wanted?", "traditional": "No historical passage for this specific disappearing-cycle-lane scenario is supplied. NINDS offers general background on waking experiences and emotion entering dreams. The original reading concerns a change in the dreamed route's support, without importing predictions from bicycle, carriage or accident accounts.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "The marked lane ends without warning", "reflection": "You are moving comfortably until the separation disappears. The scene might make an unexpected change in conditions noticeable, such as support ending partway through a project. What did you expect to continue, and what information would help you reassess? It does not forecast an actual route change." }, { "title": "The lane narrows gradually as you continue", "reflection": "You notice less room with each stretch of road and begin considering other options. This could focus on recognizing a changing arrangement before a clear endpoint. Ask which sign attracted your attention and whether adjusting your plan feels possible, rather than assuming you should simply keep pace." }, { "title": "A companion urges you forward while you want to pause", "reflection": "The other cyclist is ready to continue, but you want time to look around. The scene may highlight different preferences within a shared activity. What would help communicate your pace or need for information? Their dreamed urgency does not establish how they would respond on a real road." }, { "title": "Dismounting and using a pedestrian route", "reflection": "You change the form of movement while keeping the destination in mind. The scene could explore an adjustment that preserves the aim without insisting on the original method. Notice whether the choice feels practical, disappointing or relieving; walking is not automatically failure or the correct solution." }, { "title": "Choosing a longer lane that continues clearly", "reflection": "A detour adds distance but offers the kind of space you expected. Consider a waking option whose extra time makes an activity more workable for you. What benefit justifies the cost in the dream? The scene does not establish which route is objectively safest or best." }, { "title": "Finding that several people are waiting at the same ending", "reflection": "Others have paused where the lane stops, and you compare what to do next. The scene might shift attention from an individual difficulty to a shared condition. Notice whether the conversation creates useful information or another demand, without assuming that a group necessarily agrees on one approach." } ], "prompts": [ "What exactly changed when the bicycle lane ended?", "How did you decide whether to continue, pause or change route?", "What support or information would have made that transition more workable?" ], "related": [ "bicycle", "road", "traffic-jam", "driving", "accident" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Support that changes mid-route", "reflection": "The lane's ending may distinguish an activity's initial conditions from what is available as it continues." }, { "title": "Time to reassess", "reflection": "Pauses and communication can show how you respond when a shared arrangement changes around you." }, { "title": "A practical alternative", "reflection": "A detour, walking or waiting may invite comparison of specific costs rather than a general judgment about persistence." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "boss", "title": "A boss", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "A title can stay familiar while the terms of authority change.", "summary": "A boss can explore how expectations are explained, recognition is assigned, or responsibility changes when authority moves into another setting.", "aliases": [ "a boss", "boss", "my boss", "manager", "my manager", "employer", "supervisor", "the boss" ], "status": "REVIEW", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-14", "psychological": "A boss in a dream can bring evaluation, decisions or responsibility into a particular encounter. The person may be familiar while the task is invented, or hold a title that works differently from their waking role. Clear instructions, uncertain feedback and an unexpected request for help create different experiences. The image cannot establish what an actual employer thinks or intends.\n\nFeedback with changing criteria can make recognition difficult to understand. You may want to improve a task but receive a new requirement each time you respond. This can resemble needing a clearer account of what is expected rather than simply more effort. The scene does not prove that the real manager is unfair or that your work is inadequate.\n\nPraise can create uncertainty too. Being credited for something you did not do can make acknowledgment available on terms that feel inaccurate. You may appreciate the welcome while wanting your actual contribution understood. A shared project or conversation in which roles became confused may offer a comparison. The dream does not establish deception, deserved promotion or another person’s private assessment.\n\nA boss asking for your help can separate formal authority from having every answer. The encounter may make cooperation possible without requiring the title to disappear. Seeing the same person organize a meal at home changes the setting again: familiarity, company or an ordinary memory may matter more than workplace evaluation. Their presence need not mean that work has invaded every part of your life.\n\nTaking the boss’s role yourself can make a decision consequential within the dream. Choosing how to distribute time or equipment may involve competing requests and incomplete information. Being heard when you question an instruction offers another kind of participation: a conversation can improve even before a final answer arrives. These possibilities concern the imagined authority and the terms of the task. They do not prescribe a career decision, judge leadership ability or reveal a wish to control other people. The actual exchange, available resources and freedom to respond guide whether a waking comparison fits. A recent meeting or familiar face can also remain direct context without requiring a larger hidden explanation.", "traditional": "No historical boss or modern-manager passage is supplied for this entry. Its original reflection concerns expectations, decisions and participation around a person with workplace authority. Work, coworkers and the setting can offer related questions without importing forecasts from older occupational labels. The retained NINDS source provides general dream background only; it does not validate manager symbolism or reveal an actual employer’s intentions.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A review introduces a different criterion after each answer", "reflection": "Evaluation continues without a stable account of what counts as sufficient. This may resemble wanting clearer terms rather than more effort alone. The dream does not establish that your work is inadequate or that the actual manager intends to make success impossible." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "The boss praises you for a task someone else completed", "reflection": "Recognition is offered on terms that do not match your contribution. This can picture wanting acknowledgment to be accurate, even when the attention feels welcome. The scene does not prove deception or decide what praise, promotion or credit you deserve awake." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Your boss asks for help with something they cannot answer", "reflection": "Formal authority remains while knowledge becomes something shared. This may resemble cooperation being possible without every answer coming from one person. The request belongs to the dream and does not expose the actual manager’s competence or require you to take over their responsibilities." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "The familiar manager organizes a meal in your home", "reflection": "The face stays recognizable while the role and setting change. This can picture ordinary company, a memory or different expectations within private space. Their presence need not prove that work is taking over your life; what they actually do shapes the encounter." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You are the boss and several people request the same limited resource", "reflection": "Authority brings a practical decision with competing requirements. This may picture responsibility needing an account of what is available and who can participate. An imagined choice does not assess leadership ability or reveal a desire to control the people in your waking life." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The boss listens when you question an instruction, without settling it yet", "reflection": "Your voice receives room before a final answer is available. This can resemble wanting a workable conversation rather than only agreement or permission. Being heard is an experience within the scene, not proof of how the real person values your opinion." } ], "prompts": [ "Which expectation needed clearer or more accurate terms?", "How did the setting change what the person’s authority meant?", "What room did the encounter leave for cooperation or your own voice?" ], "related": [ "work", "coworker", "being-fired", "job-interview", "office" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Expectations that can be understood", "reflection": "A request or review can need clear terms before more effort becomes useful." }, { "title": "Recognition with an accurate place for your contribution", "reflection": "Praise and evaluation can matter through what they acknowledge rather than their apparent positivity." }, { "title": "Authority with room for cooperation", "reflection": "A title can coexist with unanswered questions, shared resources and a voice in the task." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "breakup", "title": "A breakup", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "A relationship changes shape inside a conversation.", "summary": "A breakup dream can rehearse parting, uncertainty, or a change in closeness. Who speaks and how you feel matter more than a predicted outcome.", "aliases": [ "a breakup", "breakup", "break up", "breaking up", "being dumped", "getting dumped", "partner leaving", "splitting up" ], "status": "REVIEW", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A breakup dream can feel persuasive because it supplies a whole conversation, not just an image. Yet the dream does not establish what a partner wants or what will happen to the relationship. Start with the words you actually remember. A quiet mutual decision, an unexplained departure, and a furious argument involve different experiences of agency and loss, even when all end with separation.\n\nConsider what the dream asked you to relinquish. It might be companionship, a shared home, a familiar routine, or the expectation of a future together. If a recent change altered daily contact, the dream could be exploring that change without declaring a relationship finished. A move, a busy period, or watching someone else’s breakup can supply material too. Leave room for a direct memory or an imagined story rather than forcing a hidden message.\n\nYour own role deserves equal attention. Ending the relationship may feel decisive, reluctant, guilty, or unexpectedly calm. Being left may bring sadness but also relief from uncertainty. Those feelings describe the scene; they do not require an immediate waking decision. If the dream person was a former partner, distinguish what belongs to that period from what you feel about life now.\n\nA useful comparison is between the dream conversation and communication you would value while awake. Perhaps you wanted an explanation, time to respond, or a chance to speak without interruption. That need can be considered on its own, without accusing anyone of the dream’s behaviour. You may also find that the scene has no clear connection and remains simply a painful or vivid imagined parting.", "traditional": "This entry has no verified historical passage for a breakup in the specific modern relationship context. Nearby headings about separation, lovers, or marriage are distinct historical subjects, and they provide no evidence about a present partner’s intentions. No omen of betrayal or impending loss is attached to this dream.\n\nParting can involve much more than romance. A dream may cast a friendship ending as a formal breakup, or give a job, city, or familiar stage of life the voice of a partner. These are possibilities for personal writing rather than established symbolic substitutions. Note how the scene named the relationship and what practical details followed: returning belongings, moving rooms, telling others, or saying nothing. Such details can distinguish fear of losing a person from uncertainty about the daily structure you share with them.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "A partner leaves without explanation", "reflection": "The unanswered question may be the sharpest part of the dream. Record what you asked and whether the person heard you. Explore your experience of uncertainty without turning their dream silence into evidence about the real partner." }, { "title": "You calmly end the relationship", "reflection": "Notice whether the calm felt chosen, numb, or unfamiliar. The scene may let you imagine setting a boundary, or it may simply create a different role for you. What you wanted to preserve after parting can be revealing too." }, { "title": "Breaking up with a friend or place", "reflection": "A breakup with someone you never dated, or with a place that speaks, changes the subject. Describe what kind of attachment the dream ended. Consider a transition in belonging or routine rather than assuming the scene concerns your romantic life." } ], "prompts": [ "Which exact words stayed with you after waking?", "What did the parting change besides the relationship label?", "What sort of conversation would help you feel understood in waking life?" ], "related": [ "ex-partner", "cheating", "wedding", "reunion", "friend" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia expansion written on 2026-10-13, awaiting human publication review. Interpretations are conditional invitations to reflection, not validated symbolic meanings, predictions, diagnoses, or evidence about other people. Historical coverage is identified separately from original everyday context; research citations provide general context only.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "a-calendar-full-of-meetings", "title": "A calendar full of meetings", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "tagline": "A full schedule can hold company, work and missing space.", "summary": "A full meeting calendar may explore wanted inclusion, the work around appointments and the room different commitments need.", "aliases": [ "a calendar full of meetings", "calendar full of meetings" ], "status": "REVIEW", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-14", "psychological": "A calendar full of meetings in a dream may make participation feel organized before you have chosen its terms. Familiar names can promise wanted company, while tightly filled blocks can leave little room for what the occasions require. The full schedule is not automatically a picture of strain. Its usefulness depends on which meetings you want and what happens around them.\n\nSeeing trusted companions across a crowded week can feel reassuring. The arrangement might resemble having a place within shared activity, particularly after a period when plans were uncertain. That pleasure need not mean wanting every available hour occupied. A full calendar can give connection a visible form while leaving questions about pace and preparation open.\n\nMeetings can also consume the time needed for the work being discussed. You may have opportunities to report progress but no interval in which to produce it. A waking comparison could be a household or working arrangement that gives coordination a place while overlooking its supporting activity. The issue concerns what the schedule permits, rather than a verdict about how much effort you are making.\n\nThe grid can conceal distances. Two adjacent blocks may take place across town, making a neat-looking schedule physically awkward to use. Cancelling one meeting may not release its whole block if preparation or follow-up remains necessary. These are different kinds of occupied time: attending, travelling and doing related work do not become interchangeable because the display gives them similar shapes.\n\nSharing a meeting role can change the fit. A companion who attends one discussion and brings back its useful information may preserve your involvement while making another activity possible. This differs from simply abandoning an invitation. The dream can explore which parts require your presence and which parts depend on an understandable arrangement with someone else.\n\nOne full block may turn out to protect a quiet walk or time to think alone. Its label can make something appear like another demand while its purpose offers space you wanted. Recent invitations and planning routines may provide direct context. These possibilities concern an occupied meeting schedule, rather than a universal judgment about organization or evidence that colleagues have actually claimed your time without agreement.", "traditional": "This entry has no attached historical record for a full meeting schedule. Calendar's separate period account concerns keeping or seeing a calendar, not the particular demands of contemporary meeting invitations. The NINDS citation supplies general background, without validating the proposed meanings of occupied time or participation.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "The crowded week contains people you want to see", "reflection": "The calendar is full of familiar names whose company you welcome. Its density can make connection feel dependable rather than oppressive. The scene may offer pleasure in having a place within shared plans, while allowing the practical pace of those plans to remain a separate question." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Progress meetings leave no time for the work", "reflection": "Each block asks you to discuss a task, yet no interval allows the task to be done. Coordination and production have different needs. This may picture a schedule that recognizes reporting but not its supporting work, rather than treating the lack of progress as a judgment on your effort." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Adjacent blocks take place far apart", "reflection": "The calendar's tidy sequence requires journeys its spaces do not accommodate. A plan can look coherent while its use needs another arrangement. The scene may concern giving transitions practical room, especially when being available for one meeting does not instantly place you at the next." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A cancelled meeting leaves its preparation in place", "reflection": "The invitation disappears, but the work associated with it still occupies the block. Cancellation changes attendance without clearing every commitment. This can make the supporting activity visible, helping distinguish relief from a meeting's absence from the different question of which work remains wanted or necessary." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A companion attends and brings back what you need", "reflection": "Someone takes a shared meeting role while you keep time for another task. Involvement remains possible through an agreed exchange of information. The scene may explore which parts of participation require your presence, allowing cooperation to change the schedule without making the original connection unimportant." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "One meeting block protects a quiet walk alone", "reflection": "A block that looked like another appointment turns out to reserve a pause you wanted. Its purpose changes the experience of a full calendar. The schedule may make room for your own activity instead of allocating every space to an audience, showing how labels and useful intentions can differ." } ], "prompts": [ "Which invitations offered company or activity you actually wanted?", "What preparation, travel or follow-up needed room around the meetings?", "How could the purpose of a block or a shared role change the schedule’s fit?" ], "related": [ "calendar", "work", "an-overflowing-inbox", "being-late" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Wanted inclusion with workable terms", "reflection": "A crowded schedule can offer reassuring company while leaving its pace and purpose open to consideration." }, { "title": "The activity around the appointments", "reflection": "Preparation, travel and follow-up can need room beyond the meeting blocks themselves." }, { "title": "Presence and purpose are different questions", "reflection": "A role can be shared, and an occupied block can preserve space rather than add another demand." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "a-camera-accidentally-left-on", "title": "A camera accidentally left on", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "tagline": "An ordinary private moment acquires an audience.", "summary": "A camera left on can place private space under unexpected observation. What was visible, and how others responded, can change the whole dream.", "aliases": [ "a camera accidentally left on", "camera accidentally left on" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "Notice the moment you learned the camera was still on. Before then, were you relaxed, distracted, upset, or simply living your day? The shift into being watched may let you explore expectations about presentation and privacy. Separate the exposure you actually saw from what you imagined the audience had witnessed. This dream does not show that anyone is watching you in waking life; its useful material is the scene and the feeling of discovery.", "traditional": "Video cameras and online meetings are modern contexts. Comparisons with being seen unexpectedly are editorial analogies, not inherited dream predictions.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "Your room was visible", "reflection": "The room may have revealed clutter, belongings, or people. Which detail did you rush to conceal, and why?" }, { "title": "Nobody seemed concerned", "reflection": "The dream audience may have been less judgmental than you expected. Did that soften the embarrassment?" }, { "title": "You could not switch it off", "reflection": "The issue became control over visibility. Notice whether covering the lens, leaving, or asking for help was possible." } ], "prompts": [ "What changed when I realized I could be seen?", "What did I believe the audience learned about me?", "Was being seen ever comfortable in this dream?" ], "related": [ "a-microphone-that-will-not-mute" ], "sources": [], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection draft, written for this specific modern scene. Suggested connections are exploratory, not established dream meanings. Individual editorial review remains pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "a-child-leaving-home", "title": "A child leaving home", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "Making room for a changed relationship.", "summary": "A child leaving home may bring changing family roles, practical separation and ways of staying connected into view.", "aliases": [ "child moving out dream", "empty nest dream" ], "status": "REVIEW", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-14", "psychological": "A child leaving home in a dream can hold several experiences together: pride in someone taking a step, sadness about an altered routine, practical worries and anticipation of a quieter household. Begin with the relationship shown and your part in the departure. The dream does not establish what a real child intends to do or how a future move will unfold.\n\nThe child's age may not match waking life. A young child might pack for university, or an adult might leave carrying familiar childhood belongings. Such combinations can place different stages beside one another. They may help you notice how your expectations have changed, without indicating that a young person is ready for an actual move.\n\nPractical details can make the scene specific. You might help choose what to pack, hand over a key, prepare food or wonder who will use the room afterward. These actions could resemble a change in how you offer care: doing something for a person, helping them arrange it, or being available without directing the whole process.\n\nIf the departure feels abrupt, consider what remains unsaid in the scene. Wanting a conversation differs from wanting to prevent someone leaving. If the child repeatedly returns for small things, the dream might explore connection continuing through ordinary requests. Neither distance nor a return proves rejection, dependency or the quality of the relationship.\n\nThe room left behind can bring attention to your own routines. You may want to preserve it exactly, make it useful differently or postpone deciding. Those possibilities can coexist with affection. A change in household use does not erase the relationship; equally, maintaining a familiar room need not prevent you from recognizing the person's independence.\n\nRecent family changes, remembered departures or conversations about growing up may supply the dream. You may also identify with the departing child rather than the person staying. Ask which position felt closest to your present life. The reflection is about a dreamed transition, not evidence that anyone is unsafe, a prediction of separation or a diagnosis of your response.", "traditional": "No historical account of this particular child-leaving-home scenario is supplied. NINDS provides general background on waking experience and emotion entering dreams. The original reflections consider a changing relationship and household routine; they do not establish a child's intentions or a future family outcome.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "Helping pack while the child chooses what to take", "reflection": "You offer supplies, but the child decides which belongings fit the new place. The scene might explore support that leaves room for another person's preferences. Notice what help feels welcome and where you want to take over, without turning either response into a judgment of your parenting." }, { "title": "A very young child leaving for an adult destination", "reflection": "The child looks small yet calmly prepares for work or university. The contrast may bring different stages of your relationship together. Ask what felt difficult to reconcile in the scene: the pace of change, an old image of the child or your own position as the person staying." }, { "title": "A departure before a conversation can happen", "reflection": "You have something to say, but the bags are already at the door. This could help identify a wish for time or clearer communication during a change. What would you like to express? The missed conversation does not establish what the child feels or what a real departure will be like." }, { "title": "The child returns for an ordinary household item", "reflection": "After leaving, they come back for a cup, tool or favorite food. The scene may emphasize connection through practical familiarity rather than a reversal of the move. Notice whether the return feels welcome, disruptive or reassuring, and what kind of ongoing contact you would prefer." }, { "title": "Deciding what to do with the unused room", "reflection": "You consider preserving the room, using it differently or waiting. The choice could draw attention to your own needs alongside affection for the departing person. What would make a change feel appropriate? No single use of the room proves acceptance, rejection or the strength of your bond." }, { "title": "Recognizing yourself as the child who leaves", "reflection": "The dream shifts, and you carry the bag while someone else remains at home. This might offer another view of a current transition: choosing your next arrangement while considering those affected. Notice what you take, what you can decide and how you want connection to continue." } ], "prompts": [ "Which part of the departure mattered most to you?", "How did care or contact change as the child prepared to leave?", "What did the room, belongings or unfinished conversation invite you to consider?" ], "related": [ "children", "family", "house", "childhood-home", "homesick" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Care changing form", "reflection": "Packing, practical help and requests may show how support can continue while decisions increasingly belong to another person." }, { "title": "Several feelings at once", "reflection": "Pride, reluctance and interest in a quieter routine can coexist without one determining what the relationship means." }, { "title": "The place left behind", "reflection": "An unused room can draw attention to your own choices about continuity, new activities and the pace of adjustment." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "a-co-parenting-handover", "title": "A co-parenting handover", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "Handing a child between caregivers can place trust, coordination, and the child’s needs beside complicated adult feelings.", "summary": "Handing a child between caregivers can place trust, coordination, and the child’s needs beside complicated adult feelings.", "aliases": [ "child custody handover dream", "co parenting dream" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "Keep the practical exchange distinct from the history between the adults. Was the important issue a forgotten bag, a change of schedule, a child’s reluctance, or your own difficulty letting go? The scene may offer a way to reflect on shared responsibility without treating it as evidence about the other parent’s reliability. What the child expressed deserves attention separately from what either adult assumed.", "traditional": "Older household dream books often presume one family structure. Their spouse and child entries do not directly represent contemporary co-parenting arrangements; no historical rule is applied to decide which adult is right.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "The other caregiver arrives much later than agreed", "reflection": "What did the delay disrupt beyond the timetable?" }, { "title": "The child moves comfortably between you", "reflection": "How did their ease affect your own feelings about the arrangement?" }, { "title": "You coordinate a forgotten comfort object", "reflection": "What small act made cooperation possible despite adult tension?" } ], "prompts": [ "What did the child actually communicate?", "Which agreement did you need to trust?", "What belonged to the present exchange rather than an older disagreement?" ], "related": [ "children", "separation", "parents" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia model-assisted editorial draft. Reflection questions and scenario readings are optional, individually written suggestions, not empirically validated symbol meanings. Source scope is stated with each citation. Historical comparisons identify topics, not inherited interpretations. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "a-cracked-phone-screen", "title": "A cracked phone screen", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "tagline": "A damaged surface between you and the message.", "summary": "A cracked screen can make communication hard to read or control. Notice whether the damage interrupted a task, exposed a mistake, or barely mattered.", "aliases": [ "a cracked phone screen", "cracked phone screen" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "The screen is both something you look through and something you touch. Was the message visible but impossible to answer, or did the cracks hide what you needed to know? Those details can help you describe frustration, uncertainty, or the pressure to keep functioning with damaged tools. The person who broke it and the cost of repair may matter more than the object itself. There need not be a hidden meaning beyond a remembered breakage.", "traditional": "A broken mirror or damaged letter can offer a historical comparison, but treating a phone screen as either is a new analogy, not a traditional interpretation.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "The screen worked despite the cracks", "reflection": "You may have been adapting successfully, tolerating a problem, or ignoring damage. Describe which of those fits the scene." }, { "title": "The cracks concealed a message", "reflection": "The unreadable words may be the important detail. Did you imagine good news, criticism, or something you preferred not to know?" }, { "title": "Someone else broke it", "reflection": "Look at responsibility: did they acknowledge the damage, dismiss it, or leave you to repair it?" } ], "prompts": [ "What was I trying to do at the moment it broke?", "Did I feel more upset about the damage or its consequences?", "Who, if anyone, helped me repair it?" ], "related": [ "an-unread-message", "losing-a-phone" ], "sources": [], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection draft, written for this specific modern scene. Suggested connections are exploratory, not established dream meanings. Individual editorial review remains pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "a-day-repeating-in-a-loop", "title": "A day repeating in a loop", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "A looping day puts repetition into the dream’s plot. The revealing detail may be what you attempt differently on each round.", "summary": "A looping day puts repetition into the dream’s plot. The revealing detail may be what you attempt differently on each round.", "aliases": [ "time loop dream", "repeating the same day in a dream" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "Distinguish a loop within one dream from a recurring dream across nights. If you remember repeated rounds, compare them: perhaps you sought escape, practiced a response, or enjoyed another chance. Repetition could make an ordinary responsibility feel inescapable, but it can also supply room to experiment. These are possible narrative lenses, not evidence that time is repeating or that you have failed to learn a lesson.", "traditional": "Modern film and game stories often use time loops; recent exposure is worth recording if it applies. This entry does not assign a karmic explanation or claim that the loop represents an ancient teaching.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "The same morning restarts after a mistake", "reflection": "Did the restart feel punitive or like a chance to try safely?" }, { "title": "Only you remember the previous round", "reflection": "What was difficult about carrying knowledge no one else shared?" }, { "title": "You stop trying to break the loop", "reflection": "Was the change acceptance, exhaustion, enjoyment, or something else?" } ], "prompts": [ "What action appeared to reset the day?", "What, if anything, changed between rounds?", "Were you trying to change the outcome or your response?" ], "related": [ "clock" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia model-assisted editorial draft. Reflection questions and scenario readings are optional, individually written suggestions, not empirically validated symbol meanings. Source scope is stated with each citation. Historical comparisons identify topics, not inherited interpretations. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "a-deadline-moving-closer", "title": "A deadline moving closer", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "tagline": "The task remains; the time promised to it changes.", "summary": "A moving deadline may explore changed terms, work that needs its own duration and what acceptance means after a due point shifts.", "aliases": [ "a deadline moving closer", "deadline moving closer" ], "status": "REVIEW", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-14", "psychological": "A deadline moving closer in a dream may separate the work you intended to do from the time promised for it. You can understand a task and still find its due point changing. The pressure may concern an unstable agreement, a process with its own duration or the question of what should now count as enough. This differs from simply arriving late at an occasion whose starting time stays fixed.\n\nSomeone replacing the agreed date with an earlier one can make a trade-off visible. The original scope may no longer fit the available interval, even if you were working steadily. A waking comparison could be a shared project needing agreement about which part matters most when its conditions change. The dream does not establish that a real coordinator intends to frustrate you or that additional effort can supply every missing condition.\n\nHanding over a finished section before the whole task is complete introduces a different possibility. An earlier due point might allow a useful beginning to be received, or leave you uneasy about separating it from the planned whole. What the recipient needs can distinguish a workable staged contribution from an unexplained demand for everything at once.\n\nSome steps cannot be accelerated within the dream. A model drying or a colleague completing a necessary part may continue at its own pace while the due point approaches. This can resemble planning around dependencies rather than treating all time as effort you personally control. A deadline's change makes those supporting conditions visible; it does not measure competence through the countdown.\n\nA revised deadline that arrives through a message intended for another participant can make the agreement difficult to understand. You may need to know whether the new time applies to your own part. When a promised extension is withdrawn, the concern can instead be relying on an arrangement long enough to use it. These scenes focus on communication and stability, rather than assigning every uncertainty to your preparation.\n\nCompletion can change what the moving point matters for. If the task is accepted while the countdown continues racing, relief may come from a clear acknowledgment rather than stopping the display. Recent reminders can supply direct context. The imagined task does not forecast an outcome, assess productivity or direct an actual work decision.", "traditional": "This particular moving-deadline scene has no attached historical account. Clock and Work have their own period writing, but those accounts do not supply a rule for a changing contemporary due point. The general NINDS citation does not validate these original comparisons about task conditions, completion or timing.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "The agreed date is replaced by an earlier one", "reflection": "The same work is requested within a shorter interval than the arrangement allowed. This may picture a trade-off needing to become explicit: which purpose can still be served on the changed terms? The shift concerns the agreement, rather than automatically making the work already done insufficient." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A finished section is requested before the whole is ready", "reflection": "The approaching due point asks for part of the work rather than its complete planned form. This can make a staged contribution useful or feel premature. The recipient's purpose matters, allowing readiness to be considered for a particular use instead of judged only against the original whole." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A model keeps drying while the due point moves earlier", "reflection": "A necessary process continues at its own pace while the promised deadline moves earlier. Urgency and practical duration are different conditions. This may picture a task depending on more than your immediate effort, where changing the plan or scope can matter without treating the waiting interval as wasted work." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A revised time arrives in a message for another participant", "reflection": "You receive news of an earlier deadline without knowing whether it governs your part. The problem includes the reach of the agreement. Clarifying the intended request can be different from immediately speeding up, giving usable communication a place alongside the practical task." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A promised extension is withdrawn after you plan around it", "reflection": "Time made available is removed after it has shaped your next steps. The scene can concern relying on an arrangement long enough to use it. Frustration may belong to its instability, rather than prove that your plan was careless or that the other dreamed participant had a deliberate motive." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The task is accepted while the countdown moves the due point earlier", "reflection": "Your contribution receives a clear acknowledgment, but the countdown keeps shifting the due point earlier. Acceptance changes the practical situation before the pressure disappears. The scene may explore which response makes your part complete, allowing relief to depend on reception rather than control of every signal." } ], "prompts": [ "Which part of the task became different when its due point changed?", "What agreement or supporting process did the work need?", "How did a request, handover or acknowledgment affect what counted as complete?" ], "related": [ "work", "a-file-that-will-not-save", "a-presentation-with-blank-slides", "clock" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A task and an agreement about time", "reflection": "Advancing the due point can change which scope is workable without changing the effort already made." }, { "title": "Dependencies with their own duration", "reflection": "A necessary process or another contribution can need conditions that urgency alone does not supply." }, { "title": "An understandable request and an acknowledged ending", "reflection": "A revised message or accepted contribution can change what the deadline means for your part." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "a-deleted-work-document", "title": "A deleted work document", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "tagline": "Something you made disappears, and you decide what to do next.", "summary": "A deleted work document can raise questions about lost effort, responsibility, or starting over. Notice who deleted it and whether a copy existed.", "aliases": [ "a deleted work document", "deleted work document" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "The missing document may stand for a specific piece of work, a record of your contribution, or simply hours you do not want to repeat. You might reflect on what made the loss painful before treating it as a larger symbol. An accidental deletion differs from someone deliberately removing your work, and discovering a backup changes the ending. If rebuilding felt welcome, the dream may have made room to abandon a version you no longer wanted.", "traditional": "The historical archive has no direct account of deleted digital files. An analogy with lost papers can frame a question, but cannot establish a meaning for this scene.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "You deleted it yourself", "reflection": "Record whether the action was accidental, impulsive, or intentional. Those differences matter more than the deletion alone." }, { "title": "Someone else removed it", "reflection": "Did they understand the value of the work? The conflict may concern acknowledgment as much as recovery." }, { "title": "A backup was found", "reflection": "Notice whose preparation or help made recovery possible. What feeling changed when the work was no longer entirely gone?" } ], "prompts": [ "What did the document contain?", "What mattered most: its contents, the time spent, or proof of my work?", "Did I try to recover it or begin again?" ], "related": [ "a-file-that-will-not-save", "a-presentation-with-blank-slides", "an-overflowing-inbox" ], "sources": [], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection draft, written for this specific modern scene. Suggested connections are exploratory, not established dream meanings. Individual editorial review remains pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "a-dream-within-a-dream", "title": "A dream within a dream", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "Dreaming that you fall asleep or describe another dream creates a layered story; the layers need not carry hidden instructions.", "summary": "Dreaming that you fall asleep or describe another dream creates a layered story; the layers need not carry hidden instructions.", "aliases": [ "nested dream", "dream inside a dream" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "Draw the sequence as you remember it instead of trying to force each layer into a separate meaning. Did an inner scene feel like escape, rehearsal, or a story you wanted somebody to hear? A dream within a dream differs from a false awakening when no imagined waking occurs. That distinction is descriptive, not a claim that your mind occupied several literal realities or that the deepest scene is the truest.", "traditional": "Nested stories are a literary device as well as a possible dream experience. This modern reflection does not assign sacred significance to the number of layers or attribute its reading to an ancient dream book.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "You fall asleep inside the dream", "reflection": "What were you leaving behind in the outer scene?" }, { "title": "A character asks you to explain an inner dream", "reflection": "Did explaining it feel clarifying or like another demand?" }, { "title": "The inner and outer scenes begin to overlap", "reflection": "Which person, object, or emotion crossed between them?" } ], "prompts": [ "Can you describe the order without filling in missing transitions?", "Which layer carried the strongest feeling?", "Did you feel like a participant, narrator, or audience?" ], "related": [ "dreams", "sleep", "incoherent" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia model-assisted editorial draft. Reflection questions and scenario readings are optional, individually written suggestions, not empirically validated symbol meanings. Source scope is stated with each citation. Historical comparisons identify topics, not inherited interpretations. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "a-dying-phone-battery", "title": "A dying phone battery", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "tagline": "A small countdown beside something you still need to do.", "summary": "A dwindling battery can turn a simple task into a race. The useful detail is what had to happen before the phone went dark.", "aliases": [ "a dying phone battery", "dying phone battery" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "Follow the remaining charge through the dream. Were you saving it for one person, spending it on the wrong task, or searching for a socket that never fitted? You might connect that pattern with limited time, competing demands, or needing support. A low battery is not evidence that your own energy has a hidden measurable level. Your reaction may instead come from a very practical dependence on a working phone.", "traditional": "Rechargeable phones have no direct entry in the older archive. Comparisons with failing lamps or dwindling supplies are present-day interpretations.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "The final call would not connect", "reflection": "The scene may center on access to a particular person. Write what the call was meant to accomplish." }, { "title": "Every charger was wrong", "reflection": "Having help nearby but being unable to use it differs from having no help at all. Notice who offered the chargers." }, { "title": "The phone died and you felt calm", "reflection": "The interruption may have ended an unwanted obligation. Record what became possible when you could no longer respond." } ], "prompts": [ "What did I choose to spend the last charge on?", "Did I ask anyone for help?", "Was the countdown real in the scene or something I kept checking?" ], "related": [ "a-phone-ringing-endlessly", "losing-a-phone" ], "sources": [], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection draft, written for this specific modern scene. Suggested connections are exploratory, not established dream meanings. Individual editorial review remains pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "father-in-law-and-mother-in-law", "title": "A Father in Law, and Mother in Law", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Artemidorus wrote: “To dream to sée a father in law, or mother in law dead, or alive, is ill, especially using violence, or threatning: using gentle…”", "aliases": [ "a father in law, and mother in law", "of a father in law, and mother in law", "father in law", "mother in law" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about a father in law, and mother in law stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "artemidorus-137", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of a Father in Law, and Mother in Law.", "text": "TO dream to sée a father in law, or mother in law dead, or alive, is ill, especially using violence, or threatning: using gentle spéech, and good entertainment, are vain hopes and deceits. Sometimes they signifie voyages; for the naturall father, and mother, represent the house: the father or mother in law, strangers.", "locator": "Book 3, encoded section 137", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "3", "displayText": "To dream to sée a father in law, or mother in law dead, or alive, is ill, especially using violence, or threatning: using gentle spéech, and good entertainment, are vain hopes and deceits. Sometimes they signifie voyages; for the naturall father, and mother, represent the house: the father or mother in law, strangers." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "a-fever-dream", "title": "A fever dream", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "Dreams remembered during fever may feel unusually strange or uncomfortable; imagery alone cannot tell you whether you have a fever.", "summary": "Dreams remembered during fever may feel unusually strange or uncomfortable; imagery alone cannot tell you whether you have a fever.", "aliases": [ "fever dreams", "dreaming while feverish" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "An online study of recalled fever dreams reported differences in bizarreness and emotional tone compared with comparison dreams. Its retrospective design leaves room for memory and selection effects. For your own record, separate actual illness and bedroom conditions from dreamed heat, repetition, or impossible scale. If you were not physically ill, you can still describe a strange dream without treating the casual phrase fever dream as a medical explanation.", "traditional": "The archive includes historical fever and illness topics, whose predictions should not be used as health information. This entry treats reported fever as physical context and does not translate unusual imagery into an omen about recovery.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "The room grows impossibly large or small", "reflection": "How did the change in scale affect your comfort or ability to act?" }, { "title": "You repeat a task while feeling overheated", "reflection": "What do you recall from the dream, and what was confirmed after waking?" }, { "title": "A familiar person seems oddly distant", "reflection": "Was the distress about separation, sensory strangeness, or something else?" } ], "prompts": [ "Was illness known before the dream or assumed afterward?", "Which physical sensations were present when you woke?", "What detail remains meaningful without a symbolic explanation?" ], "related": [ "fever", "heat", "illness" ], "sources": [ { "id": "schredl-erlacher-2020", "title": "Fever Dreams: An Online Study", "author": "Michael Schredl and Daniel Erlacher", "url": "https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00053/full", "scope": "Retrospective online survey; describes reported fever dreams, not a way to diagnose fever or interpret an individual dream." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia model-assisted editorial draft. Reflection questions and scenario readings are optional, individually written suggestions, not empirically validated symbol meanings. Source scope is stated with each citation. Historical comparisons identify topics, not inherited interpretations. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "a-file-that-will-not-save", "title": "A file that will not save", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "tagline": "The work is there, but you cannot make it stay.", "summary": "A file that will not save can put finished effort at risk. Notice whether the obstacle was a device, a rule, or a destination you could not find.", "aliases": [ "a file that will not save", "file that will not save" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "You may have completed the difficult part and still been unable to secure the result. That distinction can be useful when reflecting on recognition, reliability, or dependence on a system you do not control. Notice whether you tried to copy the text, change the name, find another location, or simply press save again. The dream may also revisit a real software frustration. It need not imply that your work or progress is actually being lost.", "traditional": "Digital saving has no direct place in older dream dictionaries. Connections with preserving a document are present-day comparisons, not source-backed meanings for software failure.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "The save button did nothing", "reflection": "Repeated action produced no feedback. Did you try another approach or feel trapped in repeating the same step?" }, { "title": "You lacked permission to save", "reflection": "The scene placed authority over your work elsewhere. Who could grant access, and did you ask them?" }, { "title": "The filename kept changing", "reflection": "The problem may concern identifying or finding the work later. What title or location did you need it to keep?" } ], "prompts": [ "What would have been lost if the file vanished?", "Which part of the task was already complete?", "What alternative did I try when saving failed?" ], "related": [ "a-deleted-work-document", "a-deadline-moving-closer" ], "sources": [], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection draft, written for this specific modern scene. Suggested connections are exploratory, not established dream meanings. Individual editorial review remains pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "a-first-day-at-work-with-no-guidance", "title": "A first day at work with no guidance", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "tagline": "Beginning a job without guidance can put willingness to contribute beside uncertainty about rules, expectations, and where to ask for help.", "summary": "Beginning a job without guidance can put willingness to contribute beside uncertainty about rules, expectations, and where to ask for help.", "aliases": [ "first day of work unprepared", "new job no training dream" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "Notice whether you were expected to know information no one had provided. A dream about being new can offer a way to explore learning and belonging without defining unfamiliarity as incompetence. The useful distinction is between a skill you need to develop and an environment that has failed to orient you. Look for any person, sign, or small task that made a first foothold possible.", "traditional": "Historical apprenticeship and employment entries reflect different arrangements of training and obligation. This draft does not take confusion as an omen of professional failure; it focuses on the conditions that support learning.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "Everyone assumes you know where to go", "reflection": "What basic information would have reduced the confusion?" }, { "title": "You are assigned a task before receiving access", "reflection": "How did you respond to responsibility without the required tools?" }, { "title": "A colleague shows you one useful routine", "reflection": "What made that small welcome more effective than general reassurance?" } ], "prompts": [ "What were you expected to know already?", "Was asking a question safe in this workplace?", "What would a reasonable first day have required from others?" ], "related": [ "employment", "apprentice" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia model-assisted editorial draft. Reflection questions and scenario readings are optional, individually written suggestions, not empirically validated symbol meanings. Source scope is stated with each citation. Historical comparisons identify topics, not inherited interpretations. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "a-follower-count-changing", "title": "A follower count changing", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "tagline": "A shifting number becomes a verdict only if the dream makes it one.", "summary": "A changing follower count can turn attention into a visible score. Notice what you believed the number said about you and whether anyone familiar was involved.", "aliases": [ "a follower count changing", "follower count changing" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "A rising count may have felt exciting, suspicious, or burdensome; a falling one may have brought rejection or relief. You might reflect on what the number represented in the scene: friendship, income, influence, approval, or an obligation to perform. Those associations are yours to test rather than facts carried by the dream. Pay attention to any individual relationship that stayed the same while the total changed.", "traditional": "Follower counts are a modern measurement. Comparisons with status or public approval cannot turn the number into a traditional omen.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "The number dropped after you spoke honestly", "reflection": "The dream may connect self-expression with a feared social cost. Did anyone meaningful stay?" }, { "title": "It rose faster than you could read it", "reflection": "Attention may have become hard to understand or manage. Were you pleased, overwhelmed, or doubtful about who was arriving?" }, { "title": "The count changed while nothing else did", "reflection": "The display may have mattered more than any actual interaction. What made you keep checking it?" } ], "prompts": [ "What did one more or one fewer follower mean to me in the dream?", "Was this about a crowd or a particular person?", "What connection remained when I stopped looking at the number?" ], "related": [ "going-viral-unexpectedly", "a-post-nobody-noticed", "an-endless-social-media-feed" ], "sources": [], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection draft, written for this specific modern scene. Suggested connections are exploratory, not established dream meanings. Individual editorial review remains pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "a-forgotten-phone-password", "title": "A forgotten phone password", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "tagline": "Your phone is familiar; its usable access is missing.", "summary": "A forgotten phone password may make wanted access, the terms of help and the purpose beyond the locked screen unusually concrete.", "aliases": [ "a forgotten phone password", "forgotten phone password" ], "status": "REVIEW", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-14", "psychological": "A forgotten phone password in a dream may put a familiar resource just beyond use. You know the device belongs to you, yet the sequence that would open it is unavailable. The wanted purpose matters: reaching a saved message, showing a destination or finding a contact can create different pressures. This is more specific than an unknown entrance requirement or a phone whose connection has failed.\n\nWanting to show someone information stored on the phone can make readiness depend on access. You may have prepared what is needed without being able to offer it at the useful moment. A waking comparison might be a conversation for which the relevant detail exists but cannot readily be retrieved. The frustration concerns the arrangement between preparation and use, rather than proving that the preparation was worthless.\n\nA remembered sequence from an earlier period can bring another association into the attempt. An old home number might come to mind even while you know it is not the current password. Familiarity can supply comfort, distraction or a reminder of where that number belonged. Its digits do not require decoding into a message or date.\n\nThe proposed route back into the phone can itself become circular. If a reset instruction depends on information inside another locked device, the scene may resemble a task whose supporting conditions rely on one another. More attempts at the first step may not answer that particular difficulty. The missing means of access can matter separately from effort or willingness.\n\nHelp can introduce a different choice. A companion might remember the sequence but reach private photographs while assisting. You may welcome practical support while wanting a more limited exchange. That tension concerns the terms of help, not evidence that the real person has intruded or that a real account is unsafe.\n\nRemembering the password after the wanted occasion has passed can change what successful access means. Setting the phone aside when the person you hoped to contact is already nearby offers another ending: connection becomes available through a different method. Recent login frustrations may supply direct imagery. Neither forgetting nor remembering within a dream assesses your memory, and these possibilities do not prescribe changes to actual credentials.", "traditional": "No historical record is attached to this specific phone-password scene. The neighboring Password account concerns a broader access condition and does not supply ancient digital-login lore. The listed NINDS source is general dream background only; it does not test these original readings or establish a memory or security problem.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A saved destination cannot be shown", "reflection": "You want to show a companion a destination stored on your phone, but the password will not come to mind. Preparation exists without usable access. The scene may concern reaching a useful detail at the right moment, rather than deciding that everything you had prepared has lost its value." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "An old home number keeps replacing the needed sequence", "reflection": "A number from an earlier home comes readily to mind while the current password remains unavailable. Familiarity and practical usefulness have separated. The association may feel comforting or distracting, allowing a remembered setting to enter the attempt without making its digits a message to decode." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "The reset route depends on another locked device", "reflection": "The offered route back into the phone requires information that is also inaccessible. The obstacle becomes a circular dependency rather than one more unsuccessful guess. This may resemble a task needing a different supporting arrangement, where willingness to try does not supply the missing condition by itself." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A helper reaches photographs while unlocking the phone", "reflection": "A companion remembers the sequence and opens more than the page you wanted. Relief can coexist with a preference for narrower help. The scene may explore keeping assistance useful while choosing its scope, without establishing an actual intrusion or the waking helper's intentions." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The password returns after the occasion has passed", "reflection": "You remember the sequence when the information is no longer needed for the original exchange. Successful access brings relief while its timing changes what it accomplishes. The scene can distinguish recovering a means from recovering a moment, leaving room for both satisfaction and disappointment." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The wanted person is beside you as the phone stays locked", "reflection": "The phone remains inaccessible, but the person you hoped to reach is present in the room. An exchange can begin without the method you first sought. This may picture a wanted connection finding another form, while allowing any stored information you still need to retain its practical importance." } ], "prompts": [ "What did you want to reach, and why did its availability matter at that moment?", "How did a remembered sequence or offered help change the attempt?", "Which part of the wanted exchange remained possible without unlocking the phone?" ], "related": [ "password", "privacy", "phone-not-working", "telephone" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Prepared information with usable access", "reflection": "Having a relevant detail can differ from being able to offer it when it is wanted." }, { "title": "Help on understandable terms", "reflection": "A practical route back into the device can introduce dependencies or a choice about the scope of assistance." }, { "title": "The purpose beyond the screen", "reflection": "Access can have a useful moment, while the wanted connection may remain possible through another method." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "a-frozen-video-meeting", "title": "A frozen video meeting", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "tagline": "The connection remains, but the shared moment stops moving.", "summary": "A frozen video meeting can leave you unsure whether others are listening, gone, or waiting. Notice what froze and what you could still hear.", "aliases": [ "a frozen video meeting", "frozen video meeting" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "A fixed face can look attentive, disapproving, or absent even when it is simply frozen. In the dream, did you interpret the expression before recognizing the glitch? You might reflect on difficulty reading feedback or keeping a conversation synchronized. Alternatively, the scene may replay a routine annoyance with online meetings. Your own voice continuing into silence is different from watching everyone else move while you remain stuck.", "traditional": "Frozen video has no direct historical interpretation. A paused image and interrupted conversation can be compared with older motifs only as a new reading.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "Only your picture froze", "reflection": "You might have felt unable to show your response while remaining present. Could you still speak or use the chat?" }, { "title": "Everyone froze during your answer", "reflection": "The missing feedback may be central. What response were you hoping to receive?" }, { "title": "The meeting continued without you", "reflection": "The scene creates uncertainty about what was missed. Did anyone help you catch up or expect you to know already?" } ], "prompts": [ "How did I decide whether anyone could hear me?", "What expression stayed frozen on the screen?", "What did I do while the connection was uncertain?" ], "related": [ "talking-while-muted", "missing-a-video-call", "a-presentation-with-blank-slides" ], "sources": [], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection draft, written for this specific modern scene. Suggested connections are exploratory, not established dream meanings. Individual editorial review remains pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "graduation", "title": "A graduation", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "Completion made visible to other people", "summary": "Graduation may distinguish completing work, receiving public acknowledgment and finding a new rhythm after the ceremony.", "aliases": [ "a graduation", "graduation", "graduating", "commencement", "cap and gown", "diploma", "missing graduation", "graduation ceremony" ], "status": "REVIEW", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "Graduation makes completion public. A name is called, a group assembles and a document or gesture marks that a stage has ended. A dream may enjoy this moment or focus on the arrangements that make recognition possible. Notice whether the work is finished before the ceremony begins. Completion, being acknowledged and knowing what comes afterward need not happen at the same time.\n\nA missing name or incorrect certificate can make acknowledgment central without questioning the work itself. This could fit finishing a project whose contribution remains unclear to other people. Receiving an honor for unfamiliar work creates another uncertainty: you may feel pleased, puzzled or reluctant to accept it. Those responses do not prove fraudulence or hidden merit; they describe the relationship between the recognition offered and what you understand yourself to have done.\n\nThe audience can bring particular relationships into the milestone. You may search for someone who supported you, share the occasion with unexpected company or prefer a quiet ceremony without spectators. A current achievement might matter differently to you and to those around you. The dream does not decide whose response should count most or establish what an absent person would have felt.\n\nCelebrating someone else's graduation changes your position. Pride, distance, envy or practical responsibility can appear together as you help with clothes, photographs or travel. This may resemble supporting a transition that changes your relationship to another person. Their success need not become a measure of your own pace or value.\n\nAfter the ceremony, a familiar timetable may disappear. An empty hall, a bag of belongings or an uncertain route home can picture the interval between ending a structured task and arranging the next day. This need not mean that finishing was premature or that a new goal must immediately replace it. Actual ceremonies, invitations, job changes and remembered academic experiences can provide direct material. Keep the dreamed milestone specific: what ended, who recognized it and what space opened afterward. A graduation image alone cannot forecast a result or certify readiness for a particular role.", "traditional": "No exact Graduation ceremony passage is attached. Historical School and College accounts concern neighboring subjects and make their own forecasts; they do not establish meanings for diplomas, commencement customs or current qualifications. These original possibilities examine completion and recognition. The general sleep source supports background only.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "Your work is complete but your name is missing from the list", "reflection": "A public record fails to match an achievement already present in the dream. This may resemble wanting acknowledgment for a finished contribution. Notice whether the omission can be corrected, rather than treating the missing name as evidence that the work never counted." }, { "title": "You receive a certificate for a subject you do not recognize", "reflection": "The offered recognition has no clear connection to your remembered effort. This could bring pleasure, uncertainty or discomfort around an unexpected role. The scene does not determine whether you deserve praise; it may explore what would make the recognition understandable to you." }, { "title": "Someone important arrives after your name has been called", "reflection": "The milestone occurs without the witness you expected at that moment. This may fit a wish to share an achievement whose timing does not align with another person's availability. Notice the later encounter; a missed ceremonial moment need not define the whole relationship." }, { "title": "You help another person prepare while your own ceremony is elsewhere", "reflection": "Supporting someone and attending to your milestone compete for time. This may resemble a transition in which your practical role makes your own needs less visible. How you arrange the two occasions can matter more than comparing whose achievement is greater." }, { "title": "The ceremony ends and you do not know where to take your belongings", "reflection": "Completion removes the structure that organized the day. This could fit finishing a course or project before the next routine is settled. The uncertainty can coexist with achievement; it does not show that the ending was wrong or demand an immediate replacement goal." }, { "title": "You choose a quiet celebration instead of returning to the crowded hall", "reflection": "Recognition takes a form that fits your present preference. The scene may explore how you want to mark a completed effort when public expectations differ. Notice who joins you and what you keep from the occasion; a smaller celebration can still carry significance." } ], "prompts": [ "What had been completed before the ceremony began?", "Whose presence or response shaped the occasion for you?", "How did the dream arrange the time after the milestone?" ], "related": [ "school-or-exam", "college", "high-school", "reunion", "school" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection independently reviewed for content and source scope. Historical accounts remain attributed period writing. Human publication review pending.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Work and acknowledgment", "reflection": "A ceremony can make visible the gap between completing something and having others recognize its completion." }, { "title": "Witnesses to a milestone", "reflection": "Particular people may change the occasion's meaning without determining the value of the achievement." }, { "title": "The day after completion", "reflection": "Losing a familiar schedule can coexist with satisfaction and leave room before another commitment begins." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "haunted-house", "title": "A haunted house", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "A familiar building with an unfamiliar presence.", "summary": "A haunted house can mix familiar rooms with uneasy presences or unexplained sounds. Notice what was disturbing and what still felt like home.", "aliases": [ "a haunted house", "haunted house", "haunted", "a haunting", "haunted home", "poltergeist", "something in the house" ], "status": "REVIEW", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A haunted house begins with a place you might ordinarily use for shelter, privacy, or exploration, then makes that place uncertain. The haunting may be visible, suggested by sounds, or simply known without explanation. Describe how you knew the house was haunted. An unseen noise, a moving object, and a recognised figure can create quite different feelings and questions.\n\nA house from your own life may bring particular memories, but the dream does not recover facts about what happened there. Compare the rooms with what you remember: perhaps a closed room opened, a corridor grew, or a childhood kitchen held people from a later period. These changes may offer ways to think about memory and belonging. They can also reflect a story’s architecture or a dream’s ordinary disregard for spatial consistency.\n\nThe presence need not be threatening. Some haunted-house dreams include curiosity, companionship, sadness, or an effort to help whoever remains there. If you recognised a deceased person, notice the interaction and the feeling it left without treating it as proof of a visitation. If the presence was hostile, focus on what felt intrusive: being watched, losing control of a room, or having your boundary ignored.\n\nYour relationship to the building matters as much as the haunting. Were you a resident, a visitor, an investigator, or someone trying to sell it? Wanting to leave and wanting to understand are different motives. Record moments when the house became ordinary again. A lit room, a companion’s arrival, or a mundane explanation for a sound may offer a different perspective on the uncertainty without resolving it into a single meaning.", "traditional": "This entry has no verified historical passage about the specific haunted-house context. Archive headings for houses, ghosts, or apparitions concern separate images and do not authenticate a supernatural explanation for a dream building. Any spiritual association can be recorded as your own perspective rather than presented as established truth.\n\nEveryday sources may be easy to recognise: an old building visited recently, a horror programme, a house renovation, or an unexplained sound remembered during the night. A familiar home can also become strange when rooms have changed owners or family routines have altered. List these concrete associations before pursuing a symbolic reading. If the dream gave the house a history, keep that invented history separate from actual events. A compelling backstory can be part of the dream’s storytelling without being evidence about a real place.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "A noise comes from a closed room", "reflection": "Describe the sound, who else heard it, and whether you opened the door. The scene may centre on curiosity or uncertainty rather than a ghost. Notice what you expected to find and what, if anything, the dream actually revealed." }, { "title": "A familiar person appears in the house", "reflection": "Recognition can turn the haunting into an encounter with memory or grief. Record the person’s words and how the room changed around them. The emotional value of the meeting can stand on its own without proving anything about an afterlife." }, { "title": "You restore an abandoned haunted home", "reflection": "Repairing windows or clearing rooms gives you a different role from fleeing. Notice whether the presence helped, resisted, or faded into the background. The scene may invite reflection on making a neglected place usable, or simply develop an inventive house story." } ], "prompts": [ "What convinced you the house was haunted?", "Which room felt most familiar, and what had changed there?", "Did you want safety, explanation, companionship, or a way out?" ], "related": [ "house", "childhood-home", "deceased-loved-one", "ghost", "being-watched" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia expansion written on 2026-10-13, awaiting human publication review. Interpretations are conditional invitations to reflection, not validated symbolic meanings, predictions, diagnoses, or evidence about other people. Historical coverage is identified separately from original everyday context; research citations provide general context only.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "a-home-that-will-not-pass-inspection", "title": "A home that will not pass inspection", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "When a place must satisfy someone else's standard.", "summary": "A home failing inspection may focus on the difference between useful standards, unclear judgments and what makes a place workable.", "aliases": [ "house inspection dream", "failing a home inspection" ], "status": "REVIEW", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-14", "psychological": "A home inspection dream brings a private arrangement under an outside standard. The inspector may identify a clear problem, apply rules you cannot understand or keep discovering new requirements. What matters is how the judgment affects your use of the place. Failing inspection is not itself evidence that your home, work or character is defective.\n\nSome scenes distinguish what looks acceptable from what actually works. You may have spent time decorating while the inspector asks about a basic feature, or find that a plain but usable room receives criticism for its appearance. Consider whether a present evaluation measures the qualities you care about. The dream need not settle whether the evaluator is right.\n\nIf the standard is clear, the scene can emphasize practical feedback. Knowing exactly what needs attention may bring relief, even when work remains. A named defect differs from a general feeling that nothing will ever be good enough. Ask whether you can identify a next step and whether it falls within your responsibility.\n\nRepeated inspection can instead create uncertainty about when preparation is finished. An inspector changes the requirements after each repair, or refuses to explain the result. That experience might resemble a project with shifting expectations, an application with unclear criteria or a household task whose endpoint is disputed. It does not establish anyone's motives.\n\nThe other occupants can alter the reading. You might share the repair work, argue over who should explain a problem or try to hide a room that matters to you. Notice whether the inspection interrupts everyday life or helps make the place more usable. A shared standard can be helpful while still requiring negotiation about effort and timing.\n\nRecent property checks, paperwork, workplace reviews or conversations about standards can supply the scene directly. Treat the dream as a description of your experience of evaluation. It cannot assess actual building safety or tell you whether a real inspection will pass. Which judgment felt useful, which felt unclear, and what would let you resume living rather than remain permanently on display?", "traditional": "No historical source for this specific home-inspection scenario is supplied. The cited NINDS background concerns only waking experiences and emotion entering dreams. The original reading explores the scene's particular standards and feedback; it does not turn a dreamed inspection result into a property assessment or prediction.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "One clear repair is needed before approval", "reflection": "The inspector identifies a single problem and explains what would satisfy the standard. The scene may emphasize the relief of actionable feedback, even if the task is inconvenient. Compare it with a present evaluation where knowing the next step would help more than receiving general praise." }, { "title": "The requirements change after every repair", "reflection": "Each completed task produces a different demand, and you cannot reach an endpoint. Consider where expectations feel difficult to stabilize. What would make the process understandable: written criteria, agreement about scope or a pause? The dream does not prove that an evaluator intends to keep you failing." }, { "title": "A polished room fails a practical test", "reflection": "The room looks ready, but something necessary does not work. The scene might invite a distinction between presentation and function in a current project. Notice whether you can address the useful problem without dismissing all the effort already spent making the room appealing." }, { "title": "An ordinary room is rejected for its appearance", "reflection": "You can use the room comfortably, yet its look fails the inspection. This may help you name a disagreement about what matters. Ask whether the requirement is relevant to the actual purpose, while allowing that shared arrangements can involve preferences different from your own." }, { "title": "Occupants disagree about who should explain a defect", "reflection": "Everyone notices the problem, but each expects someone else to speak to the inspector. The scene could focus on communication and responsibility rather than the defect itself. What would make it easier to give a clear account without blame: a shared description, a chosen spokesperson or agreed tasks?" }, { "title": "Passing one inspection but continuing to prepare", "reflection": "You receive approval and still keep moving furniture or checking rooms. Notice what prevents the process from feeling finished. Perhaps a different concern remains, or perhaps you want a recognizable transition back to ordinary use. The dream's approval does not establish any real-world result." } ], "prompts": [ "Which standard did the inspector apply, and how clearly was it explained?", "What changed about living in the home during the inspection?", "What would allow the preparation or evaluation to feel finished?" ], "related": [ "house", "a-house-search-with-no-suitable-home", "being-judged", "roof", "door" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "What the standard measures", "reflection": "Notice whether the inspection concerns practical use, presentation or a requirement that nobody can explain." }, { "title": "A clear next step", "reflection": "Specific feedback can create a different experience from an indefinite judgment that keeps preparation unfinished." }, { "title": "Sharing the work of meeting expectations", "reflection": "Other occupants may reveal how responsibility, effort and timing are negotiated when an arrangement is evaluated." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "a-house-search-with-no-suitable-home", "title": "A house search with no suitable home", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "Trying to find a place that fits.", "summary": "An unsuccessful house search may bring competing requirements into view and help you distinguish essentials from changeable preferences.", "aliases": [ "house hunting dream", "unable to find an apartment" ], "status": "REVIEW", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-14", "psychological": "Searching for a home without finding a suitable one turns preference into a series of comparisons. Each place may offer something useful while lacking another requirement: enough space but too far away, affordability without privacy, or beauty without comfort. Start with the actual reasons you reject each place. They may describe a genuine conflict rather than an inability to appreciate anything.\n\nThe search can draw directly on renting, buying, moving or looking at listings. It may also resemble another decision where no available option accommodates everything: a work schedule, a shared arrangement or a place in a group. A comparison is useful only if the specific tradeoffs resemble your waking situation; not every house stands for your entire life.\n\nOther people's judgments can complicate the search. A companion may love a place where you cannot imagine resting, or insist that you decide before you have looked around. Consider whether you can state what makes a home usable for you. Disagreement in the dream does not prove that someone discounts your needs in waking life.\n\nRepeatedly losing a promising option might emphasize the cost of waiting or the frustration of timing. Returning to the same unsuitable place could instead suggest that your criteria remain unclear or that the available choices are limited. Notice whether new information appears with each visit. Repetition alone does not establish avoidance or a hidden desire to remain where you are.\n\nAn overlooked place becoming suitable can change the question from perfection to sufficiency. Perhaps you discover a way to arrange the rooms or notice nearby support. That is different from forcing yourself to accept a serious drawback. Ask which requirement changed and why; the scene may help clarify which compromises feel workable and which do not.\n\nReal housing pressures should remain real pressures, not be turned into a personal flaw. A dream cannot establish what you can afford or which property is sound. Use the imagined search to name priorities, emotions and available help. What would let you recognize a good enough option, and what information would you still need before choosing it?", "traditional": "No historical account of this specific unsuccessful housing search is supplied here. NINDS offers general background on waking experiences and emotion entering dreams, not evidence that house hunting has a fixed meaning. The original reflections concern the particular tradeoffs, timing and requirements shown in the scene.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "Every place meets a different requirement", "reflection": "One home has space, another privacy and another an easy journey, but none combines them. The dream may help you describe competing priorities. Try naming which feature you would miss most in each place, rather than concluding that your search is unreasonable or that one compromise suits everyone." }, { "title": "A companion chooses before you can look around", "reflection": "Someone announces that a place is perfect while you are still checking it. Consider what you need time to examine or explain in a shared decision. The scene can make that need clear without proving that your companion's real preferences are careless or incompatible with yours." }, { "title": "The promising home becomes unavailable", "reflection": "You return ready to choose and discover that someone else has taken it. This might reflect frustration with timing or a recent lost option. Ask what made that place appealing and whether those qualities could be found elsewhere, without reading the dream as a forecast of another loss." }, { "title": "Touring the same unsuitable house again", "reflection": "Each visit begins with hope, but the same drawback stops you. Notice whether you learn anything new or feel pressured to ignore the problem. The scene may invite clearer criteria or acknowledgment of limited options; repeating a search does not automatically mean you secretly want to fail." }, { "title": "A modest place works after you rearrange it", "reflection": "Moving furniture or discovering another entrance makes the home usable. The dream could highlight a practical possibility within an imperfect option. Identify the precise change that helps, and whether it preserves your essentials rather than asking you to accept a drawback you cannot comfortably manage." }, { "title": "Ending the search for the day without choosing", "reflection": "You stop looking and agree to return later with clearer information. Relief might show the value of a pause when comparisons become unproductive; disappointment might emphasize how urgent the decision feels. What would make the next search different: a priority, a companion or a missing fact?" } ], "prompts": [ "What requirements made each home suitable or unsuitable?", "Whose preferences influenced the search, and how could you express yours?", "What would count as enough information to recognize a workable choice?" ], "related": [ "house", "apartment", "a-home-that-will-not-pass-inspection", "homesick", "door" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Competing requirements", "reflection": "The reasons places fail may reveal a tension between practical needs, preferences and what is currently available." }, { "title": "A say in the choice", "reflection": "Companions, agents and time limits can show how easily you can explain what makes a place livable for you." }, { "title": "Recognizing enough", "reflection": "A workable arrangement may emerge when you identify the specific difference between a tolerable compromise and an essential requirement." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "a-microphone-that-will-not-mute", "title": "A microphone that will not mute", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "tagline": "You cannot choose when your surroundings become public.", "summary": "A microphone that will not mute can make privacy feel fragile. Notice which sound escaped and whose hearing it changed the scene.", "aliases": [ "a microphone that will not mute", "microphone that will not mute" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "The exposed sound may be a private remark, a family conversation, a pet, or ordinary noise you felt obliged to hide. Consider what made that sound unacceptable in the dream and whether the audience actually reacted. You might be negotiating the boundary between a public role and the rest of your life. Repeatedly pressing mute can also turn a simple technical failure into a loss of choice about when you participate.", "traditional": "An open microphone has no direct entry in historical dream books. Older ideas about overhearing do not establish what this digital boundary means for you.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "A private comment was broadcast", "reflection": "Record the exact comment if possible. Its audience and context may matter more than the fact of exposure." }, { "title": "Household sounds filled the meeting", "reflection": "The dream placed home life beside a public role. Did others welcome it, ignore it, or judge it?" }, { "title": "You left to stop the sound", "reflection": "Leaving may have restored control at a cost. Notice what you abandoned and whether anyone followed up." } ], "prompts": [ "What did I want to keep outside the meeting?", "Did the audience react as strongly as I expected?", "What action finally restored a choice?" ], "related": [ "talking-while-muted", "a-camera-accidentally-left-on", "a-screen-sharing-mistake" ], "sources": [], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection draft, written for this specific modern scene. Suggested connections are exploratory, not established dream meanings. Individual editorial review remains pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "a-newly-learned-skill-appearing-in-a-dream", "title": "A newly learned skill appearing in a dream", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "A recently practiced skill may reappear in a dream in altered form. Notice the link without assuming the dream supplies a correct solution.", "summary": "A recently practiced skill may reappear in a dream in altered form. Notice the link without assuming the dream supplies a correct solution.", "aliases": [ "practice appearing in a dream", "dreaming about a skill learned yesterday" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "In a maze-learning experiment, task-related dream reports were associated with later performance gains; that finding does not show that every practice dream improves a skill. Your dream may repeat a movement, combine a task with another setting, or invent impossible rules. Record the specific connection to recent learning. If the scene suggests an idea, assess it while awake rather than treating vividness as evidence that it will work.", "traditional": "Historical craft and learning entries are separate from experimental research on memory. This draft does not claim that dreamed expertise is a gift, prophecy, or substitute for practice.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "A dance step repeats in an unfamiliar place", "reflection": "Which movement resembles practice, and which part is newly invented?" }, { "title": "You solve a problem using an impossible tool", "reflection": "Is there a useful question in the scene even if the solution cannot work?" }, { "title": "The task becomes easier after you ask for help", "reflection": "What kind of feedback was missing during waking practice?" } ], "prompts": [ "What exact recent experience appears in the dream?", "Which details are reproduced and which are transformed?", "What could you test or reconsider while awake without assuming the dream is right?" ], "related": [ "learning", "apprentice", "game" ], "sources": [ { "id": "wamsley-2010", "title": "Dreaming of a learning task is associated with enhanced sleep-dependent memory consolidation", "author": "Erin J. Wamsley and colleagues", "url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20417102/", "scope": "Primary maze-learning experiment; task-related dream reports correlated with later performance. It does not show that a dream is an accurate memory or a solution." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia model-assisted editorial draft. Reflection questions and scenario readings are optional, individually written suggestions, not empirically validated symbol meanings. Source scope is stated with each citation. Historical comparisons identify topics, not inherited interpretations. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "a-phone-ringing-endlessly", "title": "A phone ringing endlessly", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "tagline": "Someone wants your attention, but the call will not resolve.", "summary": "An endlessly ringing phone can make availability feel like an obligation. Notice whose call it was, whether you answered, and what kept it going.", "aliases": [ "a phone ringing endlessly", "phone ringing endlessly" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "The repeated ring may be more important than the caller. Were you trying to finish something, waiting for one particular person, or afraid that answering would create another demand? Explore the difference between wanting connection and being required to respond. If the caller was unknown, keep that uncertainty in your account instead of assigning them an identity. An actual sound during sleep could also be part of the memory, although the dream alone cannot establish that.", "traditional": "Miller includes a telephone entry, but it does not establish a meaning for endless ringing. This reflection concerns the repeated interruption in your own scene.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "You could not find the ringing phone", "reflection": "The demand had no clear location. Notice whether searching displaced something more important to you." }, { "title": "You answered but the ringing continued", "reflection": "Responding did not satisfy the demand. What did you expect answering to settle?" }, { "title": "You chose not to answer", "reflection": "Silence may have felt like a boundary, a risk, or a missed opportunity. Keep the feeling that actually occurred." } ], "prompts": [ "Whose attention did I believe I owed?", "What was interrupted by the ringing?", "What would have counted as the call being finished?" ], "related": [ "a-dying-phone-battery", "an-unread-message" ], "sources": [], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection draft, written for this specific modern scene. Suggested connections are exploratory, not established dream meanings. Individual editorial review remains pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "a-post-nobody-noticed", "title": "A post nobody noticed", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "tagline": "You put something into the world and wait for a sign it landed.", "summary": "A post that nobody notices can make silence feel personal. Consider what you hoped the post would do, beyond collecting a visible response.", "aliases": [ "a post nobody noticed", "post nobody noticed" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "The post may have been an announcement, a creative effort, a request for help, or an ordinary update. Each creates a different reason to want a response. You might explore the gap between expressing something and having that expression acknowledged. In the dream, no visible reaction does not necessarily mean nobody cared; it may simply leave you uncertain. Notice whether sharing still felt worthwhile when the count stayed at zero.", "traditional": "Platform reactions and view counts are modern signals. Older ideas about applause or unanswered communication can offer questions, but no fixed rule explains a quiet post.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "An important announcement received no reply", "reflection": "You may have wanted witnesses to a change in your life. Who did you most expect to respond?" }, { "title": "Other posts drew crowds", "reflection": "The dream made comparison visible. Was the difference about popularity, fairness, or being understood?" }, { "title": "One person responded privately", "reflection": "A small response may have met the need better than a large audience. What made that person’s attention matter?" } ], "prompts": [ "What did I hope would happen after posting?", "Would the post matter if no count were displayed?", "Was I seeking connection with anyone in particular?" ], "related": [ "going-viral-unexpectedly", "a-follower-count-changing", "being-left-on-read" ], "sources": [], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection draft, written for this specific modern scene. Suggested connections are exploratory, not established dream meanings. Individual editorial review remains pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "a-pregnancy-test-with-an-unclear-result", "title": "A pregnancy test with an unclear result", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "Wanting an answer and knowing what to do with it are different questions.", "summary": "An unclear pregnancy-test scene can explore uncertainty, private information, conflicting readings, and what a definite answer would let you choose.", "aliases": [ "unclear pregnancy test dream", "pregnancy test lines changing" ], "status": "REVIEW", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-14", "psychological": "An unclear pregnancy test in a dream can place a particular reproductive question beside the difficulty of obtaining a definite answer. Hope, fear, ambivalence or frustration may matter in different ways. The literal subject deserves room rather than being automatically replaced by a project or a new beginning. A remembered conversation, personal experience or image may supply context, while the dreamed test does not establish an actual pregnancy or medical result.\n\nWaiting can organize the whole encounter. A window that never develops may leave you unable to make the decision you imagined would follow. This can picture wanting information before choosing who to tell, which plan to consider or what support to seek. The wish for certainty and the action certainty would permit are related questions, but need not have the same answer.\n\nAnother person reading the result differently can make authority part of the scene. You may want their help while feeling that your own understanding has been displaced. A shared decision or personal conversation may offer a parallel if it fits. The dreamed disagreement is not evidence about somebody’s actual wishes, knowledge or reaction to reproductive news.\n\nMissing instructions can make the process itself uncertain. You may have a result but no agreed way to interpret it within the dream. This can resemble being asked to choose before the criteria are clear. A result changing whenever you look away offers another experience: an apparently settled answer will not remain stable enough to organize the next step.\n\nPrivacy can matter even before the result becomes known. Other people seeing the window first may make control over the audience more important than what the test says. Choosing to put it aside and talk through available possibilities can instead give action a form that does not depend on immediate certainty. These are original reflections about the imagined testing encounter, not instructions for interpreting a real test. They do not diagnose pregnancy, predict an outcome or tell you which feeling you ought to have. Your particular circumstances and the scene’s actual choices guide whether any comparison is useful.", "traditional": "No matching historical pregnancy-test passage is supplied. Older pregnancy, birth and gender forecasts concern different subjects and do not explain modern test lines or determine an outcome. The existing NINDS citation provides general dream background only. This original entry concerns uncertainty, audience and choice within a dreamed testing situation; it supplies no real-test interpretation or medical advice.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "The result window never develops while you wait to choose", "reflection": "The answer you expected does not arrive, and the next action stays suspended. This may picture wanting information before deciding whom to tell or which possibility to consider. The dreamed delay cannot establish an actual pregnancy or the meaning of a real test." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Another person reads the same window differently from you", "reflection": "Assistance changes into disagreement about what the scene shows. This can resemble wanting support without having your own understanding displaced. The person’s dream reading does not reveal their actual knowledge, wishes or likely reaction to real reproductive information." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "The result is visible but its instructions are missing", "reflection": "Information appears without agreed criteria for interpreting it. This may picture being asked to make a choice before the process feels understandable. The dream can make that uncertainty concrete without supplying instructions for reading a real pregnancy test or diagnosing a result." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Other people see the result before you can decide who to tell", "reflection": "The audience becomes part of the uncertainty rather than a choice you made. This can resemble private information needing terms about visibility. The imagined disclosure does not prove that somebody has violated privacy or that you should share particular news in waking life." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The lines change whenever you look away", "reflection": "An answer seems to settle and then becomes unavailable in the same form. This may picture certainty failing to last long enough to guide the next step. The changing dream image does not establish what real lines, colors or test results mean." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You set the test aside and talk through the available possibilities", "reflection": "Conversation becomes possible before the answer is definite. This can picture wanting support with the range of choices rather than only a final conclusion. Putting the image aside need not erase the literal reproductive question or require certainty to stop mattering." } ], "prompts": [ "What action did you imagine a definite answer would permit?", "How did another reader, missing criteria or an audience affect your understanding?", "Which possibilities could receive attention before certainty arrived?" ], "related": [ "being-pregnant", "birth", "baby", "doctor" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "The decision an answer would permit", "reflection": "Waiting can concern both the reproductive question and the next action you hoped to choose." }, { "title": "Reading authority and unclear criteria", "reflection": "Help can be useful while your own understanding still needs a place." }, { "title": "Privacy and action without full certainty", "reflection": "An audience or conversation can matter before a definitive result is available." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "a-presentation-with-blank-slides", "title": "A presentation with blank slides", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "tagline": "You have an audience, but the support you prepared is missing.", "summary": "Blank presentation slides can shift attention from prepared material to your voice, knowledge, or fear of judgment. Notice what you could still communicate.", "aliases": [ "a presentation with blank slides", "presentation with blank slides" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "The dream may begin as a technical problem and become a question about being able to continue without a script. Did the empty slides erase knowledge you still had, or reveal that you had not prepared? You might explore reliance on visible proof of competence, uncertainty about an audience, or a wish to speak more directly. Keep track of what actually happened after the blank slide: a mistake does not always become humiliation in the dream.", "traditional": "Slides and screen-based presentations are modern settings. Older dreams of public speaking provide a possible comparison rather than an inherited meaning for missing visuals.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "You knew the material and spoke anyway", "reflection": "The missing aid may have revealed another way to communicate. What became clearer or harder without the slides?" }, { "title": "The audience waited without reacting", "reflection": "Silence leaves room for assumptions. What did you imagine they thought, and what did they actually do?" }, { "title": "A colleague helped reconstruct the talk", "reflection": "The dream may include shared responsibility. Notice whether accepting help felt supportive or embarrassing." } ], "prompts": [ "What was the presentation meant to achieve?", "What did I know without seeing it on a screen?", "Who in the audience mattered most to me?" ], "related": [ "a-screen-sharing-mistake", "a-file-that-will-not-save" ], "sources": [], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection draft, written for this specific modern scene. Suggested connections are exploratory, not established dream meanings. Individual editorial review remains pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "a-prosthetic-limb-behaving-differently", "title": "A prosthetic limb behaving differently", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "A prosthetic limb that feels unfamiliar can focus attention on fit, bodily familiarity, practical support, and who controls adjustments.", "summary": "A prosthetic limb that feels unfamiliar can focus attention on fit, bodily familiarity, practical support, and who controls adjustments.", "aliases": [ "prosthetic leg dream", "prosthetic arm dream" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "Begin with function and feeling: was the device comfortable, too heavy, unexpectedly capable, or difficult to control? For someone who uses a prosthesis, routine maintenance or adaptation may be enough context. For others, the dream need not carry a universal lesson about disability. Keep the person’s goals central and distinguish frustration with equipment or access from a judgment about the body.", "traditional": "Historical amputation entries should not be used as forecasts of loss or measures of wholeness. This contemporary reflection concerns a person’s relationship with an assistive device, not a supposedly deficient self.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "The prosthesis works comfortably after an adjustment", "reflection": "What difference did being listened to make?" }, { "title": "A replacement arrives in the wrong size", "reflection": "Whose assumptions failed to match what your body needed?" }, { "title": "You use a different tool to complete the task", "reflection": "Did flexibility preserve your goal without requiring one particular method?" } ], "prompts": [ "What did you want the device to help you do?", "Which sensation made it feel familiar or unfamiliar?", "Who had a say in how it was fitted or used?" ], "related": [ "amputation", "limp", "implements" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia model-assisted editorial draft. Reflection questions and scenario readings are optional, individually written suggestions, not empirically validated symbol meanings. Source scope is stated with each citation. Historical comparisons identify topics, not inherited interpretations. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "a-public-review-of-your-work", "title": "A public review of your work", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "tagline": "A public review can make feedback feel inseparable from reputation. Distinguish the substance of the comment from the pressure of an audience.", "summary": "A public review can make feedback feel inseparable from reputation. Distinguish the substance of the comment from the pressure of an audience.", "aliases": [ "online review of my work dream", "public rating dream" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "What was being reviewed, and did the reviewer understand the task or its constraints? Praise may bring exposure as well as pleasure, while criticism may be useful, unfair, or too vague to act on. The dream does not tell you what others secretly think. Look for what you wanted from feedback: guidance, recognition, a chance to respond, or permission to stop performing for every observer.", "traditional": "Historical fame and criticism topics do not directly capture searchable ratings and public comment histories. This draft does not count stars as omens or make popularity a measure of value.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "A negative rating gives no explanation", "reflection": "What could you reasonably change without knowing the complaint?" }, { "title": "A thoughtful review notices work others missed", "reflection": "Which overlooked effort felt seen?" }, { "title": "You are praised for something you did not do", "reflection": "What made inaccurate approval uncomfortable?" } ], "prompts": [ "Was the feedback specific enough to be useful?", "Did public visibility change its emotional weight?", "What standards would you use to assess the work yourself?" ], "related": [ "praise", "fame", "a-post-nobody-noticed" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia model-assisted editorial draft. Reflection questions and scenario readings are optional, individually written suggestions, not empirically validated symbol meanings. Source scope is stated with each citation. Historical comparisons identify topics, not inherited interpretations. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "a-screen-sharing-mistake", "title": "A screen-sharing mistake", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "tagline": "The wrong window becomes the center of attention.", "summary": "A screen-sharing mistake can reveal private work, unfinished thoughts, or a different part of your life. The exposed window gives the dream its stakes.", "aliases": [ "a screen-sharing mistake", "screen-sharing mistake" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "Try naming the exact thing that appeared: a personal message, an unfinished document, a job search, or something completely ordinary that felt embarrassing. You might explore how you separate audiences and roles, or how much polish you expect before showing your work. The dream is not evidence that hidden information will be exposed. Notice whether others actually judged the material, helped you switch windows, or paid less attention than you feared.", "traditional": "Screen sharing has no direct counterpart in the historical catalogue. Any comparison with revealing a letter or opening the wrong door is a modern analogy.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "A private conversation appeared", "reflection": "The mistake joined two audiences. What made those people or contexts feel difficult to bring together?" }, { "title": "Your unfinished work was visible", "reflection": "Consider whether you feared being judged for the process rather than the result. Did anyone recognize it as a draft?" }, { "title": "You could not stop sharing", "reflection": "The scene may center on regaining control. Record who offered help and which action finally worked." } ], "prompts": [ "What was on the screen, as specifically as I can remember?", "Whose reaction did I watch first?", "What was the difference between what happened and what I feared?" ], "related": [ "sending-a-text-to-the-wrong-person", "a-camera-accidentally-left-on", "a-presentation-with-blank-slides" ], "sources": [], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection draft, written for this specific modern scene. Suggested connections are exploratory, not established dream meanings. Individual editorial review remains pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "a-self-checkout-accusing-you-of-an-error", "title": "A self-checkout accusing you of an error", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "aliases": [ "self checkout error dream", "checkout machine accusing me" ], "tagline": "A routine exchange becomes an argument with a record.", "summary": "A self-checkout error may explore a mismatch between your actions and a system’s account, especially when resolving it feels unclear.", "psychological": "A self-checkout that accuses you of an error may turn a routine task into an argument with a record. You know what you placed, scanned or paid for, while the display gives a different account. The tension can concern getting an ordinary action recognized. A waking comparison might be a form that says a required step is missing after you have completed it, or a shared record that has not caught up with what happened.\n\nBeing asked to rescan an item you have already paid for can make repetition feel unhelpful. Doing the action again may produce another record without settling the disagreement. The useful distinction is between performing a task and having evidence that the process accepts. In the dream, a receipt, a visible item or another person’s account may matter because of what it changes, rather than because one kind of proof always has greater value.\n\nA message that changes each time you respond creates another problem. The next step is available, but the reason for taking it will not stay settled. This can resemble working through instructions whose requirements shift while you follow them. The scene may focus on needing a stable question before your effort can count as an answer.\n\nThe route out can matter as much as the alert. A screen may offer only a confirmation you believe is inaccurate, or no way to explain the difference. That can picture participation under terms that leave out your account. A correction option, a usable explanation or help from someone with a different role would change that arrangement in distinct ways.\n\nOther people can turn a technical pause into a public event. A growing queue may make you hurry, even when the task requires waiting for assistance. A staff member who treats the alert as routine can instead give you room to complete the exchange. Their response belongs to this imagined interaction; the dream does not establish wrongdoing or the intentions of real customers or staff.\n\nAn alert that returns after help has cleared it can shift attention toward the process itself. More personal effort may not address a repeated system response. Recent checkout experiences can also supply the scene directly. The particular disagreement and the available next step give this reading its focus, alongside the separate cashier role and the objects involved in the purchase.", "traditional": "No historical passage is attached to this automated-checkout situation. The existing Buying, Cashier and Accuse topics retain their own accounts; those accounts do not test these original comparisons about a machine’s response. The general sleep source supports waking experience and emotion as possible dream material, rather than validating a symbolic meaning for a retail alert.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "What happened and what was recorded", "reflection": "The display can disagree with an action you remember completing. The tension may concern how an ordinary process recognizes what was done." }, { "title": "A way to correct the account", "reflection": "The available buttons, explanations and help can determine whether the disagreement is workable. A clear next step differs from having to repeat the task indefinitely." }, { "title": "A technical pause with a public audience", "reflection": "Waiting customers or respectful assistance can change your response to the same alert. The social pace matters beside the device’s message." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "The machine asks you to rescan an item you already paid for", "reflection": "The requested action repeats a step you remember completing. This may picture needing the process to recognize an existing action, rather than merely demanding more effort. What changes the response can distinguish useful confirmation from repetition that adds another record without resolving the first disagreement." }, { "title": "Each response produces a different error message", "reflection": "You follow the displayed instruction, but the problem is renamed before you can finish. This can picture effort directed toward a moving requirement. The scene may concern finding a stable question or usable explanation, rather than deciding that every unsuccessful attempt proves a personal mistake." }, { "title": "A queue forms while the screen tells you to wait for help", "reflection": "The next permitted step is waiting, while the people behind you make delay feel public. This may resemble a procedure whose pace cannot be changed by hurrying yourself. Their presence can affect your response without establishing that they blame you or that the alert is deserved." }, { "title": "A staff member clears the alert and lets you continue", "reflection": "The problem becomes a manageable part of the process when someone with another role can address it. Respectful help may matter because it restores a practical next step. The scene can value ordinary assistance without needing the earlier message to prove either guilt or innocence." }, { "title": "The only button asks you to confirm an account you believe is wrong", "reflection": "Continuing appears to require agreement with a record that differs from your remembered action. This may picture a process that offers participation without enough room for correction. Having a way to describe the difference would change the situation separately from receiving a quicker response." }, { "title": "The same alert returns after someone has resolved it", "reflection": "A cleared problem reappears even though the item and your actions have not changed. This can shift attention from personal effort toward a repeated process. The scene may make an unresolved pattern visible without treating the recurrence as evidence that you concealed a mistake or should know its cause." } ], "prompts": [ "What had you done before the alert, and how did the machine’s account differ?", "Which responses were available, and what actually changed the message?", "How did other people’s presence affect your response to the problem?" ], "related": [ "buying", "cashier", "accuse" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "a-social-media-account-disappearing", "title": "A social media account disappearing", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "tagline": "A public record of you is suddenly out of reach.", "summary": "A disappearing social account can remove contacts, memories, work, or an audience. Notice what you missed first and whether losing it also brought relief.", "aliases": [ "a social media account disappearing", "social media account disappearing" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "The account may serve several roles at once: a scrapbook, livelihood, social doorway, or place where others recognize you. Losing one of those functions creates a different dream from losing them all. You might reflect on what belonging or continuity depends on in your digital life. If the disappearance felt freeing, record which obligations ended. The dream does not predict account loss; its useful detail is what remained connected to you outside the platform.", "traditional": "Social profiles have no direct traditional entry. Comparing them with a name, portrait, or collection of letters is an editorial analogy, not an ancient account of platforms.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "Your friends could no longer find you", "reflection": "The scene may concern maintaining contact beyond a single route. Did you know another way to reach them?" }, { "title": "Your posts and photographs vanished", "reflection": "The loss may center on a record of your life. Which particular memory did you try to retrieve?" }, { "title": "You chose not to recreate it", "reflection": "Starting again may have seemed unnecessary or burdensome. Notice what continued without the account." } ], "prompts": [ "What part of the account felt most like mine?", "Who still recognized or reached me afterward?", "What did the disappearance remove besides content?" ], "related": [ "an-account-being-hacked", "a-follower-count-changing" ], "sources": [], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection draft, written for this specific modern scene. Suggested connections are exploratory, not established dream meanings. Individual editorial review remains pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "a-software-update-interrupting-a-task", "title": "A software update interrupting a task", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "tagline": "An update that takes over at the wrong moment can place promised improvement beside the need for continuity, choice, and time.", "summary": "An update that takes over at the wrong moment can place promised improvement beside the need for continuity, choice, and time.", "aliases": [ "forced software update dream", "computer restarting to update" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "What were you trying to finish when the update began, and did you consent to its timing? The disruption may offer a way to reflect on changes presented as helpful that still cost you effort. It could also be a direct replay of an irritating device experience. Notice whether the finished update made anything easier; improvement and resentment about the process can both be true in the dream.", "traditional": "Historical machinery entries do not describe software that can change remotely after purchase. Any connection here between an update and imposed change is a contemporary editorial comparison, not an inherited mechanical omen.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "The restart begins just before you submit work", "reflection": "What part of the timing made the interruption feel unfair?" }, { "title": "The update removes a feature you relied on", "reflection": "Who was the supposed improvement designed for?" }, { "title": "A delayed update finally resolves a problem", "reflection": "What made waiting worthwhile, if anything?" } ], "prompts": [ "Did you choose when the change happened?", "What familiar capability was interrupted or altered?", "Did the result match the promised benefit?" ], "related": [ "machinery", "a-file-that-will-not-save", "a-deadline-moving-closer" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia model-assisted editorial draft. Reflection questions and scenario readings are optional, individually written suggestions, not empirically validated symbol meanings. Source scope is stated with each citation. Historical comparisons identify topics, not inherited interpretations. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "a-subscription-you-cannot-cancel", "title": "A subscription you cannot cancel", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "tagline": "A cancellation that never completes can make a small commitment feel inescapable. Notice what stands between your decision and its recognition.", "summary": "A cancellation that never completes can make a small commitment feel inescapable. Notice what stands between your decision and its recognition.", "aliases": [ "unable to cancel subscription dream", "endless subscription charges" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "Distinguish regret about subscribing from frustration that a clear choice is not being honored. Endless forms, hidden buttons, or repeated persuasion each place a different burden on you. The scene can be a useful reflection on consent and ongoing obligation, without making every subscription a metaphor for a relationship. If an actual billing issue has been on your mind, the direct connection may be sufficient.", "traditional": "Older debt and contract themes predate recurring digital services and automated renewal. This draft does not attach a traditional moral of irresponsibility to a consumer system that makes leaving difficult.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "Each cancellation screen opens another offer", "reflection": "What happens to your clear decision when you must repeatedly defend it?" }, { "title": "You are charged after receiving confirmation", "reflection": "What evidence of an agreement did you expect to count?" }, { "title": "A person cancels it with one simple action", "reflection": "Did relief come from saving money or having your choice respected?" } ], "prompts": [ "What had you already decided you no longer wanted?", "Was the obstacle information, persuasion, or lack of authority?", "What would an acknowledged ending have looked like?" ], "related": [ "debt", "obligation" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia model-assisted editorial draft. Reflection questions and scenario readings are optional, individually written suggestions, not empirically validated symbol meanings. Source scope is stated with each citation. Historical comparisons identify topics, not inherited interpretations. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "a-toilet-with-no-privacy", "title": "A toilet with no privacy", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "An ordinary need can require usable space without a public explanation.", "summary": "A toilet with no privacy can explore an ordinary bodily need interrupted by access, timing or an arrangement that serves everyone except the person using it.", "aliases": [ "public toilet without walls", "bathroom with no privacy" ], "status": "REVIEW", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-14", "psychological": "Trying to use a toilet without a private space can make an ordinary need depend on conditions that do not fit it. The fixture may work while the stall walls vanish, a door opens into a busy room or someone treats the space as a passage. This can resemble an arrangement that technically provides a resource without making it usable in the way you need. The practical mismatch may matter more than embarrassment.\n\nOther people’s responses can change the encounter. They may keep talking, hurry you or help create a boundary without needing an explanation. Your discomfort can concern being observed, interrupted or expected to account for a routine need. Indifference can feel reassuring in one scene and dismissive in another. It does not prove that the actual people you know respect or ignore your privacy.\n\nTiming introduces a separate problem when others are waiting. A queue may make you feel that the need should be completed instantly, even though the imagined task has its own pace. This can picture wanting time inside a shared arrangement rather than permission to take more than everyone else. Clearer expectations or another facility can make the situation different without turning bodily care into a performance of efficiency.\n\nA temporary screen can provide enough privacy for the particular activity, or leave the interruption unchanged. Its usefulness depends on what it permits, not whether it makes the space look complete. A waking comparison might be finding a practical pause within a busy household or workplace. The scene can make a limited boundary valuable without requiring you to accept conditions that still feel unusable.\n\nAnother option can reverse the problem: a room is quiet and private but has no working toilet. The choice then concerns the whole need, not privacy alone. Looking for a usable combination may matter more than choosing whichever single feature appears first. Recent public restrooms, journeys or ordinary concerns can supply the setting directly. These original reflections follow explicit toileting, access and time; they are narrower than general bathroom privacy or public nakedness. They do not infer impurity, sexual intent, personal worth or an actual bodily condition from the remembered scene.", "traditional": "The particular subject is using a toilet when privacy is unavailable. Washing, changing clothes and wanting personal information kept private can involve other needs and settings. These original reflections follow usable facilities, interruption and time. NINDS supplies general dream background only; no inherited forecast or bodily diagnosis is supplied for this specific scene.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "The stall walls disappear while you are using the toilet", "reflection": "A routine activity loses the conditions you expected around it. This may picture an arrangement becoming public before you have a usable response. The particular need for space or interruption-free time can matter without assigning shame to the bodily task itself." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "People continue a conversation beside the toilet", "reflection": "Others’ activity occupies the space while you need a different kind of use. This can resemble a shared setting whose purposes have not been coordinated. Their dreamed ease may feel reassuring or dismissive; your response clarifies the mismatch without revealing their actual intentions." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A door will not stay closed unless you hold it", "reflection": "Maintaining privacy becomes another task inside the activity you wanted to complete. This may picture an arrangement whose boundary depends on continuous effort. Assistance or another place can change the encounter without making the difficulty proof that you cannot set limits in waking life." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You put up a temporary screen that provides enough privacy", "reflection": "A modest adjustment makes the particular activity possible. This can resemble valuing a practical boundary without requiring the whole setting to become ideal. Relief may concern what the screen allows, while another response can remain appropriate if important interruptions continue." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The waiting queue expects you to finish immediately", "reflection": "A shared resource brings pressure about the pace of an ordinary need. This may picture wanting understandable expectations or another usable option. The scene can clarify the effect of being hurried without defining bodily care as inefficient or requiring you to justify it publicly." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The private alternative has no working toilet", "reflection": "One desired condition arrives without the resource needed to complete the activity. This can resemble an option serving only part of a request. Looking for a more usable combination may matter without treating privacy alone or access alone as the complete answer." } ], "prompts": [ "Which condition made the facility difficult to use?", "How did other people’s timing or access affect the ordinary need?", "What boundary or combination of resources would have served the particular activity?" ], "related": [ "bathroom", "privacy", "being-naked-in-public", "door" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A resource needs usable conditions", "reflection": "Providing a fixture does not settle whether the activity can happen with the space and access available." }, { "title": "A routine need can have its own pace", "reflection": "Shared use and waiting can require understandable expectations without making bodily care a public performance." }, { "title": "A limited boundary can serve a particular purpose", "reflection": "A temporary arrangement can matter through what it allows, while a different option may still be needed." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "tornado", "title": "A tornado", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "A moving threat makes direction and attention matter.", "summary": "A tornado can explore attention held by a moving threat, plans needing revision, and the different roles of watching, coordinating or continuing.", "aliases": [ "a tornado", "tornado", "tornadoes", "twister", "cyclone", "funnel cloud" ], "status": "REVIEW", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-14", "psychological": "A tornado in a dream can concentrate uncertainty into something you can see moving through a landscape. A distant funnel may hold attention while an ordinary task waits. This can picture a possibility receiving more of your day than its present distance requires, such as an anticipated change at work or an unresolved conversation. The comparison is optional; remembered warnings, films or dramatic pictures may supply the image directly.\n\nIts changing route can make planning difficult in a particular way. You may choose a direction and immediately find the imagined threat elsewhere. This can resemble having to revise an arrangement repeatedly when its conditions will not stay settled. The useful subject may be how you adapt, rather than declaring your whole life chaotic or treating the dream’s movement as a real weather prediction.\n\nCompanions can change the scene from tracking the funnel to coordinating people. Looking for someone before moving may make contact a priority, while disagreement about the route can delay an otherwise shared purpose. A waking group task may provide a parallel. The dream’s invented emergency does not test who is brave, caring or capable, and an unreachable companion is not evidence of actual danger.\n\nImpossible changes of scale deserve their own reading. A funnel fitting inside a single office may put an enormous image around one bounded task. Its exaggeration can make the setting and your response more useful than a generic interpretation of destructive weather. Watching from a comfortable place can instead hold awe, curiosity or excitement. An intense view need not conceal fear when fascination is the response you actually have.\n\nThe event’s passage can leave an altered arrangement rather than a simple ending. A doorway in a different place may ask you to choose how to enter a familiar building again. Relief about the threat passing can coexist with uncertainty about the next ordinary action. These readings concern a concentrated, moving funnel within the dream. A general storm and the historical Whirlwind owner retain neighboring scopes and their own passages; their names alone do not establish interchangeable meanings or a shared forecast.", "traditional": "Miller’s one attached Tornado passage assigns disappointment and confusion to plans for quick fortune, then cross-references Hurricane. It is attributed historical fortune-telling, not evidence that a dreamed funnel forecasts a setback. The existing sleep citation supplies general dream background and does not validate the original readings or classify real weather.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A distant funnel stays on the horizon while your task waits", "reflection": "The possibility receives attention even though its distance has not changed. This may picture anticipation delaying something available now. The scene can concern the place uncertainty takes in your day without proving that the imagined threat or a waking crisis is approaching." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "The tornado changes direction each time you choose a route", "reflection": "The conditions of a plan refuse to remain settled. This can resemble needing repeated revision during a shared task or transition. Adapting may have value without requiring a perfect prediction or turning the difficulty into evidence that you are unable to make decisions." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You look for a companion before joining the moving group", "reflection": "Contact becomes a priority within the invented emergency. This may picture wanting a shared plan rather than simply reaching a destination alone. The search does not establish that the person is endangered or measure how responsibly you would act during actual severe weather." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A small funnel moves through only one familiar office", "reflection": "An enormous kind of threat appears inside a bounded everyday setting. This may picture one task receiving an exaggerated scale in your attention. Its particular room and interruptions can matter more than assigning all tornado imagery the same meaning of chaos or conflict." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You watch with fascination from a place that feels comfortable", "reflection": "The image is intense while your position makes curiosity possible. This can resemble wanting to observe something powerful without joining its action. Fascination need not be reclassified as fear, and the dreamed comfort does not establish the safety of any real place." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The tornado passes and the building’s entrance is somewhere new", "reflection": "The immediate threat ends but the familiar way of entering has changed. This may picture relief alongside a practical adjustment that still needs to happen. Continuing can involve another approach without requiring the whole place or previous routine to be restored." } ], "prompts": [ "What ordinary activity waited while your attention stayed with the funnel?", "How did a changing route alter the plan or shared purpose?", "Which position made watching, coordinating or continuing possible?" ], "related": [ "storm", "whirlwind", "hurricane", "house" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." }, { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-2034" ], "scope": "miller-2034: Being in a tornado is assigned disappointment/confusion about fortune-seeking plans; the whole record ends See Hurricane. Exact supplied passages: miller-2034 — Tornado (Heading 2038; source lines 22484–22493). Attributed historical comparison only; these period claims do not validate the original reflection or establish real health, relationship, family or financial outcomes." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Attention held by a visible possibility", "reflection": "A distant threat can occupy a routine before its imagined arrival." }, { "title": "Revision when a direction will not stay settled", "reflection": "Adapting can matter more than finding a plan that never needs to change." }, { "title": "An encounter larger than one task", "reflection": "Companions, perspective and a changed doorway can give the dramatic image a specific purpose." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2034", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Tornado", "text": "If you dream that you are in a tornado, you will be filled with\ndisappointment and perplexity over the miscarriage of studied\nplans for swift attainment of fortune.\n\n\n[227] See Hurricane.", "locator": "Heading 2038; source lines 22484–22493", "lineStart": 22484, "lineEnd": 22493, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream that you are in a tornado, you will be filled with\ndisappointment and perplexity over the miscarriage of studied\nplans for swift attainment of fortune. See Hurricane." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [ "hurricane" ] }, { "slug": "a-train-going-in-the-wrong-direction", "title": "A train going in the wrong direction", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "A shared route continues after your destination stops matching it.", "summary": "A train going the wrong way can explore a plan whose route no longer fits, uncertainty about a destination, or the choice of where to change course.", "aliases": [ "wrong direction train dream", "train going the wrong way" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "A train going in the wrong direction can picture a plan that continues to work mechanically after it stops serving the destination you want. The doors close, the timetable holds and other passengers settle in, yet the view tells you that your journey is changing. A course of study, shared project or established routine might offer a comparison if continuing has become easier than reconsidering where it leads.\n\nHow you recognize the mismatch matters. A familiar landmark on the wrong side gives you information; another passenger’s assertion may leave you unsure. You might know the destination but lack the route, or know the route while discovering that the destination no longer appeals. These are different problems. The dream does not establish that a real choice was mistaken simply because the train moves away from something.\n\nThe next stopping place gives the scene a practical scale. Waiting until a station can resemble accepting that a change needs an orderly opportunity rather than an immediate leap. Missing several stops may bring attention to what makes speaking up or leaving difficult. If someone helps you find a connection, changing course becomes a matter of information and timing rather than a verdict about failure.\n\nOther passengers can make the journey shared without making their destination yours. Feeling embarrassed to ask where the train goes may resemble wanting certainty before revealing that you need help. A companion who chooses to remain can place affection beside different plans. You may value traveling together while still wanting to reach separate places.\n\nRelief when you decide to stay changes the reading again. An unplanned journey may become welcome, especially if curiosity replaces the need to arrive. Actual travel experiences and maps can supply direct context too. The useful distinction is between a route that prevents a wanted arrival and one whose unexpected direction you now choose to explore.", "traditional": "No supplied historical passage specifically concerns a train going in the wrong direction. General railway accounts remain with their existing owners and are not evidence for this particular scene. These route and decision comparisons are original; general sleep information does not validate them.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A familiar landmark appears on the wrong side", "reflection": "You have a concrete reason to question the route. This may resemble noticing that a plan’s actual effects differ from what you expected. The observation matters before deciding whether to change the destination or the method." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Nobody agrees about the train’s destination", "reflection": "The uncertainty concerns information shared within the carriage. This can picture needing a dependable account before acting. Repeating a passenger’s confident answer does not make it evidence about where your waking plans will lead." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You must wait for the next station to change", "reflection": "The available correction has a timetable. This may fit wanting to alter a commitment through a workable opportunity rather than abandon it instantly. Waiting can be a chosen step, especially when you know what connection you need." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Your companion wants to remain on the train", "reflection": "The shared journey no longer covers both destinations. This may make different priorities visible without requiring either person to be wrong. Agreeing where to part can preserve company while allowing separate plans." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You see the right platform after the doors have closed", "reflection": "The wished-for change becomes visible when it is temporarily unavailable. This may resemble learning something useful after a decision point. The next opportunity matters more than treating the missed platform as proof that every option is gone." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You stop trying to return and enjoy the new view", "reflection": "An unwanted direction becomes a chosen exploration. This can fit allowing a plan to change when its new possibilities appeal. Enjoyment in the scene should be distinguished from pressure to call every real disruption beneficial." } ], "prompts": [ "What told you that the route was wrong?", "Was your destination still wanted, or had that changed too?", "What would make changing course practical rather than merely urgent?" ], "related": [ "railroad", "railway-cars", "being-lost", "missing-a-flight-or-train" ], "sources": [ { "id": "nichd-sleep-dreaming", "title": "What happens during sleep? — Dreaming section", "author": "Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development", "url": "https://www.nichd.nih.gov/health/topics/sleep/conditioninfo/Pages/what-happens.aspx", "scope": "Official general sleep education, Dreaming section: the purpose of dreaming remains uncertain. It does not test these original symbolic comparisons or establish another person’s intentions, a diagnosis or a prediction." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15 under the site owner’s delegation. Historical claims, where supplied, remain attributed period writing. No human or clinical review is claimed.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Momentum without agreement", "reflection": "An organized process can keep moving after your preferred destination changes." }, { "title": "Information before correction", "reflection": "Recognizing a mismatch differs from knowing how to change the route." }, { "title": "A practical place to change", "reflection": "The next stop or connection can make reconsideration manageable without judging the whole journey." } ], "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "Codex (AI-assisted editorial review)", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "a-stranger", "a-train-going-in-the-wrong-direction", "being-trapped", "being-unable-to-move", "children", "church", "current-romantic-partner", "death-of-a-friend", "elevator", "father", "forest", "hair-falling-out", "insects", "key", "locked-out", "mother", "nakedness", "phone-not-working", "rainbow", "running-but-going-nowhere", "school", "smoke", "snake-bite", "superpowers", "the-self", "the-shadow", "web" ] }, "decisionReason": "The developed route comparison distinguishes a changed destination, missing information, shared plans and a practical place to change. It includes a genuinely welcome unexpected route rather than treating every deviation as failure. No broader railway passage is re-owned or offered as evidence for this specific context.", "contentSha256": "6e1af32487ad9253204862c7bfb3e767a4e0a61e33be179de12f3ad1c888c79c" }, "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "a-waking-sound-entering-a-dream", "title": "A waking sound entering a dream", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "A real alarm or nearby voice may become part of a dream scene. Compare the dream sound with what you actually heard after waking.", "summary": "A real alarm or nearby voice may become part of a dream scene. Compare the dream sound with what you actually heard after waking.", "aliases": [ "sound incorporation in dreams", "alarm becoming part of a dream" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "Laboratory work shows that sound cues can affect dream content under controlled conditions. That does not prove where any one remembered sound came from. Write down the dreamed source first, then the waking source if known: a siren might have been a clock, or there may be no identifiable match. The emotional turn the sound created can still be worth exploring without imagining that the sound carried a special message.", "traditional": "The archive’s bells and alarms belong to older symbolic systems. If a real sound was present, a direct sensory connection is a useful alternative to those readings; matching the sound to an omen adds a separate, unverified interpretation.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "An alarm becomes a school bell", "reflection": "What obligation appeared at the moment the bell sounded?" }, { "title": "A nearby conversation becomes dialogue in the dream", "reflection": "Which words do you actually remember, and which did you infer later?" }, { "title": "Rain outside becomes applause", "reflection": "What did the dreamed scene make of an otherwise ordinary sound?" } ], "prompts": [ "Was the waking sound independently identifiable?", "Did its rhythm or only its emotional quality carry into the dream?", "How did the story change when the sound arrived?" ], "related": [ "alarm-bell", "bells", "noise" ], "sources": [ { "id": "rem-sounds-2025", "title": "Investigating dreams by strategically presenting sounds during REM sleep to reactivate waking experiences", "author": "Karen R. Konkoly and colleagues", "url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40675367/", "scope": "Primary laboratory experiment on sound cueing and dream content; does not identify the source of any individual dream sound." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia model-assisted editorial draft. Reflection questions and scenario readings are optional, individually written suggestions, not empirically validated symbol meanings. Source scope is stated with each citation. Historical comparisons identify topics, not inherited interpretations. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "a-wheelchair-route-blocked-by-stairs", "title": "A wheelchair route blocked by stairs", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "An inaccessible route locates the obstacle in the environment. Notice the destination, the available alternatives, and whose needs were considered.", "summary": "An inaccessible route locates the obstacle in the environment. Notice the destination, the available alternatives, and whose needs were considered.", "aliases": [ "inaccessible wheelchair route dream", "wheelchair ramp blocked" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "Whether or not you use a wheelchair while awake, describe the barrier without treating disability as a metaphor for helplessness. Was the problem poor design, unavailable assistance, or someone deciding for you? The scene can prompt reflection on access and autonomy. It may also reproduce an ordinary experience. The useful question is what would make participation possible, not what is supposedly wrong with the person trying to enter.", "traditional": "Some historical disability entries use prejudiced language and omens. This draft does not adopt that framing; access depends on environments, resources, and choices, and a mobility aid is not evidence of diminished worth.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "A ramp ends at a locked door", "reflection": "What did a promised accommodation fail to provide in practice?" }, { "title": "Someone moves your chair without asking", "reflection": "How did their idea of help affect your choice and control?" }, { "title": "A clear accessible route opens beside the stairs", "reflection": "What changes when access is ordinary rather than exceptional?" } ], "prompts": [ "What specific feature prevented you from reaching the destination?", "Was help offered with your consent?", "What would equal participation have looked like?" ], "related": [ "stairs", "door", "assistance" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia model-assisted editorial draft. Reflection questions and scenario readings are optional, individually written suggestions, not empirically validated symbol meanings. Source scope is stated with each citation. Historical comparisons identify topics, not inherited interpretations. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "abacus", "title": "Abacus", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "kind": "modern", "aliases": [ "abacus", "abacuses" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "summary": "An abacus can explore a count made through visible movements, a shared method and what happens when an arrangement is kept or reset.", "tagline": "A tally you can handle and leave in place.", "psychological": "An abacus in a dream can give a count a visible, handled form. Moving its pieces leaves an arrangement you can return to instead of only receiving a final answer. This may picture wanting the parts of a task to remain understandable as you work through them. A household plan, collection or shared responsibility could offer a comparison when seeing how a total was made matters alongside the result.\n\nSatisfaction can come from a movement you can follow. You shift a piece, see its new place and know how that action belongs to the task. The scene may resemble an unfamiliar undertaking becoming approachable through a concrete method. A recently learned routine can fit that satisfaction when you can recognize your own part in it.\n\nThe same visible arrangement can support cooperation. Someone may follow the changes and explain a stage you missed without taking the whole task away from you. This differs from being handed an answer whose path remains hidden. Help can make a process shared while leaving you room to understand and participate in it.\n\nBeads that slide back after each movement create a different tension. Your effort happens, yet the device will not retain its effect. This may picture work repeatedly undone by changing conditions, such as an agreed allocation that is reset before anyone can use it. The difficulty belongs to continuity in the imagined task, not a judgment about your actual numerical ability.\n\nSeparate rows whose purpose is unclear can bring the meaning of the arrangement into view. Several people may be counting different things while appearing to use the same method. Clarifying what each position represents could matter more than moving faster. Resetting an understood tally can instead make room for a new task, or feel like losing a record you wanted to keep. A recently seen device, lesson or remembered way of counting can supply the scene directly. These reflections follow handling, traceable changes and the retention of an arrangement; they do not provide real figures or assign messages to particular numbers.", "traditional": "No specific historical Abacus passage is supplied. The original reading concerns a manually handled counting device, with visible positions and a tally that can be retained or reset. Older Counting forecasts do not define this tool; NINDS supplies only general background on dreaming.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A process you can follow", "reflection": "Visible changes can make the construction of a count part of what is useful." }, { "title": "A method shared without losing your part", "reflection": "Another person can clarify an arrangement while leaving room for your own participation." }, { "title": "What the arrangement retains", "reflection": "Sliding pieces, unclear rows and resetting can change whether the work remains available to use." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "A few deliberate movements produce a tally you understand", "reflection": "The work remains visible through an arrangement you can follow. This may picture satisfaction in finding a concrete method for something that had felt too broad. The useful clarity concerns your relation to the task, rather than the device proving that a dreamed total is financially or practically accurate." }, { "title": "Another person follows the beads and explains a missed stage", "reflection": "Help makes the process more accessible without replacing your participation. This may picture wanting an explanation you can work with rather than somebody completing everything on your behalf. The shared movement can support understanding while allowing each person to keep a meaningful part in the task." }, { "title": "The beads slide back after every movement you make", "reflection": "The device will not retain the changes, so effort cannot become a usable arrangement. This may picture a task repeatedly reset by its conditions, such as an allocation revised before it can be followed. The frustration concerns continuity rather than establishing a problem with your ability to count." }, { "title": "People assign different purposes to the same row of pieces", "reflection": "The method looks shared, but its terms are not. This may picture a group using one account for different responsibilities without agreeing what it represents. Faster movement would not settle the mismatch; the dreamed task asks for an understandable relation between the positions and what is being counted." }, { "title": "You enjoy learning how one piece changes the arrangement", "reflection": "Curiosity has room to proceed through a small, visible action. This may picture pleasure in understanding a method before needing to finish a large undertaking. A remembered lesson can supply direct context, and the enjoyment need not become a demand to be naturally talented or to learn in one preferred way." }, { "title": "You reset a completed tally before beginning another task", "reflection": "The arrangement is available to change, but an earlier account may still feel worth keeping. This may picture a transition between completed work and a new responsibility. Relief or reluctance can concern whether the previous effort has been acknowledged, rather than resetting always meaning a fresh start or loss." } ], "prompts": [ "What did each movement or position represent in the task?", "How did another person’s participation affect your understanding of the method?", "What mattered about keeping, losing or resetting the arrangement?" ], "related": [ "numbers", "counting", "calculator" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "abandon", "title": "Abandon", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are abandoned, denotes that you will have difficulty in framing your plans for future success.”", "aliases": [ "abandon" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about abandon stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0001", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Abandon", "text": "To dream that you are abandoned, denotes that you will have difficulty\nin framing your plans for future success.\n\nTo abandon others, you will see unhappy conditions piled thick around you,\nleaving little hope of surmounting them.\n\nIf it is your house that you abandon, you will soon come to grief\nin experimenting with fortune.\n\nIf you abandon your sweetheart, you will fail to recover lost valuables,\nand friends will turn aside from your favors.\n\nIf you abandon a mistress, you will unexpectedly come into\na goodly inheritance.\n\nIf it is religion you abandon, you will come to grief by your attacks\non prominent people.\n\nTo abandon children, denotes that you will lose your fortune\nby lack of calmness and judgment.\n\nTo abandon your business, indicates distressing circumstances in which there\nwill be quarrels and suspicion. (This dream may have a literal fulfilment\nif it is impressed on your waking mind, whether you abandon a person,\nor that person abandons you, or, as indicated, it denotes other worries.)\n\nTo see yourself or friend abandon a ship, suggests your possible\nentanglement in some business failure, but if you escape to shore\nyour interests will remain secure.", "locator": "Heading 1; source lines 1544–1577", "lineStart": 1544, "lineEnd": 1577, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are abandoned, denotes that you will have difficulty\nin framing your plans for future success.\n\nTo abandon others, you will see unhappy conditions piled thick around you,\nleaving little hope of surmounting them.\n\nIf it is your house that you abandon, you will soon come to grief\nin experimenting with fortune.\n\nIf you abandon your sweetheart, you will fail to recover lost valuables,\nand friends will turn aside from your favors.\n\nIf you abandon a mistress, you will unexpectedly come into\na goodly inheritance.\n\nIf it is religion you abandon, you will come to grief by your attacks\non prominent people.\n\nTo abandon children, denotes that you will lose your fortune\nby lack of calmness and judgment.\n\nTo abandon your business, indicates distressing circumstances in which there\nwill be quarrels and suspicion. (This dream may have a literal fulfilment\nif it is impressed on your waking mind, whether you abandon a person,\nor that person abandons you, or, as indicated, it denotes other worries.)\n\nTo see yourself or friend abandon a ship, suggests your possible\nentanglement in some business failure, but if you escape to shore\nyour interests will remain secure." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "abandoned", "title": "Abandoned", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "summary": "Abandoned dreams may explore withdrawn support, being left outside a shared plan, or the mixed experience of leaving someone yourself.", "tagline": "What stops being available gives abandonment its particular shape.", "aliases": [ "abandoned", "abandonment", "being abandoned", "feeling abandoned" ], "status": "REVIEW", "psychological": "Being abandoned in a dream can picture a connection or arrangement disappearing when you still expect to rely on it. A companion leaves the journey, promised help never comes, or a group moves ahead without giving you a place. The loss may be a person, but it may also be the function they were providing: company, guidance, practical assistance or a shared account of what comes next.\n\nThat distinction makes abandonment different from solitude alone. A quiet empty place can be welcome when you choose it, while the same emptiness can feel painful after somebody withdraws an expected presence. A changed routine, a remembered parting or uncertainty during a transition can provide waking comparisons. The dreamed departure does not reveal what another person intends or prove that an actual relationship is being withdrawn.\n\nTiming can make the scene especially sharp. Being left before a difficult task, during a journey or after trusting somebody with a responsibility changes what you must carry yourself. The dream may focus on having no opportunity to renegotiate an arrangement. If you can speak, choose another route or receive an explanation, the experience becomes different from being left with consequences and no usable response.\n\nAbandoning someone else gives you another position. Departure might feel necessary, guilty, angry or unexpectedly calm. The tension could concern separating a needed limit from the wish to remain caring, or letting go of a role that others still expect you to fill. A dream can explore that conflict without prescribing a real departure or turning the feeling into a verdict on loyalty.\n\nWhat remains can matter as much as what leaves. One person staying, a practical resource or your own ability to continue can give the scene another arrangement. That need not cancel grief about the original loss. A deserted landscape may also simply come from a remembered place or story, especially when no relationship or promised support is involved. A useful reading distinguishes the absence itself, the expectation that preceded it and the options the dream left afterward.", "traditional": "Cielo’s 1917 Abandoned passage gives contrary forecasts: desertion by friends is read as affection, while abandoning someone loved is assigned disappointment. These are the author’s period beliefs, not evidence about relationships. The related Abandon page concerns a broader range of leaving and being left.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Expected support withdraws", "reflection": "The missing presence may matter for what it had been helping you carry." }, { "title": "Being left and choosing to leave", "reflection": "The two positions create different questions about agency, care and limits." }, { "title": "What remains available", "reflection": "A retained connection can change the arrangement without erasing the original loss." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A companion leaves while you are still relying on them", "reflection": "The departure changes a journey you expected to share. This can picture uncertainty about a joint plan or the cost of suddenly navigating alone. The particular help the companion supplied matters more than treating the dream as proof that somebody will leave." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A group moves on without making space for you", "reflection": "The group continues while your opportunity to join disappears. The scene may concern being included in a changing arrangement or wanting time to respond. It differs from choosing solitude because the conditions of participation change without your agreement." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Promised help never arrives", "reflection": "Waiting makes an earlier promise part of the absence. A delayed response or remembered unmet arrangement can offer a comparison. The burden left behind may be practical as well as emotional, and having another option would change the experience of the delay." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You leave somebody you care about and feel conflicted", "reflection": "Departure can hold care and a need for distance at the same time. The scene may explore the cost of changing a role or setting a limit. Its conflict is more specific than deciding whether leaving always means disloyalty or whether staying always means kindness." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A deserted place feels peaceful rather than frightening", "reflection": "The absence of people can make room rather than remove it. This distinguishes abandoned surroundings from feeling personally deserted. A remembered empty building or quiet walk may supply the imagery, and the peaceful tone can remain meaningful without a story about rejected attachment." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "One person stays after everyone else leaves", "reflection": "The remaining person may provide a smaller, specific connection amid a larger loss. Their presence can change what is possible without restoring the whole group. The scene can value reliable company while allowing disappointment about the people or plans that have gone." } ], "prompts": [ "What presence or support did you expect to remain available?", "How did the absence arise, and how much choice did you have?", "What still offered connection or a usable next step?" ], "sources": [ { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0001" ], "scope": "Historical context only. Attributed Astra Cielo passage(s): being deserted by friends is read as affection, while abandoning a loved person is assigned disappointment. These are period beliefs, not established predictions or support for the original psychological reading." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "related": [ "abandon", "loneliness", "breakup", "rejection" ], "updated": "2026-10-13", "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "cielo-0001", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Abandoned", "text": "Dreaming that you are deserted by your\n friends denotes their affection and love, but to\n dream that you have abandoned someone you love is\n a sign of disappointment.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 1; source lines 3850–3854", "lineStart": 3850, "lineEnd": 3854, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Dreaming that you are deserted by your\nfriends denotes their affection and love, but to\ndream that you have abandoned someone you love is\na sign of disappointment." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "abbess", "title": "Abbess", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “For a young woman to dream that she sees an abbess, denotes that she will be compelled to perform distasteful tasks, and will submit to…”", "aliases": [ "abbess" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about abbess stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0003", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Abbess", "text": "For a young woman to dream that she sees an abbess, denotes that she\nwill be compelled to perform distasteful tasks, and will submit\nto authority only after unsuccessful rebellion.\n\nTo dream of an abbess smiling and benignant, denotes you will be surrounded\nby true friends and pleasing prospects.", "locator": "Heading 3; source lines 1590–1599", "lineStart": 1590, "lineEnd": 1599, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a young woman to dream that she sees an abbess, denotes that she\nwill be compelled to perform distasteful tasks, and will submit\nto authority only after unsuccessful rebellion.\n\nTo dream of an abbess smiling and benignant, denotes you will be surrounded\nby true friends and pleasing prospects." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "abbey", "title": "Abbey", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see an abbey in ruins, foretells that your hopes and schemes will fall into ignoble incompletion.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "abbey" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about abbey stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0002", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Abbey", "text": "To see an abbey in ruins, foretells that your hopes and schemes\nwill fall into ignoble incompletion.\n\nTo dream that a priest bars your entrance into an abbey,\ndenotes that you will be saved from a ruinous state by enemies\nmistaking your embarrassment for progress.\n\nFor a young woman to get into an abbey, foretells her violent illness.\nIf she converses with a priest in an abbey, she will incur the censure\nof true friends for indiscretion.", "locator": "Heading 2; source lines 1577–1590", "lineStart": 1577, "lineEnd": 1590, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see an abbey in ruins, foretells that your hopes and schemes\nwill fall into ignoble incompletion.\n\nTo dream that a priest bars your entrance into an abbey,\ndenotes that you will be saved from a ruinous state by enemies\nmistaking your embarrassment for progress.\n\nFor a young woman to get into an abbey, foretells her violent illness.\nIf she converses with a priest in an abbey, she will incur the censure\nof true friends for indiscretion." }, { "id": "cielo-0002", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Abbey", "text": "The ruins of an abbey mean good fortune; if\n seen by moonlight, wealth.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 2; source lines 3854–3857", "lineStart": 3854, "lineEnd": 3857, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "The ruins of an abbey mean good fortune; if\nseen by moonlight, wealth." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L8901", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Abbey", "heading": "Abbey", "text": "Not mentioned by Artemidorus. Dream-books define this dream as one of comfort, peace of mind, etc. The symbolism of sanctuary is obvious.", "lineStart": 8901, "lineEnd": 8904, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 195; NLM OCR lines 8901–8904", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 8901, "lineEnd": 8904, "printedPage": 195, "printedPageEnd": 195 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Abbey. — Not mentioned by Artemidorus. Dream-books de- \nfine this dream as one of comfort, peace of mind, etc. The \nsymbolism of sanctuary is obvious. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "de- \nfine", "after": "define", "evidenceLine": 1590 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Abbey" }, "displayText": "Not mentioned by Artemidorus. Dream-books define this dream as one of comfort, peace of mind, etc. The symbolism of sanctuary is obvious." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "abbot", "title": "Abbot", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are an abbot, warns you that treacherous plots are being laid for your downfall.”", "aliases": [ "abbot" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about abbot stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0004", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Abbot", "text": "To dream that you are an abbot, warns you that treacherous plots\nare being laid for your downfall.\n\nIf you see this pious man in devotional exercises, it forewarns\nyou of smooth flattery and deceit pulling you a willing victim\ninto the meshes of artful bewilderment.\n\nFor a young woman to talk with an abbot, portends that she will yield to\ninsinuating flatteries, and in yielding she will besmirch her reputation.\nIf she marries one, she will uphold her name and honor despite\npoverty and temptation.\n\n[3] See similar words in connection with churches, priests, etc.", "locator": "Heading 4; source lines 1599–1615", "lineStart": 1599, "lineEnd": 1615, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are an abbot, warns you that treacherous plots\nare being laid for your downfall.\n\nIf you see this pious man in devotional exercises, it forewarns\nyou of smooth flattery and deceit pulling you a willing victim\ninto the meshes of artful bewilderment.\n\nFor a young woman to talk with an abbot, portends that she will yield to\ninsinuating flatteries, and in yielding she will besmirch her reputation.\nIf she marries one, she will uphold her name and honor despite\npoverty and temptation. See similar words in connection with churches, priests, etc." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "abbot-abbess-hermit-monk-nun-or-priest", "title": "Abbot, Abbess, Hermit, Monk, Nun, or Priest", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “To dream of becoming one, calmness in passion.”", "aliases": [ "abbot, abbess, hermit, monk, nun, or priest", "abbot", "abbess", "hermit", "monk", "nun", "priest" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about abbot, abbess, hermit, monk, nun, or priest stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L8905", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Abbot, Abbess, Hermit, Monk, Nun, or Priest", "heading": "Abbot, Abbess, Hermit, Monk, Nun, or Priest", "text": "To dream of becoming one, calmness in passion. Merely to dream of one, pride, or malice of which the dreamer will be the victim. The significance of this dream is evidently due to the regard in which the clergy of past ages held their gypsy brethren.", "lineStart": 8905, "lineEnd": 8911, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 195; NLM OCR lines 8905–8911", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 8905, "lineEnd": 8911, "printedPage": 195, "printedPageEnd": 195 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Abbot, Abbess, Hermit, Monk, Nun, or Priest. — To \ndream of becoming one, calmness in passion. Merely to \ndream of one, pride, or malice of which the dreamer will be \nthe victim. The significance of this dream is evidently due to \nthe regard in which the clergy of past ages held their gypsy \nbrethren. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Abbot, Abbess, Hermit, Monk, Nun, or Priest" }, "displayText": "To dream of becoming one, calmness in passion. Merely to dream of one, pride, or malice of which the dreamer will be the victim. The significance of this dream is evidently due to the regard in which the clergy of past ages held their gypsy brethren." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "abdomen", "title": "Abdomen", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see your abdomen in a dream, foretells that you will have great expectations, but you must curb hardheadedness and redouble your energies…”", "aliases": [ "abdomen" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about abdomen stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "belly" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0005", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Abdomen", "text": "To see your abdomen in a dream, foretells that you will have\ngreat expectations, but you must curb hardheadedness and redouble\nyour energies on your labor, as pleasure is approaching to your hurt.\n\nTo see your abdomen shriveled, foretells that you will be persecuted\nand defied by false friends.\n\nTo see it swollen, you will have tribulations, but you will overcome them\nand enjoy the fruits of your labor.\n\nTo see blood oozing from the abdomen, foretells an accident or tragedy\nin your family.\n\nThe abdomen of children in an unhealthy state, portends that contagion\nwill pursue you.\n\n[4] See Belly.", "locator": "Heading 5; source lines 1615–1635", "lineStart": 1615, "lineEnd": 1635, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see your abdomen in a dream, foretells that you will have\ngreat expectations, but you must curb hardheadedness and redouble\nyour energies on your labor, as pleasure is approaching to your hurt.\n\nTo see your abdomen shriveled, foretells that you will be persecuted\nand defied by false friends.\n\nTo see it swollen, you will have tribulations, but you will overcome them\nand enjoy the fruits of your labor.\n\nTo see blood oozing from the abdomen, foretells an accident or tragedy\nin your family.\n\nThe abdomen of children in an unhealthy state, portends that contagion\nwill pursue you. See Belly." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "belly" ] }, { "slug": "abhor", "title": "Abhor", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you abhor a person, denotes that you will entertain strange dislike for some person, and your suspicion of his honesty will…”", "aliases": [ "abhor" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about abhor stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0006", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Abhor", "text": "To dream that you abhor a person, denotes that you will entertain\nstrange dislike for some person, and your suspicion of his honesty\nwill prove correct.\n\nTo think yourself held in abhorrence by others, predicts that your good\nintentions to others will subside into selfishness.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that her lover abhors her, foretells that she\nwill love a man who is in no sense congenial.", "locator": "Heading 6; source lines 1635–1647", "lineStart": 1635, "lineEnd": 1647, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you abhor a person, denotes that you will entertain\nstrange dislike for some person, and your suspicion of his honesty\nwill prove correct.\n\nTo think yourself held in abhorrence by others, predicts that your good\nintentions to others will subside into selfishness.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that her lover abhors her, foretells that she\nwill love a man who is in no sense congenial." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "abject", "title": "Abject", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are abject, denotes that you will be the recipient of gloomy tidings, which will cause a relaxation in your strenuous…”", "aliases": [ "abject" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about abject stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0007", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Abject", "text": "To dream that you are abject, denotes that you will be the recipient\nof gloomy tidings, which will cause a relaxation in your strenuous\nefforts to climb the heights of prosperity.\n\nTo see others abject, is a sign of bickerings and false dealings\namong your friends.", "locator": "Heading 7; source lines 1647–1656", "lineStart": 1647, "lineEnd": 1656, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are abject, denotes that you will be the recipient\nof gloomy tidings, which will cause a relaxation in your strenuous\nefforts to climb the heights of prosperity.\n\nTo see others abject, is a sign of bickerings and false dealings\namong your friends." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "abode", "title": "Abode", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you can't find your abode, you will completely lose faith in the integrity of others.”", "aliases": [ "abode" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about abode stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "house" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0008", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Abode", "text": "To dream that you can't find your abode, you will completely lose\nfaith in the integrity of others.\n\nIf you have no abode in your dreams, you will be unfortunate in your affairs,\nand lose by speculation.\n\nTo change your abode, signifies hurried tidings and that hasty journeys\nwill be made by you.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she has left her abode, is significant\nof slander and falsehoods being perpetrated against her.\n\n[5] See Home.", "locator": "Heading 8; source lines 1656–1672", "lineStart": 1656, "lineEnd": 1672, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you can't find your abode, you will completely lose\nfaith in the integrity of others.\n\nIf you have no abode in your dreams, you will be unfortunate in your affairs,\nand lose by speculation.\n\nTo change your abode, signifies hurried tidings and that hasty journeys\nwill be made by you.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she has left her abode, is significant\nof slander and falsehoods being perpetrated against her. See Home." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "house" ] }, { "slug": "abortion", "title": "Abortion", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “For a woman to dream that she assents to abortion being committed on her, is a warning that she is contemplating some enterprise which if…”", "aliases": [ "abortion" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about abortion stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0009", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Abortion", "text": "For a woman to dream that she assents to abortion being committed on her,\nis a warning that she is contemplating some enterprise which if carried\nout will steep her in disgrace and unhappiness.\n\nFor a doctor to dream that he is a party to an abortion,\nforetells that his practice will suffer from his inattention\nto duty, which will cause much trouble.", "locator": "Heading 9; source lines 1672–1682", "lineStart": 1672, "lineEnd": 1682, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a woman to dream that she assents to abortion being committed on her,\nis a warning that she is contemplating some enterprise which if carried\nout will steep her in disgrace and unhappiness.\n\nFor a doctor to dream that he is a party to an abortion,\nforetells that his practice will suffer from his inattention\nto duty, which will cause much trouble." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "above", "title": "Above", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see anything hanging above you, and about to fall, implies danger.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "above" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about above stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0010", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Above", "text": "To see anything hanging above you, and about to fall, implies danger;\nif it falls upon you it may be ruin or sudden disappointment.\nIf it falls near, but misses you, it is a sign that you will have\na narrow escape from loss of money, or other misfortunes may follow.\n\nShould it be securely fixed above you, so as not to imply danger,\nyour condition will improve after threatened loss.", "locator": "Heading 10; source lines 1682–1692", "lineStart": 1682, "lineEnd": 1692, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see anything hanging above you, and about to fall, implies danger;\nif it falls upon you it may be ruin or sudden disappointment.\nIf it falls near, but misses you, it is a sign that you will have\na narrow escape from loss of money, or other misfortunes may follow.\n\nShould it be securely fixed above you, so as not to imply danger,\nyour condition will improve after threatened loss." }, { "id": "fontaine-0001", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Above", "text": "To dream you see any thing hanging _above_ you signifies you\nwill improve in your worldly prospects, and soon be in a better\nsituation than you were before you had the dream. 76, 62, 14.", "locator": "Heading 1; source line 977", "lineStart": 977, "lineEnd": 981, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see any thing hanging above you signifies you\nwill improve in your worldly prospects, and soon be in a better\nsituation than you were before you had the dream." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "abraham", "title": "Abraham", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "1894 Guide wrote: “To dream of Abraham denotes good fortune, accumulation of riches.”", "aliases": [ "abraham" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about abraham stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "guide-65367", "title": "Guide to Fortune-Telling by Dreams", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Multum in Parvo Library, Vol. I, No. 10, October 1894", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65367", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "guide-0002", "sourceId": "guide-65367", "heading": "Abraham", "text": "To dream of Abraham denotes good fortune, accumulation of\nriches; in love, many rivals; in law, many difficulties, an increase in\nyour business. He may give you some valuable information how to avoid\ntrouble.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 2; source lines 85–90", "lineStart": 85, "lineEnd": 90, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of Abraham denotes good fortune, accumulation of\nriches; in love, many rivals; in law, many difficulties, an increase in\nyour business. He may give you some valuable information how to avoid\ntrouble." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "abroad", "title": "Abroad", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are abroad, or going abroad, foretells that you will soon, in company with a party, make…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "abroad" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about abroad stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0011", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Abroad", "text": "To dream that you are abroad, or going abroad, foretells that you\nwill soon, in company with a party, make a pleasant trip, and you\nwill find it necessary to absent yourself from your native country\nfor a sojourn in a different climate.", "locator": "Heading 11; source lines 1692–1699", "lineStart": 1692, "lineEnd": 1699, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are abroad, or going abroad, foretells that you\nwill soon, in company with a party, make a pleasant trip, and you\nwill find it necessary to absent yourself from your native country\nfor a sojourn in a different climate." }, { "id": "cielo-0003", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Abroad", "text": "Dreaming that you are in a strange land\n signifies success in your undertakings.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 3; source lines 3857–3860", "lineStart": 3857, "lineEnd": 3860, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Dreaming that you are in a strange land\nsignifies success in your undertakings." }, { "id": "luck-0001", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Abroad", "text": "(Dreamer going or gone) An early journey.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 1; source lines 3509–3511", "lineStart": 3509, "lineEnd": 3511, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(Dreamer going or gone) An early journey." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0012", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Absalom", "text": "To dream of Absalom, is significant of distressing incidents.\nYou may unconsciously fall a victim to error, and penetrate\nsome well beloved heart with keen anguish and pain over the\ncommittal of immoral actions and the outraging of innocence.\nNo flower of purity will ever be too sacred for you to breathe\na passionate breath upon. To dream of this, or any other\ndisobedient character, is a warning against immoral tendencies.\nA father is warned by this dream to be careful of his children.", "locator": "Heading 12; source lines 1699–1710", "lineStart": 1699, "lineEnd": 1710, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of Absalom, is significant of distressing incidents.\nYou may unconsciously fall a victim to error, and penetrate\nsome well beloved heart with keen anguish and pain over the\ncommittal of immoral actions and the outraging of innocence.\nNo flower of purity will ever be too sacred for you to breathe\na passionate breath upon. To dream of this, or any other\ndisobedient character, is a warning against immoral tendencies.\nA father is warned by this dream to be careful of his children." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "abscess", "title": "Abscess", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you have an abscess which seems to have reached a chronic stage, you will be overwhelmed…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "abscess" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about abscess stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0014", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Abscess", "text": "To dream that you have an abscess which seems to have reached a chronic stage,\nyou will be overwhelmed with misfortune of your own; at the same time your\ndeepest sympathies will be enlisted for the sorrows of others.", "locator": "Heading 14; source lines 1718–1724", "lineStart": 1718, "lineEnd": 1724, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you have an abscess which seems to have reached a chronic stage,\nyou will be overwhelmed with misfortune of your own; at the same time your\ndeepest sympathies will be enlisted for the sorrows of others." }, { "id": "fontaine-0003", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Abscess", "text": "If you dream you have an abscess, or running sore on your\nperson, it foretells good fortune and good health, to be preceded by\nsickness. 3, 27.", "locator": "Heading 3; source line 984", "lineStart": 984, "lineEnd": 988, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream you have an abscess, or running sore on your\nperson, it foretells good fortune and good health, to be preceded by\nsickness." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "abscess-boil-ulcer-running-sore-etc", "title": "Abscess, Boil, Ulcer, Running Sore, etc", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “To dream of having any of these afflictions foretells good fortune and good health, preceded by a temporary sickness (Raphael), Dreams…”", "aliases": [ "abscess, boil, ulcer, running sore, etc", "abscess", "boil", "ulcer", "running sore" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about abscess, boil, ulcer, running sore, etc stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L8912", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Abscess, Boil, Ulcer, Running Sore, etc", "heading": "Abscess, Boil, Ulcer, Running Sore, etc", "text": "To dream of having any of these afflictions foretells good fortune and good health, preceded by a temporary sickness (Raphael), Dreams probably caused by irritation of the parts of the body afflicted in the sleep; the interpretation obviously attributable to the theory that these visitations clear the system of impurities, thereby conferring comfort after sickness.", "lineStart": 8912, "lineEnd": 8919, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 195; NLM OCR lines 8912–8919", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 8912, "lineEnd": 8919, "printedPage": 195, "printedPageEnd": 195 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Abscess, Boil, Ulcer, Running Sore, etc. — To dream of \nhaving any of these afflictions foretells good fortune and good \nhealth, preceded by a temporary sickness (Raphael), Dreams \nprobably caused by irritation of the parts of the body afflicted \nin the sleep; the interpretation obviously attributable to the \ntheory that these visitations clear the system of impurities, \nthereby conferring comfort after sickness. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Abscess, Boil, Ulcer, Running Sore, etc" }, "displayText": "To dream of having any of these afflictions foretells good fortune and good health, preceded by a temporary sickness (Raphael), Dreams probably caused by irritation of the parts of the body afflicted in the sleep; the interpretation obviously attributable to the theory that these visitations clear the system of impurities, thereby conferring comfort after sickness." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "absence", "title": "Absence", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To grieve over the absence of any one in your dreams, denotes that repentance for some hasty action will…” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "absence" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about absence stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0013", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Absence", "text": "To grieve over the absence of any one in your dreams, denotes that repentance\nfor some hasty action will be the means of securing you life-long friendships.\n\nIf you rejoice over the absence of friends, it denotes that you\nwill soon be well rid of an enemy.", "locator": "Heading 13; source lines 1710–1718", "lineStart": 1710, "lineEnd": 1718, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To grieve over the absence of any one in your dreams, denotes that repentance\nfor some hasty action will be the means of securing you life-long friendships.\n\nIf you rejoice over the absence of friends, it denotes that you\nwill soon be well rid of an enemy." }, { "id": "fontaine-0002", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Absence", "text": "To dream of absent persons, signifies that they will soon\nreturn. It also denotes success in business. 4, 22.", "locator": "Heading 2; source line 981", "lineStart": 981, "lineEnd": 984, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of absent persons, signifies that they will soon\nreturn. It also denotes success in business." }, { "id": "noe-0014", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Absence", "text": "To dream of any absent friends,\n Good news of them, or ill, portends;\n But if at thy bedside they seem,\n Their deaths, perhaps, may solve thy dream.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 14; source lines 123–130", "lineStart": 123, "lineEnd": 130, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of any absent friends,\nGood news of them, or ill, portends;\nBut if at thy bedside they seem,\nTheir deaths, perhaps, may solve thy dream." }, { "id": "cielo-0004", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Absence", "text": "To be absent from home means a joyful\n reunion. To see people who are absent foretells\n speedy return.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 4; source lines 3860–3864", "lineStart": 3860, "lineEnd": 3864, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To be absent from home means a joyful\nreunion. To see people who are absent foretells\nspeedy return." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0015", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Absinthe", "text": "To come under the influence of absinthe in dreams, denotes that you\nwill lead a merry and foolish pace with innocent companions, and waste\nyour inheritance in prodigal lavishness on the siren, selfish fancy.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she drinks absinthe with her lover warns\nher to resist his persuasions to illicit consummation of their love. If she\ndreams she is drunk, she will yield up her favors without strong persuasion.\n(This dream typifies that you are likely to waste your energies in pleasure.)", "locator": "Heading 15; source lines 1724–1735", "lineStart": 1724, "lineEnd": 1735, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To come under the influence of absinthe in dreams, denotes that you\nwill lead a merry and foolish pace with innocent companions, and waste\nyour inheritance in prodigal lavishness on the siren, selfish fancy.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she drinks absinthe with her lover warns\nher to resist his persuasions to illicit consummation of their love. If she\ndreams she is drunk, she will yield up her favors without strong persuasion.\n(This dream typifies that you are likely to waste your energies in pleasure.)" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "abundance", "title": "Abundance", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are possessed with an abundance.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "abundance", "plenty" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about abundance stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0016", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Abundance", "text": "To dream that you are possessed with an abundance;\nforetells that you will have no occasion to reproach Fortune,\nand that you will be independent of her future favors;\nbut your domestic happiness may suffer a collapse under the strain\nyou are likely to put upon it by your infidelity.", "locator": "Heading 16; source lines 1735–1743", "lineStart": 1735, "lineEnd": 1743, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are possessed with an abundance;\nforetells that you will have no occasion to reproach Fortune,\nand that you will be independent of her future favors;\nbut your domestic happiness may suffer a collapse under the strain\nyou are likely to put upon it by your infidelity." }, { "id": "fontaine-0005", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Abundance", "text": "If you dream you have an over-abundance of any thing, it\ngoes by contrary, and is a sign of a scarcity; as if a farmer should\ndream that he had a great crop, it would predict a scarcity—not perhaps\nof that particular article of which he dreamed, but of something that\nwould be important to him. 15.", "locator": "Heading 5; source line 994", "lineStart": 994, "lineEnd": 1000, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream you have an over-abundance of any thing, it\ngoes by contrary, and is a sign of a scarcity; as if a farmer should\ndream that he had a great crop, it would predict a scarcity—not perhaps\nof that particular article of which he dreamed, but of something that\nwould be important to him." }, { "id": "cielo-0005", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Abundance", "text": "To dream of abundance shows a false\n security.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 5; source lines 3864–3867", "lineStart": 3864, "lineEnd": 3867, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of abundance shows a false\nsecurity." }, { "id": "fontaine-0590", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Plenty", "text": "(_See Abundance._)", "locator": "Heading 590; source line 3818", "lineStart": 3818, "lineEnd": 3820, "kind": "cross-reference", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Abundance.)" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "guide-65367", "title": "Guide to Fortune-Telling by Dreams", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Multum in Parvo Library, Vol. I, No. 10, October 1894", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65367", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0017", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Abuse", "text": "To dream of abusing a person, means that you will be unfortunate\nin your affairs, losing good money through over-bearing persistency\nin business relations with others.\n\nTo feel yourself abused, you will be molested in your daily pursuits\nby the enmity of others.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she hears abusive language, foretells that\nshe will fall under the ban of some person's jealousy and envy.\nIf she uses the language herself, she will meet with unexpected rebuffs,\nthat may fill her with mortification and remorse for her past unworthy\nconduct toward friends.", "locator": "Heading 17; source lines 1743–1758", "lineStart": 1743, "lineEnd": 1758, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of abusing a person, means that you will be unfortunate\nin your affairs, losing good money through over-bearing persistency\nin business relations with others.\n\nTo feel yourself abused, you will be molested in your daily pursuits\nby the enmity of others.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she hears abusive language, foretells that\nshe will fall under the ban of some person's jealousy and envy.\nIf she uses the language herself, she will meet with unexpected rebuffs,\nthat may fill her with mortification and remorse for her past unworthy\nconduct toward friends." }, { "id": "fontaine-0004", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Abuse", "text": "To dream that you are abused and insulted, is a sign that some\ndispute will happen between you and some person with whom you have\nbusiness; if you are in love, be assured that some one has attempted to\ninjure you with the object of your affections, and that they have in a\ngreat measure succeeded. 6, 38, 44.", "locator": "Heading 4; source line 988", "lineStart": 988, "lineEnd": 994, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are abused and insulted, is a sign that some\ndispute will happen between you and some person with whom you have\nbusiness; if you are in love, be assured that some one has attempted to\ninjure you with the object of your affections, and that they have in a\ngreat measure succeeded." }, { "id": "noe-0015", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Abuse", "text": "To dream that you are abused and insulted, is a certain sign\nsome dispute will happen between you and some person with whom you have\nbusiness; therefore after such a dream you should be particularly careful\nof yourself and be as gentle and mild as possible, that you may not give\nthose with whom you have dealings any advantage over you.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 15; source lines 130–134", "lineStart": 130, "lineEnd": 134, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are abused and insulted, is a certain sign\nsome dispute will happen between you and some person with whom you have\nbusiness; therefore after such a dream you should be particularly careful\nof yourself and be as gentle and mild as possible, that you may not give\nthose with whom you have dealings any advantage over you." }, { "id": "guide-0001", "sourceId": "guide-65367", "heading": "Abuse", "text": "To dream that you are abused and insulted is a certain sign\nyou will have a dispute with some person with whom you have business,\nand, after such a dream, you should be particularly careful to be as\ngentle and mild as possible, that you may not give those with whom\nyou have dealings any advantage over you; if you are in love, be\nassured that some one has attempted to injure you with the object of\nyour affections, and that they have in a great measure succeeded. You\nshould, therefore, after such a dream, be particularly attentive;\neradicate the unfavorable impressions that have been made; if you have\na lawsuit, keep a sharp lookout after your attorney, for such a dream,\nin that case, denotes that he is endeavoring to sell your cause; avoid\ntaking a journey by land, or a voyage by sea, for eight and forty\nhours, because such a dream forebodes accidents by travelling.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 1; source lines 71–85", "lineStart": 71, "lineEnd": 85, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are abused and insulted is a certain sign\nyou will have a dispute with some person with whom you have business,\nand, after such a dream, you should be particularly careful to be as\ngentle and mild as possible, that you may not give those with whom\nyou have dealings any advantage over you; if you are in love, be\nassured that some one has attempted to injure you with the object of\nyour affections, and that they have in a great measure succeeded. You\nshould, therefore, after such a dream, be particularly attentive;\neradicate the unfavorable impressions that have been made; if you have\na lawsuit, keep a sharp lookout after your attorney, for such a dream,\nin that case, denotes that he is endeavoring to sell your cause; avoid\ntaking a journey by land, or a voyage by sea, for eight and forty\nhours, because such a dream forebodes accidents by travelling." }, { "id": "fontaine-0376", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Insult", "text": "(_See Abuse._)", "locator": "Heading 376; source line 2699", "lineStart": 2699, "lineEnd": 2701, "kind": "cross-reference", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Abuse.)" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0018", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Abyss", "text": "To dream of looking into an abyss, means that you will be confronted\nby threats of seizure of property, and that there will be quarrels\nand reproaches of a personal nature which will unfit you to meet\nthe problems of life.\n\nFor a woman to be looking into an abyss, foretells that she will\nburden herself with unwelcome cares. If she falls into the abyss\nher disappointment will be complete; but if she succeeds in crossing,\nor avoiding it, she will reinstate herself.", "locator": "Heading 18; source lines 1758–1770", "lineStart": 1758, "lineEnd": 1770, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of looking into an abyss, means that you will be confronted\nby threats of seizure of property, and that there will be quarrels\nand reproaches of a personal nature which will unfit you to meet\nthe problems of life.\n\nFor a woman to be looking into an abyss, foretells that she will\nburden herself with unwelcome cares. If she falls into the abyss\nher disappointment will be complete; but if she succeeds in crossing,\nor avoiding it, she will reinstate herself." }, { "id": "fontaine-0006", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Abyss", "text": "To see an abyss, or deep hole, is a warning; avoid, after such\na dream, taking a journey by land, or a voyage by sea, for eight-and\nforty hours, because it forebodes accidents by travelling. 62, 19.", "locator": "Heading 6; source line 1000", "lineStart": 1000, "lineEnd": 1004, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see an abyss, or deep hole, is a warning; avoid, after such\na dream, taking a journey by land, or a voyage by sea, for eight-and\nforty hours, because it forebodes accidents by travelling." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L8920", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Abyss", "heading": "Abyss", "text": "Impending danger, a dream of warning (Artemidorus) ; an erotic dream of warning (Freud) ; physiologists interpret this dream as a symptom of vertigo, due to apoplexy, etc.", "lineStart": 8920, "lineEnd": 8924, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 195; NLM OCR lines 8920–8924", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 8920, "lineEnd": 8924, "printedPage": 195, "printedPageEnd": 195 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Abyss. — Impending danger, a dream of warning (Artemi- \ndorus) ; an erotic dream of warning (Freud) ; physiologists \ninterpret this dream as a symptom of vertigo, due to apoplexy, \netc. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "Artemi- \ndorus", "after": "Artemidorus", "evidenceLine": 485 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Abyss" }, "displayText": "Impending danger, a dream of warning (Artemidorus); an erotic dream of warning (Freud); physiologists interpret this dream as a symptom of vertigo, due to apoplexy, etc." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "acacia-flowers", "title": "Acacia Flowers", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “A dream of rest and tranquillity, say the gypsy dreamers.”", "aliases": [ "acacia flowers" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about acacia flowers stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L8925", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Acacia Flowers", "heading": "Acacia Flowers", "text": "A dream of rest and tranquillity, say the gypsy dreamers. An erotic dream, announces Herr Freud, while flower symbolists proclaim the blossom as signifying \"Rest to the Heart.\" The Egyptians held it as sacred to woman.", "lineStart": 8925, "lineEnd": 8930, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 195; NLM OCR lines 8925–8930", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 8925, "lineEnd": 8930, "printedPage": 195, "printedPageEnd": 195 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Acacia Flowers. — A dream of rest and tranquillity, say \nthe gypsy dreamers. An erotic dream, announces Herr Freud, \nwhile flower symbolists proclaim the blossom as signifying \n\"Rest to the Heart.\" The Egyptians held it as sacred to \nwoman. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Acacia Flowers" }, "displayText": "A dream of rest and tranquillity, say the gypsy dreamers. An erotic dream, announces Herr Freud, while flower symbolists proclaim the blossom as signifying \"Rest to the Heart.\" The Egyptians held it as sacred to woman." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "academy", "title": "Academy", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To visit an academy in your dreams, denotes that you will regret opportunities that you have let pass through sheer idleness and indifference.”", "aliases": [ "academy" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about academy stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0019", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Academy", "text": "To visit an academy in your dreams, denotes that you will regret opportunities\nthat you have let pass through sheer idleness and indifference.\n\nTo think you own, or are an inmate of one, you will find that you\nare to meet easy defeat of aspirations. You will take on knowledge,\nbut be unable to rightly assimilate and apply it.\n\nFor a young woman or any person to return to an academy after having\nfinished there, signifies that demands will be made which the dreamer\nmay find himself or her self unable to meet.", "locator": "Heading 19; source lines 1770–1783", "lineStart": 1770, "lineEnd": 1783, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To visit an academy in your dreams, denotes that you will regret opportunities\nthat you have let pass through sheer idleness and indifference.\n\nTo think you own, or are an inmate of one, you will find that you\nare to meet easy defeat of aspirations. You will take on knowledge,\nbut be unable to rightly assimilate and apply it.\n\nFor a young woman or any person to return to an academy after having\nfinished there, signifies that demands will be made which the dreamer\nmay find himself or her self unable to meet." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "accepted", "title": "Accepted", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "summary": "Accepted dreams may explore belonging, approval of a proposal, or whether the terms of being welcomed actually suit you.", "tagline": "Being chosen can bring relief and a new choice.", "aliases": [ "accepted", "acceptance", "being accepted" ], "status": "REVIEW", "psychological": "Being accepted in a dream can make entry or recognition feel possible. A group welcomes you, an idea receives a yes, or someone makes room for an ordinary preference you had expected to explain. The useful question is what the acceptance allows. It might provide a practical opportunity, an experience of belonging or relief from having to keep proving that you deserve a place.\n\nAcceptance of work can differ from acceptance of a person. An approved proposal may make the next stage accessible while creating new responsibilities. A warm greeting can matter because no performance is required. A waking comparison could be waiting for an application response, joining a new activity or sharing something personal with uncertain reception. The dream’s welcome does not reveal another person’s actual opinion or guarantee that a real offer will arrive.\n\nThe terms of entry can complicate the positive feeling. A group may welcome you only if you dress differently, remain silent or take on a task nobody else wants. Approval then becomes a bargain rather than an unqualified place. The scene may explore whether participation permits your preferences, not merely whether you can obtain the group’s yes. A clear, limited condition creates a different arrangement from a demand that keeps expanding.\n\nReceiving an unwanted offer adds another kind of agency. You can feel pleased to be chosen and uncertain about choosing the role yourself. A prestigious position with unsuitable work, or an invitation that conflicts with needed time, offers a waking parallel. The dream may separate validation from fit, allowing an answer to be welcome without deciding that its practical terms are right.\n\nAccepting someone else changes the position again. Making room for a newcomer or hearing an unfamiliar preference can let you experience how belonging is offered, including what you ask in return. You may also feel accepted by a setting rather than a specific person when ordinary participation begins without scrutiny. Recent welcomes, anticipated replies or a story about finding a place can supply the imagery. The meaningful change lies in what becomes available and how freely you can enter it.", "traditional": "Miller’s Accepted account connects an approved business proposition with trade success and a lover’s acceptance with marriage. It adds a contrary forecast and moralized explanation under some circumstances. Those inconsistent fortune-telling terms are retained as history; they do not establish actual approval, opportunity or romantic consent.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "What entry makes possible", "reflection": "An answer can open a task, relationship or place rather than simply confer a positive label." }, { "title": "The conditions of welcome", "reflection": "Acceptance may permit choice or require changes that make the place less suitable." }, { "title": "Receiving and offering a place", "reflection": "The dreamer can be welcomed or become the person who makes participation available." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A group welcomes you without demanding proof", "reflection": "The welcome may picture participation that does not have to be earned through repeated explanation. A new activity or a wish for an easier social place offers a comparison. The scene can value being included as an ordinary participant, rather than as a special exception." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A proposal is accepted after a long wait", "reflection": "The yes ends one uncertainty while beginning another stage. This may resemble an application, creative submission or shared plan awaiting a response. Relief about the answer can coexist with questions about the time, resources and responsibilities that acceptance makes available." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A loved person accepts your ordinary preference", "reflection": "The response makes a preference discussable without a performance of justification. This can picture wanting to be understood in an everyday way. The dream person’s ease is an imagined interaction, while the particular kind of recognition may still help identify what felt welcome." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Approval depends on changing something important", "reflection": "The welcome has a price: silence, a changed appearance or an unwanted responsibility. The dream can make belonging and fit separate questions. A workable condition differs from a demand that expands whenever you comply, so the actual terms shape the experience of approval." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You receive an offer and do not want it", "reflection": "Being selected can feel flattering while the offered place remains unsuitable. A role with unfamiliar work or an invitation at the wrong time can have similar mixed value. The scene gives you a choice after recognition instead of treating approval as the end of judgment." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You make room for someone else to join", "reflection": "Offering a place changes your role from applicant to participant in the conditions of belonging. You may choose a simple welcome, an explanation or a useful task. The scene can explore how much permission somebody needs and what expectations accompany the space you provide." } ], "prompts": [ "What did acceptance allow you to do or express?", "Which terms of welcome felt easy, conditional or unsuitable?", "What choices remained yours after you were welcomed or selected?" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0020" ], "scope": "Historical context only. Attributed Gustavus Hindman Miller passage(s): accepted business proposition and accepted lover; conditional contrary moralized passage also retained. These are period beliefs, not established predictions or support for the original psychological reading." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "related": [ "rejection", "job-interview", "application", "applause" ], "updated": "2026-10-13", "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0020", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Accepted", "text": "For a business man to dream that his proposition has been accepted,\nforetells that he will succeed in making a trade, which heretofore\nlooked as if it would prove a failure.\n\nFor a lover to dream that he has been accepted by his sweetheart,\ndenotes that he will happily wed the object of his own\nand others' admiration.\n\n[6] If this dream has been occasioned by overanxiety and weakness,\nthe contrary may be expected. The elementary influences often play\npranks upon weak and credulous minds by lying, and deceptive utterances.\nTherefore the dreamer should live a pure life, fortified by a strong will,\nthus controlling his destiny by expelling from it involuntary intrusions.", "locator": "Heading 20; source lines 1783–1799", "lineStart": 1783, "lineEnd": 1799, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a business man to dream that his proposition has been accepted,\nforetells that he will succeed in making a trade, which heretofore\nlooked as if it would prove a failure.\n\nFor a lover to dream that he has been accepted by his sweetheart,\ndenotes that he will happily wed the object of his own\nand others' admiration. If this dream has been occasioned by overanxiety and weakness,\nthe contrary may be expected. The elementary influences often play\npranks upon weak and credulous minds by lying, and deceptive utterances.\nTherefore the dreamer should live a pure life, fortified by a strong will,\nthus controlling his destiny by expelling from it involuntary intrusions." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "accident", "title": "Accident", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "aliases": [ "accident" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0021" ], "scope": "Miller gives a general accident a travel warning and separately describes an accident befalling 'stock' with struggle and property-loss claims. The latter is not evidence of a stock-market interpretation. Specific supplied passages: Accident — miller-0021 (Heading 21; source lines 1799–1808). Historical comparison only; these period beliefs do not establish outcomes or validate the original symbolic reflections." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0007" ], "scope": "Fontaine gives an accident to the dreamer or someone in the household an unexpected-visitor forecast. Specific supplied passages: Accident — fontaine-0007 (Heading 7; source line 1004). Historical comparison only; these period beliefs do not establish outcomes or validate the original symbolic reflections." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0002", "luck-0003" ], "scope": "The first Accident passage assigns business caution to being the victim of an accident. The second Accident passage assigns a good-news letter to an accident involving a friend or relative. Specific supplied passages: Accident — luck-0002 (Dream section, heading 2; source lines 3511–3514); Accident — luck-0003 (Dream section, heading 3; source lines 3514–3517). Historical comparison only; these period beliefs do not establish outcomes or validate the original symbolic reflections." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "summary": "An accident in a dream may focus on an unexpected interruption, its immediate effects and how people respond when a plan changes.", "tagline": "An unplanned event and what happens next.", "psychological": "An accident in a dream is an unintended event that interrupts an activity: a collision, a dropped object, a spill or a mishap during shared work. The word alone leaves much unspecified. Begin with what was happening before the event and what changed afterward. The scene does not forecast an actual accident or establish anyone's health, competence or fault.\n\nAttention may settle on the sudden change rather than damage. You might be surprised that an ordinary movement has an unexpected result, or frustrated that careful preparation did not prevent it. A possible waking comparison is a task disrupted by an error, a missed detail or circumstances nobody anticipated. That comparison should fit the particular event, not every difficult experience.\n\nResponsibility can become a separate question. Perhaps everyone tries to assign blame while no one addresses the immediate problem, or you apologize for something you did not cause. Consider what the dream makes known and what remains uncertain. It cannot determine real liability or reveal that someone secretly intended an event described as accidental.\n\nThe response can give the scene another focus. People might cooperate, continue as though nothing happened or disagree about what needs attention. Notice what you wanted first: information, practical help, acknowledgment or time to assess the change. Those preferences may clarify how you would like interruptions handled, without proving what actual people would do.\n\nBeing a witness differs from being involved. You may want to help but not know what is needed, or find that your planned activity becomes secondary. A dream about another person's mishap does not provide information about their current condition. Keep the reflection on your position, the details you remember and the response available within the scene.\n\nRecent incidents, news, films, workplace routines or concern about a practical task can supply this imagery directly. If a broader comparison is useful, choose one grounded question: what changed unexpectedly, what could you establish, and how did the next action become possible? The dream can describe an experience of interruption without explaining its cause or predicting an outcome.", "traditional": "Miller offers a travel warning and a separate accident-to-stock passage; Fontaine assigns an unexpected-visitor forecast. Everybody’s Book of Luck distinguishes an accident to the dreamer from one to a friend or relative, giving business-caution and good-news claims. These disagreeing period forecasts are not evidence about real events, health or future messages.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "An unexpected interruption", "reflection": "The activity before the mishap and the change afterward may make a particular disruption easier to describe." }, { "title": "Response before certainty", "reflection": "Notice what help, information or acknowledgment you wanted while the cause or responsibility remained unclear." }, { "title": "Your position in the event", "reflection": "Being involved, witnessing or helping can lead to different reflections without establishing real-world fault or another person's condition." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "A small spill changes a carefully prepared activity", "reflection": "An ordinary movement disrupts a meal, presentation or shared task. The scene may highlight the frustration of an unintended detail affecting a plan. Notice whether you want to repair, explain or begin again, without treating the mishap as evidence that preparation was pointless." }, { "title": "A collision stops a journey before the destination", "reflection": "The planned route suddenly becomes secondary to assessing what happened. The scene might focus on interruption rather than direction or driving control. What detail holds your attention afterward? It does not predict a road event, establish injury or judge the ability of anyone who was traveling." }, { "title": "People debate blame while help is delayed", "reflection": "Everyone has an explanation, but the immediate practical task remains undone. Consider whether acknowledgment and action feel out of balance in a current shared situation. The dream cannot determine who is responsible; it may clarify which response you wanted before a complete account was available." }, { "title": "Witnessing a mishap without knowing how to help", "reflection": "You want to respond but cannot tell what assistance is needed. The scene may bring out the limits of acting with incomplete information. Ask what you could observe or request in the dream, without interpreting the witness role as proof of helplessness or information about the other person's actual condition." }, { "title": "A dropped object is repaired by several people", "reflection": "The mishap interrupts work, but each person contributes something to restoring the activity. This could emphasize cooperation after an error rather than the error alone. Notice what allows the task to resume: materials, clear roles or a willingness to discuss the change, without predicting a successful real-world outcome." }, { "title": "Being held responsible for an event you did not see", "reflection": "Someone asks you to explain a mishap that happened outside your view. The scene might explore the difficulty of responding to an expectation without enough information. What can you honestly account for, and what remains unknown? The dream does not establish an actual accusation or hidden guilt." } ], "prompts": [ "What activity did the accidental event interrupt?", "Which response mattered most to you immediately afterward?", "What did you know about the event, and what remained uncertain?" ], "related": [ "driving-out-of-control", "car", "road", "mistake", "falling" ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0021", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Accident", "text": "To dream of an accident is a warning to avoid any mode of travel\nfor a short period, as you are threatened with loss of life.\n\nFor an accident to befall stock, denotes that you will struggle\nwith all your might to gain some object and then see some friend\nlose property of the same value in aiding your cause.", "locator": "Heading 21; source lines 1799–1808", "lineStart": 1799, "lineEnd": 1808, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of an accident is a warning to avoid any mode of travel\nfor a short period, as you are threatened with loss of life.\n\nFor an accident to befall stock, denotes that you will struggle\nwith all your might to gain some object and then see some friend\nlose property of the same value in aiding your cause." }, { "id": "fontaine-0007", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Accident", "text": "To dream that an accident has happened to you, or to any one\nof your household, or with whom you live, foretells that you will see\nsome one whom you little expect to see. 72, 3, 11.", "locator": "Heading 7; source line 1004", "lineStart": 1004, "lineEnd": 1008, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that an accident has happened to you, or to any one\nof your household, or with whom you live, foretells that you will see\nsome one whom you little expect to see." }, { "id": "luck-0002", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Accident", "text": "(being the victim of one) Business deal impending requires\ngreat caution.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 2; source lines 3511–3514", "lineStart": 3511, "lineEnd": 3514, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(being the victim of one) Business deal impending requires\ngreat caution." }, { "id": "luck-0003", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Accident", "text": "(to a friend or relative) A letter from him or her\nconveying good news.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 3; source lines 3514–3517", "lineStart": 3514, "lineEnd": 3517, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(to a friend or relative) A letter from him or her\nconveying good news." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "accordion", "title": "Accordion", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of hearing the music of an accordion, denotes that you will engage in amusement which will win you from sadness and retrospection.”", "aliases": [ "accordion" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about accordion stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0022", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Accordion", "text": "To dream of hearing the music of an accordion, denotes that you will\nengage in amusement which will win you from sadness and retrospection.\nYou will by this means be enabled to take up your burden more cheerfully.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she is playing an accordion,\nportends that she will win her lover by some sad occurrence;\nbut, notwithstanding which, the same will confer lasting\nhappiness upon her union. If the accordion gets out of tune,\nshe will be saddened by the illness or trouble of her lover.", "locator": "Heading 22; source lines 1808–1820", "lineStart": 1808, "lineEnd": 1820, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of hearing the music of an accordion, denotes that you will\nengage in amusement which will win you from sadness and retrospection.\nYou will by this means be enabled to take up your burden more cheerfully.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she is playing an accordion,\nportends that she will win her lover by some sad occurrence;\nbut, notwithstanding which, the same will confer lasting\nhappiness upon her union. If the accordion gets out of tune,\nshe will be saddened by the illness or trouble of her lover." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "accountant", "title": "Accountant", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "The person who reads the figures can clarify them or make them feel less yours.", "summary": "An accountant may picture making obligations understandable, examining an uncertain total, or relying on someone to explain how value is counted.", "aliases": [ "accountant", "accountants" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "An accountant can turn a collection of figures into an explanation. In a dream, someone sorts papers, names a total, finds a discrepancy, or asks what a number represents. The image may picture wanting a complicated obligation to become understandable. That could fit a period of organizing shared expenses, reviewing work, or trying to see how separate commitments add up. The financial setting gives the question a concrete form without making it a prediction about money.\n\nThe person's manner matters as much as the figures. A clear explanation may bring relief because you can finally participate in the decision. A verdict without context may leave you dependent on authority you cannot check. This can resemble receiving feedback through a process whose standards remain hidden. The scene is not an assessment of a real professional's competence or honesty; its useful subject may be the kind of explanation that lets you retain a say.\n\nAn error can shift the account without deciding who is at fault. A small omitted line changes the total, or someone has counted the same item twice. The dream may give shape to a wish for effort, costs, or responsibilities to be represented accurately. For example, a shared task might feel uneven when one person's less visible contribution is not included. The comparison is an original possibility, not a rule that bookkeeping always represents emotional fairness.\n\nBeing asked to act as the accountant creates a different role. You may be capable and pleased to organize information, or feel expected to pronounce on figures you do not understand. This could fit being the person others rely on to make a household or workplace arrangement coherent. Missing records can make the problem incomplete information rather than inadequate ability. A colleague helping reconstruct the details changes that distribution of responsibility.\n\nThe account can also be unexpectedly simple. A small number of clear entries replaces a complicated pile, or the professional admits that something cannot yet be concluded. That may picture relief at having uncertainty named honestly instead of hidden behind an impressive answer. Recent paperwork, conversations, or stories about financial review can supply direct material. The dream can support reflection on clarity and representation, but it cannot establish an actual balance, identify an error in real records, or substitute for a waking financial decision.", "traditional": "No historical passage directly defining an accountant as a person is supplied. The Accounts archive concerns related financial records and bookkeeping; this entry instead develops the adviser or specialist figure and does not treat those adjacent forecasts as a modern meaning.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "An explanation you can use", "reflection": "A professional figure may make complex information approachable. Relief can come from understanding enough to participate rather than surrendering the whole decision." }, { "title": "What the total includes", "reflection": "A discrepancy may picture concern that a cost or contribution has been omitted. The specific missing item makes the reflection more useful than a general forecast about finances." }, { "title": "Responsibility for making things coherent", "reflection": "Being the accountant can give form to organizing other people's information. Missing details may make support and context more central than personal ability." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "An accountant explains an unfamiliar total", "reflection": "The figures become understandable through a patient explanation. This may picture wanting enough context to make a choice, rather than needing someone else to decide everything." }, { "title": "A small omission changes the result", "reflection": "An overlooked entry matters more than expected. The scene may explore whether a cost or contribution has been counted, without establishing any actual financial error." }, { "title": "You are asked to prepare the accounts", "reflection": "Others expect you to organize the information. This may fit responsibility for making a shared arrangement coherent, especially when the task's boundaries are unclear." }, { "title": "The records needed for an answer are missing", "reflection": "A conclusion cannot be reached from what is available. The scene may make incomplete information, rather than inadequate effort, the central obstacle." }, { "title": "The professional gives a verdict without explanation", "reflection": "Authority replaces understanding. This can picture wanting a standard you can examine before accepting how your contribution or obligation has been measured." }, { "title": "Someone admits that the answer is not yet known", "reflection": "The uncertainty is stated plainly. That may bring relief if the alternative was being expected to act on a confident account that did not explain its limits." } ], "prompts": [ "What was being counted, and which detail changed the total?", "Did the explanation give me more room to understand and choose?", "Was I responsible for information that other people had not supplied?" ], "related": [ "accounts", "money", "credit-score" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "accounts", "title": "Accounts", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of having accounts presented to you for payment, you will be in a dangerous position.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "accounts", "account" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about accounts stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0023", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Accounts", "text": "To dream of having accounts presented to you for payment,\nyou will be in a dangerous position. You may have recourse\nto law to disentangle yourself. If you pay the accounts,\nyou will soon effect a compromise in some serious dispute.\n\nTo hold accounts against others, foretells that disagreeable contingencies\nwill arise in your business, marring the smoothness of its management.\n\nFor a young woman book-keeper to dream of footing up accounts,\ndenotes that she will have trouble in business, and in her love affairs;\nbut some worthy person will persuade her to account for his happiness.\nShe will be much respected by her present employers.", "locator": "Heading 23; source lines 1820–1835", "lineStart": 1820, "lineEnd": 1835, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of having accounts presented to you for payment,\nyou will be in a dangerous position. You may have recourse\nto law to disentangle yourself. If you pay the accounts,\nyou will soon effect a compromise in some serious dispute.\n\nTo hold accounts against others, foretells that disagreeable contingencies\nwill arise in your business, marring the smoothness of its management.\n\nFor a young woman book-keeper to dream of footing up accounts,\ndenotes that she will have trouble in business, and in her love affairs;\nbut some worthy person will persuade her to account for his happiness.\nShe will be much respected by her present employers." }, { "id": "fontaine-0008", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Accounts", "text": "Dreams that relate to making up accounts are good omens. If\nyou dream you found an error in your money account, it foretells that\nyou will have a piece of good luck. Accounts blotted with ink is a sign\nof sickness. 14.", "locator": "Heading 8; source line 1008", "lineStart": 1008, "lineEnd": 1013, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Dreams that relate to making up accounts are good omens. If\nyou dream you found an error in your money account, it foretells that\nyou will have a piece of good luck. Accounts blotted with ink is a sign\nof sickness." }, { "id": "cielo-0006", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Account", "text": "A bank account signifies bankruptcy.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 6; source lines 3867–3869", "lineStart": 3867, "lineEnd": 3869, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "A bank account signifies bankruptcy." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "accuse", "title": "Accuse", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you accuse any one of a mean action, denotes that you will have quarrels with those under…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "accuse", "convicted" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about accuse stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0024", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Accuse", "text": "To dream that you accuse any one of a mean action, denotes that you\nwill have quarrels with those under you, and your dignity will be thrown\nfrom a high pedestal.\n\nIf you are accused, you are in danger of being guilty of distributing\nscandal in a sly and malicious way.\n\n[7] See similar words in following chapters.", "locator": "Heading 24; source lines 1835–1846", "lineStart": 1835, "lineEnd": 1846, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you accuse any one of a mean action, denotes that you\nwill have quarrels with those under you, and your dignity will be thrown\nfrom a high pedestal.\n\nIf you are accused, you are in danger of being guilty of distributing\nscandal in a sly and malicious way. See similar words in following chapters." }, { "id": "fontaine-0009", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Accuse", "text": "To dream a person accuses you of any thing, is favorable to the\ndreamer. 66, 4.", "locator": "Heading 9; source line 1013", "lineStart": 1013, "lineEnd": 1016, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream a person accuses you of any thing, is favorable to the\ndreamer." }, { "id": "miller-0494", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Convicted", "text": "[43] See Accuse.", "locator": "Heading 494; source lines 6263–6268", "lineStart": 6263, "lineEnd": 6268, "kind": "cross-reference", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "See Accuse." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "aches", "title": "Aches", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you have aches, denotes that you are halting too much in your business, and that some other person is profiting by your ideas.”", "aliases": [ "aches" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about aches stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0025", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Aches", "text": "To dream that you have aches, denotes that you are halting too\nmuch in your business, and that some other person is profiting\nby your ideas.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she has the heartache, foretells that she will\nbe in sore distress over the laggardly way her lover prosecutes his suit.\nIf it is the backache, she will encounter illness through careless exposure.\nIf she has the headache, there will be much disquietude of mind for the risk\nshe has taken to rid herself of rivalry.\n\n[8] This dream is usually due to physical causes and is\nof little significance.", "locator": "Heading 25; source lines 1846–1861", "lineStart": 1846, "lineEnd": 1861, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you have aches, denotes that you are halting too\nmuch in your business, and that some other person is profiting\nby your ideas.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she has the heartache, foretells that she will\nbe in sore distress over the laggardly way her lover prosecutes his suit.\nIf it is the backache, she will encounter illness through careless exposure.\nIf she has the headache, there will be much disquietude of mind for the risk\nshe has taken to rid herself of rivalry. This dream is usually due to physical causes and is\nof little significance." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "acid", "title": "Acid", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To drink any acid is an adverse dream, bringing you much anxiety.”", "aliases": [ "acid" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about acid stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0026", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Acid", "text": "To drink any acid is an adverse dream, bringing you much anxiety.\n\nFor a woman to drink aciduous liquors, denotes that she may ensnare\nherself with compromising situations; even health may be involved.\n\nTo see poisonous acids, some treachery against you may be discovered.", "locator": "Heading 26; source lines 1861–1870", "lineStart": 1861, "lineEnd": 1870, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To drink any acid is an adverse dream, bringing you much anxiety.\n\nFor a woman to drink aciduous liquors, denotes that she may ensnare\nherself with compromising situations; even health may be involved.\n\nTo see poisonous acids, some treachery against you may be discovered." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "acorn", "title": "Acorn", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "5 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Seeing acorns in dreams, is portent of pleasant things ahead, and much gain is to be expected.” Compare 5 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "acorn", "acorns" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about acorn stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "oak" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0027", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Acorn", "text": "Seeing acorns in dreams, is portent of pleasant things ahead,\nand much gain is to be expected.\n\nTo pick them from the ground, foretells success after weary labors.\n\nFor a woman to eat them, denotes that she will rise from a station of labor\nto a position of ease and pleasure.\n\nTo shake them from the trees, denotes that you will rapidly attain\nyour wishes in business or love.\n\nTo see green-growing acorns, or to see them scattered over the ground,\naffairs will change for the better. Decayed or blasted acorns have import\nof disappointments and reverses.\n\nTo pull them green from the trees, you will injure your interests\nby haste and indiscretion.", "locator": "Heading 27; source lines 1870–1890", "lineStart": 1870, "lineEnd": 1890, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Seeing acorns in dreams, is portent of pleasant things ahead,\nand much gain is to be expected.\n\nTo pick them from the ground, foretells success after weary labors.\n\nFor a woman to eat them, denotes that she will rise from a station of labor\nto a position of ease and pleasure.\n\nTo shake them from the trees, denotes that you will rapidly attain\nyour wishes in business or love.\n\nTo see green-growing acorns, or to see them scattered over the ground,\naffairs will change for the better. Decayed or blasted acorns have import\nof disappointments and reverses.\n\nTo pull them green from the trees, you will injure your interests\nby haste and indiscretion." }, { "id": "fontaine-0010", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Acorn", "text": "(_See Oak._) To dream you see swine eating acorns denotes that\nyou will have reverses in business, and lose if you are not very\ncareful; to dream of picking acorns signifies that a rich relative will\nleave you a fortune. 65.", "locator": "Heading 10; source line 1016", "lineStart": 1016, "lineEnd": 1021, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Oak.) To dream you see swine eating acorns denotes that\nyou will have reverses in business, and lose if you are not very\ncareful; to dream of picking acorns signifies that a rich relative will\nleave you a fortune." }, { "id": "noe-0016", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Acorns", "text": "To dream of acorns do not slight,\n It promises both strength and might.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 16; source lines 134–139", "lineStart": 134, "lineEnd": 139, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of acorns do not slight,\nIt promises both strength and might." }, { "id": "cielo-0007", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Acorns", "text": "Are a sign of loss of money or of love.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 7; source lines 3869–3871", "lineStart": 3869, "lineEnd": 3871, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Are a sign of loss of money or of love." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L8941", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Acorns", "heading": "Acorns", "text": "A good dream according to Artemidorus, auguring health, wealth and happiness. If single, a happy marriage. Frazier describes acorns as articles of food through certain parts of Europe and therefore held in regard as a symbol of well-being. They also bore a certain significance as associated with the sacred fire in the worship of Zeus at Dodona. Bayley gives it as a phallic symbol.", "lineStart": 8941, "lineEnd": 8948, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 196; NLM OCR lines 8941–8948", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 8941, "lineEnd": 8948, "printedPage": 196, "printedPageEnd": 196 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Acorns. — A good dream according to Artemidorus, augur- \ning health, wealth and happiness. If single, a happy marriage. \nFrazier describes acorns as articles of food through certain \nparts of Europe and therefore held in regard as a symbol \nof well-being. 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They also bore a certain significance as associated with the sacred fire in the worship of Zeus at Dodona. Bayley gives it as a phallic symbol." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "oak" ] }, { "slug": "acquaintance", "title": "Acquaintance", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To meet an acquaintance, and converse pleasantly with him, foretells that your business will run smoothly,…” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "acquaintance" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about acquaintance stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "guide-65367", "title": "Guide to Fortune-Telling by Dreams", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Multum in Parvo Library, Vol. I, No. 10, October 1894", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65367", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0028", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Acquaintance", "text": "To meet an acquaintance, and converse pleasantly with him,\nforetells that your business will run smoothly, and there\nwill be but little discord in your domestic affairs.\n\nIf you seem to be disputing, or engaged in loud talk, humiliations and\nembarrassments will whirl seethingly around you.\n\nIf you feel ashamed of meeting an acquaintance, or meet him\nat an inopportune time, it denotes that you will be guilty\nof illicitly conducting yourself, and other parties will let\nthe secret out.\n\nFor a young woman to think that she has an extensive acquaintance,\nsignifies that she will be the possessor of vast interests, and her love\nwill be worthy the winning. If her circle of acquaintances is small,\nshe will be unlucky in gaining social favors.\n\n[9] After dreaming of acquaintances, you may see or hear from them.", "locator": "Heading 28; source lines 1890–1911", "lineStart": 1890, "lineEnd": 1911, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To meet an acquaintance, and converse pleasantly with him,\nforetells that your business will run smoothly, and there\nwill be but little discord in your domestic affairs.\n\nIf you seem to be disputing, or engaged in loud talk, humiliations and\nembarrassments will whirl seethingly around you.\n\nIf you feel ashamed of meeting an acquaintance, or meet him\nat an inopportune time, it denotes that you will be guilty\nof illicitly conducting yourself, and other parties will let\nthe secret out.\n\nFor a young woman to think that she has an extensive acquaintance,\nsignifies that she will be the possessor of vast interests, and her love\nwill be worthy the winning. If her circle of acquaintances is small,\nshe will be unlucky in gaining social favors. After dreaming of acquaintances, you may see or hear from them." }, { "id": "fontaine-0011", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Acquaintance", "text": "To dream you quarrel or fight with an acquaintance,\nforebodes divisions in your own family; in love, unfaithfulness; and\nlosses in business. 42, 6.", "locator": "Heading 11; source line 1021", "lineStart": 1021, "lineEnd": 1025, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you quarrel or fight with an acquaintance,\nforebodes divisions in your own family; in love, unfaithfulness; and\nlosses in business." }, { "id": "noe-0001", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Acquaintance", "text": "To dream that you fight with them signifies distraction,\nespecially if the person so dreaming be sick.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 1; source lines 98–99", "lineStart": 98, "lineEnd": 99, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you fight with them signifies distraction,\nespecially if the person so dreaming be sick." }, { "id": "guide-0005", "sourceId": "guide-65367", "heading": "Acquaintance", "text": "To dream you quarrel or fight with an acquaintance is\nunlucky; it forebodes a division amongst your own family, much to\nthe injury and prejudice of the dreamer; if you are in love, your\nsweetheart will prove unfaithful, and marry some one else; if you are\nin business, heavy loss will befall you, and you will disagree with\nsome of your best friends on the most trivial matters; if you have a\nlaw-suit, your attorney will neglect you, your witnesses will be tardy\nand backward, and finally you will lose your cause. Do not for some\ntime undertake a journey by land, or a voyage by sea, or enter into new\nundertakings, for you will be unsuccessful; leave, if you can, your\npresent place of residence, and, above all, avoid lending money, for\nyou will surely lose it, together with the friendship of those to whom\nyou lend it.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 5; source lines 103–117", "lineStart": 103, "lineEnd": 117, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you quarrel or fight with an acquaintance is\nunlucky; it forebodes a division amongst your own family, much to\nthe injury and prejudice of the dreamer; if you are in love, your\nsweetheart will prove unfaithful, and marry some one else; if you are\nin business, heavy loss will befall you, and you will disagree with\nsome of your best friends on the most trivial matters; if you have a\nlaw-suit, your attorney will neglect you, your witnesses will be tardy\nand backward, and finally you will lose your cause. Do not for some\ntime undertake a journey by land, or a voyage by sea, or enter into new\nundertakings, for you will be unsuccessful; leave, if you can, your\npresent place of residence, and, above all, avoid lending money, for\nyou will surely lose it, together with the friendship of those to whom\nyou lend it." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0029", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Acquit", "text": "To dream that you are acquitted of a crime, denotes that you\nare about to come into possession of valuable property,\nbut there is danger of a law suit before obtaining possession.\n\nTo see others acquitted, foretells that your friends will add\npleasure to your labors.", "locator": "Heading 29; source lines 1911–1920", "lineStart": 1911, "lineEnd": 1920, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are acquitted of a crime, denotes that you\nare about to come into possession of valuable property,\nbut there is danger of a law suit before obtaining possession.\n\nTo see others acquitted, foretells that your friends will add\npleasure to your labors." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0030", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Acrobat", "text": "To dream of seeing acrobats, denotes that you will be prevented from carrying\nout hazardous schemes by the foolish fears of others.\n\nTo see yourself acrobating, you will have a sensation to answer for,\nand your existence will be made almost unendurable by the guying\nof your enemies.\n\nTo see women acrobating, denotes that your name will be maliciously\nand slanderously handled. Also your business interests will be hindered.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she sees acrobats in tights,\nsignifies that she will court favor of men.", "locator": "Heading 30; source lines 1920–1935", "lineStart": 1920, "lineEnd": 1935, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing acrobats, denotes that you will be prevented from carrying\nout hazardous schemes by the foolish fears of others.\n\nTo see yourself acrobating, you will have a sensation to answer for,\nand your existence will be made almost unendurable by the guying\nof your enemies.\n\nTo see women acrobating, denotes that your name will be maliciously\nand slanderously handled. Also your business interests will be hindered.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she sees acrobats in tights,\nsignifies that she will court favor of men." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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To the sick it\ndenotes a speedy recovery.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 26; source lines 197–202", "lineStart": 197, "lineEnd": 202, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are sent of an errand, signifies great loss\nto the married; to the lover it denotes success in his pursuit, and that\nhe will shortly marry a very amiable and accomplished maiden. For a maiden\nto dream that she was sent on an errand, denotes that she will shortly\nmarry the object of her affections and be very happy. To the sick it\ndenotes a speedy recovery." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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If he looks displeased and\nangry, then you must use great caution in all your dealings, for some\nmischief is intended you, but you will get the better of it. Be careful,\nif he speaks to you, to mind what he says, and observe it as faithfully as\nyou possibly can.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 13; source lines 116–123", "lineStart": 116, "lineEnd": 123, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To\ndream you see this father of men, this inhabitant of Paradise, who was\nbetrayed by Eve into sin, is a happy omen. If he looks pleasant, be sure\nyou will succeed in whatever you undertake. If he looks displeased and\nangry, then you must use great caution in all your dealings, for some\nmischief is intended you, but you will get the better of it. Be careful,\nif he speaks to you, to mind what he says, and observe it as faithfully as\nyou possibly can." }, { "id": "guide-0003", "sourceId": "guide-65367", "heading": "Adam", "text": "To dream of Adam is a particularly good omen, and brings good\nfortune to the dreamer.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 3; source lines 90–93", "lineStart": 90, "lineEnd": 93, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of Adam is a particularly good omen, and brings good\nfortune to the dreamer." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "adder", "title": "Adder", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing an adder strike, and a friend, who is dead but seems to be lying down and breathing,…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "adder" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about adder stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0034", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Adder", "text": "To dream of seeing an adder strike, and a friend, who is dead but seems\nto be lying down and breathing, rises partly to a sitting position when\nthe adder strikes at him, and then both disappearing into some bushes nearby,\ndenotes that you will be greatly distressed over the ill luck of friends,\nand a loss threatened to yourself.\n\nFor a young woman to see an adder, foretells a deceitful\nperson is going to cause her trouble. If it runs from her,\nshe will be able to defend her character in attacks made on her.", "locator": "Heading 34; source lines 1982–1994", "lineStart": 1982, "lineEnd": 1994, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing an adder strike, and a friend, who is dead but seems\nto be lying down and breathing, rises partly to a sitting position when\nthe adder strikes at him, and then both disappearing into some bushes nearby,\ndenotes that you will be greatly distressed over the ill luck of friends,\nand a loss threatened to yourself.\n\nFor a young woman to see an adder, foretells a deceitful\nperson is going to cause her trouble. If it runs from her,\nshe will be able to defend her character in attacks made on her." }, { "id": "fontaine-0013", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Adder", "text": "To dream of this reptile is a sign that some one whom you think\nfriendly to you will injure you in some way. 19, 2.", "locator": "Heading 13; source line 1029", "lineStart": 1029, "lineEnd": 1032, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of this reptile is a sign that some one whom you think\nfriendly to you will injure you in some way." }, { "id": "noe-0030", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Adder", "text": "A person that dreams of the asp and the adder, is thereby\nbetokened to have stores of money and rich wives.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 30; source lines 215–216", "lineStart": 215, "lineEnd": 216, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "A person that dreams of the asp and the adder, is thereby\nbetokened to have stores of money and rich wives." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0036", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Adieu", "text": "To dream of bidding cheerful adieus to people, denotes that you\nwill make pleasant visits and enjoy much social festivity;\nbut if they are made in a sad or doleful strain, you will endure\nloss and bereaving sorrow.\n\nIf you bid adieu to home and country, you will travel in the nature\nof an exile from fortune and love.\n\nTo throw kisses of adieu to loved ones, or children, foretells that you\nwill soon have a journey to make, but there will be no unpleasant accidents\nor happenings attending your trip.", "locator": "Heading 36; source lines 2009–2023", "lineStart": 2009, "lineEnd": 2023, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of bidding cheerful adieus to people, denotes that you\nwill make pleasant visits and enjoy much social festivity;\nbut if they are made in a sad or doleful strain, you will endure\nloss and bereaving sorrow.\n\nIf you bid adieu to home and country, you will travel in the nature\nof an exile from fortune and love.\n\nTo throw kisses of adieu to loved ones, or children, foretells that you\nwill soon have a journey to make, but there will be no unpleasant accidents\nor happenings attending your trip." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "admire", "title": "Admire", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are an object of admiration, denotes that you will retain the love of former associates, though your position will take…”", "aliases": [ "admire" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about admire stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0037", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Admire", "text": "To dream that you are an object of admiration, denotes that you\nwill retain the love of former associates, though your position\nwill take you above their circle.", "locator": "Heading 37; source lines 2023–2029", "lineStart": 2023, "lineEnd": 2029, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are an object of admiration, denotes that you\nwill retain the love of former associates, though your position\nwill take you above their circle." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "admonish", "title": "Admonish", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To admonish your child, or son, or some young person, denotes that your generous principles will keep you in favor, and fortune will be…”", "aliases": [ "admonish" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about admonish stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0038", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Admonish", "text": "To admonish your child, or son, or some young person,\ndenotes that your generous principles will keep you in favor,\nand fortune will be added to your gifts.", "locator": "Heading 38; source lines 2029–2035", "lineStart": 2029, "lineEnd": 2035, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To admonish your child, or son, or some young person,\ndenotes that your generous principles will keep you in favor,\nand fortune will be added to your gifts." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "adopted", "title": "Adopted", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "summary": "Adopted dreams may explore chosen family ties, an imagined change in belonging, or the responsibilities that accompany welcoming someone.", "tagline": "Belonging and care can take a new form in the dream.", "aliases": [ "adopted", "adoption", "being adopted", "adopted child", "adopted parent", "adopting a child" ], "status": "REVIEW", "psychological": "Being adopted, meeting an adopted relative or adopting a child in a dream can make family belonging feel newly arranged. A person may become familiar without a shared past, or a tie you took for granted may be given an unexpected explanation. The scene can explore how recognition, care and a place in a family are offered. It is not evidence of an undisclosed family history, pregnancy or an actual adoption outcome.\n\nLearning that you are adopted within the dream may change how you understand your place, even if everyone behaves as before. Surprise, relief, curiosity or fear can each create a different encounter with the same invented information. A waking change in family roles, a conversation about belonging or a story about adoption can offer context. The important relation may be between the explanation and your experience of still being known.\n\nAdopting a child places the dreamer in a caring role. Warmth at welcoming somebody can coexist with uncertainty about what they need. A home that seems ready until an ordinary practical problem appears may picture the difference between a desired role and its daily conditions. This comparison need not describe actual parenting; a dream can give care and commitment a family form.\n\nSeveral family ties can also coexist. A shared meal with birth and adoptive relatives may create continuity without requiring one connection to erase another. A scene in which people compete to define where you belong makes authority over your story more central. Your ability to speak, choose company or retain several attachments changes the meaning of that arrangement.\n\nPaperwork and ceremonies can give recognition a formal shape. Changing names or documents may make entry uncertain, while an ordinary welcome can make the practical relationship matter more than official explanation. Neither scene gives legal guidance. The dream may remain a blend of people, roles and remembered stories rather than a direct message about family. What offers the most useful reflection is how belonging becomes available, how care is shared and whether the new arrangement leaves each person recognizable as themselves.", "traditional": "Miller’s Adopted passage explicitly covers an adopted child or parent and the act of adopting a child. It assigns speculative fortune to the former and an unfortunate change of abode to the latter. Those forecasts and social assumptions belong to the historical account; they do not establish facts about families or adoption.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A newly explained place", "reflection": "Invented information can change how belonging feels without changing the practical relationship." }, { "title": "Chosen care and its conditions", "reflection": "Welcoming somebody can bring warmth alongside questions about usable support." }, { "title": "Several ties retained", "reflection": "A changed family arrangement need not make one form of attachment replace every other." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You learn you are adopted in the dream", "reflection": "The information changes the dream’s account of your history, but the relationships may remain familiar. This can picture questions about recognition or the stories used to explain belonging. Its surprise does not make it evidence of a hidden fact about your actual family." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You welcome an unfamiliar child into the family", "reflection": "The welcome may express interest in a caring role while making its practical demands visible. An unfamiliar child can need company, a place or an explanation before any grand gesture matters. The scene distinguishes wanting to welcome somebody from already knowing every need." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "An adopted parent feels familiar immediately", "reflection": "Immediate familiarity can make care or recognition arrive before a detailed shared story. This may picture a wanted quality of family connection rather than a particular real person. The ease can be meaningful while remaining part of an invented relationship within the dream." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "The adoption papers keep changing", "reflection": "The shifting document makes recognition feel provisional or hard to obtain. This may resemble a transition whose terms keep changing, without predicting an adoption process. The obstacle concerns permission and definition; the practical welcome may be present even while the papers are unsettled." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Birth and adoptive relatives share an ordinary meal", "reflection": "The ordinary activity allows several attachments to occupy one setting. The scene can imagine continuity without a contest over which connection is more legitimate. The interactions and room for each person matter more than treating the grouping as a factual family arrangement." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "A child needs something you did not anticipate", "reflection": "A wanted role becomes concrete through an unexpected need. This may picture the difference between an idea of care and the resources an actual task requires. Asking for help or adapting the setting can change the scene without making the initial welcome less meaningful." } ], "prompts": [ "How did the imagined new tie change your sense of belonging?", "What practical form of care or recognition mattered most?", "How did the arrangement allow each connection and person’s own voice?" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0039" ], "scope": "Historical context only. Attributed Gustavus Hindman Miller passage(s): adopted child/parent assigned speculative fortune; adopting a child assigned an unfortunate abode change. These are period beliefs, not established predictions or support for the original psychological reading." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "related": [ "family", "children", "mother", "step-parent" ], "updated": "2026-10-13", "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0039", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Adopted", "text": "To see your adopted child, or parent, in your dreams, indicates that you\nwill amass fortune through the schemes and speculations of strangers.\n\nTo dream that you or others are adopting a child, you will make\nan unfortunate change in your abode.", "locator": "Heading 39; source lines 2035–2043", "lineStart": 2035, "lineEnd": 2043, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see your adopted child, or parent, in your dreams, indicates that you\nwill amass fortune through the schemes and speculations of strangers.\n\nTo dream that you or others are adopting a child, you will make\nan unfortunate change in your abode." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "adulation", "title": "Adulation", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you seek adulation, foretells that you will pompously fill unmerited positions of honor.”", "aliases": [ "adulation" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about adulation stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0041", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Adulation", "text": "To dream that you seek adulation, foretells that you will pompously\nfill unmerited positions of honor.\n\nIf you offer adulation, you will expressly part with some dear\nbelonging in the hope of furthering material interests.", "locator": "Heading 41; source lines 2068–2076", "lineStart": 2068, "lineEnd": 2076, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you seek adulation, foretells that you will pompously\nfill unmerited positions of honor.\n\nIf you offer adulation, you will expressly part with some dear\nbelonging in the hope of furthering material interests." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "adultery", "title": "Adultery", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you commit adultery, foretells that you will be arrainged[sic] for some illegal action.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "adultery" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about adultery stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0040", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Adultery", "text": "To dream that you commit adultery, foretells that you will be\narrainged{sic} for some illegal action. If a woman has this dream,\nshe will fail to hold her husband's affections, letting her\ntemper and spite overwhelm her at the least provocation.\nIf it is with her husband's friend, she will be unjustly ignored\nby her husband. Her rights will be cruelly trampled upon by him.\nIf she thinks she is enticing a youth into this act, she will be\nin danger of desertion and divorced for her open intriguing.\n\nFor a young woman this implies abasement and low desires,\nin which she will find strange adventures afford her pleasure.\n\n[10] It is always good to dream that you have successfully resisted\nany temptation. To yield, is bad. If a man chooses low ideals, vampirish\ninfluences will swarm around him ready to help him in his nefarious designs.\nSuch dreams may only be the result of depraved elementary influences.\nIf a man chooses high ideals, he will be illuminated by the deific\nprinciple within him, and will be exempt from lascivious dreams.\nThe man who denies the existence and power of evil spirits has no arcana\nor occult knowledge. Did not the black magicians of Pharaoh's time,\nand Simon Magnus, the Sorcerer, rival the men of God? The dreamer\nof amorous sweets is warned to beware of scandal.", "locator": "Heading 40; source lines 2043–2068", "lineStart": 2043, "lineEnd": 2068, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you commit adultery, foretells that you will be\narrainged[sic] for some illegal action. If a woman has this dream,\nshe will fail to hold her husband's affections, letting her\ntemper and spite overwhelm her at the least provocation.\nIf it is with her husband's friend, she will be unjustly ignored\nby her husband. Her rights will be cruelly trampled upon by him.\nIf she thinks she is enticing a youth into this act, she will be\nin danger of desertion and divorced for her open intriguing.\n\nFor a young woman this implies abasement and low desires,\nin which she will find strange adventures afford her pleasure. It is always good to dream that you have successfully resisted\nany temptation. To yield, is bad. If a man chooses low ideals, vampirish\ninfluences will swarm around him ready to help him in his nefarious designs.\nSuch dreams may only be the result of depraved elementary influences.\nIf a man chooses high ideals, he will be illuminated by the deific\nprinciple within him, and will be exempt from lascivious dreams.\nThe man who denies the existence and power of evil spirits has no arcana\nor occult knowledge. Did not the black magicians of Pharaoh's time,\nand Simon Magnus, the Sorcerer, rival the men of God? The dreamer\nof amorous sweets is warned to beware of scandal." }, { "id": "fontaine-0014", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Adultery", "text": "It is in most cases a bad omen to dream that you have\nperpetrated this act. If the person you dreamed about is married, or\nis a prostitute, you may almost be sure that some misfortune will\novertake you. If she is a virgin, it merely predicts that you will\nshortly have an invitation to a wedding. For a married woman to dream\nof adultery is a sign she will soon conceive and have a girl. To an\nunmarried woman such a dream is a sign of misfortune. 51, 7, 3.", "locator": "Heading 14; source line 1032", "lineStart": 1032, "lineEnd": 1040, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "It is in most cases a bad omen to dream that you have\nperpetrated this act. If the person you dreamed about is married, or\nis a prostitute, you may almost be sure that some misfortune will\novertake you. If she is a virgin, it merely predicts that you will\nshortly have an invitation to a wedding. For a married woman to dream\nof adultery is a sign she will soon conceive and have a girl. To an\nunmarried woman such a dream is a sign of misfortune." }, { "id": "noe-0003", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Adultery", "text": "For a person to dream that they have\ncommitted it, shows they will meet great contentions and disputes.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 3; source lines 101–103", "lineStart": 101, "lineEnd": 103, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a person to dream that they have\ncommitted it, shows they will meet great contentions and disputes." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "advancement", "title": "Advancement", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of advancing in any engagement, denotes your rapid ascendency to preferment and to the consummation of affairs of the heart.”", "aliases": [ "advancement" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about advancement stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0042", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Advancement", "text": "To dream of advancing in any engagement, denotes your rapid ascendency\nto preferment and to the consummation of affairs of the heart.\n\nTo see others advancing, foretells that friends will hold positions\nof favor near you.", "locator": "Heading 42; source lines 2076–2084", "lineStart": 2076, "lineEnd": 2084, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of advancing in any engagement, denotes your rapid ascendency\nto preferment and to the consummation of affairs of the heart.\n\nTo see others advancing, foretells that friends will hold positions\nof favor near you." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "adventurer", "title": "Adventurer", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are victimized by an adventurer, proves that you will be an easy prey for flatterers and designing villains.”", "aliases": [ "adventurer" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about adventurer stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0044", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Adventurer", "text": "To dream that you are victimized by an adventurer, proves that you\nwill be an easy prey for flatterers and designing villains.\nYou will be unfortunate in manipulating your affairs to\na smooth consistency.\n\nFor a young woman to think she is an adventuress, portends that she\nwill be too wrapped up in her own conduct to see that she is being\nflattered into exchanging her favors for disgrace.", "locator": "Heading 44; source lines 2095–2106", "lineStart": 2095, "lineEnd": 2106, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are victimized by an adventurer, proves that you\nwill be an easy prey for flatterers and designing villains.\nYou will be unfortunate in manipulating your affairs to\na smooth consistency.\n\nFor a young woman to think she is an adventuress, portends that she\nwill be too wrapped up in her own conduct to see that she is being\nflattered into exchanging her favors for disgrace." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "adversary", "title": "Adversary", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you meet or engage with an adversary, denotes that you will promptly defend any attacks on…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "adversary" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about adversary stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "enemy" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "guide-65367", "title": "Guide to Fortune-Telling by Dreams", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Multum in Parvo Library, Vol. I, No. 10, October 1894", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65367", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0043", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Adversary", "text": "To dream that you meet or engage with an adversary, denotes that\nyou will promptly defend any attacks on your interest.\nSickness may also threaten you after this dream.\n\nIf you overcome an adversary, you will escape the effect\nof some serious disaster.\n\n[11] See Enemies.", "locator": "Heading 43; source lines 2084–2095", "lineStart": 2084, "lineEnd": 2095, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you meet or engage with an adversary, denotes that\nyou will promptly defend any attacks on your interest.\nSickness may also threaten you after this dream.\n\nIf you overcome an adversary, you will escape the effect\nof some serious disaster. See Enemies." }, { "id": "noe-0002", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Adversary", "text": "To dream that\nyou receive obstruction from him, shows that you will dispatch your\nbusiness speedily.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 2; source lines 99–101", "lineStart": 99, "lineEnd": 101, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that\nyou receive obstruction from him, shows that you will dispatch your\nbusiness speedily." }, { "id": "guide-0004", "sourceId": "guide-65367", "heading": "Adversary", "text": "To dream you meet with an adversary denotes that you will\novercome some obstacle to your happiness; if you are a lover, you will\nconquer some powerful rival, and be happy in your love; your affairs\nare going on well; if you are in trade, an increase of business; if you\nquarrel, and he overcomes you, it is a good sign, for you will conquer\nall obstacles to your promotion, happiness and fortune; but, if you\nconquer him, then you will never rise to any great preferment by the\nmeans you are at present adopting; many things will miscarry with you,\nbut in general you will be fortunate.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 4; source lines 93–103", "lineStart": 93, "lineEnd": 103, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you meet with an adversary denotes that you will\novercome some obstacle to your happiness; if you are a lover, you will\nconquer some powerful rival, and be happy in your love; your affairs\nare going on well; if you are in trade, an increase of business; if you\nquarrel, and he overcomes you, it is a good sign, for you will conquer\nall obstacles to your promotion, happiness and fortune; but, if you\nconquer him, then you will never rise to any great preferment by the\nmeans you are at present adopting; many things will miscarry with you,\nbut in general you will be fortunate." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "enemy" ] }, { "slug": "adversity", "title": "Adversity", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are in the clutches of adversity, denotes that you will have failures and continued bad prospects.”", "aliases": [ "adversity" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about adversity stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0045", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Adversity", "text": "To dream that you are in the clutches of adversity, denotes that you\nwill have failures and continued bad prospects.\n\nTo see others in adversity, portends gloomy surroundings, and the illness\nof some one will produce grave fears of the successful working of plans.[12]\n\n[12] The old dream books give this as a sign of coming prosperity.\nThis definition is untrue. There are two forces at work in man, one from\nwithin and the other from without. They are from two distinct spheres;\nthe animal mind influenced by the personal world of carnal appetites,\nand the spiritual mind from the realm of universal Brotherhood,\npresent antagonistic motives on the dream consciousness. If these two\nforces were in harmony, the spirit or mental picture from the dream\nmind would find a literal fulfilment in the life of the dreamer.\nThe pleasurable sensations of the body cause the spirit anguish.\nThe selfish enrichment of the body impoverishes the spirit influence upon\nthe Soul. The trials of adversity often cause the spirit to rejoice\nand the flesh to weep. If the cry of the grieved spirit is left\non the dream mind it may indicate to the dreamer worldly advancement,\nbut it is hardly the theory of the occult forces, which have contributed\nto the contents of this book.", "locator": "Heading 45; source lines 2106–2130", "lineStart": 2106, "lineEnd": 2130, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are in the clutches of adversity, denotes that you\nwill have failures and continued bad prospects.\n\nTo see others in adversity, portends gloomy surroundings, and the illness\nof some one will produce grave fears of the successful working of plans. The old dream books give this as a sign of coming prosperity.\nThis definition is untrue. There are two forces at work in man, one from\nwithin and the other from without. They are from two distinct spheres;\nthe animal mind influenced by the personal world of carnal appetites,\nand the spiritual mind from the realm of universal Brotherhood,\npresent antagonistic motives on the dream consciousness. If these two\nforces were in harmony, the spirit or mental picture from the dream\nmind would find a literal fulfilment in the life of the dreamer.\nThe pleasurable sensations of the body cause the spirit anguish.\nThe selfish enrichment of the body impoverishes the spirit influence upon\nthe Soul. The trials of adversity often cause the spirit to rejoice\nand the flesh to weep. If the cry of the grieved spirit is left\non the dream mind it may indicate to the dreamer worldly advancement,\nbut it is hardly the theory of the occult forces, which have contributed\nto the contents of this book." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "advertisement", "title": "Advertisement", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are getting out advertisements, denotes that you will have to resort to physical labor to promote your interest, or…”", "aliases": [ "advertisement" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about advertisement stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0046", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Advertisement", "text": "To dream that you are getting out advertisements, denotes that you\nwill have to resort to physical labor to promote your interest,\nor establish your fortune.\n\nTo read advertisements, denotes that enemies will overtake you,\nand defeat you in rivalry.", "locator": "Heading 46; source lines 2130–2139", "lineStart": 2130, "lineEnd": 2139, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are getting out advertisements, denotes that you\nwill have to resort to physical labor to promote your interest,\nor establish your fortune.\n\nTo read advertisements, denotes that enemies will overtake you,\nand defeat you in rivalry." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "advice", "title": "Advice", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you receive advice, denotes that you will be enabled to raise your standard of integrity, and strive by honest means to reach…”", "aliases": [ "advice" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about advice stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0047", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Advice", "text": "To dream that you receive advice, denotes that you will be enabled to raise\nyour standard of integrity, and strive by honest means to reach independent\ncompetency and moral altitude.\n\nTo dream that you seek legal advice, foretells that there will\nbe some transactions in your affairs which will create doubt\nof their merits and legality.", "locator": "Heading 47; source lines 2139–2149", "lineStart": 2139, "lineEnd": 2149, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you receive advice, denotes that you will be enabled to raise\nyour standard of integrity, and strive by honest means to reach independent\ncompetency and moral altitude.\n\nTo dream that you seek legal advice, foretells that there will\nbe some transactions in your affairs which will create doubt\nof their merits and legality." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "advocate", "title": "Advocate", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you advocate any cause, denotes that you will be faithful to your interests, and endeavor to deal honestly with the public, as…”", "aliases": [ "advocate" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about advocate stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0048", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Advocate", "text": "To dream that you advocate any cause, denotes that you will be faithful\nto your interests, and endeavor to deal honestly with the public,\nas your interests affect it, and be loyal to your promises to friends.", "locator": "Heading 48; source lines 2149–2155", "lineStart": 2149, "lineEnd": 2155, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you advocate any cause, denotes that you will be faithful\nto your interests, and endeavor to deal honestly with the public,\nas your interests affect it, and be loyal to your promises to friends." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "affection", "title": "Affection", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "Warmth can arrive through words, gestures, or ordinary attention.", "summary": "Affection in a dream may picture closeness that feels welcome, difficult to express, or offered in a form that does not fit.", "aliases": [ "affection" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "Affection may bring attention to the way closeness reaches you. Someone remembers a small preference, saves a place beside them, or speaks with unexpected warmth. The dream makes regard tangible without requiring a declaration. That can fit wanting recognition in an ordinary relationship, particularly when attention has recently been absorbed by tasks. A simple favor may matter because it says you were considered, rather than because of its practical size.\n\nOffering affection creates a different position. You may want to express care without knowing which form will be welcome. A gift that misses the mark, an affectionate remark received awkwardly, or a gesture that becomes easier after a pause can picture uncertainty about how to approach someone. This could resemble adjusting to a changed friendship or family role. The subject is the encounter and its pace; the dreamed response does not reveal the real person's feelings or establish a wish for romance.\n\nWarmth can feel uncomfortable when it arrives with expectations. Someone insists that you act close, accept touch, or return affection immediately. The scene may give shape to the difference between receiving care and being required to demonstrate it. In contrast, affection that leaves room for a refusal may picture being valued without needing to manage another person's reaction. Both readings depend on what the person actually did in the dream, rather than treating every affectionate figure as supportive.\n\nPublic and private affection may carry different stakes. Easy warmth in an empty room can become restrained when other people arrive, or a person who is reserved alone can become demonstrative before an audience. That change may resemble wanting a connection to feel consistent across settings. It can also reflect your own comfort with visibility. A recent celebration, exchange, remembered kindness, or scene in a story may provide the material without a deeper relationship problem.\n\nAffection that continues through a goodbye can join care with distance. The dream may picture allowing a relationship to change while preserving what remains valuable in it. Tenderness need not erase an unresolved disagreement, and awkwardness need not erase care. A useful reading gives each feeling room, including the possibility that the dream simply recreated the pleasure of being considered.", "traditional": "No historical passage directly defining affection is supplied here. Hug and Kiss are related gestures with their own histories; their forecasts do not establish a meaning for every form of warmth. This entry offers original reflection on how care is expressed and received.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Being considered", "reflection": "A small act of attention may make recognition more important than the size of the favor. It can picture wanting your preferences to have a place in a shared routine." }, { "title": "Closeness at a workable pace", "reflection": "Affection can feel welcome when you can respond freely. Pressure to return it may make room for choice, rather than the amount of warmth, the central issue." }, { "title": "Care through change", "reflection": "A kind goodbye or awkward reunion may hold affection and distance together. A relationship can remain meaningful without the dream making its future certain." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "Someone remembers an ordinary preference", "reflection": "A familiar drink, saved seat, or carefully chosen detail gives warmth a practical form. The scene may fit wanting to be noticed within a busy routine rather than wanting a grand declaration." }, { "title": "Your affectionate gesture lands awkwardly", "reflection": "The attempt matters, but its form does not quite fit. This may explore uncertainty about approaching someone after a change, without deciding that a real person rejects your care." }, { "title": "Warmth arrives with a demand", "reflection": "Someone expects immediate closeness or gratitude in return. The pressure may make the scene about choice and reciprocity, especially if refusing a gesture changes how kindly you are treated." }, { "title": "Affection changes when others appear", "reflection": "Private ease becomes public restraint, or the reverse. That shift can give form to wanting a connection that feels consistent, or to different levels of comfort with being seen." }, { "title": "You feel tender toward someone unexpected", "reflection": "The encounter may make a quality approachable that you previously associated with distance. A recent reminder can also supply the face; tenderness alone does not establish hidden attraction." }, { "title": "A goodbye remains affectionate", "reflection": "Care and separation coexist rather than cancel one another. The scene may picture keeping the value of a connection while allowing a role, place, or routine to change." } ], "prompts": [ "How was affection expressed, and which detail made it feel real?", "Did I have room to welcome, decline, or return the gesture?", "Where do care and distance coexist in my waking life?" ], "related": [ "hug", "kiss", "friend", "compassion" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "affliction", "title": "Affliction", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that affliction lays a heavy hand upon you and calls your energy to a halt, foretells that some disaster is surely approaching you.”", "aliases": [ "affliction" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about affliction stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0052", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Affliction", "text": "To dream that affliction lays a heavy hand upon you and calls your energy\nto a halt, foretells that some disaster is surely approaching you.\n\nTo see others afflicted, foretells that you will be surrounded\nby many ills and misfortunes.", "locator": "Heading 52; source lines 2181–2189", "lineStart": 2181, "lineEnd": 2189, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that affliction lays a heavy hand upon you and calls your energy\nto a halt, foretells that some disaster is surely approaching you.\n\nTo see others afflicted, foretells that you will be surrounded\nby many ills and misfortunes." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "affluence", "title": "Affluence", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are in affluence, foretells that you will make fortunate ventures, and will be pleasantly associated with people of wealth.”", "aliases": [ "affluence" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about affluence stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "wealth" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0055", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Affluence", "text": "To dream that you are in affluence, foretells that you will make\nfortunate ventures, and will be pleasantly associated with\npeople of wealth. To young women, a vision of weird and fairy\naffluence is ominous of illusive and evanescent pleasure.\nThey should study more closely their duty to friends and parents.\nAfter dreams of this nature they are warned to cultivate a love\nfor home life.\n\n[14] See Wealth.", "locator": "Heading 55; source lines 2211–2223", "lineStart": 2211, "lineEnd": 2223, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are in affluence, foretells that you will make\nfortunate ventures, and will be pleasantly associated with\npeople of wealth. To young women, a vision of weird and fairy\naffluence is ominous of illusive and evanescent pleasure.\nThey should study more closely their duty to friends and parents.\nAfter dreams of this nature they are warned to cultivate a love\nfor home life. See Wealth." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "wealth" ] }, { "slug": "affrighted", "title": "Affrighted", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are affrighted, foretells that you will sustain an injury through an accident.”", "aliases": [ "affrighted" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about affrighted stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "agony" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0053", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Affrighted", "text": "To dream that you are affrighted, foretells that you will sustain\nan injury through an accident.\n\n[13] See Agony. {unable to tie this note to the text???}\n\n\nTo see others affrighted, brings you close to misery and distressing scenes.\nDreams of this nature are frequently caused by nervous and feverish\nconditions, either from malaria or excitement. When such is the case,\nthe dreamer is warned to take immediate steps to remove the cause.\nSuch dreams or reveries only occur when sleep is disturbed.", "locator": "Heading 53; source lines 2189–2203", "lineStart": 2189, "lineEnd": 2203, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are affrighted, foretells that you will sustain\nan injury through an accident. See Agony. [unable to tie this note to the text???]\n\n\nTo see others affrighted, brings you close to misery and distressing scenes.\nDreams of this nature are frequently caused by nervous and feverish\nconditions, either from malaria or excitement. When such is the case,\nthe dreamer is warned to take immediate steps to remove the cause.\nSuch dreams or reveries only occur when sleep is disturbed." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "agony" ] }, { "slug": "affront", "title": "Affront", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “This is a bad dream. The dreamer is sure to shed tears and weep.”", "aliases": [ "affront" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about affront stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0054", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Affront", "text": "This is a bad dream. The dreamer is sure to shed tears and weep.\nFor a young woman to dream that she is affronted, denotes that some\nunfriendly person will take advantage of her ignorance to place\nher in a compromising situation with a stranger, or to jeopardize\nher interests with a friend.", "locator": "Heading 54; source lines 2203–2211", "lineStart": 2203, "lineEnd": 2211, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "This is a bad dream. The dreamer is sure to shed tears and weep.\nFor a young woman to dream that she is affronted, denotes that some\nunfriendly person will take advantage of her ignorance to place\nher in a compromising situation with a stranger, or to jeopardize\nher interests with a friend." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "afraid", "title": "Afraid", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To feel that you are afraid to proceed with some affair, or continue a journey, denotes that you will find trouble in your household, and…”", "aliases": [ "afraid" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about afraid stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0049", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Afraid", "text": "To feel that you are afraid to proceed with some affair, or continue\na journey, denotes that you will find trouble in your household,\nand enterprises will be unsuccessful.\n\nTo see others afraid, denotes that some friend will be deterred\nfrom performing some favor for you because of his own difficulties.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she is afraid of a dog,\nthere will be a possibility of her doubting a true friend.", "locator": "Heading 49; source lines 2155–2167", "lineStart": 2155, "lineEnd": 2167, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To feel that you are afraid to proceed with some affair, or continue\na journey, denotes that you will find trouble in your household,\nand enterprises will be unsuccessful.\n\nTo see others afraid, denotes that some friend will be deterred\nfrom performing some favor for you because of his own difficulties.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she is afraid of a dog,\nthere will be a possibility of her doubting a true friend." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "africa", "title": "Africa", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are in Africa surrounded by Cannibals, foretells that you will be oppressed by enemies and quarrelsome persons.”", "aliases": [ "africa" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about africa stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0050", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Africa", "text": "To dream that you are in Africa surrounded by Cannibals, foretells that you\nwill be oppressed by enemies and quarrelsome persons.\n\nFor a woman to dream of African scenes, denotes she will make journeys\nwhich will prove lonesome and devoid of pleasure or profit.", "locator": "Heading 50; source lines 2167–2175", "lineStart": 2167, "lineEnd": 2175, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are in Africa surrounded by Cannibals, foretells that you\nwill be oppressed by enemies and quarrelsome persons.\n\nFor a woman to dream of African scenes, denotes she will make journeys\nwhich will prove lonesome and devoid of pleasure or profit." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "afternoon", "title": "Afternoon", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “For a woman to dream of an afternoon, denotes she will form friendships which will be lasting and entertaining.”", "aliases": [ "afternoon" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about afternoon stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0051", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Afternoon", "text": "For a woman to dream of an afternoon, denotes she will form\nfriendships which will be lasting and entertaining. A cloudy,\nrainy afternoon, implies disappointment and displeasure.", "locator": "Heading 51; source lines 2175–2181", "lineStart": 2175, "lineEnd": 2181, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a woman to dream of an afternoon, denotes she will form\nfriendships which will be lasting and entertaining. A cloudy,\nrainy afternoon, implies disappointment and displeasure." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "agate", "title": "Agate", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see agate in a dream, signifies a slight advancement in business affairs.”", "aliases": [ "agate" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about agate stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0056", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Agate", "text": "To see agate in a dream, signifies a slight advancement in business affairs.", "locator": "Heading 56; source lines 2223–2227", "lineStart": 2223, "lineEnd": 2227, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see agate in a dream, signifies a slight advancement in business affairs." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "age", "title": "Age", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of age, portends failures in any kind of undertaking.”", "aliases": [ "age" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about age stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0057", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Age", "text": "To dream of age, portends failures in any kind of undertaking.\n\nTo dream of your own age, indicates that perversity of opinion will bring\ndown upon you the indignation of relatives.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of being accused of being older\nthan she is, denotes that she will fall into bad companionship,\nand her denial of stated things will be brought to scorn.\nTo see herself looking aged, intimates possible sickness,\nor unsatisfactory ventures. If it is her lover she sees aged,\nshe will be in danger of losing him.", "locator": "Heading 57; source lines 2227–2241", "lineStart": 2227, "lineEnd": 2241, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of age, portends failures in any kind of undertaking.\n\nTo dream of your own age, indicates that perversity of opinion will bring\ndown upon you the indignation of relatives.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of being accused of being older\nthan she is, denotes that she will fall into bad companionship,\nand her denial of stated things will be brought to scorn.\nTo see herself looking aged, intimates possible sickness,\nor unsatisfactory ventures. If it is her lover she sees aged,\nshe will be in danger of losing him." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "aggression", "title": "Aggression", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "Forceful action and the feeling of anger can have different roles.", "summary": "Aggression can give force to a conflict about space, urgency, competition, or choice; it does not establish a threat or personality trait.", "aliases": [ "aggression", "aggressive behavior", "aggressive behaviour" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "Aggression may make a struggle over room unusually direct. Someone stands too close, interrupts repeatedly, takes an object without asking, or pushes a conversation toward the answer they want. The dream turns pressure into an action you can feel. That could fit a situation in which your preferences have too little space, even when no one is physically threatening you while awake. The particular demand matters more than a general label of danger.\n\nBeing the forceful person changes the reading. You may press ahead because a task seems urgent, because others will not respond, or because winning has become more important than the original purpose. The scene can picture a conflict between wanting an outcome and allowing other people room to choose. It need not reveal a hidden wish to harm. A recent disagreement, competitive activity, or forceful exchange in a story may simply provide the action.\n\nAggression and anger do not always coincide. A calm person may control the encounter through repeated demands, while an angry person may state a boundary without intimidating anyone. This difference can make the scene useful for thinking about how force operates, rather than assigning good or bad character to a feeling. Words, position, pace, access to an exit, and the ability to refuse can create pressure even before any physical confrontation occurs.\n\nCompetition offers another setting. A game begins as play and becomes hostile, or a race continues after its rules stop making sense. This may resemble a goal whose demands have expanded beyond what you wanted to give. Stepping out, changing the rules, or finding a fairer opponent can alter the meaning of the scene. A forceful action used to protect another person's choice differs from force used to remove it, although the dream may leave that distinction uncertain.\n\nAn ending can also move away from force. Someone listens, a clear limit is respected, or another person interrupts the confrontation without deciding everything for you. That may picture wanting a workable response to pressure rather than a victory over someone. If the aggression remains unresolved, the relevant feeling may be limited options. The dream supplies no evidence of an external threat or a person's actual disposition; the original reflection concerns the kind of pressure imagined and the room available to respond.", "traditional": "No historical passage directly defining aggression is supplied. Anger, Fight, Rage and Violence remain separate related subjects in the archive. Their period forecasts do not establish a meaning for every forceful interaction.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Space to choose", "reflection": "Crowding, interruption or repeated demands may make reduced agency visible. The pressure can concern having too little room to answer in your own way." }, { "title": "The cost of pursuing an outcome", "reflection": "Being forceful may picture urgency overtaking the original purpose. A scene can explore that tradeoff without proving a harmful intention." }, { "title": "Feeling versus conduct", "reflection": "Anger and intimidating behavior need not appear together. The dream's actions can be more informative than the emotion assigned to a person." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "Someone crowds your space without touching you", "reflection": "Their position makes it hard to move or speak freely. This may give form to pressure that works through proximity or urgency rather than an explicit attack." }, { "title": "You keep demanding an immediate answer", "reflection": "The result feels necessary, and the other person has little time to decide. The scene may explore whether urgency has begun to outweigh the choice you originally meant to respect." }, { "title": "An argument stays calm but becomes controlling", "reflection": "Quiet words still remove your options. The contrast can make the distribution of choice more important than volume or the appearance of anger." }, { "title": "A friendly competition turns hostile", "reflection": "The game continues after enjoyment or fairness disappears. This may resemble pursuing a goal under conditions that no longer fit what you wanted from participating." }, { "title": "A clear boundary changes the encounter", "reflection": "You name a limit, and the pressure decreases. The scene may picture wanting an effective response that creates room, rather than needing to defeat or humiliate someone." }, { "title": "Another person helps without taking over", "reflection": "Support interrupts the pressure while leaving you a say. This can make shared space and agency the desired outcome, instead of replacing one controlling figure with another." } ], "prompts": [ "Which action made the interaction feel forceful?", "What choices were available to each person in the scene?", "Did the goal remain worthwhile as the pressure increased?" ], "related": [ "anger", "fight", "being-judged" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "agony", "title": "Agony", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “This is not as good a dream, as some would wish you to believe.”", "aliases": [ "agony" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about agony stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "weeping" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0058", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Agony", "text": "This is not as good a dream, as some would wish you to believe.\nIt portends worry and pleasure intermingled, more of the former\nthan of the latter.\n\nTo be in agony over the loss of money, or property, denotes that disturbing\nand imaginary fears will rack you over the critical condition of affairs,\nor the illness of some dear relative.\n\n[15] See Weeping.", "locator": "Heading 58; source lines 2241–2253", "lineStart": 2241, "lineEnd": 2253, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "This is not as good a dream, as some would wish you to believe.\nIt portends worry and pleasure intermingled, more of the former\nthan of the latter.\n\nTo be in agony over the loss of money, or property, denotes that disturbing\nand imaginary fears will rack you over the critical condition of affairs,\nor the illness of some dear relative. See Weeping." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "weeping" ] }, { "slug": "ague", "title": "Ague", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “A sickly condition of the dreamer is sometimes implied by this dream.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "ague" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about ague stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0059", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Ague", "text": "A sickly condition of the dreamer is sometimes implied by this dream.\nTo dream that you are shaking with an ague, signifies that you will suffer\nfrom some physical disorder, and that fluctuating opinions of your own\naffairs may bring you to the borders of prostration.\n\nTo see others thus affected, denotes that you will offend people\nby your supreme indifference to the influences of others.", "locator": "Heading 59; source lines 2253–2263", "lineStart": 2253, "lineEnd": 2263, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "A sickly condition of the dreamer is sometimes implied by this dream.\nTo dream that you are shaking with an ague, signifies that you will suffer\nfrom some physical disorder, and that fluctuating opinions of your own\naffairs may bring you to the borders of prostration.\n\nTo see others thus affected, denotes that you will offend people\nby your supreme indifference to the influences of others." }, { "id": "fontaine-0015", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Ague", "text": "To dream that you have one, warns you against an inclination to\nstrong drink; to dream your sweetheart has an ague, denotes affection\nand happiness. 39, 6, 1.", "locator": "Heading 15; source line 1040", "lineStart": 1040, "lineEnd": 1044, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you have one, warns you against an inclination to\nstrong drink; to dream your sweetheart has an ague, denotes affection\nand happiness." }, { "id": "noe-0017", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Ague", "text": "To dream you have an ague, denotes that you are in danger of\nbecoming a drunkard and a glutton. To dream your sweetheart has an ague,\nis a lucky omen; it shows you are beloved, and that you will be happy with\nthe object of your wishes, but never very rich.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 17; source lines 139–142", "lineStart": 139, "lineEnd": 142, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you have an ague, denotes that you are in danger of\nbecoming a drunkard and a glutton. To dream your sweetheart has an ague,\nis a lucky omen; it shows you are beloved, and that you will be happy with\nthe object of your wishes, but never very rich." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "air", "title": "Air", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “This dream denotes a withering state of things, and bodes no good to the dreamer.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "air" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about air stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0060", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Air", "text": "This dream denotes a withering state of things, and bodes no good\nto the dreamer.\n\nTo dream of breathing hot air suggests that you will be influenced\nto evil by oppression.\n\nTo feel cold air, denotes discrepancies in your business,\nand incompatibility in domestic relations.\n\nTo feel oppressed with humidity, some curse will fall on you\nthat will prostrate and close down on your optimistical views\nof the future.", "locator": "Heading 60; source lines 2263–2278", "lineStart": 2263, "lineEnd": 2278, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "This dream denotes a withering state of things, and bodes no good\nto the dreamer.\n\nTo dream of breathing hot air suggests that you will be influenced\nto evil by oppression.\n\nTo feel cold air, denotes discrepancies in your business,\nand incompatibility in domestic relations.\n\nTo feel oppressed with humidity, some curse will fall on you\nthat will prostrate and close down on your optimistical views\nof the future." }, { "id": "fontaine-0016", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Air", "text": "To dream that you see it clear and serene, shows that you shall\nbe beloved and esteemed by most people; if at law, success. In short,\nall good is denoted by clear and serene air. But to dream that the air\nis thick, cloudy, dark, and troubled, denotes to the dreamer, grief,\nsickness, loss of good, hindrance of business, and crosses in love. 12,\n9.", "locator": "Heading 16; source line 1044", "lineStart": 1044, "lineEnd": 1051, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you see it clear and serene, shows that you shall\nbe beloved and esteemed by most people; if at law, success. In short,\nall good is denoted by clear and serene air. But to dream that the air\nis thick, cloudy, dark, and troubled, denotes to the dreamer, grief,\nsickness, loss of good, hindrance of business, and crosses in love. 12," }, { "id": "noe-0028", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Air", "text": "To dream of the atmosphere has a variety of interpretations, and\ndepends entirely on its appearance. If you dream the sky is clear, of a\nfine blue, calm and serene, then it is a good omen. To dream that it is\nstreaked with white, denotes that many severe difficulties will befall\nyou, over which you will eventually triumph. To dream that it was full of\nthick, dark and heavy clouds, is an unfavorable token; disappointments\nwill attend you. To dream that the sky is streaked with red and looks\nfiery, denotes that in love you will be successful; in business not so; it\nalso forewarns you that sickness and trouble will attend your family.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 28; source lines 204–213", "lineStart": 204, "lineEnd": 213, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of the atmosphere has a variety of interpretations, and\ndepends entirely on its appearance. If you dream the sky is clear, of a\nfine blue, calm and serene, then it is a good omen. To dream that it is\nstreaked with white, denotes that many severe difficulties will befall\nyou, over which you will eventually triumph. To dream that it was full of\nthick, dark and heavy clouds, is an unfavorable token; disappointments\nwill attend you. To dream that the sky is streaked with red and looks\nfiery, denotes that in love you will be successful; in business not so; it\nalso forewarns you that sickness and trouble will attend your family." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "air-conditioner", "title": "Air conditioner", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "aliases": [ "air conditioner", "air conditioners", "air conditioning unit", "air-conditioning unit" ], "summary": "An air conditioner can explore who shapes a shared room, where support reaches, and the conditions that let an activity feel possible.", "tagline": "Comfort has an arrangement behind it.", "psychological": "An air conditioner can picture changing the conditions around an activity instead of demanding that you simply endure them. A room becomes usable, a gathering settles, or you finally have a place to work. This may fit asking for a quieter meeting, a different schedule, or another arrangement that supports what you want to do. Satisfaction can concern an ordinary improvement rather than a hidden problem.\n\nSharing the controls brings preferences into that arrangement. One person wants a change that another finds uncomfortable. This could resemble a household routine or group timetable shaped around whoever speaks first. Passing the remote and reaching an agreement gives a different reading from secretly changing the setting. The image makes the terms of sharing visible; it does not tell you that one person’s preference is objectively right.\n\nWhere the appliance works can matter as much as whether it works. Cooling an empty room while everyone waits elsewhere may picture support reaching the wrong part of a plan. An available resource can still miss the people or task it was meant to serve. A carefully equipped office nobody can use, or help offered for an already completed stage, can provide a concrete waking comparison.\n\nA working unit with inaccessible controls separates benefiting from an arrangement from having a say in it. You might receive useful support while depending on someone else to alter its terms. Confidence that they will listen differs from waiting without knowing whom to ask. The issue may be participation in a shared decision, rather than needing complete personal control over everything.\n\nThe appliance can also intrude on the activity it supports. Its dreamed hum might cover a conversation, or an exaggerated stream of air might scatter a drawing you wanted to finish. Help then has consequences that require negotiation. Conversely, switching it off and finding the room still pleasant can picture an arrangement becoming simpler once circumstances change. Recent rooms, household tasks, and familiar equipment can supply the imagery directly. These readings concern the particular room and choices in the dream, not an assessment of health or a rule about temperature.", "traditional": "No historical account is attached to this appliance topic. The separate Fan and Air accounts remain comparisons with different subjects. The background citation concerns waking experiences and dreams generally; it does not establish meanings for equipment or room temperature.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Conditions that support participation", "reflection": "A change to the room can make an ordinary activity available. Its value depends on what becomes possible and whom the arrangement serves." }, { "title": "A say in shared comfort", "reflection": "Controls can bring different preferences and permissions into view. Agreement offers a different experience from having to accept terms you cannot alter." }, { "title": "Support with practical consequences", "reflection": "A useful device may reach the wrong place or compete with the activity it was meant to support. Adjustment can concern fit rather than more effort." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "People pass the remote until a setting suits the gathering", "reflection": "Comfort becomes something the group arranges together. This may resemble agreeing on meeting times or household routines without treating one preference as the default. The satisfying part can be participation in the decision, especially if everyone remains able to ask for a change." }, { "title": "The unit cools an empty room while people wait next door", "reflection": "The appliance works, but its benefit misses the gathering. This can picture resources placed around an old plan after the actual need has moved. Redirecting attention within the dream differs from blaming the people who still cannot use what has been provided." }, { "title": "The room feels pleasant but the remote is locked away", "reflection": "Useful conditions arrive without a clear way to negotiate them. A shared arrangement may feel dependable yet leave you uncertain about requesting an adjustment. Contentment and frustration suggest different readings: the question is whether the missing access matters to the activity you wanted." }, { "title": "The hum grows louder than the conversation", "reflection": "An arrangement supporting the room begins to compete with its purpose. This may fit a helpful system whose demands interrupt the people using it. Wanting quiet can preserve the conversation without denying the earlier benefit; the two needs can be considered together." }, { "title": "A gust from the unit scatters a drawing across the table", "reflection": "Help has an unexpected effect on work still taking shape. This could resemble a new procedure displacing a project before its needs were understood. Gathering the pieces or changing where you work gives the scene alternatives to abandoning either the project or the support." }, { "title": "You turn the unit off and enjoy the open window", "reflection": "A simpler arrangement becomes sufficient in this particular room. Relief may picture no longer needing a condition that once helped you begin. Choosing the change differs from having support removed without agreement; the scene can concern responsiveness to changed circumstances rather than rejecting assistance." } ], "prompts": [ "What activity became possible when the room changed?", "How were different preferences included in the shared arrangement?", "Which part of the support reached the task, and which part got in its way?" ], "related": [ "fan", "air", "window" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "airbag", "title": "Airbag", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "kind": "modern", "aliases": [ "airbag", "airbags", "air bag", "air bags" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "summary": "A dreamed airbag can focus on an abrupt response, its place in a journey and what remains afterward. It does not assess a real vehicle or body.", "tagline": "An imagined response that changes the space around you.", "psychological": "An airbag in a dream can place an abrupt response at the centre of a journey. It may expand into the space you were using, become the first thing somebody discusses or remain visible after the occasion has changed. These possibilities can explore how an expected response fits the event around it. The image does not assess an actual vehicle, establish an injury or predict a road incident.\n\nIf attention shifts immediately from the destination to the expanded bag, the journey’s purpose has been interrupted by what happens next. A possible waking comparison is an ordinary plan suddenly dominated by arrangements for handling a change. You may want time to understand the event before somebody decides how the whole occasion should now proceed.\n\nAn airbag appearing while the dreamed car is still can make timing especially noticeable. A response arrives without the event you expected to explain it. This could resemble a routine conversation becoming occupied by contingency plans before the current question is understood. The comparison concerns the imagined fit between occasion and response; it need not judge anyone as careless, irrational or overly cautious.\n\nThe device can also occupy the view you wanted to keep. Something presented as help may require practical room before you can orient yourself again. This may picture support whose arrival changes the conditions of continuing, as when several people intervene at once and the original task becomes difficult to see. Wanting space to understand the change differs from rejecting help altogether.\n\nA clearly identified airbag in an uneventful demonstration offers another possibility. Its place in the arrangement is visible before a crisis occupies the scene. The calm interest can picture wanting an understandable account of how an offered resource belongs to a larger plan. A folded or deflated bag afterward may instead keep an interruption present when the activity has moved on. Recent vehicle images, a film or a remembered discussion can supply direct context. The reflection stays with timing, space and the aftermath shown in the dream, rather than treating the device’s appearance as assurance or a real safety instruction.", "traditional": "No specific historical Airbag passage is supplied. These original reflections concern an identified vehicle device within a dreamed occasion. Nearby car and accident accounts do not establish a meaning for it; NINDS supports only general background, without validating a safety or bodily interpretation.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A response that changes the occasion", "reflection": "The device can make what happens after an interruption more prominent than the original destination." }, { "title": "Timing and room for orientation", "reflection": "An abrupt response may fit the occasion or leave the event itself difficult to understand." }, { "title": "An arrangement before or after an incident", "reflection": "A calm demonstration or a retained object can give the device another role beyond sudden expansion." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "The airbag expands and your destination stops being the immediate concern", "reflection": "The scene turns from a wanted journey toward the change occupying its interior. This may picture a plan interrupted by the arrangements that follow an unexpected event. Your attention may settle on the next practical task, as when a changed meeting first requires another place to gather before its original purpose can resume." }, { "title": "An airbag appears while the dreamed car is standing still", "reflection": "The response arrives without the occasion you expected to account for it. This may picture a routine exchange becoming dominated by contingency arrangements before its present purpose is clear. Preparing for every possibility may leave little room for the conversation you wanted to have, making a usable order of attention more important than further preparation." }, { "title": "The expanded bag blocks the view you wanted to keep", "reflection": "A response occupies space needed for orientation. This may picture offered help changing the practical conditions of continuing, such as several interventions obscuring the task they address. Wanting room to understand what changed can differ from refusing support or declaring the response wholly good or bad." }, { "title": "Someone points to the airbag instead of explaining what happened", "reflection": "The device becomes an answer to a question about the event itself. This may picture receiving a description of a response while still wanting an account of the occasion that prompted it. Recognition and explanation are different needs; the dream does not determine what another person actually knows." }, { "title": "You calmly view a clearly labeled airbag during a demonstration", "reflection": "The device has an understandable place before an incident takes over the occasion. This may picture satisfaction in seeing how an offered resource belongs to an arrangement. Pleasure can come from understanding an arrangement before responsibility feels urgent, as when a new role is explained while you still have time to ask about it." }, { "title": "A folded airbag remains visible after the dreamed interruption", "reflection": "The changed object keeps one part of an earlier occasion present. This may picture a reminder retained after a plan has resumed in another form. A revised routine or an object kept after a difficult meeting could offer a comparison when something from the interruption still has a place in the next activity." } ], "prompts": [ "What changed in the occasion when the airbag became noticeable?", "How did its timing and position affect what you could understand or do next?", "What place did the object have before the interruption or in what followed it?" ], "related": [ "car", "accident", "passenger" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "airport", "title": "Airport", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "Arrival and departure do different work in the same terminal.", "summary": "An airport dream can picture transition, reunion, separation or waiting between plans. Your role in the terminal gives the scene its meaning.", "aliases": [ "airport", "airports", "airport terminal", "air terminal" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "An airport gathers people whose journeys are at different stages. You may have arrived, be preparing to leave, or be there for someone else. That position can picture a relationship to change: beginning something, settling after it, or helping another person move while you remain. Waiting to collect a friend differs from waiting to board your own flight because the desired arrival belongs to a person rather than a destination.\n\nThe terminal can feel like a space between arrangements. You have left the routines of home but have not entered the place you are going. This may fit starting a role whose habits are not established, moving between households, or finishing a project before another begins. An unhurried wait can express permission to pause. Being expected to keep moving while you do not know where to go can instead picture pressure to make a transition look simpler than it feels.\n\nArrival makes welcome important. Looking for a familiar face beyond the gate may resemble wanting a change to be acknowledged: returning after a difficult period, joining a new community, or bringing something completed to people who matter. Nobody waiting can feel lonely, but it may also offer independence if you welcome making your own way. A crowd greeting somebody else can sharpen the difference between reaching a place and feeling received there.\n\nSigns, gates and divided terminals give uncertainty a practical form. A destination may be clear while the route to it remains confusing, much like knowing the kind of work you want without understanding the steps available. Helpful directions can picture access to guidance; contradictory announcements can resemble expectations that keep changing. The airport's organization matters because movement depends partly on a system shared with strangers.\n\nParting scenes may hold affection alongside relief, or sorrow alongside confidence in another person's journey. Saying goodbye does not have to mean wanting someone gone. It can picture accepting that a shared period is changing without being able to accompany every next step. Recent travel, films and remembered terminals may also supply the setting directly. The strongest reflective reading follows what you were actually doing there; a missed departure is only one possible airport experience.", "traditional": "No supplied historical dictionary record specifically covers an airport terminal. These are original reflections on arrivals, departures and shared transit space. Older railway and journey passages discuss different settings and do not supply an inherited rule for airports.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Between arrangements", "reflection": "The terminal can give shape to a transition whose old routine has ended and whose new routine has not begun. A pause may feel restful or unsettled depending on whether it is chosen." }, { "title": "Being received", "reflection": "Arrival can center recognition and welcome. Reaching a destination and feeling that someone has made room for you are different experiences, even when both happen at the same gate." }, { "title": "Accompanying change", "reflection": "Meeting or seeing off another traveler can picture involvement in a change you do not control. Care may mean being present at the boundary rather than joining the whole journey." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You arrive and nobody is waiting for you", "reflection": "Arriving without a greeting can picture reaching a change before a sense of belonging has caught up. Returning to a familiar group after time away may offer a parallel. If being alone feels freeing, independence becomes the stronger reading." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You meet someone at the arrivals gate", "reflection": "A reunion may express wanting contact to become concrete after distance or uncertainty. Completing a long conversation or reconnecting after separate demands can feel similar. The person’s response helps distinguish welcome from a meeting you feel obliged to arrange." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Every terminal sign points somewhere different", "reflection": "Contradictory directions can picture knowing the goal while receiving incompatible advice about how to reach it. An unfamiliar application process or family plan may fit. The confusion lies in the route, not necessarily in what you want." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You wait in a terminal without a booked flight", "reflection": "Waiting without a booked journey can give shape to a pause whose next step is undecided. Finishing one commitment before accepting another may feel similar. Enjoying the wait differs from feeling that everyone else has permission to move." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You say goodbye before another person boards", "reflection": "Seeing someone leave can hold care and separation together. A friend’s move or a relative’s increasing independence may offer a parallel. Being able to say goodbye can matter even when you cannot share the destination." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The terminal is empty when you finally reach it", "reflection": "An empty terminal can picture reaching a place after its shared activity has ended. Joining a team after a busy period or completing something without an audience may feel similar. Quiet may offer room to choose rather than simply abandonment." } ], "prompts": [ "Was I arriving, departing, meeting someone or waiting without a plan—and which waking situation has that same shape?", "What did I need the terminal or the people there to provide?", "Which part of the change belonged to me, and which part belonged to someone else?" ], "related": [ "airplane", "passport", "luggage", "missing-a-flight-or-train", "being-lost", "ticket" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "aisle", "title": "Aisle", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "A passage shared with others, a place to stop, and a route toward something particular.", "summary": "An aisle can picture access within an organized place, the room people leave each other, or the difference between passing through and choosing to stop.", "aliases": [ "aisle", "aisles" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "An aisle makes a route available inside a place already arranged for other purposes. Shelves, seats or counters determine where you can move, while the passage lets you approach what interests you. This can resemble finding a way through an established routine: the choices are real, but the arrangement does not begin with your own preferences. A familiar shop, flight or ceremony may also provide the setting directly.\n\nA blocked aisle can make shared access the central problem. Someone may stop to examine an item while you need to continue, or your own belongings may leave too little room for another person. A workplace handover or shared household task can have a similar shape. The question concerns how two activities fit together, rather than deciding that one participant is deliberately obstructive.\n\nChoosing where to stop introduces a different tension. Walking past many shelves can feel like opportunity, distraction or the effort of finding one useful thing among many. If you keep comparing options without reaching the item you need, the aisle may give indecision a physical form. Finding an ordinary object quickly can instead picture having enough information to continue without inspecting every alternative.\n\nAn aisle between seats can put visibility beside movement. Getting up during a performance may mean passing people who are already settled; walking toward a ceremony can make arrival public. These scenes can resemble claiming a place or changing your participation while others watch. Their imagined attention does not establish what real people think of your choices.\n\nThe destination and the return route need not be equally easy. A passage that becomes narrower after you collect something can picture how a chosen responsibility changes the space available. Making room, asking someone to pause or deciding to leave an item behind gives that problem different endings. Your feeling about the passage matters more than a fixed claim that every aisle represents a decision, commitment or division.", "traditional": "No historical account is attached to this original entry. The cited learning experiment supplies memory-research context, not a tested meaning for this image or evidence that a dream predicts an event.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Access within an existing arrangement", "reflection": "Shelves and seats create a particular route. What you can reach may depend on how that place is organized, rather than on how determined you are." }, { "title": "Room for more than one activity", "reflection": "Passing, browsing and waiting can compete for the same space. A small adjustment may let different purposes continue together." }, { "title": "Choosing a place to stop", "reflection": "A long passage offers many possible stopping points. The thing you came for and the alternatives that attract you can give the scene different directions." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Someone stops across the supermarket aisle", "reflection": "Your route meets another person’s pause. This may resemble needing a shared task to keep moving while someone attends to a detail. Waiting, asking or finding another passage changes the encounter without deciding whose purpose matters more." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You walk between seated guests toward a ceremony", "reflection": "Moving forward also makes your arrival visible. The scene can explore choosing a place while feeling observed. Welcome, self-consciousness or anticipation each gives the passage a different tone; the dreamed audience cannot confirm real approval." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Every shelf offers something except the item you need", "reflection": "Plenty of options does not meet your particular purpose. This might picture a choice whose attractive alternatives obscure one practical requirement. Recognizing what is missing can matter more than trying to appreciate everything that is available." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Your bag catches a seat as you try to leave", "reflection": "A possession complicates movement through a shared arrangement. The scene may concern what accompanies a change in participation. Adjusting the bag, asking for space or returning to your seat produces different relations between your belongings and your intended route." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A narrow aisle opens into a quiet reading corner", "reflection": "The passage becomes a way to reach somewhere you want to stay. This can picture a small available route leading to a useful pause. The value may lie in the particular place, company or quiet rather than in reaching an impressive destination." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You move your cart so two people can pass", "reflection": "A manageable adjustment lets another activity continue. The scene may bring cooperation into an ordinary practical moment. Notice whether you still have room for your own task; making space need not require abandoning what you came to do." } ], "prompts": [ "What were you trying to reach, and what made that particular destination matter?", "Whose activity shared the passage with yours?", "When did you want to stop rather than continue?" ], "related": [ "supermarket", "theater", "train", "door", "road" ], "sources": [ { "id": "wamsley-2010", "title": "Dreaming of a learning task is associated with enhanced sleep-dependent memory consolidation", "author": "Erin J. 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Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "artemidorus-083", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of all sorts of Birds.", "text": "GReat Byrds are better for the rich then the poore, little and tidy are the contrary. To see an Eagle flying over a Stone or a Tree, or in a high place, is good for those which would undertake businesse: but to those which are in feare i[illegible passage] is evill. Also it signifyeth returne of him which is in a farre Country, and if his flight be farre, and at ease and pleasure it is good; and signifyes, that the business shall have end, but not so soone. An Eagle flying, and falling upon the head of him which dreams it, signifies his death. To be mounted upon an Eagle, signifieth to Kings, Princes, and mighty and rich personages, death: but to the poor it is good, for they shall be welcome, and received of all rich men, from whom they shall draw great profit; and oftentimes it signifyeth changing ones Countrey, and going into another Nation: the Eagle threatning, signifyeth threatning of some great personage, but being gentle, or giving any thing, or speaking, hath beene found a good dream by experience: the woman which dreams that she hath conceived an Eagle, shall beare a childe which shall rise (according to his quality) to goods and honour: to sée a dead Eagle, is good for a servant, and him which is in feare, for it signifies the death of the master and the threatner: to others it is hinderance of affayres. The Byrd called a Gripe, is good for earthen potters, tanners and dyers of leather, but to physitians and patients they are evill. Also, they signifie wicked striplings and robbers dwelling without the towne, and and evill in every thing: the Fawlcon and the Kyte, signifye théeves and Robbers: the Crow may signifie the Adulteresse and the Thiefe: the Raven signifyeth hinderance of affayres, an old Wife, and winter. Bats signifie néedy folks, and trouble in vaine, which the Jay also signifyeth. Wilde Pigeons signifye wilde and dissolute women, and tame Pigeons signifie honest women and Matrons. Especially pleasure in businesse, and in case of frienship, company, and reconciliation, they are good; because they flock together. Cranes and Storkes séene in a flock, signifie that Thieves and Enemies should be flyed from. In Winter, bad Weather and tempest: in Summer drought. But being séene alone, and apart, they are good for a Travailer, and signifye the return of him which is farre off: they be also good in case of Weddings and Procreation, especially the Storke, by reason of the ayde and nourishment which her little ones give her. The Swan signifyeth a man Musitian, and his Musieke revealeth secrets, by reason of his colour. Being séene of the sick it signifyeth health, but if he sing, death: for he never sings but near death.", "locator": "Book 2, encoded section 83", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription-with-gaps", "book": "2", "displayText": "GReat Byrds are better for the rich then the poore, little and tidy are the contrary. To see an Eagle flying over a Stone or a Tree, or in a high place, is good for those which would undertake businesse: but to those which are in feare i [illegible passage] is evill. Also it signifyeth returne of him which is in a farre Country, and if his flight be farre, and at ease and pleasure it is good; and signifyes, that the business shall have end, but not so soone. An Eagle flying, and falling upon the head of him which dreams it, signifies his death. To be mounted upon an Eagle, signifieth to Kings, Princes, and mighty and rich personages, death: but to the poor it is good, for they shall be welcome, and received of all rich men, from whom they shall draw great profit; and oftentimes it signifyeth changing ones Countrey, and going into another Nation: the Eagle threatning, signifyeth threatning of some great personage, but being gentle, or giving any thing, or speaking, hath beene found a good dream by experience: the woman which dreams that she hath conceived an Eagle, shall beare a childe which shall rise (according to his quality) to goods and honour: to sée a dead Eagle, is good for a servant, and him which is in feare, for it signifies the death of the master and the threatner: to others it is hinderance of affayres. The Byrd called a Gripe, is good for earthen potters, tanners and dyers of leather, but to physitians and patients they are evill. Also, they signifie wicked striplings and robbers dwelling without the towne, and and evill in every thing: the Fawlcon and the Kyte, signifye théeves and Robbers: the Crow may signifie the Adulteresse and the Thiefe: the Raven signifyeth hinderance of affayres, an old Wife, and winter. Bats signifie néedy folks, and trouble in vaine, which the Jay also signifyeth. Wilde Pigeons signifye wilde and dissolute women, and tame Pigeons signifie honest women and Matrons. Especially pleasure in businesse, and in case of frienship, company, and reconciliation, they are good; because they flock together. Cranes and Storkes séene in a flock, signifie that Thieves and Enemies should be flyed from. In Winter, bad Weather and tempest: in Summer drought. But being séene alone, and apart, they are good for a Travailer, and signifye the return of him which is farre off: they be also good in case of Weddings and Procreation, especially the Storke, by reason of the ayde and nourishment which her little ones give her. The Swan signifyeth a man Musitian, and his Musieke revealeth secrets, by reason of his colour. Being séene of the sick it signifyeth health, but if he sing, death: for he never sings but near death." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0066", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Alley", "text": "To dream of an alley, denotes your fortune will not be so pleasing\nor promising as formerly. Many vexing cares will present\nthemselves to you.\n\nFor a young woman to wander through an alley after dark, warns her\nof disreputable friendships and a stigma on her character.", "locator": "Heading 66; source lines 2310–2319", "lineStart": 2310, "lineEnd": 2319, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of an alley, denotes your fortune will not be so pleasing\nor promising as formerly. Many vexing cares will present\nthemselves to you.\n\nFor a young woman to wander through an alley after dark, warns her\nof disreputable friendships and a stigma on her character." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L8949", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Alley", "heading": "Alley", "text": "Loss of property is augured here, a plausible interpretation from the gypsy standpoint, while the Freudian erotic meaning is less obvious.", "lineStart": 8949, "lineEnd": 8952, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 196; NLM OCR lines 8949–8952", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 8949, "lineEnd": 8952, "printedPage": 196, "printedPageEnd": 196 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Alley. — Loss of property is augured here, a plausible inter- \npretation from the gypsy standpoint, while the Freudian erotic \nmeaning is less obvious. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "inter- \npretation", "after": "interpretation", "evidenceLine": 72 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Alley" }, "displayText": "Loss of property is augured here, a plausible interpretation from the gypsy standpoint, while the Freudian erotic meaning is less obvious." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "alligator", "title": "Alligator", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "summary": "An alligator can picture an unfamiliar presence near a familiar threshold, partial information, or deciding whether an encounter belongs in your routine.", "tagline": "An unfamiliar presence close to home.", "aliases": [ "alligator" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "An alligator beside a familiar doorstep can picture an encounter close enough to affect your routine without yet becoming part of it. A new commitment, a difficult conversation, or an unfamiliar participant may be near the boundary of everyday life. The doorstep makes entry a choice with practical consequences. Waiting, passing elsewhere, or letting the encounter remain outside creates different relationships with the same presence; none automatically proves avoidance or bravery.\n\nOnly eyes visible above water can make attention noticeable while the rest of the encounter remains unclear. You may feel observed, interested, or uncertain about how much information is available. A brief exchange with someone unfamiliar or a task described only in outline can offer parallels. The dream does not establish surveillance or a hidden intention. Clearer visibility can change your options without requiring you to make a judgment from the partial view alone.\n\nA creature beneath the floor of an ordinary room can picture something difficult to accommodate within conditions assumed to be settled. A practical issue left outside discussion may interrupt the routine built above it, or a new demand may reveal that an existing arrangement needs another foundation. The image need not indicate a secret problem. Its force can come from the unexpected relationship between familiar activity and a presence that was not included in its design.\n\nTrying to complete a household task while the animal remains nearby can make divided attention central. The ordinary work still matters, yet the encounter prevents it from feeling automatic. Help with either the task or the unfamiliar presence can change the scene more than insisting that you concentrate harder. If an enclosure opens and the animal stays, available movement does not immediately settle what either participant wants.\n\nTurning back without pursuit can picture a limit you choose rather than an escape imposed by events. A film, photograph, remembered visit, or imagined reptile scene may also supply direct context. These readings concern threshold, visibility, and participation in this particular dream. They do not turn an alligator into evidence of an enemy or use a dream decision as a judgment of your waking character.", "traditional": "Miller calls an alligator encounter unfavorable unless the animal is killed. Craig supplies an enemy claim and reports an erotic interpretation by “the Freudians.” Fontaine’s attached passage only points to Reptile and supplies no independent alligator reading. These attributed historical statements are not evidence of another person’s motives or of a diagnosis, and do not validate the original reflections here.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Threshold and admission", "reflection": "A presence close to a routine need not automatically become part of it." }, { "title": "An incomplete view", "reflection": "A visible detail can leave the encounter uncertain without establishing hidden motives." }, { "title": "Ordinary work and divided attention", "reflection": "An unfamiliar demand may need a changed arrangement rather than greater concentration alone." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "An alligator waits beside your doorstep", "reflection": "An unfamiliar presence affects the boundary of daily life. This may picture considering whether a new commitment belongs inside an established routine. A pause creates room to choose its terms rather than making arrival itself an instruction to admit or confront it." }, { "title": "Only eyes are visible above the water", "reflection": "A small detail makes the encounter noticeable without making it clear. This can picture limited information in an unfamiliar exchange. Feeling observed does not establish actual surveillance; another view may change your response more usefully than guessing the whole from one part." }, { "title": "The creature appears beneath a room’s floor", "reflection": "Ordinary activity meets a presence excluded from its assumed design. This may picture an arrangement needing practical reconsideration. The unexpected placement can be meaningful without implying a secret danger or requiring every unfamiliar element to be interpreted as a hidden emotional problem." }, { "title": "An enclosure opens but the animal stays", "reflection": "Available movement does not produce an immediate decision. This can fit a changed opportunity that still needs time or suitable conditions. Staying and leaving remain different options, without making one response proof that the offered freedom is genuine or false." }, { "title": "You try to continue a household task beside it", "reflection": "Familiar work competes with attention to an unusual presence. This may resemble a routine disrupted by an unresolved demand. Shared help or another setting can alter the task more directly than expecting concentration alone to make the encounter irrelevant." }, { "title": "You turn back without being followed", "reflection": "A chosen limit ends the approach before events force an escape. This can picture deciding that participation is not useful under current conditions. Relief differs from regret; the scene does not judge whether a real opportunity should always be pursued." } ], "prompts": [ "What belongs inside the routine, and what can remain at its threshold?", "What does the visible detail leave uncertain?", "What changes when you can choose to end an approach?" ], "related": [ "crocodile", "reptile", "lizard", "water" ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0067" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context for this topic only. Miller calls the encounter unfavorable unless the animal is killed and calls it a dream of caution. Does not validate the original psychological reflections." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0018" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context for this topic only. Cross-reference only: See Reptile. No independent alligator interpretation is supplied. Does not validate the original psychological reflections." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L8953" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context for this topic only. Craig supplies an enemy claim and reports a Freudian erotic reading; these are attributed historical claims, not diagnoses. 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It is a dream of caution." }, { "id": "fontaine-0018", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Alligator", "text": "(_See Reptile._)", "locator": "Heading 18; source line 1054", "lineStart": 1054, "lineEnd": 1056, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Reptile.)" }, { "id": "craig-1918:L8953", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Alligator", "heading": "Alligator", "text": "A cunning and dangerous enemy. The Freudians translate this as an erotic dream.", "lineStart": 8953, "lineEnd": 8955, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 196; NLM OCR lines 8953–8955", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 8953, "lineEnd": 8955, "printedPage": 196, "printedPageEnd": 196 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Alligator. — A cunning and dangerous enemy. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0068", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Alloy", "text": "To dream of alloy, denotes your business will vex you in its complications.\nFor a woman to dream of alloy, is significant of sorrow and trouble\ncompletely hiding pleasure.", "locator": "Heading 68; source lines 2324–2330", "lineStart": 2324, "lineEnd": 2330, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of alloy, denotes your business will vex you in its complications.\nFor a woman to dream of alloy, is significant of sorrow and trouble\ncompletely hiding pleasure." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "almanac", "title": "Almanac", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of an almanac, means variable fortunes and illusive pleasures.”", "aliases": [ "almanac" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about almanac stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0069", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Almanac", "text": "To dream of an almanac, means variable fortunes and illusive pleasures.\nTo be studying the signs, foretells that you will be harassed by small\nmatters taking up your time.", "locator": "Heading 69; source lines 2330–2336", "lineStart": 2330, "lineEnd": 2336, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of an almanac, means variable fortunes and illusive pleasures.\nTo be studying the signs, foretells that you will be harassed by small\nmatters taking up your time." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "almond-tree", "title": "Almond Tree", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “A dream of success (Raphael); the symbol of the Father of All, the Pre-existing One (Bayley).”", "aliases": [ "almond tree" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about almond tree stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L8962", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Almond Tree", "heading": "Almond Tree", "text": "A dream of success (Raphael) ; the symbol of the Father of All, the Pre-existing One (Bayley). Freudians contend that all dreams of trees bear an erotic meaning.", "lineStart": 8962, "lineEnd": 8966, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 196; NLM OCR lines 8962–8966", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 8962, "lineEnd": 8966, "printedPage": 196, "printedPageEnd": 196 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Almond Tree. — A dream of success (Raphael) ; the sym- \nbol of the Father of All, the Pre-existing One (Bayley). \nFreudians contend that all dreams of trees bear an erotic \nmeaning. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "sym- \nbol", "after": "symbol", "evidenceLine": 2325 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Almond Tree" }, "displayText": "A dream of success (Raphael); the symbol of the Father of All, the Pre-existing One (Bayley). Freudians contend that all dreams of trees bear an erotic meaning." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "almonds", "title": "Almonds", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "5 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “This is a good omen. 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Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0070", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Almonds", "text": "This is a good omen. It has wealth in store. However, sorrow will\ngo with it for a short while. If the almonds are defective,\nyour disappointment in obtaining a certain wish will be complete\nuntil new conditions are brought about.", "locator": "Heading 70; source lines 2336–2343", "lineStart": 2336, "lineEnd": 2343, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "This is a good omen. It has wealth in store. However, sorrow will\ngo with it for a short while. If the almonds are defective,\nyour disappointment in obtaining a certain wish will be complete\nuntil new conditions are brought about." }, { "id": "fontaine-0017", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Almonds", "text": "Signify riches and happiness; to eat them shows you will have\ngood luck in love matters. 73, 18, 10.", "locator": "Heading 17; source line 1051", "lineStart": 1051, "lineEnd": 1054, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Signify riches and happiness; to eat them shows you will have\ngood luck in love matters." }, { "id": "noe-0004", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Almonds", "text": "To dream one sees or eats almonds, signifies difficulties and\ntrouble.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 4; source lines 103–104", "lineStart": 103, "lineEnd": 104, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream one sees or eats almonds, signifies difficulties and\ntrouble." }, { "id": "cielo-0008", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Almonds", "text": "If you dream of eating them it denotes an\n evil from which you will escape.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 8; source lines 3871–3874", "lineStart": 3871, "lineEnd": 3874, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream of eating them it denotes an\nevil from which you will escape." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L8956", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Almond", "heading": "Almond", "text": "To dream of eating, future enjoyment, traveling in distant lands. If the almonds be bitter the journey will be unhappy. The almond has always been a sacred symbol throughout the orient. Bayley traces the name to al monde, meaning Lord of the World, sole protecting Lord.", "lineStart": 8956, "lineEnd": 8961, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 196; NLM OCR lines 8956–8961", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 8956, "lineEnd": 8961, "printedPage": 196, "printedPageEnd": 196 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Almond. — To dream of eating, future enjoyment, travel- \ning in distant lands. If the almonds be bitter the journey will \nbe unhappy. The almond has always been a sacred symbol \nthroughout the orient. Bayley traces the name to al monde, \nmeaning Lord of the World, sole protecting Lord. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "travel- \ning", "after": "traveling", "evidenceLine": 2144 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Almond" }, "displayText": "To dream of eating, future enjoyment, traveling in distant lands. If the almonds be bitter the journey will be unhappy. The almond has always been a sacred symbol throughout the orient. Bayley traces the name to al monde, meaning Lord of the World, sole protecting Lord." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "alms", "title": "Alms", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Alms will bring evil if given or taken unwillingly. Otherwise, a good dream.” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "alms" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about alms stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0071", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Alms", "text": "Alms will bring evil if given or taken unwillingly. Otherwise, a good dream.", "locator": "Heading 71; source lines 2343–2347", "lineStart": 2343, "lineEnd": 2347, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Alms will bring evil if given or taken unwillingly. Otherwise, a good dream." }, { "id": "fontaine-0019", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Alms", "text": "To dream they are begged of you, and you refuse them, shows want\nand misery to the dreamer; but to dream you give them freely, is a sign\nof joy and long life. 11, 13, 4.", "locator": "Heading 19; source line 1056", "lineStart": 1056, "lineEnd": 1060, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream they are begged of you, and you refuse them, shows want\nand misery to the dreamer; but to dream you give them freely, is a sign\nof joy and long life." }, { "id": "noe-0005", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Alms", "text": "To dream that they are begged of you, and you deny to\ngive them, shows want and misery to the dreamer; but to dream you give\nthem freely is a sign of joy and gladness.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 5; source lines 104–106", "lineStart": 104, "lineEnd": 106, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that they are begged of you, and you deny to\ngive them, shows want and misery to the dreamer; but to dream you give\nthem freely is a sign of joy and gladness." }, { "id": "cielo-0009", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Alms", "text": "Giving alms denotes good fortune, receiving\n alms means loss of money.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 9; source lines 3874–3877", "lineStart": 3874, "lineEnd": 3877, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Giving alms denotes good fortune, receiving\nalms means loss of money." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "alms-house", "title": "Alms-house", "type": "dreams", "category": "Other symbols", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “For a young woman to dream of an alms-house, denotes she will meet failure in her efforts to contract a worldly marriage.”", "aliases": [ "alms-house" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about alms-house stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0072", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Alms-house", "text": "For a young woman to dream of an alms-house, denotes she will meet\nfailure in her efforts to contract a worldly marriage.", "locator": "Heading 72; source lines 2347–2352", "lineStart": 2347, "lineEnd": 2352, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a young woman to dream of an alms-house, denotes she will meet\nfailure in her efforts to contract a worldly marriage." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "alphabet", "title": "Alphabet", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "aliases": [ "alphabet", "abcs", "alphabet letters", "letters of the alphabet", "alphabet characters", "of the letters" ], "detectionAliases": [ "alphabet", "abcs", "alphabet letters", "letters of the alphabet", "alphabet characters" ], "kind": "editorial", "sources": [ { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display.", "recordIds": [ "artemidorus-042" ], "scope": "Historical comparison only: Of the Letters concerns learning alphabet/language characters, initial versus repeated learning, Latin and Greek letters, and reading unfamiliar scripts well, badly or not at all. It assigns period forecasts about labor, affairs, a desired son, travel, marriage, wealth/honor, illness and trouble. It does not concern a sent or received correspondence letter, validate the original reflections, assess literacy or establish health or future outcomes. Specific supplied passage: Of the Letters. — artemidorus-042 (Book 1, encoded section 42); 1644 EEBO-TCP transcription." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "summary": "Alphabet characters may bring recognition, order, learning and arranging the parts of written language into a dreamed scene.", "tagline": "Recognizing and arranging written characters", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "An alphabet gives a dream the components of written language before they become a complete message. You may recognize a sequence, handle letter-shaped pieces, practice an unfamiliar script or notice a character missing from a familiar arrangement. This subject differs from a correspondence letter, composing a paragraph or following a story. Begin with what makes the characters recognizable and what you are doing with them.\n\nOrder can provide a practical expectation. A sequence may help you find the next item until a gap interrupts it, or the dream may let you arrange the characters in another way. This could resemble learning the basic structure of a new task before using it fluently. The comparison does not give every individual character a hidden meaning or imply that alphabetical order is the right way to organize every situation.\n\nRecognition and use can come apart. You might name the shapes without being able to write them, or repeat sounds while the corresponding marks remain unfamiliar. A present learning experience may similarly involve knowing one part of a process before another becomes available. The dream does not assess your literacy, intelligence or capacity to learn a language. Its particular mismatch can be described without turning it into a deficiency.\n\nAn unfamiliar script can center access to a system other people use easily. Someone may show you one character at a time, or you may discover a shared mark inside an otherwise unfamiliar row. Actual language study, signs, children's learning materials and typography can contribute direct details. Not every strange shape belongs to a real language, and a dreamed character is not reliable evidence about a culture or a secret code.\n\nMaking your own characters can shift the action from recognition to invention. You may enjoy a new arrangement, try to help somebody else identify it or find that private marks are not automatically understandable to another person. The audience changes what the system needs to do. If one letter dominates the scene, record its appearance and your own associations without assuming this general entry closes that character's separate possibilities. Here the useful focus is how recognizable parts become ordered, learned or shared, rather than what an alphabet universally predicts.", "traditional": "The 1644 English Artemidorus transcription's Of the Letters concerns learning and reading alphabet or language characters, including Latin, Greek and unfamiliar scripts. It varies its forecasts with previous knowledge and reading success, and includes travel, marriage, illness and trouble claims. These are historical beliefs, not evidence about your literacy, health or future; correspondence is a different subject.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Parts before a message", "reflection": "A sequence or set of shapes can center the basic components of language rather than a correspondence exchange." }, { "title": "Several kinds of familiarity", "reflection": "Naming, sounding, writing and using a character may become available at different points in the scene." }, { "title": "A system another person can use", "reflection": "An invented or unfamiliar arrangement can raise practical questions about how recognition becomes shared." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "A familiar alphabet has a gap where one character should be", "reflection": "An expected sequence stops providing its next step. This may resemble learning a process whose basic arrangement is incomplete. Notice whether you supply the character, ask somebody or arrange the remaining pieces differently; the gap does not establish a missing quality in yourself." }, { "title": "You can name the characters but cannot form them on the page", "reflection": "Recognition and production do not coincide. This could fit knowing what a task involves before its practical action feels available. The dreamed mismatch does not assess real literacy or ability; it makes one stage of learning distinct from another within the scene." }, { "title": "Someone teaches you an unfamiliar script one shape at a time", "reflection": "A system becomes approachable through a limited, concrete introduction. This may resemble a new skill whose parts need context rather than instant mastery. Record the teacher's actual method and your response; unfamiliar marks need not signify danger, secrecy or a culture's universal meaning." }, { "title": "Letter-shaped pieces scatter before you arrange them", "reflection": "The components remain present while their order is lost. This could picture a task requiring organization before it can communicate or function. Gathering the pieces, changing the order or involving another person creates a different action from assuming that the whole system has failed." }, { "title": "You invent characters that another person cannot recognize", "reflection": "Private invention does not automatically provide a shared language. This may fit a creative idea that needs an explanation before somebody else can use it. Notice whether you demonstrate, simplify or keep the marks for yourself; unfamiliarity does not settle whether the invention has value." }, { "title": "You recite a sequence together without writing any marks", "reflection": "The alphabet is encountered through sound and shared rhythm rather than a page. This could resemble learning through an available form of participation. What feels familiar or difficult matters more than treating the recitation as a forecast or assuming every character requires a separate message." } ], "prompts": [ "What made these shapes or sounds recognizable as an alphabet?", "How did you arrange, learn or use the characters?", "Which part of the sequence or shared understanding mattered most in the scene?" ], "related": [ "reading", "writing", "blackboard", "classroom", "letter" ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection independently reviewed for content and source scope. Historical accounts remain attributed period writing. Human publication review pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "artemidorus-042", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of the Letters.", "text": "TO learne the letters, is good for the ignorant, for some good will betide them, but with labour and feare. But to him which knows the letters to learne them again, is not good, for it is the part of a child to learn: now it signifies to him, hindrance of affaires, and ill issue: onely it is good for him which desired to have a sonne, for not he but his sonne shall learn. If a Grecian dreams that he learneth Latin letters; or on the contrary, any Roman the Greeke letters, they shall travaile and go from the one country into the other. Many Romans by this dreame have had Grecians, and as many Grecians, Romans to their wives: to reade well and truly Barbarian or strange Letters, signifie that they shall goe into that Country and have goods and honour there: but to read badly, signifies the contrary. Or that the sick man shall enter into foolishnesse and frenzie, by reason of the savage and strange spéech which a raving man speaks. All Letters in any language which one cannot read, signifie anger, and trouble for few dayes, if the writing be little, but for longer time if it be much.", "locator": "Book 1, encoded section 42", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "1", "displayText": "To learne the letters, is good for the ignorant, for some good will betide them, but with labour and feare. But to him which knows the letters to learne them again, is not good, for it is the part of a child to learn: now it signifies to him, hindrance of affaires, and ill issue: onely it is good for him which desired to have a sonne, for not he but his sonne shall learn. If a Grecian dreams that he learneth Latin letters; or on the contrary, any Roman the Greeke letters, they shall travaile and go from the one country into the other. Many Romans by this dreame have had Grecians, and as many Grecians, Romans to their wives: to reade well and truly Barbarian or strange Letters, signifie that they shall goe into that Country and have goods and honour there: but to read badly, signifies the contrary. Or that the sick man shall enter into foolishnesse and frenzie, by reason of the savage and strange spéech which a raving man speaks. All Letters in any language which one cannot read, signifie anger, and trouble for few dayes, if the writing be little, but for longer time if it be much.", "editorialNote": "The full source passage concerns learning and reading alphabet or script characters, including unfamiliar scripts. It is shown on Alphabet rather than correspondence Letter; the previous singular/plural routing conflated these senses." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "altar", "title": "Altar", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "aliases": [ "altar" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "summary": "Altar dreams may explore giving a place or action special importance, choosing how to participate and making room for personally meaningful practices.", "tagline": "A place set aside for something that matters.", "psychological": "An altar can make one place or action feel set apart from the surrounding day. It may hold an offering, mark a commitment or provide a focus for a practice that matters to you. This could resemble deciding that a conversation, memory or promise deserves deliberate attention instead of being fitted between other tasks. Its significance depends on the dreamed use and your own relationship to the setting.\n\nApproaching a clearly designated place can make expectations feel formal. You may know what to do, welcome guidance or find that everybody assumes you already understand the ceremony. A waking comparison could be entering an important meeting with unfamiliar customs. Uncertainty about the next action may concern access to instructions, rather than a lack of belief or a moral error.\n\nAn offering introduces choice about what you bring. Something small and personally meaningful can feel appropriate even when others present elaborate objects. This might resemble contributing in a way that fits your values or circumstances. If an offering feels imposed, the scene may instead examine who defines participation and whether you can choose another form. The altar does not establish that a sacrifice is required in waking life.\n\nArrangement and access can matter as much as ritual. An altar placed where nobody can approach it may make an intended focus unusable. Moving objects or opening a path could picture making an important practice workable for the people involved. At home, a small chosen arrangement may provide a satisfying sense of continuity without needing public recognition.\n\nAn unused altar can hold another kind of question: what still deserves a place after an occasion or practice changes? Cleaning it, retaining one object or allowing it to become ordinary space may resemble deciding how to keep a memory without preserving every arrangement around it. Neither keeping nor changing it has to prove loyalty.\n\nVisits, ceremonies, art and remembered family practices can directly supply the image. The original reflection concerns how significance is given a place within the dream. A wedding altar is one possible setting, while the broader experience can involve personal devotion, remembrance or an unfamiliar formal task without implying a universal religious meaning.", "traditional": "The supplied accounts disagree. Miller associates a priest, marriage and the altar with quarrels, sorrow, warning and repentance. Fontaine predicts gladness and affection. Noe's discovery passage predicts joy, while a separate sacrament passage predicts affliction. Cielo forecasts marriage or prosperity. These are attributed period beliefs, not judgments about faith, moral conduct, health or future events; they do not validate the original reflections.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Giving something deliberate attention", "reflection": "A place set apart can picture making room for a practice, memory or commitment that matters personally. The significance comes from the dreamed use, rather than a rule attached to every altar." }, { "title": "Choosing participation", "reflection": "An offering or formal action may feel welcome when its terms are understood and freely chosen. Missing instructions or an imposed contribution can make access and agreement the central issue." }, { "title": "Keeping meaning usable", "reflection": "An arrangement can support a practice or become difficult to approach. Changing its position or retaining one object may help distinguish what still matters from a form that no longer fits." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "You arrange a small altar with a personally meaningful object", "reflection": "A modest arrangement feels complete because the object carries a specific memory or purpose for you. This can picture making deliberate room for something valued without needing elaborate public recognition. The satisfaction comes from the fit between the place and your own practice, rather than an externally measured standard." }, { "title": "You approach an altar without knowing the expected action", "reflection": "Other people seem to understand the procedure, but nobody explains your next step. This may resemble joining an important occasion with unclear instructions. Asking for guidance or choosing to wait makes participation depend on understanding, rather than requiring you to infer a hidden rule or prove the strength of your belief." }, { "title": "A wedding altar brings one conversation into focus", "reflection": "The formal setting becomes a place where two people can address a commitment directly. This could picture wanting an agreement to receive undivided attention instead of remaining assumed or hurried. The scene concerns how the exchange is made within the dream, rather than establishing an actual relationship decision." }, { "title": "The altar is moved so people can approach it", "reflection": "An important object occupies an awkward place until the group changes the arrangement. This can picture making a valued practice accessible instead of preserving its form at the expense of use. A shared routine or meeting may offer a parallel when practical adjustments help more people participate comfortably." }, { "title": "You choose an offering different from the expected one", "reflection": "Your contribution fits what you value, although it is smaller or simpler than what others bring. This may picture having a say in how you take part, as in choosing an appropriate gift or commitment. The scene can value deliberate contribution without equating size, cost or conformity with sincerity." }, { "title": "You clean an unused altar and keep one object", "reflection": "A former arrangement no longer serves its old occasion, but one item still matters. This can picture retaining a memory while allowing its surroundings to change. The useful distinction is between what you want to preserve and what you no longer need to maintain, rather than a judgment about devotion." } ], "prompts": [ "What was given special importance at the altar in your dream?", "How did you come to understand or choose your part in the action?", "Which parts of the arrangement remained meaningful when its use changed?" ], "related": [ "church", "wedding", "vow", "confession" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0073" ], "scope": "Miller forecasts quarrels and unsatisfactory business/home states from a priest at the altar, sorrow and death from seeing a marriage, and warning against error with repentance from the altar. Specific supplied passages: Altar — miller-0073 (Heading 73; source lines 2352–2361). Historical comparison only; these attributed period claims do not validate the original reflections or establish outcomes, diagnoses or universal symbolic meanings." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0020" ], "scope": "Fontaine assigns gladness and affection in love to an altar, then makes the same claim for an Ark in the adjacent clause of this single passage. Specific supplied passages: Altar — fontaine-0020 (Heading 20; source line 1060). Historical comparison only; these attributed period claims do not validate the original reflections or establish outcomes, diagnoses or universal symbolic meanings." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0007", "noe-0029" ], "scope": "The first Altar passage, noe-0007, forecasts joy/gladness from uncovering or discovering an altar. The second, noe-0029, calls receiving the holy sacrament at the altar an unfavorable omen of affliction. These are two separate supplied passages. Specific supplied passages: Altar — noe-0007 (Dream section, heading 7; source lines 107–108); Altar — noe-0029 (Dream section, heading 29; source lines 213–215). Historical comparison only; these attributed period claims do not validate the original reflections or establish outcomes, diagnoses or universal symbolic meanings." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0010" ], "scope": "Cielo forecasts speedy marriage to the one loved, or renewed prosperity for someone already married. Specific supplied passages: Altar — cielo-0010 (Dream section, heading 10; source lines 3877–3880). Historical comparison only; these attributed period claims do not validate the original reflections or establish outcomes, diagnoses or universal symbolic meanings." } ], "kind": "editorial", "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0073", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Altar", "text": "To dream of seing{sic} a priest at the altar, denotes quarrels\nand unsatisfactory states in your business and home.\nTo see a marriage, sorrow to friends, and death to old age.\n\nAn altar would hardly be shown you in a dream, accept to warn you\nagainst the commission of error. Repentance is also implied.", "locator": "Heading 73; source lines 2352–2361", "lineStart": 2352, "lineEnd": 2361, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seing[sic] a priest at the altar, denotes quarrels\nand unsatisfactory states in your business and home.\nTo see a marriage, sorrow to friends, and death to old age.\n\nAn altar would hardly be shown you in a dream, accept to warn you\nagainst the commission of error. Repentance is also implied." }, { "id": "fontaine-0020", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Altar", "text": "To dream of an altar, betokens gladness, and affection in love.\nOf an _Ark_, the same. 71, 63, 4.", "locator": "Heading 20; source line 1060", "lineStart": 1060, "lineEnd": 1063, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of an altar, betokens gladness, and affection in love.\nOf an Ark, the same." }, { "id": "noe-0007", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Altar", "text": "To dream you\nuncover or discover an altar, betokens joy and gladness.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 7; source lines 107–108", "lineStart": 107, "lineEnd": 108, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you\nuncover or discover an altar, betokens joy and gladness." }, { "id": "noe-0029", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Altar", "text": "To dream you are at the altar and receiving the holy sacrament\nis a very unfavorable omen, and denotes many heavy and severe afflictions.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 29; source lines 213–215", "lineStart": 213, "lineEnd": 215, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are at the altar and receiving the holy sacrament\nis a very unfavorable omen, and denotes many heavy and severe afflictions." }, { "id": "cielo-0010", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Altar", "text": "Denotes a speedy marriage to the one you\n love. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0075", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Aluminum", "text": "To dream of aluminum, denotes contentment with any fortune, however small.\nFor a woman to see her aluminum ornaments or vessels tarnished,\nforetells strange and unexpected sorrow, and loss will befall her.", "locator": "Heading 75; source lines 2370–2376", "lineStart": 2370, "lineEnd": 2376, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of aluminum, denotes contentment with any fortune, however small.\nFor a woman to see her aluminum ornaments or vessels tarnished,\nforetells strange and unexpected sorrow, and loss will befall her." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "amateur", "title": "Amateur", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing an amateur actor on the stage, denotes that you will see your hopes pleasantly and satisfactorily fulfilled.”", "aliases": [ "amateur" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about amateur stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0076", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Amateur", "text": "To dream of seeing an amateur actor on the stage, denotes that you\nwill see your hopes pleasantly and satisfactorily fulfilled.\nIf they play a tragedy, evil will be disseminated through your happiness.\nIf there is an indistinctness or distorted images in the dream,\nyou are likely to meet with quick and decided defeat in some enterprise\napart from your regular business.", "locator": "Heading 76; source lines 2376–2385", "lineStart": 2376, "lineEnd": 2385, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing an amateur actor on the stage, denotes that you\nwill see your hopes pleasantly and satisfactorily fulfilled.\nIf they play a tragedy, evil will be disseminated through your happiness.\nIf there is an indistinctness or distorted images in the dream,\nyou are likely to meet with quick and decided defeat in some enterprise\napart from your regular business." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "ambition", "title": "Ambition", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "summary": "Ambition dreams may explore a chosen goal, the wish for recognition, or the cost of pursuing more.", "tagline": "The goal matters, and so do the terms of reaching it.", "aliases": [ "ambition", "ambitious" ], "status": "REVIEW", "psychological": "Ambition can give a dream a direction: somewhere to arrive, a role to obtain, or work that keeps expanding beyond its original purpose. The useful distinction is between wanting the activity and wanting what its achievement seems to promise. A large studio might offer room to create, while an impressive title might offer recognition or permission to be taken seriously. Those wishes can coexist without being interchangeable.\n\nA goal that moves whenever you approach it may picture an expectation that never settles. Finishing a project only to receive a larger assignment, or reaching a platform that reveals another staircase, makes enough difficult to locate. A waking comparison could be a workload that grows with competence, or a personal standard that changes after every result. If the movement feels exciting, however, the same structure may express pleasure in development rather than relentless pressure.\n\nWho chose the destination changes the reading. Pursuing somebody else’s trophy may fit working toward a measure you inherited from a family, profession or group. A modest project that you choose freely can feel more meaningful than the grand opportunity everybody applauds. This does not require abandoning real commitments; it brings the relationship between effort and purpose into view. A recent conversation about work or a fictional competition can also supply the dream’s setting.\n\nThe conditions of pursuit deserve as much attention as the finish. Helpful companions, workable equipment and time to pause create a different form of ambition from a race in which every relationship becomes an obstacle. The dream may let you imagine wanting more while remaining connected to other values. Conversely, a reward that requires giving up all your ordinary pleasures can make the bargain itself the subject.\n\nChanging course can therefore be a meaningful ending. Relief after choosing a smaller destination may fit a clearer sense of what you want your effort to support. Disappointment may remain if the larger aim still matters. An unfinished journey can hold both possibilities without deciding the next step for you.", "traditional": "These are original reflections on goals, recognition and the conditions of pursuit. No historical Ambition account is attached here. Nearby archive subjects such as Success describe different dream events; their forecasts do not establish what an ambitious feeling means. Recent planning, comparison or enjoyable work can supply ordinary context.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A goal you actually want", "reflection": "The activity, its reward and the recognition it promises can be different reasons for continuing." }, { "title": "Enough that keeps moving", "reflection": "A changing destination may express expanding possibility or a standard that never allows completion." }, { "title": "The cost of the route", "reflection": "Companionship, time and practical support shape the pursuit as much as the hoped-for result." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You keep adding goals after each finish", "reflection": "The dream removes the pause that a finish would normally provide. This may resemble a job where reliability earns more demands, or a personal standard that moves after every accomplishment. Excitement about the next goal creates a different reading from exhaustion at never being done." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You receive a prestigious role you do not want", "reflection": "The offer may make admiration available while taking you away from the work or daily life you value. A promotion, invitation or public role can have similarly mixed terms. The important tension is between being chosen for something impressive and wanting its actual responsibilities." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You choose a small project over a grand opportunity", "reflection": "Choosing a smaller scale can picture protecting the conditions that make an activity satisfying. A manageable creative project or a role with time for relationships offers a waking parallel. Contentment changes the meaning of the choice; it need not be a disguised failure to aim higher." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Someone else sets the destination for your effort", "reflection": "Your effort may be real while its purpose belongs to another person. A family expectation, a professional comparison or a group’s preferred path can feel similarly ready-made. Discovering your own destination changes the question from how hard to work to what the work is for." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You pursue a goal alongside supportive companions", "reflection": "Company can make the goal feel shared rather than competitive. Clear roles, encouragement or a pace everyone can sustain may resemble a project where contribution matters more than winning alone. The companions' presence gives ambition a social arrangement, not merely an individual drive." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You stop before the goal and feel at ease", "reflection": "Ease after stopping may picture finding a limit that suits your other priorities. It differs from being prevented from continuing. The destination can remain valuable without requiring every available resource, and sadness about relinquishing it can coexist with a welcome change of direction." } ], "prompts": [ "What did you want the goal to provide beyond the result itself?", "Whose measure of success shaped the dream’s destination?", "Which condition of the pursuit felt worth keeping or changing?" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "related": [ "success", "mountain", "boss", "applause" ], "updated": "2026-10-13", "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "ambulance", "title": "Ambulance", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "Urgency, a role in the response, and the moment responsibility can be shared.", "summary": "An ambulance dream may explore urgency, waiting for help, accompanying someone, or letting another person take over a response.", "aliases": [ "ambulance", "ambulances" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "An ambulance can make a request for help visible and give it a destination. In the dream, something matters enough to interrupt ordinary movement: a vehicle arrives, a route clears or people begin coordinating. A possible personal comparison concerns a situation that feels newly urgent. The image can also come directly from a recent journey, a sound, a news story or an experience of receiving care.\n\nYour role can change the scene more than the vehicle’s appearance. Waiting beside the road differs from travelling inside, guiding the driver or discovering that someone else is the passenger. You may want information, company or relief from having to organize everything yourself. A demanding household problem or time-sensitive task can offer a parallel when the feeling fits, without making an ambulance a general symbol of crisis.\n\nThe arrival of help can bring relief and uncertainty together. Other people may seem prepared while you are unsure what they expect from you. This can resemble handing a difficult task to someone with a different role or skill. Remaining nearby does not have to mean retaining responsibility for every next step. Being invited to accompany the journey gives participation another form.\n\nAn ambulance that waits rather than departs can put timing into focus. You may feel that the response has begun but the next action depends on information, an available route or someone joining you. The tension can concern coordination rather than the seriousness of an imagined injury. Conversely, an empty ambulance or a routine conversation beside one may leave urgency out of the scene entirely.\n\nHow the encounter ends helps distinguish these possibilities. Returning to an ordinary task can picture responsibility changing hands, while continuing alongside the vehicle may keep companionship central. Dream details cannot assess anyone’s health, predict an accident or determine whether real medical help is needed. The useful reflection stays with your role, the kind of help you wanted and what changed when it became available.", "traditional": "No historical account is attached to this original entry. The cited learning experiment supplies memory-research context, not a tested meaning for this image or evidence that a dream predicts an event.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A need becomes a shared response", "reflection": "The arrival of people and transport can make help concrete. The important shift may be from carrying a task alone to having a coordinated response." }, { "title": "A role that can change", "reflection": "Waiting, accompanying and giving directions ask different things of you. The scene may clarify the part you want without assigning every responsibility to one person." }, { "title": "Timing after action has begun", "reflection": "A response can start before the next step becomes clear. An available route, missing information or another person’s arrival may shape the pace." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You wait for an ambulance without knowing where to stand", "reflection": "Help is expected, but your place in the response is unclear. This can resemble wanting support while still needing practical instructions. Being shown somewhere to wait may change uncertainty without requiring you to organize the entire situation." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "The ambulance arrives for someone other than the person you expected", "reflection": "The response shifts toward a different participant. This might explore assumptions about who needs help or who will receive attention. Keep the actual change in focus; the scene does not supply medical information about either person." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You accompany someone while another person handles the journey", "reflection": "Your contribution becomes company rather than directing every action. The scene may picture a way of remaining involved while sharing responsibility. Quiet, conversation or discomfort about not controlling the route can each lead to a different reflection." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A crowded street gradually makes room for the vehicle", "reflection": "A shared route changes around a particular need. This can resemble other tasks being rearranged when something requires attention. Relief may come from seeing cooperation become possible, rather than from a demand that everything else must permanently stop." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The ambulance remains parked while people calmly exchange information", "reflection": "The vehicle’s presence does not create the pace you expected. A pause can make coordination more noticeable than movement. The scene may invite reflection on what needs to be understood before continuing, without interpreting calm as neglect or urgency as proof of danger." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "Someone takes over and you return to an ordinary task", "reflection": "A response continues without requiring your constant presence. Relief, uncertainty or reluctance may make that handover significant. The scene can explore where responsibility changes hands rather than deciding that returning to daily life means you do not care." } ], "prompts": [ "What role did you have before and after help arrived?", "What kind of help or information were you waiting for?", "Which part of the response could be shared?" ], "related": [ "hospital", "doctor", "nurse", "car", "passenger" ], "sources": [ { "id": "wamsley-2010", "title": "Dreaming of a learning task is associated with enhanced sleep-dependent memory consolidation", "author": "Erin J. Wamsley and colleagues", "url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20417102/", "scope": "Primary maze-learning experiment; task-related dream reports correlated with later performance. It does not show that a dream is an accurate memory or a solution." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s continuing English editorial delegation. The memory study is general context, not validation of these interpretations.", "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "DreamFolia AI-assisted editorial review", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "aisle", "ambulance", "bakery", "binoculars", "backstage", "birdbath", "birdhouse", "beehive", "billboard", "bookmark", "turnstile", "antlers", "armchair", "bathrobe" ] }, "decisionReason": "The reading distinguishes waiting, accompanying, coordinating a route, exchanging information and a handover. It does not assess health, predict an accident or prescribe a real medical response. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "america", "title": "America", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “High officials should be careful of State affairs, others will do well to look after their own person, for some trouble is at hand after…”", "aliases": [ "america" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about america stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0078", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "America", "text": "High officials should be careful of State affairs, others will do well to look\nafter their own person, for some trouble is at hand after this dream.", "locator": "Heading 78; source lines 2394–2399", "lineStart": 2394, "lineEnd": 2399, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "High officials should be careful of State affairs, others will do well to look\nafter their own person, for some trouble is at hand after this dream." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "amethyst", "title": "Amethyst", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Amethyst seen in a dream, represents contentment with fair business.”", "aliases": [ "amethyst" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about amethyst stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0079", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Amethyst", "text": "Amethyst seen in a dream, represents contentment with fair business.\n\nFor a young woman to lose an amethyst, fortells broken engagements\nand slights in love.", "locator": "Heading 79; source lines 2399–2406", "lineStart": 2399, "lineEnd": 2406, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Amethyst seen in a dream, represents contentment with fair business.\n\nFor a young woman to lose an amethyst, fortells broken engagements\nand slights in love." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0080", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Ammonia", "text": "Ammonia seen in a dream, means displeasure will be felt by the dreamer\nat the conduct of a friend. Quarrels and disruptions of friendships\nwill follow this dream.\n\nFor a young woman to see clear bottles of ammonia, foretells she\nwill be deceived in the character and intentions of some person\nwhom she considers friendly.", "locator": "Heading 80; source lines 2406–2416", "lineStart": 2406, "lineEnd": 2416, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Ammonia seen in a dream, means displeasure will be felt by the dreamer\nat the conduct of a friend. Quarrels and disruptions of friendships\nwill follow this dream.\n\nFor a young woman to see clear bottles of ammonia, foretells she\nwill be deceived in the character and intentions of some person\nwhom she considers friendly." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "ammunition", "title": "Ammunition", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of ammunition, foretells the undertaking of some work, which promises fruitful completion.”", "aliases": [ "ammunition" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about ammunition stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0081", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Ammunition", "text": "To dream of ammunition, foretells the undertaking of some work,\nwhich promises fruitful completion. To dream your ammunition\nis exhausted, denotes fruitless struggles and endeavors.", "locator": "Heading 81; source lines 2416–2422", "lineStart": 2416, "lineEnd": 2422, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of ammunition, foretells the undertaking of some work,\nwhich promises fruitful completion. To dream your ammunition\nis exhausted, denotes fruitless struggles and endeavors." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "amorous", "title": "Amorous", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream you are amorous, warns you against personal desires and pleasures, as they are threatening to engulf you in scandal.”", "aliases": [ "amorous" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about amorous stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0082", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Amorous", "text": "To dream you are amorous, warns you against personal desires and pleasures,\nas they are threatening to engulf you in scandal.\n\nFor a young woman it portends illicit engagements, unless she chooses\nstaid and moral companions. For a married woman, it foreshadows\ndiscontent and desire for pleasure outside the home.\n\nTo see others amorous, foretells that you will be persuaded to neglect\nyour moral obligations. To see animals thus, denotes you will engage\nin degrading pleasures with fast men or women.", "locator": "Heading 82; source lines 2422–2435", "lineStart": 2422, "lineEnd": 2435, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are amorous, warns you against personal desires and pleasures,\nas they are threatening to engulf you in scandal.\n\nFor a young woman it portends illicit engagements, unless she chooses\nstaid and moral companions. For a married woman, it foreshadows\ndiscontent and desire for pleasure outside the home.\n\nTo see others amorous, foretells that you will be persuaded to neglect\nyour moral obligations. To see animals thus, denotes you will engage\nin degrading pleasures with fast men or women." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "amplifier", "title": "Amplifier", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "kind": "modern", "aliases": [ "amplifier", "amplifiers", "audio amplifier" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "summary": "An amplifier can explore how a sound is made available, who adjusts its contribution and whether its scale fits the occasion and listeners.", "tagline": "The device between a contribution and the room receiving it.", "psychological": "An amplifier in a dream can make the arrangement between a sound and its listeners visible. The instrument, recording or other source is separate from the device that changes how it occupies a setting. This can picture a contribution needing a workable channel, as when a shared explanation reaches some people but not the whole group. The focus is on what the device makes possible, rather than a fixed code about confidence or having a stronger voice.\n\nA modest sound reaching the back of a room can be satisfying because the occasion becomes more accessible. You do not have to change the contribution itself to let more people participate in it. A waking comparison might be adjusting the format of an explanation or making an existing resource available where it is needed. Greater attention is not necessarily the aim.\n\nIf a small adjustment makes the sound overwhelm everything else, the response may exceed what you wanted. This can resemble a useful message receiving a scale that prevents other parts of an activity from having room. Turning the level down within the dream may preserve the contribution while changing its place. The scene need not make quietness or prominence inherently better.\n\nWho controls the amplifier can introduce a separate relationship. You may be playing while another person handles the setting, and the task becomes easier when you can communicate what would fit. This can picture a contribution relying on a practical role performed by somebody else. The arrangement may be cooperative or frustrating without disclosing anyone’s actual intentions.\n\nA familiar recording sounding different through the device can give the channel a noticeable effect on how an account is received. This differs from changing the source itself. A shared amplifier remaining with a group when you leave may instead keep a resource available beyond your own part in the occasion. Recent rehearsals, recordings or equipment can supply direct context. These reflections concern the dreamed source, adjustment and listening arrangement; they do not measure hearing, explain sound physics or establish that amplification always makes an expression more truthful or valuable.", "traditional": "No specific historical Amplifier passage is supplied. The original reading concerns an identified audio device used with a source and listeners. Older guitar and musical-instrument forecasts do not define this connected device, and general NINDS background does not validate its symbolic readings.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Reach fitted to a listening occasion", "reflection": "The device may help an existing contribution become available where it is wanted." }, { "title": "Scale with room for other parts", "reflection": "A level can make a contribution usable or let it overwhelm an activity it was meant to serve." }, { "title": "A shared role between source and audience", "reflection": "Adjustment and continuing access can involve somebody other than the person making the sound." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "A quiet practice passage reaches people at the back of the room", "reflection": "The arrangement makes an existing contribution available without requiring a different performance. This may picture satisfaction in finding a channel that fits its audience. A shared explanation or resource can offer a waking comparison when practical access matters more than receiving exceptional attention for yourself." }, { "title": "A tiny adjustment makes the sound occupy the whole occasion", "reflection": "The device changes the scale beyond what you intended. This may picture a contribution receiving attention that leaves other parts of an activity little room. The useful question concerns proportion within the dreamed occasion, rather than loudness establishing confidence, aggression or an actual response from other people." }, { "title": "A lower level lets your part remain alongside another player’s", "reflection": "The contribution keeps its place without becoming the only thing the group can hear. This may picture a workable allocation of attention among wanted parts. Satisfaction can come from coexistence within the activity, rather than needing to withdraw your contribution entirely or make it the leading one." }, { "title": "Another person adjusts the amplifier while you continue playing", "reflection": "The result depends on cooperation between two practical roles. This may picture wanting a clear exchange with someone who handles the conditions around your contribution. An adjustment understood together can feel useful; a mismatch can concern the arrangement without proving that the other person intends to misrepresent you." }, { "title": "A familiar recording sounds different through the amplifier", "reflection": "The source is recognizable while its presentation has changed. This may picture an account being received through a channel that gives it another emphasis. A familiar story introduced in a formal setting may offer a comparison when the same material acquires a different place within the occasion." }, { "title": "The shared amplifier stays with the group when your part ends", "reflection": "The resource remains available after your own contribution is complete. This may picture leaving a useful arrangement in place for other participants, without having to maintain every role yourself. The occasion can continue through shared access while your relationship with it changes in an ordinary and workable way." } ], "prompts": [ "What source and listeners did the amplifier connect in this scene?", "How did the level fit the parts of the occasion you wanted to keep available?", "What changed through the person controlling or continuing to use the device?" ], "related": [ "music", "musical-instruments", "guitar", "microphone" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "amputation", "title": "Amputation", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Ordinary amputation of limbs, denotes small offices lost.”", "aliases": [ "amputation" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about amputation stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0083", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Amputation", "text": "Ordinary amputation of limbs, denotes small offices lost;\nthe loss of entire legs or arms, unusual depression in trade.\nTo seamen, storm and loss of property. Afflicted persons\nshould be warned to watchfulness after this dream.", "locator": "Heading 83; source lines 2435–2442", "lineStart": 2435, "lineEnd": 2442, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Ordinary amputation of limbs, denotes small offices lost;\nthe loss of entire legs or arms, unusual depression in trade.\nTo seamen, storm and loss of property. Afflicted persons\nshould be warned to watchfulness after this dream." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "amusement-park", "title": "Amusement park", "category": "Places", "aliases": [ "amusement park", "amusement parks", "theme park", "theme parks" ], "summary": "An amusement park may explore choosing pleasure, coordinating different wishes, or the effort between you and an activity you want. Crowds and access matter.", "tagline": "Many possible pleasures, limited time, and deciding whose day you are arranging.", "psychological": "An amusement park offers more activities than you can necessarily fit into one visit. In a dream, that can make choosing pleasure surprisingly difficult. You may rush between attractions, spend the whole time planning, or settle happily on something simple. This could fit free time that has become an itinerary to complete, or wanting permission to enjoy one thing without maximizing every opportunity. The abundance matters through the pace it creates for you.\n\nOther people's preferences can turn the visit into a shared arrangement. One person wants a dramatic ride, another wants food or rest, and you may become responsible for everyone's satisfaction. A family outing, holiday, or social plan could provide a waking parallel. Cooperation that leaves room for different choices differs from the expectation that you keep the whole group happy at the cost of your own participation.\n\nAccess introduces another subject. Tickets, queues, opening times, and closed attractions can place work between wanting an experience and having it. The scene might resemble spending so much time arranging leisure that little remains for enjoyment. A clear entry process may make anticipation pleasurable; repeated barriers may instead concern a plan dependent on conditions you cannot control.\n\nA familiar park can also bring an earlier period into view. An attraction may seem smaller now, or the place you remember may no longer offer what you expected. You could be revisiting a form of excitement or company while realizing your present preferences differ. An empty park can feel peaceful, disappointing, or eerie, with each response changing the reading. A visit, photograph, or film may explain the setting directly. The dream's useful subject may be how pleasure is chosen and shared, not a judgment that your life needs more excitement.", "traditional": "No matching historical amusement-park passage is supplied. This is original context about a recreation setting, available choices, shared plans, and the arrangements needed to participate. A festival, a single ride, and a whole park have different scopes. The imagined attractions do not promise pleasure or forecast that an expected opportunity will close.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Pleasure becomes a schedule", "reflection": "Many attractions can make enjoyment feel like something to organize perfectly. Choosing one activity may fit a wish for sufficient pleasure without turning the whole day into a performance." }, { "title": "Different wishes in one group", "reflection": "A shared outing can make coordination visible. The question may be enough room for each preference, rather than making one person responsible for everyone's satisfaction." }, { "title": "The effort before enjoyment", "reflection": "Tickets, queues, and closures can put preparation between you and the activity. A workable arrangement supports anticipation; repeated barriers may leave the planned pleasure unavailable." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You rush between attractions without using any", "reflection": "Planning consumes the time meant for enjoyment. This may fit trying to make a weekend or holiday satisfy too many possibilities. Choosing one modest activity can change the scene toward participation, while continued rushing may leave the desired pleasure always ahead." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Your ticket will not allow entry", "reflection": "You arrive ready, but a missing or unclear condition keeps you at the gate. This can resemble an activity whose access rules were not explained. A practical resolution differs from treating the barrier as a personal rejection or a prediction of disappointment." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Everyone wants a different activity", "reflection": "The group cannot find a plan that includes every preference. This may make the work of organizing a gathering visible. Splitting up by agreement can offer a different kind of togetherness from insisting that everyone enjoy the same route all day." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "The queue never reaches the attraction", "reflection": "You keep waiting while the reward remains out of reach. This may fit an arrangement where preparation or procedure occupies the whole experience. A chance to leave or choose something else changes the question from enduring the wait to deciding what participation is worth." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A favorite attraction is closed", "reflection": "A remembered source of pleasure is unavailable when you return. This may concern a changed relationship to an earlier activity or a plan dependent on shared resources. Disappointment can matter without requiring you to discover a better opportunity immediately." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You walk through the park after everyone leaves", "reflection": "The setting loses its crowds and usual pace. Quiet may offer a different pleasure in a place normally associated with activity. If the empty grounds feel lonely or unsettling, companionship or an expected occasion may be what you miss rather than excitement itself." } ], "prompts": [ "Was I enjoying an activity, planning for it, or trying to fit in every possibility?", "Whose preferences shaped the route, and did mine have room?", "Which ticket, queue, closure, or agreement affected access to the pleasure I wanted?" ], "related": [ "roller-coaster", "playground", "party", "childhood-home", "being-late" ], "type": "dreams", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original image-specific interpretation with distinct personal possibilities and everyday context; no matching historical passage supplied. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "an-account-being-hacked", "title": "An account being hacked", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "tagline": "Someone else appears to control a space that carries your name.", "summary": "A hacked account can threaten access, privacy, or how you are represented. Notice what the intruder changed and what you tried to protect first.", "aliases": [ "an account being hacked", "account being hacked" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "The dream may focus on private information, lost work, strangers contacting your friends, or the frustration of proving ownership. Those are different experiences of losing control. You might reflect on which part felt most personal and who helped you regain access. This scene is not evidence that an account has actually been compromised. If the dream included a specific alert or message, distinguish that remembered detail from anything independently observed while awake.", "traditional": "Account takeover belongs to digital life. Older images of impersonation or intrusion offer only a comparison; they do not establish a traditional meaning for hacking.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "Messages were sent in your name", "reflection": "The concern may be representation rather than access alone. Who did you most want to tell that the words were not yours?" }, { "title": "You were locked out", "reflection": "Ownership and permission came apart. What proof did the system ask for, and could you provide it?" }, { "title": "A friend helped recover the account", "reflection": "Notice whether support changed the experience from isolation to a shared problem. What did they believe without needing proof?" } ], "prompts": [ "What did I protect before anything else?", "What felt taken: information, access, trust, or control over my name?", "Who recognized me despite the changed account?" ], "related": [ "a-forgotten-phone-password", "a-social-media-account-disappearing" ], "sources": [], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection draft, written for this specific modern scene. Suggested connections are exploratory, not established dream meanings. Individual editorial review remains pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "an-ai-copying-your-creative-work", "title": "An AI copying your creative work", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "tagline": "Seeing a system reproduce your work can raise questions about authorship, recognition, consent, and the part of making that feels yours.", "summary": "Seeing a system reproduce your work can raise questions about authorship, recognition, consent, and the part of making that feels yours.", "aliases": [ "ai stealing artwork dream", "generative ai copying my writing" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "Was the copy accurate, distorted, publicly praised, or useful to you? Different reactions may coexist: fascination with the result and anger about missing consent. Explore what you wanted acknowledged—labor, personal history, skill, or ownership—without treating the dream as evidence of real infringement. If you have been working with these tools or following debate about them, that immediate context deserves a place beside symbolic reflection.", "traditional": "Historical imitation and invention entries do not address generative systems or contemporary authorship arrangements. This draft does not use them to settle an ethical or legal dispute; its focus is the dreamer’s experience of making and recognition.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "A generated work carries someone else’s name", "reflection": "Which part of the credit mattered most to you?" }, { "title": "The imitation gets a personal detail wrong", "reflection": "What about the original could not be reduced to its surface style?" }, { "title": "You choose to collaborate with the tool", "reflection": "What conditions made the assistance feel voluntary and useful?" } ], "prompts": [ "What did you regard as distinctly yours in the work?", "Was consent asked for or assumed?", "What kind of acknowledgment would have changed the scene?" ], "related": [ "imitation", "inventor" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia model-assisted editorial draft. Reflection questions and scenario readings are optional, individually written suggestions, not empirically validated symbol meanings. Source scope is stated with each citation. Historical comparisons identify topics, not inherited interpretations. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "airplane", "title": "An airplane", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "A chosen destination, a shared journey, and a view from above.", "summary": "An airplane dream can change your view, your destination, or your sense of control. Your role aboard and the stage of the journey matter.", "aliases": [ "an airplane", "airplane", "aeroplane", "plane crash", "airplane crash", "plane", "a plane", "flight", "jet", "air travel", "turbulence" ], "status": "REVIEW", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "An airplane brings distance into a manageable journey while placing much of the movement outside a passenger’s control. In a dream, that combination can feel liberating, tedious, exciting, or frightening. Identify your role first: passenger, pilot, crew member, or someone watching from the ground. The role determines what you could choose and what you expected others to manage.\n\nThe stage of travel can locate the dream’s concern. Waiting to board emphasises preparation and access; taking off changes your relationship to the ground; cruising creates an interval; landing returns you to decisions at the destination. If the plane never reaches anywhere, consider whether the suspended journey felt restful or frustrating. It need not imply that your life is stalled. A recent trip, a planned visit, or travel footage can provide a straightforward source.\n\nCompanions and destinations may matter more than the aircraft. You might travel toward someone, leave a familiar place, or realise you boarded without knowing where you were going. Compare those details with actual choices about distance and connection. A dream destination is not a forecast, and a surprising seatmate does not reveal another person’s wishes. Their significance can remain personal and uncertain.\n\nWhen the scene becomes frightening, describe the actual problem: turbulence, a missed landing, no pilot, or a cabin that changes shape. Those are different images of uncertainty. Calm flight deserves the same care. Looking down at a landscape may offer a sense of perspective, while a cramped cabin may focus on proximity to strangers. Record the view, the available space, and whether you could ask for what you needed.", "traditional": "No verified historical passage for this airplane context is used here. Older images of flight, balloons, or early flying machines are distinct subjects and cannot establish a traditional interpretation of present-day cabins, airport procedures, or passenger travel. This entry attaches no prediction to a flight or its outcome.\n\nModern travel gives dreams plenty of ordinary material: documents, luggage limits, seat assignments, announcements, unfamiliar food, and waiting in a place between destinations. A real journey can be represented accurately in one detail and impossibly in another. Write both down rather than treating the accurate portion as proof that the whole scene has special authority. If you have never flown, identify where your picture of aviation comes from. An imagined cabin based on a film may be as useful to reflect on as a remembered one.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "Taking off with no known destination", "reflection": "Notice whether not knowing felt adventurous or alarming. The scene may explore openness, uncertainty, or simply the excitement of movement. Record what made you board and whether you later tried to learn where the plane was going." }, { "title": "Turbulence while others remain calm", "reflection": "The difference between your reaction and the cabin’s can make the dream about reassurance or feeling alone with concern. Describe whom you looked to for information. Their calm in the dream does not establish whether a waking concern is reasonable." }, { "title": "Piloting a plane you have never flown", "reflection": "The unexpected role can bring confidence, pressure, or wonder. Notice which controls you understood and who relied on you. Compare with a responsibility you are learning, while allowing the scene to be imaginative play rather than a test of readiness." } ], "prompts": [ "What was your role, and what could you control?", "Who or what waited at the destination?", "Which stage of the journey carried the strongest feeling?" ], "related": [ "flying", "missing-a-flight-or-train", "falling", "driving-out-of-control", "being-late" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia expansion written on 2026-10-13, awaiting human publication review. Interpretations are conditional invitations to reflection, not validated symbolic meanings, predictions, diagnoses, or evidence about other people. Historical coverage is identified separately from original everyday context; research citations provide general context only.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "an-apology-that-is-not-heard", "title": "An apology that is not heard", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "Trying to apologize without being heard can focus on repair, the limits of explanation, and another person’s freedom to respond.", "summary": "Trying to apologize without being heard can focus on repair, the limits of explanation, and another person’s freedom to respond.", "aliases": [ "trying to apologize in a dream", "apology ignored dream" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "Separate wanting to acknowledge harm from wanting immediate forgiveness or relief from discomfort. Perhaps the barrier was noise, mistrust, or the other person’s decision not to engage. A dream apology does not prove you committed a hidden wrong. If it recalls a real disagreement, consider what you could take responsibility for without assuming you can determine the other person’s timing or reaction.", "traditional": "Older pardon and atonement entries may connect forgiveness to moral or religious systems. This page makes no ruling about guilt or absolution and treats repair as a specific relationship question.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "Your words are drowned out by a crowd", "reflection": "What did you most need to communicate clearly?" }, { "title": "The person understands but is not ready to forgive", "reflection": "Could acknowledgment be meaningful without immediate reconciliation?" }, { "title": "You write an apology and leave it with them", "reflection": "What changes when you release control over when they respond?" } ], "prompts": [ "What were you trying to take responsibility for?", "Did you want to be understood, forgiven, or reassured?", "What part of repair was within your control?" ], "related": [ "pardon", "quarrel", "voice" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia model-assisted editorial draft. Reflection questions and scenario readings are optional, individually written suggestions, not empirically validated symbol meanings. Source scope is stated with each citation. Historical comparisons identify topics, not inherited interpretations. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "an-automated-customer-support-loop", "title": "An automated customer support loop", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "tagline": "Being sent through an automated support loop can center the frustration of having a specific problem that a system cannot hear.", "summary": "Being sent through an automated support loop can center the frustration of having a specific problem that a system cannot hear.", "aliases": [ "customer service chatbot loop", "automated helpline dream" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "Write down the actual issue you wanted solved and the irrelevant options you were given. The emotional center may be helplessness, anger at wasted effort, or relief when a person finally understands. This is not evidence that help is unavailable in waking life. It can be useful to ask whether you needed technical expertise, decision-making authority, or simple acknowledgment rather than treating all forms of assistance as interchangeable.", "traditional": "A modern support bot is not represented directly by historical messenger or adviser entries. Comparisons with those roles are editorial; this draft does not portray a computer response as an oracle or a hidden personal judgment.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "Every menu sends you back to the beginning", "reflection": "Which part of your problem never fits the available choices?" }, { "title": "The bot repeatedly says the issue is resolved", "reflection": "What is the difference between being marked complete and actually being helped?" }, { "title": "A human asks one relevant question", "reflection": "What did accurate listening change before any repair occurred?" } ], "prompts": [ "What did you need someone to understand?", "Which kind of authority could have solved the problem?", "At what point did you consider another route to help?" ], "related": [ "assistance" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia model-assisted editorial draft. Reflection questions and scenario readings are optional, individually written suggestions, not empirically validated symbol meanings. Source scope is stated with each citation. Historical comparisons identify topics, not inherited interpretations. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "an-embarrassing-old-post", "title": "An embarrassing old post", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "tagline": "A record of an earlier self enters your present audience.", "summary": "An embarrassing old post can bring an earlier identity or mistake into the present. Notice whether you wanted to explain, remove, or make peace with it.", "aliases": [ "an embarrassing old post", "embarrassing old post" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "The post might be harmless, unkind, inaccurate, or simply unlike the person you feel you are now. That distinction matters. You might use the scene to consider change, responsibility, or the difficulty of being represented by an old fragment. Notice whether the audience allowed context and growth. The dream does not establish that a forgotten mistake is about to return; it gives you a particular encounter between past words and present feelings.", "traditional": "An old digital post combines memory with a persistent public record. The historical archive does not supply a direct meaning for that combination.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "The post was awkward but harmless", "reflection": "You may have felt judged for an earlier style or stage of life. Did you treat that past version of yourself kindly?" }, { "title": "The post had hurt someone", "reflection": "The scene may invite reflection on responsibility and repair. What response seemed fair to the person affected?" }, { "title": "Someone shared it without context", "reflection": "An old fragment became a complete story about you. What context did you want to add?" } ], "prompts": [ "What specifically embarrassed me about the post?", "What has changed since the version of me who wrote it?", "Did I want understanding, repair, concealment, or something else?" ], "related": [ "going-viral-unexpectedly" ], "sources": [], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection draft, written for this specific modern scene. Suggested connections are exploratory, not established dream meanings. Individual editorial review remains pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "an-endless-social-media-feed", "title": "An endless social media feed", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "tagline": "There is always one more item, but no natural place to stop.", "summary": "An endless feed can keep promising something interesting while delaying an ending. Notice what you searched for and whether scrolling felt chosen or automatic.", "aliases": [ "an endless social media feed", "endless social media feed" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "The feed might contain things you enjoyed, comparisons that hurt, urgent news, or the same post repeated. Identify its content before describing it as distraction. You might reflect on an unfinished search for information, contact, reassurance, or simple entertainment. The dream can also reproduce the familiar gesture of scrolling without carrying a larger message. The key turning point may be when you noticed time passing or remembered something outside the screen.", "traditional": "Infinite scrolling has no direct historical entry. Calling it a journey, maze, or crowd is a modern comparison that should remain open to your own experience.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "You searched for one post you had lost", "reflection": "The scene may concern recovering something specific. What made that item feel important among everything else?" }, { "title": "The same material kept returning", "reflection": "Repetition may have made the feed feel predictable or trapping. What did you hope would appear next?" }, { "title": "You looked up and the surroundings had changed", "reflection": "The dream put screen time beside another event. What had you missed, and how did you feel about it?" } ], "prompts": [ "What was I hoping the next item would give me?", "At what point did I want to stop?", "What, if anything, drew me back into the room around me?" ], "related": [ "a-follower-count-changing" ], "sources": [], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection draft, written for this specific modern scene. Suggested connections are exploratory, not established dream meanings. Individual editorial review remains pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "an-escalator-reversing-direction", "title": "An escalator reversing direction", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "A reversing escalator changes the rules under your feet. Notice the balance between your own effort and the system carrying you.", "summary": "A reversing escalator changes the rules under your feet. Notice the balance between your own effort and the system carrying you.", "aliases": [ "reversing escalator dream", "escalator moving backward" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "Were you trying to reach a destination or simply remain steady? The machine’s reversal can invite reflection on progress affected by conditions you did not choose. It does not mean you are secretly resisting success. Other people’s pace may add pressure, but you may also find support in a handrail, a landing, or permission to step aside. Record the practical choices the dream actually allowed.", "traditional": "Historical stair and ascent imagery predates escalators that supply their own movement. A comparison with effort or progress is contemporary editorial reflection, not a universal rule that upward motion is good and downward motion bad.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "The escalator reverses while you are halfway up", "reflection": "How did you adjust when the environment changed before your goal did?" }, { "title": "Everyone behind you urges you to hurry", "reflection": "Did their urgency help or make balance harder?" }, { "title": "You step off and take a stationary route", "reflection": "What became easier when movement was under your own control?" } ], "prompts": [ "Was reaching the top more important than staying safe and steady?", "What changed without your consent?", "Which alternative route became visible?" ], "related": [ "stairs", "elevator", "running-but-going-nowhere" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia model-assisted editorial draft. Reflection questions and scenario readings are optional, individually written suggestions, not empirically validated symbol meanings. Source scope is stated with each citation. Historical comparisons identify topics, not inherited interpretations. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "inne-keeper", "title": "An Inne-keeper", "type": "dreams", "category": "Other symbols", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Artemidorus wrote: “AN Inne-kéeper which kéeps a publike Inne, signifieth death to the sick, he therfore representeth death, because like as death, so he…”", "aliases": [ "an inne-keeper", "of an inne-keeper" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about an inne-keeper stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "artemidorus-162", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of an Inne-keeper.", "text": "AN Inne-kéeper which kéeps a publike Inne, signifieth death to the sick, he therfore representeth death, because like as death, so he entertaineth all persons: to others it is trouble and heaviness[illegible passage], danger, and travell. The Inne signifieth the same as the Inne-kéeper.", "locator": "Book 3, encoded section 162", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription-with-gaps", "book": "3", "displayText": "AN Inne-kéeper which kéeps a publike Inne, signifieth death to the sick, he therfore representeth death, because like as death, so he entertaineth all persons: to others it is trouble and heaviness [illegible passage], danger, and travell. The Inne signifieth the same as the Inne-kéeper." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "an-interpreter-changing-your-words", "title": "An interpreter changing your words", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "A mistranslated message can raise questions about representation: who speaks for you, what gets lost, and how you can correct the record.", "summary": "A mistranslated message can raise questions about representation: who speaks for you, what gets lost, and how you can correct the record.", "aliases": [ "mistranslation dream", "translator misrepresenting me" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "Identify what changed between your intended words and the translation. A softened request, an exaggerated accusation, and a missing qualification create different risks. The dream offers a scene for reflecting on delegated voice, not evidence that an actual interpreter or intermediary is dishonest. Notice whether you could check the translation or whether the structure required trust without giving you a way to verify.", "traditional": "The archive’s interpreter topic does not provide a universal reading of contemporary mediation. This draft focuses on accuracy and agency rather than treating linguistic difference as deceit.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "A polite request becomes an insult", "reflection": "What mattered about having your intention represented accurately?" }, { "title": "The interpreter omits the most important condition", "reflection": "Which boundary disappeared when someone summarized you?" }, { "title": "You find a way to address the listener directly", "reflection": "What support helped your own voice become available?" } ], "prompts": [ "What exact meaning was changed or omitted?", "Could you ask for clarification without losing standing?", "Who benefited from the altered version in the dream?" ], "related": [ "interpreter", "message", "mistake" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia model-assisted editorial draft. Reflection questions and scenario readings are optional, individually written suggestions, not empirically validated symbol meanings. Source scope is stated with each citation. Historical comparisons identify topics, not inherited interpretations. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "an-interview-at-a-border-crossing", "title": "An interview at a border crossing", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "A border interview can make travel depend on explaining yourself to an authority that decides whether your documents and story are enough.", "summary": "A border interview can make travel depend on explaining yourself to an authority that decides whether your documents and story are enough.", "aliases": [ "border control interview dream", "immigration checkpoint dream" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "The central pressure may be uncertainty about rules, fear of being misunderstood, or the wish to reach people on the other side. Consider any direct experience with migration or travel before reaching for metaphor. A dream refusal is not immigration advice or a forecast. Notice whether the questioning allowed complexity and whether you had someone who could help you understand what was being asked.", "traditional": "Historical exile and foreign-travel entries arise from particular political worlds. This draft does not label a country or traveler lucky, suspicious, or out of place, and it makes no traditional ruling about belonging.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "The officer asks for a document no one mentioned", "reflection": "How did a changing requirement affect your sense of fairness?" }, { "title": "You explain your purpose and are listened to carefully", "reflection": "What made the authority feel accountable as well as powerful?" }, { "title": "Your family is waiting beyond the barrier", "reflection": "How did separation change the weight of each question?" } ], "prompts": [ "What did you need permission to do?", "Were the rules clear and consistently applied?", "What part of your story was difficult to fit into a short answer?" ], "related": [ "abroad" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia model-assisted editorial draft. Reflection questions and scenario readings are optional, individually written suggestions, not empirically validated symbol meanings. Source scope is stated with each citation. Historical comparisons identify topics, not inherited interpretations. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "an-online-exam-watched-by-a-proctor", "title": "An online exam watched by a proctor", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "tagline": "An assessment conducted through another person’s view", "summary": "A remote proctored exam may stage the difference between showing knowledge, being observable and having ordinary actions understood.", "aliases": [ "remote proctored exam dream", "webcam exam monitoring" ], "status": "REVIEW", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A remote proctored exam brings assessment into a private setting while somebody else observes it through a screen. In the dream, answering the questions and satisfying the conditions of observation may become separate tasks. You might understand the material yet worry about where the camera points, who enters the room or whether an ordinary movement will be understood. Begin with which part actually interrupts your attention.\n\nBeing visible does not guarantee being understood. Looking toward a sound, searching for an allowed item or shifting in your chair may receive an unexpected response from the dreamed proctor or system. This could resemble a situation in which a narrow view of your actions carries more weight than their context. The dream does not establish that you cheated, were monitored in waking life or that any particular examination service behaves this way.\n\nThe room can make a public requirement difficult to separate from daily life. A family member appears, personal objects remain in view or the only quiet space lacks the arrangement requested. A current obligation may similarly require you to turn a shared or private environment into a suitable performance setting. Notice what privacy and practical access mean within this specific dream.\n\nTechnical interruption can affect fairness rather than knowledge. A frozen connection, an answer that cannot be submitted or a timer that continues through a break may make the conditions feel outside your control. What matters is how the dream responds: someone explains the procedure, the interruption is ignored or you cannot contact anybody. A useful comparison might involve accountability without a dependable route for explaining circumstances.\n\nSupervision can also help. A proctor clarifying a rule or distinguishing an interruption from misconduct can make the process more usable. This does not have to turn the whole encounter into either reassurance or threat. Actual remote exams, calls, camera arrangements and stories may supply the details directly. The original possibilities concern how your work becomes visible, how context reaches its observer and whether the assessment offers a workable response when circumstances change.", "traditional": "No exact historical account is attached for a webcam-proctored examination. General stories of tests or surveillance would not establish this specific medium or its procedures. These original reflections do not turn a dreamed warning into a confession. The general sleep source does not validate claims about monitoring or examination technology.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "Looking toward a noise produces a warning", "reflection": "An ordinary response is treated as suspicious within the dream. This may resemble being judged from incomplete context rather than concern about the answer itself. Notice whether you can explain the sound; the warning does not establish misconduct or a real monitoring event." }, { "title": "The connection freezes while the exam clock continues", "reflection": "A technical interruption consumes time that the task still assumes you possess. This could fit responsibility under conditions you cannot fully control. The proctor's response helps distinguish a problem with the process from an imagined verdict about your preparation or ability." }, { "title": "A family member enters the room during the assessment", "reflection": "Shared life crosses the boundary of a monitored task. This may picture difficulty creating uninterrupted space for a public obligation. Record what the person needs and how you respond; their presence need not become proof that your household prevents you from succeeding." }, { "title": "You must move personal belongings before the camera view is accepted", "reflection": "Participation requires changing what another person can see. The scene may explore the practical and private cost of making a space suitable for observation. Notice which objects matter to you, rather than assuming every request to rearrange the room feels equally intrusive." }, { "title": "The proctor explains a rule before you begin", "reflection": "Observation becomes a source of usable information. This may resemble wanting standards stated early enough to guide the work, instead of appearing only as corrections. Record what becomes clearer and whether you can ask questions; supportive supervision still has particular limits and responsibilities." }, { "title": "You finish but cannot reach anyone to explain a failed submission", "reflection": "The work and its receipt are separate, while the route for resolving the gap is absent. This may fit a process that asks for accountability without accessible communication. A completed answer remains part of the dream even when confirmation never arrives." } ], "prompts": [ "What part of the monitored exam drew attention away from the questions?", "How did the observer understand or misunderstand the context of your actions?", "What made the process usable, private or difficult to participate in?" ], "related": [ "school-or-exam", "camera", "homework", "being-judged", "accuse" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection independently reviewed for content and source scope. Historical accounts remain attributed period writing. Human publication review pending.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Visible action and missing context", "reflection": "A camera view may capture behavior without its reason, making interpretation by an observer part of the dreamed pressure." }, { "title": "Private space under public rules", "reflection": "The room's ordinary uses can conflict with what an assessment expects to see." }, { "title": "A route for explanation", "reflection": "Support depends partly on whether an interruption can be described and addressed within the process." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "an-online-form-with-no-truthful-answer", "title": "An online form with no truthful answer", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "tagline": "A form that cannot describe your circumstances can make belonging depend on categories that fail to fit your actual life.", "summary": "A form that cannot describe your circumstances can make belonging depend on categories that fail to fit your actual life.", "aliases": [ "form options do not fit dream", "no correct answer on a form" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "Notice which part of your situation the form could not hold: name, family arrangement, work, address, or an explanation with more than one answer. The dream can help you articulate the cost of simplifying yourself for a system. It does not mean your situation is invalid. Whether you protested, improvised, or abandoned the form may show what choice was available under that particular pressure.", "traditional": "Historical registers and official documents belong to earlier systems of classification. This page does not grant those systems authority over identity; the reflective question is whether the categories serve the person asked to use them.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "You must select an option that is inaccurate", "reflection": "What would be lost or misrepresented if you complied?" }, { "title": "A free-text box keeps erasing your explanation", "reflection": "What complexity were you trying to make room for?" }, { "title": "Someone accepts a different way to document your situation", "reflection": "How did flexibility change your sense of legitimacy?" } ], "prompts": [ "Which detail could the form not represent?", "What depended on completing it?", "Who could change the rules or accept another kind of answer?" ], "related": [ "register", "label", "officer" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia model-assisted editorial draft. Reflection questions and scenario readings are optional, individually written suggestions, not empirically validated symbol meanings. Source scope is stated with each citation. Historical comparisons identify topics, not inherited interpretations. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "an-online-memorial-for-someone", "title": "An online memorial for someone", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "tagline": "An online memorial gathers private grief into a shared record. Notice who contributes, what is remembered, and what remains difficult to express.", "summary": "An online memorial gathers private grief into a shared record. Notice who contributes, what is remembered, and what remains difficult to express.", "aliases": [ "digital memorial dream", "memorial page online" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "The page may hold comfort in shared memories or discomfort at seeing a complex person reduced to a few public stories. Explore the difference between your own relationship and the version presented to an audience. A memorial dream does not predict a death or convey verified communication from the person. If you contribute, the words you choose may be a useful record of what you want witnessed.", "traditional": "Memorial practices have long histories, but profile pages, public comments, and digital permanence create new conditions. This entry does not attach a single ancestral or afterlife belief to an online remembrance.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "Strangers share memories you have never heard", "reflection": "What did learning about another part of the person’s life bring up?" }, { "title": "You cannot decide what to post", "reflection": "Which part of the relationship resisted a public summary?" }, { "title": "A quiet comment makes you feel less alone", "reflection": "What kind of acknowledgment reached you?" } ], "prompts": [ "Was the memorial comforting, exposing, or unexpectedly impersonal?", "What would you want remembered in your own words?", "Did the audience fit the intimacy of what was shared?" ], "related": [ "memorial", "deceased-loved-one", "a-social-media-account-disappearing" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia model-assisted editorial draft. Reflection questions and scenario readings are optional, individually written suggestions, not empirically validated symbol meanings. Source scope is stated with each citation. Historical comparisons identify topics, not inherited interpretations. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "an-online-return-being-rejected", "title": "An online return being rejected", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "tagline": "A rejected return can focus on fairness, proof, and whether a decision may be revised after an item proves unsuitable.", "summary": "A rejected return can focus on fairness, proof, and whether a decision may be revised after an item proves unsuitable.", "aliases": [ "return rejected dream", "cannot return online purchase" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "What made the item wrong: a defect, a mismatch with the description, or a change in your needs? The response of the seller matters as much as the object. You might reflect on feeling stuck with a choice, but avoid assuming the dream blames you for choosing poorly. A policy that ignores relevant circumstances can create frustration even when you acted reasonably.", "traditional": "Historical buying and trading entries often frame transactions as omens of gain or loss. This draft instead considers the particular terms of a modern exchange and makes no prediction about finances.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "The parcel returns to your doorstep unopened", "reflection": "Did the refusal feel like your explanation had never been considered?" }, { "title": "You have the receipt but the system rejects it", "reflection": "What proof did you expect others to recognize?" }, { "title": "The seller offers a repair that actually helps", "reflection": "Would a workable remedy matter more than reversing the original choice?" } ], "prompts": [ "Why did you want to return the item?", "Were the rules clear before you made the purchase?", "What response would have felt proportionate and fair?" ], "related": [ "buying", "parcel", "accounts" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia model-assisted editorial draft. Reflection questions and scenario readings are optional, individually written suggestions, not empirically validated symbol meanings. Source scope is stated with each citation. Historical comparisons identify topics, not inherited interpretations. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "an-overflowing-inbox", "title": "An overflowing inbox", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "tagline": "Every new message seems to arrive with a claim on your time.", "summary": "An overflowing inbox can make demands feel impossible to sort. Notice whether you were searching for one important message or trying to answer everything.", "aliases": [ "an overflowing inbox", "overflowing inbox" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "The number of messages may be less useful than the rules you felt you had to follow. Did every sender deserve an immediate reply? Were you afraid a request would disappear beneath the pile? You might use the scene to reflect on priorities, availability, or work that becomes invisible once completed. If the messages were exciting invitations, the same full inbox could feel like abundance rather than burden. Keep that difference in your account.", "traditional": "An email inbox belongs to modern work and communication. Comparing it with a pile of letters cannot supply a universal meaning for its volume or urgency.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "New mail replaced every message you answered", "reflection": "Completion kept moving away. Was the task itself endless, or did the dream require an impossible standard?" }, { "title": "One important email was missing", "reflection": "The problem may have been finding what mattered, not simply having too much. Who or what were you waiting for?" }, { "title": "You deleted the whole inbox", "reflection": "The action may have felt decisive, frightening, or freeing. What consequences followed in the dream?" } ], "prompts": [ "Which message would I have answered first if I could choose?", "What rule made every message urgent?", "Was there anyone whose request I felt allowed to decline?" ], "related": [ "a-calendar-full-of-meetings", "an-unread-message" ], "sources": [], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection draft, written for this specific modern scene. Suggested connections are exploratory, not established dream meanings. Individual editorial review remains pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "an-unexpected-menstrual-period", "title": "An unexpected menstrual period", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "Unexpected menstrual bleeding in a dream can involve timing, privacy, preparation, or relief. A dream does not establish a bodily diagnosis.", "summary": "Unexpected menstrual bleeding in a dream can involve timing, privacy, preparation, or relief. A dream does not establish a bodily diagnosis.", "aliases": [ "period starting in a dream", "menstruation dream" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "Notice whether the period was surprising because of the setting, the supplies available, or what you believed about your body. Embarrassment is not the only possible feeling: relief, annoyance, and matter-of-fact care are equally important to preserve. Consider recent bodily awareness without treating dreamed bleeding as evidence of pregnancy, illness, or fertility. Your personal relationship with menstruation matters more than an assigned symbol.", "traditional": "Beliefs about menstruation vary greatly and have sometimes imposed stigma. This draft does not repeat ideas of impurity or assume a menstrual image carries one spiritual or gendered meaning.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "You have no supplies while away from home", "reflection": "Who made practical support available without embarrassment?" }, { "title": "You notice a stain during a formal event", "reflection": "Was the concern your comfort or other people’s reactions?" }, { "title": "The period arrives and you feel relieved", "reflection": "What uncertainty seemed settled within the dream?" } ], "prompts": [ "What made the timing feel unexpected?", "How did others respond to an ordinary bodily need?", "Which feeling belongs to your experience rather than a cultural expectation?" ], "related": [ "blood", "abdomen" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia model-assisted editorial draft. Reflection questions and scenario readings are optional, individually written suggestions, not empirically validated symbol meanings. Source scope is stated with each citation. Historical comparisons identify topics, not inherited interpretations. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "an-unread-message", "title": "An unread message", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "tagline": "The unopened words may matter less than the waiting.", "summary": "An unread message leaves room for expectation, dread, or curiosity. Distinguish a message you would not open from one you could not open.", "aliases": [ "an unread message", "unread message" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "Before looking for meaning in the missing words, record what you expected them to say. A familiar sender, a preview line, or the time it arrived may explain your response. Choosing to leave it unread can concern timing or privacy; being unable to open it can concern blocked access. Neither tells you what the sender thinks in waking life. The dream may simply continue a conversation you have been anticipating.", "traditional": "Letters and messengers appear in historical sources. An unread digital message adds read receipts and immediate availability, so any comparison needs to remain an analogy.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "You avoided opening it", "reflection": "What would change once you knew its contents? Waiting may have protected you from a decision within the dream." }, { "title": "The message would not load", "reflection": "You wanted information but could not obtain it. Notice whether anyone expected you to act without knowing enough." }, { "title": "There were hundreds of unread messages", "reflection": "The scene may center on volume and sorting rather than one relationship. Which message did you look for first?" } ], "prompts": [ "What did I imagine the message contained?", "Was waiting a choice or an obstacle?", "Did the sender matter more than the words?" ], "related": [ "being-left-on-read", "an-unsent-message", "an-overflowing-inbox" ], "sources": [], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection draft, written for this specific modern scene. Suggested connections are exploratory, not established dream meanings. Individual editorial review remains pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "an-unsent-message", "title": "An unsent message", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "tagline": "The conversation exists in your words, before anyone answers.", "summary": "An unsent message can hold a request, apology, boundary, or unfinished thought. Notice whether keeping it private felt deliberate or frustrating.", "aliases": [ "an unsent message", "unsent message" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "Try recalling the message as closely as possible before interpreting it. Editing it repeatedly, losing it, and choosing to save it as a draft are different actions. You might use the scene to explore what you wanted to communicate and what made the audience or timing difficult. Sometimes the useful discovery is that writing was enough within the dream. It need not imply that the message should be sent in waking life.", "traditional": "An unwritten or withheld letter offers a historical comparison. A saved digital draft adds the possibility of endless revision; no fixed traditional meaning follows from that.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "You kept rewriting one sentence", "reflection": "A particular word may have carried the risk. Was precision, politeness, honesty, or someone’s reaction driving the revision?" }, { "title": "The draft vanished", "reflection": "The loss may concern being unable to preserve your own account. What did you most want to recover?" }, { "title": "You deliberately closed it", "reflection": "Choosing not to send may have been a decision rather than a failure. What felt settled afterward?" } ], "prompts": [ "What was the first sentence I wanted to write?", "What made sending feel difficult or unnecessary?", "Would the message still matter without a reply?" ], "related": [ "texting-an-ex", "sending-a-text-to-the-wrong-person", "an-unread-message" ], "sources": [], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection draft, written for this specific modern scene. Suggested connections are exploratory, not established dream meanings. Individual editorial review remains pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "anaconda", "title": "Anaconda", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "aliases": [ "anaconda", "anacondas", "anaconda snake", "green anaconda", "green anacondas" ], "summary": "An anaconda dream may emphasize a large snake, partly hidden movement, or a space that feels difficult to share. Follow the encounter before choosing a meaning.", "tagline": "A long body, a partial view, and the room available for each movement.", "psychological": "Begin with what made you identify the snake as an anaconda. You may have recognized a large body in water, heard someone name it, or simply known its identity in the dream. Record that basis separately from details you added afterward. A film, photograph, or recent conversation may supply a direct association. A large snake does not automatically represent an unusually large personal problem.\n\nWater can make the encounter difficult to view all at once. You might see part of the animal above the surface while another movement suggests a body extending elsewhere. Notice what you actually observed, what you expected to happen, and whether the uncertainty felt frightening or interesting. An unseen part is not proof of a hidden motive or threat in waking life.\n\nIf the body crosses a path, wraps around an object, or fills a room, describe the practical effect. You may need another route, want an object back, or be trying to understand where there is enough space for both of you. A possible personal comparison concerns an arrangement that feels crowded or a task whose scale has changed. It should remain attached to a specific waking example, rather than becoming a verdict about another person.\n\nA close encounter can center on your own role. Watching from a boat differs from being asked to move the animal or persuade someone else to leave it alone. Record what help or information you wanted. A dreamed response is not wildlife-handling guidance, and the ending does not establish that you should confront or avoid a real situation.\n\nThe animal may also change scale, become a pattern, or continue away without noticing you. These endings can complicate a first interpretation based only on danger. Keep calm, awe, irritation, and relief distinct when they are remembered. The broader Snake reading offers other encounters, while this entry concentrates on the large body, partial view, and available space in a dream specifically identified as an anaconda.", "traditional": "No historical dream-book record is attached to this specific topic. Smithsonian’s National Zoo describes the green anaconda as a snake adapted to aquatic settings and notes its preference for shallow, slow-moving water. That source supplies animal background for one kind of anaconda, not evidence for a symbolic meaning, a spiritual message, or a forecast. The reflections and scenarios here are original possibilities, and an imagined animal need not behave like a real one.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Scale and an arrangement that still fits", "reflection": "A long or large body can change how a route or room is used. Ask what actually becomes difficult, available or surprising before translating size into the importance of a waking concern." }, { "title": "A partial view and the story you add", "reflection": "Movement above and below a surface can leave gaps in what you observe. Keep those gaps visible rather than treating the unseen remainder as a verified threat." }, { "title": "Distance chosen, requested or unexpectedly changed", "reflection": "A boat, bank or doorway may give you a particular position in the encounter. Notice which movement changes the distance and whether you wanted that change." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "An anaconda crosses beneath the small boat", "reflection": "You can see movement below your route without knowing the animal’s full extent. Notice whether you keep travelling, pause or ask another person what they saw. The scene may concern sharing a space with something only partly visible, rather than an inevitable collision." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A long body fills the passage you intended to use", "reflection": "Your preferred route has become difficult without the animal actively pursuing you. Consider the alternatives you noticed and the effort you put into the original route. A possible comparison concerns an arrangement that needs more room, not a proven hostile intention." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "An anaconda coils around an object you want to retrieve", "reflection": "A particular possession has become part of the encounter. Ask why you want it and whether another way to continue appears. The scene can explore attachment or access without establishing that someone is trying to control you." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "The anaconda becomes smaller as you move farther away", "reflection": "Distance changes the scale of what you can see. Record whether relief follows the altered view or whether curiosity remains. A personal comparison about perspective can be considered without declaring your earlier reaction exaggerated or wrong." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Someone asks you to move an anaconda and you seek help", "reflection": "A role has been assigned before you know what it involves. Notice whether you can say what information or support you need. The imagined task can invite a question about shared responsibility without becoming advice about handling a real animal." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The snake leaves the water and continues away from your path", "reflection": "The encounter changes through separate movement rather than a confrontation. Notice whether you want to follow, watch or return to your own activity. The ending can remain a particular moment without promising that a waking difficulty will disappear." } ], "prompts": [ "How did you identify the animal, and which details did you actually see?", "What did its size change about your route or available space?", "Which part of your first interpretation becomes less certain when you follow the ending?" ], "related": [ "snake", "water", "river", "boat", "being-trapped" ], "sources": [ { "id": "smithsonian-green-anaconda", "title": "Green anaconda — animal background, not dream symbolism", "author": "Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute", "url": "https://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/green-anaconda", "scope": "Supports only the identified green-anaconda example and its aquatic setting, especially Physical Description and Native Habitat. Does not establish the behavior of every anaconda species, any interpretation of a dream, or the original scenarios." } ], "kind": "editorial", "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s delegation of editorial decisions. Animal-background sources support only their stated facts; they do not validate dream meanings.", "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "DreamFolia AI-assisted editorial review", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "ants", "bats", "caterpillar", "frogs", "grasshopper", "tiger", "turtle", "whale", "anaconda", "moose", "praying-mantis", "woodpecker" ] }, "decisionReason": "The named-snake reading develops scale, partial underwater views, room, access and assigned responsibility. Smithsonian supports only the stated green-anaconda background; the original scenes are not asserted as wildlife advice or historical symbolic authority.", "reviewedSnapshot": "data/animal-publication-review-2026-10-15-v2.json", "contentSha256": "c0ce839a2ffcc108c28ade8369fa093af59bba4aa103e77cd7f330acc80a2de3" }, "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "anchor", "title": "Anchor", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "5 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of an anchor is favorable to sailors, if seas are calm.” Compare 5 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "anchor" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about anchor stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0084", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Anchor", "text": "To dream of an anchor is favorable to sailors, if seas are calm.\nTo others it portends separation from friends, change of residence,\nand foreign travel. Sweethearts are soon to quarrel if either\nsees an anchor.", "locator": "Heading 84; source lines 2442–2449", "lineStart": 2442, "lineEnd": 2449, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of an anchor is favorable to sailors, if seas are calm.\nTo others it portends separation from friends, change of residence,\nand foreign travel. Sweethearts are soon to quarrel if either\nsees an anchor." }, { "id": "fontaine-0021", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Anchor", "text": "To dream you see one, signifies unexpected success in love; but\nin business, it shows the success to be distant, and only obtainable\nwith care. 47, 36.", "locator": "Heading 21; source line 1063", "lineStart": 1063, "lineEnd": 1067, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see one, signifies unexpected success in love; but\nin business, it shows the success to be distant, and only obtainable\nwith care." }, { "id": "noe-0006", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Anchor", "text": "To dream you see\none, signifies great assurance and certain joys.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 6; source lines 106–107", "lineStart": 106, "lineEnd": 107, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see\none, signifies great assurance and certain joys." }, { "id": "cielo-0011", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Anchor", "text": "Denotes a successful enterprise.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 11; source lines 3880–3882", "lineStart": 3880, "lineEnd": 3882, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Denotes a successful enterprise." }, { "id": "luck-0004", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Anchor", "text": "A voyage across the sea: (in water) a disappointment: (if a\ngirl dreams) a sailor will fall in love with her.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 4; source lines 3517–3520", "lineStart": 3517, "lineEnd": 3520, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "A voyage across the sea: (in water) a disappointment: (if a\ngirl dreams) a sailor will fall in love with her." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "andirons", "title": "Andirons", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Andirons seen in a dream, denotes good will among friends, if the irons support burning logs.”", "aliases": [ "andirons" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about andirons stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0085", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Andirons", "text": "Andirons seen in a dream, denotes good will among friends,\nif the irons support burning logs; if they are in an empty fireplace,\nloss of property and death are signified.", "locator": "Heading 85; source lines 2449–2455", "lineStart": 2449, "lineEnd": 2455, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Andirons seen in a dream, denotes good will among friends,\nif the irons support burning logs; if they are in an empty fireplace,\nloss of property and death are signified." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "anecdote", "title": "Anecdote", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of relating an anecdote, signifies that you will greatly prefer gay companionship to that of intellect, and that your affairs will…”", "aliases": [ "anecdote" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about anecdote stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0086", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Anecdote", "text": "To dream of relating an anecdote, signifies that you will greatly prefer\ngay companionship to that of intellect, and that your affairs will prove\nas unstable as yourself.\n\nFor a young woman to hear anecdotes related, denotes that she\nwill be one of a merry party of pleasure-seekers.", "locator": "Heading 86; source lines 2455–2464", "lineStart": 2455, "lineEnd": 2464, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of relating an anecdote, signifies that you will greatly prefer\ngay companionship to that of intellect, and that your affairs will prove\nas unstable as yourself.\n\nFor a young woman to hear anecdotes related, denotes that she\nwill be one of a merry party of pleasure-seekers." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "angels", "title": "Angels", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "Winged messengers, guardians, or simply a bright presence in the room.", "summary": "Angel dreams may bring comfort, warning or awe. Record what the figure looked like, whether it spoke, and what you believed it wanted.", "aliases": [ "angels", "angel", "guardian angel", "winged figure", "angelic being" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "Angels are among the most culturally loaded figures a dream can present, and the first thing to record is your own relationship to the idea. For some sleepers an angel is a religious reality; for others it is a figure from art, film or childhood; for others still it is a shorthand for comfort or for a dead relative. The dream will draw on whichever of these is yours. Angel dreams are frequently reported during illness, bereavement, or periods of fear, and many people describe them as calming, which does not in itself tell you what they are. Note the form: wings or no wings, a face you knew, light without a body, a voice only. Note whether the angel acted, warned, watched, or simply stood there. A silent angel at the foot of the bed is a different dream from one that carries you somewhere. If the figure resembled a person who has died, write their name down and let the dream be about them if that feels right. If the dream frightened you, note that too; not every bright figure is welcome. Dreams can also present angels ironically, as statues, costumes or advertising, which may say something about how the idea sits with you.", "traditional": "The archive's angel entries are mostly reassuring. Fontaine (1862) and the 1894 Guide both say that seeing angels means one is near you, so the rest of the dream will come true, and that many angels promise many children and prosperity. Noe (1885) draws a line: seeing angels is good, but speaking with or calling upon them is evil. Cielo (1917) gives a long voyage and success. Craig (1918) treats the angel as a purely Christian symbol of protection. Miller (1901) is ambivalent, reading angels as disturbing influences in the soul, a demand to repent for the wicked and a consolation for the good. Period readings, not guidance.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "An angel standing silently at the end of the bed", "reflection": "Record whether you felt watched over or watched. A still figure at the bedside is a common report and may relate to the half-waking state; what you felt is the part that belongs to you." }, { "title": "An angel with the face of someone who has died", "reflection": "Write down who it was and what, if anything, they said. Borrowing a familiar face can be the dream's way of letting you spend time with someone, and it may help to treat it as that." }, { "title": "An angel in a costume, obviously fake", "reflection": "Note who was wearing it and whether anyone else noticed. A staged angel can picture doubt about a comfort being offered to you, or your own ambivalence about belief." } ], "prompts": [ "What do angels mean to you when you are awake, and did the dream agree?", "Did the angel speak, act, or only appear, and which would you have preferred?", "Who in your life, living or dead, might the figure have been standing in for?" ], "related": [ "god", "heaven", "church", "wings", "deceased-loved-one", "prayer" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "guide-65367", "title": "Guide to Fortune-Telling by Dreams", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Multum in Parvo Library, Vol. I, No. 10, October 1894", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65367", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia editorial draft written on 2026-10-12. Reflection text is an invitation to personal writing, not a validated symbol meaning. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0087", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Angels", "text": "To dream of angels is prophetic of disturbing influences in the soul.\nIt brings a changed condition of the person's lot. If the dream\nis unusually pleasing, you will hear of the health of friends,\nand receive a legacy from unknown relatives.\n\nIf the dream comes as a token of warning, the dreamer may\nexpect threats of scandal about love or money matters.\nTo wicked people, it is a demand to repent; to good people it\nshould be a consolation.", "locator": "Heading 87; source lines 2464–2476", "lineStart": 2464, "lineEnd": 2476, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of angels is prophetic of disturbing influences in the soul.\nIt brings a changed condition of the person's lot. If the dream\nis unusually pleasing, you will hear of the health of friends,\nand receive a legacy from unknown relatives.\n\nIf the dream comes as a token of warning, the dreamer may\nexpect threats of scandal about love or money matters.\nTo wicked people, it is a demand to repent; to good people it\nshould be a consolation." }, { "id": "fontaine-0022", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Angel", "text": "To dream you see angels in your sleep, is a sign some are near\nyou, and that the rest of your dream will come to pass. To see many\nangels, is a sign of many children, and much prosperity. 16, 8, 24.", "locator": "Heading 22; source line 1067", "lineStart": 1067, "lineEnd": 1071, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see angels in your sleep, is a sign some are near\nyou, and that the rest of your dream will come to pass. To see many\nangels, is a sign of many children, and much prosperity." }, { "id": "noe-0008", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Angel", "text": "To\ndream you see angels is good, but to speak with or call upon them is evil.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 8; source lines 108–110", "lineStart": 108, "lineEnd": 110, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To\ndream you see angels is good, but to speak with or call upon them is evil." }, { "id": "cielo-0012", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Angel", "text": "To see an angel means a long voyage and success.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 12; source lines 3882–3884", "lineStart": 3882, "lineEnd": 3884, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see an angel means a long voyage and success." }, { "id": "guide-0006", "sourceId": "guide-65367", "heading": "Angels", "text": "To dream you see angels in your sleep is a sure sign that one\nis near you, therefore be mindful of the rest of your dream, for it\nwill come to pass pretty accurately; should you dream you see an angel,\nor angels, then it denotes health, prosperity, and much happiness,\nwith many children who will turn out good. If you are in love, nothing\ncan be more favorable, and all your undertakings will prosper and be\nadvantageous to you.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 6; source lines 117–125", "lineStart": 117, "lineEnd": 125, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see angels in your sleep is a sure sign that one\nis near you, therefore be mindful of the rest of your dream, for it\nwill come to pass pretty accurately; should you dream you see an angel,\nor angels, then it denotes health, prosperity, and much happiness,\nwith many children who will turn out good. If you are in love, nothing\ncan be more favorable, and all your undertakings will prosper and be\nadvantageous to you." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L8973", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Angel", "heading": "Angel", "text": "A purely Christian symbol of protection, divine grace, etc. To the dreamer it augurs peace and happiness unspeakable.", "lineStart": 8973, "lineEnd": 8976, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 196; NLM OCR lines 8973–8976", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 8973, "lineEnd": 8976, "printedPage": 196, "printedPageEnd": 196 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Angel. — A purely Christian symbol of protection, divine \ngrace, etc. To the dreamer it augurs peace and happiness \nunspeakable. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Angel" }, "displayText": "A purely Christian symbol of protection, divine grace, etc. To the dreamer it augurs peace and happiness unspeakable." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "anger", "title": "Anger", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "A strong feeling can name a problem without deciding how to respond.", "summary": "Anger may bring a limit, unmet expectation, or need to be heard into focus; its expression matters alongside the feeling itself.", "aliases": [ "anger" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "Anger can make a limit difficult to overlook. In a dream, someone dismisses an explanation, takes your place, changes an agreement, or keeps making a request after you have answered. The feeling may picture something that has begun to cost more than you want to give. That could fit a small repeated frustration as well as a consequential conflict. The useful connection is the particular expectation or boundary, rather than assuming every angry scene conceals one large unresolved problem.\n\nThe way anger is expressed changes the reading. A clear sentence that another person hears differs from shouting without being understood, silently leaving, or damaging an unrelated object. These actions can give different forms to wanting a response, needing distance, or having too little room to explain. Anger in a dream does not establish an intention to harm or a judgment about your character. The imagined action can be examined without making it a confession of a waking wish.\n\nAnother person's anger may bring attention to how you respond to displeasure. You might immediately take responsibility, become defensive, stay curious, or discover that their demand is not yours to meet. This could resemble uncertainty about which expectations deserve your effort. If the dream supplies no reason for their anger, that missing explanation may be more important than the intensity. Their dreamed response does not show what an actual person thinks or what you have done wrong.\n\nAnger may also coexist with care, sadness, or relief. You can want a relationship to continue while objecting to its current arrangement. A scene in which disagreement becomes speakable may picture connection that has room for a limit. An apology, changed task, or respected refusal can alter the feeling without requiring immediate forgiveness. If anger remains after the practical problem changes, the scene may distinguish solving an issue from feeling recognized within it.\n\nRecent irritation, an argument witnessed in a story, or a remembered unfair exchange can provide direct material. A calm ending need not be the only useful one, and strong anger need not require a hidden interpretation. The original reading stays with what prompted the feeling, what response became possible, and whether the scene gave both the relationship and your limit enough room.", "traditional": "The attached books disagree. Miller's 1901 Anger account forecasts trials, while Fontaine's 1862 account combines powerful enemies with good news; Noe's 1885 account names enemies. Everybody's Book of Luck instead treats being angry with someone as evidence of true friendship. These incompatible period forecasts do not establish any real person's intentions or the meaning of your emotion.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A limit becoming visible", "reflection": "Anger may give intensity to an expectation or boundary that has been easy to dismiss. The particular demand matters more than the feeling alone." }, { "title": "Expression that reaches someone", "reflection": "Speaking, shouting, withdrawing and acting on an object create different encounters. The scene can picture wanting an effective response rather than only wanting the feeling to disappear." }, { "title": "Disagreement inside an important relationship", "reflection": "Care and anger can coexist. A workable limit may preserve connection without requiring you to accept an arrangement that feels wrong for you." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "A small repeated demand finally makes you angry", "reflection": "The final request may be less important than the accumulation. This can picture a limit that needs recognition before additional effort feels freely chosen." }, { "title": "You explain the problem and someone listens", "reflection": "The feeling gains a usable direction through being heard. The scene may explore a response that changes the arrangement rather than only ending the argument." }, { "title": "You shout but cannot make the words understood", "reflection": "Intensity increases while the explanation remains unavailable. This may make room to speak, or a shared understanding of the issue, more central than winning the exchange." }, { "title": "Someone is angry with you without giving a reason", "reflection": "You are expected to answer an unclear charge. The scene may concern uncertain criteria; it does not establish that you owe an actual person an apology." }, { "title": "You are angry and still want closeness", "reflection": "The relationship matters while its current terms do not fit. This can picture wanting disagreement to have a place inside connection rather than treating either feeling as false." }, { "title": "A respected refusal changes the mood", "reflection": "Someone accepts that you will not continue a task or exchange. Relief may come from the limit becoming workable, without requiring immediate reconciliation or forgiveness." } ], "prompts": [ "Which event or repeated demand brought the anger into focus?", "How was the feeling expressed, and did anyone understand the issue?", "What limit or change would have mattered within the scene?" ], "related": [ "rage", "fight", "being-judged", "quarrel" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0088" ], "scope": "Historical comparison only: Anger — miller-0088 (Heading 88; source lines 2476–2486). These are attributed period claims, not verified predictions or support for the original psychological reflections." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0023" ], "scope": "Historical comparison only: Anger — fontaine-0023 (Heading 23; source line 1071). These are attributed period claims, not verified predictions or support for the original psychological reflections." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0009" ], "scope": "Historical comparison only: Anger — noe-0009 (Dream section, heading 9; source lines 110–111). These are attributed period claims, not verified predictions or support for the original psychological reflections." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0005" ], "scope": "Historical comparison only: Anger — luck-0005 (Dream section, heading 5; source lines 3520–3523). These are attributed period claims, not verified predictions or support for the original psychological reflections." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0088", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Anger", "text": "To dream of anger, denotes that some awful trial awaits you.\nDisappointments in loved ones, and broken ties, of enemies\nmay make new attacks upon your property or character.\n\nTo dreams that friends or relatives are angry with you, while you meet their\nanger with composure, denotes you will mediate between opposing friends,\nand gain their lasting favor and gratitude.", "locator": "Heading 88; source lines 2476–2486", "lineStart": 2476, "lineEnd": 2486, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of anger, denotes that some awful trial awaits you.\nDisappointments in loved ones, and broken ties, of enemies\nmay make new attacks upon your property or character.\n\nTo dreams that friends or relatives are angry with you, while you meet their\nanger with composure, denotes you will mediate between opposing friends,\nand gain their lasting favor and gratitude." }, { "id": "fontaine-0023", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Anger", "text": "(_See Rage._) To dream that you have been provoked to anger,\nshows that you have powerful enemies; and warns you to be careful that\nall you do should be strictly honorable; but it also signifies you will\nhear good news, and be in a good humor. 44, 16.", "locator": "Heading 23; source line 1071", "lineStart": 1071, "lineEnd": 1076, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Rage.) To dream that you have been provoked to anger,\nshows that you have powerful enemies; and warns you to be careful that\nall you do should be strictly honorable; but it also signifies you will\nhear good news, and be in a good humor." }, { "id": "noe-0009", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Anger", "text": "To dream that you have been provoked to anger shows that you\nhave powerful enemies.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 9; source lines 110–111", "lineStart": 110, "lineEnd": 111, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you have been provoked to anger shows that you\nhave powerful enemies." }, { "id": "luck-0005", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Anger", "text": "To dream of being angry with anyone means that that person is\na true friend.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 5; source lines 3520–3523", "lineStart": 3520, "lineEnd": 3523, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being angry with anyone means that that person is\na true friend." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [ "rage" ] }, { "slug": "angling", "title": "Angling", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of catching fish is good. If you fail to catch any, it will be bad for you.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "angling" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about angling stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "fish" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0089", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Angling", "text": "To dream of catching fish is good. If you fail to catch any,\nit will be bad for you.", "locator": "Heading 89; source lines 2486–2491", "lineStart": 2486, "lineEnd": 2491, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of catching fish is good. If you fail to catch any,\nit will be bad for you." }, { "id": "fontaine-0024", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Angling", "text": "(_See Fish._)", "locator": "Heading 24; source line 1076", "lineStart": 1076, "lineEnd": 1078, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Fish.)" }, { "id": "noe-0010", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Angling", "text": "To dream that you are angling, betokens\nmuch affliction and trouble in something which you desire to get.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 10; source lines 111–113", "lineStart": 111, "lineEnd": 113, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are angling, betokens\nmuch affliction and trouble in something which you desire to get." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "fish" ] }, { "slug": "angry", "title": "Angry", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Cielo wrote: “If you are angry, it portends an enemy.”", "aliases": [ "angry" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about angry stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "cielo-0013", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Angry", "text": "If you are angry, it portends an enemy.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 13; source lines 3884–3886", "lineStart": 3884, "lineEnd": 3886, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you are angry, it portends an enemy." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "animals", "title": "Animals", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Book of Luck wrote: “As a rule, luck; (domestic animals) speedy return of absent friends, family reconciliation: (wild…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "animals", "beasts" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about animals stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "luck-0006", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Animals", "text": "As a rule, luck; (domestic animals) speedy return of absent\nfriends, family reconciliation: (wild animals) secret enemies.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 6; source lines 3523–3526", "lineStart": 3523, "lineEnd": 3526, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "As a rule, luck; (domestic animals) speedy return of absent\nfriends, family reconciliation: (wild animals) secret enemies." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L8977", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Animals", "heading": "Animals", "text": "Freud and others attach sexual significance to dreams of animals; dream interpreters, however, regard the dream of a number of domestic animals as auguring happiness, while wild animals symbolize enemies.", "lineStart": 8977, "lineEnd": 8981, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 196; NLM OCR lines 8977–8981", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 8977, "lineEnd": 8981, "printedPage": 196, "printedPageEnd": 196 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Animals. — Freud and others attach sexual significance to \ndreams of animals; dream interpreters, however, regard the \ndream of a number of domestic animals as auguring happiness, \nwhile wild animals symbolize enemies. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Animals" }, "displayText": "Freud and others attach sexual significance to dreams of animals; dream interpreters, however, regard the dream of a number of domestic animals as auguring happiness, while wild animals symbolize enemies." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9157", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Beasts", "heading": "Beasts", "text": "See Animals.", "lineStart": 9157, "lineEnd": 9158, "kind": "cross-reference", "locator": "Printed p. 200; NLM OCR lines 9157–9158", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9157, "lineEnd": 9158, "printedPage": 200, "printedPageEnd": 200 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Beasts. — See Animals. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Beasts" }, "displayText": "See Animals.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Beasts” is shown on the Animals page: craig Beasts is only \"See Animals.\"" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "anniversary", "title": "Anniversary", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "aliases": [ "anniversary", "anniversaries", "wedding anniversary", "relationship anniversary", "remembering an anniversary", "anniversary of a loss" ], "summary": "An anniversary can picture how a connection or life chapter has changed over time. Celebration, forgetting, and remembrance lead to different readings.", "tagline": "A recurring date brings the past into contact with what life is like now.", "psychological": "An anniversary can picture comparing what something once meant with what it means now. The date stays recognizable while the people and circumstances around it change. A relationship milestone may bring satisfaction in continuity, or uncertainty about whether the way you mark it still fits. An anniversary of work, a move, or another beginning can similarly make a life chapter visible as something with a history.\n\nCelebration can express wanting change to be acknowledged. You may have sustained a relationship, developed a skill, or lived through a demanding period without much recognition. A shared meal or modest gesture can feel more important than a large event when it reflects what the milestone means to you. An elaborate celebration that feels wrong can instead picture expectations replacing personal significance.\n\nForgetting or being unable to identify the date can suggest pressure to prove care through a particular form. Fear of disappointing someone may be stronger than the pleasure of remembering. If another person forgets, the scene can express a wish for recognition or uncertainty about whether significance is shared; it does not reveal how they actually value the relationship.\n\nCommemorating a loss creates another reading. The date may bring a remembered person or previous way of life close to the present without requiring that you feel exactly as you once did. Comfort, sadness, and appreciation can coexist. A peaceful anniversary can picture carrying a connection forward in a changed form.\n\nYears passing suddenly may make time itself central: how much has changed, what remains continuous, and which expectations belong to an earlier period. Real dates, photographs, reminders, and recent conversations can directly supply the dream. An anniversary scene need not settle what a relationship should become.", "traditional": "These are original readings of a recurring date as a meeting point between memory and present expectations. No verified historical anniversary passage is cited. The background research does not establish what a partner remembers or feels; personal experiences of milestones and commemorations provide the relevant context.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Continuity through changed circumstances", "reflection": "The same date can return to a different life. An anniversary may picture comparing what remains meaningful with what has changed, without requiring the connection to stay identical." }, { "title": "Recognition that fits the milestone", "reflection": "Celebration can express wanting an effort or relationship acknowledged. A meaningful gesture and an impressive event may serve different needs, especially when public expectations outweigh personal significance." }, { "title": "Remembering without repeating the past", "reflection": "A commemoration can bring a person or period into the present in a changed form. Sadness, peace, and appreciation may coexist rather than mark one correct way of remembering." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "A quiet celebration feels exactly right", "reflection": "A modest shared occasion can picture recognition that fits your actual needs. An attentive conversation or meal may matter more than a public display after a demanding year. The feeling suggests that continuity can be acknowledged without recreating an earlier version of the relationship.", "slug": "scene-1" }, { "title": "Someone important forgets the date", "reflection": "The scene can express wanting the significance of a connection to be shared. Carrying most of a household's remembering or planning may offer a parallel. Disappointment concerns recognition within the dream, rather than establishing what the real person remembers or how much they care.", "slug": "scene-2" }, { "title": "You cannot work out which date is correct", "reflection": "Uncertainty can picture pressure to show care according to rules you do not understand. Competing family expectations or fear of missing a meaningful occasion may fit. The date becomes a test of adequacy, even though the underlying connection may matter more than exact performance.", "slug": "scene-3" }, { "title": "You commemorate a loss and feel peaceful", "reflection": "A remembered connection can remain important without recreating its most painful moment. Marking a person, home, or former role through a familiar gesture may feel similar. Peace can picture making room for the past within present life, rather than needing to remain unchanged.", "slug": "scene-4" }, { "title": "A former partner appears at a current anniversary", "reflection": "An earlier relationship can bring comparison into a present milestone. You may be considering how expectations of closeness, celebration, or commitment have changed. The scene can connect periods of your own experience without revealing either person's wishes or deciding which relationship is preferable.", "slug": "scene-5" }, { "title": "Many anniversaries pass within one evening", "reflection": "Compressed time can picture becoming aware of change that ordinary routine makes difficult to see. A long project, relationship, or family role may feel familiar while years have altered its meaning. Surprise may concern continuity, missed recognition, or room for different priorities now.", "slug": "scene-6" } ], "prompts": [ "What had changed since the event being remembered, and what still mattered?", "Did the celebration reflect my needs or an expectation about how care should look?", "What form of remembering felt possible in my present life?" ], "related": [ "birthday", "wedding", "deceased-loved-one", "reunion" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia editorial entry with image-specific interpretations and six differentiated scenes. The reference supplies general dream background only. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "annoy", "title": "Annoy", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “This dream denotes that you have enemies who are at work against you.”", "aliases": [ "annoy" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about annoy stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0090", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Annoy", "text": "This dream denotes that you have enemies who are at work against you.\nAnnoyances experienced in dreams are apt to find speedy fulfilment\nin the trifling incidents of the following day.", "locator": "Heading 90; source lines 2491–2497", "lineStart": 2491, "lineEnd": 2497, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "This dream denotes that you have enemies who are at work against you.\nAnnoyances experienced in dreams are apt to find speedy fulfilment\nin the trifling incidents of the following day." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "antelope", "title": "Antelope", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Seeing antelopes in a dream, foretells your ambitions will be high, but may be realized by putting forth…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "antelope" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about antelope stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0091", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Antelope", "text": "Seeing antelopes in a dream, foretells your ambitions will be high,\nbut may be realized by putting forth great energy.\n\nFor a young woman to see an antelope miss its footing and fall from a height,\ndenotes the love she aspires to will prove her undoing.", "locator": "Heading 91; source lines 2497–2505", "lineStart": 2497, "lineEnd": 2505, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Seeing antelopes in a dream, foretells your ambitions will be high,\nbut may be realized by putting forth great energy.\n\nFor a young woman to see an antelope miss its footing and fall from a height,\ndenotes the love she aspires to will prove her undoing." }, { "id": "cielo-0014", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Antelope", "text": "A speedy recovery from illness.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 14; source lines 3886–3888", "lineStart": 3886, "lineEnd": 3888, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "A speedy recovery from illness." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "antlers", "title": "Antlers", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "A visible outline, the space it requires, and a feature whose use can change.", "summary": "Antlers may explore visibility, fit within a space, or the difference between a recognizable feature and the uses people assign to it in the dream.", "aliases": [ "antlers", "antler" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "Antlers can make an outline immediately noticeable. In a dream, they may belong to an animal, rest on a table or appear impossibly on your own head. Their shape changes how a figure occupies space. This can offer a personal comparison with a distinctive role or quality that attracts attention before anyone knows how you want to use it. An animal encounter, picture or decorative object may also provide direct context.\n\nAn entrance that no longer fits can make the surroundings part of the problem. You may be able to move comfortably in an open place and struggle beneath a low ceiling. A new responsibility, unusual skill or public role can have a similar relationship to different settings. The question may concern making room or choosing another arrangement, rather than concluding that the noticeable feature is a flaw.\n\nAttention can be welcome without being the whole purpose of the encounter. Other people may admire the antlers while you want to finish an ordinary task, or barely notice them while you remain self-conscious. This can put your own interest beside an audience you imagine. Their dreamed response does not establish anyone’s actual opinion, nor does the image assign a fixed meaning of status, gender or power.\n\nAntlers held as an object create another set of actions. Carrying them may require care because the shape catches on things; displaying them may make their appearance central; giving them away may change who is responsible for finding a place for them. A possible comparison concerns the uses and obligations attached to something distinctive. The scene need not decide that possession means pride or letting go means rejection.\n\nA feature can also become ordinary through company. Someone adjusting a doorway with you, making room at a table or laughing at an impossible hat can alter the feeling without removing the shape. These are original reflections on imagined appearance and space, not a biological account, a measure of personality or a forecast. The animal, your task and the ending can each matter more than antlers considered in isolation.", "traditional": "No historical account is attached to this original entry. The cited learning experiment supplies memory-research context, not a tested meaning for this image or evidence that a dream predicts an event.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A distinctive outline becomes visible", "reflection": "A feature can attract notice before its purpose is clear. Your own task and the attention it receives may not be the same thing." }, { "title": "Fit changes with the setting", "reflection": "An open space and a low doorway create different possibilities. Adjusting the surroundings can be as meaningful as changing what you carry." }, { "title": "A feature acquires a use", "reflection": "Carrying, displaying and giving an object away create different responsibilities. Its imagined use can matter more than a fixed association with rank or power." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Antlers catch beneath a doorway while the room beyond is spacious", "reflection": "A particular threshold does not fit an otherwise available place. This may picture an arrangement needing adjustment at one point. The difficulty need not become a judgment about your whole role, the destination or the feature that makes passing awkward." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "People admire your antlers while you try to finish an ordinary task", "reflection": "Attention and purpose move in different directions. The scene can explore wanting recognition without having every activity organized around it. Enjoyment and inconvenience may coexist; the imagined admiration does not tell you what real people think." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You carry loose antlers through a crowded room", "reflection": "The object requires room and attention that its surroundings do not readily provide. This can resemble a distinctive contribution needing practical accommodation. Asking for space or changing how you carry it offers a different ending from abandoning the item." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "An animal with antlers walks past without noticing you", "reflection": "A striking feature belongs to an encounter that does not center your participation. The scene can preserve curiosity or an ordinary remembered view. There is no need to turn the animal’s distance into rejection or its appearance into a personal instruction." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You give a decorative pair of antlers to someone choosing a new room", "reflection": "An object moves into another arrangement and acquires another use. This may picture sharing something whose place in your own surroundings has changed. Relief, affection or uncertainty can clarify the exchange without making it a verdict about attachment." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "A companion helps turn an impossible antler-shaped hat through a doorway", "reflection": "Company makes an awkward task more manageable or playful. The scene can explore cooperation around a noticeable feature without requiring it to disappear. The shared response may be more significant than the unusual shape itself." } ], "prompts": [ "What did the shape change about your movement or task?", "How did your own purpose compare with the attention it received?", "Which arrangement made more room available?" ], "related": [ "deer", "moose", "horn", "antelope", "door" ], "sources": [ { "id": "wamsley-2010", "title": "Dreaming of a learning task is associated with enhanced sleep-dependent memory consolidation", "author": "Erin J. Wamsley and colleagues", "url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20417102/", "scope": "Primary maze-learning experiment; task-related dream reports correlated with later performance. It does not show that a dream is an accurate memory or a solution." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s continuing English editorial delegation. The memory study is general context, not validation of these interpretations.", "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "DreamFolia AI-assisted editorial review", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "aisle", "ambulance", "bakery", "binoculars", "backstage", "birdbath", "birdhouse", "beehive", "billboard", "bookmark", "turnstile", "antlers", "armchair", "bathrobe" ] }, "decisionReason": "Appearance, fit in a setting, imagined attention, carrying and sharing give six different encounters. No Horn record is reassigned, no biological or gendered symbolic authority is claimed, and the reflection does not determine rank, personality or another person’s view.", "reviewedSnapshot": "data/everyday-publication-review-2026-10-15.json", "contentSha256": "a38f7cc8cbda1c088acbad28346adf02c969ff71c90481e03a2d94f69bc0a53a" }, "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "ants", "title": "Ants", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "Follow the route, the carrying and the place where small actions gather.", "summary": "Ants can bring small repeated tasks, shared routes, resource distribution and the boundary of a usable space into view.", "aliases": [ "ants", "of ants" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "kind": "editorial", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "An ant dream can make scale and repetition noticeable. One tiny movement may seem unimportant until many movements form a route, carry something away or change how a place can be used. The image can offer a comparison with repeated requests, overlooked details or work distributed across several people. That comparison depends on what the ants actually did. Their presence does not automatically name anxiety, diligence or a problem with your home.\n\nA line of ants that divides around an obstacle can put a shared method beside an individual interruption. You might admire the continuing movement, want to redirect it or feel that nobody notices the detail holding your attention. A waking parallel could be a routine that works for most participants while leaving one person's situation unresolved. The question concerns the fit of that route rather than whether cooperation is always good or following others is always wrong.\n\nCarrying gives the scene another focus. A crumb disappearing from your plate concerns access to something you intended to keep; ants helping move a much larger object may instead make many small contributions visible. An ant returning without its load can bring the consequence of one missing piece into view. These scenes can explore who supplies, keeps or receives resources without turning the dream into a verdict about generosity or actual finances.\n\nLocation also matters. Ants crossing a threshold, appearing inside a sealed container or gathering around a place you wanted to sit can change the boundary between a shared environment and a particular use. Choosing to leave them alone may feel different from finding a way to continue your own activity. Neither response proves a personality trait. Begin with your practical aim and the options available within the scene.\n\nFinally, notice whether the ants remained a group or whether you followed one. A single ant outside the route can invite attention to a particular participant, including an ordinary curiosity about an animal. Recent gardening, a household encounter or a remembered story can be sufficient context. A personal reading should help describe the dream's distinctive action and feeling, rather than require a hidden meaning for every small creature.", "traditional": "Miller associates ants with petty annoyances, while Cielo contrasts a colony with a single ant. Noe and the 1644 Artemidorus translation attach different forecasts to activity, gathering and particular occupations. Fontaine includes a lifespan forecast, and Craig adds historical attributions about industry and the soul. These are period assertions, including health and death claims that cannot assess a dreamer. All six whole accounts retain their separate attribution below.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "A line of ants splits around a pebble", "reflection": "The shared movement continues by more than one route. This can resemble a routine adapting to an interruption while you remain interested in the obstacle itself. Notice whether the changed route made your own task easier, or simply allowed everyone else to pass it.", "slug": "scene-1" }, { "title": "Ants carry crumbs from the plate you were saving", "reflection": "Something set aside for later becomes available to another activity. This could picture a small repeated demand drawing on a reserve you expected to keep. The portion, your intention and your response distinguish an unwanted loss from an exchange you willingly allowed.", "slug": "scene-2" }, { "title": "Many ants move an object you cannot lift alone", "reflection": "Numerous small contributions produce a result that one effort did not reach. This may fit a task divided into manageable parts or help arriving from unexpected participants. Admiration, discomfort about depending on them and uncertainty about the destination offer different starting points.", "slug": "scene-3" }, { "title": "One ant keeps returning without its load", "reflection": "The repeated journey no longer delivers what you expected. This can bring a missing step in a larger process into view. Following that particular ant may resemble checking where a request or contribution gets lost, rather than judging the whole group by one interruption.", "slug": "scene-4" }, { "title": "Ants occupy the chair where you meant to rest", "reflection": "An ongoing activity has reached the place intended for your pause. The scene can explore when a space becomes available for a different use. Moving, waiting or negotiating a boundary give distinct endings; no response establishes how much rest you deserve.", "slug": "scene-5" }, { "title": "You follow a single ant away from the familiar route", "reflection": "Attention shifts from the visible group to one creature’s direction. This may picture curiosity about a participant whose path does not explain the whole activity. The detour can be interesting in its own right, without making independence a universal instruction or the ant your representative.", "slug": "scene-6" } ], "prompts": [ "Which repeated movement or particular load stayed with you?", "Where did the ants intersect with a place or resource you wanted to use?", "Did you follow the group, redirect it or become interested in one creature?" ], "related": [ "infestation", "bees", "garden", "eating" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "scope": "Historical belief only; supplied passage: Ants — Heading 92; source lines 2505–2510. Does not validate the original reflections or establish health, character, luck or future events.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0092" ] }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "scope": "Historical belief only; supplied passage: Ants — Heading 25; source line 1078. Does not validate the original reflections or establish health, character, luck or future events.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0025" ] }, { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display.", "scope": "Historical belief only; supplied passage: Of Ants. — Book 3, encoded section 124. Does not validate the original reflections or establish health, character, luck or future events.", "recordIds": [ "artemidorus-124" ] }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "scope": "Historical belief only; supplied passage: Ants — Dream section, heading 32; source lines 219–227. Does not validate the original reflections or establish health, character, luck or future events.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0032" ] }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "scope": "Historical belief only; supplied passage: Ants — Dream section, heading 15; source lines 3888–3891. Does not validate the original reflections or establish health, character, luck or future events.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0015" ] }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "scope": "Historical belief only; supplied passage: Ants — Printed p. 196–197; NLM OCR lines 8982–8990. Does not validate the original reflections or establish health, character, luck or future events.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L8982" ] } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s delegation of editorial decisions. Complete historical accounts retain their attribution and do not establish present-day forecasts.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Repeated actions acquire scale", "reflection": "A small action can become consequential when repeated across a route or group. The scene may concern accumulated work, interruption or attention to a detail that others pass." }, { "title": "Who carries and receives", "reflection": "The load and its destination can distinguish a contribution from a loss. Follow the particular item and your relation to it before assigning a general meaning to the group." }, { "title": "A shared route meets a particular use", "reflection": "An occupied threshold or seat can bring your intended activity into contact with another ongoing process. How you made room for each can lead the reflection." } ], "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "DreamFolia AI-assisted editorial review", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "ants", "bats", "caterpillar", "frogs", "grasshopper", "tiger", "turtle", "whale", "anaconda", "moose", "praying-mantis", "woodpecker" ] }, "decisionReason": "The reading distinguishes shared routes, repeated contributions, resources and one participant through six scenes. 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For where there is no grain, there you can finde no Ants: they are also good for such as live upon the common good, and reape profit by many, and to the sick, when they come near the body, for they are called industrious, and cease not to labour; which is proper to such as live: but when they range about the bodies of the patients, it is death: because they are the daughters of the earth, and cold, and black.", "locator": "Book 3, encoded section 124", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "3", "displayText": "To sée Ants with wings is not good, for it argues hurt or a dangerous voyage, other Ants which are diligent and industrious, are good for plough-men, for they signifie fertility. For where there is no grain, there you can finde no Ants: they are also good for such as live upon the common good, and reape profit by many, and to the sick, when they come near the body, for they are called industrious, and cease not to labour; which is proper to such as live: but when they range about the bodies of the patients, it is death: because they are the daughters of the earth, and cold, and black." }, { "id": "noe-0032", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Ants", "text": "To dream of these industrious\nlittle insects, hath a variety of interpretations, depending on the manner\nin which you dream of them; if you see them running about, it denotes that\nyou will be a great loser by some plan that you will undertake for gain.\nIf you dream you see them busily employed laying in their winter stores,\nit is a good omen--things will prosper with you. If they appear to be\ndevoured by other animals, and otherwise injured and trodden upon, then it\nis a bad omen. If you dream of these insects when you are sick, you must\nexpect to recover very slowly.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 32; source lines 219–227", "lineStart": 219, "lineEnd": 227, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of these industrious\nlittle insects, hath a variety of interpretations, depending on the manner\nin which you dream of them; if you see them running about, it denotes that\nyou will be a great loser by some plan that you will undertake for gain.\nIf you dream you see them busily employed laying in their winter stores,\nit is a good omen--things will prosper with you. If they appear to be\ndevoured by other animals, and otherwise injured and trodden upon, then it\nis a bad omen. If you dream of these insects when you are sick, you must\nexpect to recover very slowly." }, { "id": "cielo-0015", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Ants", "text": "A colony of ants signifies industry leading to\n wealth. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0093", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Anvil", "text": "To see hot iron with sparks flying, is significant of a pleasing work;\nto the farmer, an abundant crop; favorable indeed to women.\nCold, or small, favors may be expected from those in power.\nThe means of success is in your power, but in order to obtain it\nyou will have to labor under difficulty. If the anvil is broken,\nit foretells that you have, through your own neglect, thrown away\npromising opportunities that cannot be recalled.", "locator": "Heading 93; source lines 2510–2520", "lineStart": 2510, "lineEnd": 2520, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see hot iron with sparks flying, is significant of a pleasing work;\nto the farmer, an abundant crop; favorable indeed to women.\nCold, or small, favors may be expected from those in power.\nThe means of success is in your power, but in order to obtain it\nyou will have to labor under difficulty. If the anvil is broken,\nit foretells that you have, through your own neglect, thrown away\npromising opportunities that cannot be recalled." }, { "id": "cielo-0016", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Anvil", "text": "Seeing or hearing an anvil means happiness.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 16; source lines 3891–3893", "lineStart": 3891, "lineEnd": 3893, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Seeing or hearing an anvil means happiness." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L8991", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Anvil", "heading": "Anvil", "text": "Prosperity despite obstacles (Raphael) ; an emblem of the primal force (Bayley).", "lineStart": 8991, "lineEnd": 8993, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 197; NLM OCR lines 8991–8993", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 8991, "lineEnd": 8993, "printedPage": 197, "printedPageEnd": 197 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Anvil. — Prosperity despite obstacles (Raphael) ; an emblem \nof the primal force (Bayley). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Anvil" }, "displayText": "Prosperity despite obstacles (Raphael); an emblem of the primal force (Bayley)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "anxiety", "title": "Anxiety", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "A feeling can remain unsettled even when the scene has not named a danger.", "summary": "Anxiety may picture uncertainty, anticipation, or preparation that keeps expanding before you know what is needed.", "aliases": [ "anxiety" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "Anxiety in a dream may make uncertainty feel like a task you must solve before you can continue. You search for instructions, prepare for an unnamed event, or sense that something is wrong without seeing what it is. The feeling can give form to waiting for information that would make an ordinary decision easier. A pending response, unfamiliar role, or changing plan may provide a waking comparison, but the dream need not contain a specific hidden danger.\n\nPreparation can become the main action. Each packed item reveals another thing you might need, or checking one detail opens several more questions. This may resemble trying to gain certainty by doing more work than the available information can support. A clear instruction or a defined next step can change the scene because it gives the effort an endpoint. That differs from simply being late or unprepared for a particular event.\n\nSometimes the setting appears manageable while the feeling remains anxious. The room is ready, people are kind, and you still expect a mistake. The contrast may picture the difference between a present situation and an expectation carried into it. It can also be an unexplained dream feeling with no useful waking parallel. You do not need to invent a threat to justify its intensity, and the experience does not establish a clinical condition.\n\nAnother person can change the distribution of uncertainty. A helper may explain what is known, acknowledge what is not, or agree to take one step with you. This can picture support that does not promise complete reassurance. Someone insisting that you should already know may instead make the uncertainty feel like inadequacy. The scene's useful distinction can be whether questions are allowed, rather than whether all worry disappears.\n\nAnxiety can accompany something wanted. Preparing for a reunion, learning a new activity, or approaching an opportunity may join anticipation and unease. The mixed feeling need not mean that the opportunity is wrong. A scene in which you proceed with incomplete knowledge can explore enough readiness for the next step rather than certainty about the whole outcome. Recent waiting, busy routines, stories, and unfamiliar settings can supply ordinary material. The original reflection concerns the uncertainty imagined and the conditions that made it easier or harder to carry, without predicting danger or prescribing treatment.", "traditional": "Miller's 1901 Anxiety account offers favorable and unfavorable forecasts according to the dreamed concern. Those period claims do not establish whether a real situation will succeed or fail. The present original reflections examine uncertainty and anticipation rather than treating the feeling as an omen or diagnosis.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Uncertainty turned into preparation", "reflection": "Repeated checking may make unknown information feel like work you must complete. A defined next step can matter more than a promise of total certainty." }, { "title": "The scene versus the expectation", "reflection": "A calm setting and an anxious response can coexist. The contrast may clarify what is present and what the dream merely anticipates, without requiring a hidden threat." }, { "title": "Support while something remains unknown", "reflection": "Another person can acknowledge uncertainty without removing it. The useful shift may be having company or enough information to continue." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "You prepare for an event whose purpose is unclear", "reflection": "The work is definite while the demand remains unnamed. This may picture wanting enough context to know what preparation would actually be useful." }, { "title": "Checking one detail creates several more checks", "reflection": "The task expands rather than settles. The scene may resemble seeking certainty through effort when the needed information has not yet become available." }, { "title": "Everything is ready but the anxious feeling persists", "reflection": "The setting and expectation do not match. This may help distinguish the situation imagined from the response carried into it, without deciding that a threat must be hidden somewhere." }, { "title": "A helper names what is known and what is not", "reflection": "Uncertainty becomes more specific and shared. This can picture support that allows questions instead of requiring you to appear fully confident before continuing." }, { "title": "You feel anxious about something you also want", "reflection": "Unease and anticipation occupy the same opportunity. The scene may make its significance visible without deciding that either feeling supplies the correct decision." }, { "title": "You take one step without seeing the whole outcome", "reflection": "Enough preparation replaces complete certainty. This may picture a workable pace, provided the scene leaves room to pause, ask or choose again." } ], "prompts": [ "What was unknown, and what did I actually know within the scene?", "Did preparation have an endpoint or keep expanding?", "What support changed how the uncertainty felt?" ], "related": [ "being-late", "being-chased", "school-or-exam", "relief" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0094" ], "scope": "Historical comparison only: Anxiety — miller-0094 (Heading 94; source lines 2520–2527). These are attributed period claims, not verified predictions or support for the original psychological reflections." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0094", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Anxiety", "text": "A dream of this kind is occasionally a good omen, denoting,\nafter threatening states, success and rejuvenation of mind;\nbut if the dreamer is anxious about some momentous affair,\nit indicates a disastrous combination of business and social states.", "locator": "Heading 94; source lines 2520–2527", "lineStart": 2520, "lineEnd": 2527, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "A dream of this kind is occasionally a good omen, denoting,\nafter threatening states, success and rejuvenation of mind;\nbut if the dreamer is anxious about some momentous affair,\nit indicates a disastrous combination of business and social states." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "apartment", "title": "Apartment", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "A home can be private while its walls and rules are shared.", "summary": "An apartment dream can explore privacy, belonging and the space you can make your own inside a shared building.", "aliases": [ "apartment", "apartments", "flat", "flats" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "An apartment offers a home within a larger arrangement. Its rooms may be yours to use while the hallway, walls or rules belong to a shared building. In a dream, this can picture trying to establish a private life inside conditions you cannot set entirely yourself. A shared household, a workplace with communal resources, or a new relationship may provide a parallel. The question is not simply whether you have enough space, but what you are able to decide within it.\n\nSound passing through a wall can make another person's presence difficult to set aside. You may recognize the feeling of obligations reaching you during time intended for rest, or a conversation that remains audible after you leave it. Warm sounds can also convey companionship: knowing other people are nearby without having to host them. The same thin boundary can feel supportive or intrusive depending on what passes through and whether you can choose your distance.\n\nSize can express the fit between a life and the space available to hold it. An apartment that shrinks around your belongings may resemble responsibilities accumulating without a matching increase in time or room. A modest place that accommodates everything comfortably can instead picture discovering what is sufficient. More rooms do not automatically mean a better life; an oversized apartment may feel impersonal, expensive in effort, or difficult to inhabit.\n\nMaking a rented place feel like home can bring belonging apart from ownership. Hanging a picture, finding a place for a familiar chair, or establishing a daily routine may picture creating continuity under temporary conditions. This can fit a new team, a changing household, or a period whose end is uncertain. The important action is making a usable place rather than proving that it will remain yours forever.\n\nShared access changes the experience. A hallway that opens onto the wrong door may picture uncertainty about where your responsibility ends. Someone treating a private room as communal can resemble an agreement whose terms were never made clear. Being invited into another apartment can offer contact without surrendering your own space. Actual housing memories may explain the architecture directly. These readings concern how the arrangement feels, rather than forecasting a move, ownership or financial success.", "traditional": "No exact Apartment heading is supplied in the historical archive. House and Boarding House contain adjacent household material, but they do not establish a dream meaning for shared walls, rental belonging or apartment-building access. The readings here are original possibilities.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Privacy within a shared system", "reflection": "An apartment can picture a place of your own whose boundaries depend partly on other people’s habits or rules. The boundary may feel companionable, porous or difficult to negotiate." }, { "title": "Making a place fit", "reflection": "The fit between rooms, belongings and daily activity can resemble how much space a current arrangement gives your needs. A small place can feel sufficient; extra space can feel alienating." }, { "title": "Belonging without permanence", "reflection": "Furnishing or settling into a temporary home can picture building continuity without certainty about how long an arrangement will last. Familiar routines may matter more than ownership." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You hear neighbors through every wall", "reflection": "Hearing every neighbor can picture demands remaining present during private time. If the sounds are reassuring, the scene may instead concern companionship at a comfortable distance. Their effect on your own activity distinguishes the two." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Your apartment is much smaller inside", "reflection": "Unexpectedly limited rooms can resemble an arrangement that looked workable until everyday needs had to fit inside it. A new role or shared household may offer a parallel. What loses its place gives the restriction a specific focus." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A shared hallway leads to the wrong front door", "reflection": "A mistaken front door can picture blurred responsibilities or uncertainty about where you are expected to belong. Entering another person’s routine without intending to may feel similar. A helpful neighbor changes the scene toward orientation." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You furnish an unfamiliar apartment for yourself", "reflection": "Arranging an unfamiliar home can picture making a new situation livable through small choices. Starting a role or adapting after a move may fit. Choosing what belongs there can be more important than making the space impressive." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Someone else uses a room you believed was private", "reflection": "Unexpected use of a private room can resemble an agreement that leaves access unclear. Sharing equipment, time or personal information may offer a parallel. Your response shows whether contact is welcome, negotiable or intrusive." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You feel at home in a place you only rent", "reflection": "Feeling at home without owning the place can picture belonging through use, relationships and routine. A temporary assignment or changing household may feel similar. The dream can value what is available now without promising permanence." } ], "prompts": [ "Which boundary was shared, and what was I able to decide inside it?", "What made the apartment feel sufficient, cramped or unfamiliar?", "What did I do that made the place feel like home?" ], "related": [ "house", "a-house-search-with-no-suitable-home", "moving-in-with-a-partner", "locked-out", "hotel" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "apes", "title": "Apes", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “This dream brings humiliation and disease to some dear friend.” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "apes", "ape" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about apes stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "monkey" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0095", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Apes", "text": "This dream brings humiliation and disease to some dear friend.\n\nTo see a small ape cling to a tree, warns the dreamer to beware; a false\nperson is close to you and will cause unpleasantness in your circle.\nDeceit goes with this dream.", "locator": "Heading 95; source lines 2527–2535", "lineStart": 2527, "lineEnd": 2535, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "This dream brings humiliation and disease to some dear friend.\n\nTo see a small ape cling to a tree, warns the dreamer to beware; a false\nperson is close to you and will cause unpleasantness in your circle.\nDeceit goes with this dream." }, { "id": "fontaine-0026", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Apes", "text": "(_See Monkey._) To dream you have seen or had any thing to do\nwith them, signifies malicious, though secret enemies; and warns you\nagainst carrying on law-suits. 17, 6.", "locator": "Heading 26; source line 1081", "lineStart": 1081, "lineEnd": 1085, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Monkey.) To dream you have seen or had any thing to do\nwith them, signifies malicious, though secret enemies; and warns you\nagainst carrying on law-suits." }, { "id": "noe-0011", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Apes", "text": "To dream you have seen or had anything to do with them, signifies\nmalicious, weak, strange and secret enemies; also a malefactor and\ndeceiver.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 11; source lines 113–115", "lineStart": 113, "lineEnd": 115, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you have seen or had anything to do with them, signifies\nmalicious, weak, strange and secret enemies; also a malefactor and\ndeceiver." }, { "id": "cielo-0017", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Ape", "text": "Means an enemy. If running from you, safety.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 17; source lines 3893–3895", "lineStart": 3893, "lineEnd": 3895, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Means an enemy. If running from you, safety." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "monkey" ] }, { "slug": "apocalypse", "title": "Apocalypse", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "A world transformed, what matters enough to carry, and the life after disruption.", "summary": "A world-ending dream may amplify uncertainty or a major change. Notice what you protected and whether any ordinary life continued.", "aliases": [ "apocalypse", "end of the world", "world ending", "the apocalypse" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "An apocalypse changes more than one person's circumstances, so ask what makes the dream feel like the end of a world. Is there destruction, a warning everyone believes, an emptied city, or an abrupt change in how people live? The scale may come from recent news, games, films, or stories. A recognizable borrowed scene can coexist with a personal feeling without proving that a global event is approaching.\n\nYour priorities inside the emergency can be especially informative. You may search for one person, save a pet, collect practical supplies, or keep doing an ordinary task while everything changes. Rather than treating those choices as a test of character, consider what felt indispensable in that particular story. Dream decisions do not establish how you would act in a real disaster.\n\nThe emotional tone can differ from the dramatic setting. Panic might sit alongside relief from obligations; loneliness might arise only after the noise stops. If you associate the dream with a move, separation, graduation, or another transition, ask which familiar rules seem unavailable now. The metaphor is optional. Sometimes the dream is simply an absorbing catastrophe story with details worth remembering on their own.\n\nLook for what remains after the supposed ending. A shared meal, a shelter, or a new landscape may suggest questions about continuity and rebuilding. An ending without an aftermath may leave uncertainty rather than a clear conclusion. You can write both what disappeared and what you wanted to preserve. This image is not a prediction, and its intensity is not a measure of the size of a waking problem.", "traditional": "No supplied historical passage specifically covers the apocalypse in this entry. It would be misleading to combine unrelated religious end-time traditions into a single meaning or to label this dream an omen. This section offers original context drawn from ordinary encounters with catastrophe stories and public events.\n\nA world-ending plot removes familiar systems all at once: work schedules, transport, money, neighbors, or expectations about tomorrow. That can provide an imaginative setting for questions about dependence and values. The meaning may be tied to a particular story you know rather than to a general fear of change. If spiritual imagery appeared, describe the imagery and your own relationship with it before seeking a tradition-specific reading. The dream itself cannot verify a religious claim or supply a timetable for future events.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Trying to reach someone before the end", "reflection": "Communications fail while you search for a particular person. The unfinished contact may matter more than the disaster mechanism. Explore what you wanted to tell them and what support you were seeking, without turning the dream into an instruction to act urgently." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Living in the aftermath", "reflection": "The catastrophe has passed and you are finding food, shelter, or companions. Notice whether rebuilding feels exhausting or quietly hopeful. The practical details may help you reflect on what makes daily life sustainable when familiar arrangements are no longer available." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Nobody believes the warning", "reflection": "You see the approaching event while others continue normally. Focus on the experience of trying to be heard, including how you communicate and respond. The dream does not establish that you possess special knowledge of an actual disaster." } ], "prompts": [ "What made this the end of a world rather than a single difficult event?", "Which people, objects, or routines felt worth preserving?", "What did the dream leave possible after familiar life changed?" ], "related": [ "earthquake", "war", "flood", "nuclear-war", "zombies" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Expanded original reflection with source-specific historical context where available; human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "apparell-in-generall", "title": "Apparell in generall", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Artemidorus wrote: “THe habits accustomed and agréeable to the season, are good: as in Summe [illegible passage] a habite of Linnen cloth and fine Wooll in…”", "aliases": [ "apparell in generall", "of the apparell in generall" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about apparell in generall stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "artemidorus-065", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of the Apparell in generall.", "text": "THe habits accustomed and agréeable to the season, are good: as in Summe[illegible passage] a habite of Linnen cloth and fine Wooll in Winter a new garment, and of strong wooll. To him onely which is at law, and which is a servant desiring liberty, new a[illegible passage] parell is bad, because he must have long time to use them, and refuse them again. A white garment is good only to Priests: to others it signifies trouble: to Mechanicks, it signifies they shall have no work: and revealeth Malefactors: to the sick it is death but the black garment it is health. Notwithstanding, I have often séene poore men, servants, and captives, having dreamt they were attyred in black, died. This black habit is bad except to them which would doe secret things. To have a garment of divers colors, or scarlet, for Priests, jesters and Stage-Players, it is good, to others it signifies troubls, dangers, and revealing of secrets: to the sick it is they shalbe tormented with strong and abundant humors. A robe of scarlet to servants, and rich men is good: signifying liberty and honour, or dignity. It kils the sick, and brings greater poverty to the poore; to many it hath signified captivity, for the man clad in purple or scarlet, must also have a diadem or a crown, and many about him to guard his body. Every such robe dyed in Scarlet, is to some hurts, to others, an ague. A womans gown is good; onely to those which have no wife, and which come upon stages [illegible passage]o play. Others after this dream, lose their wife, or fall into great sicknes, by reason of the delicacy and effeminatenesse of those which wear such garments. And yet notwithstanding in cause of rejoycing and assemblies, neither gowns of divers colours▪ nor womens gowns, are bad. To have a gown of the fashion of some strange nation is good luck among strangers, to him which purposeth to go, or remain, or leade his life amongst them, to others it is sicknesse, and hindrance of affayrs: to have a delicate and sumptuous gown, is good for rich and poore: for to the first, their present prosperity shall continue, and to the other, their goods shall increase. Broken and torn gowns, is hur[illegible passage] and hindrance of affayrs. A Coat, a jacket or short cloak, or shirt of woollen cloth, is anger, and losse of a Law suit: wherefore it [illegible passage] better to dream you lose them, then you have them. But the losse of any other hab[illegible passage] is not good; except to the poore, servan[illegible passage] captives, and debtors: for these garments being lost, argue losse of evils; which encompasse them: for others it is not good [illegible passage] dream of losse or nakednesse: for it signifieth losse of goods, and pleasant things. [illegible passage] fair and brave gown, and of divers colour[illegible passage] is good for a rich and joyfull woman, for the one kéeps her brave for her pleasure, the other divers colours argue her profit. It [illegible passage] always better to dream to have good, fayr, rich, and cleanly garments, then little and durty; except to those wh[illegible passage] exercise [illegible passage]ovenly and durty trades.", "locator": "Book 2, encoded section 65", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription-with-gaps", "book": "2", "displayText": "THe habits accustomed and agréeable to the season, are good: as in Summe [illegible passage] a habite of Linnen cloth and fine Wooll in Winter a new garment, and of strong wooll. To him onely which is at law, and which is a servant desiring liberty, new a [illegible passage] parell is bad, because he must have long time to use them, and refuse them again. A white garment is good only to Priests: to others it signifies trouble: to Mechanicks, it signifies they shall have no work: and revealeth Malefactors: to the sick it is death but the black garment it is health. Notwithstanding, I have often séene poore men, servants, and captives, having dreamt they were attyred in black, died. This black habit is bad except to them which would doe secret things. To have a garment of divers colors, or scarlet, for Priests, jesters and Stage-Players, it is good, to others it signifies troubls, dangers, and revealing of secrets: to the sick it is they shalbe tormented with strong and abundant humors. A robe of scarlet to servants, and rich men is good: signifying liberty and honour, or dignity. It kils the sick, and brings greater poverty to the poore; to many it hath signified captivity, for the man clad in purple or scarlet, must also have a diadem or a crown, and many about him to guard his body. Every such robe dyed in Scarlet, is to some hurts, to others, an ague. A womans gown is good; onely to those which have no wife, and which come upon stages [illegible passage] o play. Others after this dream, lose their wife, or fall into great sicknes, by reason of the delicacy and effeminatenesse of those which wear such garments. And yet notwithstanding in cause of rejoycing and assemblies, neither gowns of divers colours▪ nor womens gowns, are bad. To have a gown of the fashion of some strange nation is good luck among strangers, to him which purposeth to go, or remain, or leade his life amongst them, to others it is sicknesse, and hindrance of affayrs: to have a delicate and sumptuous gown, is good for rich and poore: for to the first, their present prosperity shall continue, and to the other, their goods shall increase. Broken and torn gowns, is hur [illegible passage] and hindrance of affayrs. A Coat, a jacket or short cloak, or shirt of woollen cloth, is anger, and losse of a Law suit: wherefore it [illegible passage] better to dream you lose them, then you have them. But the losse of any other hab [illegible passage] is not good; except to the poore, servan [illegible passage] captives, and debtors: for these garments being lost, argue losse of evils; which encompasse them: for others it is not good [illegible passage] dream of losse or nakednesse: for it signifieth losse of goods, and pleasant things. [illegible passage] fair and brave gown, and of divers colour [illegible passage] is good for a rich and joyfull woman, for the one kéeps her brave for her pleasure, the other divers colours argue her profit. It [illegible passage] always better to dream to have good, fayr, rich, and cleanly garments, then little and durty; except to those wh [illegible passage] exercise [illegible passage] ovenly and durty trades." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "apparition", "title": "Apparition", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "5 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Take unusual care of all depending upon you.” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "apparition", "apparitions" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about apparition stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "guide-65367", "title": "Guide to Fortune-Telling by Dreams", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Multum in Parvo Library, Vol. I, No. 10, October 1894", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65367", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0097", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Apparition", "text": "Take unusual care of all depending upon you. Calamity awaits you and yours.\nBoth property and life are in danger. Young people should be\ndecidedly upright in their communications with the opposite sex.\nCharacter is likely to be rated at a discount.", "locator": "Heading 97; source lines 2609–2616", "lineStart": 2609, "lineEnd": 2616, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Take unusual care of all depending upon you. Calamity awaits you and yours.\nBoth property and life are in danger. Young people should be\ndecidedly upright in their communications with the opposite sex.\nCharacter is likely to be rated at a discount." }, { "id": "fontaine-0027", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Apparition", "text": "To dream you see an apparition or spirit, clothed in white,\nsignifies deceit, temptation to sin, and disappointment in love. 57.\n\nThe following is an old prediction in verse:\n\n To dream of seeing strange apparitions,\n As devils, hobgoblins, and such visions,\n Does show thy love, or thy sweetheart,\n Hath a fair face, but devil’s heart.", "locator": "Heading 27; source line 1085", "lineStart": 1085, "lineEnd": 1095, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see an apparition or spirit, clothed in white,\nsignifies deceit, temptation to sin, and disappointment in love. 57.\n\nThe following is an old prediction in verse:\n\nTo dream of seeing strange apparitions,\nAs devils, hobgoblins, and such visions,\nDoes show thy love, or thy sweetheart,\nHath a fair face, but devil’s heart." }, { "id": "noe-0012", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Apparition", "text": "To dream you see an apparition, or spirit,\nclothed in white, signifies deceit and temptation to sin.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 12; source lines 115–116", "lineStart": 115, "lineEnd": 116, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see an apparition, or spirit,\nclothed in white, signifies deceit and temptation to sin." }, { "id": "noe-0019", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Apparitions", "text": "To dream you see a ghost, goblin, spectre and such kind of\nthings, is of a very unfortunate nature; if you are in love, it is a\ncertain sign of your not being beloved in return; depend upon it some one\nis about to deceive you and that you are friendly with one who is your\nmost inveterate enemy.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 19; source lines 169–173", "lineStart": 169, "lineEnd": 173, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see a ghost, goblin, spectre and such kind of\nthings, is of a very unfortunate nature; if you are in love, it is a\ncertain sign of your not being beloved in return; depend upon it some one\nis about to deceive you and that you are friendly with one who is your\nmost inveterate enemy." }, { "id": "guide-0007", "sourceId": "guide-65367", "heading": "Apparitions", "text": "To dream you see a ghost, hobgoblin, spectre, and such\nkind of things, is of a very unfortunate nature, they denote vexation\nand disappointment; if you are in love, it is a certain sign of your\nnot being beloved in return. Some one is about to deceive you and\nyou are friendly with one who is your most inveterate enemy; do not\nundertake a journey, for it will be unfortunate for you; be careful of\ncontracting debts, for such a dream forebodes great trouble through\nsome one to whom you shall owe money.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 7; source lines 125–134", "lineStart": 125, "lineEnd": 134, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see a ghost, hobgoblin, spectre, and such\nkind of things, is of a very unfortunate nature, they denote vexation\nand disappointment; if you are in love, it is a certain sign of your\nnot being beloved in return. Some one is about to deceive you and\nyou are friendly with one who is your most inveterate enemy; do not\nundertake a journey, for it will be unfortunate for you; be careful of\ncontracting debts, for such a dream forebodes great trouble through\nsome one to whom you shall owe money." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "applause", "title": "Applause", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "Being noticed and feeling understood can be different experiences.", "summary": "Applause may picture recognition, joining a group response, or uncertainty about whether public approval fits your own experience.", "aliases": [ "applause", "clapping hands" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "Applause can make recognition audible and collective. A room responds together, and an act that felt private becomes publicly visible. In a dream, that may fit wanting effort acknowledged after a period of working without feedback. The scale need not match the achievement: a small task can receive a standing ovation because the scene makes being seen, rather than performing impressively, its main event.\n\nThe reception may also feel mismatched. You are applauded for something you did not do, for an old role, or before you have finished speaking. That can picture recognition attached to an image that no longer fits you. A person praised for reliability while feeling exhausted, for example, may welcome appreciation but also want the demand behind it understood. Applause can therefore feel flattering and uncomfortable at the same time.\n\nBeing among the people clapping changes the focus from receiving approval to participating in it. You may feel glad to acknowledge somebody, unsure why everyone has joined in, or pressured to show more enthusiasm than you feel. The dream can bring a question about belonging into a small repeated gesture. Quietly withholding applause differs from actively criticizing the person at the center. The scene need not turn a difference in response into disloyalty.\n\nTiming gives the sound another meaning. Applause arriving too early may interrupt the point you wanted to make; continuing after you leave may suggest that recognition is attached to a performance rather than contact with you. If one person's response matters more than the whole room, the scene may reveal a wish for a particular kind of understanding. A large audience cannot substitute for every individual relationship.\n\nSilence after expected applause can feel exposing, but it can also bring relief when a performance is over. A delayed or brief response may make uncertainty more important than outright disapproval. The dream's crowd supplies no evidence of how actual people assess your work. A recent event, broadcast, ceremony, or remembered group moment can provide ordinary material. An original reading keeps the sound connected to what preceded it, who participated, and whether the recognition felt accurate, welcome, or difficult to leave.", "traditional": "No historical passage directly defining applause is supplied. Public Speaking and Graduation concern related settings; this entry focuses on the group response rather than borrowing a fixed forecast from those contexts.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Recognition that fits the effort", "reflection": "Applause may picture wanting an act or contribution to receive attention. Its emotional value can depend on what people seem to be recognizing." }, { "title": "Joining a collective response", "reflection": "Clapping with others can explore shared appreciation or pressure to display agreement. Belonging and enthusiasm do not have to be identical." }, { "title": "Visibility without understanding", "reflection": "A loud response can still feel impersonal or inaccurate. The scene may distinguish public notice from the particular acknowledgment you wanted." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "An ordinary act receives loud applause", "reflection": "A small contribution becomes highly visible. The scene may fit wanting overlooked effort acknowledged, without implying that public recognition is the only form that would matter." }, { "title": "You clap gladly for somebody else", "reflection": "Attention rests on appreciation rather than comparison. This may picture pleasure in another person's contribution or relief at participating without having to occupy the center." }, { "title": "Everyone claps and you do not know why", "reflection": "The group supplies a response before you understand its cause. The scene may explore pressure to demonstrate agreement without enough context to choose your own reaction." }, { "title": "Applause interrupts what you meant to say", "reflection": "The response arrives before your point is complete. Recognition may feel less satisfying when it prevents explanation, making being heard different from being celebrated." }, { "title": "You are applauded for something that does not feel yours", "reflection": "The praise attaches to an inaccurate role or achievement. This may fit wanting credit to match your actual contribution rather than simply wanting more approval." }, { "title": "The room becomes quiet and you feel relieved", "reflection": "The performance and its demands have ended. Silence may provide room to step out of public attention, instead of serving only as evidence of imagined rejection." } ], "prompts": [ "What exactly received applause, and did it match my experience?", "Was I receiving recognition, offering it, or following the room?", "Whose acknowledgment mattered, and what would have felt more personal?" ], "related": [ "public-speaking", "graduation", "promotion" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "apple-tree", "title": "Apple Tree", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “Alive and flourishing, good news; dead, bad tidings. In mystic literature, the apple is the tree of life (Bayley).”", "aliases": [ "apple tree" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about apple tree stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L9010", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Apple Tree", "heading": "Apple Tree", "text": "Alive and flourishing, good news ; dead, bad tidings. In mystic literature, the apple is the tree of life (Bayley).", "lineStart": 9010, "lineEnd": 9013, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 197; NLM OCR lines 9010–9013", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9010, "lineEnd": 9013, "printedPage": 197, "printedPageEnd": 197 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Apple Tree. — Alive and flourishing, good news ; dead, bad \ntidings. In mystic literature, the apple is the tree of life \n(Bayley). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Apple Tree" }, "displayText": "Alive and flourishing, good news; dead, bad tidings. In mystic literature, the apple is the tree of life (Bayley)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "apples", "title": "Apples", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "5 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “This is a very good dream to the majority of people.” Compare 5 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "apples", "apple" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about apples stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0098", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Apples", "text": "This is a very good dream to the majority of people.\n\nTo see red apples on trees with green foliage is exceedingly propitious\nto the dreamer.\n\nTo eat them is not as good, unless they be faultless.\nA friend who interprets dreams says: ``Ripe apples on a tree,\ndenotes that the time has arrived for you to realize your hopes;\nthink over what you intend to do, and go fearlessly ahead.\nRipe on the top of the tree, warns you not to aim too high.\nApples on the ground imply that false friends, and flatterers\nare working you harm. Decayed apples typify hopeless efforts.''", "locator": "Heading 98; source lines 2616–2631", "lineStart": 2616, "lineEnd": 2631, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "This is a very good dream to the majority of people.\n\nTo see red apples on trees with green foliage is exceedingly propitious\nto the dreamer.\n\nTo eat them is not as good, unless they be faultless.\nA friend who interprets dreams says: “Ripe apples on a tree,\ndenotes that the time has arrived for you to realize your hopes;\nthink over what you intend to do, and go fearlessly ahead.\nRipe on the top of the tree, warns you not to aim too high.\nApples on the ground imply that false friends, and flatterers\nare working you harm. Decayed apples typify hopeless efforts.”" }, { "id": "noe-0021", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Apples", "text": "To dream of apples betokens long life and success, a\nboy to a woman with child, faithfulness in your sweetheart and riches by\ntrade.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 21; source lines 181–183", "lineStart": 181, "lineEnd": 183, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of apples betokens long life and success, a\nboy to a woman with child, faithfulness in your sweetheart and riches by\ntrade." }, { "id": "cielo-0018", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Apples", "text": "Signify gain. If you are eating them,\n disappointment; if on a tree, good news.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 18; source lines 3895–3898", "lineStart": 3895, "lineEnd": 3898, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Signify gain. If you are eating them,\ndisappointment; if on a tree, good news." }, { "id": "luck-0007", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Apples", "text": "Long life: (to a woman) many years and many children.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 7; source lines 3526–3528", "lineStart": 3526, "lineEnd": 3528, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Long life: (to a woman) many years and many children." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9001", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Apples", "heading": "Apples", "text": "Ripe apples augur success in trade, love, etc.; green apples, the contrary. The gypsy influence is distinctly traceable in the folk-lore of the apple as coloring the dream. It confers immortal youth in the fairy-tale, golden apples, love apples, etc., while in Christian symbolism it represents the fall from Eden, the sin that made Christ's coming necessary. Freud makes this a sexual dream, and Inman gives the apple as a symbol of sexual love.", "lineStart": 9001, "lineEnd": 9009, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 197; NLM OCR lines 9001–9009", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9001, "lineEnd": 9009, "printedPage": 197, "printedPageEnd": 197 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Apples. — Ripe apples augur success in trade, love, etc.; \ngreen apples, the contrary. The gypsy influence is distinctly \ntraceable in the folk-lore of the apple as coloring the dream. \nIt confers immortal youth in the fairy-tale, golden apples, \nlove apples, etc., while in Christian symbolism it represents the \nfall from Eden, the sin that made Christ's coming necessary. \nFreud makes this a sexual dream, and Inman gives the apple \nas a symbol of sexual love. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Apples" }, "displayText": "Ripe apples augur success in trade, love, etc.; green apples, the contrary. The gypsy influence is distinctly traceable in the folk-lore of the apple as coloring the dream. It confers immortal youth in the fairy-tale, golden apples, love apples, etc., while in Christian symbolism it represents the fall from Eden, the sin that made Christ's coming necessary. Freud makes this a sexual dream, and Inman gives the apple as a symbol of sexual love." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "apples-or-apple-trees", "title": "Apples, or Apple-Trees", "type": "dreams", "category": "Other symbols", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “If sweet, denote joy and pleasure, especially to women and maids. Sour apples signify contention and sedition.”", "aliases": [ "apples, or apple-trees", "apples", "apple-trees" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about apples, or apple-trees stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "orchard" ], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0029", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Apples, or Apple-Trees", "text": "(_See Orchard._) If sweet, denote joy and\npleasure, especially to women and maids. Sour apples signify contention\nand sedition. 4, 11, 44.", "locator": "Heading 29; source line 1104", "lineStart": 1104, "lineEnd": 1108, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Orchard.) If sweet, denote joy and\npleasure, especially to women and maids. Sour apples signify contention\nand sedition." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "orchard" ] }, { "slug": "application", "title": "Application form", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "tagline": "A form asks you to describe yourself in someone else's categories.", "summary": "An application form may explore presenting a request, fitting your experience into categories, or retaining choice before a decision is made.", "aliases": [ "application", "application form", "application forms" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "An application form may picture the work required to become eligible for something you want. You supply facts, choose categories, and send a request to someone who will decide. The dream can make the distance between your actual circumstances and an institution's preferred account visible. This could fit applying for a job, place, permission, or membership, but also explaining yourself within a relationship that seems to require the right answers before your wish can be considered.\n\nA question that has no suitable answer changes the task. You may understand yourself clearly while the form offers categories that do not fit. That can picture wanting room for context rather than uncertainty about who you are. An empty space that accepts an explanation creates a different experience from a box that rejects every response. The comparison concerns representation and access, not proof that a real application process will be unfair.\n\nEndless pages can make preparation feel larger than the opportunity. Each completed section opens another request for information, or the same fact must be supplied repeatedly. This might resemble a task whose requirements expand before you can finish it. A short, clear form can instead picture enough structure to act without guessing. A recent bureaucratic or online experience may provide the image directly, without any general message about authority.\n\nAuthorship and consent matter when someone else submits the form. Help filling it in can be welcome if your account remains accurate and you can decide when to proceed. An application made in your name without asking can make the scene about a future role chosen on your behalf. The dream does not establish that a real person has taken such an action. Its useful question may be where assistance ends and your own decision begins.\n\nSubmitting does not have to lead immediately to acceptance or refusal. An acknowledgment can bring relief because the request has reached its destination, while uncertainty about the decision remains. Choosing to withdraw may picture discovering that the opportunity no longer fits, rather than failing to qualify. The original reading stays with the form as a request before an outcome. It cannot verify eligibility, establish an official decision, or tell you whether a particular opportunity should be pursued.", "traditional": "No historical passage directly defining the application-form sense is supplied. This page concerns a written request for consideration, not software, a mobile app, or applying a substance. Rejection and Contract address different stages: an answer and an agreement.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Your account within fixed categories", "reflection": "A form may make the fit between lived circumstances and available answers visible. A missing option can concern the limits of the form rather than your own clarity." }, { "title": "Preparation that keeps expanding", "reflection": "Repeated sections can put completion further away after each effort. The scene may picture wanting stable requirements before committing more time." }, { "title": "Permission to proceed", "reflection": "Help with a request feels different when you retain authorship and the choice to submit. An application in your name can make consent the central issue." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "None of the available answers fits", "reflection": "You know what you mean but cannot enter it. This may picture wanting a process to allow context instead of requiring your circumstances to become simpler than they are." }, { "title": "The form is clear and you complete it calmly", "reflection": "Structure makes the next step manageable. This may picture relief at knowing what information is needed without having to anticipate hidden criteria." }, { "title": "New pages appear after every completed section", "reflection": "The effort grows while the destination remains unchanged. The scene may resemble requirements expanding before there is a clear point at which preparation counts as enough." }, { "title": "Someone applies on your behalf without asking", "reflection": "A future possibility is selected in your name. This may make assistance feel controlling, especially if you cannot change the account or decide whether to proceed." }, { "title": "Your submission receives an acknowledgment", "reflection": "The request reaches its destination without an immediate verdict. Relief may concern finishing your part while allowing the remaining uncertainty to belong to a later decision." }, { "title": "You choose to withdraw the application", "reflection": "The opportunity no longer seems to fit what you want. The scene may explore retaining a choice to stop before an agreement, rather than defining withdrawal as rejection or failure." } ], "prompts": [ "What was I asking to join, receive, or become?", "Which parts of my experience fit the form, and which needed explanation?", "Did I control the account and the decision to submit it?" ], "related": [ "job-interview", "rejection", "contract" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "appointment", "title": "Appointment", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "tagline": "Two people can agree to meet while imagining different encounters.", "summary": "An appointment may picture an agreed encounter, anticipation, or the difference between setting a time and understanding what a meeting is for.", "aliases": [ "appointment", "appointments" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "An appointment gives a future encounter a place and time. In a dream, you prepare to arrive, wait for another person, or discover that you do not know what the meeting is meant to address. The image may picture a commitment that has become specific before its purpose feels clear. This could resemble anticipating a conversation, review, service visit, or decision whose practical arrangements are settled while its emotional stakes remain uncertain.\n\nWaiting can have several meanings. Arriving early with time to settle differs from sitting indefinitely without information. A quiet pause may picture wanting room before an encounter, while an unexplained delay can make uncertainty about another person's availability central. If you do not know whether you should stay or leave, the scene may concern the terms of the agreement rather than impatience alone. The dreamed delay supplies no evidence about a real person's reliability.\n\nThe appointment's purpose matters as much as punctuality. A conversation with a familiar person, a formal evaluation, and a routine service can place different demands on the same waiting room. Discovering that both sides expected different meetings may picture assumptions that were never compared. A recent arrangement, invitation, or calendar reminder can provide direct material without a deeper conflict. The dream's setting does not diagnose a health issue or predict the result of a waking consultation.\n\nA change in time or place can make coordination visible. You may adapt easily, feel relieved at a postponement, or find that one commitment now collides with another. This could fit trying to protect enough time for a task instead of merely fitting it into a crowded schedule. A cancellation may remove a demand but also leave a wanted conversation unavailable. Relief and disappointment can therefore coexist in the same ending.\n\nBeing the person expected to arrive changes the position again. Others may wait for your decision, assistance, or attention, making a scheduled encounter feel like responsibility rather than anticipation. A clear explanation or a new agreed time can make the scene workable without insisting that every meeting happen immediately. The useful original reading distinguishes the agreement, the preparation it allowed, and the encounter you hoped would follow. An appointment dream does not turn an imagined schedule into a real obligation.", "traditional": "No historical appointment passage is supplied. Calendar and Being Late concern related timing images, but this entry develops the agreed encounter and its purpose, including scenes in which nobody is late.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "An encounter made definite", "reflection": "A place and time can make anticipation concrete. The remaining uncertainty may concern the purpose or response rather than the logistics themselves." }, { "title": "Waiting with enough information", "reflection": "A pause feels different when you know what happens next. An indefinite wait may make the agreement's terms more important than speed." }, { "title": "The meeting each person imagined", "reflection": "Different expectations can occupy the same appointment. Clarification may change the scene more than simply arriving on time." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "You arrive early and have time to settle", "reflection": "The interval feels useful rather than wasteful. This may picture wanting room to prepare before an encounter instead of moving directly from one obligation into another." }, { "title": "You cannot remember whom the appointment is with", "reflection": "The time is definite but the relationship or purpose is missing. The scene may make a commitment feel formal before you understand what it actually asks of you." }, { "title": "The time changes without an explanation", "reflection": "Coordination becomes uncertain after you arranged your plans. This may picture needing information that lets you choose what to do next rather than merely waiting longer." }, { "title": "A cancellation brings relief and disappointment", "reflection": "A demand disappears along with a wanted possibility. Both responses may matter if the meeting promised contact while also requiring effort or exposure." }, { "title": "Both people expected a different conversation", "reflection": "The shared appointment contains incompatible purposes. The scene may explore assumptions that were never compared, making clarification more useful than judging who prepared correctly." }, { "title": "Other people are waiting for you", "reflection": "Your arrival carries responsibility for their next step. This may picture wanting your availability and the task's scope agreed, rather than having attention assumed at a fixed time." } ], "prompts": [ "What was the encounter meant to accomplish?", "What information did I need while preparing or waiting?", "Did everyone seem to have agreed to the same meeting?" ], "related": [ "being-late", "calendar", "job-interview" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "apprentice", "title": "Apprentice", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you serve as an apprentice, foretells you will have a struggle to win a place among your companions”", "aliases": [ "apprentice" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about apprentice stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0099", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Apprentice", "text": "To dream that you serve as an apprentice, foretells you will have a struggle\nto win a place among your companions", "locator": "Heading 99; source lines 2631–2636", "lineStart": 2631, "lineEnd": 2636, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you serve as an apprentice, foretells you will have a struggle\nto win a place among your companions" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "apricot", "title": "Apricot", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Dreams of seeing apricots growing, denote that the future, though seemingly rosy hued, holds masked…” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "apricot", "apricots" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about apricot stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0100", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Apricot", "text": "Dreams of seeing apricots growing, denote that the future, though seemingly\nrosy hued, holds masked bitterness and sorrow for you.\n\nTo eat them signifies the near approach of calamitous influences.\nIf others eat them, your surroundings will be unpleasant\nand disagreeable to your fancies. A friend says:\n``Apricots denote that you have been wasting time over trifles\nor small things of no value.''", "locator": "Heading 100; source lines 2636–2647", "lineStart": 2636, "lineEnd": 2647, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Dreams of seeing apricots growing, denote that the future, though seemingly\nrosy hued, holds masked bitterness and sorrow for you.\n\nTo eat them signifies the near approach of calamitous influences.\nIf others eat them, your surroundings will be unpleasant\nand disagreeable to your fancies. A friend says:\n“Apricots denote that you have been wasting time over trifles\nor small things of no value.”" }, { "id": "fontaine-0030", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Apricots", "text": "Content, health, and pleasure, if in season; if otherwise,\nvain hopes, bad fortune. 22, 5, 64.", "locator": "Heading 30; source line 1108", "lineStart": 1108, "lineEnd": 1111, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Content, health, and pleasure, if in season; if otherwise,\nvain hopes, bad fortune." }, { "id": "noe-0022", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Apricots", "text": "To dream of apricots, denotes health and prosperity, a\nspeedy marriage, dutiful children and success in love.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 22; source lines 183–184", "lineStart": 183, "lineEnd": 184, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of apricots, denotes health and prosperity, a\nspeedy marriage, dutiful children and success in love." }, { "id": "cielo-0019", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Apricots", "text": "If you dream of eating them, it means good\n news; if you see them on the tree or otherwise, a\n pleasant surprise.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 19; source lines 3898–3902", "lineStart": 3898, "lineEnd": 3902, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream of eating them, it means good\nnews; if you see them on the tree or otherwise, a\npleasant surprise." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "april", "title": "April", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of the month of April, signifies that much pleasure and profit will be your allotment.”", "aliases": [ "april" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about april stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0101", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "April", "text": "To dream of the month of April, signifies that much pleasure\nand profit will be your allotment. If the weather is miserable,\nit is a sign of passing ill luck.", "locator": "Heading 101; source lines 2647–2653", "lineStart": 2647, "lineEnd": 2653, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of the month of April, signifies that much pleasure\nand profit will be your allotment. If the weather is miserable,\nit is a sign of passing ill luck." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "apron", "title": "Apron", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of an apron, signifies a zigzag course, for a young woman.”", "aliases": [ "apron" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about apron stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0102", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Apron", "text": "To dream of an apron, signifies a zigzag course, for a young woman.\nFor a school girl to dream that her apron is loosened, or torn,\nimplies bad lessons, and lectures in propriety from parents and teachers.", "locator": "Heading 102; source lines 2653–2659", "lineStart": 2653, "lineEnd": 2659, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of an apron, signifies a zigzag course, for a young woman.\nFor a school girl to dream that her apron is loosened, or torn,\nimplies bad lessons, and lectures in propriety from parents and teachers." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "arbor", "title": "Arbor", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Cielo wrote: “To be in an arbor means disappointment in love.”", "aliases": [ "arbor" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about arbor stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "cielo-0020", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Arbor", "text": "To be in an arbor means disappointment in love.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 20; source lines 3902–3904", "lineStart": 3902, "lineEnd": 3904, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To be in an arbor means disappointment in love." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "arch", "title": "Arch", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “An arch in a dream, denotes your rise to distinction and the gaining of wealth by persistent effort.”", "aliases": [ "arch" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about arch stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0103", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Arch", "text": "An arch in a dream, denotes your rise to distinction and the gaining of wealth\nby persistent effort. To pass under one, foretells that many will seek you\nwho formerly ignored your position.\n\nFor a young woman to see a fallen arch, denotes the destruction of her hopes,\nand she will be miserable in her new situation.", "locator": "Heading 103; source lines 2659–2668", "lineStart": 2659, "lineEnd": 2668, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "An arch in a dream, denotes your rise to distinction and the gaining of wealth\nby persistent effort. To pass under one, foretells that many will seek you\nwho formerly ignored your position.\n\nFor a young woman to see a fallen arch, denotes the destruction of her hopes,\nand she will be miserable in her new situation." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "archbishop", "title": "Archbishop", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing an archbishop, foretells you will have many obstacles to resist in your attempt to master fortune or rise to public honor.”", "aliases": [ "archbishop" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about archbishop stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0104", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Archbishop", "text": "To dream of seeing an archbishop, foretells you will have many obstacles\nto resist in your attempt to master fortune or rise to public honor.\nTo see one in the every day dress of a common citizen, denotes you\nwill have aid and encouragement from those in prominent positions\nand will succeed in your enterprises.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that an archbishop is kindly directing her,\nforetells she will be fortunate in forming her friendships.", "locator": "Heading 104; source lines 2668–2679", "lineStart": 2668, "lineEnd": 2679, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing an archbishop, foretells you will have many obstacles\nto resist in your attempt to master fortune or rise to public honor.\nTo see one in the every day dress of a common citizen, denotes you\nwill have aid and encouragement from those in prominent positions\nand will succeed in your enterprises.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that an archbishop is kindly directing her,\nforetells she will be fortunate in forming her friendships." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "architect", "title": "Architect", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Architects drawing plans in your dreams, denotes a change in your business, which will be likely to result in loss to you.”", "aliases": [ "architect" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about architect stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0105", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Architect", "text": "Architects drawing plans in your dreams, denotes a change in your business,\nwhich will be likely to result in loss to you.\n\nFor a young woman to see an architect, foretells she will meet rebuffs\nin her aspirations and maneuvers to make a favorable marriage.", "locator": "Heading 105; source lines 2679–2687", "lineStart": 2679, "lineEnd": 2687, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Architects drawing plans in your dreams, denotes a change in your business,\nwhich will be likely to result in loss to you.\n\nFor a young woman to see an architect, foretells she will meet rebuffs\nin her aspirations and maneuvers to make a favorable marriage." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "argument", "title": "Argument", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "aliases": [ "argument" ], "status": "REVIEW", "summary": "An argument can explore what needs to be heard, the difference between winning and resolving a task, and room to revise a position.", "tagline": "The disputed issue and the way it is handled can change separately.", "psychological": "An argument that repeatedly returns to one misunderstood phrase can make clarification more important than winning. You may want the other participant to recognize what you meant, while each response seems to answer another question. A discussion at work or home can offer a comparison when the practical issue becomes lost inside reactions to wording. Finding a shared description may change the exchange before either person changes their view.\n\nA disagreement can also contain usable differences. Two people want to complete the same task but prefer another order or method. The dream may make competing priorities concrete, such as speed and careful checking. Being able to explain the preference differs from having to defend your right to speak. Not every dreamed argument requires hostility, and calm discussion can still carry an important conflict.\n\nAn audience can alter what the exchange is for. You may begin solving a problem and end trying to appear certain in front of others. This can resemble pressure to protect a public position even when new information arrives. A private conversation, a pause or another way of showing the problem may let the task become usable again. The dreamed audience cannot reveal how people actually judge you.\n\nWinning without changing the situation creates a different ending. Everyone agrees with you, yet the broken object remains broken or the group still has no plan. This may picture wanting recognition while also needing practical cooperation. Conversely, revising your position can feel like progress when another account supplies information you lacked. Changing a view need not erase the part you understood correctly.\n\nAn argument ending through an agreed pause can leave connection and disagreement present together. You may need time, a clearer question or conditions that let each person participate. If the pause feels imposed, the scene can instead concern losing an opportunity to answer. Recent conversations, stories or unresolved decisions may supply direct context. These original possibilities follow the issue, response and outcome; they do not establish who is right, expose another person’s motives or predict a coming quarrel.", "traditional": "Cielo’s sole Argument passage says that holding an argument brings justice. It is a brief period forecast, not proof that a dreamer is correct or will be vindicated. The original reading distinguishes being heard, revising a view and actually resolving the task; those outcomes need not occur together.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Clarification can precede agreement", "reflection": "Knowing which issue each person is answering can make a disagreement workable before opinions become the same." }, { "title": "Recognition does not complete every task", "reflection": "Winning an exchange may satisfy one need while leaving the practical situation unchanged." }, { "title": "A position can change without disappearing", "reflection": "New information or an agreed pause can preserve useful knowledge while allowing another contribution." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Each reply answers a different version of what you said", "reflection": "The dispute grows while the shared question remains unclear. This may picture wanting your meaning recognized before considering an answer. Restating the issue can change the exchange without requiring you to assume that misunderstanding was deliberate or that one participant is wholly wrong." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You want the same result but disagree about the order", "reflection": "A shared purpose contains competing priorities. This can resemble choosing between speed, care or another practical need. Explaining why a step matters may support coordination without requiring identical methods or turning every disagreement into a judgment about the relationship." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A private disagreement becomes a performance for a crowd", "reflection": "The audience changes what you feel required to defend. This may picture protecting a public position when the task needs more uncertainty or discussion. A different setting can make participation easier without revealing how an actual audience evaluates your knowledge." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You win the argument but the practical problem remains", "reflection": "Recognition arrives without a usable next step. This can resemble wanting both acknowledgment and cooperation, which require different responses. The unresolved object or task can clarify what still matters after agreement, rather than making the victory meaningless or predicting another failure." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "New information leads you to revise part of your position", "reflection": "Another account changes what you can reasonably defend. This may picture curiosity or relief at finding a better description. Revision can keep the part you understood while adding what was missing; it need not become a test of whether you should have known everything earlier." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "Both participants agree to pause and return to one question", "reflection": "The exchange gains a limit without pretending every difference is resolved. This can resemble needing time or more usable conditions for discussion. The particular plan for returning distinguishes a chosen pause from being silenced or leaving the whole subject indefinitely unfinished." } ], "prompts": [ "Which question was each participant actually trying to answer?", "What remained to be done after someone was heard or agreed with?", "How did new information or a pause affect the available positions?" ], "related": [ "anger", "frustration", "reconciliation", "being-ignored" ], "sources": [ { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0021" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a diagnosis, prediction or another person’s states. cielo-0021 — Argument (Dream section, heading 21; source lines 3904–3907): Holding an argument with anyone is said to bring justice. This brief forecast does not show who was right or promise vindication." } ], "updated": "2026-10-14", "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "cielo-0021", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Argument", "text": "To hold an argument with anyone means that\n justice will be done.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 21; source lines 3904–3907", "lineStart": 3904, "lineEnd": 3907, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To hold an argument with anyone means that\njustice will be done." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "arm", "title": "Arm", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "5 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing an arm amputated, means separation or divorce.” Compare 5 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "arm", "arms" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about arm stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0106", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Arm", "text": "To dream of seeing an arm amputated, means separation or divorce.\nMutual dissatisfaction will occur between husband and wife.\nIt is a dream of sinister import. Beware of deceitfulness and fraud.", "locator": "Heading 106; source lines 2687–2693", "lineStart": 2687, "lineEnd": 2693, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing an arm amputated, means separation or divorce.\nMutual dissatisfaction will occur between husband and wife.\nIt is a dream of sinister import. Beware of deceitfulness and fraud." }, { "id": "fontaine-0031", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Arms", "text": "To dream your arms are withered or lean, denotes affliction,\nsickness and poverty; and if a woman, she is in danger of being a\nwidow. If any person dream his arms are hairy it denotes increase of\nriches. 7.", "locator": "Heading 31; source line 1111", "lineStart": 1111, "lineEnd": 1116, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream your arms are withered or lean, denotes affliction,\nsickness and poverty; and if a woman, she is in danger of being a\nwidow. If any person dream his arms are hairy it denotes increase of\nriches.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Arms” is shown on the Arm page: singular/plural; the override puts arms in Body & self already" }, { "id": "noe-0020", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Arms", "text": "To dream your arms are withered is a\ncertain sign that you will decay in health and fortune. To dream they are\ngrowing strong signifies that some unexpected success will attend you. To\ndream that your right arm is cut off, denotes you will lose some male\nrelation. To dream your left arm is cut off, denotes you will lose some\nnear female relative. For a married woman to dream her arms have grown\nlusty and strong, denotes that she will have many male children, that her\nhusband will arrive at public honors and will grow rich and make many\nfriends.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 20; source lines 173–181", "lineStart": 173, "lineEnd": 181, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream your arms are withered is a\ncertain sign that you will decay in health and fortune. To dream they are\ngrowing strong signifies that some unexpected success will attend you. To\ndream that your right arm is cut off, denotes you will lose some male\nrelation. To dream your left arm is cut off, denotes you will lose some\nnear female relative. For a married woman to dream her arms have grown\nlusty and strong, denotes that she will have many male children, that her\nhusband will arrive at public honors and will grow rich and make many\nfriends.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Arms” is shown on the Arm page: singular/plural; the override puts arms in Body & self already" }, { "id": "cielo-0022", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Arm", "text": "To dream of breaking or injuring an arm\n signifies sudden fortune to a friend.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 22; source lines 3907–3910", "lineStart": 3907, "lineEnd": 3910, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of breaking or injuring an arm\nsignifies sudden fortune to a friend." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9018", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Arms", "heading": "Arms", "text": "To dream of losing the right arm signifies the death of father, son or brother; of the left arm, of the mother, daughter or sister. To dream that the arms are withered predicts suffering in health and fortune ; that they have grown strong indicates success. The latter part of this interpretation is obviously based upon physical stimuli, and the conditions of the body may be deduced therefrom.", "lineStart": 9018, "lineEnd": 9027, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 197; NLM OCR lines 9018–9027", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9018, "lineEnd": 9027, "printedPage": 197, "printedPageEnd": 197 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Arms. — To dream of losing the right arm signifies the death \nof father, son or brother; of the left arm, of the mother, \ndaughter or sister. To dream that the arms are withered \npredicts suffering in health and fortune ; that they have grown \nstrong indicates success. \n\nThe latter part of this interpretation is obviously based upon \nphysical stimuli, and the conditions of the body may be deduced \ntherefrom. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Arms" }, "displayText": "To dream of losing the right arm signifies the death of father, son or brother; of the left arm, of the mother, daughter or sister. To dream that the arms are withered predicts suffering in health and fortune; that they have grown strong indicates success. The latter part of this interpretation is obviously based upon physical stimuli, and the conditions of the body may be deduced therefrom.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Arms” is shown on the Arm page: singular/plural; the override puts arms in Body & self already" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "armchair", "title": "Armchair", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "A place to settle, the support around it, and the terms on which a pause becomes available.", "summary": "An armchair can explore rest, a place within a shared room, or whether a comfortable arrangement still lets you join the activity you want.", "aliases": [ "armchair", "armchairs", "arm chair", "arm chairs" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "An armchair can give a pause a particular place. Its support, position and familiarity may let you settle rather than remain ready to move. This can resemble having permission to stop a task, enjoy company or choose your own pace for a while. An ordinary chair from home or a remembered room may also provide the image directly, without requiring a symbolic explanation.\n\nComfort can change according to what you want to do. A deep chair may be welcome while you read and awkward when you want to join people at a table. A personal comparison could concern an arrangement that supports one need while making another activity harder. Rest and participation do not have to be opposites, but the scene may make their practical conditions different.\n\nThe chair’s place in the room can bring belonging into focus. Someone may keep a familiar seat for you, occupy the place you expected or move it so you can see what is happening. This can resemble the ordinary ways a group makes room for a person. A dreamed seating arrangement does not reveal real affection, rank or entitlement; its significance lies in how you experience the available place.\n\nA chair full of other objects can create another kind of problem. Clothes, papers or equipment may occupy the space intended for your pause. Moving one item might be enough, or the task of clearing everything might become more demanding than continuing to stand. This could picture the work of making rest usable rather than a simple failure to allow yourself enough of it.\n\nLeaving the chair can be as meaningful as sitting down. You may offer it to someone, decide that another position suits you better or return after a conversation elsewhere. The movement can make comfort a resource you use rather than a place you must remain. These original reflections concern literal furniture in an imagined scene, not an idiom about an armchair critic. They do not measure your productivity or decide how much rest you deserve.", "traditional": "No historical account is attached to this original entry. The cited learning experiment supplies memory-research context, not a tested meaning for this image or evidence that a dream predicts an event.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A pause with practical support", "reflection": "A particular place can make resting possible. The position, company and task around it help distinguish comfort from simply remaining still." }, { "title": "A place within a shared room", "reflection": "Being offered a seat or finding it occupied can make belonging tangible. The dreamed arrangement remains separate from other people’s actual feelings." }, { "title": "Comfort alongside participation", "reflection": "A useful position for one activity may make another harder. Changing places can support another purpose without rejecting the original comfort." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Your familiar chair is covered with papers when you want to sit", "reflection": "The place for a pause has become storage for unfinished activity. This may picture the practical work needed to make rest available. Moving one useful stack can be a different task from feeling required to complete everything before you are allowed to stop." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Someone turns the armchair so you can join the conversation", "reflection": "A small adjustment changes how comfortably you can participate. The scene can picture being included through an ordinary practical action. Your wish for company or privacy gives the change its significance, rather than assuming every invitation must feel welcome." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "The chair is comfortable until you want to reach the table", "reflection": "An arrangement serves one need better than another. This may resemble a routine that offers support while limiting a different activity. Asking for help or changing position can preserve comfort without requiring you to remain in exactly the same place." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You sit in a chair from a home you no longer live in", "reflection": "A familiar position brings an earlier setting into the scene. The pleasure may belong to a person, a pace of life or a particular ordinary habit. What you want to do from the chair now can connect memory with a present preference." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You offer the chair to someone and choose the floor nearby", "reflection": "Sharing a comfortable place changes the arrangement without necessarily ending your own pause. The scene may explore hospitality, preferred distance or an easier way to join an activity. The choice is not a measure of generosity or self-denial." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You leave the empty chair to take a short walk", "reflection": "An available comfort is not the activity you want at that moment. The scene can picture choosing movement while knowing a place remains there. Relief, reluctance or anticipation may make the departure meaningful without turning it into a rule about keeping busy." } ], "prompts": [ "What made this particular place comfortable or difficult to use?", "How did the chair’s position affect your participation?", "What did sitting, changing places or leaving let you do?" ], "related": [ "chair", "couch", "bed", "house", "books" ], "sources": [ { "id": "wamsley-2010", "title": "Dreaming of a learning task is associated with enhanced sleep-dependent memory consolidation", "author": "Erin J. Wamsley and colleagues", "url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20417102/", "scope": "Primary maze-learning experiment; task-related dream reports correlated with later performance. It does not show that a dream is an accurate memory or a solution." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s continuing English editorial delegation. The memory study is general context, not validation of these interpretations.", "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "DreamFolia AI-assisted editorial review", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "aisle", "ambulance", "bakery", "binoculars", "backstage", "birdbath", "birdhouse", "beehive", "billboard", "bookmark", "turnstile", "antlers", "armchair", "bathrobe" ] }, "decisionReason": "The reading develops a supported pause, a place in a shared room and changing conditions for participation. Six scenes preserve memories and choices without productivity judgments. 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Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0032", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Armed Men", "text": "(_See Zouave._)", "locator": "Heading 32; source line 1116", "lineStart": 1116, "lineEnd": 1118, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Zouave.)" }, { "id": "noe-0025", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Armed Men", "text": "To see them in your dream, is a good sign, and\ndenotes one void of fear; to dream you see an armed man fly is a sign of\nvictory; to see men come in arms against you, signifies sadness.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 25; source lines 194–197", "lineStart": 194, "lineEnd": 197, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see them in your dream, is a good sign, and\ndenotes one void of fear; to dream you see an armed man fly is a sign of\nvictory; to see men come in arms against you, signifies sadness." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "zouave" ] }, { "slug": "army", "title": "Army", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Cielo wrote: “To be marching with an army means “Beware of a false friend.” If encamped, it means speedy success.”", "aliases": [ "army" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about army stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "cielo-0023", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Army", "text": "To be marching with an army means “Beware of a\n false friend.” If encamped, it means speedy success.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 23; source lines 3910–3913", "lineStart": 3910, "lineEnd": 3913, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To be marching with an army means “Beware of a\nfalse friend.” If encamped, it means speedy success." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "aroma", "title": "Aroma", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “For a young woman to dream of a sweet aroma, denotes she will soon be the recipient of some pleasure or present.”", "aliases": [ "aroma" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about aroma stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0107", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Aroma", "text": "For a young woman to dream of a sweet aroma, denotes she will soon\nbe the recipient of some pleasure or present.", "locator": "Heading 107; source lines 2693–2698", "lineStart": 2693, "lineEnd": 2698, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a young woman to dream of a sweet aroma, denotes she will soon\nbe the recipient of some pleasure or present." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "arranged-marriage", "title": "Arranged marriage", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "Who introduces the possibility, and how does your own choice enter it?", "summary": "An arranged marriage may focus on receiving help with a major choice, balancing expectations, or finding room for personal consent and preferences.", "aliases": [ "arranged marriage", "arranged marriages", "family arranged marriage", "marriage arranged by family" ], "status": "REVIEW", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "An arranged marriage dream can place a major personal decision inside a network of other people's involvement. Relatives or other people may introduce a possible partner, organize a meeting, or help with plans. If that involvement feels welcome, the scene may fit receiving support with an uncertain choice: you are not required to discover every possibility alone. Pleasure in the arrangement can express trust in help while still leaving the decision meaningful to you.\n\nThe place given to your preferences is central. Being asked what you want creates a different scene from hearing that your answer has already been supplied. This distinction can resemble other consequential decisions, such as a career direction or a move where helpful suggestions begin to feel like settled instructions. The dream may explore how you participate in a choice that also matters to people around you.\n\nMeeting the proposed partner brings attention to familiarity and curiosity. A relaxed conversation may fit discovering that an unfamiliar possibility has more substance than its description. Awkward silence may concern wanting more time or better information before committing. You may be deciding what questions to ask, which differences matter, or whether the meeting allows either person to be ordinary rather than perform an ideal role.\n\nPreparations can make expectations visible. Choosing clothes, discussing a date, or finding that guests have arrived before you are ready may give practical form to the pace of change. A new responsibility sometimes becomes public before you feel settled in it. Enjoying the preparations supports another reading: a commitment can feel easier when practical work and celebration are shared.\n\nConsent and arrangement are separate features of the dream. An introduced match can be freely welcomed, declined, or left undecided; the scene may also portray unwanted pressure. Notice what happens when you express a preference or ask for time. This helps distinguish support, deliberation, and constraint without assigning one pattern to every family or cultural setting.", "traditional": "No matching historical arranged-marriage passage has been supplied for this entry. This is original everyday context about introductions, family involvement, personal choice, and commitment. Arranged marriage is not treated as synonymous with forced marriage, and no single family or cultural practice is assumed. The dream's specific opportunities to accept, decline, or deliberate guide the reflections.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Help with a consequential choice", "reflection": "A welcome introduction may express the usefulness of support when facing uncertainty. Notice whether others expand your options and share practical work while leaving room for your decision." }, { "title": "Your preferences within shared expectations", "reflection": "Family involvement can bring several priorities into the same scene. The useful distinction is whether your wishes are invited, assumed, negotiated, or given too little time." }, { "title": "Meeting before committing", "reflection": "Conversation with a proposed partner may focus on curiosity, compatibility, and enough information to decide. A relaxed or awkward meeting creates different questions about the pace of commitment." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You willingly meet someone your family introduced", "reflection": "The introduction feels useful and you are curious about the person. This may fit welcoming help with an unfamiliar possibility, like receiving a recommendation while keeping the choice your own. Enjoyment of the meeting can concern openness and discovery rather than certainty about a future commitment." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You ask for more time and everyone listens", "reflection": "Plans pause while you consider what matters to you. This may express the value of deliberation during a major decision, such as a move or career change. Feeling respected can make the scene about support that accommodates uncertainty rather than requiring immediate confidence." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Others announce your agreement before you have decided", "reflection": "Preparations begin while your own answer remains unsettled. This may resemble expectations moving faster than your willingness, such as a family discussing plans you have not accepted. The central question is whether you can make your actual preference heard and change the pace." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You and the proposed partner exchange practical questions", "reflection": "You discuss daily life, interests, or what each of you wants. This may fit making an abstract possibility more concrete before deciding, as when considering a shared home or new commitment. Being able to ask ordinary questions can matter more than presenting a flawless first impression." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You decline the match and remain included", "reflection": "The answer changes the plan without removing your place in the family. This may express a wish to keep connection while making a different choice, like refusing an invitation or suggested career path. Surprise at being accepted may highlight how much reassurance you wanted around disagreement." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You agree, but the celebration grows faster than you expected", "reflection": "You welcome the commitment while guests, clothing, and schedules become overwhelming. This may fit wanting a change without wanting every expectation attached to it, as when a small personal decision becomes a large public event. Simplifying the preparations could restore pleasure in what you chose." } ], "prompts": [ "Did others offer a possibility, support my decision, or assume an answer I had not given?", "What could I ask, decline, or postpone, and how did that affect the encounter?", "Was my feeling about the proposed relationship different from my feeling about its pace or preparations?" ], "related": [ "wedding", "family", "indecision", "current-romantic-partner" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflections about an arranged relationship and the dream's specific opportunities for choice; no matching historical passage supplied. General sleep research does not validate these symbol readings. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "prisoners" ] }, { "slug": "arrow", "title": "Arrow", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Pleasure follows this dream. 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Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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Suffering will cease.\n\nAn old or broken arrow, portends disappointments in love or business." }, { "id": "luck-0008", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Arrow", "text": "A letter has been written which will cause regret.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 8; source lines 3528–3530", "lineStart": 3528, "lineEnd": 3530, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "A letter has been written which will cause regret." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9028", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Arrow", "heading": "Arrow", "text": "An ominous dream if the arrow is directed towards the dreamer, or penetrate his body. Some person or persons are plotting against you (Artemidorus). An interpretation obviously derived from the significance of the arrow in warfare. 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To play the Husbandman or Plowman, to sow, or plant, is good to him which seeks a wife, or which hath no children: for the Field is his wife, the seed and trees his children, the wheat males, the barley females, and abortives: to others this dreame betokeneth sicknesse and anger: if any one be sick in the house where this dream is, it signifyeth death: for the séed and plants are put in the earth as the dead. To reape, to cut, to trim vines, and to plough, against harvest; signifye that your affairs and work shalbe deferred till the accustomed time of doing them. To govern a ship, if one have good successe and honour without perill, provided that it be without doubt or pain, it is good, but if one be troubled with tempests, or if the ship be bruised and broken, it is abundance of evill, which I have often known by experience: to cut and sowe in leather, to married folks is good. It is also good for him which would marry or get acquaintance and allyes, by reason of close and joyned seames. But to dye leathers is ill to all, and revealeth secrets. To sée medicines is worst of all: to be a goldsmith signifyeth harme to him which dreames it, by reason of the poysons and instruments that they handle: to be a graver, turner, or carver, of images and figures. is good for adulterers, pratlers, cooseners, and deceivers, because their arts shew other effects then the true. To others it signifyeth honour, for such with reverent works are shewed to many.", "locator": "Book 1, encoded section 40", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "1", "displayText": "WHosoever in his dreame seemes to do that which he hath learned and exercised, shall have good successe, and is very good to all: foretelling that one shall come to honour by his businesse and enterprise: but if in your dream you have not good issue, it signifyes the contrary. If one in his dreame doth that which he hath not learned, and it hath good issue in his dreame, then it is good: but if he finde himselfe hindred, and cannot bring it to good; 'tis anger and let of businesse untill he be mocked. To play the Husbandman or Plowman, to sow, or plant, is good to him which seeks a wife, or which hath no children: for the Field is his wife, the seed and trees his children, the wheat males, the barley females, and abortives: to others this dreame betokeneth sicknesse and anger: if any one be sick in the house where this dream is, it signifyeth death: for the séed and plants are put in the earth as the dead. To reape, to cut, to trim vines, and to plough, against harvest; signifye that your affairs and work shalbe deferred till the accustomed time of doing them. To govern a ship, if one have good successe and honour without perill, provided that it be without doubt or pain, it is good, but if one be troubled with tempests, or if the ship be bruised and broken, it is abundance of evill, which I have often known by experience: to cut and sowe in leather, to married folks is good. It is also good for him which would marry or get acquaintance and allyes, by reason of close and joyned seames. But to dye leathers is ill to all, and revealeth secrets. To sée medicines is worst of all: to be a goldsmith signifyeth harme to him which dreames it, by reason of the poysons and instruments that they handle: to be a graver, turner, or carver, of images and figures. is good for adulterers, pratlers, cooseners, and deceivers, because their arts shew other effects then the true. To others it signifyeth honour, for such with reverent works are shewed to many." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0111", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Ascend", "text": "If you reach the extreme point of ascent, or top of steps, without stumbling,\nit is good; otherwise, you will have obstacles to overcome before the good\nof the day is found.", "locator": "Heading 111; source lines 2720–2726", "lineStart": 2720, "lineEnd": 2726, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you reach the extreme point of ascent, or top of steps, without stumbling,\nit is good; otherwise, you will have obstacles to overcome before the good\nof the day is found." }, { "id": "noe-0027", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Ascend", "text": "For one to dream they ascend towards\nthe skies is favorable, particularly so if the clouds appear bright.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 27; source lines 202–204", "lineStart": 202, "lineEnd": 204, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For one to dream they ascend towards\nthe skies is favorable, particularly so if the clouds appear bright." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. 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Blasted crops to the farmer.\nUnsuccessful deals for the trader. Parents will reap the sorrows\nof wayward children." }, { "id": "fontaine-0033", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Ashes", "text": "Great misfortune is at hand; to a lover or sweetheart, such a\ndream forebodes that he or she will be jealous because of seeing some\none in company with their intended. 70.", "locator": "Heading 33; source line 1118", "lineStart": 1118, "lineEnd": 1122, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Great misfortune is at hand; to a lover or sweetheart, such a\ndream forebodes that he or she will be jealous because of seeing some\none in company with their intended." }, { "id": "cielo-0026", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Ashes", "text": "Signify embarrassment and loss.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 26; source lines 3917–3919", "lineStart": 3917, "lineEnd": 3919, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Signify embarrassment and loss." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9040", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Ashes", "heading": "Ashes", "text": "A dream of trouble and misfortune at hand. Christian symbol of mourning and grief.", "lineStart": 9040, "lineEnd": 9042, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 198; NLM OCR lines 9040–9042", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9040, "lineEnd": 9042, "printedPage": 198, "printedPageEnd": 198 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Ashes. — A dream of trouble and misfortune at hand. \nChristian symbol of mourning and grief. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Ashes" }, "displayText": "A dream of trouble and misfortune at hand. Christian symbol of mourning and grief." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "asia", "title": "Asia", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of visiting Asia is assurance of change, but no material benefits from fortune will follow.”", "aliases": [ "asia" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about asia stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0114", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Asia", "text": "To dream of visiting Asia is assurance of change, but no material\nbenefits from fortune will follow.", "locator": "Heading 114; source lines 2739–2744", "lineStart": 2739, "lineEnd": 2744, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of visiting Asia is assurance of change, but no material\nbenefits from fortune will follow." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "asp", "title": "Asp", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “This is an unfortunate dream. Females may lose the respect of honorable and virtuous people.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "asp", "asps" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about asp stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "guide-65367", "title": "Guide to Fortune-Telling by Dreams", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Multum in Parvo Library, Vol. I, No. 10, October 1894", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65367", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0115", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Asp", "text": "This is an unfortunate dream. Females may lose the respect of honorable\nand virtuous people. Deadly enemies are at work to defame character.\nSweethearts will wrong each other.", "locator": "Heading 115; source lines 2744–2750", "lineStart": 2744, "lineEnd": 2750, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "This is an unfortunate dream. Females may lose the respect of honorable\nand virtuous people. Deadly enemies are at work to defame character.\nSweethearts will wrong each other." }, { "id": "fontaine-0034", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Asp", "text": "To dream of the asp or adder, is a sign of designing enemies; but\nit is good, if they do not bite you. 17, 4.", "locator": "Heading 34; source line 1122", "lineStart": 1122, "lineEnd": 1125, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of the asp or adder, is a sign of designing enemies; but\nit is good, if they do not bite you." }, { "id": "guide-0008", "sourceId": "guide-65367", "heading": "Asps", "text": "To dream of asps denotes that you will become extremely rich,\nand have great quantities of money by you; if you are in love, it\nimports that your love will be returned, and that your sweetheart will\nbecome through your means extremely wealthy.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 8; source lines 134–139", "lineStart": 134, "lineEnd": 139, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of asps denotes that you will become extremely rich,\nand have great quantities of money by you; if you are in love, it\nimports that your love will be returned, and that your sweetheart will\nbecome through your means extremely wealthy." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "asparagus", "title": "Asparagus", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of asparagus, signifies prosperous surroundings and obedience from servants and children.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "asparagus" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about asparagus stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0116", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Asparagus", "text": "To dream of asparagus, signifies prosperous surroundings and obedience\nfrom servants and children. To eat it, denotes interrupted success.", "locator": "Heading 116; source lines 2750–2755", "lineStart": 2750, "lineEnd": 2755, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of asparagus, signifies prosperous surroundings and obedience\nfrom servants and children. To eat it, denotes interrupted success." }, { "id": "cielo-0027", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Asparagus", "text": "To eat it, means success and health.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 27; source lines 3919–3921", "lineStart": 3919, "lineEnd": 3921, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To eat it, means success and health." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "assassin", "title": "Assassin", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “If you are the one to receive the assassin's blow, you will not surmount all your trials.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "assassin" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about assassin stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0118", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Assassin", "text": "If you are the one to receive the assassin's blow, you will not surmount\nall your trials.\n\nTo see another, with the assassin standing over him with blood stains,\nportends that misfortune will come to the dreamer.\n\nTo see an assassin under any condition is a warning that losses\nmay befall you through secret enemies.", "locator": "Heading 118; source lines 2771–2782", "lineStart": 2771, "lineEnd": 2782, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you are the one to receive the assassin's blow, you will not surmount\nall your trials.\n\nTo see another, with the assassin standing over him with blood stains,\nportends that misfortune will come to the dreamer.\n\nTo see an assassin under any condition is a warning that losses\nmay befall you through secret enemies." }, { "id": "noe-0031", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Assassin", "text": "To dream of\nan assassin is a warning not to be neglected. Shun all pretending friends,\nlend no money, be ever on your guard, and you may escape destruction,\nwhich is planned for your ruin.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 31; source lines 216–219", "lineStart": 216, "lineEnd": 219, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of\nan assassin is a warning not to be neglected. Shun all pretending friends,\nlend no money, be ever on your guard, and you may escape destruction,\nwhich is planned for your ruin." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "assistance", "title": "Assistance", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Giving assistance to any one in a dream, foretells you will be favored in your efforts to rise to higher position.”", "aliases": [ "assistance" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about assistance stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0119", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Assistance", "text": "Giving assistance to any one in a dream, foretells you will be favored\nin your efforts to rise to higher position.\n\nIf any one assists you, you will be pleasantly situated,\nand loving friends will be near you.", "locator": "Heading 119; source lines 2782–2790", "lineStart": 2782, "lineEnd": 2790, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Giving assistance to any one in a dream, foretells you will be favored\nin your efforts to rise to higher position.\n\nIf any one assists you, you will be pleasantly situated,\nand loving friends will be near you." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "asteroid", "title": "Asteroid", "category": "Nature & elements", "aliases": [ "asteroid", "asteroids" ], "summary": "An asteroid can give form to an approaching interruption, a problem seen from a distance, or a chance to coordinate a response. It is not a forecast.", "psychological": "An approaching asteroid makes a dream organize itself around what may happen next. There can be plenty of distance and very little sense of available time. This combination may fit an anticipated change: a deadline, a move, a difficult announcement, or a problem whose effects are not yet present but already occupy attention. The useful connection is how anticipation alters your current choices. The dream does not establish that a disaster is coming.\n\nDistance matters. An asteroid seen through a telescope can make the issue feel observable and contained; one filling the sky can make it feel unavoidable. Repeated calculations or changing warnings may picture an attempt to gain certainty about something whose outcome remains unclear. If the scene is mostly waiting, uncertainty itself may be the burden, rather than any event that eventually occurs.\n\nThe response can be as important as the object. Warning others, preparing shelter, or coordinating a change of course can give the dream a subject of responsibility and cooperation. Being the only person who notices can resemble feeling alone with a concern; discovering that others are already responding can provide relief. A disagreement over what to do may connect with different ways of approaching the same waking change.\n\nA passing asteroid, a successful diversion, or a safe arrival elsewhere changes the ending. The image then includes the possibility that a feared interruption can be accommodated or may not affect you as expected. An asteroid you study with curiosity can also be a sign of attention to something unfamiliar, rather than danger. Recent fiction, a game, or science imagery may simply supply the plot. Follow the balance of anticipation, agency, and shared response in the scene.", "traditional": "The interpretation is based on the dreamed approach, scale, and response, with space imagery treated as a possible source of the story. No prediction about real celestial events or personal misfortune follows from it. A frightening disaster plot and a curious exploration scene should not receive the same reading merely because they contain an asteroid.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "An anticipated interruption", "reflection": "Something approaching from a distance can picture a change that has begun affecting your attention before it arrives." }, { "title": "Seeking certainty", "reflection": "Watching, measuring, or receiving conflicting warnings can frame the effort of deciding what an uncertain situation requires." }, { "title": "Responding together", "reflection": "Preparing or changing course with others can make cooperation and responsibility central, rather than helpless waiting." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "Seeing it approach from far away", "reflection": "A possible interruption has entered your field of attention. This can fit a deadline or change you are beginning to anticipate. Whether distance feels like preparation time or prolonged waiting gives the scene its direction.", "slug": "scene-1" }, { "title": "Trying to warn people who do not listen", "reflection": "The concern is difficult to share. This can resemble feeling alone with an issue whose importance others do not yet see. The dreamed disagreement does not establish that your waking prediction is correct.", "slug": "scene-2" }, { "title": "Working with others to change its course", "reflection": "A large problem becomes a coordinated task. The scene may fit preparing for change through shared work and divided responsibilities. Your specific role can reveal whether participation feels useful, excessive, or supported.", "slug": "scene-3" }, { "title": "Watching it pass without impact", "reflection": "Anticipation resolves without collision. This can resemble discovering that a feared deadline or announcement has less disruptive consequences than you expected. Relief makes the concern more proportionate; remaining frightened after the object passes makes the exhausting habit of waiting for impact more central.", "slug": "scene-4" }, { "title": "Standing on an unfamiliar asteroid", "reflection": "The distant object becomes a place to explore. This can frame curiosity about an unfamiliar role or possibility, especially if your footing feels secure. Difficulty finding a route back introduces the cost of venturing away from familiar support.", "slug": "scene-5" }, { "title": "Finding a small asteroid fragment", "reflection": "A vast event becomes something manageable in your hand. This can picture understanding one concrete consequence of a major change, such as a new task after a reorganization. Curiosity and caution distinguish wanting to learn from the fragment from feeling obliged to carry an unfamiliar burden.", "slug": "scene-6" } ], "prompts": [ "What did anticipation prevent or enable me to do?", "Was I observing, waiting, preparing, or exploring?", "Who shared the response, and how did that change the dream's pressure?" ], "related": [ "comet", "sky", "apocalypse", "earthquake" ], "type": "dreams", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background about dreaming and waking experiences. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia interpretation for personal reflection. Human publication review pending.", "tagline": "Approaching change, shared responses, and the uncertainty of waiting.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "astral", "title": "Astral", "type": "dreams", "category": "Other symbols", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Dreams of the astral, denote that your efforts and plans will culminate in worldly success and distinction.”", "aliases": [ "astral" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about astral stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0121", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Astral", "text": "Dreams of the astral, denote that your efforts and plans will culminate\nin worldly success and distinction. A spectre or picture of your astral\nself brings heart-rending tribulation.", "locator": "Heading 121; source lines 2795–2801", "lineStart": 2795, "lineEnd": 2801, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Dreams of the astral, denote that your efforts and plans will culminate\nin worldly success and distinction. A spectre or picture of your astral\nself brings heart-rending tribulation." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "asylum", "title": "Asylum", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of an asylum, denotes sickness and unlucky dealings, which cannot be overcome without great mental struggle.”", "aliases": [ "asylum" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about asylum stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0120", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Asylum", "text": "To dream of an asylum, denotes sickness and unlucky dealings,\nwhich cannot be overcome without great mental struggle.", "locator": "Heading 120; source lines 2790–2795", "lineStart": 2790, "lineEnd": 2795, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of an asylum, denotes sickness and unlucky dealings,\nwhich cannot be overcome without great mental struggle." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "atlas", "title": "Atlas", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream you are looking at an atlas, denotes that you will carefully study interests before making changes or journeys.”", "aliases": [ "atlas" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about atlas stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0122", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Atlas", "text": "To dream you are looking at an atlas, denotes that you will carefully\nstudy interests before making changes or journeys.", "locator": "Heading 122; source lines 2801–2806", "lineStart": 2801, "lineEnd": 2806, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are looking at an atlas, denotes that you will carefully\nstudy interests before making changes or journeys." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "atm", "title": "ATM", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "aliases": [ "atm", "atms", "atm machine", "cash machine", "cash dispenser", "automated teller machine" ], "summary": "An ATM can picture trying to make a resource usable when you need it. Access, recognition, and what the machine returns shape the experience.", "tagline": "Something you expect to be available must pass through an interface before you can use it.", "psychological": "An ATM can picture the difference between having a resource in principle and being able to use it when needed. The machine stands between an expected supply and an immediate task. Support that has been promised but not delivered, information stored where you cannot reach it, or time that exists on a schedule but disappears into other duties can have a similar structure.\n\nA machine that recognizes you but gives nothing may express frustration with a process that confirms eligibility without providing a workable result. You have followed the steps, yet the need remains. A changing instruction or repeated request for a code can make the scene about trying to satisfy a system whose requirements never settle.\n\nThe card and keypad bring identification into view. Forgetting a code can picture knowing what you want but lacking the particular detail that permits access. A retained card changes the balance further: an attempted solution removes a resource you had before approaching it. This may fit a task whose procedure creates additional dependence rather than resolving the original difficulty.\n\nWhat the machine dispenses can also matter. Receiving something useful may picture practical help reaching you at the right moment. Receiving strange objects or unusable paper can suggest that an offered solution does not match the actual need. An excessive amount can feel exciting or become a responsibility you did not intend to carry.\n\nPublic waiting adds visibility to the interaction, while a quiet working machine may make the relief of simple access central. Recent withdrawals, screens, errands, and remembered malfunctions can supply the image directly. These original comparisons concern the dreamed interaction; its displayed balance or output does not establish any financial fact.", "traditional": "The ATM is treated here as a contemporary interface for accessing a resource. No verified historical ATM passage is cited, and broader bank or money entries are not evidence for its specific mechanisms. The listed source provides general dream context rather than guidance about a real account or transaction.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Available in principle, inaccessible in practice", "reflection": "A machine can picture a promised resource that still needs a usable route. The difficulty may concern delivery or access rather than simply lacking money, support, information, or time." }, { "title": "Recognition through rules that keep changing", "reflection": "Codes and instructions can suggest depending on a process to recognize your request. Repeated demands may express frustration when following the steps never produces a settled result." }, { "title": "A solution that fits the actual need", "reflection": "The output can picture help arriving in a useful or unsuitable form. Strange objects or excessive amounts change access into a question about what you can actually use or manage." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "The screen shows funds but no cash comes out", "reflection": "A resource can seem available without becoming usable. Promised assistance that never reaches a task, or allocated time consumed by interruptions, may offer parallels. The frustration centers the gap between confirmation and practical support, rather than the amount displayed on the dreamed screen.", "slug": "scene-1" }, { "title": "The machine keeps your card", "reflection": "Trying to solve one problem can leave you dependent on another process. A task that requires handing over access or a procedure that blocks other work may feel similar. The retained card makes the cost of the attempted solution more tangible than the original wait.", "slug": "scene-2" }, { "title": "You cannot remember the requested code", "reflection": "One small detail can hold unusual power over a larger need. Missing a password, reference number, or instruction may offer a parallel. The scene can picture access depending on a precise form of recognition, even when your identity and intention feel clear to you.", "slug": "scene-3" }, { "title": "The machine dispenses objects instead of money", "reflection": "A response can arrive without meeting what you actually asked for. Advice instead of practical help, or tools that do not suit a task, may feel similar. The strange output makes usefulness separate from receiving something at all.", "slug": "scene-4" }, { "title": "Everyone behind you is waiting impatiently", "reflection": "A practical difficulty becomes visible to a group that expects immediate progress. Struggling with a work system while others watch may offer a parallel. The audience can make appearance and pace as important as the original need the machine was meant to meet.", "slug": "scene-5" }, { "title": "The machine works and you can continue your journey", "reflection": "Straightforward access can picture help arriving at the moment it becomes useful. A clear answer, restored resource, or completed handover may fit. Relief comes from being able to continue, rather than from the dream establishing that a real account contains a particular amount.", "slug": "scene-6" } ], "prompts": [ "What resource did I expect, and why did it need to become usable then?", "Which instruction or obstacle separated recognition from a practical result?", "Did the output actually meet the need or create another responsibility?" ], "related": [ "bank", "cash", "money", "phone-not-working" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia editorial entry with image-specific interpretations and six differentiated scenes. The reference supplies general dream background only. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "atonement", "title": "Atonement", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Means joyous communing with friends, and speculators need not fear any drop in stocks.”", "aliases": [ "atonement" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about atonement stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0123", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Atonement", "text": "Means joyous communing with friends, and speculators need not fear any drop\nin stocks. Courting among the young will meet with happy consummation.\nThe sacrifice or atonement of another for your waywardness, is portentous\nof the humiliation of self or friends through your open or secret disregard\nof duty. A woman after this dream is warned of approaching disappointment.", "locator": "Heading 123; source lines 2806–2814", "lineStart": 2806, "lineEnd": 2814, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Means joyous communing with friends, and speculators need not fear any drop\nin stocks. Courting among the young will meet with happy consummation.\nThe sacrifice or atonement of another for your waywardness, is portentous\nof the humiliation of self or friends through your open or secret disregard\nof duty. A woman after this dream is warned of approaching disappointment." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "attic", "title": "Attic", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "What has been put away may still ask for a place in the present.", "summary": "An attic dream can explore stored memories, unused space and distance from household activity. What you retrieve or leave gives the room its focus.", "aliases": [ "attic", "attics" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "An attic places part of a home above its ordinary activity. Things may be stored there because they matter, because their use is uncertain or because nobody has decided what to do with them. In a dream, that arrangement can picture experiences, interests or responsibilities held apart from daily attention. Old equipment, family possessions or unfinished plans may provide a parallel. Being out of sight does not tell you whether something is unwanted or waiting for another use.\n\nRetrieving an object can bring continuity into the present. A familiar item may picture a skill, relationship or interest you have not used recently but still recognize as yours. The discovery can feel welcome without requiring you to restore the whole earlier period. A childhood object in an adult household may carry one particular connection, such as play, care or a role you once had. Its current usefulness matters alongside its history.\n\nUnexpected living space can challenge the assumption that everything above the ceiling is merely stored away. A comfortable room may picture discovering room for an activity you thought the current arrangement could not accommodate. An abandoned sleeping area can instead suggest a part of life that has been kept separate for so long it no longer feels inhabited. The room's condition and your wish to use it distinguish possibility from obligation.\n\nAccess can create distance from the rest of the household. A removed ladder or door that closes behind you may picture entering a private task without a clear way to reconnect. A quiet retreat can be chosen and useful; isolation feels different when you cannot decide when to leave. Another person staying in the attic can bring an overlooked relationship or need into view, without proving that something has been hidden from you while awake.\n\nSorting stored things can picture deciding what still deserves practical room. An old ambition may remain meaningful even if its materials no longer belong in the present. Letting an item go differs from declaring that its history was worthless. Actual storage, home visits or remembered rooms may explain the scene directly. The attic is not assigned a universal place in a diagram of the mind; these possibilities follow storage, access, distance and the choices made in this particular room.", "traditional": "Miller’s attached Attic account forecasts failed hopes and occupational discontent. The separate historical Garret heading remains a related canonical topic. These are period dictionary beliefs; they do not establish a universal rule that an upper room represents intellect or a particular layer of the mind.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Stored without a final decision", "reflection": "An attic can picture things kept apart from everyday use without being fully abandoned. The question may be what still needs a place, not simply what should be discarded." }, { "title": "Room beyond the usual routine", "reflection": "Unexpected usable space can picture an interest or possibility the current arrangement has not accommodated. Its discovery may invite a choice rather than impose another duty." }, { "title": "Distance with a way back", "reflection": "Retreat can offer concentration when you can choose to reconnect. A lost route downstairs changes distance into isolation within the scene." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You retrieve an object you thought was lost", "reflection": "Recovering a lost object can picture reconnecting with a skill, interest or relationship detail that still feels usable. Its value need not depend on restoring the whole past. What you do with it makes the discovery specific." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "There is more living space than storage above the ceiling", "reflection": "Extra living space can picture a possibility that does not fit your current account of what is available. An unused interest or different routine may fit. Welcome space differs from another room you feel obliged to maintain." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You find another person has been staying there", "reflection": "Another person staying above the household can picture a need or relationship kept outside daily attention. Their welcome or concealment changes the feeling. The scene does not establish that somebody has a waking secret." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "The ladder is removed while you are upstairs", "reflection": "A removed ladder can picture difficulty reconnecting after entering a private task or retreat. The upper room may be useful while the return route is missing. Chosen solitude differs from being unable to decide when to leave." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You sort belongings you no longer want to keep", "reflection": "Sorting old belongings can picture deciding what still deserves room in your present life. Keeping and releasing can both honor a history. The decision need not turn an unused item into a failed part of yourself." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "Light makes a previously avoided attic welcoming", "reflection": "Light making a room welcoming can picture seeing a stored area or interest under more workable conditions. A clearer arrangement may allow curiosity where uncertainty once dominated. The change in access matters as much as the room." } ], "prompts": [ "What had been kept there, and what use or connection did it still hold?", "Did the distance from daily activity feel chosen or imposed?", "What did I want to retrieve, make room for or leave stored?" ], "related": [ "house", "garret", "childhood-home", "clutter" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0124" ], "scope": "Preserves this author’s attached period dream-book account; the entry’s context compares attributed beliefs rather than adopting forecasts. Exact supplied records: miller-0124 — Attic (Heading 124; source lines 2814–2822). Historical comparison only, not evidence for the original reflective reading or an actual outcome." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0124", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Attic", "text": "To dream that you are in an attic, denotes that you are entertaining\nhopes which will fail of materialization.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she is sleeping in an attic, foretells that\nshe will fail to find contentment in her present occupation.", "locator": "Heading 124; source lines 2814–2822", "lineStart": 2814, "lineEnd": 2822, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are in an attic, denotes that you are entertaining\nhopes which will fail of materialization.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she is sleeping in an attic, foretells that\nshe will fail to find contentment in her present occupation." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "attorney", "title": "Attorney", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see an attorney at the bar, denotes that disputes of a serious nature will arise between parties…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "attorney", "attorneys" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about attorney stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "lawyer" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0125", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Attorney", "text": "To see an attorney at the bar, denotes that disputes of a serious\nnature will arise between parties interested in worldly things.\nEnemies are stealing upon you with false claims. If you see an attorney\ndefending you, your friends will assist you in coming trouble,\nbut they will cause you more worry than enemies.", "locator": "Heading 125; source lines 2822–2830", "lineStart": 2822, "lineEnd": 2830, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see an attorney at the bar, denotes that disputes of a serious\nnature will arise between parties interested in worldly things.\nEnemies are stealing upon you with false claims. If you see an attorney\ndefending you, your friends will assist you in coming trouble,\nbut they will cause you more worry than enemies." }, { "id": "fontaine-0036", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Attorneys", "text": "(_See Lawyer._) To dream you are speaking with them, shows\nhindrance of business, and that it requires much circumspection to\ninsure success in your affairs. It also denotes loss of property. 16.", "locator": "Heading 36; source line 1128", "lineStart": 1128, "lineEnd": 1132, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Lawyer.) To dream you are speaking with them, shows\nhindrance of business, and that it requires much circumspection to\ninsure success in your affairs. It also denotes loss of property." }, { "id": "noe-0024", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Attorneys", "text": "To dream that you are speaking with them,\nshows hindrance of business and that a man will have little success in his\naffairs.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 24; source lines 192–194", "lineStart": 192, "lineEnd": 194, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are speaking with them,\nshows hindrance of business and that a man will have little success in his\naffairs." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "lawyer" ] }, { "slug": "auction", "title": "Auction", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of an auction in a general way, is good.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "auction" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about auction stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0126", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Auction", "text": "To dream of an auction in a general way, is good.\nIf you hear the auctioneer crying his sales, it means bright\nprospects and fair treatment from business ventures.\n\nTo dream of buying at an auction, signifies close deals to tradesmen,\nand good luck in live stock to the farmer. Plenty, to the housewife\nis the omen for women. If there is a feeling of regret about the dream,\nyou are warned to be careful of your business affairs.", "locator": "Heading 126; source lines 2830–2841", "lineStart": 2830, "lineEnd": 2841, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of an auction in a general way, is good.\nIf you hear the auctioneer crying his sales, it means bright\nprospects and fair treatment from business ventures.\n\nTo dream of buying at an auction, signifies close deals to tradesmen,\nand good luck in live stock to the farmer. Plenty, to the housewife\nis the omen for women. If there is a feeling of regret about the dream,\nyou are warned to be careful of your business affairs." }, { "id": "noe-0033", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Auction", "text": "To dream you attend an auction\nis, on the whole, unfavorable. If you purchase, expect loss of property.\nIf you only attend, you are sure to meet with a heavy deprivation of\nfriends and property. If you pass by one, then you will attain, in a few\nyears, all that you moderately desire.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 33; source lines 227–233", "lineStart": 227, "lineEnd": 233, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you attend an auction\nis, on the whole, unfavorable. If you purchase, expect loss of property.\nIf you only attend, you are sure to meet with a heavy deprivation of\nfriends and property. If you pass by one, then you will attain, in a few\nyears, all that you moderately desire." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "audition", "title": "Audition", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "aliases": [ "audition", "auditions", "auditioning", "performance audition" ], "summary": "An audition can bring expression and selection into the same scene. Notice what you wanted to perform and what the selectors expected.", "tagline": "Showing a part of your ability while someone else decides whether there is a place for it.", "psychological": "An audition joins personal expression with another person's power to select. You may be singing, acting, dancing, or demonstrating an invented skill, but the scene also asks whether there is a role available for you. It can picture the tension between doing something you care about and presenting it in a form that satisfies an audience with specific expectations.\n\nPreparation matters through its relationship to the task. Knowing your material and suddenly losing it differs from arriving without anything rehearsed. A familiar skill becoming inaccessible may resemble difficulty showing what you know under attention. An unfamiliar assignment can give form to feeling assessed on something you were never offered time or resources to learn. Neither version establishes your actual competence.\n\nThe selectors' criteria can change the experience. A panel that listens attentively may make evaluation feel usable, while one that interrupts or keeps changing the role may picture uncertainty about what counts as an acceptable contribution. Record the request before assuming the dream is simply about rejection. You might be questioning whether this particular role fits what you want to express.\n\nTechnical conditions also belong in the reading. A broken microphone, missing music, or an interrupted entrance can make success depend on factors outside the performance itself. Such a scene might connect with frustration when work is judged without attention to the conditions around it. Choosing to continue, pause, or improvise can show different relationships to that difficulty.\n\nIf no selectors appear, attention may turn toward an internal standard or a wish for someone to witness the effort. Being offered a role you dislike can explore the difference between recognition and a wanted opportunity. Recent applications, rehearsals, entertainment, or moments of public evaluation can supply the plot directly; the dream does not announce an actual selection result.", "traditional": "This entry offers original reflections on performing for selection, preparation, criteria, and recognition. No verified historical audition passage is supplied. The cited research provides general dream context, not evidence about a dreamer’s talent, future selection, or appropriate professional decisions.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Expression within a selection process", "reflection": "An audition can place something personally meaningful inside a task defined by other people. Consider which part of the performance you wanted to show and which part was demanded. Recognition may feel satisfying when those aims meet and constraining when they pull apart." }, { "title": "Ability and the conditions of showing it", "reflection": "Rehearsal, equipment, timing, and interruption all affect what becomes visible to the selectors. A difficult performance can picture concern about those conditions as much as doubt about skill. Notice whether your own account of the effort differs from the panel’s view." }, { "title": "A role worth being chosen for", "reflection": "Receiving approval does not settle whether the offered role suits you. An unexpected part, changing criteria, or an absent panel may bring your own aims into clearer focus. The scene can explore what kind of opportunity would feel useful beyond the fact of being selected." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You forget material you had rehearsed", "reflection": "A familiar performance becoming inaccessible can picture the frustration of knowing something that will not emerge under attention. A difficult presentation or conversation may feel similar. Notice whether a prompt, pause, or change of audience helps; the lapse is part of the dream’s situation." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "The panel changes the role halfway through", "reflection": "Shifting criteria may picture difficulty understanding what an evaluator actually wants. A task repeatedly redefined during a project can offer a parallel. Your interest in the new role matters alongside the pressure to satisfy the panel; continuing is not the only meaningful response." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "The microphone fails while you perform", "reflection": "An equipment problem can make expression depend on conditions beyond your preparation. It may resemble effort that is hard for others to see because the means of presenting it are inadequate. Observe whether someone repairs the problem, blames you, or listens more closely when you continue." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You are selected for a part you do not want", "reflection": "Approval paired with an unsuitable role can picture uncertainty about accepting recognition on another person’s terms. Being valued for a skill you wish to use differently may feel similar. Record what appeals to you about selection and what feels uncomfortable about the actual part." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You perform to an empty row of chairs", "reflection": "An absent panel may picture effort without a clear witness or standard. It could feel liberating if you enjoy the performance for itself, or disappointing if you wanted feedback. The empty chairs invite attention to who you hoped would listen and what their presence would provide." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You sit on the panel and hear someone audition", "reflection": "Taking the selecting role can picture responsibility for recognizing another person’s contribution. It may echo comparing options or offering feedback in a shared task. Notice which criteria you use and whether you can explain them; the performer’s nervousness may change how evaluation feels." } ], "prompts": [ "What did I want to express, and what was I asked to demonstrate?", "Which conditions helped or interfered with showing my ability?", "Would I have wanted the role even without the pleasure of being selected?" ], "related": [ "public-speaking", "a-celebrity", "school-or-exam", "job-interview" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia editorial entry with image-specific interpretations and six differentiated scenes. The reference supplies general dream background only. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "augur", "title": "Augur", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see augurs in your dreams, is a forecast of labor and toil.”", "aliases": [ "augur" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about augur stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0128", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Augur", "text": "To see augurs in your dreams, is a forecast of labor and toil.", "locator": "Heading 128; source lines 2849–2853", "lineStart": 2849, "lineEnd": 2853, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see augurs in your dreams, is a forecast of labor and toil." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "august", "title": "August", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of the month of August, denotes unfortunate deals, and misunderstandings in love affairs.”", "aliases": [ "august" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about august stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0127", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "August", "text": "To dream of the month of August, denotes unfortunate deals,\nand misunderstandings in love affairs.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she is going to be married in August,\nis an omen of sorrow in her early wedded life.", "locator": "Heading 127; source lines 2841–2849", "lineStart": 2841, "lineEnd": 2849, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of the month of August, denotes unfortunate deals,\nand misunderstandings in love affairs.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she is going to be married in August,\nis an omen of sorrow in her early wedded life." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "aunt", "title": "Aunt", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “For a young woman to dream of seeing her aunt, denotes she will receive sharp censure for some action,…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "aunt" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about aunt stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0129", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Aunt", "text": "For a young woman to dream of seeing her aunt, denotes she will receive\nsharp censure for some action, which will cause her much distress.\n\nIf this relative appears smiling and happy, slight difference\nwill soon give way to pleasure.", "locator": "Heading 129; source lines 2853–2861", "lineStart": 2853, "lineEnd": 2861, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a young woman to dream of seeing her aunt, denotes she will receive\nsharp censure for some action, which will cause her much distress.\n\nIf this relative appears smiling and happy, slight difference\nwill soon give way to pleasure." }, { "id": "cielo-0029", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Aunt", "text": "Portends wealth from an unexpected source.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 29; source lines 3923–3925", "lineStart": 3923, "lineEnd": 3925, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Portends wealth from an unexpected source." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "aura", "title": "Aura", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of discussing any subject relating to aura, denotes that you will reach states of mental unrest, and work to discover the power…”", "aliases": [ "aura" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about aura stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0130", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Aura", "text": "To dream of discussing any subject relating to aura, denotes that you\nwill reach states of mental unrest, and work to discover the power\nwhich influences you from within.", "locator": "Heading 130; source lines 2861–2867", "lineStart": 2861, "lineEnd": 2867, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of discussing any subject relating to aura, denotes that you\nwill reach states of mental unrest, and work to discover the power\nwhich influences you from within." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "aurora-borealis", "title": "Aurora borealis", "category": "Nature & elements", "aliases": [ "aurora borealis", "northern lights", "aurora", "polar lights" ], "summary": "Northern lights can picture wonder, a change in perspective, or beauty that arrives beyond your control. Watching, chasing, and sharing the view differ.", "psychological": "An aurora changes the sky without asking you to do anything. That makes it a useful image for an experience that interrupts ordinary concerns with wonder. A dream of quietly watching the lights may resonate with finding room to appreciate something after a period of effort: a relationship has become easier, a project has finally taken shape, or you have noticed a pleasure that your usual routine leaves little time for. The meaning lies in that shift of attention, rather than in a color code.\n\nThe lights also make a familiar place look unfamiliar. Above your home or workplace, they can suggest that your circumstances are unchanged but your view of them is moving. Perhaps a conversation has revealed a different side of someone, or an old responsibility has begun to feel like a choice. Beauty and unease can coexist when something recognizable no longer looks quite predictable.\n\nTrying to reach, photograph, or explain the aurora creates a different tension. An experience available only for a moment may become a task you feel you must complete. This can resemble wanting to preserve a good period, prove that something exceptional happened, or share an experience before it disappears. Missing the picture does not necessarily mean missing the experience; the dream may give importance to the gap between living a moment and collecting evidence of it.\n\nOther people's responses can be central. Pointing out the lights to someone who will not look can picture the loneliness of enthusiasm that receives no response. Watching together may feel like closeness without the need for words. A recent journey, photograph, or imagined destination can also supply the scene. Let the reading follow what the lights changed for you: your pace, your perspective, or your connection with another person.", "traditional": "The reflections here concern the dreamed experience of watching a changing sky. They do not assign a universal meaning to the aurora or borrow a belief from an unnamed culture. Travel memories, photographs, films, and a wish to see the northern lights can provide straightforward personal context alongside the possible readings.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Room for wonder", "reflection": "A spectacle you can simply watch may connect with receiving pleasure, recognition, or relief after a period dominated by effort." }, { "title": "A familiar world looks different", "reflection": "Unexpected lights above an ordinary setting can picture a new perspective on circumstances you already know." }, { "title": "Preserving a brief experience", "reflection": "Chasing a photograph or waiting for others to notice can turn beauty into a question about memory and shared attention." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "Watching the lights in silence", "reflection": "The scene offers an experience without a demand. Calm attention can fit a moment of appreciation or relief, especially if the rest of the dream has been busy. The absence of an urgent task may be its most meaningful detail.", "slug": "scene-1" }, { "title": "The lights appear above your home", "reflection": "An ordinary place takes on unexpected beauty or scale. This can fit a conversation that changes how you see a familiar relationship, or finding renewed interest in a routine you had taken for granted. Unease rather than delight makes the altered familiarity more difficult to accept.", "slug": "scene-2" }, { "title": "Your camera cannot capture them", "reflection": "You have the experience but cannot preserve its proof. The frustration can resemble a good moment that is difficult to explain, or pressure to document everything. Whether you return to watching matters more than the failed photograph.", "slug": "scene-3" }, { "title": "You keep traveling toward the lights", "reflection": "Wonder becomes a destination that keeps moving. This can resemble preparing for an opportunity that is repeatedly deferred, or pursuing a travel or creative ambition whose next stage is always ahead. Enjoying the journey differs from feeling that life must wait until you finally arrive.", "slug": "scene-4" }, { "title": "Someone shares the view with you", "reflection": "Attention itself creates company. The scene may connect with being understood without explanation or wanting to share something that matters to you. An absent person in that role can make memory or longing part of the encounter.", "slug": "scene-5" }, { "title": "The lights vanish before anyone looks", "reflection": "Something important to you receives no shared witness. This can picture the difficulty of communicating a fleeting feeling or enthusiasm. Your response afterward distinguishes private satisfaction from disappointment about not being seen.", "slug": "scene-6" } ], "prompts": [ "What changed in my attention when the lights appeared?", "Was I enjoying the view, trying to preserve it, or trying to reach it?", "Who shared the moment, and did their response matter to me?" ], "related": [ "sky", "stars", "rainbow", "moon" ], "type": "dreams", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background about dreaming and waking experiences. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia interpretation for personal reflection. Human publication review pending.", "tagline": "A brief wonder changes a familiar sky.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "author", "title": "Author", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “For an author to dream that his manuscript has been rejected by the publisher, denotes some doubt at first, but finally his work will be…”", "aliases": [ "author" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about author stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0133", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Author", "text": "For an author to dream that his manuscript has been rejected\nby the publisher, denotes some doubt at first, but finally\nhis work will be accepted as authentic and original.\n\nTo dream of seeing an author over his work, perusing it with anxiety,\ndenotes that you will be worried over some literary work either of your\nown or that of some other person.", "locator": "Heading 133; source lines 2890–2900", "lineStart": 2890, "lineEnd": 2900, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For an author to dream that his manuscript has been rejected\nby the publisher, denotes some doubt at first, but finally\nhis work will be accepted as authentic and original.\n\nTo dream of seeing an author over his work, perusing it with anxiety,\ndenotes that you will be worried over some literary work either of your\nown or that of some other person." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "authority", "title": "Authority", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Cielo wrote: “Signifies better times.”", "aliases": [ "authority" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about authority stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "cielo-0030", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Authority", "text": "Signifies better times.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 30; source lines 3925–3927", "lineStart": 3925, "lineEnd": 3927, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Signifies better times." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "autumn", "title": "Autumn", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “For a woman to dream of Autumn, denotes she will obtain property through the struggles of others.”", "aliases": [ "autumn" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about autumn stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0131", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Autumn", "text": "For a woman to dream of Autumn, denotes she will obtain property\nthrough the struggles of others. If she thinks of marrying in Autumn,\nshe will be likely to contract a favorable marriage and possess\na cheerful home.", "locator": "Heading 131; source lines 2867–2874", "lineStart": 2867, "lineEnd": 2874, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a woman to dream of Autumn, denotes she will obtain property\nthrough the struggles of others. If she thinks of marrying in Autumn,\nshe will be likely to contract a favorable marriage and possess\na cheerful home." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "avalanche", "title": "Avalanche", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "aliases": [ "avalanche", "avalanches", "snow avalanche", "moving avalanche" ], "summary": "An avalanche can give accumulated material a sudden movement. Notice its approach, changed routes, and the distance from which you experienced it.", "tagline": "A released mass of snow that abruptly changes an otherwise recognizable route.", "psychological": "An avalanche turns accumulated snow into a moving mass. Its distinctive feature is the change from material that seemed settled to something traveling with force. In a dream, that shift may picture a situation whose weight has become visible all at once. A backlog, combined demands, or an emotion you had been keeping contained can offer possible parallels when the resemblance fits.\n\nThe release has a beginning. A sound, small crack, loose patch of snow, or sudden movement can matter more than a general label of disaster. You might recognize the experience of a minor event drawing attention to many concerns already present. Record what appeared to set the snow moving, while leaving room for the dream to omit or invent a cause.\n\nYour position changes the emotional scope. Watching from a protected place differs from being on the slope or seeing a road disappear ahead. Distance can offer a chance to observe accumulated pressure without feeling directly caught in it. Being close may make exposure and limited time central. The scene does not establish that a waking danger is approaching.\n\nA changed route can make interruption tangible. A familiar trail covered by snow may picture a plan that now requires a different pace or direction. Helping another person or finding shelter can bring cooperation into the event. These actions are elements for reflection, rather than instructions about how to respond to an actual avalanche.\n\nAfter the movement stops, the altered landscape can reveal what remains accessible. Quiet, uncovered objects, a newly visible path, or the wish to rebuild may give the scene a different tone from the release itself. Recent skiing, travel, news, films, or images of snowy slopes can provide the setting directly. Begin with the snow’s movement and your experience of it before linking the event to a personal concern.", "traditional": "This entry contains original reflections on accumulated snow releasing, interrupted routes, and the changed landscape afterward. No verified historical avalanche passage is supplied. General dream research does not predict disasters, establish hidden danger, or provide guidance for an actual snow emergency.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Accumulation becoming visible in motion", "reflection": "A settled layer becoming a moving mass can picture concerns whose combined weight is suddenly hard to ignore. The resemblance may fit a backlog or several demands arriving together. Consider what had accumulated and how the dream makes its release different from an isolated falling object." }, { "title": "Your distance from the release", "reflection": "Watching, approaching, and being caught on a route create different experiences of exposure. A distant event may offer perspective while a nearby one magnifies urgency. Notice which position the dream gives you and whether shelter or companionship changes the feeling of that position." }, { "title": "A route altered by what has arrived", "reflection": "Snow covering a trail can make interruption concrete. The scene may explore what happens when a familiar plan no longer fits current conditions. A pause, another path, or help from someone else can change the experience without erasing what has already moved." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A small crack starts a huge movement of snow", "reflection": "A minor event releasing a large mass can picture accumulated concerns becoming visible through one final disturbance. An ordinary request arriving after many others may feel similar. Notice what the dream shows before the crack; the scale of the release may belong to what was already gathered." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You watch the avalanche from a warm cabin", "reflection": "A protected viewpoint can picture recognizing force or pressure while retaining enough distance to observe it. The scene may feel frightening, fascinating, or strangely calm. Notice whether the cabin is shared and whether watching helps you understand the movement or leaves you waiting for it to stop." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Snow covers the trail you expected to follow", "reflection": "A blocked route can make a familiar plan feel temporarily unusable. You might recognize the shape of an unexpected change that interrupts a task. Observe whether another route appears, whether waiting is possible, and how your companions respond; interruption can produce several forms of adjustment." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You reach a person who has become separated from the group", "reflection": "Seeking someone amid the changed landscape can picture attention to a relationship during a demanding period. The effort may feel cooperative or lonely. Notice what allows contact: a voice, familiar object, or another helper, and whether reunion changes how the surrounding snow feels." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The snow stops before reaching where you stand", "reflection": "A force that loses momentum nearby can picture the end of an expected escalation or relief after bracing for impact. Record whether you feel safe, doubtful, or surprised. The stopping distance belongs to the dream’s emotional sequence and does not measure any real danger." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "A familiar object emerges when the slope becomes quiet", "reflection": "Finding something after the movement can picture recognizing a remaining connection or resource once an intense period settles. Its familiarity may matter more than its value. Notice whether you recover, leave, or share the object and what the changed landscape now lets you see." } ], "prompts": [ "What had gathered before the snow began to move?", "How did my position and available shelter affect the experience?", "What route, connection, or object remained after the movement stopped?" ], "related": [ "snow", "mountain", "skiing", "falling" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia editorial entry with image-specific interpretations and six differentiated scenes. The reference supplies general dream background only. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "avocado", "title": "Avocado", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "summary": "An avocado can picture a choice whose timing matters, an outside that hides its condition, or a useful part you want to preserve.", "tagline": "Readiness is inside, and it may not match the timetable.", "aliases": [ "avocado", "avocados" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "An avocado that is still firm when you want to use it can picture a mismatch between a plan and the conditions needed to carry it out. You may have time available before information, support, or willingness has caught up. A decision expected at work, a move scheduled around other people, or a conversation someone wants before you feel prepared could fit. The image gives waiting a practical reason rather than treating hesitation as a character flaw. If the delay ruins an occasion, frustration may concern how little control you have over the timetable.\n\nFinding that the inside differs from the outside can shift attention toward what becomes known only through involvement. An attractive opportunity may prove less usable once its requirements are clear, while an unimpressive option may contain what you need. Cutting the fruit makes that change in knowledge concrete. The comparison does not establish that someone is deceptive; appearances can be incomplete without deliberate concealment. Surprise, relief, or disappointment distinguishes learning something new from feeling that you should already have known it.\n\nA short opportunity to enjoy the fruit can picture pressure around choosing at the right moment. You might recognize the feeling of postponing a modest pleasure until work settles, then discovering that the available time has changed. Enjoying it without testing every possible future may instead bring attention to accepting a workable moment. This is a personal reading of the dream’s sequence, not a timetable for a real decision. Repeatedly checking can make uncertainty itself more central than whether the avocado is ready.\n\nThe large stone may remain after the useful flesh is gone. Keeping it, discarding it, or seeing it begin to grow creates different relationships with what an experience leaves behind. A finished project may offer a lesson worth carrying forward, or a familiar routine may have a small possibility you want to develop. The stone need not stand for a hidden essence of your personality. Shopping, preparing a meal, an actual taste, or a remembered kitchen can supply the image directly. Its role in the scene matters more than attaching a health, wealth, or fertility message to the food.", "traditional": "No historical dream passage specifically naming avocado is supplied. Fruit and Pears passages do not establish an avocado interpretation. This original reading concerns timing, what opening reveals, and what remains; it offers no dietary, fertility, or financial forecast.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Readiness and the timetable", "reflection": "Firm fruit can picture conditions that have not caught up with a scheduled choice. Waiting may be practical, frustrating, or imposed by someone else." }, { "title": "Learning by opening", "reflection": "An unexpected interior can resemble discovering requirements after getting involved. The scene need not imply deception or prove that an outside impression was foolish." }, { "title": "What remains useful", "reflection": "Keeping the stone can picture carrying a possibility or lesson beyond an experience. Discarding it may feel equally appropriate if the encounter is complete." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "The avocado remains hard when the meal must begin", "reflection": "A schedule is ready before its ingredient is. This can fit being expected to act before support or understanding is available. Finding another dish changes the scene toward adjustment rather than forcing readiness." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "The inside is good despite an unappealing skin", "reflection": "Direct involvement reveals more value than appearances suggested. This may fit an overlooked task, person, or opportunity becoming worthwhile. Enjoying the discovery differs from using it to judge every initial impression as unreliable." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You open beautiful fruit and find it unusable", "reflection": "An appealing option does not provide what you expected once examined. The scene can picture disappointment after learning the actual conditions. Choosing an alternative creates a different response from repeatedly trying to restore the first appearance." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You keep checking instead of taking a bite", "reflection": "The attempt to identify the perfect moment prevents enjoyment of the available one. This may fit a choice held open through repeated reassurance. Feeling responsible for others can make the checking purposeful, so the stakes matter." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The stone blocks the way you want to cut it", "reflection": "A central obstacle shapes what can be done with the whole. This may resemble a project containing one requirement that cannot simply be ignored. Working around it differs from abandoning everything because the route is inconvenient." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "A saved stone starts to grow", "reflection": "Something left after an ordinary use acquires another future within the dream. This can picture finding a next step in a finished experience. The new growth matters as a possibility you decide to tend, rather than an assured outcome." } ], "prompts": [ "Was the pressure about the fruit’s condition or about someone else’s timetable?", "What did opening it reveal that I could not know from outside?", "Did I want to enjoy, preserve, discard, or develop what remained?" ], "related": [ "fruit", "vegetables", "cooking", "seed" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "awake", "title": "Awake", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are awake, denotes that you will experience strange happenings which will throw you into…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "awake", "awaking" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about awake stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0134", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Awake", "text": "To dream that you are awake, denotes that you will experience\nstrange happenings which will throw you into gloom.\n\nTo pass through green, growing fields, and look upon landscape,\nin your dreams, and feel that it is an awaking experience,\nsignifies that there is some good and brightness in store for you,\nbut there will be disappointments intermingled between the present\nand that time.", "locator": "Heading 134; source lines 2900–2911", "lineStart": 2900, "lineEnd": 2911, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are awake, denotes that you will experience\nstrange happenings which will throw you into gloom.\n\nTo pass through green, growing fields, and look upon landscape,\nin your dreams, and feel that it is an awaking experience,\nsignifies that there is some good and brightness in store for you,\nbut there will be disappointments intermingled between the present\nand that time." }, { "id": "fontaine-0037", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Awaking", "text": "To dream you awake yourself is a happy end to all sorrow. To\nawake another is a sign you will inspire with love the one you wish.\n61, 4.", "locator": "Heading 37; source line 1132", "lineStart": 1132, "lineEnd": 1136, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you awake yourself is a happy end to all sorrow. To\nawake another is a sign you will inspire with love the one you wish.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Awaking” is shown on the Awake page: same topic" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "axe", "title": "Axe", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Seeing an axe in a dream, foretells that what enjoyment you may have will depend on your struggles and…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "axe", "ax" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about axe stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0135", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Axe", "text": "Seeing an axe in a dream, foretells that what enjoyment\nyou may have will depend on your struggles and energy.\nTo see others using an axe, foretells, your friends will be\nenergetic and lively, making existence a pleasure when near them.\n\nFor a young woman to see one, portends her lover will be worthy,\nbut not possessed with much wealth. A broken or rusty axe,\nindicates illness and loss of money and property.", "locator": "Heading 135; source lines 2911–2928", "lineStart": 2911, "lineEnd": 2928, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Seeing an axe in a dream, foretells that what enjoyment\nyou may have will depend on your struggles and energy.\nTo see others using an axe, foretells, your friends will be\nenergetic and lively, making existence a pleasure when near them.\n\nFor a young woman to see one, portends her lover will be worthy,\nbut not possessed with much wealth. A broken or rusty axe,\nindicates illness and loss of money and property." }, { "id": "luck-0009", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Axe", "text": "A way will present itself soon to attain a much desired end.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 9; source lines 3530–3535", "lineStart": 3530, "lineEnd": 3535, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "A way will present itself soon to attain a much desired end." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "artemidorus-071", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of the Ayre, and that which is there done.", "text": "THe Ayre cléere and pure is good to all, chiefly to those which have lost goods, and which would make voyages. The ayre troubled and cloudy, on the contrary signifyeth hinderance and anger. Raine without great winde or tempest is good for all, except to those which go into a strange Country, and those which have their vocation and work abroad without shelter. Little Rains and dr[illegible passage]ps of water, is good for Plowmen, to others it is little gain. Great tempestuous Rains are troubles, hurt and dangers: except to those which are servants poore and afflicted: for it argues short deliverance from theyr present evils, as presently after so suddaine a Tempest comes fayr Weather. Snow and yse séen in theyr time, signifye nothing, but that the spirit when the body sléeps remembers the cold of the day. But out of time and season, it is onely good for plowmen, to others not: for it argues that theyr businesse shall go forward coldly, and forbids them to travaile. Hayles are troubles and heavinesse and reveales secrets. Thunder without Lightnings, to servants trouble and falshood: but Lightning without thunder, vaine feare and without cause. To sée the Elementary fire, cleane pure and cleare, not great nor thicke, are threatnings to some Nobles and men of gea[illegible passage] Estates. But large fire and th[illegible passage]eke, is approach of Enemies, Povertie, and Famine. In what place soever the fire is: and from what place it comes, be it from the North South, East, or West, from that side shall the Enemies come, and about those Regions shall they run; or else there shall be famine: but yet it is worse to dream that he carries the fire. To see in your dream torches and burning flames fall from heaven, signifie that Wood stacks, Colonnies, and trées shall be burnt: it is also great and extream danger of life to him that dreams it. Lightning without tempest, falling near without touching the body, signifyeth change of place: falling before a man, forbids travailing. To be touched and smitten with Lightning, such a dreame is good for those which would not have their sin and povertie hidden; for others will reveale them: to the rich and mighty men adorned with great dignity, as that of a Scepter, or Crown of gold it is good; for the fire resembleth the gold: to others this dreams signifyeth losse of goods. Moreover, to those which are unmarried it signifieth marriage be they rich or poore: but it breaketh marriages made, and maketh friends enemies, for Lightning looseneth, but uniteth not: those that have children, upon this dream shall lose them: for the trée toucht with Lightning withers, and loseth both fruit, flower, and bud: to dream of Lightning makes Champions honourable, and graceth Oratours, and all such as would show themselves and make appearance. Also it is good for him which is at Law, in case of honour and renowne, though losse in cases of Possessions and houses, but not losse of Land to them which possesse it: to those which pretend to take Possession, it denies entrance. Also it signifieth to him which is in a strange Country, that he shall return to his owne, and to which is in his owne, that he shall die there: you must understand, it is all one to dreame you are onely toucht on the head, or on the stomack, or to be burned by the Lightning: but take héed lest you dreame you are all burned and consumed by the Lightning, for it is death to him which dreams it. Also you must know, that it is not good to be scorcht with lightning, being with his face on the earth, or lying on ones backe, or being in a ship, but onely being upright upon his feet or sitting in a royall and magestick Seat.", "locator": "Book 2, encoded section 71", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription-with-gaps", "book": "2", "displayText": "THe Ayre cléere and pure is good to all, chiefly to those which have lost goods, and which would make voyages. The ayre troubled and cloudy, on the contrary signifyeth hinderance and anger. Raine without great winde or tempest is good for all, except to those which go into a strange Country, and those which have their vocation and work abroad without shelter. Little Rains and dr [illegible passage] ps of water, is good for Plowmen, to others it is little gain. Great tempestuous Rains are troubles, hurt and dangers: except to those which are servants poore and afflicted: for it argues short deliverance from theyr present evils, as presently after so suddaine a Tempest comes fayr Weather. Snow and yse séen in theyr time, signifye nothing, but that the spirit when the body sléeps remembers the cold of the day. But out of time and season, it is onely good for plowmen, to others not: for it argues that theyr businesse shall go forward coldly, and forbids them to travaile. Hayles are troubles and heavinesse and reveales secrets. Thunder without Lightnings, to servants trouble and falshood: but Lightning without thunder, vaine feare and without cause. To sée the Elementary fire, cleane pure and cleare, not great nor thicke, are threatnings to some Nobles and men of gea [illegible passage] Estates. But large fire and th [illegible passage] eke, is approach of Enemies, Povertie, and Famine. In what place soever the fire is: and from what place it comes, be it from the North South, East, or West, from that side shall the Enemies come, and about those Regions shall they run; or else there shall be famine: but yet it is worse to dream that he carries the fire. To see in your dream torches and burning flames fall from heaven, signifie that Wood stacks, Colonnies, and trées shall be burnt: it is also great and extream danger of life to him that dreams it. Lightning without tempest, falling near without touching the body, signifyeth change of place: falling before a man, forbids travailing. To be touched and smitten with Lightning, such a dreame is good for those which would not have their sin and povertie hidden; for others will reveale them: to the rich and mighty men adorned with great dignity, as that of a Scepter, or Crown of gold it is good; for the fire resembleth the gold: to others this dreams signifyeth losse of goods. Moreover, to those which are unmarried it signifieth marriage be they rich or poore: but it breaketh marriages made, and maketh friends enemies, for Lightning looseneth, but uniteth not: those that have children, upon this dream shall lose them: for the trée toucht with Lightning withers, and loseth both fruit, flower, and bud: to dream of Lightning makes Champions honourable, and graceth Oratours, and all such as would show themselves and make appearance. Also it is good for him which is at Law, in case of honour and renowne, though losse in cases of Possessions and houses, but not losse of Land to them which possesse it: to those which pretend to take Possession, it denies entrance. Also it signifieth to him which is in a strange Country, that he shall return to his owne, and to which is in his owne, that he shall die there: you must understand, it is all one to dreame you are onely toucht on the head, or on the stomack, or to be burned by the Lightning: but take héed lest you dreame you are all burned and consumed by the Lightning, for it is death to him which dreams it. Also you must know, that it is not good to be scorcht with lightning, being with his face on the earth, or lying on ones backe, or being in a ship, but onely being upright upon his feet or sitting in a royall and magestick Seat." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "baby", "title": "Baby", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "Care becomes clearer through the particular encounter.", "summary": "A baby can explore a particular need for care, the terms of an unexpected responsibility, or room for delight and shared support.", "aliases": [ "baby", "babies", "newborn", "infant", "a baby", "infants" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "A baby in a dream can bring a concrete need into the encounter before you know whose responsibility it is. Someone may place an unfamiliar child in your arms and move away. This can resemble receiving a task without the information or support you expected. The scene may concern a remembered or imagined child directly, while a waking responsibility can offer an optional parallel. It does not assess whether you would be a good parent.\n\nUnderstanding a need differs from making the child respond as you hoped. A crying baby may remain unsettled despite your efforts, while another helper asks a question you had not considered. This can picture a task becoming clearer through attention and company rather than through greater effort alone. Difficulty in the dream does not diagnose a child’s condition or reveal an unacceptable hidden wish.\n\nPleasure deserves its own place. A baby laughing at an ordinary sound can center delight in a small shared encounter. Nothing needs to be wrong for a child’s presence to matter. A familiar photograph, recent visit or affection for someone may supply the scene without making the infant a metaphor for a project or a forecast of new obligations.\n\nRest creates a different question about care. A sleeping baby may make quiet available while you continue watching for another need. This can resemble responsibility persisting in attention after its immediate task is complete. Being able to rest too can give support a broader purpose; remaining watchful may concern uncertainty about when the task has actually ended.\n\nSeveral adults giving incompatible instructions can make the terms of care difficult to share. The problem may concern agreeing on a response rather than one person’s competence. A baby moving toward an interesting object can instead put protection beside emerging independence within the imagined scene. You may want to make room for movement while keeping company available. These readings follow the child’s particular action and your role. Baby, birth, pregnancy and one’s own childhood have related but different encounters; an infant’s appearance does not establish pregnancy, actual health or a coming family event.", "traditional": "The six supplied Baby and Infant records give conflicting claims by action, gender and marital status. Miller includes affection, independence, illness and moral accusations; Fontaine promises joy, marriage and enterprise; Noe varies outcomes by gender. Cielo separates holding from rocking and adds a marital-happiness Infant account. The exact records remain attributed period writing. Their favorable or adverse forecasts do not determine a child’s health, pregnancy, relationship fidelity or anyone’s suitability for care.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Someone hands you an unfamiliar baby without explaining the task", "reflection": "Responsibility arrives before the information you expected. This can resemble a new request needing clearer terms or support. Wanting an explanation may be part of useful care rather than evidence that you are unsuitable, unwilling or incapable of responding to a real child." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A crying baby remains unsettled until another helper asks a question", "reflection": "More effort has not clarified the need, and another approach becomes available. This may picture attention and shared understanding changing a task. The child’s dreamed response does not establish illness or turn frustration into proof of an actual wish to withdraw care." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "The baby laughs at an ordinary sound you make", "reflection": "A small action creates pleasure without needing a problem to be solved. This can picture delight in a shared encounter or remembered warmth. The value may belong to the moment itself; the infant does not have to predict a new project or family event." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "The baby sleeps while you decide whether you can rest too", "reflection": "The immediate need settles before your attention does. This may picture responsibility continuing after a task is complete. Rest becoming available can matter alongside care for another; remaining watchful does not prove that an actual child or situation is in danger." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Several adults give different instructions about the same baby", "reflection": "Care becomes difficult to coordinate because the offered approaches conflict. This can resemble a shared responsibility needing agreement about what is useful. The dream may center the arrangement rather than decide which person is a capable parent or whose intentions should be trusted." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The baby moves toward an interesting object while you stay nearby", "reflection": "Activity changes the balance between protection and room to explore. This may picture letting a developing task or relationship have movement while support remains available. The imagined action is not a developmental assessment, pregnancy forecast or rule about how to care for a child." } ], "prompts": [ "What need became clear through the baby’s actual response?", "How were responsibility, information and support shared?", "Which moment allowed delight, rest or independent movement?" ], "related": [ "children", "birth", "being-pregnant", "mother" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "scope": "miller-0136: Crying, clean, walking, nursing and feverish babies receive conflicting affection/independence/illness/deception forecasts. miller-1041: Newly born, unmarried-mother and swimming infant scenes receive surprise, moral-accusation and escape forecasts. Exact supplied passages: miller-0136 — Baby (Heading 136; source lines 2928–2940); miller-1041 — Infants (Heading 1042; source lines 12085–12093). Attributed historical comparison only; these period claims do not validate the original reflection or establish real health, relationship, family or financial outcomes.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0136", "miller-1041" ] }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "scope": "fontaine-0372: The Infant account, cross-referencing Child, assigns joy, marriage and successful enterprise. Exact supplied passages: fontaine-0372 — Infant (Heading 372; source line 2680). Attributed historical comparison only; these period claims do not validate the original reflection or establish real health, relationship, family or financial outcomes.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0372" ] }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "scope": "noe-0252: The Infant account assigns different favorable/adverse outcomes by gender and unmarried status. Exact supplied passages: noe-0252 — Infant (Dream section, heading 254; source lines 1074–1077). Attributed historical comparison only; these period claims do not validate the original reflection or establish real health, relationship, family or financial outcomes.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0252" ] }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "scope": "cielo-0031: Holding versus rocking a baby receives love versus embarrassment forecasts. cielo-0223: The Infant account assigns marital happiness. Exact supplied passages: cielo-0031 — Baby (Dream section, heading 31; source lines 3927–3930); cielo-0223 — Infant (Dream section, heading 223; source lines 4390–4392). Attributed historical comparison only; these period claims do not validate the original reflection or establish real health, relationship, family or financial outcomes.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0031", "cielo-0223" ] }, { "id": "wamsley-2010", "title": "Dreaming of a learning task is associated with enhanced sleep-dependent memory consolidation", "author": "Erin J. Wamsley and colleagues", "url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20417102/", "scope": "Primary maze-learning experiment; task-related dream reports correlated with later performance. It does not show that a dream is an accurate memory or a solution." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s continuing delegation of English editorial decisions. Historical accounts remain attributed period claims; the cited memory study does not validate these interpretations.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Responsibility with enough information", "reflection": "An unexpected task can need explanation and support rather than an instant display of competence." }, { "title": "Attention to the recipient’s response", "reflection": "Useful care can become clearer through what happens in the actual exchange." }, { "title": "Delight, rest and room for movement", "reflection": "A dependent presence can include pleasure and changing activity alongside responsibility." } ], "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "DreamFolia AI-assisted editorial review", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "water", "house", "dog", "cat", "being-pregnant", "ex-partner", "deceased-loved-one", "fire", "spider", "being-lost", "ocean", "flood", "wedding", "baby", "train", "car", "wolf" ] }, "decisionReason": "Six scenes distinguish receiving a task, understanding a need, delight, rest, conflicting instructions and room for movement. Six historical accounts retain their contradictory gendered forecasts. The original reflection does not assess parenting ability, pregnancy, child health or development.", "reviewedSnapshot": "data/common-reading-publication-review-2026-10-15.json", "contentSha256": "17536e14e9473abb3e415f7bfd7a0427b842572af7df8ab24efd3eee535ea088" }, "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0136", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Baby", "text": "To dream of crying babies, is indicative of ill health and disappointments.\n\nA bright, clean baby, denotes love requited, and many warm friends.\nWalking alone, it is a sure sign of independence and a total ignoring\nof smaller spirits. If a woman dream she is nursing a baby,\nshe will be deceived by the one she trusts most.\n\nIt is a bad sign to dream that you take your baby if sick with fever.\nYou will have many sorrows of mind.", "locator": "Heading 136; source lines 2928–2940", "lineStart": 2928, "lineEnd": 2940, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of crying babies, is indicative of ill health and disappointments.\n\nA bright, clean baby, denotes love requited, and many warm friends.\nWalking alone, it is a sure sign of independence and a total ignoring\nof smaller spirits. If a woman dream she is nursing a baby,\nshe will be deceived by the one she trusts most.\n\nIt is a bad sign to dream that you take your baby if sick with fever.\nYou will have many sorrows of mind." }, { "id": "miller-1041", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Infants", "text": "To dream of seeing a newly born infant, denotes pleasant surprises\nare nearing you. For a young woman to dream she has an infant,\nforetells she will be accused of indulgence in immoral pastime.\nTo see an infant swimming, portends a fortunate escape\nfrom some entanglement.", "locator": "Heading 1042; source lines 12085–12093", "lineStart": 12085, "lineEnd": 12093, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing a newly born infant, denotes pleasant surprises\nare nearing you. For a young woman to dream she has an infant,\nforetells she will be accused of indulgence in immoral pastime.\nTo see an infant swimming, portends a fortunate escape\nfrom some entanglement.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Infants” is shown on the A baby page: baby core entry already aliases infant" }, { "id": "fontaine-0372", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Infant", "text": "(_See Child._) Dreaming of a young infant is an excellent omen,\nas it foretells joy and gladness, good luck, and success generally.\nLovers who dream such a dream may be sure of a happy and thrifty\nmarriage. To a business man this dream predicts a new and successful\nenterprise. 29, 76.", "locator": "Heading 372; source line 2680", "lineStart": 2680, "lineEnd": 2686, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Child.) Dreaming of a young infant is an excellent omen,\nas it foretells joy and gladness, good luck, and success generally.\nLovers who dream such a dream may be sure of a happy and thrifty\nmarriage. To a business man this dream predicts a new and successful\nenterprise.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Infants” is shown on the A baby page: baby core entry already aliases infant" }, { "id": "noe-0252", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Infant", "text": "If an\nunmarried woman dreams of an infant, it prognosticates that she will go\nthrough some trouble, but for a man to dream of infants, is good.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 254; source lines 1074–1077", "lineStart": 1074, "lineEnd": 1077, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If an\nunmarried woman dreams of an infant, it prognosticates that she will go\nthrough some trouble, but for a man to dream of infants, is good.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Infants” is shown on the A baby page: baby core entry already aliases infant" }, { "id": "cielo-0031", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Baby", "text": "To hold one means true love; to rock one, embarrassment.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 31; source lines 3927–3930", "lineStart": 3927, "lineEnd": 3930, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To hold one means true love; to rock one, embarrassment." }, { "id": "cielo-0223", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Infant", "text": "Happiness in the married state.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 223; source lines 4390–4392", "lineStart": 4390, "lineEnd": 4392, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Happiness in the married state.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Infants” is shown on the A baby page: baby core entry already aliases infant" } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [ "children" ] }, { "slug": "baby-carriages", "title": "Baby Carriages", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a baby carriage, denotes that you will have a congenial friend who will devise many pleasurable surprises for you.”", "aliases": [ "baby carriages" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about baby carriages stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0137", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Baby Carriages", "text": "To dream of a baby carriage, denotes that you will have a congenial\nfriend who will devise many pleasurable surprises for you.", "locator": "Heading 137; source lines 2940–2945", "lineStart": 2940, "lineEnd": 2945, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a baby carriage, denotes that you will have a congenial\nfriend who will devise many pleasurable surprises for you." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "baby-crying", "title": "Baby crying", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "A sound asking for a response, and your position within it.", "summary": "A crying baby can bring care, urgency, or uncertainty into a dream. Notice whose baby it was, what you tried, and whether anyone helped.", "aliases": [ "crying baby", "baby crying", "a baby crying", "infant crying", "hearing a baby cry", "baby won't stop crying", "unable to soothe a baby", "screaming baby" ], "status": "REVIEW", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "Identify whether you saw the baby or only heard the cry. Searching through unfamiliar rooms for a sound differs from holding a child you cannot soothe. Write whose baby it seemed to be, who else was present, and whether caring for it was chosen or expected. Those details can locate the dream’s responsibility without deciding that every baby represents a new project.\n\n Describe your attempts to respond. Feeding, rocking, seeking a parent, protecting quiet, or doing nothing may create different emotions. Did you know what was needed, try several things without success, or feel prevented from helping? The frustrating part might be the uncertainty rather than the crying itself. If the sound stopped, record what changed; if it continued, the unfinished ending also belongs in the account.\n\n Recent care, remembered parenthood, a video, or a conversation about a child can supply ordinary material. A real sound may also become part of a dreamed setting, but the dream alone cannot establish where a sound originated. If you connect the scene with another need in your life, keep the comparison specific: something asking for attention, an unfamiliar responsibility, or a wish to be met with care yourself.\n\n Include your reaction without making it a verdict on your ability to care. Tenderness, irritation, tiredness, panic, and relief can all belong to an imagined scene. Notice whether anyone shared the task or expected you to manage alone. You can use the dream to describe the kind of support that felt missing or welcome without taking it as evidence about a child’s health or your suitability as a parent.", "traditional": "Miller’s Baby passage assigns a negative forecast to crying and a more favourable one to a bright, clean baby. It also moralizes some acts of care. Those are historical beliefs about appearances and fortune, not information about a real infant or the dreamer’s capacity to care for one.\n\n The account illustrates the limits of a fixed symbol code: changing one visible detail reverses the predicted result, without examining the child’s need or the help available. DreamFolia preserves the attributed passage while giving those practical features more attention in its original reflection. The cry may matter to you as a sound, an interruption, or a request, and its context remains yours to describe.\n\n A modern reflection can distinguish wanting to help from knowing how, and responsibility from having enough support. Those distinctions arise from the scene rather than from an established symbolic meaning. They allow a difficult dream to be explored without turning it into a prediction or an assessment of parenting.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "You hear crying but cannot find the baby", "reflection": "The search and the sound are separate parts of the scene. Did the cry guide you, become less clear, or seem to come from several places? Consider what made responding difficult before assigning the sound a meaning." }, { "title": "Nothing you try brings comfort", "reflection": "Record the attempts and whether someone offered advice or assistance. The dream may help you describe effort without a visible result, but it does not demonstrate that you are failing a real child." }, { "title": "Someone shares the care", "reflection": "What changed when help arrived: the baby’s crying, your feeling, or the task itself? Support may be the important detail even if the cry continues. Include the response you received as well as the outcome." } ], "prompts": [ "What did I believe the baby needed, and how did I know?", "Which feeling arose in me before I tried to help?", "Was the responsibility shared, chosen, or imposed?" ], "related": [ "baby", "birth", "forgetting-to-feed-a-pet", "mother" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "scope": "Historical comparison: Baby (Heading 136; source lines 2928–2940); Infants (Heading 1042; source lines 12085–12093). These period accounts do not establish a present-day outcome or validate the personal reflections on this page.", "recordReferences": [ { "id": "miller-0136", "heading": "Baby", "locator": "Heading 136; source lines 2928–2940" }, { "id": "miller-1041", "heading": "Infants", "locator": "Heading 1042; source lines 12085–12093" } ], "recordIds": [ "miller-0136", "miller-1041" ] } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection expanded on October 13, 2026. Historical readings are attributed period beliefs; proposed personal connections are exploratory. Human publication review remains pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "babysitter", "title": "Babysitter", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "Care is shared for a time, with an understanding about who returns.", "summary": "A babysitter can picture temporary responsibility, shared care, or the difference between offering help and having a role assigned to you.", "aliases": [ "babysitter", "baby sitter" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A babysitter places care inside a temporary agreement. Someone is responsible for a child while another person turns to work, rest, or a different task. In a dream, that arrangement may bring attention to what makes help feel dependable: enough information, a defined period, and confidence that the responsibility will be returned. The subject can be sharing a role rather than judging how much one person should manage alone.\n\nBeing the sitter may picture a contribution you welcome or a task that grows beyond what you accepted. Looking after one child for an hour differs from suddenly becoming responsible for a whole household. This could resemble covering a colleague's work, holding a friend's practical problem, or helping family during a transition. The comparison lies in temporary responsibility and its limits; the child need not be a universal symbol for a project.\n\nInstructions can make the handover clear or difficult. A familiar routine, a way to reach the caregiver, and room to ask questions create a different experience from being expected to know everything immediately. The scene may give form to a wish for context before taking on a role. If the child shows you what they need, cooperation may replace the pressure to be an expert. The dream does not assess a real caregiver's competence or a child's safety.\n\nReturning changes the agreement. The caregiver arrives early, stays away without explanation, or finds that you and the child have developed an easy routine. Relief may concern being free to resume your own plans; sadness may concern leaving a connection that became meaningful. Both can coexist with willingness to help. A sitter who is appreciated only when they agree to continue indefinitely may make choice, rather than affection, the central issue.\n\nFinding yourself as the child introduces another position. Receiving temporary care may feel restful, embarrassing, welcome, or overly restrictive. It can picture wanting support without being permanently assigned a less capable role. An adult grandchild, a younger sibling remembered as small, or an unfamiliar child can also change the sense of age and time. Recent family arrangements, conversations about help, or remembered evenings may supply direct material. A useful reading stays with who agreed to what, how care was shared, and whether the temporary role had an understandable end.", "traditional": "No verified historical babysitter passage is supplied. Baby and Daycare concern related images but do not establish a fixed traditional meaning for this temporary caregiving role. The reflections here are original and do not assess real children or caregivers.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A role with an understood limit", "reflection": "Temporary care may feel workable when its duration and responsibilities are clear. An expanding task can make consent and capacity more central than willingness." }, { "title": "Enough context to help", "reflection": "Instructions and access to information can turn uncertainty into cooperation. The scene may picture wanting preparation rather than needing to know everything already." }, { "title": "Receiving care without losing identity", "reflection": "Being looked after can bring rest together with discomfort about dependence. A temporary supportive role differs from being permanently treated as less capable." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "You agree to babysit for a defined time", "reflection": "The task has a clear beginning and end. This may picture help that fits your available capacity, allowing care and your own plans to coexist." }, { "title": "The instructions disappear during the handover", "reflection": "You are expected to act without knowing the routine. The scene may resemble taking on a task before its context has been shared, rather than proving inadequacy as a caregiver." }, { "title": "The child helps you understand what they need", "reflection": "Cooperation replaces guessing. This can picture a role becoming easier when the person receiving help has a voice, instead of all knowledge being expected of you." }, { "title": "The caregiver returns sooner than expected", "reflection": "Responsibility ends before you anticipated. Relief, disappointment or unfinished connection may show which part of the temporary role had become meaningful." }, { "title": "The task expands after you have agreed", "reflection": "One evening becomes an open-ended arrangement or one child becomes several. The scene may highlight the difference between offering a particular favor and being assigned ongoing responsibility." }, { "title": "You are the person being looked after", "reflection": "The usual adult role falls away for a time. The experience may explore welcome rest or discomfort when support removes choices you still want to make." } ], "prompts": [ "What responsibility was agreed, and when was it supposed to end?", "What information or support made the role workable?", "Which part of receiving or providing temporary care felt welcome?" ], "related": [ "baby", "daycare", "parents" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "bachelor", "title": "Bachelor", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “For a man to dream that he is a bachelor, is a warning for him to keep clear of women.”", "aliases": [ "bachelor" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about bachelor stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0138", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Bachelor", "text": "For a man to dream that he is a bachelor, is a warning for him\nto keep clear of women.\n\nFor a woman to dream of a bachelor, denotes love not born of purity.\nJustice goes awry. Politicians lose honor.", "locator": "Heading 138; source lines 2945–2953", "lineStart": 2945, "lineEnd": 2953, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a man to dream that he is a bachelor, is a warning for him\nto keep clear of women.\n\nFor a woman to dream of a bachelor, denotes love not born of purity.\nJustice goes awry. Politicians lose honor." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "back", "title": "Back", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "5 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing a nude back, denotes loss of power.” Compare 5 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "back", "of the back" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about back stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0139", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Back", "text": "To dream of seeing a nude back, denotes loss of power.\nLending advice or money is dangerous. Sickness often\nattends this dream.\n\nTo see a person turn and walk away from you, you may be sure envy\nand jealousy are working to your hurt.\n\nTo dream of your own back, bodes no good to the dreamer.", "locator": "Heading 139; source lines 2953–2964", "lineStart": 2953, "lineEnd": 2964, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing a nude back, denotes loss of power.\nLending advice or money is dangerous. Sickness often\nattends this dream.\n\nTo see a person turn and walk away from you, you may be sure envy\nand jealousy are working to your hurt.\n\nTo dream of your own back, bodes no good to the dreamer." }, { "id": "fontaine-0038", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Back", "text": "To dream that your back is broken, hurt, or scabby, shows that\nyour enemies will get the better of you. To dream of the backbone,\nsignifies health and much joy. To see your back denotes misfortune. 2,\n19, 42.", "locator": "Heading 38; source line 1136", "lineStart": 1136, "lineEnd": 1141, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that your back is broken, hurt, or scabby, shows that\nyour enemies will get the better of you. To dream of the backbone,\nsignifies health and much joy. To see your back denotes misfortune. 2," }, { "id": "artemidorus-038", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of the back.", "text": "THe Backe and all the hinder parts signifie old age, therefore as one thinks his back and hinder parts to be, so shall he be in his age.", "locator": "Book 1, encoded section 38", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "1", "displayText": "THe Backe and all the hinder parts signifie old age, therefore as one thinks his back and hinder parts to be, so shall he be in his age." }, { "id": "noe-0058", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Back", "text": "To dream you see your back,\nbetokens some uneasiness; for the back to be broken or hurt, shows you\nwill be scoffed at by your enemies; yet to dream of the backbone,\nsignifies health and success in love, marriage and business.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 59; source lines 337–340", "lineStart": 337, "lineEnd": 340, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see your back,\nbetokens some uneasiness; for the back to be broken or hurt, shows you\nwill be scoffed at by your enemies; yet to dream of the backbone,\nsignifies health and success in love, marriage and business." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9059", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Back", "heading": "Back", "text": "To see your own back in your dream indicates misfortune, uneasiness of mind, sickness, etc. This is obviously a dream incited by the physical condition, from backache, and its attendant discomfort that draws the dreamer's attention to that portion of the anatomy.", "lineStart": 9059, "lineEnd": 9064, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 198; NLM OCR lines 9059–9064", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9059, "lineEnd": 9064, "printedPage": 198, "printedPageEnd": 198 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Back. — To see your own back in your dream indicates \nmisfortune, uneasiness of mind, sickness, etc. This is obvi- \nously a dream incited by the physical condition, from backache, \nand its attendant discomfort that draws the dreamer's atten- \ntion to that portion of the anatomy. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "obvi- \nously", "after": "obviously", "evidenceLine": 380 }, { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "atten- \ntion", "after": "attention", "evidenceLine": 1273 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Back" }, "displayText": "To see your own back in your dream indicates misfortune, uneasiness of mind, sickness, etc. This is obviously a dream incited by the physical condition, from backache, and its attendant discomfort that draws the dreamer's attention to that portion of the anatomy." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "back-bite", "title": "Back-bite", "type": "dreams", "category": "Other symbols", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Conditions will change from good to bad if you are joined with others in back-biting.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "back-bite", "backbite" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about back-bite stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0140", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Back-bite", "text": "Conditions will change from good to bad if you are joined\nwith others in back-biting.\n\nFor your friends to back-bite you, indicates worriment by\nservants and children.", "locator": "Heading 140; source lines 2964–2972", "lineStart": 2964, "lineEnd": 2972, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Conditions will change from good to bad if you are joined\nwith others in back-biting.\n\nFor your friends to back-bite you, indicates worriment by\nservants and children." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9065", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Backbite", "heading": "Backbite", "text": "To dream that you are victimized by a scandal promises high success, the favor of great persons (Dream-books). A dream of the contrary, probably inspired by the interpreter's knowledge of the subconscious.", "lineStart": 9065, "lineEnd": 9069, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 198; NLM OCR lines 9065–9069", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9065, "lineEnd": 9069, "printedPage": 198, "printedPageEnd": 198 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Backbite. — To dream that you are victimized by a scandal \npromises high success, the favor of great persons (Dream- \nbooks). A dream of the contrary, probably inspired by the \ninterpreter's knowledge of the subconscious. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-retain-hyphen", "before": "Dream- \nbooks", "after": "Dream-books", "evidenceLine": 8026 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Backbite" }, "displayText": "To dream that you are victimized by a scandal promises high success, the favor of great persons (Dream-books). A dream of the contrary, probably inspired by the interpreter's knowledge of the subconscious." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "backbone", "title": "Backbone", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “Promise of offspring who will adore the dreamer, success in love (Artemidorus). An erotic dream (Freud).”", "aliases": [ "backbone" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about backbone stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L9070", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Backbone", "heading": "Backbone", "text": "Promise of offspring who will adore the dreamer, success in love (Artemidorus). An erotic dream (Freud).", "lineStart": 9070, "lineEnd": 9073, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 198; NLM OCR lines 9070–9073", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9070, "lineEnd": 9073, "printedPage": 198, "printedPageEnd": 198 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Backbone. — Promise of offspring who will adore the \ndreamer, success in love (Artemidorus). An erotic dream \n(Freud). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Backbone" }, "displayText": "Promise of offspring who will adore the dreamer, success in love (Artemidorus). An erotic dream (Freud)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "backgammon", "title": "Backgammon", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of playing backgammon, denotes that you will, while visiting, meet with unfriendly hospitality,…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "backgammon" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about backgammon stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "dice" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0141", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Backgammon", "text": "To dream of playing backgammon, denotes that you will, while visiting,\nmeet with unfriendly hospitality, but will unconsciously win friendships\nwhich will endure much straining.\n\nIf you are defeated in the game, you will be unfortunate in bestowing\nyour affections, and your affairs will remain in an unsettled condition.", "locator": "Heading 141; source lines 2972–2981", "lineStart": 2972, "lineEnd": 2981, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of playing backgammon, denotes that you will, while visiting,\nmeet with unfriendly hospitality, but will unconsciously win friendships\nwhich will endure much straining.\n\nIf you are defeated in the game, you will be unfortunate in bestowing\nyour affections, and your affairs will remain in an unsettled condition." }, { "id": "fontaine-0039", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Backgammon", "text": "(_See Dice._)", "locator": "Heading 39; source line 1141", "lineStart": 1141, "lineEnd": 1143, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Dice.)" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "dice" ] }, { "slug": "backpack", "title": "Backpack", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "aliases": [ "backpack", "backpacks", "rucksack", "rucksacks", "backpacking", "school backpack" ], "summary": "A backpack can picture responsibilities carried personally, preparation, or deciding what is worth taking. Its weight and contents shape the reading.", "tagline": "You carry a limited space with you, choosing what it must hold.", "psychological": "A backpack can picture responsibilities that remain with you as you move between settings. Unlike a possession stored at home, its weight accompanies each step. Work, study, caregiving, or an unfinished task may feel similar when its demands follow you through the day. A heavy pack can make that load concrete; a comfortable one may suggest having what you need without carrying more than the journey requires.\n\nThe contents make preparation specific. Tools, books, food, and personal objects serve different purposes, so a packed bag can picture balancing practical needs with continuity and comfort. An empty backpack may feel freeing if you want a lighter journey, or unsettling if you expect to rely on something missing. The absence matters through what you cannot do without it.\n\nPacking and repacking can suggest difficulty choosing what deserves limited space. A new role or move may require deciding which habits, commitments, or resources remain useful. An expanding bag that accepts everything offers another reading: a wish that taking on more would not require sacrifices.\n\nObjects belonging to other people can picture duties added without a clear agreement. You may find yourself carrying a group task or another person's unfinished concern. Sharing the load can change the scene toward cooperation, while being unable to put the bag down can make obligation feel attached to your identity.\n\nA school backpack or familiar hiking pack can also return directly to a particular period of learning, independence, or companionship. Real journeys, daily commutes, and recent packing supply ordinary context. These interpretations depend on what the load enables and costs, rather than making every backpack a sign of excessive burden.", "traditional": "These original reflections focus on a personally carried container, its capacity, and its chosen contents. No verified historical backpack passage is cited. Broader luggage imagery is related but does not establish the specific balance between portability, weight, and preparation explored here; the research source supplies general background only.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A responsibility that accompanies you", "reflection": "The pack can picture demands that follow across settings. Its weight makes their continuing cost visible, while a comfortable load may suggest preparation that suits the actual journey." }, { "title": "Choosing within limited capacity", "reflection": "Packing can express deciding which commitments, tools, or memories deserve space. An empty or overflowing bag changes the tension between freedom, preparedness, and trying to carry everything." }, { "title": "Whose load is being carried", "reflection": "Unexpected contents can picture duties added without clear agreement. Sharing the pack or setting it down can explore cooperation and the limits of responsibility rather than merely endurance." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "The backpack becomes heavier with every step", "reflection": "This can picture a task accumulating demands as you proceed. Study alongside work or a responsibility that expands without extra support may fit. The growing weight makes the changing cost visible, even when the destination remains something you still want to reach.", "slug": "scene-1" }, { "title": "The bag is empty when you need your equipment", "reflection": "Wanting to participate without a needed resource can feel similar. Missing access, incomplete preparation, or instructions that arrived too late may offer parallels. The scene centers what the absent contents would have enabled, rather than judging the empty bag as failure by itself.", "slug": "scene-2" }, { "title": "You choose a few useful items and the pack feels light", "reflection": "A lighter load can picture preparation based on the actual journey instead of every possible demand. Revising a project or simplifying a routine may fit. The useful contents make freedom compatible with readiness, rather than requiring you to choose between carrying everything and carrying nothing.", "slug": "scene-3" }, { "title": "Other people's possessions fill your backpack", "reflection": "Responsibilities may have entered your day without a clear agreement about who carries them. Completing colleagues' work or managing family reminders can offer parallels. The unfamiliar contents make the difference between helping willingly and becoming the default holder of everyone else's tasks concrete.", "slug": "scene-4" }, { "title": "A companion takes a turn carrying the pack", "reflection": "The same journey can become manageable when effort is shared. An agreed caregiving shift or collaborative task may feel similar. The load does not disappear, but its distribution changes, allowing support to affect how much movement costs you personally.", "slug": "scene-5" }, { "title": "You set the backpack down and hesitate to leave it", "reflection": "Letting go of a demand can also mean separating from an identity built around carrying it. Taking time away from a role or finishing a long project may fit. Relief and hesitation can coexist when a burden has supplied purpose as well as weight.", "slug": "scene-6" } ], "prompts": [ "Which contents made the journey possible, and which simply added weight?", "Was the load chosen, assigned, or gathered from other people's needs?", "What changed when I shared, simplified, or put down the pack?" ], "related": [ "luggage", "mountain", "school-or-exam", "packing-but-never-finishing" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia editorial entry with image-specific interpretations and six differentiated scenes. The reference supplies general dream background only. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "backseat", "title": "Backseat", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "aliases": [ "back seat", "rear seat", "backseat passenger" ], "summary": "A backseat can picture participating in a shared direction with limited control. Chosen rest, dependence, and being overlooked create different readings.", "tagline": "You share the journey from a position behind the steering wheel.", "psychological": "A backseat places you inside the journey while someone else decides its immediate direction. This can picture a shared situation whose outcome matters to you but whose choices are handled elsewhere. A household plan, workplace reorganization, or trip arranged by another person offers a possible parallel. The seat makes your position in the arrangement visible; it does not automatically make you powerless.\n\nBeing a passenger can be welcome. You may trust the driver, enjoy the view, or need a break from making every decision. After managing a demanding project, handing over responsibility can feel like relief. The same position feels different when you object to the route and receive no response. Then the scene may concern whether participation includes a meaningful way to speak.\n\nWho sits beside you can change the experience. Company may offer support or make a crowded space feel restrictive. Returning to a childhood backseat may recall a time when adults determined schedules and destinations. Familiarity can feel protective, frustrating, or both; your present response matters more than a rule about childhood.\n\nTrying to steer from behind can expose a mismatch between responsibility and access. You are expected to prevent problems but lack the position or information needed to direct them. A delegated task with no clear authority may feel similar. Moving forward, asking the driver to stop, or choosing to leave the car creates different possibilities for renegotiating your role.\n\nNotice whether you knew the destination, agreed to the journey, and could communicate. Those details distinguish restful reliance from uncertain dependence. An actual car ride or remembered family trip can supply the setting without requiring symbolism.", "traditional": "Family journeys, shared travel, and the ordinary relief of letting someone else drive can provide direct context. These original comparisons distinguish chosen reliance from having no useful voice in a shared direction. No historical backseat passage is supplied here.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Participation without steering", "reflection": "The rear seat can picture a situation you share but do not direct. Whether your voice reaches the driver helps distinguish a workable arrangement from unwanted dependence." }, { "title": "A welcome pause from responsibility", "reflection": "A trusted driver can make the backseat restful. The scene may connect with handing over a task, accepting support, or allowing another person to manage the next stage." }, { "title": "An old position becomes familiar again", "reflection": "A childhood seating arrangement can bring remembered expectations into a present situation. Comfort or frustration may show whether that familiar role still suits what you need now." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You relax while someone you trust drives", "reflection": "Chosen reliance can feel like a useful pause. Letting a colleague lead a meeting or allowing a friend to organize a trip may offer a parallel. You remain part of the journey without carrying every decision, and the dream makes that shared responsibility comfortable." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You ask to turn but the driver ignores you", "reflection": "This can picture participation without a useful channel for influence. A family plan or shared project may affect you while your preferences receive little response. The ignored request, rather than the rear seat alone, makes the arrangement feel restrictive." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You are a child again in a familiar family car", "reflection": "The scene may recall a period when others set your destination and timing. A current decision handled by relatives can revive that position. Feeling safe differs from feeling reduced to an earlier role; both can occur in the same remembered setting." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You try to steer from the backseat", "reflection": "You may feel responsible for an outcome without enough access to direct it. Being asked to fix a project while another person controls its budget offers a parallel. The awkward reach makes the gap between responsibility and authority concrete." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The rear seat is crowded with people and bags", "reflection": "Shared participation may leave little space for your own comfort or needs. A busy household or group commitment can feel similar when everyone depends on the same arrangement. Who makes room, and whether you can ask for it, changes the reading." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You ask to stop and choose a different ride", "reflection": "This can picture reconsidering an arrangement whose direction no longer suits you. Changing a role, declining part of a plan, or requesting another way to participate may feel similar. The action gives your preference a practical consequence rather than leaving it unheard." } ], "prompts": [ "Did I choose to be a passenger, and did I trust the direction?", "Could I communicate a preference that changed the journey?", "What responsibility did I carry without access to the steering wheel?" ], "related": [ "car", "driving", "parents", "omnibus" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia interpretation with image-specific possibilities and six differentiated scenes. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "backstage", "title": "Backstage", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "Preparation, changing roles, and the moment between making something possible and joining it.", "summary": "Backstage dreams can explore preparation, access, the roles behind a public event, or finding room for your own participation.", "aliases": [ "backstage", "back stage" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "Backstage places a public event beside the work and waiting that help it happen. You may hear a performance while looking for a costume, arrange equipment for someone else or discover an unexpected quiet room. This can resemble the less visible part of a task: the preparation, coordination or recovery that an audience does not see. The dream need not concern a wish to perform at all.\n\nA cue can make timing more important than readiness in the abstract. You may feel prepared but unsure when to enter, or hear your name while still completing another job. Starting a role, presenting work or joining a difficult conversation can have a similar structure. A clear invitation may change the scene more than additional rehearsal, because the missing condition is a shared understanding of when your part begins.\n\nRoles can overlap. Helping another person prepare may feel satisfying until you realize that your own entrance is approaching. This could bring the terms of shared work into focus: who can take over, what must be finished and which tasks can wait. Asking for help can make participation possible without requiring you to abandon the contribution you wanted to make.\n\nAccess can create another kind of encounter. A pass may open a door without telling you where to go, while someone familiar with the place may make an unfamiliar corridor usable. This can resemble gaining formal membership before learning an arrangement’s everyday practices. Being behind the scenes is not automatically a position of privilege, secrecy or exclusion; its significance depends on what you can actually do there.\n\nAfter the event, backstage may become a place to put things away, speak freely or rest. Relief and disappointment can appear together once public attention ends. A recent performance, film or remembered school event may supply the setting directly. These original comparisons concern the relation between visible participation and the work around it. They do not reveal what other people secretly think of your performance or establish that an unready feeling predicts failure.", "traditional": "No historical account is attached to this original entry. The cited learning experiment supplies memory-research context, not a tested meaning for this image or evidence that a dream predicts an event.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "The conditions for an entrance", "reflection": "A cue, invitation or clear route can matter as much as private preparation. Knowing when your part begins may be the useful change." }, { "title": "Supporting and participating", "reflection": "Helping an event happen can coexist with wanting a place within it. The scene may make handovers and shared responsibilities concrete." }, { "title": "A place outside public attention", "reflection": "Waiting and recovery have different needs from performance. A quiet room can be useful without making retreat the only possible ending." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You hear your cue while finishing someone else’s costume", "reflection": "Two responsibilities reach the same moment. The scene may explore what can be handed over so your own participation remains possible. Satisfaction in helping and a wish to enter can coexist, rather than proving that one role was a mistake." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Your pass opens the door but every corridor looks unfamiliar", "reflection": "Formal access does not yet provide a usable route. This can resemble joining a group while still learning its practical arrangements. A sign, companion or clear instruction may matter more than another credential or reassurance that you belong." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You wait for a cue that nobody has agreed to give", "reflection": "Readiness has become dependent on an uncertain signal. The scene may invite a question about expectations that have not been shared. Asking when to enter differs from rehearsing indefinitely or deciding that silence necessarily means you are unwelcome." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A quiet dressing room is available after the event", "reflection": "A place supports the change from being observed to resting or reflecting. The scene can picture recovery having its own space. Whether you seek company or solitude gives the ending its particular feeling without judging either as avoidance." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You guide a nervous performer toward the correct entrance", "reflection": "Your contribution is knowing a route another person cannot yet use. This can resemble practical support that makes someone else’s participation easier. Notice whether you remain able to choose your own next task after the handover." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You choose to watch from the wings rather than go onstage", "reflection": "A different position lets you take part in the event in another way. Relief, pleasure or regret may clarify what you wanted from it. The dreamed choice does not establish your ability or require declining a real opportunity." } ], "prompts": [ "Which part of the event were you making possible?", "What cue, handover or route would have made participation easier?", "What did you want when public attention ended?" ], "related": [ "theater", "curtains", "actor-and-actress", "forgetting-your-lines-on-stage", "being-late" ], "sources": [ { "id": "wamsley-2010", "title": "Dreaming of a learning task is associated with enhanced sleep-dependent memory consolidation", "author": "Erin J. Wamsley and colleagues", "url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20417102/", "scope": "Primary maze-learning experiment; task-related dream reports correlated with later performance. It does not show that a dream is an accurate memory or a solution." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s continuing English editorial delegation. The memory study is general context, not validation of these interpretations.", "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "DreamFolia AI-assisted editorial review", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "aisle", "ambulance", "bakery", "binoculars", "backstage", "birdbath", "birdhouse", "beehive", "billboard", "bookmark", "turnstile", "antlers", "armchair", "bathrobe" ] }, "decisionReason": "Preparation, a cue, overlapping roles, access and recovery have distinct readings and six scenes. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0142", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Bacon", "text": "To dream of eating bacon is good, if some one is eating with you\nand hands are clean.\n\nRancid bacon, is dulness of perception and unsatisfactory states\nwill worry you.\n\nTo dream of curing bacon is bad, if not clear of salt and smoke.\nIf clear, it is good.", "locator": "Heading 142; source lines 2981–2992", "lineStart": 2981, "lineEnd": 2992, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of eating bacon is good, if some one is eating with you\nand hands are clean.\n\nRancid bacon, is dulness of perception and unsatisfactory states\nwill worry you.\n\nTo dream of curing bacon is bad, if not clear of salt and smoke.\nIf clear, it is good." }, { "id": "fontaine-0040", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Bacon", "text": "To dream of bacon or pork, denotes the death of some friend or\nrelation, and that enemies will endeavor to do you a mischief; in love,\nit denotes a disappointment of some kind. 74.", "locator": "Heading 40; source line 1143", "lineStart": 1143, "lineEnd": 1147, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of bacon or pork, denotes the death of some friend or\nrelation, and that enemies will endeavor to do you a mischief; in love,\nit denotes a disappointment of some kind." }, { "id": "noe-0057", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Bacon", "text": "To\ndream of bacon denotes the death of some friend or relation and that\nenemies will endeavor to do you mischief. In love, it denotes\ndisappointment and discontent.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 58; source lines 334–337", "lineStart": 334, "lineEnd": 337, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To\ndream of bacon denotes the death of some friend or relation and that\nenemies will endeavor to do you mischief. In love, it denotes\ndisappointment and discontent." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "badger", "title": "Badger", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a badger, is a sign of luck after battles with hardships.”", "aliases": [ "badger" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about badger stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0143", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Badger", "text": "To dream of a badger, is a sign of luck after battles with hardships.", "locator": "Heading 143; source lines 2992–2996", "lineStart": 2992, "lineEnd": 2996, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a badger, is a sign of luck after battles with hardships." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "guide-65367", "title": "Guide to Fortune-Telling by Dreams", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Multum in Parvo Library, Vol. I, No. 10, October 1894", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65367", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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Bayley recounts the legend of the mountain called Caraiman; whenever he played the bagpipes all things that he desired would grow about him (Carpathian legend) .", "lineStart": 9077, "lineEnd": 9087, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 198–199; NLM OCR lines 9077–9087", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9077, "lineEnd": 9087, "printedPage": 198, "printedPageEnd": 199 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Bagpipes. — A dream forecasting increase in family and \nfortune (Gypsy). 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "bagel", "title": "Bagel", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "summary": "A bagel can explore form and usability, preserving a modest portion, and a familiar routine that must work under changing conditions.", "tagline": "A familiar form needs a workable fit.", "aliases": [ "bagel", "bagels" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A bagel’s opening can make an otherwise familiar food awkward to hold or fill in a dream. The arrangement may look complete while lacking a solid surface exactly where you expected one. A practical plan with an unassigned step, or a routine whose missing connection becomes obvious only when used, can offer a parallel. The gap need not represent emptiness in your life. It can make the relationship between appearance and workable structure concrete.\n\nA dense bagel that will not split can picture difficulty dividing something intended to be manageable. A responsibility may have been described as two equal parts but resist that separation in practice, or a limited portion may be expected to meet several different needs. Finding another way to cut or serve it changes the task more directly than demanding that the same approach work through greater effort. Ease after adjustment can become the meaningful part of the scene.\n\nA filling that falls through can make fit more central than quantity. Adding more of the same does not solve an arrangement that cannot hold it. Information offered without a useful process, or a promise of help that lacks practical access, may resemble that experience. A different surface or form can let the contribution become usable. The dream can therefore explore design without judging either the ingredient or your wish to use it.\n\nA familiar breakfast carried on a busy journey can picture preserving an ordinary preference through changing conditions. The routine gives a little continuity without requiring everything around it to remain the same. If the half you saved disappears, the loss may concern a modest reservation of time or comfort. Small scale does not make a chosen portion unimportant, especially when most of the day is already allocated elsewhere.\n\nA bagel growing larger than its plate reverses the relationship: what seemed modest now exceeds the arrangement meant to contain it. A remembered bakery, breakfast, or shared meal can supply direct context. These readings follow the dream’s specific food, form, and use. They do not make a ring into a universal relationship symbol or turn a meal into a forecast.", "traditional": "No directly matching historical account is attached for this specific topic. The readings here are original reflective possibilities. The NINDS source provides general background about dreams, not evidence for these symbolic comparisons.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Form and use", "reflection": "A familiar appearance may conceal a practical gap that becomes clear only when the arrangement is used." }, { "title": "A portion kept for later", "reflection": "Reserving a modest comfort can matter when other time and resources are already allocated." }, { "title": "Continuity during movement", "reflection": "An ordinary routine can remain personally meaningful while the surrounding conditions change." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "The hole changes how you hold the food", "reflection": "A familiar form lacks support where you expect it. This may picture a practical plan with a missing connection. Adjusting your grip or the arrangement can make the task workable without turning the gap into a claim that something essential is absent from you." }, { "title": "A dense bagel will not split", "reflection": "Something meant to be divided resists the proposed method. This can fit a responsibility that does not separate into tidy portions. Another approach may be more useful than repeated force, especially when the division was assumed before its practical conditions were understood." }, { "title": "A filling falls through the middle", "reflection": "The addition is available but its support does not fit. This may resemble information or assistance offered without a usable process. Changing the form creates another response from adding more and expecting quantity to solve the same structural difficulty." }, { "title": "Breakfast accompanies a busy journey", "reflection": "A familiar preference travels into changed conditions. This can picture preserving a modest routine during a demanding period. Convenience and pleasure may coexist; the continuity can matter without needing the entire day to resemble an earlier, quieter arrangement." }, { "title": "The saved half is missing when you return", "reflection": "A portion reserved for you is no longer available. This may picture a modest expectation displaced by other demands. Its size does not determine the loss’s meaning; acknowledgement or replacement differs from dismissing what had a particular place in your plan." }, { "title": "The bagel becomes larger than its plate", "reflection": "A supposedly small demand exceeds its assigned space. This can resemble a routine task developing additional needs. Enlarging the arrangement may fit better than continuing to treat the task as minor simply because that was how it first appeared." } ], "prompts": [ "Which practical gap becomes visible only when an arrangement is used?", "What modest portion have you reserved for yourself?", "What familiar routine can travel with you through changed conditions?" ], "related": [ "bread", "breakfast", "baking", "cooking" ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "baggage", "title": "Baggage", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “A dream of weariness, fatigue, an overburdened conscience (Gypsy). A load of sin (Bunyan).”", "aliases": [ "baggage" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about baggage stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L9074", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Baggage", "heading": "Baggage", "text": "A dream of weariness, fatigue, an overburdened conscience (Gypsy). A load of sin (Bunyan).", "lineStart": 9074, "lineEnd": 9076, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 198; NLM OCR lines 9074–9076", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9074, "lineEnd": 9076, "printedPage": 198, "printedPageEnd": 198 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Baggage, — A dream of weariness, fatigue, an overburdened \nconscience (Gypsy). A load of sin (Bunyan). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Baggage" }, "displayText": "A dream of weariness, fatigue, an overburdened conscience (Gypsy). A load of sin (Bunyan)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "baghavad-ghitta", "title": "Baghavad Ghitta", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of the Baghavad, foretells for you a season of seclusion.”", "aliases": [ "baghavad ghitta" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about baghavad ghitta stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0145", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Baghavad Ghitta", "text": "To dream of the Baghavad, foretells for you a season of seclusion;\nalso rest to the exhausted faculties. A pleasant journey\nfor your advancement will be planned by your friends.\nLittle financial advancement is promised in this dream.", "locator": "Heading 145; source lines 3000–3007", "lineStart": 3000, "lineEnd": 3007, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of the Baghavad, foretells for you a season of seclusion;\nalso rest to the exhausted faculties. A pleasant journey\nfor your advancement will be planned by your friends.\nLittle financial advancement is promised in this dream." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "bail", "title": "Bail", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “If the dreamer is seeking bail, unforeseen troubles will arise.”", "aliases": [ "bail" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about bail stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0146", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Bail", "text": "If the dreamer is seeking bail, unforeseen troubles will arise;\naccidents are likely to occur; unfortunate alliances may be made.\n\nIf you go bail for another, about the same conditions,\nthough hardly as bad.", "locator": "Heading 146; source lines 3007–3015", "lineStart": 3007, "lineEnd": 3015, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If the dreamer is seeking bail, unforeseen troubles will arise;\naccidents are likely to occur; unfortunate alliances may be made.\n\nIf you go bail for another, about the same conditions,\nthough hardly as bad." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0147", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Bailiff", "text": "Shows a striving for a higher place, and a deficiency in intellect.\nIf the bailiff comes to arrest, or make love, false friends are trying\nto work for your money.", "locator": "Heading 147; source lines 3015–3021", "lineStart": 3015, "lineEnd": 3021, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Shows a striving for a higher place, and a deficiency in intellect.\nIf the bailiff comes to arrest, or make love, false friends are trying\nto work for your money." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "bake-house", "title": "Bake-house", "type": "dreams", "category": "Other symbols", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a bake-house, demands caution in making changes in one's career.”", "aliases": [ "bake-house" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about bake-house stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0148", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Bake-house", "text": "To dream of a bake-house, demands caution in making changes in one's career.\nPitfalls may reveal themselves on every hand.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she is in a bake house,\nportends that her character wil{l} be assailed.\nShe should exercise great care in her social affairs.", "locator": "Heading 148; source lines 3021–3030", "lineStart": 3021, "lineEnd": 3030, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a bake-house, demands caution in making changes in one's career.\nPitfalls may reveal themselves on every hand.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she is in a bake house,\nportends that her character wil[l] be assailed.\nShe should exercise great care in her social affairs." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "baker", "title": "Baker", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Cielo wrote: “To see or speak to a baker means plenty.”", "aliases": [ "baker" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about baker stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "cielo-0033", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Baker", "text": "To see or speak to a baker means plenty.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 33; source lines 3932–3934", "lineStart": 3932, "lineEnd": 3934, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see or speak to a baker means plenty." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "bakery", "title": "Bakery", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "Anticipation, practical care, and the work that makes something ready to share.", "summary": "A bakery can explore provision, choosing enough, waiting for something to be ready, or the difference between an inviting display and work behind it.", "aliases": [ "bakery", "bakeries" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "A bakery can bring making, choosing and receiving into the same place. You may arrive for an everyday loaf, search for something for a celebration or discover that you are doing the work behind the counter. The setting can picture practical care: effort becomes something another person can use or enjoy. A familiar shop, an appealing smell or recent cooking may also provide the scene directly.\n\nA display makes possibilities visible before you choose. Wanting several things while needing only one can resemble deciding what will actually serve the occasion. An impressive cake may not suit an ordinary meal, while something plain may be exactly what you came for. The comparison concerns fit between an offering and a need, rather than a rule that pleasure is indulgent or simplicity is always better.\n\nWaiting for bread to finish can give preparation a visible pace. You may know what you want but be unable to make it ready by arriving sooner or asking more often. This could fit work that has stages you cannot usefully rush. If the wait leaves you missing another commitment, the dream instead brings two schedules into conflict. Patience need not be the only possible reading.\n\nWorking in the bakery changes attention from the finished display to repeated tasks. Orders, ingredients, cleaning and serving can make the coordination behind a shared pleasure noticeable. A family gathering or group project may have a similar structure: everyone enjoys the result while some contributions are easy to overlook. Receiving help, changing an order or having a break can alter how that effort feels.\n\nAn empty shelf can mean something different at the beginning and end of the day. It might leave a need unmet, show that others have already been served or create room to start again. The ending matters more than treating fullness as good fortune and emptiness as deprivation. These are original comparisons about provision, timing and shared work; the dream does not forecast money, food availability or the success of a real business.", "traditional": "No historical account is attached to this original entry. The cited learning experiment supplies memory-research context, not a tested meaning for this image or evidence that a dream predicts an event.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "An offering that suits the occasion", "reflection": "The most appealing item may differ from the one that meets a particular need. Choice can concern usefulness and pleasure together." }, { "title": "Preparation has its own pace", "reflection": "Some things become available only after a process finishes. Waiting may feel reassuring, frustrating or inconvenient beside another schedule." }, { "title": "Work behind something shared", "reflection": "Making and serving can reveal contributions that the finished display conceals. Shared effort and an available pause can change the encounter." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You choose a plain loaf among elaborate cakes", "reflection": "A modest item meets the purpose that brought you there. This can picture recognizing what is sufficient for a particular occasion. Enjoying other possibilities does not require choosing them or making your practical preference a judgment of someone else’s taste." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "The bread will be ready just after you need to leave", "reflection": "Two useful schedules do not quite meet. The scene may explore whether to change a plan, choose an alternative or ask someone else to collect it. The difficulty is a particular timing mismatch, rather than a verdict about your patience." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You work behind the counter while friends enjoy the display", "reflection": "Your part in a shared pleasure differs from theirs. This could bring satisfaction in making something available, or a wish to join the gathering yourself. What happens when you ask for help can matter more than assuming you resent the work." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "The shelves are empty but a new batch is beginning", "reflection": "What is unavailable now is not the whole story of the place. The scene can put a present limit beside ongoing preparation. Notice whether you want to wait, return or find another option; none is required to prove confidence in the outcome." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Someone gives you a loaf to take to another household", "reflection": "An ordinary object becomes part of an exchange between people. The scene may concern carrying practical care onward rather than receiving everything for yourself. The destination and whether you chose the errand give that contribution its particular feeling." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You close the bakery after the last customer leaves", "reflection": "The work reaches an ending that differs from another order being completed. Quiet, leftovers or help with cleaning can make closure feel earned, unfinished or companionable. The scene can explore when a task is allowed to end without requiring every possible need to be met." } ], "prompts": [ "What need or occasion brought you to the bakery?", "Were you choosing, making, waiting or carrying something to another person?", "Which contribution or stage of preparation mattered most?" ], "related": [ "bread", "cakes", "oven", "cooking", "shop", "kitchen" ], "sources": [ { "id": "wamsley-2010", "title": "Dreaming of a learning task is associated with enhanced sleep-dependent memory consolidation", "author": "Erin J. Wamsley and colleagues", "url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20417102/", "scope": "Primary maze-learning experiment; task-related dream reports correlated with later performance. It does not show that a dream is an accurate memory or a solution." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s continuing English editorial delegation. The memory study is general context, not validation of these interpretations.", "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "DreamFolia AI-assisted editorial review", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "aisle", "ambulance", "bakery", "binoculars", "backstage", "birdbath", "birdhouse", "beehive", "billboard", "bookmark", "turnstile", "antlers", "armchair", "bathrobe" ] }, "decisionReason": "The developed reading distinguishes provision, an offering suited to an occasion, preparation time, shared work and an ending. 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Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0149", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Baking", "text": "Baking is unpropitious for a woman. Ill health and the care of many children;\nmeanness and poverty of supporters are indicated.", "locator": "Heading 149; source lines 3030–3035", "lineStart": 3030, "lineEnd": 3035, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Baking is unpropitious for a woman. Ill health and the care of many children;\nmeanness and poverty of supporters are indicated." }, { "id": "fontaine-0042", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Baking", "text": "(_See Oven._) For a woman to dream she is baking bread,\nforetells thrift. If she is a farmer’s wife, it is a sign of good\ncrops. If she burns her bread it is a sign that she will have a\nmiscarriage. 18, 54.", "locator": "Heading 42; source line 1150", "lineStart": 1150, "lineEnd": 1155, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Oven.) For a woman to dream she is baking bread,\nforetells thrift. If she is a farmer’s wife, it is a sign of good\ncrops. If she burns her bread it is a sign that she will have a\nmiscarriage." }, { "id": "cielo-0034", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Baking", "text": "If you dream of baking pies or cakes, a\n visitor; if bread, a loss.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 34; source lines 3934–3937", "lineStart": 3934, "lineEnd": 3937, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream of baking pies or cakes, a\nvisitor; if bread, a loss." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "oven" ] }, { "slug": "balcony", "title": "Balcony", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “For lovers to dream of making sad adieus on a balcony, long and perhaps final separation may follow.”", "aliases": [ "balcony" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about balcony stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0150", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Balcony", "text": "For lovers to dream of making sad adieus on a balcony, long and perhaps\nfinal separation may follow. Balcony also denotes unpleasant news\nof absent friends.", "locator": "Heading 150; source lines 3035–3041", "lineStart": 3035, "lineEnd": 3041, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For lovers to dream of making sad adieus on a balcony, long and perhaps\nfinal separation may follow. Balcony also denotes unpleasant news\nof absent friends." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "bald", "title": "Bald", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "summary": "A bare scalp in a dream may explore recognition without a familiar feature, a chosen change or a routine that no longer fits. Your response matters.", "tagline": "A familiar feature can be absent while recognition continues.", "aliases": [ "bald" ], "status": "REVIEW", "psychological": "A bare scalp may make the absence of a familiar feature unusually noticeable. You may recognize yourself clearly, need time to adjust to the appearance or find that others continue the encounter without treating it as central. These scenes can explore what recognition depends on. A changed outward detail may matter personally without requiring every role, relationship or contribution in the dream to change with it.\n\n Choice creates one important distinction. An appearance you selected can feel practical or welcome, while a sudden change you did not choose may make control and preparation more influential. A waking comparison might be a visible revision to a routine or role that takes time to feel like yours. The response depends on the history of that particular feature, rather than treating an absent feature as a universal sign of reduced value or capacity.\n\n An old grooming routine can become unnecessary. Reaching for a comb or arranging hair that is no longer present may make an earlier method seem out of step with current conditions. This can resemble continuing a procedure after its task has changed. Adapting the routine may create relief, while uncertainty about what replaces it can make the transition less straightforward. The scene can give both responses room without requiring one to be correct.\n\n Being seen can introduce another concern. You may choose a hat, want privacy or feel comfortable with the changed appearance in public. Another person's comment can amplify the detail, while an ordinary conversation can let it become one part of a larger encounter. A waking comparison could be deciding how much explanation a visible change needs, or wanting participation to continue without every interaction returning to that feature.\n\n A familiar person with a bare head may remain recognizable through voice, action or shared context. The dream can make continuity available through several cues instead of one expected appearance. A dreamed scalp change does not establish actual hair loss or a medical condition. This reading centers head appearance; the older source's separate bald-hill image remains a different landscape scene within its historical account.", "traditional": "Miller’s Bald account assigns different business, courtship and household forecasts to bald-headed adults and babies. It also contains a separate clause about a bald hill or mountain. These period judgments are retained without using head appearance to infer character, relationships or health, or treating the landscape clause as bodily evidence.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Recognition through more than one feature", "reflection": "A familiar appearance can change while voice, action or context still gives the encounter continuity. The scene may explore which cues matter to you and which others use without requiring the missing feature to define the whole person." }, { "title": "A selected or unexpected change", "reflection": "Choosing the bare appearance differs from discovering it without preparation. The degree of choice can shape the experience more directly than the detail’s supposed universal meaning." }, { "title": "An earlier routine needing revision", "reflection": "A grooming method may no longer serve its original task. The scene can explore what can be put aside and what new arrangement, if any, is needed for comfortable participation." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You recognize yourself despite the newly bare scalp", "reflection": "The appearance is different, yet your sense of being the participant remains clear. This may explore continuity through a visible change. The scene can make adjustment possible without requiring the unfamiliar feature to become evidence that your abilities or personal value have changed." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Everyone continues the conversation without commenting", "reflection": "A detail important to you does not become the center of the shared encounter. Relief or disappointment can give this different meanings. The dream may explore whether recognition comes through participation rather than requiring others to notice or explain every change of appearance." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You reach for a comb that no longer has a task", "reflection": "An old routine continues after its conditions have altered. Setting it aside or finding another preparation can make the transition practical. The scene may resemble updating a familiar method instead of maintaining it only because it once had a clear purpose." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You choose a hat for a particular public occasion", "reflection": "The option gives you some say over how the changed appearance is presented. Comfort, privacy or enjoyment can supply different reasons for the choice. The scene need not make covering the head a sign of shame or leaving it uncovered a requirement for acceptance." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A familiar person’s bare head does not prevent recognition", "reflection": "Their voice or action provides continuity while an expected visual cue is absent. This may picture recognizing a connection through more than one feature. The dreamed appearance does not establish anything about that person’s real health, future or identity." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You choose the bare appearance but others want it changed", "reflection": "A personal decision becomes the subject of outside expectations. Explaining its practical use, allowing discussion or keeping the preference may give the scene different terms. The encounter can explore room for choice without making agreement about appearance necessary for participation." } ], "prompts": [ "What remained recognizable when the familiar feature was absent?", "How did your degree of choice affect the changed appearance?", "Which routine or expectation needed adjusting, and which could continue?" ], "related": [ "hair", "hair-falling-out", "hat", "face", "mirror" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0151" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context only. miller-0151: Bald-headed people and babies receive gendered business, spouse and household forecasts; a separate bald hill/mountain clause forecasts famine/suffering. This page’s original reading centers head/scalp appearance, while the distinct landscape clause remains in the raw account without being treated as bodily or medical evidence. This citation does not validate the original psychological reflections or predict a waking outcome." } ], "updated": "2026-10-13", "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection independently reviewed for content and source scope. Historical accounts remain attributed period writing. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0151", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Bald", "text": "To see a bald-headed man, denotes that sharpers are to make\na deal adverse to your interests, but by keeping wide awake,\nyou will outwit them.\n\nFor a man to dream of a bald-headed woman, insures him to have\na vixen for wife.\n\nA bald hill, or mountain, indicates famine and suffering in various forms.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of a bald-headed man, is a warning to her to use\nher intelligence against listening to her next marriage offer.\n\nBald-headed babies signify a happy home, a loving companion,\nand obedient children.", "locator": "Heading 151; source lines 3041–3058", "lineStart": 3041, "lineEnd": 3058, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a bald-headed man, denotes that sharpers are to make\na deal adverse to your interests, but by keeping wide awake,\nyou will outwit them.\n\nFor a man to dream of a bald-headed woman, insures him to have\na vixen for wife.\n\nA bald hill, or mountain, indicates famine and suffering in various forms.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of a bald-headed man, is a warning to her to use\nher intelligence against listening to her next marriage offer.\n\nBald-headed babies signify a happy home, a loving companion,\nand obedient children." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "ball", "title": "Ball", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "aliases": [ "ball" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "summary": "Ball dreams can concern joining a dance gathering or responding to a physical object in play, with meaning shaped by the particular form of participation.", "tagline": "An occasion and an object can each invite a different way to take part.", "psychological": "A ball dream can concern entering a shared occasion or responding to an object in play. At a dance gathering, invitation, music and company may shape how you participate. With a physical ball, its movement, handling and the way a game begins can matter instead. These are distinct uses of the same word; neither carries a universal meaning about popularity, competition or good fortune.\n\nAt a formal ball, being welcomed despite wearing something different can make recognition more important than matching an expected appearance. This may resemble joining an occasion on terms that acknowledge your presence without requiring every detail to conform. The dreamed welcome does not reveal what an actual group thinks, but it can give an imagined experience of belonging particular conditions.\n\nDancing with someone when the music changes can make company need a new pace. You might adjust together, pause or continue differently while still enjoying the occasion. A shared task that changes rhythm can offer a comparison. Watching from a quieter part of the room instead makes participation available through listening, conversation or the pleasure of the setting. Joining need not always mean performing at its centre.\n\nA physical ball can make an expected response unusually noticeable. It may remain still on a tilted floor or return differently from the way you released it. This can resemble trying a familiar method under changed conditions, where another response is needed before movement can continue. An ordinary remembered toy or game can also account for the image without a wider message.\n\nCatching a ball before you have agreed to play introduces an invitation through action. Your next choice may be to join, ask about the game or return it while remaining outside. Using the ball as a comfortable support after play changes its purpose again: the object remains useful when the activity ends. These scenes concern responsiveness, chosen participation and the use of the setting or object. The dance gathering and physical game can each hold enjoyment, hesitation or curiosity, but their specific actions give those feelings different forms. The particular kind of welcome or response can matter more than whether the gathering or game is completed.", "traditional": "The four Ball accounts retain two senses. Miller discusses a dancing gathering and gives favorable or family-death forecasts. Fontaine combines a Dancing cross-reference and ballroom marriage/death claims with money forecasts for playing or rolling a physical ball. Cielo contrasts dancing with playing, while the Book of Luck discusses a game and rolling ball only. These are whole attributed period accounts, not a single prediction shared by both senses.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Welcome and a chosen place in the gathering", "reflection": "A dance occasion can offer company through joining, adjusting or observing." }, { "title": "A response that makes play possible", "reflection": "A physical ball can change the terms of movement or the way an invitation is received." }, { "title": "Participation with room to change form", "reflection": "The gathering or object can remain enjoyable when your role or the activity changes." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You are welcomed at the ball while dressed differently from the other guests", "reflection": "Recognition arrives without every detail matching the occasion’s appearance. This may picture joining on terms that make room for your particular presence. The imagined welcome can be satisfying in itself, allowing the gathering to matter through acknowledgment rather than an automatic need to conform." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "The music changes while you and a partner are dancing", "reflection": "Company remains while the shared movement needs another pace. This can picture an activity changing its rhythm without requiring the connection to end. Adjusting, pausing or enjoying a different step gives the encounter practical possibilities, making responsiveness more central than performing one routine perfectly." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You enjoy the dance gathering from a quieter balcony", "reflection": "The occasion offers music and company without requiring you to be at its centre. This may picture participation through listening, conversation or simply enjoying the setting. The chosen position can suit what you want from the gathering, giving observation a positive place alongside active dancing." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A physical ball stays still on a tilted floor", "reflection": "The expected movement does not follow from the arrangement you prepared. This can picture a familiar method needing its conditions reconsidered before it works. The imagined object makes the missing response concrete, leaving room for curiosity or another attempt rather than turning the pause into failure." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You catch a ball before you have agreed to join the game", "reflection": "An invitation arrives as something temporarily in your hands. This may picture wanting a say in how a shared activity begins. Returning it, asking about the game or choosing to play gives participation its own terms, rather than making the first action settle your whole role." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The ball becomes a comfortable support while everyone rests after play", "reflection": "The object finds another use when the game is over. This can picture pleasure continuing in a different form, with rest and conversation becoming part of the occasion. Something does not have to keep performing its original task to remain useful or welcome in the shared setting." } ], "prompts": [ "Which sense mattered: a dance gathering, a physical ball, or both?", "How did invitation, movement or your chosen position affect participation?", "What changed when the pace, response or use became different?" ], "related": [ "dancing", "basketball", "soccer", "playground" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0152" ], "scope": "miller-0152: Ball concerns a dancing social gathering: splendid dress/music receives a favorable omen, while felt inattention receives a family-death forecast. It contains no physical-ball game account. Specific complete passages: Ball — miller-0152 (Heading 152; source lines 3058–3065). Attributed period comparison only; these claims do not validate the original reflection or establish actual outcomes, character, health or relationships." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0043" ], "scope": "fontaine-0043: The whole Ball account combines a Dancing cross-reference and gendered marriage/death forecasts for dancing with or seeking a woman, with money-receipt/delay forecasts for playing, watching play or a rolling physical ball. Both senses stay within the same unchanged record. Specific complete passages: Ball — fontaine-0043 (Heading 43; source line 1155). Attributed period comparison only; these claims do not validate the original reflection or establish actual outcomes, character, health or relationships." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0035" ], "scope": "cielo-0035: The whole Ball account contrasts dancing at a social ball with playing physical ball through pleasure/harmony versus money-loss forecasts. Neither sense is silently separated or moved. Specific complete passages: Ball — cielo-0035 (Dream section, heading 35; source lines 3937–3940). Attributed period comparison only; these claims do not validate the original reflection or establish actual outcomes, character, health or relationships." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0010" ], "scope": "luck-0010: The Ball account gives money-arrival or briefly-held-gift forecasts for a game versus a rolling physical ball; it does not discuss ballroom attendance. Specific complete passages: Ball — luck-0010 (Dream section, heading 10; source lines 3535–3538). Attributed period comparison only; these claims do not validate the original reflection or establish actual outcomes, character, health or relationships." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0152", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Ball", "text": "A very satisfactory omen, if beautiful and gaily-dressed\npeople are dancing to the strains of entrancing music.\nIf you feel gloomy and distressed at the inattention of others,\na death in the family may be expected soon.", "locator": "Heading 152; source lines 3058–3065", "lineStart": 3058, "lineEnd": 3065, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "A very satisfactory omen, if beautiful and gaily-dressed\npeople are dancing to the strains of entrancing music.\nIf you feel gloomy and distressed at the inattention of others,\na death in the family may be expected soon." }, { "id": "fontaine-0043", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Ball", "text": "(_See Dancing._) If you dream you are at a ball, and are dancing\nwith a lady, it is a sign you will marry her; if you dream that she is\ngone, and you are looking round to find her and cannot, it foretells\nthat she will not live long after marriage. Dreaming of playing ball,\nor seeing it played, foretells the speedy receipt of money; to see the\nball roll about, signifies delay in its reception. 54, 11, 55.", "locator": "Heading 43; source line 1155", "lineStart": 1155, "lineEnd": 1162, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Dancing.) If you dream you are at a ball, and are dancing\nwith a lady, it is a sign you will marry her; if you dream that she is\ngone, and you are looking round to find her and cannot, it foretells\nthat she will not live long after marriage. Dreaming of playing ball,\nor seeing it played, foretells the speedy receipt of money; to see the\nball roll about, signifies delay in its reception." }, { "id": "cielo-0035", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Ball", "text": "Dancing at a ball means harmony and pleasure.\n Playing ball signifies loss of money.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 35; source lines 3937–3940", "lineStart": 3937, "lineEnd": 3940, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Dancing at a ball means harmony and pleasure.\nPlaying ball signifies loss of money." }, { "id": "luck-0010", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Ball", "text": "(Game) Money coming soon. (Rolling ball) an unexpected gift of\nmoney which will be soon spent.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 10; source lines 3535–3538", "lineStart": 3535, "lineEnd": 3538, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(Game) Money coming soon. (Rolling ball) an unexpected gift of\nmoney which will be soon spent." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [ "dancing" ] }, { "slug": "ballet", "title": "Ballet", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Indicates infidelity in the marriage state; also failures in business, and quarrels and jealousies among sweethearts.”", "aliases": [ "ballet" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about ballet stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0153", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Ballet", "text": "Indicates infidelity in the marriage state; also failures in business,\nand quarrels and jealousies among sweethearts.", "locator": "Heading 153; source lines 3065–3070", "lineStart": 3065, "lineEnd": 3070, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Indicates infidelity in the marriage state; also failures in business,\nand quarrels and jealousies among sweethearts." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "balloon", "title": "Balloon", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Blighted hopes and adversity come with this dream.” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "balloon" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about balloon stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0154", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Balloon", "text": "Blighted hopes and adversity come with this dream.\nBusiness of every character will sustain an apparent falling off.\n\nTo ascend in a balloon, denotes an unfortunate journey.", "locator": "Heading 154; source lines 3070–3077", "lineStart": 3070, "lineEnd": 3077, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Blighted hopes and adversity come with this dream.\nBusiness of every character will sustain an apparent falling off.\n\nTo ascend in a balloon, denotes an unfortunate journey." }, { "id": "fontaine-0044", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Balloon", "text": "Signifies you will undertake many visionary things in\nbusiness, and success will not attend you. 46.", "locator": "Heading 44; source line 1162", "lineStart": 1162, "lineEnd": 1165, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Signifies you will undertake many visionary things in\nbusiness, and success will not attend you." }, { "id": "cielo-0036", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Balloon", "text": "To go up in a balloon means unexpected\n fortune. To see one means a message from home.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 36; source lines 3940–3943", "lineStart": 3940, "lineEnd": 3943, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To go up in a balloon means unexpected\nfortune. To see one means a message from home." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9088", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Balloon", "heading": "Balloon", "text": "Unsuccessful schemes (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 9088, "lineEnd": 9089, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 199; NLM OCR lines 9088–9089", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9088, "lineEnd": 9089, "printedPage": 199, "printedPageEnd": 199 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Balloon. — Unsuccessful schemes (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Balloon" }, "displayText": "Unsuccessful schemes (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "ballroom", "title": "Ballroom", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Book of Luck wrote: “(Dancing with a dear friend) Marriage to him or her.”", "aliases": [ "ballroom" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about ballroom stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "luck-0011", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Ballroom", "text": "(Dancing with a dear friend) Marriage to him or her.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 11; source lines 3538–3540", "lineStart": 3538, "lineEnd": 3540, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(Dancing with a dear friend) Marriage to him or her." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "balm", "title": "Balm", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “A dream denoting sickness but sure recovery (Artemidorus). 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L9090", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Balm", "heading": "Balm", "text": "A dream denoting sickness but sure recovery (Artemidorus). Obviously a dream incited by discomfort in some part of the body.", "lineStart": 9090, "lineEnd": 9093, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 199; NLM OCR lines 9090–9093", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9090, "lineEnd": 9093, "printedPage": 199, "printedPageEnd": 199 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Balm. — A dream denoting sickness but sure recovery (Ar- \ntemidorus). Obviously a dream incited by discomfort in some \npart of the body. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "Ar- \ntemidorus", "after": "Artemidorus", "evidenceLine": 485 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Balm" }, "displayText": "A dream denoting sickness but sure recovery (Artemidorus). Obviously a dream incited by discomfort in some part of the body." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "bamboo", "title": "Bamboo", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “A dream of dissension in the family circle (Gypsy). Probably originating in the use of rattan or bamboo for purposes of chastisement.”", "aliases": [ "bamboo" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about bamboo stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L9094", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Bamboo", "heading": "Bamboo", "text": "A dream of dissension in the family circle (Gypsy). Probably originating in the use of rattan or bamboo for purposes of chastisement.", "lineStart": 9094, "lineEnd": 9097, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 199; NLM OCR lines 9094–9097", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9094, "lineEnd": 9097, "printedPage": 199, "printedPageEnd": 199 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Bamboo. — A dream of dissension in the family circle \n(Gypsy). Probably originating in the use of rattan or bamboo \nfor purposes of chastisement. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Bamboo" }, "displayText": "A dream of dissension in the family circle (Gypsy). Probably originating in the use of rattan or bamboo for purposes of chastisement." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "banana", "title": "Banana", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of bananas, foretells that you will be mated to an uninteresting and an unloved companion.” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "banana", "bananas" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about banana stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0159", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Banana", "text": "To dream of bananas, foretells that you will be mated to an uninteresting\nand an unloved companion.\n\nTo eat them, foretells a tiresome venture in business,\nand self-inflicted duty.\n\nTo see them decaying, you are soon to fall into some disagreeable enterprise.\n\nTo trade in them, non-productive interests will accumulate around you.", "locator": "Heading 159; source lines 3108–3120", "lineStart": 3108, "lineEnd": 3120, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of bananas, foretells that you will be mated to an uninteresting\nand an unloved companion.\n\nTo eat them, foretells a tiresome venture in business,\nand self-inflicted duty.\n\nTo see them decaying, you are soon to fall into some disagreeable enterprise.\n\nTo trade in them, non-productive interests will accumulate around you." }, { "id": "fontaine-0045", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Banana", "text": "To dream of this delicious fruit is a good omen; if you dream\nyou are eating a banana, it is a sign you will be rich and happy. To\ndream you see bananas growing denotes success in love matters. If a\ngirl dreams that her lover presents her with a ripe banana it foretells\nshe will soon be married, or ought to be. 4, 11, 44.", "locator": "Heading 45; source line 1165", "lineStart": 1165, "lineEnd": 1171, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of this delicious fruit is a good omen; if you dream\nyou are eating a banana, it is a sign you will be rich and happy. To\ndream you see bananas growing denotes success in love matters. If a\ngirl dreams that her lover presents her with a ripe banana it foretells\nshe will soon be married, or ought to be." }, { "id": "luck-0012", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Bananas", "text": "A piece of good luck coming.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 12; source lines 3540–3542", "lineStart": 3540, "lineEnd": 3542, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "A piece of good luck coming." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9098", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Bananas", "heading": "Bananas", "text": "To dream of eating them denotes misfortune (Gypsy). There is a Melanesian legend that the banana was the cause of human mortality.", "lineStart": 9098, "lineEnd": 9101, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 199; NLM OCR lines 9098–9101", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9098, "lineEnd": 9101, "printedPage": 199, "printedPageEnd": 199 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Bananas. — To dream of eating them denotes misfortune \n(Gypsy). There is a Melanesian legend that the banana was \nthe cause of human mortality. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Bananas" }, "displayText": "To dream of eating them denotes misfortune (Gypsy). There is a Melanesian legend that the banana was the cause of human mortality." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "band", "title": "Band", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Book of Luck wrote: “(Musical) A lucky speculation or business deal.”", "aliases": [ "band" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about band stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "luck-0013", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Band", "text": "(Musical) A lucky speculation or business deal.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 13; source lines 3542–3544", "lineStart": 3542, "lineEnd": 3544, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(Musical) A lucky speculation or business deal." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "bandages", "title": "Bandages", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "A covering can offer care while changing what other people can see.", "summary": "Bandage dreams can explore care, protection and concealment. The covering’s purpose and whether it feels chosen give the scene its focus.", "aliases": [ "bandage", "bandages", "adhesive bandage", "bandaged" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A bandage in a dream places a layer between an affected part and the surrounding world. That covering can picture wanting room for something vulnerable without having to expose it to every demand. An unfinished project, a difficult conversation or a period of reduced capacity may offer waking parallels. The focus is not necessarily the injury underneath; it may be the temporary arrangement that lets you continue, rest or decide how much to show.\n\nReceiving a covering from another person can give support a concrete form. Someone notices a need and offers something practical rather than asking you to explain it repeatedly. This may fit help that makes a demanding period more manageable. Care without consultation can feel different: the other person may decide what should be covered before understanding what you want. The same gesture can feel reassuring or intrusive according to how much choice remains yours.\n\nA visible bandage can communicate that something needs consideration while keeping its details private. This can resemble telling a colleague that your availability has changed without sharing every reason. You may welcome being recognized, or dislike having the covering become the first thing other people notice. Concealment is not automatically avoidance; privacy may be a deliberate and useful boundary within the dream.\n\nA covering that will not stay in place can picture a temporary support that does not match the task. Repeatedly patching a project without resolving its changing requirements may feel similar. An overly restrictive wrap can instead resemble assistance that limits the activity it was meant to support. A comfortable covering that allows movement can picture help fitted to what you need rather than help organized around someone else's idea of care.\n\nRemoving an unnecessary bandage can give the scene a different ending. You may no longer want an earlier difficulty to determine how you are approached, even while its memory remains. Taking it off by choice differs from having it removed before you are ready. Recent care routines, stories or familiar objects may also account for the image. A dream bandage cannot identify a medical condition, tell you how to treat an injury or predict recovery; these possibilities concern the imagined covering and the relationship around it.", "traditional": "No exact Bandages heading is supplied in the historical archive. This entry develops original possible readings of covering, visible support and chosen care. It does not infer a health outcome or transfer forecasts from historical injury or plaster passages.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Protected room", "reflection": "A covering can picture a temporary boundary that lets something vulnerable receive less pressure. Its purpose may be room to participate differently rather than a wish to hide everything." }, { "title": "Care with a choice", "reflection": "Help can feel reassuring when it responds to your needs and leaves you a say. The same covering can feel intrusive when somebody else decides what must be protected." }, { "title": "Being seen without explaining everything", "reflection": "A visible bandage can acknowledge a need while keeping its details private. Recognition and disclosure need not require the same amount of access." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Someone offers a bandage without asking what happened", "reflection": "An offered covering without a question can picture practical help that feels timely or care based on assumptions. The difference lies in whether your own wishes have room. A workplace accommodation or shared task may offer a parallel." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "The covering protects you and lets you move freely", "reflection": "A supportive covering that leaves movement possible can picture assistance fitted to the task. You may be able to participate without pretending nothing has changed. The usefulness lies in its fit, rather than the amount of help alone." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A bandage hides a part you wish someone could see", "reflection": "A bandage hiding what you want acknowledged can picture privacy becoming obscurity. Someone may see that you need consideration without understanding what matters. The scene can distinguish wanting support from wanting the whole experience hidden." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You keep replacing a covering that will not stay", "reflection": "Repeated replacement can picture a temporary arrangement that fails whenever conditions change. Patchwork fixes to a demanding project may feel similar. The covering’s instability matters more than assuming you are unable to recover." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You help someone wrap something they cannot reach", "reflection": "Helping someone wrap an unreachable part can picture a useful contribution they cannot make alone. Cooperation differs from taking over their choices. Their response and your ability to stop help define the shared care." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You remove an unnecessary bandage when you are ready", "reflection": "Removing a covering by choice can picture no longer needing an earlier difficulty to organize your participation. Feeling ready matters more than another person declaring it unnecessary. The imagined action is not an instruction about real wound care." } ], "prompts": [ "What did the covering protect, reveal or prevent?", "How much choice did I have in receiving or offering the care?", "What changed when the bandage stayed, failed or came off?" ], "related": [ "wound", "hospital", "surgery", "blood", "scar", "crutches" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "banishment", "title": "Banishment", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Evil pursues the unfortunate dreamer. If you are banished to foreign lands, death will be your portion at an early date.”", "aliases": [ "banishment" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about banishment stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0155", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Banishment", "text": "Evil pursues the unfortunate dreamer. If you are banished\nto foreign lands, death will be your portion at an early date.\nTo banish a child, means perjury of business allies.\nIt is a dream of fatality.", "locator": "Heading 155; source lines 3077–3084", "lineStart": 3077, "lineEnd": 3084, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Evil pursues the unfortunate dreamer. If you are banished\nto foreign lands, death will be your portion at an early date.\nTo banish a child, means perjury of business allies.\nIt is a dream of fatality." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "banjo", "title": "Banjo", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a banjo, denotes that pleasant amusements will be enjoyed.”", "aliases": [ "banjo" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about banjo stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0156", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Banjo", "text": "To dream of a banjo, denotes that pleasant amusements will be enjoyed.\nTo see a negro playing one, denotes that you will have slight worries,\nbut no serious vexation for a season.\n\nFor a young woman to see negroes with their banjos,\nforetells that she will fail in some anticipated amusement.\nShe will have misunderstandings with her lover.", "locator": "Heading 156; source lines 3084–3094", "lineStart": 3084, "lineEnd": 3094, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a banjo, denotes that pleasant amusements will be enjoyed.\nTo see a negro playing one, denotes that you will have slight worries,\nbut no serious vexation for a season.\n\nFor a young woman to see negroes with their banjos,\nforetells that she will fail in some anticipated amusement.\nShe will have misunderstandings with her lover." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "bank", "title": "Bank", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "aliases": [ "bank" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "summary": "A financial bank can explore access to an arrangement, how a record represents your activity, or what you want understood before an exchange proceeds.", "tagline": "A stated balance and an understandable account can be different needs.", "psychological": "A financial bank in a dream can make access, records and an institutional arrangement concrete. You might approach a teller, inspect an account or wait to understand how a request will proceed. The focus can be having your circumstances represented accurately rather than simply wanting more money. This reading concerns the financial institution, and the imagined process does not settle an actual account or direct a financial decision.\n\nAn account bearing an unfamiliar name while its other details seem recognizable can separate recognition from the label assigned to it. You may want an explanation before treating the record as yours. This can resemble a workplace or household arrangement whose formal description leaves out something you know about your participation. The discrepancy makes the need for an accurate account visible without establishing an actual administrative error.\n\nA teller ready to transfer money when you only want to ask a question creates a different mismatch. Action is available before the explanation you need. This may picture an occasion where the preferred next step is understanding, even if other people are ready to proceed. Being given a balance when you want a history of transactions similarly separates a result from the sequence behind it.\n\nA waiting room where each person has a different request can make shared access require distinct routes. Being in the same queue does not make everyone’s purpose identical. A group task organized around one standard form may offer a comparison if some contributions need another kind of conversation. The scene can also remain an ordinary memory of waiting for service.\n\nA bank counter appearing inside a familiar home brings a formal arrangement into a personally recognizable place. It may feel convenient or make private space work on unfamiliar terms. Another person requesting permission to view your account instead centres what can be shared and what remains your choice. These possibilities concern the relationship between a record, access and your own account of the activity. They do not measure standing or trustworthiness through a balance. The request you want heard, the setting and the response available give the institution its particular role in the dream.", "traditional": "All three supplied Bank accounts concern the financial institution: Miller describes tellers, gold, silver and banknotes; Fontaine describes having money at a large bank; Cielo describes deposits and withdrawals. Their favorable and adverse forecasts disagree and provide no river-bank reading. These are attributed period accounts, not financial evidence. The original reflection concerns access, records and an understandable request.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Recognition in a formal record", "reflection": "A name or description can need clarification before it accurately represents your participation." }, { "title": "Understanding before an action", "reflection": "A transfer, balance or standard form may not answer the particular question you brought." }, { "title": "Shared access with personal terms", "reflection": "An institution can organize several purposes while leaving room for privacy and different kinds of request." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "An account shows an unfamiliar name alongside details you recognize", "reflection": "The label and the remembered activity do not fit together. This may picture wanting a formal account to describe your participation accurately. Recognition remains possible without being complete, giving the request for clarification its own purpose before any transfer or decision needs to occur." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "The teller prepares a transfer while you want to ask a question", "reflection": "A practical next step is offered before the explanation you came for. This can picture understanding needing room alongside action. The scene makes the order of the encounter important: proceeding may become useful after a question is heard, rather than simply because the process is available." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Several people in one queue need different kinds of conversation", "reflection": "Access is shared while the requests have distinct purposes. This may picture a group arrangement that needs more than one standard response. The same waiting space can support different activities, allowing your question to have particular terms without making another person’s request less important." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A bank counter appears inside a familiar room at home", "reflection": "A formal process enters a place with personal routines and associations. This can picture convenience, familiarity or a need to arrange the room differently. The changed use makes public and private functions meet in a concrete setting, rather than requiring the home to become a symbol of finances." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You are given a balance when you wanted a history of the account", "reflection": "The result is available while the sequence remains unexplained. This may picture wanting to understand how an arrangement developed rather than only where it stands now. The number and the account serve different purposes, letting a useful question remain even when an answer has already been offered." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "Someone asks permission to look at your account with you", "reflection": "Information can be shared through a chosen arrangement instead of becoming automatically public. This may picture wanting useful company while retaining a say in what is shown. Agreeing on the purpose can make participation workable, giving privacy and conversation room within the same encounter." } ], "prompts": [ "What request brought you to the bank within the dream?", "How did the record or process represent what you understood about the activity?", "What terms made explanation, shared access or privacy useful?" ], "related": [ "money", "cash", "purse" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0157" ], "scope": "miller-0157: The Bank account concerns tellers, distributing/receiving gold and accumulated silver/banknotes, assigning business, gain, honor and fortune forecasts. It does not concern a river bank. Specific complete passages: Bank — miller-0157 (Heading 157; source lines 3094–3103). Attributed period comparison only; these claims do not validate the original reflection or establish actual outcomes, character, health or relationships." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0046" ], "scope": "fontaine-0046: Going to a large financial bank and having money there receives a later-poverty forecast; no river-bank sense appears. Specific complete passages: Bank — fontaine-0046 (Heading 46; source line 1171). Attributed period comparison only; these claims do not validate the original reflection or establish actual outcomes, character, health or relationships." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0037" ], "scope": "cielo-0037: Depositing or withdrawing from a financial bank receives loss versus household-trouble forecasts; no river-bank sense appears. Specific complete passages: Bank — cielo-0037 (Dream section, heading 37; source lines 3943–3946). Attributed period comparison only; these claims do not validate the original reflection or establish actual outcomes, character, health or relationships." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0157", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Bank", "text": "To see vacant tellers, foretells business losses.\nGiving out gold money, denotes carelessness; receiving it,\ngreat gain and prosperity.\n\nTo see silver and bank-notes accumulated, increase of honor and fortune.\nYou will enjoy the highest respect of all classes.", "locator": "Heading 157; source lines 3094–3103", "lineStart": 3094, "lineEnd": 3103, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see vacant tellers, foretells business losses.\nGiving out gold money, denotes carelessness; receiving it,\ngreat gain and prosperity.\n\nTo see silver and bank-notes accumulated, increase of honor and fortune.\nYou will enjoy the highest respect of all classes." }, { "id": "fontaine-0046", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Bank", "text": "If you dream you go to a large bank, and have money there, it is\na sign that you will be poor at some future period of your life. 5, 78.", "locator": "Heading 46; source line 1171", "lineStart": 1171, "lineEnd": 1174, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream you go to a large bank, and have money there, it is\na sign that you will be poor at some future period of your life." }, { "id": "cielo-0037", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Bank", "text": "Depositing in a bank, beware of loss; drawing\n money out a bank, trouble at home.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 37; source lines 3943–3946", "lineStart": 3943, "lineEnd": 3946, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Depositing in a bank, beware of loss; drawing\nmoney out a bank, trouble at home." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "bankrupt", "title": "Bankrupt", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Denotes partial collapse in business, and weakening of the brain faculties.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "bankrupt" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about bankrupt stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0158", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Bankrupt", "text": "Denotes partial collapse in business, and weakening of the brain faculties.\nA warning to leave speculations alone.", "locator": "Heading 158; source lines 3103–3108", "lineStart": 3103, "lineEnd": 3108, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Denotes partial collapse in business, and weakening of the brain faculties.\nA warning to leave speculations alone." }, { "id": "fontaine-0048", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Bankrupt", "text": "A bad dream, your business is in a dangerous position, and\nwithout great care you will be forced to stop. 17, 60, 46.", "locator": "Heading 48; source line 1176", "lineStart": 1176, "lineEnd": 1179, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "A bad dream, your business is in a dangerous position, and\nwithout great care you will be forced to stop." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "banner", "title": "Banner", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see one's country's banner floating in a clear sky, denotes triumph over foreign foes.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "banner" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about banner stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0160", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Banner", "text": "To see one's country's banner floating in a clear sky, denotes triumph\nover foreign foes. To see it battered, is significant of wars and loss\nof military honors on land and sea.", "locator": "Heading 160; source lines 3120–3126", "lineStart": 3120, "lineEnd": 3126, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see one's country's banner floating in a clear sky, denotes triumph\nover foreign foes. To see it battered, is significant of wars and loss\nof military honors on land and sea." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9102", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Banner", "heading": "Banner", "text": "To see the banner of your native country augurs misfortune to a loved one, a fatal journey (Gypsy). Obvious meaning to military emblem.", "lineStart": 9102, "lineEnd": 9105, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 199; NLM OCR lines 9102–9105", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9102, "lineEnd": 9105, "printedPage": 199, "printedPageEnd": 199 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Banner. — To see the banner of your native country augurs \nmisfortune to a loved one, a fatal journey (Gypsy). Obvious \nmeaning to military emblem. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Banner" }, "displayText": "To see the banner of your native country augurs misfortune to a loved one, a fatal journey (Gypsy). 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Friends will wait to do you favors.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "banquet", "banquets" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about banquet stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0161", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Banquet", "text": "It is good to dream of a banquet. Friends will wait to do you favors.\nTo dream of yourself, together with many gaily-attired guests,\neating from costly plate and drinking wine of fabulous price\nand age, foretells enormous gain in enterprises of every nature,\nand happiness among friends.\n\nTo see inharmonious influences, strange and grotesque faces or empty tables,\nis ominous of grave misunderstandings or disappointments.", "locator": "Heading 161; source lines 3126–3137", "lineStart": 3126, "lineEnd": 3137, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "It is good to dream of a banquet. Friends will wait to do you favors.\nTo dream of yourself, together with many gaily-attired guests,\neating from costly plate and drinking wine of fabulous price\nand age, foretells enormous gain in enterprises of every nature,\nand happiness among friends.\n\nTo see inharmonious influences, strange and grotesque faces or empty tables,\nis ominous of grave misunderstandings or disappointments." }, { "id": "noe-0047", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Banquets", "text": "To\ndream of banquets denotes poverty and want.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 47; source lines 293–294", "lineStart": 293, "lineEnd": 294, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To\ndream of banquets denotes poverty and want." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0162", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Bantam", "text": "To see bantam chickens in your dream, denotes your fortune will\nbe small, yet you will enjoy contentment. If they appear sickly,\nor exposed to wintry storms, your interests will be impaired.", "locator": "Heading 162; source lines 3137–3143", "lineStart": 3137, "lineEnd": 3143, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see bantam chickens in your dream, denotes your fortune will\nbe small, yet you will enjoy contentment. If they appear sickly,\nor exposed to wintry storms, your interests will be impaired." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0163", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Baptism", "text": "To dream of baptism, signifies that your character needs strengthening by\nthe practice of temperance in advocating your opinions to the disparagement\nof your friends.\n\nTo dream that you are an applicant, signifies that you will humiliate\nyour inward self for public favor.\n\nTo dream that you see John the Baptist baptizing Christ in the Jordan,\ndenotes that you will have a desperate mental struggle between yielding\nyourself to labor in meagre capacity for the sustenance of others,\nor follow desires which might lead you into wealth and exclusiveness.\n\nTo see the Holy Ghost descending on Christ, is significant of resignation\nto duty and abnegation of self.\n\nIf you are being baptized with the Holy Ghost and fire,\nmeans that you will be thrown into a state of terror over being\ndiscovered in some lustful engagement.", "locator": "Heading 163; source lines 3143–3164", "lineStart": 3143, "lineEnd": 3164, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of baptism, signifies that your character needs strengthening by\nthe practice of temperance in advocating your opinions to the disparagement\nof your friends.\n\nTo dream that you are an applicant, signifies that you will humiliate\nyour inward self for public favor.\n\nTo dream that you see John the Baptist baptizing Christ in the Jordan,\ndenotes that you will have a desperate mental struggle between yielding\nyourself to labor in meagre capacity for the sustenance of others,\nor follow desires which might lead you into wealth and exclusiveness.\n\nTo see the Holy Ghost descending on Christ, is significant of resignation\nto duty and abnegation of self.\n\nIf you are being baptized with the Holy Ghost and fire,\nmeans that you will be thrown into a state of terror over being\ndiscovered in some lustful engagement." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0164", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Bar", "text": "To dream of tending a bar, denotes that you will resort to some questionable\nmode of advancement.\n\nSeeing a bar, denotes activity in communities, quick uplifting of fortunes,\nand the consummation of illicit desires.", "locator": "Heading 164; source lines 3164–3172", "lineStart": 3164, "lineEnd": 3172, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of tending a bar, denotes that you will resort to some questionable\nmode of advancement.\n\nSeeing a bar, denotes activity in communities, quick uplifting of fortunes,\nand the consummation of illicit desires." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "barber", "title": "Barber", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a barber, denotes that success will come through struggling and close attention to business.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "barber" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about barber stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0165", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Barber", "text": "To dream of a barber, denotes that success will come through struggling\nand close attention to business. For a young woman to dream of a barber,\nforetells that her fortune will increase, though meagerly.", "locator": "Heading 165; source lines 3172–3178", "lineStart": 3172, "lineEnd": 3178, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a barber, denotes that success will come through struggling\nand close attention to business. For a young woman to dream of a barber,\nforetells that her fortune will increase, though meagerly." }, { "id": "fontaine-0049", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Barber", "text": "To dream of a barber, denotes losses. 55.", "locator": "Heading 49; source line 1179", "lineStart": 1179, "lineEnd": 1181, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a barber, denotes losses." }, { "id": "cielo-0038", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Barber", "text": "Being shaved by a barber, a long journey.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 38; source lines 3946–3948", "lineStart": 3946, "lineEnd": 3948, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Being shaved by a barber, a long journey." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "barcode", "title": "Barcode", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "aliases": [ "barcode", "barcodes", "bar code", "bar codes" ], "summary": "A barcode can explore how a label identifies something, what a category leaves out and when recognition comes through more than a printed mark.", "tagline": "A readable label can still leave something important undescribed.", "psychological": "A barcode can draw attention to how something becomes recognizable through a small printed mark. The object has texture, use and perhaps a personal history, while the label offers a quick way to identify it. In a dream, that difference may resemble being described through a role, number or category that is convenient but incomplete. Recognition that works smoothly can feel satisfying; the mark need not become an image of being reduced or controlled.\n\nA barcode that is read successfully but brings up the wrong object creates a particular mismatch. The procedure works on its own terms while its description fails to fit what you are holding. This can resemble a form that accepts your answer but places it under the wrong heading, or a workplace label that survives after the work has changed. The scene concerns the relation between the description and its subject, rather than showing that a real system has misidentified you.\n\nTwo visibly different objects with the same barcode may make a distinction you value disappear. A shared qualification can place people together without conveying their different skills; two versions of a project can look identical in a brief report while serving different purposes. If interchangeable objects are useful in the dream, the common mark can instead make choosing easy. Its significance depends on whether the erased difference mattered to the task.\n\nA label peeling off a handmade object can bring recognition back to qualities that were present before the code. You might know the object through making or using it, even when its standard identification is unavailable. A person who recognizes an unlabeled item offers a related pleasure: attention can work through familiarity rather than requiring the mark. Neither scene makes labels inherently unhelpful; it shows another way of knowing something.\n\nThe pattern itself may become interesting. Seeing the bars as part of a drawing can shift attention from quick identification to visual play. Copying a code perfectly without knowing what it identifies creates the reverse tension: accuracy remains while purpose disappears. A copied task with an unclear reason can feel similar. Ordinary packaging or a recent scan may also explain the image. These original reflections follow the printed label and what it helps describe; passwords, QR codes and accusations by a checkout machine are separate subjects.", "traditional": "No verified historical barcode account is attached. These original reflections concern the printed item mark. General dream background does not validate a symbolic meaning for its bars, digits or scanning result.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "The label and the thing", "reflection": "A recognized code can provide a usable description while still missing the object’s particular qualities." }, { "title": "Differences a category preserves", "reflection": "A shared mark can simplify a task or erase a distinction that matters to you." }, { "title": "Other ways of recognizing", "reflection": "Familiarity, making and visual attention can become useful alongside standardized identification." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "The barcode scans clearly but identifies a different object", "reflection": "The mark is readable while the description does not fit what you hold. This can picture a category that is easy to apply but hard to correct. A successfully submitted form may feel similar when its accepted answer represents your situation inaccurately." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A barcode label peels away from something you made", "reflection": "The standard identifier disappears while your knowledge of the object remains. This may picture wanting the effort or qualities of a piece of work to remain visible beyond its label. Relief differs from frustration at losing the convenient way others could recognize it." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Two different objects carry an identical barcode", "reflection": "The mark makes the objects equivalent even though a difference catches your attention. This can resemble a summary that groups distinct contributions together. The scene may value a more particular description, or welcome interchangeability if either object genuinely serves the purpose you have." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "The barcode becomes a pleasing part of a drawing", "reflection": "A pattern intended for quick identification holds your attention as a visual arrangement. This can picture enjoying a detail beyond its assigned function. An ordinary task may make room for curiosity or play without requiring the pattern to contain an encoded personal message." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You copy a barcode accurately without knowing what it identifies", "reflection": "The copying is successful, yet its reason stays unclear. This may resemble completing a precise task before understanding how it contributes to a larger job. Satisfaction with accuracy can sit beside wanting an explanation that connects the detail with something you can actually recognize." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "Someone recognizes a familiar item after its barcode has disappeared", "reflection": "Recognition arrives through knowledge of the object rather than the missing label. This can picture the comfort of being understood through a shared history or direct attention. The helpful response supplements a standard procedure instead of making every identifier unnecessary or every personal recognition reliable." } ], "prompts": [ "What did the barcode identify, and how closely did that description fit the object?", "Which differences or qualities remained visible beyond the printed label?", "How did recognition change when the mark was copied, read, removed or simply looked at?" ], "related": [ "a-self-checkout-accusing-you-of-an-error", "cashier", "supermarket" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "barefoot", "title": "Barefoot", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To wander in the night barefoot with torn garments, denotes that you will be crushed in expectation, and…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "barefoot" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about barefoot stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. 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Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "cielo-0039", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Barley", "text": "To dream of barley in the field means health\n and fortune.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 39; source lines 3948–3951", "lineStart": 3948, "lineEnd": 3951, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of barley in the field means health\nand fortune." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "barn", "title": "Barn", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “If well filled with ripe and matured grain, and perfect ears of corn, with fat stock surrounding it, it is…” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "barn" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about barn stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0169", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Barn", "text": "If well filled with ripe and matured grain, and perfect ears of corn,\nwith fat stock surrounding it, it is an omen of great prosperity.\nIf empty, the reverse may be expected.", "locator": "Heading 169; source lines 3198–3204", "lineStart": 3198, "lineEnd": 3204, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If well filled with ripe and matured grain, and perfect ears of corn,\nwith fat stock surrounding it, it is an omen of great prosperity.\nIf empty, the reverse may be expected." }, { "id": "fontaine-0050", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Barn", "text": "If you dream that you are in a barn that is well stored with hay\nand grain, it predicts that you will marry rich, or else inherit land.\nIf the barn be empty, it will be the reverse of this, or else you will\nmeet with a loss. 4, 75.", "locator": "Heading 50; source line 1181", "lineStart": 1181, "lineEnd": 1186, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream that you are in a barn that is well stored with hay\nand grain, it predicts that you will marry rich, or else inherit land.\nIf the barn be empty, it will be the reverse of this, or else you will\nmeet with a loss." }, { "id": "noe-0050", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Barn", "text": "To dream of a barn, and\nthat you see it well stored with corn, denotes much good; it foretells to\na man that he will marry some rich woman; to a maid, that she will marry a\nman who will grow very rich by his industry, and be promoted in the state.\nIf you dream you see an empty barn, the reverse will happen.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 51; source lines 303–308", "lineStart": 303, "lineEnd": 308, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a barn, and\nthat you see it well stored with corn, denotes much good; it foretells to\na man that he will marry some rich woman; to a maid, that she will marry a\nman who will grow very rich by his industry, and be promoted in the state.\nIf you dream you see an empty barn, the reverse will happen." }, { "id": "cielo-0040", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Barn", "text": "If full, a happy marriage; if empty, poverty.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 40; source lines 3951–3953", "lineStart": 3951, "lineEnd": 3953, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If full, a happy marriage; if empty, poverty." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0170", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Barrel", "text": "[19] See Cask.", "locator": "Heading 170; source lines 3204–3208", "lineStart": 3204, "lineEnd": 3208, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "See Cask." }, { "id": "fontaine-0052", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Barrels", "text": "Signify wealth if they appear full; if empty, poverty. 14, 1,\n7.", "locator": "Heading 52; source line 1189", "lineStart": 1189, "lineEnd": 1192, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Signify wealth if they appear full; if empty, poverty. 14, 1,", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Barrels” is shown on the Barrel page: singular/plural" }, { "id": "luck-0015", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Barrel", "text": "(Full) Money coming quickly.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 15; source lines 3546–3548", "lineStart": 3546, "lineEnd": 3548, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(Full) Money coming quickly." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "cask" ] }, { "slug": "baseball", "title": "Baseball", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see baseball in your dream, denotes you will be easily contented, and your cheerfulness will make you a popular companion.”", "aliases": [ "baseball" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about baseball stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0172", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Baseball", "text": "To see baseball in your dream, denotes you will be easily contented,\nand your cheerfulness will make you a popular companion.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she is playing baseball,\nmeans much pleasure for her, but no real profit or comfort.", "locator": "Heading 172; source lines 3215–3223", "lineStart": 3215, "lineEnd": 3223, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see baseball in your dream, denotes you will be easily contented,\nand your cheerfulness will make you a popular companion.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she is playing baseball,\nmeans much pleasure for her, but no real profit or comfort." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "basement", "title": "Basement", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "A lower room can be useful, private or difficult to reconnect with.", "summary": "A basement dream can explore stored resources, practical support and a private part of shared space. Its use matters more than its position below.", "aliases": [ "basement", "basements" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A basement extends a building beyond its most visible rooms. It may hold storage, equipment, another living area or simply space that has not been given a clear use. In a dream, this can picture what supports an arrangement without receiving much everyday attention. A household system, background task or resource kept in reserve may provide a parallel. Being below the main rooms does not automatically make the space threatening or hidden in a psychological sense.\n\nFinding useful things beneath a pile can give neglected resources a practical presence. You may recognize a skill, material or option that was available but difficult to reach through clutter. An orderly basement may express confidence that support has been prepared even when it is not on display. A room full of things nobody can use can instead resemble an arrangement that preserves resources without making them accessible.\n\nPrivate activity below a shared home can picture keeping one part of life distinct from the rest. This may be a welcome room for work, rest or companionship, particularly if the main household is busy. It can feel uncomfortable when the separate activity has no agreed connection to the people above. The distinction is whether privacy serves a chosen need or leaves you without a workable way to participate elsewhere.\n\nStairs and doors make that connection concrete. Being unable to find the way up may resemble becoming absorbed in a background responsibility while other roles remain out of reach. A new doorway can picture changing how the less visible work connects to the wider arrangement. The room can become more welcoming through access alone; nothing has to be uncovered as a secret for the layout to matter.\n\nWater interrupting the use of the basement can make maintenance urgent. This can resemble a problem in supporting systems affecting ordinary life after being easy to overlook. It may also revisit an actual building concern without another meaning. A comfortable lower room can provide refuge rather than a warning. These reflections follow use, resources and connection; a basement is not treated as proof of hidden trauma, an unconscious message or an event that will happen to a home.", "traditional": "Miller’s Basement passage predicts declining opportunities and pleasure, then cross-references Cellar. Both original canonical routes and their historical attachments are retained. The original readings here explore what the lower space is used for, without treating the historical forecast or a universal unconscious metaphor as established meaning.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Support outside the main view", "reflection": "A basement can picture resources or work that help an arrangement function without being prominent. The question may be whether that support is usable and acknowledged." }, { "title": "Privacy with a connection", "reflection": "A separate lower room can provide chosen distance from shared activity. Its usefulness depends partly on having a way to reconnect when you want to." }, { "title": "Making stored resources reachable", "reflection": "Order, clutter and access can distinguish having something from being able to use it. A practical rearrangement may matter more than adding another resource." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "The basement becomes the most welcoming room", "reflection": "A welcoming lower room can picture support or refuge found outside the most visible part of an arrangement. A quieter role or neglected space may suit your needs. Its position below does not make its comfort less meaningful." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You cannot find the stairs back up", "reflection": "Missing stairs can picture a background task that has become hard to leave or reconnect with other roles. The room may remain useful while its access is incomplete. The difficulty concerns movement between areas of life." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You discover useful things beneath a messy pile", "reflection": "Useful things under clutter can picture a resource obscured by unresolved sorting or organization. An available skill or material may fit. Finding it can change the task from obtaining more to making existing support reachable." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Someone has made a private room below the house", "reflection": "A private room below the house can picture a chosen part of life kept distinct from shared routines. Privacy may support concentration or company. Its welcome depends on whether the separation still allows the connection you need." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Water interrupts the use of the space", "reflection": "Water disrupting the space can picture an overlooked maintenance demand becoming difficult to contain. The practical task may matter more than a hidden message. An actual building memory can also account for the scene." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You open a door that reconnects it to the household", "reflection": "Opening a connecting door can picture making less visible work or resources part of the shared arrangement. A clearer role or easier channel of communication may feel similar. Access can change the room without changing its contents." } ], "prompts": [ "What did the basement provide or hold that the main rooms did not?", "How easy was it to connect the private space with the rest of the building?", "What made an existing resource usable or unreachable?" ], "related": [ "cellar", "house", "flood", "locked-out" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0173" ], "scope": "Preserves this author’s attached period dream-book account; the entry’s context compares attributed beliefs rather than adopting forecasts. Exact supplied records: miller-0173 — Basement (Heading 173; source lines 3223–3231). Historical comparison only, not evidence for the original reflective reading or an actual outcome." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0173", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Basement", "text": "To dream that you are in a basement, foretells that you\nwill see prosperous opportunities abating, and with them,\npleasure will dwindle into trouble and care.\n\n[20] See Cellar.", "locator": "Heading 173; source lines 3223–3231", "lineStart": 3223, "lineEnd": 3231, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are in a basement, foretells that you\nwill see prosperous opportunities abating, and with them,\npleasure will dwindle into trouble and care. See Cellar." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [ "cellar" ] }, { "slug": "basin", "title": "Basin", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "6 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “For a young woman to dream of bathing in a basin, foretells her womanly graces will win her real…” Compare 6 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "basin", "of the bason" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about basin stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "guide-65367", "title": "Guide to Fortune-Telling by Dreams", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Multum in Parvo Library, Vol. I, No. 10, October 1894", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65367", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0174", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Basin", "text": "For a young woman to dream of bathing in a basin, foretells her womanly\ngraces will win her real friendships and elevations.", "locator": "Heading 174; source lines 3231–3236", "lineStart": 3231, "lineEnd": 3236, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a young woman to dream of bathing in a basin, foretells her womanly\ngraces will win her real friendships and elevations." }, { "id": "fontaine-0053", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Basin", "text": "If you dream that it is full money; if empty, you will make many\ndebts. 2, 13, 69.", "locator": "Heading 53; source line 1192", "lineStart": 1192, "lineEnd": 1195, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream that it is full money; if empty, you will make many\ndebts." }, { "id": "artemidorus-141", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of the Bason.", "text": "TO dream of a Bason, signifieth a good Maid: to drinke or eate therein, is love of the Servant: to sée himselfe in the Bason, as in a Glasse, is to have children by the Servant.", "locator": "Book 3, encoded section 141", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "3", "displayText": "To dream of a Bason, signifieth a good Maid: to drinke or eate therein, is love of the Servant: to sée himselfe in the Bason, as in a Glasse, is to have children by the Servant.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Bason” is shown on the Basin page: archaic spelling (Artemidorus)" }, { "id": "noe-0059", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Basin", "text": "To\ndream of a basin, signifies a good maid; and to dream you eat or drink\ntherein, shows you have a love to the servant maid. For a man to see\nhimself in a basin as in a glass, denotes he shall have children by a\nservant maid.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 60; source lines 340–344", "lineStart": 340, "lineEnd": 344, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To\ndream of a basin, signifies a good maid; and to dream you eat or drink\ntherein, shows you have a love to the servant maid. For a man to see\nhimself in a basin as in a glass, denotes he shall have children by a\nservant maid." }, { "id": "cielo-0042", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Basin", "text": "An empty basin foretells a loss; a full\n basin, unexpected wealth.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 42; source lines 3956–3959", "lineStart": 3956, "lineEnd": 3959, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "An empty basin foretells a loss; a full\nbasin, unexpected wealth." }, { "id": "guide-0010", "sourceId": "guide-65367", "heading": "Basin", "text": "To dream you are eating or drinking out of a basin is a certain\nsign that you will soon be in love, but without great care you will not\nmarry the first object of your affections; it denotes prosperity in\nyour trade; and to the farmer, a good crop.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 10; source lines 145–150", "lineStart": 145, "lineEnd": 150, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are eating or drinking out of a basin is a certain\nsign that you will soon be in love, but without great care you will not\nmarry the first object of your affections; it denotes prosperity in\nyour trade; and to the farmer, a good crop." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "basket", "title": "Basket", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing or carrying a basket, signifies that you will meet unqualified success, if the basket…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "basket" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about basket stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0175", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Basket", "text": "To dream of seeing or carrying a basket, signifies that you\nwill meet unqualified success, if the basket is full;\nbut empty baskets indicate discontent and sorrow.", "locator": "Heading 175; source lines 3236–3242", "lineStart": 3236, "lineEnd": 3242, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing or carrying a basket, signifies that you\nwill meet unqualified success, if the basket is full;\nbut empty baskets indicate discontent and sorrow." }, { "id": "noe-0075", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Basket", "text": "For a man to dream of\nbaskets is evil; it denotes decay of business to a merchant, want of\nemployment to a mechanic, and loss of place to a servant; but if a woman\ndreams she receives a number of baskets it is a good omen, and especially\nso if well filled; to a maiden it denotes that she will have many new\nlovers; to a wife, that she will have an increase in her family, and to\nthe widow, that she will soon marry again.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 77; source lines 385–391", "lineStart": 385, "lineEnd": 391, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a man to dream of\nbaskets is evil; it denotes decay of business to a merchant, want of\nemployment to a mechanic, and loss of place to a servant; but if a woman\ndreams she receives a number of baskets it is a good omen, and especially\nso if well filled; to a maiden it denotes that she will have many new\nlovers; to a wife, that she will have an increase in her family, and to\nthe widow, that she will soon marry again." }, { "id": "cielo-0043", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Basket", "text": "A full basket means ease and prosperity. An empty\n one means new endeavor in order to achieve success.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 43; source lines 3959–3962", "lineStart": 3959, "lineEnd": 3962, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "A full basket means ease and prosperity. An empty\none means new endeavor in order to achieve success." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "basketball", "title": "Basketball", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "kind": "modern", "aliases": [ "basketball game", "playing basketball", "basketball match" ], "detectionAliases": [ "basketball game", "playing basketball", "basketball match" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "summary": "Basketball dreams may explore possession, passing, aiming and coordinating close shared play, with meaning shaped by the actions you choose.", "tagline": "A ball in hand and choices within the play.", "psychological": "This reading concerns playing basketball: handling a ball, passing, taking a shot or finding a role within a game. Begin with the actual play rather than treating the sport as a universal symbol of ambition or teamwork. You may be practicing alone, joining familiar players or navigating an invented court. A physical ball or an audience can be another focus, but neither explains the game’s actions by itself.\n\nPossession creates a particular moment of choice. You might keep moving with the ball, offer a pass or attempt a shot while other players make themselves available. This could invite reflection on deciding what to do with something temporarily in your hands. A waking comparison might be having the next turn in a shared project and choosing whether to continue independently or involve someone else. The dream does not identify one morally superior choice.\n\nRhythm and aim can change the experience. A ball that bounces unexpectedly may make a familiar movement harder to sustain, while a basket at an unusual height can alter what a shot requires. Explore the conditions rather than using dreamed accuracy to assess your real skill. You might adjust, ask to change the setup or choose a different play. Missing a shot need not forecast failure, and making one need not promise success.\n\nShared space can make coordination concrete. A teammate may move just as you pass, someone may leave room for you or several players may want the same position. Notice how you communicate and whether the arrangement can change. Enjoyable cooperation deserves space alongside difficulty. The dreamed response cannot establish that a real group supports or excludes you.\n\nWaking experiences and emotions can enter dreams through games, practice, watched footage and conversations. A remembered movement may be enough context without a wider message. Who receives the ball can change what becomes possible in the next moment of play. The reflection can help you describe a turn, target or shared arrangement that felt useful without making the score a verdict about your worth or importing a fixed meaning for every sporting contest.", "traditional": "This original reading follows basketball gameplay, including possession, passing, aiming and shared play. A physical ball, a dance called a ball or a sports venue can be a different subject. No historical interpretation is claimed for this page. The general sleep source supports waking experiences and emotions as possible dream material, not the specific readings or a prediction of sporting or personal success.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A turn with options", "reflection": "Having the ball can make the next choice visible. Consider whether you wanted to keep, pass or shoot and how the play responded, without making one action a moral test." }, { "title": "Aim under particular conditions", "reflection": "The basket, distance and behavior of the ball can change what the attempt requires. Explore adjustment and preference rather than treating dream accuracy as evidence of real ability." }, { "title": "Space within shared play", "reflection": "A usable position depends on how others move and communicate in the scene. Describe the arrangement without inferring the real group’s intentions from a dream." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "An open teammate is available while you have the ball", "reflection": "You can continue toward a shot or pass to someone in a useful position. This might make the next turn in a shared activity concrete. Record what you choose and how play continues; keeping or sharing the ball does not by itself establish selfishness or trust." }, { "title": "The bounce no longer matches your movement", "reflection": "The ball returns at an unexpected height or timing, changing how you handle it. The scene could focus on adjusting a familiar process when its response changes. Notice whether you alter your movement, stop or choose another play; dreamed difficulty does not assess your actual coordination." }, { "title": "The basket’s height changes during practice", "reflection": "A target you have been using becomes different before your next shot. This may invite reflection on an attempt whose conditions need revisiting. Record what you adjust and whether you want to continue, without treating a missed or successful shot as a forecast about a waking goal." }, { "title": "A teammate moves after you release the pass", "reflection": "The ball is already traveling when the intended receiver changes position. This could make timing and shared information more important than effort. Notice whether you communicate, recover or change the next play; the dream cannot establish that a real teammate or colleague is unreliable." }, { "title": "The score does not reflect the play you enjoyed", "reflection": "A number is displayed, but a pass, recovery or satisfying movement feels more important to you. The scene may distinguish a measure from the experience you value. Describe what you want recognized without making the dreamed score a verdict about success, worth or belonging." }, { "title": "You practice a shot alone without needing a contest", "reflection": "There is no opposing team, and you enjoy trying a movement at your own pace. This may be remembered practice or an imagined pleasure rather than a problem to solve. Notice what makes the attempt interesting; solitary play need not imply exclusion or an obligation to improve." } ], "prompts": [ "What choices were available when you or another player had the ball?", "How did the target, rhythm or shared space change the play?", "What remembered game or current shared activity gives the scene personal context?" ], "related": [ "ball", "stadium", "locker-room", "race" ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "bass-voice", "title": "Bass Voice", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you have a bass voice, denotes you will detect some discrepancy in your business, brought about by the deceit of some one in…”", "aliases": [ "bass voice" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about bass voice stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0177", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Bass Voice", "text": "To dream that you have a bass voice, denotes you will detect some discrepancy\nin your business, brought about by the deceit of some one in your employ.\nFor the lover, this foretells estrangements and quarrels.", "locator": "Heading 177; source lines 3249–3255", "lineStart": 3249, "lineEnd": 3255, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you have a bass voice, denotes you will detect some discrepancy\nin your business, brought about by the deceit of some one in your employ.\nFor the lover, this foretells estrangements and quarrels." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "baste", "title": "Baste", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of basting meats while cooking, denotes you will undermine your own expectations by folly and selfishness.”", "aliases": [ "baste" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about baste stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0176", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Baste", "text": "To dream of basting meats while cooking, denotes you will\nundermine your own expectations by folly and selfishness.\nFor a woman to baste her sewing, omens much vacation owing\nto her extravagance.", "locator": "Heading 176; source lines 3242–3249", "lineStart": 3242, "lineEnd": 3249, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of basting meats while cooking, denotes you will\nundermine your own expectations by folly and selfishness.\nFor a woman to baste her sewing, omens much vacation owing\nto her extravagance." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "bath", "title": "Bath", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "7 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “For a young person to dream of taking a bath, means much solicitude for one of the opposite sex, fearing…” Compare 7 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "bath", "bath, or bathing", "bathing" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about bath stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "guide-65367", "title": "Guide to Fortune-Telling by Dreams", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Multum in Parvo Library, Vol. I, No. 10, October 1894", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65367", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0178", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Bath", "text": "For a young person to dream of taking a bath, means much solicitude\nfor one of the opposite sex, fearing to lose his good opinion through\nthe influence of others.\n\nFor a pregnant woman to dream this, denotes miscarriage or accident.\nFor a man, adultery. Dealings of all kinds should be carried on\nwith discretion after this dream.\n\nTo go in bathing with others, evil companions should be avoided.\nDefamation of character is likely to follow. If the water\nis muddy, evil, indeed death, and enemies are near you.\n\nFor a widow to dream of her bath, she has forgotten her former ties,\nand is hurrying on to earthly loves. Girls should shun male companions.\nMen will engage in intrigues of salacious character.\n\nA warm bath is generally significant of evil. A cold, clear bath is\nthe fore-runner of joyful tidings and a long period of excellent health.\nBathing in a clear sea, denotes expansion of business and satisfying\nresearch after knowledge.", "locator": "Heading 178; source lines 3255–3278", "lineStart": 3255, "lineEnd": 3278, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a young person to dream of taking a bath, means much solicitude\nfor one of the opposite sex, fearing to lose his good opinion through\nthe influence of others.\n\nFor a pregnant woman to dream this, denotes miscarriage or accident.\nFor a man, adultery. Dealings of all kinds should be carried on\nwith discretion after this dream.\n\nTo go in bathing with others, evil companions should be avoided.\nDefamation of character is likely to follow. If the water\nis muddy, evil, indeed death, and enemies are near you.\n\nFor a widow to dream of her bath, she has forgotten her former ties,\nand is hurrying on to earthly loves. Girls should shun male companions.\nMen will engage in intrigues of salacious character.\n\nA warm bath is generally significant of evil. A cold, clear bath is\nthe fore-runner of joyful tidings and a long period of excellent health.\nBathing in a clear sea, denotes expansion of business and satisfying\nresearch after knowledge." }, { "id": "fontaine-0054", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Bath, or Bathing", "text": "To dream you are at a bath where you see people\nbathing, is a sign you will have good luck in some undertaking. If you\nare in, bathing yourself, it predicts that you will confer a benefit\non some person who will be very grateful. This dream also foretells a\nchange of residence. 20, 31.", "locator": "Heading 54; source line 1195", "lineStart": 1195, "lineEnd": 1201, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are at a bath where you see people\nbathing, is a sign you will have good luck in some undertaking. If you\nare in, bathing yourself, it predicts that you will confer a benefit\non some person who will be very grateful. This dream also foretells a\nchange of residence.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Bath, Or Bathing” is shown on the Bath page: same topic across Miller/Luck/Noe/Cielo/Guide/Craig/Fontaine" }, { "id": "noe-0051", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Bathing", "text": "To dream of a bath is a very unpropitious omen; expect after\nit to experience many mishaps and much sorrow. If you are in love, your\nsweetheart will experience many crosses and losses; but to dream you are\nbathing yourself in clear water, denotes happiness, prosperity and success\nin love--if the water is dirty, then it foretells shame and sorrow, and a\ndisappointment in love.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 52; source lines 308–313", "lineStart": 308, "lineEnd": 313, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a bath is a very unpropitious omen; expect after\nit to experience many mishaps and much sorrow. If you are in love, your\nsweetheart will experience many crosses and losses; but to dream you are\nbathing yourself in clear water, denotes happiness, prosperity and success\nin love--if the water is dirty, then it foretells shame and sorrow, and a\ndisappointment in love.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Bathing” is shown on the Bath page: same topic across Miller/Luck/Noe/Cielo/Guide/Craig/Fontaine" }, { "id": "cielo-0044", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Bathing", "text": "Signifies happiness; in a pond, it means misfortune;\n in a running brook, it means disappointment.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 44; source lines 3962–3965", "lineStart": 3962, "lineEnd": 3965, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Signifies happiness; in a pond, it means misfortune;\nin a running brook, it means disappointment.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Bathing” is shown on the Bath page: same topic across Miller/Luck/Noe/Cielo/Guide/Craig/Fontaine" }, { "id": "luck-0016", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Bath", "text": "Health and long life: (if dreamer is a young girl) early\nmarriage to present lover.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 16; source lines 3548–3551", "lineStart": 3548, "lineEnd": 3551, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Health and long life: (if dreamer is a young girl) early\nmarriage to present lover." }, { "id": "guide-0011", "sourceId": "guide-65367", "heading": "Bathing", "text": "To dream you are bathing yourself in clear water denotes\nhappiness, prosperity, and success in love; if the water is dirty, then\nit foretells shame and sorrow, and a disappointment in love.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 11; source lines 150–154", "lineStart": 150, "lineEnd": 154, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are bathing yourself in clear water denotes\nhappiness, prosperity, and success in love; if the water is dirty, then\nit foretells shame and sorrow, and a disappointment in love.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Bathing” is shown on the Bath page: same topic across Miller/Luck/Noe/Cielo/Guide/Craig/Fontaine" }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9117", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Bathing", "heading": "Bathing", "text": "In clean, clear water, a dream of great good fortune; in muddy water, the reverse (Artemidorus). Symbolism obvious.", "lineStart": 9117, "lineEnd": 9120, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 199; NLM OCR lines 9117–9120", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9117, "lineEnd": 9120, "printedPage": 199, "printedPageEnd": 199 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Bathing. — In clean, clear water, a dream of great good \nfortune; in muddy water, the reverse (Artemidorus). Sym- \nbolism obvious. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "Sym- \nbolism", "after": "Symbolism", "evidenceLine": 250 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Bathing" }, "displayText": "In clean, clear water, a dream of great good fortune; in muddy water, the reverse (Artemidorus). Symbolism obvious.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Bathing” is shown on the Bath page: same topic across Miller/Luck/Noe/Cielo/Guide/Craig/Fontaine" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "bathrobe", "title": "Bathrobe", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "An in-between garment, an ordinary private routine, and the point where readiness becomes public.", "summary": "A bathrobe may explore privacy, a transition between activities, or the difference between feeling comfortable and feeling ready to be seen.", "aliases": [ "bathrobe", "bathrobes", "bath robe", "bath robes" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "A bathrobe can place a dream between activities rather than at a finished appearance. You may have just stopped one routine and not yet begun another, or be comfortable at home when an unexpected demand arrives. This can resemble a period in which you are available in one way but not ready for every kind of participation. A familiar garment or remembered morning may also supply the scene directly.\n\nAn unexpected visitor can make privacy a practical question. You might want to answer the door while still wanting time to change, or discover that the visitor seems entirely comfortable with the situation. A waking comparison could concern being approached before you have decided how to present something. The imagined reaction does not determine whether a real person would judge your readiness or appearance.\n\nComfort can be central without embarrassment. A robe offered after a difficult journey or found in a quiet room may make being cared for tangible. Warmth, room to move or a familiar texture can give an ordinary pause significance. This might fit wanting practical ease after a period organized around other people’s expectations, rather than requiring a hidden meaning of vulnerability.\n\nA robe that no longer fits can create a different encounter. A sleeve may obstruct a task, a pocket may hold something you need or the garment may belong to someone whose routine you remember. These details can connect comfort with use, memory and the room available for your own movement. The scene need not make every difficulty a statement about your body or confidence.\n\nChanging out of the robe can mark a transition you choose, while keeping it on may make your present pace more important than an expected timetable. An ordinary public setting can become surprising simply because the garment belongs to another part of your day. These original comparisons concern how privacy, comfort and participation meet within the scene. A dream does not establish actual exposure, another person’s attraction or a requirement to become ready before you have chosen what comes next.", "traditional": "No historical account is attached to this original entry. The cited learning experiment supplies memory-research context, not a tested meaning for this image or evidence that a dream predicts an event.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A transition that is not yet finished", "reflection": "The garment can place you between routines. Being available for one activity does not require being prepared for every other one." }, { "title": "Privacy at an unexpected threshold", "reflection": "A door, invitation or public place can change how comfortable clothing feels. Your wish for time or room may be more important than imagined judgment." }, { "title": "Comfort with a practical use", "reflection": "Texture, fit and pockets can make care or an ordinary task concrete. The garment’s specific use can keep the reading personal rather than defining a general vulnerability." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A visitor arrives while you are still wearing your bathrobe", "reflection": "Company meets a private stage of the day. The scene can explore wanting contact alongside wanting more preparation time. Answering, asking the person to wait or continuing your routine creates different relations between welcome and privacy." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Someone offers you a familiar robe after a long journey", "reflection": "An ordinary garment makes care and a pause available. This may picture relief through practical comfort rather than through a solution to every difficulty. The texture, person and place can give the moment a particular remembered association." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Your robe’s sleeve catches while you try to complete a task", "reflection": "Comfortable clothing does not quite suit the activity you have begun. This can resemble an arrangement needing a small change when purposes shift. Adjusting the sleeve or changing clothes may resolve the task without making the earlier comfort a mistake." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You find an important note in the robe’s pocket", "reflection": "Something needed for the next activity remains within an ordinary private routine. The scene can connect preparation with a detail you nearly passed over. The dreamed note may be significant as an imagined object, without establishing an accurate forgotten instruction." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You wear a bathrobe in a formal room and feel unexpectedly at ease", "reflection": "The setting and garment belong to different kinds of participation, yet the contrast feels workable. This may explore how much presentation the occasion actually requires in your experience. Ease does not prove a hidden wish or decide how to act at a real event." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You decide when to hang the robe up and begin another activity", "reflection": "A transition becomes a choice with an ordinary ending. The scene may picture finding your own point of readiness after a pause. Relief, reluctance or interest in the next task helps distinguish a chosen change from simply obeying an imagined timetable." } ], "prompts": [ "Which activity had ended, and which one was about to begin?", "What kind of privacy, comfort or preparation did you want?", "What made the transition feel chosen or imposed?" ], "related": [ "clothes", "bathroom", "dressing", "coat", "being-naked-in-public" ], "sources": [ { "id": "wamsley-2010", "title": "Dreaming of a learning task is associated with enhanced sleep-dependent memory consolidation", "author": "Erin J. Wamsley and colleagues", "url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20417102/", "scope": "Primary maze-learning experiment; task-related dream reports correlated with later performance. It does not show that a dream is an accurate memory or a solution." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s continuing English editorial delegation. The memory study is general context, not validation of these interpretations.", "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "DreamFolia AI-assisted editorial review", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "aisle", "ambulance", "bakery", "binoculars", "backstage", "birdbath", "birdhouse", "beehive", "billboard", "bookmark", "turnstile", "antlers", "armchair", "bathrobe" ] }, "decisionReason": "The developed body and six scenes distinguish transitions between routines, privacy, received comfort, fit and chosen readiness. Dreamed appearance does not establish actual exposure or attraction; no unrelated historical clothing record is borrowed.", "reviewedSnapshot": "data/everyday-publication-review-2026-10-15.json", "contentSha256": "559c6086795172a15b2af7ac6c59a3e4682b0e6a4f1c458daabca6c6ebf74daf" }, "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "bathroom", "title": "Bathrooms", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "Room to attend to yourself.", "summary": "A bathroom dream can focus on having enough privacy, time and usable space to attend to ordinary needs.", "aliases": [ "bathroom", "toilet", "restroom" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "A bathroom dream can turn on a simple practical question: can you do what you came there to do? A working room with a door, water and enough time creates a different experience from a public queue or a place full of other people's belongings. Begin with the activity and the obstacle rather than treating the room as a universal cleansing symbol.\n\nPrivacy may be important when you cannot choose who sees or interrupts you. A door that will not close could resemble a routine that keeps being exposed to requests, such as trying to take a break while remaining available to everyone. The useful comparison is with your experience of access and interruption, not a claim that others intend to intrude.\n\nA bathroom can also emphasize ordinary preparation. Washing, brushing your hair or changing before an event may give the dream a pause between activities. If you enjoy having supplies within reach, consider what helps you feel ready in waking life. If each small task becomes complicated, perhaps the scene reflects the effort of organizing several demands.\n\nShared facilities add questions about whose needs are accommodated. Waiting your turn can feel reasonable when the arrangement is clear, or frustrating when no one acknowledges you. A room designed for someone else may invite reflection on needing a different pace or practical setup. Those possibilities do not judge your body or ability.\n\nCondition and comfort deserve separate attention. A sparkling room might feel welcoming, impersonal or difficult to keep perfect; a cluttered one might feel familiar or obstructive. Ask what the condition changes about your activity. Cleaning a surface because you want to use it differs from endlessly cleaning because you feel unable to leave it unfinished.\n\nRecent experiences can be a straightforward source: travel facilities, renovation, hurried mornings or a need noticed while asleep may enter the dream. That possibility can sit beside a reflective reading without establishing a physical explanation. Keep the scope concrete: a bathroom or washing there is a setting and activity, while rain outdoors offers a different experience. What would make this room usable and private enough for you?", "traditional": "Miller’s supplied Bathroom passage discusses white roses in a bathroom, yellow roses in a box and a separate gendered moral judgment. It offers period forecasts, not a general account of privacy or washing. Those specific claims do not validate the original reflections here, and the flower conditions are not universal color meanings.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "A bathroom door that keeps opening", "reflection": "You try to use the room, but the door will not stay closed. Consider a waking routine that remains open to interruption even when you want a pause. What kind of boundary would help in the dream: a working latch, clearer permission or knowing that people will wait?" }, { "title": "Preparing calmly in a familiar bathroom", "reflection": "Everything needed for washing or getting ready is within reach. The scene may highlight the value of a reliable routine before a demanding event. Notice which action brings ease; the room's usefulness can matter more than an assumed idea of becoming pure or changing who you are." }, { "title": "Waiting while others ignore the queue", "reflection": "People move ahead without noticing that you have been waiting. You might compare the frustration with a shared arrangement where your ordinary needs are hard to express. If the waiting feels acceptable instead, the scene may concern patience and predictability rather than unfair treatment." }, { "title": "A shower in a bathroom with nowhere to put belongings", "reflection": "Water is available, but you cannot find a dry place for your clothes or towel. The difficulty might resemble having one part of a plan ready while the supporting details remain unresolved. Focus on the indoor washing task and practical setup, rather than treating it as an outdoor rain scene." }, { "title": "Cleaning just enough to make the room usable", "reflection": "You clear a sink or wipe a surface and then use it. This could offer a concrete picture of doing sufficient preparation before returning to your own activity. Compare that satisfaction with a task where finishing one manageable part helps more than trying to perfect the entire situation." }, { "title": "An impressive bathroom that feels uncomfortable", "reflection": "The fittings look luxurious, yet you hesitate to touch anything or cannot relax. The scene may highlight a difference between presentation and practical comfort. Ask what would let you use the room normally, without assuming that expensive surroundings or your discomfort reveal anyone's character." } ], "prompts": [ "What did you come to the bathroom to do, and what helped or obstructed it?", "How much privacy or time felt sufficient in the scene?", "Which recent routine or shared-space experience comes to mind?" ], "related": [ "a-toilet-with-no-privacy", "house", "privacy", "washing", "rain" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "scope": "Miller's specific conditions concern white roses in a bathroom and yellow roses in a box, followed by a separate gendered judgment about frivolity. The passage is not a general account of bathroom privacy, washing or hue symbolism. Specific supplied passages: Bathroom — miller-0179 (Heading 179; source lines 3278–3287). Historical comparison only; these period beliefs do not establish outcomes or validate the original symbolic reflections.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0179" ] }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s continuing English editorial delegation. Historical accounts retain their attribution; general sleep background does not validate these interpretations.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Enough privacy", "reflection": "The door, interruptions and other people's presence may help you describe how much access you can choose." }, { "title": "A workable routine", "reflection": "Notice whether the room supports an ordinary task or turns preparation and small needs into a complicated undertaking." }, { "title": "Shared space and different needs", "reflection": "Queues, supplies and room arrangements can draw attention to whose pace and requirements are accommodated." } ], "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "DreamFolia AI-assisted editorial review", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "bed", "bathroom", "bridge", "door", "window", "stairs", "road", "clothes", "shoes", "driving", "being-late", "crying", "running", "swimming", "river", "snow", "moon", "sun", "mountain", "fish" ] }, "decisionReason": "Six scenes keep privacy, usable preparation, shared access, supporting details, sufficient cleaning and impressive but uncomfortable fittings distinct. Miller’s passage concerns roses and a separate gendered judgment, not a general washing or privacy interpretation. That narrow scope remains explicit.", "reviewedSnapshot": "data/common-life-publication-review-2026-10-15.json", "contentSha256": "0f51eeea4bca2beb89b9b7f38512f80ad75f5febfeb3d64f644c39c5fd25e191" }, "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0179", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Bathroom", "text": "To see white roses in a bathroom, and yellow ones in a box,\ndenote that sickness will interfere with pleasure; but more\nlasting joys will result from this disappointment.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of a bathroom, foretells that her inclinations\ntrend too much toward light pleasures and frivolities.", "locator": "Heading 179; source lines 3278–3287", "lineStart": 3278, "lineEnd": 3287, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see white roses in a bathroom, and yellow ones in a box,\ndenote that sickness will interfere with pleasure; but more\nlasting joys will result from this disappointment.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of a bathroom, foretells that her inclinations\ntrend too much toward light pleasures and frivolities." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "bats", "title": "Bats", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "Notice what moved, what became visible and how the encounter found space.", "summary": "A bat encounter can explore uncertain visibility, overhead activity, shelter, emergence and a route that changes when the setting changes.", "aliases": [ "bats", "bat" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "kind": "editorial", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "A bat dream can begin with the conditions of the encounter: an animal resting overhead, movement at the edge of visibility, a group emerging from a doorway or a creature unexpectedly close to you. Fear, fascination and matter-of-fact recognition can each belong to these scenes. The animal is not evidence of a threat to health or life, and its colour cannot settle what will happen to someone you love.\n\nVisibility can become a practical question. You may hear or glimpse activity before you can identify its source, then discover that the sound came from a different place than expected. This can offer a comparison with trying to understand an interruption while information remains incomplete. The dream need not be telling you that something is deliberately concealed. Sometimes a setting simply allows only part of an event to be seen at once.\n\nShelter and movement can change the encounter's terms. A resting bat above a place where you want to sleep brings two uses of the same space together. A creature that leaves when a window opens can make the ending depend on an available route rather than a confrontation. Remaining still, opening a passage or moving to another room each gives your part in the scene a different shape.\n\nA group emerging while you are entering can instead bring timing into view. You and the animals may be using one threshold in different directions. Waiting for the passage to clear can resemble adjusting to another ongoing process, whereas joining their flight may picture entering an unfamiliar mode of travel. The feeling and destination help distinguish inconvenience from a welcome change in perspective.\n\nNotice also what the dream does with the bat's outline. A coat mistaken for wings, a small creature casting an enormous shadow or an animal becoming visible only after a light changes can draw attention to the difference between a first impression and a later view. Revising your understanding can matter more than deciding whether the first reaction was correct.\n\nMemories of wildlife, caves, films or stories can provide direct context. A sporting bat belongs to an equipment scene rather than this animal reading. When the word alone is ambiguous, use the described activity to choose the topic; no symbolic interpretation is required to resolve an ordinary difference in subject.", "traditional": "Miller gives severe forecasts, including unsupported death claims and a white-bat omen. Fontaine concerns an unsatisfactory journey, Noe calls the encounter inauspicious, and Cielo contrasts flying with resting. These four attributed accounts document older assertions; they cannot predict bereavement, injury or the outcome of a journey. Their wording is retained separately rather than adopted as the meaning of this animal encounter.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "A bat rests above the bed you meant to use", "reflection": "The place intended for your rest already shelters another creature. This can explore how close an unfamiliar presence feels in a private setting. 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Does not validate the original reflections or establish health, character, luck or future events.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0045" ] } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s delegation of editorial decisions. Complete historical accounts retain their attribution and do not establish present-day forecasts.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A partial view becomes an encounter", "reflection": "Sound, movement and changing light can alter what you think is present. A later view may revise the first impression without making uncertainty itself a sign of deceit." }, { "title": "Shelter and an available route", "reflection": "The animal and dreamer can occupy or leave the same place for different reasons. The opening or limit of a passage can shape how contact ends." }, { "title": "Timing at a shared threshold", "reflection": "Emerging, entering and waiting put different movements beside one another. 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Often the death\nof a child follows this dream.", "locator": "Heading 180; source lines 3287–3296", "lineStart": 3287, "lineEnd": 3296, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Awful is the fate of the unfortunate dreamer of this ugly animal.\nSorrows and calamities from hosts of evil work against you.\nDeath of parents and friends, loss of limbs or sight,\nmay follow after a dream of these ghoulish monsters.\nA white bat is almost a sure sign of death. Often the death\nof a child follows this dream." }, { "id": "fontaine-0055", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Bat", "text": "To dream of a bat, or bats, is a sign you will go on a bootless\njourney, or one that is not satisfactory. 42.", "locator": "Heading 55; source line 1201", "lineStart": 1201, "lineEnd": 1204, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a bat, or bats, is a sign you will go on a bootless\njourney, or one that is not satisfactory." }, { "id": "noe-0048", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Bat", "text": "To dream of bats is\nvery inauspicious.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 48; source lines 294–295", "lineStart": 294, "lineEnd": 295, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of bats is\nvery inauspicious." }, { "id": "cielo-0045", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Bat", "text": "If flying, means a quarrel with a friend; if at\n rest, pleasure.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 45; source lines 3965–3968", "lineStart": 3965, "lineEnd": 3968, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If flying, means a quarrel with a friend; if at\nrest, pleasure." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "battle", "title": "Battle", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "5 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Battle signifies striving with difficulties, but a final victory over the same.” Compare 5 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "battle" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about battle stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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If you are in love, your sweetheart is false to you.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 57; source lines 332–334", "lineStart": 332, "lineEnd": 334, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of battle in the\nstreets, forewarns you against secret enemies who will endeavor to harm\nyou. If you are in love, your sweetheart is false to you." }, { "id": "luck-0017", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Battle", "text": "(By girl) Will shortly fall in love; (by a soldier)\npromotion.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 17; source lines 3551–3554", "lineStart": 3551, "lineEnd": 3554, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(By girl) Will shortly fall in love; (by a soldier)\npromotion." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9121", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Battle", "heading": "Battle", "text": "To dream of being in battle implies trouble of a serious nature with friends ; to overcome indicates triumph (Gypsy). Evidently the realities of warfare were too grim and too close to admit the rule of contraries to apply to this dream, to which modem interpreters, however, attach an erotic meaning.", "lineStart": 9121, "lineEnd": 9127, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 199; NLM OCR lines 9121–9127", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9121, "lineEnd": 9127, "printedPage": 199, "printedPageEnd": 199 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Battle. — To dream of being in battle implies trouble of a \nserious nature with friends ; to overcome indicates triumph \n(Gypsy). Evidently the realities of warfare were too grim \nand too close to admit the rule of contraries to apply to \nthis dream, to which modem interpreters, however, attach an \nerotic meaning. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 0.99381, "secondaryHeading": "Battle" }, "displayText": "To dream of being in battle implies trouble of a serious nature with friends; to overcome indicates triumph (Gypsy). Evidently the realities of warfare were too grim and too close to admit the rule of contraries to apply to this dream, to which modem interpreters, however, attach an erotic meaning." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "battlefield", "title": "Battlefield", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Cielo wrote: “Signifies great honor.”", "aliases": [ "battlefield" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about battlefield stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "cielo-0046", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Battlefield", "text": "Signifies great honor.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 46; source lines 3968–3970", "lineStart": 3968, "lineEnd": 3970, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Signifies great honor." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0183", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Bay Tree", "text": "A palmy leisure awaits you in which you will meet many pleasing varieties\nof diversions. Much knowledge will be reaped in the rest from work.\nIt is generally a good dream for everybody.", "locator": "Heading 183; source lines 3309–3315", "lineStart": 3309, "lineEnd": 3315, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "A palmy leisure awaits you in which you will meet many pleasing varieties\nof diversions. Much knowledge will be reaped in the rest from work.\nIt is generally a good dream for everybody." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0182", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Bayonet", "text": "To dream of a bayonet, signifies that enemies will hold you in their power,\nunless you get possession of the bayonet.", "locator": "Heading 182; source lines 3304–3309", "lineStart": 3304, "lineEnd": 3309, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a bayonet, signifies that enemies will hold you in their power,\nunless you get possession of the bayonet." }, { "id": "fontaine-0057", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Bayonet", "text": "To dream of a bayonet indicates that you have vindictive\nenemies. 64, 7.", "locator": "Heading 57; source line 1211", "lineStart": 1211, "lineEnd": 1214, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a bayonet indicates that you have vindictive\nenemies." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "beacon-light", "title": "Beacon Light", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “For a sailor to see a beacon-light, portends fair seas and a prosperous voyage.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "beacon light", "beacon-light" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about beacon light stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. 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To see it go out in time\nof storm or distress, indicates reverses at the time when you\nthought Fortune was deciding in your favor.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Beacon-light” is shown on the Beacon Light page: same heading; hyphen vs space produced two slugs (key() strips hyphens)" }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9128", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Beacon Light", "heading": "Beacon Light", "text": "A dream indicating deliverance from care and trouble (Artemidorus). Symbolism obvious.", "lineStart": 9128, "lineEnd": 9130, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 199; NLM OCR lines 9128–9130", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9128, "lineEnd": 9130, "printedPage": 199, "printedPageEnd": 199 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Beacon Light. — A dream indicating deliverance from care \nand trouble (Artemidorus). Symbolism obvious. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Beacon Light" }, "displayText": "A dream indicating deliverance from care and trouble (Artemidorus). Symbolism obvious." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0185", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Beads", "text": "To dream of beads, foretells attention from those in elevated position will\nbe shown you. To count beads, portends immaculate joy and contentment.\nTo string them, you will obtain the favor of the rich.\n\nTo scatter them, signifies loss of caste among your acquaintances.", "locator": "Heading 185; source lines 3328–3336", "lineStart": 3328, "lineEnd": 3336, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of beads, foretells attention from those in elevated position will\nbe shown you. To count beads, portends immaculate joy and contentment.\nTo string them, you will obtain the favor of the rich.\n\nTo scatter them, signifies loss of caste among your acquaintances." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9131", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Beads", "heading": "Beads", "text": "This dream denotes success, good fortune, honor and wealth (Gypsies). As amulets beads avert misfortune and the evil eye (Pavitt).", "lineStart": 9131, "lineEnd": 9139, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 199–200; NLM OCR lines 9131–9139", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9131, "lineEnd": 9139, "printedPage": 199, "printedPageEnd": 200 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Beads. — This dream denotes success, good fortune, honor \n\n\n200 THE FABRIC OF DREAMS \n\n\nand wealth (Gypsies). As amulets beads avert misfortune \nand the evil eye (Pavitt). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [ { "line": 9134, "text": "200 THE FABRIC OF DREAMS " } ], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Beads" }, "displayText": "This dream denotes success, good fortune, honor and wealth (Gypsies). As amulets beads avert misfortune and the evil eye (Pavitt)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "beam", "title": "Beam", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “This signifies you will attain a high position in life.”", "aliases": [ "beam" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about beam stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0058", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Beam", "text": "This signifies you will attain a high position in life. 9.", "locator": "Heading 58; source line 1214", "lineStart": 1214, "lineEnd": 1216, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "This signifies you will attain a high position in life." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "beans", "title": "Beans", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "6 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “This is a bad dream. To see them growing, omens worries and sickness among children.” Compare 6 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "beans", "bean" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about beans stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "guide-65367", "title": "Guide to Fortune-Telling by Dreams", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Multum in Parvo Library, Vol. I, No. 10, October 1894", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65367", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0186", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Beans", "text": "This is a bad dream. To see them growing, omens worries\nand sickness among children.\n\nDried beans, means much disappointment in worldly affairs.\nCare should be taken to prevent contagious diseases from spreading.\n\nTo dream of eating them, implies the misfortune or illness\nof a well loved friend.", "locator": "Heading 186; source lines 3336–3347", "lineStart": 3336, "lineEnd": 3347, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "This is a bad dream. To see them growing, omens worries\nand sickness among children.\n\nDried beans, means much disappointment in worldly affairs.\nCare should be taken to prevent contagious diseases from spreading.\n\nTo dream of eating them, implies the misfortune or illness\nof a well loved friend." }, { "id": "fontaine-0059", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Beans", "text": "To dream of eating beans is a sign of trouble. If you are\npicking beans, it denotes poverty. 72, 18, 11.", "locator": "Heading 59; source line 1216", "lineStart": 1216, "lineEnd": 1219, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of eating beans is a sign of trouble. If you are\npicking beans, it denotes poverty." }, { "id": "noe-0061", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Beans", "text": "To dream you are eating beans always signifies\ntrouble and dissension.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 62; source lines 346–347", "lineStart": 346, "lineEnd": 347, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are eating beans always signifies\ntrouble and dissension." }, { "id": "cielo-0047", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Beans", "text": "If cooked, they signify a quarrel; if raw, danger.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 47; source lines 3970–3972", "lineStart": 3970, "lineEnd": 3972, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If cooked, they signify a quarrel; if raw, danger." }, { "id": "guide-0012", "sourceId": "guide-65367", "heading": "Beans", "text": "To dream of beans is an unfavorable dream, it is the forerunner\nof troubles and quarrels; if you are in love, expect a difference\nbetween you and your sweetheart.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 12; source lines 154–158", "lineStart": 154, "lineEnd": 158, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of beans is an unfavorable dream, it is the forerunner\nof troubles and quarrels; if you are in love, expect a difference\nbetween you and your sweetheart." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9140", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Beans", "heading": "Beans", "text": "An unfortunate dream ; to eat them augurs illness, to see them growing predicts contentions and quarrels (Artemidorus). An erotic dream according to recent authority. The Flamen Diates at Rome, the Egyptian priests, the ancient Hebrews and the Pythagoreans were forbidden to eat them.", "lineStart": 9140, "lineEnd": 9145, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 200; NLM OCR lines 9140–9145", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9140, "lineEnd": 9145, "printedPage": 200, "printedPageEnd": 200 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Beans. — An unfortunate dream ; to eat them augurs illness, \nto see them growing predicts contentions and quarrels (Artemi- \ndorus). An erotic dream according to recent authority. The \nFlamen Diates at Rome, the Egyptian priests, the ancient \nHebrews and the Pythagoreans were forbidden to eat them. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "Artemi- \ndorus", "after": "Artemidorus", "evidenceLine": 485 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Beans" }, "displayText": "An unfortunate dream; to eat them augurs illness, to see them growing predicts contentions and quarrels (Artemidorus). An erotic dream according to recent authority. The Flamen Diates at Rome, the Egyptian priests, the ancient Hebrews and the Pythagoreans were forbidden to eat them." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "beard", "title": "Beard", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "summary": "A beard may make recognition, ongoing grooming or the terms of touching a visible feature concrete. The scene gives its appearance a personal role.", "tagline": "A facial feature can change the encounter without defining the person.", "aliases": [ "beard", "of the beard" ], "status": "REVIEW", "psychological": "A beard may change how a familiar face is recognized or addressed. In a dream, people might respond to its outline before hearing what you say, or continue treating you as familiar despite an unexpected appearance. The scene may explore the relationship between a visible feature and the role assigned through it. That role depends on the particular encounter, rather than a universal rule about age, gender, wisdom or authority.\n\n Grooming can make upkeep part of the story. Trimming a small area, arranging the shape or finding that the beard grows back while you work may turn presentation into an ongoing task. A waking comparison could be maintaining an outward account of your work while its contents keep changing. A limited adjustment that serves a purpose differs from trying to produce a finished appearance that will never need attention again.\n\n The beard can also have a practical effect on participation. It may catch in clothing, obscure the movement of the mouth or require a different way of completing an ordinary task. This can resemble a familiar presentation becoming awkward in use. Adjusting its position or changing a small part can make function more influential than appearance alone. The image need not require removing the feature entirely to restore the activity you want.\n\n Touch and permission introduce another possibility. Someone may help with grooming, pull at the beard or treat it as something they can handle without asking. The scene can give a personal boundary a visible form. A requested adjustment creates a different encounter from a surprise change, and the ability to stop or explain your preference may matter more than the resulting style. The dream does not disclose the real person's motives.\n\n An unexpected beard can become welcome, amusing or uncomfortable according to your own associations. A familiar person may look different while speaking in the same way, making recognition available through several cues. Recent grooming, costumes, photographs or remembered faces can supply direct material. This topic follows facial hair, its care and contact; broader hair and a face without that feature have their own particular tasks.", "traditional": "The five books give beards inconsistent fortune, gender and social-role claims. Noe includes both adverse and favorable woman-with-beard clauses under different conditions. Craig adds attributed Freud and Smith comparisons through Craig’s own text, rather than separate primary evidence. These accounts do not establish modern identity, health, authority or a fixed meaning of facial hair.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Appearance and an assigned role", "reflection": "A beard can affect recognition before a conversation begins. The scene may explore whether a visible feature has become a substitute for the actual contribution or role the participant wants to express." }, { "title": "Upkeep with a limited purpose", "reflection": "A small grooming task can support presentation, while a constantly changing result can make completion difficult. The practical purpose helps decide what needs adjusting now and what can remain unfinished." }, { "title": "Contact with clear terms", "reflection": "Grooming or touching another person’s beard can make permission concrete. Requested help differs from a change imposed without room to pause, and the encounter can be read through its actual agreement." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A new beard makes people address you through another role", "reflection": "The appearance prompts expectations before you have described what you are doing. Clarifying the role or continuing the conversation can make recognition more particular. The scene does not assign the feature an inherent authority; it follows how the participants use it." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "The beard grows back while you trim one part", "reflection": "Upkeep cannot reach the permanent finish you expected. This may resemble maintaining a public description while the underlying work continues changing. A smaller purpose for the adjustment can make the task usable without demanding an appearance that will never need revision." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "The beard catches in a fastening during an ordinary task", "reflection": "A familiar feature interrupts movement through a small practical complication. Releasing it or adjusting the garment may restore participation. The scene can make function matter alongside appearance without requiring the entire feature to be removed or interpreted as the source of every difficulty." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Another person offers grooming help and waits for agreement", "reflection": "Support remains available while you decide what can be changed. The encounter may explore care that preserves your say over a visible feature. Its usefulness comes from the particular agreement, rather than assuming every grooming gesture represents closeness or control." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Someone pulls the beard while you are speaking", "reflection": "An unrequested contact interrupts the contribution you were trying to make. Stopping, moving away or explaining the boundary can give the scene different responses. The action matters as an interruption within the dream, not evidence of the real person’s intentions." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "A familiar person’s changed beard leaves their voice recognizable", "reflection": "One appearance cue differs while another part of the encounter stays familiar. This may explore continuity through several forms of recognition. Curiosity, ease or uncertainty can shape the response without requiring the facial feature to define the person’s identity or character." } ], "prompts": [ "How did the beard affect recognition or the role assigned in the encounter?", "What practical purpose did grooming or adjustment serve?", "How were permission, contact and room to stop made clear?" ], "related": [ "hair", "bald", "face", "barber", "mirror" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0188" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context only. miller-0188: Beards, gray beard, beards on women, pulling, grooming and admiration receive opposition, money, illness, vanity and gendered marriage forecasts. This citation does not validate the original psychological reflections or predict a waking outcome." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0061" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context only. fontaine-0061: Small, thick and falling beards receive litigation, success, family-loss and disgrace forecasts. This citation does not validate the original psychological reflections or predict a waking outcome." }, { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display.", "recordIds": [ "artemidorus-020" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context only. artemidorus-020: Beard length/condition and loss are interpreted through period profession, gender, marital, pregnancy, age and family roles. These include incompatible forecasts for different conditions and are not modern identity or health facts. This citation does not validate the original psychological reflections or predict a waking outcome." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0055" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context only. noe-0055: Beard accounts assign trade, love, agriculture and family forecasts according to gender and marital status; the later favorable general woman-with-beard clause coexists with an earlier adverse married-woman clause. Do not flatten these into one rule. This citation does not validate the original psychological reflections or predict a waking outcome." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L9152" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context only. craig-1918:L9152: Craig reports health/gain and a woman-with-beard omen, then attributes an erotic comparison to Freud and a male-sex emblem to Smith’s Sacred Emblems. No independent Freud/Smith edition or empirical support is supplied by this card. This citation does not validate the original psychological reflections or predict a waking outcome." } ], "updated": "2026-10-13", "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection independently reviewed for content and source scope. Historical accounts remain attributed period writing. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0188", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Beard", "text": "To dream of seeing a beard, denotes that some uncongenial person will oppose\nhis will against yours, and there will be a fierce struggle for mastery,\nand you are likely to lose some money in the combat.\n\nGray beard, signifies hard luck and quarrels.\n\nTo see beard on women, foretells unpleasant associations\nand lingering illness.\n\nFor some one to pull your beard, denotes that you will run a narrow\nrisk if you do not lose property.\n\nTo comb and admire it, shows that your vanity will grow with prosperity,\nmaking you detestable in the sight of many of your former companions.\n\nFor a young woman to admire a beard, intimates her desire to leave celibacy;\nbut she is threatened with an unfortunate marriage.", "locator": "Heading 188; source lines 3356–3376", "lineStart": 3356, "lineEnd": 3376, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing a beard, denotes that some uncongenial person will oppose\nhis will against yours, and there will be a fierce struggle for mastery,\nand you are likely to lose some money in the combat.\n\nGray beard, signifies hard luck and quarrels.\n\nTo see beard on women, foretells unpleasant associations\nand lingering illness.\n\nFor some one to pull your beard, denotes that you will run a narrow\nrisk if you do not lose property.\n\nTo comb and admire it, shows that your vanity will grow with prosperity,\nmaking you detestable in the sight of many of your former companions.\n\nFor a young woman to admire a beard, intimates her desire to leave celibacy;\nbut she is threatened with an unfortunate marriage." }, { "id": "fontaine-0061", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Beard", "text": "To dream you have a very little beard, signifies suits at law;\nif it is a long thick beard, the dream is a good one, for it shows\nsuccess; for a person to dream of his beard falling out, he will lose\nsome near relative, or will come to disgrace. 47, 3.", "locator": "Heading 61; source line 1223", "lineStart": 1223, "lineEnd": 1228, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you have a very little beard, signifies suits at law;\nif it is a long thick beard, the dream is a good one, for it shows\nsuccess; for a person to dream of his beard falling out, he will lose\nsome near relative, or will come to disgrace." }, { "id": "artemidorus-020", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of the Beard.", "text": "TO have the Beard long, thicke, and unhandsome, is good for him which is curious to speake well, as an Embassadour, an Oratour, a Lawyer, a Philosopher, and for those who have a desire to learne Arts or Sciences. If a Widdow woman dreams she hath a beard, she shall have an husband, which shall be kinde and bountifull, if she be married then she shall lose her husband, or be separated from him, and govern her house alone, as if she were both husband and wife together: if she be not with childe or at law: for if the first, she shall have a son; if the second, she shall persever in her opinion, bearing a high minde, and regarding her honour as if she were a man. To a yong childe, this dream signifyeth death. But to him which is now in his youth beginning to have a beard▪ it is a signe he shall rise by himselfe, and put himself forward, of what, estate soever he be. The beard falling or cut away, or by force plucked away by the hands of another, as it signifyeth losse of Parents, so also it is hurt and dishonour.", "locator": "Book 1, encoded section 20", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "1", "displayText": "To have the Beard long, thicke, and unhandsome, is good for him which is curious to speake well, as an Embassadour, an Oratour, a Lawyer, a Philosopher, and for those who have a desire to learne Arts or Sciences. If a Widdow woman dreams she hath a beard, she shall have an husband, which shall be kinde and bountifull, if she be married then she shall lose her husband, or be separated from him, and govern her house alone, as if she were both husband and wife together: if she be not with childe or at law: for if the first, she shall have a son; if the second, she shall persever in her opinion, bearing a high minde, and regarding her honour as if she were a man. To a yong childe, this dream signifyeth death. But to him which is now in his youth beginning to have a beard▪ it is a signe he shall rise by himselfe, and put himself forward, of what, estate soever he be. The beard falling or cut away, or by force plucked away by the hands of another, as it signifyeth losse of Parents, so also it is hurt and dishonour." }, { "id": "noe-0055", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Beard", "text": "For a man to dream he has a long\nbeard, denotes good fortune; if he is in trade, he will thrive; if he is\nin love, he will marry the present object of his affections, who will\nbring him some money; if he is a farmer, it denotes good crops, and an\naddition to his farm. If a married woman dreams of a beard, it is unlucky;\nit foretells the loss of her husband and that she will fall into great\ndistress. If a maid dreams of a beard, it denotes that she will be quickly\nmarried and that the fruit of her womb is a boy. For a woman to dream that\nshe has a beard is a very lucky omen, and denotes that she will speedily\nattain her most sanguine desires.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 56; source lines 323–332", "lineStart": 323, "lineEnd": 332, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a man to dream he has a long\nbeard, denotes good fortune; if he is in trade, he will thrive; if he is\nin love, he will marry the present object of his affections, who will\nbring him some money; if he is a farmer, it denotes good crops, and an\naddition to his farm. If a married woman dreams of a beard, it is unlucky;\nit foretells the loss of her husband and that she will fall into great\ndistress. If a maid dreams of a beard, it denotes that she will be quickly\nmarried and that the fruit of her womb is a boy. For a woman to dream that\nshe has a beard is a very lucky omen, and denotes that she will speedily\nattain her most sanguine desires." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9152", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Beard", "heading": "Beard", "text": "To see one in a dream denotes health; if it be long, gain. A beard on a woman, however, is a disagreeable omen (Artemidorus). An erotic dream (Freud). The beard symbolizes the male sex (Smith, Sacred Emblems).", "lineStart": 9152, "lineEnd": 9156, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 200; NLM OCR lines 9152–9156", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9152, "lineEnd": 9156, "printedPage": 200, "printedPageEnd": 200 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Beard. — To see one in a dream denotes health; if it be \nlong, gain. A beard on a woman, however, is a disagreeable \nomen (Artemidorus). An erotic dream (Freud). The beard \nsymbolizes the male sex (Smith, Sacred Emblems). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Beard" }, "displayText": "To see one in a dream denotes health; if it be long, gain. A beard on a woman, however, is a disagreeable omen (Artemidorus). An erotic dream (Freud). The beard symbolizes the male sex (Smith, Sacred Emblems)." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "bear", "title": "Bears", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "A powerful presence, room to retreat, and responding to the animal in front of you.", "summary": "A bear may evoke power, caution, or an animal you know from stories. Its distance and behavior matter more than a fixed meaning.", "aliases": [ "bear", "bears" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "First identify the bear you encountered. A wild animal on a trail, a pet-like companion, a cub, and a stuffed toy belong to very different scenes. Recent wildlife footage, a remembered trip, or a childhood object may supply the image. Your associations with bears may include affection as readily as danger, so the animal's size alone does not settle the emotional meaning.\n\nSpace is often a useful detail. Is the bear far away, blocking a doorway, or already inside a place where you expected safety? Describe whether it approaches, watches, sleeps, or leaves. A large presence may invite questions about caution and boundaries, but it need not represent a powerful person. Start with the interaction and the resources available before reaching for an analogy.\n\nYour response may be more varied than simple fear. You might protect a cub, admire the bear from a distance, freeze while it sniffs your hand, or discover that retreat is possible. Those actions could bring up differences between caring for something and controlling it. If the dream reminds you of a demanding situation, ask what scale of involvement feels manageable rather than labeling that situation an enemy.\n\nChanges in the encounter can prevent an overly harsh reading. An apparently threatening bear may lose interest, or a playful one may become overwhelming. Note what changed and whether anyone helped you judge the situation. A dream bear is not evidence of a concealed rival or a forecast of misfortune. The reflection can remain about respecting strength, recognizing your own limits, and allowing enough distance for curiosity or safety.", "traditional": "Several supplied historical sources turn bears into enemies. Miller's Bear entry presents competition, escape through killing the animal, and a threatening rival for a young woman. Fontaine (1862) also associates bears with enemies but, strikingly, treats being attacked as a forecast of overcoming one. Everybody's Book of Luck reverses that emphasis: a pursuing bear means an enemy's victory, while a fleeing bear means the dreamer's victory. Noe (1885) and Cielo (1917) give broadly unfavorable forecasts.\n\nCraig's The Fabric of Dreams (1918), collects a powerful-enemy reading alongside additional symbolic and psychoanalytic claims. These statements are attributed to the books, not independently verified cultural facts or findings about the dreamer. The disagreement over an attack is a useful reason to avoid treating any passage as a reliable code. Nothing in these records establishes a real enemy or warrants hostility toward an animal or another person.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A bear blocking your path", "reflection": "The animal is between you and the route you planned to take. Notice whether another route exists and whether the bear is actively confronting you. This can invite reflection on respecting an obstacle without assuming every interruption requires a contest." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Watching a bear sleep", "reflection": "You are close to a powerful animal that is currently still. Curiosity and caution may coexist. Consider whether you could keep a comfortable distance, and what drew you nearer; stillness in this scene does not guarantee safety in an actual wildlife encounter." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Caring for a bear cub", "reflection": "You hold or shelter a small bear while wondering where its parent is. The scene can bring tenderness together with uncertainty about your role. Explore what care feels possible and what exceeds your knowledge, without automatically translating the cub into a person." } ], "prompts": [ "What did the bear actually do, and what did you only anticipate?", "Which distance made the encounter feel manageable?", "How did your response change when the animal became stronger, quieter, or more vulnerable?" ], "related": [ "wolf", "lion", "being-chased", "forest" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "scope": "Historical belief only; supplied passages: Bear — Heading 187; source lines 3347–3356. Not evidence of predictions or a universal symbol meaning.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0187" ] }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "scope": "Historical belief only; supplied passages: Bear — Heading 60; source line 1219. Not evidence of predictions or a universal symbol meaning.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0060" ] }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "scope": "Historical belief only; supplied passages: Bear — Dream section, heading 34; source lines 233–238. Not evidence of predictions or a universal symbol meaning.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0034" ] }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "scope": "Historical belief only; supplied passages: Bear — Dream section, heading 48; source lines 3972–3974. Not evidence of predictions or a universal symbol meaning.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0048" ] }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "scope": "Historical belief only; supplied passages: Bear — Dream section, heading 18; source lines 3554–3557. Not evidence of predictions or a universal symbol meaning.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0018" ] }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "scope": "Historical belief only; supplied passages: Bear — Printed p. 200; NLM OCR lines 9146–9151. Not evidence of predictions or a universal symbol meaning.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L9146" ] }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Expanded original reflection with source-specific historical context where available; human publication review pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0187", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Bear", "text": "Bear is significant of overwhelming competition in pursuits of every kind.\n\nTo kill a bear, portends extrication from former entanglements.\n\nA young woman who dreams of a bear will have a threatening rival\nor some misfortune.", "locator": "Heading 187; source lines 3347–3356", "lineStart": 3347, "lineEnd": 3356, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Bear is significant of overwhelming competition in pursuits of every kind.\n\nTo kill a bear, portends extrication from former entanglements.\n\nA young woman who dreams of a bear will have a threatening rival\nor some misfortune." }, { "id": "fontaine-0060", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Bear", "text": "To dream of seeing a bear, or bears, is a sign you have one or\nmore enemies; if a bear attacks you, it predicts that you will overcome\nyour enemy. 68.", "locator": "Heading 60; source line 1219", "lineStart": 1219, "lineEnd": 1223, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing a bear, or bears, is a sign you have one or\nmore enemies; if a bear attacks you, it predicts that you will overcome\nyour enemy." }, { "id": "noe-0034", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Bear", "text": "To dream a bear thy step pursues,\n A cruel foe some mischief brews.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 34; source lines 233–238", "lineStart": 233, "lineEnd": 238, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream a bear thy step pursues,\nA cruel foe some mischief brews." }, { "id": "cielo-0048", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Bear", "text": "Seeing a bear foretells misfortune.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 48; source lines 3972–3974", "lineStart": 3972, "lineEnd": 3974, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Seeing a bear foretells misfortune." }, { "id": "luck-0018", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Bear", "text": "(Chasing the dreamer) Victory of an enemy: (bear running from\ndreamer) victory over an enemy.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 18; source lines 3554–3557", "lineStart": 3554, "lineEnd": 3557, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(Chasing the dreamer) Victory of an enemy: (bear running from\ndreamer) victory over an enemy." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9146", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Bear", "heading": "Bear", "text": "The dream of a rich powerful enemy ; to overcome a bear in your dream is a favorable sign (Artemidorus). Although the cult of Artemis worshiped the she-bear, in Christian thought the ferocious animals are usually suspect. Modern symbol of ferocity and surliness. Freudian sex dream.", "lineStart": 9146, "lineEnd": 9151, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 200; NLM OCR lines 9146–9151", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9146, "lineEnd": 9151, "printedPage": 200, "printedPageEnd": 200 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Bear. — The dream of a rich powerful enemy ; to overcome \na bear in your dream is a favorable sign (Artemidorus). Al- \nthough the cult of Artemis worshiped the she-bear, in Christian \nthought the ferocious animals are usually suspect. Modern \nsymbol of ferocity and surliness. 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Freudian sex dream." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "beasts-of-all-sorts", "title": "Beasts of all sorts", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Artemidorus wrote: “A Sheep signifieth advancement, and obtaining of goods, wherefore it is good to dreame you have many of them, or see them of others and…”", "aliases": [ "beasts of all sorts", "of beasts of all sorts" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about beasts of all sorts stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "artemidorus-075", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of Beasts of all sorts.", "text": "A Sheep signifieth advancement, and obtaining of goods, wherefore it is good to dreame you have many of them, or see them of others and feed them: Especially to those which desire to handle Government and charge of people, and those which have attained thereto already: it is also good for Sophisters, Pedaunts, and Schoole-masters. The Ramme signifieth the Master, or the Prince and King. It is good to dreame to be lifted on high surely, and by plain and easie places, especially for Orators, Atorneys, Proctors, and all those which have desire to heap up gold and silver, by his labour. Goats signifie no good but are worse to Navigators. Asses bearing charge, strong, and obedient, are good for friendship and company, and signifie the Wife, companion, or friend; being not proud above their estate, or fierce, but gentle, and very obedient, and they are also good in all affairs and enterprises. Mules are good for al works, especially to husbandry, only they crosse weddings and procreations. If the Asses or Mules are hot or mad, and do any hurt, or be savage, it argueth deceit, by some of our owne house, or subjects. Mules also signifye sicknesse, as I have known by experience. Oxen in labour are good for all, but in a heard they are trouble divulgation, and perill: the Bul signifies any great personage, especially if they threaten and pursue you; to Mariners it is tempest, and if he wound you, it is hurt and shipwrack, by some inconvenience which shal fall from the top of the Mast, as I have often experienced, and it daily often falls out. Thus much shall suffice concerning domesticall and familiar Beasts. Now let us speake of Wilde and Savage Beastes. To sée a gentle, familiar and fawning Lyon, signifyes good, and profit: by the King to a man of warre: by the sentence of the Judges to the Wrestler or Fencer: by the Magistrate to the Mechanick, and by the Master to the servant. For the Lyon represents these persons for his force and might; but if he be hot, and would hurt, it signifies fear and sicknesse, and threatning by such persons, and danger of fire: to sée, or have the forehead of a Lyon, is good for all; and most often the begetting of a manchild: the Lionnesse signifieth as the Lyon, only lesse goods, and lesse hurts, and not by men, but by women. I have also known by this dreame of a Lyonnesse scaring or byting, rich personages have falne into crimes and accusations: the Leopard signifieth (both the man and the woman) wicked and deceitfull, by reason of the diversity of colours: also people of a strange Countrey, sicknesse, exceeding feare, and sore eyes: the she Beare signifyeth the Wife, sicknesse, and return from a strange Country: the Elephant seen in a dreame, is feare and danger. I have often observed and knowne, that the Elephant affrighting one, signified sicknesse: and catching and killing one, signifyed death. I knew in Italy a rich and healthful woman, which dreamt that she was mounted upon an Elephant, and shortly after dyed. You must understand that every wilde beast generally representeth our enemies, and therfore it is alwayes better to overcome them then to be overcome of them: the Wolfe signifieth the yeare, and a cruell Enemie hunting plainly against us. The Foxe signifieth the same that the Wolfe, and an Enemy hunting secretly, by surprising and spying; and most often deceit by a woman: the Ape signifyes a Malefactour and deceiver: the Wilde Bore signifyeth Raine and Tempest to those which travaile, and to such as pleade a strong Adversarie, to Plowmen sterilitie, and to him which marrieth, a rude and angry Wife: to ships it signifies the governance and course, and in land journeyes, the way easie or hard to hit, according to the disposition of the heart. In other places it signi yes, that there are fugitives and deceivers, false and perjured Persons, fearfull, and unassured. One may judge of every other Beast, according to the former manner, and by those to whom they appertaine. And you must remember, that domesticall Beasts whichshew themselves fierce and savage, signifye ill: and contrariwise cruell and savage Beasts, which in your dreame represent themselves gentle, and domesticall, signifye good. Besides they signifye exceeding profit if they speake our language, especially if they say any good thing or joyfull; and all which they speake, commonly fals out.", "locator": "Book 2, encoded section 75", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "2", "displayText": "A Sheep signifieth advancement, and obtaining of goods, wherefore it is good to dreame you have many of them, or see them of others and feed them: Especially to those which desire to handle Government and charge of people, and those which have attained thereto already: it is also good for Sophisters, Pedaunts, and Schoole-masters. The Ramme signifieth the Master, or the Prince and King. It is good to dreame to be lifted on high surely, and by plain and easie places, especially for Orators, Atorneys, Proctors, and all those which have desire to heap up gold and silver, by his labour. Goats signifie no good but are worse to Navigators. Asses bearing charge, strong, and obedient, are good for friendship and company, and signifie the Wife, companion, or friend; being not proud above their estate, or fierce, but gentle, and very obedient, and they are also good in all affairs and enterprises. Mules are good for al works, especially to husbandry, only they crosse weddings and procreations. If the Asses or Mules are hot or mad, and do any hurt, or be savage, it argueth deceit, by some of our owne house, or subjects. Mules also signifye sicknesse, as I have known by experience. Oxen in labour are good for all, but in a heard they are trouble divulgation, and perill: the Bul signifies any great personage, especially if they threaten and pursue you; to Mariners it is tempest, and if he wound you, it is hurt and shipwrack, by some inconvenience which shal fall from the top of the Mast, as I have often experienced, and it daily often falls out. Thus much shall suffice concerning domesticall and familiar Beasts. Now let us speake of Wilde and Savage Beastes. To sée a gentle, familiar and fawning Lyon, signifyes good, and profit: by the King to a man of warre: by the sentence of the Judges to the Wrestler or Fencer: by the Magistrate to the Mechanick, and by the Master to the servant. For the Lyon represents these persons for his force and might; but if he be hot, and would hurt, it signifies fear and sicknesse, and threatning by such persons, and danger of fire: to sée, or have the forehead of a Lyon, is good for all; and most often the begetting of a manchild: the Lionnesse signifieth as the Lyon, only lesse goods, and lesse hurts, and not by men, but by women. I have also known by this dreame of a Lyonnesse scaring or byting, rich personages have falne into crimes and accusations: the Leopard signifieth (both the man and the woman) wicked and deceitfull, by reason of the diversity of colours: also people of a strange Countrey, sicknesse, exceeding feare, and sore eyes: the she Beare signifyeth the Wife, sicknesse, and return from a strange Country: the Elephant seen in a dreame, is feare and danger. I have often observed and knowne, that the Elephant affrighting one, signified sicknesse: and catching and killing one, signifyed death. I knew in Italy a rich and healthful woman, which dreamt that she was mounted upon an Elephant, and shortly after dyed. You must understand that every wilde beast generally representeth our enemies, and therfore it is alwayes better to overcome them then to be overcome of them: the Wolfe signifieth the yeare, and a cruell Enemie hunting plainly against us. The Foxe signifieth the same that the Wolfe, and an Enemy hunting secretly, by surprising and spying; and most often deceit by a woman: the Ape signifyes a Malefactour and deceiver: the Wilde Bore signifyeth Raine and Tempest to those which travaile, and to such as pleade a strong Adversarie, to Plowmen sterilitie, and to him which marrieth, a rude and angry Wife: to ships it signifies the governance and course, and in land journeyes, the way easie or hard to hit, according to the disposition of the heart. In other places it signi yes, that there are fugitives and deceivers, false and perjured Persons, fearfull, and unassured. One may judge of every other Beast, according to the former manner, and by those to whom they appertaine. And you must remember, that domesticall Beasts whichshew themselves fierce and savage, signifye ill: and contrariwise cruell and savage Beasts, which in your dreame represent themselves gentle, and domesticall, signifye good. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "beating", "title": "Beating", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “For married people to dream of beating some one, shows that they will live a peaceful life.”", "aliases": [ "beating" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about beating stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0062", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Beating", "text": "For married people to dream of beating some one, shows that\nthey will live a peaceful life; to bachelors, good fortune in their\namours; if a lover beats his mistress, or a lady her suitor, it shows\nthat the match will be broken off. 5.", "locator": "Heading 62; source line 1228", "lineStart": 1228, "lineEnd": 1233, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For married people to dream of beating some one, shows that\nthey will live a peaceful life; to bachelors, good fortune in their\namours; if a lover beats his mistress, or a lady her suitor, it shows\nthat the match will be broken off." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "beating-and-hatred", "title": "Beating and Hatred", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Artemidorus wrote: “FIghting with his friends, or strangers, is not good: the sieke shall be in danger of raving and losse of sense: to fight with great…”", "aliases": [ "beating and hatred", "of beating and hatred" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about beating and hatred stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "artemidorus-127", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of Beating and Hatred.", "text": "FIghting with his friends, or strangers, is not good: the sieke shall be in danger of raving and losse of sense: to fight with great personages, as Kings, Princes, and Magistrates, is very bad: to dreame to hate, or to be hated, whether of friends or enemies, is ill, for one may have need of all the world.", "locator": "Book 3, encoded section 127", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "3", "displayText": "FIghting with his friends, or strangers, is not good: the sieke shall be in danger of raving and losse of sense: to fight with great personages, as Kings, Princes, and Magistrates, is very bad: to dreame to hate, or to be hated, whether of friends or enemies, is ill, for one may have need of all the world." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "beauty", "title": "Beauty", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "summary": "Beauty in a dream may explore what receives appreciative attention, whose standard matters or whether appearance leaves room for use and participation.", "tagline": "Appreciation can be a personal encounter rather than a ranking.", "aliases": [ "beauty" ], "status": "REVIEW", "psychological": "Finding something beautiful may give attention a different pace from judging whether it is adequate or useful. You might pause over a person, an ordinary object or an arrangement that becomes appealing only after you spend time with it. The dream may explore what makes an experience worth attending to. That appreciation can be personal and specific without turning beauty into a measure of moral quality or the value of a person.\n\n A shared judgment can introduce another concern. Several people may admire the same result for different reasons, or one person's standard may determine what is allowed to count. This can resemble presenting work to an audience whose criteria are not yet clear. Explaining what you value may give your account a place beside theirs, while trying to satisfy every standard can leave the original purpose harder to recognize.\n\n Beauty can become apparent through use. An ordinary tool, movement or completed piece of work may take on a quality you did not notice while viewing it from a distance. A waking comparison could be appreciating the care in a routine or the skill involved in a modest contribution. This need not become a rule that understated things are superior; it can make closer involvement a different way of encountering a particular result.\n\n A beautiful arrangement that cannot be touched or used can make appreciation and access pull apart. It may be enough to enjoy looking, or frustrating if you wanted to participate. Clear permission or another form of contact can change that relationship. A polished presentation with an unfinished practical need creates a different scene again: its appeal remains real to you while completion requires something the surface does not provide.\n\n Your own appearance may be praised in a way that welcomes participation or keeps attention fixed on one detail. The dreamed response cannot measure your worth or establish anyone's real opinion. Recent art, places, clothing and encounters can also supply the experience directly. A useful reading follows what you found beautiful, how that judgment arose and what it made possible, instead of assuming that one standard must govern every participant.", "traditional": "Miller treats beauty as broadly favorable and assigns pleasure, business and love outcomes to an admired woman or child. This is his period value judgment, not proof that appearance predicts fortune or establishes a shared standard. Personal appreciation can remain separate from those forecasts.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Appreciation at a particular pace", "reflection": "Pausing to notice a quality can give an experience room beyond an immediate assessment. What draws your attention and what follows the pause make that appreciation personal rather than an automatic ranking." }, { "title": "Whose standard has a place", "reflection": "A shared encounter may allow several reasons for admiration or give one person’s criteria priority. Explaining a preference can preserve participation without demanding identical judgments." }, { "title": "Appeal alongside practical use", "reflection": "Beauty and function can be related without one replacing the other. The scene may explore enjoying a presentation, wanting access to it or noticing what still needs to be supplied for its intended purpose." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "An ordinary task becomes beautiful while you watch it closely", "reflection": "The quality appears through attention to an action that first seemed routine. This may picture appreciating care or skill through involvement. The change does not require the task to become grand or superior; what you noticed can give a modest contribution a more particular place." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Several judges admire a result for incompatible reasons", "reflection": "The same work receives standards that do not easily lead to one revision. Explaining your purpose or choosing which criteria serve it may make the response workable. The scene can explore feedback without requiring appreciation to depend on satisfying every audience at once." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A beautiful display cannot be used or approached", "reflection": "The encounter offers an appealing view but restricts the contact you wanted. Looking may be enough, or another arrangement may be needed for participation. The distinction can make appreciation and access separate questions rather than assuming admiration resolves the practical terms." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "An attractive presentation leaves a necessary step unfinished", "reflection": "The surface appeals while the task still requires another contribution. This may picture valuing a result without treating its appearance as proof of completion. Supplying the missing part can preserve the appeal instead of requiring you to dismiss either quality or practical need." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You admire someone without needing to compare them with others", "reflection": "Attention has a particular person as its focus rather than making the encounter a contest. This may explore appreciation that leaves participation intact. The dream’s interest belongs to the scene and does not establish waking desire, another person’s feelings or a universal appearance standard." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "Praise for your appearance leaves your contribution unheard", "reflection": "A welcome comment becomes limiting when it replaces the account you wanted to offer. Speaking, redirecting attention or accepting the compliment alongside another role can create different responses. The scene can explore room to be appreciated more fully without rejecting every form of admiration." } ], "prompts": [ "What quality became worth attending to, and how did you notice it?", "Whose criteria shaped the judgment, and where did your own account fit?", "What did appreciation allow, and what still required practical participation?" ], "related": [ "face", "mirror", "pictures", "makeup", "painting" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0190" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context only. miller-0190: Beauty generally, a beautiful woman and a beautiful child receive pleasure, business and love/union claims. These period value judgments do not validate an appearance standard, moral quality or outcome. This citation does not validate the original psychological reflections or predict a waking outcome." } ], "updated": "2026-10-13", "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection independently reviewed for content and source scope. Historical accounts remain attributed period writing. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0190", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Beauty", "text": "Beauty in any form is pre-eminently good. A beautiful woman brings\npleasure and profitable business. A well formed and beautiful child,\nindicates love reciprocated and a happy union.", "locator": "Heading 190; source lines 3384–3390", "lineStart": 3384, "lineEnd": 3390, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Beauty in any form is pre-eminently good. A beautiful woman brings\npleasure and profitable business. A well formed and beautiful child,\nindicates love reciprocated and a happy union." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "beaver", "title": "Beaver", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing beavers, foretells that you will obtain comfortable circumstances by patient striving.”", "aliases": [ "beaver" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about beaver stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0191", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Beaver", "text": "To dream of seeing beavers, foretells that you will obtain\ncomfortable circumstances by patient striving. If you dream\nof killing them for their skins, you will be accused of fraud\nand improper conduct toward the innocent.", "locator": "Heading 191; source lines 3390–3397", "lineStart": 3390, "lineEnd": 3397, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing beavers, foretells that you will obtain\ncomfortable circumstances by patient striving. If you dream\nof killing them for their skins, you will be accused of fraud\nand improper conduct toward the innocent." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "bed", "title": "Bed", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "The place where support, privacy, and permission to rest become visible.", "summary": "A bed can picture shelter and closeness, a need for recovery, or difficulty finding enough privacy and support to let your guard down.", "aliases": [ "bed" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "A bed can picture the conditions that let you stop working, performing, or keeping watch. Its purpose is to support the body without requiring continual effort, so a comfortable bed may resemble a relationship, routine, or home that allows you to recover. A mattress that collapses or a bed too small for you can give form to support that no longer fits: an arrangement may look adequate until you actually depend on it.\n\nPrivacy is another central feature. Finding your bed in a meeting room or on a busy street can picture the private self becoming exposed in a setting that expects competence. It may fit answering work messages during time meant for rest or feeling that a personal difficulty has become everyone's business. An open-air bed can carry a different feeling if the landscape is peaceful; exposure may become freedom when nobody demands anything from you.\n\nWho occupies the bed can bring closeness and boundaries into the scene. Sharing comfortably may express trust or room for another person in daily life. Being crowded out can resemble giving so much space to someone else's needs that your own comfort disappears. A stranger in your bed might picture an unfamiliar demand entering private territory rather than reveal anything about an actual partner.\n\nAn unfamiliar bed can also suggest adapting to a new form of support. Moving home, accepting help, or entering a different family role may offer safety while still feeling strange. A familiar childhood bed may instead carry the remembered rules of dependence, comfort, or belonging from that period.\n\nMaking a bed joins order with preparation for rest. Finishing it and lying down can picture establishing a workable routine. Repeatedly remaking it without ever sleeping may express the belief that everything must be perfect before you can stop. Recent sleeping arrangements, bedding, and memories can also supply the image directly.", "traditional": "Miller, Fontaine, Noe and Cielo give differing forecasts for beds, rest, visitors and closeness. Noe connects entering the sheets with marriage and a future child; Miller also makes severe illness claims, gendered judgments and a racist association with people passing the bed. These are the writers’ historical prejudices and fortune-telling assertions, not credible assessments of people, health or relationships. Cielo even makes a strange bed troublesome while making sleep fortunate. The original reflection follows support, privacy and company without adopting those forecasts.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Support that holds when you depend on it", "reflection": "A comfortable bed can resemble a dependable place or arrangement that allows recovery. A collapsing or undersized bed may picture support that appears adequate but fails to meet your needs." }, { "title": "Privacy and freedom from performance", "reflection": "A bed in a public setting can express difficulty protecting the private self from other people's expectations. Peaceful open air may instead picture space to rest without interruption." }, { "title": "Room for closeness and boundaries", "reflection": "Sharing a bed comfortably can picture trust, while being crowded out may resemble closeness that leaves insufficient space for your own comfort, preferences, or ordinary personal routines." }, { "title": "Permission to stop preparing", "reflection": "Making a bed can express creating the conditions for rest. Endless remaking may picture standards that keep moving, so recovery is postponed until an impossible level of order arrives." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You settle into a comfortable bed and feel safe", "reflection": "This scene can picture having somewhere to put down responsibility. A dependable friendship, a more workable routine, or being home after travel could fit. The bed holds you without requiring effort, making support feel available at the moment you need it." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Your bed is in the middle of a busy office", "reflection": "A private place placed inside a working environment can express blurred boundaries between recovery and availability. It may fit feeling watched while struggling or being expected to respond during time off. The mismatch makes the demand to remain professional even at rest visible." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Someone takes up the whole bed", "reflection": "Being pushed to the edge can picture an arrangement in which another person's needs leave little room for yours. Shared schedules, living space, or caregiving may be the parallel. The issue is whether closeness includes accommodation in both directions, rather than simply staying together." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A strange bed gradually becomes comfortable", "reflection": "Settling into unfamiliar bedding can picture learning to accept support in a new setting. A move, a new partnership, or staying with family may initially feel awkward. Becoming comfortable suggests that safety can develop through experience even when the surroundings differ from what you know." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You keep making the bed but never lie down", "reflection": "Endless preparation can resemble postponing rest until every obligation is finished or every detail looks right. Cleaning before visitors or repeatedly revising a completed task could fit. The bed is ready in principle, yet the rules you follow prevent you from using it." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The mattress collapses as soon as you rest", "reflection": "A support that fails under your weight can picture discovering that an arrangement cannot carry the need placed on it. A promised break that fills with chores or help that vanishes when requested could fit. The failure becomes clear only when you stop holding yourself up." } ], "prompts": [ "What made the bed feel supportive, uncomfortable, exposed, or crowded?", "Whose needs determined the space available to me, and was there room for both closeness and privacy?", "Did I actually rest, or did preparation and other people's demands keep me from using the bed?" ], "related": [ "pillow", "blanket", "sleep", "house", "hospital" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "scope": "Historical comparison only: Bed, miller-0192 (Heading 192; source lines 3397–3421). Period dream-book claims support only the attributed historical comparison, not predictions or the original modern reflections.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0192" ] }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "scope": "Historical comparison only: Bed, fontaine-0063 (Heading 63; source line 1233). Period dream-book claims support only the attributed historical comparison, not predictions or the original modern reflections.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0063" ] }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "scope": "Historical comparison only: Bed, noe-0046 (Dream section, heading 46; source lines 290–293). Period dream-book claims support only the attributed historical comparison, not predictions or the original modern reflections.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0046" ] }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "scope": "Historical comparison only: Bed, cielo-0049 (Dream section, heading 49; source lines 3974–3977). Period dream-book claims support only the attributed historical comparison, not predictions or the original modern reflections.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0049" ] }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s continuing English editorial delegation. Historical accounts retain their attribution; general sleep background does not validate these interpretations.", "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "DreamFolia AI-assisted editorial review", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "bed", "bathroom", "bridge", "door", "window", "stairs", "road", "clothes", "shoes", "driving", "being-late", "crying", "running", "swimming", "river", "snow", "moon", "sun", "mountain", "fish" ] }, "decisionReason": "Four themes and six scenes distinguish dependable support, exposed privacy, crowded closeness, unfamiliar support, endless preparation and support failing under use. The revised context covers all four writers, including Miller’s racist and medical assertions and Noe’s family forecasts, without adopting them.", "reviewedSnapshot": "data/common-life-publication-review-2026-10-15.json", "contentSha256": "aecd230315842ec1672a85ed61ca80cea8ea4a51c25ef7ae6c2ec1b1bd54dce9" }, "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0192", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Bed", "text": "A bed, clean and white, denotes peaceful surcease of worries.\nFor a woman to dream of making a bed, signifies a new lover\nand pleasant occupation.\n\nTo dream of being in bed, if in a strange room, unexpected friends\nwill visit you. If a sick person dreams of being in bed,\nnew complications will arise, and, perhaps, death.\n\nTo dream that you are sleeping on a bed in the open air, foretells that you\nwill have delightful experiences, and opportunity for improving your fortune.\nFor you to see negroes passing by your bed, denotes exasperating circumstances\narising, which will interfere with your plans.\n\nTo see a friend looking very pale, lying in bed, signifies strange and woeful\ncomplications will oppress your friends, bringing discontent to yourself.\n\nFor a mother to dream that her child wets a bed,\nforetells she will have unusual anxiety, and persons sick,\nwill not reach recovery as early as may be expected.\nFor persons to dream that they wet the bed, denotes sickness,\nor a tragedy will interfere with their daily routine of business.", "locator": "Heading 192; source lines 3397–3421", "lineStart": 3397, "lineEnd": 3421, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "A bed, clean and white, denotes peaceful surcease of worries.\nFor a woman to dream of making a bed, signifies a new lover\nand pleasant occupation.\n\nTo dream of being in bed, if in a strange room, unexpected friends\nwill visit you. If a sick person dreams of being in bed,\nnew complications will arise, and, perhaps, death.\n\nTo dream that you are sleeping on a bed in the open air, foretells that you\nwill have delightful experiences, and opportunity for improving your fortune.\nFor you to see negroes passing by your bed, denotes exasperating circumstances\narising, which will interfere with your plans.\n\nTo see a friend looking very pale, lying in bed, signifies strange and woeful\ncomplications will oppress your friends, bringing discontent to yourself.\n\nFor a mother to dream that her child wets a bed,\nforetells she will have unusual anxiety, and persons sick,\nwill not reach recovery as early as may be expected.\nFor persons to dream that they wet the bed, denotes sickness,\nor a tragedy will interfere with their daily routine of business." }, { "id": "fontaine-0063", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Bed", "text": "To dream that you are lying in bed, signifies that you are in\ndanger; being in bed and not able to sleep, sickness; to see a stranger\nin your bed, brings quarrels in married life; a well-made bed, shows\nthat you will become established in life. 63, 9.", "locator": "Heading 63; source line 1233", "lineStart": 1233, "lineEnd": 1238, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are lying in bed, signifies that you are in\ndanger; being in bed and not able to sleep, sickness; to see a stranger\nin your bed, brings quarrels in married life; a well-made bed, shows\nthat you will become established in life." }, { "id": "noe-0046", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Bed", "text": "To dream you go to the bedside\nof your lover, foretells a speedy marriage; if you dream you go between\nthe sheets, you will have a child within twelve months after marriage, who\nwill become rich and afford you support in your old age.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 46; source lines 290–293", "lineStart": 290, "lineEnd": 293, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you go to the bedside\nof your lover, foretells a speedy marriage; if you dream you go between\nthe sheets, you will have a child within twelve months after marriage, who\nwill become rich and afford you support in your old age." }, { "id": "cielo-0049", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Bed", "text": "To see a strange bed means trouble; to sleep in\n a bed, good luck.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 49; source lines 3974–3977", "lineStart": 3974, "lineEnd": 3977, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a strange bed means trouble; to sleep in\na bed, good luck." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "bed-fellow", "title": "Bed Fellow", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you do not like your bed fellow, foretells that some person who has claims upon you, will censure and make your surroundings…”", "aliases": [ "bed fellow" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about bed fellow stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0194", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Bed Fellow", "text": "To dream that you do not like your bed fellow, foretells that\nsome person who has claims upon you, will censure and make\nyour surroundings unpleasant generally.\n\nIf you have a strange bed fellow, your discontent will worry all who come\nnear you. If you think you have any kind of animal in bed with you,\nthere will be unbounded ill luck overhanging you.", "locator": "Heading 194; source lines 3435–3445", "lineStart": 3435, "lineEnd": 3445, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you do not like your bed fellow, foretells that\nsome person who has claims upon you, will censure and make\nyour surroundings unpleasant generally.\n\nIf you have a strange bed fellow, your discontent will worry all who come\nnear you. If you think you have any kind of animal in bed with you,\nthere will be unbounded ill luck overhanging you." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "bed-chamber", "title": "Bed-chamber", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "aliases": [ "bed-chamber" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "summary": "A bedroom can explore the arrangement of private space, a familiar place used differently, or how rest fits alongside other people’s routines.", "tagline": "A private room can need terms about use as well as access.", "psychological": "A bed-chamber or bedroom in a dream can make the arrangement of private space especially noticeable. Furniture, doors, personal objects and another person’s routine may shape how the room can be used. The focus can be a place for rest, an assigned guest room or a familiar interior that has changed. It need not make every bedroom scene a statement about intimacy or a relationship.\n\nNew furniture can create an attractive room that does not yet work for you. A bed may face an unfamiliar direction or leave no route to a window you wanted to open. This can resemble a change whose appearance has been settled before your ordinary needs have a place. Rearranging the room can concern practical fit without proving that the change itself is wrong.\n\nPersonal objects displayed differently can make privacy a question of presentation. A visitor may see photographs or belongings you expected to keep aside. This can picture wanting control over which parts of your history are available to an audience. The dream does not establish that an actual person has entered your space or violated trust.\n\nBeing given a guest bedroom introduces another arrangement. You may feel welcomed while missing a familiar light, shelf or evening routine. Appreciation and a wish for different conditions can coexist. A door that remains open when you want quiet instead centers access: having a room is different from having the terms you hoped would make it private.\n\nPacking the last object from a bedroom can give departure a particular form. You may want to leave while still deciding what should travel with you. Sharing the room with someone whose resting hours differ creates another question about timing and use. The room can be available to both people without every routine fitting together immediately. These original reflections concern the imagined place and its practical or personal arrangements. They do not assess sleep, prescribe a relationship decision or forecast who will accompany you. A remembered room, visit or furnishing change may remain direct context, while the scene’s actual uses and choices guide whether a broader waking comparison is useful.", "traditional": "Miller’s sole Bed-chamber passage concerns a newly furnished room and predicts a happy change, travel and pleasant companions. It is an attributed period forecast, not evidence about housing, relationships or a future journey. The original reflection here concerns the room’s layout, access, personal objects and shared use; a bed as an object has a related but different focus.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "An arrangement that fits ordinary needs", "reflection": "A room’s attractive appearance can differ from the route, light or use you want." }, { "title": "Privacy through presentation and access", "reflection": "Having a space can involve choices about which objects or people it makes available." }, { "title": "A place shared across changing routines", "reflection": "Welcome, departure and different hours can give belonging practical terms." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "New furniture leaves no easy route to the window you want to open", "reflection": "The room looks complete while an ordinary use remains awkward. This may resemble a change whose appearance was settled before its practical requirements. Moving something or choosing another position can concern fit without making the whole new arrangement a mistake." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Personal objects are displayed where visitors can see them", "reflection": "Your history is available to an audience on unexpected terms. This can picture wanting a choice about what a private space presents. The imagined display does not establish intrusion or broken trust; the particular objects and your preferred use give it context." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A guest bedroom feels welcoming but lacks your familiar evening setup", "reflection": "Hospitality is present while the conditions for an ordinary routine differ. This may resemble appreciation coexisting with a need for adjustment. Wanting a light, shelf or another arrangement need not judge the host or mean that welcome has failed." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "The bedroom door remains open when you want a quiet interval", "reflection": "Having a room has not supplied the access terms you expected. This can picture privacy needing a practical arrangement rather than only an assigned space. The open door does not prove an actual boundary violation or dictate how much closeness you should want." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You pack the last personal object before leaving a familiar bedroom", "reflection": "Departure has a concrete detail that still needs a decision. This may resemble choosing what to carry into a change without erasing the place being left. The object need not reveal a required ending or decide whether attachment is holding you back." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You share the room with someone whose resting hours differ from yours", "reflection": "The space is available to both people while its timing needs negotiation. This can picture company requiring workable terms about use. Different routines need not establish incompatibility or predict a relationship outcome; what each person can request shapes the imagined arrangement." } ], "prompts": [ "Which ordinary use did the room make easy or difficult?", "What did you want to keep private, display or carry away?", "How did another person’s presence or timing alter the arrangement?" ], "related": [ "bed", "childhood-home", "privacy", "nakedness" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0195" ], "scope": "miller-0195: A newly furnished bed-chamber receives happy-change, distant-journey and pleasant-companion forecasts. Exact supplied passages: miller-0195 — Bed-chamber (Heading 195; source lines 3445–3450). Attributed historical comparison only; no forecast validates the original reflection or establishes actual health, relationships, beliefs or circumstances." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0195", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Bed-chamber", "text": "To see one newly furnished, a happy change for the dreamer.\nJourneys to distant places, and pleasant companions.", "locator": "Heading 195; source lines 3445–3450", "lineStart": 3445, "lineEnd": 3450, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see one newly furnished, a happy change for the dreamer.\nJourneys to distant places, and pleasant companions." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "bedbugs", "title": "Bedbugs", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Seen in your dreams, they indicate continued sickness and unhappy states.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "bedbugs", "bed-bugs" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about bedbugs stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0193", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Bedbugs", "text": "Seen in your dreams, they indicate continued sickness and unhappy states.\nFatalities are intimated if you see them in profusion.\n\nTo see bedbugs simulating death, foretells unhappiness caused by illness.\nTo mash them, and water appears instead of blood, denotes alarming but not\nfatal illness or accident. To see bedbugs crawling up white walls, and you\nthrow scalding water upon them, denotes grave illness will distress you,\nbut there will be useless fear of fatality.\n\nIf the water fails to destroy them, some serious complication\nwith fatal results is not improbable.", "locator": "Heading 193; source lines 3421–3435", "lineStart": 3421, "lineEnd": 3435, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Seen in your dreams, they indicate continued sickness and unhappy states.\nFatalities are intimated if you see them in profusion.\n\nTo see bedbugs simulating death, foretells unhappiness caused by illness.\nTo mash them, and water appears instead of blood, denotes alarming but not\nfatal illness or accident. To see bedbugs crawling up white walls, and you\nthrow scalding water upon them, denotes grave illness will distress you,\nbut there will be useless fear of fatality.\n\nIf the water fails to destroy them, some serious complication\nwith fatal results is not improbable." }, { "id": "fontaine-0064", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Bed-Bugs", "text": "Denote strife, and quarrels. 2, 10.", "locator": "Heading 64; source line 1238", "lineStart": 1238, "lineEnd": 1240, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Denote strife, and quarrels." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "beech-and-myrtle-trees", "title": "Beech and Myrtle Trees", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “Signifies wanton women and are good for those who would undertake any such business; to others they are pain and labor.”", "aliases": [ "beech and myrtle trees" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about beech and myrtle trees stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "noe-0060", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Beech and Myrtle Trees", "text": "Signifies wanton women and are\ngood for those who would undertake any such business; to others they are\npain and labor.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 61; source lines 344–346", "lineStart": 344, "lineEnd": 346, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Signifies wanton women and are\ngood for those who would undertake any such business; to others they are\npain and labor." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "beef", "title": "Beef", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “If raw and bloody, cancers and tumors of a malignant nature will attack the subject.”", "aliases": [ "beef" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about beef stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0196", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Beef", "text": "If raw and bloody, cancers and tumors of a malignant nature will attack\nthe subject. Be on your guard as to bruises and hurts of any kind.\n\nTo see, or eat cooked beef, anguish surpassing human aid is before you.\nLoss of life by horrible means will occur. Beef properly served under\npleasing surroundings denotes harmonious states in love and business,\nif otherwise, evil is foreboded, though it may be of a trifling nature.", "locator": "Heading 196; source lines 3450–3460", "lineStart": 3450, "lineEnd": 3460, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If raw and bloody, cancers and tumors of a malignant nature will attack\nthe subject. Be on your guard as to bruises and hurts of any kind.\n\nTo see, or eat cooked beef, anguish surpassing human aid is before you.\nLoss of life by horrible means will occur. Beef properly served under\npleasing surroundings denotes harmonious states in love and business,\nif otherwise, evil is foreboded, though it may be of a trifling nature." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "beehive", "title": "Beehive", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "Activity around a shared center, a place to approach, and a contribution with its own limits.", "summary": "A beehive may explore coordinated activity, your position near a busy shared place, or what happens when contribution and access need different arrangements.", "aliases": [ "beehive", "beehives", "bee hive", "bee hives" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "A beehive can bring attention to a place around which many small movements gather. You might watch arrivals, hear activity inside or be asked to carry something toward the hive. This can resemble an organized undertaking whose parts are easier to notice than its whole purpose. A garden memory, a photograph or a story may also provide the scene directly.\n\nYour position can distinguish interest from participation. Watching from a comfortable distance leaves you free to observe, while needing to pass beside the hive makes its location part of your own task. A busy workplace, household or shared project may have a similar shape. The question can concern how two activities use the same space, rather than whether the group is welcoming or hostile by nature.\n\nAn entrance can make access practical. You may see others move through an opening that is too small for what you carry, or discover another route after struggling with the first. This could picture a contribution that needs a different format or handover. Having something useful to offer does not always mean that you must deliver it by the most visible route.\n\nSound can make an unseen activity feel present. A quiet hive and a loud one may create different expectations, but their meaning depends on what you want to do. Silence could feel restful, disappointing or difficult to understand. The dream need not supply a verdict about whether a group is productive or whether an absence of visible activity means something has gone wrong.\n\nA hive that becomes a model, appears in a room or is carried by several people can change the relation between scale and responsibility. The scene may concern what an arrangement can hold, who helps move it or when your own part can end. These original comparisons concern a bee-related structure, not the medical condition called hives or a beehive hairstyle. They do not predict a sting, assess an actual colony or prescribe handling an animal.", "traditional": "No historical account is attached to this original entry. The separate historical Hives entry concerns a skin condition; its record is not evidence for a bee-related structure. The cited learning experiment supplies memory-research context, not a tested meaning for this image or evidence that a dream predicts an event.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A shared center and a particular task", "reflection": "Many movements may gather around one place while your own purpose remains specific. Observing, contributing and passing by create different encounters." }, { "title": "A contribution needs a usable route", "reflection": "An opening or handover can affect whether an offered item fits the arrangement. Changing the method need not mean abandoning the contribution." }, { "title": "Activity you hear more than see", "reflection": "Sound can supply an impression while leaving the work itself uncertain. The expectation you bring to the sound may be part of the scene." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You watch bees arrive while keeping a comfortable distance", "reflection": "The activity holds your interest without requiring participation. This could preserve ordinary curiosity or picture being near a group while keeping your own pace. Comfortable observation need not be interpreted as exclusion or a reluctance to contribute." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "The item you carry will not fit through the hive’s opening", "reflection": "A contribution and its available route do not match. The scene can resemble a useful idea needing another format, smaller stages or a different handover. The problem concerns delivery, rather than proving that the group has rejected what you offer." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You hear a busy hive but see no movement outside", "reflection": "Sound and visibility provide different accounts of what is happening. This may picture activity whose effects are not yet available to inspect. Curiosity or impatience can matter without turning the unseen work into a promise or a suspicion." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "The hive stands beside the doorway you need to use", "reflection": "Your route and another ongoing activity share a threshold. This can make timing, distance or an alternative entrance useful. The scene may concern negotiating access while leaving room for both purposes, rather than treating the hive as an automatic threat." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Several people help move an enormous model hive", "reflection": "The object’s scale changes the task, while its model form changes what you need to consider. The scene can explore cooperation around a representation or shared idea. Notice who carries, directs and decides where the arrangement will go." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You leave after completing one small task near the hive", "reflection": "The larger activity continues while your contribution reaches an ending. This may picture a useful boundary around participation. Satisfaction, curiosity or reluctance to leave can clarify what you wanted without requiring responsibility for everything that happens afterward." } ], "prompts": [ "What was your own purpose near the shared activity?", "Which opening, distance or handover made a contribution possible?", "When did your part in the scene begin and end?" ], "related": [ "bees", "honey", "wasp", "ants", "garden" ], "sources": [ { "id": "wamsley-2010", "title": "Dreaming of a learning task is associated with enhanced sleep-dependent memory consolidation", "author": "Erin J. Wamsley and colleagues", "url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20417102/", "scope": "Primary maze-learning experiment; task-related dream reports correlated with later performance. It does not show that a dream is an accurate memory or a solution." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s continuing English editorial delegation. The memory study is general context, not validation of these interpretations.", "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "DreamFolia AI-assisted editorial review", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "aisle", "ambulance", "bakery", "binoculars", "backstage", "birdbath", "birdhouse", "beehive", "billboard", "bookmark", "turnstile", "antlers", "armchair", "bathrobe" ] }, "decisionReason": "The bee-related structure has six scenes about a shared center, a contribution’s route, sound, access and bounded participation. The existing Hives medical record stays with its owner, hairstyle uses are excluded in lookup/detection, and no handling advice or colony-health inference is offered.", "reviewedSnapshot": "data/everyday-publication-review-2026-10-15.json", "contentSha256": "dbe218d66a25b18cc223b68e5b0d4c38ef5fe9e8d6017a786e8afefe7aa420e1" }, "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "beer", "title": "Beer", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Fateful of disappointments if drinking from a bar.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "beer" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about beer stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0197", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Beer", "text": "Fateful of disappointments if drinking from a bar. To see others drinking,\nwork of designing intriguers will displace your fairest hopes.\n\nTo habitue's of this beverage, harmonious prospectives are foreshadowed,\nif pleasing, natural and cleanly conditions survive. The dream occurrences\nfrequently follow in the actual.", "locator": "Heading 197; source lines 3460–3469", "lineStart": 3460, "lineEnd": 3469, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Fateful of disappointments if drinking from a bar. To see others drinking,\nwork of designing intriguers will displace your fairest hopes.\n\nTo habitue's of this beverage, harmonious prospectives are foreshadowed,\nif pleasing, natural and cleanly conditions survive. The dream occurrences\nfrequently follow in the actual." }, { "id": "fontaine-0065", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Beer", "text": "To dream you are drinking beer, is a sure sign of domestic\ntroubles. 6, 8.", "locator": "Heading 65; source line 1240", "lineStart": 1240, "lineEnd": 1243, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are drinking beer, is a sure sign of domestic\ntroubles." }, { "id": "cielo-0050", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Beer", "text": "Signifies unfruitful endeavor.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 50; source lines 3977–3979", "lineStart": 3977, "lineEnd": 3979, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Signifies unfruitful endeavor." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "bees", "title": "Bees", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "summary": "Bees may picture coordinated effort, activity that fills a private space, or contact whose small sting leaves a strong impression.", "tagline": "Many small movements, one busy setting, and the boundary around it.", "aliases": [ "bees", "of flyes", "bee" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "Bees moving through flowers can picture many small contributions forming a useful pattern. A group project, household routine, or community activity may offer a parallel when no single action explains the whole result. Watching the movement can feel satisfying because each participant appears to have a place. If you cannot distinguish where your own effort belongs, the same busyness may make coordination feel opaque. The scene can explore useful shared activity without treating work as a moral duty or predicting a reward for industry.\n\nA swarm near a doorway can make proximity and access central. There may be no attack, yet an ordinary route suddenly requires attention. This can resemble a crowded stream of requests or an active group whose presence changes how freely you use a shared space. Waiting, taking another entrance, or finding a way to coexist creates different relationships with the activity. The bees need not stand for hostile people; the problem may be where their movement intersects with yours rather than what any individual intends.\n\nA hive inside your home can give productive activity an unexpected setting. Work that belongs somewhere else may have entered a space meant for rest, or a lively shared project may have become part of daily life in a welcome way. Feeling pleased by its presence differs from being unable to find a quiet corner. The question may be whether usefulness gives an activity permission to occupy every room. Being able to set a boundary can matter even when you value what the group is doing.\n\nA sting shifts the encounter toward the effect of a brief contact. A small comment, interruption, or mistake can leave a strong impression, particularly when it occurs during otherwise cooperative work. This is a comparison with the dream’s intensity, not evidence of an allergy, injury, enemy, or betrayal. A single bee separated from the group may instead bring attention to an individual whose needs disappear within a busy whole. A garden, real hive, sound, documentary, or remembered sting can supply the image directly. The useful reflection concerns the movement, its location, and your place beside it, rather than borrowing old forecasts about wealth, character, or relationships.", "traditional": "Nine attached sources give differing occupation-based, work, honey, noise, and sting forecasts. The archaic “Of Flyes” record explicitly discusses bees, honey, wax, and stings despite its heading and transcription gaps. These passages remain attributed historical material; their religious associations and predictions are not adopted as verified facts or current dream meanings.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Coordination through small actions", "reflection": "Many movements can picture a shared result that depends on ordinary contributions. A visible place for your effort differs from busyness you cannot understand or join." }, { "title": "Activity crossing a boundary", "reflection": "A hive or swarm near private space can explore useful work that changes access and rest. Valuing the activity does not determine where it belongs." }, { "title": "A brief contact with a lasting effect", "reflection": "A sting can make a small encounter feel disproportionately present. The scene concerns the impression it leaves, without identifying an enemy or medical condition." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Bees move steadily between several flowers", "reflection": "The scene offers a pattern composed of many small actions. This may picture shared work whose parts fit together. Feeling included differs from watching a useful process without understanding where your contribution can belong." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A swarm waits beside the doorway you need", "reflection": "An ordinary route becomes difficult because activity occupies its entrance. This can resemble a crowded set of requests. Another route may restore choice without requiring the bees to be enemies or the whole activity to stop." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A hive appears inside your bedroom", "reflection": "Busy life enters a setting associated with privacy or rest. This may picture useful activity taking more space than you intended. Enjoying the company differs from feeling that productivity has become permission to occupy every part of home." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "One bee stings during an otherwise calm scene", "reflection": "A brief contact changes the emotional tone of a cooperative setting. The image may fit a small exchange that remains vivid afterward. Receiving attention or moving away creates a different response from searching for blame within the whole group." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You help a lone bee leave a closed room", "reflection": "One participant’s movement has become separated from the larger pattern. This can picture practical care for a small need easily overlooked. Opening a route differs from trying to make the animal respond in a reassuring way." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You work beside others tending a colony", "reflection": "The shared activity requires continuing attention rather than one dramatic gesture. This may picture satisfaction in cooperative maintenance. Clear roles and the ability to pause distinguish participation from responsibility that always falls to you." } ], "prompts": [ "Could I see a place for my own effort within the activity?", "Where did busyness belong, and where did it interfere with access or rest?", "Did a single encounter change how I felt about the whole scene?" ], "related": [ "honey", "wasp", "hornet", "flower", "sting" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0198" ], "scope": "Attached historical comparison only: Bees — miller-0198 (Heading 198; source lines 3469–3481): Pleasant/profitable engagements and role-specific forecasts; a sting is associated with loss/injury from a friendly source. These period assertions are preserved as attributed archival material; they neither validate this original modern reflection nor establish an outcome." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0066" ], "scope": "Attached historical comparison only: Bees — fontaine-0066 (Heading 66; source line 1243): Farming, love, and marriage forecasts with a Sting cross-reference. These period assertions are preserved as attributed archival material; they neither validate this original modern reflection nor establish an outcome." }, { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display.", "recordIds": [ "artemidorus-084" ], "scope": "Attached historical comparison only: Of Flyes. — artemidorus-084 (Book 2, encoded section 84): Archaic Of Flyes body explicitly concerns bees, honey, wax, stings, and differences by occupation; the transcription includes illegible gaps. These period assertions are preserved as attributed archival material; they neither validate this original modern reflection nor establish an outcome." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0054" ], "scope": "Attached historical comparison only: Bees — noe-0054 (Dream section, heading 55; source lines 317–323): Stings, work, honey at home, and wealth category receive different forecasts. These period assertions are preserved as attributed archival material; they neither validate this original modern reflection nor establish an outcome." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0051" ], "scope": "Attached historical comparison only: Bees — cielo-0051 (Dream section, heading 51; source lines 3979–3982): Watching/catching and being stung are assigned success and failure. These period assertions are preserved as attributed archival material; they neither validate this original modern reflection nor establish an outcome." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0019" ], "scope": "Attached historical comparison only: Bees — luck-0019 (Dream section, heading 19; source lines 3557–3559): Steady pursuit of an objective is linked to success. These period assertions are preserved as attributed archival material; they neither validate this original modern reflection nor establish an outcome." }, { "id": "guide-65367", "title": "Guide to Fortune-Telling by Dreams", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Multum in Parvo Library, Vol. I, No. 10, October 1894", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65367", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "guide-0013" ], "scope": "Attached historical comparison only: Bees — guide-0013 (Dream section, heading 13; source lines 158–170): Longer forecasts for stings, working, honey at home, marriage, and wealth categories. These period assertions are preserved as attributed archival material; they neither validate this original modern reflection nor establish an outcome." }, { "id": "moles-71045", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams and Moles", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "United Kingdom, J. Marshall, 1805", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71045", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "moles-0067" ], "scope": "Attached historical comparison only: Bees — moles-0067 (Dreams interpreted, passage 67; source lines 303–304): Bees are called active friends; stings/buzzing are connected to enemies and reports. These period assertions are preserved as attributed archival material; they neither validate this original modern reflection nor establish an outcome." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L9159" ], "scope": "Attached historical comparison only: Bee — craig-1918:L9159 (Printed p. 200; NLM OCR lines 9159–9176): A historical compilation contrasts sting/no sting, noise, honey, and occupations, followed by asserted religious and symbolic associations; those are attributed statements, not independent verification. These period assertions are preserved as attributed archival material; they neither validate this original modern reflection nor establish an outcome." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0198", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Bees", "text": "Bees signify pleasant and profitable engagements.\n\nFor an officer, it brings obedient subjects and healthful environments.\n\nTo a preacher, many new members and a praying congregation.\n\nTo business men, increase in trade. To parents, much pleasure\nfrom dutiful children. If one stings, loss or injury will bear\nupon you from a friendly source.", "locator": "Heading 198; source lines 3469–3481", "lineStart": 3469, "lineEnd": 3481, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Bees signify pleasant and profitable engagements.\n\nFor an officer, it brings obedient subjects and healthful environments.\n\nTo a preacher, many new members and a praying congregation.\n\nTo business men, increase in trade. To parents, much pleasure\nfrom dutiful children. If one stings, loss or injury will bear\nupon you from a friendly source." }, { "id": "fontaine-0066", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Bees", "text": "(_See Sting._) It is good and lucky to dream of bees; to a\nfarmer it predicts good crops; to a lover, excellent success with his\nsweetheart; to a maid it promises a good and wealthy husband. 17, 62, 4.", "locator": "Heading 66; source line 1243", "lineStart": 1243, "lineEnd": 1247, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Sting.) It is good and lucky to dream of bees; to a\nfarmer it predicts good crops; to a lover, excellent success with his\nsweetheart; to a maid it promises a good and wealthy husband." }, { "id": "artemidorus-084", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of Flyes.", "text": "BEes are good to Plowmen, and to such as thereby get profit▪ to others they signifye trouble, by rea[illegible passage] [illegible passage] the noyse they make: and wounds, by reason of their sting: and sicknesse by reason of their honey and waxe. Fluttering upon ones head, they are good to him which should be a Thiefe or Captain: to others, they signifye evill; especially death before people or souldiers. To shut in these flyes, and also to kill them, is good to all, only except to Country men and Plowmen.", "locator": "Book 2, encoded section 84", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription-with-gaps", "book": "2", "displayText": "BEes are good to Plowmen, and to such as thereby get profit▪ to others they signifye trouble, by rea [illegible passage] [illegible passage] the noyse they make: and wounds, by reason of their sting: and sicknesse by reason of their honey and waxe. Fluttering upon ones head, they are good to him which should be a Thiefe or Captain: to others, they signifye evill; especially death before people or souldiers. To shut in these flyes, and also to kill them, is good to all, only except to Country men and Plowmen.", "editorialNote": "Archaic heading Flyes contains a passage explicitly about bees, their sting, honey and wax; it does not describe a person flying." }, { "id": "noe-0054", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Bees", "text": "To dream they\nsting you, denotes loss of character, and if you are in love, of your\nsweetheart. To dream you see them at work, is a very lucky dream; it\nforebodes great success by your own industry. To dream you see them making\ntheir honey under your own roof is the best omen in the world. For the\nrich to dream of bees, is rather unlucky, but to the poor, they denote\ncomfort, affluence and success.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 55; source lines 317–323", "lineStart": 317, "lineEnd": 323, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream they\nsting you, denotes loss of character, and if you are in love, of your\nsweetheart. To dream you see them at work, is a very lucky dream; it\nforebodes great success by your own industry. To dream you see them making\ntheir honey under your own roof is the best omen in the world. For the\nrich to dream of bees, is rather unlucky, but to the poor, they denote\ncomfort, affluence and success." }, { "id": "cielo-0051", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Bees", "text": "To catch or watch them means success; to be\n stung by them, failure.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 51; source lines 3979–3982", "lineStart": 3979, "lineEnd": 3982, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To catch or watch them means success; to be\nstung by them, failure." }, { "id": "luck-0019", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Bees", "text": "Steady pursuit of object in view will bring success.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 19; source lines 3557–3559", "lineStart": 3557, "lineEnd": 3559, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Steady pursuit of object in view will bring success." }, { "id": "guide-0013", "sourceId": "guide-65367", "heading": "Bees", "text": "To dream of them has a variety of interpretations according to\ntheir different situations. To dream they sting you denotes loss of\ngood character, and, if you are in love, of your sweetheart.\n\nTo dream you see them at work is very lucky, and means success by\nyour industry; if you are in love, you will marry the object of your\naffections. To dream you see them making their honey under your own\nroof is the best omen in the world, it denotes riches, a good husband\nor wife, good children, whatever you undertake will be prosperous.\nFor the rich to dream of bees is rather unlucky; but to the poor they\ndenote comfort, affluence and success.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 13; source lines 158–170", "lineStart": 158, "lineEnd": 170, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of them has a variety of interpretations according to\ntheir different situations. To dream they sting you denotes loss of\ngood character, and, if you are in love, of your sweetheart.\n\nTo dream you see them at work is very lucky, and means success by\nyour industry; if you are in love, you will marry the object of your\naffections. To dream you see them making their honey under your own\nroof is the best omen in the world, it denotes riches, a good husband\nor wife, good children, whatever you undertake will be prosperous.\nFor the rich to dream of bees is rather unlucky; but to the poor they\ndenote comfort, affluence and success." }, { "id": "moles-0067", "sourceId": "moles-71045", "heading": "Bees", "originalHeading": "(no printed heading)", "text": "To dream of bees denotes active friends, or if they sting, busy\nenemies, or the buzzing of evil reports.", "locator": "Dreams interpreted, passage 67; source lines 303–304", "lineStart": 303, "lineEnd": 304, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "editorialNote": "The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Bees” because that is the subject of its first clause.", "displayText": "To dream of bees denotes active friends, or if they sting, busy\nenemies, or the buzzing of evil reports." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9159", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Bee", "heading": "Bee", "text": "\"A dream both good and bad. Good if the bees sting not, bad if they sting. Bees flying about the ears signify harassment by enemies, but to beat them off without being stung signifies victory over foes. Seeing bees profit to country people and trouble to the rich. To dream that they make their honey in the house signifies dignity, eloquence and success to the occupants. To be stung by a bee denotes vexation and trouble. To take bees augurs profit. A dream of bees is auspicious to plowmen and to thosei profiting from this industry, to others this dream signifies trouble by reason of the noise bees make, wounds by reason of their sting, and sickness by reason of their honey and wax. Jupiter is said to have been nourished by bees, and in his infancy Pindar was supposedly fed on honey instead of milk. They were sacred to Artemis and they appear on her statues and on her coins ; Mahomet admits bees to Paradise. In modern Christian art they symbolize industry.", "lineStart": 9159, "lineEnd": 9176, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 200; NLM OCR lines 9159–9176", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9159, "lineEnd": 9176, "printedPage": 200, "printedPageEnd": 200 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Bee. — \"A dream both good and bad. Good if the bees \nsting not, bad if they sting. Bees flying about the ears signify \nharassment by enemies, but to beat them off without being \nstung signifies victory over foes. Seeing bees profit to country \npeople and trouble to the rich. To dream that they make their \nhoney in the house signifies dignity, eloquence and success \nto the occupants. To be stung by a bee denotes vexation and \ntrouble. To take bees augurs profit. A dream of bees is \nauspicious to plowmen and to thosei profiting from this \nindustry, to others this dream signifies trouble by reason of \nthe noise bees make, wounds by reason of their sting, and \nsickness by reason of their honey and wax. Jupiter is said \nto have been nourished by bees, and in his infancy Pindar \nwas supposedly fed on honey instead of milk. They were \nsacred to Artemis and they appear on her statues and on her \ncoins ; Mahomet admits bees to Paradise. In modern Christian \nart they symbolize industry. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 0.99935, "secondaryHeading": "Bee" }, "displayText": "\"A dream both good and bad. Good if the bees sting not, bad if they sting. Bees flying about the ears signify harassment by enemies, but to beat them off without being stung signifies victory over foes. Seeing bees profit to country people and trouble to the rich. To dream that they make their honey in the house signifies dignity, eloquence and success to the occupants. To be stung by a bee denotes vexation and trouble. To take bees augurs profit. A dream of bees is auspicious to plowmen and to thosei profiting from this industry, to others this dream signifies trouble by reason of the noise bees make, wounds by reason of their sting, and sickness by reason of their honey and wax. Jupiter is said to have been nourished by bees, and in his infancy Pindar was supposedly fed on honey instead of milk. They were sacred to Artemis and they appear on her statues and on her coins; Mahomet admits bees to Paradise. In modern Christian art they symbolize industry.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Bee” is shown on the Bees page: singular/plural" } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [ "sting" ] }, { "slug": "beetles", "title": "Beetles", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "aliases": [ "beetles", "beetle", "cock-chafer" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "summary": "Beetles can explore close attention to an unfamiliar form, a small interruption during presentation, or helping without taking over an encounter.", "tagline": "An unfamiliar shape can become more particular through contact and use.", "psychological": "A beetle appearing on your clothing during an important introduction can make a small living detail compete with how you intended to present yourself. You may want to continue the meeting while restoring comfort or explaining the interruption. A minor practical issue during a public task can have a similar structure. The beetle does not establish poverty, embarrassment or a flaw in your appearance.\n\nA beetle mistaken for a small ornament can bring recognition apart from the form you expected. Something apparently decorative begins to move and now needs another kind of contact. A role or resource treated mainly through presentation may similarly become a practical encounter. The changed account can be interesting without requiring you to blame the first impression for being incomplete.\n\nHelping an overturned beetle while others hurry past can picture a task whose scale seems small to the group but particular to you. You may choose a brief pause without taking responsibility for everything around the encounter. An overlooked request or unfinished contribution may offer a parallel. The significance comes from this choice and its limits, not from a fixed character of generosity attached to the insect.\n\nSeveral beetles forming a pattern before moving apart can make order and independent activity visible together. A plan may be useful while its participants need room to depart from the initial arrangement. Trying to keep the pattern unchanged creates a different scene from enjoying its temporary form. Neither response proves that you control or neglect the people in your life.\n\nA beetle inside a clear container can make closeness available while raising questions about what the arrangement allows the visitor to do. Watching through a window instead may leave a boundary without requiring possession. A photograph, a collected object or an actual encounter can supply direct imagery. These original comparisons follow recognition, particular assistance and changing forms of order. They do not make a creature’s surface or species evidence of resilience, character or illness. If recognition was uncertain, a broad insect association can remain useful without requiring the remembered form to become a more precise species.", "traditional": "Miller’s Beetles passage predicts poverty/small ills from beetles on the person and favors killing them. Craig’s owned Cock-Chafer record contains only “See Beetle.” These two records are not two independent interpretations and establish no health, financial or species-character rule.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Recognition changes when the form moves", "reflection": "An apparent decoration can become a practical encounter needing another account than its initial presentation." }, { "title": "A small task can have chosen limits", "reflection": "A brief act of assistance can matter without becoming responsibility for every surrounding condition." }, { "title": "A pattern leaves room for activity", "reflection": "An orderly arrangement can be useful while the participating creatures retain their own movement." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A beetle appears on your clothing during an introduction", "reflection": "A small interruption competes with the presentation you intended. This may picture a practical issue arising during a public task. Restoring comfort and continuing the encounter can both matter without interpreting the insect as evidence of poverty, shame or a defect in appearance." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "An object you took for an ornament begins to move like a beetle", "reflection": "Recognition changes the kind of contact the object needs. This can resemble something assessed mainly through presentation becoming a practical participant. An incomplete first impression need not be a failure; the new movement supplies information unavailable from appearance alone." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You help an overturned beetle while others continue walking", "reflection": "A particular need gives you a reason to pause. This may picture a request small in scale but meaningful within your route. Chosen assistance can have limits without requiring you to take over the entire encounter or treat others’ pace as indifference." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Beetles form a clear pattern and then move apart", "reflection": "Order exists briefly without preventing separate activity. This can resemble a useful plan whose participants need room to change position. Enjoying the arrangement and wanting to preserve it offer different readings; neither decides what degree of coordination a real group requires." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A clear box brings a beetle close but leaves little room to move", "reflection": "An arrangement provides visibility while restricting another need. This may picture understanding something through conditions that limit its activity. More space or another form of contact can support observation without requiring possession to be the only way to remain interested." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "A beetle crosses the far side of a window", "reflection": "Contact remains possible through a clear boundary. This can resemble appreciating another participant without directing their route. Watching may be enough for this encounter; the dream does not require proximity, intervention or a fixed lesson about strength from the creature’s surface." } ], "prompts": [ "What information changed the first impression of the creature?", "Which limit made assistance feel chosen and workable?", "How could an arrangement preserve interest while allowing movement?" ], "related": [ "insects", "spider", "cockroach", "window" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0199" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. miller-0199 — Beetles (Heading 199; source lines 3481–3486): Beetles on the person predict poverty/small ills; killing is called good." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L9602" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. craig-1918:L9602 — Cock-Chafer (Printed p. 209; NLM OCR lines 9602–9603): Cock-Chafer record contains only See Beetle; no independent Beetles interpretation." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection independently reviewed for content and source scope. Historical accounts remain attributed period writing. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0199", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Beetles", "text": "To dream of seeing them on your person, denotes poverty and small ills.\nTo kill them is good.", "locator": "Heading 199; source lines 3481–3486", "lineStart": 3481, "lineEnd": 3486, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing them on your person, denotes poverty and small ills.\nTo kill them is good." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9602", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Cock-Chafer", "heading": "Cock-Chafer", "text": "See Beetle.", "lineStart": 9602, "lineEnd": 9603, "kind": "cross-reference", "locator": "Printed p. 209; NLM OCR lines 9602–9603", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9602, "lineEnd": 9603, "printedPage": 209, "printedPageEnd": 209 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Cock-Chafer. — See Beetle. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Cock-Chafer" }, "displayText": "See Beetle." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "beets", "title": "Beets", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see them growing abundantly, harvest and peace will obtain in the land.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "beets" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about beets stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0200", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Beets", "text": "To see them growing abundantly, harvest and peace will obtain in the land;\neating them with others, is full of good tidings.\n\nIf they are served in soiled or impure dishes, distressful awakenings\nwill disturb you.", "locator": "Heading 200; source lines 3486–3494", "lineStart": 3486, "lineEnd": 3494, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see them growing abundantly, harvest and peace will obtain in the land;\neating them with others, is full of good tidings.\n\nIf they are served in soiled or impure dishes, distressful awakenings\nwill disturb you." }, { "id": "noe-0062", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Beets", "text": "To dream of eating beets, signifies\nfreedom from trouble and expedition on business, because they make the\nbody soluble.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 63; source lines 347–349", "lineStart": 347, "lineEnd": 349, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of eating beets, signifies\nfreedom from trouble and expedition on business, because they make the\nbody soluble." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "beggar", "title": "Beggar", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "5 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see an old, decrepit beggar, is a sign of bad management, and unless you are economical, you will lose…” Compare 5 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "beggar", "beggars" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about beggar stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0201", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Beggar", "text": "To see an old, decrepit beggar, is a sign of bad management,\nand unless you are economical, you will lose much property.\nScandalous reports will prove detrimental to your fame.\n\nTo give to a beggar, denotes dissatisfaction with present surroundings.\n\nTo dream that you refuse to give to a beggar is altogether bad.", "locator": "Heading 201; source lines 3494–3504", "lineStart": 3494, "lineEnd": 3504, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see an old, decrepit beggar, is a sign of bad management,\nand unless you are economical, you will lose much property.\nScandalous reports will prove detrimental to your fame.\n\nTo give to a beggar, denotes dissatisfaction with present surroundings.\n\nTo dream that you refuse to give to a beggar is altogether bad." }, { "id": "fontaine-0067", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Beggars", "text": "To dream that a beggar annoys you, is a sign of misfortune, or\nsome piece of bad luck. To a young girl who has a suitor, it predicts\nthat if she marries him she will be poor. 26.", "locator": "Heading 67; source line 1247", "lineStart": 1247, "lineEnd": 1251, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that a beggar annoys you, is a sign of misfortune, or\nsome piece of bad luck. To a young girl who has a suitor, it predicts\nthat if she marries him she will be poor." }, { "id": "noe-0035", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Beggars", "text": "To dream of beggars is rather unfavorable, especially to\nlovers and persons in business. To dream they beg alms of you and that you\nrefuse it, denotes misery, want, and a prison; if you are in love, some\nscandalous person will ruin you with your sweetheart. To dream that you\ngive them alms, indicates success in business, and that you will obtain,\nafter much difficulty, the object of your affections; your children will\nbe sickly, and narrowly escape many dangers.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 35; source lines 238–244", "lineStart": 238, "lineEnd": 244, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of beggars is rather unfavorable, especially to\nlovers and persons in business. To dream they beg alms of you and that you\nrefuse it, denotes misery, want, and a prison; if you are in love, some\nscandalous person will ruin you with your sweetheart. To dream that you\ngive them alms, indicates success in business, and that you will obtain,\nafter much difficulty, the object of your affections; your children will\nbe sickly, and narrowly escape many dangers." }, { "id": "cielo-0052", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Beggar", "text": "To give alms means an unforeseen present; to\n be a beggar, unexpected health.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 52; source lines 3982–3985", "lineStart": 3982, "lineEnd": 3985, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To give alms means an unforeseen present; to\nbe a beggar, unexpected health." }, { "id": "luck-0020", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Beggars", "text": "To dream of beggars is a fortunate sign to lovers and\nbusiness people.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 20; source lines 3559–3562", "lineStart": 3559, "lineEnd": 3562, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of beggars is a fortunate sign to lovers and\nbusiness people." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "beheading", "title": "Beheading", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of being beheaded, overwhelming defeat or failure in some undertaking will soon follow.” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "beheading" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about beheading stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "guide-65367", "title": "Guide to Fortune-Telling by Dreams", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Multum in Parvo Library, Vol. I, No. 10, October 1894", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65367", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0202", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Beheading", "text": "To dream of being beheaded, overwhelming defeat or failure\nin some undertaking will soon follow.\n\nTo see others beheaded, if accompanied by a large flow of blood,\ndeath and exile are portended.", "locator": "Heading 202; source lines 3504–3512", "lineStart": 3504, "lineEnd": 3512, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being beheaded, overwhelming defeat or failure\nin some undertaking will soon follow.\n\nTo see others beheaded, if accompanied by a large flow of blood,\ndeath and exile are portended." }, { "id": "fontaine-0068", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Beheading", "text": "To dream that you see a person that is going to be beheaded,\nor if you see one beheaded, it is an excellent sign; in love you will\nbe successful; in prison you will be released; and any trouble you have\nwill soon vanish; it is also a sign you will soon meet a long absent\nfriend who will be glad to see you. 74, 19, 10.", "locator": "Heading 68; source line 1251", "lineStart": 1251, "lineEnd": 1257, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you see a person that is going to be beheaded,\nor if you see one beheaded, it is an excellent sign; in love you will\nbe successful; in prison you will be released; and any trouble you have\nwill soon vanish; it is also a sign you will soon meet a long absent\nfriend who will be glad to see you." }, { "id": "noe-0052", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Beheading", "text": "To dream you see any one beheaded,\nis a good omen; if you are in love, you will marry the object of your\naffections. If you are in prison, you will speedily gain your liberty.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 53; source lines 313–316", "lineStart": 313, "lineEnd": 316, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see any one beheaded,\nis a good omen; if you are in love, you will marry the object of your\naffections. If you are in prison, you will speedily gain your liberty." }, { "id": "guide-0014", "sourceId": "guide-65367", "heading": "Beheading", "text": "To dream you see any one beheaded is a good omen; if you\nare in love, you will marry the object of your affections; if you are\nin trouble of any kind, it will speedily vanish; it denotes, also, that\nyou will see some friend who has long been absent, and that he will be\nin good health.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 14; source lines 170–176", "lineStart": 170, "lineEnd": 176, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see any one beheaded is a good omen; if you\nare in love, you will marry the object of your affections; if you are\nin trouble of any kind, it will speedily vanish; it denotes, also, that\nyou will see some friend who has long been absent, and that he will be\nin good health." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "being-attacked", "title": "Being attacked", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "A threat interrupts the scene, and your response becomes part of the story.", "summary": "A dream of being attacked can centre on sudden threat, bodily vulnerability, or the search for help. The attacker’s role is not a waking accusation.", "aliases": [ "attacked", "being stabbed", "stabbed", "stabbing", "attack", "assault", "assaulted", "someone attacking me", "being attacked in a dream" ], "status": "REVIEW", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "An attack dream can be upsetting even when the event is brief or poorly remembered. Begin at the level of detail that feels manageable: an approaching figure, a sudden blow, a weapon, or simply the knowledge that you were under threat. You do not need to reproduce violence to make the experience clear. The dream does not establish that an assault is coming or that anyone it depicts intends to harm you.\n\nThe source and setting change the scene. A stranger in an unfamiliar street, a known person in a familiar room, and an indistinct crowd each creates a different uncertainty. If a personal comparison seems useful, consider the felt experience of being interrupted, pressured, or unable to set a boundary. That is only one possible approach. Recent fiction, a report, or a remembered event may supply the image more directly, and not every detail needs symbolic interpretation.\n\nYour response deserves care rather than judgment. Fighting, running, freezing, bargaining, or watching from outside the scene are all dream events, not tests of courage or consent. If you felt little pain or emotion, that does not prove indifference or a hidden wish. Dreams may skip sensations, change viewpoint, or move abruptly to a later scene. Record those shifts without treating them as a diagnosis.\n\nHelp and aftermath may carry the most useful detail. Who noticed, where did you go, and what allowed the scene to end? A dream that echoes actual violence can be approached gently, with the option to leave details unwritten or share the feeling with someone you trust. Reflection does not require a reassuring explanation. It can simply preserve what happened in the dream while keeping real-world judgments grounded in waking facts.", "traditional": "No historical account is attached to this specific attack scene. Related archive subjects involving weapons, ambushes, or wounds do not establish why a dreamer was attacked or what a real person intends. No forecast, moral judgment, or claim of hidden desire is drawn from the violence.\n\nEveryday sources may include a tense conversation, a frightening story, a remembered conflict, or images seen in media. The scene can also be entirely invented. If a known person appeared as the attacker, write their dream actions separately from the actual relationship before considering any association. Familiar casting can make an imagined event feel convincing without supplying evidence. You may choose to focus instead on the boundary crossed, the absence or presence of bystanders, or what support became available afterward. These concrete details often allow reflection without repeating the most distressing part.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "A stranger attacks while others do not react", "reflection": "The bystanders may be as important as the attacker. Describe whether they saw what happened and whom you expected to help. The scene may explore a wish for support, but it does not establish that actual people would abandon you." }, { "title": "A familiar person suddenly becomes threatening", "reflection": "Record the change and what made it unexpected, without assuming a motive. The scene may borrow a face for an imagined conflict or recall a real concern. It is not evidence of that person’s intent, and any waking judgment requires waking facts." }, { "title": "You reach a place where help is available", "reflection": "The ending can shift attention from threat to safety and care. Describe the practical difference the helper made and what you needed afterward. The scene may help name a form of support you value without prescribing how a real emergency should unfold." } ], "prompts": [ "What detail can you record comfortably without reliving the whole scene?", "What did the dream show about help, distance, or a possible exit?", "Which parts belong to actual waking experience, and which were invented?" ], "related": [ "being-chased", "being-trapped", "a-stranger", "knife", "wound" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia expansion written on 2026-10-13, awaiting human publication review. Interpretations are conditional invitations to reflection, not validated symbolic meanings, predictions, diagnoses, or evidence about other people. Historical coverage is identified separately from original everyday context; research citations provide general context only.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "being-beheaded", "title": "Being Beheaded", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Artemidorus wrote: “To dreame that he is beheaded, whether justly or otherwise, is ill to him which hath a father, mother and children: for he shall lose…”", "aliases": [ "being beheaded", "of being beheaded" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about being beheaded stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "artemidorus-024", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of being Beheaded.", "text": "TO dreame that he is beheaded, whether justly or otherwise, is ill to him which hath a father, mother and children: for he shall lose them. Some also having had this dreame, have lost their Wives, Friends, and Farme: and others having houses have lost them. And he which hath all these things, shall not have good lucke with them all: but as I have known by experience, he shall lose that which is most necessary, and which he shall estéem most dearly. This dream is good for him which is accused of any crime, and is in danger of death: but to Changers, Usurers, Masters of Gallies, or Merchants, and all such as gathers money, it signifies losse of a summe of money: this dreame is good for debters. He which is in a farre Country and hath this dreame, shall return into his▪ own: he which is in suit for his inheritance shall obtain his suit: but in a case of Trespasse or money, he shall be overthrowne.", "locator": "Book 1, encoded section 24", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "1", "displayText": "To dreame that he is beheaded, whether justly or otherwise, is ill to him which hath a father, mother and children: for he shall lose them. Some also having had this dreame, have lost their Wives, Friends, and Farme: and others having houses have lost them. And he which hath all these things, shall not have good lucke with them all: but as I have known by experience, he shall lose that which is most necessary, and which he shall estéem most dearly. This dream is good for him which is accused of any crime, and is in danger of death: but to Changers, Usurers, Masters of Gallies, or Merchants, and all such as gathers money, it signifies losse of a summe of money: this dreame is good for debters. He which is in a farre Country and hath this dreame, shall return into his▪ own: he which is in suit for his inheritance shall obtain his suit: but in a case of Trespasse or money, he shall be overthrowne." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "being-blocked-by-someone", "title": "Being blocked by someone", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "tagline": "A familiar route to another person closes without a conversation.", "summary": "Being blocked can create uncertainty about a relationship or the right to make contact. Notice whether you wanted an answer, an explanation, or simply access.", "aliases": [ "being blocked by someone" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "The sudden boundary may have felt rejecting, confusing, protective, or unsurprising in the dream. Consider what contact you were trying to make and whether you believed an answer was owed. You might explore the difficulty of not knowing another person’s reasons while still recognizing that access is not the same as closeness. The dream gives no reliable information about the person’s waking intentions. Include any other way the scene allowed you to feel connected or complete.", "traditional": "Blocking an account is a modern social boundary. Comparisons with a closed door or unanswered letter do not establish why someone would choose it.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "You discovered the block while asking for help", "reflection": "The practical need may matter as much as the relationship. Did another person or route become available?" }, { "title": "You tried to contact them through other accounts", "reflection": "The dream may show how hard it felt to leave a question unanswered. Record the urge without treating it as a waking instruction." }, { "title": "You accepted the boundary and moved on", "reflection": "The ending may contain disappointment and relief together. What became possible when you stopped trying to reopen contact?" } ], "prompts": [ "What did I want the other person to answer?", "What did I assume about their reason?", "What helped me continue without resolving the uncertainty?" ], "related": [ "being-left-on-read", "an-unsent-message", "a-social-media-account-disappearing" ], "sources": [], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection draft, written for this specific modern scene. Suggested connections are exploratory, not established dream meanings. Individual editorial review remains pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "being-called-by-the-wrong-name-or-gender", "title": "Being called by the wrong name or gender", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "Being addressed in a way that does not fit you can put recognition, self-definition, and the effort of correcting others into the dream.", "summary": "Being addressed in a way that does not fit you can put recognition, self-definition, and the effort of correcting others into the dream.", "aliases": [ "misgendered in a dream", "called by an old name in a dream" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "Notice whether the mismatch felt careless, hostile, affectionate, or merely strange. Your reaction might concern gender, a former role, family expectations, or the desire to be known accurately. A dream does not determine your identity, and you do not have to derive one from it. Pay attention to who respected your correction and whether the scene gave you room to name yourself.", "traditional": "Historical naming and appearance entries often presume fixed social roles. This draft gives no authority to those assumptions and does not frame recognition of your identity as vanity or a deceptive change of self.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "A familiar person keeps using an old name", "reflection": "What did that name connect you to that no longer felt accurate?" }, { "title": "You correct someone and they adjust easily", "reflection": "How did ordinary acknowledgment affect your sense of belonging?" }, { "title": "You decide not to correct a stranger", "reflection": "Was silence protective, tiring, indifferent, or freely chosen?" } ], "prompts": [ "What form of address felt right to you in the dream?", "Whose recognition mattered most?", "How much effort did the scene ask you to spend explaining yourself?" ], "related": [ "the-self" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia model-assisted editorial draft. Reflection questions and scenario readings are optional, individually written suggestions, not empirically validated symbol meanings. Source scope is stated with each citation. Historical comparisons identify topics, not inherited interpretations. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "being-chased", "title": "Being chased", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "What keeps you running, and what would let the chase end?", "summary": "A chase can give shape to avoidance, relentless demands, or feeling exposed. What follows you—and whether you can stop—changes the reading.", "aliases": [ "chased", "chasing", "pursued", "pursuing", "being chased" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "Being chased can give shape to something you do not want to meet yet. An overdue reply, an unpaid bill, or a conversation you keep rehearsing may feel manageable when put aside, then return as soon as you pause. The chase fits that experience because escape brings temporary distance while leaving the pursuer active. This reading is more useful when the dream repeatedly brings you back to the same threat. The question may be less “What am I afraid of?” than “What becomes harder the longer I leave it?”\n\nPressure is another possibility, especially when you are already doing everything you can. A pursuer that appears wherever you turn can resemble demands with no clear stopping point: messages after work, several people needing you at once, or a deadline followed immediately by another. Here, running may express effort rather than avoidance. If every hiding place fails, the problem in the image could be that rest never feels protected. That distinction matters: the useful response might be a limit, help, or a smaller workload, rather than trying harder to face something.\n\nA chase can also center on vulnerability. You may be trying to escape exposure, embarrassment, or an encounter in which you feel physically smaller and less able to choose. A huge animal, a crowd, or a pursuer with impossible speed makes the imbalance tangible. Starting an unfamiliar job or entering a group where you do not yet know the rules could offer a waking parallel. A recognizable pursuer might carry an expectation you associate with that person; the dream gives a form to your experience of the relationship, not knowledge of their intentions.\n\nWhether the pursuit can end is a useful clue. Reaching safety and still waiting for footsteps may point toward difficulty believing that a demand is over. A pursuer who loses interest could bring relief at no longer being the center of attention. Stopping and discovering an ordinary person might make a feared encounter seem more discussable. Being caught without the expected harm could shift the story from escape to tolerating an uncomfortable meeting. None of these endings makes confrontation the right choice in every waking situation; they show different ways the imagined pressure changes.\n\nNot every chase is a problem disguised as a story. An exhilarating pursuit through rooftops or a forest may be about daring, resourcefulness, play, or the pleasure of moving quickly. A film, game, or recent encounter can supply the whole adventure. If fear sits beside excitement, both deserve space. The strongest reading is the one that explains the dream's particular pace and ending, rather than treating the word “chased” as an answer by itself.", "traditional": "The anonymous The Interpretation of Dreams and Moles (J. Marshall, 1805) describes a furious beast pursuing someone who cannot evade it, then forecasts victory for the dreamer's enemies. The supplied passage concerns an inescapable animal pursuit; it says little about playful chases, successful escapes, or pursuers who change when approached.\n\nIts enemy forecast is a period belief, not evidence that someone is plotting against you. The useful historical contrast is the book's emphasis on a predetermined outcome. A present reading can give more weight to what the dream allows: distance, help, negotiation, a pause, or no usable refuge. Those differences support distinct personal questions about pressure and safety instead of one ominous conclusion.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "An unseen pursuer", "reflection": "Footsteps follow you, but no face appears. This can fit diffuse pressure: you know you must keep moving without knowing which demand to address first. If the chase feels more mysterious than frightening, uncertainty or curiosity may be the better thread than avoidance." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A familiar person follows you", "reflection": "A boss, relative, or former friend pursues you through changing places. Their presence may carry an expectation you associate with them—approval, explanation, repayment, or compliance. The reading concerns what that relationship brings up for you; the dream does not disclose what the person intends." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A powerful animal closes in", "reflection": "The pursuer is faster or stronger than you, and ordinary barriers barely slow it. The imbalance may fit a situation where your options feel small beside the pressure. The animal could also come directly from a remembered encounter, making fear of the creature the clearest reading." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Every hiding place is found", "reflection": "You escape into a room or crowd, only for the pursuit to restart. Temporary relief without a convincing ending can resemble a postponed problem or demands that reach you during rest. The distinction depends on whether the dream feels like evasion or exhausting effort." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You stop and the encounter changes", "reflection": "You turn around, and the pursuer speaks, becomes smaller, or fails to do the harm you expected. The change may suggest that the feared meeting has more possibilities than running allowed. It is an invitation to reconsider the imagined threat, not an instruction to confront someone unsafe." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The chase feels like a game", "reflection": "You leap, improvise, or laugh while being followed, and the ending feels satisfying. This can be an adventure about skill and daring rather than a warning. The pursuer creates a challenge that lets you use abilities you enjoy; recent games or films may explain the setting." } ], "prompts": [ "What did being caught seem to mean: harm, exposure, an explanation, or simply the end of the game?", "Does the pursuit resemble something I postpone, or demands I am already working hard to meet?", "What finally allowed rest—and if nothing did, what kept the chase active?" ], "related": [ "running-but-going-nowhere", "being-trapped", "being-attacked", "being-lost", "bear" ], "sources": [ { "id": "moles-71045", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams and Moles", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "United Kingdom, J. Marshall, 1805", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71045", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "scope": "Historical belief only; supplied passages: Being chased — Dreams interpreted, passage 6; source lines 127–128. Not evidence of predictions or a universal symbol meaning.", "recordIds": [ "moles-0006" ] }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s delegation of editorial decisions. Historical forecasts remain attributed period claims; these reflections are not predictions or clinical assessments.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Something postponed", "reflection": "A task or conversation may keep returning because distance has not resolved it. This reading fits a chase that repeatedly resumes after a brief escape, especially when the threat feels specific." }, { "title": "Demands without a stopping point", "reflection": "A pursuer who seems to be everywhere may resemble obligations that follow you into supposed rest. Running can express sustained effort; the question may be how to create a limit or share the load." }, { "title": "Feeling exposed or outmatched", "reflection": "A much stronger pursuer can make vulnerability visible. Consider where you want more room, protection, or choice, especially if the dream gives you few workable routes." }, { "title": "Adventure and resourcefulness", "reflection": "A thrilling chase can offer play, daring, or a sense of capability. Excitement, inventive escapes, and an ending you enjoy support this reading as much as frightening imagery supports others." } ], "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "DreamFolia AI-assisted editorial review", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "do what its best I have no idea", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "snake", "teeth-falling-out", "being-chased", "flying", "falling", "being-naked-in-public", "cheating", "school-or-exam", "death" ] }, "decisionReason": "The reading separates postponement from sustained demands and playful pursuit. The six endings and pursuers support distinct questions, without directing unsafe confrontation.", "reviewedSnapshot": "data/common-dream-publication-review-2026-10-15-v2.json", "contentSha256": "f728a8baf23e95bd07ea743120ff636b89395d5ccb92a1a9b04c0b5d3d51b1e8" }, "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "moles-0006", "sourceId": "moles-71045", "heading": "Being chased", "originalHeading": "(no printed heading)", "text": "To dream some furious beast pursues you, and you cannot avoid it,\nbetokens your enemies will prevail against you.", "locator": "Dreams interpreted, passage 6; source lines 127–128", "lineStart": 127, "lineEnd": 128, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "editorialNote": "The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Being chased” because that is the subject of its first clause.", "displayText": "To dream some furious beast pursues you, and you cannot avoid it,\nbetokens your enemies will prevail against you." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "being-cheated", "title": "Being cheated", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of being cheated in business, you will meet designing people who will seek to close your avenues to fortune.”", "aliases": [ "being cheated", "cheated" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about being cheated stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0394", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cheated", "text": "To dream of being cheated in business, you will meet designing people\nwho will seek to close your avenues to fortune.\n\nFor young persons to dream that they are being cheated in games, portend they\nwill lose their sweethearts through quarrels and misunderstandings.", "locator": "Heading 394; source lines 5377–5385", "lineStart": 5377, "lineEnd": 5385, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being cheated in business, you will meet designing people\nwho will seek to close your avenues to fortune.\n\nFor young persons to dream that they are being cheated in games, portend they\nwill lose their sweethearts through quarrels and misunderstandings.", "editorialNote": "Passage explicitly concerns fraud in business and games; current Cheating core page concerns infidelity." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "being-excluded-from-a-gathering", "title": "Being excluded from a gathering", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "Discovering a gathering you were not invited to may raise questions about belonging, expectations, and whose company you actually want.", "summary": "Discovering a gathering you were not invited to may raise questions about belonging, expectations, and whose company you actually want.", "aliases": [ "not invited to a party dream", "left out of a group" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "Notice how you learned about the gathering and whether exclusion was explicit or inferred. A photograph without you, a closed door, and a direct refusal carry different evidence even inside the dream. Explore the hurt without using the dream to conclude that waking friends secretly reject you. You may also notice relief at escaping an obligation, or a wish to choose a different group.", "traditional": "Historical banquet and friendship omens do not establish the intentions of real people. The social comparison in this page is an optional present-day reflection, including where online visibility makes gatherings feel unusually public.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "You see photographs of a party afterward", "reflection": "Did the pain concern the event, the concealment, or comparison with others?" }, { "title": "Someone invites you once they notice you outside", "reflection": "Would a late invitation meet the need, or did acknowledgment matter more?" }, { "title": "You decide to meet a different friend", "reflection": "What kind of welcome did you want to choose for yourself?" } ], "prompts": [ "Was the exclusion stated or assumed?", "Whose invitation mattered most, and why?", "Did you want this gathering or the reassurance of being included?" ], "related": [ "party", "friend", "slighted" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia model-assisted editorial draft. Reflection questions and scenario readings are optional, individually written suggestions, not empirically validated symbol meanings. Source scope is stated with each citation. Historical comparisons identify topics, not inherited interpretations. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "being-fired", "title": "Being fired", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "tagline": "What ended, and what happened after you left?", "summary": "Being fired in a dream can bring up belonging, livelihood, or a role ending. Notice the reason given, others’ reactions, and your own response.", "aliases": [ "fired", "getting fired", "sacked", "being sacked", "laid off", "redundancy", "losing my job", "dismissed", "let go", "being made redundant" ], "status": "REVIEW", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "Begin with the reason for the dismissal and whether you understood it. A remembered error, an unexplained decision, and a workplace closing put responsibility in different places. You may feel the same shock in each version, but the scene does not always accuse you of failure. Write what was said and what you supplied yourself to explain it.\n\n Identify what losing the job meant inside the dream. Was the immediate concern income, routine, a relationship with colleagues, access to a place, or the loss of an identity? Packing a desk can make belongings the focus; finding the building unchanged after you leave can highlight separation. The specific consequence may be more useful than the dismissal alone.\n\n Current news, uncertainty at work, an old job, or somebody else’s experience can contribute material. If your workplace is undergoing change, the dream can be understandable without becoming a forecast. If no job is involved in your waking concerns, consider whether another role feels conditional or difficult to leave. That is a possible analogy, not evidence that a friendship or family position is about to end.\n\n Include relief if it appeared. Feeling lighter, angry, ashamed, confused, or free are different responses, and more than one can occur. The ending may involve seeking an explanation, reclaiming possessions, receiving support, or simply going home. A useful reflection might name what you would miss and what you would welcome leaving behind. Keep actual employment decisions grounded in waking information rather than treating the imagined dismissal as a prediction or instruction.", "traditional": "The historical Office entry uses losing a position as a basis for forecasts of loss. Miller predicts lost valuables, while Noe gives a much harsher account involving property, death, and affection. Those predictions belong to their books' fortune-telling methods. A dream dismissal supplies no basis for adopting them.\n\n Miller’s Employment account illustrates how unsettled that method can be: it treats employment negatively but describes being out of work as a sign of being sought after. Reading the passages together exposes disagreement rather than yielding a consistent employment code. Their value here is historical comparison, not reassurance about a job’s security.\n\n Modern dismissal can have practical and personal consequences that these short records do not address. The terms of the departure, whether you could speak, and the reactions of others all shape the dreamed experience. Exploring those details offers an original way to reflect on attachment to a role without assigning a fixed fortune to its ending.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "The dismissal arrives without a reason", "reflection": "Describe the missing explanation and how you tried to obtain one. The scene may centre on uncertainty or exclusion rather than on any mistake. Do not invent a cause merely to make the dream feel complete." }, { "title": "You feel relieved while packing", "reflection": "Which items did you take, abandon, or forget? Relief may coexist with worry about what comes next. Notice what felt burdensome in the dream without assuming you need to leave an actual job." }, { "title": "Colleagues help you leave", "reflection": "Record whether help meant practical support, kindness, protest, or an uncomfortable farewell. The response can matter as much as the decision itself, especially if the scene changes once you are no longer alone." } ], "prompts": [ "What did the loss of this role threaten or release?", "Which explanation was actually given in the dream?", "What did I want from the people who witnessed the departure?" ], "related": [ "job-interview", "boss", "employment", "training-the-person-who-will-replace-you" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "scope": "Historical comparison: Office (Heading 1427; source lines 16243–16253); Employment (Heading 711; source lines 8463–8476). These period accounts do not establish a present-day outcome or validate the personal reflections on this page.", "recordReferences": [ { "id": "miller-1423", "heading": "Office", "locator": "Heading 1427; source lines 16243–16253" }, { "id": "miller-0711", "heading": "Employment", "locator": "Heading 711; source lines 8463–8476" } ], "recordIds": [ "miller-1423", "miller-0711" ] }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "scope": "Historical comparison: Office (Dream section, heading 370; source lines 1433–1436). These period accounts do not establish a present-day outcome or validate the personal reflections on this page.", "recordReferences": [ { "id": "noe-0365", "heading": "Office", "locator": "Dream section, heading 370; source lines 1433–1436" } ], "recordIds": [ "noe-0365" ] } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection expanded on October 13, 2026. Historical readings are attributed period beliefs; proposed personal connections are exploratory. Human publication review remains pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "being-ignored", "title": "Being ignored", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "You make an attempt at contact, and the response is missing.", "summary": "Being ignored in a dream can mean an unanswered greeting, unnoticed effort, or silence after a message. Notice what response you were seeking.", "aliases": [ "being ignored", "ignored", "nobody listens", "no one listens", "being overlooked", "invisible to others", "people ignoring me", "talking but nobody hears", "being dismissed", "not being heard" ], "status": "REVIEW", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "Being ignored becomes distinctive through the attempt that receives no answer. You might greet a group, ask an urgent question, show work you are proud of, or send a message that remains unread. Describe what you offered and what response you expected. The scene may concern attention, acknowledgment, information, or participation; these are related but not interchangeable needs.\n\nThe dream can make silence feel deliberate even when it gives no explanation. Separate what others did from what you inferred. Did someone turn away after looking at you, or did they never seem aware of your presence? A person unable to hear you creates a different scene from a person refusing to answer. Neither version supplies evidence about anyone’s real attitude or intentions.\n\nIf the feeling resembles waking experience, identify a concrete interaction rather than judging a whole relationship. An unfinished conversation, delayed reply, or contribution missed in a meeting may offer a comparison. The scene could also come from a fictional gathering, a recent memory, or ordinary uncertainty about how to enter a conversation. A painful dream does not show that you are unimportant or that your efforts always go unnoticed.\n\nYour response can change the story. Repeating yourself, approaching one person, leaving, or becoming louder each asks something different of the situation. You might eventually be heard through a gesture or by someone outside the original group. Record whether the reply you received was the one you wanted. That detail can help articulate a need for a certain kind of response, rather than simply more attention in general.", "traditional": "No historical account is attached to this specific experience of being ignored. General historical topics involving speech, crowds, or absence do not establish the motives of a dream listener. This entry makes no forecast of rejection and does not use a silent dream character as evidence about a real relationship.\n\nEveryday communication contains gaps: messages arrive at inconvenient times, people become distracted, meetings move quickly, and a question may need clarification. A dream can exaggerate a gap into a room where nobody reacts at all. Record whether it gave an ordinary reason for the silence or removed explanation completely. If technology was involved, note whether the message failed to send, went unread, or was read without a reply. Those are distinct dream events, and preserving their differences can keep your reflection more precise than the single label ignored.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "A greeting passes through a group", "reflection": "Notice whether anyone looked at you and what the group was doing. The scene may focus on finding an opening to join, or on a wish for recognition. It does not establish that the people whose faces appeared would exclude you awake." }, { "title": "A message is read but unanswered", "reflection": "The visible read receipt can make waiting feel personal. Record what you wrote and how time passed in the dream. Explore the uncertainty of an absent response without treating the invented silence as knowledge about the recipient’s real feelings." }, { "title": "One person finally listens", "reflection": "Describe what the listener did differently and whether that met your need. A quiet response may matter more than the original group’s attention. The scene can help distinguish wanting an audience from wanting one person to understand a particular message." } ], "prompts": [ "What response did you want, beyond being noticed?", "What did the dream show, and what intention did you infer?", "How did your attempts at contact change as the scene continued?" ], "related": [ "being-left-on-read", "talking-while-muted", "unable-to-scream", "loneliness", "being-excluded-from-a-gathering" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia expansion written on 2026-10-13, awaiting human publication review. Interpretations are conditional invitations to reflection, not validated symbolic meanings, predictions, diagnoses, or evidence about other people. Historical coverage is identified separately from original everyday context; research citations provide general context only.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "being-in-two-places-at-once", "title": "Being in two places at once", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "A dream can seem to hold two locations together without resolving the contradiction. Describe what each place contributed to the scene.", "summary": "A dream can seem to hold two locations together without resolving the contradiction. Describe what each place contributed to the scene.", "aliases": [ "two places at once dream", "overlapping locations in a dream" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "You may be in a childhood kitchen and a current workplace simultaneously, or know you are both home and far away. Treat this as the remembered form of the dream, not proof of literal bilocation. An optional reflection is to ask what relationship, task, or feeling linked the places. Sometimes the useful observation is simply that the combination felt ordinary until you woke and tried to describe it.", "traditional": "Stories about being in two places can carry specific spiritual meanings, but this draft does not attribute such an experience to a tradition without a source. The focus here is overlapping dream settings and personal associations.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "A room is both your office and your family kitchen", "reflection": "Which role or expectation belonged to each part of the space?" }, { "title": "You are at home while also arriving abroad", "reflection": "Did the combination offer belonging, freedom, or confusion?" }, { "title": "The places separate when someone asks where you are", "reflection": "What changed when you had to choose one description?" } ], "prompts": [ "Which features belonged to each location?", "Did the contradiction bother you inside the dream?", "What feeling or relationship connected the places, if any?" ], "related": [ "childhood-home", "places-of-assembly" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia model-assisted editorial draft. Reflection questions and scenario readings are optional, individually written suggestions, not empirically validated symbol meanings. Source scope is stated with each citation. Historical comparisons identify topics, not inherited interpretations. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "being-judged", "title": "Being judged", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "A verdict in a dream is still something you can question.", "summary": "Being judged can make a standard, criticism, or unfair comparison feel vivid. Explore who set the rules and whether you had a chance to respond.", "aliases": [ "judged", "being criticised", "criticised", "criticized", "being criticized", "criticism", "being evaluated", "harsh feedback", "scolded", "being told off", "disapproval" ], "status": "REVIEW", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "Write down the judgement as closely as you can. Was it a grade, an accusation, a comparison, laughter, or a look you interpreted as disapproval? The dream’s emotional force can remain after its words fade. Separating the statement from your reaction may reveal whether the scene was about a specific mistake, belonging, appearance, or a rule you could not understand.\n\n Identify who had authority and how they acquired it. A parent, teacher, manager, jury, or stranger may carry different memories and expectations. Ask whether the dream let you explain yourself, whether the rules changed, and whether others were held to the same standard. An unfair process is a different subject from receiving useful criticism, even when both feel uncomfortable.\n\n A recent review, comparison, disagreement, or embarrassing moment can provide a straightforward source for the scene. You might also notice language you use against yourself appearing in another person’s mouth. Treat that as a possible connection rather than proof that every dream critic is part of you. Sometimes the face matters because of a particular relationship; sometimes it is simply a familiar casting choice.\n\n Record your own response and any supportive presence. Did you accept the verdict, challenge it, withdraw, or discover that it did not matter? A dream can raise a question about which opinions deserve weight without answering it. Compare the standard in the scene with what you would reasonably expect of somebody else in the same position. You do not need to act on the judgement or use it as evidence that people secretly disapprove of you.", "traditional": "The historical Judge page concerns courts and legal authority. Miller gives different forecasts according to the result of a case; Cielo interprets a judge as coming punishment. These accounts are period fortune-telling statements, not evidence that a dream verdict is deserved or that a real dispute will follow.\n\n Everyday evaluation covers much more than a courtroom. A review of work, an assessment of appearance, and a moral accusation involve different standards and relationships. When an older entry discusses a literal judge, its relevance to an informal dream critic is limited. The historical passages remain available as records of those authors' methods.\n\n A contemporary reading can instead examine fairness: whether the criteria were clear, whether you could respond, and whether the scene allowed your circumstances to count. That is an original reflective exercise. It neither diagnoses an inner critic nor proves that somebody outside the dream is judging you.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "The rules keep changing", "reflection": "Record each change and who announced it. The scene may help you describe an impossible standard or uncertainty about expectations; distinguish a moving target from a task you simply found difficult." }, { "title": "You cannot give your side", "reflection": "Notice whether the barrier was interruption, missing words, or a decision already made. The unanswered explanation may be more significant to you than the verdict. Write the response you wanted to offer without assuming the dream required it." }, { "title": "You decide the judgement is unfair", "reflection": "What detail allowed you to question the authority? A witness, contradictory rule, or change in your own position can shift the scene from shame to disagreement. Include that movement in your account." } ], "prompts": [ "What standard was I expected to meet, and who defined it?", "Which parts of the verdict did I accept or question?", "What circumstances would a fair assessment have considered?" ], "related": [ "judge", "public-speaking", "school-or-exam", "guilt" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "scope": "Historical comparison: Judge (Heading 1100; source lines 12655–12663). These period accounts do not establish a present-day outcome or validate the personal reflections on this page.", "recordReferences": [ { "id": "miller-1098", "heading": "Judge", "locator": "Heading 1100; source lines 12655–12663" } ], "recordIds": [ "miller-1098" ] }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "scope": "Historical comparison: Judge (Dream section, heading 233; source lines 4419–4421). These period accounts do not establish a present-day outcome or validate the personal reflections on this page.", "recordReferences": [ { "id": "cielo-0233", "heading": "Judge", "locator": "Dream section, heading 233; source lines 4419–4421" } ], "recordIds": [ "cielo-0233" ] } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection expanded on October 13, 2026. Historical readings are attributed period beliefs; proposed personal connections are exploratory. Human publication review remains pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "being-late", "title": "Being late", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "A wanted arrival has a journey and a response.", "summary": "Being late may explore what arriving would allow, how the journey depends on others and the response available after delay.", "aliases": [ "late", "tardy", "running late" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "Being late in a dream may place a wanted arrival beside the conditions of reaching it. A gathering can have begun, a person may be waiting, or you may feel behind without knowing exactly where you should be. The journey's purpose matters alongside the time. Lateness does not by itself establish unreliability, an expired opportunity or another person's disappointment.\n\nEntering after an activity has started can make the response more important than the delay. Someone may offer a useful place to join, rather than the disapproval you anticipated. This can resemble returning to a conversation after missing its beginning. A late arrival still changes what you can contribute, but it need not erase the purpose that made participation wanted.\n\nReadiness and arrival can depend on different conditions. You may be prepared while the bus remains absent, making an agreed meeting rely on a service you cannot start yourself. A waking comparison could involve waiting for a handover before you can complete your own part. Additional preparation may not address that particular dependency, even when you care about arriving.\n\nAn extended goodbye creates another kind of delay. Each attempted departure opens one more wanted exchange with the people already present. Connection here and participation elsewhere may both matter. The dream can make their competing timing visible without deciding that either relationship is a distraction or that leaving proves indifference.\n\nStopping to help someone on the way may similarly change your arrival while giving the interruption its own value. Pleasure in the help can coexist with concern about the waiting occasion. Neither feeling has to cancel the other. The particular choice and the response afterward can distinguish this scene from being held up by a process you did not choose.\n\nFinding the gathering in another room may reveal that part of the delay concerned usable directions. Rushing toward an appointment you cannot name can instead leave the purpose itself uncertain. Pausing to discover what arrival is meant to allow gives that urgency a different direction. These original comparisons concern reaching an occasion; a missed flight or train has the narrower event of a departure already lost. Recent journeys and actual scheduling concerns can also account for the imagery without requiring a hidden judgment about your priorities.", "traditional": "No historical record is attached directly to Being late. This original reading follows arrival, the journey and the response at an occasion; it does not borrow the separate historical railway forecast used on Missing a flight or train. NINDS supplies general dream background only, rather than evidence that lateness has a fixed meaning.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You enter after the beginning and are offered a role", "reflection": "The gathering has started, yet someone makes a useful place for you. The received response differs from what the journey led you to expect. This can picture participation remaining wanted after a delay, while allowing the part you missed to matter without deciding the whole occasion is lost." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You are ready while the bus never arrives", "reflection": "Preparation is complete, but reaching the appointment depends on a service that does not appear. The difficulty concerns a missing supporting condition. This may resemble waiting for a handover, where another round of checking your own readiness would not make the needed next step available." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Each goodbye opens another wanted conversation", "reflection": "You try to leave, but another exchange with the people present feels worth staying for. The waiting appointment and the current connection compete for time. The scene can explore how departure might acknowledge both, rather than making either relationship an obstacle that should automatically be dismissed." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Helping on the way makes your arrival late", "reflection": "You choose to assist someone and reach the occasion after its beginning. Satisfaction in the help can remain beside concern about the delay. The scene may make two purposes visible at once, with their particular consequences offering more detail than a verdict about whether helping or hurrying was correct." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The gathering is in a different room from the instructions", "reflection": "You reach the indicated place and discover that the occasion is elsewhere. The delay includes the quality of the directions, rather than simply your pace. Finding another route can preserve wanted participation, while uncertainty may concern what information would have made arrival practical." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You hurry toward an appointment you cannot name", "reflection": "Urgency is clear while the expected destination remains undefined. The scene can make a felt demand separate from an understood purpose. Pausing to discover what arrival would allow may change the journey's direction, without requiring the unexplained pressure to prove that an actual obligation has been forgotten." } ], "prompts": [ "What did arriving at this occasion seem to make possible?", "How did preparation, another person or the route affect your arrival?", "What did the response after delay allow you to do next?" ], "related": [ "missing-a-flight-or-train", "school-or-exam", "clock", "a-deadline-moving-closer" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s continuing English editorial delegation. Historical accounts retain their attribution; general sleep background does not validate these interpretations.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Arrival still has a purpose", "reflection": "Joining after a beginning can change participation without automatically removing its value." }, { "title": "Readiness and the conditions of reaching", "reflection": "A service, a handover or usable directions can matter separately from your own preparation." }, { "title": "Timing between wanted activities", "reflection": "An earlier exchange or chosen interruption can have value alongside the occasion awaiting you." } ], "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "DreamFolia AI-assisted editorial review", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "bed", "bathroom", "bridge", "door", "window", "stairs", "road", "clothes", "shoes", "driving", "being-late", "crying", "running", "swimming", "river", "snow", "moon", "sun", "mountain", "fish" ] }, "decisionReason": "The body distinguishes wanted arrival, dependencies, competing valued connections, a chosen interruption, faulty directions and unexplained urgency. Six scenes do not turn delay into a character verdict or an expired opportunity. No unrelated railway history is borrowed; the absence of an attached passage is explicit.", "reviewedSnapshot": "data/common-life-publication-review-2026-10-15.json", "contentSha256": "b731e77721d5e550e76eb05c334e115b831da09bdd6e7d6d716526c6b23c8f5a" }, "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "being-left-on-read", "title": "Being left on read", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "tagline": "You know the message arrived; the response stays uncertain.", "summary": "Being left on read can focus attention on waiting and the meaning you give silence. The receipt supplies a fact in the dream, but no explanation.", "aliases": [ "being left on read" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "Notice how quickly the dream moved from a read receipt to a conclusion. Did you assume rejection, danger, anger, or simple delay? That distinction may help you reflect on what uncertainty felt like in this relationship. Compare what the recipient actually did with the story you told yourself while waiting. A dream about silence provides no reliable evidence about another person’s feelings or conduct outside the dream.", "traditional": "Read receipts have no direct historical equivalent. Older images of unanswered letters can suggest a comparison, but they do not explain this specific digital signal.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "You kept checking the timestamp", "reflection": "The repeated checking may be the central action. What else stopped while you waited?" }, { "title": "Other people received replies", "reflection": "The dream introduced a comparison. Notice whether you wanted reassurance, equal treatment, or a particular answer." }, { "title": "You put the phone away", "reflection": "Ending the wait may have felt freeing or unfinished. Record what drew your attention back to your own surroundings." } ], "prompts": [ "What did the message ask for?", "What did I know, and what did I assume?", "How did waiting change my next action?" ], "related": [ "an-unread-message", "being-blocked-by-someone", "an-unsent-message" ], "sources": [], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection draft, written for this specific modern scene. Suggested connections are exploratory, not established dream meanings. Individual editorial review remains pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "locked-out", "title": "Being locked out", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "A place remains familiar while the terms of entry have changed.", "summary": "Being locked out can explore access, belonging or dependence on a key or response. Follow what prevents entry rather than assuming rejection.", "aliases": [ "being locked out", "locked out", "lost keys", "losing keys", "cannot get in", "forgotten password", "locked out of the house", "wrong key" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "Being locked out can picture the difference between knowing a place and being able to enter it. You recognize the door, remember what is inside or have a task waiting there, yet one condition of entry is missing. This can resemble a familiar role whose procedures have changed, a conversation you want to join or a practical plan dependent on a small resource. The closed entrance does not by itself establish rejection.\n\nA forgotten key and a deliberately withheld key make different stories. The first may concern preparation, memory or an arrangement too dependent on one object. The second puts the terms of access between people into focus. Even then, the dream describes an imagined interaction rather than revealing another person’s intentions. Notice whether an explanation, shared plan or alternative entrance is available.\n\nTiming can give the scene its urgency. You may be outside in bad weather, need an object before an appointment or discover the problem while the building is otherwise unused. This can make comfort, responsibility or participation more important than inclusion alone. Someone answering slowly differs from nobody being inside; both can feel frustrating without proving that you are unwelcome.\n\nAn entrance that recognizes someone else but not you can bring attention to which kind of identification the setting accepts. A changed password, unfamiliar rule or old name may not fit your present role. The scene may resemble needing the record of your participation brought up to date. Explaining who you are differs from having to earn an entirely new place.\n\nIf you choose another destination, the encounter can become a question about whether entering remains necessary. Leaving may be welcome, reluctant or simply practical until help arrives. It need not decide the value of the relationship or place. Actual keys, accounts, travel and household routines can provide direct context. The useful comparison concerns the particular condition that prevents entry and whether it still serves the purpose you need.", "traditional": "No matching historical passage specifically covers the varied locked-out scenes here. Key and door records remain with their existing topics. These are original comparisons about access and participation, not evidence of exclusion, an undisclosed intention or the security of a real home or account.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Your own key no longer fits a familiar door", "reflection": "An established means of entry stops working. This may picture an arrangement whose conditions changed without your part being updated. The mismatch need not mean the place or the people inside have rejected you." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You hear movement inside but cannot get an answer", "reflection": "The scene offers signs of presence without a usable response. This can resemble waiting for acknowledgment before a task can proceed. The uncertainty matters; imagined sounds do not disclose why an actual person is unavailable." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A forgotten password blocks an otherwise ordinary task", "reflection": "A small piece of information controls a larger activity. This may fit frustration with a process that makes participation depend on one remembered detail. Help, another method or a later attempt creates different options." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Someone else enters while the system rejects your old name", "reflection": "Recognition depends on a record that no longer describes you correctly. This can picture wanting a changed role acknowledged. Updating the terms of entry differs from having to prove your worth from the beginning." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A neighbor offers somewhere warm while you wait", "reflection": "The original entrance remains closed while immediate comfort becomes available. This may give attention to assistance that fits one need without solving every problem. Accepting it does not decide whether you will return later." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You leave for another place after realizing the task can wait", "reflection": "Urgency changes when the purpose is reconsidered. This can resemble separating a wanted entrance from an immediate requirement. The alternative may be practical or disappointing; either response can remain part of the account." } ], "prompts": [ "What condition of entry was missing or no longer accepted?", "What made entering urgent at that moment?", "Which response offered information, comfort or another workable route?" ], "related": [ "house", "childhood-home", "key", "door", "being-ignored" ], "sources": [ { "id": "nichd-sleep-dreaming", "title": "What happens during sleep? — Dreaming section", "author": "Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development", "url": "https://www.nichd.nih.gov/health/topics/sleep/conditioninfo/Pages/what-happens.aspx", "scope": "Official general sleep education, Dreaming section: the purpose of dreaming remains uncertain. It does not test these original symbolic comparisons or establish another person’s intentions, a diagnosis or a prediction." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15 under the site owner’s delegation. Historical claims, where supplied, remain attributed period writing. No human or clinical review is claimed.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Familiarity without usable access", "reflection": "Knowing a place does not guarantee that its current entry conditions fit." }, { "title": "A missing resource or another response", "reflection": "A lost key and withheld permission put different parts of the difficulty in view." }, { "title": "Entry is not the only decision", "reflection": "An alternative place or changed purpose can make the need to enter worth reconsidering." } ], "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "Codex (AI-assisted editorial review)", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "a-stranger", "a-train-going-in-the-wrong-direction", "being-trapped", "being-unable-to-move", "children", "church", "current-romantic-partner", "death-of-a-friend", "elevator", "father", "forest", "hair-falling-out", "insects", "key", "locked-out", "mother", "nakedness", "phone-not-working", "rainbow", "running-but-going-nowhere", "school", "smoke", "snake-bite", "superpowers", "the-self", "the-shadow", "web" ] }, "decisionReason": "The reading separates familiar belonging from usable entry conditions, a missing resource from another response, and immediate comfort from solving the whole access problem. It does not infer actual rejection or account security. It includes a practical alternative destination and preserves the existing Key/Door subjects.", "contentSha256": "a2733cd71dd68988392b3ea8ecbfc054f8e4677bf429af18ec7e3567cdc481d6" }, "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "being-lost", "title": "Being lost", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "Unfamiliar routes, useful landmarks, and finding enough direction for the next step.", "summary": "Being lost may explore unfamiliar surroundings or uncertainty about direction. Notice what you seek and which clues you choose to trust.", "aliases": [ "lost", "maze", "labyrinth" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "Being lost can make the difference between a destination and a usable next step tangible. You may know exactly where you want to go while the streets no longer connect as expected. That can resemble entering a new role with a clear purpose but unfamiliar procedures. The difficulty concerns how to continue, rather than proving that your whole life lacks direction.\n\nA familiar neighborhood that has changed can bring an older understanding into present conditions. You keep relying on a shop, shortcut or entrance that no longer helps. A changed workplace, household arrangement or friendship can have a similar shape: what once made the situation easy to navigate now needs updating. Recognition and uncertainty can coexist because knowing the setting does not guarantee that every route remains the same.\n\nConflicting directions shift the question toward guidance. Several people may offer confident answers while describing different destinations. This can fit a decision in which advice is plentiful but the criteria for choosing are unclear. Checking one landmark makes the next move more concrete. The dream does not establish that any real adviser is dishonest; a disagreement may concern assumptions or purposes that have not been shared.\n\nGuiding other people adds responsibility to the uncertainty. You may hesitate to admit that you no longer know the route because everyone expects you to lead. Pausing to compare clues can picture coordination becoming more useful than maintaining an appearance of certainty. Finding one small landmark may be enough to resume, even while much of the journey remains unknown.\n\nWandering can also become something you choose. An unfamiliar street may offer an interesting shop, welcome quiet or relief from a schedule you did not want. If fear begins only when someone says you ought to know the way, their expectation may be more important than the landscape. Conversely, enjoying a detour does not require giving up a destination that still matters. Actual travel, changing maps, games and remembered places may provide the setting directly. A useful reading follows what you are trying to reach and how your options change; no unfinished dream journey establishes failure or demands an immediate waking decision.", "traditional": "No supplied historical passage specifically supports a meaning for being lost in this entry. This section therefore uses original everyday context rather than attributing a universal meaning to mazes, labyrinths, or unfamiliar streets. A remembered story or a place you have actually visited may shape the image, but those associations belong to your experience.\n\nNavigation involves more than choosing a direction. It also depends on recognizing signs, trusting guidance, and knowing when a route no longer works. A dream can make any of these ordinary tasks strange. Consider whether you wanted a complete map or merely enough information to make one next move. The distinction can be useful for reflection without claiming that the dream contains a solution. Wandering, returning, and asking for directions are possibilities to explore, not forecasts of a journey or a prescribed way of living.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "An unfamiliar version of your neighborhood", "reflection": "You recognize the buildings but every turn leads somewhere new. Notice which familiar detail you keep using and whether it still helps. The scene may open questions about changed circumstances within a place or role you once understood well." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Conflicting directions", "reflection": "Several people offer routes that cannot all be correct. Pay attention to how you choose whom to believe and whether you can check a landmark yourself. This may be a useful image for evaluating guidance, without implying that anyone in waking life is deceiving you." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Wandering without wanting to return", "reflection": "You discover new places and feel no urgency to find the way back. What begins as being lost may become exploration. Notice when the emotional tone shifts, and what freedom or uncertainty remains when the usual destination stops mattering." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A map that keeps redrawing itself", "reflection": "Your destination remains marked but the streets change whenever you look away. Notice whether you keep restarting or choose a nearby landmark instead. The scene may invite a question about working with changing information rather than finding a perfect plan." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Losing the way while guiding other people", "reflection": "Others expect you to know the route, and you hesitate to admit uncertainty. Record what happens if you ask the group to stop and compare clues. The useful question may concern shared navigation, not a verdict about your ability to lead." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "Recognizing one small landmark", "reflection": "A fountain, shop window, or familiar sound gives you enough orientation to choose a turn. You may still be far from the destination. Notice how partial recognition changes the scene and what makes one workable next step feel sufficient." } ], "prompts": [ "What destination did you want, and when did that wish change?", "Which clue or person felt most dependable, and why?", "What would have been enough information for one useful next step?" ], "related": [ "forest", "childhood-home", "being-late", "house", "a-train-going-in-the-wrong-direction" ], "sources": [ { "id": "wamsley-2010", "title": "Dreaming of a learning task is associated with enhanced sleep-dependent memory consolidation", "author": "Erin J. Wamsley and colleagues", "url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20417102/", "scope": "Primary maze-learning experiment; task-related dream reports correlated with later performance. It does not show that a dream is an accurate memory or a solution." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s continuing delegation of English editorial decisions. Historical accounts remain attributed period claims; the cited memory study does not validate these interpretations.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A destination that is changing", "reflection": "Trying to reach home differs from wanting to leave a place or choosing to wander. Ask whether your desired destination remained the same, and whose expectation made being elsewhere feel wrong." }, { "title": "Reference points you can check", "reflection": "Maps, signs, landmarks, and other people offer different kinds of guidance. Notice which clue helps you make a next move and whether you can verify it, rather than demanding certainty about the whole route." }, { "title": "Company and help along the way", "reflection": "Being alone in an unfamiliar place differs from guiding a group or losing sight of someone. Explore what asking, waiting, or staying together changes in the remembered scene." } ], "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "DreamFolia AI-assisted editorial review", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "water", "house", "dog", "cat", "being-pregnant", "ex-partner", "deceased-loved-one", "fire", "spider", "being-lost", "ocean", "flood", "wedding", "baby", "train", "car", "wolf" ] }, "decisionReason": "The revised body develops destination versus next step, outdated reference points, conflicting guidance, shared navigation and chosen wandering. Six scenes preserve these differences. No unowned maze passage is borrowed, and the dream does not establish a failed life direction or demand a decision.", "reviewedSnapshot": "data/common-reading-publication-review-2026-10-15.json", "contentSha256": "460f6cb7a614132b37f1e2130ccbc50bcabb1f148c960199d3d7f4f936ca0c43" }, "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "being-naked-in-public", "title": "Being naked in public", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "Exposure changes with the audience, purpose and room to choose.", "summary": "Being naked in public can explore visibility, the role clothes would serve and the amount of choice available before an audience.", "aliases": [ "being naked in public", "naked in public", "nude in public", "public nudity" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "Discovering that you are naked halfway through a public task can make awareness arrive after participation has begun. You may already be speaking, travelling or waiting in a group before the missing clothes matter. This can resemble noticing an unmet requirement while still being expected to continue. The useful question may concern preparation, privacy or permission to pause rather than assuming the body itself is the problem.\n\nThe audience can respond differently from what you expect. Other people may stare, offer practical help or continue an ordinary activity without comment. Your discomfort can remain real even when their attention appears limited. This can picture a gap between an imagined standard and the response available in the scene. It does not establish what a real audience thinks or prove that a waking concern is unfounded.\n\nCovering can solve one problem while creating another. A coat lets you rejoin the task; an awkward screen blocks the route you wanted to take. You might recognize an arrangement that protects appearance but makes participation difficult. A pause, another place or a different kind of assistance can change the choice. The dream does not require hiding or continuing to be the correct response in every encounter.\n\nChosen visibility has another tone. Being unclothed in a public landscape can feel comfortable when the company, activity and available exit fit your preference. Ease may concern the conditions of this scene rather than a universal ideal of openness. An audience that changes after you make that choice can bring timing and consent into view: the terms you accepted no longer describe the whole encounter.\n\nThe missing clothes can also have a practical role beyond concealment. You may want them to mark work, ceremony or readiness, and feel mismatched to the activity without feeling ashamed. Recent stories, changing rooms or imagined presentations may supply imagery directly. These original readings concern unclothed visibility before an audience, distinct from general nakedness or the act of undressing. They leave room for embarrassment, anger, humor, pleasure and indifference without making the dreamed body a confession, a character test or evidence of how others actually see you.", "traditional": "The scope here is being visibly unclothed before an audience. Simply being naked and the process of changing clothes can raise different questions. These are original reflections on participation, privacy and choice; the retained NINDS source supplies general background only and validates no exposure code, body judgment or claim about a real audience.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You notice the missing clothes halfway through a presentation", "reflection": "Participation begins before awareness of an unmet requirement. This may picture wanting a pause while others expect the task to continue. What clothes would have helped you do can distinguish readiness, privacy or role from a general judgment about your body." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Everyone continues normally while you feel exposed", "reflection": "Your response and the audience’s apparent attention do not match. This can resemble wanting room for discomfort without needing public confirmation of it. The dreamed indifference may change the encounter, but it cannot establish how real people judge you or dismiss a waking concern." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Someone offers a coat and you choose to rejoin the activity", "reflection": "Practical assistance changes the conditions of participation. This may picture support that lets you continue without making your discomfort the whole event. The choice to return can matter while leaving space for a different response if the task or audience no longer fits." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A screen hides you but blocks the route you wanted", "reflection": "Protection serves one purpose while interfering with another. This can resemble an arrangement preserving appearance at the cost of participation. A different place, pause or form of help may make both needs discussable without requiring total concealment or complete exposure as the only alternatives." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You feel comfortable unclothed among chosen company outdoors", "reflection": "The setting and company make visibility feel usable. This may picture pleasure in an arrangement with fewer demands or a different role. Comfort belongs to the particular conditions; it need not prove complete confidence or require greater openness in waking situations." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "New spectators arrive after you chose the original setting", "reflection": "The audience changes while your earlier choice remains in place. This can resemble an agreement whose conditions need another discussion. Asking for time, covering or leaving can each express a preference without treating the initial choice as permission for every later form of visibility." } ], "prompts": [ "What purpose would clothes or privacy have served in that activity?", "How did the audience’s response differ from the attention you expected?", "Which conditions made visibility chosen, imposed or newly negotiable?" ], "related": [ "privacy", "feeling-embarrassed", "public-speaking", "clothes", "nakedness" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s delegation of editorial decisions. Historical forecasts remain attributed period claims; these reflections are not predictions or clinical assessments.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Awareness can arrive after participation", "reflection": "Noticing a missing requirement midway through an activity can make a pause or adjustment meaningful." }, { "title": "Expected attention and actual response can differ", "reflection": "The dreamed audience may not react as you anticipated, while your own preference and discomfort still deserve a place." }, { "title": "Visibility has particular conditions", "reflection": "Covering, continuing or chosen exposure can be understood through the setting and room to choose rather than a universal ideal." } ], "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "DreamFolia AI-assisted editorial review", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "do what its best I have no idea", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "snake", "teeth-falling-out", "being-chased", "flying", "falling", "being-naked-in-public", "cheating", "school-or-exam", "death" ] }, "decisionReason": "The six scenes separate preparation, attention, practical help, chosen visibility and a changed audience. The scope remains public exposure, without body judgments or claims about real observers.", "reviewedSnapshot": "data/common-dream-publication-review-2026-10-15-v2.json", "contentSha256": "7476ac50a3fb5be233500245065cca482137ddb76d64561ade3ce860653bc0f0" }, "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "being-pregnant", "title": "Being pregnant", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "Something is taking shape before you know what life with it will be.", "summary": "Pregnancy can give shape to something growing, a responsibility becoming real, or feelings about having a child. Joy and unease lead to different readings.", "aliases": [ "pregnant", "pregnancy", "being pregnant" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "Pregnancy gives a dream a built-in story about time: something is developing now, while its outcome still belongs to the future. That can make the image a vivid way to experience anticipation, responsibility, hope, or uncertainty. The emotional centre may be the growing life itself, the changes to your body, or the prospect of other people discovering it. A pregnancy dream does not establish a pregnancy or predict its outcome.\n\n One possible reading is that something important is taking shape before it can be shared or completed. A private creative project, a new direction, or a decision you are not ready to announce can resemble that period of carrying and waiting. The connection is stronger if the dream feels protective or expectant: there is something you want to give time and room to grow. The image need not announce a new beginning; it may concern the patience an existing commitment requires.\n\n Responsibility offers another reading. You may feel that a role is becoming harder to set aside, that someone depends on you, or that a choice will change more than you expected. An unexpected pregnancy can dramatize that shift from possibility to consequence. Feeling unable to prepare, explain, or ask for support can make the dream about the conditions surrounding responsibility rather than about the child.\n\n Pregnancy may also connect directly with your own wishes, experiences, family conversations, or questions about parenthood. Wanting a child, not wanting one, feeling undecided, or remembering an earlier pregnancy all give the scene different histories. There is no reason to replace those concrete associations with a metaphor for a project. Nor does a feeling inside the dream settle what you want while awake: relief, fear, joy, and ambivalence can change as the scene unfolds.\n\n The imagined response of other people can reveal another tension. Hiding the pregnancy might make the dream about protecting something private, fearing a judgement, or wanting time before a change becomes public. Being supported can make the same future feel more possible. Ask which condition changed the feeling: knowing what lay ahead, having someone beside you, being allowed to choose, or simply having more time. That distinction makes the reading more useful than assuming pregnancy always means creativity or growth.", "traditional": "The attached 1805 Interpretation of Dreams and Moles passage contrasts being 'with child' with being delivered, assigning sorrow and labour to the first and the contrary to the second. It is a brief fortune-telling account, not an explanation of your body or the outcome of a pregnancy.\n\n Its contrast still highlights a feature worth exploring in the scene: waiting and carrying feel different from reaching an ending. DreamFolia uses that distinction as an original reflection on anticipation and responsibility, while keeping the author's forecast in its attributed historical setting. The dreamed pregnancy and your waking circumstances should remain separate sources of information.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You are happy and protective of the pregnancy", "reflection": "The scene can fit attachment to a future you want to nurture. Protectiveness may concern keeping something private, giving it time, or avoiding pressure to produce an outcome before it is ready. Notice whether the future feels chosen and whether anyone shares your excitement." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "The pregnancy is unexpected", "reflection": "A possibility has become a responsibility without much preparation. This can resemble an unplanned role, a commitment that grew larger, or a question about parenthood itself. The difference between surprise and feeling trapped matters: how much room did the dream give you to respond?" }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You hide the pregnancy from other people", "reflection": "The image can make privacy and public expectation collide. You may want time to understand a change before explaining it, or worry about how a choice will be received. The people you hide from and the reason you expect a reaction give this reading its particular shape." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You do not know who will help", "reflection": "A future can feel overwhelming when its practical support is uncertain. The dream may be less about whether you want the change and more about facing it alone. A helpful figure, a place to rest, or permission to ask can shift the scene toward possibility." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The pregnancy seems to last indefinitely", "reflection": "Development has become waiting without an endpoint. This can fit a project, decision, or life transition that feels continually unfinished. Frustration may centre on wanting a clear next step, while patience may suggest that the process still feels worthwhile." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "Someone else is pregnant", "reflection": "You may be watching another person’s life change and wondering where you belong in it. Excitement, envy, distance, or a wish to help can each shape the scene. The imagined pregnancy can also belong directly to a recent conversation, without carrying a metaphor about your own future." } ], "prompts": [ "What felt most significant: the growing life, the responsibility, or other people’s reactions?", "What am I carrying or waiting for, and is it something I chose?", "Which kind of support changed—or would have changed—the feeling of the scene?" ], "related": [ "baby", "birth", "a-pregnancy-test-with-an-unclear-result", "mother", "miscarriage" ], "sources": [ { "id": "moles-71045", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams and Moles", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "United Kingdom, J. Marshall, 1805", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71045", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "scope": "Historical belief only; supplied passages: Being pregnant — Dreams interpreted, passage 27; source lines 188–189. Not evidence of predictions or a universal symbol meaning.", "recordIds": [ "moles-0027" ] }, { "id": "wamsley-2010", "title": "Dreaming of a learning task is associated with enhanced sleep-dependent memory consolidation", "author": "Erin J. Wamsley and colleagues", "url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20417102/", "scope": "Primary maze-learning experiment; task-related dream reports correlated with later performance. It does not show that a dream is an accurate memory or a solution." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s continuing delegation of English editorial decisions. Historical accounts remain attributed period claims; the cited memory study does not validate these interpretations.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Something is developing", "reflection": "A wanted pregnancy can fit a commitment, idea, or future you are nurturing before it is ready to be seen. Waiting may feel meaningful rather than merely frustrating." }, { "title": "Responsibility becomes real", "reflection": "An unexpected pregnancy can dramatize a role or decision whose consequences suddenly feel tangible. Support, choice, and time can matter as much as the responsibility itself." }, { "title": "Parenthood is already on your mind", "reflection": "Your wishes, history, and current conversations may be the direct context. The dream does not need a substitute meaning, and one dream feeling does not settle an important waking preference." } ], "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "DreamFolia AI-assisted editorial review", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "water", "house", "dog", "cat", "being-pregnant", "ex-partner", "deceased-loved-one", "fire", "spider", "being-lost", "ocean", "flood", "wedding", "baby", "train", "car", "wolf" ] }, "decisionReason": "The reading distinguishes developing commitments, unexpected responsibility, privacy, support and direct parenthood associations. The exact 1805 passage is limited to its period forecast. The text does not establish pregnancy, a pregnancy outcome or a settled waking preference.", "reviewedSnapshot": "data/common-reading-publication-review-2026-10-15.json", "contentSha256": "b3127b49da4c6ecc099fdd4874d22daae955b258d5b7a49862ec3a74fbafb2be" }, "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "moles-0027", "sourceId": "moles-71045", "heading": "Being pregnant", "originalHeading": "(no printed heading)", "text": "For a woman to dream she is with child, denotes sorrow and hard labour;\nbut to dream she is delivered, the contrary.", "locator": "Dreams interpreted, passage 27; source lines 188–189", "lineStart": 188, "lineEnd": 189, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "editorialNote": "The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Being pregnant” because that is the subject of its first clause.", "displayText": "For a woman to dream she is with child, denotes sorrow and hard labour;\nbut to dream she is delivered, the contrary." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "being-scapegoated", "title": "Being scapegoated", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "aliases": [ "being scapegoated", "scapegoat", "scapegoated", "taking the blame for others", "blamed for someone else's mistake" ], "summary": "Being scapegoated can picture unfair responsibility, uncertain belonging, or difficulty making your account heard. Blame and actual control may diverge.", "tagline": "The group assigns you a problem larger than the part you played.", "psychological": "Being scapegoated can picture carrying responsibility without having had enough control over what happened. The dream concentrates a shared problem onto one person. A team failure blamed on the person with the least authority, or a family conflict that repeatedly becomes your job to resolve, offers a waking parallel. The central tension is between what you could influence and what you are expected to answer for.\n\nThe group's response can make belonging part of the problem. If everyone agrees immediately, the scene may express fear that keeping your place depends on accepting their version of events. You might feel pressure to apologize simply to end an uncomfortable silence. If one person questions the accusation, the dream can instead picture a wish for your experience to be considered separately from the group's need for a simple explanation.\n\nTrying to prove what happened can bring communication and recognition into focus. Evidence that nobody reads may resemble carefully explaining a workload or decision while the expected story remains unchanged. The frustration is not necessarily uncertainty about your own actions; it can be feeling that the rules for being heard differ from the rules for being blamed.\n\nAccepting the blame voluntarily creates another reading. You may want to protect someone, preserve a relationship, or make the conflict end, even at a personal cost. That choice can feel generous or exhausting, depending on whether its limits are understood.\n\nLeaving the room, declining the assigned responsibility, or correcting the story can picture reclaiming a proportionate role. Actual disagreements, remembered accusations, and fiction can also supply the scene. The dream expresses a possible experience of fairness; it does not establish who is responsible for a real event.", "traditional": "This entry develops original readings of blame concentrated on one person. It does not use a verified historical scapegoat passage or infer actual guilt from the dream. The general research reference is background only; the useful distinction here is between responsibility, authority, and participation in a group.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Responsibility without enough control", "reflection": "Blame can picture being answerable for conditions you did not fully shape. The tension becomes specific when the task or group gives you less authority than the responsibility it assigns." }, { "title": "Belonging at the cost of your own account", "reflection": "A united group can make accepting blame feel like the price of remaining included. A listener or ally creates a different possibility: participation without surrendering your perspective." }, { "title": "Ending conflict by carrying its cost", "reflection": "Taking blame voluntarily may picture protecting someone or restoring peace. The choice can feel caring or excessive, depending on whether its cost and boundaries are acknowledged." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "A whole team blames you for a failed project", "reflection": "This can picture a mismatch between your role and the responsibility assigned afterward. Being expected to fix work without authority to change the process offers a parallel. The group's agreement makes the accusation seem settled before your actual part has been considered.", "slug": "scene-1" }, { "title": "You show evidence that nobody will read", "reflection": "An explanation may feel unable to enter the conversation. Carefully accounting for a delay or describing shared responsibilities can seem similar when others retain their preferred story. The unread evidence makes recognition, rather than merely possessing the facts, the central difficulty.", "slug": "scene-2" }, { "title": "You apologize despite knowing the problem was shared", "reflection": "Accepting blame can picture choosing an end to conflict over a fair distribution of responsibility. A familiar household argument or workplace tension may fit. Relief may come from the silence afterward, while resentment can show the cost of being the person who always resolves it.", "slug": "scene-3" }, { "title": "Someone asks the group to hear your side", "reflection": "A simple intervention can picture the importance of being treated as a participant rather than an explanation for everything. A supportive colleague or friend may make disagreement less isolating. The scene changes through fair attention, even before the group's verdict changes.", "slug": "scene-4" }, { "title": "You take the blame to protect someone else", "reflection": "This can picture loyalty competing with your own limits. Covering for a friend or absorbing a relative's responsibility may offer a parallel. The action is chosen, but its emotional result matters: care can feel meaningful without making an unequal arrangement sustainable.", "slug": "scene-5" }, { "title": "You refuse the accusation and leave the room", "reflection": "Departure can picture separating belonging from unlimited responsibility. Declining a task outside your role or stepping out of a repeated argument may feel similar. The scene can hold relief and uncertainty together, because reclaiming your position may also change how you relate to the group.", "slug": "scene-6" } ], "prompts": [ "What could I actually influence, and what was I expected to answer for?", "Was accepting blame a choice, a condition of belonging, or a way to end conflict?", "What made my account easier or harder to hear?" ], "related": [ "being-judged", "guilt", "boss", "coworker" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia editorial entry with image-specific interpretations and six differentiated scenes. The reference supplies general dream background only. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "being-trapped", "title": "Being trapped", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "An enclosure makes the conditions of leaving visible.", "summary": "Being trapped can picture restricted choices, an unusable exit or dependence on another response. Different enclosures call for different readings.", "aliases": [ "being trapped", "trapped", "stuck", "locked in", "cannot get out", "confined", "no way out" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "Being trapped can give a visible shape to a situation in which leaving is wanted but the available route does not work. A locked door, a crowd that will not make space and a room that grows smaller impose different restrictions. The useful comparison concerns what holds you there: a physical barrier, an agreement, missing information or another person’s response. Confinement in the scene does not establish that you have no choices outside it.\n\nA visible exit can make the restriction especially frustrating. You know where you want to go but cannot reach the handle, find the key or get someone to listen. This might resemble a task whose solution depends on one unavailable resource. An enclosure with no clear edge instead puts orientation first: before choosing a route, you need to understand the place.\n\nCompany changes the experience. Others may help search, expect you to solve everything or behave as if remaining is ordinary. A shared constraint can become a question of cooperation rather than personal inadequacy. If another person refuses to let you leave, consider the specific demand in the imagined encounter without treating it as a disclosure of someone’s real intentions.\n\nBeing able to leave only by abandoning an object introduces a cost rather than a complete absence of choice. The scene may picture wanting to preserve something while changing an arrangement. A project, possession or role can be important without being worth every condition attached to it. Hesitation can express that conflict without supplying the decision you should make.\n\nAn opening that appears after the room changes can shift attention from personal effort to the environment. Help, information or a different arrangement may make departure possible where pushing harder did not. Recent crowded journeys, games or fictional scenes can also provide imagery. Reflection is most precise when it identifies the particular restriction and the action that changed it, rather than reducing every enclosure to one message about feeling stuck.", "traditional": "No supplied historical record specifically explains this entry’s varied scenes of being trapped. A prison, closed door or bodily immobility has a different scope and is not automatically the same experience. The comparisons here are original possibilities, not a clinical account or a claim about an actual captor.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "The exit is visible but its handle is out of reach", "reflection": "The route is known while one practical action remains unavailable. This may resemble a task dependent on a resource you cannot currently obtain. Help or a different tool gives a different reading from simply trying harder." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A crowd closes around the route you were taking", "reflection": "Other people’s movement removes usable space. This can picture a shared situation with little room for your pace or direction. Whether anyone responds to your request distinguishes cooperation from an expectation that you absorb the difficulty." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You can leave only if you put down a valued object", "reflection": "The opening exists, but using it involves a loss or change. This may resemble a commitment whose conditions conflict with another need. The dream makes the tension concrete without deciding what the object should be worth to you." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Everyone waits for you to solve the enclosure", "reflection": "A shared difficulty becomes your assigned responsibility. This can fit wanting participation from others rather than a demand for one perfect solution. The available skills and responses may matter more than the enclosure’s size." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A wall moves when someone rearranges the room", "reflection": "The restriction changes through the setting rather than a personal breakthrough. This may picture how information, help or altered conditions can create a route. It need not mean you failed by not escaping earlier." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The door opens but you want to understand what held you", "reflection": "Departure is available while a question remains. This can resemble wanting an explanation after a difficult arrangement ends. You can value that question without having to stay or reach a complete account before leaving." } ], "prompts": [ "What exactly prevented departure?", "Did leaving require help, information, permission or giving something up?", "What changed the restriction, and who participated?" ], "related": [ "being-unable-to-move", "elevator", "being-lost", "prison", "locked-out" ], "sources": [ { "id": "nichd-sleep-dreaming", "title": "What happens during sleep? — Dreaming section", "author": "Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development", "url": "https://www.nichd.nih.gov/health/topics/sleep/conditioninfo/Pages/what-happens.aspx", "scope": "Official general sleep education, Dreaming section: the purpose of dreaming remains uncertain. It does not test these original symbolic comparisons or establish another person’s intentions, a diagnosis or a prediction." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15 under the site owner’s delegation. Historical claims, where supplied, remain attributed period writing. No human or clinical review is claimed.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "The kind of restriction", "reflection": "A barrier, rule and missing resource prevent departure in different ways." }, { "title": "A choice with a cost", "reflection": "Leaving may be possible while requiring something you are reluctant to give up." }, { "title": "The environment can change", "reflection": "Assistance or a different arrangement can matter more than greater effort." } ], "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "Codex (AI-assisted editorial review)", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "a-stranger", "a-train-going-in-the-wrong-direction", "being-trapped", "being-unable-to-move", "children", "church", "current-romantic-partner", "death-of-a-friend", "elevator", "father", "forest", "hair-falling-out", "insects", "key", "locked-out", "mother", "nakedness", "phone-not-working", "rainbow", "running-but-going-nowhere", "school", "smoke", "snake-bite", "superpowers", "the-self", "the-shadow", "web" ] }, "decisionReason": "Different restrictions have different consequences: an unreachable handle, a crowd, a cost of leaving and changed surroundings. The reading gives useful comparisons to conditions around a task without asserting real helplessness, an actual captor or one universal meaning of confinement.", "contentSha256": "8a93366945d92dc39de2ff543ad5fcd1972583c32ddc1b623d3bb2d39a28d5cb" }, "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "being-unable-to-find-a-usable-toilet", "title": "Being unable to find a usable toilet", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "An urgent search for a usable toilet may involve physical need, access, or privacy. Record the waking bodily context as well as the scene.", "summary": "An urgent search for a usable toilet may involve physical need, access, or privacy. Record the waking bodily context as well as the scene.", "aliases": [ "cannot find a toilet", "searching for a usable bathroom" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "Separate the need to use a toilet from the obstacles: locked doors, broken facilities, a confusing building, or embarrassment about asking. If you woke needing the bathroom, that is relevant context without proving the whole dream’s cause. A reflective reading might concern postponing your own needs, but it should not erase a straightforward bodily explanation or turn an everyday scene into a statement about character.", "traditional": "Historical bathing and bodily-function entries used assumptions different from present-day ideas of sanitation and privacy. This draft does not repeat those predictions or treat elimination as moral impurity.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "Every available stall is broken", "reflection": "What happened when an ordinary need met facilities that could not support it?" }, { "title": "You are embarrassed to ask for directions", "reflection": "Whose possible judgment kept you from seeking practical help?" }, { "title": "You finally find a clean, private room", "reflection": "Did relief come from the toilet itself or from being allowed uninterrupted time?" } ], "prompts": [ "Was there a bodily need when you woke?", "What made each apparent solution unusable?", "Where did you feel permitted to ask for what you needed?" ], "related": [ "bathroom", "urine", "privacy" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia model-assisted editorial draft. Reflection questions and scenario readings are optional, individually written suggestions, not empirically validated symbol meanings. Source scope is stated with each citation. Historical comparisons identify topics, not inherited interpretations. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "being-unable-to-move", "title": "Being unable to move", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "The wanted action and the remaining possibilities matter.", "summary": "Being unable to move in a dream can explore interrupted action, dependence or effort without response. Keep uncertain waking experiences separate.", "aliases": [ "unable to move", "cannot move", "could not move", "paralyzed", "paralysed" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "Being unable to move within a dream can make the gap between intention and action unusually stark. You want to reach a door, turn toward someone or make a small adjustment, yet the expected movement does not follow. The possible reflection concerns that particular wanted action. Reaching for contact differs from trying to escape, and needing help differs from believing that only you may perform the task.\n\nThe scene’s physical rules matter. Legs that feel heavy allow effort without ordinary progress; a chair that holds you makes the restraint external; a completely still room may suspend everybody’s movement. These variations can resemble different constraints in an ordinary task. A delayed response from a system, a role without the needed authority or a job with too many dependencies offers a comparison only if it fits your circumstances.\n\nNotice what remains possible inside the account. You might still speak, think, see a useful detail or move one hand. A small capacity can change the arrangement without resolving everything at once. Conversely, watching others continue while you remain still can bring the wish to participate into focus. The scene does not measure your competence or show that your waking choices are equally restricted.\n\nAnother person’s response can shift the subject toward assistance. Someone may wait beside you, move the needed object closer or demand an action you cannot perform. Support that fits the actual difficulty differs from encouragement that overlooks it. The useful question may concern how a task can be arranged around current limits rather than how to overcome every limit personally.\n\nKeep an uncertain transition around waking separate from this symbolic reading. The NHS describes sleep paralysis as inability to move or speak while waking or falling asleep, and advises a GP when frequent episodes bring fear of sleep or continuing tiredness. A remembered scene cannot diagnose its cause. You can describe its timing and effect without having to find a metaphor first.", "traditional": "No supplied historical record specifically explains this experience. The NHS source supports only the distinction around waking or falling asleep and its stated advice about disruptive frequent episodes. The imagined action, assistance and constraint comparisons are original reflection, not an explanation of sleep physiology or a diagnosis.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You cannot turn toward a person who is speaking", "reflection": "The wanted action concerns joining an encounter. This may resemble having something to contribute while lacking a way to enter the exchange. What you can hear or say gives the stillness a more specific context than helplessness alone." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Your legs move slowly through impossibly heavy air", "reflection": "Effort produces movement under altered rules. This may fit a task in which the same work yields less progress than expected. It differs from complete stillness; the resistance and the goal both belong in the reading." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You can move one hand and point to what you need", "reflection": "A limited action communicates something useful. This can picture participation that does not require full independence. The assistance requested may matter more than treating the first movement as proof that the whole difficulty has ended." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Someone brings the needed object within reach", "reflection": "The task changes to fit what is currently possible. This may resemble wanting practical help rather than encouragement to ignore a limit. The imagined response can clarify a preference without assessing another person’s actual willingness to help." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Other people continue while the whole space around you stays still", "reflection": "The contrast makes timing and participation visible. This may fit feeling out of step with a shared process. The surrounding action can matter as much as the body’s stillness; neither establishes your real capacity." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You are unsure whether the immobility occurred before or after waking", "reflection": "The uncertainty belongs in the account. Record the timing and effect separately from imagined events. It need not be resolved through symbolic interpretation, and the dream alone does not establish a medical explanation." } ], "prompts": [ "What specific action did you want to make?", "What remained possible, and what kind of assistance would have fitted?", "Which details were clearly dreamed and which concerned waking or falling asleep?" ], "related": [ "running-but-going-nowhere", "unable-to-scream", "being-trapped", "false-awakening" ], "sources": [ { "id": "nhs-sleep-paralysis", "title": "Sleep paralysis", "author": "NHS", "url": "https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/sleep-paralysis/", "scope": "Official description of immobility while waking or falling asleep and GP advice for frequent episodes with fear of sleep or ongoing tiredness. Does not diagnose a remembered episode or validate symbolic comparisons." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15 under the site owner’s delegation. Historical claims, where supplied, remain attributed period writing. No human or clinical review is claimed.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "The action you wanted", "reflection": "Contact, departure and comfort give stillness different stakes." }, { "title": "A capacity that remains", "reflection": "One available movement, observation or request may change the task without resolving everything." }, { "title": "Help fitted to the difficulty", "reflection": "A changed arrangement can be more useful than a demand for greater effort." } ], "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "Codex (AI-assisted editorial review)", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "a-stranger", "a-train-going-in-the-wrong-direction", "being-trapped", "being-unable-to-move", "children", "church", "current-romantic-partner", "death-of-a-friend", "elevator", "father", "forest", "hair-falling-out", "insects", "key", "locked-out", "mother", "nakedness", "phone-not-working", "rainbow", "running-but-going-nowhere", "school", "smoke", "snake-bite", "superpowers", "the-self", "the-shadow", "web" ] }, "decisionReason": "The reflection follows the wanted action, remaining capacity and practical assistance. It separates clearly dreamed action from uncertain timing around waking. The directly read NHS page supports the narrow timing description and GP advice only; the reading makes no individual diagnosis or physiological-cause claim.", "contentSha256": "158bbcafce0447f69bec8acaf530bb78fd8f3044023edf8a3d08318799bb8bf7" }, "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "unable-to-scream", "title": "Being unable to scream", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "An urgent message, a missing voice, and another way for the exchange to reach someone.", "summary": "A dream with no voice can interrupt warning, protest or a call for help. The intended message and the listener’s response change the scene.", "aliases": [ "being unable to scream", "unable to scream", "cannot scream", "no voice", "losing your voice", "cannot shout", "unable to speak", "cannot call for help", "mute" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "Being unable to scream can picture an urgent message without the means of making it heard. The missing sound interrupts a particular purpose: warning someone, protesting an intrusion, calling for company or asking an activity to stop. A danger you want to name creates a different encounter from trying to speak during an ordinary conversation that everyone else continues.\n\nThe effort may resemble making a need clear while feeling that its importance never reaches the listener. Repeating a careful explanation, finding no opening in a busy exchange or being expected to remain composed can offer waking parallels. The resemblance is a possibility rather than evidence that you suppress feelings or that the real listener refuses to care. A remembered suspense scene can also provide the image directly.\n\nDistance can make the difficulty practical within the dream. Someone may be across a room, behind glass or moving away before you can attract their attention. Running closer, finding another listener or using a visible signal changes the means of contact. If nobody is present, the absence of a person to address may matter more than the volume you are trying to produce.\n\nAnother person's response can give the scene a different direction. They may lean closer, notice your effort or understand a gesture. The encounter can move from failed sound toward connection without restoring the voice itself. Being noticed may be what you wanted, while a listener who responds to the wrong message can make clarification the next part of the scene.\n\nA whisper can also have a useful role if someone is close enough to hear it. An urgent wish to be loud may give way to a more private exchange. Writing a sentence or tapping a surface can similarly let the dream explore how a message travels, rather than make speech the only possible form of participation.\n\nThese original reflections concern remembered dream action. Being awake but unable to move or speak around falling asleep or waking is a separate timing distinction described by the NHS. A dreamed failure to scream alone cannot identify a sleep condition or establish that anyone is in actual danger.", "traditional": "No verified historical passage for this particular failed scream is attached. The Denis and Poerio survey concerns reported sleep experiences and their associations, not the cause of a particular silent dream. NHS guidance distinguishes being unable to speak or move while awake around sleep; it does not turn the imagery here into a diagnosis. Older speech or muteness labels are not borrowed as universal meanings.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You try to warn someone across a wide room", "reflection": "The intended warning has a listener but no effective route across the distance. Moving closer or finding someone nearby can make access part of the scene. The imagined urgency does not establish that the actual person faces danger." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A call for company becomes a whisper", "reflection": "You want somebody present while the available sound seems too small. A listener who comes closer changes the terms of the exchange. The scene can concern the wish to be accompanied rather than treat the imagined voice as a measure of strength." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Another person understands your gesture", "reflection": "A raised hand or pointed movement communicates what the voice could not. The listener’s response may give relief or lead to another question. The useful change is that the message has found a route, even while the original difficulty remains." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You write the sentence you could not shout", "reflection": "Words become available in another form. Choosing what to write can clarify whether the intended message was a warning, refusal or request. The scene can give expression another pace rather than require the failed scream to be restored first." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Everyone continues talking while you seek an opening", "reflection": "The room has plenty of sound but no clear turn for your contribution. This may resemble an exchange whose pace makes participation difficult. Someone creating a pause changes the arrangement differently from you simply finding a louder voice." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "A listener notices your effort and asks a question", "reflection": "Another person responds to the attempt before understanding its content. Their question can make a more specific exchange possible. Relief may concern no longer having to make the entire message understood at once, while frustration may remain if they assume the wrong meaning." } ], "prompts": [ "What did you want the listener to understand or do?", "What changed when somebody noticed your effort?", "Which other route to expression became available?" ], "related": [ "being-unable-to-move", "being-chased", "being-ignored", "voice", "nightmare" ], "sources": [ { "id": "denis-poerio-2017", "title": "Terror and bliss? Commonalities and distinctions between sleep paralysis, lucid dreaming, and their associations with waking life experiences", "author": "Dan Denis and Giulia L. Poerio", "url": "https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5245115/", "scope": "Primary self-report survey on associations among lucid dreaming, sleep paralysis and waking experiences. It does not establish why a voice failed in a particular dream, diagnose a sleep condition or validate a symbolic interpretation." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." }, { "id": "nhs-paralysis", "title": "Sleep paralysis", "author": "NHS", "url": "https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/sleep-paralysis/", "scope": "Official description of being awake but unable to move or speak around falling asleep or waking. Timing is a distinction for description, not a diagnosis from a dreamed image or validation of the original reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s continuing English editorial delegation. Sources retain their stated scope; neither historical accounts nor general research validate these interpretations.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "The message has a particular purpose", "reflection": "Warning, protest and a request for company each ask something different of a listener. The intended exchange gives urgency its direction." }, { "title": "Sound and recognition are separate", "reflection": "Someone may understand a gesture or notice effort before any voice returns. Being received can change the encounter without changing its first obstacle." }, { "title": "Another route to contact", "reflection": "Distance, a quiet listener or a written sentence can alter how a message travels. The scene can contain adjustment as well as frustration." } ], "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "DreamFolia AI-assisted editorial review", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "childhood-home", "lucid-dreaming", "recurring-dream", "missing-a-flight-or-train", "unable-to-scream", "books", "cradle", "eyes", "forgetting-to-feed-a-pet", "message", "nightmare", "searching-for-a-missing-pet", "sleep" ] }, "decisionReason": "The revised body and six scenes distinguish warning, requesting company, interrupted participation and alternate routes to expression. NHS timing context stays separate from fully dreamed action; the survey scope is narrowed to reported associations. The scene cannot diagnose sleep paralysis or establish danger to an actual person.", "reviewedSnapshot": "data/guide-linked-publication-review-2026-10-15.json", "contentSha256": "07afcd87ea7817fba595971395912eba646282a576f2210984000ba1a25789f7" }, "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "being-watched", "title": "Being watched", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "Who could see you, and how much did that matter?", "summary": "Being watched can draw attention to privacy, visibility, or self-consciousness. Distinguish what you saw from the feeling of being observed.", "aliases": [ "watched", "being stalked", "stalked", "stalker", "someone following me", "being followed", "someone watching me", "surveillance", "spied on" ], "status": "REVIEW", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "Describe the evidence of watching before deciding who the watcher was. A person at a window, a camera following your movement, and a feeling that somebody could see you are different experiences. Dreams can make an impression feel certain even when the scene supplies few details. That certainty belongs in your notes, but it does not show that observation is happening while you are awake.\n\n What you were doing can be more revealing than who watched. Being observed while dressing raises a different question from being watched while performing, resting, or making a mistake. Ask whether you wanted privacy, recognition, permission, or a chance to explain yourself. A welcome audience and an intrusive gaze should not receive the same interpretation simply because both involve another person’s attention.\n\n Notice how observation changed your actions. Did you behave more carefully, hide something ordinary, become unable to continue, or deliberately draw attention? These details can help you describe the cost or comfort of being visible. A recent appraisal, photograph, public post, or conversation about privacy may supply an everyday connection. Actual experiences of being monitored can also be remembered without needing a symbolic reading.\n\n The watcher need not represent a particular person. You might recognize a standard you apply to yourself, the wish to have your efforts noticed, or the discomfort of being misunderstood. Try each possibility against the scene instead of treating it as a conclusion. If the watcher disappeared, write whether relief followed or whether you missed the attention. The difference can keep an initially frightening dream from being reduced to one theme.", "traditional": "DreamFolia’s historical Spy accounts offer a comparison about informers, rather than a direct meaning for this scene. Miller connects harassment by spies with quarrels and uneasiness; Cielo’s brief Spy entry warns about rumours. These are attributed period beliefs and do not identify a watcher, establish surveillance, or justify suspicion of anyone in your life.\n\n Modern observation also happens through ordinary systems: workplace supervision, cameras, online audiences, shared photographs, and location settings. Those settings have different purposes and levels of consent. An entry about spies cannot settle what a dream involving them means. Record the particular device, audience, and access instead of borrowing an older prediction.\n\n For reflection, separate being seen from being evaluated. A person can notice you without judging you; a dream can also contain judgement without a visible observer. Exploring that distinction may reveal whether the scene was mainly about privacy, recognition, control, or the freedom to act without explaining yourself.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "A camera follows you", "reflection": "Note what the camera prevented or encouraged you to do. Was the discomfort about recording, a future audience, or having no way to opt out? Keep those concerns separate from assumptions about an actual device." }, { "title": "You want someone to notice", "reflection": "A watchful figure may feel reassuring when you are lost, working hard, or trying to communicate. Describe the attention you hoped for and whether the person responded to what mattered to you." }, { "title": "You confront an unseen observer", "reflection": "Record what happened when you asked who was there. Silence, an ordinary explanation, and a changed feeling are different endings; none requires you to decide that the observer exists outside the dream." } ], "prompts": [ "What did I actually perceive that made me feel watched?", "Which activity became difficult once I felt visible?", "Did I want less attention, different attention, or recognition?" ], "related": [ "being-judged", "being-naked-in-public", "spy", "your-location-visible-to-everyone" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "scope": "Historical comparison: Spy (Heading 1904; source lines 21115–21122). These period accounts do not establish a present-day outcome or validate the personal reflections on this page.", "recordReferences": [ { "id": "miller-1900", "heading": "Spy", "locator": "Heading 1904; source lines 21115–21122" } ], "recordIds": [ "miller-1900" ] }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "scope": "Historical comparison: Spy (Dream section, heading 400; source lines 4829–4831). These period accounts do not establish a present-day outcome or validate the personal reflections on this page.", "recordReferences": [ { "id": "cielo-0400", "heading": "Spy", "locator": "Dream section, heading 400; source lines 4829–4831" } ], "recordIds": [ "cielo-0400" ] } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection expanded on October 13, 2026. Historical readings are attributed period beliefs; proposed personal connections are exploratory. Human publication review remains pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "bell-man", "title": "Bell-man", "type": "dreams", "category": "Other symbols", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Fortune is hurrying after you. Questions of importance will be settled amicably among disputants.”", "aliases": [ "bell-man" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about bell-man stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0205", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Bell-man", "text": "Fortune is hurrying after you. Questions of importance will be settled\namicably among disputants. To see him looking sad some sorrowful event\nor misfortune may soon follow.", "locator": "Heading 205; source lines 3527–3533", "lineStart": 3527, "lineEnd": 3533, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Fortune is hurrying after you. Questions of importance will be settled\namicably among disputants. To see him looking sad some sorrowful event\nor misfortune may soon follow." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "belladonna", "title": "Belladonna", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Strategic moves will bring success in commercial circles.”", "aliases": [ "belladonna" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about belladonna stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0204", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Belladonna", "text": "Strategic moves will bring success in commercial circles.\nWomen will find rivals in society; vain and fruitless efforts\nwill be made for places in men's affections.\n\nTaking it, denotes misery and failure to meet past debts.", "locator": "Heading 204; source lines 3519–3527", "lineStart": 3519, "lineEnd": 3527, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Strategic moves will bring success in commercial circles.\nWomen will find rivals in society; vain and fruitless efforts\nwill be made for places in men's affections.\n\nTaking it, denotes misery and failure to meet past debts." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "bellows", "title": "Bellows", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Working a bellows, denotes a struggle, but a final triumph over poverty and fate by energy and perseverance.”", "aliases": [ "bellows" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about bellows stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0206", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Bellows", "text": "Working a bellows, denotes a struggle, but a final triumph over poverty\nand fate by energy and perseverance.\n\nTo dream of seeing a bellows, distant friends are longing to see you.\n\nTo hear one, occult knowledge will be obtained by the help\nof powerful means. One fallen into disuse, portends you have\nwasted energies under misguiding impulses.", "locator": "Heading 206; source lines 3533–3544", "lineStart": 3533, "lineEnd": 3544, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Working a bellows, denotes a struggle, but a final triumph over poverty\nand fate by energy and perseverance.\n\nTo dream of seeing a bellows, distant friends are longing to see you.\n\nTo hear one, occult knowledge will be obtained by the help\nof powerful means. One fallen into disuse, portends you have\nwasted energies under misguiding impulses." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "bells", "title": "Bells", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "7 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To hear bells tolling in your dreams, death of distant friends will occur, and intelligence of wrong will…” Compare 6 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "bells", "bell" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about bells stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "guide-65367", "title": "Guide to Fortune-Telling by Dreams", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Multum in Parvo Library, Vol. I, No. 10, October 1894", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65367", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0207", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Bells", "text": "To hear bells tolling in your dreams, death of distant friends will occur,\nand intelligence of wrong will worry you.\n\nLiberty bells, indicate a joyous victory over an opponent.", "locator": "Heading 207; source lines 3544–3551", "lineStart": 3544, "lineEnd": 3551, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To hear bells tolling in your dreams, death of distant friends will occur,\nand intelligence of wrong will worry you.\n\nLiberty bells, indicate a joyous victory over an opponent." }, { "id": "fontaine-0069", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Bells", "text": "To dream that you hear bells ringing merrily is a sign of a\nwedding, or else that you will soon hear some good news. If the bell\ntolls solemnly, it foretells a funeral or bad news. To a girl, the\ntolling of a bell predicts that some one will deceive her. 16.", "locator": "Heading 69; source line 1257", "lineStart": 1257, "lineEnd": 1262, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you hear bells ringing merrily is a sign of a\nwedding, or else that you will soon hear some good news. If the bell\ntolls solemnly, it foretells a funeral or bad news. To a girl, the\ntolling of a bell predicts that some one will deceive her." }, { "id": "noe-0053", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Bells", "text": "To dream you hear the bells ringing, denotes a speedy marriage\nand that you will receive some very good news.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 54; source lines 316–317", "lineStart": 316, "lineEnd": 317, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you hear the bells ringing, denotes a speedy marriage\nand that you will receive some very good news." }, { "id": "noe-0065", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Bells", "text": "To dream one hears ringing of bells, if of a sanguine\ncomplexion, brings them good news; but to others, it shows alarms,\nmurmurings, disturbances and commotions.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 66; source lines 360–362", "lineStart": 360, "lineEnd": 362, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream one hears ringing of bells, if of a sanguine\ncomplexion, brings them good news; but to others, it shows alarms,\nmurmurings, disturbances and commotions." }, { "id": "cielo-0053", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Bell", "text": "Hearing the marriage bell means happiness; a\n church bell, alarm or misfortune. A dinner bell\n means a feast or wedding.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 53; source lines 3985–3989", "lineStart": 3985, "lineEnd": 3989, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Hearing the marriage bell means happiness; a\nchurch bell, alarm or misfortune. A dinner bell\nmeans a feast or wedding." }, { "id": "guide-0015", "sourceId": "guide-65367", "heading": "Bells", "text": "To dream you hear the bells ringing denotes a speedy marriage,\nand that you will receive some very good news.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 15; source lines 176–179", "lineStart": 176, "lineEnd": 179, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you hear the bells ringing denotes a speedy marriage,\nand that you will receive some very good news." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9192", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Bells", "heading": "Bells", "text": "A good dream under all conditions (Gypsy). They were believed by the ancients to disperse storms, to drive away pestilence, devils and to extinguish fire. In Christian symbolism they represent the exorcism of evil spirits.", "lineStart": 9192, "lineEnd": 9196, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 201; NLM OCR lines 9192–9196", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9192, "lineEnd": 9196, "printedPage": 201, "printedPageEnd": 201 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Bells. — A good dream under all conditions (Gypsy). They \nwere believed by the ancients to disperse storms, to drive \naway pestilence, devils and to extinguish fire. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "belly", "title": "Belly", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “It is bad to dream of seeing a swollen mortifying belly, it indicates desperate sickness.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "belly" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about belly stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "abdomen" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0208", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Belly", "text": "It is bad to dream of seeing a swollen mortifying belly,\nit indicates desperate sickness.\n\nTo see anything moving on the belly, prognosticates humiliation\nand hard labor.\n\nTo see a healthy belly, denotes insane desires.\n\n[21] See Abdomen.", "locator": "Heading 208; source lines 3551–3563", "lineStart": 3551, "lineEnd": 3563, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "It is bad to dream of seeing a swollen mortifying belly,\nit indicates desperate sickness.\n\nTo see anything moving on the belly, prognosticates humiliation\nand hard labor.\n\nTo see a healthy belly, denotes insane desires. See Abdomen." }, { "id": "fontaine-0070", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Belly", "text": "To dream one’s belly is bigger and fuller than ordinary, shows\nhis family and estate will increase; if one dreams his belly is grown\nlean and shrunk up, he will be joyfully delivered of some bad accident;\nif any one dreams that his belly is swelled, and yet notwithstanding be\nempty, he will become poor; if a girl dreams of a big belly, it is a\nsign of marriage. 24, 77.", "locator": "Heading 70; source line 1262", "lineStart": 1262, "lineEnd": 1269, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream one’s belly is bigger and fuller than ordinary, shows\nhis family and estate will increase; if one dreams his belly is grown\nlean and shrunk up, he will be joyfully delivered of some bad accident;\nif any one dreams that his belly is swelled, and yet notwithstanding be\nempty, he will become poor; if a girl dreams of a big belly, it is a\nsign of marriage." }, { "id": "noe-0049", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Belly", "text": "To dream one’s belly is bigger and fuller\nthan ordinary, shows his family and estate will increase. If one dreams\nhis belly is grown lean and shrunk up, he will be joyfully delivered of\nsome bad accident. If any one dreams that his belly is swelled, and yet\nnotwithstanding be empty, he will become poor, though he be rich in the\nesteem of many people in the world. If any one dreams his belly aches, he\nwill be afflicted in his family and have many cares upon him.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 49; source lines 295–301", "lineStart": 295, "lineEnd": 301, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream one’s belly is bigger and fuller\nthan ordinary, shows his family and estate will increase. If one dreams\nhis belly is grown lean and shrunk up, he will be joyfully delivered of\nsome bad accident. If any one dreams that his belly is swelled, and yet\nnotwithstanding be empty, he will become poor, though he be rich in the\nesteem of many people in the world. If any one dreams his belly aches, he\nwill be afflicted in his family and have many cares upon him." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "abdomen" ] }, { "slug": "belt", "title": "Belt", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you have a new style belt, denotes you are soon to meet and make engagements with a stranger, which will demoralize your…”", "aliases": [ "belt" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about belt stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0209", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Belt", "text": "To dream that you have a new style belt, denotes you are soon to meet and\nmake engagements with a stranger, which will demoralize your prosperity.\nIf it is out of date, you will be meritedly censured for rudeness.", "locator": "Heading 209; source lines 3563–3569", "lineStart": 3563, "lineEnd": 3569, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you have a new style belt, denotes you are soon to meet and\nmake engagements with a stranger, which will demoralize your prosperity.\nIf it is out of date, you will be meritedly censured for rudeness." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "bench", "title": "Bench", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Distrust debtors and confidants if you dream of sitting on one.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "bench" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about bench stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0210", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Bench", "text": "Distrust debtors and confidants if you dream of sitting on one.\n\nIf you see others doing so, happy reunions between friends who have been\nseparated through misunderstandings are suggested.", "locator": "Heading 210; source lines 3569–3576", "lineStart": 3569, "lineEnd": 3576, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Distrust debtors and confidants if you dream of sitting on one.\n\nIf you see others doing so, happy reunions between friends who have been\nseparated through misunderstandings are suggested." }, { "id": "cielo-0054", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Bench", "text": "To sit on a bench, “Beware of a rival.”", "locator": "Dream section, heading 54; source lines 3989–3991", "lineStart": 3989, "lineEnd": 3991, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To sit on a bench, “Beware of a rival.”" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "bequest", "title": "Bequest", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “After this dream, pleasures of consolation from the knowledge of duties well performed, and the health of the young is assured.”", "aliases": [ "bequest" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about bequest stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0211", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Bequest", "text": "After this dream, pleasures of consolation from the knowledge of duties\nwell performed, and the health of the young is assured.", "locator": "Heading 211; source lines 3576–3581", "lineStart": 3576, "lineEnd": 3581, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "After this dream, pleasures of consolation from the knowledge of duties\nwell performed, and the health of the young is assured." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "bereavement", "title": "Bereavement", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of the bereavement of a child, warns you that your plans will meet with quick frustration, and…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "bereavement" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about bereavement stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0212", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Bereavement", "text": "To dream of the bereavement of a child, warns you that your plans will meet\nwith quick frustration, and where you expect success there will be failure.\n\nBereavement of relatives, or friends, denotes disappointment\nin well matured plans and a poor outlook for the future.", "locator": "Heading 212; source lines 3581–3589", "lineStart": 3581, "lineEnd": 3589, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of the bereavement of a child, warns you that your plans will meet\nwith quick frustration, and where you expect success there will be failure.\n\nBereavement of relatives, or friends, denotes disappointment\nin well matured plans and a poor outlook for the future." }, { "id": "cielo-0055", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Bereavement", "text": "Losing a relative or friend signifies a visit.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 55; source lines 3991–3993", "lineStart": 3991, "lineEnd": 3993, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Losing a relative or friend signifies a visit." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "bet", "title": "Bet", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Betting on races, beware of engaging in new undertakings.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "bet" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about bet stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0213", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Bet", "text": "Betting on races, beware of engaging in new undertakings.\nEnemies are trying to divert your attention from legitimate business.\n\nBetting at gaming tables, denotes that immoral devices will be used\nto wring money from you.", "locator": "Heading 213; source lines 3589–3597", "lineStart": 3589, "lineEnd": 3597, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Betting on races, beware of engaging in new undertakings.\nEnemies are trying to divert your attention from legitimate business.\n\nBetting at gaming tables, denotes that immoral devices will be used\nto wring money from you." }, { "id": "fontaine-0071", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Bet", "text": "To dream that you bet with any one, shows that you will suffer\nfrom your own imprudence. 66, 12, 72.", "locator": "Heading 71; source line 1269", "lineStart": 1269, "lineEnd": 1272, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you bet with any one, shows that you will suffer\nfrom your own imprudence." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "betrayal", "title": "Betrayal", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "summary": "Betrayal dreams may explore a broken agreement, exposed confidence, or competing loyalties without revealing anyone’s real intentions.", "tagline": "What was entrusted makes the breach specific.", "aliases": [ "betrayal", "betrayed", "being betrayed", "betraying" ], "status": "REVIEW", "psychological": "Betrayal in a dream can make a changed agreement feel personal. Someone repeats a confidence, changes a shared plan without telling you, or withdraws support at the moment it is needed. The central image is not simply that something goes wrong: a person had been given a particular place in the arrangement, and their action alters what you thought was secure. The dreamed breach supplies no evidence of that person’s actual intentions or conduct.\n\nWhat was entrusted gives the reading precision. Private information makes control over disclosure important. Shared work makes contribution and recognition important. A promise of company or practical help makes the cost of suddenly carrying something alone important. These different losses should not be folded automatically into romantic infidelity. A missed agreement, a remembered argument, a story about divided loyalties or uncertainty during a change can offer waking comparisons.\n\nThe aftermath can matter more than discovering the act. An explanation that arrives too late may picture wanting a chance to respond before consequences are settled. Trying to hide your distress could fit feeling that keeping a place in a group requires appearing unaffected. A supportive witness changes the scene by making the breach discussable, even when the original arrangement cannot be restored. The dream may focus on having your experience recognized rather than on finding a hidden culprit.\n\nBeing the person who betrays adds another perspective. You might break one promise to protect someone else, keep a secret that conflicts with a shared task, or be accused of disloyalty for declining an unreasonable request. Such scenes can explore competing commitments. They do not establish a concealed wish to harm someone, and the accusation itself may be part of the tension.\n\nRepair need not return everything to its previous form. A smaller promise, clearer boundaries or cooperation without former closeness can make renewed contact imaginable. An unresolved ending may leave disappointment without a solution. The useful question is what kind of trust the scene changed and what conditions, if any, made another arrangement feel possible.", "traditional": "This original reading concerns a breach of an entrusted arrangement. Miller’s separate Traitor heading concerns a character seen or an accusation made, while Cheating addresses a more specific relationship event. Neither is supplied here as a historical interpretation of every betrayal dream; general dream background does not verify a real breach.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "The entrusted thing", "reflection": "Information, work and promised support create different stakes when an agreement changes." }, { "title": "Who can respond", "reflection": "A breach can make voice, timing and recognition as important as the original loss." }, { "title": "Competing loyalties", "reflection": "The dreamer can also face incompatible promises or a demand for loyalty without reasonable limits." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A confidence is repeated to an audience", "reflection": "The audience receives something you expected to remain within a smaller relationship. This can resemble uncertainty about privacy or control over a personal story. The scene is specific to disclosure; it does not prove that the real person has shared anything." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A teammate secretly changes an agreed plan", "reflection": "The change removes your opportunity to participate in a joint decision. A project whose terms shift without discussion offers a waking comparison. The troubling element may be lost authorship or unequal influence rather than the plan’s practical outcome alone." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A familiar person abandons an agreed responsibility", "reflection": "Help had been part of the arrangement, so its withdrawal changes what you must carry. This may picture concern about follow-through or an old disappointment. The particular responsibility matters more than treating any absence as a sign of disloyalty." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You betray a promise to protect somebody else", "reflection": "The dream sets two commitments against each other. Keeping a promise may seem to endanger someone, while breaking it carries another cost. The scene can make the limits of a simple loyalty rule visible without establishing that you are secretly untrustworthy." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You are called disloyal for a boundary you chose", "reflection": "The accusation may make belonging conditional on compliance. Declining a task, withholding private information or choosing a different path can feel similar when others call a limit disloyal. The dreamed label deserves comparison with the actual request, not automatic acceptance." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "An explanation or repair does not restore the old arrangement", "reflection": "An account of what happened may restore understanding without restoring the former level of reliance. A more limited agreement can become possible while hurt remains. The scene distinguishes repair from an obligation to return every confidence or responsibility to the same person." } ], "prompts": [ "What exact agreement or confidence changed in the dream?", "What response did you want to be able to give afterward?", "What terms made renewed contact possible in the dream?" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." }, { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-2043" ], "scope": "Miller’s Traitor passage concerns seeing a traitor or being called/imagining oneself one, not a verified account of every breached agreement. Adjacent historical comparison only; original records remain attached to traitor. Not evidence for the original psychological interpretation." } ], "related": [ "trust", "cheating", "traitor", "friend" ], "updated": "2026-10-13", "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "betrothal", "title": "Betrothal", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Cielo wrote: “Foretells pleasures that may be brief.”", "aliases": [ "betrothal" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about betrothal stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "cielo-0056", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Betrothal", "text": "Foretells pleasures that may be brief.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 56; source lines 3993–3995", "lineStart": 3993, "lineEnd": 3995, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Foretells pleasures that may be brief." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "bible", "title": "Bible", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of the Bible, foretells that innocent and disillusioned enjoyment will be proffered for your…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "bible" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about bible stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0214", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Bible", "text": "To dream of the Bible, foretells that innocent and disillusioned\nenjoyment will be proffered for your acceptance.\n\nTo dream that you villify{sic} the teachings of the Bible,\nforewarns you that you are about to succumb to resisted temptations\nthrough the seductive persuasiveness of a friend.", "locator": "Heading 214; source lines 3597–3606", "lineStart": 3597, "lineEnd": 3606, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of the Bible, foretells that innocent and disillusioned\nenjoyment will be proffered for your acceptance.\n\nTo dream that you villify[sic] the teachings of the Bible,\nforewarns you that you are about to succumb to resisted temptations\nthrough the seductive persuasiveness of a friend." }, { "id": "cielo-0057", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Bible", "text": "To see a Bible is a reproach for evil deeds.\n To read a Bible, luck.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 57; source lines 3995–3998", "lineStart": 3995, "lineEnd": 3998, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a Bible is a reproach for evil deeds.\nTo read a Bible, luck." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "bicycle", "title": "Bicycle", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "Your own effort creates movement while balance and direction remain in your hands.", "summary": "A bicycle can picture progress made by your own effort, the balance a task requires, or a changing relationship between pace, control, and help.", "aliases": [ "bicycle" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A bicycle can picture progress that depends on your own continuing effort. You choose a direction and supply the movement, with fewer resources than a car provides. Riding comfortably may resemble making an independent decision or finding a manageable rhythm in work. Pedaling hard without getting far can instead picture a task whose demands consume energy faster than visible results appear.\n\nBalance makes this image more specific than travel alone. A bicycle stays manageable through small adjustments rather than one permanent correction. This can fit coordinating study with work, sharing family responsibilities, or learning a role in which attention has to move between several needs. Wobbling among other riders may express feeling less practiced or more exposed to comparison, while an empty path can offer room to find your pace.\n\nTerrain changes the relationship between effort and movement. An uphill ride can picture sustained work toward something important, especially when progress feels slow but chosen. Downhill speed may express welcome ease after effort, or discomfort when events begin moving faster than you can respond. Brakes that fail give form to losing the ability to pause an arrangement once it has momentum.\n\nThe bicycle's condition can bring practical support into focus. A slipped chain interrupts the link between effort and movement; this may resemble working hard while a missing tool, unclear process, or unresolved dependency prevents progress. Repairing it can picture finding the specific adjustment that makes effort effective again.\n\nA tandem bicycle adds another person's rhythm and direction. Moving smoothly together can resemble cooperation; pedaling out of time or disagreeing about steering can picture unequal authority in a shared task. Riding a childhood bicycle successfully can also express returning to a competence you thought you had lost. Recent journeys, exercise, repairs, and memories can provide the scene directly.", "traditional": "Miller's Bicycle entry gives an uphill ride a favorable forecast. Its downhill passage addresses women specifically and attaches warnings about reputation, health, and misfortune. The directional contrast is therefore mixed with period gendered judgments rather than developed as a general account of effort or control. These forecasts do not establish consequences for a present-day dreamer. The original modern comparisons use the features that make a bicycle distinctive: self-powered movement, repeated balance adjustments, braking, mechanical dependence, and coordination with another rider.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Progress powered by your effort", "reflection": "Pedaling can picture an independent undertaking that needs continued input. A comfortable rhythm may express workable self-direction; exhausting effort with little movement may resemble demands that outweigh the visible result." }, { "title": "Balance through small adjustments", "reflection": "A bicycle can make coordination tangible. Wobbling or riding steadily may resemble how manageable it feels to divide attention between work, learning, relationships, and other responsibilities that move together." }, { "title": "The right to change pace", "reflection": "Hills and brakes can picture how quickly an undertaking moves and whether you can pause. Downhill ease may feel welcome until momentum exceeds your ability to choose the next step." }, { "title": "Effort needs a working connection", "reflection": "A loose chain can resemble a missing tool or unresolved dependency that stops effort producing progress. A tandem ride adds the question of whose rhythm and direction organize shared movement." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You pedal uphill and slowly reach the top", "reflection": "A chosen climb can picture persistence toward a goal that requires effort before relief arrives. Learning a skill or completing a demanding stage of work could fit. Reaching the top gives the effort a clear relationship to progress, even when the pace is modest." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You speed downhill and the brakes do not work", "reflection": "A ride that accelerates beyond your control can picture an arrangement gaining momentum faster than you can manage it. A rapidly expanding workload or commitment could fit. Failed brakes make the need to pause or change pace central to the experience." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You ride easily after thinking you had forgotten how", "reflection": "Recovered balance can picture returning to a capacity that felt distant. Resuming a hobby, taking independent action after relying on others, or rejoining familiar work could fit. The ease suggests that some competence may remain available even after a long gap in practice." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You wobble through a crowd of faster riders", "reflection": "Unsteady movement among confident cyclists can picture learning while comparing yourself with people who are further along. A new course, role, or group might fit. The crowd makes finding your own pace harder because each adjustment also feels visible to others." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A tandem partner pedals to a different rhythm", "reflection": "Mismatched effort can picture cooperation that has not settled how decisions and responsibilities are shared. A joint project or household routine could fit. Both people may be working, yet movement stays awkward because pace and direction have not been agreed between them." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The chain slips until you stop and repair it", "reflection": "A mechanical interruption can picture effort being wasted by a specific obstacle. Missing access, an unclear procedure, or a task waiting on someone else's input might fit. Repairing the connection suggests that progress depends on resolving the blockage rather than simply pedaling harder." } ], "prompts": [ "Was movement difficult because of the slope, my balance, the bicycle, or another rider's choices?", "Could I choose the pace and stop when I needed to, or did momentum decide for me?", "What current effort needs a better working connection or shared rhythm before doing more will help?" ], "related": [ "road", "car", "bridge", "falling", "running-but-going-nowhere" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "scope": "Historical comparison only: Bicycle, miller-0216 (Heading 216; source lines 3611–3617). Period dream-book claims support only the attributed historical comparison, not predictions or the original modern reflections.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0216" ] }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia editorial upgrade with image-specific interpretations, concrete waking-life parallels, and six differentiated scenes. Historical context is grounded in the cited catalogue passages. Human publication review pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0216", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Bicycle", "text": "To dream of riding a bicycle up hill, signifies bright prospects.\nRiding it down hill, if the rider be a woman, calls for care regarding\nher good name and health; misfortune hovers near.", "locator": "Heading 216; source lines 3611–3617", "lineStart": 3611, "lineEnd": 3617, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of riding a bicycle up hill, signifies bright prospects.\nRiding it down hill, if the rider be a woman, calls for care regarding\nher good name and health; misfortune hovers near." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "bier", "title": "Bier", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see one, indicates disastrous losses and the early dissolution of a dear relative.”", "aliases": [ "bier" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about bier stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0203", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Bier", "text": "To see one, indicates disastrous losses and the early dissolution\nof a dear relative.\n\nTo see one, strewn with flowers in a church, denotes an unfortunate marriage.", "locator": "Heading 203; source lines 3512–3519", "lineStart": 3512, "lineEnd": 3519, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see one, indicates disastrous losses and the early dissolution\nof a dear relative.\n\nTo see one, strewn with flowers in a church, denotes an unfortunate marriage." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "billboard", "title": "Billboard", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "A message made prominent, an audience you imagine, and a surface that can change.", "summary": "A billboard can explore public presentation, a message competing for attention, or the difference between a visible promise and what you actually need.", "aliases": [ "billboard", "billboards", "advertising billboard", "roadside billboard" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "A billboard makes a message hard to miss by placing it where people are already passing. In a dream, its size, position or repetition may matter more than the product being advertised. This can picture something presented prominently in your own life: an expectation, an attractive option or an announcement whose audience you are still imagining. A familiar road or recent image may provide the scene directly.\n\nSeeing your own name or face on the board can put visibility beside control. You may enjoy recognition while wondering who chose the words, photograph or location. A presentation, family announcement or public role could offer a parallel. The question concerns how you are being represented, rather than whether attention itself is welcome or whether the dreamed audience approves of you.\n\nAn appealing promise can create a different tension. The sign may offer exactly what you want but provide no usable route to it. This can resemble an option that is easy to imagine and harder to turn into an arrangement. Finding an entrance, asking for details or choosing another destination makes access more concrete than admiration for the message alone.\n\nA changing billboard can bring timing into focus. You might try to read the final line while the display replaces it, or discover that the message means something different when seen from another position. This may picture trying to understand an announcement while its terms are still moving. A blank surface can instead offer room to decide what you want to say before anyone sees it.\n\nDistance and scale can alter the encounter again. A huge board viewed closely may become unreadable, while a small remembered phrase stays clear as you continue along the road. These possibilities concern attention, representation and practical meaning within an imagined scene. They do not establish that an advertisement is an instruction or that a public message conceals information about you. This entry concerns a display surface, rather than music rankings or an organization that uses the Billboard name.", "traditional": "No historical account is attached to this original entry. The cited learning experiment supplies memory-research context, not a tested meaning for this image or evidence that a dream predicts an event.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Being represented in public", "reflection": "A name, face or announcement can make visibility concrete. Enjoying attention and wanting a say in the presentation can coexist." }, { "title": "A promise and an available route", "reflection": "An appealing message may differ from a usable offer. The scene can explore what would let an option become practical." }, { "title": "Attention shaped by scale and timing", "reflection": "A message can be too large, too brief or continually changing. What remains readable may matter more than how prominent it is." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Your photograph appears beside words you did not choose", "reflection": "Recognition arrives with a presentation you have not shaped. This might explore wanting a say in how a role or event becomes public. The dreamed display does not tell you how real observers judge you or require rejecting attention altogether." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "The billboard advertises a place with no visible entrance", "reflection": "An appealing destination lacks a usable next step. This can picture a promise whose practical terms need clarification. Continuing, asking or choosing elsewhere gives the scene different directions without establishing that the offer must be deceptive." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "The message changes before you finish reading it", "reflection": "You are trying to understand something whose terms do not stay still. The scene may resemble following an announcement while waiting for enough detail to act. Frustration can concern timing rather than a general inability to understand." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You are invited to write on an empty billboard", "reflection": "An available audience makes expression both possible and conspicuous. This can explore choosing what you want to make visible. A short ordinary message, a drawing or leaving the surface blank can each reveal a different wish about participation." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The board becomes unreadable when you stand directly beneath it", "reflection": "Closeness does not provide the kind of view you expected. This may picture needing another position to understand an arrangement. Stepping back can supply context without declaring your close attention unnecessary or the message meaningless." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "One small phrase stays with you after the road turns", "reflection": "Most of the display disappears while a particular detail remains. The scene can center why that phrase attracted your attention. Its remembered significance may be personal or ordinary; prominence does not make it a verified message about the future." } ], "prompts": [ "Which part of the message remained clear, and why did it matter?", "Who chose how something was presented?", "What would make the advertised possibility usable?" ], "related": [ "advertisement", "road", "writing", "letter" ], "sources": [ { "id": "wamsley-2010", "title": "Dreaming of a learning task is associated with enhanced sleep-dependent memory consolidation", "author": "Erin J. Wamsley and colleagues", "url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20417102/", "scope": "Primary maze-learning experiment; task-related dream reports correlated with later performance. It does not show that a dream is an accurate memory or a solution." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s continuing English editorial delegation. The memory study is general context, not validation of these interpretations.", "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "DreamFolia AI-assisted editorial review", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "aisle", "ambulance", "bakery", "binoculars", "backstage", "birdbath", "birdhouse", "beehive", "billboard", "bookmark", "turnstile", "antlers", "armchair", "bathrobe" ] }, "decisionReason": "The display-surface reading distinguishes representation, a practical offer, changing text, scale and an available audience. Music-chart and financial-bill uses have explicit lookup boundaries. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0217", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Billiards", "text": "Billiards, foretell coming troubles to the dreamer.\nLaw suits and contentions over property. Slander will get\nin her work to your detriment. If you see table and balls idle,\ndeceitful comrades are undermining you{.}", "locator": "Heading 217; source lines 3617–3624", "lineStart": 3617, "lineEnd": 3624, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Billiards, foretell coming troubles to the dreamer.\nLaw suits and contentions over property. Slander will get\nin her work to your detriment. If you see table and balls idle,\ndeceitful comrades are undermining you[.]" }, { "id": "cielo-0058", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Billiards", "text": "Means loss thru dissipation.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 58; source lines 3998–4000", "lineStart": 3998, "lineEnd": 4000, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Means loss thru dissipation." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "binoculars", "title": "Binoculars", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "A closer view that leaves the distance in place.", "summary": "Binoculars may explore focused attention, the wish to see enough before approaching, or a detailed view that leaves something outside its frame.", "aliases": [ "binoculars", "binocular", "field glasses" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "Binoculars can bring a distant detail close enough to inspect while leaving your position unchanged. This makes observation different from participation. You may want to understand a place before entering it, identify someone across a field or simply enjoy watching a bird. A personal comparison can concern gathering enough information to choose a next step, rather than a general need to keep your distance.\n\nFocus creates both clarity and a frame. Bringing one object into view can make the surrounding scene harder to follow. That can resemble concentrating on a particular part of a decision while overlooking the arrangement around it. The detail may be useful; the question is whether it answers what you actually want to know. Lowering the binoculars can restore context without making close attention a mistake.\n\nAn adjustable view can also make uncertainty practical. You may know that something is present but be unable to settle the image. A changing task, an incomplete explanation or a conversation heard only in fragments could offer parallels. When another person helps find the focus, the scene may concern sharing a method rather than obtaining a secret answer.\n\nLooking does not have to lead to approaching. Watching a landscape or animal can be enjoyable in its own right, especially when movement would end the encounter. Conversely, being asked to act while still looking can create a tension between preparation and participation. The dream may put enough information beside the wish for complete certainty, without deciding that either caution or action is always preferable.\n\nA recent outing, a photograph or a remembered instrument may supply the image directly. Seeing someone look back can shift your attention toward being observed yourself; finding an ordinary object instead of the expected figure can revise a first impression. Neither version establishes that anyone is monitoring or deceiving you. These reflections concern the imagined viewing instrument, not binocular vision as a medical or perceptual term, and a dream cannot assess your eyesight.", "traditional": "No historical account is attached to this original entry. The cited learning experiment supplies memory-research context, not a tested meaning for this image or evidence that a dream predicts an event.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Seeing before approaching", "reflection": "A distant view may help you decide whether or how to enter an encounter. Observation can also be the activity you came to enjoy." }, { "title": "Detail inside a limited frame", "reflection": "A clear view of one feature may leave the surrounding arrangement less visible. Close attention and broader context can each provide something useful." }, { "title": "Enough information to continue", "reflection": "Adjusting focus or sharing the instrument can make uncertainty a practical task. The useful change need not be complete certainty." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You bring a distant sign into focus but lose the road around it", "reflection": "A useful detail fills the view while its setting becomes less clear. This may picture attention narrowing around one part of a decision. Lowering the instrument can offer another kind of information without making the detail irrelevant." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A bird remains still while you watch from a distance", "reflection": "The encounter works because you do not need to move closer. This can preserve ordinary curiosity or pleasure in observing. The question may concern allowing an experience to be enough as it is, rather than turning every view into a destination." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Another person adjusts the binoculars and hands them back", "reflection": "A small shared method makes something easier to see. The scene may resemble receiving practical help with an unclear task. What becomes visible and whether you can adjust the view yourself distinguish useful support from simply accepting someone else’s account." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You are asked to join the group while still studying the horizon", "reflection": "Preparation and participation compete for the same moment. The scene can explore what would be enough information to set the instrument down. Joining, asking for a little longer or continuing to watch gives the encounter different endings." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The figure you expected turns out to be an ordinary object", "reflection": "A closer view revises an earlier impression. Relief, amusement or disappointment can each make that change meaningful. The dream may invite reflection on updating an expectation, without proving that your initial concern was foolish or that appearances are generally deceptive." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "Someone across the field raises another pair of binoculars", "reflection": "Observation becomes mutual within the scene. Curiosity may turn into embarrassment, company or a wish for privacy. Your response gives the moment its direction; the image is not evidence that a real person is watching you." } ], "prompts": [ "What did you want to understand before moving closer?", "What remained outside the frame of the detailed view?", "When did you have enough information for the next step?" ], "related": [ "telescope", "spy-glass", "eyes", "bird", "mountain" ], "sources": [ { "id": "wamsley-2010", "title": "Dreaming of a learning task is associated with enhanced sleep-dependent memory consolidation", "author": "Erin J. Wamsley and colleagues", "url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20417102/", "scope": "Primary maze-learning experiment; task-related dream reports correlated with later performance. It does not show that a dream is an accurate memory or a solution." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s continuing English editorial delegation. The memory study is general context, not validation of these interpretations.", "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "DreamFolia AI-assisted editorial review", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "aisle", "ambulance", "bakery", "binoculars", "backstage", "birdbath", "birdhouse", "beehive", "billboard", "bookmark", "turnstile", "antlers", "armchair", "bathrobe" ] }, "decisionReason": "The reading explains distance, focus, a limited frame, shared adjustment and participation through six scenes. Lookup/detection probes separate binocular vision and 3D glasses while preserving a separately named instrument. No eyesight assessment, surveillance claim or symbolic validation is made.", "reviewedSnapshot": "data/everyday-publication-review-2026-10-15.json", "contentSha256": "a5ab4d1d4888a0e992ac01bb81974f0bab02cd76b465e58b892a7e95f6d84e9e" }, "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "birdbath", "title": "Birdbath", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "A small shared resource, an available pause, and the room around an invitation.", "summary": "A birdbath may explore making something available without controlling its use, sharing a small space, or noticing what supports an ordinary pause.", "aliases": [ "birdbath", "birdbaths", "bird bath", "bird baths" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "A birdbath can make a small provision visible: water and a place where another creature might pause. In the dream, you may fill it, watch birds use it or discover it empty. This can resemble offering time, attention or a practical resource without being able to decide exactly who will arrive. The image may also belong directly to a garden, photograph or ordinary remembered scene.\n\nFilling the bowl differs from waiting for a visitor. The first gives you a task you can complete; the second leaves an outcome outside your control. Preparing a guest room, making an invitation or arranging a shared break can have a similar shape. If nobody comes, the dream may bring expectation into view rather than establish that the offering has been rejected.\n\nThe space around the water can matter as much as the bowl. A bird may approach while you remain still, or move away when you lean closer for a better view. This can picture the distance that lets another participant use what is available. A personal comparison might concern making room for an exchange to develop without requiring constant confirmation that it is working.\n\nSeveral birds arriving together can turn a quiet pause into a question about sharing. Waiting, taking turns or finding another place gives the scene different arrangements. Your interest may shift from providing the resource to watching how it is used. A busy bowl can feel lively or crowded; the number of visitors does not decide which feeling belongs to you.\n\nA cracked pedestal, a bowl moved indoors or rain arriving just as you fetch water can change the purpose of your effort. The task may need a different arrangement, become unnecessary for the moment or invite an unexpected form of company. These possibilities concern imagined provision and observation, not rules about caring for wildlife. No dream condition of the bowl establishes an animal’s health or measures the value of your actual care.", "traditional": "No historical account is attached to this original entry. The cited learning experiment supplies memory-research context, not a tested meaning for this image or evidence that a dream predicts an event.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "An offering and an uncertain response", "reflection": "Preparing something can be within your control while its use remains another participant’s choice. The waiting may have a different meaning from the preparation." }, { "title": "Enough distance for a pause", "reflection": "Watching and approaching can change the conditions of an encounter. Making room may let company remain possible without requiring closeness." }, { "title": "A small place shared in different ways", "reflection": "Several visitors can bring liveliness, crowding or turn-taking into view. The arrangement matters more than a fixed meaning for a full or empty bowl." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You fill the bowl and no birds arrive while you wait", "reflection": "The practical task is complete, but the response remains uncertain. This could resemble an invitation whose timing you cannot determine. Waiting, leaving or enjoying the garden yourself creates different endings without proving that the offering was unwanted." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A bird approaches after you sit farther away", "reflection": "A changed distance makes another movement possible. The scene may picture company developing when there is less pressure for an immediate exchange. Your own comfort still matters; making room is different from needing to disappear entirely." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Several birds try to use the same small bowl", "reflection": "A resource that seemed sufficient becomes a shared arrangement. This can bring questions about timing, space and whose turn it is into focus. Liveliness and crowding can coexist without making the group itself a problem." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Rain begins just as you carry water across the garden", "reflection": "Your intended contribution meets a change that partly supplies it already. Relief, amusement or disappointment may make that timing significant. The scene can explore whether a useful effort is still needed now, rather than whether it ever mattered." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The birdbath stands inside a room in your house", "reflection": "An outdoor provision has entered an ordinary private setting. This may connect hospitality with the space you normally keep for yourself. Notice what becomes possible or inconvenient, without assuming every unfamiliar visitor should be welcomed or excluded." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You steady a tilted bowl with help from someone nearby", "reflection": "The arrangement around a resource needs attention before it can be used comfortably. The scene may picture sharing a small maintenance task. Receiving practical help changes the effort without making the entire offering your responsibility alone." } ], "prompts": [ "What did you provide, and what response were you hoping for?", "How did your own distance affect the encounter?", "What made the small place sufficient, crowded or available again?" ], "related": [ "bird", "water", "garden", "nest", "birdhouse" ], "sources": [ { "id": "wamsley-2010", "title": "Dreaming of a learning task is associated with enhanced sleep-dependent memory consolidation", "author": "Erin J. Wamsley and colleagues", "url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20417102/", "scope": "Primary maze-learning experiment; task-related dream reports correlated with later performance. It does not show that a dream is an accurate memory or a solution." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s continuing English editorial delegation. The memory study is general context, not validation of these interpretations.", "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "DreamFolia AI-assisted editorial review", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "aisle", "ambulance", "bakery", "binoculars", "backstage", "birdbath", "birdhouse", "beehive", "billboard", "bookmark", "turnstile", "antlers", "armchair", "bathrobe" ] }, "decisionReason": "Provision, waiting for a visitor, distance, shared space and maintenance form six distinct encounters. The text does not infer rejection from an empty bowl, measure care from a dreamed condition or provide wildlife-care instructions.", "reviewedSnapshot": "data/everyday-publication-review-2026-10-15.json", "contentSha256": "cfabb790daeb3c02222981e2e068e1407b7283e06b12a59f47a4c7545c55a63c" }, "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "birdhouse", "title": "Birdhouse", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "A prepared place, an invitation to inhabit it, and the difference between a design and its use.", "summary": "A birdhouse can explore preparing a place for another participant, the fit of an arrangement, or waiting to see whether an invitation will be taken up.", "aliases": [ "birdhouse", "birdhouses", "bird house", "bird houses" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "A birdhouse can give hospitality a shape before anyone arrives. You may build, hang or inspect a little structure whose future use remains uncertain. This can resemble preparing a place in a group, household or project and hoping someone will feel able to use it. A remembered garden object or a small model may provide the image without a further symbolic question.\n\nThe opening can make fit more important than appearance. A beautifully painted house may have an entrance nobody can reach, while a plain box may be easy to approach. A personal comparison could concern whether an inviting arrangement works from the other participant’s position. A new team process, offered room or proposed activity may look complete while still needing one practical adjustment.\n\nWhere the house is placed can change the encounter. High on a tree, it may be easy to see but difficult for you to inspect; close to a busy doorway, it may be convenient to watch but hard to leave undisturbed. The dream can put your wish to observe beside another use of the same space. Neither wish has to be wrong for the arrangement to need discussion or change.\n\nAn occupied house introduces a different relationship from an empty one. Hearing movement without seeing inside may allow curiosity and privacy to remain together. An unfamiliar object found within can alter what you thought the structure was for. These details may picture discovering how an offering is actually used, rather than assuming that preparation entitles you to control every later choice.\n\nBuilding with someone else can instead make the shared task central. Disagreeing about decoration, fixing an entrance or deciding when the work is finished can resemble ordinary coordination. An empty birdhouse need not announce abandonment, and an occupied one does not promise a new family event. These are original comparisons about imagined shelter and invitation. They provide neither wildlife-care instructions nor a measure of whether your real home is welcoming enough.", "traditional": "No historical account is attached to this original entry. The cited learning experiment supplies memory-research context, not a tested meaning for this image or evidence that a dream predicts an event.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A place prepared before a response", "reflection": "Making something available and having it inhabited are different stages. The scene may center the work, the invitation or the expectation that follows." }, { "title": "Fit from another position", "reflection": "An entrance, location or interior can work differently for the maker and the visitor. A small adjustment may matter more than a finished appearance." }, { "title": "Interest alongside privacy", "reflection": "Knowing that something is happening inside does not give a complete view. The encounter can explore how much you want to observe and what can remain unknown." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "The painted birdhouse has an opening nobody can reach", "reflection": "An attractive design does not yet support its intended use. This may picture an offering that needs one practical change from another person’s position. Revising the arrangement can preserve your purpose rather than invalidate the effort already made." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You hear movement inside but cannot see the occupants", "reflection": "Use becomes noticeable without becoming fully visible. The scene can put curiosity beside respect for a boundary. Waiting, listening or moving away may each feel fitting; the unseen interior does not establish a hidden message or problem." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You and a companion disagree about where to hang the house", "reflection": "A shared purpose meets different ideas about placement. This can resemble coordinating a project whose practical conditions have not been agreed. The useful change may be understanding what each location permits, rather than deciding whose design is more caring." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "The empty house becomes a place to leave a small note", "reflection": "The structure acquires a use different from the one you expected. This could explore how an available space becomes meaningful through another activity. Curiosity, disappointment or enjoyment can distinguish adaptation from feeling that your original purpose has been ignored." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A plain birdhouse is occupied while an elaborate one remains empty", "reflection": "Response does not follow the effort or appearance you expected. The scene may invite a question about which features actually make an arrangement usable. It does not require dismissing decoration or measuring your own worth by who arrives." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You finish building and leave the house where it can be found", "reflection": "The task reaches a point where another participant’s choice begins. This can picture allowing an invitation to remain available without watching constantly for an answer. The ending may include satisfaction, uncertainty or a wish to return later." } ], "prompts": [ "What did you want the prepared place to make possible?", "Whose position helped you judge whether the arrangement worked?", "What could you finish, and what remained someone else’s choice?" ], "related": [ "bird", "nest", "garden", "house", "birdbath" ], "sources": [ { "id": "wamsley-2010", "title": "Dreaming of a learning task is associated with enhanced sleep-dependent memory consolidation", "author": "Erin J. Wamsley and colleagues", "url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20417102/", "scope": "Primary maze-learning experiment; task-related dream reports correlated with later performance. It does not show that a dream is an accurate memory or a solution." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s continuing English editorial delegation. The memory study is general context, not validation of these interpretations.", "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "DreamFolia AI-assisted editorial review", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "aisle", "ambulance", "bakery", "binoculars", "backstage", "birdbath", "birdhouse", "beehive", "billboard", "bookmark", "turnstile", "antlers", "armchair", "bathrobe" ] }, "decisionReason": "The reading distinguishes preparing a place, fit from the visitor’s position, observation, shared work and an invitation’s uncertain response. It does not borrow Nest records, predict a family event or equate an empty structure with abandonment.", "reviewedSnapshot": "data/everyday-publication-review-2026-10-15.json", "contentSha256": "5729ae0ad362fd88f28dd07b5b2641bf0c0e94ee4005b84560e0d2e237aece3c" }, "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "birding", "title": "Birding", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “To dream you catch birds, signifies profit and pleasure.”", "aliases": [ "birding" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about birding stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "noe-0066", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Birding", "text": "To dream you catch\nbirds, signifies profit and pleasure.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 67; source lines 362–363", "lineStart": 362, "lineEnd": 363, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you catch\nbirds, signifies profit and pleasure." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "birding-or-hunting-of-birds", "title": "Birding, or hunting of Birds", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Artemidorus wrote: “THe Lime-twigges and glew, is the returne of those which are farre off, the recovering of Fugitives or any lost thing: Of the Nets and…”", "aliases": [ "birding, or hunting of birds", "of birding, or hunting of birds", "birding", "hunting of birds" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about birding, or hunting of birds stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "artemidorus-082", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of Birding, or hunting of Birds.", "text": "THe Lime-twigges and glew, is the returne of those which are farre off, the recovering of Fugitives or any lost thing: Of the Nets and Hayes to catch Birds in, we must judge as of those of wilde Beasts.", "locator": "Book 2, encoded section 82", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "2", "displayText": "THe Lime-twigges and glew, is the returne of those which are farre off, the recovering of Fugitives or any lost thing: Of the Nets and Hayes to catch Birds in, we must judge as of those of wilde Beasts." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "bird", "title": "Birds", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "aliases": [ "bird", "birds" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "summary": "Birds can explore movement you observe or join, a living visitor’s different needs, and the attention created by sound or company.", "tagline": "The encounter changes with movement, care and the distance you choose.", "psychological": "A flock crossing above you can picture movement that continues without requiring your participation. A group at work or a family making plans may have a similar shape: you can enjoy the direction while deciding whether it belongs to you. Trying to follow the birds creates another scene, especially if their route is unavailable from the ground. The comparison concerns your position in this particular movement rather than a general promise of freedom.\n\nA bird inside a room can make care depend on understanding another creature’s needs. Opening the window may seem helpful while the bird keeps approaching a closed pane. You may recognize the difficulty of offering support whose usefulness depends on the recipient’s response. Making more effort is different from finding a form of help that actually fits. A bird that remains beside an open window can instead make chosen presence meaningful; an available departure does not require leaving.\n\nFinding an injured bird introduces a task whose limits may be unclear. Tenderness can coexist with not knowing what to do. An unfamiliar responsibility or a friend’s request may offer a waking parallel, particularly when other help is available. Protecting the bird temporarily differs from believing you alone must make everything well. The dream does not identify an actual injury or forecast something about your family.\n\nSound can redirect the encounter. A song drawing you away from your planned route may picture an interest receiving attention before it has a practical place in your day. Enjoying the pause differs from feeling that a necessary task has been displaced. A speaking bird asking for something ordinary creates a different question: can an unexpected voice be heard without granting it special authority?\n\nA recognizable pet, an unidentified shape or birds in a recent photograph may supply direct context. A specific species can add personal associations, while this broad topic keeps movement, company and care available when identification is uncertain. A feather without a present bird has its own encounter. These possibilities follow what happens between you and a living creature, without assigning all birds one message.", "traditional": "Miller, Fontaine and Cielo attach differing forecasts to flight, plumage, song and other actions. The 1805 book’s three separate passages concern song or young birds. Craig combines period predictions, reported theoretical and religious associations, and a literary omen story. These seven records are attributed history, not proof of personality, health, family events or outcomes; the sleep source supplies only general background.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Movement without compulsory participation", "reflection": "A passing flock can make a direction visible while leaving your own position undecided." }, { "title": "Care that fits the recipient", "reflection": "Help can become useful through another creature’s response rather than through effort alone." }, { "title": "Attention from an unexpected visitor", "reflection": "Sound, speech or chosen presence can alter a routine without establishing special knowledge." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A flock passes overhead while you remain on the ground", "reflection": "Movement continues in a direction you can observe without joining. This may picture a group’s plans becoming visible while your own route remains open. Enjoyment differs from feeling left behind; the dream does not decide that participation would be the right next step." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A bird indoors repeatedly approaches a closed pane", "reflection": "You want to help, but the offered route does not yet work for its recipient. This can resemble support needing a different arrangement. Attention to the actual response may change the task more usefully than repeating the same invitation with greater urgency." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A bird stays beside an open window", "reflection": "Departure is available, yet presence continues. This may picture company that feels chosen rather than secured through restriction. Ease can concern allowing a relationship its own movement; uncertainty can concern wanting assurance that another person cannot actually provide through a dream." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You find an injured bird and another helper is available", "reflection": "Care becomes a shared task with uncertain limits. This can resemble a responsibility you want to meet without having all the necessary knowledge. Temporary protection and asking for help can have value without turning you into the sole guarantor of an outcome." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Birdsong draws you away from the route you planned", "reflection": "An interest changes where attention goes. This may picture a welcome interruption or something competing with a necessary task. The value of the pause depends on what it allows and what it delays, rather than on a fixed favorable meaning for song." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "A bird speaks to ask for an ordinary object", "reflection": "An unexpected voice makes a concrete request. This can picture a need becoming understandable through an unfamiliar form. Listening need not mean treating the speaker as wise or prophetic; the actual request may matter more than the surprise of hearing it." } ], "prompts": [ "How did your position relate to the movement around you?", "What form of care seemed useful to the bird and available to you?", "Which sound, request or presence changed the direction of your attention?" ], "related": [ "owl", "eagles", "nest", "feathers", "parrot" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. miller-0218 — Birds (Heading 218; source lines 3624–3644): Beautiful plumage, moulting/songless birds, injury, flight, catching, speech and shooting receive gendered, family, financial or adverse forecasts.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0218" ] }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. fontaine-0072 — Birds (Heading 72; source line 1272): Contrasts rich/poor and small birds; assigns forecasts to chirping, fighting and flight overhead.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0072" ] }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. cielo-0059 — Birds (Dream section, heading 59; source lines 4000–4004): Seeing birds predicts trouble while singing birds predict pleasure.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0059" ] }, { "id": "moles-71045", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams and Moles", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "United Kingdom, J. Marshall, 1805", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71045", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. moles-0003 — Birds (Dreams interpreted, passage 3; source lines 117–118): Melodious song is assigned joy or recovery according to the dreamer’s health. moles-0046 — Birds (Dreams interpreted, passage 46; source lines 243–244): Young birds predict news of childbirth. moles-0060 — Birds (Dreams interpreted, passage 60; source lines 285–285): A separately supplied young-birds passage predicts childbirth for a woman.", "recordIds": [ "moles-0003", "moles-0046", "moles-0060" ] }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. craig-1918:L9197 — Birds (Printed p. 201; NLM OCR lines 9197–9210): Reports a Freudian erotic label, multiple dream-book forecasts, a literary Uta omen story and Christian soul symbolism; these reported theories/stories are not independently verified facts.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L9197" ] }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection independently reviewed for content and source scope. Historical accounts remain attributed period writing. Human publication review pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0218", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Birds", "text": "It is a favorable dream to see birds of beautiful plumage.\nA wealthy and happy partner is near if a woman has dreams\nof this nature.\n\nMoulting and songless birds, denotes merciless and inhuman treatment\nof the outcast and fallen by people of wealth.\n\nTo see a wounded bird, is fateful of deep sorrow caused by erring offspring.\n\nTo see flying birds, is a sign of prosperity to the dreamer.\nAll disagreeable environments will vanish before the wave\nof prospective good.\n\nTo catch birds, is not at all bad. To hear them speak, is owning one's\ninability to perform tasks that demand great clearness of perception.\n\nTo kill than with a gun, is disaster from dearth of harvest.", "locator": "Heading 218; source lines 3624–3644", "lineStart": 3624, "lineEnd": 3644, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "It is a favorable dream to see birds of beautiful plumage.\nA wealthy and happy partner is near if a woman has dreams\nof this nature.\n\nMoulting and songless birds, denotes merciless and inhuman treatment\nof the outcast and fallen by people of wealth.\n\nTo see a wounded bird, is fateful of deep sorrow caused by erring offspring.\n\nTo see flying birds, is a sign of prosperity to the dreamer.\nAll disagreeable environments will vanish before the wave\nof prospective good.\n\nTo catch birds, is not at all bad. To hear them speak, is owning one's\ninability to perform tasks that demand great clearness of perception.\n\nTo kill than with a gun, is disaster from dearth of harvest." }, { "id": "fontaine-0072", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Birds", "text": "To dream of birds is much better for the rich than the poor; to\ndream of little birds, the contrary; to dream that you hear birds chirp\nis a good sign; to see birds fighting, signifies adversity; to see\nbirds fly over your head, signifies prejudice by enemies. 14, 77.", "locator": "Heading 72; source line 1272", "lineStart": 1272, "lineEnd": 1277, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of birds is much better for the rich than the poor; to\ndream of little birds, the contrary; to dream that you hear birds chirp\nis a good sign; to see birds fighting, signifies adversity; to see\nbirds fly over your head, signifies prejudice by enemies." }, { "id": "cielo-0059", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Birds", "text": "Seeing birds of any kind foretells trouble\n and annoyance. If singing, however, they bring\n tidings of new pleasure.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 59; source lines 4000–4004", "lineStart": 4000, "lineEnd": 4004, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Seeing birds of any kind foretells trouble\nand annoyance. If singing, however, they bring\ntidings of new pleasure." }, { "id": "moles-0003", "sourceId": "moles-71045", "heading": "Birds", "originalHeading": "(no printed heading)", "text": "To dream you hear birds sing melodiously, betokens joy to people in\nhealth; and to the sick, recovery.", "locator": "Dreams interpreted, passage 3; source lines 117–118", "lineStart": 117, "lineEnd": 118, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "editorialNote": "The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Birds” because that is the subject of its first clause.", "displayText": "To dream you hear birds sing melodiously, betokens joy to people in\nhealth; and to the sick, recovery." }, { "id": "moles-0046", "sourceId": "moles-71045", "heading": "Birds", "originalHeading": "(no printed heading)", "text": "To dream of young birds, signifies that the person will soon get news\nof child-birth.", "locator": "Dreams interpreted, passage 46; source lines 243–244", "lineStart": 243, "lineEnd": 244, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "editorialNote": "The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Birds” because that is the subject of its first clause.", "displayText": "To dream of young birds, signifies that the person will soon get news\nof child-birth." }, { "id": "moles-0060", "sourceId": "moles-71045", "heading": "Birds", "originalHeading": "(no printed heading)", "text": "To dream of young birds, doth signify to woman, child-birth.", "locator": "Dreams interpreted, passage 60; source lines 285–285", "lineStart": 285, "lineEnd": 285, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "editorialNote": "The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Birds” because that is the subject of its first clause.", "displayText": "To dream of young birds, doth signify to woman, child-birth." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9197", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Birds", "heading": "Birds", "text": "Freudians regard this as an erotic dream. Oneirocritics give it a varied meaning according to the nature of the birds. Many small birds signify lawsuits ; to catch birds with lime denotes unfair triumph over enemies ; singing birds foretell joy and delight; to the poor a dream of birds implies many friends ; to the rich it forecasts flight of fortune. The dream of Uta, mother of Kremhild, who married Attila, the Hun, and sent for her kinsmen to avenge Siegfried's death, is symbolic. \"Stay here, good heroes,\" she warns her children ; \"last night I dreamed an evil dream, that all the birds in the land were dead.\" The treachery of the Huns justified the evil omen. 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The \ndream of Uta, mother of Kremhild, who married Attila, the \nHun, and sent for her kinsmen to avenge Siegfried's death, \nis symbolic. \"Stay here, good heroes,\" she warns her children ; \n\"last night I dreamed an evil dream, that all the birds in the \nland were dead.\" The treachery of the Huns justified the \nevil omen. In Christian symbolism a bird represents the soul ; \nthe bird of Paradise especially bears this significance. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "Oneiro- \ncritics", "after": "Oneirocritics", "evidenceLine": 6870 }, { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "fore- \ntell", "after": "foretell", "evidenceLine": 9954 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Birds" }, "displayText": "Freudians regard this as an erotic dream. Oneirocritics give it a varied meaning according to the nature of the birds. Many small birds signify lawsuits; to catch birds with lime denotes unfair triumph over enemies; singing birds foretell joy and delight; to the poor a dream of birds implies many friends; to the rich it forecasts flight of fortune. The dream of Uta, mother of Kremhild, who married Attila, the Hun, and sent for her kinsmen to avenge Siegfried's death, is symbolic. \"Stay here, good heroes,\" she warns her children; \"last night I dreamed an evil dream, that all the birds in the land were dead.\" The treachery of the Huns justified the evil omen. In Christian symbolism a bird represents the soul; the bird of Paradise especially bears this significance." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "birth", "title": "Birth", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "An arrival can change what the next moment asks of you.", "summary": "Birth can explore an arrival changing your role, support that needs clearer terms, or recognition of something newly present.", "aliases": [ "birth", "of the birth", "giving birth", "childbirth", "being born", "childbirth labor", "childbirth labour", "labor in childbirth", "labour in childbirth" ], "status": "REVIEW", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-14", "psychological": "Birth in a dream can give an arrival a concrete event rather than simply showing something already present. You may be giving birth, assisting another person or imagining your own entrance into a room as a newly born self. Each position creates different questions about help, timing and recognition. Personal reproductive experience deserves room without being automatically replaced by a project metaphor, and the dream does not establish pregnancy or a child’s condition.\n\nSupport can become useful through your own voice. Helpers arriving while you name what you need can picture an event becoming more manageable through participation rather than passivity. A major task reaching its next stage may offer a parallel if it fits. The scene does not need to reproduce an actual birth or make your dreamed choices a test of readiness for one.\n\nAn arrival happening before preparations are complete can put timing beside expectation. You may feel delighted that the event has occurred while wanting more room to understand it. This can resemble a decision, role or finished piece of work becoming visible sooner than its surroundings feel ready. The mismatch need not determine whether the arrival itself is welcome.\n\nAn impossible result changes the question again. Giving birth to a book or other object can center meeting something you have been making, while the dream’s unusual form remains an invention rather than a coded prediction. Assisting somebody who asks for quiet instead of instructions can instead make care depend on respecting another person’s preferred support. Your role is related to the event without becoming ownership of it.\n\nImagining yourself being born can offer a scene of entering a place under new terms. An adult self arriving where others expect a stranger may make unfamiliarity and recognition visible together. This is dreamed imagery, not evidence of an actual infancy memory. An event that nobody acknowledges can put emphasis on wanting a change recognized after it has happened. Birth concerns an arrival and the roles around it; general effort or employment has another subject, and an image of a baby already being cared for need not have the same encounter.", "traditional": "The four supplied Birth accounts contain different subjects and forecasts. Miller discusses giving birth through marital-status judgments. Fontaine gives wealth/illness distinctions. The 1644 Artemidorus account chiefly concerns being born oneself, with work, household, relationship, travel and illness claims; Noe condenses wealth/control distinctions for one’s own birth. Their exact records remain historical writing, not pregnancy evidence, medical expectations, moral judgments or recovered memories.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Support arrives and you can name what you need", "reflection": "The event becomes shared while your own participation remains important. This may picture assistance working better through clear terms than through taking every decision away. The imagined birth does not assess practical readiness or prescribe a form of help for an actual delivery." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "The birth happens before the room is prepared", "reflection": "Arrival outruns the arrangement you expected to have ready. This can resemble a role or completed task becoming present sooner than its context settles. Welcome and uncertainty can coexist; incomplete preparation does not decide that the event is a failure or a warning." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You give birth to a finished book instead of a baby", "reflection": "The unusual arrival has a form you can meet and respond to. This may picture something made becoming visible after a period of work. The comparison remains optional; the impossible result does not predict a project’s success or require every birth dream to mean creativity." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You assist another person who asks for quiet rather than instructions", "reflection": "The support you planned differs from what the recipient requests. This can picture care becoming useful through respecting another person’s terms. Staying involved need not mean directing the whole event; the dream does not establish what an actual person wants or needs." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You arrive as a newly born adult self among unfamiliar people", "reflection": "An impossible beginning places a recognizable self under new social terms. This may picture entering a role or setting where recognition is still developing. The scene is an imagined arrival, not a recovered account of infancy or evidence about how you were originally received." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The birth is complete but everyone continues as if nothing changed", "reflection": "An arrival has occurred without the acknowledgment you expected. This can resemble wanting a transition or contribution recognized before ordinary activity resumes. The gap may concern recognition rather than the event’s value, and it does not prove actual companions will ignore your needs." } ], "prompts": [ "How did your position around the arrival change what you needed?", "What form of support let your own voice have a place?", "Which change needed acknowledgment once something new was present?" ], "related": [ "baby", "being-pregnant", "mother", "a-pregnancy-test-with-an-unclear-result" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0220" ], "scope": "miller-0220: Giving birth receives legacy/joy versus abandonment/moral-accusation forecasts according to marital status. Exact supplied passages: miller-0220 — Birth (Heading 220; source lines 3652–3659). Attributed historical comparison only; these period claims do not validate the original reflection or establish real health, relationship, family or financial outcomes." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0074" ], "scope": "fontaine-0074: Birth receives opposite poor-person/sick-person forecasts and cross-references Still-born. Exact supplied passages: fontaine-0074 — Birth (Heading 74; source line 1281). Attributed historical comparison only; these period claims do not validate the original reflection or establish real health, relationship, family or financial outcomes." }, { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display.", "recordIds": [ "artemidorus-002" ], "scope": "artemidorus-002: The whole Of the birth account concerns being born oneself and assigns different poverty/work/control/relationship/travel/illness forecasts by role; no clause is modern evidence or a recovered infancy memory. Exact supplied passages: artemidorus-002 — Of the birth. (Book 1, encoded section 2). Attributed historical comparison only; these period claims do not validate the original reflection or establish real health, relationship, family or financial outcomes." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0068" ], "scope": "noe-0068: One’s own birth receives favorable poverty and unfavorable loss-of-household-control forecasts by wealth. Exact supplied passages: noe-0068 — Birth (Dream section, heading 69; source lines 365–367). Attributed historical comparison only; these period claims do not validate the original reflection or establish real health, relationship, family or financial outcomes." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "An arrival changes the next task", "reflection": "Something newly present can need acknowledgment as well as preparation." }, { "title": "Support with a role for your own voice", "reflection": "Assistance can become useful through the terms the encounter actually needs." }, { "title": "Different positions around the event", "reflection": "Giving birth, helping and being born create distinct experiences of participation." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0220", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Birth", "text": "For a married woman to dream of giving birth to a child,\ngreat joy and a handsome legacy is foretold.\n\nFor a single woman, loss of virtue and abandonment by her lover.", "locator": "Heading 220; source lines 3652–3659", "lineStart": 3652, "lineEnd": 3659, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a married woman to dream of giving birth to a child,\ngreat joy and a handsome legacy is foretold.\n\nFor a single woman, loss of virtue and abandonment by her lover." }, { "id": "fontaine-0074", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Birth", "text": "(_See Still-born._) To dream of a birth is good for a poor man;\nto the sick it denotes death. 18, 42.", "locator": "Heading 74; source line 1281", "lineStart": 1281, "lineEnd": 1284, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Still-born.) To dream of a birth is good for a poor man;\nto the sick it denotes death." }, { "id": "artemidorus-002", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of the birth.", "text": "IF any one dreams that he comes out of a womans belly, as to be borne into the world, he must judge in this force. This dream is good for him which is poore, for he shall have means or friends which will maintain him: if he be not a trades-man, & of an art which requireth the work of the hand, for this dream forewarns him that he shal be without work, as children which have their hands bound together. To him which is rich this dream signifieth that he shall have no rule in the house, but others shal overrule him against his will, for children are govern'd by others. To him whose wife is not with child, it signifieth that he shal loose his wife, for children are not married, nor come at women. But to him whose wife is with child, it signifies that he shall have a sonne in all things like himselfe. And hee shall bee so like him as if himselfe were borne twice. To Champions and combatants this dream is ill, For children can neither goe nor run, and cannot assaile any man. To him which is in a far country that he shall return home, as if he should return to his beginning, then he shall returne home as if that hee should returne to his veginning. To a sick man, it signifieth death, because the dead are wrapped in linnen clothes as children, and laid in the ground.", "locator": "Book 1, encoded section 2", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "1", "displayText": "If any one dreams that he comes out of a womans belly, as to be borne into the world, he must judge in this force. This dream is good for him which is poore, for he shall have means or friends which will maintain him: if he be not a trades-man, & of an art which requireth the work of the hand, for this dream forewarns him that he shal be without work, as children which have their hands bound together. To him which is rich this dream signifieth that he shall have no rule in the house, but others shal overrule him against his will, for children are govern'd by others. To him whose wife is not with child, it signifieth that he shal loose his wife, for children are not married, nor come at women. But to him whose wife is with child, it signifies that he shall have a sonne in all things like himselfe. And hee shall bee so like him as if himselfe were borne twice. To Champions and combatants this dream is ill, For children can neither goe nor run, and cannot assaile any man. To him which is in a far country that he shall return home, as if he should return to his beginning, then he shall returne home as if that hee should returne to his veginning. To a sick man, it signifieth death, because the dead are wrapped in linnen clothes as children, and laid in the ground." }, { "id": "noe-0068", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Birth", "text": "To dream of one’s birth is\ngood for him that is poor; but to him that is rich, this dream signifies\nthat others shall rule over him against his will.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 69; source lines 365–367", "lineStart": 365, "lineEnd": 367, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of one’s birth is\ngood for him that is poor; but to him that is rich, this dream signifies\nthat others shall rule over him against his will." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "birthday", "title": "Birthday", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a birthday is a signal of poverty and falsehood to the young, to the old, long trouble and desolation.”", "aliases": [ "birthday" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about birthday stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0221", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Birthday", "text": "To dream of a birthday is a signal of poverty and falsehood to the young,\nto the old, long trouble and desolation.", "locator": "Heading 221; source lines 3659–3664", "lineStart": 3659, "lineEnd": 3664, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a birthday is a signal of poverty and falsehood to the young,\nto the old, long trouble and desolation." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "birthday-presents", "title": "Birthday Presents", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Receiving happy surprises, means a multitude of high accomplishments.”", "aliases": [ "birthday presents" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about birthday presents stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0222", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Birthday Presents", "text": "Receiving happy surprises, means a multitude of high accomplishments.\nWorking people will advance in their trades.\n\nGiving birthday presents, denotes small deferences, if given\nat a fe^te or reception.", "locator": "Heading 222; source lines 3664–3672", "lineStart": 3664, "lineEnd": 3672, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Receiving happy surprises, means a multitude of high accomplishments.\nWorking people will advance in their trades.\n\nGiving birthday presents, denotes small deferences, if given\nat a fe^te or reception." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "birthmark", "title": "Birthmark", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "A familiar mark can become a question of recognition and continuity.", "summary": "A birthmark dream can explore recognition, visibility and what feels part of your identity. The dream’s mark is an image, not a medical finding.", "aliases": [ "birthmark", "birthmarks", "birth mark", "birth marks" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A birthmark remembered within a dream can act as a familiar detail that seems to belong to you without needing to be chosen. Its presence may picture continuity through changing roles or settings: something recognizable remains even when other parts of the scene alter. Returning to an old group after a change or entering a new household may offer a parallel. The important association is what the mark means to you, rather than a fixed meaning attached to its shape.\n\nRecognition can be welcome or limiting. Someone identifying you by the mark may picture being known through a detail that makes you feel seen. It can also resemble being reduced to one feature while the rest of your experience receives little attention. A family label, remembered role or familiar story about you may function similarly. The dream person's response helps distinguish affectionate recognition from an expectation that you remain unchanged.\n\nA missing familiar mark can make continuity uncertain. You may look like yourself yet lose a detail that once confirmed the connection. This can fit a transition in which earlier relationships or routines no longer identify you in the same way. The absence can feel unsettling, but it may also offer relief if the mark carried unwanted attention. Change does not have to be read as loss simply because recognition becomes less immediate.\n\nShowing or covering the mark brings choice into an image you did not choose. You may want others to see it, prefer to keep it private or change your decision according to the company. This can picture deciding how much personal history to bring into a new setting. A mark shared with another dream person may express a felt connection or comparison, without establishing a family relationship or an explanation for how the mark originated.\n\nAn impossible shape can invite associations from a place, object, word or remembered pattern. Its usefulness lies in the connection it creates within this particular scene. It is not evidence of destiny, a past life, heredity or a hidden message from the body. Recent mirrors, conversations or images can also contribute directly. Dream marks do not classify a skin change or assess health; the original reflections here concern the mark as an element of recognition, visibility and identity.", "traditional": "No exact Birthmark heading is supplied in the archive. Historical appearance and body-marker passages do not establish an inherited meaning for this identity-focused scene. This entry makes no claim about the mark’s medical origin, heredity, past lives or destiny.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A detail that carries continuity", "reflection": "A familiar mark can picture what remains recognizable while roles and surroundings change. Its importance comes from your association with it, rather than a universal code for bodily marks." }, { "title": "Recognition or reduction", "reflection": "Being known through a mark may feel affectionate or narrowing. The scene can distinguish someone recognizing you from expecting one familiar feature to tell your whole story." }, { "title": "Choosing visibility", "reflection": "Showing or covering something familiar can bring personal history into a question of access. You may choose different degrees of disclosure without the mark itself needing to change." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A familiar mark is absent from your reflection", "reflection": "An absent familiar mark can picture a change that disrupts how you recognize yourself. A new role or relationship arrangement may fit. Relief would suggest a different reading from fear of losing continuity." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Someone recognizes you by the mark", "reflection": "Recognition through the mark can picture being seen through a familiar detail. If the person ignores everything else, the same scene may resemble being kept in an old role. Their response gives recognition its emotional shape." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You discover a mark you have never seen before", "reflection": "A previously unseen mark can picture discovering a detail you now include in your account of yourself. It may feel welcome, puzzling or exposing. The image does not establish a real skin change or its origin." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You choose whether to show the mark", "reflection": "Choosing whether to show the mark can picture deciding how much personal history belongs in a particular setting. Privacy can be deliberate rather than shameful. The company and your choice make the difference." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Another person has the same dream mark", "reflection": "A shared dream mark can picture connection, resemblance or comparison with another person. You may recognize a common experience without being identical. It does not establish kinship or a hidden link outside the dream." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The mark has an impossible shape that changes its associations", "reflection": "An impossible shape can give a personal association a visible form. A place, object or remembered pattern may come to mind. The association is useful only insofar as it fits the scene, rather than promising a secret code." } ], "prompts": [ "What made the mark feel familiar or newly important?", "Did being recognized by it help me feel seen or limit how I was seen?", "Who could see it, and what did I choose to share?" ], "related": [ "skin", "freckles", "tattoo", "face" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "biscuits", "title": "Biscuits", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Eating or baking them, indicates ill health and family peace ruptured over silly disputes.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "biscuits", "biscuit" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about biscuits stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0223", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Biscuits", "text": "Eating or baking them, indicates ill health and family peace ruptured\nover silly disputes.", "locator": "Heading 223; source lines 3672–3677", "lineStart": 3672, "lineEnd": 3677, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Eating or baking them, indicates ill health and family peace ruptured\nover silly disputes." }, { "id": "cielo-0060", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Biscuit", "text": "Eating a biscuit denotes rejoicing.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 60; source lines 4004–4006", "lineStart": 4004, "lineEnd": 4006, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Eating a biscuit denotes rejoicing." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "bishop", "title": "Bishop", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a bishop, teachers and authors will suffer great mental worries, caused from delving into intricate subjects.”", "aliases": [ "bishop" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about bishop stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0224", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Bishop", "text": "To dream of a bishop, teachers and authors will suffer great mental worries,\ncaused from delving into intricate subjects.\n\nTo the tradesman, foolish buying, in which he is likely to incur loss\nof good money.\n\nFor one to see a bishop in his dreams, hard work will\nbe his patrimony, with chills and ague as attendant.\nIf you meet the approval of a much admired bishop, you will be\nsuccessful in your undertakings in love or business.", "locator": "Heading 224; source lines 3677–3690", "lineStart": 3677, "lineEnd": 3690, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a bishop, teachers and authors will suffer great mental worries,\ncaused from delving into intricate subjects.\n\nTo the tradesman, foolish buying, in which he is likely to incur loss\nof good money.\n\nFor one to see a bishop in his dreams, hard work will\nbe his patrimony, with chills and ague as attendant.\nIf you meet the approval of a much admired bishop, you will be\nsuccessful in your undertakings in love or business." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "bite", "title": "Bite", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “This dream omens ill. It implies a wish to undo work that is past undoing.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "bite" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about bite stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0225", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Bite", "text": "This dream omens ill.\n\nIt implies a wish to undo work that is past undoing.\nYou are also likely to suffer losses through some enemy.", "locator": "Heading 225; source lines 3690–3697", "lineStart": 3690, "lineEnd": 3697, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "This dream omens ill.\n\nIt implies a wish to undo work that is past undoing.\nYou are also likely to suffer losses through some enemy." }, { "id": "fontaine-0075", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Bite", "text": "To dream that you are bitten, foretells much jealousy and sorrow.\n15, 19.", "locator": "Heading 75; source line 1284", "lineStart": 1284, "lineEnd": 1287, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are bitten, foretells much jealousy and sorrow." }, { "id": "cielo-0061", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Bite", "text": "To bite anyone signifies trouble. To be bitten\n signifies treachery of a supposed friend.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 61; source lines 4006–4009", "lineStart": 4006, "lineEnd": 4009, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To bite anyone signifies trouble. To be bitten\nsignifies treachery of a supposed friend." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "black", "title": "Black (color)", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "summary": "Black as an appearance can explore a simplified outline, what remains recognizable without decoration, or a chosen contrast with the surroundings.", "tagline": "The outline may matter more than the detail.", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "aliases": [ "black", "black color", "black colour", "the color black", "the colour black" ], "psychological": "An intricately patterned object becoming a solid black shape can picture a change in what remains available to view. Decoration disappears while an outline or function may remain recognizable. A proposal reduced to a headline, a role described through one visible feature, or a personal story presented without its finer details can offer parallels. The change may feel clarifying if you wanted simplicity. It may feel reductive if the removed details carried something important.\n\nA black object in a brightly lit setting is different from being unable to see because the room is dark. In that scene, the appearance belongs to a particular thing rather than to the whole environment. The distinction can make a chosen presentation central: an ordinary object stands apart, blends with another surface, or becomes difficult to identify among similar shapes. Its particular position supports the reading more usefully than treating every dark-looking image as a hidden threat.\n\nChoosing to repaint an ornate object black can picture limiting the demands of display. You may want work to be judged through its use, or a familiar possession to become easier to live with without carrying every earlier association. If someone else makes the change, the same simplification may feel imposed. Another person describing your contribution only through its outline can resemble that loss of detail, even when they consider the result more orderly.\n\nSeveral black shapes that are difficult to distinguish can make recognition depend on something besides decoration. Movement, position, texture, or a familiar function may allow one object to remain yours. This can fit navigating a standardized process in which particular differences still matter. Finding those distinctions gives another response from assuming that similar appearance makes every object or participant interchangeable.\n\nA black mark spreading beyond its intended place can instead picture an action becoming more conspicuous than planned. Its reach may matter more than its color. Clothing, ink, a photograph, or a remembered design can also supply direct context. This page concerns a hue or surface appearance, not an astronomical black hole, lack of light, or a classification of people. Black has no moral value or inevitable emotional meaning here.", "traditional": "No standalone Black hue account is attached here. Existing black-animal and black-garment records retain their specific subjects and attributed period claims. They do not establish a moral, cultural, or predictive rule for a black surface. The reflections here are original; the NINDS background citation validates no hue meaning.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Outline and lost detail", "reflection": "Simplification can clarify a useful form or remove the parts that made a particular contribution recognizable." }, { "title": "A chosen presentation", "reflection": "An appearance can reduce display demands when it is yours to choose; an imposed change creates another relationship." }, { "title": "Distinction within similar forms", "reflection": "Position, action, and texture may preserve meaningful differences when decoration no longer does." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "A patterned object becomes a plain black shape", "reflection": "The outline stays available while its finer details disappear. This may picture a contribution reduced to a simple description. Clarity can be welcome, but loss may matter if the removed details were what made the object or account personally recognizable." }, { "title": "A black object remains visible in a bright room", "reflection": "The hue belongs to a particular object rather than a loss of illumination. This can picture a distinct presentation within otherwise clear conditions. Interest, comfort, or inconvenience depends on what the object allows, rather than on assigning the color a hidden threat." }, { "title": "You choose to cover an ornate surface in black", "reflection": "The change limits decoration by your own decision. This may picture wanting a simpler presentation or more attention to function. Satisfaction differs from regret about what is covered; the choice gives the change terms beyond whether the finished surface looks striking." }, { "title": "Someone else covers the details you wanted to keep", "reflection": "Simplification removes a part that mattered to you. This can resemble a story or contribution presented without its particular context. A chance to restore a detail changes the scene more directly than requiring you to appreciate the new appearance because another person prefers it." }, { "title": "Similar black shapes are distinguishable through action", "reflection": "Decoration no longer supplies the main distinction. This may picture working within a standardized setting where particular functions still matter. Recognizing an object through its movement or use gives another response from treating every similar outline as the same thing." }, { "title": "A black mark spreads beyond its intended place", "reflection": "One action becomes visible across more of the setting than planned. This can picture a small contribution having an unexpectedly broad effect. Limiting the spread or incorporating it creates different possibilities; the mark’s color does not make either response morally good or bad." } ], "prompts": [ "What remained recognizable when the finer details disappeared?", "Who chose the simplified appearance, and what did that choice allow?", "Which differences mattered when several things looked similar?" ], "related": [ "colors", "white", "darkness", "shadow", "black-cat" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "detectionAliases": [ "black color", "black colour", "the color black", "the colour black" ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "black-cat", "title": "Black Cat", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “To dream of any black animal is unfortunate, for these are associated with evil spirits (Artemidorus).”", "aliases": [ "black cat" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about black cat stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L9218", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Black Cat", "heading": "Black Cat", "text": "To dream of any black animal is unfortunate, for these are associated with evil spirits (Artemidorus) ; the Chinese attach especial misfortune to the symbol of the black cat. American Indians hold it as a symbol of good luck.", "lineStart": 9218, "lineEnd": 9222, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 201; NLM OCR lines 9218–9222", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9218, "lineEnd": 9222, "printedPage": 201, "printedPageEnd": 201 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Black Cat. — To dream of any black animal is unfortunate, \nfor these are associated with evil spirits (Artemidorus) ; the \nChinese attach especial misfortune to the symbol of the black \ncat. American Indians hold it as a symbol of good luck. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Black Cat" }, "displayText": "To dream of any black animal is unfortunate, for these are associated with evil spirits (Artemidorus); the Chinese attach especial misfortune to the symbol of the black cat. American Indians hold it as a symbol of good luck." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "black-hole", "title": "Black hole", "category": "Nature & elements", "aliases": [ "black hole", "black holes" ], "summary": "A black hole can give shape to absorption, an unknown limit, or a fascination that changes your sense of scale. Distance and your ability to act matter.", "psychological": "A dreamed black hole can organize a scene around something that draws everything toward it. The image may fit a demand that seems to consume whatever you offer: an endless project, a difficult situation occupying every conversation, or a concern that repeatedly takes your attention away from other parts of life. The useful parallel is the loss of available space and choice. It does not depend on the dream reproducing real astronomy accurately.\n\nYour position changes the interpretation. Being pulled inward can picture feeling carried by a process you cannot easily interrupt. Watching safely from a distance may instead suggest perspective: you can recognize an absorbing problem without standing inside it. Building a boundary or finding a way to turn away gives the dream a subject beyond helplessness. The scene then concerns how you preserve room around a powerful demand.\n\nA black hole can also be compelling rather than frightening. A vast, unfamiliar phenomenon may fit an interest, a question, or a change whose scale you cannot yet grasp. Approaching voluntarily is different from being dragged. Curiosity can coexist with awareness that there are limits to what you know, particularly when a waking choice involves uncertainty rather than an obvious threat.\n\nWhat disappears may sharpen the reading. Losing possessions, voices, light, or a whole landscape can give different forms to the same sense of absorption. If the other side opens into a new place, the dream may become a story about crossing an unknown threshold instead. Space fiction, a science lesson, or a recent striking image can supply the black hole without any deeper correspondence. Choose the interpretation that accounts for your agency and the ending as well as the dramatic object.", "traditional": "This is a contemporary image-led reflection rather than a claim about an ancient black-hole symbol. The dream may use ideas encountered through science, games, or fiction, and its imagined rules can differ from the physical phenomenon. None of these scenarios establishes a prediction, diagnosis, or cosmic message.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "An absorbing demand", "reflection": "Everything being drawn into one point can picture a concern that consumes attention, time, or available energy." }, { "title": "Distance creates perspective", "reflection": "Watching from outside the pull can make the scene about preserving boundaries and choices around something powerful." }, { "title": "Approaching the unknown", "reflection": "Fascination or voluntary approach can fit a question, interest, or transition whose scale remains difficult to imagine." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "You are being pulled toward it", "reflection": "Direction feels imposed rather than chosen. This can resemble a process that keeps gathering momentum despite your effort to pause. What slows the pull, or what you manage to keep hold of, may reveal the dream's remaining resources.", "slug": "scene-1" }, { "title": "You observe it from a safe place", "reflection": "The powerful object is visible without taking you over. This can resemble recognizing how a demanding project or recurring family issue consumes attention while choosing a manageable part to engage with. The safe distance makes perspective and boundaries concrete, rather than requiring you to solve the whole problem.", "slug": "scene-2" }, { "title": "Your belongings disappear into it", "reflection": "The loss becomes specific. Objects associated with work, communication, or home can connect the scene to what a demanding situation seems to take from you. The imagined disappearance does not predict a real loss.", "slug": "scene-3" }, { "title": "You choose to move closer", "reflection": "Curiosity drives the encounter. This can picture choosing to investigate an unfamiliar field, difficult question, or major transition whose outcome you cannot yet imagine. Being able to stop or change course makes exploration feel different from a demand that keeps pulling you onward.", "slug": "scene-4" }, { "title": "You help someone escape the pull", "reflection": "The scene combines care with a powerful demand. It may resemble trying to support someone without being absorbed into the same difficulty. A successful shared retreat makes cooperation, rather than rescue alone, central.", "slug": "scene-5" }, { "title": "Passing through leads somewhere new", "reflection": "An apparently final boundary becomes a passage. The dream can picture an unknown transition whose outcome is difficult to imagine in advance. The place you arrive and how you feel there give the ending its direction.", "slug": "scene-6" } ], "prompts": [ "What was being drawn in, and what remained outside?", "Was I approaching willingly, watching, or losing the ability to choose?", "Which waking concern takes up a similar amount of space in my attention?" ], "related": [ "sky", "darkness", "falling", "being-trapped" ], "type": "dreams", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background about dreaming and waking experiences. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia interpretation for personal reflection. Human publication review pending.", "tagline": "What draws you in, and what helps you keep your distance.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "blackberries", "title": "Blackberries", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of blackberries denotes many ills. To gather them is unlucky. Eating them denotes losses.”", "aliases": [ "blackberries" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about blackberries stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0226", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Blackberries", "text": "To dream of blackberries denotes many ills. To gather them is unlucky.\nEating them denotes losses.", "locator": "Heading 226; source lines 3697–3702", "lineStart": 3697, "lineEnd": 3702, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of blackberries denotes many ills. To gather them is unlucky.\nEating them denotes losses." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "blackbird", "title": "Blackbird", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “Both in dream lore and in symbolism these birds indicate slander, suspicion and trouble.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "blackbird", "blackbirds" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about blackbird stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "cielo-0062", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Blackbird", "text": "Foretells scandal and deceit.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 62; source lines 4009–4011", "lineStart": 4009, "lineEnd": 4011, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Foretells scandal and deceit." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9215", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Blackbirds", "heading": "Blackbirds", "text": "Both in dream lore and in symbolism these birds indicate slander, suspicion and trouble.", "lineStart": 9215, "lineEnd": 9217, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 201; NLM OCR lines 9215–9217", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9215, "lineEnd": 9217, "printedPage": 201, "printedPageEnd": 201 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Blackbirds. — Both in dream lore and in symbolism these \nbirds indicate slander, suspicion and trouble. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Blackbirds" }, "displayText": "Both in dream lore and in symbolism these birds indicate slander, suspicion and trouble." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "blackboard", "title": "Blackboard", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "A surface for a lesson that can be changed", "summary": "A blackboard may make a shared explanation visible, temporary and open to correction, depending on who writes, reads or erases it.", "aliases": [ "blackboard" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A blackboard gives a dream a place where an explanation becomes visible to several people at once. Chalk marks can be added, rubbed out or left for the next person. The action may concern a lesson, a notice or something written for an audience that never arrives. Describe what the board holds and who can see it, rather than treating its dark surface as a separate color meaning.\n\nWorking on the board can make thinking public before it is finished. A calculation or sentence may remain incomplete while others wait. This could resemble explaining a project in a meeting or showing a draft that normally stays private. The dream's audience may be patient, distracting or absent. An unfinished mark does not establish a lack of knowledge; it can make the conditions of explanation visible.\n\nErasing changes the meaning according to what is removed. Clearing an old lesson may create useful space, while losing a note before you have understood it can interrupt access to information. A present situation might offer a parallel if instructions disappear or an earlier assumption needs replacing. Notice whether another person controls the eraser and whether anything remains available afterward.\n\nThe board's position can affect participation. Writing may be legible to the person beside it but too small for somebody at the back. A current shared process might similarly assume that information is accessible because it has been displayed somewhere. Moving closer, rewriting or sharing a copy makes the need practical rather than turning the difficulty into a verdict about the reader.\n\nOld and new marks can coexist. A half-erased phrase beneath a current announcement might draw your attention toward an earlier explanation that still influences the present one. This is a personal comparison, not a hidden message the board reliably reveals. Actual school memories, teaching, displays and recently viewed scenes can provide direct material. Keep a readable message distinct from an alphabet exercise and from words that change by themselves. Here the useful focus is the shared writing surface: what it makes clear, what can be revised and who has access while the marks remain.", "traditional": "Miller's Blackboard account concerns white-chalk writing and assigns illness-news or financial-instability forecasts to it. It does not establish a meaning for every board, dark surface or written character. The original reflection considers a shared, revisable surface without using chalk marks as evidence of health or financial outcomes.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "You solve a problem on the board while others watch", "reflection": "Your thinking becomes visible as it unfolds. This may resemble presenting a draft or explaining a process before every step is settled. Notice the audience's actual response; being watched need not automatically make the scene a test of your worth." }, { "title": "The teacher erases a note before you can finish copying it", "reflection": "Information disappears while you are still using it. This may fit a process that moves faster than its participants can follow. Asking for repetition or receiving another copy changes access, rather than proving that difficulty keeping pace is a personal failure." }, { "title": "You clear an old lesson to make room for a new one", "reflection": "Removing marks serves a new purpose rather than simply destroying something. This could picture revising an explanation or letting a completed task stop occupying shared space. Record whether anything important is kept; making room can include both change and continuity." }, { "title": "The writing is clear up close but unreadable from your seat", "reflection": "Information exists without being accessible from your position. The scene may resemble a meeting or shared resource designed around someone else's vantage point. Moving, enlarging the marks or receiving a copy makes the problem practical instead of measuring your ability to understand." }, { "title": "An earlier phrase remains beneath a partly erased announcement", "reflection": "Old information stays visible inside a new explanation. This may invite comparison with an assumption that still shapes how you read a current situation. Preserve the words you actually remember without treating the remaining marks as a reliable revelation of somebody's hidden intentions." }, { "title": "You leave a useful note for a class that has not arrived", "reflection": "Communication is prepared for an absent audience. This could fit handing over instructions or making information available without being present to explain it. Notice what context the note includes; a message's usefulness can depend on more than its writer's certainty." } ], "prompts": [ "What was written, drawn or left blank on the board?", "Who could change the marks, and who could use them?", "What happened to the explanation when something was erased or added?" ], "related": [ "classroom", "school-teacher", "writing", "reading", "alphabet" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0227" ], "scope": "Historical comparison only: Miller’s specific scene is white-chalk writing on a blackboard; it receives illness-news or financial-instability forecasts. The account does not define every dark surface, every alphabet character, or all classroom activity. Exact owned passages: Blackboard — miller-0227 (Heading 227; source lines 3702–3708). These period claims do not validate the original reflections or establish present-day outcomes." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection independently reviewed for content and source scope. Historical accounts remain attributed period writing. Human publication review pending.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Thinking made public", "reflection": "A provisional explanation can become visible before it is polished, bringing its audience into the process." }, { "title": "What erasing changes", "reflection": "Clearing space and losing information are different actions, even when the same surface becomes blank." }, { "title": "Information within reach", "reflection": "Displaying a lesson does not necessarily make it equally accessible to every person in the scene." } ], "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0227", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Blackboard", "text": "To see in your dreams writing in white chalk on a blackboard, denotes ill\ntidings of some person prostrated with some severe malady, or your financial\nsecurity will be swayed by the panicky condition of commerce.", "locator": "Heading 227; source lines 3702–3708", "lineStart": 3702, "lineEnd": 3708, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see in your dreams writing in white chalk on a blackboard, denotes ill\ntidings of some person prostrated with some severe malady, or your financial\nsecurity will be swayed by the panicky condition of commerce." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "blackmail", "title": "Blackmail", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "aliases": [ "blackmail", "being blackmailed", "blackmailed", "blackmail threat" ], "summary": "Blackmail can picture pressure to trade privacy or independence for acceptance. The threat matters through what it asks you to give up.", "tagline": "Something private becomes a condition someone else uses to direct your choices.", "psychological": "Blackmail can picture a choice that does not feel freely available. The scene joins a demand with threatened exposure: refusal seems to carry a cost beyond the immediate disagreement. This may fit feeling expected to accept extra work to preserve a good reputation, maintain harmony by keeping quiet, or agree to a plan because disappointing someone feels intolerable. The pressure, rather than the secret alone, organizes the image.\n\nWhat is threatened can show which part of your life feels difficult to present publicly. A photograph, message, or invented accusation may make the gap between private experience and public identity concrete. Starting a new role while fearing an old mistake will define you could fit. The dream does not require a real hidden offense; even a harmless detail can become threatening when another person controls how it will be interpreted.\n\nAn escalating demand can picture an arrangement in which compliance never produces lasting security. You agree to one task, but another condition appears. A workplace request that repeatedly expands or a relationship pattern in which reassurance is never enough offers a waking parallel. The promised endpoint keeps moving.\n\nRefusing, sharing the secret yourself, or receiving support changes the reading toward recovering choice. The scene may picture wanting acceptance that does not depend on concealing vulnerability or satisfying an unlimited demand. Relief can come from ending the bargain, even if exposure still feels uncomfortable.\n\nIf you are the one making the threat, the dream can explore frustration with being unable to obtain cooperation through ordinary communication. It need not express a waking intention. Recent stories, messages, or disagreements can supply the plot; the dream does not establish a crime or another person's motives.", "traditional": "These are original interpretations of an imagined disclosure threat and its conditions. No verified historical blackmail passage is being used. The listed research supplies general dream background, not evidence that a dream exposes a real secret or identifies an actual coercive person.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A choice with an unwanted price", "reflection": "Threatened exposure can picture pressure to comply in order to preserve acceptance or reputation. The demand becomes powerful because refusing seems to cost more than the immediate task." }, { "title": "Privacy under someone else's control", "reflection": "A private detail can represent vulnerability to an interpretation you cannot direct. Even harmless material may feel threatening when another person decides how it will be presented." }, { "title": "Recovering choice beyond the bargain", "reflection": "Refusal, disclosure, or shared support can picture an alternative to endless compliance. Relief may come from ending a condition that never provided the promised security." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "Someone threatens to share a private photograph", "reflection": "This can picture losing control over how a vulnerable part of your life is presented. Fear that an old mistake will overshadow current work, or that a personal change will become public before you are ready, offers a parallel. The threat's leverage matters more than the photograph alone.", "slug": "scene-1" }, { "title": "Every payment leads to another demand", "reflection": "An obligation without a stable endpoint may feel similar. Taking on one extra task can become the assumed starting point for the next, rather than a completed favor. The scene makes compliance ineffective: doing what was asked never delivers the promised freedom from pressure.", "slug": "scene-2" }, { "title": "The secret is harmless but the threat frightens you", "reflection": "This can picture how strongly another person's interpretation affects your sense of acceptance. An ordinary preference, boundary, or disagreement may feel impossible to state in a group that expects conformity. The imagined risk lies in being judged, rather than in the detail itself.", "slug": "scene-3" }, { "title": "You tell people the secret before it is exposed", "reflection": "Choosing the disclosure can picture wanting to set the terms of a difficult conversation yourself. Explaining a mistake, admitting uncertainty, or stating a preference may feel uncomfortable but less restrictive than concealment. The action shifts control over your own account back toward you.", "slug": "scene-4" }, { "title": "A friend stands beside you while you refuse", "reflection": "Support can make a feared consequence feel less isolating. A colleague backing a boundary or a relative accepting your decision may offer a parallel. The friend does not erase the demand; their presence changes how much power it has over your available choices.", "slug": "scene-5" }, { "title": "You threaten someone to make them cooperate", "reflection": "This may picture frustration with not being heard or uncertainty about how to ask for what you need. A stalled shared task or an unresolved disagreement can feel similar. The scene explores the wish for leverage without establishing that you want to use a real threat.", "slug": "scene-6" } ], "prompts": [ "What did compliance supposedly protect, and was the demand ever satisfied?", "Which part of my public identity felt vulnerable to someone else's interpretation?", "What action or support changed how much choice I had?" ], "related": [ "secret", "guilt", "police", "being-watched" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia editorial entry with image-specific interpretations and six differentiated scenes. The reference supplies general dream background only. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "blackout", "title": "Blackout", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "aliases": [ "blackout", "power outage", "electricity outage", "power cut" ], "summary": "An electrical blackout can reveal which routines depend on shared power. Notice what stopped, what remained usable, and how people responded.", "tagline": "Familiar systems become quiet or dark, changing the resources available for an ordinary task.", "psychological": "An electrical blackout interrupts the power serving a place. Lights, appliances, screens, doors, and other systems may stop together, making their ordinary support suddenly noticeable. This entry concerns that loss of electricity in a dream. The scene can picture an interruption in resources or routines while you remain present and able to experience what happens around you.\n\nThe task interrupted can locate the concern. A meal partly cooked differs from a message unsent or a workplace falling quiet during a busy period. You might recognize frustration when an activity depends on support you usually take for granted. Record what you wanted to finish, what stopped, and whether the interruption affected everyone or only your own space.\n\nDarkness changes access to familiar surroundings. A room you know may become uncertain, while a small lamp or candle can restore a usable area. The scene may resemble needing a simpler reference when a familiar system no longer provides guidance. Limited light can feel intimate and manageable as well as insufficient; its effect depends on what you needed to do.\n\nSilence can make relief visible. An appliance stopping or notifications disappearing might allow attention that the powered environment usually divides. Conversely, the quiet can make separation or interrupted contact more noticeable. Your response need not match other people's worry or enthusiasm. A shared outage can create several different experiences within the same room.\n\nPeople's actions may show how resources are shared. Neighbors exchanging lights, someone checking on another room, or power returning unevenly can give form to connection and access. The restoration can feel reassuring or bring back unwanted demands. Recent outages, unfamiliar equipment, films, or concerns about an unfinished task can supply the plot directly. These reflections do not interpret a blackout as loss of consciousness or a clinical sign.", "traditional": "These are original reflections on an imagined interruption of electrical power and the routines that depend on it. No verified historical electrical-blackout passage is supplied. General dream research does not diagnose loss of consciousness or establish a medical meaning for lights or appliances going dark.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Support made visible by interruption", "reflection": "Systems that usually remain in the background become noticeable when several stop together. The scene may explore dependence on resources you expected to be available. Consider which interrupted activity mattered and whether the dream offered another way to complete it or a reason to pause." }, { "title": "A smaller area of usable light", "reflection": "A candle, lamp, or lit window can give a limited but workable reference within a dark place. That may picture finding an immediate next step when a larger system is unavailable. Notice whether the smaller light creates comfort, concentration, or frustration with what remains unseen." }, { "title": "Shared resources and different responses", "reflection": "An outage can put several people in the same interruption while revealing different needs. Cooperation, uneven access, and relief from noise can all become visible. Look at what people share or continue to expect and whether contact improves the experience of the changed environment." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "The lights go out while you prepare a meal", "reflection": "An ordinary task interrupted midway can picture dependence on support that is easy to overlook while it works. The unfinished meal may bring frustration, humor, or a welcome pause. Notice whether someone helps, a different activity becomes possible, or the meal remains the main concern." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Only your room loses electrical power", "reflection": "A localized outage can make a shared resource feel unevenly available. It might resemble watching others continue while your own activity is interrupted. Record whether they notice, offer help, or assume nothing has changed; the contrast can matter more than the darkness itself." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A candle makes one table comfortably visible", "reflection": "A small source of light can picture narrowing attention to something manageable and close. A conversation or simple task may become easier without the usual distractions. Notice what fits within the lit area and whether the rest of the room needs to be visible at that moment." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You enjoy the silence after every appliance stops", "reflection": "Unexpected quiet can picture relief from an environment that continually asks for attention. The absence of machinery or notifications may make other sounds noticeable. Record what you begin to hear or do and whether the pause feels chosen, even though the electrical interruption was not." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Neighbors share lamps along a dark hallway", "reflection": "Shared light can picture practical connection during an interruption that affects several people. The exchange may feel warm, awkward, or unequal. Notice who has resources, who asks, and whether everyone can contribute something; cooperation can change the atmosphere before the larger system returns." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "Power returns and every unfinished task resumes", "reflection": "Restoration can bring reassurance alongside the return of demands that the pause temporarily suspended. A bright screen or restarting machine may make that mixture concrete. Observe what you feel ready to resume and what still needs time, without turning the scene into advice about actual equipment." } ], "prompts": [ "Which activity showed me that the power had stopped?", "What remained usable or became easier in the quieter environment?", "How did people share resources or respond differently to the interruption?" ], "related": [ "electricity", "house", "phone-not-working", "candles" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia editorial entry with image-specific interpretations and six differentiated scenes. The reference supplies general dream background only. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "blacksmith", "title": "Blacksmith", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see a blacksmith in a dream, means laborious undertakings will soon work to your advantage.”", "aliases": [ "blacksmith" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about blacksmith stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0228", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Blacksmith", "text": "To see a blacksmith in a dream, means laborious undertakings will soon work\nto your advantage.", "locator": "Heading 228; source lines 3708–3713", "lineStart": 3708, "lineEnd": 3713, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a blacksmith in a dream, means laborious undertakings will soon work\nto your advantage." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "bladder", "title": "Bladder", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of your bladder, denotes you will have heavy trouble in your business if you are not careful of your health and the way you spend…”", "aliases": [ "bladder" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about bladder stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0229", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Bladder", "text": "To dream of your bladder, denotes you will have heavy trouble in your business\nif you are not careful of your health and the way you spend your energies.\n\nTo see children blowing up bladders, foretells your expectations\nwill fail to give you much comfort.", "locator": "Heading 229; source lines 3713–3721", "lineStart": 3713, "lineEnd": 3721, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of your bladder, denotes you will have heavy trouble in your business\nif you are not careful of your health and the way you spend your energies.\n\nTo see children blowing up bladders, foretells your expectations\nwill fail to give you much comfort." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "blanket", "title": "Blanket", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Blankets in your dream means treachery if soiled.”", "aliases": [ "blanket" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about blanket stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0230", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Blanket", "text": "Blankets in your dream means treachery if soiled. If new and white,\nsuccess where failure is feared, and a fatal sickness will be avoided\nthrough unseen agencies.", "locator": "Heading 230; source lines 3721–3727", "lineStart": 3721, "lineEnd": 3727, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Blankets in your dream means treachery if soiled. If new and white,\nsuccess where failure is feared, and a fatal sickness will be avoided\nthrough unseen agencies." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "blasphemy", "title": "Blasphemy", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Blasphemy, denotes an enemy creeping into your life, who under assumed friendship will do you great harm.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "blasphemy" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about blasphemy stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "profanity" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0231", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Blasphemy", "text": "Blasphemy, denotes an enemy creeping into your life, who under assumed\nfriendship will do you great harm.\n\nTo dream you are cursing yourself, means evil fortune.\nTo dream you are cursed by others, signifies relief through\naffection and prosperity.\n\nThe interpretation of this dream here given is not satisfactory.\n\n\n[22] See Profanity.", "locator": "Heading 231; source lines 3727–3741", "lineStart": 3727, "lineEnd": 3741, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Blasphemy, denotes an enemy creeping into your life, who under assumed\nfriendship will do you great harm.\n\nTo dream you are cursing yourself, means evil fortune.\nTo dream you are cursed by others, signifies relief through\naffection and prosperity.\n\nThe interpretation of this dream here given is not satisfactory. See Profanity." }, { "id": "fontaine-0076", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Blasphemy", "text": "If you dream that you are cursing, it foretells bad fortune;\nif you are cursed, all your expectations will be fulfilled. 4, 72.", "locator": "Heading 76; source line 1287", "lineStart": 1287, "lineEnd": 1290, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream that you are cursing, it foretells bad fortune;\nif you are cursed, all your expectations will be fulfilled." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "profanity" ] }, { "slug": "bleating", "title": "Bleating", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To hear young animals bleating in your dreams, foretells that you will have new duties and cares, though not necessarily unpleasant ones.”", "aliases": [ "bleating" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about bleating stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0232", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Bleating", "text": "To hear young animals bleating in your dreams, foretells that you will have\nnew duties and cares, though not necessarily unpleasant ones.", "locator": "Heading 232; source lines 3741–3746", "lineStart": 3741, "lineEnd": 3746, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To hear young animals bleating in your dreams, foretells that you will have\nnew duties and cares, though not necessarily unpleasant ones." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "bleeding", "title": "Bleeding", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of bleeding, denotes death by horrible accidents and malicious reports about you.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "bleeding" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about bleeding stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "fingers" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0233", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Bleeding", "text": "To dream of bleeding, denotes death by horrible accidents and malicious\nreports about you. Fortune will turn against you.", "locator": "Heading 233; source lines 3746–3751", "lineStart": 3746, "lineEnd": 3751, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of bleeding, denotes death by horrible accidents and malicious\nreports about you. Fortune will turn against you." }, { "id": "fontaine-0077", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Bleeding", "text": "(_See Fingers._) To dream of bleeding at the nose signifies\nloss of goods, and decay of riches; to a young girl it foretells the\nloss of her lover. 75, 19, 5.", "locator": "Heading 77; source line 1290", "lineStart": 1290, "lineEnd": 1294, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Fingers.) To dream of bleeding at the nose signifies\nloss of goods, and decay of riches; to a young girl it foretells the\nloss of her lover." }, { "id": "noe-0036", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Bleeding", "text": "To dream you are\nbleeding, denotes loss of goods and character, and that your sweetheart\nwill not marry you. To dream you see another bleeding, indicates that some\nperson who pretends to be your friend is about to take some great\nadvantage of you. To dream you draw blood of another, denotes that you\nwill recover a lawsuit and be successful in love and business. To dream\nanother draws blood of you, is a certain prognostic that you will be\nunsuccessful in love and in business, and in everything you undertake.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 36; source lines 244–252", "lineStart": 244, "lineEnd": 252, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are\nbleeding, denotes loss of goods and character, and that your sweetheart\nwill not marry you. To dream you see another bleeding, indicates that some\nperson who pretends to be your friend is about to take some great\nadvantage of you. To dream you draw blood of another, denotes that you\nwill recover a lawsuit and be successful in love and business. To dream\nanother draws blood of you, is a certain prognostic that you will be\nunsuccessful in love and in business, and in everything you undertake." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "fingers" ] }, { "slug": "blender", "title": "Blender", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "aliases": [ "blender", "blenders", "kitchen blender" ], "summary": "A blender can explore the pace and containment of a process, the fit of its equipment, and who decides how a shared preparation proceeds.", "tagline": "A useful process has a pace, a container, and an operator.", "psychological": "A blender can bring attention to how a preparation happens, rather than only to what eventually goes into a glass. You may choose brief pulses, keep it running, struggle to contain the contents, or depend on another person’s equipment. These actions can picture the working arrangement behind a result. Drafting a shared document, trying a new method, or preparing something for guests can offer waking comparisons when their details fit.\n\nBrief pulses can make progress possible without requiring the whole process to happen at once. You have room to stop, look at what changed, and decide whether to continue. This might resemble developing an idea in stages rather than treating the first attempt as a final commitment. Continuous operation can feel smooth and satisfying instead. The difference concerns the pace you wanted, not a universal preference for cautious or rapid work.\n\nA missing lid can put containment ahead of speed. The machine may function while its contents escape the space intended for them. An unfinished conversation shared too widely, or a task started before its limits were agreed, can feel similar. The dream can make readiness more particular than having the main tool available: the surrounding arrangement also affects whether the process serves its purpose.\n\nEquipment out of proportion to the task creates another tension. An enormous blender for one small serving may make preparation harder than the intended result requires. An elaborate procedure for a modest request can offer a parallel. Pleasure in the impressive machine gives a different reading from wanting a simpler tool. Its size does not automatically make the effort excessive; what you actually need it to do matters.\n\nA running blender that leaves the contents unchanged separates visible activity from an effect you can use. Two people issuing different commands can instead make coordination the difficulty. Returning a borrowed blender before finishing gives access a time limit, even when the method itself works. These scenes concern operation, scale, and agreement. The separate Smoothie reading develops the resulting mixture and already includes a blender that will not start; this entry adds other encounters with the device. No ingredient, setting, or mechanical failure supplies a fixed code about your character or future.", "traditional": "These device scenes are original reflections, with no attached historical blender account. Smoothie already offers a related malfunction scene and readings of the finished drink. The general background source does not test the comparisons about pace, containment, or shared operation.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Pace before commitment", "reflection": "Different ways of operating the blender can picture room to pause or enjoyment of a continuous process. The wanted result gives that pace its purpose." }, { "title": "The arrangement around the tool", "reflection": "A working machine still needs an appropriate container and scale. Preparation can concern the conditions around a method as well as the method itself." }, { "title": "Coordination and available time", "reflection": "Several operators or borrowed equipment can make agreement and access central. A process may be workable without being entirely yours to schedule." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "You use short pulses and pause between them", "reflection": "The preparation proceeds through steps you can reconsider. This can resemble testing part of a plan before committing to the rest. Confidence may come from being able to see each change, while impatience may concern wanting the method to carry you through without repeated decisions." }, { "title": "The blender runs but its lid has disappeared", "reflection": "The main tool works while the surrounding boundary is missing. This might picture beginning a shared task before agreeing what stays within it. The escaping contents make containment part of readiness, rather than suggesting that more speed or more ingredients will resolve the difficulty." }, { "title": "An enormous blender takes up the whole work surface", "reflection": "The equipment claims more room than the small preparation seems to need. This can fit a procedure that makes a modest request unexpectedly elaborate. Admiration and frustration lead to different readings, especially if the impressive tool either helps your aim or displaces space for it." }, { "title": "The motor runs while the contents remain unchanged", "reflection": "Activity is visible without the expected transformation. A meeting or project can feel similar when everyone stays busy but the result has not advanced. Within the dream, changing the method or choosing another outcome differs from assuming that effort must simply continue for longer." }, { "title": "Two people keep choosing different controls", "reflection": "The process is shared but its direction is not yet agreed. This may resemble collaborators changing the same work under different assumptions. Taking turns or deciding what the preparation is for can make cooperation possible without requiring either person to give up every preference." }, { "title": "You return a borrowed blender before the preparation is finished", "reflection": "Access ends before the task reaches the point you wanted. This could picture a useful opportunity whose timing differs from your own process. Appreciation for the loan can coexist with disappointment; the scene may concern negotiating terms rather than the quality of the equipment." } ], "prompts": [ "What pace gave you enough room to shape the preparation?", "How did the equipment and surrounding space fit what you wanted to make?", "Which agreement or time limit affected who could use the blender?" ], "related": [ "smoothie", "milkshake", "kitchen" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "blind-mans-buff", "title": "Blind Man's Buff", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are playing at blind man's buff, denotes that you are about to engage in some weak…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "blind man's buff", "blindman’s buff" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about blind man's buff stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0236", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Blind Man's Buff", "text": "To dream that you are playing at blind man's buff, denotes that you are\nabout to engage in some weak enterprise which will likely humiliate you,\nbesides losing money for you.", "locator": "Heading 236; source lines 3765–3771", "lineStart": 3765, "lineEnd": 3771, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are playing at blind man's buff, denotes that you are\nabout to engage in some weak enterprise which will likely humiliate you,\nbesides losing money for you." }, { "id": "noe-0069", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Blindman’s Buff", "text": "To\ndream that one plays blindman’s buff, signifies prosperity, joy and\npleasure.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 70; source lines 367–369", "lineStart": 367, "lineEnd": 369, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To\ndream that one plays blindman’s buff, signifies prosperity, joy and\npleasure.", "editorialNote": "Merge 'Blindman’s Buff' into \"Blind Man's Buff\": Same game; apostrophe/hyphen variants" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "blindfold", "title": "Blindfold", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “For a woman to dream that she is blindfolded, means that disturbing elements are rising around to distress and trouble her.”", "aliases": [ "blindfold" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about blindfold stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0235", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Blindfold", "text": "For a woman to dream that she is blindfolded, means that disturbing\nelements are rising around to distress and trouble her.\nDisappointment will be felt by others through her.", "locator": "Heading 235; source lines 3759–3765", "lineStart": 3759, "lineEnd": 3765, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a woman to dream that she is blindfolded, means that disturbing\nelements are rising around to distress and trouble her.\nDisappointment will be felt by others through her." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "blindness", "title": "Blindness", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "How you orient yourself when sight changes.", "summary": "Dreams of being unable to see may explore access, orientation or relying on other cues. The experience and available support matter.", "aliases": [ "blindness", "blind", "being blind", "loss of sight", "losing sight" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "Dreaming that you cannot see changes how you find your way through a particular setting. The scene may concern a sudden loss of a familiar cue, a different way of moving or another person's response to your needs. It is useful to distinguish being unable to see from being in a dark room or wearing a blindfold: similar feelings can occur, but the dream's stated conditions are different. None of these images requires an assumption about your health or ability when awake.\n\nOther cues can make the scene more specific. A familiar voice, the texture of a wall or a remembered route may offer ways to orient yourself. If those cues work, the dream can emphasize resourcefulness or a setting that remains navigable after a change. If the environment keeps shifting, uncertainty may matter more than eyesight alone. A waking comparison could involve learning a new arrangement, lacking information or finding that a usual method no longer fits.\n\nSupport changes the relationship to the setting. Someone asking how they can help gives you a different role from someone deciding where you must go. A guide you trust may make a shared task possible; an unwanted grip can feel restrictive even when it is offered as assistance. The important detail is how your preferences and knowledge enter the encounter. Being blind in a dream does not make a character helpless, dishonest or morally deficient.\n\nA dream about a blind person also deserves attention to the actual activity rather than a presumed meaning of their disability. They may be a companion, a teacher, a stranger or someone who knows the route better than you. Their actions can complicate your expectations and shift who offers or receives help. Familiar experiences, stories or sensory impressions may supply the scene without representing a hidden message.\n\nAn ending in which sight returns may feel welcome, disappointing or irrelevant if you have already found another way to proceed. Continuing without that change can be an equally complete ending. Describe what became accessible, what remained difficult and whether you had meaningful choices, rather than treating the image as a forecast of loss or gain.", "traditional": "The combined page preserves five accounts under their original headings. Miller, Fontaine and Noe give negative forecasts for being blind; Everybody's Book of Luck calls that experience lucky while warning about seeing a blind person; Cielo associates blindness with information and guiding someone with love. These incompatible period claims are attributed history, not predictions or judgments about blind people.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Other ways to orient", "reflection": "Sound, touch and familiar routes can change what remains available when sight changes." }, { "title": "Help with a choice", "reflection": "Assistance differs when preferences are heard rather than overridden." }, { "title": "The actual role of a person", "reflection": "A blind dream character can contribute knowledge, companionship or any other action in the scene." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You cannot see but recognize a familiar voice", "reflection": "The voice provides continuity when a usual cue is unavailable. The dream may picture finding a reliable connection in an unfamiliar arrangement. Recognizing the speaker differs from trusting their instructions, so the relationship and what they ask of you still matter." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You follow a route by touch and memory", "reflection": "The setting remains navigable through another method. This may bring learned knowledge or practical resourcefulness into view. Ease differs from strain, and a route that unexpectedly changes can make the reliability of the surroundings a larger issue than the absence of sight." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Someone guides you without asking where you want to go", "reflection": "Help is offered, but your destination is left out of the decision. The scene may picture support that limits your voice or assumes your needs. Explaining your preference, refusing the direction or finding a different companion each changes that arrangement." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A blind companion knows the way better than you", "reflection": "Their knowledge can reverse an expectation about who needs assistance. The dream may place expertise in experience with the setting rather than appearance. Notice how you respond to their guidance and what each of you contributes to the shared journey." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Sight returns after you have found another way forward", "reflection": "The change may bring relief without erasing the method that already worked. The scene can make adaptation and restored access coexist. If returning sight feels distracting or unimportant, that reaction may show which part of the journey had become central." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You ask for a change that makes the space easier to use", "reflection": "A request places some responsibility with the arrangement instead of requiring you to manage every difficulty alone. A clearer cue, a slower pace or a companion's explanation can offer a comparison. Whether the request is heard changes how accessible the setting feels." } ], "prompts": [ "Which cues helped you orient yourself in the dream?", "How did other people respond to your preferences or requests?", "What became possible without requiring sight to return?" ], "related": [ "eyes", "blindfold", "darkness", "light", "window" ], "sources": [ { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0063" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context only. Cielo predicts information from being blind and success in love from leading a blind person. These period forecasts and judgments do not validate the original psychological reflections, establish a diagnosis, or identify anyone’s real character or future." }, { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0234" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context only. Miller forecasts poverty from being blind and a request for aid from seeing others blind. These period forecasts and judgments do not validate the original psychological reflections, establish a diagnosis, or identify anyone’s real character or future." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0078" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context only. Fontaine points to Eye and gives deception, monetary want, infidelity, and death forecasts. These period forecasts and judgments do not validate the original psychological reflections, establish a diagnosis, or identify anyone’s real character or future." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0037" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context only. Noe supplies enemy, infidelity, monetary loss, and servant-disloyalty forecasts. These period forecasts and judgments do not validate the original psychological reflections, establish a diagnosis, or identify anyone’s real character or future." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0021" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context only. Everybody’s Book of Luck contrasts good luck from being blind with danger from seeing a blind person. These period forecasts and judgments do not validate the original psychological reflections, establish a diagnosis, or identify anyone’s real character or future." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0234", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Blind", "text": "To dream of being blind, denotes a sudden change from affluence\nto almost abject poverty.\n\nTo see others blind, denotes that some worthy person will call\non you for aid.", "locator": "Heading 234; source lines 3751–3759", "lineStart": 3751, "lineEnd": 3759, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being blind, denotes a sudden change from affluence\nto almost abject poverty.\n\nTo see others blind, denotes that some worthy person will call\non you for aid.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Blind” is shown on the Blindness page: the actual passage concerns loss of eyesight or seeing a blind person; combine these overlapping topics while retaining the original heading, transcription, record ID and attribution. Window coverings remain a separate topic." }, { "id": "fontaine-0078", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Blind", "text": "(_See Eye._) To dream of being blind shows that you are deceived\nin a supposed friend; this dream also threatens the dreamer with want\nof money; to a lover, it predicts that his sweetheart is untrue to him;\nthis dream also foretells death. 66.", "locator": "Heading 78; source line 1294", "lineStart": 1294, "lineEnd": 1299, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Eye.) To dream of being blind shows that you are deceived\nin a supposed friend; this dream also threatens the dreamer with want\nof money; to a lover, it predicts that his sweetheart is untrue to him;\nthis dream also foretells death.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Blind” is shown on the Blindness page: the actual passage concerns loss of eyesight or seeing a blind person; combine these overlapping topics while retaining the original heading, transcription, record ID and attribution. Window coverings remain a separate topic." }, { "id": "noe-0037", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Blind", "text": "To dream of being blind is a sure sign that you repose your\nconfidence in some person who is your bitter enemy; it denotes also that\nyour sweetheart is unfaithful and prefers another; in business it denotes\nthat you will lose money, and that your servants lack fidelity.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 37; source lines 252–256", "lineStart": 252, "lineEnd": 256, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being blind is a sure sign that you repose your\nconfidence in some person who is your bitter enemy; it denotes also that\nyour sweetheart is unfaithful and prefers another; in business it denotes\nthat you will lose money, and that your servants lack fidelity.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Blind” is shown on the Blindness page: the actual passage concerns loss of eyesight or seeing a blind person; combine these overlapping topics while retaining the original heading, transcription, record ID and attribution. Window coverings remain a separate topic." }, { "id": "cielo-0063", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Blindness", "text": "To lead a blind person means success\n in love. To dream of being blind means you will\n receive valuable information.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 63; source lines 4011–4015", "lineStart": 4011, "lineEnd": 4015, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To lead a blind person means success\nin love. To dream of being blind means you will\nreceive valuable information." }, { "id": "luck-0021", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Blind", "text": "To dream of being blind is a very lucky sign; to see a blind\nperson is a warning of danger.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 21; source lines 3562–3565", "lineStart": 3562, "lineEnd": 3565, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being blind is a very lucky sign; to see a blind\nperson is a warning of danger.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Blind” is shown on the Blindness page: the actual passage concerns loss of eyesight or seeing a blind person; combine these overlapping topics while retaining the original heading, transcription, record ID and attribution. Window coverings remain a separate topic." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [ "eyes" ] }, { "slug": "blood", "title": "Blood", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "What happened around the blood, and what did you do next?", "summary": "Blood in a dream can make injury, care, vulnerability, or bodily change feel vivid. Its source and your response matter more than the colour alone.", "aliases": [ "blood", "bleeding", "bleed", "blood on hands", "nosebleed", "blood stains" ], "status": "REVIEW", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "Identify where the blood came from, if the dream showed you. A cut you could tend, an unexplained stain, a medical setting, and an ordinary menstrual scene have different contexts. Describe amount and location only as you remember them; uncertainty is part of the account. Blood does not automatically signify violence, guilt, illness, or a future event.\n\n Notice what the sight interrupted. Were you concerned about a person, trying to clean an object, hiding a mark, or seeking help? An image on your hands can have an emotional association without being proof of wrongdoing. Ask whether responsibility was stated in the scene or inferred by you afterward. A surprising absence of fear deserves attention too.\n\n Experiences of injury, caregiving, menstruation, a film, or a conversation can provide straightforward material. If the image feels connected to another situation, describe the resemblance precisely: something visible that cannot be ignored, a need for care, or anxiety about exposure. These are optional associations, not a catalogue of established meanings. You can also recognize the scene as a vivid bodily image without using it as a metaphor.\n\n Write how the situation changed. Somebody helping, a stain washing away, a wound closing, or a scene continuing unchanged can alter the emotional outcome. The response may matter more than how dramatic the blood looked. A dream image is not a medical finding; understanding an actual bodily concern depends on waking observations. For this reflection, stay with what the scene showed and the support, explanation, or distance you wanted while experiencing it.", "traditional": "The archive’s Blood accounts demonstrate substantial disagreement. Miller connects blood-stained clothes, a flowing wound, and blood on the hands with enemies, problems, or bad luck. Fontaine gives favourable forecasts to a specific blood-related scene. These are attributed conventions of fortune-telling, not medical observations or evidence about your future.\n\n The different predictions should not be averaged into a symbolic rule. They show how an author’s assumptions and the action described shaped the entry. DreamFolia keeps the original accounts available and separates their claims from the present reflection. A shared image does not make the older explanation applicable to your circumstances.\n\n Personal context can be especially important with bodily imagery. Care, injury, menstruation, disgust, relief, and remembered media are not interchangeable experiences. Naming the context lets you explore the scene without inheriting the moral accusations or forecasts attached to it in some older books.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "You tend a small wound", "reflection": "Record who was hurt, what care was possible, and whether the help felt welcome. The scene may concern attention to a manageable problem rather than catastrophe. Its scale and response are important parts of the image." }, { "title": "A stain has no clear source", "reflection": "Uncertainty may be the main feeling: did you seek an explanation, hide the stain, or continue? Do not add an injury or wrongdoing that the dream never showed merely to make the mark understandable." }, { "title": "The blood belongs to an ordinary bodily process", "reflection": "Describe whether it felt expected, private, inconvenient, or reassuring in that setting. Everyday bodily experiences need not be translated into danger. The surrounding people and practical situation may carry the useful distinction." } ], "prompts": [ "Was the source of the blood shown or left uncertain?", "What response did the scene ask of me?", "Which personal memory or ordinary experience fits this particular context?" ], "related": [ "hospital", "skin", "an-unexpected-menstrual-period", "being-attacked" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "scope": "Historical comparison: Blood (Heading 237; source lines 3771–3784). These period accounts do not establish a present-day outcome or validate the personal reflections on this page.", "recordReferences": [ { "id": "miller-0237", "heading": "Blood", "locator": "Heading 237; source lines 3771–3784" } ], "recordIds": [ "miller-0237" ] }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "scope": "Historical comparison: Blood (Heading 79; source line 1299). These period accounts do not establish a present-day outcome or validate the personal reflections on this page.", "recordReferences": [ { "id": "fontaine-0079", "heading": "Blood", "locator": "Heading 79; source line 1299" } ], "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0079" ] }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0064" ], "scope": "Attached historical archive account only: Blood: the book assigns a faithful-lover forecast to seeing blood. Preserved passages: Blood — Dream section, heading 64; source lines 4015–4017. These attributed period beliefs or explanations are not evidence of predictions, health, cultural consensus, or a universal symbol meaning, and do not validate the original modern reflection." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0022" ], "scope": "Attached historical archive account only: Blood: the book assigns riches and inheritance to seeing blood. Preserved passages: Blood — Dream section, heading 22; source lines 3565–3567. These attributed period beliefs or explanations are not evidence of predictions, health, cultural consensus, or a universal symbol meaning, and do not validate the original modern reflection." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection expanded on October 13, 2026. Historical readings are attributed period beliefs; proposed personal connections are exploratory. Human publication review remains pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0237", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Blood", "text": "Blood-stained garments, indicate enemies who seek to tear down a successful\ncareer that is opening up before you.\n\nThe dreamer should beware of strange friendships.\n\nTo see blood flowing from a wound, physical ailments and worry.\nBad business caused from disastrous dealings with foreign combines.\n\nTo see blood on your hands, immediate bad luck, if not careful\nof your person and your own affairs.", "locator": "Heading 237; source lines 3771–3784", "lineStart": 3771, "lineEnd": 3784, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Blood-stained garments, indicate enemies who seek to tear down a successful\ncareer that is opening up before you.\n\nThe dreamer should beware of strange friendships.\n\nTo see blood flowing from a wound, physical ailments and worry.\nBad business caused from disastrous dealings with foreign combines.\n\nTo see blood on your hands, immediate bad luck, if not careful\nof your person and your own affairs." }, { "id": "fontaine-0079", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Blood", "text": "To dream you vomit blood, is good for him that is poor, for he\nshall soon get a sum of money. It is also very good for him that has\nno children, and whose kindred are in a strange country; the first\nshall see a child of his own; the other will hear favorable news of his\nkindred, or see them returning home. 11, 19.", "locator": "Heading 79; source line 1299", "lineStart": 1299, "lineEnd": 1305, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you vomit blood, is good for him that is poor, for he\nshall soon get a sum of money. It is also very good for him that has\nno children, and whose kindred are in a strange country; the first\nshall see a child of his own; the other will hear favorable news of his\nkindred, or see them returning home." }, { "id": "cielo-0064", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Blood", "text": "To see blood signifies a faithful lover.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 64; source lines 4015–4017", "lineStart": 4015, "lineEnd": 4017, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see blood signifies a faithful lover." }, { "id": "luck-0022", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Blood", "text": "To see blood means great riches, an inheritance.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 22; source lines 3565–3567", "lineStart": 3565, "lineEnd": 3567, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see blood means great riches, an inheritance." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "blood-stone", "title": "Blood Stone", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing a blood stone, denotes that you will be unfortunate in your engagements.”", "aliases": [ "blood stone" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about blood stone stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0238", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Blood Stone", "text": "To dream of seeing a blood stone, denotes that you will be unfortunate\nin your engagements. For a young woman to receive one as a gift,\ndenotes she will suffer estrangement from one friend, but will, by this,\ngain one more worthy of her.", "locator": "Heading 238; source lines 3784–3791", "lineStart": 3784, "lineEnd": 3791, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing a blood stone, denotes that you will be unfortunate\nin your engagements. For a young woman to receive one as a gift,\ndenotes she will suffer estrangement from one friend, but will, by this,\ngain one more worthy of her." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "blossoms", "title": "Blossoms", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing trees and shrubs in blossom, denotes a time of pleasing prosperity is nearing you.” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "blossoms", "blossoming of trees", "blossoming trees" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about blossoms stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0239", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Blossoms", "text": "To dream of seeing trees and shrubs in blossom, denotes a time\nof pleasing prosperity is nearing you.", "locator": "Heading 239; source lines 3791–3796", "lineStart": 3791, "lineEnd": 3796, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing trees and shrubs in blossom, denotes a time\nof pleasing prosperity is nearing you." }, { "id": "fontaine-0080", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Blossoms", "text": "If you dream you see trees or plants in blossom, it predicts\nthat you will get some money, or some article that you little expected.\nIt also signifies that you will be pleased at something that will soon\nhappen. 43, 14, 7.", "locator": "Heading 80; source line 1305", "lineStart": 1305, "lineEnd": 1310, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream you see trees or plants in blossom, it predicts\nthat you will get some money, or some article that you little expected.\nIt also signifies that you will be pleased at something that will soon\nhappen." }, { "id": "noe-0070", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Blossoming of Trees", "text": "To dream you see all sorts of trees\nblossoming, is a sign of joy, comfort and recreation.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 71; source lines 369–370", "lineStart": 369, "lineEnd": 370, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see all sorts of trees\nblossoming, is a sign of joy, comfort and recreation.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Blossoming of Trees” is shown on the Blossoms page: all describe trees in blossom" }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9223", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Blossoming Trees", "heading": "Blossoming Trees", "text": "An invariable dream of gladness and of prosperity (Artemidorus) ; doubtless the symbolism is taken from the gladness of spring, as associated with these blossoms.", "lineStart": 9223, "lineEnd": 9226, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 201; NLM OCR lines 9223–9226", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9223, "lineEnd": 9226, "printedPage": 201, "printedPageEnd": 201 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Blossoming Trees. — An invariable dream of gladness and \nof prosperity (Artemidorus) ; doubtless the symbolism is taken \nfrom the gladness of spring, as associated with these blossoms. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Blossoming Trees" }, "displayText": "An invariable dream of gladness and of prosperity (Artemidorus); doubtless the symbolism is taken from the gladness of spring, as associated with these blossoms.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Blossoming Trees” is shown on the Blossoms page: all describe trees in blossom" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "blotting-paper", "title": "Blotting Paper", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of using blotting paper, signifies you will be deceived into the betrayal of secrets which will seriously involve a friend.”", "aliases": [ "blotting paper" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about blotting paper stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0241", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Blotting Paper", "text": "To dream of using blotting paper, signifies you will be deceived\ninto the betrayal of secrets which will seriously involve a friend.\n\nTo see worn blotting paper, denotes continued disagreements in the home\nor among friends.", "locator": "Heading 241; source lines 3803–3811", "lineStart": 3803, "lineEnd": 3811, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of using blotting paper, signifies you will be deceived\ninto the betrayal of secrets which will seriously involve a friend.\n\nTo see worn blotting paper, denotes continued disagreements in the home\nor among friends." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "blowing-the-fire", "title": "Blowing the Fire", "type": "dreams", "category": "Other symbols", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “To dream you are blowing the fire indicates to the lover, that your sweetheart is very angry with you.”", "aliases": [ "blowing the fire" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about blowing the fire stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "blows", "title": "Blows", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Denotes injury to yourself. If you receive a blow, brain trouble will threaten you.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "blows" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about blows stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0240", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Blows", "text": "Denotes injury to yourself. If you receive a blow, brain trouble\nwill threaten you.\n\nIf you defend yourself, a rise in business will follow.", "locator": "Heading 240; source lines 3796–3803", "lineStart": 3796, "lineEnd": 3803, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Denotes injury to yourself. If you receive a blow, brain trouble\nwill threaten you.\n\nIf you defend yourself, a rise in business will follow." }, { "id": "cielo-0065", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Blows", "text": "To give or receive blows means forgiveness\n for wrongs done.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 65; source lines 4017–4020", "lineStart": 4017, "lineEnd": 4020, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To give or receive blows means forgiveness\nfor wrongs done." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "blue", "title": "Blue (color)", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "summary": "A blue appearance may concern recognition, distance or how a setting is presented. An exact shade and the actions around it give the hue context.", "tagline": "Recognition can depend on a very particular shade.", "aliases": [ "blue", "blue color", "blue colour", "the color blue", "the colour blue" ], "status": "REVIEW", "psychological": "A blue appearance may matter because it is recognizable, unexpectedly altered or difficult to place. The shade of a familiar cup can connect a dream to a particular kitchen; a blue doorway at an impossible distance can make a destination seem both identifiable and inaccessible. These scenes have different concerns even though they share a color. Blue need not assign one mood to either experience.\n\n Recognition can turn on a small difference. Searching through many blue samples for the one you remember may resemble trying to describe a preference that other people regard as unimportant. Finding an acceptable approximation creates a different ending from rejecting every substitute. The waking comparison might be choosing the tone of a message, reconstructing a memory or deciding how closely a new arrangement must resemble an earlier one.\n\n Distance can shape the hue's role. A blue patch visible far away may be a point of orientation, especially if it disappears whenever you move toward it. The scene may make the gap between recognizing a possibility and reaching it tangible. What changes that gap is useful: help, a clearer path, a smaller next step or the realization that you were following an image rather than a place.\n\n A blue filter over several objects may bring presentation into question. If photographs or screens make different things look alike, you may have trouble deciding what information remains dependable. This can resemble reviewing work through one assumption or relying on an account that leaves out distinctions you need. Removing the filter, comparing two views or accepting an imperfect image gives the dream different possibilities for understanding.\n\n A blue object can also provide continuity through a changing setting. Keeping one recognizable item while rooms rearrange may offer a modest point of familiarity without making the whole situation predictable. Your own association supplies its value: the object could belong to a favorite routine or to something you want to leave behind. Sky, water and music remain meaningful subjects when they actually appear; describing them as blue does not replace their particular events with a mood label.", "traditional": "The remembered blue of a personal object can differ from a blue appearance noticed in an unfamiliar setting. General sleep background supports considering waking experiences as possible dream material, while leaving the personal meaning of a shade open.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "An exact match or workable substitute", "reflection": "A difficult search for the right blue may make a preference concrete. Whether you need a perfect match, find a workable substitute or discover that the original has changed can explore how much continuity a current choice requires." }, { "title": "A destination in view", "reflection": "A visible blue detail can orient you toward something that remains far away. The important development is what happens between recognizing it and reaching it, including whether the route becomes clearer or the destination changes." }, { "title": "The view through a filter", "reflection": "If a blue appearance makes several objects seem alike, the dream may concern how information is presented. Comparing views or recovering distinct features may resemble loosening an assumption that has made a complicated situation appear uniform." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You cannot match a remembered blue", "reflection": "Each sample may look close until you place it beside the object you remember. The search can resemble trying to communicate an exact preference. Settling, continuing or describing what differs gives the scene a different relationship to compromise and recognition." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A blue doorway stays far away", "reflection": "You recognize the doorway but find that each approach leaves the distance unchanged. The scene may separate knowing what you want from finding a usable route. A change in pace, guidance or destination can matter more than the appearance of the door." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A blue filter hides differences in photographs", "reflection": "Pictures that once showed distinct people or places may become hard to tell apart under the same tint. Comparing an unfiltered view can bring missing information back. This may resemble wanting an account that preserves differences rather than fitting every experience into one description." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A familiar blue cup survives a changing room", "reflection": "While furniture and walls keep rearranging, the cup remains recognizable in your hand. It may provide one small point of continuity during change. Its usefulness depends on your association with that particular object and whether holding it helps or prevents further movement." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Someone gives an ordinary object the wrong blue", "reflection": "The object still works, yet the changed shade makes it seem less like yours. Your response may concern recognition or ownership rather than function. Explaining the difference, accepting it or restoring the earlier appearance can picture different ways of negotiating an alteration." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The blue disappears when you step closer", "reflection": "A distant surface seems blue until you approach and find another appearance. The change may bring expectation and direct experience apart. Whether you feel disappointed, curious or relieved can help connect the scene to a possibility that looked different before you encountered it." } ], "prompts": [ "What made this particular blue recognizable, unfamiliar or difficult to describe?", "How did distance or a change of viewpoint affect the blue appearance?", "What information became clearer or less distinct through the way the scene was presented?" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "related": [ "colors", "sky", "water", "mirror" ], "updated": "2026-10-13", "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "detectionAliases": [ "blue color", "blue colour", "the color blue", "the colour blue" ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "blushing", "title": "Blushing", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “For a young woman to dream of blushing, denotes she will be worried and humiliated by false accusations.”", "aliases": [ "blushing" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about blushing stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0242", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Blushing", "text": "For a young woman to dream of blushing, denotes she will be worried\nand humiliated by false accusations. If she sees others blush,\nshe will be given to flippant railery which will make her unpleasing\nto her friends.", "locator": "Heading 242; source lines 3811–3818", "lineStart": 3811, "lineEnd": 3818, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a young woman to dream of blushing, denotes she will be worried\nand humiliated by false accusations. If she sees others blush,\nshe will be given to flippant railery which will make her unpleasing\nto her friends." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "boa-constrictor", "title": "Boa-Constrictor", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of this is just about the same as to dream of the devil.”", "aliases": [ "boa-constrictor" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about boa-constrictor stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0244", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Boa-Constrictor", "text": "To dream of this is just about the same as to dream of the devil; it indicates\nstormy times and much bad fortune. Disenchantment with humanity will follow.\nTo kill one is good.", "locator": "Heading 244; source lines 3824–3830", "lineStart": 3824, "lineEnd": 3830, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of this is just about the same as to dream of the devil; it indicates\nstormy times and much bad fortune. Disenchantment with humanity will follow.\nTo kill one is good." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "boar", "title": "Boar", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “Storms and tempests are augured by this dream, also trouble caused by evil-minded persons (Artemidorus).”", "aliases": [ "boar" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about boar stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L9227", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Boar", "heading": "Boar", "text": "Storms and tempests are augured by this dream, also trouble caused by evil-minded persons (Artemidorus). \"The wretched, bloody and usurping boar, That spoiled your summer fields and fruitful vines,\" — Shakespeare. A Christian symbol of impurity. A phallic symbol with the Freudians.", "lineStart": 9227, "lineEnd": 9241, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 201–202; NLM OCR lines 9227–9241", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9227, "lineEnd": 9241, "printedPage": 201, "printedPageEnd": 202 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Boar. — Storms and tempests are augured by this dream, \nalso trouble caused by evil-minded persons (Artemidorus). \n\n\n202 THE FABRIC OF DREAMS \n\n\n\"The wretched, bloody and usurping boar, \nThat spoiled your summer fields and fruitful vines,\" \n\n— Shakespeare. \n\nA Christian symbol of impurity. A phallic symbol with \nthe Freudians. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [ { "line": 9231, "text": "202 THE FABRIC OF DREAMS " } ], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 0.99779, "secondaryHeading": "Boar" }, "displayText": "Storms and tempests are augured by this dream, also trouble caused by evil-minded persons (Artemidorus). \"The wretched, bloody and usurping boar, That spoiled your summer fields and fruitful vines,\" — Shakespeare. A Christian symbol of impurity. A phallic symbol with the Freudians." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "boarding-house", "title": "Boarding House", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a boarding house, foretells that you will suffer entanglement and disorder in your enterprises, and you are likely to change…”", "aliases": [ "boarding house" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about boarding house stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0243", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Boarding House", "text": "To dream of a boarding house, foretells that you will suffer\nentanglement and disorder in your enterprises, and you are likely\nto change your residence.", "locator": "Heading 243; source lines 3818–3824", "lineStart": 3818, "lineEnd": 3824, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a boarding house, foretells that you will suffer\nentanglement and disorder in your enterprises, and you are likely\nto change your residence." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0245", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Boasting", "text": "To hear boasting in your dreams, you will sincerely regret\nan impulsive act, which will cause trouble to your friends.\nTo boast to a competitor, foretells that you will be unjust,\nand will use dishonest means to overcome competition.", "locator": "Heading 245; source lines 3830–3837", "lineStart": 3830, "lineEnd": 3837, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To hear boasting in your dreams, you will sincerely regret\nan impulsive act, which will cause trouble to your friends.\nTo boast to a competitor, foretells that you will be unjust,\nand will use dishonest means to overcome competition." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "boat", "title": "Boat", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "aliases": [ "boat" ], "summary": "A boat can suggest shared support, limited resources, or navigating change. Steering, passengers, and water conditions shape the experience.", "tagline": "A small space carries you through conditions it cannot fully control.", "psychological": "A boat can picture the arrangement that supports you while you move through uncertain conditions. Unlike a road, the water may not provide stable footing; the boat makes passage possible. A dependable vessel on calm water may fit having enough resources, cooperation, or structure for a change. A small boat need not feel inadequate if it suits the journey.\n\nSteering and propulsion make agency concrete. Rowing alone may express self-directed effort, especially when every bit of progress depends on your work. Traveling as a passenger can instead suggest trusting another person's skill or feeling unable to influence the route. The difference is whether handing over control feels chosen and helpful or imposed.\n\nA shared boat brings interdependence into view. Everyone's movement can affect the balance, and passengers may need to coordinate space or tasks. This can fit a household budget, collaborative work, or a transition whose consequences are shared. A crowded vessel may picture too many demands placed on one arrangement; a crew that shares the work can make the same journey feel manageable.\n\nWater entering the boat can suggest that the boundary between the challenge and your support system is weakening. It may resemble demands consuming the resources meant to handle them. Bailing water while someone repairs the leak offers a different reading from endlessly removing it alone: one response reaches the source, while the other repeatedly manages the consequences.\n\nMooring or anchoring can represent a useful pause, or a difficulty leaving a familiar position. The desired destination and your willingness to move decide which fits. A real journey, boating memory, or image can also explain the scene without a symbolic reading.", "traditional": "Miller's Boat entry favors clear water and pleasant company while giving turbulent conditions adverse forecasts. Fontaine's 1862 Boat passage similarly contrasts enjoyable sailing with rough weather, though he says the predicted quarrels will be settled.\n\nThese historical claims map conditions onto fortune rather than establish a reliable dream code. Their useful distinction is between the vessel, the weather, and the company. The modern reading keeps those factors separate: a small boat can offer enough support, and rough water can be faced cooperatively rather than define the whole journey.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Support for uncertain conditions", "reflection": "The boat can picture the resources or arrangement that lets a change become manageable. Its suitability matters more than size alone: a modest vessel may be enough for the actual journey." }, { "title": "Steering or trusting someone else", "reflection": "Rowing, steering, and riding as a passenger create different forms of agency. The scene may concern self-directed effort, chosen reliance, or discomfort with a route decided for you." }, { "title": "The journey depends on shared balance", "reflection": "A crew can picture coordinated responsibility, while crowding or a leak may strain the arrangement. Cooperation changes how demanding conditions feel without making the water itself disappear." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "You sail calmly with a cooperative crew", "reflection": "This can suggest a shared arrangement that distributes effort well. A team, household, or joint move may feel supported because people understand their roles. The comfort comes from both the vessel and the cooperation, rather than from calm water alone.", "slug": "scene-1" }, { "title": "You row alone against the current", "reflection": "Progress depends on sustained effort under conditions that resist it. This may fit carrying a task without enough assistance or trying to move faster than circumstances allow. Choosing the route can still feel worthwhile, while fatigue makes the cost visible.", "slug": "scene-2" }, { "title": "Too many people crowd a small boat", "reflection": "A shared resource may feel stretched beyond what it can comfortably support. Competing family needs or a project with more demands than capacity can offer parallels. Balance becomes difficult because everyone depends on the same limited arrangement.", "slug": "scene-3" }, { "title": "Water enters while you repeatedly bail it out", "reflection": "This can picture managing consequences without reaching what keeps producing them. Recurrent expenses, interruptions, or unresolved tasks may consume the time intended for progress. Repairing the leak or sharing the work would change the scene from endless maintenance toward a workable response.", "slug": "scene-4" }, { "title": "The boat remains anchored when you want to leave", "reflection": "A stabilizing arrangement can become restrictive when your needs change. Familiar routines, financial commitments, or other people's timing may keep you in place. The anchor can be protective or frustrating, depending on whether remaining there still serves your journey.", "slug": "scene-5" }, { "title": "Another person steers while you sit beside them", "reflection": "The scene can explore chosen trust or dependence on a route you cannot direct. Shared travel, advice, or a decision managed by someone else may fit. Comfort suggests welcome support; unease can make the terms of that reliance more important.", "slug": "scene-6" } ], "prompts": [ "What in my life plays the boat's role of support or containment?", "Did I want to steer, contribute effort, or rely on another person?", "Which demand strained the vessel, and was anyone addressing its source?" ], "related": [ "water", "ocean", "rowing", "sailing", "oar", "rudder" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia editorial expansion with image-specific interpretations and six differentiated scenes. Historical context is attributed to actual source passages. Human publication review pending.", "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0246" ], "scope": "Historical context only: Boat — miller-0246, Heading 246; source lines 3837–3846. These are period fortune-telling beliefs, not evidence for the modern interpretations." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0081" ], "scope": "Historical context only: Boat — fontaine-0081, Heading 81; source line 1310. These are period fortune-telling beliefs, not evidence for the modern interpretations." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "scope": "Preserved attribution for the catalogue historical records from this source. Not cited as evidence for this original modern interpretation.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0038" ] }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "scope": "Preserved attribution for the catalogue historical records from this source. Not cited as evidence for this original modern interpretation.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0066" ] }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "scope": "Preserved attribution for the catalogue historical records from this source. Not cited as evidence for this original modern interpretation.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0023" ] }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0246", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Boat", "text": "Boat signals forecast bright prospects, if upon clear water.\nIf the water is unsettled and turbulent, cares and unhappy changes\nthreaten the dreamer. If with a gay party you board a boat\nwithout an accident, many favors will be showered upon you.\nUnlucky the dreamer who falls overboard while sailing\nupon stormy waters.", "locator": "Heading 246; source lines 3837–3846", "lineStart": 3837, "lineEnd": 3846, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Boat signals forecast bright prospects, if upon clear water.\nIf the water is unsettled and turbulent, cares and unhappy changes\nthreaten the dreamer. If with a gay party you board a boat\nwithout an accident, many favors will be showered upon you.\nUnlucky the dreamer who falls overboard while sailing\nupon stormy waters." }, { "id": "fontaine-0081", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Boat", "text": "(_See Oar, and Rudder._) To dream you are sailing in a boat\nin pleasant weather, and enjoying yourself, denotes good success\nin business; to lovers it foretells happiness; if the weather is\nboisterous, it predicts quarrels, which will be speedily settled;\ndreams of sailing smoothly in boats are emphatically good ones to all\nkinds of people. 71, 10.\n\n To dream of being in a boat,\n Does show that maidens’ fancies float;\n And whether sink or swim they do,\n To try love’s sport their skill they’ll show.", "locator": "Heading 81; source line 1310", "lineStart": 1310, "lineEnd": 1322, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Oar, and Rudder.) To dream you are sailing in a boat\nin pleasant weather, and enjoying yourself, denotes good success\nin business; to lovers it foretells happiness; if the weather is\nboisterous, it predicts quarrels, which will be speedily settled;\ndreams of sailing smoothly in boats are emphatically good ones to all\nkinds of people.\n\nTo dream of being in a boat,\nDoes show that maidens’ fancies float;\nAnd whether sink or swim they do,\nTo try love’s sport their skill they’ll show." }, { "id": "noe-0038", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Boat", "text": "To dream that you are on the water in a boat, provided you are in\ncompany, denotes prosperity and success in your undertakings. If you dream\nyou are in a boat alone, it is a bad omen. To dream the boat oversets, is\nthe most fatal of all omens.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 38; source lines 256–259", "lineStart": 256, "lineEnd": 259, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are on the water in a boat, provided you are in\ncompany, denotes prosperity and success in your undertakings. If you dream\nyou are in a boat alone, it is a bad omen. To dream the boat oversets, is\nthe most fatal of all omens." }, { "id": "cielo-0066", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Boat", "text": "To row in a canoe or boat signifies an\n inheritance of money.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 66; source lines 4020–4023", "lineStart": 4020, "lineEnd": 4023, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To row in a canoe or boat signifies an\ninheritance of money." }, { "id": "luck-0023", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Boat", "text": "The arrival of a dear friend.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 23; source lines 3567–3569", "lineStart": 3567, "lineEnd": 3569, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "The arrival of a dear friend." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [ "oar", "rudder" ] }, { "slug": "boat-canoe-sailboat-ship-etc", "title": "Boat, Canoe, Sailboat, Ship, etc", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “Seen in a clear stream, a dream of happiness.”", "aliases": [ "boat, canoe, sailboat, ship, etc", "boat", "canoe", "sailboat", "ship" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about boat, canoe, sailboat, ship, etc stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. 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Bayley, how- \never, says that the original meaning of the word bateau, or \nboat, is derived from the word beatus, or happy. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "disappoint- \nment", "after": "disappointment", "evidenceLine": 2109 }, { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "how- \never", "after": "however", "evidenceLine": 427 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Boat, Canoe, Sailboat, Ship, etc" }, "displayText": "Seen in a clear stream, a dream of happiness; to see one sink indicates disappointment; to fall from one, great dangers; to sail on smooth water, happiness and prosperity; on muddy water, trouble (Raphael). Here the symbolism requires no explanation. Bayley, however, says that the original meaning of the word bateau, or boat, is derived from the word beatus, or happy." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0247", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Bobbin", "text": "To dream of bobbins, denotes that important work will devolve on you,\nand your interests will be adversely affected if you are negligent\nin dispatching the same work.", "locator": "Heading 247; source lines 3846–3852", "lineStart": 3846, "lineEnd": 3852, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of bobbins, denotes that important work will devolve on you,\nand your interests will be adversely affected if you are negligent\nin dispatching the same work." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "body", "title": "Body", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “To dream that your body is robust denotes authority, that it is weak denotes failing or infirmity of the part in question (Artemidorus).”", "aliases": [ "body" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about body stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. 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OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L9250", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Body", "heading": "Body", "text": "To dream that your body is robust denotes authority, that it is weak denotes failing or infirmity of the part in question (Artemidorus) ; here the ancients and moderns meet, undoubtedly the dream of any part of the body, whether of one's own or that of another, is resultant upon physical stimulus.", "lineStart": 9250, "lineEnd": 9256, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 202; NLM OCR lines 9250–9256", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9250, "lineEnd": 9256, "printedPage": 202, "printedPageEnd": 202 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Body. — To dream that your body is robust denotes author- \nity, that it is weak denotes failing or infirmity of the part in \nquestion (Artemidorus) ; here the ancients and moderns meet, \nundoubtedly the dream of any part of the body, whether of \none's own or that of another, is resultant upon physical stim- \nulus. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "author- \nity", "after": "authority", "evidenceLine": 949 }, { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "stim- \nulus", "after": "stimulus", "evidenceLine": 6323 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Body" }, "displayText": "To dream that your body is robust denotes authority, that it is weak denotes failing or infirmity of the part in question (Artemidorus); here the ancients and moderns meet, undoubtedly the dream of any part of the body, whether of one's own or that of another, is resultant upon physical stimulus." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "body-swap", "title": "Body swap", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "aliases": [ "body swap", "body swapping", "swapping bodies", "switched bodies", "exchanging bodies", "body exchange" ], "summary": "A body swap can picture exchanging roles, encountering another perspective, or being recognized through appearances that do not match your own account.", "tagline": "Two people exchange places in a way that separates experience from outward recognition.", "psychological": "A body swap can picture a reciprocal exchange of roles: you inhabit another person's body while they occupy yours. The dream may make a familiar arrangement strange enough to consider from another position. Swapping with a coworker could fit wondering what their duties involve; swapping with a friend may bring different routines or expectations into view. The scene models a perspective rather than revealing what the other person truly experiences.\n\nOutward recognition can become separate from your own account. People respond to the body they recognize while you know yourself to be someone else. This can picture entering a role through another person's reputation or feeling understood through an appearance that does not represent your current experience. Explaining who you are may matter more than changing the body itself.\n\nThe reciprocity makes responsibility distinctive. Someone is also occupying your place, handling your possessions, or answering expectations associated with you. Comfort can picture trust in sharing a role, while unease may concern how much control to retain over a personal arrangement. The exchange can make each person's conditions visible without requiring their capacities to be ranked.\n\nTrying familiar tasks in the other body can give form to practical differences. A routine that seemed simple from outside may require unfamiliar adjustments. This may fit learning how a shared task is organized or recognizing that another role carries constraints you had not considered.\n\nAgreeing to return, choosing when the swap ends, or remaining exchanged can make agency central. A useful encounter with another perspective differs from being required to stay in a role that does not feel chosen. Fiction, games, conversations, and imagined alternatives can supply the plot directly. The dream does not establish an identity condition or another person's thoughts.", "traditional": "The interpretation concerns a reciprocal exchange of bodies and perspectives. No verified historical body-swap passage is cited; broader transformation topics do not establish this specific two-person mechanism. The general dream source does not validate conclusions about identity or provide access to another person's private experience.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Another position makes a role unfamiliar", "reflection": "A reciprocal swap can picture considering duties or expectations from another viewpoint. The dream may reveal your model of that position, rather than the other person's actual thoughts or experience." }, { "title": "Recognition does not match your own account", "reflection": "Others may respond to the appearance they know while you experience a different identity inside it. The scene can express being represented through a role or reputation that does not fit." }, { "title": "Exchange requires shared terms and an ending", "reflection": "Another person is also occupying your place, making trust and responsibility reciprocal. Agreement over tasks, boundaries, and return changes whether the exchange feels exploratory or imposed." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "You and a coworker exchange bodies for a day", "reflection": "Trying another position can picture curiosity about how duties and expectations differ. A shared project may look different from the other person's apparent role. The reciprocal exchange makes perspective concrete without proving that the dream supplies their real feelings or hidden responsibilities.", "slug": "scene-1" }, { "title": "Your friend uses your body while you handle their routine", "reflection": "Sharing a place can picture trust alongside uncertainty about personal habits and boundaries. Lending responsibility or relying on someone to maintain an arrangement may offer parallels. Each person now has a part in the other's ordinary life, so cooperation matters as much as novelty.", "slug": "scene-2" }, { "title": "Nobody believes who you are inside the exchanged body", "reflection": "Recognition may follow appearance or reputation rather than your explanation. Taking over a role or returning to a group after change can feel similar. The scene makes the gap between your account and others' familiar categories visible.", "slug": "scene-3" }, { "title": "A familiar task works differently after the swap", "reflection": "An action can require adjustments that were not obvious from outside the role. Learning a colleague's process or sharing a household duty may offer a parallel. The difficulty concerns different conditions, rather than establishing that either person's body or abilities are better.", "slug": "scene-4" }, { "title": "You and the other person negotiate when to return", "reflection": "The exchange can become manageable through shared terms. Trying a different responsibility or temporarily covering another role may feel similar when an endpoint is understood. Agreement lets exploration remain chosen, rather than making uncertainty about return part of the burden.", "slug": "scene-5" }, { "title": "You return to your own body with a changed view of the other role", "reflection": "The scene can picture a temporary perspective changing how a shared arrangement feels. Doing another person's task may make its preparation or constraints more apparent. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0249", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Boiler", "text": "To dream of seeing a boiler out of repair, signifies you\nwill suffer from bad management or disappointment.\nFor a woman to dream that she goes into a cellar to see about\na boiler foretells that sickness and losses will surround her.", "locator": "Heading 249; source lines 3860–3867", "lineStart": 3860, "lineEnd": 3867, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing a boiler out of repair, signifies you\nwill suffer from bad management or disappointment.\nFor a woman to dream that she goes into a cellar to see about\na boiler foretells that sickness and losses will surround her." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "boils", "title": "Boils", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a boil running pus and blood, you will have unpleasant things to meet in your immediate future.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "boils", "boil" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about boils stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0250", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Boils", "text": "To dream of a boil running pus and blood, you will have unpleasant things\nto meet in your immediate future. May be that the insincerity of friends\nwill cause you great inconvenience.\n\nTo dream of boils on your forehead, is significant of the sickness\nof some one near you.", "locator": "Heading 250; source lines 3867–3876", "lineStart": 3867, "lineEnd": 3876, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a boil running pus and blood, you will have unpleasant things\nto meet in your immediate future. May be that the insincerity of friends\nwill cause you great inconvenience.\n\nTo dream of boils on your forehead, is significant of the sickness\nof some one near you." }, { "id": "cielo-0067", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Boil", "text": "To suffer from a boil means unforeseen difficulty.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 67; source lines 4023–4025", "lineStart": 4023, "lineEnd": 4025, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To suffer from a boil means unforeseen difficulty." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "bolts", "title": "Bolts", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of bolts, signifies that formidable obstacles will oppose your progress.”", "aliases": [ "bolts" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about bolts stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0251", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Bolts", "text": "To dream of bolts, signifies that formidable obstacles will\noppose your progress.\n\nIf the bolts are old or broken, your expectations will be\neclipsed by failures.", "locator": "Heading 251; source lines 3876–3884", "lineStart": 3876, "lineEnd": 3884, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of bolts, signifies that formidable obstacles will\noppose your progress.\n\nIf the bolts are old or broken, your expectations will be\neclipsed by failures." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "bomb", "title": "Bomb", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "A threat, a countdown, or something that may never detonate.", "summary": "Bomb dreams may reflect anticipated disruption, a deadline or a dangerous discovery. What you know about the device changes the scene.", "aliases": [ "bomb", "bombs", "a bomb", "the bomb", "bomb dream", "bomb going off", "time bomb", "bomb explosion" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A bomb places possible disruption inside a particular object or event. A dream may center on discovering it, waiting for it to go off, leaving the area or dealing with what has already happened. Those actions create different questions. A hidden device can make an ordinary setting feel unreliable, while a visible countdown can give uncertainty a deadline. A loud explosion without an identifiable device belongs more broadly to the Explosion page.\n\nKnowing who placed the bomb changes the relationship to the threat. If no one knows its origin, the dream may resemble an unresolved problem that people are trying to understand. If somebody openly threatens to use it, pressure and bargaining may become central. The image can draw on a film, game, news story or recent alarm without revealing an intention or predicting a real event. Your actual role in the scene matters more than assigning one meaning to the object.\n\nA countdown can make attention narrow around the time remaining. It may offer a comparison with an approaching conversation, delivery or decision that feels disruptive. The scene differs if the deadline is arbitrary, if help arrives or if everyone refuses to believe you. Trying to explain the danger can make being heard the main difficulty, rather than the device itself.\n\nAn explosion shifts the subject from anticipation to response. An empty space left behind may suggest interruption or the need to rebuild an arrangement. Unharmed people, continuing routines or an unexpectedly quiet result can complicate the expected catastrophe. A device that never goes off can leave relief, doubt or frustration if the threat organized everyone else's actions.\n\nThe degree of control is another useful distinction. Choosing to leave, protecting someone and being tasked with handling the device each place you differently in the event. These reflections concern the dream's arrangement, not instructions for handling a real hazard. A conventional or unidentified bomb also does not automatically mean nuclear war; that separate page concerns explicitly nuclear imagery and its wider scale.", "traditional": "No exact Bomb historical record is attached from the supplied corpus. These original reflections concern anticipation, disruption and a dreamer's role. Nuclear War remains a separate topic for explicit nuclear or atomic imagery. Recent media or ordinary pressure can provide context; the dream is not a forecast of an attack.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Before the disruption", "reflection": "A countdown, hidden device or warning can make anticipation the central event." }, { "title": "Your role in the response", "reflection": "Leaving, warning others or being assigned responsibility changes what the threat asks of you." }, { "title": "What actually happens", "reflection": "A quiet ending or survival may complicate the catastrophe expected in the dream." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You discover a bomb in a familiar room", "reflection": "An ordinary setting becomes difficult to trust once something dangerous is found inside it. The scene may resemble discovering a problem in an arrangement you assumed was settled. Whether you are able to tell others, leave or examine the setting changes the emphasis." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A timer counts down while nobody listens", "reflection": "The deadline and the audience create two pressures at once. The dream may picture needing a response before time runs out while your account receives little attention. Being heard could matter more than the countdown itself, especially if others eventually help." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You leave the area with someone else", "reflection": "Leaving gives the scene a route away from disruption, and company makes the response relational. You may be protecting a connection or choosing a limit together. Relief at distance differs from worry about those who stayed behind; both can remain in the ending." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You are expected to deal with the device alone", "reflection": "The assigned role may make a shared threat feel like your sole responsibility. A waking comparison could be a problem others expect you to resolve without support. The dream's demand is worth distinguishing from your own choice to take on the task." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The explosion happens but everyone is unharmed", "reflection": "The expected consequence and the actual result differ. This may picture a feared interruption proving survivable, or the odd continuity of dream events. Notice what changed despite people remaining safe: the room, routine or relationship may still need a new arrangement." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The bomb never goes off", "reflection": "An unresolved threat can continue to organize attention even when the event does not happen. Relief suggests one ending, while resentment about waiting suggests another. The device may become less important than what people gave up, postponed or discovered during the anticipation." } ], "prompts": [ "What part of the bomb encounter carried the strongest feeling?", "Who knew about the device, and whose warning was taken seriously?", "What changed when the expected disruption did or did not happen?" ], "related": [ "nuclear-war", "explosion", "fire", "being-chased" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "bomb-shell", "title": "Bomb Shell", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of bomb shells, foretells anger and disputes, ending in law suits. Many displeasing incident[s?] follow this dream.”", "aliases": [ "bomb shell" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about bomb shell stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0252", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Bomb Shell", "text": "To dream of bomb shells, foretells anger and disputes, ending in law suits.\nMany displeasing incident{s?} follow this dream.", "locator": "Heading 252; source lines 3884–3889", "lineStart": 3884, "lineEnd": 3889, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of bomb shells, foretells anger and disputes, ending in law suits.\nMany displeasing incident[s?] follow this dream." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "bones", "title": "Bones", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see your bones protruding from the flesh, denotes that treachery is working to ensnare you.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "bones" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about bones stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0253", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Bones", "text": "To see your bones protruding from the flesh, denotes that treachery\nis working to ensnare you.\n\nTo see a pile of bones, famine and contaminating influences surround you.", "locator": "Heading 253; source lines 3889–3896", "lineStart": 3889, "lineEnd": 3896, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see your bones protruding from the flesh, denotes that treachery\nis working to ensnare you.\n\nTo see a pile of bones, famine and contaminating influences surround you." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9257", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Bones", "heading": "Bones", "text": "Human bones an omen of death in the family (Artemidorus) ; a Christian symbol of death, mortality", "lineStart": 9257, "lineEnd": 9259, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 202; NLM OCR lines 9257–9259", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9257, "lineEnd": 9259, "printedPage": 202, "printedPageEnd": 202 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Bones. — Human bones an omen of death in the family \n(Artemidorus) ; a Christian symbol of death, mortality \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Bones" }, "displayText": "Human bones an omen of death in the family (Artemidorus); a Christian symbol of death, mortality" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "bonnet", "title": "Bonnet", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Bonnet, denotes much gossiping and slanderous insinuations, from which a woman should carefully defend…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "bonnet" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about bonnet stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0254", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Bonnet", "text": "Bonnet, denotes much gossiping and slanderous insinuations,\nfrom which a woman should carefully defend herself.\n\nFor a man to see a woman tying her bonnet, denotes unforeseen\ngood luck near by. His friends will be faithful and true.\n\nA young woman is likely to engage in pleasant and harmless flirtations\nif her bonnet is new and of any color except black.\n\nBlack bonnets, denote false friends of the opposite sex.", "locator": "Heading 254; source lines 3896–3909", "lineStart": 3896, "lineEnd": 3909, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Bonnet, denotes much gossiping and slanderous insinuations,\nfrom which a woman should carefully defend herself.\n\nFor a man to see a woman tying her bonnet, denotes unforeseen\ngood luck near by. His friends will be faithful and true.\n\nA young woman is likely to engage in pleasant and harmless flirtations\nif her bonnet is new and of any color except black.\n\nBlack bonnets, denote false friends of the opposite sex." }, { "id": "noe-0076", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Bonnet", "text": "For a maiden to\ndream she gets a new bonnet, gives promise of a new lover, but Mother\nShipton says that much depends on the color; if green, he will be\ndeceitful; if blue, he will prove affectionate; if pink, his love will not\nbe lasting; if yellow or white, he will quickly improve marriage; but if a\nfemale loses her bonnet, it behooves her to be guarded of her virtue, for\nshe is in danger of being led astray; if it be blown off, she will have\nsomething she dearly prizes stolen from her.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 78; source lines 391–398", "lineStart": 391, "lineEnd": 398, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a maiden to\ndream she gets a new bonnet, gives promise of a new lover, but Mother\nShipton says that much depends on the color; if green, he will be\ndeceitful; if blue, he will prove affectionate; if pink, his love will not\nbe lasting; if yellow or white, he will quickly improve marriage; but if a\nfemale loses her bonnet, it behooves her to be guarded of her virtue, for\nshe is in danger of being led astray; if it be blown off, she will have\nsomething she dearly prizes stolen from her." }, { "id": "cielo-0068", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Bonnet", "text": "To wear a new bonnet means rivalry.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 68; source lines 4025–4027", "lineStart": 4025, "lineEnd": 4027, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To wear a new bonnet means rivalry." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "book-store", "title": "Book Store", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "aliases": [ "book store", "bookstore", "bookstores", "book shop", "bookshops" ], "summary": "A bookstore can picture choosing which ideas or stories deserve your attention. Follow the book you wanted and what made it available.", "tagline": "Shelves of possible stories, with the decision to take one into your own life.", "psychological": "A bookstore offers many possible directions while asking you to choose what you will carry away. Unlike simply reading a book, the scene includes browsing, comparing, discovering, and sometimes buying. It may picture a period when several interests or ways of describing your life are available. The book that attracts you can be useful through its title, cover, condition, or place on the shelf.\n\nChoosing a volume can give form to choosing a story about yourself. A practical manual, an unfamiliar novel, or a book with your name on it creates different expectations. You might recognize questions about learning a skill, imagining another life, or wanting your own experience represented. The dream's book can be invented; its usefulness lies in the associations it creates for you rather than in a hidden authoritative message.\n\nUsed books bring previous readers into the scene. Notes in a margin, a familiar inscription, or worn pages may make influence and inheritance tangible. Advice from a relative, an old ambition, or someone else's interpretation of an event can feel similarly present. Consider whether the annotations help you read or crowd out your own response.\n\nThe purchase introduces a movement from possibility to commitment. A high price, a closed register, or a single affordable book may picture limits on time, energy, or access. Browsing indefinitely can feel pleasurable or become a way of postponing a choice. Carrying one book away may suggest wanting an idea you can actually explore, rather than collecting every available direction.\n\nA bookseller or another customer can act as an unexpected guide. Their recommendation may feel welcome, intrusive, or simply interesting. Recent shopping, reading, study, or memories of a particular store can explain much of the setting. Begin with what the visit felt like before assigning meaning to its shelves.", "traditional": "Miller’s Book Store passage forecasts literary aspirations that interfere with other work. That brief account connects the setting with competing attention, but its forecast is a period belief rather than evidence of what a dream will cause. The original reading here distinguishes browsing possibilities, receiving another reader’s influence, and choosing an idea worth carrying away. These scenes may involve pleasure and useful learning as well as limits on time or competing priorities.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Choosing a story to follow", "reflection": "Many shelves can picture several interests or possible accounts of who you are. The volume you select may make one direction especially vivid. Consider what drew you toward it and whether choosing felt like discovery, obligation, or giving up other possibilities." }, { "title": "Reading through previous hands", "reflection": "A used book can hold both useful guidance and someone else’s assumptions. Marks, inscriptions, and familiar handwriting give those influences a visible form. Your response to them may suggest how much room you feel you have to interpret an inherited idea yourself." }, { "title": "Taking an idea beyond the shelf", "reflection": "Buying or carrying a book home turns browsing into a specific commitment of attention. Price, availability, and the ability to leave the store can express the practical limits around exploration. A modest purchase may feel more usable than possessing an entire unread collection." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A book carries your name as its title", "reflection": "This can picture wanting your experience to have a coherent account or a recognizable place. The cover may feel affirming, embarrassing, or unfamiliar. Notice whether you open the book and recognize its contents; a title associated with you does not have to define you." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Every aisle leads to more shelves", "reflection": "Endless browsing may resemble a growing field of interests or a decision delayed by too many appealing possibilities. It can also be enjoyable exploration. The useful distinction is how the expansion felt: did the next aisle promise discovery, or make finding your way out harder?" }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A used book contains familiar handwriting", "reflection": "Annotations may picture an influential voice accompanying your own reading. A relative’s advice or an earlier version of your ambitions can feel similarly present. Observe whether the writing explains, contradicts, or obscures the pages; the relationship between the two texts can guide your reflection." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "The pages are blank when you reach the register", "reflection": "A promising object becoming empty can picture disappointment when an imagined answer becomes concrete. It might also feel like an invitation to contribute your own account. Record whether you wanted a finished explanation or room to create; the blank pages can support either experience." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You can buy only one of several wanted books", "reflection": "A limited purchase may make competing priorities tangible. Time for one course, energy for one project, or attention divided among several interests can feel similar. Notice what you choose and what you feel about leaving the others; a limit can bring relief as well as regret." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "A bookseller recommends an unfamiliar shelf", "reflection": "An unexpected recommendation can picture discovering a direction outside your usual preferences. It may echo a conversation that introduced a useful question. Consider whether you remain curious or feel pushed, and whether you explore the shelf on your own terms after the suggestion." } ], "prompts": [ "Which detail made one book stand out, and what do I associate with it?", "Did another reader’s marks help my reading or limit it?", "What did taking a book away require me to choose or leave behind?" ], "related": [ "books", "library", "school-or-exam", "money" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "scope": "Miller’s Book Store account, record miller-0257, is the historical basis of the comparison in this page’s context; its forecast is preserved as period belief.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0257" ] }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia expansion of the existing Book Store topic, with six differentiated scenes and an attributed comparison to its exact historical account. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "bookmark", "title": "Bookmark", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "A place kept for returning, a label for later, and permission to pause without losing the thread.", "summary": "A bookmark may explore keeping a place, deciding what to return to, or organizing several unfinished interests in physical or digital reading.", "aliases": [ "bookmark", "bookmarks", "book marker", "book markers" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "A bookmark preserves a place while allowing you to stop reading. That can give a pause a different shape from abandonment: something remains available to return to without being held in attention continuously. A project, conversation or personal interest may have a similar rhythm. 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Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0258", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Boots", "text": "To see your boots on another, your place will be usurped in the affections\nof your sweetheart.\n\nTo wear new boots, you will be lucky in your dealings.\nBread winners will command higher wages.\n\nOld and torn boots, indicate sickness and snares before you.", "locator": "Heading 258; source lines 3937–3947", "lineStart": 3937, "lineEnd": 3947, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see your boots on another, your place will be usurped in the affections\nof your sweetheart.\n\nTo wear new boots, you will be lucky in your dealings.\nBread winners will command higher wages.\n\nOld and torn boots, indicate sickness and snares before you." }, { "id": "fontaine-0083", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Boots", "text": "(_See Shoes._) To dream of new boots and shoes, indicates\nsweethearts to the single, and friends to the married; old shoes or\nboots show separation, and dirty or old ones are a sign of poverty and\nsorrow. 33.", "locator": "Heading 83; source line 1325", "lineStart": 1325, "lineEnd": 1330, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Shoes.) To dream of new boots and shoes, indicates\nsweethearts to the single, and friends to the married; old shoes or\nboots show separation, and dirty or old ones are a sign of poverty and\nsorrow." }, { "id": "cielo-0070", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Boots", "text": "To dream of new boots means success in\n business; of old boots, a quarrel.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 70; source lines 4030–4033", "lineStart": 4030, "lineEnd": 4033, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of new boots means success in\nbusiness; of old boots, a quarrel." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9264", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Boots", "heading": "Boots", "text": "If new, renown, a happy future (Art) ; boots or shoes are symbols of luck.", "lineStart": 9264, "lineEnd": 9266, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 202; NLM OCR lines 9264–9266", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9264, "lineEnd": 9266, "printedPage": 202, "printedPageEnd": 202 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Boots. — If new, renown, a happy future (Art) ; boots or \nshoes are symbols of luck. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Boots" }, "displayText": "If new, renown, a happy future (Art); boots or shoes are symbols of luck." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "shoes" ] }, { "slug": "borrowing", "title": "Borrowing", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Borrowing is a sign of loss and meagre support.”", "aliases": [ "borrowing" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about borrowing stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0259", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Borrowing", "text": "Borrowing is a sign of loss and meagre support.\nFor a banker to dream of borrowing from another bank,\na run on his own will leave him in a state of collapse,\nunless he accepts this warning. If another borrows from you,\nhelp in time of need will be extended or offered you.\nTrue friends will attend you.", "locator": "Heading 259; source lines 3947–3956", "lineStart": 3947, "lineEnd": 3956, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Borrowing is a sign of loss and meagre support.\nFor a banker to dream of borrowing from another bank,\na run on his own will leave him in a state of collapse,\nunless he accepts this warning. If another borrows from you,\nhelp in time of need will be extended or offered you.\nTrue friends will attend you." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "bosom", "title": "Bosom", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “For a young woman to dream that her bosom is wounded, foretells that some affliction is threatening her.”", "aliases": [ "bosom" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about bosom stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0260", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Bosom", "text": "For a young woman to dream that her bosom is wounded, foretells that some\naffliction is threatening her.\n\nTo see it soiled or shrunken, she will have a great\ndisappointment in love and many rivals will vex her.\nIf it is white and full she is soon to be possessed of fortune.\nIf her lover is slyly observing it through her sheer corsage,\nshe is about to come under the soft persuasive influence\nof a too ardent wooer.", "locator": "Heading 260; source lines 3956–3968", "lineStart": 3956, "lineEnd": 3968, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a young woman to dream that her bosom is wounded, foretells that some\naffliction is threatening her.\n\nTo see it soiled or shrunken, she will have a great\ndisappointment in love and many rivals will vex her.\nIf it is white and full she is soon to be possessed of fortune.\nIf her lover is slyly observing it through her sheer corsage,\nshe is about to come under the soft persuasive influence\nof a too ardent wooer." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "bottles", "title": "Bottles", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Bottles are good to dream of if well filled with transparent liquid.” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "bottles", "bottle" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about bottles stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0261", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Bottles", "text": "Bottles are good to dream of if well filled with transparent liquid.\nYou will overcome all obstacles in affairs of the heart,\nprosperous engagements will ensue. If empty, coming trouble\nwill envelop you in meshes of sinister design, from which you\nwill be forced to use strategy to disengage yourself.", "locator": "Heading 261; source lines 3968–3976", "lineStart": 3968, "lineEnd": 3976, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Bottles are good to dream of if well filled with transparent liquid.\nYou will overcome all obstacles in affairs of the heart,\nprosperous engagements will ensue. If empty, coming trouble\nwill envelop you in meshes of sinister design, from which you\nwill be forced to use strategy to disengage yourself." }, { "id": "fontaine-0084", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Bottles", "text": "To dream of bottles is a good sign; to a man, success in\nbusiness; to a maid, speedy marriage; if they are broken, they signify\nsorrow. 56, 34.", "locator": "Heading 84; source line 1330", "lineStart": 1330, "lineEnd": 1334, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of bottles is a good sign; to a man, success in\nbusiness; to a maid, speedy marriage; if they are broken, they signify\nsorrow." }, { "id": "cielo-0071", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Bottles", "text": "A full bottle signifies sickness; an empty one,\n melancholy.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 71; source lines 4033–4036", "lineStart": 4033, "lineEnd": 4036, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "A full bottle signifies sickness; an empty one,\nmelancholy." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9267", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Bottle", "heading": "Bottle", "text": "Joy, singing wassail ; a broken bottle, disappointment (Artemidorus) ; symbolism obvious.", "lineStart": 9267, "lineEnd": 9269, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 202; NLM OCR lines 9267–9269", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9267, "lineEnd": 9269, "printedPage": 202, "printedPageEnd": 202 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Bottle. — Joy, singing wassail ; a broken bottle, disappoint- \nment (Artemidorus) ; symbolism obvious. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "disappoint- \nment", "after": "disappointment", "evidenceLine": 2109 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Bottle" }, "displayText": "Joy, singing wassail; a broken bottle, disappointment (Artemidorus); symbolism obvious." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "bouquet", "title": "Bouquet", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "aliases": [ "bouquet" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "summary": "Bouquet dreams may explore a deliberate gesture, making room for a gift and choosing which parts of an occasion or memory to keep.", "tagline": "A gesture assembled from particular choices.", "psychological": "A bouquet gathers separate flowers into one deliberate gesture. The selection, arrangement and occasion can make it feel personal, routine, excessive or unexpectedly right. This could resemble turning appreciation into something another person can receive, rather than leaving it as an unspoken feeling. A simple bunch chosen with care may carry more meaning in the dream than an impressive arrangement that does not fit its recipient.\n\nReceiving a bouquet can bring pleasure in being remembered. It can also create a practical task: finding somewhere for it, carrying it with full hands or deciding how to respond when its intended message is unclear. A waking comparison might be an offer that feels generous but arrives in an inconvenient form. Gratitude and the need for a workable arrangement can coexist.\n\nGiving one puts the fit between intention and reception in view. You might choose particular flowers, discover the wrong name on the card or worry that the occasion assumes a feeling you have not expressed. The scene could resemble trying to communicate clearly without allowing the form of a gesture to determine what it means. The bouquet does not establish affection, fidelity or another person's response in waking life.\n\nRearranging the stems can offer a more personal reading. Moving the flowers apart or combining them differently may picture adapting something received so that it suits the space you actually have. The pleasure might be creative rather than relational: enjoying colour, pattern and the process of making an arrangement your own.\n\nA fading bouquet can connect the brief life of an occasion with how its memory is kept. Pressing one flower, keeping a card or letting the whole bunch go may resemble choosing what remains useful after an event ends. The change can be ordinary and welcome; it does not forecast illness, death or a failing relationship.\n\nA bouquet passed among several people may make attention feel public. You might enjoy joining the exchange or prefer not to have the gesture define your next role. Recent gifts, celebrations, flower arranging and remembered scents can directly supply these details. The original reflection concerns the particular selection and exchange, rather than assigning every flower a fixed emotional code.", "traditional": "Miller forecasts inheritance and youthful gatherings from a rich bouquet, and illness and death from a withered one. Fontaine predicts pleasure on receiving and a constant lover on giving; Everybody's Book of Luck similarly predicts pleasure but extends the giving claim to a lover or friend. These period forecasts are not evidence of health, loyalty or future events. The original reading develops the dreamed gesture, its fit and the handling of a temporary object.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A gesture that fits its recipient", "reflection": "Chosen flowers and the form of presentation may make appreciation specific. The scene can explore what communicates well without treating a gift as proof of feelings or loyalty." }, { "title": "Receiving with practical needs", "reflection": "A welcome bouquet may still need space, time or a free hand. Finding a workable arrangement can allow gratitude to coexist with the conditions of receiving it." }, { "title": "Keeping part of a brief occasion", "reflection": "An arrangement can change while its remembered importance remains. Selecting one flower, card or detail may distinguish preserving a connection from maintaining the whole object unchanged." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "You assemble an unconventional bouquet for a friend", "reflection": "The flowers do not match a formal display, but their selection recalls particular shared moments. This can picture communicating appreciation through details that fit the person rather than through an impressive standard gesture. The satisfaction may resemble making a small gift whose usefulness comes from being specific." }, { "title": "A bouquet arrives when your hands are already full", "reflection": "You welcome the gesture but cannot comfortably carry it along with everything else. This may picture an offer that needs practical coordination before it becomes usable. Asking for a place to set it down lets appreciation coexist with limited capacity, instead of making immediate acceptance the only grateful response." }, { "title": "The card names someone else", "reflection": "The arrangement is beautiful, but the accompanying message does not fit the intended exchange. This can picture needing clarity about who a gesture is for or what it means, as when a group assumes a contribution without discussion. Correcting the card restores specificity rather than asking appearance to resolve the mismatch." }, { "title": "You rearrange the stems to suit a small space", "reflection": "The received bunch becomes more pleasing when you change its form instead of preserving the original display. This may picture adapting an offer, plan or resource to the conditions you actually have. Creative adjustment can make the gesture useful without rejecting the care that went into it." }, { "title": "You keep one flower after the rest fades", "reflection": "One detail remains meaningful when the whole arrangement no longer fits its former occasion. This can picture choosing how to carry a memory forward, such as retaining a note after clearing a room. The selection values what still matters without requiring the object to remain unchanged indefinitely." }, { "title": "A bouquet is passed around and you choose not to take it", "reflection": "The group treats receiving the flowers as a public invitation to a role, but you prefer another part in the occasion. This may picture distinguishing inclusion from an expectation you have not chosen. Remaining involved in another way can make belonging compatible with deciding how you participate." } ], "prompts": [ "What made the selection or gesture feel particular to its recipient?", "How did the practical conditions of receiving or giving affect the exchange?", "Which part of the bouquet or occasion remained meaningful as its form changed?" ], "related": [ "flower", "wedding", "garden", "gift" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0262" ], "scope": "Miller forecasts a legacy from an unknown wealthy relative and joyous youthful gatherings from a richly coloured bouquet, and sickness/death from a withered bouquet. Specific supplied passages: Bouquet — miller-0262 (Heading 262; source lines 3976–3984). Historical comparison only; these attributed period claims do not validate the original reflections or establish outcomes, diagnoses or universal symbolic meanings." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0085" ], "scope": "Fontaine forecasts pleasure from receiving a bouquet and constancy of a lover from giving one. Specific supplied passages: Bouquet — fontaine-0085 (Heading 85; source line 1334). Historical comparison only; these attributed period claims do not validate the original reflections or establish outcomes, diagnoses or universal symbolic meanings." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0024" ], "scope": "Everybody's Book of Luck forecasts pleasure from receiving a bouquet and constancy of a lover or friend from giving one. Specific supplied passages: Bouquet — luck-0024 (Dream section, heading 24; source lines 3569–3572). Historical comparison only; these attributed period claims do not validate the original reflections or establish outcomes, diagnoses or universal symbolic meanings." } ], "kind": "editorial", "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0262", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Bouquet", "text": "To dream of a bouquet beautifully and richly colored, denotes a legacy\nfrom some wealthy and unknown relative; also, pleasant, joyous gatherings\namong young folks.\n\nTo see a withered bouquet, signifies sickness and death.", "locator": "Heading 262; source lines 3976–3984", "lineStart": 3976, "lineEnd": 3984, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a bouquet beautifully and richly colored, denotes a legacy\nfrom some wealthy and unknown relative; also, pleasant, joyous gatherings\namong young folks.\n\nTo see a withered bouquet, signifies sickness and death." }, { "id": "fontaine-0085", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Bouquet", "text": "To receive one, much pleasure; to give one, signifies that\nyour lover is constant. 43, 7.", "locator": "Heading 85; source line 1334", "lineStart": 1334, "lineEnd": 1337, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To receive one, much pleasure; to give one, signifies that\nyour lover is constant." }, { "id": "luck-0024", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Bouquet", "text": "To receive one means much pleasure; to give one, constancy\nof a lover or friend.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 24; source lines 3569–3572", "lineStart": 3569, "lineEnd": 3572, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To receive one means much pleasure; to give one, constancy\nof a lover or friend." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "bow-and-arrow", "title": "Bow and Arrow", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Bow and arrow in a dream, denotes great gain reaped from the inability of others to carry out plans.”", "aliases": [ "bow and arrow" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about bow and arrow stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0263", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Bow and Arrow", "text": "Bow and arrow in a dream, denotes great gain reaped from the inability\nof others to carry out plans.\n\nTo make a bad shot means disappointed hopes in carrying forward\nsuccessfully business affairs.", "locator": "Heading 263; source lines 3984–3992", "lineStart": 3984, "lineEnd": 3992, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Bow and arrow in a dream, denotes great gain reaped from the inability\nof others to carry out plans.\n\nTo make a bad shot means disappointed hopes in carrying forward\nsuccessfully business affairs." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "box", "title": "Box", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Opening a goods box in your dream, signifies untold wealth and that delightful journeys to distant places…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "box" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about box stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0264", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Box", "text": "Opening a goods box in your dream, signifies untold wealth and that\ndelightful journeys to distant places may be made with happy results.\nIf the box is empty disappointment in works of all kinds will follow.\n\nTo see full money boxes, augurs cessation from business cares\nand a pleasant retirement.", "locator": "Heading 264; source lines 3992–4001", "lineStart": 3992, "lineEnd": 4001, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Opening a goods box in your dream, signifies untold wealth and that\ndelightful journeys to distant places may be made with happy results.\nIf the box is empty disappointment in works of all kinds will follow.\n\nTo see full money boxes, augurs cessation from business cares\nand a pleasant retirement." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9272", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Box", "heading": "Box", "text": "To dream of opening a box and of looking for something that you cannot find augurs disappointment in money matters (Gypsy) ; the interpretation here is obviously derived from a knowledge of the subconscious desire to search for and to find money, an anxiety dream.", "lineStart": 9272, "lineEnd": 9277, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 202; NLM OCR lines 9272–9277", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9272, "lineEnd": 9277, "printedPage": 202, "printedPageEnd": 202 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Box. — To dream of opening a box and of looking for some- \nthing that you cannot find augurs disappointment in money \nmatters (Gypsy) ; the interpretation here is obviously derived \nfrom a knowledge of the subconscious desire to search for and \nto find money, an anxiety dream. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "some- \nthing", "after": "something", "evidenceLine": 2241 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Box" }, "displayText": "To dream of opening a box and of looking for something that you cannot find augurs disappointment in money matters (Gypsy); the interpretation here is obviously derived from a knowledge of the subconscious desire to search for and to find money, an anxiety dream." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "box-tree", "title": "Box tree", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “A plant; the dream denotes long life, prosperity and a happy family (Artemidorus); the symbol of long life, perpetual hope.”", "aliases": [ "box tree" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about box tree stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L9278", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Box", "heading": "Box tree", "text": "A plant; the dream denotes long life, prosperity and a happy family (Artemidorus) ; the symbol of long life, perpetual hope.", "lineStart": 9278, "lineEnd": 9286, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 202–203; NLM OCR lines 9278–9286", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9278, "lineEnd": 9286, "printedPage": 202, "printedPageEnd": 203 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Box. — A plant; the dream denotes long life, prosperity and \n\n\nSYMBOLISM IN DREAMS 203 \n\n\na happy family (Artemidorus) ; the symbol of long life, per- \npetual hope. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [ { "line": 9281, "text": "SYMBOLISM IN DREAMS 203 " } ], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "per- \npetual", "after": "perpetual", "evidenceLine": 3365 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Box" }, "displayHeading": "Box tree", "editorialNote": "Editorial heading distinguishes the source’s second ‘Box’ entry, which begins ‘A plant’, from the preceding container entry. The original heading is retained in the transcription metadata.", "displayText": "A plant; the dream denotes long life, prosperity and a happy family (Artemidorus); the symbol of long life, perpetual hope." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "boy", "title": "Boy", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “If a lady dreams that she is delivered of a boy, her life will be a pleasant one.”", "aliases": [ "boy" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about boy stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0086", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Boy", "text": "If a lady dreams that she is delivered of a boy, her life will be\na pleasant one. 52.", "locator": "Heading 86; source line 1337", "lineStart": 1337, "lineEnd": 1340, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If a lady dreams that she is delivered of a boy, her life will be\na pleasant one." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "bracelet", "title": "Bracelet", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see in your dreams a bracelet encircling your arm, the gift of lover or friend, is assurance of an…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "bracelet" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about bracelet stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0265", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Bracelet", "text": "To see in your dreams a bracelet encircling your arm, the gift of lover\nor friend, is assurance of an early marriage and a happy union.\n\nIf a young woman lose her bracelet she will meet with sundry\nlosses and vexations.\n\nTo find one, good property will come into her possession.", "locator": "Heading 265; source lines 4001–4011", "lineStart": 4001, "lineEnd": 4011, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see in your dreams a bracelet encircling your arm, the gift of lover\nor friend, is assurance of an early marriage and a happy union.\n\nIf a young woman lose her bracelet she will meet with sundry\nlosses and vexations.\n\nTo find one, good property will come into her possession." }, { "id": "luck-0025", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Bracelet", "text": "Good luck and fortune coming.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 25; source lines 3572–3574", "lineStart": 3572, "lineEnd": 3574, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Good luck and fortune coming." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9287", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Bracelet", "heading": "Bracelet", "text": "A wealthy marriage; an Egyptian amulet for happiness and success.", "lineStart": 9287, "lineEnd": 9289, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 203; NLM OCR lines 9287–9289", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9287, "lineEnd": 9289, "printedPage": 203, "printedPageEnd": 203 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Bracelet. — A wealthy marriage; an Egyptian amulet for \nhappiness and success. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Bracelet" }, "displayText": "A wealthy marriage; an Egyptian amulet for happiness and success." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "braces", "title": "Braces", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "Metal on the teeth: slow correction, visible to everyone.", "summary": "Braces in a dream can picture correction, self-consciousness and patience with a slow change. Note whose mouth they were in and whether they fit.", "aliases": [ "braces", "braces on teeth", "dental braces", "getting braces", "braces dream", "retainer", "orthodontist", "braces coming off", "metal braces" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "Braces are a correction that everyone can see and that takes years to finish. Dreaming of them as an adult, long after any real orthodontic work, can picture a change you are undergoing slowly and in public: a new role, a way of speaking you are practising, a habit you are trying to straighten out. For teenagers who have them, the dream may simply replay the discomfort and the self-consciousness of the day. Begin with the mouth. Were the braces yours, and did they fit, or had they been fitted without warning? Record how they felt: tight, loose, cutting into the cheek, or painless. Note whether you could speak clearly and whether anyone commented. Braces that fall off, tangle, or trap food in front of other people turn the dream toward embarrassment, and the audience should be listed by name. Braces being removed, by contrast, can carry a sense of completion, and it is worth writing down what the teeth looked like underneath. If you have had braces in the past, note the age you were in the dream. Then ask what in waking life is currently being corrected a little at a time, and who gets to see the metal.", "traditional": "No historical dream book in DreamFolia's archive mentions dental braces or orthodontic work. Teeth themselves are richly covered: Miller 1901, Fontaine 1862, the Artemidorus translation of 1644, Noe 1885, Cielo 1917, Everybody's Book of Luck and Craig 1918 all have entries, most of them treating lost or loose teeth as omens of sickness, loss or a death among friends or relatives, in the manner of their time. Those are period beliefs about teeth, not about braces, and they belong to the teeth page rather than to this one. No older meaning is borrowed for braces.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "Braces fitted without warning", "reflection": "Record who put them on and whether you agreed. Note what you were about to do when you discovered them, since an unwanted correction often arrives in the dream just before a moment of speaking." }, { "title": "Food caught in the wires at a meal", "reflection": "Write down who was at the table and whether anyone said anything. Note whether you excused yourself or carried on, and what conversation was interrupted." }, { "title": "Braces coming off at last", "reflection": "Note who removed them and what your teeth looked like afterwards. Ask what waking change has recently reached, or is near, its end point, and who you want to show the result to first." } ], "prompts": [ "Did the braces fit, and did you choose them?", "Who noticed them, and what did they say?", "What are you slowly straightening out at the moment?" ], "related": [ "teeth", "teeth-falling-out", "dentist", "mouth", "wire", "face" ], "sources": [], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia editorial draft written on 2026-10-12. Reflection text is an invitation to personal writing, not a validated symbol meaning. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "brain", "title": "Brain", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see your own brain in a dream, denotes uncongenial surroundings will irritate and dwarf you into an…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "brain" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about brain stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0266", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Brain", "text": "To see your own brain in a dream, denotes uncongenial surroundings\nwill irritate and dwarf you into an unpleasant companion.\nTo see the brains of animals, foretells that you will\nsuffer mental trouble.\n\nIf you eat them, you will gain knowledge, and profit unexpectedly.", "locator": "Heading 266; source lines 4011–4020", "lineStart": 4011, "lineEnd": 4020, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see your own brain in a dream, denotes uncongenial surroundings\nwill irritate and dwarf you into an unpleasant companion.\nTo see the brains of animals, foretells that you will\nsuffer mental trouble.\n\nIf you eat them, you will gain knowledge, and profit unexpectedly." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9290", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Brain", "heading": "Brain", "text": "Sickness, loss of reputation, etc. (Gypsy) ; a dream due to physical causes, for which the ancient students made obvious allowance.", "lineStart": 9290, "lineEnd": 9293, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 203; NLM OCR lines 9290–9293", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9290, "lineEnd": 9293, "printedPage": 203, "printedPageEnd": 203 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Brain. — Sickness, loss of reputation, etc. (Gypsy) ; a dream \ndue to physical causes, for which the ancient students made \nobvious allowance. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Brain" }, "displayText": "Sickness, loss of reputation, etc. (Gypsy); a dream due to physical causes, for which the ancient students made obvious allowance." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "branch", "title": "Branch", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “It betokens, if full of fruit and green leaves, wealth, many delightful hours with friends.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "branch", "branches" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about branch stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0269", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Branch", "text": "It betokens, if full of fruit and green leaves, wealth, many delightful\nhours with friends. If they are dried, sorrowful news of the absent.", "locator": "Heading 269; source lines 4032–4037", "lineStart": 4032, "lineEnd": 4037, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "It betokens, if full of fruit and green leaves, wealth, many delightful\nhours with friends. If they are dried, sorrowful news of the absent." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9298", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Branches", "heading": "Branches", "text": "Covered with leaves and buds symbolize happiness and joy ; here symbol and dream are one : \"And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem and vase, and a branch shall grow out of his roots.\" — Isaiah xi.", "lineStart": 9298, "lineEnd": 9302, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 203; NLM OCR lines 9298–9302", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9298, "lineEnd": 9302, "printedPage": 203, "printedPageEnd": 203 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Branches. — Covered with leaves and buds symbolize hap- \npiness and joy ; here symbol and dream are one : \"And there \nshall come forth a rod out of the stem and vase, and a branch \nshall grow out of his roots.\" — Isaiah xi. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "hap- \npiness", "after": "happiness", "evidenceLine": 556 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Branches" }, "displayText": "Covered with leaves and buds symbolize happiness and joy; here symbol and dream are one: \"And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem and vase, and a branch shall grow out of his roots.\" — Isaiah xi." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "brandy", "title": "Brandy", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of brandy, foretells that while you may reach heights of distinction and wealth, you will lack…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "brandy" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about brandy stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0268", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Brandy", "text": "To dream of brandy, foretells that while you may reach heights of distinction\nand wealth, you will lack that innate refinement which wins true friendship\nfrom people whom you most wish to please.", "locator": "Heading 268; source lines 4026–4032", "lineStart": 4026, "lineEnd": 4032, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of brandy, foretells that while you may reach heights of distinction\nand wealth, you will lack that innate refinement which wins true friendship\nfrom people whom you most wish to please." }, { "id": "cielo-0072", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Brandy", "text": "Signifies “Beware of trouble!”", "locator": "Dream section, heading 72; source lines 4036–4038", "lineStart": 4036, "lineEnd": 4038, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Signifies “Beware of trouble!”" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "brass", "title": "Brass", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of brass, denotes that you will rise rapidly in your profession, but while of apparently solid…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "brass" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about brass stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "metals" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0270", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Brass", "text": "To dream of brass, denotes that you will rise rapidly in your profession,\nbut while of apparently solid elevation you will secretly fear\na downfall of fortune.", "locator": "Heading 270; source lines 4037–4043", "lineStart": 4037, "lineEnd": 4043, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of brass, denotes that you will rise rapidly in your profession,\nbut while of apparently solid elevation you will secretly fear\na downfall of fortune." }, { "id": "fontaine-0089", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Brass", "text": "(_See Metals._)", "locator": "Heading 89; source line 1349", "lineStart": 1349, "lineEnd": 1351, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Metals.)" }, { "id": "fontaine-0463", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Brass", "text": "To dream that you see a brass ornament, is a sign your\nsweetheart will be false to you. To see any one working in brass, or\ncleaning that metal is a sign you will hear of the death of a distant\nrelative who will leave you a legacy. 43, 11.", "locator": "Heading 463; source line 3145", "lineStart": 3145, "lineEnd": 3150, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you see a brass ornament, is a sign your\nsweetheart will be false to you. To see any one working in brass, or\ncleaning that metal is a sign you will hear of the death of a distant\nrelative who will leave you a legacy." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "metals" ] }, { "slug": "bray", "title": "Bray", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Hearing an ass bray, is significant of unwelcome tidings or intrusions.”", "aliases": [ "bray" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about bray stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0271", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Bray", "text": "Hearing an ass bray, is significant of unwelcome tidings or intrusions.", "locator": "Heading 271; source lines 4043–4047", "lineStart": 4043, "lineEnd": 4047, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Hearing an ass bray, is significant of unwelcome tidings or intrusions." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "bread", "title": "Bread", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "aliases": [ "bread", "of bread" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "summary": "Bread dreams may invite reflection on familiar provision, sharing, preparation and what makes an ordinary meal feel sufficient.", "tagline": "What is available, and how it is shared.", "psychological": "Bread can place an ordinary need at the center of a dream. Start with what happens to it: you make a loaf, choose a slice, divide it, leave it untouched or discover that none is available. These actions may be more useful than treating bread itself as a promise of abundance. A familiar loaf might simply belong to the kitchen, meal or shopping trip you remember.\n\nIf the dream follows bread from dough to finished food, consider your relationship with a process that takes several stages. Kneading, waiting or discovering a loaf before it is ready could resemble learning a skill, preparing a project or allowing someone else time to finish. Your response matters: impatience, interest and pleasure suggest different questions. An unfinished loaf need not imply that anything in your life will fail.\n\nDividing bread can make the practical details of sharing visible. Notice who sets the portions, whether you can choose and what happens to the piece you keep. This might connect with household responsibilities, sharing time with friends or deciding how much of a resource to offer. An equal division may feel welcome or strangely rigid. Giving away the last slice might feel generous, automatic or difficult; none of those feelings establishes a moral verdict.\n\nThe bread's texture and familiarity can change the scene. A loaf that looks impressive but cannot be cut could bring a difference between presentation and everyday usefulness into focus. Returning to a plain bread you enjoy might express a preference that has been overlooked. If a loaf is stale or spoiled in the dream, explore disappointment, changed expectations or reluctance to use something rather than predicting illness or loss.\n\nBread also gives small details a place in your reflection: a remembered bakery bag, someone's way of slicing or the seat where you eat. Waking experiences and emotions can enter dreams, so a recent meal or an older household memory may offer enough context. Write down what made this bread matter, including the possibility that the dream was about a pleasant meal rather than an unresolved need.", "traditional": "The supplied books disagree about bread. Artemidorus varies his forecasts by the eater’s customary bread and social position; Miller contrasts access, quality and sharing and adds a gendered claim. Fontaine, Noe and Cielo assign fortunes involving abundance, relationships or business. Noe also gives severe loss forecasts for bad bread. These are attributed period beliefs, not evidence about your meals, health, relationships or future.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Familiar provision", "reflection": "Consider whether the bread fits an ordinary meal or feels conspicuously different. Your own routines can give its availability a personal context without making it a universal need symbol." }, { "title": "Stages before use", "reflection": "Making, waiting, cutting and serving ask different things of you. The scene may help you describe where you are in a practical process and which stage you want to reach." }, { "title": "Portions and choice", "reflection": "Who divides the loaf, and whether each person can choose, can matter more than the total quantity. Explore the arrangement without assuming that giving or keeping a piece is virtuous or selfish." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "A loaf must cool before you cut it", "reflection": "You want a slice, but someone asks you to wait until the loaf can be handled. This may resemble a task whose next step depends on timing rather than more effort. Notice whether waiting feels reasonable, frustrating or pleasantly shared; the dream does not predict the result." }, { "title": "Everyone receives an identical slice", "reflection": "You divide a loaf into exact portions although people ask for different amounts. The scene could help you examine fairness as equal treatment versus responding to individual needs. Compare that question with a household or team arrangement, without assigning hidden motives to the people at the table." }, { "title": "An impressive loaf will not slice", "reflection": "The bread looks beautifully shaped, but your knife cannot make a usable piece. This may bring presentation and practical usefulness into tension. Record what you try next: changing tools, asking for help or choosing another loaf each opens a different reflection about adapting a plan." }, { "title": "You keep the last piece for later", "reflection": "Others have finished eating, and you wrap the remaining slice rather than offer it immediately. That choice might express planning, preference or a boundary around what is yours. Your feeling and the response in the dream matter; keeping food does not establish a character judgment." }, { "title": "A remembered bread is unexpectedly available", "reflection": "You recognize a bread associated with a particular person or place and choose it over newer options. The dream may be revisiting a taste or routine you value. Describe the specific association and what eating it now feels like, rather than assuming all familiar food means comfort." }, { "title": "A stale loaf leads to a different meal", "reflection": "You find that the bread is no longer appealing and decide to prepare something else. This could reflect changing an expectation when an available option does not meet your needs. Notice the alternative you choose and whether the change feels disappointing, resourceful or simply ordinary." } ], "prompts": [ "What made this particular bread worth noticing?", "How were portions, preparation or access decided in the dream?", "Which recent meal, ongoing task or remembered household routine comes to mind?" ], "related": [ "baking", "crust", "eating", "kitchen" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0272" ], "scope": "Miller assigns different forecasts to eating, sharing, quality and access, including a gendered claim, and points to Baking and Crust. Specific supplied passages: Bread — miller-0272 (Heading 272; source lines 4047–4062). Historical comparison only; these attributed period beliefs do not establish outcomes, diagnoses or a universal symbol meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0087" ], "scope": "Fontaine gives favorable fortune, relationship and crop forecasts for bread and quantity, and points to Thick. Specific supplied passages: Bread — fontaine-0087 (Heading 87; source line 1340). Historical comparison only; these attributed period beliefs do not establish outcomes, diagnoses or a universal symbol meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display.", "recordIds": [ "artemidorus-052" ], "scope": "Artemidorus distinguishes accustomed bread, white or brown bread relative to wealth, barley bread, pap and gruel, assigning favorable, enterprise or health forecasts. Specific supplied passages: Of Bread. — artemidorus-052 (Book 1, encoded section 52). Historical comparison only; these attributed period beliefs do not establish outcomes, diagnoses or a universal symbol meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0040" ], "scope": "Noe contrasts loaves, eating good bread and musty bread with success, marriage and severe loss forecasts. Specific supplied passages: Bread — noe-0040 (Dream section, heading 40; source lines 265–269). Historical comparison only; these attributed period beliefs do not establish outcomes, diagnoses or a universal symbol meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0073" ], "scope": "Cielo assigns a business-profit forecast to eating bread. Specific supplied passages: Bread — cielo-0073 (Dream section, heading 73; source lines 4038–4040). Historical comparison only; these attributed period beliefs do not establish outcomes, diagnoses or a universal symbol meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "kind": "editorial", "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0272", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Bread", "text": "For a woman to dream of eating bread, denotes that she will be afflicted\nwith children of stubborn will, for whom she will spend many days of useless\nlabor and worry.\n\nTo dream of breaking bread with others, indicates an assured\ncompetence through life.\n\nTo see a lot of impure bread, want and misery will burden the dreamer.\nIf the bread is good and you have access to it, it is a favorable dream.\n\n\n[24] See Baking and Crust.", "locator": "Heading 272; source lines 4047–4062", "lineStart": 4047, "lineEnd": 4062, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a woman to dream of eating bread, denotes that she will be afflicted\nwith children of stubborn will, for whom she will spend many days of useless\nlabor and worry.\n\nTo dream of breaking bread with others, indicates an assured\ncompetence through life.\n\nTo see a lot of impure bread, want and misery will burden the dreamer.\nIf the bread is good and you have access to it, it is a favorable dream. See Baking and Crust." }, { "id": "fontaine-0087", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Bread", "text": "(_See Thick._) To dream of bread is an excellent sign. If you\nsee a good deal, the better the dream. It foretells good fortune to\neither man or woman. To lovers it predicts that they will make a good\nmatch and be well off, if not rich. To farmers it promises full and\nabundant crops. 1, 15.", "locator": "Heading 87; source line 1340", "lineStart": 1340, "lineEnd": 1346, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Thick.) To dream of bread is an excellent sign. If you\nsee a good deal, the better the dream. It foretells good fortune to\neither man or woman. To lovers it predicts that they will make a good\nmatch and be well off, if not rich. To farmers it promises full and\nabundant crops." }, { "id": "artemidorus-052", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of Bread.", "text": "FOr to eat accustomed bread is good; as to the rich white bread, to the poore browne. White bread to the poore signifies Sicknesse. Brown bread to the rich, is impeachment of their enterprises. Barley bread is good for all. Pap or Gruell, hath the same signification as bread.", "locator": "Book 1, encoded section 52", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "1", "displayText": "FOr to eat accustomed bread is good; as to the rich white bread, to the poore browne. White bread to the poore signifies Sicknesse. Brown bread to the rich, is impeachment of their enterprises. Barley bread is good for all. Pap or Gruell, hath the same signification as bread." }, { "id": "noe-0040", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Bread", "text": "To dream you see a great\nquantity of loaves of bread, denotes success in life. To dream you are\neating good bread, denotes that you will be shortly married. To dream the\nbread is musty and bad, denotes the loss of friends and that some near\nrelation will shortly die.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 40; source lines 265–269", "lineStart": 265, "lineEnd": 269, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see a great\nquantity of loaves of bread, denotes success in life. To dream you are\neating good bread, denotes that you will be shortly married. To dream the\nbread is musty and bad, denotes the loss of friends and that some near\nrelation will shortly die." }, { "id": "cielo-0073", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Bread", "text": "To dream of eating bread denotes profit in business.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 73; source lines 4038–4040", "lineStart": 4038, "lineEnd": 4040, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of eating bread denotes profit in business." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [ "baking", "crust" ] }, { "slug": "break", "title": "Break", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Breakage is a bad dream. To dream of breaking any of your limbs, denotes bad management and probable…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "break" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about break stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0273", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Break", "text": "Breakage is a bad dream. To dream of breaking any of your limbs,\ndenotes bad management and probable failures. To break furniture,\ndenotes domestic quarrels and an unquiet state of the mind.\n\nTo break a window, signifies bereavement. To see a broken ring\norder will be displaced by furious and dangerous uprisings,\nsuch as jealous contentions often cause.", "locator": "Heading 273; source lines 4062–4072", "lineStart": 4062, "lineEnd": 4072, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Breakage is a bad dream. To dream of breaking any of your limbs,\ndenotes bad management and probable failures. To break furniture,\ndenotes domestic quarrels and an unquiet state of the mind.\n\nTo break a window, signifies bereavement. To see a broken ring\norder will be displaced by furious and dangerous uprisings,\nsuch as jealous contentions often cause." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9303", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Break", "heading": "Break", "text": "Any dream of breakage implies misfortune ; to break a limb denotes sickness; furniture, loss of money; a looking glass, death ; a broken window, danger of fire (Gypsy) ; the logic of these interpretations is plain, the breaking of a limb is a forewarning of pain, possibly not yet noted by the waking consciousness , fear of financial loss readily expressed in the destruction of property ; by the same token the warning of fire, subconsciously read and noted while the consciousness was unaware might readily be construed as a broken window, symbolizing a means of escape. The superstition of a broken mirror as auguring death antedates written history.", "lineStart": 9303, "lineEnd": 9314, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 203; NLM OCR lines 9303–9314", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9303, "lineEnd": 9314, "printedPage": 203, "printedPageEnd": 203 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Break. — Any dream of breakage implies misfortune ; to \nbreak a limb denotes sickness; furniture, loss of money; a \nlooking glass, death ; a broken window, danger of fire (Gypsy) ; \nthe logic of these interpretations is plain, the breaking of a \nlimb is a forewarning of pain, possibly not yet noted by the \nwaking consciousness , fear of financial loss readily expressed \nin the destruction of property ; by the same token the warning \nof fire, subconsciously read and noted while the consciousness \nwas unaware might readily be construed as a broken window, \nsymbolizing a means of escape. The superstition of a broken \nmirror as auguring death antedates written history. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Break" }, "displayText": "Any dream of breakage implies misfortune; to break a limb denotes sickness; furniture, loss of money; a looking glass, death; a broken window, danger of fire (Gypsy); the logic of these interpretations is plain, the breaking of a limb is a forewarning of pain, possibly not yet noted by the waking consciousness, fear of financial loss readily expressed in the destruction of property; by the same token the warning of fire, subconsciously read and noted while the consciousness was unaware might readily be construed as a broken window, symbolizing a means of escape. The superstition of a broken mirror as auguring death antedates written history." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "breakfast", "title": "Breakfast", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "aliases": [ "breakfast" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "summary": "Breakfast dreams may explore the terms of beginning an activity, readiness, company and which routine you choose to carry into the day.", "tagline": "How an occasion begins can remain a choice.", "psychological": "Breakfast in a dream can organize an occasion around getting started. The meal may be ready, interrupted or called breakfast even when the setting seems unlike morning. Begin with what follows it and whether you want to take part. A familiar eating routine can also supply the image directly. The dream does not prescribe a healthy schedule or require every first meal to symbolize a new beginning.\n\nReadiness can differ between the people at the table. Someone may already be leaving while you have only just arrived, or the food may be set out before you know what the day requires. This can resemble entering a shared activity under different assumptions about its timing. A meeting or trip may offer a waking comparison if it fits. Asking what comes next, taking the time you need or choosing to depart gives the scene more than one direction.\n\nThe place assigned to you can carry a routine from an earlier household. You may sit where you once sat as a child while being expected to decide something as an adult. This could bring familiarity beside a changed role. Recognition of the seat does not decide whether you welcome the expectations around it. You can keep a valued custom while asking for the occasion to accommodate your present needs.\n\nBreakfast can also happen while you are in motion. Eating on the way to another task differs from having an interval that is available for its own sake. The dream may put your attention between finishing one activity and joining the next. Notice what you manage to enjoy, leave behind or ask somebody to hold. The comparison concerns that particular arrangement, rather than a judgment about how efficiently you use a day.\n\nAn empty or unexpectedly changed table creates another possibility. You may find that breakfast has ended, choose to make your own meal or agree on a different starting point with someone else. Beginning an occasion can remain possible after its original setup disappears. A remembered hotel, family visit or recent morning may explain the details without needing an abstract message. These original readings follow readiness, company and transition through the meal; what you actually wanted to do afterward gives the scene its most specific context.", "traditional": "Miller gives favorable forecasts for mental work, particular breakfast foods and eating with others, while assigning an adverse forecast to eating alone. Fontaine predicts regret from eating breakfast. The two period accounts therefore differ; neither establishes a rule about company, meals, health or the result of your day.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Different states of readiness", "reflection": "Arriving, eating and leaving can occur at different times for different people. Explore what would let you join or begin under terms that fit the task." }, { "title": "A familiar place and a present role", "reflection": "An old seat or routine may remain recognizable while the expectations around it change. Consider what you want to retain and what needs a new arrangement." }, { "title": "The interval before the next activity", "reflection": "The meal may have room of its own or compete with departure. What you do before moving on can give the transition a particular purpose." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "Everyone leaves as you begin", "reflection": "You arrive at the breakfast table just as the others finish and put on their coats. This can explore mismatched expectations about when an occasion starts. Asking about the plan, eating at your own pace or joining them immediately creates different terms of participation rather than a fixed verdict about lateness." }, { "title": "The meal appears before the plan is known", "reflection": "Breakfast is ready, but nobody has decided what will happen afterward. This might picture preparation that reaches one stage while another decision remains open. Enjoying the meal, discussing possibilities or choosing your own activity can each give the available interval a useful purpose within the dream." }, { "title": "You sit in an old place with a new responsibility", "reflection": "A familiar childhood seat is waiting for you, but the group asks you to make the day’s decision. The scene could bring a remembered role beside a current one. Notice how you answer and what support you want; familiarity does not require returning to the earlier arrangement." }, { "title": "You carry breakfast toward another task", "reflection": "You try to eat while moving to a meeting, journey or ordinary errand. This may make attention divide between an activity underway and the one approaching. Stopping, simplifying what you carry or deciding which task can wait gives the transition different endings, depending on what matters to you." }, { "title": "The breakfast table has already been cleared", "reflection": "You expect the usual meal and find a usable surface with nothing set out. This can picture an expected starting arrangement becoming unavailable. Making something yourself, asking what happened or choosing another place lets you explore how much of the occasion you wanted to inherit or shape." }, { "title": "Breakfast takes place under a dark sky", "reflection": "People call the meal breakfast although the light suggests another part of the day. This unusual setting may loosen an expected order of activities. Explore what the meal begins for you and whether the change feels welcome; the dream’s naming does not diagnose confusion about real time." } ], "prompts": [ "What activity or occasion did the breakfast seem to begin?", "How did your readiness compare with the arrangement around you?", "Which familiar routine or changed role helps explain this particular table?" ], "related": [ "cereal", "coffee", "tea", "eating", "meals" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0274" ], "scope": "Miller gives favorable claims for mental work, specified breakfast foods and eating with others, an adverse forecast for eating alone, and points to Meals. Specific supplied passages: Breakfast — miller-0274 (Heading 274; source lines 4072–4084). Historical comparison only; the attributed period claims do not establish outcomes or diagnoses and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0088" ], "scope": "Fontaine assigns regret to eating breakfast. Specific supplied passages: Breakfast — fontaine-0088 (Heading 88; source line 1346). Historical comparison only; the attributed period claims do not establish outcomes or diagnoses and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "kind": "editorial", "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0274", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Breakfast", "text": "Is favorable to persons engaged in mental work. To see a breakfast\nof fresh milk and eggs and a well filled dish of ripe fruit,\nindicates hasty, but favorable changes.\n\nIf you are eating alone, it means you will fall into your enemies' trap.\nIf you are eating with others it is good.\n\n\n[25] See Meals.", "locator": "Heading 274; source lines 4072–4084", "lineStart": 4072, "lineEnd": 4084, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Is favorable to persons engaged in mental work. To see a breakfast\nof fresh milk and eggs and a well filled dish of ripe fruit,\nindicates hasty, but favorable changes.\n\nIf you are eating alone, it means you will fall into your enemies' trap.\nIf you are eating with others it is good. See Meals." }, { "id": "fontaine-0088", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Breakfast", "text": "To dream that you are eating breakfast shows you will do\nsomething of which you will be sorry. 21, 4.", "locator": "Heading 88; source line 1346", "lineStart": 1346, "lineEnd": 1349, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are eating breakfast shows you will do\nsomething of which you will be sorry." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [ "meals" ] }, { "slug": "breast", "title": "Breast", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “To dream of breasts, denotes great gain and profit to men.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "breast", "breasts" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about breast stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "milk" ], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0090", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Breast", "text": "(_See Milk._) To dream of breasts, denotes great gain and\nprofit to men; but to a woman, losses. If a young woman dreams that her\nbreasts are full of milk, it signifies she is near her marriage. 76, 1,\n10.", "locator": "Heading 90; source line 1351", "lineStart": 1351, "lineEnd": 1356, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Milk.) To dream of breasts, denotes great gain and\nprofit to men; but to a woman, losses. If a young woman dreams that her\nbreasts are full of milk, it signifies she is near her marriage. 76, 1," }, { "id": "noe-0071", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Breast", "text": "To dream that you have hairy breasts and the tap pup\ncovered with hair, denotes great gain and profit to men; but to a woman,\nloss of her husband. If a young married woman dreams that her breasts are\nfull and spurting out milk, it signifies that she is with child and that\nit will be a perfect birth. If a virgin dreams thus, she is near her\nmarriage. If a woman dreams she has sore breasts she is threatened with\ndeath.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 73; source lines 373–379", "lineStart": 373, "lineEnd": 379, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you have hairy breasts and the tap pup\ncovered with hair, denotes great gain and profit to men; but to a woman,\nloss of her husband. If a young married woman dreams that her breasts are\nfull and spurting out milk, it signifies that she is with child and that\nit will be a perfect birth. If a virgin dreams thus, she is near her\nmarriage. If a woman dreams she has sore breasts she is threatened with\ndeath." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "milk" ] }, { "slug": "breast-and-the-dugs", "title": "Breast and the Dugs", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Artemidorus wrote: “To have the Breast whole is good, as also to have it Hayrie, is a signe of gaine to Men, but to Women it foretels Widdowhood: the…”", "aliases": [ "breast and the dugs", "of the breast and the dugs" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about breast and the dugs stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "artemidorus-030", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of the Breast and the Dugs.", "text": "TO have the Breast whole is good, as also to have it Hayrie, is a signe of gaine to Men, but to Women it foretels Widdowhood: the Dugges faire and without any evill is good: and if they seeme more grosse, yet by good means and grace, they signifie Children and possession to come: but if they be sore, as full of ulcers, it is Sicknesse to come. The Dugges falling, is death to her children which dreams so: and if she have none, it is povertie to her selfe: to have many Dugges, thinking she sées them bigger then is vsuall to a woman, signifies she shall follow the trade of good fellowship: to be wounded in the stomacke by any familiar, is ill newes to old women: and to yong men or women, it betokeneth glad tidings.", "locator": "Book 1, encoded section 30", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "1", "displayText": "To have the Breast whole is good, as also to have it Hayrie, is a signe of gaine to Men, but to Women it foretels Widdowhood: the Dugges faire and without any evill is good: and if they seeme more grosse, yet by good means and grace, they signifie Children and possession to come: but if they be sore, as full of ulcers, it is Sicknesse to come. The Dugges falling, is death to her children which dreams so: and if she have none, it is povertie to her selfe: to have many Dugges, thinking she sées them bigger then is vsuall to a woman, signifies she shall follow the trade of good fellowship: to be wounded in the stomacke by any familiar, is ill newes to old women: and to yong men or women, it betokeneth glad tidings." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "breath", "title": "Breath", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To come close to a person in your dreaming with a pure and sweet breath, commendable will be your conduct, and a profitable consummation of…”", "aliases": [ "breath" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about breath stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0275", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Breath", "text": "To come close to a person in your dreaming with a pure and sweet breath,\ncommendable will be your conduct, and a profitable consummation of business\ndeals will follow.\n\nBreath if fetid, indicates sickness and snares.\n\nLosing one's breath, denotes signal failure where success seemed assured.", "locator": "Heading 275; source lines 4084–4094", "lineStart": 4084, "lineEnd": 4094, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To come close to a person in your dreaming with a pure and sweet breath,\ncommendable will be your conduct, and a profitable consummation of business\ndeals will follow.\n\nBreath if fetid, indicates sickness and snares.\n\nLosing one's breath, denotes signal failure where success seemed assured." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "brewing", "title": "Brewing", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of being in a vast brewing establishment, means unjust persecution by public officials, but you…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "brewing" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about brewing stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0276", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Brewing", "text": "To dream of being in a vast brewing establishment, means unjust\npersecution by public officials, but you will eventually prove\nyour innocence and will rise far above your persecutors.\n\nBrewing in any way in your dreams, denotes anxiety at the outset,\nbut usually ends in profit and satisfaction.", "locator": "Heading 276; source lines 4094–4103", "lineStart": 4094, "lineEnd": 4103, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being in a vast brewing establishment, means unjust\npersecution by public officials, but you will eventually prove\nyour innocence and will rise far above your persecutors.\n\nBrewing in any way in your dreams, denotes anxiety at the outset,\nbut usually ends in profit and satisfaction." }, { "id": "fontaine-0091", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Brewing", "text": "To dream of brewing is a sign you should be up and doing; in\nlove, it denotes idleness in your sweetheart; if in trade, you will\nsustain losses. 31.\n\n To dream of brewing and of baking,\n Does signify a match is making,\n Between a maiden and some other,\n Both by her father and her mother.", "locator": "Heading 91; source line 1356", "lineStart": 1356, "lineEnd": 1365, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of brewing is a sign you should be up and doing; in\nlove, it denotes idleness in your sweetheart; if in trade, you will\nsustain losses. 31.\n\nTo dream of brewing and of baking,\nDoes signify a match is making,\nBetween a maiden and some other,\nBoth by her father and her mother." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "brewing-and-baking", "title": "Brewing and Baking", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “To dream of brewing and baking is the sign of an ill housewife, who lies dreaming in bed, when she should be at work and doing her business.”", "aliases": [ "brewing and baking" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about brewing and baking stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "noe-0070b", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Brewing and Baking", "text": "To dream of brewing and baking is the sign of an ill housewife,\nwho lies dreaming in bed, when she should be at work and doing her\nbusiness.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 72; source lines 370–373", "lineStart": 370, "lineEnd": 373, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of brewing and baking is the sign of an ill housewife,\nwho lies dreaming in bed, when she should be at work and doing her\nbusiness." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0267", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Brambles", "text": "To dream of brambles entangling you, is a messenger of evil.\nLaw suits will go against you, and malignant sickness attack you,\nor some of your family.", "locator": "Heading 267; source lines 4020–4026", "lineStart": 4020, "lineEnd": 4026, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of brambles entangling you, is a messenger of evil.\nLaw suits will go against you, and malignant sickness attack you,\nor some of your family.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Brambles” is shown on the Briars page: same plant topic across four headings" }, { "id": "miller-0277", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Briars", "text": "To see yourself caught among briars, black enemies are weaving cords of\ncalumny and perjury intricately around you and will cause you great distress,\nbut if you succeed in disengaging yourself from the briars, loyal friends\nwill come to your assistance in every emergency.", "locator": "Heading 277; source lines 4103–4110", "lineStart": 4103, "lineEnd": 4110, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see yourself caught among briars, black enemies are weaving cords of\ncalumny and perjury intricately around you and will cause you great distress,\nbut if you succeed in disengaging yourself from the briars, loyal friends\nwill come to your assistance in every emergency." }, { "id": "fontaine-0093", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Briars", "text": "To dream that you are among briars and get pricked, foretells\nthat you will have an angry dispute with somebody. If a young girl who\nhas a lover dreams it, she will probably get vexed at him. 39, 78.", "locator": "Heading 93; source line 1371", "lineStart": 1371, "lineEnd": 1375, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are among briars and get pricked, foretells\nthat you will have an angry dispute with somebody. If a young girl who\nhas a lover dreams it, she will probably get vexed at him." }, { "id": "noe-0064", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Briars and Brambles", "text": "If you dream you are passing through places\ncovered with these things, it portends troubles; if they prick you, secret\nenemies will do you an injury with your friends and unfavorable tales\nwill make your sweetheart shy of you; if they draw blood of you, expect\nheavy losses in trade. If you dream you pass through them without injury,\nthen you will at last triumph over all your enemies and become happy.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 65; source lines 354–360", "lineStart": 354, "lineEnd": 360, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream you are passing through places\ncovered with these things, it portends troubles; if they prick you, secret\nenemies will do you an injury with your friends and unfavorable tales\nwill make your sweetheart shy of you; if they draw blood of you, expect\nheavy losses in trade. If you dream you pass through them without injury,\nthen you will at last triumph over all your enemies and become happy.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Briars and Brambles” is shown on the Briars page: same plant topic across four headings" }, { "id": "cielo-0074", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Briars", "text": "Signify disputes.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 74; source lines 4040–4042", "lineStart": 4040, "lineEnd": 4042, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Signify disputes." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9294", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Brambles or Briars", "heading": "Brambles or Briars", "text": "A dream of desire in love, a wish for the unattainable (Artemidorus) ; Freud and modern symbolism alike corroborate this interpretation.", "lineStart": 9294, "lineEnd": 9297, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 203; NLM OCR lines 9294–9297", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9294, "lineEnd": 9297, "printedPage": 203, "printedPageEnd": 203 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Brambles or Briars. — A dream of desire in love, a wish for \nthe unattainable (Artemidorus) ; Freud and modern symbolism \nalike corroborate this interpretation. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Brambles or Briars" }, "displayText": "A dream of desire in love, a wish for the unattainable (Artemidorus); Freud and modern symbolism alike corroborate this interpretation.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Brambles or Briars” is shown on the Briars page: same plant topic across four headings" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "brick", "title": "Brick", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Brick in a dream, indicates unsettled business and disagreements in love affairs.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "brick", "bricks" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about brick stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0278", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Brick", "text": "Brick in a dream, indicates unsettled business and disagreements\nin love affairs. To make them you will doubtless fail in your\nefforts to amass great wealth.", "locator": "Heading 278; source lines 4110–4116", "lineStart": 4110, "lineEnd": 4116, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Brick in a dream, indicates unsettled business and disagreements\nin love affairs. To make them you will doubtless fail in your\nefforts to amass great wealth." }, { "id": "cielo-0075", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Bricks", "text": "Signify a happy marriage and prosperity.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 75; source lines 4042–4044", "lineStart": 4042, "lineEnd": 4044, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Signify a happy marriage and prosperity." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "bride", "title": "Bride", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "aliases": [ "bride" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "summary": "Bride dreams may explore being the focus of an occasion, keeping room for personal choices and meeting a familiar person in a changed role.", "tagline": "A person within a highly visible role.", "psychological": "Being a bride can picture becoming the focus of an occasion while still having ordinary needs of your own. Other people may arrange the timetable, admire you or expect a particular response. The role could feel welcome, imposed or simply unfamiliar. A waking comparison might be receiving an award or entering a new position that suddenly makes your actions more visible.\n\nPreparation can give this attention a private side. Choosing an outfit, finding a quiet room or deciding who helps may let you shape how you enter the public scene. Enjoying the preparations could express satisfaction in making an occasion your own. Repeated interruptions might instead resemble a transition in which everybody has an opinion but you have little room to decide. The difference concerns participation in the role, rather than whether a particular style is correct.\n\nRecognition can also become narrower than the person being recognized. Guests may keep asking for photographs while you want a chair, a drink or an ordinary conversation. This could fit being valued for a title or achievement while practical needs go unnoticed. A bride who stops posing to fix a lamp or help a friend can make the opposite point: the visible role still leaves space for everyday abilities and preferences.\n\nSeeing someone you know as a bride may change how you relate to them within the dream. An old friend might appear newly independent, distant or unexpectedly approachable. This could reflect your response to a changing relationship, or a familiar face placed in a remembered ceremony. The image does not establish anyone's marriage plans or feelings.\n\nAfter the attention ends, the person may become easier to meet. Sharing a simple task or sitting together can picture connection that does not depend on performing for a group. Recent weddings, photographs, conversations and imagined occasions can supply the scene directly. The Bride entry centers on the person occupying this role; the ceremony itself, a continuing partnership and the work of supporting participants provide other starting points.", "traditional": "Miller's Bride passage assigns inheritance, friendship, reconciliation, health and disappointment forecasts to preparation, kisses and a bride's response to her husband. Its assumptions are gendered, and its final note refers to Wedding. These are Miller's period claims, not evidence of a marriage plan, someone's feelings, health or future events. The original reflections here focus on the dreamed person and the experience of being recognized.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Being recognized as a person", "reflection": "Being central can feel enjoyable when the occasion leaves room for your own response. Attention becomes restrictive when others recognize only the role and overlook practical needs or ordinary conversation." }, { "title": "Having a say in preparation", "reflection": "Choosing assistance, clothing or a private interval can picture participation in a transition. The relevant question is how much of the occasion you can shape, rather than whether you perform the role correctly." }, { "title": "Meeting someone in a changed role", "reflection": "A familiar person appearing as a bride may let you explore a change in closeness or expectations within the scene. It does not reveal their actual plans or make the role their whole identity." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "You prepare in a room arranged to your liking", "reflection": "You choose who helps and have time to enjoy an ordinary activity before joining the guests. This can picture a transition that accommodates your preferences, such as entering a new role without abandoning familiar routines. The pleasure comes from participation in the occasion, rather than from meeting somebody else’s ideal image." }, { "title": "Guests keep posing you when you need to sit", "reflection": "Everyone wants another photograph, but your request for a chair keeps being postponed. This could resemble being appreciated for an achievement while the practical demands behind it remain invisible. Asking for a pause makes recognition compatible with having needs, rather than requiring constant availability to the audience." }, { "title": "An old friend appears as the bride", "reflection": "The familiar person is suddenly the center of an occasion, and your usual way of approaching them no longer fits. This may picture adjusting to a changed relationship or seeing an old acquaintance from another position. Their response within the scene matters more than assuming a real engagement or future wedding." }, { "title": "Others name you the bride before you choose a role", "reflection": "A group introduces you as the bride even though you arrived for another purpose. This can picture an expectation being assigned before your preferences are heard, as when others assume you will organize an event. Explaining what you came to do makes the difference between a public label and chosen participation visible." }, { "title": "The bride leaves the portrait to repair a small problem", "reflection": "While people arrange a formal photograph, the bride helps restore a light or find a misplaced item. This may picture retaining useful everyday abilities inside a highly visible role. The shift gives the person more dimensions than the occasion’s image, without making practical work an obligation to earn appreciation." }, { "title": "You share an ordinary moment after the guests leave", "reflection": "The person sets aside the ceremonial accessories and joins you in a simple conversation or task. This can picture closeness becoming easier when nobody has to perform for an audience. A quiet exchange may feel satisfying because the role no longer determines every part of the encounter." } ], "prompts": [ "What did being recognized as the bride make possible, and what did it leave out?", "How did personal choices shape preparation or participation in the occasion?", "What changed when you met the person beyond the public role?" ], "related": [ "wedding", "marriage", "kiss", "wedding-dress" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0279" ], "scope": "Miller assigns inheritance or disappointment to a young woman's response to bridal preparation; kisses carry reconciliation, friendship, health or inheritance forecasts; a careworn bride and indifference toward her husband carry adverse claims. The final note refers to Wedding. Specific supplied passages: Bride — miller-0279 (Heading 279; source lines 4116–4139). Historical comparison only; these attributed period claims do not validate the original reflections or establish outcomes, diagnoses or universal symbolic meanings." } ], "kind": "editorial", "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0279", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Bride", "text": "For a young woman to dream that she is a bride, foretells that\nshe will shortly come into an inheritance which will please\nher exceedingly, if she is pleased in making her bridal toilet.\nIf displeasure is felt she will suffer disappointments\nin her anticipations.\n\nTo dream that you kiss a bride, denotes a happy reconciliation\nbetween friends. For a bride to kiss others, foretells for you many\nfriends and pleasures; to kiss you, denotes you will enjoy health\nand find that your sweetheart will inherit unexpected fortune.\n\nTo kiss a bride and find that she looks careworn and ill,\ndenotes you will be displeased with your success and the action\nof your friends.\n\nIf a bride dreams that she is indifferent to her husband, it foretells\nthat many unhappy circumstances will pollute her pleasures.\n\n\n[26] See Wedding.", "locator": "Heading 279; source lines 4116–4139", "lineStart": 4116, "lineEnd": 4139, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a young woman to dream that she is a bride, foretells that\nshe will shortly come into an inheritance which will please\nher exceedingly, if she is pleased in making her bridal toilet.\nIf displeasure is felt she will suffer disappointments\nin her anticipations.\n\nTo dream that you kiss a bride, denotes a happy reconciliation\nbetween friends. For a bride to kiss others, foretells for you many\nfriends and pleasures; to kiss you, denotes you will enjoy health\nand find that your sweetheart will inherit unexpected fortune.\n\nTo kiss a bride and find that she looks careworn and ill,\ndenotes you will be displeased with your success and the action\nof your friends.\n\nIf a bride dreams that she is indifferent to her husband, it foretells\nthat many unhappy circumstances will pollute her pleasures. See Wedding." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [ "wedding" ] }, { "slug": "bride-or-bridegroom-bridesmaids-ushers-etc", "title": "Bride or Bridegroom, Bridesmaids, Ushers, etc", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "Different parts in one shared occasion.", "summary": "Wedding-role dreams may explore coordinating a shared occasion, understanding a particular task and finding room beyond an assigned position.", "aliases": [ "bride or bridegroom, bridesmaids, ushers, etc", "bride", "bridegroom", "bridesmaids", "ushers", "groom", "wedding groom", "groom at a wedding", "a wedding groom" ], "status": "REVIEW", "kind": "editorial", "updated": "2026-10-14", "psychological": "A wedding role can make a shared occasion depend on several different kinds of participation. A bride or bridegroom may be expected to make a central commitment, while bridesmaids, ushers and other participants manage companionship, movement or practical support. The dreamed task matters more than assuming every person at a wedding represents the same concern.\n\nAn assigned role can offer a welcome way to contribute. Guiding guests, standing beside a friend or preparing one part of the event may feel satisfying because your place is clear and useful. A waking comparison could be helping at a celebration or joining a team with responsibilities that suit you. Supporting someone does not have to mean losing importance; it can provide a kind of participation you actively prefer.\n\nTrouble can begin when the title comes without workable instructions. An usher may be expected to place guests who disagree about where to sit, or a bridesmaid may receive requests from several people at once. This could resemble having responsibility for an outcome without agreement about your authority. The difficulty is coordination, not proof that you are incapable or that others intend to exploit you.\n\nCentral roles have another tension: different people may expect different versions of the occasion. A bridegroom might want a quiet exchange while the group keeps arranging a public entrance. Two participants might share the central task but receive unequal attention. Such scenes can make recognition, mutual agreement or the distribution of work concrete without revealing a partner's waking intentions.\n\nChanging roles can show how arrangements remain negotiable. Handing a task to someone better placed, accepting an unexpected part or leaving a position with no purpose may resemble finding a more workable contribution to a group. Positive cooperation can be the point of the dream, rather than a disguise for conflict.\n\nRecent ceremonies, rehearsals, photographs and group events can supply these images. This compound entry explores the relations among named participants and their tasks. Bride separately centers on the person in that role; Wedding concerns the event. An erotic or uneasy mood remains part of a particular scene, not an automatic meaning of every bridal participant.", "traditional": "Craig's single compound passage calls these roles erotic dreams under an unspecified attribution to 'the moderns', then reports Raphael's grief and disappointment interpretation. Those pooled claims do not distinguish the tasks of brides, bridegrooms, bridesmaids or ushers, and they are not evidence of waking desire or future trouble. The original reflections instead develop differences in participation and coordination within the dream.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "You enjoy guiding guests as an usher", "reflection": "You know the plan and help people reach the places they want. This can picture pleasure in a defined contribution that supports a shared occasion without putting you at its center. The satisfaction may resemble organizing a small part of a project whose purpose and limits are clear." }, { "title": "A bridesmaid receives incompatible requests", "reflection": "One person needs company while another asks you to solve a practical problem elsewhere. This may picture divided responsibility when several people assume the same helper is immediately available. Choosing an order or asking someone to share the work makes the competing demands more workable than trying to satisfy every request at once." }, { "title": "The bridegroom wants a quiet entrance", "reflection": "The group keeps arranging a dramatic arrival, while the central participant wants to begin simply. This can picture the difference between a shared occasion and the preferences of the person taking part. A negotiated entrance may let public recognition fit the commitment, rather than allowing presentation to decide it." }, { "title": "Two central participants receive unequal attention", "reflection": "Both have a part in the occasion, but everyone addresses one and leaves the other waiting. This may give form to uneven recognition in a shared undertaking. Making room for both voices changes the arrangement without requiring that either person compete for the entire group’s attention." }, { "title": "A role is exchanged with someone better placed", "reflection": "You hand over a task that another person understands and take one you can comfortably manage. This can picture cooperation through a practical adjustment, such as sharing responsibilities in a team. The exchange values fit and communication rather than treating a change of role as failure or rejection." }, { "title": "You step out of a position that has no task", "reflection": "You have been given a ceremonial title, but nobody can explain what your presence is for. Leaving it to join a wanted activity may picture choosing meaningful participation over being included only in name. The scene can explore usefulness and preference without making every formal role empty." } ], "prompts": [ "How did the particular role affect what you could contribute?", "Where did instructions, authority or attention become uneven within the group?", "What arrangement would let each participant have a useful and wanted place?" ], "related": [ "bride", "wedding", "engagement", "marriage" ], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L9315" ], "scope": "Craig pools the named bridal roles as erotic dreams under an unspecified attribution to 'the moderns', then reports Raphael's grief/disappointment construction of erotic dreams. The passage supplies no task-specific distinction among the named roles. Specific supplied passages: Bride or Bridegroom, Bridesmaids, Ushers, etc — craig-1918:L9315 (Printed p. 203; NLM OCR lines 9315–9320). Historical comparison only; these attributed period claims do not validate the original reflections or establish outcomes, diagnoses or universal symbolic meanings." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "detectionAliases": [ "bride or bridegroom, bridesmaids, ushers, etc", "bride", "bridegroom", "bridesmaids", "ushers", "wedding groom", "groom at a wedding", "a wedding groom" ], "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A useful supporting place", "reflection": "A clear, wanted task can offer satisfying participation without making you the center. The role may resemble a contribution whose value comes from what it makes possible for others." }, { "title": "Responsibility with unclear terms", "reflection": "A title may leave you answerable for something without agreement about instructions or authority. Conflicting requests can make the arrangement itself the problem, rather than personal competence." }, { "title": "Redistributing the occasion", "reflection": "Swapping tasks or negotiating a central moment can picture a group finding a better fit. Different roles may remain important even when attention and responsibility are shared differently." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L9315", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Bride or Bridegroom, Bridesmaids, Ushers, etc", "heading": "Bride or Bridegroom, Bridesmaids, Ushers, etc", "text": "Erotic dreams, all of them, announce the moderns. Dreams denoting grief and disappointment, declares Raphael, who invariably places an unfortunate construction upon all dreams of an erotic nature.", "lineStart": 9315, "lineEnd": 9320, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 203; NLM OCR lines 9315–9320", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9315, "lineEnd": 9320, "printedPage": 203, "printedPageEnd": 203 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Bride or Bridegroom, Bridesmaids, Ushers, etc. — Erotic \ndreams, all of them, announce the moderns. Dreams denoting \ngrief and disappointment, declares Raphael, who invariably \nplaces an unfortunate construction upon all dreams of an erotic \nnature. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Bride or Bridegroom, Bridesmaids, Ushers, etc" }, "displayText": "Erotic dreams, all of them, announce the moderns. Dreams denoting grief and disappointment, declares Raphael, who invariably places an unfortunate construction upon all dreams of an erotic nature." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "bridge", "title": "Bridge", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "aliases": [ "bridge", "bridges", "crossing a bridge", "bridge collapsing", "broken bridge" ], "kind": "modern", "summary": "A bridge can suggest the means of making a transition or restoring contact. Its condition shapes whether passage feels supported or uncertain.", "tagline": "Wanting the far bank and trusting the way across are different questions.", "psychological": "A bridge can picture the connection that makes a desired change reachable. The far bank may be visible, but wanting it is not enough; you need a structure that carries your weight across the gap. This can fit moving into a new role, reconnecting after distance, or finding a practical route between two parts of life. The bridge emphasizes the means of transition as much as its destination.\n\nAn unstable bridge can suggest uncertainty about those means. You may want a new job but doubt the agreement, or want closeness without knowing how a difficult conversation will be handled. Missing planks can give a concrete form to gaps in preparation or support. Fear on a bridge may concern the route you are being asked to trust, rather than opposition to the change itself.\n\nA crossing shared with someone else can bring coordination into view. Walking at different speeds, waiting for a companion, or helping them across may fit a transition whose timing is negotiated. Crossing alone by choice can instead suggest independence. The same structure supports different readings depending on whether companionship feels necessary, welcome, or restrictive.\n\nA blocked or unfinished bridge can express a connection that exists in intention but not yet in practice. A plan may have been announced before resources arrived, or communication may stop before the real disagreement is addressed. Repairing the bridge offers another possibility: attention goes toward making passage workable rather than forcing an immediate crossing.\n\nPassing underneath can center a different relationship to the connection, such as taking your own route without joining the crossing above. Real travel, a familiar landmark, or a remembered precarious structure can also supply the image. These comparisons describe possible experiences of passage, not the reliability of any particular person.", "traditional": "Miller, Fontaine, Noe and Cielo assign differing fortunes to crossing, obstruction, collapse and passing beneath a bridge. Fontaine and Noe include severe illness and death forecasts. Craig reports another set under an Artemidorus attribution, then offers her own subconscious and bodily explanations, including an unsupported association with dizziness. These are claims in the attached historical books, not verified diagnoses, warnings about a real person or evidence that any crossing predicts an outcome. The original reading distinguishes wanting a destination from having a workable means of reaching it.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A transition needs workable support", "reflection": "A visible destination may still require resources, agreements, or a route that can carry you. The bridge can picture what connects intention with a practical way forward." }, { "title": "Trust concerns the crossing", "reflection": "An unstable bridge can suggest doubt about the process rather than the destination. Missing support or uncertain terms may make a welcome change feel difficult to enter." }, { "title": "A shared passage requires coordination", "reflection": "Crossing with another person can picture negotiating timing and support. Waiting, helping, or choosing separate routes may reflect different needs within a change you do not undertake entirely alone." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "You step onto a bridge with missing planks", "reflection": "This may picture being asked to commit before important parts of the process are ready. Training gaps, an incomplete agreement, or unreliable arrangements could fit. The hesitation concerns how to cross safely, even when you still want what lies beyond.", "slug": "scene-1" }, { "title": "You cross a solid bridge and feel relieved", "reflection": "A dependable route can suggest that a difficult change has become manageable. A clear plan, useful support, or an honest conversation may make movement possible. Relief centers having a means you can use, rather than simply deciding to be more confident.", "slug": "scene-2" }, { "title": "The bridge never reaches the far bank", "reflection": "This can picture a plan that promises connection but stops short of what is needed. A partial solution, unanswered question, or arrangement without a final handover may fit. Continuing farther does not help because completion, rather than effort, is missing.", "slug": "scene-3" }, { "title": "You wait while someone else crosses", "reflection": "Waiting can express respect for another person's pace or frustration with depending on their progress. A shared move, project, or relationship change may require different timing. The scene's feeling distinguishes patient coordination from being left unable to start.", "slug": "scene-4" }, { "title": "You help repair the bridge before crossing", "reflection": "Repair can picture preparing the conditions for a change instead of demanding immediate results. Clarifying an agreement, rebuilding communication, or gathering resources offers a parallel. The work is directed toward making future passage dependable, and may be shared or unfairly concentrated on you.", "slug": "scene-5" }, { "title": "You travel beneath the bridge", "reflection": "Taking a lower route can suggest choosing another way to reach your goal. It may fit avoiding a crowded process or acting outside an expected sequence. The bridge is still present, but its route is not the one your journey requires.", "slug": "scene-6" } ], "prompts": [ "What did the far bank represent through the actual people or place there?", "Was my uncertainty about the destination or the means of reaching it?", "Whose pace, resources, or cooperation affected the crossing?" ], "related": [ "water", "river", "road", "being-lost" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s continuing English editorial delegation. 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These are period fortune-telling beliefs, not evidence for the modern interpretations." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0092" ], "scope": "Historical context only: Bridge — fontaine-0092, Heading 92; source line 1365. These are period fortune-telling beliefs, not evidence for the modern interpretations." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "scope": "Attached historical comparison only: Bridge — noe-0039 (Dream section, heading 39; source lines 259–265). These attributed period claims and cross-references do not establish outcomes, diagnoses, cultural consensus or the original modern interpretations.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0039" ] }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "scope": "Attached historical comparison only: Bridge — cielo-0076 (Dream section, heading 76; source lines 4044–4048). 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Sorrowful returns of best efforts are\nexperienced after looking upon or coming in contact with muddy or turbid\nwater in dreams.", "locator": "Heading 280; source lines 4139–4156", "lineStart": 4139, "lineEnd": 4156, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a long bridge dilapidated, and mysteriously winding\ninto darkness, profound melancholy over the loss of dearest\npossessions and dismal situations will fall upon you.\nTo the young and those in love, disappointment in the heart's\nfondest hopes, as the loved one will fall below your ideal.\n\nTo cross a bridge safely, a final surmounting of difficulties,\nthough the means seem hardly safe to use. Any obstacle\nor delay denotes disaster.\n\nTo see a bridge give way before you, beware of treachery and false admirers.\nAffluence comes with clear waters. 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To dream you are passing under a bridge, indicates that you will\nnever be perfectly at ease. If you meet with any obstruction on the\nbridge it foretells a fit of sickness; are you a lover, it denotes that\nyour sweetheart will be afflicted with illness. To dream a bridge breaks\ndown with you denotes sudden death.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 39; source lines 259–265", "lineStart": 259, "lineEnd": 265, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are crossing over a\nbridge is a good omen--it denotes prosperity through life, and success in\nlove. To dream you are passing under a bridge, indicates that you will\nnever be perfectly at ease. If you meet with any obstruction on the\nbridge it foretells a fit of sickness; are you a lover, it denotes that\nyour sweetheart will be afflicted with illness. 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These interpretations are distinctly traceable to the subconsciousness. The symbolism of a bridge spanning water is obviously the subconscious hope of success. \"Do not cross a bridge,\" etc., is the proverb justifying the anticipation of work in store for the dreamer who crosses a bridge in his sleep. The broken bridge bears its own significance, based upon the subconsciousness that warns the dreamer, while the fall from a bridge is a physical dream stimulated by dizziness, vertigo, etc.", "lineStart": 9321, "lineEnd": 9339, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 203–204; NLM OCR lines 9321–9339", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9321, "lineEnd": 9339, "printedPage": 203, "printedPageEnd": 204 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Bridge. — To see one, successful undertakings, probably a \nchange; to cross one, work and anxiety in store; a broken \nbridge, fear and trouble and a warning to take no steps on \nan unknown road ; to fall from a bridge denotes brain trouble \n(Artemidorus). These interpretations are distinctly traceable \nto the subconsciousness. The symbolism of a bridge spanning \n\n\nTHE FABRIC OF DREAMS \n\n\nwater is obviously the subconscious hope of success. \"Do not \ncross a bridge,\" etc., is the proverb justifying the anticipation \nof work in store for the dreamer who crosses a bridge in his \nsleep. The broken bridge bears its own significance, based \nupon the subconsciousness that warns the dreamer, while the \nfall from a bridge is a physical dream stimulated by dizziness, \nvertigo, etc. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [ { "line": 9329, "text": "THE FABRIC OF DREAMS " } ], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Bridge" }, "displayText": "To see one, successful undertakings, probably a change; to cross one, work and anxiety in store; a broken bridge, fear and trouble and a warning to take no steps on an unknown road; to fall from a bridge denotes brain trouble (Artemidorus). These interpretations are distinctly traceable to the subconsciousness. The symbolism of a bridge spanning water is obviously the subconscious hope of success. \"Do not cross a bridge,\" etc., is the proverb justifying the anticipation of work in store for the dreamer who crosses a bridge in his sleep. The broken bridge bears its own significance, based upon the subconsciousness that warns the dreamer, while the fall from a bridge is a physical dream stimulated by dizziness, vertigo, etc." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "bridle", "title": "Bridle", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a bridle, denotes you will engage in some enterprise which will afford much worry, but will eventually terminate in pleasure and…”", "aliases": [ "bridle" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about bridle stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0281", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Bridle", "text": "To dream of a bridle, denotes you will engage in some enterprise which will\nafford much worry, but will eventually terminate in pleasure and gain.\nIf it is old or broken you will have difficulties to encounter,\nand the probabilities are that you will go down before them.\n\nA blind bridle signifies you will be deceived by some wily enemy,\nor some woman will entangle you in an intrigue.", "locator": "Heading 281; source lines 4156–4166", "lineStart": 4156, "lineEnd": 4166, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a bridle, denotes you will engage in some enterprise which will\nafford much worry, but will eventually terminate in pleasure and gain.\nIf it is old or broken you will have difficulties to encounter,\nand the probabilities are that you will go down before them.\n\nA blind bridle signifies you will be deceived by some wily enemy,\nor some woman will entangle you in an intrigue." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "bridle-bits", "title": "Bridle Bits", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see bridle bits in your dreams, foretells you will subdue and overcome any obstacle opposing your advancement or happiness.”", "aliases": [ "bridle bits" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about bridle bits stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0282", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Bridle Bits", "text": "To see bridle bits in your dreams, foretells you will subdue\nand overcome any obstacle opposing your advancement or happiness.\nIf they break or are broken you will be surprised into making\nconcessions to enemies,", "locator": "Heading 282; source lines 4166–4173", "lineStart": 4166, "lineEnd": 4173, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see bridle bits in your dreams, foretells you will subdue\nand overcome any obstacle opposing your advancement or happiness.\nIf they break or are broken you will be surprised into making\nconcessions to enemies," } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "brimstone", "title": "Brimstone", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of brimstone, foretells that discreditable dealings will lose you many friends.”", "aliases": [ "brimstone" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about brimstone stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0283", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Brimstone", "text": "To dream of brimstone, foretells that discreditable dealings will lose\nyou many friends. if you fail to rectify the mistakes you are making.\n\nTo see fires of brimstone, denotes you will be threatened with loss\nby contagion in your vicinity.", "locator": "Heading 283; source lines 4173–4181", "lineStart": 4173, "lineEnd": 4181, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of brimstone, foretells that discreditable dealings will lose\nyou many friends. if you fail to rectify the mistakes you are making.\n\nTo see fires of brimstone, denotes you will be threatened with loss\nby contagion in your vicinity." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "broccoli", "title": "Broccoli", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "summary": "Broccoli dreams can explore a complicated whole, being told what is good for you, or ordinary effort that receives little appreciation.", "tagline": "Branching parts, practical care, and the response at the table.", "aliases": [ "broccoli" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A head of broccoli can picture a task whose many small parts are connected to one larger whole. Separating it into florets makes a complicated demand easier to handle, but each piece still needs attention. Organizing a group project, dividing household work, or turning an unclear assignment into manageable steps may offer a parallel. If the branches keep multiplying, the problem may be that breaking the task down reveals more work than the original description suggested. The image can make complexity visible without declaring that you are incapable of managing it.\n\nBeing required to eat broccoli because someone calls it good for you can bring another person’s judgment into conflict with your own experience. Advice may be sensible in principle while arriving in a form you dislike or did not choose. A mandatory training exercise, an unwanted improvement plan, or a family rule might feel similar. If you enjoy the meal despite expecting not to, the scene can instead explore revising an inherited preference. The useful distinction is whether you have room to respond, rather than assigning virtue or failure to accepting the food.\n\nPreparing an ordinary vegetable for others may center on useful work whose effort can be overlooked. The meal requires washing, cutting, arranging, and timing even when the result looks simple. This can resemble maintenance that keeps a shared routine functioning while more visible contributions receive credit. A warm response may make the effort feel worthwhile; indifference can leave you feeling that care has become an assumed service. If you forget your own portion, the distribution of attention may matter more than anyone’s taste.\n\nTexture and arrangement can change the reading. Crisp pieces that fit together on a plate may suggest a workable structure, while a softened mass may picture losing distinctions through too much handling. A giant stalk towering over the kitchen can exaggerate a modest requirement until it occupies everything else. These are comparisons with the remembered dream, not nutritional or medical conclusions. A school meal, shopping trip, family habit, or disliked taste may be enough context. The scene is most useful when you consider what the food required and how people responded, rather than treating vegetables as a code for bodily health.", "traditional": "No historical Broccoli passage is supplied. Cabbage, Cauliflower, and general Vegetables are related foods but do not establish broccoli lore. The reflections address structure, imposed preferences, and practical care without medical or nutritional interpretation.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A whole with many parts", "reflection": "Separating florets can picture making a complex task workable. If more branches continually appear, the effort of managing its parts may become the main tension." }, { "title": "Someone else’s idea of good", "reflection": "Being told to accept a food can explore the difference between helpful intentions and a choice you did not make. Enjoyment or resistance changes that relationship." }, { "title": "Care that looks ordinary", "reflection": "Preparing a simple vegetable can picture maintenance whose effort is easy for others to miss. Their response gives appreciation or assumed service a concrete setting." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A branching head fills the entire kitchen", "reflection": "A modest item becomes too large for the space intended for it. This may fit an ordinary requirement expanding until it dominates a routine. Finding a way to divide it can make the task feel more approachable." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Each piece reveals several smaller branches", "reflection": "Breaking down the whole uncovers more components instead of finishing the work. The scene can resemble an assignment whose hidden steps keep emerging. Help with the pieces changes the problem from solitary effort toward coordination." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Someone insists you eat a portion you dislike", "reflection": "Their claim that it is good for you leaves little room for your response. This may fit a prescribed improvement or unwanted advice. Being able to negotiate differs from having to show gratitude for a choice made on your behalf." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You prepare it carefully and nobody notices", "reflection": "Useful effort disappears behind an ordinary result. This can picture maintenance that has become expected rather than acknowledged. Feeling satisfied anyway differs from needing the meal to prove that your contribution mattered." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The pieces soften until they lose their shape", "reflection": "Continued preparation erases distinctions you intended to keep. The scene may fit overworking a draft or a group decision until its original structure becomes unclear. Stopping earlier or making another dish creates a different response." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You enjoy a dish you expected to refuse", "reflection": "The actual experience differs from an established expectation. This may picture discovering room to revise a familiar preference. Enjoyment can be personal without proving that whoever pressured you was right to remove your choice." } ], "prompts": [ "What made the connected pieces manageable or overwhelming?", "Was the food chosen by me, offered, or imposed as an improvement?", "Did preparing it feel satisfying, appreciated, or taken for granted?" ], "related": [ "vegetables", "cauliflower", "cabbage", "cooking" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "bronchitis", "title": "Bronchitis", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are affected with bronchitis, foretells you will be detained from pursuing your views and plans by unfortunate…”", "aliases": [ "bronchitis" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about bronchitis stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0284", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Bronchitis", "text": "To dream that you are affected with bronchitis, foretells you will be detained\nfrom pursuing your views and plans by unfortunate complications of sickness\nin your home.\n\nTo suffer with bronchitis in a dream, denotes that discouraging prospects\nof winning desired objects will soon loom up before you.", "locator": "Heading 284; source lines 4181–4190", "lineStart": 4181, "lineEnd": 4190, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are affected with bronchitis, foretells you will be detained\nfrom pursuing your views and plans by unfortunate complications of sickness\nin your home.\n\nTo suffer with bronchitis in a dream, denotes that discouraging prospects\nof winning desired objects will soon loom up before you." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "bronze", "title": "Bronze", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “For a woman to dream of a bronze statue, signifies that she will fail in her efforts to win the person she has determined on for a husband.”", "aliases": [ "bronze" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about bronze stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0285", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Bronze", "text": "For a woman to dream of a bronze statue, signifies that she will fail\nin her efforts to win the person she has determined on for a husband.\n\nIf the statue simulates life, or moves, she will be\ninvolved in a love affair, but no marriage will occur.\nDisappointment to some person may follow the dream.\n\nTo dream of bronze serpents or insects, foretells you will be pursued\nby envy and ruin. To see bronze metals, denotes your fortune will be\nuncertain and unsatisfactory.", "locator": "Heading 285; source lines 4190–4203", "lineStart": 4190, "lineEnd": 4203, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a woman to dream of a bronze statue, signifies that she will fail\nin her efforts to win the person she has determined on for a husband.\n\nIf the statue simulates life, or moves, she will be\ninvolved in a love affair, but no marriage will occur.\nDisappointment to some person may follow the dream.\n\nTo dream of bronze serpents or insects, foretells you will be pursued\nby envy and ruin. To see bronze metals, denotes your fortune will be\nuncertain and unsatisfactory." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "brood", "title": "Brood", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see a fowl with her brood, denotes that, if you are a woman, your cares will be varied and irksome.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "brood", "hen and chickens" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about brood stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0286", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Brood", "text": "To see a fowl with her brood, denotes that, if you are a woman,\nyour cares will be varied and irksome. Many children will be\nin your care, and some of them will prove wayward and unruly.\n\nBrood, to others, denotes accumulation of wealth.", "locator": "Heading 286; source lines 4203–4211", "lineStart": 4203, "lineEnd": 4211, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a fowl with her brood, denotes that, if you are a woman,\nyour cares will be varied and irksome. Many children will be\nin your care, and some of them will prove wayward and unruly.\n\nBrood, to others, denotes accumulation of wealth." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9340", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Brood", "heading": "Brood", "text": "For a mother to dream of seeing a brood of chickens under a hen warns her that despite her care some of her offspring will stray (Artemidorus). Obviously this dream is traceable to maternal anxiety.", "lineStart": 9340, "lineEnd": 9344, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 204; NLM OCR lines 9340–9344", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9340, "lineEnd": 9344, "printedPage": 204, "printedPageEnd": 204 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Brood. — For a mother to dream of seeing a brood of chick- \nens under a hen warns her that despite her care some of her \noffspring will stray (Artemidorus). Obviously this dream is \ntraceable to maternal anxiety. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "chick- \nens", "after": "chickens", "evidenceLine": 10308 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Brood" }, "displayText": "For a mother to dream of seeing a brood of chickens under a hen warns her that despite her care some of her offspring will stray (Artemidorus). Obviously this dream is traceable to maternal anxiety." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10308", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Hen and Chickens", "heading": "Hen and Chickens", "text": "See Brood.", "lineStart": 10308, "lineEnd": 10309, "kind": "cross-reference", "locator": "Printed p. 223; NLM OCR lines 10308–10309", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10308, "lineEnd": 10309, "printedPage": 223, "printedPageEnd": 223 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Hen and Chickens. — See Brood. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Hen and Chickens" }, "displayText": "See Brood." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "brook", "title": "Brook", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “Clear and near the house, an honorable office in which the dreamer will practice benevolence.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "brook", "brooks", "stream" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about brook stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "river" ], "sources": [ { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "cielo-0077", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Brook", "text": "Domestic happiness and friendship.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 77; source lines 4048–4050", "lineStart": 4048, "lineEnd": 4050, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Domestic happiness and friendship." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9345", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Brooks", "heading": "Brooks", "text": "Clear and near the house, an honorable office in which the dreamer will practice benevolence ; muddy brooks indicate loss; dried up brooks augur ruin to their owners (Artemidorus) ; the Bible justifies in a measure the promise of the dream of the brook : \"And lo, my brook became a river, and my river a sea.\" — Eccles. xxv, i. \"A little fountain became a river, and there was light and the sun and much water. This river is Esther, and the two dragons are I and Hamon.\" — From the Greek version of the book of Esther, quoted by Bayley.", "lineStart": 9345, "lineEnd": 9355, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 204; NLM OCR lines 9345–9355", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9345, "lineEnd": 9355, "printedPage": 204, "printedPageEnd": 204 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Brooks. — Clear and near the house, an honorable office \nin which the dreamer will practice benevolence ; muddy brooks \nindicate loss; dried up brooks augur ruin to their owners \n(Artemidorus) ; the Bible justifies in a measure the promise of \nthe dream of the brook : \"And lo, my brook became a river, \nand my river a sea.\" — Eccles. xxv, i. \"A little fountain be- \ncame a river, and there was light and the sun and much water. \nThis river is Esther, and the two dragons are I and Hamon.\" — \nFrom the Greek version of the book of Esther, quoted by \nBayley. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "be- \ncame", "after": "became", "evidenceLine": 412 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Brooks" }, "displayText": "Clear and near the house, an honorable office in which the dreamer will practice benevolence; muddy brooks indicate loss; dried up brooks augur ruin to their owners (Artemidorus); the Bible justifies in a measure the promise of the dream of the brook: \"And lo, my brook became a river, and my river a sea.\" — Eccles. xxv, i. \"A little fountain became a river, and there was light and the sun and much water. This river is Esther, and the two dragons are I and Hamon.\" — From the Greek version of the book of Esther, quoted by Bayley.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Brooks” is shown on the Brook page: singular/plural" }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12054", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Stream", "heading": "Stream", "text": "See Brook, River, etc.", "lineStart": 12054, "lineEnd": 12055, "kind": "cross-reference", "locator": "Printed p. 255; NLM OCR lines 12054–12055", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12054, "lineEnd": 12055, "printedPage": 255, "printedPageEnd": 255 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Stream. — See Brook, River, etc. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Stream" }, "displayText": "See Brook, River, etc." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "river" ] }, { "slug": "broom", "title": "Broom", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of brooms, denotes thrift and rapid improvement in your fortune, if the brooms are new.”", "aliases": [ "broom" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about broom stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0287", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Broom", "text": "To dream of brooms, denotes thrift and rapid improvement in\nyour fortune, if the brooms are new. If they are seen in use,\nyou will lose in speculation. For a woman to lose a broom,\nforetells that she will prove a disagreeable and slovenly\nwife and housekeeper.", "locator": "Heading 287; source lines 4211–4219", "lineStart": 4211, "lineEnd": 4219, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of brooms, denotes thrift and rapid improvement in\nyour fortune, if the brooms are new. If they are seen in use,\nyou will lose in speculation. For a woman to lose a broom,\nforetells that she will prove a disagreeable and slovenly\nwife and housekeeper." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "broth", "title": "Broth", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Broth denotes the sincerity of friends. 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Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0288", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Broth", "text": "Broth denotes the sincerity of friends. They will uphold you in\nall instances. If you need pecuniary aid it will be forthcoming.\nTo lovers, it promises a strong and lasting attachment.\n\nTo make broth, you will rule your own and others' fate.", "locator": "Heading 288; source lines 4219–4227", "lineStart": 4219, "lineEnd": 4227, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Broth denotes the sincerity of friends. They will uphold you in\nall instances. If you need pecuniary aid it will be forthcoming.\nTo lovers, it promises a strong and lasting attachment.\n\nTo make broth, you will rule your own and others' fate." }, { "id": "fontaine-0094", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Broth", "text": "To dream of eating broths, or soups, is a good sign, and denotes\nprofit and gain. 32, 9.", "locator": "Heading 94; source line 1375", "lineStart": 1375, "lineEnd": 1378, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of eating broths, or soups, is a good sign, and denotes\nprofit and gain." }, { "id": "noe-0072", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Broth", "text": "To dream of eating broth is a good sign and signifies\nprofit and gain.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 74; source lines 379–380", "lineStart": 379, "lineEnd": 380, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of eating broth is a good sign and signifies\nprofit and gain." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "brothel", "title": "Brothel", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of being in a brothel, denotes you will encounter disgrace through your material indulgence.”", "aliases": [ "brothel" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about brothel stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0289", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Brothel", "text": "To dream of being in a brothel, denotes you will encounter disgrace\nthrough your material indulgence.", "locator": "Heading 289; source lines 4227–4232", "lineStart": 4227, "lineEnd": 4232, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being in a brothel, denotes you will encounter disgrace\nthrough your material indulgence." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "brothers", "title": "Brothers", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see your brothers, while dreaming, full of energy, you will have cause to rejoice at your own, or their…” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "brothers", "brother" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about brothers stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0290", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Brothers", "text": "To see your brothers, while dreaming, full of energy, you will\nhave cause to rejoice at your own, or their good fortune;\nbut if they are poor and in distress, or begging for assistance,\nyou will be called to a deathbed soon, or some dire loss will\noverwhelm you or them.", "locator": "Heading 290; source lines 4232–4240", "lineStart": 4232, "lineEnd": 4240, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see your brothers, while dreaming, full of energy, you will\nhave cause to rejoice at your own, or their good fortune;\nbut if they are poor and in distress, or begging for assistance,\nyou will be called to a deathbed soon, or some dire loss will\noverwhelm you or them." }, { "id": "fontaine-0095", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Brothers", "text": "To dream you see your brothers and sisters, signifies long\nlife to the dreamer, but it portends a death in your family. 24, 8.", "locator": "Heading 95; source line 1378", "lineStart": 1378, "lineEnd": 1381, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see your brothers and sisters, signifies long\nlife to the dreamer, but it portends a death in your family." }, { "id": "noe-0041", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Brother", "text": "To dream you see your brother,\ndenotes a speedy marriage in your family and that the dreamer will not be\nlong-lived; if you are in love it is a favorable omen.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 41; source lines 269–271", "lineStart": 269, "lineEnd": 271, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see your brother,\ndenotes a speedy marriage in your family and that the dreamer will not be\nlong-lived; if you are in love it is a favorable omen." }, { "id": "luck-0026", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Brother", "text": "Seeing dead brothers or sisters in a dream is a sign of\nlong life.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 26; source lines 3574–3577", "lineStart": 3574, "lineEnd": 3577, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Seeing dead brothers or sisters in a dream is a sign of\nlong life." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "brown", "title": "Brown (color)", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "A familiar appearance can matter through what it lets you recognize.", "summary": "Brown as a hue can explore familiar details carried into a new setting, judgments made from appearance and distinctions hidden within an ordinary surface.", "aliases": [ "brown", "brown color", "brown colour", "the color brown", "the colour brown" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "The brown shade of an old cabinet appearing on something new can picture continuity carried through a small detail. A changed workspace may feel usable because one part resembles an earlier routine, or a new household arrangement may retain something that helps you recognize your place. Pleasure can come from that particular resemblance rather than from an abstract meaning of stability. If the copied appearance feels unwanted, it can instead picture an old expectation following you into conditions you hoped would be different.\n\nA clean brown cup being dismissed as dirty can make an assumed category more influential than the object’s actual use. A modest piece of work may be judged by its presentation, or a familiar method may be overlooked because it lacks an impressive finish. Showing what the cup does changes the encounter from defending an appearance toward making function visible. The scene does not make brown a code for dirt or infer anything about cleanliness in waking life.\n\nChoosing a plain brown option among elaborate alternatives can picture enough for your purpose. A practical routine, ordinary resource or understated contribution may suit you without needing to attract everyone’s attention. Satisfaction differs from choosing only because another preference seems unavailable. The useful distinction concerns whether simplicity feels chosen, rather than a rule that a quiet appearance is always better.\n\nSeveral objects becoming the same brown can make an ordinary arrangement harder to navigate. Distinct tasks or responsibilities may have become difficult to tell apart within a shared routine. A changed outline, label or position can restore their differences. A single brown square among brightly colored cards creates the reverse experience: the same hue now gives you a recognizable place because its context changes.\n\nRemoving a familiar brown detail to make a room look entirely new can make renewal and continuity compete. You may welcome change while wanting a useful trace retained. Furniture, clothing, a drawing or a remembered surface can also supply direct context. These original comparisons concern personal familiarity, practical recognition and the judgments attached to appearance; they do not infer a surname, human identity, bodily condition or universal character from the hue.", "traditional": "This reflection concerns a recognized brown appearance or color choice. A brown surface need not be soil, food being browned, or a statement about human identity. No historical brown-color interpretation is used; the general sleep reference does not establish a stability, character or fortune code.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A useful trace of familiarity", "reflection": "A remembered shade can make a new arrangement recognizable. Welcome continuity differs from feeling that an old expectation has followed you into a place meant to change." }, { "title": "Appearance and practical use", "reflection": "A plain or misread surface can expose how something is assessed. Showing its use may matter more than making it resemble the presentation other people expect." }, { "title": "Distinction depends on the setting", "reflection": "The same hue can hide differences when everything shares it, or mark a useful place among contrasting objects. The actual arrangement gives recognition its conditions." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A new cabinet carries the brown shade of an old one", "reflection": "A small resemblance gives changed surroundings a familiar point. This may picture continuity during a move or new role. Comfort differs from wanting a fresh arrangement without the earlier expectations; the remembered shade matters through its particular history for you." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A clean brown cup is treated as dirty", "reflection": "An appearance receives a judgment that does not fit its use. This can resemble ordinary work dismissed because of presentation. Demonstrating what is available may change the encounter, without making the dream’s color evidence of actual dirt or another person’s motives." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You prefer a plain brown option among elaborate ones", "reflection": "A modest choice fits the purpose you actually have. This may picture an ordinary routine or resource being sufficient. Satisfaction in choosing it differs from settling because another option seems forbidden; simplicity gains meaning through your preference and available alternatives." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Different objects become the same brown", "reflection": "An established appearance makes separate things difficult to distinguish. This can fit duties or resources blending together inside a routine. Another label or position may restore useful differences more directly than assuming that everything familiar must already be easy to understand." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A brown square helps you find your place among bright cards", "reflection": "A detail becomes recognizable through contrast with its surroundings. This may picture an ordinary contribution finding a distinct place in a crowded arrangement. Its usefulness concerns orientation within this scene, rather than a rule that one color always attracts attention." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "A familiar brown detail is removed during a redesign", "reflection": "Renewal changes more than the overall presentation. This may picture a useful trace disappearing while a routine is updated. Wanting it retained can coexist with welcoming change; the question concerns what the detail provides rather than preserving every part of the earlier arrangement." } ], "prompts": [ "Which familiar detail helped or hindered recognition in the new setting?", "What did the object’s use reveal beyond the judgment made from its appearance?", "Where did the arrangement need clearer distinctions rather than a different overall style?" ], "related": [ "colors", "clothes", "clay", "paint-and-painting" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "detectionAliases": [ "brown color", "brown colour", "the color brown", "the colour brown" ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "brush", "title": "Brush", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of using a hair-brush, denotes you will suffer misfortune from your mismanagement.”", "aliases": [ "brush" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about brush stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0291", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Brush", "text": "To dream of using a hair-brush, denotes you will suffer\nmisfortune from your mismanagement. To see old hair brushes,\ndenotes sickness and ill health. To see clothes brushes,\nindicates a heavy task is pending over you.\n\nIf you are busy brushing your clothes, you will soon receive reimbursement\nfor laborious work. To see miscellaneous brushes, foretells a varied line\nof work, yet withal, rather pleasing and remunerative.", "locator": "Heading 291; source lines 4240–4251", "lineStart": 4240, "lineEnd": 4251, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of using a hair-brush, denotes you will suffer\nmisfortune from your mismanagement. To see old hair brushes,\ndenotes sickness and ill health. To see clothes brushes,\nindicates a heavy task is pending over you.\n\nIf you are busy brushing your clothes, you will soon receive reimbursement\nfor laborious work. To see miscellaneous brushes, foretells a varied line\nof work, yet withal, rather pleasing and remunerative." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "bubble-wrap", "title": "Bubble wrap", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "aliases": [ "bubble wrap" ], "summary": "Bubble wrap can explore care fitted to a particular object, the point when packing can end, and different uses for the same material.", "tagline": "Care takes a form that can eventually be removed.", "psychological": "Bubble wrap can give care a visible, hands-on form. You surround a particular object, choose how much material to use, or uncover something that someone else has prepared. This can picture making an arrangement for what you value while it changes place or passes between people. A small keepsake, an ordinary mug, and an unfamiliar parcel will give that care different personal contexts.\n\nWrapping a chosen item closely can express pleasure in attending to its particular shape. You may be preparing a gift, finishing a move, or finding a way to carry something that matters without having to abandon it. A waking comparison might be preparing work so its next reader can receive it. Care becomes specific through what the arrangement allows, rather than every layer carrying a fixed meaning of protection.\n\nToo little material for several wanted objects can make allocation part of the preparation. The difficulty may be deciding what needs attention first instead of proving that you value only one thing. Several projects or commitments can require different arrangements even when they are equally important. A simple agreement about the next stage can change the scene more than trying to cover everything in exactly the same way.\n\nMany layers around an empty parcel create a different tension. Preparation can look substantial while its intended center is absent. This might resemble elaborate plans made before deciding what an occasion is for. Disappointment can concern expecting an actual object; amusement can make the empty wrapping a playful surprise. The feeling keeps those possibilities apart without turning appearances into proof of anyone’s intentions.\n\nWrapping that a recipient cannot remove can make continued care compete with actual use. A finished arrangement may need to release what it was helping to carry. Popping bubbles for pleasure offers another purpose entirely, with no parcel required. Keeping a sheet for later while someone else discards it can bring future usefulness into disagreement with clearing space now. These scenes follow handling, allocation, enjoyment, and release. The imagery can also come from an ordinary package or move; it does not establish danger, guarantee safety, or prescribe a way to manage distress.", "traditional": "No historical bubble-wrap account is attached. Luggage, unfinished packing, and Box are neighboring subjects with different scopes. These original material-handling scenes are not historical protection omens, and the general research citation does not validate their symbolic comparisons.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Care fitted to an object", "reflection": "Wrapping can make attention specific to what is being carried. Different valued things need not receive identical arrangements to remain important." }, { "title": "Preparation eventually releases its purpose", "reflection": "Layers can help an object reach another place but then need to come away. A finished arrangement may be useful because it permits a next stage." }, { "title": "Several uses for the same material", "reflection": "Packing, playful popping, and saving a sheet make different purposes possible. Agreement matters when people want different uses from what is available." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "You wrap a keepsake to fit its unusual shape", "reflection": "The preparation responds to the particular thing you want to carry. This can picture attentive care for a project, memory, or gift with its own requirements. Satisfaction may come from finding a workable form, rather than adding layers simply because more material is available." }, { "title": "One small sheet must serve two objects you value", "reflection": "Available material brings priorities into a practical choice. This may resemble several commitments needing attention at the same time. Choosing an order or a different arrangement need not decide that one object matters less; the scene can concern the next step rather than a final hierarchy of value." }, { "title": "You unwrap many layers and find no object inside", "reflection": "The preparation has an impressive form but lacks the center you expected. This could picture plans becoming elaborate before their purpose is clear. Disappointment and amusement suggest different readings, especially when an empty parcel feels like a failed promise or a deliberately playful surprise." }, { "title": "You pop bubbles while waiting, with nothing to pack", "reflection": "The material becomes a chosen pleasure rather than a means to another result. This may picture an ordinary interval you can enjoy without making it productive. Enjoyment, boredom, or embarrassment changes the reading; the dream does not establish a therapeutic effect or a hidden need for relief." }, { "title": "A recipient cannot remove the wrapping to use the item", "reflection": "Continued preparation blocks the use it was meant to support. This can resemble a finished project whose protective conditions make it hard to receive. Loosening the arrangement within the dream gives care an endpoint, without implying that every earlier effort was unnecessary or unwanted." }, { "title": "Someone discards a sheet you intended to reuse", "reflection": "Future usefulness meets another person’s wish to clear space now. This might picture different expectations about what should remain available after a task. Keeping a particular sheet by agreement differs from insisting that everything be saved; the disagreement concerns its intended use and the shared space." } ], "prompts": [ "What particular object or purpose gave the wrapping its value?", "How did preparation help the next stage, and when did it become an obstacle?", "Which use of the material mattered to each person in the scene?" ], "related": [ "luggage", "packing-but-never-finishing", "box" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "guide-65367", "title": "Guide to Fortune-Telling by Dreams", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Multum in Parvo Library, Vol. I, No. 10, October 1894", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65367", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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If you dream the bull gores you, or tosses you, then expect\nshortly to lose your liberty; it denotes that some person in power will do\nyou an injury." }, { "id": "cielo-0079", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Bull", "text": "Denotes unexpected gain.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 79; source lines 4052–4054", "lineStart": 4052, "lineEnd": 4054, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Denotes unexpected gain." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9360", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Bull", "heading": "Bull", "text": "Violent enemies and slander are forecast by this dream (Artemidorus) ; an erotic dream (Freud and Jung) ; the Assyrian symbol of royal authority and of the sun, sacred also to the Egyptians and the Romans ; its modern symbolism is strength, yet throughout the whole of the gypsy dream interpretation it bears an evil meaning, due either to the legend of the golden calf, or to the apparently evil construction of all erotic and phallic symbols.", "lineStart": 9360, "lineEnd": 9368, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 204; NLM OCR lines 9360–9368", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9360, "lineEnd": 9368, "printedPage": 204, "printedPageEnd": 204 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Bull. — Violent enemies and slander are forecast by this \ndream (Artemidorus) ; an erotic dream (Freud and Jung) ; the \nAssyrian symbol of royal authority and of the sun, sacred also \nto the Egyptians and the Romans ; its modern symbolism is \nstrength, yet throughout the whole of the gypsy dream inter- \npretation it bears an evil meaning, due either to the legend of \nthe golden calf, or to the apparently evil construction of all \nerotic and phallic symbols. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "inter- \npretation", "after": "interpretation", "evidenceLine": 72 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Bull" }, "displayText": "Violent enemies and slander are forecast by this dream (Artemidorus); an erotic dream (Freud and Jung); the Assyrian symbol of royal authority and of the sun, sacred also to the Egyptians and the Romans; its modern symbolism is strength, yet throughout the whole of the gypsy dream interpretation it bears an evil meaning, due either to the legend of the golden calf, or to the apparently evil construction of all erotic and phallic symbols." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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See Dog." }, { "id": "luck-0027", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Bulldog", "text": "A good omen in love or business.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 27; source lines 3577–3579", "lineStart": 3577, "lineEnd": 3579, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "A good omen in love or business." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9369", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Bulldog", "heading": "Bulldog", "text": "Faithful, loyal friends (Gypsy) ; the symbol of pertinacity and fidelity (Brewer).", "lineStart": 9369, "lineEnd": 9371, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 204; NLM OCR lines 9369–9371", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9369, "lineEnd": 9371, "printedPage": 204, "printedPageEnd": 204 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Bulldog. — Faithful, loyal friends (Gypsy) ; the symbol of \npertinacity and fidelity (Brewer). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Bulldog" }, "displayText": "Faithful, loyal friends (Gypsy); the symbol of pertinacity and fidelity (Brewer)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "dog" ] }, { "slug": "bullock", "title": "Bullock", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Denotes that kind friends will surround you, if you are in danger from enemies.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "bullock" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about bullock stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "bull" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0299", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Bullock", "text": "Denotes that kind friends will surround you, if you are in danger\nfrom enemies. Good health is promised you.\n\n\n[28] See Bull.", "locator": "Heading 299; source lines 4316–4324", "lineStart": 4316, "lineEnd": 4324, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Denotes that kind friends will surround you, if you are in danger\nfrom enemies. Good health is promised you. See Bull." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9372", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Bullock", "heading": "Bullock", "text": "To be attacked by one is an ominous dream (Gypsy) ; an erotic dream (Freud).", "lineStart": 9372, "lineEnd": 9378, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 204–205; NLM OCR lines 9372–9378", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9372, "lineEnd": 9378, "printedPage": 204, "printedPageEnd": 205 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Bullock. — To be attacked by one is an ominous dream \n(Gypsy) ; an erotic dream (Freud). \n\n\nSYMBOLISM IN DREAMS 205 \n\n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [ { "line": 9376, "text": "SYMBOLISM IN DREAMS 205 " } ], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Bullock" }, "displayText": "To be attacked by one is an ominous dream (Gypsy); an erotic dream (Freud)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "bull" ] }, { "slug": "buoy", "title": "Buoy", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “A warning of danger ahead (Gypsy); symbolism apparent.”", "aliases": [ "buoy" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about buoy stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L9379", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Buoy", "heading": "Buoy", "text": "A warning of danger ahead (Gypsy) ; symbolism apparent.", "lineStart": 9379, "lineEnd": 9381, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 205; NLM OCR lines 9379–9381", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9379, "lineEnd": 9381, "printedPage": 205, "printedPageEnd": 205 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Buoy. — A warning of danger ahead (Gypsy) ; symbolism \napparent. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Buoy" }, "displayText": "A warning of danger ahead (Gypsy); symbolism apparent." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "burden", "title": "Burden", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you carry a heavy burden, signifies that you will be tied down by oppressive weights of care and injustice, caused from…”", "aliases": [ "burden" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about burden stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0300", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Burden", "text": "To dream that you carry a heavy burden, signifies that you\nwill be tied down by oppressive weights of care and injustice,\ncaused from favoritism shown your enemies by those in power.\nBut to struggle free from it, you will climb to the topmost\nheights of success.", "locator": "Heading 300; source lines 4324–4332", "lineStart": 4324, "lineEnd": 4332, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you carry a heavy burden, signifies that you\nwill be tied down by oppressive weights of care and injustice,\ncaused from favoritism shown your enemies by those in power.\nBut to struggle free from it, you will climb to the topmost\nheights of success." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "burglars", "title": "Burglars", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that they are searching your person, you will have dangerous enemies to contend with, who will destroy you if extreme carefulness…”", "aliases": [ "burglars" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about burglars stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0302", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Burglars", "text": "To dream that they are searching your person, you will have dangerous\nenemies to contend with, who will destroy you if extreme carefulness\nis not practised in your dealings with strangers.\n\nIf you dream of your home, or place of business, being burglarized,\nyour good standing in business or society will be assailed,\nbut courage in meeting these difficulties will defend you.\nAccidents may happen to the careless after this dream.", "locator": "Heading 302; source lines 4337–4348", "lineStart": 4337, "lineEnd": 4348, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that they are searching your person, you will have dangerous\nenemies to contend with, who will destroy you if extreme carefulness\nis not practised in your dealings with strangers.\n\nIf you dream of your home, or place of business, being burglarized,\nyour good standing in business or society will be assailed,\nbut courage in meeting these difficulties will defend you.\nAccidents may happen to the careless after this dream." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "burial", "title": "Burial", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "aliases": [ "burial" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "summary": "Burial can explore how a placing or covering is carried out, who participates, or what remains accessible after something is put away.", "tagline": "An act of placing something can have terms beyond its apparent ending.", "psychological": "Burial in a dream can make the act of placing, covering or attending to something especially concrete. You may take part, watch from nearby or discover that the process pauses over a practical detail. The experience can concern participation, the treatment of a memory or a choice about what remains accessible. It does not predict a death or require every burial scene to mean that something must be forgotten.\n\nChoosing a small object to accompany a burial can give the occasion a personal contribution. What belongs with the farewell may matter more than completing its formal steps. A real burial, a remembered custom or a scene from a story can provide direct context. An invented arrangement does not establish what a tradition requires or how an actual person should be remembered.\n\nA process that waits because nobody has agreed where an item belongs can separate an intended ending from the conditions needed to carry it out. This may resemble a task whose purpose is understood but whose practical terms remain unresolved. Wanting clarification need not mean resisting the occasion. Helping with the covering at a different pace from others instead brings coordination into view: shared participation can need more than shared intention.\n\nBurying a closed box in private changes the scene from a public farewell to a chosen placement. The box may feel protected, hidden or simply stored for another time. Its significance depends on what you know about it and how the action feels. The image does not prove repression or reveal that an unrecognized memory is waiting inside.\n\nAn object buried earlier appearing in an ordinary drawer can make the placement less final than expected. This may picture a decision continuing to have a place in daily life, without undoing every part of it. Returning to an ordinary task after the burial gives a different relation between the event and what continues. Neither scene requires complete closure or a verdict about the right timing of grief. The particular action, available choices and degree of participation guide whether a waking comparison fits, rather than a fixed rule that covering always means concealment or completion.", "traditional": "The three Burial accounts concern different scenes. Miller assigns health, marriage or adverse outcomes according to weather and mournful rites, then cross-references Funeral. Noe’s complete two-line verse predicts news of living people from a burial passing by. The Book of Luck predicts wealth in proportion to covering earth. These are attributed period forecasts, not evidence about illness, fortune or how a farewell should be carried out.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Participation with a personal contribution", "reflection": "An occasion can leave room for a meaningful detail alongside its shared form." }, { "title": "An action with workable conditions", "reflection": "A placing or covering may need agreed terms, timing or coordination." }, { "title": "Continuing access after a placement", "reflection": "Putting something away can coexist with an ongoing place for memory or ordinary activity." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You choose a small personal object to accompany the burial", "reflection": "A detail makes your contribution specific within a shared occasion. This may picture wanting a farewell to acknowledge something personally meaningful. The choice does not prescribe a ritual or prove what someone else would want; the object and your association supply its particular context." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "The burial pauses because nobody agrees where an item belongs", "reflection": "The intended action has a purpose but lacks one practical condition. This can resemble wanting clarification before completing a shared task. The pause need not mean resistance to an ending, and the dream does not decide which participant has the correct real-world preference." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You help cover the place while others work at a different pace", "reflection": "Participation is shared while the timing does not fit everyone equally. This may picture coordination needing attention alongside a common intention. Moving differently need not reveal how much each person cares or whether you are ready for loss; the available conversation shapes the scene." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You bury a closed box privately without a gathering around it", "reflection": "The placement belongs to your own arrangement rather than a public occasion. It may feel protected, hidden or stored for later use. What you know about the contents matters; the closed box does not establish repression or reveal a concealed memory that must be recovered." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "An object buried earlier appears again in an ordinary drawer", "reflection": "Something put away remains available within daily life on unexpected terms. This can picture a decision or memory continuing to have a place without undoing its earlier significance. The return does not predict an event or require you to repeat the placement until it feels final." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "After the burial you return to an unfinished everyday task", "reflection": "The event ends while ordinary responsibilities continue alongside its effect. This may picture a practical next step without requiring a particular emotional ending. Returning to activity need not mean forgetting or inadequate grief; what remains important can coexist with what still needs doing." } ], "prompts": [ "What was being placed or covered, and what did that action allow?", "How did your participation differ from the timing or form of the wider occasion?", "What remained accessible or significant after the action was complete?" ], "related": [ "grave", "funeral", "mourning", "buried-alive" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0303" ], "scope": "miller-0303: A relative’s burial in sun versus rain receives health/marriage versus illness, news and business forecasts; sorrowful rites receive adverse surroundings. The account cross-references Funeral. Exact supplied passages: miller-0303 — Burial (Heading 303; source lines 4348–4363). Attributed historical comparison only; no forecast validates the original reflection or establishes actual health, relationships, beliefs or circumstances." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0063" ], "scope": "noe-0063: The complete two-line Burial verse assigns news of living people to a burial passing by. Exact supplied passages: noe-0063 — Burial (Dream section, heading 64; source lines 349–354). Attributed historical comparison only; no forecast validates the original reflection or establishes actual health, relationships, beliefs or circumstances." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0028" ], "scope": "luck-0028: Being buried receives a wealth forecast proportional to the imagined covering earth. Exact supplied passages: luck-0028 — Burial (Dream section, heading 28; source lines 3579–3582). Attributed historical comparison only; no forecast validates the original reflection or establishes actual health, relationships, beliefs or circumstances." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0303", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Burial", "text": "To attend the burial of a relative, if the sun is shining\non the procession, is a sign of the good health of relations,\nand perhaps the happy marriage of some one of them is about to occur.\nBut if rain and dismal weather prevails, sickness and bad news\nof the absent will soon come, and depressions in business circles\nwill be felt\n\nA burial where there are sad rites performed, or sorrowing faces,\nis indicative of adverse surroundings or their speedy approach.\n\n\n[29] See Funeral.", "locator": "Heading 303; source lines 4348–4363", "lineStart": 4348, "lineEnd": 4363, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To attend the burial of a relative, if the sun is shining\non the procession, is a sign of the good health of relations,\nand perhaps the happy marriage of some one of them is about to occur.\nBut if rain and dismal weather prevails, sickness and bad news\nof the absent will soon come, and depressions in business circles\nwill be felt\n\nA burial where there are sad rites performed, or sorrowing faces,\nis indicative of adverse surroundings or their speedy approach. See Funeral." }, { "id": "noe-0063", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Burial", "text": "To dream a burial passes by,\n News of the living doth imply.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 64; source lines 349–354", "lineStart": 349, "lineEnd": 354, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream a burial passes by,\nNews of the living doth imply." }, { "id": "luck-0028", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Burial", "text": "To dream of being buried means that wealth is coming--\"as\nmuch wealth as earth laid over you.\"", "locator": "Dream section, heading 28; source lines 3579–3582", "lineStart": 3579, "lineEnd": 3582, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being buried means that wealth is coming--\"as\nmuch wealth as earth laid over you.\"" } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [ "funeral" ] }, { "slug": "buried-alive", "title": "Buried Alive", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are buried alive. denotes that you are about to make a great mistake, which your…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "buried alive" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about buried alive stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0304", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Buried Alive", "text": "To dream that you are buried alive. denotes that you are about to make\na great mistake, which your opponents will quickly turn to your injury.\nIf you are rescued from the grave, your struggle will eventually\ncorrect your misadventure.", "locator": "Heading 304; source lines 4363–4370", "lineStart": 4363, "lineEnd": 4370, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are buried alive. denotes that you are about to make\na great mistake, which your opponents will quickly turn to your injury.\nIf you are rescued from the grave, your struggle will eventually\ncorrect your misadventure." }, { "id": "fontaine-0099", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Buried Alive", "text": "To dream that you are buried alive denotes that you will\nbe rich and powerful. To wealthy people it is a sign of addition to\ntheir wealth. 11, 14.", "locator": "Heading 99; source line 1399", "lineStart": 1399, "lineEnd": 1403, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are buried alive denotes that you will\nbe rich and powerful. To wealthy people it is a sign of addition to\ntheir wealth." }, { "id": "noe-0073", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Buried Alive", "text": "For a man to dream he is buried alive,\nsignifies he shall have much wealth.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 75; source lines 380–381", "lineStart": 380, "lineEnd": 381, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a man to dream he is buried alive,\nsignifies he shall have much wealth." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "burned", "title": "Burned", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “For a man to dream he is burned, signifies (according to the interpretations of the Persians and Egyptians) that he shall be rich, honored and…”", "aliases": [ "burned" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about burned stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "noe-0074", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Burned", "text": "For a man to dream he is\nburned, signifies (according to the interpretations of the Persians and\nEgyptians) that he shall be rich, honored and respected; but if he\nimagines that he was burned by a fire that did not quite consume him, he\nwill inevitably perish in the end.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 76; source lines 381–385", "lineStart": 381, "lineEnd": 385, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a man to dream he is\nburned, signifies (according to the interpretations of the Persians and\nEgyptians) that he shall be rich, honored and respected; but if he\nimagines that he was burned by a fire that did not quite consume him, he\nwill inevitably perish in the end." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "burning", "title": "Burning", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “To see, in your dream, one or more houses burning, but not wholly destroyed, signifies, for the poor,…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "burning" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about burning stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "fire" ], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0098", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Burning", "text": "(_See Fire._) To see, in your dream, one or more houses\nburning, but not wholly destroyed, signifies, for the poor, that\nthey will become rich, and for the rich man, that his riches will\nbe augmented; but if the fire is furious, and the houses fall down,\nthe dreamer may expect losses, disappointments, shame, and death. To\ndream you burn yourself is a sign the malice of a stupid enemy will be\nfoiled. Play your age first.", "locator": "Heading 98; source line 1391", "lineStart": 1391, "lineEnd": 1399, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Fire.) To see, in your dream, one or more houses\nburning, but not wholly destroyed, signifies, for the poor, that\nthey will become rich, and for the rich man, that his riches will\nbe augmented; but if the fire is furious, and the houses fall down,\nthe dreamer may expect losses, disappointments, shame, and death. To\ndream you burn yourself is a sign the malice of a stupid enemy will be\nfoiled. Play your age first." }, { "id": "noe-0044", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Burning", "text": "To dream of burning doth imply,\n A sudden danger, ripe and nigh;\n Of all escapes you then beware,\n For though fate threatens, it may spare.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 44; source lines 280–287", "lineStart": 280, "lineEnd": 287, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of burning doth imply,\nA sudden danger, ripe and nigh;\nOf all escapes you then beware,\nFor though fate threatens, it may spare." }, { "id": "luck-0029", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Burning", "text": "(Houses, etc.) Riches and prosperity.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 29; source lines 3582–3584", "lineStart": 3582, "lineEnd": 3584, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(Houses, etc.) Riches and prosperity." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "artemidorus-073", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of burning houses.", "text": "HOuses burning with a cléer fire without falling or diminishing, is Riches to the Poore; and to the Rich▪ higher Estate and Dignity: But to the Houses which burn, or fall, or consume, are ill to all and signifie death of masters, children, servants, Parents, or Friends. In like sort, trées burning before or within the house. The doore of the house séeming to be on fire is death to the good wife, and danger to him which dreams it. To kindle the Fyre easily in the Oven or Harth, is a signe of Generation: but for it to goe out straight after is hurt.", "locator": "Book 2, encoded section 73", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "2", "displayText": "HOuses burning with a cléer fire without falling or diminishing, is Riches to the Poore; and to the Rich▪ higher Estate and Dignity: But to the Houses which burn, or fall, or consume, are ill to all and signifie death of masters, children, servants, Parents, or Friends. In like sort, trées burning before or within the house. The doore of the house séeming to be on fire is death to the good wife, and danger to him which dreams it. To kindle the Fyre easily in the Oven or Harth, is a signe of Generation: but for it to goe out straight after is hurt." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "burns", "title": "Burns", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Burns stand for tidings of good. 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Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0305", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Burns", "text": "Burns stand for tidings of good. To burn your hand in a clear and\nflowing fire, denotes purity of purpose and the approbation of friends.\nTo burn your feet in walking through coals, or beds of fire, denotes your\nability to accomplish any endeavor, however impossible it may be to others.\nYour usual good health will remain with you, but, if you are overcome\nin the fire, it represents that your interests will suffer through treachery\nof supposed friends.", "locator": "Heading 305; source lines 4370–4380", "lineStart": 4370, "lineEnd": 4380, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Burns stand for tidings of good. To burn your hand in a clear and\nflowing fire, denotes purity of purpose and the approbation of friends.\nTo burn your feet in walking through coals, or beds of fire, denotes your\nability to accomplish any endeavor, however impossible it may be to others.\nYour usual good health will remain with you, but, if you are overcome\nin the fire, it represents that your interests will suffer through treachery\nof supposed friends." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "burr", "title": "Burr", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of burrs, denotes that you will struggle to free self from some unpleasant burden, and will seek a change of surroundings.”", "aliases": [ "burr" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about burr stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0301", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Burr", "text": "To dream of burrs, denotes that you will struggle to free self from\nsome unpleasant burden, and will seek a change of surroundings.", "locator": "Heading 301; source lines 4332–4337", "lineStart": 4332, "lineEnd": 4337, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of burrs, denotes that you will struggle to free self from\nsome unpleasant burden, and will seek a change of surroundings." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "bus-stop", "title": "Bus stop", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "Waiting for a shared route still leaves choices of your own.", "summary": "A bus stop dream can explore waiting, changing timetables and deciding whether to board, remain or choose another route.", "aliases": [ "bus stop", "bus stops" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A bus stop is a place where your readiness must meet a service that runs on a shared schedule. In a dream, this can picture waiting for something you cannot start entirely by yourself: an answer, a coordinated plan or a process handled by another person. The stop offers a place to wait, but being there does not guarantee when movement will begin. That uncertainty can feel manageable when the arrangement seems reliable, or frustrating when no information arrives.\n\nBuses passing without stopping can make availability differ from access. You can see the means of moving but cannot join it. A group whose invitations never reach you or a service whose rules leave your situation outside them may provide a parallel. The dream does not establish deliberate exclusion. Whether the driver sees you, the sign is clear or you are standing at the expected place gives the difficulty a more specific shape.\n\nSeveral buses arriving together can turn waiting into a choice. An opening that once seemed absent may suddenly offer alternatives, but taking one means letting the others continue. This can resemble receiving several offers after a period of uncertainty. A clear destination makes the decision practical; following whoever boards first can picture letting collective movement substitute for your own purpose.\n\nThe stop may also be a meeting place. Remaining there to find another person changes the goal from transport to contact. You might recognize wanting to begin a plan together or delaying your own next step until someone else is ready. Waiting can be an act of care, but it may become an indefinite arrangement if no shared time has been agreed. What happens to your own route while you wait gives that difference substance.\n\nLeaving on foot can picture recovering a choice within an arrangement whose timing remains outside your control. The alternative may be slower, more tiring or unexpectedly pleasant; freedom does not automatically make it easier. Staying can also be a considered choice when the route serves your needs. Ordinary commuting memories may supply the scene directly. The reflective focus is how waiting, information and the ability to choose another way relate to the particular destination.", "traditional": "Omnibus is the supplied historical equivalent of a bus and already has its own canonical page. No supplied exact Bus Stop passage develops waiting at a public stop. These original reflections do not convert the older vehicle forecast into a rule about timetables or boarding.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Ready without control of timing", "reflection": "A stop can picture waiting for a shared process even after your own preparation is complete. The wait may be acceptable when information and expectations remain clear." }, { "title": "Available but not accessible", "reflection": "Passing vehicles can make an option visible without making it reachable. The question may concern how access is organized rather than whether the means exist." }, { "title": "Another way to proceed", "reflection": "Boarding, waiting or walking away can give different endings to the same delay. Choice may involve accepting a cost rather than finding a route with no constraints." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You wait while buses pass without stopping", "reflection": "Passing buses can picture access that remains just beyond your participation. An unanswered request or service with unclear conditions may fit. Being noticed and still not admitted differs from waiting where the route no longer runs." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Several buses arrive and you must choose", "reflection": "Several arrivals at once can picture alternatives appearing after a long wait. The challenge shifts from obtaining a chance to choosing one that serves your destination. Following the crowd may feel reassuring or directionless." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A familiar stop has moved", "reflection": "A moved stop can resemble a familiar process whose point of access has changed. You may still want the same destination while needing new instructions. The dream can center adapting to the change rather than missing an opportunity." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You stay at the stop to meet another person", "reflection": "Waiting to meet someone can picture wanting to proceed together. A shared decision or renewed contact may fit. The effect on your own route helps distinguish chosen accompaniment from a pause that has no agreed ending." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The timetable changes while you wait", "reflection": "A changing timetable can resemble expectations that revise themselves while you try to coordinate with them. A decision date or shared schedule may offer a parallel. The uncertainty comes from the arrangement rather than your readiness alone." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You leave the stop and walk a route of your own", "reflection": "Walking away can picture selecting a route whose pace you can set more directly. A slower independent plan may become preferable to indefinite waiting. Relief differs from giving up a route you still wanted to use." } ], "prompts": [ "What was I ready for, and what still depended on someone or something else?", "How did I know whether the route was available to me?", "What did waiting, boarding or leaving make possible?" ], "related": [ "omnibus", "being-late", "school-bus", "public-transport-suddenly-suspended", "ticket" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "business", "title": "Business", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “To dream of being full of business, is significant of some unexpected good fortune.”", "aliases": [ "business" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about business stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0100", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Business", "text": "To dream of being full of business, is significant of some\nunexpected good fortune; to finish it, marriage; if the business\nappears to be bad, it is a good sign. 41.", "locator": "Heading 100; source line 1403", "lineStart": 1403, "lineEnd": 1407, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being full of business, is significant of some\nunexpected good fortune; to finish it, marriage; if the business\nappears to be bad, it is a good sign." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "butcher", "title": "Butcher", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "6 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see them slaughtering cattle and much blood, you may expect long and fatal sickness in your family.” Compare 6 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "butcher", "of butcher", "butchers" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about butcher stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0306", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Butcher", "text": "To see them slaughtering cattle and much blood, you may expect long\nand fatal sickness in your family. To see a butcher cutting meat,\nyour character will be dissected by society to your detriment.\nBeware of writing letters or documents.", "locator": "Heading 306; source lines 4380–4387", "lineStart": 4380, "lineEnd": 4387, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see them slaughtering cattle and much blood, you may expect long\nand fatal sickness in your family. To see a butcher cutting meat,\nyour character will be dissected by society to your detriment.\nBeware of writing letters or documents." }, { "id": "fontaine-0101", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Butcher", "text": "If, in your dream, you see a butcher killing any animal, it is\na sign of the death of a friend or near relative. If a farmer dreams of\nseeing sheep killed, he will probably have a prolific flock. 73, 33, 16.", "locator": "Heading 101; source line 1407", "lineStart": 1407, "lineEnd": 1411, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If, in your dream, you see a butcher killing any animal, it is\na sign of the death of a friend or near relative. If a farmer dreams of\nseeing sheep killed, he will probably have a prolific flock." }, { "id": "artemidorus-161", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of Butcher[illegible passage].", "text": "BVtchers which knock downe, kill, cut and divide beasts, and after sell them, signifie danger and hurt, and death to the s[illegible passage]ck, for it is their calling to divide and sell dead beasts: to such as are doubtfull, it is greater doubt, to captives and bondmen it is issue of their evils.", "locator": "Book 3, encoded section 161", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription-with-gaps", "book": "3", "displayText": "BVtchers which knock downe, kill, cut and divide beasts, and after sell them, signifie danger and hurt, and death to the s [illegible passage] ck, for it is their calling to divide and sell dead beasts: to such as are doubtfull, it is greater doubt, to captives and bondmen it is issue of their evils.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Butcher[illegible passage]” is shown on the Butcher page: heading \"Of Butcher[illegible passage]\" is the butcher topic; slug contains the gap marker" }, { "id": "noe-0045", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Butchers", "text": "To dream of seeing butchers is in general a very unlucky\nomen; it always foretells some injury to the dreamer. If you see them\ncutting up meat some of your friends will be hanged, and you will\nexperience much misery and poverty.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 45; source lines 287–290", "lineStart": 287, "lineEnd": 290, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing butchers is in general a very unlucky\nomen; it always foretells some injury to the dreamer. If you see them\ncutting up meat some of your friends will be hanged, and you will\nexperience much misery and poverty." }, { "id": "cielo-0080", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Butcher", "text": "Foretells sorrow thru the loss of a friend.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 80; source lines 4054–4056", "lineStart": 4054, "lineEnd": 4056, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Foretells sorrow thru the loss of a friend." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9382", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Butcher", "heading": "Butcher", "text": "To dream that he cuts up meat denotes trouble and sickness (Gypsy) ; probably a dream of physical stimuli originating in the organ that the butcher seems to be cutting.", "lineStart": 9382, "lineEnd": 9385, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 205; NLM OCR lines 9382–9385", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9382, "lineEnd": 9385, "printedPage": 205, "printedPageEnd": 205 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Butcher. — To dream that he cuts up meat denotes trouble \nand sickness (Gypsy) ; probably a dream of physical stimuli \noriginating in the organ that the butcher seems to be cutting. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Butcher" }, "displayText": "To dream that he cuts up meat denotes trouble and sickness (Gypsy); probably a dream of physical stimuli originating in the organ that the butcher seems to be cutting." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "butter", "title": "Butter", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of eating fresh, golden butter, is a sign of good health and plans well carried out.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "butter" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about butter stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0307", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Butter", "text": "To dream of eating fresh, golden butter, is a sign of good health\nand plans well carried out; it will bring unto you possessions,\nwealth and knowledge.\n\nTo eat rancid butter, denotes a competency acquired through struggles\nof manual labor.\n\nTo sell butter, denotes small gain.", "locator": "Heading 307; source lines 4387–4398", "lineStart": 4387, "lineEnd": 4398, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of eating fresh, golden butter, is a sign of good health\nand plans well carried out; it will bring unto you possessions,\nwealth and knowledge.\n\nTo eat rancid butter, denotes a competency acquired through struggles\nof manual labor.\n\nTo sell butter, denotes small gain." }, { "id": "fontaine-0102", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Butter", "text": "If you eat it, you will be surprised by some good fortune, but\nmixed with sadness. 11, 7.", "locator": "Heading 102; source line 1411", "lineStart": 1411, "lineEnd": 1414, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you eat it, you will be surprised by some good fortune, but\nmixed with sadness." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "butterfly", "title": "Butterfly", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "Change, lightness, and fleeting movement take a delicate visible form.", "summary": "A butterfly can picture becoming more visible after change, enjoying something without possessing it, or attention moving between possibilities.", "aliases": [ "butterfly", "butterflies" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A butterfly can picture becoming visible in a different form after a period of change. When the dream shows it emerging from a chrysalis, the connection is especially concrete: movement follows a stage that may have looked quiet or closed. This can resemble returning to social life after concentrating on a project, taking on a new role, or showing work that has developed privately. The unfamiliar wings may express both possibility and the need to learn how to move differently.\n\nIts light, changeable flight can also picture exploratory attention. Following a butterfly from flower to flower may resemble trying interests or opportunities before choosing a direction. That movement can feel playful when there is room to experiment. If you are urgently trying to reach a destination, the same darting flight may instead express difficulty staying with one purpose while attractive alternatives keep appearing.\n\nA butterfly is difficult to command or hold. Watching it settle willingly can picture enjoying closeness or beauty without having to secure it permanently. Chasing it until it escapes may resemble turning a welcome possibility into a task that must be achieved. A friendship, creative impulse, or brief enjoyable moment can feel less available when every part must be controlled.\n\nThe wings make freedom visibly delicate. A damaged butterfly may picture concern for a new confidence or opportunity that does not yet feel sturdy. Protecting it gently can resemble making room for a developing skill. Carrying it everywhere because you fear any movement may instead show how protection begins to restrict the freedom you value.\n\nA butterfly entering through an open window can bring the theme of welcome into a private setting: something new is allowed in without a complicated invitation. Personal memories of gardens, drawings, and seasonal encounters can also supply the image directly.", "traditional": "Miller associates butterflies among flowers with prosperity and butterflies in flight with news from absent friends, adding a courtship forecast for young women. Fontaine links vividly colored butterflies with happiness and luxury. Craig's Butterfly entry offers a different emphasis: restlessness and inconstancy, alongside her discussion of the butterfly as a symbol of the soul and resurrection and of later associations with pleasure. These are attributed historical claims, not a settled universal meaning. Their contrast between flourishing, enjoyment, and restless movement helps explain why the actual action and feeling matter to an original modern reading.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Learning to move after change", "reflection": "Emerging or newly opened wings can picture becoming visible in a role that developed privately. The possibility may feel welcome while the way of moving within it is still unfamiliar." }, { "title": "Exploration or scattered attention", "reflection": "Darting flight can resemble curiosity among several possibilities or difficulty choosing a direction. The difference may lie in whether the movement feels playful or interrupts something you want to finish." }, { "title": "Enjoyment without possession", "reflection": "A butterfly that arrives and leaves freely can picture appreciating a connection or moment without securing it. Chasing or enclosing it may turn pleasure into pressure to control the outcome." }, { "title": "Protecting delicate freedom", "reflection": "Fragile wings can make a new skill or confidence feel worth protecting. Gentle support allows movement, while excessive protection may resemble limiting the very independence you hope to preserve." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A butterfly emerges and opens its wings", "reflection": "Emergence can picture being ready to show a change that has developed out of sight. Finishing training, returning after a quiet period, or beginning a new role could fit. Opening the wings gives the transition a visible form while leaving room for unfamiliar movement." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A butterfly settles gently on your hand", "reflection": "A willing arrival can picture connection without pursuit or proof. Someone choosing your company or a creative idea arriving during an unhurried moment might fit. Remaining still can express confidence that a welcome experience does not need to be seized in order to matter." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You chase a butterfly and it keeps escaping", "reflection": "The pursuit can resemble trying to guarantee an experience that works better with space. Forcing inspiration on a deadline or repeatedly seeking reassurance from someone could fit. Each attempt to secure the butterfly creates more distance, making the effort itself part of the difficulty." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You shelter a butterfly with a damaged wing", "reflection": "Caring for a delicate creature can picture protecting confidence after a setback or supporting a skill that is still developing. A careful restart after criticism might be a parallel. Whether shelter helps it move again or keeps it confined changes the meaning of the care." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Many butterflies pull your attention in different directions", "reflection": "A field of competing movement can picture having more appealing possibilities than you can follow. New projects, invitations, or interests may each seem worthwhile. The scene may feel abundant or overwhelming depending on whether you are free to explore or expected to choose immediately." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "A butterfly enters through your open window", "reflection": "A small visitor crossing into a private room can picture willingness to let a new experience into ordinary life. An unexpected friendship or a modest opportunity could fit. The open window makes welcome possible without requiring you to abandon the setting that already supports you." } ], "prompts": [ "Did the butterfly emerge, arrive freely, escape pursuit, or need protection?", "Did its movement feel playful and open, or did it interfere with a direction I wanted to follow?", "What welcome experience am I trying to hold still, and what might change if it had more room?" ], "related": [ "caterpillar", "moth", "flower", "bird", "flying" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "scope": "Historical comparison only: Butterfly, miller-0308 (Heading 308; source lines 4398–4407). Period dream-book claims support only the attributed historical comparison, not predictions or the original modern reflections.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0308" ] }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "scope": "Historical comparison only: Butterflies, fontaine-0104 (Heading 104; source line 1417). Period dream-book claims support only the attributed historical comparison, not predictions or the original modern reflections.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0104" ] }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "scope": "Historical comparison only: Butterfly, craig-1918:L9386 (Printed p. 205; NLM OCR lines 9386–9396). Period dream-book claims support only the attributed historical comparison, not predictions or the original modern reflections.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L9386" ] }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia editorial upgrade with image-specific interpretations, concrete waking-life parallels, and six differentiated scenes. Historical context is grounded in the cited catalogue passages. Human publication review pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0308", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Butterfly", "text": "To see a butterfly among flowers and green grasses, indicates prosperity\nand fair attainments.\n\nTo see them flying about, denotes news from absent friends by letter,\nor from some one who has seen them. To a young woman, a happy love,\nculminating in a life union.", "locator": "Heading 308; source lines 4398–4407", "lineStart": 4398, "lineEnd": 4407, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a butterfly among flowers and green grasses, indicates prosperity\nand fair attainments.\n\nTo see them flying about, denotes news from absent friends by letter,\nor from some one who has seen them. To a young woman, a happy love,\nculminating in a life union." }, { "id": "fontaine-0104", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Butterflies", "text": "To dream you see gaudy butterflies, portends much\nhappiness and luxury. 46, 18.", "locator": "Heading 104; source line 1417", "lineStart": 1417, "lineEnd": 1420, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see gaudy butterflies, portends much\nhappiness and luxury." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9386", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Butterfly", "heading": "Butterfly", "text": "Lack of fixed purpose, restlessness, inconstancy (Gypsy). It was the Greek symbol for the psyche or soul, and the Christians also employed it as a symbol of the resurrection ; the significance of its bursting from its chrysalis into glory, was, however, lost during the middle ages, when men ceased to observe nature, and the shallow symbolism became established and continues to the present day; modern symbolism, sportiveness, living in pleasure.", "lineStart": 9386, "lineEnd": 9396, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 205; NLM OCR lines 9386–9396", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9386, "lineEnd": 9396, "printedPage": 205, "printedPageEnd": 205 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Butterfly. — Lack of fixed purpose, restlessness, incon- \nstancy (Gypsy). It was the Greek symbol for the psyche or \nsoul, and the Christians also employed it as a symbol of the \nresurrection ; the significance of its bursting from its chrysalis \ninto glory, was, however, lost during the middle ages, when \nmen ceased to observe nature, and the shallow symbolism \nbecame established and continues to the present day; modern \nsymbolism, sportiveness, living in pleasure. \n\nC \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [ { "line": 9395, "text": "C " } ], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "incon- \nstancy", "after": "inconstancy", "evidenceLine": 9951 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Butterfly" }, "displayText": "Lack of fixed purpose, restlessness, inconstancy (Gypsy). It was the Greek symbol for the psyche or soul, and the Christians also employed it as a symbol of the resurrection; the significance of its bursting from its chrysalis into glory, was, however, lost during the middle ages, when men ceased to observe nature, and the shallow symbolism became established and continues to the present day; modern symbolism, sportiveness, living in pleasure." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "buttermilk", "title": "Buttermilk", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Drinking buttermilk, denotes sorrow will follow some worldly pleasure, and some imprudence will impair the…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "buttermilk" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about buttermilk stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0310", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Buttermilk", "text": "Drinking buttermilk, denotes sorrow will follow some worldly pleasure,\nand some imprudence will impair the general health of the dreamer.\n\nTo give it away, or feed it to pigs, is bad still.\n\nTo dream that you are drinking buttermilk made into\noyster soup, denotes that you will be called on to do some\nvery repulsive thing, and ill luck will confront you.\nThere are quarrels brewing and friendships threatened.\nIf you awaken while you are drinking it, by discreet maneuvering\nyou may effect a pleasant understanding of disagreements.", "locator": "Heading 310; source lines 4419–4433", "lineStart": 4419, "lineEnd": 4433, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Drinking buttermilk, denotes sorrow will follow some worldly pleasure,\nand some imprudence will impair the general health of the dreamer.\n\nTo give it away, or feed it to pigs, is bad still.\n\nTo dream that you are drinking buttermilk made into\noyster soup, denotes that you will be called on to do some\nvery repulsive thing, and ill luck will confront you.\nThere are quarrels brewing and friendships threatened.\nIf you awaken while you are drinking it, by discreet maneuvering\nyou may effect a pleasant understanding of disagreements." }, { "id": "fontaine-0103", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Buttermilk", "text": "Losses from an extension of business. To the sick it is a\nsign of speedy convalescence. 71.", "locator": "Heading 103; source line 1414", "lineStart": 1414, "lineEnd": 1417, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Losses from an extension of business. To the sick it is a\nsign of speedy convalescence." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "buttons", "title": "Buttons", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of sewing bright shining buttons on a uniform, betokens to a young woman the warm affection of a…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "buttons" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about buttons stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0309", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Buttons", "text": "To dream of sewing bright shining buttons on a uniform, betokens to a young\nwoman the warm affection of a fine looking and wealthy partner in marriage.\nTo a youth, it signifies admittance to military honors and a bright career.\n\nDull, or cloth buttons, denotes disappointments and systematic losses\nand ill health.\n\nThe loss of a button, and the consequent anxiety as to losing a garment,\ndenotes prospective losses in trade.", "locator": "Heading 309; source lines 4407–4419", "lineStart": 4407, "lineEnd": 4419, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of sewing bright shining buttons on a uniform, betokens to a young\nwoman the warm affection of a fine looking and wealthy partner in marriage.\nTo a youth, it signifies admittance to military honors and a bright career.\n\nDull, or cloth buttons, denotes disappointments and systematic losses\nand ill health.\n\nThe loss of a button, and the consequent anxiety as to losing a garment,\ndenotes prospective losses in trade." }, { "id": "noe-0077", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Buttons", "text": "To dream of\nbright buttons is seldom good; if rusty, it portends misfortune; if\ncovered, sadness. If a man dreams he has lost all the buttons of his\nclothes, it is a sign he will not live long.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 79; source lines 398–403", "lineStart": 398, "lineEnd": 403, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of\nbright buttons is seldom good; if rusty, it portends misfortune; if\ncovered, sadness. If a man dreams he has lost all the buttons of his\nclothes, it is a sign he will not live long." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "buying", "title": "Buying", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “To dream you buy all sorts of things that one uses, is good.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "buying" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about buying stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0105", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Buying", "text": "To dream you buy all sorts of things that one uses, is good; to\nbuy that which is only for victuals and relief, is good for the poor;\nbut to the rich it signifies expenses and great charges. 19, 2, 69.", "locator": "Heading 105; source line 1420", "lineStart": 1420, "lineEnd": 1424, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you buy all sorts of things that one uses, is good; to\nbuy that which is only for victuals and relief, is good for the poor;\nbut to the rich it signifies expenses and great charges." }, { "id": "luck-0030", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Buying", "text": "Happiness and contentment, a legacy.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 30; source lines 3584–3589", "lineStart": 3584, "lineEnd": 3589, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Happiness and contentment, a legacy." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "buzzard", "title": "Buzzard", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you hear a buzzard talking, foretells that some old scandal will arise and work you injury by your connection with it.”", "aliases": [ "buzzard" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about buzzard stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0311", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Buzzard", "text": "To dream that you hear a buzzard talking, foretells that some old scandal\nwill arise and work you injury by your connection with it.\n\nTo see one sitting on a railroad, denotes some accident or loss\nis about to descend upon you. To see them fly away as you approach,\nforetells that you will be able to smooth over some scandalous\ndisagreement among your friends, or even appertaining to yourself.\n\nTo see buzzards in a dream, portends generally salacious gossip\nor that unusual scandal will disturb you.", "locator": "Heading 311; source lines 4433–4454", "lineStart": 4433, "lineEnd": 4454, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you hear a buzzard talking, foretells that some old scandal\nwill arise and work you injury by your connection with it.\n\nTo see one sitting on a railroad, denotes some accident or loss\nis about to descend upon you. To see them fly away as you approach,\nforetells that you will be able to smooth over some scandalous\ndisagreement among your friends, or even appertaining to yourself.\n\nTo see buzzards in a dream, portends generally salacious gossip\nor that unusual scandal will disturb you." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cab", "title": "Cab", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To ride in a cab in dreams, is significant of pleasant avocations, and average prosperity you will enjoy.”", "aliases": [ "cab", "taxi", "taxis", "taxicab", "taxicabs" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cab stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0312", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cab", "text": "To ride in a cab in dreams, is significant of pleasant avocations,\nand average prosperity you will enjoy.\n\nTo ride in a cab at night, with others, indicates that you will have a secret\nthat you will endeavor to keep from your friends.\n\nTo ride in a cab with a woman, scandal will couple your name\nwith others of bad repute.\n\nTo dream of driving a public cab, denotes manual labor,\nwith little chance of advancement.", "locator": "Heading 312; source lines 4454–4468", "lineStart": 4454, "lineEnd": 4468, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To ride in a cab in dreams, is significant of pleasant avocations,\nand average prosperity you will enjoy.\n\nTo ride in a cab at night, with others, indicates that you will have a secret\nthat you will endeavor to keep from your friends.\n\nTo ride in a cab with a woman, scandal will couple your name\nwith others of bad repute.\n\nTo dream of driving a public cab, denotes manual labor,\nwith little chance of advancement." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cabbage", "title": "Cabbage", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “It is bad to dream of cabbage. Disorders may run riot in all forms.” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "cabbage" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cabbage stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0313", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cabbage", "text": "It is bad to dream of cabbage. Disorders may run riot in all forms.\nTo dream of seeing cabbage green, means unfaithfulness in love\nand infidelity in wedlock.\n\nTo cut heads of cabbage, denotes that you are tightening the cords\nof calamity around you by lavish expenditure.", "locator": "Heading 313; source lines 4468–4477", "lineStart": 4468, "lineEnd": 4477, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "It is bad to dream of cabbage. Disorders may run riot in all forms.\nTo dream of seeing cabbage green, means unfaithfulness in love\nand infidelity in wedlock.\n\nTo cut heads of cabbage, denotes that you are tightening the cords\nof calamity around you by lavish expenditure." }, { "id": "fontaine-0106", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Cabbage", "text": "To dream of cabbage, signifies very bad news from abroad. 16.", "locator": "Heading 106; source line 1424", "lineStart": 1424, "lineEnd": 1426, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of cabbage, signifies very bad news from abroad." }, { "id": "cielo-0081", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Cabbage", "text": "Indicates long life and happiness.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 81; source lines 4056–4059", "lineStart": 4056, "lineEnd": 4059, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Indicates long life and happiness." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9397", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Cabbage", "heading": "Cabbage", "text": "To see them, health and long life ; to eat them, sorrow, loss and illness (Gypsy) ; the first part of the dream, like all dreams of growing things, is fortunate, the latter plainly interpreted by rules pertaining to physical stimuli.", "lineStart": 9397, "lineEnd": 9401, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 205; NLM OCR lines 9397–9401", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9397, "lineEnd": 9401, "printedPage": 205, "printedPageEnd": 205 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Cabbage. — To see them, health and long life ; to eat them, \nsorrow, loss and illness (Gypsy) ; the first part of the dream, \nlike all dreams of growing things, is fortunate, the latter \nplainly interpreted by rules pertaining to physical stimuli. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Cabbage" }, "displayText": "To see them, health and long life; to eat them, sorrow, loss and illness (Gypsy); the first part of the dream, like all dreams of growing things, is fortunate, the latter plainly interpreted by rules pertaining to physical stimuli." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cabin", "title": "Cabin", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “The cabin of a ship is rather unfortunate to be in in[sic] a dream.”", "aliases": [ "cabin" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cabin stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0315", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cabin", "text": "The cabin of a ship is rather unfortunate to be in in{sic} a dream.\nSome mischief is brewing for you. You will most likely be engaged in a\nlaw suit, in which you will lose from the unstability of your witness.\n\nFor log cabin, see house.", "locator": "Heading 315; source lines 4486–4494", "lineStart": 4486, "lineEnd": 4494, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "The cabin of a ship is rather unfortunate to be in in[sic] a dream.\nSome mischief is brewing for you. You will most likely be engaged in a\nlaw suit, in which you will lose from the unstability of your witness.\n\nFor log cabin, see house." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cable", "title": "Cable", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a cable, foretells the undertaking of a decidedly hazardous work, which, if successfully carried to completion, will abound in…”", "aliases": [ "cable" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cable stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0314", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cable", "text": "To dream of a cable, foretells the undertaking of a decidedly\nhazardous work, which, if successfully carried to completion,\nwill abound in riches and honor to you.\n\nTo dream of receiving cablegrams, denotes that a message of importance\nwill reach you soon, and will cause disagreeable comments.", "locator": "Heading 314; source lines 4477–4486", "lineStart": 4477, "lineEnd": 4486, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a cable, foretells the undertaking of a decidedly\nhazardous work, which, if successfully carried to completion,\nwill abound in riches and honor to you.\n\nTo dream of receiving cablegrams, denotes that a message of importance\nwill reach you soon, and will cause disagreeable comments." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cackle", "title": "Cackle", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To hear the cackling of hens denotes a sudden shock produced by the news of an unexpected death in your neighborhood, Sickness will cause…”", "aliases": [ "cackle" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cackle stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0316", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cackle", "text": "To hear the cackling of hens denotes a sudden shock produced\nby the news of an unexpected death in your neighborhood,\nSickness will cause poverty.", "locator": "Heading 316; source lines 4494–4500", "lineStart": 4494, "lineEnd": 4500, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To hear the cackling of hens denotes a sudden shock produced\nby the news of an unexpected death in your neighborhood,\nSickness will cause poverty." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cactus", "title": "Cactus", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "summary": "A cactus may picture protection that allows life to continue, care suited to different needs, or a small welcome change within a sparse setting.", "tagline": "Room around a protected living thing.", "aliases": [ "cactus", "cacti", "cactuses" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A cactus that you want to hold but cannot touch comfortably can picture wanting closeness while respecting a boundary. A friendship, family conversation, or new connection may feel similar when affection does not remove the need for space. The plant need not stand for a hostile person. You may value it precisely while needing another way to move or approach it. Finding a suitable container or allowing distance can make contact possible without demanding that protection disappear first.\n\nCare that overwhelms the plant can make good intentions and suitable help diverge. In the dream, repeatedly adding water may fail to produce the growth you expected. This can resemble giving advice, attention, or supervision in a form that serves your wish to help more than the recipient’s actual needs. A different response may involve observing conditions rather than increasing effort. The comparison is about the dream’s feedback and your relationship with care, not a diagnosis of dependence or instructions for managing a real plant.\n\nA bloom appearing in a sparse landscape can picture finding pleasure in conditions you had treated as unpromising. A modest creative success during a demanding period, a warm exchange within a reserved relationship, or an unexpected moment of rest could fit. The flower matters through its particular setting rather than proving that hardship produces a reward. If others overlook it, the scene may concern valuing something small without needing general recognition. If you try to make it happen again, enjoyment may turn into pressure around repeating an unplanned experience.\n\nKeeping a cactus in a familiar room can bring a different kind of life into an established routine. Its shape and need for room may contrast with other objects that can be handled without thought. This may fit making space for a preference or relationship that does not suit everyone’s usual approach. A damaged spine or a plant without any protection can reverse the image toward feeling exposed while wanting contact. A garden visit, a gift, a houseplant, or a remembered landscape can supply the image directly. The useful question is how space, care, and contact worked in this scene, rather than assigning resilience, loneliness, or cruelty as a fixed cactus meaning.", "traditional": "No historical Cactus dream passage is supplied. Thorns, Plants, and Flower are broader or component images, not evidence of a cactus tradition. This original reflection does not prescribe plant care or assign a cultural, spiritual, or personality code.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Closeness with enough room", "reflection": "A protected plant can picture contact that requires a suitable approach. Valuing it and respecting distance can be present together." }, { "title": "Help suited to the need", "reflection": "More care is not always the same as better conditions in the dream. A response to feedback can matter more than proving your willingness to help." }, { "title": "Pleasure within a sparse setting", "reflection": "An unexpected bloom may give attention to a small welcome experience. Its value need not depend on being a reward for hardship or being noticed by everyone." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A cactus blooms in an otherwise bare room", "reflection": "A small change makes an unpromising setting feel different. This can picture pleasure that emerges within a demanding routine. Trying to preserve the moment differs from requiring it to prove that everything has improved." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You cannot lift it without hurting your hands", "reflection": "A wanted action requires a more suitable method. The scene may fit wanting closeness with something that needs space. A container or another helper changes the problem without requiring the protected plant to become different." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You keep adding water but it looks worse", "reflection": "Effort does not produce the response you hoped for. This can resemble care whose form is poorly matched to the need. Pausing to understand the conditions creates another relationship from continuing solely to show concern." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A new shoot needs room beside the original plant", "reflection": "Something developing must fit within an established arrangement. This may picture making space for a new preference, task, or connection. Crowding the old and new together differs from changing the arrangement to support both." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The cactus has lost all its spines", "reflection": "A familiar protected form becomes unusually exposed. The scene can picture uncertainty about a boundary that previously felt dependable. Relief at easier contact differs from concern that the plant no longer has room to remain itself." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "Others overlook a flower you find beautiful", "reflection": "A modest change matters to you without becoming the group’s focus. This may picture valuing an experience privately. Enjoyment can remain complete even when nobody else recognizes why the particular bloom feels significant." } ], "prompts": [ "How could I approach or move the cactus while allowing it enough space?", "Did my care respond to its conditions or to my need to be helpful?", "What made a small change meaningful in that particular setting?" ], "related": [ "plants", "thorns", "flower", "sandstorm" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cafeteria", "title": "Cafeteria", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "A shared break can still need room for your own preferences.", "summary": "A cafeteria dream can explore timed breaks, everyday provision and belonging within a shared routine. The queue and table give the scene its shape.", "aliases": [ "cafeteria", "cafeterias", "school cafeteria", "staff canteen" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A cafeteria joins eating with an established routine. There is a serving period, a route through the queue and a place to sit before the next activity begins. In a dream, this can picture trying to meet an ordinary need inside a schedule organized for many people. A school day, workplace break or crowded household plan may offer a parallel. The meal matters through whether the arrangement gives you usable time, rather than through an impressive choice.\n\nA queue that outlasts the break can make provision available without making it accessible. You may recognize a process that offers help but consumes the time in which you could use it. Being able to step out, choose something simpler or receive consideration changes the scene. The issue may be how the routine accommodates people, not whether you are willing to wait.\n\nThe table brings belonging into an everyday action. A familiar group may save your place, leave no room or have changed since your last visit. This can resemble returning to a team whose habits have shifted, or finding that a shared routine no longer includes you in the same way. A seat beside an unexpected person can create contact outside the usual grouping without requiring the entire social arrangement to change.\n\nLimited selection can feel frustrating or relieving. An ordinary meal that suits you may picture discovering enough within practical constraints. Several options that do not meet your need can make choice look generous while remaining unhelpful. Sharing a tray can bring care into that limitation; deciding who takes what may be more important than having more available.\n\nAfterward, clearing the room makes responsibility visible. Everyone using the space while one person handles its aftermath can resemble a shared routine maintained unevenly. A quiet cafeteria after the rush may offer room for an unhurried conversation or expose what the busy period leaves behind. Recent meals and remembered breaks can also supply the scene directly. These possibilities follow time, access and company within an institutional meal space.", "traditional": "No exact Cafeteria passage is supplied in the historical archive. The original reflections concern a timed shared meal space. Restaurant, Kitchen and Eating cover adjacent arrangements without establishing a traditional rule for the queue, break or communal table.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A need inside a timetable", "reflection": "The meal can picture an ordinary requirement that must fit a shared schedule. Available food and enough time to use the provision are different parts of the arrangement." }, { "title": "A place in the daily group", "reflection": "A familiar table can make belonging practical rather than abstract. A changed seating pattern may show how a routine includes you, while another table can offer a different connection." }, { "title": "Enough that serves the purpose", "reflection": "Limited choice may be workable when one option fits. The scene can distinguish sufficient provision from an abundance that does not meet the actual need." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Your break ends before you reach the serving counter", "reflection": "A break ending in the queue can picture a support system that uses up the time it was meant to protect. A busy workday or crowded schedule may fit. Finding another arrangement changes access, rather than simply asking you to become more patient." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You choose a simple meal from a limited selection", "reflection": "A simple chosen meal can picture discovering something sufficient within constraints. A manageable routine or modest resource may do what a more elaborate option could not. Satisfaction belongs to the fit with your need, rather than the size of the selection." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A familiar table now belongs to another group", "reflection": "A changed table can resemble returning to a group whose everyday habits have moved on. The discomfort may concern where participation now happens. Whether someone notices and makes room changes the scene from fixed exclusion toward a negotiable place." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You share a tray or table with someone unexpected", "reflection": "Sharing with an unexpected person can picture a connection made through an ordinary need rather than a formal introduction. Another team or unfamiliar group may offer a parallel. The practical exchange can feel companionable without requiring immediate closeness." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Everyone leaves their dishes for somebody else", "reflection": "Uncleared dishes can make the work behind a shared break visible. A household or team routine may benefit many people while leaving its maintenance to one. The scene can focus on who takes responsibility after the pleasurable part ends." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The cafeteria is quiet after the regular meal period", "reflection": "Quiet after the serving period can picture room to notice what the rush obscured. A conversation or overlooked task may become easier to attend to. The empty setting can offer a useful pause as well as make a missed shared moment visible." } ], "prompts": [ "What ordinary need was I trying to fit into the shared routine?", "How did the queue or table make participation easier or harder?", "Who handled the work before and after the break?" ], "related": [ "restaurant", "kitchen", "classmates", "eating" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cage", "title": "Cage", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "6 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “In your dreaming if you see a cageful of birds, you will be the happy possessor of immense wealth and many…” Compare 6 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "cage" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cage stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0317", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cage", "text": "In your dreaming if you see a cageful of birds, you will be the happy\npossessor of immense wealth and many beautiful and charming children.\nTo see only one bird, you will contract a desirable and wealthy marriage.\nNo bird indicates a member of the family lost, either by elopement or death.\n\nTo see wild animals caged, denotes that you will triumph over\nyour enemies and misfortunes. If you are in the cage with them,\nit denotes harrowing scenes from accidents while traveling.", "locator": "Heading 317; source lines 4500–4511", "lineStart": 4500, "lineEnd": 4511, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "In your dreaming if you see a cageful of birds, you will be the happy\npossessor of immense wealth and many beautiful and charming children.\nTo see only one bird, you will contract a desirable and wealthy marriage.\nNo bird indicates a member of the family lost, either by elopement or death.\n\nTo see wild animals caged, denotes that you will triumph over\nyour enemies and misfortunes. If you are in the cage with them,\nit denotes harrowing scenes from accidents while traveling." }, { "id": "fontaine-0107", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Cage", "text": "To dream of letting birds out of a cage, is a sign that you will\nlose something. If a young girl dreams this, it predicts a loss of her\nchastity. 36, 5.", "locator": "Heading 107; source line 1426", "lineStart": 1426, "lineEnd": 1430, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of letting birds out of a cage, is a sign that you will\nlose something. If a young girl dreams this, it predicts a loss of her\nchastity." }, { "id": "noe-0091", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Cage", "text": "To dream of letting birds out\nof a cage denotes a speedy marriage. To a person in business it denotes\nsuccess, and to a farmer it denotes good crops.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 93; source lines 471–473", "lineStart": 471, "lineEnd": 473, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of letting birds out\nof a cage denotes a speedy marriage. To a person in business it denotes\nsuccess, and to a farmer it denotes good crops." }, { "id": "cielo-0082", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Cage", "text": "To dream of a cage with bird means liberty;\n empty it means servitude.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 82; source lines 4059–4062", "lineStart": 4059, "lineEnd": 4062, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a cage with bird means liberty;\nempty it means servitude." }, { "id": "luck-0031", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Cage", "text": "(Birds in) Early fortunate marriage; (empty) friends or lovers\nwill go away.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 31; source lines 3589–3592", "lineStart": 3589, "lineEnd": 3592, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(Birds in) Early fortunate marriage; (empty) friends or lovers\nwill go away." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9402", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Cage", "heading": "Cage", "text": "Without birds a dream of a cage denotes trouble; with birds, contentment, happiness; with the door open and the bird flown, the dream signifies desertion by the lover or husband; to see a bird escape augurs an elopement (Artemidorus) ; the symbolism patent.", "lineStart": 9402, "lineEnd": 9407, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 205; NLM OCR lines 9402–9407", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9402, "lineEnd": 9407, "printedPage": 205, "printedPageEnd": 205 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Cage. — Without birds a dream of a cage denotes trouble; \nwith birds, contentment, happiness; with the door open and \nthe bird flown, the dream signifies desertion by the lover or \nhusband; to see a bird escape augurs an elopement (Artemi- \ndorus) ; the symbolism patent. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "Artemi- \ndorus", "after": "Artemidorus", "evidenceLine": 485 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Cage" }, "displayText": "Without birds a dream of a cage denotes trouble; with birds, contentment, happiness; with the door open and the bird flown, the dream signifies desertion by the lover or husband; to see a bird escape augurs an elopement (Artemidorus); the symbolism patent." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cain", "title": "Cain", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “To dream of the firstborn son of man, who was Adam’s eldest son, is a very unfavorable omen.”", "aliases": [ "cain" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cain stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "noe-0092", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Cain", "text": "To dream of the\nfirstborn son of man, who was Adam’s eldest son, is a very unfavorable\nomen; after such a dream let the dreamer travel into another part of the\ncountry and form new connections.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 94; source lines 473–476", "lineStart": 473, "lineEnd": 476, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of the\nfirstborn son of man, who was Adam’s eldest son, is a very unfavorable\nomen; after such a dream let the dreamer travel into another part of the\ncountry and form new connections." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cakes", "title": "Cakes", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "5 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Batter or pancakes, denote that the affections of the dreamer are well placed, and a home will be…” Compare 5 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "cakes", "cake" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cakes stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0318", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cakes", "text": "Batter or pancakes, denote that the affections of the dreamer are well placed,\nand a home will be bequeathed to him or her.\n\nTo dream of sweet cakes, is gain for the laboring and a favorable\nopportunity for the enterprising. Those in love will prosper.\n\nPound cake is significant of much pleasure either from society or business.\nFor a young woman to dream of her wedding cake is the only bad luck cake\nin the category. Baking them is not so good an omen as seeing them\nor eating them.", "locator": "Heading 318; source lines 4511–4524", "lineStart": 4511, "lineEnd": 4524, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Batter or pancakes, denote that the affections of the dreamer are well placed,\nand a home will be bequeathed to him or her.\n\nTo dream of sweet cakes, is gain for the laboring and a favorable\nopportunity for the enterprising. Those in love will prosper.\n\nPound cake is significant of much pleasure either from society or business.\nFor a young woman to dream of her wedding cake is the only bad luck cake\nin the category. Baking them is not so good an omen as seeing them\nor eating them." }, { "id": "fontaine-0108", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Cakes", "text": "(_See Thick._) If a housewife dreams of making round cakes, it\npredicts that her husband will have a good store of luck and will make\nher a present. To dream of eating cakes, is also a favorable dream. 18,\n78.", "locator": "Heading 108; source line 1430", "lineStart": 1430, "lineEnd": 1435, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Thick.) If a housewife dreams of making round cakes, it\npredicts that her husband will have a good store of luck and will make\nher a present. To dream of eating cakes, is also a favorable dream. 18," }, { "id": "noe-0093", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Cakes", "text": "To dream you are eating cakes,\ndenotes happiness and prosperity.\n\n Dream that cakes you knead and make,\n You thrive and many profits take.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 95; source lines 476–482", "lineStart": 476, "lineEnd": 482, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are eating cakes,\ndenotes happiness and prosperity.\n\nDream that cakes you knead and make,\nYou thrive and many profits take." }, { "id": "cielo-0083", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Cakes", "text": "Denote prosperity.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 83; source lines 4062–4064", "lineStart": 4062, "lineEnd": 4064, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Denote prosperity." }, { "id": "luck-0032", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Cakes", "text": "To dream of any kind of cakes is a good omen.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 32; source lines 3592–3594", "lineStart": 3592, "lineEnd": 3594, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of any kind of cakes is a good omen." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cakes-capers-and-olives", "title": "Cakes, Capers, and Olives", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Artemidorus wrote: “CAkes without Chéese are good, those which have both, signifye deceit, and treason by Welshmen: Of Capres and Olives, and all…”", "aliases": [ "cakes, capers, and olives", "of cakes, capers, and olives", "cakes", "capers", "olives" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cakes, capers, and olives stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "artemidorus-054", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of Cakes, Capers, and Olives.", "text": "CAkes without Chéese are good, those which have both, signifye deceit, and treason by Welshmen: Of Capres and Olives, and all consections to kéep, also of other stamped and compounded things, I will not speak, because they are not good to dreame.", "locator": "Book 1, encoded section 54", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "1", "displayText": "CAkes without Chéese are good, those which have both, signifye deceit, and treason by Welshmen: Of Capres and Olives, and all consections to kéep, also of other stamped and compounded things, I will not speak, because they are not good to dreame." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "calculator", "title": "Calculator", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "A result becomes useful when the question and its inputs are clear.", "summary": "A calculator dream can explore what is counted, reliance on a result and the limits of a numerical account. The device does not reveal real figures.", "aliases": [ "calculator", "calculators", "electronic calculator", "pocket calculator" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A calculator turns selected inputs into a result. In a dream, that can picture wanting a complicated arrangement to become definite enough to use. A shared budget, workload or timetable may provide a parallel. Relief can come from seeing how separate items fit together, rather than from the number being large or small. The device is useful through the question it serves; a clear display cannot decide what you actually wanted to understand.\n\nAn answer without visible inputs can make certainty feel detached from explanation. You may recognize feedback that gives a score while leaving its basis unclear, or a conclusion others expect you to accept without context. The scene can picture wanting room to examine the account. Trusting a result and surrendering the right to ask about it are different experiences.\n\nA forgotten item changing the total can make representation central. Perhaps a shared task leaves out preparation, maintenance or a contribution that is harder to measure. Adding it can picture wanting the account to acknowledge what was already present. The dream does not identify an actual accounting error. Its invented arithmetic can give a concern a form without supplying reliable figures.\n\nRepeated calculation can become detached from a useful endpoint. You keep entering numbers because the real uncertainty is what should count, not how to combine it. A decision about a role or commitment may feel similar when several priorities cannot be reduced to one comparison. A simpler calculation can instead offer enough structure for the next step without pretending to settle every value involved.\n\nSomething important that the device cannot represent can reveal the limits of the chosen method. Time spent together, satisfaction in a task or an unspoken preference may matter beyond a total. An explanation can become more useful than another recomputation. Recent study, paperwork or familiar devices may also supply the scene directly. These original reflections concern the calculator as a tool, not numerology, an actual financial balance or a forecast derived from dreamed numbers.", "traditional": "No interpreted Calculator passage is supplied. The new scope is a dedicated device, distinct from a person called a calculator or an abacus. Lexical definitions and general dream background do not establish symbolic or numerical meanings; the reflections here are original.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "The question behind the result", "reflection": "A device can make an account definite without deciding which question matters. The scene may clarify what the calculation was meant to help you understand or choose." }, { "title": "What the account includes", "reflection": "A changed total can picture the effect of an omitted contribution or requirement. The missing item may be more informative than the dreamed arithmetic itself." }, { "title": "Limits of a single measure", "reflection": "Repeated computation can expose a question that the method cannot settle. A useful explanation may leave several values visible instead of compressing them into one result." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "The device gives a clear result from a few entries", "reflection": "A clear result from a few entries can picture useful structure in a complicated task. A timetable or shared plan may fit. Relief may come from understanding enough to proceed, rather than from the number promising a favorable outcome." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A result appears without showing what was entered", "reflection": "A result without inputs can resemble a verdict whose standards remain unseen. You may want the reasoning needed to participate in a decision. The dream can explore that missing explanation without proving that an actual result is dishonest or wrong." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "The displayed number changes when one overlooked item is added", "reflection": "An overlooked item changing the display can picture a contribution excluded from an account. Less visible preparation or care may offer a parallel. The scene cannot establish a real bookkeeping error, but it can make representation a specific question." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You keep recomputing an answer whose question is unclear", "reflection": "Recomputing without a clear question can picture using more effort where the method lacks a purpose. A decision may require naming priorities before comparing totals. The repeated action differs from careful checking directed toward an understood task." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The calculator cannot represent something important to the task", "reflection": "An unrepresentable detail can picture something valuable left outside a chosen measure. Company, continuity or a personal preference may matter alongside an amount. The device’s limit can clarify the method without making every numerical account useless." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You decide that an explanation matters more than the final number", "reflection": "Choosing an explanation over a number can picture wanting context that helps you make your own decision. A score may be definite while the meaning remains unclear. Understanding the arrangement can become more useful than receiving another precise-looking answer." } ], "prompts": [ "What question was the device supposed to answer?", "Which contribution or condition changed what was counted?", "What mattered that the numerical account could not include?" ], "related": [ "accounts", "accountant", "computer", "school-or-exam" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "calendar", "title": "Calendar", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "aliases": [ "calendar" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0322" ], "scope": "Miller distinguishes keeping a calendar, assigned orderly habits, from seeing one, assigned disappointment in calculations. Specific supplied passages: Calendar — miller-0322 (Heading 322; source lines 4566–4573). Historical comparison only; these period beliefs do not establish outcomes or validate the original symbolic reflections." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "summary": "A calendar may draw attention to the way you arrange commitments, mark meaningful dates and distinguish plans from available time.", "tagline": "Giving dates and commitments a place.", "psychological": "A calendar in a dream makes time visible through dates, spaces and repeated arrangements. You might mark a day, compare several commitments, turn a page or discover an empty month. Begin with what you use it for. The same blank square can feel like welcome room, a missing record or an obligation you have forgotten to enter.\n\nA particular date may connect with a real anniversary, appointment or deadline. Its importance can come from your personal association rather than the digits themselves. If the dream changes the date, ask what becomes earlier, later or uncertain in the scene. The calendar cannot establish when a future event will occur or provide a hidden schedule.\n\nThe arrangement of commitments can focus on practical fit. Two entries may occupy the same time, a journey may leave too little space between activities or a task may appear on every page. These details could resemble a real scheduling question. They might also give a concrete form to feeling that several roles draw on the same limited attention.\n\nOther people's entries can change your experience of choice. A shared calendar may make coordination easier, or feel crowded when commitments appear without discussion. Notice whether the difficulty is the amount of work, unclear ownership or the way changes are communicated. The dream does not establish that others actually overlook your time.\n\nErasing, moving or leaving an entry can emphasize how plans remain adjustable. You may hesitate to cross out a date because it preserves a memory, while a practical appointment can move without loss. A calendar can hold records and intentions together; recognizing which kind of entry you are handling may make the scene more specific.\n\nRecent planning, reminders, missed appointments or marking a meaningful day can supply the imagery directly. Keep the reflection tied to how the dreamed calendar is used rather than a universal number interpretation. Which dates carry personal significance, which commitments need coordination, and what would let the calendar describe your time without seeming to decide every part of it?", "traditional": "Miller distinguishes keeping a calendar, which receives a forecast about orderly habits, from seeing one, which receives a disappointment-in-calculations forecast. These short period claims do not establish how organized you are or predict a missed plan. The original reflections concern the calendar's particular entries, uses and arrangements.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Commitments that fit together", "reflection": "Overlapping entries and spaces between tasks may help describe a practical arrangement of limited time and attention." }, { "title": "Personal dates and records", "reflection": "A marked day can matter through a remembered event without making its number a universal message." }, { "title": "Plans that can be adjusted", "reflection": "Erasing, moving and shared entries may show how choices remain yours while coordination with others is needed." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "Two important entries occupy the same square", "reflection": "You want to honor both commitments, but the calendar makes their overlap visible. The scene could help clarify a real scheduling conflict or competing role. What needs discussion or rearrangement? An overlap does not establish that either commitment is wrong or that choosing one means rejecting the other." }, { "title": "A personally meaningful date is left unmarked", "reflection": "You recognize the day and wonder why the square is empty. Consider what marking it would do: preserve a memory, prompt contact or acknowledge a change. The dreamed omission does not prove that you or someone else has actually forgotten the event." }, { "title": "Finding an unexpectedly empty week", "reflection": "No commitments appear where you expected a crowded schedule. The space may feel inviting, unsettling or incomplete. Ask what you would choose to place there, and whether the emptiness offers rest or simply missing information. A blank calendar does not predict isolation or freedom from obligations." }, { "title": "Someone adds an appointment without consulting you", "reflection": "A shared calendar changes while you are looking at it. The scene may focus on how commitments are agreed rather than their content. What communication would make the entry workable? It does not establish that an actual person intends to claim your time or ignore your preferences." }, { "title": "Moving one appointment creates room for a journey", "reflection": "A small change makes the surrounding plan easier to use. This could highlight flexibility in an arrangement that initially looked fixed. Notice why the appointment can move and what remains important, without assuming that every difficulty would disappear if you organized your time differently." }, { "title": "Turning to a new page while keeping an old reminder", "reflection": "You enter the next month but retain a note from the previous one. The scene might distinguish something completed from something still worth remembering. Ask whether the note is a practical task, a memory or an intention; its continued presence need not mean that you failed to move on." } ], "prompts": [ "What were you trying to use the calendar to remember or arrange?", "Which date or entry carried a personal association?", "What could be changed, and what did you want to preserve?" ], "related": [ "clock", "numbers", "a-calendar-full-of-meetings", "being-late", "letter" ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0322", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Calendar", "text": "To dream of keeping a calendar, indicates that you will be very orderly\nand systematic in habits throughout the year.\n\nTo see a calendar, denotes disappointment in your calculations.", "locator": "Heading 322; source lines 4566–4573", "lineStart": 4566, "lineEnd": 4573, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of keeping a calendar, indicates that you will be very orderly\nand systematic in habits throughout the year.\n\nTo see a calendar, denotes disappointment in your calculations." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "california", "title": "California", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “If you dream of going there, it predicts to you a misfortune.”", "aliases": [ "california" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about california stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0110", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "California", "text": "If you dream of going there, it predicts to you a\nmisfortune; but if, in your dream, you imagine you are in California,\nand that it is a pleasant country, it foretells that you will receive\na valuable present, or a legacy, or else that you will draw a prize in\nthe lottery. 71, 10, 6.", "locator": "Heading 110; source line 1437", "lineStart": 1437, "lineEnd": 1443, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream of going there, it predicts to you a\nmisfortune; but if, in your dream, you imagine you are in California,\nand that it is a pleasant country, it foretells that you will receive\na valuable present, or a legacy, or else that you will draw a prize in\nthe lottery." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "called", "title": "Called", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To hear your name called in a dream by strange voices, denotes that your business will fall into a precarious state, and that strangers may…”", "aliases": [ "called" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about called stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0321", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Called", "text": "To hear your name called in a dream by strange voices,\ndenotes that your business will fall into a precarious state,\nand that strangers may lend you assistance, or you may fail\nto meet your obligations.\n\nTo hear the voice of a friend or relative, denotes the desperate\nillness of some one of them, and may be death; in the latter\ncase you may be called upon to stand as guardian over some one,\nin governing whom you should use much discretion.\n\nLovers hearing the voice of their affianced should heed the warning.\nIf they have been negligent in attention they should make amends.\nOtherwise they may suffer separation from misunderstanding.\n\nTo hear the voice of the dead may be a warning of your own serious\nillness or some business worry from bad judgment may ensue.\nThe voice is an echo thrown back from the future on the subjective mind,\ntaking the sound of your ancestor's voice from coming in contact\nwith that part of your ancestor which remains with you.\nA certain portion of mind matter remains the same in lines\nof family descent.", "locator": "Heading 321; source lines 4542–4566", "lineStart": 4542, "lineEnd": 4566, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To hear your name called in a dream by strange voices,\ndenotes that your business will fall into a precarious state,\nand that strangers may lend you assistance, or you may fail\nto meet your obligations.\n\nTo hear the voice of a friend or relative, denotes the desperate\nillness of some one of them, and may be death; in the latter\ncase you may be called upon to stand as guardian over some one,\nin governing whom you should use much discretion.\n\nLovers hearing the voice of their affianced should heed the warning.\nIf they have been negligent in attention they should make amends.\nOtherwise they may suffer separation from misunderstanding.\n\nTo hear the voice of the dead may be a warning of your own serious\nillness or some business worry from bad judgment may ensue.\nThe voice is an echo thrown back from the future on the subjective mind,\ntaking the sound of your ancestor's voice from coming in contact\nwith that part of your ancestor which remains with you.\nA certain portion of mind matter remains the same in lines\nof family descent." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "calm", "title": "Calm", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see calm seas, denotes successful ending of doubtful undertaking.”", "aliases": [ "calm" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about calm stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0323", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Calm", "text": "To see calm seas, denotes successful ending of doubtful undertaking.\n\nTo feel calm and happy, is a sign of a long and well-spent life\nand a vigorous old age.", "locator": "Heading 323; source lines 4573–4580", "lineStart": 4573, "lineEnd": 4580, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see calm seas, denotes successful ending of doubtful undertaking.\n\nTo feel calm and happy, is a sign of a long and well-spent life\nand a vigorous old age." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "calomel", "title": "Calomel", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of calomel shows some person is seeking to deceive and injure you through the unconscious abetting of friends.”", "aliases": [ "calomel" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about calomel stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0319", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Calomel", "text": "To dream of calomel shows some person is seeking to deceive\nand injure you through the unconscious abetting of friends.\nFor a young woman to dream of taking it, foretells that she will be\nvictimized through the artful designing of persons whom she trusts.\nIf it is applied externally, she will close her eyes to deceit\nin order to enjoy a short season of pleasure.", "locator": "Heading 319; source lines 4524–4533", "lineStart": 4524, "lineEnd": 4533, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of calomel shows some person is seeking to deceive\nand injure you through the unconscious abetting of friends.\nFor a young woman to dream of taking it, foretells that she will be\nvictimized through the artful designing of persons whom she trusts.\nIf it is applied externally, she will close her eyes to deceit\nin order to enjoy a short season of pleasure." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "calumny", "title": "Calumny", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are the subject of calumny, denotes that your interests will suffer at the hands of evil-minded gossips.”", "aliases": [ "calumny" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about calumny stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0324", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Calumny", "text": "To dream that you are the subject of calumny, denotes that your\ninterests will suffer at the hands of evil-minded gossips.\nFor a young woman, it warns her to be careful of her conduct,\nas her movements are being critically observed by persons\nwho claim to be her friends.", "locator": "Heading 324; source lines 4580–4588", "lineStart": 4580, "lineEnd": 4588, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are the subject of calumny, denotes that your\ninterests will suffer at the hands of evil-minded gossips.\nFor a young woman, it warns her to be careful of her conduct,\nas her movements are being critically observed by persons\nwho claim to be her friends." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "calves", "title": "Calves", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of calves peacefully grazing on a velvety lawn, foretells to the young, happy, festive gatherings…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "calves", "calf" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about calves stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "cattle" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0320", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Calves", "text": "To dream of calves peacefully grazing on a velvety lawn,\nforetells to the young, happy, festive gatherings and enjoyment.\nThose engaged in seeking wealth will see it rapidly increasing.\n\n\n[30] See Cattle.", "locator": "Heading 320; source lines 4533–4542", "lineStart": 4533, "lineEnd": 4542, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of calves peacefully grazing on a velvety lawn,\nforetells to the young, happy, festive gatherings and enjoyment.\nThose engaged in seeking wealth will see it rapidly increasing. See Cattle." }, { "id": "fontaine-0109", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Calf", "text": "To dream of a calf, is a sign of good luck. 14, 1.", "locator": "Heading 109; source line 1435", "lineStart": 1435, "lineEnd": 1437, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a calf, is a sign of good luck." }, { "id": "cielo-0084", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Calf", "text": "Is a sign of assured success.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 84; source lines 4064–4066", "lineStart": 4064, "lineEnd": 4066, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Is a sign of assured success." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "cattle" ] }, { "slug": "camels", "title": "Camels", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see this beast of burden, signifies that you will entertain great patience and fortitude in time of…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "camels", "camel" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about camels stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0327", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Camels", "text": "To see this beast of burden, signifies that you will entertain\ngreat patience and fortitude in time of almost unbearable\nanguish and failures that will seemingly sweep every vestige\nof hope from you.\n\nTo own a camel, is a sign that you will possess rich mining property.\n\nTo see a herd of camels on the desert, denotes assistance when all human\naid seems at a low ebb, and of sickness from which you will arise,\ncontrary to all expectations.", "locator": "Heading 327; source lines 4601–4614", "lineStart": 4601, "lineEnd": 4614, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see this beast of burden, signifies that you will entertain\ngreat patience and fortitude in time of almost unbearable\nanguish and failures that will seemingly sweep every vestige\nof hope from you.\n\nTo own a camel, is a sign that you will possess rich mining property.\n\nTo see a herd of camels on the desert, denotes assistance when all human\naid seems at a low ebb, and of sickness from which you will arise,\ncontrary to all expectations." }, { "id": "cielo-0085", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Camel", "text": "Seeing one means riches; riding on one, disappointment.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 85; source lines 4066–4068", "lineStart": 4066, "lineEnd": 4068, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Seeing one means riches; riding on one, disappointment." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9408", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Camel", "heading": "Camel", "text": "A dream of many burdens patiently borne ( Artemidorus) ; modern symbol of patience and submission.", "lineStart": 9408, "lineEnd": 9410, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 205; NLM OCR lines 9408–9410", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9408, "lineEnd": 9410, "printedPage": 205, "printedPageEnd": 205 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Camel. — A dream of many burdens patiently borne ( Artemi- \ndorus) ; modern symbol of patience and submission. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "Artemi- \ndorus", "after": "Artemidorus", "evidenceLine": 485 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Camel" }, "displayText": "A dream of many burdens patiently borne ( Artemidorus); modern symbol of patience and submission." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cameo-brooch", "title": "Cameo Brooch", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a cameo brooch, denotes some sad occurrence will soon claim your attention.”", "aliases": [ "cameo brooch" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cameo brooch stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0326", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cameo Brooch", "text": "To dream of a cameo brooch, denotes some sad occurrence will soon\nclaim your attention.", "locator": "Heading 326; source lines 4596–4601", "lineStart": 4596, "lineEnd": 4601, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a cameo brooch, denotes some sad occurrence will soon\nclaim your attention." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "camera", "title": "Camera", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "Choosing a frame can preserve a moment while leaving part of it outside.", "summary": "A camera dream can explore framing an account, keeping a moment and choosing when to participate without recording. Its use differs from an existing photograph.", "aliases": [ "camera", "cameras", "taking a photograph", "taking photographs", "taking a photo", "taking photos", "take a photo", "take photos", "took a photo", "took photos", "took a photograph", "took photographs", "take a photograph", "take photographs" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A camera lets you choose a frame within a larger encounter. In a dream, this can picture deciding how an experience becomes represented or remembered. A shared occasion, completed task or personal transition may offer a parallel. The image can preserve something valuable while leaving other parts outside. The useful question is what the frame serves, rather than assuming every act of recording expresses a need to control or retain the past.\n\nTrying to capture a moment can compete with taking part in it. You adjust the view while a conversation or activity moves on. This can resemble organizing an account so carefully that there is little room to experience what it describes. Recording may also support participation when it gives a shared memory a form. The difference depends on whether the action helps the encounter or repeatedly interrupts it.\n\nAnother person's framing can change the account. They may emphasize a detail you considered ordinary, leave out an important contribution or ask you to appear in a way that feels unfamiliar. This can picture representation negotiated within a group. The dream does not reveal how somebody actually recorded or described an event. It makes the difference between intended and selected meaning visible.\n\nA request to put the camera down can bring consent and context into view. You may recognize wanting some experiences to remain less public, or needing to ask how another person wants to participate. Choosing what to keep can remain useful while not making every moment available to the same audience. An ordinary unposed scene may feel especially valuable because its significance does not depend on a performance.\n\nFinishing the recording and joining the activity can give the tool an ending within the encounter. You carry a record without having to keep making one continuously. Recent photographs, films or remembered devices can also supply the scene directly. These original reflections concern choice, framing and participation; dreamed footage does not verify a hidden event, another person's fidelity or an actual privacy violation.", "traditional": "Miller’s Camera passage forecasts changed surroundings and, for a young woman taking pictures, disappointment involving a friend. The exact record remains attached as period belief. The original readings concern framing and chosen recording, without treating photographs or footage as evidence of a real relationship or hidden event.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A frame with a purpose", "reflection": "The camera can picture selecting an account from a larger experience. What remains outside can matter without making every selective description dishonest or incomplete beyond use." }, { "title": "Recording and participating", "reflection": "A record can support shared memory or compete with the encounter itself. The scene may explore when the tool helps and when attention needs another position." }, { "title": "An account others can help shape", "reflection": "Framing and audience can become negotiated choices. A request or different perspective may make representation more collaborative without requiring everybody to appear the same way." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You choose a frame that leaves out something important", "reflection": "A frame excluding something important can picture an account that serves one purpose while missing another contribution. A shared project or occasion may fit. Noticing the omission can invite revision without declaring the whole account false." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You miss an encounter while trying to record it", "reflection": "Missing an encounter while recording can picture preparation of a record taking attention from the experience itself. A carefully managed occasion may feel similar. The task may need a different balance rather than all recording being unwelcome." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Someone asks you to put the camera down", "reflection": "A request to put the camera down can picture another person wanting a say in visibility. A private or ordinary encounter may require different terms from a public event. Their dream response does not establish a real objection or violation." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "An ordinary moment feels worth keeping", "reflection": "Keeping an ordinary moment can picture valuing a small connection that does not require impressive presentation. A familiar routine may matter through company or continuity. The significance comes from the encounter, rather than a universal meaning of taking pictures." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Another person’s framing changes the account of an event", "reflection": "Another frame changing the account can picture differing ideas about what deserves representation. A group story may emphasize a part you did not expect. Discussion can make the difference usable without requiring one view to contain the whole event." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You finish taking pictures and join the activity", "reflection": "Putting the camera away and joining in can picture a record having served its purpose. Participation remains available after selection ends. The tool need not keep operating for the experience or its remembered value to count." } ], "prompts": [ "What did the frame keep, and what important part remained outside?", "How did recording affect my participation?", "Who had a say in what was shown and to which audience?" ], "related": [ "photograph", "security-camera", "a-camera-accidentally-left-on" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0325" ], "scope": "Miller’s Camera account forecasts changed surroundings and, for a young woman taking pictures, disappointment involving a friend. Exact supplied record(s): miller-0325 — Camera (Heading 325; source lines 4588–4596). Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence for the original reflection, a diagnosis or an actual outcome." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0325", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Camera", "text": "To dream of a camera, signifies that changes will bring\nundeserved environments. For a young woman to dream that she\nis taking pictures with a camera, foretells that her immediate\nfuture will have much that is displeasing and that a friend\nwill subject her to acute disappointment.", "locator": "Heading 325; source lines 4588–4596", "lineStart": 4588, "lineEnd": 4596, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a camera, signifies that changes will bring\nundeserved environments. For a young woman to dream that she\nis taking pictures with a camera, foretells that her immediate\nfuture will have much that is displeasing and that a friend\nwill subject her to acute disappointment." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "camp", "title": "Camp", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "Temporary living can show which comforts and responsibilities make a place usable.", "summary": "Camping dreams can explore making a temporary base, shared routines and choosing what to bring. Simplicity can feel freeing or leave a need unmet.", "aliases": [ "camp", "camping", "campsite", "campsites", "campground" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "Camping creates a temporary way to live in a place whose ordinary arrangements differ from home. In a dream, this can picture adapting to a new setting with selected resources and shared routines. A short assignment, changing household or unfamiliar project may provide a parallel. Making the place comfortable can express practical resourcefulness. Limited facilities can also make clear what you need instead of treating simplicity as automatically better.\n\nA few useful things can give belonging a workable form. You may recognize creating a routine before a situation becomes permanent or certain. A familiar object, meal or place to rest can matter more than bringing everything from the previous arrangement. The temporary base need not become a complete replacement for home to serve the period you are in.\n\nShared preparation makes contribution visible. One person sets everything up while others wait, or several people divide the work without making the process elaborate. This can resemble a group occasion whose enjoyment depends on less visible effort. Care may be freely offered and still need an understood limit. The question can be who helps sustain the shared place, rather than who appears most comfortable there.\n\nA quiet campsite can give conversation a different pace. Being away from the usual schedule may make an ordinary encounter easier to attend to. The same distance can feel isolating if you cannot choose contact or return. Companionship and room for solitude may both matter; the number of people does not decide whether the setting feels supportive.\n\nChanged conditions can require another arrangement within the dream. You may adapt together, discover that packed items are unnecessary or decide the temporary stay has served its purpose. Leaving can be a useful completion rather than a failure to endure. Recent trips, outdoor images and remembered routines may supply the scene directly. These original reflections concern recreational temporary living, while the attached historical account retains its separate military and gendered forecasts as period writing.", "traditional": "Miller’s Camp passage explicitly interprets camping in the open air and a camping settlement, followed by military and gendered relationship forecasts. These are period claims. The original outdoor reflections explore a temporary base, shared needs and departure without assigning the same meaning to every other kind of camp.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A usable temporary base", "reflection": "A place can support an interval without becoming permanent or reproducing every comfort of home. The scene may clarify which ordinary needs make adaptation practical." }, { "title": "The work behind shared ease", "reflection": "Preparation and routine can show how a group’s comfort is sustained. Help may need an agreement and an ending even when the contribution is affectionate or freely offered." }, { "title": "A chosen pause and return", "reflection": "Distance from familiar demands can provide room when contact and departure remain available. Leaving after the stay serves its purpose can preserve its value." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You make an unfamiliar place comfortable with a few things", "reflection": "Making a place comfortable with little can picture establishing useful routines during uncertainty. A temporary role or move may fit. The arrangement need not reproduce everything familiar to provide enough support for the period you are in." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "The group expects one person to prepare everything", "reflection": "One person preparing everything can picture shared enjoyment resting on uneven work. Organizing a shared trip, group occasion or household routine may offer a parallel. The effort can remain caring while its distribution needs another agreement." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A quiet campsite gives room for an ordinary conversation", "reflection": "An ordinary conversation in quiet surroundings can picture attention available outside the usual pace. The distance may support contact rather than escape from it. What becomes easier to hear can give the temporary place its particular value." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You discover you brought things you no longer need", "reflection": "Unneeded belongings can picture preparation shaped by an earlier setting rather than the current task. Some resources may remain valued without serving this stay. Reconsidering what is necessary can change the load without rejecting the whole previous arrangement." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The setting changes and you adapt the shared arrangement", "reflection": "Adapting together to changed conditions can picture cooperation that revises a plan without assigning one person every response. A group transition may feel similar. The dream does not provide outdoor instructions or predict how a real setting will change." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You choose when to pack up and return", "reflection": "Choosing when to return can picture a temporary arrangement with a useful ending. The stay may have provided what you needed without becoming indefinitely sustainable. Leaving can preserve the experience rather than make its earlier comfort or effort meaningless." } ], "prompts": [ "What made the temporary place usable for me?", "How was the work of shared comfort distributed?", "What made staying, adapting or returning feel chosen?" ], "related": [ "tent", "shelter", "forest", "backpack" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0328" ], "scope": "Miller explicitly interprets camping in the open air and a camping settlement, then gives separate military/gendered relationship forecasts. Exact supplied record(s): miller-0328 — Camp (Heading 328; source lines 4614–4632). Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence for the original reflection, a diagnosis or an actual outcome." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0328", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Camp", "text": "To dream of camping in the open air, you may expect a change in your affairs,\nalso prepare to make a long and wearisome journey.\n\nTo see a camping settlement, many of your companions will remove\nto new estates and your own prospects will appear gloomy.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she is in a camp, denotes that\nher lover will have trouble in getting her to name a day\nfor their wedding, and that he will prove a kind husband.\nIf in a military camp she will marry the first time she\nhas a chance.\n\nA married woman after dreaming of being in a soldier's camp\nis in danger of having her husband's name sullied, and divorce\ncourts may be her destination.", "locator": "Heading 328; source lines 4614–4632", "lineStart": 4614, "lineEnd": 4632, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of camping in the open air, you may expect a change in your affairs,\nalso prepare to make a long and wearisome journey.\n\nTo see a camping settlement, many of your companions will remove\nto new estates and your own prospects will appear gloomy.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she is in a camp, denotes that\nher lover will have trouble in getting her to name a day\nfor their wedding, and that he will prove a kind husband.\nIf in a military camp she will marry the first time she\nhas a chance.\n\nA married woman after dreaming of being in a soldier's camp\nis in danger of having her husband's name sullied, and divorce\ncourts may be her destination." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "campaign", "title": "Campaign", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of making a political one, signifies your opposition to approved ways of conducting business, and you will set up original plans…”", "aliases": [ "campaign" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about campaign stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0329", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Campaign", "text": "To dream of making a political one, signifies your opposition to\napproved ways of conducting business, and you will set up original\nplans for yourself regardless of enemies' working against you.\nThose in power will lose.\n\nIf it is a religious people conducting a campaign against sin,\nit denotes that you will be called upon to contribute from your\nprivate means to sustain charitable institutions.\n\nFor a woman to dream that she is interested in a campaign against\nfallen women, denotes that she will surmount obstacles and prove\ncourageous in time of need.", "locator": "Heading 329; source lines 4632–4647", "lineStart": 4632, "lineEnd": 4647, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of making a political one, signifies your opposition to\napproved ways of conducting business, and you will set up original\nplans for yourself regardless of enemies' working against you.\nThose in power will lose.\n\nIf it is a religious people conducting a campaign against sin,\nit denotes that you will be called upon to contribute from your\nprivate means to sustain charitable institutions.\n\nFor a woman to dream that she is interested in a campaign against\nfallen women, denotes that she will surmount obstacles and prove\ncourageous in time of need." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "canal", "title": "Canal", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see the water of a canal muddy and stagnant-looking, portends sickness and disorders of the stomach and dark designs of enemies.”", "aliases": [ "canal" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about canal stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0332", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Canal", "text": "To see the water of a canal muddy and stagnant-looking, portends\nsickness and disorders of the stomach and dark designs of enemies.\nBut if its waters are clear a placid life and the devotion of friends\nis before you.\n\nFor a young woman to glide in a canoe across a canal, denotes a chaste life\nand an adoring husband. If she crossed the canal on a bridge over clear\nwater and gathers ferns and other greens on the banks, she will enjoy a life\nof ceaseless rounds of pleasure and attain to high social distinction.\nBut if the water be turbid she will often find herself tangled in meshes\nof perplexity and will be the victim of nervous troubles.", "locator": "Heading 332; source lines 4666–4680", "lineStart": 4666, "lineEnd": 4680, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see the water of a canal muddy and stagnant-looking, portends\nsickness and disorders of the stomach and dark designs of enemies.\nBut if its waters are clear a placid life and the devotion of friends\nis before you.\n\nFor a young woman to glide in a canoe across a canal, denotes a chaste life\nand an adoring husband. If she crossed the canal on a bridge over clear\nwater and gathers ferns and other greens on the banks, she will enjoy a life\nof ceaseless rounds of pleasure and attain to high social distinction.\nBut if the water be turbid she will often find herself tangled in meshes\nof perplexity and will be the victim of nervous troubles." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "canary", "title": "Canary", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Book of Luck wrote: “(Singing) Marriage and a charming house.”", "aliases": [ "canary" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about canary stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "luck-0033", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Canary", "text": "(Singing) Marriage and a charming house.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 33; source lines 3594–3596", "lineStart": 3594, "lineEnd": 3596, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(Singing) Marriage and a charming house." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "canary-birds", "title": "Canary Birds", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of this sweet songster, denotes unexpected pleasures.”", "aliases": [ "canary birds" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about canary birds stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0333", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Canary Birds", "text": "To dream of this sweet songster, denotes\nunexpected pleasures. For the young to dream of possessing\na beautiful canary, denotes high class honors and a successful\npassage through the literary world, or a happy termination\nof love's young dream.\n\nTo dream one is given you, indicates a welcome legacy.\nTo give away a canary, denotes that you will suffer disappointment\nin your dearest wishes.\n\nTo dream that one dies, denotes the unfaithfulness of dear friends.\n\nAdvancing, fluttering, and singing canaries, in luxurious apartments,\ndenotes feasting and a life of exquisite refinement,\nwealth, and satisfying friendships. If the light is weird\nor unnaturally bright, it augurs that you are entertaining\nillusive hopes. Your over-confidence is your worst enemy.\nA young woman after this dream should beware, lest flattering\npromises react upon her in disappointment. Fairy-like scenes\nin a dream are peculiarly misleading and treacherous to women.", "locator": "Heading 333; source lines 4680–4701", "lineStart": 4680, "lineEnd": 4701, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of this sweet songster, denotes\nunexpected pleasures. For the young to dream of possessing\na beautiful canary, denotes high class honors and a successful\npassage through the literary world, or a happy termination\nof love's young dream.\n\nTo dream one is given you, indicates a welcome legacy.\nTo give away a canary, denotes that you will suffer disappointment\nin your dearest wishes.\n\nTo dream that one dies, denotes the unfaithfulness of dear friends.\n\nAdvancing, fluttering, and singing canaries, in luxurious apartments,\ndenotes feasting and a life of exquisite refinement,\nwealth, and satisfying friendships. If the light is weird\nor unnaturally bright, it augurs that you are entertaining\nillusive hopes. Your over-confidence is your worst enemy.\nA young woman after this dream should beware, lest flattering\npromises react upon her in disappointment. Fairy-like scenes\nin a dream are peculiarly misleading and treacherous to women." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cancer", "title": "Cancer", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To have one successfully treated in a dream, denotes a sudden rise from obscure poverty to wealthy…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "cancer" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cancer stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "abscess" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0331", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cancer", "text": "To have one successfully treated in a dream, denotes a sudden\nrise from obscure poverty to wealthy surroundings.\n\nTo dream of a cancer, denotes illness of some one near you,\nand quarrels with those you love. Depressions may follow\nto the man of affairs after this dream.\n\nTo dream of a cancer, foretells sorrow in its ugliest phase.\nLove will resolve itself into cold formality, and business\nwill be worrying and profitless.", "locator": "Heading 331; source lines 4653–4666", "lineStart": 4653, "lineEnd": 4666, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To have one successfully treated in a dream, denotes a sudden\nrise from obscure poverty to wealthy surroundings.\n\nTo dream of a cancer, denotes illness of some one near you,\nand quarrels with those you love. Depressions may follow\nto the man of affairs after this dream.\n\nTo dream of a cancer, foretells sorrow in its ugliest phase.\nLove will resolve itself into cold formality, and business\nwill be worrying and profitless." }, { "id": "fontaine-0115", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Cancer", "text": "(_See Abscess._)", "locator": "Heading 115; source line 1455", "lineStart": 1455, "lineEnd": 1457, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Abscess.)" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0334", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Candles", "text": "To see them burning with a clear and steady flame, denotes the constancy\nof those about you and a well-grounded fortune.\n\nFor a maiden to dream that she is molding candles, denotes that she will have\nan unexpected offer of marriage and a pleasant visit to distant relatives.\nIf she is lighting a candle, she will meet her lover clandestinely because\nof parental objections.\n\nTo see a candle wasting in a draught, enemies are circulating\ndetrimental reports about you.\n\nTo snuff a candle, portends sorowful{sic} news. Friends are dead\nor in distressful straits.", "locator": "Heading 334; source lines 4701–4717", "lineStart": 4701, "lineEnd": 4717, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see them burning with a clear and steady flame, denotes the constancy\nof those about you and a well-grounded fortune.\n\nFor a maiden to dream that she is molding candles, denotes that she will have\nan unexpected offer of marriage and a pleasant visit to distant relatives.\nIf she is lighting a candle, she will meet her lover clandestinely because\nof parental objections.\n\nTo see a candle wasting in a draught, enemies are circulating\ndetrimental reports about you.\n\nTo snuff a candle, portends sorowful[sic] news. Friends are dead\nor in distressful straits." }, { "id": "miller-2175", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Wax Taper", "text": "To dream of lighting wax tapers, denotes that some pleasing occurrence\nwill bring you into association with friends long absent.\n\nTo blow them out, signals disappointing times, and sickness will forestall\nexpected opportunities of meeting distinguished friends.", "locator": "Heading 2179; source lines 23962–23970", "lineStart": 23962, "lineEnd": 23970, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of lighting wax tapers, denotes that some pleasing occurrence\nwill bring you into association with friends long absent.\n\nTo blow them out, signals disappointing times, and sickness will forestall\nexpected opportunities of meeting distinguished friends.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Wax Taper” is shown on the Candles page: tapers are candles" }, { "id": "fontaine-0111", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Candles", "text": "To dream of lighted candles, is a sign that you will become\nreligious, or will be soon visited by a minister who will tell you good\nnews. To see a candle extinguished, is a sign of a funeral. To light a\ncandle, success in what you undertake. 21, 67, 46.", "locator": "Heading 111; source line 1443", "lineStart": 1443, "lineEnd": 1448, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of lighted candles, is a sign that you will become\nreligious, or will be soon visited by a minister who will tell you good\nnews. To see a candle extinguished, is a sign of a funeral. To light a\ncandle, success in what you undertake." }, { "id": "noe-0094", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Candles", "text": "To dream you see candles burning, if they burn clear and\nbright, that you will be speedily married. To dream that new candles are\nbrought in, denotes that by the interference of friends, all your disputes\nwill be amicably adjusted and that your sweetheart will recover from a fit\nof sickness.\n\n A light that burns both bright and clear,\n Denotes some pleasant letter near;\n But if dull the candle grows,\n It certain disappointment shows.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 96; source lines 482–493", "lineStart": 482, "lineEnd": 493, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see candles burning, if they burn clear and\nbright, that you will be speedily married. To dream that new candles are\nbrought in, denotes that by the interference of friends, all your disputes\nwill be amicably adjusted and that your sweetheart will recover from a fit\nof sickness.\n\nA light that burns both bright and clear,\nDenotes some pleasant letter near;\nBut if dull the candle grows,\nIt certain disappointment shows." }, { "id": "cielo-0086", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Candle", "text": "A lighted candle signifies unexpected favor.\n An unlighted one means “Beware of trouble!”", "locator": "Dream section, heading 86; source lines 4068–4071", "lineStart": 4068, "lineEnd": 4071, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "A lighted candle signifies unexpected favor.\nAn unlighted one means “Beware of trouble!”" }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9411", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Candle", "heading": "Candle", "text": "To see one being lighted forecasts a birth, to exhibit a lighted candle augurs contentment and prosperity; to make candles, joy and satisfaction; to see a candle burning brilliantly denotes prosperity to men, health to invalids, marriage to celibates ; a dimly burning candle shows sickness, sadness and delay ( Artemidorus). 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The symbolism is that of the sacred flame, the vital spark, with the sacredness invariably attendant upon the fiery element." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12487", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Wax-Candle", "heading": "Wax-Candle", "text": "To dream of one denotes a birth ; many, a death (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12487, "lineEnd": 12489, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 263; NLM OCR lines 12487–12489", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12487, "lineEnd": 12489, "printedPage": 263, "printedPageEnd": 263 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Wax-Candle. — To dream of one denotes a birth ; many, a \ndeath (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Wax-Candle" }, "displayText": "To dream of one denotes a birth; many, a death (Gypsy).", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Wax-Candle” is shown on the Candles page: tapers are candles" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "candlestick", "title": "Candlestick", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see a candlestick bearing a whole candle, denotes that a bright future lies before you filled with…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "candlestick" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about candlestick stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0335", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Candlestick", "text": "To see a candlestick bearing a whole candle, denotes that a bright future\nlies before you filled with health, happiness and loving companions.\nIf empty, the reverse.", "locator": "Heading 335; source lines 4717–4723", "lineStart": 4717, "lineEnd": 4723, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a candlestick bearing a whole candle, denotes that a bright future\nlies before you filled with health, happiness and loving companions.\nIf empty, the reverse." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9420", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Candlestick", "heading": "Candlestick", "text": "This dream forecasts an invitation to a wedding (Artemidorus) ; here the ecclesiastical association is apparent. Erskine regards the candlestick as the emblem of Christ and His church, and it is a well-nigh universal symbol of ceremonial faith.", "lineStart": 9420, "lineEnd": 9430, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 205–206; NLM OCR lines 9420–9430", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9420, "lineEnd": 9430, "printedPage": 205, "printedPageEnd": 206 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Candlestick. — This dream forecasts an invitation to a wed- \n\n\n2o6 THE FABRIC OF DREAMS \n\n\nding (Artemidorus) ; here the ecclesiastical association is ap- \nparent. Erskine regards the candlestick as the emblem of \nChrist and His church, and it is a well-nigh universal symbol \nof ceremonial faith. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [ { "line": 9423, "text": "2o6 THE FABRIC OF DREAMS " } ], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "wed- \n\n\n\n\nding", "after": "wedding", "evidenceLine": 5818 }, { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "ap- \nparent", "after": "apparent", "evidenceLine": 304 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Candlestick" }, "displayText": "This dream forecasts an invitation to a wedding (Artemidorus); here the ecclesiastical association is apparent. Erskine regards the candlestick as the emblem of Christ and His church, and it is a well-nigh universal symbol of ceremonial faith." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "candy", "title": "Candy", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of making candy, denotes profit accruing from industry.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "candy" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about candy stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0340", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Candy", "text": "To dream of making candy, denotes profit accruing from industry.\n\nTo dream of eating crisp, new candy, implies social\npleasures and much love-making among the young and old.\nSour candy is a sign of illness or that disgusting annoyances\nwill grow out of confidences too long kept.\n\nTo receive a box of bonbons, signifies to a young person\nthat he or she will be the recipient of much adulation.\nIt generally means prosperity. If you send a box you will make\na proposition, but will meet with disappointment.", "locator": "Heading 340; source lines 4781–4795", "lineStart": 4781, "lineEnd": 4795, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of making candy, denotes profit accruing from industry.\n\nTo dream of eating crisp, new candy, implies social\npleasures and much love-making among the young and old.\nSour candy is a sign of illness or that disgusting annoyances\nwill grow out of confidences too long kept.\n\nTo receive a box of bonbons, signifies to a young person\nthat he or she will be the recipient of much adulation.\nIt generally means prosperity. If you send a box you will make\na proposition, but will meet with disappointment." }, { "id": "fontaine-0114", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Candy", "text": "To dream of candy, is a sign of domestic tranquillity. 47, 8.", "locator": "Heading 114; source line 1453", "lineStart": 1453, "lineEnd": 1455, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of candy, is a sign of domestic tranquillity." }, { "id": "cielo-0087", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Candy", "text": "To make or eat candy signifies good luck.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 87; source lines 4071–4073", "lineStart": 4071, "lineEnd": 4073, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To make or eat candy signifies good luck." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cane", "title": "Cane", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see cane growing in your dream, foretells favorable advancement will be made toward fortune.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "cane" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cane stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0330", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cane", "text": "To see cane growing in your dream, foretells favorable advancement\nwill be made toward fortune. To see it cut, denotes absolute failure\nin all undertakings.", "locator": "Heading 330; source lines 4647–4653", "lineStart": 4647, "lineEnd": 4653, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see cane growing in your dream, foretells favorable advancement\nwill be made toward fortune. To see it cut, denotes absolute failure\nin all undertakings." }, { "id": "fontaine-0116", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Cane", "text": "To dream of a cane, is considered a most inauspicious dream; and\nsome authors forbid the dreamer to undertake any business on that day.\n24, 2.", "locator": "Heading 116; source line 1457", "lineStart": 1457, "lineEnd": 1461, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a cane, is considered a most inauspicious dream; and\nsome authors forbid the dreamer to undertake any business on that day." }, { "id": "cielo-0088", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Cane", "text": "Signifies dissipation and waste.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 88; source lines 4073–4075", "lineStart": 4073, "lineEnd": 4075, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Signifies dissipation and waste." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "canker", "title": "Canker", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing canker on anything, is an omen of evil.”", "aliases": [ "canker" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about canker stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0336", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Canker", "text": "To dream of seeing canker on anything, is an omen of evil.\nIt foretells death and treacherous companions for the young.\nSorrow and loneliness to the aged.\n\nCankerous growths in the flesh, denote future distinctions either\nas head of State or stage life.\n\n\n[31] The last definition is not consistent with other parts of this book,\nbut I let it stand, as I find it among my automatic writings.", "locator": "Heading 336; source lines 4723–4737", "lineStart": 4723, "lineEnd": 4737, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing canker on anything, is an omen of evil.\nIt foretells death and treacherous companions for the young.\nSorrow and loneliness to the aged.\n\nCankerous growths in the flesh, denote future distinctions either\nas head of State or stage life. The last definition is not consistent with other parts of this book,\nbut I let it stand, as I find it among my automatic writings." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cannon", "title": "Cannon", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “This dream denotes that one's home and country are in danger of foreign intrusion, from which our youth…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "cannon" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cannon stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0337", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cannon", "text": "This dream denotes that one's home and country are in danger\nof foreign intrusion, from which our youth will suffer from\nthe perils of war.\n\nFor a young woman to hear or see cannons, denotes she will be a soldier's wife\nand will have to bid him godspeed as he marches in defense of her and honor.\n\nThe reader will have to interpret dreams of this character\nby the influences surrounding him, and by the experiences stored\naway in his subjective mind. If you have thought about cannons\na great deal and you dream of them when there is no war, they are\nmost likely to warn you against struggle and probable defeat.\nOr if business is manipulated by yourself successful engagements\nafter much worry and ill luck may ensue.", "locator": "Heading 337; source lines 4737–4754", "lineStart": 4737, "lineEnd": 4754, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "This dream denotes that one's home and country are in danger\nof foreign intrusion, from which our youth will suffer from\nthe perils of war.\n\nFor a young woman to hear or see cannons, denotes she will be a soldier's wife\nand will have to bid him godspeed as he marches in defense of her and honor.\n\nThe reader will have to interpret dreams of this character\nby the influences surrounding him, and by the experiences stored\naway in his subjective mind. If you have thought about cannons\na great deal and you dream of them when there is no war, they are\nmost likely to warn you against struggle and probable defeat.\nOr if business is manipulated by yourself successful engagements\nafter much worry and ill luck may ensue." }, { "id": "fontaine-0112", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Cannon", "text": "Beware of treacherous friends. To dream you hear a cannon, is a\nsign of sickness or death. 57.", "locator": "Heading 112; source line 1448", "lineStart": 1448, "lineEnd": 1451, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Beware of treacherous friends. To dream you hear a cannon, is a\nsign of sickness or death." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cannon-ball", "title": "Cannon Ball", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “This means that secret enemies are uniting against you.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "cannon ball", "cannon-ball" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cannon ball stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0338", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cannon-Ball", "text": "This means that secret enemies are uniting against you. For a maid\nto see a cannon-ball, denotes that she will have a soldier sweetheart.\nFor a youth to see a cannon-ball, denotes that he will be called upon\nto defend his country.", "locator": "Heading 338; source lines 4754–4761", "lineStart": 4754, "lineEnd": 4761, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "This means that secret enemies are uniting against you. For a maid\nto see a cannon-ball, denotes that she will have a soldier sweetheart.\nFor a youth to see a cannon-ball, denotes that he will be called upon\nto defend his country.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Cannon-Ball” is shown on the Cannon Ball page: same object; hyphen variant" }, { "id": "fontaine-0113", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Cannon Ball", "text": "To see a cannon ball, denotes misfortune. 6, 2.", "locator": "Heading 113; source line 1451", "lineStart": 1451, "lineEnd": 1453, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a cannon ball, denotes misfortune." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "canoe", "title": "Canoe", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To paddle a canoe on a calm stream, denotes your perfect confidence in your own ability to conduct your business in a profitable way.”", "aliases": [ "canoe" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about canoe stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0339", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Canoe", "text": "To paddle a canoe on a calm stream, denotes your perfect confidence\nin your own ability to conduct your business in a profitable way.\n\nTo row with a sweetheart, means an early marriage and fidelity.\nTo row on rough waters you will have to tame a shrew before you\nattain connubial bliss. Affairs in the business world will\nprove disappointing after you dream of rowing in muddy waters.\nIf the waters are shallow and swift, a hasty courtship or stolen pleasures,\nfrom which there can be no lasting good, are indicated.\n\nShallow, clear and calm waters in rowing, signifies happiness\nof a pleasing character, but of short duration.\n\nWater is typical of futurity in the dream realms. If a pleasant immediate\nfuture awaits the dreamer he will come in close proximity with clear water.\nOr if he emerges from disturbed watery elements into waking life the near\nfuture is filled with crosses for him.", "locator": "Heading 339; source lines 4761–4781", "lineStart": 4761, "lineEnd": 4781, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To paddle a canoe on a calm stream, denotes your perfect confidence\nin your own ability to conduct your business in a profitable way.\n\nTo row with a sweetheart, means an early marriage and fidelity.\nTo row on rough waters you will have to tame a shrew before you\nattain connubial bliss. Affairs in the business world will\nprove disappointing after you dream of rowing in muddy waters.\nIf the waters are shallow and swift, a hasty courtship or stolen pleasures,\nfrom which there can be no lasting good, are indicated.\n\nShallow, clear and calm waters in rowing, signifies happiness\nof a pleasing character, but of short duration.\n\nWater is typical of futurity in the dream realms. If a pleasant immediate\nfuture awaits the dreamer he will come in close proximity with clear water.\nOr if he emerges from disturbed watery elements into waking life the near\nfuture is filled with crosses for him." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "canopy", "title": "Canopy", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a canopy or of being beneath one, denotes that false friends are influencing you to undesirable ways of securing gain.”", "aliases": [ "canopy" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about canopy stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0341", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Canopy", "text": "To dream of a canopy or of being beneath one, denotes that false\nfriends are influencing you to undesirable ways of securing gain.\nYou will do well to protect those in your care.", "locator": "Heading 341; source lines 4795–4801", "lineStart": 4795, "lineEnd": 4801, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a canopy or of being beneath one, denotes that false\nfriends are influencing you to undesirable ways of securing gain.\nYou will do well to protect those in your care." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "canyon", "title": "Canyon", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "aliases": [ "canyon", "canyons", "canyon landscape", "walking through a canyon" ], "summary": "A canyon can make depth, distance, and passage visible. Notice whether you looked across, moved along the floor, or searched for a crossing.", "tagline": "A landscape whose deep separation and winding passage give movement a particular shape.", "psychological": "A canyon is a place organized by depth and separation. From its rim, you can look across a distance that may be difficult to cross; from its floor, the walls can shape the route available to you. These positions create different experiences. A broad view may feel expansive while a narrow passage feels sheltered, enclosed, or steadily purposeful.\n\nLooking across can make a gap tangible. A person or destination on the opposite side might picture closeness that feels visible but difficult to reach. You could recognize a difference in circumstances, an unfinished conversation, or a goal with no direct route. The scene may also be simple admiration of a landscape. Begin with whether you wanted to cross at all.\n\nDepth can change perspective without requiring movement. Looking down may bring awe, caution, curiosity, or dizziness. Rock layers, ledges, and changing light can make time and distance feel substantial. Consider which feature draws your attention rather than treating every canyon as a test or an obstacle you ought to overcome.\n\nTravel along the floor brings a different question: how a route unfolds inside limits. A winding path may picture progress that cannot be judged from a single straight line. Shade, companions, water, or an opening in the walls can change how those limits feel. A sheltered passage may be welcome even when it reduces the view.\n\nCrossings and exits can make the relation between options visible. A bridge, detour, or climb toward the rim may offer different ways to leave a confined route or approach what lies across it. Recent travel, photographs, films, and memories of rocky landscapes can supply the setting directly. The reflection concerns your position and intended movement, rather than a fixed message about ambition, relationships, or future obstacles.", "traditional": "These are original reflections on canyon depth, separation, passage, and crossings. No verified historical canyon passage is supplied. The research reference provides general dream context and does not establish a universal meaning for rock formations, predict obstacles, or prescribe how to address a waking situation.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Something visible across a gap", "reflection": "The opposite rim can make a desired connection or destination feel near to sight yet distant in reach. Consider whether you wanted to cross and what made the separation matter. Admiring the far side may be enough when the dream contains no wish to arrive there." }, { "title": "Perspective from the rim and the floor", "reflection": "A high view and an enclosed passage offer different information about the same place. The scene may explore what becomes clearer when your position changes. A broad overview can reveal distance, while traveling below can make the next step and available shelter more immediate." }, { "title": "Progress within a winding route", "reflection": "A canyon floor can let movement continue while directing it along curves and narrow stretches. That may picture an undertaking whose path is shaped by existing conditions. Notice whether the walls feel useful, limiting, or both, and what allows the route to remain understandable." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You speak to someone on the opposite rim", "reflection": "A voice crossing where your body cannot may picture an available connection despite physical or emotional distance. An unfinished conversation may offer a parallel. Notice whether you hear a reply, whether the words remain clear, and whether speaking changes your wish to cross." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You look down without wanting to descend", "reflection": "Watching from above can picture curiosity or perspective without a need to turn the view into a task. The depth may feel beautiful, intimidating, or both. Record what holds your attention and whether remaining on the rim feels chosen rather than like a missed opportunity." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "The path winds along the canyon floor", "reflection": "A route that turns with the landscape may picture progress shaped by conditions you cannot simply straighten. A long project with several stages can feel similar. Notice whether the next bend remains inviting, whether you have companions, and what helps you recognize continued movement." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "An echo repeats your words with a changed meaning", "reflection": "Altered repetition can picture uncertainty about how a message returns to you. Hearing your own phrase differently may resemble a conversation in which meaning shifted during exchange. The echo is an imagined feature of the landscape; consider your response before treating it as an external message." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A bridge connects the two sides", "reflection": "A crossing can make a possible connection visible after you have noticed the gap. It may picture a shared method, conversation, or resource that changes access. Observe who built or uses the bridge and whether you want to cross, pause, or remain where you are." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You find an opening after following a shaded passage", "reflection": "An emerging exit may picture a route becoming clearer through sustained attention rather than a single dramatic jump. The shaded section might have felt restful or confining. Notice what is visible outside and whether the opening changes your sense of the journey already completed." } ], "prompts": [ "Which position did I occupy, and what could I see from there?", "Was the gap something I wanted to cross or simply experience?", "How did the winding route affect my sense of progress and shelter?" ], "related": [ "mountain", "river", "climbing", "being-lost" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia editorial entry with image-specific interpretations and six differentiated scenes. The reference supplies general dream background only. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cap", "title": "Cap", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “For a woman to dream of seeing a cap, she will be invited to take part in some festivity.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "cap" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cap stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0342", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cap", "text": "For a woman to dream of seeing a cap, she will be invited to take\npart in some festivity.\n\nFor a girl to dream that she sees her sweetheart with a cap on,\ndenotes that she will be bashful and shy in his presence.\n\nTo see a prisoner's cap, denotes that your courage is failing\nyou in time of danger.\n\nTo see a miner's cap, you will inherit a substantial competency.", "locator": "Heading 342; source lines 4801–4814", "lineStart": 4801, "lineEnd": 4814, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a woman to dream of seeing a cap, she will be invited to take\npart in some festivity.\n\nFor a girl to dream that she sees her sweetheart with a cap on,\ndenotes that she will be bashful and shy in his presence.\n\nTo see a prisoner's cap, denotes that your courage is failing\nyou in time of danger.\n\nTo see a miner's cap, you will inherit a substantial competency." }, { "id": "fontaine-0117", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Cap", "text": "To put one on, be careful in your love affairs; to take one down,\nshows that that which you wish to hide will be discovered; if you\nreceive a cap you will soon be married. 64, 38.", "locator": "Heading 117; source line 1461", "lineStart": 1461, "lineEnd": 1465, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To put one on, be careful in your love affairs; to take one down,\nshows that that which you wish to hide will be discovered; if you\nreceive a cap you will soon be married." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9431", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Cap", "heading": "Cap", "text": "\"To dream of a female with a fine cap is a sign that she is in love with you. To dream that you see a man with a cap on denotes that your lover is a silly fellow and will care but little for you\" (Raphael). According to Inman the cap was an erotic symbol, of phallic origin.", "lineStart": 9431, "lineEnd": 9436, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 206; NLM OCR lines 9431–9436", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9431, "lineEnd": 9436, "printedPage": 206, "printedPageEnd": 206 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Cap. — \"To dream of a female with a fine cap is a sign that \nshe is in love with you. To dream that you see a man with \na cap on denotes that your lover is a silly fellow and will care \nbut little for you\" (Raphael). According to Inman the cap \nwas an erotic symbol, of phallic origin. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Cap" }, "displayText": "\"To dream of a female with a fine cap is a sign that she is in love with you. To dream that you see a man with a cap on denotes that your lover is a silly fellow and will care but little for you\" (Raphael). According to Inman the cap was an erotic symbol, of phallic origin." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "capon", "title": "Capon", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “To dream that a capon crows, signifies sadness and trouble.”", "aliases": [ "capon" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about capon stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "noe-0103", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Capon", "text": "To dream that a capon crows, signifies\nsadness and trouble.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 105; source lines 522–523", "lineStart": 522, "lineEnd": 523, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that a capon crows, signifies\nsadness and trouble." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "captain", "title": "Captain", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing a captain of any company, denotes your noblest aspirations will be realized.”", "aliases": [ "captain" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about captain stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0344", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Captain", "text": "To dream of seeing a captain of any company, denotes your noblest aspirations\nwill be realized. If a woman dreams that her lover is a captain, she will\nbe much harassed in mind from jealousy and rivalry.", "locator": "Heading 344; source lines 4827–4833", "lineStart": 4827, "lineEnd": 4833, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing a captain of any company, denotes your noblest aspirations\nwill be realized. If a woman dreams that her lover is a captain, she will\nbe much harassed in mind from jealousy and rivalry." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "captive", "title": "Captive", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are a captive, denotes that you may have treachery to deal with, and if you cannot…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "captive" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about captive stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0343", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Captive", "text": "To dream that you are a captive, denotes that you may have treachery\nto deal with, and if you cannot escape, that injury and misfortune\nwill befall you.\n\nTo dream of taking any one captive, you will join yourself to pursuits\nand persons of lowest status.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she is a captive, denotes that she\nwill have a husband who will be jealous of her confidence in others;\nor she may be censured for her indiscretion.", "locator": "Heading 343; source lines 4814–4827", "lineStart": 4814, "lineEnd": 4827, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are a captive, denotes that you may have treachery\nto deal with, and if you cannot escape, that injury and misfortune\nwill befall you.\n\nTo dream of taking any one captive, you will join yourself to pursuits\nand persons of lowest status.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she is a captive, denotes that she\nwill have a husband who will be jealous of her confidence in others;\nor she may be censured for her indiscretion." }, { "id": "cielo-0089", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Captive", "text": "To dream that you are in prison is a sign of luck.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 89; source lines 4075–4077", "lineStart": 4075, "lineEnd": 4077, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are in prison is a sign of luck." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9437", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Captive", "heading": "Captive", "text": "A sign of insolvency and imprisonment for debt (Raphael). A pitiful significance to the dreamer of the days of imprisonment for debt, and undoubtedly originating in the subconsciousness. It is also translated as a dream of a bad wife or husband, and here again the symbolism is plain.", "lineStart": 9437, "lineEnd": 9442, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 206; NLM OCR lines 9437–9442", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9437, "lineEnd": 9442, "printedPage": 206, "printedPageEnd": 206 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Captive. — A sign of insolvency and imprisonment for debt \n(Raphael). A pitiful significance to the dreamer of the days \nof imprisonment for debt, and undoubtedly originating in the \nsubconsciousness. It is also translated as a dream of a bad \nwife or husband, and here again the symbolism is plain. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Captive" }, "displayText": "A sign of insolvency and imprisonment for debt (Raphael). A pitiful significance to the dreamer of the days of imprisonment for debt, and undoubtedly originating in the subconsciousness. It is also translated as a dream of a bad wife or husband, and here again the symbolism is plain." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cardinal", "title": "Cardinal", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “It is unlucky to dream you see a cardinal in his robes.”", "aliases": [ "cardinal" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cardinal stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0346", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cardinal", "text": "It is unlucky to dream you see a cardinal in his robes.\nYou will meet such misfortunes as will necessitate your removal\nto distant or foreign lands to begin anew your ruined fortune.\nFor a woman to dream this is a sign of her downfall through\nfalse promises. If priest or preacher is a spiritual adviser\nand his services are supposed to be needed, especially in\nthe hour of temptation, then we find ourselves dreaming of him\nas a warning against approaching evil.", "locator": "Heading 346; source lines 4862–4873", "lineStart": 4862, "lineEnd": 4873, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "It is unlucky to dream you see a cardinal in his robes.\nYou will meet such misfortunes as will necessitate your removal\nto distant or foreign lands to begin anew your ruined fortune.\nFor a woman to dream this is a sign of her downfall through\nfalse promises. If priest or preacher is a spiritual adviser\nand his services are supposed to be needed, especially in\nthe hour of temptation, then we find ourselves dreaming of him\nas a warning against approaching evil." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cards", "title": "Cards", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "5 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “If playing them in your dreams with others for social pastime, you will meet with fair realization of…” Compare 5 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "cards", "whist" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cards stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0347", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cards", "text": "If playing them in your dreams with others for social pastime, you will\nmeet with fair realization of hopes that have long buoyed you up.\nSmall ills will vanish. But playing for stakes will involve you\nin difficulties of a serious nature.\n\nIf you lose at cards you will encounter enemies.\nIf you win you will justify yourself in the eyes of the law,\nbut will have trouble in so doing.\n\nIf a young woman dreams that her sweetheart is playing at cards,\nshe will have cause to question his good intentions.\n\nIn social games, seeing diamonds indicate wealth; clubs, that your partner\nin life will be exacting, and that you may have trouble in explaining\nyour absence at times; hearts denote fidelity and cosy surroundings;\nspades signify that you will be a widow and encumbered with a large estate.", "locator": "Heading 347; source lines 4873–4892", "lineStart": 4873, "lineEnd": 4892, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If playing them in your dreams with others for social pastime, you will\nmeet with fair realization of hopes that have long buoyed you up.\nSmall ills will vanish. But playing for stakes will involve you\nin difficulties of a serious nature.\n\nIf you lose at cards you will encounter enemies.\nIf you win you will justify yourself in the eyes of the law,\nbut will have trouble in so doing.\n\nIf a young woman dreams that her sweetheart is playing at cards,\nshe will have cause to question his good intentions.\n\nIn social games, seeing diamonds indicate wealth; clubs, that your partner\nin life will be exacting, and that you may have trouble in explaining\nyour absence at times; hearts denote fidelity and cosy surroundings;\nspades signify that you will be a widow and encumbered with a large estate." }, { "id": "fontaine-0118", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Cards", "text": "Playing at cards, dice, or any other game in a dream, shows\nthe party will be fortunate in love affairs; for the tables and cards\nallude to love. 76, 17.", "locator": "Heading 118; source line 1465", "lineStart": 1465, "lineEnd": 1469, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Playing at cards, dice, or any other game in a dream, shows\nthe party will be fortunate in love affairs; for the tables and cards\nallude to love." }, { "id": "noe-0078", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Cards", "text": "To dream that you are playing at cards is a sure prognostic that\nyou will be in love, and speedily married. If you hold a great many\npicture cards, your marriage will be the means of making you rich and\nhappy. If your cards are mostly diamonds, the person you marry will be of\na sour and disagreeable temper. If they are mostly hearts, your marriage\nwill cement love, and you will be very happy and have many children. If\nthey are mostly clubs, you will get money by your marriage. If they are\nmostly spades, your marriage will turn out very unhappy and your children\nwill be unfaithful and subject to many hardships. If you are in\nexpectation of a place, you will get it, and if you are in business you\nwill be successful.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 80; source lines 403–413", "lineStart": 403, "lineEnd": 413, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are playing at cards is a sure prognostic that\nyou will be in love, and speedily married. If you hold a great many\npicture cards, your marriage will be the means of making you rich and\nhappy. If your cards are mostly diamonds, the person you marry will be of\na sour and disagreeable temper. If they are mostly hearts, your marriage\nwill cement love, and you will be very happy and have many children. If\nthey are mostly clubs, you will get money by your marriage. If they are\nmostly spades, your marriage will turn out very unhappy and your children\nwill be unfaithful and subject to many hardships. If you are in\nexpectation of a place, you will get it, and if you are in business you\nwill be successful." }, { "id": "cielo-0090", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Cards", "text": "To play cards means a successful marriage.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 90; source lines 4077–4079", "lineStart": 4077, "lineEnd": 4079, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To play cards means a successful marriage." }, { "id": "luck-0034", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Cards", "text": "(Playing at) Speedy marriage.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 34; source lines 3596–3598", "lineStart": 3596, "lineEnd": 3598, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(Playing at) Speedy marriage." }, { "id": "fontaine-0861", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Whist", "text": "(_See Cards._)", "locator": "Heading 861; source line 5243", "lineStart": 5243, "lineEnd": 5245, "kind": "cross-reference", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Cards.)" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "caring-for-an-aging-parent", "title": "Caring for an aging parent", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "Caring for a parent can bring tenderness, changed roles, and practical responsibility together. Your reaction may contain more than one feeling.", "summary": "Caring for a parent can bring tenderness, changed roles, and practical responsibility together. Your reaction may contain more than one feeling.", "aliases": [ "caregiving for a parent", "looking after an elderly parent" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "Notice which task you were doing and whether the parent wanted your help. Feeding someone, managing forms, and negotiating their independence create different relationships. You can explore duty or role reversal without treating the dream as a prediction of decline. Love, impatience, grief, and relief can coexist in a care scene; none alone measures the quality of your waking relationship.", "traditional": "The archive’s parent and nursing topics reflect older household expectations. They do not settle what an adult child owes a parent today. This draft avoids assigning one family model or moral judgment to the care relationship.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "Your parent asks for help with a familiar task", "reflection": "What changed when the person who once taught you became the learner?" }, { "title": "They reject help you believe is necessary", "reflection": "Whose idea of safety or independence guided the disagreement?" }, { "title": "Another person takes a turn caring", "reflection": "Could shared care bring relief without reducing your connection?" } ], "prompts": [ "What exact task made the changed role visible?", "What did your parent seem to want?", "Where did your own needs appear in the scene?" ], "related": [ "parents", "nursing", "family" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia model-assisted editorial draft. Reflection questions and scenario readings are optional, individually written suggestions, not empirically validated symbol meanings. Source scope is stated with each citation. Historical comparisons identify topics, not inherited interpretations. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "carjacking", "title": "Carjacking", "category": "Emotions & situations", "aliases": [ "carjacking", "carjack", "carjacked", "being carjacked", "someone taking my car by force" ], "summary": "Carjacking may make an interrupted journey, lost access, or a choice made under pressure vivid. The imagined confrontation is not evidence of a real crime.", "tagline": "A route interrupted, something taken beyond your choice, and what still matters afterward.", "psychological": "Carjacking interrupts a journey through another character's demand rather than a mechanical problem. Something meant to help you move becomes unavailable under pressure. This may fit a situation in which a plan or resource no longer feels yours to direct: a role changes unexpectedly, a shared arrangement is decided without you, or an urgent demand overrides what you were doing. The image gives the interruption a confrontation, but it does not identify a real threatening person.\n\nThe car's purpose can make the imagined loss specific. You may need it to reach someone, carry belongings, return home, or complete an ordinary task. Losing access can then concern continuity and practical independence rather than the object alone. A waking parallel might involve a tool, place, or schedule on which several responsibilities depend. The dream can show how much was attached to one resource without predicting its loss.\n\nPassengers can change the priority. Concern for another person may become more important than keeping the vehicle, while being alone may emphasize having no help or witness. Feeling that you should somehow prevent every consequence can make responsibility heavy. Dream choices are not a test of courage, judgment, or how you would act in an actual emergency.\n\nWhat remains after the confrontation can offer another reading. Walking away with someone, finding another route, or receiving practical help may bring attention to resources beyond the original plan. Anger or an unfinished ending can instead leave the loss of choice central; there is no requirement to turn the scene into a lesson about resilience. News, fiction, a conversation, or a remembered encounter may provide direct context. The useful reflection concerns the journey, pressure, and priorities inside the dream, not crime evidence or another person's intentions.", "traditional": "No matching historical carjacking passage is supplied. These are original possibilities about an interrupted journey, loss of access, and pressure. A general car, theft, or chase entry does not settle this particular scene. The dream is not evidence of criminal conduct, an impending event, or a hidden motive in somebody whose face appeared.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A plan taken out of your hands", "reflection": "A forced interruption may fit losing a say in a role or shared arrangement. The image concerns the experience of pressure, rather than identifying an opponent outside the dream." }, { "title": "One resource carries several needs", "reflection": "A vehicle may support a route, belongings, and other responsibilities at once. Its loss can make dependence on a particular tool or arrangement visible without forecasting that loss." }, { "title": "Priorities beyond the object", "reflection": "Passengers, help, or another route may shift attention toward what remains important after the plan changes. An unresolved ending can also leave the loss of choice deserving acknowledgment." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "The journey is interrupted during an ordinary stop", "reflection": "A familiar route suddenly becomes a confrontation. This may give form to an unexpected demand that displaces a plan, such as a responsibility announced without discussion. The surprise can matter more than the identity of the imagined person making the demand." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Someone demands the keys before you set off", "reflection": "The trip becomes uncertain before it begins. This can fit feeling that access to an activity or resource depends on terms you did not choose. The scene may clarify what the journey was supposed to allow without showing that a real person intends interference." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Other people are passengers with you", "reflection": "Their presence changes what you worry about losing or protecting. This may explore responsibility attached to a shared plan, as when several people rely on one arrangement. The dream does not establish that you should have been able to prevent every imagined consequence." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You witness someone else's vehicle being taken", "reflection": "You are nearby but cannot direct the encounter. This may concern wanting to help while having limited information or ability, such as seeing another person's plans disrupted. Help arriving or the event ending can change the focus without making you responsible for the outcome." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You leave the vehicle and continue with help", "reflection": "The original means of travel is gone, but another person or route becomes available. This may explore support after a plan changes unexpectedly. Relief can coexist with anger about the loss; finding an alternative does not require treating the interruption as beneficial." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The car returns but the trip feels different", "reflection": "You regain access and still hesitate about continuing. This can fit an arrangement being restored without the experience returning immediately to how it felt before. The useful subject may be reassurance, time, or a new agreement, rather than an obligation to resume the old pace." } ], "prompts": [ "What was the journey meant to make possible, and what did losing access interrupt?", "Which part of the scene removed choice or created responsibility for others?", "What remained important, available, or unresolved after the original plan changed?" ], "related": [ "car", "being-attacked", "being-chased", "driving-out-of-control", "losing-money" ], "type": "dreams", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original image-specific interpretation with distinct personal possibilities and everyday context; no matching historical passage supplied. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "carnival", "title": "Carnival", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are participating in a carnival, portends that you are soon to enjoy some unusual pleasure or recreation.”", "aliases": [ "carnival" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about carnival stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0348", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Carnival", "text": "To dream that you are participating in a carnival, portends that you are soon\nto enjoy some unusual pleasure or recreation. A carnival when masks are used,\nor when incongruous or clownish figures are seen, implies discord in the home;\nbusiness will be unsatisfactory and love unrequited.", "locator": "Heading 348; source lines 4892–4899", "lineStart": 4892, "lineEnd": 4899, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are participating in a carnival, portends that you are soon\nto enjoy some unusual pleasure or recreation. A carnival when masks are used,\nor when incongruous or clownish figures are seen, implies discord in the home;\nbusiness will be unsatisfactory and love unrequited." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "carp", "title": "Carp", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “Good luck through work (Gypsy); Japanese emblem of endurance and pluck.”", "aliases": [ "carp" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about carp stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L9448", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Carp", "heading": "Carp", "text": "Good luck through work (Gypsy) ; Japanese emblem of endurance and pluck.", "lineStart": 9448, "lineEnd": 9450, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 206; NLM OCR lines 9448–9450", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9448, "lineEnd": 9450, "printedPage": 206, "printedPageEnd": 206 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Carp. — Good luck through work (Gypsy) ; Japanese emblem \nof endurance and pluck. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Carp" }, "displayText": "Good luck through work (Gypsy); Japanese emblem of endurance and pluck." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "carpenter", "title": "Carpenter", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see carpenters at their labor, foretells you will engage in honest endeavors to raise your fortune, to…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "carpenter" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about carpenter stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0353", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Carpenter", "text": "To see carpenters at their labor, foretells you will engage in honest\nendeavors to raise your fortune, to the exclusion of selfish pastime\nor so-called recreation.", "locator": "Heading 353; source lines 4943–4949", "lineStart": 4943, "lineEnd": 4949, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see carpenters at their labor, foretells you will engage in honest\nendeavors to raise your fortune, to the exclusion of selfish pastime\nor so-called recreation." }, { "id": "cielo-0091", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Carpenter", "text": "Denotes a new turn among business affairs.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 91; source lines 4079–4081", "lineStart": 4079, "lineEnd": 4081, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Denotes a new turn among business affairs." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "carpet", "title": "Carpet", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see a carpet in a dream, denotes profit, and wealthy friends to aid you in need.”", "aliases": [ "carpet" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about carpet stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0352", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Carpet", "text": "To see a carpet in a dream, denotes profit, and wealthy friends\nto aid you in need.\n\nTo walk on a carpet, you will be prosperous and happy.\n\nTo dream that you buy carpets, denotes great gain.\nIf selling them, you will have cause to go on a pleasant journey,\nas well as a profitable one.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of carpets, shows she will own a beautiful\nhome and servants will wait upon her.", "locator": "Heading 352; source lines 4929–4943", "lineStart": 4929, "lineEnd": 4943, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a carpet in a dream, denotes profit, and wealthy friends\nto aid you in need.\n\nTo walk on a carpet, you will be prosperous and happy.\n\nTo dream that you buy carpets, denotes great gain.\nIf selling them, you will have cause to go on a pleasant journey,\nas well as a profitable one.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of carpets, shows she will own a beautiful\nhome and servants will wait upon her." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "carriage", "title": "Carriage", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see a carriage, implies that you will be gratified, and that you will make visits.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "carriage" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about carriage stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0354", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Carriage", "text": "To see a carriage, implies that you will be gratified, and that you\nwill make visits.\n\nTo ride in one, you will have a sickness that will soon pass,\nand you will enjoy health and advantageous positions.\n\nTo dream that you are looking for a carriage, you will have to labor hard,\nbut will eventually be possessed with a fair competency.", "locator": "Heading 354; source lines 4949–4960", "lineStart": 4949, "lineEnd": 4960, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a carriage, implies that you will be gratified, and that you\nwill make visits.\n\nTo ride in one, you will have a sickness that will soon pass,\nand you will enjoy health and advantageous positions.\n\nTo dream that you are looking for a carriage, you will have to labor hard,\nbut will eventually be possessed with a fair competency." }, { "id": "fontaine-0120", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Carriage", "text": "To dream you ride in a carriage, is a sign of success in\nbusiness and love. If the carriage breaks down, it is a sign you will\nmeet with sudden losses. 31, 67, 3.", "locator": "Heading 120; source line 1472", "lineStart": 1472, "lineEnd": 1476, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you ride in a carriage, is a sign of success in\nbusiness and love. If the carriage breaks down, it is a sign you will\nmeet with sudden losses." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "carrion", "title": "Carrion", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “To dream of carrion, signifies sadness.”", "aliases": [ "carrion" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about carrion stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "noe-0104", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Carrion", "text": "To dream of carrion, signifies sadness.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 106; source lines 523–524", "lineStart": 523, "lineEnd": 524, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of carrion, signifies sadness." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "carrot", "title": "Carrot", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of carrots, portends prosperity and health For a young woman to eat them, denotes that she will…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "carrot", "carrots" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about carrot stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0355", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Carrot", "text": "To dream of carrots, portends prosperity and health For a young\nwoman to eat them, denotes that she will contract an early marriage\nand be the mother of several hardy children.", "locator": "Heading 355; source lines 4960–4966", "lineStart": 4960, "lineEnd": 4966, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of carrots, portends prosperity and health For a young\nwoman to eat them, denotes that she will contract an early marriage\nand be the mother of several hardy children." }, { "id": "fontaine-0119", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Carrots", "text": "To dream of carrots, or parsnips, signifies profit and\nstrength to those who are at law for an inheritance. 10, 35.", "locator": "Heading 119; source line 1469", "lineStart": 1469, "lineEnd": 1472, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of carrots, or parsnips, signifies profit and\nstrength to those who are at law for an inheritance." }, { "id": "noe-0105", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Carrots", "text": "To dream of carrots, signifies profit and strength to them\nwhich are at law for inheritance; for we pluck them out of the ground with\nour hands, branches, strings and veins.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 107; source lines 524–526", "lineStart": 524, "lineEnd": 526, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of carrots, signifies profit and strength to them\nwhich are at law for inheritance; for we pluck them out of the ground with\nour hands, branches, strings and veins." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "carrying", "title": "Carrying", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “To dream that one is carrying another, is better than to dream one is carried.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "carrying", "of carrying another, or being carried" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about carrying stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0121", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Carrying", "text": "To dream that one is carrying another, is better than to\ndream one is carried; to be carried by a woman, a child, or a poor\nperson, means profit and success; by a rich person, the contrary. 4,\n44, 1.", "locator": "Heading 121; source line 1476", "lineStart": 1476, "lineEnd": 1481, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that one is carrying another, is better than to\ndream one is carried; to be carried by a woman, a child, or a poor\nperson, means profit and success; by a rich person, the contrary. 4," }, { "id": "artemidorus-110", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of carrying another, or being carried.", "text": "FOr to carry another, is better then to be carried, inasmuch as it is more honour to give, then to take. For he which carrieth, representeth him which doth good, or a pleasure, and he which is carried, him which receiveth: to be carried by a woman, a childe, or a poore person, is meanes of profit, and supportment. It is good for a servant to be carryed by his Master, and for the mean man to be carryed by the rich.", "locator": "Book 2, encoded section 110", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "2", "displayText": "FOr to carry another, is better then to be carried, inasmuch as it is more honour to give, then to take. For he which carrieth, representeth him which doth good, or a pleasure, and he which is carried, him which receiveth: to be carried by a woman, a childe, or a poore person, is meanes of profit, and supportment. It is good for a servant to be carryed by his Master, and for the mean man to be carryed by the rich.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Carrying another, or being carried” is shown on the Carrying page: fontaine Carrying and Artemidorus section are the same topic" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "car", "title": "Cars", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "What your means of getting around makes possible.", "summary": "A car may focus on access to movement, the people and belongings you carry, and whether the vehicle suits your present needs.", "aliases": [ "car", "cars", "automobile" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "A car in a dream is something you can enter, share, maintain or leave behind. Its practical role may matter more than motion: having the right key, fitting your belongings inside or recognizing which vehicle is yours. Begin with what the car lets you do. An impressive vehicle can feel unusable, while an ordinary one can offer exactly what you need.\n\nOwnership and access may give the scene a personal shape. Borrowing a car could resemble using an arrangement that comes with someone else's conditions. Finding your own car unfamiliar might highlight changed needs or expectations. Those possibilities concern your experience of access; the dream cannot establish actual ownership rights or another person's intentions.\n\nThe interior can draw attention to what accompanies you. Extra passengers, work equipment, shopping or old belongings may crowd the available space. Consider which items are useful for the present journey and which have remained from an earlier one. This need not become a rule that every object represents a burden; familiar possessions can also make travel comfortable.\n\nCondition changes the relationship between a plan and its means. A car that starts reliably may let you focus elsewhere. One that needs repair might make support or preparation visible, particularly if you usually expect it to be ready without thought. A dreamed fault does not assess a real vehicle or predict an accident.\n\nCars can also carry personal memories: lessons, shared trips, a first independent journey or the routine of commuting. A particular model may belong to a person or period you remember. Ask what you associate with this car before using general ideas about status or control. Its meaning for you may be an ordinary remembered experience.\n\nKeep the vehicle distinct from the activity around it. Driving concerns ongoing choices; being a passenger concerns your place in a shared journey; losing control concerns a specific failure to regulate movement. A car parked outside may involve none of those things. What feature of this vehicle helps or complicates your plans, and what would make it fit the journey you actually want?", "traditional": "Miller’s Automobile passage assigns forecasts to riding, breakdowns, escaping a vehicle's path and a gendered search for an automobile. Its period warnings concern conduct and disappointment; they do not assess a real car or predict road events. The original reflections distinguish the vehicle and its use from the separate activity of driving.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "Your car is full before you get inside", "reflection": "Bags, equipment or passengers occupy the space you expected to use. The scene might highlight how a practical arrangement accommodates several demands. Which things belong on this journey, and which could be moved? Crowding does not by itself mean that the people there are unwelcome." }, { "title": "Borrowing a car under detailed conditions", "reflection": "You can use the car only if you follow someone else's instructions about return, passengers or storage. This may resemble access to a helpful resource with obligations attached. Notice whether the conditions feel clear and workable or make the benefit hard to enjoy, without assuming they reveal a person's motives." }, { "title": "Recognizing an old family car", "reflection": "The vehicle brings back an ordinary journey or a particular person's company. Consider the remembered use rather than the model's supposed prestige. What is different when you enter it now? A familiar car may connect an earlier routine with a present need without requiring you to repeat that routine." }, { "title": "An impressive car that does not fit your belongings", "reflection": "The car looks appealing, but an item you need cannot fit. The scene might show a mismatch between an attractive option and its practical use. Identify the specific requirement that remains unmet; the dream does not make appearance unimportant or establish that your choice has been foolish." }, { "title": "Finding the car after a long search through a lot", "reflection": "You recognize a detail and finally locate the parked vehicle. The relief could focus on recovering access to your planned next step. Ask what helped you identify it and whether a recent crowded schedule or unfamiliar place supplied the search, rather than treating forgetting as a judgment of your abilities." }, { "title": "Choosing to leave a usable car parked", "reflection": "You have access to the vehicle but decide that walking or staying suits the day better. The scene may emphasize choosing how to use a resource rather than using it whenever it is available. What makes another pace preferable, and how does the parked car feel when you leave it?" } ], "prompts": [ "What made this particular car recognizable or useful?", "Who or what occupied its available space?", "How well did the vehicle fit the journey or activity you wanted?" ], "related": [ "driving", "passenger", "parking-lot", "driving-out-of-control", "vehicle" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "scope": "Miller distinguishes riding an automobile, breakdown, escaping its path and a gendered search for one, assigning conduct, pleasure, rivalry and disappointment claims. Specific supplied passages: Automobile — miller-0132 (Heading 132; source lines 2874–2890). Historical comparison only; these period beliefs do not establish outcomes or validate the original symbolic reflections.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0132" ] }, { "id": "wamsley-2010", "title": "Dreaming of a learning task is associated with enhanced sleep-dependent memory consolidation", "author": "Erin J. Wamsley and colleagues", "url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20417102/", "scope": "Primary maze-learning experiment; task-related dream reports correlated with later performance. It does not show that a dream is an accurate memory or a solution." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s continuing delegation of English editorial decisions. Historical accounts remain attributed period claims; the cited memory study does not validate these interpretations.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Access to a useful resource", "reflection": "Ownership, borrowing and keys can focus on the conditions under which you can use a means of getting somewhere." }, { "title": "What travels with you", "reflection": "The interior may make room, company and useful belongings noticeable, without making every object an emotional burden." }, { "title": "A vehicle that fits the journey", "reflection": "Size, familiarity and condition can prompt a practical comparison between an available arrangement and your current needs." } ], "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "DreamFolia AI-assisted editorial review", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "water", "house", "dog", "cat", "being-pregnant", "ex-partner", "deceased-loved-one", "fire", "spider", "being-lost", "ocean", "flood", "wedding", "baby", "train", "car", "wolf" ] }, "decisionReason": "The reading keeps the vehicle distinct from driving, passenger experience and loss of control. Six scenes explore access, capacity, remembered use, fit, recovered access and choosing another pace. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0349", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cart", "text": "To dream of riding in a cart, ill luck and constant work will employ\nyour time if you would keep supplies for your family.\n\nTo see a cart, denotes bad news from kindred or friends.\n\nTo dream of driving a cart, you will meet with merited success\nin business and other aspirations.\n\nFor lovers to ride together in a cart, they will be true in spite\nof the machinations of rivals.", "locator": "Heading 349; source lines 4899–4912", "lineStart": 4899, "lineEnd": 4912, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of riding in a cart, ill luck and constant work will employ\nyour time if you would keep supplies for your family.\n\nTo see a cart, denotes bad news from kindred or friends.\n\nTo dream of driving a cart, you will meet with merited success\nin business and other aspirations.\n\nFor lovers to ride together in a cart, they will be true in spite\nof the machinations of rivals." }, { "id": "fontaine-0122", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Cart", "text": "To dream of being tied to a cart to draw like a horse, denotes\nservitude and pain; but to dream that you are carried in a cart, the\ncontrary. 6, 5, 17.", "locator": "Heading 122; source line 1481", "lineStart": 1481, "lineEnd": 1485, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being tied to a cart to draw like a horse, denotes\nservitude and pain; but to dream that you are carried in a cart, the\ncontrary." }, { "id": "noe-0106", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Cart", "text": "To dream of being tied to\na cart, to draw like an horse or an ox, denotes servitude and pain to\neverybody; but to dream that you are carried in a cart or coach, the\ncontrary.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 108; source lines 526–529", "lineStart": 526, "lineEnd": 529, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being tied to\na cart, to draw like an horse or an ox, denotes servitude and pain to\neverybody; but to dream that you are carried in a cart or coach, the\ncontrary." }, { "id": "cielo-0092", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Cart", "text": "Indicates sickness; with a horse before it, disgrace.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 92; source lines 4081–4083", "lineStart": 4081, "lineEnd": 4083, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Indicates sickness; with a horse before it, disgrace." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cartridge", "title": "Cartridge", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of cartridges, foretells unhappy quarrels and dissensions.”", "aliases": [ "cartridge" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cartridge stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0350", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cartridge", "text": "To dream of cartridges, foretells unhappy quarrels and dissensions.\n\nSome untoward fate threatens you or some one closely allied to you.\n\nIf they are empty, there will be foolish variances in your associations.", "locator": "Heading 350; source lines 4912–4920", "lineStart": 4912, "lineEnd": 4920, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of cartridges, foretells unhappy quarrels and dissensions.\n\nSome untoward fate threatens you or some one closely allied to you.\n\nIf they are empty, there will be foolish variances in your associations." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "carving", "title": "Carving", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of carving a fowl, indicates you will be poorly off in a worldly way.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "carving" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about carving stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0351", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Carving", "text": "To dream of carving a fowl, indicates you will be poorly off\nin a worldly way. Companions will cause you vexation from\ncontinued ill temper.\n\nCarving meat, denotes bad investments, but, if a change is made,\nprospects will be brighter.", "locator": "Heading 351; source lines 4920–4929", "lineStart": 4920, "lineEnd": 4929, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of carving a fowl, indicates you will be poorly off\nin a worldly way. Companions will cause you vexation from\ncontinued ill temper.\n\nCarving meat, denotes bad investments, but, if a change is made,\nprospects will be brighter." }, { "id": "cielo-0093", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Carving", "text": "To dream of carving meat means business prosperity.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 93; source lines 4083–4085", "lineStart": 4083, "lineEnd": 4085, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of carving meat means business prosperity." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cash", "title": "Cash", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "aliases": [ "cash" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "summary": "Cash can explore an immediate exchange, the form a payment takes, or how a visible amount changes the pace of a practical encounter.", "tagline": "A usable payment can still need the right form and agreed terms.", "psychological": "Cash in a dream can make an exchange immediate and tangible. Notes or a handful of money pass between people, remain in your hand or wait beside a counter. The focus may be how an interaction proceeds rather than deciding what all money represents. A familiar errand can supply direct context, and the dreamed transaction does not direct actual spending or forecast a payment.\n\nHaving the correct total in awkward denominations can make an apparently simple exchange require another step. You may need change, an agreed alternative or time to explain what you can offer. This can resemble a task for which the overall resources are sufficient but their available form does not fit the immediate request. The difficulty is different from choosing between two things you cannot both afford.\n\nCash counted aloud can make a private amount part of a shared encounter. The visible process may reassure you, make the exchange feel slower or draw attention you did not want. A workplace handover where clarity and discretion matter in different ways may offer a comparison. Neither transparency nor privacy has to become the only correct preference.\n\nReceiving change after you thought an interaction had ended can reopen the occasion briefly. There may be another detail to settle before you can leave. Being offered a receipt when you wanted the money counted instead separates documentation from the confirmation you were seeking. These scenes can concern what makes an exchange feel complete, rather than reveal a hidden mistake in an actual account.\n\nAn old-fashioned cash drawer appearing in a familiar modern setting can make a routine proceed through a different method. You may enjoy the direct handling or miss the convenience you expected. A note left on the counter while you and the other person talk can instead make human contact more central than the payment. The physical transfer gives a background task its place without having to explain every part of the conversation. These possibilities concern form, visibility and completion within the dreamed exchange. The denomination, timing and response you receive help distinguish a useful personal comparison from an ordinary remembered transaction.", "traditional": "Miller’s Cash passage makes moral and reputation claims about possessing or spending borrowed money, including a gendered friendship forecast, then refers to Money. Fontaine’s Cash heading only says See Money and supplies no independent account. These period assertions do not establish character or future finances. The original reflection here concerns the physical form and completion of an exchange.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "An amount in a workable form", "reflection": "A correct total can still require change, timing or another arrangement for the immediate task." }, { "title": "Visibility within the exchange", "reflection": "Being counted or shown can offer clarity while altering privacy and pace." }, { "title": "What completes the occasion", "reflection": "Change, confirmation and continuing conversation can give a transaction different endings." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "The total is correct but the counter needs a different denomination", "reflection": "The amount meets the request while its form does not permit the next step. This can picture a practical task needing rearrangement rather than more resources. An agreed alternative or a little time may matter more than the size of what is already available." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "The cash is counted aloud in front of several people", "reflection": "The exchange becomes visible and takes a shared pace. This may feel reassuring because each step can be followed, or uncomfortable because the amount receives attention. The scene can explore how clarity and discretion fit the encounter without making either preference a character judgment." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Unexpected change arrives after you thought the exchange was finished", "reflection": "A small return creates one more moment within an occasion you considered complete. This can resemble a task with a final detail still to settle. Receiving it may be pleasant or inconvenient, making timing and acknowledgment more central than the apparent gain." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You receive a receipt when you wanted the notes counted with you", "reflection": "A record is offered in place of the confirmation you hoped to share. This can picture different ways of making a handover feel settled. The document and the visible action serve different purposes, allowing a question about understanding to remain alongside the practical exchange." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "An old cash drawer changes a familiar modern routine", "reflection": "The place stays recognizable while the method becomes hands-on and slower. This may picture enjoying direct contact with a process or wanting the convenience you expected. The changed setup makes the routine worth considering without requiring one method to be inherently better." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The cash stays on the counter while an ordinary conversation continues", "reflection": "Payment is present but no longer the centre of attention. This can picture a practical requirement finding its place beside human contact. The delay may be comfortable because the occasion has more to offer than completion, rather than turning every paused exchange into a problem." } ], "prompts": [ "What made the cash usable or awkward within this particular exchange?", "How did counting, visibility or documentation change the encounter?", "What gave the interaction a satisfactory ending?" ], "related": [ "money", "purse", "coins", "bank" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0357" ], "scope": "miller-0357: Possessing or spending borrowed cash receives moral/character, reputation and friendship forecasts, including a gendered young-woman claim. The whole account cross-references Money. Specific complete passages: Cash — miller-0357 (Heading 357; source lines 4972–4985). Attributed period comparison only; these claims do not validate the original reflection or establish actual outcomes, character, health or relationships." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0123" ], "scope": "fontaine-0123: Cross-reference only: the Cash heading says See Money and supplies no independent cash interpretation. Specific complete passages: Cash — fontaine-0123 (Heading 123; source line 1485). Attributed period comparison only; these claims do not validate the original reflection or establish actual outcomes, character, health or relationships." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0357", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cash", "text": "To dream that you have plenty of cash, but that it has been borrowed,\nportends that you will be looked upon as a worthy man, but that those who come\nin close contact with you will find that you are mercenary and unfeeling.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she is spending borrowed money,\nforetells that she will be found out in her practice of deceit,\nand through this lose a prized friend.\n\n\n[32] See Money.", "locator": "Heading 357; source lines 4972–4985", "lineStart": 4972, "lineEnd": 4985, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you have plenty of cash, but that it has been borrowed,\nportends that you will be looked upon as a worthy man, but that those who come\nin close contact with you will find that you are mercenary and unfeeling.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she is spending borrowed money,\nforetells that she will be found out in her practice of deceit,\nand through this lose a prized friend. See Money." }, { "id": "fontaine-0123", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Cash", "text": "(_See Money._)", "locator": "Heading 123; source line 1485", "lineStart": 1485, "lineEnd": 1487, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Money.)" } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [ "money" ] }, { "slug": "cash-box", "title": "Cash Box", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a full cash box, denotes that favorable prospects will open around you. If empty, you will experience meager reimbursements.”", "aliases": [ "cash box" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cash box stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0358", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cash Box", "text": "To dream of a full cash box, denotes that favorable prospects will open\naround you. If empty, you will experience meager reimbursements.", "locator": "Heading 358; source lines 4985–4990", "lineStart": 4985, "lineEnd": 4990, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a full cash box, denotes that favorable prospects will open\naround you. If empty, you will experience meager reimbursements." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cash-register", "title": "Cash register", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "aliases": [ "cash register", "cash registers" ], "summary": "A cash register can explore how actions become counted and confirmed, how a task ends and when an informal exchange becomes an account.", "tagline": "The device gives an exchange a sequence and a visible ending.", "psychological": "A cash register can make a sequence of actions visible: an item is entered, a total appears, payment is handled and the transaction ends. In a dream, attention to the device may concern how you know a task has been counted or completed. A satisfying register that makes each step clear can picture enjoying a dependable routine. Confusing controls can instead make a familiar activity difficult to express in the form the machine expects.\n\nKnowing what you are selling while finding no suitable button creates a mismatch between the actual item and the available categories. This may resemble trying to describe unusual work through a fixed reporting menu. The object can be perfectly understandable to you and another person while remaining awkward for the device. A display that counts an item twice introduces a different tension: something you did once appears as repeated work or an enlarged demand. Correcting the entry can matter more than the apparent amount.\n\nAn opening drawer can feel like the end of the exchange, but it may arrive before the total is ready. That changes a reassuring signal into a premature one. A project marked complete before its details have been checked can offer a comparison. Conversely, a silent register may finish every step without producing the familiar sound you expect. Completion and the signal that announces it do not have to be identical.\n\nClosing a register while someone new approaches can bring the limit of a work session into view. You may want to help while also wanting the task to end. A clear handover would change the scene differently from trying to keep the device open indefinitely. This is a question about the duration of responsibility, not a judgment that service or rest should always come first.\n\nA register on a kitchen table can turn an informal exchange into something itemized. A shared meal or small favor suddenly has totals and an ending to confirm. That may feel orderly and amusing, or make an occasion unexpectedly formal. Recent retail work or shopping can supply the equipment directly. These possibilities concern the checkout device and its sequence; the hotel-registration account under Register and the simple container called Cash Box remain different subjects. The dreamed total does not establish an actual charge or financial outcome.", "traditional": "No verified historical cash-register passage is attached. Register concerns hotel-name registration, while Cash Box concerns a container. Their accounts do not supply meanings for checkout controls, displays or transaction sequences.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "An action the device can count", "reflection": "Buttons and totals can bring the fit between an actual task and its recorded version into view." }, { "title": "Completion and its signals", "reflection": "A drawer, sound or reset can announce an ending before or after the work feels finished." }, { "title": "How long an exchange lasts", "reflection": "Closing time and unusual settings can make the limits or formality of a transaction noticeable." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You know the item but none of the register buttons describes it", "reflection": "The sale is understandable while the available categories do not give it a usable place. This can resemble reporting work through a menu that misses what you actually did. The difficulty belongs to translating the task, rather than to lacking knowledge of the item." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "The display counts one item twice and you correct it", "reflection": "One action has become two entries, making the record larger than the event. This may picture wanting a task represented accurately before proceeding. A calm correction can be satisfying because it restores the relation between the work and its account, without requiring a conflict about blame." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "The cash drawer opens before you have reached a total", "reflection": "A familiar ending signal arrives while the exchange is still taking shape. This can resemble a job being declared complete before its details are settled. The open drawer may feel inviting or disruptive, making sequence more important than the amount of money it contains." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You close the register just as another customer arrives", "reflection": "The session has an ending while another request appears. This can picture wanting to remain helpful without making responsibility endless. A handover or agreed stopping point would change the scene differently from personal speed, allowing service and the limit of your working time to be considered together." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The register completes the sale without its familiar bell", "reflection": "The work proceeds successfully but the expected announcement is absent. This may resemble finishing a task without the usual acknowledgment. Unease can concern the missing confirmation, while relief may come from recognizing that the completed action does not depend entirely on a sound or public signal." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "A cash register sits between friends at a kitchen table", "reflection": "An informal occasion gains buttons, totals and a transaction to finish. This can picture making contributions explicit, or feeling that a shared pleasure has become too carefully accounted for. Humor or discomfort changes whether the device provides welcome clarity or interrupts the kind of contact you wanted." } ], "prompts": [ "Which action did the register count or confirm, and how accurately was it represented?", "What made the transaction feel finished beyond the device’s signals?", "How did the register’s setting or closing time affect the exchange?" ], "related": [ "cash", "cashier", "cash-box", "a-self-checkout-accusing-you-of-an-error" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cashier", "title": "Cashier", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "summary": "Cashier dreams may explore the terms of an exchange, the pressure of a waiting audience, or serving others while remaining accountable.", "tagline": "An ordinary transaction can become a question of access and recognition.", "aliases": [ "cashier", "cashiers" ], "status": "REVIEW", "psychological": "A cashier in a dream can make an exchange depend on a person and a procedure. A payment is accepted, a receipt is explained or a queue waits while you search for what is required. The meaningful tension may be access: whether you can complete an ordinary action under understandable terms. This differs from treating the scene as a general measure of wealth or personal worth.\n\nA changing price can make the agreement unstable. You arrive with what seemed sufficient, but the requirement shifts at the counter. A waking process that adds unexpected conditions or a task whose cost becomes clear only at the end can offer a comparison. An unreadable receipt creates another difficulty: the exchange happens, yet you cannot tell what its terms mean. Explanation would change that scene differently from simply having more resources.\n\nAn audience can turn a small delay into exposure. The cashier may be calm while the people behind you seem impatient, or the cashier may join the pressure. The dream can picture needing time to understand or prepare while a public pace leaves little room. A remembered checkout, administrative desk or awkward payment can supply direct material. The interaction does not establish actual financial trouble or another person’s dishonesty.\n\nRecognition can soften an impersonal procedure. A cashier who remembers an ordinary preference, corrects an error or explains a requirement may make participation easier without changing every rule. The scene may value practical attention rather than special treatment. Being allowed to ask a question can matter as much as getting what you came for.\n\nBecoming the cashier reverses the position. Several people may need service while the numbers, time or instructions remain unclear. That could fit responsibility for keeping a process moving and being accountable for its details. A manageable exchange can feel satisfying; an endless line can make demands multiply. The useful reading concerns the terms of service and transaction: who needs something, what counts as sufficient and whether the process lets each person understand their part.", "traditional": "Miller’s Cashier account assigns others' claims on possessions and, when the dreamer owes someone, an allegation of deceit in designs on a wealthy person. These are historical moralized forecasts, not evidence about actual finances or honesty. The modern reading develops the transaction-facing role and its procedures.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Understandable terms", "reflection": "Price, information and permission can determine whether an ordinary exchange feels workable." }, { "title": "The public pace", "reflection": "A queue can turn a practical delay into pressure to proceed before you are ready." }, { "title": "Serving and being accountable", "reflection": "The dreamer may need service or carry responsibility for several people’s transactions." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A cashier calmly resolves a wrong charge", "reflection": "The correction restores a relation between what happened and what is recorded. This may picture wanting an ordinary process to acknowledge a mistake without making it a personal conflict. Calm explanation can matter as much as the amount because it makes the exchange understandable again." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "The price changes when you reach the counter", "reflection": "The requirement changes after you have already chosen to participate. A task with late conditions or an agreement whose full cost was unclear can feel similar. The scene may focus on predictability and a fair chance to choose, rather than on money alone." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You cannot make sense of the receipt", "reflection": "The exchange has produced a record that you cannot interpret. This can picture wanting clarity about what you have agreed to or received. A patient explanation would change the experience differently from assuming that the confusing paper proves a hidden loss or deception." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A waiting queue watches while you search for payment", "reflection": "The line gives your delay an audience and a pace. A public procedure with little room to prepare can offer a comparison. The cashier’s response may soften or increase the pressure, making time and ordinary dignity as important as completing the payment." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You are the cashier and everyone wants service at once", "reflection": "The role makes you responsible for several transactions while each person expects immediate attention. This may picture a task whose pace exceeds the available resources. Clearer order, usable instructions or shared work would change the arrangement rather than require endless personal speed." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The cashier remembers you and makes the exchange easy", "reflection": "Small recognition can make a routine procedure feel welcoming. Remembering a preference or explaining a step may be enough. The scene can value practical attention without demanding an exception to every rule, and familiarity can remain helpful without becoming an intimate relationship." } ], "prompts": [ "Which terms made the exchange clear or uncertain?", "How did the waiting audience affect the pace and your choices?", "If you served others, what made the responsibility manageable or excessive?" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0359" ], "scope": "Historical context only. Attributed Gustavus Hindman Miller passage(s): cashier assigned claims on possessions and alleged deceit concerning debt; neither is evidence about actual finances/character. These are period beliefs, not established predictions or support for the original psychological reading." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "related": [ "money", "credit-card", "shopping-mall", "market" ], "updated": "2026-10-13", "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0359", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cashier", "text": "To see a cashier in your dream, denotes that others will claim\nyour possessions. If you owe any one, you will practice deceit\nin your designs upon some wealthy person.", "locator": "Heading 359; source lines 4990–4996", "lineStart": 4990, "lineEnd": 4996, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a cashier in your dream, denotes that others will claim\nyour possessions. If you owe any one, you will practice deceit\nin your designs upon some wealthy person." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cask", "title": "Cask", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see one filled, denotes prosperous times and feastings. If empty, your life will be void of any joy or consolation from outward influences.”", "aliases": [ "cask" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cask stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0356", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cask", "text": "To see one filled, denotes prosperous times and feastings.\nIf empty, your life will be void of any joy or consolation\nfrom outward influences.", "locator": "Heading 356; source lines 4966–4972", "lineStart": 4966, "lineEnd": 4972, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see one filled, denotes prosperous times and feastings.\nIf empty, your life will be void of any joy or consolation\nfrom outward influences." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "castle", "title": "Castle", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of being in a castle, you will be possessed of sufficient wealth to make life as you wish.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "castle" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about castle stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0360", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Castle", "text": "To dream of being in a castle, you will be possessed of sufficient wealth\nto make life as you wish. You have prospects of being a great traveler,\nenjoying contact with people of many nations.\n\nTo see an old and vine-covered castle, you are likely to become\nromantic in your tastes, and care should be taken that you\ndo not contract an undesirable marriage or engagement.\nBusiness is depressed after this dream.\n\nTo dream that you are leaving a castle, you will be robbed of\nyour possessions, or lose your lover or some dear one by death.", "locator": "Heading 360; source lines 4996–5010", "lineStart": 4996, "lineEnd": 5010, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being in a castle, you will be possessed of sufficient wealth\nto make life as you wish. You have prospects of being a great traveler,\nenjoying contact with people of many nations.\n\nTo see an old and vine-covered castle, you are likely to become\nromantic in your tastes, and care should be taken that you\ndo not contract an undesirable marriage or engagement.\nBusiness is depressed after this dream.\n\nTo dream that you are leaving a castle, you will be robbed of\nyour possessions, or lose your lover or some dear one by death." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9451", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Castle", "heading": "Castle", "text": "A good dream; to enter one, pleasant hopes: to see one burned, damage, sickness or death to the owner (Gypsy). Here the nomadic point of view establishes the symbol.", "lineStart": 9451, "lineEnd": 9455, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 206; NLM OCR lines 9451–9455", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9451, "lineEnd": 9455, "printedPage": 206, "printedPageEnd": 206 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Castle. — A good dream; to enter one, pleasant hopes: \nto see one burned, damage, sickness or death to the owner \n(Gypsy). Here the nomadic point of view establishes the \nsymbol. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 0.97656, "secondaryHeading": "Castle" }, "displayText": "A good dream; to enter one, pleasant hopes: to see one burned, damage, sickness or death to the owner (Gypsy). Here the nomadic point of view establishes the symbol." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "castor-oil", "title": "Castor Oil", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of castor oil, denotes that you will seek to overthrow a friend who is secretly abetting your advancement.”", "aliases": [ "castor oil" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about castor oil stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0361", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Castor Oil", "text": "To dream of castor oil, denotes that you will seek to overthrow\na friend who is secretly abetting your advancement.", "locator": "Heading 361; source lines 5010–5015", "lineStart": 5010, "lineEnd": 5015, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of castor oil, denotes that you will seek to overthrow\na friend who is secretly abetting your advancement." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "castoria", "title": "Castoria", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of castoria, denotes that you will fail to discharge some important duty, and your fortune will seemingly decline to low stages.”", "aliases": [ "castoria" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about castoria stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0362", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Castoria", "text": "To dream of castoria, denotes that you will fail to discharge\nsome important duty, and your fortune will seemingly decline\nto low stages.", "locator": "Heading 362; source lines 5015–5021", "lineStart": 5015, "lineEnd": 5021, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of castoria, denotes that you will fail to discharge\nsome important duty, and your fortune will seemingly decline\nto low stages." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "catechism", "title": "Catechism", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of the catechism, foretells that you will be offered a lucrative position, but the strictures will be such that you will be worried…”", "aliases": [ "catechism" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about catechism stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0364", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Catechism", "text": "To dream of the catechism, foretells that you will be offered\na lucrative position, but the strictures will be such that you\nwill be worried as to accepting it.", "locator": "Heading 364; source lines 5061–5067", "lineStart": 5061, "lineEnd": 5067, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of the catechism, foretells that you will be offered\na lucrative position, but the strictures will be such that you\nwill be worried as to accepting it." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "caterpillar", "title": "Caterpillar", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "A small moving body, the surface it crosses, and the change you expected to see.", "summary": "A caterpillar may draw attention to a particular pace, a changing form, or the small effect of repeated actions. Begin with its route and your response.", "aliases": [ "caterpillar", "caterpillars" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "kind": "editorial", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "Start with where the caterpillar appears and what it is doing. One crossing your sleeve differs from many feeding on a plant you were tending. A recent garden encounter, a picture, or a remembered story may be a sufficient association. You do not have to turn the animal into a promise of transformation or a warning about another person.\n\nMovement can make the scale of a task visible. A tiny creature may take a long time to cross a doorway that you could step over. Notice whether you wait, mark its progress, carry it somewhere, or become impatient. A personal comparison might concern how you measure a slow task, especially when your pace differs from someone else's. Keep the comparison specific rather than concluding that all delay has one meaning.\n\nA leaf with small missing pieces creates another question. You might admire the animal, worry about the plant, or search for a way to make room for both. This can invite reflection on two needs sharing a limited resource. It does not establish that a real person is taking something from you. The remembered amount and your intended use matter more than a general label of damage.\n\nIf the caterpillar changes into another form during the dream, record how the change happens and how you respond. An instant butterfly, an unfinished change, and waiting for something that never appears are different sequences. Familiar associations with change can be explored without treating the dream as a timetable for your own future. The scene may concern an expectation as much as an outcome.\n\nFinally, ask whether the creature remained the center of attention. You might lose sight of it while protecting a plant, discover it was a toy, or simply watch it continue away from you. Those endings allow curiosity, care, annoyance, and amusement to remain distinct. A useful reflection follows the particular encounter rather than requiring a lesson about growth from every caterpillar.", "traditional": "Miller, Fontaine and Noe connect caterpillars with loss, embarrassment or hidden enemies. Craig repeats an enemy forecast and reports older symbolic associations with the soul and the butterfly. These are the assertions of identified historical writers, including Craig’s own cultural attributions; they do not verify a tradition, expose an enemy, or predict an outcome. The four complete accounts remain separately attributed. The original reflections above and below do not inherit their forecasts.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A caterpillar takes a long time to cross the step", "reflection": "You wait beside a distance that looks very small to you. Notice whether marking progress changes your impatience. The scene may invite a question about which scale you use to judge a task, without demanding that you accept every delay." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You notice a caterpillar on your sleeve", "reflection": "The encounter has moved from observation to close contact. Your wish may be to keep watching, return it to a leaf, or regain some space. The particular response matters more than assigning the animal a fixed positive or negative meaning." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Several caterpillars eat a plant you are tending", "reflection": "Care for the plant meets the needs of other creatures in the scene. This could open a question about how a shared resource is used. It does not identify a person as a secret enemy or show that actual work will be wasted." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A caterpillar becomes a butterfly before reaching the wall", "reflection": "The form changes while the original route is unfinished. Notice whether the new movement resolves the problem or simply changes it. The scene can explore an unexpected way of continuing without promising a change in your waking circumstances." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You wait for a change that does not happen", "reflection": "Expectation becomes the main activity, while the creature continues as it was. Ask what made you sure another form should appear. A comparison with an anticipated outcome can remain useful even if you decide that watching was the whole encounter." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The caterpillar turns out to be a string of toy beads", "reflection": "A small creature becomes a familiar made object. Record whether the discovery brings amusement, relief or disappointment. The change may connect a natural image with play or a particular memory; it does not require judging the first impression as mistaken." } ], "prompts": [ "What surface or route made this encounter distinctive?", "Whose pace did you use when deciding whether anything was changing?", "What did you want to preserve, and what could you allow to continue?" ], "related": [ "butterfly", "moth", "leaves", "garden", "insects" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "scope": "Historical belief only; supplied passage: Caterpillar — Heading 365; source lines 5067–5078. Does not validate the original reflections or establish health, character, luck or future events.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0365" ] }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "scope": "Historical belief only; supplied passage: Caterpillars — Heading 125; source line 1492. Does not validate the original reflections or establish health, character, luck or future events.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0125" ] }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "scope": "Historical belief only; supplied passage: Caterpillars — Dream section, heading 101; source lines 510–512. Does not validate the original reflections or establish health, character, luck or future events.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0099" ] }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "scope": "Historical belief only; supplied passage: Caterpillar — Printed p. 206–207; NLM OCR lines 9466–9476. Does not validate the original reflections or establish health, character, luck or future events.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L9466" ] } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s delegation of editorial decisions. Complete historical accounts retain their attribution and do not establish present-day forecasts.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A pace measured against a particular distance", "reflection": "The creature’s small steps can put a long process beside the way you measure progress. Waiting and intervening lead to different questions; neither supplies a universal lesson about patience." }, { "title": "Two needs share one surface", "reflection": "A plant, garment or path can support one activity while being needed for another. Notice what you wanted to preserve and which practical choices remained possible." }, { "title": "An expected change and the ending you remember", "reflection": "A different form may appear, remain incomplete or never arrive. Keep the actual sequence separate from a later hope that the dream guarantees transformation." } ], "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "DreamFolia AI-assisted editorial review", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "ants", "bats", "caterpillar", "frogs", "grasshopper", "tiger", "turtle", "whale", "anaconda", "moose", "praying-mantis", "woodpecker" ] }, "decisionReason": "Pace, shared plant resources, expected change and a toy-object ending give six distinct associations. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0367", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cathedral", "text": "To dream of a wast cathedral with its domes rising into space,\ndenotes that you will be possessed with an envious nature and\nunhappy longings for the unattainable, both mental and physical;\nbut if you enter you will be elevated in life, having for your\ncompanions the learned and wise.", "locator": "Heading 367; source lines 5112–5120", "lineStart": 5112, "lineEnd": 5120, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a wast cathedral with its domes rising into space,\ndenotes that you will be possessed with an envious nature and\nunhappy longings for the unattainable, both mental and physical;\nbut if you enter you will be elevated in life, having for your\ncompanions the learned and wise." }, { "id": "luck-0035", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Cathedral", "text": "Prosperity and fortune.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 35; source lines 3598–3600", "lineStart": 3598, "lineEnd": 3600, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Prosperity and fortune." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cat", "title": "Cats", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "Chosen closeness, changing boundaries, and attending to a particular animal.", "summary": "A cat may evoke companionship, independence, or caution. Begin with your own history with cats and the animal’s behavior in the scene.", "aliases": [ "cat", "cats", "kitten", "kittens" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "A cat can give closeness a particular rhythm: it approaches, settles, becomes interested in something else or leaves. A cat choosing the chair beside you may picture company that feels welcome because neither participant has to perform for it. If you recognize a current or former pet, the ordinary pleasure of its presence may be the most useful context. There is no need to replace that relationship with a code for independence or mystery.\n\nAn animal that slips away whenever you reach for it creates a different encounter. You want contact, but your way of seeking it keeps changing the distance. This can resemble waiting for a conversation to develop at a pace you cannot determine alone. Choosing to sit nearby may offer a comparison with making an invitation rather than securing an immediate response. The scene does not reveal another person's feelings or establish that they are withholding affection.\n\nA cat entering a room you did not know existed can make curiosity visible through a route. You may follow because of the animal, then become interested in what you find. A hobby, overlooked part of a familiar place or conversation outside your usual circle could offer a parallel. The important detail may be how an ordinary interest opens another possibility, rather than a hidden truth that must be uncovered.\n\nCare introduces practical limits alongside tenderness. Finding a kitten can resemble receiving a small responsibility whose needs are not yet clear. Looking for food, warmth or another helper makes the terms of the task important. Feeling frustrated while wanting to help can be part of that imagined encounter. It does not assess your suitability for care or the health of a real animal.\n\nA long cuddle ending with a scratch can put changing limits into the same relationship as affection. The shift may invite reflection on how you recognize when an enjoyable exchange needs a pause. A remembered cat returning to its usual spot offers another possibility: an earlier routine briefly becomes available again. Photographs, household sounds and recent animal encounters may supply these scenes directly. Their value can lie in chosen company, curiosity or a specific memory, without turning the cat into evidence of deception, bad luck or an instruction about anyone else.", "traditional": "Much of the supplied historical cat lore is openly suspicious. Miller's Cats and Kitten entries connect these animals with deception, enemies, losses, and trouble; several passages present driving away or killing the animal as overcoming an opponent. Fontaine (1862), Noe (1885), and the anonymous Guide to Fortune-Telling by Dreams (1894) make similar claims about hidden hostility, theft, or unfaithfulness. These are period beliefs, not evidence about pets, partners, employees, or friends.\n\nCielo's Fortunes and Dreams (1917) assigns a gift to a white cat but deceit or quarrel to a black one, showing that even appearance receives inconsistent treatment across books. Craig's The Fabric of Dreams (1918) collects further attributed interpretations and cultural claims; recording them does not verify their historical explanation or their symbolism. None justifies suspicion or harm. A modern reflection can ask about contact, care, and the cat's actual behavior while keeping negative forecasts in their historical setting.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A cat choosing to sit beside you", "reflection": "The animal approaches and settles without being called. Notice what you do with this quiet company and whether you feel free to remain still. The encounter may invite reflection on welcome closeness, or simply preserve the pleasure of a familiar pet." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A cat disappearing whenever you reach for it", "reflection": "You want contact, but the animal keeps moving just beyond reach. Record whether you pursue, wait, or turn to something else. The scene may open a question about allowing distance, without proving that another person is withholding affection." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Finding a kitten that needs care", "reflection": "A small cat appears in an unexpected place and you try to meet its needs. Focus on the help available and what you can realistically offer. The scene can explore tenderness and responsibility without forecasting a new duty or a hidden problem." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A cat entering a room you did not know existed", "reflection": "You follow the animal through a narrow opening and find an unfamiliar room. Notice whether it seems welcoming, neglected, or simply new. The scene can prompt curiosity about overlooked possibilities without proving that something hidden must be uncovered." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A cat scratching after a long cuddle", "reflection": "The encounter changes abruptly while you are still expecting affection. Record the shift and whether you noticed any earlier signal. You might reflect on changing limits or surprise, without reading the scene as proof of betrayal." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "A remembered cat returning to an ordinary routine", "reflection": "A former pet waits in its usual place and the scene feels briefly familiar. Notice the everyday details and the feeling on waking. You can preserve the memory as meaningful to you without needing to decide that the encounter was a message or a forecast." } ], "prompts": [ "What personal memory or ordinary encounter does this cat bring to mind?", "Who initiated closeness, and when did the distance change?", "What did caring for or approaching the animal ask of you?" ], "related": [ "dog", "searching-for-a-missing-pet", "forgetting-to-feed-a-pet", "bird" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "scope": "Historical belief only; supplied passages: Cats — Heading 363; source lines 5021–5061; Kitten — Heading 1124; source lines 12929–12948. Not evidence of predictions or a universal symbol meaning.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0363", "miller-1121" ] }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "scope": "Historical belief only; supplied passages: Cats — Heading 124; source line 1487. Not evidence of predictions or a universal symbol meaning.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0124" ] }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "scope": "Historical belief only; supplied passages: Cats — Dream section, heading 81; source lines 413–418. Not evidence of predictions or a universal symbol meaning.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0079" ] }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "scope": "Historical belief only; supplied passages: Cat — Dream section, heading 94; source lines 4085–4088. Not evidence of predictions or a universal symbol meaning.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0094" ] }, { "id": "guide-65367", "title": "Guide to Fortune-Telling by Dreams", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Multum in Parvo Library, Vol. I, No. 10, October 1894", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65367", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "scope": "Historical belief only; supplied passages: Cats — Dream section, heading 17; source lines 185–192. Not evidence of predictions or a universal symbol meaning.", "recordIds": [ "guide-0017" ] }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "scope": "Historical belief only; supplied passages: Cat — Printed p. 206; NLM OCR lines 9456–9465. Not evidence of predictions or a universal symbol meaning.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L9456" ] }, { "id": "wamsley-2010", "title": "Dreaming of a learning task is associated with enhanced sleep-dependent memory consolidation", "author": "Erin J. Wamsley and colleagues", "url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20417102/", "scope": "Primary maze-learning experiment; task-related dream reports correlated with later performance. It does not show that a dream is an accurate memory or a solution." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s continuing delegation of English editorial decisions. Historical accounts remain attributed period claims; the cited memory study does not validate these interpretations.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Closeness that can be chosen", "reflection": "A cat may approach, settle, or leave. The sequence can help you reflect on welcome contact and room to withdraw, while a remembered pet can simply remain a particular companion." }, { "title": "Curiosity beyond the familiar room", "reflection": "A cat entering a hidden space or behaving impossibly may draw attention toward discovery. Notice whether you want to follow, watch, or keep a doorway closed, rather than assigning a fixed meaning to mystery." }, { "title": "Care without taking every task alone", "reflection": "A kitten, a missing pet, or an unfamiliar visitor may invite attention to practical responsibility. Ask what the animal seems to need, what you can offer, and who else is available in the scene." } ], "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "DreamFolia AI-assisted editorial review", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "water", "house", "dog", "cat", "being-pregnant", "ex-partner", "deceased-loved-one", "fire", "spider", "being-lost", "ocean", "flood", "wedding", "baby", "train", "car", "wolf" ] }, "decisionReason": "The revised body develops chosen company, pacing contact, curiosity, care and changing limits rather than relying mainly on recording instructions. Six scenes distinguish those encounters. 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Some friend lies at death's door;\nbut if you chase it out of sight, your friend will recover\nafter a long and lingering sickness.\n\nTo hear the scream or the mewing of a cat, some false friend is using\nall the words and work at his command to do you harm.\n\nTo dream that a cat scratches you, an enemy will succeed in wrenching\nfrom you the profits of a deal that you have spent many days making.\n\nIf a young woman dreams that she is holding a cat, or kitten, she will be\ninfluenced into some impropriety through the treachery of others.\n\nTo dream of a clean white cat, denotes entanglements which,\nwhile seemingly harmless, will prove a source of sorrow and\nloss of wealth.\n\nWhen a merchant dreams of a cat, he should put his best energies to work,\nas his competitors are about to succeed in demolishing his standard\nof dealing, and he will be forced to other measures if he undersells\nothers and still succeeds.\n\nTo dream of seeing a cat and snake on friendly terms signifies\nthe beginning of an angry struggle. It denotes that an enemy\nis being entertained by you with the intention of using him\nto find out some secret which you believe concerns yourself;\nuneasy of his confidences given, you will endeavor to disclaim all\nknowledge of his actions, as you are fearful that things divulged,\nconcerning your private life, may become public.", "locator": "Heading 363; source lines 5021–5061", "lineStart": 5021, "lineEnd": 5061, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a cat, denotes ill luck, if you do not succeed\nin killing it or driving it from your sight. If the cat\nattacks you, you will have enemies who will go to any extreme\nto blacken your reputation and to cause you loss of property.\nBut if you succeed in banishing it, you will overcome great\nobstacles and rise in fortune and fame.\n\nIf you meet a thin, mean and dirty-looking cat, you will have\nbad news from the absent. Some friend lies at death's door;\nbut if you chase it out of sight, your friend will recover\nafter a long and lingering sickness.\n\nTo hear the scream or the mewing of a cat, some false friend is using\nall the words and work at his command to do you harm.\n\nTo dream that a cat scratches you, an enemy will succeed in wrenching\nfrom you the profits of a deal that you have spent many days making.\n\nIf a young woman dreams that she is holding a cat, or kitten, she will be\ninfluenced into some impropriety through the treachery of others.\n\nTo dream of a clean white cat, denotes entanglements which,\nwhile seemingly harmless, will prove a source of sorrow and\nloss of wealth.\n\nWhen a merchant dreams of a cat, he should put his best energies to work,\nas his competitors are about to succeed in demolishing his standard\nof dealing, and he will be forced to other measures if he undersells\nothers and still succeeds.\n\nTo dream of seeing a cat and snake on friendly terms signifies\nthe beginning of an angry struggle. It denotes that an enemy\nis being entertained by you with the intention of using him\nto find out some secret which you believe concerns yourself;\nuneasy of his confidences given, you will endeavor to disclaim all\nknowledge of his actions, as you are fearful that things divulged,\nconcerning your private life, may become public." }, { "id": "miller-1121", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Kitten", "text": "For a woman to dream of a beautiful fat, white kitten,\nomens artful deception will be practised upon her, which will\nalmost ensnare her to destruction, but her good sense and\njudgment will prevail in warding off unfortunate complications.\nIf the kittens are soiled, or colored and lean, she will be\nvictimized into glaring indiscretions.\n\nTo dream of kittens, denotes abominable small troubles and vexations\nwill pursue and work you loss, unless you kill the kitten, and then\nyou will overcome these worries.\n\nTo see snakes kill kittens, you have enemies who in seeking to injure\nyou will work harm to themselves.\n\n\n[106] See Cats.", "locator": "Heading 1124; source lines 12929–12948", "lineStart": 12929, "lineEnd": 12948, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a woman to dream of a beautiful fat, white kitten,\nomens artful deception will be practised upon her, which will\nalmost ensnare her to destruction, but her good sense and\njudgment will prevail in warding off unfortunate complications.\nIf the kittens are soiled, or colored and lean, she will be\nvictimized into glaring indiscretions.\n\nTo dream of kittens, denotes abominable small troubles and vexations\nwill pursue and work you loss, unless you kill the kitten, and then\nyou will overcome these worries.\n\nTo see snakes kill kittens, you have enemies who in seeking to injure\nyou will work harm to themselves. See Cats.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Kitten” is shown on the Cats page: cat core entry already aliases kitten" }, { "id": "fontaine-0124", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Cats", "text": "To see cats is hidden enmity; to be bitten by them, denotes\nmisfortune; to be scratched, care and trouble; to caress them, false\nfriends; to kill one is triumph over your enemies; to dream of cats is\nalso a sign of loss by thieves. 54, 42, 16.", "locator": "Heading 124; source line 1487", "lineStart": 1487, "lineEnd": 1492, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see cats is hidden enmity; to be bitten by them, denotes\nmisfortune; to be scratched, care and trouble; to caress them, false\nfriends; to kill one is triumph over your enemies; to dream of cats is\nalso a sign of loss by thieves." }, { "id": "noe-0079", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Cats", "text": "To dream of these domestic animals is\nindicative of much trouble and vexation; it denotes to the lover that your\nsweetheart is treacherous. If you keep servants, they are unfaithful, and\nwill rob you. To dream you kill a cat, denotes that you discover a thief\nand prosecute him to conviction; expect also to lose your own liberty\nthrough some pretended friend.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 81; source lines 413–418", "lineStart": 413, "lineEnd": 418, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of these domestic animals is\nindicative of much trouble and vexation; it denotes to the lover that your\nsweetheart is treacherous. If you keep servants, they are unfaithful, and\nwill rob you. To dream you kill a cat, denotes that you discover a thief\nand prosecute him to conviction; expect also to lose your own liberty\nthrough some pretended friend." }, { "id": "cielo-0094", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Cat", "text": "A white cat means a gift; a black cat means\n deceit or quarrel.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 94; source lines 4085–4088", "lineStart": 4085, "lineEnd": 4088, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "A white cat means a gift; a black cat means\ndeceit or quarrel." }, { "id": "guide-0017", "sourceId": "guide-65367", "heading": "Cats", "text": "To dream of these domestic animals is indicative of much\ntrouble and vexation; it denotes to the lover that your sweetheart is\ntreacherous; if you keep servants, they are unfaithful and will rob\nyou. To dream you kill a cat denotes that you will discover a thief,\nand prosecute him to conviction; expect, also, to lose your own liberty\nthrough the insincerity of some pretended friend.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 17; source lines 185–192", "lineStart": 185, "lineEnd": 192, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of these domestic animals is indicative of much\ntrouble and vexation; it denotes to the lover that your sweetheart is\ntreacherous; if you keep servants, they are unfaithful and will rob\nyou. To dream you kill a cat denotes that you will discover a thief,\nand prosecute him to conviction; expect, also, to lose your own liberty\nthrough the insincerity of some pretended friend." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9456", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Cat", "heading": "Cat", "text": "An unfavorable dream of treachery and deceit; to be scratched by a cat, ill luck, but to kill one is a good omen, denoting triumph over enemies (Artemidorus). \"The image of a cat in a dream expresses an angry, discontented mood\" (Schemer). The cat was worshiped as a symbol of the sun god in Egypt; the same word, Mau, stands for both cat and light ; the Hebrew horror of the gods of the Egyptians is therefore expressed in their interpretation of the cat as a symbol of deceit and treachery.", "lineStart": 9456, "lineEnd": 9465, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 206; NLM OCR lines 9456–9465", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9456, "lineEnd": 9465, "printedPage": 206, "printedPageEnd": 206 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Cat. — An unfavorable dream of treachery and deceit; to \nbe scratched by a cat, ill luck, but to kill one is a good omen, \ndenoting triumph over enemies (Artemidorus). \"The image \nof a cat in a dream expresses an angry, discontented mood\" \n(Schemer). The cat was worshiped as a symbol of the \nsun god in Egypt; the same word, Mau, stands for both cat \nand light ; the Hebrew horror of the gods of the Egyptians is \ntherefore expressed in their interpretation of the cat as a sym- \nbol of deceit and treachery. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "sym- \nbol", "after": "symbol", "evidenceLine": 2325 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 0.9961, "secondaryHeading": "Cat" }, "displayText": "An unfavorable dream of treachery and deceit; to be scratched by a cat, ill luck, but to kill one is a good omen, denoting triumph over enemies (Artemidorus). \"The image of a cat in a dream expresses an angry, discontented mood\" (Schemer). The cat was worshiped as a symbol of the sun god in Egypt; the same word, Mau, stands for both cat and light; the Hebrew horror of the gods of the Egyptians is therefore expressed in their interpretation of the cat as a symbol of deceit and treachery." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cattle", "title": "Cattle", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing good-looking and fat cattle contentedly grazing in green pastures, denotes prosperity…” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "cattle", "herd of cattle" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cattle stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "calves", "pasture", "pound", "yoke" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0366", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cattle", "text": "To dream of seeing good-looking and fat cattle contentedly\ngrazing in green pastures, denotes prosperity and happiness\nthrough a congenial and pleasant companion.\n\nTo see cattle lean and shaggy, and poorly fed, you will be likely to toil\nall your life because of misspent energy and dislike of details of work.\nCorrect your habits after this dream.\n\nTo see cattle stampeding, means that you will have to exert all the powers\nof command you have to keep your career in a profitable channel.\n\nTo see a herd of cows at milking time, you will be the\nsuccessful owner of wealth that many have worked to obtain.\nTo a young woman this means that her affections will not suffer\nfrom the one of her choice.\n\nTo dream of milking cows with udders well filled, great good fortune\nis in store for you. If the calf has stolen the milk, it signifies that\nyou are about to lose your lover by slowness to show your reciprocity,\nor your property from neglect of business.\n\nTo see young calves in your dream, you will become a great\nfavorite in society and win the heart of a loyal person.\nFor business, this dream indicates profit from sales.\nFor a lover, the entering into bonds that will be respected.\nIf the calves are poor, look for about the same, except that\nthe object sought will be much harder to obtain.\n\nLong-horned and dark, vicious cattle, denote enemies.\n\n[33] See Calves.", "locator": "Heading 366; source lines 5078–5112", "lineStart": 5078, "lineEnd": 5112, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing good-looking and fat cattle contentedly\ngrazing in green pastures, denotes prosperity and happiness\nthrough a congenial and pleasant companion.\n\nTo see cattle lean and shaggy, and poorly fed, you will be likely to toil\nall your life because of misspent energy and dislike of details of work.\nCorrect your habits after this dream.\n\nTo see cattle stampeding, means that you will have to exert all the powers\nof command you have to keep your career in a profitable channel.\n\nTo see a herd of cows at milking time, you will be the\nsuccessful owner of wealth that many have worked to obtain.\nTo a young woman this means that her affections will not suffer\nfrom the one of her choice.\n\nTo dream of milking cows with udders well filled, great good fortune\nis in store for you. If the calf has stolen the milk, it signifies that\nyou are about to lose your lover by slowness to show your reciprocity,\nor your property from neglect of business.\n\nTo see young calves in your dream, you will become a great\nfavorite in society and win the heart of a loyal person.\nFor business, this dream indicates profit from sales.\nFor a lover, the entering into bonds that will be respected.\nIf the calves are poor, look for about the same, except that\nthe object sought will be much harder to obtain.\n\nLong-horned and dark, vicious cattle, denote enemies. See Calves." }, { "id": "fontaine-0126", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Cattle", "text": "(See _Pasture, Pound, and Yoke_.) To dream you see cattle\nfeeding, denotes great prosperity, and unexpected success; to a lover,\nit foretells a happy marriage, with many children; and to a married\nman, it shows that his wife will receive some unexpected legacy; to\ndream you are driving cattle, denotes that you will become rich by\nindustry; if you see fat cattle, it denotes a plentiful year; if you\nsee lean and hungry cattle in your dream, it denotes scarcity and\nfamine. 6, 11, 66.", "locator": "Heading 126; source line 1495", "lineStart": 1495, "lineEnd": 1504, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Pasture, Pound, and Yoke.) To dream you see cattle\nfeeding, denotes great prosperity, and unexpected success; to a lover,\nit foretells a happy marriage, with many children; and to a married\nman, it shows that his wife will receive some unexpected legacy; to\ndream you are driving cattle, denotes that you will become rich by\nindustry; if you see fat cattle, it denotes a plentiful year; if you\nsee lean and hungry cattle in your dream, it denotes scarcity and\nfamine." }, { "id": "noe-0080", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Cattle", "text": "To dream you see cattle feeding,\ndenotes great prosperity and unexpected success; to a lover it foretells a\nhappy marriage, with many children, and to a man it shows that his wife\nwill receive some unexpected legacy. To dream you are driving cattle\ndenotes that you will become rich by industry. If you are in love it shows\nthat you have many rivals, but that you will distance them all. To dream\nyou see fat cattle also denotes a plentiful year. To dream you see lean\nand hungry cattle, denotes scarcity and famine.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 82; source lines 418–425", "lineStart": 418, "lineEnd": 425, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see cattle feeding,\ndenotes great prosperity and unexpected success; to a lover it foretells a\nhappy marriage, with many children, and to a man it shows that his wife\nwill receive some unexpected legacy. To dream you are driving cattle\ndenotes that you will become rich by industry. If you are in love it shows\nthat you have many rivals, but that you will distance them all. To dream\nyou see fat cattle also denotes a plentiful year. To dream you see lean\nand hungry cattle, denotes scarcity and famine." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9477", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Cattle", "heading": "Cattle", "text": "A dream of prosperity (Gypsy) ; \"cattle over a thousand hills,\" we read as the symbol of success in the Old Testament. A sexual dream, declares Freud.", "lineStart": 9477, "lineEnd": 9480, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 207; NLM OCR lines 9477–9480", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9477, "lineEnd": 9480, "printedPage": 207, "printedPageEnd": 207 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Cattle.— A dream of prosperity (Gypsy) ; \"cattle over a \nthousand hills,\" we read as the symbol of success in the Old \nTestament. A sexual dream, declares Freud. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Cattle" }, "displayText": "A dream of prosperity (Gypsy); \"cattle over a thousand hills,\" we read as the symbol of success in the Old Testament. A sexual dream, declares Freud." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10320", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Herd of Cattle", "heading": "Herd of Cattle", "text": "See Cattle.", "lineStart": 10320, "lineEnd": 10320, "kind": "cross-reference", "locator": "Printed p. 223; NLM OCR lines 10320–10320", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10320, "lineEnd": 10320, "printedPage": 223, "printedPageEnd": 223 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Herd of Cattle. — See Cattle. \n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Herd of Cattle" }, "displayText": "See Cattle." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "calves", "pasture", "pound", "yoke" ] }, { "slug": "cauliflower", "title": "Cauliflower", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of eating it, you will be taken to task for neglect of duty.”", "aliases": [ "cauliflower" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cauliflower stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0368", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cauliflower", "text": "To dream of eating it, you will be taken to task for neglect of duty.\nTo see it growing, your prospects will brighten after a period of loss.\n\nFor a young woman to see this vegetable in a garden, denotes that she\nwill marry to please her parents and not herself.", "locator": "Heading 368; source lines 5120–5128", "lineStart": 5120, "lineEnd": 5128, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of eating it, you will be taken to task for neglect of duty.\nTo see it growing, your prospects will brighten after a period of loss.\n\nFor a young woman to see this vegetable in a garden, denotes that she\nwill marry to please her parents and not herself." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cavalry", "title": "Cavalry", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you see a division of cavalry, denotes personal advancement and distinction. Some little sensation may accompany your elevation.”", "aliases": [ "cavalry" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cavalry stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0369", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cavalry", "text": "To dream that you see a division of cavalry, denotes personal advancement\nand distinction. Some little sensation may accompany your elevation.", "locator": "Heading 369; source lines 5128–5133", "lineStart": 5128, "lineEnd": 5133, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you see a division of cavalry, denotes personal advancement\nand distinction. Some little sensation may accompany your elevation." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cave", "title": "Cave", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing a cavern yawning in the weird moonlight before you, many perplexities will assail you,…” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "cave", "cavern or cave", "cavern, or cave", "cave or cavern, canon, grotto, crypt" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cave stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "grotto" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0370", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cavern or Cave", "text": "To dream of seeing a cavern yawning in the weird moonlight before you,\nmany perplexities will assail you, and doubtful advancement because\nof adversaries. Work and health is threatened.\n\nTo be in a cave foreshadows change. You will probably be estranged\nfrom those who are very dear to you.\n\nFor a young woman to walk in a cave with her lover or friend,\ndenotes she will fall in love with a villain and will suffer\nthe loss of true friends.", "locator": "Heading 370; source lines 5133–5146", "lineStart": 5133, "lineEnd": 5146, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing a cavern yawning in the weird moonlight before you,\nmany perplexities will assail you, and doubtful advancement because\nof adversaries. Work and health is threatened.\n\nTo be in a cave foreshadows change. You will probably be estranged\nfrom those who are very dear to you.\n\nFor a young woman to walk in a cave with her lover or friend,\ndenotes she will fall in love with a villain and will suffer\nthe loss of true friends.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Cavern or Cave” is shown on the Cave page: same topic; grotto stays separate" }, { "id": "fontaine-0127", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Cavern, or Cave", "text": "(See _Grotto_.)", "locator": "Heading 127; source line 1504", "lineStart": 1504, "lineEnd": 1506, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Grotto.)", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Cavern or Cave” is shown on the Cave page: same topic; grotto stays separate" }, { "id": "cielo-0095", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Cave", "text": "To be in a cave denotes loss.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 95; source lines 4088–4090", "lineStart": 4088, "lineEnd": 4090, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To be in a cave denotes loss." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9481", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Cave or Cavern, Canon, Grotto, Crypt", "heading": "Cave or Cavern, Canon, Grotto, Crypt", "text": "Obscurity and misfortune are interpreted from these symbols (Gypsy) ; the ancient and sacred symbolism of caves, grottoes, etc., was lost upon the Jews who regarded them with horror, while popular tradition peopled them with dragons and other evil creatures.", "lineStart": 9481, "lineEnd": 9487, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 207; NLM OCR lines 9481–9487", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9481, "lineEnd": 9487, "printedPage": 207, "printedPageEnd": 207 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Cave or Cavern, Canon, Grotto, Crypt. — Obscurity and \nmisfortune are interpreted from these symbols (Gypsy) ; \nthe ancient and sacred symbolism of caves, grottoes, etc., \nwas lost upon the Jews who regarded them with horror, while \npopular tradition peopled them with dragons and other evil \ncreatures. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Cave or Cavern, Canon, Grotto, Crypt" }, "displayText": "Obscurity and misfortune are interpreted from these symbols (Gypsy); the ancient and sacred symbolism of caves, grottoes, etc., was lost upon the Jews who regarded them with horror, while popular tradition peopled them with dragons and other evil creatures.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Cave or Cavern, Canon, Grotto, Crypt” is shown on the Cave page: same topic; grotto stays separate" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "grotto" ] }, { "slug": "cedars", "title": "Cedars", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing them green and shapely, denotes pleasing success in an undertaking.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "cedars", "cedar" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cedars stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0371", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cedars", "text": "To dream of seeing them green and shapely, denotes pleasing success\nin an undertaking.\n\nTo see them dead or blighted, signifies despair.\nNo object will be attained from seeing them thus.", "locator": "Heading 371; source lines 5146–5154", "lineStart": 5146, "lineEnd": 5154, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing them green and shapely, denotes pleasing success\nin an undertaking.\n\nTo see them dead or blighted, signifies despair.\nNo object will be attained from seeing them thus." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9488", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Cedar", "heading": "Cedar", "text": "To dream of cedar denotes happiness, joy and peace ( Artemidorus) ; a symbol of incorruptibility (Bayley) ; the cedar of Lebanon, by its height, perfume and healing qualities was a symbol of goodness and of the Virgin (Clement).", "lineStart": 9488, "lineEnd": 9492, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 207; NLM OCR lines 9488–9492", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9488, "lineEnd": 9492, "printedPage": 207, "printedPageEnd": 207 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Cedar. — To dream of cedar denotes happiness, joy and \npeace ( Artemidorus) ; a symbol of incorruptibility (Bayley) ; \nthe cedar of Lebanon, by its height, perfume and healing quali- \nties was a symbol of goodness and of the Virgin (Clement). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "quali- \nties", "after": "qualities", "evidenceLine": 327 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Cedar" }, "displayText": "To dream of cedar denotes happiness, joy and peace ( Artemidorus); a symbol of incorruptibility (Bayley); the cedar of Lebanon, by its height, perfume and healing qualities was a symbol of goodness and of the Virgin (Clement)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "ceiling", "title": "Ceiling", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "aliases": [ "room ceiling", "low ceiling", "high ceiling" ], "summary": "A ceiling can picture the upper boundary of a situation. Shelter, limited room, and something held overhead depend on its height, condition, and your response.", "tagline": "The room has a boundary above you as well as around you.", "psychological": "A ceiling defines how much room there is above your present position. A high, stable ceiling can make a space feel generous and sheltered; a low one can require constant adjustment. This may fit a role or arrangement whose possibilities feel broad or restricted. A project with room to develop differs from one where every new idea meets a firm limit. The image turns an abstract boundary into something your body notices.\n\nProtection is also part of the scene. A ceiling keeps the room separate from weather or activity above it. Looking up at a familiar surface may bring comfort, especially when the rest of the dream is unsettled. An absent ceiling can instead offer openness or remove a layer of privacy. Exposure and freedom are both possible; neither follows automatically from the architecture.\n\nCracks, stains, or leaks can direct attention toward a problem whose source is beyond immediate reach. A recurring interruption from another department or a household task controlled elsewhere may feel similar. Repeatedly catching drips differs from being able to inspect and repair what causes them. The dream can picture the gap between noticing consequences and having access to their source.\n\nSomething suspended overhead may create a sense of expectation. A decoration can feel festive, while a heavy object you fear will fall can make ordinary movement cautious. An unresolved decision, approaching deadline, or responsibility waiting for attention may offer a parallel. This is a way of describing the felt situation, not a forecast that a structure will fail.\n\nNotice your posture and ability to act. Standing freely, bending to fit, or reaching a surface with help creates different readings of the same boundary. A real building detail or repair can also enter the dream. Ask what the ceiling allowed you to do and what required a change in the room.", "traditional": "A familiar room, decorating task, or remembered building detail can provide the overhead surface. These readings concern the space and access the dream allows. No matching historical ceiling passage is being used to assign a fixed meaning to height or damage.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "The room available for growth", "reflection": "Height can picture how much a situation lets you extend yourself. Standing freely differs from repeatedly bending to fit expectations, limits, or an arrangement that feels too small." }, { "title": "Shelter and openness", "reflection": "An upper boundary can offer comfort and privacy. Removing it can feel freeing or exposing, depending on whether you welcome the larger space and what enters from beyond it." }, { "title": "Consequences from somewhere out of reach", "reflection": "Leaks or damage overhead can picture a problem noticed through its effects. The scene may concern whether you can reach its source or only keep managing what falls into your space." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You stand beneath a very low ceiling", "reflection": "An arrangement may require you to reduce your usual movement or ambition. A role with tightly limited choices or a conversation where you keep editing yourself offers a parallel. The repeated adjustment makes the cost of fitting into the space visible." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A high ceiling makes the room feel peaceful", "reflection": "Room to extend yourself can coexist with reliable shelter. A project with a generous timeline or a relationship that allows differences may feel similar. The ceiling remains a boundary, but its scale makes it supportive rather than pressing." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Water drips from a stain overhead", "reflection": "An unresolved cause may keep producing small demands. Repeated interruptions or a household task that depends on someone else’s action can fit. Catching the water manages the result; finding where it comes from would change what kind of response is possible." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "The ceiling disappears and you see the sky", "reflection": "The room becomes open to a much wider setting. Leaving a restrictive role may offer freedom, while losing a familiar boundary may feel exposing. Your response to the sky distinguishes welcome expansion from the wish for shelter." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A heavy object hangs above your bed", "reflection": "Something pending may make it difficult to settle into rest. An unfinished decision or responsibility awaiting attention can feel similar. The scene can express anticipated pressure without showing that a danger will actually occur outside the dream." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You paint the ceiling with someone helping", "reflection": "A hard-to-reach boundary becomes manageable through shared effort. Revising expectations with another person or dealing with a deferred household task offers a parallel. The help changes your access to the surface rather than merely reassuring you from below." } ], "prompts": [ "Did the height let me move freely or make me adjust?", "What did the ceiling protect me from?", "Could I reach the source of anything coming from above?" ], "related": [ "house", "door", "roof", "renovation" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia interpretation with image-specific possibilities and six differentiated scenes. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "a-celebrity", "title": "Celebrity", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "Admiration, visibility, and the difference between a public image and personal connection.", "summary": "A celebrity dream may explore recognition, admiration, or an imagined audience. Your associations matter more than the famous name.", "aliases": [ "celebrity", "famous person", "actor", "singer", "a celebrity" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "Start by separating the celebrity from the quality you associate with them. An actor may bring a particular character, a singer a period of your life, and an athlete the feeling of practice or competition. A recent interview, song, advertisement, or conversation may be enough to explain their appearance. You do not need a hidden connection with the real person for the encounter to feel vivid.\n\nConsider the relationship the dream creates. Are you an admirer in a crowd, a colleague working alongside them, or a friend they recognize immediately? Each arrangement offers a different question about visibility. Being singled out could feel validating, exposing, or surprisingly ordinary. Being ignored may draw attention to wanting acknowledgment, but it does not establish that people in waking life undervalue you.\n\nThe celebrity's behavior can complicate the public image. A glamorous person doing dishes, asking for help, or making mistakes may invite you to consider what admiration leaves out. You might be comparing your whole life with someone else's edited presentation. Alternatively, the absurd encounter may simply be amusing. Keep room for pleasure and curiosity instead of requiring every famous face to reveal insecurity.\n\nNotice your role after the initial excitement fades. Did you speak honestly, perform for approval, offer care, or leave? A useful reflection might concern a quality you want to develop independently of this person. The dream gives no access to their private feelings and does not predict meeting them. What remains available is your response to the imagined encounter.", "traditional": "No historical record supplied for this entry addresses a contemporary celebrity encounter. The following context is an original everyday reading, rather than an inherited dream rule. Public figures become familiar through repeated images, performances, and stories, even when there is no personal relationship. That familiarity can make them convenient characters for dreams about recognition or aspiration.\n\nYour context may also be unusually specific: a concert attended with a sibling, a film watched during a difficult year, or an artist whose work helped you name an experience. Those associations are more useful than assuming fame always means ambition. Consider what the person represents in your own history and whether the dream follows or overturns that association. Neither admiration nor a romantic scene provides information about the celebrity's actual intentions.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Being recognized by a celebrity", "reflection": "They greet you by name while everyone else watches. Notice whether recognition feels warm or burdensome, and what you do next. The scene may help you describe the kind of acknowledgment you want, including whether you want an audience at all." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Working alongside them", "reflection": "You rehearse, cook, or solve a problem together as equals. Focus on the shared activity rather than their status. The dream may invite reflection on a skill you admire, or on what changes when you imagine yourself contributing instead of watching." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Finding them surprisingly ordinary", "reflection": "The famous person is tired, awkward, or dealing with everyday errands. Your reaction may reveal the expectations attached to admiration. You could explore how seeing limitations changes your respect, while remembering this dream character is not a portrait of the real individual." } ], "prompts": [ "Which work, role, or memory makes this particular person familiar to you?", "How did being noticed, overlooked, or treated as an equal change your behavior?", "What admired quality would you like to practice in your own way?" ], "related": [ "a-stranger", "being-naked-in-public", "public-speaking", "being-judged" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Expanded original reflection with source-specific historical context where available; human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "celery", "title": "Celery", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing fresh, crisp stalks of celery, you will be prosperous and influential beyond your…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "celery", "cellery" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about celery stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0373", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Celery", "text": "To dream of seeing fresh, crisp stalks of celery, you will be prosperous\nand influential beyond your highest hopes.\n\nTo see it decaying, a death in your family will soon occur.\n\nTo eat it, boundless love and affection will be heaped upon you.\n\nFor a young woman to eat it with her lover, denotes she will come\ninto rich possessions.", "locator": "Heading 373; source lines 5164–5176", "lineStart": 5164, "lineEnd": 5176, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing fresh, crisp stalks of celery, you will be prosperous\nand influential beyond your highest hopes.\n\nTo see it decaying, a death in your family will soon occur.\n\nTo eat it, boundless love and affection will be heaped upon you.\n\nFor a young woman to eat it with her lover, denotes she will come\ninto rich possessions." }, { "id": "fontaine-0129", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Cellery", "text": "To dream of cellery is a good omen, it portends success in\nbusiness and love. 48, 1.", "locator": "Heading 129; source line 1509", "lineStart": 1509, "lineEnd": 1512, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of cellery is a good omen, it portends success in\nbusiness and love.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Cellery” is shown on the Celery page: archaic spelling (Noe)" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "celestial-signs", "title": "Celestial Signs", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of celestial signs, foretells unhappy occurrences will cause you to make unseasonable journeys.”", "aliases": [ "celestial signs" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about celestial signs stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "illumination" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0372", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Celestial Signs", "text": "To dream of celestial signs, foretells unhappy occurrences will cause\nyou to make unseasonable journeys. Love or business may go awry,\nquarrels in the house are also predicted if you are not discreet\nwith your engagements.\n\n\n[34] See Illumination.", "locator": "Heading 372; source lines 5154–5164", "lineStart": 5154, "lineEnd": 5164, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of celestial signs, foretells unhappy occurrences will cause\nyou to make unseasonable journeys. Love or business may go awry,\nquarrels in the house are also predicted if you are not discreet\nwith your engagements. See Illumination." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "illumination" ] }, { "slug": "cellar", "title": "Cellar", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of being in a cold, damp cellar, you will be oppressed by doubts.” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "cellar" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cellar stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0374", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cellar", "text": "To dream of being in a cold, damp cellar, you will be oppressed by doubts.\nYou will lose confidence in all things and suffer gloomy forebodings\nfrom which you will fail to escape unless you control your will.\nIt also indicates loss of property.\n\nTo see a cellar stored with wines and table stores, you will\nbe offered a share in profits coming from a doubtful source.\nIf a young woman dreams of this she will have an offer of marriage\nfrom a speculator or gambler.", "locator": "Heading 374; source lines 5176–5188", "lineStart": 5176, "lineEnd": 5188, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being in a cold, damp cellar, you will be oppressed by doubts.\nYou will lose confidence in all things and suffer gloomy forebodings\nfrom which you will fail to escape unless you control your will.\nIt also indicates loss of property.\n\nTo see a cellar stored with wines and table stores, you will\nbe offered a share in profits coming from a doubtful source.\nIf a young woman dreams of this she will have an offer of marriage\nfrom a speculator or gambler." }, { "id": "fontaine-0128", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Cellar", "text": "To dream you are in a cellar, is a sign of sickness and an\nunlucky law suit. 75, 2.", "locator": "Heading 128; source line 1506", "lineStart": 1506, "lineEnd": 1509, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are in a cellar, is a sign of sickness and an\nunlucky law suit." }, { "id": "cielo-0096", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Cellar", "text": "To be in a dark cellar means sickness or\n absence from home.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 96; source lines 4090–4093", "lineStart": 4090, "lineEnd": 4093, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To be in a dark cellar means sickness or\nabsence from home." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9493", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Cellar", "heading": "Cellar", "text": "To dream you are in a cellar shows that you are threatened with illness (Gypsy) ; Schemer makes this dream a sign of abdominal disturbance.", "lineStart": 9493, "lineEnd": 9496, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 207; NLM OCR lines 9493–9496", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9493, "lineEnd": 9496, "printedPage": 207, "printedPageEnd": 207 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Cellar. — To dream you are in a cellar shows that you are \nthreatened with illness (Gypsy) ; Schemer makes this dream a \nsign of abdominal disturbance. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 0.98655, "secondaryHeading": "Cellar" }, "displayText": "To dream you are in a cellar shows that you are threatened with illness (Gypsy); Schemer makes this dream a sign of abdominal disturbance." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cemetery", "title": "Cemetery", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "Moving through a place that holds memorials", "summary": "A cemetery may give memory and absence a particular place, with paths, names, maintenance and the choice to visit or leave.", "aliases": [ "cemetery" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A cemetery gives a dream a place where names, paths and memorials arrange encounters with absence. You may arrive with a specific grave in mind, wander without a destination or pass through as part of another journey. The setting can be familiar, invented or assembled from several places. Start with what brought you there. Visiting a place differs from participating in a funeral or meeting a person who has died.\n\nSearching for a memorial can make location and recognition important. A name might be legible while the route remains difficult, or the expected place may look different from memory. This could resemble wanting a concrete way to remember something whose practical details have changed. The dream does not establish facts about an actual burial, reveal a forgotten location or predict a death.\n\nTending a place can bring care into a task. Clearing leaves, placing flowers or repairing a marker may fit a wish to give attention to a remembered person or event. The action need not measure devotion, resolve a loss or carry a universal ritual meaning. Your own relationship with the practice matters more than assuming that everyone uses memorial places in the same way.\n\nOther visitors can make solitude and company coexist. You may share a path with someone whose purpose differs from yours, accept guidance or find that an expected companion wants to leave sooner. A present conversation about remembrance might offer context. Their dreamed behavior does not reveal what actual people feel about a loss or determine how long anybody should stay.\n\nThe environment can affect the visit without forecasting its outcome. A neglected corner, a lively adjoining road or an open gate may change how accessible the place feels. Quiet can be restful or uncomfortable; busy activity can interrupt or simply belong to the surroundings. Actual visits, photographs, history and fiction may supply the details directly. Notice what happens when you leave, including whether the visit feels complete or unfinished. A personal reading can stay with navigation, care and remembered connection without adopting historical health, prosperity or death claims about the setting.", "traditional": "The Cemetery accounts disagree. Miller varies forecasts by upkeep, visitors and actions; Cielo predicts a friend's death, while the anonymous luck book predicts prosperity. Craig claims a prosperity reading is universal and speculates about its origins. Those are her claims, contradicted by other supplied accounts, not established cultural history or evidence about death, health or fortune.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "You know the name you seek but cannot find its path", "reflection": "Recognition and location do not line up. This may picture wanting a concrete place for remembrance while its practical arrangement remains uncertain. Ask what guidance or landmark is available in the dream, without treating the search as information about an actual burial location." }, { "title": "You clear fallen leaves from a marker", "reflection": "A small act makes something already present easier to see. This could fit wanting to attend to a memory or maintain a place connected with someone. The task does not measure how much you cared, and the cleared name need not deliver a hidden message." }, { "title": "The name is familiar but the memorial looks entirely different", "reflection": "Recognition survives a changed setting. This may combine memory and invention around a remembered person or event. Describe the difference and its effect on your visit; the altered marker is not reliable evidence that a historical detail or real grave has changed." }, { "title": "Another visitor shows you a route while seeking a different grave", "reflection": "People share the place without sharing the same purpose. This may picture useful company that does not require identical experiences of loss. Notice the specific help offered; another person's dreamed path does not establish what they actually remember or feel." }, { "title": "A busy road runs beside the quiet memorial area", "reflection": "Ordinary movement continues next to a place associated with absence. This may create comfort, distraction or a sense of contrast worth describing. Neither the traffic nor the quiet predicts an outcome; consider how the two parts affect your ability to visit within the dream." }, { "title": "The gate remains open and you choose when to leave", "reflection": "Departure is available without a fixed rule for the visit's length. This could fit deciding what feels enough for a particular act of remembrance. Staying or leaving does not certify closure, indifference or a correct response to loss; your experience can remain unfinished." } ], "prompts": [ "What brought you into the cemetery and guided your route?", "How did the names, memorials and surroundings affect the visit?", "What shaped your decision to stay, seek company or leave?" ], "related": [ "funeral", "mourning", "deceased-loved-one", "grave", "flower" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0375" ], "scope": "Historical comparison only: Miller varies forecasts with cemetery upkeep, visitors’ ages or relationship roles, flowers and children; his claims concern recovery, land rights, abandonment, marriage, deaths and health. These are predictions in the historical text, not evidence about visitors or family outcomes. Exact owned passages: Cemetery — miller-0375 (Heading 375; source lines 5188–5218). These period claims do not validate the original reflections or establish present-day outcomes." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0097" ], "scope": "Historical comparison only: Cielo assigns a friend’s-death forecast to being in a cemetery. Exact owned passages: Cemetery — cielo-0097 (Dream section, heading 97; source lines 4093–4096). These period claims do not validate the original reflections or establish present-day outcomes." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0036" ], "scope": "Historical comparison only: The anonymous book calls Cemetery a prosperity omen. Exact owned passages: Cemetery — luck-0036 (Dream section, heading 36; source lines 3600–3602). These period claims do not validate the original reflections or establish present-day outcomes." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L9497" ], "scope": "Historical comparison only: Craig calls a prosperity interpretation universally accepted and speculates about contrariety or certain early Christian sects. Her generalization and proposed explanation are preserved as her claims; disagreement elsewhere in the supplied archive prevents adopting universal acceptance. Exact owned passages: Cemetery — craig-1918:L9497 (Printed p. 207; NLM OCR lines 9497–9501). These period claims do not validate the original reflections or establish present-day outcomes." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection independently reviewed for content and source scope. Historical accounts remain attributed period writing. Human publication review pending.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A place for remembered connection", "reflection": "A particular route or memorial may make remembrance concrete without supplying new facts about the past." }, { "title": "Care through an ordinary task", "reflection": "Tending a marker or path can give attention a practical form without measuring devotion." }, { "title": "Visiting and departing", "reflection": "Company, access and the choice to leave can shape the encounter with the place." } ], "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0375", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cemetery", "text": "To dream of being in a beautiful and well-kept cemetery, you will have\nunexpected news of the recovery of one whom you had mourned as dead,\nand you will have your title good to lands occupied by usurpers.\n\nTo see an old bramble grown and forgotten cemetery, you will live to see\nall your loved ones leave you, and you will be left to a stranger's care.\n\nFor young people to dream of wandering through the silent avenues of the dead\nforeshows they will meet with tender and loving responses from friends,\nbut will have to meet sorrows that friends are powerless to avert.\n\nBrides dreaming of passing a cemetery on their way to the wedding ceremony,\nwill be bereft of their husbands by fatal accidents occurring on journeys.\n\nFor a mother to carry fresh flowers to a cemetery, indicates she may expect\nthe continued good health of her family.\n\nFor a young widow to visit a cemetery means she will soon throw aside\nher weeds for robes of matrimony. If she feels sad and depressed she\nwill have new cares and regrets.\n\nOld people dreaming of a cemetery, shows they will soon make other journeys\nwhere they will find perfect rest.\n\nTo see little children gathering flowers and chasing butterflies among\nthe graves, denotes prosperous changes and no graves of any of your friends\nto weep over. Good health will hold high carnival.", "locator": "Heading 375; source lines 5188–5218", "lineStart": 5188, "lineEnd": 5218, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being in a beautiful and well-kept cemetery, you will have\nunexpected news of the recovery of one whom you had mourned as dead,\nand you will have your title good to lands occupied by usurpers.\n\nTo see an old bramble grown and forgotten cemetery, you will live to see\nall your loved ones leave you, and you will be left to a stranger's care.\n\nFor young people to dream of wandering through the silent avenues of the dead\nforeshows they will meet with tender and loving responses from friends,\nbut will have to meet sorrows that friends are powerless to avert.\n\nBrides dreaming of passing a cemetery on their way to the wedding ceremony,\nwill be bereft of their husbands by fatal accidents occurring on journeys.\n\nFor a mother to carry fresh flowers to a cemetery, indicates she may expect\nthe continued good health of her family.\n\nFor a young widow to visit a cemetery means she will soon throw aside\nher weeds for robes of matrimony. If she feels sad and depressed she\nwill have new cares and regrets.\n\nOld people dreaming of a cemetery, shows they will soon make other journeys\nwhere they will find perfect rest.\n\nTo see little children gathering flowers and chasing butterflies among\nthe graves, denotes prosperous changes and no graves of any of your friends\nto weep over. Good health will hold high carnival." }, { "id": "cielo-0097", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Cemetery", "text": "To be in a cemetery foretells the death of\n a friend.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 97; source lines 4093–4096", "lineStart": 4093, "lineEnd": 4096, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To be in a cemetery foretells the death of\na friend." }, { "id": "luck-0036", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Cemetery", "text": "An omen of prosperity.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 36; source lines 3600–3602", "lineStart": 3600, "lineEnd": 3602, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "An omen of prosperity." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9497", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Cemetery", "heading": "Cemetery", "text": "The universal acceptance of this as a dream of prosperity suggests either the spirit of contrariety found in certain dream interpretations, or symbolism derived from the morbidity of certain early Christian sects.", "lineStart": 9497, "lineEnd": 9501, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 207; NLM OCR lines 9497–9501", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9497, "lineEnd": 9501, "printedPage": 207, "printedPageEnd": 207 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Cemetery. — The universal acceptance of this as a dream \nof prosperity suggests either the spirit of contrariety found \nin certain dream interpretations, or symbolism derived from \nthe morbidity of certain early Christian sects. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Cemetery" }, "displayText": "The universal acceptance of this as a dream of prosperity suggests either the spirit of contrariety found in certain dream interpretations, or symbolism derived from the morbidity of certain early Christian sects." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "centipede", "title": "Centipede", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "Many moving parts, one creature, and the space it enters.", "summary": "A centipede may give shape to many small demands, unwanted closeness, or surprisingly coordinated movement. Its location changes the reading.", "aliases": [ "centipede", "centipedes" ], "status": "REVIEW", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A centipede makes movement unusually visible: numerous legs carry one long body across a small space. If that coordination fascinates you, the image may fit an undertaking with many connected parts. Preparing a family move, organizing an event, or learning a complicated routine can require several modest actions to work together. The creature's steady progress offers a possible image of capability rather than overload.\n\nIf the legs seem frantic or never stop, a different reading becomes useful. A stream of minor requests can feel like one task that has acquired dozens of additional steps. An account problem that requires repeated forms and calls, for example, may leave you exhausted by details rather than the size of the original issue. The dream's many movements may make that scattered effort tangible.\n\nLocation can matter more than number. A centipede crossing a garden path remains at a distance; one inside your sleeve or bedding reaches a place where you expected comfort. That unwanted closeness may resemble interruptions during rest, shared space without enough privacy, or an obligation that has become difficult to put down. It can also reflect a straightforward dislike of crawling creatures, especially after seeing one recently.\n\nYour response changes the encounter. Removing the centipede carefully may express a wish to solve an intrusion without making a larger mess. Crushing it and then regretting the damage creates a question about acting quickly under discomfort. Watching it disappear peacefully can allow the scene to end without complete control. These possibilities concern your experience of the situation, not the character or intentions of another person.\n\nSize offers one final distinction. A tiny creature that dominates the whole dream may fit an annoyance taking more attention than you want to give it. An enormous but harmless centipede could instead be an inventive spectacle. Fear, curiosity, and satisfaction lead to different readings of the same many-legged image.", "traditional": "No matching historical centipede passage has been supplied for this entry. This is original everyday context: an encounter in a bathroom, garden, shoe, or nature video can contribute its setting and texture. The reflections here use the dream's visible movement and your response; they do not transfer older insect forecasts to this particular creature.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Many parts working together", "reflection": "A steadily moving centipede may provide an image of coordination. This reading fits satisfaction with a complicated undertaking in which several small actions finally support one result." }, { "title": "Details that keep multiplying", "reflection": "Restless legs or repeated appearances can resemble an obligation acquiring more steps. Consider the difference between a large problem and exhausting numbers of small follow-ups." }, { "title": "Closeness you did not choose", "reflection": "A centipede in clothing or bedding can make an interruption feel immediate. The useful question may concern privacy, bodily comfort, or how to regain a usable boundary." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A centipede crossing the garden path", "reflection": "You stand back as it moves steadily across your route. Its progress may resemble a complicated task finding a workable rhythm. If you mainly enjoy watching, the scene can also center on curiosity about a small creature rather than a problem needing resolution." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A centipede inside your sleeve", "reflection": "Movement touches your skin before you can see its source. The surprise may fit a demand that has become too close or an interruption when you expected privacy. Recent discomfort with insects or clothing may offer a more direct connection to the sensation." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Centipedes keep appearing after you clean", "reflection": "You remove one, then discover another behind a different object. The repeated task may resemble work that generates more work, such as repairing several connected household problems. Whether you feel determined or defeated changes the emphasis from manageable persistence to a missing stopping point." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A giant centipede blocks the doorway", "reflection": "Its size makes a small creature into the main obstacle. This may fit an irritation that now controls when you can leave, rest, or continue. If the encounter feels spectacular and harmless, exaggerated scale may instead make an ordinary insect into an adventure." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You lift it outside without harming it", "reflection": "A cup or piece of paper gives you enough distance to move the creature. The scene may express a wish for a practical boundary that preserves care. Difficulty getting it out can shift the focus toward finding a method that actually works under discomfort." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You crush it and feel regret", "reflection": "The immediate intrusion ends, but your attention stays on the damage. This may resemble reacting sharply to a small disruption and wishing you had chosen another response. If the dream brings only relief, decisive removal may be the clearer thread than guilt." } ], "prompts": [ "Did the many legs look coordinated, frantic, or simply interesting?", "Where did the centipede enter a space I expected to be comfortable?", "Did my response solve the encounter, create another concern, or leave me watching?" ], "related": [ "insects", "spider", "house", "garden" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflections with everyday context; no matching historical passage supplied. General sleep research does not validate these symbol readings. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cereal", "title": "Cereal", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "summary": "Breakfast cereal can picture an ordinary beginning, small repeated demands, and what changes when a simple routine becomes another decision.", "tagline": "The small terms of a beginning.", "aliases": [ "cereal", "cereals", "breakfast cereal", "breakfast cereals" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A bowl of breakfast cereal can picture a beginning built from small, familiar actions. Pouring, adding milk, and sitting down may offer a brief routine before the day’s larger demands arrive. A regular walk, a quiet first task, or a predictable start at work can provide waking parallels. Satisfaction may come from not having to decide much. If the meal keeps being interrupted, the dream can make a modest need for continuity visible without requiring a dramatic explanation.\n\nSeveral boxes can turn that ordinary beginning into a choice that consumes the time it was supposed to simplify. Different preferences, rules, or expectations may crowd a small decision. A household negotiation over an easy routine or a work process that adds options to every step can fit. Enjoying variety creates another reading: the boxes may picture room to personalize an established habit. The difference lies in whether the alternatives support your preference or delay it indefinitely.\n\nMany small pieces spilled across a room can make repetition the central difficulty. Nothing is individually substantial, yet gathering everything may require more attention than one large task. Messages, minor corrections, or scattered obligations can resemble that arrangement. Help with collecting them changes the experience from solitary cleanup toward shared attention. The pieces do not need a separate meaning each; their accumulation can be what gives the scene its force.\n\nTexture changing while you wait can picture an opportunity whose conditions alter during delay. A moment of rest may stop feeling restful once the next obligation arrives, or a straightforward task may become awkward after repeated postponement. Eating at your preferred time differs from being required to use something only after its appeal has changed. An unopened packet that will not pour can instead make an apparently available resource difficult to access.\n\nThis entry concerns prepared breakfast food, not every agricultural cereal grain. Shopping, packaging, an actual breakfast, or a childhood memory may explain it directly. The dream does not assess the food’s nutritional value. Its ordinary scale can make timing, choice, and repetition useful subjects for reflection without reducing the meal to a moral judgment about habits.", "traditional": "No directly matching historical account is attached for this specific topic. The readings here are original reflective possibilities. The NINDS source provides general background about dreams, not evidence for these symbolic comparisons.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A workable beginning", "reflection": "A familiar small routine can offer continuity before larger demands arrive." }, { "title": "Choice and complication", "reflection": "Options may personalize an ordinary task or consume the simplicity it was meant to provide." }, { "title": "Accumulated small demands", "reflection": "Many minor pieces can require substantial attention even when none is individually large." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "Cereal changes texture while you wait", "reflection": "The expected pleasure becomes different during delay. This may picture a modest opportunity whose conditions change before you can use it. The scene can concern timing and access rather than whether you chose the correct food or deserved the interruption." }, { "title": "Several boxes make breakfast hard to choose", "reflection": "A small routine becomes another evaluation. This can resemble options or expectations complicating a simple beginning. Enjoyment of variety gives a different reading from wishing the task would let you proceed without having to justify every preference." }, { "title": "The meal is interrupted before it begins", "reflection": "A brief familiar start loses its place among other demands. This may picture continuity being displaced by urgency. The interruption can feel minor and still matter, especially when the routine was the part of the morning that felt personally chosen." }, { "title": "Small pieces spill across a room", "reflection": "Many minor items create a cleanup larger than their individual size suggests. This can fit scattered obligations or corrections consuming attention. Shared help changes the arrangement more directly than dismissing the pieces because none seems important on its own." }, { "title": "A full packet refuses to pour", "reflection": "A resource looks available but cannot reach the form in which you need it. This may picture information or support blocked by an awkward process. Changing the opening creates another response from shaking the same container harder and harder." }, { "title": "Two people want different breakfasts", "reflection": "A shared beginning includes separate preferences. This can picture an everyday arrangement that works better when difference is allowed. Making room for both choices differs from requiring one person’s routine to stand in for the group’s agreement." } ], "prompts": [ "What modest routine gives the day a beginning you value?", "How do the available options affect your preferred beginning?", "Which small demands become substantial when they accumulate?" ], "related": [ "breakfast", "milk", "grain", "oatmeal" ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "chaff", "title": "Chaff", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see chaff, denotes an empty and fruitless undertaking and ill health causing much anxiety.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "chaff" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about chaff stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0376", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Chaff", "text": "To see chaff, denotes an empty and fruitless undertaking and ill health\ncausing much anxiety.\n\nWomen dreaming of piles of chaff, portends many hours spent\nin useless and degrading gossip, bringing them into notoriety\nand causing them to lose husbands who would have maintained\nthem without work on their part.", "locator": "Heading 376; source lines 5218–5228", "lineStart": 5218, "lineEnd": 5228, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see chaff, denotes an empty and fruitless undertaking and ill health\ncausing much anxiety.\n\nWomen dreaming of piles of chaff, portends many hours spent\nin useless and degrading gossip, bringing them into notoriety\nand causing them to lose husbands who would have maintained\nthem without work on their part." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9502", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Chaff", "heading": "Chaff", "text": "A dream of abortive or worthless schemes (Artemidorus) ; symbolism obvious.", "lineStart": 9502, "lineEnd": 9504, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 207; NLM OCR lines 9502–9504", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9502, "lineEnd": 9504, "printedPage": 207, "printedPageEnd": 207 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Chaff. — A dream of abortive or worthless schemes (Arte- \nmidorus) ; symbolism obvious. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "Arte- \nmidorus", "after": "Artemidorus", "evidenceLine": 485 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Chaff" }, "displayText": "A dream of abortive or worthless schemes (Artemidorus); symbolism obvious." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "chain", "title": "Chain", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Artemidorus wrote: “A Chaine is a Wife, defaining, ill successe of affayres, and hinderance.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "chain", "of a chaine" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about chain stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "artemidorus-145", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of a Chaine.", "text": "A Chaine is a Wife, defaining, ill successe of affayres, and hinderance.", "locator": "Book 3, encoded section 145", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "3", "displayText": "A Chaine is a Wife, defaining, ill successe of affayres, and hinderance.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “A Chaine” is shown on the Chain page: archaic spelling (Artemidorus \"Of a Chaine\")" }, { "id": "cielo-0098", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Chain", "text": "Foretells a union of people hitherto separated.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 98; source lines 4096–4098", "lineStart": 4096, "lineEnd": 4098, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Foretells a union of people hitherto separated." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "chains", "title": "Chains", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of being bound in chains, denotes that unjust burdens are about to be thrown upon your shoulders.” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "chains", "chain" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about chains stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0377", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Chains", "text": "To dream of being bound in chains, denotes that unjust burdens\nare about to be thrown upon your shoulders; but if you succeed\nin breaking them you will free yourself from some unpleasant\nbusiness or social engagement.\n\nTo see chains, brings calumny and treacherous designs of the envious.\n\nSeeing others in chains, denotes bad fortunes for them.", "locator": "Heading 377; source lines 5228–5239", "lineStart": 5228, "lineEnd": 5239, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being bound in chains, denotes that unjust burdens\nare about to be thrown upon your shoulders; but if you succeed\nin breaking them you will free yourself from some unpleasant\nbusiness or social engagement.\n\nTo see chains, brings calumny and treacherous designs of the envious.\n\nSeeing others in chains, denotes bad fortunes for them." }, { "id": "fontaine-0130", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Chain", "text": "If you dream of gold chains it is a sign of a wedding; if a\ngirl dreams she is presented with one, it is a sure sign of a speedy\nmarriage. Such a dream to a man in business predicts that he will be\nprevented from doing something that he specially desires to do. 15, 11.", "locator": "Heading 130; source line 1512", "lineStart": 1512, "lineEnd": 1517, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream of gold chains it is a sign of a wedding; if a\ngirl dreams she is presented with one, it is a sure sign of a speedy\nmarriage. Such a dream to a man in business predicts that he will be\nprevented from doing something that he specially desires to do." }, { "id": "noe-0100", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Chains", "text": "pearls, precious stones, earrings, &c., and all adornings of the\nhands and necks of women, are good dreams to the fair sex; to widows and\nmaids they signify marriage; and to those that have husbands and children,\npurchases and riches; for as women are provided with these deckings, so\nshall they be stored with husbands, children and goods.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 102; source lines 512–516", "lineStart": 512, "lineEnd": 516, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "pearls, precious stones, earrings, &c., and all adornings of the\nhands and necks of women, are good dreams to the fair sex; to widows and\nmaids they signify marriage; and to those that have husbands and children,\npurchases and riches; for as women are provided with these deckings, so\nshall they be stored with husbands, children and goods." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9505", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Chains", "heading": "Chains", "text": "A dream warning you against the conspiracy of enemies, from which, however, you will escape (Artemidorus). Symbol obvious.", "lineStart": 9505, "lineEnd": 9508, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 207; NLM OCR lines 9505–9508", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9505, "lineEnd": 9508, "printedPage": 207, "printedPageEnd": 207 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Chains. — A dream warning you against the conspiracy of \nenemies, from which, however, you will escape (Artemidorus). \nSymbol obvious. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Chains" }, "displayText": "A dream warning you against the conspiracy of enemies, from which, however, you will escape (Artemidorus). Symbol obvious." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0378", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Chair", "text": "To see a chair in your dream, denotes failure to meet some obligation.\nIf you are not careful you will also vacate your most profitable places.\n\nTo see a friend sitting on a chair and remaining motionless,\nsignifies news of his death or illness.", "locator": "Heading 378; source lines 5239–5247", "lineStart": 5239, "lineEnd": 5247, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a chair in your dream, denotes failure to meet some obligation.\nIf you are not careful you will also vacate your most profitable places.\n\nTo see a friend sitting on a chair and remaining motionless,\nsignifies news of his death or illness." }, { "id": "fontaine-0131", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Chair", "text": "To dream you are sitting on a chair, is a sign you will soon\nhave an increase in your family; if a maiden has this dream it is a\nsign she soon will be married. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0379", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Chair Maker", "text": "To dream of seeing a chair maker, denotes that worry from apparently\npleasant labor will confront you.", "locator": "Heading 379; source lines 5247–5252", "lineStart": 5247, "lineEnd": 5252, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing a chair maker, denotes that worry from apparently\npleasant labor will confront you." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "chalice", "title": "Chalice", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a chalice, denotes pleasure will be gained by you to the sorrow of others.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "chalice" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about chalice stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0382", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Chalice", "text": "To dream of a chalice, denotes pleasure will be gained by you\nto the sorrow of others. To break one foretells your failure\nto obtain power over some friend.", "locator": "Heading 382; source lines 5271–5277", "lineStart": 5271, "lineEnd": 5277, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a chalice, denotes pleasure will be gained by you\nto the sorrow of others. To break one foretells your failure\nto obtain power over some friend." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9509", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Chalice", "heading": "Chalice", "text": "A dream of high ideals and strivings never to be attained in the flesh (Old Dream Book) ; the emblem of the priestly order and of the Grail.", "lineStart": 9509, "lineEnd": 9512, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 207; NLM OCR lines 9509–9512", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9509, "lineEnd": 9512, "printedPage": 207, "printedPageEnd": 207 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Chalice. — A dream of high ideals and strivings never to \nbe attained in the flesh (Old Dream Book) ; the emblem of \nthe priestly order and of the Grail. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Chalice" }, "displayText": "A dream of high ideals and strivings never to be attained in the flesh (Old Dream Book); the emblem of the priestly order and of the Grail." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "challenge", "title": "Challenge", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “If you are challenged to fight a duel, you will become involved in a social difficulty wherein you will be compelled to make apologies or…”", "aliases": [ "challenge" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about challenge stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. 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For a young woman, it denotes that a\nwealthy stranger will offer her marriage and a fine establishment.\nIf the chamber is plainly furnished, it denotes that a small\ncompetency and frugality will be her portion." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0386", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Chameleon", "text": "To dream of seeing your swetheart{sic} wearing a chameleon chained to her,\nshows she will prove faithless to you if by changing she can better\nher fortune. Ordinarily chameleons signify deceit and self advancement,\neven though others suffer.", "locator": "Heading 386; source lines 5304–5311", "lineStart": 5304, "lineEnd": 5311, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing your swetheart[sic] wearing a chameleon chained to her,\nshows she will prove faithless to you if by changing she can better\nher fortune. Ordinarily chameleons signify deceit and self advancement,\neven though others suffer." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9513", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Chameleon", "heading": "Chameleon", "text": "This dream indicates that the dreamer is being cheated mercilessly (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 9513, "lineEnd": 9515, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 207; NLM OCR lines 9513–9515", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9513, "lineEnd": 9515, "printedPage": 207, "printedPageEnd": 207 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Chameleon. — This dream indicates that the dreamer is \nbeing cheated mercilessly (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Chameleon" }, "displayText": "This dream indicates that the dreamer is being cheated mercilessly (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0387", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Champion", "text": "To dream of a champion, denotes you will win the warmest friendship\nof some person by your dignity and moral conduct.", "locator": "Heading 387; source lines 5311–5316", "lineStart": 5311, "lineEnd": 5316, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a champion, denotes you will win the warmest friendship\nof some person by your dignity and moral conduct." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "chandelier", "title": "Chandelier", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a chandelier, portends that unhoped-for success will make it possible for you to enjoy pleasure and luxury at your caprice.”", "aliases": [ "chandelier" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about chandelier stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0388", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Chandelier", "text": "To dream of a chandelier, portends that unhoped-for success will make\nit possible for you to enjoy pleasure and luxury at your caprice.\n\nTo see a broken or ill-kept one, denotes that unfortunate\nspeculation will depress your seemingly substantial fortune.\nTo see the light in one go out, foretells that sickness and\ndistress will cloud a promising future.", "locator": "Heading 388; source lines 5316–5326", "lineStart": 5316, "lineEnd": 5326, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a chandelier, portends that unhoped-for success will make\nit possible for you to enjoy pleasure and luxury at your caprice.\n\nTo see a broken or ill-kept one, denotes that unfortunate\nspeculation will depress your seemingly substantial fortune.\nTo see the light in one go out, foretells that sickness and\ndistress will cloud a promising future." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "chapel", "title": "Chapel", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a chapel, denotes dissension in social circles and unsettled business.”", "aliases": [ "chapel" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about chapel stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0389", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Chapel", "text": "To dream of a chapel, denotes dissension in social circles\nand unsettled business.\n\nTo be in a chapel, denotes disappointment and change of business.\n\nFor young people to dream of entering a chapel, implies false\nloves and enemies. Unlucky unions may entangle them.", "locator": "Heading 389; source lines 5326–5336", "lineStart": 5326, "lineEnd": 5336, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a chapel, denotes dissension in social circles\nand unsettled business.\n\nTo be in a chapel, denotes disappointment and change of business.\n\nFor young people to dream of entering a chapel, implies false\nloves and enemies. Unlucky unions may entangle them." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "charcoal", "title": "Charcoal", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of charcoal unlighted, denotes miserable situations and bleak unhappiness.”", "aliases": [ "charcoal" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about charcoal stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0391", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Charcoal", "text": "To dream of charcoal unlighted, denotes miserable situations\nand bleak unhappiness. If it is burning with glowing coals,\nthere is prospects of great enhancement of fortune, and possession\nof unalloyed joys.", "locator": "Heading 391; source lines 5350–5357", "lineStart": 5350, "lineEnd": 5357, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of charcoal unlighted, denotes miserable situations\nand bleak unhappiness. If it is burning with glowing coals,\nthere is prospects of great enhancement of fortune, and possession\nof unalloyed joys." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "chariot", "title": "Chariot", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of riding in a chariot, foretells that favorable opportunities will present themselves resulting…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "chariot" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about chariot stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0392", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Chariot", "text": "To dream of riding in a chariot, foretells that favorable opportunities\nwill present themselves resulting in your good if rightly used by you.\n\nTo fall or see others fall from one, denotes displacement\nfrom high positions.", "locator": "Heading 392; source lines 5357–5365", "lineStart": 5357, "lineEnd": 5365, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of riding in a chariot, foretells that favorable opportunities\nwill present themselves resulting in your good if rightly used by you.\n\nTo fall or see others fall from one, denotes displacement\nfrom high positions." }, { "id": "noe-0101", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Chariot", "text": "To\ndream of driving a chariot drawn by wolves, leopards, dogs, tigers, or\nsuch like beasts, is only good to such as have great enemies. To dream to\nbe drawn in a chair by men is good.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 103; source lines 516–519", "lineStart": 516, "lineEnd": 519, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To\ndream of driving a chariot drawn by wolves, leopards, dogs, tigers, or\nsuch like beasts, is only good to such as have great enemies. To dream to\nbe drawn in a chair by men is good." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "charity", "title": "Charity", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of giving charity, denotes that you will be harassed with supplications for help from the poor…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "charity" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about charity stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0390", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Charity", "text": "To dream of giving charity, denotes that you will be harassed\nwith supplications for help from the poor and your business\nwill be at standstill.\n\nTo dream of giving to charitable institutions, your right\nof possession to paving property will be disputed.\nWorries and ill health will threaten you.\n\nFor young persons to dream of giving charity, foreshows they will be\nannoyed by deceitful rivals. To dream that you are an object of charity,\nomens that you will succeed in life after hard times with misfortunes.", "locator": "Heading 390; source lines 5336–5350", "lineStart": 5336, "lineEnd": 5350, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of giving charity, denotes that you will be harassed\nwith supplications for help from the poor and your business\nwill be at standstill.\n\nTo dream of giving to charitable institutions, your right\nof possession to paving property will be disputed.\nWorries and ill health will threaten you.\n\nFor young persons to dream of giving charity, foreshows they will be\nannoyed by deceitful rivals. To dream that you are an object of charity,\nomens that you will succeed in life after hard times with misfortunes." }, { "id": "fontaine-0132", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Charity", "text": "For a rich person to dream that he is charitable, signifies\nloss of fortune; if a lady dreams it, she will bestow her affections on\nan unworthy person. 17, 42, 5.", "locator": "Heading 132; source line 1522", "lineStart": 1522, "lineEnd": 1526, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a rich person to dream that he is charitable, signifies\nloss of fortune; if a lady dreams it, she will bestow her affections on\nan unworthy person." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "chastise", "title": "Chastise", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of being chastised, denotes that you have not been prudent in conducting your affairs.”", "aliases": [ "chastise" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about chastise stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0393", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Chastise", "text": "To dream of being chastised, denotes that you have not been prudent\nin conducting your affairs.\n\nTo dream that you administer chastisement to another, signifies that you\nwill have an ill-tempered partner either in business or marriage.\n\nFor parents to dream of chastising their children, indicates they\nwill be loose in their manner of correcting them, but they will\nsucceed in bringing them up honorably.", "locator": "Heading 393; source lines 5365–5377", "lineStart": 5365, "lineEnd": 5377, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being chastised, denotes that you have not been prudent\nin conducting your affairs.\n\nTo dream that you administer chastisement to another, signifies that you\nwill have an ill-tempered partner either in business or marriage.\n\nFor parents to dream of chastising their children, indicates they\nwill be loose in their manner of correcting them, but they will\nsucceed in bringing them up honorably." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cheating", "title": "Cheating", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "The imagined breach can clarify an expectation without verifying a betrayal.", "summary": "Cheating in a relationship dream can explore a broken expectation, exclusion from information or competing commitments without proving anyone’s conduct.", "aliases": [ "cheating", "affair", "unfaithful" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "Discovering an affair in a dream can make a particular expectation feel suddenly broken. The strongest feeling may concern secrecy, displaced attention, public embarrassment or sexual exclusivity. Distinguishing those parts can make the scene more useful than treating every discovery as the same betrayal. A recent conversation, story or uncertain moment may supply imagery; the dreamed event does not verify anyone’s conduct.\n\nBeing the person who cheats creates another position. You may hide, feel indifferent, seek an explanation or be surprised by an involvement you never chose while awake. This can picture competing commitments or a wish for another kind of attention without establishing an intention to be unfaithful. The particular consequence matters: losing contact, protecting a secret or wanting someone to hear what happened give the encounter different directions.\n\nAn accusation can arrive without an agreed description of the breach. One participant calls an ordinary interaction cheating while another believes the relationship allowed it. This may resemble uncertainty about expectations that were assumed rather than discussed. The useful question is what agreement the dream appears to depend on, rather than whose definition must govern a real relationship.\n\nThe response after discovery can change the focus. Someone listens to what hurt, insists on a complete account before allowing any feeling, or moves immediately toward another practical task. These variations may picture wanting acknowledgment alongside clarity. Reassurance is different from having every imagined detail explained. A confession made to an empty room can similarly make the wish to be heard more visible than the content disclosed.\n\nWitnessing another pair’s apparent affair can place you outside the agreement but inside its consequences. You may feel pushed to take sides or discover that you do not know what the participants understand between them. The scene can explore the limits of your role without directing you to accuse or contact anyone. These reflections concern relationship infidelity, distinct from being cheated in a trade or game. They leave real loyalty, consent and the future of a relationship to waking knowledge; the dream can help name an expectation without deciding those facts.", "traditional": "Cielo’s Unfaithful passage assigns a dreamed unfaithful sweetheart the contrary forecast of true love. That is an attributed period prediction, not reassurance or evidence of loyalty. NINDS supplies general background only. Business and game fraud remain a different subject from this relationship context.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You discover an affair through an unexplained message", "reflection": "A small piece of information carries a large imagined conclusion. This may picture wanting clarity about an expectation or fearing exclusion from a shared account. The feeling can be named while the actual message, conduct and loyalty of a real person remain unverified." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You are involved in an affair and surprised by your own role", "reflection": "The dreamed involvement does not fit the choices you recognize while awake. This can bring competing attention or obligations into view without becoming a confession of intent. What you wanted afterward may distinguish secrecy, explanation, connection or an ending." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Two participants disagree about whether an encounter counted as cheating", "reflection": "The breach depends on expectations that are not shared clearly. This may picture an arrangement whose assumed terms need language. Describing the particular promise can make the scene useful without asking the dream to determine the correct agreement for your waking relationship." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "The other person listens to the hurt before explaining events", "reflection": "Acknowledgment becomes available without settling every part of the account. This can resemble wanting your experience heard alongside a need for information. The order of the exchange may matter more than receiving a complete explanation immediately or making reassurance stand in for clarity." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You confess to a room where nobody can hear you", "reflection": "Disclosure occurs without an available recipient or response. This may picture wanting an exchange rather than only wanting words spoken. The absence can make timing, audience or acknowledgment important, without proving guilt or telling you to confess a real act." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You witness another pair’s affair and are urged to take a side", "reflection": "The scene places you near consequences without giving you their whole agreement. This may picture uncertainty about your role in another conflict. Recognizing what you do not know can preserve concern without making the dream an instruction to accuse, investigate or intervene." } ], "prompts": [ "Which expectation did the imagined event appear to break?", "What information and acknowledgment did each response make available?", "How did your role differ as participant, accused person or witness?" ], "related": [ "current-romantic-partner", "betrayal", "jealousy", "guilt", "being-cheated" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0441" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a diagnosis, prediction or another person’s states. cielo-0441 — Unfaithful (Dream section, heading 441; source lines 4927–4930): The Unfaithful passage explicitly says a dreamed unfaithful sweetheart is a sure sign of true love. This contrary period prediction establishes neither faithfulness nor love." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s delegation of editorial decisions. Historical forecasts remain attributed period claims; these reflections are not predictions or clinical assessments.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "The broken expectation has a specific form", "reflection": "Secrecy, lost attention, public acknowledgment and exclusivity can concern different needs inside an imagined breach." }, { "title": "An agreement needs shared language", "reflection": "An accusation can expose assumptions about what was promised rather than settle the definition of a real relationship." }, { "title": "A response can need both clarity and acknowledgment", "reflection": "Being heard and understanding the account are different tasks; neither requires the dream to become factual evidence." } ], "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "DreamFolia AI-assisted editorial review", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "do what its best I have no idea", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "snake", "teeth-falling-out", "being-chased", "flying", "falling", "being-naked-in-public", "cheating", "school-or-exam", "death" ] }, "decisionReason": "The reading distinguishes discovered, imagined, contested and witnessed infidelity and keeps relationship cheating separate from trade or game fraud. It explicitly refuses to infer another person’s real conduct.", "reviewedSnapshot": "data/common-dream-publication-review-2026-10-15-v2.json", "contentSha256": "56674599abc3d50871626ade4bcdb8f2dc7d575da5cfd8aa555dd8502083bd59" }, "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "cielo-0441", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Unfaithful", "text": "Dreaming that your sweetheart is unfaithful\n is a sure sign of true love.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 441; source lines 4927–4930", "lineStart": 4927, "lineEnd": 4930, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Dreaming that your sweetheart is unfaithful\nis a sure sign of true love.", "editorialNote": "The whole passage concerns an unfaithful sweetheart, matching the romantic-infidelity subject." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "checkers", "title": "Checkers", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of playing checkers, you will be involved in difficulties of a serious character, and strange people will come into your life,…”", "aliases": [ "checkers" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about checkers stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0396", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Checkers", "text": "To dream of playing checkers, you will be involved in difficulties\nof a serious character, and strange people will come into your life,\nworking you harm.\n\nTo dream that you win the game, you will succeed in some doubtful enterprise.", "locator": "Heading 396; source lines 5395–5403", "lineStart": 5395, "lineEnd": 5403, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of playing checkers, you will be involved in difficulties\nof a serious character, and strange people will come into your life,\nworking you harm.\n\nTo dream that you win the game, you will succeed in some doubtful enterprise." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "checks", "title": "Checks", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of palming off false checks on your friends, denotes that you will resort to subterfuge in order to carry forward your plans.”", "aliases": [ "checks" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about checks stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0395", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Checks", "text": "To dream of palming off false checks on your friends, denotes that you\nwill resort to subterfuge in order to carry forward your plans.\n\nTo receive checks you will be able to meet your payments\nand will inherit money.\n\nTo dream that you pay out checks, denotes depression and loss in business.", "locator": "Heading 395; source lines 5385–5395", "lineStart": 5385, "lineEnd": 5395, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of palming off false checks on your friends, denotes that you\nwill resort to subterfuge in order to carry forward your plans.\n\nTo receive checks you will be able to meet your payments\nand will inherit money.\n\nTo dream that you pay out checks, denotes depression and loss in business." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cheekes", "title": "Cheekes", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Artemidorus wrote: “To have the chéekes fat and full, is good to all.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "cheekes", "of the cheekes", "cheeks" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cheekes stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "artemidorus-018", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of the Cheekes.", "text": "TO have the chéekes fat and full, is good to all; especially to women: but slat and full of wrinckles signifieth heavinesse.", "locator": "Book 1, encoded section 18", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "1", "displayText": "To have the chéekes fat and full, is good to all; especially to women: but slat and full of wrinckles signifieth heavinesse." }, { "id": "noe-0102", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Cheeks", "text": "To dream one hath cheeks\nplump, fat and of vermilion tincture, is good to all, especially women,\nbut to dream that you are lean, pale, and full of wrinkles, signifies\ngrief and heaviness.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 104; source lines 519–522", "lineStart": 519, "lineEnd": 522, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream one hath cheeks\nplump, fat and of vermilion tincture, is good to all, especially women,\nbut to dream that you are lean, pale, and full of wrinkles, signifies\ngrief and heaviness." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cheese", "title": "Cheese", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of eating cheese, denotes great disappointments and sorrow.” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "cheese" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cheese stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0397", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cheese", "text": "To dream of eating cheese, denotes great disappointments and sorrow.\nNo good of any nature can be hoped for. Cheese is generally a bad dream.", "locator": "Heading 397; source lines 5403–5408", "lineStart": 5403, "lineEnd": 5408, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of eating cheese, denotes great disappointments and sorrow.\nNo good of any nature can be hoped for. Cheese is generally a bad dream." }, { "id": "fontaine-0133", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Cheese", "text": "To dream you eat cheese, signifies profit and gain in trade; in\nlove, deceit. 65, 3.", "locator": "Heading 133; source line 1526", "lineStart": 1526, "lineEnd": 1529, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you eat cheese, signifies profit and gain in trade; in\nlove, deceit." }, { "id": "noe-0095", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Cheese", "text": "To dream of cheese is not in vain.\n In trade you will profit gain.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 97; source lines 493–498", "lineStart": 493, "lineEnd": 498, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of cheese is not in vain.\nIn trade you will profit gain." }, { "id": "cielo-0099", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Cheese", "text": "Foretells success and a journey.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 99; source lines 4098–4100", "lineStart": 4098, "lineEnd": 4100, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Foretells success and a journey." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cheetah", "title": "Cheetah", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "summary": "A cheetah encounter can explore pace, timing, and the difference between capable movement and movement whose destination no longer fits.", "tagline": "Pace needs a direction.", "aliases": [ "cheetah", "cheetahs" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A cheetah moving rapidly through your dream can picture a pace that feels compelling before you have chosen its destination. A deadline, an exciting opportunity, or a group working faster than your usual rhythm may offer a parallel. If the movement feels satisfying, the scene may express pleasure in using a capacity without constant hesitation. If you cannot keep up, the tension can concern the arrangement’s pace rather than a personal lack of ability.\n\nPassing the intended destination makes speed less useful. Effort may be effective in one sense while failing to produce the result you actually wanted. Completing many small tasks without reaching the important one, or reacting quickly before a conversation is understood, gives the image a concrete waking comparison. Slowing or turning can restore direction. That change differs from interpreting every reduction in speed as failure or loss of ambition.\n\nA fast animal inside a narrow corridor brings conditions into view. The capacity to move is present, but the space gives it little room to work. A demanding role with a rigid process or an energetic project constrained by someone else’s timetable may fit. Opening the setting can matter more than asking for greater effort. If the animal rests instead, the pause may picture willingness to leave a capacity unused until conditions make it useful.\n\nChasing and being chased create different relationships with urgency. Pursuit can give you a clear target, yet the target may keep changing distance. Following because you are interested differs from running because stopping feels unavailable. Another person moving alongside you can make coordination central: matching pace may require adjustment from both participants rather than one permanently struggling to catch the other.\n\nA remembered wildlife image, game, or conversation may explain the particular animal directly. These original readings use movement within the dream; they do not turn animal speed into a fixed personality code. A stationary encounter can therefore concern observation, patience, or proximity, with no need to find a hidden race in your life.", "traditional": "No directly matching historical account is attached for this specific topic. The readings here are original reflective possibilities. The NINDS source provides general background about dreams, not evidence for these symbolic comparisons.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Usable pace", "reflection": "Fast movement can feel capable and chosen when the direction and conditions fit." }, { "title": "Speed without arrival", "reflection": "Passing a destination can expose a mismatch between effective effort and the result you wanted." }, { "title": "Room to move", "reflection": "A constrained setting may prevent a capacity from being useful, even when willingness is present." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "A chase changes pace as you find your stride", "reflection": "The rhythm becomes uncertain just when you begin to feel capable. This may picture shifting demands in a task or relationship. Adjustment can be satisfying if it is shared, or exhausting if only you must keep revising your effort." }, { "title": "A cheetah rests beside an unfinished race", "reflection": "Activity has stopped without resolving the expected result. This can picture choosing a pause before continuing an undertaking. Relief differs from frustration that others still demand an answer; the rest need not establish defeat or a permanent loss of interest." }, { "title": "It runs inside a narrow corridor", "reflection": "The movement has energy but little room to turn. This may fit a capacity restricted by process, space, or timing. A wider route changes the problem more directly than requiring still greater speed within the same limiting conditions." }, { "title": "It passes the destination you wanted", "reflection": "Progress continues after its usefulness changes. This may resemble getting many things done while missing the central purpose. Turning back can picture recovering direction; continuing automatically makes momentum more influential than the goal you originally chose." }, { "title": "You remain still while watching it move", "reflection": "Observation becomes your chosen participation rather than a failed attempt to compete. This may picture appreciating another pace without adopting it. Envy, fascination, and relief create different relationships with the moving animal and the position you keep." }, { "title": "You continue together at a sustainable pace", "reflection": "The encounter allows adjustment rather than permanent pursuit. This can picture cooperation that makes different capacities compatible. Having a say in the rhythm distinguishes a shared journey from accepting demands simply because the other participant can move faster." } ], "prompts": [ "Which part of the pace feels chosen, and which part feels imposed?", "What destination matters more than the amount of movement?", "What change in conditions would make your effort more usable?" ], "related": [ "leopard", "lion", "cat", "being-chased" ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "chemise", "title": "Chemise", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “For a woman to dream of a chemise, denotes she will hear unfavorable gossip about herself.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "chemise" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about chemise stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "smock" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0398", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Chemise", "text": "For a woman to dream of a chemise, denotes she will hear unfavorable\ngossip about herself.", "locator": "Heading 398; source lines 5408–5413", "lineStart": 5408, "lineEnd": 5413, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a woman to dream of a chemise, denotes she will hear unfavorable\ngossip about herself." }, { "id": "fontaine-0134", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Chemise", "text": "(See _Smock and Shifts_.)", "locator": "Heading 134; source line 1529", "lineStart": 1529, "lineEnd": 1531, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Smock and Shifts.)" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "smock" ] }, { "slug": "cherries", "title": "Cherries", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "6 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of cherries, denotes you will gain popularity by your amiability and unselfishness.” Compare 6 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "cherries", "cherry" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cherries stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0399", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cherries", "text": "To dream of cherries, denotes you will gain popularity by your amiability\nand unselfishness. To eat them, portends possession of some much\ndesired object. To see green ones, indicates approaching good fortune.", "locator": "Heading 399; source lines 5413–5419", "lineStart": 5413, "lineEnd": 5419, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of cherries, denotes you will gain popularity by your amiability\nand unselfishness. To eat them, portends possession of some much\ndesired object. To see green ones, indicates approaching good fortune." }, { "id": "fontaine-0137", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Cherries", "text": "To dream of ripe cherries foretells that you will hear good\nnews, or that some one will do you a favor. After such a dream you can\neasily borrow money if you wish to. If the cherries are green or mixed,\nyour news will be a mixture of good and bad. 14, 54.", "locator": "Heading 137; source line 1542", "lineStart": 1542, "lineEnd": 1547, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of ripe cherries foretells that you will hear good\nnews, or that some one will do you a favor. After such a dream you can\neasily borrow money if you wish to. If the cherries are green or mixed,\nyour news will be a mixture of good and bad." }, { "id": "noe-0122", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Cherries", "text": "To dream of cherries\nis a disappointment in life, vexation in the married state and slight in\nlove.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 124; source lines 575–577", "lineStart": 575, "lineEnd": 577, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of cherries\nis a disappointment in life, vexation in the married state and slight in\nlove." }, { "id": "cielo-0100", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Cherries", "text": "To eat cherries denotes love. To gather\n them, faithfulness.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 100; source lines 4100–4103", "lineStart": 4100, "lineEnd": 4103, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To eat cherries denotes love. To gather\nthem, faithfulness." }, { "id": "luck-0038", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Cherries", "text": "Good news, pleasure and enjoyment.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 38; source lines 3604–3606", "lineStart": 3604, "lineEnd": 3606, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Good news, pleasure and enjoyment." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9516", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Cherries", "heading": "Cherries", "text": "To see them, health; to gather them, deception by a woman; to eat them, love (Artemidorus). \"Cherry is identical with Cheres, the Greek for Grace, cognate with our charity or love.\" — Bayley.", "lineStart": 9516, "lineEnd": 9524, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 207–208; NLM OCR lines 9516–9524", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9516, "lineEnd": 9524, "printedPage": 207, "printedPageEnd": 208 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Cherries. — To see them, health; to gather them, deception \nby a woman; to eat them, love (Artemidorus). \"Cherry is \nidentical with Cheres, the Greek for Grace, cognate with our \ncharity or love.\" — Bayley. \n\n\n2o8 THE FABRIC OF DREAMS \n\n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [ { "line": 9522, "text": "2o8 THE FABRIC OF DREAMS " } ], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Cherries" }, "displayText": "To see them, health; to gather them, deception by a woman; to eat them, love (Artemidorus). \"Cherry is identical with Cheres, the Greek for Grace, cognate with our charity or love.\" — Bayley." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cherubs", "title": "Cherubs", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream you see cherubs, foretells you will have some distinct joy, which will leave an impression of lasting good upon your life.”", "aliases": [ "cherubs" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cherubs stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0400", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cherubs", "text": "To dream you see cherubs, foretells you will have some distinct joy,\nwhich will leave an impression of lasting good upon your life.\n\nTo see them looking sorrowful or reproachful, foretells that distress\nwill come unexpectedly upon you.", "locator": "Heading 400; source lines 5419–5427", "lineStart": 5419, "lineEnd": 5427, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see cherubs, foretells you will have some distinct joy,\nwhich will leave an impression of lasting good upon your life.\n\nTo see them looking sorrowful or reproachful, foretells that distress\nwill come unexpectedly upon you." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "chess", "title": "Chess", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "Choices across a board, with a pace and a partner.", "summary": "Chess dreams may explore anticipating a response, accepting a trade-off and finding a shared pace for decisions or play.", "aliases": [ "chess", "of chesse play" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "psychological": "Chess can make a choice visible through what it allows next. A move may improve one part of the position while leaving another exposed, and another player can respond in ways you have not settled in advance. This can resemble planning a project whose next stage depends on somebody else's decision. The interest lies in considering possibilities, rather than finding a code for every piece.\n\nChoosing between two useful moves can give a trade-off a concrete form. Protecting one position might mean postponing another opportunity. A waking comparison could be spending an evening finishing your own work or helping someone with theirs: either choice serves something you value. A piece willingly exchanged to open a route can similarly picture accepting a particular cost for a purpose, rather than treating every loss as failure.\n\nThe time available changes the decision. Searching for a perfect move while the clock advances could resemble trying to eliminate every uncertainty before a deadline. A slower game may instead offer the pleasure of giving an idea enough attention. The dreamed pace matters because a worthwhile challenge can become an unwanted demand when neither player has room to think.\n\nShared rules provide another starting point. If a move is accepted and then declared impossible, you may feel that the basis of comparison has changed. This could fit a task whose criteria are revised after you have acted. Agreeing on the next move or restarting together gives the scene a different ending from continuing under rules you cannot understand.\n\nCompany can matter more than the result. Trying several variations with someone you enjoy may picture curiosity or the satisfaction of thinking alongside another person. Winning after the other chair becomes empty creates a different experience: the result remains, but the interaction that gave it interest has disappeared. This can resemble completing an activity whose pleasure depended on sharing it.\n\nA remembered game, lesson or watched match may supply the image directly. Dreamed play does not assess your intelligence or reveal an opponent's waking intentions. Choices, pace and the particular exchange offer personal comparisons without turning the game into a prediction.", "traditional": "Miller assigns business, companionship and health forecasts to playing, with different claims for winning and losing. Fontaine and the supplied Artemidorus translation link play and observation with deceit or craftiness; Fontaine also reports a different success-based reading under Anselmus Julianus. Noe frames a match with an acquaintance as a forecast of conflict and victory or defeat, while Cielo predicts business trouble. These attributed period assertions do not establish health, character, a future outcome or the meaning of a particular chess piece.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "Two useful moves protect different things", "reflection": "Either choice helps the position, but neither preserves everything you want. This can picture a decision between genuine priorities, such as independent work and time offered to someone else. The board gives the trade-off limits, allowing a worthwhile choice without requiring certainty that every alternative was wrong." }, { "title": "The clock advances while you search for a perfect move", "reflection": "Each possibility seems to need one more check before you act. This may picture a wish to remove uncertainty under a deadline that continues regardless. A workable move can offer a different aim from an unbeatable one, making enough time to decide part of the problem." }, { "title": "You exchange one piece to open a useful route", "reflection": "Something is given up deliberately so another movement becomes possible. This can picture a particular cost that serves a chosen purpose, such as setting aside one commitment to make room for another. The loss has a place in the plan rather than settling the value of the entire game." }, { "title": "An accepted move is rejected after the rule changes", "reflection": "The response changes the basis on which you understood your choice. This may resemble a task judged by revised criteria after the work is finished. Clarifying the rule or agreeing to restart makes understanding central, rather than requiring you to keep adjusting to an unexplained standard." }, { "title": "You and another player try variations without keeping score", "reflection": "Both of you enjoy discovering how the position can develop. This can picture curiosity supported by company, perhaps like trying an idea with someone who makes room for experimentation. The pleasure comes from thinking together, allowing the activity to be worthwhile without turning every exchange into a contest." }, { "title": "You win after the other chair becomes empty", "reflection": "The result remains while the person who made the game interesting has disappeared from the scene. This can picture an achievement that feels different without its shared experience, such as completing something you wanted to discuss together. The empty chair makes company visible as part of what mattered." } ], "prompts": [ "Which possibilities did a move preserve, open or give up?", "How did the rules and pace affect your ability to choose?", "What made the game satisfying beyond its result?" ], "related": [ "checkers", "video-games", "indecision", "clock" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0401" ], "scope": "Miller forecasts stalled business, dull company and poor health from playing, worries from losing and overcoming adverse influences from winning. Complete supplied passage: miller-0401 (Heading 401; source lines 5427–5435). Attributed historical comparison only; these period claims do not validate the original reflections or establish health, character, future outcomes or a universal meaning." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0135" ], "scope": "Fontaine assigns gain through deceit to playing and loss through craftiness to observing, then attributes a different forecast based on dreamed success to Anselmus Julianus. Complete supplied passage: fontaine-0135 (Heading 135; source line 1531). Attributed historical comparison only; these period claims do not validate the original reflections or establish health, character, future outcomes or a universal meaning." }, { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display.", "recordIds": [ "artemidorus-160" ], "scope": "The supplied 1644 translation assigns gain through lying/deceit to playing and loss through craftiness to seeing another play. The original transcription and its archaic heading remain preserved. Complete supplied passage: artemidorus-160 (Book 3, encoded section 160). Attributed historical comparison only; these period claims do not validate the original reflections or establish health, character, future outcomes or a universal meaning." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0097" ], "scope": "Noe forecasts a falling-out from playing with an acquaintance and overcoming enemies or defeat according to winning or losing. Complete supplied passage: noe-0097 (Dream section, heading 99; source lines 502–506). Attributed historical comparison only; these period claims do not validate the original reflections or establish health, character, future outcomes or a universal meaning." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0101" ], "scope": "Cielo’s short Chess account forecasts business troubles from playing. Complete supplied passage: cielo-0101 (Dream section, heading 101; source lines 4103–4105). Attributed historical comparison only; these period claims do not validate the original reflections or establish health, character, future outcomes or a universal meaning." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A choice and what follows", "reflection": "Each move can preserve one possibility while changing another. A deliberate trade-off may serve something you value even when no option keeps every advantage." }, { "title": "A shared basis for deciding", "reflection": "Rules and time can make a challenge enjoyable or difficult to evaluate. The scene may explore whether the conditions give each participant room to understand and respond." }, { "title": "The pleasure of thinking together", "reflection": "A result can matter alongside curiosity and company. Experimenting with another player may be satisfying without needing a winner, while an empty chair can change what success feels like." } ], "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0401", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Chess", "text": "To dream of playing chess, denotes stagnation of business, dull companions,\nand poor health.\n\nTo dream that you lose at chess, worries from mean sources will ensue;\nbut if you win, disagreeable influences may be surmounted.", "locator": "Heading 401; source lines 5427–5435", "lineStart": 5427, "lineEnd": 5435, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of playing chess, denotes stagnation of business, dull companions,\nand poor health.\n\nTo dream that you lose at chess, worries from mean sources will ensue;\nbut if you win, disagreeable influences may be surmounted." }, { "id": "fontaine-0135", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Chess", "text": "To play at, denotes gain by lying and deceit; to see another\nplay, loss by craftiness. Anselmus Julianus regarded this dream\nas indicative of the success which would attend the dreamer in his\nundertaking, according to his fancied success in his dream. 8, 78.", "locator": "Heading 135; source line 1531", "lineStart": 1531, "lineEnd": 1536, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To play at, denotes gain by lying and deceit; to see another\nplay, loss by craftiness. Anselmus Julianus regarded this dream\nas indicative of the success which would attend the dreamer in his\nundertaking, according to his fancied success in his dream." }, { "id": "artemidorus-160", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of Chesse play.", "text": "TO dream that you play at Chesse, is gain by lying, and deceit, to see another play, is, that he shall sustain losse by craftinesse.", "locator": "Book 3, encoded section 160", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "3", "displayText": "To dream that you play at Chesse, is gain by lying, and deceit, to see another play, is, that he shall sustain losse by craftinesse.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Chesse play” is shown on the Chess page: archaic spelling (Artemidorus \"Of Chesse play\")" }, { "id": "noe-0097", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Chess", "text": "If any one dreams that he\nplays at chess with an acquaintance, it is a sign that he will fall out\nwith somebody he knows, and if he imagines in his dream he wins, he shall\novercome his enemies. And on the contrary, if he dream that he loses, he\nwill be overcome and worsted in the combat.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 99; source lines 502–506", "lineStart": 502, "lineEnd": 506, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If any one dreams that he\nplays at chess with an acquaintance, it is a sign that he will fall out\nwith somebody he knows, and if he imagines in his dream he wins, he shall\novercome his enemies. And on the contrary, if he dream that he loses, he\nwill be overcome and worsted in the combat." }, { "id": "cielo-0101", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Chess", "text": "To play a game of chess foretells business troubles.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 101; source lines 4103–4105", "lineStart": 4103, "lineEnd": 4105, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To play a game of chess foretells business troubles." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "chestnuts", "title": "Chestnuts", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of handling chestnuts, foretells losses in a business way, but indicates an agreeable companion…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "chestnuts" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about chestnuts stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0402", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Chestnuts", "text": "To dream of handling chestnuts, foretells losses in a business way,\nbut indicates an agreeable companion through life.\n\nEating them, denotes sorrow for a time, but final happiness.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of eating or trying her fortune with them,\nshe will have a well-to-do lover and comparative plenty.", "locator": "Heading 402; source lines 5435–5445", "lineStart": 5435, "lineEnd": 5445, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of handling chestnuts, foretells losses in a business way,\nbut indicates an agreeable companion through life.\n\nEating them, denotes sorrow for a time, but final happiness.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of eating or trying her fortune with them,\nshe will have a well-to-do lover and comparative plenty." }, { "id": "fontaine-0136", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Chestnuts", "text": "To dream you are eating raw chestnuts, shows you will be\nfortunate in love affairs. Boiled chestnuts, signifies you will be\nfortunate in business. To dream you prick your hand with a chestnut\nburr, is a sign your confidence will be abused by a pretended friend.\n7, 18.", "locator": "Heading 136; source line 1536", "lineStart": 1536, "lineEnd": 1542, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are eating raw chestnuts, shows you will be\nfortunate in love affairs. Boiled chestnuts, signifies you will be\nfortunate in business. To dream you prick your hand with a chestnut\nburr, is a sign your confidence will be abused by a pretended friend." }, { "id": "cielo-0102", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Chestnuts", "text": "Denote troubles at home.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 102; source lines 4105–4107", "lineStart": 4105, "lineEnd": 4107, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Denote troubles at home." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "chickens", "title": "Chickens", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "aliases": [ "chickens", "chicken" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "summary": "Chickens can explore dispersed care, a routine with its own timing, and the change from encountering a living bird to preparing a meal.", "tagline": "What the birds need can differ from the schedule or task you expected.", "psychological": "A brood of chickens spreading around a yard can picture several modest needs becoming difficult to keep in one view. A household routine or shared project may offer a parallel when attention moves between tasks that each seem manageable alone. Watching the birds gather differs from chasing one while losing track of the others. The comparison concerns how attention is distributed, not a prediction about children or future burdens.\n\nChickens going to roost before you finish an errand can make another schedule interrupt the one you planned. You may want a group or resource available after its own activity has ended. Adjusting when the task happens can be more useful than trying to force continued participation. If the pause feels welcome, the scene may instead allow a stopping point that you had not given yourself.\n\nFinding an egg in a place you did not prepare can make an ordinary result arrive outside the expected arrangement. You may recognize a contribution that needs a recipient or another use before its value becomes practical. The presence of the bird and what you do with the object give the encounter its terms; the egg does not automatically stand for pregnancy or a new undertaking.\n\nA chick growing while you walk beside it can make responsibility change faster than your account of it. A developing role may no longer need exactly the help that first brought you together. Giving more room can be care rather than withdrawal. Another dream might make an adult chicken unexpectedly dependent, changing the direction of that comparison.\n\nPreparing chicken for a meal is a different action from caring for living birds. The emphasis can be on cooking, choosing portions or meeting a group’s expectations about food. You may want an ordinary dish accepted as sufficient rather than proving something about your character through it. Yard encounters, shopping, a meal or a remembered farm can supply the imagery directly. This general Chickens topic recognizes both animal and meal scenes while following their different tasks. Neither a living bird nor eating it establishes betrayal, selfishness, crop loss or news about someone else.", "traditional": "Miller primarily describes broods, young birds and roosting, with a separate eating forecast. Fontaine’s hen/chicken and Noe’s hen/chickens/poultry passages give adverse claims. Cielo concerns cooking and eating only. All four mixed-scope records remain attached: they do not establish betrayal, selfishness, harvest outcomes or future visitors.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Several needs share one field of attention", "reflection": "A dispersed brood can make distribution more useful than concentrating every effort on one visible task." }, { "title": "Timing belongs to the participants", "reflection": "An errand may need another schedule when the beings or resources involved have stopped for the day." }, { "title": "The encounter changes its practical role", "reflection": "Growth, an unexpected result or a prepared meal can require another form of participation rather than one fixed chicken meaning." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A brood spreads while you try to keep everyone in view", "reflection": "Several manageable needs become difficult to coordinate together. This may picture household work or a shared project. An arrangement that lets attention move between tasks can serve the group without requiring you to control every movement or complete everything at once." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Chickens settle to roost before your errand is finished", "reflection": "The available participants have another stopping point from the one you planned. This can resemble a task needing different timing. Adjusting the schedule may help, while relief can concern allowing the work to stop without treating the pause as failure." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "An egg appears where no place was prepared for it", "reflection": "A result arrives beyond the expected arrangement. This may picture a contribution needing a recipient or usable setting. Making room for the particular object can matter more than explaining it through a general code for pregnancy, children or the future." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You chase one chicken while the others need attention", "reflection": "A visible task draws effort away from the broader arrangement. This can resemble trying to resolve one interruption at the expense of ongoing care. Returning to the group may change what is workable without deciding that the pursued bird was unimportant." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A chick grows rapidly during the walk beside you", "reflection": "The needs of a continuing responsibility change. This may picture a developing role no longer requiring the same assistance. Allowing another form of participation can preserve care without requiring you to keep treating the encounter as it was when it began." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You prepare chicken while others debate the meal’s portions", "reflection": "The bird now belongs to a food task rather than a living encounter. This can picture making an ordinary contribution acceptable within a group. Use, appetite and distribution give the scene its terms; cooking or eating does not establish selfishness or predict news." } ], "prompts": [ "How was your attention distributed across the separate needs?", "What schedule or changing need affected the help you could offer?", "Which action made the encounter about living birds, a particular object or a meal?" ], "related": [ "bird", "hen", "eggs", "cooking" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0403" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. miller-0403 — Chickens (Heading 403; source lines 5445–5458): Brood, young/half-grown and roosting chickens receive care, enterprise or enemy claims; eating has a separate selfishness/business/love forecast." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0138" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. fontaine-0138 — Chicken (Heading 138; source line 1547): Hen/chicken predicts trade losses and deceit in love." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0096" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. noe-0096 — Chickens (Dream section, heading 98; source lines 498–502): Hen/chickens/poultry receive adverse relationship, farm, trade and sea-travel forecasts." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0103" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. cielo-0103 — Chicken (Dream section, heading 103; source lines 4107–4110): Cooking chicken predicts good news; eating predicts arrival of a friend. This passage concerns a meal, not a living bird encounter." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection independently reviewed for content and source scope. Historical accounts remain attributed period writing. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0403", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Chickens", "text": "To dream of seeing a brood of chickens, denotes worry from many cares,\nsome of which of which will prove to your profit.\n\nYoung or half grown chickens, signify fortunate enterprises,\nbut to make them so you will have to exert your physical strength.\n\nTo see chickens going to roost, enemies are planning to work you evil.\n\nTo eat them, denotes that selfishness will detract from your otherwise\ngood name. Business and love will remain in precarious states.", "locator": "Heading 403; source lines 5445–5458", "lineStart": 5445, "lineEnd": 5458, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing a brood of chickens, denotes worry from many cares,\nsome of which of which will prove to your profit.\n\nYoung or half grown chickens, signify fortunate enterprises,\nbut to make them so you will have to exert your physical strength.\n\nTo see chickens going to roost, enemies are planning to work you evil.\n\nTo eat them, denotes that selfishness will detract from your otherwise\ngood name. Business and love will remain in precarious states." }, { "id": "fontaine-0138", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Chicken", "text": "To dream of a hen, or chicken, signifies losses in trade, and\ndeceit in love. 19.", "locator": "Heading 138; source line 1547", "lineStart": 1547, "lineEnd": 1550, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a hen, or chicken, signifies losses in trade, and\ndeceit in love." }, { "id": "noe-0096", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Chickens", "text": "To dream of a hen and chickens is the forerunner of ill luck;\nyour sweetheart will betray you and marry another. If you are a farmer,\nyou will have a bad crop and lose many of your poultry. If you are in\ntrade some sharper will defraud you. If you go to sea, you will lose your\ngoods and narrowly escape shipwreck.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 98; source lines 498–502", "lineStart": 498, "lineEnd": 502, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a hen and chickens is the forerunner of ill luck;\nyour sweetheart will betray you and marry another. If you are a farmer,\nyou will have a bad crop and lose many of your poultry. If you are in\ntrade some sharper will defraud you. If you go to sea, you will lose your\ngoods and narrowly escape shipwreck." }, { "id": "cielo-0103", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Chicken", "text": "To cook a chicken means good news; to eat\n one, arrival of a friend.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 103; source lines 4107–4110", "lineStart": 4107, "lineEnd": 4110, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To cook a chicken means good news; to eat\none, arrival of a friend." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "chiffonier", "title": "Chiffonier", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see or search through a chiffonier, denotes you will have disappointing anticipations.”", "aliases": [ "chiffonier" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about chiffonier stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0404", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Chiffonier", "text": "To see or search through a chiffonier, denotes you will\nhave disappointing anticipations. To see one in order,\nindicates pleasant friends and entertainments.", "locator": "Heading 404; source lines 5458–5464", "lineStart": 5458, "lineEnd": 5464, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see or search through a chiffonier, denotes you will\nhave disappointing anticipations. To see one in order,\nindicates pleasant friends and entertainments." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "chilblain", "title": "Chilblain", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of suffering with chilblains, denotes that you will be driven into some bad dealing through over anxity[sic] of a friend or partner.”", "aliases": [ "chilblain" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about chilblain stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0405", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Chilblain", "text": "To dream of suffering with chilblains, denotes that you will be driven\ninto some bad dealing through over anxity{sic} of a friend or partner.\nThis dream also portends your own illness or an accident.", "locator": "Heading 405; source lines 5464–5470", "lineStart": 5464, "lineEnd": 5470, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of suffering with chilblains, denotes that you will be driven\ninto some bad dealing through over anxity[sic] of a friend or partner.\nThis dream also portends your own illness or an accident." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "childbed", "title": "Childbed", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "The room around an arrival has its own story.", "summary": "A childbed dream may explore the space around childbirth: privacy, being included and making room for your own position as activity continues.", "aliases": [ "childbed" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "psychological": "A childbed dream places childbirth within a bed or room, making the surrounding space important as well as the arrival. You may remain there while other people move, visitors gather or a baby is carried elsewhere. This can put attention on how you are included and how the place becomes usable for you. The dreamed setting does not establish a pregnancy, medical condition or recovery timetable.\n\nThe bed can offer a chosen center or feel like somewhere others have assigned you. A familiar bedroom may make the scene personal, while an unexpected bed in a communal room can place privacy beside public activity. This could resemble wanting an important experience to remain yours even when several people have a part in it.\n\nRemaining in bed while others gather around a baby can make recognition uneven. The arrival receives attention while your position becomes less visible. The scene may picture wanting inclusion in what has changed, rather than requiring praise or control of every interaction. A waking comparison could be a group celebrating a shared achievement while the person who did one part wants to join the conversation.\n\nVisitors introduce another kind of choice. You may welcome the whole room, prefer one person or find that an unplanned gathering has become difficult to take part in. Choosing who stays can picture making an encounter manageable. The useful distinction is the fit between company and the dreamed moment, not a rule that support must always mean more people.\n\nA bed that moves through unfamiliar landscapes can combine stillness with change. You remain in one position while the surroundings develop a different story. This might resemble a transition continuing before you have decided how to take part in its next stage. The impossible movement can also feel enjoyable, making room for company or curiosity without turning the bed into a universal symbol of limitation.\n\nSmall actions can restore a part in the scene. Once visitors leave, moving a cup or arranging a place beside you may make the room feel personally usable again. These details concern the imagined space rather than prescribing behavior after an actual birth. Birth has its own event-focused reading; here the position, access and company around the bed give the experience its particular shape.", "traditional": "Miller’s whole Childbed account predicts favorable childbirth circumstances and safe delivery, then makes an adverse moral and social judgment about an unmarried woman in childbed. These are attributed period forecasts. They neither assess an actual birth nor supply a medical-recovery explanation for the original bedside and room scenes.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "The childbed stands in a busy communal room", "reflection": "The event has a place, but the space offers little separation from everybody else’s activity. This may picture wanting privacy within something several people share. The crowded setting can make access and attention the central tension, without deciding that company itself is unwelcome or that the bed signifies incapacity." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Other people gather around the baby while you remain in bed", "reflection": "Attention travels with the arrival while your place in the scene stays separate. This may picture wanting inclusion in an event that also concerns you. The imagined distance can matter without becoming a demand to direct every interaction or evidence that actual companions fail to value your part." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "The birth setting is your familiar room with its ordinary objects rearranged", "reflection": "A personally recognizable place now serves an unfamiliar event. This may picture how a change enters surroundings that still carry earlier routines. The moved objects can make continuity and adaptation visible together, rather than requiring the room to prove that everything must return to its former arrangement." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You choose one visitor from the group waiting outside", "reflection": "Company becomes particular instead of arriving as an entire gathering. This can picture making an important encounter manageable through a choice about who joins it. The selected person may matter for what they do or how the exchange feels, without establishing a permanent judgment about everyone waiting." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The bed moves through different landscapes while you stay in the same position", "reflection": "Stillness and change happen together in an impossible journey. This may picture a transition continuing while your part remains uncertain, or offer an enjoyable way to watch it unfold. The movement can be explored through the actual scenery and company rather than assigning every bed a fixed meaning." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "After the visitors leave, you arrange a cup and a place beside the bed", "reflection": "Small adjustments make the room feel usable on your own terms again. This may picture finding a part in the scene that does not depend on directing its whole event. The quiet task can be satisfying in itself, without becoming a recommendation for behavior or recovery after an actual birth." } ], "prompts": [ "How did the bed’s position change your access to the people or activity around it?", "What kind of company fit the particular moment in the dream?", "Which small choice or arrangement made the place feel more like yours?" ], "related": [ "birth", "baby", "midwife", "mother" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0406" ], "scope": "miller-0406: The full Childbed account forecasts favorable circumstances and safe delivery of an attractive child from childbirth, then makes an adverse moral/social-status judgment about an unmarried woman in childbed. It concerns birth and being in childbed; it does not supply a modern medical-recovery account. Exact supplied passage: Childbed — miller-0406 (Heading 406; source lines 5470–5478). Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence of a future event, health condition, another person’s state or a universal dream meaning." } ], "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A personal place within a shared event", "reflection": "The bed and room can give an important arrival a setting that feels chosen, exposed or assigned." }, { "title": "Being included while activity continues", "reflection": "Attention around a baby or gathering can leave your own participation available or overlooked within the dream." }, { "title": "Company and a usable space", "reflection": "A chosen visitor or small arrangement can make the surroundings fit the moment without defining a rule for actual care." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0406", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Childbed", "text": "To dream of giving child birth, denotes fortunate circumstances\nand safe delivery of a handsome child.\n\nFor an unmarried woman to dream of being in childbed, denotes unhappy\nchanges from honor to evil and low estates.", "locator": "Heading 406; source lines 5470–5478", "lineStart": 5470, "lineEnd": 5478, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of giving child birth, denotes fortunate circumstances\nand safe delivery of a handsome child.\n\nFor an unmarried woman to dream of being in childbed, denotes unhappy\nchanges from honor to evil and low estates." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "childhood-home", "title": "Childhood home", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "A remembered place seen from your present life.", "summary": "A childhood home can place remembered routines beside your present choices, inviting reflection on what still fits and what has changed.", "aliases": [ "childhood home", "old home", "childhood house" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "A childhood home in a dream is a particular remembered setting, even when its rooms are inaccurate. It may gather familiar sounds, positions at the table, household rules or the feeling of arriving after school. Begin with the detail that made it recognizably yours. That personal connection is more useful than assuming every return expresses a wish to go backward.\n\nThe dream can place your current life inside an older arrangement. You might bring a partner to your old kitchen, work at a childhood desk or try to fit adult belongings into a small bedroom. Such scenes could make a contrast visible: what has changed in your responsibilities, and what habits still shape how you respond?\n\nYour position in the house matters. Being an adult visitor differs from being treated as the child who once lived there. If you can choose when to leave, the dream may allow you to revisit a familiar perspective without remaining in it. If you keep asking permission, consider where an old rule still influences a present decision.\n\nChanges to the building can carry several possibilities. A renovation might feel welcome because the place finally works differently, or disappointing because a valued detail has disappeared. Neither feeling proves that your memories were better or worse than the present. It may simply help identify what you want preserved and what you would gladly alter.\n\nA remembered home can also appear after contact with relatives, sorting photographs, revisiting a neighborhood or hearing a familiar piece of music. Dreams can combine these materials with invented rooms and people. An unexpected scene is not evidence of a forgotten event, nor does returning establish anything about another person's current experience.\n\nTry separating the place from the role you held there. You might miss a garden or a predictable meal while preferring your present freedom. You might feel uneasy in one room and affectionate toward another. Holding those differences together allows a more specific reflection: which part of that old arrangement remains useful, which belongs to its time, and how do you want to meet it now?", "traditional": "No historical childhood-home passage is supplied for this entry. The original reflections concern a personally remembered setting. NINDS supplies only general background on waking experiences and emotions entering dreams; it does not establish a special meaning for returning to an old home.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "Bringing your present partner to the old kitchen", "reflection": "You try to explain where things belong while your partner sees the room for the first time. The scene might highlight how much background you take for granted in present relationships. What would you like understood about your routines, without requiring someone else to share the same memories?" }, { "title": "An adult task at your childhood desk", "reflection": "You work on today's responsibilities at a desk that feels too small. Consider whether an established way of organizing or pleasing others still fits the task. The mismatch might be practical or emotional; it does not mean that an earlier version of you is secretly controlling your decisions." }, { "title": "A room renovated beyond recognition", "reflection": "Someone has changed the room you remember, and you feel either relief or loss. Identify the precise feature involved: privacy, a window, familiar furniture or an activity once possible there. The feeling may clarify what you value rather than judge every change to your past." }, { "title": "Finding an ordinary object where you left it", "reflection": "A book, cup or toy sits in its familiar place. You may be enjoying the continuity of a small remembered routine, especially after recent change. Ask what the object lets you do in the dream; comfort can come from an activity without requiring a return to the whole household." }, { "title": "Being asked to follow an old household rule", "reflection": "You know you are an adult, yet wait for permission to eat, leave or invite someone. The scene could help name a present situation where an earlier expectation feels active. Notice whether you comply, negotiate or choose differently, and what makes each response possible in the dream." }, { "title": "Leaving the childhood home by your own choice", "reflection": "You finish a visit and head toward your current home without urgency. This might give a manageable shape to appreciating an earlier place while continuing your present life. A sad departure can still be chosen; ask what you take with you and what you are comfortable leaving there." } ], "prompts": [ "What made the house recognizable as your childhood home?", "Which parts of your present life entered the remembered setting?", "What would you preserve, change or leave behind if you could choose?" ], "related": [ "house", "family", "photograph", "homesick", "a-child-leaving-home" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s continuing English editorial delegation. Sources retain their stated scope; neither historical accounts nor general research validate these interpretations.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Present life in an older setting", "reflection": "Notice what happens when current relationships and responsibilities meet rooms organized around your earlier life." }, { "title": "Remembered roles", "reflection": "Your freedom to visit, choose or leave may help distinguish a familiar place from the position you once held there." }, { "title": "What to keep and what to change", "reflection": "Altered rooms can prompt a specific comparison between valued memories, outdated arrangements and present preferences." } ], "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "DreamFolia AI-assisted editorial review", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "childhood-home", "lucid-dreaming", "recurring-dream", "missing-a-flight-or-train", "unable-to-scream", "books", "cradle", "eyes", "forgetting-to-feed-a-pet", "message", "nightmare", "searching-for-a-missing-pet", "sleep" ] }, "decisionReason": "The developed body and six scenes distinguish a remembered place from an earlier household role, present relationships, altered rooms, ordinary continuity and a chosen departure. It explicitly avoids recovered-memory claims or knowledge of other people. No unrelated house history is borrowed.", "reviewedSnapshot": "data/guide-linked-publication-review-2026-10-15.json", "contentSha256": "8490d945025a4af2bf349c15e155fa4c4281e82d67b5dc92b01e7d429ffc5ac2" }, "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "children", "title": "Children", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "A developing task can have a pace and viewpoint of its own.", "summary": "Children in dreams can bring play, learning, responsibility or different viewpoints into a scene. Follow their actual actions rather than a fixed age symbol.", "aliases": [ "children", "child" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "Children in a dream can make room for play, developing knowledge or responsibilities whose terms are still being worked out. They may be people you know, unfamiliar members of a group or imagined companions in an ordinary task. Begin with what they are doing and how you are involved. A child teaching you a game differs from one waiting for instructions; neither needs to represent an immature part of you.\n\nA child who changes the rules of an activity can bring invention beside the wish for a dependable structure. You might enjoy trying another way or feel frustrated that the shared task never settles. A workplace experiment or family routine may offer a comparison when learning requires flexibility but still needs some agreement. The child’s contribution need not be dismissed as either foolish or naturally wiser.\n\nResponsibility becomes concrete when you are expected to organize a group, keep track of a journey or explain something unfamiliar. The difficulty may be the available time, unclear roles or several needs arriving together. This can picture the conditions of caring for a task without deciding whether you are a good parent or responsible person. A remembered child’s behavior does not establish their actual needs or future.\n\nBeing invited into play can support pleasure without a hidden duty. Joining a building game or hearing a surprising question may give attention to curiosity and company. Watching without wanting to join can instead show that the offered activity does not fit your present interest. An adult does not have to become childlike for either response to be meaningful.\n\nChanges in scale and pace add detail. Furniture may be too small for you, or a group may need more time than the schedule permits. The scene can reveal whose arrangements the place serves. Actual family contact, teaching, stories or childhood memories can also supply direct material. These reflections concern the particular children and encounter; they do not predict pregnancy, a child’s health or a required stage of personal development.", "traditional": "The six attached accounts assign prosperity, family outcomes or warnings to children, appearance, study, play and illness. Fontaine and Noe include gendered judgments about pregnancy and chastity. Craig attributes success to Artemidorus and a Christian association to Clement; these are Craig’s printed attributions, not independently authenticated passages. None establishes pregnancy, health, virtue or a future event.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A child teaches you the rules of an unfamiliar game", "reflection": "Knowledge moves in an unexpected direction. This may picture being willing to learn from someone outside an established role. The usefulness of the explanation matters more than deciding who should have been the expert." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A group needs more time than your schedule allows", "reflection": "The planned pace does not fit the participants. This can resemble a shared task that needs different conditions rather than more pressure. Frustration may concern the arrangement without evaluating the children or your worth as a caregiver." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You join a building game with no finished design", "reflection": "The activity allows invention before a result is fixed. This may give attention to enjoyment or experimenting together. You do not have to turn the unfinished structure into a warning about failing to make progress." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A child asks a question you cannot answer", "reflection": "The encounter leaves uncertainty visible. This can picture wanting an honest exchange rather than the expectation that your role includes every answer. Looking together or acknowledging the gap can change the meaning of being asked." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You watch children play and prefer to remain apart", "reflection": "An invitation does not determine your interest. This may fit choosing the degree of participation that feels right now. Remaining an observer need not imply lost innocence, coldness or a requirement to recover a younger self." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The room’s furniture fits the children but not you", "reflection": "The setting serves one group while making another person’s participation awkward. This can bring attention to whose needs organize a shared place. Adapting the arrangement differs from expecting every participant to fit it unchanged." } ], "prompts": [ "What did the children contribute or need in this particular scene?", "Whose pace and viewpoint shaped the activity?", "Did your role allow uncertainty, help and a choice about participating?" ], "related": [ "childhood-home", "baby", "play", "school", "father", "mother", "boy" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0407" ], "scope": "miller-0407 — Children (Heading 407; source lines 5478–5508): Children’s appearance, studying, work, play, illness and death receive prosperity, welfare and adverse-event forecasts, including an opening verse. Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence validating the original reflection, a diagnosis, another person’s state or a future event." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0139" ], "scope": "fontaine-0139 — Child (Heading 139; source line 1550): The Child passage points to Boy and assigns fortune, inheritance and gendered chastity claims to children and pregnancy. Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence validating the original reflection, a diagnosis, another person’s state or a future event." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0120" ], "scope": "noe-0120 — Children (Dream section, heading 122; source lines 559–569): Children, birth, death, dress and pregnancy receive fortune, relationship and chastity forecasts; these are period judgments. Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence validating the original reflection, a diagnosis, another person’s state or a future event." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0104" ], "scope": "cielo-0104 — Child (Dream section, heading 104; source lines 4110–4113): Healthy children receive pleasure/fortune forecasts and illness a warning. Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence validating the original reflection, a diagnosis, another person’s state or a future event." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0039" ], "scope": "luck-0039 — Children (Dream section, heading 39; source lines 3606–3608): The Children account supplies only a lucky wealth-increase claim. Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence validating the original reflection, a diagnosis, another person’s state or a future event." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L9525" ], "scope": "craig-1918:L9525 — Children (Printed p. 208; NLM OCR lines 9525–9528): Craig attributes success to Artemidorus and a Christian association to Clement; these are Craig’s printed attributions, not independently authenticated passages. Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence validating the original reflection, a diagnosis, another person’s state or a future event." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15 under the site owner’s delegation. Historical claims, where supplied, remain attributed period writing. No human or clinical review is claimed.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Learning can change direction", "reflection": "A child can contribute a method or question rather than occupy only a dependent role." }, { "title": "Responsibility has conditions", "reflection": "Time, information and shared help shape what a caring task asks of you." }, { "title": "Play can be enough", "reflection": "Enjoyment and curiosity can matter without a demand to become a different kind of person." } ], "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "Codex (AI-assisted editorial review)", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "a-stranger", "a-train-going-in-the-wrong-direction", "being-trapped", "being-unable-to-move", "children", "church", "current-romantic-partner", "death-of-a-friend", "elevator", "father", "forest", "hair-falling-out", "insects", "key", "locked-out", "mother", "nakedness", "phone-not-working", "rainbow", "running-but-going-nowhere", "school", "smoke", "snake-bite", "superpowers", "the-self", "the-shadow", "web" ] }, "decisionReason": "The new original reading lets children teach, invent, need time or occupy their own viewpoint, rather than requiring an inner-child or immature-self explanation. 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If a Woman\ndreams she is about to have a child, it foretells a rich legacy or\nother good fortune: if she is a maid that has this dream, she must be\non her guard, or she will lose her virtue. 5, 56.", "locator": "Heading 139; source line 1550", "lineStart": 1550, "lineEnd": 1555, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Boy.) Dreaming of children is a good omen. If a Woman\ndreams she is about to have a child, it foretells a rich legacy or\nother good fortune: if she is a maid that has this dream, she must be\non her guard, or she will lose her virtue." }, { "id": "noe-0120", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Children", "text": "To dream you see children, denotes\nsuccess in your undertakings. To dream you see a child born, denotes a\nspeedy marriage and that you will be very happy with your family. To dream\nyou see a child die, imports that you will experience some very heavy\nmisfortune, and that your sweetheart will marry another. To dream you see\nchildren dirty and ragged, denotes that some friend will endeavor to\nprevail upon you to commit an act by which your reputation will be\nendangered; it also denotes that you will be in prison and experience\npoverty. For a maiden to dream she is with child, denotes that some man\nwill attempt to rob her of her chastity, and that if she resists she will\nmarry and be very happy.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 122; source lines 559–569", "lineStart": 559, "lineEnd": 569, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see children, denotes\nsuccess in your undertakings. To dream you see a child born, denotes a\nspeedy marriage and that you will be very happy with your family. To dream\nyou see a child die, imports that you will experience some very heavy\nmisfortune, and that your sweetheart will marry another. To dream you see\nchildren dirty and ragged, denotes that some friend will endeavor to\nprevail upon you to commit an act by which your reputation will be\nendangered; it also denotes that you will be in prison and experience\npoverty. 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To a maid that her marriage is near, for without company of a man shee can have no milk. But if she bee a pretty maid, and hath been long unmarried, it signifieth her death. For all things comming beyond the accustomed age, are evill; some few excepted. To a poore man, it is abundance of mony and possessions, if hee can nourish others. Moreover, I have knowne by experience, that this dream foretold to one that was not married a wife, & to one that had no children, it foretold children; but to a Champion, and an artificer, and all such as in their estate travaile & move the body, it signifieth sicknesse. Also I knew one having wife and children who had this dream, and lost his wife by death; and always after himself nourished his children, exercising towards them, the duty of a father and mother together.", "locator": "Book 1, encoded section 5", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "1", "displayText": "If any one dreams to see himselfe wrapped in clothes in fashion of little Children, and to suck some womans dugges which he knoweth, it argueth long sicknes, if he hath not his wife with child, for then he shall have a son born like himselfe. And if his wife hath such a dream, she shall have a daughter. But if any one being in prison hath such a dream, the Devill shall stir up such accusations against him, that he shall not be delivered, and it is not without reason to judge the like in sicknes. But to seem in a dreame to have milk in her dugs, to a yong woman it signifies she shal conceive, and her fruit shall come to perfection. To an old woman being poor it signifieth riches, being rich, expence, and liberality. To a maid that her marriage is near, for without company of a man shee can have no milk. But if she bee a pretty maid, and hath been long unmarried, it signifieth her death. For all things comming beyond the accustomed age, are evill; some few excepted. To a poore man, it is abundance of mony and possessions, if hee can nourish others. Moreover, I have knowne by experience, that this dream foretold to one that was not married a wife, & to one that had no children, it foretold children; but to a Champion, and an artificer, and all such as in their estate travaile & move the body, it signifieth sicknesse. Also I knew one having wife and children who had this dream, and lost his wife by death; and always after himself nourished his children, exercising towards them, the duty of a father and mother together." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. 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Hasty intelligence of sickness will be borne you.\nA tumble down chimney, denotes sorrow and likely death in your family.\nTo see one overgrown with ivy or other vines, foretells that happiness\nwill result from sorrow or loss of relatives.\n\nTo see a fire burning in a chimney, denotes much good is approaching you.\nTo hide in a chimney corner, denotes distress and doubt will assail you.\nBusiness will appear gloomy.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she is going down a chimney,\nforetells she will be guilty of some impropriety which will\ncause consternation among her associates. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0411", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "China Store", "text": "For a china merchant to dream that his store looks empty,\nforetells he will have reverses in his business, and withal\na gloomy period will follow.\n\n\n[35] See Crockery.", "locator": "Heading 411; source lines 5539–5548", "lineStart": 5539, "lineEnd": 5548, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a china merchant to dream that his store looks empty,\nforetells he will have reverses in his business, and withal\na gloomy period will follow. See Crockery." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0412", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Chocolate", "text": "To dream of chocolate, denotes you will provide abundantly\nfor those who are dependent on you. To see chocolate candy,\nindicates agreeable companions and employments.\nIf sour, illness or other disappointments will follow.\nTo drink chocolate, foretells you will prosper after a short\nperiod of unfavorable reverses.", "locator": "Heading 412; source lines 5548–5557", "lineStart": 5548, "lineEnd": 5557, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of chocolate, denotes you will provide abundantly\nfor those who are dependent on you. To see chocolate candy,\nindicates agreeable companions and employments.\nIf sour, illness or other disappointments will follow.\nTo drink chocolate, foretells you will prosper after a short\nperiod of unfavorable reverses." }, { "id": "fontaine-0141", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Chocolate", "text": "To dream of chocolate, signifies trouble, brought about by\ngossiping. 47, 15.", "locator": "Heading 141; source line 1559", "lineStart": 1559, "lineEnd": 1562, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of chocolate, signifies trouble, brought about by\ngossiping." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0415", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Christ", "text": "To dream of beholding Christ, the young child, worshiped by the\nwise men, denotes many peaceful days, full of wealth and knowledge,\nabundant with joy, and content.\n\nIf in the garden of the Gethsemane, sorrowing adversity will fill your soul,\ngreat longings for change and absent objects of love will be felt.\n\nTo see him in the temple scourging the traders, denotes that evil\nenemies will be defeated and honest endeavors will prevail.", "locator": "Heading 415; source lines 5570–5582", "lineStart": 5570, "lineEnd": 5582, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of beholding Christ, the young child, worshiped by the\nwise men, denotes many peaceful days, full of wealth and knowledge,\nabundant with joy, and content.\n\nIf in the garden of the Gethsemane, sorrowing adversity will fill your soul,\ngreat longings for change and absent objects of love will be felt.\n\nTo see him in the temple scourging the traders, denotes that evil\nenemies will be defeated and honest endeavors will prevail." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9535", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Christ", "heading": "Christ", "text": "To dream of Christ denotes consolation; to see Him on the cross, trouble and sorrow (Old Dream Book).", "lineStart": 9535, "lineEnd": 9537, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 208; NLM OCR lines 9535–9537", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9535, "lineEnd": 9537, "printedPage": 208, "printedPageEnd": 208 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Christ. — To dream of Christ denotes consolation; to see \nHim on the cross, trouble and sorrow (Old Dream Book). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Christ" }, "displayText": "To dream of Christ denotes consolation; to see Him on the cross, trouble and sorrow (Old Dream Book)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0142", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Christening", "text": "To dream that you are present at a christening, is a good\nsign, you will get what you hope for; to a maid, it signifies that she\nwill soon be married. 70, 50, 1.", "locator": "Heading 142; source line 1562", "lineStart": 1562, "lineEnd": 1566, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are present at a christening, is a good\nsign, you will get what you hope for; to a maid, it signifies that she\nwill soon be married." }, { "id": "luck-0041", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Christening", "text": "Good fortune approaching.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 41; source lines 3610–3612", "lineStart": 3610, "lineEnd": 3612, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Good fortune approaching." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "christmas-tree", "title": "Christmas Tree", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a Christmas tree, denotes joyful occasions and auspicious fortune.”", "aliases": [ "christmas tree" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about christmas tree stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0416", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Christmas Tree", "text": "To dream of a Christmas tree, denotes joyful occasions and\nauspicious fortune. To see one dismantled, foretells some\npainful incident will follow occasions of festivity.", "locator": "Heading 416; source lines 5582–5588", "lineStart": 5582, "lineEnd": 5588, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a Christmas tree, denotes joyful occasions and\nauspicious fortune. To see one dismantled, foretells some\npainful incident will follow occasions of festivity." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "chrysanthemum", "title": "Chrysanthemum", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you gather white chrysanthemums, signifies loss and much perplexity.”", "aliases": [ "chrysanthemum", "chrysanthemums" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about chrysanthemum stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0417", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Chrysanthemum", "text": "To dream that you gather white chrysanthemums, signifies loss\nand much perplexity; colored ones, betokens pleasant engagements.\n\nTo see them in bouquets, denotes that love will be offered you,\nbut a foolish ambition will cause you to put it aside. To pass down\nan avenue of white chrysanthemums, with here and there a yellow one\nshowing among the white, foretells a strange sense of loss and sadness,\nfrom which the sensibilities will expand and take on new powers.\nWhile looking on these white flowers as you pass, and you suddenly feel\nyour spirit leave your body and a voice shouts aloud ``Glory to God,\nmy Creator,'' foretells that a crisis is pending in your near future.\nIf some of your friends pass out, and others take up true ideas in connection\nwith spiritual and earthly needs, you will enjoy life in its deepest meaning.\nOften death is near you in these dreams.", "locator": "Heading 417; source lines 5588–5605", "lineStart": 5588, "lineEnd": 5605, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you gather white chrysanthemums, signifies loss\nand much perplexity; colored ones, betokens pleasant engagements.\n\nTo see them in bouquets, denotes that love will be offered you,\nbut a foolish ambition will cause you to put it aside. To pass down\nan avenue of white chrysanthemums, with here and there a yellow one\nshowing among the white, foretells a strange sense of loss and sadness,\nfrom which the sensibilities will expand and take on new powers.\nWhile looking on these white flowers as you pass, and you suddenly feel\nyour spirit leave your body and a voice shouts aloud “Glory to God,\nmy Creator,” foretells that a crisis is pending in your near future.\nIf some of your friends pass out, and others take up true ideas in connection\nwith spiritual and earthly needs, you will enjoy life in its deepest meaning.\nOften death is near you in these dreams." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "church-service", "title": "Church Service", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “To listen to mass, internal satisfaction; to listen to church music, overwhelming joy.”", "aliases": [ "church service" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about church service stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L9544", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Church Service", "heading": "Church Service", "text": "To listen to mass, internal satisfaction; to listen to church music, overwhelming joy.", "lineStart": 9544, "lineEnd": 9546, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 208; NLM OCR lines 9544–9546", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9544, "lineEnd": 9546, "printedPage": 208, "printedPageEnd": 208 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Church Service. — To listen to mass, internal satisfaction; \nto listen to church music, overwhelming joy. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Church Service" }, "displayText": "To listen to mass, internal satisfaction; to listen to church music, overwhelming joy." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "church", "title": "Churches", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "Belonging can leave room for a different degree of participation.", "summary": "A church can explore a chosen place in a gathering, personal history within a shared setting, or the freedom to participate differently.", "aliases": [ "church", "chapel", "cathedral", "temple" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "A church in a dream can be a place of gathering, quiet, ceremony or practical work. Its significance depends on your relationship to this particular building and the people using it. A regular worshipper, an occasional visitor and someone remembering childhood may encounter the same room differently. The image does not settle belief or establish a message from a spiritual authority.\n\nBeing alone in the building can make room for a kind of attention unavailable during a gathering. You may appreciate the quiet, miss company or feel unsure whether the space is yours to use. This can resemble wanting a place for reflection without deciding how much membership or participation you want. A familiar architectural detail may remain enough to explain why this building appears.\n\nA shared ritual introduces other terms. Being expected to stand, speak or sing before you understand the occasion can make belonging feel dependent on a particular action. Wanting explanation differs from wanting to refuse the gathering. The scene may offer a comparison to a community in which you value company while seeking a degree of participation that fits.\n\nPractical roles can shift the encounter. Repairing a roof or moving chairs makes care for the place concrete without requiring a religious interpretation. Having your chosen tune included in music may instead give an individual contribution a place in a familiar routine. These possibilities concern the work or welcome experienced in the dream, not proof that a real community approves of you.\n\nAn interior used differently from your memory can bring continuity and change together. A church becoming a reading room might still retain a window or seat that matters to you. Recognizing one detail does not demand that the whole place keep its earlier purpose. Someone holding a door open when you want to leave can give invitation and freedom a shared form. Staying, joining or leaving need not establish loyalty, moral worth or the correct way to believe. A personal spiritual understanding can remain part of your context, alongside memories and uncertainty, without the dream being treated as a verdict about another person or a future event.", "traditional": "The seven supplied records give conflicting period accounts. Miller, Noe and the 1894 Guide assign adverse outcomes; Fontaine contrasts comfort in prayer with unfavorable singing, while Cielo predicts fortune and friends. Craig adds moral claims and wedding/funeral reversals under a Gypsy attribution. Craig’s separate Temple passage only says See Church; it supplies no independent explanation of a temple and does not make all religious spaces interchangeable. These forecasts do not establish beliefs, divine approval, infidelity or a future ceremony.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You sit alone in a church without a service underway", "reflection": "The space is available before a shared role is assigned. This may picture wanting quiet, missing company or considering how much belonging feels right. The absence of a ceremony need not mean rejection, spiritual failure or a requirement to return to a practice." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "The gathering expects you to stand before you understand the ritual", "reflection": "Participation has a visible rule whose purpose is not yet clear. This can resemble valuing a community while wanting terms you understand. Asking, watching or joining gives different possibilities; the imagined action does not decide your beliefs or moral worth." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You repair part of the building while other people arrange the gathering", "reflection": "A practical contribution gives you a role different from attending the ceremony. This may fit wanting to support a shared place through work rather than a prescribed form of participation. The task need not establish devotion or the real community’s view of you." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A tune you chose becomes part of the church music", "reflection": "An individual preference receives a place within a familiar routine. This can picture wanting a contribution heard without changing every part of the occasion. The welcome belongs to the imagined scene and does not prove divine approval or another person’s actual acceptance." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A familiar church interior has become a reading room", "reflection": "The purpose changes while recognizable details remain. This may resemble carrying a memory into a different use of a place or community. Continuity does not require everything to stay the same, and change need not be judged as either loss or progress." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "Someone holds the door open when you decide to leave", "reflection": "An invitation does not remove your choice about remaining. This can picture wanting company whose terms include freedom to participate differently. Staying or leaving the dream gathering need not decide loyalty, faith or which degree of contact is right in waking life." } ], "prompts": [ "What personal relationship made this particular place meaningful?", "Which form of participation or contribution did you want?", "How did the gathering leave room for understanding, change or departure?" ], "related": [ "prayer", "wedding", "childhood-home", "funeral" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "scope": "miller-0418 — Church (Heading 418; source lines 5605–5613): A distant church receives disappointed-pleasure forecasts; entering a gloomy church receives funeral and adverse-prospect claims. Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence validating the original reflection, a diagnosis, another person’s state or a future event.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0418" ] }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "scope": "fontaine-0143 — Church (Heading 143; source line 1566): Praying in church receives comfort/joy claims while singing receives an adverse claim. Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence validating the original reflection, a diagnosis, another person’s state or a future event.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0143" ] }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "scope": "noe-0090 — Church (Dream section, heading 92; source lines 466–471): Church and service receive quarrel, legal, loyalty, employment and trade predictions. Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence validating the original reflection, a diagnosis, another person’s state or a future event.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0090" ] }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "scope": "cielo-0105 — Church (Dream section, heading 105; source lines 4113–4115): Church is assigned good fortune and friends, contrary to several other attached accounts. Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence validating the original reflection, a diagnosis, another person’s state or a future event.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0105" ] }, { "id": "guide-65367", "title": "Guide to Fortune-Telling by Dreams", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Multum in Parvo Library, Vol. I, No. 10, October 1894", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65367", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "scope": "guide-0019 — Church (Dream section, heading 19; source lines 201–206): Church/service receive adverse quarrel and infidelity claims closely resembling Noe; repetition is not independent confirmation. Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence validating the original reflection, a diagnosis, another person’s state or a future event.", "recordIds": [ "guide-0019" ] }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "scope": "craig-1918:L9538 — Church (Printed p. 208; NLM OCR lines 9538–9543): Church actions receive moral judgments and reversed wedding/funeral forecasts under a Gypsy attribution. craig-1918:L12202 — Temple (Printed p. 258; NLM OCR lines 12202–12203): The complete Temple passage is only a cross-reference to Church; it supplies no independent temple explanation. Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence validating the original reflection, a diagnosis, another person’s state or a future event.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L9538", "craig-1918:L12202" ] } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15 under the site owner’s delegation. Historical claims, where supplied, remain attributed period writing. No human or clinical review is claimed.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A place without fixed participation", "reflection": "Quiet, company and membership can be wanted in different amounts." }, { "title": "An individual contribution within a shared routine", "reflection": "A gathering can make room for understanding, a practical role or a chosen voice." }, { "title": "Continuity with freedom to change", "reflection": "A familiar detail can remain meaningful while the use of a place or your participation changes." } ], "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "Codex (AI-assisted editorial review)", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "a-stranger", "a-train-going-in-the-wrong-direction", "being-trapped", "being-unable-to-move", "children", "church", "current-romantic-partner", "death-of-a-friend", "elevator", "father", "forest", "hair-falling-out", "insects", "key", "locked-out", "mother", "nakedness", "phone-not-working", "rainbow", "running-but-going-nowhere", "school", "smoke", "snake-bite", "superpowers", "the-self", "the-shadow", "web" ] }, "decisionReason": "The developed reading allows quiet, practical contribution, changed use and freedom to leave. It does not prescribe belief or assume one community experience. 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To dream of singing in church, is a dream of bad consequence.\n13, 6.", "locator": "Heading 143; source line 1566", "lineStart": 1566, "lineEnd": 1570, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream one is at church, and praying there, signifies joy and\ncomfort. To dream of singing in church, is a dream of bad consequence." }, { "id": "noe-0090", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Church", "text": "To dream of church is portentous of\nevil. If you are in a church during divine service, you will be engaged in\na lawsuit, or some other quarrel that will very near ruin you. If you are\nin love, your sweetheart is unfaithful, and prefers another. If you expect\na place, it forebodes disappointment. If you are in trade, you will never\nthrive in your present situation.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 92; source lines 466–471", "lineStart": 466, "lineEnd": 471, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of church is portentous of\nevil. If you are in a church during divine service, you will be engaged in\na lawsuit, or some other quarrel that will very near ruin you. If you are\nin love, your sweetheart is unfaithful, and prefers another. If you expect\na place, it forebodes disappointment. If you are in trade, you will never\nthrive in your present situation." }, { "id": "cielo-0105", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Church", "text": "Signifies good fortune and many friends.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 105; source lines 4113–4115", "lineStart": 4113, "lineEnd": 4115, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Signifies good fortune and many friends." }, { "id": "guide-0019", "sourceId": "guide-65367", "heading": "Church", "text": "To dream of a church is portentous of evil. If you are in\na church during divine service, you will be engaged in a lawsuit or\nsome quarrel that will very near ruin you; if you are in love, your\nsweetheart is unfaithful, and prefers another.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 19; source lines 201–206", "lineStart": 201, "lineEnd": 206, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a church is portentous of evil. If you are in\na church during divine service, you will be engaged in a lawsuit or\nsome quarrel that will very near ruin you; if you are in love, your\nsweetheart is unfaithful, and prefers another." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9538", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Church", "heading": "Church", "text": "To dream of building one, divine love; to enter one, honorable conduct, benevolence ; to talk in one or see it desecrated, lying, envy and sin ; to go to church in mourning denotes a wedding; to go in white denotes a funeral (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 9538, "lineEnd": 9543, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 208; NLM OCR lines 9538–9543", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9538, "lineEnd": 9543, "printedPage": 208, "printedPageEnd": 208 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Church. — To dream of building one, divine love; to enter \none, honorable conduct, benevolence ; to talk in one or see \nit desecrated, lying, envy and sin ; to go to church in mourn- \ning denotes a wedding; to go in white denotes a funeral \n(Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "mourn- \ning", "after": "mourning", "evidenceLine": 421 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Church" }, "displayText": "To dream of building one, divine love; to enter one, honorable conduct, benevolence; to talk in one or see it desecrated, lying, envy and sin; to go to church in mourning denotes a wedding; to go in white denotes a funeral (Gypsy)." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12202", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Temple", "heading": "Temple", "text": "See Church.", "lineStart": 12202, "lineEnd": 12203, "kind": "cross-reference", "locator": "Printed p. 258; NLM OCR lines 12202–12203", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12202, "lineEnd": 12203, "printedPage": 258, "printedPageEnd": 258 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Temple. — See Church. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Temple" }, "displayText": "See Church." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "churchyard", "title": "Churchyard", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of walking in a churchyard, if in winter, denotes that you are to have a long and bitter struggle…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "churchyard" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about churchyard stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0419", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Churchyard", "text": "To dream of walking in a churchyard, if in winter, denotes that you are\nto have a long and bitter struggle with poverty, and you will reside far\nfrom the home of your childhood, and friends will be separated from you;\nbut if you see the signs of springtime, you will walk up in into pleasant\nplaces and enjoy the society of friends.\n\nFor lovers to dream of being in a churchyard means they will never marry\neach other, but will see others fill their places.", "locator": "Heading 419; source lines 5613–5624", "lineStart": 5613, "lineEnd": 5624, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of walking in a churchyard, if in winter, denotes that you are\nto have a long and bitter struggle with poverty, and you will reside far\nfrom the home of your childhood, and friends will be separated from you;\nbut if you see the signs of springtime, you will walk up in into pleasant\nplaces and enjoy the society of friends.\n\nFor lovers to dream of being in a churchyard means they will never marry\neach other, but will see others fill their places." }, { "id": "fontaine-0144", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Churchyard", "text": "To dream of a churchyard, is a sign you will have a long\nand happy life. 76.", "locator": "Heading 144; source line 1570", "lineStart": 1570, "lineEnd": 1573, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a churchyard, is a sign you will have a long\nand happy life." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "churning", "title": "Churning", "type": "dreams", "category": "Other symbols", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of churning, you will have difficult tasks set you, but by diligence and industry you will accomplish them and be very prosperous.”", "aliases": [ "churning" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about churning stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0420", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Churning", "text": "To dream of churning, you will have difficult tasks set you, but by\ndiligence and industry you will accomplish them and be very prosperous.\nTo the farmer, it denotes profit from a plenteous harvest; to a young woman,\nit denotes a thrifty and energetic husband.", "locator": "Heading 420; source lines 5624–5631", "lineStart": 5624, "lineEnd": 5631, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of churning, you will have difficult tasks set you, but by\ndiligence and industry you will accomplish them and be very prosperous.\nTo the farmer, it denotes profit from a plenteous harvest; to a young woman,\nit denotes a thrifty and energetic husband." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cider", "title": "Cider", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of cider, denotes fortune may be won by you if your time is not squandered upon material pleasure.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "cider" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cider stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0421", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cider", "text": "To dream of cider, denotes fortune may be won by you if your time\nis not squandered upon material pleasure. To see people drinking it,\nyou will be under the influence of unfaithful friends.", "locator": "Heading 421; source lines 5631–5637", "lineStart": 5631, "lineEnd": 5637, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of cider, denotes fortune may be won by you if your time\nis not squandered upon material pleasure. To see people drinking it,\nyou will be under the influence of unfaithful friends." }, { "id": "cielo-0106", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Cider", "text": "To drink cider denotes a dispute.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 106; source lines 4115–4117", "lineStart": 4115, "lineEnd": 4117, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To drink cider denotes a dispute." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cinema", "title": "Cinema", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "Watching a story together does not require everyone to receive it the same way.", "summary": "A cinema dream can explore a shared audience, a story already in motion and the choice to keep watching. The screen and your place before it matter.", "aliases": [ "cinema", "cinemas", "movie theater", "movie theatre", "movie theaters", "movie theatres" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A cinema gives you a place before a story that is already made. In a dream, this can picture watching an account unfold without deciding each event yourself. You may recognize observing a group decision, revisiting a remembered story or trying to understand a situation from some distance. The distinction from a live stage is useful: the film can continue independently of your response, while your choice is how to engage with what appears.\n\nA changed ending can make a familiar account uncertain. You expected to know what followed, but the screen offers another version. This can resemble revisiting an old assumption after new information arrives, or discovering that a story about your role no longer fits. An unexpected turn may be welcome as well as unsettling. Familiarity does not require the account to remain unchanged.\n\nYour seat affects what is available to see. A blocked view may picture having a place in an encounter without access to its central information. Moving closer can offer clarity or make the experience harder to keep at a comfortable distance. Being able to choose another seat matters because participation need not mean accepting the first position assigned to you.\n\nAn audience responding differently can bring shared experience and individual interpretation apart. You may feel moved while others laugh, or enjoy something the room dismisses. This can fit a group whose reactions seem to define the acceptable response before you have formed your own. Company can also help: another person's reaction may reveal an aspect of the scene you had not noticed.\n\nLeaving before the end can picture choosing how much attention an account deserves. Staying after the credits may offer time to absorb it, or make continuing feel difficult after the shared event has finished. Recent films, venues and conversations can supply the imagery directly. A projected story does not reveal a hidden future or another person's actual experience. The original readings concern perspective, company and the freedom to watch, reconsider or leave.", "traditional": "No supplied historical passage specifically describes a cinema or projected-film venue. The historical Theater accounts concern live players and related performance settings. This entry develops the film-viewing arrangement without transferring their forecasts to cinema.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A story independent of your response", "reflection": "A projected account can picture events or interpretations you are watching rather than directing. Your participation may concern attention and perspective instead of control over every event." }, { "title": "A place from which to see", "reflection": "Seating can make information accessible, blocked or uncomfortably close. Being included in an audience does not necessarily mean having a usable view." }, { "title": "Your response within a shared audience", "reflection": "A room can experience one story in different ways. The scene may leave room for your own reaction without requiring agreement or treating difference as isolation." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A familiar film begins but its ending changes", "reflection": "A changed familiar ending can picture an account that no longer supports the expectation you brought. A new detail or changed role may fit. The surprise can create room for another interpretation without proving the earlier version was entirely wrong." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "The screen is visible only from somebody else’s seat", "reflection": "A view available only from another seat can picture information that depends on your position within a group. A different role or channel may offer access. The scene can distinguish having permission to attend from being able to see what matters." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "The audience reacts differently from you", "reflection": "Different audience reactions can resemble wanting your response to have room within a shared experience. Agreement may be comforting without being necessary. Another reaction can offer perspective, or feel like pressure when it defines what you are supposed to feel." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "The projected image enters the room around you", "reflection": "The projected image entering the room can picture an account becoming difficult to keep at an observing distance. A story or discussion may begin shaping the environment around you. Curiosity and discomfort create different readings of the changed boundary." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You choose to leave before the film ends", "reflection": "Leaving early can picture deciding that an account has received enough attention for now. An ongoing argument or repeated narrative may feel similar. The choice differs from being denied the ending of a story you still wanted to understand." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You remain in the empty cinema after the credits", "reflection": "Remaining after the credits can picture needing time beyond a shared event to absorb what it meant. It may also show difficulty ending attention after the encounter has finished. The quiet room and your wish to stay distinguish the two." } ], "prompts": [ "What story was I watching, and how much of it seemed already decided?", "What did my position let me see or keep at a distance?", "How did my response relate to the audience and my choice to stay?" ], "related": [ "theater", "television", "pictures", "applause" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cinnamon", "title": "Cinnamon", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "summary": "Cinnamon can explore the influence of a small addition, an atmosphere linked to memory, and the difference between welcome flavor and excess.", "tagline": "A little can change the whole.", "aliases": [ "cinnamon" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A small addition of cinnamon changing an entire dish can picture an influence whose effect is larger than its size. One remark may alter a meeting’s atmosphere, a modest adjustment may make a routine enjoyable, or a familiar detail may give an unfamiliar place warmth. The dream can make proportion more central than quantity. Satisfaction suggests that the addition suits what is already there; an overpowering result may picture a contribution that takes up more room than intended.\n\nAn aroma arriving before you find its source can make atmosphere precede explanation. You may recognize a feeling before knowing what produced it. A remembered kitchen, a seasonal meal, or a particular person’s baking can provide direct associations, with comfort or uneasiness depending on that history. The smell does not establish a shared cultural meaning. Its connection to your own memory can be more useful than assigning the spice a universal promise of warmth or prosperity.\n\nPowder spreading beyond the dish can turn a careful addition into a consequence that reaches unrelated parts of the setting. A comment intended for one person may become widely repeated, or a small task may generate cleanup throughout an otherwise organized day. Frustration can concern the reach of an action rather than the action being inherently wrong. Limiting the spread, accepting help, or beginning again creates different practical responses.\n\nA label that does not match the contents makes expectation distinct from experience. Something selected for a familiar purpose may provide another effect once used. This can resemble relying on a description that no longer fits an arrangement, without proving deliberate deception. Testing the new result willingly differs from being required to accept it simply because the container made a promise.\n\nA strong scent in a room where it is unwanted can picture another preference becoming the environment everyone must inhabit. Welcome atmosphere and imposed atmosphere have different meanings even when the ingredient is the same. Cooking, shopping, a remembered taste, or a recent scented object may explain the image directly. These original readings concern influence, proportion, and personal association; they make no health or treatment claim about cinnamon.", "traditional": "No directly matching historical account is attached for this specific topic. The readings here are original reflective possibilities. The NINDS source provides general background about dreams, not evidence for these symbolic comparisons.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Small influence, broad effect", "reflection": "A modest addition can alter the whole atmosphere when its proportion matters." }, { "title": "Memory before explanation", "reflection": "A recognizable scent may connect a present scene with a particular remembered experience." }, { "title": "Welcome or imposed atmosphere", "reflection": "The same preference feels different when its presence is chosen or fills a shared space without agreement." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "The aroma arrives before the dish is visible", "reflection": "A feeling becomes recognizable before its source is clear. This may picture personal memory shaping an unfamiliar setting. Comfort and uneasiness can both fit, depending on the particular association rather than a fixed meaning assigned to the spice." }, { "title": "A small pinch changes the whole meal", "reflection": "A modest contribution has a large effect on the result. This may resemble a remark or practical adjustment that changes a shared experience. A welcome difference suggests fit; an overpowering result makes proportion more central than good or bad intention." }, { "title": "Powder covers more than you intended", "reflection": "The consequences extend beyond the original task. This can picture a small action creating dispersed work or influence. Gathering the spill or receiving help changes the experience from repeated frustration toward finding a workable boundary around the effect." }, { "title": "A familiar smell comes from an unfamiliar room", "reflection": "Recognition and unfamiliarity coexist. This may picture finding continuity within a new setting or recalling an old atmosphere in changed conditions. The resemblance can be comforting without making the new place identical to the memory it evokes." }, { "title": "The jar’s label does not match its contents", "reflection": "Expectation meets a different result once the resource is used. This may fit a description that no longer captures an arrangement. Choosing to experiment differs from feeling obliged to accept the mismatch because you relied on what the container promised." }, { "title": "The scent becomes too strong in a shared room", "reflection": "One preference occupies the whole environment. This can picture a welcome addition becoming difficult to avoid. Agreement about how much is wanted changes the scene from accepting someone else’s atmosphere toward creating conditions that suit several participants." } ], "prompts": [ "What small contribution changed a whole atmosphere?", "Which particular memory gives the scent its feeling?", "When does an addition stop supporting the setting and begin taking it over?" ], "related": [ "spice", "cooking", "oven", "cakes" ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cipher", "title": "Cipher", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of reading cipher, indicates that you are interested in literary researches, and by constant study you will become well acquainted…”", "aliases": [ "cipher" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cipher stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0422", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cipher", "text": "To dream of reading cipher, indicates that you are interested\nin literary researches, and by constant study you will become\nwell acquainted with the habits and lives of the ancients.", "locator": "Heading 422; source lines 5637–5643", "lineStart": 5637, "lineEnd": 5643, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of reading cipher, indicates that you are interested\nin literary researches, and by constant study you will become\nwell acquainted with the habits and lives of the ancients." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "circle", "title": "Circle", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "aliases": [ "circle" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "summary": "A circle can explore a boundary, a shared center, or returning to a point with a different experience of the route.", "tagline": "A continuous shape can create several different ways of belonging or moving.", "psychological": "A circle in a dream can make a boundary, arrangement or route visible. You might draw it around something, sit within it or travel a path that returns to its starting point. These uses create different experiences even though the shape stays recognizable. A circle does not have to mean perfection, eternity or completeness, and a gap does not automatically turn it into a failure.\n\nA line around an ordinary object can distinguish what belongs within a particular task. If nobody agrees whether the line may be crossed, the boundary is visible without its terms being understood. This may resemble a rule or responsibility that needs explanation. A drawn mark is different from an actual barrier, and the dream can make that difference important.\n\nPeople sitting in a circular arrangement may all face a shared center without knowing whose turn comes next. The lack of an obvious head can create welcome, uncertainty or a practical need to coordinate. A meeting in which you want a place to contribute may offer a comparison. The shape cannot establish fairness, agreement or the actual quality of a group’s relationships.\n\nFollowing a circular route and returning to the beginning can center what happened along the way. You may have learned something, met somebody or found the return frustrating. Coming back to the same point does not require the journey to have been pointless. Revisiting a conversation with more context offers a different comparison from repeating a task without change.\n\nA gap that allows entry can make an incomplete line useful. A circle whose size keeps changing may instead make fitting within an arrangement difficult, while overlapping circles create an area that belongs to two outlines at once. These scenes concern access, changing terms or a shared part rather than a universal geometric code. A recent drawing, game, diagram or object can supply direct imagery. The action, position and purpose of the shape guide whether a waking comparison fits, without requiring every circle to represent an entire life or every repeated route to be escaped.", "traditional": "Miller’s sole Circle account predicts misleading proportions of gain and adds a gendered relationship warning. It does not describe a general theory of circles, a completion rule or a spiritual meaning. Those forecasts remain attributed period writing; the original reflection here concerns how a boundary, gathering, route or overlap works within the scene.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A visible boundary with understandable terms", "reflection": "An outline can distinguish a task without deciding whether crossing is allowed." }, { "title": "A shared center without a fixed order", "reflection": "An arrangement can make participation available while still needing coordination." }, { "title": "Continuity that leaves room for difference", "reflection": "A return, gap or overlap can change the use of a recognizable form." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You draw a circle around an object but the crossing rule remains unclear", "reflection": "A boundary is visible before its purpose is agreed. This may picture a responsibility or shared rule needing explanation. The line need not make the object forbidden, and your freedom to cross it can matter as much as the fact that it exists." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "People sit in a circle without knowing whose turn comes next", "reflection": "Everyone faces a shared center while the order of contribution remains unsettled. This can picture wanting participation to have workable terms. The arrangement does not prove equality or harmony; the way people listen, wait and respond gives the gathering its particular character." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A circular route returns you to the start after a different experience", "reflection": "The position repeats while the journey has supplied new context. This may resemble revisiting a task or conversation with something changed in your understanding. Returning need not make the effort pointless or mean that you are trapped; what happened along the route matters." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A gap in the circle gives you a place to enter", "reflection": "An interrupted outline makes access possible within the scene. This can picture an arrangement leaving room for a new contribution rather than needing perfect closure. The gap need not signify damage or incompleteness in your life; its practical use supplies a more specific comparison." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The circle changes size while you try to arrange objects inside it", "reflection": "The available space keeps changing as you organize the task. This may picture criteria or resources needing a stable account before fitting things together becomes possible. A larger or smaller outline does not judge your worth or establish that the task must be abandoned." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "Two overlapping circles leave an area that belongs to both", "reflection": "The outlines remain distinct while one part is shared. This can picture activities or connections having some common terms without becoming identical. The overlap does not require complete agreement; what occupies the shared area and what stays separate can give the arrangement personal meaning." } ], "prompts": [ "What practical use did the circle have within the scene?", "How did its boundary, center or opening affect participation?", "What changed along a return or within a shared area?" ], "related": [ "drawing", "triangle", "ring", "compass" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0423" ], "scope": "miller-0423: Circle receives a misleading-gain forecast and a gendered relationship/marriage warning. No universal geometric meaning is established. Exact supplied passages: miller-0423 — Circle (Heading 423; source lines 5643–5649). Attributed historical comparison only; no forecast validates the original reflection or establishes actual health, relationships, beliefs or circumstances." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0423", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Circle", "text": "To dream of a circle, denotes that your affairs will deceive you\nin their proportions of gain. For a young woman to dream of a circle,\nwarns her of indiscreet involvement to the exclusion of marriage.", "locator": "Heading 423; source lines 5643–5649", "lineStart": 5643, "lineEnd": 5649, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a circle, denotes that your affairs will deceive you\nin their proportions of gain. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "clairvoyance", "title": "Clairvoyance", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of being a clairvoyant and seeing yourself in the future, denotes signal changes in your present occupation, followed by a series…”", "aliases": [ "clairvoyance" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about clairvoyance stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0428", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Clams", "text": "To dream of clams, denotes you will have dealings with an obstinate but\nhonest person. To eat them, foretells you will enjoy another's prosperity.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of eating baked clams with her sweetheart,\nforetells that she will enjoy his money as well as his confidence.", "locator": "Heading 428; source lines 5674–5682", "lineStart": 5674, "lineEnd": 5682, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of clams, denotes you will have dealings with an obstinate but\nhonest person. To eat them, foretells you will enjoy another's prosperity.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of eating baked clams with her sweetheart,\nforetells that she will enjoy his money as well as his confidence." }, { "id": "fontaine-0145", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Clams", "text": "To a lover, this dream is a sign he will be successful with his\nsweetheart; if the clams are large, it signifies he will get through\nthe world easy, but if they are small he may get into difficulties, and\nbe caught in a tight place. 49, 24.", "locator": "Heading 145; source line 1573", "lineStart": 1573, "lineEnd": 1578, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To a lover, this dream is a sign he will be successful with his\nsweetheart; if the clams are large, it signifies he will get through\nthe world easy, but if they are small he may get into difficulties, and\nbe caught in a tight place." }, { "id": "cielo-0108", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Clams", "text": "Denote closeness and parsimony.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 108; source lines 4119–4121", "lineStart": 4119, "lineEnd": 4121, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Denote closeness and parsimony." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9551", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Clam", "heading": "Clam", "text": "To dream of digging for them is a good omen, denoting thrift (Gypsy) ; evidently a laudable desire to symbolize labor.", "lineStart": 9551, "lineEnd": 9554, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 208; NLM OCR lines 9551–9554", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9551, "lineEnd": 9554, "printedPage": 208, "printedPageEnd": 208 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Clam. — To dream of digging for them is a good omen, \ndenoting thrift (Gypsy) ; evidently a laudable desire to sym- \nbolize labor. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "sym- \nbolize", "after": "symbolize", "evidenceLine": 4021 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Clam" }, "displayText": "To dream of digging for them is a good omen, denoting thrift (Gypsy); evidently a laudable desire to symbolize labor.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Clam” is shown on the Clams page: singular/plural" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0430", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Claret", "text": "To dream of drinking claret, denotes you will come under the influence\nof ennobling association. To dream of seeing broken bottles of claret,\nportends you will be induced to commit immoralities by the false persuasions\nof deceitful persons.", "locator": "Heading 430; source lines 5693–5700", "lineStart": 5693, "lineEnd": 5700, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of drinking claret, denotes you will come under the influence\nof ennobling association. To dream of seeing broken bottles of claret,\nportends you will be induced to commit immoralities by the false persuasions\nof deceitful persons." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "claret-cup-and-punch", "title": "Claret Cup and Punch", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of claret cup or punch, foretells that you will be much pleased with the attention shown you by new acquaintances.”", "aliases": [ "claret cup and punch" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about claret cup and punch stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0431", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Claret Cup and Punch", "text": "To dream of claret cup or punch, foretells that you will be much\npleased with the attention shown you by new acquaintances.", "locator": "Heading 431; source lines 5700–5705", "lineStart": 5700, "lineEnd": 5705, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of claret cup or punch, foretells that you will be much\npleased with the attention shown you by new acquaintances." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0432", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Clarionet", "text": "To dream of a claironet, foretells that you will indulge\nin frivolity beneath your usual dignity. {I}f it is broken,\nyou will incur the displeasure of a close friend.", "locator": "Heading 432; source lines 5705–5711", "lineStart": 5705, "lineEnd": 5711, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a claironet, foretells that you will indulge\nin frivolity beneath your usual dignity. [I]f it is broken,\nyou will incur the displeasure of a close friend." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "classmates", "title": "Classmates", "category": "People", "aliases": [ "classmate", "classmates", "schoolmate", "schoolmates", "fellow student", "fellow students" ], "summary": "Classmates may bring comparison, cooperation, or an earlier social role into a dream. Learning with peers differs from being assessed by a teacher.", "tagline": "Learning beside others, finding a place in the group, and meeting an earlier version of your role.", "psychological": "Classmates put you among people working through a shared stage or task. A dream about them may concern comparison more than the lesson: who knows the answer, receives attention, finishes first, or seems comfortable asking for help. This can fit entering a new job or group where you are measuring your progress beside others. If their competence reassures you, the scene may instead offer a personal image of learning in company.\n\nCooperation provides a different reading. Choosing a partner, sharing notes, or preparing a group project makes belonging practical. You may want a contribution recognized, an equal share of the work, or permission to ask questions without becoming a burden. A group that makes room for your uncertainty differs from one that expects you to arrive already informed. The classroom gives those conditions a familiar structure.\n\nOld classmates can bring back a social role as readily as an academic memory. You might become quiet, funny, competitive, helpful, or watchful in a way you recognize from that period. Meeting them at your current age may make the contrast visible: a familiar situation no longer requires the same response. That can be useful when an ordinary present interaction begins to feel like an earlier test of acceptance.\n\nSettings outside the lesson also matter. Lunch, a corridor, or a journey home can make companionship and informal group rules more central than achievement. Feeling left out may concern where you fit; choosing solitude comfortably suggests a different position. A recent reunion, photograph, course, or memory can provide direct context. The dream does not recover a reliable record of forgotten school events or reveal how classmates remember you now. Its subject may be the conditions for learning, the standard of comparison, or the kind of peer company you wanted.", "traditional": "No matching historical classmate passage is supplied. This entry offers original reflection on peers in a learning or remembered school setting. Teacher, school, and examination topics concern adjacent roles and events, but do not establish a fixed meaning for classmates. Familiar faces may carry personal memories without turning the dream into evidence of an earlier event.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A measure beside other people", "reflection": "Who seems capable or receives attention may make comparison visible. The scene can explore wanting a fairer measure of progress, or appreciating an example from which you can learn." }, { "title": "Belonging through a shared task", "reflection": "Partner choice, group work, or exchanging notes can show how participation becomes possible. Clear contributions and room to ask differ from being expected to manage without help." }, { "title": "An earlier role meets the present", "reflection": "Old classmates may bring back a familiar way of behaving. A different response at your current age can highlight what has changed without requiring the old feeling to disappear." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You are the last person without a project partner", "reflection": "A shared task begins before you have a place in it. This may fit uncertainty about entering a group or being considered useful. Being invited, asking to join, or finding another arrangement distinguishes available participation from having to prove your value alone." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A classmate shares notes without making you feel small", "reflection": "Information you missed becomes available through an ordinary favor. This can explore peer support that leaves room for learning. If the offer feels like a comparison, the tension may concern the meaning attached to receiving help rather than the notes themselves." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Everyone understands an assignment except you", "reflection": "The task appears shared, but its instructions were never clear to you. This may fit a new role where others have context you lack. A workable explanation changes the scene differently from assuming that missing information proves a lack of ability." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You cannot find a place at lunch", "reflection": "The social arrangement continues outside the classroom, and informal rules become visible. This can concern companionship or access without an academic test. Choosing a quiet table gladly suggests a different wish from wanting company but finding no usable way to join." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Classmates appear in your current workplace", "reflection": "A school group becomes part of an adult task. The scene may bring an earlier standard of comparison into present responsibilities. It can help distinguish an old feeling of being assessed from the actual conditions under which you now work and contribute." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You meet them as adults and the old role changes", "reflection": "Someone you remember differently speaks to you as an equal, or you find a new way to participate. The encounter may explore time and changed perspective. It does not require a triumphant ending; ease, awkwardness, and lingering familiarity can all belong together." } ], "prompts": [ "Was the shared situation about learning, comparison, cooperation, or company?", "What information or invitation made participation possible?", "Which earlier role returned, and did I still need to occupy it?" ], "related": [ "school-or-exam", "teacher", "friend", "childhood-home", "being-excluded-from-a-gathering" ], "type": "dreams", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflection on distinct social scenes and possible personal connections; no matching historical passage supplied. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "classroom", "title": "Classroom", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "Learning together depends partly on how the room makes participation possible.", "summary": "A classroom dream can explore shared learning, visibility and room for questions. Its seating, materials and group arrangement give it a specific focus.", "aliases": [ "classroom", "classrooms" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A classroom gives shared learning a physical arrangement. Desks face one direction or another, materials are placed within reach and somebody decides how people participate. In a dream, this can picture the conditions under which an unfamiliar task becomes understandable. A new team, course or group activity may offer a parallel. The room matters through what it allows, rather than through a grade or verdict about your ability.\n\nSeating can make inclusion different from access. You may have a place while being unable to see, hear or reach what everyone uses. This can resemble joining a process whose information remains easier for established participants to obtain. Moving a desk or changing the arrangement can make the need practical. The scene does not have to turn discomfort into a personal failure to belong.\n\nDesks facing one another can shift learning from receiving an answer to comparing experience. Another person's question may clarify your own, or the discussion may become difficult when nobody has room to finish. The arrangement can picture cooperation that needs both contact and a usable structure. A clear shared focus differs from everyone being visible while the purpose remains uncertain.\n\nPeople from different periods of life can bring several ways of participating into one room. You may feel like a former student while retaining present knowledge, or meet old classmates as people whose roles have changed. This can fit a current learning situation colored by remembered expectations. The mixed group is not a recovered event; it can combine familiarity and invention without representing one actual classroom.\n\nAn empty room with useful materials can offer space to explore before an audience arrives. A changed layout may accommodate a way of learning that the earlier arrangement left out. Leaving without losing contact can picture carrying what was useful into another setting. Actual lessons, offices and remembered rooms may supply the details directly. These original reflections concern the group and its learning environment; assessment, exam preparation and teacher authority have separate nearby entries.", "traditional": "No exact Classroom passage is supplied. School and School Teacher contain adjacent historical accounts, but those do not establish a fixed meaning for this room’s layout or group participation. The original reading focuses on the environment of learning, beyond the combined School or an exam entry’s evaluation scenes.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A place with usable access", "reflection": "A seat can provide formal inclusion while leaving information or materials hard to reach. Changing the arrangement may be more useful than asking someone to overcome the barrier alone." }, { "title": "Learning through exchange", "reflection": "A room organized for discussion can picture understanding developed between participants. Contact needs enough structure and space for questions to remain useful." }, { "title": "A remembered role in a present room", "reflection": "People and habits from earlier learning can appear alongside present capacity. The scene may allow an old expectation to be recognized without requiring it to govern the current task." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "The desks face one another instead of the teacher", "reflection": "Desks facing one another can picture learning through comparison and shared questions. A team discussion may fit. The arrangement can be welcoming or distracting depending on whether people have enough room to complete a thought and keep a common purpose." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Your seat gives no view of what everyone is discussing", "reflection": "A seat without a view can resemble inclusion that does not provide usable access. You may be expected to participate before being given the same information as others. Moving the position changes the conditions, rather than making the difficulty a judgment about you." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "People from different stages of your life share the room", "reflection": "A mixed-age group can picture several stages of belonging meeting around one task. Present knowledge and older expectations may coexist. How the group treats you helps distinguish a remembered role from a position that now has more choice." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You find useful materials in an otherwise empty classroom", "reflection": "Useful materials in an empty room can picture room to explore without immediate performance pressure. A new skill or question may benefit from a private beginning. The absence of others can support learning rather than automatically signal exclusion." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The room changes to accommodate another way of learning", "reflection": "An adapted room can picture a shared process changing to accommodate more than one way of participating. A different explanation, pace or resource may become available. The improvement belongs to the arrangement as well as individual effort." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You leave the classroom without losing contact with the group", "reflection": "Leaving while keeping contact can picture carrying useful learning into another setting. An activity may no longer need the original room to remain valuable. The departure can change participation without turning the earlier group or experience into a failure." } ], "prompts": [ "What did the arrangement let me see, hear, use or ask?", "Which part of my role came from the present, and which felt remembered?", "What change in the room would have made participation more useful?" ], "related": [ "school-or-exam", "teacher", "classmates", "school" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "clay", "title": "Clay", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of clay, denotes isolation of interest and probable insolvency.”", "aliases": [ "clay" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about clay stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0429", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Clay", "text": "To dream of clay, denotes isolation of interest and probable insolvency.\nTo dig in a clay bank, foretells you will submit to extraordinary\ndemands of enemies. If you dig in an ash bank and find clay,\nunfortunate surprises will combat progressive enterprises or new work.\nYour efforts are likely to be misdirected after this dream.\n\nWomen will find this dream unfavorable in love, social and business states,\nand misrepresentations will overwhelm them.", "locator": "Heading 429; source lines 5682–5693", "lineStart": 5682, "lineEnd": 5693, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of clay, denotes isolation of interest and probable insolvency.\nTo dig in a clay bank, foretells you will submit to extraordinary\ndemands of enemies. If you dig in an ash bank and find clay,\nunfortunate surprises will combat progressive enterprises or new work.\nYour efforts are likely to be misdirected after this dream.\n\nWomen will find this dream unfavorable in love, social and business states,\nand misrepresentations will overwhelm them." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cleaning", "title": "Cleaning", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "aliases": [ "cleaning a room", "house cleaning", "cleaning house", "cleaning up" ], "summary": "Cleaning can picture care, preparation, or the effort to restore something usable. Chosen maintenance differs from removing every trace of ordinary life.", "tagline": "An action changes the condition of a space, object, or surface.", "psychological": "Cleaning is an action with a purpose, not simply a contrast between good order and bad mess. You may be caring for something, preparing a shared place, making a surface usable, or trying to erase evidence of an event. The object and intended result help identify the experience. Washing a favorite cup can feel restorative; repeatedly scrubbing an already clean floor can make the work seem unable to reach an endpoint.\n\nOrdinary maintenance can picture giving attention to what supports daily life. Restoring a table for a meal or making a room ready for rest may fit taking care of routines after a demanding period. The satisfaction comes from what becomes possible afterward, rather than from an abstract standard of perfection. A small completed task can have a clear and useful boundary.\n\nCleaning before visitors arrive can bring social expectations into view. You may welcome the preparations or feel that every personal trace must disappear before another person sees the space. This can resemble editing your work or presentation for an audience. The relevant tension is how much preparation helps connection and when it begins to conceal the ordinary conditions of your life.\n\nWork that immediately becomes undone creates another reading. Mud returns, dishes multiply, or other people leave new marks. A shared responsibility with uneven participation may feel similar. Receiving help or agreeing on who maintains the space changes the arrangement more than working faster alone.\n\nRemoving something valued can make cleaning feel like loss rather than relief. Erasing a drawing or washing away a meaningful mark may picture uncertainty about what deserves to remain. The dream does not require a message about contamination, diagnosis, or moral purity. Recent chores can supply the action directly. Notice what you were trying to make available, who benefited, and whether the work ever felt finished.", "traditional": "Recent maintenance, preparing for visitors, or a shared chore can provide the action directly. These original comparisons attend to what becomes usable and whether the work has an endpoint. No historical cleaning passage is supplied as a rule about moral purity.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Care makes ordinary life usable", "reflection": "Cleaning can restore a specific function such as eating, working, or resting. Satisfaction may connect with attending to routines that support you, rather than satisfying a universal standard of order." }, { "title": "Preparation for another person’s attention", "reflection": "Making a place ready for visitors can picture welcome or pressure to appear arranged. The difference lies in whether preparation helps connection or requires every personal trace to disappear." }, { "title": "Maintenance needs a workable endpoint", "reflection": "Repeatedly undone work can make shared responsibility visible. The scene may concern who contributes and what counts as finished, rather than a need to increase your own effort indefinitely." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You clean the table and share a meal", "reflection": "Care may have a practical result that you can enjoy with others. Making time for a routine or preparing a shared activity can fit. The meal gives the task an endpoint: the surface is ready for use, rather than awaiting endless improvement." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You scrub the same clean patch repeatedly", "reflection": "A task may have lost a recognizable stopping point. Repeatedly revising a finished message or rechecking work after the practical corrections are done may offer parallels. The scene can explore wanting certainty from a task that no longer gives you a clear way to finish." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Others track mud across the floor as you wash it", "reflection": "Your effort may be repeatedly consumed by a shared arrangement that others do not maintain. Covering recurring requests or household tasks can feel similar. Who notices and helps matters, because the continuing marks make participation part of the problem." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You hide all personal belongings before guests arrive", "reflection": "Preparation may feel like editing your life for an audience. Wanting a polished presentation can be useful, while removing every familiar trace may feel restrictive. The imagined visitors’ reactions and your own comfort distinguish welcome hospitality from pressure to conceal." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Someone joins you and the work becomes manageable", "reflection": "Shared care can change both the pace and the feeling of maintenance. A colleague helping with routine tasks or a friend preparing a space may fit. The help makes completion possible without requiring one person to take responsibility for everything." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You wash away a mark you wanted to keep", "reflection": "Restoring a surface can carry loss when the mark has personal meaning. Removing signs of an earlier project, event, or relationship may feel similar. The scene makes selection important: clearing space and retaining something valued need not be the same decision." } ], "prompts": [ "What did the cleaning make possible afterward?", "Who decided what counted as clean or finished?", "Was I caring for something or trying to erase its history?" ], "related": [ "washing", "bathroom", "clutter", "house" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia interpretation with image-specific possibilities and six differentiated scenes. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "clergyman", "title": "Clergyman", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you send for a clergyman to preach a funeral sermon, denotes that you will vainly strive against sickness and to ward off evil…”", "aliases": [ "clergyman" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about clergyman stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "minister" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0434", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Clergyman", "text": "To dream that you send for a clergyman to preach a funeral sermon,\ndenotes that you will vainly strive against sickness and to ward off\nevil influences, but they will prevail in spite of your earnest endeavors.\n\nIf a young woman marries a clergyman in her dream, she will be the object\nof much mental distress, and the wayward hand of fortune will lead her into\nthe morass of adversity.\n\n\n[37] See Minister.", "locator": "Heading 434; source lines 5720–5733", "lineStart": 5720, "lineEnd": 5733, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you send for a clergyman to preach a funeral sermon,\ndenotes that you will vainly strive against sickness and to ward off\nevil influences, but they will prevail in spite of your earnest endeavors.\n\nIf a young woman marries a clergyman in her dream, she will be the object\nof much mental distress, and the wayward hand of fortune will lead her into\nthe morass of adversity. See Minister." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "minister" ] }, { "slug": "climbing", "title": "Climbing", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "Climbing dreams measure effort against height; the top, the slip, and the view all matter.", "summary": "Climbing dreams involve mountains, ladders, stairs, and walls. Note what you climbed, whether you reached the top, and who was above or below you.", "aliases": [ "climbing", "climb", "climbing a mountain", "climbing stairs", "climbing a ladder", "climbing a wall" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "Climbing is one of the clearest dream pictures of effort, and the details are unusually easy to read back into waking life once written down. First, the thing climbed: a mountain, a ladder, a staircase, a rock face, a tree, the outside of a building. Each has its own feel, and the dream chose it. Second, the condition of the climb. Rungs that break, stairs that steepen or multiply, holds that crumble, and a summit that recedes are all common, and they tend to appear when a goal has been pursued for a long time without the ground feeling solid. Third, the company: whether anyone was above you, below you, or watching. Being overtaken, or carrying someone else up, changes the dream completely. Fourth, the ending. Reaching the top and finding nothing there, or an ordinary room, is reported often enough to be worth a question about what the goal was actually for. Falling from a climb overlaps with falling dreams and is sometimes accompanied by a jerk awake. Also consider the body: a stiff back, a cramp, or breathlessness in sleep can be rendered as a slope. Record the view from the highest point you reached, since the dream often puts something specific there.", "traditional": "Climbing is a dream of effort rewarded in all six archive books. Miller (1901) says reaching the top of a hill overcomes formidable obstacles, failing wrecks your plans, climbing a ladder to the last rung brings business success, and scaling a house wall to an opening window means ventures against friends' advice that succeed. Fontaine (1862) promises dignity, improved circumstances, and marriage above one's station. Noe (1885) and the 1894 Guide tie a tree to success and a steep hill to difficulties and sickness, cured only if you reach the top. Craig (1918), citing Artemidorus, reads successful wrestling with obstacles and final honour. Period beliefs, not promises.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "Stairs that keep multiplying as you climb", "reflection": "Count, if you can, how many flights there were and whether the building was one you know. Then ask which goal has been receding at the same pace as your effort." }, { "title": "A ladder with a rung that breaks under you", "reflection": "Note which rung, how high you were, and whether you fell or hung on. Rungs are steps someone else built, so ask whose plan you have been trusting." }, { "title": "Reaching the summit and finding it empty", "reflection": "Write down what you expected to find and what was actually there. An empty top can prompt a plain question about what the climb was for, and who was meant to be waiting." } ], "prompts": [ "What were you climbing, and was it something you have actually climbed while awake?", "Who was above you, below you, or watching, and did you want them there?", "Did you reach the top, and if so, what did you see from it?" ], "related": [ "mountain", "ladder", "stairs", "falling", "flying", "running-but-going-nowhere" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "guide-65367", "title": "Guide to Fortune-Telling by Dreams", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Multum in Parvo Library, Vol. I, No. 10, October 1894", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65367", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "moles-71045", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams and Moles", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "United Kingdom, J. Marshall, 1805", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71045", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia editorial draft written on 2026-10-12. Reflection text is an invitation to personal writing, not a validated symbol meaning. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0435", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Climbing", "text": "To dream of climbing up a hill or mountain and reaching the top,\nyou will overcome the most formidable obstacles between you\nand a prosperous future; but if you should fail to reach the top,\nyour dearest plans will suffer being wrecked.\n\nTo climb a ladder to the last rung, you will succeed in business;\nbut if the ladder breaks, you will be plunged into unexpected straits,\nand accidents may happen to you.\n\nTo see yourself climbing the side of a house in some mysterious\nway in a dream, and to have a window suddenly open to let you in,\nforetells that you will make or have made extraordinary ventures\nagainst the approbation of friends, but success will eventually\ncrown your efforts, though there will be times when despair\nwill almost enshroud you.\n\n\n[38] See Ascend Hill and Mountain.", "locator": "Heading 435; source lines 5733–5754", "lineStart": 5733, "lineEnd": 5754, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of climbing up a hill or mountain and reaching the top,\nyou will overcome the most formidable obstacles between you\nand a prosperous future; but if you should fail to reach the top,\nyour dearest plans will suffer being wrecked.\n\nTo climb a ladder to the last rung, you will succeed in business;\nbut if the ladder breaks, you will be plunged into unexpected straits,\nand accidents may happen to you.\n\nTo see yourself climbing the side of a house in some mysterious\nway in a dream, and to have a window suddenly open to let you in,\nforetells that you will make or have made extraordinary ventures\nagainst the approbation of friends, but success will eventually\ncrown your efforts, though there will be times when despair\nwill almost enshroud you. See Ascend Hill and Mountain." }, { "id": "fontaine-0146", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Climb", "text": "If you dream of climbing, it is a sign you will have some\ndignity conferred upon you, or that your circumstances in life will\nimprove. To unmarried people it predicts that they will marry above\ntheir station. 4, 19.", "locator": "Heading 146; source line 1578", "lineStart": 1578, "lineEnd": 1583, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream of climbing, it is a sign you will have some\ndignity conferred upon you, or that your circumstances in life will\nimprove. To unmarried people it predicts that they will marry above\ntheir station.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Climb” is shown on the Climbing page: same topic" }, { "id": "noe-0121", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Climbing", "text": "To dream that you are climbing up a\ntree, denotes that you will be successful in life. To dream you are\nclimbing up a very steep hill or place, foretells many difficulties in\nlife, and much sickness. If you reach the top, you will get over all your\ndifficulties and recover from your illness; but if you awake before you\nhave attained the top, you will be disappointed in love and all other\nprojects and die in your next illness.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 123; source lines 569–575", "lineStart": 569, "lineEnd": 575, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are climbing up a\ntree, denotes that you will be successful in life. To dream you are\nclimbing up a very steep hill or place, foretells many difficulties in\nlife, and much sickness. If you reach the top, you will get over all your\ndifficulties and recover from your illness; but if you awake before you\nhave attained the top, you will be disappointed in love and all other\nprojects and die in your next illness." }, { "id": "guide-0018", "sourceId": "guide-65367", "heading": "Climbing", "text": "To dream you are climbing a tree denotes some honor in the\nState, and success in life; if you are in love, you will marry your\nsweetheart after a long courtship. To dream you are climbing up a very\nsteep hill or place foretells many difficulties and much sickness; if\nyou reach the top, you will get over all your difficulties, and recover\nfrom your illness; but if you awake before you have attained the top,\nyou will be disappointed in love and other projects in life, and die in\nyour next illness.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 18; source lines 192–201", "lineStart": 192, "lineEnd": 201, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are climbing a tree denotes some honor in the\nState, and success in life; if you are in love, you will marry your\nsweetheart after a long courtship. To dream you are climbing up a very\nsteep hill or place foretells many difficulties and much sickness; if\nyou reach the top, you will get over all your difficulties, and recover\nfrom your illness; but if you awake before you have attained the top,\nyou will be disappointed in love and other projects in life, and die in\nyour next illness." }, { "id": "moles-0044", "sourceId": "moles-71045", "heading": "Climbing", "originalHeading": "(no printed heading)", "text": "To dream that you are climbing mountains or rocks, means that your love\nis vain or not returned.", "locator": "Dreams interpreted, passage 44; source lines 238–239", "lineStart": 238, "lineEnd": 239, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "editorialNote": "The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Climbing” because that is the subject of its first clause.", "displayText": "To dream that you are climbing mountains or rocks, means that your love\nis vain or not returned." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9555", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Climb", "heading": "Climb", "text": "A dream auguring successful wrestling with obstacles, and final promotion, honor, etc. (Artemidorus). An interpretation of the character whose subconscious desire is for attainment.", "lineStart": 9555, "lineEnd": 9559, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 208; NLM OCR lines 9555–9559", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9555, "lineEnd": 9559, "printedPage": 208, "printedPageEnd": 208 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Climb. — A dream auguring successful wrestling with ob- \nstacles, and final promotion, honor, etc. (Artemidorus). An \ninterpretation of the character whose subconscious desire is for \nattainment. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "ob- \nstacles", "after": "obstacles", "evidenceLine": 8991 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Climb" }, "displayText": "A dream auguring successful wrestling with obstacles, and final promotion, honor, etc. (Artemidorus). An interpretation of the character whose subconscious desire is for attainment.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Climb” is shown on the Climbing page: same topic" } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [ "mountain" ] }, { "slug": "cloak", "title": "Cloak", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “A dream denoting concealment of poverty, etc. (Gypsy); a Christian symbol of the \"charity which covereth a multitude of sins.\"”", "aliases": [ "cloak", "mantle" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cloak stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L9560", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Cloak", "heading": "Cloak", "text": "A dream denoting concealment of poverty, etc. (Gypsy) ; a Christian symbol of the \"charity which covereth a multitude of sins.\"", "lineStart": 9560, "lineEnd": 9563, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 208; NLM OCR lines 9560–9563", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9560, "lineEnd": 9563, "printedPage": 208, "printedPageEnd": 208 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Cloak. — A dream denoting concealment of poverty, etc. \n(Gypsy) ; a Christian symbol of the \"charity which covereth \na multitude of sins.\" \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Cloak" }, "displayText": "A dream denoting concealment of poverty, etc. (Gypsy); a Christian symbol of the \"charity which covereth a multitude of sins.\"" }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10794", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Mantle", "heading": "Mantle", "text": "See Cloak.", "lineStart": 10794, "lineEnd": 10795, "kind": "cross-reference", "locator": "Printed p. 232; NLM OCR lines 10794–10795", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10794, "lineEnd": 10795, "printedPage": 232, "printedPageEnd": 232 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Mantle. — See Cloak. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Mantle" }, "displayText": "See Cloak." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "clock", "title": "Clock", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "aliases": [ "clock", "of the clock", "clocks", "clock striking", "stopped clock", "clock face", "alarm clock" ], "kind": "modern", "summary": "A clock can suggest pressure, waiting, or difficulty matching your pace to shared expectations. Stopped time can feel restrictive or welcome.", "tagline": "Time becomes something you can see, compare, or struggle to keep up with.", "psychological": "A clock can picture the gap between the time available and what you need to do within it. Hands moving too quickly may fit a deadline approaching faster than your preparation, or a period whose changes leave little room to adjust. The image makes pressure visible through speed rather than simply declaring that you are anxious.\n\nA clock that will not move can express waiting without useful progress. A decision, message, or stage of a project may depend on someone else, leaving you unable to turn effort into a result. But stopped time can also offer relief: a pause in which demands no longer advance. Whether you want movement distinguishes stalled progress from wanted rest.\n\nDifferent clocks showing different times can picture conflicting expectations. Work, family, and personal priorities may each impose a schedule, with no single pace satisfying them all. A clock you cannot read can instead suggest uncertainty about what timing is expected. The difficulty is not necessarily lateness; it may be that the terms of being ready are unclear.\n\nAn alarm or striking clock can give form to a demand for attention. A task you have deferred, an approaching meeting, or a remembered routine may intrude into the scene. Being able to silence the sound may express choice over that demand, while repeated alarms can picture interruptions that keep returning after you respond.\n\nTurning a clock backward may suggest wanting more preparation, revisiting an earlier choice, or resisting a change that feels too final. Real alarms, watches, appointments, and travel schedules can also supply the image directly. The particular relationship between your needs and the clock's pace provides the basis for these original interpretations.", "traditional": "Miller's Clock entry makes seeing or hearing a clock an adverse omen. Fontaine's 1862 passage gives a striking clock a marriage forecast, while assigning other fortunes to damage and different hours of the day.\n\nTheir disagreement shows that the sound itself did not have one settled historical meaning. The useful modern question concerns what the clock organizes or interrupts in the dream. A deadline, a wait, or a welcome pause can each involve time without adopting the books' forecasts about future events.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "The available time does not match the task", "reflection": "A racing clock can picture demands advancing faster than preparation. The pressure becomes concrete through the gap between how quickly time passes and what you need before proceeding." }, { "title": "Waiting or being allowed to pause", "reflection": "Stopped time can suggest progress depending on another person, but may also offer wanted relief. Your wish for the hands to move or remain still changes the reading." }, { "title": "Conflicting schedules and returning demands", "reflection": "Disagreeing clocks can picture expectations that cannot share one pace. Repeated alarms may bring an unfinished task or recurring interruption into view, especially when responding does not end it." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "The hands move too fast to follow", "reflection": "This can picture a change or deadline outpacing your ability to prepare. A rapidly expanding role or crowded period may fit. The clock makes adjustment time feel unavailable, even when you understand the task and want to meet it.", "slug": "scene-1" }, { "title": "The clock stops while you wait for news", "reflection": "A stalled clock can express how waiting makes ordinary effort feel unable to change the situation. An application, decision, or delayed response may offer a parallel. The scene centers dependence on an outcome whose timing you cannot personally accelerate.", "slug": "scene-2" }, { "title": "Every clock shows a different time", "reflection": "Conflicting measures can picture responsibilities operating to incompatible schedules. Work may demand urgency while a family change needs patience. The difficulty is deciding which expectation governs your next action, rather than finding one objectively correct pace for every part of life.", "slug": "scene-3" }, { "title": "An alarm sounds again whenever you silence it", "reflection": "This can suggest an interruption that returns despite repeated attention. Unfinished messages, recurring tasks, or demands without a clear endpoint may fit. Responding provides temporary relief, while the repeated sound makes the need for a more lasting arrangement visible.", "slug": "scene-4" }, { "title": "You turn the hands backward", "reflection": "Changing the clock can picture wanting another chance to prepare, reconsider, or remain in a familiar period. A choice made quickly or a transition that seems too final may fit. The wish concerns the opportunity more time would provide, rather than time itself.", "slug": "scene-5" }, { "title": "Time stops and you enjoy the quiet", "reflection": "A welcome pause can suggest relief from proving you can keep pace. Rest after sustained responsibility or a wish for unmeasured time may offer a parallel. Because the stillness feels good, stopping becomes permission rather than a picture of blocked progress.", "slug": "scene-6" } ], "prompts": [ "What did I need more time for, or what was I waiting to become possible?", "Whose schedule seemed to govern the scene?", "Did changing the clock's pace create relief, uncertainty, or another demand?" ], "related": [ "being-late", "watch", "missing-a-flight-or-train", "school-or-exam" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia editorial expansion with image-specific interpretations and six differentiated scenes. Historical context is attributed to actual source passages. Human publication review pending.", "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0436" ], "scope": "Historical context only: Clock — miller-0436, Heading 436; source lines 5754–5760. These are period fortune-telling beliefs, not evidence for the modern interpretations." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0147" ], "scope": "Historical context only: Clock — fontaine-0147, Heading 147; source line 1583. These are period fortune-telling beliefs, not evidence for the modern interpretations." }, { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display.", "scope": "Preserved attribution for the catalogue historical records from this source. Not cited as evidence for this original modern interpretation.", "recordIds": [ "artemidorus-169" ] }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "scope": "Preserved attribution for the catalogue historical records from this source. Not cited as evidence for this original modern interpretation.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0081" ] }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "scope": "Preserved attribution for the catalogue historical records from this source. Not cited as evidence for this original modern interpretation.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0109" ] }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0436", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Clock", "text": "To dream that you see a clock, denotes danger from a foe.\nTo hear one strike, you will receive unpleasant news.\nThe death of some friend is implied.", "locator": "Heading 436; source lines 5754–5760", "lineStart": 5754, "lineEnd": 5760, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you see a clock, denotes danger from a foe.\nTo hear one strike, you will receive unpleasant news.\nThe death of some friend is implied." }, { "id": "fontaine-0147", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Clock", "text": "To dream you hear the clock strike, denotes speedy marriage; if\nyou dream the clock falls or breaks, it denotes danger. To dream of\ncounting the hours of the forenoon, is lucky; the afternoon, unlucky.\n72, 3, 12.", "locator": "Heading 147; source line 1583", "lineStart": 1583, "lineEnd": 1588, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you hear the clock strike, denotes speedy marriage; if\nyou dream the clock falls or breaks, it denotes danger. To dream of\ncounting the hours of the forenoon, is lucky; the afternoon, unlucky." }, { "id": "artemidorus-169", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of the Clock.", "text": "A Clock signifieth actions, operations, motions, attempts, and surprizing in any necessary things: if the clock fall or breake, it is ill and great danger, especially to the sick: it is ever better to count the houres before noone then after.", "locator": "Book 3, encoded section 169", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "3", "displayText": "A Clock signifieth actions, operations, motions, attempts, and surprizing in any necessary things: if the clock fall or breake, it is ill and great danger, especially to the sick: it is ever better to count the houres before noone then after." }, { "id": "noe-0081", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Clock", "text": "To dream you\nhear the clock strike, denotes that you will be speedily married, and that\nyou will be moderately successful in life. To dream you are counting the\nhours, if in the forenoon, shows much happiness, and that your sweetheart\nis true to you, but if in the afternoon, that misfortune and danger will\nattend you, and that your sweetheart is false and loves another.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 83; source lines 425–431", "lineStart": 425, "lineEnd": 431, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you\nhear the clock strike, denotes that you will be speedily married, and that\nyou will be moderately successful in life. To dream you are counting the\nhours, if in the forenoon, shows much happiness, and that your sweetheart\nis true to you, but if in the afternoon, that misfortune and danger will\nattend you, and that your sweetheart is false and loves another." }, { "id": "cielo-0109", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Clock", "text": "Seeing or hearing a clock denotes marriage.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 109; source lines 4121–4123", "lineStart": 4121, "lineEnd": 4123, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Seeing or hearing a clock denotes marriage." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cloister", "title": "Cloister", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a cloister, omens dissatisfaction with present surroundings, and you will soon seek new environments.”", "aliases": [ "cloister" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cloister stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0437", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cloister", "text": "To dream of a cloister, omens dissatisfaction with present\nsurroundings, and you will soon seek new environments.\nFor a young woman to dream of a cloister, foretells that her\nlife will be made unselfish by the chastening of sorrow.", "locator": "Heading 437; source lines 5760–5767", "lineStart": 5760, "lineEnd": 5767, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a cloister, omens dissatisfaction with present\nsurroundings, and you will soon seek new environments.\nFor a young woman to dream of a cloister, foretells that her\nlife will be made unselfish by the chastening of sorrow." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "closet", "title": "Closet", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "aliases": [ "clothes closet", "wardrobe closet", "walk-in closet" ], "summary": "A closet can picture what is kept available but out of everyday view. Choosing clothes, finding stored possessions, and being unable to close it differ.", "tagline": "Behind a door, selected belongings wait for another occasion.", "psychological": "A closet holds things close enough to use but outside the room’s ordinary view. It can picture a collection of roles, preferences, or possessions kept available for particular occasions. Choosing an outfit may resemble deciding how to present yourself in a new setting. The dream’s question is not necessarily whether you are hiding something; putting things away can be useful, deliberate, and comfortable.\n\nWhat is stored matters. Clothes from an earlier period may bring a former role or interest into the present. Finding a jacket you once loved can feel like recovering an option you had forgotten. Trying to wear something that no longer fits may instead make change visible. An old work identity, social expectation, or habit can remain familiar without still being suitable.\n\nA crowded closet can turn selection into effort. Every item might be worth keeping, yet their accumulation makes the one you need difficult to reach. This may fit having many commitments or possible plans without an easy way to choose among them. Clearing a shelf can picture making an option usable, rather than rejecting everything from the past.\n\nOpening the door for another person changes who can see what you have kept. This may concern sharing a preference, showing an unfinished project, or allowing someone into a less arranged part of your daily life. Welcome curiosity differs from unwanted searching. Privacy can be a boundary you choose rather than evidence of shame.\n\nHiding inside creates a more literal scene of withdrawal. Relief may fit needing a pause from attention; feeling trapped can concern a retreat that no longer provides enough room. Notice what happens when you want to leave. A real search for clothing or a recent rearrangement can also supply the dream. Let the contents, access, and purpose of the space guide the reading.", "traditional": "Choosing clothes, sorting possessions, and finding older belongings offer direct context for a closet scene. These original comparisons follow what remains available and who controls access. No historical closet account is supplied on this page.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Options kept for another occasion", "reflection": "Stored clothing can picture roles or preferences that remain available without being used every day. Choosing an item may bring attention to how you want to participate in a particular setting." }, { "title": "Familiar possessions no longer fit", "reflection": "Older items can make a change in needs visible. Something once suitable may remain meaningful while requiring a different place in your present life, rather than a return to the former role." }, { "title": "Privacy with a usable boundary", "reflection": "A door can let you decide what stays personal and what another person sees. Sharing the contents feels different when curiosity is invited than when someone searches without your agreement." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You find an outfit that feels exactly right", "reflection": "A role or way of presenting yourself may feel available without much strain. Preparing for a gathering or beginning a new activity can offer a parallel. The fit matters because the clothing supports participation rather than asking you to become someone unfamiliar." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Old clothes no longer fit your body", "reflection": "An earlier role may remain recognizable while no longer meeting your present needs. Returning to a former workplace or social group can feel similar. Disappointment, relief, or amusement changes whether the scene concerns loss, growth, or permission to choose differently." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You cannot find one item among many possessions", "reflection": "Too many retained possibilities may make a practical choice harder. A schedule full of commitments or a folder of unfinished projects offers a parallel. The difficulty is access: the useful item exists, but reaching it requires sorting what surrounds it." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Someone opens the door and searches without asking", "reflection": "A personal boundary may feel overridden. Another person examining your work before you are ready or assuming access to your belongings can fit. The unwanted search, rather than the stored contents alone, gives the scene its sense of intrusion." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You invite a friend to help organize the shelves", "reflection": "Sharing an unarranged space can picture trust and practical support. A friend helping you sort plans or possessions may feel similar. Their assistance makes the contents easier to use without requiring you to surrender the choice of what remains." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You hide inside and cannot open the door again", "reflection": "A pause from attention may turn restrictive when leaving is no longer easy. Avoiding a difficult conversation or withdrawing from a busy group can offer parallels. The change from chosen retreat to unavailable exit is the central movement in this scene." } ], "prompts": [ "What did I keep in the closet, and for which occasion?", "Did the contents still fit what I needed?", "Who controlled whether the door was opened?" ], "related": [ "clothes", "cupboard", "house", "clutter" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia interpretation with image-specific possibilities and six differentiated scenes. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "closing-a-deceased-person-s-digital-account", "title": "Closing a deceased person’s digital account", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "tagline": "Closing an account after someone dies can place practical administration beside the fear of losing a remaining trace of connection.", "summary": "Closing an account after someone dies can place practical administration beside the fear of losing a remaining trace of connection.", "aliases": [ "deleting a dead persons account", "digital estate dream" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "Notice what the account contained: photographs, unfinished messages, a daily routine, or simply a name still appearing on a screen. The difficult choice might concern access, privacy, or the finality of a button. The dream need not tell you to preserve or delete anything. It may be useful to distinguish a stored record of a relationship from the relationship’s continuing place in your memory.", "traditional": "Older mourning and inheritance entries predate digital estates. This draft does not treat an active account as a spiritual presence or deletion as a rejection of the person; those would be separate personal beliefs.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "The account asks for a password only they knew", "reflection": "What part of their private life felt inaccessible?" }, { "title": "You save one meaningful record before closing it", "reflection": "Why did that particular trace matter?" }, { "title": "You postpone the final click", "reflection": "Was more time needed for information, permission, or emotion?" } ], "prompts": [ "What seemed at risk of disappearing?", "Were you responsible for deciding, and did you want that responsibility?", "What could remain meaningful beyond the account?" ], "related": [ "deceased-loved-one", "password" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia model-assisted editorial draft. Reflection questions and scenario readings are optional, individually written suggestions, not empirically validated symbol meanings. Source scope is stated with each citation. Historical comparisons identify topics, not inherited interpretations. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "clothes", "title": "Clothes", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "aliases": [ "clothes", "apparel", "clothing" ], "summary": "Clothes can picture how a role fits, what you show others, or the effort of belonging. Comfort and choice can matter more than appearance.", "tagline": "What you wear can help you take a role—or make its demands visible.", "psychological": "Clothes can picture the way you present yourself within a particular situation. An outfit is both visible to others and something you must inhabit. Formal clothing may fit wanting to be taken seriously, while a uniform can bring membership and obligation together. The reading becomes more specific when the clothes belong to a setting: work, a celebration, a childhood home, or somewhere you do not feel ready to enter.\n\nClothes that fit badly can suggest a role whose expectations do not suit you comfortably. A job title may sound desirable while requiring a manner you find difficult to maintain. Borrowed clothes can express experimenting with another way of being, or feeling measured against someone else's example. Pleasure in the outfit supports a different reading from self-consciousness.\n\nStains and damage can make the gap between intended presentation and actual conditions visible. A mark that will not wash away may picture a mistake or awkward encounter that remains on your mind. This is about your experience of being seen, not proof that anyone judges you as harshly as you fear. Work clothes worn at home can instead show how one role continues into another space.\n\nChanging clothes can suggest revising what a situation requires from you. Choosing comfortable clothing despite others being formal may express greater ease with your own needs, or concern about belonging. Being unable to find anything suitable can picture uncertainty about which version of yourself a new setting expects.\n\nReal clothing decisions, laundry, changing body comfort, and remembered outfits are also direct sources. No fixed meaning needs to be assigned to a color; the fit, occasion, and freedom to choose give these original comparisons their context.", "traditional": "Miller’s Apparel and Clothes accounts link condition, color, fashion and fit with fortune and gendered moral judgments. Fontaine’s Apparel account varies its claims with occupation, wealth and illness; his Clothing item is only a cross-reference to Apparel. Noe gives another color-and-fit scheme, including severe loss forecasts, while the 1805 Dreams and Moles assigns advancement or marriage to particular clothing scenes. The accounts disagree and reflect period social hierarchies. They do not establish health, virtue, loyalty or universal color meanings. The original reflection concerns inhabiting a role, presentation and choice.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A role that fits or constricts", "reflection": "An outfit can picture the expectations you must inhabit. Tight, unfamiliar, or borrowed clothing may express difficulty adapting, while a comfortable fit can suggest ease within a chosen role." }, { "title": "The impression you want to give", "reflection": "Stains, damage, or unsuitable clothes can make exposure concrete. The scene may concern maintaining composure when a mistake, change, or private difficulty feels hard to keep from view." }, { "title": "Choosing how to participate", "reflection": "Changing clothes or choosing comfort can picture negotiating what a setting asks of you. The choice may express belonging, experimentation, or permission to meet expectations in your own way." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "Formal clothes feel too tight to move in", "reflection": "A desired role can still constrain how you act. Expectations at work, a family occasion, or pressure to appear polished may fit. The clothing makes the cost of presenting yourself appropriately physical, especially when you cannot perform ordinary movements comfortably.", "slug": "scene-1" }, { "title": "You wear an outfit borrowed from someone you know", "reflection": "Borrowed clothing can picture trying another person's approach or being compared with their example. It may fit entering a role they held or seeking their confidence. Enjoying the fit suggests experimentation; discomfort can emphasize expectations that are not yet your own.", "slug": "scene-2" }, { "title": "A uniform belongs to an unfamiliar organization", "reflection": "Membership and obligation may arrive before you understand the rules. A new job, group, or shared responsibility can feel similar. The uniform gives you a visible place, but the uncertainty concerns what that place requires and whether participation was chosen.", "slug": "scene-3" }, { "title": "A stain remains no matter how much you wash", "reflection": "This can picture an awkward event or mistake that continues to affect your sense of presentation. Trying repeatedly to remove it may resemble replaying an explanation or seeking reassurance. The scene concerns the mark's persistence in your experience, not another person's actual judgment.", "slug": "scene-4" }, { "title": "Your wardrobe contains nothing suitable for the occasion", "reflection": "A new setting may seem to require a version of yourself you do not know how to present. An interview, reunion, or changed social role could fit. The difficulty is matching the occasion, rather than simply lacking possessions or wanting approval.", "slug": "scene-5" }, { "title": "You choose comfortable clothes among formally dressed people", "reflection": "This can express negotiating belonging without giving up comfort. Relief may fit growing permission to meet needs in your own way; embarrassment may emphasize the cost of differing from a group. The same choice can therefore center autonomy or uncertainty about participation.", "slug": "scene-6" } ], "prompts": [ "Which setting gave the clothes their role, and did that role fit comfortably?", "What impression was I trying to maintain, and what made it difficult?", "Did choosing or changing the outfit bring greater ease, belonging, or pressure?" ], "related": [ "being-naked-in-public", "shoes", "coat", "wedding-dress", "silk", "satin" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s continuing English editorial delegation. Historical accounts retain their attribution; general sleep background does not validate these interpretations.", "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0096", "miller-0438" ], "scope": "Historical context only: Apparel — miller-0096, Heading 96; source lines 2535–2609; Clothes — miller-0438, Heading 438; source lines 5767–5784. These are period fortune-telling beliefs, not evidence for the modern interpretations." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "scope": "Attached historical comparison only: Apparel — fontaine-0028 (Heading 28; source line 1095); Clothing — fontaine-0149 (Heading 149; source line 1593). These attributed period claims and cross-references do not establish outcomes, diagnoses, cultural consensus or the original modern interpretations.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0028", "fontaine-0149" ] }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "scope": "Attached historical comparison only: Clothes — moles-0019 (Dreams interpreted, passage 19; source lines 164–165); Clothes — moles-0023 (Dreams interpreted, passage 23; source lines 176–177). These attributed period claims and cross-references do not establish outcomes, diagnoses, cultural consensus or the original modern interpretations.", "recordIds": [ "moles-0019", "moles-0023" ] }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "DreamFolia AI-assisted editorial review", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "bed", "bathroom", "bridge", "door", "window", "stairs", "road", "clothes", "shoes", "driving", "being-late", "crying", "running", "swimming", "river", "snow", "moon", "sun", "mountain", "fish" ] }, "decisionReason": "The reading gives role, presentation, fit and chosen participation concrete parallels through six scenes. The context now covers all seven records, including the cross-reference-only Clothing item and severe color, health and gendered forecasts. 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You will be fortunate if you dream of yellow cloth.\n\nTo dream of blue apparel, signifies carrying forward to victory\nyour aspirations, through energetic, insistent efforts.\nFriends will loyally support you.\n\nTo dream of crimson apparel, foretells that you will escape formidable\nenemies by a timely change in your expressed intention.\n\nTo see green apparel, is a hopeful sign of prosperity and happiness.\n\nTo see many colored apparel, foretells swift changes, and intermingling\nof good and bad influences in your future.\n\nTo dream of misfitting apparel, intimates crosses in your affections,\nand that you are likely to make a mistake in some enterprise.\n\nTo see old or young in appropriate apparel, denotes that you\nwill undertake some engagement for which you will have no liking,\nand which will give rise to many cares.\n\nFor a woman to dream that she is displeased with her apparel,\nforetells that she will find many vexatious rivalries in her quest\nfor social distinction.\n\nTo admire the apparel of others, denotes that she will have jealous\nfears of her friends.\n\nTo dream of the loss of any article of apparel, denotes disturbances\nin your business and love affairs.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of being attired in a guazy black costume,\nforetells she will undergo chastening sorrow and disappointment.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she meets another attired in a crimson dress\nwith a crepe mourning veil over her face, foretells she will be outrivaled\nby one she hardly considers her equal, and bitter disappointment will sour\nher against women generally.\n\nThe dreamer interpreting the dream of apparel should be careful\nto note whether the objects are looking natural. If the faces are\ndistorted and the light unearthly, though the colors are bright,\nbeware; the miscarriage of some worthy plan will work you harm.\nThere are few dreams in which the element of evil is wanting,\nas there are few enterprises in waking life from which the element\nof chance is obviated.\n\n[16] See Clothes and Coat.", "locator": "Heading 96; source lines 2535–2609", "lineStart": 2535, "lineEnd": 2609, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Dreams of apparel, denote that enterprises will be successes or failures,\nas the apparel seems to be whole and clean, or soiled and threadbare.\n\nTo see fine apparel, but out of date, foretells that you will have fortune,\nbut you will scorn progressive ideas.\n\nIf you reject out-of-date apparel, you will outgrow present environments\nand enter into new relations, new enterprises and new loves, which will\ntransform you into a different person.\n\nTo see yourself or others appareled in white, denotes eventful changes,\nand you will nearly always find the change bearing sadness.\n\nTo walk with a person wearing white, proclaims that person's\nillness or distress, unless it be a young woman or child,\nthen you will have pleasing surroundings for a season at least.\n\nTo see yourself, or others, dressed in black, portends quarrels,\ndisappointments, and disagreeable companions; or, if it refers\nto business, the business will fall short of expectations.\n\nTo see yellow apparel, foretells approaching gaieties and financial progress.\nSeen as a flitting spectre, in an unnatural light, the reverse may\nbe expected. You will be fortunate if you dream of yellow cloth.\n\nTo dream of blue apparel, signifies carrying forward to victory\nyour aspirations, through energetic, insistent efforts.\nFriends will loyally support you.\n\nTo dream of crimson apparel, foretells that you will escape formidable\nenemies by a timely change in your expressed intention.\n\nTo see green apparel, is a hopeful sign of prosperity and happiness.\n\nTo see many colored apparel, foretells swift changes, and intermingling\nof good and bad influences in your future.\n\nTo dream of misfitting apparel, intimates crosses in your affections,\nand that you are likely to make a mistake in some enterprise.\n\nTo see old or young in appropriate apparel, denotes that you\nwill undertake some engagement for which you will have no liking,\nand which will give rise to many cares.\n\nFor a woman to dream that she is displeased with her apparel,\nforetells that she will find many vexatious rivalries in her quest\nfor social distinction.\n\nTo admire the apparel of others, denotes that she will have jealous\nfears of her friends.\n\nTo dream of the loss of any article of apparel, denotes disturbances\nin your business and love affairs.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of being attired in a guazy black costume,\nforetells she will undergo chastening sorrow and disappointment.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she meets another attired in a crimson dress\nwith a crepe mourning veil over her face, foretells she will be outrivaled\nby one she hardly considers her equal, and bitter disappointment will sour\nher against women generally.\n\nThe dreamer interpreting the dream of apparel should be careful\nto note whether the objects are looking natural. If the faces are\ndistorted and the light unearthly, though the colors are bright,\nbeware; the miscarriage of some worthy plan will work you harm.\nThere are few dreams in which the element of evil is wanting,\nas there are few enterprises in waking life from which the element\nof chance is obviated. See Clothes and Coat.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Apparel” is shown on the Clothes page: clothing is only \"(See Apparel.)\"; apparel is the archaic word for clothes" }, { "id": "miller-0438", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Clothes", "text": "To dream of seeing clothes soiled and torn, denotes that deceit will be\npractised to your harm. Beware of friendly dealings with strangers.\n\nFor a woman to dream that her clothing is soiled or torn, her virtue\nwill be dragged in the mire if she is not careful of her associates.\nClean new clothes, denotes prosperity.\n\nTo dream that you have plenty, or an assortment of clothes,\nis a doubtful omen; you may want the necessaries of life.\nTo a young person, this dream denotes unsatisfied\nhopes and disappointments.\n\n\n[39] See Apparel.", "locator": "Heading 438; source lines 5767–5784", "lineStart": 5767, "lineEnd": 5784, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing clothes soiled and torn, denotes that deceit will be\npractised to your harm. Beware of friendly dealings with strangers.\n\nFor a woman to dream that her clothing is soiled or torn, her virtue\nwill be dragged in the mire if she is not careful of her associates.\nClean new clothes, denotes prosperity.\n\nTo dream that you have plenty, or an assortment of clothes,\nis a doubtful omen; you may want the necessaries of life.\nTo a young person, this dream denotes unsatisfied\nhopes and disappointments. See Apparel." }, { "id": "fontaine-0028", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Apparel", "text": "(_See Silks and Satins._) To dream that your clothes are\ngood, denotes prosperity and happiness; of white apparel, is good only\nfor clergymen; to others it is a sign of trouble; to mechanics, decline\nof business; to the sick, death. If of black, however, it is of their\nrecovery; of rich scarlet apparel, is good for rich men, signifying\nhonor; but is death to the sick, and loss or captivity to the poor; to\ndream of women’s apparel, is good for the unmarried; but to a married\nman loss of his wife or sickness. 17, 20.", "locator": "Heading 28; source line 1095", "lineStart": 1095, "lineEnd": 1104, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Silks and Satins.) To dream that your clothes are\ngood, denotes prosperity and happiness; of white apparel, is good only\nfor clergymen; to others it is a sign of trouble; to mechanics, decline\nof business; to the sick, death. If of black, however, it is of their\nrecovery; of rich scarlet apparel, is good for rich men, signifying\nhonor; but is death to the sick, and loss or captivity to the poor; to\ndream of women’s apparel, is good for the unmarried; but to a married\nman loss of his wife or sickness.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Apparel” is shown on the Clothes page: clothing is only \"(See Apparel.)\"; apparel is the archaic word for clothes" }, { "id": "fontaine-0149", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Clothing", "text": "(_See Apparel._)", "locator": "Heading 149; source line 1593", "lineStart": 1593, "lineEnd": 1595, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Apparel.)", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Clothing” is shown on the Clothes page: clothing is only \"(See Apparel.)\"; apparel is the archaic word for clothes" }, { "id": "noe-0018", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Apparel", "text": "Nothing more\ndemonstrates the events that are about to happen to you, than dreaming of\nwearing apparel; but almost every color has a different interpretation,\nand must depend on its being new or old, its fitting you, or being too big\nor too little. To dream you are dressed in white, is a sure token of\nsuccess in the first object you undertake, and that you will be successful\nin love, and that your sweetheart is of good temper and amiable\ndisposition. To dream that you are dressed in green denotes that you are\nabout to take a journey to your advantage, and that your sweetheart\nprefers you to all other lovers. To dream that you are dressed in black is\nan unlucky omen. To dream that you are dressed in blue, denotes happiness.\nIf you dream you are dressed in scarlet, you are thereby warned of some\nvery heavy calamity. To dream you are dressed in yellow, is rather lucky\nthan otherwise. To dream you are dressed in crimson, indicates that you\nwill live to a good old age, and be neither very fortunate or unfortunate\nthrough life; it denotes a dispute between landlord and tenant, which will\nbe settled amicably to the advantage of the latter. To dream that you are\ndressed in a variety of colors, denotes a variety of fortunes is about to\nattend you. To dream you are fashionably dressed and in good company, is\nvery good for the dreamer; he will rise considerably above his present\ncondition. To dream your clothes fit you well and are comfortable to the\nseason of the year, is favorable and denotes success. To dream your\nclothes do not fit you, and that they are not suitable to the season,\ndenotes death of some friend and a loss by fire. To dream you see another\ndressed in any of the modes above described, forebodes to the person\ndreamt of the same fortunes. To dream you are dressed in new clothes, is a\nvery favorable omen; it portends honors and success to your undertakings.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 18; source lines 142–169", "lineStart": 142, "lineEnd": 169, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Nothing more\ndemonstrates the events that are about to happen to you, than dreaming of\nwearing apparel; but almost every color has a different interpretation,\nand must depend on its being new or old, its fitting you, or being too big\nor too little. To dream you are dressed in white, is a sure token of\nsuccess in the first object you undertake, and that you will be successful\nin love, and that your sweetheart is of good temper and amiable\ndisposition. To dream that you are dressed in green denotes that you are\nabout to take a journey to your advantage, and that your sweetheart\nprefers you to all other lovers. To dream that you are dressed in black is\nan unlucky omen. To dream that you are dressed in blue, denotes happiness.\nIf you dream you are dressed in scarlet, you are thereby warned of some\nvery heavy calamity. To dream you are dressed in yellow, is rather lucky\nthan otherwise. To dream you are dressed in crimson, indicates that you\nwill live to a good old age, and be neither very fortunate or unfortunate\nthrough life; it denotes a dispute between landlord and tenant, which will\nbe settled amicably to the advantage of the latter. To dream that you are\ndressed in a variety of colors, denotes a variety of fortunes is about to\nattend you. To dream you are fashionably dressed and in good company, is\nvery good for the dreamer; he will rise considerably above his present\ncondition. To dream your clothes fit you well and are comfortable to the\nseason of the year, is favorable and denotes success. To dream your\nclothes do not fit you, and that they are not suitable to the season,\ndenotes death of some friend and a loss by fire. To dream you see another\ndressed in any of the modes above described, forebodes to the person\ndreamt of the same fortunes. To dream you are dressed in new clothes, is a\nvery favorable omen; it portends honors and success to your undertakings.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Apparel” is shown on the Clothes page: clothing is only \"(See Apparel.)\"; apparel is the archaic word for clothes" }, { "id": "moles-0019", "sourceId": "moles-71045", "heading": "Clothes", "originalHeading": "(no printed heading)", "text": "To dream you put on very fine clothes, denotes to both sexes high\npreferment.", "locator": "Dreams interpreted, passage 19; source lines 164–165", "lineStart": 164, "lineEnd": 165, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "editorialNote": "The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Clothes” because that is the subject of its first clause.", "displayText": "To dream you put on very fine clothes, denotes to both sexes high\npreferment." }, { "id": "moles-0023", "sourceId": "moles-71045", "heading": "Clothes", "originalHeading": "(no printed heading)", "text": "A virgin dreaming she is putting on a new garment, denotes an\nalteration of her condition by marriage or otherwise.", "locator": "Dreams interpreted, passage 23; source lines 176–177", "lineStart": 176, "lineEnd": 177, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "editorialNote": "The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Clothes” because that is the subject of its first clause.", "displayText": "A virgin dreaming she is putting on a new garment, denotes an\nalteration of her condition by marriage or otherwise." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [ "coat", "silk", "satin" ] }, { "slug": "clouds", "title": "Clouds", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "5 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing dark heavy clouds, portends misfortune and bad management.” Compare 5 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "clouds", "of clouds" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about clouds stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0439", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Clouds", "text": "To dream of seeing dark heavy clouds, portends misfortune and bad management.\nIf rain is falling, it denotes troubles and sickness.\n\nTo see bright transparent clouds with the sun shining through them,\nyou will be successful after trouble has been your companion.\n\nTo see them with the stars shining, denotes fleeting joys\nand small advancements.", "locator": "Heading 439; source lines 5784–5795", "lineStart": 5784, "lineEnd": 5795, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing dark heavy clouds, portends misfortune and bad management.\nIf rain is falling, it denotes troubles and sickness.\n\nTo see bright transparent clouds with the sun shining through them,\nyou will be successful after trouble has been your companion.\n\nTo see them with the stars shining, denotes fleeting joys\nand small advancements." }, { "id": "fontaine-0148", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Clouds", "text": "To dream of white clouds, signifies prosperity, clouds mounting\nhigh from the earth, denotes voyages, the return of the absent, and\nrevealing of secrets; clouds red and inflamed, show an ill-issue of\naffairs; dark and obscure clouds, obstructions in love 47, 8.", "locator": "Heading 148; source line 1588", "lineStart": 1588, "lineEnd": 1593, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of white clouds, signifies prosperity, clouds mounting\nhigh from the earth, denotes voyages, the return of the absent, and\nrevealing of secrets; clouds red and inflamed, show an ill-issue of\naffairs; dark and obscure clouds, obstructions in love" }, { "id": "artemidorus-099", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of Clouds.", "text": "WHite clouds, is prosperity, moūting from the earth on high, is a voyage, the return of the absent, and revealing of secrets. Red or inflamed, is ill issue of affayrs, smoaky, dark, or obscure, is ill time or anger.", "locator": "Book 2, encoded section 99", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "2", "displayText": "WHite clouds, is prosperity, moūting from the earth on high, is a voyage, the return of the absent, and revealing of secrets. Red or inflamed, is ill issue of affayrs, smoaky, dark, or obscure, is ill time or anger." }, { "id": "noe-0098", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Clouds", "text": "To dream of white\nclouds, signifies prosperity; clouds mounting high from the earth, denotes\nvoyages, the return of the absent, and revealing of secrets; clouds red\nand inflamed, show an ill issue of affairs; to dream of dark and obscure\nclouds, shows an ill time of anger.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 100; source lines 506–510", "lineStart": 506, "lineEnd": 510, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of white\nclouds, signifies prosperity; clouds mounting high from the earth, denotes\nvoyages, the return of the absent, and revealing of secrets; clouds red\nand inflamed, show an ill issue of affairs; to dream of dark and obscure\nclouds, shows an ill time of anger." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9569", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Clouds", "heading": "Clouds", "text": "To dream of heavy clouds signifies threatened misfortune; light, opaque clouds denote mystery (Gypsy); they are sometimes symbolic of the majesty of Jehovah, at other times of doubt and obscurity.", "lineStart": 9569, "lineEnd": 9578, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 208–209; NLM OCR lines 9569–9578", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9569, "lineEnd": 9578, "printedPage": 208, "printedPageEnd": 209 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Clouds. — To dream of heavy clouds signifies threatened mis- \nfortune; light, opaque clouds denote mystery (Gypsy); they \n\n\nSYMBOLISM IN DREAMS 209 \n\n\nare sometimes symbolic of the majesty of Jehovah, at other \ntimes of doubt and obscurity. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [ { "line": 9573, "text": "SYMBOLISM IN DREAMS 209 " } ], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "mis- \nfortune", "after": "misfortune", "evidenceLine": 8032 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Clouds" }, "displayText": "To dream of heavy clouds signifies threatened misfortune; light, opaque clouds denote mystery (Gypsy); they are sometimes symbolic of the majesty of Jehovah, at other times of doubt and obscurity." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cloven-foot", "title": "Cloven Foot", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a cloven foot, portends some unusual ill luck is threatening you, and you will do well to avoid the friendship of strange persons.”", "aliases": [ "cloven foot" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cloven foot stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0440", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Clover", "text": "Walking through fields of fragrant clover is a propitious dream.\nIt brings all objects desired into the reach of the dreamer.\nFine crops is portended for the farmer and wealth for the young.\nBlasted fields of clover brings harrowing and regretful sighs.\n\nTo dream of clover, foretells prosperity will soon enfold you.\nFor a young woman to dream of seeing a snake crawling through\nblossoming clover, foretells she will be early disappointed\nin love, and her surroundings will be gloomy and discouraging,\nthough to her friends she seems peculiarly fortunate.", "locator": "Heading 440; source lines 5795–5808", "lineStart": 5795, "lineEnd": 5808, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Walking through fields of fragrant clover is a propitious dream.\nIt brings all objects desired into the reach of the dreamer.\nFine crops is portended for the farmer and wealth for the young.\nBlasted fields of clover brings harrowing and regretful sighs.\n\nTo dream of clover, foretells prosperity will soon enfold you.\nFor a young woman to dream of seeing a snake crawling through\nblossoming clover, foretells she will be early disappointed\nin love, and her surroundings will be gloomy and discouraging,\nthough to her friends she seems peculiarly fortunate." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9579", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Clover", "heading": "Clover", "text": "A bright, happy dream (Gypsy) ; \"the Shamrock or Clover Leaf may be regarded as the three-fold symbol of a lover, the Great Lover.\" — Bayley.", "lineStart": 9579, "lineEnd": 9582, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 209; NLM OCR lines 9579–9582", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9579, "lineEnd": 9582, "printedPage": 209, "printedPageEnd": 209 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Clover. — A bright, happy dream (Gypsy) ; \"the Shamrock \nor Clover Leaf may be regarded as the three-fold symbol of a \nlover, the Great Lover.\" — Bayley. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Clover" }, "displayText": "A bright, happy dream (Gypsy); \"the Shamrock or Clover Leaf may be regarded as the three-fold symbol of a lover, the Great Lover.\" — Bayley." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "clown", "title": "Clown", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “A dream of misfortune and disgrace (Gypsy); the attitude of the mediaeval world towards the jesters, explains this interpretation.”", "aliases": [ "clown" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about clown stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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Inman and Freud regard it as a phallic symbol, although it denoted strength and power amongst the ancients, bearing no erotic significance; to the Christians it became an emblem of suffering and of martyrdom.", "lineStart": 9587, "lineEnd": 9592, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 209; NLM OCR lines 9587–9592", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9587, "lineEnd": 9592, "printedPage": 209, "printedPageEnd": 209 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Club. — A dream auguring suffering and misfortune \n(Gypsy). Inman and Freud regard it as a phallic symbol, \nalthough it denoted strength and power amongst the ancients, \nbearing no erotic significance; to the Christians it became an \nemblem of suffering and of martyrdom. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Club" }, "displayText": "A dream auguring suffering and misfortune (Gypsy). Inman and Freud regard it as a phallic symbol, although it denoted strength and power amongst the ancients, bearing no erotic significance; to the Christians it became an emblem of suffering and of martyrdom." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "clutter", "title": "Clutter", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "aliases": [ "cluttered room", "cluttered house", "messy room", "cluttered space" ], "summary": "Clutter can picture accumulated demands or possessions competing for usable space. Attachment, other people’s belongings, and the task you want to do matter.", "tagline": "There is plenty in the room, but less space for its present purpose.", "psychological": "Clutter becomes meaningful through what it prevents you from doing. A room full of possessions may still feel warm and familiar; the same objects become frustrating when you cannot sit down, find a needed item, or reach a door. This can picture competing demands rather than a judgment about cleanliness. Many worthwhile commitments can accumulate until their combined presence makes ordinary action harder.\n\nThe ownership of the objects matters. Your own materials may represent interests you intend to return to, unfinished work, or resources kept for possible use. Someone else’s belongings can bring attention to how shared space is allocated. A desk crowded by other people’s requests or a household area occupied by one person’s plans offers a waking parallel. The dream can ask whose purposes the room currently serves.\n\nAttachment can make sorting difficult. A broken object may remain valuable because of its history, while useful equipment may belong to an activity you no longer want to pursue. Deciding what to keep can resemble choosing among commitments that once made sense. Keeping a memory does not always require keeping every responsibility associated with it.\n\nClearing a small area can change the scene without emptying everything. A path to the door, a place to eat, or a visible work surface restores a particular function. This may fit defining a manageable priority in a busy period. An impossible demand to make the whole room perfect creates a different experience from making enough room for today’s purpose.\n\nNotice whether sorting is your choice or someone else’s instruction. Welcome help can make the work lighter; another person discarding valued things can feel like a loss of control. Recent moving, storage, or unfinished chores may also supply the image. The useful reading follows the relationship between what remains in the space and what you need it to allow.", "traditional": "Moving, unfinished activities, and a busy collection can supply the room directly. The original reading distinguishes a welcome accumulation from objects that obstruct a specific purpose. No historical clutter account is supplied, and order is not treated as a measure of character.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Accumulation changes what is usable", "reflection": "Objects can each have value while their combined presence blocks an ordinary task. The dream may concern the interaction between demands rather than deciding that every retained commitment is a mistake." }, { "title": "Shared space serves competing purposes", "reflection": "Ownership can show whose plans occupy the room. Another person’s belongings may picture requests or expectations taking space needed for your work, comfort, or movement within a shared arrangement." }, { "title": "Enough room for a specific purpose", "reflection": "Clearing one surface or path can restore a useful function. This may fit choosing a manageable priority instead of treating perfect order as the condition for doing anything at all." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You cannot reach the desk where you want to work", "reflection": "Accumulated commitments may obstruct a task you actually want to begin. A schedule filled with smaller requests can offer a parallel. The scene makes your intended purpose visible, so the question is what needs room rather than whether the whole space is wrong." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "The room is full of another person’s belongings", "reflection": "A shared arrangement may give unequal space to different needs. Household storage or work requests that occupy your time can feel similar. Whether the owner helps move things changes the scene from carrying their accumulation alone toward negotiating its place." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You find cherished objects while sorting", "reflection": "The work can reconnect you with valued experiences rather than simply remove a burden. Rediscovering an interest or remembering a relationship may fit. Keeping selected objects can express care while still allowing room for what you want to do now." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You clear a narrow path to the door", "reflection": "A limited change can restore a specific freedom. Reducing one commitment or finding a workable next step during a busy period may feel similar. The room remains full, but the available path changes your relationship to everything still waiting." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Someone throws away your things without asking", "reflection": "The removal of clutter can feel like lost agency when it ignores attachment and choice. Another person deciding which commitments or memories matter may offer a parallel. The unwanted disposal, rather than order itself, makes the intervention difficult." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You feel comfortable among a busy collection", "reflection": "Many objects can carry familiarity, interest, or a sense of having what you need. A lively home or active creative space may fit. If no task is blocked and you feel at ease, the dream does not require the collection to be read as a problem." } ], "prompts": [ "What did the objects stop me from doing, if anything?", "Whose needs or memories occupied the space?", "What small change would have restored the room’s purpose?" ], "related": [ "house", "closet", "cleaning", "luggage" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia interpretation with image-specific possibilities and six differentiated scenes. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "coach", "title": "Coach", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of riding in a coach, denotes continued losses and depressions in business.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "coach" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about coach stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "carriage" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0443", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Coach", "text": "To dream of riding in a coach, denotes continued losses and depressions\nin business. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0445", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Coal-hod", "text": "To dream of a coal-hod, denotes that grief will be likely to fill a vacancy\nmade by reckless extravagance. To see your neighbor carrying in hods,\nforetells your surroundings will be decidedly distasteful and inharmonious.", "locator": "Heading 445; source lines 5831–5837", "lineStart": 5831, "lineEnd": 5837, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a coal-hod, denotes that grief will be likely to fill a vacancy\nmade by reckless extravagance. To see your neighbor carrying in hods,\nforetells your surroundings will be decidedly distasteful and inharmonious." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "coalpit", "title": "Coalpit", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “To dream of being in the bottom of a coalpit, signifies marrying with a widow.”", "aliases": [ "coalpit" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about coalpit stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "noe-0107", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Coalpit", "text": "To dream of being in the bottom of a coalpit,\nsignifies marrying with a widow; for he that marries her shall never sound\nthe depth of her policies.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 109; source lines 529–531", "lineStart": 529, "lineEnd": 531, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being in the bottom of a coalpit,\nsignifies marrying with a widow; for he that marries her shall never sound\nthe depth of her policies." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "coals", "title": "Coals", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "5 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see bright coals of fire, denotes pleasure and many pleasant changes.” Compare 5 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "coals", "coal" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about coals stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0444", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Coals", "text": "To see bright coals of fire, denotes pleasure and many pleasant changes.\nTo dream you handle them yourself, denotes unmitigated joy.\nTo see dead coals implies trouble and disappointments.", "locator": "Heading 444; source lines 5825–5831", "lineStart": 5825, "lineEnd": 5831, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see bright coals of fire, denotes pleasure and many pleasant changes.\nTo dream you handle them yourself, denotes unmitigated joy.\nTo see dead coals implies trouble and disappointments." }, { "id": "fontaine-0150", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Coal", "text": "To dream you see dead coal, signifies expedition in business; but\nto dream you see burning coal, threatens you with shame and reproach.\n12.", "locator": "Heading 150; source line 1595", "lineStart": 1595, "lineEnd": 1599, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see dead coal, signifies expedition in business; but\nto dream you see burning coal, threatens you with shame and reproach." }, { "id": "noe-0083", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Coals", "text": "To dream of\ncoals is a very unlucky omen. It denotes much affliction and trouble. To\ndream you see coals burning, if they are very clear and bright, is a good\nsign. To dream you see the coals extinguished and reduced to cinders,\ndenotes death, either to yourself or some near relation or friend; it also\nindicates great losses, and forewarns you of beggary and prison.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 85; source lines 435–441", "lineStart": 435, "lineEnd": 441, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of\ncoals is a very unlucky omen. It denotes much affliction and trouble. To\ndream you see coals burning, if they are very clear and bright, is a good\nsign. To dream you see the coals extinguished and reduced to cinders,\ndenotes death, either to yourself or some near relation or friend; it also\nindicates great losses, and forewarns you of beggary and prison." }, { "id": "cielo-0110", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Coal", "text": "Seeing or burning coal signifies persecution.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 110; source lines 4123–4125", "lineStart": 4123, "lineEnd": 4125, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Seeing or burning coal signifies persecution." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9593", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Coals", "heading": "Coals", "text": "A dream of trouble, loss, hunger (Raphael) ; secret love is the interpretation attached to this dream by Freud. \"With coal no fire so hotly glows as secret love, which no one knows.\" — Freud, Interpretation of Dreams, p. 316.", "lineStart": 9593, "lineEnd": 9597, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 209; NLM OCR lines 9593–9597", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9593, "lineEnd": 9597, "printedPage": 209, "printedPageEnd": 209 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Coals. — A dream of trouble, loss, hunger (Raphael) ; secret \nlove is the interpretation attached to this dream by Freud. \n\"With coal no fire so hotly glows as secret love, which no one \nknows.\" — Freud, Interpretation of Dreams, p. 316. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Coals" }, "displayText": "A dream of trouble, loss, hunger (Raphael); secret love is the interpretation attached to this dream by Freud. \"With coal no fire so hotly glows as secret love, which no one knows.\" — Freud, Interpretation of Dreams, p. 316." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "coat", "title": "Coat", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "summary": "A coat may explore portable support, borrowed conditions or what you carry between settings. Ownership, fit and use make the scene specific.", "tagline": "Support can travel with you and still have terms of its own.", "aliases": [ "coat" ], "status": "REVIEW", "psychological": "A coat can provide something you carry from one setting to another: an outer layer, usable pockets or a familiar appearance when the surroundings change. In a dream, that portability may make support concrete. Having a coat available differs from depending on one that someone else must lend you each time. The scene may resemble taking a useful resource into a new situation while considering whose conditions come with it.\n\n Borrowing introduces a particular relationship. Another person's coat may help you leave, yet make you hesitant to use its pockets, alter the fit or put it down. This can picture temporary assistance that gives access while leaving the terms uncertain. A borrowed room, a colleague's equipment or a responsibility held for someone else can offer waking comparisons. Clear permission may make the support easier to use without requiring it to become permanently yours.\n\n Pockets can preserve small connections across a transition. A ticket, note or forgotten item from an earlier place may become useful or distracting when you reach another one. The dream can bring what you carry forward into contact with the needs of the present setting. Emptying a pocket differs from throwing away the coat; you may be able to keep useful support while changing the particular load it holds.\n\n Damage or loss can shift attention toward continuity. Repairing a familiar coat may matter because of the history it carries, while accepting a different one may make movement possible before the earlier appearance is restored. A waking comparison could be continuing a valued routine in a changed form or finding another source of assistance after an arrangement ends. The response depends on what the garment actually enabled.\n\n Removing a coat indoors can mark a transition without making every coat a universal boundary symbol. You may be able to settle into the new place, want to remain ready to leave or find that someone requires you to retain an uncomfortable layer. Everyday clothing and remembered people can supply these details directly. This broad coat topic follows ownership, carrying and movement between settings; a specifically heavy overcoat adds its own conditions.", "traditional": "Miller gives borrowed, damaged, new and lost coats forecasts involving surety, friendship, literary honor and money. The attached passage also cross-references clothing more generally. Those period claims do not establish what a particular loan, loss or garment means for your waking relationships or finances.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Portable support", "reflection": "A coat can make a resource available through changes of setting. Its usefulness depends on what it enables and whether it can be carried, removed or adapted when the next place has different conditions." }, { "title": "A loan with understandable terms", "reflection": "Another person’s coat can help you participate while leaving care or ownership uncertain. Clear permission can make the help workable without turning temporary support into an obligation to remain in their role." }, { "title": "Changing what travels with you", "reflection": "Pocket contents and repairs can let continuity become selective. Keeping the garment need not require carrying every previous task, and accepting another coat need not erase the personal value of the earlier one." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A borrowed coat lets you leave but cannot be altered", "reflection": "The garment gives access to the next setting, yet its fit remains awkward because the owner has set a limit. This may explore temporary support with restrictive terms. Clarifying permission or finding another arrangement can matter more than deciding whether help itself is welcome." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "An old note turns up in a coat pocket", "reflection": "Something from an earlier place arrives with you in a new one. It may offer a useful connection or redirect attention from the present task. Keeping the note deliberately differs from carrying it by accident; the coat makes that continuity easy to overlook until needed." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You mend a tear before passing the coat onward", "reflection": "Repair prepares a familiar resource for another person’s use. The task may bring care and transfer together: what condition is needed, and what history can remain visible? A usable repair can matter without making the garment appear entirely new." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Your coat is missing but another one allows the journey", "reflection": "The familiar support is unavailable, while a different arrangement makes movement possible. Accepting it, waiting or looking further can give the scene different relations to continuity. The substitute’s practical usefulness may matter separately from whether it feels like the one you lost." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You keep your coat on after being welcomed indoors", "reflection": "The new setting permits settling in, yet you remain prepared to leave. Comfort, caution or a practical reason can give that readiness different meanings. Removing or retaining the layer matters through how freely you can participate, rather than proving whether the place is safe." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The coat has space only for what the next task needs", "reflection": "Its pockets limit what can travel with you but make the needed items easy to find. This may picture a workable selection of resources. Relief differs from feeling deprived; the amount carried becomes meaningful through the activity the coat helps you enter." } ], "prompts": [ "What did the coat make possible as the setting changed?", "How did ownership or permission affect using, altering or lending it?", "Which pocket contents or familiar features were useful to carry forward?" ], "related": [ "overcoat", "clothes", "pocket", "dressing", "gift" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0446" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context only. miller-0446: Borrowed, torn, new and lost coats receive surety, friendship/business loss, literary honor and speculation forecasts. The included cross-reference to Apparel and Clothes stays historical. This citation does not validate the original psychological reflections or predict a waking outcome." } ], "updated": "2026-10-13", "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection independently reviewed for content and source scope. Historical accounts remain attributed period writing. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0446", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Coat", "text": "To dream of wearing another's coat, signifies that you will ask\nsome friend to go security for you. To see your coat torn,\ndenotes the loss of a close friend and dreary business.\n\nTo see a new coat, portends for you some literary honor.\n\nTo lose your coat, you will have to rebuild your fortune lost\nthrough being over-confident in speculations.\n\n\n[40] See Apparel and Clothes.", "locator": "Heading 446; source lines 5837–5851", "lineStart": 5837, "lineEnd": 5851, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of wearing another's coat, signifies that you will ask\nsome friend to go security for you. To see your coat torn,\ndenotes the loss of a close friend and dreary business.\n\nTo see a new coat, portends for you some literary honor.\n\nTo lose your coat, you will have to rebuild your fortune lost\nthrough being over-confident in speculations. See Apparel and Clothes." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [ "clothes" ] }, { "slug": "coat-of-arms", "title": "Coat-of-Arms", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing your coat-of-arms, is a dream of ill luck. You will never possess a title.”", "aliases": [ "coat-of-arms" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about coat-of-arms stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0447", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Coat-of-Arms", "text": "To dream of seeing your coat-of-arms, is a dream of ill luck.\nYou will never possess a title.", "locator": "Heading 447; source lines 5851–5856", "lineStart": 5851, "lineEnd": 5856, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing your coat-of-arms, is a dream of ill luck.\nYou will never possess a title." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cobbler", "title": "Cobbler", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Cielo wrote: “To dream of one mending shoes means trouble in money matters.”", "aliases": [ "cobbler" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cobbler stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "cielo-0111", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Cobbler", "text": "To dream of one mending shoes means trouble\n in money matters.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 111; source lines 4125–4128", "lineStart": 4125, "lineEnd": 4128, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of one mending shoes means trouble\nin money matters." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cobweb", "title": "Cobweb", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "A trace of what has been left alone.", "summary": "Cobweb dreams may explore an unused space, lingering traces or a delicate obstruction. A spider need not be present for the web to matter.", "aliases": [ "cobweb", "cobwebs", "dusty web", "dusty cobwebs" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A cobweb can make the passage of time visible in a room or object. Dust, abandoned corners and fine strands may suggest that a space has been left alone, although your feeling about that quiet matters. An untouched room can feel neglected, preserved or pleasantly free from disturbance. The web itself may be an obstacle, a trace or something beautiful that you do not want to damage. Those roles create different interpretations of the same material.\n\nWhere the strands appear gives the scene a practical focus. A web across a doorway can make access to a place feel delayed or inconvenient. One covering a cherished object can bring attention to something you have not used recently. A web on your face or clothes changes the relationship: the residue travels with you, and may feel difficult to remove. A waking comparison could involve returning to an old task, stored belongings or a place that has changed during your absence.\n\nClearing the web can picture renewed use of a space, but it can also feel like disturbing something that was allowed to remain. Relief differs from sadness or reluctance. If the strands immediately return, the dream may make upkeep seem repetitive, or imply that clearing the visible trace does not alter what keeps the place unused. The actual activity offers more precision than calling every cobweb a sign of neglect.\n\nWho notices the web may become important. Being asked to clean a room you do not own can make responsibility feel misplaced. Someone preserving a web for its appearance may value what you see as an obstruction. The disagreement can concern access, care or different ways of inhabiting the setting rather than the object alone.\n\nA spider that appears and acts may become a separate subject; this page concentrates on strands, dust and traces even when no animal is seen. It also does not equate a physical web with an online network. Ordinary housekeeping, stored rooms or recent visual details can supply the image without requiring a message about your whole life.", "traditional": "No exact Cobweb historical heading is attached here. Miller's Spider-web record remains with Spider, and the separate Web archive retains its own physical-web passage. The original reflections on dusty traces and access on this page are not presented as those authors' conclusions.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A place left alone", "reflection": "Dust and strands can make an interval of disuse visible, whether it feels welcome or troubling." }, { "title": "A delicate obstacle", "reflection": "A small obstruction can change access without resembling a locked or solid barrier." }, { "title": "The terms of care", "reflection": "Clearing, preserving or assigning responsibility gives the trace a relationship to people." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A cobweb covers the doorway to an old room", "reflection": "The strands make returning to the space require a small act of clearing. The dream may resemble resuming something after a long pause. Curiosity, reluctance and relief give that return different meanings; the room's contents can matter as much as the barrier." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You brush a web from a treasured object", "reflection": "Removing the trace makes the object available to touch or use again. A stored hobby, keepsake or unfinished task can offer a comparison. Careful handling differs from impatient cleaning, especially if you want to preserve the object's history while changing its condition." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Fine strands cling to your face or clothes", "reflection": "The trace is no longer confined to the room; it accompanies you. This may picture the uncomfortable residue of an encounter or simply the sensation of brushing through a web. Whether others notice it and whether you can remove it changes the social feeling." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You admire a cobweb instead of clearing it", "reflection": "A fragile structure becomes something worth preserving rather than evidence of poor upkeep. The dream may make room for noticing a detail that ordinary routines would remove. Wonder, stillness or annoyance from someone else can each alter what preserving it feels like." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The web returns as soon as you clear it", "reflection": "The repeated task can make effort feel unable to produce a lasting change. A neglected space or recurring responsibility offers a waking comparison. The scene may focus on the conditions keeping the room unused, rather than on how thoroughly you clear the visible trace." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "Someone asks you to clean their cobwebbed room", "reflection": "The setting gives responsibility an owner, while the request may shift the work to you. Willing help differs from being expected to restore a space without a choice. The condition of the room and the other person's response help describe that arrangement." } ], "prompts": [ "What had been left alone, and did its quiet feel welcome?", "How did the web affect access, traces of the past, or your attention?", "Who chose whether it should be removed?" ], "related": [ "spider", "web", "attic", "basement", "abandoned" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "coca-cola", "title": "Coca-Cola", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “For a woman to dream that she is drinking coca-cola signifies that she will lose health and a chance for marrying a wealthy man by her…”", "aliases": [ "coca-cola" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about coca-cola stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0453", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Coca-Cola", "text": "For a woman to dream that she is drinking coca-cola signifies\nthat she will lose health and a chance for marrying a wealthy\nman by her abandonment to material delights.", "locator": "Heading 453; source lines 5895–5901", "lineStart": 5895, "lineEnd": 5901, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a woman to dream that she is drinking coca-cola signifies\nthat she will lose health and a chance for marrying a wealthy\nman by her abandonment to material delights." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cock-crowing", "title": "Cock-Crowing", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of hearing a cock crowing in the morning, is significant of good.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "cock-crowing", "cock crowing" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cock-crowing stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0450", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cock-Crowing", "text": "To dream of hearing a cock crowing in the morning, is significant of good.\nIf you be single, it denotes an early marriage and a luxurious home.\n\nTo hear one at night is despair, and cause for tears you will have.\n\nTo dream of seeing cocks fight, you will leave your family\nbecause of quarrels and infidelity. This dream usually\nannounces some unexpected and sorrowful events. The cock\nwarned the Apostle Peter when he was about to perjure himself.\nIt may also warn you in a dream when the meshes of the world\nare swaying you from ``the straight line'' of spiritual wisdom.", "locator": "Heading 450; source lines 5868–5882", "lineStart": 5868, "lineEnd": 5882, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of hearing a cock crowing in the morning, is significant of good.\nIf you be single, it denotes an early marriage and a luxurious home.\n\nTo hear one at night is despair, and cause for tears you will have.\n\nTo dream of seeing cocks fight, you will leave your family\nbecause of quarrels and infidelity. This dream usually\nannounces some unexpected and sorrowful events. The cock\nwarned the Apostle Peter when he was about to perjure himself.\nIt may also warn you in a dream when the meshes of the world\nare swaying you from “the straight line” of spiritual wisdom." }, { "id": "luck-0042", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Cock Crowing", "text": "Great prosperity.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 42; source lines 3612–3614", "lineStart": 3612, "lineEnd": 3614, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Great prosperity.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Cock Crowing” is shown on the Cock-Crowing page: same heading; hyphen variant" }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9604", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Cock-Crowing", "heading": "Cock-Crowing", "text": "This dream warns of a false friend, a betrayal (Gypsy) ; the connection here with our Lord's betrayal is apparent.", "lineStart": 9604, "lineEnd": 9607, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 209; NLM OCR lines 9604–9607", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9604, "lineEnd": 9607, "printedPage": 209, "printedPageEnd": 209 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Cock-Crowing. — This dream warns of a false friend, a \nbetrayal (Gypsy) ; the connection here with our Lord's be- \ntrayal is apparent. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "be- \ntrayal", "after": "betrayal", "evidenceLine": 9605 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Cock-Crowing" }, "displayText": "This dream warns of a false friend, a betrayal (Gypsy); the connection here with our Lord's betrayal is apparent." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cockade", "title": "Cockade", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “This dream denotes that foes will bring disastrous suits against you. Beware of titles.”", "aliases": [ "cockade" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cockade stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0451", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cockade", "text": "This dream denotes that foes will bring disastrous suits against you.\nBeware of titles.", "locator": "Heading 451; source lines 5882–5887", "lineStart": 5882, "lineEnd": 5887, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "This dream denotes that foes will bring disastrous suits against you.\nBeware of titles." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cockroach", "title": "Cockroaches", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "aliases": [ "cockroaches", "cockroach", "roaches", "roach" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "summary": "Cockroaches can explore the scope of an unwanted task, a detail carried into another setting, and different responses to sharing a place.", "tagline": "A small discovery can change the task without defining the whole setting.", "psychological": "A cockroach in one corner of a kitchen can picture an unwanted detail becoming difficult to keep proportionate. You may want the room comfortable while feeling drawn to examine every surface. A practical issue at home or work may offer a parallel when one discovery makes the whole arrangement seem unsettled. Addressing the particular place differs from assuming that everything usable there must now be rejected.\n\nA cockroach inside luggage can make an unwelcome task travel with a transition. You may have expected a move or break to change your responsibilities and now encounter something you thought belonged to the earlier setting. Unpacking and finding where it belongs can make the problem specific. The image does not prove that you carry contamination, shame or a character flaw into new surroundings.\n\nOther people’s responses can change the practical encounter. Someone dismissing your concern may leave you feeling responsible for making a shared place usable; someone joining the task may make it manageable without agreeing on the same emotion. A household standard or workplace issue may have a similar shape. The creature does not reveal whether others are negligent or secretly judging you.\n\nCleaning a surface while the cockroach returns can make visible improvement different from changing the route that keeps producing the task. You may recognize repeated maintenance with unclear responsibility or a process that needs more than a final tidy appearance. Moving an appliance instead of cleaning again can alter the scale of the work, making additional help or another plan relevant.\n\nA giant cockroach calmly asking to leave can challenge the account you formed from its appearance. Surprise may allow a practical exchange where you expected only panic. An ordinary creature departing without intervention creates another ending: the task may not require every response you had prepared. Recent building concerns, an image or an actual encounter can provide direct context. These original readings follow the named creature, scale and workable use of a setting. An unidentified infestation or bugs whose species is unknown have a broader scope; this page does not define them automatically as cockroaches.", "traditional": "No historical cockroach passage is attached. These are original reflections about a named creature and the actions around it. The NINDS reference concerns general dream context only; it validates no species meaning, health inference or judgment about cleanliness.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A particular discovery has a workable scope", "reflection": "One unwanted detail can merit attention while leaving other parts of the setting usable." }, { "title": "A transition can carry an unfinished task", "reflection": "A change of place may make responsibility more particular rather than erase every earlier concern." }, { "title": "Responses shape a shared arrangement", "reflection": "Different feelings can still support coordinated care, a revised process or another practical ending." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A cockroach in one kitchen corner makes you inspect every surface", "reflection": "A particular discovery expands the perceived task. This may picture an issue that deserves attention without defining the whole arrangement. Returning to what is actually known can preserve use of the room while leaving space for an appropriate response." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You find a cockroach inside luggage after arriving elsewhere", "reflection": "An unwelcome detail travels with a transition. This can resemble a responsibility you expected to leave behind. Locating what needs attention may make the task manageable without treating the insect as evidence that you carry contamination, shame or a lasting flaw." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Someone shares the removal task despite feeling less alarmed", "reflection": "Practical cooperation does not require identical reactions. This may picture a shared standard being made workable through assistance. The available contribution can matter more than proving whose emotion is right or deciding that someone’s different response reveals their character." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "The cockroach returns after each surface is cleaned", "reflection": "Visible completion has not changed what renews the task. This can resemble maintenance needing another process or clearer responsibility. Examining the route and conditions may alter the work without assigning persistence to a personal weakness or assuming the whole setting is unusable." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Moving an appliance reveals a task too large to do alone", "reflection": "A small discovery changes the scale of practical work. This may picture finding that an ordinary fix needs time or assistance. Revising the plan can support completion without requiring you to treat needing help as failure or the initial concern as disproportionate." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "A giant cockroach calmly asks for a way out", "reflection": "A striking appearance gives way to a particular exchange. This can resemble an encounter becoming workable once its need is clear. Finding a route may change the response without establishing that every frightening image is harmless or that the speech carries special knowledge." } ], "prompts": [ "What was actually known about the task before its scope expanded?", "Which responsibility followed the change of setting?", "How could different responses contribute to making the shared place usable?" ], "related": [ "infestation", "kitchen", "luggage", "cleaning" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection independently reviewed for content and source scope. Historical accounts remain attributed period writing. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cocktail", "title": "Cocktail", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To drink a cocktail while dreaming, denotes that you will deceive your friends as to your inclinations and enjoy the companionship of fast…”", "aliases": [ "cocktail" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cocktail stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0452", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cocktail", "text": "To drink a cocktail while dreaming, denotes that you will deceive your\nfriends as to your inclinations and enjoy the companionship of fast\nmen and women while posing as a serious student and staid home lover.\nFor a woman, this dream portends fast living and an ignoring of moral\nand set rules.", "locator": "Heading 452; source lines 5887–5895", "lineStart": 5887, "lineEnd": 5895, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To drink a cocktail while dreaming, denotes that you will deceive your\nfriends as to your inclinations and enjoy the companionship of fast\nmen and women while posing as a serious student and staid home lover.\nFor a woman, this dream portends fast living and an ignoring of moral\nand set rules." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cocoa", "title": "Cocoa", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of cocoa, denotes you will cultivate distasteful friends for your own advancement and pleasure.”", "aliases": [ "cocoa" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cocoa stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0448", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cocoa", "text": "To dream of cocoa, denotes you will cultivate distasteful friends\nfor your own advancement and pleasure.", "locator": "Heading 448; source lines 5856–5861", "lineStart": 5856, "lineEnd": 5861, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of cocoa, denotes you will cultivate distasteful friends\nfor your own advancement and pleasure." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cocoanut", "title": "Cocoanut", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Cocoanuts in dreams, warns you of fatalities in your expectations, as sly enemies are encroaching upon your rights in the guise of ardent…”", "aliases": [ "cocoanut" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cocoanut stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0449", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cocoanut", "text": "Cocoanuts in dreams, warns you of fatalities in your expectations,\nas sly enemies are encroaching upon your rights in the guise of\nardent friends. Dead cocoanut trees are a sign of loss and sorrow.\nThe death of some one near you may follow.", "locator": "Heading 449; source lines 5861–5868", "lineStart": 5861, "lineEnd": 5868, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Cocoanuts in dreams, warns you of fatalities in your expectations,\nas sly enemies are encroaching upon your rights in the guise of\nardent friends. Dead cocoanut trees are a sign of loss and sorrow.\nThe death of some one near you may follow." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "coffee", "title": "Coffee", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "aliases": [ "coffee" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "summary": "Coffee dreams may explore a chosen routine, a break, preparation or an invitation whose meaning depends on your own experience.", "tagline": "A routine, a pause or a reason to meet.", "psychological": "A coffee dream may be about the small arrangement around a drink: how it is prepared, who chooses it and whether you have time to enjoy it. Begin with the actual scene rather than assigning coffee a fixed meaning such as energy or ambition. Someone who values a solitary morning cup and someone who dislikes coffee will bring different associations to the same image.\n\nPreparation can make a routine feel dependable or demanding. You might know every step, discover a machine with unfamiliar controls or be unable to obtain the taste you expect. This could resemble an everyday process that has become complicated, such as organizing work before beginning or trying to reproduce a familiar result with different tools. Notice whether you improvise, ask for instructions or abandon the preparation. Those choices may tell you more than the drink's appearance.\n\nThe break itself can matter. Having coffee while everyone keeps asking for something might invite reflection on whether a pause is actually available to you. Conversely, making a drink you never taste could connect with preparing for a rest or pleasure that repeatedly gets postponed. A waking example might be arranging time off while continuing to answer work messages. This is a possible comparison, not proof that the dream diagnoses stress or explains your sleep.\n\nAn invitation for coffee can leave the purpose of a meeting open. It could feel friendly, formal, awkward or welcome, depending on the person and conversation. Explore whether you chose the meeting and what changed once you sat down. A dream invitation does not reveal what that person wants in waking life. If you decline or order something else, your preference may be the central action rather than a rejection of the relationship.\n\nSensory details can also belong to memory: a particular aroma, a cup from an old workplace or the sound of a grinder. Waking experiences and emotions can enter dreams; a recent visit or remembered ritual may explain why coffee appeared without requiring a larger message. Keep the interpretation close to the sequence you experienced. An ordinary enjoyable break is a complete possibility alongside questions about choice, preparation or access to your time.", "traditional": "Miller assigns coffee forecasts to drinking, trading, roasting and different forms of the beans, including gendered judgments. Fontaine links coffee to reputation and a gendered moral claim; Cielo gives a trouble forecast for drinking it. These supplied passages document older beliefs. They do not establish another person’s intentions, a moral judgment, a biological effect or an outcome for your life.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A routine you can shape", "reflection": "The recipe, equipment and choices may show how much say you have in an everyday process. Compare what you wanted with what you actually made, allowing an ordinary remembered routine to remain an explanation." }, { "title": "An available break", "reflection": "A drink can mark a pause, but the scene may prevent that pause from happening. Reflect on the interruptions and your response rather than assuming that coffee diagnoses tiredness or pressure." }, { "title": "The purpose of meeting", "reflection": "An invitation may mean different things within your dream: company, discussion, courtesy or an unwanted obligation. What is said and chosen provides a better starting point than the identity of the drink." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "The familiar machine has new controls", "reflection": "You approach your usual coffee machine but cannot find the setting you use. This could resemble returning to a routine after its conditions have changed. Notice whether you investigate, ask someone or choose a simpler method; needing different instructions does not mean you lack competence." }, { "title": "Your break keeps becoming another task", "reflection": "Each time you lift the cup, someone asks you to fetch or explain something. The scene may help you describe a pause that never becomes yours. Compare it with a specific waking arrangement and explore what happened when you tried to continue, decline or leave." }, { "title": "An invitation comes with no clear purpose", "reflection": "You agree to meet for coffee, then wait to discover why you were asked. This might reflect uncertainty around a conversation whose expectations remain unstated. Record the words, setting and your own questions; the dream supplies no evidence of the other person’s real intentions." }, { "title": "You choose a different drink", "reflection": "Someone orders coffee for you, but you ask for something you prefer. The action may bring personal preference into a social routine. Notice whether you explain, apologize or simply choose; a different order need not represent rejecting the person who made the offer." }, { "title": "You prepare cups but never sit down", "reflection": "The coffee is ready for everyone, while you remain busy arranging the room. This could invite reflection on a role that includes others’ enjoyment but leaves your own participation undecided. The useful detail is whether you find a place, ask for help or prefer the preparing itself." }, { "title": "A cup returns you to an old workplace", "reflection": "The taste or cup design reminds you of a place where you once spent time. Explore the precise memory and what differs in the present dream. The coffee may be a detail that links scenes, rather than a symbol carrying a universal message about work or success." } ], "prompts": [ "What did you want from the coffee or the pause around it?", "How did preparation, company or interruption change the experience?", "Which personal routine or recent meeting offers a useful comparison?" ], "related": [ "tea", "breakfast", "restaurant", "kitchen" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0455" ], "scope": "Miller varies coffee forecasts with drinking, dealing, buying, selling, roasting, handling and ground, parched or green coffee, including gendered moral and relationship judgments. Specific supplied passages: Coffee — miller-0455 (Heading 455; source lines 5925–5947). Historical comparison only; these attributed period beliefs do not establish outcomes, diagnoses or a universal symbol meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0153" ], "scope": "Fontaine links coffee to loss of reputation and adds a gendered moral forecast. Specific supplied passages: Coffee — fontaine-0153 (Heading 153; source line 1605). Historical comparison only; these attributed period beliefs do not establish outcomes, diagnoses or a universal symbol meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0113" ], "scope": "Cielo assigns a trouble forecast to drinking coffee. Specific supplied passages: Coffee — cielo-0113 (Dream section, heading 113; source lines 4130–4132). Historical comparison only; these attributed period beliefs do not establish outcomes, diagnoses or a universal symbol meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "kind": "editorial", "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0455", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Coffee", "text": "To dream of drinking coffee, denotes the disapproval of friends toward\nyour marriage intentions. If married, disagreements and frequent\nquarrels are implied.\n\nTo dream of dealing in coffee, portends business failures.\nIf selling, sure loss. Buying it, you may with ease\nretain your credit.\n\nFor a young woman to see or handle coffee she will be made a by-word if she\nis not discreet in her actions.\n\nTo dream of roasting coffee, for a young woman it denotes escape\nfrom evil by luckily marrying a stranger.\n\nTo see ground coffee, foretells successful struggles with adversity.\nParched coffee, warns you of the evil attentions of strangers.\n\nGreen coffee, denotes you have bold enemies who will show you no quarter,\nbut will fight for your overthrow.", "locator": "Heading 455; source lines 5925–5947", "lineStart": 5925, "lineEnd": 5947, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of drinking coffee, denotes the disapproval of friends toward\nyour marriage intentions. If married, disagreements and frequent\nquarrels are implied.\n\nTo dream of dealing in coffee, portends business failures.\nIf selling, sure loss. Buying it, you may with ease\nretain your credit.\n\nFor a young woman to see or handle coffee she will be made a by-word if she\nis not discreet in her actions.\n\nTo dream of roasting coffee, for a young woman it denotes escape\nfrom evil by luckily marrying a stranger.\n\nTo see ground coffee, foretells successful struggles with adversity.\nParched coffee, warns you of the evil attentions of strangers.\n\nGreen coffee, denotes you have bold enemies who will show you no quarter,\nbut will fight for your overthrow." }, { "id": "fontaine-0153", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Coffee", "text": "To dream of coffee, signifies loss of reputation. For a young\ngirl to have such a dream, predicts the loss of her virtue. 39, 17.", "locator": "Heading 153; source line 1605", "lineStart": 1605, "lineEnd": 1608, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of coffee, signifies loss of reputation. For a young\ngirl to have such a dream, predicts the loss of her virtue." }, { "id": "cielo-0113", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Coffee", "text": "Drinking coffee is a sign of heavy trouble.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 113; source lines 4130–4132", "lineStart": 4130, "lineEnd": 4132, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Drinking coffee is a sign of heavy trouble." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "coffee-house", "title": "Coffee House", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see or visit a coffee house in your dreams, foretells that you will unwisely entertain friendly relations with persons known to be your…”", "aliases": [ "coffee house" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about coffee house stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0457", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Coffee House", "text": "To see or visit a coffee house in your dreams, foretells that you will\nunwisely entertain friendly relations with persons known to be your enemies.\nDesigning women may intrigue against your morality and possessions.", "locator": "Heading 457; source lines 5955–5961", "lineStart": 5955, "lineEnd": 5961, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see or visit a coffee house in your dreams, foretells that you will\nunwisely entertain friendly relations with persons known to be your enemies.\nDesigning women may intrigue against your morality and possessions." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "coffee-maker", "title": "Coffee maker", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "aliases": [ "coffee maker", "coffee makers", "coffeemaker", "coffeemakers" ], "summary": "A coffee maker can picture a routine set in motion, expectations about whom it serves, and the handoff between preparation and receiving the result.", "tagline": "Preparation has to reach an occasion and a person.", "psychological": "A coffee maker can picture setting a familiar process in motion and expecting it to support the next part of an occasion. The interest may lie in the device, the preparation around it, or where the finished coffee arrives. An enjoyable sequence can express confidence in an ordinary arrangement. A troublesome one may make the gap between starting a routine and receiving its benefit more visible.\n\nFinishing a pot before anyone arrives can give preparation an uncertain audience. You have made something available, but the people or occasion that would use it are not yet present. Preparing materials for a meeting that gets delayed can feel similar. Pride in being ready differs from feeling that the timing has wasted your effort. The dream may leave room for another use instead of deciding that early preparation is inherently wrong.\n\nA machine making one portion while a group waits can bring a promise into contact with the pace of fulfilling it. A modest tool may work well while being asked to serve a larger arrangement than you expected. This might resemble offering a small favor that becomes a continuing responsibility. The relevant difference is between what was possible and what everyone came to assume would be available.\n\nLeaving after the process has begun can picture allowing something to continue without your constant attention. Relief can fit trust in work already set up; unease can concern an unclear handoff. If the coffee pours somewhere nobody can reach, the difficulty instead belongs to delivery. A finished report left in an inaccessible folder offers a waking comparison: completion and availability are separate stages.\n\nLabels from another household can make a borrowed routine visible. A method that works may still carry expectations about who receives the first cup or when preparation should begin. Keeping a useful sequence does not require accepting every custom around it. Switching the machine off after the last intended serving can give your contribution an endpoint and leave time to take part yourself. These possibilities concern preparation, recipients, and handoffs. Coffee’s separate reading covers the drink and its occasion, including unfamiliar machine controls; the appliance here has no fixed message about productivity, energy, or anyone else’s needs.", "traditional": "The attached historical Coffee and Coffee Mill accounts belong to those separate subjects; none is attached to this new appliance reading. Its preparation and handoff comparisons are original. NINDS provides general dream background, not evidence for a meaning assigned to the machine or its settings.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A routine meets its occasion", "reflection": "Preparation can be welcome even when its timing or intended audience changes. The usefulness lies in how the result joins the occasion." }, { "title": "The promise and the available process", "reflection": "A working tool can be asked to serve more than its original arrangement allowed. Expectations and a clear endpoint help distinguish a favor from an indefinite task." }, { "title": "Completion reaches a recipient", "reflection": "Starting, finishing, and receiving are different stages. A handoff can preserve the benefit while allowing the person preparing it to participate too." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "The pot is ready before the gathering begins", "reflection": "Your preparation reaches completion before its intended audience arrives. This can resemble ready materials waiting for a postponed occasion. Satisfaction may concern having time to settle; disappointment may concern timing that no longer fits. Another use can remain possible without erasing the work already done." }, { "title": "The machine makes one cup while a whole group waits", "reflection": "A modest process encounters expectations it was not arranged to meet. This may picture a small favor expanding into responsibility for everyone present. The machine can be working perfectly within the dream while the promise around its use still needs to be reconsidered." }, { "title": "You leave the kitchen while the machine continues", "reflection": "The preparation no longer requires your presence at every step. Relief can picture trusting an arrangement you have already established. Unease may instead concern not knowing who will receive the result; the difference lies in the handoff, rather than proving that leaving a task is careless." }, { "title": "The finished coffee pours onto a counter beyond the waiting cups", "reflection": "The preparation produces a result that does not reach its intended recipients. This could resemble completed work delivered where its audience cannot use it. Moving the cups within the dream makes availability a separate stage, without requiring you to repeat every earlier part of the process." }, { "title": "The machine carries labels from another household", "reflection": "A useful routine arrives with somebody else’s expectations attached. This can picture borrowing a method while deciding which customs fit your own occasion. Familiarity, gratitude, and irritation can coexist; adapting the arrangement need not mean rejecting the people who first showed it to you." }, { "title": "You switch the machine off after the last intended cup", "reflection": "A contribution gains a recognizable endpoint. This may fit finishing the agreed preparation and making room to enjoy the occasion yourself. Relief differs from being forced to stop before anyone is served; the scene concerns what counted as enough for this particular gathering." } ], "prompts": [ "Who or what was the preparation meant to serve?", "How did the timing and expected amount relate to the available process?", "What made the finished result available while leaving room for your own participation?" ], "related": [ "coffee", "coffee-mill", "breakfast", "kitchen" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "coffee-mill", "title": "Coffee Mill", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see a coffee mill in your dreams, denotes you are approaching a critical danger, and all your energy and alertness will have to stand up…”", "aliases": [ "coffee mill" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about coffee mill stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0456", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Coffee Mill", "text": "To see a coffee mill in your dreams, denotes you are approaching\na critical danger, and all your energy and alertness will have\nto stand up with obduracy to avert its disastrous consequences.\nTo hear it grinding, signifies you will hardly overthrow some evil\npitted against your interest.", "locator": "Heading 456; source lines 5947–5955", "lineStart": 5947, "lineEnd": 5955, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a coffee mill in your dreams, denotes you are approaching\na critical danger, and all your energy and alertness will have\nto stand up with obduracy to avert its disastrous consequences.\nTo hear it grinding, signifies you will hardly overthrow some evil\npitted against your interest." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "coffin", "title": "Coffin", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "aliases": [ "coffin" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "summary": "A coffin can explore how a loss is acknowledged, the place a ritual has in ordinary life, or a burden whose terms people need to share.", "tagline": "A ritual object can hold more than one response to loss.", "psychological": "A coffin in a dream can give loss or an ending a visible object around which people act. You may see it prepared, help carry it or find it in an ordinary room. The particular position matters more than assuming every coffin represents death or one fixed part of yourself that must disappear. An actual bereavement, funeral memory or fictional scene can provide direct context without requiring a symbolic lesson.\n\nAn empty coffin with no named occupant can make uncertainty part of the encounter. Preparation is visible while its purpose remains unclear. This can resemble an ending that has been announced before you understand what is being left behind. The object does not predict a death or require you to identify somebody at risk.\n\nCarrying it with others introduces a shared task. People pulling toward different destinations can picture an acknowledgment whose practical terms have not been agreed. A family occasion or difficult transition may offer a parallel. The scene can concern how people participate together without making the weight a measure of how much each person loves or grieves.\n\nRitual details can create another difference. Someone arranging flowers according to a familiar custom may want continuity while you prefer a detail that feels personal. This can picture inherited expectations meeting the form of acknowledgment you actually want. Neither choice needs to establish the correct way to mourn, and a dream is not a message about what a person who has died would prefer.\n\nA coffin blocking an ordinary doorway can make loss occupy the route of daily activity. Wanting to continue and wanting to acknowledge what is there may both be present. Seeing your own empty coffin while standing beside it can instead make an account of your life something you observe, question or refuse to complete. An impossible coffin moving without carriers may bring uncertainty about whether to follow a scene that seems to proceed on its own. These possibilities stay with the object and surrounding actions. They do not reveal a wish for somebody’s death, forecast illness or demand closure on a particular timetable.", "traditional": "The six supplied Coffin records offer conflicting period forecasts. Miller gives extensive role-specific illness, financial and relationship claims; Fontaine and Noe assign a friend or relative’s death. The 1805 book has two separate coffin-and-mourner passages with death forecasts, while Cielo assigns marriage. These are attributed period accounts. They are not warnings, diagnoses, instructions for grief or evidence of a future death.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "An acknowledgment with an uncertain purpose", "reflection": "Preparation can be visible before the ending or loss has an understood form." }, { "title": "A shared task around the object", "reflection": "Participation may need practical agreement without measuring affection or grief." }, { "title": "Ritual beside continuing life", "reflection": "A place for acknowledgment can coexist with an ordinary activity that still matters." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "An empty coffin is prepared but nobody names an occupant", "reflection": "A form of acknowledgment exists before its purpose is clear to you. This may picture uncertainty about an announced ending or transition. The empty object does not predict a death, identify somebody at risk or require a hidden meaning to be found." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "The people carrying the coffin pull toward different destinations", "reflection": "A shared task has incompatible routes despite everyone’s participation. This can resemble an occasion needing agreement about how acknowledgment happens. The dreamed effort is not a measure of affection, courage or the amount of grief anybody ought to express." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Someone follows a flower custom while you want a personal detail", "reflection": "A familiar ritual meets a form of acknowledgment you would choose differently. This may picture continuity and individual preference needing room together. The choice does not establish one correct way to mourn or a message about what a deceased person actually wants." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A coffin blocks the doorway of a room used every day", "reflection": "Loss occupies the route of an ordinary activity you still need or want. This can picture acknowledgment and continuation meeting in the same space. Wanting to move through the doorway need not erase attachment or imply that grief should already be complete." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You stand beside your own empty coffin and consider its appearance", "reflection": "An imagined account of your life becomes something you can observe rather than inhabit. This may picture questioning how a role or ending is being represented. The scene does not forecast your death or reveal a wish that any part of you must disappear." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The coffin moves without carriers and you decide whether to follow", "reflection": "The event seems to continue without the people directing its route. This can picture uncertainty about joining a process already in motion. Following or remaining need not become a moral verdict, supernatural instruction or test of loyalty to someone who has died." } ], "prompts": [ "What acknowledgment did the object seem to prepare or require?", "How did other people’s route or ritual relate to the form you wanted?", "Which ordinary activity needed room beside the loss or ending?" ], "related": [ "funeral", "dying", "cemetery", "mourning", "deceased-loved-one" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0454" ], "scope": "miller-0454: Coffins, one’s own coffin/corpse, a moving coffin and sitting on a coffin in a hearse receive role-specific illness, financial, relationship and death forecasts. Exact supplied passages: miller-0454 — Coffin (Heading 454; source lines 5901–5925). Attributed historical comparison only; these period claims do not validate the original reflection or establish real health, relationship, family or financial outcomes." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0154" ], "scope": "fontaine-0154: A coffin is assigned a friend/relative death forecast. Exact supplied passages: fontaine-0154 — Coffin (Heading 154; source line 1608). Attributed historical comparison only; these period claims do not validate the original reflection or establish real health, relationship, family or financial outcomes." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0124" ], "scope": "noe-0124: A coffin is assigned a friend/relative death forecast. Exact supplied passages: noe-0124 — Coffin (Dream section, heading 126; source lines 581–584). Attributed historical comparison only; these period claims do not validate the original reflection or establish real health, relationship, family or financial outcomes." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0114" ], "scope": "cielo-0114: A coffin is assigned a speedy-marriage forecast. Exact supplied passages: cielo-0114 — Coffin (Dream section, heading 114; source lines 4132–4134). Attributed historical comparison only; these period claims do not validate the original reflection or establish real health, relationship, family or financial outcomes." }, { "id": "moles-71045", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams and Moles", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "United Kingdom, J. Marshall, 1805", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71045", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "moles-0009", "moles-0065" ], "scope": "moles-0009: Meeting a black coffin with mourners receives a friend-death forecast. moles-0065: Black coffins and mourners receive a friend/relative death forecast; this remains a separate original passage. Exact supplied passages: moles-0009 — Coffin (Dreams interpreted, passage 9; source lines 136–137); moles-0065 — Coffin (Dreams interpreted, passage 65; source lines 298–299). Attributed historical comparison only; these period claims do not validate the original reflection or establish real health, relationship, family or financial outcomes." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0454", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Coffin", "text": "This dream is unlucky. You will, if you are a farmer, see your\ncrops blasted and your cattle lean and unhealthy. To business men\nit means debts whose accumulation they are powerless to avoid.\nTo the young it denotes unhappy unions and death of loved ones.\n\nTo see your own coffin in a dream, business defeat and domestic\nsorrow may be expected.\n\nTo dream of a coffin moving of itself, denotes sickness and\nmarriage in close conjunction. Sorrow and pleasure intermingled.\nDeath may follow this dream, but there will also be good.\n\nTo see your corpse in a coffin, signifies brave efforts will be crushed\nin defeat and ignominy,\n\nTo dream that you find yourself sitting on a coffin in a moving hearse,\ndenotes desperate if not fatal illness for you or some person closely\nallied to you.\n\nQuarrels with the opposite sex is also indicated.\nYou will remorsefully consider your conduct toward a friend.", "locator": "Heading 454; source lines 5901–5925", "lineStart": 5901, "lineEnd": 5925, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "This dream is unlucky. You will, if you are a farmer, see your\ncrops blasted and your cattle lean and unhealthy. To business men\nit means debts whose accumulation they are powerless to avoid.\nTo the young it denotes unhappy unions and death of loved ones.\n\nTo see your own coffin in a dream, business defeat and domestic\nsorrow may be expected.\n\nTo dream of a coffin moving of itself, denotes sickness and\nmarriage in close conjunction. Sorrow and pleasure intermingled.\nDeath may follow this dream, but there will also be good.\n\nTo see your corpse in a coffin, signifies brave efforts will be crushed\nin defeat and ignominy,\n\nTo dream that you find yourself sitting on a coffin in a moving hearse,\ndenotes desperate if not fatal illness for you or some person closely\nallied to you.\n\nQuarrels with the opposite sex is also indicated.\nYou will remorsefully consider your conduct toward a friend." }, { "id": "fontaine-0154", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Coffin", "text": "To dream of one, denotes the death of a friend, or some near\nrelation. 74, 6.", "locator": "Heading 154; source line 1608", "lineStart": 1608, "lineEnd": 1611, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of one, denotes the death of a friend, or some near\nrelation." }, { "id": "noe-0124", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Coffin", "text": "To dream of one denotes the death of a\nfriend or some near relation.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 126; source lines 581–584", "lineStart": 581, "lineEnd": 584, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of one denotes the death of a\nfriend or some near relation." }, { "id": "cielo-0114", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Coffin", "text": "Denotes a speedy marriage.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 114; source lines 4132–4134", "lineStart": 4132, "lineEnd": 4134, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Denotes a speedy marriage." }, { "id": "moles-0009", "sourceId": "moles-71045", "heading": "Coffin", "originalHeading": "(no printed heading)", "text": "To dream you meet a black coffin, with mourners, denotes the death of a\nfriend.", "locator": "Dreams interpreted, passage 9; source lines 136–137", "lineStart": 136, "lineEnd": 137, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "editorialNote": "The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Coffin” because that is the subject of its first clause.", "displayText": "To dream you meet a black coffin, with mourners, denotes the death of a\nfriend." }, { "id": "moles-0065", "sourceId": "moles-71045", "heading": "Coffin", "originalHeading": "(no printed heading)", "text": "To dream of black coffins and mourners, denotes the death of some\nloving friend or relation.", "locator": "Dreams interpreted, passage 65; source lines 298–299", "lineStart": 298, "lineEnd": 299, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "editorialNote": "The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Coffin” because that is the subject of its first clause.", "displayText": "To dream of black coffins and mourners, denotes the death of some\nloving friend or relation." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "coins", "title": "Coins", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "aliases": [ "coins" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "summary": "Coins can explore how small units are recognized, handled and counted, or how a familiar object acquires a personal use beyond payment.", "tagline": "Size, amount and personal significance can tell different stories.", "psychological": "Coins in a dream can make money physical in unusually specific ways. You can feel their weight, hear them moving, distinguish an image or count separate pieces. A coin may be useful for payment, valued as a remembered object or used as a marker in a game. Its material or color does not establish a fixed meaning about fortune, health or personal value.\n\nA single large coin beside many small ones can make appearance and amount tell different stories. One pile may look substantial while the other meets the imagined request more easily. This can resemble comparing contributions whose visible size does not explain their practical use. Counting the pieces differs from adding their face values, especially when several people assume they are using the same measure.\n\nAn old date or worn design can give a coin significance apart from spending. You might recognize a journey, a family collection or a period of your own life through the detail. A small object can hold a specific association without becoming a sign that the past should be recovered. A recent memory of sorting change can also provide direct context.\n\nHandling coins introduces another kind of task. A flat piece lodged in a narrow groove may require a different method from holding a note. A coin fitting an unusual slot can make participation depend on shape rather than the total amount available. These scenes may picture a practical contribution needing suitable conditions, without turning the imagined mechanism into advice about an actual payment.\n\nCoins used as game counters can receive value through an agreement local to the activity. The same piece may mark a turn rather than buy anything. Their sound in a pocket can instead become enjoyable rhythm as you walk, making an ordinary carried item part of the movement. These possibilities concern recognition, handling and the measure being used. A material that feels ordinary to you may carry a specific memory, while the scene gives its present use different terms. The particular design, physical response and agreed purpose help distinguish a personal comparison from an ordinary remembered encounter with small change.", "traditional": "Miller assigns differing fortunes to gold, silver, copper and nickel, but allows a favorable silver exception based on the dreamer’s own money preference and its appearance. Everybody’s Book of Luck gives a different metal-based set of forecasts. These two attributed accounts do not establish a universal hierarchy of metals or validate predictions about wealth, relationships, health or work.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Units with a clear measure", "reflection": "The number of pieces, their size and their imagined face value can make different comparisons possible." }, { "title": "A small object with a particular history", "reflection": "A date or design can matter through a personal association rather than a general metal code." }, { "title": "Handling and locally agreed use", "reflection": "A groove, slot or game can make the same coin useful in different ways." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "One large coin sits beside a pile of small ones", "reflection": "Visible bulk and the amount needed for the task do not line up. This may picture comparing contributions whose usefulness cannot be read from appearance alone. The coins make it possible to ask which measure belongs to this occasion: size, number of pieces or their imagined value." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Different people count the same coins by different measures", "reflection": "One person totals the pieces while another adds their face values. This can picture a shared task needing agreement about what counts before its results can be compared. The disagreement belongs to the method, making clarification useful without requiring anyone’s contribution to be dismissed." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A worn coin carries a date you associate with a remembered place", "reflection": "The detail makes an ordinary item personally recognizable. This may bring a journey, household routine or earlier collection into the scene. Its interest can lie in the association rather than its spending power, allowing a small object to preserve a particular moment without demanding a return to it." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A coin lodges in a groove and cannot be lifted with your fingers", "reflection": "The object is visible while its shape makes the usual handling awkward. This can resemble a practical task needing a different method rather than greater force. The small gap gives the difficulty specific terms, keeping the focus on access instead of the apparent amount at stake." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Coins become counters in a game with an agreed scoring rule", "reflection": "The pieces receive a use through the activity rather than through their ordinary denomination. This can picture a group making its own practical terms for participation. A familiar object becomes useful in another arrangement, and understanding the rule matters more than treating its material as inherently valuable." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The coins in your pocket make a pleasing rhythm as you walk", "reflection": "Something carried for practical use becomes part of the pleasure of movement. This may be an ordinary remembered sound or a moment when a routine gives more than its intended result. The enjoyment can stand on its own, with no need to turn the rhythm into a message." } ], "prompts": [ "What measure made the coins useful: number, size, face value or another agreed use?", "Which design, date or sound had a personal association?", "How did their physical form change what you could do with them?" ], "related": [ "money", "cash", "counting" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0458" ], "scope": "miller-0458: Gold, silver, copper and nickel receive differing prosperity, family, relationship, bodily-burden or work forecasts, with a favorable silver exception for the dreamer’s own money preference and its visible appearance. Specific complete passages: Coins — miller-0458 (Heading 458; source lines 5961–5978). Attributed period comparison only; these claims do not validate the original reflection or establish actual outcomes, character, health or relationships." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0043" ], "scope": "luck-0043: Copper, silver and gold coins receive good-fortune, worry and commercial-trouble forecasts respectively; these differ from Miller’s metal-based claims. Specific complete passages: Coins — luck-0043 (Dream section, heading 43; source lines 3614–3617). Attributed period comparison only; these claims do not validate the original reflection or establish actual outcomes, character, health or relationships." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0458", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Coins", "text": "To dream of gold, denotes great prosperity and much pleasure\nderived from sight-seeing and ocean voyages.\n\nSilver coin is unlucky to dream about. Dissensions will arise\nin the most orderly families.\n\nFor a maiden to dream that her lover gives her a silver coin,\nsignifies she will be jilted by him.\n\nCopper coins, denotes despair and physical burdens. Nickel coins,\nimply that work of the lowest nature will devolve upon you.\n\nIf silver coins are your ideal of money, and they are bright and clean,\nor seen distinctly in your possession, the dream will be a propitious one.", "locator": "Heading 458; source lines 5961–5978", "lineStart": 5961, "lineEnd": 5978, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of gold, denotes great prosperity and much pleasure\nderived from sight-seeing and ocean voyages.\n\nSilver coin is unlucky to dream about. Dissensions will arise\nin the most orderly families.\n\nFor a maiden to dream that her lover gives her a silver coin,\nsignifies she will be jilted by him.\n\nCopper coins, denotes despair and physical burdens. Nickel coins,\nimply that work of the lowest nature will devolve upon you.\n\nIf silver coins are your ideal of money, and they are bright and clean,\nor seen distinctly in your possession, the dream will be a propitious one." }, { "id": "luck-0043", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Coins", "text": "(Copper) Good fortune; (silver) worry; (gold) commercial\ntroubles.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 43; source lines 3614–3617", "lineStart": 3614, "lineEnd": 3617, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(Copper) Good fortune; (silver) worry; (gold) commercial\ntroubles." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "coke", "title": "Coke", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of coke, denotes affliction and discord will enter your near future.”", "aliases": [ "coke" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about coke stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0459", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Coke", "text": "To dream of coke, denotes affliction and discord will enter\nyour near future.", "locator": "Heading 459; source lines 5978–5983", "lineStart": 5978, "lineEnd": 5983, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of coke, denotes affliction and discord will enter\nyour near future." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "coke-oven", "title": "Coke Oven", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see coke ovens burning, foretells some unexpected good fortune will result from failure in some enterprise.”", "aliases": [ "coke oven" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about coke oven stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0460", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Coke Oven", "text": "To see coke ovens burning, foretells some unexpected good fortune\nwill result from failure in some enterprise.", "locator": "Heading 460; source lines 5983–5988", "lineStart": 5983, "lineEnd": 5988, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see coke ovens burning, foretells some unexpected good fortune\nwill result from failure in some enterprise." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cold", "title": "Cold", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of suffering from cold, you are warned to look well to your affairs.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "cold" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cold stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0461", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cold", "text": "To dream of suffering from cold, you are warned to look well to your affairs.\nThere are enemies at work to destroy you. Your health is also menaced.", "locator": "Heading 461; source lines 5988–5993", "lineStart": 5988, "lineEnd": 5993, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of suffering from cold, you are warned to look well to your affairs.\nThere are enemies at work to destroy you. Your health is also menaced." }, { "id": "luck-0044", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Cold", "text": "Friends will be kind to you.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 44; source lines 3617–3619", "lineStart": 3617, "lineEnd": 3619, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Friends will be kind to you." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "collar", "title": "Collar", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of wearing a collar, you will have high honors thrust upon you that you will hardly be worthy of.”", "aliases": [ "collar" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about collar stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0463", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Collar", "text": "To dream of wearing a collar, you will have high honors thrust upon you\nthat you will hardly be worthy of. For a woman to dream of collars,\nshe will have many admirers, but no sincere ones, She will be likely\nto remain single for a long while.", "locator": "Heading 463; source lines 6001–6008", "lineStart": 6001, "lineEnd": 6008, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of wearing a collar, you will have high honors thrust upon you\nthat you will hardly be worthy of. For a woman to dream of collars,\nshe will have many admirers, but no sincere ones, She will be likely\nto remain single for a long while." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "college", "title": "College", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "Choosing a path through a larger institution", "summary": "College may stage choices about direction, self-managed time, specialized learning and belonging within a less familiar institution.", "aliases": [ "college" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "College can place a dream between opportunity and the work of arranging your own direction. There may be several buildings, subjects, timetables and groups rather than one path everyone follows. A dream could draw directly from a college you attended or imagine enrollment in an unfamiliar institution. Notice what you are trying to choose or organize before assuming the setting is about an examination.\n\nSelecting a course can make commitment more important than success. You may find several subjects interesting, feel pushed toward a practical option or discover that the available course no longer matches your reason for attending. This might resemble choosing a work specialty or deciding where to spend limited time. The dream does not reveal which real qualification you should pursue; it can describe the experience of choosing under particular conditions.\n\nSelf-managed time can become visible through a long gap between classes or a timetable with competing obligations. A free afternoon might feel spacious, wasteful or difficult to fill. If a present role has fewer clear instructions than an earlier one, the comparison may be useful. Needing structure does not make freedom a mistake, and enjoying flexibility does not prove that every constraint should disappear.\n\nBelonging can involve academic and ordinary life together. A seminar, shared kitchen, residence corridor or society meeting gives a different way of joining the institution. You may be comfortable with the subject while unsure where to sit afterward. A current professional community or new neighborhood could offer a similar separation between competence and social familiarity.\n\nReturning with unfinished administrative business may center a record or practical obligation rather than hidden academic failure. Leaving a course after learning something useful can separate knowledge from the certificate that normally marks it. Actual applications, fees, campus visits, family conversations and earlier student experiences may contribute details directly. A college dream can hold excitement, cost, uncertainty and curiosity at once. Its particular arrangements matter more than treating college as a guaranteed sign of advancement or as evidence that you missed your intended life.", "traditional": "Miller's College passage predicts reaching a sought position and gaining distinction after returning to college. These are attributed historical forecasts, not evidence that enrollment, withdrawal or a qualification will have a particular outcome. The original reading concerns the choices and arrangements actually present in your dream.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "Every course looks interesting but two meet at the same time", "reflection": "The difficulty is a real tradeoff within the dream's choices. This may resemble interests that compete for the same attention rather than a lack of ability. Notice what you use to decide and whether delaying one option remains possible." }, { "title": "You have a whole free afternoon between classes", "reflection": "Unscheduled time changes the rhythm of the institution. The scene could fit wanting room for exploration or feeling uncertain without a clear next task. What you actually do with the interval helps distinguish welcome flexibility from an absence of usable direction." }, { "title": "You understand the seminar but cannot find company afterward", "reflection": "Learning and social contact do not line up automatically. This may resemble being competent in a new role while its informal relationships remain unfamiliar. The scene need not judge your sociability; it can show where a separate kind of introduction would help." }, { "title": "An old enrollment record blocks access to a new course", "reflection": "An administrative detail stands between interest and participation. This could fit a process where earlier information still governs a present option. Keep the practical obstacle distinct from academic ability, and notice whether somebody can update the record or explain what is missing." }, { "title": "You exchange notes with someone studying a different subject", "reflection": "Separate specialties become useful to one another. The scene may picture a project that benefits from another perspective without requiring either person to abandon their own focus. What each contributes makes the cooperation more specific than a general promise of success." }, { "title": "You leave a course with useful learning but no certificate", "reflection": "Knowledge remains while formal recognition is absent. This may resemble gaining something valuable from an experience whose official endpoint no longer fits. Record whether you feel satisfied or disappointed; useful learning and wanting acknowledgment can both matter in the same scene." } ], "prompts": [ "What choice or arrangement occupied you most at the college?", "How did you use the freedom or structure the setting offered?", "Where did learning and belonging come together or come apart in the dream?" ], "related": [ "school", "high-school", "graduation", "homework", "library" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0464" ], "scope": "Historical comparison only: Miller forecasts obtaining a sought position from college and distinction through work from returning to college. Exact owned passages: College — miller-0464 (Heading 464; source lines 6008–6014). These period claims do not validate the original reflections or establish present-day outcomes." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection independently reviewed for content and source scope. Historical accounts remain attributed period writing. Human publication review pending.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Choosing a direction", "reflection": "Courses and competing interests can make commitment concrete without deciding which waking path is correct." }, { "title": "Organizing freedom", "reflection": "Gaps and conflicting timetables may picture the need for structure inside a role that leaves more decisions to you." }, { "title": "Several forms of belonging", "reflection": "Academic participation, housing and informal groups can offer different experiences of finding a place." } ], "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0464", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "College", "text": "To dream of a college, denotes you are soon to advance to a position\nlong sought after. To dream that you are back in college, foretells you\nwill receive distinction through some well favored work.", "locator": "Heading 464; source lines 6008–6014", "lineStart": 6008, "lineEnd": 6014, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a college, denotes you are soon to advance to a position\nlong sought after. To dream that you are back in college, foretells you\nwill receive distinction through some well favored work." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "colliery-or-coal-mine", "title": "Colliery or Coal-Mine", "type": "dreams", "category": "Other symbols", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of being in a coal-mine or colliery and seeing miners, denotes that some evil will assert its power for your downfall.”", "aliases": [ "colliery or coal-mine", "colliery", "coal-mine" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about colliery or coal-mine stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0465", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Colliery or Coal-Mine", "text": "To dream of being in a coal-mine or colliery and seeing miners,\ndenotes that some evil will assert its power for your downfall;\nbut if you dream of holding a share in a coal-mine, it denotes\nyour safe investment in some deal.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of mining coal, foreshows she will become\nthe wife of a real-estate dealer or dentist.", "locator": "Heading 465; source lines 6014–6024", "lineStart": 6014, "lineEnd": 6024, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being in a coal-mine or colliery and seeing miners,\ndenotes that some evil will assert its power for your downfall;\nbut if you dream of holding a share in a coal-mine, it denotes\nyour safe investment in some deal.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of mining coal, foreshows she will become\nthe wife of a real-estate dealer or dentist." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "collision", "title": "Collision", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a collision, you will meet with an accident of a serious type and disappointments in business.”", "aliases": [ "collision" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about collision stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0466", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Collision", "text": "To dream of a collision, you will meet with an accident of a serious type\nand disappointments in business.\n\nFor a young woman to see a collision, denotes she will be unable\nto decide between lovers, and will be the cause of wrangles.", "locator": "Heading 466; source lines 6024–6032", "lineStart": 6024, "lineEnd": 6032, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a collision, you will meet with an accident of a serious type\nand disappointments in business.\n\nFor a young woman to see a collision, denotes she will be unable\nto decide between lovers, and will be the cause of wrangles." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "colonel", "title": "Colonel", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing or being commanded by a colonel, denotes you will fail to reach any prominence in social or business circles.”", "aliases": [ "colonel" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about colonel stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0462", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Colonel", "text": "To dream of seeing or being commanded by a colonel, denotes you will fail\nto reach any prominence in social or business circles.\n\nIf you are a colonel, it denotes you will contrive to hold position\nabove those of friends or acquaintances.", "locator": "Heading 462; source lines 5993–6001", "lineStart": 5993, "lineEnd": 6001, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing or being commanded by a colonel, denotes you will fail\nto reach any prominence in social or business circles.\n\nIf you are a colonel, it denotes you will contrive to hold position\nabove those of friends or acquaintances." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "colors", "title": "Colors", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "summary": "A dream’s palette can explore how attention is arranged, a familiar setting that changes character, or who chooses what becomes visible.", "tagline": "The palette gives the scene an arrangement.", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "aliases": [ "color", "colors", "colour", "colours", "dream color", "dream colors", "dream colour", "dream colours" ], "psychological": "A dream in which every object has a competing color can picture difficulty finding what deserves attention first. Several tasks, invitations, or pieces of information may each seem to require an immediate response. If the variety delights you, the same scene can express room to explore without settling on one priority. The comparison depends on how the palette affects your activity, rather than assigning a separate emotion to every hue that appears.\n\nOne colored detail within an otherwise ordinary setting creates a different arrangement. A small contribution or preference may become conspicuous because its surroundings give it a distinct place. A highlighted line in a shared document or a personal object on an unfamiliar desk offers a waking parallel. Wanting to protect that detail differs from wanting the whole setting to match it. Attention can make something meaningful without establishing why that particular color was chosen.\n\nColors changing while the objects stay the same can picture an experience whose practical contents remain familiar but whose atmosphere no longer does. A workplace with unchanged duties may feel different after a new agreement, or a remembered room may acquire another character when someone else uses it. Welcome change and loss of familiarity create different readings. The scene can make a changed relationship visible without claiming that the objects themselves have become better or worse.\n\nChoosing a palette introduces authorship. You may be arranging how something will appear to others, or making room for a preference that a shared setting usually overlooks. Another person replacing your choices can shift attention toward whose account becomes visible. A disagreement about the name of a color may similarly picture different descriptions of a shared experience, especially when neither participant is allowed to explain what they actually see.\n\nFading colors can make distinctions harder to maintain, while a simplified palette may make the task easier. Those are different outcomes: less variety can feel like loss or like a workable limit. A real design, photograph, screen, or remembered setting may supply direct context. Color does not provide a universal personality or emotional code. This entry follows the arrangement of several hues; an entire monochrome style or one specific appearance can deserve its own reading.", "traditional": "No general Colors historical heading is attached to this new topic. Older garment, animal, and letter passages discuss particular colors within those subjects and retain their original owners. These are original reflective comparisons. The NINDS citation supplies general dream background, not a table linking hues to meanings.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "What receives attention", "reflection": "Variety can offer exploration or competing demands; one distinct detail can gain a place without changing everything around it." }, { "title": "Familiar contents, changed atmosphere", "reflection": "A palette shift can make an unchanged setting feel newly arranged or less recognizable." }, { "title": "Authorship of appearance", "reflection": "Choosing, replacing, or naming colors can give different participants a voice in how the shared scene is presented." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "Every object competes for attention through its color", "reflection": "The setting offers many possible starting points without a clear priority. This may picture several demands arriving together. Enjoyment of variety differs from feeling unable to begin; simplifying the arrangement can help if the competing appearances obstruct the activity you actually want." }, { "title": "One colored detail stands apart", "reflection": "A small feature receives a distinct place within the larger setting. This can picture a preference or contribution becoming visible. Its value may concern the contrast with its surroundings rather than a universal meaning of the hue or a need for everything to match." }, { "title": "The palette changes while the objects stay familiar", "reflection": "The same practical setting acquires another character. This may picture changed terms around an established routine. Welcome renewal differs from losing a familiar atmosphere, and neither response requires deciding that the unchanged objects have secretly become good or bad." }, { "title": "Someone replaces the palette you chose", "reflection": "Another account of appearance takes the place of your preference. This can resemble a shared project in which presentation changes without your participation. Discussion may restore a say over the result, while an imposed replacement makes authorship more central than the particular hues." }, { "title": "Two people give the same color different names", "reflection": "A shared experience receives descriptions that do not align. This may picture wanting your account understood without forcing another participant to use identical words. The disagreement need not prove defective perception; explaining the difference can become more useful than choosing a winner." }, { "title": "Fewer colors make the task easier", "reflection": "Reduced variety creates a usable arrangement rather than simply taking something away. This can picture a chosen limit on options or demands. Relief differs from unwanted fading; the meaning comes from what the simpler palette lets you do in the particular scene." } ], "prompts": [ "How did the palette direct or divide your attention?", "What changed in the experience while its practical contents remained familiar?", "Whose choices or descriptions shaped how the scene appeared?" ], "related": [ "dreaming-in-black-and-white", "black", "white", "gray", "rainbow" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0468", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Combing", "text": "To dream of combing one's hair, denotes the illness or death of a friend\nor relative. Decay of friendship and loss of property is also indicated\nby this dream{.}\n\n\n[41] See Hair.", "locator": "Heading 468; source lines 6044–6053", "lineStart": 6044, "lineEnd": 6053, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of combing one's hair, denotes the illness or death of a friend\nor relative. Decay of friendship and loss of property is also indicated\nby this dream[.] See Hair." }, { "id": "artemidorus-069", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of the Kembing ones selfe, and of curled Hayre.", "text": "TO dreame [illegible passage]o combe him or her selfe, is good both to man and woman, for it signifyes to goe out of evill time and affayres. But to plate and curle his hayres is good onely for women, and Courtiers which use it. To others it is debt and impeachment for money, and sometimes imprisoning and sedition.", "locator": "Book 2, encoded section 69", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription-with-gaps", "book": "2", "displayText": "To dreame [illegible passage] o combe him or her selfe, is good both to man and woman, for it signifyes to goe out of evill time and affayres. But to plate and curle his hayres is good onely for women, and Courtiers which use it. To others it is debt and impeachment for money, and sometimes imprisoning and sedition.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Kembing ones selfe, and of curled Hayre” is shown on the Combing page: archaic \"Kembing\" = combing" }, { "id": "noe-0108", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Combing", "text": "For any person to dream of combing\nhim or herself, is good, both for man or woman, for it signifies to get\nout of evil times or affairs.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 110; source lines 531–533", "lineStart": 531, "lineEnd": 533, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For any person to dream of combing\nhim or herself, is good, both for man or woman, for it signifies to get\nout of evil times or affairs." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0469", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Comedy", "text": "To dream of being at a light play, denotes that foolish and short-lived\npleasures will be indulged in by the dreamer.\n\nTo dream of seeing a comedy, is significant of light pleasures\nand pleasant tasks.", "locator": "Heading 469; source lines 6053–6061", "lineStart": 6053, "lineEnd": 6061, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being at a light play, denotes that foolish and short-lived\npleasures will be indulged in by the dreamer.\n\nTo dream of seeing a comedy, is significant of light pleasures\nand pleasant tasks." }, { "id": "fontaine-0155", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Comedy", "text": "To dream you see a comedy, or farce, is a good omen. To the\nbusiness man it betokens success, and to the maiden a speedy marriage\nto the one she loves. 22.", "locator": "Heading 155; source line 1611", "lineStart": 1611, "lineEnd": 1615, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see a comedy, or farce, is a good omen. To the\nbusiness man it betokens success, and to the maiden a speedy marriage\nto the one she loves." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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After such a dream\nchange, if possible, your present place of residence.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 86; source lines 441–445", "lineStart": 441, "lineEnd": 445, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see one of these extraordinary ethereal\nsubstances, is ominous of war, plague, famine, and death; to the lover it\nforebodes an entire frustration of his hopes; to the farmer, failure of\ncrops; and to the seaman, storms and shipwrecks. After such a dream\nchange, if possible, your present place of residence." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9612", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Comet", "heading": "Comet", "text": "A dream of death and illness (Artemidorus) ; here the portent is apparent in the legends connected with these heavenly bodies.", "lineStart": 9612, "lineEnd": 9615, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 209; NLM OCR lines 9612–9615", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9612, "lineEnd": 9615, "printedPage": 209, "printedPageEnd": 209 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Comet. — A dream of death and illness (Artemidorus) ; here \nthe portent is apparent in the legends connected with these \nheavenly bodies. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Comet" }, "displayText": "A dream of death and illness (Artemidorus); here the portent is apparent in the legends connected with these heavenly bodies." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "artemidorus-146", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of Comfort.", "text": "IF you dreame you have comfort of any one: to the rich and happy, it is mishap and injury: to the poore and afflicted, ayde and comfort.", "locator": "Book 3, encoded section 146", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "3", "displayText": "If you dreame you have comfort of any one: to the rich and happy, it is mishap and injury: to the poore and afflicted, ayde and comfort." }, { "id": "noe-0109", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Comfort", "text": "To dream you have comforts of\nany one, betokens to the rich and happy, injury and mishap; but to the\npoor and afflicted, aid and comfort.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 111; source lines 533–535", "lineStart": 533, "lineEnd": 535, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you have comforts of\nany one, betokens to the rich and happy, injury and mishap; but to the\npoor and afflicted, aid and comfort." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0471", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Comic Songs", "text": "To hear comic songs in dreams, foretells you will disregard opportunity\nto advance your affairs and enjoy the companionship of the pleasure loving.\nTo sing one, proves you will enjoy much pleasure for a time, but difficulties\nwill overtake you.", "locator": "Heading 471; source lines 6070–6077", "lineStart": 6070, "lineEnd": 6077, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To hear comic songs in dreams, foretells you will disregard opportunity\nto advance your affairs and enjoy the companionship of the pleasure loving.\nTo sing one, proves you will enjoy much pleasure for a time, but difficulties\nwill overtake you." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "command", "title": "Command", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of being commanded, denotes that you will be humbled in some way by your associates for scorn…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "command" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about command stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0472", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Command", "text": "To dream of being commanded, denotes that you will be humbled in some way\nby your associates for scorn shown your superiors.\n\nTo dream of giving a command, you will have some honor conferred upon you.\nIf this is done in a tyrannical or boastful way disappointments will follow.", "locator": "Heading 472; source lines 6077–6085", "lineStart": 6077, "lineEnd": 6085, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being commanded, denotes that you will be humbled in some way\nby your associates for scorn shown your superiors.\n\nTo dream of giving a command, you will have some honor conferred upon you.\nIf this is done in a tyrannical or boastful way disappointments will follow." }, { "id": "fontaine-0157", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Command", "text": "To dream you command any one, shows trouble; to dream you see\none command, signifies anger and authority. 14, 62, 7.", "locator": "Heading 157; source line 1618", "lineStart": 1618, "lineEnd": 1621, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you command any one, shows trouble; to dream you see\none command, signifies anger and authority." }, { "id": "noe-0110", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Command", "text": "To dream you command any\none, signifies trouble; to dream you see one command, signifies anger and\nauthority.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 112; source lines 535–537", "lineStart": 535, "lineEnd": 537, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you command any\none, signifies trouble; to dream you see one command, signifies anger and\nauthority." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0473", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Commandment", "text": "To dream of receiving commands, foretells you will be unwisely\ninfluenced by persons of stronger will than your own.\nTo read or hear the Ten Commandments read, denotes you\nwill fall into errors from which you will hardly escape,\neven with the counsels of friends of wise and unerring judgment.", "locator": "Heading 473; source lines 6085–6093", "lineStart": 6085, "lineEnd": 6093, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of receiving commands, foretells you will be unwisely\ninfluenced by persons of stronger will than your own.\nTo read or hear the Ten Commandments read, denotes you\nwill fall into errors from which you will hardly escape,\neven with the counsels of friends of wise and unerring judgment." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "commerce", "title": "Commerce", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are engaged in commerce, denotes you will handle your opportunities wisely and advantageously.”", "aliases": [ "commerce" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about commerce stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0474", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Commerce", "text": "To dream that you are engaged in commerce, denotes you\nwill handle your opportunities wisely and advantageously.\nTo dream of failures and gloomy outlooks in commercial circles,\ndenotes trouble and ominous threatening of failure in\nreal business life.", "locator": "Heading 474; source lines 6093–6101", "lineStart": 6093, "lineEnd": 6101, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are engaged in commerce, denotes you\nwill handle your opportunities wisely and advantageously.\nTo dream of failures and gloomy outlooks in commercial circles,\ndenotes trouble and ominous threatening of failure in\nreal business life." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "committee", "title": "Committee", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a committee, foretells that you will be surprised into doing some distasteful work.”", "aliases": [ "committee" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about committee stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0475", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Committee", "text": "To dream of a committee, foretells that you will be surprised\ninto doing some distasteful work. For one to wait on you,\nforetells some unfruitful labor will be assigned you.", "locator": "Heading 475; source lines 6101–6107", "lineStart": 6101, "lineEnd": 6107, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a committee, foretells that you will be surprised\ninto doing some distasteful work. For one to wait on you,\nforetells some unfruitful labor will be assigned you." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "companion", "title": "Companion", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing a wife or husband, signifies small anxieties and probable sickness.”", "aliases": [ "companion" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about companion stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0476", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Companion", "text": "To dream of seeing a wife or husband, signifies small anxieties\nand probable sickness.\n\nTo dream of social companions, denotes light and frivolous pastimes\nwill engage your attention hindering you from performing your duties.", "locator": "Heading 476; source lines 6107–6115", "lineStart": 6107, "lineEnd": 6115, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing a wife or husband, signifies small anxieties\nand probable sickness.\n\nTo dream of social companions, denotes light and frivolous pastimes\nwill engage your attention hindering you from performing your duties." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "compass", "title": "Compass", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a compass, denotes you will be forced to struggle in narrow limits, thus making elevation more toilsome but fuller of honor.”", "aliases": [ "compass" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about compass stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0477", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Compass", "text": "To dream of a compass, denotes you will be forced to struggle\nin narrow limits, thus making elevation more toilsome but\nfuller of honor.\n\nTo dream of the compass or mariner's needle, foretells you will be surrounded\nby prosperous circumstances and honest people will favor you.\n\nTo see one pointing awry, foretells threatened loss and deception.", "locator": "Heading 477; source lines 6115–6126", "lineStart": 6115, "lineEnd": 6126, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a compass, denotes you will be forced to struggle\nin narrow limits, thus making elevation more toilsome but\nfuller of honor.\n\nTo dream of the compass or mariner's needle, foretells you will be surrounded\nby prosperous circumstances and honest people will favor you.\n\nTo see one pointing awry, foretells threatened loss and deception." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "compassion", "title": "Compassion", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "Care can acknowledge a difficulty without taking over the whole situation.", "summary": "Compassion may picture responding to difficulty with care, accepting support, or finding a form of help that leaves room for choice.", "aliases": [ "compassion" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "Compassion can make another person's difficulty feel close enough to respond to. In a dream, you may stop beside someone struggling, share an ordinary resource, or stay while they speak. The emphasis may be on acknowledging what is happening rather than solving it. That could fit a wish to be more present in a relationship, or relief at discovering that care can be small and practical instead of a complete rescue.\n\nThe form of help changes the reading. Bringing a chair to someone who is tired differs from deciding their next move without asking. A scene in which you listen and adjust may picture care that respects another person's knowledge of their own needs. Help that overwhelms them can instead expose tension between wanting to relieve discomfort and needing an immediate result. The dream's imagined response does not establish whether a real person needs help or what support would suit them.\n\nReceiving compassion may bring attention to the conditions under which you allow care. Someone responds kindly before you can explain yourself, or stays after learning that you cannot finish a task. This can picture wanting difficulty to be met without a verdict about your worth. If you resist the kindness, the scene may concern embarrassment, unfamiliar dependence, or a wish to retain control. Accepting support and preserving choice do not have to be opposites.\n\nCompassion can also meet a limit. You want to help several people, but time, materials, or information run out. The feeling may resemble a period in which concern exceeds your available capacity. A smaller contribution, cooperation with someone else, or a person declining your offer can change the scene without making care less sincere. The useful tension is what you can offer willingly, not whether you can remove every difficulty.\n\nSomeone you dislike may receive your compassion, or you may receive it from an unexpected person. That can give form to seeing more than one side of a relationship while retaining a disagreement. It need not require forgiveness, closeness, or renewed contact. Recent acts of kindness, stories about hardship, and your own experience of needing assistance may provide direct material. The dream can explore how care is given without assigning you responsibility for imagined suffering.", "traditional": "No verified historical passage directly defining compassion is supplied. Charity in the archive concerns giving or receiving aid and includes period forecasts; that is not evidence for this entry's broader reflection on care, listening, and limits.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Acknowledgment before solution", "reflection": "Remaining present with a difficulty may make being understood more important than receiving an immediate answer. Care can have value even when the problem remains." }, { "title": "Help that preserves agency", "reflection": "Support feels different when the recipient can choose its form. An imposed solution may make control, rather than kindness, the central tension." }, { "title": "Concern within capacity", "reflection": "Limited time or resources can make care feel insufficient. A smaller chosen contribution may picture a workable boundary without erasing concern." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "You sit beside someone who is struggling", "reflection": "Your presence is useful before any solution appears. The scene may fit wanting a conversation where difficulty can be acknowledged without being immediately explained away." }, { "title": "A practical offer meets the actual need", "reflection": "A simple object or shared task makes life easier within the dream. This may picture care that pays attention to context rather than assuming that a larger intervention is better." }, { "title": "Your help is not wanted", "reflection": "The other person declines, and you decide how to respond. The scene may explore respecting a limit while retaining goodwill; a refusal does not establish that your concern was unwelcome overall." }, { "title": "Someone is kind before you explain yourself", "reflection": "Care arrives without a successful defense or completed task. This may fit wanting room to be tired, uncertain, or imperfect without first proving that you deserve support." }, { "title": "Several people need more than you can offer", "reflection": "Concern and capacity come apart. Cooperation or a smaller task may change the scene, making realistic contribution more central than rescuing everyone yourself." }, { "title": "You care about a person you disagree with", "reflection": "Their difficulty becomes visible without settling the disagreement. The scene may allow concern and a boundary to coexist, rather than instructing forgiveness or renewed closeness." } ], "prompts": [ "What difficulty was actually visible, and what help was offered?", "Did care leave the recipient room to decide?", "What form of support would fit my current capacity?" ], "related": [ "charity", "hug", "trust", "affection" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "completion", "title": "Completion", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of completing a task or piece of work, denotes that you will have acquired a competency early in life, and that you can spend your…”", "aliases": [ "completion" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about completion stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0478", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Completion", "text": "To dream of completing a task or piece of work, denotes that you\nwill have acquired a competency early in life, and that you can\nspend your days as you like and wherever you please.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she has completed a garment,\ndenotes that she will soon decide on a husband.\n\nTo dream of completing a journey, you will have the means to make\none whenever you like.", "locator": "Heading 478; source lines 6126–6138", "lineStart": 6126, "lineEnd": 6138, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of completing a task or piece of work, denotes that you\nwill have acquired a competency early in life, and that you can\nspend your days as you like and wherever you please.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she has completed a garment,\ndenotes that she will soon decide on a husband.\n\nTo dream of completing a journey, you will have the means to make\none whenever you like." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "complexion", "title": "Complexion", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you have a beautiful complexion is lucky.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "complexion" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about complexion stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0479", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Complexion", "text": "To dream that you have a beautiful complexion is lucky.\nYou will pass through pleasing incidents.\n\nTo dream that you have bad and dark complexion, denotes\ndisappointment and sickness.", "locator": "Heading 479; source lines 6138–6146", "lineStart": 6138, "lineEnd": 6146, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you have a beautiful complexion is lucky.\nYou will pass through pleasing incidents.\n\nTo dream that you have bad and dark complexion, denotes\ndisappointment and sickness." }, { "id": "noe-0111", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Complexion", "text": "To dream you see an unknown person of a brown\ncomplexion, is a sign of glory, honor, success and dispatch of business.\nIf one dreams he sees a woman of a very brown complexion, it signifies a\nvery dangerous disease. If you see a woman unknown in your dream, with\nlong and comely hair, with clear complexion, it is a very good sign.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 113; source lines 537–542", "lineStart": 537, "lineEnd": 542, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see an unknown person of a brown\ncomplexion, is a sign of glory, honor, success and dispatch of business.\nIf one dreams he sees a woman of a very brown complexion, it signifies a\nvery dangerous disease. If you see a woman unknown in your dream, with\nlong and comely hair, with clear complexion, it is a very good sign." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "composing", "title": "Composing", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see in your dreams a composing stick, foretells that difficult problems will disclose themselves, and you will be at great trouble to…”", "aliases": [ "composing" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about composing stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0480", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Composing", "text": "To see in your dreams a composing stick, foretells that difficult problems\nwill disclose themselves, and you will be at great trouble to meet them.", "locator": "Heading 480; source lines 6146–6151", "lineStart": 6146, "lineEnd": 6151, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see in your dreams a composing stick, foretells that difficult problems\nwill disclose themselves, and you will be at great trouble to meet them." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "computer", "title": "Computer", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "tagline": "A familiar task meets an unfamiliar set of rules.", "summary": "A computer dream can make work, messages, memory, or privacy depend on an unreliable screen. Notice the task and what the machine did instead.", "aliases": [ "computer", "computers", "laptop", "laptops", "pc", "desktop computer", "computer dream", "broken laptop", "computer crashing", "using a computer" ], "status": "REVIEW", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A computer holds many possible tasks, so the dream’s action is more informative than the hardware alone. You might write, search, edit, reply, watch, save, or delete. Describe what you wanted to accomplish and what appeared instead. A frozen document, endless windows, and a keyboard producing unexpected words each creates a distinct obstacle rather than one universal image of frustration.\n\nIf the scene resembles waking work, keep the comparison specific. An unfinished email, concern about saving a file, or a deadline linked to a program may provide both practical detail and emotional stakes. Long periods at a screen can also leave familiar shapes and routines for a dream to reuse. It need not mean that technology controls your life or that a hidden message lies in unreadable text.\n\nPrivacy can matter when another person sees the display or when unfamiliar files open. Record what was actually shown, who was present, and whether you felt permitted to read or share it. The dream does not reveal another person’s secrets or establish a security incident. If the scene creates a discovery, distinguish the invented contents from anything you know while awake.\n\nYour attempts to continue can shift the story. You may restart, switch to paper, ask for help, or realise the task no longer matters. A successful alternative may be more useful to explore than the initial malfunction. If the screen seemed wonderfully capable, notice what it made easier rather than looking only for conflict. The computer can be a workspace, a tool for connection, or an imagined archive; your relationship to the task gives it personal shape.", "traditional": "No historical account is attached to this specific computer scene. Older subjects involving writing, letters, or work cannot establish a traditional reading for screens, software, passwords, or electronic files. This entry does not transfer their meanings into modern digital activity.\n\nEveryday context is often concrete: a program used recently, an unsaved document, a notification, a new interface, or an actual repair. Record the familiar elements and the impossible ones. A real keyboard may coexist with a screen that opens onto a room or changes language whenever you look away. Preserving both details is more useful than treating the entire machine as a single symbol. If you remember text, note whether it was legible in the scene or only seemed meaningful. Dream words are material for reflection, not reliable instructions, recovered data, or evidence about another person’s communications.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "The screen freezes before you save", "reflection": "The unfinished task gives the interruption its stakes. Describe what might be lost and whether another copy existed in the dream. Compare with a specific concern about preserving effort, while recognising that the scene does not show a real file problem." }, { "title": "Unfamiliar files open on the desktop", "reflection": "Notice whether you chose to open them and how you understood their ownership. The scene may explore curiosity or privacy, but its contents are invented evidence. It cannot reveal what another person actually wrote, stored, or concealed." }, { "title": "You finish the task away from the computer", "reflection": "A move to paper, conversation, or another tool changes the relationship to the obstacle. Describe why the alternative worked and how you felt afterward. The scene may offer a useful comparison with flexibility, without being a tested solution to a waking problem." } ], "prompts": [ "What task gave the computer its importance?", "Which part of the display was familiar, and which was impossible?", "What became possible when you changed how you approached the task?" ], "related": [ "a-software-update-interrupting-a-task", "office", "work", "writing", "password" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia expansion written on 2026-10-13, awaiting human publication review. Interpretations are conditional invitations to reflection, not validated symbolic meanings, predictions, diagnoses, or evidence about other people. Historical coverage is identified separately from original everyday context; research citations provide general context only.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "concert", "title": "Concert", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "aliases": [ "concert" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "summary": "A concert may explore access to an occasion, a response that feels your own and the company around the event.", "tagline": "An occasion to attend in a way that fits your interest.", "psychological": "A concert in a dream may gather an occasion, other people and your own interest into one experience. Being there can matter even when the music is indistinct. A seat, invitation or program can affect what participation feels like, while pleasure may arise from listening quietly, sharing an outing or discovering something unexpected. These possibilities differ from performing for an audience yourself.\n\nAccess can depend on more than a document. A ticket whose number changes while an usher still recognizes you may place practical welcome beside an unreliable procedure. This can resemble being invited to an event or project while its administrative details remain unsettled. Relief might come from recognition; unease may remain if you wanted a dependable arrangement rather than a personal exception.\n\nThe available place can serve competing needs. An excellent view far from your companion might provide access to the performance while separating you from the company that made the outing wanted. Neither need has to be trivial. The dream can make a choice concrete without insisting that attention to the event and closeness to another person must always compete.\n\nYour response may differ from the surrounding response. Quiet enjoyment amid conspicuous applause can feel sufficient, awkward or private. A changed program may disappoint an expectation while offering a welcome discovery. These differences can explore how you participate in a shared occasion without assigning a superior taste or a required emotional reaction to its audience.\n\nThe edges of the event can carry their own value. Looking forward to a conversation during the interval may reveal that the occasion's company matters as much as its performance. A concert watched remotely can also feel shared, even when you are alone in the room. That scene may concern the form of participation you want across distance, rather than assuming that physical presence is the only meaningful access.\n\nRecent invitations, broadcasts or outings may supply direct context. The emotional possibilities belong to your experience of the dream, not to a health assessment or proof of another person's approval. A satisfying concert can simply make enjoyment available; a difficult one may clarify what kind of access, company or response would have made the occasion fit you better.", "traditional": "Miller's account ranks a concert of 'high musical order' favorably for pleasure, literary or business life and young people's love, while treating ballet-singer concerts adversely. Fontaine forecasts health or recovery. The editions offer evaluative and health claims of their own period; they do not establish outcomes for a current dream. The remote-concert scene below is an original modern comparison, not a claim found in those accounts.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Recognition and access to an occasion", "reflection": "Practical welcome can differ from whether the arrangements feel dependable." }, { "title": "A response that fits your interest", "reflection": "Pleasure or disappointment can be personal within a shared event." }, { "title": "Company around and beyond the performance", "reflection": "The outing's conversations or its remote connections can carry part of its value." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A changing ticket and a welcoming usher", "reflection": "The number on your ticket changes, yet the usher recognizes you and welcomes you in. Personal recognition may ease an unsettled procedure. The scene can hold relief alongside a wish for arrangements that work reliably, without making the invitation depend on an exception." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A clear view far from your companion", "reflection": "Your seat offers a clear view of the stage but places you far from the person you came with. Access to the performance and wanted company become separate needs. The tension can concern how an enjoyable occasion might accommodate both, rather than deciding which should always matter more." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Enjoying the event quietly", "reflection": "The surrounding audience responds conspicuously while your pleasure remains quiet. Your response may feel complete, or the difference may make it uncomfortable to show. This scene can explore whether the occasion allows a form of participation that fits your interest without requiring a matching display." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A program changes unexpectedly", "reflection": "The announced performance is replaced by something unfamiliar. Disappointment at losing the anticipated experience can coexist with curiosity about the new one. The dream may give shape to an expectation and a discovery, without requiring either to be judged as a better kind of art." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The interval conversation is the wanted part", "reflection": "You look forward to speaking with someone during the interval more than to the next performance. The concert may provide an occasion for company that has its own value. Enjoying its edges does not have to diminish the event; it can clarify what made the outing wanted." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "A remote concert feels shared", "reflection": "You watch alone in a room, yet the concert feels connected to people elsewhere. Distance and participation can coexist in a satisfying way. Unease might concern wanting a more responsive exchange; pleasure may come from a shared occasion that does not require everyone to occupy one space." } ], "prompts": [ "What made attending this concert worthwhile to you?", "How did the arrangements affect the access or company you wanted?", "Which response felt your own, and how did the surrounding occasion accommodate it?" ], "related": [ "music", "singing", "dancing", "ticket" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0481" ], "scope": "The complete Concert account ranks high musical order favorably for pleasure, literary or trade life and young people’s love; ballet-singer concerts receive adverse companion, friendship and business claims. Exact account: miller-0481 — Concert (Heading 481; source lines 6151–6162). Attributed historical claims only; no forecast or symbolic meaning is validated by this citation." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0156" ], "scope": "Concert receives health and recovery forecasts; these are historical claims, not medical evidence. Exact account: fontaine-0156 — Concert (Heading 156; source line 1615). Attributed historical claims only; no forecast or symbolic meaning is validated by this citation." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0481", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Concert", "text": "To dream of a concert of a high musical order, denotes delightful\nseasons of pleasure, and literary work to the author.\nTo the business man it portends successful trade, and to the young\nit signifies unalloyed bliss and faithful loves.\n\nOrdinary concerts such as engage ballet singers, denote that\ndisagreeable companions and ungrateful friends will be met with.\nBusiness will show a falling off.", "locator": "Heading 481; source lines 6151–6162", "lineStart": 6151, "lineEnd": 6162, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a concert of a high musical order, denotes delightful\nseasons of pleasure, and literary work to the author.\nTo the business man it portends successful trade, and to the young\nit signifies unalloyed bliss and faithful loves.\n\nOrdinary concerts such as engage ballet singers, denote that\ndisagreeable companions and ungrateful friends will be met with.\nBusiness will show a falling off." }, { "id": "fontaine-0156", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Concert", "text": "To dream of being at a concert, foretells the enjoyment of\ngood health; to the sick, recovery. 12, 22.", "locator": "Heading 156; source line 1615", "lineStart": 1615, "lineEnd": 1618, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being at a concert, foretells the enjoyment of\ngood health; to the sick, recovery." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "concubine", "title": "Concubine", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “For a man to dream that he is in company with a concubine, forecasts he is in danger of public disgrace, striving to keep from the world his…”", "aliases": [ "concubine" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about concubine stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0482", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Concubine", "text": "For a man to dream that he is in company with a concubine,\nforecasts he is in danger of public disgrace, striving to keep\nfrom the world his true character and state of business.\n\nFor a woman to dream that she is a concubine, indicates that she\nwill degrade herself by her own improprieties.\n\nFor a man to dream that his mistress is untrue, denotes that he has\nold enemies to encounter. Expected reverses will arise.", "locator": "Heading 482; source lines 6162–6174", "lineStart": 6162, "lineEnd": 6174, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a man to dream that he is in company with a concubine,\nforecasts he is in danger of public disgrace, striving to keep\nfrom the world his true character and state of business.\n\nFor a woman to dream that she is a concubine, indicates that she\nwill degrade herself by her own improprieties.\n\nFor a man to dream that his mistress is untrue, denotes that he has\nold enemies to encounter. Expected reverses will arise." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "confectionary", "title": "Confectionary", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of impure confectionary, denotes that an enemy in the guise of a friend will enter your privacy and discover secrets of moment to…”", "aliases": [ "confectionary" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about confectionary stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0483", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Confectionary", "text": "To dream of impure confectionary, denotes that an enemy in the guise\nof a friend will enter your privacy and discover secrets of moment\nto your opponents.", "locator": "Heading 483; source lines 6174–6180", "lineStart": 6174, "lineEnd": 6180, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of impure confectionary, denotes that an enemy in the guise\nof a friend will enter your privacy and discover secrets of moment\nto your opponents." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "confession", "title": "Confession", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "Telling something and carrying a feeling of guilt are different events.", "summary": "Confession may explore chosen disclosure, pressure to explain yourself, or the difference between being heard and being absolved.", "aliases": [ "confession", "confessing" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A confession makes a private fact into an encounter. In a dream, you may finally say something difficult, reveal an ordinary preference, or be asked to admit to an act you cannot remember. The meaning depends on what is disclosed and whether speaking is chosen. An admission may picture wanting less distance between your private experience and what another person understands, without establishing that you have a hidden wrong to reveal.\n\nThe listener changes the stakes. A person who stays curious can make disclosure feel like clarification; an audience that grows without your permission can make it feel like exposure. That may resemble uncertainty about who should know a personal matter or how much context a conversation needs. The dream's listener does not reveal the actual person's likely response. A calm scene can express a wish for understanding without predicting that understanding will follow in waking life.\n\nBeing pressured to confess creates a different subject. Someone assumes guilt, supplies words you are expected to repeat, or promises relief only if you accept their version. This may picture having too little room to describe your own experience. It can fit an ordinary disagreement in which explanation feels predetermined. The dream is not recovered evidence of an act, and its accusation does not create an obligation to apologize or make an admission.\n\nA confession may concern something that is not wrongdoing at all. Saying that you dislike an activity, want a different role, or cannot meet an expectation can feel momentous when the relationship depends on keeping that preference quiet. The scene may give honesty the feeling of risk. Relief afterward could concern no longer maintaining an image, while sadness may concern the possibility that the relationship must change. Those feelings can coexist without deciding that disclosure is always required.\n\nA formal religious confession introduces a particular personal or cultural setting. The roles, words, privacy, and response in your own account matter more than a borrowed universal verdict. An invented admission can also arise from a story, conversation, or remembered ritual. The useful distinction is between saying what happened in the dream, exploring what openness felt like, and deciding what is true while awake. A dreamed confession neither proves an offense nor supplies absolution for an actual situation.", "traditional": "Miller's 1901 Priest account says confessing to a priest forecasts humiliation and sorrow, and treats the priest's presence as a warning about imperfections. This is a specific period religious forecast, not evidence of wrongdoing or a universal meaning of confession. The present entry also covers secular disclosure, which that passage does not define.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Chosen openness", "reflection": "A voluntary disclosure may picture wanting to be understood more accurately. Its significance can lie in giving another person access to a preference or experience previously kept private." }, { "title": "An audience you can choose", "reflection": "Privacy and the listener's response change the encounter. Being heard differs from having information exposed to people you did not intend to include." }, { "title": "Admission demanded in advance", "reflection": "Pressure to accept a supplied accusation may make the scene about voice and authority. A dreamed demand does not establish that any wrong occurred." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "You choose to tell someone a private matter", "reflection": "Speaking makes the relationship more informed within the dream. Relief may concern no longer sustaining an incomplete picture, rather than proof that disclosure is required while awake." }, { "title": "You are pushed to admit an act you cannot recall", "reflection": "The accusation arrives without an event you can verify. The scene may make limited room for your own account visible; it does not recover a forgotten offense." }, { "title": "The listener asks what you actually mean", "reflection": "Curiosity replaces an immediate verdict. This may picture wanting context and clarification to matter, especially when a waking conversation has felt reduced to a label." }, { "title": "Your words reach an unintended audience", "reflection": "A private exchange becomes public or is repeated elsewhere. The scene may concern the boundaries of disclosure, without establishing that a real confidence has been broken." }, { "title": "You confess in a formal religious setting", "reflection": "The ritual's particular words, roles, and response give the scene its context. A comforting or frightening experience need not be translated into a universal judgment about spiritual standing." }, { "title": "The admission is an ordinary preference", "reflection": "You say you want a different role or do not enjoy something others expect. The intensity may picture the cost of honesty in a relationship, even though the preference itself is not wrongdoing." } ], "prompts": [ "What was disclosed, and was speaking my choice?", "Who could hear, and what response did I want?", "Was the scene about an actual concern, an ordinary preference, or an accusation invented by the dream?" ], "related": [ "guilt", "priest", "pardon" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1610" ], "scope": "Historical comparison only: Priest — miller-1610 (Heading 1614; source lines 18194–18218). These are attributed period claims, not verified predictions or support for the original psychological reflections." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "confetti", "title": "Confetti", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of confetti obstructing your view in a crowd of merry-makers, denotes that you will lose much by first seeking enjoyment, and later…”", "aliases": [ "confetti" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about confetti stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0484", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Confetti", "text": "To dream of confetti obstructing your view in a crowd of merry-makers,\ndenotes that you will lose much by first seeking enjoyment, and later\nfulfil tasks set by duty.", "locator": "Heading 484; source lines 6180–6186", "lineStart": 6180, "lineEnd": 6186, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of confetti obstructing your view in a crowd of merry-makers,\ndenotes that you will lose much by first seeking enjoyment, and later\nfulfil tasks set by duty." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "confidence", "title": "Confidence", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "summary": "Confidence dreams may explore usable readiness, a clear place to contribute, or the difference between appearing assured and feeling capable.", "tagline": "Participation can feel possible before every answer is known.", "aliases": [ "confidence", "confident", "self confidence", "feeling confident" ], "status": "REVIEW", "psychological": "Confidence in a dream can make a task feel available to you. An unfamiliar activity becomes manageable, your voice carries easily or a role seems to fit without constant checking. A possible reading concerns the conditions that allow participation: enough information, a useful pace, support that respects your choices or room to learn. The feeling may express a wanted arrangement as readily as an experience you recognize from waking life.\n\nQuiet competence can differ from public recognition. Completing ordinary work without an audience may picture satisfaction in knowing what to do, while a polished performance may focus on how you appear. If you look assured but privately search for an answer, the scene can make presentation and readiness distinct. That difference does not automatically imply deception; it may resemble taking a new role while still learning its demands.\n\nClear instructions can transform a hesitant scene. Someone showing where to begin may remove a difficulty that had seemed personal. A familiar tool, enough time or a smaller first step can have a similar effect. The comparison could be a waking situation where access and expectations make ability easier to use. Confidence here is not a fixed trait that must be either possessed or missing.\n\nBeing trusted with work adds another dimension. An invitation can feel encouraging when the task is one you actually want and can shape. The same confidence from another person can feel heavy if it assigns more responsibility than you agreed to carry. The dreamer’s comfort depends partly on the arrangement, not only on receiving approval.\n\nA loss of familiar skill may create a different form of confidence. Learning another way, asking an ordinary question or continuing with a modest contribution can make flexibility more useful than maintaining an unbroken appearance of certainty. The dream does not certify waking expertise or predict success. It may let you experience participation that remains possible alongside incomplete knowledge. Recent practice, a supportive interaction or a story about an unfamiliar role can supply the imagery without an assessment of your whole character.", "traditional": "These are original reflections on readiness, participation and support. No historical Confidence passage is supplied. Test, teacher and proud-feeling scenes are nearby subjects with different actions or outcomes. General dream research offers background only; confident dream behavior is not a measure of practical qualifications.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Conditions that make ability usable", "reflection": "Information, time and a workable first step can alter the feeling of readiness." }, { "title": "Presentation and felt competence", "reflection": "Appearing assured can differ from privately knowing how to proceed." }, { "title": "Flexibility rather than certainty", "reflection": "A question or another method can preserve participation when familiar skill disappears." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "An unfamiliar task feels manageable", "reflection": "The ease may express wanting access to something new without an exhausting test of readiness. A clear starting point or supportive setting can make the scene plausible even when the task is unfamiliar. The confidence concerns participation, not verified expertise." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You work calmly without anyone watching", "reflection": "Without an audience, the value can lie in the activity itself. This may resemble wanting time to use a skill without comparison or performance. The scene allows satisfaction that does not depend on being seen, praised or judged better than anyone else." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A clear instruction changes hesitation into ease", "reflection": "The explanation changes how the task is arranged, rather than transforms your entire character. A new procedure or unclear expectation can have a similar effect while awake. The dream may make the usefulness of information more central than a demand for stronger self-belief." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You appear assured while privately searching for an answer", "reflection": "The outward performance and private search can coexist. This may picture occupying a role whose visible demands arrive before complete familiarity. The tension need not become a verdict on honesty; it can concern how much room the setting gives you to learn openly." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Someone trusts you with a task you genuinely want", "reflection": "The trust can feel supportive when the responsibility matches an interest you actually have. Clear limits and a say over the method make recognition usable. The scene differs from being assigned an unwanted burden simply because somebody assumes you can carry it." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "Your usual skill disappears and you learn another way", "reflection": "Adaptation can provide another kind of assurance. Asking a question, changing the method or accepting a smaller part may allow the activity to continue. The dream can value flexible involvement rather than an impossible requirement to remain capable in exactly the same way." } ], "prompts": [ "What conditions made participation feel manageable?", "How did the feeling of confidence relate to the activity and its audience?", "What remained possible when certainty or a familiar skill changed?" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "related": [ "driving-test", "teacher", "being-judged", "proud" ], "updated": "2026-10-13", "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "conflagration", "title": "Conflagration", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a conflagration, denotes, if no lives are lost, changes in the future which will be beneficial to your interests and happiness.”", "aliases": [ "conflagration" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about conflagration stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "fire" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0487", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Conflagration", "text": "To dream of a conflagration, denotes, if no lives are lost,\nchanges in the future which will be beneficial to your\ninterests and happiness.\n\n\n[42] See Fire.", "locator": "Heading 487; source lines 6205–6214", "lineStart": 6205, "lineEnd": 6214, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a conflagration, denotes, if no lives are lost,\nchanges in the future which will be beneficial to your\ninterests and happiness. See Fire." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "fire" ] }, { "slug": "conjurer", "title": "Conjurer", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a conjuror, denotes unpleasant experience will beset you in your search for wealth and happiness.”", "aliases": [ "conjurer" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about conjurer stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0485", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Conjurer", "text": "To dream of a conjuror, denotes unpleasant experience will beset\nyou in your search for wealth and happiness.", "locator": "Heading 485; source lines 6186–6191", "lineStart": 6186, "lineEnd": 6191, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a conjuror, denotes unpleasant experience will beset\nyou in your search for wealth and happiness." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "conjuring", "title": "Conjuring", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are in a hypnotic state or under the power of others, portends disastrous results, for your enemies will enthrall you.”", "aliases": [ "conjuring" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about conjuring stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0486", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Conjuring", "text": "To dream that you are in a hypnotic state or under the power of others,\nportends disastrous results, for your enemies will enthrall you;\nbut if you hold others under a spell you will assert decided will power\nin governing your surroundings.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she is under strange influences,\ndenotes her immediate exposure to danger, and she should beware.\n\nTo dream of seeing hypnotic and slight-of-hand performances,\nsignifies worries and perplexities in business and domestic circles,\nand unhealthy conditions of state.", "locator": "Heading 486; source lines 6191–6205", "lineStart": 6191, "lineEnd": 6205, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are in a hypnotic state or under the power of others,\nportends disastrous results, for your enemies will enthrall you;\nbut if you hold others under a spell you will assert decided will power\nin governing your surroundings.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she is under strange influences,\ndenotes her immediate exposure to danger, and she should beware.\n\nTo dream of seeing hypnotic and slight-of-hand performances,\nsignifies worries and perplexities in business and domestic circles,\nand unhealthy conditions of state." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "conscience", "title": "Conscience", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that your conscience censures you for deceiving some one, denotes that you will be tempted to commit wrong and should be constantly…”", "aliases": [ "conscience" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about conscience stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0489", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Conscience", "text": "To dream that your conscience censures you for deceiving some one,\ndenotes that you will be tempted to commit wrong and should be\nconstantly on your guard.\n\nTo dream of having a quiet conscience, denotes that you will stand\nin high repute.", "locator": "Heading 489; source lines 6219–6228", "lineStart": 6219, "lineEnd": 6228, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that your conscience censures you for deceiving some one,\ndenotes that you will be tempted to commit wrong and should be\nconstantly on your guard.\n\nTo dream of having a quiet conscience, denotes that you will stand\nin high repute." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "conspiracy", "title": "Conspiracy", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are the object of a conspiracy, foretells you will make a wrong move in the directing of your affairs.”", "aliases": [ "conspiracy" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about conspiracy stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0488", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Conspiracy", "text": "To dream that you are the object of a conspiracy, foretells you\nwill make a wrong move in the directing of your affairs.", "locator": "Heading 488; source lines 6214–6219", "lineStart": 6214, "lineEnd": 6219, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are the object of a conspiracy, foretells you\nwill make a wrong move in the directing of your affairs." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "construction", "title": "Construction", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "aliases": [ "construction site", "under construction", "building site" ], "summary": "Construction can picture a plan taking form before it is ready to use. Foundations, coordination, changing plans, and access to the site shape the reading.", "tagline": "The work is visible before the completed place exists.", "psychological": "Construction makes a developing arrangement visible through materials, plans, and unfinished spaces. It can picture something you are actively bringing into being: a project, household, routine, or shared commitment. The site is neither empty nor ready for ordinary use. This intermediate state may be exciting because progress is tangible, or frustrating because the result cannot yet support what you need from it.\n\nFoundations bring attention to what later work depends on. Careful preparation may resemble agreeing on responsibilities, learning a skill, or securing enough time before a project expands. Rushing upward without a stable base can picture concern that visible progress is outpacing the arrangements needed to sustain it. The dream need not predict that a building or plan will fail; it gives form to the importance you place on preparation.\n\nCoordination can be central. Different people may work from the same plan, misunderstand one another, or repeatedly change what is being built. A team whose priorities keep shifting offers a possible parallel. Clear communication makes separate contributions useful together. Building alone can feel independent, but the same scene becomes demanding when the imagined job requires resources or skills beyond what one person has available.\n\nBeing unable to enter a completed section can create impatience. You can see the possibility without yet having access to it. Waiting for a new role to begin or a shared arrangement to become usable may feel similar. Barriers can be necessary parts of preparation or obstacles whose reason has not been explained.\n\nThe intended building matters as much as the activity. A home, bridge, or workspace supports different kinds of life. Notice whether you recognize and want the finished plan. A recent visit to a real site can also provide the imagery. The useful reading asks what is being made, what it needs to stand on, and whether the work still serves its intended purpose.", "traditional": "Real building work, project planning, or an unfinished place seen recently can provide the site. The original reading distinguishes preparation, coordination, and the intended function of what is being made. No historical construction account is supplied here.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A developing plan is not yet usable", "reflection": "Unfinished work can picture progress that has become visible without reaching its intended function. Excitement or frustration may depend on what you need the arrangement to support right now." }, { "title": "Later work depends on preparation", "reflection": "Foundations can bring attention to skills, time, and agreements required before expansion. The scene may concern whether those supports are receiving enough care alongside the more visible parts of progress." }, { "title": "Separate efforts need a shared plan", "reflection": "Coordinated building can picture collaboration whose contributions fit together. Changing instructions or conflicting drawings may instead make unclear priorities visible, especially when each person is working hard without the same destination." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You inspect a foundation before building higher", "reflection": "Preparation may feel worth attending to before a project grows. Agreeing on roles or learning a necessary skill offers a parallel. The pause supports later work, so it need not mean you are reluctant to make progress." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Workers build different things from conflicting plans", "reflection": "A shared task may lack a common account of what success requires. Different team priorities or household expectations can feel similar. The scene makes coordination distinct from effort: working harder alone would not necessarily make the separate parts fit." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "The building takes shape and you feel delighted", "reflection": "Visible progress may connect with a developing project or life arrangement that you actually want. A new routine beginning to work or a shared plan gaining substance can fit. The unfinished state leaves room for anticipation without making delay the main concern." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You must keep changing what has already been built", "reflection": "Shifting requirements may consume effort that you expected to move forward. A project with repeatedly revised priorities offers a parallel. Whether the changes improve the intended result or merely restart the work helps distinguish useful adaptation from exhausting instability." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A barrier keeps you from entering a nearly finished room", "reflection": "An opportunity may be visible but not yet available. Waiting for an agreed role or arrangement to begin can feel similar. Knowing why access is delayed may make the wait tolerable; unexplained restrictions can make your position more uncertain." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You realize the finished plan is not what you wanted", "reflection": "Progress may have continued without revisiting its purpose. A commitment that gradually took on someone else’s priorities can offer a parallel. The realization concerns whether the work still serves your intended life, rather than simply how much has already been invested." } ], "prompts": [ "What was being built, and did I want to use it?", "Which supports did the later work depend on?", "Were the people on site working toward the same plan?" ], "related": [ "house", "bridge", "architect", "renovation" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia interpretation with image-specific possibilities and six differentiated scenes. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "consumption", "title": "Consumption", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you have consumption, denotes that you are exposing yourself to danger. Remain with your friends.”", "aliases": [ "consumption" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about consumption stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0490", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Consumption", "text": "To dream that you have consumption, denotes that you are exposing\nyourself to danger. Remain with your friends.", "locator": "Heading 490; source lines 6228–6233", "lineStart": 6228, "lineEnd": 6233, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you have consumption, denotes that you are exposing\nyourself to danger. Remain with your friends." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "contact-lenses", "title": "Contact lenses", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "aliases": [ "contact lens", "contact lenses", "wearing contact lenses", "lost contact lens", "contact lens case" ], "summary": "Contact lenses can picture practical support for seeing clearly, a change in perspective, or the small routines that make participation comfortable.", "tagline": "A familiar tool becomes part of how you meet the setting around you.", "psychological": "Contact lenses can picture support that helps a setting become easier to engage with. In a dream where the scene becomes clearer after you put them on, the image may fit receiving useful information, finding a suitable method, or making an ordinary task more comfortable. The emphasis is on workable support, not a judgment that needing a tool makes you less capable.\n\nHandling a small lens can make the conditions of access visible. You may know where you want to go but still need a modest practical step before proceeding. A missing case or misplaced lens can resemble a resource that is easy to overlook but important when you depend on it. Real daily routines can also supply the scene without a broader metaphor.\n\nFit and familiarity create another distinction. A comfortable pair can picture an arrangement suited to your needs. Lenses intended for someone else may instead suggest being expected to use a method that works for them but not for you. The difficulty concerns suitability rather than whether support itself is desirable.\n\nA lens that changes the colors or shapes of the world can give form to a new perspective. A conversation, changed role, or piece of information may make familiar circumstances look different. The result can feel inviting or disorienting; neither response requires the old view to be wrong or the new one to be better.\n\nChoosing when to wear, remove, or replace the lenses can make self-direction central. The scene may concern maintaining a useful tool or deciding which presentation feels right in a particular setting. These original comparisons are not conclusions about eyesight or eye health; remembered equipment, photographs, and daily experiences remain direct context.", "traditional": "These are original reflections on wearing, handling, and choosing a familiar visual tool. No verified historical contact-lens passage is cited. Broader eye or spectacle imagery does not establish these specific meanings, and the general dream source does not assess eyesight or recommend equipment.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Support that makes engagement easier", "reflection": "A clearer dreamed setting can picture useful information or a method suited to your needs. The tool supports participation without making dependence on ordinary equipment a statement about capability." }, { "title": "A small routine with a practical purpose", "reflection": "Handling or finding a lens can make preparation visible. A modest resource may matter because it enables the next step, not because its absence has a fixed symbolic meaning." }, { "title": "A view or method that fits you", "reflection": "Comfortable lenses can suggest suitable support, while borrowed or altered lenses may picture another person's approach or a changed perspective. The reading depends on how that fit feels." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "The room becomes clear when you put the lenses on", "reflection": "Useful support can make a task more accessible. Receiving understandable instructions or finding a method that suits a new role may offer parallels. The scene centers the difference the tool makes to participation, rather than requiring you to accomplish the same task without assistance.", "slug": "scene-1" }, { "title": "A lens is missing when you prepare to leave", "reflection": "A small practical resource can interrupt a larger plan. Missing a document, instruction, or familiar tool may feel similar. The scene makes preparation specific: most of the journey can be ready while one enabling detail remains unavailable.", "slug": "scene-2" }, { "title": "Someone offers lenses that do not suit you", "reflection": "Help can be well meant but shaped around another person's conditions. Advice that assumes their preferences or a work method designed for a different role may offer parallels. The mismatch concerns fit, not the value of support or the other person's motives.", "slug": "scene-3" }, { "title": "You organize the lenses in their familiar case", "reflection": "Maintaining a useful routine can picture making everyday participation dependable. Preparing materials for work or keeping a shared task orderly may feel similar. The quiet care makes support available when needed, without requiring the dream to center damage or loss.", "slug": "scene-4" }, { "title": "The lenses give familiar places unexpected colors", "reflection": "A changed view can picture new information altering how a familiar arrangement feels. A conversation that reveals another possibility or a role seen from a different position may fit. Curiosity and discomfort give the shift different meanings without deciding which perspective is correct.", "slug": "scene-5" }, { "title": "You choose a different pair and feel comfortable", "reflection": "An adjustment can picture finding support that matches your preferences more closely. Revising a method or choosing how to present yourself may offer parallels. The comfort comes from a workable fit, rather than from a requirement to abandon the tool or satisfy another person's expectations.", "slug": "scene-6" } ], "prompts": [ "What became possible or more comfortable with the lenses in place?", "Was the support suited to me, borrowed from someone else, or changing my view?", "Which small routine or resource mattered to the next step?" ], "related": [ "spectacles", "eyeglass", "mirror", "gps-navigation" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia editorial entry with image-specific interpretations and six differentiated scenes. The reference supplies general dream background only. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "contempt", "title": "Contempt", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of being in contempt of court, denotes that you have committed business or social indiscretion and that it is unmerited.”", "aliases": [ "contempt" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about contempt stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0491", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Contempt", "text": "To dream of being in contempt of court, denotes that you have committed\nbusiness or social indiscretion and that it is unmerited.\n\nTo dream that you are held in contempt by others, you will succeed in\nwinning their highest regard, and will find yourself prosperous and happy.\nBut if the contempt is merited, your exile from business or social\ncircles is intimated.", "locator": "Heading 491; source lines 6233–6243", "lineStart": 6233, "lineEnd": 6243, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being in contempt of court, denotes that you have committed\nbusiness or social indiscretion and that it is unmerited.\n\nTo dream that you are held in contempt by others, you will succeed in\nwinning their highest regard, and will find yourself prosperous and happy.\nBut if the contempt is merited, your exile from business or social\ncircles is intimated." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "contract", "title": "Contract", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "aliases": [ "contract", "contracts", "signing a contract", "contract agreement" ], "summary": "A contract can give commitment a visible form through terms and signatures. Notice what you understood, chose, or felt expected to accept.", "tagline": "An agreement made visible, with attention to its terms and the room available for choice.", "psychological": "A contract makes an agreement into an object you can read, hold, sign, or refuse. In a dream, that object may bring attention to how a commitment feels rather than to any real document. The important details can be the terms, the people involved, and whether your participation seems chosen. A clear page and an unreadable one create different experiences of agreement.\n\nThe terms can make expectations tangible. A short promise, an expanding list of duties, or a clause written in unfamiliar language may resemble uncertainty about what an arrangement asks of you. Shared plans, recurring favors, or a new role can have similar emotional shapes. Notice whether the dream allows questions and whether everyone seems to understand the same agreement.\n\nA signature introduces the moment when possibility becomes commitment. Signing calmly may picture readiness to give something a definite place in your life. Being hurried, unable to write your name, or discovering that someone has signed for you can picture reduced room for choice. These scenes are useful through the feeling of agency they create, without establishing anything about a real agreement's validity.\n\nThe other participants may shape the sense of reciprocity. Equal space for each person, a missing signature, or different versions of the page can give form to expectations that feel uneven or difficult to share. A mutual promise may feel reassuring even when it creates obligations. The question is what the exchange meant within the scene.\n\nChanging or setting down the document can picture revisiting a commitment as circumstances or preferences change. It may bring relief, disappointment, or uncertainty about belonging. Recent paperwork, negotiations in ordinary conversation, or stories about agreements can supply the image directly. The dream can support reflection on choice and understanding; it does not determine legal consequences or recommend a real contractual action.", "traditional": "These are original reflections on the imagined experience of reading terms, giving consent, and making commitments. No verified historical contract passage is supplied. General dream research does not assess real agreements, legal consequences, or the decisions a person should make about a document.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Understanding what is being agreed", "reflection": "The written terms can give an arrangement a concrete shape. Readable expectations may feel reassuring, while shifting language can picture uncertainty about what participation requires. Consider what the dream let you ask, clarify, or discuss, and whether that changed the experience of agreement." }, { "title": "Having room to choose", "reflection": "A signature can make the passage from possibility to commitment visible. The scene may explore readiness, hesitation, or pressure through the time and space you have to decide. Notice whether your own response is treated as necessary by the other participants." }, { "title": "A commitment shared by more than one person", "reflection": "Several signatures or versions of a document can picture the relationship between your understanding and someone else’s. Agreement may feel mutual, uneven, or incomplete. The reflective question concerns the expectations represented in the dream, rather than the status of any real document." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "New clauses appear while you read", "reflection": "An expanding page may picture obligations that feel less contained than you expected. A small shared task becoming an ongoing responsibility can offer a parallel. Record what the new clauses request and whether discussion is possible; the dream’s changing terms can clarify the source of discomfort." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Someone urges you to sign immediately", "reflection": "A hurried signature can picture pressure to commit before your own understanding has caught up. Agreeing quickly in a social situation may feel similar. Notice what you fear would happen if you paused and whether the dream gives you room to express uncertainty." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Your name will not appear on the signature line", "reflection": "Difficulty writing your name may give shape to hesitation about identifying yourself with a commitment. It could also be ordinary dream difficulty with text or movement. Consider how the missing name feels: frustrating, protective, embarrassing, or unexpectedly relieving in this particular scene." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Two people hold different versions of the agreement", "reflection": "Different pages can picture a shared plan understood in different ways. You may recognize this from a conversation in which participants remember different expectations. The useful detail is whether the differences become discussable or remain hidden, rather than deciding which dream page is authoritative." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You sign a short agreement calmly with someone else", "reflection": "An uncomplicated signature may picture a wanted commitment whose expectations feel clear and shared. A cooperative project or mutual promise can offer a parallel. Notice the specific contribution each person makes and how the calm feels; the scene does not guarantee a real arrangement’s outcome." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You set the document down and walk outside", "reflection": "Leaving the page may picture wanting distance from an expectation before identifying with it. The departure could feel freeing, disappointing, or unfinished. Observe what remains available outside and whether the commitment still matters to you; the action can be explored without turning it into practical advice." } ], "prompts": [ "Which terms could I understand, and which kept changing or remained unclear?", "Did my participation feel chosen, assumed, or rushed?", "What did each participant seem to believe they were agreeing to?" ], "related": [ "job-interview", "office", "money", "boss" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia editorial entry with image-specific interpretations and six differentiated scenes. The reference supplies general dream background only. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "convent", "title": "Convent", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeking refuge in a convent, denotes that your future will be signally free from care and enemies, unless on entering the…”", "aliases": [ "convent" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about convent stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0492", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Convent", "text": "To dream of seeking refuge in a convent, denotes that\nyour future will be signally free from care and enemies,\nunless on entering the building you encounter a priest.\nIf so, you will seek often and in vain for relief from worldly\ncares and mind worry.\n\nFor a young girl to dream of seeing a convent, her virtue and honestly\nwill be questioned.", "locator": "Heading 492; source lines 6243–6254", "lineStart": 6243, "lineEnd": 6254, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeking refuge in a convent, denotes that\nyour future will be signally free from care and enemies,\nunless on entering the building you encounter a priest.\nIf so, you will seek often and in vain for relief from worldly\ncares and mind worry.\n\nFor a young girl to dream of seeing a convent, her virtue and honestly\nwill be questioned." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "convention", "title": "Convention", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a convention, denotes unusual activity in business affairs and final engagement in love.”", "aliases": [ "convention" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about convention stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0495", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Convention", "text": "To dream of a convention, denotes unusual activity in business affairs\nand final engagement in love. An inharmonious or displeasing convention\nbrings you disappointment.", "locator": "Heading 495; source lines 6268–6274", "lineStart": 6268, "lineEnd": 6274, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a convention, denotes unusual activity in business affairs\nand final engagement in love. An inharmonious or displeasing convention\nbrings you disappointment." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "convicts", "title": "Convicts", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing convicts, denotes disasters and sad news.”", "aliases": [ "convicts", "convict" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about convicts stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0493", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Convicts", "text": "To dream of seeing convicts, denotes disasters and sad news.\nTo dream that you are a convict, indicates that you will worry\nover some affair; but you will clear up all mistakes.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of seeing her lover in the garb of a convict,\nindicates she will have cause to question the character of his love.", "locator": "Heading 493; source lines 6254–6263", "lineStart": 6254, "lineEnd": 6263, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing convicts, denotes disasters and sad news.\nTo dream that you are a convict, indicates that you will worry\nover some affair; but you will clear up all mistakes.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of seeing her lover in the garb of a convict,\nindicates she will have cause to question the character of his love." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cook", "title": "Cook", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “To dream you see a cook in the house, is good to those who would marry, and to the poor.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "cook", "of a cooke" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cook stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0158", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Cook", "text": "To dream you see a cook in the house, is good to those who would\nmarry, and to the poor; but it is also the revealing of secrets; to\ndream of cooking, is also a sign of a wedding. 6, 34.", "locator": "Heading 158; source line 1621", "lineStart": 1621, "lineEnd": 1625, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see a cook in the house, is good to those who would\nmarry, and to the poor; but it is also the revealing of secrets; to\ndream of cooking, is also a sign of a wedding." }, { "id": "artemidorus-159", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of a Cooke.", "text": "TO see a Cooke in the house, is good for those which would marry; for mariages are not made without a Cook: it is also good for the poore, for they shall have goods, and ability, to kéep a good and long table: to the sick it is inflamation, heat, and teares: it is also revealing of secrets, for a Cooks apparell is white, and is seen of many.", "locator": "Book 3, encoded section 159", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "3", "displayText": "To see a Cooke in the house, is good for those which would marry; for mariages are not made without a Cook: it is also good for the poore, for they shall have goods, and ability, to kéep a good and long table: to the sick it is inflamation, heat, and teares: it is also revealing of secrets, for a Cooks apparell is white, and is seen of many.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “A Cooke” is shown on the Cook page: archaic spelling (Artemidorus \"Of a Cooke\")" }, { "id": "noe-0085", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Cook", "text": "Dream you’re busy with a cook,\n And for a wedding shortly look.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 87; source lines 445–450", "lineStart": 445, "lineEnd": 450, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Dream you’re busy with a cook,\nAnd for a wedding shortly look." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cooking", "title": "Cooking", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "Turning what you have into something that can sustain you or someone else.", "summary": "Cooking can picture practical care, patient preparation, or pressure to produce a good result from limited ingredients, time, and support.", "aliases": [ "cooking" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "Cooking can picture the work of turning available resources into something useful. Separate ingredients become a meal through choices, timing, and attention; a waking parallel might be assembling a proposal from scattered information, arranging a new home, or helping a group with different needs work together. Satisfaction in the kitchen can express confidence in that process. Having ingredients but no idea what to make may instead resemble possessing skills or opportunities without a clear next step.\n\nPreparing food for other people gives care a practical form. You are doing something that another person can receive, rather than simply telling them you care. This can fit supporting a relative through a demanding week or trying to make a new guest feel welcome. Cooking while everyone else relaxes changes the emphasis: the dream may picture unequal responsibility, especially if your own meal never gets made.\n\nHeat and timing make cooking a distinctive image of pressure. Several pans needing attention at once can resemble managing work, family, and everyday maintenance when each task feels urgent. Food burning while you answer someone else's request may express the cost of repeated interruption. An unfinished meal is not necessarily failure; if everyone waits patiently, it can picture allowing a project or relationship the time it needs.\n\nA strict recipe and an improvised dish offer different readings of authority. Following instructions might feel reassuring during an unfamiliar task, or constraining when your own judgment is stronger than the rules. Changing the recipe successfully can picture growing ownership of your work. Trying to please guests who keep changing their order may instead suggest that the standard of success has become impossible to meet.\n\nCooking a familiar family dish can also bring belonging or remembrance into the scene. The remembered method, smell, or company may matter more than the meal's outcome. Recent kitchen experiences can also supply familiar methods, smells, and mishaps directly.", "traditional": "Miller's Cooking passage connects preparing a meal with a pleasant duty and visiting friends, while changing the forecast when the atmosphere lacks cheerfulness. Cielo gives cooking a single association with a wedding. These accounts emphasize domestic activity and social gatherings, but neither develops the modern questions of workload, improvisation, or who receives the care. They are period fortune-telling claims, not established forecasts. The historical contrast is useful chiefly because Miller considers the mood of the scene, whereas Cielo assigns one outcome to the action alone.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Making separate parts work together", "reflection": "Combining ingredients can picture assembling skills, information, or relationships into something useful. The quality of the process may matter more than whether the finished result looks impressive." }, { "title": "Care becomes practical effort", "reflection": "Cooking for someone can express affection through useful work. An exhausting kitchen scene may instead reveal a care arrangement in which one person's needs consume another person's time." }, { "title": "Timing and competing demands", "reflection": "Several dishes needing attention at once can resemble responsibilities that each demand an immediate response. Burned or delayed food makes the cost of interruption and limited attention visible." }, { "title": "Choosing your own method", "reflection": "Following or changing a recipe can picture your relationship to instructions and expectations. Successful improvisation may express ownership; constant correction from others may express a loss of authority." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You cook a meal everyone shares happily", "reflection": "A meal received with warmth can picture feeling useful without having to prove yourself repeatedly. It may fit helping a team finish something or welcoming people into your home. Shared enjoyment gives the care a clear recipient and lets you belong to the gathering too." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Several pans burn while people ask for help", "reflection": "This scene can resemble being responsible for several urgent tasks while also remaining available to everyone. Answering one request damages another part of the meal. The image may express a workload that requires limits or cooperation, especially if nobody else offers to take a pan." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You invent a good dish from very little", "reflection": "Making something satisfying from a nearly empty cupboard can picture resourcefulness under constraint. A small budget, incomplete information, or a project with fewer staff could fit. The pleasure comes from trusting your judgment and finding enough within what is actually available." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You follow a recipe that keeps changing", "reflection": "A moving set of instructions can express frustration with expectations that never settle. A client revising the brief or a relative correcting every choice provides a waking parallel. The cooking becomes less about competence than about trying to satisfy someone who controls the definition of success." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You prepare a loved one's familiar dish", "reflection": "Repeating a remembered recipe can picture continuity with someone or somewhere important. Its details may carry the feeling of being cared for, family belonging, or a role you now hold yourself. A welcome result suggests carrying that connection forward through an ordinary act." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You finish serving everyone but have nothing left", "reflection": "An empty plate for the cook can picture care that leaves out the person providing it. It may fit organizing everyone's schedule while abandoning your own rest or plans. The missing portion makes unequal distribution tangible, even when the meal itself appears successful." } ], "prompts": [ "Who received the meal, and was there a place and portion for me?", "Which part of cooking felt hardest: finding ingredients, choosing a method, managing timing, or satisfying the guests?", "What current task resembles the dream's recipe, and who gets to decide when the result is good enough?" ], "related": [ "kitchen", "eating", "bread", "banquet", "house" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "scope": "Historical comparison only: Cooking, miller-0496 (Heading 496; source lines 6274–6281). Period dream-book claims support only the attributed historical comparison, not predictions or the original modern reflections.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0496" ] }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "scope": "Historical comparison only: Cooking, cielo-0115 (Dream section, heading 115; source lines 4134–4136). Period dream-book claims support only the attributed historical comparison, not predictions or the original modern reflections.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0115" ] }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia editorial upgrade with image-specific interpretations, concrete waking-life parallels, and six differentiated scenes. Historical context is grounded in the cited catalogue passages. Human publication review pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0496", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cooking", "text": "To cook a meal, denotes some pleasant duty will devolve on you.\nMany friends will visit you in the near future. If there is discord\nor a lack of cheerfulness you may expect harassing and disappointing\nevents to happen.", "locator": "Heading 496; source lines 6274–6281", "lineStart": 6274, "lineEnd": 6281, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To cook a meal, denotes some pleasant duty will devolve on you.\nMany friends will visit you in the near future. If there is discord\nor a lack of cheerfulness you may expect harassing and disappointing\nevents to happen." }, { "id": "cielo-0115", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Cooking", "text": "To dream that you are cooking indicates a wedding.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 115; source lines 4134–4136", "lineStart": 4134, "lineEnd": 4136, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are cooking indicates a wedding." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cooking-stove", "title": "Cooking Stove", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see a cooking stove in a dream, denotes that much unpleasantness will be modified by your timely interference.”", "aliases": [ "cooking stove" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cooking stove stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0497", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cooking Stove", "text": "To see a cooking stove in a dream, denotes that much\nunpleasantness will be modified by your timely interference.\nFor a young woman to dream of using a cooking stove, foretells she\nwill be too hasty in showing her appreciation of the attention\nof some person and thereby lose a closer friendship.", "locator": "Heading 497; source lines 6281–6289", "lineStart": 6281, "lineEnd": 6289, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a cooking stove in a dream, denotes that much\nunpleasantness will be modified by your timely interference.\nFor a young woman to dream of using a cooking stove, foretells she\nwill be too hasty in showing her appreciation of the attention\nof some person and thereby lose a closer friendship." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cooling-board", "title": "Cooling Board", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “For a young woman to see a cooling board in her dreams, foretells sickness and quarrels with her lover.”", "aliases": [ "cooling board" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cooling board stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0498", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cooling Board", "text": "For a young woman to see a cooling board in her dreams,\nforetells sickness and quarrels with her lover. To dream of some\nliving person as dead and rising up from a cooling board, denotes she\nwill be indirectly connected with that person in some trouble,\nbut will find out that things will work out satisfactorily.\n\nTo see her brother, who has long since been dead, rising from a cooling board,\nwarns her of complications which may be averted if she puts forth the proper\nwill and energy in struggling against them.", "locator": "Heading 498; source lines 6289–6301", "lineStart": 6289, "lineEnd": 6301, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a young woman to see a cooling board in her dreams,\nforetells sickness and quarrels with her lover. To dream of some\nliving person as dead and rising up from a cooling board, denotes she\nwill be indirectly connected with that person in some trouble,\nbut will find out that things will work out satisfactorily.\n\nTo see her brother, who has long since been dead, rising from a cooling board,\nwarns her of complications which may be averted if she puts forth the proper\nwill and energy in struggling against them." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "copper", "title": "Copper", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of copper, denotes oppression from those above you in station.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "copper" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about copper stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "metals" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0499", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Copper", "text": "To dream of copper, denotes oppression from those above you in station.", "locator": "Heading 499; source lines 6301–6305", "lineStart": 6301, "lineEnd": 6305, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of copper, denotes oppression from those above you in station." }, { "id": "fontaine-0159", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Copper", "text": "(_See Metals._)", "locator": "Heading 159; source line 1625", "lineStart": 1625, "lineEnd": 1627, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Metals.)" }, { "id": "fontaine-0464", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Copper", "text": "To dream of copper, signifies that your sweetheart is\ndeceitful and loves another, it also shows secret enemies. 54, 8, 40.", "locator": "Heading 464; source line 3150", "lineStart": 3150, "lineEnd": 3153, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of copper, signifies that your sweetheart is\ndeceitful and loves another, it also shows secret enemies." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "metals" ] }, { "slug": "copper-plate", "title": "Copper Plate", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Copper plate seen in a dream, is a warning of discordant views causing unhappiness between members of the same household.”", "aliases": [ "copper plate" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about copper plate stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0501", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Copper Plate", "text": "Copper plate seen in a dream, is a warning of discordant views\ncausing unhappiness between members of the same household.", "locator": "Heading 501; source lines 6310–6315", "lineStart": 6310, "lineEnd": 6315, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Copper plate seen in a dream, is a warning of discordant views\ncausing unhappiness between members of the same household." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "copperas", "title": "Copperas", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of copperas, foretells unintentional wrong will be done you which will be distressing and will cause you loss.”", "aliases": [ "copperas" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about copperas stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0500", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Copperas", "text": "To dream of copperas, foretells unintentional wrong will be done\nyou which will be distressing and will cause you loss.", "locator": "Heading 500; source lines 6305–6310", "lineStart": 6305, "lineEnd": 6310, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of copperas, foretells unintentional wrong will be done\nyou which will be distressing and will cause you loss." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "coppersmith", "title": "Coppersmith", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a coppersmith, denotes small returns for labor, but withal contentment.”", "aliases": [ "coppersmith" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about coppersmith stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0502", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Coppersmith", "text": "To dream of a coppersmith, denotes small returns for labor,\nbut withal contentment.", "locator": "Heading 502; source lines 6315–6320", "lineStart": 6315, "lineEnd": 6320, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a coppersmith, denotes small returns for labor,\nbut withal contentment." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "copying", "title": "Copying", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of copying, denotes unfavorable workings of well tried plans.”", "aliases": [ "copying" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about copying stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0503", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Copying", "text": "To dream of copying, denotes unfavorable workings of well tried plans.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she is copying a letter, denotes she\nwill be prejudiced into error by her love for a certain class of people.", "locator": "Heading 503; source lines 6320–6327", "lineStart": 6320, "lineEnd": 6327, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of copying, denotes unfavorable workings of well tried plans.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she is copying a letter, denotes she\nwill be prejudiced into error by her love for a certain class of people." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "coral", "title": "Coral", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of coral, is momentous of enduring friend ship which will know no weariness in alleviating your trouble.”", "aliases": [ "coral" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about coral stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0504", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Coral", "text": "To dream of coral, is momentous of enduring friend ship\nwhich will know no weariness in alleviating your trouble.\nColored coral is meant in this dream.\n\nWhite coral, foretells unfaithfulness and warning of love.", "locator": "Heading 504; source lines 6327–6335", "lineStart": 6327, "lineEnd": 6335, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of coral, is momentous of enduring friend ship\nwhich will know no weariness in alleviating your trouble.\nColored coral is meant in this dream.\n\nWhite coral, foretells unfaithfulness and warning of love." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "coral-reef", "title": "Coral reef", "category": "Nature & elements", "aliases": [ "coral reef", "coral reefs", "reef", "reefs" ], "summary": "A coral reef can picture a rich network, a protected space, or complexity you are learning to navigate. Exploration differs from feeling crowded or responsible.", "psychological": "A dreamed coral reef can make a place feel full of life, detail, and interconnection. Looking closely may reveal more relationships than were visible from above. This can fit discovering the richness of a community, project, or relationship: something that first looked simple turns out to contain many roles, routes, and small interactions. Feeling delighted gives that complexity an inviting direction; feeling overwhelmed can make the same abundance difficult to enter.\n\nThe reef also creates passages and sheltered spaces. Moving comfortably through it can picture learning how a system works from within, such as finding your place in a new group or understanding the informal routes around a task. Getting caught or being unable to see a way through may resemble too many competing details, or a setting whose rules remain hard to read. A guide or a clear channel can turn complexity into something workable without removing it.\n\nConcern about damaging the reef introduces responsibility. The dream may place you in an environment you value but are unsure how to approach. This can resonate with joining an established relationship or project and wanting to contribute without disrupting what already supports it. Caring can become pressure if every movement feels dangerous; a comfortable route may show that participation need not require constant self-monitoring.\n\nA damaged or empty reef changes the emphasis toward what is missing. It may give shape to disappointment when an expected source of richness, activity, or connection feels depleted. Returning life or discovering a surviving sheltered area creates a different ending. A real journey, aquarium visit, image, or story can also supply the setting. Follow your experience of access, abundance, and care rather than assuming that the dreamed landscape reports an actual environmental condition.", "traditional": "The broader Coral archive concerns the material and preserves its own historical accounts. This entry focuses on a reef as an inhabited dreamed landscape, with original readings of complexity, shelter, and participation. It does not turn an ecological image into a prediction or claim a particular cultural meaning without evidence.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Richness beneath the surface", "reflection": "A detailed underwater landscape can picture discovering more relationships or possibilities within a situation than you first noticed." }, { "title": "Finding a route through complexity", "reflection": "Passages, obstacles, and guides can show how an intricate setting becomes inviting or difficult to navigate." }, { "title": "Care without constant caution", "reflection": "Worry about damaging a valued place can connect with entering an established system while trying to contribute respectfully." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "Exploring a colorful, lively reef", "reflection": "Detail and activity reward your attention. This can fit discovering possibilities in a group, interest, or project that seemed simpler at first. Your wish to remain and explore may be the central movement of the scene.", "slug": "scene-1" }, { "title": "Finding shelter among the reef", "reflection": "A complex environment contains a place where you can settle. This may picture belonging within a larger group or finding support among many demands. Feeling confined instead of protected changes the meaning of the same enclosure.", "slug": "scene-2" }, { "title": "Getting caught in a narrow passage", "reflection": "The intricate setting limits your route. This can resemble difficulty navigating unfamiliar expectations or too many small obstacles. A guide, a different opening, or the decision to retreat gives the dream more than one possible ending.", "slug": "scene-3" }, { "title": "Trying not to damage anything", "reflection": "Participation feels tied to careful movement. This can resemble joining an established team or close group while worrying that a mistake will disrupt relationships you value. Guidance or a clear route makes respectful participation possible; feeling that every movement is dangerous can picture exhausting self-monitoring.", "slug": "scene-4" }, { "title": "The reef is unexpectedly empty", "reflection": "You arrive expecting activity and richness but find absence. This can fit returning to a community that has changed, or discovering that a once-inspiring project no longer offers the connection you expected. Peaceful solitude differs from disappointment about missing relationships or possibilities.", "slug": "scene-5" }, { "title": "A guide shows you a clear route", "reflection": "Someone makes complexity understandable without simplifying the whole place. The scene may connect with support during a new role or experience. Trusting the guide and wanting to choose your own route offer different readings of assistance.", "slug": "scene-6" } ], "prompts": [ "Did the reef feel rich, protective, crowded, or depleted?", "What helped me find a route within it?", "Was my concern about participating, belonging, or causing disruption?" ], "related": [ "coral", "ocean", "fish", "swimming" ], "type": "dreams", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background about dreaming and waking experiences. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia interpretation for personal reflection. Human publication review pending.", "tagline": "A world of connections and a route through its complexity.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cork", "title": "Cork", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of drawing corks at a banquet, signifies that you will soon enter a state of prosperity, in which you will revel in happiness of…”", "aliases": [ "cork" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cork stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0508", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cork", "text": "To dream of drawing corks at a banquet, signifies that you will soon\nenter a state of prosperity, in which you will revel in happiness\nof the most select kind.\n\nTo dream of medicine corks, denotes sickness and wasted energies.\n\nTo dream of seeing a fishing cork resting on clear water, denotes success.\nIf water is disturbed you will be annoyed by unprincipled persons.\n\nTo dream that you are corking bottles, denotes a well organized\nbusiness and system in your living.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of drawing champagne corks, indicates she will have\na gay and handsome lover who will lavish much attention and money on her.\nShe should look well to her reputation and listen to the warning of parents\nafter this dream.", "locator": "Heading 508; source lines 6354–6373", "lineStart": 6354, "lineEnd": 6373, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of drawing corks at a banquet, signifies that you will soon\nenter a state of prosperity, in which you will revel in happiness\nof the most select kind.\n\nTo dream of medicine corks, denotes sickness and wasted energies.\n\nTo dream of seeing a fishing cork resting on clear water, denotes success.\nIf water is disturbed you will be annoyed by unprincipled persons.\n\nTo dream that you are corking bottles, denotes a well organized\nbusiness and system in your living.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of drawing champagne corks, indicates she will have\na gay and handsome lover who will lavish much attention and money on her.\nShe should look well to her reputation and listen to the warning of parents\nafter this dream." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "corkscrew", "title": "Corkscrew", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing a corkscrew, indicates an unsatisfied mind, and the dreamer should heed this as a…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "corkscrew" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about corkscrew stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0512", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Corkscrew", "text": "To dream of seeing a corkscrew, indicates an unsatisfied mind,\nand the dreamer should heed this as a warning to curb his desires,\nfor it is likely they are on dangerous grounds.\n\nTo dream of breaking a corkscrew while using it, indicates to\nthe dreamer perilous surroundings, and he should use force\nof will to abandon unhealthful inclinations.", "locator": "Heading 512; source lines 6407–6417", "lineStart": 6407, "lineEnd": 6417, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing a corkscrew, indicates an unsatisfied mind,\nand the dreamer should heed this as a warning to curb his desires,\nfor it is likely they are on dangerous grounds.\n\nTo dream of breaking a corkscrew while using it, indicates to\nthe dreamer perilous surroundings, and he should use force\nof will to abandon unhealthful inclinations." }, { "id": "cielo-0116", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Corkscrew", "text": "Means vexation; if in a bottle, trouble.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 116; source lines 4136–4138", "lineStart": 4136, "lineEnd": 4138, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Means vexation; if in a bottle, trouble." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9616", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Corkscrew", "heading": "Corkscrew", "text": "A dream signifying an inquisitive friend (Gypsy) ; a bit of homely metaphor that needs no comment.", "lineStart": 9616, "lineEnd": 9618, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 209; NLM OCR lines 9616–9618", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9616, "lineEnd": 9618, "printedPage": 209, "printedPageEnd": 209 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Corkscrew. — A dream signifying an inquisitive friend \n(Gypsy) ; a bit of homely metaphor that needs no comment. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Corkscrew" }, "displayText": "A dream signifying an inquisitive friend (Gypsy); a bit of homely metaphor that needs no comment." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "corn", "title": "Corn", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "5 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of husking pied ears of corn, denotes you will enjoy varied success and pleasure.” Compare 5 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "corn" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about corn stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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To see others gathering corn, foretells you\nwill rejoice in the prosperity of friends or relatives." }, { "id": "fontaine-0160", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Corn", "text": "To dream that you see corn eared, and gather it, signifies profit\nand riches; to dream that you see stacks of corn, signifies wealth and\nabundance to the dreamer; and on the contrary, to see a small quantity,\ndenotes poverty. 69.", "locator": "Heading 160; source line 1627", "lineStart": 1627, "lineEnd": 1632, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you see corn eared, and gather it, signifies profit\nand riches; to dream that you see stacks of corn, signifies wealth and\nabundance to the dreamer; and on the contrary, to see a small quantity,\ndenotes poverty." }, { "id": "noe-0086", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Corn", "text": "To dream you see fields of corn, or that you are among unthrashed\ncorn, is a very favorable omen; it denotes success in business; to the\nlover it announces that you will marry, have many children, and become\nrich and happy. If you are a sailor, it denotes a lucrative voyage and\nfine weather, and that you will be near marrying in the next port you\ntouch at. If you dream you are gathering ripe corn, it is the most\nfortunate dream you can have.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 88; source lines 450–456", "lineStart": 450, "lineEnd": 456, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see fields of corn, or that you are among unthrashed\ncorn, is a very favorable omen; it denotes success in business; to the\nlover it announces that you will marry, have many children, and become\nrich and happy. If you are a sailor, it denotes a lucrative voyage and\nfine weather, and that you will be near marrying in the next port you\ntouch at. If you dream you are gathering ripe corn, it is the most\nfortunate dream you can have." }, { "id": "cielo-0117", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Corn", "text": "Is significant of riches and abundance.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 117; source lines 4138–4140", "lineStart": 4138, "lineEnd": 4140, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Is significant of riches and abundance." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9619", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Corn", "heading": "Corn", "text": "A dream of riches (Artemidorus) ; ears of corn, symbol of the Holy Eucharist (Clement) ; ear of corn also the symbol of Horus bringing light and plenty to the world (Churchward).", "lineStart": 9619, "lineEnd": 9627, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 209–210; NLM OCR lines 9619–9627", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9619, "lineEnd": 9627, "printedPage": 209, "printedPageEnd": 210 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Corn. — A dream of riches (Artemidorus) ; ears of corn, \nsymbol of the Holy Eucharist (Clement) ; ear of corn also the \nsymbol of Horus bringing light and plenty to the world \n(Churchward). \n\n\n210 THE FABRIC OF DREAMS \n\n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [ { "line": 9625, "text": "210 THE FABRIC OF DREAMS " } ], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Corn" }, "displayText": "A dream of riches (Artemidorus); ears of corn, symbol of the Holy Eucharist (Clement); ear of corn also the symbol of Horus bringing light and plenty to the world (Churchward)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "corn-and-corn-field", "title": "Corn and Corn-Field", "type": "dreams", "category": "Other symbols", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of passing through a green and luxurious corn-field, and seeing full ears hanging heavily, denotes great wealth for the farmer.”", "aliases": [ "corn and corn-field" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about corn and corn-field stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0510", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Corn and Corn-Field", "text": "To dream of passing through a green and luxurious corn-field, and seeing\nfull ears hanging heavily, denotes great wealth for the farmer.\nIt denotes fine crops and rich harvest and harmony in the home.\nTo the young it promises much happiness and true friends, but to see\nthe ears blasted, denotes disappointments and bereavements.\n\nTo see young corn newly ploughed, denotes favor with the powerful\nand coming success. To see it ripe, denotes fame and wealth.\nTo see it cribbed, signifies that your highest desires will be realized.\n\nTo see shelled corn, denotes wealthy combines and unstinted favors.\n\nTo dream of eating green corn, denotes harmony among friends\nand happy unions for the young.", "locator": "Heading 510; source lines 6379–6396", "lineStart": 6379, "lineEnd": 6396, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of passing through a green and luxurious corn-field, and seeing\nfull ears hanging heavily, denotes great wealth for the farmer.\nIt denotes fine crops and rich harvest and harmony in the home.\nTo the young it promises much happiness and true friends, but to see\nthe ears blasted, denotes disappointments and bereavements.\n\nTo see young corn newly ploughed, denotes favor with the powerful\nand coming success. To see it ripe, denotes fame and wealth.\nTo see it cribbed, signifies that your highest desires will be realized.\n\nTo see shelled corn, denotes wealthy combines and unstinted favors.\n\nTo dream of eating green corn, denotes harmony among friends\nand happy unions for the young." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0515", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Corner", "text": "This is an unfavorable dream if the dreamer is frightened and secretes\nhimself in a corner for safety.\n\nTo see persons talking in a corner, enemies are seeking to destroy you.\nThe chances are that some one whom you consider a friend will prove\na traitor to your interest.", "locator": "Heading 515; source lines 6464–6473", "lineStart": 6464, "lineEnd": 6473, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "This is an unfavorable dream if the dreamer is frightened and secretes\nhimself in a corner for safety.\n\nTo see persons talking in a corner, enemies are seeking to destroy you.\nThe chances are that some one whom you consider a friend will prove\na traitor to your interest." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cornet", "title": "Cornet", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “A cornet seen or heard in a dream, denotes kindly attentions from strangers.”", "aliases": [ "cornet" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cornet stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0505", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cornet", "text": "A cornet seen or heard in a dream, denotes kindly attentions from strangers.", "locator": "Heading 505; source lines 6335–6339", "lineStart": 6335, "lineEnd": 6339, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "A cornet seen or heard in a dream, denotes kindly attentions from strangers." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "luck-0045", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Cornfield", "text": "Health, wealth and pleasant times.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 45; source lines 3619–3621", "lineStart": 3619, "lineEnd": 3621, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Health, wealth and pleasant times." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cornmeal", "title": "Cornmeal", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see cornmeal, foretells the consummation of ardent wishes.”", "aliases": [ "cornmeal" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cornmeal stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0514", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cornmeal", "text": "To see cornmeal, foretells the consummation of ardent wishes.\nTo eat it made into bread, denotes that you will unwittingly\nthrow obstructions in the way of your own advancement.", "locator": "Heading 514; source lines 6458–6464", "lineStart": 6458, "lineEnd": 6464, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see cornmeal, foretells the consummation of ardent wishes.\nTo eat it made into bread, denotes that you will unwittingly\nthrow obstructions in the way of your own advancement." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "corns", "title": "Corns", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that your corns hurt your feet, denotes that some enemies are undermining you, and you will have…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "corns" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about corns stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0511", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Corns", "text": "To dream that your corns hurt your feet, denotes that some\nenemies are undermining you, and you will have much distress;\nbut if you succeed in clearing your feet of corns, you will\ninherit a large estate from some unknown source.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of having corns on her feet,\nindicates she will have to bear many crosses and be coldly\ntreated by her sex.", "locator": "Heading 511; source lines 6396–6407", "lineStart": 6396, "lineEnd": 6407, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that your corns hurt your feet, denotes that some\nenemies are undermining you, and you will have much distress;\nbut if you succeed in clearing your feet of corns, you will\ninherit a large estate from some unknown source.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of having corns on her feet,\nindicates she will have to bear many crosses and be coldly\ntreated by her sex.", "editorialNote": "Corns in the skin/feet are not the cereal corn." }, { "id": "fontaine-0161", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Corns", "text": "For a man to dream his flesh is full of corns, shows he will\ngrow rich proportionably to his corns. 70, 12.", "locator": "Heading 161; source line 1632", "lineStart": 1632, "lineEnd": 1635, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a man to dream his flesh is full of corns, shows he will\ngrow rich proportionably to his corns.", "editorialNote": "Corns in the skin/feet are not the cereal corn." }, { "id": "noe-0112", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Corns", "text": "For a man to dream his flesh is full of corns, shows he will\ngrow rich proportionately to his corns.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 114; source lines 542–543", "lineStart": 542, "lineEnd": 543, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a man to dream his flesh is full of corns, shows he will\ngrow rich proportionately to his corns." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cornucopia", "title": "Cornucopia", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “dream of abundance (Gypsy); the Horn of Plenty of ancient tradition.”", "aliases": [ "cornucopia" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cornucopia stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L9628", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Cornucopia", "heading": "Cornucopia", "text": "dream of abundance (Gypsy) ; the Horn of Plenty of ancient tradition.", "lineStart": 9628, "lineEnd": 9630, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 210; NLM OCR lines 9628–9630", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9628, "lineEnd": 9630, "printedPage": 210, "printedPageEnd": 210 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Cornucopia. — dream of abundance (Gypsy) ; the Horn \nof Plenty of ancient tradition. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 0.99083, "secondaryHeading": "Cornucopia" }, "displayText": "dream of abundance (Gypsy); the Horn of Plenty of ancient tradition." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "coronation", "title": "Coronation", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a coronation, foretells you will enjoy acquaintances and friendships with prominent people.”", "aliases": [ "coronation" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about coronation stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0506", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Coronation", "text": "To dream of a coronation, foretells you will enjoy acquaintances\nand friendships with prominent people. For a young woman to be\nparticipating in a coronation, foretells that she will come\ninto some surprising favor with distinguished personages.\nBut if the coronation presents disagreeable incoherence in\nher dreams, then she may expect unsatisfactory states growing\nout of anticipated pleasure.", "locator": "Heading 506; source lines 6339–6349", "lineStart": 6339, "lineEnd": 6349, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a coronation, foretells you will enjoy acquaintances\nand friendships with prominent people. For a young woman to be\nparticipating in a coronation, foretells that she will come\ninto some surprising favor with distinguished personages.\nBut if the coronation presents disagreeable incoherence in\nher dreams, then she may expect unsatisfactory states growing\nout of anticipated pleasure." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "corpse", "title": "Corpse", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a corpse is fatal to happiness, as this dream indicates sorrowful tidings of the absent, and…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "corpse" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about corpse stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "shroud" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0513", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Corpse", "text": "To dream of a corpse is fatal to happiness, as this dream indicates\nsorrowful tidings of the absent, and gloomy business prospects.\nThe young will suffer many disappointments and pleasure will vanish.\n\nTo see a corpse placed in its casket, denotes immediate troubles\nto the dreamer.\n\nTo see a corpse in black, denotes the violent death of a friend\nor some desperate business entanglement.\n\nTo see a battle-field strewn with corpses, indicates war and general\ndissatisfaction between countries and political factions.\n\nTo see the corpse of an animal, denotes unhealthy situation,\nboth as to business and health.\n\nTo see the corpse of any one of your immediate family, indicates death\nto that person, or to some member of the family, or a serious\nrupture of domestic relations, also unusual business depression.\nFor lovers it is a sure sign of failure to keep promises of\na sacred nature.\n\nTo put money on the eyes of a corpse in your dreams, denotes that you will see\nunscrupulous enemies robbing you while you are powerless to resent injury.\nIf you only put it on one eye you will be able to recover lost property after\nan almost hopeless struggle. For a young woman this dream denotes distress\nand loss by unfortunately giving her confidence to designing persons.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that the proprietor of the store in\nwhich she works is a corpse, and she sees while sitting up with him\nthat his face is clean shaven, foretells that she will fall below\nthe standard of perfection in which she was held by her lover.\nIf she sees the head of the corpse falling from the body, she is\nwarned of secret enemies who, in harming her, will also detract\nfrom the interest of her employer. Seeing the corpse in the store,\nforetells that loss and unpleasantness will offset all concerned.\nThere are those who are not conscientiously doing the right thing.\nThere will be a gloomy outlook for peace and prosperous work.", "locator": "Heading 513; source lines 6417–6458", "lineStart": 6417, "lineEnd": 6458, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a corpse is fatal to happiness, as this dream indicates\nsorrowful tidings of the absent, and gloomy business prospects.\nThe young will suffer many disappointments and pleasure will vanish.\n\nTo see a corpse placed in its casket, denotes immediate troubles\nto the dreamer.\n\nTo see a corpse in black, denotes the violent death of a friend\nor some desperate business entanglement.\n\nTo see a battle-field strewn with corpses, indicates war and general\ndissatisfaction between countries and political factions.\n\nTo see the corpse of an animal, denotes unhealthy situation,\nboth as to business and health.\n\nTo see the corpse of any one of your immediate family, indicates death\nto that person, or to some member of the family, or a serious\nrupture of domestic relations, also unusual business depression.\nFor lovers it is a sure sign of failure to keep promises of\na sacred nature.\n\nTo put money on the eyes of a corpse in your dreams, denotes that you will see\nunscrupulous enemies robbing you while you are powerless to resent injury.\nIf you only put it on one eye you will be able to recover lost property after\nan almost hopeless struggle. For a young woman this dream denotes distress\nand loss by unfortunately giving her confidence to designing persons.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that the proprietor of the store in\nwhich she works is a corpse, and she sees while sitting up with him\nthat his face is clean shaven, foretells that she will fall below\nthe standard of perfection in which she was held by her lover.\nIf she sees the head of the corpse falling from the body, she is\nwarned of secret enemies who, in harming her, will also detract\nfrom the interest of her employer. Seeing the corpse in the store,\nforetells that loss and unpleasantness will offset all concerned.\nThere are those who are not conscientiously doing the right thing.\nThere will be a gloomy outlook for peace and prosperous work." }, { "id": "fontaine-0162", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Corpse", "text": "(_See Shroud._) To dream you see a corpse, is a sign of long\nlife. 39, 11.\n\n Dreams of rivers, ships and horses,\n Of snow and frost, and of dead corpses,\n Are signs by which it may be read,\n Your sweetheart’s love is cold or dead.", "locator": "Heading 162; source line 1635", "lineStart": 1635, "lineEnd": 1643, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Shroud.) To dream you see a corpse, is a sign of long\nlife.\n\nDreams of rivers, ships and horses,\nOf snow and frost, and of dead corpses,\nAre signs by which it may be read,\nYour sweetheart’s love is cold or dead." }, { "id": "cielo-0118", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Corpse", "text": "To dream of a dead body denotes long life,\n also news from friends.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 118; source lines 4140–4143", "lineStart": 4140, "lineEnd": 4143, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a dead body denotes long life,\nalso news from friends." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "shroud" ] }, { "slug": "corpulence", "title": "Corpulence", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “For a person to dream of being corpulent, indicates to the dreamer bountiful increase of wealth and pleasant abiding places.”", "aliases": [ "corpulence" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about corpulence stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0516", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Corpulence", "text": "For a person to dream of being corpulent, indicates to the dreamer\nbountiful increase of wealth and pleasant abiding places.\n\nTo see others corpulent, denotes unusual activity and prosperous times.\n\nIf a man or woman sees himself or herself looking grossly corpulent,\nhe or she should look well to their moral nature and impulses.\nBeware of either concave or convex telescopically or microscopically\ndrawn pictures of yourself or others, as they forbode evil.", "locator": "Heading 516; source lines 6473–6485", "lineStart": 6473, "lineEnd": 6485, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a person to dream of being corpulent, indicates to the dreamer\nbountiful increase of wealth and pleasant abiding places.\n\nTo see others corpulent, denotes unusual activity and prosperous times.\n\nIf a man or woman sees himself or herself looking grossly corpulent,\nhe or she should look well to their moral nature and impulses.\nBeware of either concave or convex telescopically or microscopically\ndrawn pictures of yourself or others, as they forbode evil." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "corset", "title": "Corset", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a corset, denotes that you will be perplexed as to the meaning of attentions won by you.”", "aliases": [ "corset" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about corset stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0517", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Corset", "text": "To dream of a corset, denotes that you will be perplexed as to the meaning\nof attentions won by you. If a young woman is vexed over undoing or fastening\nher corset, she will be strongly inclined to quarrel with her friends\nunder slight provocations.", "locator": "Heading 517; source lines 6485–6492", "lineStart": 6485, "lineEnd": 6492, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a corset, denotes that you will be perplexed as to the meaning\nof attentions won by you. If a young woman is vexed over undoing or fastening\nher corset, she will be strongly inclined to quarrel with her friends\nunder slight provocations." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cossack", "title": "Cossack", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a Cossack, denotes humiliation of a personal character, brought about by dissipation and wanton extravagance.”", "aliases": [ "cossack" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cossack stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0518", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cossack", "text": "To dream of a Cossack, denotes humiliation of a personal character,\nbrought about by dissipation and wanton extravagance.", "locator": "Heading 518; source lines 6492–6497", "lineStart": 6492, "lineEnd": 6497, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a Cossack, denotes humiliation of a personal character,\nbrought about by dissipation and wanton extravagance." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cot", "title": "Cot", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a cot, foretells some affliction, either through sickness or accident.”", "aliases": [ "cot" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cot stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0519", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cot", "text": "To dream of a cot, foretells some affliction, either through sickness\nor accident. Cots in rows signify you will not be alone in trouble,\nas friends will be afflicted also.", "locator": "Heading 519; source lines 6497–6503", "lineStart": 6497, "lineEnd": 6503, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a cot, foretells some affliction, either through sickness\nor accident. Cots in rows signify you will not be alone in trouble,\nas friends will be afflicted also." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cotton", "title": "Cotton", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of young growing cotton-fields, denotes great business and prosperous times.”", "aliases": [ "cotton" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cotton stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0520", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cotton", "text": "To dream of young growing cotton-fields, denotes great business\nand prosperous times. To see cotton ready for gathering,\ndenotes wealth and abundance for farmers.\n\nFor manufacturers to dream of cotton, means that they will be\nbenefited by the advancement of this article. For merchants,\nit denotes a change for the better in their line of business.\n\nTo see cotton in bales, is a favorable indication for better times.\n\nTo dream that cotton is advancing, denotes an immediate change from low\nto high prices, and all will be in better circumstances.", "locator": "Heading 520; source lines 6503–6518", "lineStart": 6503, "lineEnd": 6518, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of young growing cotton-fields, denotes great business\nand prosperous times. To see cotton ready for gathering,\ndenotes wealth and abundance for farmers.\n\nFor manufacturers to dream of cotton, means that they will be\nbenefited by the advancement of this article. For merchants,\nit denotes a change for the better in their line of business.\n\nTo see cotton in bales, is a favorable indication for better times.\n\nTo dream that cotton is advancing, denotes an immediate change from low\nto high prices, and all will be in better circumstances." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cotton-cap", "title": "Cotton Cap", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “It is a good dream, denoting many sincere friends.”", "aliases": [ "cotton cap" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cotton cap stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0521", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cotton Cap", "text": "It is a good dream, denoting many sincere friends.", "locator": "Heading 521; source lines 6518–6522", "lineStart": 6518, "lineEnd": 6522, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "It is a good dream, denoting many sincere friends." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cotton-cloth", "title": "Cotton Cloth", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see cotton cloth in a dream, denotes easy circumstances.”", "aliases": [ "cotton cloth" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cotton cloth stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0522", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cotton Cloth", "text": "To see cotton cloth in a dream, denotes easy circumstances.\nNo great changes follow this dream.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of weaving cotton cloth,\ndenotes that she will have a thrifty and enterprising husband.\nTo the married it denotes a pleasant yet a humble abode.", "locator": "Heading 522; source lines 6522–6531", "lineStart": 6522, "lineEnd": 6531, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see cotton cloth in a dream, denotes easy circumstances.\nNo great changes follow this dream.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of weaving cotton cloth,\ndenotes that she will have a thrifty and enterprising husband.\nTo the married it denotes a pleasant yet a humble abode." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cotton-gin", "title": "Cotton Gin", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a cotton gin, foretells you will make some advancement toward fortune which will be very pleasing and satisfactory.”", "aliases": [ "cotton gin" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cotton gin stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0523", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cotton Gin", "text": "To dream of a cotton gin, foretells you will make some advancement\ntoward fortune which will be very pleasing and satisfactory.\nTo see a broken or dilapidated gin, signifies misfortune and trouble\nwill overthrow success.", "locator": "Heading 523; source lines 6531–6538", "lineStart": 6531, "lineEnd": 6538, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a cotton gin, foretells you will make some advancement\ntoward fortune which will be very pleasing and satisfactory.\nTo see a broken or dilapidated gin, signifies misfortune and trouble\nwill overthrow success." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "couch", "title": "Couch", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of reclining on a couch, indicates that false hopes will be entertained.”", "aliases": [ "couch" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about couch stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0524", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Couch", "text": "To dream of reclining on a couch, indicates that false hopes will\nbe entertained. You should be alert to every change of your affairs,\nfor only in this way will your hopes be realized.", "locator": "Heading 524; source lines 6538–6544", "lineStart": 6538, "lineEnd": 6544, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of reclining on a couch, indicates that false hopes will\nbe entertained. You should be alert to every change of your affairs,\nfor only in this way will your hopes be realized." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cough", "title": "Cough", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are aggravated by a constant cough indicates a state of low health.”", "aliases": [ "cough", "coughing" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cough stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0525", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cough", "text": "To dream that you are aggravated by a constant cough indicates\na state of low health; but one from which you will recuperate\nif care is observed in your habits.\n\nTo dream of hearing others cough, indicates unpleasant surroundings\nfrom which you will ultimately emerge.", "locator": "Heading 525; source lines 6544–6553", "lineStart": 6544, "lineEnd": 6553, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are aggravated by a constant cough indicates\na state of low health; but one from which you will recuperate\nif care is observed in your habits.\n\nTo dream of hearing others cough, indicates unpleasant surroundings\nfrom which you will ultimately emerge." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "counselor", "title": "Counselor", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "An adviser can help you understand a choice without taking it over.", "summary": "A counselor may picture seeking perspective, wanting to be listened to, or receiving advice while keeping your own room to decide.", "aliases": [ "counselor", "counsellor" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A counselor can make a question into a conversation. In a dream, someone listens, helps separate options, or gives advice about a situation you have not been able to organize alone. The figure may picture wanting another perspective rather than wanting a complete answer. This could fit a transition, disagreement, or unfamiliar role in which talking through the circumstances would make your own preferences easier to understand.\n\nThe quality of listening changes the relationship. An adviser who asks what matters to you creates a different encounter from someone who applies a rule before hearing the situation. This can give form to wanting context to count. A simple clarification may be more useful than an impressive statement that does not fit. The dream does not establish that a real adviser is competent or that their suggested course is appropriate; its imagined advice remains material to consider rather than independent authority.\n\nDisagreeing with the counselor may make your own knowledge visible. You can appreciate another view while recognizing that it misses a practical limit or a preference you have not explained. A conversation that allows revision may picture guidance as collaboration. A counselor who demands compliance can instead make the scene about surrendering judgment in exchange for reassurance. The helpful role need not require you to accept every conclusion offered.\n\nBeing the adviser reverses the task. Another person expects you to understand a problem quickly, or asks you to decide something only they can choose. This could resemble supporting a friend, mentoring, or translating a complicated arrangement. A response that names your limits can preserve care without pretending that you know the answer. If the other person supplies useful context, the conversation may become shared investigation rather than a performance of certainty.\n\nThe counselor's setting can be formal, familiar, or invented. A school office, workplace discussion, personal conversation, or professional room can carry different expectations about confidentiality and authority. The title alone does not establish a clinical or legal role. Recent advice, difficult choices, stories, or remembered helpers may provide ordinary material. A useful original reading separates being heard, receiving information, and handing over a decision. What matters can be the kind of support that makes your own preferences easier to understand and express.", "traditional": "Miller's 1901 Counselor account describes preferring one's own judgment and warns about acting on ideas of right. The passage does not specify psychotherapy or legal practice. This entry develops a general adviser and listener role; it does not present the old account as evidence about clinical care, legal advice, or the authority of dreamed guidance.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Perspective without a handed-down answer", "reflection": "An adviser may help make options understandable. The useful support can be a clearer question rather than someone else deciding the outcome." }, { "title": "Context that changes the advice", "reflection": "Listening allows circumstances and preferences to count. A rule offered before the situation is heard may make fit, rather than expertise alone, the central issue." }, { "title": "Care within the adviser's knowledge", "reflection": "Being asked to counsel can create pressure to appear certain. Naming a limit may preserve a helpful relationship without pretending to control another person's choice." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "The counselor listens before suggesting anything", "reflection": "The situation gains room to become specific. This may picture wanting your context understood, rather than simply wanting reassurance or an immediate answer." }, { "title": "An impressive answer does not fit your circumstances", "reflection": "The advice sounds complete while overlooking a practical limit. The scene may make relevance more important than confident delivery." }, { "title": "You disagree and the conversation remains open", "reflection": "Your own knowledge changes the exchange. This may picture guidance that can be revised without treating disagreement as failure or disloyalty." }, { "title": "The adviser insists that you follow one path", "reflection": "Reassurance becomes conditional on surrendering the decision. The scene may explore how much authority you want help to carry." }, { "title": "Someone expects you to solve their problem", "reflection": "You occupy the knowledgeable role before understanding enough. This may resemble supporting others under an expectation of certainty, making information and limits important." }, { "title": "You name what you cannot decide for another person", "reflection": "The conversation remains caring while responsibility becomes clearer. The scene may picture help that supports a choice rather than replacing the person who must make it." } ], "prompts": [ "What kind of support did I want: listening, information, perspective, or a decision?", "Did the advice change when my circumstances were understood?", "Who retained the choice, and whose knowledge had limits?" ], "related": [ "teacher", "trust", "being-judged" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0528" ], "scope": "Historical comparison only: Counselor — miller-0528 (Heading 528; source lines 6567–6573). These are attributed period claims, not verified predictions or support for the original psychological reflections." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0528", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Counselor", "text": "To dream of a counselor, you are likely to be possessed of some ability\nyourself, and you will usually prefer your own judgment to that of others.\nBe guarded in executing your ideas of right.", "locator": "Heading 528; source lines 6567–6573", "lineStart": 6567, "lineEnd": 6573, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a counselor, you are likely to be possessed of some ability\nyourself, and you will usually prefer your own judgment to that of others.\nBe guarded in executing your ideas of right." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "countenance", "title": "Countenance", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a beautiful and ingenuous countenance, you may safely look for some pleasure to fall to your lot in the near future.”", "aliases": [ "countenance" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about countenance stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0529", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Countenance", "text": "To dream of a beautiful and ingenuous countenance, you may safely look\nfor some pleasure to fall to your lot in the near future; but to behold\nan ugly and scowling visage, portends unfavorable transactions.", "locator": "Heading 529; source lines 6573–6579", "lineStart": 6573, "lineEnd": 6579, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a beautiful and ingenuous countenance, you may safely look\nfor some pleasure to fall to your lot in the near future; but to behold\nan ugly and scowling visage, portends unfavorable transactions." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "counter", "title": "Counter", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of counters, foretells that active interest will debar idleness from infecting your life with unhealthful desires.”", "aliases": [ "counter" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about counter stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0526", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Counter", "text": "To dream of counters, foretells that active interest will debar\nidleness from infecting your life with unhealthful desires.\nTo dream of empty and soiled counters, foretells unfortunate\nengagements which will bring great uneasiness of mind lest\nyour interest will be wholly swept away.", "locator": "Heading 526; source lines 6553–6561", "lineStart": 6553, "lineEnd": 6561, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of counters, foretells that active interest will debar\nidleness from infecting your life with unhealthful desires.\nTo dream of empty and soiled counters, foretells unfortunate\nengagements which will bring great uneasiness of mind lest\nyour interest will be wholly swept away." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "counterfeit-money", "title": "Counterfeit Money", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "aliases": [ "counterfeit money" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "summary": "Counterfeit money can explore a difference between appearance and accepted value, uncertainty about criteria, or the purpose a copy is meant to serve.", "tagline": "Looking convincing and being accepted can depend on different terms.", "psychological": "Counterfeit money in a dream can make a difference between appearance and acceptance unusually concrete. A note may look convincing while the setting refuses it, or be openly described as a copy for a particular purpose. The experience can concern how value is recognized, what an offer claims or which criteria apply. The dream cannot authenticate real money or establish another person’s honesty.\n\nA note declared invalid despite looking unchanged can make the reason for rejection hard to understand. You may want an explanation rather than another attempt to make it look better. This can resemble submitting work that seems to meet a request but encounters an unfamiliar standard. The imagined judgment is not proof that your actual contribution is inadequate or that the standard is fair.\n\nKnowing the money is a copy before somebody accepts it creates a different tension. The exchange may appear workable while you remain unsure whether its terms have been understood. A conversation about what a demonstration, estimate or promise is meant to provide can offer a comparison. Making that purpose clear differs from trying to make the appearance more convincing.\n\nAn obvious imitation used on a stage may serve its purpose precisely because everyone understands the arrangement. This separates a copy’s usefulness from a claim that it is genuine currency. The scene might concern rehearsal, play or trying an unfamiliar role under agreed conditions. It need not turn every convincing performance into deception or every made-up object into something worthless.\n\nComparing several notes can make criteria inconsistent: one is accepted while an identical-looking one is refused. You might seek a clearer account of what matters, or discover that the expected original has not been defined. A drawer labelled counterfeit containing objects you remember earning can instead put a doubtful label over a familiar history. Explaining what you know before offering a note gives your own voice a place in the exchange. These scenes can explore acceptance, purpose and how a claim is communicated. They leave room for recent stories, props or remembered transactions without turning suspicion into evidence or prescribing how an actual financial decision should be made.", "traditional": "Miller’s sole Counterfeit Money account predicts adverse consequences from either receiving or passing it and uses a derogatory description of another person. Those are attributed period assertions, not evidence of fraud, character or a coming loss. The original reflection here distinguishes acceptance criteria, a copy’s stated purpose and the terms of an exchange.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Appearance beside an explained standard", "reflection": "A convincing form can still meet a criterion that needs clarification." }, { "title": "The purpose of a copy", "reflection": "An imitation can serve rehearsal or play when its role is understood." }, { "title": "A claim with room for your own account", "reflection": "Acceptance can depend on explaining what you know rather than silently relying on appearance." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A familiar-looking note is refused without an explanation", "reflection": "The form appears unchanged while the judgment differs from what you expected. This may picture a task encountering an unclear standard. Wanting to understand the reason can be more useful than trying to make the same appearance more convincing, separating clarification from another performance." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You know the money is a copy while someone prepares to accept it", "reflection": "The exchange seems possible before its meaning feels shared. This can picture an offer whose purpose needs to be explained, like a demonstration being mistaken for a finished result. The tension concerns what the arrangement claims and whether both participants understand those terms." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Obvious imitation notes are used during an agreed stage rehearsal", "reflection": "The copy serves a purpose that does not require anyone to mistake it for ordinary currency. This can picture room to practise or play with a role under clear conditions. Its usefulness comes from the shared arrangement, allowing invention to have value without pretending to be something else." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Two identical-looking notes receive different judgments at the counter", "reflection": "The criterion is not visible in the objects themselves. This may resemble comparisons that need a clearer account of their basis before they become useful. The dream’s repeated design makes the difference in response especially noticeable, centring explanation rather than a verdict about either participant." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A drawer labelled counterfeit contains notes with a familiar earned history", "reflection": "A doubtful label sits beside what you remember about the objects. This can picture recognition being questioned on terms that leave out your experience. The scene gives the disagreement a concrete form, making an accurate account matter more than automatically accepting the label or rejecting all criticism." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You explain the note’s status before deciding how to offer it", "reflection": "Your account becomes part of the exchange rather than something left outside it. This can picture wanting the purpose of a contribution understood. Explaining may change what can be done with the object, leaving room for a revised arrangement instead of requiring either silent acceptance or complete rejection." } ], "prompts": [ "What made the money appear genuine or unacceptable within the scene?", "Which purpose or criterion needed a clearer explanation?", "How did your own account change the terms of the exchange?" ], "related": [ "money", "cash", "bank" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0527" ], "scope": "miller-0527: Receiving or passing counterfeit money receives adverse predictions and a derogatory claim about another person. These are Miller’s assertions, not evidence of fraud or actual character. Specific complete passages: Counterfeit Money — miller-0527 (Heading 527; source lines 6561–6567). Attributed period comparison only; these claims do not validate the original reflection or establish actual outcomes, character, health or relationships." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0527", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Counterfeit Money", "text": "To dream of counterfeit money, denotes you will have trouble with\nsome unruly and worthless person. This dream always omens evil,\nwhether you receive it or pass it.", "locator": "Heading 527; source lines 6561–6567", "lineStart": 6561, "lineEnd": 6567, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of counterfeit money, denotes you will have trouble with\nsome unruly and worthless person. This dream always omens evil,\nwhether you receive it or pass it." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "counterpane", "title": "Counterpane", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “A counterpane is very good to dream of, if clean and white, denoting pleasant occupations for women.”", "aliases": [ "counterpane" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about counterpane stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0530", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Counterpane", "text": "A counterpane is very good to dream of, if clean and white,\ndenoting pleasant occupations for women; but if it be soiled\nyou may expect harassing situations. Sickness usually\nfollows this dream.", "locator": "Heading 530; source lines 6579–6586", "lineStart": 6579, "lineEnd": 6586, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "A counterpane is very good to dream of, if clean and white,\ndenoting pleasant occupations for women; but if it be soiled\nyou may expect harassing situations. Sickness usually\nfollows this dream." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "counting", "title": "Counting", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of counting your children, and they are merry and sweet-looking, denotes that you will have no trouble in controlling them, and…”", "aliases": [ "counting" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about counting stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0531", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Counting", "text": "To dream of counting your children, and they are merry and sweet-looking,\ndenotes that you will have no trouble in controlling them, and they will\nattain honorable places.\n\nTo dream of counting money, you will be lucky and always able to pay\nyour debts; but to count out money to another person, you will meet with loss\nof some kind. Such will be the case, also, in counting other things.\nIf for yourself, good; if for others, usually bad luck will attend you.", "locator": "Heading 531; source lines 6586–6597", "lineStart": 6586, "lineEnd": 6597, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of counting your children, and they are merry and sweet-looking,\ndenotes that you will have no trouble in controlling them, and they will\nattain honorable places.\n\nTo dream of counting money, you will be lucky and always able to pay\nyour debts; but to count out money to another person, you will meet with loss\nof some kind. Such will be the case, also, in counting other things.\nIf for yourself, good; if for others, usually bad luck will attend you." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "country", "title": "Country", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of being in a beautiful and fertile country, where abound rich fields of grain and running streams of pure water, denotes the very…”", "aliases": [ "country" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about country stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0532", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Country", "text": "To dream of being in a beautiful and fertile country, where abound\nrich fields of grain and running streams of pure water,\ndenotes the very acme of good times is at hand. Wealth will pile\nin upon you, and you will be able to reign in state in any country.\nIf the country be dry and bare, you will see and hear of troublous times.\nFamine and sickness will be in the land.", "locator": "Heading 532; source lines 6597–6606", "lineStart": 6597, "lineEnd": 6606, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being in a beautiful and fertile country, where abound\nrich fields of grain and running streams of pure water,\ndenotes the very acme of good times is at hand. Wealth will pile\nin upon you, and you will be able to reign in state in any country.\nIf the country be dry and bare, you will see and hear of troublous times.\nFamine and sickness will be in the land." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "courage", "title": "Courage", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "summary": "Courage dreams may explore acting with fear, asking for support, or choosing a limit when a challenge conflicts with what matters to you.", "tagline": "The chosen response matters more than appearing fearless.", "aliases": [ "courage", "bravery", "brave", "feeling brave" ], "status": "REVIEW", "psychological": "Courage can make a dream about taking a step while fear or uncertainty remains. You speak despite expecting disapproval, approach something intimidating with a companion or protect a value by declining a challenge. The meaningful action need not be spectacular. A possible reading concerns having enough room to choose what matters, rather than waiting for every uncomfortable feeling to disappear.\n\nThe purpose of the action gives it precision. Speaking may protect a voice that has been absent from a discussion. Proceeding carefully may make a wanted activity accessible. Refusing a risky demand may preserve a limit that others do not recognize. A difficult conversation, a new responsibility or a fictional adventure can provide waking comparisons. The dream’s response is not a fair test of how brave you would be in a real emergency.\n\nSupport changes the shape of the action. A companion, explanation or pause can make movement possible without turning it into a solitary contest. Asking for help may be the chosen step itself. The dream may picture courage as participating with others or acknowledging what you cannot manage alone, rather than proving that every difficulty can be faced without assistance.\n\nOther people’s recognition can differ from your own experience. Being applauded as fearless while still feeling afraid may make the gap between an admired appearance and an uncertain inner position visible. Conversely, nobody noticing an important choice can leave its value intact. The action may matter because it serves a preference or commitment, not because it earns a heroic label.\n\nA pause or withdrawal deserves equally careful attention. Turning back can reflect a reasoned limit within the dream, but it can also feel disappointing if you wanted to continue. Neither outcome needs an automatic moral verdict. A change of pace can allow fear, judgment and purpose to remain in the same scene.\n\nAn unfinished challenge can therefore be useful without a victory. The dream may bring a particular choice into focus: whether to speak, join, ask, wait or decline. What the response makes possible is more informative than treating every threatening image as a demand to conquer it.", "traditional": "This is an original reflection on chosen action alongside fear. No historical Courage passage is attached here. Adventure stories, admired acts or ordinary difficult choices can supply context. The separate Hero page offers an archetypal lens; that lens does not prove the meaning or moral value of a dream response.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "What the response serves", "reflection": "A voice, boundary or wanted activity can give an action value beyond its dramatic appearance." }, { "title": "Support within the action", "reflection": "Company and practical help can make a chosen step possible without removing uncertainty." }, { "title": "A limit can be chosen", "reflection": "Refusal, waiting or a change of pace can differ from being prevented from acting." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You speak despite expecting disapproval", "reflection": "The feared response remains possible, yet your words enter the discussion. A conversation where you want to express a difference offers a comparison. The scene may value having a voice more than winning approval or delivering a perfectly fearless statement." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You take a careful step toward something frightening", "reflection": "The movement allows caution and desire to coexist. This may picture trying a new activity or approaching a difficult subject at a manageable pace. The scale of the step matters: progress need not become an all-or-nothing trial in which hesitation counts as defeat." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You ask for company before proceeding", "reflection": "Asking for a companion can make the activity accessible while preserving your choice to proceed. The scene differs from a demand to prove independence. Support changes the practical arrangement, allowing uncertainty to remain present without deciding the whole course of action." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You refuse a risk that others call a challenge", "reflection": "The group’s language can make risk seem like an obligation to earn standing. Your refusal may picture choosing another value or limit. The scene is different when you can decline freely than when you are simply unable to act; neither supplies a waking bravery score." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Others call you brave while you still feel uncertain", "reflection": "The label comes from an audience, while the feeling remains more complicated. This can resemble being seen as capable during a task you are still learning. The dream may make room for an action to matter without requiring the inner experience to match its admired appearance." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You pause to protect someone instead of pressing ahead", "reflection": "The slower response gives care or judgment priority over completing the challenge. This may picture choosing what the action is for rather than following the scene’s competitive pace. A pause can preserve a value even when it does not look like the expected triumph." } ], "prompts": [ "What value or wish did the chosen action serve?", "How did support, information or a pause affect your options?", "How did fear affect the value or direction of your action?" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "related": [ "the-hero", "danger", "rescue", "being-judged" ], "updated": "2026-10-13", "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "courthouse", "title": "Courthouse", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "A place for hearing an account can still leave the terms unclear.", "summary": "A courthouse dream can explore being heard, finding your role and completing your part in a formal process. It does not predict a legal outcome.", "aliases": [ "courthouse", "courthouses", "court house", "court building" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A courthouse gathers several roles around an event or dispute: the person speaking, the witness, the observer and those organizing the process. In a dream, the building can picture trying to understand where your account belongs within a formal arrangement. A review, difficult group decision or unresolved disagreement may offer a parallel. Your role matters because waiting to testify is different from watching someone else's hearing or looking for information.\n\nProcedure can give an encounter useful structure. A clear time, a place to speak and understandable instructions may picture being able to present something without competing for every moment of attention. The same formality can feel restrictive when you do not know which rules apply. The dream may make the need for context visible rather than reveal that a real process will be fair or unfair.\n\nA wrong corridor or inaccessible room can turn readiness into a problem of access. You may have an account prepared but lack the route or permission to deliver it. This can resemble a workplace system in which responsibility is assigned before a useful channel exists. A person who helps you locate the right place changes the scene toward orientation, not necessarily toward obtaining a desired verdict.\n\nBeing a witness can separate involvement from responsibility for the whole event. You may have one detail to contribute without being the person who must settle everything. This can fit a shared conflict where your experience matters but does not give you complete knowledge. Feeling expected to explain more than you actually know can make the limits of your role central.\n\nLeaving after your part is finished may picture a boundary around participation. Others can continue working through their responsibilities without requiring you to remain indefinitely. A hearing that becomes a conversation can instead make clarification more valuable than winning. Remembered buildings, stories or paperwork may supply the scene directly. Dream proceedings are not evidence of guilt, a legal prediction or advice about an actual case; these reflections concern role, access and being heard.", "traditional": "No exact Courthouse building passage is supplied. Judge and Jury have historical role-specific accounts, but those forecasts do not establish a meaning for the building or an actual legal result. The reflections here are original comparisons about procedure and participation.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A role within the process", "reflection": "The building can make your part in a shared matter feel formal. A contribution may be important without making you responsible for the whole event or its conclusion." }, { "title": "A channel for your account", "reflection": "Rooms and procedures can provide a place to speak or keep access unclear. The question may concern how an account becomes heard rather than which verdict should follow." }, { "title": "An understandable ending", "reflection": "Completing your part can give participation a limit. The scene may allow other responsibilities to remain with others after your own contribution is made." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You wait for a hearing without knowing your role", "reflection": "Waiting without a role can picture being drawn into a formal matter before understanding what it asks of you. A review or group decision may fit. Clear instructions can change the uncertainty without determining the outcome." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A corridor leads to the wrong courtroom", "reflection": "A wrong courtroom can resemble having something to explain but no usable route for presenting it. The difficulty concerns access rather than the value of your account. Helpful orientation can matter before any decision about the substance is made." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A door opens and nobody can hear your account", "reflection": "Speaking unheard can picture a process that allows a turn without giving the account attention. A meeting or structured discussion may feel similar. The scene can distinguish being present from having what you say considered." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You arrive as a witness rather than the person accused", "reflection": "Arriving as a witness can picture a limited contribution to a shared event. You may know one part without being answerable for everything. The role can preserve both the value of your experience and the limits of your knowledge." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The building becomes a place to clarify an agreement", "reflection": "Clarifying an agreement can picture a formal encounter becoming useful through understanding its terms. The purpose shifts from defeating another account toward making expectations workable. That change belongs to the dream, without predicting any legal result." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You leave after your part is complete while others remain", "reflection": "Leaving after your part can picture completion with a boundary. A shared responsibility may continue beyond what you agreed to provide. Other people remaining does not automatically mean you have abandoned the matter or failed to care." } ], "prompts": [ "What role did the building give me, and did I understand its limits?", "What made my account heard or difficult to present?", "What counted as completing my own part?" ], "related": [ "judge", "jury", "being-judged", "prison" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "courtship", "title": "Courtship", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Bad, bad, will be the fate of the woman who dreams of being courted.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "courtship" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about courtship stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "moles-71045", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams and Moles", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "United Kingdom, J. Marshall, 1805", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71045", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0533", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Courtship", "text": "Bad, bad, will be the fate of the woman who dreams of being courted. She will\noften think that now he will propose, but often she will be disappointed.\nDisappointments will follow illusory hopes and fleeting pleasures.\nFor a man to dream of courting, implies that he is not worthy of a companion.", "locator": "Heading 533; source lines 6606–6613", "lineStart": 6606, "lineEnd": 6613, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Bad, bad, will be the fate of the woman who dreams of being courted. She will\noften think that now he will propose, but often she will be disappointed.\nDisappointments will follow illusory hopes and fleeting pleasures.\nFor a man to dream of courting, implies that he is not worthy of a companion." }, { "id": "moles-0018", "sourceId": "moles-71045", "heading": "Courtship", "originalHeading": "(no printed heading)", "text": "To dream of courting a beautiful woman, betokens crosses and vexation.", "locator": "Dreams interpreted, passage 18; source lines 162–162", "lineStart": 162, "lineEnd": 162, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "editorialNote": "The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Courtship” because that is the subject of its first clause.", "displayText": "To dream of courting a beautiful woman, betokens crosses and vexation." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cousin", "title": "Cousin", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Dreaming of one's cousin, denotes disappointments and afflictions.”", "aliases": [ "cousin" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cousin stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0534", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cousin", "text": "Dreaming of one's cousin, denotes disappointments and afflictions.\nSaddened lives are predicted by this dream.\n\nTo dream of an affectionate correspondence with one's cousin,\ndenotes a fatal rupture between families.", "locator": "Heading 534; source lines 6613–6621", "lineStart": 6613, "lineEnd": 6621, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Dreaming of one's cousin, denotes disappointments and afflictions.\nSaddened lives are predicted by this dream.\n\nTo dream of an affectionate correspondence with one's cousin,\ndenotes a fatal rupture between families." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cow", "title": "Cow", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "5 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing cows waiting for the milking hour, promises abundant fulfilment of hopes and desires.” Compare 5 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "cow", "cows" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cow stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "cattle" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0535", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cows", "text": "To dream of seeing cows waiting for the milking hour, promises abundant\nfulfilment of hopes and desires.\n\n\n[45] See Cattle.", "locator": "Heading 535; source lines 6621–6629", "lineStart": 6621, "lineEnd": 6629, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing cows waiting for the milking hour, promises abundant\nfulfilment of hopes and desires. See Cattle.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Cows” is shown on the Cow page: singular/plural" }, { "id": "fontaine-0163", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Cows", "text": "If you dream of seeing large herds of cows, it predicts\nprosperity and wealth. To see one cow in your dream is a sign of a good\npiece of luck of some kind. If a young girl dreams of cows, it is a\nsign she will marry a rich man, and have numerous children. 4, 26, 1.", "locator": "Heading 163; source line 1643", "lineStart": 1643, "lineEnd": 1648, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream of seeing large herds of cows, it predicts\nprosperity and wealth. To see one cow in your dream is a sign of a good\npiece of luck of some kind. If a young girl dreams of cows, it is a\nsign she will marry a rich man, and have numerous children.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Cows” is shown on the Cow page: singular/plural" }, { "id": "cielo-0119", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Cow", "text": "Is significant of prosperity and abundance.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 119; source lines 4143–4145", "lineStart": 4143, "lineEnd": 4145, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Is significant of prosperity and abundance." }, { "id": "luck-0046", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Cows", "text": "Prosperity, the more the better.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 46; source lines 3621–3626", "lineStart": 3621, "lineEnd": 3626, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Prosperity, the more the better.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Cows” is shown on the Cow page: singular/plural" }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9631", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Cow", "heading": "Cow", "text": "A dream of plenty in proportion to the number seen (Artemidorus) ; a symbol of the earth as mother of all things.", "lineStart": 9631, "lineEnd": 9633, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 210; NLM OCR lines 9631–9633", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9631, "lineEnd": 9633, "printedPage": 210, "printedPageEnd": 210 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Cow. — A dream of plenty in proportion to the number seen \n(Artemidorus) ; a symbol of the earth as mother of all things. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Cow" }, "displayText": "A dream of plenty in proportion to the number seen (Artemidorus); a symbol of the earth as mother of all things." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "cattle" ] }, { "slug": "coworker", "title": "Coworker", "category": "People", "aliases": [ "coworker", "coworkers", "co-worker", "co-workers", "colleague", "colleagues", "work colleague" ], "summary": "A coworker may bring shared work, comparison, or the boundary between professional and personal life into a dream. The interaction gives the person context.", "tagline": "Working alongside someone, sharing the load, and deciding where the role begins and ends.", "psychological": "A coworker can make shared responsibility concrete. Unlike a boss who assigns or evaluates work, a peer may depend on your contribution while you depend on theirs. Finishing together, waiting for a handover, or discovering that one person carries the whole task can resemble how cooperation feels to you. The dream may concern a workable arrangement rather than the coworker's character. A recent deadline or ordinary exchange may also provide the scene directly.\n\nComparison offers another reading. A colleague who knows an answer, receives attention, or seems effortlessly capable can make your own standards visible. You might be measuring progress, wanting useful guidance, or fearing that a skill gap will become public. If their success feels encouraging rather than diminishing, the image may explore learning alongside someone. The same competent figure can represent an available example or an uncomfortable comparison, depending on the encounter.\n\nA coworker in a private setting can bring the boundary of the role into focus. Sharing a meal at your childhood home differs from meeting in an office. Their presence might fit work taking up personal attention, curiosity about becoming friends, or difficulty knowing how much of yourself to bring to a professional relationship. The setting makes those roles meet; it does not automatically reveal romantic attraction or a wish to erase the boundary.\n\nAn old colleague may also bring back a way you worked or a period when you felt different about your abilities. You could miss a shared routine while having no wish to return to the job. An unexpectedly kind exchange might offer a personal image of support; an uncomfortable one could revisit a need for clearer responsibilities or respect. The dream does not show what the actual colleague thinks. Its useful subject may be the task, standard, or kind of company that their presence makes visible.", "traditional": "No matching historical coworker passage is supplied. This is original reflection on a professional peer relationship, distinct from a manager or a general friend. Meetings, shared tasks, remembered workplaces, and changing roles can supply ordinary context. The imagined interaction does not establish a colleague's loyalty, competence, romantic interest, or intentions.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A genuinely shared task", "reflection": "A peer's contribution may make cooperation and division of work visible. The useful distinction is whether responsibility is coordinated, uneven, or unclear, rather than who appears most capable." }, { "title": "Comparison or an example", "reflection": "A competent coworker may evoke wanting guidance, acknowledgment, or a different measure of progress. Admiration and embarrassment lead to different readings of the same skill or success." }, { "title": "The role enters personal space", "reflection": "A colleague in a private setting can explore where professional and personal life meet. Welcome company differs from intrusion; the setting does not establish romantic desire." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You finish a difficult task together", "reflection": "The work becomes manageable because each person contributes something different. This may fit wanting reliable cooperation rather than someone to take over completely. Satisfaction can come from the shared rhythm or recognition that your own part matters to the result." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "The coworker receives credit for your contribution", "reflection": "You see your work attributed elsewhere and must decide whether to speak. The scene may explore acknowledgment, ownership, or a wish for a fair account of shared effort. It is an imagined allocation of credit, not evidence that the person has taken anything from you." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A handover never arrives", "reflection": "You wait for information or a completed step that the coworker was meant to provide. The scene can fit dependence on unclear coordination, especially during a deadline. Being able to ask, revise the plan, or share the delay distinguishes a missing update from total helplessness." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A coworker appears at your family table", "reflection": "Professional company enters a place with different expectations and history. This may explore work occupying personal attention or uncertainty about how much to share. Enjoyment can instead fit discovering that a relationship has room for ordinary company beyond the job." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "They help you learn something unfamiliar", "reflection": "The colleague explains a task without making you feel small, or the explanation becomes another test. This can distinguish useful guidance from uncomfortable comparison. The dreamed lesson may clarify what conditions let you ask questions, rather than assess your actual competence." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "An old coworker returns in your current workplace", "reflection": "Two periods of working life meet, and an earlier routine or role becomes visible again. This may help you compare how you approach responsibility or confidence now. Missing the person's company need not mean wanting the previous job or its conditions back." } ], "prompts": [ "What depended on each person's contribution, and was the responsibility clear?", "Did comparison make me curious, encouraged, diminished, or eager to be acknowledged?", "What changed when the colleague appeared outside the usual work setting?" ], "related": [ "boss", "friend", "job-interview", "trust", "a-first-day-at-work-with-no-guidance" ], "type": "dreams", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflection on distinct social scenes and possible personal connections; no matching historical passage supplied. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cowslip", "title": "Cowslip", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of gathering cowslips, portends unhappy ending of seemingly close and warm friendships.”", "aliases": [ "cowslip" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cowslip stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0536", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cowslip", "text": "To dream of gathering cowslips, portends unhappy ending of seemingly close\nand warm friendships; but seeing them growing, denotes a limited competency\nfor lovers. This is a sinister dream.\n\nTo see them in full bloom, denotes a crisis in your affairs.\nThe breaking up of happy homes may follow this dream.", "locator": "Heading 536; source lines 6629–6638", "lineStart": 6629, "lineEnd": 6638, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of gathering cowslips, portends unhappy ending of seemingly close\nand warm friendships; but seeing them growing, denotes a limited competency\nfor lovers. This is a sinister dream.\n\nTo see them in full bloom, denotes a crisis in your affairs.\nThe breaking up of happy homes may follow this dream." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "coxcomb", "title": "Coxcomb", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a coxcomb, denotes a low state of mind. The dreamer should endeavor to elevate his mind to nobler thoughts.”", "aliases": [ "coxcomb" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about coxcomb stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0537", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Coxcomb", "text": "To dream of a coxcomb, denotes a low state of mind.\nThe dreamer should endeavor to elevate his mind to nobler thoughts.", "locator": "Heading 537; source lines 6638–6643", "lineStart": 6638, "lineEnd": 6643, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a coxcomb, denotes a low state of mind.\nThe dreamer should endeavor to elevate his mind to nobler thoughts." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "coyote", "title": "Coyote", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "summary": "A coyote can picture an unfamiliar presence near ordinary life, wary independence, or an encounter that changes as distance changes.", "tagline": "An animal at the edge of familiar space.", "aliases": [ "coyote", "coyotes" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A coyote appearing beside your home can picture something unfamiliar entering a place where you normally know how to act. The encounter might fit a new colleague joining a settled team, a neighbor changing a shared routine, or a concern you had kept outside daily life. Its presence alone does not decide whether the change is welcome. A curious animal passing through creates a different relationship from one repeatedly returning to a closed door. The important tension is between an ordinary setting and a visitor whose intentions remain uncertain.\n\nWatching from a distance can bring independence and connection together. You may be fascinated by the animal yet reluctant to approach, or wish it would acknowledge you while valuing the space between you. A new friendship or a role outside your usual group may feel similar: interest does not require immediate closeness. If the coyote moves easily while you feel confined, it may become a personal image of freedom you want. If it seems isolated while you have company, the same distance may make solitude feel costly rather than attractive.\n\nA call from beyond sight can make incomplete information central. You hear a presence without being able to locate it, much as a vague request or an unexplained change can occupy attention before its shape becomes clear. An answering call may turn an empty landscape into one with company; continued silence may leave you feeling alone. The scene can hold a desire to understand what is nearby without providing evidence that a hidden person or danger exists in waking life.\n\nTrying to keep the animal outside may concern deciding what belongs within your care. A firm boundary can allow both you and the coyote room to continue, whereas pursuing it long after it leaves may make the encounter about your own unfinished attention. If you help an injured animal, curiosity shifts toward responsibility and its limits. A real sighting, a wildlife video, a family story, or a fictional character may supply the image directly. Your associations with this particular animal are more useful than assigning it a ready-made personality or cultural role.", "traditional": "No historical dream passage specifically naming a coyote is supplied in DreamFolia’s archive. Wolf and Fox passages concern their named subjects and are not transferred here. No trickster tradition, prediction, or cultural identity is inferred from this encounter.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "An unfamiliar visitor", "reflection": "A coyote in an ordinary place can fit a change that enters daily life before you know how to relate to it. Its behavior and your available space distinguish curiosity from unwanted intrusion." }, { "title": "Distance and independence", "reflection": "Watching without approaching may hold both interest and a wish for room. Relief, loneliness, or frustration gives that distance a different purpose." }, { "title": "Attention without an explanation", "reflection": "A call or partial glimpse can picture waiting for a concern to become clear. The missing information is part of the scene, rather than proof of a hidden threat." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A coyote walks down your familiar street", "reflection": "A wild visitor changes a predictable setting without necessarily disrupting it. This may fit learning to share space with something new. Whether everyone watches calmly or rushes indoors changes how the same unfamiliar presence feels." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You hear a call but cannot see the animal", "reflection": "The sound gives you a presence without a location. It may resemble waiting for an explanation while imagining several possibilities. An answer from another animal can shift the scene from uncertainty toward connection." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "It watches you from beyond a fence", "reflection": "The boundary allows attention without contact. This can picture a cautious relationship that has not yet become close. Feeling relieved by the fence differs from resenting a separation you would prefer to cross." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Several coyotes pass and leave you alone", "reflection": "Their movement has its own direction and does not center on you. The scene may offer relief when a change continues without requiring your involvement, or disappointment if you hoped to join something happening nearby." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You repeatedly try to keep one outside", "reflection": "A returning visitor makes maintaining a limit feel like continuing work. This can fit an expectation that keeps reaching into private time. A boundary that finally holds changes the dream toward usable separation." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You help an injured coyote and it departs", "reflection": "Care creates temporary closeness, then the animal resumes its own movement. Pleasure at its recovery may coexist with missing it. The scene can explore support whose success leaves another creature less dependent on you." } ], "prompts": [ "What made the coyote seem welcome, uncertain, or intrusive in that particular place?", "Did the distance between us offer freedom, loneliness, or useful protection?", "What changed when I stopped watching, approached, or let it leave?" ], "related": [ "wolf", "fox", "dog", "forest" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "crab", "title": "Crab", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of crabs, indicates that you will have many complicated affairs, for the solving of which you…” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "crab", "crabs" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about crab stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0539", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Crabs", "text": "To dream of crabs, indicates that you will have many complicated affairs,\nfor the solving of which you will be forced to exert the soundest judgment.\nThis dream portends to lovers a long and difficult courtship.", "locator": "Heading 539; source lines 6654–6660", "lineStart": 6654, "lineEnd": 6660, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of crabs, indicates that you will have many complicated affairs,\nfor the solving of which you will be forced to exert the soundest judgment.\nThis dream portends to lovers a long and difficult courtship.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Crabs” is shown on the Crab page: singular/plural" }, { "id": "fontaine-0164", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Crabs", "text": "signify you will quarrel with a friend. To the married, this\ndream is a sign of separation. 49, 19.", "locator": "Heading 164; source line 1648", "lineStart": 1648, "lineEnd": 1651, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "signify you will quarrel with a friend. To the married, this\ndream is a sign of separation.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Crabs” is shown on the Crab page: singular/plural" }, { "id": "cielo-0120", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Crab", "text": "To see a crab walking means that your\n endeavors will come to naught.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 120; source lines 4145–4148", "lineStart": 4145, "lineEnd": 4148, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a crab walking means that your\nendeavors will come to naught." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9634", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Crab", "heading": "Crab", "text": "The dream of a ruinous lawsuit (Gypsy) ; a modern expression for an ill-tempered person; the tenacity of the crab has become symbolic.", "lineStart": 9634, "lineEnd": 9637, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 210; NLM OCR lines 9634–9637", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9634, "lineEnd": 9637, "printedPage": 210, "printedPageEnd": 210 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Crab. — The dream of a ruinous lawsuit (Gypsy) ; a modern \nexpression for an ill-tempered person; the tenacity of the \ncrab has become symbolic. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Crab" }, "displayText": "The dream of a ruinous lawsuit (Gypsy); a modern expression for an ill-tempered person; the tenacity of the crab has become symbolic." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cradle", "title": "Cradle", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "aliases": [ "cradle" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0538" ], "scope": "Historical comparison only: Cradle — miller-0538 (Heading 538; source lines 6643–6654). These attributed period claims do not establish diagnoses, relationships, future events or the original modern interpretation." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0166" ], "scope": "Historical comparison only: Cradle — fontaine-0166 (Heading 166; source line 1654). These attributed period claims do not establish diagnoses, relationships, future events or the original modern interpretation." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0121" ], "scope": "Historical comparison only: Cradle — cielo-0121 (Dream section, heading 121; source lines 4148–4150). These attributed period claims do not establish diagnoses, relationships, future events or the original modern interpretation." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "kind": "modern", "tagline": "A prepared place for care, a shared rhythm, and deciding what still needs your attention.", "summary": "A cradle can explore making room for care, sharing a continuing task or noticing how support changes as its recipient grows.", "psychological": "A cradle can picture a place arranged around somebody else's need for support. Its small scale makes care practical: there is a place to settle, a motion to maintain and an environment that must fit the recipient. A baby may be central, or the cradle may be empty while you prepare it. Direct memories of family life can matter without the object needing another meaning.\n\nAn empty cradle can give preparation a visible form. Space has been made before the person or responsibility arrives. That may feel welcoming, uncertain or unnecessary if somebody else decided what you should be preparing for. The image does not establish a pregnancy, a desired family role or a future arrival. Its personal association depends on whose expectation organizes the scene.\n\nRocking can make a continuing rhythm part of care. A manageable movement may resemble a routine that makes a shared task feel sustainable. If you cannot stop even after the occupant settles, the action can instead picture difficulty recognizing when enough has been done. A pause may leave room for another need without making attention disappear.\n\nA second person offering to take a turn can change responsibility from an uninterrupted personal task into an arrangement. Accepting their help may feel relieving or leave you watching closely. What is explained at the handover can matter more than who appears naturally suited to the role. The dream can place affection beside the practical conditions of sharing work.\n\nA cradle that no longer fits its occupant can make changing needs concrete. A familiar form of support may have been useful while now limiting movement or participation. Finding another arrangement can preserve care while letting its form change. Keeping the object as a reminder is another choice, separate from continuing to use it in the same way.\n\nAn inherited cradle can connect present care with a family's remembered practices. Repair, adaptation or deciding to use something else can give you a position within that history. These original reflections concern the dreamed place, activity and recipient; they do not assess parenting ability or prescribe a real infant-care practice.", "traditional": "Miller assigns prosperity, illness and a gendered downfall forecast to different cradle scenes. Fontaine instead makes rocking favorable, with adverse claims for overturning a cradle. Cielo predicts a family increase. These conflicting period assertions do not establish pregnancy, family health, character or a future event. They are retained with attribution, separately from the original reflections on preparation and shared care.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A place prepared before arrival", "reflection": "An empty cradle can make an expectation visible. Welcome, uncertainty and somebody else’s plan give preparation different meanings." }, { "title": "A rhythm that can be shared", "reflection": "Rocking, pausing and taking turns can show how continuing care becomes workable without requiring one person to remain constantly occupied." }, { "title": "Support that changes with need", "reflection": "An arrangement can retain its value while its form needs adaptation. Preserving a reminder differs from continuing the same use." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You prepare an empty cradle without knowing who it is for", "reflection": "The place is ready before its purpose feels settled. This can picture an expectation that has gathered practical form while your own wishes remain open. Curiosity or discomfort may concern whose plan you are preparing to inhabit." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A gentle rocking rhythm lets you settle beside the cradle", "reflection": "The activity and its pace feel workable together. This may resemble a routine that supports a continuing responsibility without demanding constant reinvention. Company or quiet can be part of the care rather than a distraction from it." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You keep rocking after the occupant is already settled", "reflection": "The need has changed while the effort continues. This can picture difficulty allowing a completed part of a task to be enough. A pause or a handover may give attention another use without requiring affection to end." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Someone offers to take a turn", "reflection": "Continuing care becomes a shared arrangement. Explaining what has happened and accepting the other person’s participation can matter alongside relief. The dreamed exchange does not establish anyone’s actual caregiving ability or require a particular division of family roles." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The cradle is too small for its growing occupant", "reflection": "A familiar support no longer fits the movement or participation now possible. This may picture an arrangement that needs adaptation while care continues. Finding another place can honor the earlier use without requiring it to remain suitable forever." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "An inherited cradle is repaired but used differently", "reflection": "An object carries a family connection while its present use is negotiated. Repair may preserve a valued reminder, and adaptation may make room for current needs. Keeping part of a history need not require repeating every practice associated with it." } ], "prompts": [ "Who or what was the cradle prepared to support?", "When did the care feel sufficient, shared or difficult to pause?", "What needed preserving, and what needed a different arrangement?" ], "related": [ "baby", "bed", "blanket", "childhood-home" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s continuing English editorial delegation. 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To the married, it is a sign of\ndomestic happiness, and to the single a sign of speedy marriage with\nthe object of their affection. To dream you upset a cradle, portends\nsickness or a loss in business. 46, 5.", "locator": "Heading 166; source line 1654", "lineStart": 1654, "lineEnd": 1660, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are rocking a cradle, is a good omen, and\nsignifies a long and prosperous life. To the married, it is a sign of\ndomestic happiness, and to the single a sign of speedy marriage with\nthe object of their affection. To dream you upset a cradle, portends\nsickness or a loss in business." }, { "id": "cielo-0121", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Cradle", "text": "Indicates an increase in the family.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 121; source lines 4148–4150", "lineStart": 4148, "lineEnd": 4150, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Indicates an increase in the family." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "crane", "title": "Crane", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing a flight of cranes tending northward, indicates gloomy prospects for business.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "crane", "heron" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about crane stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0540", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Crane", "text": "To dream of seeing a flight of cranes tending northward, indicates gloomy\nprospects for business. To a woman, it is significant of disappointment;\nbut to see them flying southward, prognosticates a joyful meeting\nof absent friends, and that lovers will remain faithful.\n\nTo see them fly to the ground, events of unusual moment are at hand.", "locator": "Heading 540; source lines 6660–6669", "lineStart": 6660, "lineEnd": 6669, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing a flight of cranes tending northward, indicates gloomy\nprospects for business. 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OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L9646", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Cravat or Tie", "heading": "Cravat or Tie", "text": "A sore throat; to take off indicates the cure of a cold (Gypsy) ; the dream of a troublesome woman from whom dreamer longs to be freed (Freud).", "lineStart": 9646, "lineEnd": 9649, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 210; NLM OCR lines 9646–9649", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9646, "lineEnd": 9649, "printedPage": 210, "printedPageEnd": 210 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Cravat or Tie. — A sore throat; to take off indicates the \ncure of a cold (Gypsy) ; the dream of a troublesome woman \nfrom whom dreamer longs to be freed (Freud). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Cravat or Tie" }, "displayText": "A sore throat; to take off indicates the cure of a cold (Gypsy); the dream of a troublesome woman from whom dreamer longs to be freed (Freud)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0542", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Crawfish", "text": "Deceit is sure to assail you in your affairs of the heart, if you are young,\nafter dreaming of this backward-going thing.", "locator": "Heading 542; source lines 6678–6683", "lineStart": 6678, "lineEnd": 6683, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Deceit is sure to assail you in your affairs of the heart, if you are young,\nafter dreaming of this backward-going thing." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0543", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Crawl", "text": "To dream that you are crawling on the ground, and hurt your hand,\nyou may expect humiliating tasks to be placed on you.\n\nTo crawl over rough places and stones, indicates that you\nhave not taken proper advantage of your opportunities.\nA young woman, after dreaming of crawling, if not very careful\nof her conduct, will lose the respect of her lover.\n\nTo crawl in mire with others, denotes depression in business and loss\nof credit. Your friends will have cause to censure you.", "locator": "Heading 543; source lines 6683–6696", "lineStart": 6683, "lineEnd": 6696, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are crawling on the ground, and hurt your hand,\nyou may expect humiliating tasks to be placed on you.\n\nTo crawl over rough places and stones, indicates that you\nhave not taken proper advantage of your opportunities.\nA young woman, after dreaming of crawling, if not very careful\nof her conduct, will lose the respect of her lover.\n\nTo crawl in mire with others, denotes depression in business and loss\nof credit. Your friends will have cause to censure you." }, { "id": "noe-0119", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Crawl", "text": "To dream that you are\ncrawling on the floor is bad; but to dream that you are crawling on the\nroof of a house is good, particularly to the lovers, as it is a sure sign\nthey will be married.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 121; source lines 556–559", "lineStart": 556, "lineEnd": 559, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are\ncrawling on the floor is bad; but to dream that you are crawling on the\nroof of a house is good, particularly to the lovers, as it is a sure sign\nthey will be married." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0545", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Credit", "text": "To dream of asking for credit, denotes that you will have cause to worry,\nalthough you may be inclined sometimes to think things look bright.\n\nTo credit another, warns you to be careful of your affairs,\nas you are likely to trust those who will eventually work you harm.", "locator": "Heading 545; source lines 6705–6713", "lineStart": 6705, "lineEnd": 6713, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of asking for credit, denotes that you will have cause to worry,\nalthough you may be inclined sometimes to think things look bright.\n\nTo credit another, warns you to be careful of your affairs,\nas you are likely to trust those who will eventually work you harm." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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A refusal can instead give form to uncertainty about whether a role, request, or plan will be approved.\n\nBeing declined in front of others adds exposure. The transaction becomes a public pause, which may resemble struggling to demonstrate readiness during an interview or feeling unable to meet a group's expected contribution. Embarrassment can make appearance central; frustration may concern the practical interruption instead. The dream's displayed amount is not evidence of your actual resources.\n\nA credit card also joins immediate choice with something to account for later. This can fit accepting an opportunity whose ongoing demands are not yet clear, making a promise, or enjoying a decision while wondering what it will require afterward. A changing limit can picture conditions moving as you attempt to act, rather than a settled boundary you can plan around.\n\nLending the card can bring trust and shared responsibility into view. You allow another person to make choices that remain connected with your account. In a dream this may resemble delegating work, supporting someone, or being uncertain about the terms of a shared arrangement. Unexpected charges can picture obligations you do not remember choosing, without showing that anyone has misused a real card.\n\nFinding, replacing, or retiring the card changes your relationship to access. The scene may concern recovering a practical means or ending dependence on one arrangement. Recent payments, statements, and shopping can directly supply the image. These original interpretations do not assess creditworthiness, affordability, or actual financial activity.", "traditional": "This entry develops original readings of the card's authorization, ownership, and continuing obligations. No verified historical credit-card passage is cited, and general material about money or credit does not establish these specific meanings. The background source is not financial guidance or evidence about an actual account.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A choice awaiting authorization", "reflection": "The card can picture an action that requires acceptance beyond your own readiness. Approval may make a plan usable, while refusal can interrupt participation or expose uncertainty publicly." }, { "title": "Present access with later obligations", "reflection": "A successful transaction can express entering an opportunity before all its continuing demands are clear. The scene joins immediate benefit with responsibility for what will need accounting later." }, { "title": "Sharing choices tied to your resources", "reflection": "Lending a card can picture trust, delegation, or unclear boundaries around a shared arrangement. 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The difficulty is not simply wanting more, but being unable to choose against a stable boundary.", "slug": "scene-2" }, { "title": "You lend the card freely to someone you trust", "reflection": "Shared access can picture cooperation in which responsibility remains connected to you. Delegating a task or helping a relative may offer a parallel. Comfort depends on whether the arrangement is understood, rather than on the card proving anything about the person's character.", "slug": "scene-3" }, { "title": "A statement lists purchases you do not remember", "reflection": "The scene can picture being answerable for commitments that seem to have accumulated without your attention. Recurring tasks, assumed favors, or expanding duties may fit. The unfamiliar list makes the mismatch between responsibility and remembered choice concrete, without identifying real misuse.", "slug": "scene-4" }, { "title": "You find the lost card when you need to proceed", "reflection": "Recovered access can picture a stalled plan becoming workable through one practical resource. A missing confirmation, restored contact, or clarified permission may feel similar. Relief comes from being able to act, rather than from receiving a forecast of financial gain.", "slug": "scene-5" }, { "title": "You cut up a card and feel free", "reflection": "Retiring an object of access can picture ending an arrangement whose obligations outweighed its usefulness. Leaving an unwanted role or withdrawing from a demanding commitment may offer parallels. The dream explores the feeling of release without deciding what to do with an actual financial product.", "slug": "scene-6" } ], "prompts": [ "Did acceptance matter through practical access, public appearance, or both?", "What choice carried an obligation that would need attention later?", "Who could act through the card, and how clearly was responsibility shared?" ], "related": [ "money", "credit", "debt", "locked-out" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia editorial entry with image-specific interpretations and six differentiated scenes. The reference supplies general dream background only. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "credit-score", "title": "Credit score", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "aliases": [ "credit score", "credit scores", "checking a credit score", "low credit score", "high credit score" ], "summary": "A credit score can picture being reduced to one measure or waiting for opaque approval. The dream's number does not assess your actual finances.", "tagline": "A complex account of you is compressed into a number whose consequences seem larger than its explanation.", "psychological": "A credit score in a dream can picture being assessed through a measure that seems to summarize more of you than it can explain. The number may appear to decide whether you are trusted, accepted, or allowed to proceed. A performance metric, application result, or public comparison can feel similar when a complex history is compressed into one outcome. The scene concerns how evaluation feels, not what a real score means.\n\nAn unexplained change can give form to uncertainty about the rules. You may be trying to meet expectations without knowing which actions count or why the result has shifted. A score that falls after you feel you have done everything asked can resemble effort whose recognition does not follow a clear process.\n\nA high score that still fails to open a door creates another reading. Meeting the visible standard may not satisfy the need for belonging, security, or a workable opportunity. Finishing a qualification or receiving good feedback can feel similarly incomplete when the hoped-for next step remains unavailable. Approval and useful access are different experiences.\n\nComparing scores with other people can make the measure social. Embarrassment may picture feeling publicly ranked, while pride can express wanting effort to be recognized. Repeatedly checking a number can instead show how attention becomes organized around obtaining reassurance from a result that never feels settled.\n\nAn explanation, a more personal conversation, or leaving the display can shift the scene toward being understood through context rather than a single figure. Real forms, statements, metrics, and conversations about evaluation can supply the image directly. Dreamed scores do not establish creditworthiness, financial change, or the outcome of an application.", "traditional": "These are original interpretations of an imagined score and its power within the scene. No verified historical credit-score passage is cited. The general dream reference does not validate financial meanings; the number is considered through evaluation, visibility, and access without offering advice about an actual score.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A complex history reduced to one measure", "reflection": "The score can picture wanting context considered when an outcome seems to define you. A ranking or result may feel larger than the limited information it appears to explain." }, { "title": "Trying to satisfy opaque expectations", "reflection": "Unexplained changes can suggest effort governed by rules you cannot see clearly. The pressure concerns understanding what counts, not necessarily a failure to work or prepare." }, { "title": "Approval is not the same as usable access", "reflection": "A favorable number may still leave an important need unmet. The scene can distinguish external recognition from belonging, practical opportunity, or the security you hoped recognition would provide." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "The score falls without any explanation", "reflection": "This can picture trying to understand why recognition changes when your effort seems consistent. A review, selection process, or shifting set of expectations may offer a parallel. The difficulty is the missing explanation, rather than a reliable statement about your actual financial standing.", "slug": "scene-1" }, { "title": "Your score is high but the door remains closed", "reflection": "Meeting a visible standard may not deliver the next step you expected. A completed qualification or praised project can feel similar when opportunity remains unavailable. The closed door makes acceptance and practical access distinct, even though the number itself appears favorable.", "slug": "scene-2" }, { "title": "Friends compare their scores in front of you", "reflection": "A measure becomes part of belonging and status. Public comparisons at work or within a group may feel similar when individual circumstances disappear behind rankings. Embarrassment or pride can reveal how much recognition you are seeking from that particular audience.", "slug": "scene-3" }, { "title": "One old mistake is printed beside the number", "reflection": "A past event can seem to dominate how the present is understood. Returning to a group after change or worrying that a previous setback will define a new role may fit. The scene can express wanting a fuller account, rather than proving that others are judging you that way.", "slug": "scene-4" }, { "title": "You repeatedly refresh the score screen", "reflection": "A result may have become the place you seek reassurance even though checking does not resolve the uncertainty. Waiting for feedback or an application decision can offer a parallel. The repeated action shows how much attention the unresolved measure is organizing within the dream.", "slug": "scene-5" }, { "title": "A person listens to your story instead of checking the number", "reflection": "Context can become more important than ranking. A conversation that considers circumstances, effort, and changing needs may feel similar. Relief may picture being recognized as more than a result, while uncertainty can show how unfamiliar that form of attention has become.", "slug": "scene-6" } ], "prompts": [ "What did the number seem to decide, and was its power clearly explained?", "What part of my experience could not be represented by the score?", "Did recognition provide what I needed, or was access still missing?" ], "related": [ "credit", "being-judged", "school-or-exam", "job-interview" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia editorial entry with image-specific interpretations and six differentiated scenes. The reference supplies general dream background only. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0546", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Creek", "text": "To dream of a creek, denotes new experiences and short journeys.\nIf it is overflowing, you will have sharp trouble, but of brief period.\n\nIf it is dry, disappointment will be felt by you, and you will see\nanother obtain the things you intrigued to secure.", "locator": "Heading 546; source lines 6713–6721", "lineStart": 6713, "lineEnd": 6721, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a creek, denotes new experiences and short journeys.\nIf it is overflowing, you will have sharp trouble, but of brief period.\n\nIf it is dry, disappointment will be felt by you, and you will see\nanother obtain the things you intrigued to secure." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "creeping-beasts", "title": "Creeping Beasts", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Artemidorus wrote: “THe Dragon signifies a King or Lord, and the time for his length.”", "aliases": [ "creeping beasts", "of creeping beasts" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about creeping beasts stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "artemidorus-076", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of creeping Beasts.", "text": "THe Dragon signifies a King or Lord, and the time for his length; also riches, gold, and silver: when one dreames that he comes and gives any attempt, or speaks, it signifies great goods, if the contrary, it signifies evill. A dragon folded and wreathed, and terrifying, signifieth great danger, and captivity, also death to the sick. The Serpent signifieth sicknesse, and enmity, and to whom he shall appeare, they shall governe him, and the enemy and sicknes shall handle us. The Aspe and Adder signifie mony and rich wives. I have knowne by experience, that these two Beasts comming towards us wreathed and wound together, have béene arguments of good, especially, if they bite us. Any beast which one dreams that his Wife carrieth hid in her bosome with pleasure and pastime, signifyeth she shall be corrupted by the Enemy of him that dreams it. But if she be fearfull and sad by reason of the aforesaid Beast so carried, she shall be sicke, and if she be with childe, her fruit shall be indangered.", "locator": "Book 2, encoded section 76", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "2", "displayText": "THe Dragon signifies a King or Lord, and the time for his length; also riches, gold, and silver: when one dreames that he comes and gives any attempt, or speaks, it signifies great goods, if the contrary, it signifies evill. A dragon folded and wreathed, and terrifying, signifieth great danger, and captivity, also death to the sick. The Serpent signifieth sicknesse, and enmity, and to whom he shall appeare, they shall governe him, and the enemy and sicknes shall handle us. The Aspe and Adder signifie mony and rich wives. I have knowne by experience, that these two Beasts comming towards us wreathed and wound together, have béene arguments of good, especially, if they bite us. Any beast which one dreams that his Wife carrieth hid in her bosome with pleasure and pastime, signifyeth she shall be corrupted by the Enemy of him that dreams it. But if she be fearfull and sad by reason of the aforesaid Beast so carried, she shall be sicke, and if she be with childe, her fruit shall be indangered." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0547", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cremate", "text": "To dream of seeing bodies cremated, denotes enemies will reduce\nyour influence in business circles. To think you are being cremated,\nportends distinct failure in enterprises, if you mind any but your own\njudgment in conducting them.", "locator": "Heading 547; source lines 6721–6728", "lineStart": 6721, "lineEnd": 6728, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing bodies cremated, denotes enemies will reduce\nyour influence in business circles. To think you are being cremated,\nportends distinct failure in enterprises, if you mind any but your own\njudgment in conducting them." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "crew", "title": "Crew", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing a crew getting ready to leave port, some unforseen[sic] circumstance will cause you to give up a journey from which you…”", "aliases": [ "crew" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about crew stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0548", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Crew", "text": "To dream of seeing a crew getting ready to leave port,\nsome unforseen{sic} circumstance will cause you to give up\na journey from which you would have gained much.\n\nTo see a crew working to save a ship in a storm, denotes disaster\non land and sea. To the young, this dream bodes evil.", "locator": "Heading 548; source lines 6728–6737", "lineStart": 6728, "lineEnd": 6737, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing a crew getting ready to leave port,\nsome unforseen[sic] circumstance will cause you to give up\na journey from which you would have gained much.\n\nTo see a crew working to save a ship in a storm, denotes disaster\non land and sea. To the young, this dream bodes evil." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cricket", "title": "Cricket", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To hear a cricket in one's dream, indicates melancholy news, and perhaps the death of some distant friend.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "cricket", "crickets" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cricket stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0549", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cricket", "text": "To hear a cricket in one's dream, indicates melancholy news,\nand perhaps the death of some distant friend.\n\nTo see them, indicates hard struggles with poverty.", "locator": "Heading 549; source lines 6737–6744", "lineStart": 6737, "lineEnd": 6744, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To hear a cricket in one's dream, indicates melancholy news,\nand perhaps the death of some distant friend.\n\nTo see them, indicates hard struggles with poverty." }, { "id": "cielo-0122", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Cricket", "text": "Is a sign of hospitality and a visit.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 122; source lines 4150–4152", "lineStart": 4150, "lineEnd": 4152, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Is a sign of hospitality and a visit." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9654", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Cricket", "heading": "Cricket", "text": "Pleasant meeting of old friends symbolized by this dream. Superstition holds this insect as a pleasant omen. Pliny mentions it as much esteemed among the ancient magicians.", "lineStart": 9654, "lineEnd": 9658, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 210; NLM OCR lines 9654–9658", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9654, "lineEnd": 9658, "printedPage": 210, "printedPageEnd": 210 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Cricket. — Pleasant meeting of old friends symbolized by \nthis dream. Superstition holds this insect as a pleasant omen. \nPliny mentions it as much esteemed among the ancient magi- \ncians. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "magi- \ncians", "after": "magicians", "evidenceLine": 687 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Cricket" }, "displayText": "Pleasant meeting of old friends symbolized by this dream. Superstition holds this insect as a pleasant omen. Pliny mentions it as much esteemed among the ancient magicians." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0550", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cries", "text": "To hear cries of distress, denotes that you will be engulfed\nin serious troubles, but by being alert you will finally emerge\nfrom these distressing straits and gain by this temporary gloom.\n\nTo hear a cry of surprise, you will receive aid from unexpected sources.\n\nTo hear the cries of wild beasts, denotes an accident of a serious nature.\n\nTo hear a cry for help from relatives, or friends, denotes that they\nare sick or in distress.", "locator": "Heading 550; source lines 6744–6757", "lineStart": 6744, "lineEnd": 6757, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To hear cries of distress, denotes that you will be engulfed\nin serious troubles, but by being alert you will finally emerge\nfrom these distressing straits and gain by this temporary gloom.\n\nTo hear a cry of surprise, you will receive aid from unexpected sources.\n\nTo hear the cries of wild beasts, denotes an accident of a serious nature.\n\nTo hear a cry for help from relatives, or friends, denotes that they\nare sick or in distress." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "criminal", "title": "Criminal", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of associating with a person who has committed a crime, denotes that you will be harassed with…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "criminal" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about criminal stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "reprieve" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0551", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Criminal", "text": "To dream of associating with a person who has committed a crime,\ndenotes that you will be harassed with unscrupulous persons,\nwho will try to use your friendship for their own advancement.\n\nTo see a criminal fleeing from justice, denotes that you will come\ninto the possession of the secrets of others, and will therefore\nbe in danger, for they will fear that you will betray them,\nand consequently will seek your removal.", "locator": "Heading 551; source lines 6757–6768", "lineStart": 6757, "lineEnd": 6768, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of associating with a person who has committed a crime,\ndenotes that you will be harassed with unscrupulous persons,\nwho will try to use your friendship for their own advancement.\n\nTo see a criminal fleeing from justice, denotes that you will come\ninto the possession of the secrets of others, and will therefore\nbe in danger, for they will fear that you will betray them,\nand consequently will seek your removal." }, { "id": "fontaine-0165", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Criminal", "text": "(_See Reprieve._) To dream that you are a criminal, shows\nthat disgrace and danger are in store for you. 9, 61.", "locator": "Heading 165; source line 1651", "lineStart": 1651, "lineEnd": 1654, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Reprieve.) To dream that you are a criminal, shows\nthat disgrace and danger are in store for you." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L9659", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Cripple", "heading": "Cripple", "text": "To dream of a cripple denotes unexpected help or success (Gypsy) ; an interpretation doubtless founded upon the old superstition of the luck attendant upon meeting a cripple or a hunchback.", "lineStart": 9659, "lineEnd": 9663, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 210; NLM OCR lines 9659–9663", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9659, "lineEnd": 9663, "printedPage": 210, "printedPageEnd": 210 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Cripple. — To dream of a cripple denotes unexpected help \nor success (Gypsy) ; an interpretation doubtless founded upon \nthe old superstition of the luck attendant upon meeting a \ncripple or a hunchback. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Cripple" }, "displayText": "To dream of a cripple denotes unexpected help or success (Gypsy); an interpretation doubtless founded upon the old superstition of the luck attendant upon meeting a cripple or a hunchback." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "crippled", "title": "Crippled", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of the maimed and crippled, denotes famine and distress among the poor, and you should be willing to contribute to their store.”", "aliases": [ "crippled" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about crippled stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0552", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Crippled", "text": "To dream of the maimed and crippled, denotes famine and distress among\nthe poor, and you should be willing to contribute to their store.\nIt also indicates a temporary dulness in trade.", "locator": "Heading 552; source lines 6768–6774", "lineStart": 6768, "lineEnd": 6774, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of the maimed and crippled, denotes famine and distress among\nthe poor, and you should be willing to contribute to their store.\nIt also indicates a temporary dulness in trade." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "crochet-work", "title": "Crochet Work", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of doing crochet work, foretells your entanglement in some silly affair growing out of a too great curiosity about other people's…”", "aliases": [ "crochet work" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about crochet work stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0553", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Crochet Work", "text": "To dream of doing crochet work, foretells your entanglement in some silly\naffair growing out of a too great curiosity about other people's business.\nBeware of talking too frankly with over-confidential women.", "locator": "Heading 553; source lines 6774–6780", "lineStart": 6774, "lineEnd": 6780, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of doing crochet work, foretells your entanglement in some silly\naffair growing out of a too great curiosity about other people's business.\nBeware of talking too frankly with over-confidential women." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "crockery", "title": "Crockery", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of having an abundance of nice, clean crockery, denotes that you will be a tidy and economical housekeeper.”", "aliases": [ "crockery" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about crockery stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0554", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Crockery", "text": "To dream of having an abundance of nice, clean crockery,\ndenotes that you will be a tidy and economical housekeeper.\n\nTo be in a crockery store, indicates, if you are a merchant\nor business man, that you will look well to the details of your\nbusiness and thereby experience profit. To a young woman,\nthis dream denotes that she will marry a sturdy and upright man.\nAn untidy store, with empty shelves, implies loss.", "locator": "Heading 554; source lines 6780–6791", "lineStart": 6780, "lineEnd": 6791, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of having an abundance of nice, clean crockery,\ndenotes that you will be a tidy and economical housekeeper.\n\nTo be in a crockery store, indicates, if you are a merchant\nor business man, that you will look well to the details of your\nbusiness and thereby experience profit. To a young woman,\nthis dream denotes that she will marry a sturdy and upright man.\nAn untidy store, with empty shelves, implies loss." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "crocodile", "title": "Crocodile", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "summary": "A crocodile encounter can explore an uncertain passage, movement that changes your assessment, and whether a shared route allows chosen distance.", "tagline": "A route with uncertain footing.", "aliases": [ "crocodile" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "Crossing on a crocodile’s back can picture a route that offers passage while making its footing uncertain. A practical arrangement may depend on conditions you cannot fully control, or a short solution may create more questions once you rely on it. The dream’s tension can concern the means rather than the destination. Choosing another crossing may restore room to act without requiring you to prove courage by continuing along the first available route.\n\nA long animal occupying a narrow channel can make movement and space difficult to separate. Several needs may be trying to use a process designed for only one at a time. A crowded schedule, a shared workspace, or a conversation with little room for different responses can offer parallels. If the animal remains calm, the obstruction need not be hostile. More space or another sequence may change the problem more directly than confrontation.\n\nWhat looked motionless beginning to move can make an assessment suddenly provisional. A matter you thought settled may develop another consequence, or an apparently stable process may need attention again. Surprise does not prove that you were careless. It can picture how decisions change when the available information changes. If the motion becomes clear enough to anticipate, understanding can return even while you keep a comfortable distance.\n\nAn open mouth closing before an object passes through can create a scene about access available only briefly. A chance to speak, submit work, or make a practical exchange may seem to disappear while you prepare. Missing that moment can feel frustrating without establishing a permanent loss. Waiting for another opening or choosing another method gives the encounter a different direction from repeatedly insisting on the same unavailable passage.\n\nTwo people assessing the same distance differently can make coordination central. You may share a destination while disagreeing about how to approach the conditions around it. A remembered reptile image, visit, story, or film can also provide direct context. The dream is not evidence that someone is deceitful or dangerous. Its useful comparisons concern footing, timing, visibility, and the routes that remain chosen within the scene.", "traditional": "Miller links crocodiles with deception and trouble, including stepping on a back. Fontaine and Noe give sea-robber or deceit-related forecasts; Cielo gives a brief catastrophe forecast. Craig’s attached passage only says “See Alligator,” so it is a cross-reference rather than a fifth independent interpretation. These historical claims do not identify anyone’s character or predict the outcome of your encounter.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Uncertain means of passage", "reflection": "An available route can leave questions about what supports it and what alternatives remain." }, { "title": "An assessment that changes", "reflection": "New movement can require a revised decision without proving an earlier failure of judgment." }, { "title": "Coordinating different distances", "reflection": "A shared purpose can include different preferences for how closely to approach its conditions." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "You cross on a crocodile’s back", "reflection": "The means of passage depends on a living presence you cannot fully direct. This may picture a temporary solution with uncertain terms. Another route can restore choice without making the first crossing a test of character or a forecast of trouble." }, { "title": "An open mouth closes before an exchange", "reflection": "A brief opportunity becomes unavailable while you prepare. This can resemble a chance to speak or complete a practical task. Waiting for another opening creates a different response from interpreting the missed moment as a permanent loss of access." }, { "title": "The animal occupies a narrow channel", "reflection": "The route has little room for more than one substantial need. This may picture a crowded process rather than hostility. More space or another sequence can alter the difficulty without requiring either participant to become smaller or less important." }, { "title": "A still-looking shape starts moving", "reflection": "An assessment changes when the scene becomes active. This can picture a matter thought settled requiring attention again. Surprise does not prove careless judgment; the useful shift may be your ability to revise a decision as the available information changes." }, { "title": "Two people disagree about how closely to approach", "reflection": "A shared encounter produces different preferred distances. This may resemble coordination within a plan whose conditions affect participants differently. Discussion can preserve a common destination without requiring identical reactions or treating one feeling as evidence that the other is wrong." }, { "title": "You pass but keep looking behind you", "reflection": "The practical obstacle is over while attention remains attached to it. This can picture a completed task still occupying your expectations. Relief may take time to become convincing; the dream does not establish that a threat continues beyond the scene." } ], "prompts": [ "What supports the route, and which alternatives remain available?", "What new information changes your first assessment?", "How could a shared purpose accommodate different preferred distances?" ], "related": [ "alligator", "reptile", "river", "water" ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0555" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context for this topic only. Miller predicts deception and enemies; stepping on a crocodile’s back is linked to trouble and struggle. Does not validate the original psychological reflections." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0167" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context for this topic only. Fontaine links to Reptile and predicts pirates/sea robbers, deceitful people, and trouble. Does not validate the original psychological reflections." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0113" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context for this topic only. Noe supplies pirates/sea robbers and a comparison with wicked persons/periods in its transcription. Does not validate the original psychological reflections." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0123" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context for this topic only. Cielo’s single sentence predicts catastrophe. Does not validate the original psychological reflections." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L9664" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context for this topic only. Cross-reference only: See Alligator. This is not an independent crocodile interpretation. Does not validate the original psychological reflections." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0555", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Crocodile", "text": "As sure as you dream of this creature, you will be deceived by your\nwarmest friends. Enemies will assail you at every turn.\n\nTo dream of stepping on a crocodile's back, you may expect to fall into\ntrouble, from which you will have to struggle mightily to extricate yourself.\nHeed this warning when dreams of this nature visit you. Avoid giving your\nconfidence even to friends.", "locator": "Heading 555; source lines 6791–6801", "lineStart": 6791, "lineEnd": 6801, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "As sure as you dream of this creature, you will be deceived by your\nwarmest friends. Enemies will assail you at every turn.\n\nTo dream of stepping on a crocodile's back, you may expect to fall into\ntrouble, from which you will have to struggle mightily to extricate yourself.\nHeed this warning when dreams of this nature visit you. Avoid giving your\nconfidence even to friends." }, { "id": "fontaine-0167", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Crocodile", "text": "(_See Reptile._) To dream of a crocodile, signifies pirates\nor robbers by sea, or deceitful persons, and troubles. 18, 2.", "locator": "Heading 167; source line 1660", "lineStart": 1660, "lineEnd": 1663, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Reptile.) To dream of a crocodile, signifies pirates\nor robbers by sea, or deceitful persons, and troubles." }, { "id": "noe-0113", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Crocodile", "text": "To dream of a\ncrocodile, signifies pirates or robbers at sea, or wicked periods in any\nsort like the crocodile.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 115; source lines 543–545", "lineStart": 543, "lineEnd": 545, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a\ncrocodile, signifies pirates or robbers at sea, or wicked periods in any\nsort like the crocodile." }, { "id": "cielo-0123", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Crocodile", "text": "Indicates a catastrophe.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 123; source lines 4152–4154", "lineStart": 4152, "lineEnd": 4154, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Indicates a catastrophe." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9664", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Crocodile", "heading": "Crocodile", "text": "See Alligator.", "lineStart": 9664, "lineEnd": 9665, "kind": "cross-reference", "locator": "Printed p. 210; NLM OCR lines 9664–9665", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9664, "lineEnd": 9665, "printedPage": 210, "printedPageEnd": 210 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Crocodile. — See Alligator. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Crocodile" }, "displayText": "See Alligator." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [ "reptile", "alligator" ] }, { "slug": "crocodile-and-the-cat", "title": "Crocodile and the Cat", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Artemidorus wrote: “CRocodiles signifie Pyrates, or Robbers by Sea, or murtherers and wicked persons in any sort like the Crocodile: the Cat signifies the…”", "aliases": [ "crocodile and the cat", "of the crocodile and the cat" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about crocodile and the cat stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "artemidorus-129", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of the Crocodile and the Cat.", "text": "CRocodiles signifie Pyrates, or Robbers by Sea, or murtherers and wicked persons in any sort like the Crocodile: the Cat signifies the Adulterer or Harlot.", "locator": "Book 3, encoded section 129", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "3", "displayText": "CRocodiles signifie Pyrates, or Robbers by Sea, or murtherers and wicked persons in any sort like the Crocodile: the Cat signifies the Adulterer or Harlot." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cross", "title": "Cross", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing a cross, indicates trouble ahead for you.” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "cross" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cross stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0556", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cross", "text": "To dream of seeing a cross, indicates trouble ahead for you.\nShape your affairs accordingly.\n\nTo dream of seeing a person bearing a cross, you will be called\non by missionaries to aid in charities.", "locator": "Heading 556; source lines 6801–6809", "lineStart": 6801, "lineEnd": 6809, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing a cross, indicates trouble ahead for you.\nShape your affairs accordingly.\n\nTo dream of seeing a person bearing a cross, you will be called\non by missionaries to aid in charities." }, { "id": "fontaine-0168", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Cross", "text": "To dream you see a cross, signifies sadness. 68.", "locator": "Heading 168; source line 1663", "lineStart": 1663, "lineEnd": 1665, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see a cross, signifies sadness." }, { "id": "noe-0114", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Cross", "text": "To dream you see a cross carried along,\nsignifies sadness.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 116; source lines 545–546", "lineStart": 545, "lineEnd": 546, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see a cross carried along,\nsignifies sadness." }, { "id": "cielo-0124", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Cross", "text": "To see a cross is a sign of tranquillity.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 124; source lines 4154–4156", "lineStart": 4154, "lineEnd": 4156, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a cross is a sign of tranquillity." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cross-purposes", "title": "Cross Purposes", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “To dream one plays at cross purposes, signifies prosperity, joy, pleasure, health and concord among friends and relations.”", "aliases": [ "cross purposes" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cross purposes stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "noe-0115", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Cross Purposes", "text": "To dream one plays at cross\npurposes, signifies prosperity, joy, pleasure, health and concord among\nfriends and relations.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 117; source lines 546–548", "lineStart": 546, "lineEnd": 548, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream one plays at cross\npurposes, signifies prosperity, joy, pleasure, health and concord among\nfriends and relations." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cross-roads", "title": "Cross Roads", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of cross roads, denotes you will be unable to hold some former favorable opportunity for reaching your desires.”", "aliases": [ "cross roads" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cross roads stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0558", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cross Roads", "text": "To dream of cross roads, denotes you will be unable to hold\nsome former favorable opportunity for reaching your desires.\nIf you are undecided which one to take, you are likely to let\nunimportant matters irritate you in a distressing manner.\nYou will be better favored by fortune if you decide on your route.\nIt may be after this dream you will have some important matter\nof business or love to decide.", "locator": "Heading 558; source lines 6819–6829", "lineStart": 6819, "lineEnd": 6829, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of cross roads, denotes you will be unable to hold\nsome former favorable opportunity for reaching your desires.\nIf you are undecided which one to take, you are likely to let\nunimportant matters irritate you in a distressing manner.\nYou will be better favored by fortune if you decide on your route.\nIt may be after this dream you will have some important matter\nof business or love to decide." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cross-bones", "title": "Cross-bones", "type": "dreams", "category": "Other symbols", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of cross-bones, foretells you will be troubled by the evil influence of others, and prosperity will assume other than promising…”", "aliases": [ "cross-bones" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cross-bones stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0557", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cross-bones", "text": "To dream of cross-bones, foretells you will be troubled by the evil influence\nof others, and prosperity will assume other than promising aspects.\n\nTo see cross-bones as a monogram on an invitation to a funeral,\nwhich was sent out by a secret order, denotes that unnecessary fears\nwill be entertained for some person, and events will transpire\nseemingly harsh, but of good import to the dreamer.", "locator": "Heading 557; source lines 6809–6819", "lineStart": 6809, "lineEnd": 6819, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of cross-bones, foretells you will be troubled by the evil influence\nof others, and prosperity will assume other than promising aspects.\n\nTo see cross-bones as a monogram on an invitation to a funeral,\nwhich was sent out by a secret order, denotes that unnecessary fears\nwill be entertained for some person, and events will transpire\nseemingly harsh, but of good import to the dreamer." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "crosswalk", "title": "Crosswalk", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "A marked crossing makes room for a move other people must notice.", "summary": "A crosswalk dream can explore timing, visibility and shared passage. Being given room differs from having to claim it.", "aliases": [ "crosswalk", "crosswalks", "pedestrian crossing", "pedestrian crossings", "zebra crossing" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A crosswalk provides a recognized way to move through space used by other people. In a dream, this can picture making a transition that requires more than your own willingness: others must notice, pause or leave room. Speaking in a busy group, changing responsibilities or asking for access to a shared resource may offer a parallel. A marked route can feel reassuring because your movement has a place within the arrangement.\n\nBeing visible does not always mean being acknowledged. You may stand at the edge while other people continue, or begin crossing and discover that nobody adjusts. This can resemble trying to communicate a need in an environment whose pace leaves little room to respond. The scene does not prove deliberate disregard. A driver stopping without being asked can instead picture receiving consideration that makes your next step easier.\n\nTime changes the meaning of a permitted passage. A signal may allow you to begin while giving too little time to finish. This can fit being offered a chance under conditions that do not accommodate how the task actually works: a brief meeting for a complicated question or a deadline designed around somebody else's pace. The issue may be the fit between permission and practical room, rather than whether you were brave enough to start.\n\nCrossing with another person adds coordination. You may need to slow down, explain the route or rely on their judgment. The shared movement can picture care that respects different needs, rather than treating one person's pace as the standard for both. Feeling dragged ahead or required to abandon someone changes the experience toward an agreement that cannot hold its participants together.\n\nA crossing that ends in the road can make a supposedly complete route reveal a missing part. Instructions may tell you how to begin without explaining how to arrive safely within the dream's arrangement. Choosing another marked route can picture revising the method while keeping the destination. Familiar streets and everyday crossings may account for the details directly. The reflective reading concerns whether a shared passage accommodates your movement; it does not forecast traffic events or offer road-safety advice.", "traditional": "No exact Crosswalk heading is supplied in the historical archive. Cross Roads refers to intersecting routes, and Pedestrian to travel on foot; neither establishes a symbolic rule for a marked pedestrian crossing. The interpretations here are original possibilities.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Visible movement", "reflection": "A crossing can picture a need or transition that other people must notice to make room for it. Visibility and acknowledgment may be separate steps." }, { "title": "Permission that fits the task", "reflection": "A marked route can be allowed while still giving too little time or space. The scene may bring the practical terms of an opportunity into focus." }, { "title": "Moving at different paces", "reflection": "Accompanying another person can picture coordination that respects differing needs. Shared arrival may matter more than keeping the fastest possible pace." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "The crossing signal ends before you reach the other side", "reflection": "An unfinished crossing before the signal changes can picture conditions that permit a start without accommodating completion. A hurried discussion or narrow deadline may fit. The mismatch concerns the available time as much as your pace." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Drivers stop and give you time", "reflection": "Drivers making room can picture being acknowledged without having to argue repeatedly for access. A considerate response may let you use energy for the transition itself. Relief may come from the shared adjustment rather than the far side." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "The marked crossing ends in the middle of the road", "reflection": "A route ending midway can resemble instructions whose apparent completeness hides a missing connection. A change of responsibility or administrative process may offer a parallel. Discovering the gap can explain hesitation without treating it as unwillingness." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You accompany someone who moves at another pace", "reflection": "Accompanying someone at another pace can picture cooperation that adapts rather than demands sameness. A shared move or task may fit. Whether both people can arrive matters more than who could finish first alone." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Everyone waits for you to take the first step", "reflection": "Everyone waiting for your first step can picture a moment when a group needs someone to initiate. That role may feel encouraging or expose you to responsibility you did not choose. The response after you move gives it context." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You find another crossing after declining the first", "reflection": "Choosing another crossing can picture changing the method without abandoning the destination. A different channel for a conversation or request may be more workable. The extra distance may be an accepted cost rather than a defeat." } ], "prompts": [ "What needed to pause or make room for my movement?", "Did the permission offered fit what completing the crossing required?", "How did another person’s pace affect the shared passage?" ], "related": [ "road", "pedestrian", "traffic-jam", "being-late" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "croup", "title": "Croup", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that your child has the croup, denotes slight illness, but useless fear for its safety.”", "aliases": [ "croup" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about croup stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0559", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Croup", "text": "To dream that your child has the croup, denotes slight illness,\nbut useless fear for its safety. This is generally a good omen\nof health and domestic harmony.", "locator": "Heading 559; source lines 6829–6835", "lineStart": 6829, "lineEnd": 6835, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that your child has the croup, denotes slight illness,\nbut useless fear for its safety. This is generally a good omen\nof health and domestic harmony." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "crow", "title": "Crow", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "aliases": [ "crow" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "summary": "A crow can explore who shares an ordinary place, what happens around a small object, and recognition that changes when others name the encounter.", "tagline": "A familiar public scene can become particular through one visitor’s actions.", "psychological": "A crow picking up a small object you had overlooked can make attention arrive through an unexpected participant. The object might be a button, a key or something with little importance until it is moved. A neglected detail in shared work may become similarly visible when someone else responds to it. Wanting the object returned differs from enjoying the discovery; the bird’s action does not establish theft or another person’s motives.\n\nSeveral crows occupying a bench can make a familiar public place feel temporarily unavailable. You may have expected to rest there without negotiation and now need to share or choose another spot. That can resemble an ordinary resource becoming crowded, or a routine disrupted by other uses. The question concerns the arrangement and your response rather than assuming a group of birds represents hostile people.\n\nA crow calling during a conversation can bring competing sounds into the encounter. You may want to hear what someone says while another detail keeps taking attention. Pausing the exchange or moving can picture making conditions for understanding, without treating the interruption as an omen. A crow pecking at a closed parcel creates another kind of uncertainty: something contained receives attention before you know whether opening it belongs to the present task.\n\nIf companions insist that your crow is a different bird, recognition itself can become contested. You may know the scene through a personal association while other people prefer a general label. Being able to explain what mattered to you can support communication without requiring the dream to settle a biological identification. If you recognized a raven rather than a crow, that personal association can change the encounter; an uncertain identification can also remain uncertain.\n\nA crow leaving behind the object it carried can make a brief encounter matter without continuing. Someone may introduce a useful detail and then have another route to follow. You can take an interest forward without securing the visitor’s company. Recent street encounters, a story or a photograph can also provide direct context. These readings center shared places, redirected attention and the terms of recognition, without giving a crow a fixed dark, deceitful or prophetic character.", "traditional": "Miller includes adverse forecasts and a Raven cross-reference; Fontaine and Noe discuss business, sounds, flight and a child-related omen. Cielo gives humiliation/disgrace, while Craig reports omens attributed to earlier writers and a historical anecdote. These five Crow accounts do not establish danger, deceit, death or someone else’s character. Raven history remains separately owned.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "An overlooked object receives attention", "reflection": "Another participant’s action can make a small detail newly relevant without deciding who owns its meaning." }, { "title": "Ordinary space becomes shared", "reflection": "A familiar resting place may need negotiation when other uses appear within it." }, { "title": "Recognition can be explained", "reflection": "Different labels can make communication necessary while leaving personal associations intact." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A crow carries off a button you had not noticed", "reflection": "A small detail gains importance when another participant moves it. This may picture overlooked work becoming visible through someone else’s interest. Wanting it back and enjoying the discovery suggest different needs, without establishing theft or a real person’s intent." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Crows occupy the bench where you planned to sit", "reflection": "A familiar resource is already in use. This can resemble a routine requiring another arrangement when participation grows. Sharing the place or choosing a different spot can each preserve your purpose; the birds do not prove that other people are hostile." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A crow calls over an important conversation", "reflection": "Several demands compete for the same attention. This may picture an exchange whose conditions make understanding difficult. A pause or change of setting can help the conversation become usable without assigning the interruption a warning about what someone will say." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A crow pecks at a closed parcel beside you", "reflection": "Something contained attracts interest before its relevance is clear. This can fit an unfinished task or information you have not chosen to open. Curiosity and protecting the boundary give different readings; the animal’s interest does not require immediate disclosure." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Other people give your crow a different name", "reflection": "A shared encounter receives competing descriptions. This may picture explaining a personally recognizable detail that others classify more broadly. Agreement can help communication without proving that one label determines the dream’s meaning or that uncertain identification must be resolved." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The crow leaves but the object it brought remains", "reflection": "A brief encounter has a continuing effect without continued company. This can resemble someone introducing a useful idea and moving on. Taking the detail into your own work differs from trying to retain the visitor whose action first made it available." } ], "prompts": [ "What made the ordinary object or place important after the crow acted?", "How did you want to share space or attention?", "Which part of the encounter needed explanation beyond its label?" ], "related": [ "bird", "raven", "bench", "parcel" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0560" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. miller-0560 — Crow (Heading 560; source lines 6835–6845): Seeing/hearing crows receives grief, property and gendered deceit forecasts; includes See Raven." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0169" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. fontaine-0169 — Crow (Heading 169; source line 1665): Crow, croaking and a child’s head receive business, adultery/thief and adverse forecasts." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0116" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. noe-0116 — Crow (Dream section, heading 118; source lines 548–552): Seeing, flight, croaking and a child’s head receive business or adverse forecasts." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0125" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. cielo-0125 — Crow (Dream section, heading 125; source lines 4156–4158): Briefly assigns humiliation and disgrace." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L9681" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. craig-1918:L9681 — Crow (Printed p. 211; NLM OCR lines 9681–9685): Reports adverse omens attributed to Artemidorus and Raphael plus a Cicero anecdote, not an independently verified ancient source or event." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection independently reviewed for content and source scope. Historical accounts remain attributed period writing. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0560", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Crow", "text": "To dream of seeing a crow, betokens misfortune and grief.\nTo hear crows cawing, you will be influenced by others to make\na bad disposal of property. To a young man, it is indicative\nof his succumbing to the wiles of designing women.\n\n\n[46] See Raven.", "locator": "Heading 560; source lines 6835–6845", "lineStart": 6835, "lineEnd": 6845, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing a crow, betokens misfortune and grief.\nTo hear crows cawing, you will be influenced by others to make\na bad disposal of property. To a young man, it is indicative\nof his succumbing to the wiles of designing women. See Raven." }, { "id": "fontaine-0169", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Crow", "text": "A crow indicates expedition in business, adultery, or a thief; if\ncroaking, an ill omen; if it flies on to the head of a child, the child\nwill be in great danger of a misfortune. 74, 6.", "locator": "Heading 169; source line 1665", "lineStart": 1665, "lineEnd": 1669, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "A crow indicates expedition in business, adultery, or a thief; if\ncroaking, an ill omen; if it flies on to the head of a child, the child\nwill be in great danger of a misfortune." }, { "id": "noe-0116", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Crow", "text": "To dream you see a crow, signifies\nexpedition of business. To dream you see a crow flying, is ill luck; and\nif you hear them croaking unpleasantly, the dream is so much the worse. If\nyou dream the crow flies on the head of a child, it will be in great\ndanger of some misfortune.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 118; source lines 548–552", "lineStart": 548, "lineEnd": 552, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see a crow, signifies\nexpedition of business. To dream you see a crow flying, is ill luck; and\nif you hear them croaking unpleasantly, the dream is so much the worse. If\nyou dream the crow flies on the head of a child, it will be in great\ndanger of some misfortune." }, { "id": "cielo-0125", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Crow", "text": "Means humiliation and disgrace.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 125; source lines 4156–4158", "lineStart": 4156, "lineEnd": 4158, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Means humiliation and disgrace." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9681", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Crow", "heading": "Crow", "text": "Invariably ill-omened is this dream. Artemidorus holds it the dream of an adulterer. Raphael labels it the sign of a funeral. Cicero was warned of his own death by a number of crows circling about his head.", "lineStart": 9681, "lineEnd": 9685, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 211; NLM OCR lines 9681–9685", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9681, "lineEnd": 9685, "printedPage": 211, "printedPageEnd": 211 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Crow. — Invariably ill-omened is this dream. Artemidorus \nholds it the dream of an adulterer. Raphael labels it the sign \nof a funeral. Cicero was warned of his own death by a num- \nber of crows circling about his head. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "num- \nber", "after": "number", "evidenceLine": 879 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Crow" }, "displayText": "Invariably ill-omened is this dream. Artemidorus holds it the dream of an adulterer. Raphael labels it the sign of a funeral. Cicero was warned of his own death by a number of crows circling about his head." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [ "raven" ] }, { "slug": "crowd", "title": "Crowd", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a large, handsomely dressed crowd of people at some entertainment, denotes pleasant…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "crowd", "people" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about crowd stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0561", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Crowd", "text": "To dream of a large, handsomely dressed crowd of people at\nsome entertainment, denotes pleasant association with friends;\nbut anything occurring to mar the pleasure of the guests,\ndenotes distress and loss of friendship, and unhappiness will\nbe found where profit and congenial intercourse was expected.\nIt also denotes dissatisfaction in government and family dissensions.\n\nTo see a crowd in a church, denotes that a death will be likely to affect you,\nor some slight unpleasantness may develop.\n\nTo see a crowd in the street, indicates unusual briskness in trade\nand a general air of prosperity will surround you.\n\nTo try to be heard in a crowd, foretells that you will push your interests\nahead of all others.\n\nTo see a crowd is usually good, if too many are not wearing black\nor dull costumes.\n\nTo dream of seeing a hypnotist trying to hypnotize others, and then\nturn his attention on you, and fail to do so, indicates that a trouble\nis hanging above you which friends will not succeed in warding off.\nYourself alone can avert the impending danger.", "locator": "Heading 561; source lines 6845–6871", "lineStart": 6845, "lineEnd": 6871, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a large, handsomely dressed crowd of people at\nsome entertainment, denotes pleasant association with friends;\nbut anything occurring to mar the pleasure of the guests,\ndenotes distress and loss of friendship, and unhappiness will\nbe found where profit and congenial intercourse was expected.\nIt also denotes dissatisfaction in government and family dissensions.\n\nTo see a crowd in a church, denotes that a death will be likely to affect you,\nor some slight unpleasantness may develop.\n\nTo see a crowd in the street, indicates unusual briskness in trade\nand a general air of prosperity will surround you.\n\nTo try to be heard in a crowd, foretells that you will push your interests\nahead of all others.\n\nTo see a crowd is usually good, if too many are not wearing black\nor dull costumes.\n\nTo dream of seeing a hypnotist trying to hypnotize others, and then\nturn his attention on you, and fail to do so, indicates that a trouble\nis hanging above you which friends will not succeed in warding off.\nYourself alone can avert the impending danger." }, { "id": "cielo-0126", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Crowd", "text": "You will receive good news.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 126; source lines 4158–4160", "lineStart": 4158, "lineEnd": 4160, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "You will receive good news." }, { "id": "miller-1520", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "People", "text": "[152] See Crowd.", "locator": "Heading 1524; source lines 17265–17270", "lineStart": 17265, "lineEnd": 17270, "kind": "cross-reference", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "See Crowd." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "crowd-of-people", "title": "Crowd of People", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “Importunity, excitement (Gypsy). \"This dream is a sign of great excitement in the unconscious, especially in persons outwardly calm.\" (Jung).”", "aliases": [ "crowd of people" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about crowd of people stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "crowing", "title": "Crowing", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “To dream you are crowing, or that you hear others crowing, denotes ill luck, especially to lovers.”", "aliases": [ "crowing" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about crowing stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "noe-0118", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Crowing", "text": "To dream you are crowing,\nor that you hear others crowing, denotes ill luck, especially to lovers;\nbut to dream that you hear pigeons crowing, is good, especially to the\nnewly-married, as it denotes happiness.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 120; source lines 553–556", "lineStart": 553, "lineEnd": 556, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are crowing,\nor that you hear others crowing, denotes ill luck, especially to lovers;\nbut to dream that you hear pigeons crowing, is good, especially to the\nnewly-married, as it denotes happiness." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0562", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Crown", "text": "To dream of a crown, prognosticates change of mode in the habit\nof one's life. The dreamer will travel a long distance from home\nand form new relations. Fatal illness may also be the sad omen\nof this dream.\n\nTo dream that you wear a crown, signifies loss of personal property.\n\nTo dream of crowning a person, denotes your own worthiness.\n\nTo dream of talking with the President of the United States,\ndenotes that you are interested in affairs of state, and sometimes\nshow a great longing to be a politician.", "locator": "Heading 562; source lines 6871–6886", "lineStart": 6871, "lineEnd": 6886, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a crown, prognosticates change of mode in the habit\nof one's life. The dreamer will travel a long distance from home\nand form new relations. Fatal illness may also be the sad omen\nof this dream.\n\nTo dream that you wear a crown, signifies loss of personal property.\n\nTo dream of crowning a person, denotes your own worthiness.\n\nTo dream of talking with the President of the United States,\ndenotes that you are interested in affairs of state, and sometimes\nshow a great longing to be a politician." }, { "id": "fontaine-0170", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Crown", "text": "To dream a golden crown is placed upon your head, foretells that\nsuccess and great honor await you; if the crown be silver, you will\nenjoy good health; if crowned with green leaves, friends and fortune\nwill forsake you. 52, 6, 13.", "locator": "Heading 170; source line 1669", "lineStart": 1669, "lineEnd": 1674, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream a golden crown is placed upon your head, foretells that\nsuccess and great honor await you; if the crown be silver, you will\nenjoy good health; if crowned with green leaves, friends and fortune\nwill forsake you." }, { "id": "noe-0087", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Crowns", "text": "To dream you see these emblems of\nroyalty, portends success and elevation to dignities, either in the church\nor state. For a maid to dream of a crown, shows she will marry a very\nindustrious man, or one who is rich.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 89; source lines 456–459", "lineStart": 456, "lineEnd": 459, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see these emblems of\nroyalty, portends success and elevation to dignities, either in the church\nor state. For a maid to dream of a crown, shows she will marry a very\nindustrious man, or one who is rich." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9690", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Crown", "heading": "Crown", "text": "A dream of reward among all people: \"To bear a gold crown on the head signifies the friendship of your liege, honor, pleasure and many gifts\" (Artemidorus) . The unvarying symbol of reward.", "lineStart": 9690, "lineEnd": 9694, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 211; NLM OCR lines 9690–9694", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9690, "lineEnd": 9694, "printedPage": 211, "printedPageEnd": 211 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Crown. — A dream of reward among all people: \"To bear \na gold crown on the head signifies the friendship of your liege, \nhonor, pleasure and many gifts\" (Artemidorus) . The unvary- \ning symbol of reward. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "unvary- \ning", "after": "unvarying", "evidenceLine": 1135 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Crown" }, "displayText": "A dream of reward among all people: \"To bear a gold crown on the head signifies the friendship of your liege, honor, pleasure and many gifts\" (Artemidorus). The unvarying symbol of reward." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "crownes-of-all-flowers", "title": "Crownes of all flowers", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Artemidorus wrote: “CRowns of flowers in season, are generally good, Crowns of whithered Lilyes are bad for al.”", "aliases": [ "crownes of all flowers", "of crownes of all flowers" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about crownes of all flowers stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "artemidorus-059", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of Crownes of all flowers.", "text": "CRowns of flowers in season, are generally good, Crowns of whithered Lilyes are bad for al. Of violets in season, are good, out of season bad, the white worse then the blew. Crownes of roses in season are good for all, but the sicke, and those which hide themselves: for the first shall dye, because roses whither quickly, the other shall be manifested and revealed, because roses smell. Crowns of French marigolds are good for all, especially for them which are at law, for they have a colour which lasteth. Crowns of flower-de-luces, defer affayres with hope. Crowns of cresses, Fetherfew, the flower called patience, and Margeram, are ill to all: for most often they signifie sicknes: A crowne of Parsly or of smalage, is death to the sick: Crowns of palme, or of the olive-tree, signify mariage of a maide of the same house or linage, the palme a Sonne, the olive-tree a daughter. The foresaid Crowns signifie good estate and dignity to a champion, and to any of lowe estate which desires them. A crowne of oke and bay, signify as much as the palme, and one of Mirrhe, as much as one of the olive-tree. Crowns of wax are ill for all, especially for the sick: Crowns of wooll, signify poysons and prisons: of Salt or brmistone, sign[illegible passage]es to suffer hurts or trubles, by men of might and authority. A Crown of gold is ill for a servant, if he have not the rest, I meane the Robes of a King, and the Signiory after him: it is also evill for him which is poore, for it is beyond his estate: to the sicke it signifyes death shortly, for gold is pale and heavie and cold, and in all poynts like the dead: also it revealeth secrets, for he which carrieth a crown of gold is well marked. But I have known by experience, that this crowne presented by a dreame hath brought honour and profit to the rich and mightie, and to Magistrates and Judges. To be crowned with Onyons, is profit to him which séems to have such a crowne, but hurt to those which are about him.", "locator": "Book 1, encoded section 59", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription-with-gaps", "book": "1", "displayCorrections": [ "brmistone → brimstone" ], "displayText": "CRowns of flowers in season, are generally good, Crowns of whithered Lilyes are bad for al. Of violets in season, are good, out of season bad, the white worse then the blew. Crownes of roses in season are good for all, but the sicke, and those which hide themselves: for the first shall dye, because roses whither quickly, the other shall be manifested and revealed, because roses smell. Crowns of French marigolds are good for all, especially for them which are at law, for they have a colour which lasteth. Crowns of flower-de-luces, defer affayres with hope. Crowns of cresses, Fetherfew, the flower called patience, and Margeram, are ill to all: for most often they signifie sicknes: A crowne of Parsly or of smalage, is death to the sick: Crowns of palme, or of the olive-tree, signify mariage of a maide of the same house or linage, the palme a Sonne, the olive-tree a daughter. The foresaid Crowns signifie good estate and dignity to a champion, and to any of lowe estate which desires them. A crowne of oke and bay, signify as much as the palme, and one of Mirrhe, as much as one of the olive-tree. Crowns of wax are ill for all, especially for the sick: Crowns of wooll, signify poysons and prisons: of Salt or brimstone, sign [illegible passage] es to suffer hurts or trubles, by men of might and authority. A Crown of gold is ill for a servant, if he have not the rest, I meane the Robes of a King, and the Signiory after him: it is also evill for him which is poore, for it is beyond his estate: to the sicke it signifyes death shortly, for gold is pale and heavie and cold, and in all poynts like the dead: also it revealeth secrets, for he which carrieth a crown of gold is well marked. But I have known by experience, that this crowne presented by a dreame hath brought honour and profit to the rich and mightie, and to Magistrates and Judges. To be crowned with Onyons, is profit to him which séems to have such a crowne, but hurt to those which are about him.", "editorialNotes": [ "Display text corrects OCR misreads: brmistone → brimstone. The original transcription is retained in the source record." ] } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0564", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Crucifix", "text": "To see a crucifix in a dream, is a warning of distress approaching,\nwhich will involve others beside yourself. To kiss one,\nforetells that trouble will be accepted by you with resignation.\n\nFor a young woman to possess one, foretells she will observe\nmodesty and kindness in her deportment, and thus win the love\nof others and better her fortune.", "locator": "Heading 564; source lines 6892–6902", "lineStart": 6892, "lineEnd": 6902, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a crucifix in a dream, is a warning of distress approaching,\nwhich will involve others beside yourself. To kiss one,\nforetells that trouble will be accepted by you with resignation.\n\nFor a young woman to possess one, foretells she will observe\nmodesty and kindness in her deportment, and thus win the love\nof others and better her fortune." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "crucifixion", "title": "Crucifixion", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “If you chance to dream of the crucifixion, you will see your opportunities slip away, tearing your hopes from your grasp, and leaving you…”", "aliases": [ "crucifixion" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about crucifixion stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0563", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Crucifixion", "text": "If you chance to dream of the crucifixion, you will see your\nopportunities slip away, tearing your hopes from your grasp,\nand leaving you wailing over the frustration of desires.", "locator": "Heading 563; source lines 6886–6892", "lineStart": 6886, "lineEnd": 6892, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you chance to dream of the crucifixion, you will see your\nopportunities slip away, tearing your hopes from your grasp,\nand leaving you wailing over the frustration of desires." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0565", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cruelty", "text": "To dream of cruelty being shown you, foretells you will have trouble\nand disappointment in some dealings. If it is shown to others,\nthere will be a disagreeable task set for others by you,\nwhich will contribute to you own loss.", "locator": "Heading 565; source lines 6902–6909", "lineStart": 6902, "lineEnd": 6909, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of cruelty being shown you, foretells you will have trouble\nand disappointment in some dealings. If it is shown to others,\nthere will be a disagreeable task set for others by you,\nwhich will contribute to you own loss." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "crush", "title": "Crush", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "The person you imagine and the exchange you experience.", "summary": "A crush dream may explore anticipation, imagined attention or an admired quality without revealing the real person’s interest in you.", "aliases": [ "crush", "a crush", "my crush", "dreaming about my crush", "crush dream", "having a crush", "secret crush", "dreaming of a crush", "crush kissing me", "crush ignoring me", "crush on" ], "status": "REVIEW", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-14", "psychological": "Dreaming about a crush may create an encounter you have anticipated, a conversation you have never imagined or a familiar person behaving unexpectedly. Start with what happened between you and how it differed from your actual contact. The dream cannot tell you whether that person is interested in you. A pleasant exchange is an experience to describe, while an awkward one does not forecast a failed meeting.\n\nConsider what makes this person noticeable to you. Attraction, humor, a shared interest, kindness or the frequency of seeing them may provide different material. An admired quality might be useful to reflect on without reducing the person to a symbol. For example, an easy conversation in the dream could bring attention to the kind of exchange you enjoy, whether or not that exchange has occurred with them in waking life.\n\nAnticipation can shape the scene through openings and obstacles. You may rehearse a sentence, find an unexpected chance to talk or realize you no longer want the conversation you planned. This could help you describe uncertainty about what you want to say or the conditions in which you would prefer to meet. The dream is not a test of confidence. Waiting, approaching and choosing not to approach all leave different questions open.\n\nThe imagined person may know information they could not have, respond with an unfamiliar voice or appear in a place where you would never encounter them. Mark those invented details rather than treating them as revelations. If a scene changes how you feel about the crush, explore the particular moment of change without concluding that the dream has discovered their true character or your hidden intentions.\n\nAttention from others can also alter the exchange. A friend watching, an introduction that labels your interest or a conversation suddenly becoming public may put presentation ahead of connection. Notice what remains yours to express. Waking experiences and emotions can enter dreams, including recent contact, repeated thoughts and media scenes. You can enjoy a fantasy, describe uncertainty or leave the experience unresolved. Reflection does not require contacting the person or deciding that a dreamed action proves whom you should want.", "traditional": "No historical account is attached to this specific crush topic. The reflection concerns attraction or admiration toward a person, rather than the physical action of crushing something. The general sleep source supports only the possibility that waking experiences and emotions can enter dreams. It cannot validate these original readings or establish what the real person feels, intends or would do.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "They begin a conversation you had hoped for", "reflection": "The person asks about an interest you would like to share. This might let you experience a particular kind of welcome attention. Describe what makes the conversation enjoyable and which details are invented; the dream supplies no evidence that the real person plans to approach you." }, { "title": "You rehearse a sentence but use different words", "reflection": "You prepare what to say, then the encounter leads in another direction. The scene could focus on flexibility rather than completing a perfect introduction. Notice whether the change feels relieving, awkward or interesting, without treating the dream as a rehearsal that predicts a real conversation." }, { "title": "A friend announces your interest for you", "reflection": "Someone labels the crush before you have chosen how to speak about it. This may bring privacy and authorship into focus within the imagined encounter. Record what you want to clarify or keep private; the scene does not establish that your real friend would disclose anything." }, { "title": "The person knows something you never told them", "reflection": "Your crush refers to a private detail that belongs only to your own experience. This may show how the dream combines your information with an imagined character. Notice what the knowledge changes in the scene rather than reading it as evidence of a special connection or actual understanding." }, { "title": "An admired quality appears in another person", "reflection": "The crush’s voice, humor or way of listening continues even as their appearance changes. The scene might help you name a quality you enjoyed in the exchange. It need not mean the original person was merely a symbol or prove that your waking attraction has shifted." }, { "title": "You decide not to pursue the opening", "reflection": "An opportunity to talk arrives, but you choose another activity or companion. This could give changing interest, timing or preference a place in your reflection. Record why the choice fits the dream, without making it an instruction to abandon or act on the crush in waking life." } ], "prompts": [ "How did the encounter differ from what you actually know about this person?", "What kind of attention or admired quality mattered to you?", "How did your own preference change as the scene unfolded?" ], "related": [ "kiss", "love", "a-celebrity", "a-stranger", "friend" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Anticipated openings", "reflection": "An approach, an interruption or an unused chance can help you describe what you hoped to say. The dreamed encounter is not a forecast or a test of social ability." }, { "title": "Admiration with personal detail", "reflection": "What you notice about the person can include attraction and a valued quality together. A broader association need not replace your literal interest or claim to explain it completely." }, { "title": "An imagined version of someone", "reflection": "Differences from real contact show where the dream invented information. Record those differences without treating them as insight into the person’s true feelings or character." } ], "detectionAliases": [ "a crush", "my crush", "dreaming about my crush", "crush dream", "having a crush", "secret crush", "dreaming of a crush", "crush kissing me", "crush ignoring me", "crush on" ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "crust", "title": "Crust", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a crust of bread, denotes incompetency, and threatened misery through carelessness in appointed duties.”", "aliases": [ "crust" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about crust stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0566", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Crust", "text": "To dream of a crust of bread, denotes incompetency, and threatened misery\nthrough carelessness in appointed duties.", "locator": "Heading 566; source lines 6909–6914", "lineStart": 6909, "lineEnd": 6914, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a crust of bread, denotes incompetency, and threatened misery\nthrough carelessness in appointed duties." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "crutches", "title": "Crutches", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "A support works through fit, access and respect for your choices.", "summary": "Crutches dreams can explore practical support, access and chosen assistance. The environment and how the support is used shape the scene.", "aliases": [ "crutches", "of crutches", "crutch", "using crutches" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "Crutches in a dream are first a means of movement. If they belong to your ordinary experience, the scene may use familiar equipment and everyday access without needing a symbolic explanation. What matters can be whether they fit, whether the route gives enough room and how other people respond. Their presence does not make a person helpless, dependent in every part of life or less capable of choosing a destination.\n\nA support that fits can picture an arrangement that makes participation workable. You may recognize useful equipment, a clear process or another practical resource that lets you do something on your own terms. The support remains part of your activity rather than evidence that the activity is less yours. Comfort and familiarity can be central when the scene shows ordinary movement rather than a crisis.\n\nAdjusting the supports can make adaptation a deliberate task. You are changing an arrangement to fit the way you move instead of trying to become identical to everybody around you. A workspace, schedule or shared process may offer a parallel. A poor fit can resemble conditions that have been provided in name but not made usable. The issue may be the design of the arrangement rather than a shortcoming in the person using it.\n\nCrowded or obstructed routes can shift attention toward access. The means of movement may work well while the surroundings leave too little room. This can resemble a resource being available but difficult to use because a system assumes one way of participating. A clear route can picture space made usable without making assistance the center of every interaction. The destination can remain your choice.\n\nAn offer of help introduces another person's role. Assistance can feel welcome when it responds to your wishes and can be declined. Somebody taking the supports or deciding the route without asking changes care into lost access or lost choice within the scene. Misplacing needed equipment can also revisit a practical worry directly. These original reflections concern use, environment and agency; the dream cannot diagnose a condition, predict injury or recovery, or determine what real mobility support someone needs.", "traditional": "The six attached historical accounts give incompatible forecasts about support, sickness, fidelity, imprisonment, gambling and fortune. Miller links using crutches with dependence; other authors attach different adverse predictions or supposed changes in fortune. These period claims are preserved with attribution. They do not establish a modern meaning of disability, dependence, morality or recovery.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Support as part of agency", "reflection": "Equipment or an arrangement can make chosen movement possible. Using support does not make the destination, pace or participation less your own." }, { "title": "Fit and access", "reflection": "A resource can be supplied while its design or environment remains hard to use. The scene may show where the arrangement needs room rather than where a person needs to prove capacity." }, { "title": "Assistance on chosen terms", "reflection": "Help can be useful when it respects the person’s wishes. Taking over equipment or direction can change the relationship even if the gesture is presented as care." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A familiar support lets you travel comfortably", "reflection": "Comfortable familiar movement can picture an arrangement that serves its purpose without requiring constant attention. It may simply reflect ordinary experience. The equipment can be part of participation rather than the whole subject of the dream." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You adjust the supports until they fit your movement", "reflection": "Adjusting the fit can picture making a resource suit your own way of working or moving. A schedule or environment may offer a parallel. Adaptation can belong to the arrangement rather than demand that you imitate somebody else." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A crowded route leaves too little room", "reflection": "A crowded route can make the surrounding design the obstacle. The support may work while available space does not. A shared process that assumes only one way to participate can feel similar." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Someone offers assistance and respects your choice", "reflection": "An offer that respects your decision can picture useful assistance without surrendering direction. Accepting or declining can both preserve agency. The other person’s response matters as much as the offer itself." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You cannot find the support you intended to use", "reflection": "Missing needed supports can revisit a practical worry or picture a resource unavailable at the moment of use. The difficulty is lack of access, not a judgment about the person. Finding another usable arrangement changes the scene." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "Another person takes your support without asking", "reflection": "Someone taking the supports can picture access or choice removed without consultation. The gesture’s stated helpfulness does not determine how it feels. Your ability to object or recover the equipment gives the response its shape." } ], "prompts": [ "What made the support usable or difficult to use within the scene?", "How did the route accommodate my movement and chosen destination?", "What did another person do that respected or limited my choice?" ], "related": [ "walking", "a-wheelchair-route-blocked-by-stairs", "a-prosthetic-limb-behaving-differently", "hospital" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0567" ], "scope": "Preserves this author’s attached period dream-book account; the entry’s context compares attributed beliefs rather than adopting forecasts. Exact supplied records: miller-0567 — Crutches (Heading 567; source lines 6914–6921). Historical comparison only, not evidence for the original reflective reading or an actual outcome." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0172" ], "scope": "Preserves this author’s attached period dream-book account; the entry’s context compares attributed beliefs rather than adopting forecasts. Exact supplied records: fontaine-0172 — Crutches (Heading 172; source line 1676). Historical comparison only, not evidence for the original reflective reading or an actual outcome." }, { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display.", "recordIds": [ "artemidorus-130" ], "scope": "Preserves this author’s attached period dream-book account; the entry’s context compares attributed beliefs rather than adopting forecasts. Exact supplied records: artemidorus-130 — Of Crutches. (Book 3, encoded section 130). Historical comparison only, not evidence for the original reflective reading or an actual outcome." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0088" ], "scope": "Preserves this author’s attached period dream-book account; the entry’s context compares attributed beliefs rather than adopting forecasts. Exact supplied records: noe-0088 — Crutches (Dream section, heading 90; source lines 459–463). Historical comparison only, not evidence for the original reflective reading or an actual outcome." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0127" ], "scope": "Preserves this author’s attached period dream-book account; the entry’s context compares attributed beliefs rather than adopting forecasts. Exact supplied records: cielo-0127 — Crutches (Dream section, heading 127; source lines 4160–4162). Historical comparison only, not evidence for the original reflective reading or an actual outcome." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L9695" ], "scope": "Preserves this author’s attached period dream-book account; the entry’s context compares attributed beliefs rather than adopting forecasts. Exact supplied records: craig-1918:L9695 — Crutches (Printed p. 211; NLM OCR lines 9695–9697). Historical comparison only, not evidence for the original reflective reading or an actual outcome." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0567", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Crutches", "text": "To dream that you go on crutches, denotes that you will depend\nlargely on others for your support and advancement.\n\nTo see others on crutches, denotes unsatisfactory results from labors.", "locator": "Heading 567; source lines 6914–6921", "lineStart": 6914, "lineEnd": 6921, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you go on crutches, denotes that you will depend\nlargely on others for your support and advancement.\n\nTo see others on crutches, denotes unsatisfactory results from labors." }, { "id": "fontaine-0172", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Crutches", "text": "If you dream you use them, your love will forsake you; if you\nonly see them, some infirmity will press upon you; if you break them,\nyou will recover from sickness. 46, 19.", "locator": "Heading 172; source line 1676", "lineStart": 1676, "lineEnd": 1680, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream you use them, your love will forsake you; if you\nonly see them, some infirmity will press upon you; if you break them,\nyou will recover from sickness." }, { "id": "artemidorus-130", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of Crutches.", "text": "WAlking upon Crutches, to the Malefactours, is prison, chaines, and stocks; to others it is sicknesse, or a vagabond like life.", "locator": "Book 3, encoded section 130", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "3", "displayText": "WAlking upon Crutches, to the Malefactours, is prison, chaines, and stocks; to others it is sicknesse, or a vagabond like life." }, { "id": "noe-0088", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Crutches", "text": "To dream you are walking\non crutches, is a very unfavorable omen. To dream you see another walking\non crutches, denotes that these things will happen to some friend. If you\nare a married man, then that your wife is inconstant; if a married woman,\nthen that the husband is ruining himself with some harlot.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 90; source lines 459–463", "lineStart": 459, "lineEnd": 463, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are walking\non crutches, is a very unfavorable omen. To dream you see another walking\non crutches, denotes that these things will happen to some friend. If you\nare a married man, then that your wife is inconstant; if a married woman,\nthen that the husband is ruining himself with some harlot." }, { "id": "cielo-0127", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Crutches", "text": "Indicate losses if you gamble.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 127; source lines 4160–4162", "lineStart": 4160, "lineEnd": 4162, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Indicate losses if you gamble." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9695", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Crutches", "heading": "Crutches", "text": "An unfavorable dream auguring illness (Artemidorus) ; obviously this dream is inspired by sensory stimuli.", "lineStart": 9695, "lineEnd": 9697, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 211; NLM OCR lines 9695–9697", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9695, "lineEnd": 9697, "printedPage": 211, "printedPageEnd": 211 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Crutches. — An unfavorable dream auguring illness (Arte- \nmidorus) ; obviously this dream is inspired by sensory stimuli. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "Arte- \nmidorus", "after": "Artemidorus", "evidenceLine": 485 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Crutches" }, "displayText": "An unfavorable dream auguring illness (Artemidorus); obviously this dream is inspired by sensory stimuli." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "crying", "title": "Crying", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "Strong feeling becomes visible, with or without the response you need.", "summary": "Crying can picture grief, relief, frustration, or a wish for feeling to be recognized. The cause and the response of others change its meaning.", "aliases": [ "crying" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "Crying can picture a feeling becoming too important to keep inside an ordinary conversation or composed appearance. The central theme may be recognition: something matters, and the dream gives that importance a visible form. It could fit disappointment after a long effort, missing someone, or finally encountering kindness after a difficult period. The reason for the tears matters more than the action alone.\n\nIf crying feels relieving, one reading is permission to stop maintaining a particular role. Being the reliable colleague or calm family member can leave little room to show uncertainty. A dream in which you cry safely with someone may express the wish to be met as a person with needs as well as responsibilities. Joyful crying can similarly picture the weight of a welcome change, such as a reunion or a task finally finished.\n\nThe response of an audience can turn crying into a question of social safety. Being mocked or told to stop may resemble expecting vulnerability to be treated as inconvenient. Being listened to can picture an experience of acceptance, or a desired response that has been missing. The familiar person may matter because of the role they play in your own experience of being heard.\n\nTrying to cry without making a sound may give form to difficulty conveying the scale of a need. You might have explained a problem politely while feeling that its importance never reached the listener. Tears arriving over an apparently small mishap can picture how several disappointments gather around one final interruption rather than assign great meaning to the object itself.\n\nSomeone else's tears can bring care, responsibility, or helplessness into focus. Comforting them willingly may express connection; feeling required to fix everything may resemble an unequal emotional task. Recent events, remembered tears, and moving stories can also provide direct material for the scene.", "traditional": "Miller's Crying passage gives adverse forecasts for the dreamer's tears and connects seeing others cry with future requests for help. Fontaine's Crying record contains only a direction to consult Weeping; it supplies no independent interpretation under this heading. That distinction matters because two attached sources do not mean two substantive accounts. Miller's forecasts are historical fortune-telling claims, not evidence that crying in a dream causes or predicts distress. The modern comparisons above distinguish grief, relief, joy, frustration, and the response to vulnerability rather than assign one outcome to all tears.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A feeling asks to be recognized", "reflection": "Tears can give visible scale to disappointment, longing, or relief that ordinary words have not conveyed. The scene may concern having the importance of an experience understood by someone." }, { "title": "Permission to put down composure", "reflection": "Crying safely can picture a wish to stop performing steadiness. It may fit carrying a reliable role while also needing kindness, company, or room to admit uncertainty." }, { "title": "How vulnerability is received", "reflection": "Comfort, mockery, or indifference can make the social meaning of tears central. The dream may picture confidence or difficulty in expressing needs within a particular relationship or group." }, { "title": "Caring without carrying everything", "reflection": "Another person's crying may express connection, but the demand to stop their tears can resemble excessive responsibility. The difference lies in offering comfort versus being made responsible for every outcome." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You cry alone and feel lighter afterward", "reflection": "Private tears followed by ease can picture setting down the effort of maintaining composure. It may fit finally acknowledging a disappointment after dealing with its practical demands. Solitude offers room for your own response when other situations have required you to keep functioning." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "People laugh while you cry", "reflection": "Mockery can picture the expectation that showing hurt will cost you respect or belonging. A group that prizes toughness or dismisses complaints might be the waking parallel. The pain of the scene may come as much from the response as from whatever first caused the tears." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You cry but nobody can hear you", "reflection": "Soundless crying can resemble communicating a need without conveying its urgency. Repeatedly asking for help in a careful, understated way could fit. The dream may give form to the gap between how strongly something affects you and how little response it seems to receive." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A reunion makes you cry with joy", "reflection": "Tears during a welcome meeting can picture the importance of connection after separation or uncertainty. A restored friendship, returning home, or receiving long-awaited good news might fit. The intensity can express how much the reunion matters without making the scene about sadness." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A small accident brings an unexpected flood of tears", "reflection": "Spilling a cup or losing an ordinary object can become the point where a demanding week feels impossible to hold together. The scene may picture several frustrations gathering around one last interruption. The small trigger gives a concrete place to a much larger sense of strain." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "Someone cries and expects you to solve everything", "reflection": "Being assigned the job of ending another person's tears can picture care turning into an unlimited obligation. A relative who brings every conflict to you or a colleague who needs constant reassurance could fit. Your willingness and capacity may differ, even when the affection is real." } ], "prompts": [ "What caused the tears, and did they feel sad, angry, joyful, relieving, or difficult to understand?", "How did others respond, and which response would have matched what I needed?", "Was I expressing my own feeling or being made responsible for someone else's, and where does that distinction matter now?" ], "related": [ "tears", "deceased-loved-one", "hug", "rain", "unable-to-scream", "weeping" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "scope": "Historical comparison only: Crying, miller-0568 (Heading 568; source lines 6921–6929). Period dream-book claims support only the attributed historical comparison, not predictions or the original modern reflections.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0568" ] }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "scope": "Historical cross-reference only: Crying, fontaine-0171 (Heading 171; source line 1674), directs readers to Weeping and gives no independent interpretation here. Does not support the original modern reflections.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0171" ] }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s continuing English editorial delegation. Historical accounts retain their attribution; general sleep background does not validate these interpretations.", "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "DreamFolia AI-assisted editorial review", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "bed", "bathroom", "bridge", "door", "window", "stairs", "road", "clothes", "shoes", "driving", "being-late", "crying", "running", "swimming", "river", "snow", "moon", "sun", "mountain", "fish" ] }, "decisionReason": "Four themes and six scenes distinguish grief or relief, receiving vulnerability, joyful reunion, accumulated strain and care becoming unlimited responsibility. Fontaine’s Crying record is accurately a Weeping cross-reference, not a second substantive interpretation. Miller’s forecasts remain historical.", "reviewedSnapshot": "data/common-life-publication-review-2026-10-15.json", "contentSha256": "ebf23fc04f5cf498b6a11d2fb0e455b2cdf7f8e61b71260cecea1acdec16242c" }, "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0568", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Crying", "text": "To dream of crying, is a forerunner of illusory pleasures,\nwhich will subside into gloom, and distressing influences\naffecting for evil business engagements and domestic affairs.\n\nTo see others crying, forbodes unexpected calls for aid from you.", "locator": "Heading 568; source lines 6921–6929", "lineStart": 6921, "lineEnd": 6929, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of crying, is a forerunner of illusory pleasures,\nwhich will subside into gloom, and distressing influences\naffecting for evil business engagements and domestic affairs.\n\nTo see others crying, forbodes unexpected calls for aid from you." }, { "id": "fontaine-0171", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Crying", "text": "(_See Weeping._)", "locator": "Heading 171; source line 1674", "lineStart": 1674, "lineEnd": 1676, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Weeping.)" } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [ "weeping" ] }, { "slug": "crystal", "title": "Crystal", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of crystal in any form, is a fatal sign of coming depression either in social relations or business transactions.”", "aliases": [ "crystal" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about crystal stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0569", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Crystal", "text": "To dream of crystal in any form, is a fatal sign of coming\ndepression either in social relations or business transactions.\nElectrical storms often attend this dream, doing damage\nto town and country.\n\nFor a woman to dream of seeing a dining-room furnished in crystal,\neven to the chairs, she will have cause to believe that those whom\nshe holds in high regard no longer deserve this distinction, but she\nwill find out that there were others in the crystal-furnished room,\nwho were implicated also in this sinister dream.", "locator": "Heading 569; source lines 6929–6942", "lineStart": 6929, "lineEnd": 6942, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of crystal in any form, is a fatal sign of coming\ndepression either in social relations or business transactions.\nElectrical storms often attend this dream, doing damage\nto town and country.\n\nFor a woman to dream of seeing a dining-room furnished in crystal,\neven to the chairs, she will have cause to believe that those whom\nshe holds in high regard no longer deserve this distinction, but she\nwill find out that there were others in the crystal-furnished room,\nwho were implicated also in this sinister dream." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cuckoo", "title": "Cuckoo", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a cuckoo, prognosticates a sudden ending of a happy life caused by the downfall of a dear friend.”", "aliases": [ "cuckoo" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cuckoo stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0570", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cuckoo", "text": "To dream of a cuckoo, prognosticates a sudden ending of a happy\nlife caused by the downfall of a dear friend.\n\nTo dream that you hear a cuckoo, denotes the painful illness of the death\nof some absent loved one, or accident to some one in your family.", "locator": "Heading 570; source lines 6942–6950", "lineStart": 6942, "lineEnd": 6950, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a cuckoo, prognosticates a sudden ending of a happy\nlife caused by the downfall of a dear friend.\n\nTo dream that you hear a cuckoo, denotes the painful illness of the death\nof some absent loved one, or accident to some one in your family." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cucumber", "title": "Cucumber", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "5 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “This is a dream of plenty, denoting health and prosperity.” Compare 5 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "cucumber", "cucumbers" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cucumber stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0571", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cucumber", "text": "This is a dream of plenty, denoting health and prosperity.\nFor the sick to dream of serving cucumbers, denotes their speedy recovery.\nFor the married, a pleasant change.", "locator": "Heading 571; source lines 6950–6956", "lineStart": 6950, "lineEnd": 6956, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "This is a dream of plenty, denoting health and prosperity.\nFor the sick to dream of serving cucumbers, denotes their speedy recovery.\nFor the married, a pleasant change." }, { "id": "fontaine-0173", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Cucumbers", "text": "To dream of these vegetables, signifies that your business\nwill not be very prosperous; for a sick person to dream of them,\nforetells a speedy recovery. 16, 8.", "locator": "Heading 173; source line 1680", "lineStart": 1680, "lineEnd": 1684, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of these vegetables, signifies that your business\nwill not be very prosperous; for a sick person to dream of them,\nforetells a speedy recovery." }, { "id": "noe-0123", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Cucumbers", "text": "To dream of cucumbers, denotes recovery to the sick,\nand that you will speedily fall in love, or that if you are in love, you\nwill marry the object of your affection. It also denotes moderate success\nin trade. To the sailor it foretells a pleasant voyage and a sweetheart in\na distant climate.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 125; source lines 577–581", "lineStart": 577, "lineEnd": 581, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of cucumbers, denotes recovery to the sick,\nand that you will speedily fall in love, or that if you are in love, you\nwill marry the object of your affection. It also denotes moderate success\nin trade. To the sailor it foretells a pleasant voyage and a sweetheart in\na distant climate." }, { "id": "cielo-0128", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Cucumber", "text": "Is a sign of serious illness.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 128; source lines 4162–4164", "lineStart": 4162, "lineEnd": 4164, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Is a sign of serious illness." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9702", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Cucumber", "heading": "Cucumber", "text": "A dream auguring serious indisposition (Gypsy) ; sensory stimuli would account for this dream and its interpretation.", "lineStart": 9702, "lineEnd": 9705, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 211; NLM OCR lines 9702–9705", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9702, "lineEnd": 9705, "printedPage": 211, "printedPageEnd": 211 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Cucumber. — A dream auguring serious indisposition \n(Gypsy) ; sensory stimuli would account for this dream and its \ninterpretation. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Cucumber" }, "displayText": "A dream auguring serious indisposition (Gypsy); sensory stimuli would account for this dream and its interpretation." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cunning", "title": "Cunning", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of being cunning, denotes you will assume happy cheerfulness to retain the friendship of prosperous and gay people.”", "aliases": [ "cunning" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cunning stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0572", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cunning", "text": "To dream of being cunning, denotes you will assume happy\ncheerfulness to retain the friendship of prosperous and gay people.\nIf you are associating with cunning people, it warns you that\ndeceit is being practised upon you in order to use your means\nfor their own advancement.", "locator": "Heading 572; source lines 6956–6964", "lineStart": 6956, "lineEnd": 6964, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being cunning, denotes you will assume happy\ncheerfulness to retain the friendship of prosperous and gay people.\nIf you are associating with cunning people, it warns you that\ndeceit is being practised upon you in order to use your means\nfor their own advancement." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cupboard", "title": "Cupboard", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see a cupboard in your dream, is significant of pleasure and comfort, or penury and distress, according as the cupboard is clean and full…”", "aliases": [ "cupboard" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cupboard stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "safe" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0573", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cupboard", "text": "To see a cupboard in your dream, is significant of pleasure and comfort,\nor penury and distress, according as the cupboard is clean and full\nof shining ware, or empty and dirty.\n\n\n[47] See Safe.", "locator": "Heading 573; source lines 6964–6973", "lineStart": 6964, "lineEnd": 6973, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a cupboard in your dream, is significant of pleasure and comfort,\nor penury and distress, according as the cupboard is clean and full\nof shining ware, or empty and dirty. See Safe." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "safe" ] }, { "slug": "cupid", "title": "Cupid", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “A dream of love and happiness (Artemidorus).”", "aliases": [ "cupid" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cupid stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L9706", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Cupid", "heading": "Cupid", "text": "A dream of love and happiness (Artemidorus).", "lineStart": 9706, "lineEnd": 9706, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 211; NLM OCR lines 9706–9706", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9706, "lineEnd": 9706, "printedPage": 211, "printedPageEnd": 211 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Cupid. — A dream of love and happiness (Artemidorus). \n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Cupid" }, "displayText": "A dream of love and happiness (Artemidorus)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "curbstone", "title": "Curbstone", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of stepping on a curbstone, denotes your rapid rise in business circles, and that you will be held in high esteem by your friends…”", "aliases": [ "curbstone" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about curbstone stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0574", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Curbstone", "text": "To dream of stepping on a curbstone, denotes your rapid rise\nin business circles, and that you will be held in high esteem\nby your friends and the public.\n\nFor lovers to dream of stepping together on a curb, denotes an early\nmarriage and consequent fidelity; but if in your dream you step or fall\nfrom a curbstone your fortunes will be reversed.", "locator": "Heading 574; source lines 6973–6983", "lineStart": 6973, "lineEnd": 6983, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of stepping on a curbstone, denotes your rapid rise\nin business circles, and that you will be held in high esteem\nby your friends and the public.\n\nFor lovers to dream of stepping together on a curb, denotes an early\nmarriage and consequent fidelity; but if in your dream you step or fall\nfrom a curbstone your fortunes will be reversed." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "currants", "title": "Currants", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “Red currants denote happiness in life, and success in love.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "currants" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about currants stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0174", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Currants", "text": "Red currants denote happiness in life, and success in love.\nWhite currants portend that your partner will fall into difficulties,\nand will have a long illness. 12, 5, 60.", "locator": "Heading 174; source line 1684", "lineStart": 1684, "lineEnd": 1688, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Red currants denote happiness in life, and success in love.\nWhite currants portend that your partner will fall into difficulties,\nand will have a long illness." }, { "id": "noe-0089", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Currants", "text": "To\ndream of currants prefigures happiness in life, success in undertakings,\nconstancy in your sweetheart, handsome children to the married, riches to\nthe farmer and tradesman.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 91; source lines 463–466", "lineStart": 463, "lineEnd": 466, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To\ndream of currants prefigures happiness in life, success in undertakings,\nconstancy in your sweetheart, handsome children to the married, riches to\nthe farmer and tradesman." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "current-romantic-partner", "title": "Current romantic partner", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "The relationship appears through what you share, need, and do together.", "summary": "A current romantic partner may bring affection, everyday cooperation, distance, or changing expectations into focus through a specific shared scene.", "aliases": [ "current romantic partner", "romantic partner", "boyfriend", "girlfriend", "my boyfriend", "my girlfriend" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "A current romantic partner can appear in a dream through the ordinary work of sharing a life: making a meal, finding one another in a crowd, or deciding where to go. Cooperation that feels easy may give attention to familiarity and the pleasure of being understood. Difficulty completing a simple task together may fit a mismatch in pace, priorities, or available energy, such as organizing a weekend when both of you are tired.\n\nDistance creates several possibilities. Wanting to reach your partner and repeatedly missing them may resemble having little shared time or struggling to find an opening for a conversation. Being apart and enjoying your own activity can instead fit a comfortable sense of independence. The distinction depends on what you want in the scene: contact, reassurance, practical help, or room to pursue something alone.\n\nA familiar partner behaving differently may make a change in your expectations visible. Perhaps you expect them to lead and find yourself making the decisions, or seek comfort while they ask for support. This can fit noticing that established roles no longer cover every situation. A change of work schedule, a new household responsibility, or a personal project may provide a waking parallel. The scene describes your imagined encounter rather than revealing an undisclosed intention.\n\nAffection deserves a reading without a problem attached. Holding hands, laughing at a private joke, or sharing a quiet room may express enjoyment, remembered warmth, or a wish for more of that experience. If closeness feels awkward, the useful question may concern the kind of contact you want and the circumstances in which it feels comfortable.\n\nConflict and repair are best read through concrete actions. An argument about a suitcase differs from one about who is listening. Finding a workable compromise may express the importance you give to cooperation; leaving a discussion unfinished may fit an issue you have not yet found words for. The partner's presence alone does not determine the dream's subject.", "traditional": "This entry concerns a current romantic relationship: affection, shared tasks, time together, and changing expectations. Business partnerships, dance partnerships, and former romantic relationships have different scopes. No matching historical passage specifically about this context is supplied. These are original everyday reflections, with the dream’s particular interaction guiding the reading.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Everyday cooperation", "reflection": "A shared task can show how much ease, effort, or coordination you experience in the scene. Small practical details may matter more than dramatic declarations of love." }, { "title": "Closeness and separate space", "reflection": "Missing your partner and enjoying time apart support different readings. Consider whether the dream centers on wanting contact, receiving reassurance, or having room for an independent activity." }, { "title": "Expectations that are changing", "reflection": "An unfamiliar role within a familiar relationship may fit a new responsibility or need. Notice which expectation stops working and what the two of you try instead." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You cook a meal together easily", "reflection": "Each of you finds a useful task and the meal comes together. This may express satisfaction with ordinary cooperation, especially after a busy period. If the ease exceeds waking experience, it may instead give shape to the kind of shared rhythm you would enjoy having." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You keep missing each other at a meeting place", "reflection": "One of you arrives just as the other leaves. The repeated mismatch may resemble incompatible schedules or conversations postponed until neither person has energy. If the search feels playful, anticipation and the eventual pleasure of reunion may matter more than frustration about distance." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Your partner asks for comfort you expected to receive", "reflection": "You arrive needing support and discover that they need it too. This may fit a moment when both people have limited capacity, such as after demanding workdays. Finding space for both experiences suggests mutual care; feeling unable to respond may center on your current limits." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You argue about packing for a trip", "reflection": "You disagree about what to bring, who carries it, or when to leave. This may make differences in preparation and responsibility concrete, like planning a shared weekend. A workable division changes the emphasis toward cooperation; repeating the dispute may concern a practical question still unresolved." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You hold hands without needing to talk", "reflection": "The contact feels familiar and sufficient while you walk or sit together. This may express pleasure in quiet affection or a wish for uncomplicated time together. If the silence feels tense, the same setting may instead bring attention to something you want to be able to say." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You pursue separate activities and meet again later", "reflection": "You leave in different directions without losing the expectation of reunion. This may fit balancing a relationship with friendships, work, or personal interests. Unease about reconnecting gives the scene a different focus: wanting a clearer shared plan before enjoying your separate time." } ], "prompts": [ "What did I want from my partner in this scene: affection, help, conversation, coordination, or space?", "Which ordinary task or change in roles made the encounter distinctive?", "Did the ending make room for both of our needs, or leave a specific question unfinished?" ], "related": [ "moving-in-with-a-partner", "hug", "crush", "trust" ], "sources": [ { "id": "nichd-sleep-dreaming", "title": "What happens during sleep? — Dreaming section", "author": "Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development", "url": "https://www.nichd.nih.gov/health/topics/sleep/conditioninfo/Pages/what-happens.aspx", "scope": "Official general sleep education, Dreaming section: the purpose of dreaming remains uncertain. It does not test these original symbolic comparisons or establish another person’s intentions, a diagnosis or a prediction." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15 under the site owner’s delegation. Historical claims, where supplied, remain attributed period writing. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "customer", "title": "Customer", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "A request and a response meet across a service relationship.", "summary": "A customer may picture an exchange about needs, value, and fair treatment, whether you are being served or responding to someone else.", "aliases": [ "customer", "customers" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A customer brings a request into an exchange. In a dream, someone wants an object, answer, meal, or service, and another person must decide what can be offered. The scene may make the relationship between expectations and capacity tangible. A clear request that can be met differs from one that changes while you are responding. This could resemble an ordinary service encounter, but also a shared task in which people understand the goal differently.\n\nBeing the customer may put attention on whether your need can be expressed and taken seriously. You might be heard patiently, dismissed before speaking, or offered an impressive product that does not suit your purpose. The useful distinction can be receiving attention versus receiving what actually fits. A recent purchase, return, or support conversation may supply direct context. The dream does not establish how a business or person will treat you in a real exchange.\n\nServing the customer reverses the position. A request may feel manageable until urgency, changing details, or competing demands grow around it. That can picture effort being evaluated by a standard you did not help define. A customer who accepts a limit creates another reading: you can provide something useful without satisfying every possible wish. The imagined exchange may explore a sustainable contribution rather than decide that willingness alone should make every demand achievable.\n\nRecognition can arrive through small responses. Someone returns because the service felt considerate, understands a delay, or thanks you without purchasing anything. The scene may make reliability or attention more important than the sale. Conversely, an impersonal queue can make people feel interchangeable, whether you stand behind the counter or wait in front of it. A familiar face becoming a customer may expose tension between a personal relationship and the roles required by an exchange.\n\nA refusal can concern fairness, suitability, or the right to stop. You may decline a product, be denied service without an explanation, or choose not to continue a transaction that feels wrong for you. Those scenes do not all signify rejection of your worth. The original reading separates what was requested, what was offered, and who had room to decide. Recent work routines, shopping, stories, or an imagined business can provide the setting without a hidden financial message.", "traditional": "No historical passage directly defining the customer role is supplied. Restaurant and the service-related drafts are adjacent contexts. This entry develops the participant's position in an exchange rather than borrowing a forecast about a shop, meal, or sale.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A request that can be understood", "reflection": "Clear needs and usable information make the exchange different from guessing. The scene may picture wanting effort directed toward an actual purpose." }, { "title": "Contribution within limits", "reflection": "Serving someone can expose a gap between willingness and capacity. A respected limit may make the relationship more workable without ending it." }, { "title": "Being treated as a person", "reflection": "Recognition, patience or explanation can distinguish a fair exchange from an impersonal process. The value may lie in attention rather than a purchase." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "A customer keeps changing the request", "reflection": "Each response creates another demand. This may picture work judged by a moving standard, making agreement about the goal more important than additional effort." }, { "title": "You become the customer after serving others", "reflection": "The role changes and you must express your own need. The scene may explore receiving the attention you have been providing, including uncertainty about how much to ask for." }, { "title": "Someone returns because they felt understood", "reflection": "A small detail matters more than the size of a purchase. This may picture the value of reliable attention or an ordinary contribution being recognized." }, { "title": "You cannot provide what is requested", "reflection": "Capacity and expectation do not match. A clear explanation can turn the scene toward workable limits, while pressure may make choice harder to preserve." }, { "title": "A service is refused without explanation", "reflection": "The exchange stops before you can understand the criteria. The scene may concern fairness or access; it does not establish how a real business assesses you." }, { "title": "Appreciation ends an encounter without a sale", "reflection": "The conversation still has value even though no purchase occurs. 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Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cut", "title": "Cut", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a cut, denotes sickness or the treachery of a friend will frustrate your cheerfulness.”", "aliases": [ "cut" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cut stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "cypress", "title": "Cypress", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “A dream of sorrow and mourning (Artemidorus); symbolism agrees with the dream.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "cypress" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about cypress stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "daffodils", "title": "Daffodils", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Book of Luck wrote: “Pleasure and amusement in abundance.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "daffodils", "daffodil" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about daffodils stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "luck-0047", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Daffodils", "text": "Pleasure and amusement in abundance.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 47; source lines 3626–3628", "lineStart": 3626, "lineEnd": 3628, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Pleasure and amusement in abundance." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9712", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Daffodils", "heading": "Daffodils", "text": "A dream of good health and good news (Gypsy) ; symbolism obvious.", "lineStart": 9712, "lineEnd": 9714, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 211; NLM OCR lines 9712–9714", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9712, "lineEnd": 9714, "printedPage": 211, "printedPageEnd": 211 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Daffodils. — A dream of good health and good news \n(Gypsy) ; symbolism obvious. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 0.98, "secondaryHeading": "Daffodils" }, "displayText": "A dream of good health and good news (Gypsy); symbolism obvious." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "dagger", "title": "Dagger", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “If seen in a dream, denotes threatening enemies.” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "dagger" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about dagger stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0584", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Dagger", "text": "If seen in a dream, denotes threatening enemies. If you wrench the dagger\nfrom the hand of another, it denotes that you will be able to counteract\nthe influence of your enemies and overcome misfortune.", "locator": "Heading 584; source lines 7059–7065", "lineStart": 7059, "lineEnd": 7065, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If seen in a dream, denotes threatening enemies. If you wrench the dagger\nfrom the hand of another, it denotes that you will be able to counteract\nthe influence of your enemies and overcome misfortune." }, { "id": "fontaine-0175", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Dagger", "text": "To dream of a dagger, you may expect news of absent persons,\nand your dearest hope will be fulfilled. 9.", "locator": "Heading 175; source line 1688", "lineStart": 1688, "lineEnd": 1691, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a dagger, you may expect news of absent persons,\nand your dearest hope will be fulfilled." }, { "id": "luck-0048", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Dagger", "text": "A friend will confer a favor.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 48; source lines 3628–3630", "lineStart": 3628, "lineEnd": 3630, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "A friend will confer a favor." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9715", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Dagger", "heading": "Dagger", "text": "Foretells death and suffering, unless you dream of grasping it firmly, when it augurs success. Jung interprets the dagger as a phallic symbol.", "lineStart": 9715, "lineEnd": 9718, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 211; NLM OCR lines 9715–9718", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9715, "lineEnd": 9718, "printedPage": 211, "printedPageEnd": 211 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Dagger. — Foretells death and suffering, unless you dream of \ngrasping it firmly, when it augurs success. Jung interprets the \ndagger as a phallic symbol. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Dagger" }, "displayText": "Foretells death and suffering, unless you dream of grasping it firmly, when it augurs success. 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Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0585", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Dahlia", "text": "To see dahlias in a dream, if they are fresh and bright,\nsignifies good fortune to the dreamer.\n\n\n[49] See Bouquet", "locator": "Heading 585; source lines 7065–7073", "lineStart": 7065, "lineEnd": 7073, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see dahlias in a dream, if they are fresh and bright,\nsignifies good fortune to the dreamer. See Bouquet" }, { "id": "fontaine-0176", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Dahlia", "text": "To dream of these flowers, is a sign of thrift. If a lady\ndreams of them, it foretells that her husband will make money rapidly.\nTo a young girl, it predicts the same of her lover. 19, 20, 12.", "locator": "Heading 176; source line 1691", "lineStart": 1691, "lineEnd": 1695, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of these flowers, is a sign of thrift. If a lady\ndreams of them, it foretells that her husband will make money rapidly.\nTo a young girl, it predicts the same of her lover." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0586", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Dairy", "text": "Dairy is a good dream both to the married and unmarried.\n\n[50] See Churning Butter.", "locator": "Heading 586; source lines 7073–7079", "lineStart": 7073, "lineEnd": 7079, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Dairy is a good dream both to the married and unmarried. See Churning Butter." }, { "id": "fontaine-0177", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Dairy", "text": "To dream you are in a dairy, busy at work, is a very favorable\nomen; to the maid it indicates that her lover will be of an industrious\nturn and will rise to honor. To the farmer, it denotes that his crops\nwill be abundant; to the tradesman, good news. 71, 2.", "locator": "Heading 177; source line 1695", "lineStart": 1695, "lineEnd": 1700, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are in a dairy, busy at work, is a very favorable\nomen; to the maid it indicates that her lover will be of an industrious\nturn and will rise to honor. To the farmer, it denotes that his crops\nwill be abundant; to the tradesman, good news." }, { "id": "noe-0138", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Dairy", "text": "To dream you are in a\ndairy busy at work, is a very favorable omen; to the maid it indicates\nthat her lover will be of an industrious turn, and that if she marries,\nshe will have children, and her husband will become rich and rise to\nhonor. To the farmer it denotes that his crops will be abundant, but that\nhe will lose some of his live stock by thieves.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 140; source lines 628–633", "lineStart": 628, "lineEnd": 633, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are in a\ndairy busy at work, is a very favorable omen; to the maid it indicates\nthat her lover will be of an industrious turn, and that if she marries,\nshe will have children, and her husband will become rich and rise to\nhonor. To the farmer it denotes that his crops will be abundant, but that\nhe will lose some of his live stock by thieves." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "daisy", "title": "Daisy", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a bunch of daisys, implies sadness, but if you dream of being in a field where these lovely…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "daisy" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about daisy stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0587", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Daisy", "text": "To dream of a bunch of daisys, implies sadness, but if you dream\nof being in a field where these lovely flowers are in bloom,\nwith the sun shining and birds singing, happiness, health and\nprosperity will vie each with the other to lead you through\nthe pleasantest avenues of life.\n\nTo dream of seeing them out of season, you will be assailed by evil\nin some guise.", "locator": "Heading 587; source lines 7079–7090", "lineStart": 7079, "lineEnd": 7090, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a bunch of daisys, implies sadness, but if you dream\nof being in a field where these lovely flowers are in bloom,\nwith the sun shining and birds singing, happiness, health and\nprosperity will vie each with the other to lead you through\nthe pleasantest avenues of life.\n\nTo dream of seeing them out of season, you will be assailed by evil\nin some guise." }, { "id": "noe-0143", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Daisy", "text": "It is good to dream of daisies in the spring\nor summer, but bad in fall or winter.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 145; source lines 649–650", "lineStart": 649, "lineEnd": 650, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "It is good to dream of daisies in the spring\nor summer, but bad in fall or winter." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9719", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Daisy", "heading": "Daisy", "text": "A good dream in spring or summer, auguring a true lover; bad in winter or autumn (Raphael) ; symbol the eye of day, the sun, also see the charm of daisy petals.", "lineStart": 9719, "lineEnd": 9722, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 211; NLM OCR lines 9719–9722", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9719, "lineEnd": 9722, "printedPage": 211, "printedPageEnd": 211 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Daisy. — A good dream in spring or summer, auguring a \ntrue lover; bad in winter or autumn (Raphael) ; symbol the eye \nof day, the sun, also see the charm of daisy petals. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Daisy" }, "displayText": "A good dream in spring or summer, auguring a true lover; bad in winter or autumn (Raphael); symbol the eye of day, the sun, also see the charm of daisy petals." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0588", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Damask Rose", "text": "To dream of seeing a damask rosebush in full foliage and bloom,\ndenotes that a wedding will soon take place in your family,\nand great hopes will be fulfilled.\n\nFor a lover to place this rose in your hair, foretells that you will\nbe deceived. If a woman receives a bouquet of damask roses in springtime,\nshe will have a faithful lover; but if she received them in winter,\nshe will cherish blasted hopes.", "locator": "Heading 588; source lines 7090–7101", "lineStart": 7090, "lineEnd": 7101, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing a damask rosebush in full foliage and bloom,\ndenotes that a wedding will soon take place in your family,\nand great hopes will be fulfilled.\n\nFor a lover to place this rose in your hair, foretells that you will\nbe deceived. If a woman receives a bouquet of damask roses in springtime,\nshe will have a faithful lover; but if she received them in winter,\nshe will cherish blasted hopes." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0589", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Damson", "text": "This is a peculiarly good dream if one is so fortunate as to see these trees\nlifting their branches loaded with rich purple fruit and dainty foliage;\none may expect riches compared with his present estate.\n\nTo dream of eating them at any time, forebodes grief.", "locator": "Heading 589; source lines 7101–7109", "lineStart": 7101, "lineEnd": 7109, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "This is a peculiarly good dream if one is so fortunate as to see these trees\nlifting their branches loaded with rich purple fruit and dainty foliage;\none may expect riches compared with his present estate.\n\nTo dream of eating them at any time, forebodes grief." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "dancing", "title": "Dancing", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "aliases": [ "dancing", "to dance and sing", "dance" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "summary": "Dancing may explore pleasurable movement, responsive contact and the freedom to adapt a shared form.", "tagline": "Movement that can meet pleasure, company and choice.", "psychological": "Dancing in a dream may give pleasure, contact or an expressive gesture a physical form. A familiar sequence can feel easy while the room or partner makes it awkward; an improvised movement can feel satisfying without an audience. The encounter need not carry a fixed message about sociability. How you wanted to move, and what that movement made possible, can distinguish its meanings.\n\nKnowing the steps before remembering them may offer a feeling of fluency. This can resemble a practiced household routine that leaves room for spontaneity, or a shared task whose familiar rhythm lets you enjoy the company around it. The pleasure belongs to the dream experience; it does not test an actual skill or prove that every responsibility has become effortless.\n\nA partner whose preferred range differs from yours can make contact a negotiation. One of you may want a broad turn while the other wants closeness or a smaller gesture. Adjusting the movement could feel considerate, frustrating or playful. A useful waking comparison is a shared activity in which connection remains wanted even though the participants need different distances.\n\nYour intended pace can also differ from the occasion's pace. Wanting a slow, deliberate movement in a fast-moving room may express a purpose that the prevailing form does not accommodate. There may be satisfaction in retaining that intention, or pleasure in trying another way. Neither choice automatically means withdrawal or a need to become more outgoing.\n\nFloor marks that no longer fit the available space can bring adaptation into a learned pattern. Keeping the shape exactly might lose what you enjoyed about it; changing the route could recover its purpose. This may resemble using an old arrangement in a changed home or workplace, where the useful question concerns which parts still serve the present situation.\n\nContact can change mid-movement. When a partner releases your hand during a turn, completing your own part may feel free, lonely or simply satisfying. When crossing a room to finish a chore becomes a dance, play and responsibility can coexist. These different endings leave room for enjoyment and choice without making the dream evidence of another person's affection or a forecast of your relationship.", "traditional": "The eight attached accounts vary. Fontaine, Noe and Guide to Fortune-Telling by Dreams connect dancing at an entertainment with news, love or inheritance; Cielo forecasts a gift from someone loved. The two unheaded accounts in the 1805 Moles edition contrast jolly company with danger in dancing high. Miller's Dance account distinguishes children, older people and self-dancing, and refers to Ball. The whole mixed dance-and-sing section in the 1644 Artemidorus translation distinguishes audiences, circumstances and social roles, including adverse forecasts and transcription gaps. These historical claims remain attributed to their editions, rather than rules for a present dream.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Pleasure in available movement", "reflection": "Ease or invention can make movement valuable without requiring an audience or an achievement." }, { "title": "Responsive contact", "reflection": "Different preferred distances can make a shared movement a negotiation rather than an all-or-nothing connection." }, { "title": "An adaptable expressive form", "reflection": "Changing a learned route can preserve what you wanted it to make possible." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "The steps arrive before memory", "reflection": "Your feet find a satisfying sequence before you can name it. This can offer pleasure in a familiar activity whose details no longer need all your attention. Surprise may be part of that ease, rather than evidence that you possess an unrecognized waking skill." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Partners want different distances", "reflection": "Your partner wants a broad turn while you prefer a smaller, closer movement. Finding a version that suits both can feel playful or demanding. The scene may concern a valued shared activity whose participants need different space, rather than a choice between closeness and separation." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A slow gesture in a fast room", "reflection": "Everyone moves quickly, but the gesture you want needs more time. The mismatch can make your intention feel conspicuous, or give it a clear shape. Trying another pace might express curiosity; retaining your own could protect the purpose that first made the movement meaningful." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "The floor marks no longer fit", "reflection": "The familiar route crosses furniture that was not there before. Adapting the steps can preserve their pleasure, while insisting on the old marks may interrupt it. This scene can explore how a useful inherited arrangement changes when the available setting changes around it." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Finishing a turn after release", "reflection": "A partner lets go during a turn, and you complete your movement alone. The ending can hold satisfaction, loneliness or relief without a single required reading. Its meaning may concern which part of a shared action remains yours when the contact supporting it changes." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "A chore becomes a dance", "reflection": "You cross the room to complete an ordinary task, and the journey becomes a dance without losing its destination. Play may fit inside responsibility instead of replacing it. The experience can express a wish for enjoyable ways of doing something that still needs to be done." } ], "prompts": [ "What did the movement allow you to enjoy or express?", "How did the room or another person affect the steps you wanted?", "Which part of the pattern felt worth keeping, and what did adaptation open?" ], "related": [ "ball", "music", "singing", "concert" ], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0178" ], "scope": "The complete Dancing account refers to Ball and forecasts joyful news and love for dancing, pleasure and inheritance for seeing others dance. Exact account: fontaine-0178 — Dancing (Heading 178; source line 1700). Attributed historical claims only; no forecast or symbolic meaning is validated by this citation." }, { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display.", "recordIds": [ "artemidorus-058" ], "scope": "The supplied whole dance-and-sing section contrasts alone, household, public and strangers’ audiences and particular social roles, with favorable or adverse forecasts; its singing clauses include harmony, musician and poverty distinctions, place, captivity and voice claims. Transcription gaps remain marked. Exact account: artemidorus-058 — To dance and sing. (Book 1, encoded section 58). Attributed historical claims only; no forecast or symbolic meaning is validated by this citation." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0127" ], "scope": "Dancing at a ball or entertainment is linked to absent news, legacy and a lover’s kindness. Exact account: noe-0127 — Dancing (Dream section, heading 129; source lines 586–590). Attributed historical claims only; no forecast or symbolic meaning is validated by this citation." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0130" ], "scope": "Dancing receives a forecast of a gift from someone loved. Exact account: cielo-0130 — Dancing (Dream section, heading 130; source lines 4166–4169). Attributed historical claims only; no forecast or symbolic meaning is validated by this citation." }, { "id": "guide-65367", "title": "Guide to Fortune-Telling by Dreams", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Multum in Parvo Library, Vol. I, No. 10, October 1894", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65367", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "guide-0020" ], "scope": "Dancing receives news, legacy, love, marriage, children and trade forecasts. Exact account: guide-0020 — Dancing (Dream section, heading 20; source lines 206–213). Attributed historical claims only; no forecast or symbolic meaning is validated by this citation." }, { "id": "moles-71045", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams and Moles", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "United Kingdom, J. Marshall, 1805", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71045", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "moles-0005", "moles-0034" ], "scope": "An unheaded passage in the 1805 edition gives a next-day joy and mirth forecast for dancing in jolly company; the topic heading is editorial, not printed. Exact account: moles-0005 — Dancing (Dreams interpreted, passage 5; source lines 124–125). A separate unheaded passage in the same 1805 edition links dancing high to danger and an untimely end; the topic heading is editorial, not printed. Exact account: moles-0034 — Dancing (Dreams interpreted, passage 34; source lines 209–210). Attributed historical claims only; no forecast or symbolic meaning is validated by this citation." }, { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0590" ], "scope": "The whole Dance account distinguishes dancing children, older people and self-dancing through home, business and luck forecasts, then refers to Ball. Exact account: miller-0590 — Dance (Heading 590; source lines 7109–7123). Attributed historical claims only; no forecast or symbolic meaning is validated by this citation." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0590", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Dance", "text": "To dream of seeing a crowd of merry children dancing,\nsignifies to the married, loving, obedient and intelligent\nchildren and a cheerful and comfortable home. To young people,\nit denotes easy tasks and many pleasures.\n\nTo see older people dancing, denotes a brighter outlook for business.\n\nTo dream of dancing yourself, some unexpected good fortune will come to you.\n\n\n[51] See Ball.", "locator": "Heading 590; source lines 7109–7123", "lineStart": 7109, "lineEnd": 7123, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing a crowd of merry children dancing,\nsignifies to the married, loving, obedient and intelligent\nchildren and a cheerful and comfortable home. To young people,\nit denotes easy tasks and many pleasures.\n\nTo see older people dancing, denotes a brighter outlook for business.\n\nTo dream of dancing yourself, some unexpected good fortune will come to you. See Ball.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Dance” is shown on the Dancing page: the complete Miller Dance account concerns the same dancing activity as the existing Dancing topic; the separate Dancing Master role remains distinct." }, { "id": "fontaine-0178", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Dancing", "text": "(_See Ball._) To dream you are dancing at a ball or\nentertainment, foretells that you will shortly receive joyful news;\nit also foretells success and happiness in love. To see others dance\nthere, signifies pleasure and an inheritance. 55, 27.", "locator": "Heading 178; source line 1700", "lineStart": 1700, "lineEnd": 1705, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Ball.) To dream you are dancing at a ball or\nentertainment, foretells that you will shortly receive joyful news;\nit also foretells success and happiness in love. To see others dance\nthere, signifies pleasure and an inheritance." }, { "id": "artemidorus-058", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "To dance and sing.", "text": "TO séeme to dance himselfe alone, or onely in the presence of the householders, is good for all: in like sort also to sée his Wife, his Children, or any of his Parents dance, is good: for it is great abundance of mirth and goods; but to him which is sick, or hath any disease about him it is evill. Also to dream you dance or sée dance any of your affinity, in the presence of strange people, and unknown, is ill to al. To see a child leape and daunce, is a signe that he shall bee deafe and mute. If a servant or a sayler do dreame that he danceth it is evill, for the first shall be beaten, and the other in danger to perish in the water. To him which is in captivity it is good, for he shall have liberty. To dreame that you dance in a high place, signifieth to fall in fear and danger, if he be a malifactor he shall be hangd. To ieast, to move laughter, and to counterfeit others, signifieth to deceive somebody. To dreame you sing well, and in measure, is good for Musitians & indifferent to others. But to sing without harmony, is a signe of impeachment of affayrs and poverty. To singe by the way is good, especially if you follow a ca[illegible passage], For it signifieth you shall live honestly and merrily. But to sing at the [illegible passage]ath is ill, and signifieth losse of voice. Many by this dreame, have been condemned to captivity, in the prison or gallyes. To sing in the market or publick places, is shame and dishonor to the rich, and imputation of folly to the poor▪", "locator": "Book 1, encoded section 58", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription-with-gaps", "book": "1", "displayText": "To séeme to dance himselfe alone, or onely in the presence of the householders, is good for all: in like sort also to sée his Wife, his Children, or any of his Parents dance, is good: for it is great abundance of mirth and goods; but to him which is sick, or hath any disease about him it is evill. Also to dream you dance or sée dance any of your affinity, in the presence of strange people, and unknown, is ill to al. To see a child leape and daunce, is a signe that he shall bee deafe and mute. If a servant or a sayler do dreame that he danceth it is evill, for the first shall be beaten, and the other in danger to perish in the water. To him which is in captivity it is good, for he shall have liberty. To dreame that you dance in a high place, signifieth to fall in fear and danger, if he be a malifactor he shall be hangd. To ieast, to move laughter, and to counterfeit others, signifieth to deceive somebody. To dreame you sing well, and in measure, is good for Musitians & indifferent to others. But to sing without harmony, is a signe of impeachment of affayrs and poverty. To singe by the way is good, especially if you follow a ca [illegible passage], For it signifieth you shall live honestly and merrily. But to sing at the [illegible passage] ath is ill, and signifieth losse of voice. Many by this dreame, have been condemned to captivity, in the prison or gallyes. To sing in the market or publick places, is shame and dishonor to the rich, and imputation of folly to the poor▪", "editorialNote": "The source heading “To dance and sing” is shown on the Dancing page: artemidorus dance-and-sing section; singing is secondary" }, { "id": "noe-0127", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Dancing", "text": "To dream that you are dancing at a ball,\nwake, or entertainment, foretells that you will shortly receive some\njoyful news from a long absent friend, and that you are about to inherit\nsome unexpected legacy; for it foretells success and happiness in love;\nthat your sweetheart is kind.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 129; source lines 586–590", "lineStart": 586, "lineEnd": 590, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are dancing at a ball,\nwake, or entertainment, foretells that you will shortly receive some\njoyful news from a long absent friend, and that you are about to inherit\nsome unexpected legacy; for it foretells success and happiness in love;\nthat your sweetheart is kind." }, { "id": "cielo-0130", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Dancing", "text": "Indicates a handsome present of someone you love.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 130; source lines 4166–4169", "lineStart": 4166, "lineEnd": 4169, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Indicates a handsome present of someone you love." }, { "id": "guide-0020", "sourceId": "guide-65367", "heading": "Dancing", "text": "To dream you are dancing at a ball, wake or entertainment\nforetells that you will shortly receive some joyful news from a long\nabsent friend, or that you are about to inherit some unexpected legacy;\nit foretells success and happiness in love; your sweetheart is kind and\ntrue, and will make you very happy in marriage; increase of children to\nmarried persons, and of business to those in trade.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 20; source lines 206–213", "lineStart": 206, "lineEnd": 213, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are dancing at a ball, wake or entertainment\nforetells that you will shortly receive some joyful news from a long\nabsent friend, or that you are about to inherit some unexpected legacy;\nit foretells success and happiness in love; your sweetheart is kind and\ntrue, and will make you very happy in marriage; increase of children to\nmarried persons, and of business to those in trade." }, { "id": "moles-0005", "sourceId": "moles-71045", "heading": "Dancing", "originalHeading": "(no printed heading)", "text": "To dream you are dancing in a jolly company, signifies much joy and\nmirth in the course of the following day.", "locator": "Dreams interpreted, passage 5; source lines 124–125", "lineStart": 124, "lineEnd": 125, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "editorialNote": "The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Dancing” because that is the subject of its first clause.", "displayText": "To dream you are dancing in a jolly company, signifies much joy and\nmirth in the course of the following day." }, { "id": "moles-0034", "sourceId": "moles-71045", "heading": "Dancing", "originalHeading": "(no printed heading)", "text": "To dream you dance aloft in some high place, threatens danger, or that\nthe party will be in danger of an untimely end.", "locator": "Dreams interpreted, passage 34; source lines 209–210", "lineStart": 209, "lineEnd": 210, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "editorialNote": "The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Dancing” because that is the subject of its first clause.", "displayText": "To dream you dance aloft in some high place, threatens danger, or that\nthe party will be in danger of an untimely end." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [ "ball" ] }, { "slug": "dancing-master", "title": "Dancing Master", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a dancing master, foretells you will neglect important affairs to pursue frivolities.”", "aliases": [ "dancing master" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about dancing master stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0591", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Dancing Master", "text": "To dream of a dancing master, foretells you will neglect important\naffairs to pursue frivolities. For a young woman to dream that her\nlover is a dancing master, portends that she will have a friend\nin accordance with her views of pleasure and life.", "locator": "Heading 591; source lines 7123–7130", "lineStart": 7123, "lineEnd": 7130, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a dancing master, foretells you will neglect important\naffairs to pursue frivolities. For a young woman to dream that her\nlover is a dancing master, portends that she will have a friend\nin accordance with her views of pleasure and life." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "dandelion", "title": "Dandelion", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Dandelions blossoming in green foliage, foretells happy unions and prosperous surroundings.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "dandelion", "dandelions" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about dandelion stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0592", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Dandelion", "text": "Dandelions blossoming in green foliage, foretells happy unions\nand prosperous surroundings.", "locator": "Heading 592; source lines 7130–7135", "lineStart": 7130, "lineEnd": 7135, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Dandelions blossoming in green foliage, foretells happy unions\nand prosperous surroundings." }, { "id": "noe-0144", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Dandelions", "text": "To dream of gathering\ndandelions is ominous to one. To dream you see a large bed of them denotes\nthat you have many new enemies forming, who will do you much injury in\nsecret. If one in love dreams of dandelions, be sure their sweetheart is\nplaying them false.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 146; source lines 650–656", "lineStart": 650, "lineEnd": 656, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of gathering\ndandelions is ominous to one. To dream you see a large bed of them denotes\nthat you have many new enemies forming, who will do you much injury in\nsecret. If one in love dreams of dandelions, be sure their sweetheart is\nplaying them false." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9723", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Dandelion", "heading": "Dandelion", "text": "This dream denotes secret enemies at work against you (Gypsy) ; interpretation probably derived from the fact that the farmers regard the flower as a nuisance.", "lineStart": 9723, "lineEnd": 9729, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 211–212; NLM OCR lines 9723–9729", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9723, "lineEnd": 9729, "printedPage": 211, "printedPageEnd": 212 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Dandelion.— This dream denotes secret enemies at work \nagainst you (Gypsy) ; interpretation probably derived from the \nfact that the farmers regard the flower as a nuisance. \n\n\n212 THE FABRIC OF DREAMS \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [ { "line": 9728, "text": "212 THE FABRIC OF DREAMS " } ], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Dandelion" }, "displayText": "This dream denotes secret enemies at work against you (Gypsy); interpretation probably derived from the fact that the farmers regard the flower as a nuisance." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "moles-71045", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams and Moles", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "United Kingdom, J. Marshall, 1805", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71045", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0593", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Danger", "text": "To dream of being in a perilous situation, and death seems\niminent,{sic} denotes that you will emerge from obscurity into\nplaces of distinction and honor; but if you should not escape\nthe impending danger, and suffer death or a wound, you will\nlose in business and be annoyed in your home, and by others.\nIf you are in love, your prospects will grow discouraging.", "locator": "Heading 593; source lines 7135–7144", "lineStart": 7135, "lineEnd": 7144, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being in a perilous situation, and death seems\niminent,[sic] denotes that you will emerge from obscurity into\nplaces of distinction and honor; but if you should not escape\nthe impending danger, and suffer death or a wound, you will\nlose in business and be annoyed in your home, and by others.\nIf you are in love, your prospects will grow discouraging." }, { "id": "fontaine-0179", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Danger", "text": "To dream of being in danger, shows success in life; to shun it,\nmisfortune. (_See Difficulty._) 27, 17.", "locator": "Heading 179; source line 1705", "lineStart": 1705, "lineEnd": 1708, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being in danger, shows success in life; to shun it,\nmisfortune. (See Difficulty.)" }, { "id": "moles-0037", "sourceId": "moles-71045", "heading": "Danger", "originalHeading": "(no printed heading)", "text": "To dream one is in danger of being killed, denotes deliverance from\ndanger.", "locator": "Dreams interpreted, passage 37; source lines 217–218", "lineStart": 217, "lineEnd": 218, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "editorialNote": "The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Danger” because that is the subject of its first clause.", "displayText": "To dream one is in danger of being killed, denotes deliverance from\ndanger." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "guide-65367", "title": "Guide to Fortune-Telling by Dreams", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Multum in Parvo Library, Vol. I, No. 10, October 1894", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65367", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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Try to remain under control after dreaming of darkness,\nfor trials in business and love will beset you.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Dark” is shown on the Darkness page: same topic" }, { "id": "fontaine-0180", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Darkness", "text": "To dream you are in a dark place, is an unfavorable omen;\nto the lovers it denotes, loss of sweethearts, to the trader, loss of\ngoods; but to dream of getting out of darkness into light, is good; if\nyou are in poverty, it foretells riches; if in love, a happy marriage.\n4, 16.", "locator": "Heading 180; source line 1708", "lineStart": 1708, "lineEnd": 1714, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are in a dark place, is an unfavorable omen;\nto the lovers it denotes, loss of sweethearts, to the trader, loss of\ngoods; but to dream of getting out of darkness into light, is good; if\nyou are in poverty, it foretells riches; if in love, a happy marriage." }, { "id": "noe-0135", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Darkness", "text": "To dream\nyou are in a very dark place, or that you are in the dark, is a very\nunfavorable omen. To dream you get out of darkness into light, denotes\ngood to the dreamer. Expect also to hear some glad tidings from a far\ndistant country.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 137; source lines 613–617", "lineStart": 613, "lineEnd": 617, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream\nyou are in a very dark place, or that you are in the dark, is a very\nunfavorable omen. To dream you get out of darkness into light, denotes\ngood to the dreamer. Expect also to hear some glad tidings from a far\ndistant country." }, { "id": "guide-0021", "sourceId": "guide-65367", "heading": "Darkness", "text": "To dream you are in a very dark place, or that you are in\nthe dark, is a very unfavorable omen; to the lover, it denotes the loss\nof your sweetheart; to the trader, loss by debts, business; to the\nfarmer, bad crops; to the sailor, shipwreck and misfortune. To dream\nyou get out of darkness into light denotes good to the dreamer; if you\nare in poverty, you will rise to riches and honor; if you are in love,\nit denotes a happy marriage and many children, with an industrious\nhusband or wife; expect also to hear some glad tidings from a far\ndistant country.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 21; source lines 213–223", "lineStart": 213, "lineEnd": 223, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are in a very dark place, or that you are in\nthe dark, is a very unfavorable omen; to the lover, it denotes the loss\nof your sweetheart; to the trader, loss by debts, business; to the\nfarmer, bad crops; to the sailor, shipwreck and misfortune. To dream\nyou get out of darkness into light denotes good to the dreamer; if you\nare in poverty, you will rise to riches and honor; if you are in love,\nit denotes a happy marriage and many children, with an industrious\nhusband or wife; expect also to hear some glad tidings from a far\ndistant country." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9730", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Darkness", "heading": "Darkness", "text": "A dream of warning against treachery, false friends, willful blindness to reason and good sense (Artemidorus).", "lineStart": 9730, "lineEnd": 9733, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 212; NLM OCR lines 9730–9733", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9730, "lineEnd": 9733, "printedPage": 212, "printedPageEnd": 212 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Darkness. — A dream of warning against treachery, false \nfriends, willful blindness to reason and good sense (Artemi- \ndorus). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "Artemi- \ndorus", "after": "Artemidorus", "evidenceLine": 485 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Darkness" }, "displayText": "A dream of warning against treachery, false friends, willful blindness to reason and good sense (Artemidorus)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "dates", "title": "Dates", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing them on their parent trees, signifies prosperity and happy union.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "dates" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about dates stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0595", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Dates", "text": "To dream of seeing them on their parent trees, signifies prosperity\nand happy union; but to eat them as prepared for commerce,\nthey are omens of want and distress.", "locator": "Heading 595; source lines 7154–7160", "lineStart": 7154, "lineEnd": 7160, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing them on their parent trees, signifies prosperity\nand happy union; but to eat them as prepared for commerce,\nthey are omens of want and distress." }, { "id": "fontaine-0181", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Dates", "text": "Dates denote many enemies, and you will receive much injury by a\nperson you little expect. 6, 44.", "locator": "Heading 181; source line 1714", "lineStart": 1714, "lineEnd": 1717, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Dates denote many enemies, and you will receive much injury by a\nperson you little expect." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9734", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Dates", "heading": "Dates", "text": "Either strong and powerful enemies or admirers of the opposite sex ( Artemidorus) ; an erotic dream (Freud).", "lineStart": 9734, "lineEnd": 9736, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 212; NLM OCR lines 9734–9736", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9734, "lineEnd": 9736, "printedPage": 212, "printedPageEnd": 212 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Dates. — Either strong and powerful enemies or admirers \nof the opposite sex ( Artemidorus) ; an erotic dream (Freud). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Dates" }, "displayText": "Either strong and powerful enemies or admirers of the opposite sex ( Artemidorus); an erotic dream (Freud)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "daughter", "title": "Daughter", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of your daughter, signifies that many displeasing incidents will give way to pleasure and harmony.”", "aliases": [ "daughter" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about daughter stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0596", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Daughter", "text": "To dream of your daughter, signifies that many displeasing incidents will give\nway to pleasure and harmony. If in the dream, she fails to meet your wishes,\nthrough any cause, you will suffer vexation and discontent.", "locator": "Heading 596; source lines 7160–7166", "lineStart": 7160, "lineEnd": 7166, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of your daughter, signifies that many displeasing incidents will give\nway to pleasure and harmony. If in the dream, she fails to meet your wishes,\nthrough any cause, you will suffer vexation and discontent." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "daughter-in-law", "title": "Daughter-in-law", "type": "dreams", "category": "Other symbols", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of your daughter-in-law, indicates some unusual occurence[sic] will add to happiness, or disquiet, according as she is pleasant or…”", "aliases": [ "daughter-in-law" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about daughter-in-law stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0597", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Daughter-in-law", "text": "To dream of your daughter-in-law, indicates some unusual occurence{sic} will\nadd to happiness, or disquiet, according as she is pleasant or unreasonable.", "locator": "Heading 597; source lines 7166–7171", "lineStart": 7166, "lineEnd": 7171, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of your daughter-in-law, indicates some unusual occurence[sic] will\nadd to happiness, or disquiet, according as she is pleasant or unreasonable." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "david", "title": "David", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of David, of Bible fame, denotes divisions in domestic circles, and unsettled affairs, will tax heavily your nerve force.”", "aliases": [ "david" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about david stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0598", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "David", "text": "To dream of David, of Bible fame, denotes divisions in domestic circles,\nand unsettled affairs, will tax heavily your nerve force.", "locator": "Heading 598; source lines 7171–7176", "lineStart": 7171, "lineEnd": 7176, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of David, of Bible fame, denotes divisions in domestic circles,\nand unsettled affairs, will tax heavily your nerve force." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "day", "title": "Day", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of the day, denotes improvement in your situation, and pleasant associations.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "day" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about day stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0599", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Day", "text": "To dream of the day, denotes improvement in your situation,\nand pleasant associations. A gloomy or cloudy day, foretells loss\nand ill success in new enterprises.", "locator": "Heading 599; source lines 7176–7182", "lineStart": 7176, "lineEnd": 7182, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of the day, denotes improvement in your situation,\nand pleasant associations. A gloomy or cloudy day, foretells loss\nand ill success in new enterprises." }, { "id": "fontaine-0182", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Day", "text": "To dream of a clear, sunshiny day, portends long life and\nhappiness, but to dream of a dark, cloudy, and stormy day, is an\nunlucky omen. 3, 33, 9.", "locator": "Heading 182; source line 1717", "lineStart": 1717, "lineEnd": 1721, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a clear, sunshiny day, portends long life and\nhappiness, but to dream of a dark, cloudy, and stormy day, is an\nunlucky omen." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9737", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Day", "heading": "Day", "text": "A dream of a clear day is a good omen (Artemidorus).", "lineStart": 9737, "lineEnd": 9739, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 212; NLM OCR lines 9737–9739", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9737, "lineEnd": 9739, "printedPage": 212, "printedPageEnd": 212 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Day. — A dream of a clear day is a good omen (Artemi- \ndorus). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "Artemi- \ndorus", "after": "Artemidorus", "evidenceLine": 485 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Day" }, "displayText": "A dream of a clear day is a good omen (Artemidorus)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. 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Its subject can be the experience of sharing a role.\n\nSeparation has several possible tones. A child joining an activity gladly may bring pride, sadness, or surprise together. That could fit a transition in which someone needs you differently, including an ordinary change in routine. If you are the one reluctant to leave, the scene may concern what becomes possible and what is lost during time apart. Neither relief nor sadness decides whether separation is wanted overall.\n\nThe handover can be more important than the building. Knowing who has the information, when you will return, and what happens next gives the encounter structure. An unclear desk or absent explanation may resemble a shared task in which responsibility has not been agreed. Waiting for a reply or trying to coordinate work and home could provide a waking parallel, without making the dream evidence that a real child is unsafe.\n\nBeing a caregiver, or finding yourself among the children, creates a different role. Managing several needs may explore wanting adequate resources rather than proving you should manage alone. Receiving care yourself could bring a wish for support alongside discomfort at being treated as less capable. Recent family logistics, work, stories, or an actual visit can supply direct context. You do not need a child in daily life to dream this setting, and the scene need not turn a child into a standard metaphor for a project.", "traditional": "No matching historical daycare passage is supplied. This entry offers original context about delegated care, shared routines, separation, and responsibility. It does not use an imagined handover or anxious search to infer negligence, a child's health, or the quality of a real service. The particular roles and available help guide the reflection.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Sharing a caring role", "reflection": "A handover may fit wanting support that lets more than one responsibility be met. Relief and uncertainty can coexist while you learn what the arrangement provides." }, { "title": "Closeness during time apart", "reflection": "A child joining an activity may bring a changed form of connection into view. Pride, sadness, and relief need not cancel each other or settle a preference." }, { "title": "A clear handover", "reflection": "Uncertain roles or timing can make care feel harder to share. The useful question may be who holds which responsibility and what information makes the next step workable." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "The child joins an activity happily", "reflection": "You prepare to leave while they become absorbed in play. This may explore a changed need for your presence, such as a new routine or growing independence. Pride and sadness can coexist, and your own relief does not make the caring relationship less important." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You cannot find who is responsible for the handover", "reflection": "People are present, but no one explains what happens next. This may resemble coordination without a clear owner, at home or work. A specific explanation can change the scene more than trying to supervise every person and task yourself." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You arrive after the expected pickup time", "reflection": "A clock or delayed journey makes two obligations collide. The scene may fit wanting an arrangement that leaves enough room for both work and care. The imagined delay does not establish real negligence; its useful subject may be timing, backup, or information." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You care for several children with little help", "reflection": "Needs arrive faster than you can respond. This can give shared responsibility the feeling of solitary work, like organizing several people's practical demands. Another caregiver or a clearer division can make capacity the issue rather than a verdict on your willingness to help." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You are the one receiving daycare care", "reflection": "An adult role disappears and someone arranges your day for you. The scene may explore wanting rest and support, or discomfort when help removes too much choice. Being allowed to ask or decide distinguishes welcome care from a role that does not fit." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The center blends with your workplace", "reflection": "Caregiving and professional tasks occupy the same room and compete for attention. This may give form to arranging different responsibilities without a clear boundary. Cooperation can make the combination workable, while interruptions may highlight wanting one role to have protected time." } ], "prompts": [ "What responsibility was being shared, and was the handover clear?", "Which feelings appeared when time together changed to time apart?", "What support made room for more than one person's needs?" ], "related": [ "baby", "a-child-leaving-home", "losing-a-child", "trust", "playground" ], "type": "dreams", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original image-specific interpretation with distinct personal possibilities and everyday context; no matching historical passage supplied. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "dead", "title": "Dead", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "7 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of the dead, is usually a dream of warning.” Compare 5 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "dead", "of the dead" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about dead stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "moles-71045", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams and Moles", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "United Kingdom, J. Marshall, 1805", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71045", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0601", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Dead", "text": "To dream of the dead, is usually a dream of warning. If you see and talk\nwith your father, some unlucky transaction is about to be made by you.\nBe careful how you enter into contracts, enemies are around you.\nMen and women are warned to look to their reputations after this dream.\n\nTo see your mother, warns you to control your inclination to\ncultivate morbidness and ill will towards your fellow creatures.\nA brother, or other relatives or friends, denotes that you\nmay be called on for charity or aid within a short time.\n\nTo dream of seeing the dead, living and happy, signifies you are letting wrong\ninfluences into your life, which will bring material loss if not corrected\nby the assumption of your own will force.\n\nTo dream that you are conversing with a dead relative, and that\nrelative endeavors to extract a promise from you, warns you\nof coming distress, unless you follow the advice given you.\nDisastrous consequences could often be averted if minds could grasp\nthe inner workings and sight of the higher or spiritual self.\nThe voice of relatives is only that higher self taking form to approach\nmore distinctly the mind that lives near the material plane.\nThere is so little congeniality between common or material natures\nthat persons should depend upon their own subjectivity for true\ncontentment and pleasure.\n\n\n[52] Paracelsus says on this subject: ``It may happen that the soul of\npersons who have died perhaps fifty years ago may appear to us in a dream,\nand if it speaks to us we should pay special attention to what it says,\nfor such a vision is not an illusion or delusion, and it is possible\nthat a man is as much able to use his reason during the sleep of his body\nas when the latter is awake; and if in such a case such a soul appears\nto him and he asks questions, he will then hear that which is true.\nThrough these solicitous souls we may obtain a great deal of knowledge\nto good or to evil things if we ask them to reveal them to us.\nMany persons have had such prayers granted to them. Some people that were\nsick have been informed during their sleep what remedies they should use,\nand after using the remedies, they became cured, and such things have\nhappened not only to Christians, but also to Jews, Persians, and heathens,\nto good and to bad persons.''\n\nThe writer does not hold that such knowledge is obtained from external\nor excarnate spirits, but rather through the personal _Spirit Glimpses_\nthat is in man.--AUTHOR.", "locator": "Heading 601; source lines 7188–7236", "lineStart": 7188, "lineEnd": 7236, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of the dead, is usually a dream of warning. If you see and talk\nwith your father, some unlucky transaction is about to be made by you.\nBe careful how you enter into contracts, enemies are around you.\nMen and women are warned to look to their reputations after this dream.\n\nTo see your mother, warns you to control your inclination to\ncultivate morbidness and ill will towards your fellow creatures.\nA brother, or other relatives or friends, denotes that you\nmay be called on for charity or aid within a short time.\n\nTo dream of seeing the dead, living and happy, signifies you are letting wrong\ninfluences into your life, which will bring material loss if not corrected\nby the assumption of your own will force.\n\nTo dream that you are conversing with a dead relative, and that\nrelative endeavors to extract a promise from you, warns you\nof coming distress, unless you follow the advice given you.\nDisastrous consequences could often be averted if minds could grasp\nthe inner workings and sight of the higher or spiritual self.\nThe voice of relatives is only that higher self taking form to approach\nmore distinctly the mind that lives near the material plane.\nThere is so little congeniality between common or material natures\nthat persons should depend upon their own subjectivity for true\ncontentment and pleasure. Paracelsus says on this subject: “It may happen that the soul of\npersons who have died perhaps fifty years ago may appear to us in a dream,\nand if it speaks to us we should pay special attention to what it says,\nfor such a vision is not an illusion or delusion, and it is possible\nthat a man is as much able to use his reason during the sleep of his body\nas when the latter is awake; and if in such a case such a soul appears\nto him and he asks questions, he will then hear that which is true.\nThrough these solicitous souls we may obtain a great deal of knowledge\nto good or to evil things if we ask them to reveal them to us.\nMany persons have had such prayers granted to them. Some people that were\nsick have been informed during their sleep what remedies they should use,\nand after using the remedies, they became cured, and such things have\nhappened not only to Christians, but also to Jews, Persians, and heathens,\nto good and to bad persons.”\n\nThe writer does not hold that such knowledge is obtained from external\nor excarnate spirits, but rather through the personal Spirit Glimpses\nthat is in man.--AUTHOR." }, { "id": "artemidorus-111", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of the Dead.", "text": "ONly to see the dead, without any other accident or speech, is to be in the same estate and affection, wherein the aforesaid dead persons were towards us. For if they were our benefactors, the dream signifyeth good and joy to vs, and so on the contrary it is excéeding bad, when the dead séem to cary away and take from us apparell, goods, money, or victuals, for it seemeth death to the dreamer, or to some of his parents▪ or friends: if the dead give us victuals, money, or apparell, it is a good dream, but to such as they give none, it is another case. I knew a man which dreamt that his wife being dead, made all the beds in his house, and the next day after, many of his greatest friends fell sicke.", "locator": "Book 2, encoded section 111", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "2", "displayText": "ONly to see the dead, without any other accident or speech, is to be in the same estate and affection, wherein the aforesaid dead persons were towards us. For if they were our benefactors, the dream signifyeth good and joy to vs, and so on the contrary it is excéeding bad, when the dead séem to cary away and take from us apparell, goods, money, or victuals, for it seemeth death to the dreamer, or to some of his parents▪ or friends: if the dead give us victuals, money, or apparell, it is a good dream, but to such as they give none, it is another case. I knew a man which dreamt that his wife being dead, made all the beds in his house, and the next day after, many of his greatest friends fell sicke." }, { "id": "noe-0134", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Dead", "text": "To dream of talking with dead folks is\na good, auspicious dream, and signifies a boldness of courage and a very\nclear conscience. To dream a man is dead that is alive and in health,\nsignifies great trouble and being overthrown at law.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 136; source lines 610–613", "lineStart": 610, "lineEnd": 613, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of talking with dead folks is\na good, auspicious dream, and signifies a boldness of courage and a very\nclear conscience. To dream a man is dead that is alive and in health,\nsignifies great trouble and being overthrown at law." }, { "id": "luck-0049", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Dead", "text": "To dream of oneself as dead is a good and auspicious sign of\nlong life and success.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 49; source lines 3630–3633", "lineStart": 3630, "lineEnd": 3633, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of oneself as dead is a good and auspicious sign of\nlong life and success." }, { "id": "moles-0036", "sourceId": "moles-71045", "heading": "Dead", "originalHeading": "(no printed heading)", "text": "To dream your living friends are dead, is a sign they are in health.", "locator": "Dreams interpreted, passage 36; source lines 215–215", "lineStart": 215, "lineEnd": 215, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "editorialNote": "The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Dead” because that is the subject of its first clause.", "displayText": "To dream your living friends are dead, is a sign they are in health." }, { "id": "moles-0053", "sourceId": "moles-71045", "heading": "Dead", "originalHeading": "(no printed heading)", "text": "To dream of dead relations, promises you will soon see some friend.", "locator": "Dreams interpreted, passage 53; source lines 264–264", "lineStart": 264, "lineEnd": 264, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "editorialNote": "The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Dead” because that is the subject of its first clause.", "displayText": "To dream of dead relations, promises you will soon see some friend." }, { "id": "moles-0066", "sourceId": "moles-71045", "heading": "Dead", "originalHeading": "(no printed heading)", "text": "To dream you see a friend dead, denotes the party to be in good health.", "locator": "Dreams interpreted, passage 66; source lines 301–301", "lineStart": 301, "lineEnd": 301, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "editorialNote": "The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Dead” because that is the subject of its first clause.", "displayText": "To dream you see a friend dead, denotes the party to be in good health." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "dead-fishes", "title": "Dead Fishes", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Artemidorus wrote: “To see or finde Fishes dead in the Sea is not good, for it betokens vain hopes.”", "aliases": [ "dead fishes", "of dead fishes" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about dead fishes stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "artemidorus-081", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of dead Fishes.", "text": "TO see or finde Fishes dead in the Sea is not good, for it betokens vain hopes. But it is better to catch them or buy them any way. Also it is good to eat them drest, and according to their dressing you must judge as followeth. To see a Fish in his Chamber is ill to a Master, and to the sick. A woman with childe dreaming that she hath a Fish in stead of a Childe, according to the opinion of the Ancients, she shall have a dumbe childe: but as I have known, it signifyes more often she shall have a dying childe, or of little life.", "locator": "Book 2, encoded section 81", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "2", "displayText": "To see or finde Fishes dead in the Sea is not good, for it betokens vain hopes. But it is better to catch them or buy them any way. Also it is good to eat them drest, and according to their dressing you must judge as followeth. To see a Fish in his Chamber is ill to a Master, and to the sick. A woman with childe dreaming that she hath a Fish in stead of a Childe, according to the opinion of the Ancients, she shall have a dumbe childe: but as I have known, it signifyes more often she shall have a dying childe, or of little life." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "dead-reviving-and-dying-again", "title": "Dead reviving and dying again", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "A return opens time that the dream closes again.", "summary": "A return followed by another death may explore renewed possibility, interrupted time and the shifting place of someone no longer available.", "aliases": [ "dead reviving and dying again", "of the dead reviving and dying again" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "psychological": "A person returning from death and then dying again gives the dream two changes to respond to. The first may reopen companionship, a task or an expected conversation; the second takes that possibility away again. The useful question can be what became possible between those moments, rather than why the dream repeated a frightening image. It does not predict another death or establish contact with someone who has died.\n\nRelief may appear before there is time to reconsider ordinary life. You begin a familiar walk together, then the return ends before reaching the place you intended. This could picture wanting more time for something simple rather than needing a final explanation. The incomplete activity can show what company means to you in that particular scene.\n\nAn anticipated message can make the short interval feel urgent. You wait for words that never arrive before the person dies again. The experience may concern pressure to make one exchange settle everything. Sitting beside the person, or wanting to speak without finding the words, can hold another kind of significance without turning silence into a coded instruction.\n\nThe surroundings may also have changed. A room has been rearranged since the first death, and making space for the returned person disrupts the new use before they are gone again. This could resemble an earlier relationship or responsibility briefly entering a life that has moved into different routines. Affection and the practical difficulty of accommodating a return can coexist.\n\nIf only you acknowledge the revival, a private experience unfolds beside everyone else’s ordinary activity. The second death might then intensify the difference between what happened for you and what the group recognizes. This can fit wanting an experience witnessed, while the dream’s companions remain invented participants rather than evidence of anyone’s actual indifference.\n\nThe returned person may look unfamiliar or the sequence may repeat. Recognition can depend on a gesture instead of an exact appearance; a later repetition may change how you spend the interval. These scenes need not demonstrate failed acceptance or require closure. Remembered loss, stories and impossible dream timing can all provide context. The return and second ending can be explored as a specific experience of company and change without needing to justify either one.", "traditional": "The 1644 Artemidorus translation predicts trouble from revival through an analogy about inherited possessions, and death for namesakes or relatives from a second death. Its same whole section also contains fatal-potion or bite and beast-under-bed forecasts. These are attributed period claims, not explanations of mourning, visitation or a coming death.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "The person revives and you start a walk that their second death interrupts", "reflection": "Company resumes through an ordinary activity rather than a grand revelation. Its interruption may make a wish for shared time more visible than a need for final words. The intended destination can remain meaningful even though the dream does not allow you to reach it together." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You wait for a message during the brief return but the person dies again without speaking", "reflection": "The available interval becomes crowded by an expectation that one exchange must explain something. This may picture the pressure of wanting certainty or a complete conversation. The silence can remain unresolved; it does not supply a hidden message or establish what the person would actually say." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A rearranged room makes space for the revival and becomes empty again", "reflection": "The surroundings have another use until the return asks for space within them. This can picture an earlier bond briefly entering changed circumstances. A wish to welcome the person and difficulty reorganizing the room can coexist without requiring either feeling to decide how much the relationship matters." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Only you acknowledge the return and second death while others continue talking", "reflection": "A major sequence happens within your experience beside the group’s ordinary activity. This may bring a wish for recognition or company into focus. The gap concerns the dreamed interaction; it does not establish that real people ignore your loss or prescribe how they should respond." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The revived person has an unfamiliar appearance but a recognizable gesture before dying again", "reflection": "One familiar movement carries recognition through a changed image and another ending. This may picture how a relationship can remain particular even when its remembered form shifts. The appearance is part of the invented scene, rather than information about an unknown age, identity or state of the person." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The revival and second death repeat and you spend the next interval on a simple shared task", "reflection": "A later repetition changes your use of the available time. This may picture valuing an ordinary exchange without making it responsible for a final answer. Repetition does not measure acceptance; the chosen task can matter for what it allows in that interval, even though the sequence remains impossible." } ], "prompts": [ "What did the return make possible before the second ending?", "How had the surroundings or other people’s responses changed between the two deaths?", "Which gesture, activity or unsaid words made this particular sequence meaningful to you?" ], "related": [ "deceased-loved-one", "death", "death-of-a-friend", "own-funeral" ], "sources": [ { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display.", "recordIds": [ "artemidorus-115" ], "scope": "artemidorus-115: The complete encoded section115 separately discusses the dead reviving and the dead dying again. It interprets revival as trouble/hurt through imagined return to possessions inherited by others, then predicts death for namesakes/near kindred from a second death. Its final potion or mortal-bite and beast-under-bed clauses add imminent-death predictions. These ancillary clauses remain part of the single original account, not extra modern scene evidence. Exact supplied passage: Of the dead reviving and dying again. — artemidorus-115 (Book 2, encoded section 115). Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence of a future event, health condition, another person’s state or a universal dream meaning." } ], "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Possibility reopened and interrupted", "reflection": "The return can allow an ordinary activity or exchange before the second ending changes what is available." }, { "title": "An earlier relationship in changed surroundings", "reflection": "Making room for a return may place remembered company beside routines that now have another use." }, { "title": "A private sequence and its recognition", "reflection": "Who acknowledges the two changes can matter separately from the return itself or the person’s appearance." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "artemidorus-115", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of the dead reviving and dying again.", "text": "THe dead reviving, are troubles and hurt, for we must thinke, as if the thing were indeed, what trouble there would be if the dead should revive, which would re-enter into the fruition of theyr goods, and that would be anger and great losse to those which enjoyed them after theyr death: the dead dying again, signifyeth the death of those which beare theyr name, being theyr near kindred and affinitie, if they seeme to dye twice. A potion or mortall bit signifyeth the same that death. In like sort every beast that one shall finde under the bed: which things signifie to die shortly.", "locator": "Book 2, encoded section 115", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "2", "displayText": "THe dead reviving, are troubles and hurt, for we must thinke, as if the thing were indeed, what trouble there would be if the dead should revive, which would re-enter into the fruition of theyr goods, and that would be anger and great losse to those which enjoyed them after theyr death: the dead dying again, signifyeth the death of those which beare theyr name, being theyr near kindred and affinitie, if they seeme to dye twice. A potion or mortall bit signifyeth the same that death. In like sort every beast that one shall finde under the bed: which things signifie to die shortly." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "death", "title": "Death", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "aliases": [ "death", "of stripes" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "summary": "Death can explore the fact of an ending, an absence within ordinary life, or what remains unanswered after others treat something as settled.", "tagline": "An ending can be present before its meaning feels settled.", "psychological": "Death in a dream can bring the fact of an ending into an ordinary scene. You might receive news, notice an absence or hear people speak as though a matter is already settled. Sadness, surprise, uncertainty and familiar company can each shape the experience. The dream is not evidence that anyone will die, and it does not require death to stand for a positive transformation.\n\nHearing that an unfamiliar person has died can make something consequential without supplying a personal history. The scene may center how news is received or what remains unknown. A recent story, conversation or actual loss can offer direct context. It is also possible for the dream to give importance to an invented event without encoding a hidden warning.\n\nA familiar place with one seat left empty can make absence part of a continuing routine. The meal or activity goes on while its arrangement has changed. This may resemble noticing what somebody’s presence contributed or finding room for a loss alongside ordinary life. Continuing the activity need not mean forgetting, and preserving a place need not mean refusing change.\n\nWhen other people treat a death as settled while you still have questions, finality and understanding come apart. You may want an account of what happened, a chance to speak or simply more time with an unresolved feeling. The dreamed certainty cannot answer a real unanswered question. A person declared dead who continues an ordinary conversation creates a different contradiction: the relationship in the scene does not follow the label it has received.\n\nDeath associated with the ending of a role or task may offer a metaphor if that connection fits your experience. A completed responsibility can feel consequential without every loss being symbolic or welcome. Choosing company while the fact of death remains present can instead concern how an experience is shared. These possibilities leave room for actual bereavement, memories, imagined stories and less direct comparisons. The event, your response and what continues around it give the dream particular terms; no single rule can decide which explanation belongs to you.", "traditional": "The four supplied Death accounts disagree. Fontaine and Noe attach wedding or favorable outcomes to some death scenes, while Miller begins with adverse forecasts and adds metaphysical claims about thought images, morality and spirit. The complete Artemidorus section varies predictions by circumstances, social role and means of death. Its repeated Of Stripes body heading is identified as Death by the source index. These are attributed period accounts, not evidence of a coming death, marriage, illness or moral condition.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "An ending without a complete explanation", "reflection": "Finality and understanding can arrive on different terms." }, { "title": "Absence within continuing life", "reflection": "A changed arrangement can make room for loss without deciding what remembrance must look like." }, { "title": "Company around an unsettled fact", "reflection": "An encounter can matter through how the experience is shared rather than through an answer it supplies." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You receive news that an unfamiliar person has died", "reflection": "The event feels consequential without a history you recognize. This may picture receiving information before understanding its place in your life. A recent story can supply direct context, and the invented news need not identify a hidden person or predict an actual loss." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "An ordinary meal continues with one familiar seat left empty", "reflection": "An absence becomes visible within a routine that still has to proceed. This can picture noticing what a person or earlier arrangement contributed. Continuing need not mean forgetting, and leaving room need not require every aspect of daily life to remain unchanged." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Everyone treats the death as settled while you still have questions", "reflection": "The shared account reaches an ending before your own understanding does. This may resemble wanting explanation, time or a chance to speak. The dream cannot resolve a real unknown event; the particular question and the response available within the scene give it context." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Someone described as dead continues an ordinary conversation with you", "reflection": "The label and encounter do not follow the same story. This can picture a connection remaining vivid despite an account of finality, or combine remembered company with recent imagery. The conversation does not prove contact with the dead or reveal the person’s actual state." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The word death marks the end of a role rather than a person’s body", "reflection": "The dream makes a completed responsibility unusually consequential. This may offer a comparison with a change in participation if that connection fits. It does not require actual bereavement to become a metaphor, or declare that every ending is beneficial and should be welcomed." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You choose someone’s company while the fact of death remains present", "reflection": "An answer does not arrive, but the experience becomes shared. This can picture wanting presence without a demand for explanation or closure. The companion’s role belongs to the imagined scene; it does not decide who should support you or how grief ought to proceed." } ], "prompts": [ "What was ending, absent or treated as settled within the scene?", "Which question or continuing connection remained important?", "How did ordinary activity or another person’s presence change the experience?" ], "related": [ "dying", "deceased-loved-one", "mourning", "funeral", "corpse" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0602" ], "scope": "miller-0602: Death or news of a person being dead receives adverse forecasts. The full account adds aura/thought-image, moral, spirit/soul and beginning/ending assertions, and cross-references Corpse. These are Miller’s period metaphysical claims, not verified psychology, morality or health. Exact supplied passages: miller-0602 — Death (Heading 602; source lines 7236–7275). Attributed historical comparison only; no forecast validates the original reflection or establishes actual health, relationships, beliefs or circumstances." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0184" ], "scope": "fontaine-0184: Seeing death receives happiness, long-life and wedding forecasts; another person dead receives a news forecast. Exact supplied passages: fontaine-0184 — Death (Heading 184; source line 1723). Attributed historical comparison only; no forecast validates the original reflection or establishes actual health, relationships, beliefs or circumstances." }, { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display.", "recordIds": [ "artemidorus-109" ], "scope": "artemidorus-109: The entire encoded section 109 concerns death, despite the repeated Of Stripes body heading. It assigns outcomes by marriage, travel, parenthood, creative work, fear, inheritance, lawsuits, illness, being buried alive, means of death and social role. Its gendered and role-specific marriage, liberty, wealth, health and calamity forecasts remain attributed period claims; the source index identifies the section as Of Death, page 101, despite its repeated body heading. Exact supplied passages: artemidorus-109 — Of Stripes. (Book 2, encoded section 109). Attributed historical comparison only; no forecast validates the original reflection or establishes actual health, relationships, beliefs or circumstances." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0136" ], "scope": "noe-0136: Death, oneself dead and another person dead receive wedding/success versus unkind-friend forecasts. Exact supplied passages: noe-0136 — Death (Dream section, heading 138; source lines 617–621). Attributed historical comparison only; no forecast validates the original reflection or establishes actual health, relationships, beliefs or circumstances." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s delegation of editorial decisions. 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Disappointments always follow dreams of this nature.\n\nTo hear of any friend or relative being dead, you will soon have bad news\nfrom some of them.\n\nDreams relating to death or dying, unless they are due\nto spiritual causes, are misleading and very confusing to\nthe novice in dream lore when he attempts to interpret them.\nA man who thinks intensely fills his aura with thought or\nsubjective images active with the passions that gave them birth;\nby thinking and acting on other lines, he may supplant these\nimages with others possessed of a different form and nature.\nIn his dreams he may see these images dying, dead or\ntheir burial, and mistake them for friends or enemies.\nIn this way he may, while asleep, see himself or a relative die,\nwhen in reality he has been warned that some good thought\nor deed is to be supplanted by an evil one. To illustrate:\nIf it is a dear friend or relative whom he sees in the agony\nof death, he is warned against immoral or other improper thought\nand action, but if it is an enemy or some repulsive object\ndismantled in death, he may overcome his evil ways and thus give\nhimself or friends cause for joy. Often the end or beginning\nof suspense or trials are foretold by dreams of this nature.\nThey also frequently occur when the dreamer is controlled by imaginary\nstates of evil or good. A man in that state is not himself,\nbut is what the dominating influences make him. He may be warned\nof approaching conditions or his extrication from the same.\nIn our dreams we are closer to our real self than in waking life.\nThe hideous or pleasing incidents seen and heard about us in our\ndreams are all of our own making, they reflect the true state\nof our soul and body, and we cannot flee from them unless we drive\nthem out of our being by the use of good thoughts and deeds,\nby the power of the spirit within us.\n\n[53] See Corpse.", "locator": "Heading 602; source lines 7236–7275", "lineStart": 7236, "lineEnd": 7275, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing any of your people dead, warns you of coming dissolution\nor sorrow. Disappointments always follow dreams of this nature.\n\nTo hear of any friend or relative being dead, you will soon have bad news\nfrom some of them.\n\nDreams relating to death or dying, unless they are due\nto spiritual causes, are misleading and very confusing to\nthe novice in dream lore when he attempts to interpret them.\nA man who thinks intensely fills his aura with thought or\nsubjective images active with the passions that gave them birth;\nby thinking and acting on other lines, he may supplant these\nimages with others possessed of a different form and nature.\nIn his dreams he may see these images dying, dead or\ntheir burial, and mistake them for friends or enemies.\nIn this way he may, while asleep, see himself or a relative die,\nwhen in reality he has been warned that some good thought\nor deed is to be supplanted by an evil one. To illustrate:\nIf it is a dear friend or relative whom he sees in the agony\nof death, he is warned against immoral or other improper thought\nand action, but if it is an enemy or some repulsive object\ndismantled in death, he may overcome his evil ways and thus give\nhimself or friends cause for joy. Often the end or beginning\nof suspense or trials are foretold by dreams of this nature.\nThey also frequently occur when the dreamer is controlled by imaginary\nstates of evil or good. A man in that state is not himself,\nbut is what the dominating influences make him. He may be warned\nof approaching conditions or his extrication from the same.\nIn our dreams we are closer to our real self than in waking life.\nThe hideous or pleasing incidents seen and heard about us in our\ndreams are all of our own making, they reflect the true state\nof our soul and body, and we cannot flee from them unless we drive\nthem out of our being by the use of good thoughts and deeds,\nby the power of the spirit within us. See Corpse." }, { "id": "fontaine-0184", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Death", "text": "To dream you see death, denotes happiness and long life; that\nyou will be either speedily married yourself, or assist at a wedding.\nTo dream you see another person dead, denotes hasty news from friends.\n61, 4.", "locator": "Heading 184; source line 1723", "lineStart": 1723, "lineEnd": 1728, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see death, denotes happiness and long life; that\nyou will be either speedily married yourself, or assist at a wedding.\nTo dream you see another person dead, denotes hasty news from friends." }, { "id": "artemidorus-109", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of Stripes.", "text": "TO dreame to be dead, is wedding to him which is to marry, for death and mariage represent one another. And therefore for the sicke to dreame they are maried, or they celebrate theyr Weddings, is a signe of death. For him which hath a wife, to die signifies separation from her, or his companions, friends, or parents, for the dead keepe not company with the living, nor the contrary. To him which is at home, it signifies he shall go abroad, it is a good dream for fathers, for poets, Orators, and philosophers, for the first shall have children which shall live, the others shall compose workes worthy of memory: Moreover, I have made experience that this is a good dreame for those which are in heavinesse or feare: for the dead have no more feare and heavinesse. Also to those which are in suit for inheritance, and which would buy lands for the dead are Lords of the earth. In other Law-suits, this dreame is not good, but for sick it heales them, for the dead are sicke no more: it is all one to dreame that you are dead, or that you are caried and buried for dead: to dream to be buried quicke is not good: for often it signifyes prison and captivity. Be it good or evill that death signifyes, if one dreams that he is killed by an other mans hands, that good or evill shall come by his means: if one dreams he kils himselfe, the dreamer shall have that good or evill which death signifyeth by himselfe. Death by sentence of Justice, makes our goods or evils greater: to be hanged or strangled by another, or by himself, is trouble and anguish, it is also change of place, and house: to be burned quick signifyes as much as to be scorched with Lightning, whereof we have spoken above, but properly to the sick, it is a signe of health: to yong folks, calamities, concupiscence, and heats of youth: to be crucified, is good to those which would go to sea, and to the poore: but to the rich the contrary: to the unmarried it is weddings, to servants liberty, it is also change of place: to be crucified in the town, is to have such an estate and office, as the place requires where one dreams he is: to have combat with beasts, is good to the poore, and signifyeth goods, whereby they may nourish themselves, and entertaine a traine: to the rich it is anger, and injuries. To many this hath béene a token of sicknesse: it is liberty to servants, if they dream they are killed by the beasts.", "locator": "Book 2, encoded section 109", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "2", "displayHeading": "Death", "editorialNote": "The body heading repeats Of Stripes.; the source index identifies this section as Of Death, page 101.", "displayText": "To dreame to be dead, is wedding to him which is to marry, for death and mariage represent one another. And therefore for the sicke to dreame they are maried, or they celebrate theyr Weddings, is a signe of death. For him which hath a wife, to die signifies separation from her, or his companions, friends, or parents, for the dead keepe not company with the living, nor the contrary. To him which is at home, it signifies he shall go abroad, it is a good dream for fathers, for poets, Orators, and philosophers, for the first shall have children which shall live, the others shall compose workes worthy of memory: Moreover, I have made experience that this is a good dreame for those which are in heavinesse or feare: for the dead have no more feare and heavinesse. Also to those which are in suit for inheritance, and which would buy lands for the dead are Lords of the earth. In other Law-suits, this dreame is not good, but for sick it heales them, for the dead are sicke no more: it is all one to dreame that you are dead, or that you are caried and buried for dead: to dream to be buried quicke is not good: for often it signifyes prison and captivity. Be it good or evill that death signifyes, if one dreams that he is killed by an other mans hands, that good or evill shall come by his means: if one dreams he kils himselfe, the dreamer shall have that good or evill which death signifyeth by himselfe. Death by sentence of Justice, makes our goods or evils greater: to be hanged or strangled by another, or by himself, is trouble and anguish, it is also change of place, and house: to be burned quick signifyes as much as to be scorched with Lightning, whereof we have spoken above, but properly to the sick, it is a signe of health: to yong folks, calamities, concupiscence, and heats of youth: to be crucified, is good to those which would go to sea, and to the poore: but to the rich the contrary: to the unmarried it is weddings, to servants liberty, it is also change of place: to be crucified in the town, is to have such an estate and office, as the place requires where one dreams he is: to have combat with beasts, is good to the poore, and signifyeth goods, whereby they may nourish themselves, and entertaine a traine: to the rich it is anger, and injuries. To many this hath béene a token of sicknesse: it is liberty to servants, if they dream they are killed by the beasts." }, { "id": "noe-0136", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Death", "text": "To dream of death, denotes that you will either\nbe speedily married yourself, or else assist at a wedding. To dream that\nyou are dead, also denotes a speedy marriage, and that you will be\nsuccessful in your undertakings. To dream you see another person dead,\ndenotes unkind usage from your friends.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 138; source lines 617–621", "lineStart": 617, "lineEnd": 621, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of death, denotes that you will either\nbe speedily married yourself, or else assist at a wedding. To dream that\nyou are dead, also denotes a speedy marriage, and that you will be\nsuccessful in your undertakings. 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The dream does not predict a death or establish what is happening to the friendship.\n\nAn announcement can turn an ordinary occasion into something difficult to take in. News arriving during a pleasant meal might place enjoyment beside sudden interruption. If accounts conflict, the scene may concern not having enough information to understand a change. A waking comparison could be hearing that a familiar group or routine has ended before anybody explains what happens next.\n\nThe absence may become apparent through a small task. A message has no recipient, a game needs another player or a familiar joke cannot reach the person who would understand it. Such details can picture the specific kind of company you value. They need not mean you have neglected the friend or must urgently repair something.\n\nBeing asked to describe the friend can create another tension. One neat story may feel too small for the person you remember. Choosing an ordinary, imperfect recollection can value the friendship’s texture rather than turning it into a public tribute. This might resemble wanting a relationship or shared history understood in its own terms.\n\nA remembered voice or object can remain present while the dream says the person is gone. Hearing an old recording, for example, can bring company and absence into the same moment. The image may fit the difference between having a memory and having the person available now. Familiar materials can also simply become part of the invented scene.\n\nYour response may change across the dream and waking. Practical activity, quietness or an unexpected lack of feeling can coexist with sadness afterward. That contrast does not measure affection. If the friend has actually died, the scene may connect directly with your experience of loss; it does not need a further symbolic benefit. What remains useful is the particular interaction, interruption or form of company the dream brought into view.", "traditional": "Everybody’s Book of Luck gives this heading only the forecast “Arrival of good news.” That brief period prediction does not explain the dreamed loss, describe the friend or support reassurance about a real event. The reflections here concern the friendship and the scene of absence.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "The news arrives in the middle of a pleasant meal", "reflection": "An enjoyable occasion is interrupted before you have a way to respond. This may picture how abruptly an important change can enter an otherwise ordinary day. The contrast between the meal and the announcement can matter more than finding a hidden cause for the imagined death." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A familiar joke has no one to receive it", "reflection": "You reach the point where your friend would normally understand or answer, and the exchange stops. This can bring one specific form of company into focus. A friendship’s value may become visible through the small things you share, rather than through an instruction to settle every unfinished conversation." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Different people give conflicting accounts of what happened", "reflection": "The dream supplies an announcement without a dependable sequence of events. This may resemble trying to respond to a change while the information remains incomplete. Confusion can be the central experience; an invented explanation need not become more certain simply because other dreamed people repeat it." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You choose an ordinary memory when asked to describe the friend", "reflection": "A small, imperfect story feels more faithful than a polished tribute. This can picture wanting a particular relationship recognized through its lived details. Choosing that memory may let affection include disagreement, humor or everyday company instead of requiring one ideal account of who the friend was." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "An old recording plays while the room continues its ordinary activity", "reflection": "The familiar voice is available through a recording while the dream maintains the person’s absence. This may place memory beside the present world rather than turn one into the other. The sound can carry personal significance without supplying a message or evidence about the friend’s current state." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You handle practical tasks calmly and feel sadness only after waking", "reflection": "The dreamed response differs from the feeling that arrives later. This may make room for several responses to the same imagined loss without ranking them by sincerity. Calm activity does not establish indifference; the waking sadness can also be considered without making it the dream’s only possible meaning." } ], "prompts": [ "Which particular part of this friendship became visible through the imagined absence?", "How did the news, its uncertainty or the surrounding activity shape your response?", "What did the remembered story or object allow you to hold about the person?" ], "related": [ "friend", "funeral", "mourning", "deceased-loved-one" ], "sources": [ { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0050" ], "scope": "luck-0050 — Death of a Friend (Dream section, heading 50; source lines 3633–3635): The complete Death of a Friend account gives only an arrival-of-good-news forecast. Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence validating the original reflection, a diagnosis, another person’s state or a future event." } ], "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "The particular company you miss", "reflection": "A missing voice, joke or shared task can make one quality of a friendship visible without deciding the relationship’s future." }, { "title": "Receiving and understanding news", "reflection": "An interruption or conflicting account may place the difficulty of taking in a change before any clear response to it." }, { "title": "A bond larger than one account", "reflection": "A tribute, recording or unfamiliar feeling can show the difference between a person, a remembered account and your present response." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15 under the site owner’s delegation. Historical claims, where supplied, remain attributed period writing. No human or clinical review is claimed.", "kind": "editorial", "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "Codex (AI-assisted editorial review)", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "a-stranger", "a-train-going-in-the-wrong-direction", "being-trapped", "being-unable-to-move", "children", "church", "current-romantic-partner", "death-of-a-friend", "elevator", "father", "forest", "hair-falling-out", "insects", "key", "locked-out", "mother", "nakedness", "phone-not-working", "rainbow", "running-but-going-nowhere", "school", "smoke", "snake-bite", "superpowers", "the-self", "the-shadow", "web" ] }, "decisionReason": "The reading develops the specific company made visible through imagined absence, including a joke, conflicting news, an imperfect tribute and delayed feeling. It neither predicts death nor ranks grief or affection. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0603", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Debt", "text": "Debt is rather a bad dream, foretelling worries in business and love,\nand struggles for a competency; but if you have plenty to meet all\nyour obligations, your affairs will assume a favorable turn.", "locator": "Heading 603; source lines 7275–7281", "lineStart": 7275, "lineEnd": 7281, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Debt is rather a bad dream, foretelling worries in business and love,\nand struggles for a competency; but if you have plenty to meet all\nyour obligations, your affairs will assume a favorable turn." }, { "id": "fontaine-0185", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Debt", "text": "To dream of paying a debt with money, foretells that you will\nsoon receive some. If you imagine that you owe a debt, and are worrying\nto get the money to pay, it is a sign of sickness. 18, 64.", "locator": "Heading 185; source line 1728", "lineStart": 1728, "lineEnd": 1732, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of paying a debt with money, foretells that you will\nsoon receive some. If you imagine that you owe a debt, and are worrying\nto get the money to pay, it is a sign of sickness." }, { "id": "cielo-0131", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Debts", "text": "To dream of owing money means business safety.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 131; source lines 4169–4171", "lineStart": 4169, "lineEnd": 4171, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of owing money means business safety." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "debt-the-creditor-and-the-hirer", "title": "Debt, the Creditor, and the hirer", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Artemidorus wrote: “THe debt and the creditor represent the life: wherefore to the sick, the creditor urging and constraining is great danger, and…”", "aliases": [ "debt, the creditor, and the hirer", "of debt, the creditor, and the hirer", "debt", "creditor", "hirer" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about debt, the creditor, and the hirer stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. 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For we owe a life to nature, our universall mother, which she makes us restore and [illegible passage] ay: the creditor dying, is end of heavinesse: the Tennant or So journer signifieth as the creditor: sometimes the creditor represents the daughter which demands her dowry to marry." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "deceased-loved-one", "title": "Deceased loved one", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "Being together in an imagined encounter", "summary": "An encounter with a remembered deceased person may hold ordinary company, changed circumstances and mixed feelings without requiring a message or closure.", "aliases": [ "deceased", "dead relative", "late mother", "late father", "a deceased loved one", "deceased loved one" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "A deceased loved one may appear in a dream through an ordinary activity, a recognizable voice or a moment of being together. The person can seem as you remember them or differ in age, manner or surroundings. Begin with the encounter rather than deciding how it happened. This page concerns someone you know to have died, while a generic apparition or a funeral has a different action and setting.\n\nAwareness of the death may be present or absent inside the dream. You might enjoy an ordinary meal without questioning their return, remember the loss halfway through or know from the beginning that the meeting will be brief. These differences can change what the encounter feels like on waking. Joy, longing, anger, numbness and confusion need not fit a single account of how your relationship or loss should feel.\n\nSmall familiar actions can be especially particular. Folding something together, hearing an old expression or watching the person occupy their usual chair may bring remembered company into an invented scene. An anniversary, photograph, shared task or recent conversation can provide direct context. The dream is not a reliable record of what happened during their life, even when a detail feels recognizable.\n\nIf a conversation occurs, keep the remembered wording and its uncertainty. An answer may feel important, but it does not establish what the person would actually say, confirm forgiveness or provide factual instructions from them. A disagreement can be explored as part of your experience without settling the deceased person's intentions. Personal or spiritual significance can remain yours without making the encounter evidence of communication.\n\nThe ending may be ordinary or unresolved. The person leaves to do something, the scene changes or you wake before replying. You do not have to call this closure, find comfort or interpret every unfinished exchange as a hidden problem. Meeting them alongside people they never knew may place an earlier relationship within your present life. Describe what the combination allows you to feel or imagine. The encounter can be preserved as meaningful experience without requiring an explanation of its origin or a conclusion about the relationship.", "traditional": "No exact historical record is attached to this entry. Nearby Dead, Ghost and Funeral accounts have their own scopes and cannot establish what happened in this personal encounter. The cited maze-learning experiment concerns dream reports after a laboratory task, not bereavement, visitation, communication or a prescribed process of mourning. The reflections here are original possibilities; personal spiritual significance does not become a research finding.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "You share a familiar household task without discussing the death", "reflection": "Ordinary company becomes the center of the encounter. Notice the gesture, sound or division of work that makes it personally recognizable. The scene can hold significance without supplying information about the deceased person's present state or requiring a hidden message in the task." }, { "title": "You remember the death halfway through an otherwise ordinary visit", "reflection": "Awareness changes while the person remains in the scene. This may make pleasure and sadness appear together rather than cancel one another. Record what changes in your response; the shift does not measure how well you have accepted the loss or prescribe a feeling." }, { "title": "The person appears at an age you never knew them", "reflection": "Familiar identity and unfamiliar appearance coexist. This may combine photographs, stories and invention within the meeting. The dreamed age does not reveal an unknown historical event; notice how you recognize them and what the different appearance lets you experience in the scene." }, { "title": "You disagree about something and wake before replying", "reflection": "The exchange remains unfinished without establishing anyone's actual views. You might describe what you wanted to say and how the disagreement felt. There is no requirement to interpret it as a demand for forgiveness, evidence of guilt or proof that the relationship lacks resolution." }, { "title": "You introduce them to someone from your present life", "reflection": "A relationship from an earlier time enters circumstances they never experienced. This may picture wanting to share a part of your life or simply combine familiar people in one scene. Their dreamed response remains separate from what the real person would have thought." }, { "title": "You know the meeting is brief and choose to sit together quietly", "reflection": "Limited time does not require a final conversation. Company may feel sufficient, frustrating or both. Notice what the quiet makes possible without deciding that it proves approval, communication or closure; the encounter's significance can remain personal and open." } ], "prompts": [ "What detail made the person recognizable in the dream?", "How did awareness of their death enter or change the encounter?", "What would you like to preserve about being together without settling its meaning?" ], "related": [ "ghost", "funeral", "mourning", "childhood-home", "sorting-belongings-after-a-loss" ], "sources": [ { "id": "wamsley-2010", "title": "Dreaming of a learning task is associated with enhanced sleep-dependent memory consolidation", "author": "Erin J. 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Historical accounts remain attributed period claims; the cited memory study does not validate these interpretations.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Ordinary forms of company", "reflection": "Familiar gestures and shared tasks may carry the encounter's particular significance without a spoken message." }, { "title": "Awareness inside the dream", "reflection": "Knowing, forgetting or remembering the death can change the same meeting's emotional shape." }, { "title": "An exchange without a factual verdict", "reflection": "Dreamed words can be important to you while leaving the person's actual intentions and beliefs unknown." } ], "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "DreamFolia AI-assisted editorial review", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "water", "house", "dog", "cat", "being-pregnant", "ex-partner", "deceased-loved-one", "fire", "spider", "being-lost", "ocean", "flood", "wedding", "baby", "train", "car", "wolf" ] }, "decisionReason": "Six encounters distinguish ordinary company, awareness of loss, unfamiliar age, disagreement, present relationships and quiet limited time. The reading imposes no closure, grief stage, forgiveness or visitation claim. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0604", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "December", "text": "To dream of December, foretells accumulation of wealth, but loss\nof friendship. Strangers will occupy the position in the affections\nof some friend which was formerly held by you.", "locator": "Heading 604; source lines 7281–7287", "lineStart": 7281, "lineEnd": 7287, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of December, foretells accumulation of wealth, but loss\nof friendship. Strangers will occupy the position in the affections\nof some friend which was formerly held by you." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "deck", "title": "Deck", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of being on a ship and that a storm is raging, great disasters and unfortunate alliances will overtake you.”", "aliases": [ "deck" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about deck stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "boat" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0605", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Deck", "text": "To dream of being on a ship and that a storm is raging,\ngreat disasters and unfortunate alliances will overtake you;\nbut if the sea is calm and the light distinct, your way is clear\nto success. For lovers, this dream augurs happiness.\n\n[54] See Boat.", "locator": "Heading 605; source lines 7287–7296", "lineStart": 7287, "lineEnd": 7296, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being on a ship and that a storm is raging,\ngreat disasters and unfortunate alliances will overtake you;\nbut if the sea is calm and the light distinct, your way is clear\nto success. For lovers, this dream augurs happiness. See Boat." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "boat" ] }, { "slug": "decorate", "title": "Decorate", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of decorating a place with bright-hued flowers for some festive occasion, is significant of favorable turns in business, and, to…”", "aliases": [ "decorate" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about decorate stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0606", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Decorate", "text": "To dream of decorating a place with bright-hued flowers\nfor some festive occasion, is significant of favorable turns\nin business, and, to the young, of continued rounds of social\npleasures and fruitful study.\n\nTo see the graves or caskets of the dead decorated with white flowers,\nis unfavorable to pleasure and worldly pursuits.\n\nTo be decorating, or see others decorate for some heroic action,\nforetells that you will be worthy, but that few will recognize your ability.", "locator": "Heading 606; source lines 7296–7309", "lineStart": 7296, "lineEnd": 7309, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of decorating a place with bright-hued flowers\nfor some festive occasion, is significant of favorable turns\nin business, and, to the young, of continued rounds of social\npleasures and fruitful study.\n\nTo see the graves or caskets of the dead decorated with white flowers,\nis unfavorable to pleasure and worldly pursuits.\n\nTo be decorating, or see others decorate for some heroic action,\nforetells that you will be worthy, but that few will recognize your ability." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "deed", "title": "Deed", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing or signing deeds, portends a law suit, to gain which you should be careful in selecting…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "deed", "deeds" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about deed stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "mortgage" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0607", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Deed", "text": "To dream of seeing or signing deeds, portends a law suit,\nto gain which you should be careful in selecting your counsel,\nas you are likely to be the loser. To dream of signing any kind\nof a paper, is a bad omen for the dreamer.\n\n\n[55] See Mortgage.", "locator": "Heading 607; source lines 7309–7319", "lineStart": 7309, "lineEnd": 7319, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing or signing deeds, portends a law suit,\nto gain which you should be careful in selecting your counsel,\nas you are likely to be the loser. To dream of signing any kind\nof a paper, is a bad omen for the dreamer. See Mortgage." }, { "id": "fontaine-0186", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Deeds", "text": "To sign your name to deeds, is a bad sign; to a man, loss in\nbusiness; to a woman, the inconstancy of her lover. 7, 8.", "locator": "Heading 186; source line 1732", "lineStart": 1732, "lineEnd": 1735, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To sign your name to deeds, is a bad sign; to a man, loss in\nbusiness; to a woman, the inconstancy of her lover.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Deeds” is shown on the Deed page: both legal deeds" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "mortgage" ] }, { "slug": "deer", "title": "Deer", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "summary": "A deer can explore a quiet encounter, the terms of approach, and a route that changes when several needs share the same space.", "tagline": "Approach does not have to become pursuit.", "aliases": [ "deer" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A deer waiting on the path you want to follow can picture a quiet encounter that changes your pace without actively preventing your journey. A conversation requiring patience, an unfamiliar situation, or a small responsibility noticed during another task may offer parallels. Waiting can feel attentive when you choose it. If you feel unable to move until the animal does, the same stillness may make your own direction seem dependent on another presence.\n\nApproaching and seeing the deer retreat can make contact different from effort. Wanting to be closer does not give you control over the distance another participant keeps. A friendship developing slowly or a task whose conditions are not yet ready may fit. Remaining available can create another relationship from continuing pursuit until the encounter is lost. The dream does not reveal someone’s actual feelings; it can give your wish for contact a visible sequence.\n\nSeveral deer crossing can bring coordination into an otherwise individual route. You may need to let a group’s movement pass before continuing your own. A shared workplace or household can require that kind of timing without making either journey less important. Frustration may concern uncertainty about when your turn begins. Pleasure in watching can instead make the pause valuable in its own right, rather than merely an obstacle to progress.\n\nAntlers caught on a barrier can picture a visible feature becoming difficult to accommodate. A valued skill, a public role, or a way you present yourself may not fit the current setting comfortably. Changing the opening differs from trying to erase the feature that catches. Helping a young deer find a route makes care practical: a need can be met through suitable conditions without demanding permanent dependence or assigning every vulnerable image a prediction of new responsibility.\n\nA park boundary can make a familiar place and an unfamiliar presence coexist. The scene may concern how much access you want to allow while preserving room for both. A walk, wildlife memory, story, or photograph may supply the animal directly. These original comparisons depend on approach, waiting, and available space; they do not make a deer a fixed code for innocence, a relationship outcome, or future news.", "traditional": "The four attached accounts differ. Miller links deer with friendship and domestic quiet but gives adverse hunting forecasts; Fontaine supplies broad news or love predictions. Noe predicts war, famine, or lovers’ disputes. Craig reports dispute lore and attributes an erotic reading to Jung. These are period claims, not a shared reliable code; Craig’s attribution is not a separate Jung source.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A quiet change of pace", "reflection": "An encounter can interrupt a route without needing to be hostile or unwelcome." }, { "title": "Contact without control", "reflection": "Being available creates a different relationship from pursuing closeness until it disappears." }, { "title": "Conditions for passage", "reflection": "A barrier or shared route can require practical accommodation rather than a judgment about the participant." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "A deer waits on the path you need", "reflection": "A quiet presence changes your pace before it changes the destination. This may picture patience required by an encounter within another task. Chosen waiting differs from feeling that your own movement must remain dependent on when the animal decides to leave." }, { "title": "Several deer cross before you continue", "reflection": "Another group’s movement temporarily shares your route. This can picture coordination within a household or workplace. Allowing a turn may feel reasonable or frustrating depending on whether your own passage is also recognized as part of the arrangement." }, { "title": "Antlers catch on a barrier", "reflection": "A recognizable feature does not fit the current opening. This may picture a valued role or capacity encountering unsuitable conditions. Widening the passage creates another response from assuming that the feature itself must be reduced before movement becomes possible." }, { "title": "A quiet approach becomes a retreat", "reflection": "The distance increases despite your wish for contact. This can picture limits on how quickly a connection develops. Waiting willingly differs from pursuing until the encounter disappears; neither response reveals what a real person thinks or intends." }, { "title": "A young deer needs a route out", "reflection": "The need concerns access to workable conditions. This may picture support that enables someone or something to continue rather than remain dependent on you. Relief at finding a route can matter more than being able to keep the animal close." }, { "title": "A deer stands just inside a park boundary", "reflection": "A familiar place admits an unfamiliar presence without fully removing its limits. This can picture deciding what belongs within an established routine. Welcome and caution can coexist when the boundary makes room for both contact and separate space." } ], "prompts": [ "What does a chosen pause allow that pursuit would prevent?", "Where do several legitimate needs share one route?", "Which condition needs adjustment so that a valued feature can fit?" ], "related": [ "stag", "hart", "fawn", "forest" ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0608" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context for this topic only. Miller forecasts friendship and domestic quiet from deer, enemies after killing, and failure after hunting. Does not validate the original psychological reflections." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0187" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context for this topic only. Fontaine supplies broad unexpected-news or love forecasts; no original conditional psychological reading. Does not validate the original psychological reflections." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0128" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context for this topic only. Noe forecasts war/famine from deer in a park and lovers’ disputes. Does not validate the original psychological reflections." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L9740" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context for this topic only. Craig attributes lovers’ disputes to Gypsy lore and an erotic reading to Jung; this is Craig’s report, not a separately inspected Jung source. Does not validate the original psychological reflections." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0608", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Deer", "text": "This is a favorable dream, denoting pure and deep friendships\nfor the young and a quiet and even life for the married.\n\nTo kill a deer, denotes that you will be hounded by enemies.\nFor farmers, or business people, to dream of hunting deer,\ndenotes failure in their respective pursuits.", "locator": "Heading 608; source lines 7319–7328", "lineStart": 7319, "lineEnd": 7328, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "This is a favorable dream, denoting pure and deep friendships\nfor the young and a quiet and even life for the married.\n\nTo kill a deer, denotes that you will be hounded by enemies.\nFor farmers, or business people, to dream of hunting deer,\ndenotes failure in their respective pursuits." }, { "id": "fontaine-0187", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Deer", "text": "If you see these animals in your dream, it shows that you will\nhear some unexpected news—no matter what—perhaps a marriage, a death,\nan accident, or a legacy has been left to you; or that some one is in\nlove with you. 12.", "locator": "Heading 187; source line 1735", "lineStart": 1735, "lineEnd": 1740, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you see these animals in your dream, it shows that you will\nhear some unexpected news—no matter what—perhaps a marriage, a death,\nan accident, or a legacy has been left to you; or that some one is in\nlove with you." }, { "id": "noe-0128", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Deer", "text": "To dream you see deer in a park,\ndenotes war and famine; to the lover it foretells some unpleasant dispute\nwith his sweetheart.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 130; source lines 590–592", "lineStart": 590, "lineEnd": 592, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see deer in a park,\ndenotes war and famine; to the lover it foretells some unpleasant dispute\nwith his sweetheart." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9740", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Deer", "heading": "Deer", "text": "Dissensions, disputes and quarrels with one's sweetheart (Gypsy); an erotic dream (Jung).", "lineStart": 9740, "lineEnd": 9742, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 212; NLM OCR lines 9740–9742", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9740, "lineEnd": 9742, "printedPage": 212, "printedPageEnd": 212 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Deer. — Dissensions, disputes and quarrels with one's sweet- \nheart (Gypsy); an erotic dream (Jung). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "sweet- \nheart", "after": "sweetheart", "evidenceLine": 4148 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Deer" }, "displayText": "Dissensions, disputes and quarrels with one's sweetheart (Gypsy); an erotic dream (Jung)." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "defending-a-thesis", "title": "Defending a thesis", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "tagline": "A thesis defense can concentrate years of effort into a conversation about whether your ideas can withstand questions and be understood.", "summary": "A thesis defense can concentrate years of effort into a conversation about whether your ideas can withstand questions and be understood.", "aliases": [ "dissertation defense dream", "thesis examination dream" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "Notice whether the questions were rigorous, hostile, helpful, or outside the scope of your work. A defense differs from simple recall: you may be explaining your reasoning and its limits. The dream can invite reflection on owning an idea without needing every answer. It is not evidence that your work is inadequate or that disagreement means you do not belong in the field.", "traditional": "Historical learning and examination entries do not directly cover a modern research defense. This draft does not turn an examiner into an oracle; authority, evidence, and the quality of the exchange remain separate questions.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "You explain a limitation clearly", "reflection": "Could acknowledging uncertainty strengthen rather than undo your work?" }, { "title": "An examiner asks about a different project", "reflection": "How did you respond when the standard did not match the task?" }, { "title": "A question helps you see a useful next step", "reflection": "What changed when scrutiny became a conversation?" } ], "prompts": [ "What claim were you trying to defend?", "Were you allowed to say what remained unknown?", "What recognition did you want after the discussion?" ], "related": [ "college", "school-or-exam", "learning" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia model-assisted editorial draft. Reflection questions and scenario readings are optional, individually written suggestions, not empirically validated symbol meanings. Source scope is stated with each citation. Historical comparisons identify topics, not inherited interpretations. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "delay", "title": "Delay", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To be delayed in a dream, warns you of the scheming of enemies to prevent your progress.”", "aliases": [ "delay" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about delay stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0609", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Delay", "text": "To be delayed in a dream, warns you of the scheming of enemies\nto prevent your progress.", "locator": "Heading 609; source lines 7328–7333", "lineStart": 7328, "lineEnd": 7333, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To be delayed in a dream, warns you of the scheming of enemies\nto prevent your progress." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "delight", "title": "Delight", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of experiencing delight over any event, signifies a favorable turn in affairs.”", "aliases": [ "delight" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about delight stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0610", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Delight", "text": "To dream of experiencing delight over any event, signifies a favorable turn\nin affairs. For lovers to be delighted with the conduct of their sweethearts,\ndenotes pleasant greetings.\n\nTo feel delight when looking on beautiful landscapes, prognosticates to\nthe dreamer very great success and congenial associations.", "locator": "Heading 610; source lines 7333–7342", "lineStart": 7333, "lineEnd": 7342, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of experiencing delight over any event, signifies a favorable turn\nin affairs. For lovers to be delighted with the conduct of their sweethearts,\ndenotes pleasant greetings.\n\nTo feel delight when looking on beautiful landscapes, prognosticates to\nthe dreamer very great success and congenial associations." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "deluge", "title": "Deluge", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “Overwhelming business loss (Artemidorus); symbolism obvious, financial affairs are usually indicated by storms, rain, etc.”", "aliases": [ "deluge" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about deluge stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L9743", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Deluge", "heading": "Deluge", "text": "Overwhelming business loss (Artemidorus) ; symbolism obvious, financial affairs are usually indicated by storms, rain, etc.", "lineStart": 9743, "lineEnd": 9746, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 212; NLM OCR lines 9743–9746", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9743, "lineEnd": 9746, "printedPage": 212, "printedPageEnd": 212 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Deluge. — Overwhelming business loss (Artemidorus) ; sym- \nbolism obvious, financial affairs are usually indicated by storms, \nrain, etc. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "sym- \nbolism", "after": "symbolism", "evidenceLine": 250 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Deluge" }, "displayText": "Overwhelming business loss (Artemidorus); symbolism obvious, financial affairs are usually indicated by storms, rain, etc." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "demand", "title": "Demand", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that a demand for charity comes in upon you, denotes that you will be placed in embarrassing situations, but by your persistency…”", "aliases": [ "demand" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about demand stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0611", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Demand", "text": "To dream that a demand for charity comes in upon you,\ndenotes that you will be placed in embarrassing situations,\nbut by your persistency you will fully restore your good standing.\nIf the demand is unjust, you will become a leader in your profession.\nFor a lover to command you adversely, implies his, or her, leniency.", "locator": "Heading 611; source lines 7342–7350", "lineStart": 7342, "lineEnd": 7350, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that a demand for charity comes in upon you,\ndenotes that you will be placed in embarrassing situations,\nbut by your persistency you will fully restore your good standing.\nIf the demand is unjust, you will become a leader in your profession.\nFor a lover to command you adversely, implies his, or her, leniency." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "demotion", "title": "Demotion", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "aliases": [ "demotion", "job demotion", "being demoted", "demoted at work" ], "summary": "A demotion changes a role while keeping you inside an organization. Notice what feels lost, relieved, unexplained, or still available.", "tagline": "Remaining part of a group while your duties, status, or recognized place change.", "psychological": "A demotion changes your position while leaving you within the same organization. The dream may remove a title, responsibility, workspace, or permission without ending your membership. This makes the scene different from dismissal: you still have a place, but its meaning has altered. Begin with what is actually taken away and what remains available before treating the whole change as a verdict about you.\n\nLoss of status may make recognition and identity feel closely connected. A smaller nameplate, unfamiliar uniform, or announcement before colleagues can picture concern about how others will now describe your contribution. You might recognize the feeling from reduced involvement in a project or a change in family responsibilities. Notice whether other people behave differently or whether you mainly anticipate their judgement.\n\nChanged duties can also produce relief. Fewer decisions, less exposure, or a return to hands on work may feel welcome even when the title is reduced. That mixture can be useful: the scene may bring a wish for a different balance of responsibility into a form associated with disappointment. Your response need not match what the organization expects you to feel.\n\nThe explanation for the change matters. A specific mistake, an unclear announcement, or a decision applying to everyone places responsibility differently. An unexplained reduction may picture uncertainty about how your effort is evaluated. A chance to discuss the role can make the same change feel more understandable, even when it remains unwanted.\n\nContinuing relationships can show what survives the rearrangement. Colleagues who still seek your knowledge or make room beside them may separate belonging from rank. Being ignored can bring a different concern about whether contribution is visible without formal status. Recent work conversations, organizational changes, or remembered evaluations may supply these details directly. The dream does not predict a professional setback or determine what employment action to take.", "traditional": "These are original reflections on reduced duties or status while remaining in an organization. No verified historical demotion passage is supplied. General dream research does not predict professional setbacks, assess performance, or determine how someone should respond to an actual change in employment.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "The part of your role that feels lost", "reflection": "A changed title or workspace can give recognition a visible form. Consider which loss carries emotional weight: authority, familiar tasks, respect, access, or something else. The scene may show a specific attachment rather than a general statement about personal worth." }, { "title": "Less responsibility and mixed feelings", "reflection": "A reduction can remove both wanted opportunities and burdens. Relief may coexist with disappointment or embarrassment. Notice which activities become easier and which disappear; the combination can help describe the balance you wanted without establishing what change should occur in waking work." }, { "title": "Membership beyond formal position", "reflection": "Remaining in the organization leaves relationships and contributions available to examine. A colleague’s continued interest can picture belonging that outlasts rank, while being overlooked may reveal uncertainty about recognition. The response of the group matters through what it lets you still do or share." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Your nameplate is replaced with a smaller one", "reflection": "A visible change in status can picture concern about how your contribution is represented. The smaller object may feel humiliating, practical, or surprisingly unimportant. Notice whether anyone’s behavior changes with it and what you still know or can do after the replacement." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Your duties are reduced and you feel relieved", "reflection": "Relief can make the burden within an old role visible. Fewer decisions or a return to a familiar task may feel like room to breathe. Record what has become easier alongside anything you miss; the dream can hold both responses without requiring one to cancel the other." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Nobody explains why your role has changed", "reflection": "An unexplained decision may picture uncertainty about the standards applied to your contribution. A group rearrangement without discussion can have a similar emotional shape. Notice whether you seek an explanation, invent one, or receive information later; those responses affect how the uncertainty develops." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A colleague still asks for your expertise", "reflection": "Continued trust can picture a contribution remaining useful after its formal recognition changes. You might connect this with knowledge or care that is not captured by a title. Observe whether sharing it feels satisfying, taken for granted, or complicated by the altered arrangement." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You train the person who takes your former role", "reflection": "Passing on knowledge may picture continuity alongside loss of a familiar position. The interaction could bring pride, resentment, generosity, or several feelings together. Notice whether your experience is acknowledged and whether teaching gives you a role you can recognize as your own." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You receive the same work with less authority", "reflection": "Responsibility remaining while permissions shrink can picture an arrangement that feels difficult to carry out. A shared task with unclear decision making may offer a parallel. Record where the mismatch appears and how others respond; the scene explores a feeling rather than assessing an actual workplace." } ], "prompts": [ "What was reduced, and what part of my contribution remained?", "Which feelings concerned status, and which concerned the actual work?", "How did other people show whether I still belonged?" ], "related": [ "being-fired", "being-judged", "boss", "office" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia editorial entry with image-specific interpretations and six differentiated scenes. The reference supplies general dream background only. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "dentist", "title": "Dentist", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "summary": "Dentist dreams may explore close attention, explanation and permission, or having enough voice in a process that concerns a sensitive detail.", "tagline": "The care encounter can matter more than the tooth itself.", "aliases": [ "dentist", "dentists" ], "status": "REVIEW", "psychological": "A dentist in a dream can make close attention to a sensitive detail unavoidable. Somebody examines your teeth, explains a procedure or asks you to remain still while work continues. The possible reading concerns how the attention is arranged: whether you understand it, can answer and have enough say about what happens next. Recent appointments, stories or ordinary tooth-related sensations can also supply imagery; the dream does not diagnose a dental condition.\n\nExplanation can make the encounter manageable. A clear account of the next step may reduce uncertainty without removing every uncomfortable feeling. Work that begins before you understand it can create the opposite position, especially when you cannot speak. A waking comparison could be any process in which someone else has expertise while you remain affected by their decisions. The mouth gives that difficulty a concrete form.\n\nExamination and removal are different events. Being inspected without a problem found can make anticipation more central than an actual intervention. A tooth being taken away without discussion may instead make permission and control important. A request, explanation or pause can turn a process being done to you into one in which you have a part. That change may matter independently of the imagined tooth or procedure.\n\nA familiar person acting as dentist can combine an existing relationship with unusual closeness or authority. The known face can bring particular memories of being heard, helped or finding it difficult to disagree. The role may make trust, privacy or the ability to disagree feel different from an ordinary conversation. An unknown dentist can be reassuring if the process is clear, while a familiar one can be difficult to interrupt.\n\nBecoming the dentist places responsibility with you. Several patients may expect precise help while the tools or information seem inadequate. That can picture a wish to contribute alongside limits of time and knowledge. A routine appointment that ends calmly creates another reading, centered on maintenance rather than dramatic repair. The useful distinction is between the sensitive detail being attended to and the relationship that makes attention understandable, chosen or difficult to influence.", "traditional": "Miller’s Dentist account assigns working on the dreamer’s teeth doubt about another person’s sincerity and honor, and work on a young woman’s teeth a scandal forecast. These are attributed historical claims, not evidence about actual honesty, health or relationships. The original reading focuses on the dreamed care interaction.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Close attention with explanation", "reflection": "Understanding can make an encounter manageable without requiring complete ease." }, { "title": "A voice within the process", "reflection": "Permission and a usable pause can matter when someone else directs what happens." }, { "title": "Maintenance and responsibility", "reflection": "Routine care and carrying a helping role differ from dramatic loss or removal." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A dentist explains the procedure before beginning", "reflection": "The explanation gives you a way to understand what is happening and a part in the encounter. This may picture wanting clarity when another person has more knowledge. The explanation lets close attention and retained choice remain in the same encounter, rather than requiring complete ease before participation." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You sit for an examination and nothing is found", "reflection": "The scene gives anticipation a different ending from intervention. Relief, surprise or lingering uncertainty can each shape the experience. An ordinary ending can change the story from expected scrutiny to completion, while the feeling of anticipation may take longer to settle." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You cannot answer while your mouth is being examined", "reflection": "The mouth makes the limit on response tangible. This may resemble being affected by a process while unable to ask an ordinary question. A pause or another way to communicate would change the arrangement differently from assuming the dream is about a secret you cannot admit." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You want a pause but the appointment keeps going", "reflection": "The process continues past the point where you want room to respond. This can picture a concern about pace or retained choice. The actual request matters: a brief pause, explanation or different position may be more central than the entire procedure." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A familiar person appears as the dentist", "reflection": "The known person takes on unexpected closeness and authority. This may change how easy it feels to trust, question or refuse within the dream. The role changes the terms of the familiar relationship: closeness, trust and permission to interrupt may each feel different within the appointment." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You are the dentist and cannot satisfy several patients", "reflection": "The role gives you several requests for precise care while time or resources remain limited. This may picture responsibility for a detail others depend on. The task can become more workable through a smaller scope or shared help, rather than require imagined competence to be unlimited." } ], "prompts": [ "What did you need explained or permitted in the encounter?", "What room did you have to request a pause or express a preference?", "Which aspect of the encounter felt most important, and how did it change?" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0612" ], "scope": "Historical context only. Attributed Gustavus Hindman Miller passage(s): dentist working on dreamer’s teeth assigned doubt of another person’s sincerity; work on a young woman assigned scandal. These are period beliefs, not established predictions or support for the original psychological reading." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "related": [ "teeth", "teeth-falling-out", "braces", "doctor" ], "updated": "2026-10-13", "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0612", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Dentist", "text": "To dream of a dentist working on your teeth, denotes that you\nwill have occasion to doubt the sincerity and honor of some person\nwith whom you have dealings.\n\nTo see him at work on a young woman's teeth, denotes that you\nwill soon be shocked by a scandal in circles near you.", "locator": "Heading 612; source lines 7350–7359", "lineStart": 7350, "lineEnd": 7359, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a dentist working on your teeth, denotes that you\nwill have occasion to doubt the sincerity and honor of some person\nwith whom you have dealings.\n\nTo see him at work on a young woman's teeth, denotes that you\nwill soon be shocked by a scandal in circles near you." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "dentures", "title": "Dentures", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "aliases": [ "dentures", "denture", "false teeth", "denture case", "wearing dentures", "loose dentures" ], "summary": "Dentures can picture a useful support becoming familiar, a fit that needs adjustment, or the everyday routines behind comfort and confidence.", "tagline": "A removable tool becomes part of ordinary comfort, expression, and participation.", "psychological": "Dentures can picture an ordinary support that becomes part of how you speak, eat, or recognize a familiar smile within the dream. A comfortable set may fit having a workable arrangement for a task or feeling at ease with resources that help you participate. The image need not concern age, loss, or concealment. Something made or removable can still feel like part of everyday life.\n\nFit can make the relationship between support and conditions visible. A new set that feels unfamiliar may resemble entering a role before its routines become natural. A loose set can picture a useful arrangement becoming unreliable at the moment you depend on it, such as unclear support during a presentation or a task whose process no longer suits its demands.\n\nHandling, storing, or cleaning the dentures can give form to maintenance behind an apparently effortless activity. Preparing tools, keeping a routine dependable, or making room for a quiet interval may offer parallels. The dream may show the practical care that allows participation, rather than treating needing care as a deficiency.\n\nVisibility brings another possible reading. Removing the dentures comfortably around someone may picture trust or permission to step out of a public role. Concern about someone noticing them can instead express the weight of an audience's expectations. That concern belongs to the dreamed interaction; artificial teeth do not imply a false personality or a dishonest account.\n\nFinding a missing set or receiving one that fits can make the scene about access restored or support becoming more suitable. Real equipment, dental memories, photographs, and everyday routines can supply the image directly. These original comparisons do not assess dental health or predict a bodily change.", "traditional": "These are original interpretations of a removable support, its fit, visibility, and everyday care. No verified historical denture passage is used. The broader Teeth archive does not establish a meaning for this particular tool, and the general dream reference does not provide a dental assessment.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A support becomes part of daily life", "reflection": "Comfortable dentures can picture a workable resource or routine you use without constant attention. Their made or removable form does not make the resulting confidence less personal or real." }, { "title": "Fit changes the usefulness of help", "reflection": "An unfamiliar or loose set can express support that needs a more suitable arrangement. The difficulty may concern conditions or preparation, rather than your willingness or ability to participate." }, { "title": "Maintenance and the freedom to be comfortable", "reflection": "Handling or storing the tool can bring everyday care into view. Comfortable removal may picture trust, while concern about visibility can make other people's expectations feel more significant." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "The dentures fit comfortably during a shared meal", "reflection": "A useful support can picture participating without the tool becoming the center of attention. A dependable routine or arrangement that lets you enjoy company may offer parallels. The scene emphasizes ease and inclusion, rather than requiring independence from ordinary equipment.", "slug": "scene-1" }, { "title": "A new set feels unfamiliar while you speak", "reflection": "A changed form of support can need time to become familiar within the dream. Starting a role with different methods or resources may feel similar. The unfamiliarity can express adjustment without turning the device or the role into a mistake.", "slug": "scene-2" }, { "title": "The dentures move during a presentation", "reflection": "Something you expected to support expression may feel less dependable in front of an audience. Unclear preparation or a resource that no longer fits the task can offer parallels. The scene joins practical reliability with the pressure of being visible.", "slug": "scene-3" }, { "title": "You place them in a case and feel relaxed", "reflection": "Setting down a tool can picture a quiet interval from public performance or a familiar maintenance routine. Resting after work or being comfortable with someone may feel similar. Relief does not make the support unwanted; it can mean that different settings allow different needs.", "slug": "scene-4" }, { "title": "You find a missing set before leaving home", "reflection": "Restored access can picture a plan becoming workable through a practical resource. Finding needed information or completing preparation may offer parallels. The relief concerns being able to participate, rather than the dream promising a bodily recovery or a particular event.", "slug": "scene-5" }, { "title": "Someone responds normally when you remove them", "reflection": "An unremarkable response can picture being comfortable without explaining every part of your routine. A trusted friendship or private setting may feel similar. The scene can offer room beyond anticipated judgment without revealing how real people privately regard you.", "slug": "scene-6" } ], "prompts": [ "What did the support make comfortable or possible in the scene?", "Was the difficulty fit, reliability, preparation, or the audience's response?", "Which routine or private setting allowed the tool to feel ordinary?" ], "related": [ "teeth", "teeth-falling-out", "public-speaking", "mirror" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia editorial entry with image-specific interpretations and six differentiated scenes. The reference supplies general dream background only. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "derrick", "title": "Derrick", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Derricks seen in a dream, indicate strife and obstruction in your way to success.”", "aliases": [ "derrick" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about derrick stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0613", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Derrick", "text": "Derricks seen in a dream, indicate strife and obstruction in your\nway to success.", "locator": "Heading 613; source lines 7359–7364", "lineStart": 7359, "lineEnd": 7364, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Derricks seen in a dream, indicate strife and obstruction in your\nway to success." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "desert", "title": "Desert", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of wandering through a gloomy and barren desert, denotes famine and uprisal of races and great…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "desert" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about desert stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0614", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Desert", "text": "To dream of wandering through a gloomy and barren desert, denotes famine\nand uprisal of races and great loss of life and property.\n\nFor a young woman to find herself alone in a desert, her health\nand reputation is being jeopardized by her indiscretion.\nShe should be more cautious.", "locator": "Heading 614; source lines 7364–7373", "lineStart": 7364, "lineEnd": 7373, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of wandering through a gloomy and barren desert, denotes famine\nand uprisal of races and great loss of life and property.\n\nFor a young woman to find herself alone in a desert, her health\nand reputation is being jeopardized by her indiscretion.\nShe should be more cautious." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9747", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Desert", "heading": "Desert", "text": "Loss of friends and wealth are shown by this dream (Artemidorus) ; loneliness and isolation are plainly symbolized.", "lineStart": 9747, "lineEnd": 9750, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 212; NLM OCR lines 9747–9750", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9747, "lineEnd": 9750, "printedPage": 212, "printedPageEnd": 212 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Desert. — Loss of friends and wealth are shown by this \ndream (Artemidorus) ; loneliness and isolation are plainly sym- \nbolized. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "sym- \nbolized", "after": "symbolized", "evidenceLine": 7129 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Desert" }, "displayText": "Loss of friends and wealth are shown by this dream (Artemidorus); loneliness and isolation are plainly symbolized." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "desk", "title": "Desk", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To be using a desk in a dream, denotes unforeseen ill luck will rise before you.”", "aliases": [ "desk" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about desk stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0615", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Desk", "text": "To be using a desk in a dream, denotes unforeseen ill luck\nwill rise before you. To see money on your desk, brings you\nunexpected extrication from private difficulties.", "locator": "Heading 615; source lines 7373–7379", "lineStart": 7373, "lineEnd": 7379, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To be using a desk in a dream, denotes unforeseen ill luck\nwill rise before you. To see money on your desk, brings you\nunexpected extrication from private difficulties." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "despair", "title": "Despair", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To be in despair in dreams, denotes that you will have many and cruel vexations in the working world.”", "aliases": [ "despair" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about despair stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0616", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Despair", "text": "To be in despair in dreams, denotes that you will have many and cruel\nvexations in the working world.\n\nTo see others in despair, foretells the distress and unhappy position\nof some relative or friend.", "locator": "Heading 616; source lines 7379–7387", "lineStart": 7379, "lineEnd": 7387, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To be in despair in dreams, denotes that you will have many and cruel\nvexations in the working world.\n\nTo see others in despair, foretells the distress and unhappy position\nof some relative or friend." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "detective", "title": "Detective", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a detective keeping in your wake when you are innocent of charges preferred, denotes that fortune and honor are drawing nearer…”", "aliases": [ "detective" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about detective stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0617", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Detective", "text": "To dream of a detective keeping in your wake when you are innocent\nof charges preferred, denotes that fortune and honor are drawing nearer\nto you each day; but if you feel yourself guilty, you are likely\nto find your reputation at stake, and friends will turn from you.\nFor a young woman, this is not a fortunate dream.", "locator": "Heading 617; source lines 7387–7395", "lineStart": 7387, "lineEnd": 7395, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a detective keeping in your wake when you are innocent\nof charges preferred, denotes that fortune and honor are drawing nearer\nto you each day; but if you feel yourself guilty, you are likely\nto find your reputation at stake, and friends will turn from you.\nFor a young woman, this is not a fortunate dream." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "devil", "title": "Devil", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "What the figure offers or demands gives the encounter its shape.", "summary": "A devil or demon figure may bring threat, temptation or a feared judgment into a dream. The encounter does not establish a supernatural cause.", "aliases": [ "devil", "devils", "demon", "demons", "evil spirit", "the devil" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A figure you call a devil, demon or evil spirit can bring a strong expectation into the dream before it does anything. Its appearance may feel threatening, tempting, theatrical or surprisingly familiar. Your own associations with that label matter: a religious story, a game character, a remembered warning or a recent film can each give the figure a different role. Those labels are included here as dreamers' descriptions, rather than a claim that different traditions understand them as equivalent.\n\nWhat the figure does makes the reading more precise. Pursuit creates a different relationship from a bargain, accusation or invitation. A persuasive visitor may offer something attractive on terms you distrust. An accuser may make a feared judgment feel present and difficult to answer. A figure that only watches can put the emphasis on anticipation, especially if you decide what it intends without hearing it speak.\n\nYour room to respond matters as well. Refusing an offer, leaving a room or asking someone to stay can make a limit visible. If the figure ignores your refusal, the scene may resemble pressure that does not respect a decision. If it accepts the boundary or turns out to be in costume, the expected power can change. Neither ending proves that a waking person has hidden motives; it offers an image for comparing a feeling.\n\nThe setting and audience may alter the encounter. Others treating the figure as ordinary can make your unease feel unsupported. A companion noticing the same threat may make it easier to respond. A confrontation in a childhood setting may carry different associations from a performance on a stage. The dream's details can therefore complicate a label that initially sounds absolute.\n\nEncountering a figure is separate from dreaming that something controls your body or actions. The Possession page addresses that loss of agency. This page does not establish a spiritual event or a diagnosis. It offers original reflections on the figure's behavior, the terms of contact and the choices available within the scene.", "traditional": "The five attached accounts retain differing period forecasts: Miller describes occupational warnings and a richly dressed persuader; Fontaine includes pursuit by an evil spirit; Noe predicts dangers being overcome; Cielo frames the figure as a call to change; Craig gives a brief negative omen. Their moral and predictive claims are historical writing, not evidence about your character, religion or future.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A label with personal history", "reflection": "Religious, fictional and everyday associations can give a similarly named figure very different roles." }, { "title": "The terms of contact", "reflection": "An offer, pursuit or accusation creates a more specific relationship than appearance alone." }, { "title": "A boundary in the encounter", "reflection": "How the figure responds to refusal changes the dream's balance of choice and pressure." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "The figure offers a reward with a troubling condition", "reflection": "The bargain may make a desirable result depend on giving up something important. A difficult offer or social pressure can provide a comparison. Consider the condition as carefully as the reward; attraction does not mean you secretly want every part of the proposed exchange." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A devil pursues you through a familiar place", "reflection": "The pursuit brings the feared figure into a setting that usually feels known. The dream may connect a feeling of pressure with that place or simply borrow its layout. Hiding, receiving help and finding an exit each give the chase a different ending." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "The figure accuses you of something you did not do", "reflection": "An accusation can make judgment feel detached from your own account of events. The scene may resemble struggling to correct an assumption or fearing that a label will stick. Your response and whether anyone hears it matter more than treating the charge as true." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You refuse an invitation and the figure steps back", "reflection": "A refusal changes the available contact. The scene may let you imagine a limit being recognized without requiring a prolonged contest. Surprise or relief can show how much power you expected the figure to have, while uncertainty may remain after the boundary is accepted." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Everyone else treats the figure as an ordinary guest", "reflection": "Different reactions can make your concern difficult to share. This may picture a disagreement about what feels acceptable or persuasive. The dream does not prove others are in danger; it gives their response a role in whether you feel able to speak or leave." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The frightening figure removes a costume", "reflection": "The reveal changes what its appearance allowed you to assume. Recognition may reduce fear, create anger about being frightened or leave the encounter playful. What the person does afterward helps distinguish a harmless performance from a continuing pressure within the dream." } ], "prompts": [ "What did the figure actually do, beyond its name or appearance?", "Which offer, accusation or boundary carried the strongest feeling?", "What personal story or recent image shaped your expectations of the figure?" ], "related": [ "possession", "ghost", "monster", "the-shadow", "temptation" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0619" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context only. Miller supplies occupational forecasts and moral judgments, a richly dressed persuader, and pursuit/enemy claims. These period forecasts and judgments do not validate the original psychological reflections, establish a diagnosis, or identify anyone’s real character or future." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0188" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context only. Fontaine supplies danger, temptation, love/trade forecasts, and being pursued by an evil spirit. These period forecasts and judgments do not validate the original psychological reflections, establish a diagnosis, or identify anyone’s real character or future." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0139" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context only. Noe predicts overcoming dangers and unsuccessful interference with a lover’s affection. These period forecasts and judgments do not validate the original psychological reflections, establish a diagnosis, or identify anyone’s real character or future." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0132" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context only. Cielo gives a moral exhortation to change one’s conduct. These period forecasts and judgments do not validate the original psychological reflections, establish a diagnosis, or identify anyone’s real character or future." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L9751" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context only. Craig reports a brief adverse assessment attributed to Gypsy lore. These period forecasts and judgments do not validate the original psychological reflections, establish a diagnosis, or identify anyone’s real character or future." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0619", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Devil", "text": "For farmers to dream of the devil, denotes blasted crops and death\namong stock, also family sickness. Sporting people should heed\nthis dream as a warning to be careful of their affairs, as they are\nlikely to venture beyond the laws of their State. For a preacher,\nthis dream is undeniable proof that he is over-zealous, and should\nforebear worshiping God by tongue-lashing his neighbor.\n\nTo dream of the devil as being a large, imposingly dressed person,\nwearing many sparkling jewels on his body and hands, trying to\npersuade you to enter his abode, warns you that unscrupulous\npersons are seeking your ruin by the most ingenious flattery.\nYoung and innocent women, should seek the stronghold of friends after\nthis dream, and avoid strange attentions, especially from married men.\nWomen of low character, are likely to be robbed of jewels and money\nby seeming strangers.\n\nBeware of associating with the devil, even in dreams. He is always\nthe forerunner of despair. If you dream of being pursued by his majesty,\nyou will fall into snares set for you by enemies in the guise of friends.\nTo a lover, this denotes that he will be won away from his allegiance\nby a wanton.", "locator": "Heading 619; source lines 7405–7429", "lineStart": 7405, "lineEnd": 7429, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For farmers to dream of the devil, denotes blasted crops and death\namong stock, also family sickness. Sporting people should heed\nthis dream as a warning to be careful of their affairs, as they are\nlikely to venture beyond the laws of their State. For a preacher,\nthis dream is undeniable proof that he is over-zealous, and should\nforebear worshiping God by tongue-lashing his neighbor.\n\nTo dream of the devil as being a large, imposingly dressed person,\nwearing many sparkling jewels on his body and hands, trying to\npersuade you to enter his abode, warns you that unscrupulous\npersons are seeking your ruin by the most ingenious flattery.\nYoung and innocent women, should seek the stronghold of friends after\nthis dream, and avoid strange attentions, especially from married men.\nWomen of low character, are likely to be robbed of jewels and money\nby seeming strangers.\n\nBeware of associating with the devil, even in dreams. He is always\nthe forerunner of despair. If you dream of being pursued by his majesty,\nyou will fall into snares set for you by enemies in the guise of friends.\nTo a lover, this denotes that he will be won away from his allegiance\nby a wanton." }, { "id": "fontaine-0188", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Devil", "text": "To dream of this enemy to the human race, denotes that many\ndangers threaten you, all of which you will overcome if you carefully\nwithstand all temptations to do evil; in love it forebodes loss of the\naffections; in trade, opposition; to dream you are pursued by an evil\nspirit, is also a bad omen. 61, 18.", "locator": "Heading 188; source line 1740", "lineStart": 1740, "lineEnd": 1746, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of this enemy to the human race, denotes that many\ndangers threaten you, all of which you will overcome if you carefully\nwithstand all temptations to do evil; in love it forebodes loss of the\naffections; in trade, opposition; to dream you are pursued by an evil\nspirit, is also a bad omen." }, { "id": "noe-0139", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Devil", "text": "To dream of this\nenemy to the human race, denotes that many dangers will threaten you, all\nof which you will overcome. If you are in love, it forebodes that some one\nis endeavoring to alienate the affection of your sweetheart, but will be\nunsuccessful.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 141; source lines 633–637", "lineStart": 633, "lineEnd": 637, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of this\nenemy to the human race, denotes that many dangers will threaten you, all\nof which you will overcome. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0621", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Diadem", "text": "To dream of a diadem, denotes that some honor will be tendered\nyou for acceptance.", "locator": "Heading 621; source lines 7437–7442", "lineStart": 7437, "lineEnd": 7442, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a diadem, denotes that some honor will be tendered\nyou for acceptance." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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For a man of business to\ndream that he is dealing in diamonds, is good, it is a sure thing with\nhim, that he will become wealthy, and retire to private life much\nrespected. 33, 3.", "locator": "Heading 189; source line 1746", "lineStart": 1746, "lineEnd": 1752, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you wear a diamond, denotes that you will be crossed\nin love, and that your lover is unfaithful. For a man of business to\ndream that he is dealing in diamonds, is good, it is a sure thing with\nhim, that he will become wealthy, and retire to private life much\nrespected." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0625", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Difficulty", "text": "This dream signifies temporary embarrassment for business men of all classes,\nincluding soldiers and writers. But to extricate yourself from difficulties,\nforetells your prosperity.\n\nFor a woman to dream of being in difficulties, denotes that she is threatened\nwith ill health or enemies. For lovers, this is a dream of contrariety,\ndenoting pleasant courtship.", "locator": "Heading 625; source lines 7477–7487", "lineStart": 7477, "lineEnd": 7487, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "This dream signifies temporary embarrassment for business men of all classes,\nincluding soldiers and writers. But to extricate yourself from difficulties,\nforetells your prosperity.\n\nFor a woman to dream of being in difficulties, denotes that she is threatened\nwith ill health or enemies. For lovers, this is a dream of contrariety,\ndenoting pleasant courtship." }, { "id": "fontaine-0191", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Difficulty", "text": "If you imagine in your dream that you are in great\ndifficulty, or in personal danger of any kind, it is a favorable sign,\nas such dreams always go by contrary. 17, 27.", "locator": "Heading 191; source line 1757", "lineStart": 1757, "lineEnd": 1761, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you imagine in your dream that you are in great\ndifficulty, or in personal danger of any kind, it is a favorable sign,\nas such dreams always go by contrary." }, { "id": "miller-0705", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Embarrassment", "text": "[62] See Difficulty.", "locator": "Heading 705; source lines 8414–8419", "lineStart": 8414, "lineEnd": 8419, "kind": "cross-reference", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "See Difficulty." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0626", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Digging", "text": "To dream of digging, denotes that you will never be in want,\nbut life will be an uphill affair.\n\nTo dig a hole and find any glittering substance, denotes a favorable turn\nin fortune; but to dig and open up a vast area of hollow mist, you will be\nharrassed with real misfortunes and be filled with gloomy forebodings.\nWater filling the hole that you dig, denotes that in spite of your most\nstrenuous efforts things will not bend to your will.", "locator": "Heading 626; source lines 7487–7498", "lineStart": 7487, "lineEnd": 7498, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of digging, denotes that you will never be in want,\nbut life will be an uphill affair.\n\nTo dig a hole and find any glittering substance, denotes a favorable turn\nin fortune; but to dig and open up a vast area of hollow mist, you will be\nharrassed with real misfortunes and be filled with gloomy forebodings.\nWater filling the hole that you dig, denotes that in spite of your most\nstrenuous efforts things will not bend to your will." }, { "id": "fontaine-0192", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Digging", "text": "To dream of digging in clean and healthy ground, is a sign\nof thrift, and good luck generally: if the ground be dirty or wet, it\nshows trouble: if you are digging for gold, and find large and rich\nlumps, it shows you’ll have some good luck, but if the product is\nmeagre, or if you don’t find any, it foretells disappointment. If you\nlose any of your tools it is a sign of a quarrel. 14, 71.", "locator": "Heading 192; source line 1761", "lineStart": 1761, "lineEnd": 1768, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of digging in clean and healthy ground, is a sign\nof thrift, and good luck generally: if the ground be dirty or wet, it\nshows trouble: if you are digging for gold, and find large and rich\nlumps, it shows you’ll have some good luck, but if the product is\nmeagre, or if you don’t find any, it foretells disappointment. If you\nlose any of your tools it is a sign of a quarrel." }, { "id": "luck-0051", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Digging", "text": "Good luck with perseverance.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 51; source lines 3635–3637", "lineStart": 3635, "lineEnd": 3637, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Good luck with perseverance." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9756", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Digging", "heading": "Digging", "text": "To dig in clean ground denotes thrift and good luck ; in dirty or wet ground, trouble ; to dig for gold and find large lumps, good fortune; to fail to find it, disappointment (Raphael). Most dreams of honest toil are of favorable augury.", "lineStart": 9756, "lineEnd": 9761, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 212; NLM OCR lines 9756–9761", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9756, "lineEnd": 9761, "printedPage": 212, "printedPageEnd": 212 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Digging. — To dig in clean ground denotes thrift and good \nluck ; in dirty or wet ground, trouble ; to dig for gold and find \nlarge lumps, good fortune; to fail to find it, disappointment \n(Raphael). Most dreams of honest toil are of favorable \naugury. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Digging" }, "displayText": "To dig in clean ground denotes thrift and good luck; in dirty or wet ground, trouble; to dig for gold and find large lumps, good fortune; to fail to find it, disappointment (Raphael). Most dreams of honest toil are of favorable augury." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "dinner", "title": "Dinner", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you eat your dinner alone, denotes that you will often have cause to think seriously of the…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "dinner" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about dinner stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0627", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Dinner", "text": "To dream that you eat your dinner alone, denotes that you will often\nhave cause to think seriously of the necessaries of life.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of taking dinner with her lover,\nis indicative of a lovers' quarrel or a rupture, unless the affair\nis one of harmonious pleasure, when the reverse may be expected.\n\nTo be one of many invited guests at a dinner, denotes that you\nwill enjoy the hospitalities of those who are able to extend\nto you many pleasant courtesies.", "locator": "Heading 627; source lines 7498–7511", "lineStart": 7498, "lineEnd": 7511, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you eat your dinner alone, denotes that you will often\nhave cause to think seriously of the necessaries of life.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of taking dinner with her lover,\nis indicative of a lovers' quarrel or a rupture, unless the affair\nis one of harmonious pleasure, when the reverse may be expected.\n\nTo be one of many invited guests at a dinner, denotes that you\nwill enjoy the hospitalities of those who are able to extend\nto you many pleasant courtesies." }, { "id": "fontaine-0193", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Dinner", "text": "If you dream of sitting down to dinner with a large company, it\nis a sign you will either go a journey, or change the present location\neither of your dwelling or business. 76, 11.", "locator": "Heading 193; source line 1768", "lineStart": 1768, "lineEnd": 1772, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream of sitting down to dinner with a large company, it\nis a sign you will either go a journey, or change the present location\neither of your dwelling or business." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "dinosaur", "title": "Dinosaur", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "summary": "A dinosaur can picture an older scale of experience entering present life, awe, or conditions that no longer fit what they must contain.", "tagline": "An old world inside the present.", "aliases": [ "dinosaur", "dinosaurs" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A dinosaur appearing in an ordinary street can picture something from another scale of experience entering present life. An old family expectation, a large institution, or a childhood fascination may feel conspicuous beside today’s routines. The contrast matters: a creature that belongs in your remembered books now occupies the place where you buy groceries or meet colleagues. If its arrival delights you, the scene may offer room for curiosity rather than demanding an explanation through fear.\n\nA fossil becoming alive creates a different tension. Something treated as settled begins to make demands again. A completed project may return for revision, an old disagreement may regain urgency, or a skill you assumed you had left behind may become useful. The animal’s movement gives the past an active role without proving that you have failed to move on. Pleasure at its return can fit rediscovery as readily as alarm can fit unwanted repetition.\n\nSize can make the surroundings the problem. A peaceful dinosaur blocking a road need not represent an enemy; it may picture a substantial presence that ordinary arrangements cannot accommodate. A major responsibility squeezed into a small schedule or an ambitious idea assigned inadequate space offers a concrete parallel. Finding another route differs from insisting that something large become harmless through stillness alone. Your available room changes the meaning of the encounter.\n\nWatching from a museum window can make distance useful. You can consider an impressive possibility without joining it immediately. If the glass feels restrictive, curiosity may instead be frustrated by conditions that keep experience theoretical. An egg opening shifts the scene toward an arrival whose size and needs are not yet known. That uncertainty can fit beginning something whose eventual demands exceed the initial promise.\n\nA film, toy, museum visit, or remembered drawing can supply direct context. The dream’s dinosaur does not establish that you or another person is obsolete, primitive, or out of place. These comparisons concern the meeting between an extraordinary creature and the particular present world you encounter.", "traditional": "No directly matching historical account is attached for this specific topic. The readings here are original reflective possibilities. The NINDS source provides general background about dreams, not evidence for these symbolic comparisons.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "The past becomes active", "reflection": "Something considered finished begins moving again; welcome rediscovery and unwanted repetition create different readings." }, { "title": "Scale and accommodation", "reflection": "A large presence can expose limited conditions without needing to be hostile." }, { "title": "Curiosity at a chosen distance", "reflection": "Watching can preserve room to explore an impressive possibility before deciding how closely to engage." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "A dinosaur walks down your everyday street", "reflection": "An extraordinary presence enters a routine setting. This can picture an old expectation or substantial interest becoming relevant to daily life. Delight suggests welcome surprise, while obstruction makes the available space more important than the creature’s supposed character." }, { "title": "A museum fossil starts moving", "reflection": "What looked settled and safely categorized becomes active. This may fit an old project, question, or capacity returning to attention. Whether you want to follow it or restore the display changes the scene from rediscovery toward a wish for closure." }, { "title": "You watch through a small window", "reflection": "The view lets you encounter something impressive without entering its space. This can resemble exploring a large possibility through limited information. The window may support manageable curiosity or make the experience frustratingly incomplete, depending on what you hoped to do." }, { "title": "A dinosaur egg opens before you are ready", "reflection": "An apparently contained beginning develops demands of its own. This may picture a new undertaking whose needs were difficult to imagine at first. Interest and uncertainty can coexist without making the arrival a prediction of a real event." }, { "title": "A peaceful animal blocks an ordinary task", "reflection": "The obstruction comes from size rather than aggression. A major responsibility may be welcome while still exceeding current arrangements. Changing the route or making room creates another response from treating every substantial demand as something that must be defeated." }, { "title": "You guide others around the creature", "reflection": "The scene gives you a practical role between an unusual presence and everyday activity. This can picture helping a group adapt to an unfamiliar demand. Cooperation may matter more than personal bravery when a workable route replaces confrontation." } ], "prompts": [ "What older interest or expectation has recently become active again?", "Where does the setting fail to accommodate what is present?", "How does your chosen distance affect the encounter you want?" ], "related": [ "dragon", "bones", "monster", "animals" ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "dirt", "title": "Dirt", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "5 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing freshly stirred dirt around flowers or trees, denotes thrift and healthful conditions…” Compare 5 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "dirt", "of durt" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about dirt stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0628", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Dirt", "text": "To dream of seeing freshly stirred dirt around flowers or trees,\ndenotes thrift and healthful conditions abound for the dreamer.\n\nTo see your clothes soiled with unclean dirt, you will be forced\nto save yourself from contagious diseases by leaving your home\nor submitting to the strictures of the law.\n\nTo dream that some one throws dirt upon you, denotes that enemies\nwill try to injure your character.", "locator": "Heading 628; source lines 7511–7523", "lineStart": 7511, "lineEnd": 7523, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing freshly stirred dirt around flowers or trees,\ndenotes thrift and healthful conditions abound for the dreamer.\n\nTo see your clothes soiled with unclean dirt, you will be forced\nto save yourself from contagious diseases by leaving your home\nor submitting to the strictures of the law.\n\nTo dream that some one throws dirt upon you, denotes that enemies\nwill try to injure your character." }, { "id": "fontaine-0194", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Dirt", "text": "To dream of dirty dirt or mud, signifies that some one will speak\nill of you. If it is clean sand or soil, and you do not get befouled\nwith it, it is a sign of thrift and good fortune. If some one throws\ndirt on you, it foretells that you will be abused. 22, 41.", "locator": "Heading 194; source line 1772", "lineStart": 1772, "lineEnd": 1777, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of dirty dirt or mud, signifies that some one will speak\nill of you. If it is clean sand or soil, and you do not get befouled\nwith it, it is a sign of thrift and good fortune. If some one throws\ndirt on you, it foretells that you will be abused." }, { "id": "artemidorus-140", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of Durt.", "text": "IF you dream of Durt, it signifieth Sicknesse, or dishonour.", "locator": "Book 3, encoded section 140", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "3", "displayText": "If you dream of Durt, it signifieth Sicknesse, or dishonour.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Durt” is shown on the Dirt page: archaic spelling (Artemidorus)" }, { "id": "noe-0130", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Dirt", "text": "To dream of dirt signifies sickness and dishonor. To\ndream you fall in the dirt, signifies that you shall be treacherously\ndealt with.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 132; source lines 594–596", "lineStart": 594, "lineEnd": 596, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of dirt signifies sickness and dishonor. To\ndream you fall in the dirt, signifies that you shall be treacherously\ndealt with." }, { "id": "cielo-0134", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Dirt", "text": "Denotes sickness.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 134; source lines 4176–4178", "lineStart": 4176, "lineEnd": 4178, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Denotes sickness." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "disappointment", "title": "Disappointment", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "An outcome can be acceptable and still leave a wish unmet.", "summary": "Disappointment can highlight a gap between expectation and experience, including a success that does not provide what you hoped for.", "aliases": [ "disappointment", "feeling disappointed" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "Disappointment may bring an expectation into view that had remained unspoken. A celebration happens, a gift arrives, or a long task ends, yet the experience feels thinner than you imagined. The dream can make the difference between obtaining an outcome and receiving the feeling you expected from it unusually clear. That may fit hoping a milestone would bring recognition, ease, or closeness when the event itself could not provide all of those things.\n\nThe expectation may concern another person, but the dream's version of their behavior remains invented. Someone gives a technically suitable gift that misses what matters to you, or turns up without seeming present. The scene may picture wanting your particular preferences understood rather than simply wanting more attention. A recent awkward exchange can also supply the image directly. Disappointment in the scene is not evidence that the actual person does not care.\n\nDisappointing someone else reverses the position. You may have done what was agreed but discover that they expected something different, or you may fall short of a promise you wanted to keep. Those situations raise different questions. One concerns unclear expectations; the other concerns a real limit or mistake, if there is a waking parallel. The emotion should not turn a dreamed demand into an obligation you never accepted.\n\nA result can be successful and still disappoint. You win a prize, finish an assignment, or reach a place, but the experience no longer fits the wish that set you moving. This may picture a preference changing while a plan remains in place. It can also bring attention to the process: exhaustion, lost time, or missing companionship can matter even when the final outcome looks good. Appreciation and dissatisfaction can exist together.\n\nAn altered expectation sometimes changes the ending. The dream offers a smaller event that feels more personal, or disappointment remains without a convenient lesson. Neither ending is required to make the feeling useful. Anticipation after a real plan, remembered letdowns, or stories about unlikely rewards can supply ordinary context. A developed reading distinguishes what was promised, what was imagined, and what actually occurred within the scene, so disappointment does not become a general verdict about your life.", "traditional": "No historical passage directly defining disappointment is supplied. The archive's Failure entry concerns predicted outcomes, while the modern Rejection entry concerns refusal. This original reading focuses on the unmet expectation even when there is no failure or refusal.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "The feeling expected from an event", "reflection": "A milestone may arrive without the recognition or ease attached to it in your imagination. The gap can clarify the wish without making the event worthless." }, { "title": "Expectations that were never shared", "reflection": "Another person's demand may differ from what you understood. The scene can picture the cost of an unspoken assumption rather than establish a duty." }, { "title": "Success with a remaining cost", "reflection": "An acceptable result can coexist with exhaustion, distance, or changed preferences. Mixed feelings need not be resolved into either gratitude or failure." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "A long-awaited celebration feels flat", "reflection": "The event occurs but the hoped-for connection is missing. This may picture wanting a more personal form of recognition, rather than wanting a larger or more impressive occasion." }, { "title": "A gift misses what mattered to you", "reflection": "The object is suitable in one way but overlooks a particular preference. The scene may make being understood more important than receiving something expensive or elaborate." }, { "title": "You succeed and still feel disappointed", "reflection": "The result meets a standard while leaving another wish unmet. This can fit discovering that achievement, companionship, and rest are different needs with different sources." }, { "title": "Someone expected more than you agreed to do", "reflection": "Their disappointment appears before the expectation was made clear. The scene may concern an obligation created on your behalf, rather than proof that you should have anticipated it." }, { "title": "A smaller alternative feels more satisfying", "reflection": "An elaborate plan gives way to a quieter experience that fits better. The shift may picture a preference becoming clearer while the original disappointment remains understandable." }, { "title": "The dream ends without resolving the letdown", "reflection": "Nothing arrives to turn the feeling into a lesson. That can make acknowledgment the useful response: an unmet wish can matter without demanding an immediate replacement." } ], "prompts": [ "What did I expect to receive beyond the literal outcome?", "Was the expectation agreed, imagined, or added after the event?", "Which part disappointed me, and which part still had value?" ], "related": [ "rejection", "failure", "relief", "regret" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "disaster", "title": "Disaster", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of being in any disaster from public conveyance, you are in danger of losing property or of being maimed from some malarious disease.”", "aliases": [ "disaster" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about disaster stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0629", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Disaster", "text": "To dream of being in any disaster from public conveyance,\nyou are in danger of losing property or of being maimed from\nsome malarious disease.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of a disaster in which she is a participant,\nforetells that she will mourn the loss of her lover by death or desertion.\n\nTo dream of a disaster at sea, denotes unhappiness to sailors\nand loss of their gains. To others, it signifies loss by death;\nbut if you dream that you are rescued, you will be placed\nin trying situations, but will come out unscathed.\n\nTo dream of a railway wreck in which you are not a participant,\nyou will eventually be interested in some accident because of\nsome relative or friend being hurt, or you will have trouble\nof a business character.", "locator": "Heading 629; source lines 7523–7542", "lineStart": 7523, "lineEnd": 7542, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being in any disaster from public conveyance,\nyou are in danger of losing property or of being maimed from\nsome malarious disease.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of a disaster in which she is a participant,\nforetells that she will mourn the loss of her lover by death or desertion.\n\nTo dream of a disaster at sea, denotes unhappiness to sailors\nand loss of their gains. To others, it signifies loss by death;\nbut if you dream that you are rescued, you will be placed\nin trying situations, but will come out unscathed.\n\nTo dream of a railway wreck in which you are not a participant,\nyou will eventually be interested in some accident because of\nsome relative or friend being hurt, or you will have trouble\nof a business character." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "discovering-an-unfinished-qualification", "title": "Discovering an unfinished qualification", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "tagline": "Finding a missing course or requirement after you thought you had finished can unsettle your sense of earned completion.", "summary": "Finding a missing course or requirement after you thought you had finished can unsettle your sense of earned completion.", "aliases": [ "missing college credit dream", "degree not completed dream" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "The distinctive tension is a settled achievement being reopened, rather than an upcoming test. Did you accept the institution’s claim immediately, question a record, or worry that others would discover a supposed flaw? Compare the dream with any current demand to prove competence again. The scene does not mean your qualifications are invalid, nor does it require labeling yourself an impostor.", "traditional": "Historical school and examination themes do not directly cover modern credential systems or administrative audits. This interpretation of renewed proof is editorial, not a traditional prediction that success will be taken away.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "A school says you never completed a required class", "reflection": "Was your first response doubt in yourself or doubt in the record?" }, { "title": "You must sit a final exam years later", "reflection": "What made an old standard feel binding in your present life?" }, { "title": "A transcript confirms you already finished", "reflection": "Could you accept the evidence, or did uncertainty persist?" } ], "prompts": [ "What achievement had seemed settled before this discovery?", "Who had authority to decide whether you were finished?", "What evidence did you trust about your own competence?" ], "related": [ "school-or-exam", "college", "failure" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia model-assisted editorial draft. Reflection questions and scenario readings are optional, individually written suggestions, not empirically validated symbol meanings. Source scope is stated with each citation. Historical comparisons identify topics, not inherited interpretations. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "disease", "title": "Disease", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are diseased, denotes a slight attack of illness, or of unpleasant dealings with a…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "disease" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about disease stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0630", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Disease", "text": "To dream that you are diseased, denotes a slight attack of illness,\nor of unpleasant dealings with a relative.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she is incurably diseased, denotes that she\nwill be likely to lead a life of single blessedness.", "locator": "Heading 630; source lines 7542–7550", "lineStart": 7542, "lineEnd": 7550, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are diseased, denotes a slight attack of illness,\nor of unpleasant dealings with a relative.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she is incurably diseased, denotes that she\nwill be likely to lead a life of single blessedness." }, { "id": "fontaine-0195", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Disease", "text": "If you dream you have any contagious or foul disease on you,\nit foretells luck and benefit, as such a dream goes by contrary. 18, 2.", "locator": "Heading 195; source line 1777", "lineStart": 1777, "lineEnd": 1780, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream you have any contagious or foul disease on you,\nit foretells luck and benefit, as such a dream goes by contrary." }, { "id": "noe-0125", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Disease", "text": "To dream you have any disease promises prompt and speedy\nemployment.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 127; source lines 584–585", "lineStart": 584, "lineEnd": 585, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you have any disease promises prompt and speedy\nemployment." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "disgrace", "title": "Disgrace", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To be worried in your dream over the disgraceful conduct of children or friends, will bring you unsatisfying hopes, and worries will harass…”", "aliases": [ "disgrace" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about disgrace stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0631", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Disgrace", "text": "To be worried in your dream over the disgraceful conduct of children\nor friends, will bring you unsatisfying hopes, and worries will harass you.\nTo be in disgrace yourself, denotes that you will hold morality at a low rate,\nand you are in danger of lowering your reputation for uprightness.\nEnemies are also shadowing you.", "locator": "Heading 631; source lines 7550–7558", "lineStart": 7550, "lineEnd": 7558, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To be worried in your dream over the disgraceful conduct of children\nor friends, will bring you unsatisfying hopes, and worries will harass you.\nTo be in disgrace yourself, denotes that you will hold morality at a low rate,\nand you are in danger of lowering your reputation for uprightness.\nEnemies are also shadowing you." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "disgust", "title": "Disgust", "category": "Emotions & situations", "aliases": [ "disgust", "disgusted", "feeling disgusted", "revulsion", "repulsed" ], "summary": "Disgust may make unwanted contact, an unpleasant sensory memory, or a value conflict vivid. The reaction and its target need separate attention.", "tagline": "Wanting distance, meeting pressure to continue, and understanding what felt unacceptable.", "psychological": "Disgust can make the wish for distance immediate: you do not want to eat, touch, smell, or remain near something. In a dream, a texture or odor may become more memorable than the story around it. A recent meal, cleaning task, bodily experience, or disturbing image may supply a direct connection. The scene may be sensory before it is symbolic; an unpleasant reaction need not reveal hidden corruption or a problem with your body.\n\nThe surrounding people can introduce a different subject. Everyone may insist you finish the food, handle the object, or stop making a fuss. Then the dream could concern having a preference or limit treated as inconvenient. A waking parallel might be agreeing to a task you find uncomfortable because refusing would interrupt the group's plans. The image fits that tension by making participation physically difficult rather than leaving the disagreement abstract.\n\nDisgust can also concern an imagined action rather than a material. Witnessing humiliation, manipulation, or cruelty may give form to a value you do not want to compromise. The important distinction is whether you want distance from the behavior or from a whole person. Dream characters can enact an upsetting scene without revealing anything about the actual people whose faces they borrow.\n\nA reaction directed toward yourself deserves a gentler reading. An ordinary bodily detail may look intolerable in the dream, perhaps echoing criticism, embarrassment, or a fear of being seen. The feeling is not a reliable verdict on your body or character. If disgust changes after the object is explained, the scene might explore how interpretation shapes the reaction: something first seen as contamination becomes unfamiliar but harmless. Alternatively, the unpleasantness may remain, and the useful question is what distance, choice, or practical change you wanted.", "traditional": "No matching historical disgust passage is supplied. These are original possibilities about sensory experience, unwanted participation, and values. Different targets require different readings: a smell, a bodily image, an imposed touch, and an upsetting action are not interchangeable. The entry does not use disgust as evidence of illness, impurity, or the moral character of a real person.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A limit made physical", "reflection": "Pressure to eat, touch, or endure something may make an unwanted obligation tangible. The scene can concern being able to refuse, rather than finding a deeper fault in the object." }, { "title": "A value conflict", "reflection": "Disgust at an imagined action can bring a personal standard into focus. Consider what behavior felt unacceptable, keeping the dream's enactment separate from claims about an actual person." }, { "title": "Sensation and interpretation", "reflection": "An odor or texture may come from an ordinary memory. If the reaction changes with new information, the scene may explore an assumption; it need not demand a hidden meaning." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Everyone insists you eat an unpleasant meal", "reflection": "You want to stop, but the table treats refusal as rude. The scene may fit a limit that becomes harder to express in company. The pressure around the meal can matter more than the food, especially when being agreeable prevents you choosing what you accept." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A mess keeps returning after you clean", "reflection": "You restore one surface and discover the same unpleasant material elsewhere. This may fit work that never reaches a usable ending or responsibility that keeps spreading. Relief after a workable solution suggests a practical burden, rather than a moral need to become clean." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You pull away from unwanted contact", "reflection": "A touch feels uncomfortable and you create distance. The scene can make consent or personal space the central concern. Disgust does not need to be translated into secret attraction, and the encounter does not establish what you would want in a different situation." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "An imagined act of cruelty repels you", "reflection": "You witness someone humiliating or harming another character and cannot comfortably stay involved. This may explore a value conflict or a wish to stop participating in an arrangement. The actor's borrowed face does not make the dream an allegation against a real person." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A familiar bodily detail looks intolerable", "reflection": "Something ordinary about your body becomes the focus of revulsion. The scene may echo feeling exposed or being judged by a demanding standard. Discomfort deserves care, but it does not establish a defect, a diagnosis, or an accurate view of how others see you." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The object turns out to be something different", "reflection": "What looked spoiled or disturbing is explained as an unfamiliar material. Your reaction may soften, remain unchanged, or become curious. This can explore the effect of an assumption on experience, while allowing an actual preference to remain even after the mystery is resolved." } ], "prompts": [ "Was I reacting to a sensation, unwanted participation, or an imagined action?", "Who allowed me to create distance, and who pressured me to continue?", "Did new information change the disgust, or did my preference stay the same?" ], "related": [ "bathroom", "blood", "cockroach", "being-naked-in-public", "being-judged" ], "type": "dreams", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflection on distinct social scenes and possible personal connections; no matching historical passage supplied. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "dish", "title": "Dish", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of handling dishes, denotes good fortune.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "dish", "dishes" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about dish stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "crockery" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0632", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Dish", "text": "To dream of handling dishes, denotes good fortune; but if from any cause they\nshould be broken, this signifies that fortune will be short-lived for you.\n\nTo see shelves of polished dishes, denotes success in marriage.\n\nTo dream of dishes, is prognostic of coming success and gain,\nand you will be able to fully appreciate your good luck.\nSoiled dishes, represent dissatisfaction and an unpromising future.\n\n[56] See Crockery", "locator": "Heading 632; source lines 7558–7571", "lineStart": 7558, "lineEnd": 7571, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of handling dishes, denotes good fortune; but if from any cause they\nshould be broken, this signifies that fortune will be short-lived for you.\n\nTo see shelves of polished dishes, denotes success in marriage.\n\nTo dream of dishes, is prognostic of coming success and gain,\nand you will be able to fully appreciate your good luck.\nSoiled dishes, represent dissatisfaction and an unpromising future. See Crockery" }, { "id": "cielo-0135", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Dishes", "text": "Breaking dishes denotes a family quarrel.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 135; source lines 4178–4180", "lineStart": 4178, "lineEnd": 4180, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Breaking dishes denotes a family quarrel." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "crockery" ] }, { "slug": "dishwasher", "title": "Dishwasher", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "The work after a shared meal can need an agreement of its own.", "summary": "A dishwasher dream can explore shared cleanup, delegation and what fits a common process. The appliance’s use matters beyond simply wanting order.", "aliases": [ "dishwasher", "dishwashers", "dishwashing machine" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A dishwasher gathers the aftermath of a meal into a shared process. In a dream, this can picture how the less visible work following an activity is organized. A group event, completed project or household routine may offer a parallel. The appliance can make that work manageable while still requiring somebody to decide what goes in, begin the cycle and return usable things to their places.\n\nEveryone adding a plate while nobody starts the machine can make participation uneven. People contribute to the need without taking responsibility for its next stage. This may resemble a task that moves between several people but is never clearly handed over. A simple agreement can be more useful than one person repeatedly completing the work without acknowledgment.\n\nCapacity introduces another question. A large valued object may not fit the arrangement even when the smaller items do. This can picture a shared process designed around ordinary tasks while leaving one important requirement outside it. That exclusion need not make the object excessive or the whole process useless. A separate response may be appropriate within the dream's arrangement.\n\nChanging the load can make organization more important than additional effort. You may find room by reconsidering what belongs together, or discover that a crowded system keeps preventing the work from finishing. A cycle ending with one unfinished item can distinguish most of a task being complete from a remaining part that needs particular attention. Completion does not always arrive as one uniform result.\n\nAnother person handling the cleanup can offer welcome support if your choices remain respected. Emptying the machine afterward can make space for the next meal without keeping you permanently in maintenance. Recent chores and remembered kitchens may also supply the imagery directly. These original readings concern the appliance and a shared process; they do not define a worker called a dishwasher, prescribe real equipment use or turn cleanliness into a judgment about health or morality.", "traditional": "No exact dishwasher-appliance passage is supplied. Dish and Cleaning cover the objects or broader action, with their own accounts. This entry develops delegation, capacity and completion within an original modern scene, without borrowing their forecasts or defining the worker-role sense.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Responsibility for the next stage", "reflection": "A shared process can collect everybody’s contribution without identifying who begins or completes it. The scene may make handover and acknowledgment more useful than additional effort alone." }, { "title": "What the arrangement accommodates", "reflection": "A resource can work for ordinary items while leaving an important one outside. A separate response may preserve its usefulness without requiring every need to become identical." }, { "title": "Completion with room for another cycle", "reflection": "Finishing and returning things to use can give maintenance an ending. The next task may remain possible without requiring the present one to continue indefinitely." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Everyone adds a plate but nobody starts the machine", "reflection": "Plates accumulating without a start can picture a shared task with no clear handover. Everybody adds something while expecting a process to organize itself. A defined next role may matter more than continuing to make another person’s contribution fit." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A large valued object does not fit the arrangement", "reflection": "A valued object that does not fit can picture a significant need outside an otherwise useful arrangement. A group procedure may accommodate routine matters but not this one. The difference can require a specific response without devaluing either the need or the process." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You make room by changing how the load is organized", "reflection": "Reorganizing a load can picture changing the arrangement so existing resources become usable. A schedule or shared workload may offer a parallel. The improvement may come from deciding what belongs together, rather than demanding that everyone provide more." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "The cycle ends but one item still needs attention", "reflection": "One unfinished item after the cycle can picture a task mostly complete with a remaining part needing attention. A group project may finish at different stages. The exception need not erase everything the process has already made available." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Another person takes over the cleanup without erasing your choices", "reflection": "Another person taking over cleanup can picture support that leaves a say in how the work is done. A clear handover differs from having choices overwritten. Relief may come from shared responsibility rather than from the task disappearing entirely." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You empty the machine and prepare space for a new meal", "reflection": "Emptying the machine can picture returning resources to use after a period of preparation or maintenance. A completed stage makes another activity possible. The ending can be useful without turning immediately into an obligation to begin the next cycle." } ], "prompts": [ "Who contributed to the need, and who took the next stage?", "What did the shared process accommodate or leave outside?", "What made cleanup complete enough for ordinary use to resume?" ], "related": [ "dish", "cleaning", "kitchen", "restaurant" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "disinherited", "title": "Disinherited", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are disinherited, warns you to look well to your business and social standing.”", "aliases": [ "disinherited" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about disinherited stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0633", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Disinherited", "text": "To dream that you are disinherited, warns you to look well to your business\nand social standing.\n\nFor a young man to dream of losing his inheritance by disobedience,\nwarns him that he will find favor in the eyes of his parents by contracting\na suitable marriage. For a woman, this dream is a warning to be careful\nof her conduct, lest she meet with unfavorable fortune.", "locator": "Heading 633; source lines 7571–7581", "lineStart": 7571, "lineEnd": 7581, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are disinherited, warns you to look well to your business\nand social standing.\n\nFor a young man to dream of losing his inheritance by disobedience,\nwarns him that he will find favor in the eyes of his parents by contracting\na suitable marriage. For a woman, this dream is a warning to be careful\nof her conduct, lest she meet with unfavorable fortune." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "dispute", "title": "Dispute", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of holding disputes over trifles, indicates bad health and unfairness in judging others.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "dispute" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about dispute stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0634", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Dispute", "text": "To dream of holding disputes over trifles, indicates bad health\nand unfairness in judging others.\n\nTo dream of disputing with learned people, shows that you have some\nlatent ability, but are a little sluggish in developing it.", "locator": "Heading 634; source lines 7581–7589", "lineStart": 7581, "lineEnd": 7589, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of holding disputes over trifles, indicates bad health\nand unfairness in judging others.\n\nTo dream of disputing with learned people, shows that you have some\nlatent ability, but are a little sluggish in developing it." }, { "id": "cielo-0136", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Dispute", "text": "Among friends, indicates renewed friendship.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 136; source lines 4180–4182", "lineStart": 4180, "lineEnd": 4182, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Among friends, indicates renewed friendship." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "distaff", "title": "Distaff", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a distaff, denotes frugality, with pleasant surroundings.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "distaff" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about distaff stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0635", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Distaff", "text": "To dream of a distaff, denotes frugality, with pleasant surroundings.\nIt also signifies that a devotional spirit will be cultivated by you.", "locator": "Heading 635; source lines 7589–7594", "lineStart": 7589, "lineEnd": 7594, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a distaff, denotes frugality, with pleasant surroundings.\nIt also signifies that a devotional spirit will be cultivated by you." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9762", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Distaff", "heading": "Distaff", "text": "A favorable dream (Gypsy). The symbol of woman's work (Jennings).", "lineStart": 9762, "lineEnd": 9764, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 212; NLM OCR lines 9762–9764", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9762, "lineEnd": 9764, "printedPage": 212, "printedPageEnd": 212 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Distaff. — A favorable dream (Gypsy). The symbol of \nwoman's work (Jennings). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Distaff" }, "displayText": "A favorable dream (Gypsy). The symbol of woman's work (Jennings)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "distance", "title": "Distance", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of being a long way from your residence, denotes that you will make a journey soon in which you may meet many strangers who will be…”", "aliases": [ "distance" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about distance stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0636", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Distance", "text": "To dream of being a long way from your residence, denotes that you will make\na journey soon in which you may meet many strangers who will be instrumental\nin changing life from good to bad.\n\nTo dream of friends at a distance, denotes slight disappointments.\n\nTo dream of distance, signifies travel and a long journey.\nTo see men plowing with oxen at a distance, across broad fields,\ndenotes advancing prosperity and honor. For a man to see strange\nwomen in the twilight, at a distance, and throwing kisses to him,\nforetells that he will enter into an engagement with a new acquaintance,\nwhich will result in unhappy exposures.", "locator": "Heading 636; source lines 7594–7609", "lineStart": 7594, "lineEnd": 7609, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being a long way from your residence, denotes that you will make\na journey soon in which you may meet many strangers who will be instrumental\nin changing life from good to bad.\n\nTo dream of friends at a distance, denotes slight disappointments.\n\nTo dream of distance, signifies travel and a long journey.\nTo see men plowing with oxen at a distance, across broad fields,\ndenotes advancing prosperity and honor. For a man to see strange\nwomen in the twilight, at a distance, and throwing kisses to him,\nforetells that he will enter into an engagement with a new acquaintance,\nwhich will result in unhappy exposures." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "ditch", "title": "Ditch", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of falling in a ditch, denotes degradation and personal loss.” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "ditch", "ditches" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about ditch stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0637", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Ditch", "text": "To dream of falling in a ditch, denotes degradation and personal loss;\nbut if you jump over it, you will live down any suspicion of wrong-doing.", "locator": "Heading 637; source lines 7609–7614", "lineStart": 7609, "lineEnd": 7614, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of falling in a ditch, denotes degradation and personal loss;\nbut if you jump over it, you will live down any suspicion of wrong-doing." }, { "id": "fontaine-0196", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Ditches", "text": "To dream of ditches, steep mountains, rocks, and other\neminences, foretells danger and misfortune: expect thieves to rob your\ndwelling, or that your children will be undutiful, and bring you into\ntrouble; if you are in love, it foretells unhappiness if you marry\nyour present sweetheart: if you are in trade, it denotes loss of goods,\nand other trouble: to farmers, it foretells accidents to their live\nstock, loss of sheep, &c. 73, 8.", "locator": "Heading 196; source line 1780", "lineStart": 1780, "lineEnd": 1788, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of ditches, steep mountains, rocks, and other\neminences, foretells danger and misfortune: expect thieves to rob your\ndwelling, or that your children will be undutiful, and bring you into\ntrouble; if you are in love, it foretells unhappiness if you marry\nyour present sweetheart: if you are in trade, it denotes loss of goods,\nand other trouble: to farmers, it foretells accidents to their live\nstock, loss of sheep, &c." }, { "id": "noe-0131", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Ditches", "text": "To dream of deep ditches, steep mountains, rocks,\nand other eminences, surely foretells danger and misfortune. Expect\nthieves to rob your dwelling; that your children will be undutiful and\nbring you into trouble. If you are in love, it foretells unhappiness if\nyou marry your present sweetheart. If you are in trade, it denotes loss of\ngoods, if not of liberty.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 133; source lines 596–601", "lineStart": 596, "lineEnd": 601, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of deep ditches, steep mountains, rocks,\nand other eminences, surely foretells danger and misfortune. Expect\nthieves to rob your dwelling; that your children will be undutiful and\nbring you into trouble. If you are in love, it foretells unhappiness if\nyou marry your present sweetheart. If you are in trade, it denotes loss of\ngoods, if not of liberty." }, { "id": "cielo-0137", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Ditch", "text": "To dream of seeing or falling into a ditch\n foretells bankruptcy.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 137; source lines 4182–4185", "lineStart": 4182, "lineEnd": 4185, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing or falling into a ditch\nforetells bankruptcy." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "dive-dappers-and-cormorants", "title": "Dive-dappers and Cormorants", "type": "dreams", "category": "Other symbols", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Artemidorus wrote: “To sée in a dreame Dive-dappers and Cormorants, and other such like birds of the Sea, is perill to Marriners, but not death: to others…”", "aliases": [ "dive-dappers and cormorants", "of dive-dappers and cormorants" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about dive-dappers and cormorants stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "artemidorus-080", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of Dive-dappers and Cormorants.", "text": "TO sée in a dreame Dive-dappers and Cormorants, and other such like birds of the Sea, is perill to Marriners, but not death: to others they signifye theyr friends and whores, deceivers, and wicked perjured Pyrates, which haunt Rivers and the Sea. And if in dreaming he sées these Byrds, and lose any thing, he shall never recover it againe. Duckes also and Drakes, and other Byrds of the River, signifye the like.", "locator": "Book 2, encoded section 80", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "2", "displayText": "To sée in a dreame Dive-dappers and Cormorants, and other such like birds of the Sea, is perill to Marriners, but not death: to others they signifye theyr friends and whores, deceivers, and wicked perjured Pyrates, which haunt Rivers and the Sea. And if in dreaming he sées these Byrds, and lose any thing, he shall never recover it againe. Duckes also and Drakes, and other Byrds of the River, signifye the like." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "dividend", "title": "Dividend", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of dividends, augments successful speculations or prosperous harvests.”", "aliases": [ "dividend" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about dividend stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0639", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Dividend", "text": "To dream of dividends, augments successful speculations or\nprosperous harvests. To fail in securing hoped-for dividends,\nproclaims failure in management or love affairs.", "locator": "Heading 639; source lines 7624–7630", "lineStart": 7624, "lineEnd": 7630, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of dividends, augments successful speculations or\nprosperous harvests. To fail in securing hoped-for dividends,\nproclaims failure in management or love affairs." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "diving", "title": "Diving", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of diving in clear water, denotes a favorable termination of some embarrassment.”", "aliases": [ "diving" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about diving stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0638", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Diving", "text": "To dream of diving in clear water, denotes a favorable termination\nof some embarrassment. If the water is muddy, you will suffer\nanxiety at the turn your affairs seem to be taking.\n\nTo see others diving, indicates pleasant companions.\nFor lovers to dream of diving, denotes the consummation of happy\ndreams and passionate love.", "locator": "Heading 638; source lines 7614–7624", "lineStart": 7614, "lineEnd": 7624, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of diving in clear water, denotes a favorable termination\nof some embarrassment. If the water is muddy, you will suffer\nanxiety at the turn your affairs seem to be taking.\n\nTo see others diving, indicates pleasant companions.\nFor lovers to dream of diving, denotes the consummation of happy\ndreams and passionate love." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "divining-rods", "title": "Divining Rods", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see a divining rod in your dreams, foretells ill luck will dissatisfy you with present surroundings.”", "aliases": [ "divining rods" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about divining rods stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0640", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Divining Rods", "text": "To see a divining rod in your dreams, foretells ill luck will dissatisfy\nyou with present surroundings.", "locator": "Heading 640; source lines 7630–7635", "lineStart": 7630, "lineEnd": 7635, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a divining rod in your dreams, foretells ill luck will dissatisfy\nyou with present surroundings." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "divorce", "title": "Divorce", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "aliases": [ "divorce" ], "status": "REVIEW", "summary": "Divorce in a dream can explore an ending’s practical terms, changed roles and mixed feelings without deciding the future of a real marriage.", "tagline": "An ending can change an arrangement before every feeling has settled.", "psychological": "A dream of divorce can give an ending a declared form while leaving its meaning unsettled. You may hear an announcement before understanding what has changed, or discover that practical arrangements have already been made. This can resemble trying to orient yourself during a transition whose pace differs from your emotional response. The scene does not establish dissatisfaction with a real spouse or tell you that a relationship should end.\n\nOrdinary objects can make the change particular. You sort keys, decide where a familiar chair belongs or discover that both people still expect to use the same room. Such details may picture the difference between naming an ending and reorganizing a shared routine. A waking project, household change or responsibility can offer a comparison even when no actual divorce is being considered. The particular exchange matters more than a universal code for separation.\n\nFeelings can arrive in combinations. Relief at having clearer terms may coexist with grief about what is no longer shared. Anger may concern the manner of the announcement rather than the ending itself. A cheerful dream does not prove hidden desire, and sadness does not determine the right waking choice. Noticing which part changed can make each response more understandable.\n\nCooperation after the dreamed separation can create another question. You help with a task while no longer occupying the same role, or need to explain a new boundary to a familiar person. This may picture preserving one useful connection while changing another arrangement. Difficulty finding words can concern how a change becomes recognizable to others, rather than whether you are allowed to have separate needs.\n\nIf you dream of divorcing someone you do not know, the surprising relationship can make an assumed obligation visible without supplying a literal marriage history. You may be leaving a role, agreement or expectation whose terms were never clear in the scene. A recent story, conversation or remembered ending can also provide direct imagery. These reflections concern imagined transitions and available choices. Actual legal steps, another person’s intentions and the future of a relationship remain questions for waking information, not conclusions delivered by the dream.", "traditional": "Miller’s Divorce passage treats the scene as companion dissatisfaction, prescribes a more congenial home and adds a gendered infidelity forecast. These are attributed period judgments, not findings about a real marriage or advice to separate. The original reflection follows the imagined ending, its practical arrangements and the different feelings those changes may bring.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A declared ending needs orientation", "reflection": "An announcement can arrive before practical circumstances or feelings make its meaning clear." }, { "title": "Shared routines have particular terms", "reflection": "Keys, rooms and ordinary objects can make a transition more specific than the label attached to it." }, { "title": "Changed roles can hold mixed feelings", "reflection": "Relief, grief, anger or continued care can concern different parts of an ending without determining a waking decision." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A divorce is announced before you understand what changes", "reflection": "The label arrives ahead of an explanation you can use. This may picture a transition whose pace leaves little room for orientation. Asking about one practical consequence can make the scene more particular without interpreting surprise as proof that you oppose or secretly want the ending." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You sort shared keys but one still belongs to both people", "reflection": "The arrangement is declared different while an ordinary routine remains shared. This can resemble a boundary needing clearer terms. The particular use of the key may matter more than whether every connection must disappear for the transition to count." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Relief and sadness appear during the same conversation", "reflection": "Different responses attach to different parts of the change. This may picture gaining clarity while losing an activity or expectation you valued. Letting both feelings remain can make the encounter understandable without treating either as a verdict on what a real marriage should become." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You cooperate on a task after the dreamed separation", "reflection": "One role ends while a particular contribution remains possible. This can resemble distinguishing a useful connection from the arrangement around it. Cooperation can have new limits without requiring complete closeness or assuming that continued contact prevents an ending from being meaningful." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Other people keep addressing you through the former arrangement", "reflection": "A change recognized by the participants has not become clear to the surrounding group. This may picture needing language for a new role or boundary. Repeating an explanation can be tiring without proving that anyone is deliberately refusing to acknowledge your choices." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You are divorcing a stranger and cannot recall the marriage", "reflection": "An unexpected obligation appears already established in the dream. This can resemble leaving a role whose terms were assumed rather than discussed. The unfamiliar person may make that confusion tangible; the scene supplies no concealed marriage history or instruction about your current relationship." } ], "prompts": [ "What changed in practice after the ending was named?", "Which parts of the transition brought different feelings?", "How did the new role allow or limit continued contact?" ], "related": [ "breakup", "marriage", "current-romantic-partner", "reconciliation", "partnership" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0641" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a diagnosis, prediction or another person’s states. miller-0641 — Divorce (Heading 641; source lines 7635–7644): Being divorced is treated as companion dissatisfaction with prescriptive home advice; women receive a lover-infidelity/single-life forecast. None determines real relationship quality or a legal decision." } ], "updated": "2026-10-14", "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0641", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Divorce", "text": "To dream of being divorced, denotes that you are not satisfied with your\ncompanion, and should cultivate a more congenial atmosphere in the home life.\nIt is a dream of warning.\n\nFor women to dream of divorce, denotes that a single life may be theirs\nthrough the infidelity of lovers.", "locator": "Heading 641; source lines 7635–7644", "lineStart": 7635, "lineEnd": 7644, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being divorced, denotes that you are not satisfied with your\ncompanion, and should cultivate a more congenial atmosphere in the home life.\nIt is a dream of warning.\n\nFor women to dream of divorce, denotes that a single life may be theirs\nthrough the infidelity of lovers." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "docks", "title": "Docks", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of being on docks, denotes that you are about to make an unpropitious journey.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "docks" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about docks stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0642", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Docks", "text": "To dream of being on docks, denotes that you are about to make\nan unpropitious journey. Accidents will threaten you.\nIf you are there, wandering alone, and darkness overtakes you,\nyou will meet with deadly enemies, but if the sun be shining,\nyou will escape threatening dangers.", "locator": "Heading 642; source lines 7644–7652", "lineStart": 7644, "lineEnd": 7652, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being on docks, denotes that you are about to make\nan unpropitious journey. Accidents will threaten you.\nIf you are there, wandering alone, and darkness overtakes you,\nyou will meet with deadly enemies, but if the sun be shining,\nyou will escape threatening dangers." }, { "id": "luck-0052", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Docks", "text": "Good news from abroad.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 52; source lines 3637–3639", "lineStart": 3637, "lineEnd": 3639, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Good news from abroad." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "doctor", "title": "Doctor", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “This is a most auspicious dream, denoting good health and general prosperity, if you meet him socially,…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "doctor", "physician" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about doctor stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0643", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Doctor", "text": "This is a most auspicious dream, denoting good health and general prosperity,\nif you meet him socially, for you will not then spend your money for\nhis services. If you be young and engaged to marry him, then this dream\nwarns you of deceit.\n\nTo dream of a doctor professionally, signifies discouraging illness\nand disagreeable differences between members of a family.\n\nTo dream that a doctor makes an incision in your flesh,\ntrying to discover blood, but failing in his efforts,\ndenotes that you will be tormented and injured by some evil person,\nwho may try to make you pay out money for his debts.\nIf he finds blood, you will be the loser in some transaction.", "locator": "Heading 643; source lines 7652–7668", "lineStart": 7652, "lineEnd": 7668, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "This is a most auspicious dream, denoting good health and general prosperity,\nif you meet him socially, for you will not then spend your money for\nhis services. If you be young and engaged to marry him, then this dream\nwarns you of deceit.\n\nTo dream of a doctor professionally, signifies discouraging illness\nand disagreeable differences between members of a family.\n\nTo dream that a doctor makes an incision in your flesh,\ntrying to discover blood, but failing in his efforts,\ndenotes that you will be tormented and injured by some evil person,\nwho may try to make you pay out money for his debts.\nIf he finds blood, you will be the loser in some transaction." }, { "id": "miller-1532", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Physician", "text": "For a young woman to dream of a physician, denotes that she\nis sacrificing her beauty in engaging in frivolous pastimes.\nIf she is sick and thus dreams, she will have sickness or worry,\nbut will soon overcome them, unless the physician appears very anxious,\nand then her trials may increase, ending in loss and sorrow.", "locator": "Heading 1536; source lines 17402–17410", "lineStart": 17402, "lineEnd": 17410, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a young woman to dream of a physician, denotes that she\nis sacrificing her beauty in engaging in frivolous pastimes.\nIf she is sick and thus dreams, she will have sickness or worry,\nbut will soon overcome them, unless the physician appears very anxious,\nand then her trials may increase, ending in loss and sorrow.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Physician” is shown on the Doctor page: same concept under two titles; keep Physician as alias" }, { "id": "noe-0381", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Physician", "text": "To dream of a physician, signifies good in many\nforms; if he is relieving you, you have made a favorable impression where\nyou most desire it; if, as a friend, you meet him in society, look for\ntrue, happy love.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 387; source lines 1483–1486", "lineStart": 1483, "lineEnd": 1486, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a physician, signifies good in many\nforms; if he is relieving you, you have made a favorable impression where\nyou most desire it; if, as a friend, you meet him in society, look for\ntrue, happy love.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Physician” is shown on the Doctor page: same concept under two titles; keep Physician as alias" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "dog", "title": "Dogs", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "Companionship, signals of trust, and the responsibility of living alongside another creature.", "summary": "A dog may evoke companionship, care, or caution. Your history with dogs and the animal’s changing behavior help make the dream personal.", "aliases": [ "dog", "dogs", "puppy", "puppies", "pup" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "A dog can make companionship tangible through an ordinary shared activity. Walking at the same pace, waiting by a familiar chair or being greeted at a door may bring a particular bond into view. A remembered pet can remain that companion, while an unfamiliar dog may offer a comparison with company you are still getting to know. The useful connection comes from how the two of you share the scene, rather than a rule that every dog means loyalty.\n\nPace helps distinguish welcome company from a demand. A dog that stays beside you without pulling can resemble support that leaves you room to choose. One that repeatedly brings you a toy while you try to work creates a different question: an enjoyable relationship also needs attention. This could fit wanting to participate in something while struggling to make time for it. Irritation and affection need not cancel one another.\n\nA growl at a doorway can make uncertainty about access concrete. You want to enter, but do not understand the signal that prevents it. Starting in an unfamiliar workplace, approaching a difficult conversation or joining a group with unclear expectations could offer parallels. A helper explaining another entrance changes the problem from confronting an opponent to finding a workable arrangement. The dream supplies no evidence that someone is secretly hostile.\n\nCare gives the relationship another shape. Searching for a missing dog can center attachment and the wish to know where responsibility ends. Several puppies needing different things can resemble requests that are individually manageable but hard to coordinate together. Receiving help matters because the task no longer has to demonstrate one person's ability to handle everything. A dream cannot assess an actual pet's health or establish neglect.\n\nChanges in behavior can be more informative than the first impression. A frightened dog settling when you stop reaching toward it may picture closeness becoming possible through more room. A familiar dog speaking with someone else's voice can connect affection with a request you recognize. Recent walks, films or practical concerns about an animal may also provide the encounter directly. These possibilities leave the dog a particular participant, with your own history and the ending giving the scene its personal direction.", "traditional": "Miller's Dogs entry supplies many forecasts according to behavior and appearance. Affection is linked with friends and gain, while aggression, barking, or poor condition are associated with enemies, quarrels, illness, and separation. Some passages make severe health claims; these remain Miller's period beliefs and have no role as diagnoses or warnings about a present dreamer. His Pup entry also links condition with friendship and fortune.\n\nFontaine (1862) and Noe (1885) contrast friendly dogs with snarling ones, while Cielo's Fortunes and Dreams (1917) associates a dog with faithfulness and a bite with treachery. Everybody's Book of Luck adds distinct forecasts for barking and fighting; Craig's The Fabric of Dreams (1918) collects fidelity and household associations. These books do not establish whether a real companion is trustworthy. Modern reflection can keep their attention to behavior while setting aside the claims about health, betrayal, marriage, and future events.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Walking with a familiar dog", "reflection": "The animal keeps pace and the route feels comfortable. Notice whether companionship makes an ordinary journey different and what you do together. The scene may recall a real bond or invite reflection on company that leaves room for your own movement." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A dog growling at a doorway", "reflection": "You need to pass but cannot tell why the dog is guarding the entrance. Focus on the available routes and whether anyone helps interpret the situation. The dream can explore caution or access without establishing that a real person is hostile." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Searching for a missing dog", "reflection": "You follow sounds or ask others for help. The search may center on responsibility, attachment, or uncertainty about where to look next. Record what helps and how the scene ends without treating it as a forecast that an actual pet will disappear." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Several puppies needing attention", "reflection": "Each puppy pulls you toward a different task while another person watches. Notice how you decide what to do first and whether you can ask for practical help. The scene may invite reflection on divided attention without announcing future duties." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A frightened dog accepting some space", "reflection": "You stop reaching toward the animal and it settles nearby. Record what changes when you allow distance. This version can open a question about patience and signals; it does not require treating every hesitation as rejection." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "A dog speaking in a familiar voice", "reflection": "The animal asks for something in words you recognize. Separate its exact request from what you think it represents. The surprising voice might recall an ordinary conversation, a playful story, or a need you want to describe more clearly." } ], "prompts": [ "What personal relationship or recent encounter makes this dog familiar?", "Which behavior made closeness feel welcome or difficult?", "How was responsibility for the animal shared, and what help did you want?" ], "related": [ "cat", "wolf", "searching-for-a-missing-pet", "forgetting-to-feed-a-pet", "mad-dog" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "scope": "Historical belief only; supplied passages: Dogs — Heading 644; source lines 7668–7740; Pup — Heading 1636; source lines 18403–18413. Not evidence of predictions or a universal symbol meaning.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0644", "miller-1632" ] }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "scope": "Historical belief only; supplied passages: Dogs — Heading 197; source line 1788. Not evidence of predictions or a universal symbol meaning.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0197" ] }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "scope": "Historical belief only; supplied passages: Dogs — Dream section, heading 134; source lines 601–607. Not evidence of predictions or a universal symbol meaning.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0132" ] }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "scope": "Historical belief only; supplied passages: Dog — Dream section, heading 138; source lines 4185–4188. Not evidence of predictions or a universal symbol meaning.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0138" ] }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "scope": "Historical belief only; supplied passages: Dog — Dream section, heading 53; source lines 3639–3643. Not evidence of predictions or a universal symbol meaning.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0053" ] }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "scope": "Historical belief only; supplied passages: Dog — Printed p. 212; NLM OCR lines 9765–9768. Not evidence of predictions or a universal symbol meaning.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L9765" ] }, { "id": "wamsley-2010", "title": "Dreaming of a learning task is associated with enhanced sleep-dependent memory consolidation", "author": "Erin J. Wamsley and colleagues", "url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20417102/", "scope": "Primary maze-learning experiment; task-related dream reports correlated with later performance. It does not show that a dream is an accurate memory or a solution." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s continuing delegation of English editorial decisions. Historical accounts remain attributed period claims; the cited memory study does not validate these interpretations.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Companionship at your own pace", "reflection": "A dog walking, waiting, or playing alongside you may bring a particular bond to mind. Notice whether company feels freely chosen and whether you can both change pace without losing contact." }, { "title": "Signals, distance, and permission", "reflection": "An approach, a bark, and a guarded entrance ask different things of you. You might explore how you decide whether to move closer, pause, or make room, without turning the dog into evidence about someone else." }, { "title": "Care with help available", "reflection": "Feeding, sheltering, or searching for a dog can put responsibility at the center. Ask which tasks are actually yours in the scene and whether support is offered, requested, or unexpectedly absent." } ], "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "DreamFolia AI-assisted editorial review", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "water", "house", "dog", "cat", "being-pregnant", "ex-partner", "deceased-loved-one", "fire", "spider", "being-lost", "ocean", "flood", "wedding", "baby", "train", "car", "wolf" ] }, "decisionReason": "The revised body explains companionship through pace, attention, access and shared care with concrete waking parallels. Six scenes remain distinct. All seven historical accounts retain attribution; their severe health, betrayal and fortune claims do not assess a pet or real person.", "reviewedSnapshot": "data/common-reading-publication-review-2026-10-15.json", "contentSha256": "f621079a49b2ce0d87d91306df6046b15718a75705c903354f44b9d76aa5bc7d" }, "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0644", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Dogs", "text": "To dream of a vicious dog, denotes enemies and unalterable misfortune.\nTo dream that a dog fondles you, indicates great gain and constant friends.\n\nTo dream of owning a dog with fine qualities, denotes that you\nwill be possessed of solid wealth.\n\nTo dream that a blood-hound is tracking you, you are likely to fall\ninto some temptation, in which there is much danger of your downfall.\n\nTo dream of small dogs, indicates that your thoughts and chief\npleasures are of a frivolous order.\n\nTo dream of dogs biting you, foretells for you a quarrelsome\ncompanion either in marriage or business.\n\nLean, filthy dogs, indicate failure in business, also sickness among children.\n\nTo dream of a dog-show, is indicative of many and varied favors from fortune.\n\nTo hear the barking of dogs, foretells news of a depressing nature.\nDifficulties are more than likely to follow. To see dogs on the chase\nof foxes, and other large game, denotes an unusual briskness in all affairs.\n\nTo see fancy pet dogs, signifies a love of show, and that the owner\nis selfish and narrow. For a young woman, this dream foretells a fop\nfor a sweetheart.\n\nTo feel much fright upon seeing a large mastiff, denotes that you will\nexperience inconvenience because of efforts to rise above mediocrity.\nIf a woman dreams this, she will marry a wise and humane man.\n\nTo hear the growling and snarling of dogs, indicates that you\nare at the mercy of designing people, and you will be afflicted\nwith unpleasant home surroundings.\n\nTo hear the lonely baying of a dog, foretells a death or a long\nseparation from friends.\n\nTo hear dogs growling and fighting, portends that you will be overcome\nby your enemies, and your life will be filled with depression.\n\nTo see dogs and cats seemingly on friendly terms, and suddenly turning\non each other, showing their teeth and a general fight ensuing,\nyou will meet with disaster in love and worldly pursuits, unless you\nsucceed in quelling the row.\n\nIf you dream of a friendly white dog approaching you, it portends\nfor you a victorious engagement whether in business or love.\nFor a woman, this is an omen of an early marriage.\n\nTo dream of a many-headed dog, you are trying to maintain too many branches of\nbusiness at one time. Success always comes with concentration of energies.\nA man who wishes to succeed in anything should be warned by this dream.\n\nTo dream of a mad dog, your most strenuous efforts will not bring\ndesired results, and fatal disease may be clutching at your vitals.\nIf a mad dog succeeds in biting you, it is a sign that you or some loved\none is on the verge of insanity, and a deplorable tragedy may occur.\n\nTo dream of traveling alone, with a dog following you, foretells stanch\nfriends and successful undertakings.\n\nTo dream of dogs swimming, indicates for you an easy stretch\nto happiness and fortune.\n\nTo dream that a dog kills a cat in your presence, is significant\nof profitable dealings and some unexpected pleasure.\n\nFor a dog to kill a snake in your presence, is an omen of good luck", "locator": "Heading 644; source lines 7668–7740", "lineStart": 7668, "lineEnd": 7740, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a vicious dog, denotes enemies and unalterable misfortune.\nTo dream that a dog fondles you, indicates great gain and constant friends.\n\nTo dream of owning a dog with fine qualities, denotes that you\nwill be possessed of solid wealth.\n\nTo dream that a blood-hound is tracking you, you are likely to fall\ninto some temptation, in which there is much danger of your downfall.\n\nTo dream of small dogs, indicates that your thoughts and chief\npleasures are of a frivolous order.\n\nTo dream of dogs biting you, foretells for you a quarrelsome\ncompanion either in marriage or business.\n\nLean, filthy dogs, indicate failure in business, also sickness among children.\n\nTo dream of a dog-show, is indicative of many and varied favors from fortune.\n\nTo hear the barking of dogs, foretells news of a depressing nature.\nDifficulties are more than likely to follow. To see dogs on the chase\nof foxes, and other large game, denotes an unusual briskness in all affairs.\n\nTo see fancy pet dogs, signifies a love of show, and that the owner\nis selfish and narrow. For a young woman, this dream foretells a fop\nfor a sweetheart.\n\nTo feel much fright upon seeing a large mastiff, denotes that you will\nexperience inconvenience because of efforts to rise above mediocrity.\nIf a woman dreams this, she will marry a wise and humane man.\n\nTo hear the growling and snarling of dogs, indicates that you\nare at the mercy of designing people, and you will be afflicted\nwith unpleasant home surroundings.\n\nTo hear the lonely baying of a dog, foretells a death or a long\nseparation from friends.\n\nTo hear dogs growling and fighting, portends that you will be overcome\nby your enemies, and your life will be filled with depression.\n\nTo see dogs and cats seemingly on friendly terms, and suddenly turning\non each other, showing their teeth and a general fight ensuing,\nyou will meet with disaster in love and worldly pursuits, unless you\nsucceed in quelling the row.\n\nIf you dream of a friendly white dog approaching you, it portends\nfor you a victorious engagement whether in business or love.\nFor a woman, this is an omen of an early marriage.\n\nTo dream of a many-headed dog, you are trying to maintain too many branches of\nbusiness at one time. Success always comes with concentration of energies.\nA man who wishes to succeed in anything should be warned by this dream.\n\nTo dream of a mad dog, your most strenuous efforts will not bring\ndesired results, and fatal disease may be clutching at your vitals.\nIf a mad dog succeeds in biting you, it is a sign that you or some loved\none is on the verge of insanity, and a deplorable tragedy may occur.\n\nTo dream of traveling alone, with a dog following you, foretells stanch\nfriends and successful undertakings.\n\nTo dream of dogs swimming, indicates for you an easy stretch\nto happiness and fortune.\n\nTo dream that a dog kills a cat in your presence, is significant\nof profitable dealings and some unexpected pleasure.\n\nFor a dog to kill a snake in your presence, is an omen of good luck" }, { "id": "miller-1632", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Pup", "text": "To dream of pups, denotes that you will entertain the innocent and hapless,\nand thereby enjoy pleasure. The dream also shows that friendships\nwill grow stronger, and fortune will increase if the pups are healthful\nand well formed, and _vice versa_ if they are lean and filthy.\n\n\n[178] See Dogs and Hound Pups.", "locator": "Heading 1636; source lines 18403–18413", "lineStart": 18403, "lineEnd": 18413, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of pups, denotes that you will entertain the innocent and hapless,\nand thereby enjoy pleasure. The dream also shows that friendships\nwill grow stronger, and fortune will increase if the pups are healthful\nand well formed, and vice versa if they are lean and filthy. See Dogs and Hound Pups.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Pup” is shown on the Dogs page: dog core entry already aliases puppy" }, { "id": "fontaine-0197", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Dogs", "text": "(_See Mad Dog._) To dream of those animals, has very different\nsignifications; if they fawn and fondle upon you, it is a lucky omen;\nif you are in love, it portends marriage and happiness; but if they\nbark and snarl at you, it denotes that enemies are endeavoring to\ndestroy your reputation and happiness; if in love, crosses. 17, 61.", "locator": "Heading 197; source line 1788", "lineStart": 1788, "lineEnd": 1794, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Mad Dog.) To dream of those animals, has very different\nsignifications; if they fawn and fondle upon you, it is a lucky omen;\nif you are in love, it portends marriage and happiness; but if they\nbark and snarl at you, it denotes that enemies are endeavoring to\ndestroy your reputation and happiness; if in love, crosses." }, { "id": "noe-0132", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Dogs", "text": "To dream of these faithful and domestic\nanimals has very different significations, according to the manner in\nwhich you see them. If they fawn and fondle upon you, then it is a very\nlucky omen. If you are in love, your sweetheart will marry you and be very\nhappy. If they are barking and snarling at you, then depend that enemies\nare secretly endeavoring to destroy your reputation and happiness; if you\nare in love, be careful of your sweetheart.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 134; source lines 601–607", "lineStart": 601, "lineEnd": 607, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of these faithful and domestic\nanimals has very different significations, according to the manner in\nwhich you see them. If they fawn and fondle upon you, then it is a very\nlucky omen. If you are in love, your sweetheart will marry you and be very\nhappy. If they are barking and snarling at you, then depend that enemies\nare secretly endeavoring to destroy your reputation and happiness; if you\nare in love, be careful of your sweetheart." }, { "id": "cielo-0138", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Dog", "text": "To see a dog indicates faithfulness of a\n friend. To be bitten means treachery.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 138; source lines 4185–4188", "lineStart": 4185, "lineEnd": 4188, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a dog indicates faithfulness of a\nfriend. To be bitten means treachery." }, { "id": "luck-0053", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Dog", "text": "As a rule, a favorable sign; (Dog barking) somebody is trying\nto do you an ill turn; (Dogs fighting) serious quarrel between two\nfriends of the dreamer.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 53; source lines 3639–3643", "lineStart": 3639, "lineEnd": 3643, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "As a rule, a favorable sign; (Dog barking) somebody is trying\nto do you an ill turn; (Dogs fighting) serious quarrel between two\nfriends of the dreamer." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9765", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Dog", "heading": "Dog", "text": "A fortunate dream on the whole, denoting faithful friends (Gypsy). Modern symbol of fidelity, anciently held sacred to the Lares, i. e., the home.", "lineStart": 9765, "lineEnd": 9768, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 212; NLM OCR lines 9765–9768", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9765, "lineEnd": 9768, "printedPage": 212, "printedPageEnd": 212 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Dog. — A fortunate dream on the whole, denoting faithful \nfriends (Gypsy). Modern symbol of fidelity, anciently held \nsacred to the Lares, i. e., the home. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 0.99115, "secondaryHeading": "Dog" }, "displayText": "A fortunate dream on the whole, denoting faithful friends (Gypsy). Modern symbol of fidelity, anciently held sacred to the Lares, i. e., the home." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [ "mad-dog" ] }, { "slug": "dogs-and-the-chase", "title": "Dogs and the Chase", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Artemidorus wrote: “THe hayes and ginnes, and all such things to ensnare and surprise beasts are ill, unlesse to them which seeke Servants run away, and a…”", "aliases": [ "dogs and the chase", "of dogs and the chase" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about dogs and the chase stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "artemidorus-074", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of Dogs and the Chase.", "text": "THe hayes and ginnes, and all such things to ensnare and surprise beasts are ill, unlesse to them which seeke Servants run away, and a thing lost, for then it signifieth speedy recoverie. It is better to set and hold them your selfe, then to see another hold them, in asmuch as it is better to trouble then to be troubled. Grayhounds going to the Chase, are good to all, and signifie actions and imployments ensuing: to such as are accused, and are in suit of law they are il, but returning from hunting, they take away feare, and hinder a workeman. A houshold Dog signifyes farms, servants, and possessions to come: an other mans dog fawning on us, signifyeth craft and deceit against us by his Master: byting and barking at us, signifie injuries, adversities, and oftentimes Agues. Little Ladies dogs, signifie delight and pastime.", "locator": "Book 2, encoded section 74", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "2", "displayText": "THe hayes and ginnes, and all such things to ensnare and surprise beasts are ill, unlesse to them which seeke Servants run away, and a thing lost, for then it signifieth speedy recoverie. It is better to set and hold them your selfe, then to see another hold them, in asmuch as it is better to trouble then to be troubled. Grayhounds going to the Chase, are good to all, and signifie actions and imployments ensuing: to such as are accused, and are in suit of law they are il, but returning from hunting, they take away feare, and hinder a workeman. A houshold Dog signifyes farms, servants, and possessions to come: an other mans dog fawning on us, signifyeth craft and deceit against us by his Master: byting and barking at us, signifie injuries, adversities, and oftentimes Agues. Little Ladies dogs, signifie delight and pastime." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "doll", "title": "Doll", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “If a girl dreams she has a new doll with which she is greatly pleased, it foretells a disappointment.”", "aliases": [ "doll" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about doll stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0198", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Doll", "text": "If a girl dreams she has a new doll with which she is greatly\npleased, it foretells a disappointment. 61.", "locator": "Heading 198; source line 1794", "lineStart": 1794, "lineEnd": 1797, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If a girl dreams she has a new doll with which she is greatly\npleased, it foretells a disappointment." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "dolphin", "title": "Dolphin", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "summary": "A dolphin may picture responsive companionship, a pace you want to share, or care that helps another creature continue independently.", "tagline": "An encounter shaped by company, movement, and the surrounding water.", "aliases": [ "dolphin", "dolphins" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A dolphin swimming alongside you can picture companionship that does not require either participant to remain still. A friendship maintained through a changing routine, cooperation during a journey, or working beside someone without constant explanation may offer a parallel. The animal may feel responsive because it returns or adjusts its distance in the dream. If you struggle to keep up, the same company can expose a difference in pace. The question becomes whether the encounter allows you both room, rather than assuming that a friendly-looking animal always means uncomplicated support.\n\nA dolphin surfacing briefly can make moments of contact more central than continuous closeness. Someone may be available in short exchanges while other demands keep taking them elsewhere, or a welcome feeling may return intermittently during a difficult period. Pleasure at each appearance differs from anxious waiting for the next. If it stays submerged while you call, the scene can picture wanting a response you cannot summon through effort alone. It does not reveal another person’s actual feelings or establish that absence means rejection.\n\nWatching from a boat or behind aquarium glass gives the relationship a boundary. You can appreciate the animal while remaining in a different setting, much as you can value another person’s experience without entering every part of it. If the boundary makes contact comfortable, distance supports curiosity. If the enclosure feels restrictive, attention may shift toward whether the conditions suit the creature rather than whether you can see it clearly. The same visible separation can therefore provide reassurance or create concern about whose needs the arrangement serves.\n\nA stranded dolphin can make practical conditions the center of the dream. Helping it reach water differs from trying to keep it close because its company feels special. This may resemble supporting someone through a transition whose successful outcome gives them more independence. Relief and sadness can coexist when care ends an intimate encounter. A sea trip, aquarium visit, film, drawing, or real memory may also explain the image directly. Dolphins, porpoises, and generic fish remain different reader subjects here; the animal you recognized, its movement, and your role in the encounter matter more than a shared sea-animal meaning.", "traditional": "Miller’s Dolphin passage forecasts a change of government; Fontaine links playing dolphins to a death forecast, and Noe discusses wind for seafarers and a dolphin out of water. These conflicting period assertions remain attributed in the archive. They do not establish present-day outcomes or support the original reflection.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Company while moving", "reflection": "A dolphin alongside you can picture a relationship that continues through change. Ease or difficulty sharing its pace distinguishes supportive company from a mismatch in conditions." }, { "title": "Contact you cannot summon", "reflection": "Brief surfacing can make intermittent connection meaningful. Enjoying an appearance differs from needing the animal to remain available whenever you call." }, { "title": "Care that restores independence", "reflection": "Helping a stranded animal can explore support through suitable conditions. Its departure may be a welcome result even when you miss the closeness." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You swim beside a calm dolphin", "reflection": "Movement and company fit comfortably together. This may picture sharing a transition without constant explanation. If matching its speed requires strain, the same scene can bring attention to whether the shared pace allows your own needs." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "It surfaces when you are about to leave", "reflection": "A brief return renews contact without promising permanence. This can resemble a welcome exchange within an otherwise separate routine. Pleasure differs from feeling you must abandon your plans to wait for another appearance." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A dolphin follows your boat at a distance", "reflection": "The encounter continues while each of you occupies a different setting. This may picture connection that permits independence. Trying to make it come closer can change comfortable company into a need for reassurance." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Aquarium glass lets you watch it clearly", "reflection": "A boundary makes observation manageable while limiting contact. The scene can explore curiosity at a comfortable distance. If the enclosure feels too small, attention may shift toward whether visibility for you comes at a cost to the animal." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You seek help for a stranded dolphin", "reflection": "The creature needs a change in conditions rather than encouragement to behave differently. This can picture care requiring practical resources and shared effort. Help from others changes the burden from an impossible individual task toward cooperation." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "It swims away once it reaches water", "reflection": "Successful care ends the closeness that drew you into the scene. Relief may coexist with loss of company. The encounter can picture support whose purpose is another participant’s movement, rather than dependence that continues to reassure you." } ], "prompts": [ "Was sharing the dolphin’s pace comfortable or something I struggled to maintain?", "Did I enjoy contact as it happened or need to make it continue?", "What conditions helped the animal move freely, and how did I feel when it left?" ], "related": [ "fish", "porpoise", "whale", "water" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0645" ], "scope": "Attached historical comparison only: Dolphin — miller-0645 (Heading 645; source lines 7740–7745): The passage predicts coming under a new government and calls the dream unfavorable. These period assertions are preserved as attributed archival material; they neither validate this original modern reflection nor establish an outcome." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0199" ], "scope": "Attached historical comparison only: Dolphins — fontaine-0199 (Heading 199; source line 1797): Playing dolphins are connected to a forecast of a friend or relative dying. These period assertions are preserved as attributed archival material; they neither validate this original modern reflection nor establish an outcome." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0140" ], "scope": "Attached historical comparison only: Dolphin — noe-0140 (Dream section, heading 142; source lines 637–639): The seafaring passage predicts wind direction; a dolphin out of water receives a death-of-friends forecast. These period assertions are preserved as attributed archival material; they neither validate this original modern reflection nor establish an outcome." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0645", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Dolphin", "text": "To dream of a dolphin, indicates your liability to come under\na new government. It is not a very good dream.", "locator": "Heading 645; source lines 7740–7745", "lineStart": 7740, "lineEnd": 7745, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a dolphin, indicates your liability to come under\na new government. It is not a very good dream." }, { "id": "fontaine-0199", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Dolphins", "text": "To dream of seeing these beautiful fishes playing in the\nwater, denotes the death of some dear friend or relative. 5, 4.", "locator": "Heading 199; source line 1797", "lineStart": 1797, "lineEnd": 1800, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing these beautiful fishes playing in the\nwater, denotes the death of some dear friend or relative." }, { "id": "noe-0140", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Dolphin", "text": "To dream of a dolphin, shows to seafaring men a\nwind from the place whence you dream he cometh. But to dream you see the\ndolphin out of water, signifies the death of friends.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 142; source lines 637–639", "lineStart": 637, "lineEnd": 639, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a dolphin, shows to seafaring men a\nwind from the place whence you dream he cometh. But to dream you see the\ndolphin out of water, signifies the death of friends." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "dome", "title": "Dome", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are in the dome of a building, viewing a strange landscape, signifies a favorable change in your life.”", "aliases": [ "dome" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about dome stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0646", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Dome", "text": "To dream that you are in the dome of a building, viewing a\nstrange landscape, signifies a favorable change in your life.\nYou will occupy honorable places among strangers.\n\nTo behold a dome from a distance, portends that you will never\nreach the height of your ambition, and if you are in love,\nthe object of your desires will scorn your attention.", "locator": "Heading 646; source lines 7745–7755", "lineStart": 7745, "lineEnd": 7755, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are in the dome of a building, viewing a\nstrange landscape, signifies a favorable change in your life.\nYou will occupy honorable places among strangers.\n\nTo behold a dome from a distance, portends that you will never\nreach the height of your ambition, and if you are in love,\nthe object of your desires will scorn your attention." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "domestics", "title": "Domestics", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “To dream of having a great number of servants, is illness.”", "aliases": [ "domestics" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about domestics stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "servant" ], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0200", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Domestics", "text": "(_See Servants._) To dream of having a great number of\nservants, is illness. 71, 11.", "locator": "Heading 200; source line 1800", "lineStart": 1800, "lineEnd": 1803, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Servants.) To dream of having a great number of\nservants, is illness." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "servant" ] }, { "slug": "dominoes", "title": "Dominoes", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of playing at dominoes, and lose, you will be affronted by a friend, and much uneasiness for your safety will be entertained by…”", "aliases": [ "dominoes" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about dominoes stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0647", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Dominoes", "text": "To dream of playing at dominoes, and lose, you will be affronted by a friend,\nand much uneasiness for your safety will be entertained by your people,\nas you will not be discreet in your affairs with women or other matters\nthat engage your attention.\n\nIf you are the winner of the game, it foretells that you will be much courted\nand admired by certain dissolute characters, bringing you selfish pleasures,\nbut much distress to your relatives.", "locator": "Heading 647; source lines 7755–7766", "lineStart": 7755, "lineEnd": 7766, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of playing at dominoes, and lose, you will be affronted by a friend,\nand much uneasiness for your safety will be entertained by your people,\nas you will not be discreet in your affairs with women or other matters\nthat engage your attention.\n\nIf you are the winner of the game, it foretells that you will be much courted\nand admired by certain dissolute characters, bringing you selfish pleasures,\nbut much distress to your relatives." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "donkey", "title": "Donkey", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "7 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see an ass in a dream, you will meet many annoyances, and delays will accrue in receiving news or goods.” Compare 6 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "donkey", "ass", "asses" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about donkey stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0117", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Ass", "text": "To see an ass in a dream, you will meet many annoyances,\nand delays will accrue in receiving news or goods.\n\nTo see donkeys carrying burdens, denotes that, after patience and toil,\nyou will succeed in your undertakings, whether of travel or love.\n\nIf an ass pursues you, and you are afraid of it, you will be the victim\nof scandal or other displeasing reports.\n\nIf you unwillingly ride on one, or, as jockey, unnecessary\nquarrels may follow.\n\n[18] See Donkey.", "locator": "Heading 117; source lines 2755–2771", "lineStart": 2755, "lineEnd": 2771, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see an ass in a dream, you will meet many annoyances,\nand delays will accrue in receiving news or goods.\n\nTo see donkeys carrying burdens, denotes that, after patience and toil,\nyou will succeed in your undertakings, whether of travel or love.\n\nIf an ass pursues you, and you are afraid of it, you will be the victim\nof scandal or other displeasing reports.\n\nIf you unwillingly ride on one, or, as jockey, unnecessary\nquarrels may follow. See Donkey.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Ass” is shown on the Donkey page: same animal; archaic/modern word (existing overrides already treat both as Animals)" }, { "id": "miller-0648", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Donkey", "text": "To dream of a donkey braying in your face, denotes that you are about\nto be publicly insulted by a lewd and unscrupulous person.\n\nTo hear the distant braying filling space with melancholy,\nyou will receive wealth and release from unpleasant bonds\nby the death of some person close to you.\n\nIf you see yourself riding on a donkey, you will visit foreign lands\nand make many explorations into places difficult of passage.\n\nTo see others riding donkeys, denotes a meagre inheritance for them\nand a toiling life.\n\nTo dream of seeing many of the old patriarchs traveling on donkeys,\nshows that the influence of Christians will be thrown against you\nin your selfish wantonness, causing you to ponder over the rights\nand duties of man to man.\n\nTo drive a donkey, signifies that all your energies and pluck will be brought\ninto play against a desperate effort on the part of enemies to overthrow you.\nIf you are in love, evil women will cause you trouble.\n\nIf you are kicked by this little animal, it shows that you\nare carrying on illicit connections, from which you will suffer\nmuch anxiety from fear of betrayal.\n\nIf you lead one by a halter, you will be master of every situation,\nand lead women into your way of seeing things by flattery.\n\nTo see children riding and driving donkeys, signifies health\nand obedience for them.\n\nTo fall or be thrown from one, denotes ill luck and disappointment\nin secular affairs. Lovers will quarrel and separate.\n\nTo see one dead, denotes satiated appetites, resulting\nfrom licentious excesses.\n\nTo dream of drinking the milk of a donkey, denotes that whimsical desires\nwill be gratified, even to the displacement of important duties.\n\nIf you see in your dreams a strange donkey among your stock,\nor on your premises, you will inherit some valuable effects.\n\nTo dream of coming into the possession of a donkey by present, or buying,\nyou will attain to enviable heights in the business or social world,\nand if single, will contract a congenial marriage.\n\nTo dream of a white donkey, denotes an assured and lasting fortune,\nwhich will enable you to pursue the pleasures or studies that lie\nnearest your heart. For a woman, it signals entrance into that\nsociety for which she has long entertained the most ardent desire.\nWoman has in her composition those qualities, docility and stubbornness,\nwhich tallies with the same qualities in the donkey; both being\nsupplied from the same storehouse, mother Nature; and consequently,\nthey would naturally maintain an affinity, and the ugliest phase of\nthe donkey in her dreams are nothing but woman's nature being sounded\nfor her warning, or _vice versa_ when pleasure is just before her.", "locator": "Heading 648; source lines 7766–7827", "lineStart": 7766, "lineEnd": 7827, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a donkey braying in your face, denotes that you are about\nto be publicly insulted by a lewd and unscrupulous person.\n\nTo hear the distant braying filling space with melancholy,\nyou will receive wealth and release from unpleasant bonds\nby the death of some person close to you.\n\nIf you see yourself riding on a donkey, you will visit foreign lands\nand make many explorations into places difficult of passage.\n\nTo see others riding donkeys, denotes a meagre inheritance for them\nand a toiling life.\n\nTo dream of seeing many of the old patriarchs traveling on donkeys,\nshows that the influence of Christians will be thrown against you\nin your selfish wantonness, causing you to ponder over the rights\nand duties of man to man.\n\nTo drive a donkey, signifies that all your energies and pluck will be brought\ninto play against a desperate effort on the part of enemies to overthrow you.\nIf you are in love, evil women will cause you trouble.\n\nIf you are kicked by this little animal, it shows that you\nare carrying on illicit connections, from which you will suffer\nmuch anxiety from fear of betrayal.\n\nIf you lead one by a halter, you will be master of every situation,\nand lead women into your way of seeing things by flattery.\n\nTo see children riding and driving donkeys, signifies health\nand obedience for them.\n\nTo fall or be thrown from one, denotes ill luck and disappointment\nin secular affairs. Lovers will quarrel and separate.\n\nTo see one dead, denotes satiated appetites, resulting\nfrom licentious excesses.\n\nTo dream of drinking the milk of a donkey, denotes that whimsical desires\nwill be gratified, even to the displacement of important duties.\n\nIf you see in your dreams a strange donkey among your stock,\nor on your premises, you will inherit some valuable effects.\n\nTo dream of coming into the possession of a donkey by present, or buying,\nyou will attain to enviable heights in the business or social world,\nand if single, will contract a congenial marriage.\n\nTo dream of a white donkey, denotes an assured and lasting fortune,\nwhich will enable you to pursue the pleasures or studies that lie\nnearest your heart. For a woman, it signals entrance into that\nsociety for which she has long entertained the most ardent desire.\nWoman has in her composition those qualities, docility and stubbornness,\nwhich tallies with the same qualities in the donkey; both being\nsupplied from the same storehouse, mother Nature; and consequently,\nthey would naturally maintain an affinity, and the ugliest phase of\nthe donkey in her dreams are nothing but woman's nature being sounded\nfor her warning, or vice versa when pleasure is just before her." }, { "id": "fontaine-0035", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Ass", "text": "To dream you hear an ass bray, shows you will meet with some loss;\nto see an ass run, signifies misfortune. 62, 18, 20.", "locator": "Heading 35; source line 1125", "lineStart": 1125, "lineEnd": 1128, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you hear an ass bray, shows you will meet with some loss;\nto see an ass run, signifies misfortune.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Ass” is shown on the Donkey page: same animal; archaic/modern word (existing overrides already treat both as Animals)" }, { "id": "noe-0023", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Asses", "text": "To dream\nyou see jackasses, is a good sign. To dream you are riding on an ass, is\nthe forerunner of some foolish quarrel. To dream that you are driving an\nass, denotes that you will fall into some trouble, of which you will get\nthe better. To dream an ass runs after you, denotes that some slander will\nbe raised against you by some foolish persons, who will be themselves the\nvictims of the scandal raised against you. To dream you see an ass fall\nloaded, is a very good import and shows that you will be the founder of\nyour own fortune.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 23; source lines 184–192", "lineStart": 184, "lineEnd": 192, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream\nyou see jackasses, is a good sign. To dream you are riding on an ass, is\nthe forerunner of some foolish quarrel. To dream that you are driving an\nass, denotes that you will fall into some trouble, of which you will get\nthe better. To dream an ass runs after you, denotes that some slander will\nbe raised against you by some foolish persons, who will be themselves the\nvictims of the scandal raised against you. To dream you see an ass fall\nloaded, is a very good import and shows that you will be the founder of\nyour own fortune.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Ass” is shown on the Donkey page: same animal; archaic/modern word (existing overrides already treat both as Animals)" }, { "id": "cielo-0028", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Ass", "text": "Signifies a quarrel or scandal.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 28; source lines 3921–3923", "lineStart": 3921, "lineEnd": 3923, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Signifies a quarrel or scandal.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Ass” is shown on the Donkey page: same animal; archaic/modern word (existing overrides already treat both as Animals)" }, { "id": "luck-0054", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Donkey", "text": "Lucky omen, usually a legacy.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 54; source lines 3643–3645", "lineStart": 3643, "lineEnd": 3645, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Lucky omen, usually a legacy." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9043", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Ass", "heading": "Ass", "text": "A dream of patience that will enable the dreamer to overcome all obstacles. A Christian symbol of humility and patient endurance.", "lineStart": 9043, "lineEnd": 9046, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 198; NLM OCR lines 9043–9046", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9043, "lineEnd": 9046, "printedPage": 198, "printedPageEnd": 198 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Ass. — A dream of patience that will enable the dreamer \nto overcome all obstacles. A Christian symbol of humility and \npatient endurance. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Ass" }, "displayText": "A dream of patience that will enable the dreamer to overcome all obstacles. A Christian symbol of humility and patient endurance.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Ass” is shown on the Donkey page: same animal; archaic/modern word (existing overrides already treat both as Animals)" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "doomsday", "title": "Doomsday", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are living on, and looking forward to seeing doomsday, is a warning for you to give substantial and material affairs close…”", "aliases": [ "doomsday" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about doomsday stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0649", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Doomsday", "text": "To dream that you are living on, and looking forward to seeing doomsday,\nis a warning for you to give substantial and material affairs close attention,\nor you will find that the artful and scheming friends you are entertaining\nwill have possession of what they desire from you, which is your wealth,\nand not your sentimentality.\n\nTo a young woman, this dream encourages her to throw aside the attention\nof men above her in station and accept the love of an honest and deserving\nman near her.", "locator": "Heading 649; source lines 7827–7839", "lineStart": 7827, "lineEnd": 7839, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are living on, and looking forward to seeing doomsday,\nis a warning for you to give substantial and material affairs close attention,\nor you will find that the artful and scheming friends you are entertaining\nwill have possession of what they desire from you, which is your wealth,\nand not your sentimentality.\n\nTo a young woman, this dream encourages her to throw aside the attention\nof men above her in station and accept the love of an honest and deserving\nman near her." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "door", "title": "Door", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "aliases": [ "door", "doors", "doorway", "locked door", "open door", "closed door" ], "kind": "modern", "summary": "A door can suggest access, privacy, or a change you are deciding whether to enter. Opening it by choice differs from being forced through.", "tagline": "A boundary becomes a choice about who enters and where you go.", "psychological": "A door can picture the point where a possibility becomes an actual choice. You can imagine what lies beyond it while still standing outside. Opening a door into a welcoming room may fit readiness to join a group, begin work, or make a conversation less guarded. Remaining at the threshold can instead express mixed feelings: wanting a change while also wanting time to understand its terms.\n\nA locked door brings permission and access into focus. The obstacle may resemble being excluded, lacking information, or depending on someone else's approval. Being unable to enter your own home adds a particular tension: something that should feel available no longer does. A locked door you chose to secure has another reading, because keeping something outside can be an act of protecting private time or deciding what you are willing to share.\n\nA door that will not stay shut can give form to a boundary that takes repeated effort. Work messages reaching you after hours, family demands interrupting rest, or an unresolved disagreement returning to the same conversation could fit. The frustrating mechanism matters: you have made a decision, but the environment keeps undoing it.\n\nMany similar doors can picture uncertainty about which option leads where. Choosing one may require accepting that you cannot inspect every outcome first. A door opening onto an impossible place can suggest that a familiar role is beginning to contain unexpected possibilities, or that assumptions about what comes next no longer hold.\n\nThese readings change with who controls the door and whether you want passage. A recent building, forgotten key, privacy dispute, or story can also supply the image directly. The strongest connection is the specific experience of access or closure, rather than a rule that open doors are always fortunate.", "traditional": "Miller assigns gloomy forecasts to most entrances, with an exception for a childhood home, and adds gendered moral judgments and injury or misfortune claims. Fontaine makes admission favorable and refusal disappointing. Cielo calls an open door opportunity and a closed one adventure. These are attributed period beliefs rather than evidence about an actual person, danger or future event. The original reflection follows access, chosen privacy and the terms of entering; closure can protect something wanted rather than necessarily prevent a favorable outcome.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Access and permission", "reflection": "A locked or guarded entrance can picture depending on approval, information, or resources. Being refused your own doorway adds the feeling that something familiar has become unexpectedly unavailable." }, { "title": "A boundary that holds or fails", "reflection": "Closing a door by choice can express privacy. A door that repeatedly opens may picture demands returning despite your attempts to protect time, space, or a decision." }, { "title": "Readiness for a new situation", "reflection": "Standing at a threshold can join desire with hesitation. Entering a room may suggest commitment, while choosing to wait can preserve time to understand what participation would require." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "You open a door into a welcoming room", "reflection": "This can picture being ready to participate after a period of hesitation. A new team, renewed friendship, or opportunity you have considered may fit. The welcome makes the scene about gaining a place, rather than change in the abstract.", "slug": "scene-1" }, { "title": "Your own front door is locked against you", "reflection": "Exclusion from a familiar place can suggest uncertainty about belonging or access you once took for granted. A changed household arrangement or shifting role at work could fit. The fact that it is your door makes the loss of familiarity central.", "slug": "scene-2" }, { "title": "Someone knocks and you choose not to answer", "reflection": "This may express the need to decide when you are available. Refusing entry can fit protecting rest, postponing an unwanted conversation, or keeping a private concern private. Relief suggests a useful boundary; guilt may make competing obligations more important.", "slug": "scene-3" }, { "title": "A door keeps swinging open after you close it", "reflection": "Repeated reopening can picture a demand that returns after you believe it is settled. Work intruding into evenings or an argument revisiting the same point offers a parallel. The problem is maintaining the decision, rather than being unable to make one.", "slug": "scene-4" }, { "title": "Many identical doors lead to different rooms", "reflection": "The scene can express choosing without knowing all the consequences. Similar job offers, competing plans, or unclear responsibilities may feel equally plausible from outside. Entering one room can shift the question from selecting perfectly to learning through an actual commitment.", "slug": "scene-5" }, { "title": "A door stands alone without a wall", "reflection": "A boundary that can be walked around may suggest a rule whose practical purpose has become unclear. You might be treating an old expectation as a barrier when circumstances have changed. The scene can also be playful, making an ordinary structure unexpectedly optional.", "slug": "scene-6" } ], "prompts": [ "What did passage through this door make possible, and did I want it?", "Who controlled access, and where does that same arrangement exist in my life?", "Was closure protecting something valuable or preventing contact I wanted?" ], "related": [ "key", "locked-out", "house", "window" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s continuing English editorial delegation. Historical accounts retain their attribution; general sleep background does not validate these interpretations.", "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0650" ], "scope": "Historical context only: Door — miller-0650, Heading 650; source lines 7839–7864. These are period fortune-telling beliefs, not evidence for the modern interpretations." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0201" ], "scope": "Historical context only: Doors — fontaine-0201, Heading 201; source line 1803. These are period fortune-telling beliefs, not evidence for the modern interpretations." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "scope": "Attached historical comparison only: Door — cielo-0139 (Dream section, heading 139; source lines 4188–4190). These attributed period claims and cross-references do not establish outcomes, diagnoses, cultural consensus or the original modern interpretations.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0139" ] }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "DreamFolia AI-assisted editorial review", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "bed", "bathroom", "bridge", "door", "window", "stairs", "road", "clothes", "shoes", "driving", "being-late", "crying", "running", "swimming", "river", "snow", "moon", "sun", "mountain", "fish" ] }, "decisionReason": "Six scenes develop admission, familiar access, chosen closure, recurring intrusion, uncertain options and a door without a wall. 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This is the same\nof any door, except the door of your childhood home.\nIf it is this door you dream of entering, your days will be\nfilled with plenty and congeniality.\n\nTo dream of entering a door at night through the rain, denotes, to women,\nunpardonable escapades; to a man, it is significant of a drawing on his\nresources by unwarranted vice, and also foretells assignations.\n\nTo see others go through a doorway, denotes unsuccessful\nattempts to get your affairs into a paying condition.\nIt also means changes to farmers and the political world.\nTo an author, it foretells that the reading public will reprove\nhis way of stating facts by refusing to read his later works.\n\nTo dream that you attempt to close a door, and it falls from\nits hinges, injuring some one, denotes that malignant evil\nthreatens your friend through your unintentionally wrong advice.\nIf you see another attempt to lock a door, and it falls from\nits hinges, you will have knowledge of some friend's misfortune\nand be powerless to aid him.", "locator": "Heading 650; source lines 7839–7864", "lineStart": 7839, "lineEnd": 7864, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of entering a door, denotes slander, and enemies\nfrom whom you are trying in vain to escape. This is the same\nof any door, except the door of your childhood home.\nIf it is this door you dream of entering, your days will be\nfilled with plenty and congeniality.\n\nTo dream of entering a door at night through the rain, denotes, to women,\nunpardonable escapades; to a man, it is significant of a drawing on his\nresources by unwarranted vice, and also foretells assignations.\n\nTo see others go through a doorway, denotes unsuccessful\nattempts to get your affairs into a paying condition.\nIt also means changes to farmers and the political world.\nTo an author, it foretells that the reading public will reprove\nhis way of stating facts by refusing to read his later works.\n\nTo dream that you attempt to close a door, and it falls from\nits hinges, injuring some one, denotes that malignant evil\nthreatens your friend through your unintentionally wrong advice.\nIf you see another attempt to lock a door, and it falls from\nits hinges, you will have knowledge of some friend's misfortune\nand be powerless to aid him." }, { "id": "fontaine-0201", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Doors", "text": "To dream you knock at a door, and gain admittance, shows\nsuccess in your undertakings; if you cannot obtain entrance, it shows\ndisappointment. 16, 9.", "locator": "Heading 201; source line 1803", "lineStart": 1803, "lineEnd": 1807, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you knock at a door, and gain admittance, shows\nsuccess in your undertakings; if you cannot obtain entrance, it shows\ndisappointment." }, { "id": "cielo-0139", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Door", "text": "An open door means opportunity; a closed door, adventure.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 139; source lines 4188–4190", "lineStart": 4188, "lineEnd": 4190, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "An open door means opportunity; a closed door, adventure." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "door-bell", "title": "Door Bell", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream you hear or ring a door bell, foretells unexpected tidings, or a hasty summons to business, or the bedtide of a sick relative.”", "aliases": [ "door bell" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about door bell stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0651", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Door Bell", "text": "To dream you hear or ring a door bell, foretells unexpected tidings,\nor a hasty summons to business, or the bedtide of a sick relative.", "locator": "Heading 651; source lines 7864–7869", "lineStart": 7864, "lineEnd": 7869, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you hear or ring a door bell, foretells unexpected tidings,\nor a hasty summons to business, or the bedtide of a sick relative." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "doves", "title": "Doves", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "aliases": [ "doves", "dove" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "summary": "Doves can explore the terms of a shared ceremony, care that occupies your hands, and companionship that leaves room for separate movement.", "tagline": "A gentle-looking encounter still has practical needs and choices.", "psychological": "Releasing a dove during a celebration can picture a shared gesture whose meaning depends on whether you choose it. You may enjoy contributing to an occasion while wanting the bird’s movement to remain its own. A public agreement or family ritual may have a similar tension between participation and a rehearsed outcome. If release feels compulsory, the scene can concern the conditions of the ceremony rather than a promise of peace.\n\nA dove resting on your hand can make welcome company occupy the means you need for another task. Tenderness may coexist with wanting to finish work or move comfortably. Caring for someone while keeping an ordinary responsibility can offer a parallel. Finding another resting place need not end the relationship; it can make both care and practical action possible.\n\nTwo doves bringing materials to a place that will not hold them can make shared effort depend on suitable conditions. You may recognize an arrangement receiving sincere contributions without having enough room, stability or agreement to support what is being built. Altering the setting differs from asking the participants to work harder within the same limitation.\n\nA dove present during an argument can complicate a familiar image of calm. You may expect an occasion or role to carry a reassuring appearance while the actual exchange remains difficult. A personal association with harmony can be part of the scene without requiring the disagreement to disappear or become a forecast about the relationship.\n\nA dove accompanying you for part of a walk and then taking another direction can picture company that does not need identical destinations. A bird carrying a message too heavy for it can instead make the means of connection need care before delivery becomes possible. Ceremonies, pictures, a pet or a remembered story may supply these images directly. These readings follow chosen participation, shared conditions and practical companionship. They do not assign the species or a white appearance innocence, fidelity, religious truth or authority about someone’s intentions. A similar-looking bird in another setting may invite another reading when the particular task or relationship changes.", "traditional": "Miller’s Dove accounts range from nesting and white flocks to adverse calls, death and letter forecasts. Fontaine, Cielo and Everybody’s Book of Luck favor love/home outcomes; the 1805 passage assigns constancy to a dove on the hand or in view. Craig reports historical predictions and religious associations. These six records do not establish fidelity, death, contact or universal cultural meanings.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A shared gesture remains chosen", "reflection": "Participation in a ceremony can be meaningful without making the visitor’s response a guaranteed outcome." }, { "title": "Care leaves room for another task", "reflection": "Welcome closeness can need a practical arrangement that supports both companionship and use of your hands." }, { "title": "Company need not share every destination", "reflection": "A connection can retain value while its route, conditions or means of communication change." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You are asked to release a dove during a celebration", "reflection": "A public gesture has terms beyond its appearance. This may picture participating in a ritual while wanting your contribution chosen. Pleasure and reluctance create different readings; releasing the bird does not guarantee harmony, fidelity or a future outcome for the people present." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A dove stays on your hand while you need to complete a task", "reflection": "Company occupies a practical resource you also need elsewhere. This can resemble balancing care with ordinary responsibilities. Another resting place can preserve the connection while allowing action, without requiring either indefinite stillness or an abrupt end to companionship." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Two doves build where the supporting surface keeps shifting", "reflection": "Contributions continue while the conditions cannot hold the result. This may picture sincere shared effort needing another arrangement. Stabilizing the setting can be different from increasing effort; the dream does not decide who should supply all the missing support." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A dove remains nearby while people argue", "reflection": "A reassuring image and an actual disagreement occupy the same scene. This can fit an occasion expected to look calm despite unfinished concerns. Making room for the disagreement may be more useful than demanding that the appearance prove the participants already agree." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A dove follows part of your walk before taking another direction", "reflection": "Company continues for a meaningful distance without one destination for everyone. This may picture a shared stage of work or relationship. The part you traveled together can retain value without treating separate movement as betrayal or requiring the encounter to last indefinitely." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "A dove struggles with the weight of a message", "reflection": "A means of connection has needs of its own. This can resemble an overloaded messenger or process carrying too much responsibility. Changing the load or route may make delivery possible, without turning the dreamed message into news about an actual person." } ], "prompts": [ "What made participation in the shared gesture feel chosen?", "How could care and your other task both have room?", "Which part of the companionship remained valuable when its route changed?" ], "related": [ "bird", "pigeon", "nest", "wedding" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0652" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. miller-0652 — Doves (Heading 652; source lines 7869–7898): Mating/nesting, calls, dead/white doves, flocks and delivered letters receive home, family, harvest, illness, death or other forecasts." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0202" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. fontaine-0202 — Dove (Heading 202; source line 1807): Labels doves emblems of love and predicts good fortune." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0140" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. cielo-0140 — Dove (Dream section, heading 140; source lines 4190–4192): Briefly predicts happiness at home." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0055" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. luck-0055 — Doves (Dream section, heading 55; source lines 3645–3648): Predicts success for lovers and pleasure for the married." }, { "id": "moles-71045", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams and Moles", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "United Kingdom, J. Marshall, 1805", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71045", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "moles-0010" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. moles-0010 — Doves (Dreams interpreted, passage 10; source lines 139–139): A dove on the hand or in view is assigned constancy." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L9776" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. craig-1918:L9776 — Dove (Printed p. 212–213; NLM OCR lines 9776–9786): Reports Artemidorus-attributed home/fidelity claims and religious/erotic associations; these are Craig’s account, not independently verified cultural facts." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection independently reviewed for content and source scope. Historical accounts remain attributed period writing. 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To the married, they denote a\npleasure in store.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 55; source lines 3645–3648", "lineStart": 3645, "lineEnd": 3648, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Success, especially to lovers. To the married, they denote a\npleasure in store." }, { "id": "moles-0010", "sourceId": "moles-71045", "heading": "Doves", "originalHeading": "(no printed heading)", "text": "To dream that a dove is on your hand, or in your view, means constancy.", "locator": "Dreams interpreted, passage 10; source lines 139–139", "lineStart": 139, "lineEnd": 139, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "editorialNote": "The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Doves” because that is the subject of its first clause.", "displayText": "To dream that a dove is on your hand, or in your view, means constancy." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9776", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Dove", "heading": "Dove", "text": "A fortunate dream denoting happiness and fidelity at home (Artemidorus). Originally an erotic symbol as the bird of Aphrodite, it became at a later date the bird of holiness, symbolizing the sacrificial offerings of the Hebrews. 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In the \ngreat Upanishads the human spirit is represented as a dove. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [ { "line": 9779, "text": "SYMBOLISM IN DREAMS 213 " } ], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Dove" }, "displayText": "A fortunate dream denoting happiness and fidelity at home (Artemidorus). Originally an erotic symbol as the bird of Aphrodite, it became at a later date the bird of holiness, symbolizing the sacrificial offerings of the Hebrews. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0653", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Dowry", "text": "To dream that you fail to receive a dowry, signifies penury\nand a cold world to depend on for a living. If you receive it,\nyour expectations for the day will be fulfilled. The opposite\nmay be expected if the dream is superinduced by the previous\naction of the waking mind.", "locator": "Heading 653; source lines 7898–7906", "lineStart": 7898, "lineEnd": 7906, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you fail to receive a dowry, signifies penury\nand a cold world to depend on for a living. If you receive it,\nyour expectations for the day will be fulfilled. The opposite\nmay be expected if the dream is superinduced by the previous\naction of the waking mind." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "dragon", "title": "Dragon", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a dragon, denotes that you allow yourself to be governed by your passions, and that you are…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "dragon" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about dragon stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "devil" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0654", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Dragon", "text": "To dream of a dragon, denotes that you allow yourself to be governed\nby your passions, and that you are likely to place yourself in the power\nof your enemies through those outbursts of sardonic tendencies.\nYou should be warned by this dream to cultivate self-control.\n\n\n[57] See Devil.", "locator": "Heading 654; source lines 7906–7916", "lineStart": 7906, "lineEnd": 7916, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a dragon, denotes that you allow yourself to be governed\nby your passions, and that you are likely to place yourself in the power\nof your enemies through those outbursts of sardonic tendencies.\nYou should be warned by this dream to cultivate self-control. See Devil." }, { "id": "noe-0126", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Dragon", "text": "To dream you see a dragon signifies riches and gain\nof great treasure.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 128; source lines 585–586", "lineStart": 585, "lineEnd": 586, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see a dragon signifies riches and gain\nof great treasure." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9787", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Dragon", "heading": "Dragon", "text": "A dream of sudden changes in the worldly condition, riches and treasure (Raphael). In Christian art the dragon symbolizes Satan, or sin. With the Chinese a dragon, or winged serpent, is regarded as the symbol of the Infinite Intelligence, keeping ward over the Tree of Knowledge ; a dragon was also the standard of the Welsh, of the West Saxons, of the Phoenicians and of the Chinese Manchu dynasty. The Celts use the word dragon to signify a chief, a dictator in time of danger, and probably the dream interpretation is derived from this symbol.", "lineStart": 9787, "lineEnd": 9797, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 213; NLM OCR lines 9787–9797", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9787, "lineEnd": 9797, "printedPage": 213, "printedPageEnd": 213 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Dragon. — A dream of sudden changes in the worldly con- \ndition, riches and treasure (Raphael). In Christian art the \ndragon symbolizes Satan, or sin. With the Chinese a dragon, \nor winged serpent, is regarded as the symbol of the Infinite In- \ntelligence, keeping ward over the Tree of Knowledge ; a dragon \nwas also the standard of the Welsh, of the West Saxons, of \nthe Phoenicians and of the Chinese Manchu dynasty. The \nCelts use the word dragon to signify a chief, a dictator in \ntime of danger, and probably the dream interpretation is de- \nrived from this symbol. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "con- \ndition", "after": "condition", "evidenceLine": 614 }, { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "In- \ntelligence", "after": "Intelligence", "evidenceLine": 997 }, { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "de- \nrived", "after": "derived", "evidenceLine": 2363 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Dragon" }, "displayText": "A dream of sudden changes in the worldly condition, riches and treasure (Raphael). In Christian art the dragon symbolizes Satan, or sin. With the Chinese a dragon, or winged serpent, is regarded as the symbol of the Infinite Intelligence, keeping ward over the Tree of Knowledge; a dragon was also the standard of the Welsh, of the West Saxons, of the Phoenicians and of the Chinese Manchu dynasty. The Celts use the word dragon to signify a chief, a dictator in time of danger, and probably the dream interpretation is derived from this symbol." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "devil" ] }, { "slug": "dragonfly", "title": "Dragonfly", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "A pause in the air, then a direction you did not expect.", "summary": "A dragonfly's hovering, sudden turns, or delicate wings may invite reflection on flexible attention, elusive opportunities, and careful handling.", "aliases": [ "dragonfly", "dragonflies" ], "status": "REVIEW", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A dragonfly that hovers and abruptly changes direction can make an unusual pattern of attention visible. If you follow its turns easily, the scene may fit flexibility: adjusting a plan when circumstances change, switching between creative ideas, or finding another route through a difficulty. Movement that feels effortless suggests a different possibility from movement that leaves you frustrated and unable to keep up.\n\nAn elusive dragonfly can give shape to something appealing that will not stay where you want it. You might be trying to photograph it, catch it, or persuade it to land. That pursuit may resemble chasing a fleeting idea, seeking a clear answer from an uncertain project, or trying to preserve a moment of enjoyment. If watching becomes satisfying once you stop reaching, the dream may explore attention without possession.\n\nWater and air create another distinction when both appear in the scene. A dragonfly moving above a pond might draw your attention between a quiet surface and rapid movement. This could fit alternating between thinking privately and acting in public, especially if the change of position feels important. The pond may also be simply a remembered place where you enjoyed being outdoors; it need not represent a hidden emotional depth.\n\nClose contact shifts the focus toward handling. A dragonfly resting on your hand can make stillness feel active: you allow something delicate to remain without gripping it. Trying to repair a damaged wing may resemble helping with a situation that careful intentions cannot fully control. A new collaboration or an unfinished creative work could provide a waking parallel if its fragility matches the encounter.\n\nColor, light, and pleasure deserve their own reading. Shimmering wings may be the memorable feature, with no pursuit or injury at all. The dream can give attention to a brief experience of beauty, surprise, or absorption. Choose a possible meaning that accounts for the encounter's pace and your role in it.", "traditional": "No matching historical dragonfly record has been supplied here. The context is original and everyday: ponds, outdoor walks, photographs, and remembered close encounters can give the scene its material. Hovering, turns, and wings are considered as details of the dream image, without assigning the species a fixed spiritual message or importing forecasts from other insect entries.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Changing direction with ease", "reflection": "A dragonfly's quick turns may offer an image of flexibility. Satisfaction with following it can fit adapting a plan or moving between ideas without losing your sense of direction." }, { "title": "Attention without capture", "reflection": "An encounter that improves when you stop reaching can explore enjoyment without keeping the object. This reading fits the difference between noticing a moment and making it stay." }, { "title": "Careful contact", "reflection": "A resting or injured dragonfly can center on delicacy. Consider whether your help gives it space, requires patience, or reaches a limit that more effort cannot remove." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A dragonfly hovers above a pond", "reflection": "It remains almost still while you watch from the edge. This may fit a useful pause before action or the pleasure of attention settling on one detail. An uneasy wait, however, could make the same hovering feel like indecision or a moment that will not develop." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "It changes direction whenever you follow", "reflection": "Each turn sends you along a new route. If keeping up feels playful, the scene may explore flexible movement through changing plans. If it exhausts you, it could resemble pursuing a shifting target, such as requirements that change before you can finish the work." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A dragonfly rests on your hand", "reflection": "You hold still so it can remain close. This may give shape to contact that depends on allowing room rather than tightening your grip. Calm supports a reading of trust or patience; tension may instead concern fear of spoiling an unfamiliar, delicate encounter." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You cannot photograph its shining wings", "reflection": "The image blurs or the dragonfly moves just before each picture. The scene may resemble trying to turn a fleeting pleasure into a lasting record. Frustration centers on unsuccessful capture, while deciding to watch can shift the encounter toward enjoying what is available now." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A dragonfly is trapped against a window", "reflection": "It keeps approaching a bright surface without finding the opening nearby. This may fit effort aimed at an apparent route that does not work. Helping it through an open door offers a different focus: changing conditions can accomplish more than repeating the same attempt." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You try to help a dragonfly with a damaged wing", "reflection": "You want it to fly, but your careful efforts do not immediately restore movement. This may resemble supporting a fragile project or situation without being able to guarantee the outcome. If help arrives, the emphasis can shift from solitary responsibility to accepting another person's practical contribution." } ], "prompts": [ "Did its changes of direction feel flexible, elusive, or exhausting to follow?", "What happened when I stopped trying to catch, guide, or record it?", "Did closeness require stillness, careful help, or a different opening?" ], "related": [ "butterfly", "water", "flying", "garden" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflections with everyday context; no matching historical passage supplied. General sleep research does not validate these symbol readings. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "dram-drinking", "title": "Dram-drinking", "type": "dreams", "category": "Other symbols", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To be given to dram-drinking in your dreams, omens ill-natured rivalry and contention for small possession.”", "aliases": [ "dram-drinking" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about dram-drinking stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0656", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Dram-drinking", "text": "To be given to dram-drinking in your dreams, omens ill-natured rivalry\nand contention for small possession. To think you have quit dram-drinking,\nor find that others have done so, shows that you will rise above present\nestate and rejoice in prosperity.", "locator": "Heading 656; source lines 7926–7933", "lineStart": 7926, "lineEnd": 7933, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To be given to dram-drinking in your dreams, omens ill-natured rivalry\nand contention for small possession. To think you have quit dram-drinking,\nor find that others have done so, shows that you will rise above present\nestate and rejoice in prosperity." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "drama", "title": "Drama", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see a drama, signifies pleasant reunions with distant friends.”", "aliases": [ "drama" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about drama stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0655", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Drama", "text": "To see a drama, signifies pleasant reunions with distant friends.\n\nTo be bored with the performance of a drama, you will be forced to accept\nan uncongenial companion at some entertainment or secret affair.\n\nTo write one, portends that you will be plunged into distress and debt,\nto be extricated as if by a miracle.", "locator": "Heading 655; source lines 7916–7926", "lineStart": 7916, "lineEnd": 7926, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a drama, signifies pleasant reunions with distant friends.\n\nTo be bored with the performance of a drama, you will be forced to accept\nan uncongenial companion at some entertainment or secret affair.\n\nTo write one, portends that you will be plunged into distress and debt,\nto be extricated as if by a miracle." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "draw-knife", "title": "Draw-knife", "type": "dreams", "category": "Other symbols", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see or use a draw-knife, portends unfulfiled hopes or desires.”", "aliases": [ "draw-knife" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about draw-knife stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0657", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Draw-knife", "text": "To see or use a draw-knife, portends unfulfiled hopes or desires.\n\nSome fair prospect will loom before you, only to go down in\nmistake and disappointment.", "locator": "Heading 657; source lines 7933–7940", "lineStart": 7933, "lineEnd": 7940, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see or use a draw-knife, portends unfulfiled hopes or desires.\n\nSome fair prospect will loom before you, only to go down in\nmistake and disappointment." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "drawing", "title": "Drawing", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "An unfinished picture can still make an idea available to understand.", "summary": "Drawing dreams can explore beginning an account, revising what you show and allowing a rough form to communicate. This page concerns making pictures.", "aliases": [ "drawing", "drawing pictures", "sketching", "sketch" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "Drawing a picture gives an idea a form that can change while you work. In a dream, this can picture trying to describe an experience before you have a complete account of it. A project, conversation or developing role may provide a parallel. An initial mark can be useful because it makes another step possible. You do not have to know the finished image for the beginning to have a purpose.\n\nPerspective can alter a familiar subject without making either view false. You draw something from another angle and notice a part you had not included before. This can resemble explaining a shared event from your position while recognizing that somebody else saw another aspect. The picture may remain selective and useful. A complete account is not always the task the scene requires.\n\nRepeated erasing can give revision different meanings. A correction may improve the fit between what you mean and what appears. Returning to the same patch indefinitely can instead make the standard difficult to satisfy or leave no room for the rest of the work. A conversation or proposal may feel similar when preparation never becomes something another person can receive.\n\nSomeone recognizing a detail you did not intend can make expression partly shared. Their association may be interesting, mismatched or too personal for the audience you had in mind. The dream does not recover a hidden motive from the image. It can show the difference between intended meaning and a response that adds another perspective.\n\nA rough sketch communicating clearly can picture a form adequate to its present purpose. More polish may not be what the encounter needs. Leaving space to return can keep the work open without making it worthless or permanently incomplete. Recent making, diagrams and remembered images may supply the scene directly. These original reflections concern picture-making; lottery drawings, pulling actions and drawing blood are separate senses, and no fixed interpretation is assigned to the mark itself.", "traditional": "Cielo’s supplied Drawing entry contains only a rejection-of-marriage statement, with no scene identifying picture-making or another sense. Its meaning is therefore ambiguous within that historical account. These original reflections concern making a picture and do not treat the bare forecast as evidence for an image’s meaning or a relationship outcome.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A beginning that permits another step", "reflection": "A mark can make an account usable before its final form is known. The scene may value developing understanding rather than demand certainty before any expression begins." }, { "title": "A selective but useful perspective", "reflection": "Another angle can reveal a different part of a familiar subject. A picture may serve its purpose without containing every participant’s complete account." }, { "title": "Revision with a point of use", "reflection": "Erasing and refining can improve communication or keep it permanently in preparation. A rough form may be enough when the encounter needs clarity rather than polish." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You begin with a mark before knowing the final picture", "reflection": "An initial mark without a final plan can picture beginning to express something still developing. A conversation or project may fit. Its value can be enabling the next step, rather than immediately demonstrating a finished account." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A familiar subject changes when viewed from another angle", "reflection": "A familiar subject at another angle can picture a perspective that reveals what your usual account leaves outside. A shared event may feel similar. Difference need not make either view dishonest or require one drawing to contain everything." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You keep erasing the same section", "reflection": "Repeated erasing can picture revision whose purpose has become hard to recognize. A proposal or explanation may never reach another person because the same patch remains unsettled. A workable point of use can matter more than another correction." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Someone recognizes something you did not intend to show", "reflection": "Unexpected recognition can picture an audience adding an association beyond your intended meaning. Their response may offer perspective or feel misplaced. The dream cannot reveal a hidden motive or establish what a real observer thinks." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A rough sketch communicates more than a polished one", "reflection": "A rough sketch communicating well can picture a form fitted to the current task. An outline or simple explanation may be enough to create understanding. Greater polish is not automatically more useful when the purpose is a shared next step." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You leave room to return rather than declare it finished", "reflection": "Leaving room to return can picture a useful pause in an account still developing. The work may have served this stage without becoming final. Chosen provisionality differs from being prevented from making the picture available at all." } ], "prompts": [ "What did the first marks make possible before the account was complete?", "Which perspective or response changed what I wanted to show?", "When did revision help communication, and when did it postpone use?" ], "related": [ "painting", "pictures", "artist", "paper" ], "sources": [ { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0141" ], "scope": "Cielo’s bare Drawing heading says rejection of marriage without identifying the scene or specifying art-making; it cannot substantiate art-specific modern readings. Exact supplied record(s): cielo-0141 — Drawing (Dream section, heading 141; source lines 4192–4194). Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence for the original reflection, a diagnosis or an actual outcome." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "cielo-0141", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Drawing", "text": "Indicates a rejection of marriage.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 141; source lines 4192–4194", "lineStart": 4192, "lineEnd": 4194, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Indicates a rejection of marriage." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "dreaming-in-black-and-white", "title": "Dreaming in black and white", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "summary": "A monochrome dream can explore a scene framed like a picture, feeling that differs from its style, or a detail made distinct within a limited palette.", "tagline": "The visual format does not settle the feeling.", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "aliases": [ "black and white dream", "monochrome dream" ], "psychological": "A black-and-white dream that resembles a film can picture an encounter framed for you to watch as well as experience. You may see your own activity from outside, recognize a familiar visual style, or feel that an ordinary event has become a story. A photograph, remembered scene, or recent viewing can supply direct associations. Distance may make the event easier to consider, while feeling reduced to a role can create another relationship with the same format.\n\nAn energetic or joyful monochrome scene makes its actual feeling more informative than an assumed meaning of the palette. The company, activity, and freedom to participate may remain vivid even without several hues. This can picture an experience whose value does not depend on an elaborate presentation. If the scene feels flat or disconnected, that feeling deserves its own context; the visual style alone cannot decide which emotional reading fits.\n\nOne colored detail within the format can make selection central. A small object or participant becomes distinct while the rest of the setting shares another appearance. A preference retained through a standardized process or one meaningful detail within a broad account can offer parallels. The exception may invite contact, or become conspicuous in a way you did not want. Its relation to the scene matters more than assigning its hue a predetermined message.\n\nSharp contrasts can make shapes readable while leaving finer distinctions unavailable. A dream map showing only two routes may resemble a choice described too narrowly for what you need. Finding another opening changes the arrangement without making all black-and-white dreams evidence of rigid thinking. Colors returning can similarly enrich the experience or make it harder to follow; the change is useful through what participation it allows.\n\nA remembered monochrome appearance is different from having no particular color details in your account. Uncertainty can remain uncertainty instead of becoming an invented format. Another dream character describing colors you cannot see may make differing accounts part of the scene, without establishing whose perception is correct. These readings follow framing, feeling, and selective detail. They do not turn limited color into a claim about emotional capacity, memory accuracy, or physical health.", "traditional": "NINDS states that some people dream in color while others recall dreams in black and white. This is limited background about reported appearance, not evidence for emotional or symbolic meanings. No matching whole-monochrome historical account is attached. Individual hue omens and colored-object forecasts are not applied to this format.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A framed encounter", "reflection": "A film-like format can create useful viewing distance or make you feel confined to a role." }, { "title": "Feeling beyond the palette", "reflection": "Company and participation can remain emotionally vivid when the scene contains few or no remembered hues." }, { "title": "Selection and contrast", "reflection": "One exception or a sharply divided map can change what remains visible within the whole format." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "The dream resembles a film you watch and enter", "reflection": "The event is both an activity and a framed account. This may picture considering an experience from another position. Distance can help understanding, while feeling cast in an unwanted role changes the same format toward limits on how you participate in the story." }, { "title": "Strong joy remains in a monochrome landscape", "reflection": "The activity and company carry a feeling the palette alone does not explain. This can picture value that remains available through a simple presentation. The joy belongs to the specific encounter, without requiring monochrome dreams to have either a positive or a negative emotional rule." }, { "title": "One colored object stands apart from the whole scene", "reflection": "An exception gains a distinct place within a shared format. This may picture retaining a preference or meaningful detail inside a broad arrangement. Wanted emphasis differs from uncomfortable exposure; what the object does can matter as much as its unusual appearance." }, { "title": "A high-contrast map offers only two routes", "reflection": "The format makes an arrangement easy to read but too narrow for the journey you want. This may resemble a choice presented without useful alternatives. Another opening can change the practical options, rather than making the palette a test of how flexibly you think." }, { "title": "Colors return and change how you participate", "reflection": "A different format alters the experience without changing every event. This can picture discovering more detail or receiving more options. Relief differs from distraction; the new palette matters through whether it supports the activity you wanted to continue." }, { "title": "Another character names colors you cannot see", "reflection": "The shared scene receives accounts that do not align. This may picture wanting your experience included without deciding the other account must be false. The difference belongs to the dream’s encounter, not a diagnosis or proof about anyone’s actual visual perception." } ], "prompts": [ "Which parts of the visual format do you remember clearly, and which remain uncertain?", "How did the actual feeling relate to the way the scene looked?", "What did a contrast, exception, or change of format make possible?" ], "related": [ "colors", "black", "white", "gray", "photograph" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General dream background, including the limited statement that some people dream in color while others recall dreams in black and white. Does not explain an individual palette, measure recall accuracy or emotional capacity, or validate this entry’s original symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "dreams", "title": "Dreams", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “To dream you relate your dreams to any one, shows something unlooked for will take place.”", "aliases": [ "dreams" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about dreams stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "sleep" ], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0204", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Dreams", "text": "(_See Sleep._) To dream you relate your dreams to any one,\nshows something unlooked for will take place. 41, 18.", "locator": "Heading 204; source line 1815", "lineStart": 1815, "lineEnd": 1818, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Sleep.) To dream you relate your dreams to any one,\nshows something unlooked for will take place." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "sleep" ] }, { "slug": "dregs", "title": "Dregs", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “A dream of poverty, failure and loss (Gypsy).”", "aliases": [ "dregs" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about dregs stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L9803", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Dregs", "heading": "Dregs", "text": "A dream of poverty, failure and loss (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 9803, "lineEnd": 9804, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 213; NLM OCR lines 9803–9804", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9803, "lineEnd": 9804, "printedPage": 213, "printedPageEnd": 213 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Dregs. — A dream of poverty, failure and loss (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Dregs" }, "displayText": "A dream of poverty, failure and loss (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "dress", "title": "Dress", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "aliases": [ "dress", "dresses", "a dress", "the dress", "my dress", "white dress", "ill-fitting dress", "dress doesn't fit", "dress does not fit", "wearing a dress", "trying on a dress", "long dress", "short dress" ], "detectionAliases": [ "a dress", "the dress", "my dress", "white dress", "ill-fitting dress", "dress doesn't fit", "dress does not fit", "wearing a dress", "trying on a dress", "long dress", "short dress" ], "kind": "editorial", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "summary": "A dress can explore whether a chosen presentation suits the activity, how a garment allows movement, or who decides what an occasion requires.", "tagline": "A garment chosen for the day you actually have.", "psychological": "A dress in a dream can make the relation between appearance and activity concrete. You might choose one for a particular occasion, find that its shape restricts movement, change a seam or discover that the plans have changed. Begin with the garment you remember and the task it allowed or interrupted. Its color, length and style matter through your own associations and what happened, rather than a shared rule about gender, character or relationships.\n\nChoosing a dress for one event and arriving at another can place preparation beside changing conditions. An outfit selected for sitting quietly may become impractical when you need to climb stairs, carry something or work outside. This can resemble a plan that made sense before a task acquired other requirements. Altering the garment, finding another one or continuing in it gives the mismatch different possible directions.\n\nFit can also become a practical question about room to participate. A dress that allows you to move easily differs from one that tightens whenever you reach for something. The dream may picture an arrangement that works while you stay still but becomes restrictive when you act. If the fit changes without any alteration to your dream body, that detail can keep the focus on the terms of the situation. It is not evidence about your actual body or worth.\n\nSomeone selecting the dress for you can make choice visible. You may appreciate an option that suits the day, negotiate a detail or find that every offered garment assumes an occasion you have not agreed to attend. A waking comparison might be accepting a role whose presentation has already been decided. Whether you can explain what you need matters more than whether the garment is elaborate or plain.\n\nA seam, hem or recognizable detail can give an altered dress continuity. Repairing it may let you keep something useful, while removing a particular detail can change the way the garment feels like yours. An inherited dress can add a specific person's preferences or history without making those preferences binding. The scene may ask what can be carried into your present use and what needs adjustment. A recent outfit, fitting or remembered occasion may also provide direct context. A wedding garment, a nightgown and the act of getting dressed have their own more specific reading paths.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Preparation meets the actual occasion", "reflection": "An outfit chosen before plans change can picture an arrangement meeting requirements it was not designed for. The scene becomes more specific through what the dress allows you to do and whether adjusting it is possible." }, { "title": "Room to move and participate", "reflection": "Fit matters through action: reaching, sitting, carrying or walking. A garment that works only while you stay still may explore an arrangement whose limits become apparent when you participate, without evaluating the dreamer’s body." }, { "title": "Choosing what carries forward", "reflection": "An offered or inherited dress can contain another person’s preferences. Keeping a seam, altering a hem or choosing a different option may make the terms of continuity visible rather than require you to accept the whole presentation." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "The occasion changes after you choose the dress", "reflection": "The garment suited the first plan but makes the new task difficult. This may picture preparation meeting changed requirements. Adjusting it, borrowing another or explaining the difficulty gives the mismatch different responses; an unsuitable outfit need not establish that your original choice was careless." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "The dress tightens whenever you reach", "reflection": "The fit is comfortable until you try to take part in an activity. This can resemble an arrangement whose limits appear during participation. Making room, changing the task or continuing cautiously can clarify what movement required, without assigning a judgment to your actual body." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Someone offers only dresses for an event you did not choose", "reflection": "The available garments assume that your next activity has already been decided. This may bring choice about a role or occasion into view. Asking for another option or describing the day you intend to have can matter more than agreeing about which offered dress looks best." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A repair changes the detail you wanted to keep", "reflection": "The dress becomes usable again but loses a familiar seam, pattern or shape. This can explore the terms of making something workable. Choosing another repair or keeping a trace may let usefulness and continuity be considered together rather than make one cancel the other." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "An inherited dress needs a different hem", "reflection": "The garment carries a recognizable history but does not yet suit your present use. This may picture adapting a received role, routine or preference. The extent of the alteration matters: keeping a particular detail can preserve connection without requiring every inherited condition to remain." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "None of the displayed dresses suits what you need to do", "reflection": "Many visible choices fail the same practical requirement. This can resemble searching among options shaped around another assumption. Explaining the activity, making an adjustment or looking elsewhere gives the scene alternatives to treating the range of available appearances as the whole range of possibilities." } ], "prompts": [ "What activity or occasion gave the dress its practical requirements?", "How did the fit or available choices affect what you could do?", "Which detail did you want to keep, change or choose for yourself?" ], "traditional": "These are original reflections on a dress as a garment. Appearance alone does not establish a wedding, a relationship outcome or a character judgment. A nightgown and wedding clothing have their own contexts; those more specific subjects are not applied as rules for this everyday garment. General sleep background does not validate a meaning for its color, shape or fit.", "related": [ "clothes", "dressing", "wedding-dress", "gown", "shirt", "mirror" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General dreaming background only. Does not establish a symbol meaning for an ordinary dress, infer a wedding or gender, or validate the original comparisons about choice, fit, activity and presentation." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection independently reviewed for content and source scope. Historical accounts remain attributed period writing. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "dressing", "title": "Dressing", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "summary": "Getting dressed may make preparation, changing requirements or room to choose tangible. The sequence and available help shape the experience.", "tagline": "Preparation has a sequence, and the destination may keep changing.", "aliases": [ "dressing", "getting dressed", "unable to get dressed", "trouble getting dressed" ], "status": "REVIEW", "psychological": "Difficulty getting dressed may give preparation more weight than the event you are preparing for. One task leads to another: a fastening will not close, an item is missing, or a new requirement arrives after you thought you were ready. This can resemble a waking undertaking whose preliminary steps keep expanding. The scene becomes different when you can pause, simplify the outfit or ask which requirements actually matter.\n\n Dressing can also make choice practical. A calm opportunity to select what suits the occasion differs from being hurried into an appearance someone else prefers. You may be negotiating how to enter a situation before you have participated in it. Preparing for a meeting, visiting an unfamiliar group or starting a different kind of work can offer comparisons, especially when you are unsure how much adjustment the setting expects.\n\n Help changes the sequence in more than one way. Someone finding the missing item may make participation easier, while someone taking over every decision may leave you ready by their standard but unlike yourself. This can picture support that solves a task yet leaves a preference unheard. A more collaborative arrangement allows assistance and personal choice to coexist rather than making independence the only acceptable outcome.\n\n Timing can bring competing needs into view. Being late because you want one more adjustment differs from being held up by a process you cannot influence. The dream may make the relationship between feeling ready and being allowed to arrive concrete. A useful waking comparison could be submitting work that is adequate for its purpose while still wanting to improve it, or needing clear information before committing to the next step.\n\n The eventual outfit is only part of this subject. What happens while you put it on can show how readiness is being defined and who has a say in that definition. A familiar morning routine or a recent fitting can also supply the action directly. Dressing here concerns preparing clothing on the body; an ingredient added to food belongs to another task.", "traditional": "Miller’s Dressing passage assigns trouble and delay to interference from others, including difficulty getting ready for a train. That period explanation does not establish another person’s carelessness or motives. The preparation, timing and choices within a particular dream offer their own points for reflection.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Requirements that keep extending", "reflection": "An unfinished dressing sequence may make a task’s expanding preliminaries visible. The important change is whether the requirements can be clarified, reduced or met in a different order." }, { "title": "Choice before participation", "reflection": "Selecting an outfit can give you a say in how you enter a situation. A chosen adjustment differs from being presented in a form another person has decided for you." }, { "title": "Help with room for preference", "reflection": "Assistance can solve a practical obstacle while preserving your participation. The scene becomes different when help replaces your choices or when doing everything alone becomes another unnecessary requirement." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Each completed step reveals another requirement", "reflection": "You fasten one item and discover another part must be changed before you can leave. The sequence may resemble preparation that never reaches a usable stopping point. Clarifying the destination or accepting a simpler arrangement can give readiness a practical limit." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You dress calmly for an unfamiliar occasion", "reflection": "There is time to consider what feels suitable, even though the event is new. The scene may explore adjustment without urgency. Choosing something workable can matter more than guessing an appearance that will satisfy every imagined expectation before you arrive." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A helper selects an outfit you would not choose", "reflection": "The practical task becomes easier, but the resulting appearance leaves your preference out. This may resemble support that solves one difficulty by taking over another decision. Explaining what you want can make cooperation more specific than accepting or refusing all assistance." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You are ready but the destination changes", "reflection": "An outfit that fitted the original plan no longer seems suitable when the occasion is renamed. The scene may bring shifting requirements into view. Keeping some preparation or requesting clearer terms can express different responses to a change you did not initiate." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A fastening delays you while everyone waits", "reflection": "One small part prevents the larger movement toward the event. Whether the waiting people offer time, help or criticism changes the encounter. The dream may resemble a minor practical difficulty becoming a public measure of readiness instead of a manageable task." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You leave in an adequate outfit before every adjustment is done", "reflection": "The clothing serves the occasion even though you can still imagine improvements. Moving onward may explore accepting a usable stage of preparation. Relief, doubt or enjoyment of the event can help distinguish a chosen limit from being forced to stop before an essential need is met." } ], "prompts": [ "What made you ready to leave, and who defined that point?", "How did help affect both the practical sequence and your room to choose?", "Which changing requirement or small obstacle most affected participation?" ], "related": [ "clothes", "undress", "being-late", "buttons", "uniform" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0658" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context only. miller-0658: Trouble getting dressed and being late for a train are assigned interference from others and advice to depend on oneself. Clothing-preparation action only; no food-dressing meaning. This citation does not validate the original psychological reflections or predict a waking outcome." } ], "updated": "2026-10-13", "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection independently reviewed for content and source scope. Historical accounts remain attributed period writing. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0658", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Dressing", "text": "To think you are having trouble in dressing, while dreaming, means some evil\npersons will worry and detain you from places of amusement.\n\nIf you can't get dressed in time for a train, you will\nhave many annoyances through the carelessness of others.\nYou should depend on your own efforts as far as possible,\nafter these dreams, if you would secure contentment and full success.", "locator": "Heading 658; source lines 7940–7950", "lineStart": 7940, "lineEnd": 7950, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To think you are having trouble in dressing, while dreaming, means some evil\npersons will worry and detain you from places of amusement.\n\nIf you can't get dressed in time for a train, you will\nhave many annoyances through the carelessness of others.\nYou should depend on your own efforts as far as possible,\nafter these dreams, if you would secure contentment and full success." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "drink", "title": "Drink", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “To dream you drink cold water, is good to all.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "drink", "of drinkes" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about drink stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0206", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Drink", "text": "To dream you drink cold water, is good to all; hot, sickness and\nhindrance; wine, is good; sweet wine, success in love; oil, sickness;\nfrom vessels of gold, or silver, or earthenware, intends tranquillity;\nof horn, implies good; glass, evil. 67.\n\n If maids do dream of drawing drink\n In cellars, they may waking think,\n That their sweethearts without delay,\n Will leave them, and soon run away.", "locator": "Heading 206; source line 1823", "lineStart": 1823, "lineEnd": 1833, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you drink cold water, is good to all; hot, sickness and\nhindrance; wine, is good; sweet wine, success in love; oil, sickness;\nfrom vessels of gold, or silver, or earthenware, intends tranquillity;\nof horn, implies good; glass, evil. 67.\n\nIf maids do dream of drawing drink\nIn cellars, they may waking think,\nThat their sweethearts without delay,\nWill leave them, and soon run away." }, { "id": "artemidorus-050", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of drinkes.", "text": "TO drink cold water is good to all, but hot, signifyes Sicknes and hinderance of affayrs: to drink wine with reason, and not to be drunk, is good; but to drink much and without reason, signifies much evil: also it makes you be in the company of drunkards. All compounded wines, and potions mingled otherwise then naturally, is good for rich men, because of their delicacy. It is evill for poor folkes, which never drinke them, but in sicknesse. To drink Vrine, signifies [illegible passage] [illegible passage] Sicknesse, to drink oyl signifies poyson or Sicknesse. To thirst and finde no drinke neyther in welles, fountaines, nor rivers, is ill, and a signe not to finish his businesse, but the contrary is good. Moreover, to drinke in vessels or tankards of gold, silver, or earth, is good for all by reason of the solid matter, and use of the Vessels, which signifies tranquility Also Vessels of horn are good, for they burst not: vessels of glasse are evil, because they break easily, and reveale secrets, by reason of their transparance: otherwise these Vessels may signifie our friends, which we embrace: when therefore the Vessels are broken, it signifies the death of some of our Friends or Affinity. I know by experience, that to dreame to sée a glasse broken, signifyeth shipwracke to Marriners. There are certaine Vessels with straight mouthes, which if one shall sée broken, they signify end and issue of tribulation and anguish.", "locator": "Book 1, encoded section 50", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription-with-gaps", "book": "1", "displayText": "To drink cold water is good to all, but hot, signifyes Sicknes and hinderance of affayrs: to drink wine with reason, and not to be drunk, is good; but to drink much and without reason, signifies much evil: also it makes you be in the company of drunkards. All compounded wines, and potions mingled otherwise then naturally, is good for rich men, because of their delicacy. It is evill for poor folkes, which never drinke them, but in sicknesse. To drink Vrine, signifies [illegible passage] [illegible passage] Sicknesse, to drink oyl signifies poyson or Sicknesse. To thirst and finde no drinke neyther in welles, fountaines, nor rivers, is ill, and a signe not to finish his businesse, but the contrary is good. Moreover, to drinke in vessels or tankards of gold, silver, or earth, is good for all by reason of the solid matter, and use of the Vessels, which signifies tranquility Also Vessels of horn are good, for they burst not: vessels of glasse are evil, because they break easily, and reveale secrets, by reason of their transparance: otherwise these Vessels may signifie our friends, which we embrace: when therefore the Vessels are broken, it signifies the death of some of our Friends or Affinity. I know by experience, that to dreame to sée a glasse broken, signifyeth shipwracke to Marriners. There are certaine Vessels with straight mouthes, which if one shall sée broken, they signify end and issue of tribulation and anguish." }, { "id": "noe-0141", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Drink", "text": "To dream\nyou drink cold water, is good, but hot signifies sickness and hindrance of\naffairs. To dream you drink wine with moderation, is good; to drink oil,\nsignifies poison. To dream you are drinking when you are dry from a stream\nor fountain, is a sign of sickness. If a man dreams he is drunk with sack,\nor some sweet, pleasant drink, it is a sign he will be beloved by some\nlady and grow rich thereby.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 143; source lines 639–645", "lineStart": 639, "lineEnd": 645, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream\nyou drink cold water, is good, but hot signifies sickness and hindrance of\naffairs. To dream you drink wine with moderation, is good; to drink oil,\nsignifies poison. To dream you are drinking when you are dry from a stream\nor fountain, is a sign of sickness. If a man dreams he is drunk with sack,\nor some sweet, pleasant drink, it is a sign he will be beloved by some\nlady and grow rich thereby." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "drinking", "title": "Drinking", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “For a woman to dream of hilarious drinking, denotes that she is engaging in affairs which may work to her discredit, though she may now find…”", "aliases": [ "drinking" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about drinking stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "water" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0659", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Drinking", "text": "For a woman to dream of hilarious drinking, denotes that she\nis engaging in affairs which may work to her discredit,\nthough she may now find much pleasure in the same.\nIf she dreams that she fails to drink clear water, though she\nuses her best efforts to do so, she will fail to enjoy some\npleasure that is insinuatingly offered her.\n\n[58] See Water.", "locator": "Heading 659; source lines 7950–7961", "lineStart": 7950, "lineEnd": 7961, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a woman to dream of hilarious drinking, denotes that she\nis engaging in affairs which may work to her discredit,\nthough she may now find much pleasure in the same.\nIf she dreams that she fails to drink clear water, though she\nuses her best efforts to do so, she will fail to enjoy some\npleasure that is insinuatingly offered her. See Water." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "water" ] }, { "slug": "driving", "title": "Driving", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "aliases": [ "driving" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0660" ], "scope": "Miller discusses driving carriages, public cabs and wagons, being driven, class/work circumstances and gendered courtship forecasts; Cab and Carriage are cross-referenced. This is not an account of contemporary automobile automation. Specific supplied passages: Driving — miller-0660 (Heading 660; source lines 7961–7979). Historical comparison only; these period beliefs do not establish outcomes or validate the original symbolic reflections." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "summary": "Driving can bring attention to ongoing choices about direction, pace and coordination with other people on a shared route.", "tagline": "Making choices while the journey continues.", "psychological": "Driving in a dream involves a sequence of actions rather than one decision. You notice a turn, adjust speed, respond to another road user and keep track of where you want to go. The experience may be smooth or demanding. Begin with the choices you make and the information available, not an assumption that the driver always controls everything.\n\nA familiar route can invite comparison with a routine you know well. If the journey runs easily, perhaps the dream highlights practiced competence or the pleasure of moving without constant explanation. If the route changes unexpectedly, consider what makes adjustment possible. Being surprised does not by itself mean that your waking plans are failing.\n\nDirection and pace can create different questions. You may know the destination but feel hurried, or move comfortably while remaining unsure where to turn. These scenes could resemble a work task with a clear goal but an unsuitable deadline, or a transition where you have time to explore. Ask which part of the journey actually needs attention.\n\nCompany can alter the activity. A passenger may give useful directions, insist on a different route or fall asleep while you continue. Notice how you receive that input and whether you can discuss the decision. The dream concerns your experience of coordination; it cannot establish how much trust or responsibility another person deserves in real life.\n\nStopping can be as active a choice as continuing. Pulling over to read a sign, letting someone cross or changing drivers may highlight an adjustment that makes the journey workable. This differs from a scene where brakes or steering cease to respond. Distinguish chosen pauses and ordinary uncertainty from an actual loss of regulation within the dream.\n\nDriving lessons, commuting, route planning and remembered trips may supply the scene directly. The vehicle need not be an automobile: the activity can occur in a carriage or another conveyance. Keep any comparison specific to the dreamed actions. What helped you decide, which demands divided your attention, and where did a change of pace or shared role make a difference?", "traditional": "Miller’s Driving passage concerns carriages, public cabs, wagons and being driven, with class, work and courtship forecasts. It is not an account of contemporary automobile technology. The historical claim that being driven benefits from another's knowledge remains a period prediction, distinct from the original conditional reflections about coordinating a journey.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Direction with available information", "reflection": "Turns and signs can show what you know, what you still need to find out and how you respond while moving." }, { "title": "A workable pace", "reflection": "The scene may distinguish a clear destination from the timing and attention needed to reach it comfortably." }, { "title": "Coordinating a shared journey", "reflection": "Passengers and other road users can make communication, divided responsibilities and chosen adjustments visible." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "Driving a familiar route at a comfortable pace", "reflection": "You know the turns and have enough time to notice the surroundings. The scene may highlight a routine that works through practice rather than constant effort. What makes the movement easy: familiarity, clear signs or manageable demands? Ease need not mean that the journey lacks significance." }, { "title": "Knowing the destination but being urged to hurry", "reflection": "You can navigate, yet a passenger or clock keeps demanding more speed. This could help separate the goal from the pressure surrounding it. Consider whether a present task has a useful direction but an uncomfortable pace, without reading the dream as an instruction to move faster." }, { "title": "A passenger offers directions you want to discuss", "reflection": "Someone suggests a turn that differs from your plan. The scene may concern how advice enters a shared activity: as help, negotiation or an unspoken expectation. Notice whether you ask a question, compare routes or simply comply, rather than assuming one position is always the more capable one." }, { "title": "Pulling over to read an unclear sign", "reflection": "You choose to stop briefly so you can work out the route. This might emphasize the value of getting enough information before proceeding. Ask what made the pause possible and whether you felt permitted to take it; the stop is a decision within the journey, not necessarily a failure." }, { "title": "Changing drivers during a long trip", "reflection": "You and another person exchange places so the journey can continue. The scene could explore sharing a sustained responsibility. Notice what is explained at the handover and whether stepping back feels relieving or difficult, without using the dream to judge the other person's actual ability." }, { "title": "Letting another road user cross before continuing", "reflection": "You adjust your movement to make room for someone else's path. This may bring out how your plans interact with a shared environment. What makes the exchange feel clear or confusing? The useful reflection is about coordination, not a universal moral judgment attached to yielding or going first." } ], "prompts": [ "Which decisions did you make while the journey continued?", "How did direction, pace and available information fit together?", "What effect did other people's presence have on your choices?" ], "related": [ "car", "road", "passenger", "traffic-jam", "driving-out-of-control", "cab", "carriage" ], "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s continuing English editorial delegation. Historical accounts retain their attribution; general sleep background does not validate these interpretations.", "kind": "editorial", "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "DreamFolia AI-assisted editorial review", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "bed", "bathroom", "bridge", "door", "window", "stairs", "road", "clothes", "shoes", "driving", "being-late", "crying", "running", "swimming", "river", "snow", "moon", "sun", "mountain", "fish" ] }, "decisionReason": "The activity stays separate from the vehicle and from loss of control. Six scenes explain practiced movement, hurried pace, advice, an information pause, a driver handover and coordination. Miller’s carriage, cab and wagon passage remains limited to its period class and courtship forecasts.", "reviewedSnapshot": "data/common-life-publication-review-2026-10-15.json", "contentSha256": "67122a074d4a5a033a538398eaf08b0f6a1ce0b0e12ba30028b0cb0adbd5e5a6" }, "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0660", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Driving", "text": "To dream of driving a carriage, signifies unjust criticism\nof your seeming extravagance. You will be compelled to do things\nwhich appear undignified.\n\nTo dream of driving a public cab, denotes menial labor,\nwith little chance for advancement. If it is a wagon, you will\nremain in poverty and unfortunate circumstances for some time.\nIf you are driven in these conveyances by others, you will\nprofit by superior knowledge of the world, and will always find\nsome path through difficulties. If you are a man, you will,\nin affairs with women, drive your wishes to a speedy consummation.\nIf a woman, you will hold men's hearts at low value after\nsucceeding in getting a hold on them.\n\n[59] See Cab or Carriage.", "locator": "Heading 660; source lines 7961–7979", "lineStart": 7961, "lineEnd": 7979, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of driving a carriage, signifies unjust criticism\nof your seeming extravagance. You will be compelled to do things\nwhich appear undignified.\n\nTo dream of driving a public cab, denotes menial labor,\nwith little chance for advancement. If it is a wagon, you will\nremain in poverty and unfortunate circumstances for some time.\nIf you are driven in these conveyances by others, you will\nprofit by superior knowledge of the world, and will always find\nsome path through difficulties. If you are a man, you will,\nin affairs with women, drive your wishes to a speedy consummation.\nIf a woman, you will hold men's hearts at low value after\nsucceeding in getting a hold on them. See Cab or Carriage.", "editorialNote": "Passage includes carriage/cab/wagon, not only cars." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [ "cab", "carriage" ] }, { "slug": "driving-out-of-control", "title": "Driving out of control", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "When your actions stop producing the response you expect.", "summary": "A loss of control while driving may focus on a mismatch between your efforts and the way an ongoing situation responds.", "aliases": [ "brakes", "crash", "car crash", "out of control" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "psychological": "Driving out of control in a dream is a particular experience: you try to regulate movement and the vehicle does not respond as expected. Perhaps the brakes fail, the steering pulls away or the road moves faster than you can adjust. Start with that mismatch between action and response, rather than assuming the scene predicts a real accident.\n\nThe failed function can help make a comparison precise. Brakes that do not slow the car might resemble difficulty creating a pause in an ongoing demand. Steering that will not turn may bring out frustration about direction despite continued effort. These are possible descriptions of your experience, not universal codes for mechanical parts or assessments of your decisions.\n\nThe timing matters. A problem that appears after someone urges you to hurry differs from one that begins without warning on a quiet road. Consider what changed immediately before the loss of regulation. The dream may combine recent driving concerns with pressure around a deadline, a conversation or a process you cannot easily interrupt.\n\nOther people in the vehicle can make responsibility more visible. You might want to warn them, ask for help or protect them from your alarm. Notice whether their presence changes what you attempt. The scene cannot establish your actual competence or prove that you carry responsibility for everything another person experiences.\n\nSometimes the dream includes a partial response: the car slows a little, another route opens or you find a place to stop. Those details may offer a more specific reflection than treating the whole journey as hopeless. If the dream ends before resolution, uncertainty is part of the remembered experience; it does not imply a future harmful outcome.\n\nOrdinary sources remain possible, including a film, a difficult journey, a lesson or concern about vehicle maintenance. Use the reflection to name the felt mismatch and any available choices inside the scene. What were you trying to change, what responded, and what support would have made a difference? A dreamed vehicle failure cannot tell you whether a real vehicle or person is safe.", "traditional": "No historical account is supplied for this specific loss-of-control entry. NINDS supports only general background on waking experience and emotion entering dreams. The original reflections distinguish failed regulation within the scene from ordinary driving choices and do not establish a mechanical diagnosis, personal incapacity or future accident.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "The brakes do not slow the vehicle", "reflection": "You press repeatedly, but the expected pause never comes. The scene could help describe a demand that seems to continue despite your efforts to stop or delay it. What would count as an effective response in the dream? The image does not establish a fault in an actual car." }, { "title": "Steering responds only in one direction", "reflection": "You can keep moving but cannot take the turn you intended. Consider whether a present arrangement allows progress while limiting the kind of choice you want. Notice any remaining options, without turning the mechanical detail into a fixed meaning or a judgment that your life has no direction." }, { "title": "Movement becomes unmanageable after pressure to hurry", "reflection": "The journey was workable until someone demanded more speed. This might make a difference between your preferred pace and an imposed expectation noticeable. Ask what you wanted to say or change at that point, without concluding that the other person's waking requests caused the dreamed problem." }, { "title": "Trying to explain the problem to passengers", "reflection": "You want help, but people assume the journey is proceeding normally. The scene may focus on communicating a difficulty while still managing an activity. What explanation would make your need clear? Their dreamed response does not prove that the actual people would ignore or misunderstand you." }, { "title": "Finding a slower side route despite faulty controls", "reflection": "The vehicle still behaves unexpectedly, yet you discover a path that reduces the immediate demands. The scene might highlight adjusting conditions when the original approach is not working. Identify the limited improvement rather than treating the route as a promise that every difficult situation has an easy solution." }, { "title": "Stopping and deciding how to continue", "reflection": "The car finally comes to rest, and the next question is whether to wait, seek help or use another means of travel. This could shift attention from stopping a process to choosing its next form. The pause is meaningful within the dream without guaranteeing any real-world outcome." } ], "prompts": [ "Which action failed to produce the response you expected?", "What changed just before the driving became unmanageable?", "What choices, help or partial responses remained available in the scene?" ], "related": [ "driving", "car", "accident", "passenger", "traffic-jam" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Effort without the expected response", "reflection": "The specific action that fails may help describe what you are trying to change in an ongoing situation." }, { "title": "Difficulty creating a pause", "reflection": "Notice whether the scene emphasizes stopping, changing direction or keeping pace, rather than treating them as the same problem." }, { "title": "Available help and partial choices", "reflection": "Warnings, assistance and small responses may show what remains possible even when the original plan no longer works." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "driving-test", "title": "Driving test", "category": "Movement", "aliases": [ "driving test", "driving exam", "driver's test", "road test", "practical driving test" ], "summary": "A driving test may combine practical decisions with being observed. Clear instructions, usable conditions, and what counts as passing shape the scene.", "tagline": "Doing a task while it is assessed, and knowing which rules you are expected to meet.", "psychological": "A driving test combines acting with being evaluated while the action continues. You must respond to the route, the vehicle, and another person's instructions rather than explain an answer after everything stops. That may fit showing a skill at work, taking on a responsibility under observation, or wanting an opportunity to demonstrate what you can do. The dream makes performance and assessment occupy the same moving space.\n\nThe standard can be useful or hard to understand. An examiner who explains the next task creates a different experience from one who changes the rules or asks for an impossible maneuver. This could concern the conditions under which you are assessed: enough information, suitable tools, and criteria related to the role. Hesitating under unclear instructions does not need to become a general verdict on confidence.\n\nA familiar evaluator may bring another expectation into the scene. A parent, manager, or teacher in the passenger seat could make a current task feel connected to an earlier standard of approval. You might be wanting acknowledgment, permission to proceed independently, or the ability to ask a question without appearing incapable. The borrowed person does not reveal what they actually think about you.\n\nPreparation and access offer another reading. Missing documents, arriving late, or finding an unfamiliar vehicle can make participation difficult before skill is tested. That may fit an application or new role with practical barriers. Passing can bring relief or the weight of new responsibility; failing may disappoint or expose an unfair process. A forthcoming test, remembered lesson, or conversation may supply direct context. The dream does not predict a result or assess real driving ability. Its useful subject may be the task you had to perform, the standard applied, and whether the setting gave you a fair way to respond.", "traditional": "No matching historical driving-test passage is supplied. This is original context about a practical assessment while operating a vehicle, distinct from an academic examination or ordinary journey. The dreamed result is not a license, a safety assessment, or a forecast. Instructions, conditions, and the opportunity to respond guide the reflection.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Action under observation", "reflection": "Doing a task while someone assesses it may fit wanting recognition or room to demonstrate a skill. The moving setting can make attention and performance compete in real time." }, { "title": "A standard you can understand", "reflection": "Clear instructions differ from changing or impossible criteria. The scene may concern fair conditions for assessment rather than proving that any hesitation is a personal weakness." }, { "title": "Access before ability", "reflection": "Documents, timing, and unfamiliar equipment can block participation before the test begins. The useful distinction is between being unprepared for access and being unable to perform the task." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "The examiner gives clear instructions calmly", "reflection": "You understand what is being asked and have room to respond. This may fit wanting assessment that helps you show a skill, like a practical review at work. Calm conditions can matter without promising that a real test will have the same outcome." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You are asked to park where the car cannot fit", "reflection": "The task has no usable solution under the stated conditions. This can resemble being measured against an expectation unrelated to the resources available. Asking about the criteria or receiving another task changes the scene differently from treating the impossible maneuver as personal failure." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A familiar authority becomes the examiner", "reflection": "Someone from family, school, or work occupies the assessing role. This may bring an earlier standard of approval into a current responsibility. The useful subject is which expectation feels present, rather than a conclusion about what that person believes about your competence." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Missing papers prevent the test starting", "reflection": "The practical task is ready, but a document or registration condition blocks entry. This may fit an application or opportunity dependent on procedure. Resolving access differs from improving the skill itself; the dream can make that distinction visible." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The route changes after each instruction", "reflection": "You respond to one direction and find that the road or rule has shifted. This may resemble working under changing requirements or feedback that arrives too late to use. A consistent explanation can become the missing condition rather than a stronger wish to pass." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You pass and notice the responsibility afterward", "reflection": "Approval is followed by the question of what you can now do independently. This may fit receiving a role or permission that feels welcome and substantial. Relief and uncertainty can coexist; the imagined result does not predict an actual test or readiness judgment." } ], "prompts": [ "What practical skill was being assessed, and were the criteria clear and usable?", "Which expectation did the examiner's role or familiar face bring into the scene?", "Was the obstacle in doing the task, understanding instructions, or gaining access to the test?" ], "related": [ "car", "school-or-exam", "being-late", "being-judged", "driving-out-of-control" ], "type": "dreams", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original image-specific interpretation with distinct personal possibilities and everyday context; no matching historical passage supplied. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "dromedary", "title": "Dromedary", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a dromedary, denotes that you will be the recipient of unexpected beneficence, and will wear your new honors with dignity.”", "aliases": [ "dromedary" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about dromedary stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0661", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Dromedary", "text": "To dream of a dromedary, denotes that you will be the recipient\nof unexpected beneficence, and will wear your new honors\nwith dignity; you will dispense charity with a gracious hands.\nTo lovers, this dream foretells congenial dispositions.", "locator": "Heading 661; source lines 7979–7986", "lineStart": 7979, "lineEnd": 7986, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a dromedary, denotes that you will be the recipient\nof unexpected beneficence, and will wear your new honors\nwith dignity; you will dispense charity with a gracious hands.\nTo lovers, this dream foretells congenial dispositions." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "drone", "title": "Drone", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "aliases": [ "drone", "drones", "flying drone", "remote controlled drone", "drone camera" ], "summary": "A drone can picture acting or observing from a distance. A useful wider view differs from uncertain control or concern about being watched.", "tagline": "Your viewpoint or action reaches somewhere while you remain in another place.", "psychological": "A drone can picture extending your view or influence without moving your own body into the scene. A distant task becomes visible, or a small device reaches somewhere you cannot easily stand. This can fit coordinating work remotely, trying to understand a situation from a wider perspective, or wanting some distance before becoming directly involved. The separation between operator and device gives the image its distinctive structure.\n\nA clear aerial view may make a confusing place understandable. Paths that looked disconnected from the ground can become part of one arrangement. This may resemble seeing how a project's tasks relate or gaining perspective on a disagreement. More information can feel useful without meaning that you must control everything it reveals.\n\nOperating the drone makes response central. If it follows your movements smoothly, the scene may picture having a workable way to act at a distance. Delayed commands, a lost signal, or movement beyond your intended route can suggest that influence does not carry as reliably as you expected. Delegated work or communication across a gap may offer parallels.\n\nA drone controlled by someone else places you on the observed side. Its presence can feel helpful, curious, or intrusive depending on the action. A device hovering without explanation may give form to uncertainty about who has access to your space, but it does not identify an actual observer.\n\nHelping someone, delivering an object, or bringing the drone back can make the scene about connection rather than surveillance. Real flights, photographs, games, and news images can supply the device directly. These original comparisons follow distance, agency, and the usefulness of the view rather than treating every drone as a threat.", "traditional": "These are original readings of a remotely operated object and the viewpoint or action it makes available. No verified historical drone passage is cited. The background source does not establish surveillance, a technical cause, or another person's purpose; the dreamed operator and response give the scene its context.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Distance offers a workable perspective", "reflection": "An aerial view can picture seeing how separate parts of a task or relationship fit together. Remaining elsewhere may allow useful understanding before you decide how directly to participate." }, { "title": "Influence that must travel through a connection", "reflection": "Control depends on the device responding across a gap. Delayed or lost commands can express uncertainty about delegated action, while smooth movement may suggest workable coordination." }, { "title": "Observation can help or intrude", "reflection": "A drone above you can bring access and privacy into view. Its actual action and your permission shape whether the presence feels supportive, curious, unexplained, or restrictive." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "You see a confusing landscape clearly from above", "reflection": "A wider view can picture understanding relationships among tasks that felt disconnected at close range. Planning a move or coordinating several stages of work may fit. The drone offers perspective without requiring you to personally occupy every part of the landscape.", "slug": "scene-1" }, { "title": "The drone follows your controls smoothly", "reflection": "This can picture a dependable way to act at a distance. Delegating a clear task or working with someone who understands the plan may offer parallels. The comfort comes from the link between intention and response, rather than from controlling the whole environment.", "slug": "scene-2" }, { "title": "Your commands arrive too late", "reflection": "A gap can make coordination unreliable even when your intention is clear. Delayed feedback on shared work or a conversation whose pace does not match your response may fit. The scene makes timing part of influence, not merely an issue of willingness.", "slug": "scene-3" }, { "title": "A drone hovers above your private space", "reflection": "An unexplained viewpoint can picture uncertainty about what is available to others. A personal change becoming visible or blurred boundaries around work may offer parallels. The imagined device expresses your experience of access without establishing a real observer or their motives.", "slug": "scene-4" }, { "title": "The drone carries something helpful to another person", "reflection": "Distance does not prevent a useful contribution. Supporting someone elsewhere or providing a needed part of a shared task may feel similar. The device gives care a practical route, especially when direct presence is unavailable but cooperation remains possible.", "slug": "scene-5" }, { "title": "You bring the drone back before it leaves reach", "reflection": "Returning can picture choosing a workable limit to an activity or responsibility. Finishing remote work or deciding how far to pursue a project may offer parallels. Relief can come from keeping the arrangement manageable, rather than treating greater range as automatically better.", "slug": "scene-6" } ], "prompts": [ "What did distance let me see or do that direct presence could not?", "How reliably did intention reach the device and return as information?", "Who chose the viewpoint, and did I welcome its access?" ], "related": [ "airplane", "camera", "being-watched", "gps-navigation" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia editorial entry with image-specific interpretations and six differentiated scenes. The reference supplies general dream background only. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "dropsy", "title": "Dropsy", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of being afflicted with the dropsy, denotes illness for a time, but from which you will recover with renewed vigor.”", "aliases": [ "dropsy" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about dropsy stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0662", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Dropsy", "text": "To dream of being afflicted with the dropsy, denotes illness\nfor a time, but from which you will recover with renewed vigor.\nTo see others thus afflicted, denotes that you will hear from\nthe absent shortly, and have tidings of their good health.", "locator": "Heading 662; source lines 7986–7993", "lineStart": 7986, "lineEnd": 7993, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being afflicted with the dropsy, denotes illness\nfor a time, but from which you will recover with renewed vigor.\nTo see others thus afflicted, denotes that you will hear from\nthe absent shortly, and have tidings of their good health." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "drought", "title": "Drought", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “For a farmer or planter to dream of seeing his grass or crops drying up for want of rain, denotes that an accident will happen to him or…”", "aliases": [ "drought" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about drought stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0205", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Drought", "text": "For a farmer or planter to dream of seeing his grass or crops\ndrying up for want of rain, denotes that an accident will happen to him\nor his property during a storm, or that some of his live stock will die\nor meet an accident. 12.", "locator": "Heading 205; source line 1818", "lineStart": 1818, "lineEnd": 1823, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a farmer or planter to dream of seeing his grass or crops\ndrying up for want of rain, denotes that an accident will happen to him\nor his property during a storm, or that some of his live stock will die\nor meet an accident." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "drouth", "title": "Drouth", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “This is-an evil dream, denoting warring disputes between nations, and much bloodshed therefrom.”", "aliases": [ "drouth" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about drouth stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0663", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Drouth", "text": "This is-an evil dream, denoting warring disputes between nations,\nand much bloodshed therefrom. Shipwrecks and land disasters will occur,\nand families will quarrel and separate; sickness will work damage also.\nYour affairs will go awry, as well.", "locator": "Heading 663; source lines 7993–8000", "lineStart": 7993, "lineEnd": 8000, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "This is-an evil dream, denoting warring disputes between nations,\nand much bloodshed therefrom. Shipwrecks and land disasters will occur,\nand families will quarrel and separate; sickness will work damage also.\nYour affairs will go awry, as well." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "drowning", "title": "Drowning", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "The struggle, surroundings, and rescue each change the story.", "summary": "Drowning can create a powerful feeling of danger or overwhelm. Notice the water, the struggle, and whether help or a way out appeared.", "aliases": [ "drowning", "drown", "drowned", "going under", "sinking in water", "cannot breathe underwater" ], "status": "REVIEW", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "Start with how you entered the water. Falling unexpectedly, choosing to dive, being carried by a current, and staying too long below the surface give the scene different beginnings. Notice whether you could see a shore, surface, boat, or other people. The difference between having no way out and not yet reaching one can shape the feeling of the dream.\n\n Describe the struggle without assuming a single metaphor. You may connect the scene with having too many demands, losing control of a situation, or needing assistance, but water does not have to represent emotion. A remembered swim, a film, a weather report, or a familiar fear can also supply the image. The dream does not establish that a real danger or loss is approaching.\n\n Your position matters. Being in trouble differs from watching somebody else struggle or trying to reach them. Ask what prevented an effective response: distance, a missing tool, fear, or not being heard. If you were helping, record whether anyone supported you as well. The scene may bring responsibility into focus without declaring you responsible for the imagined outcome.\n\n Include changes that make the dream less straightforward. Breathing underwater, suddenly standing on the bottom, or reaching a safe place can transform the experience. If you woke before an ending, uncertainty remains part of the account rather than proof of a bad result. You can use the scene to name the support or space you wanted while feeling overwhelmed, or simply write that it frightened you. You do not need to force an interpretation of every bodily sensation.", "traditional": "Miller’s Drowning account predicts loss when drowning and advancement after rescue. Fontaine’s Drowning entry gives a different set of fortunes, including favourable outcomes. Their disagreement is useful evidence of differing historical methods, not a reason to select the forecast you prefer.\n\n The original accounts often turn an ending into a fixed judgement: danger implies loss, rescue implies success, and another person’s fate becomes the dreamer’s fortune. DreamFolia preserves those statements as attributed period beliefs. They cannot establish what will happen to a person, a relationship, or your circumstances.\n\n A modern reflection can retain the importance of the ending without retaining the prediction. A rescue, an unanswered call, and finding your own footing may suggest different personal associations about support and agency. Exploring those distinctions is an original reading exercise, and any connection remains something to test against the actual scene.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "A current pulls you away", "reflection": "Describe what you tried to reach and whether struggling changed your position. The scene may offer language for being carried along, but a current can also be a direct memory or fear. Keep the water’s behaviour specific." }, { "title": "Someone brings you to safety", "reflection": "Notice whether you trusted the rescuer, recognized them, or felt able to accept help. The practical act and the emotional response may point in different directions; relief does not need to become a forecast of success." }, { "title": "You try to reach another person", "reflection": "Record the distance, obstacles, and available assistance. A difficult rescue can raise questions about responsibility or limits without proving that you have failed someone. Include any help you received and any outcome you actually saw." } ], "prompts": [ "How did I enter the water, and what changed afterward?", "What help or route to safety was available in the scene?", "Does the feeling resemble a waking situation, or mainly a remembered image?" ], "related": [ "water", "ocean", "flood", "tsunami", "resuscitate" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "scope": "Historical comparison: Drowning (Heading 664; source lines 8000–8012). These period accounts do not establish a present-day outcome or validate the personal reflections on this page.", "recordReferences": [ { "id": "miller-0664", "heading": "Drowning", "locator": "Heading 664; source lines 8000–8012" } ], "recordIds": [ "miller-0664" ] }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "scope": "Historical comparison: Drowning (Heading 203; source line 1810). These period accounts do not establish a present-day outcome or validate the personal reflections on this page.", "recordReferences": [ { "id": "fontaine-0203", "heading": "Drowning", "locator": "Heading 203; source line 1810" } ], "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0203" ] }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0133" ], "scope": "Attached historical archive account only: Drowning: the book assigns favorable fortunes to drowning, including a good-tempered sweetheart and marriage. Preserved passages: Drowning — Dream section, heading 135; source lines 607–610. These attributed period beliefs or explanations are not evidence of predictions, health, cultural consensus, or a universal symbol meaning, and do not validate the original modern reflection." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0142" ], "scope": "Attached historical archive account only: Drowning: the book assigns news from abroad to drowning and happiness to rescuing somebody. Preserved passages: Drowning — Dream section, heading 142; source lines 4194–4197. These attributed period beliefs or explanations are not evidence of predictions, health, cultural consensus, or a universal symbol meaning, and do not validate the original modern reflection." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0056" ], "scope": "Attached historical archive account only: Drowning: the book assigns success, joy, and prosperity to the dreamer or another person drowning. Preserved passages: Drowning — Dream section, heading 56; source lines 3648–3651. These attributed period beliefs or explanations are not evidence of predictions, health, cultural consensus, or a universal symbol meaning, and do not validate the original modern reflection." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L9805" ], "scope": "Attached historical archive account only: Drown: Craig records an illness omen and a proposed bodily explanation involving breathing. Preserved passages: Drown — Printed p. 213; NLM OCR lines 9805–9808. These attributed period beliefs or explanations are not evidence of predictions, health, cultural consensus, or a universal symbol meaning, and do not validate the original modern reflection." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection expanded on October 13, 2026. Historical readings are attributed period beliefs; proposed personal connections are exploratory. Human publication review remains pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0664", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Drowning", "text": "To dream of drowning, denotes loss of property and life;\nbut if you are rescued, you will rise from your present position\nto one of wealth and honor.\n\nTo see others drowning, and you go to their relief, signifies that you will\naid your friend to high places, and will bring deserved happiness to yourself.\n\nFor a young woman to see her sweetheart drowned, denotes her\nbereavement by death.", "locator": "Heading 664; source lines 8000–8012", "lineStart": 8000, "lineEnd": 8012, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of drowning, denotes loss of property and life;\nbut if you are rescued, you will rise from your present position\nto one of wealth and honor.\n\nTo see others drowning, and you go to their relief, signifies that you will\naid your friend to high places, and will bring deserved happiness to yourself.\n\nFor a young woman to see her sweetheart drowned, denotes her\nbereavement by death." }, { "id": "fontaine-0203", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Drowning", "text": "(_See Water and Resuscitate._) To dream you are drowning,\nor that you see another drowned, portends good to the dreamer; to the\nlover, good-tempered sweethearts and marriage; but to a girl it is a\nsign she should keep an eye on her lover. 54, 18, 1.", "locator": "Heading 203; source line 1810", "lineStart": 1810, "lineEnd": 1815, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Water and Resuscitate.) To dream you are drowning,\nor that you see another drowned, portends good to the dreamer; to the\nlover, good-tempered sweethearts and marriage; but to a girl it is a\nsign she should keep an eye on her lover." }, { "id": "noe-0133", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Drowning", "text": "To dream you are\ndrowning, or that you see another drowned or drowning, portends good to\nthe dreamer. To the lover it denotes that your sweetheart is good-tempered\nand inclined to marry you.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 135; source lines 607–610", "lineStart": 607, "lineEnd": 610, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are\ndrowning, or that you see another drowned or drowning, portends good to\nthe dreamer. To the lover it denotes that your sweetheart is good-tempered\nand inclined to marry you." }, { "id": "cielo-0142", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Drowning", "text": "To dream of drowning means good news from abroad;\n to rescue a drowning person is a sign of happiness.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 142; source lines 4194–4197", "lineStart": 4194, "lineEnd": 4197, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of drowning means good news from abroad;\nto rescue a drowning person is a sign of happiness." }, { "id": "luck-0056", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Drowning", "text": "(Either the dreamer or another person.) Success, joy,\nprosperity.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 56; source lines 3648–3651", "lineStart": 3648, "lineEnd": 3651, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(Either the dreamer or another person.) Success, joy,\nprosperity." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9805", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Drown", "heading": "Drown", "text": "An unfortunate dream auguring illness (Gypsy). A dream evidently due to some physical cause affecting the breathing apparatus.", "lineStart": 9805, "lineEnd": 9808, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 213; NLM OCR lines 9805–9808", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9805, "lineEnd": 9808, "printedPage": 213, "printedPageEnd": 213 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Drown. — An unfortunate dream auguring illness (Gypsy). \nA dream evidently due to some physical cause affecting the \nbreathing apparatus. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Drown" }, "displayText": "An unfortunate dream auguring illness (Gypsy). A dream evidently due to some physical cause affecting the breathing apparatus.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Drown” is shown on the Drowning page: same topic" } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [ "water", "resuscitate" ] }, { "slug": "drugs-or-drugstore", "title": "Drugs or Drugstore", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “A dream of illness (Gypsy). Obviously a dream inspired by the subconscious knowledge of need.”", "aliases": [ "drugs or drugstore", "drugs", "drugstore" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about drugs or drugstore stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L9809", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Drugs or Drugstore", "heading": "Drugs or Drugstore", "text": "A dream of illness (Gypsy). Obviously a dream inspired by the subconscious knowledge of need.", "lineStart": 9809, "lineEnd": 9811, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 213; NLM OCR lines 9809–9811", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9809, "lineEnd": 9811, "printedPage": 213, "printedPageEnd": 213 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Drugs or Drugstore. — A dream of illness (Gypsy). Obvi- \nously a dream inspired by the subconscious knowledge of need. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "Obvi- \nously", "after": "Obviously", "evidenceLine": 380 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Drugs or Drugstore" }, "displayText": "A dream of illness (Gypsy). Obviously a dream inspired by the subconscious knowledge of need." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "drum", "title": "Drum", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "aliases": [ "drum" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "summary": "A sounded drum may explore cues, room for a reply and the terms of an ongoing contribution.", "tagline": "A beat can guide, answer or ask for a different role.", "psychological": "A drum in a dream may make a cue, pulse or exchange of sounds concrete. A beat can be enjoyable in itself, invite movement or seem to ask something of its listeners. The scene may concern what the sound is for and how others respond to it. This reading concerns a sounded musical instrument; a storage container called a drum may need a different comparison.\n\nA steady beat that does not fit the group's movements can place guidance beside the purpose it was meant to serve. In a waking setting, an offered plan may be clear without accommodating how participants want to proceed. Adjusting the pattern could feel responsive; continuing it might retain something you value. The mismatch does not automatically establish who should lead.\n\nHearing a drum behind a screen can supply a cue without enough context to understand it. Curiosity may draw you toward the source, while uncertainty may concern whether any response is wanted. This can resemble receiving a fragment of information whose practical significance remains unclear. It is not evidence that an absent person is asking for help or sending a message.\n\nAlternating strikes and pauses can make reciprocity pleasurable. A pause may give someone room to answer rather than represent a failure to continue. Waiting can become part of a responsive exchange when its purpose is understood. By contrast, a short cue that becomes an expectation of continuous playing may turn an offered contribution into a role whose terms you did not choose.\n\nThe instrument's appearance can introduce another concern. Striking a drum that carries a valued mark may change something you wanted to keep. Use and preservation can both matter, as they can when a familiar object is also a practical resource. The choice need not resolve into using everything freely or keeping everything untouched.\n\nA companion steadying the drum while you play can offer complementary support. Pleasure may arise from a workable arrangement in which different actions make the same activity possible. These readings leave room for enjoyment, irritation and uncertainty without assigning a personality to the instrument's owner or predicting conflict. Recent music or events can supply a direct setting while the dream's particular terms of participation remain worth considering.", "traditional": "Miller links a muffled beat to an absent friend's distress, then gives character and prosperity claims about seeing a drum. Fontaine distinguishes rolling from drums played by marching soldiers, with departure or message forecasts. Cielo predicts a trifling loss. Craig attributes its strife-and-war claim to a 'Gypsy' dream source. These are period accounts about musical drums and their sounds, not established messages, personality judgments or predictions of conflict.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "An understood cue and a wanted purpose", "reflection": "A clear pattern may still need to fit the movement or response it is meant to support." }, { "title": "Room for replies and pauses", "reflection": "Waiting can be an active part of an exchange when it leaves another contribution possible." }, { "title": "Workable terms of participation", "reflection": "An offered cue, an ongoing role and practical support can involve different expectations." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "The beat and the movement do not fit", "reflection": "Your steady beat does not match how the group wants to move. An offered cue may be clear while its purpose needs adjustment. The scene can explore how guidance becomes responsive, without assuming that either the player or the moving group must surrender every preference." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A drum sounds behind a screen", "reflection": "You hear a drum but cannot see the occasion or understand whether a response is wanted. Curiosity and uncertainty can coexist. The sound may resemble information whose context is missing, rather than evidence that someone outside the dream is actually making a request." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Alternating strikes and pauses", "reflection": "A partner answers your strikes during the spaces you leave. The exchange can make waiting feel active and enjoyable. Its satisfaction may depend on room for a reply, rather than continuous output, giving the pauses a different purpose from losing interest or having nothing to contribute." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Playing changes a valued mark", "reflection": "The drum bears a mark you want to preserve, and striking it changes that appearance. Use and keeping something familiar become distinct concerns. The scene may explore what an object is available for now, while allowing its history or look to remain meaningful to you." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A short cue becomes an ongoing demand", "reflection": "You offer a brief cue and others expect you to keep playing indefinitely. A chosen contribution has become a role with different terms. Satisfaction or strain may concern that change of expectation, especially if the original offer was useful without being a promise of continuous participation." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "A companion steadies the drum", "reflection": "Someone holds the drum steady while you use both hands to play. Different actions support one enjoyable activity. The scene can give practical form to complementary help, where neither contribution has to imitate the other or become the whole undertaking to be valuable." } ], "prompts": [ "What purpose did the beat or cue serve in the encounter?", "How did pauses, replies or expectations shape your part?", "Which arrangement made the instrument and the shared activity workable?" ], "related": [ "music", "musical-instruments", "dancing", "hand" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0665" ], "scope": "A muffled drum beat is linked to an absent friend’s distress and aid; seeing the instrument receives character and trade, sailor or farmer prosperity claims. Exact account: miller-0665 — Drum (Heading 665; source lines 8012–8021). Attributed historical claims only; no forecast or symbolic meaning is validated by this citation." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0207" ], "scope": "Drum rolling is linked to departure from home or business; marching soldiers’ drums to an unexpected message and trouble or excitement. Exact account: fontaine-0207 — Drum (Heading 207; source line 1833). Attributed historical claims only; no forecast or symbolic meaning is validated by this citation." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0143" ], "scope": "The musical Drum account predicts a trifling loss. Exact account: cielo-0143 — Drum (Dream section, heading 143; source lines 4197–4199). Attributed historical claims only; no forecast or symbolic meaning is validated by this citation." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L9812" ], "scope": "The strife and war claim is explicitly attributed to a Gypsy dream source; this label is the edition’s attribution, not a universal cultural account. Exact account: craig-1918:L9812 — Drum (Printed p. 213; NLM OCR lines 9812–9813). Attributed historical claims only; no forecast or symbolic meaning is validated by this citation." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0665", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Drum", "text": "To hear the muffled beating of a drum, denotes that some absent\nfriend is in distress and calls on you for aid.\n\nTo see a drum, foretells amiability of character and a great aversion\nto quarrels and dissensions. It is an omen of prosperity to the sailor,\nthe farmer and the tradesman alike.", "locator": "Heading 665; source lines 8012–8021", "lineStart": 8012, "lineEnd": 8021, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To hear the muffled beating of a drum, denotes that some absent\nfriend is in distress and calls on you for aid.\n\nTo see a drum, foretells amiability of character and a great aversion\nto quarrels and dissensions. It is an omen of prosperity to the sailor,\nthe farmer and the tradesman alike." }, { "id": "fontaine-0207", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Drum", "text": "To dream you hear the rolling of a drum signifies that you will\nbe called away from your home or business unexpectedly. If you see\nsoldiers marching when you hear the drum, it shows that though you may\nnot have to leave, yet you will receive an unexpected message that will\ncause you trouble or excitement. 49.", "locator": "Heading 207; source line 1833", "lineStart": 1833, "lineEnd": 1839, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you hear the rolling of a drum signifies that you will\nbe called away from your home or business unexpectedly. If you see\nsoldiers marching when you hear the drum, it shows that though you may\nnot have to leave, yet you will receive an unexpected message that will\ncause you trouble or excitement." }, { "id": "cielo-0143", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Drum", "text": "To see or hear a drum indicates a trifling loss.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 143; source lines 4197–4199", "lineStart": 4197, "lineEnd": 4199, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see or hear a drum indicates a trifling loss." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9812", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Drum", "heading": "Drum", "text": "A dream of strife and war (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 9812, "lineEnd": 9813, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 213; NLM OCR lines 9812–9813", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9812, "lineEnd": 9813, "printedPage": 213, "printedPageEnd": 213 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Drum. — A dream of strife and war (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Drum" }, "displayText": "A dream of strife and war (Gypsy)." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "drunk", "title": "Drunk", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “This is an unfavorable dream if you are drunk on heavy liquors, indicating profligacy and loss of…” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "drunk", "drunkenness" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about drunk stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0666", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Drunk", "text": "This is an unfavorable dream if you are drunk on heavy liquors,\nindicating profligacy and loss of employment. You will be disgraced\nby stooping to forgery or theft.\n\nIf drunk on wine, you will be fortunate in trade and love-making,\nand will scale exalted heights in literary pursuits.\nThis dream is always the bearer of aesthetic experiences.\n\nTo see others in a drunken condition, foretells for you,\nand probably others, unhappy states.\n\nDrunkenness in all forms is unreliable as a good dream.\nAll classes are warned by this dream to shift their thoughts\ninto more healthful channels.", "locator": "Heading 666; source lines 8021–8038", "lineStart": 8021, "lineEnd": 8038, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "This is an unfavorable dream if you are drunk on heavy liquors,\nindicating profligacy and loss of employment. You will be disgraced\nby stooping to forgery or theft.\n\nIf drunk on wine, you will be fortunate in trade and love-making,\nand will scale exalted heights in literary pursuits.\nThis dream is always the bearer of aesthetic experiences.\n\nTo see others in a drunken condition, foretells for you,\nand probably others, unhappy states.\n\nDrunkenness in all forms is unreliable as a good dream.\nAll classes are warned by this dream to shift their thoughts\ninto more healthful channels." }, { "id": "fontaine-0208", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Drunkenness", "text": "To dream you are drunk, is loss in business; but success\nin love; to a woman, it denotes she will be beloved by a stranger; and\nto a man that he will be married to a rich young widow. To the married\nit denotes domestic bliss. To see a drunken man, shows that you will be\nguilty of some foolish action. 18, 20.", "locator": "Heading 208; source line 1839", "lineStart": 1839, "lineEnd": 1845, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are drunk, is loss in business; but success\nin love; to a woman, it denotes she will be beloved by a stranger; and\nto a man that he will be married to a rich young widow. To the married\nit denotes domestic bliss. To see a drunken man, shows that you will be\nguilty of some foolish action.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Drunkenness” is shown on the Drunk page: same topic" }, { "id": "noe-0137", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Drunkenness", "text": "To dream you are\ndrunk, is one of those dreams by which the dreamer is forewarned of that\nof which at present he knows nothing. It denotes that some person whom yet\nyou do not know, will become a very good friend and promote your welfare.\nTo a woman, it denotes that she will be beloved by an excellent man whom\nyet she has not seen; and to a man it denotes that he is tenderly beloved\nby a woman whom he does not at present think of, who will make him\nextremely happy, and bring him money.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 139; source lines 621–628", "lineStart": 621, "lineEnd": 628, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are\ndrunk, is one of those dreams by which the dreamer is forewarned of that\nof which at present he knows nothing. It denotes that some person whom yet\nyou do not know, will become a very good friend and promote your welfare.\nTo a woman, it denotes that she will be beloved by an excellent man whom\nyet she has not seen; and to a man it denotes that he is tenderly beloved\nby a woman whom he does not at present think of, who will make him\nextremely happy, and bring him money.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Drunkenness” is shown on the Drunk page: same topic" }, { "id": "cielo-0144", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Drunk", "text": "To see a drunken person means bad news; to be\n drunk means disgrace.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 144; source lines 4199–4202", "lineStart": 4199, "lineEnd": 4202, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a drunken person means bad news; to be\ndrunk means disgrace." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "ducks", "title": "Ducks", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "aliases": [ "ducks", "duck" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "summary": "Ducks can explore a change between settings, a group’s different pace, and an ordinary visitor whose needs alter a familiar routine.", "tagline": "A shared route can allow different ways of moving through it.", "psychological": "Ducks moving from water onto a bank can make a change of setting happen within one continuing encounter. You may recognize a routine that works one way privately and another way in public, or a task carried from planning into practical use. The birds remain recognizable while the conditions alter what movement requires. Watching them cross differs from trying to make every setting offer the same experience.\n\nA line of ducks spreading apart can bring pace and coordination into focus. You may want a group to stay together while its participants need different distances or speeds. A shared journey or collaborative task may have a similar structure. Waiting can preserve contact, while deciding on a meeting place can allow movement without constant proximity. The dream does not identify obedience or independence as the species’ fixed meaning.\n\nA duck walking through an ordinary room can make an unexpected participant’s needs visible. You may welcome it without having a setting prepared for its use. An unfamiliar visitor or role can fit that comparison. Rearranging the room creates another option beyond asking the creature to behave as if nothing has changed.\n\nDucks calling during a meal can make the gathering’s attention turn outward. The sound may be a welcome addition or compete with the conversation you wanted. A visitor’s arrival and the practical work of receiving them can matter separately. A small pool whose exit is blocked can instead make apparently sufficient provision incomplete: something has been supplied, but choice of departure is missing.\n\nFinding yourself responsible for ducklings you thought belonged to another caretaker can bring the terms of responsibility forward. You may want to help while needing a clear handover and enough information. This scene differs from deciding that every small creature predicts children or obligations. A pond visit, remembered food, a picture or a story can supply direct context. These original comparisons follow transitions, coordination and the conditions of care. They concern the dreamed birds; a prepared meal has another practical situation, and the attached historical forecasts do not determine which reading fits.", "traditional": "Miller contrasts water, farm, hunting and flight through forecasts; Fontaine links quacking or seeing ducks to a dinner visitor. Cielo and Everybody’s Book of Luck give favorable claims. Craig reports profit/pleasure and named good-fortune lore. These five records are period interpretations, not evidence of travel, marriage, harvests or universal cultural meanings.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A continuing encounter changes setting", "reflection": "The same participants can need another arrangement as the available surface or surroundings change." }, { "title": "Coordination allows different pace", "reflection": "Staying connected can involve a meeting point rather than requiring everyone to move identically." }, { "title": "Provision includes usable choice", "reflection": "An apparently suitable space or caring role can need an exit, information or clearer responsibility." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Ducks leave the water and continue along a bank", "reflection": "A familiar encounter enters another set of conditions. This may picture a routine moving from planning into practical use. Continuity and adjustment can coexist; the dream does not require every setting to support the same way of participating or moving." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A line of ducks spreads into several different paces", "reflection": "A shared direction does not produce identical movement. This can resemble collaboration needing another form of coordination. Waiting or arranging where to meet can preserve contact without deciding that every participant must remain beside the others throughout the journey." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A duck walks through a room arranged for another purpose", "reflection": "An unexpected visitor makes the setting’s assumptions visible. This may picture welcoming someone whose use of the space differs from yours. Moving furniture or finding another place can change the encounter without requiring the visitor to fit every existing arrangement." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Ducks call while a meal’s conversation is underway", "reflection": "The gathering receives another demand on its attention. This can resemble a welcome arrival competing with an exchange already in progress. Responding and retaining room for conversation may both matter, without turning the sound into a prediction of guests or good news." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Ducks have a small pool but no usable way to leave", "reflection": "Provision meets one need while restricting another. This may picture an arrangement offering resources without choice of departure. An exit can alter the terms of care; the scene does not decide that a comfortable-looking setting is sufficient for every participant." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "Ducklings are left with you without a clear handover", "reflection": "Responsibility arrives before its terms are explained. This can fit wanting to help while needing information or another caretaker’s involvement. A shared plan can support care without requiring you to accept sole responsibility or infer anything about children from the dream." } ], "prompts": [ "What changed when the encounter entered another setting?", "How could the group retain contact while allowing different pace?", "Which practical choice or handover was still needed for care to work?" ], "related": [ "bird", "water", "lake", "pond" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0667" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. miller-0667 — Ducks (Heading 667; source lines 8038–8053): Clear-water ducks, farm ducks, hunting, being shot and flight receive travel, harvest, employment, enemy or marriage/family forecasts." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0209" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. fontaine-0209 — Duck (Heading 209; source line 1845): Hearing/seeing ducks predicts a hungry visitor or a family dinner guest." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0145" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. cielo-0145 — Duck (Dream section, heading 145; source lines 4202–4204): Briefly predicts profit and pleasure." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0057" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. luck-0057 — Ducks (Dream section, heading 57; source lines 3651–3656): Briefly predicts increased prosperity and happiness." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L9814" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. craig-1918:L9814 — Duck (Printed p. 213; NLM OCR lines 9814–9816): Reports profit/pleasure and Chinese good-fortune associations; no universal cultural claim is adopted." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection independently reviewed for content and source scope. Historical accounts remain attributed period writing. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0667", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Ducks", "text": "To dream of seeing wild ducks on a clear stream of water,\nsignifies fortunate journeys, perhaps across the sea.\nWhite ducks around a farm, indicate thrift and a fine harvest.\n\nTo hunt ducks, denotes displacement in employment in the carrying\nout of plans.\n\nTo see them shot, signifies that enemies are meddling with\nyour private affairs.\n\nTo see them flying, foretells a brighter future for you.\nIt also denotes marriage, and children in the new home.", "locator": "Heading 667; source lines 8038–8053", "lineStart": 8038, "lineEnd": 8053, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing wild ducks on a clear stream of water,\nsignifies fortunate journeys, perhaps across the sea.\nWhite ducks around a farm, indicate thrift and a fine harvest.\n\nTo hunt ducks, denotes displacement in employment in the carrying\nout of plans.\n\nTo see them shot, signifies that enemies are meddling with\nyour private affairs.\n\nTo see them flying, foretells a brighter future for you.\nIt also denotes marriage, and children in the new home." }, { "id": "fontaine-0209", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Duck", "text": "To hear ducks quacking, or to see these fowls in your dream,\ndenotes that somebody is coming to see you who is hungry, or that you\nwill shortly have a visitor in your family who will stop to dinner. 73,\n1.", "locator": "Heading 209; source line 1845", "lineStart": 1845, "lineEnd": 1850, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To hear ducks quacking, or to see these fowls in your dream,\ndenotes that somebody is coming to see you who is hungry, or that you\nwill shortly have a visitor in your family who will stop to dinner. 73," }, { "id": "cielo-0145", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Duck", "text": "Is a sign of profit and pleasure.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 145; source lines 4202–4204", "lineStart": 4202, "lineEnd": 4204, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Is a sign of profit and pleasure." }, { "id": "luck-0057", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Ducks", "text": "Increased prosperity and happiness.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 57; source lines 3651–3656", "lineStart": 3651, "lineEnd": 3656, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Increased prosperity and happiness." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9814", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Duck", "heading": "Duck", "text": "A dream of profit and pleasure (Gypsy). A symbol of good fortune (Chinese).", "lineStart": 9814, "lineEnd": 9816, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 213; NLM OCR lines 9814–9816", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9814, "lineEnd": 9816, "printedPage": 213, "printedPageEnd": 213 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Duck. — A dream of profit and pleasure (Gypsy). A sym- \nbol of good fortune (Chinese). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "sym- \nbol", "after": "symbol", "evidenceLine": 2325 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Duck" }, "displayText": "A dream of profit and pleasure (Gypsy). A symbol of good fortune (Chinese)." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "duel", "title": "Duel", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Cielo wrote: “To fight a duel means dissension.”", "aliases": [ "duel" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about duel stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "cielo-0146", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Duel", "text": "To fight a duel means dissension.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 146; source lines 4204–4206", "lineStart": 4204, "lineEnd": 4206, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To fight a duel means dissension." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0668", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Duet", "text": "To dream of hearing a duet played, denotes a peaceful and even existence\nfor lovers. No quarrels, as is customary in this sort of thing.\nBusiness people carry on a mild rivalry. To musical people,\nthis denotes competition and wrangling for superiority.\n\nTo hear a duet sung, is unpleasant tidings from the absent; but this\nwill not last, as some new pleasure will displace the unpleasantness.", "locator": "Heading 668; source lines 8053–8063", "lineStart": 8053, "lineEnd": 8063, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of hearing a duet played, denotes a peaceful and even existence\nfor lovers. No quarrels, as is customary in this sort of thing.\nBusiness people carry on a mild rivalry. To musical people,\nthis denotes competition and wrangling for superiority.\n\nTo hear a duet sung, is unpleasant tidings from the absent; but this\nwill not last, as some new pleasure will displace the unpleasantness." }, { "id": "fontaine-0210", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Duet", "text": "To dream you sing a duet with a lady shows that you can win her\nif you desire. To dream you sing with a man shows you have a secret\nbut powerful enemy, and is a sign you will never marry. To hear a duet\ndenotes business troubles. 50, 51.", "locator": "Heading 210; source line 1850", "lineStart": 1850, "lineEnd": 1855, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you sing a duet with a lady shows that you can win her\nif you desire. To dream you sing with a man shows you have a secret\nbut powerful enemy, and is a sign you will never marry. To hear a duet\ndenotes business troubles." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0669", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Dulcimer", "text": "To dream of a dulcimer, denotes that the highest wishes\nin life will be attained by exalted qualities of mind.\nTo women, this is significant of a life free from those petty\njealousies which usually make women unhappy.", "locator": "Heading 669; source lines 8063–8070", "lineStart": 8063, "lineEnd": 8070, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a dulcimer, denotes that the highest wishes\nin life will be attained by exalted qualities of mind.\nTo women, this is significant of a life free from those petty\njealousies which usually make women unhappy." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. 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But\nshould you dream that a deaf mute of your acquaintance speaks, it\nforetells joy and gladness at something that will happen. 14.", "locator": "Heading 211; source line 1855", "lineStart": 1855, "lineEnd": 1860, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream that you are dumb, or that any of your speaking\nfriends are so afflicted, it foretells sickness or misfortune. But\nshould you dream that a deaf mute of your acquaintance speaks, it\nforetells joy and gladness at something that will happen." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "artemidorus-088", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of the Dung.", "text": "COw Dung, Horse-dung, and all others (except mans) is good onely to a Plough-man, to others it is heavinesse and hurt. It hath been proved by experience, that it is profit to such as are of meane Estate. To sée great store of mans dung, is great evill; especially, to be fowled therewith is most evill: to lay his dung in his Chamber is great sicknesse, or divorce of his wife▪ or friend, or change of Lodging, It is very great danger to dream to ease ones belly in the Church: in the Market or Hot-house, is shame, hurt, and revealing of secrets: but to ease ones belly well, with ease and much, in a privie Chamber-pot, is good for all, it is a signe of allegiance, and discharge of care and businesse. I have knowne it good also to ease ones selfe by the Shore, in the Fields, paths, Rivers, and ponds: and the like to dreame of a Cupboord.", "locator": "Book 2, encoded section 88", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "2", "displayText": "COw Dung, Horse-dung, and all others (except mans) is good onely to a Plough-man, to others it is heavinesse and hurt. It hath been proved by experience, that it is profit to such as are of meane Estate. To sée great store of mans dung, is great evill; especially, to be fowled therewith is most evill: to lay his dung in his Chamber is great sicknesse, or divorce of his wife▪ or friend, or change of Lodging, It is very great danger to dream to ease ones belly in the Church: in the Market or Hot-house, is shame, hurt, and revealing of secrets: but to ease ones belly well, with ease and much, in a privie Chamber-pot, is good for all, it is a signe of allegiance, and discharge of care and businesse. 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To be fouled with Dung by any friend, is enmity with him, and injury by him, but by any stranger it is great hurt to come.", "locator": "Book 3, encoded section 156", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "3", "displayText": "FOr to see Dung, is good for those which live upon the common People, and which reape gaines by them, and to such as are of base estate. It is also good for those which have charge of publike affayrs. It is good for the Poore to sleep on a Dunghill, for he shall get and heape up store of money: to the rich it is Publike estate, office, and honour. For the common People alwayes carry and cast their superfluities on the Dunghill. To be fouled with Dung by any friend, is enmity with him, and injury by him, but by any stranger it is great hurt to come." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0673", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Dunghill", "text": "To dream of a dunghill, you will see profits coming in through\nthe most unexpected sources. To the farmer this is a lucky dream,\nindicating fine seasons and abundant products from soil and stock.\nFor a young woman, it denotes that she will unknowingly marry a man\nof great wealth.", "locator": "Heading 673; source lines 8092–8100", "lineStart": 8092, "lineEnd": 8100, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a dunghill, you will see profits coming in through\nthe most unexpected sources. To the farmer this is a lucky dream,\nindicating fine seasons and abundant products from soil and stock.\nFor a young woman, it denotes that she will unknowingly marry a man\nof great wealth." }, { "id": "noe-0142", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Dunghill", "text": "To dream you stand on a dunghill\nis a favorable omen. It is a sure forerunner of success in everything\nundertaken at this time. For a maiden to dream she is on a dunghill, is a\nsign that she will marry the choice of her affections, who will be a man\nof some importance.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 144; source lines 645–649", "lineStart": 645, "lineEnd": 649, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you stand on a dunghill\nis a favorable omen. It is a sure forerunner of success in everything\nundertaken at this time. For a maiden to dream she is on a dunghill, is a\nsign that she will marry the choice of her affections, who will be a man\nof some importance." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0674", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Dusk", "text": "This is a dream of sadness; it portends an early decline\nand unrequited hopes. Dark outlook for trade and pursuits\nof any nature is prolonged by this dream.", "locator": "Heading 674; source lines 8100–8106", "lineStart": 8100, "lineEnd": 8106, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "This is a dream of sadness; it portends an early decline\nand unrequited hopes. Dark outlook for trade and pursuits\nof any nature is prolonged by this dream." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "dust", "title": "Dust", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of dust covering you, denotes that you will be slightly injured in business by the failure of…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "dust" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about dust stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0675", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Dust", "text": "To dream of dust covering you, denotes that you will be slightly\ninjured in business by the failure of others. For a young woman,\nthis denotes that she will be set aside by her lover for a newer flame.\nIf you free yourself of the dust by using judicious measures,\nyou will clear up the loss.", "locator": "Heading 675; source lines 8106–8114", "lineStart": 8106, "lineEnd": 8114, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of dust covering you, denotes that you will be slightly\ninjured in business by the failure of others. For a young woman,\nthis denotes that she will be set aside by her lover for a newer flame.\nIf you free yourself of the dust by using judicious measures,\nyou will clear up the loss." }, { "id": "fontaine-0213", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Dust", "text": "If you dream you are in a room or in the road where the dust is\nflying so as to choke you, it shows that some one is plotting to injure\nyou in some way or to make a speculation out of you. 64, 2.", "locator": "Heading 213; source line 1864", "lineStart": 1864, "lineEnd": 1868, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream you are in a room or in the road where the dust is\nflying so as to choke you, it shows that some one is plotting to injure\nyou in some way or to make a speculation out of you." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9817", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Dust", "heading": "Dust", "text": "A dream of temporary calamity (Gypsy). Dust is the Christian symbol of humility and woe, but its effects are obviously temporary and easily thrown aside.", "lineStart": 9817, "lineEnd": 9820, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 213; NLM OCR lines 9817–9820", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9817, "lineEnd": 9820, "printedPage": 213, "printedPageEnd": 213 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Dust. — A dream of temporary calamity (Gypsy). Dust is \nthe Christian symbol of humility and woe, but its effects are \nobviously temporary and easily thrown aside. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Dust" }, "displayText": "A dream of temporary calamity (Gypsy). Dust is the Christian symbol of humility and woe, but its effects are obviously temporary and easily thrown aside." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "dwarf", "title": "Dwarf", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “This is a very favorable dream. If the dwarf is well formed and pleasing in appearance, it omens you will…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "dwarf" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about dwarf stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0676", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Dwarf", "text": "This is a very favorable dream. If the dwarf is well formed and pleasing\nin appearance, it omens you will never be dwarfed in mind or stature.\nHealth and good constitution will admit of your engaging in many profitable\npursuits both of mind and body.\n\nTo see your friends dwarfed, denotes their health, and you\nwill have many pleasures through them.\n\nUgly and hideous dwarfs, always forebodes distressing states.", "locator": "Heading 676; source lines 8114–8126", "lineStart": 8114, "lineEnd": 8126, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "This is a very favorable dream. If the dwarf is well formed and pleasing\nin appearance, it omens you will never be dwarfed in mind or stature.\nHealth and good constitution will admit of your engaging in many profitable\npursuits both of mind and body.\n\nTo see your friends dwarfed, denotes their health, and you\nwill have many pleasures through them.\n\nUgly and hideous dwarfs, always forebodes distressing states." }, { "id": "fontaine-0214", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Dwarf", "text": "Should a single lady dream she sees a very small man or Dwarf,\nit indicates that her husband will be a very large man, or have a great\nintellect. If a single man has this dream it is a sign he will marry a\nscold. For married people to dream of dwarfs shows that their children\nwill give them much trouble.", "locator": "Heading 214; source line 1868", "lineStart": 1868, "lineEnd": 1874, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Should a single lady dream she sees a very small man or Dwarf,\nit indicates that her husband will be a very large man, or have a great\nintellect. If a single man has this dream it is a sign he will marry a\nscold. For married people to dream of dwarfs shows that their children\nwill give them much trouble." }, { "id": "cielo-0147", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Dwarf", "text": "Signifies “Beware of foes!”", "locator": "Dream section, heading 147; source lines 4206–4208", "lineStart": 4206, "lineEnd": 4208, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Signifies “Beware of foes!”" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "dye", "title": "Dye", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see the dyeing of cloth or garments in process, your bad or good luck depends on the color.”", "aliases": [ "dye" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about dye stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0677", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Dye", "text": "To see the dyeing of cloth or garments in process, your bad or good\nluck depends on the color. Blues, reds and gold, indicate prosperity;\nblack and white, indicate sorrow in all forms.", "locator": "Heading 677; source lines 8126–8132", "lineStart": 8126, "lineEnd": 8132, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see the dyeing of cloth or garments in process, your bad or good\nluck depends on the color. Blues, reds and gold, indicate prosperity;\nblack and white, indicate sorrow in all forms." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "dying", "title": "Dying", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "Your own imagined ending within the dream", "summary": "Dreamed dying may make imagined time, attachment and perspective vivid, while its events and emotions remain separate from real outcomes.", "aliases": [ "dying", "death", "died" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "Dying in a dream can make an imagined ending immediate: you know little time remains, experience an event from inside it or watch a version of yourself from elsewhere. This page centers your own dreamed death rather than a funeral gathering or an encounter with someone who has died. Describe the sequence and your position in it. The scene does not provide a forecast or an assessment of your actual health.\n\nUrgency may draw attention toward a particular person, task or place. You might try to make a call, explain a detail or return an ordinary object. Those choices can offer a personal question about what felt important within the dream. A waking deadline or ending may provide a comparison if the resemblance is specific, but death imagery does not automatically mean transformation or demand that some part of your life end.\n\nOther people may know what is happening, misunderstand it or continue an ordinary activity nearby. This can make the dream about being witnessed or about the gap between your experience and the surrounding world. It need not establish that people actually neglect you or predict how anyone would behave in a real loss. Include any practical care or contact that the scene allows.\n\nThe emotion may be surprising. Fear, calm, irritation, sadness and curiosity can coexist or change as the story continues. Feeling calm in the dream does not establish a wish to die, and fear does not prove danger approaching. You do not need to replace the feeling with an interpretation that seems more appropriate to the event.\n\nAn unusual viewpoint or continued story can alter the imagined ending without explaining what death is. Watching from a distance may simply be a narrative arrangement; going somewhere afterward cannot verify an afterlife. Recent loss, conversations, fiction and awareness of mortality can provide ordinary context. Preserve the experience without treating it as recovered knowledge, diagnosis or instruction. A useful reflection might name what you sought, what contact remained possible and how the dream ended. It can also remain an account of a disturbing or quiet scene without a symbolic conclusion.", "traditional": "Miller's Dying passage gives unfavorable forecasts for the dreamer, other people and some animals, and presents death imagery as preparation for approaching events. These are his period claims. They do not establish illness, danger, a benefactor's intentions or a need to end a relationship; the original reflection concerns your imagined experience only.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "You know time is short and try to reach one person", "reflection": "The imagined limit makes a particular relationship the focus of your next action. This may invite reflection on what you wanted to say or share within the dream. The urgency is part of the scene, not a real deadline or a predicted loss." }, { "title": "An ordinary unfinished task matters more than the surrounding event", "reflection": "A small responsibility remains vivid beside the imagined ending. This could bring attachment, habit or a wish to put something in order into focus. Describe the actual task without assuming that its presence identifies a hidden obligation you must complete in waking life." }, { "title": "People nearby continue talking while you cannot explain what is happening", "reflection": "Your experience and the surrounding activity do not align. This may picture wanting to be understood in a situation that feels difficult to describe. The dreamed mismatch does not establish that actual people are indifferent or predict their behavior around a real death." }, { "title": "You watch a version of yourself die from another place", "reflection": "The dream gives you an unusual viewpoint rather than one continuous bodily position. Record the distance and your involvement in the scene. This narrative arrangement does not establish an outside presence, a spiritual event or a clinical explanation for the experience." }, { "title": "You feel calm and accept company while the scene approaches its end", "reflection": "The emotion differs from what you might expect of the event. Notice what the company makes possible without judging the calm as a wish or a requirement to feel reassured. The dream's emotional tone remains separate from your actual intentions and circumstances." }, { "title": "The story continues in an ordinary setting after the imagined death", "reflection": "The narrative does not stop where the event appears final. This may create curiosity, confusion or familiarity worth describing. Continuing to travel, speak or work inside the dream cannot verify an afterlife or promise that a waking ending will lead to renewal." } ], "prompts": [ "What sequence led you to understand that you were dying in the dream?", "What person, action or detail became important within that sequence?", "How did your viewpoint and emotion change before the dream ended?" ], "related": [ "deceased-loved-one", "funeral", "own-funeral", "death", "mourning" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "scope": "Historical comparison only: Miller forecasts harm from a formerly beneficial source for dreamed dying, ill luck from others dying, and diminished affairs or illness from expecting to die. He distinguishes dying wild and domestic animals, then presents death imagery as preparation for approaching events and refers to Death. Exact owned passages: Dying — miller-0678 (Heading 678; source lines 8132–8158). These period claims do not validate the original reflections or establish present-day outcomes.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0678" ] }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection independently reviewed for content and source scope. Historical accounts remain attributed period writing. Human publication review pending.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "What urgency makes important", "reflection": "A particular call, task or place may show the focus of the imagined moment without becoming a real deadline." }, { "title": "Being witnessed", "reflection": "Other people's dreamed responses can make contact, explanation or practical company part of the scene." }, { "title": "Perspective and continuation", "reflection": "A changed viewpoint or continuing story can be described without converting narrative events into factual knowledge about death." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0678", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Dying", "text": "To dream of dying, foretells that you are threatened with evil from a source\nthat has contributed to your former advancement and enjoyment.\n\nTo see others dying, forebodes general ill luck to you and to your friends.\n\nTo dream that you are going to die, denotes that unfortunate\ninattention to your affairs will depreciate their value.\nIllness threatens to damage you also.\n\nTo see animals in the throes of death, denotes escape from evil\ninfluences if the animal be wild or savage.\n\nIt is an unlucky dream to see domestic animals dying or in agony.\n\n[As these events of good or ill approach you they naturally\nassume these forms of agonizing death, to impress you more\nfully with the joyfulness or the gravity of the situation you\nare about to enter on awakening to material responsibilities,\nto aid you in the mastery of self which is essential to meeting\nall conditions with calmness and determination.]\n\n\n[60] See Death.", "locator": "Heading 678; source lines 8132–8158", "lineStart": 8132, "lineEnd": 8158, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of dying, foretells that you are threatened with evil from a source\nthat has contributed to your former advancement and enjoyment.\n\nTo see others dying, forebodes general ill luck to you and to your friends.\n\nTo dream that you are going to die, denotes that unfortunate\ninattention to your affairs will depreciate their value.\nIllness threatens to damage you also.\n\nTo see animals in the throes of death, denotes escape from evil\ninfluences if the animal be wild or savage.\n\nIt is an unlucky dream to see domestic animals dying or in agony.\n\n[As these events of good or ill approach you they naturally\nassume these forms of agonizing death, to impress you more\nfully with the joyfulness or the gravity of the situation you\nare about to enter on awakening to material responsibilities,\nto aid you in the mastery of self which is essential to meeting\nall conditions with calmness and determination.] See Death." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [ "death" ] }, { "slug": "dynamite", "title": "Dynamite", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see dynamite in a dream, is a sign of approaching change and the expanding of one's affairs.”", "aliases": [ "dynamite" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about dynamite stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0679", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Dynamite", "text": "To see dynamite in a dream, is a sign of approaching change\nand the expanding of one's affairs. To be frightened by it,\nindicates that a secret enemy is at work against you,\nand if you are not careful of your conduct he will disclose\nhimself at an unexpected and helpless moment.", "locator": "Heading 679; source lines 8158–8166", "lineStart": 8158, "lineEnd": 8166, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see dynamite in a dream, is a sign of approaching change\nand the expanding of one's affairs. To be frightened by it,\nindicates that a secret enemy is at work against you,\nand if you are not careful of your conduct he will disclose\nhimself at an unexpected and helpless moment." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "dynamo", "title": "Dynamo", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a dynamo, omens successful enterprises if attention is shown to details of business.”", "aliases": [ "dynamo" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about dynamo stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0680", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Dynamo", "text": "To dream of a dynamo, omens successful enterprises if attention\nis shown to details of business. One out of repair, shows you\nare nearing enemies who will involve you in trouble.", "locator": "Heading 680; source lines 8166–8180", "lineStart": 8166, "lineEnd": 8180, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a dynamo, omens successful enterprises if attention\nis shown to details of business. One out of repair, shows you\nare nearing enemies who will involve you in trouble." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "eagles", "title": "Eagles", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "aliases": [ "eagles", "eagle" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "summary": "Eagles can explore a distant view, the terms of being carried, or an impressive presence that needs workable space.", "tagline": "Height and scale can offer a view while changing what is within reach.", "psychological": "An eagle high above a landscape can make a wider view available while keeping the route distant. A large project or a future role may look coherent from afar even when the next practical step is unclear. Admiring the flight differs from trying to match it from the ground. The dreamed height can express that particular difference in access without promising status, wealth or achievement.\n\nBeing carried on an eagle’s back changes observation into dependence on a journey you may not control. The view might be welcome while the landing place remains uncertain. Support from an institution, a team or another person can have a similar structure: something expands what you can reach, but its direction and conditions still matter. Choosing the destination gives a different reading from discovering it only after departure.\n\nAn eagle perched on an inaccessible ledge can put admiration beside frustration. You can recognize something you value without having a usable way to approach it. Information, permission or a smaller stage may be missing. The dream can also leave watching sufficient; proximity is not required for every encounter to have meaning.\n\nWhen an eagle lands in a small courtyard, impressive scale becomes an ordinary question of accommodation. A responsibility may be attractive in principle while needing room, time or another arrangement in practice. Being offered a ride but choosing your own ground route creates another possibility: wider reach is available, yet the slower journey may better fit the purpose you actually have.\n\nA small eagle asking for care can challenge the assumption that a striking image must already be capable of everything. You may recognize a developing undertaking presented as fully established, or a person expected to manage without assistance because of their role. Wonder, caution or simple interest can each belong to these scenes. A photograph, story or remembered sighting may supply the image directly. These original comparisons follow distance, transport, scale and care within the dream; they do not use the bird as a fixed measure of ambition or personal strength.", "traditional": "Miller, Fontaine and Noe connect soaring, height and other eagle actions with ambitions and favorable forecasts; Noe and Craig also make child-related predictions. Cielo labels ambition and Everybody’s Book of Luck predicts success in a new place. These six owned accounts are period writing, not evidence of ability, rank, pregnancy outcomes or future success.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A view beyond present access", "reflection": "Recognizing a broad direction can precede finding the practical route needed to approach it." }, { "title": "Transport has terms", "reflection": "Being carried can expand reach while raising questions about destination, choice and dependence." }, { "title": "Scale needs accommodation", "reflection": "An impressive presence can need space or care rather than prove complete capability." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "An eagle circles high above a landscape you want to enter", "reflection": "A wider view is visible while the route remains distant. This may picture a future undertaking without a clear first step. Admiration and urgency differ; the dream does not promise that following the bird will bring rank, achievement or wealth." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You ride an eagle without knowing where it will land", "reflection": "Support makes another journey possible while leaving its direction unsettled. This can resemble joining a team whose destination needs explanation. Enjoying the view can coexist with wanting a choice about arrival; dependence does not automatically make the journey unwelcome." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "An eagle rests on a ledge you cannot approach", "reflection": "Something valued can be recognized before access is available. This may picture a role or opportunity needing permission or another route. Watching may also be enough; the scene does not require you to treat every distant presence as something to obtain." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "An eagle lands in a courtyard too small for its wings", "reflection": "An impressive arrival needs a workable arrangement. This can fit accepting substantial responsibility without enough room or time. Changing the setting may serve both the visitor and your purpose, rather than deciding that the arrival must be rejected or celebrated." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You decline an offered eagle ride and keep your ground route", "reflection": "An available journey does not have to become your chosen one. This may picture support whose wider reach differs from your current purpose. Declining can preserve a workable pace or destination without proving that you fear opportunity or undervalue what was offered." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "A small eagle needs help despite everyone expecting it to manage", "reflection": "A striking role does not remove a particular need. This can resemble developing work presented as already complete. Providing assistance can respect what is becoming possible without requiring the visitor to perform the capability other people attach to its name." } ], "prompts": [ "What could you see that you could not yet reach?", "How did the journey’s terms affect your sense of choice?", "Which space or support did the actual visitor need?" ], "related": [ "bird", "wings", "mountain", "flying" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0681" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. miller-0681 — Eagles (Heading 681; source lines 8180–8207): Soaring, height, young eagles, killing/eating, a dead eagle and riding receive ambition, wealth, rank or travel forecasts." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0215" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. fontaine-0215 — Eagles (Heading 215; source line 1874): High flight predicts prosperity/honor and success in love or marriage." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0145" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. noe-0145 — Eagles (Dream section, heading 147; source lines 656–663): High flight or a high perch predicts favorable undertakings, rank and foreign fortune; a pregnancy-related scenario predicts the child’s marriage/happiness." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0148" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. cielo-0148 — Eagle (Dream section, heading 148; source lines 4208–4211): Briefly labels an eagle as worthy ambition." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0058" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. luck-0058 — Eagle (Dream section, heading 58; source lines 3656–3658): Briefly predicts success in a new place." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L9832" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. craig-1918:L9832 — Eagle (Printed p. 214; NLM OCR lines 9832–9835): Rush through air or overhead flight predicts success/honors; a pregnant dreamer receives a prodigy forecast." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection independently reviewed for content and source scope. Historical accounts remain attributed period writing. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0681", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Eagles", "text": "To see one soaring above you, denotes lofty ambitions which you will struggle\nfiercely to realize, nevertheless you will gain your desires.\n\nTo see one perched on distant heights, denotes that you will possess fame,\nwealth and the highest position attainable in your country.\n\nTo see young eagles in their eyrie, signifies your association with people\nof high standing, and that you will profit from wise counsel from them.\nYou will in time come into a rich legacy.\n\nTo dream that you kill an eagle, portends that no obstacles whatever would\nbe allowed to stand before you and the utmost heights of your ambition.\nYou will overcome your enemies and be possessed of untold wealth.\n\nEating the flesh of one, denotes the possession of a powerful will\nthat would not turn aside in ambitious struggles even for death.\nYou will come immediately into rich possessions.\n\nTo see a dead eagle killed by others than yourself, signifies high rank\nand fortune will be wrested from you ruthlessly.\n\nTo ride on an eagle's back, denotes that you will make a long voyage\ninto almost unexplored countries in your search for knowledge and wealth\nwhich you will eventually gain.", "locator": "Heading 681; source lines 8180–8207", "lineStart": 8180, "lineEnd": 8207, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see one soaring above you, denotes lofty ambitions which you will struggle\nfiercely to realize, nevertheless you will gain your desires.\n\nTo see one perched on distant heights, denotes that you will possess fame,\nwealth and the highest position attainable in your country.\n\nTo see young eagles in their eyrie, signifies your association with people\nof high standing, and that you will profit from wise counsel from them.\nYou will in time come into a rich legacy.\n\nTo dream that you kill an eagle, portends that no obstacles whatever would\nbe allowed to stand before you and the utmost heights of your ambition.\nYou will overcome your enemies and be possessed of untold wealth.\n\nEating the flesh of one, denotes the possession of a powerful will\nthat would not turn aside in ambitious struggles even for death.\nYou will come immediately into rich possessions.\n\nTo see a dead eagle killed by others than yourself, signifies high rank\nand fortune will be wrested from you ruthlessly.\n\nTo ride on an eagle's back, denotes that you will make a long voyage\ninto almost unexplored countries in your search for knowledge and wealth\nwhich you will eventually gain." }, { "id": "fontaine-0215", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Eagles", "text": "To dream you see an eagle soaring very high in the air, denotes\nprosperity, riches and honors: to the lover, it foretells success in\nlove and marriage. 48.", "locator": "Heading 215; source line 1874", "lineStart": 1874, "lineEnd": 1878, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see an eagle soaring very high in the air, denotes\nprosperity, riches and honors: to the lover, it foretells success in\nlove and marriage." }, { "id": "noe-0145", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Eagles", "text": "To dream you see an eagle soaring very high in the air, denotes\nprosperity, riches and honor; to the lover it foretells success in love\nand a happy marriage. To dream you see an eagle perched on the steeple of\na church, or on any high eminence, is a very good omen; it denotes that in\nsome arduous undertaking you will be successful and thereby arrive at\nriches and honor; it also denotes that the dreamer will make his fortune\nbeyond the sea. If a woman with child dreams of an eagle, then it denotes\nthat her offspring will marry well and be very happy.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 147; source lines 656–663", "lineStart": 656, "lineEnd": 663, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see an eagle soaring very high in the air, denotes\nprosperity, riches and honor; to the lover it foretells success in love\nand a happy marriage. To dream you see an eagle perched on the steeple of\na church, or on any high eminence, is a very good omen; it denotes that in\nsome arduous undertaking you will be successful and thereby arrive at\nriches and honor; it also denotes that the dreamer will make his fortune\nbeyond the sea. If a woman with child dreams of an eagle, then it denotes\nthat her offspring will marry well and be very happy." }, { "id": "cielo-0148", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Eagle", "text": "Is a sign of worthy ambition.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 148; source lines 4208–4211", "lineStart": 4208, "lineEnd": 4211, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Is a sign of worthy ambition." }, { "id": "luck-0058", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Eagle", "text": "Success in a new place.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 58; source lines 3656–3658", "lineStart": 3656, "lineEnd": 3658, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Success in a new place." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9832", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Eagle", "heading": "Eagle", "text": "An eagle rushing through the air denotes successful undertakings ; flying overhead, dignity and honors ; to a pregnant woman this dream augurs the birth of a prodigy.", "lineStart": 9832, "lineEnd": 9835, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 214; NLM OCR lines 9832–9835", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9832, "lineEnd": 9835, "printedPage": 214, "printedPageEnd": 214 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Eagle. — An eagle rushing through the air denotes success- \nful undertakings ; flying overhead, dignity and honors ; to a \npregnant woman this dream augurs the birth of a prodigy. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "success- \nful", "after": "successful", "evidenceLine": 9321 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Eagle" }, "displayText": "An eagle rushing through the air denotes successful undertakings; flying overhead, dignity and honors; to a pregnant woman this dream augurs the birth of a prodigy." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "earrings", "title": "Earrings", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see earrings in dreams, omens good news and interesting work is before you.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "earrings", "ear-rings" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about earrings stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0683", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Earrings", "text": "To see earrings in dreams, omens good news and interesting work\nis before you. To see them broken, indicates that gossip of a low\norder will be directed against you.", "locator": "Heading 683; source lines 8212–8218", "lineStart": 8212, "lineEnd": 8218, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see earrings in dreams, omens good news and interesting work\nis before you. To see them broken, indicates that gossip of a low\norder will be directed against you." }, { "id": "fontaine-0217", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Ear-Rings", "text": "To dream of purchasing a pair of ear-rings is a good dream\nto the fair sex; to widows and maids they signify marriage; to those\nthat have no children, that they shall have children; and to those that\nhave husbands and children, purchases and riches; for as women are\nprovided with these deckings, so shall they be stored with husbands,\nchildren, and goods. 32.", "locator": "Heading 217; source line 1884", "lineStart": 1884, "lineEnd": 1891, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of purchasing a pair of ear-rings is a good dream\nto the fair sex; to widows and maids they signify marriage; to those\nthat have no children, that they shall have children; and to those that\nhave husbands and children, purchases and riches; for as women are\nprovided with these deckings, so shall they be stored with husbands,\nchildren, and goods." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "ears", "title": "Ears", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "aliases": [ "ears", "of the eares", "ear" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "summary": "Ears can explore the amount of attention available, a choice about listening, or how an exchange becomes understandable.", "tagline": "Receiving a sound and making room for a message are different experiences.", "psychological": "Ears in a dream can make listening visible as part of an encounter. They may look unusually large, appear in several places or become the focus of somebody’s gesture. The image can concern how much information arrives and what sort of participation you want. It does not establish that a real conversation was overheard or reveal a person’s intentions toward you.\n\nLarge ears catching a quiet remark can make something small feel difficult to ignore. The remark might be welcome, distracting or irrelevant to the activity you wanted. This can resemble attention being drawn toward a detail others treat as minor. The dream does not prove that a whisper contains a secret or that its speaker is hiding something.\n\nMany ears receiving different instructions can create abundance without agreement. Having access to several messages is different from knowing which one should guide the next action. A shared task with incompatible requests may offer a parallel. Covering your ears in a loud room instead concerns the level of participation itself: you may want a pause without needing to solve every message.\n\nThe visible ear can also become part of an appearance. An elaborate decoration that catches on clothing may make a chosen look interfere with an ordinary action. This can picture a form of presentation needing different practical terms. Enjoying or removing the decoration need not become a judgment about vanity, identity or how much attention you deserve.\n\nCommunication can continue through an impossible arrangement. Ears may disappear from a reflection while gestures and written signs remain understandable. This can make the usual form of an exchange seem unfamiliar without requiring connection to end. Another person cupping an ear to receive your quiet words can instead bring pace and cooperation into focus. A conversation that needs a different setting or clearer terms may offer a useful comparison. These original reflections stay with the imagined listening encounter; they cannot assess hearing or establish gossip, betrayal or a health condition. A familiar sound, accessory or conversation can provide direct context, while your particular response determines whether any broader comparison fits.", "traditional": "The five supplied Ears accounts assign forecasts to appearance, number, cleaning, injury and hearing. Miller predicts a malicious observer; Fontaine and Noe attach news, reputation, friendship and social-role outcomes. The full Artemidorus section includes household obedience, artisan, servant and lawsuit distinctions, with transcription gaps retained. The Book of Luck gives a favorable letter forecast. These are attributed period claims, not evidence of actual hearing, other people’s conversations or a universal relation between appearance and character.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Messages available without a shared direction", "reflection": "More information can create competing requests rather than a clear next action." }, { "title": "A chosen level of listening", "reflection": "Participation can need a pause, a quieter setting or another workable form." }, { "title": "The form an exchange takes", "reflection": "Appearance, gesture and pace can affect communication without determining its worth." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Unusually large ears catch a remark that others barely notice", "reflection": "A small detail becomes difficult to leave in the background. This may picture attention being drawn toward something that matters differently to you. The imagined remark is not proof of a secret, actual gossip or what its speaker intends in waking life." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Several ears receive incompatible instructions from different directions", "reflection": "Information is available without agreement about the next action. This can resemble requests that each make sense alone but cannot be followed together. The arrangement may concern choosing a priority rather than a duty to understand or satisfy every person at once." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You cover your ears during a loud gathering and remain nearby", "reflection": "The amount of participation changes without requiring you to leave the occasion. This may fit wanting a quieter interval while still valuing company. The gesture can concern the setting and your available attention rather than prove rejection of the people present." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "An elaborate ear decoration catches on the clothes you are wearing", "reflection": "A chosen appearance interferes with an ordinary movement. This can resemble presentation needing a more workable arrangement for the activity at hand. Adjusting or removing the decoration need not judge vanity, identity or whether you deserve the attention it attracts." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Your reflected ears disappear but gestures and signs remain understandable", "reflection": "An expected form changes while connection continues in another way. This may picture an exchange needing unfamiliar terms rather than ending altogether. The impossible appearance does not assess actual hearing or establish that you are failing to listen to someone awake." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "A person cups an ear to receive words you are saying quietly", "reflection": "Your message needs cooperation, pace or a different setting to be received. This can resemble wanting an exchange to become understandable without making it louder or more forceful. The gesture does not prove agreement or reveal how the actual person values your words." } ], "prompts": [ "Which message, sound or demand received more attention than you wanted?", "What level or form of participation felt workable?", "How did the other person help or complicate an understandable exchange?" ], "related": [ "losing-hearing", "music", "telephone", "face" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0682" ], "scope": "miller-0682: Seeing ears is assigned a malicious watcher of conversations. Exact supplied passages: miller-0682 — Ears (Heading 682; source lines 8207–8212). Attributed historical comparison only; no forecast validates the original reflection or establishes actual health, relationships, beliefs or circumstances." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0216" ], "scope": "fontaine-0216: Boring, cleaning, boxing, size, injury or loss of ears and loss of hearing receive obedience, news, prosperity, treachery and friendship claims; it includes a gendered ruin forecast. Exact supplied passages: fontaine-0216 — Ears (Heading 216; source line 1878). Attributed historical comparison only; no forecast validates the original reflection or establishes actual health, relationships, beliefs or circumstances." }, { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display.", "recordIds": [ "artemidorus-013" ], "scope": "artemidorus-013: The full Eares section assigns social-role outcomes to many ears and their appearance, then contrasts cleansing with beaten/chafed ears as good versus bad news. Its household obedience, reputation, artisan, servant and lawsuit claims remain attributed; gaps are retained. Exact supplied passages: artemidorus-013 — Of the Eares. (Book 1, encoded section 13). Attributed historical comparison only; no forecast validates the original reflection or establishes actual health, relationships, beliefs or circumstances." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0154" ], "scope": "noe-0154: Ear appearance receives reputation and role-specific work/lawsuit forecasts; cleaning, beating, injury and loss receive news, offence and friendship claims. Exact supplied passages: noe-0154 — Ear (Dream section, heading 156; source lines 694–705). Attributed historical comparison only; no forecast validates the original reflection or establishes actual health, relationships, beliefs or circumstances." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0059" ], "scope": "luck-0059: The short Ears account assigns a pleasant letter from a friend. Exact supplied passages: luck-0059 — Ears (Dream section, heading 59; source lines 3658–3660). Attributed historical comparison only; no forecast validates the original reflection or establishes actual health, relationships, beliefs or circumstances." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0682", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Ears", "text": "To dream of seeing ears, an evil and designing person is keeping\nwatch over your conversation to work you harm.", "locator": "Heading 682; source lines 8207–8212", "lineStart": 8207, "lineEnd": 8212, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing ears, an evil and designing person is keeping\nwatch over your conversation to work you harm." }, { "id": "fontaine-0216", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Ears", "text": "To dream of boring many ears denotes obedience and readiness;\nto dream of cleansing them, good news; of having your ears boxed, ill\nnews; of having large ears, prosperity and honor; of being hurt or\nslit, offence and treachery; of loss of ears, loss of friendship; of\nloss of hearing, betrayal of secrets; and to a woman, ruin. 3, 19.", "locator": "Heading 216; source line 1878", "lineStart": 1878, "lineEnd": 1884, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of boring many ears denotes obedience and readiness;\nto dream of cleansing them, good news; of having your ears boxed, ill\nnews; of having large ears, prosperity and honor; of being hurt or\nslit, offence and treachery; of loss of ears, loss of friendship; of\nloss of hearing, betrayal of secrets; and to a woman, ruin." }, { "id": "artemidorus-013", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of the Eares.", "text": "FOr to have many eares, is good to him that would have any one obedient to him, as wife, children, servants: to the rich it signifies great renown of his good, if the [illegible passage]ares be fair and well shapen; but to his ill, if the ears be ill favoured or deformed.\n\nThis dreame is ill to a servant, as also to him which hath a suit in law, be he the Plaintiffe or Defendant: but it is good to an Artificer or one that workes with his hands, for he shall have many that will imploy him. To lose the Ears betokens the contrary to all that is aforesaid: to clens[illegible passage] ones eares is good newes which shall come to us on some side; contrariwise, the ears beaten and chafed, foretell ill newes.", "locator": "Book 1, encoded section 13", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription-with-gaps", "book": "1", "displayText": "FOr to have many eares, is good to him that would have any one obedient to him, as wife, children, servants: to the rich it signifies great renown of his good, if the [illegible passage] ares be fair and well shapen; but to his ill, if the ears be ill favoured or deformed.\n\nThis dreame is ill to a servant, as also to him which hath a suit in law, be he the Plaintiffe or Defendant: but it is good to an Artificer or one that workes with his hands, for he shall have many that will imploy him. To lose the Ears betokens the contrary to all that is aforesaid: to clens [illegible passage] ones eares is good newes which shall come to us on some side; contrariwise, the ears beaten and chafed, foretell ill newes." }, { "id": "noe-0154", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Ear", "text": "If a man dreams his ears be fair and well shaped, it\nshows he shall come to great renown; but if he dreams his ears are\nill-favored and deformed, it shows the contrary. This dream is ill to a\nservant, and those who have a lawsuit, if he be a plaintiff or the\ndefendant, but it is good to an artificer or one that worketh with his\nhands, for he shall have many that will employ him. To dream that one\npicks or cleans his ears, betokens that good news shall come forth one\nside or other. But to dream that the ears have been beaten or chafed,\nsignifies we shall hear ill news. If any one dreams his ear is hurt or\nsplit, he will be offended by some one that belongs to him, or by some\nfriend. If he dream that his ear is quite off, he shall be utterly\ndeprived of their friendship.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 156; source lines 694–705", "lineStart": 694, "lineEnd": 705, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If a man dreams his ears be fair and well shaped, it\nshows he shall come to great renown; but if he dreams his ears are\nill-favored and deformed, it shows the contrary. This dream is ill to a\nservant, and those who have a lawsuit, if he be a plaintiff or the\ndefendant, but it is good to an artificer or one that worketh with his\nhands, for he shall have many that will employ him. To dream that one\npicks or cleans his ears, betokens that good news shall come forth one\nside or other. But to dream that the ears have been beaten or chafed,\nsignifies we shall hear ill news. If any one dreams his ear is hurt or\nsplit, he will be offended by some one that belongs to him, or by some\nfriend. If he dream that his ear is quite off, he shall be utterly\ndeprived of their friendship." }, { "id": "luck-0059", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Ears", "text": "A pleasant letter from a friend.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 59; source lines 3658–3660", "lineStart": 3658, "lineEnd": 3660, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "A pleasant letter from a friend." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "earth", "title": "Earth", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “A universally portentous dream (Gypsy). The earth as the symbol of the universal mother is curiously at variance with this interpretation of…”", "aliases": [ "earth" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about earth stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L9841", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Earth", "heading": "Earth", "text": "A universally portentous dream (Gypsy). The earth as the symbol of the universal mother is curiously at variance with this interpretation of the oneirocritics. It is only to be accounted for by the hypothesis that in their anxiety to escape all implication of idolatry and paganism, the gypsies reversed the symbols of the ancient creeds.", "lineStart": 9841, "lineEnd": 9847, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 214; NLM OCR lines 9841–9847", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9841, "lineEnd": 9847, "printedPage": 214, "printedPageEnd": 214 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Earth. — A universally portentous dream (Gypsy). The \nearth as the symbol of the universal mother is curiously at \nvariance with this interpretation of the oneirocritics. It is \nonly to be accounted for by the hypothesis that in their anxi- \nety to escape all implication of idolatry and paganism, the \ngypsies reversed the symbols of the ancient creeds. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "anxi- \nety", "after": "anxiety", "evidenceLine": 7231 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Earth" }, "displayText": "A universally portentous dream (Gypsy). The earth as the symbol of the universal mother is curiously at variance with this interpretation of the oneirocritics. It is only to be accounted for by the hypothesis that in their anxiety to escape all implication of idolatry and paganism, the gypsies reversed the symbols of the ancient creeds." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "earthquake", "title": "Earthquakes", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "What moves and what remains can need different responses.", "summary": "Earthquake scenes can explore a surface that changes unexpectedly, a concern needing acknowledgment, and how people find a shared reference again.", "aliases": [ "earthquake", "ground shaking", "tremor", "earthquakes", "of earth-quakes, and gaping of the earth" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "psychological": "An earthquake in a dream can make something ordinarily taken for granted begin to move. A floor, road or table may no longer provide the position you expected. This can picture a particular arrangement changing without your participation, such as a workplace routine or household plan. News, remembered events and fictional scenes may supply the image directly. The dream’s scale does not measure the seriousness of a waking change.\n\nWhat holds together can alter the account. A fragile cup remaining upright while the whole room shakes can contrast your expectation of damage with the actual scene. Relief may concern discovering that one valued detail is still available. Continuing to inspect everything can instead make uncertainty central: reassurance about one object may not settle what you want to know about the rest.\n\nA split in the ground can put a familiar connection beyond its earlier route. Wanting to reach somebody across it can resemble a relationship whose ordinary way of coordinating is interrupted. Finding another meeting place differs from proving that the relationship itself has broken. Dream geography can make a changed arrangement concrete without establishing real danger or separation.\n\nOther people’s responses introduce another possibility. If you alone notice the movement, the encounter may concern how to express a concern and what acknowledgment you seek. Their continuation of ordinary activity does not show that anybody is ignoring an actual risk. A shared routine interrupted briefly and resumed differently can instead picture a group adjusting without needing the event to destroy its whole occasion.\n\nAfter the shaking stops, finding a reference point can matter more than deciding what the earthquake represents. A familiar doorway may have moved, or a place agreed for meeting may no longer be recognizable. The work becomes shared orientation in an altered scene. Remaining cautious while others move on may concern wanting time to assess a change. These are optional comparisons with your actual experience, not forecasts or a test of emergency behavior. Relief, grief, uncertainty and an ordinary wish to resume can all have a place without the dream prescribing one response.", "traditional": "The six supplied earthquake accounts conflict. Miller and Fontaine give adverse business, estate or disaster forecasts; the 1644 Artemidorus account adds travel/debt exceptions. Noe and the 1894 Guide assign improvement to ruined houses, while the Guide adds other unfavorable scenes. Craig supplies a brief attributed loss account. These remain distinct period claims, not forecasts of damage, bereavement or financial results. The sleep source supplies general background only.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "The room shakes while a fragile cup remains upright", "reflection": "The expected damage does not happen to a detail you value. This may picture reassurance about something particular while the larger arrangement remains uncertain. Relief can be real within the scene without proving that every object or waking situation is secure." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A split in the road interrupts your usual route to someone", "reflection": "The person remains visible while the familiar connection becomes unavailable. This can resemble coordinating through a changed routine. Choosing another meeting place can matter more than treating the interrupted road as proof that the relationship itself has broken or is endangered." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Only you notice the table moving during a conversation", "reflection": "Your concern needs expression while others continue the encounter as usual. This may picture wanting acknowledgment or a way to describe what feels unsettled. Their dream response does not establish that actual companions are indifferent to a real danger." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A family meal pauses during shaking and resumes differently", "reflection": "An interruption changes how a shared routine continues. This can picture adapting an occasion rather than losing its entire purpose. The new arrangement may preserve company while making room for what changed, without requiring everybody to have the same response." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The shaking stops but you want more time before continuing", "reflection": "The immediate movement ends before your uncertainty has settled. This may picture needing an interval to assess a change while others are ready to proceed. Taking time can concern your pace of understanding, not evidence of an ongoing hidden threat." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "A familiar meeting landmark has shifted and everyone chooses another", "reflection": "The old reference point no longer organizes the group’s route. This can resemble revising a shared plan after circumstances change. Agreement about another place may restore coordination without needing the whole landscape or earlier routine to return to its original form." } ], "prompts": [ "What expected support changed, and which detail remained available?", "How did other people respond to the concern you wanted acknowledged?", "Which shared reference or pace helped the encounter continue?" ], "related": [ "house", "ruins", "flood", "being-lost" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "scope": "miller-0684: An earthquake is assigned business failure and distress from international turmoil/war. Exact supplied passages: miller-0684 — Earthquake (Heading 684; source lines 8218–8223). Attributed historical comparison only; these period claims do not validate the original reflection or establish real health, relationship, family or financial outcomes.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0684" ] }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "scope": "fontaine-0218: Earthquakes and a destroyed town are assigned changes of estate, injury, death, famine and war. Exact supplied passages: fontaine-0218 — Earthquakes (Heading 218; source line 1891). Attributed historical comparison only; these period claims do not validate the original reflection or establish real health, relationship, family or financial outcomes.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0218" ] }, { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display.", "scope": "artemidorus-101: Earth shaking, openings, pits and overturning are assigned changes/losses; the text makes a favorable exception for intended travelers and debtors. Exact supplied passages: artemidorus-101 — Of Earth-quakes, and gaping of the Earth. (Book 2, encoded section 101). Attributed historical comparison only; these period claims do not validate the original reflection or establish real health, relationship, family or financial outcomes.", "recordIds": [ "artemidorus-101" ] }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "scope": "noe-0150: An earthquake is assigned a great change; houses falling into ruins a change for the better. Exact supplied passages: noe-0150 — Earthquake (Dream section, heading 152; source lines 684–686). Attributed historical comparison only; these period claims do not validate the original reflection or establish real health, relationship, family or financial outcomes.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0150" ] }, { "id": "guide-65367", "title": "Guide to Fortune-Telling by Dreams", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Multum in Parvo Library, Vol. I, No. 10, October 1894", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65367", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "scope": "guide-0022: Earthquakes receive great-change forecasts; ruined versus standing houses get opposite outcomes, and a lover’s journey receives an adverse forecast. Exact supplied passages: guide-0022 — Earthquake (Dream section, heading 22; source lines 223–230). Attributed historical comparison only; these period claims do not validate the original reflection or establish real health, relationship, family or financial outcomes.", "recordIds": [ "guide-0022" ] }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "scope": "craig-1918:L9836: Craig’s Earthquake account assigns losses, broken ties and bereavements under his Gypsy attribution. Exact supplied passages: craig-1918:L9836 — Earthquake (Printed p. 214; NLM OCR lines 9836–9838). Attributed historical comparison only; these period claims do not validate the original reflection or establish real health, relationship, family or financial outcomes.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L9836" ] }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "An expected support begins to move", "reflection": "A particular arrangement can change without implying that every part of life has failed." }, { "title": "Acknowledgment and differing responses", "reflection": "A concern’s communication can matter alongside the physical movement in the scene." }, { "title": "A shared reference after interruption", "reflection": "Finding another meeting point can make changed coordination possible." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0684", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Earthquake", "text": "To see or feel the earthquake in your dream, denotes business failure\nand much distress caused from turmoils and wars between nations.", "locator": "Heading 684; source lines 8218–8223", "lineStart": 8218, "lineEnd": 8223, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see or feel the earthquake in your dream, denotes business failure\nand much distress caused from turmoils and wars between nations." }, { "id": "fontaine-0218", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Earthquakes", "text": "Change of estate, injuries, death; to see a town destroyed\nby, famine, war, and desolation. 17.", "locator": "Heading 218; source line 1891", "lineStart": 1891, "lineEnd": 1894, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Change of estate, injuries, death; to see a town destroyed\nby, famine, war, and desolation." }, { "id": "artemidorus-101", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of Earth-quakes, and gaping of the Earth.", "text": "THe earth trembling, is change of estate and affayrs, but openings, déep pits, concussions, and turning upside down of the earth, are injuries, death, and losse of goods. Onely this dream hath béen tried good to those which purposed to travell, and which were indebted.", "locator": "Book 2, encoded section 101", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "2", "displayText": "THe earth trembling, is change of estate and affayrs, but openings, déep pits, concussions, and turning upside down of the earth, are injuries, death, and losse of goods. Onely this dream hath béen tried good to those which purposed to travell, and which were indebted.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Earth-quakes, and gaping of the Earth” is shown on the Earthquakes page: artemidorus earthquake section; core earthquake entry already receives other historical records" }, { "id": "noe-0150", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Earthquake", "text": "To dream of an earthquake, warns you that your\naffairs are about to take a great change. If you see many houses tumble\ninto ruins, then it will be much for the better.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 152; source lines 684–686", "lineStart": 684, "lineEnd": 686, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of an earthquake, warns you that your\naffairs are about to take a great change. If you see many houses tumble\ninto ruins, then it will be much for the better." }, { "id": "guide-0022", "sourceId": "guide-65367", "heading": "Earthquake", "text": "To dream of an earthquake warns you that your affairs are\nabout to take a very great change; if you see many houses tumbled into\nruins, then it will be much for the better; should the houses appear\nto stand, then for the worse; for the lover, it foretells that your\nsweetheart is about to take a journey, and that it is a chance if you\never see each other again.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 22; source lines 223–230", "lineStart": 223, "lineEnd": 230, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of an earthquake warns you that your affairs are\nabout to take a very great change; if you see many houses tumbled into\nruins, then it will be much for the better; should the houses appear\nto stand, then for the worse; for the lover, it foretells that your\nsweetheart is about to take a journey, and that it is a chance if you\never see each other again." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9836", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Earthquake", "heading": "Earthquake", "text": "Losses, broken ties, bereavements (Gypsy) ; nature's own symbolism.", "lineStart": 9836, "lineEnd": 9838, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 214; NLM OCR lines 9836–9838", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9836, "lineEnd": 9838, "printedPage": 214, "printedPageEnd": 214 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Earthquake. — Losses, broken ties, bereavements (Gypsy) ; \nnature's own symbolism. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Earthquake" }, "displayText": "Losses, broken ties, bereavements (Gypsy); nature's own symbolism." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "earthworms", "title": "Earthworms", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “To dream of earthworms, signifies secret enemies that endeavor to ruin and destroy us.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "earthworms", "earth-worm", "earthworm" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about earthworms stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "noe-0153", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Earthworms", "text": "To\ndream of earthworms, signifies secret enemies that endeavor to ruin and\ndestroy us.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 155; source lines 692–694", "lineStart": 692, "lineEnd": 694, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To\ndream of earthworms, signifies secret enemies that endeavor to ruin and\ndestroy us." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9839", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Earth-Worm", "heading": "Earth-Worm", "text": "A dream of secret enemies (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 9839, "lineEnd": 9840, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 214; NLM OCR lines 9839–9840", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9839, "lineEnd": 9840, "printedPage": 214, "printedPageEnd": 214 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Earth-Worm. — A dream of secret enemies (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Earth-Worm" }, "displayText": "A dream of secret enemies (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "earwig", "title": "Earwig", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you see an earwig or have one in your ear, denotes that you will have unpleasant news affecting your business or family…”", "aliases": [ "earwig" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about earwig stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0685", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Earwig", "text": "To dream that you see an earwig or have one in your ear, denotes that you\nwill have unpleasant news affecting your business or family relations.", "locator": "Heading 685; source lines 8223–8228", "lineStart": 8223, "lineEnd": 8228, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you see an earwig or have one in your ear, denotes that you\nwill have unpleasant news affecting your business or family relations." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "eating", "title": "Eating", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "Receiving nourishment, sharing a place, or taking in more than you want.", "summary": "Eating can picture receiving support, belonging at a shared table, or deciding what you can comfortably take in and what feels imposed.", "aliases": [ "eating" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "Eating can picture receiving something you need and allowing it to become part of your life. Unlike cooking, where you prepare the care, eating places you on the receiving side. Enjoying a satisfying meal can fit accepting help after a demanding period or letting yourself benefit from work already completed. Food that remains out of reach may instead resemble support that is promised but difficult to access.\n\nThe table can make belonging more important than appetite. Eating with others can picture participating in a family, friendship, or workplace where there is room for you. Watching everyone eat while your place stays empty can express feeling present but overlooked. Eating alone has no single emotional direction: a peaceful private meal may resemble welcome independence, while an empty room that feels lonely may picture missing companionship.\n\nPortions and pace can give form to questions of enough. A tiny serving when you are hungry may resemble getting less time, attention, or recognition than a situation calls for. Having to finish an enormous meal can picture receiving more demands than you can usefully absorb. If others insist you eat, the central issue may be pressure to accept their generosity, advice, or plans on their terms.\n\nTaste adds a distinction between apparent value and personal fit. A beautifully presented dish that tastes wrong can resemble an opportunity admired by others that does not suit you. Discovering that unfamiliar food is enjoyable can picture openness to a new experience. These are readings of acceptance and preference, rather than judgments about particular foods.\n\nEating hurriedly can also resemble a life in which basic needs must be fitted into the gaps between obligations. A slow meal with permission to stop offers the opposite image: enough time and choice to receive what is helpful. Hunger, recent meals, and remembered tastes can also supply the scene directly.", "traditional": "The six Eating accounts disagree substantially. Miller contrasts lonely eating with the benefits of company and adds a scene in which a platter is removed too soon. Fontaine treats enjoying a meal as favorable for crops and business, while Cielo links eating with marriage or inheritance. Noe and the Guide give eating adverse forecasts; the Guide reverses its judgment when the dreamer watches others eat. Everybody's Book of Luck uses a similar eating-versus-watching contrast. These incompatible period claims provide historical comparisons, not a reason to expect misfortune from a meal dream. The modern reading instead follows appetite, company, choice, and access.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Receiving what sustains you", "reflection": "A satisfying meal can picture allowing help, comfort, or the benefits of completed work into your life. Unreachable food may express a gap between available support and access to it." }, { "title": "Having a place at the table", "reflection": "Company and the distribution of food can express belonging, recognition, or exclusion. A peaceful solitary meal can equally picture freedom to meet your needs without accommodating everyone else." }, { "title": "Enough, too little, or too much", "reflection": "Portions may resemble the amount of attention, responsibility, or opportunity being offered. Being forced to finish can picture pressure to accept more than feels useful or welcome." }, { "title": "Choosing what suits you", "reflection": "Taste can make personal preference concrete. A dish that looks impressive but feels wrong may resemble an admired opportunity that conflicts with what you actually want or can accept." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You enjoy a quiet meal by yourself", "reflection": "A comfortable solitary meal can picture being able to meet your needs without performing for others. It may fit claiming time after a crowded week or making an independent choice. The ease of eating supports a reading of self-direction rather than loneliness." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Everyone eats while your place stays empty", "reflection": "This scene can picture being included in name while missing the care or recognition others receive. A workplace celebration that overlooks your contribution or a family gathering with no room for your needs could fit. The empty setting makes unequal participation visible." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You are hungry but your portion is tiny", "reflection": "The small serving can resemble receiving less than a current need requires. That might be too little help with a shared task, too little time to finish work, or too little attention in a conversation. The appetite gives scale to what is missing." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Someone insists you finish an enormous plate", "reflection": "Forced eating can picture an offer that carries an unwanted obligation. Advice, family plans, or a supposedly generous opportunity may feel difficult to refuse. The important action is losing the freedom to decide what and how much you are willing to receive." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "An impressive dish tastes unpleasant", "reflection": "A mismatch between appearance and taste can resemble something that looks desirable publicly but fits poorly in your own experience. A prestigious role or carefully planned event might be the parallel. The dream gives your private response equal weight to its outward presentation." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You discover that unfamiliar food tastes good", "reflection": "Enjoying a dish you expected to dislike can picture revising an assumption through direct experience. It may fit a new friendship, unfamiliar responsibility, or different way of living that becomes comfortable once tried. The pleasure suggests room for curiosity without requiring certainty beforehand." } ], "prompts": [ "Did I choose the food and amount, or did someone else decide what I had to receive?", "Was the meal about hunger, enjoyment, company, or being given an equal share?", "What offer or experience in my life looks one way from outside but feels different when I actually take it in?" ], "related": [ "cooking", "banquet", "bread", "hunger", "mouth" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "scope": "Historical comparison only: Eating, miller-0686 (Heading 686; source lines 8228–8242). 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Period dream-book claims support only the attributed historical comparison, not predictions or the original modern reflections.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0149" ] }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "scope": "Historical comparison only: Eating, luck-0060 (Dream section, heading 60; source lines 3660–3662). Period dream-book claims support only the attributed historical comparison, not predictions or the original modern reflections.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0060" ] }, { "id": "guide-65367", "title": "Guide to Fortune-Telling by Dreams", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Multum in Parvo Library, Vol. I, No. 10, October 1894", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65367", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "scope": "Historical comparison only: Eating, guide-0023 (Dream section, heading 23; source lines 230–238). Period dream-book claims support only the attributed historical comparison, not predictions or the original modern reflections.", "recordIds": [ "guide-0023" ] }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia editorial upgrade with image-specific interpretations, concrete waking-life parallels, and six differentiated scenes. Historical context is grounded in the cited catalogue passages. Human publication review pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0686", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Eating", "text": "To dream of eating alone, signifies loss and melancholy spirits.\nTo eat with others, denotes personal gain, cheerful environments\nand prosperous undertakings.\n\nIf your daughter carries away the platter of meat before you\nare done eating, it foretells that you will have trouble\nand vexation from those beneath you or dependent upon you.\nThe same would apply to a waiter or waitress.\n\n\n[61] See other subjects similar.", "locator": "Heading 686; source lines 8228–8242", "lineStart": 8228, "lineEnd": 8242, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of eating alone, signifies loss and melancholy spirits.\nTo eat with others, denotes personal gain, cheerful environments\nand prosperous undertakings.\n\nIf your daughter carries away the platter of meat before you\nare done eating, it foretells that you will have trouble\nand vexation from those beneath you or dependent upon you.\nThe same would apply to a waiter or waitress. See other subjects similar." }, { "id": "fontaine-0219", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Eating", "text": "If you dream of eating a good meal with a relish, it foretells\ngood crops to a farmer, and successful business to any one. 70, 14.", "locator": "Heading 219; source line 1894", "lineStart": 1894, "lineEnd": 1897, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream of eating a good meal with a relish, it foretells\ngood crops to a farmer, and successful business to any one." }, { "id": "noe-0158", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Eating", "text": "To\ndream that you are eating, is a very unfavorable omen; it portends\ndisunion in your family, losses in trade, and disappointment in love,\nstorms and shipwrecks by sea.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 160; source lines 713–716", "lineStart": 713, "lineEnd": 716, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To\ndream that you are eating, is a very unfavorable omen; it portends\ndisunion in your family, losses in trade, and disappointment in love,\nstorms and shipwrecks by sea." }, { "id": "cielo-0149", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Eating", "text": "To dream of eating means a happy marriage or\n a rich inheritance.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 149; source lines 4211–4214", "lineStart": 4211, "lineEnd": 4214, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of eating means a happy marriage or\na rich inheritance." }, { "id": "luck-0060", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Eating", "text": "(Dreamer eating) ill luck; (seeing others eat) good luck.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 60; source lines 3660–3662", "lineStart": 3660, "lineEnd": 3662, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(Dreamer eating) ill luck; (seeing others eat) good luck." }, { "id": "guide-0023", "sourceId": "guide-65367", "heading": "Eating", "text": "To dream you are eating is a very unfavorable omen;\nit portends disunion amongst your family, losses in trade, and\ndisappointment in love. To see others eating is of a contrary tendency,\nand foretells success in all your present enterprises; that your\nsweetheart is kind and faithful, and if you marry the present object\nof your affections that you will grow rich, be happy and have dutiful\nchildren.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 23; source lines 230–238", "lineStart": 230, "lineEnd": 238, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are eating is a very unfavorable omen;\nit portends disunion amongst your family, losses in trade, and\ndisappointment in love. To see others eating is of a contrary tendency,\nand foretells success in all your present enterprises; that your\nsweetheart is kind and faithful, and if you marry the present object\nof your affections that you will grow rich, be happy and have dutiful\nchildren." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "ebony", "title": "Ebony", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “If you dream of ebony furniture or other articles of ebony, you will have many distressing disputes and quarrels in your home.”", "aliases": [ "ebony" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about ebony stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0687", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Ebony", "text": "If you dream of ebony furniture or other articles of ebony,\nyou will have many distressing disputes and quarrels in your home.", "locator": "Heading 687; source lines 8242–8247", "lineStart": 8242, "lineEnd": 8247, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream of ebony furniture or other articles of ebony,\nyou will have many distressing disputes and quarrels in your home." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0688", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Echo", "text": "To dream of an echo, portends that distressful times are upon you.\nYour sickness may lose you your employment, and friends will desert\nyou in time of need.", "locator": "Heading 688; source lines 8247–8253", "lineStart": 8247, "lineEnd": 8253, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of an echo, portends that distressful times are upon you.\nYour sickness may lose you your employment, and friends will desert\nyou in time of need." }, { "id": "luck-0061", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Echo", "text": "Sickness either of dreamer or relations.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 61; source lines 3662–3664", "lineStart": 3662, "lineEnd": 3664, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Sickness either of dreamer or relations." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9848", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Echo", "heading": "Echo", "text": "False news and absurdity are here indicated (Art).", "lineStart": 9848, "lineEnd": 9849, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 214; NLM OCR lines 9848–9849", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9848, "lineEnd": 9849, "printedPage": 214, "printedPageEnd": 214 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Echo, — False news and absurdity are here indicated (Art). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Echo" }, "displayText": "False news and absurdity are here indicated (Art)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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You will experience a great uneasiness on\naccount of a woman. Your sweetheart will prove unfaithful. Poverty will\novertake you and misery end your days. To dream you see an eclipse of the\nsun, denotes that you will lose some male friend--your father, if he be\nalive; and that you will experience some uneasiness by the means of some\ntroublesome friends; to a woman with child it foretells a son, who will be\na great man.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 151; source lines 676–684", "lineStart": 676, "lineEnd": 684, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see an\neclipse of the moon, denotes that you will lose some female friend--your\nmother, if she be living. You will experience a great uneasiness on\naccount of a woman. Your sweetheart will prove unfaithful. Poverty will\novertake you and misery end your days. To dream you see an eclipse of the\nsun, denotes that you will lose some male friend--your father, if he be\nalive; and that you will experience some uneasiness by the means of some\ntroublesome friends; to a woman with child it foretells a son, who will be\na great man." }, { "id": "cielo-0150", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Eclipse", "text": "To see an eclipse means a loss in business.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 150; source lines 4214–4216", "lineStart": 4214, "lineEnd": 4216, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see an eclipse means a loss in business." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9850", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Eclipse", "heading": "Eclipse", "text": "Of the sun, great loss predicted ; of the moon, small damage, but whatever your wish you will not attain it (Artemidorus). 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0692", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Eel", "text": "To dream of an eel is good if you can maintain your grip on him.\nOtherwise fortune will be fleeting.\n\nTo see an eel in clear water, denotes, for a woman,\nnew but evanescent pleasures.\n\nTo see a dead eel, signifies that you will overcome your most maliciously\ninclined enemies. To lovers, the dream denotes an end to long and hazardous\ncourtship by marriage.", "locator": "Heading 692; source lines 8276–8288", "lineStart": 8276, "lineEnd": 8288, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of an eel is good if you can maintain your grip on him.\nOtherwise fortune will be fleeting.\n\nTo see an eel in clear water, denotes, for a woman,\nnew but evanescent pleasures.\n\nTo see a dead eel, signifies that you will overcome your most maliciously\ninclined enemies. To lovers, the dream denotes an end to long and hazardous\ncourtship by marriage." }, { "id": "fontaine-0221", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Eels", "text": "To dream of catching or handling eels, denotes that you will have\ngood fortune, but difficulty. If the eels slip through your hands and\nescape from you, it shows that you will experience a loss. 41, 6.", "locator": "Heading 221; source line 1902", "lineStart": 1902, "lineEnd": 1906, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of catching or handling eels, denotes that you will have\ngood fortune, but difficulty. If the eels slip through your hands and\nescape from you, it shows that you will experience a loss." }, { "id": "noe-0160", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Eels", "text": "To dream of eels, signifies to beware of\nslippery pursuits and uncertain speculations. If the eels escape you, you\nwill be jilted in love; if you hold them, honor and happiness will be in\nstore for you.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 162; source lines 719–722", "lineStart": 719, "lineEnd": 722, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of eels, signifies to beware of\nslippery pursuits and uncertain speculations. If the eels escape you, you\nwill be jilted in love; if you hold them, honor and happiness will be in\nstore for you." }, { "id": "cielo-0151", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Eels", "text": "Are sign of vexation.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 151; source lines 4216–4218", "lineStart": 4216, "lineEnd": 4218, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Are sign of vexation." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9854", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Eels", "heading": "Eels", "text": "A warning to beware of uncertain speculations (Gypsy). \"As slippery as an eel,\" is the old simile for a rogue.", "lineStart": 9854, "lineEnd": 9857, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 214; NLM OCR lines 9854–9857", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9854, "lineEnd": 9857, "printedPage": 214, "printedPageEnd": 214 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Eels. — A warning to beware of uncertain speculations \n(Gypsy). \"As slippery as an eel,\" is the old simile for a \nrogue. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Eels" }, "displayText": "A warning to beware of uncertain speculations (Gypsy). \"As slippery as an eel,\" is the old simile for a rogue." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "eggs", "title": "Eggs", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "summary": "Eggs can picture careful handling, an unopened possibility, or the difference between preserving something and opening it for use.", "tagline": "A fragile whole, an interior you cannot yet see, and a choice about opening it.", "aliases": [ "eggs", "of egges", "egg" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "An egg held carefully can picture a responsibility whose ordinary handling feels consequential. A new plan, a delicate conversation, or work not yet ready to be shown may offer a parallel when you are aware that a small movement could change it. Care can feel purposeful if you know where the egg belongs. If you must hold it indefinitely with nowhere to set it down, the scene may concern responsibility without workable conditions. Fragility in the dream does not establish that you or another person is weak; it makes the cost of handling visible.\n\nOpening an egg deliberately introduces a different relationship from dropping it. Breaking the shell may be necessary for cooking or for seeing what is inside, even if the whole had looked complete beforehand. This can resemble moving a plan from protected preparation into use, where maintaining its untouched form is no longer the goal. An accidental break can instead picture a change arriving before you intended it. The distinction between chosen opening and unwanted damage matters more than treating every broken shell as the same kind of loss.\n\nAn unexpected interior can make possibility feel different from prediction. You may find something wonderful, unsettling, empty, or unlike what the setting led you to expect. A task or relationship can similarly reveal conditions only after you begin working with it. Surprise does not automatically imply deception; a sealed form allows imagination before direct knowledge. If you keep refusing to open it, the dream may center on preserving an expectation because knowing would require another decision.\n\nA nest of eggs can place care within a setting shared by several potential developments. The number may feel exciting or unmanageable depending on the space and help available. Hatching changes the task from protecting a contained possibility to responding to something with its own movement. That can fit a project entering another stage without being a fertility or pregnancy message. A kitchen, bird observation, holiday activity, or childhood memory may also supply the image directly. Eggs need not stand for a body, future child, or promised outcome; the remembered handling, opening, and setting provide the basis for an original personal comparison.", "traditional": "Eight attached sources give conflicting forecasts: Miller treats fresh broken eggs favorably, while Noe and Everybody’s Book of Luck link breakage to loss. Other passages add trade, family, travel, or treasure predictions; Artemidorus distinguishes quantity and occupation. These are period claims, not evidence of pregnancy, fertility, or real future events.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Care that needs a place to rest", "reflection": "Holding a fragile whole can picture deliberate attention or a responsibility that cannot be set down. The available support changes whether caution feels manageable." }, { "title": "Opening versus accidental damage", "reflection": "A shell broken for use has a different purpose from one dropped unwillingly. The dream’s action distinguishes transition into a next stage from loss of an intended form." }, { "title": "Possibility before direct knowledge", "reflection": "An unopened interior allows several expectations. Discovering what is inside can change the task without proving that the earlier uncertainty concealed a fixed prediction." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You hold an egg with nowhere to put it", "reflection": "A small responsibility requires uninterrupted attention because the surroundings offer no support. This may fit a task that cannot be paused under its current arrangement. A safe place to rest it changes the conditions rather than your willingness to care." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You crack an egg deliberately for a meal", "reflection": "Opening serves a chosen use rather than destroying value. This can picture moving a protected plan into practice. The important change is what becomes possible through opening, not an assumption that every broken whole represents failure." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "An egg falls before you are ready to open it", "reflection": "The change happens outside your intended timing. This may resemble a draft exposed early or an interrupted conversation. Help with what remains creates a different response from needing the original untouched form restored." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Something unexpected appears inside the shell", "reflection": "Direct knowledge replaces an imagined interior. The scene can picture discovering new conditions through involvement. Delight, concern, or emptiness distinguishes what the discovery means to you without turning it into a forecast." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Several eggs fill a nest too small for them", "reflection": "Many possibilities or needs must fit within an unchanged setting. This may picture excitement mixed with practical limits. Additional space or shared attention changes how the number feels without assigning it a family prediction." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "An egg hatches and the creature begins to move", "reflection": "A contained possibility becomes a participant with its own activity. This can picture a project or relationship entering another stage. Your role changes from preserving its form toward responding to needs that cannot be controlled entirely from outside." } ], "prompts": [ "Was I preserving the egg, opening it for use, or responding to an unwanted break?", "What conditions let careful handling become manageable?", "How did knowing what was inside change what I wanted to do next?" ], "related": [ "nest", "hatching", "bird", "cooking", "rotten" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0693" ], "scope": "Attached historical comparison only: Eggs — miller-0693 (Heading 693; source lines 8288–8311): Nest, eating, fresh broken, rotten, crate, splattering, and bird eggs receive different wealth, family, household, speculation, or inheritance forecasts. These period assertions are preserved as attributed archival material; they neither validate this original modern reflection nor establish an outcome." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0222" ], "scope": "Attached historical comparison only: Eggs — fontaine-0222 (Heading 222; source line 1906): Family and pregnancy-related forecasts, with Rotten cross-reference. These period assertions are preserved as attributed archival material; they neither validate this original modern reflection nor establish an outcome." }, { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display.", "recordIds": [ "artemidorus-103" ], "scope": "Attached historical comparison only: Of Egges. — artemidorus-103 (Book 2, encoded section 103): Of Egges differentiates occupations and quantities, assigning gain or trouble; transcription has an illegible gap. These period assertions are preserved as attributed archival material; they neither validate this original modern reflection nor establish an outcome." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0146" ], "scope": "Attached historical comparison only: Eggs — noe-0146 (Dream section, heading 148; source lines 663–669): Buying/selling, eating, and broken eggs receive success/children or loss/separation forecasts. These period assertions are preserved as attributed archival material; they neither validate this original modern reflection nor establish an outcome." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0152" ], "scope": "Attached historical comparison only: Eggs — cielo-0152 (Dream section, heading 152; source lines 4218–4220): Eating eggs is linked to a journey. These period assertions are preserved as attributed archival material; they neither validate this original modern reflection nor establish an outcome." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0062" ], "scope": "Attached historical comparison only: Eggs — luck-0062 (Dream section, heading 62; source lines 3664–3666): Whole/broken eggs are linked to success and failure. These period assertions are preserved as attributed archival material; they neither validate this original modern reflection nor establish an outcome." }, { "id": "moles-71045", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams and Moles", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "United Kingdom, J. Marshall, 1805", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71045", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "moles-0058" ], "scope": "Attached historical comparison only: Eggs — moles-0058 (Dreams interpreted, passage 58; source lines 280–281): An egg hanging by a string receives a hidden-treasure forecast. These period assertions are preserved as attributed archival material; they neither validate this original modern reflection nor establish an outcome." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L9858" ], "scope": "Attached historical comparison only: Eggs — craig-1918:L9858 (Printed p. 214; NLM OCR lines 9858–9862): The compilation discusses happiness, quarrels/legal disputes, fresh eggs, and a generalized creation-symbol claim. These period assertions are preserved as attributed archival material; they neither validate this original modern reflection nor establish an outcome." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0693", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Eggs", "text": "To dream of finding a nest of eggs, denotes wealth of a substantial\ncharacter, happiness among the married and many children.\nThis dream signifies many and varied love affairs to women.\n\nTo eat eggs, denotes that unusual disturbances threaten you in your home.\n\nTo see broken eggs and they are fresh, fortune is ready to shower upon you\nher richest gifts. A lofty spirit and high regard for justice will make\nyou beloved by the world.\n\nTo dream of rotten eggs, denotes loss of property and degradation.\n\nTo see a crate of eggs, denotes that you will engage\nin profitable speculations.\n\nTo dream of being spattered with eggs, denotes that you will sport riches\nof doubtful origin.\n\nTo see bird eggs, signifies legacies from distant relations,\nor gain from an unexpected rise in staple products.", "locator": "Heading 693; source lines 8288–8311", "lineStart": 8288, "lineEnd": 8311, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of finding a nest of eggs, denotes wealth of a substantial\ncharacter, happiness among the married and many children.\nThis dream signifies many and varied love affairs to women.\n\nTo eat eggs, denotes that unusual disturbances threaten you in your home.\n\nTo see broken eggs and they are fresh, fortune is ready to shower upon you\nher richest gifts. A lofty spirit and high regard for justice will make\nyou beloved by the world.\n\nTo dream of rotten eggs, denotes loss of property and degradation.\n\nTo see a crate of eggs, denotes that you will engage\nin profitable speculations.\n\nTo dream of being spattered with eggs, denotes that you will sport riches\nof doubtful origin.\n\nTo see bird eggs, signifies legacies from distant relations,\nor gain from an unexpected rise in staple products." }, { "id": "fontaine-0222", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Eggs", "text": "(_See Rotten._) If married people dream of eggs it is a sign they\nwill be prolific of children. If a newly married lady dreams of finding\na nest full of eggs, it foretells that her first born will be twins\nor triplets. If a young girl dreams such a dream, it is a sign that\nshe will soon be married, or get in a condition that she ought to be a\nwife. 4, 47.", "locator": "Heading 222; source line 1906", "lineStart": 1906, "lineEnd": 1913, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Rotten.) If married people dream of eggs it is a sign they\nwill be prolific of children. If a newly married lady dreams of finding\na nest full of eggs, it foretells that her first born will be twins\nor triplets. If a young girl dreams such a dream, it is a sign that\nshe will soon be married, or get in a condition that she ought to be a\nwife." }, { "id": "artemidorus-103", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of Egges.", "text": "EGges, to Physitians, Paynters, and th[illegible passage]se which sell and trade with them are good, to others it is good to have little store of them, and signifyeth gain, but plenty of them is care, pain, noise or law suits.", "locator": "Book 2, encoded section 103", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription-with-gaps", "book": "2", "displayText": "EGges, to Physitians, Paynters, and th [illegible passage] se which sell and trade with them are good, to others it is good to have little store of them, and signifyeth gain, but plenty of them is care, pain, noise or law suits.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Egges” is shown on the Eggs page: archaic spelling (Artemidorus)" }, { "id": "noe-0146", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Eggs", "text": "To dream\nyou are buying or selling eggs, is a very favorable omen; whatever you are\nthen about will succeed, whether it be love, trade, or getting a place. To\ndream that you are eating eggs, denotes that you will shortly have a child\nand that your affairs will go well. To dream your eggs are broken, denotes\nloss of goods, quarrels and poverty; if you are in love, it forebodes a\nseparation between you and your sweetheart.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 148; source lines 663–669", "lineStart": 663, "lineEnd": 669, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream\nyou are buying or selling eggs, is a very favorable omen; whatever you are\nthen about will succeed, whether it be love, trade, or getting a place. To\ndream that you are eating eggs, denotes that you will shortly have a child\nand that your affairs will go well. To dream your eggs are broken, denotes\nloss of goods, quarrels and poverty; if you are in love, it forebodes a\nseparation between you and your sweetheart." }, { "id": "cielo-0152", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Eggs", "text": "Eating eggs indicates a journey.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 152; source lines 4218–4220", "lineStart": 4218, "lineEnd": 4220, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Eating eggs indicates a journey." }, { "id": "luck-0062", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Eggs", "text": "Good luck, money, success; (eggs broken) failure and loss.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 62; source lines 3664–3666", "lineStart": 3664, "lineEnd": 3666, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Good luck, money, success; (eggs broken) failure and loss." }, { "id": "moles-0058", "sourceId": "moles-71045", "heading": "Eggs", "originalHeading": "(no printed heading)", "text": "To dream you see an egg hang by a string at your bed head, signifies\nfinding great store of hidden treasure.", "locator": "Dreams interpreted, passage 58; source lines 280–281", "lineStart": 280, "lineEnd": 281, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "editorialNote": "The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Eggs” because that is the subject of its first clause.", "displayText": "To dream you see an egg hang by a string at your bed head, signifies\nfinding great store of hidden treasure." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9858", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Eggs", "heading": "Eggs", "text": "A dream meaning happiness ; broken eggs, however, prognosticate quarrels and law-suits; fresh eggs, good news (Artemidorus). An ancient symbol of creation the egg has been held as an emblem of good fortune by all races.", "lineStart": 9858, "lineEnd": 9862, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 214; NLM OCR lines 9858–9862", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9858, "lineEnd": 9862, "printedPage": 214, "printedPageEnd": 214 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Eggs. — A dream meaning happiness ; broken eggs, however, \nprognosticate quarrels and law-suits; fresh eggs, good news \n(Artemidorus). An ancient symbol of creation the egg has \nbeen held as an emblem of good fortune by all races. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Eggs" }, "displayText": "A dream meaning happiness; broken eggs, however, prognosticate quarrels and law-suits; fresh eggs, good news (Artemidorus). An ancient symbol of creation the egg has been held as an emblem of good fortune by all races." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [ "rotten" ] }, { "slug": "elbows", "title": "Elbows", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see elbows in a dream, signifies that arduous labors will devolve upon you, and for which you will receive small reimbursements.”", "aliases": [ "elbows" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about elbows stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0694", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Elbows", "text": "To see elbows in a dream, signifies that arduous labors will devolve upon you,\nand for which you will receive small reimbursements.\n\nFor a young woman, this is a prognostic of favorable opportunities\nto make a reasonably wealthy marriage. If the elbows are soiled,\nshe will lose a good chance of securing a home by marriage.", "locator": "Heading 694; source lines 8311–8320", "lineStart": 8311, "lineEnd": 8320, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see elbows in a dream, signifies that arduous labors will devolve upon you,\nand for which you will receive small reimbursements.\n\nFor a young woman, this is a prognostic of favorable opportunities\nto make a reasonably wealthy marriage. If the elbows are soiled,\nshe will lose a good chance of securing a home by marriage." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "elderberries", "title": "Elderberries", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing elderberries on bushes with their foliage, denotes domestic bliss and an agreeable…” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "elderberries" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about elderberries stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0695", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Elderberries", "text": "To dream of seeing elderberries on bushes with their foliage,\ndenotes domestic bliss and an agreeable county home with resources\nfor travel and other pleasures.\n\nElderberries is generally a good dream.", "locator": "Heading 695; source lines 8320–8328", "lineStart": 8320, "lineEnd": 8328, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing elderberries on bushes with their foliage,\ndenotes domestic bliss and an agreeable county home with resources\nfor travel and other pleasures.\n\nElderberries is generally a good dream." }, { "id": "fontaine-0223", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Elderberries", "text": "To dream of elderberries augurs content and riches: to\na maiden they bespeak a speedy marriage; to a married woman, that she\nwill shortly be with child; to the tradesman, success in business; to\nthe farmer, good crops. 30, 33.", "locator": "Heading 223; source line 1913", "lineStart": 1913, "lineEnd": 1918, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of elderberries augurs content and riches: to\na maiden they bespeak a speedy marriage; to a married woman, that she\nwill shortly be with child; to the tradesman, success in business; to\nthe farmer, good crops." }, { "id": "noe-0147", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Elderberries", "text": "To dream of\nelderberries augurs content and riches; to a maiden they bespeak a speedy\nmarriage; to a married woman, that she will shortly be with child; to the\ntradesman, success in business; to the farmer, good crops.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 149; source lines 669–673", "lineStart": 669, "lineEnd": 673, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of\nelderberries augurs content and riches; to a maiden they bespeak a speedy\nmarriage; to a married woman, that she will shortly be with child; to the\ntradesman, success in business; to the farmer, good crops." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9863", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Elderberries", "heading": "Elderberries", "text": "A dream of good luck, speedy marriage and success financially (Raphael). The fruit of the sacred elder, these berries were highly esteemed by the ancient Prussians as symbols of good fortune.", "lineStart": 9863, "lineEnd": 9867, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 214; NLM OCR lines 9863–9867", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9863, "lineEnd": 9867, "printedPage": 214, "printedPageEnd": 214 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Elderberries. — A dream of good luck, speedy marriage and \nsuccess financially (Raphael). The fruit of the sacred elder, \nthese berries were highly esteemed by the ancient Prussians as \nsymbols of good fortune. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Elderberries" }, "displayText": "A dream of good luck, speedy marriage and success financially (Raphael). The fruit of the sacred elder, these berries were highly esteemed by the ancient Prussians as symbols of good fortune." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "election", "title": "Election", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are at an election, foretells you will engage in some controversy which will prove detrimental to your social or financial…”", "aliases": [ "election" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about election stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "electricity", "title": "Electricity", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of electricity, denotes there will be sudden changes about you, which will not afford you either advancement or pleasure.”", "aliases": [ "electricity" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about electricity stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "elephant", "title": "Elephant", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "summary": "An elephant may picture something substantial needing room, quiet capacity, or the difference between carrying responsibility and being carried.", "tagline": "Size, presence, and the space a substantial task requires.", "aliases": [ "elephant", "elephants" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "An elephant standing in a small familiar room can picture something substantial placed within conditions that cannot comfortably contain it. A major responsibility added to a crowded schedule, a difficult conversation held in passing, or a large project given inadequate resources may offer a parallel. The animal’s presence need not be aggressive to make the mismatch obvious. Widening a doorway or finding another space changes the scene more directly than asking the elephant to become small. The image can bring attention to conditions without judging the task itself as unwelcome.\n\nA calm elephant beside you can create another relationship with size. Its quiet presence may feel dependable, much as a capable colleague or an established routine can offer support without demanding notice. If you feel dwarfed or unable to speak, the same scale may instead make your own influence seem limited. The animal is not automatically an authority figure. Your freedom to approach, leave, ask for help, or continue your activity gives the encounter its particular meaning.\n\nRiding an elephant can picture relying on a capacity larger than your own immediate effort. An organization, a shared resource, or help from another person may carry a task that would be difficult alone. Comfort differs from being transported toward a destination you did not choose. If you cannot dismount or communicate direction, the support may feel tied to conditions you cannot alter. The dream can therefore hold gratitude and uncertainty together rather than turning elevation into a forecast of status or success.\n\nA group of elephants can make scale collective. Several quiet animals may feel reassuring, while a crowd moving through a narrow passage can expose the difficulty of coordinating many substantial needs. Helping one that is stuck may shift the scene from admiration to a practical question about access. A remembered visit, story, toy, documentary, or family association can supply the image directly. Its recognizable size and behavior matter within your own scene; they do not reveal memory ability, wisdom, wealth, or a cultural identity simply because the animal is an elephant. The useful comparison concerns what its presence makes possible and what the surrounding arrangement prevents.", "traditional": "Miller contrasts riding, groups, a lone elephant, and feeding through forecasts about wealth and social position. Fontaine and Noe add marriage and children predictions; Cielo links riding to service. Craig’s brief entry includes riches and asserted symbolism. These are author-specific period claims, not evidence of a universal tradition or real outcome.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A substantial presence needs room", "reflection": "A large animal in a small place can picture a task whose conditions are inadequate. A better setting differs from demanding that the responsibility shrink or disappear." }, { "title": "Capacity without a demand for attention", "reflection": "A calm presence may feel dependable or make your own influence seem small. Your ability to act gives scale its meaning." }, { "title": "Being carried and choosing direction", "reflection": "Riding can picture support that makes movement possible. It feels different when your destination and ability to leave remain available." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "An elephant stands in a room too small for it", "reflection": "The surroundings fail to fit a substantial presence. This may picture a large responsibility added to limited conditions. Creating another space changes the problem more directly than requiring the animal to remain motionless or become smaller." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A calm elephant rests beside you", "reflection": "Size feels reassuring rather than disruptive. The scene can picture support that does not need constant performance. If you feel unable to move or speak, the same presence may instead make your own room to act uncertain." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You ride toward a destination you chose", "reflection": "Another capacity carries a journey that would be difficult through your effort alone. This may picture welcome practical support. Being able to communicate direction distinguishes assistance from merely being moved according to someone else’s plan." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You cannot get down when you want to stop", "reflection": "The arrangement continues after your preferred destination or pace changes. This can picture help with conditions you cannot easily revise. Receiving a response when you ask to stop creates another relationship from having no influence." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Several elephants crowd a narrow passage", "reflection": "Many substantial needs must fit through an unchanged route. The scene may resemble group responsibilities exceeding a shared process. Making more room or taking turns differs from expecting coordination to solve a physical mismatch by itself." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You help an elephant reach an open doorway", "reflection": "The difficulty concerns access rather than unwillingness. This can picture a practical adjustment that lets capacity become usable. The help matters through the changed conditions, without requiring you to carry the whole responsibility alone." } ], "prompts": [ "What did the elephant’s size make possible, and what did its surroundings prevent?", "Did its presence offer support or leave me with too little room to act?", "If I was carried, could I choose the direction and when to stop?" ], "related": [ "animals", "horse", "lion", "forest" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0224" ], "scope": "Attached historical comparison only: Elephant — fontaine-0224 (Heading 224; source line 1918): Elephant dreams receive riches, marriage, and sons forecasts. These period assertions are preserved as attributed archival material; they neither validate this original modern reflection nor establish an outcome." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0148" ], "scope": "Attached historical comparison only: Elephants — noe-0148 (Dream section, heading 150; source lines 673–676): The source repeats riches, marriage, and sons predictions. These period assertions are preserved as attributed archival material; they neither validate this original modern reflection nor establish an outcome." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0153" ], "scope": "Attached historical comparison only: Elephant — cielo-0153 (Dream section, heading 153; source lines 4220–4223): Riding is linked to being called upon to do a service. These period assertions are preserved as attributed archival material; they neither validate this original modern reflection nor establish an outcome." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L9868" ], "scope": "Attached historical comparison only: Elephant — craig-1918:L9868 (Printed p. 214; NLM OCR lines 9868–9871): The passage forecasts riches, calls it a power/wisdom symbol, and makes a generalized India elephant-headed-god claim; this is Craig’s attribution, not independent cultural evidence. These period assertions are preserved as attributed archival material; they neither validate this original modern reflection nor establish an outcome." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. 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One lone elephant,\nsignifies you will live in a small but solid way.\n\nTo dream of feeding one, denotes that you will elevate yourself in your\ncommunity by your kindness to those occupying places below you.", "locator": "Heading 698; source lines 8347–8360", "lineStart": 8347, "lineEnd": 8360, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of riding an elephant, denotes that you will possess wealth\nof the most solid character, and honors which you will wear with dignity.\nYou will rule absolutely in all lines of your business affairs and your\nword will be law in the home.\n\nTo see many elephants, denotes tremendous prosperity. One lone elephant,\nsignifies you will live in a small but solid way.\n\nTo dream of feeding one, denotes that you will elevate yourself in your\ncommunity by your kindness to those occupying places below you." }, { "id": "fontaine-0224", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Elephant", "text": "To dream of an elephant is a very fortunate dream, for it\ndenotes an acquirement of riches: if you are in love, it foretells a\nspeedy marriage with your sweetheart, and many children, chiefly boys,\nwho will distinguish themselves by their learning. 33.", "locator": "Heading 224; source line 1918", "lineStart": 1918, "lineEnd": 1923, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of an elephant is a very fortunate dream, for it\ndenotes an acquirement of riches: if you are in love, it foretells a\nspeedy marriage with your sweetheart, and many children, chiefly boys,\nwho will distinguish themselves by their learning." }, { "id": "noe-0148", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Elephants", "text": "To dream of an elephant is a very fortunate dream; it\ndenotes acquirement of riches. If you are in love, it denotes a speedy\nmarriage with your sweetheart, and many children, chiefly boys, who will\ndistinguish themselves by their learning.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 150; source lines 673–676", "lineStart": 673, "lineEnd": 676, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of an elephant is a very fortunate dream; it\ndenotes acquirement of riches. If you are in love, it denotes a speedy\nmarriage with your sweetheart, and many children, chiefly boys, who will\ndistinguish themselves by their learning." }, { "id": "cielo-0153", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Elephant", "text": "To ride an elephant means that you will be\n called upon to do a service.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 153; source lines 4220–4223", "lineStart": 4220, "lineEnd": 4223, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To ride an elephant means that you will be\ncalled upon to do a service." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9868", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Elephant", "heading": "Elephant", "text": "A fortunate dream forecasting riches (Gypsy). A symbol of power and wisdom. In India the god of wisdom is elephant-headed.", "lineStart": 9868, "lineEnd": 9871, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 214; NLM OCR lines 9868–9871", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9868, "lineEnd": 9871, "printedPage": 214, "printedPageEnd": 214 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Elephant. — A fortunate dream forecasting riches (Gypsy). \nA symbol of power and wisdom. In India the god of wisdom \nis elephant-headed. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Elephant" }, "displayText": "A fortunate dream forecasting riches (Gypsy). A symbol of power and wisdom. In India the god of wisdom is elephant-headed." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "elevator", "title": "Elevators", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "A route between levels depends on shared controls.", "summary": "An elevator can explore pace, access, dependence on a system or sharing limited space. Going up or down does not by itself measure success.", "aliases": [ "elevator", "lift" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "An elevator moves you between levels while a mechanism supplies most of the motion. This can picture depending on a process you can request but do not fully operate: an application, a workplace procedure or a shared timetable. The useful question is what destination you wanted and how the system responded. Going upward does not automatically mean progress, just as descending need not imply failure.\n\nButtons make an intention visible. A requested floor may be unavailable, ignored or reached before you are ready. This can resemble a situation where you know what you want but lack the right access or response. Pressing every button creates a different difficulty: several demands now shape the journey. The scene may concern choosing among requests rather than being unable to move.\n\nOther passengers turn a private route into a shared arrangement. Someone holds the door, asks for space or expects you to wait through their stop. Cooperation can make the journey manageable; crowding can bring attention to the cost of fitting another person’s pace. Their destinations need not be yours for traveling together to be possible.\n\nA stopped elevator changes the task from reaching a floor to understanding what is happening. You may have information, company or a way to ask for help even while the car remains still. This can resemble a delay that calls for a different kind of participation. The comparison does not explain a physical episode or show that real progress has ended.\n\nA door opening onto an unfamiliar room can make arrival more important than the direction of travel. The place may be welcome, unsuitable or simply unexpected. An elevator that you decide not to enter leaves another route available. Recent journeys, buildings and fictional scenes can provide direct context too. Follow the relationship between destination, controls and company rather than treating every change of level as a ranking of your life.", "traditional": "Miller assigns rising wealth to ascent, misfortune to descent, narrowly avoided disappointment to missing a departing car and threatened danger to one standing. These are period forecasts, not a reliable scale of achievement or a warning about an actual elevator. The original reading follows the mechanism, destination and shared space.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Your chosen floor is not on the panel", "reflection": "The route exists without the destination you need. This may resemble a process whose available options do not cover your situation. Asking for another route differs from concluding that your wish itself is unsuitable." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Someone holds the door while you decide whether to enter", "reflection": "Time is offered without making the decision for you. This can picture participation whose terms allow hesitation. The held opening may matter more than the elevator’s direction or a demand to keep moving." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "The car passes your floor while answering other requests", "reflection": "A shared system does not follow only your timetable. This may bring attention to waiting, competing priorities or the need for a clearer request. 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If you see one go down and think you\nare left, you will narrowly escape disappointment in some undertaking.\nTo see one standing, foretells threatened danger.", "locator": "Heading 699; source lines 8360–8368", "lineStart": 8360, "lineEnd": 8368, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of ascending in an elevator, denotes you will swiftly rise\nto position and wealth, but if you descend in one your misfortunes\nwill crush and discourage you. If you see one go down and think you\nare left, you will narrowly escape disappointment in some undertaking.\nTo see one standing, foretells threatened danger." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "elf", "title": "Elf", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “To dream of an elf signifies a happy return of one long absent.”", "aliases": [ "elf" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about elf stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "noe-0161", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Elf", "text": "To dream of an elf signifies a happy return of one\nlong absent; presents of value may be expected after this dream, which\nalso signifies marriage, with wealth, position and happiness.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 163; source lines 722–725", "lineStart": 722, "lineEnd": 725, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of an elf signifies a happy return of one\nlong absent; presents of value may be expected after this dream, which\nalso signifies marriage, with wealth, position and happiness." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "elixir-of-life", "title": "Elixir of Life", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of the elixir of life, denotes that there will come into your environments new pleasures and new possibilities.”", "aliases": [ "elixir of life" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about elixir of life stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0700", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Elixir of Life", "text": "To dream of the elixir of life, denotes that there will come\ninto your environments new pleasures and new possibilities.", "locator": "Heading 700; source lines 8368–8373", "lineStart": 8368, "lineEnd": 8373, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of the elixir of life, denotes that there will come\ninto your environments new pleasures and new possibilities." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "elk", "title": "Elk", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “A dream of good luck (Gypsy). The great god El-ek; its horns were a protection from ill-luck (Bayley).”", "aliases": [ "elk" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about elk stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L9872", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Elk", "heading": "Elk", "text": "A dream of good luck (Gypsy). The great god El-ek; its horns were a protection from ill-luck (Bayley).", "lineStart": 9872, "lineEnd": 9874, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 214; NLM OCR lines 9872–9874", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9872, "lineEnd": 9874, "printedPage": 214, "printedPageEnd": 214 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Elk. — A dream of good luck (Gypsy). The great god \nEl-ek; its horns were a protection from ill-luck (Bayley). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Elk" }, "displayText": "A dream of good luck (Gypsy). The great god El-ek; its horns were a protection from ill-luck (Bayley)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "elm-tree", "title": "Elm Tree", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Book of Luck wrote: “A good turn offered by a male relative.”", "aliases": [ "elm tree" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about elm tree stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "luck-0063", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Elm Tree", "text": "A good turn offered by a male relative.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 63; source lines 3666–3668", "lineStart": 3666, "lineEnd": 3668, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "A good turn offered by a male relative." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "elopement", "title": "Elopement", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "5 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of eloping is unfavorable. To the married, it denotes that you hold places which you are unworthy…” Compare 5 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "elopement" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about elopement stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0701", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Elopement", "text": "To dream of eloping is unfavorable. To the married, it denotes\nthat you hold places which you are unworthy to fill, and if\nyour ways are not rectified your reputation will be at stake.\nTo the unmarried, it foretells disappointments in love and\nthe unfaithfulness of men.\n\nTo dream that your lover has eloped with some one else,\ndenotes his or her unfaithfulness.\n\nTo dream of your friend eloping with one whom you do not approve,\ndenotes that you will soon hear of them contracting a disagreeable marriage.", "locator": "Heading 701; source lines 8373–8387", "lineStart": 8373, "lineEnd": 8387, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of eloping is unfavorable. To the married, it denotes\nthat you hold places which you are unworthy to fill, and if\nyour ways are not rectified your reputation will be at stake.\nTo the unmarried, it foretells disappointments in love and\nthe unfaithfulness of men.\n\nTo dream that your lover has eloped with some one else,\ndenotes his or her unfaithfulness.\n\nTo dream of your friend eloping with one whom you do not approve,\ndenotes that you will soon hear of them contracting a disagreeable marriage." }, { "id": "fontaine-0225", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Elopement", "text": "For a young girl to dream she elopes with her beau, is\na sign her parents will give their consent and she will soon be\nmarried to the one she loves. If a man dreams that he elopes with his\nsweetheart, it portends that he will be  “_cut out_” by a stranger. 4,\n44, 8.", "locator": "Heading 225; source line 1923", "lineStart": 1923, "lineEnd": 1929, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a young girl to dream she elopes with her beau, is\na sign her parents will give their consent and she will soon be\nmarried to the one she loves. If a man dreams that he elopes with his\nsweetheart, it portends that he will be  “cut out” by a stranger. 4," }, { "id": "noe-0162", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Elopement", "text": "To dream of a friend’s elopement, signifies marriage against\nthe wishes of your friends, and unhappiness. To dream of your own\nelopement, betokens entering into ruinous speculations in love or\nbusiness.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 164; source lines 725–728", "lineStart": 725, "lineEnd": 728, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a friend’s elopement, signifies marriage against\nthe wishes of your friends, and unhappiness. To dream of your own\nelopement, betokens entering into ruinous speculations in love or\nbusiness." }, { "id": "cielo-0154", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Elopement", "text": "Signifies a speedy marriage after trouble.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 154; source lines 4223–4225", "lineStart": 4223, "lineEnd": 4225, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Signifies a speedy marriage after trouble." }, { "id": "luck-0064", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Elopement", "text": "Sign of a speedy marriage.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 64; source lines 3668–3670", "lineStart": 3668, "lineEnd": 3670, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Sign of a speedy marriage." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "eloquent", "title": "Eloquent", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “If you think you are eloquent of speech in your dreams, there will be pleasant news for you concerning one in whose interest you are working.”", "aliases": [ "eloquent" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about eloquent stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0702", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Eloquent", "text": "If you think you are eloquent of speech in your dreams,\nthere will be pleasant news for you concerning one in whose\ninterest you are working.\n\nTo fail in impressing others with your eloquence, there will be much\ndisorder in your affairs.", "locator": "Heading 702; source lines 8387–8396", "lineStart": 8387, "lineEnd": 8396, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you think you are eloquent of speech in your dreams,\nthere will be pleasant news for you concerning one in whose\ninterest you are working.\n\nTo fail in impressing others with your eloquence, there will be much\ndisorder in your affairs." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "email", "title": "Email", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "aliases": [ "email", "emails", "e-mail", "e-mails", "sending an email", "email attachment", "wrong email recipient" ], "summary": "Email can picture shaping an account, choosing who receives it, or waiting for a response. Drafts, recipients, and attachments give the medium its meaning.", "tagline": "A message must take a particular form and reach particular people before it can do its work.", "psychological": "Email can picture trying to make an account clear before it reaches other people. Unlike an immediate conversation, a draft gives room to revise, attach context, and decide who belongs among the recipients. A useful email may fit explaining a task, stating a need, or making a decision visible. Endless revision can instead express pressure to remove every possible misunderstanding before speaking.\n\nSending to the wrong person makes audience central. A private concern becomes available in a setting you did not choose. This can fit uncertainty about boundaries between work and personal life, or about which part of your experience can be shared with a particular group. The dream does not establish that an actual message has been exposed.\n\nAn attachment can picture what supports the words. A missing document may resemble having a valid request but lacking the evidence, practical detail, or shared understanding needed for it to be acted on. An unexpected attachment can instead make a simple message feel connected to responsibilities you did not intend to include.\n\nWaiting for a reply brings acknowledgment into view. You may be unsure whether an explanation was understood, a request accepted, or a connection still available. A warm response can picture the importance of being met clearly; an absent reply can hold your own experience of uncertainty without revealing the recipient's intentions.\n\nA search through old mail can make continuity important: finding a previous agreement, familiar voice, or information that would clarify the present. Repeated requests arriving together may instead picture availability turning into obligation. Recent correspondence, drafts, inboxes, and work routines can supply the scene directly. These original readings concern delivery, audience, and response rather than a prediction about real communication.", "traditional": "This entry focuses on the specific digital medium: drafts, addresses, recipients, attachments, and replies. No verified historical email passage is cited. Broader letters or messages are adjacent topics rather than evidence for these mechanisms; the listed research provides general dream background, not information about another person's intentions.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Making an account clear enough to send", "reflection": "A draft can picture shaping a request, decision, or explanation. Repeated revision may express pressure for perfect clarity before you feel allowed to enter the conversation." }, { "title": "The audience changes the message", "reflection": "Recipients and accidental copies can bring privacy and social roles into view. A message may feel safe in one relationship and exposing in another, even when its words stay unchanged." }, { "title": "Acknowledgment and supporting context", "reflection": "Replies and attachments can picture what lets communication become useful. The scene may concern being understood, supplying practical detail, or finding a past agreement that clarifies a present request." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "You rewrite a draft but never send it", "reflection": "This can picture trying to remove every possible objection before making a request or explanation. A work proposal or difficult personal message may offer parallels. The draft provides control over wording, but the absence of sending keeps the actual conversation from beginning.", "slug": "scene-1" }, { "title": "A private email reaches the wrong recipient", "reflection": "The message's meaning changes through who can read it. Sharing a concern across work and family boundaries or worrying about a group's response may feel similar. The scene makes audience and permission central, without establishing that any actual correspondence has been exposed.", "slug": "scene-2" }, { "title": "The attachment is missing when you press send", "reflection": "An account can feel incomplete without the material that would make it actionable. A request lacking supporting detail or a task waiting on another document may offer parallels. The missing file joins having something valid to say with needing a practical means to demonstrate or use it.", "slug": "scene-3" }, { "title": "An unexpected kind reply arrives", "reflection": "A clear response can picture relief at being understood without further defense. Feedback that acknowledges effort or a conversation that welcomes a need may feel similar. The dreamed kindness expresses the value of that response from your position, rather than revealing what the real sender feels.", "slug": "scene-4" }, { "title": "Every new email seems to require an immediate answer", "reflection": "Availability can become an obligation without a stable endpoint. Work requests, group planning, or family reminders may fit when each response produces another task. The pressure concerns who sets the pace of contact, rather than simply the number of messages.", "slug": "scene-5" }, { "title": "You search for an old email that would settle a question", "reflection": "A previous account can seem important to understanding the present. Looking for an agreed plan, remembered reassurance, or a clearer statement of expectations may offer parallels. Finding it can provide continuity; its absence can make your need for shared context more visible.", "slug": "scene-6" } ], "prompts": [ "What did the message need to accomplish before I could feel ready to send it?", "Which recipient or audience changed how safe or appropriate the words felt?", "Was I seeking acknowledgment, practical context, or an endpoint to repeated requests?" ], "related": [ "message", "letter", "computer", "an-unread-message" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia editorial entry with image-specific interpretations and six differentiated scenes. The reference supplies general dream background only. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "embalming", "title": "Embalming", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see embalming in process, foretells altered positions in social life and threatened poverty.”", "aliases": [ "embalming" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about embalming stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0703", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Embalming", "text": "To see embalming in process, foretells altered positions in social life\nand threatened poverty. To dream that you are looking at yourself embalmed,\nomens unfortunate friendships for you, which will force you into lower\nclasses than you are accustomed to move in.", "locator": "Heading 703; source lines 8396–8403", "lineStart": 8396, "lineEnd": 8403, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see embalming in process, foretells altered positions in social life\nand threatened poverty. To dream that you are looking at yourself embalmed,\nomens unfortunate friendships for you, which will force you into lower\nclasses than you are accustomed to move in." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "embankment", "title": "Embankment", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you drive along an embankment, foretells you will be threatened with trouble and unhappiness.”", "aliases": [ "embankment" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about embankment stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0704", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Embankment", "text": "To dream that you drive along an embankment, foretells you will\nbe threatened with trouble and unhappiness. If you continue\nyour drive without unpleasant incidents arising, you will succeed\nin turning these forebodings to useful account in your advancement.\nTo ride on horseback along one, denotes you will fearlessly meet\nand overcome all obstacles in your way to wealth and happiness.\nTo walk along one, you will have a weary struggle for elevation,\nbut will &ally reap a successful reward.", "locator": "Heading 704; source lines 8403–8414", "lineStart": 8403, "lineEnd": 8414, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you drive along an embankment, foretells you will\nbe threatened with trouble and unhappiness. If you continue\nyour drive without unpleasant incidents arising, you will succeed\nin turning these forebodings to useful account in your advancement.\nTo ride on horseback along one, denotes you will fearlessly meet\nand overcome all obstacles in your way to wealth and happiness.\nTo walk along one, you will have a weary struggle for elevation,\nbut will &ally reap a successful reward." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "embrace", "title": "Embrace", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of embracing your husband or wife, as the case may be, in a sorrowing or indifferent way, denotes…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "embrace" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about embrace stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "moles-71045", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams and Moles", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "United Kingdom, J. Marshall, 1805", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71045", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0706", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Embrace", "text": "To dream of embracing your husband or wife, as the case may be,\nin a sorrowing or indifferent way, denotes that you will have dissensions\nand accusations in your family, also that sickness is threatened.\n\nTo embrace relatives, signifies their sickness and unhappiness.\n\nFor lovers to dream of embracing, foretells quarrels and disagreements arising\nfrom infidelity. If these dreams take place under auspicious conditions,\nthe reverse may be expected.\n\nIf you embrace a stranger, it signifies that you will have an unwelcome guest.", "locator": "Heading 706; source lines 8419–8433", "lineStart": 8419, "lineEnd": 8433, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of embracing your husband or wife, as the case may be,\nin a sorrowing or indifferent way, denotes that you will have dissensions\nand accusations in your family, also that sickness is threatened.\n\nTo embrace relatives, signifies their sickness and unhappiness.\n\nFor lovers to dream of embracing, foretells quarrels and disagreements arising\nfrom infidelity. If these dreams take place under auspicious conditions,\nthe reverse may be expected.\n\nIf you embrace a stranger, it signifies that you will have an unwelcome guest." }, { "id": "fontaine-0228", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Embrace", "text": "To dream of embracing relatives is a warning of treachery; if\nfriends, disappointments; if one unknown embrace you, you will travel;\nthe embrace of a woman brings good luck. 3, 11, 33.", "locator": "Heading 228; source line 1939", "lineStart": 1939, "lineEnd": 1943, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of embracing relatives is a warning of treachery; if\nfriends, disappointments; if one unknown embrace you, you will travel;\nthe embrace of a woman brings good luck." }, { "id": "moles-0038", "sourceId": "moles-71045", "heading": "Embrace", "originalHeading": "(no printed heading)", "text": "To dream you embrace, without power to speak, denotes the party to fall\nin love, but shall not obtain the person desired.", "locator": "Dreams interpreted, passage 38; source lines 220–221", "lineStart": 220, "lineEnd": 221, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "editorialNote": "The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Embrace” because that is the subject of its first clause.", "displayText": "To dream you embrace, without power to speak, denotes the party to fall\nin love, but shall not obtain the person desired." }, { "id": "moles-0041", "sourceId": "moles-71045", "heading": "Embrace", "originalHeading": "(no printed heading)", "text": "For a barren woman to dream she embraces one of her own sex, denotes\nthat in time she shall have children, but to a fruitful woman it\ndenotes very great pain and sorrow in child bearing.", "locator": "Dreams interpreted, passage 41; source lines 228–230", "lineStart": 228, "lineEnd": 230, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "editorialNote": "The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Embrace” because that is the subject of its first clause.", "displayText": "For a barren woman to dream she embraces one of her own sex, denotes\nthat in time she shall have children, but to a fruitful woman it\ndenotes very great pain and sorrow in child bearing." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0707", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Embroidery", "text": "If a woman dreams of embroidering, she will be admired for her tact\nand ability to make the best of everything that comes her way.\nFor a married man to see embroidery, signifies a new member in his household,\nFor a lover, this denotes a wise and economical wife.", "locator": "Heading 707; source lines 8433–8440", "lineStart": 8433, "lineEnd": 8440, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If a woman dreams of embroidering, she will be admired for her tact\nand ability to make the best of everything that comes her way.\nFor a married man to see embroidery, signifies a new member in his household,\nFor a lover, this denotes a wise and economical wife." }, { "id": "cielo-0155", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Embroidery", "text": "Signifies love and ambition.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 155; source lines 4225–4227", "lineStart": 4225, "lineEnd": 4227, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Signifies love and ambition." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0708", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Emerald", "text": "To dream of an emerald, you will inherit property concerning\nwhich there will be some trouble with others.\n\nFor a lover to see an emerald or emeralds on the person of his affianced,\nwarns him that he is about to be discarded for some wealthier suitor.\n\nTo dream that you buy an emerald, signifies unfortunate dealings.", "locator": "Heading 708; source lines 8440–8450", "lineStart": 8440, "lineEnd": 8450, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of an emerald, you will inherit property concerning\nwhich there will be some trouble with others.\n\nFor a lover to see an emerald or emeralds on the person of his affianced,\nwarns him that he is about to be discarded for some wealthier suitor.\n\nTo dream that you buy an emerald, signifies unfortunate dealings." }, { "id": "luck-0065", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Emerald", "text": "A sign of good luck and happiness.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 65; source lines 3670–3672", "lineStart": 3670, "lineEnd": 3672, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "A sign of good luck and happiness." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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Moreover, fo dreame that you have Eyes or Ears, signifies blindnesse or deafenesse.", "locator": "Book 1, encoded section 14", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription-with-gaps", "book": "1", "displayText": "TO Dreame of Emmeis getting into the eares, is good onely to Sophisters. Philosophers, and Schoole-masters. For the Emmets represent children which will give audience to Sophisters.\n\nTo others it foretels death: For they are daughters of the earth and go again to the earth. I know one which dreamt his two eares were filled with eares of Corn, and how the Corn fell into his hands, and he heard news his brothers heyr was dea [illegible passage], his heyr by reason of the eares of the corn, and his brothers heyr, because the ears represent brothers and sisters. To dream you have Asses ears, is good onely for Philosophers, to others it is servitude and misery. To have the ears of a Lion or Woolfe or any other cruell beast, is snares and deceit by euvie. Moreover, fo dreame that you have Eyes or Ears, signifies blindnesse or deafenesse." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0710", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Employee", "text": "To see one of your employees denotes crosses and disturbances\nif he assumes a disagreeable or offensive attitude.\nIf he is pleasant and has communications of interest, you will\nfind no cause for evil or embarrassing conditions upon waking.", "locator": "Heading 710; source lines 8456–8463", "lineStart": 8456, "lineEnd": 8463, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see one of your employees denotes crosses and disturbances\nif he assumes a disagreeable or offensive attitude.\nIf he is pleasant and has communications of interest, you will\nfind no cause for evil or embarrassing conditions upon waking." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "employment", "title": "Employment", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “This is not an auspicious dream. 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Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0711", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Employment", "text": "This is not an auspicious dream. It implies depression\nin business circles and loss of employment to wage earners.\nIt also denotes bodily illness.\n\nTo dream of being out of work, denotes that you will have no fear,\nas you are always sought out for your conscientious fulfilment of contracts,\nwhich make you a desired help.\n\nGiving employment to others, indicates loss for yourself.\nAll dreams of this nature may be interpreted as the above.", "locator": "Heading 711; source lines 8463–8476", "lineStart": 8463, "lineEnd": 8476, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "This is not an auspicious dream. It implies depression\nin business circles and loss of employment to wage earners.\nIt also denotes bodily illness.\n\nTo dream of being out of work, denotes that you will have no fear,\nas you are always sought out for your conscientious fulfilment of contracts,\nwhich make you a desired help.\n\nGiving employment to others, indicates loss for yourself.\nAll dreams of this nature may be interpreted as the above." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "empress", "title": "Empress", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of an empress, denotes that you will be exalted to high honors, but you will let pride make you very unpopular.”", "aliases": [ "empress" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about empress stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0712", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Empress", "text": "To dream of an empress, denotes that you will be exalted to high honors,\nbut you will let pride make you very unpopular.\n\nTo dream of an empress and an emperor is not particularly bad,\nbut brings one no substantial good.", "locator": "Heading 712; source lines 8476–8484", "lineStart": 8476, "lineEnd": 8484, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of an empress, denotes that you will be exalted to high honors,\nbut you will let pride make you very unpopular.\n\nTo dream of an empress and an emperor is not particularly bad,\nbut brings one no substantial good." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "emptiness", "title": "Emptiness", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Book of Luck wrote: “Always a bad sign in a dream.”", "aliases": [ "emptiness" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about emptiness stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "luck-0066", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Emptiness", "text": "Always a bad sign in a dream.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 66; source lines 3672–3674", "lineStart": 3672, "lineEnd": 3674, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Always a bad sign in a dream." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0713", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Enchantment", "text": "To dream of being under the spell of enchantment, denotes that if you\nare not careful you will be exposed to some evil in the form of pleasure.\nThe young should heed the benevolent advice of their elders.\n\nTo resist enchantment, foretells that you will be much sought\nafter for your wise counsels and your liberality.\n\nTo dream of trying to enchant others, portends that you will fall into evil.", "locator": "Heading 713; source lines 8484–8495", "lineStart": 8484, "lineEnd": 8495, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being under the spell of enchantment, denotes that if you\nare not careful you will be exposed to some evil in the form of pleasure.\nThe young should heed the benevolent advice of their elders.\n\nTo resist enchantment, foretells that you will be much sought\nafter for your wise counsels and your liberality.\n\nTo dream of trying to enchant others, portends that you will fall into evil." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "encyclopedia", "title": "Encyclopedia", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing or searching through encyclopedias, portends that you will secure literary ability to the losing of prosperity and comfort.”", "aliases": [ "encyclopedia" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about encyclopedia stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0714", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Encyclopedia", "text": "To dream of seeing or searching through encyclopedias, portends that you\nwill secure literary ability to the losing of prosperity and comfort.", "locator": "Heading 714; source lines 8495–8500", "lineStart": 8495, "lineEnd": 8500, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing or searching through encyclopedias, portends that you\nwill secure literary ability to the losing of prosperity and comfort." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0715", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Enemy", "text": "To dream that you overcome enemies, denotes that you will surmount\nall difficulties in business, and enjoy the greatest prosperity.\n\nIf you are defamed by your enemies, it denotes that you will be threatened\nwith failures in your work. You will be wise to use the utmost caution\nin proceeding in affairs of any moment.\n\nTo overcome your enemies in any form, signifies your gain.\nFor them to get the better of you is ominous of adverse fortunes.\nThis dream may be literal.", "locator": "Heading 715; source lines 8500–8513", "lineStart": 8500, "lineEnd": 8513, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you overcome enemies, denotes that you will surmount\nall difficulties in business, and enjoy the greatest prosperity.\n\nIf you are defamed by your enemies, it denotes that you will be threatened\nwith failures in your work. You will be wise to use the utmost caution\nin proceeding in affairs of any moment.\n\nTo overcome your enemies in any form, signifies your gain.\nFor them to get the better of you is ominous of adverse fortunes.\nThis dream may be literal." }, { "id": "fontaine-0226", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Enemy", "text": "If you dream that some one is trying to injure you, or that\na person who you know is your enemy endeavors to work to your\ndisadvantage, it foretells good fortune and success. Such dreams always\ngo by contrary, and you may calculate a benefit just in proportion to\nthe injury you dream you are about to sustain. 69, 78.", "locator": "Heading 226; source line 1929", "lineStart": 1929, "lineEnd": 1935, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream that some one is trying to injure you, or that\na person who you know is your enemy endeavors to work to your\ndisadvantage, it foretells good fortune and success. Such dreams always\ngo by contrary, and you may calculate a benefit just in proportion to\nthe injury you dream you are about to sustain." }, { "id": "noe-0159", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Enemy", "text": "To dream you talk to an enemy, is\na caution to beware of him. To dream you fight with and are worsted by\nhim, denotes that you will meet with some misfortune which has threatened\nyou for some time.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 161; source lines 716–719", "lineStart": 716, "lineEnd": 719, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you talk to an enemy, is\na caution to beware of him. To dream you fight with and are worsted by\nhim, denotes that you will meet with some misfortune which has threatened\nyou for some time." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "engagement", "title": "Engagement", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "aliases": [ "engagement", "engaged", "business engagement", "engaged to someone", "getting engaged", "engaged to", "breaking an engagement" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "summary": "Engagement dreams may explore a commitment being arranged, how it is accepted or announced and which terms still need discussion.", "tagline": "A proposed commitment and the terms around it.", "psychological": "An engagement can bring a future commitment into a dream before its everyday form is settled. The scene may involve a partnership proposal, an announcement, planning together or a clearly identified business appointment. Begin with what you understand yourself to be agreeing to. A word such as engaged can have several uses; the action, participants and stated terms give this commitment its particular context.\n\nAn offer and an answer may happen at different paces. You might welcome a proposal, want more information or discover that everyone assumes a decision has already been made. This could invite reflection on having enough room to choose before a plan becomes public. A waking comparison might be being asked to join a project while its practical expectations remain unclear. The dream does not establish that a real proposal is coming or decide which answer you should give.\n\nAnnouncement can alter the experience. A private agreement might feel straightforward until others begin planning, congratulating or asking about dates. Their attention could feel supportive, intrusive or simply surprising. Notice what you want to explain and what remains between the people making the commitment. The dreamed responses cannot prove relatives' approval or a partner's intentions in waking life.\n\nThe terms may concern timing, responsibilities or how a promise is represented. An offered ring or other object can feel fitting or unnecessary; discussing the plan itself may matter more. If you revise or withdraw a dreamed agreement, explore what changed and how the conversation happened. A different answer is not a moral verdict, a prediction of separation or proof that you are unable to commit.\n\nFor a business engagement or appointment, keep the actual purpose visible rather than interpreting it automatically as romance. Agreeing to a meeting, deadline or shared task can raise its own questions about preparation and availability. Waking experiences and emotions can enter dreams through invitations, calendars, conversations or imagined scenes. Record the proposed commitment, the information available and what could still be changed. The reflection may concern the process of agreeing rather than whether any real partnership or business plan will succeed.", "traditional": "Miller’s Engagement passage explicitly includes a business engagement, then gives forecasts for young people being engaged and for breaking an engagement. Cielo assigns a quarrel forecast to being engaged. Everybody’s Book of Luck varies pleasure or trouble by the proposed partner’s appearance. These are attributed period claims, not evidence of real plans, character or outcomes. The commitment’s stated purpose gives partnership or appointment scenes their own context.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "An offer with room for an answer", "reflection": "A proposal, assumption and decision are different stages. Consider what information and time you had before answering, without treating the dream as advice to accept or refuse." }, { "title": "A private agreement becoming public", "reflection": "An announcement can change who participates in the planning. Explore what attention felt useful and which terms remained yours to discuss." }, { "title": "The purpose and terms of commitment", "reflection": "Partnership and business arrangements need their own stated context. Timing, responsibilities and representation can matter without predicting either relationship or professional success." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "A proposal arrives before the details are clear", "reflection": "You are asked to agree, but practical questions about the commitment remain open. The scene could help you describe what information you wanted before answering. Notice whether you ask, wait or decide; the dream does not indicate that a real proposal is imminent or prescribe your response." }, { "title": "Other people announce the decision first", "reflection": "You discover that others have treated an undecided proposal as settled. This might bring authorship and the pace of a commitment into focus. Record what you want to clarify and whom you speak to, without concluding that the real people would disregard your wishes." }, { "title": "A welcome agreement becomes crowded with plans", "reflection": "After accepting, you face dates, arrangements or opinions that were not part of the first conversation. The scene could distinguish choosing a commitment from choosing every detail around it. Notice what you keep open for discussion; enthusiasm and a need for clarification can coexist." }, { "title": "The offered object does not represent your preference", "reflection": "A ring or other token is presented as essential, but you want a different way to mark the agreement. This may focus on representation rather than the value of the commitment. Explore what you propose instead, without interpreting a particular object as proof of love or its absence." }, { "title": "You revise an answer after something changes", "reflection": "New information leads you to ask for different terms or withdraw the dreamed agreement. This might invite reflection on how a changed decision is communicated. Record what prompted it and what remains possible; the scene does not make a moral judgment or predict a real separation." }, { "title": "A business appointment needs a clearer purpose", "reflection": "You agree to a scheduled professional meeting but find that its task or expected contribution has not been explained. Keep this scene’s business context distinct from romance. It may invite questions about preparation and availability, without predicting trade, employment or the outcome of an actual appointment." } ], "prompts": [ "What commitment was being proposed, and what did you understand its terms to be?", "How did your room to answer or revise change during the scene?", "What invitation, plan or conversation offers a concrete waking comparison?" ], "related": [ "marriage", "wedding", "ring", "calendar" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0716" ], "scope": "Miller separately addresses a business engagement, young people being engaged and breaking an engagement, assigning trade worry, lack of admiration, hasty-action or disappointment forecasts. Specific supplied passages: Engagement — miller-0716 (Heading 716; source lines 8513–8523). Historical comparison only; these attributed period beliefs do not establish outcomes, character, diagnosis, consent, desire or a universal dream meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0156" ], "scope": "Cielo assigns a quarrel with a loved person to being engaged. Specific supplied passages: Engaged — cielo-0156 (Dream section, heading 156; source lines 4227–4230). Historical comparison only; these attributed period beliefs do not establish outcomes, character, diagnosis, consent, desire or a universal dream meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0067" ], "scope": "Everybody’s Book of Luck assigns different pleasure or trouble forecasts to engagement according to the proposed person’s appearance. Specific supplied passages: Engagement — luck-0067 (Dream section, heading 67; source lines 3674–3677). Historical comparison only; these attributed period beliefs do not establish outcomes, character, diagnosis, consent, desire or a universal dream meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "kind": "editorial", "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "detectionAliases": [ "engagement", "engaged to", "business engagement", "breaking an engagement", "getting engaged" ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0716", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Engagement", "text": "To dream of a business engagement, denotes dulness and worries in trade.\n\nFor young people to dream that they are engaged, denotes that they\nwill not be much admired.\n\nTo dream of breaking an engagement, denotes a hasty, and an unwise action\nin some important matter or disappointments may follow.", "locator": "Heading 716; source lines 8513–8523", "lineStart": 8513, "lineEnd": 8523, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a business engagement, denotes dulness and worries in trade.\n\nFor young people to dream that they are engaged, denotes that they\nwill not be much admired.\n\nTo dream of breaking an engagement, denotes a hasty, and an unwise action\nin some important matter or disappointments may follow." }, { "id": "cielo-0156", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Engaged", "text": "To dream of being engaged is a sign of a\n quarrel with someone you love.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 156; source lines 4227–4230", "lineStart": 4227, "lineEnd": 4230, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being engaged is a sign of a\nquarrel with someone you love.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Engaged” is shown on the Engagement page: same topic" }, { "id": "luck-0067", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Engagement", "text": "(To dream of being engaged to a handsome person) Great\npleasure in store; (to a plain person) worry and trouble.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 67; source lines 3674–3677", "lineStart": 3674, "lineEnd": 3677, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(To dream of being engaged to a handsome person) Great\npleasure in store; (to a plain person) worry and trouble." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "engine", "title": "Engine", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of an engine, denotes you will encounter grave difficulties and journeys, but you will have substantial friends to uphold you.”", "aliases": [ "engine" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about engine stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0717", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Engine", "text": "To dream of an engine, denotes you will encounter grave difficulties\nand journeys, but you will have substantial friends to uphold you.\n\nDisabled engines stand for misfortune and loss of relatives.", "locator": "Heading 717; source lines 8523–8530", "lineStart": 8523, "lineEnd": 8530, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of an engine, denotes you will encounter grave difficulties\nand journeys, but you will have substantial friends to uphold you.\n\nDisabled engines stand for misfortune and loss of relatives." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "engineer", "title": "Engineer", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see an engineer, forebodes weary journeys but joyful reunions.”", "aliases": [ "engineer" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about engineer stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0718", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Engineer", "text": "To see an engineer, forebodes weary journeys but joyful reunions.", "locator": "Heading 718; source lines 8530–8534", "lineStart": 8530, "lineEnd": 8534, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see an engineer, forebodes weary journeys but joyful reunions." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "english", "title": "English", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream, if you are a foreigner, of meeting English people, denotes that you will have to suffer through the selfish designs of others.”", "aliases": [ "english" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about english stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0719", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "English", "text": "To dream, if you are a foreigner, of meeting English people,\ndenotes that you will have to suffer through the selfish\ndesigns of others.", "locator": "Heading 719; source lines 8534–8540", "lineStart": 8534, "lineEnd": 8540, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream, if you are a foreigner, of meeting English people,\ndenotes that you will have to suffer through the selfish\ndesigns of others." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "entrails", "title": "Entrails", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of the human entrails, denotes horrible misery and despair, shutting out all hope of happiness.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "entrails", "guts" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about entrails stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "intestine" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0721", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Entrails", "text": "To dream of the human entrails, denotes horrible misery and despair,\nshutting out all hope of happiness.\n\nTo dream of the entrails of a wild beast, signifies the overthrow\nof your mortal enemy.\n\nTo tear the entrails of another, signifies cruel persecutions\nto further your own interests.\n\nTo dream of your own entrails, the deepest despair will overwhelm you.\n\nTo dream of the entrails of your own child, denotes that the child's,\nor your own, dissolution is at hand.\n\n[63] See Intestines.", "locator": "Heading 721; source lines 8547–8565", "lineStart": 8547, "lineEnd": 8565, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of the human entrails, denotes horrible misery and despair,\nshutting out all hope of happiness.\n\nTo dream of the entrails of a wild beast, signifies the overthrow\nof your mortal enemy.\n\nTo tear the entrails of another, signifies cruel persecutions\nto further your own interests.\n\nTo dream of your own entrails, the deepest despair will overwhelm you.\n\nTo dream of the entrails of your own child, denotes that the child's,\nor your own, dissolution is at hand. See Intestines." }, { "id": "fontaine-0227", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Entrails", "text": "This is a good dream for the poor, but to the rich it\nportends loss of riches. To sweethearts and beaus it shows that they\nwill be happy in their loves. 10, 20.", "locator": "Heading 227; source line 1935", "lineStart": 1935, "lineEnd": 1939, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "This is a good dream for the poor, but to the rich it\nportends loss of riches. To sweethearts and beaus it shows that they\nwill be happy in their loves." }, { "id": "fontaine-0327", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Guts", "text": "(_See Entrails._)", "locator": "Heading 327; source line 2430", "lineStart": 2430, "lineEnd": 2432, "kind": "cross-reference", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Entrails.)" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "intestine" ] }, { "slug": "envelope", "title": "Envelope", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Envelopes seen in a dream, omens news of a sorrowful cast.”", "aliases": [ "envelope" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about envelope stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0722", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Envelope", "text": "Envelopes seen in a dream, omens news of a sorrowful cast.", "locator": "Heading 722; source lines 8565–8569", "lineStart": 8565, "lineEnd": 8569, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Envelopes seen in a dream, omens news of a sorrowful cast." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "envy", "title": "Envy", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you entertain envy for others, denotes that you will make warm friends by your unselfish deference to the wishes of others.”", "aliases": [ "envy" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about envy stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0723", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Envy", "text": "To dream that you entertain envy for others, denotes that you will make\nwarm friends by your unselfish deference to the wishes of others.\n\nIf you dream of being envied by others, it denotes that you will suffer\nsome inconvenience from friends overanxious to please you.", "locator": "Heading 723; source lines 8569–8577", "lineStart": 8569, "lineEnd": 8577, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you entertain envy for others, denotes that you will make\nwarm friends by your unselfish deference to the wishes of others.\n\nIf you dream of being envied by others, it denotes that you will suffer\nsome inconvenience from friends overanxious to please you." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "epaulet", "title": "Epaulet", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “For a man to dream of wearing epaulets, if he is a soldier, denotes his disfavor for a time, but he will…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "epaulet" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about epaulet stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0724", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Epaulet", "text": "For a man to dream of wearing epaulets, if he is a soldier,\ndenotes his disfavor for a time, but he will finally wear honors.\n\nFor a woman to dream that she is introduced to a person\nwearing epaulets, denotes that she will form unwise attachments,\nvery likely to result in scandal.", "locator": "Heading 724; source lines 8577–8586", "lineStart": 8577, "lineEnd": 8586, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a man to dream of wearing epaulets, if he is a soldier,\ndenotes his disfavor for a time, but he will finally wear honors.\n\nFor a woman to dream that she is introduced to a person\nwearing epaulets, denotes that she will form unwise attachments,\nvery likely to result in scandal." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9888", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Epaulet", "heading": "Epaulet", "text": "A dream of dignity (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 9888, "lineEnd": 9889, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 215; NLM OCR lines 9888–9889", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9888, "lineEnd": 9889, "printedPage": 215, "printedPageEnd": 215 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Epaulet. — A dream of dignity (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Epaulet" }, "displayText": "A dream of dignity (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "epicure", "title": "Epicure", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of sitting at the table with an epicure, denotes that you will enjoy some fine distinction, but you will be surrounded by people of…”", "aliases": [ "epicure" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about epicure stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0725", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Epicure", "text": "To dream of sitting at the table with an epicure, denotes that you\nwill enjoy some fine distinction, but you will be surrounded by people\nof selfish principles.\n\nTo dream that you an epicure yourself, you will cultivate your mind,\nbody and taste to the highest polish.\n\nFor a woman to dream of trying to satisfy an epicure, signifies that she\nwill have a distinguished husband, but to her he will be a tyrant.", "locator": "Heading 725; source lines 8586–8598", "lineStart": 8586, "lineEnd": 8598, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of sitting at the table with an epicure, denotes that you\nwill enjoy some fine distinction, but you will be surrounded by people\nof selfish principles.\n\nTo dream that you an epicure yourself, you will cultivate your mind,\nbody and taste to the highest polish.\n\nFor a woman to dream of trying to satisfy an epicure, signifies that she\nwill have a distinguished husband, but to her he will be a tyrant." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "epidemic", "title": "Epidemic", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of an epidemic, signifies prostration of mental faculties and worry from distasteful tasks.”", "aliases": [ "epidemic" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about epidemic stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0726", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Epidemic", "text": "To dream of an epidemic, signifies prostration of mental faculties and worry\nfrom distasteful tasks. Contagion among relatives or friends is foretold\nby dreams of this nature.", "locator": "Heading 726; source lines 8598–8604", "lineStart": 8598, "lineEnd": 8604, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of an epidemic, signifies prostration of mental faculties and worry\nfrom distasteful tasks. Contagion among relatives or friends is foretold\nby dreams of this nature." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "epitaph", "title": "Epitaph", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “To read or write an epitaph in your dream, signifies much good to come from a secret friend.”", "aliases": [ "epitaph" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about epitaph stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "noe-0163", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Epitaph", "text": "To read or write an epitaph in your dream,\nsignifies much good to come from a secret friend. To read your own\nepitaph, signifies marriage with one now an entire stranger, of great\nwealth and position.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 165; source lines 728–731", "lineStart": 728, "lineEnd": 731, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To read or write an epitaph in your dream,\nsignifies much good to come from a secret friend. To read your own\nepitaph, signifies marriage with one now an entire stranger, of great\nwealth and position." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "equator", "title": "Equator", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “Good weather and fine crops are promised the farmer by this dream.”", "aliases": [ "equator" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about equator stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L9890", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Equator", "heading": "Equator", "text": "Good weather and fine crops are promised the farmer by this dream; to others, abundance (Gypsy). The tropical heat here symbolizes fruitfulness.", "lineStart": 9890, "lineEnd": 9893, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 215; NLM OCR lines 9890–9893", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9890, "lineEnd": 9893, "printedPage": 215, "printedPageEnd": 215 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Equator. — Good weather and fine crops are promised the \nfarmer by this dream; to others, abundance (Gypsy). The \ntropical heat here symbolizes fruitfulness. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Equator" }, "displayText": "Good weather and fine crops are promised the farmer by this dream; to others, abundance (Gypsy). The tropical heat here symbolizes fruitfulness." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "equipage", "title": "Equipage", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “To dream of possessing one, signifies complete happiness, with the gratification of every wish, however extravagant.”", "aliases": [ "equipage" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about equipage stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "ermine", "title": "Ermine", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you wear this beautiful and costly raiment, denotes exaltation, lofty character and wealth…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "ermine" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about ermine stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0727", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Ermine", "text": "To dream that you wear this beautiful and costly raiment, denotes exaltation,\nlofty character and wealth forming a barrier to want and misery.\n\nTo see others thus clothed, you will be associated with wealthy people,\npolished in literature and art.\n\nFor a lover to see his sweetheart clothed in ermine,\nis an omen of purity and faithfulness. If the ermine is soiled,\nthe reverse is indicated.", "locator": "Heading 727; source lines 8604–8616", "lineStart": 8604, "lineEnd": 8616, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you wear this beautiful and costly raiment, denotes exaltation,\nlofty character and wealth forming a barrier to want and misery.\n\nTo see others thus clothed, you will be associated with wealthy people,\npolished in literature and art.\n\nFor a lover to see his sweetheart clothed in ermine,\nis an omen of purity and faithfulness. If the ermine is soiled,\nthe reverse is indicated." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9894", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Ermine", "heading": "Ermine", "text": "Rise to honor and dignity ; gorgeous state awaits this dream (Gypsy). The ermine symbolizes royalty.", "lineStart": 9894, "lineEnd": 9896, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 215; NLM OCR lines 9894–9896", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9894, "lineEnd": 9896, "printedPage": 215, "printedPageEnd": 215 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Ermine. — Rise to honor and dignity ; gorgeous state awaits \nthis dream (Gypsy). The ermine symbolizes royalty. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Ermine" }, "displayText": "Rise to honor and dignity; gorgeous state awaits this dream (Gypsy). The ermine symbolizes royalty." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "errands", "title": "Errands", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To go on errands in your dreams, means congenial associations and mutual agreement in the home circle.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "errands", "errand" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about errands stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0728", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Errands", "text": "To go on errands in your dreams, means congenial associations\nand mutual agreement in the home circle. For a young woman\nto send some person on an errand, denotes she will lose her lover\nby her indifference to meet his wishes.", "locator": "Heading 728; source lines 8616–8623", "lineStart": 8616, "lineEnd": 8623, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To go on errands in your dreams, means congenial associations\nand mutual agreement in the home circle. For a young woman\nto send some person on an errand, denotes she will lose her lover\nby her indifference to meet his wishes." }, { "id": "fontaine-0229", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Errand", "text": "To dream that you are sent of an errand, signifies great loss\nto the married; to the lover it denotes success in his pursuits, and\nthat he will shortly marry a very amiable and accomplished maiden. 39.", "locator": "Heading 229; source line 1943", "lineStart": 1943, "lineEnd": 1947, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are sent of an errand, signifies great loss\nto the married; to the lover it denotes success in his pursuits, and\nthat he will shortly marry a very amiable and accomplished maiden." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "escalator", "title": "Escalator", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "Being carried and choosing how to move can happen at the same time.", "summary": "An escalator dream can explore supported movement, a shared pace and the point of stepping on or off. Reversal belongs to its separate nearby entry.", "aliases": [ "escalator", "escalators", "moving staircase" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "An escalator supplies movement before you add your own steps. In a dream, this can picture an arrangement that carries part of the work: an established process, a shared plan or a routine you can use without organizing every stage. Standing comfortably may express trust in that support. It does not automatically mean passivity. The route can remain chosen even when the mechanism provides the pace.\n\nWalking while the steps move can make your own effort interact with an existing rhythm. You may recognize wanting to contribute more within a process already underway, or feeling expected to hurry despite support being available. Extra effort can be satisfying when it serves your purpose. It can feel unnecessary when comparison with other people becomes more important than where you need to arrive.\n\nStepping on creates a threshold between watching the movement and joining it. Hesitation can picture needing a workable moment to enter an established group or task. A clear opening, handrail or companion may make that transition easier within the scene. The difficulty may be coordination rather than unwillingness to proceed.\n\nA stopped escalator changes the terms of the route without removing it. You may still be able to continue, but the support you expected is absent. This can resemble a routine that becomes more demanding when a shared resource is unavailable. Choosing another path can be practical rather than a verdict that the original arrangement has failed in every way.\n\nLandings provide moments to leave, pause or continue. A long uninterrupted route can make reaching the destination easy while reducing opportunities to reconsider. Companions remaining on it may give separation a particular focus when you want another way. Recent journeys and familiar public spaces can also provide the imagery directly. These readings follow joining, support and choice in a moving staircase; the reversing-direction entry separately develops the mechanism unexpectedly changing direction.", "traditional": "No exact Escalator passage is supplied in the historical archive. Elevators and Stairs concern different arrangements. The existing reversing-escalator draft remains a distinct narrow context, while this original entry develops ordinary support, pace and joining or leaving the route.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Movement already available", "reflection": "An escalator can picture support supplied by an established arrangement. Using it may be a considered choice, with your own purpose retained even when you do not set every part of the pace." }, { "title": "Effort within a shared rhythm", "reflection": "Walking or standing can give different forms to participation. Additional effort may serve a goal or reflect pressure to match another person’s urgency." }, { "title": "A workable point to join or leave", "reflection": "The edges of the mechanism can make transition concrete. Room to step on or off may matter as much as the movement provided between them." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You stand comfortably while the staircase moves", "reflection": "Comfortable standing can picture accepting support from a workable arrangement. A shared process or settled routine may fit. Your own destination can remain important without requiring you to prove effort at every stage of the journey." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You walk while the steps carry you at another pace", "reflection": "Walking on moving steps can picture adding effort within a pace already supplied. The activity may feel purposeful or driven by comparison. What the extra movement makes possible distinguishes contribution from urgency that does not serve your own task." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You hesitate at the point of stepping onto the mechanism", "reflection": "Hesitation at the entrance can resemble needing a coordinated moment to join a group already underway. A usable opening may matter more than determination. Help that gives you room changes access without requiring the whole process to stop." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "The escalator stops and becomes an ordinary staircase", "reflection": "A stopped mechanism can picture expected support becoming unavailable while the route remains. Continuing may require a different amount of effort. The scene can distinguish adapting to a changed arrangement from assuming the destination is no longer possible." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A long escalator carries you past several possible landings", "reflection": "A long route past several landings can picture momentum making continuation easier than reconsideration. A commitment may still work while your purpose changes. The available points to leave or pause give that difference a practical form." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You choose another route while your companions stay on it", "reflection": "Choosing another route can picture keeping your own purpose when companions prefer the established method. A shared stage need not require identical next steps. Connection may remain possible even when you do not all continue in the same way." } ], "prompts": [ "What part of the movement was supplied, and what effort did I choose to add?", "What made stepping on or off workable?", "How did the shared pace fit the destination I wanted?" ], "related": [ "an-escalator-reversing-direction", "elevator", "stairs", "being-late" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "escape", "title": "Escape", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of escape from injury or accidents, is usually favorable.”", "aliases": [ "escape" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about escape stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0729", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Escape", "text": "To dream of escape from injury or accidents, is usually favorable.\n\nIf you escape from some place of confinement, it signifies your rise\nin the world from close application to business.\n\nTo escape from any contagion, denotes your good health and prosperity.\nIf you try to escape and fail, you will suffer from the design of enemies,\nwho will slander and defraud you.", "locator": "Heading 729; source lines 8623–8634", "lineStart": 8623, "lineEnd": 8634, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of escape from injury or accidents, is usually favorable.\n\nIf you escape from some place of confinement, it signifies your rise\nin the world from close application to business.\n\nTo escape from any contagion, denotes your good health and prosperity.\nIf you try to escape and fail, you will suffer from the design of enemies,\nwho will slander and defraud you." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "estate", "title": "Estate", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you come into the ownership of a vast estate, denotes that you will receive a legacy at some distant day, but quite different…”", "aliases": [ "estate" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about estate stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0730", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Estate", "text": "To dream that you come into the ownership of a vast estate,\ndenotes that you will receive a legacy at some distant day, but quite\ndifferent to your expectations. For a young woman, this dream\nportends that her inheritance will be of a disappointing nature.\nShe will have to live quite frugally, as her inheritance will be\na poor man and a house full of children.", "locator": "Heading 730; source lines 8634–8643", "lineStart": 8634, "lineEnd": 8643, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you come into the ownership of a vast estate,\ndenotes that you will receive a legacy at some distant day, but quite\ndifferent to your expectations. For a young woman, this dream\nportends that her inheritance will be of a disappointing nature.\nShe will have to live quite frugally, as her inheritance will be\na poor man and a house full of children." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "euchre", "title": "Euchre", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Cielo wrote: “To play euchre signifies failure in business.”", "aliases": [ "euchre" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about euchre stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "cielo-0157", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Euchre", "text": "To play euchre signifies failure in business.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 157; source lines 4230–4232", "lineStart": 4230, "lineEnd": 4232, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To play euchre signifies failure in business." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "europe", "title": "Europe", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of traveling in Europe, foretells that you will soon go on a long journey, which will avail you in the knowledge you gain of the…”", "aliases": [ "europe" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about europe stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0731", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Europe", "text": "To dream of traveling in Europe, foretells that you will soon\ngo on a long journey, which will avail you in the knowledge\nyou gain of the manners and customs of foreign people.\nYou will also be enabled to forward your financial standing.\nFor a young woman to feel that she is disappointed with the sights\nof Europe, omens her inability to appreciate chances for her elevation.\nShe will be likely to disappoint her friends or lover.", "locator": "Heading 731; source lines 8643–8653", "lineStart": 8643, "lineEnd": 8653, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of traveling in Europe, foretells that you will soon\ngo on a long journey, which will avail you in the knowledge\nyou gain of the manners and customs of foreign people.\nYou will also be enabled to forward your financial standing.\nFor a young woman to feel that she is disappointed with the sights\nof Europe, omens her inability to appreciate chances for her elevation.\nShe will be likely to disappoint her friends or lover." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0732", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Eve", "text": "To dream of this ancient character, denotes your hesitancy to accept this\nancient story as authentic, and you may encounter opposition in business\nand social circles because of this doubt.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she impersonates Eve, warns her\nto be careful. She may be wiser than her ancient relative,\nbut the Evil One still has powerful agents in the disguise\nof a handsome man. Keep your eye on innocent Eve, young man.\nThat apple tree still bears fruit, and you may be persuaded,\nunwittingly, to share the wealth of its products.", "locator": "Heading 732; source lines 8653–8666", "lineStart": 8653, "lineEnd": 8666, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of this ancient character, denotes your hesitancy to accept this\nancient story as authentic, and you may encounter opposition in business\nand social circles because of this doubt.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she impersonates Eve, warns her\nto be careful. She may be wiser than her ancient relative,\nbut the Evil One still has powerful agents in the disguise\nof a handsome man. Keep your eye on innocent Eve, young man.\nThat apple tree still bears fruit, and you may be persuaded,\nunwittingly, to share the wealth of its products." }, { "id": "noe-0155", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Eve", "text": "To dream you see the mother of all\nmen, is a favorable omen. It denotes great happiness to the lover.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 157; source lines 705–707", "lineStart": 705, "lineEnd": 707, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see the mother of all\nmen, is a favorable omen. It denotes great happiness to the lover." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0733", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Evening", "text": "To dream that evening is about you, denotes unrealized hopes,\nand you will make unfortunate ventures.\n\nTo see stars shining out clear, denotes present distress,\nbut brighter fortune is behind your trouble.\n\nFor lovers to walk in the evening, denotes separation by the death of one.", "locator": "Heading 733; source lines 8666–8676", "lineStart": 8666, "lineEnd": 8676, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that evening is about you, denotes unrealized hopes,\nand you will make unfortunate ventures.\n\nTo see stars shining out clear, denotes present distress,\nbut brighter fortune is behind your trouble.\n\nFor lovers to walk in the evening, denotes separation by the death of one." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "evergreen", "title": "Evergreen", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “This dream denotes boundless resources of wealth, happiness and learning. It is a free presentiment of prosperity to all classes.”", "aliases": [ "evergreen" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about evergreen stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0734", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Evergreen", "text": "This dream denotes boundless resources of wealth, happiness and learning.\nIt is a free presentiment of prosperity to all classes.", "locator": "Heading 734; source lines 8676–8681", "lineStart": 8676, "lineEnd": 8681, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "This dream denotes boundless resources of wealth, happiness and learning.\nIt is a free presentiment of prosperity to all classes." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "evil-spirits", "title": "Evil Spirits", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “To dream evil spirits obstruct your doing good under a show of devotion, denotes obstruction in your affairs by a hypocrite.”", "aliases": [ "evil spirits" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about evil spirits stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "noe-0157", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Evil Spirits", "text": "To dream evil spirits obstruct\nyour doing good under a show of devotion, denotes obstruction in your\naffairs by a hypocrite; and if you dream that you see hideous\nphysiognomies, something vulgar will be revealed to you.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 159; source lines 710–713", "lineStart": 710, "lineEnd": 713, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream evil spirits obstruct\nyour doing good under a show of devotion, denotes obstruction in your\naffairs by a hypocrite; and if you dream that you see hideous\nphysiognomies, something vulgar will be revealed to you." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "ewe-lamb", "title": "Ewe-Lamb", "type": "dreams", "category": "Other symbols", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “A dream of a faithful and precious friendship (Gypsy). \"A possession greatly prized\" in Scriptural symbolism.”", "aliases": [ "ewe-lamb" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about ewe-lamb stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L9897", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Ewe-Lamb", "heading": "Ewe-Lamb", "text": "A dream of a faithful and precious friendship (Gypsy). \"A possession greatly prized\" in Scriptural symbolism.", "lineStart": 9897, "lineEnd": 9900, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 215; NLM OCR lines 9897–9900", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9897, "lineEnd": 9900, "printedPage": 215, "printedPageEnd": 215 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Ewe-Lamb. — A dream of a faithful and precious friend- \nship (Gypsy). \"A possession greatly prized\" in Scriptural \nsymbolism. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "friend- \nship", "after": "friendship", "evidenceLine": 9691 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Ewe-Lamb" }, "displayText": "A dream of a faithful and precious friendship (Gypsy). \"A possession greatly prized\" in Scriptural symbolism." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "ex-partner", "title": "Ex-partner", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "What you miss, what still hurts, and what the earlier relationship helps you recognize now.", "summary": "An ex can bring back unfinished feelings, a former way of life, or a relationship pattern. The encounter may also illuminate a present comparison.", "aliases": [ "ex-partner", "ex partner", "ex boyfriend", "ex girlfriend", "an ex-partner", "ex", "my ex", "former partner", "old flame" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "Dreaming about an ex can bring an unfinished feeling into a scene where it finally has somewhere to go. An apology, a conversation that never happened, or an argument you answer differently may give form to wanting acknowledgment. The person matters here because they belong to the original hurt or attachment. What feels unfinished might be anger, tenderness, confusion, or grief for an imagined future. Wanting that feeling understood is different from wanting the relationship back, and the dream's version of an apology does not tell you what the other person would say.\n\nYou may instead miss a period of life that the ex makes easy to recognize. They could bring back a city, shared friends, an inexpensive apartment, a more spontaneous routine, or the version of yourself who had fewer responsibilities. The relationship becomes a doorway into that whole setting. If the pleasure comes from wandering together rather than from renewed intimacy, the missing element might be freedom or companionship. It can be useful to separate the qualities of that chapter you still want from the partnership that once contained them.\n\nAn ex can also bring a familiar relationship pattern into view. You might again be trying to explain yourself, waiting for attention, smoothing over an argument, or doing all the practical work. The image fits because you already associate this person with a particular way of relating. A changed response can matter: perhaps you disagree, ask for something directly, or leave without negotiating endlessly. This need not mean that the past still controls you. The contrast may help you recognize a role you know well and decide whether it fits who you are now.\n\nSometimes the dream is making a present comparison. Beginning to date, making a commitment, having a disagreement, or moving home can bring an earlier relationship into the same emotional territory. A kind exchange with an ex might highlight a form of affection you value; an uncomfortable one might sharpen your sense of a boundary. The comparison can reveal your own priorities without ranking the two people or supplying facts about your current partner. A useful connection is specific: feeling listened to, sharing decisions, or having room to be yourself.\n\nMixed feelings do not cancel your progress. You can wake missing someone's humor and still know why you left; you can feel disturbed by an old argument after a long period of calm. The dream brings back one encounter, not the whole relationship in a balanced account. A song, photograph, message, or familiar place may also have supplied the reminder with no larger question behind it. What deserves attention is the need or feeling that remains with you now. Sometimes that leads to a clearer boundary or a small way to recover a valued part of your life; sometimes it simply deserves kindness and time.", "traditional": "No supplied historical passage directly addresses an ex-partner in the sense used here. Borrowing an older forecast about reunion, kissing, or betrayal would blur different scenes and create authority the evidence does not provide.\n\nThe context offered here is original reflection on remembered relationships. A former partner can be attached to places, routines, hopes, and ways of behaving as well as affection. That gives the dream several possible subjects: the person, the chapter of life, a familiar pattern, or a comparison with the present. Distinguishing them is more useful than a fixed promise of reconciliation. The encounter concerns your remembered and imagined experience; it cannot establish the former partner's current feelings.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A warm reunion in an old setting", "reflection": "You spend an easy afternoon in a place from the relationship. The pleasure may be about the person, but it may also belong to the pace, company, or version of yourself that the setting restores. What you miss becomes clearer when you distinguish those possibilities." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "An apology you never received", "reflection": "The ex understands the hurt or says the words you wanted to hear. This may give shape to a need for acknowledgment, including acknowledgment you can offer yourself. The dreamed apology is imagined material; its comfort can matter without proving that the other person has changed." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "The same argument returns", "reflection": "A familiar disagreement begins and you find yourself explaining, withdrawing, or trying to restore peace. The scene may revisit a painful pattern, particularly if your old role feels recognizable. If you respond differently this time, that contrast may be the most useful part of the encounter." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Your ex appears beside your current partner", "reflection": "The scene brings two periods together, perhaps around a shared task or disagreement. It may be comparing how you felt or what you needed in each relationship. A single dream cannot rank the partners; it can help clarify a particular value such as cooperation or being heard." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Romantic closeness feels good, then unsettling", "reflection": "Affection returns in the dream and leaves you with discomfort on waking. Attraction, memory, and the reasons for separation can coexist. The tenderness may be real as a feeling without overturning your present choices or requiring you to explain it as a secret wish." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You leave calmly", "reflection": "You decline an invitation or walk toward a different destination without a final argument. This can be a scene of having more choice, or of allowing the old chapter to remain unfinished. Calm matters, but so does any sadness; a boundary need not feel triumphant to be meaningful." } ], "prompts": [ "What do I miss specifically: this person, a quality of the relationship, or the life I had then?", "Which role did I fall into with them, and what did I do differently in the dream?", "What present situation makes this earlier relationship a useful comparison, if any?" ], "related": [ "breakup", "texting-an-ex", "reunion", "cheating", "kiss" ], "sources": [ { "id": "wamsley-2010", "title": "Dreaming of a learning task is associated with enhanced sleep-dependent memory consolidation", "author": "Erin J. Wamsley and colleagues", "url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20417102/", "scope": "Primary maze-learning experiment; task-related dream reports correlated with later performance. It does not show that a dream is an accurate memory or a solution." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s continuing delegation of English editorial decisions. Historical accounts remain attributed period claims; the cited memory study does not validate these interpretations.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A feeling awaiting acknowledgment", "reflection": "An imagined apology or unfinished conversation may give anger, grief, or tenderness somewhere to go. The need can be for recognition or understanding, without being a wish to resume the relationship." }, { "title": "Missing a former chapter", "reflection": "The ex may make an earlier home, social circle, or version of yourself vivid. Consider whether you miss a quality of that life that could exist again in a different form." }, { "title": "Recognizing an old pattern", "reflection": "Repeated arguing, waiting, or explaining may bring a familiar role into view. A different response in the dream can highlight what you want to keep, question, or change now." }, { "title": "Comparing past and present", "reflection": "A current commitment or disagreement may invite comparison with an earlier relationship. The useful subject is your priorities and boundaries, rather than a verdict about either person’s character." } ], "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "DreamFolia AI-assisted editorial review", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "water", "house", "dog", "cat", "being-pregnant", "ex-partner", "deceased-loved-one", "fire", "spider", "being-lost", "ocean", "flood", "wedding", "baby", "train", "car", "wolf" ] }, "decisionReason": "Four themes and six scenes separate acknowledgment, a former chapter, repeated roles and present comparisons. No unrelated historical passage is borrowed. Dreamed apologies, attraction and partner comparisons do not establish the ex’s current feelings or require reconciliation.", "reviewedSnapshot": "data/common-reading-publication-review-2026-10-15.json", "contentSha256": "934f79f70776d9d412717e5739b7413b18129dc0ad8f60a4106a57e06d9ed7c5" }, "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "exchange", "title": "Exchange", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Exchange, denotes profitable dealings in all classes of business.”", "aliases": [ "exchange" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about exchange stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0735", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Exchange", "text": "Exchange, denotes profitable dealings in all classes of business.\nFor a young woman to dream that she is exchanging sweethearts with\nher friend, indicates that she will do well to heed this as advice,\nas she would be happier with another.", "locator": "Heading 735; source lines 8681–8688", "lineStart": 8681, "lineEnd": 8688, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Exchange, denotes profitable dealings in all classes of business.\nFor a young woman to dream that she is exchanging sweethearts with\nher friend, indicates that she will do well to heed this as advice,\nas she would be happier with another." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "execution", "title": "Execution", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing an execution, signifies that you will suffer some misfortune from the carelessness of…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "execution" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about execution stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "hanged", "gallows" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0736", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Execution", "text": "To dream of seeing an execution, signifies that you will suffer\nsome misfortune from the carelessness of others.\n\nTo dream that you are about to be executed, and some miraculous\nintervention occurs, denotes that you will overthrow enemies\nand succeed in gaining wealth.", "locator": "Heading 736; source lines 8688–8697", "lineStart": 8688, "lineEnd": 8697, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing an execution, signifies that you will suffer\nsome misfortune from the carelessness of others.\n\nTo dream that you are about to be executed, and some miraculous\nintervention occurs, denotes that you will overthrow enemies\nand succeed in gaining wealth." }, { "id": "fontaine-0230", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Execution", "text": "(_See Hanged and Gallows._) To dream of seeing a man hanged\ndenotes that some friend or relative will shortly come to good fortune.\nIf you dream that you yourself are going to be hanged, you may safely\ncalculate on good luck for that year: if you are in business you will\nbe successful. 7, 6, 10.", "locator": "Heading 230; source line 1947", "lineStart": 1947, "lineEnd": 1953, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Hanged and Gallows.) To dream of seeing a man hanged\ndenotes that some friend or relative will shortly come to good fortune.\nIf you dream that you yourself are going to be hanged, you may safely\ncalculate on good luck for that year: if you are in business you will\nbe successful." }, { "id": "noe-0152", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Execution", "text": "To dream of the\nexecution of offenders, shows that you will be suddenly sought after for\nrelief by some that are in great want and extremity.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 154; source lines 690–692", "lineStart": 690, "lineEnd": 692, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of the\nexecution of offenders, shows that you will be suddenly sought after for\nrelief by some that are in great want and extremity." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "hanged", "gallows" ] }, { "slug": "exile", "title": "Exile", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “For a woman to dream that she is exiled, denotes that she will have to make a journey which will interfere with some engagement or pleasure.”", "aliases": [ "exile" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about exile stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "banishment" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0737", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Exile", "text": "For a woman to dream that she is exiled, denotes that she will have to make\na journey which will interfere with some engagement or pleasure.\n\n\n[64] See Banishment.", "locator": "Heading 737; source lines 8697–8706", "lineStart": 8697, "lineEnd": 8706, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a woman to dream that she is exiled, denotes that she will have to make\na journey which will interfere with some engagement or pleasure. See Banishment." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "banishment" ] }, { "slug": "explosion", "title": "Explosion", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of explosions, portends that disapproving actions of those connected with you will cause you transient displeasure and loss, and…”", "aliases": [ "explosion" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about explosion stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0738", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Explosion", "text": "To dream of explosions, portends that disapproving actions\nof those connected with you will cause you transient displeasure\nand loss, and that business will also displease you.\nTo think your face, or the face of others, is blackened or mutilated,\nsignifies you will be accused of indiscretion which will be unjust,\nthough circumstances may convict you.\n\nTo see the air filled with smoke and de'bris, denotes unusual dissatisfaction\nin business circles and much social antagonism.\n\nTo think you are enveloped in the flames, or are up in the air\nwhere you have been blown by an explosion, foretells that unworthy\nfriends will infringe on your rights and will abuse your confidence.\nYoung women should be careful of associates of the opposite sex\nafter a dream of this character.", "locator": "Heading 738; source lines 8706–8724", "lineStart": 8706, "lineEnd": 8724, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of explosions, portends that disapproving actions\nof those connected with you will cause you transient displeasure\nand loss, and that business will also displease you.\nTo think your face, or the face of others, is blackened or mutilated,\nsignifies you will be accused of indiscretion which will be unjust,\nthough circumstances may convict you.\n\nTo see the air filled with smoke and de'bris, denotes unusual dissatisfaction\nin business circles and much social antagonism.\n\nTo think you are enveloped in the flames, or are up in the air\nwhere you have been blown by an explosion, foretells that unworthy\nfriends will infringe on your rights and will abuse your confidence.\nYoung women should be careful of associates of the opposite sex\nafter a dream of this character." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "exteriour-braveries", "title": "Exteriour Braveries", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Artemidorus wrote: “RIngs of yron about one, signifie goods, but with labour.”", "aliases": [ "exteriour braveries", "of exteriour braveries" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about exteriour braveries stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "artemidorus-067", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of Exteriour Braveries.", "text": "RIngs of yron about one, signifie goods, but with labour. Also rings of gold which have stones are good: for those which have no stones▪ signifie paines without profit. But alwayes massy and full rings are better then hollow, which signifie deceit and falshood, and greater hope then profit. Rings of Amber, Ivory, and such like, are good only for women. Carcanets, chains▪ pearles, pre[illegible passage]ious stones, and all adornings of the head and necks of women, are good for women: [illegible passage]o widowes and maids, they signifie mariage; to those which have no children, that they shall have: and to those which have husbands and children, they betoken purchases and riches: for as women are provided of these deckings, so shall they be stored of husbands, children, and goods. But to men, this dream signifies deceit, craft, and confusion in accounts of money, not because of the matter, but of the form▪ and fashion.", "locator": "Book 2, encoded section 67", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription-with-gaps", "book": "2", "displayText": "RIngs of yron about one, signifie goods, but with labour. Also rings of gold which have stones are good: for those which have no stones▪ signifie paines without profit. But alwayes massy and full rings are better then hollow, which signifie deceit and falshood, and greater hope then profit. Rings of Amber, Ivory, and such like, are good only for women. Carcanets, chains▪ pearles, pre [illegible passage] ious stones, and all adornings of the head and necks of women, are good for women: [illegible passage] o widowes and maids, they signifie mariage; to those which have no children, that they shall have: and to those which have husbands and children, they betoken purchases and riches: for as women are provided of these deckings, so shall they be stored of husbands, children, and goods. But to men, this dream signifies deceit, craft, and confusion in accounts of money, not because of the matter, but of the form▪ and fashion." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "eyebrows", "title": "Eyebrows", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Eyebrows, denotes that you will encounter sinister obstacles in your immediate future.” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "eyebrows", "of the browes" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about eyebrows stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0740", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Eyebrows", "text": "Eyebrows, denotes that you will encounter sinister obstacles\nin your immediate future.", "locator": "Heading 740; source lines 8740–8745", "lineStart": 8740, "lineEnd": 8745, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Eyebrows, denotes that you will encounter sinister obstacles\nin your immediate future." }, { "id": "fontaine-0232", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Eyebrows", "text": "Thick eyebrows are a sign of friends; thin, ill-will and\nvexation; black, good luck. 18.", "locator": "Heading 232; source line 1960", "lineStart": 1960, "lineEnd": 1963, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Thick eyebrows are a sign of friends; thin, ill-will and\nvexation; black, good luck." }, { "id": "artemidorus-015", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of the Browes.", "text": "THe Browes hayry and of a good grace▪ are good to all, especially to women. But the browes naked and without hayre, signifieth to all ill successe of businesse, single combate, and grief.", "locator": "Book 1, encoded section 15", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "1", "displayText": "THe Browes hayry and of a good grace▪ are good to all, especially to women. But the browes naked and without hayre, signifieth to all ill successe of businesse, single combate, and grief.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Browes” is shown on the Eyebrows page: archaic \"Browes\"" }, { "id": "noe-0156", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Eyebrows", "text": "To dream the eyebrows are hairy and of a good grace, is good,\nespecially to a woman. But if either men or women dream their eyebrows are\nmore large or comely than they used to be, it is a sign they will succeed\nin the matrimonial way.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 158; source lines 707–710", "lineStart": 707, "lineEnd": 710, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream the eyebrows are hairy and of a good grace, is good,\nespecially to a woman. But if either men or women dream their eyebrows are\nmore large or comely than they used to be, it is a sign they will succeed\nin the matrimonial way." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "eyeglass", "title": "Eyeglass", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing or wearing an eyeglass, denotes you will be afflicted with disagreeable friendships, from which you will strive vainly to…”", "aliases": [ "eyeglass" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about eyeglass stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0741", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Eyeglass", "text": "To dream of seeing or wearing an eyeglass, denotes you will be afflicted\nwith disagreeable friendships, from which you will strive vainly to\ndisengage yourself. For a young woman to see her lover with an eyeglass on,\nomens disruption of love affairs.", "locator": "Heading 741; source lines 8745–8759", "lineStart": 8745, "lineEnd": 8759, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing or wearing an eyeglass, denotes you will be afflicted\nwith disagreeable friendships, from which you will strive vainly to\ndisengage yourself. For a young woman to see her lover with an eyeglass on,\nomens disruption of love affairs." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "eyes", "title": "Eyes", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "aliases": [ "eyes", "eye", "of the eyes" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "summary": "Eyes can explore where attention settles, how contact is returned, or a familiar perspective that feels unexpectedly different.", "tagline": "Being looked at and being understood can feel different.", "psychological": "Eyes in a dream can bring attention to the way an encounter is seen or returned. A person may meet your gaze, look past you or have eyes you do not recognize despite a familiar face. These differences can concern contact, curiosity or the feeling of being visible. They do not reveal what the real person thinks, and an unusual image need not carry a judgment about appearance.\n\nA returned look can make recognition feel available without any words. Looking past you may leave a conversation unfinished, while sustained attention can feel welcome or uncomfortable. A recent exchange in which you wanted acknowledgment may offer a comparison. Your response matters: wanting someone to notice you is different from wanting them to stop observing every movement.\n\nClosing your eyes voluntarily can change participation rather than simply remove information. You may enjoy a pause in a busy room or find that the sounds become more important. This can resemble wanting fewer demands on attention while remaining part of an occasion. It need not mean denial, refusal to face a fact or a medical change in your sight.\n\nSeeing altered eyes in your own reflection can make a familiar account of yourself look unfamiliar. You might still recognize the expression while the color, number or position has changed. A role that others describe differently from how you experience it may offer a parallel. The imagined appearance is not a character test, a gender code or evidence of an actual condition.\n\nImpossible arrangements create other questions. Several eyes looking in different directions can picture attention asked to serve incompatible tasks. Painted eyes on an ordinary wall may make an expectation feel present even when no person is there. Finding a familiar route with one eye closed and a companion beside you can instead center adjustment and useful assistance. These scenes concern how the imagined view and encounter work. They cannot assess eyesight, establish hidden observers or predict a loss. A remembered face, photograph or visual detail may supply direct context, and your own associations decide whether a waking comparison fits.", "traditional": "The seven supplied Eyes accounts disagree about color, appearance and sight. Miller, Fontaine, Noe and the Book of Luck assign character, health, family or fortune claims; Cielo gives a short adverse forecast. The full Artemidorus section varies outcomes by occupation and household role, includes gendered family mappings and an anecdote, and retains transcription gaps. Craig attributes foresight to Artemidorus and asserts vigilance symbolism. These are attributed period accounts, not tests of character, eyesight, pregnancy or another person’s intentions.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Attention returned or withheld", "reflection": "An encounter can concern recognition, curiosity or the amount of observation you want." }, { "title": "A pause within participation", "reflection": "Choosing a different way of attending can give a busy occasion a workable shape." }, { "title": "An unfamiliar view of a familiar person", "reflection": "A changed appearance or perspective can invite questions without becoming a fixed character code." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Someone returns your gaze after a conversation has paused", "reflection": "Recognition becomes available without another explanation. This may resemble wanting an exchange to feel received rather than merely finished. The look can matter as an imagined response without proving agreement, affection or what the actual person understood in waking life." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You close your eyes and continue listening in a busy room", "reflection": "One form of attention pauses while another remains available. This can picture wanting fewer demands without leaving an occasion altogether. The chosen pause need not imply denial or avoidance; the sounds, company and freedom to reopen your eyes give it a particular meaning." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Your reflected eyes look different but the expression feels familiar", "reflection": "The visible form changes while some recognition remains. This may picture a description or role feeling unfamiliar despite your continued sense of yourself. Eye color, number or appearance does not establish personality, gender, moral worth or an actual change in eyesight." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Several eyes look toward different tasks at the same time", "reflection": "Attention seems available in several directions without a shared priority. This can resemble requests that are individually understandable but difficult to serve together. The arrangement may concern choosing a focus rather than reveal unusual powers or require every demand to be met." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Painted eyes on a wall make an ordinary task feel observed", "reflection": "An expectation appears present although nobody is actively watching. This may picture carrying an imagined audience into a private activity. Your response to the decoration matters; it does not establish surveillance, another person’s intentions or a warning about hidden observers." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You follow a familiar route with one eye closed and a companion nearby", "reflection": "The route remains recognizable while you use a different arrangement for finding it. This can picture adjustment, cooperation or accepting useful company. The dreamed limitation is not a sight assessment, and receiving help need not become a verdict about your independence." } ], "prompts": [ "What kind of attention felt welcome, absent or excessive?", "How did a changed appearance alter recognition within the encounter?", "Which task, person or detail deserved the view you wanted?" ], "related": [ "face", "mirror", "blindness", "tears", "squinting" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0739" ], "scope": "miller-0739: An eye, eye colors, losing or sore eyes and a one-eyed person receive enemy, relationship, character and trouble forecasts; these are period assertions, not evidence about actual people or eyesight. Exact supplied passages: miller-0739 — Eye (Heading 739; source lines 8724–8740). Attributed historical comparison only; no forecast validates the original reflection or establishes actual health, relationships, beliefs or circumstances." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0231" ], "scope": "fontaine-0231: The Eye account cross-references Squinting and Blind, then assigns disappointment, failed enterprise, luck, illness, death and deception to eye differences and blindness. Exact supplied passages: fontaine-0231 — Eye (Heading 231; source line 1953). Attributed historical comparison only; no forecast validates the original reflection or establishes actual health, relationships, beliefs or circumstances." }, { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display.", "recordIds": [ "artemidorus-016" ], "scope": "artemidorus-016: The complete Eyes section assigns role-specific fortunes to sharp/troubled sight, blindness, one eye, additional eyes, eyes in hands/feet and another person’s eyes. Its gendered family mappings, financial/social-role exceptions and anecdote are attributed period claims; transcription gaps remain. Exact supplied passages: artemidorus-016 — Of the Eyes. (Book 1, encoded section 16). Attributed historical comparison only; no forecast validates the original reflection or establishes actual health, relationships, beliefs or circumstances." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0151" ], "scope": "noe-0151: Loss of eyes is assigned adverse financial, friendship, family and relationship forecasts, plus a pregnancy-specific claim about a child’s future. Exact supplied passages: noe-0151 — Eyes (Dream section, heading 153; source lines 686–690). Attributed historical comparison only; no forecast validates the original reflection or establishes actual health, relationships, beliefs or circumstances." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0158" ], "scope": "cielo-0158: The short Eyes account assigns bad luck. Exact supplied passages: cielo-0158 — Eyes (Dream section, heading 158; source lines 4232–4234). Attributed historical comparison only; no forecast validates the original reflection or establishes actual health, relationships, beliefs or circumstances." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0068" ], "scope": "luck-0068: Eyes and their appearance receive favorable luck versus minor-misfortune claims about perceived defects. Exact supplied passages: luck-0068 — Eyes (Dream section, heading 68; source lines 3677–3684). Attributed historical comparison only; no forecast validates the original reflection or establishes actual health, relationships, beliefs or circumstances." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L9901" ], "scope": "craig-1918:L9901: Craig assigns success through foresight under an Artemidorus attribution and asserts eternal-vigilance symbolism. These are Craig’s claims, not independently verified symbolic rules. Exact supplied passages: craig-1918:L9901 — Eyes (Printed p. 215; NLM OCR lines 9901–9905). Attributed historical comparison only; no forecast validates the original reflection or establishes actual health, relationships, beliefs or circumstances." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s continuing English editorial delegation. Sources retain their stated scope; neither historical accounts nor general research validate these interpretations.", "kind": "editorial", "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "DreamFolia AI-assisted editorial review", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "childhood-home", "lucid-dreaming", "recurring-dream", "missing-a-flight-or-train", "unable-to-scream", "books", "cradle", "eyes", "forgetting-to-feed-a-pet", "message", "nightmare", "searching-for-a-missing-pet", "sleep" ] }, "decisionReason": "Seven complete historical records remain scoped, including the long translated Artemidorus passage and its transcription gaps. The developed reading and six scenes distinguish contact, chosen attention and unfamiliar appearance. Historical character, eye-health, family and pregnancy claims do not assess a real person or condition.", "reviewedSnapshot": "data/guide-linked-publication-review-2026-10-15.json", "contentSha256": "d544daa638bdde790a76a40d0d2a7bdb6790bca998ed22e0c2f9597a893a0ce7" }, "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0739", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Eye", "text": "To dream of seeing an eye, warns you that watchful enemies are\nseeking the slightest chance to work injury to your business.\nThis dream indicates to a lover, that a rival will usurp him\nif he is not careful.\n\nTo dream of brown eyes, denotes deceit and perfidy.\nTo see blue eyes, denotes weakness in carrying out any intention.\nTo see gray eyes, denotes a love of flattery for the owner.\n\nTo dream of losing an eye, or that the eyes are sore, denotes trouble.\n\nTo see a one-eyed man, denotes that you will be threatened with loss\nand trouble, beside which all others will appear insignificant.", "locator": "Heading 739; source lines 8724–8740", "lineStart": 8724, "lineEnd": 8740, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing an eye, warns you that watchful enemies are\nseeking the slightest chance to work injury to your business.\nThis dream indicates to a lover, that a rival will usurp him\nif he is not careful.\n\nTo dream of brown eyes, denotes deceit and perfidy.\nTo see blue eyes, denotes weakness in carrying out any intention.\nTo see gray eyes, denotes a love of flattery for the owner.\n\nTo dream of losing an eye, or that the eyes are sore, denotes trouble.\n\nTo see a one-eyed man, denotes that you will be threatened with loss\nand trouble, beside which all others will appear insignificant.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Eye” is shown on the Eyes page: singular/plural" }, { "id": "fontaine-0231", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Eye", "text": "(_See Squinting and Blind._) If you dream you see a person with\na defective eye, it denotes disappointment: to see a glaring squint\neye in your dream, shows that you will be defeated or crossed in some\nenterprise. To dream that your own eyes are defective, or squint, is a\nsure sign of bad luck: sore eyes denote sickness: blindness, death, or\ndeception. 66, 49, 78.", "locator": "Heading 231; source line 1953", "lineStart": 1953, "lineEnd": 1960, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Squinting and Blind.) If you dream you see a person with\na defective eye, it denotes disappointment: to see a glaring squint\neye in your dream, shows that you will be defeated or crossed in some\nenterprise. To dream that your own eyes are defective, or squint, is a\nsure sign of bad luck: sore eyes denote sickness: blindness, death, or\ndeception.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Eye” is shown on the Eyes page: singular/plural" }, { "id": "artemidorus-016", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of the Eyes.", "text": "TO have a sharpe sight, is good generally, but a troubled looke signifyeth want of money, impeachment of affaires; to him that hath Children, it foretels they shall be sicke. To be blinde of both Eyes, is losse of Children, Brethren, Father, and Mother. Notwithstanding, this Dreame is good for him which is in Prison, and to him which is very poore: For the first shall no more sée his evils about him, the second shall have wherewith to ayde and pleasure himselfe. As many are ready to [illegible passage]end their helping hand to the blinde. But this dream hinders such as are making long voyages: as also forewarns him that is in a strange Country, that he return not home. For he that hath lost his sight, can neyther sée in a strange Country, nor find his own house. Also this dream is bad for a soldier, [illegible passage]d also to all of the dealing trades, for their affairs shall have but bad successe. Also it is crosse to Navigators, and such as contemplate the starres, and are Wisards. And if any one that is in search of a thing that is lost dreams this dream, he shall never finde it. To Poets this dreame is good, for they had néed of great sléepe when they would write verse: to Sick persons this dreame brings daily expectation for death. If any one dreams he has lost one Eye, all above mentioned and signifyed, will befall him but in part or halfe onely▪ Moreover, thou must consider that the right Eye signifies the Sonne, Brother, and Father: the left, the Daughter, Sister, and Mother. To have 3. or foure Eyes to him that determines to take a Wife, and hath no children and desires to have, it is good. It is also good to an Usurer. For he shall have great summes of money, but to him that owes it is ill. It admonisheth the rich man to kéep good guard to himselfe and his possessions, by reason of some fraud and secret deceit. But to a Cony-catcher, and a fair woman, to have more eyes is not good, for he shall have more eyes which will apprehend him, and she shall have many of her Clients attached about her. Moreover, if any one dreameth that he hath eyes in his Féet or Hands, he shall so lose his Sight on one side of his body, that the said side shall be diseased, beaten, or hurt. I knew a man that dreamt that his Eyes fell into his Féet, and he fell not blinde, but married all his daughters▪ to his Servants. To have another mans eyes, signifieth lesse of sight. But if one know him whose Eyes he thinkes he hath, he shall kéep his Childe or some other great treasure of his,", "locator": "Book 1, encoded section 16", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription-with-gaps", "book": "1", "displayText": "To have a sharpe sight, is good generally, but a troubled looke signifyeth want of money, impeachment of affaires; to him that hath Children, it foretels they shall be sicke. To be blinde of both Eyes, is losse of Children, Brethren, Father, and Mother. Notwithstanding, this Dreame is good for him which is in Prison, and to him which is very poore: For the first shall no more sée his evils about him, the second shall have wherewith to ayde and pleasure himselfe. As many are ready to [illegible passage] end their helping hand to the blinde. But this dream hinders such as are making long voyages: as also forewarns him that is in a strange Country, that he return not home. For he that hath lost his sight, can neyther sée in a strange Country, nor find his own house. Also this dream is bad for a soldier, [illegible passage] d also to all of the dealing trades, for their affairs shall have but bad successe. Also it is crosse to Navigators, and such as contemplate the starres, and are Wisards. And if any one that is in search of a thing that is lost dreams this dream, he shall never finde it. To Poets this dreame is good, for they had néed of great sléepe when they would write verse: to Sick persons this dreame brings daily expectation for death. If any one dreams he has lost one Eye, all above mentioned and signifyed, will befall him but in part or halfe onely▪ Moreover, thou must consider that the right Eye signifies the Sonne, Brother, and Father: the left, the Daughter, Sister, and Mother. To have 3. or foure Eyes to him that determines to take a Wife, and hath no children and desires to have, it is good. It is also good to an Usurer. For he shall have great summes of money, but to him that owes it is ill. It admonisheth the rich man to kéep good guard to himselfe and his possessions, by reason of some fraud and secret deceit. But to a Cony-catcher, and a fair woman, to have more eyes is not good, for he shall have more eyes which will apprehend him, and she shall have many of her Clients attached about her. Moreover, if any one dreameth that he hath eyes in his Féet or Hands, he shall so lose his Sight on one side of his body, that the said side shall be diseased, beaten, or hurt. I knew a man that dreamt that his Eyes fell into his Féet, and he fell not blinde, but married all his daughters▪ to his Servants. To have another mans eyes, signifieth lesse of sight. But if one know him whose Eyes he thinkes he hath, he shall kéep his Childe or some other great treasure of his," }, { "id": "noe-0151", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Eyes", "text": "To dream you\nlose your eyes, is a very unfortunate omen. It denotes decay of\ncircumstances, loss of friends, death of relations and miscarriage in\nlove. If a woman with child dreams of it, it denotes that the child will\nbe very unhappy and lose its liberty.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 153; source lines 686–690", "lineStart": 686, "lineEnd": 690, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you\nlose your eyes, is a very unfortunate omen. It denotes decay of\ncircumstances, loss of friends, death of relations and miscarriage in\nlove. If a woman with child dreams of it, it denotes that the child will\nbe very unhappy and lose its liberty." }, { "id": "cielo-0158", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Eyes", "text": "To dream of eyes is a portent of bad luck.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 158; source lines 4232–4234", "lineStart": 4232, "lineEnd": 4234, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of eyes is a portent of bad luck." }, { "id": "luck-0068", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Eyes", "text": "In general a sign of good luck, and the prettier the eyes the\nbetter. To dream of someone with a defect of the eyes signifies minor\nmisfortunes.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 68; source lines 3677–3684", "lineStart": 3677, "lineEnd": 3684, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "In general a sign of good luck, and the prettier the eyes the\nbetter. To dream of someone with a defect of the eyes signifies minor\nmisfortunes." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9901", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Eyes", "heading": "Eyes", "text": "A dream auguring success through foresight (Artemidorus). The symbol of the eye is eternal vigilance.", "lineStart": 9901, "lineEnd": 9905, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 215; NLM OCR lines 9901–9905", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9901, "lineEnd": 9905, "printedPage": 215, "printedPageEnd": 215 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Eyes. — A dream auguring success through foresight (Arte- \nmidorus). The symbol of the eye is eternal vigilance. \n\nF \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [ { "line": 9904, "text": "F " } ], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "Arte- \nmidorus", "after": "Artemidorus", "evidenceLine": 485 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Eyes" }, "displayText": "A dream auguring success through foresight (Artemidorus). The symbol of the eye is eternal vigilance." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [ "squinting", "blindness" ] }, { "slug": "fables", "title": "Fables", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of reading or telling fables, denotes pleasant tasks and a literary turn of mind.”", "aliases": [ "fables" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about fables stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0742", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Fables", "text": "To dream of reading or telling fables, denotes pleasant tasks and a literary\nturn of mind. To the young, it signifies romantic attachments.\n\nTo hear, or tell, religious fables, denotes that the dreamer\nwill become very devotional.", "locator": "Heading 742; source lines 8759–8767", "lineStart": 8759, "lineEnd": 8767, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of reading or telling fables, denotes pleasant tasks and a literary\nturn of mind. To the young, it signifies romantic attachments.\n\nTo hear, or tell, religious fables, denotes that the dreamer\nwill become very devotional." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "face", "title": "Face", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "summary": "A face may explore recognition, an expression that does not match an encounter or room to be seen more fully. The interaction gives its features context.", "tagline": "Recognition and expression need the rest of the encounter.", "aliases": [ "face", "faces" ], "status": "REVIEW", "psychological": "A face may make recognition central to an encounter. Features can be familiar while the name or role is wrong, or an unfamiliar face can belong to someone whose actions you recognize. The dream may explore how you place a person when several cues do not align. A waking comparison could be meeting somebody in a different role or finding that an old description no longer fits the way an interaction now works.\n\n Expression can create another kind of uncertainty. A smile may remain fixed during a difficult conversation, or a concerned look may appear while the words sound reassuring. This can picture wanting a fuller account than one visible signal provides. Asking, listening or allowing uncertainty gives the scene different possibilities from treating the expression as proof of a hidden feeling. A dream face does not reveal a real person's thoughts or intentions.\n\n Your own face can become part of presenting an experience. Being asked to hold a particular expression for a picture may feel playful, useful or unlike the account you wanted to give. A waking comparison might be simplifying your response for a public setting while still wanting its complexity understood. An expression chosen for one moment differs from being expected to maintain it through the entire encounter.\n\n Changing features can make authorship important. A face assembled from several images may bring different people's descriptions together without leaving one clear version you recognize. Keeping a particular feature or asking whose account matters can make the result more personal. The dream can explore presentation without requiring altered features to become evidence of a defective identity or a judgment about appearance.\n\n Washing off a mark, turning toward somebody or being given time to speak can shift attention from inspecting features toward participating in the scene. A face may remain important while no longer being the only way you are understood. Recent photographs, conversations and familiar expressions can supply direct associations. This topic follows recognition and facial presentation; a mirror's angle or a removable mask brings additional conditions of its own.", "traditional": "The five books give smiling, changed, swollen, pale or mirrored faces conflicting forecasts about money, friendship, health and relationships. Some also attach moral judgments to washing or appearance. These are period accounts, not evidence that features, skin appearance or an expression determine character, health or private feelings.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Recognition from several cues", "reflection": "Features, names, actions and context may not agree immediately. The scene can explore how recognition becomes more particular when one familiar cue is not allowed to replace the whole encounter." }, { "title": "Expression and a fuller account", "reflection": "A visible response may leave information unsettled. The dream can make conversation or time useful instead of turning one expression into proof of a feeling that has not been explained." }, { "title": "A presentation with room for complexity", "reflection": "A posed or assembled face may give one account priority. A chosen feature, changed expression or chance to speak can leave more room for the experience you wanted to present." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A familiar face is introduced under an unfamiliar name", "reflection": "The visual cue and the spoken description do not place the person in the same role. Comparing actions or asking about the introduction may make recognition more useful. The scene can resemble updating an earlier account rather than requiring one cue to settle identity immediately." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A fixed smile remains through a difficult conversation", "reflection": "One expression does not explain the whole exchange. Listening, asking or allowing uncertainty can give the encounter more room. The dream may picture wanting a fuller response, without making the smile evidence of dishonesty or a real person’s hidden feeling." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A photographer asks you to hold an expression that feels incomplete", "reflection": "The image presents one part of a response while leaving other feelings outside the frame. Choosing another expression or explaining the moment may make the account more particular. The scene can explore public presentation without requiring a posed picture to tell every part of your experience." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Your face is assembled from several people’s pictures", "reflection": "Different descriptions combine into a form that you do not yet recognize as yours. Keeping one feature, changing another or asking who chose them can give the arrangement clearer authorship. The dream’s altered image is not a diagnosis or a verdict about personal identity." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A mark is washed away while the conversation continues", "reflection": "A visible detail changes without needing the encounter to stop. This may picture room for a practical adjustment while participation remains available. The mark’s removal need not become a moral purification; its meaning depends on what it was affecting in this particular scene." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "Someone turns toward you and allows enough time to speak", "reflection": "Recognition becomes an interaction rather than an inspection of features. The scene may explore being understood through a contribution as well as an appearance. The available time and response give that contact substance without establishing what the person believes about you in waking life." } ], "prompts": [ "Which cues helped recognition, and which did not align?", "What could the expression explain, and what required a fuller encounter?", "How much choice did you have in the account your face was asked to present?" ], "related": [ "mirror", "mask", "photograph", "hair", "makeup" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0743" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context only. miller-0743: Smiling, altered, unfamiliar, own and mirrored faces receive trouble, relationship, misfortune and self-advancement forecasts, including judgments based on appearance. These are not evidence about a person’s character or health. This citation does not validate the original psychological reflections or predict a waking outcome." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0233" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context only. fontaine-0233: Swollen, pale, smiling or black-described faces and washing receive wealth/honor, disappointment, friendship, longevity and repentance forecasts. These appearance judgments remain attributed period text, not racial, moral or health codes. This citation does not validate the original psychological reflections or predict a waking outcome." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0165" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context only. noe-0165: A swollen face receives wealth and a sweetheart’s legacy/marriage forecast; not evidence of actual swelling, health or finances. This citation does not validate the original psychological reflections or predict a waking outcome." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0159" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context only. cielo-0159: A smiling face is assigned joy. This citation does not validate the original psychological reflections or predict a waking outcome." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0069" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context only. luck-0069: Smiling, pale/gloomy, changing, washed and mirrored faces receive friendship, poverty/trouble, moving, repentance and failed-plan forecasts. This citation does not validate the original psychological reflections or predict a waking outcome." } ], "updated": "2026-10-13", "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection independently reviewed for content and source scope. Historical accounts remain attributed period writing. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0743", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Face", "text": "This dream is favorable if you see happy and bright faces, but significant\nof trouble if they are disfigured, ugly, or frowning on you.\n\nTo a young person, an ugly face foretells lovers' quarrels;\nor for a lover to see the face of his sweetheart looking old,\ndenotes separation and the breaking up of happy associations.\n\nTo see a strange and weird-looking face, denotes that enemies\nand misfortunes surround you.\n\nTo dream of seeing your own face, denotes unhappiness; and to the married,\nthreats of divorce will be made.\n\nTo see your face in a mirror, denotes displeasure with yourself\nfor not being able to carry out plans for self-advancement. You\nwill also lose the esteem of friends.", "locator": "Heading 743; source lines 8767–8786", "lineStart": 8767, "lineEnd": 8786, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "This dream is favorable if you see happy and bright faces, but significant\nof trouble if they are disfigured, ugly, or frowning on you.\n\nTo a young person, an ugly face foretells lovers' quarrels;\nor for a lover to see the face of his sweetheart looking old,\ndenotes separation and the breaking up of happy associations.\n\nTo see a strange and weird-looking face, denotes that enemies\nand misfortunes surround you.\n\nTo dream of seeing your own face, denotes unhappiness; and to the married,\nthreats of divorce will be made.\n\nTo see your face in a mirror, denotes displeasure with yourself\nfor not being able to carry out plans for self-advancement. You\nwill also lose the esteem of friends." }, { "id": "fontaine-0233", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Face", "text": "To dream that your face is swelled, indicates an augmentation\nof wealth and honor; but if it grows pale or emaciated, you will be\nseverely disappointed. Of a fresh smiling face, friendship and joy;\nblack face, long life; washing, repentance. 5, 11, 55.", "locator": "Heading 233; source line 1963", "lineStart": 1963, "lineEnd": 1968, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that your face is swelled, indicates an augmentation\nof wealth and honor; but if it grows pale or emaciated, you will be\nseverely disappointed. Of a fresh smiling face, friendship and joy;\nblack face, long life; washing, repentance." }, { "id": "noe-0165", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Face", "text": "To dream your face is swelled shows that you will accumulate\nwealth. If you are in love, it denotes that your sweetheart will receive\nan unexpected legacy and marry you.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 167; source lines 735–737", "lineStart": 735, "lineEnd": 737, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream your face is swelled shows that you will accumulate\nwealth. If you are in love, it denotes that your sweetheart will receive\nan unexpected legacy and marry you." }, { "id": "cielo-0159", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Face", "text": "To dream of a smiling face indicates joy.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 159; source lines 4234–4237", "lineStart": 4234, "lineEnd": 4237, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a smiling face indicates joy." }, { "id": "luck-0069", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Faces", "text": "(Smiling) Happy times with friends; (pale and gloomy) trouble\nand poverty; (changing faces) a removal; (washing own face) repentance\nfor sin; (own face in glass) long-cherished secret plan will fail.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 69; source lines 3684–3688", "lineStart": 3684, "lineEnd": 3688, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(Smiling) Happy times with friends; (pale and gloomy) trouble\nand poverty; (changing faces) a removal; (washing own face) repentance\nfor sin; (own face in glass) long-cherished secret plan will fail." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "faceless-person", "title": "Faceless person", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "An identity is felt or expected without a visible face.", "summary": "A faceless person can feel familiar, anonymous, unsettling, or oddly ordinary. Notice how you recognised them and what happened between you.", "aliases": [ "faceless person", "faceless man", "faceless woman", "no face", "person with no face", "blank face", "blurred face", "can't see their face", "hidden face", "figure without a face", "faceless figure" ], "status": "REVIEW", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A faceless person may be frightening, but the missing face can also pass without surprise inside the dream. Describe what was actually absent: features, visibility, a name, or the ability to look closely. A shadowed face is different from a smooth blank surface, and a person you never turned toward may not have been faceless until you tried to recall them afterward.\n\nSometimes you know exactly who the person is without visual evidence. The dream may give a familiar voice, posture, role, or feeling of recognition. Consider what carried that identity and whether it remained stable. This can invite reflection on how you recognise people beyond appearance, or on uncertainty about an interaction. It does not reveal a hidden person, establish that someone is concealing something, or recover an identity you have forgotten.\n\nTheir action matters as much as their appearance. A faceless helper, companion, pursuer, and silent onlooker create distinct stories. If they offered help, notice whether anonymity made trust easier or harder. If they frightened you, locate the actual threat: approaching too closely, refusing to answer, or simply looking impossible. You need not attach danger to the lack of a face alone.\n\nMedia images, masks, low light, indistinct recollection, or a dream’s unfinished detail may offer ordinary context. If a personal comparison seems useful, ask what you needed to know about the person: their intentions, their role, or whether they recognised you. The dream may hold that question open. A missing face can remain a strange visual detail without requiring an explanation about your personality or relationships.", "traditional": "No historical account is attached to this specific faceless-person scene. Historical headings for face, mask, or strangers concern related but different images; they do not provide evidence that an anonymous dream figure has a particular identity or intention. No omen is derived from the missing features.\n\nEveryday recognition uses voice, movement, clothing, context, and expectation as well as facial appearance. A dream can therefore make someone feel known while leaving their face unclear. When recording it, distinguish what you saw in the scene from what you cannot now remember. You might write that the features were visibly absent, or that you knew who was present but have no remembered picture. That small distinction preserves uncertainty. A dream description does not need to resolve the figure into a real person to make the interaction worth reflecting on.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "A faceless stranger helps you", "reflection": "Notice the help and whether you needed a name before accepting it. An anonymous helper can make the scene about trust or unexpected support, but may also be a lightly sketched dream character. Their usefulness is a more precise starting point than the missing features." }, { "title": "You recognise a loved one without a face", "reflection": "Describe the voice, movement, or feeling that supplied recognition. The scene may invite reflection on what feels familiar in that relationship. It does not show that the person has changed or that your waking memory is unreliable." }, { "title": "A blank-faced figure follows you", "reflection": "Record distance, movement, and any action that made the pursuit threatening. The scene may use anonymity to heighten uncertainty, or borrow an image from fiction. It supplies no evidence that a real unknown person is watching or following you." } ], "prompts": [ "Was the face absent in the dream, or only absent from your recall?", "What told you who the person was?", "What did you need to know about them that the scene withheld?" ], "related": [ "a-stranger", "face", "mask", "being-chased", "mirror" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia expansion written on 2026-10-13, awaiting human publication review. Interpretations are conditional invitations to reflection, not validated symbolic meanings, predictions, diagnoses, or evidence about other people. Historical coverage is identified separately from original everyday context; research citations provide general context only.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "facing-a-former-bully", "title": "Facing a former bully", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "Meeting someone who once intimidated you can place an old power relationship beside the person and resources you have become.", "summary": "Meeting someone who once intimidated you can place an old power relationship beside the person and resources you have become.", "aliases": [ "old bully dream", "confronting a childhood bully" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "Notice whether you were your current age or returned to the age of the original encounter. The important change may be your voice, an ally beside you, or permission to leave. A dream does not require confrontation in waking life. It also does not prove recovered details are accurate memories. Reflect on the emotional pattern you recognize while keeping imagined events separate from known history.", "traditional": "Historical enemy and combat entries often favor victory or defeat. This draft does not use those outcomes to judge strength; safety, distance, and choosing not to engage can matter as much as answering back.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "You speak calmly while others listen", "reflection": "What support made a different response possible?" }, { "title": "You feel small despite being your current age", "reflection": "Which old expectation returned before anything actually happened?" }, { "title": "You leave without explaining yourself", "reflection": "Did departure feel like defeat, protection, or a choice you once lacked?" } ], "prompts": [ "How old did you feel in the encounter?", "What options were available now that were absent before?", "What would help you feel safe after remembering the dream?" ], "related": [ "enemy", "afraid", "school-or-exam" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia model-assisted editorial draft. Reflection questions and scenario readings are optional, individually written suggestions, not empirically validated symbol meanings. Source scope is stated with each citation. Historical comparisons identify topics, not inherited interpretations. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "faction", "title": "Faction", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “To dream of being engaged in faction or sedition, denotes wealth by indirect ways.”", "aliases": [ "faction" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about faction stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "noe-0170", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Faction", "text": "To dream of being engaged in faction or sedition,\ndenotes wealth by indirect ways.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 172; source lines 750–751", "lineStart": 750, "lineEnd": 751, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being engaged in faction or sedition,\ndenotes wealth by indirect ways." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "faction-or-sedition", "title": "Faction or Sedition", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “Denotes health, and trouble, and shame.”", "aliases": [ "faction or sedition", "faction", "sedition" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about faction or sedition stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0234", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Faction or Sedition", "text": "Denotes health, and trouble, and shame. 16, 10.", "locator": "Heading 234; source line 1968", "lineStart": 1968, "lineEnd": 1970, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Denotes health, and trouble, and shame." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "faggots", "title": "Faggots", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “A slander to the reputation (Gypsies). A phallic symbol (Jung, Freud).”", "aliases": [ "faggots" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about faggots stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L9906", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Faggots", "heading": "Faggots", "text": "A slander to the reputation (Gypsies). A phallic symbol (Jung, Freud).", "lineStart": 9906, "lineEnd": 9908, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 215; NLM OCR lines 9906–9908", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9906, "lineEnd": 9908, "printedPage": 215, "printedPageEnd": 215 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Faggots. — A slander to the reputation (Gypsies). A phallic \nsymbol (Jung, Freud). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Faggots" }, "displayText": "A slander to the reputation (Gypsies). A phallic symbol (Jung, Freud)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "fagot", "title": "Fagot", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “If you dream of seeing a dense smoke ascending from a pile of fagots, it denotes that enemies are bearing down upon you, but if the fagots…”", "aliases": [ "fagot" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about fagot stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0744", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Fagot", "text": "If you dream of seeing a dense smoke ascending from a pile of fagots,\nit denotes that enemies are bearing down upon you, but if the fagots\nare burning brightly, you will escape from all unpleasant complications\nand enjoy great prosperity.\n\nIf you walk on burning fagots, you will be injured by the unwise actions\nof friends. If you succeed in walking on them without being burned,\nyou will have a miraculous rise in prospects.\n\nTo dream of seeing fagots piled up to burn you at the stake,\nsignifies that you are threatened with loss, but if you escape,\nyou will enjoy a long and prosperous life.", "locator": "Heading 744; source lines 8786–8801", "lineStart": 8786, "lineEnd": 8801, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream of seeing a dense smoke ascending from a pile of fagots,\nit denotes that enemies are bearing down upon you, but if the fagots\nare burning brightly, you will escape from all unpleasant complications\nand enjoy great prosperity.\n\nIf you walk on burning fagots, you will be injured by the unwise actions\nof friends. If you succeed in walking on them without being burned,\nyou will have a miraculous rise in prospects.\n\nTo dream of seeing fagots piled up to burn you at the stake,\nsignifies that you are threatened with loss, but if you escape,\nyou will enjoy a long and prosperous life." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "failure", "title": "Failure", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “For a lover, this is sometimes of contrary significance.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "failure" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about failure stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0745", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Failure", "text": "For a lover, this is sometimes of contrary significance.\nTo dream that he fails in his suit, signifies that he only needs\nmore masterfulness and energy in his daring, as he has already\nthe love and esteem of his sweetheart.\n\n(Contrary dreams are those in which the dreamer suffers fear,\nand not injury.)\n\nFor a young woman to dream that her life is going to be a failure,\ndenotes that she is not applying her opportunities to good advantage.\n\nFor a business man to dream that he has made a failure,\nforebodes loss and bad management, which should be corrected,\nor failure threatens to materialize in earnest.", "locator": "Heading 745; source lines 8801–8818", "lineStart": 8801, "lineEnd": 8818, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a lover, this is sometimes of contrary significance.\nTo dream that he fails in his suit, signifies that he only needs\nmore masterfulness and energy in his daring, as he has already\nthe love and esteem of his sweetheart.\n\n(Contrary dreams are those in which the dreamer suffers fear,\nand not injury.)\n\nFor a young woman to dream that her life is going to be a failure,\ndenotes that she is not applying her opportunities to good advantage.\n\nFor a business man to dream that he has made a failure,\nforebodes loss and bad management, which should be corrected,\nor failure threatens to materialize in earnest." }, { "id": "cielo-0160", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Failure", "text": "To dream of failure in business or in love\n means that you will soon be successful.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 160; source lines 4237–4240", "lineStart": 4237, "lineEnd": 4240, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of failure in business or in love\nmeans that you will soon be successful." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. 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Here the gypsy interprets according to his own custom and tradition.", "lineStart": 9909, "lineEnd": 9912, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 215; NLM OCR lines 9909–9912", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9909, "lineEnd": 9912, "printedPage": 215, "printedPageEnd": 215 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Fair. — This dream augurs coming into company of many \npeople through whom you will profit (Gypsy). Here the \ngypsy interprets according to his own custom and tradition. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Fair" }, "displayText": "This dream augurs coming into company of many people through whom you will profit (Gypsy). Here the gypsy interprets according to his own custom and tradition." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "fairy", "title": "Fairy", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "5 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a fairy, is a favorable omen to all classes, as it is always a scene with a beautiful face…” Compare 5 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "fairy" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about fairy stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0748", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Fairy", "text": "To dream of a fairy, is a favorable omen to all classes, as it is always\na scene with a beautiful face portrayed as a happy child, or woman.", "locator": "Heading 748; source lines 8834–8839", "lineStart": 8834, "lineEnd": 8839, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a fairy, is a favorable omen to all classes, as it is always\na scene with a beautiful face portrayed as a happy child, or woman." }, { "id": "fontaine-0237", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Fairy", "text": "If you dream of seeing a fairy, you will meet a woman, who will\nseduce you from the path of propriety, and make your life vexatious. 2,\n22.\n\n To dream of blust’ring storms of wind,\n Does show inconstancy of mind;\n But if you dream of elves and fairies,\n Beware the girls and night-vagaries.", "locator": "Heading 237; source line 1978", "lineStart": 1978, "lineEnd": 1987, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream of seeing a fairy, you will meet a woman, who will\nseduce you from the path of propriety, and make your life vexatious.\n\nTo dream of blust’ring storms of wind,\nDoes show inconstancy of mind;\nBut if you dream of elves and fairies,\nBeware the girls and night-vagaries." }, { "id": "noe-0200", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Fairy", "text": "For a maiden to dream she sees a fairy, shows she will soon\nchange her present state by becoming the wife of a good husband. It is\ngood for women under any circumstances to dream of fairies, but it denotes\nevil to men, and no man should undertake any important matter for several\ndays after, or it will surely end in his being disappointed.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 202; source lines 876–880", "lineStart": 876, "lineEnd": 880, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a maiden to dream she sees a fairy, shows she will soon\nchange her present state by becoming the wife of a good husband. It is\ngood for women under any circumstances to dream of fairies, but it denotes\nevil to men, and no man should undertake any important matter for several\ndays after, or it will surely end in his being disappointed." }, { "id": "luck-0070", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Fairy", "text": "All dreams of fairies are good omens--success and riches.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 70; source lines 3688–3690", "lineStart": 3688, "lineEnd": 3690, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "All dreams of fairies are good omens--success and riches." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9913", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Fairy", "heading": "Fairy", "text": "A dream of riches and independence to the poor, to the rich temptation (Gypsy). The Providence of nursery legend and mythology, their dream symbolism is apparent.", "lineStart": 9913, "lineEnd": 9916, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 215; NLM OCR lines 9913–9916", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9913, "lineEnd": 9916, "printedPage": 215, "printedPageEnd": 215 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Fairy. — A dream of riches and independence to the poor, \nto the rich temptation (Gypsy). The Providence of nursery \nlegend and mythology, their dream symbolism is apparent. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Fairy" }, "displayText": "A dream of riches and independence to the poor, to the rich temptation (Gypsy). The Providence of nursery legend and mythology, their dream symbolism is apparent." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "faithless", "title": "Faithless", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that your friends are faithless, denotes that they will hold you in worthy esteem.”", "aliases": [ "faithless" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about faithless stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0749", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Faithless", "text": "To dream that your friends are faithless, denotes that they will hold you\nin worthy esteem. For a lover to dream that his sweetheart is faithless,\nsignifies a happy marriage.", "locator": "Heading 749; source lines 8839–8845", "lineStart": 8839, "lineEnd": 8845, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that your friends are faithless, denotes that they will hold you\nin worthy esteem. For a lover to dream that his sweetheart is faithless,\nsignifies a happy marriage." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "fakir", "title": "Fakir", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of an Indian fakir, denotes uncommon activity and phenomenal changes in your life. 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Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0750", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Fakir", "text": "To dream of an Indian fakir, denotes uncommon activity and phenomenal\nchanges in your life. Such dreams may sometimes be of gloomy import.", "locator": "Heading 750; source lines 8845–8850", "lineStart": 8845, "lineEnd": 8850, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of an Indian fakir, denotes uncommon activity and phenomenal\nchanges in your life. Such dreams may sometimes be of gloomy import." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "falcon", "title": "Falcon", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a falcon, denotes that your prosperity will make you an object of envy and malice.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "falcon" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about falcon stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0751", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Falcon", "text": "To dream of a falcon, denotes that your prosperity will make you\nan object of envy and malice. For a young woman, this dream\ndenotes that she will be calumniated by a rival.", "locator": "Heading 751; source lines 8850–8856", "lineStart": 8850, "lineEnd": 8856, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a falcon, denotes that your prosperity will make you\nan object of envy and malice. For a young woman, this dream\ndenotes that she will be calumniated by a rival." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9917", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Falcon", "heading": "Falcon", "text": "To have one on the wrist, honor (Gypsy). \"Now it fell that Kremhild, the pure maid, dreamed that she fondled a wild falcon and eagle wrested it from her. . . . Uta, her mother, interpreted it thus: 'the falcon that thou sawest is a noble man, yet if God keep him not, he is a lost man to thee.\" — Fall of the Nibelungs.", "lineStart": 9917, "lineEnd": 9923, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 215; NLM OCR lines 9917–9923", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9917, "lineEnd": 9923, "printedPage": 215, "printedPageEnd": 215 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Falcon. — To have one on the wrist, honor (Gypsy). \"Now \nit fell that Kremhild, the pure maid, dreamed that she fondled \na wild falcon and eagle wrested it from her. . . . Uta, her \nmother, interpreted it thus: 'the falcon that thou sawest is a \nnoble man, yet if God keep him not, he is a lost man to thee.\" \n— Fall of the Nibelungs. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Falcon" }, "displayText": "To have one on the wrist, honor (Gypsy). \"Now it fell that Kremhild, the pure maid, dreamed that she fondled a wild falcon and eagle wrested it from her.... Uta, her mother, interpreted it thus: 'the falcon that thou sawest is a noble man, yet if God keep him not, he is a lost man to thee.\" — Fall of the Nibelungs." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "guide-65367", "title": "Guide to Fortune-Telling by Dreams", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Multum in Parvo Library, Vol. I, No. 10, October 1894", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65367", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0752", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Fall", "text": "To dream that you sustain a fall, and are much frightened,\ndenotes that you will undergo some great struggle, but will eventually\nrise to honor and wealth; but if you are injured in the fall,\nyou will encounter hardships and loss of friends.", "locator": "Heading 752; source lines 8856–8863", "lineStart": 8856, "lineEnd": 8863, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you sustain a fall, and are much frightened,\ndenotes that you will undergo some great struggle, but will eventually\nrise to honor and wealth; but if you are injured in the fall,\nyou will encounter hardships and loss of friends." }, { "id": "fontaine-0238", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Fall", "text": "To dream you are falling from an eminence, shows you will have\nsome dignity conferred upon you, or else will marry above your sphere.\nIf a young girl dreams this, it is a sign she will marry a rich\nhusband. 65, 70.", "locator": "Heading 238; source line 1987", "lineStart": 1987, "lineEnd": 1992, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are falling from an eminence, shows you will have\nsome dignity conferred upon you, or else will marry above your sphere.\nIf a young girl dreams this, it is a sign she will marry a rich\nhusband." }, { "id": "noe-0166", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Fall", "text": "To dream you fall from any\nhigh place, or from a tree, denotes loss of place and goods. If you are in\nlove, it surely indicates that you will never marry the present object of\nyour affections.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 168; source lines 737–740", "lineStart": 737, "lineEnd": 740, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you fall from any\nhigh place, or from a tree, denotes loss of place and goods. If you are in\nlove, it surely indicates that you will never marry the present object of\nyour affections." }, { "id": "guide-0024", "sourceId": "guide-65367", "heading": "Fall", "text": "To dream you fall from any very high place, or from a tree,\ndenotes loss of place and goods; if you are in love, it surely\nindicates that you will never marry the present object of your\naffections; to the tradesman, it denotes a decline of business, and to\nthe sailor, storms and shipwreck.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 24; source lines 238–244", "lineStart": 238, "lineEnd": 244, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you fall from any very high place, or from a tree,\ndenotes loss of place and goods; if you are in love, it surely\nindicates that you will never marry the present object of your\naffections; to the tradesman, it denotes a decline of business, and to\nthe sailor, storms and shipwreck." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "falling", "title": "Falling", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "The edge, the descent, and discovering what support or choice remains.", "summary": "A fall may explore uncertainty, lost footing, or a chosen leap. The moment before falling and what happens afterward give the scene its shape.", "aliases": [ "falling", "fell", "plummeting" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "The moment before the fall helps distinguish different stories. You may slip, find the ground disappearing, be pushed, or choose to jump. Each version changes your sense of agency. A recent experience with heights, a visual image, or an ordinary worry about balance may provide context. Falling does not automatically mean failure or establish that control is absent from your waking life.\n\nNotice the descent itself. A rapid plunge differs from floating slowly, tumbling in darkness, or falling without getting closer to the ground. Fear may shift into curiosity or calm. These changes can invite reflection on how uncertainty feels, but you do not have to translate the physical event into a life lesson. The dream's unusual movement may be memorable on its own.\n\nOther people can alter the experience. Someone might catch you, call instructions, fall alongside you, or remain at the edge. Ask what support you wanted and what was actually available in the scene. A dream character's failure to help is not evidence of their waking intentions. If you connect the fall with a real transition or decision, consider the specific resemblance instead of treating every descent as loss of status.\n\nThe ending matters, even if no landing is remembered. Finding solid ground, waking midair, or beginning to fly leaves different emotional traces. You may find a useful question about a foothold, a manageable risk, or a change you did not choose. The dream does not predict an accident or bad luck. It also does not require you to call the fall positive; acknowledging an unsettling experience without forcing an explanation can be a complete reflection.", "traditional": "The two supplied historical Falling entries give opposite forecasts. Astra Cielo's Fortunes and Dreams (1917) presents falling as a sudden improvement in the dreamer's condition. Everybody's Book of Luck, whose transcription does not state an edition date, instead calls it misfortune. Neither short passage distinguishes slipping, being pushed, choosing to jump, or landing safely.\n\nThese are attributed beliefs rather than evidence that a fall reliably predicts either a gain or a loss. Their contradiction is a reason to avoid applying a simple omen to a vivid physical scene. A modern reflection can pay attention to the beginning, descent, and ending, including whether movement changes from frightening to manageable. Those distinctions arise from your dream report and personal associations, not from a validated universal rule or a promise about the future.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Falling without reaching the ground", "reflection": "The descent continues and no landing becomes visible. Notice whether you keep struggling, become calm, or look for something to hold. The unfinished motion may invite a question about uncertainty, but it does not prove that a waking situation has no resolution." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Landing somewhere unexpectedly soft", "reflection": "You anticipate impact and arrive on a bed, water, or another surprising surface. Record the shift from expectation to experience. The contrast may help you explore imagined consequences and support, without guaranteeing that a real risk will turn out safely." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Choosing to jump from an edge", "reflection": "You decide to leave the ledge and discover what follows. Focus on the reason for jumping and whether the choice feels deliberate or pressured. This can offer a question about a particular leap while leaving real decisions to waking information and judgment." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A step gives way while you carry something", "reflection": "You were following an ordinary route when a support failed. The scene may resemble an interruption that makes you choose between protecting what you carry and finding your own footing. Notice whether you drop the object, hold it closer, or accept help; the detail can distinguish responsibility from a general fear of heights." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Someone pushes you from an edge", "reflection": "The movement begins through another character’s action rather than your own decision. This may bring up an unwanted change or a wish for more say in an arrangement, if that fits your circumstances. The dreamed person does not thereby become evidence of a waking threat; what you could do after the push remains part of the scene." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The fall becomes floating or flight", "reflection": "A movement you could not stop changes into one you can inhabit or direct. A possible comparison concerns discovering options after an unsettling beginning. Record what actually changed—speed, direction, a helping hand, or your response—so the reading does not erase the initial fear or guarantee that a real difficulty will resolve itself." } ], "prompts": [ "What happened just before the fall, and how much choice did you have?", "How did the feeling change during the descent?", "What support, surface, or ending would have made the scene different?" ], "related": [ "flying", "elevator", "driving-out-of-control", "climbing", "being-unable-to-move" ], "sources": [ { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "scope": "Historical belief only; supplied passages: Falling — Dream section, heading 161; source lines 4240–4243. Not evidence of predictions or a universal symbol meaning.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0161" ] }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "scope": "Historical belief only; supplied passages: Falling — Dream section, heading 71; source lines 3690–3692. Not evidence of predictions or a universal symbol meaning.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0071" ] }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s delegation of editorial decisions. Historical forecasts remain attributed period claims; these reflections are not predictions or clinical assessments.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A support changes without warning", "reflection": "A step, floor, or handhold can fail at the moment you rely on it. The image may fit uncertainty about a particular support; noticing what gave way is more useful than treating every fall as failure." }, { "title": "The choice before the descent", "reflection": "Slipping, being pushed, and deciding to jump give you different positions in the story. A comparison with change needs to account for the amount of choice you remember having." }, { "title": "The ending changes the expectation", "reflection": "A soft landing, an unfinished descent, or a fall that becomes flight can shift the feeling. Follow that change without turning a surprising rescue into a promise that waking risks are safe." } ], "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "DreamFolia AI-assisted editorial review", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "do what its best I have no idea", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "snake", "teeth-falling-out", "being-chased", "flying", "falling", "being-naked-in-public", "cheating", "school-or-exam", "death" ] }, "decisionReason": "The revised reading has three scan themes and six materially different scenes, including a failing support, an imposed push and a fall becoming flight. Its conflicting historical omens are explicitly rejected as predictions.", "reviewedSnapshot": "data/common-dream-publication-review-2026-10-15-v2.json", "contentSha256": "3ccbbfb09c239d2eb118e9e10abb870fa7962e8c5482297d767f2bfc300edfec" }, "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "cielo-0161", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Falling", "text": "To dream of falling means a sudden\n improvement in your condition.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 161; source lines 4240–4243", "lineStart": 4240, "lineEnd": 4243, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of falling means a sudden\nimprovement in your condition." }, { "id": "luck-0071", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Falling", "text": "Indicates some misfortune.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 71; source lines 3690–3692", "lineStart": 3690, "lineEnd": 3692, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Indicates some misfortune." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "false-awakening", "title": "False awakening", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "A false awakening is a dream of waking up. Ordinary morning details may feel convincing until you actually wake.", "summary": "A false awakening is a dream of waking up. Ordinary morning details may feel convincing until you actually wake.", "aliases": [ "dreaming you woke up", "false awakenings", "dreamed awakening" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "The defining feature is believing you have awakened while the awakening is itself dreamed. Note what you appeared to do: check a clock, get dressed, or tell someone about another dream. The experience can be mundane or unsettling. Mainieri and colleagues examined only a small clinical sample, so their study cannot explain every episode. This scene alone does not identify a sleep disorder or show that waking reality is unreliable.", "traditional": "False awakening is used here as a sleep-research description, not as a message that someone has deceived you. Historical stories about uncertain reality offer literary comparisons, but none is needed to account for your personal dream.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "You complete your morning routine before waking", "reflection": "Which familiar action made the dreamed morning seem authentic?" }, { "title": "You tell someone you have just had a dream", "reflection": "What did you think was finally over, and how did the real awakening feel?" }, { "title": "Several apparent awakenings follow one another", "reflection": "Were the rooms identical, or did a particular detail change each time?" } ], "prompts": [ "What convinced you that you had woken up?", "Did the apparent awakening bring relief or more uncertainty?", "What do you remember directly, rather than reconstruct afterward?" ], "related": [ "awake", "sleep", "being-unable-to-move" ], "sources": [ { "id": "mainieri-2021", "title": "Are sleep paralysis and false awakenings different from REM sleep and from lucid REM sleep?", "author": "Greta Mainieri and colleagues", "url": "https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8020694/", "scope": "Small clinical EEG study, including two false-awakening episodes; supports the descriptive distinction, not a personal interpretation or diagnosis." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia model-assisted editorial draft. Reflection questions and scenario readings are optional, individually written suggestions, not empirically validated symbol meanings. Source scope is stated with each citation. Historical comparisons identify topics, not inherited interpretations. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "fame", "title": "Fame", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of being famous, denotes disappointed aspirations. To dream of famous people, portends your rise from obscurity to places of honor.”", "aliases": [ "fame" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about fame stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0753", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Fame", "text": "To dream of being famous, denotes disappointed aspirations.\nTo dream of famous people, portends your rise from obscurity\nto places of honor.", "locator": "Heading 753; source lines 8863–8869", "lineStart": 8863, "lineEnd": 8869, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being famous, denotes disappointed aspirations.\nTo dream of famous people, portends your rise from obscurity\nto places of honor." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "family", "title": "Family", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "A group can feel familiar while its roles and expectations keep changing.", "summary": "Family dreams may explore belonging, shared roles, changing responsibilities, or differences that remain inside an important connection.", "aliases": [ "family" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A family dream can put several relationships into the same room. People from different times appear together, familiar roles return, or an ordinary gathering reveals who is expected to organize, listen, decide, and help. The scene may make belonging visible through participation rather than through a single person. That could fit a transition in which the group still matters but its arrangements no longer feel as settled as they once did.\n\nThe way people make room for one another changes the reading. Being welcomed without having to perform a role may picture a wish to belong as you are. A seat saved only if you keep everyone comfortable may make acceptance feel conditional. These possibilities depend on the dream's actual interaction. The imagined family supplies no evidence of what real relatives think, and the scene need not be translated into a verdict about whether your family is supportive overall.\n\nRoles can persist after circumstances change. You may be treated as a child despite making adult decisions, or become responsible for a task an older relative once handled. This could resemble a family habit that has not caught up with a new stage of life. A scene in which responsibility is shared creates a different experience from inheriting it without discussion. The issue may be recognition of change rather than rejecting the connection itself.\n\nConflict can concern competing wishes within a valued group. One person wants tradition preserved, another wants a different arrangement, and you try to keep the gathering together. That can picture the cost of being the translator or peacekeeper. A workable conversation may let differences remain without making one person responsible for everyone's satisfaction. The dream does not require reconciliation or contact with someone simply because they appear in a family role.\n\nAn unfamiliar person included as family can expand the question of belonging. A friend, partner, or invented relative may feel recognized without a shared history, or you may feel outside a group that supposedly includes you. The comparison can concern the relationships in which care and responsibility are actually practiced. Recent gatherings, news, photographs, or remembered households can supply ordinary material. A useful original reading distinguishes being related, feeling accepted, and occupying a workable role; these experiences can overlap without being identical.", "traditional": "Miller's Family account attaches favorable forecasts to a harmonious household and unfavorable ones to sickness or conflict. Fontaine's 1862 account treats dreaming of a large family as a sign of thrift and wealth. These are period fortune-telling statements, not evidence about a household's future, health, or finances. The present reading instead examines the particular group's roles and interactions.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Belonging through participation", "reflection": "A shared room may make acceptance tangible through who is included and how. The useful distinction can be belonging freely versus having to perform a particular role." }, { "title": "Roles catching up with change", "reflection": "An old position may persist after your circumstances differ. The scene can picture wanting the relationship to recognize present capacity or needs." }, { "title": "Differences inside connection", "reflection": "A family can remain important while its members want different things. The dream may explore shared decisions without requiring one person to keep everyone satisfied." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "You are welcomed without being given a job", "reflection": "Your presence counts before you organize or help. This may picture belonging that does not depend entirely on managing the group's comfort." }, { "title": "Relatives from different periods gather together", "reflection": "The group mixes past and present roles. The scene may make continuity and change visible at once, rather than reconstructing an actual gathering." }, { "title": "Everyone still treats you as a child", "reflection": "Your current capacity is absent from the interaction. This may resemble a familiar relationship pattern that has not yet adjusted to a changed role or stage of life." }, { "title": "You inherit a responsibility nobody discusses", "reflection": "An earlier person's task becomes yours by assumption. The scene may make shared responsibility and consent more central than whether you care about the group." }, { "title": "The gathering contains conflicting preferences", "reflection": "You try to keep several wishes together. This may picture the effort of translating or mediating, especially if other people are not expected to help reach an arrangement." }, { "title": "A friend is naturally included as family", "reflection": "Recognition appears through care and participation rather than a stated relationship. The scene may explore where belonging is practiced, without requiring one definition of family for every reader." } ], "prompts": [ "Who belonged to the group, and what made that belonging visible?", "Which role did I occupy, and did it fit my present life?", "Was responsibility shared, chosen, or assumed?" ], "related": [ "parents", "mother", "father", "reunion" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0756" ], "scope": "Historical comparison only: Family — miller-0756 (Heading 756; source lines 8888–8894). These are attributed period claims, not verified predictions or support for the original psychological reflections." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0239" ], "scope": "Historical comparison only: Family — fontaine-0239 (Heading 239; source line 1992). These are attributed period claims, not verified predictions or support for the original psychological reflections." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0756", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Family", "text": "To dream of one's family as harmonious and happy, is significant of\nhealth and easy circumstances; but if there is sickness or contentions,\nit forebodes gloom and disappointment.", "locator": "Heading 756; source lines 8888–8894", "lineStart": 8888, "lineEnd": 8894, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of one's family as harmonious and happy, is significant of\nhealth and easy circumstances; but if there is sickness or contentions,\nit forebodes gloom and disappointment." }, { "id": "fontaine-0239", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Family", "text": "If a man or woman dreams that they have a large family, it is a\nsign of thrift and riches. Such a dream is a lucky one to anybody. 18,\n41.", "locator": "Heading 239; source line 1992", "lineStart": 1992, "lineEnd": 1996, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If a man or woman dreams that they have a large family, it is a\nsign of thrift and riches. Such a dream is a lucky one to anybody. 18," } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "famine", "title": "Famine", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a famine, foretells that your business will be unremunerative and sickness will prove a scourge.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "famine" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about famine stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0754", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Famine", "text": "To dream of a famine, foretells that your business will\nbe unremunerative and sickness will prove a scourge.\nThis dream is generally bad.\n\nIf you see your enemies perishing by famine, you will be successful\nin competition. If dreams of famine should break in wild confusion\nover slumbers, tearing up all heads in anguish, filling every soul with care,\nhauling down Hope's banners, somber with omens of misfortune and despair,\nyour waking grief more poignant still must grow ere you quench ambition\nand en{??}y{envy??} overthrow.", "locator": "Heading 754; source lines 8869–8882", "lineStart": 8869, "lineEnd": 8882, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a famine, foretells that your business will\nbe unremunerative and sickness will prove a scourge.\nThis dream is generally bad.\n\nIf you see your enemies perishing by famine, you will be successful\nin competition. If dreams of famine should break in wild confusion\nover slumbers, tearing up all heads in anguish, filling every soul with care,\nhauling down Hope's banners, somber with omens of misfortune and despair,\nyour waking grief more poignant still must grow ere you quench ambition\nand en[??]y[envy??] overthrow." }, { "id": "fontaine-0240", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Famine", "text": "If a farmer dreams that his crops have failed, or of any\nscarcity of food, it shows that there will be a quarrel, which, though\nit may not be among his people, yet he will witness or hear about it,\nand it will worry him. 34, 8, 26.", "locator": "Heading 240; source line 1996", "lineStart": 1996, "lineEnd": 2001, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If a farmer dreams that his crops have failed, or of any\nscarcity of food, it shows that there will be a quarrel, which, though\nit may not be among his people, yet he will witness or hear about it,\nand it will worry him." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "famish", "title": "Famish", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are famishing, foretells that you are meeting disheartening failure in some enterprise which you considered a promising…”", "aliases": [ "famish" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about famish stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0755", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Famish", "text": "To dream that you are famishing, foretells that you are meeting disheartening\nfailure in some enterprise which you considered a promising success.\nTo see others famishing, brings sorrow to others as well as to yourself.", "locator": "Heading 755; source lines 8882–8888", "lineStart": 8882, "lineEnd": 8888, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are famishing, foretells that you are meeting disheartening\nfailure in some enterprise which you considered a promising success.\nTo see others famishing, brings sorrow to others as well as to yourself." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "fan", "title": "Fan", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "5 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see a fan in your dreams, denotes pleasant news and surprises are awaiting you in the near future.” Compare 5 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "fan" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about fan stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0757", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Fan", "text": "To see a fan in your dreams, denotes pleasant news and surprises\nare awaiting you in the near future. For a young woman\nto dream of fanning herself, or that some one is fanning her,\ngives promise of a new and pleasing acquaintances; if she\nloses an old fan, she will find that a warm friend is becoming\ninterested in other women.", "locator": "Heading 757; source lines 8894–8903", "lineStart": 8894, "lineEnd": 8903, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a fan in your dreams, denotes pleasant news and surprises\nare awaiting you in the near future. For a young woman\nto dream of fanning herself, or that some one is fanning her,\ngives promise of a new and pleasing acquaintances; if she\nloses an old fan, she will find that a warm friend is becoming\ninterested in other women." }, { "id": "fontaine-0241", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Fan", "text": "To dream you see your sweetheart fanning herself, signifies that\na stranger will step in some fine day and  “cut you out.” If a maid\ndreams that her beau presents her with a fan, or offers to fan her, it\nis a sign he will attempt to take improper liberties with her. 41, 18.", "locator": "Heading 241; source line 2001", "lineStart": 2001, "lineEnd": 2006, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see your sweetheart fanning herself, signifies that\na stranger will step in some fine day and  “cut you out.” If a maid\ndreams that her beau presents her with a fan, or offers to fan her, it\nis a sign he will attempt to take improper liberties with her." }, { "id": "noe-0168", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Fan", "text": "If a maiden dreams she has been fanned by a man, she will soon\nmake a new conquest, or marry the present object of her affections. For a\nman to dream he is fanning a person, signifies that he will soon meet with\nmany changes in his affairs.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 170; source lines 743–746", "lineStart": 743, "lineEnd": 746, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If a maiden dreams she has been fanned by a man, she will soon\nmake a new conquest, or marry the present object of her affections. For a\nman to dream he is fanning a person, signifies that he will soon meet with\nmany changes in his affairs." }, { "id": "cielo-0162", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Fan", "text": "Is a sign of rivalry between women.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 162; source lines 4243–4245", "lineStart": 4243, "lineEnd": 4245, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Is a sign of rivalry between women." }, { "id": "luck-0072", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Fan", "text": "Quarrels, a rival in love.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 72; source lines 3692–3694", "lineStart": 3692, "lineEnd": 3694, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Quarrels, a rival in love." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "farewell", "title": "Farewell", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of bidding farewell, is not very favorable, as you are likely to hear unpleasant news of absent…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "farewell" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about farewell stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0758", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Farewell", "text": "To dream of bidding farewell, is not very favorable, as you are likely\nto hear unpleasant news of absent friends.\n\nFor a young woman to bid her lover farewell, portends his\nindifference to her. If she feels no sadness in this farewell,\nshe will soon find others to comfort her.", "locator": "Heading 758; source lines 8903–8912", "lineStart": 8903, "lineEnd": 8912, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of bidding farewell, is not very favorable, as you are likely\nto hear unpleasant news of absent friends.\n\nFor a young woman to bid her lover farewell, portends his\nindifference to her. If she feels no sadness in this farewell,\nshe will soon find others to comfort her." }, { "id": "fontaine-0242", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Farewell", "text": "To say farewell, or to hear another say it, is a bad sign,\nyou will hear painful news. 45, 9.", "locator": "Heading 242; source line 2006", "lineStart": 2006, "lineEnd": 2009, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To say farewell, or to hear another say it, is a bad sign,\nyou will hear painful news." }, { "id": "cielo-0163", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Farewell", "text": "To dream of parting is a sure sign of a lawsuit.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 163; source lines 4245–4247", "lineStart": 4245, "lineEnd": 4247, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of parting is a sure sign of a lawsuit." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "farm", "title": "Farm", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are living on a farm, denotes that you will be fortunate in all undertakings.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "farm" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about farm stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "estate", "land" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0759", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Farm", "text": "To dream that you are living on a farm, denotes that you will be fortunate\nin all undertakings.\n\nTo dream that you are buying a farm, denotes abundant crops to the farmer,\na profitable deal of some kind to the business man, and a safe voyage\nto travelers and sailors.\n\nIf you are visiting a farm, it signifies pleasant associations.\n\n\n[65] See Estate.", "locator": "Heading 759; source lines 8912–8926", "lineStart": 8912, "lineEnd": 8926, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are living on a farm, denotes that you will be fortunate\nin all undertakings.\n\nTo dream that you are buying a farm, denotes abundant crops to the farmer,\na profitable deal of some kind to the business man, and a safe voyage\nto travelers and sailors.\n\nIf you are visiting a farm, it signifies pleasant associations. See Estate." }, { "id": "fontaine-0243", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Farm", "text": "(_See Land._) If a man dreams he has a good farm, well enclosed,\nwith pleasant pastures, bestowed upon him, he will have a handsome\nwife; but if the land seems spacious, and not enclosed, that denotes\npleasure, joy, and riches. To dream you are working on a farm, denotes\nyou will soon receive a legacy from a distant relative. 42.", "locator": "Heading 243; source line 2009", "lineStart": 2009, "lineEnd": 2015, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Land.) If a man dreams he has a good farm, well enclosed,\nwith pleasant pastures, bestowed upon him, he will have a handsome\nwife; but if the land seems spacious, and not enclosed, that denotes\npleasure, joy, and riches. To dream you are working on a farm, denotes\nyou will soon receive a legacy from a distant relative." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9936", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Farm", "heading": "Farm", "text": "To dream of taking a farm denotes advancement; to visit a farm and partake of its products, good health (Gypsy). Obviously an interpretation derived from the rural districts.", "lineStart": 9936, "lineEnd": 9940, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 216; NLM OCR lines 9936–9940", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9936, "lineEnd": 9940, "printedPage": 216, "printedPageEnd": 216 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Farm. — To dream of taking a farm denotes advancement; \nto visit a farm and partake of its products, good health (Gyp- \nsy). Obviously an interpretation derived from the rural dis- \ntricts. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "Gyp- \nsy", "after": "Gypsy", "evidenceLine": 243 }, { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "dis- \ntricts", "after": "districts", "evidenceLine": 6708 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Farm" }, "displayText": "To dream of taking a farm denotes advancement; to visit a farm and partake of its products, good health (Gypsy). Obviously an interpretation derived from the rural districts." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "estate", "land" ] }, { "slug": "farmer", "title": "Farmer", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Cielo wrote: “To dream of a farmer denotes an increase in earnings.”", "aliases": [ "farmer" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about farmer stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "cielo-0164", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Farmer", "text": "To dream of a farmer denotes an increase in earnings.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 164; source lines 4247–4249", "lineStart": 4247, "lineEnd": 4249, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a farmer denotes an increase in earnings." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "farmyard", "title": "Farmyard", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Book of Luck wrote: “Good fortune coming; comfort and happiness.”", "aliases": [ "farmyard" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about farmyard stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "luck-0073", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Farmyard", "text": "Good fortune coming; comfort and happiness.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 73; source lines 3694–3696", "lineStart": 3694, "lineEnd": 3696, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Good fortune coming; comfort and happiness." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "farthing", "title": "Farthing", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “To dream that some one gives you a farthing, or that you are not possessed of one foretells a fall in the world (Gypsy).”", "aliases": [ "farthing" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about farthing stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L9941", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Farthing", "heading": "Farthing", "text": "To dream that some one gives you a farthing, or that you are not possessed of one foretells a fall in the world (Gypsy). The unfortunate interpretation that invariably attends the dream of money.", "lineStart": 9941, "lineEnd": 9945, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 216; NLM OCR lines 9941–9945", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9941, "lineEnd": 9945, "printedPage": 216, "printedPageEnd": 216 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Farthing. — To dream that some one gives you a farthing, \nor that you are not possessed of one foretells a fall in the \nworld (Gypsy). The unfortunate interpretation that invari- \nably attends the dream of money. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "invari- \nably", "after": "invariably", "evidenceLine": 432 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Farthing" }, "displayText": "To dream that some one gives you a farthing, or that you are not possessed of one foretells a fall in the world (Gypsy). The unfortunate interpretation that invariably attends the dream of money." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0244", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Fast", "text": "(_See Hungry._) To dream of fasting, or going without food until\nyou are very hungry, is a sign of a quarrel; but it foretells success\nin love and business. 29, 7.", "locator": "Heading 244; source line 2015", "lineStart": 2015, "lineEnd": 2019, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Hungry.) To dream of fasting, or going without food until\nyou are very hungry, is a sign of a quarrel; but it foretells success\nin love and business." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "hunger" ] }, { "slug": "fat", "title": "Fat", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are getting fat, denotes that you are about to make a fortunate change in your life.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "fat", "fates" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about fat stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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To dream\nyou are cutting or eating fat, portends sickness and misfortune. 66, 3.", "locator": "Heading 245; source line 2019", "lineStart": 2019, "lineEnd": 2024, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are growing fat, if you are a married woman,\nsignifies you will soon have a son; to a maiden, it signifies she will\nsoon be engaged; to men, it is a sign of success in business. To dream\nyou are cutting or eating fat, portends sickness and misfortune." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9946", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Fat", "heading": "Fat", "text": "To dream of growing too fat is a sign of affliction, physical or otherwise (Gypsy). Obviously resultant of physical stimuli, probably the plethora attendant upon certain ailments.", "lineStart": 9946, "lineEnd": 9950, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 216; NLM OCR lines 9946–9950", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9946, "lineEnd": 9950, "printedPage": 216, "printedPageEnd": 216 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Fat. — To dream of growing too fat is a sign of affliction, \nphysical or otherwise (Gypsy). 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0763", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Father-in-law", "text": "To dream of your father-in-law, denotes contentions\nwith friends or relatives. To see him well and cheerful,\nforetells pleasant family relations.", "locator": "Heading 763; source lines 8954–8960", "lineStart": 8954, "lineEnd": 8960, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of your father-in-law, denotes contentions\nwith friends or relatives. To see him well and cheerful,\nforetells pleasant family relations." }, { "id": "noe-0171", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Father-in-law", "text": "To dream one sees his\nfather-in-law, either dead or alive, is ill, especially if he dreams that\nhe uses violence or threatening.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 173; source lines 751–753", "lineStart": 751, "lineEnd": 753, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream one sees his\nfather-in-law, either dead or alive, is ill, especially if he dreams that\nhe uses violence or threatening." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "fatigue", "title": "Fatigue", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To feel fatigued in a dream, foretells ill health or oppression in business.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "fatigue" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about fatigue stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0764", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Fatigue", "text": "To feel fatigued in a dream, foretells ill health or oppression in business.\nFor a young woman to see others fatigued, indicates discouraging\nprogress in health.", "locator": "Heading 764; source lines 8960–8966", "lineStart": 8960, "lineEnd": 8966, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To feel fatigued in a dream, foretells ill health or oppression in business.\nFor a young woman to see others fatigued, indicates discouraging\nprogress in health." }, { "id": "fontaine-0247", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Fatigue", "text": "To dream you are very much fatigued, portends that you will be\nsuccessful in business, but it is a sign of sickness. 4, 78.", "locator": "Heading 247; source line 2027", "lineStart": 2027, "lineEnd": 2030, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are very much fatigued, portends that you will be\nsuccessful in business, but it is a sign of sickness." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0248", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Fault", "text": "If you dream you commit a fault, be very careful in your\nconduct; if you see a fault in a lady who is very dear to you, should\nyou trust her, she will be faithful to you in every thing. 22, 13, 27.", "locator": "Heading 248; source line 2030", "lineStart": 2030, "lineEnd": 2034, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream you commit a fault, be very careful in your\nconduct; if you see a fault in a lady who is very dear to you, should\nyou trust her, she will be faithful to you in every thing." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "favor", "title": "Favor", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you ask favors of anyone, denotes that you will enjoy abundance, and that you will not…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "favor" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about favor stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0765", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Favor", "text": "To dream that you ask favors of anyone, denotes that you will enjoy abundance,\nand that you will not especially need anything.\n\nTo grant favors, means a loss.", "locator": "Heading 765; source lines 8966–8973", "lineStart": 8966, "lineEnd": 8973, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you ask favors of anyone, denotes that you will enjoy abundance,\nand that you will not especially need anything.\n\nTo grant favors, means a loss." }, { "id": "fontaine-0249", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Favor", "text": "If you dream that you ask a favor of a friend, and he grants it,\nit foretells that he has been talking about you; but if he refuses it,\nit shows that some other person has spoken ill of you to him. 16, 71.", "locator": "Heading 249; source line 2034", "lineStart": 2034, "lineEnd": 2038, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream that you ask a favor of a friend, and he grants it,\nit foretells that he has been talking about you; but if he refuses it,\nit shows that some other person has spoken ill of you to him." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "fawn", "title": "Fawn", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing a fawn, denotes that you will have true and upright friends.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "fawn" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about fawn stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "deer" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0766", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Fawn", "text": "To dream of seeing a fawn, denotes that you will have true\nand upright friends.\n\nTo the young, it indicates faithfulness in love.\n\nTo dream that a person fawns on you, or cajoles you, is a warning\nthat enemies are about you in the guise of interested friends.\n\n\n[67] See Deer.", "locator": "Heading 766; source lines 8973–8986", "lineStart": 8973, "lineEnd": 8986, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing a fawn, denotes that you will have true\nand upright friends.\n\nTo the young, it indicates faithfulness in love.\n\nTo dream that a person fawns on you, or cajoles you, is a warning\nthat enemies are about you in the guise of interested friends. See Deer." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9951", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Fawn", "heading": "Fawn", "text": "A dream denoting inconstancy (Gypsy). Popular symbol of fleetness, timidity.", "lineStart": 9951, "lineEnd": 9953, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 216; NLM OCR lines 9951–9953", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9951, "lineEnd": 9953, "printedPage": 216, "printedPageEnd": 216 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Fawn. — A dream denoting inconstancy (Gypsy). Popular \nsymbol of fleetness, timidity. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Fawn" }, "displayText": "A dream denoting inconstancy (Gypsy). Popular symbol of fleetness, timidity." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0767", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Fears", "text": "To dream that you feel fear from any cause, denotes that your future\nengagements will not prove so successful as was expected.\n\nFor a young woman, this dream forebodes disappointment and unfortunate love.", "locator": "Heading 767; source lines 8986–8993", "lineStart": 8986, "lineEnd": 8993, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you feel fear from any cause, denotes that your future\nengagements will not prove so successful as was expected.\n\nFor a young woman, this dream forebodes disappointment and unfortunate love." }, { "id": "fontaine-0250", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Fear", "text": "To feel fear, signifies that you will be courageous in your\nwaking moments; to dream of frightening others, shows that your courage\nis weak. 68.", "locator": "Heading 250; source line 2038", "lineStart": 2038, "lineEnd": 2042, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To feel fear, signifies that you will be courageous in your\nwaking moments; to dream of frightening others, shows that your courage\nis weak." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "moles-71045", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams and Moles", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "United Kingdom, J. Marshall, 1805", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71045", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0768", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Feast", "text": "To dream of a feast, foretells that pleasant surprises are being\nplanned for you. To see disorder or misconduct at a feast,\nforetells quarrels or unhappiness through the negligence\nor sickness of some person.\n\nTo arrive late at a feast, denotes that vexing affairs will occupy you.", "locator": "Heading 768; source lines 8993–9002", "lineStart": 8993, "lineEnd": 9002, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a feast, foretells that pleasant surprises are being\nplanned for you. To see disorder or misconduct at a feast,\nforetells quarrels or unhappiness through the negligence\nor sickness of some person.\n\nTo arrive late at a feast, denotes that vexing affairs will occupy you." }, { "id": "fontaine-0251", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Feast", "text": "If you dream of feasting at a friend’s house, or eating with him\nanywhere, it shows you will make a new acquaintance through his means.\nIf a girl dreams this, it is a sign she will soon have a lover from\nthat very house or place where she dreams of feasting. 76, 18.", "locator": "Heading 251; source line 2042", "lineStart": 2042, "lineEnd": 2047, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream of feasting at a friend’s house, or eating with him\nanywhere, it shows you will make a new acquaintance through his means.\nIf a girl dreams this, it is a sign she will soon have a lover from\nthat very house or place where she dreams of feasting." }, { "id": "cielo-0165", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Feast", "text": "To be seated at a feast means that there is\n trouble ahead.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 165; source lines 4249–4252", "lineStart": 4249, "lineEnd": 4252, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To be seated at a feast means that there is\ntrouble ahead." }, { "id": "moles-0051", "sourceId": "moles-71045", "heading": "Feast", "originalHeading": "(no printed heading)", "text": "To see great feasts, and partake of them, signifies plenty; but if you\nare debarred from eating them, want and poverty.", "locator": "Dreams interpreted, passage 51; source lines 258–259", "lineStart": 258, "lineEnd": 259, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "editorialNote": "The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Feast” because that is the subject of its first clause.", "displayText": "To see great feasts, and partake of them, signifies plenty; but if you\nare debarred from eating them, want and poverty." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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In love it forebodes much\nuneasiness between sweethearts, and to them which are married it foretells\nundutiful children, with many heavy losses." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "feathers", "title": "Feathers", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "aliases": [ "feathers", "feather" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "summary": "Feathers can explore a small trace, fragile value, chosen decoration, or how an object’s use changes when its origin is uncertain.", "tagline": "A small trace can have several uses.", "psychological": "A feather found without a bird can make attention gather around a trace rather than a present creature. You may want to know where it came from, or simply enjoy its shape. This can resemble finding a small reminder of an encounter whose larger story is unavailable. Its value may come from a personal association, a practical use or the pleasure of noticing it; the dream does not need to provide a message from its absent owner.\n\nKeeping the feather can introduce a problem of scale. Placing it inside a heavy book may protect something slight while also flattening what you wanted to keep. A small memory, tentative idea or delicate gesture may offer a parallel. Preservation can serve one purpose and alter another. The question concerns what you hope to retain, rather than treating fragility as evidence that you are vulnerable.\n\nDecoration gives the object a different role. Feathers arranged on clothing can make presentation elaborate, playful or awkward to use. Enjoying the effect differs from finding that it attracts attention you did not want. A planned occasion or creative choice may fit that contrast. The feather’s particular color belongs to that presentation; it does not establish virtue, loss, spiritual approval or another fixed outcome.\n\nAn ordinary source can also change your response. Discovering that the feather came from a pillow may shift an exciting find into familiar material associated with rest. Disappointment or amusement can concern the story you supplied before its origin became clearer. Something need not have a remarkable history to remain useful or pleasant.\n\nTrying to label or collect feathers can bring order into the scene, especially if each new label changes what you think you found. This may picture wanting a reliable description before deciding an object’s place. Letting a feather drift away creates another choice: keeping a trace is available, but may no longer be necessary. These readings concern the handled object, its use and the attention it receives. A feather alone does not automatically imply a living bird encounter, flight, a cultural sign or contact with someone who has died.", "traditional": "Miller varies its forecasts by falling feathers, species labels, trade, color and ornament. Cielo and the Book of Luck assign different light/dark outcomes. Craig adds an Artemidorus attribution and Egyptian truth or power claims; those are Craig’s assertions, not verified cultural rules. The four exact records remain historical comparisons. They do not establish a color code or support the original reflections about a feather’s handling and use.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A trace without its whole story", "reflection": "An object can matter while its origin remains unavailable or ordinary." }, { "title": "Preservation that changes the object", "reflection": "Keeping something safe may alter the quality you wanted to retain." }, { "title": "A use chosen rather than inherited", "reflection": "Decoration, comfort and collection create different reasons to keep the same material." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You find one feather and cannot identify its source", "reflection": "The object draws attention while its larger story stays unavailable. This may picture valuing a reminder without being able to explain every part of it. Curiosity can remain open; the missing origin does not turn the feather into a supernatural message." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A feather stays safe in a book but loses its shape", "reflection": "Your chosen protection preserves the object while changing something you enjoyed. This can resemble keeping a small memory or idea in a form that serves one purpose at another’s expense. The important difference concerns the quality you hoped to retain." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Feather decoration catches on your clothing during an outing", "reflection": "A presentation you liked complicates the activity you intended. This may picture a creative or social choice needing adjustment to actual use. Enjoying an effect and wanting easier movement can coexist without making the decoration false or the preference shallow." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "The remarkable feather turns out to come from a pillow", "reflection": "A striking find acquires an ordinary source associated with the room. This can show how an imagined history affects value. Amusement or disappointment may concern that change in story; familiar material can still offer comfort without a special origin." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Labels keep changing as you sort a feather collection", "reflection": "The objects stay present while their descriptions refuse to settle. This may picture wanting a reliable category before choosing what belongs where. A useful distinction can remain possible without needing every trace to support a complete account of its origin." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You open your hand and allow a feather to drift away", "reflection": "Keeping the object is possible, yet you choose to let its movement continue. This may fit a reminder having served its purpose or a wish to stop managing something small. The choice need not establish indifference to the experience it recalled." } ], "prompts": [ "What gave the feather value before you knew where it came from?", "How did the chosen use preserve or change what you liked?", "Which description, decoration or memory still needed the object to remain?" ], "related": [ "bird", "wings", "clothes", "eagles" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0769" ], "scope": "miller-0769: Falling feathers, eagle/chicken feathers, geese/duck feather trading, black feathers and ornamental feathers receive different burden/ambition/trade/social forecasts. Exact supplied passages: miller-0769 — Feather (Heading 769; source lines 9002–9019). Attributed historical comparison only; these period claims do not validate the original reflection or establish real health, relationship, family or financial outcomes." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0166" ], "scope": "cielo-0166: White feathers are assigned friendship and dark feathers loss. Exact supplied passages: cielo-0166 — Feathers (Dream section, heading 166; source lines 4252–4254). Attributed historical comparison only; these period claims do not validate the original reflection or establish real health, relationship, family or financial outcomes." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0074" ], "scope": "luck-0074: White feathers are assigned success/riches, black feathers loss/failure. Exact supplied passages: luck-0074 — Feathers (Dream section, heading 74; source lines 3696–3698). Attributed historical comparison only; these period claims do not validate the original reflection or establish real health, relationship, family or financial outcomes." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L9954" ], "scope": "craig-1918:L9954: Craig attributes light/dark forecasts to Artemidorus and claims power/Egyptian truth/knowledge associations; these labels are Craig’s attributed assertions, not verified cultural codes. Exact supplied passages: craig-1918:L9954 — Feathers (Printed p. 216; NLM OCR lines 9954–9957). Attributed historical comparison only; these period claims do not validate the original reflection or establish real health, relationship, family or financial outcomes." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0769", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Feather", "text": "To dream of seeing feathers falling around you, denotes that your burdens\nin life will be light and easily borne.\n\nTo see eagle feathers, denotes that your aspirations will be realized.\n\nTo see chicken feathers, denotes small annoyances.\nTo dream of buying or selling geese or duck feathers,\ndenotes thrift and fortune.\n\nTo dream of black feathers, denotes disappointments and unhappy amours.\n\nFor a woman to dream of seeing ostrich and other ornamental feathers,\ndenotes that she will advance in society, but her ways of gaining favor\nwill not bear imitating.", "locator": "Heading 769; source lines 9002–9019", "lineStart": 9002, "lineEnd": 9019, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing feathers falling around you, denotes that your burdens\nin life will be light and easily borne.\n\nTo see eagle feathers, denotes that your aspirations will be realized.\n\nTo see chicken feathers, denotes small annoyances.\nTo dream of buying or selling geese or duck feathers,\ndenotes thrift and fortune.\n\nTo dream of black feathers, denotes disappointments and unhappy amours.\n\nFor a woman to dream of seeing ostrich and other ornamental feathers,\ndenotes that she will advance in society, but her ways of gaining favor\nwill not bear imitating.", "editorialNote": "Feathers are a distinct object/animal part, not the bird itself." }, { "id": "cielo-0166", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Feathers", "text": "White feathers mean friendship; dark feathers, loss.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 166; source lines 4252–4254", "lineStart": 4252, "lineEnd": 4254, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "White feathers mean friendship; dark feathers, loss." }, { "id": "luck-0074", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Feathers", "text": "(White) Success and riches; (black) loss and failure.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 74; source lines 3696–3698", "lineStart": 3696, "lineEnd": 3698, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(White) Success and riches; (black) loss and failure." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9954", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Feathers", "heading": "Feathers", "text": "White feathers foretell success; dark feathers, the reverse (Artemidorus). A symbol of power, and in Egypt the emblem of truth, goodness and knowledge.", "lineStart": 9954, "lineEnd": 9957, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 216; NLM OCR lines 9954–9957", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9954, "lineEnd": 9957, "printedPage": 216, "printedPageEnd": 216 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Feathers. — White feathers foretell success; dark feathers, \nthe reverse (Artemidorus). A symbol of power, and in Egypt \nthe emblem of truth, goodness and knowledge. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Feathers" }, "displayText": "White feathers foretell success; dark feathers, the reverse (Artemidorus). A symbol of power, and in Egypt the emblem of truth, goodness and knowledge." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "february", "title": "February", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of February, denotes continued ill health and gloom, generally.”", "aliases": [ "february" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about february stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0770", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "February", "text": "To dream of February, denotes continued ill health and gloom, generally.\nIf you happen to see a bright sunshiny day in this month, you will be\nunexpectedly and happily surprised with some good fortune.", "locator": "Heading 770; source lines 9019–9025", "lineStart": 9019, "lineEnd": 9025, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of February, denotes continued ill health and gloom, generally.\nIf you happen to see a bright sunshiny day in this month, you will be\nunexpectedly and happily surprised with some good fortune." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "feeble", "title": "Feeble", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of being feeble, denotes unhealthy occupation and mental worry. Seek to make a change for yourself after this dream.”", "aliases": [ "feeble" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about feeble stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0771", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Feeble", "text": "To dream of being feeble, denotes unhealthy occupation and mental worry.\nSeek to make a change for yourself after this dream.", "locator": "Heading 771; source lines 9025–9030", "lineStart": 9025, "lineEnd": 9030, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being feeble, denotes unhealthy occupation and mental worry.\nSeek to make a change for yourself after this dream." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "feeling-embarrassed", "title": "Feeling embarrassed", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "summary": "Feeling embarrassed may center on unwanted attention, a small social mismatch, or the difference between your reaction and the audience’s.", "tagline": "A small moment can feel much larger under imagined attention.", "aliases": [ "feeling embarrassed", "embarrassment", "embarrassed" ], "status": "REVIEW", "psychological": "Feeling embarrassed in a dream can make an ordinary mismatch seem suddenly public. A word comes out wrong, your clothes suit another occasion, or a message intended for one person appears where everybody can see it. The discomfort may concern having less control over your presentation than you expected. That is different from discovering that you have done something seriously wrong, even when the dream gives a small mishap enormous emotional weight.\n\nThe audience can be actual within the scene or mostly imagined. People may laugh, offer help, continue their work or never notice the error. Intense self-consciousness while everybody else remains calm can picture a gap between the attention you expect and the attention the scene provides. A new group, an unfamiliar custom or a recent awkward exchange offers a possible waking comparison. It need not establish that your concerns are baseless; it makes the particular expectation available to examine.\n\nUnclear rules create another reading. Arriving in casual clothes at a formal event may resemble entering a situation whose expectations were never explained. The issue can be access to usable information rather than a personal failure to fit. If another person also misunderstood the occasion, the dream may shift from solitary exposure to a shared, manageable mistake.\n\nWhat happens after the awkward moment changes its meaning. A shrinking attempt to cover the error can make presentation feel harder to maintain. Kind laughter or a simple correction can allow participation to continue without pretending nothing happened. Leaving may offer privacy, while staying may feel easier once the moment no longer determines your whole place in the group.\n\nSeeing somebody else embarrassed can also change the position. You may recognize how little the mistake matters to you as an observer, or how much practical kindness could help. A remembered presentation, social exchange or amusing scene can supply the imagery directly. The dream’s audience does not reveal what real people think; the available subject is how attention, expectations and recovery were arranged.", "traditional": "This page concerns modern social awkwardness. Miller’s historical Embarrassment heading refers the reader to Difficulty, whose account uses older business-related wording. The separate Mortification account concerns distress over one’s own deed before valued observers, rather than every awkward social moment.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "The audience and its actual response", "reflection": "Expected scrutiny can differ from what the dream’s observers do." }, { "title": "Rules you did not receive", "reflection": "A mismatch can concern unclear expectations rather than a defect in the person arriving." }, { "title": "A way to carry on", "reflection": "Kindness, correction or privacy can change the social meaning of a small mistake." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You mispronounce a word while everyone waits", "reflection": "The pause gives a minor verbal slip disproportionate visibility. This may fit the pressure of speaking in an unfamiliar group or wanting to be understood precisely. The scene’s next response matters: correction can permit the conversation to continue, while silence can keep the moment suspended." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You arrive dressed for a different occasion", "reflection": "The clothing mismatch makes an expectation visible only after you arrive. A new workplace, family custom or unfamiliar invitation can feel similarly hard to read. The embarrassment may concern missing information rather than a failure of taste, worth or belonging." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A private message appears on a shared screen", "reflection": "Something meant for a limited audience becomes widely visible. This can picture wanting a say over how personal material is presented. The mistake may feel exposing without implying that the message is shameful or that a real disclosure has taken place." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Everyone continues normally after your mistake", "reflection": "The scene supplies less scrutiny than you feel. That difference can help distinguish your own anticipation from the audience’s actions, without settling how any real group would respond. Continuing the activity may become possible once the mistake stops organizing everyone else’s attention." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You and others laugh kindly and carry on", "reflection": "Shared humor can make an awkward moment survivable without denying that it happened. A patient friend or a group accustomed to small errors offers a comparison. The laughter’s tone matters: warmth keeps you included, whereas ridicule would create a different interaction." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You help someone through their awkward moment", "reflection": "From the observer’s position, the person’s place may seem larger than their mistake. Offering a correction, privacy or ordinary conversation can picture a form of attention you would welcome yourself. The scene changes through what helps participation, rather than through perfect presentation." } ], "prompts": [ "What became visible that you expected to keep under control?", "How did the audience’s actual response differ from what you feared?", "What allowed the moment to pass, or kept it from passing?" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." }, { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0625", "miller-0705", "miller-1335" ], "scope": "Difficulty and its cross-reference-only Embarrassment record establish the retained older obstacle/business-embarrassment context; none is reassigned to Feeling embarrassed. Adjacent historical comparison only; original owners remain unchanged: miller-0625 and miller-0705 belong to Difficulty; miller-1335 belongs to Mortification. Not evidence for the original psychological interpretation. The emotional clause concerns being mortified about one’s own deed before valued observers. The distinct archaic flesh clause is not interpreted medically." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0191" ], "scope": "Difficulty and its cross-reference-only Embarrassment record establish the retained older obstacle/business-embarrassment context; none is reassigned to Feeling embarrassed. Adjacent historical comparison only; original records remain attached to difficulty. Not evidence for the original psychological interpretation." } ], "related": [ "difficulty", "mortification", "being-judged", "being-naked-in-public" ], "updated": "2026-10-13", "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "feet", "title": "Feet", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "aliases": [ "feet", "foot", "my foot", "your foot", "his foot", "her foot", "their foot", "left foot", "right foot", "both feet" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "summary": "Feet can explore the conditions of a step, a pace shared with someone else, or the trace a movement leaves behind.", "tagline": "A route can be possible while its pace or surface needs adjustment.", "psychological": "Feet in a dream can make the conditions of movement unusually noticeable. You may be standing, stepping onto a different surface or looking at a shape that no longer fits familiar shoes. The image can concern contact, comfort or pace within a particular activity. It does not require a universal meaning about your foundation, independence or future direction.\n\nA floor that changes beneath bare feet can make a usable route depend on where you step. Warm wood, cold tiles or an uneven patch create different choices even within the same room. This may resemble an arrangement that appears straightforward until its practical conditions become clear. Pausing to find another position can matter without turning the surface into a prediction about danger.\n\nSuddenly larger feet can make a familiar item or routine stop fitting. The dream might picture a requirement changing while an established arrangement stays the same. A role needing more time or room may offer a comparison if it fits your circumstances. The imagined size is not an assessment of growth, health or personal importance.\n\nMoving beside someone gives pace a social dimension. You may enjoy matching steps or discover that the shared rhythm makes your own movement uncomfortable. This can resemble wanting company while needing different terms for participating. Neither person’s speed has to become a measure of ambition, care or readiness to move on.\n\nWashing mud from your feet can make the end of an activity tangible. You may want comfort, a dry room or simply a familiar routine after coming inside. That action need not imply moral cleansing. Feet that continue moving while you want to rest create a different mismatch: ending the task has not yet become possible within the scene. Visible footprints can instead make a completed passage leave an unexpected trace. These experiences concern the imagined body and its surroundings. They do not diagnose pain, forecast family conflict or tell you how to treat actual symptoms. Memories of a walk, footwear or a particular floor can remain direct context rather than a hidden code.", "traditional": "Miller’s Feet account assigns contrasting forecasts to one’s own or others’ feet, washing, discomfort and swelling. Fontaine adds dirt, corns and scratching or tickling; Noe gives adverse claims about washing near water and having the soles scratched. Their social, health, family and financial outcomes are period assertions. They do not assess an actual body or establish that a step, stain or sensation predicts trouble.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "The conditions beneath a step", "reflection": "A route can need a particular surface, position or amount of room to feel usable." }, { "title": "Your pace alongside company", "reflection": "Sharing movement can involve negotiating a rhythm rather than ranking people’s progress." }, { "title": "Ending an activity and leaving a trace", "reflection": "Rest, washing or footprints can make different consequences of a passage visible." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Bare feet meet different surfaces within the same room", "reflection": "A single route has changing practical conditions. This can resemble a plan whose demands become clear only while participating. Choosing where to stand or step may matter more than treating comfort or discomfort as a universal sign about the safety of your future." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Your feet have become too large for familiar shoes", "reflection": "An established arrangement no longer fits the imagined body in the same way. This may picture a requirement changing while a routine stays fixed. The dream does not assess physical development or importance; the available room and your response define the encounter." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You try to match your steps to a companion’s pace", "reflection": "Company is desirable while the shared rhythm needs adjustment. This can resemble joining an activity without wanting to give up your own workable pace. A faster or slower step need not measure ambition, affection or who is ready for a change." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You wash mud from your feet before entering a dry room", "reflection": "The end of one activity has a practical condition before the next begins. This may fit wanting comfort or a familiar transition after a demanding occasion. Washing need not imply shame or moral cleansing; the room and desired activity give it context." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Your feet continue moving while you want to rest", "reflection": "The movement and your desired ending have different terms. This can picture a task continuing after you hoped to pause, or an imagined body that will not follow the scene’s plan. It is not a diagnosis or evidence that you cannot set limits awake." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "Your footprints remain visible on a surface you expected to leave unchanged", "reflection": "A passage leaves an unintended record of where you went. This may resemble participation becoming more visible than you expected. The trace can concern ownership, privacy or memory without establishing guilt, actual observation or a warning that your actions will be exposed." } ], "prompts": [ "Which surface, pace or amount of room made movement workable?", "How did company change the rhythm you wanted?", "What did you want to finish, rest from or leave behind?" ], "related": [ "shoes", "walking", "hand", "water", "corns" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0772" ], "scope": "miller-0772: One’s own versus others’ feet, washing, pain and swollen/red feet receive control, social standing, humiliation, family and business forecasts. Exact supplied passages: miller-0772 — Feet (Heading 772; source lines 9030–9048). Attributed historical comparison only; no forecast validates the original reflection or establishes actual health, relationships, beliefs or circumstances." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0252" ], "scope": "fontaine-0252: The Feet account cross-references Corns and assigns trouble, flattery, illness or wealth to washing, scratching/tickling, dirt and corns. Exact supplied passages: fontaine-0252 — Feet (Heading 252; source line 2047). Attributed historical comparison only; no forecast validates the original reflection or establishes actual health, relationships, beliefs or circumstances." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0167" ], "scope": "noe-0167: Washing feet near water and scratching their soles receive trouble and loss-by-flattery forecasts. Exact supplied passages: noe-0167 — Feet (Dream section, heading 169; source lines 740–743). Attributed historical comparison only; no forecast validates the original reflection or establishes actual health, relationships, beliefs or circumstances." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0773", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Fence", "text": "To dream of climbing to the top of a fence, denotes that success\nwill crown your efforts.\n\nTo fall from a fence, signifies that you will undertake a project\nfor which you are incapable, and you will see your efforts\ncome to naught.\n\nTo be seated on a fence with others, and have it fall under you,\ndenotes an accident in which some person will be badly injured.\n\nTo dream that you climb through a fence, signifies that you will use\nmeans not altogether legitimate to reach your desires.\n\nTo throw the fence down and walk into the other side, indicates that\nyou will, by enterprise and energy, overcome the stubbornest barriers\nbetween you and success.\n\nTo see stock jumping a fence, if into your enclosure,\nyou will receive aid from unexpected sources; if out of your lot,\nloss in trade and other affairs may follow.\n\nTo dream of building a fence, denotes that you are,\nby economy and industry, laying a foundation for future wealth.\nFor a young woman, this dream denotes success in love affairs;\nor the reverse, if she dreams of the fence falling, or that she\nfalls from it.", "locator": "Heading 773; source lines 9048–9077", "lineStart": 9048, "lineEnd": 9077, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of climbing to the top of a fence, denotes that success\nwill crown your efforts.\n\nTo fall from a fence, signifies that you will undertake a project\nfor which you are incapable, and you will see your efforts\ncome to naught.\n\nTo be seated on a fence with others, and have it fall under you,\ndenotes an accident in which some person will be badly injured.\n\nTo dream that you climb through a fence, signifies that you will use\nmeans not altogether legitimate to reach your desires.\n\nTo throw the fence down and walk into the other side, indicates that\nyou will, by enterprise and energy, overcome the stubbornest barriers\nbetween you and success.\n\nTo see stock jumping a fence, if into your enclosure,\nyou will receive aid from unexpected sources; if out of your lot,\nloss in trade and other affairs may follow.\n\nTo dream of building a fence, denotes that you are,\nby economy and industry, laying a foundation for future wealth.\nFor a young woman, this dream denotes success in love affairs;\nor the reverse, if she dreams of the fence falling, or that she\nfalls from it." }, { "id": "luck-0075", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Fence", "text": "(Climbing) A sudden rise in life.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 75; source lines 3698–3700", "lineStart": 3698, "lineEnd": 3700, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(Climbing) A sudden rise in life." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "ferret", "title": "Ferret", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “A dream of enemies deep and sly (Gypsy). Symbol founded on knowledge of natural history.”", "aliases": [ "ferret" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about ferret stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0775", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Ferry", "text": "To wait at a ferry for a boat and see the waters swift and muddy, you will\nbe baffled in your highest wishes and designs by unforeseen circumstances.\n\nTo cross a ferry while the water is calm and clear, you will be very lucky\nin carrying out your plans, and fortune will crown you.", "locator": "Heading 775; source lines 9083–9091", "lineStart": 9083, "lineEnd": 9091, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To wait at a ferry for a boat and see the waters swift and muddy, you will\nbe baffled in your highest wishes and designs by unforeseen circumstances.\n\nTo cross a ferry while the water is calm and clear, you will be very lucky\nin carrying out your plans, and fortune will crown you." }, { "id": "noe-0205", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Ferry", "text": "To dream of crossing\na ferry, signifies that indecision in an important matter will make you\nthe laughing-stock of your friends.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 207; source lines 890–892", "lineStart": 890, "lineEnd": 892, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of crossing\na ferry, signifies that indecision in an important matter will make you\nthe laughing-stock of your friends." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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See Violin.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "fiddle" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about fiddle stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "violin" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0778", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Fiddle", "text": "To dream of a fiddle, foretells harmony in the home and many\njoyful occasions abroad.\n\n\n[69] See Violin.", "locator": "Heading 778; source lines 9110–9119", "lineStart": 9110, "lineEnd": 9119, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a fiddle, foretells harmony in the home and many\njoyful occasions abroad. See Violin." }, { "id": "fontaine-0254", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Fiddle", "text": "If you dream that you are playing on a fiddle, or hearing the\nmusic of one, it is a sign you will soon attend a funeral. Such a dream\nis a bad omen to girls, as it points to the death of a lover, or of\nsome dear friend. 61.", "locator": "Heading 254; source line 2058", "lineStart": 2058, "lineEnd": 2063, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream that you are playing on a fiddle, or hearing the\nmusic of one, it is a sign you will soon attend a funeral. Such a dream\nis a bad omen to girls, as it points to the death of a lover, or of\nsome dear friend." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "violin" ] }, { "slug": "field", "title": "Field", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "6 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of dead corn or stubble fields, indicates to the dreamer dreary prospects for the future.” Compare 6 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "field", "fields" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about field stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "cornfield", "wheat", "meadow", "green" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0779", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Field", "text": "To dream of dead corn or stubble fields, indicates to the dreamer\ndreary prospects for the future.\n\nTo see green fields, or ripe with corn or grain, denotes great abundance\nand happiness to all classes.\n\nTo see newly plowed fields, denotes early rise in wealth and fortunate\nadvancement to places of honor.\n\nTo see fields freshly harrowed and ready for planting, denotes that you\nare soon to benefit by your endeavor and long struggles for success.\n\n\n[70] See Cornfields and Wheat.", "locator": "Heading 779; source lines 9119–9137", "lineStart": 9119, "lineEnd": 9137, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of dead corn or stubble fields, indicates to the dreamer\ndreary prospects for the future.\n\nTo see green fields, or ripe with corn or grain, denotes great abundance\nand happiness to all classes.\n\nTo see newly plowed fields, denotes early rise in wealth and fortunate\nadvancement to places of honor.\n\nTo see fields freshly harrowed and ready for planting, denotes that you\nare soon to benefit by your endeavor and long struggles for success. See Cornfields and Wheat." }, { "id": "fontaine-0255", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Fields", "text": "(_See Meadow and Green._) To dream you are in a ploughed field,\nforebodes some severe disputes that will be brought upon you by some\nperson who has no children; to dream you are in a meadow covered with\nflowers, is a very handsome wife, who will bring you lovely children\nand make you very happy; to a woman, it denotes that she will marry a\nhandsome young fellow, by whom she will have beautiful children, that\nthey will become rich, and live to a good old age. 16, 72, 6.", "locator": "Heading 255; source line 2063", "lineStart": 2063, "lineEnd": 2071, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Meadow and Green.) To dream you are in a ploughed field,\nforebodes some severe disputes that will be brought upon you by some\nperson who has no children; to dream you are in a meadow covered with\nflowers, is a very handsome wife, who will bring you lovely children\nand make you very happy; to a woman, it denotes that she will marry a\nhandsome young fellow, by whom she will have beautiful children, that\nthey will become rich, and live to a good old age.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Fields” is shown on the Field page: singular/plural; both already Places" }, { "id": "noe-0180", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Fields", "text": "To dream you are in green fields, is\na very favorable omen. To dream you are in ploughed fields, forebodes some\nsevere disputes that will be brought upon you by some person who has no\nchildren. To the lover, it denotes disappointment; to the married,\nunhappiness and undutiful children; to the tradesman, loss of business\nand a prison. To dream you are in a meadow covered with flowers, is a very\nfavorable omen. If you are soliciting a place or favor, it portends you\nwill surely obtain it.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 182; source lines 770–777", "lineStart": 770, "lineEnd": 777, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are in green fields, is\na very favorable omen. To dream you are in ploughed fields, forebodes some\nsevere disputes that will be brought upon you by some person who has no\nchildren. To the lover, it denotes disappointment; to the married,\nunhappiness and undutiful children; to the tradesman, loss of business\nand a prison. To dream you are in a meadow covered with flowers, is a very\nfavorable omen. If you are soliciting a place or favor, it portends you\nwill surely obtain it.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Fields” is shown on the Field page: singular/plural; both already Places" }, { "id": "cielo-0167", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Field", "text": "To walk in a field means visitors.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 167; source lines 4254–4256", "lineStart": 4254, "lineEnd": 4256, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To walk in a field means visitors." }, { "id": "luck-0076", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Fields", "text": "(Green) Prosperity, a happy marriage, handsome children;\n(clover, barley, wheat, etc.) great prosperity and happiness.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 76; source lines 3700–3703", "lineStart": 3700, "lineEnd": 3703, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(Green) Prosperity, a happy marriage, handsome children;\n(clover, barley, wheat, etc.) great prosperity and happiness.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Fields” is shown on the Field page: singular/plural; both already Places" }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9966", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Fields", "heading": "Fields", "text": "Fertile fields, a dream of prosperity ; barren fields, disappointment (Gypsy) ; a symbolical dream.", "lineStart": 9966, "lineEnd": 9968, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 216; NLM OCR lines 9966–9968", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9966, "lineEnd": 9968, "printedPage": 216, "printedPageEnd": 216 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Fields. — Fertile fields, a dream of prosperity ; barren fields, \ndisappointment (Gypsy) ; a symbolical dream. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Fields" }, "displayText": "Fertile fields, a dream of prosperity; barren fields, disappointment (Gypsy); a symbolical dream.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Fields” is shown on the Field page: singular/plural; both already Places" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "cornfield", "wheat", "meadow", "green" ] }, { "slug": "fiend", "title": "Fiend", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you encounter a fiend, forbodes reckless living and loose morals.”", "aliases": [ "fiend" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about fiend stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0780", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Fiend", "text": "To dream that you encounter a fiend, forbodes reckless\nliving and loose morals. For a woman, this dream signifies\na blackened reputation.\n\nTo dream of a fiend, warns you of attacks to be made on you\nby false friends. If you overcome one, you will be able\nto intercept the evil designs of enemies.", "locator": "Heading 780; source lines 9137–9147", "lineStart": 9137, "lineEnd": 9147, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you encounter a fiend, forbodes reckless\nliving and loose morals. For a woman, this dream signifies\na blackened reputation.\n\nTo dream of a fiend, warns you of attacks to be made on you\nby false friends. If you overcome one, you will be able\nto intercept the evil designs of enemies." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "fife", "title": "Fife", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of hearing a fife, denotes that there will be an unexpected call on you to defend your honor, or…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "fife" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about fife stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0781", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Fife", "text": "To dream of hearing a fife, denotes that there will be an unexpected call\non you to defend your honor, or that of some person near to you.\n\nTo dream that you play one yourself, indicates that whatever\nelse may be said of you, your reputation will remain intact.\nIf a woman has this dream, she will have a soldier husband.", "locator": "Heading 781; source lines 9147–9156", "lineStart": 9147, "lineEnd": 9156, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of hearing a fife, denotes that there will be an unexpected call\non you to defend your honor, or that of some person near to you.\n\nTo dream that you play one yourself, indicates that whatever\nelse may be said of you, your reputation will remain intact.\nIf a woman has this dream, she will have a soldier husband." }, { "id": "fontaine-0256", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Fife", "text": "For a girl to dream she hears the shrill music of a fife, is\na sign she will soon have a beau, and that he will be a smart and\ndesirable young man. 77, 5.", "locator": "Heading 256; source line 2071", "lineStart": 2071, "lineEnd": 2075, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a girl to dream she hears the shrill music of a fife, is\na sign she will soon have a beau, and that he will be a smart and\ndesirable young man." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "fight", "title": "Fight", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "6 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you engage in a fight, denotes that you will have unpleasant encounters with your business…” Compare 5 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "fight", "fighting" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about fight stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "guide-65367", "title": "Guide to Fortune-Telling by Dreams", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Multum in Parvo Library, Vol. I, No. 10, October 1894", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65367", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "moles-71045", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams and Moles", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "United Kingdom, J. Marshall, 1805", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71045", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0782", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Fight", "text": "To dream that you engage in a fight, denotes that you will have unpleasant\nencounters with your business opponents, and law suits threaten you.\n\nTo see fighting, denotes that you are squandering your time and money.\nFor women, this dream is a warning against slander and gossip.\n\nFor a young woman to see her lover fighting, is a sign of his unworthiness.\n\nTo dream that you are defeated in a fight, signifies that you\nwill lose your right to property.\n\nTo whip your assailant, denotes that you will, by courage and perseverance,\nwin honor and wealth in spite of opposition.\n\nTo dream that you see two men fighting with pistols, denotes many\nworries and perplexities, while no real loss is involved in the dream,\nyet but small profit is predicted and some unpleasantness is denoted.\n\nTo dream that you are on your way home and negroes attack\nyou with razors, you will be disappointed in your business,\nyou will be much vexed with servants, and home associations\nwill be unpleasant.\n\nTo dream that you are fighting negroes, you will be annoyed by them\nor by some one of low character.", "locator": "Heading 782; source lines 9156–9184", "lineStart": 9156, "lineEnd": 9184, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you engage in a fight, denotes that you will have unpleasant\nencounters with your business opponents, and law suits threaten you.\n\nTo see fighting, denotes that you are squandering your time and money.\nFor women, this dream is a warning against slander and gossip.\n\nFor a young woman to see her lover fighting, is a sign of his unworthiness.\n\nTo dream that you are defeated in a fight, signifies that you\nwill lose your right to property.\n\nTo whip your assailant, denotes that you will, by courage and perseverance,\nwin honor and wealth in spite of opposition.\n\nTo dream that you see two men fighting with pistols, denotes many\nworries and perplexities, while no real loss is involved in the dream,\nyet but small profit is predicted and some unpleasantness is denoted.\n\nTo dream that you are on your way home and negroes attack\nyou with razors, you will be disappointed in your business,\nyou will be much vexed with servants, and home associations\nwill be unpleasant.\n\nTo dream that you are fighting negroes, you will be annoyed by them\nor by some one of low character." }, { "id": "fontaine-0258", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Fight", "text": "If you dream of being engaged in a fight, it foretells to a man\nof business that he will soon engage in some new enterprise that will\nbe successful; to a laboring man, it predicts increased pay. 44, 78.", "locator": "Heading 258; source line 2079", "lineStart": 2079, "lineEnd": 2083, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream of being engaged in a fight, it foretells to a man\nof business that he will soon engage in some new enterprise that will\nbe successful; to a laboring man, it predicts increased pay." }, { "id": "noe-0182", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Fighting", "text": "To dream you are fighting, denotes to the lover\nthat you will lose the object of your affections through a foolish\nquarrel. It also forebodes much opposition to your wishes, with loss of\ncharacter and property. After such a dream, you are urgently recommended\nto quit your present situation, because such a dream indicates that you\nwill not prosper in it. To the sailor it denotes storm and shipwreck, with\ndisappointment in love.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 184; source lines 780–786", "lineStart": 780, "lineEnd": 786, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are fighting, denotes to the lover\nthat you will lose the object of your affections through a foolish\nquarrel. It also forebodes much opposition to your wishes, with loss of\ncharacter and property. After such a dream, you are urgently recommended\nto quit your present situation, because such a dream indicates that you\nwill not prosper in it. To the sailor it denotes storm and shipwreck, with\ndisappointment in love.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Fighting” is shown on the Fight page: same topic" }, { "id": "guide-0025", "sourceId": "guide-65367", "heading": "Fighting", "text": "To dream you are fighting denotes to the lover that you will\nlose the object of your affections through a foolish quarrel; it also\nforebodes much opposition to your wishes, with loss of character and\nproperty. After such a dream you should leave your present situation,\nbecause such a dream indicates that you will not prosper in it; to the\nsailor it denotes storms and shipwreck, with disappointment in love.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 25; source lines 244–251", "lineStart": 244, "lineEnd": 251, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are fighting denotes to the lover that you will\nlose the object of your affections through a foolish quarrel; it also\nforebodes much opposition to your wishes, with loss of character and\nproperty. After such a dream you should leave your present situation,\nbecause such a dream indicates that you will not prosper in it; to the\nsailor it denotes storms and shipwreck, with disappointment in love.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Fighting” is shown on the Fight page: same topic" }, { "id": "moles-0011", "sourceId": "moles-71045", "heading": "Fight", "originalHeading": "(no printed heading)", "text": "To dream that one fights and overcomes, denotes success in what you are\ncontending for, or escaping dangers.", "locator": "Dreams interpreted, passage 11; source lines 141–142", "lineStart": 141, "lineEnd": 142, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "editorialNote": "The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Fight” because that is the subject of its first clause.", "displayText": "To dream that one fights and overcomes, denotes success in what you are\ncontending for, or escaping dangers." }, { "id": "moles-0063", "sourceId": "moles-71045", "heading": "Fight", "originalHeading": "(no printed heading)", "text": "To dream that you fight and overcome, signifies you will get the better\nin law suits, or other controversies.", "locator": "Dreams interpreted, passage 63; source lines 293–294", "lineStart": 293, "lineEnd": 294, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "editorialNote": "The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Fight” because that is the subject of its first clause.", "displayText": "To dream that you fight and overcome, signifies you will get the better\nin law suits, or other controversies." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "figs", "title": "Figs", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "6 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Figs, signifies a malarious condition of the system, if you are eating them, but usually favorable to…” Compare 6 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "figs" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about figs stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0783", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Figs", "text": "Figs, signifies a malarious condition of the system, if you are eating them,\nbut usually favorable to health and profit if you see them growing.\n\nFor a young woman to see figs growing, signifies that she will soon\nwed a wealthy and prominent man.", "locator": "Heading 783; source lines 9184–9192", "lineStart": 9184, "lineEnd": 9192, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Figs, signifies a malarious condition of the system, if you are eating them,\nbut usually favorable to health and profit if you see them growing.\n\nFor a young woman to see figs growing, signifies that she will soon\nwed a wealthy and prominent man." }, { "id": "fontaine-0257", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Figs", "text": "To dream of eating good figs, signifies joy and happiness; if\nthe figs are mouldy or defective, your pleasure will be marred by some\ndisagreeable event. 6, 29.", "locator": "Heading 257; source line 2075", "lineStart": 2075, "lineEnd": 2079, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of eating good figs, signifies joy and happiness; if\nthe figs are mouldy or defective, your pleasure will be marred by some\ndisagreeable event." }, { "id": "noe-0181", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Figs", "text": "To dream of figs, is the forerunner of\nprosperity and happiness. To the lover, they denote the accomplishment of\nyour wishes. To the tradesman, increase of trade. They are also indicative\nof legacy.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 183; source lines 777–780", "lineStart": 777, "lineEnd": 780, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of figs, is the forerunner of\nprosperity and happiness. To the lover, they denote the accomplishment of\nyour wishes. To the tradesman, increase of trade. They are also indicative\nof legacy." }, { "id": "cielo-0168", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Figs", "text": "To eat figs is a sign of interrupted pleasures.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 168; source lines 4256–4258", "lineStart": 4256, "lineEnd": 4258, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To eat figs is a sign of interrupted pleasures." }, { "id": "luck-0077", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Figs", "text": "A good dream, joy and pleasure; (if a woman dreams) happy\nmarriage and many children.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 77; source lines 3703–3706", "lineStart": 3703, "lineEnd": 3706, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "A good dream, joy and pleasure; (if a woman dreams) happy\nmarriage and many children." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9969", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Figs", "heading": "Figs", "text": "A dream of joy and pleasure ; out of season, grief ; to eat, loss of fortune; dry figs signify the slipping away of wealth, but success in married life (Gypsy). In sacred symbolism they denote prosperity (Smith). They were held as sacred by the Romans, a symbol of fruitfulness and life, also an erotic symbol.", "lineStart": 9969, "lineEnd": 9975, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 216; NLM OCR lines 9969–9975", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9969, "lineEnd": 9975, "printedPage": 216, "printedPageEnd": 216 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Figs. — A dream of joy and pleasure ; out of season, grief ; \nto eat, loss of fortune; dry figs signify the slipping away of \nwealth, but success in married life (Gypsy). In sacred sym- \nbolism they denote prosperity (Smith). They were held as \nsacred by the Romans, a symbol of fruitfulness and life, also \nan erotic symbol. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "sym- \nbolism", "after": "symbolism", "evidenceLine": 250 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Figs" }, "displayText": "A dream of joy and pleasure; out of season, grief; to eat, loss of fortune; dry figs signify the slipping away of wealth, but success in married life (Gypsy). In sacred symbolism they denote prosperity (Smith). They were held as sacred by the Romans, a symbol of fruitfulness and life, also an erotic symbol." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "figure", "title": "Figure", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of figures, indicates great mental distress and wrong.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "figure", "figures" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about figure stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0784", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Figure", "text": "To dream of figures, indicates great mental distress and wrong.\nYou will be the loser in a big deal if not careful of your\nactions and conversation.", "locator": "Heading 784; source lines 9192–9198", "lineStart": 9192, "lineEnd": 9198, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of figures, indicates great mental distress and wrong.\nYou will be the loser in a big deal if not careful of your\nactions and conversation." }, { "id": "fontaine-0259", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Figures", "text": "Any number above _one_, and below _seventy-eight_, is deemed\nto portend good fortune to the dreamer, but _forty-nine_ is the most\nlucky. All numbers above _seventy-eight_ are uncertain, except _three\nhundred and forty-three_, and that is a very lucky number. 49, 10, 13.", "locator": "Heading 259; source line 2083", "lineStart": 2083, "lineEnd": 2088, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Any number above one, and below seventy-eight, is deemed\nto portend good fortune to the dreamer, but forty-nine is the most\nlucky. All numbers above seventy-eight are uncertain, except three\nhundred and forty-three, and that is a very lucky number." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "filbert", "title": "Filbert", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “This is a favorable dream, denoting a peaceful and harmonious domestic life and profitable business…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "filbert", "filberts" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about filbert stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0785", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Filbert", "text": "This is a favorable dream, denoting a peaceful and harmonious\ndomestic life and profitable business ventures.\n\nTo dream of eating them, signifies to the young, delightful associations\nand many true friends.", "locator": "Heading 785; source lines 9198–9206", "lineStart": 9198, "lineEnd": 9206, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "This is a favorable dream, denoting a peaceful and harmonious\ndomestic life and profitable business ventures.\n\nTo dream of eating them, signifies to the young, delightful associations\nand many true friends." }, { "id": "noe-0185", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Filberts", "text": "To\ndream of filberts, forebodes much trouble and anger from friends. To the\ntradesman, they denote a prison, and decay of trade; to the lover, a\ncomplete disappointment; to the married, care and undutiful children.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 187; source lines 802–806", "lineStart": 802, "lineEnd": 806, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To\ndream of filberts, forebodes much trouble and anger from friends. To the\ntradesman, they denote a prison, and decay of trade; to the lover, a\ncomplete disappointment; to the married, care and undutiful children." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "file", "title": "File", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you see a file, signifies that you will transact some business which will prove…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "file", "files" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about file stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0786", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "File", "text": "To dream that you see a file, signifies that you will transact\nsome business which will prove unsatisfactory in the extreme.\n\nTo see files, to store away bills and other important papers,\nforetells animated discussions over subjects which bear relation to\nsignificant affairs, and which will cause you much unrest and disquiet.\nUnfavorable predictions for the future are also implied in this dream.", "locator": "Heading 786; source lines 9206–9216", "lineStart": 9206, "lineEnd": 9216, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you see a file, signifies that you will transact\nsome business which will prove unsatisfactory in the extreme.\n\nTo see files, to store away bills and other important papers,\nforetells animated discussions over subjects which bear relation to\nsignificant affairs, and which will cause you much unrest and disquiet.\nUnfavorable predictions for the future are also implied in this dream." }, { "id": "noe-0201", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Files", "text": "To\ndream of dealing in files, prognosticates activity. To purchase files,\nshows you will have many applications to attend to business. To sell\nfiles, shows you will have others to work for you, yielding profitably.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 203; source lines 880–884", "lineStart": 880, "lineEnd": 884, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To\ndream of dealing in files, prognosticates activity. To purchase files,\nshows you will have many applications to attend to business. To sell\nfiles, shows you will have others to work for you, yielding profitably." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "finding-money", "title": "Finding money", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "A discovery can matter before you decide what to do with it.", "summary": "Finding money can explore a welcome discovery, a change in what you are looking for, or the responsibility that arrives with an unexpected find.", "aliases": [ "found money", "finding money", "finding cash", "finding coins", "money on the ground", "finding a wallet", "picking up money", "finding gold coins" ], "status": "REVIEW", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-14", "psychological": "Finding money in a dream can make an unexpected discovery feel immediately useful, pleasing or complicated. Something becomes visible that you did not set out to obtain. The important change may be relief, curiosity or a new question about where the find belongs. The scene does not promise a windfall or decide what you are entitled to keep in waking life.\n\nMoney appearing in an old coat pocket can connect discovery with an earlier routine. The amount may matter less than remembering when the coat was used or realizing that something was already available. This can resemble a useful detail returning from a previous task without requiring the dream to identify a hidden talent. Familiar pockets and recent errands can supply direct imagery.\n\nFinding money while searching for a letter or key can introduce a competing focus. You may enjoy the find and continue the search, or let the discovery change what the occasion is about. A useful comparison might be encountering a pleasant extra possibility while completing an ordinary responsibility. The dream makes that change of attention concrete without declaring that distraction is always welcome or always a mistake.\n\nA wallet containing cash and a recognizable name brings the discovery together with an apparent destination. Returning it may give the scene satisfaction through completing somebody else’s interrupted arrangement. Money uncovered when a group clears leaves instead makes a find part of a shared activity. The event can concern how something becomes visible rather than what any person deserves to receive.\n\nEnjoying another person’s find without wanting a share gives pleasure a place outside possession. A tiny amount that feels exciting can similarly matter through play, familiarity or the surprise of discovery rather than buying power. These different scenes leave room for direct financial hopes and ordinary enjoyment without turning every find into a measure of confidence or worth. The location, preceding task and change after discovery give the experience particular terms. An unexpected resource may open a possibility, add a responsibility or simply brighten an otherwise familiar moment; none of those responses requires a forecast about what will arrive next.", "traditional": "This entry compares Miller’s adjacent Money passage. Its opening finding clause predicts small worries, happiness and change; a later claimed-roll scene adds gendered loss and spending judgments. These are period forecasts, not evidence of a payment or entitlement. The supplied account belongs to the broader Money subject, and its finding clauses do not determine the meaning of a discovery.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Money appears in the pocket of a coat you used years ago", "reflection": "A practical find also returns you to an earlier routine. This may picture something useful becoming visible through an ordinary remembered arrangement. The coat gives the discovery its history, allowing surprise and familiarity to coexist rather than requiring the money to stand for a newly revealed quality." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You find money while searching for a missing letter", "reflection": "The search gains an unexpected pleasure before its original purpose is complete. This can picture a new possibility competing with a task that still matters. Continuing the search, pausing or changing plans gives the discovery different consequences; the tension lies in how attention shifts." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A found wallet contains cash and a name you recognize", "reflection": "The money arrives with a possible destination rather than as an anonymous gain. This can picture satisfaction through completing an interrupted arrangement or making a useful connection. The recognizable detail gives the find direction, letting the pleasure concern what can be done for the situation as a whole." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A group uncovers money while clearing leaves together", "reflection": "The find becomes visible through a shared activity that had another purpose. This may picture an incidental result making familiar work more interesting. The sequence of clearing, discovering and responding can matter independently of how the money is divided, giving attention and company a place in the event." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Someone else finds money and you enjoy their excitement", "reflection": "The pleasure belongs to witnessing a discovery rather than obtaining its contents. This can picture shared delight without needing an equivalent reward. The imagined moment allows another person’s good experience to be part of your own, making company more central than an account of who gained most." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "A very small find feels unexpectedly exciting", "reflection": "The amount is modest while the experience of discovery is vivid. This may connect with play, a remembered allowance or simply the surprise of spotting something overlooked. Its importance can come from the particular moment, giving enjoyment room without needing to inflate the find into substantial wealth." } ], "prompts": [ "What were you doing immediately before the money became visible?", "How did its location or apparent destination change the discovery?", "What mattered about the find beyond its amount?" ], "related": [ "money", "losing-money", "purse", "receiving-a-scholarship" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "scope": "Adjacent historical comparison: Miller’s Money clause about finding money, with small worries, happiness and change. Its later found-currency scene also assigns gendered loss and spending judgments when the roll is claimed. Complete supplied Money passage: miller-1325, Heading 1329; source lines 15252–15287. These attributed period forecasts do not validate this original reflection or establish a future financial or household outcome.", "recordReferences": [ { "id": "miller-1325", "heading": "Money", "locator": "Heading 1329; source lines 15252–15287" } ], "recordIds": [ "miller-1325" ] } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Discovery with a personal history", "reflection": "An ordinary location can connect a find with a remembered routine rather than an entirely new resource." }, { "title": "A changed focus or responsibility", "reflection": "Something welcome can alter the task or make its apparent destination matter." }, { "title": "Pleasure beyond possession", "reflection": "The surprise of discovery can have value without a large amount or a claim to keep it." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "finger-nails", "title": "Finger-nails", "type": "dreams", "category": "Other symbols", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of soiled finger-nails, forbodes disgrace in your family by the wild escapades of the young.”", "aliases": [ "finger-nails" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about finger-nails stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0788", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Finger-nails", "text": "To dream of soiled finger-nails, forbodes disgrace in your family\nby the wild escapades of the young.\n\nTo see well-kept nails, indicates scholarly tastes and some\nliterary attainments; also, thrift.", "locator": "Heading 788; source lines 9228–9236", "lineStart": 9228, "lineEnd": 9236, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of soiled finger-nails, forbodes disgrace in your family\nby the wild escapades of the young.\n\nTo see well-kept nails, indicates scholarly tastes and some\nliterary attainments; also, thrift." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "fingers", "title": "Fingers", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "5 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing your fingers soiled or scratched, with the blood exuding, denotes much trouble and…” Compare 5 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "fingers", "finger" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about fingers stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0787", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Fingers", "text": "To dream of seeing your fingers soiled or scratched,\nwith the blood exuding, denotes much trouble and suffering.\nYou will despair of making your way through life.\n\nTo see beautiful hands, with white fingers, denotes that your love will\nbe requited and that you will become renowned for your benevolence.\n\nTo dream that your fingers are cut clean off, you will lose wealth\nand a legacy by the intervention of enemies.", "locator": "Heading 787; source lines 9216–9228", "lineStart": 9216, "lineEnd": 9228, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing your fingers soiled or scratched,\nwith the blood exuding, denotes much trouble and suffering.\nYou will despair of making your way through life.\n\nTo see beautiful hands, with white fingers, denotes that your love will\nbe requited and that you will become renowned for your benevolence.\n\nTo dream that your fingers are cut clean off, you will lose wealth\nand a legacy by the intervention of enemies." }, { "id": "fontaine-0260", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Fingers", "text": "To dream that you cut your fingers, if they bleed, is a very\ngood omen; you will be successful in love, and your sweetheart will\nprove kind and true. 1, 2.", "locator": "Heading 260; source line 2088", "lineStart": 2088, "lineEnd": 2092, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you cut your fingers, if they bleed, is a very\ngood omen; you will be successful in love, and your sweetheart will\nprove kind and true." }, { "id": "noe-0186", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Fingers", "text": "To dream you cut your fingers, if they bleed, is a very good\nomen. You will be successful in love, and your sweetheart will prove kind\nand true. You will get money from a quarter that you least expect, and be\nsuccessful in your enterprises. If you dream that they do not bleed, then\nit denotes damage by a variety of accidents. That lawsuits will attend\nyou, and that you will be unsuccessful in most of your pursuits. In love\nyou will not succeed with your present sweetheart, who prefers another. To\ndream you lose your fingers, denotes the loss of friends, servants, goods,\ntrade and sweethearts.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 188; source lines 806–814", "lineStart": 806, "lineEnd": 814, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you cut your fingers, if they bleed, is a very good\nomen. You will be successful in love, and your sweetheart will prove kind\nand true. You will get money from a quarter that you least expect, and be\nsuccessful in your enterprises. If you dream that they do not bleed, then\nit denotes damage by a variety of accidents. That lawsuits will attend\nyou, and that you will be unsuccessful in most of your pursuits. In love\nyou will not succeed with your present sweetheart, who prefers another. To\ndream you lose your fingers, denotes the loss of friends, servants, goods,\ntrade and sweethearts." }, { "id": "cielo-0169", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Fingers", "text": "To dream of injured fingers denotes grief.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 169; source lines 4258–4260", "lineStart": 4258, "lineEnd": 4260, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of injured fingers denotes grief." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9976", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Finger", "heading": "Finger", "text": "To dream of losing one, trouble (Gypsy). A dream due to physical stimuli, probably gout, etc.", "lineStart": 9976, "lineEnd": 9978, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 216; NLM OCR lines 9976–9978", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9976, "lineEnd": 9978, "printedPage": 216, "printedPageEnd": 216 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Finger. — To dream of losing one, trouble (Gypsy). A \ndream due to physical stimuli, probably gout, etc. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Finger" }, "displayText": "To dream of losing one, trouble (Gypsy). A dream due to physical stimuli, probably gout, etc." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "fire", "title": "Fire", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "A flame that sustains you differs from a blaze that takes over.", "summary": "Fire dreams can hold warmth, urgency, or damage. What burns, who responds, and what survives help distinguish your experience.", "aliases": [ "fire", "flame", "flames", "burning" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "Fire can make the difference between enough and too much visible. A hearth warms a room because its heat has a place; a blaze takes over when it escapes that place. This can fit an emotion, ambition, or responsibility that feels useful while you can direct it and overwhelming when it begins deciding what happens next. The dream's question may be about how intensity is held, rather than whether intensity itself is good or bad.\n\nTending a flame can give shape to sustained care. Keeping a household comfortable, encouraging a relationship, or protecting time for a creative project all require attention that may go unnoticed when things run smoothly. If you constantly fetch wood while others relax, the scene may concern unequal effort. If someone takes over so you can rest, shared care becomes the important change. A dying fire can feel like a loss of energy, but it can also bring welcome permission to stop keeping something alive alone.\n\nA spreading fire turns a concern into an immediate demand. You may recognize the pace of a disagreement that widened, a workload that acquired new tasks, or a decision delayed until several things became urgent together. Notice where the flames begin and what carries them onward. A small spark that suddenly fills the room makes escalation central; a distant blaze that never approaches can make anticipation, fascination, or helpless watching more important than personal danger.\n\nWhat you save gives the dream a particular center. Rescuing photographs can put continuity and remembered relationships ahead of possessions. Returning for tools may emphasize the ability to start again. Looking for another person can bring care into conflict with your own need to leave. These are possible connections within the scene, not fixed meanings for those objects. Finding that someone is already safe can shift the ending from frantic responsibility toward relief, while escaping without everything can leave grief alongside survival. Afterward, blackened walls beside usable furniture can hold damage and continuity together. Rebuilding may feel hopeful or unfair if you must repair a crisis you did not create.\n\nFire can also feel cleansing, beautiful, or intimate. Burning something deliberately may resemble ending a commitment or making a change irreversible; regret afterward may show what remains valuable in the thing you wished to leave. Sitting beside a contained flame can simply offer comfort and companionship. Recent cooking, a fire drill, a film, or a remembered campfire may supply the image directly. A dreamed blaze does not predict a real fire or require a drastic decision. The useful reading explains the movement between warmth, urgency, loss, and relief in your particular encounter.", "traditional": "Gustavus Hindman Miller's Fire entry in Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted links an uninjured dreamer and even a burning home or store with prosperity and domestic satisfaction. His Flame passage instead emphasizes the effort of accumulating wealth. These are particular claims in an early twentieth-century dream dictionary, not a general tradition that establishes fire as fortunate. The supplied records preserve his business and household concerns alongside the imagery.\n\nAstra Cielo's 1917 Fortunes and Dreams gives a burning house a cautionary reading and associates kindling with anger. Comparing these actual passages shows disagreement rather than a consistent code. An original contextual question can retain their attention to setting: when does fire sustain an activity, and when does it interrupt it? Your own experiences with cooking, light, shelter, or danger give that question substance. Neither author supplies evidence that your dream predicts profit, betrayal, or a real fire.\n\nThe other attached books widen the disagreement. Noe and the 1894 Guide include severe accident and health forecasts; the 1805 passages associate house fire with anger and a great fire with illness or discontent. Cielo's separate Flame item gives good news, while Craig's Flames item gives happiness and an attributed Christian association. These are the supplied authors' claims, not present-day warnings or a verified shared tradition.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You keep feeding a hearth", "reflection": "A steady flame can make care feel tangible. If everyone expects warmth while you gather fuel alone, the scene may fit work that supports others without being shared. Enjoying the task or receiving help creates a different ending: care can become satisfying cooperation." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Fire spreads through a familiar building", "reflection": "The ordinary setting suddenly demands action. A conflict, deadline, or accumulated responsibility may offer a useful comparison if it has recently grown beyond its starting point. What blocks your exit and whether others respond can distinguish helplessness from an organized response." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You return to rescue a person or object", "reflection": "The choice gives the emergency a particular emotional center. A person, photograph, or tool may stand for a relationship, continuity, or the means to rebuild. Returning can feel purposeful or compulsory; discovering that the person is safe may release a responsibility you assumed was yours." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A small flame keeps going out", "reflection": "Repeated attempts to relight it can resemble trying to restore momentum or warmth when your usual effort no longer works. Frustration may make depleted resources central; relief when you stop can make it about permission to let an obligation end." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You return after the fire is over", "reflection": "The emergency gives way to discovering what remains. A usable room or recovered object can put continuity beside loss. Rebuilding may feel hopeful, exhausting, or unfair; the scene can explore living with an aftermath rather than needing to resolve the crisis again." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You deliberately burn something", "reflection": "The act makes an ending visible and difficult to reverse. It may fit wanting to release a role, reminder, or unfinished commitment. Relief and regret can coexist, especially if the object still mattered. The dream does not require destroying the corresponding possession in waking life." } ], "prompts": [ "What kind of fire did I encounter, and did it belong there?", "What did I choose to protect, and why that particular thing?", "Where in my waking life does warmth or intensity feel helpful?" ], "related": [ "house", "storm", "water", "flood", "burning" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "scope": "Historical comparison only: Fire — miller-0789, Heading 789; source lines 9236–9262; Flame — miller-0804, Heading 804; source lines 9386–9394. These period beliefs do not establish a dream meaning or prediction.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0789", "miller-0804" ] }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "scope": "Historical comparison only: Fire — cielo-0170, Dream section, heading 170; source lines 4260–4263. These period beliefs do not establish a dream meaning or prediction.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0170" ] }, { "id": "wamsley-2010", "title": "Dreaming of a learning task is associated with enhanced sleep-dependent memory consolidation", "author": "Erin J. Wamsley and colleagues", "url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20417102/", "scope": "Primary maze-learning experiment; task-related dream reports correlated with later performance. It does not show that a dream is an accurate memory or a solution." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0261" ], "scope": "Attached historical archive account only: Fire: the book distinguishes another household burning, the dreamer’s own property burning, playing with fire, and sitting by a dying fire, assigning different fortunes to each. Preserved passages: Fire — Heading 261; source line 2092. These attributed period beliefs or explanations are not evidence of predictions, health, cultural consensus, or a universal symbol meaning, and do not validate the original modern reflection." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0183" ], "scope": "Attached historical archive account only: Fire: the book assigns different fortunes to fire, burning lights, and being burned, including historical health, relationship, business, and accident predictions. Preserved passages: Fire — Dream section, heading 185; source lines 786–797. These attributed period beliefs or explanations are not evidence of predictions, health, cultural consensus, or a universal symbol meaning, and do not validate the original modern reflection." }, { "id": "guide-65367", "title": "Guide to Fortune-Telling by Dreams", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Multum in Parvo Library, Vol. I, No. 10, October 1894", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65367", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "guide-0026" ], "scope": "Attached historical archive account only: Fire: the guide assigns different fortunes to fire, burning lights, and being burned, including historical health, relationship, business, and accident predictions. Preserved passages: Fire — Dream section, heading 26; source lines 251–262. These attributed period beliefs or explanations are not evidence of predictions, health, cultural consensus, or a universal symbol meaning, and do not validate the original modern reflection." }, { "id": "moles-71045", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams and Moles", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "United Kingdom, J. Marshall, 1805", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71045", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "moles-0045", "moles-0056" ], "scope": "Attached historical archive account only: Fire: the two passages separately assign anger to a house on fire and sickness or discontent to a great fire. Preserved passages: Fire — Dreams interpreted, passage 45; source lines 241–241; Fire — Dreams interpreted, passage 56; source lines 274–275. These attributed period beliefs or explanations are not evidence of predictions, health, cultural consensus, or a universal symbol meaning, and do not validate the original modern reflection." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L10007" ], "scope": "Attached historical archive account only: Flames: Craig records a happiness omen and a Christian association with zeal and fervor. Preserved passages: Flames — Printed p. 217; NLM OCR lines 10007–10009. These attributed period beliefs or explanations are not evidence of predictions, health, cultural consensus, or a universal symbol meaning, and do not validate the original modern reflection." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s continuing delegation of English editorial decisions. Historical accounts remain attributed period claims; the cited memory study does not validate these interpretations.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Keeping something alive", "reflection": "A tended flame can picture the attention that sustains a home, relationship, or project. Whether the work feels shared, satisfying, or endless changes the reading." }, { "title": "Intensity exceeds its bounds", "reflection": "Fire that spreads beyond its proper place can resemble an emotion or demand that has begun directing everything around it. Where it starts and what feeds it make the comparison specific." }, { "title": "Choosing what survives", "reflection": "Rescue and deliberate burning both bring priorities into view. The ending can hold relief, grief, or ambivalence about what you protect and what you allow to change." } ], "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "DreamFolia AI-assisted editorial review", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "water", "house", "dog", "cat", "being-pregnant", "ex-partner", "deceased-loved-one", "fire", "spider", "being-lost", "ocean", "flood", "wedding", "baby", "train", "car", "wolf" ] }, "decisionReason": "The reading explains tended warmth, escalation, rescue, depleted effort, aftermath and deliberate endings. All ten complete historical accounts remain attached; the expanded context separates conflicting forecasts, severe accident claims and Craig’s attributed association without endorsing them.", "reviewedSnapshot": "data/common-reading-publication-review-2026-10-15.json", "contentSha256": "03dabf96c37abc645c4bb733bff5e5946e38ba201b6742b143ee749b5e826d8e" }, "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0789", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Fire", "text": "Fire is favorable to the dreamer if he does not get burned.\nIt brings continued prosperity to seamen and voyagers,\nas well as to those on land.\n\nTo dream of seeing your home burning, denotes a loving companion,\nobedient children, and careful servants.\n\nFor a business man to dream that his store is burning, and he is looking on,\nforetells a great rush in business and profitable results.\n\nTo dream that he is fighting fire and does not get burned, denotes that\nhe will be much worked and worried as to the conduct of his business.\nTo see the ruins of his store after a fire, forebodes ill luck.\nHe will be almost ready to give up the effort of amassing a handsome\nfortune and a brilliant business record as useless, but some unforeseen\ngood fortune will bear him up again.\n\nIf you dream of kindling a fire, you may expect many pleasant surprises.\nYou will have distant friends to visit.\n\nTo see a large conflagration, denotes to sailors a profitable and\nsafe voyage. To men of literary affairs, advancement and honors;\nto business people, unlimited success.", "locator": "Heading 789; source lines 9236–9262", "lineStart": 9236, "lineEnd": 9262, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Fire is favorable to the dreamer if he does not get burned.\nIt brings continued prosperity to seamen and voyagers,\nas well as to those on land.\n\nTo dream of seeing your home burning, denotes a loving companion,\nobedient children, and careful servants.\n\nFor a business man to dream that his store is burning, and he is looking on,\nforetells a great rush in business and profitable results.\n\nTo dream that he is fighting fire and does not get burned, denotes that\nhe will be much worked and worried as to the conduct of his business.\nTo see the ruins of his store after a fire, forebodes ill luck.\nHe will be almost ready to give up the effort of amassing a handsome\nfortune and a brilliant business record as useless, but some unforeseen\ngood fortune will bear him up again.\n\nIf you dream of kindling a fire, you may expect many pleasant surprises.\nYou will have distant friends to visit.\n\nTo see a large conflagration, denotes to sailors a profitable and\nsafe voyage. To men of literary affairs, advancement and honors;\nto business people, unlimited success." }, { "id": "miller-0804", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Flame", "text": "To dream of fighting flames, foretells that you will have to put forth\nyour best efforts and energy if you are successful in amassing wealth.\n\n\n[72] See Fire.", "locator": "Heading 804; source lines 9386–9394", "lineStart": 9386, "lineEnd": 9394, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of fighting flames, foretells that you will have to put forth\nyour best efforts and energy if you are successful in amassing wealth. See Fire.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Flame” is shown on the Fire page: fire core entry already aliases flame" }, { "id": "fontaine-0261", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Fire", "text": "(_See Burning._) If in your dream, you see a house on fire other\nthan your own, it foretells that some event will happen to make you\nmelancholy and sorrowful, such as the death or ruin of some esteemed\nfriend. If you dream your own house or place of business is burning, it\nis an omen of good fortune. If you dream of playing with fire, it is a\nsign of a quarrel in bed. For this dream play your age first. 26.\n\n To dream of sitting by the fire,\n When it is late, doth show desire;\n But if you sit till the fire’s out,\n Your love will prove false out of doubt.", "locator": "Heading 261; source line 2092", "lineStart": 2092, "lineEnd": 2104, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Burning.) If in your dream, you see a house on fire other\nthan your own, it foretells that some event will happen to make you\nmelancholy and sorrowful, such as the death or ruin of some esteemed\nfriend. If you dream your own house or place of business is burning, it\nis an omen of good fortune. If you dream of playing with fire, it is a\nsign of a quarrel in bed. For this dream play your age first. 26.\n\nTo dream of sitting by the fire,\nWhen it is late, doth show desire;\nBut if you sit till the fire’s out,\nYour love will prove false out of doubt." }, { "id": "noe-0183", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Fire", "text": "To dream of this subtle element, denotes\nhealth and happiness to the lover, marriage to the object of his\naffections and many children. It also denotes that you will be very angry\nwith some one on a trifling occasion. To dream you see burning lights\ndescending as it were from heaven, is a very bad sign indeed. It portends\nsome dreadful accident to the dreamer, such as being hanged, losing your\nhead, having your brains dashed out, breaking your legs, getting into\nprison, or other strange accidents. To the lover, it also denotes the loss\nof the affections of your sweetheart. To the tradesman, bad success in\nbusiness. To dream that you are burnt by fire, denotes great danger, and\nthat enemies will injure you. To the sailor, storms and shipwreck.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 185; source lines 786–797", "lineStart": 786, "lineEnd": 797, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of this subtle element, denotes\nhealth and happiness to the lover, marriage to the object of his\naffections and many children. It also denotes that you will be very angry\nwith some one on a trifling occasion. To dream you see burning lights\ndescending as it were from heaven, is a very bad sign indeed. It portends\nsome dreadful accident to the dreamer, such as being hanged, losing your\nhead, having your brains dashed out, breaking your legs, getting into\nprison, or other strange accidents. To the lover, it also denotes the loss\nof the affections of your sweetheart. To the tradesman, bad success in\nbusiness. To dream that you are burnt by fire, denotes great danger, and\nthat enemies will injure you. To the sailor, storms and shipwreck." }, { "id": "cielo-0170", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Fire", "text": "To see a house on fire is a sign of caution.\n Beware of false friends. To kindle a fire denotes anger.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 170; source lines 4260–4263", "lineStart": 4260, "lineEnd": 4263, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a house on fire is a sign of caution.\nBeware of false friends. To kindle a fire denotes anger." }, { "id": "cielo-0173", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Flame", "text": "To see a flame is a sign of good news.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 173; source lines 4269–4271", "lineStart": 4269, "lineEnd": 4271, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a flame is a sign of good news.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Flame” is shown on the Fire page: fire core entry already aliases flame" }, { "id": "guide-0026", "sourceId": "guide-65367", "heading": "Fire", "text": "To dream of this subtle element denotes health and happiness\nto the lover, marriage with the object of your affections, and many\nchildren; you will be very angry with some one on a trifling occasion.\nBurning lights descending, as it were from heaven, are a very bad sign;\nit portends some dreadful accident--having your brains dashed out,\nbreaking your legs, getting into prison, or other strange accidents;\nto the lover it also denotes the loss of the affections of your\nsweetheart; to the tradesman bad fortune in business. To dream that you\nare burnt by fire denotes great danger, and that enemies will injure\nyou.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 26; source lines 251–262", "lineStart": 251, "lineEnd": 262, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of this subtle element denotes health and happiness\nto the lover, marriage with the object of your affections, and many\nchildren; you will be very angry with some one on a trifling occasion.\nBurning lights descending, as it were from heaven, are a very bad sign;\nit portends some dreadful accident--having your brains dashed out,\nbreaking your legs, getting into prison, or other strange accidents;\nto the lover it also denotes the loss of the affections of your\nsweetheart; to the tradesman bad fortune in business. To dream that you\nare burnt by fire denotes great danger, and that enemies will injure\nyou." }, { "id": "moles-0045", "sourceId": "moles-71045", "heading": "Fire", "originalHeading": "(no printed heading)", "text": "To dream of a house on fire means anger.", "locator": "Dreams interpreted, passage 45; source lines 241–241", "lineStart": 241, "lineEnd": 241, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "editorialNote": "The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Fire” because that is the subject of its first clause.", "displayText": "To dream of a house on fire means anger." }, { "id": "moles-0056", "sourceId": "moles-71045", "heading": "Fire", "originalHeading": "(no printed heading)", "text": "To dream of a great fire, signifies sickness, or discontent with the\nperson’s lot.", "locator": "Dreams interpreted, passage 56; source lines 274–275", "lineStart": 274, "lineEnd": 275, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "editorialNote": "The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Fire” because that is the subject of its first clause.", "displayText": "To dream of a great fire, signifies sickness, or discontent with the\nperson’s lot." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10007", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Flames", "heading": "Flames", "text": "To dream of flames denotes happiness (Gypsy). Flames, a Christian symbol of zeal, fervor.", "lineStart": 10007, "lineEnd": 10009, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 217; NLM OCR lines 10007–10009", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10007, "lineEnd": 10009, "printedPage": 217, "printedPageEnd": 217 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Flames. — To dream of flames denotes happiness (Gypsy). \nFlames, a Christian symbol of zeal, fervor. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Flames" }, "displayText": "To dream of flames denotes happiness (Gypsy). Flames, a Christian symbol of zeal, fervor.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Flame” is shown on the Fire page: fire core entry already aliases flame" } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [ "burning" ] }, { "slug": "fire-budget", "title": "Fire Budget", "type": "dreams", "category": "Other symbols", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a fire budget, denotes disagreement over small matters.”", "aliases": [ "fire budget" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about fire budget stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0791", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Fire Budget", "text": "To dream of a fire budget, denotes disagreement over small matters.", "locator": "Heading 791; source lines 9267–9271", "lineStart": 9267, "lineEnd": 9271, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a fire budget, denotes disagreement over small matters." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "fire-extinguisher", "title": "Fire extinguisher", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "An urgent task still needs a clear role and a response that fits.", "summary": "A fire extinguisher dream can explore readiness, proportion and shared responsibility in an urgent scene. It does not provide real fire-response advice.", "aliases": [ "fire extinguisher", "fire extinguishers" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A fire extinguisher places a possible response beside an urgent problem. In a dream, that can picture having a resource available while still needing to understand what you are expected to handle. A demanding project, escalating disagreement or sudden collection of tasks may provide a parallel. Possessing the means to respond does not automatically make every part of the situation your responsibility.\n\nA small intervention changing the room's urgency can picture a response fitted to one manageable part. You may recognize clarifying an immediate decision or sharing a task before it spreads through a group. The value can lie in proportion rather than in doing the most visible or dramatic thing. The dream's result is an imagined event, not evidence that the same response would resolve a waking situation.\n\nSeveral separate demands can make readiness turn into overload. People point toward different problems while assuming one person will manage them all. This can resemble being the available helper whose role expands whenever a new need appears. The scene may make the distribution of responsibility more important than how capable the person with the equipment seems.\n\nAnother person taking an agreed part can change the arrangement without removing all urgency. Support becomes useful through a clear role, not simply through more people standing nearby. Deciding that a task is outside what you accepted can also preserve a boundary within the scene. That choice differs from wanting no involvement at all.\n\nAn unused object after the alarm passes can picture preparation that retains value without needing a crisis to justify it. You may be relieved that a resource was unnecessary, or uncertain what to do after the immediate demand ends. Recent buildings, stories or remembered objects can supply the imagery directly. These original reflections concern imagined readiness and responsibility; they do not give equipment instructions, predict a fire or determine how to respond to an actual emergency.", "traditional": "No exact Fire Extinguisher passage is supplied. Fire describes the element and Fire-engine a vehicle, with different historical owners. This original tool-focused entry does not transfer their forecasts or turn a dream response into practical emergency guidance.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Readiness with an understood role", "reflection": "A resource may be available before responsibility is clear. The scene can distinguish being able to contribute from being expected to handle everything around you." }, { "title": "A response fitted to one part", "reflection": "A modest imagined intervention can change urgency without addressing the whole arrangement. Proportion may matter more than the dramatic scale of the response." }, { "title": "Shared responsibility under pressure", "reflection": "Separate demands can expose how help is distributed. An agreed contribution from another person can make the task different from everybody relying on one available helper." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You have the equipment but do not know which task is yours", "reflection": "Having the object without a clear task can picture preparation before responsibility has been defined. A fast-changing project may fit. Clarifying what is yours to handle can matter more than proving you can immediately respond to every demand." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A small response changes the urgency of the room", "reflection": "A small action changing urgency can picture a manageable contribution making room for a wider response. A clarified decision or shared task may offer a parallel. The dreamed result does not establish a reliable method for a real problem." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Everyone asks you to manage separate fires alone", "reflection": "Being sent toward separate fires can picture help becoming an unlimited role. Several people may depend on the same attention while their needs remain distinct. The distribution of responsibility can be the concern, rather than a verdict about your capacity." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Somebody else takes a clearly agreed part", "reflection": "An agreed part handled by another person can picture support that is specific enough to use. A team or household arrangement may become workable when contributions have boundaries. More company alone would not necessarily change the task." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You choose to leave a task that is beyond the role you accepted", "reflection": "Leaving a task outside your accepted role can picture retaining choice within urgency. Care and limits can coexist. The scene explores the agreement you experienced, without supplying instructions for how to leave or act in an actual emergency." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The object remains unused after the alarm passes", "reflection": "An unused resource after an alarm can picture preparation whose value does not depend on being needed every time. Relief may coexist with uncertainty about what comes next. The end of urgency can give responsibility a different shape." } ], "prompts": [ "What was I expected to handle, and had that role been agreed?", "Which response fit one part without becoming responsibility for everything?", "What changed when another person contributed or the urgent period ended?" ], "related": [ "fire", "fire-engine", "rescue", "life-jacket" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "fire-from-heaven", "title": "Fire from Heaven", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “\"When thou dreamest Fire from Heaven is sent Some extraordinary thing is meant.”", "aliases": [ "fire from heaven" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about fire from heaven stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L9993", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Fire from Heaven", "heading": "Fire from Heaven", "text": "\"When thou dreamest Fire from Heaven is sent Some extraordinary thing is meant; A king or prince that often dreameth so Will in his country find both war and woe.\" — Artemidorus.", "lineStart": 9993, "lineEnd": 10000, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 217; NLM OCR lines 9993–10000", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9993, "lineEnd": 10000, "printedPage": 217, "printedPageEnd": 217 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Fire from Heaven. — \n\n\"When thou dreamest Fire from Heaven is sent \nSome extraordinary thing is meant; \nA king or prince that often dreameth so \nWill in his country find both war and woe.\" \n\n— Artemidorus. \n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Fire from Heaven" }, "displayText": "\"When thou dreamest Fire from Heaven is sent Some extraordinary thing is meant; A king or prince that often dreameth so Will in his country find both war and woe.\" — Artemidorus." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "fire-brand-or-torch", "title": "Fire-Brand or Torch", "type": "dreams", "category": "Other symbols", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “Good for young folk to whom it signifies love and pleasure.”", "aliases": [ "fire-brand or torch", "fire-brand", "torch" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about fire-brand or torch stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L9989", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Fire-Brand or Torch", "heading": "Fire-Brand or Torch", "text": "Good for young folk to whom it signifies love and pleasure ; to see another hold a fire-brand is an ill dream for one who would be secret (Artemidorus). Symbolism obvious.", "lineStart": 9989, "lineEnd": 9992, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 217; NLM OCR lines 9989–9992", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9989, "lineEnd": 9992, "printedPage": 217, "printedPageEnd": 217 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Fire-Brand or Torch. — Good for young folk to whom it \nsignifies love and pleasure ; to see another hold a fire-brand is \nan ill dream for one who would be secret (Artemidorus). \nSymbolism obvious. \n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Fire-Brand or Torch" }, "displayText": "Good for young folk to whom it signifies love and pleasure; to see another hold a fire-brand is an ill dream for one who would be secret (Artemidorus). Symbolism obvious." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "fire-engine", "title": "Fire-engine", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see a fire-engine, denotes worry under extraordinary circumstances, but which will result in good fortune.”", "aliases": [ "fire-engine" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about fire-engine stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0792", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Fire-engine", "text": "To see a fire-engine, denotes worry under extraordinary circumstances,\nbut which will result in good fortune. To see one broken down,\nforetells accident or serious loss For a young woman to ride on one,\ndenotes she will engage in some unladylike and obnoxious affair.", "locator": "Heading 792; source lines 9271–9278", "lineStart": 9271, "lineEnd": 9278, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a fire-engine, denotes worry under extraordinary circumstances,\nbut which will result in good fortune. To see one broken down,\nforetells accident or serious loss For a young woman to ride on one,\ndenotes she will engage in some unladylike and obnoxious affair." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "firebrand", "title": "Firebrand", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a firebrand, denotes favorable fortune, if you are not burned or distressed by it.”", "aliases": [ "firebrand" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about firebrand stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0790", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Firebrand", "text": "To dream of a firebrand, denotes favorable fortune, if you are not burned\nor distressed by it.", "locator": "Heading 790; source lines 9262–9267", "lineStart": 9262, "lineEnd": 9267, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a firebrand, denotes favorable fortune, if you are not burned\nor distressed by it." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "firefly", "title": "Firefly", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "A small light appears, disappears, and changes what you can see.", "summary": "Fireflies may offer an image of intermittent reassurance, shared wonder, or attention that cannot be held still. Darkness and distance matter.", "aliases": [ "firefly", "fireflies", "lightning bug", "lightning bugs" ], "status": "REVIEW", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A firefly offers light without illuminating the entire surroundings. If its glow reassures you, the scene may fit a small piece of encouragement within a situation that remains uncertain. A useful reply during a difficult project or one pleasant evening in a demanding week can matter without solving everything. The dream's scale supports a question about what is enough to make the present moment more bearable.\n\nIntermittent light can also make attention difficult. You see something, lose it, and wait for it to return. If that cycle feels frustrating, it may resemble uneven progress or encouragement that arrives too briefly to rely on. Learning a skill can alternate between moments of understanding and renewed confusion. If waiting feels peaceful instead, the pauses may be part of the pleasure rather than evidence that anything is wrong.\n\nMany fireflies change the scene from a solitary point to a shared field of activity. Watching them with someone can give shape to companionship that needs little conversation. Trying to make every light flash together, however, introduces an expectation of coordination. A group project, family gathering, or friendship circle could offer a parallel where several people remain connected while moving at different rhythms.\n\nCatching a firefly creates another tension. You may want to preserve a beautiful moment, make its light available on demand, or show it to another person. A jar that brings the glow closer but makes the encounter feel diminished can explore what changes when enjoyment becomes possession. Releasing it may preserve your sense of care even though you can no longer control where the light appears.\n\nDarkness need not mean distress. A quiet garden or remembered evening outdoors may make the firefly part of a scene you want to revisit. The reading changes if its light helps you find a path, draws you away from others, or simply rewards watching. Those actions matter more than treating every glow as hope.", "traditional": "No matching historical firefly record has been supplied here. This entry offers original everyday context: evening walks, childhood insect catching, photographs, and scenes in stories can contribute the light and setting. It does not claim that a glowing insect brings a message from a deceased person, determines luck, or forecasts a change in circumstances.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Encouragement on a small scale", "reflection": "One glow in a larger dark setting may resemble a modest source of reassurance. This reading fits comfort that helps with the present moment while leaving larger questions unresolved." }, { "title": "Waiting between appearances", "reflection": "Light that repeatedly appears and disappears can fit uneven progress or uncertain attention. Peaceful waiting gives the pauses a different meaning from chasing each flash in frustration." }, { "title": "Enjoyment and keeping", "reflection": "Catching a firefly can explore the wish to preserve a fleeting experience. Notice whether bringing it closer adds pleasure or changes what made the encounter satisfying." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "One firefly glows beside a dark path", "reflection": "Its small light becomes the detail that makes the surroundings feel less empty. This may fit limited but meaningful encouragement during uncertainty. If it does not help you see the route, companionship or beauty may matter more than the idea of guidance." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "The light vanishes whenever you approach", "reflection": "You move toward each flash and lose track of it again. This may resemble seeking a clear result from uneven progress or trying to sustain a brief moment of confidence. If the pursuit feels playful, the changing distance can instead create a game of discovery." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You watch many fireflies with someone", "reflection": "The two of you share a changing view without needing to speak. This can fit quiet companionship or pleasure that becomes fuller when witnessed together. If the other person remains distracted, the scene may center on wanting someone to notice what matters to you." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You keep a firefly in a jar", "reflection": "You can find its light easily now, but the encounter feels different inside the container. This may explore preserving a pleasant experience at the cost of its freedom or spontaneity. Satisfaction with the jar could instead concern making a fleeting detail available to share." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A firefly in your hands stops glowing", "reflection": "Closer contact does not produce the brightness you expected. This may fit disappointment when an appealing possibility becomes ordinary in practice, or pressure to make enjoyment happen on demand. Concern for the creature creates a different emphasis: care may become more important than the display." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You release it and the light returns at a distance", "reflection": "The glow becomes visible again after you let the creature move away. This may fit finding pleasure without holding the experience in place. Relief supports a reading of loosened control; sadness may instead concern accepting distance while still valuing what you can see." } ], "prompts": [ "Was each pause between flashes reassuring, frustrating, or part of the beauty?", "What did the light actually do: show a route, offer company, attract attention, or decorate the scene?", "What changed when I tried to keep it close or allowed it to move away?" ], "related": [ "light", "night", "garden", "insects" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflections with everyday context; no matching historical passage supplied. General sleep research does not validate these symbol readings. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "fireman", "title": "Fireman", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see a fireman in your dreams, signifies the constancy of your friends.”", "aliases": [ "fireman" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about fireman stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0793", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Fireman", "text": "To see a fireman in your dreams, signifies the constancy of your friends.\nFor a young woman to see a fireman crippled, or meet with an accident\notherwise, implies grave danger is threatening a close friend.", "locator": "Heading 793; source lines 9278–9284", "lineStart": 9278, "lineEnd": 9284, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a fireman in your dreams, signifies the constancy of your friends.\nFor a young woman to see a fireman crippled, or meet with an accident\notherwise, implies grave danger is threatening a close friend." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "fireworks", "title": "Fireworks", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see fireworks, indicates enjoyment and good health.”", "aliases": [ "fireworks" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about fireworks stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0794", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Fireworks", "text": "To see fireworks, indicates enjoyment and good health.\nFor a young woman, this dream signifies entertainments and pleasant\nvisiting to distant places.", "locator": "Heading 794; source lines 9284–9290", "lineStart": 9284, "lineEnd": 9290, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see fireworks, indicates enjoyment and good health.\nFor a young woman, this dream signifies entertainments and pleasant\nvisiting to distant places." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "firmament", "title": "Firmament", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of the firmament filled with stars, denotes many crosses and almost superhuman efforts ere you reach the pinnacle of your ambition.”", "aliases": [ "firmament" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about firmament stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "illumination" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0795", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Firmament", "text": "To dream of the firmament filled with stars, denotes many crosses and\nalmost superhuman efforts ere you reach the pinnacle of your ambition.\nBeware of the snare of enemies in your work.\n\nTo see the firmament illuminated and filled with the heavenly hosts,\ndenotes great spiritual research, but a final pulling back on Nature\nfor sustenance and consolation. You will often be disappointed\nin fortune also.\n\nTo see people you know in the firmament, signifies that they\nare about to commit some unwise act through you, and others\nmust be the innocent sufferers. Great disasters usually\nfollow this dream.\n\n\n[71] See Illumination.", "locator": "Heading 795; source lines 9290–9310", "lineStart": 9290, "lineEnd": 9310, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of the firmament filled with stars, denotes many crosses and\nalmost superhuman efforts ere you reach the pinnacle of your ambition.\nBeware of the snare of enemies in your work.\n\nTo see the firmament illuminated and filled with the heavenly hosts,\ndenotes great spiritual research, but a final pulling back on Nature\nfor sustenance and consolation. You will often be disappointed\nin fortune also.\n\nTo see people you know in the firmament, signifies that they\nare about to commit some unwise act through you, and others\nmust be the innocent sufferers. Great disasters usually\nfollow this dream. See Illumination." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "illumination" ] }, { "slug": "fish", "title": "Fish", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "aliases": [ "fish", "fishes", "dead fish", "goldfish", "fish tank", "catching fish", "aquarium" ], "kind": "modern", "summary": "A fish can suggest something partly hidden, a need for the right conditions, or responsibility for care. Catching, watching, and feeding differ.", "tagline": "A living thing moves through an environment you may not fully see.", "psychological": "A fish below the surface can picture something present but difficult to grasp clearly. You may sense an idea, feeling, or possibility without knowing its full form. Clear water makes observation easier, while depth and movement can keep the object of attention elusive. 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The difficulty is that waiting and technique do not guarantee the result, even when the activity itself still matters to you.", "slug": "scene-2" }, { "title": "You catch a fish and choose to release it", "reflection": "Obtaining something can clarify that you do not want to keep it. A role, agreement, or opportunity may look different once it becomes available. Release can picture reconsidering what possession requires, especially if the choice brings relief rather than regret.", "slug": "scene-3" }, { "title": "You return a stranded fish to water", "reflection": "This can suggest restoring conditions that make a person, project, or part of your life more workable. Better support, clearer resources, or a suitable role may fit. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "scope": "Attached historical comparison only: Fish — cielo-0171 (Dream section, heading 171; source lines 4263–4266). These attributed period claims and cross-references do not establish outcomes, diagnoses, cultural consensus or the original modern interpretations.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0171" ] }, { "id": "moles-71045", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams and Moles", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "United Kingdom, J. Marshall, 1805", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71045", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "scope": "Attached historical comparison only: Fish — moles-0052 (Dreams interpreted, passage 52; source lines 261–262). 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Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "DreamFolia AI-assisted editorial review", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "bed", "bathroom", "bridge", "door", "window", "stairs", "road", "clothes", "shoes", "driving", "being-late", "crying", "running", "swimming", "river", "snow", "moon", "sun", "mountain", "fish" ] }, "decisionReason": "The body and six scenes distinguish partial visibility, uncertain pursuit, release, restoring conditions, ongoing care and playful invention. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0801", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Fish-pond", "text": "To dream of a fish-pond, denotes illness through dissipation,\nif muddy. To see one clear and well stocked with fish,\nportends profitable enterprises and extensive pleasures.\nTo see one empty, proclaims the near approach of deadly enemies.\n\nFor a young woman to fall into a clear pond, omens decided good fortune\nand reciprocal love. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "artemidorus-077", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of Fishing.", "text": "NEts, and all other Instruments of Flaxe to catch Fishes, signifye the same which the Hayes and Ginnes in the Chase, of which we have spoken above: So a Line of Silke, or Horse hayre and wrought, signifye deceit and craft. Wherefore it is alwayes better to dream you hold them your selfe, then that any other holds them: To catch much fish together, and very big, signifie to all, gain and profit: except those which exercise an Art, or trade which requires sitting by it, and Masters, Teachers, and Schoole-masters: for the first cannot fish and do their trade, the others shall have foolish Schollers and Auditors, because the Fishes are mute: to catch little Fishes, is heavinesse, and no profit. Every Fish of divers colours is poison to the Sick, deceit and treason to the whole. Red Fish signifye to servants and malefactors, torments: to the sick grosse fevers, and inflamations; revealing, to those that would be secret. Fish which have seales, and which one may pill▪ are good for the Sick, Captives, and Poor, and to every afflicted Person, for it signifyeth to them abolition and losse of evils, wherewith they shall be encompassed.", "locator": "Book 2, encoded section 77", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "2", "displayText": "NEts, and all other Instruments of Flaxe to catch Fishes, signifye the same which the Hayes and Ginnes in the Chase, of which we have spoken above: So a Line of Silke, or Horse hayre and wrought, signifye deceit and craft. Wherefore it is alwayes better to dream you hold them your selfe, then that any other holds them: To catch much fish together, and very big, signifie to all, gain and profit: except those which exercise an Art, or trade which requires sitting by it, and Masters, Teachers, and Schoole-masters: for the first cannot fish and do their trade, the others shall have foolish Schollers and Auditors, because the Fishes are mute: to catch little Fishes, is heavinesse, and no profit. Every Fish of divers colours is poison to the Sick, deceit and treason to the whole. Red Fish signifye to servants and malefactors, torments: to the sick grosse fevers, and inflamations; revealing, to those that would be secret. Fish which have seales, and which one may pill▪ are good for the Sick, Captives, and Poor, and to every afflicted Person, for it signifyeth to them abolition and losse of evils, wherewith they shall be encompassed." }, { "id": "noe-0184", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Fishing", "text": "To dream you are fishing, is a sure sign of sorrow and\ntrouble. If you catch any fish, you will be successful in love and\nbusiness. If you catch none, you will never marry your present sweetheart,\nnor succeed in your present undertakings. If they slip out of your hands\nafter you have caught them, the person you marry will be of a roving\ndisposition, and some pretended friend will deceive you.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 186; source lines 797–802", "lineStart": 797, "lineEnd": 802, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are fishing, is a sure sign of sorrow and\ntrouble. If you catch any fish, you will be successful in love and\nbusiness. If you catch none, you will never marry your present sweetheart,\nnor succeed in your present undertakings. If they slip out of your hands\nafter you have caught them, the person you marry will be of a roving\ndisposition, and some pretended friend will deceive you." }, { "id": "guide-0027", "sourceId": "guide-65367", "heading": "Fishing", "text": "To dream you are fishing is a sure sign of sorrow and\ntrouble; if you catch any fish you will be successful in love and\nbusiness; if you catch none you will never marry your present\nsweetheart, nor succeed in your present undertakings; if they slip out\nof your hands after you have caught them, the person you marry will be\nof a roving disposition, and some pretended friend will deceive you.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 27; source lines 262–269", "lineStart": 262, "lineEnd": 269, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are fishing is a sure sign of sorrow and\ntrouble; if you catch any fish you will be successful in love and\nbusiness; if you catch none you will never marry your present\nsweetheart, nor succeed in your present undertakings; if they slip out\nof your hands after you have caught them, the person you marry will be\nof a roving disposition, and some pretended friend will deceive you." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "fits", "title": "Fits", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of having fits, denotes that you will fall a prey to ill health and will lose employment.”", "aliases": [ "fits" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about fits stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0802", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Fits", "text": "To dream of having fits, denotes that you will fall a prey to ill\nhealth and will lose employment.\n\nTo see others in this plight, denotes that you will have much unpleasantness\nin your circle, caused by quarrels from those under you.", "locator": "Heading 802; source lines 9364–9372", "lineStart": 9364, "lineEnd": 9372, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of having fits, denotes that you will fall a prey to ill\nhealth and will lose employment.\n\nTo see others in this plight, denotes that you will have much unpleasantness\nin your circle, caused by quarrels from those under you." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "flag", "title": "Flag", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of your national flag, portends victory if at war, and if at peace, prosperity.” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "flag" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about flag stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0803", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Flag", "text": "To dream of your national flag, portends victory if at war,\nand if at peace, prosperity.\n\nFor a woman to dream of a flag, denotes that she will be ensnared\nby a soldier.\n\nTo dream of foreign flags, denotes ruptures and breach of confidence\nbetween nations and friends.\n\nTo dream of being signaled by a flag, denotes that you should be careful\nof your health and name, as both are threatened.", "locator": "Heading 803; source lines 9372–9386", "lineStart": 9372, "lineEnd": 9386, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of your national flag, portends victory if at war,\nand if at peace, prosperity.\n\nFor a woman to dream of a flag, denotes that she will be ensnared\nby a soldier.\n\nTo dream of foreign flags, denotes ruptures and breach of confidence\nbetween nations and friends.\n\nTo dream of being signaled by a flag, denotes that you should be careful\nof your health and name, as both are threatened." }, { "id": "fontaine-0264", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Flag", "text": "To dream you see a flag waving, betokens great danger from\nenemies, or sickness. To dream you carry a flag, signifies you will\nreceive some mark of distinction from your fellow-citizens. If a\nmaid dream she is making a flag, it is a sign she will marry a rich\nofficer in the Army or Navy; but if a married woman has this dream, it\nforetells the birth of a son who will become a great general. 13, 35,\n61.", "locator": "Heading 264; source line 2114", "lineStart": 2114, "lineEnd": 2122, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see a flag waving, betokens great danger from\nenemies, or sickness. To dream you carry a flag, signifies you will\nreceive some mark of distinction from your fellow-citizens. If a\nmaid dream she is making a flag, it is a sign she will marry a rich\nofficer in the Army or Navy; but if a married woman has this dream, it\nforetells the birth of a son who will become a great general. 13, 35," }, { "id": "noe-0203", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Flag", "text": "To dream of raising\na flag signifies that your name will be widely known; to dream of seeing a\nflag floating, signifies good news.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 205; source lines 886–888", "lineStart": 886, "lineEnd": 888, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of raising\na flag signifies that your name will be widely known; to dream of seeing a\nflag floating, signifies good news." }, { "id": "cielo-0172", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Flag", "text": "To see a flag means coming trouble in\n business; to carry one, means unexpected honor.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 172; source lines 4266–4269", "lineStart": 4266, "lineEnd": 4269, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a flag means coming trouble in\nbusiness; to carry one, means unexpected honor." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "flageolet", "title": "Flageolet", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “To dream that you play or hear playing on a flageolet, denotes trouble and contention, and being overthrown at law.”", "aliases": [ "flageolet" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about flageolet stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "noe-0173", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Flageolet", "text": "To dream that you play or hear playing on\na flageolet, denotes trouble and contention, and being overthrown at law.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 175; source lines 754–756", "lineStart": 754, "lineEnd": 756, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you play or hear playing on\na flageolet, denotes trouble and contention, and being overthrown at law." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "flambeau", "title": "Flambeau", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “To dream of flambeaux, is a sign of trouble, excitement and distress.”", "aliases": [ "flambeau" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about flambeau stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "noe-0202", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Flambeau", "text": "To dream of flambeaux, is a sign of trouble, excitement and\ndistress. To the merchant, losses at sea; to the mechanic, want of\nemployment; to lovers, deceit and treachery.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 204; source lines 884–886", "lineStart": 884, "lineEnd": 886, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of flambeaux, is a sign of trouble, excitement and\ndistress. To the merchant, losses at sea; to the mechanic, want of\nemployment; to lovers, deceit and treachery." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "flamingo", "title": "Flamingo", "type": "dreams", "kind": "modern", "category": "Animals", "aliases": [ "flamingo", "flamingos", "flamingoes", "a flamingo" ], "summary": "A flamingo may bring visibility, balance, or your place in a group into a dream. Its striking appearance can feel welcome, awkward, or simply beautiful.", "tagline": "Standing out, remaining steady, and finding your own position among others.", "psychological": "A flamingo's striking appearance can make visibility the subject of an encounter. If you admire the bird as it continues its ordinary activity, the dream may fit being noticeable without having to perform for attention. Wearing something distinctive, expressing a preference, or entering a new group could provide a waking parallel. If you feel embarrassed on the bird's behalf, the scene may instead explore the expectation that anything conspicuous must justify being seen.\n\nBalance offers another reading when the animal stands on one leg or moves carefully through water. A position that looks precarious to you may seem comfortable to it. That contrast can fit a life arrangement others consider unusual but that works for you, or a wish to trust the support already present. If the bird keeps losing its footing, the image may concern maintaining an appearance of ease when the practical conditions are unstable.\n\nA flock can bring the individual and the group into the same scene. Birds moving together may feel companionable, impressive, or restrictive. Joining them could fit wanting a shared rhythm; trying to identify one particular bird might concern losing individuality within a large group. The same coordinated movement can feel reassuring or pressured, depending on whether the dream leaves room for a different direction.\n\nAn unfamiliar setting can complicate the attractive image. A flamingo in a cramped room may be visually pleasing but unable to move comfortably. That can resemble fitting an ideal or an impressive role into everyday conditions that do not support it. Changing the animal's space may matter more than changing its appearance. A remembered photograph, garden ornament, outdoor encounter, or video may also supply the bird directly. Beauty can remain the whole pleasure of the scene rather than a sign of a deeper conflict.", "traditional": "No matching historical flamingo passage is supplied. These are original possibilities about appearance, position, and the encounter's setting. A remembered image or ornament can give the bird a personal association. Its color and posture are not treated as inherited omens, tests of character, or evidence about the intentions of people around you.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Visible without performing", "reflection": "A striking bird continuing an ordinary activity can fit being noticeable on your own terms. Admiration and embarrassment suggest different relationships to the attention surrounding it." }, { "title": "Balance that suits the position", "reflection": "An unusual stance may look awkward from outside but feel steady within the scene. If support fails, the question shifts toward conditions rather than keeping up an appearance of ease." }, { "title": "A place in the flock", "reflection": "Group movement can offer companionship or pressure to follow. The useful distinction is whether a shared rhythm leaves room for an individual direction when you want one." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A flamingo stands calmly on one leg", "reflection": "You expect it to lose balance, but it remains comfortable. This can explore an arrangement that works despite looking unusual. If watching makes you anxious, the tension may lie in trusting a position you cannot fully understand rather than in an actual lack of support." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A whole flock changes direction", "reflection": "Many birds turn together while one stays behind or moves elsewhere. The scene may concern finding a shared rhythm or retaining a distinct position. Whether the exception looks isolated, free, or unnoticed changes the question about belonging." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A flamingo walks through a crowded room", "reflection": "Its shape and movement draw attention while ordinary activity continues around it. This may fit feeling conspicuous in a setting where you still need to do practical things. Making space can matter more than winning approval for the unusual presence." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Its color differs from what you expected", "reflection": "You recognize the bird although its feathers are duller, brighter, or entirely unfamiliar. The scene can explore recognition beyond a familiar presentation. Disappointment may concern an expectation, while curiosity may allow an identity or idea to take a different form." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A flamingo struggles with its footing", "reflection": "The bird tries to stand or cross shallow water but cannot find a comfortable position. This may fit effort to remain composed under unsuitable conditions. A firmer place to stand or another creature’s help can shift the scene toward practical support rather than appearance." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "Watching flamingos from across the water", "reflection": "You enjoy their movement without joining or approaching. This can be a scene of appreciation at a comfortable distance, or of wanting access to a group that seems far away. The feeling of distance distinguishes pleasure in watching from an unmet wish to belong." } ], "prompts": [ "Did the bird’s visibility feel comfortable, demanding, or awkward to me?", "What made its position steady, and what did I only expect to go wrong?", "Did the group allow a different rhythm or direction?" ], "related": [ "bird", "water", "being-naked-in-public", "garden", "penguin" ], "updated": "2026-10-13", "status": "REVIEW", "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original image-specific interpretation with alternative personal readings; no matching historical passage supplied. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "flashlight", "title": "Flashlight", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "A narrow beam can make the next step useful without showing the whole route.", "summary": "A flashlight dream can explore directed attention, partial visibility and shared guidance. What you choose to illuminate gives the beam its purpose.", "aliases": [ "flashlight", "flashlights", "electric torch" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A flashlight directs a limited area of light where you choose to point it. In a dream, this can picture attending to one part of a situation when the whole arrangement remains unclear. A practical next step, a small question or an unfamiliar task may offer a parallel. Partial visibility can be useful: you may not need a complete overview to understand what is immediately available.\n\nThe beam can also become too narrow for the task. You inspect details while missing how they connect, or keep returning to one object because the surrounding space is harder to approach. This can resemble solving a specific problem whose wider conditions remain unattended. A brighter beam does not automatically give a broader account. Moving the light may change the question more than increasing its intensity.\n\nDirection makes agency visible. You may aim where another person tells you, follow their beam or choose an area they consider unimportant. Guidance can be useful when it helps you orient; it can feel limiting when it determines everything you are permitted to notice. The dream does not establish that another person is concealing something. It shows how attention was arranged within the scene.\n\nTwo people illuminating different areas can picture cooperation through separate perspectives. Each view remains partial, but the combination may make a task more understandable. Overlapping beams can also leave another place unseen, especially if everyone follows the same expectation. Discovering an ordinary object where you anticipated mystery can shift the scene from searching for a hidden explanation toward recognizing something familiar.\n\nSwitching the light off after reaching a known place can give attention an ending. You may no longer need to inspect every step once the task changes. Recent journeys, games and remembered lighting can supply the image directly. These original readings concern a directed electric beam, not an omen about darkness or a guarantee that searching will reveal a secret. Historical flame-bearing Torch remains a separate nearby owner.", "traditional": "No exact electric-flashlight interpretation is supplied. Historical Torch and Lantern passages concern different carried lights and their period forecasts. These original reflections follow a directed electric beam, its reach and the choices made with it, without adopting those forecasts.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Enough light for a next step", "reflection": "A partial view can be useful without becoming complete. The scene may picture knowing enough to act locally while leaving the wider situation open to further attention." }, { "title": "Where attention is directed", "reflection": "A beam can make another person’s guidance or your own choice visible. Helpful orientation differs from having every area of interest selected for you." }, { "title": "Combining partial perspectives", "reflection": "Separate beams can give a shared task more than one view. Cooperation may depend on different angles rather than everybody making the same inspection." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You can see the next step but not the whole route", "reflection": "Seeing one step can picture enough information for a local action without certainty about the whole route. A practical task or developing plan may fit. Limited visibility need not become a demand to solve everything before beginning." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You aim the beam where someone else tells you", "reflection": "Aiming where instructed can picture guidance shaping the question you explore. The direction may be helpful or narrow your own interest. Your ability to move the beam gives the guidance its relationship to choice. A shared destination can still leave room for separate questions." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Two people illuminate different parts of the same room", "reflection": "Different illuminated areas can picture collaboration that preserves separate perspectives. A shared problem may become clearer when people examine different parts. Each view remains limited, but the combination can be more useful than duplicating one angle." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "The light reveals an ordinary object where you expected mystery", "reflection": "An ordinary object where you expected mystery can picture uncertainty settling into something familiar. A conversation or task may need a straightforward account rather than a hidden explanation. The relief or disappointment gives the discovery context." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The beam is bright but too narrow for the task", "reflection": "A bright narrow beam can picture focused effort that leaves connections outside the account. Examining details may remain useful while not meeting the whole task. Changing where you look can matter more than intensifying the same inspection." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You switch it off after reaching a familiar place", "reflection": "Switching off in a familiar place can picture a useful end to close monitoring. The task may no longer require every detail checked. Attention becomes available elsewhere without making the earlier search unnecessary or worthless." } ], "prompts": [ "What did I need to see next, and what could remain outside the beam?", "Who chose where the light pointed?", "What changed when another perspective appeared or the search ended?" ], "related": [ "torch", "lantern", "darkness", "being-lost" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "flax", "title": "Flax", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see flax in a dream, prosperous enterprises are denoted.”", "aliases": [ "flax" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about flax stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0805", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Flax", "text": "To see flax in a dream, prosperous enterprises are denoted.", "locator": "Heading 805; source lines 9394–9398", "lineStart": 9394, "lineEnd": 9398, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see flax in a dream, prosperous enterprises are denoted." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "flax-spinning", "title": "Flax Spinning", "type": "dreams", "category": "Other symbols", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Flax spinning, foretells you will be given to industrious and thrifty habits.”", "aliases": [ "flax spinning" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about flax spinning stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0806", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Flax Spinning", "text": "Flax spinning, foretells you will be given to industrious and thrifty habits.", "locator": "Heading 806; source lines 9398–9402", "lineStart": 9398, "lineEnd": 9402, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Flax spinning, foretells you will be given to industrious and thrifty habits." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "fleas", "title": "Fleas", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "aliases": [ "fleas", "flea" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "summary": "Fleas can explore an interruption carried with a useful resource, unclear responsibility for a shared task, or the effort of keeping a response proportionate.", "tagline": "A close nuisance can make its route and responsibility matter.", "psychological": "Finding a flea on a borrowed blanket can picture an unwanted detail arriving with something you still want to use. Warmth or assistance remains valuable while its conditions need attention. A resource shared at home or work may offer a parallel when accepting help brings a practical task you had not expected. Returning everything and making a particular adjustment create different responses; the dream does not prove that the lender is careless or intends harm.\n\nTrying to follow a flea from one object to another can make the route of an interruption difficult to establish. You may recognize a recurring concern whose apparent location changes each time you respond. Knowing where it began can feel important, but useful action may also depend on what is present now. The comparison concerns tracing a particular dreamed movement, not identifying a medical cause or a person responsible for your discomfort.\n\nA shared pet receiving attention from two households can make responsibility unsettled. Each person may expect the other to have completed a task. A handover at work or a family arrangement may have a similar structure. Agreeing on the next contribution can change the encounter more directly than using the insect as proof that someone failed their duty.\n\nA flea becoming enormous after you finally identify it can give a persistent nuisance a clear form. Something previously difficult to name may now seem too large to disregard. That scale can reflect how the problem occupies this scene without measuring its waking importance. If other people count a different number of fleas, uncertainty can concern whether everyone is working from the same account.\n\nOne flea repeatedly drawing you away from the rest of a useful room can instead make proportion the question. You may want a response that addresses the interruption without ending every activity around it. A remembered animal, fabric, cleaning task or sensation may provide direct imagery; none of those possible contexts diagnoses what caused the dream. These readings follow borrowed resources, tracing and shared responsibility. They do not turn closeness into inconstancy, a bite into slander or the insect into evidence of malicious people.", "traditional": "Miller, Fontaine and Noe give adverse flea claims involving irritation, enemies or relationships; Cielo instead predicts triumph over enemies. Craig reports annoyance lore and speculates about physical stimuli. These five period records do not establish blame, infidelity, slander or an explanation of bodily sensations; Craig’s speculation is not verified science.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A useful resource has an extra condition", "reflection": "An unwanted detail can need attention while the support or comfort around it remains valuable." }, { "title": "A route is not yet an explanation", "reflection": "Tracing a shifting interruption may provide information without establishing blame or a complete causal account." }, { "title": "Shared responsibility needs an actual handover", "reflection": "Agreement on the next practical contribution can matter more than identifying who should have acted earlier." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A flea appears on a blanket someone lent you", "reflection": "A useful resource arrives with a practical condition you did not expect. This may picture support that still matters while needing adjustment. Keeping the comfort and addressing the particular detail can coexist without proving that the lender is careless or intends harm." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You try to trace a flea moving between several objects", "reflection": "The interruption’s location changes as you respond. This can resemble a recurring task whose route remains unclear. Information about where it began may be useful, while action can also follow the present conditions without requiring a complete account of who caused the problem." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Two caretakers each expect the other to attend to a pet’s fleas", "reflection": "A shared task lacks a clear handover. This may picture a work or household arrangement needing an agreed next contribution. Responsibility can become usable through explanation without turning the insect into proof that either person failed or is untrustworthy." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "An identified flea becomes enormous in the dream", "reflection": "A difficult-to-name nuisance acquires a striking form. This can resemble finally recognizing a recurring concern. The dreamed scale makes it visible within the encounter but does not measure its actual importance or diagnose how much distress you should feel in waking life." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "People disagree about how many fleas are present", "reflection": "Participants act from different accounts of the same task. This may picture a practical discussion needing shared information before its scope is settled. Comparing what is actually known can support coordination without requiring one person’s alarm or reassurance to count as the whole explanation." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "One flea keeps drawing attention away from an otherwise useful room", "reflection": "A limited interruption begins organizing the entire setting. This can resemble wanting a response that leaves ordinary activities possible. Attending to the particular detail may preserve use of the space without needing a guarantee that nothing unwelcome will ever happen there again." } ], "prompts": [ "What remained useful in the resource despite the extra condition?", "Which part of the interruption’s route was known and which remained uncertain?", "How could responsibility and the scope of response become clearer?" ], "related": [ "cockroach", "mosquito", "blanket", "dog" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0807" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. miller-0807 — Fleas (Heading 807; source lines 9402–9410): Fleas, bites and fleas on a lover receive anger/retaliation, slander and inconstancy forecasts." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0265" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. fontaine-0265 — Fleas (Heading 265; source line 2122): Torment by fleas predicts enemies’ injury and a false sweetheart." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0188" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. noe-0188 — Fleas (Dream section, heading 190; source lines 818–819): Briefly calls torment by these insects unfavorable, without a further supplied forecast." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0174" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. cielo-0174 — Flea (Dream section, heading 174; source lines 4271–4273): Briefly predicts triumph over enemies." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L10010" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. craig-1918:L10010 — Fleas (Printed p. 217; NLM OCR lines 10010–10012): Reports annoyance/discomfort lore and speculates about physical stimuli; the speculative cause is not verified science." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection independently reviewed for content and source scope. Historical accounts remain attributed period writing. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0807", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Fleas", "text": "To dream of fleas, indicates that you will be provoked to anger\nand retaliation by the evil machinations of those close to you.\n\nFor a woman to dream that fleas bite her, foretells that she will be slandered\nby pretended friends. To see fleas on her lover, denotes inconstancy.", "locator": "Heading 807; source lines 9402–9410", "lineStart": 9402, "lineEnd": 9410, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of fleas, indicates that you will be provoked to anger\nand retaliation by the evil machinations of those close to you.\n\nFor a woman to dream that fleas bite her, foretells that she will be slandered\nby pretended friends. To see fleas on her lover, denotes inconstancy." }, { "id": "fontaine-0265", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Fleas", "text": "To dream you are tormented with these little insects, is of an\nunfavorable kind; evil and malicious enemies will do you much injury;\nyour sweetheart will prove false. 45.", "locator": "Heading 265; source line 2122", "lineStart": 2122, "lineEnd": 2126, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are tormented with these little insects, is of an\nunfavorable kind; evil and malicious enemies will do you much injury;\nyour sweetheart will prove false." }, { "id": "noe-0188", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Fleas", "text": "To dream you are\ntormented with these little insects is unfavorable.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 190; source lines 818–819", "lineStart": 818, "lineEnd": 819, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are\ntormented with these little insects is unfavorable." }, { "id": "cielo-0174", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Flea", "text": "Is a sign of triumph over one’s enemies.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 174; source lines 4271–4273", "lineStart": 4271, "lineEnd": 4273, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Is a sign of triumph over one’s enemies." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10010", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Fleas", "heading": "Fleas", "text": "A dream of annoyance and discomfort (Gypsy). Probably the result of physical stimuli.", "lineStart": 10010, "lineEnd": 10012, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 217; NLM OCR lines 10010–10012", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10010, "lineEnd": 10012, "printedPage": 217, "printedPageEnd": 217 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Fleas. — A dream of annoyance and discomfort (Gypsy). \nProbably the result of physical stimuli. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Fleas" }, "displayText": "A dream of annoyance and discomfort (Gypsy). Probably the result of physical stimuli." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "fleeing", "title": "Fleeing", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of flight, signifies disgrace and unpleasant news of the absent.”", "aliases": [ "fleeing", "flight" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about fleeing stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0810", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Flight", "text": "To dream of flight, signifies disgrace and unpleasant news of the absent.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of flight, indicates that she has not kept\nher character above reproach, and her lover will throw her aside.\n\nTo see anything fleeing from you, denotes that you will be victorious\nin any contention.", "locator": "Heading 810; source lines 9425–9435", "lineStart": 9425, "lineEnd": 9435, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of flight, signifies disgrace and unpleasant news of the absent.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of flight, indicates that she has not kept\nher character above reproach, and her lover will throw her aside.\n\nTo see anything fleeing from you, denotes that you will be victorious\nin any contention.", "editorialNote": "Flight in this passage is escape/fleeing, not airborne flying." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "fleet", "title": "Fleet", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see a large fleet moving rapidly in your dreams, denotes a hasty change in the business world.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "fleet" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about fleet stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0808", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Fleet", "text": "To see a large fleet moving rapidly in your dreams, denotes a\nhasty change in the business world. Where dulness oppressed,\nbrisk workings of commercial wheels will go forward and some\nrumors of foreign wars will be heard.", "locator": "Heading 808; source lines 9410–9417", "lineStart": 9410, "lineEnd": 9417, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a large fleet moving rapidly in your dreams, denotes a\nhasty change in the business world. Where dulness oppressed,\nbrisk workings of commercial wheels will go forward and some\nrumors of foreign wars will be heard." }, { "id": "luck-0078", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Fleet", "text": "(At sea) Realization of cherished hopes.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 78; source lines 3706–3708", "lineStart": 3706, "lineEnd": 3708, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(At sea) Realization of cherished hopes." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10013", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Fleet", "heading": "Fleet", "text": "To dream of a fieet of vessels promises fulfillment of hopes (Gypsy). Ships symbolize hopes both in ancient and modem symbolism.", "lineStart": 10013, "lineEnd": 10016, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 217; NLM OCR lines 10013–10016", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10013, "lineEnd": 10016, "printedPage": 217, "printedPageEnd": 217 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Fleet. — To dream of a fieet of vessels promises fulfillment \nof hopes (Gypsy). Ships symbolize hopes both in ancient \nand modem symbolism. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 0.97608, "secondaryHeading": "Fleet" }, "displayCorrections": [ "fieet → fleet" ], "displayText": "To dream of a fleet of vessels promises fulfillment of hopes (Gypsy). Ships symbolize hopes both in ancient and modem symbolism.", "editorialNotes": [ "Display text corrects OCR misreads: fieet → fleet. The original transcription is retained in the source record." ] } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "flesh", "title": "Flesh", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “If anyone dreams he is increased in flesh, he will gain wealth.”", "aliases": [ "flesh" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about flesh stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "noe-0174", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Flesh", "text": "If anyone dreams he is increased in flesh, he will gain wealth.\nOn the contrary, if he dreams he is grown lean and thin, if he be rich, he\nwill grow poor, or at least conceal his wealth, and he will be in a mean\ncondition. To dream of eating all sorts of meat, whether flesh or fish,\nsignifies either neglect of business, or anger and sickness.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 176; source lines 756–760", "lineStart": 756, "lineEnd": 760, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If anyone dreams he is increased in flesh, he will gain wealth.\nOn the contrary, if he dreams he is grown lean and thin, if he be rich, he\nwill grow poor, or at least conceal his wealth, and he will be in a mean\ncondition. To dream of eating all sorts of meat, whether flesh or fish,\nsignifies either neglect of business, or anger and sickness." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "flesh-and-fish", "title": "Flesh, and Fish", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Artemidorus wrote: “To eate flesh, which one hath dressed himselfe is good.”", "aliases": [ "flesh, and fish", "of flesh, and fish", "flesh", "fish" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about flesh, and fish stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "artemidorus-053", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of Flesh, and Fish.", "text": "TO eate flesh, which one hath dressed himselfe is good; except Béefe and Mutton, which signifie lamentation, losse, and anger. Swines flesh is very good for all men, specially rosted, for it signifies speedy profit. But to dreame that you eat raw flesh is not good; for it foretels losse of something of yours. I know by experience, that to dreame to ease the flesh of any stranger is good, but if the party be known or familiar, he shall die. To eate little birds, and a gréen goose, is good for all: to eat venison is good, for it signifies to take much good from his enemies: to eate fresh fish is good so they be not little ones, because they are nothing but little bones, and signifye enmity towards theyr familiar friends. All salt meates whether flesh or fish, signifye either neglect of businesse, or anger and Sicknesse.", "locator": "Book 1, encoded section 53", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "1", "displayText": "To eate flesh, which one hath dressed himselfe is good; except Béefe and Mutton, which signifie lamentation, losse, and anger. Swines flesh is very good for all men, specially rosted, for it signifies speedy profit. But to dreame that you eat raw flesh is not good; for it foretels losse of something of yours. I know by experience, that to dreame to ease the flesh of any stranger is good, but if the party be known or familiar, he shall die. To eate little birds, and a gréen goose, is good for all: to eat venison is good, for it signifies to take much good from his enemies: to eate fresh fish is good so they be not little ones, because they are nothing but little bones, and signifye enmity towards theyr familiar friends. All salt meates whether flesh or fish, signifye either neglect of businesse, or anger and Sicknesse." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "flies", "title": "Flies", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "aliases": [ "flies", "fly" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "summary": "Flies can explore protecting a shared activity, finding a usable exit, or repeated interruption that changes how attention is organized.", "tagline": "A visitor’s route can matter more than responding to every interruption.", "psychological": "Flies around a shared meal can picture an ordinary activity needing a practical boundary before everyone can participate comfortably. You may want to protect food while keeping the occasion available for conversation. A group task can feel similar when maintenance keeps interrupting its original purpose. Covering one dish or moving the gathering changes the arrangement more directly than trying to manage every visitor separately.\n\nSeveral flies gathering at a closed window can make an apparent route different from a usable one. The view beyond the pane does not give access to it. A process or invitation may look straightforward from a distance while one practical condition blocks completion. Opening another passage can change what is possible without treating repeated movement as evidence that the creature or a person refuses to understand.\n\nA single fly interrupting the same line while you read can give attention a repetitive structure. Each return starts the task again before its content becomes clear. An unresolved request or a small interruption at work may provide a waking parallel. Completing one part away from the disturbance differs from insisting that concentration must make the visitor disappear.\n\nFinding a dead fly on the wrapping of an otherwise welcome gift can instead make presentation compete with use. You may hesitate over one unwanted detail while still wanting what is offered. Removing it, explaining it or leaving the gift unopened create different encounters. The dream does not establish the giver’s care, a contamination risk or a hidden judgment about the gift.\n\nA room suddenly quiet after flies leave can make the absence of interruption noticeable. You may discover what you had wanted to hear or do once responding no longer occupies the scene. A group leaving through an ordinary opening can also make an ending possible without a complete confrontation. Recent meals, sounds, cleaning or insect encounters may supply direct context. These original readings concern both one fly and several; grammatical number does not create another biological meaning. They follow boundaries, access and attention, without turning the creatures into illness, jealous people or a forecast about someone’s love.", "traditional": "Miller, Fontaine, Noe and Craig give illness, enemy, relationship, scandal or killing forecasts. The separately supplied Cielo and Everybody’s Book of Luck Fly passages also explicitly concern flies or a swarm and predict jealousy/scandal. These six records remain attributed history, not evidence of sickness or other people’s intentions. One versus several flies can change the scene without requiring a separate fixed meaning.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A boundary preserves the shared activity", "reflection": "Protecting one resource can support participation while avoiding making maintenance the entire purpose of the occasion." }, { "title": "A visible route needs actual access", "reflection": "A familiar-looking option can remain unusable until its practical conditions change." }, { "title": "Attention can acquire another ending", "reflection": "A repetitive interruption can need a different setting or route rather than a judgment about your ability to concentrate." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Flies gather around food while people want to talk", "reflection": "A shared activity needs a practical boundary. This may picture maintenance competing with the occasion it supports. Covering one dish or changing the arrangement can preserve participation without requiring you to respond to every interruption individually or abandon the gathering." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Several flies gather at a closed window while another exit is open", "reflection": "A visible route and a usable route differ. This can resemble a process whose apparent direction lacks practical access. Making the opening easier to find may change the movement without assigning repeated attempts to stubbornness or drawing conclusions about anyone’s ability." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "One fly interrupts the same line each time you begin to read", "reflection": "A small disturbance gives attention a repetitive structure. This may picture a task restarting before its content becomes usable. Moving or completing one part elsewhere can provide another ending without treating concentration as a test you should pass by ignoring every interruption." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A dead fly lies on the wrapping of a welcome gift", "reflection": "An unwanted detail affects presentation while the offered resource may remain useful. This can resemble hesitation over an otherwise valued contribution. Addressing the particular detail can differ from rejecting the whole offer; the dream establishes no real contamination risk or giver’s intention." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The room becomes quiet after the flies leave", "reflection": "The absence of interruption lets another purpose become noticeable. This may picture discovering what you wanted to hear or do once response no longer occupies the setting. Relief depends on that particular change, without predicting that a real nuisance will simply disappear." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "Flies leave through an ordinary opening without being chased", "reflection": "An ending becomes possible through a usable route rather than repeated confrontation. This can resemble changing the conditions of a recurring task. The altered arrangement may matter more than overcoming every visitor, without claiming that the scene forecasts a victory over other people." } ], "prompts": [ "What part of the shared activity needed a practical boundary?", "How did the visible route differ from the one that could actually be used?", "What became possible when repeated interruption no longer organized the encounter?" ], "related": [ "mosquito", "fleas", "window", "reading" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0809" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. miller-0809 — Flies (Heading 809; source lines 9417–9425): Flies receive illness/enemy and gendered relationship forecasts; extermination receives a favorable romantic forecast." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0266" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. fontaine-0266 — Flies (Heading 266; source line 2126): A swarm receives enemy/relationship forecasts; killing predicts favorable love/trade outcomes." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0175" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. noe-0175 — Flies (Dream section, heading 177; source lines 760–763): A swarm receives enemy/relationship claims; killing is called favorable." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L10017" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. craig-1918:L10017 — Flies (Printed p. 217; NLM OCR lines 10017–10019): Reports troublesome-person/scandal lore." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0178" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. cielo-0178 — Fly (Dream section, heading 178; source lines 4280–4283): Legacy Fly passage explicitly describes flies and predicts someone’s jealousy; no distinct singular-insect meaning is supplied." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0083" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. luck-0083 — Fly (Dream section, heading 83; source lines 3716–3719): Legacy Fly passage explicitly describes a swarm and predicts rivals/jealous people spreading scandal; no distinct singular-insect meaning is supplied." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection independently reviewed for content and source scope. Historical accounts remain attributed period writing. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0809", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Flies", "text": "To dream of flies, denotes sickness and contagious maladies.\nAlso that enemies surround you. To a young woman this dream is\nsignificant of unhappiness. If she kills or exterminates flies,\nshe will reinstate herself in the love of her intended\nby her ingenuity.", "locator": "Heading 809; source lines 9417–9425", "lineStart": 9417, "lineEnd": 9425, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of flies, denotes sickness and contagious maladies.\nAlso that enemies surround you. To a young woman this dream is\nsignificant of unhappiness. If she kills or exterminates flies,\nshe will reinstate herself in the love of her intended\nby her ingenuity." }, { "id": "fontaine-0266", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Flies", "text": "To dream of a swarm of flies, denotes that you have many\nenemies; it also denotes that your sweetheart is not sincere, and cares\nbut little about you; to dream you kill them is a very good omen; it\ndenotes success in love and trade. 21, 49.", "locator": "Heading 266; source line 2126", "lineStart": 2126, "lineEnd": 2131, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a swarm of flies, denotes that you have many\nenemies; it also denotes that your sweetheart is not sincere, and cares\nbut little about you; to dream you kill them is a very good omen; it\ndenotes success in love and trade." }, { "id": "noe-0175", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Flies", "text": "To\ndream of a swarm of flies, denotes that you have many enemies; it also\ndenotes that your sweetheart is not sincere, and cares but little about\nyou. To dream you kill them is a very good omen.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 177; source lines 760–763", "lineStart": 760, "lineEnd": 763, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To\ndream of a swarm of flies, denotes that you have many enemies; it also\ndenotes that your sweetheart is not sincere, and cares but little about\nyou. To dream you kill them is a very good omen." }, { "id": "cielo-0178", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Fly", "text": "To dream of flies is a warning that someone is\n jealous of us.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 178; source lines 4280–4283", "lineStart": 4280, "lineEnd": 4283, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of flies is a warning that someone is\njealous of us.", "editorialNote": "The source passage explicitly describes plural or swarming flies. It is shown on the canonical Flies insect page; the former singular Fly page has the same subject and retains a redirect." }, { "id": "luck-0083", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Fly", "text": "(Swarm of flies) Rivals and jealous persons are spreading\nscandal.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 83; source lines 3716–3719", "lineStart": 3716, "lineEnd": 3719, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(Swarm of flies) Rivals and jealous persons are spreading\nscandal.", "editorialNote": "The source passage explicitly describes plural or swarming flies. It is shown on the canonical Flies insect page; the former singular Fly page has the same subject and retains a redirect." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10017", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Flies", "heading": "Flies", "text": "Troublesome persons who will scandalize you (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 10017, "lineEnd": 10019, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 217; NLM OCR lines 10017–10019", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10017, "lineEnd": 10019, "printedPage": 217, "printedPageEnd": 217 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Flies. — Troublesome persons who will scandalize you \n(Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Flies" }, "displayText": "Troublesome persons who will scandalize you (Gypsy)." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "floating", "title": "Floating", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of floating, denotes that you will victoriously overcome obstacles which are seemingly…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "floating" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about floating stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0811", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Floating", "text": "To dream of floating, denotes that you will victoriously\novercome obstacles which are seemingly overwhelming you.\nIf the water is muddy your victories will not be gratifying.", "locator": "Heading 811; source lines 9435–9441", "lineStart": 9435, "lineEnd": 9441, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of floating, denotes that you will victoriously\novercome obstacles which are seemingly overwhelming you.\nIf the water is muddy your victories will not be gratifying.", "editorialNote": "Passage describes floating in water, not necessarily flying." }, { "id": "luck-0079", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Floating", "text": "To dream of floating on water is a good and lucky sign.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 79; source lines 3708–3710", "lineStart": 3708, "lineEnd": 3710, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of floating on water is a good and lucky sign." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "flood", "title": "Floods", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "Water changes what a place lets you do.", "summary": "A flood can explore changed access, demands entering a familiar place, competing priorities, or the work of continuing after water recedes.", "aliases": [ "flood", "flooding", "flooded", "floods" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "A flood can give a familiar place uses and limits it did not have before. A room fills, a street becomes water, or objects begin to move without their owners. This can picture a demand entering routines previously organized around something else. A household problem, unexpected work or changed access to a person may offer a waking parallel. The amount of water does not prove that your feelings or circumstances are overwhelming.\n\nGradual water entering one room can make a boundary visible while the rest of the home continues. You may try to keep a task going as its conditions change. The question can concern when adjustment becomes necessary, rather than whether you should have noticed sooner. A memory of an actual leak, weather footage or a flooded place can provide direct context without requiring a symbolic explanation.\n\nAccess creates different concerns from damage. A submerged street may leave a destination intact but unreachable by its usual route. Joining neighbors to find another passage can make cooperation central. A place can still matter while the method of reaching it changes; the interrupted route does not decide that the goal has been lost.\n\nOther people may want to preserve different things. One companion guarding possessions while you look for an animal can make priorities diverge under pressure. This can resemble a shared task whose purposes have not been agreed. Dream choices do not measure actual care or courage. An unexpectedly calm flooded garden can instead hold novelty and curiosity: changed conditions may offer something you enjoy alongside what they interrupt.\n\nReceding water makes another kind of work available. A muddy photograph, a usable room or a surface that needs attention can center what you want to keep and what can wait. Receiving help from an unaffected neighbor may introduce gratitude, embarrassment or relief as separate responses. Continuing need not mean restoring every object or feeling to its earlier form. These readings stay with altered space, access and practical priorities. Flood, ocean, giant-wave and drowning scenes overlap through water but do not automatically have the same encounter, history or personal meaning.", "traditional": "The six attached accounts do not offer a single flood forecast. Miller assigns adverse losses, Fontaine emphasizes plenty and offsetting gains, and Noe varies its claims by role and scene. Cielo assigns misfortune while the Book of Luck assigns success after difficulty. Craig’s record is only “See Deluge” and supplies no independent Flood interpretation. All six records remain distinct attributed history; none predicts weather, health, relationships or property outcomes.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Water slowly enters one room while the rest of home stays dry", "reflection": "A particular routine becomes difficult before the whole place changes. This may picture an adjustment whose boundary is becoming visible. The scene can concern what needs attention now without declaring every part of your home or life overwhelmed or unstable." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Neighbors find another passage around a flooded street", "reflection": "The destination remains available while its familiar route does not. This can resemble coordination becoming useful when an ordinary arrangement stops working. Joining another passage may preserve your purpose rather than require abandoning it or proving the original plan was mistaken." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Your companion guards possessions while you search for a pet", "reflection": "Two priorities organize the same disruption differently. This may picture a shared task needing agreement about what each person is trying to preserve. The dreamed choices are not a measure of actual love, courage or responsibility toward people or animals." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A flooded garden becomes a calm place you enjoy exploring", "reflection": "Changed conditions offer curiosity alongside their interruption of ordinary use. This can picture an unexpected experience that is interesting without needing to be entirely welcome. Enjoyment does not turn real flooding into a favorable omen or erase the scene’s other losses." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The water recedes and you choose to clean one muddy photograph", "reflection": "The task narrows from the whole disruption to an object with particular value. This may picture choosing a manageable part of continuing. Attention to one reminder can matter without requiring you to restore every possession, routine or feeling at once." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "An unaffected neighbor offers a dry room and you consider accepting", "reflection": "Another person has a resource you presently lack. This can make gratitude, relief or discomfort about receiving help visible. Accepting an available place need not mean losing independence; the neighbor’s dreamed response does not establish how someone would act in a real emergency." } ], "prompts": [ "What use or access changed when the water entered?", "How did your priorities compare with the priorities of companions?", "Which part of continuing felt manageable, useful or supported?" ], "related": [ "water", "river", "house", "deluge", "tsunami", "overflow" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "scope": "miller-0812: Destructive floods and muddy debris are assigned illness and business/domestic losses; the whole record ends See Water. Exact supplied passages: miller-0812 — Floods (Heading 812; source lines 9441–9450). Attributed historical comparison only; these period claims do not validate the original reflection or establish real health, relationship, family or financial outcomes.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0812" ] }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "scope": "fontaine-0267: Floods, especially calm water, are assigned plenty and gains offsetting losses; the account cross-references Overflow. Exact supplied passages: fontaine-0267 — Flood (Heading 267; source line 2131). Attributed historical comparison only; these period claims do not validate the original reflection or establish real health, relationship, family or financial outcomes.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0267" ] }, { "id": "wamsley-2010", "title": "Dreaming of a learning task is associated with enhanced sleep-dependent memory consolidation", "author": "Erin J. Wamsley and colleagues", "url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20417102/", "scope": "Primary maze-learning experiment; task-related dream reports correlated with later performance. It does not show that a dream is an accurate memory or a solution." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0189" ], "scope": "noe-0189: The Floods account varies relationship, trade, travel and property forecasts by the dreamer’s role and includes a drowning/return narrative. Exact supplied passages: noe-0189 — Floods (Dream section, heading 191; source lines 819–828). Attributed historical comparison only; these period claims do not validate the original reflection or establish real health, relationship, family or financial outcomes." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0175" ], "scope": "cielo-0175: A flood is assigned misfortune. Exact supplied passages: cielo-0175 — Flood (Dream section, heading 175; source lines 4273–4275). Attributed historical comparison only; these period claims do not validate the original reflection or establish real health, relationship, family or financial outcomes." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0080" ], "scope": "luck-0080: A flood is assigned success after overcoming difficulties. Exact supplied passages: luck-0080 — Floods (Dream section, heading 80; source lines 3710–3712). Attributed historical comparison only; these period claims do not validate the original reflection or establish real health, relationship, family or financial outcomes." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L10020" ], "scope": "craig-1918:L10020: Cross-reference only: See Deluge. This exact record supplies no independent Flood interpretation. Exact supplied passages: craig-1918:L10020 — Floods (Printed p. 217; NLM OCR lines 10020–10021). Attributed historical comparison only; these period claims do not validate the original reflection or establish real health, relationship, family or financial outcomes." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s continuing delegation of English editorial decisions. Historical accounts remain attributed period claims; the cited memory study does not validate these interpretations.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A boundary becomes visible through changed use", "reflection": "Water entering a particular place can show where an existing routine needs another arrangement." }, { "title": "A destination and its available route", "reflection": "Interrupted access can differ from losing the purpose you wanted to reach." }, { "title": "Priorities and help after disruption", "reflection": "What people preserve or offer can organize the encounter beyond the water’s scale." } ], "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "DreamFolia AI-assisted editorial review", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "water", "house", "dog", "cat", "being-pregnant", "ex-partner", "deceased-loved-one", "fire", "spider", "being-lost", "ocean", "flood", "wedding", "baby", "train", "car", "wolf" ] }, "decisionReason": "The reading distinguishes local boundaries, changed access, shared priorities, curiosity and manageable work after disruption. All six historical accounts remain separate; Craig’s Flood record is only its Deluge cross-reference. The text does not predict weather, property loss, health or relationships.", "reviewedSnapshot": "data/common-reading-publication-review-2026-10-15.json", "contentSha256": "921e58ff07a85d25e3d5e6802e61a566026254a570935aff16f0aef37a9440ce" }, "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0812", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Floods", "text": "To dream of floods destroying vast areas of country and bearing\nyou on with its muddy de'bris, denotes sickness, loss in business,\nand the most unhappy and unsettled situation in the marriage state.\n\n\n[73] See Water.", "locator": "Heading 812; source lines 9441–9450", "lineStart": 9441, "lineEnd": 9450, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of floods destroying vast areas of country and bearing\nyou on with its muddy de'bris, denotes sickness, loss in business,\nand the most unhappy and unsettled situation in the marriage state. See Water." }, { "id": "fontaine-0267", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Flood", "text": "(_See Overflow._) To dream of a flood, generally denotes riches\nand plenty, particularly if the water is calm, it shows that though you\nmay lose something, you will be fortunate in other ways sufficient to\ncounterbalance it. 2, 66, 9.", "locator": "Heading 267; source line 2131", "lineStart": 2131, "lineEnd": 2136, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Overflow.) To dream of a flood, generally denotes riches\nand plenty, particularly if the water is calm, it shows that though you\nmay lose something, you will be fortunate in other ways sufficient to\ncounterbalance it." }, { "id": "noe-0189", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Floods", "text": "To dream\nof a flood, shows that you will meet with great opposition from rich\nneighbors, and that a rich rival will attempt to alienate the affections\nof your mistress. To the tradesman it denotes lawsuits, loss of business,\nand a prison; to the sailor, it denotes much success by sea, but danger on\nshore; to the farmer, it indicates loss of cattle and a dispute with the\nlandlord. To dream you are drowned in a flood, denotes that you will quit\nyour native land and after many hardships and perils return to it rich and\nhappy. That you will marry a pretty woman and have fine children.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 191; source lines 819–828", "lineStart": 819, "lineEnd": 828, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream\nof a flood, shows that you will meet with great opposition from rich\nneighbors, and that a rich rival will attempt to alienate the affections\nof your mistress. To the tradesman it denotes lawsuits, loss of business,\nand a prison; to the sailor, it denotes much success by sea, but danger on\nshore; to the farmer, it indicates loss of cattle and a dispute with the\nlandlord. To dream you are drowned in a flood, denotes that you will quit\nyour native land and after many hardships and perils return to it rich and\nhappy. That you will marry a pretty woman and have fine children." }, { "id": "cielo-0175", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Flood", "text": "To dream of a flood is a sign of misfortune.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 175; source lines 4273–4275", "lineStart": 4273, "lineEnd": 4275, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a flood is a sign of misfortune." }, { "id": "luck-0080", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Floods", "text": "Success after triumphing over difficulties.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 80; source lines 3710–3712", "lineStart": 3710, "lineEnd": 3712, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Success after triumphing over difficulties." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10020", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Floods", "heading": "Floods", "text": "See Deluge.", "lineStart": 10020, "lineEnd": 10021, "kind": "cross-reference", "locator": "Printed p. 217; NLM OCR lines 10020–10021", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10020, "lineEnd": 10021, "printedPage": 217, "printedPageEnd": 217 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Floods. — See Deluge. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Floods" }, "displayText": "See Deluge." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [ "water", "overflow", "deluge" ] }, { "slug": "flouds-ponds-fountaines-and-welles", "title": "Flouds, Ponds, Fountaines, and Welles", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Artemidorus wrote: “RIvers having their waters cleare and cleane, sliding gently, are good for servants, and those which have Law-suits, and such as would…”", "aliases": [ "flouds, ponds, fountaines, and welles", "of flouds, ponds, fountaines, and welles", "flouds", "ponds", "fountaines", "welles" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about flouds, ponds, fountaines, and welles stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "artemidorus-089", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of Flouds, Ponds, Fountaines, and Welles.", "text": "RIvers having their waters cleare and cleane, sliding gently, are good for servants, and those which have Law-suits, and such as would travail, for they signifye the Masters and Judges, which doe as they will, and also Travailers, because they run daily. But if the river be durty, and violent, it is contrary; the threatning of Masters and Judges, and hindrance of journeyes. 'Lis yet worse, if the River seemes to carry Houses and inheritance of him which dreams it, or himselfe either, and abundance of evill, if it carry him even to the sea. It is also ill to be upon the River whose waves run against the person, and he cannot get out, for with pain shall one suffer and support the evils that he hath, hath he never so great a courage. The great▪ flouds are rigorous Judges, angry masters, presses of people, assemblies and noyse, by reason of the violence and murmuring whereof: it is good to passe them on foot, or swimming: to swim in a River or pond, is to fall into great inconvenience, it is ever better to swim without stay to the shore, then to be asléep in swimming. A clear River running into the house, is the comming of some rich man, by whom one shall reap great profit, but a troubled and violent River, and removing of moveables in the house, is the violence of some enemy. A River tunning out of a rich mans house, signifyes that he shall have authority in the town, and be very bountifull, and liberall. To the poor man it is dou[illegible passage]t of his Wife, or others of the house, which he shall hardly rule: to see other then River water enter into the house troubled and durty, is doubt of fyre, but being fayr and clear, it is gain, possessions, and money. In the like sort is it to set in his ground or house a Well, which was not there before: and it also signifieth wife or children, to those which have none: to see a Well full of water in the house, is good, if it be open above, and strangers draw not out of it, for that should be losse of wife, children, or goods: the pond being great, signifyes the same that the River, but that it signifyes hindrance of travailing: but being little or mean, is a rich, and pleasant wife loving her pleasures. It is very good to sayle in a Pond or River, but not to swim. Fountains and Springs, abounding with good water, are good to all, especially to the Sick and poore, announcing to them health, and Riches: but dry is clean contrary.", "locator": "Book 2, encoded section 89", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription-with-gaps", "book": "2", "displayText": "RIvers having their waters cleare and cleane, sliding gently, are good for servants, and those which have Law-suits, and such as would travail, for they signifye the Masters and Judges, which doe as they will, and also Travailers, because they run daily. But if the river be durty, and violent, it is contrary; the threatning of Masters and Judges, and hindrance of journeyes. 'Lis yet worse, if the River seemes to carry Houses and inheritance of him which dreams it, or himselfe either, and abundance of evill, if it carry him even to the sea. It is also ill to be upon the River whose waves run against the person, and he cannot get out, for with pain shall one suffer and support the evils that he hath, hath he never so great a courage. The great▪ flouds are rigorous Judges, angry masters, presses of people, assemblies and noyse, by reason of the violence and murmuring whereof: it is good to passe them on foot, or swimming: to swim in a River or pond, is to fall into great inconvenience, it is ever better to swim without stay to the shore, then to be asléep in swimming. A clear River running into the house, is the comming of some rich man, by whom one shall reap great profit, but a troubled and violent River, and removing of moveables in the house, is the violence of some enemy. A River tunning out of a rich mans house, signifyes that he shall have authority in the town, and be very bountifull, and liberall. To the poor man it is dou [illegible passage] t of his Wife, or others of the house, which he shall hardly rule: to see other then River water enter into the house troubled and durty, is doubt of fyre, but being fayr and clear, it is gain, possessions, and money. In the like sort is it to set in his ground or house a Well, which was not there before: and it also signifieth wife or children, to those which have none: to see a Well full of water in the house, is good, if it be open above, and strangers draw not out of it, for that should be losse of wife, children, or goods: the pond being great, signifyes the same that the River, but that it signifyes hindrance of travailing: but being little or mean, is a rich, and pleasant wife loving her pleasures. It is very good to sayle in a Pond or River, but not to swim. Fountains and Springs, abounding with good water, are good to all, especially to the Sick and poore, announcing to them health, and Riches: but dry is clean contrary." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0813", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Flour", "text": "To dream of flour, denotes a frugal but happy life.\nFor a young woman to dream that she sees flour on herself,\ndenotes that she will be ruled by her husband, and that her life\nwill be full of pleasant cares.\n\nTo dream of dealing in flour, denotes hazardous speculations.", "locator": "Heading 813; source lines 9450–9459", "lineStart": 9450, "lineEnd": 9459, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of flour, denotes a frugal but happy life.\nFor a young woman to dream that she sees flour on herself,\ndenotes that she will be ruled by her husband, and that her life\nwill be full of pleasant cares.\n\nTo dream of dealing in flour, denotes hazardous speculations." }, { "id": "fontaine-0268", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Flour", "text": "(_See Mill._) To dream that you buy flour is a bad omen, and\nportends sickness, or the death of a near friend. 41.", "locator": "Heading 268; source line 2136", "lineStart": 2136, "lineEnd": 2139, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Mill.) To dream that you buy flour is a bad omen, and\nportends sickness, or the death of a near friend." }, { "id": "luck-0081", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Flour", "text": "Death of a relative bringing a legacy.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 81; source lines 3712–3714", "lineStart": 3712, "lineEnd": 3714, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Death of a relative bringing a legacy." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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A flower opening slowly may express progress that has its own pace.\n\nGiving or receiving flowers brings attention to gestures. A bouquet can say that a person, event, or feeling deserves acknowledgment when ordinary words seem too small. Receiving flowers that feel welcome may picture recognition or affection. Receiving an elaborate arrangement you do not want can instead resemble being celebrated in a way that misses who you are or creates an obligation to respond gratefully.\n\nThe flower's condition can make time and change central. A bloom fading naturally may picture accepting that an enjoyable period cannot stay exactly as it was. Flowers wilting as you try to preserve them can resemble efforts to maintain a relationship or achievement by holding it in a fixed form. The sadness may be about losing a particular moment rather than losing everything of value.\n\nA rooted flower and a cut flower also offer different images. A plant in a garden remains connected to the conditions that sustain it; a bloom displayed indoors is separated from them for the sake of presentation. This can resemble the difference between living a satisfying process and arranging its outward appearance. A flower growing in poor ground may express pride in an accomplishment alongside awareness of the effort required.\n\nScent and species can carry personal memory. A familiar bloom may bring back a garden, celebration, or person more directly than it suggests an abstract meaning. Recent flowers, seasonal changes, and photographs can also provide the scene's details.", "traditional": "Miller distinguishes fresh garden flowers, wilted flowers, bouquets, and blooms in barren soil, assigning different forecasts to each. Fontaine, Noe, and the Guide similarly contrast gathering flowers with flowers wilting in the hand, repeating prosperity and severe loss claims. Cielo associates flowers with success in business or love, while Everybody's Book of Luck offers only prosperity. These are period fortune-telling accounts, not evidence for a prediction of bereavement or success. Their shared attention to freshness and fading provides a historical comparison, while the modern reflections develop care, recognition, presentation, and change from the scene itself.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Quiet growth becomes visible", "reflection": "A flower opening can picture work, affection, or competence becoming recognizable after preparation. The bloom may express an emerging result whose supporting effort has taken place outside public view." }, { "title": "A gesture asks to be understood", "reflection": "Flowers given or received can picture acknowledgment that ordinary words do not quite carry. Whether the gift suits you may matter more than its size, cost, or outward beauty." }, { "title": "Beauty changes with time", "reflection": "Fading petals can picture the difficulty or relief of letting an enjoyable moment change. Trying to keep a bloom perfect may resemble protecting a valued experience from ordinary movement." }, { "title": "Conditions behind the display", "reflection": "Rooted and cut flowers can distinguish what sustains an experience from how it looks to others. A striking bloom in poor soil may carry both achievement and the cost of maintaining it." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A closed bud slowly opens", "reflection": "An opening bloom can picture progress arriving through readiness rather than force. A project gaining shape, a new friendship becoming comfortable, or a practiced skill beginning to show could fit. The gradual change gives value to development before there is a finished result to display." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You receive flowers that feel exactly right", "reflection": "A fitting gift can picture feeling recognized in a personal way. A modest gesture that reflects your tastes or remembers an important date might be the parallel. The flowers matter because they convey attention to you, rather than because they meet a general standard of impressiveness." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "An unwanted bouquet requires a grateful response", "reflection": "A beautiful gift that feels wrong can picture a mismatch between outward generosity and your actual wishes. Public praise for a role you want to leave or affection that assumes agreement could fit. The scene may center on being expected to welcome someone else's version of you." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Flowers wilt while you try to preserve them", "reflection": "Trying to stop the fading can resemble holding a valued period or relationship in its familiar form. A friendship changing after a move or a finished project losing its original excitement could fit. The effort expresses attachment to a moment that cannot remain identical." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "One flower grows through poor ground", "reflection": "A bloom in difficult conditions can picture something worthwhile developing with little support. Creating space for a hobby during a demanding schedule or rebuilding a routine after disruption might fit. The image can hold pride in the result and awareness of what it took." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You cut a perfect flower and the garden feels empty", "reflection": "Removing the bloom for display can picture a tension between presenting an achievement and preserving the process that made it satisfying. Turning a hobby into public work or leaving a supportive group for recognition could fit. The empty space gives attention to what the successful gesture costs." } ], "prompts": [ "Was the flower rooted, growing, given, displayed, or fading, and which action carried the strongest feeling?", "Did the flowers express recognition that suited me, or an expectation about how I should respond?", "What in my life is beginning to bloom, and what conditions allow it to keep growing?" ], "related": [ "garden", "bouquet", "blossoms", "butterfly" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "scope": "Historical comparison only: Flower, miller-0814 (Heading 814; source lines 9459–9482). 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Period dream-book claims support only the attributed historical comparison, not predictions or the original modern reflections.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0082" ] }, { "id": "guide-65367", "title": "Guide to Fortune-Telling by Dreams", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Multum in Parvo Library, Vol. I, No. 10, October 1894", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65367", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "scope": "Historical comparison only: Flowers, guide-0028 (Dream section, heading 28; source lines 269–276). Period dream-book claims support only the attributed historical comparison, not predictions or the original modern reflections.", "recordIds": [ "guide-0028" ] }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia editorial upgrade with image-specific interpretations, concrete waking-life parallels, and six differentiated scenes. Historical context is grounded in the cited catalogue passages. Human publication review pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0814", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Flower", "text": "To dream of seeing flowers blooming in gardens, signifies pleasure and gain,\nif bright-hued and fresh; white denotes sadness. Withered and dead flowers,\nsignify disappointments and gloomy situations.\n\nFor a young woman to receive a bouquet of mixed flowers,\nforetells that she will have many admirers.\n\nTo see flowers blooming in barren soil without vestage\nof foliage, foretells you will have some grievous experience,\nbut your energy and cheerfulness will enable you to climb\nthrough these to prominence and happiness.\n\n ``Held in slumber's soft embrace,\n She enters realms of flowery grace,\n Where tender love and fond caress,\n Bids her awake to happiness.''\n\n\n[74] See Bouquet.", "locator": "Heading 814; source lines 9459–9482", "lineStart": 9459, "lineEnd": 9482, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing flowers blooming in gardens, signifies pleasure and gain,\nif bright-hued and fresh; white denotes sadness. Withered and dead flowers,\nsignify disappointments and gloomy situations.\n\nFor a young woman to receive a bouquet of mixed flowers,\nforetells that she will have many admirers.\n\nTo see flowers blooming in barren soil without vestage\nof foliage, foretells you will have some grievous experience,\nbut your energy and cheerfulness will enable you to climb\nthrough these to prominence and happiness.\n\n“Held in slumber's soft embrace,\nShe enters realms of flowery grace,\nWhere tender love and fond caress,\nBids her awake to happiness.” See Bouquet." }, { "id": "fontaine-0269", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Flowers", "text": "(_See Blossom._) To dream you are gathering flowers, is a very\nfavorable omen: expect to thrive in every thing you undertake, and\nthat you will be successful in love, marry happily, and have beautiful\nchildren; should the flowers wither under your hands, it foretells\nheavy losses in trade; that your sweetheart will die; or if you are\nmarried, that you will lose your husband or wife, or perhaps your\nfavorite child. 14, 7, 43.", "locator": "Heading 269; source line 2139", "lineStart": 2139, "lineEnd": 2147, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Blossom.) To dream you are gathering flowers, is a very\nfavorable omen: expect to thrive in every thing you undertake, and\nthat you will be successful in love, marry happily, and have beautiful\nchildren; should the flowers wither under your hands, it foretells\nheavy losses in trade; that your sweetheart will die; or if you are\nmarried, that you will lose your husband or wife, or perhaps your\nfavorite child." }, { "id": "noe-0190", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Flowers", "text": "To dream you are gathering flowers, is a very favorable omen.\nExpect to thrive in everything you undertake and that you will be\nsuccessful in love, marry happily and have beautiful children. Should they\nwilt in your hands, then expect heavy losses in trade, that your\nsweetheart will die; or, if you are married, that you will lose your\nhusband or wife and also your favorite child.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 192; source lines 828–833", "lineStart": 828, "lineEnd": 833, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are gathering flowers, is a very favorable omen.\nExpect to thrive in everything you undertake and that you will be\nsuccessful in love, marry happily and have beautiful children. Should they\nwilt in your hands, then expect heavy losses in trade, that your\nsweetheart will die; or, if you are married, that you will lose your\nhusband or wife and also your favorite child." }, { "id": "cielo-0176", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Flowers", "text": "To dream of flowers is a sure sign of\n success in business or love.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 176; source lines 4275–4278", "lineStart": 4275, "lineEnd": 4278, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of flowers is a sure sign of\nsuccess in business or love." }, { "id": "luck-0082", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Flowers", "text": "Prosperity.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 82; source lines 3714–3716", "lineStart": 3714, "lineEnd": 3716, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Prosperity." }, { "id": "guide-0028", "sourceId": "guide-65367", "heading": "Flowers", "text": "To dream you are gathering flowers is a very favorable omen;\nexpect to thrive in everything you undertake, and that you will be\nsuccessful in love, marry happily, and have beautiful children; should\nthey wither under your hands, then heavy losses in trade; that your\nsweetheart will die; or, if you are married, that you will lose your\nhusband or wife, and also your favorite child.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 28; source lines 269–276", "lineStart": 269, "lineEnd": 276, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are gathering flowers is a very favorable omen;\nexpect to thrive in everything you undertake, and that you will be\nsuccessful in love, marry happily, and have beautiful children; should\nthey wither under your hands, then heavy losses in trade; that your\nsweetheart will die; or, if you are married, that you will lose your\nhusband or wife, and also your favorite child." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [ "bouquet", "blossoms" ] }, { "slug": "flute", "title": "Flute", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of hearing notes from a flute, signifies a pleasant meeting with friends from a distance, and…” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "flute" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about flute stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0815", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Flute", "text": "To dream of hearing notes from a flute, signifies a pleasant meeting\nwith friends from a distance, and profitable engagements.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of playing a flute, denotes that she\nwill fall in love because of her lover's engaging manners.", "locator": "Heading 815; source lines 9482–9490", "lineStart": 9482, "lineEnd": 9490, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of hearing notes from a flute, signifies a pleasant meeting\nwith friends from a distance, and profitable engagements.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of playing a flute, denotes that she\nwill fall in love because of her lover's engaging manners." }, { "id": "fontaine-0270", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Flute", "text": "To dream you play or hear playing on a flute, signifies trouble\nand contention with your friends. 47, 8.\n\n If your kind fancy you present\n With playing on an instrument,\n Your sweetheart shall not you disdain,\n But yield true love for love again.", "locator": "Heading 270; source line 2147", "lineStart": 2147, "lineEnd": 2155, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you play or hear playing on a flute, signifies trouble\nand contention with your friends.\n\nIf your kind fancy you present\nWith playing on an instrument,\nYour sweetheart shall not you disdain,\nBut yield true love for love again." }, { "id": "noe-0176", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Flute", "text": "To dream you\nplay or hear playing on a flute, signifies trouble and contention.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 178; source lines 763–765", "lineStart": 763, "lineEnd": 765, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you\nplay or hear playing on a flute, signifies trouble and contention." }, { "id": "cielo-0177", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Flute", "text": "To play or hear a flute means news of a birth.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 177; source lines 4278–4280", "lineStart": 4278, "lineEnd": 4280, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To play or hear a flute means news of a birth." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "flux", "title": "Flux", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of having flux, or thinking that you are thus afflicted, denotes desperate or fatal illness will overtake you or some member of…”", "aliases": [ "flux" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about flux stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0816", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Flux", "text": "To dream of having flux, or thinking that you are thus afflicted,\ndenotes desperate or fatal illness will overtake you or some member\nof your family. To see others thus afflicted, implies disappointment\nin carrying out some enterprise through the neglect of others.\nInharmonious states will vex you.", "locator": "Heading 816; source lines 9490–9498", "lineStart": 9490, "lineEnd": 9498, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of having flux, or thinking that you are thus afflicted,\ndenotes desperate or fatal illness will overtake you or some member\nof your family. To see others thus afflicted, implies disappointment\nin carrying out some enterprise through the neglect of others.\nInharmonious states will vex you." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "fly-paper", "title": "Fly-paper", "type": "dreams", "category": "Other symbols", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of fly-paper, signifies ill health and disrupted friendships.”", "aliases": [ "fly-paper" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about fly-paper stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0819", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Fly-paper", "text": "To dream of fly-paper, signifies ill health and disrupted friendships.", "locator": "Heading 819; source lines 9547–9551", "lineStart": 9547, "lineEnd": 9551, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of fly-paper, signifies ill health and disrupted friendships." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "fly-trap", "title": "Fly-trap", "type": "dreams", "category": "Other symbols", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see a fly-trap in a dream, is signal of malicious designing against you.”", "aliases": [ "fly-trap" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about fly-trap stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0820", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Fly-trap", "text": "To see a fly-trap in a dream, is signal of malicious designing against you.\nTo see one full of flies, denotes that small embarrassments will ward\noff greater ones.", "locator": "Heading 820; source lines 9551–9557", "lineStart": 9551, "lineEnd": 9557, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a fly-trap in a dream, is signal of malicious designing against you.\nTo see one full of flies, denotes that small embarrassments will ward\noff greater ones." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "flyes-hornets-and-little-wormes-which-are-ingendred-in-the-flesh", "title": "Flyes, Hornets, and little Wormes, which are ingendred in the flesh", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Artemidorus wrote: “LIttle wormes, are care, and anger, and oftentimes displeasure, which one shall have by his wife, or familiars.”", "aliases": [ "flyes, hornets, and little wormes, which are ingendred in the flesh", "of flyes, hornets, and little wormes, which are ingendred in the flesh", "flyes", "hornets", "little wormes", "which are ingendred in the flesh" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about flyes, hornets, and little wormes, which are ingendred in the flesh stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "artemidorus-126", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of Flyes, Hornets, and little Wormes, which are ingendred in the flesh.", "text": "LIttle wormes, are care, and anger, and oftentimes displeasure, which one shall have by his wife, or familiars. Hornets are ill people, which will assault and discredit the dreamer: to Taverns it signifies, that their wine shall spill, and sowre: for such great flies, love and desire vineger.", "locator": "Book 3, encoded section 126", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "3", "displayText": "LIttle wormes, are care, and anger, and oftentimes displeasure, which one shall have by his wife, or familiars. Hornets are ill people, which will assault and discredit the dreamer: to Taverns it signifies, that their wine shall spill, and sowre: for such great flies, love and desire vineger." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "flying", "title": "Flying", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "Direction, effort and the choice to land.", "summary": "Flying dreams may explore movement, perspective, effort and the freedom to choose a direction or return to the ground.", "aliases": [ "fly", "flew", "soaring", "flying", "to flye" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "Flying changes what is possible within a dream: you may move above obstacles, see a place from a different angle or travel without following a familiar path. Begin with how the flight happens and whether you want it. Effortless movement, reluctant ascent and carefully controlled hovering are different experiences. The image does not automatically mean freedom, ambition or escape; pleasure and uncertainty can exist in the same flight.\n\nControl may be the central detail. You might choose when to rise and land, remain aloft only by concentrating or find that the air carries you somewhere you did not intend. This could invite reflection on a situation with unusual possibilities but uncertain limits. A waking comparison might be starting an independent project that offers choice while requiring new skills. Notice what you can adjust and where you ask for help rather than turning the dream into a test of confidence.\n\nHeight can change the information available. From above, separate streets may form a connected neighborhood, or a familiar place may lose details that matter to you. This might help you compare a broad view with closer involvement. Seeing a problem differently can be useful, but distance can also make a person or destination harder to reach. The dream's perspective does not prove that you understand the waking situation better than others.\n\nCompanionship and destination give movement a purpose. Flying beside someone may involve matching a pace, showing a route or deciding whether to separate. Flying away from a place may be a chosen journey, an interrupted visit or an action under pressure. Record what you were heading toward and what happened when you arrived. If you feared falling or could not land, explore that uncertainty within the scene without forecasting failure, injury or an actual danger.\n\nWaking experiences and emotions can enter dreams, including remembered landscapes, stories, games or images of flight. A recent view from an aircraft may supply scenery even when the dreamed movement is entirely your own. Keep those possibilities alongside personal reflection. Describe the route, effort and choices before applying a general theme. A satisfying flight can be an imaginative pleasure, and choosing to return to the ground can be as meaningful to you as reaching a greater height.", "traditional": "The supplied flight accounts disagree. Artemidorus varies forecasts by wings, height, direction, social position and the ability to rise or descend; Miller adds landscape, wing-color and gendered claims. Fontaine and Noe give favorable relationship or status forecasts. Everybody’s Book of Luck treats wings differently, while three Dreams and Moles passages link flight or unsuccessful attempts with news, travel or restraint. These period beliefs do not establish health outcomes, fortune or a universal meaning.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "Familiar streets connect from above", "reflection": "You rise over a place you know and notice how its routes fit together. This might help you describe a shift from separate details to a wider arrangement. Record what you can now see and what becomes harder to recognize; the dream does not prove superior insight into a waking problem." }, { "title": "Staying aloft takes continuous concentration", "reflection": "You can fly only while attending closely to a particular movement. The scene could resemble a new possibility that is not yet effortless, such as learning a different way to work. Notice whether you practice, rest or seek support, rather than interpreting effort as evidence of failure." }, { "title": "You rise before deciding where to go", "reflection": "The flight begins easily, but no destination has been chosen. This may bring open possibilities and the need for a next decision into focus. Describe what attracts your attention and how you choose a direction; an uncertain route need not mean you lack purpose in waking life." }, { "title": "A companion flies at a different pace", "reflection": "Someone travels beside you but moves faster or stops sooner than you want. The scene might invite reflection on coordinating without sharing every preference. Notice whether you adjust, agree to meet later or separate routes; the dream cannot reveal the person’s real plans or commitment." }, { "title": "You find a landing place you want to use", "reflection": "Several surfaces are available, and you choose one where you can safely continue the dream’s activity. This could highlight returning from an expansive view to a practical next step. Record why that place fits and what you do there; landing need not represent giving up." }, { "title": "You cannot descend where you intended", "reflection": "You approach a destination but remain above it despite trying to land. This might bring a question about reaching something in the desired way. Explore whether you look for another place, ask for guidance or change the route; the scene does not forecast danger, illness or a failed waking plan." } ], "prompts": [ "How did the flight begin, and which parts could you choose or change?", "What became visible or unreachable from that height?", "What destination, companion or waking experience gives this particular journey context?" ], "related": [ "falling", "airplane", "floating", "being-chased" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "scope": "Miller varies flight forecasts with height, water, landscape, celestial objects, wing color, falls, gendered journeys and being shot at; the passage includes severe health and loss forecasts. Specific supplied passages: Flying — miller-0817 (Heading 817; source lines 9498–9540). Historical comparison only; these attributed period beliefs do not establish outcomes, diagnoses or a universal symbol meaning, and do not validate the original reflections.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0817" ] }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "scope": "Fontaine assigns favorable relationship, marriage and children forecasts to flying. Specific supplied passages: Flying — fontaine-0271 (Heading 271; source line 2155). Historical comparison only; these attributed period beliefs do not establish outcomes, diagnoses or a universal symbol meaning, and do not validate the original reflections.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0271" ] }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." }, { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display.", "recordIds": [ "artemidorus-118" ], "scope": "Artemidorus varies flight forecasts with wings, height, direction, social position, freedom to rise or descend and flight on a supporting object; the text includes severe health forecasts and a visible illegible gap. Specific supplied passages: To flye. — artemidorus-118 (Book 2, encoded section 118). Historical comparison only; these attributed period beliefs do not establish outcomes, diagnoses or a universal symbol meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0191" ], "scope": "Noe gives favorable status, relationship, children and journey forecasts to flying. Specific supplied passages: Flying — noe-0191 (Dream section, heading 193; source lines 833–839). Historical comparison only; these attributed period beliefs do not establish outcomes, diagnoses or a universal symbol meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0084" ], "scope": "Everybody’s Book of Luck assigns different love, business, attainment and ambition forecasts to wingless flight, a fall at the end and flight with wings. Specific supplied passages: Flying — luck-0084 (Dream section, heading 84; source lines 3719–3723). Historical comparison only; these attributed period beliefs do not establish outcomes, diagnoses or a universal symbol meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "moles-71045", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams and Moles", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "United Kingdom, J. Marshall, 1805", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71045", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "moles-0001", "moles-0022", "moles-0062" ], "scope": "The first Dreams and Moles flight passage predicts hasty news from flying in the air. The second Dreams and Moles flight passage associates an unsuccessful attempt to fly with imprisonment or restraint. The third Dreams and Moles flight passage associates flying in the air with a speedy journey or hasty news. Specific supplied passages: Flying — moles-0001 (Dreams interpreted, passage 1; source lines 112–112); Flying — moles-0022 (Dreams interpreted, passage 22; source lines 173–174); Flying — moles-0062 (Dreams interpreted, passage 62; source lines 290–291). Historical comparison only; these attributed period beliefs do not establish outcomes, diagnoses or a universal symbol meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s delegation of editorial decisions. Historical forecasts remain attributed period claims; these reflections are not predictions or clinical assessments.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Movement you can direct", "reflection": "Rising, steering and landing are separate choices. Explore which were available and which required effort, without treating control in a dream as a measure of waking confidence." }, { "title": "A view with gains and limits", "reflection": "Height may reveal a pattern while hiding smaller details. Consider what became visible and what you could no longer reach; a wider view need not be a more accurate one." }, { "title": "A destination and a pace", "reflection": "Where you wanted to go and who accompanied you can give flight its particular purpose. Compare shared and separate movement without assuming the real person wants to follow or leave." } ], "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "DreamFolia AI-assisted editorial review", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "do what its best I have no idea", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "snake", "teeth-falling-out", "being-chased", "flying", "falling", "being-naked-in-public", "cheating", "school-or-exam", "death" ] }, "decisionReason": "The six scenes distinguish control, perspective, companionship and landing. Historical health and fortune forecasts remain optional attributed accounts; no lucid-awareness claim follows from flight alone.", "reviewedSnapshot": "data/common-dream-publication-review-2026-10-15-v2.json", "contentSha256": "05c08226b8d80b1cc6f4db9884ffe40c56321029ae6add86feb3b2617aeb9a0b" }, "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0817", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Flying", "text": "To dream of flying high through a space, denotes marital calamities.\n\nTo fly low, almost to the ground, indicates sickness and uneasy\nstates from which the dreamer will recover.\n\nTo fly over muddy water, warns you to keep close with your private affairs,\nas enemies are watching to enthrall you.\n\nTo fly over broken places, signifies ill luck and gloomy surroundings.\nIf you notice green trees and vegetation below you in flying,\nyou will suffer temporary embarrassment, but will have a flood\nof prosperity upon you.\n\nTo dream of seeing the sun while flying, signifies useless worries,\nas your affairs will succeed despite your fears of evil.\n\nTo dream of flying through the firmament passing the moon and other planets;\nforetells famine, wars, and troubles of all kinds.\n\nTo dream that you fly with black wings, portends bitter disappointments.\nTo fall while flying, signifies your downfall. If you wake while falling,\nyou will succeed in reinstating yourself.\n\nFor a young man to dream that he is flying with white wings above\ngreen foliage, foretells advancement in business, and he will also be\nsuccessful in love. If he dreams this often it is a sign of increasing\nprosperity and the fulfilment of desires. If the trees appear barren\nor dead, there will be obstacles to combat in obtaining desires.\nHe will get along, but his work will bring small results.\n\nFor a woman to dream of flying from one city to another,\nand alighting on church spires, foretells she will have much to contend\nagainst in the way of false persuasions and declarations of love.\nShe will be threatened with a disastrous season of ill health,\nand the death of some one near to her may follow.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she is shot at while flying,\ndenotes enemies will endeavor to restrain her advancement\ninto higher spheres of usefulness and prosperity.", "locator": "Heading 817; source lines 9498–9540", "lineStart": 9498, "lineEnd": 9540, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of flying high through a space, denotes marital calamities.\n\nTo fly low, almost to the ground, indicates sickness and uneasy\nstates from which the dreamer will recover.\n\nTo fly over muddy water, warns you to keep close with your private affairs,\nas enemies are watching to enthrall you.\n\nTo fly over broken places, signifies ill luck and gloomy surroundings.\nIf you notice green trees and vegetation below you in flying,\nyou will suffer temporary embarrassment, but will have a flood\nof prosperity upon you.\n\nTo dream of seeing the sun while flying, signifies useless worries,\nas your affairs will succeed despite your fears of evil.\n\nTo dream of flying through the firmament passing the moon and other planets;\nforetells famine, wars, and troubles of all kinds.\n\nTo dream that you fly with black wings, portends bitter disappointments.\nTo fall while flying, signifies your downfall. If you wake while falling,\nyou will succeed in reinstating yourself.\n\nFor a young man to dream that he is flying with white wings above\ngreen foliage, foretells advancement in business, and he will also be\nsuccessful in love. If he dreams this often it is a sign of increasing\nprosperity and the fulfilment of desires. If the trees appear barren\nor dead, there will be obstacles to combat in obtaining desires.\nHe will get along, but his work will bring small results.\n\nFor a woman to dream of flying from one city to another,\nand alighting on church spires, foretells she will have much to contend\nagainst in the way of false persuasions and declarations of love.\nShe will be threatened with a disastrous season of ill health,\nand the death of some one near to her may follow.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she is shot at while flying,\ndenotes enemies will endeavor to restrain her advancement\ninto higher spheres of usefulness and prosperity." }, { "id": "fontaine-0271", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Flying", "text": "To dream you are flying is a very excellent omen; if you are in\nlove, your sweetheart will be true to you; and if you marry, you will\nhave many children, who will all do very well and be happy. 35.", "locator": "Heading 271; source line 2155", "lineStart": 2155, "lineEnd": 2159, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are flying is a very excellent omen; if you are in\nlove, your sweetheart will be true to you; and if you marry, you will\nhave many children, who will all do very well and be happy." }, { "id": "artemidorus-118", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "To flye.", "text": "TO dreame to flye a little height from the Earth, being upright is good, forasmuch as one is lifted higher then those that are about him, so much greater and more happy shall he be. It were better for him not to be in his Country, for it signifyeth wandring or not resting, or returning to his Country: to flye with wings, is good generally for all: to servants, it is liberty: to the poore, riches: to the rich, office and dignity: to flye very high from the Earth and without wings, is feare and danger: as also to flye over the houses and through the stréets, and fore-knowne wayes, it is trouble and sedition: to flye into heaven, is for servants to enter into rich houses, and especially the Court: to those which would be secret it is ill, for all the world sées the heavens: to flye with the Byrds, is to kéep company with strangers, and pain and punishment to Malefactours. It is alwayes good, after having flown on high, to desce[illegible passage]d low, and after that to wake: but it is best of all to flye when one will, and come down when one will: for it is a signe of facility and good disposition in affayres. But to flye by constraint, as being pursued by men, spirits, or beasts, is not good, for they are great angers and dangers: to flye backwards is not ill to those that would sayl: for commonly in a ship which goeth her course without tempest, the people take their ease and lye backwards to others, it is want of work and businesse, for those which lye so are idle: to the sick it is death: it is very ill to desire to flye and cannot: or to flye with the head lowermost, and the feet upward, and what kinde soever the sick flye, it is death: for we defend that the soules departing from the body, flye into heaven with a great flight, as little Byrds do: to flye is ill for those which have a trade or handy-craft, which requireth no removing out of his place: it is good for captives. Many by this dream of flying, have become blinde, because they fear to fall: to flye in a chayre or bed, or being set in any underprop, for the better sustaining of himselfe, is great sicknesse: but it is not so ill to him which should travaile, for it is a signe that he should travail with his family, with his tooles and moveables, in a Cart or Coach.", "locator": "Book 2, encoded section 118", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription-with-gaps", "book": "2", "displayText": "To dreame to flye a little height from the Earth, being upright is good, forasmuch as one is lifted higher then those that are about him, so much greater and more happy shall he be. It were better for him not to be in his Country, for it signifyeth wandring or not resting, or returning to his Country: to flye with wings, is good generally for all: to servants, it is liberty: to the poore, riches: to the rich, office and dignity: to flye very high from the Earth and without wings, is feare and danger: as also to flye over the houses and through the stréets, and fore-knowne wayes, it is trouble and sedition: to flye into heaven, is for servants to enter into rich houses, and especially the Court: to those which would be secret it is ill, for all the world sées the heavens: to flye with the Byrds, is to kéep company with strangers, and pain and punishment to Malefactours. It is alwayes good, after having flown on high, to desce [illegible passage] d low, and after that to wake: but it is best of all to flye when one will, and come down when one will: for it is a signe of facility and good disposition in affayres. But to flye by constraint, as being pursued by men, spirits, or beasts, is not good, for they are great angers and dangers: to flye backwards is not ill to those that would sayl: for commonly in a ship which goeth her course without tempest, the people take their ease and lye backwards to others, it is want of work and businesse, for those which lye so are idle: to the sick it is death: it is very ill to desire to flye and cannot: or to flye with the head lowermost, and the feet upward, and what kinde soever the sick flye, it is death: for we defend that the soules departing from the body, flye into heaven with a great flight, as little Byrds do: to flye is ill for those which have a trade or handy-craft, which requireth no removing out of his place: it is good for captives. Many by this dream of flying, have become blinde, because they fear to fall: to flye in a chayre or bed, or being set in any underprop, for the better sustaining of himselfe, is great sicknesse: but it is not so ill to him which should travaile, for it is a signe that he should travail with his family, with his tooles and moveables, in a Cart or Coach.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “To flye” is shown on the Flying page: artemidorus \"To flye\" describes flying a little height from the earth" }, { "id": "noe-0191", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Flying", "text": "To dream you are\nflying, is a very excellent omen. It foretells elevation of fortune. That\nyou will arrive at dignity in the state and be happy. If you are in love,\nyour sweetheart will be true to you, and if you marry, you will have many\nchildren, who will all do very well and be very happy. It indicates that\nyou will take a long journey, which will turn out advantageous to you.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 193; source lines 833–839", "lineStart": 833, "lineEnd": 839, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are\nflying, is a very excellent omen. It foretells elevation of fortune. That\nyou will arrive at dignity in the state and be happy. If you are in love,\nyour sweetheart will be true to you, and if you marry, you will have many\nchildren, who will all do very well and be very happy. It indicates that\nyou will take a long journey, which will turn out advantageous to you." }, { "id": "luck-0084", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Flying", "text": "(Without wings) Success in love and business; (if ended by\na fall) failure in attaining object; (with wings) bad omen--frustrated\nambition.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 84; source lines 3719–3723", "lineStart": 3719, "lineEnd": 3723, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(Without wings) Success in love and business; (if ended by\na fall) failure in attaining object; (with wings) bad omen--frustrated\nambition." }, { "id": "moles-0001", "sourceId": "moles-71045", "heading": "Flying", "originalHeading": "(no printed heading)", "text": "To dream one is flying in the air, promises hasty news.", "locator": "Dreams interpreted, passage 1; source lines 112–112", "lineStart": 112, "lineEnd": 112, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "editorialNote": "The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Flying” because that is the subject of its first clause.", "displayText": "To dream one is flying in the air, promises hasty news." }, { "id": "moles-0022", "sourceId": "moles-71045", "heading": "Flying", "originalHeading": "(no printed heading)", "text": "To dream you endeavour to fly, and cannot, betokens imprisonment, or\nsome restraint of what you are in pursuit of.", "locator": "Dreams interpreted, passage 22; source lines 173–174", "lineStart": 173, "lineEnd": 174, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "editorialNote": "The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Flying” because that is the subject of its first clause.", "displayText": "To dream you endeavour to fly, and cannot, betokens imprisonment, or\nsome restraint of what you are in pursuit of." }, { "id": "moles-0062", "sourceId": "moles-71045", "heading": "Flying", "originalHeading": "(no printed heading)", "text": "To dream you fly in the air, signifies a speedy journey, or some hasty\nnews.", "locator": "Dreams interpreted, passage 62; source lines 290–291", "lineStart": 290, "lineEnd": 291, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "editorialNote": "The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Flying” because that is the subject of its first clause.", "displayText": "To dream you fly in the air, signifies a speedy journey, or some hasty\nnews." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "flying-machine", "title": "Flying Machine", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing a flying machine, foretells that you will make satisfactory progress in your future speculations.”", "aliases": [ "flying machine" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about flying machine stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0818", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Flying Machine", "text": "To dream of seeing a flying machine, foretells that you\nwill make satisfactory progress in your future speculations.\nTo see one failing to work, foretells gloomy returns for much\ndisturbing and worrisome planning.", "locator": "Heading 818; source lines 9540–9547", "lineStart": 9540, "lineEnd": 9547, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing a flying machine, foretells that you\nwill make satisfactory progress in your future speculations.\nTo see one failing to work, foretells gloomy returns for much\ndisturbing and worrisome planning." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "foal", "title": "Foal", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a foal, indicates new undertakings in which you will be rather fortunate.”", "aliases": [ "foal" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about foal stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0821", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Foal", "text": "To dream of a foal, indicates new undertakings in which you\nwill be rather fortunate.", "locator": "Heading 821; source lines 9557–9562", "lineStart": 9557, "lineEnd": 9562, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a foal, indicates new undertakings in which you\nwill be rather fortunate." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "fog", "title": "Fog", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "summary": "Fog can explore moving with partial information, proximity that remains uncertain, or privacy that gives a familiar place another feeling.", "tagline": "The next step can be clearer than the whole route.", "aliases": [ "fog" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "Fog hiding the route beyond your immediate view can picture a situation in which the next step is clearer than the whole destination. A new role, an unfinished decision, or a plan with unresolved details may offer parallels. Moving a short distance can feel workable when it gives you another view. If you require the entire route to be visible before beginning, the scene may make uncertainty more influential than the practical options already available.\n\nSound without a visible source can create contact that is recognizable but difficult to locate. A message may tell you that someone is involved without clarifying their part, or a familiar expectation may remain influential after its original setting has changed. Curiosity can fit wanting more information. Uneasiness can fit feeling unable to judge distance. The dream does not establish a hidden presence or identify what a real person intends.\n\nA familiar figure appearing and disappearing can make connection intermittent. You may want continuity while the available contact arrives in brief moments. A changing friendship or a colleague moving between responsibilities can resemble that experience. Calling and receiving a response gives another relationship from repeatedly reaching toward a position that is no longer clear. The difficulty can concern visibility and timing rather than a conclusion that absence means rejection.\n\nFog can also provide privacy you welcome. A familiar place may feel less exposed when distant observers and expectations disappear from view. An opportunity to work quietly, travel without explaining yourself, or enjoy a moment outside constant evaluation can fit. If the concealment prevents contact you wanted, the same condition becomes limiting. Reduced visibility therefore need not carry an adverse meaning; its value depends on what access or separation the scene allows.\n\nWhen fog lifts and landmarks have changed, clarity can bring another task instead of simply ending uncertainty. You know more, but the new information requires a revised route. A walk, photograph, weather memory, film, or remembered journey may supply direct context. These original comparisons concern partial view, contact, and chosen privacy, without making the weather a forecast or treating every unclear scene as a hidden psychological problem.", "traditional": "Miller gives trouble and business-worry forecasts, a favorable outcome after a weary journey, and gendered scandal claims. Cielo predicts trouble from being lost; Everybody’s Book of Luck predicts business losses. Craig attributes uncertainty to Gypsy lore. The four attached accounts document historical interpretations, not evidence that uncertainty in your dream predicts a loss or conceals another person’s intentions.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Enough information for a next step", "reflection": "A complete view may be unavailable while a limited practical movement remains possible." }, { "title": "Intermittent contact", "reflection": "A connection can become hard to locate without proving rejection or deliberate concealment." }, { "title": "Privacy and access", "reflection": "Reduced visibility may offer welcome separation or prevent a contact you wanted." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "The route disappears beyond your immediate view", "reflection": "The next part is uncertain while nearby footing remains visible. This may picture a decision with some usable information but no complete plan. A limited step creates another response from treating uncertainty about the whole journey as absence of every available option." }, { "title": "You hear someone but cannot locate them", "reflection": "Contact exists without a clear position. This can resemble receiving information that does not explain someone’s role or availability. Curiosity and uneasiness give different readings; the dream does not establish a hidden observer or reveal another person’s intentions." }, { "title": "A familiar person appears and disappears", "reflection": "Connection arrives in intervals rather than continuous visibility. This may picture changing contact during a demanding routine. A response when you call differs from reaching repeatedly toward an unclear position, without making the dream’s absence proof of rejection in waking life." }, { "title": "The fog gives you welcome privacy", "reflection": "Distance from observation makes the setting feel more usable. This can picture space to work, travel, or rest without constant evaluation. The reduced view may support freedom rather than confusion when the separation is wanted and you can still choose your own movement." }, { "title": "A small clear area is enough to continue", "reflection": "The scene provides a limited but practical opening. This may picture acting with sufficient information for one stage rather than requiring certainty about every later step. The usefulness comes from proportion between the available view and the movement you actually need now." }, { "title": "Clearing fog reveals changed landmarks", "reflection": "More information creates a need to revise the route. This can picture clarity that is helpful without being immediately comfortable. Recognizing the changed conditions allows adaptation, rather than expecting the old method to become suitable merely because visibility has improved." } ], "prompts": [ "What next step is clear even if the whole route is not?", "How does reduced visibility affect privacy and wanted contact?", "What new information requires a revised route?" ], "related": [ "mist", "rain", "forest", "road" ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0822" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context for this topic only. Miller distinguishes traveling through fog, emerging, and gendered scandal/innocence forecasts. Does not validate the original psychological reflections." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0179" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context for this topic only. Cielo forecasts coming trouble from being lost in fog. Does not validate the original psychological reflections." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0085" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context for this topic only. Everybody’s Book of Luck forecasts business losses. Does not validate the original psychological reflections." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L10042" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context for this topic only. Craig attributes uncertainty to Gypsy lore. Does not validate the original psychological reflections." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0822", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Fog", "text": "To dream of traveling through a dense fog, denotes much\ntrouble and business worries. To emerge from it, foretells a\nweary journey, but profitable.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of being in a fog, denotes that she will be mixed\nup in a salacious scandal, but if she gets out of the fog she will prove\nher innocence and regain her social standing.", "locator": "Heading 822; source lines 9562–9572", "lineStart": 9562, "lineEnd": 9572, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of traveling through a dense fog, denotes much\ntrouble and business worries. To emerge from it, foretells a\nweary journey, but profitable.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of being in a fog, denotes that she will be mixed\nup in a salacious scandal, but if she gets out of the fog she will prove\nher innocence and regain her social standing." }, { "id": "cielo-0179", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Fog", "text": "To be lost in a fog is a warning of coming trouble.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 179; source lines 4283–4285", "lineStart": 4283, "lineEnd": 4285, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To be lost in a fog is a warning of coming trouble." }, { "id": "luck-0085", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Fog", "text": "Bad dream--business losses.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 85; source lines 3723–3725", "lineStart": 3723, "lineEnd": 3725, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Bad dream--business losses." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10042", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Fog", "heading": "Fog", "text": "A dream of uncertainty (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 10042, "lineEnd": 10043, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 218; NLM OCR lines 10042–10043", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10042, "lineEnd": 10043, "printedPage": 218, "printedPageEnd": 218 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Fog. — A dream of uncertainty (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Fog" }, "displayText": "A dream of uncertainty (Gypsy)." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "folly", "title": "Folly", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “For a woman to dream she is become foolish, and is publicly guilty of folly, is a sign she will have a boy, who in time will grow great.”", "aliases": [ "folly" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about folly stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "noe-0178", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Folly", "text": "For a woman to dream she is become\nfoolish, and is publicly guilty of folly, is a sign she will have a boy,\nwho in time will grow great. If a maid, she will be speedily married, and\nthat to an honest man.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 180; source lines 766–769", "lineStart": 766, "lineEnd": 769, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a woman to dream she is become\nfoolish, and is publicly guilty of folly, is a sign she will have a boy,\nwho in time will grow great. If a maid, she will be speedily married, and\nthat to an honest man." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "food-prices-changing-as-you-shop", "title": "Food prices changing as you shop", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "Changing food prices can make planning for ordinary needs feel uncertain. Notice the choices, constraints, and support available.", "summary": "Changing food prices can make planning for ordinary needs feel uncertain. Notice the choices, constraints, and support available.", "aliases": [ "supermarket prices changing dream", "grocery bill keeps rising" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "What were you trying to buy, and for whom? A rising total may evoke a real budget concern or a more general frustration with shifting conditions. Neither interpretation should turn material pressure into a personal failing. The dream is not a financial forecast. Pay attention to what you removed from the basket, what you protected, and whether someone helped you find an acceptable alternative.", "traditional": "Historical food and money omens cannot predict prices or economic conditions. This draft treats access to necessities as a practical concern and does not attach a moral lesson to the size of a shopping basket.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "The total changes between the shelf and the checkout", "reflection": "Which expectation became unreliable after you had already chosen?" }, { "title": "You prioritize ingredients for someone else", "reflection": "How did care for another person shape your own needs?" }, { "title": "You find a simpler meal that still feels satisfying", "reflection": "What distinguished a workable adjustment from an unwanted deprivation?" } ], "prompts": [ "Which necessities did you most want to protect?", "Were you allowed enough information to plan?", "What help or flexibility made the choices less isolating?" ], "related": [ "groceries", "money" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia model-assisted editorial draft. Reflection questions and scenario readings are optional, individually written suggestions, not empirically validated symbol meanings. Source scope is stated with each citation. Historical comparisons identify topics, not inherited interpretations. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "fool", "title": "Fool", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “For a man to dream he is a fool, is good for those who would govern and teach children.”", "aliases": [ "fool" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about fool stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "noe-0177", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Fool", "text": "For a man to dream he is a fool, is good for those who would\ngovern and teach children.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 179; source lines 765–766", "lineStart": 765, "lineEnd": 766, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a man to dream he is a fool, is good for those who would\ngovern and teach children." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "foot-log", "title": "Foot-log", "type": "dreams", "category": "Other symbols", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of crossing a clear stream of water on a foot-log, denotes pleasant employment and profit.”", "aliases": [ "foot-log" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about foot-log stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "bridge" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0823", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Foot-log", "text": "To dream of crossing a clear stream of water on a foot-log,\ndenotes pleasant employment and profit. If the water is thick\nand muddy, it indicates loss and temporary disturbance.\nFor a woman this dream indicates either a quarrelsome husband,\nor one of mild temper and regular habits, as the water is\nmuddy or clear.\n\nTo fall from a foot-log into clear water, signifies short\nwidowhood terminating in an agreeable marriage. If the water\nis not clear, gloomy prospects.\n\n\n[75] See Bridge.", "locator": "Heading 823; source lines 9572–9588", "lineStart": 9572, "lineEnd": 9588, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of crossing a clear stream of water on a foot-log,\ndenotes pleasant employment and profit. If the water is thick\nand muddy, it indicates loss and temporary disturbance.\nFor a woman this dream indicates either a quarrelsome husband,\nor one of mild temper and regular habits, as the water is\nmuddy or clear.\n\nTo fall from a foot-log into clear water, signifies short\nwidowhood terminating in an agreeable marriage. If the water\nis not clear, gloomy prospects. See Bridge." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "bridge" ] }, { "slug": "forehead", "title": "Forehead", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a fine and smooth forehead, denotes that you will be thought well of for your judgment and…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "forehead", "of the forehead" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about forehead stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0825", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Forehead", "text": "To dream of a fine and smooth forehead, denotes that you will be thought\nwell of for your judgment and fair dealings.\n\nAn ugly forehead, denotes displeasure in your private affairs.\n\nTo pass your hand over the forehead of your child, indicates sincere\npraises from friends, because of some talent and goodness displayed\nby your children.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of kissing the forehead of her lover,\nsignifies that he will be displeased with her for gaining notice\nby indiscreet conduct.", "locator": "Heading 825; source lines 9606–9621", "lineStart": 9606, "lineEnd": 9621, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a fine and smooth forehead, denotes that you will be thought\nwell of for your judgment and fair dealings.\n\nAn ugly forehead, denotes displeasure in your private affairs.\n\nTo pass your hand over the forehead of your child, indicates sincere\npraises from friends, because of some talent and goodness displayed\nby your children.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of kissing the forehead of her lover,\nsignifies that he will be displeased with her for gaining notice\nby indiscreet conduct." }, { "id": "artemidorus-012", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of the Forehead.", "text": "THe forehead sound and fleshly is good to all, and signifies liberty of spéech, strength and constancy. But to dream that you have a forehead of brasse, iron or stone, to all takers, Vintners, and such as live by shamelesse gain, is good, and to these onely: for to others it bréeds hate.", "locator": "Book 1, encoded section 12", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "1", "displayText": "THe forehead sound and fleshly is good to all, and signifies liberty of spéech, strength and constancy. But to dream that you have a forehead of brasse, iron or stone, to all takers, Vintners, and such as live by shamelesse gain, is good, and to these onely: for to others it bréeds hate." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "foreign", "title": "Foreign", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Book of Luck wrote: “(Country) Success and prosperity at home.”", "aliases": [ "foreign" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about foreign stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "luck-0086", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Foreign", "text": "(Country) Success and prosperity at home.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 86; source lines 3725–3727", "lineStart": 3725, "lineEnd": 3727, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(Country) Success and prosperity at home." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "forest", "title": "Forest", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "aliases": [ "forest", "forests", "woods", "woodland", "lost in the woods", "dark forest" ], "kind": "modern", "summary": "A forest can suggest uncertainty about direction, a wish for shelter, or space away from demands. Being lost differs from choosing to wander.", "tagline": "The surroundings can protect you while also hiding the route.", "psychological": "A forest can picture a situation in which you see what is immediately around you but not the whole arrangement. Similar trees, concealed turns, and a path that disappears can fit work with unclear priorities or a change whose destination remains difficult to judge. Being lost gives this limited view an urgent quality; wandering by choice may instead express curiosity without a need for a fixed outcome.\n\nTrees can also make the forest feel protective. A quiet walk beneath a canopy may fit wanting distance from scrutiny, noise, or constant demands. Solitude can be restorative when you choose it, while the same distance can feel isolating if you are trying to find someone. The distinction is between shelter from interruption and separation from contact you want.\n\nA path can represent the amount of guidance available. A marked route may support trust in a process, while an overgrown path can suggest that an old way no longer fits present conditions. Following another person may bring dependence or companionship into view. Their presence matters through what you are able to do together, not through a fixed claim about what they symbolize.\n\nA clearing changes the balance between concealment and exposure. Reaching open space can make orientation possible, or leave you feeling visible without protection. This may fit leaving a familiar group, making a private concern public, or gaining perspective after being occupied with details.\n\nThe forest's familiarity can carry a particular memory: childhood play, a place you walked, or a story whose atmosphere stayed with you. These direct associations may explain more than a metaphor. An original reading becomes useful when the dream's experience of orientation, company, or shelter resembles something specific in your life.", "traditional": "Miller contrasts dense or difficult passage with flourishing trees and adds a narrated dream/death coincidence. Noe gives a brief trouble forecast; Everybody’s Book of Luck adds rival-related losses. Craig attributes sorrow to Artemidorus and offers forest legends as her explanation. These are period claims and an anecdote, not a demonstration of prediction or verified modern consensus. The original reading separates orientation, chosen privacy and wanted company.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Seeing details without seeing the route", "reflection": "Repeated trees and concealed turns can picture uncertainty about priorities or a destination. The obstacle is limited perspective, especially when you need to arrive somewhere rather than wander freely." }, { "title": "Privacy or unwanted distance", "reflection": "The canopy can suggest shelter from demands, while separation can make connection difficult. Chosen solitude and being unable to find someone create different experiences within the same landscape." }, { "title": "A familiar path no longer guides you", "reflection": "An overgrown route can picture an approach that once worked but now requires reconsideration. A marked path or helpful companion may instead make an unfamiliar situation feel navigable." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "Every direction looks like the same trees", "reflection": "This can picture comparing options without a clear way to tell them apart. Conflicting priorities, repetitive tasks, or uncertain instructions may offer parallels. Movement alone does not resolve the problem because the scene withholds the landmarks that would make progress recognizable.", "slug": "scene-1" }, { "title": "You walk peacefully on a sunlit path", "reflection": "A clear route through a sheltered place can suggest having enough guidance without needing to control everything ahead. It may fit a manageable transition or wanted time away from demands. The pleasure makes chosen solitude more central than fear of getting lost.", "slug": "scene-2" }, { "title": "You reach a clearing but feel exposed", "reflection": "Greater visibility does not always bring comfort. This may picture making a private concern public or leaving the protection of a familiar role. The clearing offers perspective, but also removes the cover that helped you feel secure while moving through uncertainty.", "slug": "scene-3" }, { "title": "You return to woods from childhood", "reflection": "A remembered landscape can connect present choices with an earlier sense of freedom, danger, or belonging. Missing companions may make change more visible than the trees themselves. The scene can be a direct return to memory rather than an abstract encounter with the unknown.", "slug": "scene-4" }, { "title": "A path you know has become overgrown", "reflection": "This can picture relying on a familiar approach that no longer provides straightforward passage. An old routine, friendship pattern, or professional method may now require adjustment. The route still exists, but reaching its destination calls for more than repeating the previous journey.", "slug": "scene-5" }, { "title": "Your group takes another route and you remain behind", "reflection": "A separation of paths can express differing priorities rather than simple abandonment. You may want to stay with others while needing a different pace or destination. The scene can hold the difficulty of choosing your own direction without losing valued company.", "slug": "scene-6" } ], "prompts": [ "Did I want a destination, privacy, company, or time to wander?", "Which feature prevented orientation, and what waking situation has that same difficulty?", "What changed when I reached an opening or chose another path?" ], "related": [ "trees", "being-lost", "darkness", "path" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15 under the site owner’s delegation. 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Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence validating the original reflection, a diagnosis, another person’s state or a future event." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0179" ], "scope": "noe-0179 — Forest (Dream section, heading 181; source lines 769–770): Walking in a forest is assigned trouble without a developed explanation. Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence validating the original reflection, a diagnosis, another person’s state or a future event." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "scope": "luck-0087 — Forest (Dream section, heading 87; source lines 3727–3729): Forest is assigned trouble and rival-related losses. Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence validating the original reflection, a diagnosis, another person’s state or a future event.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0087" ] }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "scope": "craig-1918:L10047 — Forest (Printed p. 218; NLM OCR lines 10047–10050): Craig attributes forest sorrow to Artemidorus and offers legends as her explanation; neither is verified modern consensus. 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To literary people, this dream\nforetells fame and much appreciation from the public.\nA young lady relates the following dream and its fulfilment:\n``I was in a strange forest of what appeared to be\ncocoanut trees, with red and yellow berries growing on them.\nThe ground was covered with blasted leaves, and I could\nhear them crackle under my feet as I wandered about lost.\nThe next afternoon I received a telegram announcing the death\nof a dear cousin.''", "locator": "Heading 824; source lines 9588–9606", "lineStart": 9588, "lineEnd": 9606, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you find yourself in a dense forest, denotes loss\nin trade, unhappy home influences and quarrels among families.\nIf you are cold and feel hungry, you will be forced to make a long\njourney to settle some unpleasant affair.\n\nTo see a forest of stately trees in foliage, denotes\nprosperity and pleasures. To literary people, this dream\nforetells fame and much appreciation from the public.\nA young lady relates the following dream and its fulfilment:\n“I was in a strange forest of what appeared to be\ncocoanut trees, with red and yellow berries growing on them.\nThe ground was covered with blasted leaves, and I could\nhear them crackle under my feet as I wandered about lost.\nThe next afternoon I received a telegram announcing the death\nof a dear cousin.”" }, { "id": "noe-0179", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Forest", "text": "To dream that you are walking in a\nforest, signifies trouble.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 181; source lines 769–770", "lineStart": 769, "lineEnd": 770, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are walking in a\nforest, signifies trouble." }, { "id": "luck-0087", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Forest", "text": "Trouble and losses through rivals.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 87; source lines 3727–3729", "lineStart": 3727, "lineEnd": 3729, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Trouble and losses through rivals." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10047", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Forest", "heading": "Forest", "text": "A dream of dire trouble and sorrow (Artemidorus). 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The legends that people the forests with witches, ogres \nand giants account for this interpretation. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "Artemido- \nrus", "after": "Artemidorus", "evidenceLine": 485 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Forest" }, "displayText": "A dream of dire trouble and sorrow (Artemidorus). 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The blowing with the bellows signifies the getting of a wife and\nthe hammering on the anvil her scolding tongue." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10051", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Forge", "heading": "Forge", "text": "A dream of brilliant success through hard work (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 10051, "lineEnd": 10053, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 218; NLM OCR lines 10051–10053", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10051, "lineEnd": 10053, "printedPage": 218, "printedPageEnd": 218 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Forge. — A dream of brilliant success through hard work \n(Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Forge" }, "displayText": "A dream of brilliant success through hard work (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "forgetting-to-feed-a-pet", "title": "Forgetting to feed a pet", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "Remembering a continuing need, finding what helps, and allowing care to be shared.", "summary": "Finding an unfed pet can bring a continuing responsibility into view. What happens after remembering may matter as much as the initial lapse.", "aliases": [ "forgot to feed my pet", "neglecting a pet in a dream" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "Forgetting to feed a pet can picture a continuing need dropping out of attention while other activities fill the day. The animal may be familiar, remembered from childhood or entirely invented. Its particular place in your life gives the scene context. The dream does not establish that your actual care is inadequate or that a real animal is in danger.\n\nDiscovering the pet in a room you have not entered can make visibility part of responsibility. A task may remain important while the routine that usually brings it to attention has changed. This can resemble keeping track of something after moving home, changing work or dividing duties differently. The scene may concern how care becomes noticeable rather than a simple judgment about caring enough.\n\nThe action after remembering can give the dream another direction. You might immediately find food, ask what the animal needs or discover that somebody has already attended to it. Relief can come from a practical next step without requiring every earlier feeling to disappear. Embarrassment might persist even when the need has been met, making the response to an imagined mistake a separate part of the encounter.\n\nHaving the wrong supplies changes the difficulty. Willingness to help may be present while useful information or resources are missing. An unfamiliar bowl, food the pet refuses or instructions that keep changing can make care a process of learning what fits this particular recipient. Greater effort alone may not solve that mismatch.\n\nAnother caregiver can make responsibility shared. Their help may feel welcome, or leave you uncertain about whether accepting it changes your place in the relationship. An agreed handover offers a different arrangement from silently assuming the other person has taken over. The dream can put affection beside the practical conditions that let care continue.\n\nA childhood pet can connect the task with an earlier routine rather than your present responsibilities. An invented animal may give an unfamiliar need a visible form. Neither requires a hidden accusation. These original comparisons follow noticing, responding, finding support and resuming a workable pattern of attention.", "traditional": "No historical record is attached to this particular daily-care scene. General sleep background allows ordinary experiences to be considered as context; it does not validate the reflection, determine the cause of the dream or assess actual care. Species-based historical forecasts are not borrowed for the imagined lapse.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You discover a pet in a room you have not entered", "reflection": "The need has continued outside your usual view. This can picture responsibility depending on a cue or routine that has changed. Opening the room makes a response possible; the scene can concern restoring attention rather than deciding how much affection you possess." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Someone has already fed the pet", "reflection": "Another person has met the practical need while you were occupied. Relief may sit beside embarrassment or uncertainty about accepting help. The scene can explore shared responsibility without making assistance proof that you have failed or been replaced." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "The available food is not what the animal needs", "reflection": "Care is wanted while the means do not fit. This may resemble having effort available before useful information or resources. Finding a suitable alternative changes the task from trying harder with the wrong thing toward learning what this particular recipient needs." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You make a clear handover before leaving", "reflection": "An explicit exchange gives continuing care a workable arrangement. The scene can picture trusting a shared routine because its details are understood. The other person’s imagined response remains part of the dream rather than evidence of their real reliability." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A childhood pet waits beside a remembered bowl", "reflection": "The task belongs to an earlier place and routine. Affection, longing or an old expectation may be present in different proportions. What the remembered action once allowed can matter without turning the return into a demand to restore the whole past." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You feed the pet and return to an ordinary activity", "reflection": "Meeting the need gives the scene a practical ending. The dream can allow care and another interest to coexist instead of requiring constant watchfulness. Remaining unease may concern how an imagined mistake feels even after the available repair has been made." } ], "prompts": [ "What brought the pet’s need back into view?", "Which resource, information or help made a response possible?", "What changed after the need was met?" ], "related": [ "pet", "dog", "cat", "searching-for-a-missing-pet" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s continuing English editorial delegation. Sources retain their stated scope; neither historical accounts nor general research validate these interpretations.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A need becomes visible again", "reflection": "A changed routine can separate a valued responsibility from the cues that usually bring it to attention." }, { "title": "Responding after remembering", "reflection": "Practical action, information and relief can give the scene another direction. The imagined lapse need not be its only important event." }, { "title": "Shared care with an understood handover", "reflection": "Help can support continuity while raising questions about who expects to do what. An agreement differs from an unspoken assumption." } ], "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "DreamFolia AI-assisted editorial review", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "childhood-home", "lucid-dreaming", "recurring-dream", "missing-a-flight-or-train", "unable-to-scream", "books", "cradle", "eyes", "forgetting-to-feed-a-pet", "message", "nightmare", "searching-for-a-missing-pet", "sleep" ] }, "decisionReason": "The expanded reading follows attention, responding, suitable supplies, shared handover, a remembered routine and a practical ending through six scenes. It does not treat imagined blame as proof of neglect, assess actual care or identify danger to a real animal. No species-based history is borrowed.", "reviewedSnapshot": "data/guide-linked-publication-review-2026-10-15.json", "contentSha256": "e11e6022ef4b468efb7a17c4bfaf7134cc51e68c9119376f1c39d991ea97a9fd" }, "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "forgetting-where-you-parked", "title": "Forgetting where you parked", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "Searching for a parked vehicle combines orientation with the wish to leave. Ask what the vehicle would have made possible.", "summary": "Searching for a parked vehicle combines orientation with the wish to leave. Ask what the vehicle would have made possible.", "aliases": [ "cannot find parked car", "lost car in parking garage" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "The important question may be why you needed to find the car: getting home, keeping someone waiting, or carrying something too heavy to walk with. Compare the confusion with the setting and any available help. A familiar experience or a recent busy day may be sufficient context. Forgetting in a dream does not demonstrate a waking memory problem or imply that you have lost direction in every part of life.", "traditional": "Older carriage and travel entries provide a historical comparison for vehicles, but large parking structures create a different modern problem of orientation. Any connection to independence here is a suggested reflection, not an inherited omen.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "Every level of the parking garage looks identical", "reflection": "What could you use as a landmark when the environment offered few differences?" }, { "title": "Someone remembers the space for you", "reflection": "Was accepting their guidance a relief or an uncomfortable dependence?" }, { "title": "You find the car after deciding to walk", "reflection": "What changed when you allowed yourself another way to leave?" } ], "prompts": [ "Where were you trying to go after finding the vehicle?", "Was the difficulty memory, sameness, or misleading information?", "Who or what helped you orient yourself?" ], "related": [ "car", "being-lost", "map" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia model-assisted editorial draft. Reflection questions and scenario readings are optional, individually written suggestions, not empirically validated symbol meanings. Source scope is stated with each citation. Historical comparisons identify topics, not inherited interpretations. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "forgetting-your-lines-on-stage", "title": "Forgetting your lines on stage", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "Losing your lines puts preparation, visibility, and improvisation into one scene. Notice what the audience actually did.", "summary": "Losing your lines puts preparation, visibility, and improvisation into one scene. Notice what the audience actually did.", "aliases": [ "forgotten lines in a play", "going blank on stage" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "Was this a rehearsed role, an unexpected speech, or a performance you never agreed to give? Forgetting can feel very different when the demand is unreasonable. Distinguish the audience’s observable response from the criticism you imagined. You might explore pressure to perform, but a dream lapse is not a forecast of failure. Any moment of improvisation or support deserves as much attention as the blank.", "traditional": "Theatre and oratory appear in historical dream archives, but their attributed omens are not adopted here. This contemporary reading treats performance as a situation with a particular audience, role, and degree of consent.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "The script is blank when you open it", "reflection": "Who expected you to continue without the information you needed?" }, { "title": "A fellow performer quietly gives you the next line", "reflection": "Could the scene allow competence to include cooperation?" }, { "title": "You abandon the script and speak naturally", "reflection": "Did your own words feel riskier or more honest than the assigned role?" } ], "prompts": [ "Had you chosen to perform?", "What did the audience actually do during the silence?", "What counted as success besides remembering every word?" ], "related": [ "theater", "orator" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia model-assisted editorial draft. Reflection questions and scenario readings are optional, individually written suggestions, not empirically validated symbol meanings. Source scope is stated with each citation. Historical comparisons identify topics, not inherited interpretations. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "fork", "title": "Fork", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a fork, denotes that enemies are working for your displacement.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "fork" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about fork stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0826", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Fork", "text": "To dream of a fork, denotes that enemies are working for your displacement.\nFor a woman, this dream denotes unhappy domestic relations,\nand separation for lovers.", "locator": "Heading 826; source lines 9621–9627", "lineStart": 9621, "lineEnd": 9627, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a fork, denotes that enemies are working for your displacement.\nFor a woman, this dream denotes unhappy domestic relations,\nand separation for lovers." }, { "id": "fontaine-0272", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Fork", "text": "To dream of a fork indicates that a false friend will attempt\nyour ruin by flattery. 69.", "locator": "Heading 272; source line 2159", "lineStart": 2159, "lineEnd": 2162, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a fork indicates that a false friend will attempt\nyour ruin by flattery." }, { "id": "luck-0088", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Fork", "text": "A warning of imminent danger.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 88; source lines 3729–3731", "lineStart": 3729, "lineEnd": 3731, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "A warning of imminent danger." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "form", "title": "Form", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see anything ill formed, denotes disappointment. To have a beautiful form, denotes favorable conditions to health and business.”", "aliases": [ "form" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about form stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0827", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Form", "text": "To see anything ill formed, denotes disappointment. To have a beautiful form,\ndenotes favorable conditions to health and business.", "locator": "Heading 827; source lines 9627–9632", "lineStart": 9627, "lineEnd": 9632, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see anything ill formed, denotes disappointment. To have a beautiful form,\ndenotes favorable conditions to health and business." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "former-friend", "title": "Former friend", "category": "People", "aliases": [ "former friend", "former friends", "ex-friend", "ex friend", "estranged friend", "a friend I no longer speak to" ], "summary": "A former friend may bring unfinished feelings, a lost social chapter, or a changed way of relating into a dream. Warmth and discomfort can coexist.", "tagline": "Someone who once knew you, a changed connection, and what remains from that chapter.", "psychological": "A former friend may bring back a feeling that had no clear ending. You might finally explain a misunderstanding, receive an apology, or find that ordinary conversation resumes before anything difficult is addressed. That could give form to wanting acknowledgment of a loss or a shared history. The unfinished element need not be a conflict: a friendship that faded through distance or changed routines can also leave sadness, curiosity, or something you never had a chance to say.\n\nYou may instead miss the world that the friendship belonged to. Shared interests, a neighborhood, long conversations, or a group that once met regularly can become vivid through one familiar person. If the pleasure comes from the activity more than the reunion, the dream may concern a quality of life you want again in another form. Missing companionship or spontaneity is not necessarily the same as wanting to restore this particular friendship.\n\nThe encounter can also reveal a familiar role. Perhaps you become the listener, the organizer, the joker, or the one who tries to smooth over every disagreement. Responding differently may bring a changed preference into view. You could enjoy a remembered closeness while noticing that an old arrangement no longer fits. The contrast can be useful without making discomfort proof that nothing has changed.\n\nA present friendship or group transition may provide another context. Meeting new people, feeling excluded, or deciding how much effort to give a connection can invite comparison with an earlier friendship. What you value now might become clearer through a scene of mutual ease, unequal effort, or being misunderstood. A photograph, name, or shared place may also supply the person directly. The dream cannot settle their current feelings or whether reconnection would be welcome; it can give attention to what the past encounter brings up for you now.", "traditional": "No supplied historical passage specifically addresses a friendship that has ended or become estranged. These are original possibilities about memory, changed belonging, and unfinished feelings. A former friendship may have faded, ended painfully, or simply belonged to another phase. The dream's reunion does not make reconciliation inevitable or create an obligation to resume contact.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A feeling without a clear ending", "reflection": "An apology, explanation, or interrupted conversation may give a lingering feeling somewhere to go. The need can be acknowledgment of the past rather than restoration of the relationship." }, { "title": "A lost social chapter", "reflection": "The person may bring back activities, places, and forms of company that once shaped daily life. Consider which qualities remain wanted and could take another form now." }, { "title": "A role you recognize differently", "reflection": "An old way of listening, organizing, or avoiding disagreement may return with the friend. A changed response can highlight a preference or boundary that matters to you now." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Conversation resumes as if nothing changed", "reflection": "The ease of talking returns before the dream addresses why the friendship ended. This may fit missing ordinary companionship or wanting the loss to feel less complicated. Any uneasiness can also matter: a pleasant exchange may leave part of the history outside the scene." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You explain something that went unsaid", "reflection": "You finally describe a misunderstanding, hurt, or reason for leaving. The scene may give form to a wish for acknowledgment or a clearer account of your own experience. The imagined response does not establish what the former friend would hear or say now." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "They ignore you in a familiar group", "reflection": "The old social setting remains but your place in it feels uncertain. This may concern changed belonging, especially after entering a new group or revisiting an earlier chapter. The refusal belongs to the dream and does not disclose the person's present attitude." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A mutual friend brings you together", "reflection": "Someone introduces the two of you as though the connection needs to begin again. The scene can explore how time changes familiarity or whether shared history is enough for present ease. Curiosity, awkwardness, and reluctance each suggest a different relationship to the imagined meeting." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The former friend asks for help", "reflection": "A familiar role returns through a request, and you decide how much you can offer. This may fit wanting care to include your present boundaries. Helping, declining, or making a smaller offer can be meaningful without proving loyalty or requiring actual contact." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You say goodbye without another argument", "reflection": "The encounter ends with distance that feels calm, sad, or both. This may explore allowing a relationship to remain part of your history without continuing it. A peaceful ending need not erase hurt, and an unfinished feeling need not prevent a boundary." } ], "prompts": [ "What belonged to this friendship besides the person: activities, places, roles, or a social circle?", "Which feeling or conversation remained unfinished in the dream?", "Did I return to an old role, or respond from a different position?" ], "related": [ "friend", "reunion", "ex-partner", "being-excluded-from-a-gathering", "being-ignored" ], "type": "dreams", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflection on distinct social scenes and possible personal connections; no matching historical passage supplied. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "forsaking", "title": "Forsaking", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “For a young woman to dream of forsaking her home or friend, denotes that she will have troubles in love, as her estimate of her lover will…”", "aliases": [ "forsaking" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about forsaking stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "abandoned", "lovers" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0828", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Forsaking", "text": "For a young woman to dream of forsaking her home or friend,\ndenotes that she will have troubles in love, as her estimate\nof her lover will decrease with acquaintance and association.\n\n\n\n[76] See Abandoned and Lover.", "locator": "Heading 828; source lines 9632–9642", "lineStart": 9632, "lineEnd": 9642, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a young woman to dream of forsaking her home or friend,\ndenotes that she will have troubles in love, as her estimate\nof her lover will decrease with acquaintance and association. See Abandoned and Lover." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "abandoned", "lovers" ] }, { "slug": "fort", "title": "Fort", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of defending a fort, signifies your honor and possessions will be attacked, and you will have great worry over the matter.”", "aliases": [ "fort" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about fort stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0829", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Fort", "text": "To dream of defending a fort, signifies your honor and possessions\nwill be attacked, and you will have great worry over the matter.\n\nTo dream that you attack a fort and take it, denotes victory\nover your worst enemy, and fortunate engagements.", "locator": "Heading 829; source lines 9642–9650", "lineStart": 9642, "lineEnd": 9650, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of defending a fort, signifies your honor and possessions\nwill be attacked, and you will have great worry over the matter.\n\nTo dream that you attack a fort and take it, denotes victory\nover your worst enemy, and fortunate engagements." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "fortress", "title": "Fortress", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are confined in a fortress, denotes that enemies will succeed in placing you in an…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "fortress" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about fortress stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0830", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Fortress", "text": "To dream that you are confined in a fortress, denotes that enemies\nwill succeed in placing you in an undesirable situation.\n\nTo put others in a fortress, denotes your ability to rule in business\nor over women.", "locator": "Heading 830; source lines 9650–9658", "lineStart": 9650, "lineEnd": 9658, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are confined in a fortress, denotes that enemies\nwill succeed in placing you in an undesirable situation.\n\nTo put others in a fortress, denotes your ability to rule in business\nor over women." }, { "id": "noe-0206", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Fortress", "text": "If you are confined in a\nfortress in your dream, your plans in life will suffer from undue\ninfluence of others. If you dream of placing others in confinement, look\nfor valuable goods, which will enrich you.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 208; source lines 892–895", "lineStart": 892, "lineEnd": 895, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you are confined in a\nfortress in your dream, your plans in life will suffer from undue\ninfluence of others. If you dream of placing others in confinement, look\nfor valuable goods, which will enrich you." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "fortune", "title": "Fortune", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “If you dream that some one told your fortune, you may calculate every thing will go pretty nearly the…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "fortune" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about fortune stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "guide-65367", "title": "Guide to Fortune-Telling by Dreams", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Multum in Parvo Library, Vol. I, No. 10, October 1894", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65367", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0273", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Fortune", "text": "If you dream that some one told your fortune, you may\ncalculate every thing will go pretty nearly the reverse of what was\nassured to you: if you were promised money you will get poverty, and\n_vice versa_. To dream of making a sudden fortune is a sign of want.\nAll dreams of this kind go by the rule of contrary. 76, 8, 4.", "locator": "Heading 273; source line 2162", "lineStart": 2162, "lineEnd": 2168, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream that some one told your fortune, you may\ncalculate every thing will go pretty nearly the reverse of what was\nassured to you: if you were promised money you will get poverty, and\nvice versa. To dream of making a sudden fortune is a sign of want.\nAll dreams of this kind go by the rule of contrary." }, { "id": "noe-0193", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Fortune", "text": "If any man\nbecome poor after he hath been rich, dreams he has the same land and\npossessions he had before, it signifies that his good fortune will return.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 195; source lines 841–844", "lineStart": 841, "lineEnd": 844, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If any man\nbecome poor after he hath been rich, dreams he has the same land and\npossessions he had before, it signifies that his good fortune will return." }, { "id": "guide-0029", "sourceId": "guide-65367", "heading": "Fortune", "text": "To dream you make a sudden fortune is a very bad omen; to\nthe tradesman it forbodes losses in trade and quarreling with his\ncreditors; to the lover, it denotes that your sweetheart does not\nreturn your love. To dream you are acquiring a fortune is favorable, it\nportends a good legacy and success in love.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 29; source lines 276–282", "lineStart": 276, "lineEnd": 282, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you make a sudden fortune is a very bad omen; to\nthe tradesman it forbodes losses in trade and quarreling with his\ncreditors; to the lover, it denotes that your sweetheart does not\nreturn your love. To dream you are acquiring a fortune is favorable, it\nportends a good legacy and success in love." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "fortune-telling", "title": "Fortune-telling", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of telling, or having your fortune told, it dicates that you are deliberating over some vexed affair, and you should use much…”", "aliases": [ "fortune-telling" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about fortune-telling stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0831", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Fortune-telling", "text": "To dream of telling, or having your fortune told, it dicates that you\nare deliberating over some vexed affair, and you should use much\ncaution in giving consent to its consummation. For a young woman,\nthis portends a choice between two rivals. She will be worried\nto find out the standing of one in business and social circles.\nTo dream that she is engaged to a fortune-teller, denotes that she\nhas gone through the forest and picked the proverbial stick.\nShe should be self-reliant, or poverty will attend her marriage.", "locator": "Heading 831; source lines 9658–9669", "lineStart": 9658, "lineEnd": 9669, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of telling, or having your fortune told, it dicates that you\nare deliberating over some vexed affair, and you should use much\ncaution in giving consent to its consummation. For a young woman,\nthis portends a choice between two rivals. She will be worried\nto find out the standing of one in business and social circles.\nTo dream that she is engaged to a fortune-teller, denotes that she\nhas gone through the forest and picked the proverbial stick.\nShe should be self-reliant, or poverty will attend her marriage." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "fountain", "title": "Fountain", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "6 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you see a clear fountain sparkling in the sunlight, denotes vast possessions, ecstatic…” Compare 6 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "fountain" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about fountain stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0832", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Fountain", "text": "To dream that you see a clear fountain sparkling in the sunlight,\ndenotes vast possessions, ecstatic delights and many pleasant journeys.\n\nA clouded fountain, denotes the insincerity of associates and unhappy\nengagements and love affairs.\n\nA dry and broken fountain, indicates death and cessation of pleasures.\n\nFor a young woman to see a sparkling fountain in the moonlight,\nsignifies ill-advised pleasure which may result in a desertion.", "locator": "Heading 832; source lines 9669–9682", "lineStart": 9669, "lineEnd": 9682, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you see a clear fountain sparkling in the sunlight,\ndenotes vast possessions, ecstatic delights and many pleasant journeys.\n\nA clouded fountain, denotes the insincerity of associates and unhappy\nengagements and love affairs.\n\nA dry and broken fountain, indicates death and cessation of pleasures.\n\nFor a young woman to see a sparkling fountain in the moonlight,\nsignifies ill-advised pleasure which may result in a desertion." }, { "id": "fontaine-0274", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Fountain", "text": "To dream you are at a fountain, is a favorable omen; if the\nwater is clear, it denotes riches and honors; and in love, it foretells\nhappiness in marriage; but if muddy, it denotes vexation and trouble.\n71, 20, 18.", "locator": "Heading 274; source line 2168", "lineStart": 2168, "lineEnd": 2173, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are at a fountain, is a favorable omen; if the\nwater is clear, it denotes riches and honors; and in love, it foretells\nhappiness in marriage; but if muddy, it denotes vexation and trouble." }, { "id": "noe-0194", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Fountain", "text": "To dream that you are at a fountain, is a very favorable\nomen. If the waters are clear, it denotes riches and honors; and in love,\nit foretells great happiness in the marriage state, and that your\nsweetheart is of an amiable disposition and true to you; but if the waters\nappear muddy, then it denotes vexation and trouble, disappointment in\nbusiness, inconstancy in your sweetheart and misery in the marriage state.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 196; source lines 844–850", "lineStart": 844, "lineEnd": 850, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are at a fountain, is a very favorable\nomen. If the waters are clear, it denotes riches and honors; and in love,\nit foretells great happiness in the marriage state, and that your\nsweetheart is of an amiable disposition and true to you; but if the waters\nappear muddy, then it denotes vexation and trouble, disappointment in\nbusiness, inconstancy in your sweetheart and misery in the marriage state." }, { "id": "cielo-0180", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Fountain", "text": "To see a running fountain denotes health\n and abundance.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 180; source lines 4285–4288", "lineStart": 4285, "lineEnd": 4288, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a running fountain denotes health\nand abundance." }, { "id": "luck-0089", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Fountain", "text": "(Playing) Good luck, happy times and laughter.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 89; source lines 3731–3733", "lineStart": 3731, "lineEnd": 3733, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(Playing) Good luck, happy times and laughter." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10054", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Fountain", "heading": "Fountain", "text": "To dream of a clear fountain indicates abundance to well persons and health to invalids (Artemidorus). A symbol of the gospel and of miraculous healing waters.", "lineStart": 10054, "lineEnd": 10057, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 218; NLM OCR lines 10054–10057", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10054, "lineEnd": 10057, "printedPage": 218, "printedPageEnd": 218 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Fountain. — To dream of a clear fountain indicates abun- \ndance to well persons and health to invalids (Artemidorus). \nA symbol of the gospel and of miraculous healing waters. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "abun- \ndance", "after": "abundance", "evidenceLine": 9628 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Fountain" }, "displayText": "To dream of a clear fountain indicates abundance to well persons and health to invalids (Artemidorus). A symbol of the gospel and of miraculous healing waters." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "fowl", "title": "Fowl", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing fowls, denotes temporary worry or illness.”", "aliases": [ "fowl" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about fowl stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "chickens" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0833", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Fowl", "text": "To dream of seeing fowls, denotes temporary worry or illness.\nFor a woman to dream of fowls, indicates a short illness\nor disagreement with her friends.\n\n\n[77] See Chickens.", "locator": "Heading 833; source lines 9682–9691", "lineStart": 9682, "lineEnd": 9691, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing fowls, denotes temporary worry or illness.\nFor a woman to dream of fowls, indicates a short illness\nor disagreement with her friends. See Chickens." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "chickens" ] }, { "slug": "fox", "title": "Fox", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "summary": "A fox can explore curiosity that changes your route, competing uses of a shared space, and contact that remains on separate terms.", "tagline": "Interest can change the route.", "aliases": [ "fox" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "Following a fox through a changing landscape can picture curiosity gradually becoming a commitment. A small question leads to another task, an interesting opportunity takes you away from an original plan, or a conversation develops beyond what you intended to discuss. The journey may feel absorbing and welcome. If you can no longer remember your destination, the scene can instead make attention’s changing direction more consequential than the animal’s supposed character.\n\nA fox carrying a familiar object can make pursuit personal. You may want to recover something that now moves beyond your control: time, a valued place in a routine, or the result of work passed to someone else. The dream does not establish theft or deliberate harm. Finding that the object is set down elsewhere can create another reading, in which a changed location rather than permanent loss becomes the practical problem.\n\nAn animal entering a space arranged for others can picture competing needs within one setting. A household routine, a team’s work area, or a familiar social circle may not easily accommodate a new participant. Concern can arise from the mismatch without making the newcomer an enemy. A boundary, a different arrangement, or room for separate activities can change the encounter more usefully than assigning a deceptive intention to the animal.\n\nTwo foxes playing while you work can make pleasure and duty visible together. Their activity may feel distracting if your own task cannot pause. It may also picture an alternative rhythm you want but have not allowed yourself. Joining willingly, continuing contentedly, and resenting the interruption create different possibilities. The scene does not need to rank play above work or claim that one participant is irresponsible.\n\nA fox stopping when you turn toward it can transform pursuit into mutual attention. A tame-seeming encounter that still allows retreat can similarly make closeness compatible with separate terms. A photograph, story, neighborhood memory, or film may supply the image directly. These original readings follow the route, object, and exchange in your dream; they do not use historical claims about cunning to accuse a person or forecast betrayal.", "traditional": "Miller, Fontaine, Noe, and Everybody’s Book of Luck connect foxes with adverse interpersonal or commercial forecasts, sometimes reversing them after killing. Cielo instead gives a brief victory forecast. Fontaine and Noe include moralizing judgments about partners and servants. The five attached accounts document differing historical claims; they do not establish deception, character, or a future result in your own life.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Curiosity becomes a journey", "reflection": "An interesting encounter can redirect attention, with absorption and lost purpose giving different readings." }, { "title": "Competing uses of space", "reflection": "Different needs may require another arrangement without identifying an enemy." }, { "title": "Contact on separate terms", "reflection": "Closeness can remain meaningful when neither participant must surrender all room to retreat." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "A fox carries away a familiar object", "reflection": "Something valued changes location through another presence’s movement. This may picture losing direct influence over time or work. Pursuit can concern recovery without making the scene evidence of theft, betrayal, or another person’s intention to harm you." }, { "title": "Following the fox keeps changing your route", "reflection": "Curiosity draws the journey further from its original direction. This can resemble an opportunity developing additional commitments. Delight differs from losing sight of your purpose; stopping to choose a destination changes following from automatic movement toward a decision." }, { "title": "A fox enters a place arranged for other animals", "reflection": "One setting must accommodate needs it was not designed around. This may picture a newcomer or role changing a familiar routine. Another boundary or arrangement can create workable coexistence without requiring the unfamiliar participant to carry a fixed meaning of deceit." }, { "title": "Two foxes play while you work", "reflection": "An alternative rhythm remains visible beside obligation. This can picture a wish for pleasure or simple distraction during concentration. Continuing willingly differs from resentment that others can pause; joining matters through whether the choice is actually available to you." }, { "title": "The fox stops when you turn toward it", "reflection": "Pursuit becomes an encounter with reciprocal attention. This may picture a task or connection becoming more understandable when you stop following automatically. The pause creates room for another response without proving that the animal has revealed a hidden message." }, { "title": "A tame-seeming fox keeps limits on contact", "reflection": "Familiarity does not remove every boundary. This can picture closeness that includes a separate preference for distance. Respecting those terms differs from treating retreat as a failure of the encounter or proof that a real relationship is untrustworthy." } ], "prompts": [ "How has an interesting detour affected your original destination?", "What arrangement would give competing needs more workable space?", "How does contact change when retreat remains possible?" ], "related": [ "dog", "animals", "forest", "being-chased" ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0834" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context for this topic only. Miller connects chase, yard entry, and killing with risky speculation/love, envious friendship, and victory forecasts. Does not validate the original psychological reflections." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0275" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context for this topic only. Fontaine predicts thieves, cunning enemies, false friends, and gendered/servant judgments. Does not validate the original psychological reflections." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0195" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context for this topic only. Noe predicts difficulties, an ill-tempered partner, and commercial fraud. Does not validate the original psychological reflections." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0181" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context for this topic only. Cielo’s single sentence predicts triumph over enemies. Does not validate the original psychological reflections." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0090" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context for this topic only. Everybody’s Book of Luck forecasts secret-enemy trouble and good luck after killing. Does not validate the original psychological reflections." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0834", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Fox", "text": "To dream of chasing a fox, denotes that you are en gaging in doubtful\nspeculations and risky love affairs.\n\nIf you see a fox slyly coming into your yard, beware of envious friendships;\nyour reputation is being slyly assailed.\n\nTo kill a fox, denotes that you will win in every engagement.", "locator": "Heading 834; source lines 9691–9701", "lineStart": 9691, "lineEnd": 9701, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of chasing a fox, denotes that you are en gaging in doubtful\nspeculations and risky love affairs.\n\nIf you see a fox slyly coming into your yard, beware of envious friendships;\nyour reputation is being slyly assailed.\n\nTo kill a fox, denotes that you will win in every engagement." }, { "id": "fontaine-0275", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Fox", "text": "A sign of thieves; to dream of fighting with them, shows that\nyou will have to deal with some cunning enemy; to keep a tame fox,\nsignifies that you will love a lewd woman, or have a bad servant, who\nwill rob you. A number of foxes, false friends. 11, 17.", "locator": "Heading 275; source line 2173", "lineStart": 2173, "lineEnd": 2178, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "A sign of thieves; to dream of fighting with them, shows that\nyou will have to deal with some cunning enemy; to keep a tame fox,\nsignifies that you will love a lewd woman, or have a bad servant, who\nwill rob you. A number of foxes, false friends." }, { "id": "noe-0195", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Fox", "text": "To dream of this crafty animal is the forerunner of much\ndifficulty. If you are in love, your sweetheart will turn out of a sour,\ndisagreeable, ill-natured disposition. If you are in trade, sharpers will\nendeavor to defraud you and overreach you in bargains.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 197; source lines 850–853", "lineStart": 850, "lineEnd": 853, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of this crafty animal is the forerunner of much\ndifficulty. If you are in love, your sweetheart will turn out of a sour,\ndisagreeable, ill-natured disposition. If you are in trade, sharpers will\nendeavor to defraud you and overreach you in bargains." }, { "id": "cielo-0181", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Fox", "text": "Signifies triumph over enemies.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 181; source lines 4288–4290", "lineStart": 4288, "lineEnd": 4290, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Signifies triumph over enemies." }, { "id": "luck-0090", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Fox", "text": "Trouble through secret enemy; (killing one) good luck.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 90; source lines 3733–3735", "lineStart": 3733, "lineEnd": 3735, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Trouble through secret enemy; (killing one) good luck." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "fratricide", "title": "Fratricide", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “Success will never attend the dreamer of this dream (Raphael). The interpretation of what is evidently regarded as a wish dream.”", "aliases": [ "fratricide" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about fratricide stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L10061", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Fratricide", "heading": "Fratricide", "text": "Success will never attend the dreamer of this dream (Raphael). The interpretation of what is evidently regarded as a wish dream.", "lineStart": 10061, "lineEnd": 10064, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 218; NLM OCR lines 10061–10064", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10061, "lineEnd": 10064, "printedPage": 218, "printedPageEnd": 218 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Fratricide. — Success will never attend the dreamer of this \ndream (Raphael). The interpretation of what is evidently \nregarded as a wish dream. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Fratricide" }, "displayText": "Success will never attend the dreamer of this dream (Raphael). The interpretation of what is evidently regarded as a wish dream." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "fraud", "title": "Fraud", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are defrauding a person, denotes that you will deceive your employer for gain, indulge in degrading pleasures, and fall…”", "aliases": [ "fraud" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about fraud stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0835", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Fraud", "text": "To dream that you are defrauding a person, denotes that you will\ndeceive your employer for gain, indulge in degrading pleasures,\nand fall into disrepute.\n\nIf you are defrauded, it signifies the useless attempt of enemies\nto defame you and cause you loss.\n\nTo accuse some one of defrauding you, you will be offered a place\nof high honor.", "locator": "Heading 835; source lines 9701–9713", "lineStart": 9701, "lineEnd": 9713, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are defrauding a person, denotes that you will\ndeceive your employer for gain, indulge in degrading pleasures,\nand fall into disrepute.\n\nIf you are defrauded, it signifies the useless attempt of enemies\nto defame you and cause you loss.\n\nTo accuse some one of defrauding you, you will be offered a place\nof high honor." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "freckles", "title": "Freckles", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “For a woman to dream that her face is freckled, denotes that many displeasing incidents will insinuate themselves into her happiness.”", "aliases": [ "freckles" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about freckles stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0836", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Freckles", "text": "For a woman to dream that her face is freckled, denotes that many\ndispleasing incidents will insinuate themselves into her happiness.\nIf she sees them in a mirror, she will be in danger of losing her lover\nto a rival.", "locator": "Heading 836; source lines 9713–9720", "lineStart": 9713, "lineEnd": 9720, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a woman to dream that her face is freckled, denotes that many\ndispleasing incidents will insinuate themselves into her happiness.\nIf she sees them in a mirror, she will be in danger of losing her lover\nto a rival." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "free-mason", "title": "Free Mason", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “To dream you are a free mason denotes you will soon make a number of new friends who will treat you on the square, it also foretells you…”", "aliases": [ "free mason" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about free mason stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0276", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Free Mason", "text": "To dream you are a free mason denotes you will soon make\na number of new friends who will treat you on the square, it also\nforetells you will take a journey to the east. If you are already a\nmember of that celebrated Order, and dream you attend a meeting of the\nlodge it portends sickness, and a heavy loss of property, to dream you\nare expelled from the Order shows you will attain a higher station in\nlife. 2, 78.", "locator": "Heading 276; source line 2178", "lineStart": 2178, "lineEnd": 2186, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are a free mason denotes you will soon make\na number of new friends who will treat you on the square, it also\nforetells you will take a journey to the east. If you are already a\nmember of that celebrated Order, and dream you attend a meeting of the\nlodge it portends sickness, and a heavy loss of property, to dream you\nare expelled from the Order shows you will attain a higher station in\nlife." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "friend", "title": "Friend", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "Familiar company can change without losing every form of connection.", "summary": "A friend can explore chosen company, reciprocal help, room for disagreement and the parts of shared history that still feel useful.", "aliases": [ "friend", "friends", "best friend", "old friend", "friend dying", "friendship" ], "status": "REVIEW", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-14", "psychological": "A friend sharing an ordinary task can make companionship useful without a dramatic test of loyalty. You may laugh while carrying boxes, understand an unfinished sentence or enjoy doing nothing together. This can resemble wanting company whose value does not depend on achievement. If the task becomes competitive, the same familiar person may instead bring comparison into a place where you expected ease.\n\nHelp has terms. A friend taking over everything differs from one making a difficult part manageable while leaving you involved. You may recognize a work or household arrangement in which assistance and acknowledgment need to fit together. When both of you need support, the dream can make limited time or energy visible. That need not mean either person cares less; the particular response gives the scene its direction.\n\nDisagreement can also test how much difference the imagined friendship allows. You express a preference, and the friend continues the conversation rather than withdrawing. This may picture wanting connection that leaves room for separate choices. A harsh response can bring a wish to explain yourself or end the exchange. Neither reaction provides an account of the real friend’s character or thoughts.\n\nAn old friend in your current workplace brings two periods together. Their presence may recall humor, a shared interest or a version of yourself that had more room for play. You can miss that quality while having no wish to recreate the whole earlier relationship. Someone recognized as a friend only inside the dream can similarly make the assumed closeness important, even without an identifiable waking person.\n\nParting gives companionship a different shape. A friend leaving before you can finish a story may make an interrupted exchange matter; a comfortable goodbye can allow connection and separate plans together. A friend’s dreamed death or absence can be upsetting without predicting loss. Recent contact, a photograph or an ordinary reminder may supply the face directly. These possibilities keep the person, actual interaction and shared history specific rather than requiring every friendship dream to disclose unfinished business.", "traditional": "Miller assigns varied fortunes to friends’ condition, appearance and exchanges. Noe and Everybody’s Book of Luck give contrary favorable news to some death scenes, alongside other absence or health forecasts. All three accounts remain attributed period writing. Their differences do not establish a friend’s health, loyalty or future; the original reading follows chosen company and the particular exchange.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You laugh with a friend while finishing a small task", "reflection": "Companionship gives an ordinary activity value beyond its result. This may picture wanting more room for shared enjoyment during a demanding period. The ease can matter without proving that the relationship is uncomplicated or that every task needs to become social." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A friend helps but takes over the part you wanted to do", "reflection": "The obstacle is solved while your participation becomes smaller. This can resemble assistance whose terms need discussion. A request for another division may preserve the help and your contribution without making either total independence or complete surrender the only option." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You and a friend both ask for support at the same time", "reflection": "Two needs meet when neither person has unlimited energy. This may picture coordination or a pause rather than a verdict about who cares more. Naming a particular request can make the exchange workable without requiring the dream to settle the real friendship." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You disagree and the conversation continues", "reflection": "Difference does not end the shared encounter. This can resemble wanting a friendship where preferences remain discussable. Surprise, relief or unease may clarify what mattered about staying in contact, without establishing how the actual person would respond to the same disagreement." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "An old friend joins you in your current workplace", "reflection": "Earlier company enters a setting with different responsibilities. This may bring a remembered way of joking, learning or spending time into view. The useful quality can remain available without requiring a return to the earlier job, place or relationship." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "A friend leaves before you finish telling a story", "reflection": "An exchange ends before the part you wanted to share arrives. This can resemble limited time, an interrupted thought or a wish to be heard. The unfinished scene does not reveal deliberate avoidance; what you hoped to convey makes its absence particular." } ], "prompts": [ "What made the company valuable apart from completing a task?", "How did the terms of help leave room for each person’s contribution?", "Which part of shared history still fitted the present encounter?" ], "related": [ "reunion", "argument", "being-excluded-from-a-gathering", "deceased-loved-one" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a diagnosis, prediction or another person’s states. miller-0837 — Friend (Heading 837; source lines 9720–9754): Friends’ appearance, condition, colors, animal forms, statue height, covered face and farewell exchanges receive varied future news, illness, interference, ambition and alienation claims. These do not describe actual health, intentions or a universal color/person code.", "recordReferences": [ { "id": "miller-0837", "heading": "Friend", "locator": "Heading 837; source lines 9720–9754" } ], "recordIds": [ "miller-0837" ] }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a diagnosis, prediction or another person’s states. noe-0196 — Friend (Dream section, heading 198; source lines 853–856): A dreamed dead friend receives favorable news and marriage forecasts; no actual death, communication or relationship outcome is established.", "recordReferences": [ { "id": "noe-0196", "heading": "Friend", "locator": "Dream section, heading 198; source lines 853–856" } ], "recordIds": [ "noe-0196" ] }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a diagnosis, prediction or another person’s states. luck-0091 — Friends (Dream section, heading 91; source lines 3735–3738): Friends’ absence, death, illness and health receive separate return/news/prosperity forecasts; these are period claims rather than information about the friend.", "recordReferences": [ { "id": "luck-0091", "heading": "Friends", "locator": "Dream section, heading 91; source lines 3735–3738" } ], "recordIds": [ "luck-0091" ] } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Company without a performance", "reflection": "A shared activity can feel worthwhile through humor, recognition or quiet presence, without needing either participant to prove usefulness." }, { "title": "Reciprocity has practical limits", "reflection": "Help can preserve your contribution, take it over or require a different time. Those terms matter more than measuring the friendship through one response." }, { "title": "Shared history leaves room for change", "reflection": "An earlier connection can return a useful quality while present choices and circumstances remain different." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0837", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Friend", "text": "To dream of friends being well and happy, denotes pleasant tidings of them,\nor you will soon see them or some of their relatives.\n\nTo see your friend troubled and haggard, sickness or distress\nis upon them.\n\nTo see your friends dark-colored, denotes unusual sickness or trouble to you\nor to them. To see them take the form of animals, signifies that enemies\nwill separate you from your closest relations.\n\nTo see your friend who dresses in somber colors in flaming red,\nforetells that unpleasant things will transpire, causing you\nanxiety if not loss, and that friends will be implicated.\n\nTo dream you see a friend standing like a statue on a hill, denotes you\nwill advance beyond present pursuits, but will retain former impressions\nof justice and knowledge, seeking these through every change.\nIf the figure below be low, you will ignore your friends of former\ndays in your future advancement. If it is on a plane or level\nwith you, you will fail in your ambition to reach other spheres.\nIf you seem to be going from it, you will force yourself to seek\na change in spite of friendly ties or self-admonition.\n\nTo dream you see a friend with a white cloth tied over his face,\ndenotes that you will be injured by some person who will endeavor\nto keep up friendly relations with you.\n\nTo dream that you are shaking hands with a person who has wronged you,\nand he is taking his departure and looks sad, foretells you will have\ndifferences with a close friend and alienation will perhaps follow.\nYou are most assuredly nearing loss of some character.", "locator": "Heading 837; source lines 9720–9754", "lineStart": 9720, "lineEnd": 9754, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of friends being well and happy, denotes pleasant tidings of them,\nor you will soon see them or some of their relatives.\n\nTo see your friend troubled and haggard, sickness or distress\nis upon them.\n\nTo see your friends dark-colored, denotes unusual sickness or trouble to you\nor to them. To see them take the form of animals, signifies that enemies\nwill separate you from your closest relations.\n\nTo see your friend who dresses in somber colors in flaming red,\nforetells that unpleasant things will transpire, causing you\nanxiety if not loss, and that friends will be implicated.\n\nTo dream you see a friend standing like a statue on a hill, denotes you\nwill advance beyond present pursuits, but will retain former impressions\nof justice and knowledge, seeking these through every change.\nIf the figure below be low, you will ignore your friends of former\ndays in your future advancement. If it is on a plane or level\nwith you, you will fail in your ambition to reach other spheres.\nIf you seem to be going from it, you will force yourself to seek\na change in spite of friendly ties or self-admonition.\n\nTo dream you see a friend with a white cloth tied over his face,\ndenotes that you will be injured by some person who will endeavor\nto keep up friendly relations with you.\n\nTo dream that you are shaking hands with a person who has wronged you,\nand he is taking his departure and looks sad, foretells you will have\ndifferences with a close friend and alienation will perhaps follow.\nYou are most assuredly nearing loss of some character." }, { "id": "noe-0196", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Friend", "text": "To dream\nyou see a friend dead, betokens hasty news of a joyful nature. If you are\nin love, it foretells a speedy marriage with the object of your\naffections.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 198; source lines 853–856", "lineStart": 853, "lineEnd": 856, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream\nyou see a friend dead, betokens hasty news of a joyful nature. If you are\nin love, it foretells a speedy marriage with the object of your\naffections." }, { "id": "luck-0091", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Friends", "text": "(Absence of) Speedy return; (death of) good news; (illness)\nbad news; (in good health) their prosperity.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 91; source lines 3735–3738", "lineStart": 3735, "lineEnd": 3738, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(Absence of) Speedy return; (death of) good news; (illness)\nbad news; (in good health) their prosperity." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "frightened", "title": "Frightened", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are frightened at anything, denotes temporary and fleeting worries. See Affrighted.”", "aliases": [ "frightened" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about frightened stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "affrighted" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0838", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Frightened", "text": "To dream that you are frightened at anything, denotes temporary\nand fleeting worries.\n\n\n[78] See Affrighted.", "locator": "Heading 838; source lines 9754–9762", "lineStart": 9754, "lineEnd": 9762, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are frightened at anything, denotes temporary\nand fleeting worries. See Affrighted." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "affrighted" ] }, { "slug": "frogs", "title": "Frogs", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "A voice in the reeds, a sudden change of position, and the route between two places.", "summary": "Frog dreams may focus on a sudden leap, a call you try to locate, or movement between places. Compare the sound, setting and your own action.", "aliases": [ "frogs", "frog", "of frogges" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "kind": "editorial", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "A frog dream can begin with a sound before you see an animal. You may follow a call, discover a frog close beside you, or watch several move between water and a bank. Describe what you could identify and what remained uncertain. An ordinary encounter, a photograph, or a remembered story may offer a direct association without needing a hidden explanation.\n\nA leap can change a scene very quickly. A frog that moves just as you approach differs from one that lands in the place you intended to use. Notice whether the movement surprises you, helps you find a route, or repeatedly interrupts a task. You might explore how an unexpected small change affects your plans, if a particular waking comparison fits. The dream does not establish that you are unreliable or that another person will evade you.\n\nSound gives a different kind of direction. Several calls can create company, become difficult to ignore, or make it hard to locate one voice. A single call that stops when you arrive may leave curiosity rather than fear. Record what you wanted from the sound: reassurance that something was present, a way to find the animal, or simply quiet enough to continue another activity.\n\nThe boundary between two places may also matter. A frog may enter a house, remain beside a pond, or move between stepping stones while you hesitate. These are remembered actions, not instructions for how you should live. A comparison could concern moving between familiar settings or deciding where an activity belongs, but it should remain tied to a detail you can actually recall.\n\nIf a frog talks, changes size, or appears in a fairy-tale role, preserve the impossible detail and your response. A playful conversation asks a different question from being given a task you did not choose. You can consider a personal association with change, promises, or surprise without assuming that the dream foretells a relationship, a pregnancy, or a fortunate event.", "traditional": "The supplied books disagree. Miller assigns different forecasts to catching, seeing, hearing and eating frogs, including unsupported health and marriage claims. Fontaine and Noe offer favorable predictions, while Cielo and Everybody’s Book of Luck give warnings. The 1644 Artemidorus translation relates a household-authority story. Craig collects further attributed claims about luck and transformation; those attributions are Craig’s report, not independently established cultural history. None of these seven accounts assesses health, predicts family events, or verifies the character of a person in a present reader’s life.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A frog jumps onto the stepping stone you chose", "reflection": "Your intended next foothold is suddenly occupied. Notice whether you wait, choose another route or continue sharing the space. The scene can make a small interruption consequential without implying that your plans are being deliberately blocked." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You follow a call but find an empty pond", "reflection": "The sound has supplied a direction without delivering the encounter you expected. Curiosity, disappointment or relief each creates a different ending. Consider what you hoped to confirm rather than treating absence as proof of deception." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Several frogs call while you try to hear one voice", "reflection": "Attention moves between a group and a particular source. This could resemble listening for one contribution in a crowded situation. The comparison depends on what you wanted to hear, not a claim that any real speaker is untrustworthy." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A frog appears in the cup you were about to use", "reflection": "An ordinary object acquires an unexpected occupant. The question may concern making space for a new situation or changing a familiar routine. Record the practical choice you made without using the dream to infer contamination or danger in waking life." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You watch a frog move easily while you hesitate at the bank", "reflection": "Another creature follows a route you are not ready to take. Notice whether you want to follow it at all. The scene can open a question about choosing your own point of entry, without judging hesitation as failure." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "A frog wearing a crown asks you for directions", "reflection": "An impossible visitor has a request rather than a secret message. Pay attention to whether you help, laugh, question the title or refuse the task. A remembered tale may be part of the association, while your response remains particular to this scene." } ], "prompts": [ "Which sound or movement first drew your attention?", "What place did you want to reach or keep available?", "How did your response change after the surprise?" ], "related": [ "pond", "water", "river", "lizard", "garden" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "scope": "Historical belief only; supplied passage: Frogs — Heading 839; source lines 9762–9783. Does not validate the original reflections or establish health, character, luck or future events.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0839" ] }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "scope": "Historical belief only; supplied passage: Frog — Heading 277; source line 2186. Does not validate the original reflections or establish health, character, luck or future events.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0277" ] }, { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display.", "scope": "Historical belief only; supplied passage: Of Frogges. — Book 2, encoded section 78. Does not validate the original reflections or establish health, character, luck or future events.", "recordIds": [ "artemidorus-078" ] }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "scope": "Historical belief only; supplied passage: Frogs — Dream section, heading 199; source lines 856–861. Does not validate the original reflections or establish health, character, luck or future events.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0197" ] }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "scope": "Historical belief only; supplied passage: Frog — Dream section, heading 182; source lines 4290–4292. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. 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For a young woman, this dream\nsignifies the absence of her lover and danger of his affections waning.\nThis dream is bad for all classes in business and love." }, { "id": "luck-0093", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Frost", "text": "Success through aid of friends.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 93; source lines 3740–3742", "lineStart": 3740, "lineEnd": 3742, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Success through aid of friends." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10070", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Frost", "heading": "Frost", "text": "An unfortunate dream (Raphael). 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If you dream of eating fruit that proves to be sour or\nrotten, it shows disappointment: if a young girl dreams this, it is a\nsign that her lover will deceive her. 32.", "locator": "Heading 278; source line 2192", "lineStart": 2192, "lineEnd": 2199, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of fruit which is ripe and fair to look upon is an\nexcellent omen, as it foretells the most perfect success in all worldly\nmatters: if the fruit is green or defective, it indicates trouble with\nyour success. If you dream of eating fruit that proves to be sour or\nrotten, it shows disappointment: if a young girl dreams this, it is a\nsign that her lover will deceive her." }, { "id": "artemidorus-055", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of Fruits.", "text": "TO dreame of Summer Apples, which are sweet and ripe is good, for they signifie a good time and joyfulnesse. Sowre Apples, or other, signifie noise and sedition: Quinces signify heavines. 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Mulberries signifie the same that pomegranats do: to sée the mulberry trée, signifies linage and generation to him that sees it, but it must not be plucked up, or rooted out: for then it is losse of children: Peares of the last yeare are good, wilde Peares are good onely to Husbandmen.", "locator": "Book 1, encoded section 55", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "1", "displayText": "To dreame of Summer Apples, which are sweet and ripe is good, for they signifie a good time and joyfulnesse. Sowre Apples, or other, signifie noise and sedition: Quinces signify heavines. Almonds, Walnuts, and Filberts, are trouble and anger. Figs in their season are good, especially the white: out of season they are calumnies and detractions. Raysins in season▪ and out of season are good, and most often they signifye good by women. Pomegranets signify stripes, by reason of their colour. Peaches, Cherries, and other such fruits being ripe, signifye deceitfull pleasures, when one dreams he eats them in season, but being out of season, they signifie travail and labor in vain. Mulberries signifie the same that pomegranats do: to sée the mulberry trée, signifies linage and generation to him that sees it, but it must not be plucked up, or rooted out: for then it is losse of children: Peares of the last yeare are good, wilde Peares are good onely to Husbandmen." }, { "id": "noe-0198", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Fruits", "text": "If you dream of fruits when out of season, or\nthat you are gathering them when green, denotes sickness. If you dream\nthey are rotten, it foretells poverty. To dream of gathering ripe fruit,\nwhen there is plenty, betokens happiness and riches, and the speedy\nreceipt of money. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "frustration", "title": "Frustration", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "summary": "Frustration dreams may picture blocked effort, an unusable process, or the need for a different way to reach something you still want.", "tagline": "Effort is present; the route keeps refusing to work.", "aliases": [ "frustration", "frustrated", "feeling frustrated" ], "status": "REVIEW", "psychological": "Frustration can make a dream about effort that fails to connect with an effect. You press the correct button and receive the same useless response, explain something clearly and get an unrelated answer, or finish a step only to discover another requirement. The irritation may concern the arrangement more than your ability. A waking task with repeated interruptions, unclear instructions or an unreliable process can offer a concrete comparison.\n\nThe type of obstruction changes the reading. A hard task may become manageable with practice, while a rule that changes after each attempt gives you no stable way to improve. A queue that never advances makes waiting central. A listener who answers another question makes being understood central. These scenes should not all become a general message to try harder; the dream may be displaying why more of the same effort does not help.\n\nFrustration can also arise within something you enjoy. Preparing a valued meal, joining a game or making something beautiful may remain desirable even when the conditions are inconvenient. That mixture can picture wanting the activity while needing a different pace, clearer agreement or practical resource. It differs from disappointment with the activity itself. The pleasure that survives the interruption can clarify what is worth preserving.\n\nA repeated attempt may narrow the scene until every alternative disappears from attention. Finding another entrance, asking a specific question or setting the task down can change the experience without making the original goal unimportant. A dream in which somebody offers a simpler method may picture the value of usable help, especially if the help leaves you involved rather than takes over.\n\nThe ending need not resolve the obstruction. Waking midway through a stalled process can leave irritation that belongs to the unfinished story. Relief after abandoning an unnecessary requirement may instead make the requirement’s authority questionable. These are possible readings of effort, access and conditions; they are not evidence that you are incapable or that a real person intends to obstruct you. Ordinary delays, recent technical problems or an amusing impossible task can be enough to supply the imagery.", "traditional": "This is an original reading of thwarted effort. Difficulty concerns obstacles and Anger can concern a perceived wrong; neither establishes one meaning for every frustrated feeling. No historical Frustration account is attached here. Everyday interfaces, queues, repeated explanations and unfinished jobs offer concrete context without supplying a symbolic code.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Effort without a usable effect", "reflection": "The process may be failing to respond rather than simply demanding more skill." }, { "title": "What the obstacle actually is", "reflection": "Timing, information, communication and changing rules produce different frustrations." }, { "title": "A wanted purpose, another method", "reflection": "An alternative can preserve the goal while reducing an unhelpful struggle." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Every completed step creates another requirement", "reflection": "The task prevents a finish from having its ordinary meaning. This can resemble a request that expands whenever you meet it or an approval process without stable criteria. The frustration may concern the absence of a workable endpoint, rather than unwillingness to contribute." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A simple machine repeats the same failed response", "reflection": "The repeated response makes your action feel unable to enter the system. A malfunctioning interface or a routine that never changes despite effort offers a comparison. Discovering a different method would change the relationship between action and effect, not merely your level of patience." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You explain clearly but the listener answers another question", "reflection": "Your words arrive, but the response does not address what you meant. This can resemble an exchange where clarification keeps increasing the mismatch. The scene may concern a shared frame of understanding rather than a need to produce a longer or more persuasive explanation." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A queue moves whenever you leave it", "reflection": "The movement makes your choice seem wrong whichever option you take. A process with uncertain timing or unequal access can feel similar. The frustration may center on whether there is a fair way to proceed, rather than on arriving fast enough." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You stop trying and find an ordinary alternative", "reflection": "An ordinary alternative can make the purpose accessible again. The shift may picture the value of changing conditions instead of increasing force. Relief need not mean that the original effort was foolish; it can come from finding a route that fits the actual task." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You feel frustrated during something enjoyable", "reflection": "The dream keeps desire and irritation together. A valued hobby, shared outing or meal with inconvenient demands can create the same mixture. The useful distinction is between wanting to stop the activity and wanting the activity to occur under more workable conditions." } ], "prompts": [ "Which part of the process prevented your effort from having an effect?", "What about the goal remained wanted despite the frustration?", "What changed when you tried another method or stopped trying?" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "related": [ "difficulty", "anger", "disappointment", "being-trapped" ], "updated": "2026-10-13", "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "funeral", "title": "Funeral", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "Taking part in a shared farewell", "summary": "A funeral may stage participation in a shared farewell, the form of a ceremony and the relationship between private feelings and a public gathering.", "aliases": [ "funeral", "funerals", "burial", "attending a funeral", "own funeral", "memorial service" ], "status": "REVIEW", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A funeral gives a dream a gathering organized around a death or farewell. People arrive, take positions, follow a ceremony or try to decide what should happen next. The central action may be attending, speaking, arranging the event or leaving afterward. This differs from experiencing your own dying or visiting a cemetery outside a service. Identify whose funeral it was, including whether the person was known or the identity remained uncertain.\n\nThe ceremony's form can fit or differ from what you personally recognize. A familiar song, an unexpected room or a custom nobody explains may affect your ability to participate. Actual services, fiction, family conversations and remembered gatherings can supply details directly. A dreamed ceremony does not predict a death, confirm a person's condition or establish that one form of farewell is required.\n\nYour role may create a practical task beside your feelings. You might arrange chairs, find a missing guest, carry an object or prepare to speak. This could resemble holding a group activity together while your own experience remains less visible. The task need not prove avoidance of grief; it can be one way participation takes shape within the scene.\n\nPrivate emotion and public behavior may differ. You may feel little while others cry, become upset during a cheerful passage or want quiet while the gathering becomes busy. These responses do not reveal how much you cared or a correct way to mourn. Notice what the people actually allow: conversation, distance, help or room to leave.\n\nSpeaking can bring memory and audience together. A remembered detail may feel too personal for the microphone, or a formal account may omit what mattered to you. The scene can invite reflection on what a gathering preserves and what remains private without making your dreamed account historically reliable. After the ceremony, returning to an ordinary place may feel changed or surprisingly familiar. A personal reading can concern how you participate in the farewell, what is shared and what you carry afterward. It need not turn the service into a universal symbol of closure, a wish for somebody's death or an instruction about a real ritual.", "traditional": "The Funeral accounts conflict: Miller gives mainly unfavorable family forecasts, while Fontaine, Cielo and the anonymous luck book link funerals with festive or favorable events. Noe combines burial with marriage, loss and inheritance predictions. Craig attributes a wealth-related forecast to Artemidorus and a wish-dream label to Freud. These are period claims, not predictions or evidence of a hidden wish.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "You attend a funeral but nobody identifies the person", "reflection": "The gathering has a purpose whose particular subject remains uncertain. This may make participation or expectation more central than one known loss. Record what you are asked to do and how the uncertainty feels; it does not identify a future death or hidden target." }, { "title": "You arrange the room while other people begin the ceremony", "reflection": "A practical responsibility keeps you at the edge of the shared event. This may resemble supporting a group while your own participation receives less space. Notice whether help becomes available; carrying out a task does not automatically mean you are avoiding emotion." }, { "title": "You are asked to speak but want to keep one memory private", "reflection": "A personal detail meets the expectations of an audience. This could explore what you wish to share and what belongs to your own relationship with the person. Choosing another story, declining or speaking briefly can each make a different boundary available." }, { "title": "The music feels familiar but the ceremony uses an unexpected form", "reflection": "Recognition and unfamiliarity coexist within the farewell. This may draw on several memories or imagined customs. Notice what helps you participate rather than treating one form as the correct tradition or assuming that unfamiliar ritual predicts something about the person being mourned." }, { "title": "Your feelings do not match the expressions of the other guests", "reflection": "Private experience differs from the gathering's visible tone. This may invite description of what you actually felt without a measure of how much you cared. The dream need not prove emotional failure or prescribe that your response should become like everyone else's." }, { "title": "You return home with an object from the service", "reflection": "The gathering ends while a concrete reminder remains in ordinary life. This could center what you carry from an event, including comfort, uncertainty or practical responsibility. Describe the object and its use without assuming that keeping it establishes closure or contact with someone who died." } ], "prompts": [ "Whose farewell was being marked, and what was your role?", "How did the ceremony's form fit or differ from your experience?", "What remained with you when the gathering ended or changed?" ], "related": [ "cemetery", "mourning", "deceased-loved-one", "own-funeral", "dying" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0843" ], "scope": "Historical comparison only: Miller varies unfavorable family, marriage and worry forecasts with whose funeral is seen and attending in black; his child-funeral clause combines a family-health forecast with later disappointments. Exact owned passages: Funeral — miller-0843 (Heading 843; source lines 9816–9828). These period claims do not validate the original reflections or establish present-day outcomes." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0279" ], "scope": "Historical comparison only: Fontaine forecasts a wedding or festive gathering from attending a funeral, and an outdoor pleasure outing from seeing a funeral pass. Exact owned passages: Funeral — fontaine-0279 (Heading 279; source line 2199). These period claims do not validate the original reflections or establish present-day outcomes." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0199" ], "scope": "Historical comparison only: Noe combines marriage, death or imprisonment news, inheritance and wealth forecasts around burial, particular funeral attendees and a feathered hearse. Exact owned passages: Funeral — noe-0199 (Dream section, heading 201; source lines 868–876). These period claims do not validate the original reflections or establish present-day outcomes." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0183" ], "scope": "Historical comparison only: Cielo assigns a birth or marriage forecast to seeing or attending a funeral. Exact owned passages: Funeral — cielo-0183 (Dream section, heading 183; source lines 4292–4295). These period claims do not validate the original reflections or establish present-day outcomes." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0095" ], "scope": "Historical comparison only: The anonymous book assigns a legacy or rich-marriage forecast to Funeral. Exact owned passages: Funeral — luck-0095 (Dream section, heading 95; source lines 3745–3750). These period claims do not validate the original reflections or establish present-day outcomes." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L10074" ], "scope": "Historical comparison only: Craig assigns wealthy-marriage or relative-derived-fortune forecasts to a relative’s or great lord’s funeral, attributing them to Artemidorus, and calls Funeral a wish dream under a Freud attribution. Neither attribution makes the original reflection a diagnosis or an authenticated universal theory. Exact owned passages: Funeral — craig-1918:L10074 (Printed p. 218; NLM OCR lines 10074–10079). These period claims do not validate the original reflections or establish present-day outcomes." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection independently reviewed for content and source scope. Historical accounts remain attributed period writing. Human publication review pending.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A role inside the gathering", "reflection": "Practical responsibilities can organize participation alongside, rather than instead of, personal emotion." }, { "title": "Public ceremony and private feeling", "reflection": "The service's visible form may not match what you experience, without measuring care or grief." }, { "title": "What a farewell preserves", "reflection": "Speaking, listening and leaving can distinguish a shared account from memories that remain personal." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0843", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Funeral", "text": "To see a funeral, denotes an unhappy marriage and sickly offspring.\n\nTo dream of the funeral of a stranger, denotes unexpected worries.\nTo see the funeral of your child, may denote the health of your family,\nbut very grave disappointments may follow from a friendly source.\n\nTo attend a funeral in black, foretells an early widowhood.\nTo dream of the funeral of any relative, denotes nervous troubles\nand family worries.", "locator": "Heading 843; source lines 9816–9828", "lineStart": 9816, "lineEnd": 9828, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a funeral, denotes an unhappy marriage and sickly offspring.\n\nTo dream of the funeral of a stranger, denotes unexpected worries.\nTo see the funeral of your child, may denote the health of your family,\nbut very grave disappointments may follow from a friendly source.\n\nTo attend a funeral in black, foretells an early widowhood.\nTo dream of the funeral of any relative, denotes nervous troubles\nand family worries." }, { "id": "fontaine-0279", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Funeral", "text": "To dream of attending a funeral shows that you will probably\nbe soon at a wedding or some gay party. If, in your dream, you see\na funeral pass, it denotes a pleasure party out of doors, such as a\npic-nic or excursion. 18, 1.", "locator": "Heading 279; source line 2199", "lineStart": 2199, "lineEnd": 2204, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of attending a funeral shows that you will probably\nbe soon at a wedding or some gay party. If, in your dream, you see\na funeral pass, it denotes a pleasure party out of doors, such as a\npic-nic or excursion." }, { "id": "noe-0199", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Funeral", "text": "To dream of a burial, denotes speedy marriage, and that you\nwill hear of the death or imprisonment of some near relation or esteemed\nfriend. It also foretells the acquisition of wealth, and that an estate\nwill fall to you from a distant relation by your mothers side. If you see\nany particular person attending a funeral, either that person, or some\nfriend of his, will die and leave you something. If there is a hearse with\nfeathers on it, you will many some rich person yourself, or assist at some\nrelation’s wedding, who will marry well and be a friend to you.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 201; source lines 868–876", "lineStart": 868, "lineEnd": 876, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a burial, denotes speedy marriage, and that you\nwill hear of the death or imprisonment of some near relation or esteemed\nfriend. It also foretells the acquisition of wealth, and that an estate\nwill fall to you from a distant relation by your mothers side. If you see\nany particular person attending a funeral, either that person, or some\nfriend of his, will die and leave you something. If there is a hearse with\nfeathers on it, you will many some rich person yourself, or assist at some\nrelation’s wedding, who will marry well and be a friend to you." }, { "id": "cielo-0183", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Funeral", "text": "To see or attend a funeral is a sign of a\n birth or marriage.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 183; source lines 4292–4295", "lineStart": 4292, "lineEnd": 4295, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see or attend a funeral is a sign of a\nbirth or marriage." }, { "id": "luck-0095", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Funeral", "text": "A legacy or a rich marriage.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 95; source lines 3745–3750", "lineStart": 3745, "lineEnd": 3750, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "A legacy or a rich marriage." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10074", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Funeral", "heading": "Funeral", "text": "The funeral of a relative or a great lord is a good dream; betokening either a wealthy marriage or a fortune through relatives (Artemidorus). A wish dream (Freud).", "lineStart": 10074, "lineEnd": 10079, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 218; NLM OCR lines 10074–10079", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10074, "lineEnd": 10079, "printedPage": 218, "printedPageEnd": 218 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Funeral. — The funeral of a relative or a great lord is a \ngood dream; betokening either a wealthy marriage or a for- \ntune through relatives (Artemidorus). A wish dream (Freud). \n\nG \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [ { "line": 10078, "text": "G " } ], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "for- \ntune", "after": "fortune", "evidenceLine": 2095 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Funeral" }, "displayText": "The funeral of a relative or a great lord is a good dream; betokening either a wealthy marriage or a fortune through relatives (Artemidorus). A wish dream (Freud)." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "furnace", "title": "Furnace", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a furnace, foretells good luck if it is running.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "furnace" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about furnace stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0844", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Furnace", "text": "To dream of a furnace, foretells good luck if it is running.\nIf out of repair, you will have trouble with children or hired help.\nTo fall into one, portends some enemy will overpower you in\na business struggle.", "locator": "Heading 844; source lines 9828–9835", "lineStart": 9828, "lineEnd": 9835, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a furnace, foretells good luck if it is running.\nIf out of repair, you will have trouble with children or hired help.\nTo fall into one, portends some enemy will overpower you in\na business struggle." }, { "id": "noe-0204", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Furnace", "text": "To dream of seeing a\nfurnace, indicates a quarrel which will cost you dear friends. If you heat\nthe furnace, you will be the only sufferer.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 206; source lines 888–890", "lineStart": 888, "lineEnd": 890, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing a\nfurnace, indicates a quarrel which will cost you dear friends. If you heat\nthe furnace, you will be the only sufferer." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "furniture", "title": "Furniture", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “To dream of getting new furniture that pleases you, is good.”", "aliases": [ "furniture" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about furniture stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "noe-0169", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Furniture", "text": "To dream of getting new\nfurniture that pleases you, is good. If it seems not to please, the dream\nis a bad one. To be pleased with furniture, denotes health, happiness and\nprosperity. To display furniture, denotes trouble, perhaps a death or a\nfuneral.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 171; source lines 746–750", "lineStart": 746, "lineEnd": 750, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of getting new\nfurniture that pleases you, is good. If it seems not to please, the dream\nis a bad one. To be pleased with furniture, denotes health, happiness and\nprosperity. To display furniture, denotes trouble, perhaps a death or a\nfuneral." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "furs", "title": "Furs", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of dealing in furs, denotes prosperity and an interest in many concerns.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "furs", "fur" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about furs stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0845", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Furs", "text": "To dream of dealing in furs, denotes prosperity and an interest\nin many concerns.\n\nTo be dressed in fur, signifies your safety from want and poverty.\n\nTo see fine fur, denotes honor and riches. For a young woman to dream\nthat she is wearing costly furs, denotes that she will marry a wise man.", "locator": "Heading 845; source lines 9835–9845", "lineStart": 9835, "lineEnd": 9845, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of dealing in furs, denotes prosperity and an interest\nin many concerns.\n\nTo be dressed in fur, signifies your safety from want and poverty.\n\nTo see fine fur, denotes honor and riches. For a young woman to dream\nthat she is wearing costly furs, denotes that she will marry a wise man." }, { "id": "fontaine-0280", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Fur", "text": "To dream of fur signifies much good; it denotes that your\nsweetheart is kind and true, and that if you marry, you will be very\nhappy; it denotes to the merchant a good establishment in business, to\nthe sailor a profitable voyage. 61, 78.", "locator": "Heading 280; source line 2204", "lineStart": 2204, "lineEnd": 2209, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of fur signifies much good; it denotes that your\nsweetheart is kind and true, and that if you marry, you will be very\nhappy; it denotes to the merchant a good establishment in business, to\nthe sailor a profitable voyage." }, { "id": "cielo-0184", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Fur", "text": "To wear fur signifies long life and happiness.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 184; source lines 4295–4297", "lineStart": 4295, "lineEnd": 4297, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To wear fur signifies long life and happiness." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "future", "title": "Future", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of the future, is a prognostic of careful reckoning and avoiding of detrimental extravagance.”", "aliases": [ "future" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about future stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0846", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Future", "text": "To dream of the future, is a prognostic of careful reckoning and avoiding\nof detrimental extravagance.", "locator": "Heading 846; source lines 9845–9858", "lineStart": 9845, "lineEnd": 9858, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of the future, is a prognostic of careful reckoning and avoiding\nof detrimental extravagance." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "gad-flies", "title": "Gad-flies", "type": "dreams", "category": "Other symbols", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “A dream of trouble in store for the dreamer (Gypsy).”", "aliases": [ "gad-flies" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about gad-flies stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. 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OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L10080", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Gad-flies", "heading": "Gad-flies", "text": "A dream of trouble in store for the dreamer (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 10080, "lineEnd": 10082, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 218; NLM OCR lines 10080–10082", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10080, "lineEnd": 10082, "printedPage": 218, "printedPageEnd": 218 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Gad-flies. — A dream of trouble in store for the dreamer \n(Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Gad-flies" }, "displayText": "A dream of trouble in store for the dreamer (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "gag", "title": "Gag", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “If you dream that your mouth is stopped by a gag, it denotes that you will soon thereafter be kissed by a pretty girl.”", "aliases": [ "gag" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about gag stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0281", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Gag", "text": "If you dream that your mouth is stopped by a gag, it denotes that\nyou will soon thereafter be kissed by a pretty girl. To a young girl,\nsuch a dream predicts that she will see some gentleman who takes her\nfancy, and perhaps will fall in love with him. 13.", "locator": "Heading 281; source line 2209", "lineStart": 2209, "lineEnd": 2214, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream that your mouth is stopped by a gag, it denotes that\nyou will soon thereafter be kissed by a pretty girl. To a young girl,\nsuch a dream predicts that she will see some gentleman who takes her\nfancy, and perhaps will fall in love with him." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0847", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Gaiter", "text": "To dream of gaiters, foretells pleasant amusements and rivalries.", "locator": "Heading 847; source lines 9858–9860", "lineStart": 9858, "lineEnd": 9860, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of gaiters, foretells pleasant amusements and rivalries." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "galaxy", "title": "Galaxy", "category": "Nature & elements", "aliases": [ "galaxy", "galaxies", "milky way" ], "summary": "A galaxy can frame a search for perspective, belonging, or possibilities beyond your usual world. Wonder, isolation, and finding a route differ.", "psychological": "A galaxy gives a dream an enormous field of separate points that can still appear to belong to one whole. The image may fit a search for perspective: a concern that fills your ordinary day suddenly becomes one part of a much larger setting. Feeling relieved can suggest that scale has loosened pressure. Feeling insignificant can make the same view a question about whether your own needs and actions have a place.\n\nThe relationship between one point and the whole is useful. Looking for a particular star, world, or person among many can resemble trying to find your position in a large organization, a new community, or a field of choices. A recognizable place offers orientation; an endless view without a landmark can make possibility difficult to use. The dream may be concerned with finding one workable direction rather than with the sheer number of available routes.\n\nTraveling through a galaxy adds movement and agency. Choosing where to go can picture exploration, ambition, or pleasure in a life that feels less constrained. Being lost far from home may instead express the cost of expansion: more options are available, but familiar support is distant. A companion, a map, or a route back can make growing outward feel compatible with belonging.\n\nA galaxy held in your hand, inside a room, or within a small object brings the vast into the intimate. This can resemble discovering complexity in something you had taken for granted, or finding that a personal project contains more possibilities than expected. A remembered planetarium, photograph, game, or story may also provide the image. Your emotional response determines whether the scale offers perspective, overwhelms you, or makes exploration inviting.", "traditional": "These possibilities follow the dream's scale, movement, and sense of place. They do not assert a message from the universe or a meaning shared by every culture. Personal experiences of astronomy imagery, fiction, night skies, or unfamiliar communities may explain why this particular setting felt available to the dream.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A wider perspective", "reflection": "An enormous view can put an ordinary concern into a different scale, bringing relief or a feeling of smallness." }, { "title": "Finding your place", "reflection": "Searching among many points can picture belonging, orientation, or choosing one useful direction from numerous possibilities." }, { "title": "Expansion and distance", "reflection": "Travel through unfamiliar worlds can combine curiosity with the question of what keeps you connected to home or support." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "Looking up at a vast galaxy", "reflection": "The view changes the scale of your surroundings. A calm encounter can resemble seeing a work setback as one part of a wider life. 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Human publication review pending.", "tagline": "A wider view, a place to belong, and directions still open.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "gale", "title": "Gale", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of being caught in a gale, signifies business losses and troubles for working people.”", "aliases": [ "gale" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about gale stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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To those embarking in new enterprises, such a dream\nforetells success. 10, 7, 6.", "locator": "Heading 283; source line 2217", "lineStart": 2217, "lineEnd": 2223, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Execution and Hanged.) To dream of a gallows is a\ngood omen, as it denotes that you will have a chance to make money,\nand if you are smart enough to avail yourself of the opportunity, it\nwill be all right. To those embarking in new enterprises, such a dream\nforetells success." }, { "id": "noe-0210", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Gallows", "text": "To dream of the gallows\nis a most fortunate omen. It shows that the dreamer will become rich and\narrive at great honors. To the lover, it shows the consummation of his\nmost sanguine wishes, and that by marriage he will become rich and happy,\nhave many children, particularly a son, who will become a great man, and\nbe the founder of his family’s honor.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 212; source lines 906–911", "lineStart": 906, "lineEnd": 911, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of the gallows\nis a most fortunate omen. It shows that the dreamer will become rich and\narrive at great honors. To the lover, it shows the consummation of his\nmost sanguine wishes, and that by marriage he will become rich and happy,\nhave many children, particularly a son, who will become a great man, and\nbe the founder of his family’s honor." }, { "id": "cielo-0185", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Gallows", "text": "To see a gallows is a sign of dignity,\n honor and wealth.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 185; source lines 4297–4301", "lineStart": 4297, "lineEnd": 4301, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a gallows is a sign of dignity,\nhonor and wealth." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10083", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Gallows", "heading": "Gallows", "text": "Fortunate, the dreamer will rise proportionately to the height (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 10083, "lineEnd": 10086, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 218; NLM OCR lines 10083–10086", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10083, "lineEnd": 10086, "printedPage": 218, "printedPageEnd": 218 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Gallows. — Fortunate, the dreamer will rise proportionately \n\nto the height (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Gallows" }, "displayText": "Fortunate, the dreamer will rise proportionately to the height (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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To dream of gambling is a sign of poverty\nand disgrace. If, in your dream, you see others gamble, and do not\nengage in it yourself, it shows that some of your friends or relatives\nwill have a reverse of fortune and become poor." }, { "id": "cielo-0186", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Gambling", "text": "Is a warning against deception.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 186; source lines 4301–4303", "lineStart": 4301, "lineEnd": 4303, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Is a warning against deception." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0849", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Gambling-house", "text": "To dream that you are gambling and win, signifies low\nassociations and pleasure at the expense of others.\nIf you lose, it foretells that your disgraceful conduct will\nbe the undoing of one near to you.", "locator": "Heading 850; source lines 9881–9888", "lineStart": 9881, "lineEnd": 9888, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are gambling and win, signifies low\nassociations and pleasure at the expense of others.\nIf you lose, it foretells that your disgraceful conduct will\nbe the undoing of one near to you." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "game", "title": "Game", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of game, either shooting or killing or by other means, denotes fortunate undertakings.”", "aliases": [ "game" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about game stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0850", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Game", "text": "To dream of game, either shooting or killing or by other means,\ndenotes fortunate undertakings; but selfish motions; if you fail\nto take game on a hunt, it denotes bad management and loss.", "locator": "Heading 851; source lines 9888–9894", "lineStart": 9888, "lineEnd": 9894, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of game, either shooting or killing or by other means,\ndenotes fortunate undertakings; but selfish motions; if you fail\nto take game on a hunt, it denotes bad management and loss." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "games", "title": "Games", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “To dream one plays at ball or top, signifies travail and pains, and to gain wealth by contention and injury.”", "aliases": [ "games" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about games stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "noe-0223", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Games", "text": "To dream one plays at ball or top,\nsignifies travail and pains, and to gain wealth by contention and injury.\nTo leap, run, or dance, signifies prosperity in affairs; but to dance\nwithout music, foretells want of money.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 225; source lines 969–972", "lineStart": 969, "lineEnd": 972, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream one plays at ball or top,\nsignifies travail and pains, and to gain wealth by contention and injury.\nTo leap, run, or dance, signifies prosperity in affairs; but to dance\nwithout music, foretells want of money." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "gangrene", "title": "Gangrene", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you see any one afflicted with gangrene, foretells the death of a parent or near relative.”", "aliases": [ "gangrene" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about gangrene stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0851", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Gangrene", "text": "To dream that you see any one afflicted with gangrene, foretells the death\nof a parent or near relative.", "locator": "Heading 852; source lines 9894–9899", "lineStart": 9894, "lineEnd": 9899, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you see any one afflicted with gangrene, foretells the death\nof a parent or near relative." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "garage", "title": "Garage", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "aliases": [ "car garage", "home garage", "garage door" ], "summary": "A garage can picture storage, preparation, or a pause between home and the outside world. Parking, repairing, and clearing a route create different readings.", "tagline": "A sheltered place holds what will eventually carry you outward.", "psychological": "A garage sits between keeping something protected and putting it into use. A vehicle can wait there, receive repairs, or remain inaccessible behind stored possessions. This makes the setting useful for thinking about readiness: you may have a plan or resource but need preparation before it can carry you into a new situation. Resting in the garage differs from feeling unable to leave it.\n\nParking can picture the deliberate suspension of an activity. Finishing a workday, pausing a project, or choosing not to pursue an opportunity immediately may feel similar. An orderly space can suggest that the pause has a place and an endpoint. Searching endlessly for room can instead make it difficult to set a responsibility down, as when unfinished tasks follow you into personal time.\n\nRepairs bring attention to maintenance rather than movement. A vehicle that becomes usable after patient work can picture restoring a routine or revising a plan that has stopped functioning well. Watching repairs you do not understand may concern reliance on another person’s skills. The useful distinction is whether the work increases readiness or keeps postponing departure without a clear result.\n\nStored objects can make the garage a record of earlier activities. Equipment from abandoned hobbies, boxes from a move, or another person’s possessions may occupy space needed for a present purpose. This can fit deciding which commitments to keep and which no longer require room in daily life. The emotional attachment to the objects matters as much as their quantity.\n\nA door that opens changes the relationship between shelter and access. You can return to the wider world when ready, or choose privacy by closing it. A real storage problem or repair may also supply the dream. Consider what the space was holding and whether its protection helped or delayed what you wanted to do.", "traditional": "Parking, storage, and repairs can all place a garage in a dream without an additional symbolic cause. The original interpretation distinguishes a sheltered pause from preparation or access that never reaches departure; no historical garage account is supplied here.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Readiness before departure", "reflection": "A sheltered vehicle can picture a plan or resource being prepared for use. The garage may connect with a deliberate pause, needed maintenance, or difficulty reaching the next stage." }, { "title": "Somewhere to set a task down", "reflection": "Parking can give an activity a temporary endpoint. A usable space may fit finishing work for the day, while no available room can picture responsibilities that keep following you." }, { "title": "Past activities occupy present space", "reflection": "Stored equipment and boxes may represent attachments or commitments retained from earlier periods. Their value and their interference help distinguish useful preservation from space needed for a current purpose." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You park easily and walk into the house", "reflection": "A responsibility may feel complete enough to leave for now. Closing a workday or pausing a project at a clear stage offers a parallel. The ease of parking makes separation possible without requiring the whole activity to be finished forever." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Boxes block the car from leaving", "reflection": "Earlier commitments or possessions may compete with a current plan. A move, unfinished hobby, or task kept for later can feel similar. Which boxes you are willing to shift matters: the obstacle may involve attachment rather than a lack of practical space alone." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You repair a car until it starts", "reflection": "Maintenance can picture restoring the conditions that make progress possible. Revising an unworkable schedule or repairing cooperation on a shared task may fit. The engine starting gives the work a visible result, unlike preparation that continues without improving readiness." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "The garage door opens unexpectedly", "reflection": "A sheltered space becomes accessible before you intended. This can fit a private project being seen early or a boundary between work and home becoming less reliable. Welcome openness differs from intrusion; your response shows which aspect matters." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You find equipment from an old hobby", "reflection": "An earlier interest may still feel available even after a long pause. Remembering an activity you once enjoyed or reconsidering an abandoned plan offers a parallel. The condition of the equipment can suggest whether returning feels inviting or requires renewed preparation." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You cannot find a place to park", "reflection": "Setting something aside may be difficult when every available space is occupied. A schedule without a stopping point or a home filled with ongoing tasks can feel similar. The scene concerns room for a pause, rather than necessarily a problem with your destination." } ], "prompts": [ "Was the garage protecting, preparing, or preventing movement?", "What had been stored there, and did I still want to keep it?", "Could I leave when ready and return when needed?" ], "related": [ "car", "house", "door", "clutter" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia interpretation with image-specific possibilities and six differentiated scenes. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "garbage", "title": "Garbage", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see heaps of garbage in your dreams, indicates thoughts of social scandal and unfavorable business of every character.”", "aliases": [ "garbage" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about garbage stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0853", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Garbage", "text": "To see heaps of garbage in your dreams, indicates thoughts\nof social scandal and unfavorable business of every character.\nFor females this dream is ominous of disparagement and\ndesertion by lovers.", "locator": "Heading 854; source lines 9909–9916", "lineStart": 9909, "lineEnd": 9916, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see heaps of garbage in your dreams, indicates thoughts\nof social scandal and unfavorable business of every character.\nFor females this dream is ominous of disparagement and\ndesertion by lovers." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "garden", "title": "Garden", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "A cultivated place can accommodate more than one purpose.", "summary": "Garden dreams may explore a place shaped by care, competing uses, access and what you choose to preserve or change.", "aliases": [ "garden", "gardens", "gardening", "overgrown garden", "vegetable garden", "backyard" ], "status": "REVIEW", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-14", "psychological": "A garden combines a place with decisions about its use. Paths, beds, tools, seats and the things growing there may show different purposes within the same space. Begin with whose garden it is and what you want to do there. A real garden, childhood place or recent visit can supply direct context. The dream does not assess your health or require flourishing and overgrowth to measure personal success.\n\nA path disappearing beneath growth can make access the immediate issue. You might want to reach a familiar seat while another route remains open. This can resemble returning to an activity after its arrangement has changed. Clearing the earlier route, choosing a different one or deciding that the destination no longer matters provides distinct possibilities. The scene can concern how you enter and use the place, rather than assuming that everything growing without your attention has been neglected.\n\nShared care introduces different ideas about what belongs there. One person may preserve a patch you want to clear, or labels may name plants differently from what you expected. This could picture a joint project whose contributors value different parts. A conversation about the garden’s purpose can become more useful than deciding who has done the work correctly. The dream itself does not reveal the real gardener’s priorities or intentions.\n\nAn available area can also invite a new use. Placing a bench beside beds, leaving room for visitors or setting aside a space to remain undisturbed can make enjoyment part of care. A waking comparison might involve allowing a project or household routine to serve its users after preparation. More work is not always the next action; sitting, observing or letting someone else take part may fit the dream better.\n\nEnclosure changes the terms of access. A wall without an obvious entrance may feel protective from inside and frustrating from outside. Asking for a way in, finding another boundary or choosing to stay where you are gives that difference a practical shape. An old garden whose dimensions change can likewise place recognition beside surprise. These original reflections follow the particular space, its uses and your response, while leaving room for a pleasant visit to be meaningful through its own remembered details.", "traditional": "Miller distinguishes evergreen or flowering gardens, vegetables and walking with a lover, including gendered forecasts. Fontaine varies luck claims with weeds and animals. Noe and the 1894 Guide give closely matching garden-walk fortunes for social position, relationships and work; Noe additionally mentions sailors. Cielo gives a brief future forecast. These period beliefs do not diagnose neglect, health or the result of actual gardening.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "Growth covers the route to a familiar seat", "reflection": "You recognize the destination but find that the old path is no longer clear. This could explore returning to a place or activity under changed conditions. Choosing another route, clearing part of the path or visiting somewhere else lets you consider what you actually wanted to reach." }, { "title": "Someone wants to preserve the patch you would clear", "reflection": "You prepare to remove a section, and another gardener explains why it matters to them. The scene may put different purposes beside a shared task. Asking about its use, agreeing on another area or leaving it for now gives the care a negotiated direction within the dream." }, { "title": "The labels describe something you did not plant", "reflection": "You read names beside the beds and discover that the arrangement differs from the one you expected. This could concern encountering choices made before your involvement. Learning how the place is used or deciding what you want to add gives recognition and participation separate roles." }, { "title": "A bench becomes the next thing the garden needs", "reflection": "The beds are ready, but there is nowhere comfortable to stay and enjoy the place. This may shift attention from preparation to use. Choosing a seat, inviting someone or finding an existing spot can make a practical ending available without requiring continuous work to justify the visit." }, { "title": "You are outside a wall with no visible entrance", "reflection": "The garden seems close, while the boundary leaves you uncertain how to enter. This can picture wanting access to a particular arrangement. Asking who uses it, looking for another approach or deciding to remain outside gives your position a choice; enclosure alone does not establish exclusion." }, { "title": "An old garden has unfamiliar dimensions", "reflection": "You return to a remembered garden and find that distances or the layout have changed. The scene may place recognition beside the need to explore again. Notice which part you seek and how you use the unfamiliar space; the dreamed layout does not verify what happened to the real garden." } ], "prompts": [ "What did you want to reach, use, preserve or change in the garden?", "How did its purposes and boundaries become clear to you?", "Which actual place or shared project gives the details a personal context?" ], "related": [ "plants", "trees", "blossoms", "house" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0854" ], "scope": "Miller contrasts evergreen/flower gardens, vegetables and walking with a lover, assigning peace, loss, gendered domestic and relationship forecasts. Specific supplied passages: Garden — miller-0854 (Heading 855; source lines 9916–9928). Historical comparison only; the attributed period claims do not establish outcomes or diagnoses and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0285" ], "scope": "Fontaine varies garden luck forecasts with a thrifty garden, weeds, rats and pigs; the animal scene receives a thief forecast. Specific supplied passages: Garden — fontaine-0285 (Heading 285; source line 2228). Historical comparison only; the attributed period claims do not establish outcomes or diagnoses and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0211" ], "scope": "Noe assigns social, relationship, business, crop and voyage fortunes to walking in a garden. Specific supplied passages: Garden — noe-0211 (Dream section, heading 213; source lines 911–916). Historical comparison only; the attributed period claims do not establish outcomes or diagnoses and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0187" ], "scope": "Cielo assigns a bright-future forecast to a garden walk. Specific supplied passages: Garden — cielo-0187 (Dream section, heading 187; source lines 4303–4305). Historical comparison only; the attributed period claims do not establish outcomes or diagnoses and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "guide-65367", "title": "Guide to Fortune-Telling by Dreams", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Multum in Parvo Library, Vol. I, No. 10, October 1894", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65367", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "guide-0030" ], "scope": "The 1894 Guide gives closely matching garden-walk social, relationship, business and crop forecasts, without Noe’s additional sailor clause. Specific supplied passages: Garden — guide-0030 (Dream section, heading 30; source lines 282–287). Historical comparison only; the attributed period claims do not establish outcomes or diagnoses and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Access through a changing place", "reflection": "Paths and entrances can determine what remains usable. Consider which destination matters to you and how you choose to approach it under the dream’s conditions." }, { "title": "Care with more than one purpose", "reflection": "Clearing, preserving and adding something can serve different ideas of the garden. Explore how those purposes are discussed and what each person wants to keep." }, { "title": "Room to use what has been prepared", "reflection": "A seat, open area or undisturbed patch can make enjoyment and participation part of the place. Notice when further work helps and when another action becomes available." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0854", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Garden", "text": "To see a garden in your dreams, filled with evergreen and flowers,\ndenotes great peace of mind and comfort.\n\nTo see vegetables, denotes misery or loss of fortune and calumny.\nTo females, this dream foretells that they will be famous,\nor exceedingly happy in domestic circles.\n\nTo dream of walking with one's lover through a garden where flowering shrubs\nand plants abound, indicates unalloyed happiness and independent means.", "locator": "Heading 855; source lines 9916–9928", "lineStart": 9916, "lineEnd": 9928, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a garden in your dreams, filled with evergreen and flowers,\ndenotes great peace of mind and comfort.\n\nTo see vegetables, denotes misery or loss of fortune and calumny.\nTo females, this dream foretells that they will be famous,\nor exceedingly happy in domestic circles.\n\nTo dream of walking with one's lover through a garden where flowering shrubs\nand plants abound, indicates unalloyed happiness and independent means." }, { "id": "fontaine-0285", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Garden", "text": "To see a beautiful and thrifty garden in your dream, denotes\ngood luck and abundance: if the garden is run to weeds, you may still\nhave luck, but much trouble and vexation will accompany it: if you see\nrats or pigs in the garden, it denotes thieves to annoy you. 31, 17.", "locator": "Heading 285; source line 2228", "lineStart": 2228, "lineEnd": 2233, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a beautiful and thrifty garden in your dream, denotes\ngood luck and abundance: if the garden is run to weeds, you may still\nhave luck, but much trouble and vexation will accompany it: if you see\nrats or pigs in the garden, it denotes thieves to annoy you." }, { "id": "noe-0211", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Garden", "text": "To dream you are walking\nin a garden, is of a very favorable nature. It portends elevation in\nfortune and dignity. To the lover, it denotes great success and an\nadvantageous marriage. To the tradesman, it promises increase of business.\nTo the farmer, plentiful crops, and to the sailor, prosperous voyages.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 213; source lines 911–916", "lineStart": 911, "lineEnd": 916, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are walking\nin a garden, is of a very favorable nature. It portends elevation in\nfortune and dignity. To the lover, it denotes great success and an\nadvantageous marriage. To the tradesman, it promises increase of business.\nTo the farmer, plentiful crops, and to the sailor, prosperous voyages." }, { "id": "cielo-0187", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Garden", "text": "To walk in a garden denotes a bright future.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 187; source lines 4303–4305", "lineStart": 4303, "lineEnd": 4305, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To walk in a garden denotes a bright future." }, { "id": "guide-0030", "sourceId": "guide-65367", "heading": "Garden", "text": "To dream you are walking in a garden is of a very favorable\nnature; it portends elevation in fortune and dignity; to the lover it\ndenotes great success and an advantageous marriage; to the tradesman it\npromises increase of business; to the farmer, plentiful crops.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 30; source lines 282–287", "lineStart": 282, "lineEnd": 287, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are walking in a garden is of a very favorable\nnature; it portends elevation in fortune and dignity; to the lover it\ndenotes great success and an advantageous marriage; to the tradesman it\npromises increase of business; to the farmer, plentiful crops." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "gardener", "title": "Gardener", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “A dream of good luck and speedy success (Gypsy); agriculturists generally connote good fortune in gypsy symbolism.”", "aliases": [ "gardener" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about gardener stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L10087", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Gardener", "heading": "Gardener", "text": "A dream of good luck and speedy success (Gypsy) ; agriculturists generally connote good fortune in gypsy symbolism.", "lineStart": 10087, "lineEnd": 10095, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 218–219; NLM OCR lines 10087–10095", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10087, "lineEnd": 10095, "printedPage": 218, "printedPageEnd": 219 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Gardener. — A dream of good luck and speedy success \n\n\nSYMBOLISM IN DREAMS 219 \n\n\n(Gypsy) ; agriculturists generally connote good fortune in \ngypsy symbolism. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [ { "line": 10090, "text": "SYMBOLISM IN DREAMS 219 " } ], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Gardener" }, "displayText": "A dream of good luck and speedy success (Gypsy); agriculturists generally connote good fortune in gypsy symbolism." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "garlands", "title": "Garlands", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "The 1805 Dreams and Moles wrote: “To dream one wears a garland promises the party honour, repute, and preferment.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "garlands", "garland" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about garlands stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "moles-71045", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams and Moles", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "United Kingdom, J. Marshall, 1805", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71045", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "moles-0035", "sourceId": "moles-71045", "heading": "Garlands", "originalHeading": "(no printed heading)", "text": "To dream one wears a garland promises the party honour, repute, and\npreferment.", "locator": "Dreams interpreted, passage 35; source lines 212–213", "lineStart": 212, "lineEnd": 213, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "editorialNote": "The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Garlands” because that is the subject of its first clause.", "displayText": "To dream one wears a garland promises the party honour, repute, and\npreferment." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10096", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Garlands", "heading": "Garlands", "text": "A dream of triumph (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 10096, "lineEnd": 10097, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 219; NLM OCR lines 10096–10097", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10096, "lineEnd": 10097, "printedPage": 219, "printedPageEnd": 219 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Garlands. — A dream of triumph (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Garlands" }, "displayText": "A dream of triumph (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "garlic", "title": "Garlic", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of passing through a garlic patch, denotes a rise from penury to prominence and wealth.” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "garlic" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about garlic stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0855", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Garlic", "text": "To dream of passing through a garlic patch, denotes a rise\nfrom penury to prominence and wealth. To a young woman,\nthis denotes that she will marry from a sense of business,\nand love will not be considered.\n\nTo eat garlic in your dreams, denotes that you will take a sensible\nview of life and leave its ideals to take care of themselves.", "locator": "Heading 856; source lines 9928–9938", "lineStart": 9928, "lineEnd": 9938, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of passing through a garlic patch, denotes a rise\nfrom penury to prominence and wealth. To a young woman,\nthis denotes that she will marry from a sense of business,\nand love will not be considered.\n\nTo eat garlic in your dreams, denotes that you will take a sensible\nview of life and leave its ideals to take care of themselves." }, { "id": "fontaine-0286", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Garlic", "text": "For a man to dream he eats garlic, signifies he shall discover\nhidden secrets, and meet with some domestic jars; yet to dream he has\nit in the house is good. 6, 11, 66.", "locator": "Heading 286; source line 2233", "lineStart": 2233, "lineEnd": 2237, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a man to dream he eats garlic, signifies he shall discover\nhidden secrets, and meet with some domestic jars; yet to dream he has\nit in the house is good." }, { "id": "noe-0224", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Garlic", "text": "For a man to dream he\neats garlic, signifies he shall discover hidden secrets and meet with some\ndomestic jars. Yet to dream he has it in the house, is good.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 226; source lines 972–974", "lineStart": 972, "lineEnd": 974, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a man to dream he\neats garlic, signifies he shall discover hidden secrets and meet with some\ndomestic jars. Yet to dream he has it in the house, is good." }, { "id": "cielo-0188", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Garlic", "text": "Signifies deception by a woman.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 188; source lines 4305–4307", "lineStart": 4305, "lineEnd": 4307, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Signifies deception by a woman." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "garret", "title": "Garret", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of climbing to a garret, denotes your inclination to run after theories while leaving the cold realities of life to others less…”", "aliases": [ "garret" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about garret stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0856", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Garret", "text": "To dream of climbing to a garret, denotes your inclination\nto run after theories while leaving the cold realities\nof life to others less able to bear them than yourself.\nTo the poor, this dream is an omen of easier circumstances.\nTo a woman, it denotes that her vanity and sefishness{sic}\nshould be curbed.", "locator": "Heading 857; source lines 9938–9947", "lineStart": 9938, "lineEnd": 9947, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of climbing to a garret, denotes your inclination\nto run after theories while leaving the cold realities\nof life to others less able to bear them than yourself.\nTo the poor, this dream is an omen of easier circumstances.\nTo a woman, it denotes that her vanity and sefishness[sic]\nshould be curbed." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "garter", "title": "Garter", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “For a lover to find his lady's garter, foretells that he will lose caste with her.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "garter" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about garter stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0857", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Garter", "text": "For a lover to find his lady's garter, foretells that he will lose\ncaste with her. He will find rivals.\n\nFor a woman to dream that she loses her garter, signifies that her lover\nwill be jealous and suspicious of a handsomer person.\n\nFor a married man to dream of a garter, foretells that his wife will hear\nof his clandestine attachments, and he will have a stormy scene.\n\nFor a woman to dream that she is admiring beautiful jeweled garters on\nher limbs, denotes that she will be betrayed in her private movements,\nand her reputation will hang in the balance of public opinion.\nIf she dreams that her lover fastens them on her, she will hold his\naffections and faith through all adverse criticisms.", "locator": "Heading 858; source lines 9947–9964", "lineStart": 9947, "lineEnd": 9964, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a lover to find his lady's garter, foretells that he will lose\ncaste with her. He will find rivals.\n\nFor a woman to dream that she loses her garter, signifies that her lover\nwill be jealous and suspicious of a handsomer person.\n\nFor a married man to dream of a garter, foretells that his wife will hear\nof his clandestine attachments, and he will have a stormy scene.\n\nFor a woman to dream that she is admiring beautiful jeweled garters on\nher limbs, denotes that she will be betrayed in her private movements,\nand her reputation will hang in the balance of public opinion.\nIf she dreams that her lover fastens them on her, she will hold his\naffections and faith through all adverse criticisms." }, { "id": "fontaine-0287", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Garter", "text": "This is a good dream to the lover, as it signifies he will soon\nbe united to his sweetheart. To the married this dream portends much\ndomestic trouble from jealousy. 4, 16.", "locator": "Heading 287; source line 2237", "lineStart": 2237, "lineEnd": 2241, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "This is a good dream to the lover, as it signifies he will soon\nbe united to his sweetheart. To the married this dream portends much\ndomestic trouble from jealousy." }, { "id": "cielo-0189", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Garter", "text": "To find a garter foretells a letter or a\n happy marriage.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 189; source lines 4307–4310", "lineStart": 4307, "lineEnd": 4310, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To find a garter foretells a letter or a\nhappy marriage." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "gas", "title": "Gas", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of gas, denotes you will entertain harmful opinions of others, which will cause you to deal with…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "gas" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about gas stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0858", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Gas", "text": "To dream of gas, denotes you will entertain harmful opinions\nof others, which will cause you to deal with them unjustly, and you\nwill suffer consequent remorse. To think you are asphyxiated,\ndenotes you will have trouble which you will needlessly incur\nthrough your own wastefulness and negligence. To try to blow\ngas out, signifies you will entertain enemies unconsciously,\nwho will destroy you if you are not wary.\n\nTo extinguish gas, denotes you will ruthlessly destroy your own happiness.\nTo light it, you will easily find a way out of oppressive ill fortune.", "locator": "Heading 859; source lines 9964–9977", "lineStart": 9964, "lineEnd": 9977, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of gas, denotes you will entertain harmful opinions\nof others, which will cause you to deal with them unjustly, and you\nwill suffer consequent remorse. To think you are asphyxiated,\ndenotes you will have trouble which you will needlessly incur\nthrough your own wastefulness and negligence. To try to blow\ngas out, signifies you will entertain enemies unconsciously,\nwho will destroy you if you are not wary.\n\nTo extinguish gas, denotes you will ruthlessly destroy your own happiness.\nTo light it, you will easily find a way out of oppressive ill fortune." }, { "id": "fontaine-0288", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Gas", "text": "If you dream of bright and pleasant gas-lights, it shows success\nin love matters. If the gas is dim and looks unnatural, your beau or\nsweetheart will either leave you, or die. 36.", "locator": "Heading 288; source line 2241", "lineStart": 2241, "lineEnd": 2245, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream of bright and pleasant gas-lights, it shows success\nin love matters. If the gas is dim and looks unnatural, your beau or\nsweetheart will either leave you, or die." }, { "id": "luck-0096", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Gas", "text": "Minor discomforts and annoyances.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 96; source lines 3750–3752", "lineStart": 3750, "lineEnd": 3752, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Minor discomforts and annoyances." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "gas-lamps", "title": "Gas Lamps", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see a gas lamp, denotes progress and pleasant surroundings.”", "aliases": [ "gas lamps" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about gas lamps stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0859", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Gas Lamps", "text": "To see a gas lamp, denotes progress and pleasant surroundings.\nTo see one explode, or out of order other wise, foretells you\nare threatened with unseasonable distress.", "locator": "Heading 860; source lines 9977–9983", "lineStart": 9977, "lineEnd": 9983, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a gas lamp, denotes progress and pleasant surroundings.\nTo see one explode, or out of order other wise, foretells you\nare threatened with unseasonable distress." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "gas-station", "title": "Gas station", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "A stop for fuel, on the way to somewhere else.", "summary": "A gas station dream can picture resources, pauses on a journey and what you need before going on. Note whether the pump worked and whether you could pay.", "aliases": [ "gas station", "gas stations", "petrol station", "filling station", "service station", "running out of gas", "running out of petrol", "fuel pump", "gas station dream", "refuelling" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "A gas station is never the destination. It is where you stop because you must, and dreams set there tend to concern what you need in order to continue. Record first the state of the tank: empty, nearly empty, or full and being topped up anyway. Then note whether the pump worked. A pump that will not dispense, a card that will not go through, or a queue that never moves can each picture a resource you are short of, whether money, energy or time, and the dream may be unusually direct about which. Write down who else was there. Gas stations at night, with one attendant and a bright canopy, have a particular atmosphere, and the stranger at the next pump sometimes carries the dream's real question. If you walked there with a can because you ran out on the road, note how far you walked and who waited in the car. The shop attached to the station is worth a line too, since what you bought or could not find can be revealing. Finally, consider the journey the stop interrupted. Where were you going, and does that trip resemble anything you are in the middle of now? A dream of refuelling can be a way to picture the pause you have not yet given yourself.", "traditional": "No historical dream book in DreamFolia's archive has an entry for a gas station or filling station. Miller 1901 does have a single-line entry for gasoline, which it reads as a competency coming through a struggling source, and that entry has its own page here as a period belief about the fuel rather than the place. The older sources predate motoring entirely. No older meaning is borrowed for the gas station.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "Running out of fuel on an empty road", "reflection": "Record how far the station was and whether anyone stopped to help. Note what you had in the car and who you called, since the dream's question is often who you can ask when you are stuck." }, { "title": "The pump will not stop running", "reflection": "Write down what overflowed and whether you could pay for it. An excess you cannot halt can picture a cost that keeps mounting, so note what the total came to." }, { "title": "A late-night stop with a stranger", "reflection": "Note what the stranger said and whether you felt safe. Describe the light under the canopy and what was in the shop, because the atmosphere of these stops often carries the dream's mood." } ], "prompts": [ "How empty was the tank, and what filled it?", "Could you pay, and who served you?", "Where was the journey going before you had to stop?" ], "related": [ "gasoline", "car", "driving", "road", "journey", "money" ], "sources": [], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia editorial draft written on 2026-10-12. Reflection text is an invitation to personal writing, not a validated symbol meaning. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "gasoline", "title": "Gasoline", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of gasoline, denotes you have a competency coming to you through a struggling source.”", "aliases": [ "gasoline" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about gasoline stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0860", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Gasoline", "text": "To dream of gasoline, denotes you have a competency coming to you\nthrough a struggling source.", "locator": "Heading 861; source lines 9983–9988", "lineStart": 9983, "lineEnd": 9988, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of gasoline, denotes you have a competency coming to you\nthrough a struggling source." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "gate", "title": "Gate", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing or passing through a gate, foretells that alarming tidings will reach you soon of the…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "gate" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about gate stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0861", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Gate", "text": "To dream of seeing or passing through a gate, foretells that\nalarming tidings will reach you soon of the absent.\nBusiness affairs will not be encouraging.\n\nTo see a closed gate, inability to overcome present difficulties\nis predicted. To lock one, denotes successful enterprises and well\nchosen friends. A broken one, signifies failure and discordant surroundings.\nTo be troubled to get through one, or open it, denotes your most\nengrossing labors will fail to be remunerative or satisfactory.\nTo swing on one, foretells you will engage in idle and dissolute pleasures.", "locator": "Heading 862; source lines 9988–10001", "lineStart": 9988, "lineEnd": 10001, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing or passing through a gate, foretells that\nalarming tidings will reach you soon of the absent.\nBusiness affairs will not be encouraging.\n\nTo see a closed gate, inability to overcome present difficulties\nis predicted. To lock one, denotes successful enterprises and well\nchosen friends. A broken one, signifies failure and discordant surroundings.\nTo be troubled to get through one, or open it, denotes your most\nengrossing labors will fail to be remunerative or satisfactory.\nTo swing on one, foretells you will engage in idle and dissolute pleasures." }, { "id": "luck-0097", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Gate", "text": "An obstacle to success will suddenly disappear.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 97; source lines 3752–3754", "lineStart": 3752, "lineEnd": 3754, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "An obstacle to success will suddenly disappear." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "gauze", "title": "Gauze", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of being dressed in gauze, denotes uncertain fortune.”", "aliases": [ "gauze" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about gauze stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0862", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Gauze", "text": "To dream of being dressed in gauze, denotes uncertain fortune.\nFor a lover to see his sweetheart clothed in filmy material,\nsuggests his ability to influence her for good.", "locator": "Heading 863; source lines 10001–10007", "lineStart": 10001, "lineEnd": 10007, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being dressed in gauze, denotes uncertain fortune.\nFor a lover to see his sweetheart clothed in filmy material,\nsuggests his ability to influence her for good." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "gavel", "title": "Gavel", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a gavel, denotes you will be burdened with some unprofitable yet not unpleasant pursuit.”", "aliases": [ "gavel" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about gavel stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0863", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Gavel", "text": "To dream of a gavel, denotes you will be burdened with some unprofitable yet\nnot unpleasant pursuit. To use one, denotes that officiousness will be shown\nby you toward your friends.", "locator": "Heading 864; source lines 10007–10013", "lineStart": 10007, "lineEnd": 10013, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a gavel, denotes you will be burdened with some unprofitable yet\nnot unpleasant pursuit. To use one, denotes that officiousness will be shown\nby you toward your friends." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "gecko", "title": "Gecko", "type": "dreams", "kind": "modern", "category": "Animals", "aliases": [ "gecko", "geckos", "a gecko", "house gecko" ], "summary": "A gecko may draw attention to small surprises, workable footholds, or an unexpected visitor in familiar space. Curiosity and discomfort change the reading.", "tagline": "A small presence, an unexpected surface, and finding enough grip to move.", "psychological": "A gecko appearing on a familiar wall can change your sense of a room without changing much else. Something small is present where you had stopped looking. If its arrival feels intrusive, the dream may fit a minor concern entering a space reserved for rest. If you are pleased to see it, the same visitor could make an ordinary room feel more alive. The distinction is your experience of sharing the place, rather than a rule that unexpected animals represent danger.\n\nIts route across a wall or ceiling can make movement the central image. The creature finds support on a surface you would not ordinarily use. That may resonate with finding an unconventional way through a task, learning to work under unfamiliar conditions, or noticing resources outside the path you first considered. If it struggles to stay attached, the scene may instead concern needing a more reliable foothold before proceeding.\n\nA gecko disappearing behind furniture introduces the limits of attention. You may keep searching because the uncertainty feels more uncomfortable than the animal itself. This could resemble checking a small household problem repeatedly or wanting to account for every interruption. If you let it go and feel comfortable, the encounter may allow something to remain present without constant supervision. Neither version identifies a hidden or deceptive person.\n\nClose contact can shift the subject toward care. A tiny gecko on your hand may require you to be still; trying to catch one can make your own movement seem large and disruptive. That might fit learning how to help without taking over, especially when good intentions need gentler methods. Familiarity matters too. A remembered visitor, pet, photograph, or outdoor encounter may explain the image directly, and the dream can be playful or curious without needing a larger interpretation.", "traditional": "No matching historical gecko passage is supplied. This entry offers original possibilities about surfaces, shared space, and close attention. The related general Lizard topic is not used as proof of these readings. A gecko's color or arrival does not establish luck, deception, or a change that must occur in your life.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A small surprise in familiar space", "reflection": "A gecko on your wall may make an overlooked detail visible. The encounter can feel like an intrusion or a welcome addition, depending on how you experience sharing the room." }, { "title": "Finding another foothold", "reflection": "Movement across an unexpected surface can fit an unconventional route through a task. Struggling to stay attached may shift the question toward adequate support rather than ingenuity alone." }, { "title": "Helping at a smaller scale", "reflection": "Close contact can make gentleness practical: your movement affects the whole encounter. The image may fit offering care without taking over, or learning what kind of help is actually useful." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A gecko crosses the ceiling", "reflection": "You follow a route above you that you would not have considered available. This can offer an image of another way through a problem or of seeing familiar space differently. If you fear it falling, dependable support may matter more than the clever route." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "It disappears behind a cabinet", "reflection": "The animal slips out of sight and you keep checking the gap. The scene may concern wanting to account for a small interruption before you can relax. Letting it remain unseen comfortably suggests a different relationship to uncertainty from an exhausting search." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A gecko rests on your hand", "reflection": "You become careful with movement because the animal is so small. The scene can fit attention that changes its scale when another creature is involved. Calm contact may explore gentleness; anxiety may concern not knowing enough to manage an unfamiliar responsibility." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Several geckos occupy one room", "reflection": "Their number changes a single visitor into a shared environment. This may resemble many small interruptions competing for your attention, or the pleasure of a room becoming unexpectedly lively. The quantity alone does not decide whether the encounter feels excessive or welcome." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You try to guide it through a window", "reflection": "You want to restore room for both yourself and the animal, but your attempts make it change direction. This can fit help that needs adjustment to work. A successful exit may make the scene about finding suitable conditions rather than controlling every movement." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "A gecko cannot keep its grip", "reflection": "It repeatedly starts across a surface and slips back. The scene may fit effort without adequate support, such as learning a task with missing information. Offering another route or simply waiting changes the question from persistence alone to what makes progress possible." } ], "prompts": [ "Did its presence make familiar space feel invaded, lively, or simply interesting?", "What surface or route supported the gecko, and where did support fail?", "Did my attempts to help make movement easier or more difficult?" ], "related": [ "lizard", "house", "cat", "spider", "garden" ], "updated": "2026-10-13", "status": "REVIEW", "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original image-specific interpretation with alternative personal readings; no matching historical passage supplied. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "geese", "title": "Geese", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "6 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are annoyed by the quacking of geese, denotes a death in your family.” Compare 5 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "geese", "goose" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about geese stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0864", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Geese", "text": "To dream that you are annoyed by the quacking of geese,\ndenotes a death in your family. To see them swimming,\ndenotes that your fortune is gradually increasing.\n\nTo see them in grassy places, denotes assured success.\nIf you see them dead, you will suffer loss and displeasure.\n\nFor a lover, geese denotes the worthiness of his affianced.\n\nIf you are picking them, you will come into an estate.\nTo eat them, denotes that your possessions are disputed.", "locator": "Heading 865; source lines 10013–10027", "lineStart": 10013, "lineEnd": 10027, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are annoyed by the quacking of geese,\ndenotes a death in your family. To see them swimming,\ndenotes that your fortune is gradually increasing.\n\nTo see them in grassy places, denotes assured success.\nIf you see them dead, you will suffer loss and displeasure.\n\nFor a lover, geese denotes the worthiness of his affianced.\n\nIf you are picking them, you will come into an estate.\nTo eat them, denotes that your possessions are disputed." }, { "id": "fontaine-0289", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Geese", "text": "To dream of these birds is generally a good omen: if you\nsee them quietly feeding it denotes success and pleasure in your\nundertakings; but if they are alarmed and cackling, it foretells\ntrouble and annoyance, but yet nothing that will seriously affect you.\n15, 69.", "locator": "Heading 289; source line 2245", "lineStart": 2245, "lineEnd": 2251, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of these birds is generally a good omen: if you\nsee them quietly feeding it denotes success and pleasure in your\nundertakings; but if they are alarmed and cackling, it foretells\ntrouble and annoyance, but yet nothing that will seriously affect you." }, { "id": "noe-0212", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Geese", "text": "To dream of geese is a forerunner of good; expect to see a\nlong-absent friend. They denote success and riches to the dreamer in the\nfurtherance of his pursuits. In love, they augur speedy marriage and\nfidelity in your sweetheart.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 214; source lines 916–919", "lineStart": 916, "lineEnd": 919, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of geese is a forerunner of good; expect to see a\nlong-absent friend. They denote success and riches to the dreamer in the\nfurtherance of his pursuits. In love, they augur speedy marriage and\nfidelity in your sweetheart." }, { "id": "luck-0098", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Geese", "text": "Happiness, success; (to hear geese cackling) a profitable\nbusiness deal will be quickly concluded.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 98; source lines 3754–3757", "lineStart": 3754, "lineEnd": 3757, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Happiness, success; (to hear geese cackling) a profitable\nbusiness deal will be quickly concluded." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10098", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Geese", "heading": "Geese", "text": "The cackling of geese, good luck and speedy success in business (Artemidorus). See Roman history of the cackling geese that saved the city.", "lineStart": 10098, "lineEnd": 10101, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 219; NLM OCR lines 10098–10101", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10098, "lineEnd": 10101, "printedPage": 219, "printedPageEnd": 219 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Geese. — The cackling of geese, good luck and speedy suc- \ncess in business (Artemidorus). See Roman history of the \ncackling geese that saved the city. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "suc- \ncess", "after": "success", "evidenceLine": 4652 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Geese" }, "displayText": "The cackling of geese, good luck and speedy success in business (Artemidorus). See Roman history of the cackling geese that saved the city." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10125", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Goose", "heading": "Goose", "text": "A bad dream for a single man auguring a silly and incompetent wife (Raphael). Modern nursery lore represents the goose as an emblem of silliness, despite that fowl's illustrious reputation in both Rome and Egypt.", "lineStart": 10125, "lineEnd": 10129, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 219; NLM OCR lines 10125–10129", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10125, "lineEnd": 10129, "printedPage": 219, "printedPageEnd": 219 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Goose. — A bad dream for a single man auguring a silly and \nincompetent wife (Raphael). Modern nursery lore represents \nthe goose as an emblem of silliness, despite that fowl's illus- \ntrious reputation in both Rome and Egypt. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "illus- \ntrious", "after": "illustrious", "evidenceLine": 1030 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Goose" }, "displayText": "A bad dream for a single man auguring a silly and incompetent wife (Raphael). Modern nursery lore represents the goose as an emblem of silliness, despite that fowl's illustrious reputation in both Rome and Egypt." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "genealogical-tree", "title": "Genealogical Tree", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of your genealogical tree, denotes you will be much burdened with family cares, or will find pleasure in other domains than your own.”", "aliases": [ "genealogical tree" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about genealogical tree stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0866", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Genealogical Tree", "text": "To dream of your genealogical tree, denotes you will be much burdened\nwith family cares, or will find pleasure in other domains than your own.\nTo see others studying it, foretells that you will be forced to yield\nyour rights to others. If any of the branches are missing, you will ignore\nsome of your friends because of their straightened circumstances.", "locator": "Heading 867; source lines 10034–10042", "lineStart": 10034, "lineEnd": 10042, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of your genealogical tree, denotes you will be much burdened\nwith family cares, or will find pleasure in other domains than your own.\nTo see others studying it, foretells that you will be forced to yield\nyour rights to others. If any of the branches are missing, you will ignore\nsome of your friends because of their straightened circumstances." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "geography", "title": "Geography", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of studying geography, denotes that you will travel much and visit places of renown. See Atlas.”", "aliases": [ "geography" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about geography stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "atlas" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0867", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Geography", "text": "To dream of studying geography, denotes that you will travel much\nand visit places of renown.\n\n\n[81] See Atlas.", "locator": "Heading 868; source lines 10042–10050", "lineStart": 10042, "lineEnd": 10050, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of studying geography, denotes that you will travel much\nand visit places of renown. See Atlas." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "atlas" ] }, { "slug": "geyser", "title": "Geyser", "category": "Nature & elements", "aliases": [ "geyser", "geysers" ], "summary": "A geyser can frame pressure, release, and waiting for a sudden event. A predictable cycle differs from an eruption that catches you unprepared.", "psychological": "A geyser gives a dream a pattern of waiting and release. Something hidden below the surface becomes briefly forceful and visible, then quiet again. This can fit an experience that has a similar rhythm: concentrated work followed by a pause, a concern that repeatedly erupts into conversation, or anticipation of an event that you know will arrive but cannot fully control. The image is useful because it organizes time as well as intensity.\n\nA predictable eruption can make the waiting feel satisfying. You may know where to stand, gather with others, and enjoy what happens. That scene can resemble making room for a demanding but manageable cycle, such as a performance, a busy period, or a scheduled decision. If you keep missing the eruption, the emphasis may move toward frustration about timing: you have prepared, but the hoped-for moment never coincides with your attention.\n\nAn unexpected eruption creates a different reading. The ground that looked quiet suddenly requires distance or action. This may resonate with being surprised by someone's strong response or by a problem that had seemed settled. Your reaction gives the scene direction. Retreating to a safer place, guiding someone away, or discovering that the eruption passes can make boundaries and cooperation part of the story.\n\nTrying to block or force the geyser turns observation into control. The scene may picture effort spent managing a process whose rhythm does not answer to your preference. A geyser that remains quiet can instead bring rest, impatience, or uncertainty about what is building. A real visit, a film, or a remembered explanation can supply the image. Follow the particular cycle and your relation to it, rather than equating every eruption with suppressed emotion.", "traditional": "These are original comparisons drawn from the dreamed cycle of pressure, waiting, and release. The entry does not assign a universal emotional cause to the image or claim a cultural tradition for it. Experiences of landscapes, travel, photographs, or stories can offer ordinary context for the scene.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A cycle of effort and release", "reflection": "An eruption followed by quiet can picture a recurring rhythm of concentration, expression, and recovery." }, { "title": "Timing and anticipation", "reflection": "Waiting for a brief event can make the dream about being ready, missing a moment, or sharing attention with others." }, { "title": "Limits of control", "reflection": "Trying to stop or force the eruption can frame a struggle with a process whose rhythm you cannot simply dictate." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "Waiting for a scheduled eruption", "reflection": "The sudden event has a place in an expected rhythm. This can fit preparing for a demanding period that feels manageable because you know what to do. The wait may be pleasurable anticipation rather than anxiety.", "slug": "scene-1" }, { "title": "The geyser erupts beneath you", "reflection": "A quiet setting changes abruptly. This can resemble being caught off guard by a strong response or an issue that seemed inactive. Finding secure ground may make recovery of your footing the central part of the scene.", "slug": "scene-2" }, { "title": "Missing it every time you look away", "reflection": "Preparation and attention fail to meet the event. This can resemble waiting for an important conversation that keeps occurring at the wrong time, or missing brief opportunities while other tasks intervene. Continuing to watch differs from deciding that your day need not remain organized around the anticipated moment.", "slug": "scene-3" }, { "title": "Guiding others to a safe viewpoint", "reflection": "You help create room around something powerful. This can fit sharing experience or organizing a demanding situation so others can participate comfortably. Feeling supported in that role differs from carrying all responsibility alone.", "slug": "scene-4" }, { "title": "Trying to cover or block the opening", "reflection": "You try to control the source rather than adjust your position. This can picture containing a recurring conflict or demand through constant intervention. Rising pressure may make that strategy feel exhausting; choosing a safe distance or sharing responsibility can give the dream a different route through the cycle.", "slug": "scene-5" }, { "title": "The geyser becomes quiet", "reflection": "The anticipated release does not arrive. Calm can make this a scene of rest; disappointment can make it about a missing opportunity or expression. The dream's silence need not mean that a hidden eruption is inevitable.", "slug": "scene-6" } ], "prompts": [ "Was the cycle predictable, surprising, or absent?", "What did I do during the waiting, and did that feel useful?", "Was I trying to participate, keep my distance, or control the process?" ], "related": [ "fountain", "volcano", "water", "hot-spring" ], "type": "dreams", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background about dreaming and waking experiences. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia interpretation for personal reflection. Human publication review pending.", "tagline": "Waiting for release and finding room around a powerful cycle.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "ghost", "title": "Ghost", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "Encountering a presence within the dream", "summary": "A ghost encounter may center an unfamiliar presence, a recognizable figure, speech or surprise, with personal meaning left open.", "aliases": [ "ghost", "ghosts", "spirit", "haunting", "seeing a ghost", "being haunted" ], "status": "REVIEW", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A ghost in a dream can be a visible figure, a voice, a movement or a presence you describe that way after waking. Begin with what you actually perceived and how you recognized it. Someone known to have died creates a different encounter from an unfamiliar apparition; a figure called a ghost may also resemble a living person. The label does not by itself establish who or what appeared.\n\nThe presence's behavior can matter more than its appearance. It may watch, speak, request something, pass through the scene or behave like an ordinary visitor. Fear may arise from surprise, the setting or what you expect before the figure acts. Curiosity or welcome can also appear. These responses do not prove danger, outside contact or a correct spiritual interpretation.\n\nA familiar location can change around the encounter. A room associated with somebody absent may feel occupied again, while an invented place can make the presence difficult to identify. A photograph, conversation, story, film or remembered sound may supply ordinary context. Thinking about an unfinished task or a place's associations can be useful if it fits, but ghosts do not universally represent unresolved matters or presumed trauma.\n\nWords deserve the same care as other dreamed details. A statement can feel powerful while its wording remains uncertain. Record what you remember without turning it into an instruction you must follow or factual knowledge about another person. Asking a question, declining a request or remaining silent can each change the encounter. A meaningful exchange does not verify the figure's intentions or communication from someone who has died.\n\nOther people may notice the presence or fail to see it. That can make shared recognition part of the scene without establishing which account is true outside it. Departure matters too: the figure leaves, disappears when the setting changes or remains while you choose to go. Your own beliefs can have space alongside the factual limits of a dream account. The original reflection concerns the particular encounter and your response, rather than settling a supernatural question or adopting historical warnings about health, journeys or relationships.", "traditional": "The Ghost accounts contain conflicting period forecasts. Miller varies predictions with visitors and actions; Noe assigns marriage or death forecasts, Cielo an illness warning and the anonymous luck book misfortune. Fontaine's Ghost passage only refers to Apparition. These claims do not identify a visitor, verify communication or establish any health or future outcome.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "An unfamiliar figure watches without approaching", "reflection": "The encounter contains observation but little action from the presence. Notice what creates fear, curiosity or another response before assigning an intention. This may invite reflection on the scene's uncertainty, while the figure's gaze does not establish surveillance or an outside visitor in waking life." }, { "title": "A familiar voice speaks from a place you cannot see", "reflection": "Recognition comes through sound without confirming a visible identity. This could combine memory, setting and invention within the dream. Preserve the wording and uncertainty you recall; a recognizable voice does not verify who spoke or make the statement factual guidance." }, { "title": "The ghost performs an ordinary household activity", "reflection": "An unusual presence acts within a familiar routine. The contrast may make the encounter feel welcoming, strange or both. Describe the task and its associations without assuming that ordinary behavior proves contact, a returned person or a universal meaning of unfinished business." }, { "title": "The figure asks for something and you decide not to give it", "reflection": "The dreamed visitor makes a request without automatically gaining authority. This may let you describe a boundary, uncertainty or another reason for declining. The request is part of the scene, not an obligation from someone outside the dream or proof of their intentions." }, { "title": "Other people in the room do not notice the presence", "reflection": "The encounter is not shared in the same way by every dreamed participant. This may make recognition or explanation part of the action. Their lack of response does not prove that they dismiss your actual experience or establish whose perception is factually correct outside the dream." }, { "title": "The figure remains while you choose to leave the room", "reflection": "Departure comes from your action rather than the presence disappearing. This may explore how you respond to an encounter that remains uncertain. Notice what leaving permits and how it feels; the choice does not certify danger, resolution or a particular spiritual conclusion." } ], "prompts": [ "What did you perceive before you called the presence a ghost?", "How did the figure's actual behavior shape your response?", "What remained meaningful or uncertain when the encounter ended?" ], "related": [ "deceased-loved-one", "haunted-house", "apparition", "funeral", "mourning", "death", "dead" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "scope": "Historical comparison only: Miller assigns varied danger, deception, journey, fame, wealth, loss and death forecasts to ghost visitors, speech, appearance and sky position. These claims do not establish visitor identities, outside presences or present outcomes. Exact owned passages: Ghost — miller-0868 (Heading 869; source lines 10050–10084). These period claims do not validate the original reflections or establish present-day outcomes.", "recordReferences": [ { "id": "miller-0868", "heading": "Ghost", "locator": "Heading 869; source lines 10050–10084" } ], "recordIds": [ "miller-0868" ] }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0290" ], "scope": "Historical comparison only: This is cross-reference-only: See Apparition. It has no independent Ghost interpretation. Exact owned passages: Ghost — fontaine-0290 (Heading 290; source line 2251). These period claims do not validate the original reflections or establish present-day outcomes." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0209" ], "scope": "Historical comparison only: Noe assigns a family-marriage forecast to seeing a ghost and a death forecast to a speaking ghost. Exact owned passages: Ghost — noe-0209 (Dream section, heading 211; source lines 905–906). These period claims do not validate the original reflections or establish present-day outcomes." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0190" ], "scope": "Historical comparison only: Cielo assigns an illness warning to seeing a ghost. Exact owned passages: Ghost — cielo-0190 (Dream section, heading 190; source lines 4310–4312). These period claims do not validate the original reflections or establish present-day outcomes." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0100" ], "scope": "Historical comparison only: The anonymous book assigns a general misfortune forecast to ghosts. Exact owned passages: Ghosts — luck-0100 (Dream section, heading 100; source lines 3759–3761). These period claims do not validate the original reflections or establish present-day outcomes." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection independently reviewed for content and source scope. Historical accounts remain attributed period writing. Human publication review pending.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "What makes a presence recognizable", "reflection": "Appearance, voice, place and your own label may contribute differently to identifying the figure." }, { "title": "The encounter before the explanation", "reflection": "Watching, speaking and requesting create distinct actions without establishing an outside source or fixed meaning." }, { "title": "Choice within the exchange", "reflection": "Asking, declining, staying and leaving can show your dreamed response without making the visitor an authority." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0868", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Ghost", "text": "To dream of the ghost of either one of your parents, denotes that\nyou are exposed to danger, and you should be careful in forming\npartnerships with strangers.\n\nTo see the ghost of a dead friend, foretells that you will make a long\njourney with an unpleasant companion, and suffer disappointments.\n\nFor a ghost to speak to you, you will be decoyed into the hands of enemies.\nFor a woman, this is a prognostication of widowhood and deception.\n\nTo see an angel or a ghost appear in the sky, denotes the loss\nof kindred and misfortunes.\n\nTo see a female ghost on your right in the sky and a male on your left,\nboth of pleasing countenance, signifies a quick rise from obscurity to fame,\nbut the honor and position will be filled only for a short space, as death\nwill be a visitor and will bear you off.\n\nTo see a female ghost in long, clinging robes floating calmly\nthrough the sky, indicates that you will make progression\nin scientific studies and acquire wealth almost miraculously,\nbut there will be an under note of sadness in your life.\n\nTo dream that you see the ghost of a living relative or friend,\ndenotes that you are in danger of some friend's malice, and you are\nwarned to carefully keep your affairs under personal supervision.\nIf the ghost appears to be haggard, it may be the intimation\nof the early death of that friend.\n\n\n[82] See Death, Dead.", "locator": "Heading 869; source lines 10050–10084", "lineStart": 10050, "lineEnd": 10084, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of the ghost of either one of your parents, denotes that\nyou are exposed to danger, and you should be careful in forming\npartnerships with strangers.\n\nTo see the ghost of a dead friend, foretells that you will make a long\njourney with an unpleasant companion, and suffer disappointments.\n\nFor a ghost to speak to you, you will be decoyed into the hands of enemies.\nFor a woman, this is a prognostication of widowhood and deception.\n\nTo see an angel or a ghost appear in the sky, denotes the loss\nof kindred and misfortunes.\n\nTo see a female ghost on your right in the sky and a male on your left,\nboth of pleasing countenance, signifies a quick rise from obscurity to fame,\nbut the honor and position will be filled only for a short space, as death\nwill be a visitor and will bear you off.\n\nTo see a female ghost in long, clinging robes floating calmly\nthrough the sky, indicates that you will make progression\nin scientific studies and acquire wealth almost miraculously,\nbut there will be an under note of sadness in your life.\n\nTo dream that you see the ghost of a living relative or friend,\ndenotes that you are in danger of some friend's malice, and you are\nwarned to carefully keep your affairs under personal supervision.\nIf the ghost appears to be haggard, it may be the intimation\nof the early death of that friend. See Death, Dead." }, { "id": "fontaine-0290", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Ghost", "text": "(_See Apparition._)", "locator": "Heading 290; source line 2251", "lineStart": 2251, "lineEnd": 2253, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Apparition.)" }, { "id": "noe-0209", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Ghost", "text": "To dream of seeing it, signifies a marriage in the family. If\nyou dream it speaks, prepare to die.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 211; source lines 905–906", "lineStart": 905, "lineEnd": 906, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing it, signifies a marriage in the family. If\nyou dream it speaks, prepare to die." }, { "id": "cielo-0190", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Ghost", "text": "To dream of seeing a ghost means beware of sickness.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 190; source lines 4310–4312", "lineStart": 4310, "lineEnd": 4312, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing a ghost means beware of sickness." }, { "id": "luck-0100", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Ghosts", "text": "To dream of ghosts is invariably the presage of misfortune.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 100; source lines 3759–3761", "lineStart": 3759, "lineEnd": 3761, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of ghosts is invariably the presage of misfortune." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [ "death", "dead", "apparition" ] }, { "slug": "giant", "title": "Giant", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a giant appearing suddenly before you, denotes that there will be a great struggle between you…” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "giant", "giants" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about giant stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0869", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Giant", "text": "To dream of a giant appearing suddenly before you, denotes that there\nwill be a great struggle between you and your opponents. If the giant\nsucceeds in stopping your journey, you will be overcome by your enemy.\nIf he runs from you, prosperity and good health will be yours.", "locator": "Heading 870; source lines 10084–10091", "lineStart": 10084, "lineEnd": 10091, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a giant appearing suddenly before you, denotes that there\nwill be a great struggle between you and your opponents. If the giant\nsucceeds in stopping your journey, you will be overcome by your enemy.\nIf he runs from you, prosperity and good health will be yours." }, { "id": "fontaine-0291", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Giant", "text": "If a lady dreams of seeing a very large man, or giant, and if\nshe is pleased with his appearance, it shows that her future husband\nwill be a small fellow, or else a man of small intellect: if she is\ndisgusted with the giant, it is a sign that she will marry such a man\nherself, or else a man of great mind. For married people to dream of\ngiants shows a prospect of smart children. 31, 4.", "locator": "Heading 291; source line 2253", "lineStart": 2253, "lineEnd": 2260, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If a lady dreams of seeing a very large man, or giant, and if\nshe is pleased with his appearance, it shows that her future husband\nwill be a small fellow, or else a man of small intellect: if she is\ndisgusted with the giant, it is a sign that she will marry such a man\nherself, or else a man of great mind. For married people to dream of\ngiants shows a prospect of smart children." }, { "id": "noe-0213", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Giants", "text": "To dream of seeing giants is\nominous of good.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 215; source lines 919–920", "lineStart": 919, "lineEnd": 920, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing giants is\nominous of good." }, { "id": "luck-0101", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Giant", "text": "Good fortune, success in business or love.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 101; source lines 3761–3763", "lineStart": 3761, "lineEnd": 3763, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Good fortune, success in business or love." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "gibbet", "title": "Gibbet", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “To dream you see a person hanging on a gibbet, is a sign of damage and great affliction.”", "aliases": [ "gibbet" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about gibbet stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "noe-0225", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Gibbet", "text": "To\ndream you see a person hanging on a gibbet, is a sign of damage and great\naffliction.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 227; source lines 974–976", "lineStart": 974, "lineEnd": 976, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To\ndream you see a person hanging on a gibbet, is a sign of damage and great\naffliction." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "gift", "title": "Gift", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "6 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you receive gifts from any one, denotes that you will not be behind in your payments, and be…” Compare 6 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "gift", "gifts" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about gift stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "present" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "guide-65367", "title": "Guide to Fortune-Telling by Dreams", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Multum in Parvo Library, Vol. I, No. 10, October 1894", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65367", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0870", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Gift", "text": "To dream that you receive gifts from any one, denotes that you\nwill not be behind in your payments, and be unusually fortunate\nin speculations or love matters.\n\nTo send a gift, signifies displeasure will be shown you,\nand ill luck will surround your efforts.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that her lover sends her rich and beautiful gifts,\ndenotes that she will make a wealthy and congenial marriage.", "locator": "Heading 871; source lines 10091–10103", "lineStart": 10091, "lineEnd": 10103, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you receive gifts from any one, denotes that you\nwill not be behind in your payments, and be unusually fortunate\nin speculations or love matters.\n\nTo send a gift, signifies displeasure will be shown you,\nand ill luck will surround your efforts.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that her lover sends her rich and beautiful gifts,\ndenotes that she will make a wealthy and congenial marriage." }, { "id": "fontaine-0292", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Gift", "text": "(_See Present._) To dream that a friend presents you with a\nvaluable gift, predicts that you will lose something. If a girl dreams\nthat her lover gives her a present, it is a sign that she will allow\nhim the husband’s privilege before marriage. 64, 21.", "locator": "Heading 292; source line 2260", "lineStart": 2260, "lineEnd": 2265, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Present.) To dream that a friend presents you with a\nvaluable gift, predicts that you will lose something. If a girl dreams\nthat her lover gives her a present, it is a sign that she will allow\nhim the husband’s privilege before marriage." }, { "id": "noe-0214", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Gifts", "text": "To dream you have anything given you, is a sign\nthat some good is about to happen to you. It also denotes that a speedy\nmarriage will take place between you and your sweetheart. To dream you\nhave given anything away, is the forerunner of adversity, and in love\ndenotes sickness and inconstancy in your sweetheart or partner.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 216; source lines 920–925", "lineStart": 920, "lineEnd": 925, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you have anything given you, is a sign\nthat some good is about to happen to you. It also denotes that a speedy\nmarriage will take place between you and your sweetheart. To dream you\nhave given anything away, is the forerunner of adversity, and in love\ndenotes sickness and inconstancy in your sweetheart or partner." }, { "id": "cielo-0191", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Gift", "text": "To receive a present denotes danger.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 191; source lines 4312–4314", "lineStart": 4312, "lineEnd": 4314, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To receive a present denotes danger." }, { "id": "luck-0102", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Gifts", "text": "(Receiving) Good fortune coming.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 102; source lines 3763–3765", "lineStart": 3763, "lineEnd": 3765, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(Receiving) Good fortune coming." }, { "id": "guide-0031", "sourceId": "guide-65367", "heading": "Gifts", "text": "To dream you have anything given you is a sign that some good\nis about to happen to you; it also denotes that a speedy marriage will\ntake place betwixt you and your sweetheart. To dream you have given\nanything away is the forerunner of adversity; and in love denotes\nsickness and inconstancy in your sweetheart or partner.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 31; source lines 287–293", "lineStart": 287, "lineEnd": 293, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you have anything given you is a sign that some good\nis about to happen to you; it also denotes that a speedy marriage will\ntake place betwixt you and your sweetheart. To dream you have given\nanything away is the forerunner of adversity; and in love denotes\nsickness and inconstancy in your sweetheart or partner." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "present" ] }, { "slug": "gig", "title": "Gig", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To run a gig in your dream, you will have to forego a pleasant journey to entertain unwelcome visitors.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "gig" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about gig stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "cart" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0871", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Gig", "text": "To run a gig in your dream, you will have to forego a pleasant journey\nto entertain unwelcome visitors. Sickness also threatens you.\n\n\n[83] See Cart.", "locator": "Heading 872; source lines 10103–10111", "lineStart": 10103, "lineEnd": 10111, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To run a gig in your dream, you will have to forego a pleasant journey\nto entertain unwelcome visitors. Sickness also threatens you. See Cart." }, { "id": "fontaine-0293", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Gig", "text": "To dream of riding alone in a gig, denotes delay, and that\nsomething you expected to happen will be put off: if you imagine you\nride in a gig with your sweetheart, it foretells that your marriage day\nwill be postponed, or will be far distant. 46, 1.", "locator": "Heading 293; source line 2265", "lineStart": 2265, "lineEnd": 2270, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of riding alone in a gig, denotes delay, and that\nsomething you expected to happen will be put off: if you imagine you\nride in a gig with your sweetheart, it foretells that your marriage day\nwill be postponed, or will be far distant." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "cart" ] }, { "slug": "gin", "title": "Gin", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “To dream of this liquor is a sign of poverty and disgrace: if you imagine you are drinking it, it…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "gin" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about gin stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0294", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Gin", "text": "To dream of this liquor is a sign of poverty and disgrace: if you\nimagine you are drinking it, it foretells that you will lose money or\nproperty by some foolish act of your own. 74, 78.", "locator": "Heading 294; source line 2270", "lineStart": 2270, "lineEnd": 2274, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of this liquor is a sign of poverty and disgrace: if you\nimagine you are drinking it, it foretells that you will lose money or\nproperty by some foolish act of your own." }, { "id": "noe-0227", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Gin", "text": "To dream\nof drinking gin, forebodes short life and many changes will happen very\nsuddenly, which will be chiefly very pleasant, but that they will end with\ndissatisfaction.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 229; source lines 977–980", "lineStart": 977, "lineEnd": 980, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream\nof drinking gin, forebodes short life and many changes will happen very\nsuddenly, which will be chiefly very pleasant, but that they will end with\ndissatisfaction." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "ginger", "title": "Ginger", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "summary": "Ginger as a food ingredient can picture dividing a complicated task, a stronger effect than expected, or a preference lost inside a mixture.", "tagline": "Working with an irregular beginning.", "aliases": [ "ginger", "ginger root" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A ginger root with several uneven branches can picture an undertaking whose parts are difficult to divide neatly. A family arrangement, a practical project, or a conversation with overlapping concerns may not fit the simple portions you expected. Working with one section at a time can feel patient and useful. Frustration may arise when the task is judged by a tidy outline that does not match the material you actually have.\n\nA small bite with a strong taste can make the size of an action different from its effect. A brief exchange may leave a lasting impression, or a modest change may make an established routine feel unexpectedly different. Pleasure can fit discovering an intensity you wanted; discomfort can fit receiving more than you agreed to. The dream does not need to turn intensity into aggression. Its usefulness may lie in how much contact feels suitable for you.\n\nRecognizing ginger through aroma in an unfamiliar dish can picture finding a known element within changed circumstances. An old skill may become useful in a new role, or a familiar voice may help you settle into a different setting. The recognizable part does not make the whole experience predictable. It can offer continuity while leaving other aspects open to exploration, much as a remembered detail can anchor a new arrangement without determining it.\n\nSomeone adding the ingredient without asking can make a personal preference consequential. A shared plan may be altered by a participant who assumes everyone wants the same result. If you welcome the change, the scene can express trust or surprise; if you wanted another flavor, it may picture limited influence over an experience you also share. A taste disappearing in a larger mixture creates another tension: a contribution is present but no longer distinct.\n\nUnexpected growth in a pantry can picture something set aside becoming active before it is used as intended. Interest and inconvenience can coexist when a stored possibility develops another direction. Shopping, preparing food, or a remembered meal may also supply direct context. This entry concerns ginger as root or ingredient, rather than hair color or a person’s name, and does not assign it a curative meaning.", "traditional": "No directly matching historical account is attached for this specific topic. The readings here are original reflective possibilities. The NINDS source provides general background about dreams, not evidence for these symbolic comparisons.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Dividing an irregular task", "reflection": "A complicated beginning may need an approach that fits its real shape rather than a tidy expectation." }, { "title": "A stronger effect than expected", "reflection": "A small contact can feel substantial, with welcome intensity and unwanted excess creating different readings." }, { "title": "A distinct contribution", "reflection": "A familiar element can support a new mixture or lose the recognizable part you wanted to retain." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "An irregular root is hard to divide", "reflection": "The material does not fit the neat portions the task assumes. This may picture overlapping concerns in a project or shared arrangement. Working with its actual shape creates another response from treating difficulty as proof that you lack the right method." }, { "title": "A small bite tastes unexpectedly strong", "reflection": "The amount and effect do not correspond as expected. This can resemble a brief interaction that leaves a substantial impression. Enjoyment and discomfort support different readings, without making the dream’s taste evidence of a physical condition or another person’s motives." }, { "title": "An aroma makes an unfamiliar meal recognizable", "reflection": "One known element provides continuity within a new whole. This may picture an established skill or connection supporting a transition. The recognition can make exploration easier without requiring the unfamiliar experience to reproduce everything about the earlier one." }, { "title": "A root begins growing in the pantry", "reflection": "Something reserved for later develops another direction. This may fit a possibility becoming active before you planned to use it. Curiosity differs from inconvenience when the change asks for attention, and neither feeling requires a prediction about what will grow next." }, { "title": "Someone adds ginger without asking", "reflection": "Another preference changes an experience you both share. This can picture assumptions entering a shared plan. Welcome surprise differs from losing influence over the result; discussion or another portion creates possibilities beyond accepting the alteration as the only available outcome." }, { "title": "The flavor disappears in the finished dish", "reflection": "A contribution remains part of the mixture but is no longer recognizable. This may picture effort whose particular value becomes hard to see in a collective result. Satisfaction in the whole differs from wanting the distinct element acknowledged or preserved." } ], "prompts": [ "Where does a task’s actual shape differ from the outline you expected?", "What small contact has had a larger effect than its size suggests?", "Which distinct contribution do you want the shared result to retain?" ], "related": [ "roots", "spice", "cooking", "pepper" ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "giraffe", "title": "Giraffe", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "Seeing over everything, and being seen from everywhere.", "summary": "A giraffe dream can picture height, a wide view and the awkwardness of standing out. Note where it was, how close you came, and what it could see.", "aliases": [ "giraffe", "giraffes", "giraffe dream", "tall giraffe", "giraffe neck", "riding a giraffe", "baby giraffe" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "A giraffe sees further than anything else in its landscape and cannot hide in it. Dreaming of one can picture the pleasure of a long view, the loneliness of being visibly different, or the strain of reaching for something high while the rest of you stays on the ground. Begin with the setting. A giraffe on the savannah, in a zoo, or walking down your street are three different dreams, and the out-of-place giraffe usually carries the strongest charge. Record how close you came and whether it bent down to you. A giraffe lowering its head to your level is a gesture of unexpected intimacy, and it is worth noting what you felt when it did. If you rode one, write down what you could see from up there and what you noticed about the people below. Note the neck in particular. A neck that was too long to be practical, that bent strangely, or that got stuck somewhere can picture the cost of reaching. Consider whether you have recently been the tallest person in a room, in any sense: the most senior, the most conspicuous, the one others look to for a view. Then ask what the giraffe was eating or looking at, because its attention was somewhere, and following it can show you where yours has been.", "traditional": "No historical dream book in DreamFolia's archive has an entry for the giraffe. The collection covers other large animals, including the elephant, the lion, the tiger and the zebra, with period readings that each sit on their own page, and Miller 1901 has an entry for the zoological garden where such animals were seen. None of those readings is transferred to the giraffe, and the page borrows no older meaning.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "A giraffe walking down your street", "reflection": "Record who else saw it and how they reacted. Note whether it seemed lost or at ease, and what in your own neighbourhood has recently felt out of scale." }, { "title": "The giraffe bends down to you", "reflection": "Write down what it did when its face reached yours: looked, licked, or simply waited. Note what you said, and whether the contact felt like recognition." }, { "title": "A neck too long to manage", "reflection": "Note whether the neck was yours or the animal's and where it got caught. Ask what you have been stretching toward lately, and whether the reach is costing you balance." } ], "prompts": [ "Where was the giraffe, and did it belong there?", "What could it see that you could not?", "In which room are you currently the tallest, and how does that feel?" ], "related": [ "elephant", "lion", "tiger", "zebra", "zoological-garden", "neck" ], "sources": [], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia editorial draft written on 2026-10-12. Reflection text is an invitation to personal writing, not a validated symbol meaning. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "girdle", "title": "Girdle", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of wearing a girdle, and it presses you, denotes that you will be influenced by designing people.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "girdle" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about girdle stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0872", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Girdle", "text": "To dream of wearing a girdle, and it presses you, denotes that you\nwill be influenced by designing people.\n\nTo see others wearing velvet, or jeweled girdles, foretells that you\nwill strive for wealth more than honor.\n\nFor a woman to receive one, signifies that honors will be conferred upon her.", "locator": "Heading 873; source lines 10111–10121", "lineStart": 10111, "lineEnd": 10121, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of wearing a girdle, and it presses you, denotes that you\nwill be influenced by designing people.\n\nTo see others wearing velvet, or jeweled girdles, foretells that you\nwill strive for wealth more than honor.\n\nFor a woman to receive one, signifies that honors will be conferred upon her." }, { "id": "noe-0226", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Girdle", "text": "To dream that you are girt with an old girdle,\nsignifies labor and pains. A new girdle signifies honor.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 228; source lines 976–977", "lineStart": 976, "lineEnd": 977, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are girt with an old girdle,\nsignifies labor and pains. A new girdle signifies honor." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10108", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Girdle", "heading": "Girdle", "text": "A dream of marriage ; a new girdle denotes honor, a broken one damage, a golden girdle gain, a silver one less profit (Artemidorus). In Christian symbolism it is an emblem of righteousness, virtue, truth.", "lineStart": 10108, "lineEnd": 10112, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 219; NLM OCR lines 10108–10112", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10108, "lineEnd": 10112, "printedPage": 219, "printedPageEnd": 219 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Girdle. — A dream of marriage ; a new girdle denotes honor, \na broken one damage, a golden girdle gain, a silver one less \nprofit (Artemidorus). In Christian symbolism it is an emblem \nof righteousness, virtue, truth. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Girdle" }, "displayText": "A dream of marriage; a new girdle denotes honor, a broken one damage, a golden girdle gain, a silver one less profit (Artemidorus). In Christian symbolism it is an emblem of righteousness, virtue, truth." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "girls", "title": "Girls", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing a well, bright-looking girl, foretells pleasing prospects and domestic joys.”", "aliases": [ "girls" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about girls stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0873", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Girls", "text": "To dream of seeing a well, bright-looking girl, foretells pleasing\nprospects and domestic joys. If she is thin and pale,\nit denotes that you will have an invalid in your family,\nand much unpleasantness.\n\nFor a man to dream that he is a girl, he will be weak-minded,\nor become an actor and play female parts.", "locator": "Heading 874; source lines 10121–10131", "lineStart": 10121, "lineEnd": 10131, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing a well, bright-looking girl, foretells pleasing\nprospects and domestic joys. If she is thin and pale,\nit denotes that you will have an invalid in your family,\nand much unpleasantness.\n\nFor a man to dream that he is a girl, he will be weak-minded,\nor become an actor and play female parts." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "glacier", "title": "Glacier", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "aliases": [ "glacier", "glaciers", "glacial landscape", "crossing a glacier" ], "summary": "A glacier can give large, gradual change a landscape. Notice its movement, old layers, and the scale of crossing or observing it.", "tagline": "An immense body of ice whose apparent stillness can hold movement on a different timescale.", "psychological": "A glacier is an extensive ice landscape rather than a single frozen object. Its size, layers, cracks, and gradual movement can make change visible on a timescale larger than an ordinary day. In a dream, that combination may picture a process that is substantial yet difficult to notice from moment to moment. The scene can feel patient, imposing, beautiful, or uncertain.\n\nApparent stillness can contrast with movement you discover later. A landmark shifting or ice pressing along a valley may give form to an undertaking that continues even when immediate progress seems slight. You might recognize a long period of learning, adjustment, or changing relationships. The comparison is useful only if it fits; the dream does not prove that an unseen process is occurring.\n\nLayers can make accumulated history tangible. An object enclosed in old ice or a band of unfamiliar color may picture something retained from an earlier period. Finding it can bring curiosity, attachment, or discomfort. Notice whether you want to uncover the material, leave it preserved, or understand how it belongs within the landscape.\n\nCrossing makes scale into a practical experience. Distance that appears short from afar may become a long journey on the surface. A crack, changing path, or guide can show how attention and support matter when moving across something extensive. The glacier can offer footing while still containing conditions you do not fully understand.\n\nAn edge that melts, breaks, or reveals water changes the relationship between stored material and movement. That may picture an established arrangement changing its form, with relief or concern depending on your experience. Recent travel, documentaries, climate discussions, and images of icy landscapes can supply the setting directly. These reflections explore the imagined glacier; they do not predict environmental events or assign a universal emotional meaning to ice.", "traditional": "This entry offers original reflections on a glacier’s large scale, layers, gradual movement, and crossings. No verified historical glacier passage is supplied. General dream research does not validate predictions about environmental change or establish that an icy landscape reveals a hidden psychological process.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Movement on a larger timescale", "reflection": "An apparently still landscape that gradually shifts can picture change difficult to judge through immediate results. Consider how the dream lets you notice movement and what pace feels appropriate. The comparison may fit a sustained process without implying that every slow period is productive." }, { "title": "History held within a landscape", "reflection": "Layers and enclosed objects can make past experience feel materially present. The scene may explore curiosity about what has remained beneath an established surface. Your response to uncovering or preserving it can help distinguish wanting to understand the past from wanting to leave it undisturbed." }, { "title": "Crossing something larger than it first appeared", "reflection": "The surface can turn an impressive view into a demanding distance. A guide, visible route, or place to pause may make that scale manageable. Notice whether the dream provides enough orientation to continue and whether reaching the far side is actually your aim." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "The glacier moves when you watch it over time", "reflection": "Visible movement after a long observation can picture recognizing a change that was difficult to detect day by day. A sustained learning process may feel similar. Notice whether seeing the shift brings reassurance, unease, or wonder, and what reference allows you to recognize it." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A familiar object is enclosed in an old ice layer", "reflection": "An object retained within the ice may picture an experience or attachment that still has a place in your history. You may want to recover it or prefer its preservation. Record what makes it familiar and whether uncovering it would change the surrounding landscape." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "The far side recedes as you walk", "reflection": "Distance becoming larger during movement can picture discovering the scale of an undertaking after beginning it. The experience may bring fatigue or fascination rather than simple discouragement. Notice whether progress remains visible nearby and whether you can change the pace or destination." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A guide shows you a route between cracks", "reflection": "Guidance can picture support that makes an extensive, unfamiliar task easier to navigate. The guide’s knowledge may feel trustworthy or need explanation. Observe whether you learn to recognize the route yourself and whether walking together changes how exposed you feel on the ice." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The edge melts into a flowing stream", "reflection": "A boundary changing from solid ice to moving water can picture an established form becoming more flexible. It may feel relieving, unsettling, or simply beautiful. Notice what the new stream makes accessible and what it carries away; the transformation need not have one predetermined emotional meaning." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You rest on a ridge and study the whole glacier", "reflection": "Pausing for a wider view can picture taking time to understand a large process without immediately advancing through it. The ridge may bring distance, perspective, or quiet. Observe which detail becomes clearer from there and whether the pause changes your wish to continue crossing." } ], "prompts": [ "What let me notice movement or change in the glacier?", "Which layer or enclosed object drew my attention, and why?", "How did the glacier’s scale affect my pace, support, or destination?" ], "related": [ "ice", "snow", "mountain", "avalanche" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia editorial entry with image-specific interpretations and six differentiated scenes. The reference supplies general dream background only. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "glass", "title": "Glass", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are looking through glass, denotes that bitter disappointments will cloud your brightest…” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "glass" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about glass stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0874", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Glass", "text": "To dream that you are looking through glass, denotes that bitter\ndisappointments will cloud your brightest hopes.\n\nTo see your image in a mirror, foretells unfaithfulness and neglect\nin marriage, and fruitless speculations.\n\nTo see another face with your own in a mirror indicates that you\nare leading a double life. You will deceive your friends.\n\nTo break a mirror, portends an early and accidental death.\n\nTo break glass dishes, or windows, foretells the unfavorable\ntermination to enterprises.\n\nTo receive cut glass, denotes that you will be admired for your\nbrilliancy and talent.\n\nTo make presents of cut glass ornaments, signifies that you will fail\nin your undertakings.\n\nFor a woman to see her lover in a mirror, denotes that she will have cause\nto institute a breach of promise suit.\n\nFor a married woman to see her husband in a mirror, is a warning that she\nwill have cause to feel anxiety for her happiness and honor.\n\nTo look clearly through a glass window, you will have employment,\nbut will have to work subordinately. If the glass is clouded,\nyou will be unfortunately situated.\n\nIf a woman sees men, other than husband or lover, in a looking glass,\nshe will be discovered in some indiscreet affair which will be humiliating\nto her and a source of worry to her relations.\n\nFor a man to dream of seeing strange women in a mirror,\nhe will ruin his health and business by foolish attachments.", "locator": "Heading 875; source lines 10131–10170", "lineStart": 10131, "lineEnd": 10170, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are looking through glass, denotes that bitter\ndisappointments will cloud your brightest hopes.\n\nTo see your image in a mirror, foretells unfaithfulness and neglect\nin marriage, and fruitless speculations.\n\nTo see another face with your own in a mirror indicates that you\nare leading a double life. You will deceive your friends.\n\nTo break a mirror, portends an early and accidental death.\n\nTo break glass dishes, or windows, foretells the unfavorable\ntermination to enterprises.\n\nTo receive cut glass, denotes that you will be admired for your\nbrilliancy and talent.\n\nTo make presents of cut glass ornaments, signifies that you will fail\nin your undertakings.\n\nFor a woman to see her lover in a mirror, denotes that she will have cause\nto institute a breach of promise suit.\n\nFor a married woman to see her husband in a mirror, is a warning that she\nwill have cause to feel anxiety for her happiness and honor.\n\nTo look clearly through a glass window, you will have employment,\nbut will have to work subordinately. If the glass is clouded,\nyou will be unfortunately situated.\n\nIf a woman sees men, other than husband or lover, in a looking glass,\nshe will be discovered in some indiscreet affair which will be humiliating\nto her and a source of worry to her relations.\n\nFor a man to dream of seeing strange women in a mirror,\nhe will ruin his health and business by foolish attachments." }, { "id": "fontaine-0296", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Glass", "text": "To dream of receiving a glass of water, signifies that you will\nsoon be married; if you break it, your lover will forsake you. 11, 64.", "locator": "Heading 296; source line 2279", "lineStart": 2279, "lineEnd": 2282, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of receiving a glass of water, signifies that you will\nsoon be married; if you break it, your lover will forsake you." }, { "id": "noe-0215", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Glass", "text": "To dream of glass, marks inconstancy in your sweetheart, and in\nbusiness of bad success in your undertakings in life. To dream you break\nglass, shows that your sweetheart will forsake you, and that you will\nunexpectedly meet with misfortunes and troubles. To dream you receive a\nglassful of water, is indicative of a speedy marriage and that you will\nhave many children, who will all do well. If the glass appears broken, the\ndeath of your sweetheart, or, if married, of your spouse, is predicted.\nFor a woman with child, or a married man whilst his wife is with child, to\ndream of breaking a glass of wine or water, denotes that the child in the\nwomb will be preserved after much danger, and perhaps the death of the\nmother. If either of them dream that they spill wine or water, it is\nindicative that the mother will live but the child will die.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 217; source lines 925–936", "lineStart": 925, "lineEnd": 936, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of glass, marks inconstancy in your sweetheart, and in\nbusiness of bad success in your undertakings in life. To dream you break\nglass, shows that your sweetheart will forsake you, and that you will\nunexpectedly meet with misfortunes and troubles. To dream you receive a\nglassful of water, is indicative of a speedy marriage and that you will\nhave many children, who will all do well. If the glass appears broken, the\ndeath of your sweetheart, or, if married, of your spouse, is predicted.\nFor a woman with child, or a married man whilst his wife is with child, to\ndream of breaking a glass of wine or water, denotes that the child in the\nwomb will be preserved after much danger, and perhaps the death of the\nmother. If either of them dream that they spill wine or water, it is\nindicative that the mother will live but the child will die." }, { "id": "luck-0104", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Glass", "text": "To dream of anything made of glass refers to women;\n(receiving glass of water) birth in the family.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 104; source lines 3767–3770", "lineStart": 3767, "lineEnd": 3770, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of anything made of glass refers to women;\n(receiving glass of water) birth in the family." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "glass-house", "title": "Glass House", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see a glass house, foretells you are likely to be injured by listening to flattery.”", "aliases": [ "glass house" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about glass house stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0876", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Glass House", "text": "To see a glass house, foretells you are likely to be injured by listening\nto flattery. For a young woman to dream that she is living in a glass house,\nher coming trouble and threatened loss of reputation is emphasized.", "locator": "Heading 877; source lines 10176–10182", "lineStart": 10176, "lineEnd": 10182, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a glass house, foretells you are likely to be injured by listening\nto flattery. For a young woman to dream that she is living in a glass house,\nher coming trouble and threatened loss of reputation is emphasized." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "glass-blower", "title": "Glass-blower", "type": "dreams", "category": "Other symbols", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you see glass-blowers at their work, denotes you will contemplate change in your business, which will appear for the better,…”", "aliases": [ "glass-blower" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about glass-blower stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0875", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Glass-blower", "text": "To dream that you see glass-blowers at their work, denotes you will\ncontemplate change in your business, which will appear for the better,\nbut you will make it at a loss to yourself.", "locator": "Heading 876; source lines 10170–10176", "lineStart": 10170, "lineEnd": 10176, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you see glass-blowers at their work, denotes you will\ncontemplate change in your business, which will appear for the better,\nbut you will make it at a loss to yourself." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "gleaning", "title": "Gleaning", "type": "dreams", "category": "Other symbols", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see gleaners at work at harvest time, denotes prosperous business, and, to the farmer, a bountiful yield of crops.”", "aliases": [ "gleaning" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about gleaning stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0877", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Gleaning", "text": "To see gleaners at work at harvest time, denotes prosperous\nbusiness, and, to the farmer, a bountiful yield of crops.\nIf you are working with the gleaners, you will come into\nan estate, after some trouble in establishing rights.\nFor a woman, this dream foretells marriage with a stranger.", "locator": "Heading 878; source lines 10182–10190", "lineStart": 10182, "lineEnd": 10190, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see gleaners at work at harvest time, denotes prosperous\nbusiness, and, to the farmer, a bountiful yield of crops.\nIf you are working with the gleaners, you will come into\nan estate, after some trouble in establishing rights.\nFor a woman, this dream foretells marriage with a stranger." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "globe", "title": "Globe", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “To dream you are looking at a globe, foretells much good, and that you will be a great traveller.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "globe" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about globe stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0297", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Globe", "text": "To dream you are looking at a globe, foretells much good, and\nthat you will be a great traveller. 19.", "locator": "Heading 297; source line 2282", "lineStart": 2282, "lineEnd": 2285, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are looking at a globe, foretells much good, and\nthat you will be a great traveller." }, { "id": "noe-0216", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Globe", "text": "To\ndream that you are looking at a globe, foretells much good, and that you\nwill become a great traveler.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 218; source lines 936–938", "lineStart": 936, "lineEnd": 938, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To\ndream that you are looking at a globe, foretells much good, and that you\nwill become a great traveler." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "gloomy", "title": "Gloomy", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To be surrounded by many gloomy situations in your dream, warns you of rapidly approaching unpleasantness and loss. See Despair.”", "aliases": [ "gloomy" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about gloomy stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "despair" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0878", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Gloomy", "text": "To be surrounded by many gloomy situations in your dream,\nwarns you of rapidly approaching unpleasantness and loss.\n\n\n[84] See Despair.", "locator": "Heading 879; source lines 10190–10198", "lineStart": 10190, "lineEnd": 10198, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To be surrounded by many gloomy situations in your dream,\nwarns you of rapidly approaching unpleasantness and loss. See Despair." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "despair" ] }, { "slug": "gloves", "title": "Gloves", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "summary": "Gloves may explore the conditions of handling, skill or contact. They can enable a task while changing what you can feel or communicate.", "tagline": "A layer between hand and task can help in one way and hinder in another.", "aliases": [ "gloves" ], "status": "REVIEW", "psychological": "Gloves can make the conditions of handling something visible. They may let you approach an object comfortably, yet reduce the grip or sensitivity needed for a particular task. The dream may explore an arrangement that makes participation possible while changing how directly you can engage. A waking comparison could be a useful procedure or intermediary that provides access but makes a small adjustment harder to feel.\n\n The task gives the layer its purpose. Heavy gloves used for delicate work create a different scene from an appropriate pair that lets you complete an unfamiliar job. You may need another tool, a different glove or a clearer description of what the activity requires. This can resemble adapting support to a specific need rather than assuming that one precaution or method fits every encounter. Competence depends on the arrangement, not on the appearance of the hands alone.\n\n A pair can make uneven conditions tangible. One glove may fit while the other slips, leaving the two hands able to do different parts of the work. Coordinating them can resemble responsibilities whose terms do not match. A changed pace or a more balanced set of resources may be more useful than asking both parts to function as though their conditions were identical.\n\n Contact introduces another possibility. A gloved handshake may be welcome, awkward or unnoticed by the other person. Removing one glove freely differs from being told you must do so before an encounter can continue. The scene can explore how an interaction leaves room for preference and a chosen degree of directness. A dreamed response does not disclose the real person's intentions or measure the sincerity of your care.\n\n Ownership and transfer can also matter. Borrowed gloves may make you careful about damage, while finding a pair after the task is finished may turn attention toward what becomes available too late. Recent work, clothing or remembered handling can supply the image directly. The gloves' function, fit and terms of contact give the scene more direction than treating covering the hands as an automatic sign of emotional distance.", "traditional": "The six books disagree about gloves: their condition, gift, loss, use and color receive different friendship, business, honor and fortune claims. The 1805 Dreams and Moles gives white and black gloves contrasting marriage, death or departure forecasts. These are garment-specific period beliefs, not evidence about loyalty, safety or a hue’s universal meaning.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Handling under particular conditions", "reflection": "A glove may make contact possible while changing grip or sensation. The scene can explore how a helpful method fits the actual task, including when another form of support is needed." }, { "title": "Uneven resources", "reflection": "Different fit on each hand may give one part of the activity a different capacity. Coordination can improve through changed terms or pace instead of assuming both sides already have equivalent support." }, { "title": "Chosen directness", "reflection": "Putting on or removing a glove can alter an encounter’s terms. A freely chosen adjustment differs from having closeness imposed or treating one form of contact as the only sincere one." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Thick gloves make a delicate adjustment difficult", "reflection": "The layer provides one kind of assistance but makes the required detail harder to manage. Another tool or more suitable glove may improve the task. This can picture support needing adjustment without making either caution or direct handling the only right method." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "One glove fits while the other keeps slipping", "reflection": "The hands share a task under different conditions. Slowing down or finding a better pair may restore coordination. The scene can resemble responsibilities supplied with uneven resources, where greater effort alone does not make the two sides equally able to act." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You complete unfamiliar work with well-fitting gloves", "reflection": "The arrangement lets you handle a task that first seemed awkward. This may picture support whose form matches a practical need. The satisfaction concerns participation and usable conditions, rather than proving that the gloves confer expertise or guarantee success beyond the scene." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A handshake requires removing a glove you want to keep", "reflection": "The encounter is offered on terms that leave your preference uncertain. Explaining, declining or choosing removal freely can give the scene different possibilities. The glove may make the terms of contact concrete without revealing how either real participant feels about closeness." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Borrowed gloves protect the object but cannot be marked", "reflection": "You can perform the task only while preserving the loan in a condition that is hard to maintain. This may explore assistance with competing requirements. Clearer permission or another arrangement can make the help workable without treating gratitude as a reason to ignore the difficulty." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The gloves turn up after the handling task is over", "reflection": "A useful resource becomes available after you needed it. Keeping it for another occasion, returning it or expressing frustration can explore timing in support. The discovery changes future options within the dream, even if it cannot undo the earlier effort." } ], "prompts": [ "What did the gloves make possible, and what did they make harder to feel or handle?", "How did the conditions differ between the two hands or parts of the task?", "What room did you have to choose the terms of contact?" ], "related": [ "shaking-hands", "clothes", "gift", "uniform", "work" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0879" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context only. miller-0879: New, ragged, lost, found, removed and another person’s fastened gloves receive business, betrayal, livelihood, marriage and exposure forecasts. This citation does not validate the original psychological reflections or predict a waking outcome." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0298" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context only. fontaine-0298: Good and torn gloves receive happiness or disappointment forecasts; a lover’s glove dream is assigned rejection. This citation does not validate the original psychological reflections or predict a waking outcome." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0208" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context only. noe-0208: Received and offered gloves receive friendship/charity claims, with color, quantity and ragged-condition distinctions. These are glove-context forecasts, not general hue meanings or evidence of friends’ intentions. This citation does not validate the original psychological reflections or predict a waking outcome." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0192" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context only. cielo-0192: Buying or wearing gloves is assigned a new-friend forecast. This citation does not validate the original psychological reflections or predict a waking outcome." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0105" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context only. luck-0105: Gloves generally, gloves worn and gloves lost receive different luck, honor/safety and business-loss claims. This citation does not validate the original psychological reflections or predict a waking outcome." }, { "id": "moles-71045", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams and Moles", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "United Kingdom, J. Marshall, 1805", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71045", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "moles-0026" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context only. moles-0026: New white gloves receive a friends’ marriage forecast; black gloves receive death or departure forecasts. Color is embedded in the glove passage, not evidence for independent hue interpretations. This citation does not validate the original psychological reflections or predict a waking outcome." } ], "updated": "2026-10-13", "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection independently reviewed for content and source scope. Historical accounts remain attributed period writing. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0879", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Gloves", "text": "To dream of wearing new gloves, denotes that you will be cautious\nand economical in your dealings with others, but not mercenary.\nYou will have law suits, or business troubles, but will settle them\nsatisfactorily to yourself.\n\nIf you wear old or ragged gloves, you will be betrayed and suffer loss.\n\nIf you dream that you lose your gloves, you will be deserted and earn\nyour own means of livelihood.\n\nTo find a pair of gloves, denotes a marriage or new love affair.\n\nFor a man to fasten a lady's glove, he has, or will have,\na woman on his hands who threatens him with exposure.\n\nIf you pull your glove off, you will meet with poor success\nin business or love.", "locator": "Heading 880; source lines 10198–10218", "lineStart": 10198, "lineEnd": 10218, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of wearing new gloves, denotes that you will be cautious\nand economical in your dealings with others, but not mercenary.\nYou will have law suits, or business troubles, but will settle them\nsatisfactorily to yourself.\n\nIf you wear old or ragged gloves, you will be betrayed and suffer loss.\n\nIf you dream that you lose your gloves, you will be deserted and earn\nyour own means of livelihood.\n\nTo find a pair of gloves, denotes a marriage or new love affair.\n\nFor a man to fasten a lady's glove, he has, or will have,\na woman on his hands who threatens him with exposure.\n\nIf you pull your glove off, you will meet with poor success\nin business or love." }, { "id": "fontaine-0298", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Gloves", "text": "To dream of wearing good gloves, brings happiness; if the\ngloves are torn, many disappointments. To the lover this dream is a\nsign he will get the mitten from his sweetheart. 25, 9.", "locator": "Heading 298; source line 2285", "lineStart": 2285, "lineEnd": 2289, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of wearing good gloves, brings happiness; if the\ngloves are torn, many disappointments. To the lover this dream is a\nsign he will get the mitten from his sweetheart." }, { "id": "noe-0208", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Gloves", "text": "To dream of receiving a gift of a pair of gloves, signifies an\noffer of friendship. If the gloves are light, the connection will be\npleasant; if dark, it is doubtful. To receive a package of gloves,\nsignifies much good offered to you at one time. To present gloves in a\ndream, signifies a gift in charity. To dream of old, ragged gloves,\nsignifies disappointment and deceit from your dearest friends.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 210; source lines 899–905", "lineStart": 899, "lineEnd": 905, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of receiving a gift of a pair of gloves, signifies an\noffer of friendship. If the gloves are light, the connection will be\npleasant; if dark, it is doubtful. To receive a package of gloves,\nsignifies much good offered to you at one time. To present gloves in a\ndream, signifies a gift in charity. To dream of old, ragged gloves,\nsignifies disappointment and deceit from your dearest friends." }, { "id": "cielo-0192", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Gloves", "text": "To buy or wear gloves means a new-found friend.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 192; source lines 4314–4316", "lineStart": 4314, "lineEnd": 4316, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To buy or wear gloves means a new-found friend." }, { "id": "luck-0105", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Gloves", "text": "Usually bad luck; (gloves on hands) honor and safety;\n(losing gloves) loss in business.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 105; source lines 3770–3773", "lineStart": 3770, "lineEnd": 3773, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Usually bad luck; (gloves on hands) honor and safety;\n(losing gloves) loss in business." }, { "id": "moles-0026", "sourceId": "moles-71045", "heading": "Gloves", "originalHeading": "(no printed heading)", "text": "To dream one puts on new white gloves denotes the marriage of friends;\nbut black ones, their death, or removal to a distance.", "locator": "Dreams interpreted, passage 26; source lines 185–186", "lineStart": 185, "lineEnd": 186, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "editorialNote": "The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Gloves” because that is the subject of its first clause.", "displayText": "To dream one puts on new white gloves denotes the marriage of friends;\nbut black ones, their death, or removal to a distance." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "goat", "title": "Goat", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "5 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of goats wandering around a farm, is significant of seasonable weather and a fine yield of crops…” Compare 5 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "goat" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about goat stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0880", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Goat", "text": "To dream of goats wandering around a farm, is significant of seasonable\nweather and a fine yield of crops To see them otherwise, denotes cautious\ndealings and a steady increase of wealth.\n\nIf a billy goat butts you, beware that enemies do not get possession\nof your secrets or business plans.\n\nFor a woman to dream of riding a billy goat, denotes that she will be held\nin disrepute because of her coarse and ill-bred conduct.\n\nIf a woman dreams that she drinks goat's milk, she will marry\nfor money and will not be disappointed.", "locator": "Heading 881; source lines 10218–10233", "lineStart": 10218, "lineEnd": 10233, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of goats wandering around a farm, is significant of seasonable\nweather and a fine yield of crops To see them otherwise, denotes cautious\ndealings and a steady increase of wealth.\n\nIf a billy goat butts you, beware that enemies do not get possession\nof your secrets or business plans.\n\nFor a woman to dream of riding a billy goat, denotes that she will be held\nin disrepute because of her coarse and ill-bred conduct.\n\nIf a woman dreams that she drinks goat's milk, she will marry\nfor money and will not be disappointed." }, { "id": "fontaine-0299", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Goat", "text": "If you dream of seeing goats on a high place in a mountain, it\nshows that riches or honors await you: if the goats are merely on the\nroad, or in a building, it predicts good luck. 64, 34.", "locator": "Heading 299; source line 2289", "lineStart": 2289, "lineEnd": 2293, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream of seeing goats on a high place in a mountain, it\nshows that riches or honors await you: if the goats are merely on the\nroad, or in a building, it predicts good luck." }, { "id": "cielo-0193", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Goat", "text": "To dream of a white goat means prosperity; of\n a black goat, sickness.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 193; source lines 4316–4319", "lineStart": 4316, "lineEnd": 4319, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a white goat means prosperity; of\na black goat, sickness." }, { "id": "luck-0106", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Goat", "text": "Bad luck, some misfortune, especially unlucky to sailors;\n(white goat) a profitable venture; (many goats) an inheritance.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 106; source lines 3773–3776", "lineStart": 3773, "lineEnd": 3776, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Bad luck, some misfortune, especially unlucky to sailors;\n(white goat) a profitable venture; (many goats) an inheritance." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10113", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Goat", "heading": "Goat", "text": "Enemies, trials and deceit (Artemidorus). An emblem of lewdness and wickedness in Christian symbolism.", "lineStart": 10113, "lineEnd": 10115, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 219; NLM OCR lines 10113–10115", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10113, "lineEnd": 10115, "printedPage": 219, "printedPageEnd": 219 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Goat. — Enemies, trials and deceit (Artemidorus). An em- \nblem of lewdness and wickedness in Christian symbolism. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "em- \nblem", "after": "emblem", "evidenceLine": 4661 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Goat" }, "displayText": "Enemies, trials and deceit (Artemidorus). An emblem of lewdness and wickedness in Christian symbolism." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "goblet", "title": "Goblet", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “If you dream that you drink water from a silver goblet, you will meet unfavorable business results in the near future.”", "aliases": [ "goblet" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about goblet stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0881", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Goblet", "text": "If you dream that you drink water from a silver goblet,\nyou will meet unfavorable business results in the near future.\n\nTo see goblets of ancient design, you will receive favors\nand benefits from strangers.\n\nFor a woman to give a man a glass goblet full of water,\ndenotes illicit pleasures.", "locator": "Heading 882; source lines 10233–10244", "lineStart": 10233, "lineEnd": 10244, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream that you drink water from a silver goblet,\nyou will meet unfavorable business results in the near future.\n\nTo see goblets of ancient design, you will receive favors\nand benefits from strangers.\n\nFor a woman to give a man a glass goblet full of water,\ndenotes illicit pleasures." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "god", "title": "God", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “If you dream of seeing God, you will be domineered over by a tyrannical woman masquerading under the cloak…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "god" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about god stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0882", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "God", "text": "If you dream of seeing God, you will be domineered over by a tyrannical\nwoman masquerading under the cloak of Christianity. No good accrues\nfrom this dream.\n\nIf God speaks to you, beware that you do not fall into condemnation.\nBusiness of all sorts will take an unfavorable turn. It is the forerunner\nof the weakening of health and may mean early dissolution.\n\nIf you dream of worshiping God, you will have cause to repent\nof an error of your own making. Look well to observing the ten\ncommandments after this dream.\n\nTo dream that God confers distinct favors upon you, you will become\nthe favorite of a cautious and prominent person who will use his\nposition to advance yours.\n\nTo dream that God sends his spirit upon you, great changes in your\nbeliefs will take place. Views concerning dogmatic Christianity\nshould broaden after this dream, or you may be severely chastised\nfor some indiscreet action which has brought shame upon you.\nGod speaks oftener to those who transgress than those who do not.\nIt is the genius of spiritual law or economy to reinstate the prodigal\nchild by signs and visions. Elijah, Jonah, David, and Paul were\nbrought to the altar of repentence through the vigilant energy\nof the hidden forces within.", "locator": "Heading 883; source lines 10244–10272", "lineStart": 10244, "lineEnd": 10272, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream of seeing God, you will be domineered over by a tyrannical\nwoman masquerading under the cloak of Christianity. No good accrues\nfrom this dream.\n\nIf God speaks to you, beware that you do not fall into condemnation.\nBusiness of all sorts will take an unfavorable turn. It is the forerunner\nof the weakening of health and may mean early dissolution.\n\nIf you dream of worshiping God, you will have cause to repent\nof an error of your own making. Look well to observing the ten\ncommandments after this dream.\n\nTo dream that God confers distinct favors upon you, you will become\nthe favorite of a cautious and prominent person who will use his\nposition to advance yours.\n\nTo dream that God sends his spirit upon you, great changes in your\nbeliefs will take place. Views concerning dogmatic Christianity\nshould broaden after this dream, or you may be severely chastised\nfor some indiscreet action which has brought shame upon you.\nGod speaks oftener to those who transgress than those who do not.\nIt is the genius of spiritual law or economy to reinstate the prodigal\nchild by signs and visions. Elijah, Jonah, David, and Paul were\nbrought to the altar of repentence through the vigilant energy\nof the hidden forces within." }, { "id": "luck-0107", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "God", "text": "A good dream--health and happiness.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 107; source lines 3776–3778", "lineStart": 3776, "lineEnd": 3778, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "A good dream--health and happiness." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "goggles", "title": "Goggles", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of goggles, is a warning of disreputable companions who will wheedle you into lending your money…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "goggles" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about goggles stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0883", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Goggles", "text": "To dream of goggles, is a warning of disreputable companions\nwho will wheedle you into lending your money foolishly.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of goggles, means that she will listen\nto persuasion which will mar her fortune.", "locator": "Heading 884; source lines 10272–10280", "lineStart": 10272, "lineEnd": 10280, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of goggles, is a warning of disreputable companions\nwho will wheedle you into lending your money foolishly.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of goggles, means that she will listen\nto persuasion which will mar her fortune." }, { "id": "fontaine-0300", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Goggles", "text": "To dream that you are wearing these glasses to protect the\neyes, is a sign that you will see something disagreeable. If a lover\ndreams such a dream, he will be apt to see some young fellow making\nlove, or saying soft things, to his sweetheart. 45, 3.", "locator": "Heading 300; source line 2293", "lineStart": 2293, "lineEnd": 2298, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are wearing these glasses to protect the\neyes, is a sign that you will see something disagreeable. If a lover\ndreams such a dream, he will be apt to see some young fellow making\nlove, or saying soft things, to his sweetheart." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "going-viral-unexpectedly", "title": "Going viral unexpectedly", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "tagline": "A moment meant for a few people travels far beyond them.", "summary": "Going viral unexpectedly can bring recognition and loss of control at the same time. Notice what spread, who saw it, and whether you wanted the attention.", "aliases": [ "going viral unexpectedly" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "The scale of the audience may change the meaning of an otherwise ordinary moment. A joke among friends, a skill you practiced, and an accidental recording can each become something different when strangers respond. You might reflect on recognition, exposure, or the pressure to repeat a success. The dream does not measure your wish for fame. Pay attention to whether you could still speak in your own voice once other people began defining the moment.", "traditional": "Public acclaim and gossip are older social experiences, but algorithmic spread is modern. Those comparisons do not provide a traditional prediction about online attention.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "People celebrated work you cared about", "reflection": "Recognition may have felt welcome. Did the attention support the work or begin to replace it?" }, { "title": "A private mistake spread", "reflection": "The loss of context may be central. What explanation did you want people to hear?" }, { "title": "Everyone expected another success", "reflection": "A single event became a continuing demand. What did you want to make or do before that expectation appeared?" } ], "prompts": [ "What exactly did people share?", "Whose response mattered amid all the strangers?", "What could I still choose once the attention grew?" ], "related": [ "a-post-nobody-noticed", "an-embarrassing-old-post" ], "sources": [], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection draft, written for this specific modern scene. Suggested connections are exploratory, not established dream meanings. Individual editorial review remains pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "gold", "title": "Gold", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "Having something valued and being able to use it are different conditions.", "summary": "Gold as material can explore access to a valued resource, the terms of receiving or exchanging it and responsibilities that come with possession.", "aliases": [ "gold" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A heavy piece of gold can picture a resource whose value does not make it immediately useful. A qualification, a valuable possession or substantial support may seem promising while remaining awkward to carry into an ordinary task. You may want what it makes possible and still need another form in which to use it. The dream’s weight, shape and available exchange give the material a practical role beyond its appearance.\n\nReceiving gold with unexplained conditions can make a gift feel partly like an assignment. A new opportunity or family contribution may offer real support while leaving expectations unclear. Gratitude can coexist with wanting to know what acceptance asks of you. Receiving it freely creates a different reading from feeling that possession requires a continuing performance for the giver. The dream cannot reveal someone’s real intentions; it makes the imagined terms visible.\n\nPaying with gold can picture choosing to release something valued in exchange for what matters now. Time, a useful resource or an established position may be committed to another purpose. Satisfaction may come from deciding where value goes. Reluctance can concern an exchange that demands more than the result provides. A payment refused despite its apparent worth can instead expose a mismatch between what you possess and what the encounter actually accepts.\n\nFinding gold inside a neglected ordinary object can give recognition another sequence. Something you already have becomes valued through closer attention. An overlooked skill or earlier piece of work may offer a parallel. If protecting the discovery stops you using the object, possession may begin competing with the ordinary function that first made it useful. Losing gold can likewise center an expected possibility interrupted, with regret or unexpected relief depending on what keeping it required.\n\nA visible vein beyond an inaccessible mine entrance makes promise and access separate. An opportunity may require information, permission or practical support before it can become available. Jewelry, payments, stories or a recent image may provide direct context. These original reflections concern material, use and the terms of possession. They do not forecast wealth, losses, mining results or relationship outcomes, and a gold-colored surface alone does not establish this material encounter.", "traditional": "Miller connects handling, gifts, finding, loss and mining with forecasts. Fontaine’s two Gold passages favor receiving and paying; Noe adds bar, coin and dropped-gold claims. Cielo predicts profit, while Everybody’s Book of Luck warns of loss and robbery. Craig attributes garment, crown, gathering and pocketful predictions to Artemidorus and adds religious emblems. These seven period accounts do not establish a dependable rule or predict wealth, relationships or character. Craig’s garment and emblem wording does not establish a separate pure-color interpretation.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A valued resource needs usable form", "reflection": "Possession can offer promise while weight, shape or the accepted means of exchange determine what it actually enables. A change in form may matter more than acquiring still more." }, { "title": "Acceptance has terms", "reflection": "Receiving or paying can make responsibility visible around something valued. Gratitude, choice and clear expectations can each affect whether an exchange feels useful." }, { "title": "Recognition and access arrive separately", "reflection": "A discovery can reveal value already present, while an inaccessible vein leaves the promise beyond current use. Information and practical conditions give these encounters different directions." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "The gold is too heavy for the task you want to do", "reflection": "A valued resource has a form that makes ordinary use difficult. This may picture substantial support needing a different arrangement. Changing how it is held or exchanged can matter more than increasing the amount, without making the dream a judgment of actual financial value." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You receive gold without knowing what is expected in return", "reflection": "A gift offers support while leaving its terms unclear. This can resemble a new opportunity or family contribution. Appreciation can coexist with wanting an account of the responsibility; the dream does not establish what a real giver expects or whether accepting is the right choice." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You choose to pay gold for something useful now", "reflection": "Value is released toward a purpose you recognize. This may picture committing time, a resource or an established position to another need. Satisfaction depends on choosing the exchange and its terms, rather than a historical promise that paying will bring friends or business." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Gold you expected to carry is missing", "reflection": "A possibility is interrupted after you organized plans around having it. This may picture losing access to a resource or a role. Regret can concern what is unavailable; relief can concern demands that possession carried. The dreamed loss does not forecast financial loss or establish carelessness." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You find gold within an ordinary object you had overlooked", "reflection": "Closer attention changes what is recognized in something already available. This may picture a skill or earlier contribution gaining value. Protecting the discovery can be satisfying or interrupt the object’s ordinary use; the scene does not forecast finding money or another material resource." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "A gold vein is visible beyond an inaccessible mine entrance", "reflection": "Promise can be recognized before its use becomes possible. This may picture an opportunity needing permission, information or support. A workable approach differs from assuming that visible value must already be available; the dream provides no mining result or financial guidance." } ], "prompts": [ "What made the valued resource usable or difficult to use?", "Which terms needed explanation before receiving or exchanging it felt chosen?", "What practical access was still needed after a possibility became visible?" ], "related": [ "metals", "money", "coins", "gold-color", "gold-and-losse-of-rings" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0884" ], "scope": "Miller’s Gold passage gives forecasts for handling, receiving gold money or ornaments, finding, losing, discovering a vein and considering a mine. Its gendered marriage, honor, wealth and moral claims are attributed historical writing, not evidence for the original reflections or an outcome. Exact supplied record(s): miller-0884 — Gold (Heading 885; source lines 10280–10298)." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0301", "fontaine-0465" ], "scope": "Both separately supplied Fontaine Gold passages give favorable undertaking forecasts for receiving. The first predicts more friends and business after paying and also points to Metals and Money; the second predicts more friends after paying. These are period predictions, not validated readings or advice. Exact supplied record(s): fontaine-0301 — Gold (Heading 301; source line 2298); fontaine-0465 — Gold (Heading 465; source line 3153)." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0217" ], "scope": "Noe’s Gold passage predicts outcomes for gold generally, bars, coins, payment, dropping and picking it up, including estate, relationship, family, fraud, prison and death claims. These are attributed historical forecasts, not present-day predictions, diagnosis or financial advice. Exact supplied record(s): noe-0217 — Gold (Dream section, heading 219; source lines 938–950)." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0194" ], "scope": "Cielo’s Gold passage predicts profit and success and a gain from a bag of gold. This brief historical forecast does not validate the original reflections or promise a financial result. Exact supplied record(s): cielo-0194 — Gold (Dream section, heading 194; source lines 4319–4322)." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0108" ], "scope": "Everybody’s Book of Luck gives adverse loss/robbery claims for gold and finding it, but more friends after paying it out. These contrasting period forecasts are not adopted. Exact supplied record(s): luck-0108 — Gold (Dream section, heading 108; source lines 3778–3782)." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L10116" ], "scope": "Craig’s Gold passage attributes embroidered-garment, crown, gathering gold/silver and pocketful-of-gold predictions to Artemidorus, then describes gold as an emblem of the sun and God’s goodness. Craig is the inspected source; no separate ancient source is invented. The text does not distinguish pure hue from material/ornament, so it is not cited on Gold (color). Exact supplied record(s): craig-1918:L10116 — Gold (Printed p. 219; NLM OCR lines 10116–10122)." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0884", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Gold", "text": "If you handle gold in your dream, you will be unusually successful in\nall enterprises. For a woman to dream that she receives presents of gold,\neither money or ornaments, she will marry a wealthy but mercenary man.\n\nTo find gold, indicates that your superior abilities will place\nyou easily ahead in the race for honors and wealth.\n\nIf you lose gold, you will miss the grandest opportunity of your\nlife through negligence.\n\nTo dream of finding a gold vein, denotes that some uneasy honor\nwill be thrust upon you.\n\nIf you dream that you contemplate working a gold mine, you will endeavor\nto usurp the rights of others, and should beware of domestic scandals.", "locator": "Heading 885; source lines 10280–10298", "lineStart": 10280, "lineEnd": 10298, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you handle gold in your dream, you will be unusually successful in\nall enterprises. For a woman to dream that she receives presents of gold,\neither money or ornaments, she will marry a wealthy but mercenary man.\n\nTo find gold, indicates that your superior abilities will place\nyou easily ahead in the race for honors and wealth.\n\nIf you lose gold, you will miss the grandest opportunity of your\nlife through negligence.\n\nTo dream of finding a gold vein, denotes that some uneasy honor\nwill be thrust upon you.\n\nIf you dream that you contemplate working a gold mine, you will endeavor\nto usurp the rights of others, and should beware of domestic scandals." }, { "id": "fontaine-0301", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Gold", "text": "(_See Metals, also Money._) To dream of receiving gold, is a\nvery good omen: it denotes success in your present undertakings, after\nexperiencing some little difficulties. If you pay gold, it betokens\nincrease of friends and business. 49, 7.", "locator": "Heading 301; source line 2298", "lineStart": 2298, "lineEnd": 2303, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Metals, also Money.) To dream of receiving gold, is a\nvery good omen: it denotes success in your present undertakings, after\nexperiencing some little difficulties. If you pay gold, it betokens\nincrease of friends and business." }, { "id": "fontaine-0465", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Gold", "text": "To dream of receiving gold is a good sign, and shows\nyou will be successful in all your undertakings. To dream you pay gold\nbetokens increase of friends. 49, 7.", "locator": "Heading 465; source line 3153", "lineStart": 3153, "lineEnd": 3157, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of receiving gold is a good sign, and shows\nyou will be successful in all your undertakings. To dream you pay gold\nbetokens increase of friends." }, { "id": "noe-0217", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Gold", "text": "To dream of gold, is a very good\nomen. It denotes success in your present undertakings, after experiencing\nsome little difficulties. If you receive gold in bars, you will inherit an\nestate in a far distant country, and have some trouble in getting\npossession of it. If you receive eagles or any other gold coin, your\naffairs will prosper, your sweetheart will be true and marry you; you will\nhave many children and be very happy. If you pay gold, it betokens an\nincrease of friends and business. If you let gold fall, it denotes an\nattack from thieves. If you are in trade, some swindler will attempt to\ndefraud you. If you pick up gold, it denotes that some quarrel will be\nsettled to your advantage. If you are in prison, it shows you will\nspeedily be released. It also denotes the death of a husband or wife, if\nyou are married. If single, of your sweetheart.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 219; source lines 938–950", "lineStart": 938, "lineEnd": 950, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of gold, is a very good\nomen. It denotes success in your present undertakings, after experiencing\nsome little difficulties. If you receive gold in bars, you will inherit an\nestate in a far distant country, and have some trouble in getting\npossession of it. If you receive eagles or any other gold coin, your\naffairs will prosper, your sweetheart will be true and marry you; you will\nhave many children and be very happy. If you pay gold, it betokens an\nincrease of friends and business. If you let gold fall, it denotes an\nattack from thieves. If you are in trade, some swindler will attempt to\ndefraud you. If you pick up gold, it denotes that some quarrel will be\nsettled to your advantage. If you are in prison, it shows you will\nspeedily be released. It also denotes the death of a husband or wife, if\nyou are married. If single, of your sweetheart." }, { "id": "cielo-0194", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Gold", "text": "Dreaming of gold denotes profit and success. A\n bag of gold indicates a gain.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 194; source lines 4319–4322", "lineStart": 4319, "lineEnd": 4322, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Dreaming of gold denotes profit and success. A\nbag of gold indicates a gain." }, { "id": "luck-0108", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Gold", "text": "Omen of loss and bad luck: (dreamer finding gold) a sign\nthat he will be robbed; (dreamer paying out gold) a sign that he will\nincrease the number of his friends.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 108; source lines 3778–3782", "lineStart": 3778, "lineEnd": 3782, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Omen of loss and bad luck: (dreamer finding gold) a sign\nthat he will be robbed; (dreamer paying out gold) a sign that he will\nincrease the number of his friends." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10116", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Gold", "heading": "Gold", "text": "To dream of gold embroidered garments, indicates joy and honor, to wear a gold crown signifies royal favor; to gather up gold and silver signifies deceit and loss ; to dream of pockets full of gold betokens but little money (Artemidorus). Gold was the emblem of the sun, of the goodness of God.", "lineStart": 10116, "lineEnd": 10122, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 219; NLM OCR lines 10116–10122", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10116, "lineEnd": 10122, "printedPage": 219, "printedPageEnd": 219 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Gold. — To dream of gold embroidered garments, indicates \njoy and honor, to wear a gold crown signifies royal favor; \nto gather up gold and silver signifies deceit and loss ; to dream \nof pockets full of gold betokens but little money (Artemido- \nrus). Gold was the emblem of the sun, of the goodness of \nGod. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "Artemido- \nrus", "after": "Artemidorus", "evidenceLine": 485 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Gold" }, "displayText": "To dream of gold embroidered garments, indicates joy and honor, to wear a gold crown signifies royal favor; to gather up gold and silver signifies deceit and loss; to dream of pockets full of gold betokens but little money (Artemidorus). Gold was the emblem of the sun, of the goodness of God." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [ "metals", "money" ] }, { "slug": "gold-color", "title": "Gold (color)", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "An impressive appearance can arrive before the work is complete.", "summary": "A gold-colored appearance can explore presentation, recognition before completion and the traces hidden by a polished finish. The hue need not be metal.", "aliases": [ "gold color", "gold colour", "the color gold", "the colour gold", "golden color", "golden colour" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "Gold coloring on an ordinary piece of cardboard can picture a familiar resource being encountered through a more impressive presentation. A simple idea given a formal introduction, an everyday contribution displayed publicly or a routine task dressed for an occasion may offer a parallel. Pleasure can come from seeing something ordinary acknowledged. Awkwardness may arise if the finish creates expectations the underlying object was never intended to meet.\n\nA gold-colored draft being treated as finished can make recognition arrive too soon. Someone responds to the appearance as if the work has already reached its final form. This may resemble receiving praise before questions are resolved or being expected to keep presenting an account you still want to revise. Appreciation and room to continue can both matter. Removing the finish is one response; explaining the unfinished parts creates another.\n\nGold paint covering marks you wanted retained can make polish costly in a different way. A corrected history may look smooth while concealing the effort, changes or contributions that made it useful. Keeping one visible trace can picture wanting the process acknowledged as part of the result. The scene does not require treating every imperfection as valuable; the specific mark matters through what it allows you to recognize.\n\nA gold-colored glow disappearing when you leave a room can separate an atmosphere from what remains afterward. An occasion may make an undertaking feel particularly valued while its ordinary conditions remain unchanged. Disappointment can concern wanting that recognition to continue. Relief can concern leaving a presentation behind and returning to a form you can use more comfortably.\n\nA plain replacement for an elaborate gold-colored cover can make usefulness personally preferable. A small gold edge can instead provide enough emphasis without transforming the whole object. Stage lighting, painted surfaces, fabric or a remembered celebration may explain the appearance directly. These original comparisons concern visual treatment and expectation. A gold hue does not determine metal content, ownership, financial value or success; those depend on other parts of the dreamed encounter.", "traditional": "A gold-colored appearance may belong to paint, cloth, paper or light. Its visual treatment alone does not establish metal, possession or financial value. No historical Gold account is used as a rule for this hue. The sleep reference supplies general background rather than evidence for these original comparisons.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Presentation changes expectations", "reflection": "An ordinary resource can be valued through an impressive finish. Welcome acknowledgment differs from being required to meet demands created by the display rather than by its actual purpose." }, { "title": "Recognition before completion", "reflection": "A polished appearance can make unfinished work look settled. Appreciation may need to leave room for questions, revisions and a result that has not yet taken its final form." }, { "title": "What the finish preserves or hides", "reflection": "A visual treatment can support a useful distinction or conceal a meaningful trace. The particular purpose determines whether emphasis or a plainer form serves the object." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Ordinary cardboard receives a gold-colored finish", "reflection": "Presentation changes how a familiar resource is encountered. This may picture an everyday contribution being acknowledged publicly. Pleasure differs from concern that the finish promises more than the object provides; the underlying purpose can remain useful without matching every expectation created by the display." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A gold-colored draft is called finished before you are ready", "reflection": "Recognition arrives while important questions remain open. This can fit praise or responsibility that assumes completion. Explaining what still needs work may preserve appreciation and room to revise, rather than requiring you to accept the polished appearance as the final account." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Gold paint covers marks you wanted to retain", "reflection": "A smooth presentation removes part of the visible process. This may picture effort or revision becoming hard to recognize within a finished result. Keeping a particular trace can matter because of what it records, without making every imperfection necessary or meaningful." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A gold-colored glow disappears outside the room", "reflection": "The valued atmosphere belongs to a particular setting. This can resemble an occasion lending recognition that does not automatically continue afterward. Disappointment and relief create different readings; what remains usable outside the display may need another account than the feeling produced within it." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You replace an elaborate gold-colored cover with plain paper", "reflection": "A simpler presentation makes the resource easier to use. This may picture choosing practical access over an appearance that requires maintenance or performance. Satisfaction depends on what serves your purpose, rather than on a judgment that impressive finishes are always empty or unwelcome." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "Only one edge is picked out in gold color", "reflection": "A modest visual distinction becomes enough to identify a place or part. This can resemble giving a contribution clear recognition without transforming the whole arrangement. The emphasis works through its fit with the task, rather than a general promise attached to the hue." } ], "prompts": [ "Which expectations came from the finish, and which came from the object’s actual purpose?", "What remained unfinished despite the recognition it received?", "What trace or distinction did I want the presentation to preserve?" ], "related": [ "colors", "gold", "light", "paint-and-painting" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "detectionAliases": [ "gold color", "gold colour", "the color gold", "the colour gold", "golden color", "golden colour" ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "gold-leaves", "title": "Gold Leaves", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of gold leaves, signifies a flattering future is before you.”", "aliases": [ "gold leaves" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about gold leaves stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0886", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Gold Leaves", "text": "To dream of gold leaves, signifies a flattering future is before you.", "locator": "Heading 887; source lines 10306–10310", "lineStart": 10306, "lineEnd": 10310, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of gold leaves, signifies a flattering future is before you." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "gold-and-losse-of-rings", "title": "Gold, and losse of Rings", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Artemidorus wrote: “FOr a man to dream he hath gold is not bad, because of the matter.”", "aliases": [ "gold, and losse of rings", "of gold, and losse of rings", "gold", "losse of rings" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about gold, and losse of rings stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "artemidorus-068", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of Gold, and losse of Rings.", "text": "FOr a man to dream he hath gold is not bad, because of the matter; as every one will say, but contrariwise it is good, as I have known by experience: but oftentimes when one hath dreamt, that he hath too much or an excesse, and ill agreeing to the sex by reason of the fashion and figure: as to men, billiments, chains, and caxquenets, in like manner: as to poore me▪ to dream of a crown of gold, and plate and great piec[illegible passage]s of gold. For when any one shal have such a dream the gold signifieth evill, not in respect of the matter, but the workmanship and figure. But if the head tyres be lost, broken, or bruised, in the dream, it is losse to a woman. Losse of Rings to a man, signifies not onely the losse of them that had charge over his goods, as the wife, the tennant, &c. but also the losse of his goods, lands and possessions, or that he will not lend or give away any more, to such as he hath lent and committed charge to before times: to many, this dream hath foretold losse of eyes, for the eyes have some agréement with the rings, because of the radiance of the stones: but when as your dreame is eyther of hosen or shooes, we must judge as of the apparell.", "locator": "Book 2, encoded section 68", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription-with-gaps", "book": "2", "displayText": "FOr a man to dream he hath gold is not bad, because of the matter; as every one will say, but contrariwise it is good, as I have known by experience: but oftentimes when one hath dreamt, that he hath too much or an excesse, and ill agreeing to the sex by reason of the fashion and figure: as to men, billiments, chains, and caxquenets, in like manner: as to poore me▪ to dream of a crown of gold, and plate and great piec [illegible passage] s of gold. For when any one shal have such a dream the gold signifieth evill, not in respect of the matter, but the workmanship and figure. But if the head tyres be lost, broken, or bruised, in the dream, it is losse to a woman. Losse of Rings to a man, signifies not onely the losse of them that had charge over his goods, as the wife, the tennant, &c. but also the losse of his goods, lands and possessions, or that he will not lend or give away any more, to such as he hath lent and committed charge to before times: to many, this dream hath foretold losse of eyes, for the eyes have some agréement with the rings, because of the radiance of the stones: but when as your dreame is eyther of hosen or shooes, we must judge as of the apparell." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "goldfish", "title": "Goldfish", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of goldfish, is a prognostic of many successful and pleasant adventures.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "goldfish", "gold-fish" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about goldfish stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0885", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Goldfish", "text": "To dream of goldfish, is a prognostic of many successful\nand pleasant adventures. For a young woman, this dream\nis indicative of a wealthy union with a pleasing man.\nIf the fish are sick or dead, heavy disappointments will\nfall upon her.", "locator": "Heading 886; source lines 10298–10306", "lineStart": 10298, "lineEnd": 10306, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of goldfish, is a prognostic of many successful\nand pleasant adventures. For a young woman, this dream\nis indicative of a wealthy union with a pleasing man.\nIf the fish are sick or dead, heavy disappointments will\nfall upon her." }, { "id": "fontaine-0302", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Gold-Fish", "text": "To dream of these beautiful fish is a sign of good fortune\ngenerally: if you dream of catching a large one, it foretells that you\nwill soon get a large sum of money: any kind of a dream about these\nfish is lucky. 20, 6.", "locator": "Heading 302; source line 2303", "lineStart": 2303, "lineEnd": 2308, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of these beautiful fish is a sign of good fortune\ngenerally: if you dream of catching a large one, it foretells that you\nwill soon get a large sum of money: any kind of a dream about these\nfish is lucky." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "golf", "title": "Golf", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To be playing golf or watching the game, denotes that pleasant and successive wishing will be indulged in by you.”", "aliases": [ "golf" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about golf stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0887", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Golf", "text": "To be playing golf or watching the game, denotes that\npleasant and successive wishing will be indulged in by you.\nTo see any unpleasantness connected with golf, you will be\nhumiliated by some thoughtless person.", "locator": "Heading 888; source lines 10310–10317", "lineStart": 10310, "lineEnd": 10317, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To be playing golf or watching the game, denotes that\npleasant and successive wishing will be indulged in by you.\nTo see any unpleasantness connected with golf, you will be\nhumiliated by some thoughtless person." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "gondola", "title": "Gondola", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “If a female dreams she is sailing in a gondola, she will speedily marry a person who will make her happy.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "gondola" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about gondola stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. 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If a\nman dream he is in a gondola, in smooth water, it is an excellent dream;\nbut if the water be muddy or troubled, it denotes much strife." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10123", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Gondola", "heading": "Gondola", "text": "See boat.", "lineStart": 10123, "lineEnd": 10124, "kind": "cross-reference", "locator": "Printed p. 219; NLM OCR lines 10123–10124", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10123, "lineEnd": 10124, "printedPage": 219, "printedPageEnd": 219 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Gondola. — See boat. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Gondola" }, "displayText": "See boat." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "good", "title": "Good", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “To dream that we do good to one, signifies jollity and pleasure, and to dream that others do us good, is profit and gain.”", "aliases": [ "good" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about good stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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To the maiden\nthey foretell a cheerful husband; they also denote happiness in\nmarriage, and success in trade. 19, 8.", "locator": "Heading 303; source line 2308", "lineStart": 2308, "lineEnd": 2313, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of gooseberries indicate many children, chiefly\nsons, and the accomplishment of your present pursuits. To the maiden\nthey foretell a cheerful husband; they also denote happiness in\nmarriage, and success in trade." }, { "id": "noe-0219", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Gooseberries", "text": "To dream of gooseberries,\nindicates many children, chiefly sons, and an accomplishment of your\npresent pursuits. To the sailor, they declare dangers in his next voyage.\nTo the maiden, a proving husband, and to the man, a rakish wife.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 221; source lines 952–956", "lineStart": 952, "lineEnd": 956, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of gooseberries,\nindicates many children, chiefly sons, and an accomplishment of your\npresent pursuits. To the sailor, they declare dangers in his next voyage.\nTo the maiden, a proving husband, and to the man, a rakish wife." }, { "id": "luck-0109", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Gooseberries", "text": "Time and trouble spent only for the benefit of others.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 109; source lines 3782–3787", "lineStart": 3782, "lineEnd": 3787, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Time and trouble spent only for the benefit of others." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10130", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Gooseberries", "heading": "Gooseberries", "text": "Many offspring and the accomplishment of plans are denoted by this dream (Raphael). The ancient symbol of reproductiveness and fertility.", "lineStart": 10130, "lineEnd": 10133, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 219; NLM OCR lines 10130–10133", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10130, "lineEnd": 10133, "printedPage": 219, "printedPageEnd": 219 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Gooseberries. — Many offspring and the accomplishment of \nplans are denoted by this dream (Raphael). The ancient sym- \nbol of reproductiveness and fertility. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "sym- \nbol", "after": "symbol", "evidenceLine": 2325 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Gooseberries" }, "displayText": "Many offspring and the accomplishment of plans are denoted by this dream (Raphael). The ancient symbol of reproductiveness and fertility." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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A dream that might be interpreted as either symbolical or inspired by physical stimuli.", "lineStart": 10134, "lineEnd": 10138, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 219; NLM OCR lines 10134–10138", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10134, "lineEnd": 10138, "printedPage": 219, "printedPageEnd": 219 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Gore. — To see a quantity of gore or congealed blood augurs \ndreadful calamity or death (Raphael). A dream that might \nbe interpreted as either symbolical or inspired by physical \nstimuli. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Gore" }, "displayText": "To see a quantity of gore or congealed blood augurs dreadful calamity or death (Raphael). A dream that might be interpreted as either symbolical or inspired by physical stimuli." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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It does not require assigning a fixed temperament to the animal or calling you a powerful person.\n\nA calm gorilla in a room arranged for you can make accommodation the central question. Someone else’s needs may now occupy a routine whose space and rules were designed around your own. A visiting relative, a shared workplace, or a new responsibility could fit. Welcome company may still require adjustment. If the creature cannot settle, the room’s arrangement may be more relevant than unwillingness on either side to cooperate.\n\nRepeating a gesture and receiving a response creates a scene about communication across unfamiliar expectations. You may be trying a way of participating before you know what it will invite. A new team’s conventions or a conversation with someone you do not yet understand can provide waking comparisons. A surprising reply does not prove that your original gesture was wrong; it can show how meaning is shaped by another participant’s response.\n\nAn open enclosure that the animal chooses not to leave makes freedom different from immediate action. Having an option does not mean you must use it at once. A new opportunity may require time, familiarity, or conditions that make the next step worthwhile. If others insist that the animal perform closeness or depart on command, the scene can concern pressure to demonstrate willingness rather than willingness itself.\n\nGentle contact feels different when it is chosen and when someone else requires it. A dream may explore that distinction without identifying an actual person as controlling. Films, photographs, an encounter at a wildlife venue, or an imagined scene can supply direct context. The animal’s particular action and the room available to it support reflection more usefully than a universal code for strength, aggression, leadership, or character.", "traditional": "No directly matching historical account is attached for this specific topic. The readings here are original reflective possibilities. The NINDS source provides general background about dreams, not evidence for these symbolic comparisons.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Careful use of capacity", "reflection": "A substantial presence can act gently when the task needs attention rather than force." }, { "title": "Making room", "reflection": "Shared conditions may need adjustment when they were designed around only one participant." }, { "title": "Choice before performance", "reflection": "An available option or contact has a different meaning when nobody demands an immediate demonstration." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "A gorilla handles a delicate object", "reflection": "The action combines substantial presence with careful attention. This may fit a demanding role in which precision matters more than force. Success can concern respecting what is fragile, rather than proving how much strength the task allows you to display." }, { "title": "It sits in a room arranged for you", "reflection": "Another set of needs enters conditions built around your routine. This can picture shared work or household life requiring practical accommodation. Welcome does not remove the need for space; changing the arrangement may make coexistence more comfortable for both." }, { "title": "You repeat a gesture and get an unexpected reply", "reflection": "A small attempt to communicate produces a response you did not anticipate. This may fit learning unfamiliar conventions. The surprise can lead to curiosity or retreat without establishing that one participant understood the other’s intention correctly or incorrectly." }, { "title": "A group makes space for one animal", "reflection": "A shared arrangement changes to include a substantial newcomer. This may picture collective accommodation rather than one person absorbing every adjustment. Whether the group welcomes the change or resents it gives the same practical movement a different emotional meaning." }, { "title": "An enclosure opens but the gorilla stays", "reflection": "An option exists without becoming an instruction to act. This can fit time needed before accepting a new opportunity. Waiting may express choice or uncertainty; the scene need not make immediate departure the test of whether freedom is real." }, { "title": "Someone insists that you make contact", "reflection": "Closeness becomes a demonstration expected by another person. This may picture pressure to appear comfortable before you are ready. Being allowed to choose distance changes the encounter from performance toward consent, without making the dream evidence about anyone’s actual motives." } ], "prompts": [ "Where does careful attention matter more than force or visibility?", "Whose needs shaped the conditions of the encounter?", "What becomes possible when an option does not require immediate action?" ], "related": [ "apes", "monkey", "animals", "cage" ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "gossip", "title": "Gossip", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of being interested in common gossip, you will undergo some humiliating trouble caused by overconfidence in transient friendships.”", "aliases": [ "gossip" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about gossip stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0890", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Gossip", "text": "To dream of being interested in common gossip, you will undergo some\nhumiliating trouble caused by overconfidence in transient friendships.\n\nIf you are the object of gossip, you may expect some pleasurable surprise.", "locator": "Heading 891; source lines 10335–10342", "lineStart": 10335, "lineEnd": 10342, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being interested in common gossip, you will undergo some\nhumiliating trouble caused by overconfidence in transient friendships.\n\nIf you are the object of gossip, you may expect some pleasurable surprise." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0891", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Gout", "text": "If you dream of having the gout, you will be sure to be exasperated\nbeyond endurance by the silly conduct of some relative, and suffer\nsmall financial loss through the same person.", "locator": "Heading 892; source lines 10342–10348", "lineStart": 10342, "lineEnd": 10348, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream of having the gout, you will be sure to be exasperated\nbeyond endurance by the silly conduct of some relative, and suffer\nsmall financial loss through the same person." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "governor", "title": "Governor", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “If you dream of seeing the Governor, or chief magistrate of a State, it foretells that something will soon happen to please you: if you…”", "aliases": [ "governor" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about governor stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0304", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Governor", "text": "If you dream of seeing the Governor, or chief magistrate of a\nState, it foretells that something will soon happen to please you: if\nyou shake hands with him, and he smiles upon you, the dream is all the\nbetter, as it predicts that you will have honors conferred upon you.\n10, 11.", "locator": "Heading 304; source line 2313", "lineStart": 2313, "lineEnd": 2319, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream of seeing the Governor, or chief magistrate of a\nState, it foretells that something will soon happen to please you: if\nyou shake hands with him, and he smiles upon you, the dream is all the\nbetter, as it predicts that you will have honors conferred upon you." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "gown", "title": "Gown", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “If you dream that you are in your nightgown, you will be afflicted with a slight illness.”", "aliases": [ "gown" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about gown stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0892", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Gown", "text": "If you dream that you are in your nightgown, you will\nbe afflicted with a slight illness. If you see others\nthus clad, you will have unpleasant news of absent friends.\nBusiness will receive a back set.\n\nIf a lover sees his sweetheart in her night gown, he will be superseded.\n\n\n[85] See Cloths.", "locator": "Heading 893; source lines 10348–10360", "lineStart": 10348, "lineEnd": 10360, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream that you are in your nightgown, you will\nbe afflicted with a slight illness. If you see others\nthus clad, you will have unpleasant news of absent friends.\nBusiness will receive a back set.\n\nIf a lover sees his sweetheart in her night gown, he will be superseded. See Cloths." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "gps-navigation", "title": "GPS navigation", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "aliases": [ "gps", "gps navigation", "satnav", "satellite navigation", "gps directions", "navigation app" ], "summary": "GPS navigation can picture relying on guidance, adapting a route, or questioning instructions that no longer fit. Direction and destination can diverge.", "tagline": "An instruction system tells you how to proceed, while you still have a destination of your own.", "psychological": "GPS navigation can picture trusting a system to translate a goal into manageable steps. You do not need to understand the whole route before beginning; the next instruction provides enough direction to move. A clear route can fit learning a process, accepting useful guidance, or entering unfamiliar work with support. The relief comes from not having to solve every stage alone.\n\nDirections that contradict visible landmarks create another tension. You may be following an accepted method that does not match the conditions in front of you. A procedure written for an earlier situation or advice that ignores your practical needs can feel similar. The dream makes the difference between trusting guidance and surrendering your own observations concrete.\n\nRecalculation can represent flexibility. A chosen turn does not have to ruin the journey if the system finds another way. Repeated recalculation that never produces progress can instead picture expectations changing after every decision. You act, but the route remains unsettled. The emotional difference is between adaptation that preserves the goal and movement without a workable plan.\n\nA wrong destination can make your original intention central. Instructions may be accurate within the dream's system while leading somewhere you do not want. Taking on a role because its steps are clear can feel similar if its eventual purpose remains questionable.\n\nLosing the signal changes how guidance is available. You may use landmarks, ask someone, pause, or choose your own direction. Actual trips, maps, route announcements, and app experiences can provide the image directly. These original readings concern the relationship between instructions, observations, and goals, not the reliability of an actual device or a real route.", "traditional": "The interpretation develops original readings of a navigation interface, including instructions, recalculation, destination entry, and changing access to guidance. No verified historical GPS passage is cited. General journey imagery is adjacent context rather than evidence for these specific mechanisms, and the background source offers no practical navigation advice.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Guidance makes a new task manageable", "reflection": "Step-by-step directions can picture support that allows movement before you understand the whole arrangement. A clear process may reduce pressure without requiring you to give up your destination." }, { "title": "Instructions conflict with actual conditions", "reflection": "A contradictory route can express a method that no longer fits the setting. The scene may concern making room for your observations as well as following an accepted rule." }, { "title": "Adaptation that preserves the goal", "reflection": "Recalculation can picture a workable response to change, while endless rerouting can make progress uncertain. The difference is whether a revised plan still connects your choices with the destination." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "The directions guide you comfortably through unfamiliar streets", "reflection": "Useful guidance can picture entering a new process without having to know every stage in advance. Learning a role or handling an unfamiliar task with clear support may fit. The route allows confidence to develop through movement rather than complete certainty beforehand.", "slug": "scene-1" }, { "title": "The screen directs you toward a blocked road", "reflection": "An instruction can seem authoritative while failing to fit the conditions you can see. An outdated procedure or advice that overlooks available resources may offer a parallel. The scene makes checking the relationship between the rule and the actual setting central.", "slug": "scene-2" }, { "title": "The route recalculates after you choose another turn", "reflection": "A changed decision can remain compatible with the original goal. Revising a project or adapting a routine after new information may feel similar. A workable new route can picture flexibility, especially when the detour does not become a judgment that the whole plan failed.", "slug": "scene-3" }, { "title": "Every instruction sends you back to the same junction", "reflection": "A process may keep offering steps without resolving the decision that organizes them. Repeatedly revising a plan or receiving conflicting guidance can offer parallels. The return makes direction feel ineffective because each action recreates the same unresolved choice.", "slug": "scene-4" }, { "title": "You discover the destination was entered incorrectly", "reflection": "A clear sequence can still serve the wrong purpose. Following an attractive role or shared plan through its expected stages may feel similar if you never chose the final outcome. Correcting the destination makes intention more important than merely performing the route accurately.", "slug": "scene-5" }, { "title": "The signal disappears and you use familiar landmarks", "reflection": "Guidance can shift from a system to your own experience. Returning to a skill or using knowledge that a formal process overlooked may offer a parallel. The scene can picture another source of orientation becoming useful, rather than making lost connection equivalent to helplessness.", "slug": "scene-6" } ], "prompts": [ "Whose destination was entered, and did the instructions serve it?", "Where did the route agree or conflict with what I could actually see?", "Did recalculation preserve progress or return me to an unresolved choice?" ], "related": [ "being-lost", "road", "a-train-going-in-the-wrong-direction", "drone" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia editorial entry with image-specific interpretations and six differentiated scenes. The reference supplies general dream background only. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "grain", "title": "Grain", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Grain is a most fortunate dream, betokening wealth and happiness.” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "grain" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about grain stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0893", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Grain", "text": "Grain is a most fortunate dream, betokening wealth and happiness.\nFor a young woman, it is a dream of fortune. She will meet wealthy\nand adoring companions.", "locator": "Heading 894; source lines 10360–10366", "lineStart": 10360, "lineEnd": 10366, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Grain is a most fortunate dream, betokening wealth and happiness.\nFor a young woman, it is a dream of fortune. She will meet wealthy\nand adoring companions." }, { "id": "fontaine-0305", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Grain", "text": "To dream of regular fields of ripe grain is a good omen, as\nit is a sign of thrift: if the grain is broken down or imperfect, it\nshows trouble with the thrift: if it is mouldy or mildewed, you will\nexperience losses. An abundance of grain in bulk is likewise a sign of\nplenty; but scattered grain is the reverse of this. 69.", "locator": "Heading 305; source line 2319", "lineStart": 2319, "lineEnd": 2325, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of regular fields of ripe grain is a good omen, as\nit is a sign of thrift: if the grain is broken down or imperfect, it\nshows trouble with the thrift: if it is mouldy or mildewed, you will\nexperience losses. An abundance of grain in bulk is likewise a sign of\nplenty; but scattered grain is the reverse of this." }, { "id": "noe-0222", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Grain", "text": "To dream you see any kind of grain and that one gathers it,\nsignifies profit and gain.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 224; source lines 968–969", "lineStart": 968, "lineEnd": 969, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see any kind of grain and that one gathers it,\nsignifies profit and gain." }, { "id": "cielo-0195", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Grain", "text": "A field of ripe grain is a sign of prosperity.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 195; source lines 4322–4324", "lineStart": 4322, "lineEnd": 4324, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "A field of ripe grain is a sign of prosperity." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "grammar", "title": "Grammar", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are studying grammar, denotes you are soon to make a wise choice in momentous opportunities.”", "aliases": [ "grammar" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about grammar stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0894", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Grammar", "text": "To dream that you are studying grammar, denotes you are soon to make a wise\nchoice in momentous opportunities.", "locator": "Heading 895; source lines 10366–10371", "lineStart": 10366, "lineEnd": 10371, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are studying grammar, denotes you are soon to make a wise\nchoice in momentous opportunities." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "gramophone", "title": "Gramophone", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of hearing the gramophone, foretells the advent of some new and pleasing comrade who will lend himself willingly to advance your…”", "aliases": [ "gramophone" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about gramophone stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0895", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Gramophone", "text": "To dream of hearing the gramophone, foretells the advent of some new and\npleasing comrade who will lend himself willingly to advance your enjoyment.\nIf it is broken, some fateful occurrence will thwart and defeat delights\nthat you hold in anticipation.", "locator": "Heading 896; source lines 10371–10378", "lineStart": 10371, "lineEnd": 10378, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of hearing the gramophone, foretells the advent of some new and\npleasing comrade who will lend himself willingly to advance your enjoyment.\nIf it is broken, some fateful occurrence will thwart and defeat delights\nthat you hold in anticipation." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "grandchild", "title": "Grandchild", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "A later generation can bring continuity and change into the same relationship.", "summary": "A grandchild may picture a changing generational role, a familiar connection developing differently, or care that includes learning from someone younger.", "aliases": [ "grandchild", "grandchildren" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A grandchild can place you in a relationship that extends across generations. In a dream, you may offer care, receive advice, share an ordinary activity, or meet a person who exists only within the scene. The image may picture continuity without sameness: something familiar carries forward while another person's life and choices remain their own. This can fit a family transition, but also reflection on what you hope to pass on and what you are willing to let change.\n\nThe child's age matters. An infant may make practical care central, while an adult grandchild can introduce advice, independence, or a role that has become more reciprocal. Finding an older grandchild treated as small may picture difficulty adjusting to someone's changed capacity. Conversely, a young person who confidently teaches you something can make learning flow in the opposite direction from expectation. Neither scene judges how a real family should arrange its roles.\n\nBeing given responsibility can feel welcome or assumed. You may enjoy a particular activity while resisting the expectation that you will always be available. This could resemble helping family or sharing experience in a mentoring role. The important tension is whether care is a chosen contribution or a duty assigned without discussion. Affection does not require one person to hold every practical responsibility, and a dream does not assess anyone's suitability to care for a child.\n\nAn unfamiliar grandchild can make the sense of family uncertain. You are told that you belong to one another before there is a shared history. This may picture a relationship or role becoming defined faster than it feels familiar. A warm encounter can explore openness to change; discomfort may concern needing time and context. The dream cannot establish that a future grandchild will exist, what they would be like, or what another family member wants.\n\nA meeting may also bring delight in an ordinary shared task. Cooking, walking, or comparing stories can make continuity practical rather than abstract. The difference between your approaches may be enjoyable instead of a problem to resolve. Recent family contact, photographs, conversations, or stories can provide direct material, including for someone without grandchildren. The useful original reflection concerns the role you occupied, what was shared, and how the scene allowed both connection and another person's independence.", "traditional": "No verified historical passage directly defining a grandchild is supplied. Grandparents and Children have adjacent historical accounts, but those records do not establish a forecast for a later generation or this particular relationship.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Continuity with room for change", "reflection": "A shared relationship may carry familiar values into different choices. Connection need not depend on another person repeating your own path." }, { "title": "Care as a chosen contribution", "reflection": "Helping can be affectionate without becoming unlimited availability. The scene may clarify which part of the role you welcomed and which part was assumed." }, { "title": "Learning across generations", "reflection": "Advice can move in either direction. A younger person teaching you may make reciprocity more central than holding the knowledgeable role." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "An adult grandchild asks for your perspective", "reflection": "You offer experience without deciding their next step. The scene may picture a relationship in which guidance supports another person's independence rather than replacing it." }, { "title": "You share an ordinary activity in different ways", "reflection": "The task connects you while your methods differ. This may make continuity enjoyable without requiring identical habits or preferences." }, { "title": "A caregiving role is assigned without discussion", "reflection": "Others assume your availability because of the relationship. The scene may concern the difference between affection and an open-ended responsibility you did not choose." }, { "title": "You meet a grandchild you do not recognize", "reflection": "Belonging is announced before familiarity develops. This may picture needing time to understand a new role; it does not predict a future family member." }, { "title": "A younger grandchild teaches you something", "reflection": "Knowledge moves in an unexpected direction. The scene may explore receiving help without losing the value of your own experience." }, { "title": "You see an imagined later generation", "reflection": "The encounter makes the future feel personal. It can express a hope, uncertainty or curiosity about continuity without establishing pregnancy, descendants or another person's wishes." } ], "prompts": [ "What age did the grandchild appear, and what role did that give me?", "Which responsibility was chosen, shared, or assumed?", "What felt familiar across the generations, and what was allowed to differ?" ], "related": [ "grandparents", "children", "family" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "grandparents", "title": "Grandparents", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "A familiar older relative can arrive with a particular history of care or distance.", "summary": "Grandparents may bring remembered care, advice, family continuity, or a changing role into a present situation; their response belongs to the dream.", "aliases": [ "grandparents", "grandparent", "grandmother", "grandfather", "grandma", "grandpa" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A grandparent may bring a particular kind of familiarity into a dream. Their kitchen, voice, manner, or ordinary routine can make a present situation feel connected to an earlier period of life. The useful association is individual: one grandparent may evoke patient attention, another strict expectations, and another a relationship you barely knew. The figure need not stand for a universal wise elder. A small remembered detail can explain more than the family role alone.\n\nAdvice can put past experience beside a current uncertainty. You may welcome a suggestion, disagree with it, or find that the grandparent does not understand the circumstances you now face. This could fit wanting guidance while retaining a say in the decision. A familiar phrase can also appear simply because you recently remembered it. The dreamed advice is invented or recalled material, not independent knowledge about what will happen or a reliable instruction to follow.\n\nThe relationship can change when you are no longer the person receiving care. A grandparent needs help, asks you to explain something, or seems younger and more capable than you expected. The scene may picture adjusting to another person's changing needs while retaining the remembered relationship. It can also make the contrast between childhood and your present role visible. Concern in the dream does not establish a real relative's health or circumstances.\n\nA grandparent who has died may appear during an ordinary task rather than a dramatic reunion. Sharing a meal or sitting together can recreate a quality of contact you miss, perhaps during a transition when their presence would have felt useful. Comfort and sadness can coexist. The encounter can remain personally meaningful without becoming proof of contact beyond the dream or a warning about your future.\n\nAn unfamiliar or unexpectedly behaved grandparent creates another reading. You may know the family role without recognizing the person, or see a remembered relative acting outside your usual picture of them. This can give room to uncertainty about family stories, identity, or what you never had the opportunity to ask. Photographs, anniversaries, conversation, and visits may supply direct material. A developed reading stays with the specific person, what happened between you, and how the present scene resembles or differs from the relationship you actually remember.", "traditional": "Miller's Grandparents account connects conversation with grandparents to difficulties overcome by following advice. That is a 1901 fortune-telling claim, not evidence that dreamed guidance is authoritative or that trouble is approaching. The original reflections here keep the person's particular history and the dreamer's choice central.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A particular remembered relationship", "reflection": "The figure's habits and history can matter more than the general family role. Familiarity may bring comfort, pressure or unfinished questions depending on the individual." }, { "title": "Guidance with your own judgment", "reflection": "Advice may express wanting another perspective during uncertainty. Disagreement can be as informative as agreement when circumstances have changed." }, { "title": "Roles changing across time", "reflection": "Providing care or receiving a lesson can reverse an earlier pattern. The scene may hold present responsibility beside a remembered childhood position." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "A grandparent repeats a familiar piece of advice", "reflection": "The phrase brings an earlier relationship into a current question. Its emotional value may lie in familiarity, while its usefulness still depends on the waking circumstances you actually face." }, { "title": "You disagree with the advice they give", "reflection": "Connection remains while the recommendation does not fit. The scene may picture retaining affection and respect without surrendering your own knowledge of the situation." }, { "title": "You help a grandparent with an ordinary task", "reflection": "The direction of care has changed. This may make your present role visible alongside memories of being the person looked after, without establishing a real relative's condition." }, { "title": "A deceased grandparent shares an ordinary meal", "reflection": "A familiar routine returns rather than a forecast. The scene may recreate the quality of their company during a transition or reminder, while comfort and missing them remain together." }, { "title": "The grandparent seems young or unfamiliar", "reflection": "The role is recognizable but your usual picture is not. This may explore a part of their life you did not know, or uncertainty about family stories rather than a recovered memory." }, { "title": "You enjoy company without receiving any lesson", "reflection": "The encounter matters through shared presence. The dream need not supply wisdom or a hidden message for the remembered relationship to feel valuable." } ], "prompts": [ "Which particular habit, phrase or memory made this grandparent recognizable?", "Was I receiving care, giving it, or meeting on more equal terms?", "What did the encounter offer that I currently miss or question?" ], "related": [ "family", "mother", "father", "reunion" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0896" ], "scope": "Historical comparison only: Grandparents — miller-0896 (Heading 897; source lines 10378–10384). These are attributed period claims, not verified predictions or support for the original psychological reflections." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0896", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Grandparents", "text": "To dreaam{sic} of meeting your grandparents and conversing with them,\nyou will meet with difficulties that will be hard to surmount,\nbut by following good advice you will overcome many barriers.", "locator": "Heading 897; source lines 10378–10384", "lineStart": 10378, "lineEnd": 10384, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dreaam[sic] of meeting your grandparents and conversing with them,\nyou will meet with difficulties that will be hard to surmount,\nbut by following good advice you will overcome many barriers." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "grapes", "title": "Grapes", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "5 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To eat grapes in your dream, you will be hardened with many cares.” Compare 5 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "grapes" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about grapes stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0897", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Grapes", "text": "To eat grapes in your dream, you will be hardened with many cares;\nbut if you only see them hanging in profuseness among the leaves, you will\nsoon attain to eminent positions and will be able to impart happiness\nto others. For a young woman, this dream is one of bright promise.\nShe will have her most ardent wish gratified.\n\nTo dream of riding on horseback and passing musca-dine bushes\nand gathering and eating some of its fruit, denotes profitable\nemployment and the realization of great desires. If there arises\nin your mind a question of the poisonous quality of the fruit\nyou are eating, there will come doubts and fears of success,\nbut they will gradually cease to worry you.", "locator": "Heading 898; source lines 10384–10399", "lineStart": 10384, "lineEnd": 10399, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To eat grapes in your dream, you will be hardened with many cares;\nbut if you only see them hanging in profuseness among the leaves, you will\nsoon attain to eminent positions and will be able to impart happiness\nto others. For a young woman, this dream is one of bright promise.\nShe will have her most ardent wish gratified.\n\nTo dream of riding on horseback and passing musca-dine bushes\nand gathering and eating some of its fruit, denotes profitable\nemployment and the realization of great desires. If there arises\nin your mind a question of the poisonous quality of the fruit\nyou are eating, there will come doubts and fears of success,\nbut they will gradually cease to worry you." }, { "id": "fontaine-0306", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Grapes", "text": "To dream of an abundance of grapes is a good omen, as is also\na dream that you eat grapes of a pleasant flavor; but if the grapes\nare sour and broken, it shows that you will have sorrow. If a young\ngirl dreams she has a present of beautiful grapes, she will marry well\nwithin the year, and be prolific of children. 70.", "locator": "Heading 306; source line 2325", "lineStart": 2325, "lineEnd": 2331, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of an abundance of grapes is a good omen, as is also\na dream that you eat grapes of a pleasant flavor; but if the grapes\nare sour and broken, it shows that you will have sorrow. If a young\ngirl dreams she has a present of beautiful grapes, she will marry well\nwithin the year, and be prolific of children." }, { "id": "noe-0220", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Grapes", "text": "To dream of grapes, foretells to the maiden that her husband\nwill be a cheerful companion and a great songster. They denote much\nhappiness in marriage and success in trade. If you are in love, they augur\na speedy union between you and your sweetheart.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 222; source lines 956–959", "lineStart": 956, "lineEnd": 959, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of grapes, foretells to the maiden that her husband\nwill be a cheerful companion and a great songster. They denote much\nhappiness in marriage and success in trade. If you are in love, they augur\na speedy union between you and your sweetheart." }, { "id": "cielo-0196", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Grapes", "text": "To see or eat grapes denotes enjoyment and plenty.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 196; source lines 4324–4326", "lineStart": 4324, "lineEnd": 4326, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see or eat grapes denotes enjoyment and plenty." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10149", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Grapes", "heading": "Grapes", "text": "Eating grapes, cheerfulness, profit; treading grapes, the overthrow of enemies ; gathering white grapes, gain; gathering black grapes, damage (Artemidorus). 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Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. 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It gives promise of a happy\nand well advanced life to the tradesman, rapid accumulation of wealth,\nfame to literary and artistic people, and a safe voyage through\nthe turbulent sea of love is promised to all lovers.\n\nTo see a rugged mountain beyond the green expanse of grass,\nis momentous of remote trouble.\n\nIf in passing through green grass, you pass withered places,\nit denotes your sickness or embarrassments in business.\n\nTo be a perfect dream, the grass must be clear of obstruction or blemishes.\nIf you dream of withered grass, the reverse is predicted.", "locator": "Heading 899; source lines 10399–10415", "lineStart": 10399, "lineEnd": 10415, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "This is a very propitious dream indeed. It gives promise of a happy\nand well advanced life to the tradesman, rapid accumulation of wealth,\nfame to literary and artistic people, and a safe voyage through\nthe turbulent sea of love is promised to all lovers.\n\nTo see a rugged mountain beyond the green expanse of grass,\nis momentous of remote trouble.\n\nIf in passing through green grass, you pass withered places,\nit denotes your sickness or embarrassments in business.\n\nTo be a perfect dream, the grass must be clear of obstruction or blemishes.\nIf you dream of withered grass, the reverse is predicted." }, { "id": "fontaine-0307", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Grass", "text": "Green grass, denotes long life; to cut grass, great trouble. 14,\n6.", "locator": "Heading 307; source line 2331", "lineStart": 2331, "lineEnd": 2334, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Green grass, denotes long life; to cut grass, great trouble. 14," }, { "id": "cielo-0197", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Grass", "text": "Indicates long life.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 197; source lines 4326–4328", "lineStart": 4326, "lineEnd": 4328, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Indicates long life." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10154", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Grass", "heading": "Grass", "text": "To dream of walking through fields of grass signifies happiness and fortune ; to dream of grasses such as sorrel lettuce, etc., denotes grief and embarrassment. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "grasshopper", "title": "Grasshopper", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "A small pause, an abrupt leap, and the place where your attention lands next.", "summary": "A grasshopper may make stillness, a sudden leap, or an interrupted rhythm noticeable. Follow where it lands and what you were trying to do.", "aliases": [ "grasshopper", "grasshoppers", "of grashoppers" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "kind": "editorial", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "A grasshopper dream may hold your attention on something that was almost invisible until it moved. Begin with the setting and the action: a jump across your path, an animal resting on a stem, or a repeated movement you try to anticipate. A garden memory or a sound you noticed recently can remain a sufficient association. The image need not reveal an omen or an overlooked personal fault.\n\nTiming can be more important than speed. You may move just after the grasshopper leaves, wait for it to jump again, or discover that your own task has become a game of following its rhythm. A possible waking comparison concerns deciding when to act with incomplete information. That question differs from a general instruction to hurry, become more patient, or take a leap of faith.\n\nWhere the grasshopper lands gives the movement a consequence. It might reach an open window, return to the same leaf, or enter a place where you did not want it. Notice whether the landing changes your plan. Repeated motion can look active while leaving the situation much the same; one small shift can also make a useful route available. Your feeling helps distinguish those versions.\n\nSeveral grasshoppers can turn attention toward counting, protecting a plant, or choosing where to step. Record the number only as precisely as you remember it. A remembered crowd of insects does not establish that an actual crop, possession, or source of income is threatened. You may be exploring an ordinary question about several small interruptions rather than anticipating a large loss.\n\nFinally, identify the creature only as firmly as the dream allows. Hearing an unfamiliar sound is not the same as seeing a grasshopper make it. A later guess can be recorded separately from the original account. If another insect was clearly named, follow that topic too; an old book grouping several creatures together does not make their names interchangeable for your present encounter.", "traditional": "Miller connects grasshoppers with enemies, health and business predictions, and Fontaine gives contrasting lifespan forecasts. Cielo associates the image with lost savings; Craig reports poverty and improvidence claims. The 1644 chapter headed “Of Grashoppers” also mentions crickets and assigns occupation, support and severe health forecasts. This documents the chapter’s wording, not a modern biological equivalence. These five complete historical accounts cannot assess a reader’s health, finances, character, or future. Their classifications and predictions remain attached to the named source.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A grasshopper jumps just before you place your foot", "reflection": "The scene changes at the point where your own movement was about to begin. Notice whether the surprise delays you, amuses you or makes you more attentive. A possible comparison concerns adjusting a step rather than abandoning a whole route." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You wait for the next jump while holding a task unfinished", "reflection": "The animal’s timing has become the condition for your own action. Ask whether you chose to watch or felt unable to continue. The useful question may concern how an interesting interruption becomes a requirement you did not intend." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Each leap returns the grasshopper to the same leaf", "reflection": "There is visible movement without a change of destination. This may invite reflection on a repeated attempt or on the value of returning to a workable place. The feeling distinguishes frustration from a rhythm you enjoy observing." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A grasshopper reaches an open window before you do", "reflection": "The exit becomes visible through another movement. Notice whether it was already available or whether the leap helped you recognize it. The scene can explore a new reference point without treating the animal as a verified guide." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You hear a rhythm but cannot see what makes it", "reflection": "A sound supplies an impression while its source remains uncertain. 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Consider what mattered about allowing that pause, without turning one dreamed choice into a measure of your character." } ], "prompts": [ "What moment made the animal noticeable?", "Where did the movement lead, and did your own task change?", "What did you hear, see, and only infer afterward?" ], "related": [ "cricket", "locust", "insects", "garden", "leaves" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "scope": "Historical belief only; supplied passage: Grasshopper — Heading 900; source lines 10415–10427. 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Does not validate the original reflections or establish health, character, luck or future events.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0310" ] }, { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display.", "scope": "Historical belief only; supplied passage: Of Grashoppers. — Book 3, encoded section 154. Does not validate the original reflections or establish health, character, luck or future events.", "recordIds": [ "artemidorus-154" ] }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "scope": "Historical belief only; supplied passage: Grasshopper — Dream section, heading 198; source lines 4328–4330. Does not validate the original reflections or establish health, character, luck or future events.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0198" ] }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. 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To such as are in necessity, they neyther signifie friends nor support, but onely words and talke of theyr affayres: to such as are in feare, they are threats without effect: to the sicke, they signifie thirst and death.", "locator": "Book 3, encoded section 154", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "3", "displayText": "GRashoppers, or Crickets, signifie Musitians. To such as are in necessity, they neyther signifie friends nor support, but onely words and talke of theyr affayres: to such as are in feare, they are threats without effect: to the sicke, they signifie thirst and death.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Grashoppers” is shown on the Grasshopper page: archaic spelling (Artemidorus)" }, { "id": "cielo-0198", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Grasshopper", "text": "Means loss of savings.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 198; source lines 4328–4330", "lineStart": 4328, "lineEnd": 4330, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Means loss of savings." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10160", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Grasshopper", "heading": "Grasshopper", "text": "A dream prognosticating poverty due to lack of energy on the part of the dreamer (Raphael). The symbol of improvidence.", "lineStart": 10160, "lineEnd": 10163, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 220; NLM OCR lines 10160–10163", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10160, "lineEnd": 10163, "printedPage": 220, "printedPageEnd": 220 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Grasshopper. — A dream prognosticating poverty due to lack \nof energy on the part of the dreamer (Raphael). The symbol \nof improvidence. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Grasshopper" }, "displayText": "A dream prognosticating poverty due to lack of energy on the part of the dreamer (Raphael). The symbol of improvidence." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "grassplat", "title": "Grassplat", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “Is a sign of a wedding.”", "aliases": [ "grassplat" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about grassplat stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0308", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Grassplat", "text": "Is a sign of a wedding. 16, 18, 46.", "locator": "Heading 308; source line 2334", "lineStart": 2334, "lineEnd": 2336, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Is a sign of a wedding." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "gratitude", "title": "Gratitude", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "summary": "Gratitude dreams may explore recognizing support, expressing appreciation, or receiving kindness without knowing what is expected in return.", "tagline": "Appreciation has its own shape, beyond relief or repayment.", "aliases": [ "gratitude", "grateful", "thankful", "thankfulness" ], "status": "REVIEW", "psychological": "Gratitude can make a dream about recognizing what helped. Someone remembers a preference, offers company at a difficult moment or notices work you thought was invisible. The helpful act may be small while its emotional value is large. A possible reading concerns receiving something in a form that actually reaches you: practical attention, understanding, time or a chance to participate. The feeling need not be translated into a hidden obligation.\n\nThe difference between relief and appreciation can give the scene precision. A problem ending may remove pressure; knowing that another person made the ending possible can add a wish to acknowledge their contribution. Gratitude toward a place, an ordinary opportunity or your own earlier effort creates another form. The dream may be appreciating a condition that allowed something worthwhile, rather than focusing only on a rescuer.\n\nDifficulty expressing thanks can make recognition the central tension. You may be unable to reach the person, find words that fit or make them understand why the act mattered. A waking comparison could be support received during a busy period, or a contribution that becomes clear only afterward. The dream can give that appreciation a scene without proving that an old event happened exactly as it appears.\n\nAn oversized gift can mix gratitude with pressure. Wanting to receive it while fearing repayment may resemble an offer whose terms were never discussed. Similarly, kind help that misses the actual need can leave appreciation for the intention alongside discomfort with the result. Those combinations allow a more useful reading than insisting that every grateful feeling must be uncomplicated.\n\nBeing thanked changes the position again. Recognition may let you experience an ordinary task as a contribution, or it may make you uncomfortable if others credit you with more than you did. The dreamer’s response helps distinguish wanted acknowledgment from a new burden. Recent kindness, familiar rituals of thanks or a remembered favor can supply the imagery directly. What remains open is the particular value recognized and whether appreciation leaves everyone enough room to choose.", "traditional": "These are original reflections on appreciation, help and reciprocity. No historical Gratitude passage is attached here. The concrete setting may come from an ordinary favor, a celebration or noticing support after a task ends. General dream research provides background for such material, not a rule that gratitude predicts more kindness.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "What actually helped", "reflection": "A small act can have value because it meets a specific need." }, { "title": "Thanks and its terms", "reflection": "Appreciation can coexist with uncertainty about repayment, scale or unwanted assistance." }, { "title": "Receiving acknowledgment", "reflection": "Being thanked can make contribution visible or assign more responsibility than you intended." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A small unrequested kindness matters deeply", "reflection": "A remembered preference, a shared seat or a small practical favor can carry the warmth of being noticed. The dream may value attention that fits your circumstances rather than a dramatic rescue. The usefulness of the act makes its emotional size understandable." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You try to thank someone who cannot hear you", "reflection": "The help has value, but your acknowledgment cannot reach its intended recipient. This may resemble a favor appreciated only after circumstances changed. The scene separates recognizing the contribution from finding a satisfying way to express it; neither needs a perfect speech." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A gift feels welcome but too large to repay", "reflection": "The welcome gift can bring a second question about what receiving it commits you to. A generous offer with unclear expectations offers a waking comparison. Gratitude for what is given does not require the dream’s imagined repayment to be fair or unavoidable." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Someone’s help is kind but misses your actual need", "reflection": "A person offers food when you need quiet, or advice when you need practical company. The dream may make intention and fit distinct. Appreciating the kindness can coexist with wanting a different form of support, without turning either person into the problem." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "An old act of care becomes vivid again", "reflection": "The dream gives earlier support a renewed emotional presence. A current task or familiar setting may make its value clearer than it was at the time. The encounter can matter as an imagined return without establishing an accurate recovered account of the past." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "Someone appreciates work you thought was invisible", "reflection": "Being thanked can change an ordinary task from a private effort into a recognized contribution. Warmth may fit wanting your part seen; discomfort may concern credit that feels too large. The scene makes acknowledgment specific to the work rather than a verdict on personal worth." } ], "prompts": [ "What kind of support or opportunity did you appreciate?", "What expectations, if any, accompanied your appreciation?", "What did acknowledgment make possible in the dream?" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "related": [ "relief", "compassion", "affection", "volunteer" ], "updated": "2026-10-13", "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "grave", "title": "Grave", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "aliases": [ "grave" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "summary": "A grave can explore a particular place for remembrance, how a name or marker represents someone, or what attention an absence receives.", "tagline": "A marked place can hold significance without settling every memory.", "psychological": "A grave in a dream can give remembrance or absence a particular location. A name, marker, opening or nearby object may make one place important while the rest of the surroundings remain ordinary. The focus can be how something is acknowledged, represented or approached. It differs from the wider paths and shared grounds of a cemetery, and it does not forecast a death or assess health.\n\nSeeing your own name on a marker while standing beside it can put an account of you outside your immediate experience. The inscription may feel accurate, incomplete or strangely detached. This can resemble wondering how a role or contribution is described after an occasion has passed. It need not mean that your life is ending or that others actually see you in the way the marker suggests.\n\nA grave appearing in an ordinary room can make remembrance share space with daily activity. You may want privacy for it, feel comforted by its presence or need a different arrangement so the room remains usable. A real loss or familiar memorial can offer direct context. The scene does not prescribe how close a memory should remain or require every remembered person to receive the same kind of place.\n\nA blank marker can make acknowledgment available before an identity or description is settled. An object beside the grave that belongs to a different memory changes the question again: two accounts appear together without an obvious relationship. This can resemble choosing what belongs in a representation rather than uncovering a secret about somebody’s real history.\n\nLooking into an open grave from a stable edge centers access to an unfamiliar place. Curiosity, reluctance or a wish to keep your distance can matter without turning the opening into a universal danger code. Sitting beside a grave while a companion describes another version of the remembered person can instead concern different perspectives sharing one location. Agreement is not required for both memories to have significance. The particular marker, surrounding activity and freedom to approach or leave guide whether a waking comparison fits, without forcing remembrance toward a prescribed ending.", "traditional": "The six Grave accounts assign conflicting forecasts to fresh, open, occupied or personal graves. Miller is mostly adverse but includes favorable exceptions; Fontaine predicts loss, Noe contrasts entering with leaving, and Cielo contrasts looking in with sitting nearby. The 1805 passage links one’s own grave with children and memory loss. Craig attributes funeral and recovery claims to Gypsy interpretation, then adds wish-dream and illness conjectures. These are period claims, not a health assessment or a rule for remembrance.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A place for a particular absence", "reflection": "Remembrance can share space with ordinary activity on personally meaningful terms." }, { "title": "Representation through names and objects", "reflection": "A marker can make an account visible without fully describing the person it concerns." }, { "title": "Different ways of approaching the same place", "reflection": "Distance, curiosity and another person’s perspective can alter an encounter without deciding a correct response." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Your name appears on a marker while you stand beside it", "reflection": "An account of you becomes something you can inspect from outside. This may picture a role or contribution being represented after an occasion. The inscription does not predict your death or establish how actual people describe you; its particular wording gives the scene context." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A single grave occupies part of an ordinary living room", "reflection": "Remembrance and daily activity share space on unexpected terms. This can picture wanting an absence acknowledged while also needing the room to remain usable. Comfort and inconvenience can coexist without deciding how close a memory should be kept or what grief should look like." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A grave has a marker but no name has been written on it", "reflection": "A place for acknowledgment exists before its description is settled. This may resemble wanting to give an experience significance without knowing the right account of it. The blank marker need not identify a hidden death or require you to supply a real person’s name." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "An object beside the grave belongs to a different remembered occasion", "reflection": "Two memories appear together without an obvious relationship. This can picture deciding which details belong in a representation and which deserve another place. The combination does not uncover secret history; your associations with the object and marker can explain what feels mismatched." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You inspect an open grave from a stable edge without entering", "reflection": "Access is possible while your distance remains a choice. This may picture curiosity about an unfamiliar or emotionally significant place. The opening does not make danger inevitable, and staying outside need not mean refusal; what you wanted to see shapes the imagined encounter." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "A companion recalls a different version of the person beside the same grave", "reflection": "One location holds accounts that do not entirely agree. This may picture remembrance having several perspectives rather than one settled description. The imagined conversation does not verify either account, and difference need not erase the significance of your own experience or the shared occasion." } ], "prompts": [ "What did the particular marker, name or object represent within the scene?", "How did remembrance share space with ordinary activity?", "What kind of approach or perspective felt available to you?" ], "related": [ "cemetery", "mourning", "burial", "own-funeral" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0900" ], "scope": "miller-0900: The full Grave account assigns adverse social, financial, health, marriage and death forecasts to fresh, empty, occupied or one’s own graves and graveyards, with favorable exceptions for finishing the digging, sunlight and later benefits. Its missing-corpse and gendered night/open-grave clauses remain part of the whole period account. Exact supplied passages: miller-0900 — Grave (Heading 901; source lines 10427–10469). Attributed historical comparison only; no forecast validates the original reflection or establishes actual health, relationships, beliefs or circumstances." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0311" ], "scope": "fontaine-0311: A fresh grave receives financial-loss and disappointed-love forecasts. Exact supplied passages: fontaine-0311 — Grave (Heading 311; source line 2343). Attributed historical comparison only; no forecast validates the original reflection or establishes actual health, relationships, beliefs or circumstances." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0221" ], "scope": "noe-0221: Seeing or entering a grave receives sickness, disappointment, property-loss and false-friend forecasts; exiting or taking another person out receives success, wealth, marriage, saving-life, friendship and legacy forecasts. Exact supplied passages: noe-0221 — Grave (Dream section, heading 223; source lines 959–968). Attributed historical comparison only; no forecast validates the original reflection or establishes actual health, relationships, beliefs or circumstances." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0199" ], "scope": "cielo-0199: Looking into an open grave versus sitting near one receives friend-loss versus good-luck forecasts. Exact supplied passages: cielo-0199 — Grave (Dream section, heading 199; source lines 4330–4333). Attributed historical comparison only; no forecast validates the original reflection or establishes actual health, relationships, beliefs or circumstances." }, { "id": "moles-71045", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams and Moles", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "United Kingdom, J. Marshall, 1805", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71045", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "moles-0031" ], "scope": "moles-0031: One’s own grave or tomb receives children and loss-of-memory forecasts. Exact supplied passages: moles-0031 — Grave (Dreams interpreted, passage 31; source lines 200–201). Attributed historical comparison only; no forecast validates the original reflection or establishes actual health, relationships, beliefs or circumstances." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L10164" ], "scope": "craig-1918:L10164: Craig gives funeral and doubtful-recovery forecasts under a Gypsy attribution, then offers wish-dream and incipient-malady conjectures. These are Craig’s attributed claims and comments, not a health assessment or verified cultural rule. Exact supplied passages: craig-1918:L10164 — Grave (Printed p. 220; NLM OCR lines 10164–10171). Attributed historical comparison only; no forecast validates the original reflection or establishes actual health, relationships, beliefs or circumstances." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0900", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Grave", "text": "To dream that you see a newly made grave, you will have to suffer\nfor the wrongdoings of others.\n\nIf you visit a newly made grave, dangers of a serious nature is hanging\nover you. Grave is an unfortunate dream. Ill luck in business transactions\nwill follow, also sickness is threatened.\n\nTo dream of walking on graves, predicts an early death or\nan unfortunate marriage.\n\nIf you look into an empty grave, it denotes disappointment\nand loss of friends.\n\nIf you see a person in a grave with the earth covering him, except the head,\nsome distressing situation will take hold of that person and loss of property\nis indicated to the dreamer.\n\nTo see your own grave, foretells that enemies are warily seeking to engulf\nyou in disaster, and if you fail to be watchful they will succeed.\n\nTo dream of digging a grave, denotes some uneasiness\nover some undertaking, as enemies will seek to thwart you,\nbut if you finish the grave you will overcome opposition.\nIf the sun is shining, good will come out of seeming embarrassments.\n\nIf you return for a corpse, to bury it, and it has disappeared,\ntrouble will come to you from obscure quarters.\n\nFor a woman to dream that night overtakes her in a graveyard, and she\ncan find no place to sleep but in an open grave, foreshows she will\nhave much sorrow and disappointment through death or false friends.\nShe may lose in love, and many things seek to work her harm.\n\nTo see a graveyard barren, except on top of the graves, signifies much\nsorrow and despondency for a time, but greater benefits and pleasure\nawait you if you properly shoulder your burden.\n\nTo see your own corpse in a grave, foreshadows hopeless\nand despairing oppression.", "locator": "Heading 901; source lines 10427–10469", "lineStart": 10427, "lineEnd": 10469, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you see a newly made grave, you will have to suffer\nfor the wrongdoings of others.\n\nIf you visit a newly made grave, dangers of a serious nature is hanging\nover you. Grave is an unfortunate dream. Ill luck in business transactions\nwill follow, also sickness is threatened.\n\nTo dream of walking on graves, predicts an early death or\nan unfortunate marriage.\n\nIf you look into an empty grave, it denotes disappointment\nand loss of friends.\n\nIf you see a person in a grave with the earth covering him, except the head,\nsome distressing situation will take hold of that person and loss of property\nis indicated to the dreamer.\n\nTo see your own grave, foretells that enemies are warily seeking to engulf\nyou in disaster, and if you fail to be watchful they will succeed.\n\nTo dream of digging a grave, denotes some uneasiness\nover some undertaking, as enemies will seek to thwart you,\nbut if you finish the grave you will overcome opposition.\nIf the sun is shining, good will come out of seeming embarrassments.\n\nIf you return for a corpse, to bury it, and it has disappeared,\ntrouble will come to you from obscure quarters.\n\nFor a woman to dream that night overtakes her in a graveyard, and she\ncan find no place to sleep but in an open grave, foreshows she will\nhave much sorrow and disappointment through death or false friends.\nShe may lose in love, and many things seek to work her harm.\n\nTo see a graveyard barren, except on top of the graves, signifies much\nsorrow and despondency for a time, but greater benefits and pleasure\nawait you if you properly shoulder your burden.\n\nTo see your own corpse in a grave, foreshadows hopeless\nand despairing oppression." }, { "id": "fontaine-0311", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Grave", "text": "To dream of a fresh made grave, is a sign of losses: a man of\nbusiness will probably lose money that is owing to him. But to lovers,\nthis sign is apt to be a  “grave to their dearest hopes:” such a dream\nis decidedly a bad one for them. 21, 72.", "locator": "Heading 311; source line 2343", "lineStart": 2343, "lineEnd": 2348, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a fresh made grave, is a sign of losses: a man of\nbusiness will probably lose money that is owing to him. But to lovers,\nthis sign is apt to be a  “grave to their dearest hopes:” such a dream\nis decidedly a bad one for them." }, { "id": "noe-0221", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Grave", "text": "To dream you see\na grave, foretells sickness and disappointment. If you are in love, you\nwill surely never marry your present sweetheart. If you go into the grave,\nit shows you will experience a loss of property and that false friends\nwill defame you. If you come out of the grave, it denotes success in your\nundertakings, that you will rise in the world, become rich, and if you are\nin love, that you will speedily marry your sweetheart. If you take another\nout of the grave, you will be the means of saving the life of a person who\nwill be a very great friend to you, and receive some unexpected legacy.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 223; source lines 959–968", "lineStart": 959, "lineEnd": 968, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see\na grave, foretells sickness and disappointment. If you are in love, you\nwill surely never marry your present sweetheart. If you go into the grave,\nit shows you will experience a loss of property and that false friends\nwill defame you. If you come out of the grave, it denotes success in your\nundertakings, that you will rise in the world, become rich, and if you are\nin love, that you will speedily marry your sweetheart. If you take another\nout of the grave, you will be the means of saving the life of a person who\nwill be a very great friend to you, and receive some unexpected legacy." }, { "id": "cielo-0199", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Grave", "text": "To look into an open grave means the loss of\n a friend. To sit near a grave is a sign of good luck.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 199; source lines 4330–4333", "lineStart": 4330, "lineEnd": 4333, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To look into an open grave means the loss of\na friend. To sit near a grave is a sign of good luck." }, { "id": "moles-0031", "sourceId": "moles-71045", "heading": "Grave", "originalHeading": "(no printed heading)", "text": "To dream of your grave or tomb, promises you children, but loss of\nmemory.", "locator": "Dreams interpreted, passage 31; source lines 200–201", "lineStart": 200, "lineEnd": 201, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "editorialNote": "The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Grave” because that is the subject of its first clause.", "displayText": "To dream of your grave or tomb, promises you children, but loss of\nmemory." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10164", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Grave", "heading": "Grave", "text": "To see one being dug, the sign of the funeral of a friend or relative ; if you dream you are in it yourself, your recovery is doubtful (Gypsy). The first part of this interpretation might readily be construed as a wish dream, the second part as denoting incipient malady.", "lineStart": 10164, "lineEnd": 10171, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 220; NLM OCR lines 10164–10171", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10164, "lineEnd": 10171, "printedPage": 220, "printedPageEnd": 220 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Grave. — To see one being dug, the sign of the funeral of \na friend or relative ; if you dream you are in it yourself, your \nrecovery is doubtful (Gypsy). \n\nThe first part of this interpretation might readily be con- \nstrued as a wish dream, the second part as denoting incipient \nmalady. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "con- \nstrued", "after": "construed", "evidenceLine": 7129 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 0.96729, "secondaryHeading": "Grave" }, "displayText": "To see one being dug, the sign of the funeral of a friend or relative; if you dream you are in it yourself, your recovery is doubtful (Gypsy). The first part of this interpretation might readily be construed as a wish dream, the second part as denoting incipient malady." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "gravel", "title": "Gravel", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of gravel, denotes unfruitful schemes and enterprises.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "gravel" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about gravel stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0901", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Gravel", "text": "To dream of gravel, denotes unfruitful schemes and enterprises.\n\nIf you see gravel mixed with dirt, it foretells you will unfortunately\nspeculate and lose good property.", "locator": "Heading 902; source lines 10469–10476", "lineStart": 10469, "lineEnd": 10476, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of gravel, denotes unfruitful schemes and enterprises.\n\nIf you see gravel mixed with dirt, it foretells you will unfortunately\nspeculate and lose good property." }, { "id": "fontaine-0312", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Gravel", "text": "To see heaps of clean gravel, denotes that you will soon go a\njourney by land, which will be a pleasant or profitable one. 44, 19,\n22, 1.", "locator": "Heading 312; source line 2348", "lineStart": 2348, "lineEnd": 2352, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see heaps of clean gravel, denotes that you will soon go a\njourney by land, which will be a pleasant or profitable one. 44, 19," } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "gravy", "title": "Gravy", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of eating gravy, portends failing health and disappointing business.”", "aliases": [ "gravy" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about gravy stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0902", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Gravy", "text": "To dream of eating gravy, portends failing health and disappointing business.", "locator": "Heading 903; source lines 10476–10480", "lineStart": 10476, "lineEnd": 10480, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of eating gravy, portends failing health and disappointing business." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "gray", "title": "Gray (color)", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "summary": "Gray as an appearance can explore finer distinctions, a finished choice others misread, or recognizing value without a conspicuous presentation.", "tagline": "Differences can remain within a restrained appearance.", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "aliases": [ "gray", "gray color", "gray colour", "the color gray", "the colour gray", "grey", "grey color", "grey colour", "the color grey", "the colour grey" ], "psychological": "Two gray objects that look similar but do different work can picture a distinction that appearance does not explain. A pair of roles may share a title while carrying different responsibilities, or two apparently equal options may support different needs. The dream can make closer attention useful without turning gray into a code for uncertainty. Recognizing the particular function can provide a clear choice even when the surrounding presentation remains restrained.\n\nDifferent gray tones forming a readable pattern can picture detail that becomes available through attention rather than dramatic contrast. A quiet contribution at work or a gradual adjustment within an established routine may offer parallels. The pattern may feel satisfying because its distinctions are sufficient for the task. If someone insists that only bright differences count, the scene may concern the standard used to recognize contribution rather than an absence of anything valuable.\n\nA finished gray object being called unfinished can make your intention difficult to communicate. You may have chosen a modest presentation that another person mistakes for a stage awaiting improvement. A simple design, a bounded undertaking, or work completed without ceremony can resemble that exchange. Being allowed to explain the purpose gives another relationship from having to add features solely to make completion visible to someone else.\n\nA gray appearance revealing unexpected detail when you handle it can shift the encounter from assessment at a distance toward direct use. Something dismissed through its surface may prove more particular once you become involved. That comparison can fit an ordinary tool, a routine, or an unfamiliar role. Discovery need not become a lesson that plain things are secretly superior; the change concerns what information the different forms of contact allow.\n\nChoosing gray while companions choose other colors can instead picture an unambiguous preference that does not need to match the group. Ease may matter more than conspicuous difference. A photograph, garment, design, or remembered object can also supply the image directly. Gray and Grey name this same hue scope. Neither age nor a diagnosis follows from it, and an entire monochrome dream has another scale. These readings concern distinctions, intention, and use in the specific encounter.", "traditional": "No standalone Gray or Grey hue record is attached. Older gray-hair, eye, beard, and other object passages retain their own subjects and period forecasts. They do not establish an age, health, or emotional code for this hue. These comparisons are original reflections; the general NINDS background supplies no specific meaning.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Distinction beyond the surface", "reflection": "Similar appearances can contain different functions that become clear through more particular attention." }, { "title": "A finished intention", "reflection": "A restrained result can be mistaken for incompleteness when another standard governs how completion is shown." }, { "title": "A definite personal choice", "reflection": "A preference can remain clear without matching the group or requiring a conspicuous presentation." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "Similar gray objects have different uses", "reflection": "The surface does not explain the distinction you need. This may picture roles or options with comparable presentation but different practical purposes. Understanding their use can make choice clearer without requiring the dream’s restrained appearance to become a general symbol of indecision." }, { "title": "Small tonal differences form a readable pattern", "reflection": "The detail is available without dramatic contrast. This can picture a quiet contribution or gradual change becoming recognizable through attention. Satisfaction in the pattern differs from frustration that another participant only values differences that are immediately conspicuous." }, { "title": "Your finished gray object is called unfinished", "reflection": "Another person interprets your chosen form as a temporary stage. This may resemble work completed without the presentation someone expected. Explaining its purpose can preserve your intention, while adding features merely to satisfy the appearance of completion creates another arrangement." }, { "title": "Handling a gray object reveals particular detail", "reflection": "Direct use provides information that viewing at a distance did not. This can picture becoming more familiar with an ordinary tool or unfamiliar role. The discovery concerns the changed contact, without making an understated surface proof of either hidden superiority or lack of value." }, { "title": "You choose gray while others choose different colors", "reflection": "Your preference does not match the group but remains definite. This may picture a small independent choice within a shared setting. Ease and discomfort give different readings; the color does not establish that you want less feeling, less company, or less participation." }, { "title": "Someone insists every gray shade is identical", "reflection": "A label collapses distinctions that matter to you. This can resemble a shared process that overlooks particular differences because its category is broad. Demonstrating the pattern or purpose may restore useful detail without requiring everyone to prefer the same appearance." } ], "prompts": [ "Which practical differences remained beneath a similar appearance?", "How did your intended result differ from what another person expected?", "What made the restrained choice definite or personally useful?" ], "related": [ "colors", "dreaming-in-black-and-white", "paint-and-painting", "pictures" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "detectionAliases": [ "gray color", "gray colour", "the color gray", "the colour gray", "grey color", "grey colour", "the color grey", "the colour grey" ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "grazing", "title": "Grazing", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “To see cattle grazing, denotes that you will be fortunate.”", "aliases": [ "grazing" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about grazing stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0309", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Grazing", "text": "To see cattle grazing, denotes that you will be fortunate; to\nthe lover it is a sign he will marry a rich wife, and to the merchant\nit foretells a great increase of business. 76, 10.", "locator": "Heading 309; source line 2336", "lineStart": 2336, "lineEnd": 2340, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see cattle grazing, denotes that you will be fortunate; to\nthe lover it is a sign he will marry a rich wife, and to the merchant\nit foretells a great increase of business." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "grease", "title": "Grease", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream you are in grease, is significant of travels being enjoyed with disagreeable but polished…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "grease" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about grease stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0903", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Grease", "text": "To dream you are in grease, is significant of travels being enjoyed\nwith disagreeable but polished strangers.", "locator": "Heading 904; source lines 10480–10485", "lineStart": 10480, "lineEnd": 10485, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are in grease, is significant of travels being enjoyed\nwith disagreeable but polished strangers." }, { "id": "fontaine-0313", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Grease", "text": "If you dream of grease, it foretells that any undertaking you\nmay then be engaged in will go right, and according to your mind: if\nthe grease is dirty you will experience difficulties, but will get\nthrough them. Lovers who dream of grease, will be able to get married\npretty easy, and have things go slick afterward. 4, 11, 44.", "locator": "Heading 313; source line 2352", "lineStart": 2352, "lineEnd": 2358, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream of grease, it foretells that any undertaking you\nmay then be engaged in will go right, and according to your mind: if\nthe grease is dirty you will experience difficulties, but will get\nthrough them. Lovers who dream of grease, will be able to get married\npretty easy, and have things go slick afterward." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "great-monsters-or-fishes-of-the-sea", "title": "Great Monsters or Fishes of the Sea", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Artemidorus wrote: “To see a great Fish in the Sea, is good for no man, onely the Dolphin excepted, which promiseth Winde from the place from whence he…”", "aliases": [ "great monsters or fishes of the sea", "of great monsters or fishes of the sea", "great monsters", "fishes of the sea" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about great monsters or fishes of the sea stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "artemidorus-079", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of great Monsters or Fishes of the Sea.", "text": "TO see a great Fish in the Sea, is good for no man, onely the Dolphin excepted, which promiseth Winde from the place from whence he commeth: but out of the Sea every Fish and great monster is good, for they can hurt no more, nor save themselves, and therefore besides that, our dream signifyes that our Enemies cannot hurt us: it sayes moreover, that the wicked shall be punished. Notwithstanding, the Dolphin séene out of the Sea, is not good, but signifyes the death of some of our good friends.", "locator": "Book 2, encoded section 79", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "2", "displayText": "To see a great Fish in the Sea, is good for no man, onely the Dolphin excepted, which promiseth Winde from the place from whence he commeth: but out of the Sea every Fish and great monster is good, for they can hurt no more, nor save themselves, and therefore besides that, our dream signifyes that our Enemies cannot hurt us: it sayes moreover, that the wicked shall be punished. Notwithstanding, the Dolphin séene out of the Sea, is not good, but signifyes the death of some of our good friends." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "greek", "title": "Greek", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of reading Greek, denotes that your ideas will be discussed and finally accepted and put in practical use.”", "aliases": [ "greek" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about greek stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0904", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Greek", "text": "To dream of reading Greek, denotes that your ideas will be\ndiscussed and finally accepted and put in practical use.\nTo fail to read it, denotes that technical difficulties are\nin your way.", "locator": "Heading 905; source lines 10485–10492", "lineStart": 10485, "lineEnd": 10492, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of reading Greek, denotes that your ideas will be\ndiscussed and finally accepted and put in practical use.\nTo fail to read it, denotes that technical difficulties are\nin your way." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "green", "title": "Green", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "summary": "A green appearance may concern familiarity, changing conditions or what blends into its surroundings. The object and your response supply context.", "tagline": "Familiar appearances can help or complicate judging what has changed.", "aliases": [ "green", "green color", "green colour", "the color green", "the colour green" ], "status": "REVIEW", "psychological": "A green appearance may make a setting seem familiar, changed or difficult to distinguish. Green fields, a painted wall and a colored piece of fruit are different subjects; each gives the hue a particular role. If green is what you notice most, the dream may explore how appearance helps you judge a condition, recognize a place or find something that blends into its surroundings.\n\n Familiarity can offer continuity. A green tile from an earlier home may remain recognizable in a room that has otherwise changed. It can bring one part of the past into a present arrangement without requiring the entire earlier setting to return. A waking comparison might be keeping a useful routine while a workplace changes, or adapting a familiar feature to a home that serves different needs.\n\n Appearance can also become an uncertain guide. Someone may insist that green fruit is ready for a task, or treat an unchanged green label as proof that everything is still in order. If the dream lets you inspect, taste or ask about the conditions, it may separate recognition from judgment. This can resemble checking whether an old description still fits a current situation instead of accepting its familiar presentation as sufficient information.\n\n Blending into a setting creates another possibility. A green item against a similarly colored surface may be easy to overlook until it moves or someone points it out. The dream may make visibility depend on contrast rather than importance. A waking comparison could be work that remains unnoticed because it fits smoothly into a routine, or a preference that needs a clearer expression to be understood.\n\n Fading or spreading green may make change visible over time. Restoring a familiar appearance, accepting a new one or noticing that a green patch obscures a photograph gives the scene different directions. Your association with that particular place or object matters more than treating green as proof of growth, envy or permission. When plants, food or an actual traffic signal are central, their actions and conditions provide additional information that the hue alone cannot replace.", "traditional": "In the 1862 Golden Wheel Dream-book, Fontaine gives green fruit, grass and fields a long-life forecast, then assigns trouble to faded color. This is a preserved period account of hue, rather than evidence about longevity or future events. The particular conditions and associations of your dream remain open to reflection.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A familiar feature carried forward", "reflection": "A recognizable green detail may let a changed setting keep one useful connection with an earlier experience. Its value depends on whether it supports the new arrangement or makes you expect the whole past to return." }, { "title": "Appearance and actual conditions", "reflection": "A familiar green appearance may be used as evidence that something is ready or unchanged. When the dream allows inspection or another kind of information, it can explore how you judge a situation beyond the label you first recognize." }, { "title": "Something that blends in", "reflection": "A green item can become hard to see against its surroundings. The scene may concern recognition: a change of angle, movement or clearer contrast can make a detail visible without making the detail itself more valuable." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "An old green tile fits a new room", "reflection": "A recognizable tile from an earlier home becomes part of a room with a different purpose. Its fit may explore what can be carried forward during change. A useful small connection differs from trying to rebuild every part of the earlier arrangement." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Green fruit is declared ready without inspection", "reflection": "Someone uses appearance alone to decide which fruit should be chosen, while you want more information. The dream may resemble judging a task by a familiar label rather than its actual conditions. What you are allowed to examine can change the balance of that decision." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A green object disappears against a wall", "reflection": "The item remains present but becomes difficult to distinguish from the surface behind it. A new angle or small movement may bring it back into view. This can picture wanting useful work or a personal preference to be recognized within a setting where it blends in." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Green spreads across an old photograph", "reflection": "A growing patch changes the picture until an important detail is hard to see. Preserving part of the image or accepting its alteration may bring memory and present change into contact. The scene’s concern is what remains recognizable, rather than a forecast about the past." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You restore a faded green in a familiar place", "reflection": "Replacing the faded appearance may let a place feel recognizable again, or make its changes more obvious by comparison. The effort can explore what you hope restoration will accomplish. Recovering an outward feature does not necessarily require returning to the place’s former purpose." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "Green footprints leave a path you expected to follow", "reflection": "The marks provide a trace of movement but lead away from the route you thought was intended. Following, questioning or leaving them can make the scene about choosing which evidence to trust. The remembered association of that green may affect how inviting the trace feels." } ], "prompts": [ "What did the green appearance help you recognize, and what did it leave uncertain?", "What other information was available about the object or setting’s condition?", "How did blending in, fading or restoring the green change what you could notice?" ], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0314" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context only. Green, fontaine-0314, treats green fruit, grass and fields as a long-life omen, then assigns trouble to faded color. Preserve that owned hue passage and its period forecasts without endorsing longevity, health or future-event conclusions. Not evidence for the original psychological reflections; Green Gages is a separate subject and no record is borrowed from it." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "related": [ "colors", "garden", "grass", "paint-and-painting", "green-gages" ], "updated": "2026-10-13", "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "detectionAliases": [ "green color", "green colour", "the color green", "the colour green" ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0314", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Green", "text": "If you see green things, such as fruit, grass, green fields,\n&c., in your dream, it is a sign of long life, but if the color has\nfaded it is a sign of trouble. 2, 18.", "locator": "Heading 314; source line 2358", "lineStart": 2358, "lineEnd": 2362, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you see green things, such as fruit, grass, green fields,\n&c., in your dream, it is a sign of long life, but if the color has\nfaded it is a sign of trouble." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "green-gages", "title": "Green Gages", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “To dream of eating these plums denotes trouble and grief (Raphael). This bit of interpretation is plainly due to physical stimuli.”", "aliases": [ "green gages" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about green gages stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L10172", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Green Gages", "heading": "Green Gages", "text": "To dream of eating these plums denotes trouble and grief (Raphael). This bit of interpretation is plainly due to physical stimuli.", "lineStart": 10172, "lineEnd": 10175, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 220; NLM OCR lines 10172–10175", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10172, "lineEnd": 10175, "printedPage": 220, "printedPageEnd": 220 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Green Gages. — To dream of eating these plums denotes \ntrouble and grief (Raphael). This bit of interpretation is \nplainly due to physical stimuli. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Green Gages" }, "displayText": "To dream of eating these plums denotes trouble and grief (Raphael). This bit of interpretation is plainly due to physical stimuli." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0321", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Grove", "text": "(_See Pic-Nic._) To dream of pleasant and verdant groves or\nwoods, is an excellent sign, as it foretells happiness and success: if\nthe groves are barren of leaves, it is the reverse, and you will be\npoor and unhappy. 65, 78.\n\n A maid who dreams of verdant groves,\n Will surely have the man she loves;\n But if the groves are nipped with frost,\n She’ll be as sure in marriage crossed.", "locator": "Heading 321; source line 2393", "lineStart": 2393, "lineEnd": 2403, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Pic-Nic.) To dream of pleasant and verdant groves or\nwoods, is an excellent sign, as it foretells happiness and success: if\nthe groves are barren of leaves, it is the reverse, and you will be\npoor and unhappy.\n\nA maid who dreams of verdant groves,\nWill surely have the man she loves;\nBut if the groves are nipped with frost,\nShe’ll be as sure in marriage crossed." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10185", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Grove", "heading": "Grove", "text": "Trouble but in a less degree than in a forest (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 10185, "lineEnd": 10187, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 220; NLM OCR lines 10185–10187", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10185, "lineEnd": 10187, "printedPage": 220, "printedPageEnd": 220 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Grove. — Trouble but in a less degree than in a forest \n(Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 0.95122, "secondaryHeading": "Grove" }, "displayText": "Trouble but in a less degree than in a forest (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "grow", "title": "Grow", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “If you dream that a tree or shrub grows fast, it is a sign that you will do something in a hurry that you will afterward be sorry for: if…”", "aliases": [ "grow" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about grow stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0322", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Grow", "text": "If you dream that a tree or shrub grows fast, it is a sign that\nyou will do something in a hurry that you will afterward be sorry for:\nif it be your son, or daughter, or any near young relative that you\nimagine to grow very rapidly, it foretells an accident to them. 1, 19.", "locator": "Heading 322; source line 2403", "lineStart": 2403, "lineEnd": 2408, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream that a tree or shrub grows fast, it is a sign that\nyou will do something in a hurry that you will afterward be sorry for:\nif it be your son, or daughter, or any near young relative that you\nimagine to grow very rapidly, it foretells an accident to them." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "grub", "title": "Grub", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “To dream of clean-looking, white fat grubs, is a sign of good crops to farmers, but to dream of black or dirty looking grubs is the reverse.”", "aliases": [ "grub" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about grub stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "worms" ], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0323", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Grub", "text": "(_See Worm._) To dream of clean-looking, white fat grubs, is a\nsign of good crops to farmers, but to dream of black or dirty looking\ngrubs is the reverse. For a girl to dream of grubs is a bad sign, as it\nputs her in peril of losing her virtue; but to a married woman it is a\ngood sign, for the reason that she will soon be in the family way. 49,\n70, 65.", "locator": "Heading 323; source line 2408", "lineStart": 2408, "lineEnd": 2415, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Worm.) To dream of clean-looking, white fat grubs, is a\nsign of good crops to farmers, but to dream of black or dirty looking\ngrubs is the reverse. For a girl to dream of grubs is a bad sign, as it\nputs her in peril of losing her virtue; but to a married woman it is a\ngood sign, for the reason that she will soon be in the family way. 49," } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "worms" ] }, { "slug": "gruel", "title": "Gruel", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “To dream of drinking gruel, is a good sign if you are sick, as it shows a speedy recovery.”", "aliases": [ "gruel" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about gruel stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0324", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Gruel", "text": "To dream of drinking gruel, is a good sign if you are sick, as\nit shows a speedy recovery; but if you are well, it is a sign that some\none will overreach you in a bargain, or that you will do some foolish\nact. 2, 11, 22.", "locator": "Heading 324; source line 2415", "lineStart": 2415, "lineEnd": 2420, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of drinking gruel, is a good sign if you are sick, as\nit shows a speedy recovery; but if you are well, it is a sign that some\none will overreach you in a bargain, or that you will do some foolish\nact." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "guardian", "title": "Guardian", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a guardian, denotes you will be treated with consideration by your friends.”", "aliases": [ "guardian" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about guardian stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0910", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Guardian", "text": "To dream of a guardian, denotes you will be treated with consideration\nby your friends. For a young woman to dream that she is being unkindly\ndealt with by her guardian, foretells that she will have loss and trouble\nin the future.", "locator": "Heading 911; source lines 10526–10533", "lineStart": 10526, "lineEnd": 10533, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a guardian, denotes you will be treated with consideration\nby your friends. For a young woman to dream that she is being unkindly\ndealt with by her guardian, foretells that she will have loss and trouble\nin the future." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "guilt", "title": "Guilt", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "An imagined responsibility asks what could be repaired.", "summary": "A guilt dream can stage an accusation, a concealed mistake, or an urge to repair. Feeling responsible in a dream does not establish wrongdoing.", "aliases": [ "guilt", "guilty", "feeling guilty", "remorse", "being accused", "being caught", "getting caught", "did something wrong", "hiding a crime" ], "status": "REVIEW", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "Guilt can organise a dream even when you cannot identify an offence. You may know you have done something wrong without a remembered action, face an accusation you do not understand, or try to hide a small mistake that becomes enormous. Separate the feeling from the event. What did the dream actually show, and what did you simply know within its story?\n\nIf a specific waking concern comes to mind, describe it in its actual proportions. The dream may exaggerate a missed reply, forgotten obligation, or unresolved disagreement. That comparison does not establish that your self-judgment is fair. It can also be useful to notice when the dream assigns responsibility for something you could not control. A scene about failing to stop a flood is different from one about deliberately breaking a promise.\n\nThe audience changes the experience. Being accused publicly may place attention on exposure, while hiding a secret alone may centre on uncertainty about disclosure. Someone forgiving you, asking for repair, or refusing to name the charge gives the story a different direction. Their role is invented; the dream does not reveal whether a real person blames you or whether an apology is needed.\n\nNotice what you believed would make things right. Replacing an object, explaining a misunderstanding, receiving reassurance, or accepting consequences are distinct actions. The scene may help you articulate a practical wish for repair, but you can assess any actual responsibility using waking facts. An upsetting feeling need not be solved by confessing to an imagined act. It can be recorded as a feeling, with room for kindness and uncertainty about why it appeared.", "traditional": "No historical account is attached to this particular guilt scene. Historical headings involving conscience, punishment, or secrets would not establish the truth of a dreamed accusation or a dreamer’s moral standing. This entry does not use guilt as evidence of hidden wrongdoing.\n\nEveryday guilt can arise around real obligations, conflicting expectations, or standards that are difficult to satisfy. A dream may transform these into an explicit courtroom, an unread message, or an object everyone claims you damaged. Describe the standards used in the scene: were they clear, proportionate, and possible to meet? That question can support reflection without deciding that the emotion is either correct or meaningless. If a real issue is present, distinguish the practical act that could address it from the larger punishment imagined by the dream. The difference may be more useful than a symbolic label.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "Accused of something you cannot remember", "reflection": "The uncertainty may be the centre of the scene. Record who named the offence and whether any evidence appeared. Consider your experience of being judged without clear criteria, while recognising that the dream does not recover a forgotten wrongdoing." }, { "title": "Hiding a small mistake", "reflection": "Describe the mistake and what you feared disclosure would change. The scene may exaggerate embarrassment or a wish to preserve an image. Compare with a specific waking concern if one exists, rather than assuming you are concealing something serious." }, { "title": "Trying to repair damage", "reflection": "Notice whether repair was possible and whether anyone accepted your effort. The dream may focus on responsibility as an action rather than a lasting verdict. What counted as enough in the scene can help you think about fair expectations while awake." } ], "prompts": [ "What action was shown, and what responsibility was only assumed?", "What did the dream suggest would put things right?", "How would you judge the same situation if it belonged to someone you cared about?" ], "related": [ "conscience", "secret", "cheating", "punishment", "being-judged", "confession" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia expansion written on 2026-10-13, awaiting human publication review. Interpretations are conditional invitations to reflection, not validated symbolic meanings, predictions, diagnoses, or evidence about other people. Historical coverage is identified separately from original everyday context; research citations provide general context only.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "guinea-pig", "title": "Guinea pig", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "summary": "A guinea pig can bring gentle care, crowded needs, or being volunteered for something into focus. Literal pets and the figurative phrase differ.", "tagline": "A dependent companion, and sometimes a role you did not choose.", "aliases": [ "guinea pig", "guinea pigs" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A guinea pig resting against you can picture a relationship built through ordinary care rather than dramatic achievement. The small animal may matter because its trust depends on how you hold it, provide space, and respond to its movements. This can resemble looking after a modest project, supporting someone through a routine change, or allowing a quieter part of your life attention. If the contact feels pleasant, responsibility and affection are present together; if you feel trapped holding it, care may have become difficult to set down.\n\nSeveral animals in one enclosure can make the distribution of space and attention concrete. They may settle comfortably together or repeatedly compete for the same opening, bowl, or sheltered corner. A shared household or group task can offer a parallel when everyone’s needs must fit within limited conditions. The question is not whether company is inherently good or bad. It is whether the arrangement gives each participant enough room and whether one person is expected to manage every small conflict.\n\nA guinea pig that hides while you try to help can introduce a difference between your intentions and the recipient’s experience. Moving closer may feel kind to you while making the animal withdraw. This may fit offering advice or attention that has not been requested, particularly when you want a visible sign that your care has worked. Creating a quieter setting changes the relationship more than insisting on contact. If the animal approaches on its own, the scene may make patience and choice feel more satisfying than immediate reassurance.\n\nThe phrase “being a guinea pig” creates a separate reading when the dream explicitly gives you that role. Being volunteered for an untested process can picture having little influence over a change whose consequences others expect you to absorb. Trying a new tool by choice can instead feel exploratory and valued, especially when feedback changes the plan. That figurative scene should not be imposed on every dream of the literal animal. A pet, a childhood memory, or a recent conversation may provide the image directly; the action and your degree of choice determine which comparison, if any, fits.", "traditional": "No Guinea Pig passage is supplied in the historical dream corpus. The farm-animal Pig entry is a different subject. The figurative phrase about a test participant is treated as a possible feature of an explicitly remembered scene, not as an established dream tradition.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Care through ordinary contact", "reflection": "Holding the animal can picture affection and responsibility at a manageable scale. Comfort differs from feeling unable to put a dependent task down." }, { "title": "Room for several needs", "reflection": "A shared enclosure can make limited space and attention tangible. The arrangement matters more than an assumption that a group automatically provides support." }, { "title": "A trial role and your choice", "reflection": "If someone calls you a guinea pig, participation may feel imposed or exploratory. Consent, feedback, and influence distinguish those readings." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A guinea pig settles against you", "reflection": "Quiet contact may picture a bond maintained through reliable attention. If you can move comfortably, care fits within your life; if everyone prevents you from putting it down, the same affection can acquire unwanted obligations." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Several animals crowd one small enclosure", "reflection": "Many needs compete within an unchanged setup. This can resemble a shared routine that has not adapted to more participants. Providing more room differs from requiring everyone to tolerate the arrangement indefinitely." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "It hides whenever you reach toward it", "reflection": "Your effort to connect produces more distance. This may fit care offered in a form that is uncomfortable for its recipient. Waiting nearby or changing the setting can create a different relationship from pursuing contact." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A familiar sound brings you back to its bowl", "reflection": "A small request interrupts other activity and redirects attention. The scene may fit a routine need that remains meaningful without being dramatic. Feeling pleased to respond differs from feeling summoned whenever you begin something else." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You build a larger space and watch it explore", "reflection": "Improved conditions allow movement that supervision alone could not provide. This can picture helping a project or relationship through a practical change. The pleasure may come from seeing autonomy grow rather than keeping constant control." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "Others volunteer you as their guinea pig", "reflection": "The animal name becomes a role in an experiment or new process. If your agreement is assumed, the scene can picture unequal exposure to uncertainty. If you choose freely and influence the result, curiosity may be the stronger theme." } ], "prompts": [ "Was the guinea pig a literal companion, a responsibility, or a role assigned to me?", "How did my approach affect the animal’s comfort and freedom?", "What influence did I have over the conditions I was asked to accept?" ], "related": [ "pet", "pig", "mice", "rat" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "guitar", "title": "Guitar", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "aliases": [ "guitar" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "summary": "A guitar may explore accompaniment, a borrowed method and the place expression occupies among other needs.", "tagline": "Something held, carried or played alongside a wanted exchange.", "psychological": "A guitar in a dream may bring a form of expression into your hands, alongside a voice, story or journey. Its portability can make the question of where it belongs particularly concrete. Pleasure may come from accompanying something wanted rather than taking the leading role. An awkward encounter may concern whether the method supports the message or begins to direct it.\n\nA guitar pattern that pulls a sung phrase away from its intended shape can place support and purpose in tension. This may resemble presentation materials that start determining what you say, or a familiar process that no longer serves the conversation you want. Changing either part could be satisfying. The important difference is what you wanted the accompaniment to make possible.\n\nA borrowed guitar can invite your own method while carrying an association with its owner. Wanting to play it differently need not erase appreciation of the loan. A waking comparison might involve receiving useful help whose customary use does not quite fit your present task. Gratitude, curiosity and a wish for independence can all belong to that encounter without revealing the giver's actual intentions.\n\nStrings that stretch beyond your reach can change the physical terms of playing before a performance begins. An imaginable sound may remain wanted while its means become impractical. This differs from a scene in which the instrument works but its pattern competes with the voice: one concerns handling the resource, the other concerns what the resource is serving.\n\nCarrying a guitar through a narrow passage can make room for an enjoyable activity within a changing setting. The difficulty might be worth the effort, or it might interrupt another wanted movement. Accompanying a spoken story raises a different possibility: a contribution can be valuable because it helps another form of expression, without becoming the occasion's main attraction.\n\nPutting the guitar down to continue a conversation can keep the company while changing its form. Relief might arise from being able to exchange words directly; disappointment might come from losing a form you enjoyed. These possibilities do not establish musical ability or relationship outcomes. The dream's particular exchange, including pleasure in handling or playing the instrument, can matter more than a general code assigned to guitars.", "traditional": "Miller contrasts playing and gatherings with a girl's broken or unstrung guitar and a gendered warning about unusual music and persuasion; it also associates playing with household harmony. Fontaine links singing while playing to luck in love. Cielo calls guitar dreaming a sign of deception and treachery. Craig's brief happiness claim is explicitly attributed to a 'Gypsy' dream source. These edition-specific forecasts and attribution labels do not establish another person's intentions or a universal cultural meaning.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Accompaniment that serves the message", "reflection": "A useful pattern can support an exchange or begin to pull it away from its wanted purpose." }, { "title": "A borrowed resource and your own method", "reflection": "Appreciation of help can coexist with adapting how the resource is used." }, { "title": "Expression that changes its form", "reflection": "An instrument, a story and direct conversation can offer different ways of keeping wanted company." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "The pattern pulls the phrase elsewhere", "reflection": "Your guitar pattern directs a sung phrase away from the shape you wanted. Support and message become different intentions. Adjusting either could feel useful, but the scene may first concern which part is meant to serve the exchange and which has begun to determine it." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Playing a borrowed guitar your own way", "reflection": "You borrow a guitar associated with someone's familiar style and want to use a different method. Appreciation and independence can share the scene. The useful tension may concern adapting offered help to your present purpose, without treating a loan as an obligation to imitate its owner." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Strings extend beyond reach", "reflection": "The strings stretch so far that the sound you imagine becomes difficult to attempt. The resource's physical terms have changed before any performance can be judged. This scene may concern a wanted process whose tools need to become workable, rather than a verdict on your skill." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Carrying the guitar through a narrow passage", "reflection": "You want the guitar with you, but carrying it complicates movement through a passage. An enjoyable resource may need practical room within a changed setting. The effort can feel worthwhile or disruptive depending on what else you wanted the journey to make possible." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Accompanying a spoken story", "reflection": "You play alongside someone telling a story, and your contribution helps their words rather than replacing them. Satisfaction can come from a supporting role that has a clear purpose. Tension might arise if the accompaniment draws attention away from the exchange it was meant to sustain." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "Putting it down to continue talking", "reflection": "You put the guitar down and the company continues through conversation. Changing the form can bring relief, regret or a new kind of closeness. The scene may explore how a wanted exchange survives a change of method, rather than making the instrument its only possible support." } ], "prompts": [ "What did the guitar help you express or accompany?", "How did your preferred method relate to the resource or its associations?", "What changed in the exchange when the instrument was carried, played or put down?" ], "related": [ "music", "musical-instruments", "singing", "concert" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0911" ], "scope": "The whole Guitar account covers possessing and playing, gatherings and love, a girl’s broken or unstrung instrument, unusual music and a gendered persuasion warning, plus playing and household harmony. Exact account: miller-0911 — Guitar (Heading 912; source lines 10533–10548). Attributed historical claims only; no forecast or symbolic meaning is validated by this citation." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0325" ], "scope": "Singing while playing guitar is linked to luck in love. Exact account: fontaine-0325 — Guitar (Heading 325; source line 2420). Attributed historical claims only; no forecast or symbolic meaning is validated by this citation." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0200" ], "scope": "Guitar receives a deception and treachery claim. Exact account: cielo-0200 — Guitar (Dream section, heading 200; source lines 4333–4335). Attributed historical claims only; no forecast or symbolic meaning is validated by this citation." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L10188" ], "scope": "The happiness claim is explicitly attributed to a Gypsy dream source; this label is the edition’s attribution, not a universal cultural account. Exact account: craig-1918:L10188 — Guitar (Printed p. 220; NLM OCR lines 10188–10189). Attributed historical claims only; no forecast or symbolic meaning is validated by this citation." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0911", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Guitar", "text": "To dream that you have a guitar, or is playing one in a dream,\nsignifies a merry gathering and serious love making.\nFor a young woman to think it is unstrung or broken,\nforetells that disappointments in love are sure to overtake her.\n\nUpon hearing the weird music of a guitar, the dreamer\nshould fortify herself against flattery and soft persuasion,\nfor she is in danger of being tempted by a fascinating evil.\nIf the dreamer be a man, he will be courted, and will be likely\nto lose his judgment under the wiles of seductive women.\n\nIf you play on a guitar, your family affairs will be harmonious.", "locator": "Heading 912; source lines 10533–10548", "lineStart": 10533, "lineEnd": 10548, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you have a guitar, or is playing one in a dream,\nsignifies a merry gathering and serious love making.\nFor a young woman to think it is unstrung or broken,\nforetells that disappointments in love are sure to overtake her.\n\nUpon hearing the weird music of a guitar, the dreamer\nshould fortify herself against flattery and soft persuasion,\nfor she is in danger of being tempted by a fascinating evil.\nIf the dreamer be a man, he will be courted, and will be likely\nto lose his judgment under the wiles of seductive women.\n\nIf you play on a guitar, your family affairs will be harmonious." }, { "id": "fontaine-0325", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Guitar", "text": "This dream denotes luck in love affairs, if the dreamer sings\nand plays on the instrument at the same time. 45, 24.", "locator": "Heading 325; source line 2420", "lineStart": 2420, "lineEnd": 2423, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "This dream denotes luck in love affairs, if the dreamer sings\nand plays on the instrument at the same time." }, { "id": "cielo-0200", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Guitar", "text": "Means deception and treachery.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 200; source lines 4333–4335", "lineStart": 4333, "lineEnd": 4335, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Means deception and treachery." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10188", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Guitar", "heading": "Guitar", "text": "A dream of happiness (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 10188, "lineEnd": 10189, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 220; NLM OCR lines 10188–10189", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10188, "lineEnd": 10189, "printedPage": 220, "printedPageEnd": 220 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Guitar. — A dream of happiness (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Guitar" }, "displayText": "A dream of happiness (Gypsy)." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "gulls", "title": "Gulls", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of gulls, is a prophecy of peaceful dealings with ungenerous persons. Seeing dead gulls, means wide separation for friends.”", "aliases": [ "gulls" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about gulls stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0912", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Gulls", "text": "To dream of gulls, is a prophecy of peaceful dealings\nwith ungenerous persons. Seeing dead gulls, means wide\nseparation for friends.", "locator": "Heading 913; source lines 10548–10554", "lineStart": 10548, "lineEnd": 10554, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of gulls, is a prophecy of peaceful dealings\nwith ungenerous persons. Seeing dead gulls, means wide\nseparation for friends." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "gun", "title": "Gun", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "A dream gun turns a feeling of threat or power into something you can hold or face.", "summary": "Gun dreams can place you behind the weapon, in front of it, or hearing it from afar. Each position points to a different question about control and fear.", "aliases": [ "gun", "guns", "fire-arms", "firearm", "pistol", "shooting a gun", "being shot", "gunshot" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "Guns enter dreams from many directions: news footage, games, a neighbourhood with real risk, a family history with hunting rifles, or nothing more than a film. Before interpreting, note which of these feels nearest, because the same image carries very different weight for someone who has handled a weapon and someone who has only seen one on screen. Then record your position in the dream. Holding a gun that will not fire, that fires silently, or that bends in your hand is one of the most frequently described variants and tends to appear when the dreamer feels unable to act with the force a situation seems to demand. Being the target can picture a sense of exposure, of waiting for a blow from a boss, a lover, or an institution. Hearing shots at a distance, without seeing a shooter, often accompanies anxiety that has not yet attached itself to anything specific. Ask whether anyone in the dream was someone you know, and whether you woke before or after the trigger was pulled. If the dream followed real violence or a frightening event, repeated versions can be distressing, and talking it through with someone you trust may help.", "traditional": "Miller (1901) calls this a dream of distress: hearing a gun means loss of employment, shooting someone means dishonour, being shot means annoyance by evil persons and perhaps illness, and for a woman it forecasts quarrels. Fontaine (1862) reads firing or hearing a gun as strife, trouble with the friend who fired it, or rash behaviour in a quarrel. Noe (1885) sees adversity in watching gunfire, peril if it is aimed at you, and a damaging lawsuit if you fire. Craig (1918), citing Gypsy tradition, says a gun's report means a friend's death, slander and loss. All are period beliefs rather than predictions.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "Pulling the trigger and nothing happens", "reflection": "Note what you were aiming at and what you did next: reloading, running, throwing the gun away. Then ask where in waking life you are expected to act decisively and feel unequipped." }, { "title": "Being held at gunpoint by someone you recognise", "reflection": "Write the person's name and what they demanded. Dreams often cast a familiar face in this role when a real conversation with them has been postponed out of unease." }, { "title": "Hearing gunfire in another room or street", "reflection": "Record whether you went towards it, hid, or carried on. Distant shots with no visible shooter frequently accompany worry that has not yet found its object." } ], "prompts": [ "Were you holding the gun, facing it, or only hearing it, and did that change during the dream?", "Have you seen, played, or read anything involving firearms in the last few days?", "Was there a moment of choice in the dream, and what did you choose?" ], "related": [ "shooting", "knife", "war", "murder", "being-chased", "police", "pistol", "cannon" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia editorial draft written on 2026-10-12. Reflection text is an invitation to personal writing, not a validated symbol meaning. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0913", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Gun", "text": "This is a dream of distress. Hearing the sound of a gun, denotes loss\nof employment, and bad management to proprietors of establishments.\n\nIf you shoot a person with a gun, you will fall into dishonor.\n\nIf you are shot, you will be annoyed by evil persons, and perhaps\nsuffer an acute illness.\n\nFor a woman to dream of shooting, forecasts for her a quarreling\nand disagreeable reputation connected with sensations.\nFor a married woman, unhappiness through other women.", "locator": "Heading 914; source lines 10554–10568", "lineStart": 10554, "lineEnd": 10568, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "This is a dream of distress. Hearing the sound of a gun, denotes loss\nof employment, and bad management to proprietors of establishments.\n\nIf you shoot a person with a gun, you will fall into dishonor.\n\nIf you are shot, you will be annoyed by evil persons, and perhaps\nsuffer an acute illness.\n\nFor a woman to dream of shooting, forecasts for her a quarreling\nand disagreeable reputation connected with sensations.\nFor a married woman, unhappiness through other women." }, { "id": "fontaine-0326", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Gun", "text": "To dream of firing a gun, or hearing the report of a gun, denotes\nstrife: if you imagine some friend fires it, it shows that there Will\nbe a difficulty with him. If you dream of killing a bird, squirrel, or\nother animal, by shooting it, it foretells that you will act rashly in\nsome quarrel. For a lover to dream of firing a gun, is a sign he will\nhave trouble with his sweetheart. 21, 57, 16.", "locator": "Heading 326; source line 2423", "lineStart": 2423, "lineEnd": 2430, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of firing a gun, or hearing the report of a gun, denotes\nstrife: if you imagine some friend fires it, it shows that there Will\nbe a difficulty with him. If you dream of killing a bird, squirrel, or\nother animal, by shooting it, it foretells that you will act rashly in\nsome quarrel. For a lover to dream of firing a gun, is a sign he will\nhave trouble with his sweetheart." }, { "id": "noe-0229", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Guns", "text": "To\ndream you see people firing off guns or cannon, augurs that the dreamer\nwill experience much adversity. To dream that they are firing at you,\nshows that you will be exposed to many perilous dangers, such as\nshipwreck, assassination, or loss of liberty. If you are firing at them\nyourself, it foretells that you will be involved in a lawsuit that will\nprove prejudicial to you.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 231; source lines 983–991", "lineStart": 983, "lineEnd": 991, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To\ndream you see people firing off guns or cannon, augurs that the dreamer\nwill experience much adversity. To dream that they are firing at you,\nshows that you will be exposed to many perilous dangers, such as\nshipwreck, assassination, or loss of liberty. If you are firing at them\nyourself, it foretells that you will be involved in a lawsuit that will\nprove prejudicial to you." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10190", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Gun", "heading": "Gun", "text": "To hear the report of a gun denotes the death of a friend, a slander, enmity and loss (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 10190, "lineEnd": 10192, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 220; NLM OCR lines 10190–10192", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10190, "lineEnd": 10192, "printedPage": 220, "printedPageEnd": 220 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Gun. — To hear the report of a gun denotes the death of a \nfriend, a slander, enmity and loss (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 0.97183, "secondaryHeading": "Gun" }, "displayText": "To hear the report of a gun denotes the death of a friend, a slander, enmity and loss (Gypsy)." }, { "id": "fontaine-0262", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Fire-Arms", "text": "(_See Gun, Pistol, and Cannon._)", "locator": "Heading 262; source line 2104", "lineStart": 2104, "lineEnd": 2106, "kind": "cross-reference", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Gun, Pistol, and Cannon.)" } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [ "pistol", "cannon" ] }, { "slug": "gutter", "title": "Gutter", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a gutter, is a sign of degradation.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "gutter" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about gutter stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0914", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Gutter", "text": "To dream of a gutter, is a sign of degradation. You will be the cause\nof unhappiness to others.\n\nTo find articles of value in a gutter, your right to certain property\nwill be questioned.", "locator": "Heading 915; source lines 10568–10576", "lineStart": 10568, "lineEnd": 10576, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a gutter, is a sign of degradation. You will be the cause\nof unhappiness to others.\n\nTo find articles of value in a gutter, your right to certain property\nwill be questioned." }, { "id": "fontaine-0328", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Gutter", "text": "If you dream of lying in a gutter, or of seeing a man so\nreclining, it foretells that some honor awaits you, or some one in\nwhose success you take an interest. If a girl dreams of a broken\ngutter, she should be careful of allowing her lover to be too familiar\nwith her person, or some accident may happen. 27, 65.", "locator": "Heading 328; source line 2432", "lineStart": 2432, "lineEnd": 2438, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream of lying in a gutter, or of seeing a man so\nreclining, it foretells that some honor awaits you, or some one in\nwhose success you take an interest. If a girl dreams of a broken\ngutter, she should be careful of allowing her lover to be too familiar\nwith her person, or some accident may happen." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "gymnasium", "title": "Gymnasium", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "The place of effort can reveal whose standard you are working toward.", "summary": "A gymnasium dream can explore practice, comparison and chosen effort. Cooperation, privacy and permission to rest can change the reading.", "aliases": [ "gymnasium", "gymnasiums", "gym", "gyms", "fitness center", "fitness centre" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A gymnasium gives effort a defined place. Its equipment, lines or repeated activities make practice visible before any result is achieved. In a dream, this can picture working on something whose progress is gradual: learning a skill, adapting to a role or building a routine. Enjoyable practice may express satisfaction in the activity itself. A room organized entirely around comparison can instead make your own pace hard to keep.\n\nUnfamiliar equipment can resemble entering a situation where other people seem to know rules that have not been explained to you. A new team or course may offer a waking parallel. The difficulty may come from missing instruction rather than lack of ability. Someone making space to show you how the task works changes the scene toward learning; being watched without guidance can make the same room feel exposing.\n\nRepeated exercise without a visible finish can hold two different experiences. A reliable rhythm may picture maintenance that does not need to become a competition. The same repetition can feel futile if the standards change or the work is never considered enough. You might recognize a project that keeps acquiring further requirements, or a personal routine whose value has become tied to proving yourself. The dream's response to stopping helps distinguish sustainable practice from imposed effort.\n\nA school gym can bring earlier group roles into a present setting. People from several ages gathered together may combine remembered inclusion, embarrassment or teamwork with something happening now. This does not require assuming that an old event explains everything. A familiar room can simply provide a stage on which current expectations become recognizable. Who chooses teams or controls the activity may be more revealing than who performs best.\n\nRest and cooperation can alter the whole arrangement. Choosing a break while others continue may picture protecting your own pace, even when comparison encourages more effort. Sharing a task can turn achievement from an individual display into a coordinated experience. A dream about gym activity does not assess fitness, body worth or health; its reflective focus is the relationship between effort, instruction, company and choice. Recent visits or remembered school spaces may also supply the setting directly.", "traditional": "The supplied archive has a Gymnast heading about a performer, but no exact Gymnasium setting entry. Its historical trade-and-misfortune forecast is not adopted here. These reflections concern practice, comparison and shared space without claiming inherited exercise symbolism.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Practice at your own pace", "reflection": "A gym can picture repeated effort whose value lies in use and learning rather than display. Enjoyment differs from work that is never allowed to count as enough." }, { "title": "Comparison without guidance", "reflection": "Unexplained rules can make a shared practice space feel exposing. The missing resource may be instruction or welcome, rather than a quality you are supposed to prove." }, { "title": "Choosing how to participate", "reflection": "Rest, cooperation or a different activity can show that participation need not mean following everyone else’s pace. The dream may make alternatives visible within a shared standard." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You practice privately in an empty gym", "reflection": "An empty room can picture space to practice without an audience. Learning a skill privately or testing a routine before sharing it may feel similar. Solitude can support concentration rather than signal exclusion." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Everyone seems to understand unfamiliar equipment", "reflection": "Everyone knowing the equipment except you can resemble entering a group whose instructions are assumed. A helpful explanation changes the scene toward learning. Silent comparison can make missing access look like personal inadequacy." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A school gym gathers people from different ages", "reflection": "A school gym mixing ages can bring several periods of belonging into one room. A current group role may resemble an earlier one without being identical. Who sets the activity can show which expectation remains influential." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You keep repeating a task that never becomes a competition", "reflection": "Repeating a task without competing can picture a routine valuable for its own steadiness. If the repetition feels endless, the same scene may resemble work whose completion is never recognized. The feeling of enough matters." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You choose rest while others urge you to continue", "reflection": "Choosing rest against group pressure can picture keeping a workable pace when expectations ask for more. Ending a workday or declining another responsibility may offer a parallel. The dream is not a physical-performance assessment." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The gym turns into a place for cooperation", "reflection": "A cooperative activity can picture effort becoming easier to sustain when roles are shared. A project or household task may fit. Success in this scene depends on coordination, rather than proving that one person can do everything." } ], "prompts": [ "What made the effort feel worthwhile or insufficient?", "Whose pace or standard organized the room?", "What changed when I received guidance, rested or worked with someone?" ], "related": [ "locker-room", "stadium", "meditation", "muscle" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "gymnast", "title": "Gymnast", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a gymnast, denotes you will have misfortune in speculation or trade.”", "aliases": [ "gymnast" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about gymnast stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0915", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Gymnast", "text": "To dream of a gymnast, denotes you will have misfortune\nin speculation or trade.", "locator": "Heading 916; source lines 10576–10581", "lineStart": 10576, "lineEnd": 10581, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a gymnast, denotes you will have misfortune\nin speculation or trade." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "hack", "title": "Hack", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “If you see, in your dream, a row of hacks, or carriages at a funeral, it shows that you’ll soon attend a…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "hack" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about hack stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "carriage" ], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0329", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Hack", "text": "(_See Carriage._) If you see, in your dream, a row of hacks, or\ncarriages at a funeral, it shows that you’ll soon attend a wedding or a\njolly party. 32, 19.", "locator": "Heading 329; source line 2438", "lineStart": 2438, "lineEnd": 2442, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Carriage.) If you see, in your dream, a row of hacks, or\ncarriages at a funeral, it shows that you’ll soon attend a wedding or a\njolly party." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10202", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Hack", "heading": "Hack", "text": "To see one denotes a visit from a friend.", "lineStart": 10202, "lineEnd": 10203, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 221; NLM OCR lines 10202–10203", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10202, "lineEnd": 10203, "printedPage": 221, "printedPageEnd": 221 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Hack. — To see one denotes a visit from a friend. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Hack" }, "displayText": "To see one denotes a visit from a friend." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "carriage" ] }, { "slug": "haggard", "title": "Haggard", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see a haggard face in your dreams, denotes misfortune and defeat in love matters.”", "aliases": [ "haggard" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about haggard stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0917", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Haggard", "text": "To see a haggard face in your dreams, denotes misfortune and defeat\nin love matters.\n\nTo see your own face haggard and distressed, denotes trouble\nover female affairs, which may render you unable to meet business\nengagements in a healthy manner.", "locator": "Heading 918; source lines 10605–10614", "lineStart": 10605, "lineEnd": 10614, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a haggard face in your dreams, denotes misfortune and defeat\nin love matters.\n\nTo see your own face haggard and distressed, denotes trouble\nover female affairs, which may render you unable to meet business\nengagements in a healthy manner." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "hail", "title": "Hail", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "summary": "Hail can explore repeated small impacts, uneven exposure, and the interruption or lingering evidence of a demanding episode.", "tagline": "Separate impacts can become a whole experience.", "aliases": [ "hail" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "Hail striking a roof in separate, repeated sounds can picture demands that arrive as individual interruptions but become substantial together. Messages, corrections, or minor requests may not seem large on their own, yet their repetition can make concentration difficult. Listening from indoors can allow distance from the immediate impact. The scene may concern how much attention the interruption claims, rather than the severity of any one event.\n\nLarge pieces striking something you meant to protect can make priority visible. A task, possession, or relationship may occupy attention because its conditions feel exposed. The dream’s response can be practical rather than an assessment of danger: you may move an object, ask for help, or wait in another place. These imagined actions do not predict actual damage. They give form to what you considered worth protecting within the scene.\n\nAn outdoor task interrupted by hail can picture a pause imposed by conditions rather than a change of interest. You may still want the activity while being unable to continue it in the same way. A plan delayed by external requirements or a conversation repeatedly interrupted can offer parallels. Finding another interval preserves the purpose. Resenting the interruption differs from deciding that the original task no longer matters.\n\nOne area being struck while another remains untouched can make uneven conditions central. People sharing an undertaking may have different workloads, resources, or exposure to demands. The scene can picture that difference without ranking whose experience is more legitimate. Moving toward another place may be useful; noticing that not everyone has the same route can also make assistance or coordination relevant.\n\nCollecting pieces that melt before you can show them can picture difficulty preserving evidence of an experience that has already changed. A brief interruption may remain meaningful even when its visible form disappears. Sudden quiet can similarly make the ending vivid, with relief arriving before the day resumes. Real weather, a remembered sound, film, or photograph may provide direct context. The hail’s size and color do not establish a fortune, health, or relationship code; its repeated impacts and their consequences support the original comparisons here.", "traditional": "Miller, Noe, and Cielo supply adverse hail forecasts, while Miller also describes later fortune after cares. Fontaine gives success or money forecasts for white hail and adverse claims for black hail. Craig reports both affliction and rest for poor people, attributing the passage to Artemidorus. These five historical accounts differ; their forecasts and color claims do not validate a modern predictive code.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Repeated interruptions", "reflection": "Small individual demands can become substantial through accumulation rather than size." }, { "title": "Uneven conditions", "reflection": "A shared setting may expose participants to different demands without making one experience less legitimate." }, { "title": "After the visible evidence", "reflection": "An experience can matter after its physical traces change or disappear." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "You hear individual impacts while indoors", "reflection": "Separate interruptions become an atmosphere of repeated demands. This may picture small requests consuming attention together. Distance from the immediate impact can make observation possible, while the continuing noise still limits concentration on the ordinary activity you wanted to pursue." }, { "title": "Large pieces strike an object you value", "reflection": "The scene makes protection of a particular priority central. This can picture concern about conditions around a task or possession. Practical help changes your available response; the dream’s imagined damage does not establish that anything will be harmed in waking life." }, { "title": "Sudden quiet makes the ending vivid", "reflection": "The absence of interruption becomes noticeable in its own right. This may picture relief after repeated demands rather than an immediate return to activity. Enjoying the pause differs from remaining expectant that another impact must follow because the earlier noise was intense." }, { "title": "Collected pieces melt before you can show someone", "reflection": "The visible form changes before the experience can be shared. This may resemble difficulty conveying a brief but meaningful interruption afterward. Its disappearance does not make the earlier effect unreal, or require visible evidence to be the only basis for understanding." }, { "title": "An outdoor task must pause", "reflection": "Conditions interrupt the method while the purpose remains wanted. This can fit a plan delayed by external requirements. Another time or place may preserve the activity; the forced pause need not become a judgment about your interest, effort, or capacity to complete it." }, { "title": "One area is hit while another stays untouched", "reflection": "A shared setting contains different degrees of impact. This may picture unequal conditions within a group undertaking. Comparing them can support coordination or help, without requiring one participant’s relative ease to invalidate another participant’s difficulty." } ], "prompts": [ "Which repeated small interruptions have become a substantial experience?", "Where do participants face different conditions in a shared undertaking?", "What remains meaningful after the visible evidence changes?" ], "related": [ "ice", "rain", "snow", "storm" ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0918" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context for this topic only. Miller forecasts poor success, later fortune after cares, gendered love after rejection, and distress from hail striking a house. Does not validate the original psychological reflections." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0330" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context for this topic only. Fontaine supplies contrasting success/money and sorrow/death forecasts tied to historical hail color claims. Does not validate the original psychological reflections." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0232" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context for this topic only. Noe forecasts sorrow and warns against marrying a supposedly ill-tempered partner. Does not validate the original psychological reflections." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0201" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context for this topic only. Cielo forecasts trouble and sadness in a hailstorm. Does not validate the original psychological reflections." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L10204" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context for this topic only. Craig reports sorrow/trouble but rest for poor people during storms, attributing the account to Artemidorus; no separate ancient edition is attached. Does not validate the original psychological reflections." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0918", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Hail", "text": "If you dream of being in a hail storm, you will meet poor success\nin any undertaking.\n\nIf you watch hail-stones fall through sunshine and rain, you will be\nharassed by cares for a time, but fortune will soon smile upon you.\nFor a young woman, this dream indicates love after many slights.\n\nTo hear hail beating the house, indicates distressing situations.", "locator": "Heading 919; source lines 10614–10625", "lineStart": 10614, "lineEnd": 10625, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream of being in a hail storm, you will meet poor success\nin any undertaking.\n\nIf you watch hail-stones fall through sunshine and rain, you will be\nharassed by cares for a time, but fortune will soon smile upon you.\nFor a young woman, this dream indicates love after many slights.\n\nTo hear hail beating the house, indicates distressing situations." }, { "id": "fontaine-0330", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Hail", "text": "To dream of a hail-storm, is a sign that you will make a good\nbargain, or will be lucky in some undertaking, provided the hail is\nwhite or in crystals; black hail, denotes sorrow and death, therefore\nyou should never dream of that kind of hail if you can help it. To\ndream of seeing white hail lying on the ground intimates that you’ll\nsoon get plenty of cash in some transaction. 21, 72.", "locator": "Heading 330; source line 2442", "lineStart": 2442, "lineEnd": 2449, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a hail-storm, is a sign that you will make a good\nbargain, or will be lucky in some undertaking, provided the hail is\nwhite or in crystals; black hail, denotes sorrow and death, therefore\nyou should never dream of that kind of hail if you can help it. To\ndream of seeing white hail lying on the ground intimates that you’ll\nsoon get plenty of cash in some transaction." }, { "id": "noe-0232", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Hail", "text": "To dream you are in a hailstorm, presages great sorrow in life.\nIf you are in love, it forewarns you against marrying your present\nsweetheart, who will prove of very bad temper and make you miserable.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 234; source lines 996–999", "lineStart": 996, "lineEnd": 999, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are in a hailstorm, presages great sorrow in life.\nIf you are in love, it forewarns you against marrying your present\nsweetheart, who will prove of very bad temper and make you miserable." }, { "id": "cielo-0201", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Hail", "text": "To dream that you are in a hailstorm denotes\n trouble and sadness.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 201; source lines 4335–4339", "lineStart": 4335, "lineEnd": 4339, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are in a hailstorm denotes\ntrouble and sadness." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10204", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Hail", "heading": "Hail", "text": "Sorrow and trouble, with tempest and thunder, afflictions ; repose to the poor, however, for during storms they rest (Artemidorus).", "lineStart": 10204, "lineEnd": 10207, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 221; NLM OCR lines 10204–10207", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10204, "lineEnd": 10207, "printedPage": 221, "printedPageEnd": 221 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Hail. — Sorrow and trouble, with tempest and thunder, af- \nflictions ; repose to the poor, however, for during storms they \nrest (Artemidorus). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "af- \nflictions", "after": "afflictions", "evidenceLine": 8913 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Hail" }, "displayText": "Sorrow and trouble, with tempest and thunder, afflictions; repose to the poor, however, for during storms they rest (Artemidorus)." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "hair", "title": "Hair", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "summary": "Hair may explore a chosen presentation, the work of care or a change that needs time to feel familiar. Texture, movement and permission give context.", "tagline": "An appearance can be familiar and still need room to change.", "aliases": [ "hair", "of long haire", "of haire in ill order" ], "status": "REVIEW", "psychological": "Hair can make a familiar appearance part of an ongoing task: arranging, washing, cutting or keeping it out of the way. In a dream, care may feel satisfying or become more demanding than the activity it is meant to support. The scene may explore how much work a presentation requires and how freely you can adapt it. A useful routine differs from one whose standards keep expanding before you can move on.\n\n Tangles can make pace and method matter. Pulling through a knot may create another difficulty, while working on one section gradually can make the task manageable. This can resemble untangling a complicated conversation or project without requiring the whole arrangement to be resolved at once. Requested assistance may help, especially when it follows the particular part you want addressed rather than replacing your decisions about the finished style.\n\n Cutting or arranging hair can bring authorship into view. A change you chose may feel welcome even when it is unfamiliar; an imposed alteration can make the same appearance uncomfortable. A waking comparison could be revising how you present a role, changing a routine or wanting a say in a decision others consider minor. The amount changed is only part of the experience; permission and the available chance to explain your preference matter too.\n\n Unexpected length, texture or color can interrupt recognition. You may know yourself while finding that the familiar method of care no longer fits. This can picture a new arrangement that needs time and different practices before it becomes usable. A remembered style or association can give the appearance a personal history. The dream need not turn a particular texture or hue into a character, gender or health code.\n\n Hair that moves across your view or grows during a task can make appearance compete with participation. Securing it, asking for time or allowing a less elaborate arrangement may restore room for the activity you wanted. Recent grooming and actual clothing or photographs can supply direct material. This broad topic follows care, chosen change and familiarity; a dream centered on falling hair or a fully bare scalp can add a more specific experience.", "traditional": "The six books assign hair many contradictory fortunes and period judgments about gender, texture, color, grooming and loss. Artemidorus connects long hair to particular professions and gives an anecdote about disordered hair; several authors give illness or death forecasts. These are attributed historical claims, not appearance standards or evidence about health, identity or character.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Care with a usable pace", "reflection": "A grooming task may support participation or become an expanding requirement. A gradual method, limited goal or agreed help can make the care fit the activity it was meant to serve." }, { "title": "Authorship of a change", "reflection": "Choosing an alteration differs from having it imposed. The scene can explore how much say you have in a visible decision, including whether you can revise it or explain what should remain familiar." }, { "title": "Recognition during adjustment", "reflection": "An unfamiliar texture, length or style may require another routine without erasing who you are in the scene. Personal associations and practical use can help distinguish welcome change from unwanted loss of familiarity." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A knot becomes easier when you work on one section", "reflection": "The difficulty can be approached at a pace smaller than the whole task. This may picture resolving a complicated arrangement through particular steps. A method that preserves the rest of the hair can matter more than forcing an immediate appearance of completion." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Someone offers grooming help and asks what you want", "reflection": "Assistance leaves room for your preference and the extent of the change. The encounter may explore support that is both practical and collaborative. Its usefulness comes from the actual agreement rather than assuming care is welcome simply because another person intends to provide it." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Your hair keeps growing while another task waits", "reflection": "The amount of upkeep changes faster than you can complete it. This may picture presentation becoming an expanding preliminary requirement. Securing the hair or accepting a simpler arrangement can give participation a workable place without requiring every new detail to be settled first." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A chosen haircut feels unfamiliar but useful", "reflection": "The appearance has changed while the practical result suits what you need. Time to become familiar with it may matter alongside satisfaction. The scene can explore a deliberate revision without requiring immediate recognition to decide whether the choice was acceptable." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Another person changes the style beyond what you agreed", "reflection": "The task continues past the terms you expected, making the extent of your say important. Stopping, explaining or asking for a limited correction can give the scene different responses. The dreamed alteration does not establish the real person’s motives." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "Hair crosses your view during an important activity", "reflection": "A familiar feature interferes with the task until you find a way to manage its position. The scene may make a small adjustment more useful than a complete change of style. What restores attention and movement helps give the care its particular purpose." } ], "prompts": [ "What did the care or change make easier, and what did it delay?", "How much choice did you have about the method and extent of the alteration?", "Which personal association made the appearance familiar or newly unfamiliar?" ], "related": [ "bald", "beard", "hair-falling-out", "barber", "mirror" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0919" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context only. miller-0919: A long Hair account assigns differing forecasts to grooming, length, texture, color, cutting, loss, touch and floral changes, with gendered, moral, financial and health judgments. Preserve its specific scene conditions; no general hue, gender, character or medical code is inferred. This citation does not validate the original psychological reflections or predict a waking outcome." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0331" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context only. fontaine-0331: Thick hair, altered curl/texture and thinning/loss receive power, shame and illness/death forecasts. Period judgments, not present facts. This citation does not validate the original psychological reflections or predict a waking outcome." }, { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display.", "recordIds": [ "artemidorus-007", "artemidorus-008" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context only. artemidorus-007: Long hair is evaluated according to period gender/professional roles and delayed riches. The illegible gap remains; not a modern appearance or identity rule. artemidorus-008: Disordered hair receives anger/heaviness claims and an anecdote connecting subordinates’ untidy hair with loss of office. The reported anecdote is not causal evidence. This citation does not validate the original psychological reflections or predict a waking outcome." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0233" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context only. noe-0233: Long hair and absent hair receive contradictory gendered moral, deception, famine and health claims according to the dreamer. Retain as period writing without applying those judgments to people. This citation does not validate the original psychological reflections or predict a waking outcome." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0202" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context only. cielo-0202: Combing hair is assigned perplexity and anxiety. This citation does not validate the original psychological reflections or predict a waking outcome." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0110" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context only. luck-0110: Hair, hair over the face, cutting and becoming bald receive riches, displeasure, business loss and danger forecasts. This citation does not validate the original psychological reflections or predict a waking outcome." } ], "updated": "2026-10-13", "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection independently reviewed for content and source scope. Historical accounts remain attributed period writing. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0919", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Hair", "text": "If a woman dreams that she has beautiful hair and combs it,\nshe will be careless in her personal affairs, and will lose\nadvancement by neglecting mental application.\n\nFor a man to dream that he is thinning his hair, foreshadows that he will\nbecome poor by his generosity, and suffer illness through mental worry.\n\nTo see your hair turning gray, foretells death and contagion\nin the family of some relative or some friend.\n\nTo see yourself covered with hair, omens indulgence in vices to such\nan extent as will debar you from the society of refined people.\nIf a woman, she will resolve herself into a world of her own,\nclaiming the right to act for her own pleasure regardless\nof moral codes\n\nIf a man dreams that he has black, curling hair, he will deceive\npeople through his pleasing address. He will very likely deceive\nthe women who trust him. If a woman's hair seems black and curly,\nshe will be threatened with seduction.\n\nIf you dream of seeing a woman with golden hair, you will prove\na fearless lover and be woman's true friend.\n\nTo dream that your sweetheart has red hair, you will be\ndenounced by the woman you love for unfaithfulness.\nRed hair usually suggests changes\n\nIf you see brown hair, you will be unfortunate in choosing a career.\n\nIf you see well kept and neatly combed hair, your fortune will improve.\n\nTo dream you cut your hair close to the scalp, denotes that\nyou will be generous to lavishness towards a friend.\nFrugality will be the fruits growing out therefrom.\n\nTo see the hair growing out soft and luxuriant, signifies\nhappiness and luxury.\n\nFor a woman to compare a white hair with a black one, which she\ntakes from her head, foretells that she will be likely to hesitate\nbetween two offers of seeming fortune, and unless she uses great care,\nwill choose the one that will afford her loss or distress instead\nof pleasant fortune.\n\nTo see tangled and unkempt hair, life will be a veritable burden,\nbusiness will fall off, and the marriage yoke will be troublesome to carry.\n\nIf a woman is unsuccessful in combing her hair, she will lose\na worthy man's name by needless show of temper and disdain.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of women with gray hair, denotes that they\nwill come into her life as rivals in the affection of a male relative,\nor displace the love of her affianced.\n\nTo dream of having your hair cut, denotes serious disappointments.\n\nFor a woman to dream that her hair is falling out, and baldness is apparent,\nshe will have to earn her own livelihood, as fortune has passed her by.\n\nFor man or woman to dream that they have hair of snowy whiteness,\ndenotes that they will enjoy a pleasing and fortunate journey through life.\n\nFor a man to caress the hair of a woman, shows he will enjoy\nthe love and confidence of some worthy woman who will trust\nhim despite the world's condemnation.\n\nTo see flowers in your hair, foretells troubles approaching which,\nwhen they come, will give you less fear than when viewed from a distance.\n\nFor a woman to dream that her hair turns to white flowers,\naugurs that troubles of a various nature will confront her,\nand she does well if she strengthens her soul with patience,\nand endeavors to bear her trials with fortitude.\n\nTo dream that a lock of your hair turns gray and falls out,\nis a sign of trouble and disappointment in your affairs.\nSickness will cast gloom over bright expectations.\n\nTo see one's hair turn perfectly white in one night, and the face\nseemingly young, foretells sudden calamity and deep grief.\nFor a young woman to have this dream, signifies that she\nwill lose her lover by a sudden sickness or accident.\nShe will likely come to grief from some indiscretion on her part.\nShe should be careful of her associates.", "locator": "Heading 920; source lines 10625–10713", "lineStart": 10625, "lineEnd": 10713, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If a woman dreams that she has beautiful hair and combs it,\nshe will be careless in her personal affairs, and will lose\nadvancement by neglecting mental application.\n\nFor a man to dream that he is thinning his hair, foreshadows that he will\nbecome poor by his generosity, and suffer illness through mental worry.\n\nTo see your hair turning gray, foretells death and contagion\nin the family of some relative or some friend.\n\nTo see yourself covered with hair, omens indulgence in vices to such\nan extent as will debar you from the society of refined people.\nIf a woman, she will resolve herself into a world of her own,\nclaiming the right to act for her own pleasure regardless\nof moral codes\n\nIf a man dreams that he has black, curling hair, he will deceive\npeople through his pleasing address. He will very likely deceive\nthe women who trust him. If a woman's hair seems black and curly,\nshe will be threatened with seduction.\n\nIf you dream of seeing a woman with golden hair, you will prove\na fearless lover and be woman's true friend.\n\nTo dream that your sweetheart has red hair, you will be\ndenounced by the woman you love for unfaithfulness.\nRed hair usually suggests changes\n\nIf you see brown hair, you will be unfortunate in choosing a career.\n\nIf you see well kept and neatly combed hair, your fortune will improve.\n\nTo dream you cut your hair close to the scalp, denotes that\nyou will be generous to lavishness towards a friend.\nFrugality will be the fruits growing out therefrom.\n\nTo see the hair growing out soft and luxuriant, signifies\nhappiness and luxury.\n\nFor a woman to compare a white hair with a black one, which she\ntakes from her head, foretells that she will be likely to hesitate\nbetween two offers of seeming fortune, and unless she uses great care,\nwill choose the one that will afford her loss or distress instead\nof pleasant fortune.\n\nTo see tangled and unkempt hair, life will be a veritable burden,\nbusiness will fall off, and the marriage yoke will be troublesome to carry.\n\nIf a woman is unsuccessful in combing her hair, she will lose\na worthy man's name by needless show of temper and disdain.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of women with gray hair, denotes that they\nwill come into her life as rivals in the affection of a male relative,\nor displace the love of her affianced.\n\nTo dream of having your hair cut, denotes serious disappointments.\n\nFor a woman to dream that her hair is falling out, and baldness is apparent,\nshe will have to earn her own livelihood, as fortune has passed her by.\n\nFor man or woman to dream that they have hair of snowy whiteness,\ndenotes that they will enjoy a pleasing and fortunate journey through life.\n\nFor a man to caress the hair of a woman, shows he will enjoy\nthe love and confidence of some worthy woman who will trust\nhim despite the world's condemnation.\n\nTo see flowers in your hair, foretells troubles approaching which,\nwhen they come, will give you less fear than when viewed from a distance.\n\nFor a woman to dream that her hair turns to white flowers,\naugurs that troubles of a various nature will confront her,\nand she does well if she strengthens her soul with patience,\nand endeavors to bear her trials with fortitude.\n\nTo dream that a lock of your hair turns gray and falls out,\nis a sign of trouble and disappointment in your affairs.\nSickness will cast gloom over bright expectations.\n\nTo see one's hair turn perfectly white in one night, and the face\nseemingly young, foretells sudden calamity and deep grief.\nFor a young woman to have this dream, signifies that she\nwill lose her lover by a sudden sickness or accident.\nShe will likely come to grief from some indiscretion on her part.\nShe should be careful of her associates.", "editorialNote": "Historical records cover hair generally; narrower core hair-loss page should remain distinct." }, { "id": "fontaine-0331", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Hair", "text": "If you dream that your hair is thick and bushy, it shows that\nyou’ll grow rich or powerful; if you dream it is curly and kinky, when\nin fact it is not, it is a sign you’ll do something that you will\nafterward be ashamed of; if, in your dream, you imagine that your hair\nhas fallen off, or that it has become extremely thin, it is a bad omen,\nas it shadows forth sickness, and perhaps death. 42.", "locator": "Heading 331; source line 2449", "lineStart": 2449, "lineEnd": 2456, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream that your hair is thick and bushy, it shows that\nyou’ll grow rich or powerful; if you dream it is curly and kinky, when\nin fact it is not, it is a sign you’ll do something that you will\nafterward be ashamed of; if, in your dream, you imagine that your hair\nhas fallen off, or that it has become extremely thin, it is a bad omen,\nas it shadows forth sickness, and perhaps death.", "editorialNote": "Historical records cover hair generally; narrower core hair-loss page should remain distinct." }, { "id": "artemidorus-007", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of Long Haire.", "text": "IF you dream ye have fair long hayr▪ and séem to take a pride therein, signifieth good, especially to a woman: as also to a Wise man▪ a Bishop, a Soothsayer, a King, and a Prince: for to such as use to let their hayr g[illegible passage]ow this dream is good, because their profession permits them to kéep theyr tresses. It is also good to others, but not so good, and it signifyeth to them only riches; and those painfull not pleasant: for one must stay time, and in that time it may be suffer pain, before long hayr will come.", "locator": "Book 1, encoded section 7", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription-with-gaps", "book": "1", "displayText": "If you dream ye have fair long hayr▪ and séem to take a pride therein, signifieth good, especially to a woman: as also to a Wise man▪ a Bishop, a Soothsayer, a King, and a Prince: for to such as use to let their hayr g [illegible passage] ow this dream is good, because their profession permits them to kéep theyr tresses. It is also good to others, but not so good, and it signifyeth to them only riches; and those painfull not pleasant: for one must stay time, and in that time it may be suffer pain, before long hayr will come.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Long Haire” is shown on the Hair page: artemidorus hair sections are about hair generally" }, { "id": "artemidorus-008", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of Haire in ill Order.", "text": "LOng hayr but out of order, and as it were rather hard and rough hayre of ones Beard; them tresses betokeneth to all persons anger and heavines. And I once saw a worthy gentleman placed in authority, and happy also in al his other affairs, who in a dream, séemed to sée those which were under him go before him, and also that they had hayr all cut rude, and out of order: whereupon I told him, that it signified heavinesse unto him. And presently after▪ he was discharged of his Office and Authority, which (you may well think) was grievous unto him.", "locator": "Book 1, encoded section 8", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "1", "displayText": "LOng hayr but out of order, and as it were rather hard and rough hayre of ones Beard; them tresses betokeneth to all persons anger and heavines. And I once saw a worthy gentleman placed in authority, and happy also in al his other affairs, who in a dream, séemed to sée those which were under him go before him, and also that they had hayr all cut rude, and out of order: whereupon I told him, that it signified heavinesse unto him. And presently after▪ he was discharged of his Office and Authority, which (you may well think) was grievous unto him.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Haire in ill Order” is shown on the Hair page: artemidorus hair sections are about hair generally" }, { "id": "noe-0233", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Hair", "text": "For a man to dream his hair is long, like a woman’s, signifies\ncowardice and effeminacy, and that the person dreaming will be deceived by\na woman. To dream one sees a woman without hair, signifies famine, poverty\nand sickness. To see a man bald and without hair, signifies the contrary.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 235; source lines 999–1003", "lineStart": 999, "lineEnd": 1003, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a man to dream his hair is long, like a woman’s, signifies\ncowardice and effeminacy, and that the person dreaming will be deceived by\na woman. To dream one sees a woman without hair, signifies famine, poverty\nand sickness. To see a man bald and without hair, signifies the contrary." }, { "id": "cielo-0202", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Hair", "text": "To comb your hair is a sign of perplexity and anxiety.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 202; source lines 4339–4341", "lineStart": 4339, "lineEnd": 4341, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To comb your hair is a sign of perplexity and anxiety." }, { "id": "luck-0110", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Hair", "text": "Riches and fine clothes; (hair falling over face) a coming\nevent will cause displeasure; (having hair cut) losses in business;\n(becoming bald) great danger.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 110; source lines 3787–3791", "lineStart": 3787, "lineEnd": 3791, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Riches and fine clothes; (hair falling over face) a coming\nevent will cause displeasure; (having hair cut) losses in business;\n(becoming bald) great danger." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "hair-falling-out", "title": "Hair falling out", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "A change in appearance arrives before you have chosen its terms.", "summary": "Hair falling out can explore unwanted change, the effort of maintaining an appearance or how others respond. The dream cannot assess your health.", "aliases": [ "hair falling out", "bald", "balding" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "Hair falling out in a dream can make a change visible before you have chosen how to present it. Hair is something you may style, cover, ignore or recognize as part of a familiar appearance. Its unexpected loss can therefore picture a change whose timing feels outside your control. That comparison depends on your relationship to the hair and the scene; a dreamed appearance does not assess health or establish how other people judge you.\n\nThe loss may appear through an ordinary action. A brush holds more hair than expected, a mirror shows a changed outline or a familiar hairstyle no longer works. This can resemble discovering that a usual way of preparing for the day no longer fits current conditions. The difficulty may concern effort and routine rather than a broad fear of aging or losing attractiveness.\n\nAnother person’s response can give the change different stakes. Someone offers a covering without asking, continues the conversation normally or insists that you should feel upset. The scene may bring attention to who gets to define what matters about your appearance. Wanting acknowledgment differs from wanting reassurance that nothing changed. You can value your own response even when it differs from the dream audience’s.\n\nChoosing a new style after the loss can make agency available within an unchosen event. The emphasis may shift from restoring every earlier detail to deciding what is comfortable now. Relief can be part of the scene too: an elaborate routine may no longer be required. Neither distress nor relief measures confidence or gives a verdict about a body.\n\nIf hair returns immediately or changes again, the dream may keep revising the conditions before you can settle into them. That can picture the work of adjusting to uncertainty rather than one permanent loss. Actual grooming, conversations, photographs or remembered changes can supply direct context. The useful reading follows what the change interrupted, what choice remained and whose response mattered, without treating hair as a fixed measure of vitality or worth.", "traditional": "No supplied historical passage specifically covers this entry’s scenes of hair falling out. General Hair accounts remain with that topic and are not silently treated as evidence for every type of loss. These are original reflections on appearance, routine and choice; the dream is not a medical assessment.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "The brush holds hair while your usual style still looks unchanged", "reflection": "The evidence of change and the visible result do not yet match. This may picture noticing a transition before others can see it. Your concern can center on uncertainty rather than on a finished appearance." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A familiar hairstyle no longer stays in place", "reflection": "An established routine stops producing its expected result. This may resemble maintaining a role or presentation under changed conditions. A different method can become relevant without judging the earlier routine as mistaken." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Someone offers a hat before asking what you want", "reflection": "Help arrives with an assumption about what needs covering. This can picture wanting your own preference included in a response to change. Accepting, declining or adapting the offer gives the encounter different possibilities." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You see the change and feel relief about a demanding routine", "reflection": "The loss removes a task as well as altering appearance. This may fit wanting less maintenance or a different presentation. Relief in the imagined scene does not require dismissing losses that matter to you outside it." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Other people continue talking while you examine the mirror", "reflection": "Your attention and the group’s attention diverge. This may bring a wish for acknowledgment into view, or make space to decide privately what matters. Their dreamed behavior does not establish how real people value you." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The hair returns before you can decide on a new style", "reflection": "The conditions change again while you are still responding. This can picture adjustment without a stable reference point. The sequence may concern the pace of change rather than a demand to recover one exact earlier appearance." } ], "prompts": [ "What ordinary action first made the loss noticeable?", "Which part of your response was yours, and which came from other people’s expectations?", "What choice remained about comfort, routine or presentation?" ], "related": [ "teeth-falling-out", "mirror", "being-naked-in-public", "hair" ], "sources": [ { "id": "nichd-sleep-dreaming", "title": "What happens during sleep? — Dreaming section", "author": "Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development", "url": "https://www.nichd.nih.gov/health/topics/sleep/conditioninfo/Pages/what-happens.aspx", "scope": "Official general sleep education, Dreaming section: the purpose of dreaming remains uncertain. It does not test these original symbolic comparisons or establish another person’s intentions, a diagnosis or a prediction." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15 under the site owner’s delegation. Historical claims, where supplied, remain attributed period writing. No human or clinical review is claimed.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A change before a choice", "reflection": "An unexpected alteration can make timing and control more important than appearance alone." }, { "title": "The routine that no longer fits", "reflection": "Brushing or styling may reveal a familiar method whose conditions have changed." }, { "title": "Whose response counts", "reflection": "Others can acknowledge, overlook or define the change differently from you." } ], "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "Codex (AI-assisted editorial review)", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "a-stranger", "a-train-going-in-the-wrong-direction", "being-trapped", "being-unable-to-move", "children", "church", "current-romantic-partner", "death-of-a-friend", "elevator", "father", "forest", "hair-falling-out", "insects", "key", "locked-out", "mother", "nakedness", "phone-not-working", "rainbow", "running-but-going-nowhere", "school", "smoke", "snake-bite", "superpowers", "the-self", "the-shadow", "web" ] }, "decisionReason": "The developed reading follows unchosen timing, a routine that no longer fits, other people’s assumptions and different responses to change. It does not equate baldness with worth, vitality or required insecurity and does not assess health. General Hair lore is not silently treated as evidence for every loss scene.", "contentSha256": "35e0f4ce14660c27356708f285202ec63a2117e0b5c1ee97e61600ac9f220e3f" }, "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "hair-dresser", "title": "Hair-dresser", "type": "dreams", "category": "Other symbols", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Should you visit a hair-dresser in your dreams, you will be connected with a sensation caused by the indiscretion of a good looking woman.”", "aliases": [ "hair-dresser" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about hair-dresser stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0920", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Hair-dresser", "text": "Should you visit a hair-dresser in your dreams, you will be connected\nwith a sensation caused by the indiscretion of a good looking woman.\nTo a woman, this dream means a family disturbance and well merited censures.\n\nFor a woman to dream of having her hair colored, she will narrowly escape\nthe scorn of society, as enemies will seek to blight her reputation.\nTo have her hair dressed, denotes that she will run after frivolous things,\nand use any means to bend people to her wishes,", "locator": "Heading 921; source lines 10713–10724", "lineStart": 10713, "lineEnd": 10724, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Should you visit a hair-dresser in your dreams, you will be connected\nwith a sensation caused by the indiscretion of a good looking woman.\nTo a woman, this dream means a family disturbance and well merited censures.\n\nFor a woman to dream of having her hair colored, she will narrowly escape\nthe scorn of society, as enemies will seek to blight her reputation.\nTo have her hair dressed, denotes that she will run after frivolous things,\nand use any means to bend people to her wishes," } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "hairy-hands", "title": "Hairy Hands", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that your hands are covered with hair like that of a beast, signifies you will intrigue against innocent people, and will find that…”", "aliases": [ "hairy hands" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about hairy hands stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0921", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Hairy Hands", "text": "To dream that your hands are covered with hair like that of a beast,\nsignifies you will intrigue against innocent people, and will find\nthat you have alert enemies who are working to forestall your designs.", "locator": "Heading 922; source lines 10724–10730", "lineStart": 10724, "lineEnd": 10730, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that your hands are covered with hair like that of a beast,\nsignifies you will intrigue against innocent people, and will find\nthat you have alert enemies who are working to forestall your designs." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "halloween", "title": "Halloween", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "Costumes, candy and permitted fright.", "summary": "Halloween dreams mix disguise, play and sanctioned fear. Record your costume, who recognised you, and whether the scares stayed within the game.", "aliases": [ "halloween", "hallowe'en", "halloween dream", "trick or treat", "trick-or-treating", "halloween costume", "halloween party", "jack-o-lantern", "haunted house" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "Halloween is the one night when wearing a false face is expected, so a dream set on it can picture a wish to try on another identity without being held to it. Childhood memories of trick-or-treating, of walking in the dark with permission, often return in these dreams with strong sensory detail: the cold, the plastic of a mask, the weight of a bag of sweets. Start with the costume. Record what you wore, whether you chose it, and whether anyone saw through it. A costume that cannot be removed moves the dream away from play and toward being stuck in a role. Then note the scares. Halloween frights are a game until they are not, and the moment a decoration turns real or a stranger at the door does not laugh can mark where the dream's concern begins. If you were handing out sweets rather than collecting them, consider the shift from child to adult and who was on your doorstep. Parties, pumpkins, and haunted-house attractions each deserve a line. Finally, write down the date you dreamed this. Halloween dreams in October can draw on shop displays and plans, while the same dream in April may be using the festival for its own purposes.", "traditional": "No historical dream book in DreamFolia's archive has an entry for Halloween. The collection does include period readings of related subjects, such as the mask and the masquerade in Miller 1901 and in Craig's 1918 gypsy lore, witches and ghosts in several of the books, and the pumpkin in Craig, but each is a separate page with its own beliefs and is not combined here into a reading of the festival. No older meaning is borrowed for Halloween as a whole.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "A costume you cannot take off", "reflection": "Record what the costume was and when you first realised it was stuck. Note who you tried to tell, and whether they could see that it was you underneath." }, { "title": "Trick-or-treating as an adult", "reflection": "Write down which doors you knocked on and who answered. Note whether you felt welcome or out of place, and what you asked for when the door opened." }, { "title": "A decoration that becomes real", "reflection": "Note which prop crossed the line and what gave it away. Ask whether the people around you noticed, and whether the fear felt like the familiar thrill or something else." } ], "prompts": [ "What did you dress as, and who chose it?", "At what point did the fright stop being fun?", "Which part of yourself would you only show behind a mask?" ], "related": [ "mask", "masquerade", "witch", "ghost", "pumpkin", "party" ], "sources": [], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia editorial draft written on 2026-10-12. Reflection text is an invitation to personal writing, not a validated symbol meaning. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "hallway", "title": "Hallway", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "aliases": [ "corridor", "hallways", "corridors" ], "summary": "A hallway can picture the interval between established places or roles. Available doors, direction, and other people determine whether the passage feels useful.", "tagline": "You are moving between rooms rather than settled inside one.", "psychological": "A hallway is a place of passage rather than a destination. It connects rooms while giving you a temporary position between them. This can picture an interval in daily life: a project is ending, a new responsibility has not fully begun, or you are waiting to enter a conversation. The unsettled feeling may come from being between arrangements, even when neither room is frightening.\n\nDoors create possibilities, but their usefulness depends on access and information. A clearly marked door can make the next step manageable. Identical unmarked entrances can resemble several options whose differences are difficult to understand. Waiting for someone to invite you in may fit a process where another person controls timing, such as joining a team or receiving an answer about a plan.\n\nThe length of the passage can turn transition into delay. Walking without reaching the expected room may picture preparation that keeps extending. Repeated forms, postponed meetings, or changing requirements can make progress feel real yet inconclusive. Finding a place to sit or receiving directions changes how the wait is experienced; the dream need not demand immediate movement.\n\nOther people can make the hallway social. Passing someone without speaking may resemble an encounter you have not found time to address. A crowd can limit movement while also offering information or company. The passage may be where different parts of life meet briefly, rather than where a single relationship is settled.\n\nLight and familiarity shape orientation. A known corridor can carry memories of school, work, or home; an unfamiliar one may require you to notice signs and ask for help. A recent building visit can also explain the setting. Consider what you were leaving, what you wanted to enter, and whether the passage offered a workable connection between them.", "traditional": "School, work, and home corridors can carry recognizable places and encounters into a dream. The original reading focuses on passage, access, and the interval before arrival. No matching historical hallway passage is presented as its interpretive basis.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "An interval between roles", "reflection": "A connecting passage can picture a stage that has begun without yet feeling settled. The experience may concern how you occupy the wait between an ending and an available next step." }, { "title": "Possibilities require information and access", "reflection": "Doors are useful options only when you can tell them apart and enter them. Signs, permission, and guidance may connect with what makes a pending choice practically available." }, { "title": "Transition becomes an extended wait", "reflection": "A long passage can make repeated preparation visible. Movement without arrival may fit a process whose requirements keep changing, while a rest or clear direction can make the delay more manageable." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You walk toward a clearly marked room", "reflection": "A transition may feel manageable because the next step is identifiable. Joining a new team or preparing for an agreed conversation can offer a parallel. The hallway still involves movement, but you do not have to invent the destination as you go." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Every door looks identical", "reflection": "A choice may be difficult because the options lack useful information. Similar job descriptions, plans, or invitations can feel alike. The scene concerns distinguishing alternatives, so finding a sign or asking someone may matter more than choosing quickly." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "The corridor keeps becoming longer", "reflection": "Preparation may repeatedly postpone the point of arrival. Extra requirements in a shared project or meetings moved further ahead can offer parallels. You are making effort, yet the endpoint shifts; noticing that pattern differs from assuming you have made no progress." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You wait outside while others enter", "reflection": "Access or timing may feel controlled elsewhere. Waiting to join a discussion or receive a response can feel similar. Whether someone explains the wait, includes you, or overlooks your presence changes the reading toward patience, uncertainty, or exclusion." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You meet someone you have been meaning to speak with", "reflection": "A passing encounter can picture an opening that ordinary routines rarely provide. A brief work conversation or contact with an old friend may fit. The hallway makes connection possible without giving it the settled privacy of a room." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You discover a chair and rest before continuing", "reflection": "A transition can include a pause without becoming abandonment. Taking time between projects or before a difficult conversation offers a parallel. The chair gives the interval a usable place, and continuing afterward makes the rest part of the journey." } ], "prompts": [ "What was I leaving, and which room did I want to reach?", "Did I lack directions, access, or simply time?", "What made the passage easier to occupy?" ], "related": [ "door", "stairs", "being-lost", "being-late" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia interpretation with image-specific possibilities and six differentiated scenes. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "halter", "title": "Halter", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you put a halter on a young horse, shows that you will manage a very prosperous and clean business.”", "aliases": [ "halter" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about halter stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0922", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Halter", "text": "To dream that you put a halter on a young horse, shows that\nyou will manage a very prosperous and clean business.\nLove matters will shape themselves to suit you.\n\nTo see other things haltered, denotes that fortune will be withheld\nfrom you for a while. You will win it, but with much toil.", "locator": "Heading 923; source lines 10730–10739", "lineStart": 10730, "lineEnd": 10739, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you put a halter on a young horse, shows that\nyou will manage a very prosperous and clean business.\nLove matters will shape themselves to suit you.\n\nTo see other things haltered, denotes that fortune will be withheld\nfrom you for a while. You will win it, but with much toil." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "ham", "title": "Ham", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing hams, signifies you are in danger of being treacherously used.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "ham" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about ham stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0923", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Ham", "text": "To dream of seeing hams, signifies you are in danger\nof being treacherously used. To cut large slices of ham,\ndenotes that all opposition will be successfully met by you.\nTo dress a ham, signifies you will be leniently treated by others.\n\nTo dream of dealing in hams, prosperity will come to you.\nAlso good health is foreboded.\n\nTo eat ham, you will lose something of great value. To smell ham cooking,\nyou will be benefited by the enterprises of others.", "locator": "Heading 924; source lines 10739–10752", "lineStart": 10739, "lineEnd": 10752, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing hams, signifies you are in danger\nof being treacherously used. To cut large slices of ham,\ndenotes that all opposition will be successfully met by you.\nTo dress a ham, signifies you will be leniently treated by others.\n\nTo dream of dealing in hams, prosperity will come to you.\nAlso good health is foreboded.\n\nTo eat ham, you will lose something of great value. To smell ham cooking,\nyou will be benefited by the enterprises of others." }, { "id": "fontaine-0332", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Ham", "text": "Dreaming of fine-looking hams is a good omen; but if they are\nwormy or in any way blemished, it spoils all the luck, and shows that\nyou will be unfortunate. To dream of eating fine-tasting hams is a sign\nthat you will do something noted that will create a talk, but all in\nyour favor; if the ham that you eat is bad and wormy, the said talk\nwill be a scandal against you. 30, 1.", "locator": "Heading 332; source line 2456", "lineStart": 2456, "lineEnd": 2463, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Dreaming of fine-looking hams is a good omen; but if they are\nwormy or in any way blemished, it spoils all the luck, and shows that\nyou will be unfortunate. To dream of eating fine-tasting hams is a sign\nthat you will do something noted that will create a talk, but all in\nyour favor; if the ham that you eat is bad and wormy, the said talk\nwill be a scandal against you." }, { "id": "cielo-0203", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Ham", "text": "To eat ham is a sign of happiness.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 203; source lines 4341–4343", "lineStart": 4341, "lineEnd": 4343, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To eat ham is a sign of happiness." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "hammer", "title": "Hammer", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "aliases": [ "hammer" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "summary": "A hammer can explore how a task is supported, when an action is ready to begin, or a familiar tool finding a different use.", "tagline": "Having the tool can be different from having workable conditions for the task.", "psychological": "A hammer in a dream can make a practical action tangible. You may prepare to build, repair or tap something into place, yet find that the tool alone does not supply every condition the task needs. Timing, coordination and the purpose of the action can matter. The object need not carry a fixed meaning about aggression, gender or the amount of force you should use.\n\nAn available hammer with nothing holding the work steady can separate resources from readiness. The tool is present while the task remains difficult to begin. This may resemble having one useful ability or item without a clear arrangement for using it. A conversation where you need better information before acting can offer a comparison, if it fits the scene.\n\nA loose handle or head can make a familiar method unreliable within the dream. You may inspect it, choose another approach or ask someone to hold the task while you decide. The change need not reveal weakness or predict an accident. A tool passing between workers instead brings the order of participation into view: each person can contribute without everyone acting at once.\n\nWaiting to align a piece before a gentle tap can make attention to position more useful than immediate movement. This may picture a response becoming easier once its timing or target is understood. It does not prescribe a real repair method or turn patience into the answer to every difficulty. An ordinary remembered task can remain direct context without a larger symbolic explanation.\n\nA hammer producing a musical note can give the same object an unexpected purpose. Hearing hammering without seeing the work leaves the activity partly unknown, while a finished object beside an unused hammer can make action unnecessary. These scenes can explore play, incomplete information or deciding what still needs doing. The task, result and available choice guide whether a waking comparison is useful. They do not establish that persistence guarantees success, that a sound identifies an actual disturbance, or that every obstacle can be overcome by increasing effort.", "traditional": "Miller assigns obstacles to seeing a hammer, Fontaine favors seeing, hearing or using it, and the Book of Luck predicts triumph over difficulties. Craig attributes oppression to Artemidorus and adds a quotation from Jeremiah about a hammer breaking rock. Craig’s wording is a secondary attribution, not a separately supplied Artemidorus Hammer record. These are period claims, not evidence that force or persistence guarantees an outcome.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A resource with supporting conditions", "reflection": "A useful tool can still need information, stability or a clear purpose." }, { "title": "Timing and shared participation", "reflection": "An action can become workable through alignment or the order in which people contribute." }, { "title": "A familiar object with another use", "reflection": "Play, an unseen activity or a finished task can change what the hammer invites you to do." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "The hammer is ready but nothing holds the work steady", "reflection": "One useful resource is present while the supporting arrangement is missing. This may picture a task needing information or cooperation before action becomes practical. The pause does not establish inability; the condition preventing a start can matter more than how much force is available." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "The hammer’s handle feels loose when you prepare to use it", "reflection": "A familiar method no longer feels dependable within the task. This can picture wanting to understand changed conditions before proceeding. The dreamed tool does not predict an accident or assess your competence; inspection, another approach or company can each alter the imagined arrangement." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Several workers pass one hammer along as their turns become available", "reflection": "Participation depends on order rather than everyone acting at once. This may picture a shared resource becoming useful through coordination. Waiting need not mean exclusion or lack of ability, and receiving the tool does not make you responsible for every part of the wider task." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You wait for a piece to align before giving it a gentle tap", "reflection": "The action becomes useful through position and timing rather than greater force. This can picture a response needing clearer terms before it lands as intended. The scene does not provide actual repair instructions or require patience to be the answer to every waking difficulty." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The hammer produces a musical note instead of a construction result", "reflection": "The object finds a playful use different from the task you expected. This may picture room for experimentation or enjoyment within something usually practical. The change need not mean that serious work is being avoided; the sound and your response give the activity its particular purpose." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "A completed object sits beside the hammer before you touch it", "reflection": "The expected action is available while its purpose may already be fulfilled. This can picture deciding what still needs doing rather than acting simply because a tool is present. The scene need not diminish your contribution; checking the result can change the next step." } ], "prompts": [ "What was the hammer meant to accomplish, and which supporting condition mattered?", "How did timing or another person’s role change the action?", "What made using, adapting or leaving the tool alone feel appropriate?" ], "related": [ "construction", "carpenter", "work", "drawing" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0924" ], "scope": "miller-0924: Seeing a hammer receives an obstacles-to-fortune forecast. Exact supplied passages: miller-0924 — Hammer (Heading 925; source lines 10752–10757). Attributed historical comparison only; no forecast validates the original reflection or establishes actual health, relationships, beliefs or circumstances." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0333" ], "scope": "fontaine-0333: Seeing or hearing hammering receives a friend-thrift forecast; using a hammer receives favorable fortune. Exact supplied passages: fontaine-0333 — Hammer (Heading 333; source line 2463). Attributed historical comparison only; no forecast validates the original reflection or establishes actual health, relationships, beliefs or circumstances." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0111" ], "scope": "luck-0111: The short Hammer account assigns triumph over difficulties. Exact supplied passages: luck-0111 — Hammer (Dream section, heading 111; source lines 3791–3793). Attributed historical comparison only; no forecast validates the original reflection or establishes actual health, relationships, beliefs or circumstances." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L10217" ], "scope": "craig-1918:L10217: Craig attributes oppression to Artemidorus and quotes Jeremiah’s hammer/rock comparison. This is Craig’s secondary attribution and biblical quotation, not a separately supplied Artemidorus Hammer passage. Exact supplied passages: craig-1918:L10217 — Hammer (Printed p. 221; NLM OCR lines 10217–10221). Attributed historical comparison only; no forecast validates the original reflection or establishes actual health, relationships, beliefs or circumstances." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0924", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Hammer", "text": "To dream of seeing a hammer, denotes you will have some discouraging\nobstacles to overcome in order to establish firmly your fortune.", "locator": "Heading 925; source lines 10752–10757", "lineStart": 10752, "lineEnd": 10757, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing a hammer, denotes you will have some discouraging\nobstacles to overcome in order to establish firmly your fortune." }, { "id": "fontaine-0333", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Hammer", "text": "To dream that you see or hear hammering, denotes thrift to some\none of your friends; if you are using the hammer yourself, it shows\nthat you will be fortunate. A hammer is a good article to dream about.\n3.", "locator": "Heading 333; source line 2463", "lineStart": 2463, "lineEnd": 2468, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you see or hear hammering, denotes thrift to some\none of your friends; if you are using the hammer yourself, it shows\nthat you will be fortunate. A hammer is a good article to dream about." }, { "id": "luck-0111", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Hammer", "text": "Triumph over difficulties.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 111; source lines 3791–3793", "lineStart": 3791, "lineEnd": 3793, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Triumph over difficulties." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10217", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Hammer", "heading": "Hammer", "text": "A dream of oppression (Artemidorus). \"Like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces,\" Jeremiah xxiii.", "lineStart": 10217, "lineEnd": 10221, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 221; NLM OCR lines 10217–10221", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10217, "lineEnd": 10221, "printedPage": 221, "printedPageEnd": 221 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Hammer. — A dream of oppression (Artemidorus). \n\n\"Like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces,\" Jeremiah \nxxiii. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Hammer" }, "displayText": "A dream of oppression (Artemidorus). \"Like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces,\" Jeremiah xxiii." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "hammock", "title": "Hammock", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Cielo wrote: “To lie in a hammock indicates a speedy marriage.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "hammock" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about hammock stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "cielo-0204", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Hammock", "text": "To lie in a hammock indicates a speedy marriage.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 204; source lines 4343–4345", "lineStart": 4343, "lineEnd": 4345, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To lie in a hammock indicates a speedy marriage." }, { "id": "luck-0112", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Hammock", "text": "Loss of something that is prized.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 112; source lines 3793–3795", "lineStart": 3793, "lineEnd": 3795, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Loss of something that is prized." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "hamster", "title": "Hamster", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "summary": "Hamster dreams can explore repetitive effort, small ongoing responsibilities, or the difference between protection and room to move.", "tagline": "A small dependent life inside a carefully arranged space.", "aliases": [ "hamster", "hamsters" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A hamster turning a wheel can picture effort that is active but does not seem to change your position. Completing the same administrative work, answering recurring requests, or repeatedly preparing for a decision that never comes may offer a parallel. The motion can feel frustrating, but it can also feel enjoyable or soothing. If the hamster chooses the wheel and leaves freely, repetition may be a wanted rhythm. If it cannot stop, the scene may concern an arrangement whose activity has replaced a sense of progress.\n\nThe enclosure brings protection and restriction together. A well-kept space can represent having conditions that make everyday life manageable: reliable routines, enough resources, and a place to rest. An enclosure that becomes too small may fit outgrowing a role that once felt comfortable. The problem need not be the existence of boundaries; it can be that the boundaries no longer fit what happens inside them. Expanding the space differs from simply opening it and hoping the animal manages somewhere unsuitable.\n\nBecause the animal is small and depends on care, its needs can become easy to overlook beside larger demands. Discovering an empty bowl may resemble noticing that an ordinary responsibility has been postponed while urgent work takes precedence. A forgotten project, a valued habit, or care for another person may be a personal comparison. The scene can make maintenance visible without declaring that you have actually neglected someone. If care is shared, the question may be how responsibility is distributed rather than whether you can carry everything yourself.\n\nAn escaped hamster changes the balance between supervision and uncertainty. Searching through a room may picture trying to restore contact with something vulnerable after a familiar arrangement stops working. Finding it contentedly hidden can bring relief and reveal that your imagined outcome was more alarming than the scene itself. Holding it gently may instead center on the pleasure of trust at a small scale. Memories of a pet, childhood routines, or watching an animal run may be sufficient context. A hamster image does not need a larger symbolic explanation to matter emotionally.", "traditional": "No matching historical Hamster passage is supplied. Mice, Rats, and generic animal-care passages name other subjects; they do not establish hamster lore. The reflections here concern the remembered wheel, enclosure, contact, and care.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Activity and progress", "reflection": "A wheel can make the difference between useful repetition and effort that never changes position visible. Whether the hamster can stop or leave matters more than movement alone." }, { "title": "A space that still fits", "reflection": "An enclosure may provide dependable conditions or feel outgrown. Changing its size and layout can picture adjusting support rather than abandoning protection." }, { "title": "Small needs that continue", "reflection": "Food, rest, and attention remain necessary when the animal stops being new. The scene can bring ordinary maintenance into view beside more urgent demands." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "The wheel spins while everything else stays still", "reflection": "Constant activity without a changed destination can resemble repetitive work. If the animal enjoys it, routine may be reassuring; if it struggles to stop, the effort may feel compulsory and difficult to evaluate." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A hamster escapes into a crowded room", "reflection": "A familiar arrangement no longer contains the animal, making attention and uncertainty urgent. The search can picture trying to restore contact after a routine changes. Help from others changes how much responsibility you carry alone." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Its enclosure becomes too small", "reflection": "The same space that once seemed comfortable now limits movement. This may fit a role, schedule, or living arrangement that has not changed with your needs. Making more room differs from treating growth as misbehavior." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You discover a bowl that needs filling", "reflection": "A small continuing need becomes visible after other activity has occupied your attention. The image may fit a neglected routine or postponed task. Being able to provide care can bring reassurance without establishing actual waking neglect." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Several young hamsters appear unexpectedly", "reflection": "One responsibility has become many, changing what the existing setup can support. This can resemble discovering that a task has several parts or dependents. Delight and concern may coexist when more life also requires more attention." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The animal rests calmly in your hand", "reflection": "Trust makes the contact feel gentle rather than demanding. The scene may recall affection for a real pet or picture a responsibility you can hold without strain. Another person’s impatience can introduce pressure into that quiet encounter." } ], "prompts": [ "Did the wheel feel enjoyable, compulsory, or frustrating to watch?", "What did the enclosure make possible, and what did it prevent?", "Was care shared, manageable, or hidden beneath other demands?" ], "related": [ "pet", "mice", "rat", "forgetting-to-feed-a-pet" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "hand", "title": "Hand", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "aliases": [ "hand", "of the hands", "hands" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "summary": "Hand dreams may explore what you can do, the contact you choose and how assistance, skill or appearance changes the scene.", "tagline": "Doing, reaching and making contact.", "psychological": "A hand can matter in a dream because of what it does: reaching, making, holding, offering, withdrawing or failing to grip. Begin with the action and whose hand it is. Your own working hand, someone else's offered palm and an unfamiliar hand seen at a distance invite different questions. A hand does not carry a fixed moral meaning, and right or left need not identify particular relatives or kinds of fortune.\n\nSkill can become visible through a small movement. You might thread a needle easily, struggle to turn a key or discover that both hands are occupied. This could resemble the practical fit between a task and the resources available for it. In waking life, a project might need a different tool, more time or another person's help. The dream's difficulty does not measure your real ability; describe what you tried and whether the task still mattered to you.\n\nContact introduces choice and permission. Holding a hand can feel steadying, restrictive, tentative or familiar, depending on how the exchange unfolds. Notice who initiates it, whether you can let go and what happens next. An offered hand might be accepted, refused or left unanswered. Those actions can support reflection on closeness or assistance without proving what the other person feels in waking life.\n\nUnusual appearance can redirect attention away from the task. If your hands change size or seem unfamiliar, you might wonder whether you still recognize yourself in a role you are performing. A waking comparison could be returning to a skill after a long break or being watched while doing something normally private. This remains a possible question, not a diagnosis or a claim that dreamed appearance reveals character. Disturbing injury imagery can be recorded through the choices and feelings it brings into the dream without forecasting harm.\n\nFinally, hands may belong to a straightforward memory: someone teaching you a movement, a craft you practiced or the way you carried shopping home. Waking experiences and emotions can enter dreams. Note the specific gesture, object and response before reaching for an abstract meaning. The most useful reflection may concern doing something differently, allowing help or enjoying a familiar action rather than uncovering a hidden problem.", "traditional": "Miller and Noe give status, loss and gendered forecasts for hands; Noe also assigns right/left fortunes. Fontaine assigns different calls for assistance to right and left injuries. Artemidorus connects hands and fingers with relatives, goods, trades, debt and social position, with visible gaps in the supplied transcription. These attributed period claims do not establish character, health, relatives’ roles or future events; they do not validate the reflections here.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Action and available resources", "reflection": "Look at what the hand is trying to do and what would make that possible. The dream may offer a concrete comparison about tools, practice or help without assessing your actual skill." }, { "title": "Chosen contact", "reflection": "An offer, grip or release can change the relationship within the scene. Explore whether contact was welcome and freely changeable; the dream cannot tell you another person’s waking intentions." }, { "title": "Recognizing your own role", "reflection": "A familiar or strange-looking hand may alter how you experience an action. Consider what drew your attention to its appearance without reading bodily form as a moral code or medical sign." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "Both hands are full when a door opens", "reflection": "You carry several objects and cannot reach the handle just as someone makes space for you. This might bring a practical limit into focus: putting something down, changing the load or accepting help. Notice which option you choose rather than treating occupied hands as a verdict about responsibility." }, { "title": "A careful movement becomes easy", "reflection": "You complete a small task that requires precision, such as fastening a clasp or shaping clay. The scene could express pleasure in an action, remembered practice or discovering an approach that fits. Describe the movement and conditions; dreamed ease does not predict performance or prove mastery." }, { "title": "Someone offers a hand across a gap", "reflection": "An outstretched hand invites you to cross, but you decide how to respond. This might let you explore assistance, trust or a preferred way of moving forward. Record whether you accept, ask for another option or stay where you are; none proves the person’s real reliability." }, { "title": "You release a grip that is too tight", "reflection": "A handhold becomes uncomfortable, and you loosen it or ask the other person to let go. The scene may help you describe how closeness and freedom coexist in a particular exchange. What follows the release matters, without making the dream evidence of a harmful waking relationship." }, { "title": "Your hand changes while you are working", "reflection": "You notice that the hand doing a familiar task looks unusually large or small. This could shift attention to how the role feels, especially if someone is watching. Explore whether the change affects the action or only your awareness; appearance does not diagnose ability or character." }, { "title": "You recognize a remembered teaching gesture", "reflection": "A person places their hand over yours to show a movement you once learned. The dream may revisit instruction, shared attention or a specific memory. Notice whether you want the guidance now, try independently or enjoy the familiar gesture, rather than assuming help is always needed." } ], "prompts": [ "What was the hand trying to do, and what changed its possibilities?", "How did contact or assistance become welcome, unwanted or undecided?", "Which specific gesture, skill or recent task does the scene recall?" ], "related": [ "fingers", "arm", "gloves", "hug" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0925" ], "scope": "Miller varies status, loss, family, relationship and moral forecasts with hand appearance, injury, blood, size, hair, washing, contact and tied hands, including gendered claims; Fingers is cross-referenced. Specific supplied passages: Hand — miller-0925 (Heading 926; source lines 10757–10801). Historical comparison only; these attributed period beliefs do not establish outcomes, diagnoses or a universal symbol meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0334" ], "scope": "Fontaine assigns calls to assist a friend or stranger to injuries of the right or left hand respectively. Specific supplied passages: Hand — fontaine-0334 (Heading 334; source line 2468). Historical comparison only; these attributed period beliefs do not establish outcomes, diagnoses or a universal symbol meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display.", "recordIds": [ "artemidorus-031" ], "scope": "Artemidorus connects hands and fingers with relatives, property, trades, debt, labor, social position and captivity. The supplied transcription has visible illegible gaps. Specific supplied passages: Of the hands. — artemidorus-031 (Book 1, encoded section 31). Historical comparison only; these attributed period beliefs do not establish outcomes, diagnoses or a universal symbol meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0234" ], "scope": "Noe assigns employment, poverty, family-loss, fortune and imprisonment forecasts to hand strength, damage, right/left use and hair, including gendered claims. Specific supplied passages: Hands — noe-0234 (Dream section, heading 236; source lines 1003–1011). Historical comparison only; these attributed period beliefs do not establish outcomes, diagnoses or a universal symbol meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "kind": "editorial", "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0925", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Hand", "text": "If you see beautiful hands in your dream, you will enjoy\ngreat distinction, and rise rapidly in your calling; but ugly\nand malformed hands point to disappointments and poverty.\nTo see blood on them, denotes estrangement and unjust censure\nfrom members of your family.\n\nIf you have an injured hand, some person will succeed to what you\nare striving most to obtain.\n\nTo see a detached hand, indicates a solitary life, that is,\npeople will fail to understand your views and feelings.\nTo burn your hands, you will overreach the bounds of reason\nin your struggles for wealth and fame, and lose thereby.\n\nTo see your hands covered with hair, denotes that you will not become\na solid and leading factor in your circle.\n\nTo see your hands enlarged, denotes a quick advancement in your affairs.\nTo see them smaller, the reverse is predicted.\n\nTo see your hands soiled, denotes that you will be envious\nand unjust to others.\n\nTo wash your hands, you will participate in some joyous festivity.\n\nFor a woman to admire her own hands, is proof that she will win and hold\nthe sincere regard of the man she prizes above all others.\n\nTo admire the hands of others, she will be subjected to the whims\nof a jealous man. To have a man hold her hands, she will be\nenticed into illicit engagements. If she lets others kiss\nher hands, she will have gossips busy with her reputation.\nTo handle fire without burning her hands, she will rise to high\nrank and commanding positions.\n\nTo dream that your hands are tied, denotes that you will be involved\nin difficulties. In loosening them, you will force others to submit\nto your dictations.\n\n\n[86] See Fingers.", "locator": "Heading 926; source lines 10757–10801", "lineStart": 10757, "lineEnd": 10801, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you see beautiful hands in your dream, you will enjoy\ngreat distinction, and rise rapidly in your calling; but ugly\nand malformed hands point to disappointments and poverty.\nTo see blood on them, denotes estrangement and unjust censure\nfrom members of your family.\n\nIf you have an injured hand, some person will succeed to what you\nare striving most to obtain.\n\nTo see a detached hand, indicates a solitary life, that is,\npeople will fail to understand your views and feelings.\nTo burn your hands, you will overreach the bounds of reason\nin your struggles for wealth and fame, and lose thereby.\n\nTo see your hands covered with hair, denotes that you will not become\na solid and leading factor in your circle.\n\nTo see your hands enlarged, denotes a quick advancement in your affairs.\nTo see them smaller, the reverse is predicted.\n\nTo see your hands soiled, denotes that you will be envious\nand unjust to others.\n\nTo wash your hands, you will participate in some joyous festivity.\n\nFor a woman to admire her own hands, is proof that she will win and hold\nthe sincere regard of the man she prizes above all others.\n\nTo admire the hands of others, she will be subjected to the whims\nof a jealous man. To have a man hold her hands, she will be\nenticed into illicit engagements. If she lets others kiss\nher hands, she will have gossips busy with her reputation.\nTo handle fire without burning her hands, she will rise to high\nrank and commanding positions.\n\nTo dream that your hands are tied, denotes that you will be involved\nin difficulties. In loosening them, you will force others to submit\nto your dictations. See Fingers." }, { "id": "fontaine-0334", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Hand", "text": "If you dream that your right hand is injured, or any thing is the\nmatter with it, it shows that you will soon be called upon to assist\na friend in distress; if it is your left hand, assistance will be\nsolicited from you for an unfortunate stranger. 22, 78.", "locator": "Heading 334; source line 2468", "lineStart": 2468, "lineEnd": 2473, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream that your right hand is injured, or any thing is the\nmatter with it, it shows that you will soon be called upon to assist\na friend in distress; if it is your left hand, assistance will be\nsolicited from you for an unfortunate stranger." }, { "id": "artemidorus-031", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of the hands.", "text": "THe hands fayre and strong, shews prosperity to tradesmen: to him which feares arrests or imprisonment this dream is doubtfull: you must remember that before, we said the right Hand signified the Father and Sonne: the left, the Wife the Mother, Sister, and servant: the right▪ may signifie such goods as are to get, the left, goods already gotten: if therefore one dream that he loseth his right hand, then he shall lose something which it signifieth. In generall, the hands signifie neyther good nor bad: to lose all the fingers of the hand or some part, signifies hurt or losse of Servants. To Scriveners, Orators, and Attourneys, it signifieth that they shall want imployment: to Debtors, that they shall pay more then they owe: to Vsurers, losse by interest. I knew a man that dreamt he had no fingers, and he was attached by a Creditor that leant him money without an Obligation. To have more fingers then ordinary, signifye the contrary; namely, [illegible passage]o owe, and not to pay. Some (though deceived) have thought this a good dream, but it is the contrary; for he that hath more Fingers then naturall, thinks and finds it ill. And if the overplus fingers are idle, they make their owner idle. To have hayre which cleaves to the joynt[illegible passage] ▪ i[illegible passage] captivitis, but if it comes on the palme of the Hand, it is idlenesse; especially, to Labourers and Artificers.\n\nTo have many hands, is good for an Artificer or handy craftsman; for this dream[illegible passage] tels him expressely, thou shalt have so muc[illegible passage] work, that thou shalt have need of many hands: and to good men also it is good for it tels them they shall get. Children, Servants, or money▪ as I have knowne by experience: but to wicked men, it is Captivitie, and that some shall lay theyr hands upon them.", "locator": "Book 1, encoded section 31", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription-with-gaps", "book": "1", "displayText": "THe hands fayre and strong, shews prosperity to tradesmen: to him which feares arrests or imprisonment this dream is doubtfull: you must remember that before, we said the right Hand signified the Father and Sonne: the left, the Wife the Mother, Sister, and servant: the right▪ may signifie such goods as are to get, the left, goods already gotten: if therefore one dream that he loseth his right hand, then he shall lose something which it signifieth. In generall, the hands signifie neyther good nor bad: to lose all the fingers of the hand or some part, signifies hurt or losse of Servants. To Scriveners, Orators, and Attourneys, it signifieth that they shall want imployment: to Debtors, that they shall pay more then they owe: to Vsurers, losse by interest. I knew a man that dreamt he had no fingers, and he was attached by a Creditor that leant him money without an Obligation. To have more fingers then ordinary, signifye the contrary; namely, [illegible passage] o owe, and not to pay. Some (though deceived) have thought this a good dream, but it is the contrary; for he that hath more Fingers then naturall, thinks and finds it ill. And if the overplus fingers are idle, they make their owner idle. To have hayre which cleaves to the joynt [illegible passage] ▪ i [illegible passage] captivitis, but if it comes on the palme of the Hand, it is idlenesse; especially, to Labourers and Artificers.\n\nTo have many hands, is good for an Artificer or handy craftsman; for this dream [illegible passage] tels him expressely, thou shalt have so muc [illegible passage] work, that thou shalt have need of many hands: and to good men also it is good for it tels them they shall get. Children, Servants, or money▪ as I have knowne by experience: but to wicked men, it is Captivitie, and that some shall lay theyr hands upon them.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Hands” is shown on the Hand page: singular/plural" }, { "id": "noe-0234", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Hands", "text": "If any one dreams that his hands are comelier and stronger than\nordinary, he will be employed in some important affairs, which he will\nbring to a happy issue. If one dreams that his hand is cut off, or that it\nhas grown lean and dry, or hath been burnt, he will grow poor. If a woman\ndreams thus, she will lose her husband, or her eldest son, or fall into a\ndecay. If any one dreams that he works with his right hand, it is a sign\nof good fortune to him and his family. If with the left hand, that denotes\nbad luck. To dream the hand is hairy, signifies trouble and imprisonment.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 236; source lines 1003–1011", "lineStart": 1003, "lineEnd": 1011, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If any one dreams that his hands are comelier and stronger than\nordinary, he will be employed in some important affairs, which he will\nbring to a happy issue. If one dreams that his hand is cut off, or that it\nhas grown lean and dry, or hath been burnt, he will grow poor. If a woman\ndreams thus, she will lose her husband, or her eldest son, or fall into a\ndecay. If any one dreams that he works with his right hand, it is a sign\nof good fortune to him and his family. If with the left hand, that denotes\nbad luck. To dream the hand is hairy, signifies trouble and imprisonment.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Hands” is shown on the Hand page: singular/plural" } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [ "fingers" ] }, { "slug": "handbills", "title": "Handbills", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of distributing handbills over the country, is a sign of contentions and possible lawsuits.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "handbills" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about handbills stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0926", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Handbills", "text": "To dream of distributing handbills over the country, is a sign\nof contentions and possible lawsuits.\n\nIf you dream of printing handbills, you will hear unfavorable news.", "locator": "Heading 927; source lines 10801–10808", "lineStart": 10801, "lineEnd": 10808, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of distributing handbills over the country, is a sign\nof contentions and possible lawsuits.\n\nIf you dream of printing handbills, you will hear unfavorable news." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10222", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Handbills", "heading": "Handbills", "text": "To post them, dishonor; to read them, labor without reward.", "lineStart": 10222, "lineEnd": 10224, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 221; NLM OCR lines 10222–10224", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10222, "lineEnd": 10224, "printedPage": 221, "printedPageEnd": 221 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Handbills. — To post them, dishonor; to read them, labor \nwithout reward. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Handbills" }, "displayText": "To post them, dishonor; to read them, labor without reward." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "handcuffs", "title": "Handcuffs", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To find yourself handcuffed, you will be annoyed and vexed by enemies.”", "aliases": [ "handcuffs" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about handcuffs stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0927", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Handcuffs", "text": "To find yourself handcuffed, you will be annoyed and vexed by enemies.\nTo see others thus, you will subdue those oppressing you and rise\nabove your associates.\n\nTo see handcuffs, you will be menaced with sickness and danger.\n\nTo dream of handcuffs, denotes formidable enemies are surrounding you\nwith objectionable conditions. To break them, is a sign that you\nwill escape toils planned by enemies.", "locator": "Heading 928; source lines 10808–10820", "lineStart": 10808, "lineEnd": 10820, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To find yourself handcuffed, you will be annoyed and vexed by enemies.\nTo see others thus, you will subdue those oppressing you and rise\nabove your associates.\n\nTo see handcuffs, you will be menaced with sickness and danger.\n\nTo dream of handcuffs, denotes formidable enemies are surrounding you\nwith objectionable conditions. To break them, is a sign that you\nwill escape toils planned by enemies." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "handkerchiefs", "title": "Handkerchiefs", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of handkerchiefs, denotes flirtations and contingent affairs.”", "aliases": [ "handkerchiefs" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about handkerchiefs stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0928", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Handkerchiefs", "text": "To dream of handkerchiefs, denotes flirtations and contingent affairs.\n\nTo lose one, omens a broken engagement through no fault of yours.\n\nTo see torn ones, foretells that lovers' quarrels will reach such straits\nthat reconciliation will be improbable if not impossible.\n\nTo see them soiled, foretells that you will be corrupted\nby indiscriminate associations.\n\nTo see pure white ones in large lots, foretells that you will resist\nthe insistent flattery of unscrupulous and evil-minded persons,\nand thus gain entrance into high relations with love and matrimony.\n\nTo see them colored, denotes that while your engagements may not be\nstrictly moral, you will manage them with such ingenuity that they\nwill elude opprobrium.\n\nIf you see silk handkerchiefs, it denotes that your pleasing\nand magnetic personality will shed its radiating cheerfulness\nupon others, making for yourself a fortunate existence.\n\nFor a young woman to wave adieu or a recognition with her handkerchief,\nor see others doing this, denotes that she will soon make a questionable\npleasure trip, or she may knowingly run the gauntlet of disgrace to secure\nsome fancied pleasure.", "locator": "Heading 929; source lines 10820–10849", "lineStart": 10820, "lineEnd": 10849, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of handkerchiefs, denotes flirtations and contingent affairs.\n\nTo lose one, omens a broken engagement through no fault of yours.\n\nTo see torn ones, foretells that lovers' quarrels will reach such straits\nthat reconciliation will be improbable if not impossible.\n\nTo see them soiled, foretells that you will be corrupted\nby indiscriminate associations.\n\nTo see pure white ones in large lots, foretells that you will resist\nthe insistent flattery of unscrupulous and evil-minded persons,\nand thus gain entrance into high relations with love and matrimony.\n\nTo see them colored, denotes that while your engagements may not be\nstrictly moral, you will manage them with such ingenuity that they\nwill elude opprobrium.\n\nIf you see silk handkerchiefs, it denotes that your pleasing\nand magnetic personality will shed its radiating cheerfulness\nupon others, making for yourself a fortunate existence.\n\nFor a young woman to wave adieu or a recognition with her handkerchief,\nor see others doing this, denotes that she will soon make a questionable\npleasure trip, or she may knowingly run the gauntlet of disgrace to secure\nsome fancied pleasure." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "handsome", "title": "Handsome", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see yourself handsome-looking in your dreams, you will prove yourself an ingenious flatterer.”", "aliases": [ "handsome" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about handsome stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0929", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Handsome", "text": "To see yourself handsome-looking in your dreams, you will prove\nyourself an ingenious flatterer.\n\nTo see others appearing handsome, denotes that you will enjoy\nthe confidence of fast people.", "locator": "Heading 930; source lines 10849–10857", "lineStart": 10849, "lineEnd": 10857, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see yourself handsome-looking in your dreams, you will prove\nyourself an ingenious flatterer.\n\nTo see others appearing handsome, denotes that you will enjoy\nthe confidence of fast people." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0930", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Handwriting", "text": "To dream that you see and recognize your own handwriting,\nforetells that malicious enemies will use your expressed opinion\nto foil you in advancing to some competed position.", "locator": "Heading 931; source lines 10857–10863", "lineStart": 10857, "lineEnd": 10863, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you see and recognize your own handwriting,\nforetells that malicious enemies will use your expressed opinion\nto foil you in advancing to some competed position." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "hanged", "title": "Hanged", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “To dream of being hanged is an excellent omen, as it foretells that you will become either rich or…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "hanged" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about hanged stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "execution" ], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0335", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Hanged", "text": "(_See Execution._) To dream of being hanged is an excellent\nomen, as it foretells that you will become either rich or\ndistinguished. If you dream you are going to be hanged, it is nearly as\ngood, as it betokens success in all your undertakings; but should you\nimagine that you eluded the officers of the law and escaped, that is a\nbad omen, as it foretells disappointment and ill-luck. The theory of\nsuch dreams is, that they always work by contraries. 10, 7, 6.", "locator": "Heading 335; source line 2473", "lineStart": 2473, "lineEnd": 2481, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Execution.) To dream of being hanged is an excellent\nomen, as it foretells that you will become either rich or\ndistinguished. If you dream you are going to be hanged, it is nearly as\ngood, as it betokens success in all your undertakings; but should you\nimagine that you eluded the officers of the law and escaped, that is a\nbad omen, as it foretells disappointment and ill-luck. The theory of\nsuch dreams is, that they always work by contraries." }, { "id": "noe-0235", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Hanged", "text": "To dream of seeing people hanged, or that you are going to be\nhanged yourself, denotes that you will rise above your present condition\nby marriage.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 237; source lines 1011–1013", "lineStart": 1011, "lineEnd": 1013, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing people hanged, or that you are going to be\nhanged yourself, denotes that you will rise above your present condition\nby marriage." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0931", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Hanging", "text": "To see a large concourse of people gathering at a hanging,\ndenotes that many enemies will club together to try to demolish\nyour position in their midst.\n\n\n[87] See Execution.", "locator": "Heading 932; source lines 10863–10872", "lineStart": 10863, "lineEnd": 10872, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a large concourse of people gathering at a hanging,\ndenotes that many enemies will club together to try to demolish\nyour position in their midst. See Execution." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "execution" ] }, { "slug": "happiness", "title": "Happiness", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Book of Luck wrote: “A presage of doubt and difficulty.”", "aliases": [ "happiness" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about happiness stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "luck-0113", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Happiness", "text": "A presage of doubt and difficulty.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 113; source lines 3795–3797", "lineStart": 3795, "lineEnd": 3797, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "A presage of doubt and difficulty." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "moles-71045", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams and Moles", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "United Kingdom, J. Marshall, 1805", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71045", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0932", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Hare", "text": "If you see a hare escaping from you in a dream, you will lose\nsomething valuable in a mysterious way. If you capture one,\nyou will be the victor in a contest.\n\nIf you make pets of them, you will have an orderly\nbut unintelligent companion.\n\nA dead hare, betokens death to some friend. Existence will be\na prosy affair.\n\nTo see hares chased by dogs, denotes trouble and contentions\namong your friends, and you will concern yourself to bring\nabout friendly relations.\n\nIf you dream that you shoot a hare, you will be forced to use\nviolent measures to maintain your rightful possessions.\n\n\n[88] See Rabbit.", "locator": "Heading 933; source lines 10872–10894", "lineStart": 10872, "lineEnd": 10894, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you see a hare escaping from you in a dream, you will lose\nsomething valuable in a mysterious way. If you capture one,\nyou will be the victor in a contest.\n\nIf you make pets of them, you will have an orderly\nbut unintelligent companion.\n\nA dead hare, betokens death to some friend. Existence will be\na prosy affair.\n\nTo see hares chased by dogs, denotes trouble and contentions\namong your friends, and you will concern yourself to bring\nabout friendly relations.\n\nIf you dream that you shoot a hare, you will be forced to use\nviolent measures to maintain your rightful possessions. See Rabbit." }, { "id": "luck-0114", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Hare", "text": "(Alive) Friendship: (dead) good luck: (hare running) a lengthy\njourney.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 114; source lines 3797–3800", "lineStart": 3797, "lineEnd": 3800, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(Alive) Friendship: (dead) good luck: (hare running) a lengthy\njourney." }, { "id": "moles-0020", "sourceId": "moles-71045", "heading": "Hare", "originalHeading": "(no printed heading)", "text": "To dream you hunt a hare, but cannot take her, denotes the loss of some\nmatter you are in earnest pursuit of.", "locator": "Dreams interpreted, passage 20; source lines 167–168", "lineStart": 167, "lineEnd": 168, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "editorialNote": "The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Hare” because that is the subject of its first clause.", "displayText": "To dream you hunt a hare, but cannot take her, denotes the loss of some\nmatter you are in earnest pursuit of." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0933", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Harem", "text": "To dream that you maintain a harem, denotes that you are wasting\nyour best energies on low pleasures. Life holds fair promises,\nif your desires are rightly directed.\n\nIf a woman dreams that she is an inmate of a harem, she will seek\npleasure where pleasure is unlawful, as her desires will be toward\nmarried men as a rule. If she dreams that she is a favorite of\na harem, she will be preferred before others in material pleasures,\nbut the distinction will be fleeting.", "locator": "Heading 934; source lines 10894–10906", "lineStart": 10894, "lineEnd": 10906, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you maintain a harem, denotes that you are wasting\nyour best energies on low pleasures. Life holds fair promises,\nif your desires are rightly directed.\n\nIf a woman dreams that she is an inmate of a harem, she will seek\npleasure where pleasure is unlawful, as her desires will be toward\nmarried men as a rule. If she dreams that she is a favorite of\na harem, she will be preferred before others in material pleasures,\nbut the distinction will be fleeting." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0934", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Harlequin", "text": "To dream of a harlequin cheating you, you will find uphill\nwork to identify certain claims that promise profit to you.\nIf you dream of a harlequin, trouble will beset you.\n\nTo be dressed as a harlequin, denotes passionate error and unwise attacks\non strength and purse. Designing women will lure you to paths of sin.", "locator": "Heading 935; source lines 10906–10915", "lineStart": 10906, "lineEnd": 10915, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a harlequin cheating you, you will find uphill\nwork to identify certain claims that promise profit to you.\nIf you dream of a harlequin, trouble will beset you.\n\nTo be dressed as a harlequin, denotes passionate error and unwise attacks\non strength and purse. Designing women will lure you to paths of sin." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "harness", "title": "Harness", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of possessing bright new harness, you will soon prepare for a pleasant journey.”", "aliases": [ "harness" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about harness stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0936", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Harness", "text": "To dream of possessing bright new harness, you will soon prepare\nfor a pleasant journey.", "locator": "Heading 937; source lines 10921–10926", "lineStart": 10921, "lineEnd": 10926, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of possessing bright new harness, you will soon prepare\nfor a pleasant journey." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "harp", "title": "Harp", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To hear the sad sweet strains of a harp, denotes the sad ending to what seems a pleasing and profitable…” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "harp" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about harp stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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To dream you hear\nany person play upon the harp, is a sign that if you have sick friends\nthey will recover. In love affairs this dream is very lucky. 5, 11.", "locator": "Heading 336; source line 2481", "lineStart": 2481, "lineEnd": 2486, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you play upon the harp, indicates that you have some\nenvious enemies who seek to injure you with slander. To dream you hear\nany person play upon the harp, is a sign that if you have sick friends\nthey will recover. In love affairs this dream is very lucky." }, { "id": "cielo-0205", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Harp", "text": "To dream of a harp means the death of a dear one.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 205; source lines 4345–4347", "lineStart": 4345, "lineEnd": 4347, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a harp means the death of a dear one." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10238", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Harp", "heading": "Harp", "text": "A cure for madness (Gypsy). Ancient symbolism.", "lineStart": 10238, "lineEnd": 10239, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 221; NLM OCR lines 10238–10239", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10238, "lineEnd": 10239, "printedPage": 221, "printedPageEnd": 221 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Harp. — A cure for madness (Gypsy). 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "harpies", "title": "Harpies", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “Tribulation and pain caused by envious persons, malice and treachery (Artemidorus); see Mythology.”", "aliases": [ "harpies" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about harpies stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. 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OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L10240", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Harpies", "heading": "Harpies", "text": "Tribulation and pain caused by envious persons, malice and treachery (Artemidorus) ; see Mythology.", "lineStart": 10240, "lineEnd": 10242, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 221; NLM OCR lines 10240–10242", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10240, "lineEnd": 10242, "printedPage": 221, "printedPageEnd": 221 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Harpies. — Tribulation and pain caused by envious persons, \nmalice and treachery (Artemidorus) ; see Mythology. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Harpies" }, "displayText": "Tribulation and pain caused by envious persons, malice and treachery (Artemidorus); see Mythology." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "hart", "title": "Hart", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “To kill a hart in your dreams forecasts an inheritance from an old man, also the overcoming of fugitive and deceitful enemies.”", "aliases": [ "hart" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about hart stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L10243", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Hart", "heading": "Hart", "text": "To kill a hart in your dreams forecasts an inheritance from an old man, also the overcoming of fugitive and deceitful enemies. A running hart shows wealth through subtlety (Artemidorus). A symbol of fleetness and of hermit life.", "lineStart": 10243, "lineEnd": 10253, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 221–222; NLM OCR lines 10243–10253", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10243, "lineEnd": 10253, "printedPage": 221, "printedPageEnd": 222 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Hart. — To kill a hart in your dreams forecasts an inheri- \ntance from an old man, also the overcoming of fugitive and \ndeceitful enemies. A running hart shows wealth through \n\n\n222 THE FABRIC OF DREAMS \n\n\nsubtlety (Artemidorus). A symbol of fleetness and of hermit \nlife. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [ { "line": 10248, "text": "222 THE FABRIC OF DREAMS " } ], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "inheri- \ntance", "after": "inheritance", "evidenceLine": 2845 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 0.99459, "secondaryHeading": "Hart" }, "displayText": "To kill a hart in your dreams forecasts an inheritance from an old man, also the overcoming of fugitive and deceitful enemies. A running hart shows wealth through subtlety (Artemidorus). A symbol of fleetness and of hermit life." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "harvest", "title": "Harvest", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "5 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of harvest time, is a forerunner of prosperity and pleasure.” Compare 5 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "harvest" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about harvest stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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If you dream you\nare working in one it indicates success in business. To lovers, this is\none of the most fortunate signs; to a young man, it signifies he will\nwed a rich and beautiful bride; to a young maiden, it is a sign she\nwill soon be engaged to the object of her affections; to the married,\nit signifies domestic bliss. 4, 11, 44.", "locator": "Heading 337; source line 2486", "lineStart": 2486, "lineEnd": 2493, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a harvest field is a good omen. If you dream you\nare working in one it indicates success in business. To lovers, this is\none of the most fortunate signs; to a young man, it signifies he will\nwed a rich and beautiful bride; to a young maiden, it is a sign she\nwill soon be engaged to the object of her affections; to the married,\nit signifies domestic bliss." }, { "id": "cielo-0206", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Harvest", "text": "Denotes wealth and abundance.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 206; source lines 4347–4349", "lineStart": 4347, "lineEnd": 4349, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Denotes wealth and abundance." }, { "id": "luck-0115", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Harvest", "text": "Hopes will not come to fruition.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 115; source lines 3800–3802", "lineStart": 3800, "lineEnd": 3802, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Hopes will not come to fruition." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10254", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Harvest", "heading": "Harvest", "text": "A dream of prosperity (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 10254, "lineEnd": 10255, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 222; NLM OCR lines 10254–10255", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10254, "lineEnd": 10255, "printedPage": 222, "printedPageEnd": 222 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Harvest. — A dream of prosperity (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Harvest" }, "displayText": "A dream of prosperity (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "harvesters", "title": "Harvesters", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “To dream of many of them denotes success in trade; to see them idle, scarcity (Gypsy).”", "aliases": [ "harvesters" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about harvesters stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. 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OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L10256", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Harvesters", "heading": "Harvesters", "text": "To dream of many of them denotes success in trade; to see them idle, scarcity (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 10256, "lineEnd": 10258, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 222; NLM OCR lines 10256–10258", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10256, "lineEnd": 10258, "printedPage": 222, "printedPageEnd": 222 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Harvesters. — To dream of many of them denotes success \nin trade; to see them idle, scarcity (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Harvesters" }, "displayText": "To dream of many of them denotes success in trade; to see them idle, scarcity (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "hash", "title": "Hash", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream you are eating hash, many sorrows and vexations are foretold.”", "aliases": [ "hash" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about hash stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0939", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Hash", "text": "To dream you are eating hash, many sorrows and vexations are foretold.\n\nYou will probably be troubled with various little jealousies and contentions\nover mere trifles, and your health will be menaced through worry.\n\nFor a woman to dream that she cooks hash, denotes that she will be jealous\nof her husband, and children will be a stumbling block to her wantonness.", "locator": "Heading 940; source lines 10945–10955", "lineStart": 10945, "lineEnd": 10955, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are eating hash, many sorrows and vexations are foretold.\n\nYou will probably be troubled with various little jealousies and contentions\nover mere trifles, and your health will be menaced through worry.\n\nFor a woman to dream that she cooks hash, denotes that she will be jealous\nof her husband, and children will be a stumbling block to her wantonness." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "hassock", "title": "Hassock", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a hassock, forebodes the yielding of your power and fortune to another.”", "aliases": [ "hassock" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about hassock stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0940", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Hassock", "text": "To dream of a hassock, forebodes the yielding of your power\nand fortune to another. If a woman dreams of a hassock,\nshe should cultivate spirit and independence.", "locator": "Heading 941; source lines 10955–10961", "lineStart": 10955, "lineEnd": 10961, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a hassock, forebodes the yielding of your power\nand fortune to another. If a woman dreams of a hassock,\nshe should cultivate spirit and independence." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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Tilting a brim, taking it off or securing it before a journey may change how freely you can look or be seen. This can resemble deciding how much of a preference to display at a meeting, or altering a presentation that has begun to interfere with the task itself. The useful development is what the adjustment allows, not whether the appearance is fashionable.\n\n Recognition can become uncertain when hats are exchanged. Another person may address you through a hat associated with somebody else, or overlook you once a familiar item is removed. This can picture a visible sign taking the place of fuller understanding. A waking comparison might be being known through one project, job title or repeated habit while wanting room for a different contribution. Clarifying the association creates another possibility from accepting the mistaken role.\n\n A hat blown away can make maintaining an appearance compete with continuing a journey. You may chase it, ask someone to retrieve it or decide that the route matters more at that moment. The response can explore the value you give a particular sign when keeping it becomes effortful. A cherished item with a personal history may deserve that effort for a reason quite different from wanting every outward detail to remain controlled.\n\n Choosing a hat in company can also leave room for a personal preference within a shared occasion. Enjoyment, awkwardness or indifference changes the encounter. A recent purchase, work item or remembered person's hat can supply direct context. Its fit, position and association help explain why it mattered; it does not determine authority, gender, character or the success of the event.", "traditional": "Miller, Fontaine, Noe and Everybody’s Book of Luck attach different forecasts to new, shabby, pleasing, lost or wind-blown hats. Several claims depend on period gender and courtship assumptions. They preserve older judgments about clothing rather than establishing what a hat reveals about a person or a coming event.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A sign used for recognition", "reflection": "A hat may help someone identify you but also let one familiar feature stand in for your fuller contribution. Removing or exchanging it can reveal how much recognition depends on that outward sign." }, { "title": "An adjustable view", "reflection": "Position can affect seeing and being seen. A small change in the brim may offer a practical way to participate more comfortably without requiring a complete change of appearance." }, { "title": "Keeping the sign or continuing the journey", "reflection": "Retrieving a hat can make the value of presentation compete with another purpose. Personal history, convenience and the conditions of the route help distinguish the reasons for keeping or leaving it." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A brim blocks the detail you need to see", "reflection": "The hat serves one purpose while making the current task harder. Tilting or removing it may explore a small adjustment that restores a clearer view. Keeping its appearance unchanged matters differently if it protects something useful or only maintains an expectation." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Someone recognizes you only by a familiar hat", "reflection": "The item makes contact easy until you take it off and become hard to place. This may picture being known through a repeated role or project. Explaining another part of yourself can make recognition broader than restoring the familiar sign alone." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "The wind carries the hat away from your route", "reflection": "Retrieving the item requires leaving the journey you intended. Chasing it, asking for help or continuing gives the scene different priorities. The hat’s personal history may explain the effort, without making every loss of presentation a forecast of loss elsewhere." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "An exchanged hat makes people assign you another task", "reflection": "A visible sign is taken as sufficient evidence of who should act. Correcting the assumption can become more useful than wearing the item carefully. The dream may resemble an assignment made from appearance before the participants have clarified their actual roles." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You choose a distinctive hat for a shared occasion", "reflection": "Your preference is noticeable within the group but need not prevent participation. Enjoying that difference, adjusting it or wishing to remove it can explore how much visibility feels appropriate. The scene leaves room for taste without making agreement about appearance necessary." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "A cherished hat is repaired with a visible patch", "reflection": "The repair keeps a familiar association available while changing its presentation. You may value the history more than an untouched appearance. Keeping the patch visible or choosing another repair can give the care a specific purpose rather than making age or wear a defect." } ], "prompts": [ "How did the hat affect both your view and other people’s recognition?", "What gave this particular hat value beyond its outward appearance?", "How did you choose between maintaining the sign and continuing another purpose?" ], "related": [ "clothes", "dressing", "uniform", "face", "wind" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0941" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context only. miller-0941: A lost hat, gendered new-hat scenes and a wind-blown hat receive business, relocation, wealth/admiration and adverse-change forecasts. This citation does not validate the original psychological reflections or predict a waking outcome." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0339" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context only. fontaine-0339: New, shabby and worn shabby hats receive advancement, falling-in-love and gendered claims about improper liberties. The latter are preserved as period writing, not present-day consent or conduct facts. This citation does not validate the original psychological reflections or predict a waking outcome." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0236" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context only. noe-0236: Torn/dirty hats receive damage/dishonor claims; a pleasing worn hat receives joy, profit and business-success forecasts. This citation does not validate the original psychological reflections or predict a waking outcome." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0116" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context only. luck-0116: A new hat is assigned small success; a damaged or blown-off hat is assigned loss. This citation does not validate the original psychological reflections or predict a waking outcome." } ], "updated": "2026-10-13", "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection independently reviewed for content and source scope. Historical accounts remain attributed period writing. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0941", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Hat", "text": "To dream of losing your hat, you may expect unsatisfactory business\nand failure of persons to keep important engagements.\n\nFor a man to dream that he wears a new hat, predicts change\nof place and business, which will be very much to his advantage.\nFor a woman to dream that she wears a fine new hat,\ndenotes the attainment of wealth, and she will be the object\nof much admiration.\n\nFor the wind to blow your hat off, denotes sudden changes in affairs,\nand somewhat for the worse.", "locator": "Heading 942; source lines 10961–10975", "lineStart": 10961, "lineEnd": 10975, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of losing your hat, you may expect unsatisfactory business\nand failure of persons to keep important engagements.\n\nFor a man to dream that he wears a new hat, predicts change\nof place and business, which will be very much to his advantage.\nFor a woman to dream that she wears a fine new hat,\ndenotes the attainment of wealth, and she will be the object\nof much admiration.\n\nFor the wind to blow your hat off, denotes sudden changes in affairs,\nand somewhat for the worse." }, { "id": "fontaine-0339", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Hat", "text": "For a man to dream he has got a new hat shadows forth good luck\nand advancement; dreaming of an old or shabby hat is a sign he will\nsoon fall in love; and if he dreams he is wearing such a hat, the omen\nis not so favorable, for he will probably endeavor to take improper\nliberties with his sweetheart and be successful. 21, 6.", "locator": "Heading 339; source line 2495", "lineStart": 2495, "lineEnd": 2501, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a man to dream he has got a new hat shadows forth good luck\nand advancement; dreaming of an old or shabby hat is a sign he will\nsoon fall in love; and if he dreams he is wearing such a hat, the omen\nis not so favorable, for he will probably endeavor to take improper\nliberties with his sweetheart and be successful." }, { "id": "noe-0236", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Hat", "text": "To dream your hat is torn or dirty, signifies damage\nand dishonor. But to dream you have a hat on that pleases you, signifies\njoy, profit, and good success in business.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 238; source lines 1013–1015", "lineStart": 1013, "lineEnd": 1015, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream your hat is torn or dirty, signifies damage\nand dishonor. But to dream you have a hat on that pleases you, signifies\njoy, profit, and good success in business." }, { "id": "luck-0116", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Hat", "text": "(New) A small success: (blown off or damaged) losses.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 116; source lines 3802–3804", "lineStart": 3802, "lineEnd": 3804, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(New) A small success: (blown off or damaged) losses." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "hatchet", "title": "Hatchet", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “A hatchet seen in a dream, denotes that wanton wastefulness will expose you to the evil designs of envious…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "hatchet" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about hatchet stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "hatching", "title": "Hatching", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “To dream of hatching fowls of any kind is a sign of thrift.”", "aliases": [ "hatching" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about hatching stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0340", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Hatching", "text": "To dream of hatching fowls of any kind is a sign of thrift;\nif you imagine, in your dream, that a hen comes off with a very large\nbrood of chickens, it shadows forth so much cash to be made by you in\nsome bargain. 24, 68.", "locator": "Heading 340; source line 2501", "lineStart": 2501, "lineEnd": 2506, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of hatching fowls of any kind is a sign of thrift;\nif you imagine, in your dream, that a hen comes off with a very large\nbrood of chickens, it shadows forth so much cash to be made by you in\nsome bargain." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "hate", "title": "Hate", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you hate a person, denotes that if you are not careful you will do the party an inadvertent…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "hate", "hatred" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about hate stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0943", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Hate", "text": "To dream that you hate a person, denotes that if you are not careful you\nwill do the party an inadvertent injury or a spiteful action will bring\nbusiness loss and worry.\n\nIf you are hated for unjust causes, you will find sincere and\nobliging friends, and your associations will be most pleasant.\nOtherwise, the dream forebodes ill.", "locator": "Heading 944; source lines 10981–10991", "lineStart": 10981, "lineEnd": 10991, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you hate a person, denotes that if you are not careful you\nwill do the party an inadvertent injury or a spiteful action will bring\nbusiness loss and worry.\n\nIf you are hated for unjust causes, you will find sincere and\nobliging friends, and your associations will be most pleasant.\nOtherwise, the dream forebodes ill." }, { "id": "fontaine-0341", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Hatred", "text": "To dream that you hate any particular person is a sign that\nhe or she has been talking bad about you. If a girl should ever be\nso silly as to dream such a dream about her lover, it shows that he\nmeditates an attack upon her chastity; on the contrary, if she dreams\nthat he hates her, it is a sign that she possesses his whole heart. 44.", "locator": "Heading 341; source line 2506", "lineStart": 2506, "lineEnd": 2512, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you hate any particular person is a sign that\nhe or she has been talking bad about you. If a girl should ever be\nso silly as to dream such a dream about her lover, it shows that he\nmeditates an attack upon her chastity; on the contrary, if she dreams\nthat he hates her, it is a sign that she possesses his whole heart.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Hatred” is shown on the Hate page: same topic" }, { "id": "noe-0242", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Hatred", "text": "To dream of hatred or being hated, whether of\nfriends or enemies, is ill.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 244; source lines 1035–1036", "lineStart": 1035, "lineEnd": 1036, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of hatred or being hated, whether of\nfriends or enemies, is ill.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Hatred” is shown on the Hate page: same topic" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0944", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Hawk", "text": "To dream of a hawk, foretells you will be cheated in some way\nby intriguing persons. To shoot one, foretells you will surmount\nobstacles after many struggles. For a young woman to frighten\nhawks away from her chickens, signifies she will obtain her most\nextravagant desires through diligent attention to her affairs.\n\nIt also denotes that enemies are near you, and they\nare ready to take advantage of your slightest mistakes.\nIf you succeed in scaring it away before your fowls are injured,\nyou will be lucky in your business.\n\nTo see a dead hawk, signifies that your enemies will be vanquished.\n\nTo dream of shooting at a hawk, you will have a contest with enemies,\nand will probably win.", "locator": "Heading 945; source lines 10991–11009", "lineStart": 10991, "lineEnd": 11009, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a hawk, foretells you will be cheated in some way\nby intriguing persons. To shoot one, foretells you will surmount\nobstacles after many struggles. For a young woman to frighten\nhawks away from her chickens, signifies she will obtain her most\nextravagant desires through diligent attention to her affairs.\n\nIt also denotes that enemies are near you, and they\nare ready to take advantage of your slightest mistakes.\nIf you succeed in scaring it away before your fowls are injured,\nyou will be lucky in your business.\n\nTo see a dead hawk, signifies that your enemies will be vanquished.\n\nTo dream of shooting at a hawk, you will have a contest with enemies,\nand will probably win." }, { "id": "fontaine-0342", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Hawk", "text": "If you dream of seeing a very large hawk, it shows that you\nwill soon begin a new enterprise; if the hawk darts down and takes a\nchicken, a bird, or a fish, you will probably be successful; if little\nbirds attack the hawk and drive it away, you will have difficulties in\nyour undertaking and may possibly fail in it. 5, 55.", "locator": "Heading 342; source line 2512", "lineStart": 2512, "lineEnd": 2518, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream of seeing a very large hawk, it shows that you\nwill soon begin a new enterprise; if the hawk darts down and takes a\nchicken, a bird, or a fish, you will probably be successful; if little\nbirds attack the hawk and drive it away, you will have difficulties in\nyour undertaking and may possibly fail in it." }, { "id": "luck-0118", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Hawk", "text": "A happy omen--success in life.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 118; source lines 3806–3808", "lineStart": 3806, "lineEnd": 3808, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "A happy omen--success in life." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10261", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Hawk", "heading": "Hawk", "text": "The dream of the commencement of a new enterprise ; if the hawk dart downwards you will succeed, but if a little bird attack the hawk you will fail (Gypsy). 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "hawthorn", "title": "Hawthorn", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “A dream of constancy (Gypsy). Symbol of constancy.”", "aliases": [ "hawthorn" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about hawthorn stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. 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Symbol of constancy.", "lineStart": 10267, "lineEnd": 10269, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 222; NLM OCR lines 10267–10269", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10267, "lineEnd": 10269, "printedPage": 222, "printedPageEnd": 222 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Hawthorn. — A dream of constancy (Gypsy). Symbol of \nconstancy. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Hawthorn" }, "displayText": "A dream of constancy (Gypsy). Symbol of constancy." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0945", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Hay", "text": "If you dream of mowing hay, you will find much good in life,\nand if a farmer your crops will yield abundantly.\n\nTo see fields of newly cut hay, is a sign of unusual prosperity.\n\nIf you are hauling and putting hay into barns, your fortune is assured,\nand you will realize great profit from some enterprise.\n\nTo see loads of hay passing through the street, you will meet\ninfluential strangers who will add much to your pleasure.\n\nTo feed hay to stock, indicates that you will offer aid to some one who will\nreturn the favor with love and advancement to higher states.", "locator": "Heading 946; source lines 11009–11025", "lineStart": 11009, "lineEnd": 11025, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream of mowing hay, you will find much good in life,\nand if a farmer your crops will yield abundantly.\n\nTo see fields of newly cut hay, is a sign of unusual prosperity.\n\nIf you are hauling and putting hay into barns, your fortune is assured,\nand you will realize great profit from some enterprise.\n\nTo see loads of hay passing through the street, you will meet\ninfluential strangers who will add much to your pleasure.\n\nTo feed hay to stock, indicates that you will offer aid to some one who will\nreturn the favor with love and advancement to higher states." }, { "id": "fontaine-0343", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Hay", "text": "(_See Raking and Harvest._) To dream of making hay, signifies\nsuccess in all your undertakings. This is a good omen to young lovers.\nTo dream you are selling hay is a bad omen, and portends losses in\nbusiness and dangerous accidents. 49, 11.", "locator": "Heading 343; source line 2518", "lineStart": 2518, "lineEnd": 2523, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Raking and Harvest.) To dream of making hay, signifies\nsuccess in all your undertakings. This is a good omen to young lovers.\nTo dream you are selling hay is a bad omen, and portends losses in\nbusiness and dangerous accidents." }, { "id": "noe-0230", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Hay", "text": "To dream you cut it, signifies that you will have great influence\nin society. To dream of raking it together, denotes that you will stand at\nthe head of assemblies.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 232; source lines 991–993", "lineStart": 991, "lineEnd": 993, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you cut it, signifies that you will have great influence\nin society. To dream of raking it together, denotes that you will stand at\nthe head of assemblies." }, { "id": "luck-0119", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Hay", "text": "Good luck: (dreamer cutting hay) troubles and sorrow.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 119; source lines 3808–3810", "lineStart": 3808, "lineEnd": 3810, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Good luck: (dreamer cutting hay) troubles and sorrow." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "raking", "harvest" ] }, { "slug": "hazel-nut", "title": "Hazel Nut", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Book of Luck wrote: “(Eating) Troubles and discord.”", "aliases": [ "hazel nut" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about hazel nut stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "luck-0120", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Hazel Nut", "text": "(Eating) Troubles and discord.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 120; source lines 3810–3812", "lineStart": 3810, "lineEnd": 3812, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(Eating) Troubles and discord." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0946", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Head", "text": "To see a person's head in your dream, and it is well-shaped and prominent,\nyou will meet persons of power and vast influence who will lend you aid\nin enterprises of importance.\n\nIf you dream of your own head, you are threatened with nervous\nor brain trouble.\n\nTo see a head severed from its trunk, and bloody, you will meet\nsickening disappointments, and the overthrow of your dearest\nhopes and anticipations.\n\nTo see yourself with two or more heads, foretells phenomenal and rapid rise\nin life, but the probabilities are that the rise will not be stable.\n\nTo dream that your head aches, denotes that you will be oppressed with worry.\n\nTo dream of a swollen head, you will have more good than bad in your life.\n\nTo dream of a child's head, there will be much pleasure ill store\nfor you and signal financial success.\n\nTo dream of the head of a beast, denotes that the nature of your desires\nwill run on a low plane, and only material pleasures will concern you.\n\nTo wash your head, you will be sought after by prominent people\nfor your judgment and good counsel.", "locator": "Heading 947; source lines 11025–11054", "lineStart": 11025, "lineEnd": 11054, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a person's head in your dream, and it is well-shaped and prominent,\nyou will meet persons of power and vast influence who will lend you aid\nin enterprises of importance.\n\nIf you dream of your own head, you are threatened with nervous\nor brain trouble.\n\nTo see a head severed from its trunk, and bloody, you will meet\nsickening disappointments, and the overthrow of your dearest\nhopes and anticipations.\n\nTo see yourself with two or more heads, foretells phenomenal and rapid rise\nin life, but the probabilities are that the rise will not be stable.\n\nTo dream that your head aches, denotes that you will be oppressed with worry.\n\nTo dream of a swollen head, you will have more good than bad in your life.\n\nTo dream of a child's head, there will be much pleasure ill store\nfor you and signal financial success.\n\nTo dream of the head of a beast, denotes that the nature of your desires\nwill run on a low plane, and only material pleasures will concern you.\n\nTo wash your head, you will be sought after by prominent people\nfor your judgment and good counsel." }, { "id": "fontaine-0344", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Head", "text": "To dream of heads in any way is a good omen: if you dream\nyour own head is very large, it shows that you will probably become\ndistinguished; if you see a large-headed person in your dream, it is a\nsign you will make the acquaintance of some one who will benefit you.\n65, 9.", "locator": "Heading 344; source line 2523", "lineStart": 2523, "lineEnd": 2529, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of heads in any way is a good omen: if you dream\nyour own head is very large, it shows that you will probably become\ndistinguished; if you see a large-headed person in your dream, it is a\nsign you will make the acquaintance of some one who will benefit you." }, { "id": "artemidorus-006", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of the Head.", "text": "TO dream you have a great Head, is good for a rich man which hath not a[illegible passage] yet any great estate and dignity. Also to a poore man, to a Champion, to an Usu[illegible passage] ▪ to a Horse-cour[illegible passage]er, to him that puts out money to use. For first, this dream foretels Principality or Dignity, in which he must weare a Crowne, Scepter, or Diadem. Secondly, great riches and possessions (to a Champion victory) to a Broker and Usurer, great heaps and sums of mony. But to those who are already in dignity, and to an Orator, and Judges of the people, this dream brings charges, and reproches by the people. And to him that is sick, it is head-ake. To a souldier it signifieth travell and pains; to a servant long servitude, and to him which hath chosen a calm life, pain, and anger. But to have the Head l[illegible passage]sser then naturall proportion, signifieth a thing contrary to the signification of the Head above spoken of, importing difference in respect of the different quality of the men.", "locator": "Book 1, encoded section 6", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription-with-gaps", "book": "1", "displayText": "To dream you have a great Head, is good for a rich man which hath not a [illegible passage] yet any great estate and dignity. Also to a poore man, to a Champion, to an Usu [illegible passage] ▪ to a Horse-cour [illegible passage] er, to him that puts out money to use. For first, this dream foretels Principality or Dignity, in which he must weare a Crowne, Scepter, or Diadem. Secondly, great riches and possessions (to a Champion victory) to a Broker and Usurer, great heaps and sums of mony. But to those who are already in dignity, and to an Orator, and Judges of the people, this dream brings charges, and reproches by the people. And to him that is sick, it is head-ake. To a souldier it signifieth travell and pains; to a servant long servitude, and to him which hath chosen a calm life, pain, and anger. But to have the Head l [illegible passage] sser then naturall proportion, signifieth a thing contrary to the signification of the Head above spoken of, importing difference in respect of the different quality of the men." }, { "id": "noe-0244", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Head", "text": "To dream you have a\ngreat head, or a head bigger than ordinary, and very highly raised, that\nsignifies dignity, esteem. If a sick person dream thus, it prognosticates\nboth the headache and violent fever. If one dreams his head is cut off by\nrobbers and murderers, that signifies loss of children, relations, estate\nor wife; and to the wife so dreaming, the loss of her husband. To dream\nthat one cuts off another’s head, signifies assurance of effecting\nbusiness, or revenge upon your enemies. To dream you cut off the head of a\npullet, or a green goose, signifies joy and recreation. To dream one hath\nthe head of a lion or wolf, or some other cruel beast, it is a good sign\nto the dreamer. To dream one hath the head of a dog, horse, or ass, or\nsuch four-footed beast, is servitude, pain and misery to the dreamer. To\ndream one hath a bird’s head, argues one shall not stay long in his\ncountry. If one dreams that he is careful to comb and trim his hair, it is\na sign he shall dispose well of his business. To dream you wash your head,\nsignifies deliverance from danger.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 246; source lines 1037–1052", "lineStart": 1037, "lineEnd": 1052, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you have a\ngreat head, or a head bigger than ordinary, and very highly raised, that\nsignifies dignity, esteem. If a sick person dream thus, it prognosticates\nboth the headache and violent fever. If one dreams his head is cut off by\nrobbers and murderers, that signifies loss of children, relations, estate\nor wife; and to the wife so dreaming, the loss of her husband. To dream\nthat one cuts off another’s head, signifies assurance of effecting\nbusiness, or revenge upon your enemies. To dream you cut off the head of a\npullet, or a green goose, signifies joy and recreation. To dream one hath\nthe head of a lion or wolf, or some other cruel beast, it is a good sign\nto the dreamer. To dream one hath the head of a dog, horse, or ass, or\nsuch four-footed beast, is servitude, pain and misery to the dreamer. To\ndream one hath a bird’s head, argues one shall not stay long in his\ncountry. If one dreams that he is careful to comb and trim his hair, it is\na sign he shall dispose well of his business. To dream you wash your head,\nsignifies deliverance from danger." }, { "id": "luck-0121", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Head", "text": "Good omen--health and money.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 121; source lines 3812–3814", "lineStart": 3812, "lineEnd": 3814, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Good omen--health and money." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "headache", "title": "Headache", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “A dream of trouble, sickness, loss of wealth (Gypsy). The physical stimuli account for this interpretation.”", "aliases": [ "headache" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about headache stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L10273", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Headache", "heading": "Headache", "text": "A dream of trouble, sickness, loss of wealth (Gypsy). The physical stimuli account for this interpretation.", "lineStart": 10273, "lineEnd": 10275, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 222; NLM OCR lines 10273–10275", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10273, "lineEnd": 10275, "printedPage": 222, "printedPageEnd": 222 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Headache. — A dream of trouble, sickness, loss of wealth \n(Gypsy). The physical stimuli account for this interpretation. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Headache" }, "displayText": "A dream of trouble, sickness, loss of wealth (Gypsy). The physical stimuli account for this interpretation." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "headgear", "title": "Headgear", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing rich headgear, you will become famous and successful.”", "aliases": [ "headgear" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about headgear stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0947", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Headgear", "text": "To dream of seeing rich headgear, you will become famous and successful.\nTo see old and worn headgear, you will have to yield up your\npossessions to others.", "locator": "Heading 948; source lines 11054–11060", "lineStart": 11054, "lineEnd": 11060, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing rich headgear, you will become famous and successful.\nTo see old and worn headgear, you will have to yield up your\npossessions to others." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "headphones", "title": "Headphones", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "aliases": [ "headphones", "headphone", "earphones", "earphone", "earbuds", "earbud", "wireless earphones" ], "summary": "Headphones can picture chosen attention, a personal space within shared surroundings, or connection through sound. Quiet can be welcome or unintended.", "tagline": "You choose what reaches your attention while remaining in the same physical setting.", "psychological": "Headphones can picture having a say in what occupies your attention. A chosen voice, song, or quiet interval becomes available while the surrounding room continues. This can fit concentrating on a task, making space for pleasure, or carrying something familiar through an unfamiliar environment. The device can support participation rather than simply separate you from other people.\n\nA comfortable private soundscape may express a boundary within shared space. You can remain near others without attending to every demand. Work that requires focus or a crowded household can have a similar structure. If you feel cut off instead, the same boundary may be preventing contact you actually want. The difference is whether the selected attention meets your needs.\n\nUnexpected audio changes the relationship between choice and input. A voice interrupts music, the wrong track plays, or sound continues after you try to stop it. This may picture a concern entering a period you had reserved for something else. It can also be a direct return to a remembered song or device problem.\n\nSharing an earbud or listening together can make sound a form of company. You may want connection without having to explain every feeling in words. Tangled wires, an unavailable connection, or a device that produces no sound can instead make setup the task: a route meant to simplify attention now needs attention itself.\n\nRemoving the headphones can represent choosing to rejoin a conversation, while putting them on can picture a wanted interval of focus. Daily listening, calls, travel, and familiar equipment can supply the scene directly. These original interpretations concern the use of an ordinary tool, not a conclusion about hearing, sociability, or health.", "traditional": "The reflections focus on chosen listening, shared audio, and the device's place in a setting. No verified historical headphone passage is cited. The general dream source does not diagnose hearing or assign a character trait to using headphones; personal habits and remembered sounds are straightforward context.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Choosing what receives attention", "reflection": "A selected sound can picture concentration, pleasure, or familiar company within a busy setting. The device may support what you want to do without requiring complete withdrawal from others." }, { "title": "A boundary that can be adjusted", "reflection": "Private listening can provide room around demands or block contact you wanted. Putting headphones on or taking them off gives the scene a choice about how much to share." }, { "title": "Connection through sound or through a device", "reflection": "Shared audio can create company, while an unavailable connection makes access the issue. The scene can concern a practical route to listening rather than a lack of interest or ability." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "A familiar song makes a crowded place comfortable", "reflection": "Chosen sound can picture carrying a useful source of continuity into unfamiliar conditions. A commute, new workplace, or busy household may offer parallels. The headphones create a personal space within the setting, rather than requiring that everyone or everything outside it disappear.", "slug": "scene-1" }, { "title": "An unwanted voice interrupts what you selected", "reflection": "Attention meant for one purpose can be claimed by another demand. Work entering downtime or a recurring concern interrupting concentration may feel similar. The unexpected audio makes the boundary between chosen attention and imposed input more concrete than distraction alone.", "slug": "scene-2" }, { "title": "The headphones are silent when you want to listen", "reflection": "A familiar tool may not provide the connection you expected. A missing reply, unavailable resource, or practical delay may offer parallels. The silence concerns access within the dream, rather than establishing anything about your actual hearing or ability to participate.", "slug": "scene-3" }, { "title": "You share an earbud with someone you trust", "reflection": "A small shared experience can picture company without a large explanation. Listening to music together or finding an easy rhythm with a friend may offer parallels. The shared sound makes closeness compatible with each person retaining their own space.", "slug": "scene-4" }, { "title": "You untangle cables before an important call", "reflection": "Preparation can become an unexpected task before the conversation begins. Setting up a meeting or arranging access to a shared project may feel similar. The tangled route makes practical coordination central, even when the intended communication itself is clear.", "slug": "scene-5" }, { "title": "You remove them to join a conversation", "reflection": "Rejoining can picture choosing a different kind of attention when contact becomes worthwhile. Taking a break from concentrated work or becoming ready to share a concern may offer parallels. The choice makes connection available without treating the earlier private interval as a mistake.", "slug": "scene-6" } ], "prompts": [ "What did I choose to hear, and what interrupted or supported that choice?", "Did the personal space help participation or separate me from contact I wanted?", "What changed when I shared, adjusted, or removed the headphones?" ], "related": [ "message", "losing-hearing", "hearing-aid", "television" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia editorial entry with image-specific interpretations and six differentiated scenes. The reference supplies general dream background only. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "heal", "title": "Heal", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “If you dream of having a sore on your person that was healed up quick, it is a sign that some one will cut your acquaintance.”", "aliases": [ "heal" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about heal stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0345", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Heal", "text": "If you dream of having a sore on your person that was healed up\nquick, it is a sign that some one will cut your acquaintance; if you\nhave a sweetheart or lover, it is probable something will happen to\nbreak off the intimacy. 20.", "locator": "Heading 345; source line 2529", "lineStart": 2529, "lineEnd": 2534, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream of having a sore on your person that was healed up\nquick, it is a sign that some one will cut your acquaintance; if you\nhave a sweetheart or lover, it is probable something will happen to\nbreak off the intimacy." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "health", "title": "Health", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “A bad omen for the sick (Gypsy). Evidently due to physical stimuli.”", "aliases": [ "health" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about health stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L10276", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Health", "heading": "Health", "text": "A bad omen for the sick (Gypsy). Evidently due to physical stimuli.", "lineStart": 10276, "lineEnd": 10278, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 222; NLM OCR lines 10276–10278", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10276, "lineEnd": 10278, "printedPage": 222, "printedPageEnd": 222 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Health. — A bad omen for the sick (Gypsy). Evidently \ndue to physical stimuli. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Health" }, "displayText": "A bad omen for the sick (Gypsy). Evidently due to physical stimuli." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "hearbes-roots-and-grains-in-pottage", "title": "Hearbes, Roots, and Grains, in Pottage", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Artemidorus wrote: “ALl hearbs, and roots which have [illegible passage] strong smell in eating, reveal secrets and signifie anger with all her aftendants:…”", "aliases": [ "hearbes, roots, and grains, in pottage", "of hearbes, roots, and grains, in pottage", "hearbes", "roots", "grains", "in pottage" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about hearbes, roots, and grains, in pottage stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "artemidorus-051", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of Hearbes, Roots, and Grains, in Pottage.", "text": "ALl hearbs, and roots which have [illegible passage] strong smell in eating, reveal secrets and signifie anger with all her aftendants: that which is scraped before it be eaten, signifieth hurt by reason of the superfluity which is cast away. Laxative herbs are good for those which are in debt: hearbs and roots which have a head and are good nourishment, signifie profit, as a Carrot: strength to them which are at law for inheritance, for we pluck them out of the ground, with their heads, branches, strings and vains. Coleworts bring no profit, eyther to Taverne or Vine workers, for the Vine is never compassed with Coleworts. Reddishes or Turnips being curled, signifye vain hopes, for they make a great shew, and have but a little substance: to sick persons and pilgrims, they signifye danger by yron, as hurts, and cuts. Cucumbers péeled are good for sick persons. Pompions are good to get friendship and affinity, for other affayres not so good. To eate garlicke and onyons is ill, but to have them is good: the sick man that dreams that he eates many onyons, shall recover, if he eate but few, he shall dye. All graines which one eates in pottage are ill, onely pease excepted.", "locator": "Book 1, encoded section 51", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription-with-gaps", "book": "1", "displayText": "ALl hearbs, and roots which have [illegible passage] strong smell in eating, reveal secrets and signifie anger with all her aftendants: that which is scraped before it be eaten, signifieth hurt by reason of the superfluity which is cast away. Laxative herbs are good for those which are in debt: hearbs and roots which have a head and are good nourishment, signifie profit, as a Carrot: strength to them which are at law for inheritance, for we pluck them out of the ground, with their heads, branches, strings and vains. Coleworts bring no profit, eyther to Taverne or Vine workers, for the Vine is never compassed with Coleworts. Reddishes or Turnips being curled, signifye vain hopes, for they make a great shew, and have but a little substance: to sick persons and pilgrims, they signifye danger by yron, as hurts, and cuts. Cucumbers péeled are good for sick persons. Pompions are good to get friendship and affinity, for other affayres not so good. To eate garlicke and onyons is ill, but to have them is good: the sick man that dreams that he eates many onyons, shall recover, if he eate but few, he shall dye. All graines which one eates in pottage are ill, onely pease excepted." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "hearing-aid", "title": "Hearing aid", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "aliases": [ "hearing aid", "hearing aids", "wearing a hearing aid", "hearing aid settings", "lost hearing aid" ], "summary": "A hearing aid can picture useful support and communication shared with others. Fit, settings, and cooperation shape how comfortable participation feels.", "tagline": "A tool and a setting work together to make participation available on your terms.", "psychological": "A hearing aid can picture support as an ordinary part of participation. In a dream where it helps a conversation become comfortable, the image may fit finding a useful arrangement, clearer information, or a tool that lets you concentrate on what you came to do. The meaning need not center loss or repair; the device can simply belong to a familiar, workable routine.\n\nAdjustment can bring personal fit into view. Different settings may make a room comfortable or overwhelming within the dream. This can resemble arranging the pace of a meeting, choosing a suitable work environment, or asking for information in a form you can use. The relevant question is how conditions meet your needs, not whether your needs should disappear.\n\nOther people's behavior remains part of communication. If they interrupt, turn away, or speak over one another while the aid is working, the scene may picture a shared arrangement that still needs cooperation. A useful tool cannot make every interaction understandable by itself. This reading keeps participation from becoming solely one person's responsibility.\n\nA missing or unresponsive device can give form to a practical route becoming unavailable. A delayed resource, interrupted connection, or unfamiliar setup may offer parallels. Such scenes do not establish a change in actual hearing. A comfortable pause from the device can instead picture choosing how and when to participate.\n\nSomeone making changes without asking can turn offered help into a question of agency. A person who respects your preferences creates a different scene, in which support is responsive rather than imposed. Real equipment, conversations, and remembered settings can supply the image directly. These original interpretations do not assess health or assume a character trait from using a hearing aid.", "traditional": "The entry treats a hearing aid as an ordinary useful tool within a dreamed interaction. No verified historical hearing-aid passage is cited. The general dream reference does not diagnose hearing, recommend settings, or validate a deficit-based meaning; the original reflections concern access, fit, and shared communication.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Useful support within ordinary participation", "reflection": "A working device can picture an arrangement that lets you focus on the activity itself. Support may be familiar and practical, rather than a sign that something is wrong." }, { "title": "Conditions that fit your preferences", "reflection": "Adjustment can express choosing a workable pace or environment. The scene may concern room for your needs, especially when another person offers help without first understanding what suits you." }, { "title": "Communication requires shared cooperation", "reflection": "A device can support access while turn-taking and clear attention still matter. The dream may picture an arrangement needing participation from others, rather than locating every difficulty in one person." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "You use the aid comfortably in a familiar conversation", "reflection": "Support can be an unremarkable part of doing what matters. A useful work arrangement or a routine that makes company comfortable may offer parallels. The scene can center the conversation and its pleasure, rather than treating the equipment as a problem that needs explanation.", "slug": "scene-1" }, { "title": "Changing a setting makes a busy room comfortable", "reflection": "An adjustment can picture finding conditions suited to your needs. A different meeting pace or clearer way of receiving information may feel similar. The scene makes fit important without turning the dreamed setting into practical advice about an actual device.", "slug": "scene-2" }, { "title": "Everyone talks over each other while the aid works", "reflection": "The interaction may require cooperation beyond the tool. A rushed discussion or poorly organized group task can offer a parallel. The scene makes shared attention central: participation is not something one person must create alone by making better use of equipment.", "slug": "scene-3" }, { "title": "You cannot find the device before an event", "reflection": "A familiar route to participation can become temporarily unavailable. Missing a resource or arriving without the setup you expected may feel similar. The scene concerns preparation and access, rather than establishing anything about hearing or the event's real outcome.", "slug": "scene-4" }, { "title": "Someone adjusts the aid without asking you", "reflection": "Help may feel intrusive when your preferences are not part of the decision. A person reorganizing work or choosing an arrangement on your behalf can offer parallels. The tension concerns how support is offered, not whether accepting assistance is desirable or possible.", "slug": "scene-5" }, { "title": "A person asks what would make the conversation easier", "reflection": "Responsive cooperation can picture being able to shape an interaction without defending your needs. A colleague agreeing to a workable format or a friend allowing more time may feel similar. The support comes from shared adjustment, alongside whatever tools are useful.", "slug": "scene-6" } ], "prompts": [ "What did the tool and the surrounding setting make possible together?", "Who had a say in the conditions or adjustments?", "Did communication ask for cooperation from others as well as from me?" ], "related": [ "headphones", "message", "public-speaking", "losing-hearing" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia editorial entry with image-specific interpretations and six differentiated scenes. The reference supplies general dream background only. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "hearse", "title": "Hearse", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a hearse, denotes uncongenial relations in the home, and failure to carry on business in a satisfactory manner.”", "aliases": [ "hearse" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about hearse stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0948", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Hearse", "text": "To dream of a hearse, denotes uncongenial relations in the home,\nand failure to carry on business in a satisfactory manner.\nIt also betokens the death of one near to you, or sickness and sorrow.\n\nIf a hearse crosses your path, you will have a bitter enemy to overcome.", "locator": "Heading 949; source lines 11060–11068", "lineStart": 11060, "lineEnd": 11068, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a hearse, denotes uncongenial relations in the home,\nand failure to carry on business in a satisfactory manner.\nIt also betokens the death of one near to you, or sickness and sorrow.\n\nIf a hearse crosses your path, you will have a bitter enemy to overcome." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "heart", "title": "Heart", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of your heart paining and suffocating you, there will be trouble in your business.” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "heart" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about heart stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0949", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Heart", "text": "To dream of your heart paining and suffocating you, there will be trouble\nin your business. Some mistake of your own will bring loss if not corrected.\n\nSeeing your heart, foretells sickness and failure of energy.\n\nTo see the heart of an animal, you will overcome enemies and merit\nthe respect of all.\n\nTo eat the heart of a chicken, denotes strange desires will cause\nyou to carry out very difficult projects for your advancement.", "locator": "Heading 950; source lines 11068–11081", "lineStart": 11068, "lineEnd": 11081, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of your heart paining and suffocating you, there will be trouble\nin your business. Some mistake of your own will bring loss if not corrected.\n\nSeeing your heart, foretells sickness and failure of energy.\n\nTo see the heart of an animal, you will overcome enemies and merit\nthe respect of all.\n\nTo eat the heart of a chicken, denotes strange desires will cause\nyou to carry out very difficult projects for your advancement." }, { "id": "fontaine-0346", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Heart", "text": "To dream of a heart is a bad omen. If you lose your heart it\nsignifies sickness and death. To the married it denotes infidelity\nof their marital vows. To dream you see a human heart shows you are\nsincerely beloved; but to dream you have a pain or palpitation in your\nheart shows you are doomed to suffer through treachery. 46, 11.", "locator": "Heading 346; source line 2534", "lineStart": 2534, "lineEnd": 2540, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a heart is a bad omen. If you lose your heart it\nsignifies sickness and death. To the married it denotes infidelity\nof their marital vows. To dream you see a human heart shows you are\nsincerely beloved; but to dream you have a pain or palpitation in your\nheart shows you are doomed to suffer through treachery." }, { "id": "cielo-0207", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Heart", "text": "To dream of heart trouble indicates danger.\n The picture of a heart means true love.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 207; source lines 4349–4352", "lineStart": 4349, "lineEnd": 4352, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of heart trouble indicates danger.\nThe picture of a heart means true love." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10279", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Heart", "heading": "Heart", "text": "To dream of the heart as sick or suffering augurs illness dangerous in proportion to the suffering; an injury to the heart portends danger ; to dream of having no heart shows that death is near at hand (Gypsy). Obviously attributable to physical conditions.", "lineStart": 10279, "lineEnd": 10284, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 222; NLM OCR lines 10279–10284", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10279, "lineEnd": 10284, "printedPage": 222, "printedPageEnd": 222 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Heart. — To dream of the heart as sick or suffering augurs \nillness dangerous in proportion to the suffering; an injury to \nthe heart portends danger ; to dream of having no heart shows \nthat death is near at hand (Gypsy). Obviously attributable to \nphysical conditions. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Heart" }, "displayText": "To dream of the heart as sick or suffering augurs illness dangerous in proportion to the suffering; an injury to the heart portends danger; to dream of having no heart shows that death is near at hand (Gypsy). Obviously attributable to physical conditions." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "heat", "title": "Heat", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are oppressed by heat, denotes failure to carry out designs on account of some friend…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "heat" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about heat stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0950", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Heat", "text": "To dream that you are oppressed by heat, denotes failure\nto carry out designs on account of some friend betraying you.\nHeat is not a very favorable dream.", "locator": "Heading 951; source lines 11081–11087", "lineStart": 11081, "lineEnd": 11087, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are oppressed by heat, denotes failure\nto carry out designs on account of some friend betraying you.\nHeat is not a very favorable dream." }, { "id": "fontaine-0347", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Heat", "text": "If you dream of being in a place that is extremely hot, or if the\nweather is so hot that the heat affects you, it shows that some person\nis preparing either to attack you or give you a good scolding. 71, 6.", "locator": "Heading 347; source line 2540", "lineStart": 2540, "lineEnd": 2544, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream of being in a place that is extremely hot, or if the\nweather is so hot that the heat affects you, it shows that some person\nis preparing either to attack you or give you a good scolding." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10285", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Heat", "heading": "Heat", "text": "To dream of eternal heat denotes fever (Gypsy). Obvious interpretation.", "lineStart": 10285, "lineEnd": 10287, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 222; NLM OCR lines 10285–10287", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10285, "lineEnd": 10287, "printedPage": 222, "printedPageEnd": 222 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Heat. — To dream of eternal heat denotes fever (Gypsy). \nObvious interpretation. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Heat" }, "displayText": "To dream of eternal heat denotes fever (Gypsy). Obvious interpretation." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "heather-bells", "title": "Heather Bells", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of heather bells, foretells that joyous occasions will pass you in happy succession.”", "aliases": [ "heather bells" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about heather bells stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0951", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Heather Bells", "text": "To dream of heather bells, foretells that joyous occasions will pass\nyou in happy succession.", "locator": "Heading 952; source lines 11087–11092", "lineStart": 11087, "lineEnd": 11092, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of heather bells, foretells that joyous occasions will pass\nyou in happy succession." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "heather-or-heath", "title": "Heather or Heath", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “A dream of hope; if withered or dry, frustrated hopes (Gypsy).”", "aliases": [ "heather or heath", "heather", "heath" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about heather or heath stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L10288", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Heather or Heath", "heading": "Heather or Heath", "text": "A dream of hope ; if withered or dry, frustrated hopes (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 10288, "lineEnd": 10290, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 222; NLM OCR lines 10288–10290", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10288, "lineEnd": 10290, "printedPage": 222, "printedPageEnd": 222 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Heather or Heath. — A dream of hope ; if withered or dry, \nfrustrated hopes (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Heather or Heath" }, "displayText": "A dream of hope; if withered or dry, frustrated hopes (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "heaven", "title": "Heaven", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “If you ascend to heaven in a dream, you will fail to enjoy the distinction you have labored to gain,, and…” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "heaven" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about heaven stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0952", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Heaven", "text": "If you ascend to heaven in a dream, you will fail to enjoy the distinction\nyou have labored to gain,, and joy will end in sadness.\n\nIf young persons dream of climbing to heaven on a ladder,\nthey will rise from a low estate to one of unusual prominence,\nbut will fail to find contentment or much pleasure.\n\nTo dream of being in heaven and meeting Christ and friends,\nyou will meet with many losses, but will reconcile yourself\nto them through your true understanding of human nature.\n\nTo dream of the Heavenly City, denotes a contented and spiritual nature,\nand trouble will do you small harm.", "locator": "Heading 953; source lines 11092–11108", "lineStart": 11092, "lineEnd": 11108, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you ascend to heaven in a dream, you will fail to enjoy the distinction\nyou have labored to gain,, and joy will end in sadness.\n\nIf young persons dream of climbing to heaven on a ladder,\nthey will rise from a low estate to one of unusual prominence,\nbut will fail to find contentment or much pleasure.\n\nTo dream of being in heaven and meeting Christ and friends,\nyou will meet with many losses, but will reconcile yourself\nto them through your true understanding of human nature.\n\nTo dream of the Heavenly City, denotes a contented and spiritual nature,\nand trouble will do you small harm." }, { "id": "noe-0243", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Heaven", "text": "To dream of heaven, and that you\nare there, signifies grandeur and glory.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 245; source lines 1036–1037", "lineStart": 1036, "lineEnd": 1037, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of heaven, and that you\nare there, signifies grandeur and glory." }, { "id": "cielo-0208", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Heaven", "text": "To dream that you or someone else is in\n heaven is a sign of peace and prosperity.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 208; source lines 4352–4355", "lineStart": 4352, "lineEnd": 4355, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you or someone else is in\nheaven is a sign of peace and prosperity." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10291", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Heaven", "heading": "Heaven", "text": "A beautiful and auspicious dream; to ascend thereto, grandeur and glory (Artemidorus).", "lineStart": 10291, "lineEnd": 10293, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 222; NLM OCR lines 10291–10293", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10291, "lineEnd": 10293, "printedPage": 222, "printedPageEnd": 222 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Heaven. — A beautiful and auspicious dream; to ascend \nthereto, grandeur and glory (Artemidorus). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Heaven" }, "displayText": "A beautiful and auspicious dream; to ascend thereto, grandeur and glory (Artemidorus)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "hedgehog", "title": "Hedgehog", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “A dream forecasting the meeting with an old friend whom you have not seen for years (Gypsy). A Gypsy emblem of honesty and loyalty.”", "aliases": [ "hedgehog" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about hedgehog stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. 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A Gypsy emblem of honesty and loyalty.", "lineStart": 10294, "lineEnd": 10297, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 222; NLM OCR lines 10294–10297", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10294, "lineEnd": 10297, "printedPage": 222, "printedPageEnd": 222 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Hedgehog. — A dream forecasting the meeting with an old \nfriend whom you have not seen for years (Gypsy). A Gypsy \nemblem of honesty and loyalty. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Hedgehog" }, "displayText": "A dream forecasting the meeting with an old friend whom you have not seen for years (Gypsy). A Gypsy emblem of honesty and loyalty." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "hedges", "title": "Hedges", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of hedges of evergreens, denotes joy and profit.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "hedges", "thicket" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about hedges stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0953", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Hedges", "text": "To dream of hedges of evergreens, denotes joy and profit.\n\nBare hedges, foretells distress and unwise dealings.\n\nIf a young woman dreams of walking beside a green hedge with her lover,\nit foretells that her marriage will soon be consummated.\n\nIf you dream of being entangled in a thorny hedge, you will be hampered\nin your business by unruly partners or persons working under you.\nTo lovers, this dream is significant of quarrels and jealousies.", "locator": "Heading 954; source lines 11108–11121", "lineStart": 11108, "lineEnd": 11121, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of hedges of evergreens, denotes joy and profit.\n\nBare hedges, foretells distress and unwise dealings.\n\nIf a young woman dreams of walking beside a green hedge with her lover,\nit foretells that her marriage will soon be consummated.\n\nIf you dream of being entangled in a thorny hedge, you will be hampered\nin your business by unruly partners or persons working under you.\nTo lovers, this dream is significant of quarrels and jealousies." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10298", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Hedges", "heading": "Hedges", "text": "When green, prosperity; when thorny and impenetrable, dangers and difficulties (Gypsy). Obvious symbolism.", "lineStart": 10298, "lineEnd": 10305, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 222–223; NLM OCR lines 10298–10305", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10298, "lineEnd": 10305, "printedPage": 222, "printedPageEnd": 223 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Hedges. — When green, prosperity; when thorny and im- \npenetrable, dangers and difficulties (Gypsy). Obvious sym- \nbolism. \n\n\nSYMBOLISM IN DREAMS 223 \n\n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [ { "line": 10303, "text": "SYMBOLISM IN DREAMS 223 " } ], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "im- \npenetrable", "after": "impenetrable", "evidenceLine": 2350 }, { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "sym- \nbolism", "after": "symbolism", "evidenceLine": 250 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Hedges" }, "displayText": "When green, prosperity; when thorny and impenetrable, dangers and difficulties (Gypsy). Obvious symbolism." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12207", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Thicket", "heading": "Thicket", "text": "See Hedge.", "lineStart": 12207, "lineEnd": 12208, "kind": "cross-reference", "locator": "Printed p. 258; NLM OCR lines 12207–12208", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12207, "lineEnd": 12208, "printedPage": 258, "printedPageEnd": 258 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Thicket. — See Hedge. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Thicket" }, "displayText": "See Hedge." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "heir", "title": "Heir", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you fall heir to property or valuables, denotes that you are in danger of losing what you already possess.”", "aliases": [ "heir" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about heir stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0954", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Heir", "text": "To dream that you fall heir to property or valuables,\ndenotes that you are in danger of losing what you already possess.\nand warns you of coming responsibilities. Pleasant surprises\nmay also follow this dream.", "locator": "Heading 955; source lines 11121–11128", "lineStart": 11121, "lineEnd": 11128, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you fall heir to property or valuables,\ndenotes that you are in danger of losing what you already possess.\nand warns you of coming responsibilities. Pleasant surprises\nmay also follow this dream." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "helicopter", "title": "Helicopter", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "Hovering, lifting straight up, and the noise that fills everything.", "summary": "A helicopter dream can picture rescue, surveillance or a lift out of a situation. Note whether you were inside, beneath it, or watching it come.", "aliases": [ "helicopter", "helicopters", "helicopter dream", "helicopter crash", "helicopter ride", "flying in a helicopter", "chopper", "helicopter overhead", "rescue helicopter" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "A helicopter does what no other vehicle does: it rises straight up, hovers, and lands almost anywhere. In a dream it can picture an escape that does not need a runway, a rescue that arrives from above, or a watcher that will not go away. Begin by placing yourself. Inside the cabin, you are being carried; beneath the rotors, you are being watched or rescued; on the ground watching it approach, you may be waiting to learn which. Record the noise, because helicopters are loud and the sound often dominates the dream even when the machine is small in the sky. Note who was flying and whether you knew them. A pilot you trust and a pilot who is a stranger change the meaning of every lurch. If the helicopter was searching, write down what for, and whether you were hiding. Military and police helicopters bring the question of authority, while air ambulances bring the question of emergency; name which kind it was. Crashes, spinning rotors and hard landings should be recorded with the moment of impact and what came after. Then consider what in your waking life currently needs lifting out, quickly, from a tight place, and whether you are the one in the cabin or the one still waiting on the ground.", "traditional": "The helicopter, like the motorcycle, arrived after the historical dream books in DreamFolia's archive were written. Miller 1901 has an entry for the flying machine, a period reading of the earliest aircraft, and the archive includes older entries for the sky and for flying itself. Each of those is a separate page with its own beliefs. None of them is reinterpreted here as a reading of helicopters, and no older meaning is borrowed for this entry.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "Being winched up from the ground", "reflection": "Record who was below and who pulled you in. Note whether the lift felt like rescue or removal, and what you left behind at the moment your feet came off the ground." }, { "title": "A helicopter circling your house", "reflection": "Write down how long it stayed and whether you tried to hide. Ask who in waking life has been paying you close attention lately, and whether that attention felt protective or intrusive." }, { "title": "The rotors stop mid-flight", "reflection": "Note the silence and what you did in it. Describe where you were heading and who was beside you, since the sudden loss of lift often marks the dream's central fear." } ], "prompts": [ "Were you inside, beneath, or watching the helicopter?", "Who was flying, and did you trust them?", "What needs to be lifted out of a tight spot right now?" ], "related": [ "flying-machine", "airplane", "flying", "pilot", "sky", "police" ], "sources": [], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia editorial draft written on 2026-10-12. Reflection text is an invitation to personal writing, not a validated symbol meaning. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "hell", "title": "Hell", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “If you dream of being in hell, you will fall into temptations, which will almost wreck you financially and…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "hell" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about hell stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0955", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Hell", "text": "If you dream of being in hell, you will fall into temptations,\nwhich will almost wreck you financially and morally.\n\nTo see your friends in hell, denotes distress and burdensome cares.\nYou will hear of the misfortune of some friend.\n\nTo dream of crying in hell, denotes the powerlessness of friends\nto extricate you from the snares of enemies.", "locator": "Heading 956; source lines 11128–11139", "lineStart": 11128, "lineEnd": 11139, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream of being in hell, you will fall into temptations,\nwhich will almost wreck you financially and morally.\n\nTo see your friends in hell, denotes distress and burdensome cares.\nYou will hear of the misfortune of some friend.\n\nTo dream of crying in hell, denotes the powerlessness of friends\nto extricate you from the snares of enemies." }, { "id": "cielo-0209", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Hell", "text": "To dream of the infernal regions is a warning to reform.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 209; source lines 4355–4357", "lineStart": 4355, "lineEnd": 4357, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of the infernal regions is a warning to reform." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10306", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Hell", "heading": "Hell", "text": "dream denoting mental agony or bodily pain (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 10306, "lineEnd": 10307, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 223; NLM OCR lines 10306–10307", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10306, "lineEnd": 10307, "printedPage": 223, "printedPageEnd": 223 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Hell. — dream denoting mental agony or bodily pain \n(Gypsy). \n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 0.98795, "secondaryHeading": "Hell" }, "displayText": "dream denoting mental agony or bodily pain (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "helmet", "title": "Helmet", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing a helmet, denotes threatened misery and loss will be avoided by wise action.”", "aliases": [ "helmet" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about helmet stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0956", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Helmet", "text": "To dream of seeing a helmet, denotes threatened misery and loss\nwill be avoided by wise action.", "locator": "Heading 957; source lines 11139–11144", "lineStart": 11139, "lineEnd": 11144, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing a helmet, denotes threatened misery and loss\nwill be avoided by wise action." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "helplessness", "title": "Helplessness", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "summary": "Helplessness dreams may explore responsibility beyond your influence, limits of help, or the value of an action that cannot control everything.", "tagline": "Concern can be large while the available action is small.", "aliases": [ "helplessness", "helpless", "feeling helpless", "powerlessness", "feeling powerless" ], "status": "REVIEW", "psychological": "Helplessness can make a dream about caring what happens while having little influence over it. You may watch a problem from an unreachable place, offer solutions that nobody accepts or be expected to stop something already unfolding. The image can fit a mismatch between responsibility and control. A project whose decisions belong elsewhere, a difficult waiting period or concern for somebody whose choices remain their own can offer waking comparisons.\n\nThe reach of your action matters. A physical barrier is different from a rule that prevents participation, and both differ from a situation too large for any one person to manage. The feeling should not automatically turn those limits into evidence of insufficient effort. A dream may place you in charge without providing the information, authority or access that the assigned role would require.\n\nOther people can alter the arrangement. Somebody handing you the entire problem may make obligation central; a person sharing one practical step may make support available. If every offer is rejected, the scene may concern the limits of deciding what another person needs. That is different from not caring enough. The dream supplies an imagined relationship between need and response, not a reliable account of anyone’s real willingness to help.\n\nA small action can remain meaningful within an unresolved event. Holding a door, staying with someone or passing useful information may give the dreamer a part without pretending that part determines the outcome. Relief can come from finding a proportionate contribution. Frustration may remain if the larger problem still matters, and the two feelings need not cancel each other.\n\nThe ending can leave the lack of influence intact. Waking before a response arrives does not make the scene a forecast or establish that waiting is the only waking option. Conversely, an impossible rescue at the last moment may express a wished-for change rather than a practical solution. The useful distinction is between what mattered to you, what the dream allowed you to affect and what it assigned beyond that reach.", "traditional": "These are original reflections on the reach of agency and help. A trap, attack, paralysis image or failed emergency call is a more specific dream event and should retain its own details. No historical Helplessness account is supplied, and this emotional reading does not diagnose a sleep condition or establish actual incapacity.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Responsibility without the means", "reflection": "The role assigned by the dream can exceed the access or authority it provides." }, { "title": "Limits of helping", "reflection": "Caring does not give control over every outcome or another person’s response." }, { "title": "A proportionate contribution", "reflection": "One available action can matter without becoming a solution to the whole event." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You watch a problem from somewhere you cannot reach it", "reflection": "The event matters to you, but distance separates concern from intervention. This may resemble awaiting information or depending on a decision elsewhere. The dream gives the limit a physical form; it does not show that your concern is useless or require an impossible rescue." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Every offered solution is refused", "reflection": "The scene can make help contingent on somebody else’s willingness to receive it. It may fit a wish for cooperation or frustration at having no accepted role. The limit belongs partly to the arrangement, so increasing your effort alone may not change what is possible." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Others expect you to stop an event already unfolding", "reflection": "The expectation exceeds the power the dream provides. A shared problem treated as one person’s responsibility offers a waking comparison. The mismatch can become visible through the timing: you are asked to answer for a process that was already beyond your direction." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You can do one small thing while the larger problem continues", "reflection": "A door held open, a message passed on or company offered can give you an actual part. The larger problem may remain, but the scene no longer makes usefulness identical with complete control. That difference can support relief alongside continuing concern." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A companion takes over a part you cannot manage", "reflection": "Shared action changes how much you must hold alone. A companion may take a task, provide access or stay while you wait. The scene can make support concrete without promising a final result; the arrangement becomes more workable before the uncertainty disappears." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "Nothing changes before you wake", "reflection": "The unfinished scene can leave concern without an answer. Its lack of resolution is part of the dream story, not evidence that real events cannot change. The feeling may be worth distinguishing from the actual options, information and support available after waking." } ], "prompts": [ "What did the dream make you responsible for, and what could you actually influence?", "Which limit came from access, scale or another person’s choice?", "What value could a limited contribution have in the dream?" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "related": [ "being-trapped", "paralysis", "trying-to-contact-emergency-services", "being-scapegoated" ], "updated": "2026-10-13", "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "hemp", "title": "Hemp", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of hemp, denotes you will be successful in all undertakings, especially large engagements.”", "aliases": [ "hemp" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about hemp stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0957", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Hemp", "text": "To dream of hemp, denotes you will be successful in all undertakings,\nespecially large engagements. For a young woman to dream that some\naccident befalls her through cultivating hemp, foretells the fatal\nquarrel and separation from her friend.", "locator": "Heading 958; source lines 11144–11151", "lineStart": 11144, "lineEnd": 11151, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of hemp, denotes you will be successful in all undertakings,\nespecially large engagements. For a young woman to dream that some\naccident befalls her through cultivating hemp, foretells the fatal\nquarrel and separation from her friend." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "hemp-seed", "title": "Hemp Seed", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see hemp seed in dreams, denotes the near approach of a deep and continued friendship.”", "aliases": [ "hemp seed" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about hemp seed stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0958", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Hemp Seed", "text": "To see hemp seed in dreams, denotes the near approach of a deep\nand continued friendship. To the business man, is shown favorable\nopportunity for money-making.", "locator": "Heading 959; source lines 11151–11157", "lineStart": 11151, "lineEnd": 11157, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see hemp seed in dreams, denotes the near approach of a deep\nand continued friendship. To the business man, is shown favorable\nopportunity for money-making." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "hen", "title": "Hen", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of hens, denotes pleasant family reunions with added members. See Chickens.” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "hen" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about hen stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "chickens" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0959", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Hen", "text": "To dream of hens, denotes pleasant family reunions with added members.\n\n\n[89] See Chickens.", "locator": "Heading 960; source lines 11157–11164", "lineStart": 11157, "lineEnd": 11164, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of hens, denotes pleasant family reunions with added members. See Chickens." }, { "id": "fontaine-0348", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Hen", "text": "(_See Chicken._)", "locator": "Heading 348; source line 2544", "lineStart": 2544, "lineEnd": 2546, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Chicken.)" }, { "id": "noe-0245", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Hen", "text": "To dream that you hear hens\ncackle, or that you catch them, signifies joy, profit and assurance of the\ndispatch of business. To dream that you are turned into a hen, signifies\ndisquiet. To dream that you see a hen lay eggs, signifies gain. To see a\nhen with her chickens, signifies loss or damage. To dream that a hen\ncrows, signifies sadness and trouble.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 247; source lines 1052–1057", "lineStart": 1052, "lineEnd": 1057, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you hear hens\ncackle, or that you catch them, signifies joy, profit and assurance of the\ndispatch of business. To dream that you are turned into a hen, signifies\ndisquiet. To dream that you see a hen lay eggs, signifies gain. To see a\nhen with her chickens, signifies loss or damage. To dream that a hen\ncrows, signifies sadness and trouble." }, { "id": "cielo-0210", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Hen", "text": "A sign of profit.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 210; source lines 4357–4359", "lineStart": 4357, "lineEnd": 4359, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "A sign of profit." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "chickens" ] }, { "slug": "herbs", "title": "Herbs", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of herbs, denotes that you will have vexatious cares, though some pleasures will ensue.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "herbs" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about herbs stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0960", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Herbs", "text": "To dream of herbs, denotes that you will have vexatious cares,\nthough some pleasures will ensue.\n\nTo dream of poisonous herbs, warns you of enemies.\n\nBalm and other useful herbs, denotes satisfaction in business\nand warm friendships.", "locator": "Heading 961; source lines 11164–11174", "lineStart": 11164, "lineEnd": 11174, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of herbs, denotes that you will have vexatious cares,\nthough some pleasures will ensue.\n\nTo dream of poisonous herbs, warns you of enemies.\n\nBalm and other useful herbs, denotes satisfaction in business\nand warm friendships." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10310", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Herbs", "heading": "Herbs", "text": "To dream of hemlock, henbane and other poisonous herbs denotes that you are in danger, but to dream of useful herbs is good (Gypsy). Apparently a dream from physical stimuli induced by the odors of the herbs in question.", "lineStart": 10310, "lineEnd": 10314, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 223; NLM OCR lines 10310–10314", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10310, "lineEnd": 10314, "printedPage": 223, "printedPageEnd": 223 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Herbs. — To dream of hemlock, henbane and other poison- \nous herbs denotes that you are in danger, but to dream of \nuseful herbs is good (Gypsy). Apparently a dream from phys- \nical stimuli induced by the odors of the herbs in question. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "poison- \nous", "after": "poisonous", "evidenceLine": 7745 }, { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "phys- \nical", "after": "physical", "evidenceLine": 546 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Herbs" }, "displayText": "To dream of hemlock, henbane and other poisonous herbs denotes that you are in danger, but to dream of useful herbs is good (Gypsy). Apparently a dream from physical stimuli induced by the odors of the herbs in question." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "herdsman", "title": "Herdsman", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “A dream of damage to the rich and profit to the poor (Raphael).”", "aliases": [ "herdsman" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about herdsman stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L10315", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Herdsman", "heading": "Herdsman", "text": "A dream of damage to the rich and profit to the poor (Raphael). Here the interpretation is obviously based on reason, for what would be gain to one is loss to the other.", "lineStart": 10315, "lineEnd": 10319, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 223; NLM OCR lines 10315–10319", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10315, "lineEnd": 10319, "printedPage": 223, "printedPageEnd": 223 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Herdsman. — A dream of damage to the rich and profit to \nthe poor (Raphael). Here the interpretation is obviously \nbased on reason, for what would be gain to one is loss to the \nother. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 0.98485, "secondaryHeading": "Herdsman" }, "displayText": "A dream of damage to the rich and profit to the poor (Raphael). Here the interpretation is obviously based on reason, for what would be gain to one is loss to the other." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "hermit", "title": "Hermit", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a hermit, denotes sadness and loneliness caused by the unfaithfulness of friends.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "hermit" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about hermit stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0961", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Hermit", "text": "To dream of a hermit, denotes sadness and loneliness caused\nby the unfaithfulness of friends.\n\nIf you are a hermit yourself, you will pursue researches into\nintricate subjects, and will take great interest in the discussions\nof the hour.\n\nTo find yourself in the abode of a hermit, denotes unselfishness toward\nenemies and friends alike.", "locator": "Heading 962; source lines 11174–11186", "lineStart": 11174, "lineEnd": 11186, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a hermit, denotes sadness and loneliness caused\nby the unfaithfulness of friends.\n\nIf you are a hermit yourself, you will pursue researches into\nintricate subjects, and will take great interest in the discussions\nof the hour.\n\nTo find yourself in the abode of a hermit, denotes unselfishness toward\nenemies and friends alike." }, { "id": "cielo-0211", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Hermit", "text": "Denotes a treacherous friend.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 211; source lines 4359–4361", "lineStart": 4359, "lineEnd": 4361, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Denotes a treacherous friend." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10321", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Hermit", "heading": "Hermit", "text": "See Abbott,", "lineStart": 10321, "lineEnd": 10321, "kind": "cross-reference", "locator": "Printed p. 223; NLM OCR lines 10321–10321", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10321, "lineEnd": 10321, "printedPage": 223, "printedPageEnd": 223 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Hermit. — See Abbott, \n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Hermit" }, "displayText": "See Abbott," } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "herring", "title": "Herring", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing herring, indicates a tight squeeze to escape financial embarrassment, but you will have success later.”", "aliases": [ "herring" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about herring stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0962", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Herring", "text": "To dream of seeing herring, indicates a tight squeeze to escape\nfinancial embarrassment, but you will have success later.", "locator": "Heading 963; source lines 11186–11191", "lineStart": 11186, "lineEnd": 11191, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing herring, indicates a tight squeeze to escape\nfinancial embarrassment, but you will have success later." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "hickory-nuts", "title": "Hickory-Nuts", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “Trouble from creditors.”", "aliases": [ "hickory-nuts" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about hickory-nuts stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L10324", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Hickory-Nuts", "heading": "Hickory-Nuts", "text": "Trouble from creditors.", "lineStart": 10324, "lineEnd": 10325, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 223; NLM OCR lines 10324–10325", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10324, "lineEnd": 10325, "printedPage": 223, "printedPageEnd": 223 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Hickory-Nuts. — Trouble from creditors. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Hickory-Nuts" }, "displayText": "Trouble from creditors." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "hidden", "title": "Hidden", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you have hidden away any object, denotes embarrassment in your circumstances.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "hidden", "hide, or hidden" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about hidden stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0964", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Hidden", "text": "To dream that you have hidden away any object, denotes embarrassment\nin your circumstances.\n\nTo find hidden things, you will enjoy unexpected pleasures.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of hiding objects, she will be the object\nof much adverse gossip, but will finally prove her conduct orderly.", "locator": "Heading 965; source lines 11195–11205", "lineStart": 11195, "lineEnd": 11205, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you have hidden away any object, denotes embarrassment\nin your circumstances.\n\nTo find hidden things, you will enjoy unexpected pleasures.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of hiding objects, she will be the object\nof much adverse gossip, but will finally prove her conduct orderly." }, { "id": "fontaine-0349", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Hide, or Hidden", "text": "To dream of concealing anything by hiding it, or\nputting it in an out-of-the-way place, is a sign that some one will\nreveal a secret that you have told. It is a bad omen for lovers to\ndream of hiding things, as it predicts that their intimacy will be\ntalked about as suspicious. 45, 78.", "locator": "Heading 349; source line 2546", "lineStart": 2546, "lineEnd": 2552, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of concealing anything by hiding it, or\nputting it in an out-of-the-way place, is a sign that some one will\nreveal a secret that you have told. It is a bad omen for lovers to\ndream of hiding things, as it predicts that their intimacy will be\ntalked about as suspicious.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Hide, Or Hidden” is shown on the Hidden page: fontaine \"Hide, Or Hidden\" is the same topic as Miller Hidden" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "hide", "title": "Hide", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of the hide of an animal, denotes profit and permanent employment.”", "aliases": [ "hide" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about hide stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0963", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Hide", "text": "To dream of the hide of an animal, denotes profit and permanent employment.", "locator": "Heading 964; source lines 11191–11195", "lineStart": 11191, "lineEnd": 11195, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of the hide of an animal, denotes profit and permanent employment." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "hieroglyphs", "title": "Hieroglyphs", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Hieroglyphs seen in a dream, foretells that wavering judgment in some vital matter may cause you great distress and money loss.”", "aliases": [ "hieroglyphs" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about hieroglyphs stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0965", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Hieroglyphs", "text": "Hieroglyphs seen in a dream, foretells that wavering judgment\nin some vital matter may cause you great distress and money loss.\nTo be able to read them, your success in overcoming some\nevil is foretold.", "locator": "Heading 966; source lines 11205–11212", "lineStart": 11205, "lineEnd": 11212, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Hieroglyphs seen in a dream, foretells that wavering judgment\nin some vital matter may cause you great distress and money loss.\nTo be able to read them, your success in overcoming some\nevil is foretold." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "high-estates-and-dignities", "title": "High Estates and Dignities", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Artemidorus wrote: “To dream to be a King or Emperor, to the sick is death, for as the King, so also death is subject to none: to him which is in health it…”", "aliases": [ "high estates and dignities", "of high estates and dignities" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about high estates and dignities stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "artemidorus-092", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of High Estates and Dignities.", "text": "TO dream to be a King or Emperor, to the sick is death, for as the King, so also death is subject to none: to him which is in health it is losse, or separation of parents and friends, for the King hath no companion: to a Malefactor it is surprising, and discovering of his fault, for the King is knowne, and encompassed with his Guard: the scepter, crown and habit or ornament royall, signifie as much: the poore man which dreams he is a King, shall do worthy déeds, whereof he shall have honour without profit: the servant shall be at liberty: it is very good for [illegible passage] Phylosopher, Poet, or Soothsayer, for there is nothing more frée and royall, then a worthy spirit: to dream to be a Captain, to those that are accustomed therto is good, to the poore it is trouble and defaniation: to the servant, liberty: to be a Towne-Clarke, is to do another mans worke with pain void of profit: to the sick, it is death: to the servant it is good government of the house, faith, and authority. To be a Major or Bayly of the Town, or to have charge and government of children and women, are troubles and angers: to have commission and power over the living is good for physitians and those which are studious, of the government of life and health: to others it is trouble and defamation: to give alms and generall distributions, to the sicke is death and dissipation of goods: to the whole trouble and defamation: to good men being poore, it is good, betokening goods and▪ advancement comming to them, for without goods one cannot give such Almes. Also it is good to Players and Moris-dancers, for it signifyeth to them honour and praise. When one maketh the foresaid Alms and distribution, to dream that one takes his part, is good; but not to take it or receive it, is good to none, but evidently signifyeth death, for the dead receive no more. Any dignity which requires carrying of gold and purple, is death to the sick, and discredit to others. To be made a Bishop is good for all, onely except those which would be secret: to be chief of the House, assembly or Congregation, is pain, anger, and oftentimes hurt: any state belonging to a man, which a woman dreameth she hath, it signifyeth to her death: and the contrary.", "locator": "Book 2, encoded section 92", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription-with-gaps", "book": "2", "displayText": "To dream to be a King or Emperor, to the sick is death, for as the King, so also death is subject to none: to him which is in health it is losse, or separation of parents and friends, for the King hath no companion: to a Malefactor it is surprising, and discovering of his fault, for the King is knowne, and encompassed with his Guard: the scepter, crown and habit or ornament royall, signifie as much: the poore man which dreams he is a King, shall do worthy déeds, whereof he shall have honour without profit: the servant shall be at liberty: it is very good for [illegible passage] Phylosopher, Poet, or Soothsayer, for there is nothing more frée and royall, then a worthy spirit: to dream to be a Captain, to those that are accustomed therto is good, to the poore it is trouble and defaniation: to the servant, liberty: to be a Towne-Clarke, is to do another mans worke with pain void of profit: to the sick, it is death: to the servant it is good government of the house, faith, and authority. To be a Major or Bayly of the Town, or to have charge and government of children and women, are troubles and angers: to have commission and power over the living is good for physitians and those which are studious, of the government of life and health: to others it is trouble and defamation: to give alms and generall distributions, to the sicke is death and dissipation of goods: to the whole trouble and defamation: to good men being poore, it is good, betokening goods and▪ advancement comming to them, for without goods one cannot give such Almes. Also it is good to Players and Moris-dancers, for it signifyeth to them honour and praise. When one maketh the foresaid Alms and distribution, to dream that one takes his part, is good; but not to take it or receive it, is good to none, but evidently signifyeth death, for the dead receive no more. Any dignity which requires carrying of gold and purple, is death to the sick, and discredit to others. To be made a Bishop is good for all, onely except those which would be secret: to be chief of the House, assembly or Congregation, is pain, anger, and oftentimes hurt: any state belonging to a man, which a woman dreameth she hath, it signifyeth to her death: and the contrary." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "high-school", "title": "High School", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "Old social roles beside present choices", "summary": "High school may bring adolescent roles, peer visibility and changing independence into a present situation, without judging your current maturity.", "aliases": [ "high school" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "High school can give a dream a particular stage of life rather than merely a place to learn. You may recognize the corridors, the people who watched one another closely, or the awkward interval between being managed by adults and making more choices yourself. The setting may connect with an actual memory, but it can also assemble a school you never attended. Describe what makes it high school in your account.\n\nPeer visibility can become central without an exam appearing. Finding a lunch table, walking past a group or being seen in a different outfit may picture deciding how much of yourself to show. A new workplace, club or reunion can provide a present comparison. This does not mean that your current relationships repeat adolescence or that an uncomfortable scene establishes how other people regard you.\n\nYour dreamed age changes the situation. Feeling like your younger self can bring an earlier wish or concern close; appearing at your current age may give you knowledge and choices the original situation lacked. You might answer an old insult differently or find that nobody notices the difference. The scene can place remembered expectations beside present possibilities without requiring you to relive them.\n\nIndependence can appear through practical permissions: choosing a subject, leaving the grounds, arranging a ride or changing an activity. A rule may feel useful, unfair or simply outdated. Notice whether the dream gives you a workable alternative, rather than reading every limit as punishment or every departure as growth. The particular decision earns the comparison.\n\nA former friend becoming unfamiliar may make change more important than recognition. Returning to a team you no longer want to join can reveal the gap between having a place and wanting that place now. Recent contact with classmates, teenagers in your family, school photographs and stories can supply ordinary material. Keep achievements, friendships and difficult memories equally available. A high-school dream need not resolve your adolescence or assign a maturity score; it can describe one social position you briefly occupy again.", "traditional": "Miller's High School account predicts advancement in love, social life and business, then gives a separate gendered forecast for suspension. Those are his period predictions. The original reflection considers the dreamed setting and social decisions without adopting a gender rule, a future success claim or a judgment about your maturity.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "An old lunch table has room but you choose somewhere else", "reflection": "Acceptance is available without requiring you to resume the same group. This may resemble choosing company from present interests rather than a familiar social position. The scene leaves room for affection toward the old group and a different preference now." }, { "title": "You wear your current work clothes among teenage classmates", "reflection": "Your present role is visible inside an earlier social environment. This could bring competence, awkwardness or amusement into comparison with old expectations. Notice how others respond in the dream before assuming that the age difference makes you either superior or out of place." }, { "title": "You can choose a subject you were once discouraged from taking", "reflection": "An earlier limit becomes negotiable. The scene may picture revisiting an interest with different resources or permissions, such as beginning a course for enjoyment. The subject's appeal matters more than treating the opportunity as proof of an unrealized destiny." }, { "title": "A former teammate invites you back to an activity you no longer enjoy", "reflection": "A remembered place is offered, but its purpose may no longer fit. This can resemble an invitation that honors an earlier version of you. Whether you join, suggest another activity or decline helps distinguish connection with people from keeping the same role." }, { "title": "You speak up when another student is excluded", "reflection": "Attention moves from your own standing to how the group treats somebody else. This may connect with a present decision about participation or fairness. The dream does not establish what happened historically; it gives you a particular response within its invented scene." }, { "title": "You arrange your own journey home instead of waiting for permission", "reflection": "A practical departure makes independence concrete. The scene may fit deciding how to leave a familiar obligation while still planning responsibly. Record the route and any help you accept; choosing for yourself need not mean doing everything without other people." } ], "prompts": [ "What detail made this school feel connected to adolescence?", "How did you participate in its social life during the dream?", "Which earlier expectation feels different when you consider it from your present life?" ], "related": [ "school", "classmates", "reunion", "school-or-exam", "graduation" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0966" ], "scope": "Historical comparison only: Miller gives an advancement forecast for high school and a separate gendered social-trouble forecast for suspension. Exact owned passages: High School — miller-0966 (Heading 967; source lines 11212–11219). These period claims do not validate the original reflections or establish present-day outcomes." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection independently reviewed for content and source scope. Historical accounts remain attributed period writing. Human publication review pending.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Being visible to peers", "reflection": "A remembered social setting can make being noticed, overlooked or able to choose company the practical issue." }, { "title": "The age you occupy", "reflection": "Your current knowledge and an earlier role may coexist without making the dream a recovered historical event." }, { "title": "Changing independence", "reflection": "Subject choices, rides and permissions can give a specific shape to deciding how much direction you want from others." } ], "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0966", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "High School", "text": "To dream of a high school, foretells ascension to more elevated\npositions in love, as well as social and business affairs.\nFor a young woman to be suspended from a high school,\nforetells she will have troubles in social circles.", "locator": "Heading 967; source lines 11212–11219", "lineStart": 11212, "lineEnd": 11219, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a high school, foretells ascension to more elevated\npositions in love, as well as social and business affairs.\nFor a young woman to be suspended from a high school,\nforetells she will have troubles in social circles." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "high-tide", "title": "High Tide", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of high tide is indicative of favorable progression in your affairs.”", "aliases": [ "high tide" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about high tide stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0967", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "High Tide", "text": "To dream of high tide is indicative of favorable progression\nin your affairs.", "locator": "Heading 968; source lines 11219–11224", "lineStart": 11219, "lineEnd": 11224, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of high tide is indicative of favorable progression\nin your affairs." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "highway", "title": "Highway", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "A shared flow can carry you forward while limiting where you can pause.", "summary": "Highway dreams can explore joining a shared pace, choosing exits and finding room to pause. The route’s structure changes what movement allows.", "aliases": [ "highway", "highways", "freeway", "freeways", "motorway", "motorways" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A highway organizes many journeys into a common flow. In a dream, that can picture participating in a process with an established pace, such as a busy project, training sequence or shared move. You have a direction of your own while movement also depends on the surrounding arrangement. A comfortable journey can express trust in that structure. Feeling unable to pause can make its demands more important than the destination.\n\nJoining the flow creates a particular threshold. You may be ready to participate while waiting for a usable gap, or feel pushed to enter before the conditions fit. This can resemble starting in a group whose work is already underway. The issue may be access to a workable pace, not reluctance to begin. Somebody making room can change the experience without requiring the whole process to stop.\n\nSustained movement can make continuation easier than reconsideration. A route may carry you past several possible stopping points before you notice that your purpose has changed. A long-standing commitment can feel similar when its routine remains efficient but no longer serves the same need. A rest area gives a different relationship to progress: pausing becomes part of the route rather than a complete departure from it.\n\nCompanions may share a vehicle without sharing a destination. One person's exit can arrive before another's, bringing coordination and separation into the same journey. You may recognize a shared task whose participants need different next stages. Making that difference explicit can preserve company for part of the route without expecting everyone to stay together indefinitely.\n\nChoosing a smaller road can picture changing the terms of movement. It may offer more room to stop or explore while adding uncertainty and time. Neither route is automatically better. Your preferred pace, the destination and what the highway made possible all matter. Recent travel can also provide the imagery directly. These reflections concern flow, participation and opportunities to pause, while the separate missed-exit entry focuses on passing a particular turnoff.", "traditional": "No exact Highway passage is supplied in the historical archive. Road and traveling records concern broader routes, not an established rule for highway flow, joining lanes or rest areas. These are original reflections on the structure experienced in the dream.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Joining an established pace", "reflection": "The flow can picture a shared process already in motion. A usable opening may matter more than willingness when participation depends on conditions organized around other people." }, { "title": "A pause within progress", "reflection": "Rest areas can make stopping part of the arrangement rather than its failure. The scene may distinguish sustainable movement from continuation that gives no room to reconsider." }, { "title": "Shared movement, different destinations", "reflection": "A vehicle can connect people for part of a route without requiring the same ending. Explicitly different needs may change how company and separation coexist." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You cannot find a gap to join the moving traffic", "reflection": "No gap to enter can picture readiness without a workable opening in a shared process. Joining a busy team may feel similar. Someone making room changes access, rather than proving that you should simply move faster or try harder." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "The highway continues farther than your planned journey", "reflection": "A route extending beyond the plan can picture a commitment continuing after its original purpose has been met. Its momentum may be useful or restrictive. The question is what still needs the journey, rather than distance automatically meaning achievement." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A rest area gives you room to pause", "reflection": "A rest area can picture a pause supported by the arrangement itself. A planned interval in work or a shared task may fit. Being able to resume later distinguishes rest from feeling required to abandon the whole route." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A companion needs an exit different from yours", "reflection": "Different exits can picture participants needing separate next stages after a period together. A shared project or household plan may offer a parallel. Naming the difference can preserve connection without forcing identical destinations. An agreed stopping point can make separation workable." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You keep a comfortable pace while other lanes rush", "reflection": "A comfortable pace beside rushing lanes can picture keeping an approach that fits your task while others move differently. The comparison may be noticeable without deciding your route. Comfort and access help distinguish choice from imposed limitation." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The highway ends and you choose a smaller road", "reflection": "A smaller road can picture revising the terms of a journey while keeping its purpose. More stopping points may offer room at the cost of speed or certainty. The useful reading follows what the change allows, rather than ranking the roads." } ], "prompts": [ "What pace did the shared route make possible or difficult?", "Where did I have room to pause, join or change direction?", "What destinations did the people traveling together want?" ], "related": [ "road", "traffic-jam", "missing-a-highway-exit", "car" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "hills", "title": "Hills", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "5 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of climbing hills is good if the top is reached, but if you fall back, you will have much envy…” Compare 5 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "hills", "hill" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about hills stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "ascend" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0968", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Hills", "text": "To dream of climbing hills is good if the top is reached,\nbut if you fall back, you will have much envy and contrariness\nto fight against.\n\n\n[90] See Ascend and Descend.", "locator": "Heading 969; source lines 11224–11233", "lineStart": 11224, "lineEnd": 11233, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of climbing hills is good if the top is reached,\nbut if you fall back, you will have much envy and contrariness\nto fight against. See Ascend and Descend." }, { "id": "fontaine-0350", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Hill", "text": "To dream of going up a hill is a sign you will rise in the world,\nand of going down hill the reverse; if, in your dream, you seem to\nbe approaching a smooth high hill, it shows that you will shortly\nhave a piece of good fortune; but if the hill be rugged and stony, it\nforetells difficulties in connection with the good fortune. 1, 46, 18.\n\n To dream of mountains, hills, or rocks,\n Does signify, slouts, scoffs, and mocks;\n Their pains in passing over shew,\n That she whom you love, loves not you.", "locator": "Heading 350; source line 2552", "lineStart": 2552, "lineEnd": 2563, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of going up a hill is a sign you will rise in the world,\nand of going down hill the reverse; if, in your dream, you seem to\nbe approaching a smooth high hill, it shows that you will shortly\nhave a piece of good fortune; but if the hill be rugged and stony, it\nforetells difficulties in connection with the good fortune.\n\nTo dream of mountains, hills, or rocks,\nDoes signify, slouts, scoffs, and mocks;\nTheir pains in passing over shew,\nThat she whom you love, loves not you." }, { "id": "noe-0231", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Hills", "text": "To dream you are traveling over high\nhills and wading through great difficulties, having lost your way, shows\nyou shall meet with assistance and have good counsel in your difficulties.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 233; source lines 993–996", "lineStart": 993, "lineEnd": 996, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are traveling over high\nhills and wading through great difficulties, having lost your way, shows\nyou shall meet with assistance and have good counsel in your difficulties." }, { "id": "cielo-0212", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Hill", "text": "Going up a hill means success; going down one, failure.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 212; source lines 4361–4363", "lineStart": 4361, "lineEnd": 4363, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Going up a hill means success; going down one, failure." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10326", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Hill", "heading": "Hill", "text": "To dream of climbing a steep hill and reaching the top, difficulties overcome ; to fail to reach the top, disappointment ; green hills in the distance, hope, promise ( Artemidorus).", "lineStart": 10326, "lineEnd": 10329, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 223; NLM OCR lines 10326–10329", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10326, "lineEnd": 10329, "printedPage": 223, "printedPageEnd": 223 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Hill. — To dream of climbing a steep hill and reaching the \ntop, difficulties overcome ; to fail to reach the top, disappoint- \nment ; green hills in the distance, hope, promise ( Artemidorus). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "disappoint- \nment", "after": "disappointment", "evidenceLine": 2109 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Hill" }, "displayText": "To dream of climbing a steep hill and reaching the top, difficulties overcome; to fail to reach the top, disappointment; green hills in the distance, hope, promise ( Artemidorus)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "ascend" ] }, { "slug": "hippopotamus", "title": "Hippopotamus", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "summary": "A hippopotamus encounter can explore what is only partly visible, a substantial presence in shared space, and room to change your route.", "tagline": "A presence larger than its first outline.", "aliases": [ "hippopotamus", "hippopotamuses", "hippo", "hippos" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A hippopotamus partly visible in water can picture knowing that something substantial is present without seeing its whole extent. A new responsibility may have a clear outline while its daily demands remain uncertain, or a shared arrangement may reveal only part of what another participant needs. The dream’s visible portion can feel intriguing, reassuring, or unsettling. None of those feelings establishes a hidden threat; they describe your relationship with incomplete information.\n\nWhen the animal emerges and seems larger than expected, the scene can make an estimate tangible. A task described in a short message may require much more work once you begin, or a minor household change may affect several routines. Surprise need not become resentment. Having room to revise the arrangement can turn discovery into workable adjustment, while being required to continue as if nothing changed can make the same discovery feel burdensome.\n\nLand and water can offer different routes through the encounter. You may have stable footing but little room to pass, or more open space that requires a different way of moving. This can fit a choice between familiar conditions with limited options and an unfamiliar approach with more room. The image does not assign one environment a better meaning. Your ability to pause, change direction, or remain an observer makes the practical difference.\n\nA hippopotamus appearing in an ordinary pool can disrupt a setting intended for a much smaller routine. A project added to a short meeting or a major conversation begun during an everyday errand may provide parallels. If several people negotiate space, the problem becomes collective accommodation rather than your responsibility alone. Different routes around the animal may also picture legitimate differences in how people approach the same substantial matter.\n\nKeeping a comfortable distance can allow curiosity without obliging you to enter every part of the situation. A documentary, photograph, toy, or visit can supply the animal directly. These readings follow the imagined visibility, scale, and available routes in your dream; they do not infer danger, a personality trait, or a future event from the animal’s name.", "traditional": "No directly matching historical account is attached for this specific topic. The readings here are original reflective possibilities. The NINDS source provides general background about dreams, not evidence for these symbolic comparisons.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Partial information", "reflection": "A visible outline can leave the extent of a responsibility uncertain without proving concealment or danger." }, { "title": "Revising an estimate", "reflection": "Discovering more than expected may require changed arrangements rather than increased effort alone." }, { "title": "Several workable routes", "reflection": "Different positions can offer legitimate ways to approach the same substantial presence." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "Quiet water reveals a much larger animal", "reflection": "An initial estimate changes when more becomes visible. This may picture discovering the practical demands of an apparently small commitment. Revising the plan differs from blaming yourself for not knowing its full extent before direct experience was available." }, { "title": "A hippopotamus enters an ordinary pool", "reflection": "The setting no longer fits its usual purpose comfortably. This can resemble a major demand placed inside a minor routine. Enlarging the arrangement or choosing another place may be more useful than expecting the substantial presence to remain unobtrusive." }, { "title": "A narrow land path requires another route", "reflection": "Stable footing does not provide enough room to continue as planned. This may fit a familiar method whose limits have become clear. Taking another route can preserve the destination without treating loyalty to the original path as a requirement." }, { "title": "Only part of the animal remains visible", "reflection": "You can recognize a presence without knowing its whole position. This can picture a commitment or relationship understood through limited contact. Waiting for more information creates a different response from assuming that what you cannot see must be threatening." }, { "title": "More space makes observation comfortable", "reflection": "The encounter changes when proximity becomes chosen. This may fit becoming able to consider a substantial matter after immediate pressure decreases. Distance can support understanding without requiring permanent withdrawal or the judgment that the subject itself was unwelcome." }, { "title": "People choose different ways around it", "reflection": "One substantial obstacle produces several workable approaches. This can picture differing practical needs within a shared undertaking. Agreement about the destination does not require identical routes; coordination may concern allowing those differences rather than selecting one response for everyone." } ], "prompts": [ "What part of a substantial matter is clear, and what remains uncertain?", "Which estimate might need revision after direct experience?", "What route allows both participation and comfortable room?" ], "related": [ "river", "elephant", "rhinoceros", "water" ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "hips", "title": "Hips", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you admire well-formed hips, denotes that you will be upbraided by your wife.”", "aliases": [ "hips" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about hips stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0969", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Hips", "text": "To dream that you admire well-formed hips, denotes that you\nwill be upbraided by your wife.\n\nFor a woman to admire her hips, shows she will be disappointed\nin love matters.\n\nTo notice fat hips on animals, foretells ease and pleasure.\n\nFor a woman to dream that her hips are too narrow, omens sickness\nand disappointments. If too fat, she is in danger of losing her reputation.", "locator": "Heading 970; source lines 11233–11246", "lineStart": 11233, "lineEnd": 11246, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you admire well-formed hips, denotes that you\nwill be upbraided by your wife.\n\nFor a woman to admire her hips, shows she will be disappointed\nin love matters.\n\nTo notice fat hips on animals, foretells ease and pleasure.\n\nFor a woman to dream that her hips are too narrow, omens sickness\nand disappointments. If too fat, she is in danger of losing her reputation." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "hissing", "title": "Hissing", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of hissing persons, is an omen that you will be displeased beyond endurance at the discourteous…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "hissing" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about hissing stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0970", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Hissing", "text": "To dream of hissing persons, is an omen that you will be\ndispleased beyond endurance at the discourteous treatment shown\nyou while among newly made acquaintances. If they hiss you,\nyou will be threatened with the loss of a friend.", "locator": "Heading 971; source lines 11246–11253", "lineStart": 11246, "lineEnd": 11253, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of hissing persons, is an omen that you will be\ndispleased beyond endurance at the discourteous treatment shown\nyou while among newly made acquaintances. If they hiss you,\nyou will be threatened with the loss of a friend." }, { "id": "fontaine-0351", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Hissing", "text": "To dream of hearing hissing noises, such as steam makes, or of\ngeese hissing, is a sign of shame. If a girl dreams this, it foretells\nthat she will do something she is ashamed of: to a man it is a sign he\nwill do an undignified act, or one that will injure his prospects. 47.", "locator": "Heading 351; source line 2563", "lineStart": 2563, "lineEnd": 2568, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of hearing hissing noises, such as steam makes, or of\ngeese hissing, is a sign of shame. If a girl dreams this, it foretells\nthat she will do something she is ashamed of: to a man it is a sign he\nwill do an undignified act, or one that will injure his prospects." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "history", "title": "History", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are reading history, indicates a long and pleasant recreation.”", "aliases": [ "history" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about history stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0971", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "History", "text": "To dream that you are reading history, indicates a long\nand pleasant recreation.", "locator": "Heading 972; source lines 11253–11258", "lineStart": 11253, "lineEnd": 11258, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are reading history, indicates a long\nand pleasant recreation." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "hives", "title": "Hives", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that your child is affected with hives, denotes that it will enjoy good health and be docile.”", "aliases": [ "hives" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about hives stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0972", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Hives", "text": "To dream that your child is affected with hives, denotes that it will enjoy\ngood health and be docile.\n\nTo see strange children thus affected, you will be unduly frightened\nover the condition of some favorite.", "locator": "Heading 973; source lines 11258–11266", "lineStart": 11258, "lineEnd": 11266, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that your child is affected with hives, denotes that it will enjoy\ngood health and be docile.\n\nTo see strange children thus affected, you will be unduly frightened\nover the condition of some favorite." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "hoe", "title": "Hoe", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing a hoe, denotes that you will have no time for idle pleasures, as there will be others depending upon your work for…”", "aliases": [ "hoe" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about hoe stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0973", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Hoe", "text": "To dream of seeing a hoe, denotes that you will have no time\nfor idle pleasures, as there will be others depending upon\nyour work for subsistence.\n\nTo dream of using a hoe, you will enjoy freedom from poverty by directing\nyour energy into safe channels.\n\nFor a woman to dream of hoeing, she will be independent of others, as she\nwill be self-supporting. For lovers, this dream is a sign of faithfulness.\n\nTo dream of a foe striking at you with a hoe, your interests\nwill be threatened by enemies, but with caution you will keep\naloof from real danger.", "locator": "Heading 974; source lines 11266–11282", "lineStart": 11266, "lineEnd": 11282, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing a hoe, denotes that you will have no time\nfor idle pleasures, as there will be others depending upon\nyour work for subsistence.\n\nTo dream of using a hoe, you will enjoy freedom from poverty by directing\nyour energy into safe channels.\n\nFor a woman to dream of hoeing, she will be independent of others, as she\nwill be self-supporting. For lovers, this dream is a sign of faithfulness.\n\nTo dream of a foe striking at you with a hoe, your interests\nwill be threatened by enemies, but with caution you will keep\naloof from real danger." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "hogs", "title": "Hogs", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing fat, strong-looking hogs, foretells brisk changes in business and safe dealings.” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "hogs", "hog" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about hogs stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0974", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Hogs", "text": "To dream of seeing fat, strong-looking hogs, foretells brisk changes\nin business and safe dealings. Lean hogs predict vexatious affairs\nand trouble with servants and children.\n\nTo see a sow and litter of pigs, denotes abundant crops to the farmer,\nand advance in the affairs of others.\n\nTo hear hogs squealing, denotes unpleasant news from absent friends,\nand foretells disappointment by death, or failure to realize the amounts\nyou expected in deals of importance.\n\nTo dream of feeding your own hogs, denotes an increase in\nyour personal belongings.\n\nTo dream that you are dealing in hogs, you will accumulate\nconsiderable property, but you will have much rough work to perform.", "locator": "Heading 975; source lines 11282–11301", "lineStart": 11282, "lineEnd": 11301, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing fat, strong-looking hogs, foretells brisk changes\nin business and safe dealings. Lean hogs predict vexatious affairs\nand trouble with servants and children.\n\nTo see a sow and litter of pigs, denotes abundant crops to the farmer,\nand advance in the affairs of others.\n\nTo hear hogs squealing, denotes unpleasant news from absent friends,\nand foretells disappointment by death, or failure to realize the amounts\nyou expected in deals of importance.\n\nTo dream of feeding your own hogs, denotes an increase in\nyour personal belongings.\n\nTo dream that you are dealing in hogs, you will accumulate\nconsiderable property, but you will have much rough work to perform." }, { "id": "fontaine-0352", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Hog", "text": "To dream of well-kept and happy-looking hogs is a good omen, as it\nforetells luck and success: but if you see lean and hungry-looking hogs\nsquealing, it shows that any speculation you may enter into about that\ntime will not be of much account if it does not result in a loss. 64.", "locator": "Heading 352; source line 2568", "lineStart": 2568, "lineEnd": 2573, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of well-kept and happy-looking hogs is a good omen, as it\nforetells luck and success: but if you see lean and hungry-looking hogs\nsquealing, it shows that any speculation you may enter into about that\ntime will not be of much account if it does not result in a loss." }, { "id": "cielo-0213", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Hog", "text": "To dream of a hog is a lucky dream for\n speculators, but unlucky for lovers.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 213; source lines 4363–4366", "lineStart": 4363, "lineEnd": 4366, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a hog is a lucky dream for\nspeculators, but unlucky for lovers." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10330", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Hog", "heading": "Hog", "text": "Avarice and greed are augured by this dream (Artemidorus) ; symbol of sensuality; Circe turned men to swine of old.", "lineStart": 10330, "lineEnd": 10333, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 223; NLM OCR lines 10330–10333", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10330, "lineEnd": 10333, "printedPage": 223, "printedPageEnd": 223 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Hog. — Avarice and greed are augured by this dream (Arte- \nmidorus) ; symbol of sensuality; Circe turned men to swine of \nold. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "Arte- \nmidorus", "after": "Artemidorus", "evidenceLine": 485 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Hog" }, "displayText": "Avarice and greed are augured by this dream (Artemidorus); symbol of sensuality; Circe turned men to swine of old." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "hogs-bristles", "title": "Hogs’ Bristles", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “This dream denotes great violence and danger.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "hogs’ bristles", "hog’s-bristles", "of hogs brisles, and horse haire" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about hogs’ bristles stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0353", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Hog’s-Bristles", "text": "This dream denotes great violence and danger. 21, 7.", "locator": "Heading 353; source line 2573", "lineStart": 2573, "lineEnd": 2575, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "This dream denotes great violence and danger.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Hog’S-Bristles” is shown on the Hogs’ Bristles page: same topic in Fontaine/Noe/Artemidorus (hogs' bristles)" }, { "id": "artemidorus-009", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of Hogs Brisles, and Horse haire.", "text": "TO dreame you have Hogs brisles, is great and violent danger, such as the hog is commonly subject to. To have horse hayr is a signe of servitude and misery.", "locator": "Book 1, encoded section 9", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "1", "displayText": "To dreame you have Hogs brisles, is great and violent danger, such as the hog is commonly subject to. To have horse hayr is a signe of servitude and misery.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Hogs Brisles, and Horse haire” is shown on the Hogs’ Bristles page: same topic in Fontaine/Noe/Artemidorus (hogs' bristles)" }, { "id": "noe-0237", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Hogs’ Bristles", "text": "To dream\nthat you have hogs’ bristles, signifies great and violent dangers.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 239; source lines 1015–1017", "lineStart": 1015, "lineEnd": 1017, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream\nthat you have hogs’ bristles, signifies great and violent dangers." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "hole", "title": "Hole", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Cielo wrote: “Falling into a hole is a sign of many obstacles.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "hole" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about hole stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "abyss" ], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0354", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Hole", "text": "(_See Abyss._)", "locator": "Heading 354; source line 2575", "lineStart": 2575, "lineEnd": 2577, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Abyss.)" }, { "id": "cielo-0214", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Hole", "text": "Falling into a hole is a sign of many obstacles.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 214; source lines 4366–4368", "lineStart": 4366, "lineEnd": 4368, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Falling into a hole is a sign of many obstacles." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "abyss" ] }, { "slug": "holiday", "title": "Holiday", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a holiday, foretells interesting strangers will soon partake of your hospitality.”", "aliases": [ "holiday" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about holiday stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0975", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Holiday", "text": "To dream of a holiday, foretells interesting strangers will soon\npartake of your hospitality. For a young woman to dream that she\nis displeased with a holiday, denotes she will be fearful of her own\nattractions in winning a friend back from a rival.", "locator": "Heading 976; source lines 11301–11308", "lineStart": 11301, "lineEnd": 11308, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a holiday, foretells interesting strangers will soon\npartake of your hospitality. For a young woman to dream that she\nis displeased with a holiday, denotes she will be fearful of her own\nattractions in winning a friend back from a rival." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "holly", "title": "Holly", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “A good dream (Gypsy); the symbol of joy.”", "aliases": [ "holly" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about holly stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L10334", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Holly", "heading": "Holly", "text": "A good dream (Gypsy) ; the symbol of joy.", "lineStart": 10334, "lineEnd": 10335, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 223; NLM OCR lines 10334–10335", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10334, "lineEnd": 10335, "printedPage": 223, "printedPageEnd": 223 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Holly. — A good dream (Gypsy) ; the symbol of joy. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Holly" }, "displayText": "A good dream (Gypsy); the symbol of joy." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "holy-communion", "title": "Holy Communion", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are taking part in the Holy Communion, warns you that you will resign your independent opinions to gain some frivolous…”", "aliases": [ "holy communion" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about holy communion stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0976", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Holy Communion", "text": "To dream that you are taking part in the Holy Communion,\nwarns you that you will resign your independent opinions to gain\nsome frivolous desire.\n\nIf you dream that there is neither bread nor wine for the supper,\nyou will find that you have suffered your ideas to be proselytized\nin vain, as you are no nearer your goal.\n\nIf you are refused the right of communion and feel worthy, there is\nhope for your obtaining some prominent position which has appeared\nextremely doubtful, as your opponents are popular and powerful.\nIf you feel unworthy, you will meet with much discomfort.\n\nTo dream that you are in a body of Baptists who are taking communion,\ndenotes that you will find that your friends are growing uncongenial,\nand you will look to strangers for harmony.", "locator": "Heading 977; source lines 11308–11327", "lineStart": 11308, "lineEnd": 11327, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are taking part in the Holy Communion,\nwarns you that you will resign your independent opinions to gain\nsome frivolous desire.\n\nIf you dream that there is neither bread nor wine for the supper,\nyou will find that you have suffered your ideas to be proselytized\nin vain, as you are no nearer your goal.\n\nIf you are refused the right of communion and feel worthy, there is\nhope for your obtaining some prominent position which has appeared\nextremely doubtful, as your opponents are popular and powerful.\nIf you feel unworthy, you will meet with much discomfort.\n\nTo dream that you are in a body of Baptists who are taking communion,\ndenotes that you will find that your friends are growing uncongenial,\nand you will look to strangers for harmony." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "holy-evens-joyes-and-banquets-made-by-night", "title": "Holy Evens, Joyes, and Banquets made by night", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Artemidorus wrote: “HOly Evens, and Festivals by night, are good for such as would marry, or make mariages, and such as seek company, and affinity: to the…”", "aliases": [ "holy evens, joyes, and banquets made by night", "of holy evens, joyes, and banquets made by night", "holy evens", "joyes", "banquets made by night" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about holy evens, joyes, and banquets made by night stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "artemidorus-164", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of Holy Evens, Joyes, and Banquets made by night.", "text": "HOly Evens, and Festivals by night, are good for such as would marry, or make mariages, and such as seek company, and affinity: to the poore they are a signe of goods: to the sad and fearfull, end of heavines, and fear: for none watch willingly all night in daneing, good cheere, and myrth, but those which are joyfull: to whoremasters and harlots it is revealing of theyr deeds: to the rich and wealthy, they are trouble and divulgation.", "locator": "Book 3, encoded section 164", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "3", "displayText": "HOly Evens, and Festivals by night, are good for such as would marry, or make mariages, and such as seek company, and affinity: to the poore they are a signe of goods: to the sad and fearfull, end of heavines, and fear: for none watch willingly all night in daneing, good cheere, and myrth, but those which are joyfull: to whoremasters and harlots it is revealing of theyr deeds: to the rich and wealthy, they are trouble and divulgation." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "homesick", "title": "Homesick", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "aliases": [ "homesick" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0979" ], "scope": "Miller gives feeling homesick an unfavorable forecast about opportunities for interesting travel and pleasant visits. Specific supplied passages: Homesick — miller-0979 (Heading 980; source lines 11348–11353). Historical comparison only; these period beliefs do not establish outcomes or validate the original symbolic reflections." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "summary": "Feeling homesick in a dream may help identify a familiar person, routine or place you miss while considering what you need now.", "tagline": "Missing something familiar without losing the present.", "psychological": "Homesickness in a dream is a feeling about being away from somewhere that seems like home. The imagined home might be your present address, an earlier place or somewhere you have never lived. What makes it feel like home matters: a person who understands you, a predictable meal, a language spoken easily or room to move without explaining yourself.\n\nThe dream may allow you to identify a specific absence. You might enjoy a new job or trip while missing ordinary company at the end of the day. That mixed experience need not become a judgment about the move. Ask what you wish were available in the scene and whether it is a place, a relationship or a familiar way of spending time.\n\nDifficulty contacting home can give longing a practical obstacle. A call that will not connect differs from choosing not to call because you want to manage independently. Either scene could prompt reflection on how you request connection, especially when distance or different schedules complicate it. The dream does not tell you how people at home actually feel.\n\nSometimes you return and still feel homesick. The building is familiar, but the routine or company you miss is absent. This may help separate a location from the experience associated with it. Revisiting an address cannot reproduce every earlier arrangement; the dream can make that difference noticeable without requiring you to abandon a valued memory.\n\nAn unfamiliar place that unexpectedly feels homelike offers another direction. Perhaps a shared meal, a conversation or a quiet corner gives you some of what you thought existed only elsewhere. Consider which familiar qualities could become part of your present routine. Wanting continuity and exploring a new setting can coexist.\n\nRecent travel, relocation, family contact or remembered meals may supply the feeling directly. Treat the reflection as a way of naming what you miss, not a diagnosis or an instruction to return. What part of home is portable through a habit, invitation or conversation, and what part remains something you can appreciate from a distance?", "traditional": "Miller’s short Homesick passage predicts missed opportunities for travel and visits. That is an attributed period forecast, not evidence that longing will cost you an opportunity or that staying away is the correct choice. The original reflections here consider the particular people, routines and places that feel absent.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Naming what is missed", "reflection": "A familiar meal, person or way of speaking may reveal a more specific wish than simply being elsewhere." }, { "title": "Connection across distance", "reflection": "Calls, visits and shared schedules can make the practical possibilities of staying connected visible in the scene." }, { "title": "Making room for continuity", "reflection": "Unexpected comfort in a new setting may suggest which qualities of home you would like to carry into present routines." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "Missing a familiar meal while enjoying a trip", "reflection": "The place you are visiting is interesting, yet you wish for one ordinary meal from home. The combination may help you name a small form of continuity rather than reject the whole experience. What does that meal offer: company, predictability, familiarity or the freedom to choose nothing new?" }, { "title": "A call home that will not connect", "reflection": "You want to hear a familiar voice but cannot complete the call. The scene might focus on the effort of maintaining connection across schedules or distance. Ask what you would like to say if it connected, without assuming the failed call represents another person's reluctance or a real loss." }, { "title": "Returning to a familiar address and still longing", "reflection": "You reach home, but the feeling remains because a routine or person is missing. This could help distinguish a place from the experience you associate with it. Notice what would need to happen for the return to feel satisfying; an unchanged building may not supply everything you miss." }, { "title": "Feeling at home during an unfamiliar gathering", "reflection": "Someone makes room at the table, and your longing eases for a while. Consider the specific welcome that changed the scene. It might help identify an everyday kind of company you would like nearby, without requiring the new group to replace people or places you value elsewhere." }, { "title": "Packing to leave while wanting to stay", "reflection": "You continue preparing for departure even though the room feels comforting. The scene can hold a chosen plan beside reluctance about its costs. What do you wish you could take with you, and what makes leaving worthwhile? Neither feeling has to erase the other." }, { "title": "Finding a small familiar object in a temporary room", "reflection": "A cup, blanket or photograph makes the room feel less provisional. The dream may emphasize a manageable source of continuity rather than a complete return home. Notice whether the object connects you to an activity, memory or person, and how you use it in the unfamiliar space." } ], "prompts": [ "What exactly made the absent place feel like home?", "How did longing affect what you chose to do in the dream?", "Which part of that familiar experience could fit into your present life?" ], "related": [ "house", "childhood-home", "family", "letter", "a-child-leaving-home" ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0979", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Homesick", "text": "To dream of being homesick, foretells you will lose fortunate opportunities\nto enjoy travels of interest and pleasant visits.", "locator": "Heading 980; source lines 11348–11353", "lineStart": 11348, "lineEnd": 11353, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being homesick, foretells you will lose fortunate opportunities\nto enjoy travels of interest and pleasant visits." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "homework", "title": "Homework", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "Work carried beyond the lesson", "summary": "Homework may give an unfinished obligation the shape of assigned work, private effort and a later handover to someone else.", "aliases": [ "homework", "homework dream", "unfinished homework", "forgot my homework", "forgetting homework", "assignment", "essay due", "overdue assignment", "school work" ], "status": "REVIEW", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "Homework brings an assigned task away from the place where it was explained. The dream may center what you do alone, how the work fits around home life, or the later moment when somebody will receive it. This differs from answering under examination conditions. A report, application, household obligation or message you keep postponing might offer a parallel, but an actual assignment or a child's schoolwork can also supply the scene directly.\n\nThe task's clarity matters before its completion. You may know the subject but lack the instruction sheet, or have detailed instructions for something you never learned. That can picture an obligation whose owner assumes you have information you do not. Asking for clarification, improvising or deciding what can reasonably be finished gives a different reading from treating every blank page as evidence of laziness.\n\nHome conditions can become part of the work. You may try to write at a crowded table, hide the assignment to make room for visitors or find a quiet hour that arrives too late for the deadline. A present responsibility might similarly compete with rest, privacy or another person's needs. The dream can make those arrangements visible without deciding that work should always take priority.\n\nFinishing and handing over are separate actions. A completed page that cannot be found, an upload that never reaches its destination or a teacher who asks for a different format can move the concern from effort to acknowledgment. Notice whether the dream recognizes the work already done. A waking administrative delay may fit more closely than fear about the quality of your answer.\n\nDoing somebody else's homework changes the responsibility again. Helping may feel cooperative until you become responsible for producing their answer. Comparing assignments with a classmate can instead reveal a manageable next step or create pressure to imitate. Your dreamed response helps distinguish support from substitution. Recent deadlines, paperwork and school conversations may explain particular details. The scene's meaning need not be that you owe more work; it may concern who defined the task, what conditions it needs and when your responsibility actually ends.", "traditional": "No exact Homework passage is attached. The archive's School and School Teacher accounts concern adjacent subjects, so their forecasts are not presented as homework authority. These original possibilities focus on assigned work outside the lesson. The general sleep source supports only the possibility of waking experience and emotion entering dreams.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "The homework sheet names a topic nobody explained", "reflection": "The obligation is specific while preparation is absent. This may resemble a request that assumes background information you were never given. Notice whether the dream allows you to ask, locate a resource or describe the gap instead of silently treating it as your failure." }, { "title": "You finish the work but leave it in another bag", "reflection": "The effort exists, yet the handover fails. This could fit a process where organization or access prevents completed work from being seen. Keep the missing page separate from its quality, and record whether the dream offers a way to show what you did." }, { "title": "Your family needs the table where you are working", "reflection": "Shared space makes several legitimate needs compete. The scene may resemble an obligation that follows you home without a suitable place to do it. Moving, pausing or negotiating time can change the arrangement without deciding that either the family or the task is unreasonable." }, { "title": "You begin a classmate's assignment while yours remains unfinished", "reflection": "Help begins to consume the time available for your own responsibility. This may picture uncertainty about where support should stop. Notice whether the other person participates, expects a finished answer or gives something useful back; those exchanges make the boundary specific." }, { "title": "Comparing notes reveals that the task is smaller than you thought", "reflection": "Another person's information changes the scale of the obligation. The scene may fit a worry enlarged by unclear instructions rather than the actual work required. Relief can come from understanding the task, without making comparison with other people the only way to feel capable." }, { "title": "You hand in a careful draft instead of pretending it is finished", "reflection": "The work is made visible with its limits acknowledged. This may resemble choosing an honest handover over concealing uncertainty or endlessly postponing contact. The receiver's dreamed response matters; submitting a draft does not guarantee acceptance or settle a real deadline." } ], "prompts": [ "What exactly had been assigned, and what information was available?", "How did the homework fit into the space and time of your home?", "Where did responsibility for the task begin and end in the dream?" ], "related": [ "school-or-exam", "school", "school-teacher", "writing", "being-late" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection independently reviewed for content and source scope. Historical accounts remain attributed period writing. Human publication review pending.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Instructions outside their original setting", "reflection": "Working alone can expose missing context that was easier to overlook during a lesson." }, { "title": "Effort and handover", "reflection": "Completing a task and having that completion recognized can create separate difficulties." }, { "title": "Helping without taking over", "reflection": "Another person's assignment can picture a boundary between useful support and carrying their whole responsibility." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "homicide", "title": "Homicide", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you commit homicide, foretells that you will suffer great anguish and humiliation through the indifference of others, and your…”", "aliases": [ "homicide" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about homicide stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "kill" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. 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See Kill." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0978", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Hominy", "text": "To dream of hominy, denotes pleasant love-making will furnish\nyou interesting recreation from absorbing study and planning\nfor future progression.", "locator": "Heading 979; source lines 11342–11348", "lineStart": 11342, "lineEnd": 11348, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of hominy, denotes pleasant love-making will furnish\nyou interesting recreation from absorbing study and planning\nfor future progression." }, { "id": "fontaine-0355", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Hominy", "text": "To dream of eating hominy with a relish is a sign that you will\nmarry below your station in life, or else you will entertain a new\nacquaintance who is much below you in position, who will eventually\ncommand your esteem. To an educated young girl such a dream predicts a\nrunaway match. 2, 10.", "locator": "Heading 355; source line 2577", "lineStart": 2577, "lineEnd": 2583, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of eating hominy with a relish is a sign that you will\nmarry below your station in life, or else you will entertain a new\nacquaintance who is much below you in position, who will eventually\ncommand your esteem. To an educated young girl such a dream predicts a\nrunaway match." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "honey", "title": "Honey", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you see honey, you will be possessed of considerable wealth.” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "honey" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about honey stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. 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If you\ndream you are eating honey it denotes that something will happen that\nwill give you great joy or pleasure. To a young girl it is a sign that\nshe will soon have a lover that will please her. 49, 3, 1.", "locator": "Heading 356; source line 2583", "lineStart": 2583, "lineEnd": 2588, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "This dream denotes you will have a long and happy life. If you\ndream you are eating honey it denotes that something will happen that\nwill give you great joy or pleasure. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0987", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Horn", "text": "To dream that you hear the sound of a horn, foretells hasty news\nof a joyful character.\n\nTo see a broken horn, denotes death or accident.\n\nTo see children playing with horns, denotes congeniality in the home.\n\nFor a woman to dream of blowing a horn, foretells that she is more anxious\nfor marriage than her lover.", "locator": "Heading 988; source lines 11404–11416", "lineStart": 11404, "lineEnd": 11416, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you hear the sound of a horn, foretells hasty news\nof a joyful character.\n\nTo see a broken horn, denotes death or accident.\n\nTo see children playing with horns, denotes congeniality in the home.\n\nFor a woman to dream of blowing a horn, foretells that she is more anxious\nfor marriage than her lover." }, { "id": "fontaine-0358", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Horns", "text": "To see horns on the head of another person, danger to the\ndreamer on your own wealth and importance. To dream you are gored by a\nhorned animal denotes unhappiness. To lovers it usually predicts that\nthey will have difficulty in connection with their desires; if they\nthink of marrying, some obstacle will be placed in the way of their\nunion, though perhaps not prevent it in the end. 9, 18, 36.", "locator": "Heading 358; source line 2598", "lineStart": 2598, "lineEnd": 2605, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see horns on the head of another person, danger to the\ndreamer on your own wealth and importance. To dream you are gored by a\nhorned animal denotes unhappiness. To lovers it usually predicts that\nthey will have difficulty in connection with their desires; if they\nthink of marrying, some obstacle will be placed in the way of their\nunion, though perhaps not prevent it in the end." }, { "id": "noe-0238", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Horns", "text": "To dream one hath horns on his head, signifies dominion,\ngrandeur and royalty. To dream you see a man with horns on his head,\nsignifies he is in danger both of the loss of his person and estate.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 240; source lines 1017–1020", "lineStart": 1017, "lineEnd": 1020, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream one hath horns on his head, signifies dominion,\ngrandeur and royalty. To dream you see a man with horns on his head,\nsignifies he is in danger both of the loss of his person and estate." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10345", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Horns", "heading": "Horns", "text": "Dream of wearing horns denotes dominion and grandeur (Artemidorus). Horns have ever been worn by priests and rulers of barbarous tribes as symbols of state and power. Jung and Freud attach to them a phallic significance.", "lineStart": 10345, "lineEnd": 10349, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 223; NLM OCR lines 10345–10349", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10345, "lineEnd": 10349, "printedPage": 223, "printedPageEnd": 223 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Horns. — Dream of wearing horns denotes dominion and \ngrandeur (Artemidorus). Horns have ever been worn by \npriests and rulers of barbarous tribes as symbols of state and \npower. Jung and Freud attach to them a phallic significance. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Horns" }, "displayText": "Dream of wearing horns denotes dominion and grandeur (Artemidorus). Horns have ever been worn by priests and rulers of barbarous tribes as symbols of state and power. Jung and Freud attach to them a phallic significance." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "hornet", "title": "Hornet", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a hornet, signals disruption to lifelong friendship, and loss of money.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "hornet" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about hornet stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0988", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Hornet", "text": "To dream of a hornet, signals disruption to lifelong friendship,\nand loss of money.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that one stings her, or she is in a nest\nof them, foretells that many envious women will seek to disparage\nher before her admirers.", "locator": "Heading 989; source lines 11416–11425", "lineStart": 11416, "lineEnd": 11425, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a hornet, signals disruption to lifelong friendship,\nand loss of money.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that one stings her, or she is in a nest\nof them, foretells that many envious women will seek to disparage\nher before her admirers." }, { "id": "noe-0246", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Hornet", "text": "To dream of hornets,\nshows you will have to do with people who will assault and discredit you.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 248; source lines 1057–1059", "lineStart": 1057, "lineEnd": 1059, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of hornets,\nshows you will have to do with people who will assault and discredit you." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10343", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Hornet", "heading": "Hornet", "text": "A dream of vexations (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 10343, "lineEnd": 10344, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 223; NLM OCR lines 10343–10344", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10343, "lineEnd": 10344, "printedPage": 223, "printedPageEnd": 223 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Hornet. — A dream of vexations (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Hornet" }, "displayText": "A dream of vexations (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "horoscope", "title": "Horoscope", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of having your horoscope drawn by an astrologist, foretells unexpected changes in affairs and a long journey.”", "aliases": [ "horoscope" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about horoscope stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0989", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Horoscope", "text": "To dream of having your horoscope drawn by an astrologist,\nforetells unexpected changes in affairs and a long journey;\nassociations with a stranger will probably happen.\n\nIf the dreamer has the stars pointed out to him, as his fate is being read,\nhe will find disappointments where fortune and pleasure seem to await him.", "locator": "Heading 990; source lines 11425–11434", "lineStart": 11425, "lineEnd": 11434, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of having your horoscope drawn by an astrologist,\nforetells unexpected changes in affairs and a long journey;\nassociations with a stranger will probably happen.\n\nIf the dreamer has the stars pointed out to him, as his fate is being read,\nhe will find disappointments where fortune and pleasure seem to await him." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "horse-chestnut", "title": "Horse-Chestnut", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “A dream denoting home quarrels and worries.”", "aliases": [ "horse-chestnut" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about horse-chestnut stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L10361", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Horse-Chestnut", "heading": "Horse-Chestnut", "text": "A dream denoting home quarrels and worries.", "lineStart": 10361, "lineEnd": 10363, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 224; NLM OCR lines 10361–10363", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10361, "lineEnd": 10363, "printedPage": 224, "printedPageEnd": 224 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Horse-Chestnut. — A dream denoting home quarrels and \nworries. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Horse-Chestnut" }, "displayText": "A dream denoting home quarrels and worries." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "horse-trader", "title": "Horse-trader", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a horse-trader, signifies great profit from perilous ventures.”", "aliases": [ "horse-trader" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about horse-trader stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0993", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Horse-trader", "text": "To dream of a horse-trader, signifies great profit from perilous ventures.\n\nTo dream that you are trading horses, and the trader cheats you,\nyou will lose in trade or love. If you get a better horse than\nthe one you traded, you will better yourself in fortune.", "locator": "Heading 994; source lines 11592–11600", "lineStart": 11592, "lineEnd": 11600, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a horse-trader, signifies great profit from perilous ventures.\n\nTo dream that you are trading horses, and the trader cheats you,\nyou will lose in trade or love. If you get a better horse than\nthe one you traded, you will better yourself in fortune." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "horseradish", "title": "Horseradish", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of horseradish, foretells pleasant associations with intellectual and congenial people.”", "aliases": [ "horseradish" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about horseradish stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0992", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Horseradish", "text": "To dream of horseradish, foretells pleasant associations with intellectual\nand congenial people. Fortune is also expressed in this dream.\nFor a woman, it indicates a rise above her present station.\n\nTo eat horseradish, you will be the object of pleasant raillery.", "locator": "Heading 993; source lines 11584–11592", "lineStart": 11584, "lineEnd": 11592, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of horseradish, foretells pleasant associations with intellectual\nand congenial people. Fortune is also expressed in this dream.\nFor a woman, it indicates a rise above her present station.\n\nTo eat horseradish, you will be the object of pleasant raillery." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "horse", "title": "Horses", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "Whose rhythm guides the journey, and how do you respond?", "summary": "Horse dreams can explore shared movement, care, or unruly energy. The animal’s condition and your relationship with it matter most.", "aliases": [ "horse", "horses", "riding", "stallion" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A horse can be a familiar companion, an intimidating animal, or an image known mainly from books and screens. Start with that relationship. Were you riding, leading, feeding, racing, or watching from a distance? Name its condition and behavior before turning it into a symbol of power. A tired working horse and a playful foal create different concerns even if both move through the same landscape.\n\nRiding asks you to coordinate with another living being. If the movement felt easy, you might reflect on cooperation, trust, or a pace that suited you. If the horse resisted or ran away, ask what you were trying to make it do and whether its response made sense in the scene. The question can be about how you guide effort rather than a verdict that you lack control.\n\nCaring for a horse changes the emphasis from reaching a destination to meeting needs. A dream of grooming, sheltering, or offering water could recall an actual animal or invite reflection on the maintenance behind something you value. Were you attentive, rushed, or uncertain what the horse needed? Notice whether help was available. Strength in this scene may include rest and care, rather than constant movement.\n\nYour route can also make the dream personal. A fence, a crowded road, or a narrow bridge introduces a particular constraint; a field may offer space without a stated goal. Describe whether you and the horse arrive together. Childhood lessons, a recent outing, and memories of an animal you loved may be sufficient context, without assuming the horse represents a person in your life.", "traditional": "Miller's Horse entry distributes different omens across color, health, riding, trade, and care. Among its many claims, a runaway horse is associated with damage caused by another person's folly, while grooming is linked with attention to business. Fontaine's 1862 Horse passage similarly treats easy riding as advancement and being thrown as disgrace. These are the authors' period forecasts, not evidence that a dream evaluates your abilities or relationships.\n\nThe genuine historical distinction is how the encounter unfolds: riding, tending, buying, and losing a horse are not interchangeable scenes. A modern reader can retain that attention to action while declining the forecasts and the books' gendered judgments. The original reflection here focuses on pace, coordination, and the needs of a living animal. Your actual experience with horses, including affection or fear, should shape which questions are useful. A color or a fall need not become a fixed message about your future.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "An easy ride across an open field", "reflection": "Notice whether you set a destination or simply enjoy moving together. Shared rhythm may be the pleasure of the scene. Think about where you currently have space to act and whether progress feels cooperative, independent, or free of a deadline.", "slug": "scene-1" }, { "title": "A horse refuses to cross a bridge", "reflection": "Resistance may change the question from pushing harder to noticing conditions. What makes the crossing difficult, and do you understand the horse's hesitation? The scene can invite reflection on patience and limits without implying that someone is obstructing you.", "slug": "scene-2" }, { "title": "You care for an exhausted horse", "reflection": "Feeding or sheltering the animal may bring maintenance into view. Record whether care feels affectionate or burdensome and whether others help. Consider what in your life depends on steady attention, including a real memory of tending an animal.", "slug": "scene-3" } ], "prompts": [ "What experience with horses shaped my first reaction?", "How was the pace negotiated between me and the animal?", "What did the horse need that the destination alone could not tell me?" ], "related": [ "dog", "car", "running-but-going-nowhere", "water" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "scope": "Historical comparison only: Horse — miller-0990, Heading 991; source lines 11434–11571. These period beliefs do not establish a dream meaning or prediction.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0990" ] }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "scope": "Historical comparison only: Horse — fontaine-0359, Heading 359; source line 2605. These period beliefs do not establish a dream meaning or prediction.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0359" ] }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0239" ], "scope": "Attached historical material only: Horses — noe-0239 (Dream section, heading 241; source lines 1020–1028). Mounted, running, tired, and dead horses receive different marriage, prosperity, love, and business forecasts. This citation preserves the attributed archival material; it does not substantiate the original modern reflection or establish a present-day outcome." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0216" ], "scope": "Attached historical material only: Horse — cielo-0216 (Dream section, heading 216; source lines 4370–4374). White and black horses receive contrary fortune and deceit claims; riding is linked with reciprocated love. This citation preserves the attributed archival material; it does not substantiate the original modern reflection or establish a present-day outcome." }, { "id": "guide-65367", "title": "Guide to Fortune-Telling by Dreams", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Multum in Parvo Library, Vol. I, No. 10, October 1894", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65367", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "guide-0032" ], "scope": "Attached historical material only: Horses — guide-0032 (Dream section, heading 32; source lines 293–298). Riding a fine horse receives a prosperous-marriage forecast; falling receives a disaster forecast. This citation preserves the attributed archival material; it does not substantiate the original modern reflection or establish a present-day outcome." }, { "id": "moles-71045", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams and Moles", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "United Kingdom, J. Marshall, 1805", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71045", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "moles-0015" ], "scope": "Attached historical material only: Horse — moles-0015 (Dreams interpreted, passage 15; source lines 153–154). A runaway horse is assigned an unpleasant unexpected-business forecast. This citation preserves the attributed archival material; it does not substantiate the original modern reflection or establish a present-day outcome." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L10350" ], "scope": "Attached historical material only: Horse — craig-1918:L10350 (Printed p. 223–224; NLM OCR lines 10350–10360). Craig records happiness and riding-success forecasts alongside erotic, courage, generosity, and intellectual associations attributed to earlier writers. This citation preserves the attributed archival material; it does not substantiate the original modern reflection or establish a present-day outcome." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia expansion written for this topic. Historical passages are attributed period beliefs; modern reflections are possibilities rather than established meanings. Human publication review pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0990", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Horse", "text": "If you dream of seeing or riding a white horse, the indications are\nfavorable for prosperity and pleasurable commingling with congenial\nfriends and fair women. If the white horse is soiled and lean,\nyour confidence will be betrayed by a jealous friend or a woman.\nIf the horse is black, you will be successful in your fortune,\nbut you will practice deception, and will be guilty of assignations.\nTo a woman, this dream denotes that her husband is unfaithful.\n\nTo dream of dark horses, signifies prosperous conditions,\nbut a large amount of discontent. Fleeting pleasures usually\nfollow this dream.\n\nTo see yourself riding a fine bay horse, denotes a rise in fortune\nand gratification of passion. For a woman, it foretells a yielding\nto importunate advances. She will enjoy material things.\n\nTo ride or see passing horses, denotes ease and comfort.\n\nTo ride a runaway horse, your interests will be injured by the folly\nof a friend or employer.\n\nTo see a horse running away with others, denotes that you will hear\nof the illness of friends.\n\nTo see fine stallions, is a sign of success and high living,\nand undue passion will master you.\n\nTo see brood mares, denotes congeniality and absence of jealousy\nbetween the married and sweethearts.\n\nTo ride a horse to ford a stream, you will soon experience some good fortune\nand will enjoy rich pleasures. If the stream is unsettled or murky,\nanticipated joys will be somewhat disappointing.\n\nTo swim on a horse's back through a clear and beautiful stream of water,\nyour conception of passionate bliss will be swiftly realized.\nTo a business man, this dream portends great gain.\n\nTo see a wounded horse, foretells the trouble of friends.\n\nTo dream of a dead horse, signifies disappointments of various kinds.\n\nTo dream of riding a horse that bucks, denotes that your desires\nwill be difficult of consummation. To dream that he throws you,\nyou will have a strong rival, and your business will suffer\nslightly through competition.\n\nTo dream that a horse kicks you, you will be repulsed by one you love.\nYour fortune will be embarrassed by ill health.\n\nTo dream of catching a horse to bridle and saddle, or harness it,\nyou will see a great improvement in business of all kinds,\nand people of all callings will prosper. If you fail to catch it,\nfortune will play you false.\n\nTo see spotted horses, foretells that various enterprises\nwill bring you profit.\n\nTo dream of having a horse shod, your success is assured.\nFor a woman, this dream omens a good and faithful husband.\n\nTo dream that you shoe a horse, denotes that you will endeavor\nto and perhaps make doubtful property your own.\n\nTo dream of race horses, denotes that you will be surfeited with fast living,\nbut to the farmer this dream denotes prosperity.\n\nTo dream that you ride a horse in a race, you will be prosperous\nand enjoy life.\n\nTo dream of killing a horse, you will injure your friends through selfishness.\n\nTo mount a horse bareback, you will gain wealth and ease by hard struggles.\n\nTo ride bareback in company with men, you will have honest\npeople to aid you, and your success will be merited.\nIf in company with women, your desires will be loose, and your\nprosperity will not be so abundant as might be if women did\nnot fill your heart.\n\nTo curry a horse, your business interests will not be neglected\nfor frivolous pleasures.\n\nTo dream of trimming a horse's mane, or tail, denotes that you will be\na good financier or farmer. Literary people will be painstaking in their\nwork and others will look after their interest with solicitude.\n\nTo dream of horses, you will amass wealth and enjoy life\nto its fullest extent.\n\nTo see horses pulling vehicles, denotes wealth with some incumbrance,\nand love will find obstacles.\n\nIf you are riding up a hill and the horse falls but you gain the top,\nyou will win fortune, though you will have to struggle against\nenemies and jealousy. If both the horse and you get to the top,\nyour rise will be phenomenal, but substantial.\n\nFor a young girl to dream that she rides a black horse,\ndenotes that she should be dealt with by wise authority.\nSome wishes will be gratified at an unexpected time.\nBlack in horses, signifies postponements in anticipations.\n\nTo see a horse with a tender foot, denotes that some unexpected unpleasantness\nwill insinuate itself into your otherwise propitious state.\n\nIf you attempt to fit a broken shoe which is too small for the horse's foot,\nyou will be charged with making fraudulent deals with unsuspecting parties.\n\nTo ride a horse down hill, your affairs will undoubtedly disappoint you.\nFor a young woman to dream that a friend rides behind her on a horse,\ndenotes that she will be foremost in the favors of many prominent\nand successful men. If she was frightened, she is likely to stir up\njealous sensations. If after she alights from the horse it turns\ninto a pig, she will carelessly pass by honorable offers of marriage,\npreferring freedom until her chances of a desirable marriage are lost.\nIf afterward she sees the pig sliding gracefully along the telegraph wire,\nshe will by intriguing advance her position,\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she is riding a white horse up and\ndown hill, often looking back and seeing some one on a black horse,\npursuing her, denotes she will have a mixed season of success\nand sorow,{sic} but through it all a relentless enemy is working\nto overshadow her with gloom and disappointment.\n\nTo see a horse in human flesh, descending on a hammock through\nthe air, and as it nears your house is metamorphosed into a man,\nand he approaches your door and throws something at you which seems\nto be rubber but turns into great bees, denotes miscarriage\nof hopes and useless endeavors to regain lost valuables.\nTo see animals in human flesh, signifies great advancement to the dreamer,\nand new friends will be made by modest wearing of well-earned honors.\nIf the human flesh appears diseased or freckled, the miscarriage\nof well-laid plans is denoted.", "locator": "Heading 991; source lines 11434–11571", "lineStart": 11434, "lineEnd": 11571, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream of seeing or riding a white horse, the indications are\nfavorable for prosperity and pleasurable commingling with congenial\nfriends and fair women. If the white horse is soiled and lean,\nyour confidence will be betrayed by a jealous friend or a woman.\nIf the horse is black, you will be successful in your fortune,\nbut you will practice deception, and will be guilty of assignations.\nTo a woman, this dream denotes that her husband is unfaithful.\n\nTo dream of dark horses, signifies prosperous conditions,\nbut a large amount of discontent. Fleeting pleasures usually\nfollow this dream.\n\nTo see yourself riding a fine bay horse, denotes a rise in fortune\nand gratification of passion. For a woman, it foretells a yielding\nto importunate advances. She will enjoy material things.\n\nTo ride or see passing horses, denotes ease and comfort.\n\nTo ride a runaway horse, your interests will be injured by the folly\nof a friend or employer.\n\nTo see a horse running away with others, denotes that you will hear\nof the illness of friends.\n\nTo see fine stallions, is a sign of success and high living,\nand undue passion will master you.\n\nTo see brood mares, denotes congeniality and absence of jealousy\nbetween the married and sweethearts.\n\nTo ride a horse to ford a stream, you will soon experience some good fortune\nand will enjoy rich pleasures. If the stream is unsettled or murky,\nanticipated joys will be somewhat disappointing.\n\nTo swim on a horse's back through a clear and beautiful stream of water,\nyour conception of passionate bliss will be swiftly realized.\nTo a business man, this dream portends great gain.\n\nTo see a wounded horse, foretells the trouble of friends.\n\nTo dream of a dead horse, signifies disappointments of various kinds.\n\nTo dream of riding a horse that bucks, denotes that your desires\nwill be difficult of consummation. To dream that he throws you,\nyou will have a strong rival, and your business will suffer\nslightly through competition.\n\nTo dream that a horse kicks you, you will be repulsed by one you love.\nYour fortune will be embarrassed by ill health.\n\nTo dream of catching a horse to bridle and saddle, or harness it,\nyou will see a great improvement in business of all kinds,\nand people of all callings will prosper. If you fail to catch it,\nfortune will play you false.\n\nTo see spotted horses, foretells that various enterprises\nwill bring you profit.\n\nTo dream of having a horse shod, your success is assured.\nFor a woman, this dream omens a good and faithful husband.\n\nTo dream that you shoe a horse, denotes that you will endeavor\nto and perhaps make doubtful property your own.\n\nTo dream of race horses, denotes that you will be surfeited with fast living,\nbut to the farmer this dream denotes prosperity.\n\nTo dream that you ride a horse in a race, you will be prosperous\nand enjoy life.\n\nTo dream of killing a horse, you will injure your friends through selfishness.\n\nTo mount a horse bareback, you will gain wealth and ease by hard struggles.\n\nTo ride bareback in company with men, you will have honest\npeople to aid you, and your success will be merited.\nIf in company with women, your desires will be loose, and your\nprosperity will not be so abundant as might be if women did\nnot fill your heart.\n\nTo curry a horse, your business interests will not be neglected\nfor frivolous pleasures.\n\nTo dream of trimming a horse's mane, or tail, denotes that you will be\na good financier or farmer. Literary people will be painstaking in their\nwork and others will look after their interest with solicitude.\n\nTo dream of horses, you will amass wealth and enjoy life\nto its fullest extent.\n\nTo see horses pulling vehicles, denotes wealth with some incumbrance,\nand love will find obstacles.\n\nIf you are riding up a hill and the horse falls but you gain the top,\nyou will win fortune, though you will have to struggle against\nenemies and jealousy. If both the horse and you get to the top,\nyour rise will be phenomenal, but substantial.\n\nFor a young girl to dream that she rides a black horse,\ndenotes that she should be dealt with by wise authority.\nSome wishes will be gratified at an unexpected time.\nBlack in horses, signifies postponements in anticipations.\n\nTo see a horse with a tender foot, denotes that some unexpected unpleasantness\nwill insinuate itself into your otherwise propitious state.\n\nIf you attempt to fit a broken shoe which is too small for the horse's foot,\nyou will be charged with making fraudulent deals with unsuspecting parties.\n\nTo ride a horse down hill, your affairs will undoubtedly disappoint you.\nFor a young woman to dream that a friend rides behind her on a horse,\ndenotes that she will be foremost in the favors of many prominent\nand successful men. If she was frightened, she is likely to stir up\njealous sensations. If after she alights from the horse it turns\ninto a pig, she will carelessly pass by honorable offers of marriage,\npreferring freedom until her chances of a desirable marriage are lost.\nIf afterward she sees the pig sliding gracefully along the telegraph wire,\nshe will by intriguing advance her position,\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she is riding a white horse up and\ndown hill, often looking back and seeing some one on a black horse,\npursuing her, denotes she will have a mixed season of success\nand sorow,[sic] but through it all a relentless enemy is working\nto overshadow her with gloom and disappointment.\n\nTo see a horse in human flesh, descending on a hammock through\nthe air, and as it nears your house is metamorphosed into a man,\nand he approaches your door and throws something at you which seems\nto be rubber but turns into great bees, denotes miscarriage\nof hopes and useless endeavors to regain lost valuables.\nTo see animals in human flesh, signifies great advancement to the dreamer,\nand new friends will be made by modest wearing of well-earned honors.\nIf the human flesh appears diseased or freckled, the miscarriage\nof well-laid plans is denoted." }, { "id": "fontaine-0359", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Horse", "text": "If you dream of riding well and easily on the back of this\nnoble animal, your fortune is sure to advance in the world: but if you\nimagine you are thrown from a horse, it is a sign of disgrace. To dream\nof swapping horses shows that some one will cheat you in a bargain; of\nselling a horse, it is a sign of loss; but of buying one, predicts that\nyou will make money by some speculation, or else by selling property.\nHorses are excellent animals to dream about. 2, 11, 22.", "locator": "Heading 359; source line 2605", "lineStart": 2605, "lineEnd": 2613, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream of riding well and easily on the back of this\nnoble animal, your fortune is sure to advance in the world: but if you\nimagine you are thrown from a horse, it is a sign of disgrace. To dream\nof swapping horses shows that some one will cheat you in a bargain; of\nselling a horse, it is a sign of loss; but of buying one, predicts that\nyou will make money by some speculation, or else by selling property.\nHorses are excellent animals to dream about." }, { "id": "noe-0239", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Horses", "text": "To dream of horses is a particularly good sign; inasmuch that\nif any one dreams that he is mounted on a stately horse, full of mettle,\nnimble and well-harnessed, he will have a handsome, noble and rich wife,\nprovided the horse be his own. To dream one sees a horse running,\nsignifies prosperity and the accomplishment of one’s desires. To dream of\nriding on a tired horse, shows one shall fall desperately in love. To\ndream you see a horse dead, is a sign that stagnation will take place in\nyour business, with some losses; but these may be overcome if the horse be\nwell in flesh and has not died a natural death.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 241; source lines 1020–1028", "lineStart": 1020, "lineEnd": 1028, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of horses is a particularly good sign; inasmuch that\nif any one dreams that he is mounted on a stately horse, full of mettle,\nnimble and well-harnessed, he will have a handsome, noble and rich wife,\nprovided the horse be his own. To dream one sees a horse running,\nsignifies prosperity and the accomplishment of one’s desires. To dream of\nriding on a tired horse, shows one shall fall desperately in love. To\ndream you see a horse dead, is a sign that stagnation will take place in\nyour business, with some losses; but these may be overcome if the horse be\nwell in flesh and has not died a natural death." }, { "id": "cielo-0216", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Horse", "text": "Seeing a white horse means unexpected\n fortune. A black horse means deceit. Riding a horse\n means reciprocated love.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 216; source lines 4370–4374", "lineStart": 4370, "lineEnd": 4374, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Seeing a white horse means unexpected\nfortune. A black horse means deceit. Riding a horse\nmeans reciprocated love." }, { "id": "guide-0032", "sourceId": "guide-65367", "heading": "Horses", "text": "To dream of these useful animals is good; if you are mounted\non a fine horse, you will marry a rich person, who will do well, and\nmake you happy; it shows change in life; if you fall from your horse\ndifficulties will occur, and some unexpected disaster befall you.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 32; source lines 293–298", "lineStart": 293, "lineEnd": 298, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of these useful animals is good; if you are mounted\non a fine horse, you will marry a rich person, who will do well, and\nmake you happy; it shows change in life; if you fall from your horse\ndifficulties will occur, and some unexpected disaster befall you." }, { "id": "moles-0015", "sourceId": "moles-71045", "heading": "Horse", "originalHeading": "(no printed heading)", "text": "To dream a horse runs away with you, denotes unexpected business, not\npleasant.", "locator": "Dreams interpreted, passage 15; source lines 153–154", "lineStart": 153, "lineEnd": 154, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "editorialNote": "The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Horse” because that is the subject of its first clause.", "displayText": "To dream a horse runs away with you, denotes unexpected business, not\npleasant." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10350", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Horse", "heading": "Horse", "text": "A dream of happiness, to dream of riding signifies success (Gypsy). Jung regards this as an erotic dream; courage and generosity are symbolized by the horse, while Swedenborg regards it as the emblem of the \"intellectual principle.\"", "lineStart": 10350, "lineEnd": 10360, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 223–224; NLM OCR lines 10350–10360", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10350, "lineEnd": 10360, "printedPage": 223, "printedPageEnd": 224 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Horse. — A dream of happiness, to dream of riding signi- \nfies success (Gypsy). Jung regards this as an erotic dream; \ncourage and generosity are symbolized by the horse, while \n\n\n224 THE FABRIC OF DREAMS \n\n\nSwedenborg regards it as the emblem of the \"intellectual prin- \nciple.\" \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [ { "line": 10355, "text": "224 THE FABRIC OF DREAMS " } ], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "signi- \nfies", "after": "signifies", "evidenceLine": 7961 }, { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "prin- \nciple", "after": "principle", "evidenceLine": 1395 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Horse" }, "displayText": "A dream of happiness, to dream of riding signifies success (Gypsy). Jung regards this as an erotic dream; courage and generosity are symbolized by the horse, while Swedenborg regards it as the emblem of the \"intellectual principle.\"" } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "horseshoe", "title": "Horseshoe", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a horseshoe, indicates advance in business and lucky engagements for women.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "horseshoe", "horse-shoe" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about horseshoe stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0991", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Horseshoe", "text": "To dream of a horseshoe, indicates advance in business and lucky\nengagements for women.\n\nTo see them broken, ill fortune and sickness is portrayed.\n\nTo find a horseshoe hanging on the fence, denotes that your interests\nwill advance beyond your most sanguine expectations.\n\nTo pick one up in the road, you will receive profit from a source\nyou know not of.", "locator": "Heading 992; source lines 11571–11584", "lineStart": 11571, "lineEnd": 11584, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a horseshoe, indicates advance in business and lucky\nengagements for women.\n\nTo see them broken, ill fortune and sickness is portrayed.\n\nTo find a horseshoe hanging on the fence, denotes that your interests\nwill advance beyond your most sanguine expectations.\n\nTo pick one up in the road, you will receive profit from a source\nyou know not of." }, { "id": "luck-0122", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Horseshoe", "text": "(Seeing one) A journey: (finding one) great good lock.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 122; source lines 3814–3816", "lineStart": 3814, "lineEnd": 3816, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(Seeing one) A journey: (finding one) great good lock." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10364", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Horse-Shoe", "heading": "Horse-Shoe", "text": "A peculiar dream denoting good fortune in business and home affairs (Gypsy). A world symbol of good fortune.", "lineStart": 10364, "lineEnd": 10367, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 224; NLM OCR lines 10364–10367", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10364, "lineEnd": 10367, "printedPage": 224, "printedPageEnd": 224 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Horse-Shoe. — A peculiar dream denoting good fortune in \nbusiness and home affairs (Gypsy). A world symbol of good \nfortune. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Horse-Shoe" }, "displayText": "A peculiar dream denoting good fortune in business and home affairs (Gypsy). A world symbol of good fortune." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "hospital", "title": "Hospitals", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "The same corridor can contain different kinds of responsibility.", "summary": "A hospital can explore access to care, a role that needs clearer terms, or the help required when an institutional task ends.", "aliases": [ "hospital", "hospitals", "clinic" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "psychological": "A hospital in a dream can place care inside an arrangement of rooms, roles and procedures. Being treated, visiting, working or accompanying someone creates different questions. Waiting may concern access to information, while a busy shift can concern the practical limits of helping. A remembered visit or familiar workplace deserves room as direct context; the building does not establish anyone’s medical condition.\n\nPaperwork that describes you incorrectly can make recognition part of the wait. You may know why you came while the institution seems to expect another person or purpose. This can resemble wanting an arrangement to acknowledge your actual question before deciding what comes next. The dreamed description is not a diagnosis or evidence that a real record is wrong.\n\nLooking for a visitor’s room can place connection behind unclear access rules. Wanting to accompany someone differs from knowing what kind of company they want or how the visit can happen. A shared occasion that depends on instructions may offer a parallel. The difficulty does not show that an actual person is unreachable or needs treatment.\n\nCare can also involve participation rather than passive reception. A treatment room where you want an explanation may picture a process moving faster than your understanding. A worker trying to hand over several tasks may instead need shared responsibility and usable information. These scenes can center voice, resources or coordination without judging competence or revealing the safety of a real institution.\n\nOrdinary gestures can change the atmosphere. Someone offering tea in a quiet room may make company more important than another procedure, while leaving the hospital without transport can make an institutional ending practically incomplete. This can resemble help needing a different form after one stage of a task is finished. The dream does not set a timetable for recovery or require you to turn a difficult care experience into a lesson. Its particular rooms, people and choices guide which comparison fits. Memories, stories and personal associations may remain sufficient context, and a reassuring or troubling hospital scene is not evidence about future health.", "traditional": "The three Hospital accounts give adverse period claims. Miller distinguishes a patient from a visitor, assigning community illness to the first and troubling news to the second. The Book of Luck lists misery, poverty and wounds. Craig adds an unfavorable Raphael attribution and calls the image sensory in origin; these are Craig’s assertions. None assesses an actual body, another person’s condition or an institution’s safety. The retained NINDS reference supplies general dream background only.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You wait to be called while the paperwork describes a different purpose", "reflection": "The arrangement seems ready for a question that is not yours. This may resemble wanting your actual role or need recognized before proceeding. The dreamed paperwork cannot diagnose a condition or establish an error in a real person’s medical record." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You want to visit someone but the room directions keep changing", "reflection": "Connection depends on access terms that remain unclear. This can picture wanting to accompany someone while needing usable information about how participation happens. The obstacle does not reveal that the actual person is unreachable, unsafe or in need of treatment." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "During a hospital shift you try to hand over several unfinished tasks", "reflection": "Helping needs coordination rather than one person doing everything. This may resemble responsibility requiring a shared account of what remains. Asking another worker to take a role does not establish incompetence or disclose the quality of care in a real institution." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "In a treatment room you ask for an explanation before the scene continues", "reflection": "The process has begun before its purpose feels understandable. This can picture wanting a voice in an arrangement rather than only a place within it. The dreamed question concerns participation; it does not supply medical instructions or a verdict about actual treatment." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A quiet hospital room becomes a place to share tea and company", "reflection": "An ordinary gesture changes what care looks like within the setting. This may picture wanting companionship alongside procedures or practical tasks. Comfort in the dream cannot forecast recovery, and quiet does not have to mean that every difficult feeling has disappeared." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You are ready to leave but have no clear way to get home", "reflection": "One stage ends while an everyday next step still needs support. This can resemble completion not removing all practical requirements. The imagined delay is not a recovery timetable; the available company, transport and desired destination give it a particular meaning." } ], "prompts": [ "Which role did you occupy, and what did that role need?", "How did the process make room for your understanding or voice?", "What kind of practical help or company mattered after one task ended?" ], "related": [ "nurse", "doctor", "being-lost", "deceased-loved-one" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "scope": "miller-0994: Being a hospital patient versus visiting patients receives community-disease versus distressing-news forecasts. Exact supplied passages: miller-0994 — Hospital (Heading 995; source lines 11600–11606). Attributed historical comparison only; no forecast validates the original reflection or establishes actual health, relationships, beliefs or circumstances.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0994" ] }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "scope": "luck-0123: The short Hospital account lists misery, poverty and wounds. Exact supplied passages: luck-0123 — Hospital (Dream section, heading 123; source lines 3816–3818). Attributed historical comparison only; no forecast validates the original reflection or establishes actual health, relationships, beliefs or circumstances.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0123" ] }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L10368" ], "scope": "craig-1918:L10368: Craig gives an unfavorable forecast under Raphael and asserts sensory origin. Neither attribution validates a clinical or modern symbolic inference. Exact supplied passages: craig-1918:L10368 — Hospital (Printed p. 224; NLM OCR lines 10368–10370). Attributed historical comparison only; no forecast validates the original reflection or establishes actual health, relationships, beliefs or circumstances." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A role recognized within the arrangement", "reflection": "Information and procedures can need to acknowledge why you are there." }, { "title": "Care with a place for participation", "reflection": "Voice, resources and shared responsibility can matter alongside the wish to help." }, { "title": "An institutional ending and an everyday next step", "reflection": "Completion can leave practical support or companionship still needed." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0994", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Hospital", "text": "If you dream that you are a patient in a hospital. you will have a\ncontagious disease in your community, and will narrowly escape affliction.\nIf you visit patients there, you will hear distressing news of the absent.", "locator": "Heading 995; source lines 11600–11606", "lineStart": 11600, "lineEnd": 11606, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream that you are a patient in a hospital. you will have a\ncontagious disease in your community, and will narrowly escape affliction.\nIf you visit patients there, you will hear distressing news of the absent." }, { "id": "luck-0123", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Hospital", "text": "Misery, poverty, wounds.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 123; source lines 3816–3818", "lineStart": 3816, "lineEnd": 3818, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Misery, poverty, wounds." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10368", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Hospital", "heading": "Hospital", "text": "An unfortunate dream (Raphael). A dream of sensory origin.", "lineStart": 10368, "lineEnd": 10370, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 224; NLM OCR lines 10368–10370", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10368, "lineEnd": 10370, "printedPage": 224, "printedPageEnd": 224 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Hospital. — An unfortunate dream (Raphael). A dream \nof sensory origin. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Hospital" }, "displayText": "An unfortunate dream (Raphael). A dream of sensory origin." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "hot-spring", "title": "Hot spring", "category": "Nature & elements", "aliases": [ "hot spring", "hot springs", "thermal spring", "thermal bath" ], "summary": "A hot spring can picture comfort, easing vigilance, or choosing a degree of closeness. Rest differs when it is welcome, exposed, or interrupted.", "psychological": "A hot spring can make rest something the setting provides rather than something you have to produce. Warm water, a sheltered place, and the ability to stop moving may fit a wish to receive care or ease after sustained effort. If you feel comfortable settling into the scene, the dream can give a tangible form to permission to pause. The interpretation concerns the experience of comfort, without making a claim about healing or health.\n\nEntering the water also changes how protected or exposed you feel. A secluded spring can offer privacy; a shared pool can make relaxation depend on the company and expectations around you. Enjoying others' presence can picture uncomplicated connection. Feeling watched or pressured to join may turn the scene toward a boundary: something presented as pleasant does not necessarily feel right for you in that setting.\n\nTemperature gives the dream a practical distinction. Water that is too hot can make an appealing situation uncomfortable, perhaps resembling care that comes with too many demands or an invitation that exceeds your available energy. Testing the water, choosing a cooler edge, or deciding not to enter can make self-direction central. There is no requirement that the dream end with you accepting the offered comfort.\n\nDifficulty leaving creates another reading. A pause may feel so welcome that returning to ordinary demands becomes difficult, or the apparent refuge may become a place where you lack choice. Someone arriving with a towel, a route out, or company can change that tension. A remembered bath, journey, image, or wish for a quiet place can also supply the scene. Look at who controls entry, duration, and departure: those details show whether the spring offers rest, connection, or a complicated form of shelter.", "traditional": "Water and bathing have separate attributed accounts in the archive. The present reflections concern the specific dreamed setting of warmth, rest, shared space, and departure. They do not borrow the older books' forecasts or claim that a pleasant spring establishes physical recovery. Your own memories of baths and travel may be the more relevant context.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Receiving a pause", "reflection": "A setting that provides warmth and stillness can picture the relief of accepting comfort after sustained effort." }, { "title": "Comfort and boundaries", "reflection": "Temperature, privacy, and company can show whether an appealing invitation feels comfortable on your own terms." }, { "title": "Returning from refuge", "reflection": "Leaving or being unable to leave can frame the relationship between a welcome pause and the demands beyond it." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "Resting comfortably in warm water", "reflection": "The setting supports you without requiring a task. This can picture relief, care, or permission to stop for a while. What you have just left behind in the dream may explain why the pause feels especially valuable.", "slug": "scene-1" }, { "title": "Finding a secluded spring", "reflection": "Comfort comes with privacy and distance from demands. This can fit wanting a quiet morning, personal space after caregiving, or time away from a busy household. Enjoying the solitude makes it restorative in the scene; worrying that nobody can find you introduces a different need for connection.", "slug": "scene-2" }, { "title": "Sharing the water with others", "reflection": "Rest becomes a shared experience. Comfortable company can picture easy connection; feeling observed or obliged to join can make the same setting about social pressure. Your willingness to stay helps distinguish those readings.", "slug": "scene-3" }, { "title": "The water is too hot to enter", "reflection": "An attractive invitation has an uncomfortable condition. This can resemble support or an opportunity that asks too much of you. Testing another spot or choosing to remain outside makes your own judgment part of the scene.", "slug": "scene-4" }, { "title": "Someone interrupts your rest", "reflection": "A protected pause becomes available to another person's demands. This can fit frustration about difficulty keeping time or attention for yourself. Whether you welcome the arrival or seek privacy gives the interruption its meaning.", "slug": "scene-5" }, { "title": "You struggle to leave the spring", "reflection": "Refuge becomes difficult to leave. This can resemble a welcome pause that makes returning to work feel daunting, or a comfortable arrangement that has begun limiting your choices. A route out, support, or permission to decide when to go changes the ending toward a manageable return.", "slug": "scene-6" } ], "prompts": [ "What made the spring comfortable or uncomfortable for me?", "Who decided when I entered, stayed, and left?", "What ordinary demand was waiting beyond the resting place?" ], "related": [ "water", "swimming", "bath", "spring" ], "type": "dreams", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background about dreaming and waking experiences. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia interpretation for personal reflection. Human publication review pending.", "tagline": "Warmth, shared space, and permission to pause on your terms.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "hotel", "title": "Hotel", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "Temporary belonging can offer rest without asking you to settle forever.", "summary": "Hotel dreams can explore temporary belonging, assigned space and the terms of a pause. Comfort and ownership can feel different.", "aliases": [ "hotel", "hotels", "hotel room", "checking into a hotel" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A hotel offers a place to stay without making it your permanent home. In a dream, this can picture a temporary arrangement that lets you rest, work or pass through a change. A short assignment, a period between homes or a role whose duration is unclear may provide a parallel. The room can be useful precisely because you do not have to establish every part of daily life yourself. Temporary does not automatically mean insecure or unsatisfying.\n\nAn assigned room makes belonging depend partly on a system. You may have permission to stay while needing a key, instructions or somebody else's recognition before you can use the space. This can resemble joining an organization in which access has been promised but practical arrangements lag behind. A prepared room can express being accommodated; arriving to find it unfinished may make the gap between welcome and usable support visible.\n\nComfort without personal belongings can hold relief and distance together. You may enjoy a bed that requires no maintenance or miss the familiar objects that make a place yours. This can fit a situation that meets practical needs while offering little continuity with your usual life. Another person's possessions in the room can picture entering an arrangement whose previous occupant or expectations remain present even after you have been given a place.\n\nFinding the room can be a task of orientation. An unfamiliar floor, changing number or repeated corridor may resemble difficulty locating your role inside a larger system. The problem may be unclear instructions rather than an absence of entitlement. A helpful guide can make the assigned space reachable. Discovering that every room seems to serve someone else can instead sharpen uncertainty about whether the arrangement actually includes you.\n\nDeparture asks when temporary shelter has served its purpose. Staying after others leave can feel like extra rest or being caught between stages. Leaving before the original plan ends may picture deciding that an available arrangement no longer fits. Familiar travel and hotel work can also explain the setting directly. These readings follow rest, access and temporary belonging; they do not promise travel, wealth or a particular move because a hotel appeared in sleep.", "traditional": "Miller’s Hotel passage separates living, seeing, owning, working and searching for a hotel, giving each a forecast and sometimes a moral judgment. Cielo’s shorter Hotel account predicts success from stopping there. These are attributed period claims. The original reflections focus on temporary accommodation and access without adopting the forecasts.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Useful without permanence", "reflection": "A hotel can picture an arrangement that supports a particular period without needing to become a lasting home. Temporary support may be welcome when its purpose and terms are clear." }, { "title": "A place assigned and made usable", "reflection": "A reservation or key can distinguish promised belonging from practical access. The room matters through whether the arrangement actually accommodates you." }, { "title": "Knowing when to leave", "reflection": "Departure can make the duration of a pause visible. Staying or checking out may express a choice about whether temporary support still fits the next stage." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You check in but the room has not been prepared", "reflection": "An unprepared room can resemble being welcomed into an arrangement before the support needed to use it exists. A new role or temporary placement may fit. The promise of a place and the usable place are different steps." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "The room is comfortable yet none of it belongs to you", "reflection": "Comfort without belongings can picture practical support that does not yet carry a sense of continuity. That distance may feel restful or lonely. The dream can hold both feelings without requiring the room to become a permanent home." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You keep finding another person’s things in your room", "reflection": "Another person’s things can picture a place offered to you while earlier expectations remain inside it. A successor role or shared arrangement may feel similar. Your ability to make room helps distinguish welcome from unresolved overlap." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You stay after everyone else has checked out", "reflection": "Staying after others leave can picture a transition with no shared timetable for its ending. Extra time may be useful or unsettling. What remains available in the empty hotel shapes whether the pause still serves you." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You look for your room on a floor that does not exist", "reflection": "An impossible floor can resemble difficulty finding your assigned place within a confusing organization. A room number without a workable route may feel like instructions that do not connect to reality. Guidance can change the scene toward access." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You decide to leave without returning to the original plan", "reflection": "Choosing to leave early can picture revising a plan after learning how the arrangement feels. Ending a temporary commitment need not make the original choice worthless. Relief and unfinished business may remain together." } ], "prompts": [ "What did the hotel provide that I did not have to arrange myself?", "Did being assigned a room give me usable access or only a promise?", "What made staying or leaving feel like the right next stage?" ], "related": [ "inn", "house", "luggage", "being-lost", "apartment" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0995" ], "scope": "Preserves this author’s attached period dream-book account; the entry’s context compares attributed beliefs rather than adopting forecasts. Exact supplied records: miller-0995 — Hotel (Heading 996; source lines 11606–11623). Historical comparison only, not evidence for the original reflective reading or an actual outcome." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0217" ], "scope": "Preserves this author’s attached period dream-book account; the entry’s context compares attributed beliefs rather than adopting forecasts. Exact supplied records: cielo-0217 — Hotel (Dream section, heading 217; source lines 4374–4376). Historical comparison only, not evidence for the original reflective reading or an actual outcome." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0995", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Hotel", "text": "To dream of living in a hotel, denotes ease and profit.\n\nTo visit women in a hotel, your life will be rather on a dissolute order.\n\nTo dream of seeing a fine hotel, indicates wealth and travel.\n\nIf you dream that you are the proprietor of a hotel, you will earn\nall the fortune you will ever possess.\n\nTo work in a hotel, you could find a more remunerative employment\nthan what you have.\n\nTo dream of hunting a hotel, you will be baffled in your search\nfor wealth and happiness.", "locator": "Heading 996; source lines 11606–11623", "lineStart": 11606, "lineEnd": 11623, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of living in a hotel, denotes ease and profit.\n\nTo visit women in a hotel, your life will be rather on a dissolute order.\n\nTo dream of seeing a fine hotel, indicates wealth and travel.\n\nIf you dream that you are the proprietor of a hotel, you will earn\nall the fortune you will ever possess.\n\nTo work in a hotel, you could find a more remunerative employment\nthan what you have.\n\nTo dream of hunting a hotel, you will be baffled in your search\nfor wealth and happiness." }, { "id": "cielo-0217", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Hotel", "text": "To stop at a hotel means success.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 217; source lines 4374–4376", "lineStart": 4374, "lineEnd": 4376, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To stop at a hotel means success." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "hounds", "title": "Hounds", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of hounds on a hunt, denotes coming delights and pleasant changes.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "hounds" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about hounds stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "dog" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0996", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Hounds", "text": "To dream of hounds on a hunt, denotes coming delights and pleasant changes.\nFor a woman to dream of hounds, she will love a man below her in station.\nTo dream that hounds are following her, she will have many admirers,\nbut there will be no real love felt for her.\n\n\n[93] See Dogs.", "locator": "Heading 997; source lines 11623–11633", "lineStart": 11623, "lineEnd": 11633, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of hounds on a hunt, denotes coming delights and pleasant changes.\nFor a woman to dream of hounds, she will love a man below her in station.\nTo dream that hounds are following her, she will have many admirers,\nbut there will be no real love felt for her. See Dogs." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10371", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Hounds", "heading": "Hounds", "text": "To dream of following them denotes unprofitable pursuits (Gypsy). Syrnbolism obvious.", "lineStart": 10371, "lineEnd": 10373, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 224; NLM OCR lines 10371–10373", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10371, "lineEnd": 10373, "printedPage": 224, "printedPageEnd": 224 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Hounds. — To dream of following them denotes unprofitable \npursuits (Gypsy). Syrnbolism obvious. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 0.97872, "secondaryHeading": "Hounds" }, "displayText": "To dream of following them denotes unprofitable pursuits (Gypsy). Syrnbolism obvious." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "dog" ] }, { "slug": "house", "title": "House", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "The arrangements that make a place yours.", "summary": "A house may bring together questions about belonging, shared space and the practical arrangements that let your life fit.", "aliases": [ "house", "houses", "home", "rooms", "a house" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "A dream house gives several parts of life somewhere to coexist. The useful detail may be the arrangement: who has a room, which areas connect, what feels usable, and where you can settle. A spacious house can feel lonely; a crowded one can feel welcoming. Start with your experience of living there rather than treating each room as a fixed part of yourself.\n\nAn unfamiliar house might invite you to try a different arrangement of responsibilities. Perhaps a new job changes where work belongs, or living with someone requires sharing routines you previously chose alone. Discovering another room can resemble finding room for an interest or relationship. It can also be an ordinary elaboration of a building recently visited or seen.\n\nA familiar house altered by the dream may bring current circumstances into an established setting. Your kitchen becomes a meeting room, or a guest occupies your bedroom. Those changes could help you describe how a shared decision affects your daily life. Ask what the altered arrangement makes possible and what it makes inconvenient; surprise does not automatically mean conflict.\n\nOwnership and access may matter more than appearance. Having a key but feeling unable to enter differs from being welcomed into a house you do not own. The first might resemble a role you technically hold but cannot exercise; the second could reflect belonging offered through people or routines. Neither scene settles questions about another person's intentions.\n\nRepairs, additions and unfinished work can focus attention on how a household or project is maintained. If you keep fixing one room while the others remain available, consider whether one demand is drawing attention away from usable resources. If you enjoy building together, the scene may instead highlight shared effort and a workable pace.\n\nActual housing experiences deserve space in the reading. Moving, decorating, costs, visitors and remembered homes can supply the dream directly. Choose one concrete feature and one feeling before drawing comparisons. What would make that dream house more livable for you? The answer may clarify a present preference without turning the building into a map of your body or a forecast.", "traditional": "The supplied books disagree: Miller assigns different forecasts to comfortable, dilapidated and newly built houses; Fontaine and Noe vary outcomes by building and fire, while Cielo emphasizes a strange house. Everybody’s Book of Luck even gives building an unfavorable forecast. Craig collects profit/change claims and secondhand theories mapping houses to bodies. These are attributed period comparisons, not evidence for outcomes or a bodily code.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "An unfamiliar house with a usable extra room", "reflection": "You discover a room and immediately know how you would use it. The scene might help you name an interest that has lacked space in your routine. Notice whether you want solitude, company or a practical workspace; the new room need not conceal a hidden truth." }, { "title": "Your house arranged for someone else's needs", "reflection": "The rooms are familiar, but every chair or doorway serves another person's routine. Consider how recent shared decisions have affected your comfort. The dream can express a preference about arrangements without proving that the other person has deliberately excluded you or taken something from you." }, { "title": "A key that opens an unwelcoming home", "reflection": "You can unlock the door, yet hesitate to stay. That contrast might resemble formal membership without a feeling of ease, such as joining a team while still finding your place. Ask what would make entering feel ordinary: clearer expectations, a familiar face or permission to rest." }, { "title": "Working together on an unfinished house", "reflection": "Different people finish different rooms, and progress feels satisfying. The scene may emphasize coordination rather than incompleteness. Compare the work with a shared undertaking in waking life: what can you do yourself, what benefits from help, and which unfinished parts are genuinely preventing the next step?" }, { "title": "A beautiful house you cannot use comfortably", "reflection": "The house looks impressive but offers nowhere to sit, cook or sleep as you prefer. It might bring out a difference between an appealing image and a livable arrangement. Think of a plan that attracts admiration while making your daily activities harder, without assuming appearance is inherently deceptive." }, { "title": "Closing the door after visitors leave", "reflection": "The house becomes quiet and feels like yours again. Relief could reflect a wish to choose your own pace after social demands; sadness could highlight enjoyable company ending. Pay attention to the feeling and what you do next, rather than assigning one meaning to an empty house." } ], "prompts": [ "Which arrangement in the house most affected what you could do?", "How did you know whether you belonged there?", "What current experience, memory or preference does that particular house bring to mind?" ], "related": [ "childhood-home", "door", "kitchen", "roof", "apartment", "abode", "buildings" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "scope": "Miller contrasts visits to an old home, dilapidation and a comfortable return, assigning news, family-loss, harmony and business forecasts; he cross-refers to Abode. Miller assigns different change, fortune, business and health forecasts to building, elegant ownership and dilapidated houses; he cross-refers to Building. Specific supplied passages: Home — miller-0977 (Heading 978; source lines 11327–11342); House — miller-0997 (Heading 998; source lines 11633–11647). Historical comparison only; these period beliefs do not establish outcomes or validate the original symbolic reflections.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0977", "miller-0997" ] }, { "id": "wamsley-2010", "title": "Dreaming of a learning task is associated with enhanced sleep-dependent memory consolidation", "author": "Erin J. Wamsley and colleagues", "url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20417102/", "scope": "Primary maze-learning experiment; task-related dream reports correlated with later performance. It does not show that a dream is an accurate memory or a solution." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0360" ], "scope": "Fontaine assigns different forecasts to building, burning, spilling water and collapse; a combined house-building, clothes and conversation scene receives a marriage claim. Repairing is cross-referenced. Specific supplied passages: House — fontaine-0360 (Heading 360; source line 2613). Historical comparison only; these period beliefs do not establish outcomes or validate the original symbolic reflections." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0247" ], "scope": "Noe gives building a favorable relationship forecast and varies the news claim for a house fire according to whose house burns. Specific supplied passages: House — noe-0247 (Dream section, heading 249; source lines 1059–1063). Historical comparison only; these period beliefs do not establish outcomes or validate the original symbolic reflections." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0218" ], "scope": "Cielo assigns consolation to being in a new or strange house. Specific supplied passages: House — cielo-0218 (Dream section, heading 218; source lines 4376–4379). Historical comparison only; these period beliefs do not establish outcomes or validate the original symbolic reflections." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0124" ], "scope": "The anonymous book calls the general house image lucky but house-building a sign of loss and sickness. Specific supplied passages: House — luck-0124 (Dream section, heading 124; source lines 3818–3821). Historical comparison only; these period beliefs do not establish outcomes or validate the original symbolic reflections." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L10374" ], "scope": "Craig records profit/change forecasts under a period cultural label and secondhand theories linking houses, rows of houses and rooms to the organism or body parts. These are Craig's collected attributions, not primary evidence for those theories or a bodily interpretation. Specific supplied passages: House — craig-1918:L10374 (Printed p. 224; NLM OCR lines 10374–10384). Historical comparison only; these period beliefs do not establish outcomes or validate the original symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s continuing delegation of English editorial decisions. 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For a young woman this is a dream of sorrow.\nShe will lose a dear friend.\n\nTo go home and find everything cheery and comfortable, denotes harmony\nin the present home life and satisfactory results in business.\n\n\n[91] See Abode.", "locator": "Heading 978; source lines 11327–11342", "lineStart": 11327, "lineEnd": 11342, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of visiting your old home, you will have good news\nto rejoice over.\n\nTo see your old home in a dilapidated state, warns you of the sickness\nor death of a relative. For a young woman this is a dream of sorrow.\nShe will lose a dear friend.\n\nTo go home and find everything cheery and comfortable, denotes harmony\nin the present home life and satisfactory results in business. See Abode.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Home” is shown on the A house page: house core entry already aliases home; separate Home entry splits the topic" }, { "id": "miller-0997", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "House", "text": "To dream of building a house, you will make wise changes\nin your present affairs.\n\nTo dream that you own an elegant house, denotes that you will soon\nleave your home for a better, and fortune will be kind to you.\n\nOld and dilapidated houses, denote failure in business or any effort,\nand declining health.\n\n\n[94] See Building.", "locator": "Heading 998; source lines 11633–11647", "lineStart": 11633, "lineEnd": 11647, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of building a house, you will make wise changes\nin your present affairs.\n\nTo dream that you own an elegant house, denotes that you will soon\nleave your home for a better, and fortune will be kind to you.\n\nOld and dilapidated houses, denote failure in business or any effort,\nand declining health. See Building." }, { "id": "fontaine-0360", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "House", "text": "(_See Repairing._) To dream you build a house denotes you will\nhave a comfortable life: to burn your house signifies increased riches:\nto dream you spill water in a house is a sign of care and affliction:\nto dream you see a house fall denotes death. Dreaming of building\nhouses, wearing fine clothes, and talking with ladies, is a sign that\nthe parties will suddenly marry. 47, 66.", "locator": "Heading 360; source line 2613", "lineStart": 2613, "lineEnd": 2620, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Repairing.) To dream you build a house denotes you will\nhave a comfortable life: to burn your house signifies increased riches:\nto dream you spill water in a house is a sign of care and affliction:\nto dream you see a house fall denotes death. Dreaming of building\nhouses, wearing fine clothes, and talking with ladies, is a sign that\nthe parties will suddenly marry." }, { "id": "noe-0247", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "House", "text": "To dream of building a house is a good omen; in love, that your\nsweetheart is good-tempered and faithful, and will make you very happy; to\ndream you see a house on fire, foretells hasty news. If it be your own\nhouse that is destroyed, the news will be bad. If your enemy’s house, it\nwill be good.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 249; source lines 1059–1063", "lineStart": 1059, "lineEnd": 1063, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of building a house is a good omen; in love, that your\nsweetheart is good-tempered and faithful, and will make you very happy; to\ndream you see a house on fire, foretells hasty news. If it be your own\nhouse that is destroyed, the news will be bad. If your enemy’s house, it\nwill be good." }, { "id": "cielo-0218", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "House", "text": "To be in a new or strange house is a sign of\n consolation.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 218; source lines 4376–4379", "lineStart": 4376, "lineEnd": 4379, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To be in a new or strange house is a sign of\nconsolation." }, { "id": "luck-0124", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "House", "text": "Good luck: (dreamer building house) unlucky dream, signifying\nloss and sickness.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 124; source lines 3818–3821", "lineStart": 3818, "lineEnd": 3821, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Good luck: (dreamer building house) unlucky dream, signifying\nloss and sickness." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10374", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "House", "heading": "House", "text": "To build one, profit; to be in a strange house denotes change (Gypsy). Schemer contends that the dream phantasm of a house has its representation in the entire organism. Under some conditions a single organ would be represented by a whole series of houses. Long rows of houses symbolize intestinal excitements. On other occasions particular parts of the house would represent particular parts of the body. In one headache dream, the ceiling of the room which the dreamer sees is covered with disgusting reptilelike spiders — the ceiling represents the head (Freud).", "lineStart": 10374, "lineEnd": 10384, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 224; NLM OCR lines 10374–10384", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10374, "lineEnd": 10384, "printedPage": 224, "printedPageEnd": 224 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "House. — To build one, profit; to be in a strange house de- \nnotes change (Gypsy). Schemer contends that the dream \nphantasm of a house has its representation in the entire or- \nganism. Under some conditions a single organ would be rep- \nresented by a whole series of houses. Long rows of houses \nsymbolize intestinal excitements. On other occasions particu- \nlar parts of the house would represent particular parts of the \nbody. 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Schemer contends that the dream phantasm of a house has its representation in the entire organism. Under some conditions a single organ would be represented by a whole series of houses. Long rows of houses symbolize intestinal excitements. On other occasions particular parts of the house would represent particular parts of the body. 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Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. 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Vessels of wine are the ministers or servants: the tressels which bea[illegible passage] up the table, are the masters of the house, the governours, farmers, and enclosers: the garners, butteries, coffers and cabinets, signifie the wife.", "locator": "Book 1, encoded section 56", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription-with-gaps", "book": "1", "displayText": "THe pots signifie the life, the platters the estate and action of the life, as also the Harth: wherefore according as such things are of base and small, made great and precious, or the contrary, so we must iudge of the things signified by them: the changing of them into better is good, into worse is ill; so also you must judge of all other houshold stuffe: the candlestick represents the wife, the light or lanthorne, the Master of the house, or the spirit of him which dreams it, or also love: the andyrons signifye the life, or as the harth▪ the estate and conversation entirely: and the wife, the table in like manner: the bedstead, and cushions and all their appurtenances, signifye the wife of him that dreams it, and all the estate of life. Vessels of wine are the ministers or servants: the tressels which bea [illegible passage] up the table, are the masters of the house, the governours, farmers, and enclosers: the garners, butteries, coffers and cabinets, signifie the wife.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Houshold-stuffe” is shown on the Household Utensils page: artemidorus household-stuff section" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0998", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Housekeeper", "text": "To dream that you are a housekeeper, denotes you will have labors\nwhich will occupy your time, and make pleasure an ennobling thing.\nTo employ one, signifies comparative comfort will be possible\nfor your obtaining.", "locator": "Heading 999; source lines 11647–11654", "lineStart": 11647, "lineEnd": 11654, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are a housekeeper, denotes you will have labors\nwhich will occupy your time, and make pleasure an ennobling thing.\nTo employ one, signifies comparative comfort will be possible\nfor your obtaining." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "artemidorus-072", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of Houshold fire.", "text": "TO dreame you sée fire on the Harth cléere, and little, is good; but much is ill. Little and cleare, is abundance of goods: dead fire is Poverty. And if there be any one sicke in the house, it is death. To hold torches and fire-brands by night, is good: especially to yong folks; to whom most often it signifieth love, with pleasure and effect. But to sée another hold a torch, is ill to those which would be secret. A burning light in the House, cléer and clean, is affluence of goods, to the Poore; to unmarried▪ persons, marriage: to the Sicke, health. But an obscure and troubled Light, is heavinesse and death by Sicknesse. A light put out is health to the sick: for soon after one will light it againe. A Lampe of Brasse, is eyther great goods, or great evils, according to the disposition of the light. A Lampe of Earth signifieth least hurt: the one and the other reveale secrets. A Lampe séene in a Ship, is a signe of great joy and tranquility to Navigators.", "locator": "Book 2, encoded section 72", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "2", "displayText": "To dreame you sée fire on the Harth cléere, and little, is good; but much is ill. Little and cleare, is abundance of goods: dead fire is Poverty. And if there be any one sicke in the house, it is death. To hold torches and fire-brands by night, is good: especially to yong folks; to whom most often it signifieth love, with pleasure and effect. But to sée another hold a torch, is ill to those which would be secret. A burning light in the House, cléer and clean, is affluence of goods, to the Poore; to unmarried▪ persons, marriage: to the Sicke, health. But an obscure and troubled Light, is heavinesse and death by Sicknesse. A light put out is health to the sick: for soon after one will light it againe. A Lampe of Brasse, is eyther great goods, or great evils, according to the disposition of the light. A Lampe of Earth signifieth least hurt: the one and the other reveale secrets. A Lampe séene in a Ship, is a signe of great joy and tranquility to Navigators." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L10385", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Howls", "heading": "Howls", "text": "To hear howls in a dream is an omen of death (Gypsy) ; popular superstition concerning howls responsible for this interpretation,", "lineStart": 10385, "lineEnd": 10388, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 224; NLM OCR lines 10385–10388", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10385, "lineEnd": 10388, "printedPage": 224, "printedPageEnd": 224 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Howls. — To hear howls in a dream is an omen of death \n(Gypsy) ; popular superstition concerning howls responsible \nfor this interpretation, \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 0.99057, "secondaryHeading": "Howls" }, "displayText": "To hear howls in a dream is an omen of death (Gypsy); popular superstition concerning howls responsible for this interpretation," } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "hug", "title": "Hug", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "Closeness becomes tangible, showing comfort, reconciliation, or a boundary.", "summary": "A hug can picture welcome, support, longing, or pressure to be close. Mutual ease and freedom to let go are central to the scene.", "aliases": [ "hug", "hugging" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A hug can picture being welcomed without having to explain or prove anything first. It reduces distance through a direct act, so a comforting embrace may fit wanting reassurance after a difficult conversation or feeling accepted in a new group. The relief may come from being held while you no longer have to manage the whole situation yourself.\n\nHugging someone after a disagreement can give form to a wish for repair. It may express wanting the relationship to matter more than the conflict, or being ready to soften your own position. A hug that feels awkward can preserve both wishes at once: closeness is desired, but the issue between you has not become simple. It may feel like trying to regain an easy form of contact after the relationship has become complicated.\n\nReciprocity changes the interpretation. Reaching out while the other person stays rigid can resemble effort to connect that feels unanswered. Being hugged before you are ready may picture a demand for intimacy, forgiveness, or friendliness that arrives too quickly. An embrace that is so tight you cannot move makes the boundary question especially clear: care may be offered in a form that leaves little space for choice.\n\nWho gives the hug also matters. A deceased loved one may bring the remembered quality of their comfort into a current difficulty, while hugging a younger version of yourself could picture tenderness toward an earlier experience. A stranger's welcome may suggest finding support outside your usual circle or accepting a kind response you did not expect.\n\nA goodbye hug joins affection with separation. It can picture carrying a connection forward while accepting that a role, place, or period is ending. Recent contact, remembered embraces, and scenes in films or conversation can also supply the image directly.", "traditional": "Miller's Hugging passage predicts disappointment in love and business, then adds gendered moral warnings about women's embraces. Fontaine likewise assigns an adverse outcome to a lover's hug, extending that reading to either sex. These are historical judgments about affection, reputation, and courtship, not evidence of another person's loyalty or intentions. Their suspicion of affectionate contact contrasts with the range of dream scenes explored here: a hug may feel comforting, reluctant, coercive, incomplete, or appropriate to a goodbye. The actual manner of the embrace offers a more specific basis for an original reflection than the action alone.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Welcome without a performance", "reflection": "A comforting hug can picture acceptance that does not require a successful explanation or achievement. The closeness may express wanting support while you put down responsibility for a moment." }, { "title": "A wish to repair distance", "reflection": "An embrace after conflict can picture valuing connection and wanting reconciliation. Awkwardness may show that affection and unresolved disagreement can remain present together in the same relationship." }, { "title": "Closeness needs room for choice", "reflection": "A rigid response or an embrace that will not loosen can make reciprocity central. The scene may resemble affection, forgiveness, or friendliness being requested faster than you can comfortably give." }, { "title": "Affection through a transition", "reflection": "A goodbye hug can picture taking a valued connection with you while accepting separation. The comfort may belong to what the relationship has meant, even as its everyday form changes." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Someone holds you and you can finally relax", "reflection": "A welcome embrace can picture being allowed to need support without first making a convincing case. It may fit a demanding period when you have carried most decisions yourself. Relaxing in the hug gives practical weight to the feeling of someone else sharing the load." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You hug after an argument but it feels awkward", "reflection": "An uneasy reconciliation can picture wanting closeness while still carrying the disagreement. It may fit apologizing before you know how to solve the underlying issue. The hug holds affection and unfinished work together, rather than requiring the relationship to feel completely restored at once." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You reach out but the other person stays stiff", "reflection": "An unreturned hug can resemble making an effort to connect without receiving a clear response. A message that goes unanswered or a conversation that remains formal could fit. The dream may express how uncertain that distance feels from your side of the relationship." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "An embrace is too tight and you cannot step away", "reflection": "Closeness without room to move can picture support becoming controlling or affection arriving with conditions. Someone deciding what is best for you while expecting gratitude could be a parallel. The pressure comes from having less freedom to choose the distance that feels comfortable." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A deceased loved one gives you a familiar hug", "reflection": "A remembered embrace can bring the quality of that person's care into a present situation. It may fit missing their reassurance during a decision or milestone. The scene can express the continuing importance of a relationship through a gesture that feels more immediate than words." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You share a calm goodbye hug", "reflection": "An affectionate farewell can picture accepting an ending without treating the connection as worthless. Leaving a workplace, moving away, or changing a family role could fit. Letting go after the embrace gives room for separation while preserving what was valuable in the shared experience." } ], "prompts": [ "Was the hug mutual, welcome, hesitant, or difficult to leave?", "What did the embrace offer that words in the dream did not: reassurance, repair, acknowledgment, or permission to say goodbye?", "Did the person resemble a current relationship, a remembered form of care, or support I am learning to accept?" ], "related": [ "crying", "ex-partner", "deceased-loved-one", "baby" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "scope": "Historical comparison only: Hugging, miller-0999 (Heading 1000; source lines 11654–11665). Period dream-book claims support only the attributed historical comparison, not predictions or the original modern reflections.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0999" ] }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "scope": "Historical comparison only: Hug, fontaine-0362 (Heading 362; source line 2625). Period dream-book claims support only the attributed historical comparison, not predictions or the original modern reflections.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0362" ] }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia editorial upgrade with image-specific interpretations, concrete waking-life parallels, and six differentiated scenes. Historical context is grounded in the cited catalogue passages. Human publication review pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0999", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Hugging", "text": "If you dream of hugging, you will be disappointed in love affairs\nand in business.\n\nFor a woman to dream of hugging a man, she will accept advances\nof a doubtful character from men.\n\nFor a married woman to hug others than her husband, she will endanger\nher honor in accepting attentions from others in her husband's absence.", "locator": "Heading 1000; source lines 11654–11665", "lineStart": 11654, "lineEnd": 11665, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream of hugging, you will be disappointed in love affairs\nand in business.\n\nFor a woman to dream of hugging a man, she will accept advances\nof a doubtful character from men.\n\nFor a married woman to hug others than her husband, she will endanger\nher honor in accepting attentions from others in her husband's absence.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Hugging” is shown on the Hug page: same topic" }, { "id": "fontaine-0362", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Hug", "text": "If a young girl dreams of being fondled and hugged by her lover,\nit is a sign he will soon get sick of her and want to be off: it is not\nhalf so bad to let him hug her in real earnest as it is to dream of it.\nThe same sign holds good with the other sex. 2, 11.", "locator": "Heading 362; source line 2625", "lineStart": 2625, "lineEnd": 2630, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If a young girl dreams of being fondled and hugged by her lover,\nit is a sign he will soon get sick of her and want to be off: it is not\nhalf so bad to let him hug her in real earnest as it is to dream of it.\nThe same sign holds good with the other sex." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "humidity", "title": "Humidity", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are overcome with humidity, foretells that you will combat enemies fiercely, but their superior force will submerge you in…”", "aliases": [ "humidity" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about humidity stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "air" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1000", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Humidity", "text": "To dream that you are overcome with humidity, foretells that you\nwill combat enemies fiercely, but their superior force will submerge\nyou in overwhelming defeat.\n\n\n[95] See Air.", "locator": "Heading 1001; source lines 11665–11674", "lineStart": 11665, "lineEnd": 11674, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are overcome with humidity, foretells that you\nwill combat enemies fiercely, but their superior force will submerge\nyou in overwhelming defeat. See Air." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "air" ] }, { "slug": "humiliation", "title": "Humiliation", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "summary": "Humiliation dreams may explore being lowered before others, unequal power in an interaction, or the wish to retain dignity and a voice.", "tagline": "The interaction can matter more than the verdict it imposes.", "aliases": [ "humiliation", "humiliated", "feeling humiliated" ], "status": "REVIEW", "psychological": "Humiliation in a dream can center on an interaction that makes your place feel smaller. Somebody mocks an ordinary preference, requires a degrading performance or arranges a test so that you cannot succeed. The useful subject may be the power available to each participant: who can set the terms, who can answer, and who can leave. The dream does not establish that a real person intends to demean you.\n\nAn audience can enlarge the experience. Silent bystanders may make a private insult feel like a shared verdict, even when nobody explicitly agrees. A group laughing together can picture the difficulty of preserving a voice when belonging seems to depend on accepting their version of you. A remembered criticism, a public mistake or a fictional scene can offer material. The particular dream arrangement deserves attention without turning it into a factual account of an actual group.\n\nHumiliation differs from every uncomfortable evaluation. Useful feedback leaves room to understand a standard or make a change. A dream in which the rules are altered to guarantee failure may instead concern having no fair way to participate. Similarly, embarrassment over a minor slip can pass with a correction, while a person who keeps repeating it may make their treatment of you the central event. Those distinctions prevent the imposed label from becoming the only interpretation.\n\nYour response can have several directions. Trying to persuade the audience may fit wanting a fair hearing. Going quiet may make lack of room to answer visible. Leaving can picture separating dignity from a group’s approval, but it can also carry sadness about the lost connection. None of these dreamed responses tests how you should act in a real confrontation.\n\nSupport may change the balance before it changes the outcome. One person making space for an explanation or refusing to join the ridicule can make participation possible again. An ending without support can remain painful and unresolved. A useful reading gives attention to the conditions of recognition and choice, rather than accepting the dream’s degrading treatment as a truthful measure of the person receiving it.", "traditional": "This reading concerns dreamed degrading treatment and unequal room to respond. The older Mortification and Disgrace accounts address different deed/reputation contexts and are retained on their own pages. No verified historical Humiliation passage is attached here; no real mistreatment or character judgment is inferred from the dream.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Who controls the interaction", "reflection": "The terms of participation can be more revealing than the label imposed." }, { "title": "The audience’s part", "reflection": "Silence, ridicule and support create different conditions for having a voice." }, { "title": "Dignity without a perfect reversal", "reflection": "Resistance or departure can matter even when the scene does not repair the hurt." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Someone mocks you publicly for an ordinary preference", "reflection": "A harmless preference becomes material for public ridicule. This may picture the cost of differing from a group’s expectations, rather than reveal a flaw in what you enjoy. The person controlling the laughter has a different position from the one trying to explain." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You are made to perform a demeaning task", "reflection": "The demand can make participation feel conditional on accepting a lower place. A dreamed errand, performance or repeated apology may give that imbalance concrete form. The scene differs from freely choosing unfamiliar work because the opportunity to decline is restricted." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A person changes the rules to make you fail", "reflection": "The changed standard prevents any answer from counting as enough. The dream may concern an arranged failure rather than useful evaluation. A process that rewards compliance while moving its criteria offers a possible waking comparison, without proving that such manipulation is occurring." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Bystanders stay silent while you try to answer", "reflection": "The lack of intervention can make the audience seem unavailable as a source of recognition. This may express wanting somebody to separate your account from the group’s response. The silence belongs to the dream’s arrangement; it does not disclose what real witnesses would do." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Someone interrupts the ridicule and makes space for you", "reflection": "A small intervention changes who can speak and how the event is understood. The support may be as simple as a question or room to finish a sentence. The scene can value fair attention before any complete apology, vindication or change of opinion arrives." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You leave while the group continues laughing", "reflection": "Departure can separate your participation from the requirement to accept ridicule. Hurt or longing for the group may remain, so the ending need not become a victory story. The changed position can matter because you gain room to decide which terms you will enter." } ], "prompts": [ "Who could define the terms, answer back or leave?", "What did you want the audience to recognize about the interaction?", "What made dignity possible in the scene?" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." }, { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1335", "miller-0631" ], "scope": "The emotional clause describes the dreamer being mortified over a deed, distinct from this new reading of degrading treatment by others. Adjacent historical comparison only; original owners remain unchanged: miller-1335 belongs to Mortification; miller-0631 belongs to Disgrace. Not evidence for the original psychological interpretation. Disgrace addresses concern over conduct and reputation, not a verified interpretation of every dreamed humiliation." } ], "related": [ "mortification", "being-judged", "being-scapegoated", "rejection" ], "updated": "2026-10-13", "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "hummingbird", "title": "Hummingbird", "type": "dreams", "kind": "modern", "category": "Animals", "aliases": [ "hummingbird", "hummingbirds", "humming bird", "humming birds" ], "summary": "A hummingbird may make effort, selective attention, or a brief pleasure visible. Hovering and hurried movement can lead to different personal readings.", "tagline": "A small presence, constant adjustments, and knowing where to pause or return.", "psychological": "A hummingbird hovering in place can make stillness look active. If you are absorbed by the movement that keeps it there, the dream may fit work whose result appears simple while requiring continuous adjustments. Coordinating a household schedule, keeping a project organized, or maintaining a steady routine can involve effort that is difficult to see from outside. The image can give that effort form without deciding that busyness is always valuable.\n\nMovement between several flowers offers a different question about attention. The bird may seem able to find what it needs without staying long, which could fit choosing useful moments from several interests or responsibilities. If it keeps moving without finding a place to settle, the scene might instead concern attention being pulled from one demand to another. The distinction is whether the movement sustains the animal or leaves the encounter feeling rushed and unfinished.\n\nA brief flash of color or a close visit can also be about pleasure that is available only for a moment. You may want to photograph the bird, follow it, or let it return on its own. That can resemble a creative idea, a short conversation, or an ordinary enjoyable pause that becomes frustrating when you try to make it last. Allowing a brief experience to matter does not require it to become a dependable resource.\n\nIts small size may contrast with the amount of activity or attention it creates. A tiny creature can occupy the whole scene while a much larger task fades into the background. This could fit recognizing an interest that seems modest but feels alive, or wanting effort to be judged by its purpose rather than its scale. A remembered feeder, walk, illustration, or video may provide a direct context. The encounter's pace and your wish to watch, help, or keep up are more useful than assigning the bird a fixed message.", "traditional": "No matching historical hummingbird record is supplied. This entry offers original reflection on hovering, short visits, and movement within the dream. A personal memory of watching a bird or encountering its image may supply the context. Brief beauty is not treated as a spiritual message, a promise of joy, or a forecast of someone's return.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "The effort behind a steady position", "reflection": "Hovering may fit maintenance that looks effortless from outside but involves many adjustments. The question is what that effort supports, rather than whether constant motion proves achievement." }, { "title": "Attention that finds what it needs", "reflection": "Moving between flowers can resemble selective involvement in several interests or duties. If nothing sustains the bird, the scene may instead concern attention pulled between too many unfinished demands." }, { "title": "A brief pleasure can matter", "reflection": "A short close encounter may bring enjoyment without permanence. Trying to preserve every moment can change the pleasure into work; letting it pass may feel freeing or disappointing." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A hummingbird hovers outside your window", "reflection": "The bird remains visible without entering the room. This may give shape to an appealing possibility close enough to notice but not yet part of your daily space. Watching can feel sufficient; wanting it inside may make access or closeness the central question." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "It visits flower after flower", "reflection": "The animal moves quickly and seems to find what it needs at each stop. This can fit a productive rhythm across several interests. If the visits feel frantic or empty, the scene may instead concern demands that keep attention moving without offering a satisfying pause." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You try to photograph it", "reflection": "The image blurs or the bird leaves before you are ready. The scene may explore wanting a brief pleasure to become something you can keep or show. Choosing to watch can change the encounter from a failed task back into an available experience." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "It rests on your hand", "reflection": "The rapid movement pauses and you become careful about disturbing it. This can fit making room for a quiet interval within a busy pattern. The closeness may feel like trust, unfamiliar responsibility, or simple wonder at an animal becoming still nearby." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A hummingbird cannot find an opening", "reflection": "It repeatedly approaches a window or another barrier while an exit is elsewhere. The scene may fit effort directed toward a route that looks available but does not work. Creating another opening makes conditions, rather than greater effort, the useful point of change." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The bird returns to the same place", "reflection": "You wait and recognize its repeated visit. This can explore a small dependable pleasure or an expectation that shapes your day. If waiting prevents you doing anything else, the encounter may raise a different question about making one brief moment responsible for too much." } ], "prompts": [ "What did the bird’s activity sustain, and did it seem to have enough room to pause?", "Was I enjoying a brief encounter or trying to make it last?", "What small interest or task became more noticeable through the bird’s presence?" ], "related": [ "bird", "garden", "dragonfly", "flower", "flying" ], "updated": "2026-10-13", "status": "REVIEW", "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original image-specific interpretation with alternative personal readings; no matching historical passage supplied. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "hunchback", "title": "Hunchback", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a hunchback, denotes unexpected reverses in your prospects.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "hunchback", "hump-back" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about hunchback stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1001", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Hunchback", "text": "To dream of a hunchback, denotes unexpected reverses in your prospects.", "locator": "Heading 1002; source lines 11674–11678", "lineStart": 11674, "lineEnd": 11678, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a hunchback, denotes unexpected reverses in your prospects." }, { "id": "luck-0125", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Hunchback", "text": "A troubled life, with many ups and downs.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 125; source lines 3821–3823", "lineStart": 3821, "lineEnd": 3823, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "A troubled life, with many ups and downs." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10393", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Hump-Back", "heading": "Hump-Back", "text": "A dream denoting prosperity (Artemidorus) ; derived from the superstition that these unfortunates bring luck to whosoever touches the hump.", "lineStart": 10393, "lineEnd": 10396, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 224; NLM OCR lines 10393–10396", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10393, "lineEnd": 10396, "printedPage": 224, "printedPageEnd": 224 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Hump-Back. — A dream denoting prosperity (Artemido- \nrus) ; derived from the superstition that these unfortunates \nbring luck to whosoever touches the hump. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "Artemido- \nrus", "after": "Artemidorus", "evidenceLine": 485 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Hump-Back" }, "displayText": "A dream denoting prosperity (Artemidorus); derived from the superstition that these unfortunates bring luck to whosoever touches the hump.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Hump-Back” is shown on the Hunchback page: same topic" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "hunger", "title": "Hunger", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "5 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are hungry, is an unfortunate omen.” Compare 5 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "hunger", "hungry" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about hunger stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "fast" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1002", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Hunger", "text": "To dream that you are hungry, is an unfortunate omen.\nYou will not find comfort and satisfaction in your home,\nand to lovers it means an unhappy marriage.", "locator": "Heading 1003; source lines 11678–11684", "lineStart": 11678, "lineEnd": 11684, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are hungry, is an unfortunate omen.\nYou will not find comfort and satisfaction in your home,\nand to lovers it means an unhappy marriage." }, { "id": "fontaine-0363", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Hungry", "text": "(_See Fast._) To dream of being hungry foretells that you\nwill soon engage in some new enterprise which will prove successful.\nHungry dreams are excellent omens to lovers, as they denote energy\nand success. If a girl dreams that a gentleman comes to see her who\nis hungry, it is a sign that he will woo her in such an earnest and\naffectionate manner as to win her heart. 19, 37.", "locator": "Heading 363; source line 2630", "lineStart": 2630, "lineEnd": 2637, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Fast.) To dream of being hungry foretells that you\nwill soon engage in some new enterprise which will prove successful.\nHungry dreams are excellent omens to lovers, as they denote energy\nand success. If a girl dreams that a gentleman comes to see her who\nis hungry, it is a sign that he will woo her in such an earnest and\naffectionate manner as to win her heart.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Hungry” is shown on the Hunger page: same topic" }, { "id": "noe-0240", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Hunger", "text": "To dream one is\nunusually hungry, and that his appetite craves sustenance, shows he will\nbe ingenious, laborious and eager in getting an estate, and will grow\nrich.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 242; source lines 1028–1031", "lineStart": 1028, "lineEnd": 1031, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream one is\nunusually hungry, and that his appetite craves sustenance, shows he will\nbe ingenious, laborious and eager in getting an estate, and will grow\nrich." }, { "id": "cielo-0219", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Hunger", "text": "Is a sign of profitable employment.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 219; source lines 4379–4381", "lineStart": 4379, "lineEnd": 4381, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Is a sign of profitable employment." }, { "id": "luck-0126", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Hunger", "text": "To dream of being hungry is a fortunate omen, foretelling\nthat the dreamer, by industry and enterprise, will grow rich.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 126; source lines 3823–3826", "lineStart": 3823, "lineEnd": 3826, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being hungry is a fortunate omen, foretelling\nthat the dreamer, by industry and enterprise, will grow rich." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "fast" ] }, { "slug": "hunting", "title": "Hunting", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “If you dream of hunting, you will struggle for the unattainable.” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "hunting" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about hunting stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "gain" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1003", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Hunting", "text": "If you dream of hunting, you will struggle for the unattainable.\n\nIf you dream that you hunt game and find it, you will overcome\nobstacles and gain your desires.\n\n\n[96] See Gain.", "locator": "Heading 1004; source lines 11684–11694", "lineStart": 11684, "lineEnd": 11694, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream of hunting, you will struggle for the unattainable.\n\nIf you dream that you hunt game and find it, you will overcome\nobstacles and gain your desires. See Gain." }, { "id": "fontaine-0365", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Hunting", "text": "To dream of going a hunting brings an accusation of\ndishonesty: if you are returning from the chase, good fortune awaits\nyou. 8, 10.", "locator": "Heading 365; source line 2643", "lineStart": 2643, "lineEnd": 2647, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of going a hunting brings an accusation of\ndishonesty: if you are returning from the chase, good fortune awaits\nyou." }, { "id": "noe-0248", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Hunting", "text": "To dream you are hunting and that the game is\nkilled, shows much trouble through the pretensions of false friends, but\nthat you will discover them and overcome all their machinations.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 250; source lines 1063–1067", "lineStart": 1063, "lineEnd": 1067, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are hunting and that the game is\nkilled, shows much trouble through the pretensions of false friends, but\nthat you will discover them and overcome all their machinations." }, { "id": "luck-0127", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Hunting", "text": "(Dreamer returning from a hunt) A fortunate dream: (dreamer\ngoing hunting) frustrated hopes and disappointment.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 127; source lines 3826–3829", "lineStart": 3826, "lineEnd": 3829, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(Dreamer returning from a hunt) A fortunate dream: (dreamer\ngoing hunting) frustrated hopes and disappointment." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "gain" ] }, { "slug": "hurricane", "title": "Hurricane", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "summary": "A hurricane can picture sustained disruption, coordinating limited resources, and the changed routines that remain after an intense period ends.", "tagline": "Disruption has a duration and an aftermath.", "aliases": [ "hurricane" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "An approaching hurricane can picture a broad change whose influence is visible before it reaches ordinary activity. A major reorganization, a household transition, or a period of repeated demands may offer parallels when you expect several routines to be affected together. Anticipation can leave room to prepare, but it can also occupy attention before the practical work begins. The dream’s intensity does not establish the seriousness or outcome of a waking situation.\n\nWind preventing movement can make effort different from progress. You may know where you want to go while the surrounding conditions resist the method you intended to use. A process whose requirements keep changing or a plan affected by circumstances outside your control can fit. Finding another route, waiting, or receiving help alters the arrangement. Trying harder within unchanged conditions may feel less useful than revising what movement is currently possible.\n\nShared shelter can make coordination central rather than turning the whole scene into a solitary test. Several people may have different priorities, resources, and capacities. Dividing tasks can picture care that becomes manageable when it is explicit. If everyone expects you to organize the entire response, the pressure may concern an assumed role as much as the imagined weather. A contribution from another participant can change the dream’s emotional balance without ending the storm.\n\nA brief quiet interval can create uncertainty about whether a demanding period is actually over. Relief may arrive before confidence does, especially if the activity resumes. This can resemble a pause between deadlines or an unresolved situation temporarily becoming less visible. The scene can explore what you need before treating respite as a dependable change, without making the dream a weather forecast or a guide to real emergency decisions.\n\nReturning to an altered home shifts attention from enduring force to living with its consequences. Even after the weather ends, a familiar task may need another method. That can fit rebuilding a routine after a move, conflict, or completed project. Actual weather, remembered footage, or a story can also supply direct context. The useful reading follows duration, shared response, and aftermath rather than assuming that violent weather always means anger.", "traditional": "The attached Miller account distinguishes an approaching hurricane, a breaking house and attempted rescue, aftermath debris, and distress over others. It supplies adverse business and domestic forecasts rather than a modern conditional reading. Those historical predictions do not establish what a real storm, responsibility, or transition will bring.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Anticipation of broad change", "reflection": "An approaching force can affect attention before its practical demands arrive." }, { "title": "Shared response", "reflection": "Explicit roles can make a demanding period manageable without relying on one participant for everything." }, { "title": "After the intensity", "reflection": "An event ending may leave familiar routines needing different conditions or methods." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "A distant force approaches while routine continues", "reflection": "Ordinary activity and anticipation occupy the same setting. This may picture knowing a broad change is coming without yet having its practical demands. Preparation can feel useful, while constant attention to the approach can reduce room for what remains possible now." }, { "title": "Wind prevents movement along a familiar route", "reflection": "Effort does not produce the progress the method normally allows. This can fit conditions changing around an established plan. Another route or a pause may alter the task more directly than treating unchanged resistance as a demand for greater determination." }, { "title": "The noise briefly stops", "reflection": "Respite arrives before you know whether the demanding period has ended. This may resemble a pause between obligations or unresolved exchanges. Relief and uncertainty can coexist; the dreamed interval does not provide a rule for real weather or emergency action." }, { "title": "People divide tasks in a shared shelter", "reflection": "The response becomes a practical arrangement rather than a solitary burden. This can picture support made explicit through different contributions. Clear roles may matter even while conditions remain intense, especially if responsibility had otherwise been assumed to belong to you alone." }, { "title": "You return to a differently arranged home", "reflection": "The intense period is past but familiar conditions have changed. This may picture rebuilding a routine after a transition. Recognizable belongings can preserve continuity while their new arrangement makes old methods less automatic or useful than before." }, { "title": "An everyday task remains difficult after the weather", "reflection": "The event ends before all its practical consequences do. This can resemble recovery from a demanding undertaking without implying permanent damage. Help or a new method may matter more than expecting normality to return immediately because the visible disruption is over." } ], "prompts": [ "What anticipated change occupies attention before its practical demands arrive?", "Which responsibilities could become explicit and shared?", "What familiar routine needs another method after the intense period ends?" ], "related": [ "storm", "wind", "house", "rain" ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1005" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context for this topic only. Miller distinguishes approaching force, a breaking house and rescue, aftermath debris, and distress over others; these passages predict business/domestic trouble and changes. Does not validate the original psychological reflections." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1005", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Hurricane", "text": "To hear the roar and see a hurricane heading towards you with\nits frightful force, you will undergo torture and suspense,\nstriving to avert failure and ruin in your affairs.\n\nIf you are in a house which is being blown to pieces by a hurricane,\nand you struggle in the awful gloom to extricate some one\nfrom the falling timbers, your life will suffer a change.\nYou will move and remove to distant places, and still find\nno improvement in domestic or business affairs.\n\nIf you dream of looking on de'bris and havoc wrought by a hurricane,\nyou will come close to trouble, which will be averted by the turn\nin the affairs of others.\n\nTo see dead and wounded caused by a hurricane, you will be much\ndistressed over the troubles of others.", "locator": "Heading 1006; source lines 11701–11720", "lineStart": 11701, "lineEnd": 11720, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To hear the roar and see a hurricane heading towards you with\nits frightful force, you will undergo torture and suspense,\nstriving to avert failure and ruin in your affairs.\n\nIf you are in a house which is being blown to pieces by a hurricane,\nand you struggle in the awful gloom to extricate some one\nfrom the falling timbers, your life will suffer a change.\nYou will move and remove to distant places, and still find\nno improvement in domestic or business affairs.\n\nIf you dream of looking on de'bris and havoc wrought by a hurricane,\nyou will come close to trouble, which will be averted by the turn\nin the affairs of others.\n\nTo see dead and wounded caused by a hurricane, you will be much\ndistressed over the troubles of others." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "hurt", "title": "Hurt", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “If you hurt a person in your dreams, you will do ugly work, revenging and injuring.”", "aliases": [ "hurt" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about hurt stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1004", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Hurt", "text": "If you hurt a person in your dreams, you will do ugly work,\nrevenging and injuring.\n\nIf you are hurt, you will have enemies who will overcome you.", "locator": "Heading 1005; source lines 11694–11701", "lineStart": 11694, "lineEnd": 11701, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you hurt a person in your dreams, you will do ugly work,\nrevenging and injuring.\n\nIf you are hurt, you will have enemies who will overcome you." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "husband", "title": "Husband", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that your husband is leaving you, and you do not understand why, there will be bitterness between…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "husband" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about husband stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1006", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Husband", "text": "To dream that your husband is leaving you, and you do not understand why,\nthere will be bitterness between you, but an unexpected reconciliation\nwill ensue. If he mistreats and upbraids you for unfaithfulness,\nyou will hold his regard and confidence, but other worries will ensue\nand you are warned to be more discreet in receiving attention from men.\n\nIf you see him dead, disappointment and sorrow will envelop you.\n\nTo see him pale and careworn, sickness will tax you heavily,\nas some of the family will linger in bed for a time.\n\nTo see him gay and handsome, your home will be filled with\nhappiness and bright prospects will be yours. If he is sick,\nyou will be mistreated by him and he will be unfaithful.\n\nTo dream that he is in love with another woman, he will soon tire\nof his present surroundings and seek pleasure elsewhere.\n\nTo be in love with another woman's husband in your dreams,\ndenotes that you are not happily married, or that you are not\nhappy unmarried, but the chances for happiness are doubtful.\n\nFor an unmarried woman to dream that she has a husband, denotes that she\nis wanting in the graces which men most admire.\n\nTo see your husband depart from you, and as he recedes from you he grows\nlarger, inharmonious surroundings will prevent immediate congeniality.\nIf disagreeable conclusions are avoided, harmony will be reinstated.\n\nFor a woman to dream she sees her husband in a compromising\nposition with an unsuspected party, denotes she will have trouble\nthrough the indiscretion of friends. If she dreams that he is\nkilled while with another woman, and a scandal ensues, she will\nbe in danger of separating from her husband or losing property.\nUnfavorable conditions follow this dream, though the evil\nis often exaggerated.", "locator": "Heading 1007; source lines 11720–11759", "lineStart": 11720, "lineEnd": 11759, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that your husband is leaving you, and you do not understand why,\nthere will be bitterness between you, but an unexpected reconciliation\nwill ensue. If he mistreats and upbraids you for unfaithfulness,\nyou will hold his regard and confidence, but other worries will ensue\nand you are warned to be more discreet in receiving attention from men.\n\nIf you see him dead, disappointment and sorrow will envelop you.\n\nTo see him pale and careworn, sickness will tax you heavily,\nas some of the family will linger in bed for a time.\n\nTo see him gay and handsome, your home will be filled with\nhappiness and bright prospects will be yours. If he is sick,\nyou will be mistreated by him and he will be unfaithful.\n\nTo dream that he is in love with another woman, he will soon tire\nof his present surroundings and seek pleasure elsewhere.\n\nTo be in love with another woman's husband in your dreams,\ndenotes that you are not happily married, or that you are not\nhappy unmarried, but the chances for happiness are doubtful.\n\nFor an unmarried woman to dream that she has a husband, denotes that she\nis wanting in the graces which men most admire.\n\nTo see your husband depart from you, and as he recedes from you he grows\nlarger, inharmonious surroundings will prevent immediate congeniality.\nIf disagreeable conclusions are avoided, harmony will be reinstated.\n\nFor a woman to dream she sees her husband in a compromising\nposition with an unsuspected party, denotes she will have trouble\nthrough the indiscretion of friends. If she dreams that he is\nkilled while with another woman, and a scandal ensues, she will\nbe in danger of separating from her husband or losing property.\nUnfavorable conditions follow this dream, though the evil\nis often exaggerated." }, { "id": "cielo-0220", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Husband", "text": "For a wife to dream of her husband betokens\n a quarrel. If the dream is pleasant it may mean an\n agreeable surprise.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 220; source lines 4381–4385", "lineStart": 4381, "lineEnd": 4385, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a wife to dream of her husband betokens\na quarrel. If the dream is pleasant it may mean an\nagreeable surprise." }, { "id": "luck-0128", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Husband", "text": "For a woman to dream of her husband is not a very favorable\ndream, usually foretelling discord and deceit: for an unmarried girl to\ndream that she has a husband is a very bad omen.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 128; source lines 3829–3833", "lineStart": 3829, "lineEnd": 3833, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a woman to dream of her husband is not a very favorable\ndream, usually foretelling discord and deceit: for an unmarried girl to\ndream that she has a husband is a very bad omen." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "husbandmen", "title": "Husbandmen", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “To see yourself become a husbandman in your dream, shows you shall meet with great toil, yet after awhile become rich.”", "aliases": [ "husbandmen" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about husbandmen stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "noe-0241", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Husbandmen", "text": "To see yourself become a husbandman in your dream,\nshows you shall meet with great toil, yet after awhile become rich. If you\ndream you are ploughing, it denotes success, and, to single persons,\nspeedy marriage; and if the fields be full of flowers, it is a sign of\nmuch happiness.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 243; source lines 1031–1035", "lineStart": 1031, "lineEnd": 1035, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see yourself become a husbandman in your dream,\nshows you shall meet with great toil, yet after awhile become rich. If you\ndream you are ploughing, it denotes success, and, to single persons,\nspeedy marriage; and if the fields be full of flowers, it is a sign of\nmuch happiness." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "husbandry", "title": "Husbandry", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “To dream of implements in husbandry, has a variety of interpretations: to dream of a plough, denotes…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "husbandry", "of husbandry" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about husbandry stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0364", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Husbandry", "text": "To dream of implements in husbandry, has a variety of\ninterpretations: to dream of a plough, denotes success in life, and a\ngood marriage; to dream of a yoke, is unfavorable, unless it be broken;\nto dream of a team, death in a family, to dream of a scythe signifies\nsickness. 76, 44.", "locator": "Heading 364; source line 2637", "lineStart": 2637, "lineEnd": 2643, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of implements in husbandry, has a variety of\ninterpretations: to dream of a plough, denotes success in life, and a\ngood marriage; to dream of a yoke, is unfavorable, unless it be broken;\nto dream of a team, death in a family, to dream of a scythe signifies\nsickness." }, { "id": "artemidorus-086", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of Husbandry.", "text": "THe Plough is good for marriages, procreation, and affayres, but it requireth time: the yoak is good, if not to servants, wherefore it is better for them to see it broken: the sythe is hurt, for it cutteth all, and signifyeth the time of halfe a year: the saw signifyeth the woman and her profit: the cutter of the plough, the wood, the fan, and five, is hurt, departure, and losse: the cart is the life of him that dreams it: to dream to cut vines, or reap out of time, signifyes that your busines shall be slacked to such time as men use to cut vines and mow: sheaves of corn, or like grain, are also hindrance, for this is not ready meate. Holes in the earth, ridges, or secret places of the earth where grains are sowed, or hidden, signifie the wife, the life, and the goods of him which dreamt it. Hedges, pales, ditches, set for limits and confines of inheritances, are ill: and yet to such as are in fear they signifye surety, they hinder travailing: but in other affayrs signifye ayd, friends, and support in necessity.", "locator": "Book 2, encoded section 86", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "2", "displayText": "THe Plough is good for marriages, procreation, and affayres, but it requireth time: the yoak is good, if not to servants, wherefore it is better for them to see it broken: the sythe is hurt, for it cutteth all, and signifyeth the time of halfe a year: the saw signifyeth the woman and her profit: the cutter of the plough, the wood, the fan, and five, is hurt, departure, and losse: the cart is the life of him that dreams it: to dream to cut vines, or reap out of time, signifyes that your busines shall be slacked to such time as men use to cut vines and mow: sheaves of corn, or like grain, are also hindrance, for this is not ready meate. Holes in the earth, ridges, or secret places of the earth where grains are sowed, or hidden, signifie the wife, the life, and the goods of him which dreamt it. Hedges, pales, ditches, set for limits and confines of inheritances, are ill: and yet to such as are in fear they signifye surety, they hinder travailing: but in other affayrs signifye ayd, friends, and support in necessity." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "hut", "title": "Hut", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a hut, denotes indifferent success.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "hut" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about hut stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1007", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Hut", "text": "To dream of a hut, denotes indifferent success.\n\nTo dream that you are sleeping in a hut, denotes ill\nhealth and dissatisfaction.\n\nTo see a hut in a green pasture, denotes prosperity,\nbut fluctuating happiness.", "locator": "Heading 1008; source lines 11759–11769", "lineStart": 11759, "lineEnd": 11769, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a hut, denotes indifferent success.\n\nTo dream that you are sleeping in a hut, denotes ill\nhealth and dissatisfaction.\n\nTo see a hut in a green pasture, denotes prosperity,\nbut fluctuating happiness." }, { "id": "fontaine-0366", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Hut", "text": "To dream that you live in a small hut is a sign that you will\nshortly have a house of your own. If in your dream, you visit a little\nhut which is inhabited, it shows that you will be invited to partake of\nthe hospitalities of some family. 29, 70.", "locator": "Heading 366; source line 2647", "lineStart": 2647, "lineEnd": 2652, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you live in a small hut is a sign that you will\nshortly have a house of your own. If in your dream, you visit a little\nhut which is inhabited, it shows that you will be invited to partake of\nthe hospitalities of some family." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "hyacinth", "title": "Hyacinth", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you see, or gather, hyacinths, you are about to undergo a painful separation from a friend,…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "hyacinth" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about hyacinth stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "hydrophobia", "title": "Hydrophobia", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are afflicted with hydrophobia, denotes enemies and change of business.”", "aliases": [ "hydrophobia" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about hydrophobia stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1009", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Hydrophobia", "text": "To dream that you are afflicted with hydrophobia, denotes enemies\nand change of business.\n\nTo see others thus afflicted, your work will be interrupted by death\nor ungrateful dependence.\n\nTo dream that an animal with the rabies bites you, you will be betrayed\nby your dearest friend, and much scandal will be brought to light.", "locator": "Heading 1010; source lines 11775–11786", "lineStart": 11775, "lineEnd": 11786, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are afflicted with hydrophobia, denotes enemies\nand change of business.\n\nTo see others thus afflicted, your work will be interrupted by death\nor ungrateful dependence.\n\nTo dream that an animal with the rabies bites you, you will be betrayed\nby your dearest friend, and much scandal will be brought to light." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "hyena", "title": "Hyena", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “If you see a hyena in your dreams, you will meet much disappointment and much ill luck in your…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "hyena" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about hyena stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1010", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Hyena", "text": "If you see a hyena in your dreams, you will meet much disappointment and much\nill luck in your undertakings, and your companions will be very uncongenial.\nIf lovers have this dream, they will often be involved in quarrels.\n\nIf one attacks you, your reputation will be set upon by busybodies.", "locator": "Heading 1011; source lines 11786–11794", "lineStart": 11786, "lineEnd": 11794, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you see a hyena in your dreams, you will meet much disappointment and much\nill luck in your undertakings, and your companions will be very uncongenial.\nIf lovers have this dream, they will often be involved in quarrels.\n\nIf one attacks you, your reputation will be set upon by busybodies." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10402", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Hyena", "heading": "Hyena", "text": "A dream of cruel sorrow (Gypsy). The symbol of ferocity.", "lineStart": 10402, "lineEnd": 10404, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 224; NLM OCR lines 10402–10404", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10402, "lineEnd": 10404, "printedPage": 224, "printedPageEnd": 224 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Hyena. — A dream of cruel sorrow (Gypsy). The symbol \nof ferocity. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Hyena" }, "displayText": "A dream of cruel sorrow (Gypsy). The symbol of ferocity." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "hymns", "title": "Hymns", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of hearing hymns sung, denotes contentment in the home and average prospects in business affairs.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "hymns" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about hymns stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "singing" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1011", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Hymns", "text": "To dream of hearing hymns sung, denotes contentment in the home\nand average prospects in business affairs.\n\n\n[97] See Singing.", "locator": "Heading 1012; source lines 11794–11802", "lineStart": 11794, "lineEnd": 11802, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of hearing hymns sung, denotes contentment in the home\nand average prospects in business affairs. See Singing." }, { "id": "luck-0129", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Hymns", "text": "Singing hymns in a dream foretells sickness to the dreamer:\n(hearing hymns sung) consolation in troubles.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 129; source lines 3833–3839", "lineStart": 3833, "lineEnd": 3839, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Singing hymns in a dream foretells sickness to the dreamer:\n(hearing hymns sung) consolation in troubles." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10405", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Hymns", "heading": "Hymns", "text": "To sing them in a dream signifies the dreamer's death (Gypsy). The symbolism connecting hymn-singing with the funeral service is obvious.", "lineStart": 10405, "lineEnd": 10413, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 224–225; NLM OCR lines 10405–10413", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10405, "lineEnd": 10413, "printedPage": 224, "printedPageEnd": 225 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Hymns. — To sing them in a dream signifies the dreamer's \n\n\nSYMBOLISM IN DREAMS 225 \n\n\ndeath (Gypsy). The symbolism connecting hymn-singing with \nthe funeral service is obvious. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [ { "line": 10408, "text": "SYMBOLISM IN DREAMS 225 " } ], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Hymns" }, "displayText": "To sing them in a dream signifies the dreamer's death (Gypsy). The symbolism connecting hymn-singing with the funeral service is obvious." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "singing" ] }, { "slug": "hypocrite", "title": "Hypocrite", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that anyone has acted the hypocrite with you, you will be turned over to your enemies by false friends.”", "aliases": [ "hypocrite" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about hypocrite stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1012", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Hypocrite", "text": "To dream that anyone has acted the hypocrite with you, you will be turned\nover to your enemies by false friends.\n\nTo dream that you are a hypocrite, denotes that you will prove yourself\na deceiver and be false to friends.", "locator": "Heading 1013; source lines 11802–11810", "lineStart": 11802, "lineEnd": 11810, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that anyone has acted the hypocrite with you, you will be turned\nover to your enemies by false friends.\n\nTo dream that you are a hypocrite, denotes that you will prove yourself\na deceiver and be false to friends." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "hyssop", "title": "Hyssop", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of hyssop, denotes you will have grave charges preferred against you.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "hyssop" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about hyssop stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1013", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Hyssop", "text": "To dream of hyssop, denotes you will have grave charges preferred\nagainst you; and, if a woman, your reputation will be endangered.", "locator": "Heading 1014; source lines 11810–11823", "lineStart": 11810, "lineEnd": 11823, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of hyssop, denotes you will have grave charges preferred\nagainst you; and, if a woman, your reputation will be endangered." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10414", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Hyssop", "heading": "Hyssop", "text": "A dream signifying labor, trouble, sickness, weakness. To physicians, however, the dream is propitious (Artemidorus).", "lineStart": 10414, "lineEnd": 10419, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 225; NLM OCR lines 10414–10419", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10414, "lineEnd": 10419, "printedPage": 225, "printedPageEnd": 225 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Hyssop. — A dream signifying labor, trouble, sickness, weak- \nness. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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If you drink ice-water, you will bring\nill health from dissipation.\n\nBathing in ice-water, anticipated pleasures will be interrupted\nwith an unforeseen event.", "locator": "Heading 1015; source lines 11823–11856", "lineStart": 11823, "lineEnd": 11856, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of ice, betokens much distress, and evil-minded persons\nwill seek to injure you in your best work.\n\nTo see ice floating in a stream of clear water, denotes that your happiness\nwill be interrupted by ill-tempered and jealous friends.\n\nTo dream that you walk on ice, you risk much solid comfort and respect\nfor evanescent joys.\n\nFor a young woman to walk on ice, is a warning that only a thin\nveil hides her from shame.\n\nTo see icicles on the eaves of houses, denotes misery and want of comfort.\nIll health is foreboded.\n\nTo see icicles on the fence, denotes suffering bodily and mentally.\n\nTo see them on trees, despondent hopes will grow gloomier.\n\nTo see them on evergreens, a bright future will be overcast with the shadow\nof doubtful honors.\n\nTo dream that you make ice, you will make a failure of your life\nthrough egotism and selfishness.\n\nEating ice, foretells sickness. 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To dream of walking on slippery ice\nin winter, is a sign that misfortune threatens you: if you slip down,\nit foreshadows bad luck: if you dream of gliding or skating easily over\nsmooth ice, it shows that you will probably have a difficulty of some\nkind, but will overcome it and get through handsomely. For lovers to\ndream of going over ice is a bad omen." }, { "id": "noe-0249", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Ice", "text": "To dream of ice is a favorable omen. To the lover it shows your\nsweetheart is of an amiable temper and faithful. To dream you are sliding\nor skating on the ice, denotes that you will pursue some unprofitable\nconcern and be much worried by your engagements.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 251; source lines 1067–1070", "lineStart": 1067, "lineEnd": 1070, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of ice is a favorable omen. To the lover it shows your\nsweetheart is of an amiable temper and faithful. To dream you are sliding\nor skating on the ice, denotes that you will pursue some unprofitable\nconcern and be much worried by your engagements." }, { "id": "cielo-0221", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Ice", "text": "Denotes gratitude.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 221; source lines 4385–4388", "lineStart": 4385, "lineEnd": 4388, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Denotes gratitude." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10420", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Ice", "heading": "Ice", "text": "Always a bad dream (Raphael). 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Probably a dream \ncaused by unnatural chilling of the sleeper's body, and there- \nfore not good. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "there- \nfore", "after": "therefore", "evidenceLine": 1150 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Ice" }, "displayText": "Always a bad dream (Raphael). Probably a dream caused by unnatural chilling of the sleeper's body, and therefore not good." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1015", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Ice Cream", "text": "To dream that you are eating ice cream, foretells you\nwill have happy success in affairs already undertaken.\nTo see children eating it, denotes prosperity and happiness\nwill attend you most favorably.\n\nFor a young woman to upset her ice cream in the presence\nof her lover or friend, denotes she will be flirted with\nbecause of her unkindness to others. To see sour ice cream,\ndenotes some unexpected trouble will interfere with your pleasures.\nIf it is melted, your anticipated pleasure will reach stagnation\nbefore it is realized.", "locator": "Heading 1016; source lines 11856–11870", "lineStart": 11856, "lineEnd": 11870, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are eating ice cream, foretells you\nwill have happy success in affairs already undertaken.\nTo see children eating it, denotes prosperity and happiness\nwill attend you most favorably.\n\nFor a young woman to upset her ice cream in the presence\nof her lover or friend, denotes she will be flirted with\nbecause of her unkindness to others. To see sour ice cream,\ndenotes some unexpected trouble will interfere with your pleasures.\nIf it is melted, your anticipated pleasure will reach stagnation\nbefore it is realized." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "icicles", "title": "Icicles", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see icicles falling from trees, denotes that some distinctive misfortune, or trouble, will soon vanish.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "icicles" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about icicles stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "ice" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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See Ice." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10424", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Icicles", "heading": "Icicles", "text": "To a young woman marriage to an old and wealthy man (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 10424, "lineEnd": 10426, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 225; NLM OCR lines 10424–10426", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10424, "lineEnd": 10426, "printedPage": 225, "printedPageEnd": 225 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Icicles. — To a young woman marriage to an old and \nwealthy man (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Icicles" }, "displayText": "To a young woman marriage to an old and wealthy man (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "idols", "title": "Idols", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Should you dream of worshiping idols, you will make slow progress to wealth or fame, as you will let petty…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "idols", "idol" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about idols stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1020", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Idols", "text": "Should you dream of worshiping idols, you will make slow progress to wealth\nor fame, as you will let petty things tyrannize over you.\n\nTo break idols, signifies a strong mastery over self, and no work\nwill deter you in your upward rise to positions of honor.\n\nTo see others worshiping idols, great differences will rise up\nbetween you and warm friends.\n\nTo dream that you are denouncing idolatry, great distinction\nis in store for you through your understanding of the natural\ninclinations of the human mind.", "locator": "Heading 1021; source lines 11903–11918", "lineStart": 11903, "lineEnd": 11918, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Should you dream of worshiping idols, you will make slow progress to wealth\nor fame, as you will let petty things tyrannize over you.\n\nTo break idols, signifies a strong mastery over self, and no work\nwill deter you in your upward rise to positions of honor.\n\nTo see others worshiping idols, great differences will rise up\nbetween you and warm friends.\n\nTo dream that you are denouncing idolatry, great distinction\nis in store for you through your understanding of the natural\ninclinations of the human mind." }, { "id": "noe-0259", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Idol", "text": "To dream you see persons worshiping at an idol, betokens a change\nof affairs and much for the better. To dream you worship an idol, is a\nsign of merriment, such as going to balls, parties or excursions, pleasant\njourneys and the like. If a sick person has this dream, they will have a\nspeedy recovery.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 261; source lines 1095–1099", "lineStart": 1095, "lineEnd": 1099, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see persons worshiping at an idol, betokens a change\nof affairs and much for the better. To dream you worship an idol, is a\nsign of merriment, such as going to balls, parties or excursions, pleasant\njourneys and the like. If a sick person has this dream, they will have a\nspeedy recovery." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1021", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Illness", "text": "For a woman to dream of her own illness, foretells that some unforeseen\nevent will throw her into a frenzy of despair by causing her to miss\nsome anticipated visit or entertainment.\n\n\n[99] See Sickness.", "locator": "Heading 1022; source lines 11918–11927", "lineStart": 11918, "lineEnd": 11927, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a woman to dream of her own illness, foretells that some unforeseen\nevent will throw her into a frenzy of despair by causing her to miss\nsome anticipated visit or entertainment. See Sickness." }, { "id": "fontaine-0368", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Illness", "text": "(_See Sickness._) To dream that you are ill and confined to\nyour bed is a sign that some one will overreach you in a bargain, or\ncheat you in some way. Such a dream is a bad omen to loves, as it\npredicts false vows. 16, 38.", "locator": "Heading 368; source line 2659", "lineStart": 2659, "lineEnd": 2664, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Sickness.) To dream that you are ill and confined to\nyour bed is a sign that some one will overreach you in a bargain, or\ncheat you in some way. Such a dream is a bad omen to loves, as it\npredicts false vows." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10432", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Illness", "heading": "Illness", "text": "A dangerous dream (Raphael).", "lineStart": 10432, "lineEnd": 10433, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 225; NLM OCR lines 10432–10433", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10432, "lineEnd": 10433, "printedPage": 225, "printedPageEnd": 225 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Illness. — A dangerous dream (Raphael). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Illness" }, "displayText": "A dangerous dream (Raphael)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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Death, family troubles,\nand national upheavals will occur.\n\nTo see children in the lighted heavens, warns you to control your feelings,\nas irrevocable wrong may be done in a frenzy of feeling arising over seeming\nneglect by your dear ones.\n\nTo see illuminated human figures or animals in the heavens,\ndenotes failure and trouble; dark clouds overshadow fortune.\nTo see them fall to the earth and men shoot them with guns,\nmany troubles and obstacles will go to nought before your energy\nand determination to rise.\n\nTo see illuminated snakes, or any other creeping thing, enemies will\nsurround you, and use hellish means to overthrow you.", "locator": "Heading 1023; source lines 11927–11952", "lineStart": 11927, "lineEnd": 11952, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you see strange and weird illuminations in your dreams,\nyou will meet with disappointments and failures on every hand.\n\nIlluminated faces, indicate unsettled business, both private and official.\n\nTo see the heavens illuminated, with the moon in all her weirdness,\nunnatural stars and a red sun, or a golden one, you may look\nfor distress in its worst form. Death, family troubles,\nand national upheavals will occur.\n\nTo see children in the lighted heavens, warns you to control your feelings,\nas irrevocable wrong may be done in a frenzy of feeling arising over seeming\nneglect by your dear ones.\n\nTo see illuminated human figures or animals in the heavens,\ndenotes failure and trouble; dark clouds overshadow fortune.\nTo see them fall to the earth and men shoot them with guns,\nmany troubles and obstacles will go to nought before your energy\nand determination to rise.\n\nTo see illuminated snakes, or any other creeping thing, enemies will\nsurround you, and use hellish means to overthrow you." }, { "id": "fontaine-0369", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Illumination", "text": "To dream of an illumination augurs success in life and\nmuch happiness; if the light begins to disappear, sorrow and many tears\nwill be your portion. 24, 68.", "locator": "Heading 369; source line 2664", "lineStart": 2664, "lineEnd": 2668, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of an illumination augurs success in life and\nmuch happiness; if the light begins to disappear, sorrow and many tears\nwill be your portion." }, { "id": "noe-0261", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Illumination", "text": "It is a\ncertain sign of war when persons dream of seeing a city illuminated. To\ndream your own house is illuminated, betokens much quarrelling among\nrelatives.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 263; source lines 1101–1104", "lineStart": 1101, "lineEnd": 1104, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "It is a\ncertain sign of war when persons dream of seeing a city illuminated. To\ndream your own house is illuminated, betokens much quarrelling among\nrelatives." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10434", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Illumination", "heading": "Illumination", "text": "Some great joy at hand is augured by this dream (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 10434, "lineEnd": 10436, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 225; NLM OCR lines 10434–10436", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10434, "lineEnd": 10436, "printedPage": 225, "printedPageEnd": 225 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Illumination. — Some great joy at hand is augured by this \ndream (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Illumination" }, "displayText": "Some great joy at hand is augured by this dream (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1023", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Image", "text": "If you dream that you see images, you will have poor success\nin business or love.\n\nTo set up an image in your home, portends that you will be weak\nminded and easily led astray. Women should be careful of their\nreputation after a dream of this kind. If the images are ugly,\nyou will have trouble in your home.", "locator": "Heading 1024; source lines 11952–11962", "lineStart": 11952, "lineEnd": 11962, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream that you see images, you will have poor success\nin business or love.\n\nTo set up an image in your home, portends that you will be weak\nminded and easily led astray. Women should be careful of their\nreputation after a dream of this kind. If the images are ugly,\nyou will have trouble in your home." }, { "id": "noe-0256", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Image", "text": "To dream\nof an image or statue, signifies children, and the will and affections of\nthe dreamer.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 258; source lines 1087–1089", "lineStart": 1087, "lineEnd": 1089, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream\nof an image or statue, signifies children, and the will and affections of\nthe dreamer." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0370", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Impertinence", "text": "If a girl dreams that she meets a gentleman who is\nimpertinent toward her in conversation, it is a sign she will make a\nnew male acquaintance who will be very agreeable to her: if she gets\nangry at the said impertinence she will probably fall in love with her\nnew friend and either marry him or be on improper intimate terms with\nhim. 1, 11.", "locator": "Heading 370; source line 2668", "lineStart": 2668, "lineEnd": 2675, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If a girl dreams that she meets a gentleman who is\nimpertinent toward her in conversation, it is a sign she will make a\nnew male acquaintance who will be very agreeable to her: if she gets\nangry at the said impertinence she will probably fall in love with her\nnew friend and either marry him or be on improper intimate terms with\nhim." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "implements", "title": "Implements", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of implements, denotes unsatisfactory means of accomplishing some work.”", "aliases": [ "implements" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about implements stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1025", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Implements", "text": "To dream of implements, denotes unsatisfactory means of accomplishing\nsome work. If the implements are broken, you will be threatened with death\nor serious illness of relatives or friends, or failure n business.", "locator": "Heading 1026; source lines 11968–11974", "lineStart": 11968, "lineEnd": 11974, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of implements, denotes unsatisfactory means of accomplishing\nsome work. If the implements are broken, you will be threatened with death\nor serious illness of relatives or friends, or failure n business." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "imps", "title": "Imps", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see imps in your dream, signifies trouble from what seems a passing pleasure.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "imps", "imp" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about imps stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1026", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Imps", "text": "To see imps in your dream, signifies trouble from what seems\na passing pleasure.\n\nTo dream that you are an imp, denotes that folly and vice will bring\nyou to poverty.", "locator": "Heading 1027; source lines 11974–11982", "lineStart": 11974, "lineEnd": 11982, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see imps in your dream, signifies trouble from what seems\na passing pleasure.\n\nTo dream that you are an imp, denotes that folly and vice will bring\nyou to poverty." }, { "id": "cielo-0222", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Imp", "text": "Is an occasion on which to exercise caution.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 222; source lines 4388–4390", "lineStart": 4388, "lineEnd": 4390, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Is an occasion on which to exercise caution." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10437", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Imps", "heading": "Imps", "text": "An ill dream for those advanced in years, to others disappointment (Gypsy). The imp is a symbol of malice.", "lineStart": 10437, "lineEnd": 10439, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 225; NLM OCR lines 10437–10439", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10437, "lineEnd": 10439, "printedPage": 225, "printedPageEnd": 225 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Imps. — An ill dream for those advanced in years, to others \ndisappointment (Gypsy). The imp is a symbol of malice. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Imps" }, "displayText": "An ill dream for those advanced in years, to others disappointment (Gypsy). The imp is a symbol of malice." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1027", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Inauguration", "text": "To dream of inauguration, denotes you will rise to higher position than\nyou have yet enjoyed. For a young woman to be disappointed in attending\nan inauguration, predicts she will fail to obtain her wishes.", "locator": "Heading 1028; source lines 11982–11988", "lineStart": 11982, "lineEnd": 11988, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of inauguration, denotes you will rise to higher position than\nyou have yet enjoyed. For a young woman to be disappointed in attending\nan inauguration, predicts she will fail to obtain her wishes." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1030", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Incoherent", "text": "To dream of incoherency, usually denotes extreme nervousness and excitement\nthrough the oppression of changing events.", "locator": "Heading 1031; source lines 11999–12004", "lineStart": 11999, "lineEnd": 12004, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of incoherency, usually denotes extreme nervousness and excitement\nthrough the oppression of changing events." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1031", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Income", "text": "To dream of coming into the possession of your income, denotes that you\nmay deceive some one and cause trouble to your family and friends.\n\nTo dream that some of your family inherits an income,\npredicts success for you.\n\nFor a woman to dream of losing her income, signifies disappointments in life.\n\nTo dream that your income is insufficient to support you,\ndenotes trouble to relatives or friends.\n\nTo dream of a portion of your income remaining, signifies that you\nwill be very successful for a short time, but you may expect more\nthan you receive.", "locator": "Heading 1032; source lines 12004–12021", "lineStart": 12004, "lineEnd": 12021, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of coming into the possession of your income, denotes that you\nmay deceive some one and cause trouble to your family and friends.\n\nTo dream that some of your family inherits an income,\npredicts success for you.\n\nFor a woman to dream of losing her income, signifies disappointments in life.\n\nTo dream that your income is insufficient to support you,\ndenotes trouble to relatives or friends.\n\nTo dream of a portion of your income remaining, signifies that you\nwill be very successful for a short time, but you may expect more\nthan you receive." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "increase", "title": "Increase", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of an increase in your family, may denote failure in some of your plans, and success to another.”", "aliases": [ "increase" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about increase stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1032", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Increase", "text": "To dream of an increase in your family, may denote failure\nin some of your plans, and success to another.\n\nTo dream of an increase in your business, signifies that you\nwill overcome existing troubles.", "locator": "Heading 1033; source lines 12021–12029", "lineStart": 12021, "lineEnd": 12029, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of an increase in your family, may denote failure\nin some of your plans, and success to another.\n\nTo dream of an increase in your business, signifies that you\nwill overcome existing troubles." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "indecision", "title": "Indecision", "category": "Emotions & situations", "aliases": [ "indecision", "indecisive", "unable to choose", "cannot decide", "can't decide", "being unable to decide" ], "summary": "Indecision may explore competing wishes, unreliable options, or pressure to choose before you are ready. Having no good alternative differs from hesitating.", "tagline": "Two possible directions, the cost of choosing, and whether the options are really yours.", "psychological": "Indecision puts alternatives in front of you while making the act of choosing difficult. Unlike being lost, you may know where each route leads and still be unable to take one. This can fit two genuine wishes that cannot be fully satisfied together: time with someone and time alone, security and novelty, or finishing one commitment and accepting another. The dream makes the trade-off visible without deciding which value should win.\n\nSometimes the obstacle is missing or unreliable information. A menu changes as you read it, a door's destination keeps shifting, or another person gives a different account of the consequences. That scene may resemble a decision whose terms are not stable enough to evaluate. Hesitation could be an understandable response to those conditions, rather than a personal inability to act. The useful subject may be what you would need to know before a choice becomes workable.\n\nAn audience can turn preference into performance. If everyone watches you choose, you may be trying to avoid disappointing somebody or to give an answer that can be defended perfectly. Selecting clothes, a meal, or a route may carry a larger imagined consequence: revealing who you are or which side you favor. This could fit making an ordinary choice feel responsible for more than it can settle.\n\nThe available options may also be too narrow. Wanting to leave rather than choose either door can bring a missing alternative into the scene. Relief after asking for time might explore permission to proceed at a different pace; an impulsive choice followed by regret can concern pressure that shortened deliberation. A recent decision or a remembered moment of waiting may provide direct context. The dream can clarify a tension without supplying a dependable answer to a real decision.", "traditional": "No matching historical passage directly addresses this indecision context. The reflections are original distinctions between competing wishes, unstable information, public pressure, and limited options. A decision can be difficult for more than one reason; this entry does not treat hesitation as a character flaw or assume that every dream contains a correct route waiting to be decoded.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Two wishes with real costs", "reflection": "Being unable to choose may fit alternatives that each protect something valuable. The scene can clarify a trade-off without requiring one wish to be dismissed as the wrong one." }, { "title": "Terms that will not stay clear", "reflection": "Changing destinations or consequences may make hesitation reasonable. The useful question can be what information or stability is missing, rather than how to force a faster answer." }, { "title": "A choice carrying too much", "reflection": "An audience or demand for certainty can turn an ordinary preference into a test of identity. The image may fit trying to make one answer satisfy several people's expectations." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Two doors lead to things you both want", "reflection": "One destination offers company and the other offers rest, opportunity, or familiarity. The scene may fit competing values rather than confusion about the routes. What makes the choice difficult is the cost of leaving one possibility, not necessarily a failure to know yourself." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A menu changes before you can order", "reflection": "Every decision becomes impossible to complete because the options keep shifting. This can resemble planning around unreliable terms or changing requests. A stable list or more time may be the useful missing condition, rather than a stronger preference." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Everyone waits for you to choose", "reflection": "A small decision holds up the group and draws attention. The scene may explore a wish to avoid inconveniencing or disappointing others. The audience can make a modest preference feel like a public judgment, especially when you want a reason no one can challenge." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You do not want either option", "reflection": "The dream demands a choice between two places or roles that both feel unsuitable. This can bring a missing alternative into view. Leaving, asking a question, or proposing another route may feel different from simply remaining unable to choose." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You choose quickly and wish you had more time", "reflection": "Pressure ends the waiting but leaves dissatisfaction with the result. This may fit wanting enough space to understand a commitment before accepting it. The dreamed regret does not establish that a real choice was wrong; it highlights the pace and conditions of deciding." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You ask for time and the scene becomes calmer", "reflection": "The alternatives remain, but urgency no longer controls the encounter. This can explore a more workable relationship to uncertainty. Relief may come from permission to deliberate, even if the dream never supplies a final choice or proves which option would be best." } ], "prompts": [ "Which wish or value did each option protect?", "Was I missing information, permission to take time, or an alternative I could actually want?", "What larger judgment did the choice seem to carry?" ], "related": [ "being-lost", "door", "being-late", "school-or-exam", "job-interview" ], "type": "dreams", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflection on distinct social scenes and possible personal connections; no matching historical passage supplied. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "independent", "title": "Independent", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are very independent, denotes that you have a rival who may do you an injustice.”", "aliases": [ "independent" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about independent stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1033", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Independent", "text": "To dream that you are very independent, denotes that you have a rival\nwho may do you an injustice.\n\nTo dream that you gain an independence of wealth, you may not\nbe so succcessful{sic} at that time as you expect, but good\nresults are promised.", "locator": "Heading 1034; source lines 12029–12038", "lineStart": 12029, "lineEnd": 12038, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are very independent, denotes that you have a rival\nwho may do you an injustice.\n\nTo dream that you gain an independence of wealth, you may not\nbe so succcessful[sic] at that time as you expect, but good\nresults are promised." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "india-rubber", "title": "India Rubber", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of India rubber, denotes unfavorable changes in your affairs.”", "aliases": [ "india rubber" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about india rubber stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1034", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "India Rubber", "text": "To dream of India rubber, denotes unfavorable changes in your affairs.\nIf you stretch it, you will try to establish a greater business than\nyou can support.", "locator": "Heading 1035; source lines 12038–12044", "lineStart": 12038, "lineEnd": 12044, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of India rubber, denotes unfavorable changes in your affairs.\nIf you stretch it, you will try to establish a greater business than\nyou can support." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "indifference", "title": "Indifference", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of indifference, signifies pleasant companions for a very short time.”", "aliases": [ "indifference" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about indifference stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1035", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Indifference", "text": "To dream of indifference, signifies pleasant companions for a very short time.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that her sweetheart is indifferent to her,\nsignifies that he may not prove his affections in the most appropriate way.\nTo dream that she is indifferent to him, means that she will prove\nuntrue to him.", "locator": "Heading 1036; source lines 12044–12053", "lineStart": 12044, "lineEnd": 12053, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of indifference, signifies pleasant companions for a very short time.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that her sweetheart is indifferent to her,\nsignifies that he may not prove his affections in the most appropriate way.\nTo dream that she is indifferent to him, means that she will prove\nuntrue to him." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "indigestion", "title": "Indigestion", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of indigestion, indicates unhealthy and gloomy surroundings.”", "aliases": [ "indigestion" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about indigestion stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1037", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Indigestion", "text": "To dream of indigestion, indicates unhealthy and gloomy surroundings.", "locator": "Heading 1038; source lines 12060–12064", "lineStart": 12060, "lineEnd": 12064, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of indigestion, indicates unhealthy and gloomy surroundings." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "indigo", "title": "Indigo", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see indigo in a dream, denotes you will deceive friendly persons in order to cheat them out of their be…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "indigo" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about indigo stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1036", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Indigo", "text": "To see indigo in a dream, denotes you will deceive friendly\npersons in order to cheat them out of their be longings.\nTo see indigo water, foretells you will be involved in an\nugly love affair.", "locator": "Heading 1037; source lines 12053–12060", "lineStart": 12053, "lineEnd": 12060, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see indigo in a dream, denotes you will deceive friendly\npersons in order to cheat them out of their be longings.\nTo see indigo water, foretells you will be involved in an\nugly love affair." }, { "id": "fontaine-0371", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Indigo", "text": "To dream of indigo, denotes to a female that she will cross the\nocean. When she dreams of putting the indigo in water, and it gives no\ncolor, she may be assured she will arrive in India. But to embrace the\nwater in the usual way, no such thing will come to pass. 27, 15.", "locator": "Heading 371; source line 2675", "lineStart": 2675, "lineEnd": 2680, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of indigo, denotes to a female that she will cross the\nocean. When she dreams of putting the indigo in water, and it gives no\ncolor, she may be assured she will arrive in India. But to embrace the\nwater in the usual way, no such thing will come to pass." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "indistinct", "title": "Indistinct", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “If in your dreams you see objects indistinctly, it portends unfaithfulness in friendships, and uncertain dealings.”", "aliases": [ "indistinct" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about indistinct stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1038", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Indistinct", "text": "If in your dreams you see objects indistinctly, it portends unfaithfulness\nin friendships, and uncertain dealings.", "locator": "Heading 1039; source lines 12064–12069", "lineStart": 12064, "lineEnd": 12069, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If in your dreams you see objects indistinctly, it portends unfaithfulness\nin friendships, and uncertain dealings." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "indulgence", "title": "Indulgence", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “For a woman to dream of indulgence, denotes that she will not escape unfavorable comment on her conduct.”", "aliases": [ "indulgence" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about indulgence stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1039", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Indulgence", "text": "For a woman to dream of indulgence, denotes that she will not escape\nunfavorable comment on her conduct.", "locator": "Heading 1040; source lines 12069–12074", "lineStart": 12069, "lineEnd": 12074, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a woman to dream of indulgence, denotes that she will not escape\nunfavorable comment on her conduct." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "industry", "title": "Industry", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are industrious, denotes that you will be unusually active in planning and working out ideas to further your interests,…”", "aliases": [ "industry" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about industry stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1040", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Industry", "text": "To dream that you are industrious, denotes that you will be unusually\nactive in planning and working out ideas to further your interests,\nand that you will be successful in your undertakings.\n\nFor a lover to dream of being industriously at work, shows he will succeed\nin business, and that his companion will advance his position.\n\nTo see others busy, is favorable to the dreamer.", "locator": "Heading 1041; source lines 12074–12085", "lineStart": 12074, "lineEnd": 12085, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are industrious, denotes that you will be unusually\nactive in planning and working out ideas to further your interests,\nand that you will be successful in your undertakings.\n\nFor a lover to dream of being industriously at work, shows he will succeed\nin business, and that his companion will advance his position.\n\nTo see others busy, is favorable to the dreamer." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "infernal-things", "title": "Infernal Things", "type": "dreams", "category": "Other symbols", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “If any one dreams that he sees the devil, or any other infernal spirit or representation, it is a very bad…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "infernal things" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about infernal things stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "noe-0257", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Infernal Things", "text": "If any one dreams that he sees the devil,\nor any other infernal spirit or representation, it is a very bad dream,\nbringing along with it to those sick, death, and to the healthy,\nmelancholy, anger and violent sickness.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 259; source lines 1089–1092", "lineStart": 1089, "lineEnd": 1092, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If any one dreams that he sees the devil,\nor any other infernal spirit or representation, it is a very bad dream,\nbringing along with it to those sick, death, and to the healthy,\nmelancholy, anger and violent sickness." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10446", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Infernal Things", "heading": "Infernal Things", "text": "To dream of an infernal spirit is a bad sign, indicating death to the sick, melancholy to the healthful, also anger, tumults, illness (Artemidorus). This dream is conceded by physiologists to result from outward stimuli.", "lineStart": 10446, "lineEnd": 10450, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 225; NLM OCR lines 10446–10450", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10446, "lineEnd": 10450, "printedPage": 225, "printedPageEnd": 225 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Infernal Things. — To dream of an infernal spirit is a bad \nsign, indicating death to the sick, melancholy to the health- \nful, also anger, tumults, illness (Artemidorus). This dream is \nconceded by physiologists to result from outward stimuli. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "health- \nful", "after": "healthful", "evidenceLine": 9110 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Infernal Things" }, "displayText": "To dream of an infernal spirit is a bad sign, indicating death to the sick, melancholy to the healthful, also anger, tumults, illness (Artemidorus). This dream is conceded by physiologists to result from outward stimuli." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "infestation", "title": "Infestation", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "aliases": [ "infestation", "an infestation", "pest infestation", "insect infestation", "bug infestation", "bugs in the house" ], "detectionAliases": [ "infestation", "an infestation", "pest infestation", "insect infestation", "bug infestation" ], "status": "REVIEW", "kind": "editorial", "updated": "2026-10-13", "summary": "An infestation can explore a problem that keeps returning, a space becoming difficult to use, or the terms of sharing an unwanted task.", "tagline": "What keeps arriving, and who has room to respond.", "psychological": "A dream infestation makes repetition part of the encounter. One creature can be watched or avoided; many unwanted creatures appearing in a room, container or shared space may change what you can do there. Begin with what they interrupted and how the situation developed. You might be searching for a source, trying to protect one place, asking for help or discovering that the problem has ended. These actions offer different readings without establishing a species or a threat in waking life.\n\nPests returning after a room has been cleared may make repeated effort visible. This can resemble a task that becomes unfinished again because its conditions have not changed. If more creatures arrive through a gap you had not noticed, attention may shift from completing another round of work to understanding how the situation is being renewed. A problem that persists is not evidence that the person dealing with it has failed.\n\nAn affected room can also make access uneven. You may still have a usable chair or passage while the rest of the place becomes difficult to enter. Protecting one working area can picture making a manageable beginning when the whole task feels too large. The scene changes if that protected space belongs to someone else, or if keeping it usable prevents other people from reaching what they need.\n\nOther characters give the response a social setting. People who dismiss the creatures, disagree about their extent or expect you to deal with everything may bring the terms of shared responsibility into view. Someone noticing the same problem can make it possible to coordinate a response. Neither scene establishes that a particular waking person is neglectful; the dream may be exploring how a task is recognized and distributed.\n\nContainment and an ending need their own attention. Creatures confined to a box differ from creatures that appear throughout every room. A cleared place may become usable again, remain avoided or have changed purpose. These differences can help distinguish what has ended from what you still expect to return. A recent pest encounter, household task, picture or conversation may also supply straightforward material for the scene. An identifiable animal, an isolated encounter and a computer error have their own contexts; an infestation reading begins with the persistent or multiple unwanted presence you actually remember.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Effort meets returning conditions", "reflection": "A space that fills again after being cleared may bring the renewal of a task into view. Noticing where the creatures return can distinguish more effort at the same job from a change in the conditions that keep producing it." }, { "title": "A usable area within a larger problem", "reflection": "Protecting a chair, doorway or room can make a manageable starting point visible. Who can use that area, and what it leaves accessible, helps distinguish a workable boundary from a response that moves the difficulty onto someone else." }, { "title": "Recognizing a shared task", "reflection": "An infestation that other characters minimize or help address may explore how a problem becomes acknowledged. The terms of participation matter: identifying a task together differs from assuming one person must carry every part of its response." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A cleared room fills again", "reflection": "Creatures returning immediately after the room is cleared may make repeated effort feel disconnected from a lasting result. Discovering an open route, changing the task or continuing the same response gives the scene different directions. Persistence alone does not establish a failure of care." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Pests appear whenever a drawer is opened", "reflection": "A recurring presence attached to one ordinary task can make access inconvenient rather than threaten the whole place. This may resemble a small interruption that accumulates through repetition. Whether you avoid the drawer, examine it or ask for assistance changes how the demand is encountered." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "One room remains usable", "reflection": "A place within the affected home still allows you to work or rest. Protecting it may picture finding a manageable beginning. If others also need that room, the scene can bring coordination into view rather than make withdrawing from the entire situation the only possible response." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Other people insist there is no problem", "reflection": "A visible unwanted presence receives little acknowledgment from the people sharing the space. This can explore difficulty agreeing on the size or ownership of a task. Showing what has changed, finding another participant or choosing your own response gives the disagreement more than one possible outcome." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The creatures stay inside a closed container", "reflection": "The problem has a defined edge, but the container still needs a place and purpose. This may picture a concern becoming manageable without having disappeared. Your choice to store, open or pass it to someone else can clarify the terms under which its responsibility is being held." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The pests have gone but you avoid the space", "reflection": "The practical obstacle has ended while your expectation of it remains. This can resemble returning to a task or place after difficult conditions have changed. Testing whether the room is usable, waiting or choosing a different purpose can give that transition a particular pace." } ], "prompts": [ "What did the unwanted presence interrupt, and how did its extent change?", "Which part of the response felt workable, shared or repeatedly renewed?", "What became possible when the situation was contained, recognized or ended?" ], "traditional": "No general infestation account is attached to this entry. Historical passages about named creatures remain on their specific animal pages, with their own period claims. These original reflections concern repetition, access and response; they do not use an old species forecast to define unidentified pests. General sleep background supplies context for dreaming, rather than an interpretation of infestation.", "related": [ "cockroach", "flies", "fleas", "mosquito", "house", "a-toilet-with-no-privacy" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General dream background only: waking experiences and feelings can provide dream material. Does not establish a meaning for unidentified pests, validate these original symbolic comparisons, or assess a real infestation or health condition." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection independently reviewed for content and source scope. Historical accounts remain attributed period writing. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "infirm", "title": "Infirm", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “To dream of seeing a person becoming infirm, indicates you, yourself, will become so (Gypsy). A dream inspired by physical weakness.”", "aliases": [ "infirm" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about infirm stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L10451", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Infirm", "heading": "Infirm", "text": "To dream of seeing a person becoming infirm, indicates you, yourself, will become so (Gypsy). A dream inspired by physical weakness.", "lineStart": 10451, "lineEnd": 10454, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 225; NLM OCR lines 10451–10454", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10451, "lineEnd": 10454, "printedPage": 225, "printedPageEnd": 225 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Infirm. — To dream of seeing a person becoming infirm, in- \ndicates you, yourself, will become so (Gypsy). A dream in- \nspired by physical weakness. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "in- \ndicates", "after": "indicates", "evidenceLine": 9022 }, { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "in- \nspired", "after": "inspired", "evidenceLine": 472 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Infirm" }, "displayText": "To dream of seeing a person becoming infirm, indicates you, yourself, will become so (Gypsy). A dream inspired by physical weakness." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "infirmary", "title": "Infirmary", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you leave an infirmary, denotes your escape from wily enemies who will cause you much worry. See Hospital.”", "aliases": [ "infirmary" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about infirmary stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "hospital" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1042", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Infirmary", "text": "To dream that you leave an infirmary, denotes your escape from wily\nenemies who will cause you much worry.\n\n\n[100] See Hospital.", "locator": "Heading 1043; source lines 12093–12101", "lineStart": 12093, "lineEnd": 12101, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you leave an infirmary, denotes your escape from wily\nenemies who will cause you much worry. See Hospital." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "hospital" ] }, { "slug": "infirmities", "title": "Infirmities", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of infirmities, denotes misfortune in love and business.”", "aliases": [ "infirmities" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about infirmities stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1043", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Infirmities", "text": "To dream of infirmities, denotes misfortune in love and business;\nenemies are not to be misunderstood, and sickness may follow.\n\nTo dream that you see others infirm, denotes that you may have various\ntroubles and disappointments in business.", "locator": "Heading 1044; source lines 12101–12109", "lineStart": 12101, "lineEnd": 12109, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of infirmities, denotes misfortune in love and business;\nenemies are not to be misunderstood, and sickness may follow.\n\nTo dream that you see others infirm, denotes that you may have various\ntroubles and disappointments in business." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "influence", "title": "Influence", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “If you dream of seeking rank or advancement through the influence of others, your desires will fail to materialize.”", "aliases": [ "influence" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about influence stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1044", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Influence", "text": "If you dream of seeking rank or advancement through the influence\nof others, your desires will fail to materialize; but if you\nare in an influential position, your prospects will assume\na bright form.\n\nTo see friends in high positions, your companions will be congenial,\nand you will be free from vexations.", "locator": "Heading 1045; source lines 12109–12119", "lineStart": 12109, "lineEnd": 12119, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream of seeking rank or advancement through the influence\nof others, your desires will fail to materialize; but if you\nare in an influential position, your prospects will assume\na bright form.\n\nTo see friends in high positions, your companions will be congenial,\nand you will be free from vexations." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "inheritance", "title": "Inheritance", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you receive an inheritance, foretells that you will be successful in easily obtaining your desires. See Estate.”", "aliases": [ "inheritance" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about inheritance stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "estate" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1045", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Inheritance", "text": "To dream that you receive an inheritance, foretells that you\nwill be successful in easily obtaining your desires.\n\n\n[101] See Estate.", "locator": "Heading 1046; source lines 12119–12127", "lineStart": 12119, "lineEnd": 12127, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you receive an inheritance, foretells that you\nwill be successful in easily obtaining your desires. See Estate." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "estate" ] }, { "slug": "injury", "title": "Injury", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of an injury being done you, signifies that an unfortunate occurrence will soon grieve and vex you.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "injury" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about injury stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "hurt" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1046", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Injury", "text": "To dream of an injury being done you, signifies that an unfortunate\noccurrence will soon grieve and vex you.\n\n\n[102] See Hurt.", "locator": "Heading 1047; source lines 12127–12135", "lineStart": 12127, "lineEnd": 12135, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of an injury being done you, signifies that an unfortunate\noccurrence will soon grieve and vex you. See Hurt." }, { "id": "noe-0262", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Injury", "text": "To dream you receive an injury, signifies that you\nhave many friends--no enemies. If you dream of inflicting injury, you will\nboth receive and dispense blessings.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 264; source lines 1104–1106", "lineStart": 1104, "lineEnd": 1106, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you receive an injury, signifies that you\nhave many friends--no enemies. If you dream of inflicting injury, you will\nboth receive and dispense blessings." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "hurt" ] }, { "slug": "ink", "title": "Ink", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see ink spilled over one's clothing, many small and spiteful meannesses will be wrought you through envy.” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "ink" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about ink stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1047", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Ink", "text": "To see ink spilled over one's clothing, many small and spiteful\nmeannesses will be wrought you through envy.\n\nIf a young woman sees ink, she will be slandered by a rival.\n\nTo dream that you have ink on your fingers, you will be jealous\nand seek to injure some one unless you exercise your better nature.\nIf it is red ink, you will be involved in a serious trouble.\n\nTo dream that you make ink, you will engage in a low and debasing business,\nand you will fall into disreputable associations.\n\nTo see bottles of ink in your dreams, indicates enemies\nand unsuccessful interests.", "locator": "Heading 1048; source lines 12135–12152", "lineStart": 12135, "lineEnd": 12152, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see ink spilled over one's clothing, many small and spiteful\nmeannesses will be wrought you through envy.\n\nIf a young woman sees ink, she will be slandered by a rival.\n\nTo dream that you have ink on your fingers, you will be jealous\nand seek to injure some one unless you exercise your better nature.\nIf it is red ink, you will be involved in a serious trouble.\n\nTo dream that you make ink, you will engage in a low and debasing business,\nand you will fall into disreputable associations.\n\nTo see bottles of ink in your dreams, indicates enemies\nand unsuccessful interests." }, { "id": "fontaine-0373", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Ink", "text": "To dream that you see splashes of ink on white paper, or on\nanything, is a sign of scandal: after such a dream, you may be sure\nthat somebody will be talking pretty hard about you: the larger the\nsplashes the bigger will be the stories that are told. 41.", "locator": "Heading 373; source line 2686", "lineStart": 2686, "lineEnd": 2691, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you see splashes of ink on white paper, or on\nanything, is a sign of scandal: after such a dream, you may be sure\nthat somebody will be talking pretty hard about you: the larger the\nsplashes the bigger will be the stories that are told." }, { "id": "noe-0263", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Ink", "text": "If you dream of black ink,\nyou will become involved in some disgraceful scheme. If you dream of red\nink, good news awaits you.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 265; source lines 1106–1110", "lineStart": 1106, "lineEnd": 1110, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream of black ink,\nyou will become involved in some disgraceful scheme. If you dream of red\nink, good news awaits you." }, { "id": "cielo-0224", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Ink", "text": "To upset an ink bottle is a sign of someone\n attempting to injure you.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 224; source lines 4392–4395", "lineStart": 4392, "lineEnd": 4395, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To upset an ink bottle is a sign of someone\nattempting to injure you." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "ink-stand", "title": "Ink-stand", "type": "dreams", "category": "Other symbols", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Empty ink-stands denote that you will narrowly escape public denunciation for some supposed injustice.”", "aliases": [ "ink-stand" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about ink-stand stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1048", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Ink-stand", "text": "Empty ink-stands denote that you will narrowly escape public denunciation\nfor some supposed injustice.\n\nTo see them filled with ink, if you are not cautious, enemies will\nsucceed in calumniation.", "locator": "Heading 1049; source lines 12152–12160", "lineStart": 12152, "lineEnd": 12160, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Empty ink-stands denote that you will narrowly escape public denunciation\nfor some supposed injustice.\n\nTo see them filled with ink, if you are not cautious, enemies will\nsucceed in calumniation." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "inn", "title": "Inn", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of an inn, denotes prosperity and pleasures, if the inn is commodious and well furnished.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "inn", "tavern" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about inn stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1049", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Inn", "text": "To dream of an inn, denotes prosperity and pleasures, if the inn\nis commodious and well furnished.\n\nTo be at a dilapidated and ill kept inn, denotes poor success,\nor mournful tasks, or unhappy journeys.", "locator": "Heading 1050; source lines 12160–12168", "lineStart": 12160, "lineEnd": 12168, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of an inn, denotes prosperity and pleasures, if the inn\nis commodious and well furnished.\n\nTo be at a dilapidated and ill kept inn, denotes poor success,\nor mournful tasks, or unhappy journeys." }, { "id": "fontaine-0374", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Inn", "text": "To dream of being at an inn, is very unfavorable; it denotes\npoverty and unsuccessfulness in business; to the lover, the\nunfaithfulness of his sweetheart; to the tradesman, loss of business\nand dishonest agents. 46, 33.", "locator": "Heading 374; source line 2691", "lineStart": 2691, "lineEnd": 2696, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being at an inn, is very unfavorable; it denotes\npoverty and unsuccessfulness in business; to the lover, the\nunfaithfulness of his sweetheart; to the tradesman, loss of business\nand dishonest agents." }, { "id": "noe-0253", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Inn", "text": "To dream of being in an inn, is a very unfavorable dream. It\ndenotes poverty and want of success in undertakings; expect soon to be\nyourself, or some of your family, committed to prison. If you are sick, it\ndenotes you will never recover. To the tradesman it shows loss of trade\nand bad servants.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 255; source lines 1077–1081", "lineStart": 1077, "lineEnd": 1081, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being in an inn, is a very unfavorable dream. It\ndenotes poverty and want of success in undertakings; expect soon to be\nyourself, or some of your family, committed to prison. If you are sick, it\ndenotes you will never recover. To the tradesman it shows loss of trade\nand bad servants." }, { "id": "fontaine-0782", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Tavern", "text": "(_See Inn._)", "locator": "Heading 782; source line 4838", "lineStart": 4838, "lineEnd": 4840, "kind": "cross-reference", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Inn.)" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "inquest", "title": "Inquest", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of an inquest, foretells you will be unfortunate in your friendships.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "inquest" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about inquest stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1050", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Inquest", "text": "To dream of an inquest, foretells you will be unfortunate\nin your friendships.", "locator": "Heading 1051; source lines 12168–12173", "lineStart": 12168, "lineEnd": 12173, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of an inquest, foretells you will be unfortunate\nin your friendships." }, { "id": "fontaine-0375", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Inquest", "text": "To dream that you are present at a coroner’s inquest, is a bad\nsign; you will soon squander your fortune. 49, 16.", "locator": "Heading 375; source line 2696", "lineStart": 2696, "lineEnd": 2699, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are present at a coroner’s inquest, is a bad\nsign; you will soon squander your fortune." }, { "id": "noe-0254", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Inquest", "text": "To dream of being at an inquest, denotes\nprosperity; to dream that you are the subject on which the inquest is\nheld, prognosticates that you will come into prosperity by the death of\nsome rich person; to dream an inquest is held on the body of a friend is\nalso good to the dreamer.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 256; source lines 1081–1085", "lineStart": 1081, "lineEnd": 1085, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being at an inquest, denotes\nprosperity; to dream that you are the subject on which the inquest is\nheld, prognosticates that you will come into prosperity by the death of\nsome rich person; to dream an inquest is held on the body of a friend is\nalso good to the dreamer." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "inquisition", "title": "Inquisition", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of an inquisition, bespeaks for you an endless round of trouble and great disappointment.”", "aliases": [ "inquisition" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about inquisition stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1051", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Inquisition", "text": "To dream of an inquisition, bespeaks for you an endless round\nof trouble and great disappointment.\n\nIf you are brought before an inquisition on a charge of wilfulness,\nyou will be unable to defend yourself from malicious slander.", "locator": "Heading 1052; source lines 12173–12181", "lineStart": 12173, "lineEnd": 12181, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of an inquisition, bespeaks for you an endless round\nof trouble and great disappointment.\n\nIf you are brought before an inquisition on a charge of wilfulness,\nyou will be unable to defend yourself from malicious slander." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "insane", "title": "Insane", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of being insane, forebodes disastrous results to some newly undertaken work, or ill health may work sad changes in your prospects.”", "aliases": [ "insane" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about insane stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1052", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Insane", "text": "To dream of being insane, forebodes disastrous results to some newly\nundertaken work, or ill health may work sad changes in your prospects.\n\nTo see others insane, denotes disagreeable contact with suffering\nand appeals from the poverty-stricken. The utmost care should be taken\nof the health after this dream.", "locator": "Heading 1053; source lines 12181–12190", "lineStart": 12181, "lineEnd": 12190, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being insane, forebodes disastrous results to some newly\nundertaken work, or ill health may work sad changes in your prospects.\n\nTo see others insane, denotes disagreeable contact with suffering\nand appeals from the poverty-stricken. The utmost care should be taken\nof the health after this dream." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "insanity", "title": "Insanity", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Cielo wrote: “To dream of being insane is a sign that you are overworked.”", "aliases": [ "insanity" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about insanity stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "cielo-0225", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Insanity", "text": "To dream of being insane is a sign that\n you are overworked.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 225; source lines 4395–4398", "lineStart": 4395, "lineEnd": 4398, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being insane is a sign that\nyou are overworked." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "inscription", "title": "Inscription", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream you see an inscription, foretells you will shortly receive unpleasant communications.”", "aliases": [ "inscription" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about inscription stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1053", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Inscription", "text": "To dream you see an inscription, foretells you will shortly\nreceive unpleasant communications. If you are reading them\non tombs, you will be distressed by sickness of a grave nature.\nTo write one, you will lose a valued friend.", "locator": "Heading 1054; source lines 12190–12197", "lineStart": 12190, "lineEnd": 12197, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see an inscription, foretells you will shortly\nreceive unpleasant communications. If you are reading them\non tombs, you will be distressed by sickness of a grave nature.\nTo write one, you will lose a valued friend." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "insects", "title": "Insects", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "Small presences can gather attention without sharing one meaning.", "summary": "Insects in dreams can bring attention to scale, numbers, interruption or an overlooked detail. The particular activity matters more than a general omen.", "aliases": [ "insects" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "Insects can make the relation between a small presence and your attention unusually noticeable. One insect may be easy to follow, while many moving at once can make it difficult to decide where to look. This can picture a task composed of numerous small demands, or curiosity about something you ordinarily pass without noticing. The image does not require disgust, danger or a single meaning shared by every species.\n\nThe setting gives their presence practical terms. Insects outside may belong to the landscape; the same movement across a prepared meal can interrupt how you use the space. A useful comparison may concern the boundary between something that can continue alongside you and something that changes the activity you wanted. An interruption can be inconvenient without making the surrounding world hostile.\n\nTrying to identify one insect can slow the scene down. You may become interested in its movement, find that it differs from what you first assumed or remain unsure what it is. This can resemble giving a small question enough attention before responding to a larger group. A specific ant, butterfly or spider has its own catalogue topic; a mixed or unidentified group may keep uncertainty central.\n\nMany insects moving in a coordinated direction can instead make the pattern more important than an individual. You might admire the arrangement, feel crowded by it or discover that your path crosses theirs. A shared work process can offer a comparison when several small actions form something substantial. That does not establish that the group is a message or that its imagined purpose should become yours.\n\nYour response can alter the encounter: opening a window, moving a plate, watching from a distance or leaving the activity alone. These choices distinguish a practical adjustment from the demand to remove every unwanted detail. Recent outdoor experiences, screens or remembered encounters may also supply imagery. Follow the actual scale, number and interruption rather than using the insects as a judgment about cleanliness, character or health.", "traditional": "Craig’s short Insects passage attributes illness and loss to Artemidorus, then asserts an alcohol-related cause. This is Craig’s period claim, not an authenticated Artemidorus passage or evidence about a dreamer’s drinking, health or future. The contemporary comparisons here are original and keep different insects and settings distinct.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You follow one unfamiliar insect across a leaf", "reflection": "Close attention changes an easily overlooked encounter. This may picture curiosity about a detail before assigning it to a larger problem. Not identifying the species can remain an honest part of the account." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Several insects cross the table while you prepare a meal", "reflection": "The activity is interrupted at a practical boundary. This can resemble small demands entering a task you wanted to complete. Moving the work or changing the arrangement gives a different emphasis from judging the whole setting as ruined." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A coordinated line crosses the path you planned to use", "reflection": "Your route and another pattern occupy the same space. This may bring a shared process or different pace into view. Whether you watch, wait or find another route shapes the encounter without establishing a message from the group." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Opening a window changes where the insects gather", "reflection": "A small alteration in the setting changes the difficulty. This can picture adjusting conditions instead of attending to every item separately. The practical result matters more than a claim that the insects represent one hidden problem." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You are interested while a companion wants every insect removed", "reflection": "The same scene supports different preferences. This may resemble negotiating how much interruption or uncertainty a shared activity can include. Neither dreamed response determines which person is more sensible or considerate in waking life." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The group disperses and one insect remains to observe", "reflection": "A large moving pattern becomes a particular encounter. This can picture narrowing attention after several small concerns arrived together. The remaining detail may be useful without having to stand for the whole earlier group." } ], "prompts": [ "Did one insect, the number of them or their pattern matter most?", "How did their presence change the activity or setting?", "What response fitted the actual interruption?" ], "related": [ "ants", "beetles", "butterfly", "spider", "grasshopper" ], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L10455" ], "scope": "craig-1918:L10455 — Insects (Printed p. 225; NLM OCR lines 10455–10457): Craig attributes illness/loss to Artemidorus and asserts an alcohol-related cause; the passage cannot assess drinking or health. Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence validating the original reflection, a diagnosis, another person’s state or a future event." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15 under the site owner’s delegation. Historical claims, where supplied, remain attributed period writing. No human or clinical review is claimed.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Scale and attention", "reflection": "One small presence and many competing movements create different demands on attention." }, { "title": "An interruption in context", "reflection": "The same insect can belong to one setting while changing how another is used." }, { "title": "A pattern larger than one part", "reflection": "Coordinated movement may make a shared process more noticeable than an individual insect." } ], "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "Codex (AI-assisted editorial review)", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "a-stranger", "a-train-going-in-the-wrong-direction", "being-trapped", "being-unable-to-move", "children", "church", "current-romantic-partner", "death-of-a-friend", "elevator", "father", "forest", "hair-falling-out", "insects", "key", "locked-out", "mother", "nakedness", "phone-not-working", "rainbow", "running-but-going-nowhere", "school", "smoke", "snake-bite", "superpowers", "the-self", "the-shadow", "web" ] }, "decisionReason": "The original reading distinguishes one insect, a mixed group, a coordinated pattern and an interruption specific to a setting. It avoids judgments about cleanliness or health and does not collapse every species into one meaning. Craig’s brief illness/alcohol assertion is identified as an unsupported period claim.", "contentSha256": "71cad9a0397dfd61b135fec345bdefe38305c6a8d837b35f8d64eec9728352bf" }, "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L10455", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Insects", "heading": "Insects", "text": "A dream of illness and loss (Artemidorus). This dream usually due to overindulgence in alcoholic liquors.", "lineStart": 10455, "lineEnd": 10457, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 225; NLM OCR lines 10455–10457", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10455, "lineEnd": 10457, "printedPage": 225, "printedPageEnd": 225 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Insects. — A dream of illness and loss (Artemidorus). This \ndream usually due to overindulgence in alcoholic liquors. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Insects" }, "displayText": "A dream of illness and loss (Artemidorus). This dream usually due to overindulgence in alcoholic liquors." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "insecurity", "title": "Insecurity", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "summary": "Insecurity dreams may explore an uncertain place, a standard of enough, or the support that makes participation feel possible.", "tagline": "Uncertainty about your place can come before any refusal.", "aliases": [ "insecurity", "insecure", "feeling insecure", "self doubt" ], "status": "REVIEW", "psychological": "Insecurity can organize a dream around not knowing whether you are enough for a place, task or connection. You may keep changing your appearance before joining a group, assume that a role exceeds your ability, or wait for reassurance that nobody has explicitly withheld. The scene can picture uncertainty about the terms of participation. It does not establish that your place is actually precarious or that another person doubts you.\n\nA useful distinction is between a missing resource and a judgment about yourself. Unclear instructions, unfamiliar customs or a role without defined expectations can make an ordinary task feel impossible to enter confidently. A waking comparison could be joining a new team, returning after time away or learning something in front of more experienced people. When one clear explanation makes the dream manageable, the changed condition may matter more than the earlier feeling of inadequacy.\n\nThe standard can also move into the dreamer’s own attention. Repeatedly adjusting clothes, rehearsing an introduction or checking whether someone still welcomes you may make reassurance seem unable to last. That could fit a wish for a more dependable understanding of what is expected. It differs from an actual refusal in the scene, and it need not involve a rival. The uncertainty itself may be enough to shape the interaction.\n\nSupport can take a modest form. A person who shows where to sit, names the next step or treats a mistake as ordinary can change how much the dreamer must manage alone. Being offered help does not require giving up your say over the task. The scene may imagine a setting in which you can participate while still learning.\n\nContinuing without complete assurance offers another ending. You might enter the room despite feeling unsure, or discover that the activity can begin before your appearance feels perfect. The dream need not certify lasting confidence. It may simply create a little more room between feeling uncertain and being unable to act. Recent transitions, comparisons or an unfamiliar situation can supply the material without a single hidden cause.", "traditional": "These reflections address uncertainty about adequacy or place. Anxiety, Jealousy and Rejection have distinct anticipatory, rival or refusal scenes; their presence nearby does not make every insecure feeling the same event. No historical Insecurity passage is supplied. General dream background does not measure self-esteem or validate a personal assessment.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "The terms of enough", "reflection": "Unclear expectations can feel like a personal inadequacy until the conditions become understandable." }, { "title": "Before any refusal", "reflection": "Uncertainty about belonging can remain central even when nobody rejects or replaces you." }, { "title": "Participation while learning", "reflection": "Useful support can make action possible without demanding complete assurance first." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You keep changing your appearance before joining others", "reflection": "Repeated adjustment can make entry depend on a presentation that never settles. This may resemble uncertainty about an unfamiliar group’s expectations. The clothes are not necessarily the problem; the scene may be testing whether participation can begin before you feel perfectly prepared." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You are given a role and assume you cannot do it", "reflection": "The appointment arrives before any evidence of failure, so the dream makes anticipation of inadequacy central. A new role with unclear resources can feel similar. Clearer conditions, practice or company would change the scene differently from a simple demand to believe in yourself." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Everyone seems settled while your place remains unclear", "reflection": "The uncertainty comes from lacking a defined position among people who appear to know theirs. A move, changed routine or newly formed group offers a comparison. Nobody needs to exclude you for the dream to make recognition and a clear invitation feel important." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You repeatedly seek proof that someone still wants you there", "reflection": "Reassurance may seem necessary each time attention shifts. The scene can picture wanting a dependable arrangement rather than another momentary answer. The particular response can reveal what would help you feel included, while remaining an imagined exchange rather than a report of someone else’s feelings." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A simple explanation makes the task manageable", "reflection": "A practical explanation changes the difficulty without changing who you are. This may fit an experience where missing information was mistaken for insufficient ability. The helper offers access to the task, making learning and participation compatible instead of requiring proof of readiness in advance." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You continue despite feeling unsure of yourself", "reflection": "Action can remain possible while the feeling of uncertainty continues. The scene may imagine a manageable first contribution rather than sudden certainty. A supportive setting, a smaller task or permission to learn can make the difference between having doubts and being stopped by them." } ], "prompts": [ "What made your place or ability feel uncertain?", "What resources or expectations shaped the uncertainty?", "What allowed participation before you felt completely assured?" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "related": [ "anxiety", "jealousy", "rejection", "being-judged" ], "updated": "2026-10-13", "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "insolvent", "title": "Insolvent", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “If you dream that you are insolvent, you will not have to resort to this means to square yourself with the world, as your energy and pride…”", "aliases": [ "insolvent" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about insolvent stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1054", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Insolvent", "text": "If you dream that you are insolvent, you will not have to resort\nto this means to square yourself with the world, as your energy\nand pride will enable you to transact business in a fair way.\nBut other worries may sorely afflict you.\n\nTo dream that others are insolvent, you will meet with honest\nmen in your dealings, but by their frankness they may harm you.\nFor a young woman, it means her sweetheart will be honest and thrifty,\nbut vexatious discords may arise in her affairs.", "locator": "Heading 1055; source lines 12197–12209", "lineStart": 12197, "lineEnd": 12209, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream that you are insolvent, you will not have to resort\nto this means to square yourself with the world, as your energy\nand pride will enable you to transact business in a fair way.\nBut other worries may sorely afflict you.\n\nTo dream that others are insolvent, you will meet with honest\nmen in your dealings, but by their frankness they may harm you.\nFor a young woman, it means her sweetheart will be honest and thrifty,\nbut vexatious discords may arise in her affairs." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "intemperance", "title": "Intemperance", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of being intemperate in the use of your intellectual forces, you will seek after foolish knowledge fail to benefit yourself, and…”", "aliases": [ "intemperance" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about intemperance stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1055", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Intemperance", "text": "To dream of being intemperate in the use of your intellectual forces,\nyou will seek after foolish knowledge fail to benefit yourself,\nand give pain and displeasure to your friends.\n\nIf you are intemperate in love, or other passions, you will reap disease\nor loss of fortune and esteem. For a young woman to thus dream,\nshe will lose a lover and incur the displeasure of close friends.", "locator": "Heading 1056; source lines 12209–12219", "lineStart": 12209, "lineEnd": 12219, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being intemperate in the use of your intellectual forces,\nyou will seek after foolish knowledge fail to benefit yourself,\nand give pain and displeasure to your friends.\n\nIf you are intemperate in love, or other passions, you will reap disease\nor loss of fortune and esteem. For a young woman to thus dream,\nshe will lose a lover and incur the displeasure of close friends." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "intercede", "title": "Intercede", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To intercede for some one in your dreams, shows you will secure aid when you desire it most.”", "aliases": [ "intercede" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about intercede stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1056", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Intercede", "text": "To intercede for some one in your dreams, shows you will secure\naid when you desire it most.", "locator": "Heading 1057; source lines 12219–12224", "lineStart": 12219, "lineEnd": 12224, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To intercede for some one in your dreams, shows you will secure\naid when you desire it most." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "intermarry", "title": "Intermarry", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of intermarrying, denotes quarrels and contentions which will precipitate you into trouble and loss.”", "aliases": [ "intermarry" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about intermarry stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1057", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Intermarry", "text": "To dream of intermarrying, denotes quarrels and contentions\nwhich will precipitate you into trouble and loss.", "locator": "Heading 1058; source lines 12224–12229", "lineStart": 12224, "lineEnd": 12229, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of intermarrying, denotes quarrels and contentions\nwhich will precipitate you into trouble and loss." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "internet", "title": "Internet", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "tagline": "A network makes many destinations available without choosing one for you.", "summary": "The internet may picture access, linked searching, shared availability, or the difference between being connected and feeling in contact.", "aliases": [ "internet", "internet connection" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "The internet can give a dream the shape of connected possibilities. One link leads to another, a message reaches a distant person, or information becomes available from several places at once. The image may fit wanting access to a wider set of people or options. Unlike a single computer or phone, the emphasis can be on what connects devices and destinations, and on whether that connection serves the purpose that brought you there.\n\nA search can become more important than its result. You follow promising links until the original question disappears, or each answer opens another uncertainty. This might resemble exploring a decision with more information than you can easily use. A clear destination changes the scene: you find one relevant page, contact, or shared space and stop. The dream does not reveal a hidden online message; its invented pages may simply carry the familiar feeling of searching.\n\nConnection and contact can come apart. Everyone appears online, yet no exchange feels personal, or a brief connection with one person feels more useful than access to a crowd. That could picture wanting a particular kind of response rather than constant availability. A network that works only in one room may make conditions for contact visible: a suitable place, enough privacy, or a shared time can matter alongside the technical channel.\n\nBeing disconnected does not have only one meaning. Losing access during a needed task can picture having a resource unavailable when it matters. Choosing to go offline and feeling calmer can make the scene about a pause from competing invitations. If people find another way to collaborate, the desired connection may remain possible without the original channel. The contrast concerns what access made possible or difficult, not a universal judgment that online life is harmful.\n\nPrivacy can change the network's feel. A shared space may be welcoming until you discover that more people can see the exchange than you expected. The scene may explore choosing an audience or understanding the terms of participation. It is not evidence of surveillance or an actual security incident. Recent browsing, remote work, messages, games, or interrupted access can supply ordinary material. The useful original reading stays with the path through the network, the connection you wanted, and whether you could decide where your attention and information went.", "traditional": "No historical passage directly defining the internet is supplied. The archive's Web entry is an older symbol account and is not a source about the World Wide Web. Computer, Email and Phone not working remain related tool, message, and failure contexts.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Access directed toward a purpose", "reflection": "Many available destinations can expand choice or obscure the original question. The scene may make a clear stopping point more valuable than additional information." }, { "title": "Connection versus contact", "reflection": "Being online with many people does not guarantee a personal response. One usable exchange can matter more than broad availability." }, { "title": "Conditions around participation", "reflection": "Where a connection works and who can see it may give privacy or timing a concrete shape. The useful issue is room to choose how you participate." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "A link finally reaches the person you wanted", "reflection": "The network serves a specific connection. This may picture relief at finding a workable channel rather than a general wish to be connected to everyone." }, { "title": "Each page sends you toward another page", "reflection": "The search keeps expanding while the original purpose fades. This may fit trying to settle uncertainty by collecting information that does not provide a usable decision." }, { "title": "A connection works only in one place", "reflection": "Access depends on reaching a particular room or position. The scene may give practical form to wanting suitable conditions for contact, including privacy or shared time." }, { "title": "Many people are online but no exchange feels personal", "reflection": "Availability and closeness separate. This may make the quality of a response more central than the number of people you can theoretically reach." }, { "title": "You choose to disconnect and feel relief", "reflection": "The pause is voluntary rather than imposed. The scene may explore attention becoming available for another task, without deciding that withdrawal is always the right response." }, { "title": "A private exchange appears in a larger shared space", "reflection": "The audience changes beyond what you intended. This may concern choosing who receives information; it does not establish that a real account or conversation has been exposed." } ], "prompts": [ "What did I want the connection to make possible?", "Did searching bring me closer to that purpose or keep expanding it?", "Could I choose my audience, availability and stopping point?" ], "related": [ "computer", "phone-not-working", "email" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "trust", "title": "Interpersonal trust", "seoTitle": "Trust", "category": "Emotions & situations", "aliases": [ "trust", "trusting", "interpersonal trust", "relying on someone", "entrusting something" ], "summary": "Trust may bring shared responsibility, uncertainty, or permission to accept help into a dream. Reliance can be specific rather than all or nothing.", "tagline": "Letting someone hold a part of the task, and knowing what that reliance asks of you.", "psychological": "Trust becomes concrete when someone holds your belongings, guides a route, keeps a confidence, or finishes part of a shared task. A dream about reliance may fit wanting to stop managing everything alone. The image gives that wish a practical form: something important remains outside your immediate control while you do something else. Relief suggests the support feels usable; constant checking may make the uncertainty of sharing responsibility more central.\n\nThe scope of the request matters. Trusting someone to hold a bag is different from asking them to make a major decision or keep a private fact. A small task that keeps growing may resemble an agreement whose boundaries were never clear. You could be willing to receive help but uncomfortable with how much authority accompanies it. This reading concerns defining the arrangement, not deciding that complete independence or total confidence is the right goal.\n\nReliability can appear through ordinary actions rather than declarations. The helper returns, follows an agreed route, or explains a delay. If a dreamed promise fails, the scene may evoke a remembered disappointment, fear of being left with consequences, or uncertainty about asking for help. It supplies no evidence of another person's actual honesty. What can be explored is the kind of reassurance or information that made the imagined reliance possible.\n\nBeing the trusted person creates a different position. You may feel honored, capable, pressured, or unable to refuse a role that matters to somebody else. A confidence can provide closeness while also becoming a burden. That could fit wanting responsibility to match your actual room and ability. The encounter may also come from a recent shared task, favor, or conversation. A useful reading distinguishes what was entrusted, what you agreed to, and whether the arrangement allowed both people enough choice.", "traditional": "This entry uses trust in the interpersonal sense: relying on someone for a particular task, confidence, or form of support. No matching historical passage for that scope is supplied. These are original reflections on the imagined arrangement. The dream does not test another person's reliability or require faith in a character who appeared helpful.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Sharing part of the load", "reflection": "Entrusting a specific task may fit wanting relief from managing alone. The image becomes more useful when the scope of help is clear enough to welcome without surrendering every choice." }, { "title": "Enough information to rely", "reflection": "Checking, waiting, or asking about a delay may concern the conditions that make support believable. The question can be usable reassurance rather than a demand for absolute certainty." }, { "title": "Responsibility you can choose", "reflection": "Being trusted may bring closeness or pressure. A request that respects your capacity differs from an obligation you cannot decline, even when the other character considers it an honor." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Someone holds your belongings while you work", "reflection": "You leave a bag or valued object with another person and turn to a task. Relief may fit sharing a manageable responsibility. Looking back constantly can instead make the uncertainty of allowing something important outside your direct attention the central experience." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You follow another person across unfamiliar ground", "reflection": "The guide offers a route you cannot check in advance. This may explore receiving help while retaining judgment about each next step. A clear explanation and room to pause differ from being expected to follow without questions or access to another option." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You share something private", "reflection": "The exchange creates closeness, but you may wonder what will happen to the information. This can fit wanting understanding while also needing control over disclosure. The scene can clarify what reassurance you wanted without predicting that a real confidence will be kept or broken." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A trusted helper returns later than expected", "reflection": "Waiting makes a simple arrangement difficult to judge. The scene may concern a need for updates or the cost of managing uncertainty, rather than a hidden betrayal. An explanation that changes your response can make communication as important as the original promise." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Someone gives you an important task without asking", "reflection": "Their confidence feels flattering until you realize how much is expected. This may fit a role that brings recognition together with pressure. Being able to clarify, accept, or decline the task distinguishes chosen responsibility from an obligation created on your behalf." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You agree on a smaller kind of help", "reflection": "A request becomes workable after the scope changes: one person carries a bag, handles a step, or stays nearby. This may explore reliance that does not need to be total. The relief can come from an arrangement that leaves both people enough room to choose." } ], "prompts": [ "What exactly was entrusted, and how far did the agreement extend?", "What action or information made reliance feel workable in the scene?", "Could both people accept, question, or decline the responsibility?" ], "related": [ "friend", "dog", "a-stranger", "current-romantic-partner", "coworker" ], "type": "dreams", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflection on distinct social scenes and possible personal connections; no matching historical passage supplied. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "interpreter", "title": "Interpreter", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of an interpreter, denotes you will undertake affairs which will fail in profit.”", "aliases": [ "interpreter" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about interpreter stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1058", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Interpreter", "text": "To dream of an interpreter, denotes you will undertake affairs\nwhich will fail in profit.", "locator": "Heading 1059; source lines 12229–12234", "lineStart": 12229, "lineEnd": 12234, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of an interpreter, denotes you will undertake affairs\nwhich will fail in profit." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "interrogation", "title": "Interrogation", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "aliases": [ "interrogation", "being interrogated", "interrogated", "interrogation room", "repeated questioning" ], "summary": "Interrogation can picture pressure to explain yourself under unequal rules. Being questioned differs when answers are heard, doubted, or never enough.", "tagline": "You must answer, while someone else decides what counts as an acceptable answer.", "psychological": "Interrogation can picture being required to account for yourself while having little control over the terms of the conversation. The questions may be clear, yet the standard for a satisfactory answer remains hidden. A review that keeps changing its expectations, a family discussion in which every explanation becomes another accusation, or pressure to justify an ordinary preference can fit this structure.\n\nRepeated questions can make the dream about whether your account is allowed to stand. If answering brings another demand for proof, the scene may express frustration with reassurance that never settles the issue. Being unable to remember a detail can instead picture fear of appearing unreliable when precision is required. The difference is between not knowing an answer and feeling that no answer will be accepted.\n\nAn interrogation room adds restriction to the exchange. You cannot easily change the subject, leave, or ask equivalent questions of the other person. This can give form to unequal authority in a role or relationship. Familiar people doing the questioning may matter through the expectations you associate with them; their presence does not reveal a hidden waking intention.\n\nBecoming the questioner creates another perspective. You may be seeking certainty, trying to resolve inconsistent information, or wanting an explanation for something that has affected you. The dream can show the cost when a search for clarity becomes a demand for complete assurance.\n\nA fair listener, a pause, or permission to leave changes the balance toward mutual communication. Real interviews, difficult conversations, reporting, and fiction can also supply the scene. These interpretations concern the rules of being heard, not evidence of guilt, a crime, or an actual investigation.", "traditional": "The reflections are original readings of questioning, authority, and permission to answer or leave. No verified historical interrogation passage is cited. The general sleep source does not validate an interpretation of a particular examiner, and the dreamed setting is not evidence of a real investigation.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "An explanation under unequal rules", "reflection": "The scene can picture needing to justify yourself while someone else controls the standard. An answer may feel inadequate because the terms are unclear, not because you lack a valid account." }, { "title": "Reassurance that never settles the question", "reflection": "Repeated demands for proof can picture a conversation without an accepted endpoint. The pressure concerns whether your response can stand, rather than simply whether you have remembered every detail." }, { "title": "Searching for certainty from the other side", "reflection": "Being the questioner can express wanting inconsistent information resolved. The dream may also expose tension between a useful explanation and expecting another person to remove every uncertainty." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "The same question is asked after every answer", "reflection": "This can picture reassurance that never becomes enough. A report repeatedly returned without clear reasons, or a conversation that restarts after each explanation, may fit. The repeated wording makes the absence of an accepted endpoint more important than the content of your answer.", "slug": "scene-1" }, { "title": "You are asked about an event you cannot remember", "reflection": "Missing recall can picture pressure to be exact when your understanding is incomplete. Accounting for a busy period or responding to an unexpected review may feel similar. The uncertainty concerns producing a coherent account on demand, rather than establishing that something incriminating occurred.", "slug": "scene-2" }, { "title": "People you know sit across the questioning table", "reflection": "A formal arrangement can give familiar expectations a harsher shape. Having to defend a choice to family or justify boundaries to a team may fit. The room changes ordinary conversation into evaluation, showing how the terms of contact feel from your position.", "slug": "scene-3" }, { "title": "An examiner listens and accepts your explanation", "reflection": "Being heard can picture relief when accuracy no longer requires endless defense. A clear review, an honest discussion, or a person willing to consider context may offer a parallel. Acceptance makes the scene about workable communication rather than escape from all accountability.", "slug": "scene-4" }, { "title": "You question someone who keeps changing their answer", "reflection": "The scene can picture wanting clarity from inconsistent information. A shared plan with shifting promises or a task whose status remains uncertain may fit. Frustration may concern the practical effect of not knowing, without revealing that the real person is deliberately deceptive.", "slug": "scene-5" }, { "title": "You ask for a pause and are allowed to leave", "reflection": "A break can picture recovering a say in the conversation's pace. Requesting time to check information or declining immediate explanation may offer parallels. The permission matters because answering becomes something you can do under workable conditions, rather than a demand without limits.", "slug": "scene-6" } ], "prompts": [ "Who set the questions, and what counted as a satisfactory answer?", "Was the difficulty incomplete information or an explanation that was never accepted?", "What changed when I could ask, pause, or leave?" ], "related": [ "police", "being-judged", "job-interview", "public-speaking" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia editorial entry with image-specific interpretations and six differentiated scenes. The reference supplies general dream background only. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "intestine", "title": "Intestine", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing intestines, signifies you are about to be visited by a grave calamity, which will remove some friend.”", "aliases": [ "intestine", "intestines" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about intestine stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1059", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Intestine", "text": "To dream of seeing intestines, signifies you are about to be\nvisited by a grave calamity, which will remove some friend.\nTo see your own intestines, denotes grave situations are\nclosing around you; sickness of a nature to affect you\nin your daily communications with others threatens you.\nProbable loss, with much displeasure, is also denoted.\nIf you think you lay them upon something, which turns\nout to be a radiator, and they begin to grow hot and make\nyou very uncomfortable, and you ask others to assist you,\nand they refuse, it foretells unexpected calamity, which will\nprobably come in the form of a desperate illness or a misfortune\nfor which you will be censured by those formerly your friends.\nYou may have trouble in extricating yourself from\nan unpromising predicament.", "locator": "Heading 1060; source lines 12234–12251", "lineStart": 12234, "lineEnd": 12251, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing intestines, signifies you are about to be\nvisited by a grave calamity, which will remove some friend.\nTo see your own intestines, denotes grave situations are\nclosing around you; sickness of a nature to affect you\nin your daily communications with others threatens you.\nProbable loss, with much displeasure, is also denoted.\nIf you think you lay them upon something, which turns\nout to be a radiator, and they begin to grow hot and make\nyou very uncomfortable, and you ask others to assist you,\nand they refuse, it foretells unexpected calamity, which will\nprobably come in the form of a desperate illness or a misfortune\nfor which you will be censured by those formerly your friends.\nYou may have trouble in extricating yourself from\nan unpromising predicament." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1060", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Intoxication", "text": "To dream of intoxication, denotes that you are cultivating your desires\nfor illicit pleasures.\n\n\n[103] See Drunk.", "locator": "Heading 1061; source lines 12251–12259", "lineStart": 12251, "lineEnd": 12259, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of intoxication, denotes that you are cultivating your desires\nfor illicit pleasures. See Drunk." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "drunk" ] }, { "slug": "intrigue", "title": "Intrigue", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “To dream you are connected in an intrigue, is ominous of evil.”", "aliases": [ "intrigue" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about intrigue stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1061", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Inundation", "text": "To dream of seeing cities or country submerged in dark, seething waters,\ndenotes great misfortune and loss of life through some dreadful calamity.\n\nTo see human beings swept away in an inundation, portends bereavements\nand despair, making life gloomy and unprofitable.\n\nTo see a large area inundated with clear water, denotes profit and ease\nafter seemingly hopeless struggles with fortune.\n\n\n[104] See Food.", "locator": "Heading 1062; source lines 12259–12273", "lineStart": 12259, "lineEnd": 12273, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing cities or country submerged in dark, seething waters,\ndenotes great misfortune and loss of life through some dreadful calamity.\n\nTo see human beings swept away in an inundation, portends bereavements\nand despair, making life gloomy and unprofitable.\n\nTo see a large area inundated with clear water, denotes profit and ease\nafter seemingly hopeless struggles with fortune. See Food." }, { "id": "fontaine-0377", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Inundation", "text": "(_See Overflow._)", "locator": "Heading 377; source line 2701", "lineStart": 2701, "lineEnd": 2703, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Overflow.)" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1062", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Invalid", "text": "To dream of invalids, is a sign of displeasing companions interfering\nwith your interest. To think you are one, portends you are threatened\nwith displeasing circumstances.", "locator": "Heading 1063; source lines 12273–12279", "lineStart": 12273, "lineEnd": 12279, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of invalids, is a sign of displeasing companions interfering\nwith your interest. To think you are one, portends you are threatened\nwith displeasing circumstances." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "invasion", "title": "Invasion", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “For a maiden to dream of invasion, is a sign that some evil-disposed person will endeavor to lead her astray.”", "aliases": [ "invasion" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about invasion stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "invective", "title": "Invective", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of using invectives, warns you of passionate outbursts of anger, which may estrange you from close companions.”", "aliases": [ "invective" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about invective stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1063", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Invective", "text": "To dream of using invectives, warns you of passionate outbursts of anger,\nwhich may estrange you from close companions.\n\nTo hear others using them, enemies are closing you in to apparent\nwrong and deceits.", "locator": "Heading 1064; source lines 12279–12287", "lineStart": 12279, "lineEnd": 12287, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of using invectives, warns you of passionate outbursts of anger,\nwhich may estrange you from close companions.\n\nTo hear others using them, enemies are closing you in to apparent\nwrong and deceits." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "inventor", "title": "Inventor", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of an inventor, foretells you will soon achieve some unique work which will add honor to your name.”", "aliases": [ "inventor" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about inventor stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1064", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Inventor", "text": "To dream of an inventor, foretells you will soon achieve\nsome unique work which will add honor to your name.\nTo dream that you are inventing something, or feel interested\nin some invention, denotes you will aspire to fortune and will\nbe successful in your designs.", "locator": "Heading 1065; source lines 12287–12295", "lineStart": 12287, "lineEnd": 12295, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of an inventor, foretells you will soon achieve\nsome unique work which will add honor to your name.\nTo dream that you are inventing something, or feel interested\nin some invention, denotes you will aspire to fortune and will\nbe successful in your designs." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "invite", "title": "Invite", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you invite persons to visit you, denotes that some unpleasant event is near, and will cause worry and excitement in your…”", "aliases": [ "invite" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about invite stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1065", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Invite", "text": "To dream that you invite persons to visit you, denotes that some\nunpleasant event is near, and will cause worry and excitement\nin your otherwise pleasant surroundings.\n\nIf you are invited to make a visit, you will receive sad news.\n\nFor a woman to dream that she is invited to attend a party,\nshe will have pleasant anticipations, but ill luck will mar them.", "locator": "Heading 1066; source lines 12295–12306", "lineStart": 12295, "lineEnd": 12306, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you invite persons to visit you, denotes that some\nunpleasant event is near, and will cause worry and excitement\nin your otherwise pleasant surroundings.\n\nIf you are invited to make a visit, you will receive sad news.\n\nFor a woman to dream that she is invited to attend a party,\nshe will have pleasant anticipations, but ill luck will mar them." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "inward-parts", "title": "Inward parts", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Artemidorus wrote: “If you dream you are dead and sée your inward par [illegible passage] s according to their naturall order, it is good to him that hath…”", "aliases": [ "inward parts", "of the inward parts" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about inward parts stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. 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It is also comfort for him that is in misery: for he which [illegible passage]oseth those parts which causeth pain and gr[illegible passage]efe, surely he shall be delivered out of distresse. Moreover we must think, that the heart signifieth a man, and the husband of the same woman that shall dream thereof and if a man dreams thereof, it is the Wife of the same man that dreams it: likewise also the Lungs. But the Liver signifieth the Sonne, Food, and the Fog. The Gall chollerick and melancholly humour, mony, and women, or Wives: the Spléen, pleasures, laughter, and vessell: the Belly and guts, Children, for they cry o[illegible passage] for meat: likewise they signifie Usurers. The Reines signifie Brothers and Cos[illegible passage]s.", "locator": "Book 1, encoded section 33", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription-with-gaps", "book": "1", "displayText": "If you dream you are dead and sée your inward par [illegible passage] s according to their naturall order, it is good to him that hath no children, and to him which is poor: for the one shall have children of his owne, the other riches of his owne. But to a rich man and him which would be close, it is shame and dishonour. It [illegible passage] is evill to all, when they dream that their intrailes are séene of others [illegible passage] for it betokeneth troublesome affaires, suites in law, and discredit. But if one dreams he is opened, and yet séeth not his intrails, it signifieth to him, forsaking of his house, losse of children, and death by sicknesse. It is also comfort for him that is in misery: for he which [illegible passage] oseth those parts which causeth pain and gr [illegible passage] efe, surely he shall be delivered out of distresse. Moreover we must think, that the heart signifieth a man, and the husband of the same woman that shall dream thereof and if a man dreams thereof, it is the Wife of the same man that dreams it: likewise also the Lungs. But the Liver signifieth the Sonne, Food, and the Fog. The Gall chollerick and melancholly humour, mony, and women, or Wives: the Spléen, pleasures, laughter, and vessell: the Belly and guts, Children, for they cry o [illegible passage] for meat: likewise they signifie Usurers. The Reines signifie Brothers and Cos [illegible passage] s." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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To dream\nthat one trades with a stranger in iron, signifies losses and misfortune.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 260; source lines 1092–1095", "lineStart": 1092, "lineEnd": 1095, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For one to dream that he\nis hurt with iron, signifies that he shall receive some damage. To dream\nthat one trades with a stranger in iron, signifies losses and misfortune." }, { "id": "cielo-0226", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Iron", "text": "To dream of a flatiron denotes that you will\n go thru a cruel experience.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 226; source lines 4398–4401", "lineStart": 4398, "lineEnd": 4401, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a flatiron denotes that you will\ngo thru a cruel experience." }, { "id": "luck-0130", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Iron", "text": "A profitable bargain: (red-hot) sorrows: (burnt with same)\ndreamer will receive some personal injury.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 130; source lines 3839–3842", "lineStart": 3839, "lineEnd": 3842, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "A profitable bargain: (red-hot) sorrows: (burnt with same)\ndreamer will receive some personal injury." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10458", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Iron", "heading": "Iron", "text": "To dream of being hurt with iron signifies damage; to trade in iron with strangers, losses and misfortune (Artemidorus). See Kipling, \"Rewards and Fairies.\"", "lineStart": 10458, "lineEnd": 10466, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 225–226; NLM OCR lines 10458–10466", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10458, "lineEnd": 10466, "printedPage": 225, "printedPageEnd": 226 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Iron. — To dream of being hurt with iron signifies damage; \n\n\n226 THE FABRIC OF DREAMS \n\n\nto trade in iron with strangers, losses and misfortune (Arte- \nmidorus). 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "metals" ] }, { "slug": "ironing", "title": "Ironing", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of ironing, denotes domestic comforts and orderly business.”", "aliases": [ "ironing" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about ironing stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1067", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Ironing", "text": "To dream of ironing, denotes domestic comforts and orderly business.\n\nIf a woman dreams that she burns her hands while ironing,\nit foretells she will have illness or jealousy to disturb her peace.\nIf she scorches the clothes, she will have a rival who will cause\nher much displeasure and suspicions. If the irons seem too cold,\nshe will lack affection in her home.", "locator": "Heading 1068; source lines 12332–12342", "lineStart": 12332, "lineEnd": 12342, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of ironing, denotes domestic comforts and orderly business.\n\nIf a woman dreams that she burns her hands while ironing,\nit foretells she will have illness or jealousy to disturb her peace.\nIf she scorches the clothes, she will have a rival who will cause\nher much displeasure and suspicions. If the irons seem too cold,\nshe will lack affection in her home." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "island", "title": "Island", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "5 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are on an island in a clear stream, signifies pleasant journeys and fortunate enterprises.” Compare 5 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "island" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about island stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1068", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Island", "text": "To dream that you are on an island in a clear stream,\nsignifies pleasant journeys and fortunate enterprises.\nTo a woman, this omens a happy marriage.\n\nA barren island, indicates forfeiture of happiness and\nmoney through intemperance.\n\nTo see an island, denotes comfort and easy circumstances after much\nstriving and worrying to meet honorable obligations.\n\nTo see people on an island, denotes a struggle to raise yourself higher\nin prominent circles.", "locator": "Heading 1069; source lines 12342–12357", "lineStart": 12342, "lineEnd": 12357, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are on an island in a clear stream,\nsignifies pleasant journeys and fortunate enterprises.\nTo a woman, this omens a happy marriage.\n\nA barren island, indicates forfeiture of happiness and\nmoney through intemperance.\n\nTo see an island, denotes comfort and easy circumstances after much\nstriving and worrying to meet honorable obligations.\n\nTo see people on an island, denotes a struggle to raise yourself higher\nin prominent circles." }, { "id": "fontaine-0380", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Island", "text": "To dream that you are on a deserted island shows that you\nwill commit some act to disgust your friends and make them cut your\nacquaintance; be careful how you behave after dreaming such a dream.\n19, 65, 22.", "locator": "Heading 380; source line 2708", "lineStart": 2708, "lineEnd": 2713, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are on a deserted island shows that you\nwill commit some act to disgust your friends and make them cut your\nacquaintance; be careful how you behave after dreaming such a dream." }, { "id": "cielo-0227", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Island", "text": "To be on an island in the ocean means luck;\n in a lake or river, loneliness.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 227; source lines 4401–4404", "lineStart": 4401, "lineEnd": 4404, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To be on an island in the ocean means luck;\nin a lake or river, loneliness." }, { "id": "luck-0131", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Island", "text": "For a woman to dream of an island forebodes desertion by\nhusband or lover.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 131; source lines 3842–3845", "lineStart": 3842, "lineEnd": 3845, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a woman to dream of an island forebodes desertion by\nhusband or lover." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10467", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Island", "heading": "Island", "text": "A dream auguring isolation, loneliness (Gypsy). Obviously symbolical.", "lineStart": 10467, "lineEnd": 10469, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 226; NLM OCR lines 10467–10469", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10467, "lineEnd": 10469, "printedPage": 226, "printedPageEnd": 226 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Island. — A dream auguring isolation, loneliness (Gypsy). \nObviously symbolical. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Island" }, "displayText": "A dream auguring isolation, loneliness (Gypsy). Obviously symbolical." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "itch", "title": "Itch", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see persons with the itch, and you endeavor to escape contact, you will stand in fear of distressing…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "itch" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about itch stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1069", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Itch", "text": "To see persons with the itch, and you endeavor to escape contact,\nyou will stand in fear of distressing results when your endeavors\nwill bring pleasant success.\n\nIf you dream you have the itch yourself, you will be harshly used,\nand will defend yourself by incriminating others. For a young woman\nto have this dream, omens she will fall into dissolute companionship.\n\nTo dream that you itch, denotes unpleasant avocations.", "locator": "Heading 1070; source lines 12357–12369", "lineStart": 12357, "lineEnd": 12369, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see persons with the itch, and you endeavor to escape contact,\nyou will stand in fear of distressing results when your endeavors\nwill bring pleasant success.\n\nIf you dream you have the itch yourself, you will be harshly used,\nand will defend yourself by incriminating others. For a young woman\nto have this dream, omens she will fall into dissolute companionship.\n\nTo dream that you itch, denotes unpleasant avocations." }, { "id": "fontaine-0379", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Itch", "text": "To dream that you have the itch, or that your body itches, shows\nthat you will shortly receive money. 40, 9.", "locator": "Heading 379; source line 2705", "lineStart": 2705, "lineEnd": 2708, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you have the itch, or that your body itches, shows\nthat you will shortly receive money." }, { "id": "luck-0132", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Itch", "text": "A sign of good luck.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 132; source lines 3845–3847", "lineStart": 3845, "lineEnd": 3847, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "A sign of good luck." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "ivory", "title": "Ivory", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "5 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of ivory, is favorable to the fortune of the dreamer.” Compare 5 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "ivory" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about ivory stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1070", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Ivory", "text": "To dream of ivory, is favorable to the fortune of the dreamer.\n\nTo see huge pieces of ivory being carried, denotes financial\nsuccess and pleasures unalloyed.", "locator": "Heading 1071; source lines 12369–12376", "lineStart": 12369, "lineEnd": 12376, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of ivory, is favorable to the fortune of the dreamer.\n\nTo see huge pieces of ivory being carried, denotes financial\nsuccess and pleasures unalloyed." }, { "id": "fontaine-0381", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Ivory", "text": "To dream of ivory, signifies that you will be very successful in\nbusiness. To the single it is a sign they will soon fall in love and\nbe fortunate in their courtship. To the married it denotes domestic\nhappiness. 4, 75, 30.", "locator": "Heading 381; source line 2713", "lineStart": 2713, "lineEnd": 2718, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of ivory, signifies that you will be very successful in\nbusiness. To the single it is a sign they will soon fall in love and\nbe fortunate in their courtship. To the married it denotes domestic\nhappiness." }, { "id": "cielo-0228", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Ivory", "text": "Is a sign of profitable enterprise.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 228; source lines 4404–4406", "lineStart": 4404, "lineEnd": 4406, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Is a sign of profitable enterprise." }, { "id": "luck-0133", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Ivory", "text": "To dream of anything made of ivory is a sign that the dreamer\nwill suffer from fraud and deception.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 133; source lines 3847–3850", "lineStart": 3847, "lineEnd": 3850, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of anything made of ivory is a sign that the dreamer\nwill suffer from fraud and deception." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10470", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Ivory", "heading": "Ivory", "text": "Augurs abundance and success (Gypsy). 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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If she sees ivy\nclinging to the wall in the moonlight, she will have clandestine meetings\nwith young men.\n\nWithered ivy, denotes broken engagements and sadness." }, { "id": "fontaine-0382", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Ivy", "text": "To dream of seeing this vine running over and covering any house,\nis a sign of poverty, particularly if the ivy grows thick and abundant:\nif you dream that it covers your own house, the sign is still more\nsure: for a farmer to dream that he sees ivy covering a tree, denotes\nbad crops. A girl who dreams of being in a bower covered with ivy, will\nprobably marry a poor and shiftless man. 2.", "locator": "Heading 382; source line 2718", "lineStart": 2718, "lineEnd": 2725, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing this vine running over and covering any house,\nis a sign of poverty, particularly if the ivy grows thick and abundant:\nif you dream that it covers your own house, the sign is still more\nsure: for a farmer to dream that he sees ivy covering a tree, denotes\nbad crops. A girl who dreams of being in a bower covered with ivy, will\nprobably marry a poor and shiftless man." }, { "id": "cielo-0229", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Ivy", "text": "Denotes a happy termination of courtship and a\n fortunate marriage.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 229; source lines 4406–4409", "lineStart": 4406, "lineEnd": 4409, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Denotes a happy termination of courtship and a\nfortunate marriage." }, { "id": "luck-0134", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Ivy", "text": "True friends will present themselves.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 134; source lines 3850–3855", "lineStart": 3850, "lineEnd": 3855, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "True friends will present themselves." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10473", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Ivy", "heading": "Ivy", "text": "A dream of strong trust and friendship (Gypsy). A symbol of the Trinity and of the triple creative power, also of loyalty and friendship.", "lineStart": 10473, "lineEnd": 10478, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 226; NLM OCR lines 10473–10478", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10473, "lineEnd": 10478, "printedPage": 226, "printedPageEnd": 226 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Ivy. — A dream of strong trust and friendship (Gypsy). A \nsymbol of the Trinity and of the triple creative power, also of \nloyalty and friendship. \n\nJ \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [ { "line": 10477, "text": "J " } ], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Ivy" }, "displayText": "A dream of strong trust and friendship (Gypsy). A symbol of the Trinity and of the triple creative power, also of loyalty and friendship." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "jackal", "title": "Jackal", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “This dream denotes an enemy who will backbite and bring trouble (Gypsy).”", "aliases": [ "jackal" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about jackal stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L10479", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Jackal", "heading": "Jackal", "text": "This dream denotes an enemy who will backbite and bring trouble (Gypsy). An Egyptian symbol of judgment, and of watchfulness over sacred things, it was evidently held in horror by the faiths that succeeded those of Egypt.", "lineStart": 10479, "lineEnd": 10483, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 226; NLM OCR lines 10479–10483", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10479, "lineEnd": 10483, "printedPage": 226, "printedPageEnd": 226 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Jackal. — This dream denotes an enemy who will backbite \nand bring trouble (Gypsy). An Egyptian symbol of judgment, \nand of watchfulness over sacred things, it was evidently held \nin horror by the faiths that succeeded those of Egypt. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Jackal" }, "displayText": "This dream denotes an enemy who will backbite and bring trouble (Gypsy). An Egyptian symbol of judgment, and of watchfulness over sacred things, it was evidently held in horror by the faiths that succeeded those of Egypt." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "jackdaw", "title": "Jackdaw", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see a jackdaw, denotes ill health and quarrels.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "jackdaw" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about jackdaw stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1072", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Jackdaw", "text": "To see a jackdaw, denotes ill health and quarrels.\nTo catch one, you will outwit enemies.\n\nTo kill one, you will come into possession of disputed property.", "locator": "Heading 1073; source lines 12393–12400", "lineStart": 12393, "lineEnd": 12400, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a jackdaw, denotes ill health and quarrels.\nTo catch one, you will outwit enemies.\n\nTo kill one, you will come into possession of disputed property." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10484", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Jackdaw", "heading": "Jackdaw", "text": "To dream that one crosses your path, bitter enemies; to catch one, success in defying enemies (Gypsy). \"I neither tattle with Jack Daw Or maggot-pye on thatched house straw,\" says Rowlands in the \"Night-Raven\" (1620).", "lineStart": 10484, "lineEnd": 10491, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 226; NLM OCR lines 10484–10491", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10484, "lineEnd": 10491, "printedPage": 226, "printedPageEnd": 226 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Jackdaw. — To dream that one crosses your path, bitter ene- \nmies; to catch one, success in defying enemies (Gypsy). \n\n\"I neither tattle with Jack Daw \nOr maggot-pye on thatched house straw,\" \n\nsays Rowlands in the \"Night-Raven\" (1620). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "ene- \nmies", "after": "enemies", "evidenceLine": 3184 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Jackdaw" }, "displayText": "To dream that one crosses your path, bitter enemies; to catch one, success in defying enemies (Gypsy). \"I neither tattle with Jack Daw Or maggot-pye on thatched house straw,\" says Rowlands in the \"Night-Raven\" (1620)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "jaguar", "title": "Jaguar (animal)", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "summary": "A dream jaguar can bring attention to partial visibility, cautious curiosity, and how recognition changes the distance you want to keep.", "tagline": "Recognition changes the encounter.", "aliases": [ "jaguar", "jaguars" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A jaguar partly hidden in your dream can picture a presence you notice only when something changes. A quiet contribution at work, an unfamiliar person in a familiar setting, or a possibility overlooked during a busy period may become distinct once it moves into view. Surprise does not automatically make the discovery threatening. The scene may concern recognizing what was already present rather than uncovering something deliberately concealed from you.\n\nThe moment of recognition changes your relationship with distance. An indistinct shape can support many expectations; a recognizable animal gives the encounter a more particular form. This may fit learning enough about an arrangement to decide how closely you want to engage. Relief can follow clearer understanding even when the subject remains substantial. If recognition intensifies fear, the dream can picture the difference between abstract awareness and direct involvement without proving that the waking situation is dangerous.\n\nA jaguar crossing your path without pursuing you allows proximity without a demand for further contact. You may be sharing space with something impressive while retaining your own destination. A capable colleague, a strong interest, or an unfamiliar social setting could offer parallels. Following because you want to differs from assuming that every close encounter must become your responsibility. Letting the animal continue may make respect for separate routes central.\n\nGlass or another boundary can give curiosity workable conditions. If you feel free to leave, the separation supports choice. If the animal has nowhere to move, your concern may shift toward the arrangement that contains it. A jaguar resting beside a valued object can similarly make two interests coexist: keeping something secure and allowing room for an unfamiliar presence. The animal is not evidence that a person wants to take what is yours.\n\nThis entry concerns the animal you recognized. A dream centered on a Jaguar car belongs to its vehicle context. A photograph, film, wildlife visit, or remembered story can also explain the image directly. The useful comparison follows visibility, movement, and your available choices, without assigning a fixed predatory character to anyone.", "traditional": "No directly matching historical account is attached for this specific topic. The readings here are original reflective possibilities. The NINDS source provides general background about dreams, not evidence for these symbolic comparisons.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Becoming visible", "reflection": "Movement can reveal a presence that was overlooked rather than deliberately hidden." }, { "title": "Choosing proximity", "reflection": "Recognition may help you decide how closely to approach while retaining your own route." }, { "title": "Boundaries for curiosity", "reflection": "A separation can make an unfamiliar encounter workable, or expose restrictive conditions." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "A patterned animal becomes visible when it moves", "reflection": "A change reveals something that blended into the setting. This may fit noticing a quiet influence or overlooked possibility. The discovery can be interesting rather than alarming; what the animal does after becoming visible gives the encounter its direction." }, { "title": "A jaguar crosses your route and continues", "reflection": "The encounter is close but does not require pursuit or conflict. This can picture sharing space with a substantial presence while keeping separate purposes. Following it willingly differs from feeling that its appearance has taken away your choice of destination." }, { "title": "You watch through glass and can leave", "reflection": "The boundary allows attention without compulsory contact. This may resemble learning about an unfamiliar situation in manageable conditions. Freedom to end the encounter makes the separation supportive; a trapped animal can shift attention toward whose movement the arrangement restricts." }, { "title": "It rests beside something you value", "reflection": "An unfamiliar presence and a familiar possession occupy the same space. This may picture uncertainty about accommodating a new interest without losing an established priority. Calm coexistence gives another reading from expecting intrusion simply because the animal is nearby." }, { "title": "A dark outline becomes recognizable up close", "reflection": "More information changes an expectation formed at a distance. This can fit a situation whose direct experience differs from its imagined shape. Feeling clearer does not require feeling fearless; understanding and choosing an appropriate distance can happen together." }, { "title": "You allow the animal to keep its distance", "reflection": "Contact remains possible without being forced. This may picture respect for separate needs in a new relationship or undertaking. The scene can hold interest and restraint together rather than treating successful approach as the only worthwhile outcome." } ], "prompts": [ "What became easier or harder when the animal was recognizable?", "Which distance feels chosen rather than dictated by expectation?", "What familiar priority shares space with a new presence?" ], "related": [ "leopard", "panther", "tiger", "forest" ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "jail", "title": "Jail", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "5 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “If you dream of being confined in a gaol, you will be prevented from carrying forward some profitable work…” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "jail", "gaol" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about jail stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "prison" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0852", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Gaol", "text": "If you dream of being confined in a gaol, you will be prevented\nfrom carrying forward some profitable work by the intervention\nof envious people; but if you escape from the gaol, you will enjoy\na season of favorable business.\n\n\n[79] See Jail.", "locator": "Heading 853; source lines 9899–9909", "lineStart": 9899, "lineEnd": 9909, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream of being confined in a gaol, you will be prevented\nfrom carrying forward some profitable work by the intervention\nof envious people; but if you escape from the gaol, you will enjoy\na season of favorable business. See Jail.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Gaol” is shown on the Jail page: uS/UK spelling" }, { "id": "miller-1073", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Jail", "text": "To see others in jail, you will be urged to grant privileges to persons\nwhom you believe to be unworthy\n\nTo see negroes in jail, denotes worries and loss through\nnegligence of underlings.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that her lover is in jail, she will be disappointed\nin his character, as he will prove a deceiver.\n\n\n[105] See Gaol.", "locator": "Heading 1074; source lines 12400–12412", "lineStart": 12400, "lineEnd": 12412, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see others in jail, you will be urged to grant privileges to persons\nwhom you believe to be unworthy\n\nTo see negroes in jail, denotes worries and loss through\nnegligence of underlings.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that her lover is in jail, she will be disappointed\nin his character, as he will prove a deceiver. See Gaol." }, { "id": "fontaine-0383", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Jail", "text": "(_See Prison._) If a man dreams he is confined in a prison or\njail, it shows that he will have honors or dignities conferred upon\nhim, as such dreams go contrariwise: if his arrest and imprisonment\nworries him, it only shows that he will be the more delighted with his\nnew dignities. 46.", "locator": "Heading 383; source line 2725", "lineStart": 2725, "lineEnd": 2731, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Prison.) If a man dreams he is confined in a prison or\njail, it shows that he will have honors or dignities conferred upon\nhim, as such dreams go contrariwise: if his arrest and imprisonment\nworries him, it only shows that he will be the more delighted with his\nnew dignities." }, { "id": "noe-0272", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Jail", "text": "If you dream of seeing\nothers in jail, you will be deprived of your own liberty. If you dream of\nbeing imprisoned, you will be elevated to a high station in life and\nincrease your number of friends.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 275; source lines 1133–1136", "lineStart": 1133, "lineEnd": 1136, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream of seeing\nothers in jail, you will be deprived of your own liberty. If you dream of\nbeing imprisoned, you will be elevated to a high station in life and\nincrease your number of friends." }, { "id": "cielo-0230", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Jail", "text": "To be in jail or prison is a sign that you\n will have unexpected honor bestowed.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 230; source lines 4409–4413", "lineStart": 4409, "lineEnd": 4413, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To be in jail or prison is a sign that you\nwill have unexpected honor bestowed." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "prison" ] }, { "slug": "jailer", "title": "Jailer", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see a jailer, denotes that treachery will embarrass your interests and evil women will enthrall you.”", "aliases": [ "jailer" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about jailer stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1073b", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Jailer", "text": "To see a jailer, denotes that treachery will embarrass your interests\nand evil women will enthrall you.\n\nTo see a mob attempting to break open a jail, is a forerunner of evil,\nand desperate measures will be used to extort money and bounties from you.", "locator": "Heading 1075; source lines 12412–12420", "lineStart": 12412, "lineEnd": 12420, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a jailer, denotes that treachery will embarrass your interests\nand evil women will enthrall you.\n\nTo see a mob attempting to break open a jail, is a forerunner of evil,\nand desperate measures will be used to extort money and bounties from you." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "jam", "title": "Jam", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of eating jam, if pure, denotes pleasant surprises and journeys.”", "aliases": [ "jam" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about jam stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1074", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Jam", "text": "To dream of eating jam, if pure, denotes pleasant surprises and journeys.\n\nTo dream of making jam, foretells to a woman a happy home\nand appreciative friends.", "locator": "Heading 1076; source lines 12420–12427", "lineStart": 12420, "lineEnd": 12427, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of eating jam, if pure, denotes pleasant surprises and journeys.\n\nTo dream of making jam, foretells to a woman a happy home\nand appreciative friends." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "janitor", "title": "Janitor", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a janitor, denotes bad management and disobedient children.”", "aliases": [ "janitor" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about janitor stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1075", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Janitor", "text": "To dream of a janitor, denotes bad management and disobedient children.\nUnworthy servants will annoy you.\n\nTo look for a janitor and fail to find him, petty annoyances\nwill disturb your otherwise placid existence. If you find him,\nyou will have pleasant associations with strangers, and your\naffairs will have no hindrances.", "locator": "Heading 1077; source lines 12427–12437", "lineStart": 12427, "lineEnd": 12437, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a janitor, denotes bad management and disobedient children.\nUnworthy servants will annoy you.\n\nTo look for a janitor and fail to find him, petty annoyances\nwill disturb your otherwise placid existence. If you find him,\nyou will have pleasant associations with strangers, and your\naffairs will have no hindrances." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "january", "title": "January", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of this month, denotes you will be afflicted with unloved companions or children.”", "aliases": [ "january" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about january stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1076", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "January", "text": "To dream of this month, denotes you will be afflicted with unloved\ncompanions or children.", "locator": "Heading 1078; source lines 12437–12442", "lineStart": 12437, "lineEnd": 12442, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of this month, denotes you will be afflicted with unloved\ncompanions or children." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "japan", "title": "Japan", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “A dream of ill-luck (Gypsy); symbolism probably based upon Japanese inhospitality to foreigners in former days.”", "aliases": [ "japan" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about japan stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. 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OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L10492", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Japan", "heading": "Japan", "text": "A dream of ill-luck (Gypsy) ; symbolism probably based upon Japanese inhospitality to foreigners in former days.", "lineStart": 10492, "lineEnd": 10495, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 226; NLM OCR lines 10492–10495", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10492, "lineEnd": 10495, "printedPage": 226, "printedPageEnd": 226 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Japan. — A dream of ill-luck (Gypsy) ; symbolism probably \nbased upon Japanese inhospitality to foreigners in former \ndays. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Japan" }, "displayText": "A dream of ill-luck (Gypsy); symbolism probably based upon Japanese inhospitality to foreigners in former days." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "jar", "title": "Jar", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of empty jars, denotes impoverishment and distress.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "jar" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about jar stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1077", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Jar", "text": "To dream of empty jars, denotes impoverishment and distress.\n\nTo see them full, you will be successful.\n\nIf you buy jars, your success will be precarious and your burden\nwill be heavy.\n\nTo see broken jars, distressing sickness or deep disappointment awaits you.", "locator": "Heading 1079; source lines 12442–12453", "lineStart": 12442, "lineEnd": 12453, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of empty jars, denotes impoverishment and distress.\n\nTo see them full, you will be successful.\n\nIf you buy jars, your success will be precarious and your burden\nwill be heavy.\n\nTo see broken jars, distressing sickness or deep disappointment awaits you." }, { "id": "fontaine-0384", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Jar", "text": "To dream that a house is jarred or shook by an earthquake, an\nexplosion, or anything that may occur outside, is a sign that the head\nof the family in that house will be sick. Jars of preserved fruit\nor jellies, seen in a dream, are good omens; if you dream you are\npresented with one or more of them, it shows you will be long lived and\nthrifty. 15, 39.", "locator": "Heading 384; source line 2731", "lineStart": 2731, "lineEnd": 2738, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that a house is jarred or shook by an earthquake, an\nexplosion, or anything that may occur outside, is a sign that the head\nof the family in that house will be sick. Jars of preserved fruit\nor jellies, seen in a dream, are good omens; if you dream you are\npresented with one or more of them, it shows you will be long lived and\nthrifty." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "jasper", "title": "Jasper", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing jasper, is a happy omen, bringing success and love.”", "aliases": [ "jasper" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about jasper stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1078", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Jasper", "text": "To dream of seeing jasper, is a happy omen, bringing success and love.\nFor a young woman to lose a jasper, is a sign of disagreement with her lover.", "locator": "Heading 1080; source lines 12453–12458", "lineStart": 12453, "lineEnd": 12458, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing jasper, is a happy omen, bringing success and love.\nFor a young woman to lose a jasper, is a sign of disagreement with her lover." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "jaundice", "title": "Jaundice", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you have the jaundice, denotes prosperity after temporary embarrassments.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "jaundice" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about jaundice stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1081", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Jaws", "text": "To dream of seeing heavy, misshapen jaws, denotes disagreements,\nand ill feeling will be shown between friends.\n\nIf you dream that you are in the jaws of a wild beast,\nenemies will work injury to your affairs and happiness.\nThis is a vexatious and perplexing dream.\n\nIf your own jaws ache with pain, you will be exposed to climatic changes,\nand malaria may cause you loss in health and finances.", "locator": "Heading 1083; source lines 12476–12488", "lineStart": 12476, "lineEnd": 12488, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing heavy, misshapen jaws, denotes disagreements,\nand ill feeling will be shown between friends.\n\nIf you dream that you are in the jaws of a wild beast,\nenemies will work injury to your affairs and happiness.\nThis is a vexatious and perplexing dream.\n\nIf your own jaws ache with pain, you will be exposed to climatic changes,\nand malaria may cause you loss in health and finances." }, { "id": "artemidorus-019", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of the Jawes and Hippes.", "text": "THe Jawes represent Cellars, Shops, and other things accustomed to kéepe Merchandises, or Drugges. The Lippes represent those which kisse and embrace us and which are often about us as Wife, Children, Parents, and Allyes. So that if the one or the other, séeme to have any harme or mischance, it signifieth unto us that the affaires of our kinsfolkes are net in good plight.", "locator": "Book 1, encoded section 19", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "1", "displayText": "THe Jawes represent Cellars, Shops, and other things accustomed to kéepe Merchandises, or Drugges. The Lippes represent those which kisse and embrace us and which are often about us as Wife, Children, Parents, and Allyes. So that if the one or the other, séeme to have any harme or mischance, it signifieth unto us that the affaires of our kinsfolkes are net in good plight.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Jawes and Hippes” is shown on the Jaws page: artemidorus jaws section (hips secondary)" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "jay-bird", "title": "Jay-bird", "type": "dreams", "category": "Other symbols", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a jay-bird, foretells pleasant visits from friends and interesting gossips.”", "aliases": [ "jay-bird" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about jay-bird stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "jealousy", "title": "Jealousy", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "A wanted connection can feel uncertain before the dream supplies any evidence.", "summary": "Jealousy may focus on attention, comparison, or uncertainty about your place in a relationship; it does not reveal another person’s behavior.", "aliases": [ "jealousy" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "Jealousy may bring attention to a place you want to retain in a relationship or group. Someone turns toward another person, a familiar role is offered elsewhere, or you watch an exchange from outside it. The dream can give uncertainty about significance a visible arrangement. That may fit a change in friendship, family attention, partnership, or recognition at work. The important question is what felt at risk, not whether the imagined rival represents a real threat.\n\nThe evidence in the scene can be thin or ambiguous. A glance feels decisive, a private conversation becomes an exclusion, or you simply know that someone prefers another person without seeing an interaction. This may picture how uncertainty acquires a story before you have enough information. The feeling is part of the dream, but its narrative does not establish another person's wishes, loyalty, or actions while awake. A recent comparison or remembered worry can also provide material directly.\n\nA particular kind of attention may matter more than attention in general. You may want to be chosen for a task, understood in a conversation, or included in a routine that once felt shared. Those wishes have different shapes. An invitation that restores participation differs from praise that leaves you outside the activity. The scene may clarify the form of connection or recognition you miss, rather than deciding that everybody else must receive less.\n\nBeing the person who receives jealous attention reverses the role. You may feel valued, pressured to reassure, or restricted in who you can speak with. This can picture closeness becoming conditional on managing another person's uncertainty. A clear conversation may change the scene, but a demand that you prove exclusivity can make choice more central than reassurance. The dream does not diagnose either person's attachment or character.\n\nJealousy can also shift when the apparent rivalry becomes cooperation, when your own preference changes, or when an explanation does not remove the feeling. That may distinguish needing information from wanting a particular place recognized. Relief, embarrassment, affection, and sadness can coexist after the scene changes. An original reading separates the connection you valued, the comparison the dream created, and the response available to you. It cannot verify betrayal or turn an imagined competitor into evidence about an actual relationship.", "traditional": "Miller's 1901 Jealousy account connects the emotion with enemies, rivals and relationship troubles; Fontaine's 1862 account predicts betrayal or loss of affection. These are period fortune-telling claims, not evidence that jealousy detects infidelity or predicts a person's intentions. The contemporary reading keeps the dream feeling separate from waking facts.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "The place you want to retain", "reflection": "The scene may make a valued role or connection feel uncertain. What you wanted to participate in can clarify the feeling more than the identity of a rival." }, { "title": "A story formed from uncertainty", "reflection": "A small or absent sign may become decisive within the dream. The imagined narrative can be explored without treating it as evidence about another person." }, { "title": "Closeness with room for choice", "reflection": "Reassurance feels different from a demand for constant proof. The scene may explore whether attention allows both people enough freedom." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "A familiar person gives their attention elsewhere", "reflection": "The shift makes your place feel uncertain. This may picture missing a particular form of contact, while the dreamed interaction supplies no fact about the real relationship." }, { "title": "A small glance feels like complete proof", "reflection": "The dream turns limited information into a definite story. This may make uncertainty and interpretation central, rather than establish that your conclusion is accurate while awake." }, { "title": "You are left outside an activity you once shared", "reflection": "The loss concerns participation more than a general wish for praise. The scene may clarify a routine or role that mattered to your sense of connection." }, { "title": "Someone becomes jealous of your ordinary conversation", "reflection": "Their reaction places limits on an interaction you considered harmless. The scene may explore pressure to manage another person's response rather than a duty to provide unlimited reassurance." }, { "title": "An imagined rival begins cooperating with you", "reflection": "The comparison changes into a shared task. This may make the activity or connection more important than occupying a place nobody else can have." }, { "title": "An explanation arrives but the feeling remains", "reflection": "Information and emotional recognition do not move at the same pace. The scene may distinguish understanding what happened from feeling that your particular place still matters." } ], "prompts": [ "What connection, activity or role felt at risk?", "What did the dream actually show, and what did I merely assume within it?", "What kind of recognition or participation would have mattered?" ], "related": [ "cheating", "love-triangle", "trust", "friend" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1083" ], "scope": "Historical comparison only: Jealousy — miller-1083 (Heading 1085; source lines 12497–12512). These are attributed period claims, not verified predictions or support for the original psychological reflections." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0385" ], "scope": "Historical comparison only: Jealousy — fontaine-0385 (Heading 385; source line 2738). These are attributed period claims, not verified predictions or support for the original psychological reflections." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1083", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Jealousy", "text": "To dream that you are jealous of your wife, denotes the influence\nof enemies and narrow-minded persons. If jealous of your sweetheart,\nyou will seek to displace a rival.\n\nIf a woman dreams that she is jealous of her husband, she will find\nmany shocking incidents to vex and make her happiness a travesty.\n\nIf a young woman is jealous of her lover, she will find that he is more\nfavorably impressed with the charms of some other woman than herself.\n\nIf men and women are jealous over common affairs, they will meet\nmany unpleasant worries in the discharge of every-day business.", "locator": "Heading 1085; source lines 12497–12512", "lineStart": 12497, "lineEnd": 12512, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are jealous of your wife, denotes the influence\nof enemies and narrow-minded persons. If jealous of your sweetheart,\nyou will seek to displace a rival.\n\nIf a woman dreams that she is jealous of her husband, she will find\nmany shocking incidents to vex and make her happiness a travesty.\n\nIf a young woman is jealous of her lover, she will find that he is more\nfavorably impressed with the charms of some other woman than herself.\n\nIf men and women are jealous over common affairs, they will meet\nmany unpleasant worries in the discharge of every-day business." }, { "id": "fontaine-0385", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Jealousy", "text": "To dream you are jealous of your sweetheart, or wife,\nsignifies that they will betray you; for a maiden to dream she is\njealous of her sweetheart is a sign some particular friend will  “_cut\nher out_;” for a wife to dream she is jealous of her husband, foretells\nthe loss of his love. 28, 6.", "locator": "Heading 385; source line 2738", "lineStart": 2738, "lineEnd": 2744, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are jealous of your sweetheart, or wife,\nsignifies that they will betray you; for a maiden to dream she is\njealous of her sweetheart is a sign some particular friend will  “cut\nher out;” for a wife to dream she is jealous of her husband, foretells\nthe loss of his love." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "jelly", "title": "Jelly", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of eating jelly, many pleasant interruptions will take place.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "jelly" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about jelly stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1084", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Jelly", "text": "To dream of eating jelly, many pleasant interruptions will take place.\n\nFor a woman to dream of making jelly, signifies she will enjoy pleasant\nreunions with friends.", "locator": "Heading 1086; source lines 12512–12519", "lineStart": 12512, "lineEnd": 12519, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of eating jelly, many pleasant interruptions will take place.\n\nFor a woman to dream of making jelly, signifies she will enjoy pleasant\nreunions with friends." }, { "id": "fontaine-0386", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Jelly", "text": "To dream of having pots of jelly given to you, or that you are\neating jelly, and that plenty of it is around, is a sure sign of long\nlife and good fortune generally; as many pots as are given to you, or\nas you may have, so many generations will you live to see. The same\nrule applies to preserved fruits. 65, 18, 78.", "locator": "Heading 386; source line 2744", "lineStart": 2744, "lineEnd": 2750, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of having pots of jelly given to you, or that you are\neating jelly, and that plenty of it is around, is a sure sign of long\nlife and good fortune generally; as many pots as are given to you, or\nas you may have, so many generations will you live to see. The same\nrule applies to preserved fruits." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "jellyfish", "title": "Jellyfish", "category": "Animals", "aliases": [ "jellyfish", "jelly fish" ], "summary": "A jellyfish can picture a delicate boundary, an uncertain encounter, or movement with a current. A sting differs from peaceful observation or shared drifting.", "psychological": "A jellyfish can look delicate or almost transparent while still making you cautious about contact. That combination may fit an encounter whose limits are difficult to read. Someone or something seems approachable, yet you are unsure what closeness would involve. The useful comparison is the uncertainty around contact, not a claim that a particular person is secretly harmful. The animal's behavior and your response provide the direction.\n\nA dreamed sting makes a boundary suddenly visible. It can resemble an exchange that felt sharper than expected, or discovering a sensitive point after moving closer to a situation. What follows matters: withdrawing, finding help, or continuing without concern can make the scene about adjustment rather than injury alone. If you remain outside the water because you fear a sting that never occurs, anticipation may be the stronger subject.\n\nDrifting offers another reading. A jellyfish moving with the water can picture ease within a flow you do not steer, or uncertainty about where that flow will take you. Watching peacefully may fit letting a process unfold without constant intervention. Feeling trapped among many drifting animals may instead resemble having little room to choose your own path. The same movement can therefore feel restful or limiting.\n\nThe image can also be beautiful, strange, or familiar from an aquarium, beach, film, or photograph. Watching through glass makes distance part of the encounter: you can appreciate something without needing to handle it. A jellyfish outside its expected setting can make a delicate presence feel misplaced or in need of care. Let the reading account for contact, movement, and setting together, rather than reducing the animal to a warning about other people.", "traditional": "These reflections are original comparisons with the dreamed encounter and do not assign a documented historical forecast to jellyfish. Personal experiences of beaches, aquariums, films, and images can explain the animal's appearance. The possible metaphor of a boundary is separate from practical facts about an actual encounter with a marine animal.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A boundary difficult to see", "reflection": "An apparently delicate presence that makes you cautious can picture uncertainty about closeness, limits, or a sensitive point." }, { "title": "Moving with a current", "reflection": "Drifting can fit ease in a developing process or concern about having too little choice over direction." }, { "title": "Appreciation from a distance", "reflection": "Watching through glass or from clear water can make curiosity possible without requiring contact." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "Watching a jellyfish drift peacefully", "reflection": "Movement occurs without visible striving. This can picture allowing a collaborative plan to develop without checking every detail. If drifting feels uneasy, it may resemble going along with a group whose destination you have not chosen. The direction of the current helps distinguish ease from reduced agency.", "slug": "scene-1" }, { "title": "A jellyfish stings you", "reflection": "Contact reveals a limit suddenly. The scene can resemble an exchange that felt unexpectedly sharp or a sensitive point you did not anticipate. Help, withdrawal, and continued calm produce different endings to that discovery.", "slug": "scene-2" }, { "title": "There are jellyfish all around you", "reflection": "Possible contact becomes difficult to avoid. This can fit a situation where many small sensitivities or demands make movement feel restricted. Finding clear water may turn the dream toward the relief of having more room.", "slug": "scene-3" }, { "title": "Seeing one behind aquarium glass", "reflection": "A transparent boundary makes observation comfortable. This can fit learning about an unfamiliar role, relationship, or interest before deciding how closely to engage. Reassurance from the glass differs from frustration at being kept outside something you would prefer to join.", "slug": "scene-4" }, { "title": "Finding a jellyfish in an unexpected place", "reflection": "A delicate presence seems outside its usual environment. This can picture feeling misplaced, or encountering a responsibility whose needs are difficult to understand. Your desire to help, avoid, or simply watch changes the reading.", "slug": "scene-5" }, { "title": "Swimming through without being touched", "reflection": "You find a workable route among uncertain boundaries. The scene may connect with navigating a sensitive situation while retaining your own movement. Relief, confidence, and continued vigilance point to different relationships with that success.", "slug": "scene-6" } ], "prompts": [ "What did I believe would happen if I moved closer?", "Did drifting feel restful, aimless, or outside my control?", "Which boundary or clear route changed my experience of the scene?" ], "related": [ "ocean", "water", "swimming", "octopus" ], "type": "dreams", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background about dreaming and waking experiences. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia interpretation for personal reflection. Human publication review pending.", "tagline": "A delicate presence, a current, and a boundary you can feel.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "jeopardy", "title": "Jeopardy", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “If you dream that you are in jeopardy, it will be very fortunate for you.”", "aliases": [ "jeopardy" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about jeopardy stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "noe-0266", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Jeopardy", "text": "If\nyou dream that you are in jeopardy, it will be very fortunate for you. If\na person so dreaming be in business, it foretells success and great\nprofit.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 268; source lines 1113–1116", "lineStart": 1113, "lineEnd": 1116, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If\nyou dream that you are in jeopardy, it will be very fortunate for you. If\na person so dreaming be in business, it foretells success and great\nprofit." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "jessamine", "title": "Jessamine", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of jessamine, denotes you are approximating some exquisite pleasure, but which will be fleeting.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "jessamine" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about jessamine stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1085", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Jessamine", "text": "To dream of jessamine, denotes you are approximating some exquisite pleasure,\nbut which will be fleeting.", "locator": "Heading 1087; source lines 12519–12524", "lineStart": 12519, "lineEnd": 12524, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of jessamine, denotes you are approximating some exquisite pleasure,\nbut which will be fleeting." }, { "id": "noe-0265", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Jessamine", "text": "To dream of this beautiful flower, foretells good luck. To\nlovers, it is a sure sign they will be speedily married.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 267; source lines 1112–1113", "lineStart": 1112, "lineEnd": 1113, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of this beautiful flower, foretells good luck. To\nlovers, it is a sure sign they will be speedily married." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10497", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Jessamine", "heading": "Jessamine", "text": "A dream of true love and success (Gypsy). Poetic symbol.", "lineStart": 10497, "lineEnd": 10498, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 226; NLM OCR lines 10497–10498", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10497, "lineEnd": 10498, "printedPage": 226, "printedPageEnd": 226 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Jessamine.— A dream of true love and success (Gypsy). \nPoetic symbol. \n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Jessamine" }, "displayText": "A dream of true love and success (Gypsy). Poetic symbol." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "jester", "title": "Jester", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a jester, foretells you will ignore important things in looking after silly affairs.”", "aliases": [ "jester" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about jester stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1086", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Jester", "text": "To dream of a jester, foretells you will ignore important things in looking\nafter silly affairs.", "locator": "Heading 1088; source lines 12524–12529", "lineStart": 12524, "lineEnd": 12529, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a jester, foretells you will ignore important things in looking\nafter silly affairs." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "jews-harp", "title": "Jew's-harp", "type": "dreams", "category": "Other symbols", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a Jew's-harp, foretells you will experience a slight improvement in your affairs.”", "aliases": [ "jew's-harp" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about jew's-harp stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1090", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Jew's-harp", "text": "To dream of a Jew's-harp, foretells you will experience a slight\nimprovement in your affairs. To play one, is a sign that you\nwill fall in love with a stranger.", "locator": "Heading 1092; source lines 12587–12593", "lineStart": 12587, "lineEnd": 12593, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a Jew's-harp, foretells you will experience a slight\nimprovement in your affairs. To play one, is a sign that you\nwill fall in love with a stranger." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "jewels", "title": "Jewels", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "10 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of gems, foretells a happy fate both in love and business affairs. See Jewelry.” Compare 6 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "jewels", "gems", "jewelry" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about jewels stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0865", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Gems", "text": "To dream of gems, foretells a happy fate both in love and business affairs.\n\n\n[80] See Jewelry.", "locator": "Heading 866; source lines 10027–10034", "lineStart": 10027, "lineEnd": 10034, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of gems, foretells a happy fate both in love and business affairs. See Jewelry.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Gems” is shown on the Jewels page: gems record is \"See Jewelry\"; same concept" }, { "id": "miller-1088", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Jewelry", "text": "To dream of broken jewelry, denotes keen disappointment in attaining\none's highest desires.\n\nIf the jewelry be cankered, trusted friends will fail you,\nand business cares will be on you.", "locator": "Heading 1090; source lines 12550–12558", "lineStart": 12550, "lineEnd": 12558, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of broken jewelry, denotes keen disappointment in attaining\none's highest desires.\n\nIf the jewelry be cankered, trusted friends will fail you,\nand business cares will be on you.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Jewelry” is shown on the Jewels page: gems record is \"See Jewelry\"; same concept" }, { "id": "miller-1089", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Jewels", "text": "To dream of jewels, denotes much pleasure and riches.\n\nTo wear them, brings rank and satisfied ambitions.\n\nTo see others wearing them, distinguished places will be held by you,\nor by some friend.\n\nTo dream of jeweled garments, betokens rare good fortune to the dreamer.\nInheritance or speculation will raise him to high positions.\n\nIf you inherit jewelry, your prosperity will be unusual,\nbut not entirely satisfactory.\n\nTo dream of giving jewelry away, warns you that some vital estate\nis threatening you.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she receives jewelry, indicates much\npleasure and a desirable marriage. To dream that she loses jewels,\nshe will meet people who will flatter and deceive her.\n\nTo find jewels, denotes rapid and brilliant advancement in affairs\nof interest. To give jewels away, you will unconsciously work\ndetriment to yourself.\n\nTo buy them, proves that you will be very successful in momentous affairs,\nespecially those pertaining to the heart.", "locator": "Heading 1091; source lines 12558–12587", "lineStart": 12558, "lineEnd": 12587, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of jewels, denotes much pleasure and riches.\n\nTo wear them, brings rank and satisfied ambitions.\n\nTo see others wearing them, distinguished places will be held by you,\nor by some friend.\n\nTo dream of jeweled garments, betokens rare good fortune to the dreamer.\nInheritance or speculation will raise him to high positions.\n\nIf you inherit jewelry, your prosperity will be unusual,\nbut not entirely satisfactory.\n\nTo dream of giving jewelry away, warns you that some vital estate\nis threatening you.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she receives jewelry, indicates much\npleasure and a desirable marriage. To dream that she loses jewels,\nshe will meet people who will flatter and deceive her.\n\nTo find jewels, denotes rapid and brilliant advancement in affairs\nof interest. To give jewels away, you will unconsciously work\ndetriment to yourself.\n\nTo buy them, proves that you will be very successful in momentous affairs,\nespecially those pertaining to the heart." }, { "id": "fontaine-0388", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Jewels", "text": "Chains, pearls, or precious stones, etc., and all adornings\nupon the heads and necks of women, are good dreams for the fair sex; to\nwidows and maids they signify marriage; and to those that are married,\nriches. If a man dreams of possessing jewels, it is a sure sign he will\nlose something of great value. 46, 75.", "locator": "Heading 388; source line 2757", "lineStart": 2757, "lineEnd": 2763, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Chains, pearls, or precious stones, etc., and all adornings\nupon the heads and necks of women, are good dreams for the fair sex; to\nwidows and maids they signify marriage; and to those that are married,\nriches. If a man dreams of possessing jewels, it is a sure sign he will\nlose something of great value." }, { "id": "noe-0273", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Jewels", "text": "To dream of possessing jewels,\nsignifies that you are on the road to happiness.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 276; source lines 1136–1137", "lineStart": 1136, "lineEnd": 1137, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of possessing jewels,\nsignifies that you are on the road to happiness." }, { "id": "cielo-0231", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Jewels", "text": "To wear much jewelry indicates coming\n poverty; to see it on another foretells a lawsuit.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 231; source lines 4413–4416", "lineStart": 4413, "lineEnd": 4416, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To wear much jewelry indicates coming\npoverty; to see it on another foretells a lawsuit." }, { "id": "luck-0099", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Gems", "text": "Usually an unfortunate omen.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 99; source lines 3757–3759", "lineStart": 3757, "lineEnd": 3759, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Usually an unfortunate omen.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Gems” is shown on the Jewels page: gems record is \"See Jewelry\"; same concept" }, { "id": "luck-0135", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Jewels", "text": "To dream of jewelry of any kind is always a bad sign; love\ntroubles or business dangers.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 135; source lines 3855–3858", "lineStart": 3855, "lineEnd": 3858, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of jewelry of any kind is always a bad sign; love\ntroubles or business dangers." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10102", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Gems", "heading": "Gems", "text": "A dream forecasting a rise in social position (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 10102, "lineEnd": 10104, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 219; NLM OCR lines 10102–10104", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10102, "lineEnd": 10104, "printedPage": 219, "printedPageEnd": 219 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Gems. — A dream forecasting a rise in social position (Gyp- \nsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "Gyp- \nsy", "after": "Gypsy", "evidenceLine": 243 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Gems" }, "displayText": "A dream forecasting a rise in social position (Gypsy).", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Gems” is shown on the Jewels page: gems record is \"See Jewelry\"; same concept" }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10499", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Jewels", "heading": "Jewels", "text": "See Gem.", "lineStart": 10499, "lineEnd": 10500, "kind": "cross-reference", "locator": "Printed p. 226; NLM OCR lines 10499–10500", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10499, "lineEnd": 10500, "printedPage": 226, "printedPageEnd": 226 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Jewels. — See Gem. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Jewels" }, "displayText": "See Gem." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "jig", "title": "Jig", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dance a jig, denotes cheerful occupations and light pleasures.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "jig" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about jig stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1091", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Jig", "text": "To dance a jig, denotes cheerful occupations and light pleasures.\n\nTo see negroes dancing a jig, foolish worries will offset pleasure.\n\nTo see your sweetheart dancing a jig, your companion will be possessed\nwith a merry and hopeful disposition.\n\nTo see ballet girls dancing a jig, you will engage in undignified\namusements and follow low desires.", "locator": "Heading 1093; source lines 12593–12605", "lineStart": 12593, "lineEnd": 12605, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dance a jig, denotes cheerful occupations and light pleasures.\n\nTo see negroes dancing a jig, foolish worries will offset pleasure.\n\nTo see your sweetheart dancing a jig, your companion will be possessed\nwith a merry and hopeful disposition.\n\nTo see ballet girls dancing a jig, you will engage in undignified\namusements and follow low desires." }, { "id": "fontaine-0389", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Jig", "text": "To dream of dancing a jig with a lady is a sign she is in love\nwith you, or is pleased with you; and if you like her you may go in at\nonce for her favor with much confidence. The omen is the same to a girl\nwho dreams of jigging with a young man. 1, 65, 14.", "locator": "Heading 389; source line 2763", "lineStart": 2763, "lineEnd": 2768, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of dancing a jig with a lady is a sign she is in love\nwith you, or is pleased with you; and if you like her you may go in at\nonce for her favor with much confidence. The omen is the same to a girl\nwho dreams of jigging with a young man." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "job-interview", "title": "Job interview", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "tagline": "Being chosen and choosing a role belong to the same scene.", "summary": "A job-interview dream can explore evaluation, opportunity, or whether a role fits. The questions, setting, and your own preferences matter.", "aliases": [ "interview", "job interview", "being interviewed", "interviewing", "interview panel", "hiring interview", "interview for a job" ], "status": "REVIEW", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "Record the questions before translating the dream into a general fear of rejection. An interviewer asking for an impossible task differs from one asking something you know but cannot express. A question about your childhood may bring a different concern into a professional setting. Look at what was being tested and whether the test had anything to do with the role.\n\n Identify the interviewers and the room. A real recruiter, a former boss, or a relative may add different expectations. Being interviewed in your own kitchen can mix private and professional boundaries; a corridor with no chair can make belonging the practical issue. Notice whether you had information about the job or were expected to agree without understanding it.\n\n If you are applying for work, the dream may draw on preparation, waiting, or previous interviews. It does not predict an offer or refusal. If you are not applying, consider whether another situation resembles the feeling of asking for entry: joining a group, taking on responsibility, or presenting a piece of work. Keep the analogy specific enough that it can be questioned.\n\n Your wishes matter alongside the panel’s judgement. Did you want the job, need it despite doubts, or feel relieved when it disappeared? An offer can be unsettling, and rejection can feel freeing. Record the emotional outcome instead of assuming selection was automatically the successful ending. You might use the scene to identify a question you wish you could ask about a waking role, while remembering that dream answers are imagined material rather than reliable information about an employer.", "traditional": "The historical Employment and Office records concern work and positions, rather than the particular questions and procedures of a contemporary interview. Miller’s Employment account gives inconsistent fortunes for work and unemployment, while Office discusses gaining or losing a position. These are the author’s period forecasts, not hiring guidance.\n\n A source about office may also refer to an appointment or position of authority, so its wording should not automatically be read as a modern office workplace. DreamFolia uses these passages as comparisons about livelihood and status, with that limit stated. They cannot validate a reading of your interviewers or tell you how a real application will end.\n\n Interviews have an everyday function on both sides: someone assesses a candidate, and the candidate learns about a role. Exploring those two directions can make the dream more useful than treating it only as a test you must pass. Pay attention to the information you needed as well as the performance expected of you.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "The questions seem unrelated", "reflection": "Write one question exactly and describe why it felt out of place. Was the difficulty knowledge, relevance, privacy, or an impossible expectation? Those distinctions can change what you take from the scene." }, { "title": "You receive an offer you do not want", "reflection": "Notice what made the role unattractive and whether you felt able to refuse. Approval can create pressure as well as relief. The scene may be useful for examining your own criteria for a suitable role." }, { "title": "You realize you are interviewing them too", "reflection": "Record the question you asked and whether it received an answer. This change can turn a one-sided test into an exchange about fit, expectations, or what information you need before committing." } ], "prompts": [ "What quality did the interview appear to test?", "How much did I actually want the role being offered?", "What did I need to learn about the job or the people deciding?" ], "related": [ "boss", "being-fired", "employment", "public-speaking" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "scope": "Historical comparison: Employment (Heading 711; source lines 8463–8476); Office (Heading 1427; source lines 16243–16253). These period accounts do not establish a present-day outcome or validate the personal reflections on this page.", "recordReferences": [ { "id": "miller-0711", "heading": "Employment", "locator": "Heading 711; source lines 8463–8476" }, { "id": "miller-1423", "heading": "Office", "locator": "Heading 1427; source lines 16243–16253" } ], "recordIds": [ "miller-0711", "miller-1423" ] } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection expanded on October 13, 2026. Historical readings are attributed period beliefs; proposed personal connections are exploratory. Human publication review remains pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "jockey", "title": "Jockey", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a jockey, omens you will appreciate a gift from an unexpected source.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "jockey" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about jockey stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1092", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Jockey", "text": "To dream of a jockey, omens you will appreciate a gift\nfrom an unexpected source. For a young woman to dream\nthat she associates with a jockey, or has one for a lover,\nindicates she will win a husband out of her station.\nTo see one thrown from a horse, signifies you will be called\non for aid by strangers.", "locator": "Heading 1094; source lines 12605–12614", "lineStart": 12605, "lineEnd": 12614, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a jockey, omens you will appreciate a gift\nfrom an unexpected source. For a young woman to dream\nthat she associates with a jockey, or has one for a lover,\nindicates she will win a husband out of her station.\nTo see one thrown from a horse, signifies you will be called\non for aid by strangers." }, { "id": "noe-0268", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Jockey", "text": "If a female dreams she sees a jockey riding at full speed, she\nwill have an offer of marriage made her very unexpectedly. For a man to\ndream he rides with, or sees a jockey riding at a race, denotes a sudden\ngood turn in his affairs.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 270; source lines 1118–1121", "lineStart": 1118, "lineEnd": 1121, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If a female dreams she sees a jockey riding at full speed, she\nwill have an offer of marriage made her very unexpectedly. For a man to\ndream he rides with, or sees a jockey riding at a race, denotes a sudden\ngood turn in his affairs." }, { "id": "luck-0136", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Jockey", "text": "(On horseback) A successful speculation or bet.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 136; source lines 3858–3860", "lineStart": 3858, "lineEnd": 3860, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(On horseback) A successful speculation or bet." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "joining-a-workplace-strike", "title": "Joining a workplace strike", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "tagline": "A strike can bring personal livelihood beside collective demands, solidarity, uncertainty, and the decision to act with others.", "summary": "A strike can bring personal livelihood beside collective demands, solidarity, uncertainty, and the decision to act with others.", "aliases": [ "picket line dream", "labor strike dream" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "What was the group asking to change, and did you agree with the demand? Joining reluctantly differs from finding support for a concern you could not raise alone. The dream need not prescribe a political or employment decision. Explore how shared action changed your sense of agency, and whether there was room for different levels of risk among the people involved.", "traditional": "Older labor, conflict, and crowd entries may carry the social biases of their authors. This draft does not treat collective action as inherently disorderly or virtuous, and makes no forecast about a real dispute.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "You stand beside coworkers you usually disagree with", "reflection": "What shared need temporarily crossed other differences?" }, { "title": "You worry about people who cannot afford to join", "reflection": "How did the group respond to unequal risks?" }, { "title": "A negotiation begins after the action", "reflection": "What would meaningful listening or change have required?" } ], "prompts": [ "What concrete condition was the strike about?", "Did participation feel freely chosen?", "How were individual needs held alongside the collective goal?" ], "related": [ "work", "crowd", "dispute" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia model-assisted editorial draft. Reflection questions and scenario readings are optional, individually written suggestions, not empirically validated symbol meanings. Source scope is stated with each citation. Historical comparisons identify topics, not inherited interpretations. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "jolly", "title": "Jolly", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you feel jolly and are enjoying the merriment of companions, you will realize pleasure from…” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "jolly", "jollity" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about jolly stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1093", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Jolly", "text": "To dream that you feel jolly and are enjoying the merriment\nof companions, you will realize pleasure from the good\nbehavior of children and have satisfying results in business.\nIf there comes the least rift in the merriment, worry will\nintermingle with the success of the future.", "locator": "Heading 1095; source lines 12614–12622", "lineStart": 12614, "lineEnd": 12622, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you feel jolly and are enjoying the merriment\nof companions, you will realize pleasure from the good\nbehavior of children and have satisfying results in business.\nIf there comes the least rift in the merriment, worry will\nintermingle with the success of the future." }, { "id": "fontaine-0390", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Jolly", "text": "If you dream you are in company and feel particularly hilarious,\nor jolly, it is a sign of sorrow; mark well who it is that contributes\nmost to your mirth, for he or she may cause you pain. If a girl dreams\nthis of a young man, let her beware of him for a gay seducer. 20.", "locator": "Heading 390; source line 2768", "lineStart": 2768, "lineEnd": 2773, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream you are in company and feel particularly hilarious,\nor jolly, it is a sign of sorrow; mark well who it is that contributes\nmost to your mirth, for he or she may cause you pain. If a girl dreams\nthis of a young man, let her beware of him for a gay seducer." }, { "id": "noe-0264", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Jollity", "text": "To dream of jollity, feasts and merry-making, is a good and\nprosperous dream, and promiseth to the dreamer great preferment.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 266; source lines 1110–1112", "lineStart": 1110, "lineEnd": 1112, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of jollity, feasts and merry-making, is a good and\nprosperous dream, and promiseth to the dreamer great preferment.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Jollity” is shown on the Jolly page: same topic" }, { "id": "luck-0137", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Jollity", "text": "To dream of jollity and fun by night is good for those\nabout to marry: to the poor a sign of good: to the rich a sign of\ntrouble and loss. See \"Merry.\"", "locator": "Dream section, heading 137; source lines 3860–3864", "lineStart": 3860, "lineEnd": 3864, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of jollity and fun by night is good for those\nabout to marry: to the poor a sign of good: to the rich a sign of\ntrouble and loss. See \"Merry.\"", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Jollity” is shown on the Jolly page: same topic" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "journey", "title": "Journey", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you go on a journey, signifies profit or a disappointment, as the travels are pleasing and…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "journey" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about journey stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1094", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Journey", "text": "To dream that you go on a journey, signifies profit or a disappointment,\nas the travels are pleasing and successful or as accidents and disagreeable\nevents take active part in your journeying.\n\nTo see your friends start cheerfully on a journey, signifies delightful\nchange and more harmonious companions than you have heretofore known.\nIf you see them depart looking sad, it may be many moons before you see\nthem again. Power and loss are implied.\n\nTo make a long-distance journey in a much shorter time than you expected,\ndenotes you will accomplish some work in a surprisingly short time,\nwhich will be satisfactory in the way of reimbursement.", "locator": "Heading 1096; source lines 12622–12637", "lineStart": 12622, "lineEnd": 12637, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you go on a journey, signifies profit or a disappointment,\nas the travels are pleasing and successful or as accidents and disagreeable\nevents take active part in your journeying.\n\nTo see your friends start cheerfully on a journey, signifies delightful\nchange and more harmonious companions than you have heretofore known.\nIf you see them depart looking sad, it may be many moons before you see\nthem again. Power and loss are implied.\n\nTo make a long-distance journey in a much shorter time than you expected,\ndenotes you will accomplish some work in a surprisingly short time,\nwhich will be satisfactory in the way of reimbursement." }, { "id": "luck-0138", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Journey", "text": "(Making one) Peace and contentment at home.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 138; source lines 3864–3866", "lineStart": 3864, "lineEnd": 3866, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(Making one) Peace and contentment at home." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "journeyman", "title": "Journeyman", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a journeyman, denotes you are soon to lose money by useless travels.”", "aliases": [ "journeyman" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about journeyman stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1095", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Journeyman", "text": "To dream of a journeyman, denotes you are soon to lose money\nby useless travels. For a woman, this dream brings pleasant trips,\nthough unexpected ones.", "locator": "Heading 1097; source lines 12637–12643", "lineStart": 12637, "lineEnd": 12643, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a journeyman, denotes you are soon to lose money\nby useless travels. For a woman, this dream brings pleasant trips,\nthough unexpected ones." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "joy", "title": "Joy", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you feel joy over any event, denotes harmony among friends.” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "joy" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about joy stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1096", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Joy", "text": "To dream that you feel joy over any event, denotes harmony among friends.", "locator": "Heading 1098; source lines 12643–12647", "lineStart": 12643, "lineEnd": 12647, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you feel joy over any event, denotes harmony among friends." }, { "id": "fontaine-0391", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Joy", "text": "To dream that you are in the ecstasy of joy at anything that has\nhappened, bodes pain and trouble; something will be sure to occur to\nmake you unhappy. 46.", "locator": "Heading 391; source line 2773", "lineStart": 2773, "lineEnd": 2777, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are in the ecstasy of joy at anything that has\nhappened, bodes pain and trouble; something will be sure to occur to\nmake you unhappy." }, { "id": "noe-0271", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Joy", "text": "To dream of joy and festivity, is a token of good for such as\nwould marry, or it betokens enjoyment for those fond of society. To the\nsad and fearful it announces absence of heaviness and fear.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 273; source lines 1128–1130", "lineStart": 1128, "lineEnd": 1130, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of joy and festivity, is a token of good for such as\nwould marry, or it betokens enjoyment for those fond of society. To the\nsad and fearful it announces absence of heaviness and fear." }, { "id": "cielo-0232", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Joy", "text": "To experience great joy is a sign that you will\n have bad news.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 232; source lines 4416–4419", "lineStart": 4416, "lineEnd": 4419, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To experience great joy is a sign that you will\nhave bad news." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "jubilee", "title": "Jubilee", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a jubilee, denotes many pleasureable enterprises in which you will be a participant.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "jubilee" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about jubilee stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1097", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Jubilee", "text": "To dream of a jubilee, denotes many pleasureable enterprises in which you\nwill be a participant. For a young woman, this is a favorable dream,\npointing to matrimony and increase of temporal blessings.\n\nTo dream of a religious jubilee, denotes close but comfortable environments.", "locator": "Heading 1099; source lines 12647–12655", "lineStart": 12647, "lineEnd": 12655, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a jubilee, denotes many pleasureable enterprises in which you\nwill be a participant. For a young woman, this is a favorable dream,\npointing to matrimony and increase of temporal blessings.\n\nTo dream of a religious jubilee, denotes close but comfortable environments." }, { "id": "noe-0267", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Jubilee", "text": "To dream that you are at a jubilee, is a sure sign\nthat you will have a fortune left you by some rich relations.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 269; source lines 1116–1118", "lineStart": 1116, "lineEnd": 1118, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are at a jubilee, is a sure sign\nthat you will have a fortune left you by some rich relations." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "judge", "title": "Judge", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "summary": "Judge dreams may explore a fair hearing, an imposed verdict, or the responsibility of deciding when several accounts need to be heard.", "tagline": "The way a decision is reached can matter as much as its result.", "aliases": [ "judge", "judges" ], "status": "REVIEW", "psychological": "A judge in a dream can give a decision formal weight. A dispute is brought before someone, a rule is applied or a verdict seems able to settle what happens next. The useful subject may be how a conclusion becomes authoritative: what can be heard, which standard counts and whether there is room to question it. This is more specific than simply feeling observed or evaluated.\n\nA calm hearing can picture wanting circumstances considered in proportion. An immediate verdict with no explanation may instead make the process feel closed before you participate. A waking review, disagreement or decision affecting several people can offer a comparison. The judge’s words remain part of an imagined event, not a finding about your actual conduct or a prediction of a legal outcome.\n\nThe rule can be clear yet seem irrelevant to the situation. That creates a tension between applying a consistent procedure and understanding a particular case. A scene in which the judge asks an ordinary clarifying question may change the whole experience by making your actual position visible. Conversely, a moving standard can make every attempt to answer feel unable to affect the result.\n\nA familiar person in the role can transfer everyday expectations into a formal setting. A parent, colleague or friend may appear to have final authority over something they would not ordinarily decide. The comparison could concern how much weight their opinion carries for you, but their face can also be a familiar casting choice. The conduct of the hearing matters more than automatically treating the person as your conscience.\n\nBeing the judge puts uncertainty and responsibility with you. Two accounts may each contain something important, or the rule may not provide an easy answer. The dream can explore the burden of deciding without turning fairness into a demand for perfect certainty. A witness, pause or changed question may make more information available.\n\nAn unresolved hearing can leave the wish for closure intact. It may also permit further understanding before a decision. The useful reading distinguishes wanting an end, wanting a fair process and wanting a particular result; those aims can coincide or pull in different directions.", "traditional": "Miller assigns legal forecasts to appearing before a judge and to favorable or unfavorable decisions. Cielo gives punishment, Book of Luck slander and malice, and Craig malice or persecution with a speculative explanation of the tradition’s origin. These attributed period claims are not cultural facts or evidence about a present legal matter.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "How a verdict gains authority", "reflection": "The standard and opportunity to answer shape whether a decision feels understandable." }, { "title": "Fairness and the particular case", "reflection": "A clear rule can still fail to fit the circumstances shown." }, { "title": "Deciding with incomplete knowledge", "reflection": "The dreamer may carry responsibility for hearing several accounts without an easy answer." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A judge hears your whole account calmly", "reflection": "The hearing makes room for the circumstances rather than only a label. This may picture wanting a decision to follow understanding. The calm process can matter before the result, especially when a question or explanation changes how your position can be recognized." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A verdict arrives before evidence is heard", "reflection": "The conclusion closes participation before the account enters it. A decision already settled elsewhere can offer a comparison. The dream may center on having no effective voice rather than on whether the announced result would be favorable or unfavorable." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A familiar person becomes the judge", "reflection": "The known person acquires authority beyond the ordinary relationship. This may picture the weight you give an opinion or an expectation you associate with them. Their dream role is an imagined arrangement; the specific manner of listening or deciding provides the more useful distinction." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You are the judge and both sides need a decision", "reflection": "The role gives you several accounts without a simple way to choose. This can picture responsibility in a group, workplace or caring arrangement. The difficulty may concern obtaining enough perspective, rather than prove that fairness requires immediate certainty or a perfectly satisfying answer." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The rule is clear but seems irrelevant to the situation", "reflection": "The procedure is consistent while its fit remains questionable. This may resemble being assessed by a measure that leaves important circumstances out. A clarification or exception would alter the scene differently from a demand that everyone simply comply with the same wording." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The hearing ends without a verdict", "reflection": "The open ending can hold a desire for closure alongside a need for more understanding. Waiting may feel relieving, frustrating or both. The unfinished hearing is a dream event, and its meaning need not become a requirement to issue a private verdict after waking." } ], "prompts": [ "What standard did the judge apply, and did it fit the circumstances?", "Whose account could enter the hearing?", "What did you most want the decision or hearing to provide?" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1098" ], "scope": "Historical context only. Attributed Gustavus Hindman Miller passage(s): coming before a judge and favorable/unfavorable decision assigned legal forecasts and responsibility. These are period beliefs, not established predictions or support for the original psychological reading." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0233" ], "scope": "Historical context only. Attributed Astra Cielo passage(s): Judge assigned coming punishment. These are period beliefs, not established predictions or support for the original psychological reading." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0139" ], "scope": "Historical context only. Attributed Anonymous passage(s): Judge labeled bad dream with slander/malice warning. These are period beliefs, not established predictions or support for the original psychological reading." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L10501" ], "scope": "Historical context only. Attributed Katherine Taylor Craig passage(s): coming before a judge assigned malice/persecution and followed by Craig’s own proposed cultural explanation; do not repeat that generalization as a fact about a people. These are period beliefs, not established predictions or support for the original psychological reading." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "related": [ "being-judged", "lawyer", "police", "prison" ], "updated": "2026-10-13", "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1098", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Judge", "text": "To dream of coming before a judge, signifies that disputes will be\nsettled by legal proceedings. Business or divorce cases may assume\ngigantic proportions. To have the case decided in your favor,\ndenotes a successful termination to the suit; if decided against you,\nthen you are the aggressor and you should seek to right injustice.", "locator": "Heading 1100; source lines 12655–12663", "lineStart": 12655, "lineEnd": 12663, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of coming before a judge, signifies that disputes will be\nsettled by legal proceedings. Business or divorce cases may assume\ngigantic proportions. To have the case decided in your favor,\ndenotes a successful termination to the suit; if decided against you,\nthen you are the aggressor and you should seek to right injustice." }, { "id": "cielo-0233", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Judge", "text": "Is a sign of coming punishment.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 233; source lines 4419–4421", "lineStart": 4419, "lineEnd": 4421, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Is a sign of coming punishment." }, { "id": "luck-0139", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Judge", "text": "A bad dream: beware of slander and malice.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 139; source lines 3866–3868", "lineStart": 3866, "lineEnd": 3868, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "A bad dream: beware of slander and malice." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10501", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Judge", "heading": "Judge", "text": "To come before a judge, a bad dream, indicating malice, persecution, etc. (Gypsy) ; a dream probably interpreted from the Gypsy experience.", "lineStart": 10501, "lineEnd": 10504, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 226; NLM OCR lines 10501–10504", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10501, "lineEnd": 10504, "printedPage": 226, "printedPageEnd": 226 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Judge. — To come before a judge, a bad dream, indicating \nmalice, persecution, etc. (Gypsy) ; a dream probably inter- \npreted from the Gypsy experience. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "inter- \npreted", "after": "interpreted", "evidenceLine": 447 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Judge" }, "displayText": "To come before a judge, a bad dream, indicating malice, persecution, etc. (Gypsy); a dream probably interpreted from the Gypsy experience." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "judgment-day", "title": "Judgment Day", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of the judgment day, foretells that you will accomplish some well-planned work, if you appear resigned and hopeful of escaping…”", "aliases": [ "judgment day" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about judgment day stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1099", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Judgment Day", "text": "To dream of the judgment day, foretells that you will accomplish some\nwell-planned work, if you appear resigned and hopeful of escaping punishment.\nOtherwise, your work will prove a failure.\n\nFor a young woman to appear before the judgment bar and hear the verdict\nof ``Guilty,'' denotes that she will cause much distress among her friends\nby her selfish and unbecoming conduct. If she sees the dead rising,\nand all the earth solemnly and fearfully awaiting the end, there will\nbe much struggling for her, and her friends will refuse her aid.\nIt is also a forerunner of unpleasant gossip, and scandal is threatened.\nBusiness may assume hopeless aspects.", "locator": "Heading 1101; source lines 12663–12677", "lineStart": 12663, "lineEnd": 12677, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of the judgment day, foretells that you will accomplish some\nwell-planned work, if you appear resigned and hopeful of escaping punishment.\nOtherwise, your work will prove a failure.\n\nFor a young woman to appear before the judgment bar and hear the verdict\nof “Guilty,” denotes that she will cause much distress among her friends\nby her selfish and unbecoming conduct. If she sees the dead rising,\nand all the earth solemnly and fearfully awaiting the end, there will\nbe much struggling for her, and her friends will refuse her aid.\nIt is also a forerunner of unpleasant gossip, and scandal is threatened.\nBusiness may assume hopeless aspects." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "jug", "title": "Jug", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “If you dream of jugs well filled with transparent liquids, your welfare is being considered by more than…” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "jug" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about jug stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1100", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Jug", "text": "If you dream of jugs well filled with transparent liquids,\nyour welfare is being considered by more than yourself.\nMany true friends will unite to please and profit you.\nIf the jugs are empty, your conduct will estrange you from\nfriends and station.\n\nBroken jugs, indicate sickness and failures in employment.\n\nIf you drink wine from a jug, you will enjoy robust health and find\npleasure in all circles. Optimistic views will possess you.\n\nTo take an unpleasant drink from a jug, disappointment and disgust\nwill follow pleasant anticipations.", "locator": "Heading 1102; source lines 12677–12693", "lineStart": 12677, "lineEnd": 12693, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream of jugs well filled with transparent liquids,\nyour welfare is being considered by more than yourself.\nMany true friends will unite to please and profit you.\nIf the jugs are empty, your conduct will estrange you from\nfriends and station.\n\nBroken jugs, indicate sickness and failures in employment.\n\nIf you drink wine from a jug, you will enjoy robust health and find\npleasure in all circles. Optimistic views will possess you.\n\nTo take an unpleasant drink from a jug, disappointment and disgust\nwill follow pleasant anticipations." }, { "id": "noe-0269", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Jug", "text": "For one to dream of drinking out of a\njug, is a sure sign of going on a journey. If the jug be large, the\njourney will be long; if small, the journey will be short; and so, if the\nliquid drank be pleasant, so will the journey, and if unpleasant, the\njourney will be full of troubles.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 271; source lines 1121–1125", "lineStart": 1121, "lineEnd": 1125, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For one to dream of drinking out of a\njug, is a sure sign of going on a journey. If the jug be large, the\njourney will be long; if small, the journey will be short; and so, if the\nliquid drank be pleasant, so will the journey, and if unpleasant, the\njourney will be full of troubles." }, { "id": "cielo-0234", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Jug", "text": "Indicates the acquaintance of a great man.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 234; source lines 4421–4423", "lineStart": 4421, "lineEnd": 4423, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Indicates the acquaintance of a great man." }, { "id": "luck-0140", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Jug", "text": "(Drinking from one) Robust health and wholesome pleasures.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 140; source lines 3868–3870", "lineStart": 3868, "lineEnd": 3870, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(Drinking from one) Robust health and wholesome pleasures." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "july", "title": "July", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of this month, denotes you will be depressed with gloomy outlooks, but, as suddenly, your spirits will rebound to unimagined…”", "aliases": [ "july" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about july stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1101", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "July", "text": "To dream of this month, denotes you will be depressed with\ngloomy outlooks, but, as suddenly, your spirits will rebound\nto unimagined pleasure and good fortune.", "locator": "Heading 1103; source lines 12693–12699", "lineStart": 12693, "lineEnd": 12699, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of this month, denotes you will be depressed with\ngloomy outlooks, but, as suddenly, your spirits will rebound\nto unimagined pleasure and good fortune." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "jump", "title": "Jump", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Book of Luck wrote: “To dream of jumping is unpropitious, foretelling obstacles that prevent fulfillment of a desire.”", "aliases": [ "jump" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about jump stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "luck-0141", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Jump", "text": "To dream of jumping is unpropitious, foretelling obstacles\nthat prevent fulfillment of a desire.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 141; source lines 3870–3876", "lineStart": 3870, "lineEnd": 3876, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of jumping is unpropitious, foretelling obstacles\nthat prevent fulfillment of a desire." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "jumping", "title": "Jumping", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “If you dream of jumping over any object, you will succeed in every endeavor.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "jumping" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about jumping stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "leaping" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1102", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Jumping", "text": "If you dream of jumping over any object, you will succeed in every endeavor;\nbut if you jump and fall back, disagreeable affairs will render\nlife almost intolerable.\n\nTo jump down from a wall, denotes reckless speculations and\ndisappointment in love.", "locator": "Heading 1104; source lines 12699–12708", "lineStart": 12699, "lineEnd": 12708, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream of jumping over any object, you will succeed in every endeavor;\nbut if you jump and fall back, disagreeable affairs will render\nlife almost intolerable.\n\nTo jump down from a wall, denotes reckless speculations and\ndisappointment in love." }, { "id": "fontaine-0392", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Jumping", "text": "(_See Leaping._)", "locator": "Heading 392; source line 2777", "lineStart": 2777, "lineEnd": 2779, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Leaping.)" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "leaping" ] }, { "slug": "jumping-jack", "title": "Jumping-jack", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a jumping-jack, denotes that idleness and trivial pastimes will occupy your thoughts to the exclusion of serious and sustaining…”", "aliases": [ "jumping-jack" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about jumping-jack stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1103", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Jumping-jack", "text": "To dream of a jumping-jack, denotes that idleness and trivial\npastimes will occupy your thoughts to the exclusion of serious\nand sustaining plans.", "locator": "Heading 1105; source lines 12708–12714", "lineStart": 12708, "lineEnd": 12714, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a jumping-jack, denotes that idleness and trivial\npastimes will occupy your thoughts to the exclusion of serious\nand sustaining plans." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "june", "title": "June", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of June, foretells unusual gains in all undertakings.”", "aliases": [ "june" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about june stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1104", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "June", "text": "To dream of June, foretells unusual gains in all undertakings.\n\nFor a woman to think that vegetation is decaying, or that a drouth\nis devastating the land, she will have sorrow and loss which will\nbe lasting in its effects.", "locator": "Heading 1106; source lines 12714–12722", "lineStart": 12714, "lineEnd": 12722, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of June, foretells unusual gains in all undertakings.\n\nFor a woman to think that vegetation is decaying, or that a drouth\nis devastating the land, she will have sorrow and loss which will\nbe lasting in its effects." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "juniper", "title": "Juniper", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing a juniper tree, portends happiness and wealth out of sorrow and depressed conditions.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "juniper" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about juniper stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1105", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Juniper", "text": "To dream of seeing a juniper tree, portends happiness and wealth\nout of sorrow and depressed conditions. For a young woman,\nthis dreams omens a bright future after disappointing love affairs.\nTo the sick, this is an augury of speedy recovery.\n\nTo eat, or gather, the berries of a juniper tree, foretells\ntrouble and sickness.", "locator": "Heading 1107; source lines 12722–12732", "lineStart": 12722, "lineEnd": 12732, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing a juniper tree, portends happiness and wealth\nout of sorrow and depressed conditions. For a young woman,\nthis dreams omens a bright future after disappointing love affairs.\nTo the sick, this is an augury of speedy recovery.\n\nTo eat, or gather, the berries of a juniper tree, foretells\ntrouble and sickness." }, { "id": "noe-0270", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Juniper", "text": "It is unlucky to dream of\nthe juniper, especially if the person who so dreams be sick. But to dream\nof gathering juniper berries, if it be in winter, denotes prosperity.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 272; source lines 1125–1128", "lineStart": 1125, "lineEnd": 1128, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "It is unlucky to dream of\nthe juniper, especially if the person who so dreams be sick. But to dream\nof gathering juniper berries, if it be in winter, denotes prosperity." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "juniper-berries", "title": "Juniper Berries", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “To dream of these, signifies that the person so dreaming will shortly arrive at great honors and become a great person.”", "aliases": [ "juniper berries" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about juniper berries stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "jury", "title": "Jury", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are on the jury, denotes dissatisfaction with your employments, and you will seek to…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "jury" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about jury stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1106", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Jury", "text": "To dream that you are on the jury, denotes dissatisfaction\nwith your employments, and you will seek to materially\nchange your position.\n\nIf you are cleared from a charge by the jury, your business will be\nsuccessful and affairs will move your way, but if you should be condemned,\nenemies will overpower you and harass you beyond endurance.", "locator": "Heading 1108; source lines 12732–12742", "lineStart": 12732, "lineEnd": 12742, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are on the jury, denotes dissatisfaction\nwith your employments, and you will seek to materially\nchange your position.\n\nIf you are cleared from a charge by the jury, your business will be\nsuccessful and affairs will move your way, but if you should be condemned,\nenemies will overpower you and harass you beyond endurance." }, { "id": "fontaine-0393", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Jury", "text": "If a man dreams he is serving on a jury, it is a sign some friend\nwill ask a favor of him that he will hesitate to grant. 38, 3.", "locator": "Heading 393; source line 2779", "lineStart": 2779, "lineEnd": 2782, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If a man dreams he is serving on a jury, it is a sign some friend\nwill ask a favor of him that he will hesitate to grant." }, { "id": "noe-0274", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Jury", "text": "If you dream of\nbeing tried by a jury, you will lose your sweetheart, and gain the\naffections of another on a voyage. If you dream of being acquitted by a\njury, you will shortly meet with interesting and romantic adventures.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 277; source lines 1137–1142", "lineStart": 1137, "lineEnd": 1142, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream of\nbeing tried by a jury, you will lose your sweetheart, and gain the\naffections of another on a voyage. If you dream of being acquitted by a\njury, you will shortly meet with interesting and romantic adventures." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "justice", "title": "Justice", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you demand justice from a person, denotes that you are threatened with embarrassments…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "justice" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about justice stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1107", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Justice", "text": "To dream that you demand justice from a person, denotes that you\nare threatened with embarrassments through the false statements\nof people who are eager for your downfall.\n\nIf some one demands the same of you, you will find that your conduct\nand reputation are being assailed, and it will be extremely doubtful\nif you refute the charges satisfactorily.", "locator": "Heading 1109; source lines 12742–12760", "lineStart": 12742, "lineEnd": 12760, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you demand justice from a person, denotes that you\nare threatened with embarrassments through the false statements\nof people who are eager for your downfall.\n\nIf some one demands the same of you, you will find that your conduct\nand reputation are being assailed, and it will be extremely doubtful\nif you refute the charges satisfactorily." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10505", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Justice", "heading": "Justice", "text": "A good dream (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 10505, "lineEnd": 10508, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 226; NLM OCR lines 10505–10508", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10505, "lineEnd": 10508, "printedPage": 226, "printedPageEnd": 226 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Justice. — A good dream (Gypsy). \n\nK \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [ { "line": 10507, "text": "K " } ], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Justice" }, "displayText": "A good dream (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1108", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Kaleidoscope", "text": "Kaleidoscopes working before you in a dream, portend swift changes\nwith little of favorable promise in them.", "locator": "Heading 1110; source lines 12760–12765", "lineStart": 12760, "lineEnd": 12765, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Kaleidoscopes working before you in a dream, portend swift changes\nwith little of favorable promise in them." }, { "id": "fontaine-0394", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Kaleidoscope", "text": "To dream you are looking through one of these curious\ninstruments, and if you are delighted with the changes that present\nthemselves, it is a sign, that you will either travel in distant\ncountries or be very discontented at home. 36, 75.", "locator": "Heading 394; source line 2782", "lineStart": 2782, "lineEnd": 2787, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are looking through one of these curious\ninstruments, and if you are delighted with the changes that present\nthemselves, it is a sign, that you will either travel in distant\ncountries or be very discontented at home." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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Wild animals generally symbolize misfortune with \n\n\nSYMBOLISM IN DREAMS 227 \n\n\ngypsy interpreters ; Freud and Jung, however, attach to them \nan erotic significance. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [ { "line": 10513, "text": "SYMBOLISM IN DREAMS 227 " } ], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Kangaroo" }, "displayText": "Prolonged worries, to kill one is a lucky dream (Gypsy). Wild animals generally symbolize misfortune with gypsy interpreters; Freud and Jung, however, attach to them an erotic significance." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1110", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Keg", "text": "To dream of a keg, denotes you will have a struggle to throw off oppression.\nBroken ones, indicate separation from family or friends.", "locator": "Heading 1113; source lines 12785–12790", "lineStart": 12785, "lineEnd": 12790, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a keg, denotes you will have a struggle to throw off oppression.\nBroken ones, indicate separation from family or friends." }, { "id": "fontaine-0395", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Keg", "text": "To dream of an empty one is a sign you will soon leave home; a\nkeg of small fish, or oysters, denotes the receipt of money; a keg\nof spirits of any kind, promises poverty; a keg of powder foretells\nmisfortune; a keg of paint predicts compliments to be paid you. 14.", "locator": "Heading 395; source line 2787", "lineStart": 2787, "lineEnd": 2792, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of an empty one is a sign you will soon leave home; a\nkeg of small fish, or oysters, denotes the receipt of money; a keg\nof spirits of any kind, promises poverty; a keg of powder foretells\nmisfortune; a keg of paint predicts compliments to be paid you." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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The image is less about opportunity alone than about what makes opportunity usable.\n\nA key that does not fit can suggest a mismatch between your available approach and the situation. You may have skills that worked in an earlier role but need different information in a new one. Trying many keys can picture repeating familiar solutions because you have not yet understood the lock. An unknown key carries a different possibility: you have something potentially useful before knowing how it connects with your circumstances.\n\nReceiving keys can bring responsibility as well as freedom. A new home, workplace role, or entrusted task may give you access while also making you answerable for what happens inside. Giving a key to another person can picture sharing that responsibility or allowing greater closeness. The emotional difference between trust and reluctance matters more than the exchange itself.\n\nLosing a key can make dependence on one resource feel urgent. 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If she locks\na door with a key, she will be successful in selecting a husband.\nIf she gives the key away, she will fail to use judgment in conversation\nand darken her own reputation.", "locator": "Heading 1115; source lines 12804–12822", "lineStart": 12804, "lineEnd": 12822, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of keys, denotes unexpected changes.\n\nIf the keys are lost, unpleasant adventures will affect you.\n\nTo find keys, brings domestic peace and brisk turns to business.\n\nBroken keys, portends separation either through death or jealousy.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of losing the key to any personal ornament,\ndenotes she will have quarrels with her lover, and will suffer much\ndisquiet therefrom. If she dreams of unlocking a door with a key,\nshe will have a new lover and have over-confidence in him. If she locks\na door with a key, she will be successful in selecting a husband.\nIf she gives the key away, she will fail to use judgment in conversation\nand darken her own reputation." }, { "id": "fontaine-0396", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Key", "text": "If you dream of finding a key, or a bunch of keys, it is a sign\nthat some one will tell you a secret; to dream of losing a key, or\nkeys, is a bad omen, as it predicts that you will come to shame. Such a\ndream is particularly unfortunate to a young lady. 41, 8.", "locator": "Heading 396; source line 2792", "lineStart": 2792, "lineEnd": 2797, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream of finding a key, or a bunch of keys, it is a sign\nthat some one will tell you a secret; to dream of losing a key, or\nkeys, is a bad omen, as it predicts that you will come to shame. Such a\ndream is particularly unfortunate to a young lady." }, { "id": "artemidorus-158", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of the Key.", "text": "A Key seene in a dreame to him which would marry, signifyeth a good and handsome Wife, or a good Maid. It is crosse to a Traveller, for it signifieth he shall be put back and hindred, and not received: it is good for such as would take in hand, or effect other mens businesses.", "locator": "Book 3, encoded section 158", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "3", "displayText": "A Key seene in a dreame to him which would marry, signifyeth a good and handsome Wife, or a good Maid. It is crosse to a Traveller, for it signifieth he shall be put back and hindred, and not received: it is good for such as would take in hand, or effect other mens businesses." }, { "id": "noe-0276", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Keys", "text": "To dream of\nkeys is favorable to a person in trade, and to a sailor, they denote some\ngift, and that the dreamer will become rich. To dream of finding a key,\ndenotes an addition to your estate. If you are married, it foretells the\nbirth of a child. If you give another a key, you will be speedily married.\nIn love, keys betoken faithfulness and a good tempered sweetheart.\n\n To dream your keys are gone or lost\n Denotes that you’ll be vexed or crossed.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 279; source lines 1144–1154", "lineStart": 1144, "lineEnd": 1154, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of\nkeys is favorable to a person in trade, and to a sailor, they denote some\ngift, and that the dreamer will become rich. To dream of finding a key,\ndenotes an addition to your estate. If you are married, it foretells the\nbirth of a child. If you give another a key, you will be speedily married.\nIn love, keys betoken faithfulness and a good tempered sweetheart.\n\nTo dream your keys are gone or lost\nDenotes that you’ll be vexed or crossed." }, { "id": "cielo-0235", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Key", "text": "A bunch of keys denotes treachery on the part\n of a supposed friend. A single key means loss.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 235; source lines 4423–4427", "lineStart": 4423, "lineEnd": 4427, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "A bunch of keys denotes treachery on the part\nof a supposed friend. A single key means loss." }, { "id": "luck-0145", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Key", "text": "Receipt of money: (for young people) a good and handsome\npartner in life: (holding a key) settlement of business perplexities:\n(lost key) anger, worry, want.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 145; source lines 3882–3886", "lineStart": 3882, "lineEnd": 3886, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Receipt of money: (for young people) a good and handsome\npartner in life: (holding a key) settlement of business perplexities:\n(lost key) anger, worry, want." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "keyhole", "title": "Keyhole", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you spy upon others through a keyhole, you will damage some person by disclosing confidence.”", "aliases": [ "keyhole" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about keyhole stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1113", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Keyhole", "text": "To dream that you spy upon others through a keyhole,\nyou will damage some person by disclosing confidence.\nIf you catch others peeping through a keyhole, you will have\nfalse friends delving into your private matters to advance\nthemselves over you.\n\nTo dream that you cannot find the keyhole, you will unconsciously\ninjure a friend.", "locator": "Heading 1116; source lines 12822–12833", "lineStart": 12822, "lineEnd": 12833, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you spy upon others through a keyhole,\nyou will damage some person by disclosing confidence.\nIf you catch others peeping through a keyhole, you will have\nfalse friends delving into your private matters to advance\nthemselves over you.\n\nTo dream that you cannot find the keyhole, you will unconsciously\ninjure a friend." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "kid", "title": "Kid", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a kid, denotes you will not be over-scrupulous in your morals or pleasures.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "kid" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about kid stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1114", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Kid", "text": "To dream of a kid, denotes you will not be over-scrupulous in your morals\nor pleasures. You will be likely to bring grief to some loving heart.", "locator": "Heading 1117; source lines 12833–12838", "lineStart": 12833, "lineEnd": 12838, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a kid, denotes you will not be over-scrupulous in your morals\nor pleasures. You will be likely to bring grief to some loving heart." }, { "id": "fontaine-0397", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Kid", "text": "To dream of a young and sportful kid, implies the birth of a\nchild. A young girl who grants her lover too close intimacy before\nmarriage should never dream of the innocent and harmless kid. It is a\ngood dream for married people who desire children. 70.", "locator": "Heading 397; source line 2797", "lineStart": 2797, "lineEnd": 2802, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a young and sportful kid, implies the birth of a\nchild. A young girl who grants her lover too close intimacy before\nmarriage should never dream of the innocent and harmless kid. It is a\ngood dream for married people who desire children." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10530", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Kid", "heading": "Kid", "text": "A dream of thrift (Gypsy symbol).", "lineStart": 10530, "lineEnd": 10531, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 227; NLM OCR lines 10530–10531", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10530, "lineEnd": 10531, "printedPage": 227, "printedPageEnd": 227 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Kid. — A dream of thrift (Gypsy symbol). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Kid" }, "displayText": "A dream of thrift (Gypsy symbol)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "kidnapping", "title": "Kidnapping", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "Someone else chooses the destination, and you look for a way to answer.", "summary": "A kidnapping dream may involve being taken, witnessing someone vanish, or planning escape. Focus on agency, separation, and the help available.", "aliases": [ "kidnapping", "kidnapped", "being kidnapped", "abduction", "abducted", "being abducted", "taken", "held hostage", "hostage", "kidnapper", "child kidnapped", "my child being taken" ], "status": "REVIEW", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A kidnapping scene removes choice in a particular way: someone takes a person away or prevents them from leaving. Begin by identifying whose movement was controlled. Being taken, watching another person disappear, and searching after an unexplained absence create different positions in the story. The dream does not announce an actual threat or reveal the intentions of anyone it casts as an abductor.\n\nIf you were taken, notice what you knew about the destination and the person in control. A familiar room, an unknown vehicle, or a place where everyone acts as if nothing is wrong can make the loss of agency feel different. The scene might offer a comparison with pressure to follow a plan you did not choose. It might also borrow directly from a film, report, or remembered story. That ordinary possibility can sit beside emotional reflection.\n\nYour responses deserve description without evaluation. You may bargain, hide information, search for an opening, freeze, or wake before doing anything. None of those dream reactions proves how you would respond to actual danger or whether you are strong enough. If another person helped, record the practical action: a door left open, a phone offered, or a conversation that bought time.\n\nWhen someone else was taken, the dream may focus on separation and the limits of what you can do for another person. Avoid turning their disappearance into evidence about your care or a forecast of harm. What you wanted most may have been contact, information, or reassurance that help was on its way. You can reflect on those needs without recreating the frightening scene in detail or requiring the dream to resolve.", "traditional": "No historical account is attached to this particular kidnapping context. Nearby historical subjects such as captivity or ransom involve specific circumstances; without a matching passage, their readings are not used as evidence for this scene. The dream is approached as an imagined experience, not a warning about a person or place.\n\nCrime stories often give kidnapping scenes an established sequence of vehicles, hidden rooms, messages, and escape attempts. Identify any familiar narrative material before concluding that it has a personal message. If the dream differs from the story you know, those differences may be worth noting: perhaps the setting was your own workplace, the captor was invisible, or escape required convincing someone you were not free. These details can support reflection on the dream’s logic while leaving real-world safety judgments grounded in actual circumstances.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "Taken somewhere you recognise", "reflection": "A familiar destination can make the scene unsettling because the place no longer follows its ordinary rules. Describe what prevented you from leaving and who accepted the situation. A possible comparison is losing choice within something familiar, not proof that the place is dangerous." }, { "title": "Searching for a missing companion", "reflection": "The scene may centre on uncertainty and the need for contact rather than on the unseen abduction. Record the clues you had and whom you asked for help. The search does not measure your real responsibility for another person’s wellbeing." }, { "title": "Escaping with unexpected help", "reflection": "Notice what the helper made possible and whether you could decide the next step. The change in agency may be more meaningful than the captor’s identity. Explore what support looked like without treating the dream as rehearsal for an actual emergency." } ], "prompts": [ "Whose choices were restricted, and how was that shown?", "What information or contact did you most want?", "Which action, person, or opening changed the balance of control?" ], "related": [ "being-chased", "being-trapped", "escape", "a-stranger", "being-attacked" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia expansion written on 2026-10-13, awaiting human publication review. Interpretations are conditional invitations to reflection, not validated symbolic meanings, predictions, diagnoses, or evidence about other people. Historical coverage is identified separately from original everyday context; research citations provide general context only.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "kidneys", "title": "Kidneys", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream about your kidneys, foretells you are threatened with a serious illness, or there will be trouble in marriage relations for you.”", "aliases": [ "kidneys" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about kidneys stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1115", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Kidneys", "text": "To dream about your kidneys, foretells you are threatened\nwith a serious illness, or there will be trouble in marriage\nrelations for you.\n\nIf they act too freely, you will be a party to some racy intrigue.\nIf they refuse to perform their work, there will be a sensation,\nand to your detriment. If you eat kidney-stew, some officious person\nwill cause you disgust in some secret lover affair.", "locator": "Heading 1118; source lines 12838–12849", "lineStart": 12838, "lineEnd": 12849, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream about your kidneys, foretells you are threatened\nwith a serious illness, or there will be trouble in marriage\nrelations for you.\n\nIf they act too freely, you will be a party to some racy intrigue.\nIf they refuse to perform their work, there will be a sensation,\nand to your detriment. If you eat kidney-stew, some officious person\nwill cause you disgust in some secret lover affair." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "kill", "title": "Kill", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "6 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of killing a defenseless man, prognosticates sorrow and failure in affairs.” Compare 6 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "kill", "killing" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about kill stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "murder" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1116", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Killing", "text": "To dream of killing a defenseless man, prognosticates sorrow\nand failure in affairs.\n\nIf you kill one in defense, or kill a ferocious beast, it denotes\nvictory and a rise in position.", "locator": "Heading 1119; source lines 12849–12857", "lineStart": 12849, "lineEnd": 12857, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of killing a defenseless man, prognosticates sorrow\nand failure in affairs.\n\nIf you kill one in defense, or kill a ferocious beast, it denotes\nvictory and a rise in position.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Killing” is shown on the Kill page: same topic" }, { "id": "fontaine-0399", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Kill", "text": "If you dream of wantonly killing any animal, or insect, it\npredicts bad luck and poverty; but if the killing be done by accident,\nit shows that, though you may have a misfortune in consequence, it will\nnot materially affect your interest. For butchers or farmers to dream\nof killing fat and healthy animals for food, is a sign of thrift and\nabundance; but if they dream of killing a hog that does not squeal, it\nshadows forth a death in the family. 41.", "locator": "Heading 399; source line 2806", "lineStart": 2806, "lineEnd": 2814, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream of wantonly killing any animal, or insect, it\npredicts bad luck and poverty; but if the killing be done by accident,\nit shows that, though you may have a misfortune in consequence, it will\nnot materially affect your interest. For butchers or farmers to dream\nof killing fat and healthy animals for food, is a sign of thrift and\nabundance; but if they dream of killing a hog that does not squeal, it\nshadows forth a death in the family." }, { "id": "noe-0275", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Kill", "text": "To dream you kill a man, signifies assuredness of business. To\ndream you kill your father, is a bad sign. To dream you are killed,\ndenotes loss to him whom you dreamed has killed you.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 278; source lines 1142–1144", "lineStart": 1142, "lineEnd": 1144, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you kill a man, signifies assuredness of business. To\ndream you kill your father, is a bad sign. To dream you are killed,\ndenotes loss to him whom you dreamed has killed you." }, { "id": "cielo-0236", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Kill", "text": "To kill a person denotes a coming quarrel.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 236; source lines 4427–4429", "lineStart": 4427, "lineEnd": 4429, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To kill a person denotes a coming quarrel." }, { "id": "luck-0146", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Kill", "text": "(Dreamer killing a man) Assured happiness: (dreamer being\nkilled) loss to the dream-adversary.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 146; source lines 3886–3889", "lineStart": 3886, "lineEnd": 3889, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(Dreamer killing a man) Assured happiness: (dreamer being\nkilled) loss to the dream-adversary." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10532", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Kill", "heading": "Kill", "text": "See Murder.", "lineStart": 10532, "lineEnd": 10533, "kind": "cross-reference", "locator": "Printed p. 227; NLM OCR lines 10532–10533", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10532, "lineEnd": 10533, "printedPage": 227, "printedPageEnd": 227 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Kill. — See Murder. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Kill" }, "displayText": "See Murder." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "murder" ] }, { "slug": "king", "title": "King", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a king, you are struggling with your might, and ambition is your master.” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "king" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about king stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1117", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "King", "text": "To dream of a king, you are struggling with your might,\nand ambition is your master.\n\nTo dream that you are crowned king, you will rise above your\ncomrades and co-workers.\n\nIf you are censured by a king, you will be reproved for a neglected duty.\n\nFor a young woman to be in the presence of a king, she will\nmarry a man whom she will fear. To receive favors from a king,\nshe will rise to exalted positions and be congenially wedded.", "locator": "Heading 1120; source lines 12857–12871", "lineStart": 12857, "lineEnd": 12871, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a king, you are struggling with your might,\nand ambition is your master.\n\nTo dream that you are crowned king, you will rise above your\ncomrades and co-workers.\n\nIf you are censured by a king, you will be reproved for a neglected duty.\n\nFor a young woman to be in the presence of a king, she will\nmarry a man whom she will fear. To receive favors from a king,\nshe will rise to exalted positions and be congenially wedded." }, { "id": "fontaine-0398", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "King", "text": "To dream of a king denotes that the dreamer is ambitious and will\nbe disappointed. If you dream you speak to a king it is a happy omen,\nand is a sign of riches and honor. 4, 14.", "locator": "Heading 398; source line 2802", "lineStart": 2802, "lineEnd": 2806, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a king denotes that the dreamer is ambitious and will\nbe disappointed. If you dream you speak to a king it is a happy omen,\nand is a sign of riches and honor." }, { "id": "cielo-0237", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "King", "text": "To see a king denotes satisfaction in business.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 237; source lines 4429–4431", "lineStart": 4429, "lineEnd": 4431, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a king denotes satisfaction in business." }, { "id": "luck-0147", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "King", "text": "(Seeing oneself as a King) Warning to beware of flatterers and\nof self-conceit.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 147; source lines 3889–3892", "lineStart": 3889, "lineEnd": 3892, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(Seeing oneself as a King) Warning to beware of flatterers and\nof self-conceit." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "kiss", "title": "Kiss", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "A small gesture with a particular exchange.", "summary": "A kiss dream may explore a brief exchange of affection, greeting or closeness and how its timing, setting and welcome shape the experience.", "aliases": [ "kiss", "kissing", "being kissed", "kissed by a stranger", "kissing an ex", "kissing someone" ], "status": "REVIEW", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-14", "psychological": "A kiss can be a brief greeting, an affectionate response, a romantic moment or an unwanted gesture within a dream. Begin with how it happens rather than assuming one meaning from the person's identity. Initiating, accepting, declining and being surprised create different experiences. A dreamed kiss does not establish waking desire, consent or what another person feels about you.\n\nThe sequence around the gesture may be important. You might move toward someone after a conversation, receive a kiss before you can speak or discover that an expected greeting does not happen. This could invite reflection on timing and how contact becomes welcome. A waking comparison might be negotiating the customary greeting at a reunion or wanting a conversation before a familiar gesture. The dream supplies its own exchange rather than instructions about the real encounter.\n\nDifferent kinds of affection can coexist without needing a single label. A kiss involving a relative, friend, partner or remembered person may bring familiarity, surprise or a specific memory into view. Notice what you recognized in the interaction and what the dream invented. The encounter need not be interpreted as romantic simply because touch occurs, and a familiar person in an unfamiliar role need not reveal an overlooked intention.\n\nSetting can change the gesture's effect. A private kiss may become awkward when someone watches; a greeting in a crowded place may feel ordinary until you cannot respond in your own way. Explore who sets the pace and whether you can pause or step back. If the kiss is unwanted, you can record that discomfort without explaining it as secret attraction. The dreamed response does not assess how you should behave in waking life.\n\nWhat follows can give the moment context: conversation, separation, shared laughter or uncertainty. A brief enjoyable gesture can remain enjoyable without requiring a forecast. Waking experiences and emotions can enter dreams, including recent greetings, photographs or scenes you watched. Record the words, choice and response nearest the kiss. The useful reflection may concern the particular kind of attention you wanted or the change in an exchange, rather than a universal code for romance, loyalty or character.", "traditional": "The supplied Kiss and Kissing accounts disagree and reflect period judgments. Miller and Fontaine vary claims with partner, setting or who offers the kiss. Noe, Cielo, Everybody’s Book of Luck, the 1805 Dreams and Moles and Craig assign different “good cheer,” lifespan, news, relationship, travel or fortune forecasts. Craig’s attributions are reported through her own text. These historical claims do not establish consent, desire, morals, fidelity or another person’s real intentions.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "A greeting arrives before you can speak", "reflection": "Someone kisses you as you begin to say something important. The scene may draw attention to the order of a familiar exchange. Notice whether you continue, pause or ask to talk first; the gesture cannot establish what that person really intends or how a future greeting will unfold." }, { "title": "You choose a different way to greet", "reflection": "A kiss seems expected, but you offer words, a wave or another gesture instead. This might invite reflection on expressing a preference within a shared custom. Record how the dream responds and what feels fitting to you, without interpreting the choice as rejecting the entire relationship." }, { "title": "An affectionate reunion feels familiar", "reflection": "A kiss after a separation recalls a particular way someone used to greet you. The scene could revisit a remembered exchange and the feeling of time passing. Explore what follows and what is different now; it does not prove contact beyond the dream or predict a reunion." }, { "title": "An audience changes a wanted moment", "reflection": "The kiss feels welcome until you notice someone watching. This might make privacy or presentation the central question. Describe what changes in your own experience and whether you continue or move, without assuming the observer reflects real gossip, jealousy or disapproval." }, { "title": "You pull away from an unwanted gesture", "reflection": "A kiss is not what you want, and you create distance or ask for it to stop. The scene can be recorded through the boundary and discomfort alone. It does not imply secret attraction or assess how effectively you should respond to an actual unwanted encounter." }, { "title": "The kiss is followed by an unfinished conversation", "reflection": "A brief moment of closeness occurs, but a question between you remains unanswered. This might distinguish affection from having enough information or understanding. Notice whether you return to the conversation, leave it open or change the subject; the dream cannot settle the real person’s feelings." } ], "prompts": [ "What happened just before and after the kiss?", "How did you experience the gesture and your room to respond?", "Which greeting, memory or kind of attention gives this exchange personal context?" ], "related": [ "sex-and-intimacy", "crush", "reunion", "ex-partner", "love", "a-stranger" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "scope": "Miller varies Kiss forecasts by children, relatives, partners, strangers, rivals, light/dark setting, location of contact and witnesses, including moral, reconciliation, reputation and relationship claims. Specific supplied passages: Kiss — miller-1118 (Heading 1121; source lines 12871–12909). Historical comparison only; these attributed period beliefs do not establish outcomes, character, diagnosis, consent, desire or a universal dream meaning, and do not validate the original reflections.", "recordReferences": [ { "id": "miller-1118", "heading": "Kiss", "locator": "Heading 1121; source lines 12871–12909" } ], "recordIds": [ "miller-1118" ] }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "scope": "Fontaine varies gendered reputation or unpleasant-conversation forecasts according to the imagined young man’s feelings and whether a lover gives a kiss. Stranger is cross-referenced. Specific supplied passages: Kissing — fontaine-0400 (Heading 400; source line 2814). Historical comparison only; these attributed period beliefs do not establish outcomes, character, diagnosis, consent, desire or a universal dream meaning, and do not validate the original reflections.", "recordReferences": [ { "id": "fontaine-0400", "heading": "Kissing", "locator": "Heading 400; source line 2814" } ], "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0400" ] }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0278" ], "scope": "Noe assigns “good cheer” to a kiss involving a disappearing young maid and long life to kissing a deceased person. Specific supplied passages: Kissing — noe-0278 (Dream section, heading 281; source lines 1158–1161). Historical comparison only; these attributed period beliefs do not establish outcomes, character, diagnosis, consent, desire or a universal dream meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0238" ], "scope": "Cielo assigns betrayal to receiving a kiss and good news from a friend to kissing another. Specific supplied passages: Kiss — cielo-0238 (Dream section, heading 238; source lines 4431–4434). Historical comparison only; these attributed period beliefs do not establish outcomes, character, diagnosis, consent, desire or a universal dream meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0148" ], "scope": "Everybody’s Book of Luck gives a treachery warning and different friendship, fortune or journey forecasts for kissing a person’s or stranger’s hand. Specific supplied passages: Kiss — luck-0148 (Dream section, heading 148; source lines 3892–3895). Historical comparison only; these attributed period beliefs do not establish outcomes, character, diagnosis, consent, desire or a universal dream meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "moles-71045", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams and Moles", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "United Kingdom, J. Marshall, 1805", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71045", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "moles-0050" ], "scope": "The 1805 Dreams and Moles passage gives a gendered affection and marriage forecast for a maid kissing her sweetheart. Specific supplied passages: Kiss — moles-0050 (Dreams interpreted, passage 50; source lines 255–256). Historical comparison only; these attributed period beliefs do not establish outcomes, character, diagnosis, consent, desire or a universal dream meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L10534" ], "scope": "Craig varies forecasts with kissing a relative, stranger, earth, hand or stranger’s face under her own historical ethnic attribution; this is not evidence of cultural consensus. Specific supplied passages: Kiss — craig-1918:L10534 (Printed p. 227; NLM OCR lines 10534–10538). Historical comparison only; these attributed period beliefs do not establish outcomes, character, diagnosis, consent, desire or a universal dream meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "The timing of a gesture", "reflection": "What happens before and after the kiss can distinguish a greeting from a wished-for moment or an interruption. Look at the exchange rather than assigning every kiss to romance." }, { "title": "Welcome and room to respond", "reflection": "Your account can include enjoyment, surprise or discomfort. A refusal, pause or acceptance within the dream does not establish real consent or reveal a hidden wish." }, { "title": "A setting that changes attention", "reflection": "Being alone, watched or surrounded can alter the same gesture. Consider what kind of attention mattered without treating an audience as evidence of waking gossip or exposure." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1118", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Kiss", "text": "To dream that you see children kissing, denotes happy reunions\nin families and satisfactory work.\n\nTo dream that you kiss your mother, you will be very successful\nin your enterprises, and be honored and beloved by your friends.\n\nTo kiss a brother or sister, denotes much pleasure and good\nin your association.\n\nTo kiss your sweetheart in the dark, denotes dangers and immoral engagements.\n\nTo kiss her in the light, signifies honorable intentions occupy\nyour mind always in connection with women.\n\nTo kiss a strange woman, denotes loose morals and perverted integrity.\n\nTo dream of kissing illicitly, denotes dangerous past-times. The indulgence\nof a low passion may bring a tragedy into well-thought-of homes.\n\nTo see your rival kiss your sweetheart, you are in danger\nof losing her esteem.\n\nFor married people to kiss each other, denotes that harmony is prized\nin the home life.\n\nTo dream of kissing a person on the neck, denotes passionate inclinations\nand weak mastery of self.\n\nIf you dream of kissing an enemy, you will make advance towards\nreconciliation with an angry friend.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that some person sees her kiss her lover,\nindicates that spiteful envy is entertained for her by a false friend.\nFor her to see her lover kiss another, she will be disappointed in her\nhopes of marriage.", "locator": "Heading 1121; source lines 12871–12909", "lineStart": 12871, "lineEnd": 12909, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you see children kissing, denotes happy reunions\nin families and satisfactory work.\n\nTo dream that you kiss your mother, you will be very successful\nin your enterprises, and be honored and beloved by your friends.\n\nTo kiss a brother or sister, denotes much pleasure and good\nin your association.\n\nTo kiss your sweetheart in the dark, denotes dangers and immoral engagements.\n\nTo kiss her in the light, signifies honorable intentions occupy\nyour mind always in connection with women.\n\nTo kiss a strange woman, denotes loose morals and perverted integrity.\n\nTo dream of kissing illicitly, denotes dangerous past-times. The indulgence\nof a low passion may bring a tragedy into well-thought-of homes.\n\nTo see your rival kiss your sweetheart, you are in danger\nof losing her esteem.\n\nFor married people to kiss each other, denotes that harmony is prized\nin the home life.\n\nTo dream of kissing a person on the neck, denotes passionate inclinations\nand weak mastery of self.\n\nIf you dream of kissing an enemy, you will make advance towards\nreconciliation with an angry friend.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that some person sees her kiss her lover,\nindicates that spiteful envy is entertained for her by a false friend.\nFor her to see her lover kiss another, she will be disappointed in her\nhopes of marriage." }, { "id": "fontaine-0400", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Kissing", "text": "(_See Stranger._) Dreams of kissing work curiously: if a\ngirl dreams that she is kissed by a young man in whom she takes no\nparticular interest, it may be a good omen, and it may not; for if he\nhappens to be a silly fellow who imagines that she is in love with\nhim, it is a sign she will be slandered in a way that will make her\nunhappy; but if he has no such sentiment, then the sign is exactly the\nreverse—that is, some one will speak well of her to those whom she\nesteems highly—perhaps to her lover. If a girl dreams she is kissed by\nher lover, it predicts that he will say something unpleasant to her at\ntheir next meeting; if a lover dreams that his sweetheart kisses him\nthe sign is similar. 1.", "locator": "Heading 400; source line 2814", "lineStart": 2814, "lineEnd": 2826, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Stranger.) Dreams of kissing work curiously: if a\ngirl dreams that she is kissed by a young man in whom she takes no\nparticular interest, it may be a good omen, and it may not; for if he\nhappens to be a silly fellow who imagines that she is in love with\nhim, it is a sign she will be slandered in a way that will make her\nunhappy; but if he has no such sentiment, then the sign is exactly the\nreverse—that is, some one will speak well of her to those whom she\nesteems highly—perhaps to her lover. If a girl dreams she is kissed by\nher lover, it predicts that he will say something unpleasant to her at\ntheir next meeting; if a lover dreams that his sweetheart kisses him\nthe sign is similar.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Kissing” is shown on the Kiss page: same topic" }, { "id": "noe-0278", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Kissing", "text": "For a man to dream of kissing a young maid, and that she\nvanishes away before he can accomplish his desire, denotes that the next\nday he shall see great store of good cheer. To dream you kiss a person\ndeceased, signifies long life.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 281; source lines 1158–1161", "lineStart": 1158, "lineEnd": 1161, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a man to dream of kissing a young maid, and that she\nvanishes away before he can accomplish his desire, denotes that the next\nday he shall see great store of good cheer. To dream you kiss a person\ndeceased, signifies long life.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Kissing” is shown on the Kiss page: same topic" }, { "id": "cielo-0238", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Kiss", "text": "To receive a kiss denotes that you will be betrayed.\n To kiss another means good news from a friend.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 238; source lines 4431–4434", "lineStart": 4431, "lineEnd": 4434, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To receive a kiss denotes that you will be betrayed.\nTo kiss another means good news from a friend." }, { "id": "luck-0148", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Kiss", "text": "Beware of treachery and deceit: (kissing hand of somebody)\nfriendship and good fortune: (kissing a stranger's hand) a journey.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 148; source lines 3892–3895", "lineStart": 3892, "lineEnd": 3895, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Beware of treachery and deceit: (kissing hand of somebody)\nfriendship and good fortune: (kissing a stranger's hand) a journey." }, { "id": "moles-0050", "sourceId": "moles-71045", "heading": "Kiss", "originalHeading": "(no printed heading)", "text": "For a maid to dream that she kisses her sweetheart, is a sign of true\nlove and affection, and that they will soon be joined in marriage.", "locator": "Dreams interpreted, passage 50; source lines 255–256", "lineStart": 255, "lineEnd": 256, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "editorialNote": "The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Kiss” because that is the subject of its first clause.", "displayText": "For a maid to dream that she kisses her sweetheart, is a sign of true\nlove and affection, and that they will soon be joined in marriage." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10534", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Kiss", "heading": "Kiss", "text": "To kiss a relative in a dream denotes treason; a stranger, a speedy journey; the earth, humiliation; the hand of a person, friendship, good fortune ; the face of a stranger rashness followed by success (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 10534, "lineEnd": 10538, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 227; NLM OCR lines 10534–10538", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10534, "lineEnd": 10538, "printedPage": 227, "printedPageEnd": 227 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Kiss. — To kiss a relative in a dream denotes treason; a \nstranger, a speedy journey; the earth, humiliation; the hand \nof a person, friendship, good fortune ; the face of a stranger \nrashness followed by success (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Kiss" }, "displayText": "To kiss a relative in a dream denotes treason; a stranger, a speedy journey; the earth, humiliation; the hand of a person, friendship, good fortune; the face of a stranger rashness followed by success (Gypsy)." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [ "a-stranger" ] }, { "slug": "kitchen", "title": "Kitchen", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "The room can show how care, resources and belonging are arranged.", "summary": "A kitchen dream can explore shared responsibilities, familiar routines and access to household resources. Its layout and company shape the reading.", "aliases": [ "kitchen", "kitchens", "family kitchen" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A kitchen is a room where resources become available for everyday use. Even when nobody cooks, cupboards, work surfaces and a table organize what can be reached and who has a place. In a dream, this can picture the arrangement supporting a household, group or routine. You may recognize how preparation, storage and shared needs are handled in your waking life. A useful room can express confidence that ordinary requirements have somewhere to be met.\n\nCrowding can make care difficult to provide without making anyone unwelcome. People gather, belongings fill the surfaces and the person doing the work has nowhere to stand. This may resemble coordinating a family plan while everyone adds requests, or keeping a project functioning amid constant interruption. The problem can be the arrangement of space and responsibility rather than a lack of affection. A room designed for shared participation gives a different feeling from one that assumes one person will work around everyone else.\n\nA familiar kitchen from an earlier home can bring continuity into a changed setting. A chair, smell or cupboard may carry the feeling of being cared for, being useful or having a regular place in the household. The remembered room need not stand for a whole period of your life. One routine may be the important connection, particularly if a present change has made ordinary belonging less easy to establish.\n\nStorage can make entitlement visible. Cupboards full of somebody else's things may picture resources you maintain but cannot readily use, or priorities occupying room intended for your own needs. Finding what you require can express practical support that has been prepared in advance. A locked kitchen can make access depend on permission, much as a shared budget or system may be available in principle but difficult to reach.\n\nRearranging the room can picture changing how care is organized. Making another working surface or a place to sit may resemble distributing tasks more fairly or allowing companionship alongside work. A quiet seat at the table can offer a moment in which you receive rather than provide. Actual kitchens and household memories may also supply the scene directly. The focus is how the room accommodates life together; the separate Cooking entry develops the process of preparing a meal.", "traditional": "Miller’s Kitchen passage gives an emergency forecast and a separate gendered forecast for a clear, orderly kitchen. Cielo associates being in a kitchen with visitors, while Everybody’s Book of Luck gives advancement. These differing period beliefs remain attributed archival accounts. The original readings here focus on access, shared work and household belonging.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "An arrangement for care", "reflection": "A kitchen can make the organization behind everyday support visible. Resources may be available while the person using them has too little room or help." }, { "title": "A remembered place at home", "reflection": "An earlier kitchen can carry one routine or relationship into a new setting. Familiarity may offer continuity without representing everything about the past." }, { "title": "Access to shared resources", "reflection": "Cupboards, surfaces and doors can picture who gets to use what a household or group maintains. The important question may be practical access rather than ownership alone." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A childhood kitchen appears inside your current home", "reflection": "An earlier kitchen inside a current home can picture continuity with a familiar way of being cared for or contributing. A changed household may make that routine newly important. Its welcome or discomfort gives the memory context." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "People gather while you have nowhere to stand", "reflection": "A crowded room without working space can picture care organized around everyone’s needs except the person providing it. A group project or household task may fit. The lack of room makes the arrangement’s demands visible." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Every cupboard holds someone else’s belongings", "reflection": "Cupboards occupied by other people’s belongings can resemble maintaining resources that leave little access for your own needs. The contents may also show whose priorities have become established. Finding one usable shelf can change the balance." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You find a quiet place at the kitchen table", "reflection": "A quiet place at the table can picture receiving ordinary care without having to arrange it first. Rest or an uncomplicated conversation may be what the room provides. The usefulness can lie in having a place to sit." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The kitchen has moved behind a locked door", "reflection": "A kitchen behind a locked door can picture resources whose access depends on an unclear permission. A budget or shared system may feel similar. Wanting entry differs from knowing the conditions that would make it possible." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You rearrange the room so more people can use it", "reflection": "Rearranging the room for more participants can picture changing the organization of a shared task. More room may allow cooperation rather than another demand on one person. The new layout can make a different relationship practical." } ], "prompts": [ "Who had room to work, rest or receive care in the kitchen?", "Which familiar routine made the room feel like home?", "What resource or permission did the layout make easier or harder to reach?" ], "related": [ "cooking", "restaurant", "house", "clutter" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1119" ], "scope": "Preserves this author’s attached period dream-book account; the entry’s context compares attributed beliefs rather than adopting forecasts. Exact supplied records: miller-1119 — Kitchen (Heading 1122; source lines 12909–12915). Historical comparison only, not evidence for the original reflective reading or an actual outcome." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0239" ], "scope": "Preserves this author’s attached period dream-book account; the entry’s context compares attributed beliefs rather than adopting forecasts. Exact supplied records: cielo-0239 — Kitchen (Dream section, heading 239; source lines 4434–4436). Historical comparison only, not evidence for the original reflective reading or an actual outcome." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0149" ], "scope": "Preserves this author’s attached period dream-book account; the entry’s context compares attributed beliefs rather than adopting forecasts. Exact supplied records: luck-0149 — Kitchen (Dream section, heading 149; source lines 3895–3900). Historical comparison only, not evidence for the original reflective reading or an actual outcome." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1119", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Kitchen", "text": "To dream of a kitchen, denotes you will be forced to meet emergencies which\nwill depress your spirits. For a woman to dream that her kitchen is clear.\nand orderly, foretells she will become the mistress of interesting fortunes.", "locator": "Heading 1122; source lines 12909–12915", "lineStart": 12909, "lineEnd": 12915, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a kitchen, denotes you will be forced to meet emergencies which\nwill depress your spirits. For a woman to dream that her kitchen is clear.\nand orderly, foretells she will become the mistress of interesting fortunes." }, { "id": "cielo-0239", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Kitchen", "text": "To be in a kitchen denotes the coming of visitors.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 239; source lines 4434–4436", "lineStart": 4434, "lineEnd": 4436, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To be in a kitchen denotes the coming of visitors." }, { "id": "luck-0149", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Kitchen", "text": "Success, advancement in life.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 149; source lines 3895–3900", "lineStart": 3895, "lineEnd": 3900, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Success, advancement in life." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "kite", "title": "Kite", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of flying a kite, denotes a great show of wealth, or business, but with little true soundness to…” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "kite" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about kite stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1120", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Kite", "text": "To dream of flying a kite, denotes a great show of wealth, or business,\nbut with little true soundness to it all.\n\nTo see the kite thrown upon the ground, foretells disappointment and failure.\n\nTo dream of making a kite, you will speculate largely on small\nmeans and seek to win the one you love by misrepresentations.\n\nTo see children flying kites, denotes pleasant and light occupation.\nIf the kite ascends beyond the vision high hopes and aspirations\nwill resolve themselves into disappointments and loss.", "locator": "Heading 1123; source lines 12915–12929", "lineStart": 12915, "lineEnd": 12929, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of flying a kite, denotes a great show of wealth, or business,\nbut with little true soundness to it all.\n\nTo see the kite thrown upon the ground, foretells disappointment and failure.\n\nTo dream of making a kite, you will speculate largely on small\nmeans and seek to win the one you love by misrepresentations.\n\nTo see children flying kites, denotes pleasant and light occupation.\nIf the kite ascends beyond the vision high hopes and aspirations\nwill resolve themselves into disappointments and loss." }, { "id": "fontaine-0401", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Kite", "text": "To dream of flying a kite is a sign that you will soon write a\nletter to some friend or acquaintance. For a girl to dream of seeing a\nkite in the air, predicts that she will receive a letter from a young\nman—whether a lover or not, is uncertain. 53, 62.", "locator": "Heading 401; source line 2826", "lineStart": 2826, "lineEnd": 2831, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of flying a kite is a sign that you will soon write a\nletter to some friend or acquaintance. For a girl to dream of seeing a\nkite in the air, predicts that she will receive a letter from a young\nman—whether a lover or not, is uncertain." }, { "id": "noe-0279", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Kite", "text": "To dream of your seeing a kite,\nshoweth you shall be in danger of thieves and robbers.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 282; source lines 1161–1164", "lineStart": 1161, "lineEnd": 1164, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of your seeing a kite,\nshoweth you shall be in danger of thieves and robbers." }, { "id": "cielo-0240", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Kite", "text": "To see or fly a kite denotes failure in your plans.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 240; source lines 4436–4438", "lineStart": 4436, "lineEnd": 4438, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see or fly a kite denotes failure in your plans." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "knapsack", "title": "Knapsack", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see a knapsack while dreaming, denotes you will find your greatest pleasure away from the associations of friends.”", "aliases": [ "knapsack" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about knapsack stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1122", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Knapsack", "text": "To see a knapsack while dreaming, denotes you will find your\ngreatest pleasure away from the associations of friends.\nFor a woman to see an old dilapidated one, means poverty\nand disagreeableness for her.", "locator": "Heading 1125; source lines 12948–12955", "lineStart": 12948, "lineEnd": 12955, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a knapsack while dreaming, denotes you will find your\ngreatest pleasure away from the associations of friends.\nFor a woman to see an old dilapidated one, means poverty\nand disagreeableness for her." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "knave", "title": "Knave", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “To dream of being one connotes wealth; to be connected with them, lawsuits (Artemidorus).”", "aliases": [ "knave" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about knave stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L10547", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Knave", "heading": "Knave", "text": "To dream of being one connotes wealth ; to be connected with them, lawsuits (Artemidorus).", "lineStart": 10547, "lineEnd": 10549, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 227; NLM OCR lines 10547–10549", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10547, "lineEnd": 10549, "printedPage": 227, "printedPageEnd": 227 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Knave. — To dream of being one connotes wealth ; to be \nconnected with them, lawsuits (Artemidorus). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Knave" }, "displayText": "To dream of being one connotes wealth; to be connected with them, lawsuits (Artemidorus)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "knee", "title": "Knee", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that your knees are too large, denotes sudden ill luck for you.” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "knee", "of the knees" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about knee stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1123", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Knee", "text": "To dream that your knees are too large, denotes sudden ill luck for you.\nIf they are stiff and pain you, swift and fearful calamity awaits you.\n\nFor a woman to dream that she has well-formed and smooth knees,\npredicts she will have many admirers, but none to woo her in wedlock.\n\nIf they are soiled, sickness from dissipation is portended.\nIf they are unshapely, unhappy changes in her fortune will\ndisplace ardent hopes.\n\nTo dream of knees is an unfortunate omen.", "locator": "Heading 1126; source lines 12955–12969", "lineStart": 12955, "lineEnd": 12969, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that your knees are too large, denotes sudden ill luck for you.\nIf they are stiff and pain you, swift and fearful calamity awaits you.\n\nFor a woman to dream that she has well-formed and smooth knees,\npredicts she will have many admirers, but none to woo her in wedlock.\n\nIf they are soiled, sickness from dissipation is portended.\nIf they are unshapely, unhappy changes in her fortune will\ndisplace ardent hopes.\n\nTo dream of knees is an unfortunate omen." }, { "id": "fontaine-0402", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Knee", "text": "To dream of falling on the knees, denotes misfortune in business.\nTo see a woman’s knees, good luck and marriage to the girl of your\nchoice. For a woman to see a man’s knee, shows that she will have many\nmale children. 22, 37, 35.", "locator": "Heading 402; source line 2831", "lineStart": 2831, "lineEnd": 2836, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of falling on the knees, denotes misfortune in business.\nTo see a woman’s knees, good luck and marriage to the girl of your\nchoice. For a woman to see a man’s knee, shows that she will have many\nmale children." }, { "id": "artemidorus-036", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of the knees.", "text": "THe knées being strong and sturdie, signifye journeyes, or other motions and operations of health. But being weak and diseased, the contrary. A Trée or branch comming out of the Knée, signifyes slownesse and hinderance: to a sick man, oftentimes death. The Knees signifye the Brethren and familiar Friends, and sometimes children.", "locator": "Book 1, encoded section 36", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "1", "displayText": "THe knées being strong and sturdie, signifye journeyes, or other motions and operations of health. But being weak and diseased, the contrary. A Trée or branch comming out of the Knée, signifyes slownesse and hinderance: to a sick man, oftentimes death. The Knees signifye the Brethren and familiar Friends, and sometimes children." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10550", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Knee", "heading": "Knee", "text": "To fall upon the knees symbolizes need of help (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 10550, "lineEnd": 10552, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 227; NLM OCR lines 10550–10552", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10550, "lineEnd": 10552, "printedPage": 227, "printedPageEnd": 227 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Knee. — To fall upon the knees symbolizes need of help \n(Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Knee" }, "displayText": "To fall upon the knees symbolizes need of help (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "knife", "title": "Knife", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "A knife in a dream can cut both ways: a tool for the kitchen or a threat in the dark.", "summary": "Knife dreams include chopping vegetables, being stabbed, and finding a blade in a pocket. Who held it, and for what, matters more than the knife itself.", "aliases": [ "knife", "knives", "stabbing", "being stabbed", "blade", "cutting with a knife" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "A knife is one of the most ordinary objects that can also be a weapon, and dreams make use of that double life. A kitchen scene where the blade slips, a street encounter with a stranger holding one, a pocket knife you did not know you were carrying: each is a different dream wearing the same prop. Start by noting the setting and the hand. If you were the one cutting, record what you were cutting and whether it went cleanly. Many people dream of a knife that will not cut, or that goes through flesh without pain, and these can be ways of picturing an action that needs to be taken decisively but keeps getting put off: ending something, dividing something, separating from someone. If a knife was turned on you, note whether you could see the attacker's face and whether the wound was felt. Sharp words heard during the day sometimes resurface as sharp objects at night. Also consider the body: a stitch, a stabbing pain, or an injury you are protecting can be rendered as a blade. If the dream left you shaken, write down the first waking thought you had, since it often names the real edge.", "traditional": "Knives have a bad reputation across the archive. Fontaine (1862), Noe (1885) and the 1894 Guide use nearly identical wording: lawsuits, poverty, disgrace, strife and failure in projects, with a bad-tempered or unfaithful sweetheart for those in love. Miller (1901) adds detail: rusty knives bring complaints at home, polished ones bring worry and surrounding foes, broken ones mean defeat, being wounded by one foretells domestic trouble, and stabbing another reveals baseness of character. Cielo (1917) reads inconstancy and family dissension; Craig (1918) says bright sharp knives connote enemies. These are period beliefs, recorded as printed, not readings for today.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "Chopping food and the blade slipping", "reflection": "Note what you were preparing and for whom. A domestic knife dream can arrive when hosting, caring, or feeding others has become a strain, so ask who you have been cooking for lately." }, { "title": "Being stabbed and feeling no pain", "reflection": "Write down who held the knife and where the blade went. The absence of pain is worth recording on its own; some dreamers link it to a hurt they have decided not to feel yet." }, { "title": "Finding a knife in your own pocket", "reflection": "Ask what you were about to do when you found it. A hidden blade can picture an impulse or a hard decision you are carrying around without having admitted it." } ], "prompts": [ "Was the knife a tool or a weapon in the dream, and did that change?", "Did anyone say something cutting to you in the days before the dream?", "Was the blade sharp, blunt, rusty, or broken, and what did you try to do with it?" ], "related": [ "sword", "gun", "wound", "blood", "murder", "fight" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "guide-65367", "title": "Guide to Fortune-Telling by Dreams", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Multum in Parvo Library, Vol. I, No. 10, October 1894", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65367", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia editorial draft written on 2026-10-12. Reflection text is an invitation to personal writing, not a validated symbol meaning. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1124", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Knife", "text": "To dream of a knife is bad for the dreamer, as it portends separation\nand quarrels, and losses in affairs of a business character.\n\nTo see rusty knives, means dissatisfaction, and complaints\nof those in the home, and separation of lovers.\n\nSharp knives and highly polished, denotes worry.\nFoes are ever surrounding you.\n\nBroken knives, denotes defeat whatever the pursuit, whether in\nlove or business.\n\nTo dream that you are wounded with a knife, foretells domestic troubles,\nin which disobedient children will figure largely. To the unmarried,\nit denotes that disgrace may follow.\n\nTo dream that you stab another with a knife, denotes baseness of character,\nand you should strive to cultivate a higher sense of right.", "locator": "Heading 1127; source lines 12969–12990", "lineStart": 12969, "lineEnd": 12990, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a knife is bad for the dreamer, as it portends separation\nand quarrels, and losses in affairs of a business character.\n\nTo see rusty knives, means dissatisfaction, and complaints\nof those in the home, and separation of lovers.\n\nSharp knives and highly polished, denotes worry.\nFoes are ever surrounding you.\n\nBroken knives, denotes defeat whatever the pursuit, whether in\nlove or business.\n\nTo dream that you are wounded with a knife, foretells domestic troubles,\nin which disobedient children will figure largely. To the unmarried,\nit denotes that disgrace may follow.\n\nTo dream that you stab another with a knife, denotes baseness of character,\nand you should strive to cultivate a higher sense of right." }, { "id": "fontaine-0403", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Knives", "text": "To dream of knives is a bad omen; it betokens law-suits,\npoverty, disgrace, and strife. In love, it shows quarrels and bad\ntempers. 33, 9.", "locator": "Heading 403; source line 2836", "lineStart": 2836, "lineEnd": 2840, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of knives is a bad omen; it betokens law-suits,\npoverty, disgrace, and strife. In love, it shows quarrels and bad\ntempers." }, { "id": "noe-0277", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Knives", "text": "To dream of knives is a very unpropitious omen. It betokens\nlawsuits, poverty, disgrace, strife and a general failure in your\nprojects. In love, it shows that your sweetheart is of a bad temper, and\nunfaithful, and that if you marry you will live in enmity and misery.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 280; source lines 1154–1158", "lineStart": 1154, "lineEnd": 1158, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of knives is a very unpropitious omen. It betokens\nlawsuits, poverty, disgrace, strife and a general failure in your\nprojects. In love, it shows that your sweetheart is of a bad temper, and\nunfaithful, and that if you marry you will live in enmity and misery." }, { "id": "cielo-0241", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Knife", "text": "Denotes inconstancy and dissension in your family.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 241; source lines 4438–4440", "lineStart": 4438, "lineEnd": 4440, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Denotes inconstancy and dissension in your family." }, { "id": "guide-0033", "sourceId": "guide-65367", "heading": "Knives", "text": "To dream of knives is a very unpropitious omen; it betokens\nlaw-suits, poverty, disgrace, strife, and a general failure in the\npursuit of your projects; in love, it shows that your sweetheart is of\na bad temper, and unfaithful, and that if you marry, you will live in\nenmity and misery.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 33; source lines 298–304", "lineStart": 298, "lineEnd": 304, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of knives is a very unpropitious omen; it betokens\nlaw-suits, poverty, disgrace, strife, and a general failure in the\npursuit of your projects; in love, it shows that your sweetheart is of\na bad temper, and unfaithful, and that if you marry, you will live in\nenmity and misery." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10553", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Knife", "heading": "Knife", "text": "An unfortunate dream, bright sharp knives connote enemies.", "lineStart": 10553, "lineEnd": 10555, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 227; NLM OCR lines 10553–10555", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10553, "lineEnd": 10555, "printedPage": 227, "printedPageEnd": 227 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Knife. — An unfortunate dream, bright sharp knives connote \nenemies. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Knife" }, "displayText": "An unfortunate dream, bright sharp knives connote enemies." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "knife-grinder", "title": "Knife Grinder", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a knife grinder, foretells unwarrantable liberties will be taken with your possessions.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "knife grinder", "knife-grinder" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about knife grinder stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1125", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Knife Grinder", "text": "To dream of a knife grinder, foretells unwarrantable liberties\nwill be taken with your possessions. For a woman, this omens\nunhappy unions and much drudgery.", "locator": "Heading 1128; source lines 12990–12996", "lineStart": 12990, "lineEnd": 12996, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a knife grinder, foretells unwarrantable liberties\nwill be taken with your possessions. For a woman, this omens\nunhappy unions and much drudgery." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10556", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Knife-Grinder", "heading": "Knife-Grinder", "text": "To see one foretells robbery (Gypsy) ; this occupation was a common one amongst the Gypsies themselves.", "lineStart": 10556, "lineEnd": 10559, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 227; NLM OCR lines 10556–10559", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10556, "lineEnd": 10559, "printedPage": 227, "printedPageEnd": 227 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Knife-Grinder. — To see one foretells robbery (Gypsy) ; \nthis occupation was a common one amongst the Gypsies them- \nselves. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "them- \nselves", "after": "themselves", "evidenceLine": 900 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 0.95808, "secondaryHeading": "Knife-Grinder" }, "displayText": "To see one foretells robbery (Gypsy); this occupation was a common one amongst the Gypsies themselves.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Knife-Grinder” is shown on the Knife Grinder page: same occupation; hyphen variant" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "knight-in-armor", "title": "Knight in Armor", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “A dream of peril to come (Gypsy).”", "aliases": [ "knight in armor" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about knight in armor stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1128", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Knocking", "text": "To hear knocking in your dreams, denotes that tidings of a grave nature\nwill soon be received by you. If you are awakened by the knocking,\nthe news will affect you the more seriously.", "locator": "Heading 1131; source lines 13018–13024", "lineStart": 13018, "lineEnd": 13024, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To hear knocking in your dreams, denotes that tidings of a grave nature\nwill soon be received by you. If you are awakened by the knocking,\nthe news will affect you the more seriously." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "cielo-0243", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Knocks", "text": "Denote embarrassment and difficulties.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 243; source lines 4443–4445", "lineStart": 4443, "lineEnd": 4445, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Denote embarrassment and difficulties." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "knots", "title": "Knots", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing knots, denotes much worry over the most trifling affairs.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "knots" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about knots stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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Enjoying the quiet differs from feeling that rest must be justified through further activity.", "slug": "scene-1" }, { "title": "A koala clings to you", "reflection": "Contact is close and persistent. The scene can picture affection, being trusted, or feeling that another need limits your movement. Comfort and discomfort are both useful evidence for how that closeness feels to you.", "slug": "scene-2" }, { "title": "The branch begins to give way", "reflection": "The source of security becomes uncertain. This can resemble questioning whether a routine or arrangement can continue supporting what it carries. Finding another hold may make adaptation more important than the initial instability.", "slug": "scene-3" }, { "title": "You try to reach a koala high above", "reflection": "A calm or vulnerable presence is difficult to approach. This can resemble wanting to support someone while lacking time, access, or a clear understanding of what they need. The animal's calmness may contrast with your urgency, making your wish to help different from an actual request in the scene.", "slug": "scene-4" }, { "title": "A koala appears far from its expected setting", "reflection": "A distinctive presence seems misplaced. The dream may connect with adapting an environment to someone's needs or feeling unsure where you belong. Curiosity, welcome, and concern give the unexpected arrival different directions.", "slug": "scene-5" }, { "title": "You help it settle somewhere secure", "reflection": "Care has a practical, achievable ending. This can picture creating a more dependable place or sharing responsibility in a way that allows rest. Whether you can leave comfortably afterward helps show the boundary around your role.", "slug": "scene-6" } ], "prompts": [ "What provided support, and did it feel dependable?", "Did closeness make me comfortable or limit my movement?", "Was I being supported, providing care, or trying to reach a place of rest?" ], "related": [ "trees", "bear", "climbing", "hug" ], "type": "dreams", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background about dreaming and waking experiences. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia interpretation for personal reflection. Human publication review pending.", "tagline": "Resting in what supports you, or holding on tightly to it.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "kraken", "title": "Kraken", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "summary": "A Kraken can give an unseen concern enormous scale, turn a shared journey into a confrontation, or make the unknown feel wondrous.", "tagline": "A fictional creature beneath a journey that seemed ordinary.", "aliases": [ "kraken", "krakens" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A Kraken rising beside a small boat can picture a concern becoming much larger than the conditions you expected to manage it within. A task with expanding requirements, a conflict entering a shared plan, or news that changes how a journey feels may offer a parallel. The disproportion between vessel and creature makes available resources visible. The dream need not declare the concern impossible. Finding shore, changing course, or gaining help creates different relationships with its scale, while insisting the voyage continue unchanged can make the mismatch more central.\n\nSeeing only a limb or movement beneath the surface can let imagination supply most of the creature. This may resemble a situation known through fragments, where uncertainty allows many possible explanations to gather. The Kraken may be terrifying because it remains incomplete, or fascinating because it makes the ordinary sea feel full of possibility. A clear view can reduce fear or replace it with awe. The scene does not establish that a concealed threat exists or that intuition has identified another person’s hidden nature.\n\nA ship surrounded by the creature can make a shared arrangement feel caught in demands that arrive from several directions. Work, family, and financial expectations may be a personal comparison when the same limited group is asked to respond to everything. Coordination among passengers can make the encounter about mutual support; blame can turn pressure into conflict within the boat. A creature that releases the ship introduces the possibility that an overwhelming encounter ends without conquest. Relief can matter even when you do not understand why it leaves.\n\nSpeaking to the Kraken or discovering that it is small can change a monster into something with which you can have a relationship. A concern that once seemed beyond discussion may become more specific through contact. Alternatively, the creature may remain a wanted fantasy whose drama makes the dream exciting. A film, game, book, illustration, or childhood story can supply the image directly. This entry concerns the fictional sea monster you recognized, rather than treating Kraken as another word for a literal Octopus or Squid. Its scale, incomplete visibility, and role in the journey support personal reflection without turning a story creature into a universal omen.", "traditional": "No Kraken-specific dream passage is supplied in the historical corpus. Smithsonian Ocean identifies Kraken among sea-monster tales in its giant-squid context; this supports the fictional distinction only. No precise folklore lineage or inherited dream meaning is claimed. Octopus and Squid are separate animal topics.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A concern with enormous scale", "reflection": "A small vessel beside a huge creature can picture a mismatch between demands and available conditions. Help or a changed route alters the scene without requiring conquest." }, { "title": "Imagination fills a partial view", "reflection": "An unseen body can make uncertainty more powerful than direct contact. Fear and wonder are different relationships with that missing information." }, { "title": "A shared journey under pressure", "reflection": "A ship can give group responsibility a concrete setting. Cooperation, blame, and room to change course determine how the encounter affects its passengers." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A huge limb rises beside a small boat", "reflection": "The visible part suggests a scale beyond the vessel’s preparation. This may picture a demand that feels larger than its setting can hold. Seeking a different route differs from measuring your worth by defeating it alone." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Something moves beneath the ship but never emerges", "reflection": "Most of the creature remains imagined rather than seen. The scene can explore uncertainty during a shared plan. A calm passage may feel wondrous, while anxious waiting can make attention to the unknown consume the journey." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "The Kraken surrounds the ship from several directions", "reflection": "Movement becomes constrained by many points of contact. This may fit several demands converging on one group. Passengers cooperating creates a different response from blaming one another while the available space continues to shrink." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "It releases the ship and disappears", "reflection": "An overwhelming encounter ends without a final explanation or victory. The scene may picture relief after pressure recedes. Continuing to search for it differs from allowing the voyage to resume while accepting an incomplete account." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You speak and the creature responds calmly", "reflection": "Contact makes a previously remote monster part of a conversation. This can picture an enormous concern becoming more specific through engagement. The dream’s dialogue matters as your own scene, not an external message or guaranteed strategy." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The Kraken is small enough to fit in a bowl", "reflection": "The feared scale changes dramatically when the creature is seen closely. This may picture reconsidering an expectation, or simple playful invention. Wanting to keep it nearby can make curiosity more central than overcoming a threat." } ], "prompts": [ "How much of the creature was visible, and how much did I imagine?", "What did the size of the boat make possible or difficult?", "Did the encounter center on fear, wonder, cooperation, conversation, or release?" ], "related": [ "octopus", "ocean", "whale", "dragon", "being-chased", "squid" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." }, { "id": "smithsonian-kraken-context", "title": "Deep-sea Giant Squid — Kraken story context only", "author": "Smithsonian Ocean", "url": "https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/invertebrates/deep-sea-giant-squid", "scope": "The January 2010 museum article identifies Kraken among sea-monster tales inspired by finds of giant squid. Used only to identify the fictional-monster context, not to substantiate a dream interpretation, prediction, or complete folklore history." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "krishna", "title": "Krishna", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see Krishna in your dreams, denotes that your greatest joy will be in pursuit of occult knowledge, and you will school yourself to the…”", "aliases": [ "krishna" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about krishna stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1130", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Krishna", "text": "To see Krishna in your dreams, denotes that your greatest joy\nwill be in pursuit of occult knowledge, and you will school\nyourself to the taunts of friends, and cultivate a philosophical\nbearing toward life and sorrow.", "locator": "Heading 1133; source lines 13033–13050", "lineStart": 13033, "lineEnd": 13050, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see Krishna in your dreams, denotes that your greatest joy\nwill be in pursuit of occult knowledge, and you will school\nyourself to the taunts of friends, and cultivate a philosophical\nbearing toward life and sorrow." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "label", "title": "Label", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a label, foretells you will let an enemy see the inside of your private affairs, and will suffer from the negligence.”", "aliases": [ "label" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about label stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1131", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Label", "text": "To dream of a label, foretells you will let an enemy see the inside\nof your private affairs, and will suffer from the negligence.", "locator": "Heading 1134; source lines 13050–13055", "lineStart": 13050, "lineEnd": 13055, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a label, foretells you will let an enemy see the inside\nof your private affairs, and will suffer from the negligence." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "labor", "title": "Labor", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you watch domestic animals laboring under heavy burdens, denotes that you will be…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "labor", "labour" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about labor stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1132", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Labor", "text": "To dream that you watch domestic animals laboring under heavy burdens,\ndenotes that you will be prosperous, but unjust to your servants,\nor those employed by you.\n\nTo see men toiling, signifies profitable work, and robust health.\nTo labor yourself, denotes favorable outlook for any new enterprise,\nand bountiful crops if the dreamer is interested in farming.", "locator": "Heading 1135; source lines 13055–13065", "lineStart": 13055, "lineEnd": 13065, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you watch domestic animals laboring under heavy burdens,\ndenotes that you will be prosperous, but unjust to your servants,\nor those employed by you.\n\nTo see men toiling, signifies profitable work, and robust health.\nTo labor yourself, denotes favorable outlook for any new enterprise,\nand bountiful crops if the dreamer is interested in farming." }, { "id": "fontaine-0404", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Labor", "text": "To dream you are hard at work, shows you will go a painful\njourney, unless you be very circumspect; but to see others at work,\nbetokens good fortune. If a girl dreams she sees her lover at work, it\nsignifies that he will try and seduce her. 27, 9.", "locator": "Heading 404; source line 2840", "lineStart": 2840, "lineEnd": 2845, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are hard at work, shows you will go a painful\njourney, unless you be very circumspect; but to see others at work,\nbetokens good fortune. If a girl dreams she sees her lover at work, it\nsignifies that he will try and seduce her." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "laboratory", "title": "Laboratory", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of being in a laboratory, denotes great energies wasted in unfruitful enterprises when you might succeed in some more practical…”", "aliases": [ "laboratory" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about laboratory stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1133", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Laboratory", "text": "To dream of being in a laboratory, denotes great energies wasted in unfruitful\nenterprises when you might succeed in some more practical business.\n\nIf you think yourself an alchemist, and try to discover a process\nto turn other things into gold, you will entertain far-reaching and\ninteresting projects, but you will fail to reach the apex of your ambition.\nWealth will prove a myth, and the woman you love will hold a false\nposition towards you.", "locator": "Heading 1136; source lines 13065–13076", "lineStart": 13065, "lineEnd": 13076, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being in a laboratory, denotes great energies wasted in unfruitful\nenterprises when you might succeed in some more practical business.\n\nIf you think yourself an alchemist, and try to discover a process\nto turn other things into gold, you will entertain far-reaching and\ninteresting projects, but you will fail to reach the apex of your ambition.\nWealth will prove a myth, and the woman you love will hold a false\nposition towards you." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "laborer", "title": "Laborer", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “A dream denoting happiness, increase of fortune, etc. (Gypsy). Symbolic of frugality, prudence, etc.”", "aliases": [ "laborer" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about laborer stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L10576", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Laborer", "heading": "Laborer", "text": "A dream denoting happiness, increase of fortune, etc. (Gypsy). 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "labyrinth", "title": "Labyrinth", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “If you dream of a labyrinth, you will find yourself entangled in intricate and perplexing business conditions, and your wife will make the…”", "aliases": [ "labyrinth" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about labyrinth stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1134", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Labyrinth", "text": "If you dream of a labyrinth, you will find yourself entangled\nin intricate and perplexing business conditions, and your wife\nwill make the home environment intolerable; children and sweethearts\nwill prove ill-tempered and unattractive.\n\nIf you are in a labyrinth of night or darkness, it foretells passing,\nbut agonizing sickness and trouble.\n\nA labyrinth of green vines and timbers, denotes unexpected happiness\nfrom what was seemingly a cause for loss and despair.\n\nIn a network, or labyrinth of railroads, assures you of long\nand tedious journeys. Interesting people will be met,\nbut no financial success will aid you on these journeys.", "locator": "Heading 1137; source lines 13076–13093", "lineStart": 13076, "lineEnd": 13093, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream of a labyrinth, you will find yourself entangled\nin intricate and perplexing business conditions, and your wife\nwill make the home environment intolerable; children and sweethearts\nwill prove ill-tempered and unattractive.\n\nIf you are in a labyrinth of night or darkness, it foretells passing,\nbut agonizing sickness and trouble.\n\nA labyrinth of green vines and timbers, denotes unexpected happiness\nfrom what was seemingly a cause for loss and despair.\n\nIn a network, or labyrinth of railroads, assures you of long\nand tedious journeys. Interesting people will be met,\nbut no financial success will aid you on these journeys.", "editorialNote": "A setting deserves its own source term; not always being lost." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "lace", "title": "Lace", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “fidelity in love and a rise in position.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "lace", "laces" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about lace stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1135", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Lace", "text": "See to it, if you are a lover, that your sweetheart wears lace,\nas this dream brings fidelity in love and a rise in position.\n\nIf a woman dreams of lace, she will be happy in the realization\nof her most ambitious desires, and lovers will bow to her edict.\nNo questioning or imperiousness on their part.\n\nIf you buy lace, you will conduct an expensive establishment,\nbut wealth will be a solid friend.\n\nIf you sell laces, your desires will outrun your resources.\n\nFor a young girl to dream of making lace, forecasts that she will win\na handsome, wealthy husband. If she dreams of garnishing her wedding garments\nwith lace, she will be favored with lovers who will bow to her charms,\nbut the wedding will be far removed from her.", "locator": "Heading 1138; source lines 13093–13112", "lineStart": 13093, "lineEnd": 13112, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "See to it, if you are a lover, that your sweetheart wears lace,\nas this dream brings fidelity in love and a rise in position.\n\nIf a woman dreams of lace, she will be happy in the realization\nof her most ambitious desires, and lovers will bow to her edict.\nNo questioning or imperiousness on their part.\n\nIf you buy lace, you will conduct an expensive establishment,\nbut wealth will be a solid friend.\n\nIf you sell laces, your desires will outrun your resources.\n\nFor a young girl to dream of making lace, forecasts that she will win\na handsome, wealthy husband. If she dreams of garnishing her wedding garments\nwith lace, she will be favored with lovers who will bow to her charms,\nbut the wedding will be far removed from her." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10579", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Laces", "heading": "Laces", "text": "To wear them in a dream forecasts disappointment in some new garments (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 10579, "lineEnd": 10581, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 228; NLM OCR lines 10579–10581", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10579, "lineEnd": 10581, "printedPage": 228, "printedPageEnd": 228 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Laces. — To wear them in a dream forecasts disappointment \nin some new garments (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Laces" }, "displayText": "To wear them in a dream forecasts disappointment in some new garments (Gypsy).", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Laces” is shown on the Lace page: both about lace trimming on garments" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "lackey", "title": "Lackey", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “A dream denoting a secret enemy; on the back of a carriage, undue pride and ostentation (Gypsy). Symbolism apparent.”", "aliases": [ "lackey" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about lackey stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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You are likely to become haughty and domineering\nin your newly acquired position. 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The Milstone, signifieth end of great and angry matters, and a good and loyall servant: the pestle is the man, the Morter the woman: the Cock is the father of the family, or Master of the Lodging." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0406", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Ladies", "text": "To see one, a sign of weakness; many ladies bring calumny and\nslander. To see a light-haired one, is a happy event to the dreamer; a\nbrunette, sickness; a pregnant lady, brings good news; a naked lady,\nsignifies the death of a relative. To hear a lady speak, without seeing\nher, foretells departure. 47, 51, 11.", "locator": "Heading 406; source line 2852", "lineStart": 2852, "lineEnd": 2858, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see one, a sign of weakness; many ladies bring calumny and\nslander. To see a light-haired one, is a happy event to the dreamer; a\nbrunette, sickness; a pregnant lady, brings good news; a naked lady,\nsignifies the death of a relative. To hear a lady speak, without seeing\nher, foretells departure." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10589", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Ladies", "heading": "Ladies", "text": "To see one, a dream of weakness, frailty; many ladies, calumny and slander (Raphael).", "lineStart": 10589, "lineEnd": 10591, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 228; NLM OCR lines 10589–10591", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10589, "lineEnd": 10591, "printedPage": 228, "printedPageEnd": 228 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Ladies. — To see one, a dream of weakness, frailty; many \nladies, calumny and slander (Raphael). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Ladies" }, "displayText": "To see one, a dream of weakness, frailty; many ladies, calumny and slander (Raphael)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "ladys-maid", "title": "Lady's Maid", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “A dream of evil reports that will injure the dreamer (Gypsy).”", "aliases": [ "lady's maid" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about lady's maid stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. 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OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L10592", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Lady's Maid", "heading": "Lady's Maid", "text": "A dream of evil reports that will injure the dreamer (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 10592, "lineEnd": 10594, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 228; NLM OCR lines 10592–10594", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10592, "lineEnd": 10594, "printedPage": 228, "printedPageEnd": 228 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Lady's Maid. — A dream of evil reports that will injure \nthe dreamer (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Lady's Maid" }, "displayText": "A dream of evil reports that will injure the dreamer (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "ladybug", "title": "Ladybug", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "A small visitor can change the feeling of the whole scene.", "summary": "A ladybug may center on unexpected closeness, pleasure in a small detail, or careful responsibility. A swarm creates a different encounter.", "aliases": [ "ladybug", "ladybugs", "ladybird", "ladybirds" ], "status": "REVIEW", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A ladybug can make a small encounter feel disproportionately memorable. Its color or spots may attract your attention while the rest of the dream stays ordinary. If the sight brings pleasure, the scene may fit noticing something satisfying within a busy day: a friendly exchange, a small improvement at home, or a moment outdoors. The value lies in the experience of noticing, without needing to turn it into a promise of good fortune.\n\nA ladybug landing on your hand or clothing creates unexpected closeness. You may enjoy being chosen as a resting place, wait carefully for it to leave, or feel uncomfortable despite its size. These reactions can offer different parallels for an unplanned interaction. A neighbor stopping to talk might feel warmly welcome on one day and interrupting on another. Small scale does not decide whether the contact is wanted.\n\nThe setting can change the role you give the creature. In a garden, you might see it as part of a place you tend; indoors, you may focus on getting it outside. If you already associate ladybugs with helping a garden, its appearance could make shared work or quiet support feel visible. That association belongs to your experience of gardening, rather than proving that the dream predicts assistance.\n\nCounting spots or examining a changed pattern can introduce a need for certainty. You might be trying to identify the insect, establish that it is familiar, or determine whether it meets an expectation. This can resemble checking small details before accepting a result, such as rereading a message or inspecting finished work. Wonder at an unusual pattern supports curiosity more than perfectionism.\n\nNumbers and consequences distinguish other readings. Many ladybugs can turn a pleasant visitor into an overwhelming presence. Accidentally crushing one may bring regret about handling something small too quickly. The useful question is how scale, attention, and care shape this particular encounter.", "traditional": "No matching historical ladybug passage has been supplied for this entry. Its context is original and everyday: a remembered garden, a spotted illustration, or an insect on a window can contribute familiar details. Personal associations with luck can be part of a dreamer's history, but this entry does not present them as established folklore or evidence of future events.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Pleasure in a small detail", "reflection": "A bright ladybug noticed within an ordinary setting may fit a modest moment of satisfaction. The emphasis can be on attention and enjoyment rather than an expected reward." }, { "title": "Unexpected closeness", "reflection": "A ladybug on your hand creates contact you did not arrange. Whether it feels welcome, demanding, or uncomfortable can clarify your response to a small unplanned interaction." }, { "title": "Care proportional to the situation", "reflection": "Moving or accidentally harming a ladybug can raise a question about careful handling. Numerous ladybugs may shift the concern toward how much small responsibilities demand together." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A ladybug lands on your hand", "reflection": "You watch it move across your skin and decide whether to let it stay. Pleasure may fit an unplanned moment of company; discomfort may concern contact you did not choose. The creature's small size does not settle which of those experiences matters." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You notice one among the garden leaves", "reflection": "A small bright shape draws your attention away from the larger task. This may resemble finding satisfaction in something easily missed while working or caring for a place. If you ignore it to keep working, the scene may explore competing demands on attention." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You carefully count its spots", "reflection": "Getting the number right becomes more important than the encounter itself. This may fit checking details before you can feel satisfied with a result. If counting feels playful or absorbing, curiosity and close observation may explain the scene better than anxiety about correctness." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Ladybugs cover the inside of a room", "reflection": "A single pleasant visitor has become more than you can comfortably accommodate. This may resemble many minor requests accumulating until they occupy your resting space. Delight at the abundance suggests a different possibility, such as enjoying company or the surprise of an ordinary room transformed." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You guide a ladybug toward an open window", "reflection": "You want it outside and find a way to move it gently. This can fit balancing your own need for space with consideration for something small. Repeated failed attempts may turn the scene toward the effort involved in a task that looked simple." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You accidentally crush a ladybug", "reflection": "A movement you barely considered suddenly has a visible consequence. The scene may resemble regret over a small careless action or concern about overlooking someone else's needs. 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Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflections with everyday context; no matching historical passage supplied. General sleep research does not validate these symbol readings. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1138", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Lagoon", "text": "To dream of a lagoon, denotes that you will be drawn into a whirlpool\nof doubt and confusion through misapplication of your intelligence.", "locator": "Heading 1141; source lines 13144–13149", "lineStart": 13144, "lineEnd": 13149, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a lagoon, denotes that you will be drawn into a whirlpool\nof doubt and confusion through misapplication of your intelligence." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "lake", "title": "Lake", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "summary": "A lake may picture a pause within a bounded setting, distance across a familiar place, or a surface that reveals some things while concealing others.", "tagline": "An enclosed view, a shoreline, and depth beneath an ordinary surface.", "aliases": [ "lake" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A lake viewed from shore can picture having space to consider a situation without being carried along a single channel. A pause between commitments, time beside an established relationship, or a choice that remains open may offer a parallel. The bounded setting can feel restful because its edges give the view a shape. If the stillness feels empty, the same place may bring attention to waiting without an intended next step. Neither response makes the lake a universal sign of peace or stagnation; what you wanted to do there gives the pause its purpose.\n\nThe opposite shore can make distance visible within one continuing setting. A person or destination seems nearby enough to recognize yet requires a crossing to reach. This may resemble a conversation with someone familiar when practical or emotional conditions make contact less direct than expected. A boat, bridge, swim, or path around the edge creates different ways to approach the gap. Staying on your own shore may feel chosen and comfortable, while being unable to leave can make the same boundary restrictive.\n\nA reflected face or landscape can bring attention to how a familiar view appears from another angle. The image may look clear, distorted, doubled, or different from what stands beside you. This can resemble considering how a role or relationship is represented, particularly when the visible impression does not feel complete. Ripples changing the reflection may make the view temporary rather than false. The scene does not establish a hidden identity or diagnose a conflict; it offers an experience of seeing something familiar under particular conditions.\n\nDepth beneath a calm surface introduces a limit to what observation provides. You can appreciate the view while remaining uncertain about what lies below. Curiosity differs from feeling required to understand everything before enjoying the shore. Returning to a lake from an earlier period may bring direct memory into the scene: the same outline can remain while companions, access, and your reasons for visiting change. A holiday, local walk, photograph, or story can also supply the image. This entry concerns enclosed space, shore, depth, reflection, and return; River’s directional channel and general Water’s properties remain distinct contexts rather than interchangeable answers.", "traditional": "Four attached authors give differing lake forecasts, involving clarity, turbulence, sailing, surroundings, and reflection, including Miller’s gendered moralizing claims. Noe links a peaceful lake to contentment; Cielo gives a short warning. The fifth account, Craig’s, only cross-references Brook. These attributed passages do not establish illness, dishonest people, moral character, or future fortune.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A pause with a defined setting", "reflection": "A shore and enclosed view can make room to consider a situation. Restful stillness differs from waiting without a next step you actually want." }, { "title": "Distance within familiarity", "reflection": "The far shore may be recognizable while requiring a crossing. The available route distinguishes chosen separation from contact that feels difficult to reach." }, { "title": "What a surface lets you see", "reflection": "Reflections and hidden depth offer different limits to observation. A partial view need not be deceptive to leave curiosity or uncertainty." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You sit beside a quiet lake without needing to leave", "reflection": "The bounded view gives the pause a setting of its own. This may picture wanted time between demands. If you wish something would happen, the same stillness can instead make the absence of a next step noticeable." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Someone waits on the opposite shore", "reflection": "A familiar presence remains visible across a distance you cannot ignore. This can picture contact needing a workable route. Finding transport differs from assuming that recognition alone should make reaching one another easy." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You see a reflection that changes with each ripple", "reflection": "A familiar image is shaped by temporary conditions. This may resemble considering how a role or situation appears at different moments. Wanting one permanent version differs from accepting that the view can change without becoming wholly unreliable." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "The surface is clear but the depth remains hidden", "reflection": "Observation gives some information while leaving the setting incomplete. The scene can explore curiosity without an obligation to know everything. Feeling able to enjoy the shore differs from needing certainty before any participation is possible." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Your boat circles and returns to the same shore", "reflection": "Movement occurs within a place whose edges remain familiar. This may picture revisiting a question or taking time within an ongoing arrangement. Pleasure in the circuit differs from frustration if you expected it to lead somewhere else." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You return to a lake from an earlier period", "reflection": "The setting remains recognizable while companions or access have changed. This can make continuity and distance present together. A direct memory may matter more than a symbolic explanation, especially when the reason for returning is clear." } ], "prompts": [ "Did the lake offer a wanted pause or a place where I felt unable to begin?", "What made contact across the setting possible or difficult?", "How did reflection, depth, or returning alter what seemed familiar?" ], "related": [ "water", "river", "pond", "ocean", "fish", "swimming", "brook" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1139" ], "scope": "Attached historical comparison only: Lake — miller-1139 (Heading 1142; source lines 13149–13190): A long gendered moralizing passage assigns turbulent/muddy, smooth/clear, reflections, surroundings, rescue, and threatening inhabitants forecasts about fortune, relationships, health, and conduct. These period assertions are preserved as attributed archival material; they neither validate this original modern reflection nor establish an outcome." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0407" ], "scope": "Attached historical comparison only: Lake — fontaine-0407 (Heading 407; source line 2858): Clear lake sailing receives success even if rough; muddy water receives sickness and dishonest-people losses. These period assertions are preserved as attributed archival material; they neither validate this original modern reflection nor establish an outcome." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0308" ], "scope": "Attached historical comparison only: Lake — noe-0308 (Dream section, heading 312; source lines 1245–1249): Peaceful, gazed-into, or floating-on lakes receive contentment, unexpected fortune, and trouble-free/friendship forecasts. These period assertions are preserved as attributed archival material; they neither validate this original modern reflection nor establish an outcome." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0245" ], "scope": "Attached historical comparison only: Lake — cielo-0245 (Dream section, heading 245; source lines 4449–4451): A short warning to be careful. These period assertions are preserved as attributed archival material; they neither validate this original modern reflection nor establish an outcome." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L10595" ], "scope": "Attached historical comparison only: Lake — craig-1918:L10595 (Printed p. 228; NLM OCR lines 10595–10596): Cross-reference only: See Brook; no independent Lake definition. These period assertions are preserved as attributed archival material; they neither validate this original modern reflection nor establish an outcome." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1139", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Lake", "text": "For a young woman to dream that she is alone on a turbulent and muddy lake,\nforetells many vicissitudes are approaching her, and she will regret\nformer extravagances, and disregard of virtuous teaching.\n\nIf the water gets into the boat, but by intense struggling she reaches\nthe boat-house safely, it denotes she will be under wrong persuasion,\nbut will eventually overcome it, and rise to honor and distinction.\n\nIt may predict the illness of some one near her.\n\nIf she sees a young couple in the same position as herself,\nwho succeed in rescuing themselves, she will find that some friend\nhas committed indiscretions, but will succeed in reinstating\nhimself in her favor.\n\nTo dream of sailing on a clear and smooth lake, with happy\nand congenial companions, you will have much happiness,\nand wealth will meet your demands.\n\nA muddy lake, surrounded with bleak rocks and bare trees,\ndenotes unhappy terminations to business and affection.\n\nA muddy lake, surrounded by green trees, portends that the moral in your\nnature will fortify itself against passionate desires, and overcoming\nthe same will direct your energy into a safe and remunerative channel.\nIf the lake be clear and surrounded by barrenness, a profitable existence\nwill be marred by immoral and passionate dissipation.\n\nTo see yourself reflected in a clear lake, denotes coming joys\nand many ardent friends.\n\nTo see foliaged trees reflected in the lake, you will enjoy to a satiety\nLove's draught of passion and happiness.\n\nTo see slimy and uncanny inhabitants of the lake rise up and menace you,\ndenotes failure and ill health from squandering time, energy and health\non illicit pleasures. You will drain the utmost drop of happiness,\nand drink deeply of Remorse's bitter concoction.", "locator": "Heading 1142; source lines 13149–13190", "lineStart": 13149, "lineEnd": 13190, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a young woman to dream that she is alone on a turbulent and muddy lake,\nforetells many vicissitudes are approaching her, and she will regret\nformer extravagances, and disregard of virtuous teaching.\n\nIf the water gets into the boat, but by intense struggling she reaches\nthe boat-house safely, it denotes she will be under wrong persuasion,\nbut will eventually overcome it, and rise to honor and distinction.\n\nIt may predict the illness of some one near her.\n\nIf she sees a young couple in the same position as herself,\nwho succeed in rescuing themselves, she will find that some friend\nhas committed indiscretions, but will succeed in reinstating\nhimself in her favor.\n\nTo dream of sailing on a clear and smooth lake, with happy\nand congenial companions, you will have much happiness,\nand wealth will meet your demands.\n\nA muddy lake, surrounded with bleak rocks and bare trees,\ndenotes unhappy terminations to business and affection.\n\nA muddy lake, surrounded by green trees, portends that the moral in your\nnature will fortify itself against passionate desires, and overcoming\nthe same will direct your energy into a safe and remunerative channel.\nIf the lake be clear and surrounded by barrenness, a profitable existence\nwill be marred by immoral and passionate dissipation.\n\nTo see yourself reflected in a clear lake, denotes coming joys\nand many ardent friends.\n\nTo see foliaged trees reflected in the lake, you will enjoy to a satiety\nLove's draught of passion and happiness.\n\nTo see slimy and uncanny inhabitants of the lake rise up and menace you,\ndenotes failure and ill health from squandering time, energy and health\non illicit pleasures. You will drain the utmost drop of happiness,\nand drink deeply of Remorse's bitter concoction." }, { "id": "fontaine-0407", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Lake", "text": "If you dream of sailing on a smooth and clear lake, it\nforeshadows success in all your undertakings; if the lake is rough,\nbut yet has clear water, the sign still holds good, though you will\nencounter difficulties; if it is muddy water, it denotes sickness, and\nlosses through dishonest people about you. 49, 17.", "locator": "Heading 407; source line 2858", "lineStart": 2858, "lineEnd": 2864, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream of sailing on a smooth and clear lake, it\nforeshadows success in all your undertakings; if the lake is rough,\nbut yet has clear water, the sign still holds good, though you will\nencounter difficulties; if it is muddy water, it denotes sickness, and\nlosses through dishonest people about you." }, { "id": "noe-0308", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Lake", "text": "To\ndream of a peaceful lake, denotes content. To dream of gazing into a lake,\ndenotes an access of fortune from an unexpected source. To dream of\nfloating on a lake, signifies to glide through life without trouble and\nwith many friends.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 312; source lines 1245–1249", "lineStart": 1245, "lineEnd": 1249, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To\ndream of a peaceful lake, denotes content. To dream of gazing into a lake,\ndenotes an access of fortune from an unexpected source. To dream of\nfloating on a lake, signifies to glide through life without trouble and\nwith many friends." }, { "id": "cielo-0245", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Lake", "text": "A warning to be careful.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 245; source lines 4449–4451", "lineStart": 4449, "lineEnd": 4451, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "A warning to be careful." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10595", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Lake", "heading": "Lake", "text": "See Brook.", "lineStart": 10595, "lineEnd": 10596, "kind": "cross-reference", "locator": "Printed p. 228; NLM OCR lines 10595–10596", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10595, "lineEnd": 10596, "printedPage": 228, "printedPageEnd": 228 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Lake. — See Brook. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Lake" }, "displayText": "See Brook." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [ "brook" ] }, { "slug": "lamb", "title": "Lamb", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "5 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of lambs frolicing[sic] in green pastures, betokens chaste friendships and joys.” Compare 5 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "lamb", "lambs" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about lamb stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "sheep" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1140", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Lamb", "text": "To dream of lambs frolicing{sic} in green pastures, betokens chaste\nfriendships and joys. Bounteous and profitable crops to the farmers,\nand increase of possessions for others.\n\nTo see a dead lamb, signifies sadness and desolation.\n\nBlood showing on the white fleece of a lamb, denotes that innocent ones\nwill suffer from betrayal through the wrong doing of others.\n\nA lost lamb, denotes that wayward people will be under your influence,\nand you should be careful of your conduct.\n\nTo see lamb skins, denotes comfort and pleasure usurped from others.\n\nTo slaughter a lamb for domestic uses, prosperity will be gained\nthrough the sacrifice of pleasure and contentment.\n\nTo eat lamb chops, denotes illness, and much anxiety over\nthe welfare of children.\n\nTo see lambs taking nourishment from their mothers, denotes happiness\nthrough pleasant and intelligent home companions, and many lovable\nand beautiful children.\n\nTo dream that dogs, or wolves devour lambs, innocent people will suffer\nat the hands of insinuating and designing villains.\n\nTo hear the bleating of lambs, your generosity will be appealed to.\n\nTo see them in a winter storm, or rain, denotes disappointment\nin expected enjoyment and betterment of fortune.\n\nTo own lambs in your dreams, signifies that your environments\nwill be pleasant and profitable.\n\nIf you carry lambs in your arms, you will be encumbered with\nhappy cares upon which you will lavish a wealth of devotion,\nand no expense will be regretted in responding to appeals\nfrom the objects of your affection.\n\nTo shear lambs, shows that you will be cold and mercenary.\nYou will be honest, but inhumane.\n\nFor a woman to dream that she is peeling the skin from a lamb,\nand while doing so, she discovers that it is her child,\ndenotes that she will cause others sorrow which will also rebound\nto her grief and loss.\n\n ``Fair prototype of innocence,\n Sleep upon thy emerald bed,\n No coming evil vents\n A shade above thy head.''\n\n\n[108] See Sheep.", "locator": "Heading 1143; source lines 13190–13248", "lineStart": 13190, "lineEnd": 13248, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of lambs frolicing[sic] in green pastures, betokens chaste\nfriendships and joys. Bounteous and profitable crops to the farmers,\nand increase of possessions for others.\n\nTo see a dead lamb, signifies sadness and desolation.\n\nBlood showing on the white fleece of a lamb, denotes that innocent ones\nwill suffer from betrayal through the wrong doing of others.\n\nA lost lamb, denotes that wayward people will be under your influence,\nand you should be careful of your conduct.\n\nTo see lamb skins, denotes comfort and pleasure usurped from others.\n\nTo slaughter a lamb for domestic uses, prosperity will be gained\nthrough the sacrifice of pleasure and contentment.\n\nTo eat lamb chops, denotes illness, and much anxiety over\nthe welfare of children.\n\nTo see lambs taking nourishment from their mothers, denotes happiness\nthrough pleasant and intelligent home companions, and many lovable\nand beautiful children.\n\nTo dream that dogs, or wolves devour lambs, innocent people will suffer\nat the hands of insinuating and designing villains.\n\nTo hear the bleating of lambs, your generosity will be appealed to.\n\nTo see them in a winter storm, or rain, denotes disappointment\nin expected enjoyment and betterment of fortune.\n\nTo own lambs in your dreams, signifies that your environments\nwill be pleasant and profitable.\n\nIf you carry lambs in your arms, you will be encumbered with\nhappy cares upon which you will lavish a wealth of devotion,\nand no expense will be regretted in responding to appeals\nfrom the objects of your affection.\n\nTo shear lambs, shows that you will be cold and mercenary.\nYou will be honest, but inhumane.\n\nFor a woman to dream that she is peeling the skin from a lamb,\nand while doing so, she discovers that it is her child,\ndenotes that she will cause others sorrow which will also rebound\nto her grief and loss.\n\n“Fair prototype of innocence,\nSleep upon thy emerald bed,\nNo coming evil vents\nA shade above thy head.” See Sheep." }, { "id": "fontaine-0408", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Lambs", "text": "To see young lambs frisking around their mother, is an excellent\nomen, as it denotes thrift, and also happiness in your family ties; if\nyou see them sucking, it is a sign of an increase in your family by\nthe birth of a child. For lovers to dream of young lambs, foretells a\nspeedy and happy marriage. 24, 60.", "locator": "Heading 408; source line 2864", "lineStart": 2864, "lineEnd": 2870, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see young lambs frisking around their mother, is an excellent\nomen, as it denotes thrift, and also happiness in your family ties; if\nyou see them sucking, it is a sign of an increase in your family by\nthe birth of a child. For lovers to dream of young lambs, foretells a\nspeedy and happy marriage." }, { "id": "noe-0281", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Lamb", "text": "To dream that you feed or\nbring a lamb to the slaughter signifies torment. To dream that you see a\nlamb, or young kids, signifies extraordinary comfort.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 284; source lines 1165–1167", "lineStart": 1165, "lineEnd": 1167, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you feed or\nbring a lamb to the slaughter signifies torment. To dream that you see a\nlamb, or young kids, signifies extraordinary comfort." }, { "id": "cielo-0246", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Lamb", "text": "This is a favorable sign to single people and\n indicates courtship.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 246; source lines 4451–4454", "lineStart": 4451, "lineEnd": 4454, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "This is a favorable sign to single people and\nindicates courtship." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10597", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Lambs", "heading": "Lambs", "text": "Always a favorable dream except to slay one, this denotes moral torment ; to own one, comfort, peace and happiness (Gypsy). Christian symbol.", "lineStart": 10597, "lineEnd": 10600, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 228; NLM OCR lines 10597–10600", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10597, "lineEnd": 10600, "printedPage": 228, "printedPageEnd": 228 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Lambs. — Always a favorable dream except to slay one, this \ndenotes moral torment ; to own one, comfort, peace and happi- \nness (Gypsy). Christian symbol. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "happi- \nness", "after": "happiness", "evidenceLine": 556 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Lambs" }, "displayText": "Always a favorable dream except to slay one, this denotes moral torment; to own one, comfort, peace and happiness (Gypsy). Christian symbol." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "sheep" ] }, { "slug": "lame", "title": "Lame", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “For a woman to dream of seeing any one lame, foretells that her pleasures and hopes will be unfruitful and disappointing. See Cripple.”", "aliases": [ "lame" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about lame stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "cripple" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1141", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Lame", "text": "For a woman to dream of seeing any one lame, foretells that her pleasures\nand hopes will be unfruitful and disappointing.\n\n\n[109] See Cripple.", "locator": "Heading 1144; source lines 13248–13256", "lineStart": 13248, "lineEnd": 13256, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a woman to dream of seeing any one lame, foretells that her pleasures\nand hopes will be unfruitful and disappointing. See Cripple." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "cripple" ] }, { "slug": "lame-person", "title": "Lame Person", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Cielo wrote: “To dream of seeing a cripple or lame person means business misfortune.”", "aliases": [ "lame person" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about lame person stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "cielo-0247", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Lame Person", "text": "To dream of seeing a cripple or lame\n person means business misfortune.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 247; source lines 4454–4457", "lineStart": 4454, "lineEnd": 4457, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing a cripple or lame\nperson means business misfortune." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "lament", "title": "Lament", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you bitterly lament the loss of friends, or property, signifies great struggles and much distress, from which will spring…”", "aliases": [ "lament" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about lament stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1142", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Lament", "text": "To dream that you bitterly lament the loss of friends, or property,\nsignifies great struggles and much distress, from which will spring\ncauses for joy and personal gain.\n\nTo lament the loss of relatives, denotes sickness or disappointments,\nwhich will bring you into closer harmony with companions, and will result\nin brighter prospects for the future.", "locator": "Heading 1145; source lines 13256–13266", "lineStart": 13256, "lineEnd": 13266, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you bitterly lament the loss of friends, or property,\nsignifies great struggles and much distress, from which will spring\ncauses for joy and personal gain.\n\nTo lament the loss of relatives, denotes sickness or disappointments,\nwhich will bring you into closer harmony with companions, and will result\nin brighter prospects for the future." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "lamp", "title": "Lamp", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "6 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see lamps filled with oil, denotes the demonstration of business activity, from which you will receive…” Compare 6 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "lamp" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about lamp stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1143", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Lamp", "text": "To see lamps filled with oil, denotes the demonstration of business activity,\nfrom which you will receive gratifying results.\n\nEmpty lamps, represent depression and despondency.\n\nTo see lighted lamps burning with a clear flame, indicates merited rise\nin fortune and domestic bliss. If they give out a dull, misty radiance,\nyou will have jealousy and envy, coupled with suspicion, to combat,\nin which you will be much pleased to find the right person to attack.\n\nTo drop a lighted lamp, your plans and hopes will abruptly\nturn into failure.\n\nIf it explodes, former friends will unite with enemies in\ndamaging your interests.\n\nBroken lamps, indicate the death of relatives or friends.\n\nTo light a lamp, denotes that you will soon make a change in your affairs,\nwhich will lead to profit.\n\nTo carry a lamp, portends that you will be independent and\nself-sustaining, preferring your own convictions above others.\nIf the light fails, you will meet with unfortunate conclusions,\nand perhaps the death of friends or relatives.\n\nIf you are much affrighted, and throw a bewildering light from your window,\nenemies will ensnare you with professions of friendship and interest\nin your achievements.\n\nTo ignite your apparel from a lamp, you will sustain humiliation\nfrom sources from which you expected encouragement and sympathy,\nand your business will not be fraught with much good.", "locator": "Heading 1146; source lines 13266–13302", "lineStart": 13266, "lineEnd": 13302, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see lamps filled with oil, denotes the demonstration of business activity,\nfrom which you will receive gratifying results.\n\nEmpty lamps, represent depression and despondency.\n\nTo see lighted lamps burning with a clear flame, indicates merited rise\nin fortune and domestic bliss. If they give out a dull, misty radiance,\nyou will have jealousy and envy, coupled with suspicion, to combat,\nin which you will be much pleased to find the right person to attack.\n\nTo drop a lighted lamp, your plans and hopes will abruptly\nturn into failure.\n\nIf it explodes, former friends will unite with enemies in\ndamaging your interests.\n\nBroken lamps, indicate the death of relatives or friends.\n\nTo light a lamp, denotes that you will soon make a change in your affairs,\nwhich will lead to profit.\n\nTo carry a lamp, portends that you will be independent and\nself-sustaining, preferring your own convictions above others.\nIf the light fails, you will meet with unfortunate conclusions,\nand perhaps the death of friends or relatives.\n\nIf you are much affrighted, and throw a bewildering light from your window,\nenemies will ensnare you with professions of friendship and interest\nin your achievements.\n\nTo ignite your apparel from a lamp, you will sustain humiliation\nfrom sources from which you expected encouragement and sympathy,\nand your business will not be fraught with much good." }, { "id": "fontaine-0409", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Lamp", "text": "To dream of dropping or breaking a lighted lamp, denotes\ndisappointment. If, in your dream, you see the bright light of a lamp\nat a distance from you in the dark, and you approach it, it shows that\nyou will either have good luck, or will be invited to visit somewhere\nand meet an agreeable person of the opposite sex. 19.", "locator": "Heading 409; source line 2870", "lineStart": 2870, "lineEnd": 2876, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of dropping or breaking a lighted lamp, denotes\ndisappointment. If, in your dream, you see the bright light of a lamp\nat a distance from you in the dark, and you approach it, it shows that\nyou will either have good luck, or will be invited to visit somewhere\nand meet an agreeable person of the opposite sex." }, { "id": "noe-0312", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Lamp", "text": "To dream of a burning lamp,\nsignifies prosperity. To dream of a lamp suddenly extinguished, signifies\nthe death of a near friend.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 316; source lines 1255–1257", "lineStart": 1255, "lineEnd": 1257, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a burning lamp,\nsignifies prosperity. To dream of a lamp suddenly extinguished, signifies\nthe death of a near friend." }, { "id": "cielo-0248", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Lamp", "text": "To carry a lamp means trouble; to upset one, loss.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 248; source lines 4457–4459", "lineStart": 4457, "lineEnd": 4459, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To carry a lamp means trouble; to upset one, loss." }, { "id": "luck-0150", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Lamp", "text": "(Lit) Trouble, not serious.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 150; source lines 3900–3902", "lineStart": 3900, "lineEnd": 3902, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(Lit) Trouble, not serious." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10601", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Lamp", "heading": "Lamp", "text": "To carry a bright one, success, an especially favorable dream for lovers ; a dim lamp, sickness ; a light that goes out or is extinguished, death; or at least danger (Raphael). 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Truth, righteousness, illumination, etc., are \nsymbolized by the lamp in scriptural art. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "favor- \nable", "after": "favorable", "evidenceLine": 9147 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Lamp" }, "displayText": "To carry a bright one, success, an especially favorable dream for lovers; a dim lamp, sickness; a light that goes out or is extinguished, death; or at least danger (Raphael). In ancient symbolism the lamp or flame represented the vital spark of life. Truth, righteousness, illumination, etc., are symbolized by the lamp in scriptural art." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "lamp-post", "title": "Lamp-post", "type": "dreams", "category": "Other symbols", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see a lamp-post in your dreams, some stranger will prove your staunchiest friend in time of pressing need.”", "aliases": [ "lamp-post" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about lamp-post stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1144", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Lamp-post", "text": "To see a lamp-post in your dreams, some stranger will prove your staunchiest\nfriend in time of pressing need.\n\nTo fall against a lamp-post, you will have deception to overcome,\nor enemies will ensnare you.\n\nTo see a lamp-post across your path, you will have much adversity\nin your life.", "locator": "Heading 1147; source lines 13302–13313", "lineStart": 13302, "lineEnd": 13313, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a lamp-post in your dreams, some stranger will prove your staunchiest\nfriend in time of pressing need.\n\nTo fall against a lamp-post, you will have deception to overcome,\nor enemies will ensnare you.\n\nTo see a lamp-post across your path, you will have much adversity\nin your life." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "lance", "title": "Lance", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a lance, denotes formidable enemies and injurious experiments.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "lance" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about lance stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1145", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Lance", "text": "To dream of a lance, denotes formidable enemies and injurious experiments.\n\nTo be wounded by a lance, error of judgment will cause you annoyance.\n\nTo break a lance, denotes seeming impossibilities will be overcome\nand your desires will be fulfilled.", "locator": "Heading 1148; source lines 13313–13322", "lineStart": 13313, "lineEnd": 13322, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a lance, denotes formidable enemies and injurious experiments.\n\nTo be wounded by a lance, error of judgment will cause you annoyance.\n\nTo break a lance, denotes seeming impossibilities will be overcome\nand your desires will be fulfilled." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10608", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Lance", "heading": "Lance", "text": "A dream of trouble and tragedy (Raphael) ; an erotic dream (Jung) ; Christian symbol of martyrdom; Greek symbol of the god Mars.", "lineStart": 10608, "lineEnd": 10611, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 228; NLM OCR lines 10608–10611", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10608, "lineEnd": 10611, "printedPage": 228, "printedPageEnd": 228 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Lance. — A dream of trouble and tragedy (Raphael) ; an \nerotic dream (Jung) ; Christian symbol of martyrdom; Greek \nsymbol of the god Mars. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Lance" }, "displayText": "A dream of trouble and tragedy (Raphael); an erotic dream (Jung); Christian symbol of martyrdom; Greek symbol of the god Mars." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "land", "title": "Land", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of land, when it appears fertile, omens good.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "land" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about land stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1146", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Land", "text": "To dream of land, when it appears fertile, omens good; but if sterile\nand rocky, failure and dispondency is prognosticated.\n\nTo see land from the ocean, denotes that vast avenues of prosperity\nand happiness will disclose themselves to you.", "locator": "Heading 1149; source lines 13322–13330", "lineStart": 13322, "lineEnd": 13330, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of land, when it appears fertile, omens good; but if sterile\nand rocky, failure and dispondency is prognosticated.\n\nTo see land from the ocean, denotes that vast avenues of prosperity\nand happiness will disclose themselves to you." }, { "id": "fontaine-0410", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Land", "text": "To dream of buying or inheriting land, is an excellent omen, as\nit foretells health and wealth; but to sell land in your dream, denotes\nsickness and poverty. If a young man dreams of buying land, it is a\nsign he will marry a rich wife. 34, 61, 18.", "locator": "Heading 410; source line 2876", "lineStart": 2876, "lineEnd": 2881, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of buying or inheriting land, is an excellent omen, as\nit foretells health and wealth; but to sell land in your dream, denotes\nsickness and poverty. If a young man dreams of buying land, it is a\nsign he will marry a rich wife." }, { "id": "noe-0293", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Land", "text": "If a man dreams he hath good\nlands well enclosed with pleasant pastures, bestowed upon him, he will\nhave a handsome wife. But if the land seems spacious and not enclosed,\nthat denotes pleasure, joy and riches. If he dreams that the said\nunenclosed lands have fair gardens and fountains, fields, pleasant groves\nand orchards adjoining thereto, that signifies that he will marry a\ndiscreet, chaste and beautiful wife, and that she will bear him handsome\nchildren. If he dreams the land is sown with wheat, that signifies money\nand profit, with care and industry. But if he dreams it is sown with any\nkind of pulse, that denotes affliction and trouble.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 297; source lines 1195–1204", "lineStart": 1195, "lineEnd": 1204, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If a man dreams he hath good\nlands well enclosed with pleasant pastures, bestowed upon him, he will\nhave a handsome wife. But if the land seems spacious and not enclosed,\nthat denotes pleasure, joy and riches. If he dreams that the said\nunenclosed lands have fair gardens and fountains, fields, pleasant groves\nand orchards adjoining thereto, that signifies that he will marry a\ndiscreet, chaste and beautiful wife, and that she will bear him handsome\nchildren. If he dreams the land is sown with wheat, that signifies money\nand profit, with care and industry. But if he dreams it is sown with any\nkind of pulse, that denotes affliction and trouble." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "landau", "title": "Landau", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you ride in a landau, with your friend or sweetheart, denotes that incidents of a light, but pleasant character will pass in…”", "aliases": [ "landau" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about landau stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1147", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Landau", "text": "To dream that you ride in a landau, with your friend or sweetheart,\ndenotes that incidents of a light, but pleasant character will pass\nin rapid succession through your life.\n\nIf the vehicle is overturned, then pleasure will abruptly turn into woe.\n\n\n[110] See Fields ant Earth.", "locator": "Heading 1150; source lines 13330–13341", "lineStart": 13330, "lineEnd": 13341, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you ride in a landau, with your friend or sweetheart,\ndenotes that incidents of a light, but pleasant character will pass\nin rapid succession through your life.\n\nIf the vehicle is overturned, then pleasure will abruptly turn into woe. See Fields ant Earth." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "landslide", "title": "Landslide", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "summary": "A landslide may picture accumulated material shifting, a route altered by events elsewhere, or reassessing where it is possible to stand.", "tagline": "A moving slope and the landscape it leaves behind.", "aliases": [ "landslide", "landslides", "landslip", "landslips" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A hillside beginning to move can picture an arrangement changing as a connected whole rather than through one isolated problem. Several delayed decisions, expanding responsibilities, or a relationship whose conditions have been shifting for some time may offer a parallel. The dream’s material seems to carry other material with it, making the scale larger than the first movement. If the slide stops quickly, the scene may hold relief about a change that remains limited. If it continues, the focus may be how to find a workable position while the surroundings are still changing.\n\nA road covered by a landslide can make consequences more central than the event itself. You may not have caused or witnessed the movement, yet it changes what you can do next. A decision in another department, someone else’s move, or a family change can similarly alter your route without being within your control. Waiting for access, choosing a detour, or helping clear a passage creates different relationships with that interruption. The scene need not claim that perseverance will restore the original road or that a different route is automatically better.\n\nWatching from stable ground introduces the difference between witnessing and being directly involved. You may feel relieved by your distance, guilty that others remain exposed, or frustrated by being unable to influence the movement. A demanding change affecting people near you can feel similar when concern does not translate into a useful action. Assistance that responds to a particular need differs from rushing closer simply to demonstrate involvement. The dream may center on the limits of responsibility rather than on courage or indifference.\n\nReturning to an altered slope can bring continuity and loss together. The place remains recognizable while paths, homes, or landmarks no longer sit where you remember them. This can picture revisiting an old routine after circumstances change, or discovering that a former point of reference no longer organizes the present. The remaining structures may feel reassuring or strangely exposed. A news story, journey, game, or remembered landscape can also provide the image directly. This entry concerns moving earth or rock in the recalled dream; the snow-centered Avalanche and the shaking-centered Earthquake entries remain different contexts, without turning the landscape into a real disaster forecast.", "traditional": "No historical dream passage specifically naming Landslide or Landslip is supplied. Avalanche, Mountain, Mud, and Earthquake are related images with different scopes. The reflections describe a remembered moving slope and changed routes rather than predicting an event.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A connected change", "reflection": "Material moving together can picture several conditions changing at once. The scale and duration distinguish a limited interruption from an arrangement still shifting." }, { "title": "Consequences along your route", "reflection": "A covered road can explore being affected by events outside your control. The dream’s available detours and help matter more than assuming you must restore the old path." }, { "title": "A place after its landmarks move", "reflection": "Returning to an altered slope may picture continuity without an identical arrangement. What remains recognizable can matter alongside what has disappeared." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A hillside starts moving before you reach it", "reflection": "The intended destination changes while you are still approaching. This may fit learning that a plan’s conditions have shifted. Pausing at a workable distance differs from continuing solely because the journey was already begun." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Earth covers the road after the movement stops", "reflection": "The event has passed but its consequences still interrupt access. The scene can resemble work needed after a decision or disruption. A detour and a cleared passage offer different ways of continuing without erasing what happened." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You watch from stable ground across the valley", "reflection": "Distance allows a view while limiting what you can do. This may picture concern for a change affecting others. Receiving a clear request for help differs from feeling required to move closer merely to demonstrate that you care." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A house remains while its surroundings shift", "reflection": "Something familiar persists in a changed setting. The scene can picture a routine or relationship that continues while its usual support changes. Relief at its survival differs from concern about how it can function in the new landscape." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You return and cannot find the old landmark", "reflection": "A recognizable place no longer offers the reference you relied on. This may fit revisiting a period or relationship that has changed. Creating another reference differs from assuming you have lost the ability to orient yourself." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You help someone find a route through the debris", "reflection": "The focus becomes shared movement rather than controlling the original event. This can picture practical support during transition. Being able to listen to the other person’s destination distinguishes cooperation from directing them toward your own preferred path." } ], "prompts": [ "Was I experiencing the movement, its consequences, or the place afterward?", "What remained stable enough to stand on or use as a reference?", "Did my help respond to an actual need in the scene or to pressure to demonstrate involvement?" ], "related": [ "avalanche", "mountain", "mud", "ground" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1148", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Lantern", "text": "To dream of seeing a lantern going before you in the darkness,\nsignifies unexpected affluence. If the lantern is suddenly lost\nto view, then your success will take an unfavorable turn.\n\nTo carry a lantern in your dreams, denotes that your benevolence will win you\nmany friends. If it goes out, you fail to gain the prominence you wish.\nIf you stumble and break it, you will seek to aid others, and in so doing\nlose your own station, or be disappointed in some undertaking.\n\nTo clean a lantern, signifies great possibilities are open to you.\n\nTo lose a lantern, means business depression, and disquiet in the home.\n\nIf you buy a lantern, it signifies fortunate deals.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she lights her lover's lantern,\nforetells for her a worthy man, and a comfortable home.\nIf she blows it out, by her own imprudence she will lose a chance\nof getting married.", "locator": "Heading 1151; source lines 13341–13363", "lineStart": 13341, "lineEnd": 13363, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing a lantern going before you in the darkness,\nsignifies unexpected affluence. If the lantern is suddenly lost\nto view, then your success will take an unfavorable turn.\n\nTo carry a lantern in your dreams, denotes that your benevolence will win you\nmany friends. If it goes out, you fail to gain the prominence you wish.\nIf you stumble and break it, you will seek to aid others, and in so doing\nlose your own station, or be disappointed in some undertaking.\n\nTo clean a lantern, signifies great possibilities are open to you.\n\nTo lose a lantern, means business depression, and disquiet in the home.\n\nIf you buy a lantern, it signifies fortunate deals.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she lights her lover's lantern,\nforetells for her a worthy man, and a comfortable home.\nIf she blows it out, by her own imprudence she will lose a chance\nof getting married." }, { "id": "fontaine-0411", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Lantern", "text": "To dream of carrying a lantern in a dark night is a good sign,\nprovided you have no difficulty in finding your way, for it shows\nthat you will easily accomplish some fortunate object you may have\nin view; if you stumble, or have difficulty in finding your way with\nthe lantern, it denotes trouble and vexation, though success will be\nachieved at last. 28, 10.", "locator": "Heading 411; source line 2881", "lineStart": 2881, "lineEnd": 2888, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of carrying a lantern in a dark night is a good sign,\nprovided you have no difficulty in finding your way, for it shows\nthat you will easily accomplish some fortunate object you may have\nin view; if you stumble, or have difficulty in finding your way with\nthe lantern, it denotes trouble and vexation, though success will be\nachieved at last." }, { "id": "noe-0294", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Lantern", "text": "He that\ndreams he sees a lantern with a light in it, extinguished, that signifies\nunto him sadness, sickness and poverty.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 298; source lines 1204–1206", "lineStart": 1204, "lineEnd": 1206, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "He that\ndreams he sees a lantern with a light in it, extinguished, that signifies\nunto him sadness, sickness and poverty." }, { "id": "cielo-0249", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Lantern", "text": "To carry a lantern means a safe adventure.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 249; source lines 4459–4461", "lineStart": 4459, "lineEnd": 4461, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To carry a lantern means a safe adventure." }, { "id": "luck-0151", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Lantern", "text": "Success: (to see light extinguished or darkened) sadness,\nsickness, poverty.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 151; source lines 3902–3905", "lineStart": 3902, "lineEnd": 3905, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Success: (to see light extinguished or darkened) sadness,\nsickness, poverty." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10612", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Lantern", "heading": "Lantern", "text": "To dream of carrying one on a dark night foretells riches; to stumble denotes trouble; for the light to be darkened or extinguished, poverty (Artemidorus). 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Modern \nsymbol of lanterns, leadership ; Christian symbol, piety and \ntruth ; the tarot gives it as a symbol of wisdom. \n\n\nSYMBOLISM IN DREAMS 229 \n\n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [ { "line": 10619, "text": "SYMBOLISM IN DREAMS 229 " } ], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "fore- \ntells", "after": "foretells", "evidenceLine": 7992 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Lantern" }, "displayText": "To dream of carrying one on a dark night foretells riches; to stumble denotes trouble; for the light to be darkened or extinguished, poverty (Artemidorus). Modern symbol of lanterns, leadership; Christian symbol, piety and truth; the tarot gives it as a symbol of wisdom." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "lap", "title": "Lap", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of sitting on some person's lap, denotes pleasant security from vexing engagements.”", "aliases": [ "lap" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about lap stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1149", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Lap", "text": "To dream of sitting on some person's lap, denotes pleasant security\nfrom vexing engagements. If a young woman dreams that she is holding\na person on her lap, she will be exposed to unfavorable criticism.\n\nTo see a serpent in her lap, foretells she is threatened with\nhumiliation at the hands of enemies. If she sees a cat in her lap,\nshe will be endangered by a seductive enemy.", "locator": "Heading 1152; source lines 13363–13373", "lineStart": 13363, "lineEnd": 13373, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of sitting on some person's lap, denotes pleasant security\nfrom vexing engagements. If a young woman dreams that she is holding\na person on her lap, she will be exposed to unfavorable criticism.\n\nTo see a serpent in her lap, foretells she is threatened with\nhumiliation at the hands of enemies. If she sees a cat in her lap,\nshe will be endangered by a seductive enemy." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "lap-dog", "title": "Lap-dog", "type": "dreams", "category": "Other symbols", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a lap-dog, foretells you will be succored by friends in some approaching dilemma If it be thin and ill-looking, there will be…”", "aliases": [ "lap-dog" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about lap-dog stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1150", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Lap-dog", "text": "To dream of a lap-dog, foretells you will be succored by friends\nin some approaching dilemma If it be thin and ill-looking, there\nwill be distressing occurrences to detract from your prospects.", "locator": "Heading 1153; source lines 13373–13379", "lineStart": 13373, "lineEnd": 13379, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a lap-dog, foretells you will be succored by friends\nin some approaching dilemma If it be thin and ill-looking, there\nwill be distressing occurrences to detract from your prospects." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "lap-robe", "title": "Lap-robe", "type": "dreams", "category": "Other symbols", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a lap-robe, indicates suspicious engagements will place you under the surveillance of enemies or friends.”", "aliases": [ "lap-robe" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about lap-robe stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1151", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Lap-robe", "text": "To dream of a lap-robe, indicates suspicious engagements will place\nyou under the surveillance of enemies or friends.\n\nTo lose one, your actions will be condemned by enemies to injure your affairs.", "locator": "Heading 1154; source lines 13379–13386", "lineStart": 13379, "lineEnd": 13386, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a lap-robe, indicates suspicious engagements will place\nyou under the surveillance of enemies or friends.\n\nTo lose one, your actions will be condemned by enemies to injure your affairs." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "lard", "title": "Lard", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of lard, signifies a rise in fortune will soon gratify you.”", "aliases": [ "lard" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about lard stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1152", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Lard", "text": "To dream of lard, signifies a rise in fortune will soon gratify you.\nFor a woman to find her hand in melted lard, foretells her disappointment\nin attempting to rise in social circles.", "locator": "Heading 1155; source lines 13386–13392", "lineStart": 13386, "lineEnd": 13392, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of lard, signifies a rise in fortune will soon gratify you.\nFor a woman to find her hand in melted lard, foretells her disappointment\nin attempting to rise in social circles." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "lark", "title": "Lark", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see larks flying, denotes high aims and purposes through the attainment of which you will throw off…” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "lark" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about lark stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. 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OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1153", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Lark", "text": "To see larks flying, denotes high aims and purposes through the attainment\nof which you will throw off selfishness and cultivate kindly graces of mind.\n\nTo hear them singing as they fly, you will be very happy in a new change\nof abode, and business will flourish.\n\nTo see them fall to the earth and singing as they fall, despairing gloom\nwill overtake you in pleasure's bewildering delights.\n\nA wounded or dead lark, portends sadness or death.\n\nTo kill a lark, portends injury to innocence through wantonness.\n\nIf they fly around and light on you, Fortune will turn her promising\ncountenance towards you.\n\nTo catch them in traps, you will win honor and love easily.\n\nTo see them eating, denotes a plentiful harvest.", "locator": "Heading 1156; source lines 13392–13414", "lineStart": 13392, "lineEnd": 13414, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see larks flying, denotes high aims and purposes through the attainment\nof which you will throw off selfishness and cultivate kindly graces of mind.\n\nTo hear them singing as they fly, you will be very happy in a new change\nof abode, and business will flourish.\n\nTo see them fall to the earth and singing as they fall, despairing gloom\nwill overtake you in pleasure's bewildering delights.\n\nA wounded or dead lark, portends sadness or death.\n\nTo kill a lark, portends injury to innocence through wantonness.\n\nIf they fly around and light on you, Fortune will turn her promising\ncountenance towards you.\n\nTo catch them in traps, you will win honor and love easily.\n\nTo see them eating, denotes a plentiful harvest." }, { "id": "fontaine-0412", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Lark", "text": "To dream of the lark, shows speedy increase of fortune. To\nlovers, this is a very favorable omen, and is a sign that the course of\ntrue love runs smooth. 47, 68.", "locator": "Heading 412; source line 2888", "lineStart": 2888, "lineEnd": 2892, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of the lark, shows speedy increase of fortune. To\nlovers, this is a very favorable omen, and is a sign that the course of\ntrue love runs smooth." }, { "id": "luck-0152", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Lark", "text": "Good luck: improvement in finances.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 152; source lines 3905–3907", "lineStart": 3905, "lineEnd": 3907, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Good luck: improvement in finances." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10622", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Lark", "heading": "Lark", "text": "A lucky dream forecasting health and prosperity (Raphael) ; the symbol of joy and of praise (Bayley).", "lineStart": 10622, "lineEnd": 10624, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 229; NLM OCR lines 10622–10624", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10622, "lineEnd": 10624, "printedPage": 229, "printedPageEnd": 229 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Lark. — A lucky dream forecasting health and prosperity \n(Raphael) ; the symbol of joy and of praise (Bayley). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Lark" }, "displayText": "A lucky dream forecasting health and prosperity (Raphael); the symbol of joy and of praise (Bayley)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "latch", "title": "Latch", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a latch, denotes you will meet urgent appeals for aid, to which you will respond unkindly.”", "aliases": [ "latch" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about latch stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1154", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Latch", "text": "To dream of a latch, denotes you will meet urgent appeals for aid,\nto which you will respond unkindly. To see a broken latch,\nforetells disagreements with your dearest friend.\nSickness is also foretold in this dream.", "locator": "Heading 1157; source lines 13414–13421", "lineStart": 13414, "lineEnd": 13421, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a latch, denotes you will meet urgent appeals for aid,\nto which you will respond unkindly. To see a broken latch,\nforetells disagreements with your dearest friend.\nSickness is also foretold in this dream." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "latin", "title": "Latin", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of studying this language, denotes victory and distinction in your efforts to sustain your opinion on subjects of grave interest to…”", "aliases": [ "latin" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about latin stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1155", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Latin", "text": "To dream of studying this language, denotes victory and distinction\nin your efforts to sustain your opinion on subjects of grave interest\nto the public welfare.", "locator": "Heading 1158; source lines 13421–13427", "lineStart": 13421, "lineEnd": 13427, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of studying this language, denotes victory and distinction\nin your efforts to sustain your opinion on subjects of grave interest\nto the public welfare." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "laudanum", "title": "Laudanum", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you take laudanum, signifies weakness of your own.”", "aliases": [ "laudanum" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about laudanum stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1156", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Laudanum", "text": "To dream that you take laudanum, signifies weakness of your own;\nand that you will have a tendency to be unduly influenced by others.\nYou should cultivate determination.\n\nTo prevent others from taking this drug, indicates that you\nwill be the means of conveying great joy and good to people.\n\nTo see your lover taking laudanum through disappointment,\nsignifies unhappy affairs and the loss of a friend.\n\nTo give it, slight ailments will attack some member of your domestic circle.", "locator": "Heading 1159; source lines 13427–13441", "lineStart": 13427, "lineEnd": 13441, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you take laudanum, signifies weakness of your own;\nand that you will have a tendency to be unduly influenced by others.\nYou should cultivate determination.\n\nTo prevent others from taking this drug, indicates that you\nwill be the means of conveying great joy and good to people.\n\nTo see your lover taking laudanum through disappointment,\nsignifies unhappy affairs and the loss of a friend.\n\nTo give it, slight ailments will attack some member of your domestic circle." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "laughter", "title": "Laughter", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "5 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you laugh and feel cheerful, means success in your undertakings, and bright companions…” Compare 5 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "laughter", "laughing" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about laughter stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1157", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Laughing", "text": "To dream that you laugh and feel cheerful, means success in your undertakings,\nand bright companions socially.\n\nLaughing immoderately at some weird object, denotes disappointment and lack\nof harmony in your surroundings.\n\nTo hear the happy laughter of children, means joy and health\nto the dreamer.\n\nTo laugh at the discomfiture of others, denotes that you will wilfully\ninjure your friends to gratify your own selfish desires.\n\nTo hear mocking laughter, denotes illness and disappointing affairs.", "locator": "Heading 1160; source lines 13441–13457", "lineStart": 13441, "lineEnd": 13457, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you laugh and feel cheerful, means success in your undertakings,\nand bright companions socially.\n\nLaughing immoderately at some weird object, denotes disappointment and lack\nof harmony in your surroundings.\n\nTo hear the happy laughter of children, means joy and health\nto the dreamer.\n\nTo laugh at the discomfiture of others, denotes that you will wilfully\ninjure your friends to gratify your own selfish desires.\n\nTo hear mocking laughter, denotes illness and disappointing affairs.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Laughing” is shown on the Laughter page: same topic" }, { "id": "fontaine-0413", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Laughter", "text": "This omen is unfavorable, and is a sign of tears; it also\ndenotes that you will be worsted by your business engagements; if a\nlover dreams he sees his sweetheart laugh, it is a sign she will jilt\nhim for a stranger; to the married it signifies domestic trouble. 40.", "locator": "Heading 413; source line 2892", "lineStart": 2892, "lineEnd": 2897, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "This omen is unfavorable, and is a sign of tears; it also\ndenotes that you will be worsted by your business engagements; if a\nlover dreams he sees his sweetheart laugh, it is a sign she will jilt\nhim for a stranger; to the married it signifies domestic trouble." }, { "id": "noe-0310", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Laughing", "text": "To dream of\nlaughing violently, betokens sorrow and weeping. It also denotes change of\ncircumstances and friends.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 314; source lines 1251–1253", "lineStart": 1251, "lineEnd": 1253, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of\nlaughing violently, betokens sorrow and weeping. It also denotes change of\ncircumstances and friends.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Laughing” is shown on the Laughter page: same topic" }, { "id": "cielo-0250", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Laughter", "text": "To laugh heartily in your sleep, “Beware\n of trouble!”", "locator": "Dream section, heading 250; source lines 4461–4464", "lineStart": 4461, "lineEnd": 4464, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To laugh heartily in your sleep, “Beware\nof trouble!”" }, { "id": "luck-0153", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Laughter", "text": "Presages difficult circumstances.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 153; source lines 3907–3909", "lineStart": 3907, "lineEnd": 3909, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Presages difficult circumstances." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "laundry", "title": "Laundry", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "summary": "Laundry may explore recurring care, sorting shared responsibilities or whether work returns in a usable form. The task and ownership matter.", "tagline": "Care has a process, a workload and a person waiting for its result.", "aliases": [ "laundry" ], "status": "REVIEW", "psychological": "Laundry can make recurring care concrete: clothes need sorting, cleaning, drying and returning to somebody's use. In a dream, the work may feel manageable or keep growing despite your effort. This can resemble maintaining a household, responding to repeated requests or keeping a project usable after its most visible stage is over. The important distinction is how the workload is arranged and what counts as finished.\n\n Sorting can bring shared ownership into view. Clothes from several people may become mixed, leaving you unsure which item belongs where or whose requirements should be followed. A waking comparison could be organizing a shared task when responsibility has been assumed rather than discussed. Labels, separate piles or a conversation about preferences can make care more specific without requiring one person to know everyone's needs automatically.\n\n A result may be clean yet unavailable. Wet clothes that cannot be collected in time can make completion depend on a stage you cannot simply hurry. This can resemble work that has been done but still needs another person's response or a process to finish before it becomes useful. Waiting, finding a temporary substitute or changing the deadline gives the dream different possibilities from repeatedly doing the earlier stage again.\n\n Reappearing marks can make the source of a difficulty important. If a garment is dirtied whenever you put it back into the same setting, more washing may not change the conditions that keep recreating the problem. A waking comparison might be revising a document while the underlying instructions remain unresolved. The scene can shift attention from the amount of effort to the arrangement in which the result will be used.\n\n Handing laundry to another person introduces trust and accountability as practical tasks. A return ticket, missing item or unfamiliar bundle may make it necessary to explain what was agreed. The dreamed response does not establish a real worker's reliability. Laundry here follows clothes-care and its distribution, rather than every possible building or the workings of a particular machine. Recent routines and remembered garments can give the process direct personal context.", "traditional": "Miller’s Laundry account gives laundering results fortune forecasts and adds period judgments about workers, a laundryman and wagons. It describes tasks, people and objects rather than a laundry building. Those claims remain attributed history; they do not establish illness, class-based character or the outcome of a current effort.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Care that keeps returning", "reflection": "A growing pile may give maintenance a visible workload. The scene can explore how tasks are distributed and what permits a useful stopping point, rather than measuring care through endless completion." }, { "title": "Ownership within shared work", "reflection": "Mixed clothes can make responsibility hard to sort. Clear terms or preferences may let care fit each person without requiring one participant to silently carry every part of the arrangement." }, { "title": "A result ready for use", "reflection": "Cleaning is one stage of making clothes available. Waiting for drying, return or collection may resemble work that needs another step before its effort can serve the intended purpose." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Several households’ clothes become mixed", "reflection": "You can do the cleaning but do not know where the finished items belong. The scene may make shared responsibility harder through missing information. Separating ownership or asking about preferences can be more useful than trying to infer every requirement from the garments alone." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "The pile grows as soon as you finish one part", "reflection": "Completed work creates no clear end because another load is added immediately. This may picture maintenance without an agreed limit or distribution. Clarifying whose tasks are included can change the workload more directly than treating greater speed as the only response." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Clean clothes remain too wet to collect", "reflection": "An earlier stage is complete while the result still cannot serve its purpose. Waiting, finding an alternative or changing the collection time may explore dependence on a process with its own pace. Repeating the washing would address a different part of the task." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A cleaned garment is marked again in the same place", "reflection": "The work succeeds briefly, but its usual setting recreates the difficulty. The scene may resemble revising a result without changing the conditions around it. Looking at where the mark comes from can give the next effort a different purpose from repeating the earlier one." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A laundry bundle returns with an unfamiliar item", "reflection": "The service is complete in one sense, yet the result does not match what you handed over. Explaining the discrepancy or comparing the agreed list may make accountability practical. The dream’s confusion does not reveal a real person’s honesty or care." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You divide the clothes-care task by people’s preferences", "reflection": "Different items receive different handling without leaving every decision to one person. This may picture a workable arrangement for recurring care. The distribution can be useful even when the participants contribute in different ways rather than each completing an identical share." } ], "prompts": [ "What counted as finished and usable in the laundry process?", "How were ownership, preferences and responsibility sorted?", "Which conditions kept recreating the work, and what could change around them?" ], "related": [ "clothes", "washing-machine", "washing", "shirt", "work" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1158" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context only. miller-1158: Laundering clothes and their result, workers, a laundryman and laundry wagons receive fortune, class/gender, sickness/loss and rivalry forecasts. Actual tasks/objects/people, not a laundry-building definition. This citation does not validate the original psychological reflections or predict a waking outcome." } ], "updated": "2026-10-13", "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection independently reviewed for content and source scope. Historical accounts remain attributed period writing. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1158", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Laundry", "text": "To dream of laundering clothes, denotes struggles, but a final victory\nin winning fortune. If the clothes are done satisfactorily, then your\nendeavors will bring complete happiness. If they come out the reverse,\nyour fortune will fail to procure pleasure.\n\nTo see pretty girls at this work, you will seek pleasure out of your rank.\n\nIf a laundryman calls at your house, you are in danger of sickness,\nor of losing something very valuable.\n\nTo see laundry wagons, portends rivalry and contention.", "locator": "Heading 1161; source lines 13457–13471", "lineStart": 13457, "lineEnd": 13471, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of laundering clothes, denotes struggles, but a final victory\nin winning fortune. If the clothes are done satisfactorily, then your\nendeavors will bring complete happiness. If they come out the reverse,\nyour fortune will fail to procure pleasure.\n\nTo see pretty girls at this work, you will seek pleasure out of your rank.\n\nIf a laundryman calls at your house, you are in danger of sickness,\nor of losing something very valuable.\n\nTo see laundry wagons, portends rivalry and contention." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "laurel", "title": "Laurel", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Dreaming of the laurel, brings success and fame.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "laurel" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about laurel stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1159", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Laurel", "text": "Dreaming of the laurel, brings success and fame. You will acquire\nnew possessions in love. Enterprises will be laden with gain.\n\nFor a young woman to wreath laurel about her lover's head,\ndenotes that she will have a faithful man, and one of fame\nto woo her.", "locator": "Heading 1162; source lines 13471–13480", "lineStart": 13471, "lineEnd": 13480, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Dreaming of the laurel, brings success and fame. You will acquire\nnew possessions in love. Enterprises will be laden with gain.\n\nFor a young woman to wreath laurel about her lover's head,\ndenotes that she will have a faithful man, and one of fame\nto woo her." }, { "id": "noe-0295", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Laurel", "text": "To dream you see a\nlaurel tree is a token of victory and pleasure, and if you be married, it\ndenotes the inheritance of possession by your wife. To dream one sees or\nsmells laurel, if it be a woman, she shall bear children. If a maid, she\nwill be suddenly married.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 299; source lines 1206–1210", "lineStart": 1206, "lineEnd": 1210, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see a\nlaurel tree is a token of victory and pleasure, and if you be married, it\ndenotes the inheritance of possession by your wife. To dream one sees or\nsmells laurel, if it be a woman, she shall bear children. If a maid, she\nwill be suddenly married." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10625", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Laurel", "heading": "Laurel", "text": "A dream betokening victory and pleasure (Raphael) ; symbol of victory.", "lineStart": 10625, "lineEnd": 10627, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 229; NLM OCR lines 10625–10627", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10625, "lineEnd": 10627, "printedPage": 229, "printedPageEnd": 229 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Laurel. — A dream betokening victory and pleasure (Raph- \nael) ; symbol of victory. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "Raph- \nael", "after": "Raphael", "evidenceLine": 1365 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Laurel" }, "displayText": "A dream betokening victory and pleasure (Raphael); symbol of victory." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "laurel-or-olive", "title": "Laurel or Olive", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “Denotes victory and pleasure; to the married, inheritance and children; to the single, marriage.”", "aliases": [ "laurel or olive", "laurel", "olive" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about laurel or olive stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0414", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Laurel or Olive", "text": "Denotes victory and pleasure; to the married,\ninheritance and children; to the single, marriage. 71, 13, 1.", "locator": "Heading 414; source line 2897", "lineStart": 2897, "lineEnd": 2900, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Denotes victory and pleasure; to the married,\ninheritance and children; to the single, marriage." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "lava", "title": "Lava", "category": "Nature & elements", "aliases": [ "lava", "molten lava", "lava flow" ], "summary": "Lava can picture powerful change that cannot be hurried or an intense feeling becoming visible. Its speed, boundaries, and what remains afterward matter.", "psychological": "Lava can combine intensity with a movement that changes whatever lies in its path. In a dream, that combination may fit a situation that feels both powerful and difficult to redirect: an argument whose consequences keep spreading, a major change reshaping ordinary routines, or a feeling that has moved from private pressure into visible action. The comparison concerns the scene's heat, momentum, and effect. It does not establish that anger is the explanation for every lava dream.\n\nThe rate of movement gives the image precision. A distant, slow flow may leave time to choose a route and move what matters. Lava appearing beneath your feet can make preparation feel impossible. These scenes can resemble different experiences of change: seeing it unfold with some room to respond, or feeling that your footing has altered before you have understood what happened. A safe vantage point can make the dream about witnessing intensity without being caught in it.\n\nLava may also be beautiful or fascinating. A glowing landscape can give power and transformation an attractive form, perhaps fitting a creative project, a strong interest, or the feeling of something new taking shape. Fear and attraction can coexist when a change brings possibilities as well as disruption. Your chosen distance helps show how much contact feels workable.\n\nCooled lava or new ground changes the subject from movement to aftermath. The dream may invite a reading about what remains after an intense period: a different landscape, a boundary, or room for a new beginning. Familiar volcano imagery, games in which the floor becomes lava, or recent films can also supply the scene. Follow the sequence from heat and movement to your available choices, rather than treating the material as a fixed warning.", "traditional": "The adjacent Volcano archive preserves historical volcanic imagery, while this entry develops original readings of the flowing material and its aftermath. No historical prediction is used to establish the modern interpretations. An imagined lava scene can also draw on play, film, or landscape imagery rather than a personal conflict.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Intensity becomes visible", "reflection": "Heat and spreading movement can give a concrete form to a feeling or change whose effects are no longer confined to one place." }, { "title": "Finding workable distance", "reflection": "Choosing a safe route or vantage point can frame how you make room around a powerful situation." }, { "title": "The landscape after change", "reflection": "Cooling material or newly formed ground can make the scene about what an intense period leaves behind." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "Watching a distant lava flow", "reflection": "Intensity is visible without reaching you. This can picture observing a powerful change while retaining room to think. Fascination, concern, and relief at your distance lead to different interpretations.", "slug": "scene-1" }, { "title": "Trying to find a safe path", "reflection": "The changing ground requires practical decisions. This can resemble adapting around a disruption that cannot simply be stopped. The dream's useful detail may be the route you discover or the help that makes movement possible.", "slug": "scene-2" }, { "title": "Lava moves toward a familiar place", "reflection": "A broad force begins affecting something personal. The scene can fit concern about how a major change reaches home, work, or an established routine. What you choose to protect reveals your priorities within the dream.", "slug": "scene-3" }, { "title": "The lava is beautiful and you want to approach", "reflection": "Power is attractive as well as difficult to approach. This can resemble a creative process that feels exciting but absorbing, or a major change that opens possibilities while unsettling routines. Choosing your distance gives the scene a practical balance between interest and how much intensity you can comfortably engage with.", "slug": "scene-4" }, { "title": "The flow stops and cools", "reflection": "An intense process has an ending. The scene may connect with recovery, a settled boundary, or understanding the consequences of a change after the immediate pressure has passed. Relief and disappointment make different endings.", "slug": "scene-5" }, { "title": "New ground appears where lava flowed", "reflection": "Disruption has also made a different landscape. This can fit discovering new routines or opportunities after a demanding move, ending, or project. Solid ground may make the possibility feel ready to use; uncertainty about your footing can picture the time still needed before a new arrangement feels dependable.", "slug": "scene-6" } ], "prompts": [ "How fast did the lava move, and what time did I have to respond?", "Was its power frightening, compelling, or both?", "What was protected, changed, or left behind at the end?" ], "related": [ "volcano", "fire", "earthquake", "mountain" ], "type": "dreams", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background about dreaming and waking experiences. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia interpretation for personal reflection. Human publication review pending.", "tagline": "Heat becomes movement, and the landscape changes around it.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "lavender", "title": "Lavender", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Book of Luck wrote: “(To smell or to see it growing) Good luck.”", "aliases": [ "lavender" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about lavender stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "luck-0154", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Lavender", "text": "(To smell or to see it growing) Good luck.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 154; source lines 3909–3911", "lineStart": 3909, "lineEnd": 3911, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(To smell or to see it growing) Good luck." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "law", "title": "Law", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of engaging in a lawsuit, warns you of enemies who are poisoning public opinion against you.” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "law", "law and lawsuits", "law, lawyers" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about law stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "judge", "jury" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1160", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Law and Lawsuits", "text": "To dream of engaging in a lawsuit, warns you of enemies who are\npoisoning public opinion against you. If you know that the suit\nis dishonest on your part, you will seek to dispossess true owners\nfor your own advancement.\n\nIf a young man is studying law, he will make rapid rise\nin any chosen profession.\n\nFor a woman to dream that she engages in a law suit, means she\nwill be calumniated, and find enemies among friends.\n\n\n[111] See Judge and Jury.", "locator": "Heading 1163; source lines 13480–13496", "lineStart": 13480, "lineEnd": 13496, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of engaging in a lawsuit, warns you of enemies who are\npoisoning public opinion against you. If you know that the suit\nis dishonest on your part, you will seek to dispossess true owners\nfor your own advancement.\n\nIf a young man is studying law, he will make rapid rise\nin any chosen profession.\n\nFor a woman to dream that she engages in a law suit, means she\nwill be calumniated, and find enemies among friends. See Judge and Jury.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Law and Lawsuits” is shown on the Law page: same topic (law/lawsuits)" }, { "id": "fontaine-0415", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Law", "text": "To dream of instituting a suit at law, or entering a criminal\ncomplaint against any one, shows that some enemy will injure you\npecuniarily, or that you will lose money by speculation or trade; if\nyou dream you are sued, or prosecuted criminally, the sign is the\nreverse; you will probably receive money unexpectedly, or be uncommonly\nsuccessful in your pursuits. 21, 8.", "locator": "Heading 415; source line 2900", "lineStart": 2900, "lineEnd": 2907, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of instituting a suit at law, or entering a criminal\ncomplaint against any one, shows that some enemy will injure you\npecuniarily, or that you will lose money by speculation or trade; if\nyou dream you are sued, or prosecuted criminally, the sign is the\nreverse; you will probably receive money unexpectedly, or be uncommonly\nsuccessful in your pursuits." }, { "id": "noe-0296", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Law", "text": "As to matters of law, to dream of\nplaces, of pleading, judges, attorneys, &c., signifies trouble, expense\nand revealing of secrets. If a sick man dreameth he obtains a suit, he\nshall come to a better estate.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 300; source lines 1210–1213", "lineStart": 1210, "lineEnd": 1213, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "As to matters of law, to dream of\nplaces, of pleading, judges, attorneys, &c., signifies trouble, expense\nand revealing of secrets. If a sick man dreameth he obtains a suit, he\nshall come to a better estate." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10628", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Law, Lawyers", "heading": "Law, Lawyers", "text": "A dream forecasting heavy business losses ; after this dream be careful about entering into bargains or contracts (Raphael).", "lineStart": 10628, "lineEnd": 10631, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 229; NLM OCR lines 10628–10631", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10628, "lineEnd": 10631, "printedPage": 229, "printedPageEnd": 229 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Law, Lawyers. — A dream forecasting heavy business loss- \nes ; after this dream be careful about entering into bargains \nor contracts (Raphael). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "loss- \nes", "after": "losses", "evidenceLine": 7990 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Law, Lawyers" }, "displayText": "A dream forecasting heavy business losses; after this dream be careful about entering into bargains or contracts (Raphael).", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Law, Lawyers” is shown on the Law page: same topic (law/lawsuits)" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "judge", "jury" ] }, { "slug": "law-and-places-of-pleading-and-of-physitians", "title": "Law, and places of Pleading; and of Physitians", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Artemidorus wrote: “PLaces of Pleading, Judges, Attorneyes, and Proctors.”", "aliases": [ "law, and places of pleading; and of physitians", "of law, and places of pleading; and of physitians", "law", "places of pleading;", "physitians" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about law, and places of pleading; and of physitians stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "artemidorus-091", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of Law, and places of Pleading; and of Physitians.", "text": "PLaces of Pleading, Judges, Attorneyes, and Proctors; are trouble, anger, expense, and revealing of secrets. If the sick man dreames he obtaines his suit▪ he shall come to better estate, if otherwise, he shall dye: and if he which is in suit, dream that he sits in the Judges seat, he shall not be overthrowne, but rather his adverfary. Physitians séene in a dream▪ to him which is in law, signifie the same that Attorneys and proctors.", "locator": "Book 2, encoded section 91", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "2", "displayText": "PLaces of Pleading, Judges, Attorneyes, and Proctors; are trouble, anger, expense, and revealing of secrets. If the sick man dreames he obtaines his suit▪ he shall come to better estate, if otherwise, he shall dye: and if he which is in suit, dream that he sits in the Judges seat, he shall not be overthrowne, but rather his adverfary. Physitians séene in a dream▪ to him which is in law, signifie the same that Attorneys and proctors." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "lawns", "title": "Lawns", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of walking upon well-kept lawns, denotes occasions for joy and great prosperity.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "lawns", "lawn" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about lawns stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1161", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Lawns", "text": "To dream of walking upon well-kept lawns, denotes occasions for joy\nand great prosperity.\n\nTo join a merry party upon a lawn, denotes many secular amusements,\nand business engagements will be successfully carried on.\n\nFor a young woman to wait upon a green lawn for the coming of a friend\nor lover, denotes that her most ardent wishes concerning wealth and\nmarriage will be gratified. If the grass be dead and the lawn marshy,\nquarrels and separation may be expected.\n\nTo see serpents crawling in the grass before you, betrayal and cruel\ninsinuations will fill you with despair.", "locator": "Heading 1164; source lines 13496–13512", "lineStart": 13496, "lineEnd": 13512, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of walking upon well-kept lawns, denotes occasions for joy\nand great prosperity.\n\nTo join a merry party upon a lawn, denotes many secular amusements,\nand business engagements will be successfully carried on.\n\nFor a young woman to wait upon a green lawn for the coming of a friend\nor lover, denotes that her most ardent wishes concerning wealth and\nmarriage will be gratified. If the grass be dead and the lawn marshy,\nquarrels and separation may be expected.\n\nTo see serpents crawling in the grass before you, betrayal and cruel\ninsinuations will fill you with despair." }, { "id": "luck-0155", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Lawn", "text": "(Looking at) Good health and prosperity: (running on) worry\nand annoyance.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 155; source lines 3911–3914", "lineStart": 3911, "lineEnd": 3914, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(Looking at) Good health and prosperity: (running on) worry\nand annoyance." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "lawyer", "title": "Lawyer", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "summary": "Lawyer dreams may explore having your position represented, understanding an agreement, or retaining a voice when another person speaks for you.", "tagline": "Representation can offer help while changing who controls the account.", "aliases": [ "lawyer", "lawyers" ], "status": "REVIEW", "psychological": "A lawyer in a dream can make a position easier to present. Someone finds words for your account, explains choices or stands beside you in a process you do not fully understand. A possible reading concerns wanting a fair opportunity to participate when the language or rules belong to someone else. The help is useful when it makes your own circumstances clearer rather than replaces them.\n\nRepresentation can also create distance from your voice. A lawyer who speaks over your objections may picture a helper taking more authority than you meant to give. A waking comparison could be an expert, manager or relative presenting a decision on your behalf. The difficulty may lie in retaining a say, not in rejecting every form of assistance. Asking a clear question or finding another way to explain can alter the dream’s arrangement.\n\nDocuments give agreement a tangible form. Being asked to sign unreadable papers can make the difference between consenting and merely completing a procedure visible. A clear explanation may let the scene move forward; changing terms can keep participation uncertain. These are reflections on the dreamed interaction, not an interpretation of an actual contract or legal case.\n\nHearing another side can create a different perspective. The opposing lawyer may present facts you had not considered, or turn an ordinary disagreement into a contest where every word becomes evidence. The scene could concern the cost of making a position persuasive rather than the discovery of a hidden opponent. A remembered conversation, fictional trial or real encounter with formal language can supply material.\n\nBecoming the lawyer yourself places another person’s account in your care. You may want to advocate well while lacking information or being asked to promise more than you can control. The responsibility could fit helping somebody be heard without being able to decide the outcome for them. An unavailable lawyer creates the reverse dependence: a decision waits while the expected help is absent. The useful distinction is between the position to be represented, the authority given to its representative and the room that remains for each person to understand and choose.", "traditional": "The attached books disagree. Miller links a young woman’s lawyer connection with mortifying criticism and refers to Attorney; Fontaine and Book of Luck assign losses, trouble or quarrels, while Cielo assigns a dear friend’s marriage. These remain historical forecasts. Attorney retains its own identity and history; the modern reading here concerns representation and participation.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A position made understandable", "reflection": "Help can give language and access to an account that otherwise struggles to enter a process." }, { "title": "Retaining your own voice", "reflection": "Representation can support participation or take more authority than intended." }, { "title": "The responsibility of advocacy", "reflection": "Speaking for someone does not give complete control over what follows." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A lawyer makes your account understandable", "reflection": "The explanation can give your circumstances a workable form within unfamiliar rules. This may picture wanting a fair hearing rather than wanting somebody to win at any cost. The useful help allows you to recognize your own account in what is said on your behalf." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You are asked to sign papers you cannot read", "reflection": "The signature is requested before understanding becomes available. A procedure at work or a formal agreement can have a similar tension. The scene makes participation depend on information, so a clearer explanation would change its meaning differently from simply urging you to sign." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Your representative speaks over your objections", "reflection": "The person meant to help occupies the space you wanted for your own response. This can picture uncertainty about the authority delegated to an expert or supporter. The issue is the terms of representation, especially whether the arrangement still permits you to correct the account." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You hear arguments from the other side", "reflection": "The competing account may add perspective or make an ordinary matter feel adversarial. The tone and opportunity to respond change the experience. The dream can explore how a position is presented without discovering an actual enemy or deciding which real account is legally correct." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The lawyer cannot be reached while a decision waits", "reflection": "The process depends on help that remains out of reach. This may resemble waiting for information or support before a consequential choice. The particular missing function matters: explanation, advocacy or practical access could each create a different difficulty when the person is unavailable." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You act as a lawyer for someone else", "reflection": "You hold another person’s story while being asked to make it persuasive. This can picture a wish to help somebody be heard alongside limits of knowledge or influence. The role may become more workable when advocacy is distinguished from a promise to control the outcome." } ], "prompts": [ "What did you need represented or explained?", "How much authority did the representative have, and what voice remained yours?", "If you advocated for someone, what could you offer without controlling the outcome?" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1162" ], "scope": "Historical context only. Attributed Gustavus Hindman Miller passage(s): young woman’s lawyer connection assigned indiscretions and mortifying criticism; explicit See Attorney. These are period beliefs, not established predictions or support for the original psychological reading." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0416" ], "scope": "Historical context only. Attributed Felix Fontaine passage(s): meeting/speaking of a lawyer assigned tidings/property/misfortune forecasts. These are period beliefs, not established predictions or support for the original psychological reading." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0251" ], "scope": "Historical context only. Attributed Astra Cielo passage(s): lawyer assigned a dear friend’s marriage. These are period beliefs, not established predictions or support for the original psychological reading." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0156" ], "scope": "Historical context only. Attributed Anonymous passage(s): lawyer assigned trouble, quarrels, expenses and losses. These are period beliefs, not established predictions or support for the original psychological reading." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "related": [ "attorney", "judge", "police", "prison" ], "updated": "2026-10-13", "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1162", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Lawyer", "text": "For a young woman to dream that she is connected in any way with a lawyer,\nforetells that she will unwittingly commit indiscretions, which will subject\nher to unfavorable and mortifying criticism.\n\n\n[112] See Attorney.", "locator": "Heading 1165; source lines 13512–13521", "lineStart": 13512, "lineEnd": 13521, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a young woman to dream that she is connected in any way with a lawyer,\nforetells that she will unwittingly commit indiscretions, which will subject\nher to unfavorable and mortifying criticism. See Attorney." }, { "id": "fontaine-0416", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Lawyer", "text": "To dream of meeting a lawyer, brings bad tidings; if you speak\nto him, you will lose some property; if you hear some one speaking in\nhis favor, you will meet with some misfortune. 16.", "locator": "Heading 416; source line 2907", "lineStart": 2907, "lineEnd": 2911, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of meeting a lawyer, brings bad tidings; if you speak\nto him, you will lose some property; if you hear some one speaking in\nhis favor, you will meet with some misfortune." }, { "id": "cielo-0251", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Lawyer", "text": "Dreaming of a lawyer denotes the marriage of\n a dear friend.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 251; source lines 4464–4467", "lineStart": 4464, "lineEnd": 4467, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Dreaming of a lawyer denotes the marriage of\na dear friend." }, { "id": "luck-0156", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Lawyer", "text": "Trouble, quarrels, expenses, losses.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 156; source lines 3914–3916", "lineStart": 3914, "lineEnd": 3916, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Trouble, quarrels, expenses, losses." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [ "attorney" ] }, { "slug": "lazy", "title": "Lazy", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of feeling lazy, or acting so, denotes you will make a mistake in the formation of enterprises,…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "lazy" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about lazy stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1163", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Lazy", "text": "To dream of feeling lazy, or acting so, denotes you will make a mistake\nin the formation of enterprises, and will suffer keen disappointment.\n\nFor a young woman to think her lover is lazy, foretells she will have bad luck\nin securing admiration. Her actions will discourage men who mean marriage.", "locator": "Heading 1166; source lines 13521–13529", "lineStart": 13521, "lineEnd": 13529, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of feeling lazy, or acting so, denotes you will make a mistake\nin the formation of enterprises, and will suffer keen disappointment.\n\nFor a young woman to think her lover is lazy, foretells she will have bad luck\nin securing admiration. Her actions will discourage men who mean marriage." }, { "id": "fontaine-0417", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Lazy", "text": "To dream that you see lazy people lounging around, and that you\nare vexed with them, is a sign of bad luck to some of your relatives,\nwho will depend upon you to assist them: if, in your dream, you imagine\nyourself to be lazy and sleepy over your work, it foretells either\nsickness or that you will meet with a loss. 62, 39, 69.", "locator": "Heading 417; source line 2911", "lineStart": 2911, "lineEnd": 2917, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you see lazy people lounging around, and that you\nare vexed with them, is a sign of bad luck to some of your relatives,\nwho will depend upon you to assist them: if, in your dream, you imagine\nyourself to be lazy and sleepy over your work, it foretells either\nsickness or that you will meet with a loss." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "lead", "title": "Lead", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of lead, foretells poor success in any engagement.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "lead" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about lead stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "metals" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1164", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Lead", "text": "To dream of lead, foretells poor success in any engagement.\n\nA lead mine, indicates that your friends will look with suspicion\non your money making. Your sweetheart will surprise you with her\ndeceit and ill temper.\n\nTo dream of lead ore, foretells distress and accidents.\nBusiness will assume a gloomy cast.\n\nTo hunt for lead, denotes discontentment, and a constant\nchanging of employment.\n\nTo melt lead, foretells that by impatience you will bring failure\nupon yourself and others.", "locator": "Heading 1167; source lines 13529–13546", "lineStart": 13529, "lineEnd": 13546, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of lead, foretells poor success in any engagement.\n\nA lead mine, indicates that your friends will look with suspicion\non your money making. Your sweetheart will surprise you with her\ndeceit and ill temper.\n\nTo dream of lead ore, foretells distress and accidents.\nBusiness will assume a gloomy cast.\n\nTo hunt for lead, denotes discontentment, and a constant\nchanging of employment.\n\nTo melt lead, foretells that by impatience you will bring failure\nupon yourself and others." }, { "id": "fontaine-0418", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Lead", "text": "(_See Metals._)", "locator": "Heading 418; source line 2917", "lineStart": 2917, "lineEnd": 2919, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Metals.)" }, { "id": "fontaine-0467", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Lead", "text": "To dream of lead denotes sickness, but to dream of\nleaden bullets good news. If you dream you are wounded by a leaden\nbullet it is a sign you will be successful in love. 49, 50.", "locator": "Heading 467; source line 3160", "lineStart": 3160, "lineEnd": 3164, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of lead denotes sickness, but to dream of\nleaden bullets good news. If you dream you are wounded by a leaden\nbullet it is a sign you will be successful in love." }, { "id": "luck-0157", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Lead", "text": "An inheritance or legacy from beloved friend.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 157; source lines 3916–3918", "lineStart": 3916, "lineEnd": 3918, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "An inheritance or legacy from beloved friend." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1165", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Leaking", "text": "To dream of seeing a leak in anything, is usually significant\nof loss and vexations.", "locator": "Heading 1168; source lines 13546–13551", "lineStart": 13546, "lineEnd": 13551, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing a leak in anything, is usually significant\nof loss and vexations." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "lean", "title": "Lean", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “If one dreams he is grown lean and wasted, he will be disturbed and have suits at law, or some other ill business that will occasion the loss…”", "aliases": [ "lean" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about lean stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "noe-0304", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Lean", "text": "If one dreams he is grown lean and wasted, he will be\ndisturbed and have suits at law, or some other ill business that will\noccasion the loss of his estate, or else he is in danger of falling sick.\nNevertheless, if a woman dreams the tongue grows less, it signifies unto\nher honors, wisdom, prudence and discretion.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 308; source lines 1234–1238", "lineStart": 1234, "lineEnd": 1238, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If one dreams he is grown lean and wasted, he will be\ndisturbed and have suits at law, or some other ill business that will\noccasion the loss of his estate, or else he is in danger of falling sick.\nNevertheless, if a woman dreams the tongue grows less, it signifies unto\nher honors, wisdom, prudence and discretion." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "leap-year", "title": "Leap Year", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “To dream of a leap year is one of the best and most lucky dreams.”", "aliases": [ "leap year" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about leap year stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "leapfrog", "title": "Leapfrog", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “For a man to dream he plays at leapfrog is bad.”", "aliases": [ "leapfrog" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about leapfrog stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "leaping", "title": "Leaping", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “For a young woman to dream of leaping over an obstruction, denotes that she will gain her desires after…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "leaping" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about leaping stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "jumping" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1166", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Leaping", "text": "For a young woman to dream of leaping over an obstruction, denotes that she\nwill gain her desires after much struggling and opposition.\n\n\n[113] See Jumping.", "locator": "Heading 1169; source lines 13551–13559", "lineStart": 13551, "lineEnd": 13559, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a young woman to dream of leaping over an obstruction, denotes that she\nwill gain her desires after much struggling and opposition. See Jumping." }, { "id": "fontaine-0419", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Leaping", "text": "To dream you are leaping over walls, doors or gates, is a sign\nthat you will encounter many difficulties in your present pursuits and\nthat your sweetheart will not marry you. 9, 31.", "locator": "Heading 419; source line 2919", "lineStart": 2919, "lineEnd": 2923, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are leaping over walls, doors or gates, is a sign\nthat you will encounter many difficulties in your present pursuits and\nthat your sweetheart will not marry you." }, { "id": "noe-0282", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Leaping", "text": "To dream\nyou are leaping over walls, doors or gates, is a sign that you will\nencounter many difficulties in your present pursuits, and that your\nsweetheart will not marry you.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 285; source lines 1167–1170", "lineStart": 1167, "lineEnd": 1170, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream\nyou are leaping over walls, doors or gates, is a sign that you will\nencounter many difficulties in your present pursuits, and that your\nsweetheart will not marry you." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1168", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Leather", "text": "To dream of leather, denotes successful business and favorable\nengagements with women. You will go into lucky speculations\nif you dream that you are dressed in leather.\n\nOrnaments of leather, denotes faithfulness in love and to the home.\n\nPiles of leather, denotes fortune and happiness.\n\nTo deal in leather, signifies no change in the disposition of your engagements\nis necessary for successful accumulation of wealth.", "locator": "Heading 1171; source lines 13574–13587", "lineStart": 13574, "lineEnd": 13587, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of leather, denotes successful business and favorable\nengagements with women. You will go into lucky speculations\nif you dream that you are dressed in leather.\n\nOrnaments of leather, denotes faithfulness in love and to the home.\n\nPiles of leather, denotes fortune and happiness.\n\nTo deal in leather, signifies no change in the disposition of your engagements\nis necessary for successful accumulation of wealth." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1169", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Leaves", "text": "To dream of leaves, denotes happiness and wonderful improvement\nin your business.\n\nWithered leaves, indicate false hopes and gloomy forebodings will harass\nyour spirit into a whirlpool of despondency and loss.\n\nIf a young woman dreams of withered leaves, she will be left lonely\non the road to conjugality. Death is sometimes implied.\n\nIf the leaves are green and fresh, she will come into a legacy\nand marry a wealthy and prepossessing husband.", "locator": "Heading 1172; source lines 13587–13601", "lineStart": 13587, "lineEnd": 13601, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of leaves, denotes happiness and wonderful improvement\nin your business.\n\nWithered leaves, indicate false hopes and gloomy forebodings will harass\nyour spirit into a whirlpool of despondency and loss.\n\nIf a young woman dreams of withered leaves, she will be left lonely\non the road to conjugality. Death is sometimes implied.\n\nIf the leaves are green and fresh, she will come into a legacy\nand marry a wealthy and prepossessing husband." }, { "id": "fontaine-0420", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Leaves", "text": "To dream you see leaves growing freshly on a tree or plant,\nis a good sign, and shows you will live long and be happy; but to see\nleaves wither and fall to the ground, is a sign of sickness and death.\n47, 21.", "locator": "Heading 420; source line 2923", "lineStart": 2923, "lineEnd": 2928, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see leaves growing freshly on a tree or plant,\nis a good sign, and shows you will live long and be happy; but to see\nleaves wither and fall to the ground, is a sign of sickness and death." }, { "id": "cielo-0252", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Leaves", "text": "Dry leaves are a sign of indisposition which\n will not last long.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 252; source lines 4467–4470", "lineStart": 4467, "lineEnd": 4470, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Dry leaves are a sign of indisposition which\nwill not last long." }, { "id": "luck-0158", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Leaf", "text": "(To dream of being covered with leaves) Difficulties will\nprove to be only temporary: (faded leaves) disappointed hopes.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 158; source lines 3918–3924", "lineStart": 3918, "lineEnd": 3924, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(To dream of being covered with leaves) Difficulties will\nprove to be only temporary: (faded leaves) disappointed hopes." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10632", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Leaves", "heading": "Leaves", "text": "Trees covered with fresh leaves signify success in business ; blossoms and fruits among leaves, a dream of marriage; withered leaves signify losses and bad crops (Raphael).", "lineStart": 10632, "lineEnd": 10635, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 229; NLM OCR lines 10632–10635", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10632, "lineEnd": 10635, "printedPage": 229, "printedPageEnd": 229 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Leaves. — Trees covered with fresh leaves signify success \nin business ; blossoms and fruits among leaves, a dream of mar- \nriage; withered leaves signify losses and bad crops (Raphael). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "mar- \nriage", "after": "marriage", "evidenceLine": 4610 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Leaves" }, "displayText": "Trees covered with fresh leaves signify success in business; blossoms and fruits among leaves, a dream of marriage; withered leaves signify losses and bad crops (Raphael)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "leaving-during-an-evacuation", "title": "Leaving during an evacuation", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "Evacuating places urgency beside decisions about people, possessions, and where safety can be found. The dream is not a disaster forecast.", "summary": "Evacuating places urgency beside decisions about people, possessions, and where safety can be found. The dream is not a disaster forecast.", "aliases": [ "evacuation dream", "emergency evacuation from home" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "Focus on the instructions you received and what you tried to protect first. News, preparedness concerns, or lived experience may provide direct context. A reflection about priorities should not become a moral test of what you chose under dream pressure. Notice whether you had transport, clear information, and assistance; the scene’s resources shape choices that can otherwise look like personal shortcomings.", "traditional": "Historic disaster omens should not be used to predict emergencies. This modern reflection concerns response and access to help, not the claim that dreamed weather or fire announces a future event.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "You have time to take only one bag", "reflection": "What made its contents feel essential in that moment?" }, { "title": "You help someone who cannot use the main exit", "reflection": "Which needs had the evacuation plan overlooked?" }, { "title": "Clear instructions lead everyone to a safe place", "reflection": "How did trustworthy coordination change the emotional atmosphere?" } ], "prompts": [ "What information did you have when you needed to leave?", "Who needed help and who was able to offer it?", "What did safety mean beyond distance from the danger?" ], "related": [ "escape", "disaster", "shelter" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia model-assisted editorial draft. Reflection questions and scenario readings are optional, individually written suggestions, not empirically validated symbol meanings. Source scope is stated with each citation. Historical comparisons identify topics, not inherited interpretations. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "lechery", "title": "Lechery", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “To dream of lechery, denotes to the dreamer a spell of sickness.”", "aliases": [ "lechery" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about lechery stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "noe-0290", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Lechery", "text": "To dream of lechery, denotes to the dreamer a spell\nof sickness.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 293; source lines 1187–1188", "lineStart": 1187, "lineEnd": 1188, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of lechery, denotes to the dreamer a spell\nof sickness." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "ledger", "title": "Ledger", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of keeping a ledger, you will have perplexities and disappointing conditions to combat.”", "aliases": [ "ledger" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about ledger stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1170", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Ledger", "text": "To dream of keeping a ledger, you will have perplexities and disappointing\nconditions to combat.\n\nTo dream that you make wrong entries on your ledger, you will have small\ndisputes and a slight loss will befall you.\n\nTo put a ledger into a safe, you will be able to protect your rights\nunder adverse circumstances.\n\nTo get your ledger misplaced, your interests will go awry through\nneglect of duty.\n\nTo dream that your ledger gets destroyed by fire, you will suffer\nthrough the carelessness of friends.\n\nTo dream that you have a woman to keep your ledger, you will lose\nmoney trying to combine pleasure with business.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of ledgers, denotes she will have a solid\nbusiness man to make her a proposal of marriage.\n\nTo dream that your ledger has worthless accounts, denotes bad\nmanagement and losses; but if the accounts are good, then your\nbusiness will assume improved conditions.", "locator": "Heading 1173; source lines 13601–13628", "lineStart": 13601, "lineEnd": 13628, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of keeping a ledger, you will have perplexities and disappointing\nconditions to combat.\n\nTo dream that you make wrong entries on your ledger, you will have small\ndisputes and a slight loss will befall you.\n\nTo put a ledger into a safe, you will be able to protect your rights\nunder adverse circumstances.\n\nTo get your ledger misplaced, your interests will go awry through\nneglect of duty.\n\nTo dream that your ledger gets destroyed by fire, you will suffer\nthrough the carelessness of friends.\n\nTo dream that you have a woman to keep your ledger, you will lose\nmoney trying to combine pleasure with business.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of ledgers, denotes she will have a solid\nbusiness man to make her a proposal of marriage.\n\nTo dream that your ledger has worthless accounts, denotes bad\nmanagement and losses; but if the accounts are good, then your\nbusiness will assume improved conditions." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "leeches", "title": "Leeches", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of leeches, foretells that enemies will run over your interests.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "leeches" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about leeches stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1171", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Leeches", "text": "To dream of leeches, foretells that enemies will run over your interests.\n\nIf they are applied to you for medicinal purposes, you will have a serious\nillness tn your family (if you escape yourself).\n\nTo see them applied to others, denotes sickness or trouble to friends.\n\nIf they should bite you, there is danger for you in unexpected places,\nand you should heed well this warning.", "locator": "Heading 1174; source lines 13628–13640", "lineStart": 13628, "lineEnd": 13640, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of leeches, foretells that enemies will run over your interests.\n\nIf they are applied to you for medicinal purposes, you will have a serious\nillness tn your family (if you escape yourself).\n\nTo see them applied to others, denotes sickness or trouble to friends.\n\nIf they should bite you, there is danger for you in unexpected places,\nand you should heed well this warning." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10636", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Leeches", "heading": "Leeches", "text": "To dream of leeches being applied denotes sickness (Raphael) ; as an ancient and popular remedy, the application of leeches would connote a subconsciousness of illness.", "lineStart": 10636, "lineEnd": 10639, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 229; NLM OCR lines 10636–10639", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10636, "lineEnd": 10639, "printedPage": 229, "printedPageEnd": 229 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Leeches. — To dream of leeches being applied denotes sick- \nness (Raphael) ; as an ancient and popular remedy, the appli- \ncation of leeches would connote a subconsciousness of illness. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "sick- \nness", "after": "sickness", "evidenceLine": 2187 }, { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "appli- \ncation", "after": "application", "evidenceLine": 932 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Leeches" }, "displayText": "To dream of leeches being applied denotes sickness (Raphael); as an ancient and popular remedy, the application of leeches would connote a subconsciousness of illness." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "leeward", "title": "Leeward", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of sailing leeward, denotes to the sailor a prosperous and merry voyage.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "leeward" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about leeward stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1172", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Leeward", "text": "To dream of sailing leeward, denotes to the sailor a prosperous\nand merry voyage. To others, a pleasant journey.", "locator": "Heading 1175; source lines 13640–13645", "lineStart": 13640, "lineEnd": 13645, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of sailing leeward, denotes to the sailor a prosperous\nand merry voyage. To others, a pleasant journey." }, { "id": "noe-0292", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Leeward", "text": "For a captain or seafaring man to dream his vessel drifts\nleeward, is ominous of a storm.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 296; source lines 1194–1195", "lineStart": 1194, "lineEnd": 1195, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a captain or seafaring man to dream his vessel drifts\nleeward, is ominous of a storm." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "legacy", "title": "Legacy", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “To dream of receiving one, denotes losing whatever you own that is in the hands of another, involving you in litigation, debt, unhappiness and…”", "aliases": [ "legacy" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about legacy stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "noe-0309", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Legacy", "text": "To dream of receiving one, denotes losing\nwhatever you own that is in the hands of another, involving you in\nlitigation, debt, unhappiness and trouble.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 313; source lines 1249–1251", "lineStart": 1249, "lineEnd": 1251, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of receiving one, denotes losing\nwhatever you own that is in the hands of another, involving you in\nlitigation, debt, unhappiness and trouble." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "legerdemain", "title": "Legerdemain", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of practising legerdemain, or seeing others doing so, signifies you will be placed in a position where your energy and power of…”", "aliases": [ "legerdemain" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about legerdemain stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1173", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Legerdemain", "text": "To dream of practising legerdemain, or seeing others doing so,\nsignifies you will be placed in a position where your energy\nand power of planning will be called into strenuous play\nto extricate yourself.", "locator": "Heading 1176; source lines 13645–13652", "lineStart": 13645, "lineEnd": 13652, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of practising legerdemain, or seeing others doing so,\nsignifies you will be placed in a position where your energy\nand power of planning will be called into strenuous play\nto extricate yourself." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "legislature", "title": "Legislature", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are a member of a legislature, foretells you will be vain of your possessions and will treat members of your family…”", "aliases": [ "legislature" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about legislature stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1174", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Legislature", "text": "To dream that you are a member of a legislature, foretells you will be\nvain of your possessions and will treat members of your family unkindly.\nYou will have no real advancement.", "locator": "Heading 1177; source lines 13652–13658", "lineStart": 13652, "lineEnd": 13658, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are a member of a legislature, foretells you will be\nvain of your possessions and will treat members of your family unkindly.\nYou will have no real advancement." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "legs", "title": "Legs", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “If you dream of admiring well-shaped feminine legs, you will lose your judgment, and act very silly over…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "legs" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about legs stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1175", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Legs", "text": "If you dream of admiring well-shaped feminine legs, you will lose\nyour judgment, and act very silly over some fair charmer.\n\nTo see misshapen legs, denotes unprofitable occupations\nand ill-tempered comrades.\n\nA wounded leg, foretells losses and agonizing attacks of malaria.\n\nTo dream that you have a wooden leg, denotes that you will bemean\nyourself in a false way to your friends.\n\nIf ulcers are on your legs, it signifies a drain on your income\nto aid others.\n\nTo dream that you have three, or more, legs, indicates that more enterprises\nare planned in your imagination than will ever benefit you.\n\nIf you can't use your legs, it portends poverty.\n\nTo have a leg amputated, you will lose valued friends, and the home\ninfluence will render life unbearable.\n\nFor a young woman to admire her own legs, denotes vanity, and she\nwill be repulsed by the man she admires. If she has hairy legs,\nshe will dominate her husband.\n\nIf your own legs are clean and well shaped, it denotes a happy future\nand devoted friends.", "locator": "Heading 1178; source lines 13658–13689", "lineStart": 13658, "lineEnd": 13689, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream of admiring well-shaped feminine legs, you will lose\nyour judgment, and act very silly over some fair charmer.\n\nTo see misshapen legs, denotes unprofitable occupations\nand ill-tempered comrades.\n\nA wounded leg, foretells losses and agonizing attacks of malaria.\n\nTo dream that you have a wooden leg, denotes that you will bemean\nyourself in a false way to your friends.\n\nIf ulcers are on your legs, it signifies a drain on your income\nto aid others.\n\nTo dream that you have three, or more, legs, indicates that more enterprises\nare planned in your imagination than will ever benefit you.\n\nIf you can't use your legs, it portends poverty.\n\nTo have a leg amputated, you will lose valued friends, and the home\ninfluence will render life unbearable.\n\nFor a young woman to admire her own legs, denotes vanity, and she\nwill be repulsed by the man she admires. If she has hairy legs,\nshe will dominate her husband.\n\nIf your own legs are clean and well shaped, it denotes a happy future\nand devoted friends." }, { "id": "fontaine-0421", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Legs", "text": "To dream of thick and fat legs is a bad omen, as it foreshadows\nsickness: thin, spindleshank legs are excellent ones to dream about, as\nthey denote a successful race with fortune. It is not to be supposed\nthat a lover will ever dream of his sweetheart’s legs, but if he should\ndo so, he will probably imagine them to be round, plump, and of an\nalabaster whiteness; this is a bad dream, and he should by all means\navoid thinking of her legs when he goes to sleep: if a lady dreams that\nher lover’s legs are thin, it foretells that he will be a rich man. 48,\n5.", "locator": "Heading 421; source line 2928", "lineStart": 2928, "lineEnd": 2938, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of thick and fat legs is a bad omen, as it foreshadows\nsickness: thin, spindleshank legs are excellent ones to dream about, as\nthey denote a successful race with fortune. It is not to be supposed\nthat a lover will ever dream of his sweetheart’s legs, but if he should\ndo so, he will probably imagine them to be round, plump, and of an\nalabaster whiteness; this is a bad dream, and he should by all means\navoid thinking of her legs when he goes to sleep: if a lady dreams that\nher lover’s legs are thin, it foretells that he will be a rich man. 48," }, { "id": "noe-0283", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Legs", "text": "To dream that your legs are scabby\nor itchy, signifies fruitless perplexity and care. To dream one hath a\nwooden leg, signifies the alteration of condition, from good to bad, and\nfrom bad to worse.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 286; source lines 1170–1173", "lineStart": 1170, "lineEnd": 1173, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that your legs are scabby\nor itchy, signifies fruitless perplexity and care. To dream one hath a\nwooden leg, signifies the alteration of condition, from good to bad, and\nfrom bad to worse." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "lemonade", "title": "Lemonade", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “If you drink lemonade in a dream, you will concur with others in signifying some entertainment as a niggardly device to raise funds for the…”", "aliases": [ "lemonade" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about lemonade stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1176", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Lemonade", "text": "If you drink lemonade in a dream, you will concur with others\nin signifying some entertainment as a niggardly device to raise\nfunds for the personal enjoyment of others at your expense.", "locator": "Heading 1179; source lines 13689–13695", "lineStart": 13689, "lineEnd": 13695, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you drink lemonade in a dream, you will concur with others\nin signifying some entertainment as a niggardly device to raise\nfunds for the personal enjoyment of others at your expense." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "lemons", "title": "Lemons", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing lemons on their native trees among rich foliage, denotes jealousy toward some beloved…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "lemons" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about lemons stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1177", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Lemons", "text": "To dream of seeing lemons on their native trees among rich foliage,\ndenotes jealousy toward some beloved object, but demonstrations\nwill convince you of the absurdity of the charge.\n\nTo eat lemons, foretells humiliation and disappointments.\n\nGreen lemons, denotes sickness and contagion.\n\nTo see shriveled lemons, denotes divorce, if married,\nand separation, to lovers.", "locator": "Heading 1180; source lines 13695–13708", "lineStart": 13695, "lineEnd": 13708, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing lemons on their native trees among rich foliage,\ndenotes jealousy toward some beloved object, but demonstrations\nwill convince you of the absurdity of the charge.\n\nTo eat lemons, foretells humiliation and disappointments.\n\nGreen lemons, denotes sickness and contagion.\n\nTo see shriveled lemons, denotes divorce, if married,\nand separation, to lovers." }, { "id": "fontaine-0422", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Lemons", "text": "To dream of lemons denotes contentions in your family and\nuneasiness on account of children; they announce the death of some\nrelation and disappointment in love. 22.", "locator": "Heading 422; source line 2938", "lineStart": 2938, "lineEnd": 2942, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of lemons denotes contentions in your family and\nuneasiness on account of children; they announce the death of some\nrelation and disappointment in love." }, { "id": "noe-0287", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Lemons", "text": "To dream of lemons denotes contentions in your\nfamily and uneasiness on account of children. They announce the death of\nsome relation and disappointment in love.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 290; source lines 1179–1181", "lineStart": 1179, "lineEnd": 1181, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of lemons denotes contentions in your\nfamily and uneasiness on account of children. They announce the death of\nsome relation and disappointment in love." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "lending", "title": "Lending", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are lending money, foretells difficulties in meeting payments of debts and unpleasant influence in private.”", "aliases": [ "lending" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about lending stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1178", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Lending", "text": "To dream that you are lending money, foretells difficulties in meeting\npayments of debts and unpleasant influence in private.\n\nTo lend other articles, denotes impoverishment through generosity.\n\nTo refuse to lend things, you will be awake to your interests\nand keep the respect of friends.\n\nFor others to offer to lend you articles, or money, denotes prosperity\nand close friendships.", "locator": "Heading 1181; source lines 13708–13721", "lineStart": 13708, "lineEnd": 13721, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are lending money, foretells difficulties in meeting\npayments of debts and unpleasant influence in private.\n\nTo lend other articles, denotes impoverishment through generosity.\n\nTo refuse to lend things, you will be awake to your interests\nand keep the respect of friends.\n\nFor others to offer to lend you articles, or money, denotes prosperity\nand close friendships." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "lentil", "title": "Lentil", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “If you dream of lentils, it denotes quarrels and unhealthy surroundings.”", "aliases": [ "lentil" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about lentil stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1179", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Lentil", "text": "If you dream of lentils, it denotes quarrels and unhealthy surroundings.\nFor a young woman, this dream portends dissatisfaction with her lover,\nbut parental advice will cause her to accept the inevitable.", "locator": "Heading 1182; source lines 13721–13727", "lineStart": 13721, "lineEnd": 13727, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream of lentils, it denotes quarrels and unhealthy surroundings.\nFor a young woman, this dream portends dissatisfaction with her lover,\nbut parental advice will cause her to accept the inevitable." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "leopard", "title": "Leopard", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a leopard attacking you, denotes that while the future seemingly promises fair, success holds…” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "leopard", "leopards" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about leopard stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1180", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Leopard", "text": "To dream of a leopard attacking you, denotes that while the future seemingly\npromises fair, success holds many difficulties through misplaced confidence.\n\nTo kill one, intimates victory in your affairs.\n\nTo see one caged, denotes that enemies will surround but fail\nto injure you.\n\nTo see leopards in their native place trying to escape from you,\ndenotes that you will be embarrassed in business or love,\nbut by persistent efforts you will overcome difficulties.\n\nTo dream of a leopard's skin, denotes that your interests will be endangered\nby a dishonest person who will win your esteem.", "locator": "Heading 1183; source lines 13727–13744", "lineStart": 13727, "lineEnd": 13744, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a leopard attacking you, denotes that while the future seemingly\npromises fair, success holds many difficulties through misplaced confidence.\n\nTo kill one, intimates victory in your affairs.\n\nTo see one caged, denotes that enemies will surround but fail\nto injure you.\n\nTo see leopards in their native place trying to escape from you,\ndenotes that you will be embarrassed in business or love,\nbut by persistent efforts you will overcome difficulties.\n\nTo dream of a leopard's skin, denotes that your interests will be endangered\nby a dishonest person who will win your esteem." }, { "id": "fontaine-0423", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Leopard", "text": "To dream of this animal, signifies that you have many false\nfriends, who are endeavoring to ruin you, it also betokens family\nquarrels and domestic unhappiness. 24, 76.", "locator": "Heading 423; source line 2942", "lineStart": 2942, "lineEnd": 2946, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of this animal, signifies that you have many false\nfriends, who are endeavoring to ruin you, it also betokens family\nquarrels and domestic unhappiness." }, { "id": "noe-0285", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Leopards", "text": "Dreaming of leopards, foretells honor.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 288; source lines 1176–1177", "lineStart": 1176, "lineEnd": 1177, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Dreaming of leopards, foretells honor." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10642", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Leopard", "heading": "Leopard", "text": "To dream of a leopard signifies dangers and difficulties and as many changes as there are spots on his coat (Gypsy). The leopard is the symbol of watchfulness and alertness, also treachery.", "lineStart": 10642, "lineEnd": 10646, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 229; NLM OCR lines 10642–10646", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10642, "lineEnd": 10646, "printedPage": 229, "printedPageEnd": 229 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Leopard. — To dream of a leopard signifies dangers and dif- \nficulties and as many changes as there are spots on his coat \n(Gypsy). The leopard is the symbol of watchfulness and \nalertness, also treachery. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "dif- \nficulties", "after": "difficulties", "evidenceLine": 7951 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Leopard" }, "displayText": "To dream of a leopard signifies dangers and difficulties and as many changes as there are spots on his coat (Gypsy). The leopard is the symbol of watchfulness and alertness, also treachery." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "leper", "title": "Leper", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “A dream of shame and infamy, it also prognosticates illness (Gypsy).”", "aliases": [ "leper" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about leper stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "leprosy", "title": "Leprosy", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are infected with this dread disease, foretells sickness, by which you will lose money and incur the displeasure of others.”", "aliases": [ "leprosy" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about leprosy stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1181", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Leprosy", "text": "To dream that you are infected with this dread disease, foretells sickness,\nby which you will lose money and incur the displeasure of others.\n\nIf you see others afflicted thus, you will meet discouraging\nprospects and love will turn into indifference.", "locator": "Heading 1184; source lines 13744–13752", "lineStart": 13744, "lineEnd": 13752, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are infected with this dread disease, foretells sickness,\nby which you will lose money and incur the displeasure of others.\n\nIf you see others afflicted thus, you will meet discouraging\nprospects and love will turn into indifference." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "letter", "title": "Letter", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "aliases": [ "letter", "letters" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1182" ], "scope": "Miller's full Letter passage concerns correspondence: registered and anonymous letters, writing/receiving, news, affection, colored stationery and ink, unreadability, interception/concealment, borders, torn letters, hand delivery and repeated friend letters. Its detailed relationship, reputation, illness, loss and arrival forecasts do not disclose real intentions or validate generic hue meanings. Specific supplied passages: Letter — miller-1182 (Heading 1185; source lines 13752–13817). Historical comparison only; these period beliefs do not establish outcomes or validate the original symbolic reflections." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0424" ], "scope": "Fontaine explicitly identifies paper missives, assigning honors to many letters, secret praise to one and gendered devotion claims to love letters. Specific supplied passages: Letters — fontaine-0424 (Heading 424; source line 2946). Historical comparison only; these period beliefs do not establish outcomes or validate the original symbolic reflections." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0284" ], "scope": "Noe assigns affection to receiving correspondence and success in enterprises to writing it. Specific supplied passages: Letters — noe-0284 (Dream section, heading 287; source lines 1173–1176). Historical comparison only; these period beliefs do not establish outcomes or validate the original symbolic reflections." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0253" ], "scope": "Cielo assigns good news and prosperity to receiving a letter. Specific supplied passages: Letter — cielo-0253 (Dream section, heading 253; source lines 4470–4473). Historical comparison only; these period beliefs do not establish outcomes or validate the original symbolic reflections." }, { "id": "moles-71045", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams and Moles", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "United Kingdom, J. Marshall, 1805", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71045", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "moles-0025", "moles-0047" ], "scope": "The first supplied anonymous passage assigns love/constancy or satisfaction to receiving a letter. The second supplied anonymous passage assigns success in love or an absent friend's arrival to receiving a letter. Specific supplied passages: Letter — moles-0025 (Dreams interpreted, passage 25; source lines 182–183); Letter — moles-0047 (Dreams interpreted, passage 47; source lines 246–247). Historical comparison only; these period beliefs do not establish outcomes or validate the original symbolic reflections." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L10650" ], "scope": "Craig assigns good news to writing or receiving letters under a period cultural label. This is a printed attribution, not a verified contemporary cultural rule. Specific supplied passages: Letters — craig-1918:L10650 (Printed p. 229; NLM OCR lines 10650–10651). Historical comparison only; these period beliefs do not establish outcomes or validate the original symbolic reflections." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "summary": "A written letter may focus on what you want to communicate, the time between sending and receiving, and who can read the message.", "tagline": "A message that travels between people.", "psychological": "A letter in this entry is a written message between people, not an individual alphabet character. Its distinctive feature is distance: someone can write in one place and be read later in another. Begin with whether you are composing, sending, receiving or keeping it. Those actions create different questions about communication, timing and what remains available after an exchange.\n\nWriting a letter may give you time to choose words you cannot easily say aloud. You might revise one sentence, leave something out or decide that the draft is enough for now. This could resemble preparing a conversation or trying to describe a preference clearly. The dream does not reveal a hidden message that you must deliver.\n\nReceiving a letter can emphasize anticipation before the content is known. The handwriting, envelope or sender's name might matter more than the words inside. Perhaps a recent unanswered message or remembered correspondence supplies that expectation. What you imagine the letter says cannot establish what another person actually thinks, intends or has experienced.\n\nDelivery changes the scope. A letter addressed to someone else raises questions about your role in an exchange; an intercepted or openly read letter may focus on who has access. Consider whether you are meant to carry, interpret, protect or simply leave the message alone. Privacy and participation need not be opposing wishes in every scene.\n\nThe physical letter can also preserve a past exchange. Keeping it, rereading it or finding it among ordinary papers may bring an earlier relationship into your present attention. You can value the record while recognizing that the circumstances have changed. A remembered deceased person's handwriting may come from memory; it is not evidence of communication beyond the dream.\n\nRecent mail, old documents, work correspondence or a film can supply the scene directly. If the text is unreadable, focus on the interrupted act of receiving or reading; if it changes, that is a further feature rather than the basic meaning of a letter. Which part of the exchange remains unfinished, and what form of communication would suit your present intention?", "traditional": "All seven supplied accounts concern correspondence. Fontaine explicitly calls letters paper missives; Noe, Cielo and the two anonymous Interpretation of Dreams and Moles passages assign receiving or writing forecasts. Miller adds detailed conditions involving delivery, privacy, legibility and colored stationery. Craig records a brief good-news claim under a period cultural label. These forecasts do not disclose another person's intentions, validate color codes or predict a message.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Choosing what to communicate", "reflection": "Drafting, revision and deciding when to send can make the form of an intended exchange visible." }, { "title": "Waiting between sender and reader", "reflection": "The letter's journey may focus on anticipation and incomplete information rather than the actual thoughts of another person." }, { "title": "Access and lasting records", "reflection": "Who can read or keep a letter may matter alongside its content, especially when a past exchange returns to attention." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "Rewriting one sentence before sending", "reflection": "Most of the letter is ready, but one sentence does not express what you mean. The scene may help identify a point that deserves clearer wording in a present conversation. Notice what you want that sentence to accomplish, without assuming the dreamed draft contains a message you must send." }, { "title": "Receiving an envelope you hesitate to open", "reflection": "The sender's name or handwriting creates anticipation before you know the contents. This could reflect waiting for a response or encountering a remembered exchange. Ask what you expect and why; a dreamed envelope does not provide evidence that the real sender has particular news or feelings." }, { "title": "Carrying a letter addressed to someone else", "reflection": "You are responsible for delivery without being the intended reader. The scene might explore a limited role in a shared exchange: passing information along while respecting where your participation ends. Notice whether carrying the message feels straightforward, burdensome or tempting, rather than assigning one moral meaning to curiosity." }, { "title": "A private letter is read aloud without your agreement", "reflection": "The words remain yours, but the audience changes. Consider what difference that makes to the communication you intended. The scene can help describe a preference about access and context, without proving that anyone has actually disclosed information or will disregard your privacy." }, { "title": "Finding an old letter among practical papers", "reflection": "An earlier exchange appears while you are sorting something ordinary. The dream may place a remembered relationship beside current responsibilities. What part of the letter feels relevant now, and what belongs to its earlier circumstances? Finding it does not require you to resume the exchange or repeat its promises." }, { "title": "Sending a letter without waiting for a reply", "reflection": "You finish the message and choose to continue another activity. This could focus on completing your part of an exchange while leaving the other person's response open. Notice whether that separation feels satisfying or difficult; the scene does not predict whether an actual reply will come." } ], "prompts": [ "How were you participating in the exchange around the letter?", "What did you know about its contents, and what did you only expect?", "Who could read it, and how did that affect the intended exchange?" ], "related": [ "writing", "reading", "alphabet", "letter-carrier", "privacy" ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1182", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Letter", "text": "To dream that you see a registered letter, foretells that some money\nmatters will disrupt long-established relations.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she receives such a letter,\nintimates that she will be offered a competency, but it will\nnot be on strictly legal, or moral grounds; others may play\ntowards her a dishonorable part.\n\nTo the lover, this bears heavy presentments of disagreeable mating.\nHis sweetheart will covet other gifts than his own.\n\nTo dream of an anonymous letter, denotes that you will receive injury\nfrom an unsuspected source.\n\nTo write one, foretells that you will be jealous of a rival,\nwhom you admit to be your superior.\n\nTo dream of getting letters bearing unpleasant news, denotes difficulties\nor illness. If the news is of a joyous character, you will have many\nthings to be thankful for. If the letter is affectionate, but is written\non green, or colored, paper, you will be slighted in love and business.\nDespondency will envelop you. Blue ink, denotes constancy and affection,\nalso bright fortune.\n\nRed colors in a letter, imply estrangements through suspicion and jealousy,\nbut this may be overcome by wise maneuvering of the suspected party.\n\nIf a young woman dreams that she receives a letter from her lover and places\nit near her heart, she will be worried very much by a good-looking rival.\nTruthfulness is often rewarded with jealousy.\n\nIf you fail to read the letter, you will lose something either\nin a business or social way.\n\nLetters nearly always bring worry.\n\nTo have your letter intercepted, rival enemies are working to defame you.\n\nTo dream of trying to conceal a letter from your sweetheart or wife,\nintimates that you are interested in unworthy occupations.\n\nTo dream of a letter with a black border, signifies distress\nand the death of some relative.\n\nTo receive a letter written on black paper with white ink,\ndenotes that gloom and disappointment will assail you, and friendly\ninterposition will render small relief. If the letter passes between\nhusband and wife, it means separation under sensational charges.\nIf lovers, look for quarrels and threats of suicide.\nTo business people, it denotes enviousness and covetousness.\n\nTo dream that you write a letter, denotes that you will be hasty\nin condemning some one on suspicion, and regrets will follow.\n\nA torn letter, indicates that hopeless mistakes may ruin your reputation.\n\nTo receive a letter by hand, denotes that you are acting ungenerously\ntowards your companions or sweetheart, and you also are not upright\nin your dealings.\n\nTo dream often of receiving a letter from a friend, foretells his arrival,\nor you will hear from him by letter or otherwise.", "locator": "Heading 1185; source lines 13752–13817", "lineStart": 13752, "lineEnd": 13817, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you see a registered letter, foretells that some money\nmatters will disrupt long-established relations.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she receives such a letter,\nintimates that she will be offered a competency, but it will\nnot be on strictly legal, or moral grounds; others may play\ntowards her a dishonorable part.\n\nTo the lover, this bears heavy presentments of disagreeable mating.\nHis sweetheart will covet other gifts than his own.\n\nTo dream of an anonymous letter, denotes that you will receive injury\nfrom an unsuspected source.\n\nTo write one, foretells that you will be jealous of a rival,\nwhom you admit to be your superior.\n\nTo dream of getting letters bearing unpleasant news, denotes difficulties\nor illness. If the news is of a joyous character, you will have many\nthings to be thankful for. If the letter is affectionate, but is written\non green, or colored, paper, you will be slighted in love and business.\nDespondency will envelop you. Blue ink, denotes constancy and affection,\nalso bright fortune.\n\nRed colors in a letter, imply estrangements through suspicion and jealousy,\nbut this may be overcome by wise maneuvering of the suspected party.\n\nIf a young woman dreams that she receives a letter from her lover and places\nit near her heart, she will be worried very much by a good-looking rival.\nTruthfulness is often rewarded with jealousy.\n\nIf you fail to read the letter, you will lose something either\nin a business or social way.\n\nLetters nearly always bring worry.\n\nTo have your letter intercepted, rival enemies are working to defame you.\n\nTo dream of trying to conceal a letter from your sweetheart or wife,\nintimates that you are interested in unworthy occupations.\n\nTo dream of a letter with a black border, signifies distress\nand the death of some relative.\n\nTo receive a letter written on black paper with white ink,\ndenotes that gloom and disappointment will assail you, and friendly\ninterposition will render small relief. If the letter passes between\nhusband and wife, it means separation under sensational charges.\nIf lovers, look for quarrels and threats of suicide.\nTo business people, it denotes enviousness and covetousness.\n\nTo dream that you write a letter, denotes that you will be hasty\nin condemning some one on suspicion, and regrets will follow.\n\nA torn letter, indicates that hopeless mistakes may ruin your reputation.\n\nTo receive a letter by hand, denotes that you are acting ungenerously\ntowards your companions or sweetheart, and you also are not upright\nin your dealings.\n\nTo dream often of receiving a letter from a friend, foretells his arrival,\nor you will hear from him by letter or otherwise." }, { "id": "fontaine-0424", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Letters", "text": "These paper missives are good to dream about: if you dream you\nreceive a great number of letters, it foretells that honors await you:\nto receive one letter in your dream, denotes that some one is praising\nyou behind your back. If a girl dreams that she receives a love-letter\nfrom her beau, it shows that he adores her: a gentleman who has a\nsimilar dream of a letter from his sweetheart, may rest satisfied that\nhe only possesses her heart. 28, 54, 1.", "locator": "Heading 424; source line 2946", "lineStart": 2946, "lineEnd": 2954, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "These paper missives are good to dream about: if you dream you\nreceive a great number of letters, it foretells that honors await you:\nto receive one letter in your dream, denotes that some one is praising\nyou behind your back. If a girl dreams that she receives a love-letter\nfrom her beau, it shows that he adores her: a gentleman who has a\nsimilar dream of a letter from his sweetheart, may rest satisfied that\nhe only possesses her heart.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Letters” is shown on the Letter page: singular/plural" }, { "id": "noe-0284", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Letters", "text": "To dream you receive letters, is\ndemonstrative of your being beloved by a person of the opposite sex, who\nis very much your friend. To dream of writing letters, shows success in\nenterprises.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 287; source lines 1173–1176", "lineStart": 1173, "lineEnd": 1176, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you receive letters, is\ndemonstrative of your being beloved by a person of the opposite sex, who\nis very much your friend. To dream of writing letters, shows success in\nenterprises.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Letters” is shown on the Letter page: singular/plural" }, { "id": "cielo-0253", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Letter", "text": "To receive a letter usually means good news\n and prosperity.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 253; source lines 4470–4473", "lineStart": 4470, "lineEnd": 4473, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To receive a letter usually means good news\nand prosperity." }, { "id": "moles-0025", "sourceId": "moles-71045", "heading": "Letter", "originalHeading": "(no printed heading)", "text": "To dream one receives a letter, denotes love and constancy, or that the\nparty shall have satisfaction in what he desires.", "locator": "Dreams interpreted, passage 25; source lines 182–183", "lineStart": 182, "lineEnd": 183, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "editorialNote": "The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Letter” because that is the subject of its first clause.", "displayText": "To dream one receives a letter, denotes love and constancy, or that the\nparty shall have satisfaction in what he desires." }, { "id": "moles-0047", "sourceId": "moles-71045", "heading": "Letter", "originalHeading": "(no printed heading)", "text": "To dream one receives a letter, denotes good success in love, or the\nspeedy arrival of absent friends.", "locator": "Dreams interpreted, passage 47; source lines 246–247", "lineStart": 246, "lineEnd": 247, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "editorialNote": "The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Letter” because that is the subject of its first clause.", "displayText": "To dream one receives a letter, denotes good success in love, or the\nspeedy arrival of absent friends." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10650", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Letters", "heading": "Letters", "text": "To write or receive them, good news (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 10650, "lineEnd": 10651, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 229; NLM OCR lines 10650–10651", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10650, "lineEnd": 10651, "printedPage": 229, "printedPageEnd": 229 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Letters. — To write or receive them, good news (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Letters" }, "displayText": "To write or receive them, good news (Gypsy).", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Letters” is shown on the Letter page: singular/plural" } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "letter-carrier", "title": "Letter Carrier", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “If you dream of a letter-carrier coming with your letters, you will soon receive news of an unwelcome and…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "letter carrier", "letter-carrier" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about letter carrier stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1183", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Letter-carrier", "text": "If you dream of a letter-carrier coming with your letters, you will soon\nreceive news of an unwelcome and an unpleasant character.\n\nTo hear his whistle, denotes the unexpected arrival of a visitor.\n\nIf he passes without your mail, disappointment and sadness will befall you.\n\nIf you give him letters to mail, you will suffer injury through\nenvy or jealousy.\n\nTo converse with a letter-carrier, you will implicate yourself\nin some scandalous proceedings.", "locator": "Heading 1186; source lines 13817–13832", "lineStart": 13817, "lineEnd": 13832, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream of a letter-carrier coming with your letters, you will soon\nreceive news of an unwelcome and an unpleasant character.\n\nTo hear his whistle, denotes the unexpected arrival of a visitor.\n\nIf he passes without your mail, disappointment and sadness will befall you.\n\nIf you give him letters to mail, you will suffer injury through\nenvy or jealousy.\n\nTo converse with a letter-carrier, you will implicate yourself\nin some scandalous proceedings.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Letter-carrier” is shown on the Letter Carrier page: same heading; hyphen variant" }, { "id": "fontaine-0425", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Letter Carrier", "text": "To dream of a letter carrier, indicates you will hear\nfrom an absent one whom you love. 18, 50.", "locator": "Heading 425; source line 2954", "lineStart": 2954, "lineEnd": 2957, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a letter carrier, indicates you will hear\nfrom an absent one whom you love." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "letter-file", "title": "Letter-file", "type": "dreams", "category": "Other symbols", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see a letter-file in your dreams, is significant of important news, which will cause you an irksome journey.”", "aliases": [ "letter-file" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about letter-file stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1184", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Letter-file", "text": "To see a letter-file in your dreams, is significant of important news,\nwhich will cause you an irksome journey. For a woman, this dream implies\ndistressful news and unfaithful friends.", "locator": "Heading 1187; source lines 13832–13838", "lineStart": 13832, "lineEnd": 13838, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a letter-file in your dreams, is significant of important news,\nwhich will cause you an irksome journey. For a woman, this dream implies\ndistressful news and unfaithful friends." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "letters-sent", "title": "Letters sent", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Artemidorus wrote: “To see Letters and that which is written within, signifyes that one shall have disposition to things therein contained: but to see them…”", "aliases": [ "letters sent", "of letters sent" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about letters sent stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "artemidorus-150", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of Letters sent.", "text": "TO see Letters and that which is written within, signifyes that one shall have disposition to things therein contained: but to see them onely and not the Contents, is good newes: For in every Letter there is health, Good morrow, God have you in his kéeping, Far[illegible passage]ll, and such like.", "locator": "Book 3, encoded section 150", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription-with-gaps", "book": "3", "displayText": "To see Letters and that which is written within, signifyes that one shall have disposition to things therein contained: but to see them onely and not the Contents, is good newes: For in every Letter there is health, Good morrow, God have you in his kéeping, Far [illegible passage] ll, and such like." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "lettuce", "title": "Lettuce", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "5 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see lettuce growing green and thrifty, denotes that you will enjoy some greatly desired good, after an…” Compare 5 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "lettuce" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about lettuce stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "grass" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1185", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Lettuce", "text": "To see lettuce growing green and thrifty, denotes that you will enjoy\nsome greatly desired good, after an unimportant embarrassment.\n\nIf you eat lettuce, illness will separate you from your lover or companion,\nor perhaps it may be petty jealousy.\n\nFor a woman to dream of sowing lettuce, portends she will be the cause\nof her own early sickness or death.\n\nTo gather it, denotes your superabundant sensitiveness,\nand that your jealous disposition will cause you unmitigated\ndistress and pain.\n\nTo buy lettuce, denotes that you will court your own downfall.", "locator": "Heading 1188; source lines 13838–13855", "lineStart": 13838, "lineEnd": 13855, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see lettuce growing green and thrifty, denotes that you will enjoy\nsome greatly desired good, after an unimportant embarrassment.\n\nIf you eat lettuce, illness will separate you from your lover or companion,\nor perhaps it may be petty jealousy.\n\nFor a woman to dream of sowing lettuce, portends she will be the cause\nof her own early sickness or death.\n\nTo gather it, denotes your superabundant sensitiveness,\nand that your jealous disposition will cause you unmitigated\ndistress and pain.\n\nTo buy lettuce, denotes that you will court your own downfall." }, { "id": "fontaine-0426", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Lettuce", "text": "To dream of eating lettuce, is a sign of health and happiness,\nprovided that it looks green and nice, and tastes good; wilted or wormy\nlettuce shadows forth vexation and trouble. 47, 6.", "locator": "Heading 426; source line 2957", "lineStart": 2957, "lineEnd": 2961, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of eating lettuce, is a sign of health and happiness,\nprovided that it looks green and nice, and tastes good; wilted or wormy\nlettuce shadows forth vexation and trouble." }, { "id": "noe-0286", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Lettuce", "text": "To dream that one eats salads made of lettuce, and other herbs\nthat may be eaten raw, signifies trouble and difficulty in the management\nof affairs.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 289; source lines 1177–1179", "lineStart": 1177, "lineEnd": 1179, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that one eats salads made of lettuce, and other herbs\nthat may be eaten raw, signifies trouble and difficulty in the management\nof affairs." }, { "id": "cielo-0254", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Lettuce", "text": "Denotes poverty.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 254; source lines 4473–4475", "lineStart": 4473, "lineEnd": 4475, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Denotes poverty." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10652", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Lettuce", "heading": "Lettuce", "text": "See Grass.", "lineStart": 10652, "lineEnd": 10653, "kind": "cross-reference", "locator": "Printed p. 229; NLM OCR lines 10652–10653", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10652, "lineEnd": 10653, "printedPage": 229, "printedPageEnd": 229 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Lettuce. — See Grass. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Lettuce" }, "displayText": "See Grass." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1186", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Liar", "text": "To dream of thinking people are liars, foretells you will lose\nfaith in some scheme which you had urgently put forward.\nFor some one to call you a liar, means you will have vexations\nthrough deceitful persons.\n\nFor a woman to think her sweetheart a liar, warns her that her unbecoming\nconduct is likely to lose her a valued friend.", "locator": "Heading 1189; source lines 13855–13865", "lineStart": 13855, "lineEnd": 13865, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of thinking people are liars, foretells you will lose\nfaith in some scheme which you had urgently put forward.\nFor some one to call you a liar, means you will have vexations\nthrough deceitful persons.\n\nFor a woman to think her sweetheart a liar, warns her that her unbecoming\nconduct is likely to lose her a valued friend." }, { "id": "fontaine-0427", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Liar", "text": "To dream that any one offends you by lying, or defaming your\nfamily by lies, is a sign you will receive a benefit at the hands of a\nstranger. 36.", "locator": "Heading 427; source line 2961", "lineStart": 2961, "lineEnd": 2965, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that any one offends you by lying, or defaming your\nfamily by lies, is a sign you will receive a benefit at the hands of a\nstranger." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10654", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Liar", "heading": "Liar", "text": "To dream of being called one denotes wealth by questionable means (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 10654, "lineEnd": 10656, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 229; NLM OCR lines 10654–10656", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10654, "lineEnd": 10656, "printedPage": 229, "printedPageEnd": 229 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Liar. — To dream of being called one denotes wealth by \nquestionable means (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Liar" }, "displayText": "To dream of being called one denotes wealth by questionable means (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "liberty", "title": "Liberty", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “To dream of taking liberties with any one, bids you be careful of them.”", "aliases": [ "liberty" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about liberty stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "library", "title": "Library", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "Shared knowledge can help only when you can find and use it.", "summary": "A library dream can explore access to knowledge, borrowed resources and asking better questions. Finding an answer differs from buying a book.", "aliases": [ "library", "libraries", "public library" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A library gathers knowledge that you can use without owning all of it. In a dream, this can picture seeking help, perspective or a resource for a particular task. You may recognize learning a new role, reconsidering an old account or trying to understand a situation through more than one voice. The shared arrangement matters: you can take what is useful for a time while leaving room for other readers to need it too.\n\nA catalogue that points to a missing book can make the difference between information and access visible. You may know that an answer or resource exists without being able to reach it when needed. An unavailable mentor, a document nobody can locate or a procedure that describes support without providing it may offer a parallel. Finding an unexpected alternative can shift the scene toward a useful question you had not originally brought.\n\nBorrowing introduces a relationship to knowledge that can remain provisional. A book you do not yet understand may picture trying a perspective before deciding whether it fits. You do not have to treat every explanation as something to keep forever. Returning a volume can express letting go of an account that served one stage, or making a resource available to somebody else once your own task is complete.\n\nSilence and company can pull in different directions. A quiet library may offer enough space to follow an idea without interruption. A noisy gathering can feel like welcome discussion or make concentration impossible. This can resemble needing private attention within a shared learning environment. A librarian who helps you clarify the question may be more useful than one who hands over an impressive answer before understanding what you need.\n\nFinding an account of your own life can picture wanting experience to be represented in a coherent form. You may recognize some parts and dispute others, much as a familiar description of you can feel incomplete. The book's apparent authority does not make its account true. Recent reading, study and remembered libraries may also supply the scene directly. These reflections follow shared access, inquiry and borrowing; the separate Book Store entry develops browsing and purchasing a volume to carry away.", "traditional": "Miller’s Library passage associates study with discontent and a search for companionship in learning, then gives a different forecast to visiting for another purpose. Craig records success through wisdom and learning. Both are attributed historical accounts. They do not prove that a dream book contains an authoritative account or a future outcome.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Knowledge you can use", "reflection": "A library can picture reaching a resource without needing to possess every answer. Availability becomes meaningful when the material meets the task you actually have." }, { "title": "A provisional account", "reflection": "Borrowing and returning can express trying a perspective without keeping it permanently. A useful explanation may serve a period rather than define the whole experience." }, { "title": "A question worth clarifying", "reflection": "Guidance may help by refining what you need to know. The scene can distinguish an impressive answer from one that becomes usable through a better question." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "The catalogue points to a book that is not on the shelf", "reflection": "A missing catalogued book can picture information that promises access without making it practical. An unavailable resource or person may fit. Finding a different route can become more useful than repeating the original search." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You borrow something you do not yet understand", "reflection": "Borrowing something difficult can picture trying a perspective whose usefulness is not yet clear. A new skill or account of an experience may feel similar. You can investigate without needing to adopt it as a permanent explanation." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A quiet library becomes a noisy gathering", "reflection": "Noise in a quiet place can picture shared participation interfering with the attention a task needs. The gathering may also bring useful company. Whether you can choose a quieter space helps distinguish contact from intrusion." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You discover an account of your own life", "reflection": "An account of your life can picture a wish for recognition and coherence. Parts that seem wrong may reveal where a familiar description leaves you out. The dream book’s authority does not make the description accurate." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You cannot return a book that someone else needs", "reflection": "An unreturned book can picture continuing to hold a resource or perspective beyond the stage it served. Another person’s need can make that delay visible. Letting it go may be a useful completion rather than a loss." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "A librarian helps you ask a more useful question", "reflection": "Help asking a clearer question can picture guidance that increases your own ability to understand. A conversation may become useful when it identifies the task before offering an answer. The support remains collaborative." } ], "prompts": [ "What did I need to understand, and what made the resource usable?", "Which account was I trying temporarily rather than accepting permanently?", "How did another person help clarify the question or share access?" ], "related": [ "book-store", "school-or-exam", "books", "being-lost" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1187" ], "scope": "Preserves this author’s attached period dream-book account; the entry’s context compares attributed beliefs rather than adopting forecasts. Exact supplied records: miller-1187 — Library (Heading 1190; source lines 13865–13876). Historical comparison only, not evidence for the original reflective reading or an actual outcome." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L10657" ], "scope": "Preserves this author’s attached period dream-book account; the entry’s context compares attributed beliefs rather than adopting forecasts. Exact supplied records: craig-1918:L10657 — Library (Printed p. 229; NLM OCR lines 10657–10659). Historical comparison only, not evidence for the original reflective reading or an actual outcome." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1187", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Library", "text": "To dream that you are in a library, denotes that you will grow\ndiscontented with your environments and associations and seek\ncompanionship in study and the exploration of ancient customs.\n\nTo find yourself in a library for other purpose than study,\nforetells that your conduct will deceive your friends, and where\nyou would have them believe that you had literary aspirations,\nyou will find illicit assignations.", "locator": "Heading 1190; source lines 13865–13876", "lineStart": 13865, "lineEnd": 13876, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are in a library, denotes that you will grow\ndiscontented with your environments and associations and seek\ncompanionship in study and the exploration of ancient customs.\n\nTo find yourself in a library for other purpose than study,\nforetells that your conduct will deceive your friends, and where\nyou would have them believe that you had literary aspirations,\nyou will find illicit assignations." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10657", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Library", "heading": "Library", "text": "To dream of being in a library shows success through wisdom and learning (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 10657, "lineEnd": 10659, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 229; NLM OCR lines 10657–10659", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10657, "lineEnd": 10659, "printedPage": 229, "printedPageEnd": 229 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Library. — To dream of being in a library shows success \nthrough wisdom and learning (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Library" }, "displayText": "To dream of being in a library shows success through wisdom and learning (Gypsy)." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "lice", "title": "Lice", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “A dream of lice contains much waking worry and distress.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "lice", "louse" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about lice stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1188", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Lice", "text": "A dream of lice contains much waking worry and distress.\nIt often implies offensive ailments.\n\nLice on stock, foretells famine and loss.\n\nTo have lice on your body, denotes that you will conduct yourself\nunpleasantly with your acquaintances.\n\nTo dream of catching lice, foretells sickness, and that you\nwill cultivate morbidity.", "locator": "Heading 1191; source lines 13876–13889", "lineStart": 13876, "lineEnd": 13889, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "A dream of lice contains much waking worry and distress.\nIt often implies offensive ailments.\n\nLice on stock, foretells famine and loss.\n\nTo have lice on your body, denotes that you will conduct yourself\nunpleasantly with your acquaintances.\n\nTo dream of catching lice, foretells sickness, and that you\nwill cultivate morbidity." }, { "id": "miller-1222", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Louse", "text": "To dream of a louse, foretells that you will have uneasy feelings regarding\nyour health, and an enemy will give you exasperating vexation.\n\n\n[116] See Lice.", "locator": "Heading 1225; source lines 14295–14303", "lineStart": 14295, "lineEnd": 14303, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a louse, foretells that you will have uneasy feelings regarding\nyour health, and an enemy will give you exasperating vexation. See Lice." }, { "id": "fontaine-0429", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Lice", "text": "To dream of lice denotes sickness and poverty. 3.", "locator": "Heading 429; source line 2969", "lineStart": 2969, "lineEnd": 2971, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of lice denotes sickness and poverty." }, { "id": "noe-0305", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Lice", "text": "To dream that you\nare lousy and that you are killing a great number of them, is a very good\nomen. It denotes great riches to the dreamer. They also portend\ndeliverance from enemies, and that you will overcome much slander and\nmalice.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 309; source lines 1238–1242", "lineStart": 1238, "lineEnd": 1242, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you\nare lousy and that you are killing a great number of them, is a very good\nomen. It denotes great riches to the dreamer. They also portend\ndeliverance from enemies, and that you will overcome much slander and\nmalice." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "lice-and-long-wormes", "title": "Lice, and Long Wormes", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Artemidorus wrote: “To dream to have some little quantity of Lice, and to finde them upon his body, or gowne, and kill them, signifies that one shall be…”", "aliases": [ "lice, and long wormes", "of lice, and long wormes", "lice", "long wormes" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about lice, and long wormes stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "artemidorus-125", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of Lice, and Long Wormes.", "text": "TO dream to have some little quantity of Lice, and to finde them upon his body, or gowne, and kill them, signifies that one shall be delivered from care and heavinesse. But to have a great quantity, is long sicknesse, captivity, or great poverty, for in such cases, lice abound. And if one cast them all away, it argues hope to be relieved of all his evils: to vomit wormes by his mouth, or upon his seat, is to know his enemies, and familiar wrongers, and to overcome them.", "locator": "Book 3, encoded section 125", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "3", "displayText": "To dream to have some little quantity of Lice, and to finde them upon his body, or gowne, and kill them, signifies that one shall be delivered from care and heavinesse. But to have a great quantity, is long sicknesse, captivity, or great poverty, for in such cases, lice abound. And if one cast them all away, it argues hope to be relieved of all his evils: to vomit wormes by his mouth, or upon his seat, is to know his enemies, and familiar wrongers, and to overcome them." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1189", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "License", "text": "To dream of a license, is an omen of disputes and loss.\nMarried women will exasperate your cheerfulness. For a woman\nto see a marriage license, foretells that she will soon enter\nunpleasant bonds, which will humiliate her pride.", "locator": "Heading 1192; source lines 13889–13896", "lineStart": 13889, "lineEnd": 13896, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a license, is an omen of disputes and loss.\nMarried women will exasperate your cheerfulness. For a woman\nto see a marriage license, foretells that she will soon enter\nunpleasant bonds, which will humiliate her pride." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "life-jacket", "title": "Life jacket", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "aliases": [ "lifejacket", "life vest", "buoyancy aid" ], "summary": "A life jacket can picture support prepared for difficult conditions. Wearing, sharing, or struggling to secure it changes how available that support feels.", "tagline": "Preparation helps you remain afloat without removing the water.", "psychological": "A life jacket offers a form of support that is carried with you before it is needed. It can picture preparation for a demanding situation: learning a new role, arranging help during a move, or keeping a workable fallback while attempting something unfamiliar. The image concerns what makes participation possible when conditions are uncertain. It need not suggest that a disaster is approaching.\n\nWearing the jacket comfortably can make reliance feel ordinary rather than embarrassing. You enter the water with an arrangement that supports you, much as clear instructions or a trusted companion can make a new task manageable. Refusing a jacket because others might judge you can instead picture difficulty accepting help. The question becomes whether appearing capable has taken priority over having enough support.\n\nFit and fastening matter because a resource can exist without being usable. A jacket that will not close or is far too large may resemble assistance whose form does not match your needs. Advice can be well meant yet impractical for your schedule; a formal support scheme may require steps you cannot easily complete. The dream makes suitability visible through the object.\n\nGiving a jacket to someone else can express care, coordinated preparation, or concern that there is not enough support for everyone. Keeping your own while helping another person differs from giving away the only available one. A shared plan may need resources that protect each participant instead of depending on one person absorbing the uncertainty.\n\nThe water and your response provide context. A calm crossing can make the jacket reassuring; rough conditions can make its usefulness central. Recent travel, instruction, or imagery may also explain its appearance. Read the available support and your relationship to it before assigning meaning to the danger.", "traditional": "A remembered crossing, safety demonstration, or boating image can supply this object directly. Its role in these original readings is usable preparation rather than a forecast of danger. No matching historical life-jacket account is supplied.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Support prepared in advance", "reflection": "A jacket can represent an arrangement that makes unfamiliar participation manageable. Its presence may connect with practical preparation, trusted help, or a fallback that lets you attempt something new." }, { "title": "Help must fit the person using it", "reflection": "Fastenings and size make suitability concrete. Support can be available yet difficult to use when its assumptions, timing, or form do not match what you actually need." }, { "title": "Care without exhausting shared resources", "reflection": "Sharing jackets can picture coordinated protection. Whether enough remain for everyone helps distinguish sustainable cooperation from a pattern where one person gives up all of their own support." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You fasten the jacket before a calm boat trip", "reflection": "Preparation may let you enjoy an experience without repeatedly worrying about how you will manage it. Having clear arrangements for a new project or journey offers a parallel. The jacket is useful even when the conditions do not become difficult." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You feel embarrassed wearing it while others do not", "reflection": "This can picture tension between appearing independent and accepting what helps you participate. Asking for guidance in a new role may feel similar. Other people’s appearance does not establish their actual needs; your discomfort with visible support drives this scene." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "The straps will not fasten", "reflection": "Help may be close at hand but not usable in its present form. A complicated process, unsuitable advice, or an arrangement that clashes with your schedule can offer parallels. The unfinished fastening directs attention toward adapting the support rather than rejecting its purpose." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "The jacket is too large and slips upward", "reflection": "Support may feel designed for someone else’s circumstances. An ambitious plan or broad reassurance can fail to address a particular difficulty. The poor fit makes precision important: what would need to change for the available help to actually suit you?" }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You give away the only jacket", "reflection": "This can picture care that leaves your own participation unsupported. Always covering another person’s workload while losing time for your needs may feel similar. Generosity and strain can coexist; the shortage, rather than helping itself, creates the difficult choice." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "Everyone checks each other's jackets before entering", "reflection": "Cooperation can make preparation feel shared and ordinary. A team clarifying responsibilities or friends checking travel arrangements offers a parallel. Each person retains their own support while others help make it usable, so care does not depend on one participant carrying everything." } ], "prompts": [ "What support did the jacket provide, and did it fit?", "Did accepting help feel comfortable or embarrassing?", "Was there enough support for everyone, including me?" ], "related": [ "boat", "water", "ocean", "drowning" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia interpretation with image-specific possibilities and six differentiated scenes. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "life-boat", "title": "Life-boat", "type": "dreams", "category": "Other symbols", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of being in a life-boat, denotes escape from threatened evil.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "life-boat" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about life-boat stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1190", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Life-boat", "text": "To dream of being in a life-boat, denotes escape from threatened evil.\n\nTo see a life-boat sinking, friends will contribute to your distress.\n\nTo be lost in a life-boat, you will be overcome with trouble,\nin which your friends will be included to some extent.\nIf you are saved, you will escape a great calamity.", "locator": "Heading 1193; source lines 13896–13906", "lineStart": 13896, "lineEnd": 13906, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being in a life-boat, denotes escape from threatened evil.\n\nTo see a life-boat sinking, friends will contribute to your distress.\n\nTo be lost in a life-boat, you will be overcome with trouble,\nin which your friends will be included to some extent.\nIf you are saved, you will escape a great calamity." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10660", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Life-Boat", "heading": "Life-Boat", "text": "A dream prognosticating success at the last moment (Raphael).", "lineStart": 10660, "lineEnd": 10662, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 229; NLM OCR lines 10660–10662", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10660, "lineEnd": 10662, "printedPage": 229, "printedPageEnd": 229 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Life-Boat. — A dream prognosticating success at the last \nmoment (Raphael). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Life-Boat" }, "displayText": "A dream prognosticating success at the last moment (Raphael)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "life-insurance-man", "title": "Life-insurance Man", "type": "dreams", "category": "Other symbols", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see life-insurance men in a dream, means that you are soon to meet a stranger who will contribute to your business interests, and change…”", "aliases": [ "life-insurance man" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about life-insurance man stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1191", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Life-insurance Man", "text": "To see life-insurance men in a dream, means that you are soon\nto meet a stranger who will contribute to your business interests,\nand change in your home life is foreshadowed, as interests\nwill be mutual.\n\nIf they appear distorted or unnatural, the dream is more\nunfortunate than good.", "locator": "Heading 1194; source lines 13906–13916", "lineStart": 13906, "lineEnd": 13916, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see life-insurance men in a dream, means that you are soon\nto meet a stranger who will contribute to your business interests,\nand change in your home life is foreshadowed, as interests\nwill be mutual.\n\nIf they appear distorted or unnatural, the dream is more\nunfortunate than good." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "light", "title": "Light", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “If you dream of light, success will attend you.” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "light" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about light stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "candles", "lamp", "torch" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1192", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Light", "text": "If you dream of light, success will attend you. To dream of weird light,\nor if the light goes out, you will be disagreeably surprised by some\nundertaking resulting in nothing.\n\nTo see a dim light, indicates partial success.", "locator": "Heading 1195; source lines 13916–13924", "lineStart": 13916, "lineEnd": 13924, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream of light, success will attend you. To dream of weird light,\nor if the light goes out, you will be disagreeably surprised by some\nundertaking resulting in nothing.\n\nTo see a dim light, indicates partial success." }, { "id": "fontaine-0431", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Light", "text": "(_See Candles, Lamp and Torch._) To dream you see a great light,\nis a happy presage; it denotes that you will attain honors, and become\nrich; in love it shows a sweetheart of an amiable disposition. 8, 70, 2.", "locator": "Heading 431; source line 2976", "lineStart": 2976, "lineEnd": 2980, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Candles, Lamp and Torch.) To dream you see a great light,\nis a happy presage; it denotes that you will attain honors, and become\nrich; in love it shows a sweetheart of an amiable disposition." }, { "id": "noe-0299", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Light", "text": "To dream you see a great light is a happy\npresage. It denotes that you will attain great honors and become very\nrich. In love, it shows a sweetheart of an amiable disposition, that you\nwill marry well, have children and be very happy.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 303; source lines 1216–1219", "lineStart": 1216, "lineEnd": 1219, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see a great light is a happy\npresage. It denotes that you will attain great honors and become very\nrich. In love, it shows a sweetheart of an amiable disposition, that you\nwill marry well, have children and be very happy." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10663", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Light", "heading": "Light", "text": "To dream of being aboard ship and of seeing a light afar off assures one of his desires ; to hold a burning light in the hands is good, especially to the young, signifying accomplishment of designs, honors and good will to all persons. A light in the hands of another foretells the discovery of mischief and the punishment of the offender (Old Dream Book). The symbolism is easily followed.", "lineStart": 10663, "lineEnd": 10674, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 229–230; NLM OCR lines 10663–10674", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10663, "lineEnd": 10674, "printedPage": 229, "printedPageEnd": 230 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Light. — To dream of being aboard ship and of seeing a \nlight afar off assures one of his desires ; to hold a burning light \nin the hands is good, especially to the young, signifying accom- \nplishment of designs, honors and good will to all persons. A \nlight in the hands of another foretells the discovery of mis- \nchief and the punishment of the offender (Old Dream Book). \nThe symbolism is easily followed. \n\n\n230 THE FABRIC OF DREAMS \n\n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [ { "line": 10672, "text": "230 THE FABRIC OF DREAMS " } ], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "accom- \nplishment", "after": "accomplishment", "evidenceLine": 10130 }, { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "mis- \nchief", "after": "mischief", "evidenceLine": 1541 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Light" }, "displayText": "To dream of being aboard ship and of seeing a light afar off assures one of his desires; to hold a burning light in the hands is good, especially to the young, signifying accomplishment of designs, honors and good will to all persons. A light in the hands of another foretells the discovery of mischief and the punishment of the offender (Old Dream Book). The symbolism is easily followed." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "candles", "lamp", "torch" ] }, { "slug": "lighthouse", "title": "Lighthouse", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “If you see a lighthouse through a storm, difficulties and grief will assail you, but they will disperse…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "lighthouse" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about lighthouse stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1193", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Lighthouse", "text": "If you see a lighthouse through a storm, difficulties and grief will\nassail you, but they will disperse before prosperity and happiness.\n\nTo see a lighthouse from a placid sea, denotes calm joys\nand congenial friends.", "locator": "Heading 1196; source lines 13924–13932", "lineStart": 13924, "lineEnd": 13932, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you see a lighthouse through a storm, difficulties and grief will\nassail you, but they will disperse before prosperity and happiness.\n\nTo see a lighthouse from a placid sea, denotes calm joys\nand congenial friends." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10678", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Lighthouse", "heading": "Lighthouse", "text": "A dream of warning of danger ahead and the possibility of a mistake in judgment (Raphael).", "lineStart": 10678, "lineEnd": 10680, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 230; NLM OCR lines 10678–10680", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10678, "lineEnd": 10680, "printedPage": 230, "printedPageEnd": 230 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Lighthouse. — A dream of warning of danger ahead and \nthe possibility of a mistake in judgment (Raphael). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Lighthouse" }, "displayText": "A dream of warning of danger ahead and the possibility of a mistake in judgment (Raphael)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "lightning", "title": "Lightning", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "5 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Lightning in your dreams, foreshadows happiness and prosperity of short duration.” Compare 5 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "lightning" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about lightning stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1194", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Lightning", "text": "Lightning in your dreams, foreshadows happiness and prosperity\nof short duration.\n\nIf the lightning strikes some object near you, and you feel\nthe shock, you will be damaged by the good fortune of a friend,\nor you may be worried by gossipers and scandalmongers.\n\nTo see livid lightning parting black clouds, sorrow and difficulties\nwill follow close on to fortune.\n\nIf it strikes you, unexpected sorrows will overwhelm you in business or love.\n\nTo see the lightning above your head, heralds the advent of joy and gain.\n\nTo see lightning in the south, fortune will hide herself from you for awhile.\n\nIf in the southwest, luck will come your way. In the west,\nyour prospects will be brighter than formally. In the north,\nobstacles will have to be removed before your prospects will\nbrighten up. If in the east, you will easily win favors and fortune.\nLightning from dark and ominous-looking clouds, is always\na forerunner of threats, of loss and of disappointments.\nBusiness men should stay close to business, and women near\ntheir husbands or mothers; children and the sick should be\nlooked after closely.", "locator": "Heading 1197; source lines 13932–13960", "lineStart": 13932, "lineEnd": 13960, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Lightning in your dreams, foreshadows happiness and prosperity\nof short duration.\n\nIf the lightning strikes some object near you, and you feel\nthe shock, you will be damaged by the good fortune of a friend,\nor you may be worried by gossipers and scandalmongers.\n\nTo see livid lightning parting black clouds, sorrow and difficulties\nwill follow close on to fortune.\n\nIf it strikes you, unexpected sorrows will overwhelm you in business or love.\n\nTo see the lightning above your head, heralds the advent of joy and gain.\n\nTo see lightning in the south, fortune will hide herself from you for awhile.\n\nIf in the southwest, luck will come your way. In the west,\nyour prospects will be brighter than formally. In the north,\nobstacles will have to be removed before your prospects will\nbrighten up. If in the east, you will easily win favors and fortune.\nLightning from dark and ominous-looking clouds, is always\na forerunner of threats, of loss and of disappointments.\nBusiness men should stay close to business, and women near\ntheir husbands or mothers; children and the sick should be\nlooked after closely." }, { "id": "fontaine-0432", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Lightning", "text": "To dream of bright and vivid white lightning, denotes that\nyou will soon go on a pleasant trip or journey: blueish silver forked\nlightning foretells good crops and excellent success in business; red\nforked lightning the same, but attended with calamity, or the death of\nrelatives by violence. 24.", "locator": "Heading 432; source line 2980", "lineStart": 2980, "lineEnd": 2986, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of bright and vivid white lightning, denotes that\nyou will soon go on a pleasant trip or journey: blueish silver forked\nlightning foretells good crops and excellent success in business; red\nforked lightning the same, but attended with calamity, or the death of\nrelatives by violence." }, { "id": "noe-0300", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Lightning", "text": "To dream\nof lightning without tempest, and falling near, without touching the body,\nsignifies change of place. If a man dreams he saw lightning fall below\nhim, it will hinder his traveling. But if you dream that you are all\nburned and consumed with lightning, it is death to the dreamer.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 304; source lines 1219–1224", "lineStart": 1219, "lineEnd": 1224, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream\nof lightning without tempest, and falling near, without touching the body,\nsignifies change of place. If a man dreams he saw lightning fall below\nhim, it will hinder his traveling. But if you dream that you are all\nburned and consumed with lightning, it is death to the dreamer." }, { "id": "cielo-0255", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Lightning", "text": "Indicates a quarrel among lovers.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 255; source lines 4475–4477", "lineStart": 4475, "lineEnd": 4477, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Indicates a quarrel among lovers." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10675", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Lightning", "heading": "Lightning", "text": "A portentous dream of war and trouble (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 10675, "lineEnd": 10677, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 230; NLM OCR lines 10675–10677", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10675, "lineEnd": 10677, "printedPage": 230, "printedPageEnd": 230 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Lightning. — A portentous dream of war and trouble \n(Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Lightning" }, "displayText": "A portentous dream of war and trouble (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1195", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Lightning-rod", "text": "To see a lightning-rod, denotes that threatened destruction to some\ncherished work will confront you. To see one change into a serpent,\nforetells enemies will succeed in their schemes against you.\nIf the lightning strikes one, there will be an accident or sudden\nnews to give you sorrow.\n\nIf you are having one put up, it is a warning to beware how you begin\na new enterprise, as you will likely be overtaken by disappointment.\n\nTo have them taken down, you will change your plans and\nthereby further your interests. To see many lightning rods,\nindicates a variety of misfortunes.", "locator": "Heading 1198; source lines 13960–13975", "lineStart": 13960, "lineEnd": 13975, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a lightning-rod, denotes that threatened destruction to some\ncherished work will confront you. To see one change into a serpent,\nforetells enemies will succeed in their schemes against you.\nIf the lightning strikes one, there will be an accident or sudden\nnews to give you sorrow.\n\nIf you are having one put up, it is a warning to beware how you begin\na new enterprise, as you will likely be overtaken by disappointment.\n\nTo have them taken down, you will change your plans and\nthereby further your interests. To see many lightning rods,\nindicates a variety of misfortunes." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1196", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Lily", "text": "To dream of a lily, denotes much chastisement through illness and death.\nTo see lilies growing with their rich foliage, denotes early marriage\nto the young and subsequent separation through death.\n\nTo see little children among the flowers, indicates sickness\nand fragile constitutions to these little ones.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of admiring, or gathering, lilies,\ndenotes much sadness coupled with joy, as the one she loves\nwill have great physical suffering, if not an early dissolution.\nIf she sees them withered, sorrow is even nearer than she\ncould have suspected.\n\nTo dream that you breathe the fragrance of lilies, denotes that sorrow\nwill purify and enhance your mental qualities.", "locator": "Heading 1199; source lines 13975–13993", "lineStart": 13975, "lineEnd": 13993, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a lily, denotes much chastisement through illness and death.\nTo see lilies growing with their rich foliage, denotes early marriage\nto the young and subsequent separation through death.\n\nTo see little children among the flowers, indicates sickness\nand fragile constitutions to these little ones.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of admiring, or gathering, lilies,\ndenotes much sadness coupled with joy, as the one she loves\nwill have great physical suffering, if not an early dissolution.\nIf she sees them withered, sorrow is even nearer than she\ncould have suspected.\n\nTo dream that you breathe the fragrance of lilies, denotes that sorrow\nwill purify and enhance your mental qualities." }, { "id": "fontaine-0433", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Lilies", "text": "If you dream of an abundance of these beautiful flowers in\nyour garden or door-yard, it foretells good luck in getting servants\nor people to work for you; it also denotes thrift generally about a\nfarm. If a young girl dreams about lilies, it is a sign she will marry\na smart and industrious man and live happily with him. 61.", "locator": "Heading 433; source line 2986", "lineStart": 2986, "lineEnd": 2992, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream of an abundance of these beautiful flowers in\nyour garden or door-yard, it foretells good luck in getting servants\nor people to work for you; it also denotes thrift generally about a\nfarm. If a young girl dreams about lilies, it is a sign she will marry\na smart and industrious man and live happily with him." }, { "id": "noe-0301", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Lilies", "text": "To dream that one sees, holds, smells lilies out of their\nseason, it signifies that the hope of the thing desired will be\nfrustrated. But the same dream of lilies in their season is good.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 305; source lines 1224–1227", "lineStart": 1224, "lineEnd": 1227, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that one sees, holds, smells lilies out of their\nseason, it signifies that the hope of the thing desired will be\nfrustrated. But the same dream of lilies in their season is good." }, { "id": "cielo-0256", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Lily", "text": "A sign of innocence and happiness.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 256; source lines 4477–4479", "lineStart": 4477, "lineEnd": 4479, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "A sign of innocence and happiness." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10681", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Lilies", "heading": "Lilies", "text": "A dream promising happiness through virtue (Raphael). A symbol of innocence, of chastity and of purity.", "lineStart": 10681, "lineEnd": 10683, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 230; NLM OCR lines 10681–10683", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10681, "lineEnd": 10683, "printedPage": 230, "printedPageEnd": 230 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Lilies. — A dream promising happiness through virtue \n(Raphael). A symbol of innocence, of chastity and of purity. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Lilies" }, "displayText": "A dream promising happiness through virtue (Raphael). A symbol of innocence, of chastity and of purity." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "lily-of-the-valley", "title": "Lily of the Valley", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “A dream of humility; water lily, regeneration and purification.”", "aliases": [ "lily of the valley" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about lily of the valley stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. 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Tiger-lilies, a dream of the temptation of wealth (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 10684, "lineEnd": 10688, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 230; NLM OCR lines 10684–10688", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10684, "lineEnd": 10688, "printedPage": 230, "printedPageEnd": 230 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Lily of the Valley. — A dream of humility ; water lily, \nregeneration and purification ; Lotus, symbol of new birth, \nof inexhaustible life, immortality. Tiger-lilies, a dream of the \ntemptation of wealth (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Lily of the Valley" }, "displayText": "A dream of humility; water lily, regeneration and purification; Lotus, symbol of new birth, of inexhaustible life, immortality. Tiger-lilies, a dream of the temptation of wealth (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "lime", "title": "Lime", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of lime, foretells that disaster will prostrate you for a time, but you will revive to greater and richer prosperity than before.”", "aliases": [ "lime", "limes" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about lime stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1197", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Lime", "text": "To dream of lime, foretells that disaster will prostrate you for a time,\nbut you will revive to greater and richer prosperity than before.", "locator": "Heading 1200; source lines 13993–13998", "lineStart": 13993, "lineEnd": 13998, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of lime, foretells that disaster will prostrate you for a time,\nbut you will revive to greater and richer prosperity than before." }, { "id": "miller-1199", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Limes", "text": "To dream of eating limes, foretells continued sickness and adverse straits.", "locator": "Heading 1202; source lines 14003–14007", "lineStart": 14003, "lineEnd": 14007, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of eating limes, foretells continued sickness and adverse straits." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "lime-kiln", "title": "Lime-kiln", "type": "dreams", "category": "Other symbols", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a lime-kiln, foretells the immediate future holds no favor for speculations in love or business” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "lime-kiln", "limekiln" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about lime-kiln stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1198", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Lime-kiln", "text": "To dream of a lime-kiln, foretells the immediate future holds\nno favor for speculations in love or business", "locator": "Heading 1201; source lines 13998–14003", "lineStart": 13998, "lineEnd": 14003, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a lime-kiln, foretells the immediate future holds\nno favor for speculations in love or business" }, { "id": "fontaine-0434", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Limekiln", "text": "To dream of burning lime in a kiln, or of seeing a kiln\nin full blast, is a sign of health and abundant crops; but to see a\ndilapidated and empty limekiln in your dream is the reverse of this, as\nfar as the crops are concerned. 77, 5, 15.", "locator": "Heading 434; source line 2992", "lineStart": 2992, "lineEnd": 2997, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of burning lime in a kiln, or of seeing a kiln\nin full blast, is a sign of health and abundant crops; but to see a\ndilapidated and empty limekiln in your dream is the reverse of this, as\nfar as the crops are concerned." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1200", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Limp", "text": "To dream that you limp in your walk, denotes that a small worry will\nunexpectedly confront you, detracting much from your enjoyment.\n\nTo see others limping, signifies that you will be naturally offended\nat the conduct of a friend. Small failures attend this dream.\n\n\n[114] See Cripple and Lamed.", "locator": "Heading 1203; source lines 14007–14018", "lineStart": 14007, "lineEnd": 14018, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you limp in your walk, denotes that a small worry will\nunexpectedly confront you, detracting much from your enjoyment.\n\nTo see others limping, signifies that you will be naturally offended\nat the conduct of a friend. Small failures attend this dream. See Cripple and Lamed." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "cripple" ] }, { "slug": "limping", "title": "Limping", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “A dream prognosticating misfortune and shame (Artemidorus).”", "aliases": [ "limping" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about limping stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. 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OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L10689", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Limping", "heading": "Limping", "text": "A dream prognosticating misfortune and shame (Artemidorus).", "lineStart": 10689, "lineEnd": 10691, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 230; NLM OCR lines 10689–10691", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10689, "lineEnd": 10691, "printedPage": 230, "printedPageEnd": 230 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Limping. — A dream prognosticating misfortune and shame \n(Artemidorus). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Limping" }, "displayText": "A dream prognosticating misfortune and shame (Artemidorus)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "linen", "title": "Linen", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see linen in your dream, augurs prosperity and enjoyment.” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "linen", "shift" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about linen stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "smock" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1201", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Linen", "text": "To see linen in your dream, augurs prosperity and enjoyment.\n\nIf a person appears to you dressed in linen garments, you will shortly\nbe the recipient of joyful tidings in the nature of an inheritance.\n\nIf you are apparelled in clean, fine linen, your fortune and fullest\nenjoyment in life is assured. If it be soiled, sorrow and ill luck\nwill be met with occasionally, mingled with the good in your life.", "locator": "Heading 1204; source lines 14018–14029", "lineStart": 14018, "lineEnd": 14029, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see linen in your dream, augurs prosperity and enjoyment.\n\nIf a person appears to you dressed in linen garments, you will shortly\nbe the recipient of joyful tidings in the nature of an inheritance.\n\nIf you are apparelled in clean, fine linen, your fortune and fullest\nenjoyment in life is assured. If it be soiled, sorrow and ill luck\nwill be met with occasionally, mingled with the good in your life." }, { "id": "fontaine-0435", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Linen", "text": "To dream you are arrayed in clean linen denotes that you\nwill shortly receive some glad tidings; and that your sweetheart is\nfaithful; if it is dirty, then it denotes poverty and disappointment\nin love. White linen, if dressed in it, presages death; colored linen,\nremoval; shifts, a gay sweetheart; gowns, a gift. 24, 71.", "locator": "Heading 435; source line 2997", "lineStart": 2997, "lineEnd": 3003, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are arrayed in clean linen denotes that you\nwill shortly receive some glad tidings; and that your sweetheart is\nfaithful; if it is dirty, then it denotes poverty and disappointment\nin love. White linen, if dressed in it, presages death; colored linen,\nremoval; shifts, a gay sweetheart; gowns, a gift." }, { "id": "noe-0302", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Linen", "text": "To dream you are dressed in clean linen, denotes that you will\nshortly receive some glad tidings. That your sweetheart is faithful, and\nwill marry. If it is dirty, then it denotes poverty, and disappointment in\nlove.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 306; source lines 1227–1230", "lineStart": 1227, "lineEnd": 1230, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are dressed in clean linen, denotes that you will\nshortly receive some glad tidings. That your sweetheart is faithful, and\nwill marry. If it is dirty, then it denotes poverty, and disappointment in\nlove." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10692", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Linen", "heading": "Linen", "text": "To dream of being dressed in clean linen denotes glad tidings ; soiled linen, poverty, imprisonment, disappointment, etc. (Artemidorus).", "lineStart": 10692, "lineEnd": 10695, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 230; NLM OCR lines 10692–10695", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10692, "lineEnd": 10695, "printedPage": 230, "printedPageEnd": 230 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Linen. — To dream of being dressed in clean linen denotes \nglad tidings ; soiled linen, poverty, imprisonment, disappoint- \nment, etc. (Artemidorus). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "disappoint- \nment", "after": "disappointment", "evidenceLine": 2109 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Linen" }, "displayText": "To dream of being dressed in clean linen denotes glad tidings; soiled linen, poverty, imprisonment, disappointment, etc. (Artemidorus)." }, { "id": "fontaine-0717", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Shift", "text": "(_See Linen and Smock._)", "locator": "Heading 717; source line 4481", "lineStart": 4481, "lineEnd": 4483, "kind": "cross-reference", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Linen and Smock.)" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "smock" ] }, { "slug": "linseed-oil", "title": "Linseed Oil", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see linseed oil in your dreams, denotes your impetuous extravagance will be checked by the kindly interference of a friend.”", "aliases": [ "linseed oil" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about linseed oil stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1202", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Linseed Oil", "text": "To see linseed oil in your dreams, denotes your impetuous extravagance\nwill be checked by the kindly interference of a friend.", "locator": "Heading 1205; source lines 14029–14034", "lineStart": 14029, "lineEnd": 14034, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see linseed oil in your dreams, denotes your impetuous extravagance\nwill be checked by the kindly interference of a friend." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "lion", "title": "Lion", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "aliases": [ "lion", "lions", "lioness", "lion attack", "lion cub", "roaring lion" ], "kind": "modern", "summary": "A lion can suggest visible strength, intimidating authority, or powerful energy kept within limits. Its behavior matters more than its reputation.", "tagline": "A strong presence can be admired, feared, restrained, or trusted.", "psychological": "A lion can give form to strength that feels difficult to ignore. Its size, sound, and position may organize the scene before it does anything aggressive. A calm lion can fit confidence, dignity, or being close to something impressive without needing to compete with it. A threatening encounter may instead picture feeling overmatched by a demand or authority whose response seems consequential.\n\nThe animal's actual behavior makes the distinction useful. A lion resting nearby differs from one blocking a doorway or pursuing you. Fear in front of a passive animal can suggest anticipating a difficult encounter, such as speaking to someone whose approval matters, before knowing how it will unfold. The image does not identify that person as dangerous; it gives shape to your position relative to power.\n\nA caged lion can picture strength that is contained but not comfortably accommodated. This might fit a demanding skill with little room to develop, anger you are trying to manage, or responsibility restricted by rules. Relief at the cage can instead express wanting dependable limits around something you find hard to face directly.\n\nA cub changes the balance between power and vulnerability. Caring for it may suggest supporting a capacity or responsibility that is not yet mature. Protecting someone from a lion can bring your own role into view: you may feel responsible for managing a demand larger than your individual resources.\n\nRiding, approaching, or walking beside a lion can picture participating in strength rather than fleeing it, if the scene feels chosen. Stories, wildlife programs, images, and memories of other animals can also supply direct context. These original comparisons depend on the relationship created in the dream, not a fixed assignment to a person.", "traditional": "Miller's Lion passage treats the animal as a great force and varies his forecasts according to control, cages, cubs, roaring, and threat. Fontaine's 1862 entry contrasts a mild lion with an angry one, linking each to advancement and opposition.\n\nThese are historical fortune-telling claims, including gendered relationship assumptions. Their useful distinction is the encounter's balance of strength and access. The modern interpretation asks how you relate to visible power without adopting forecasts of victory, rivals, or another person's intentions.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Visible strength or authority", "reflection": "The lion's presence can make a powerful demand or impressive capacity concrete. Calmness may suggest confidence, while feeling overmatched can express uncertainty about approaching something whose response matters." }, { "title": "Power held within limits", "reflection": "A cage can picture strength constrained by circumstances or a wish for dependable boundaries. Whether containment feels protective or cramped changes the relationship between control and possibility." }, { "title": "Responsibility for a vulnerable strength", "reflection": "A cub or a protective role can suggest caring for something not yet fully able to manage itself. The scene may join affection with the substantial demands that growth will eventually bring." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "A calm lion rests near you", "reflection": "This can picture being close to strength without needing to challenge or escape it. Confidence in a role, respect for someone's competence, or an impressive possibility may fit. The quiet behavior allows admiration and proximity to be more central than threat.", "slug": "scene-1" }, { "title": "A lion blocks the doorway you need", "reflection": "Access may depend on approaching a presence you find intimidating. A conversation with authority or a demanding task between you and a goal could fit. The obstacle is the encounter required for passage, rather than the destination itself.", "slug": "scene-2" }, { "title": "A lion follows but never attacks", "reflection": "Anticipation can become more powerful than the event. You may be expecting criticism, confrontation, or a difficult response that has not yet arrived. The pursuit gives shape to sustained vigilance without establishing what a real person intends to do.", "slug": "scene-3" }, { "title": "The lion's cage is too small", "reflection": "Contained strength may feel wasted or increasingly difficult to manage. A role with little room to use your abilities, or an intense feeling kept under rigid expectations, may fit. The scene can concern providing appropriate space rather than simply removing every limit.", "slug": "scene-4" }, { "title": "You care for a lion cub", "reflection": "A promising capacity can require support before it becomes dependable. Developing a skill, beginning a role, or caring for someone through change may offer parallels. The cub combines vulnerability with future strength, making patience more useful than demanding immediate independence.", "slug": "scene-5" }, { "title": "You walk beside a lion without fear", "reflection": "Chosen companionship can picture becoming more comfortable with a strong capacity or demanding role. Leading, speaking clearly, or accepting visible responsibility may feel less alien than before. The comfort makes cooperation with strength a better reading than conquering an enemy.", "slug": "scene-6" } ], "prompts": [ "What made the lion's strength feel welcome, intimidating, or constrained?", "Did it actually threaten me, or did expectation organize my response?", "Which role did I take toward that strength: observer, caregiver, opponent, or companion?" ], "related": [ "tiger", "cage", "bear", "being-chased" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia editorial expansion with image-specific interpretations and six differentiated scenes. Historical context is attributed to actual source passages. Human publication review pending.", "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1203" ], "scope": "Historical context only: Lion — miller-1203, Heading 1206; source lines 14034–14074. These are period fortune-telling beliefs, not evidence for the modern interpretations." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0436" ], "scope": "Historical context only: Lion — fontaine-0436, Heading 436; source line 3003. These are period fortune-telling beliefs, not evidence for the modern interpretations." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "scope": "Preserved attribution for the catalogue historical records from this source. Not cited as evidence for this original modern interpretation.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0288" ] }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "scope": "Preserved attribution for the catalogue historical records from this source. Not cited as evidence for this original modern interpretation.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0257" ] }, { "id": "moles-71045", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams and Moles", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "United Kingdom, J. Marshall, 1805", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71045", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "scope": "Preserved attribution for the catalogue historical records from this source. Not cited as evidence for this original modern interpretation.", "recordIds": [ "moles-0008", "moles-0064" ] }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1203", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Lion", "text": "To dream of a lion, signifies that a great force is driving you.\n\nIf you subdue the lion, you will be victorious in any engagement.\n\nIf it overpowers you, then you will be open to the successful\nattacks of enemies.\n\nTo see caged lions, denotes that your success depends upon your ability\nto cope with opposition.\n\nTo see a man controlling a lion in its cage, or out denotes\nsuccess in business and great mental power. You will be favorably\nregarded by women.\n\nTo see young lions, denotes new enterprises, which will bring\nsuccess if properly attended.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of young lions, denotes new and fascinating lovers.\n\nFor a woman to dream that she sees Daniel in the lions' den, signifies that by\nher intellectual qualifications and personal magnetism she will win fortune\nand lovers to her highest desire.\n\nTo hear the roar of a lion, signifies unexpected advancement\nand preferment with women.\n\nTo see a lion's head over you, showing his teeth by snarls,\nyou are threatened with defeat in your upward rise to power.\n\nTo see a lion's skin, denotes a rise to fortune and happiness.\n\nTo ride one, denotes courage and persistency in surmounting difficulties.\n\nTo dream you are defending your children from a lion with a\npen-knife, foretells enemies will threaten to overpower you,\nand will well nigh succeed if you allow any artfulness to persuade\nyou for a moment from duty and business obligations.", "locator": "Heading 1206; source lines 14034–14074", "lineStart": 14034, "lineEnd": 14074, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a lion, signifies that a great force is driving you.\n\nIf you subdue the lion, you will be victorious in any engagement.\n\nIf it overpowers you, then you will be open to the successful\nattacks of enemies.\n\nTo see caged lions, denotes that your success depends upon your ability\nto cope with opposition.\n\nTo see a man controlling a lion in its cage, or out denotes\nsuccess in business and great mental power. You will be favorably\nregarded by women.\n\nTo see young lions, denotes new enterprises, which will bring\nsuccess if properly attended.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of young lions, denotes new and fascinating lovers.\n\nFor a woman to dream that she sees Daniel in the lions' den, signifies that by\nher intellectual qualifications and personal magnetism she will win fortune\nand lovers to her highest desire.\n\nTo hear the roar of a lion, signifies unexpected advancement\nand preferment with women.\n\nTo see a lion's head over you, showing his teeth by snarls,\nyou are threatened with defeat in your upward rise to power.\n\nTo see a lion's skin, denotes a rise to fortune and happiness.\n\nTo ride one, denotes courage and persistency in surmounting difficulties.\n\nTo dream you are defending your children from a lion with a\npen-knife, foretells enemies will threaten to overpower you,\nand will well nigh succeed if you allow any artfulness to persuade\nyou for a moment from duty and business obligations." }, { "id": "fontaine-0436", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Lion", "text": "If you dream of seeing the king of beasts, and if he is mild and\ngentle looking, it shows that you will easily rise in the world to a\nbetter position than you now occupy: to dream of an angry and roaring\nlion, who tries to get at you, shows, that although you may rise in\nposition, jealous people will annoy and try to injure you. 14.\n\n Dreams of lions, bears, bulls, bees,\n Nests of wasps or hornets, these\n Are emblems whereby are expressed\n Discord with those whom you love best.", "locator": "Heading 436; source line 3003", "lineStart": 3003, "lineEnd": 3014, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream of seeing the king of beasts, and if he is mild and\ngentle looking, it shows that you will easily rise in the world to a\nbetter position than you now occupy: to dream of an angry and roaring\nlion, who tries to get at you, shows, that although you may rise in\nposition, jealous people will annoy and try to injure you. 14.\n\nDreams of lions, bears, bulls, bees,\nNests of wasps or hornets, these\nAre emblems whereby are expressed\nDiscord with those whom you love best." }, { "id": "noe-0288", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Lion", "text": "To dream of seeing this\nking of beasts, denotes that you will appear before your betters, and that\nyou will be promoted to some lucrative office, accumulate riches, and\nmarry a woman of great spirit. It argues success in trade and prosperity\nfrom a voyage by sea.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 291; source lines 1181–1185", "lineStart": 1181, "lineEnd": 1185, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing this\nking of beasts, denotes that you will appear before your betters, and that\nyou will be promoted to some lucrative office, accumulate riches, and\nmarry a woman of great spirit. It argues success in trade and prosperity\nfrom a voyage by sea." }, { "id": "cielo-0257", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Lion", "text": "To dream of a lion means unexpected honor.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 257; source lines 4479–4481", "lineStart": 4479, "lineEnd": 4481, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a lion means unexpected honor." }, { "id": "moles-0008", "sourceId": "moles-71045", "heading": "Lion", "originalHeading": "(no printed heading)", "text": "To dream you meet a lion, who fawns on you, denotes the favour of great\nones.", "locator": "Dreams interpreted, passage 8; source lines 133–134", "lineStart": 133, "lineEnd": 134, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "editorialNote": "The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Lion” because that is the subject of its first clause.", "displayText": "To dream you meet a lion, who fawns on you, denotes the favour of great\nones." }, { "id": "moles-0064", "sourceId": "moles-71045", "heading": "Lion", "originalHeading": "(no printed heading)", "text": "To dream a lion fawns upon you, denotes the favour of great persons.", "locator": "Dreams interpreted, passage 64; source lines 296–296", "lineStart": 296, "lineEnd": 296, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "editorialNote": "The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Lion” because that is the subject of its first clause.", "displayText": "To dream a lion fawns upon you, denotes the favour of great persons." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "lioness", "title": "Lioness", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “Dreaming of seeing a lioness is good to the rich or poor.”", "aliases": [ "lioness" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about lioness stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "noe-0303", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Lioness", "text": "Dreaming of seeing a lioness is good to the rich or\npoor. Marriage is also hereby signified. Those that have children upon\nthis dream shall lose them. But if you dream that she destroys you it is\ndeath to the dreamer. For persons at sea to dream of this animal is a sign\nof storm.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 307; source lines 1230–1234", "lineStart": 1230, "lineEnd": 1234, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Dreaming of seeing a lioness is good to the rich or\npoor. Marriage is also hereby signified. Those that have children upon\nthis dream shall lose them. But if you dream that she destroys you it is\ndeath to the dreamer. For persons at sea to dream of this animal is a sign\nof storm." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "lips", "title": "Lips", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of thick, unsightly lips, signifies disagreeable encounters, hasty decision, and ill temper in…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "lips" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about lips stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "mouth" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1204", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Lips", "text": "To dream of thick, unsightly lips, signifies disagreeable encounters,\nhasty decision, and ill temper in the marriage relation.\n\nFull, sweet, cherry lips, indicates harmony and affluence.\nTo a lover, it augurs reciprocation in love, and fidelity.\n\nThin lips, signifies mastery of the most intricate subjects.\n\nSore, or swollen lips, denotes privations and unhealthful desires.", "locator": "Heading 1207; source lines 14074–14086", "lineStart": 14074, "lineEnd": 14086, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of thick, unsightly lips, signifies disagreeable encounters,\nhasty decision, and ill temper in the marriage relation.\n\nFull, sweet, cherry lips, indicates harmony and affluence.\nTo a lover, it augurs reciprocation in love, and fidelity.\n\nThin lips, signifies mastery of the most intricate subjects.\n\nSore, or swollen lips, denotes privations and unhealthful desires." }, { "id": "fontaine-0437", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Lips", "text": "(_See Mouth._)", "locator": "Heading 437; source line 3014", "lineStart": 3014, "lineEnd": 3016, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Mouth.)" }, { "id": "noe-0306", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Lips", "text": "To dream that one hath red, handsome lips, is a sign that\nyour friends enjoy their health. And to have them dry and chapped, the\ncontrary.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 310; source lines 1242–1244", "lineStart": 1242, "lineEnd": 1244, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that one hath red, handsome lips, is a sign that\nyour friends enjoy their health. And to have them dry and chapped, the\ncontrary." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "mouth" ] }, { "slug": "liquor", "title": "Liquor", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of buying liquor, denotes selfish usurpation of property upon which you have no legal claim If…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "liquor" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about liquor stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1205", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Liquor", "text": "To dream of buying liquor, denotes selfish usurpation of property upon\nwhich you have no legal claim If you sell it, you will be criticised\nfor niggardly benevolence.\n\nTo drink some, you will come into doubtful possession of wealth,\nbut your generosity will draw around you convivial friends,\nand women will seek to entrance and hold you.\n\nTo see liquor in barrels, denotes prosperity, but unfavorable\ntendency toward making home pleasant.\n\nIf in bottles, fortune will appear in a very tangible form.\n\nFor a woman to dream of handling, or drinking liquor,\nforetells for her a happy Bohemian kind of existence.\nShe will be good natured but shallow minded. To treat others,\nshe will be generous to rivals, and the indifference of lovers\nor husband will not seriously offset her pleasures or contentment.", "locator": "Heading 1208; source lines 14086–14107", "lineStart": 14086, "lineEnd": 14107, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of buying liquor, denotes selfish usurpation of property upon\nwhich you have no legal claim If you sell it, you will be criticised\nfor niggardly benevolence.\n\nTo drink some, you will come into doubtful possession of wealth,\nbut your generosity will draw around you convivial friends,\nand women will seek to entrance and hold you.\n\nTo see liquor in barrels, denotes prosperity, but unfavorable\ntendency toward making home pleasant.\n\nIf in bottles, fortune will appear in a very tangible form.\n\nFor a woman to dream of handling, or drinking liquor,\nforetells for her a happy Bohemian kind of existence.\nShe will be good natured but shallow minded. To treat others,\nshe will be generous to rivals, and the indifference of lovers\nor husband will not seriously offset her pleasures or contentment." }, { "id": "fontaine-0438", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Liquor", "text": "If you dream of seeing large quantities of liquor, or of buying\nbrandy, rum, whisky, &c., it foretells poverty and disgrace; to dream\nof drinking it is the same, only worse if possible. 2.", "locator": "Heading 438; source line 3016", "lineStart": 3016, "lineEnd": 3020, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream of seeing large quantities of liquor, or of buying\nbrandy, rum, whisky, &c., it foretells poverty and disgrace; to dream\nof drinking it is the same, only worse if possible." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "liver", "title": "Liver", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a disordered liver, denotes a querulous person will be your mate, and fault-finding will occupy her time, and disquiet will fill…”", "aliases": [ "liver" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about liver stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1206", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Liver", "text": "To dream of a disordered liver, denotes a querulous person will be your mate,\nand fault-finding will occupy her time, and disquiet will fill your hours.\n\nTo dream of eating liver, indicates that some deceitful person\nhas installed himself in the affection of your sweetheart.", "locator": "Heading 1209; source lines 14107–14115", "lineStart": 14107, "lineEnd": 14115, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a disordered liver, denotes a querulous person will be your mate,\nand fault-finding will occupy her time, and disquiet will fill your hours.\n\nTo dream of eating liver, indicates that some deceitful person\nhas installed himself in the affection of your sweetheart." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "lizard", "title": "Lizard", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "5 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of lizards, foretells attacks upon you by enemies.” Compare 5 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "lizard" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about lizard stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1207", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Lizard", "text": "To dream of lizards, foretells attacks upon you by enemies.\n\nIf you kill a lizard, you will regain your lost reputation or fortune;\nbut if it should escape, you will meet vexations and crosses\nin love and business.\n\nFor a woman to dream that a lizard crawls up her skirt,\nor scratches her, she will have much misfortune and sorrow.\nHer husband will be a victim to invalidism and she will be left\na widow, and little sustenance will be eked out by her own labors.", "locator": "Heading 1210; source lines 14115–14128", "lineStart": 14115, "lineEnd": 14128, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of lizards, foretells attacks upon you by enemies.\n\nIf you kill a lizard, you will regain your lost reputation or fortune;\nbut if it should escape, you will meet vexations and crosses\nin love and business.\n\nFor a woman to dream that a lizard crawls up her skirt,\nor scratches her, she will have much misfortune and sorrow.\nHer husband will be a victim to invalidism and she will be left\na widow, and little sustenance will be eked out by her own labors." }, { "id": "fontaine-0439", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Lizard", "text": "To dream of lizards, is a sign you have secret enemies who will\ninjure you if they can. If a girl dreams this, it shows that some one\nwill question her virtue. 3.", "locator": "Heading 439; source line 3020", "lineStart": 3020, "lineEnd": 3024, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of lizards, is a sign you have secret enemies who will\ninjure you if they can. If a girl dreams this, it shows that some one\nwill question her virtue." }, { "id": "noe-0297", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Lizard", "text": "To dream that one sees a lizard,\nsignifies ill-luck and misfortune by secret enemies.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 301; source lines 1213–1214", "lineStart": 1213, "lineEnd": 1214, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that one sees a lizard,\nsignifies ill-luck and misfortune by secret enemies." }, { "id": "cielo-0258", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Lizard", "text": "Seeing a lizard indicates coming trouble.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 258; source lines 4481–4483", "lineStart": 4481, "lineEnd": 4483, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Seeing a lizard indicates coming trouble." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10707", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Lizard", "heading": "Lizard", "text": "Misfortune through secret enemies is denoted by this dream (Artemidorus), The lizard is the mediaeval symbol of misfortune and ill-luck.", "lineStart": 10707, "lineEnd": 10710, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 230; NLM OCR lines 10707–10710", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10707, "lineEnd": 10710, "printedPage": 230, "printedPageEnd": 230 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Lizard. — Misfortune through secret enemies is denoted by \nthis dream (Artemidorus), The lizard is the mediaeval symbol \nof misfortune and ill-luck. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Lizard" }, "displayText": "Misfortune through secret enemies is denoted by this dream (Artemidorus), The lizard is the mediaeval symbol of misfortune and ill-luck." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "llama", "title": "Llama", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "summary": "A llama can picture a shared journey, the terms of carrying a load, and cooperation that leaves room for separate needs and direction.", "tagline": "The journey has more than one participant.", "aliases": [ "llama", "llamas" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A llama carrying something in your dream can picture a journey made possible by another participant’s contribution. A colleague handles one part of a project, a family member carries practical duties, or an established routine supports a transition. Gratitude may coexist with uncertainty about the terms of that help. The load, pace, and destination show whether the arrangement feels agreed or merely assumed because it has worked before.\n\nAn animal stopping partway through the route can bring those terms into view. The scene may resemble a shared process that cannot continue through habit alone: responsibilities have changed, someone needs a pause, or the available support no longer fits the task. The stop does not prove laziness or disloyalty. Redistributing a load can make the next step possible without requiring one participant to resume exactly the same burden.\n\nTraveling at different speeds can make cooperation more complicated than simply being together. You may want to keep a companion close while also wanting the journey to progress. A friendship through changing schedules or a team with different working rhythms offers concrete parallels. Waiting willingly differs from waiting because your own destination is never considered. A shared pace can require adjustment from everyone rather than permanent accommodation by one person.\n\nOffering food introduces a smaller exchange. Acceptance can feel like welcome contact, while refusal may make you uncertain about what the other participant actually wants. The image can picture learning that help is useful only in a form its recipient can use. A llama waiting at your door shifts the scene toward deciding whether an unfamiliar responsibility belongs inside an established routine, especially if others assume that you will take it in.\n\nAn animal choosing another route can allow the relationship to change without making the earlier journey meaningless. Relief, sadness, and interest in continuing alone create different endings. A remembered trip, photograph, story, or handmade image may also explain the animal directly. The dream’s cooperation does not reveal a real person’s motives; it can make shared effort and its limits easier to consider.", "traditional": "No directly matching historical account is attached for this specific topic. The readings here are original reflective possibilities. The NINDS source provides general background about dreams, not evidence for these symbolic comparisons.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Agreed support", "reflection": "A load and a destination can reveal whether another contribution feels negotiated or taken for granted." }, { "title": "A pause changes the terms", "reflection": "Stopped movement may expose a need to redistribute effort rather than demand the same arrangement resume." }, { "title": "Separate routes remain possible", "reflection": "A shared journey can matter even when participants later choose different directions." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "A loaded llama stops partway through", "reflection": "The route remains available but the current arrangement cannot simply continue. This may picture a shared task whose demands need discussion. The pause can lead toward redistribution or resentment; it does not establish that any participant lacks commitment or willingness." }, { "title": "Traveling animals keep different paces", "reflection": "Being together does not make everyone’s rhythm the same. This can fit a group undertaking in which some need more time. Adjustment feels different when it is shared than when one person must permanently abandon their own pace to preserve company." }, { "title": "An offered portion is refused", "reflection": "Your attempt at care does not match what the recipient accepts. This may picture discovering that a familiar kind of help is not useful today. Refusal can change the exchange without canceling the possibility of a relationship or another form of support." }, { "title": "A llama waits at the front door", "reflection": "An unfamiliar presence asks for a place within a familiar routine. This can resemble deciding whether a new commitment belongs at home or work. Being able to choose its terms differs from being expected to accommodate it because it has arrived." }, { "title": "Redistributing the load lets you continue", "reflection": "Progress returns after the arrangement changes. This may picture cooperation that responds to actual capacity rather than inherited expectations. The useful movement comes from a different distribution of effort, without making either participant’s earlier difficulty a personal failure." }, { "title": "Your companion chooses another route", "reflection": "The journey separates without necessarily becoming a rejection. This can fit changing priorities within a valued connection. Sadness may coexist with relief or independence; the dream’s ending does not tell you whether another person intends to leave in waking life." } ], "prompts": [ "Which contributions are agreed, and which have become assumed?", "What changes when the load is redistributed?", "What value can a shared journey retain when its routes separate?" ], "related": [ "camels", "dromedary", "goat", "animals" ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "load", "title": "Load", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you carry a load, signifies a long existence filled with labors of love and charity.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "load" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about load stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1208", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Load", "text": "To dream that you carry a load, signifies a long existence filled\nwith labors of love and charity.\n\nTo fall under a load, denotes your inability to attain comforts\nthat are necessary to those looking to you for subsistence.\n\nTo see others thus engaged, denotes trials for them in which you\nwill be interested.", "locator": "Heading 1211; source lines 14128–14139", "lineStart": 14128, "lineEnd": 14139, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you carry a load, signifies a long existence filled\nwith labors of love and charity.\n\nTo fall under a load, denotes your inability to attain comforts\nthat are necessary to those looking to you for subsistence.\n\nTo see others thus engaged, denotes trials for them in which you\nwill be interested." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10711", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Load", "heading": "Load", "text": "A dream of care and toil, to succeed in carrying it, the triumph over difficulties (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 10711, "lineEnd": 10713, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 230; NLM OCR lines 10711–10713", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10711, "lineEnd": 10713, "printedPage": 230, "printedPageEnd": 230 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Load. — A dream of care and toil, to succeed in carrying it, \nthe triumph over difficulties (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Load" }, "displayText": "A dream of care and toil, to succeed in carrying it, the triumph over difficulties (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "loadstone", "title": "Loadstone", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a loadstone, denotes you will make favorable opportunities for your own advancement in a material way.”", "aliases": [ "loadstone" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about loadstone stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1209", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Loadstone", "text": "To dream of a loadstone, denotes you will make favorable\nopportunities for your own advancement in a material way.\nFor a young woman to think a loadstone is attracting her,\nis an omen of happy changes in her family.", "locator": "Heading 1212; source lines 14139–14146", "lineStart": 14139, "lineEnd": 14146, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a loadstone, denotes you will make favorable\nopportunities for your own advancement in a material way.\nFor a young woman to think a loadstone is attracting her,\nis an omen of happy changes in her family." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "loaves", "title": "Loaves", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of loaves of bread, denotes frugality.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "loaves" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about loaves stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1210", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Loaves", "text": "To dream of loaves of bread, denotes frugality. If they be of cake,\nthe dreamer has cause to rejoice over his good fortune, as love\nand wealth will wait obsequiously upon you.\n\nBroken loaves, bring discontent and bickerings between those who love.\n\nTo see loaves multiply phenomenally, prognosticates great success.\nLovers will be happy in their chosen ones.", "locator": "Heading 1213; source lines 14146–14157", "lineStart": 14146, "lineEnd": 14157, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of loaves of bread, denotes frugality. If they be of cake,\nthe dreamer has cause to rejoice over his good fortune, as love\nand wealth will wait obsequiously upon you.\n\nBroken loaves, bring discontent and bickerings between those who love.\n\nTo see loaves multiply phenomenally, prognosticates great success.\nLovers will be happy in their chosen ones." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10714", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Loaves", "heading": "Loaves", "text": "To dream of seeing loaves foretells want (Gypsy). Evidently a desire or need is assumed as the foundation of this dream.", "lineStart": 10714, "lineEnd": 10717, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 230; NLM OCR lines 10714–10717", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10714, "lineEnd": 10717, "printedPage": 230, "printedPageEnd": 230 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Loaves. — To dream of seeing loaves foretells want (Gypsy). \nEvidently a desire or need is assumed as the foundation of \nthis dream. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 0.96875, "secondaryHeading": "Loaves" }, "displayText": "To dream of seeing loaves foretells want (Gypsy). Evidently a desire or need is assumed as the foundation of this dream." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "lobster", "title": "Lobster", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing lobsters, denotes great favors, and riches will endow you.”", "aliases": [ "lobster" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about lobster stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1211", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Lobster", "text": "To dream of seeing lobsters, denotes great favors, and riches\nwill endow you.\n\nIf you eat them, you will sustain contamination by associating too freely\nwith pleasure-seeking people.\n\nIf the lobsters are made into a salad, success will not change\nyour generous nature, but you will enjoy to the fullest your\nideas of pleasure.\n\nTo order a lobster, you will hold prominent positions and\ncommand many subordinates.", "locator": "Heading 1214; source lines 14157–14172", "lineStart": 14157, "lineEnd": 14172, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing lobsters, denotes great favors, and riches\nwill endow you.\n\nIf you eat them, you will sustain contamination by associating too freely\nwith pleasure-seeking people.\n\nIf the lobsters are made into a salad, success will not change\nyour generous nature, but you will enjoy to the fullest your\nideas of pleasure.\n\nTo order a lobster, you will hold prominent positions and\ncommand many subordinates." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "lock", "title": "Lock", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a lock, denotes bewilderment.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "lock" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about lock stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1212", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Lock", "text": "To dream of a lock, denotes bewilderment. If the lock works at your command,\nor efforts, you will discover that some person is working you injury.\nIf you are in love, you will find means to aid you in overcoming a rival;\nyou will also make a prosperous journey.\n\nIf the lock resists your efforts, you will be derided and scorned\nin love and perilous voyages will bring to you no benefit.\n\nTo put a lock upon your fiance'e's neck and arm, foretells that you\nare distrustful of her fidelity, but future episodes will disabuse\nyour mind of doubt.", "locator": "Heading 1215; source lines 14172–14186", "lineStart": 14172, "lineEnd": 14186, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a lock, denotes bewilderment. If the lock works at your command,\nor efforts, you will discover that some person is working you injury.\nIf you are in love, you will find means to aid you in overcoming a rival;\nyou will also make a prosperous journey.\n\nIf the lock resists your efforts, you will be derided and scorned\nin love and perilous voyages will bring to you no benefit.\n\nTo put a lock upon your fiance'e's neck and arm, foretells that you\nare distrustful of her fidelity, but future episodes will disabuse\nyour mind of doubt." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10725", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Lock", "heading": "Lock", "text": "A dream auguring difficulty in the attainment of your desire (Gypsy),", "lineStart": 10725, "lineEnd": 10727, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 231; NLM OCR lines 10725–10727", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10725, "lineEnd": 10727, "printedPage": 231, "printedPageEnd": 231 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Lock. — A dream auguring difficulty in the attainment of \nyour desire (Gypsy), \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Lock" }, "displayText": "A dream auguring difficulty in the attainment of your desire (Gypsy)," } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "locker-room", "title": "Locker room", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "aliases": [ "locker rooms", "changing room", "changing rooms", "sports locker room" ], "summary": "A locker room can picture preparation, shared membership, and personal boundaries. Changing, storing belongings, and returning after activity differ.", "tagline": "Private preparation happens beside other people before or after a shared activity.", "psychological": "A locker room connects an outward activity with the personal preparation around it. You may change clothes, store belongings, meet teammates, or return tired after an event. This can picture moving between roles while sharing a space with others who are making a similar transition. Getting ready for work, joining a group, or winding down after a demanding task can offer possible parallels.\n\nPrivacy is partial rather than complete. Ordinary personal actions take place near people whose attention may or may not concern you. Feeling comfortable can picture ease within a shared setting. Difficulty finding enough space or being watched while changing may instead bring boundaries into view. The dream’s subject can be access to an appropriate amount of privacy, not an assumption of shame about your body.\n\nLockers give belongings a temporary secure place while you participate elsewhere. Finding your own easily can make the transition workable. Losing the key or discovering another person’s items inside may resemble uncertainty about what space is available to you within a group. You can be a member of the activity while still needing a place that clearly holds what is yours.\n\nCompany can shape the experience of preparation and recovery. Encouragement before an event may express welcome cooperation. Returning alone after others have left can feel peaceful or isolating, depending on whether you want rest or conversation. A group’s shared routines may bring belonging without requiring everyone to prepare at the same pace.\n\nNotice what happened before and after the room. A calm preparation differs from rushing because an activity has already begun; resting after effort differs from being unable to leave. The setting may also come directly from school, sports, or another recent visit. Let the reading follow how the room helped you enter or finish an activity while retaining room for your own needs.", "traditional": "School, sports, changing facilities, and remembered group routines can supply this setting. These original comparisons focus on preparation, privacy, and personal space within shared participation. No historical locker-room account is supplied as a fixed meaning for the scene.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A shared transition between roles", "reflection": "Changing and storing belongings can picture preparation for participation or recovery afterward. The room may connect with how you enter a public role and what helps you leave it when the activity ends." }, { "title": "Privacy within shared membership", "reflection": "Being part of a group does not remove personal boundaries. Comfort, available space, and other people’s attention may show whether the shared setting provides the amount of privacy you need." }, { "title": "A place that clearly holds what is yours", "reflection": "A usable locker can picture room for personal needs inside a collective arrangement. Missing keys or misplaced belongings may make the terms of access more central than membership alone." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You prepare calmly beside a supportive team", "reflection": "Participation may feel easier when preparation is shared without pressure. Joining a new work group or returning to an activity with friends can fit. The company offers encouragement while allowing each person to attend to their own readiness." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You cannot find your assigned locker", "reflection": "A group role may be available without a clear place for your personal needs. Beginning work without information about resources or responsibilities offers a parallel. The search concerns practical orientation rather than necessarily feeling unwelcome in the whole activity." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You want to change but people keep watching", "reflection": "The setting may not provide enough privacy for a personal transition. Preparing for a public task while feeling scrutinized can feel similar. Your desired boundary matters; the scene does not require embarrassment about your body to explain the discomfort." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Your belongings are mixed with someone else’s", "reflection": "Responsibilities or resources may have become difficult to distinguish in a shared arrangement. A team task with unclear ownership offers a parallel. Sorting what belongs where can restore participation without requiring either person to leave the group." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You return after the event and everyone has gone", "reflection": "The end of shared effort may leave you wanting company or welcome quiet. Finishing a demanding project can offer either parallel. Relief differs from loneliness; what you hoped would happen afterward gives the empty room its particular meaning." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You finish changing and join the activity", "reflection": "Preparation may reach a usable endpoint. Completing a routine before work or becoming ready to take part in a new group can feel similar. The movement out of the room makes readiness concrete, rather than leaving you indefinitely occupied with getting ready." } ], "prompts": [ "Was I preparing, participating, or recovering afterward?", "Did the shared space allow enough privacy for my needs?", "What made my own place and belongings easy to identify?" ], "related": [ "clothes", "uniform", "being-naked-in-public", "swimming" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia interpretation with image-specific possibilities and six differentiated scenes. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "locket", "title": "Locket", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “If a young woman dreams that her lover places a locket around her neck, she will be the recipient of many beautiful offerings, and will soon…”", "aliases": [ "locket" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about locket stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1213", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Locket", "text": "If a young woman dreams that her lover places a locket around\nher neck, she will be the recipient of many beautiful offerings,\nand will soon be wedded, and lovely children will crown her life.\nIf she should lose a locket, death will throw sadness into her life.\n\nIf a lover dreams that his sweetheart returns his locket,\nhe will confront disappointing issues. The woman he loves will\nworry him and conduct herself in a displeasing way toward him.\n\nIf a woman dreams that she breaks a locket, she will have a changeable\nand unstable husband, who will dislike constancy in any form,\nbe it business or affection,", "locator": "Heading 1216; source lines 14186–14201", "lineStart": 14186, "lineEnd": 14201, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If a young woman dreams that her lover places a locket around\nher neck, she will be the recipient of many beautiful offerings,\nand will soon be wedded, and lovely children will crown her life.\nIf she should lose a locket, death will throw sadness into her life.\n\nIf a lover dreams that his sweetheart returns his locket,\nhe will confront disappointing issues. The woman he loves will\nworry him and conduct herself in a displeasing way toward him.\n\nIf a woman dreams that she breaks a locket, she will have a changeable\nand unstable husband, who will dislike constancy in any form,\nbe it business or affection," } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "lockjaw", "title": "Lockjaw", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you have lockjaw, signifies there is trouble ahead for you, as some person is going to betray your confidence.”", "aliases": [ "lockjaw" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about lockjaw stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1214", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Lockjaw", "text": "To dream that you have lockjaw, signifies there is trouble ahead\nfor you, as some person is going to betray your confidence.\nFor a woman to see others with lockjaw, foretells her friends will\nunconsciously detract from her happiness by assigning her unpleasant tasks.\nIf stock have it, you will lose a friend.", "locator": "Heading 1217; source lines 14201–14209", "lineStart": 14201, "lineEnd": 14209, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you have lockjaw, signifies there is trouble ahead\nfor you, as some person is going to betray your confidence.\nFor a woman to see others with lockjaw, foretells her friends will\nunconsciously detract from her happiness by assigning her unpleasant tasks.\nIf stock have it, you will lose a friend." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "locomotive", "title": "Locomotive", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a locomotive running with great speed, denotes a rapid rise in fortune, and foreign travel.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "locomotive" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about locomotive stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1215", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Locomotive", "text": "To dream of a locomotive running with great speed, denotes a rapid rise\nin fortune, and foreign travel. If it is disabled, then many vexations\nwill interfere with business affairs, and anticipated journeys will be laid\naside through the want of means.\n\nTo see one completely demolished, signifies great distress\nand loss of property.\n\nTo hear one coming, denotes news of a foreign nature.\nBusiness will assume changes that will mean success to all classes.\n\nTo hear it whistle, you will be pleased and surprised at the appearance\nof a friend who has been absent, or an unexpected offer, which means\npreferment to you.", "locator": "Heading 1218; source lines 14209–14226", "lineStart": 14209, "lineEnd": 14226, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a locomotive running with great speed, denotes a rapid rise\nin fortune, and foreign travel. If it is disabled, then many vexations\nwill interfere with business affairs, and anticipated journeys will be laid\naside through the want of means.\n\nTo see one completely demolished, signifies great distress\nand loss of property.\n\nTo hear one coming, denotes news of a foreign nature.\nBusiness will assume changes that will mean success to all classes.\n\nTo hear it whistle, you will be pleased and surprised at the appearance\nof a friend who has been absent, or an unexpected offer, which means\npreferment to you." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10728", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Locomotive", "heading": "Locomotive", "text": "A dream auguring travel (Raphael).", "lineStart": 10728, "lineEnd": 10729, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 231; NLM OCR lines 10728–10729", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10728, "lineEnd": 10729, "printedPage": 231, "printedPageEnd": 231 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Locomotive. — A dream auguring travel (Raphael). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Locomotive" }, "displayText": "A dream auguring travel (Raphael)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "locust", "title": "Locust", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "aliases": [ "locust", "locusts" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "summary": "Locusts can explore the scale of a moving group, access to a landscape, and caring for what remains after a sudden change.", "tagline": "Scale changes the task while leaving particular choices available.", "psychological": "A moving cloud of locusts between you and a landscape can make a larger scene temporarily difficult to read. You may know where you hoped to go without being able to see the present conditions. A large change at work or within a group can have a similar structure. Waiting for a clearer view differs from assuming that the obscured route has disappeared permanently.\n\nA single locust on a table creates another scale. You can attend to one particular visitor rather than the idea of an overwhelming group. A broad concern may become more workable when it is separated into an actual question or encounter. The dream does not decide that a small view supplies the complete explanation; it simply makes another kind of response available.\n\nPlants left bare in the dream after locusts pass can picture discovering that an earlier arrangement no longer supplies what you expected. You may want to repair, continue with what remains or allow a different use of the space. An altered project or resource can offer a parallel when the original plan needs revision. The scene does not forecast a harvest, prove extravagance or identify who is responsible for a real loss.\n\nLocusts entering a room where several people seek shelter can bring scale into a shared practical task. You may want one opening managed while other participants have different routes or priorities. Coordination can matter more than trying to control every creature alone. A group turning away before reaching your space can instead leave the anticipated task larger than what actually occurs.\n\nFollowing one locust after it separates from the others can make an independent direction visible inside a broad movement. Curiosity may bring another view, while concern may involve losing your own route by concentrating on one exception. Choosing where to stop makes that exploration more particular. A picture, story, landscape or recent discussion may supply direct context. These original comparisons follow scale, obscured access and the conditions after change. They neither infer destruction from every locust nor assign the species a moral character, financial warning or universal meaning about groups.", "traditional": "Miller assigns locust dreams business discrepancies and a gendered relationship forecast. Craig reports extravagance, misfortune and short-lived happiness lore. These two records are attributed period writing, not predictions about finances, crops or relationships and not a moral description of a moving group.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A larger movement changes visibility", "reflection": "An obscured landscape can need more information before its route is understood or used." }, { "title": "A particular encounter changes scale", "reflection": "One visible visitor can make a broad concern workable without supplying a complete explanation of the group." }, { "title": "What remains can acquire another use", "reflection": "A changed resource can invite repair, revision or a new purpose without predicting actual loss." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A cloud of locusts blocks your view of the landscape", "reflection": "A larger movement temporarily prevents a clear account of the route. This may picture a transition whose present conditions are difficult to see. Waiting or changing viewpoint can provide information without deciding that the destination is gone or forecasting a disaster." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "One locust rests on a table where you can examine it", "reflection": "A broad image becomes a particular encounter. This can resemble separating one question from an overwhelming concern. The smaller scale allows another response while leaving wider conditions open; it does not prove that one detail explains everything around it." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Plants are bare after locusts have passed through", "reflection": "An earlier arrangement no longer supplies the result expected from it. This may picture work needing revision or a resource requiring another use. Repair and beginning differently can each be meaningful, without predicting a harvest or identifying blame for an actual loss." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Locusts enter a shelter while people need different ways out", "reflection": "A shared practical task contains several priorities. This can resemble a group needing coordination under changing conditions. Managing one opening together may be more useful than handling every visitor alone, without deciding that everyone must use the same route." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The moving group turns away before reaching your room", "reflection": "An anticipated task differs from the encounter that actually occurs. This may picture preparations remaining useful even when their full scale is not needed. Relief can coexist with readiness; the dreamed turn does not guarantee that a real concern will pass without attention." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You follow one locust after it leaves the larger group", "reflection": "An exception offers another direction within a broader movement. This can resemble exploring an individual question while retaining your own purpose. Choosing where to stop can keep the detour informative without treating separate movement as a universal sign of independence or isolation." } ], "prompts": [ "Which information was unavailable while the larger movement filled the scene?", "How did attending to one visitor change the scale of the task?", "What could remain useful after the original arrangement changed?" ], "related": [ "insects", "barley-fields", "garden", "harvest" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1216" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. miller-1216 — Locust (Heading 1219; source lines 14226–14233): Locusts receive business-discrepancy/worry and gendered affection forecasts." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L10730" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. craig-1918:L10730 — Locusts (Printed p. 231; NLM OCR lines 10730–10732): Reports extravagance, misfortune and brief-happiness lore." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection independently reviewed for content and source scope. Historical accounts remain attributed period writing. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1216", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Locust", "text": "To dream of locusts, foretells discrepancies will be found\nin your business, for which you will worry and suffer.\nFor a woman, this dream foretells she will bestow her affections\nupon ungenerous people.", "locator": "Heading 1219; source lines 14226–14233", "lineStart": 14226, "lineEnd": 14233, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of locusts, foretells discrepancies will be found\nin your business, for which you will worry and suffer.\nFor a woman, this dream foretells she will bestow her affections\nupon ungenerous people." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10730", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Locusts", "heading": "Locusts", "text": "A dream forecasting extravagance, misfortune and short-lived happiness (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 10730, "lineEnd": 10732, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 231; NLM OCR lines 10730–10732", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10730, "lineEnd": 10732, "printedPage": 231, "printedPageEnd": 231 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Locusts. — A dream forecasting extravagance, misfortune \nand short-lived happiness (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Locusts" }, "displayText": "A dream forecasting extravagance, misfortune and short-lived happiness (Gypsy)." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "lodger", "title": "Lodger", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “For a woman to dream that she has lodgers, foretells she will be burdened with unpleasant secrets.”", "aliases": [ "lodger" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about lodger stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1217", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Lodger", "text": "For a woman to dream that she has lodgers, foretells she will\nbe burdened with unpleasant secrets. If one goes away without\npaying his bills, she will have unexpected trouble with men.\nFor one to pay his bill, omens favor and accumulation of money.", "locator": "Heading 1220; source lines 14233–14240", "lineStart": 14233, "lineEnd": 14240, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a woman to dream that she has lodgers, foretells she will\nbe burdened with unpleasant secrets. If one goes away without\npaying his bills, she will have unexpected trouble with men.\nFor one to pay his bill, omens favor and accumulation of money." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "log", "title": "Log", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “To dream of seeing large logs around, is a sign that you will soon move into a new house.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "log", "logs" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about log stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0440", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Log", "text": "To dream of seeing large logs around, is a sign that you will soon\nmove into a new house; but if you imagine that you are splitting the\nlogs, it will spoil all this, for it shows that you will want a house\nbadly without being able to get one to your mind. 21, 78.", "locator": "Heading 440; source line 3024", "lineStart": 3024, "lineEnd": 3029, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing large logs around, is a sign that you will soon\nmove into a new house; but if you imagine that you are splitting the\nlogs, it will spoil all this, for it shows that you will want a house\nbadly without being able to get one to your mind." }, { "id": "noe-0298", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Logs", "text": "To dream\nthat one is cleaving a log is a sign that strangers shall come to the\nparty dreaming.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 302; source lines 1214–1216", "lineStart": 1214, "lineEnd": 1216, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream\nthat one is cleaving a log is a sign that strangers shall come to the\nparty dreaming." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10733", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Logs", "heading": "Logs", "text": "To dream of cleaving logs portends a visit from strangers ( Artemidorus ) .", "lineStart": 10733, "lineEnd": 10735, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 231; NLM OCR lines 10733–10735", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10733, "lineEnd": 10735, "printedPage": 231, "printedPageEnd": 231 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Logs. — To dream of cleaving logs portends a visit from \nstrangers ( Artemidorus ) . \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Logs" }, "displayText": "To dream of cleaving logs portends a visit from strangers ( Artemidorus )." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "loneliness", "title": "Loneliness", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "The missing connection can matter more than the number of people.", "summary": "Loneliness in a dream may appear in an empty place or among other people. Notice the kind of contact you wanted and whether it became possible.", "aliases": [ "loneliness", "lonely", "being alone", "feeling alone", "alone in a dream", "isolation", "isolated", "nobody came", "no one there", "left alone", "empty world" ], "status": "REVIEW", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A lonely dream is not necessarily an empty one. You may sit among friends and feel unreachable, wander a deserted city, or arrive where a gathering has already ended. Describe how the dream made disconnection visible. Being physically alone, being unnoticed, and being unable to recognise anyone are different experiences, even if they leave a similar feeling after waking.\n\nThe contact you wanted can clarify the scene. Perhaps you needed a familiar face, someone to understand a sentence, quiet companionship, or a place where you could join without explanation. If the dream connects with waking loneliness, name the specific need rather than treating it as a verdict on your whole social life. Time apart, a changed routine, or an unfamiliar environment may provide a comparison; a remembered solitary walk or fictional setting may provide the imagery.\n\nNotice whether solitude changed during the dream. An empty street may begin peacefully and become frightening only when you want help. A crowd may feel alien until one person addresses you. Those shifts distinguish choosing time alone from feeling cut off. Neither experience proves that others reject you, and a dream’s emotional intensity does not measure the quality of your real friendships.\n\nYour own attempts at connection matter too. Did you call, wait to be approached, leave a message, or look for somewhere familiar? The scene can offer language for a wish without prescribing how to fulfil it. If no connection arrived, you can record the disappointment without assuming the ending describes your future. A dream may remain an unfinished encounter with absence rather than a complete explanation of why you felt it.", "traditional": "No historical account is attached to this specific experience of loneliness. Archive headings involving absence, melancholy, or empty places concern different subjects and cannot establish what your social life is like. No forecast of isolation or judgment about your relationships is claimed.\n\nEveryday contexts include working alone, travelling, moving between familiar groups, missing someone, or spending a quiet evening. A dream can exaggerate one ordinary interval into an entire abandoned landscape. It can also create disconnection in a busy setting by withholding a shared language or making everyone face away. Those devices are worth describing as dream actions rather than facts about other people. If an actual person was absent, record what kind of contact you associate with them. The missing function—humour, understanding, shared activity, or simple presence—may be easier to name than a general explanation for loneliness.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "Alone in a familiar crowded place", "reflection": "An expected gathering without people can make absence especially vivid. Describe whom you expected and what you intended to do together. The scene may concern missing a routine or connection, while the empty setting remains an invented change rather than a social forecast." }, { "title": "Surrounded by people who do not connect", "reflection": "Notice whether you lacked language, recognition, or an opening to join. The scene may help distinguish wanting company from wanting understanding. It does not establish rejection by the real people whose faces may have appeared in the crowd." }, { "title": "A stranger offers quiet company", "reflection": "A small encounter can shift the dream without solving everything. Describe what made the presence welcome: a seat shared, a greeting, or someone remaining nearby. The change may help you articulate the kind of connection you value most." } ], "prompts": [ "What sort of contact did you want in the scene?", "When did being alone become loneliness, if it did?", "What changed when another person noticed or approached you?" ], "related": [ "friend", "being-ignored", "reunion", "absence", "being-excluded-from-a-gathering" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia expansion written on 2026-10-13, awaiting human publication review. Interpretations are conditional invitations to reflection, not validated symbolic meanings, predictions, diagnoses, or evidence about other people. Historical coverage is identified separately from original everyday context; research citations provide general context only.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "loom", "title": "Loom", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of standing by and seeing a loom operated by a stranger, denotes much vexation and useless irritation from the talkativeness of…”", "aliases": [ "loom" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about loom stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1219", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Loom", "text": "To dream of standing by and seeing a loom operated by a stranger, denotes much\nvexation and useless irritation from the talkativeness of those about you.\nSome disappointment with happy expectations are coupled with this dream.\n\nTo see good-looking women attending the loom, denotes unqualified success\nto those in love. It predicts congenial pursuits to the married.\nIt denotes you are drawing closer together in taste.\n\nFor a woman to dream of weaving on an oldtime loom, signifies that she\nwill have a thrifty husband and beautiful children will fill her life\nwith happy solicitations.\n\nTo see an idle loom, denotes a sulky and stubborn person,\nwho will cause you much anxious care.", "locator": "Heading 1222; source lines 14249–14266", "lineStart": 14249, "lineEnd": 14266, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of standing by and seeing a loom operated by a stranger, denotes much\nvexation and useless irritation from the talkativeness of those about you.\nSome disappointment with happy expectations are coupled with this dream.\n\nTo see good-looking women attending the loom, denotes unqualified success\nto those in love. It predicts congenial pursuits to the married.\nIt denotes you are drawing closer together in taste.\n\nFor a woman to dream of weaving on an oldtime loom, signifies that she\nwill have a thrifty husband and beautiful children will fill her life\nwith happy solicitations.\n\nTo see an idle loom, denotes a sulky and stubborn person,\nwho will cause you much anxious care." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "lords-prayer", "title": "Lord's Prayer", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of repeating the Lord's Prayer, foretells that you are threatened with secret foes and will need the alliance and the support of…”", "aliases": [ "lord's prayer" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about lord's prayer stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1220", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Lord's Prayer", "text": "To dream of repeating the Lord's Prayer, foretells that you are threatened\nwith secret foes and will need the alliance and the support of friends\nto tide you over difficulties.\n\nTo hear others repeat it, denotes the danger of some friend.", "locator": "Heading 1223; source lines 14266–14274", "lineStart": 14266, "lineEnd": 14274, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of repeating the Lord's Prayer, foretells that you are threatened\nwith secret foes and will need the alliance and the support of friends\nto tide you over difficulties.\n\nTo hear others repeat it, denotes the danger of some friend." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "losing-a-child", "title": "Losing a child", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "An imagined separation can feel real without forecasting one.", "summary": "Losing a child in a dream can be deeply upsetting. Explore the search, separation, and support without treating the scene as a prediction.", "aliases": [ "losing a child", "child missing", "my child died", "child dying in a dream", "losing my son", "losing my daughter", "child disappearing", "child kidnapped", "lost child" ], "status": "REVIEW", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "Write the sequence at a pace that feels manageable. Losing sight of a child in a crowd, realizing they left earlier, and being told they are missing are different beginnings. Note whether the child was someone you know, a younger version of someone, or an unfamiliar figure. The scene does not establish that a child is in danger or that you failed to protect them.\n\n Identify what made finding them difficult. A changing building, unclear directions, people who would not answer, or a phone that failed can turn the dream toward obstacles and unavailable help. You may remember your own urgency more clearly than the child’s actions. Keep that difference: what you feared happened is not necessarily what the dream showed.\n\n Worries about responsibility, a recent separation, memories of a crowded place, or a child becoming more independent can offer ordinary connections. If no child is part of your daily life, do not force the figure into a standard substitute. You might recognize a remembered version of yourself, a protective role, or simply an unsettling story. Let the details support the connection instead of assuming one in advance.\n\n Include the ending, especially a reunion, discovery that the child was safe, or help that arrived late. Relief and anger can coexist. If the dream ended before the search did, you can record the unfinished feeling without inventing an outcome. You need not reread the frightening parts repeatedly or turn the scene into an instruction. A useful reflection may be as small as naming what reassurance, shared responsibility, or reliable information you wanted while searching.", "traditional": "The historical Children accounts include statements about a child’s appearance, illness, death, and the dreamer’s fortune. Miller’s Children entry sometimes treats distressing images as warnings, while Fontaine gives broadly favourable fortunes to children and moralizes pregnancy. These are period beliefs, not reliable information about a particular child.\n\n A general Children passage does not establish a meaning for the specific experience of losing sight of someone. The comparison is limited even when its subject feels similar. DreamFolia retains those source distinctions and does not use older forecasts to explain the outcome of your search.\n\n In everyday life, care involves attachment, changing independence, and limits on what any one person can control. Those experiences can provide original associations for an imagined separation. Exploring the kind of help or reassurance you wanted keeps the reflection close to the dream without turning fear into evidence of danger or parental failure.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "The child disappears in a crowd", "reflection": "Describe the last point where you saw them and what drew your attention away. The dream may focus on a moment of separation or the difficulty of seeing clearly. An imagined lapse does not establish real negligence." }, { "title": "Nobody helps with the search", "reflection": "Notice what you asked for and how others responded. Feeling alone with a responsibility can matter independently of the missing child. Write the practical help you wanted rather than deciding that people do not care." }, { "title": "You find the child safe", "reflection": "Record where they were and whether the reunion changed your understanding of the search. Relief, frustration, or a wish to stay close are different endings. Include the child’s response if you remember it." } ], "prompts": [ "What did I actually see, and what did I fear had happened?", "Which obstacle made the search feel most difficult?", "What reassurance or shared responsibility did I want in the scene?" ], "related": [ "children", "baby", "being-lost", "a-child-leaving-home" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "scope": "Historical comparison: Children (Heading 407; source lines 5478–5508). These period accounts do not establish a present-day outcome or validate the personal reflections on this page.", "recordReferences": [ { "id": "miller-0407", "heading": "Children", "locator": "Heading 407; source lines 5478–5508" } ], "recordIds": [ "miller-0407" ] }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "scope": "Historical comparison: Child (Heading 139; source line 1550). These period accounts do not establish a present-day outcome or validate the personal reflections on this page.", "recordReferences": [ { "id": "fontaine-0139", "heading": "Child", "locator": "Heading 139; source line 1550" } ], "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0139" ] } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection expanded on October 13, 2026. Historical readings are attributed period beliefs; proposed personal connections are exploratory. Human publication review remains pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "losing-a-phone", "title": "Losing a phone", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "tagline": "Which part of your life went missing with it?", "summary": "A lost phone can raise different concerns: reaching someone, finding your way, protecting private information, or being free from demands.", "aliases": [ "losing a phone" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "Notice what you tried to recover first. Wanting a contact number creates a different scene from needing directions, photographs, or proof of identity. The dream may offer a way to describe how much everyday access sits in one object. It can also simply revisit a familiar worry about losing something valuable. If losing it brought relief, include that: being unreachable may have felt welcome in this particular dream.", "traditional": "Historical books discuss lost objects and telephones separately. Neither supplies an established meaning for losing a smartphone with messages, maps, and photographs.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "You needed to call someone", "reflection": "The urgency may belong to that relationship or unfinished conversation. Record who you wanted, and what you needed to say." }, { "title": "A stranger had your phone", "reflection": "Focus on whether you feared losing the object, losing privacy, or being unable to prove it belonged to you." }, { "title": "You stopped searching", "reflection": "Relief, resignation, and trust are different endings. Note which feeling appeared when being reachable ceased to matter." } ], "prompts": [ "What could I no longer do without the phone?", "Was the search my own choice or someone else’s demand?", "What remained available to me after the loss?" ], "related": [ "a-dying-phone-battery", "a-forgotten-phone-password" ], "sources": [], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection draft, written for this specific modern scene. Suggested connections are exploratory, not established dream meanings. Individual editorial review remains pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "losing-hearing", "title": "Losing hearing", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "Sound disappears, but the scene continues around you.", "summary": "A dream of losing hearing can change conversation, danger, or the feel of a crowded place. Notice what became silent and how you communicated.", "aliases": [ "losing hearing", "deaf", "deafness", "going deaf", "being deaf", "can't hear", "cannot hear", "muffled sound", "hearing loss", "no sound", "silent dream", "people talking but no sound", "ears blocked" ], "status": "REVIEW", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "Losing hearing in a dream can be gradual, sudden, or limited to one person or sound. Describe what remained audible, if anything. A friend’s moving lips, a silent alarm, and a street that becomes quiet each create different situations. The image does not establish a waking hearing problem or identify the source of any bodily sensation.\n\nThe communication attempt may be the centre of the scene. You might ask someone to repeat themselves, pretend to understand, read a written message, or realise that no one knows you cannot hear. If you compare this with waking life, consider a specific difficulty in understanding or participating rather than equating hearing difference with isolation. Silence may also feel restful or leave other forms of connection fully available.\n\nThe dream’s treatment of sound deserves care. Was the world genuinely silent inside the scene, or do you simply remember no audio afterward? Did an outside noise become part of the dream? These are different observations, and you may not be able to determine which occurred. Recent listening, a noisy setting, a quiet room, or a film scene can provide ordinary associations without resolving the cause.\n\nNotice how people responded to your need. Someone facing you, writing a note, or patiently finding another way to communicate changes the experience from disconnection to accommodation. If the scene was frustrating, name what was missing: clear information, recognition of the difficulty, or time to respond. Hearing does not determine the value of a person or a relationship, and the dream need not be interpreted through deficit or fear alone.", "traditional": "No historical account is attached to this specific loss-of-hearing scene. Historical language about ears or speech should not be transferred into claims about health, friendship, or personal worth. The original reflection concerns what happened in the dream rather than an omen or a clinical conclusion.\n\nThe existing sound-research citation describes a laboratory experiment involving sounds during dreaming sleep. Its presence does not identify what caused your dream’s silence or validate a symbolic meaning. For everyday context, record the actual sound environment if known: a fan, earplugs, nearby conversation, or a quiet room. Those details can be compared with the scene without assuming a causal connection. Also note any communication method the dream made available. A written exchange or gesture may have felt clearer than speech, which can be an important feature rather than merely a substitute for something lost.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "A friend speaks but you hear nothing", "reflection": "Record what you could see and whether you told them about the difficulty. The scene may focus on needing clearer communication, but your guess about their words is still a guess. It provides no evidence about what that person thinks or intends." }, { "title": "A loud place becomes peacefully quiet", "reflection": "Silence can bring relief rather than fear. Notice whether you still felt connected to people or activity around you. The change may explore a wish for a quieter experience, or simply alter the dream’s atmosphere without carrying a health implication." }, { "title": "Someone writes instead of speaking", "reflection": "The new method may restore participation. Describe who suggested it and whether the message was clear. The scene can help you name the kind of patience or adaptation you value, without implying that communication through sound is always necessary for closeness." } ], "prompts": [ "Which sounds disappeared, and what remained available?", "Did the silence feel different before and after you tried to communicate?", "What helped you understand or be understood in the scene?" ], "related": [ "ears", "noise", "voice", "a-waking-sound-entering-a-dream", "talking-while-muted" ], "sources": [ { "id": "rem-sounds-2025", "title": "Investigating dreams by strategically presenting sounds during REM sleep to reactivate waking experiences", "author": "Karen R. Konkoly and colleagues", "url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40675367/", "scope": "Primary laboratory experiment on sound cueing and dream content; does not identify the source of any individual dream sound." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia expansion written on 2026-10-13, awaiting human publication review. Interpretations are conditional invitations to reflection, not validated symbolic meanings, predictions, diagnoses, or evidence about other people. Historical coverage is identified separately from original everyday context; research citations provide general context only.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "losing-money", "title": "Losing money", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "What disappears can alter the task without defining every remaining possibility.", "summary": "Losing money can explore a disruption in an ordinary sequence, the responsibility attached to what is missing, or how the next step changes after a loss.", "aliases": [ "lost money", "losing money", "lost my wallet", "losing a wallet", "money stolen", "empty bank account", "losing savings", "lost cash", "money disappearing" ], "status": "REVIEW", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-14", "psychological": "Losing money in a dream can make a change in an ordinary sequence suddenly consequential. Something you expected to have is no longer available, and the next action may need to change. The concern can be practical inconvenience, an explanation owed or uncertainty about what happened. An imagined loss or theft does not establish a future financial event or evidence against an actual person.\n\nDropping cash while your hands are occupied can connect the disappearance with competing tasks. You may be trying to carry too much at once, find another way to manage the items or ask someone to hold a door. This can resemble a sequence whose supporting arrangement needs attention. The dream need not turn a brief mishap into a judgment about competence or carelessness.\n\nA balance becoming empty without a visible transaction makes the explanation itself absent. You may want a sequence of events before deciding what the loss means. A task whose recorded result differs from what you remember doing can offer a comparison. The dreamed account cannot settle an actual unknown payment; it makes the difference between noticing a change and understanding its cause concrete.\n\nLosing money entrusted by someone else introduces the wish to explain what happened. The conversation can matter as much as the amount, especially if the other person responds differently from what you expected. Finding your wallet missing during a journey instead changes the available method of continuing. A companion, another means of access or a revised destination may become important without removing the significance of the loss.\n\nMoney taken by a dreamed character can centre a request to have it returned. The scene might give a disputed claim a voice rather than resolve every question about possession. Discovering the missing cash in an unexpected pocket can turn the event toward reconstructing an ordinary sequence. Relief may coexist with irritation over the interrupted task. These possibilities concern the mechanism, responsibility and continuing activity, leaving room for recent purchases or direct financial worries alongside broader personal comparisons. The particular response shapes the dream’s ending without prescribing accusations, spending choices or the timing of a real decision.", "traditional": "The historical comparison comes from Miller’s broader Money passage. Its loss clause predicts domestic unhappiness and gloomy affairs, alongside different claims about finding, paying, saving and other actions. These are attributed period forecasts rather than financial evidence; the original reflection concerns the particular sequence and response after the disappearance.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Cash falls while your hands are full of other things", "reflection": "The loss occurs through the arrangement of several simultaneous tasks. This may picture a sequence needing more room, another method or shared help. The mechanism gives the event concrete terms, making support more useful to consider than turning a momentary mishap into a judgment about your ability." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "An account balance becomes empty without a visible transaction", "reflection": "The change is clear while its explanation remains unavailable. This can picture a result needing a sequence before it can be understood. Wanting an account of what happened differs from immediately deciding what caused it, letting uncertainty remain specific rather than become a general verdict about security." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You need to explain the loss of money entrusted by someone else", "reflection": "The missing amount carries a conversation as well as a practical problem. This may picture wanting room to describe an unexpected event accurately. The other person’s dreamed response changes the encounter, making acknowledgment and understanding part of what you hoped to find after the loss." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A missing wallet changes how you continue a journey", "reflection": "The planned method becomes unavailable while the destination or company still matters. This can picture adapting an ordinary sequence after a disruption. Another means of access may keep part of the occasion possible, allowing the loss to be significant without making it the only fact about what follows." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You ask a dreamed character to return the money they took", "reflection": "The scene gives a disputed claim a direct request. This may picture wanting a response rather than silently carrying an unresolved account. What happens after you speak can alter the encounter, making the available conversation as important as the initial act of taking." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The missing cash turns up in an unexpected pocket", "reflection": "Recovery changes the practical situation while the interrupted search has already had an effect. This can picture relief alongside annoyance or renewed understanding of the sequence. Finding it may restore an option without requiring the whole event to become meaningless or every uncomfortable feeling to disappear at once." } ], "prompts": [ "How did the money become unavailable within the scene?", "What explanation, response or support did you want afterward?", "How did the event change what remained possible?" ], "related": [ "money", "finding-money", "purse", "being-fired" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "scope": "Adjacent historical comparison: Miller’s Money clause about losing money, with domestic unhappiness and gloom. Complete supplied Money passage: miller-1325, Heading 1329; source lines 15252–15287. These attributed period forecasts do not validate this original reflection or establish a future financial or household outcome.", "recordReferences": [ { "id": "miller-1325", "heading": "Money", "locator": "Heading 1329; source lines 15252–15287" } ], "recordIds": [ "miller-1325" ] } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A sequence interrupted", "reflection": "A disappearance can make the practical arrangement of simultaneous tasks important." }, { "title": "An account of what happened", "reflection": "An unexplained change or entrusted amount can create a need for understanding and a voice in the situation." }, { "title": "Continuing after the disruption", "reflection": "Available company, an alternative method or recovery can alter what follows without erasing the event." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "loss", "title": "Loss", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “To dream of losing your hat is a sign you will entertain a large company, either by making a speech, or…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "loss", "losses" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about loss stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0442", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Losses", "text": "To dream of losing your hat is a sign you will entertain a\nlarge company, either by making a speech, or otherwise attracting their\nattention: dreaming of the loss of money, a watch, or any valuables of\nthat kind, predicts that you will gain as much and perhaps more than\nyour loss amounts to: if a girl dreams of losing her shoe-strings, she\nwill be kissed by an agreeable young man; any article of clothing that\nyou may dream of having lost, shows that you will rig yourself out in a\nnew suit. 47, 6.", "locator": "Heading 442; source line 3036", "lineStart": 3036, "lineEnd": 3045, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of losing your hat is a sign you will entertain a\nlarge company, either by making a speech, or otherwise attracting their\nattention: dreaming of the loss of money, a watch, or any valuables of\nthat kind, predicts that you will gain as much and perhaps more than\nyour loss amounts to: if a girl dreams of losing her shoe-strings, she\nwill be kissed by an agreeable young man; any article of clothing that\nyou may dream of having lost, shows that you will rig yourself out in a\nnew suit.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Losses” is shown on the Loss page: singular/plural" }, { "id": "noe-0313", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Losses", "text": "To dream you lose something on\nwhich you set great value, denotes that you will hear of something which\nwill give you great pleasure. If you dream of losing money, you will\nreceive a gift from some one which will astonish and please you. To dream\nthat you have lost some part of your dress, foretells you that there is\nsome one intending to confer some favor on you.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 317; source lines 1257–1264", "lineStart": 1257, "lineEnd": 1264, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you lose something on\nwhich you set great value, denotes that you will hear of something which\nwill give you great pleasure. If you dream of losing money, you will\nreceive a gift from some one which will astonish and please you. To dream\nthat you have lost some part of your dress, foretells you that there is\nsome one intending to confer some favor on you.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Losses” is shown on the Loss page: singular/plural" }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10744", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Loss", "heading": "Loss", "text": "For a woman to dream of losing her wedding-ring augurs little love for her husband ; if she finds it again, the love is not wholly dead ; for a man to lose his shoes, signifies reproaches (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 10744, "lineEnd": 10748, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 231; NLM OCR lines 10744–10748", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10744, "lineEnd": 10748, "printedPage": 231, "printedPageEnd": 231 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Loss. — For a woman to dream of losing her wedding-ring \naugurs little love for her husband ; if she finds it again, the \nlove is not wholly dead ; for a man to lose his shoes, signifies \nreproaches (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Loss" }, "displayText": "For a woman to dream of losing her wedding-ring augurs little love for her husband; if she finds it again, the love is not wholly dead; for a man to lose his shoes, signifies reproaches (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "lottery", "title": "Lottery", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "An uncertain result can make the need behind a hoped-for change visible.", "summary": "Lottery dreams can explore imagined sudden change, shared anticipation and what a wanted gain would provide. They cannot supply winning numbers or a result.", "aliases": [ "lottery", "lottery ticket", "lottery tickets", "lottery draw", "winning the lottery" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A lottery in a dream makes a large possible change depend on a result you do not direct. That can picture hoping for relief from a recurring demand, a new opening or enough resources for something valued. A difficult workload or long-awaited change may provide a parallel. The hoped-for gain becomes more useful to understand through what you wanted it to make possible, rather than through the size of the prize alone.\n\nImagining a win can give ordinary needs a dramatic solution. Time to rest, a place to live or room to pursue an interest may appear achievable all at once. This can reveal several wishes gathered into one outcome. It does not mean those wishes require the same source or that a dream is advising you to pursue a chance-based solution. The image can hold desire without supplying a practical plan.\n\nWaiting with a number but no result can make uncertainty prolonged and personal. You have participated while the part that would change the situation remains elsewhere. A pending decision or application may feel similar. Checking repeatedly can keep the possibility present without making it clearer. A shared wait can offer company, or make your own hope harder to separate from other people's expectations.\n\nAnother person winning can bring comparison into the scene. Pleasure for them may coexist with disappointment about what remains unavailable to you. A shared chance can instead raise questions about agreement: what was contributed, what each person expected and how a result would be used. The dream cannot establish fairness in an actual arrangement.\n\nA win creating new decisions can distinguish receiving a resource from knowing how to use it. The imagined gain may not remove every uncertainty it was expected to solve. Continuing an already available plan can give attention another place while the result remains unknown. Recent stories, numbers or conversations may supply the scene directly. These original reflections do not predict outcomes, identify winning numbers or recommend gambling.", "traditional": "Miller differentiates interest in a lottery, a lucky number, others winning and loss through several forecasts. Cielo predicts loss from winning money; Fontaine’s Lottery entry only points to Prize. All three records remain attached and honestly scoped. These are period claims, not evidence of a result or a basis for choosing numbers.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "The need behind sudden change", "reflection": "A dramatic gain can gather several ordinary wishes into one image. Understanding what it would provide may be more useful than treating the prize itself as the whole subject." }, { "title": "Participation without control of the result", "reflection": "Holding a number can make an uncertain decision feel personal. Your part may be complete while the remaining outcome belongs to a process you do not direct." }, { "title": "A resource with further choices", "reflection": "An imagined win can introduce decisions instead of ending every concern. Receiving something and knowing what arrangement would serve your needs are different stages." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You imagine how a win would change one ordinary need", "reflection": "Imagining a changed ordinary need can picture a wish for relief given one dramatic form. Time, space or a valued interest may fit. The need can be explored without treating the dream as advice to seek a chance-based solution." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You hold a number but cannot find the result", "reflection": "A number without a result can picture participation whose next stage remains unavailable. An application or pending decision may feel similar. The uncertainty can be meaningful without the dreamed number becoming information about a future outcome." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A group shares a chance and must discuss what is fair", "reflection": "A shared chance can picture expectations that need an agreement before a result arrives. Contributions and intended use may differ between people. The scene can make those terms visible without determining the fairness of any actual arrangement." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Somebody else wins and you notice what you wanted", "reflection": "Another person winning can picture comparison around a wanted change. Appreciation and disappointment may coexist. What their gain seems to provide can clarify your own wish without implying that their opportunity should have belonged to you." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A win creates decisions instead of ending every worry", "reflection": "New decisions after a win can picture a resource arriving without a complete account of how it should be used. An opening may require priorities rather than remove them. The imagined result does not predict real money or obligations." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You set the result aside and continue a plan already available", "reflection": "Continuing an available plan can picture attention moving from an uncertain result toward something you can presently use. Hope may remain without organizing every action. The scene is reflective material, rather than a financial or gambling recommendation." } ], "prompts": [ "What ordinary need did the imagined gain promise to meet?", "Which part of the outcome was mine to influence, and which remained unknown?", "What expectations or choices appeared around a shared or successful result?" ], "related": [ "money", "finding-money", "dice", "disappointment", "prize" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1221" ], "scope": "Miller differentiates interest in the draw, holding a lucky number, others winning and losing, with business, anxiety, social and adverse relationship forecasts. Exact supplied record(s): miller-1221 — Lottery (Heading 1224; source lines 14274–14295). Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence for the original reflection, a diagnosis or an actual outcome." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0443" ], "scope": "Fontaine’s Lottery entry is only a See Prize cross-reference, not a supplied independent forecast. Exact supplied record(s): fontaine-0443 — Lottery (Heading 443; source line 3045). Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence for the original reflection, a diagnosis or an actual outcome." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0259" ], "scope": "Cielo’s Lottery account predicts loss from winning money. Exact supplied record(s): cielo-0259 — Lottery (Dream section, heading 259; source lines 4483–4485). Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence for the original reflection, a diagnosis or an actual outcome." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1221", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Lottery", "text": "To dream of a lottery, and that you are taking great interest\nin the drawing, you will engage in some worthless enterprise,\nwhich will cause you to make an unpropitious journey.\nIf you hold the lucky number, you will gain in a speculation\nwhich will perplex and give you much anxiety.\n\nTo see others winning in a lottery, denotes convivialities and amusements,\nbringing many friends together.\n\nIf you lose in a lottery, you will be the victim of designing persons.\nGloomy depressions in your affairs will result.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of a lottery in any way, denotes that\nher careless way of doing things will bring her disappointment,\nand a husband who will not be altogether reliable or constant.\n\nTo dream of a lottery, denotes you will have unfavorable friendships\nin business. Your love affairs will produce temporary pleasure.", "locator": "Heading 1224; source lines 14274–14295", "lineStart": 14274, "lineEnd": 14295, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a lottery, and that you are taking great interest\nin the drawing, you will engage in some worthless enterprise,\nwhich will cause you to make an unpropitious journey.\nIf you hold the lucky number, you will gain in a speculation\nwhich will perplex and give you much anxiety.\n\nTo see others winning in a lottery, denotes convivialities and amusements,\nbringing many friends together.\n\nIf you lose in a lottery, you will be the victim of designing persons.\nGloomy depressions in your affairs will result.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of a lottery in any way, denotes that\nher careless way of doing things will bring her disappointment,\nand a husband who will not be altogether reliable or constant.\n\nTo dream of a lottery, denotes you will have unfavorable friendships\nin business. Your love affairs will produce temporary pleasure." }, { "id": "fontaine-0443", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Lottery", "text": "(_See Prize._)", "locator": "Heading 443; source line 3045", "lineStart": 3045, "lineEnd": 3047, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Prize.)" }, { "id": "cielo-0259", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Lottery", "text": "To dream of winning money in a lottery means loss.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 259; source lines 4483–4485", "lineStart": 4483, "lineEnd": 4485, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of winning money in a lottery means loss." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [ "prize" ] }, { "slug": "love", "title": "Love", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "aliases": [ "love" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "summary": "Love dreams may invite reflection on experienced affection, care and attachment, including how they are expressed and received in a particular scene.", "tagline": "How affection becomes an experience.", "psychological": "Love in a dream may be expressed in words, a small action or a feeling that has no clear explanation. Begin by describing where you noticed it and toward whom or what it was directed. A partner, friend, family member, animal, place or valued activity can bring different associations. The experience need not be reduced to romance, and a strong feeling in the dream does not establish another person's waking feelings.\n\nCare can appear through practical detail. Someone may remember a preference, spend time alongside you or make room for an activity that matters to you. This could invite reflection on what makes affection recognizable in your own experience. For example, being listened to during an ordinary task might feel more significant than a grand declaration. The comparison should come from the scene rather than imposing one universal language of love.\n\nExpression and reception may differ. You might offer something that does not fit the other person's needs, hear words that feel meaningful or discover that a familiar gesture leaves you uncertain. These scenes can help you describe a mismatch without judging either person as uncaring. Notice what you ask, clarify or change. A dreamed lack of response does not prove rejection, and warmth in the dream does not verify a real relationship.\n\nAttachment can include room for separation and preference. Spending time together may feel chosen rather than compulsory, or you may want to continue a valued activity on your own. This could open a question about how closeness and independence coexist in the scene. Loving an object or place may involve its history, usefulness or particular qualities, not a substitute explanation for every personal relationship.\n\nWaking experiences and emotions can enter dreams through recent conversations, memories and ordinary acts of care. Note what the dream makes concrete and what remains only a feeling. Affection can be a complete enjoyable experience without revealing an unmet need. If feelings are mixed, you can describe them without forcing a verdict about a relationship, your character or an obligation to act. The reflection may help you name what felt caring, what you wanted to express and how your response changed during the encounter.", "traditional": "The supplied Love accounts differ sharply. Miller links affection toward objects, people or animals with satisfaction and fortune, while also discussing unreturned love. Fontaine assigns folly and gendered ridicule forecasts; Noe gives contrary claims about being in love or being loved. Craig reports favorable marriage and prosperity forecasts through her own attribution to Raphael. These period beliefs do not establish a real person’s feelings, character or future relationship outcomes.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Recognizable care", "reflection": "A particular action or moment may make affection felt. Explore its personal detail rather than assuming that one form of attention means love for everyone." }, { "title": "Expression and response", "reflection": "What you offer and what is received can differ. Questions, adjustments and uncertainty may be useful to describe without treating a dream response as evidence about a real relationship." }, { "title": "Attachment with room to choose", "reflection": "Closeness may coexist with separate preferences or time. Consider what remained voluntary in the scene, including affection for a place, animal or activity rather than only romance." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "A small preference is remembered", "reflection": "Someone prepares or chooses something in the way you enjoy, without making a declaration. The scene might help you name a concrete form of attention that matters to you. Describe the detail and your response; the dreamed act does not establish the real person’s feelings or intentions." }, { "title": "Your affectionate gift does not fit the need", "reflection": "You offer something with care, but the recipient needs a different kind of help or company. This could invite reflection on listening as well as expressing affection. Notice whether you ask, adjust or leave the offer open, without concluding that either person is unloving." }, { "title": "Words of affection are difficult to receive", "reflection": "A person says something warm, and you feel unsure how to answer. The scene may focus on reception rather than whether the words are true. Explore what makes the response difficult within the dream; uncertainty does not diagnose your capacity for closeness or prove the real person’s sincerity." }, { "title": "You feel attached to a particular place", "reflection": "Being in a room or landscape brings a clear feeling of affection, even with no person present. This might connect with remembered use, history or a quality you value there. Record the specific detail rather than turning love of a place into a hidden explanation for every relationship." }, { "title": "Time together leaves room for separate interests", "reflection": "You and another person remain warmly connected while choosing different activities nearby. The scene could let closeness and preference coexist without needing constant agreement. Notice how the arrangement feels and what you can choose; it does not prescribe the proper amount of independence for a real relationship." }, { "title": "Care is offered without needing an immediate reply", "reflection": "You make an ordinary supportive gesture and allow the other person time to respond. This might bring pace and expectation into the experience of affection. Record what you hoped the action would make possible, without assuming that patience guarantees a particular response or relationship outcome." } ], "prompts": [ "What made affection recognizable in this particular scene?", "How did expression, response or uncertainty change the experience?", "Which person, place, activity or remembered act of care gives it context?" ], "related": [ "partner", "friend", "hug", "gratitude", "kiss" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1223" ], "scope": "Miller discusses love toward objects, parents, a partner or animals and love returned or not returned, assigning satisfaction, character, household and fortune forecasts. Specific supplied passages: Love — miller-1223 (Heading 1226; source lines 14303–14325). Historical comparison only; these attributed period beliefs do not establish outcomes, character, diagnosis, consent, desire or a universal dream meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0444" ], "scope": "Fontaine calls dreamed love a contrary sign and assigns folly, shame and gendered ridicule forecasts. Specific supplied passages: Love — fontaine-0444 (Heading 444; source line 3047). Historical comparison only; these attributed period beliefs do not establish outcomes, character, diagnosis, consent, desire or a universal dream meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0311" ], "scope": "Noe gives contrary claims about being in love and another person loving the dreamer, including susceptibility and solitude. Specific supplied passages: Love — noe-0311 (Dream section, heading 315; source lines 1253–1255). Historical comparison only; these attributed period beliefs do not establish outcomes, character, diagnosis, consent, desire or a universal dream meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L10749" ], "scope": "Craig gives contrary or favorable marriage and prosperity forecasts for unsuccessful love, friends’ affection or being with a lover, attributing them to Raphael through her own text. Specific supplied passages: Love — craig-1918:L10749 (Printed p. 231; NLM OCR lines 10749–10753). Historical comparison only; these attributed period beliefs do not establish outcomes, character, diagnosis, consent, desire or a universal dream meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "kind": "editorial", "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1223", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Love", "text": "To dream of loving any object, denotes satisfaction with\nyour present environments.\n\nTo dream that the love of others fills you with happy forebodings,\nsuccessful affairs will give you contentment and freedom from the anxious\ncares of life. If you find that your love fails, or is not reciprocated,\nyou will become despondent over some conflicting question arising in your\nmind as to whether it is best to change your mode of living or to marry\nand trust fortune for the future advancement of your state.\n\nFor a husband or wife to dream that their companion is loving,\nforetells great happiness around the hearthstone, and bright\nchildren will contribute to the sunshine of the home.\n\nTo dream of the love of parents, foretells uprightness in character\nand a continual progress toward fortune and elevation.\n\nThe love of animals, indicates contentment with what you possess,\nthough you may not think so. For a time, fortune will crown you.", "locator": "Heading 1226; source lines 14303–14325", "lineStart": 14303, "lineEnd": 14325, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of loving any object, denotes satisfaction with\nyour present environments.\n\nTo dream that the love of others fills you with happy forebodings,\nsuccessful affairs will give you contentment and freedom from the anxious\ncares of life. If you find that your love fails, or is not reciprocated,\nyou will become despondent over some conflicting question arising in your\nmind as to whether it is best to change your mode of living or to marry\nand trust fortune for the future advancement of your state.\n\nFor a husband or wife to dream that their companion is loving,\nforetells great happiness around the hearthstone, and bright\nchildren will contribute to the sunshine of the home.\n\nTo dream of the love of parents, foretells uprightness in character\nand a continual progress toward fortune and elevation.\n\nThe love of animals, indicates contentment with what you possess,\nthough you may not think so. For a time, fortune will crown you." }, { "id": "fontaine-0444", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Love", "text": "To dream you are in love is a sign you will make a fool of\nyourself and do something silly, of which you may afterwards be\nashamed—thus showing that the dream works contrariwise—for love is\nanything but a silly sentiment unless indulged in by fools. For a young\ngirl to dream of falling in love foretells that she will be laughed at\nand ridiculed for some folly. 64, 52, 1.", "locator": "Heading 444; source line 3047", "lineStart": 3047, "lineEnd": 3054, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are in love is a sign you will make a fool of\nyourself and do something silly, of which you may afterwards be\nashamed—thus showing that the dream works contrariwise—for love is\nanything but a silly sentiment unless indulged in by fools. For a young\ngirl to dream of falling in love foretells that she will be laughed at\nand ridiculed for some folly." }, { "id": "noe-0311", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Love", "text": "To dream of being in love, denotes\nthat you are not susceptible. If you dream of another loving you, you will\npass through life alone and unsought.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 315; source lines 1253–1255", "lineStart": 1253, "lineEnd": 1255, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being in love, denotes\nthat you are not susceptible. If you dream of another loving you, you will\npass through life alone and unsought." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10749", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Love", "heading": "Love", "text": "To dream of unsuccessful love is a dream of contrary, you will marry and be happy; to dream that friends love you foretells prosperity in all things; to dream of being with your lover foretells a speedy marriage (Raphael).", "lineStart": 10749, "lineEnd": 10753, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 231; NLM OCR lines 10749–10753", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10749, "lineEnd": 10753, "printedPage": 231, "printedPageEnd": 231 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Love. — To dream of unsuccessful love is a dream of con- \ntrary, you will marry and be happy; to dream that friends \nlove you foretells prosperity in all things; to dream of being \nwith your lover foretells a speedy marriage (Raphael). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "con- \ntrary", "after": "contrary", "evidenceLine": 1830 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 0.98876, "secondaryHeading": "Love" }, "displayText": "To dream of unsuccessful love is a dream of contrary, you will marry and be happy; to dream that friends love you foretells prosperity in all things; to dream of being with your lover foretells a speedy marriage (Raphael)." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "love-triangle", "title": "Love triangle", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "Three people can bring several attachments and competing wishes into one scene.", "summary": "A love triangle may give shape to divided attention, competing kinds of closeness, or pressure to choose. The scene need not involve an affair.", "aliases": [ "love triangle", "love triangles", "romantic triangle" ], "status": "REVIEW", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A love triangle can make competing attachments visible by placing three people in a scene where attention seems difficult to share. You may want closeness with one person, approval from another, or reassurance that you still have a place. The tension can resemble being pulled between different kinds of connection, such as familiar comfort and the excitement of being seen in a new way. It does not require a waking affair to be a useful image.\n\nPressure to choose may matter more than attraction. If someone demands an immediate answer, the dream may fit a situation in which several important wishes cannot all be satisfied at once. Choosing where to live, how to spend limited free time, or whose expectations to prioritize can produce similar tension. A choice that becomes easier after you are allowed to speak suggests a need for clearer preferences rather than a predetermined romantic outcome.\n\nComparison creates another reading. Watching two people grow close while you feel left out may bring questions of visibility, desirability, or belonging into focus. Being openly included in their conversation produces a different experience from being treated as an obstacle. A recent gathering where attention shifted away from you could provide an everyday parallel, even if the dream gives that feeling a romantic setting.\n\nYour role can also change. You may be the person choosing, the person waiting, or someone trying to keep everybody comfortable. Each role highlights a different burden: deciding, tolerating uncertainty, or taking responsibility for several people's disappointment. Wanting no one to be hurt can make it difficult to admit what you prefer. The useful reading concerns your position and experience, rather than assigning hidden motives to the other people.\n\nAn ending that permits honest conversation may loosen the triangle's apparent competition. Walking away can bring relief from the demand to compare attachments, while a joyful ending may explore companionship or imagined possibilities. Notice what the scene actually treats as incompatible before assuming that closeness must produce a winner and a loser.", "traditional": "No matching historical love-triangle passage has been supplied here. This is original everyday context: stories about competing affection, remembered attraction, and situations involving divided attention can contribute the scene. The entry considers romantic tension and other competing attachments without treating the dream as evidence of infidelity or another person's feelings.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Different kinds of closeness", "reflection": "Two attachments may offer contrasting experiences, such as familiarity and excitement. The triangle can make those wishes visible without requiring that either dream figure represent an actual romantic option." }, { "title": "A decision under pressure", "reflection": "Being made to choose quickly may fit competing priorities or expectations. Notice whether the difficulty concerns your preference, the consequences of deciding, or having too little room to explain." }, { "title": "Your place in the interaction", "reflection": "Choosing, waiting, and keeping everyone comfortable create different experiences. The dream may center on visibility, uncertainty, or responsibility for other people's disappointment rather than attraction alone." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Two people ask you to choose immediately", "reflection": "You care about both and cannot answer before the deadline. This may resemble balancing incompatible invitations or life plans as much as competing affection. If a pause helps you decide, the scene may emphasize needing time to identify your preference without managing everyone's reaction at once." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You watch two people become absorbed in each other", "reflection": "Their conversation closes around them while you remain nearby. The scene may fit feeling less visible at a gathering or wanting reassurance that your presence matters. Being invited back into the exchange changes the focus toward inclusion rather than a permanent loss of your place." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "One person feels familiar and the other exciting", "reflection": "The encounters offer different pleasures rather than a clear better choice. This may fit competing wishes for stability and novelty, such as considering a new social circle while valuing established bonds. The important detail is what each interaction allows you to experience." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You try to keep both people happy", "reflection": "You move between them, changing plans and hiding your own preference to avoid disappointment. This may resemble managing several people's expectations around a holiday or social event. Relief after stating what you want could make the scene about sharing responsibility for the outcome." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "All three of you discuss what you want", "reflection": "The tension becomes a conversation in which each person can speak. This may express a wish for clarity when assumptions make an interaction harder, as in overlapping friendships or uncertain romantic expectations. Whether agreement follows matters less than the room created for honest preferences." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You leave the triangle and feel relieved", "reflection": "Stepping away ends the need to compare or persuade anyone. This may fit wanting distance from a competition you did not choose, such as friends asking you to take sides. Sadness alongside relief can show that valuing the relationships and declining the contest coexist." } ], "prompts": [ "What different experience did each attachment offer, and did I actually need to choose?", "Was I deciding, waiting to be chosen, or trying to protect everyone from disappointment?", "What changed when preferences were spoken or the competition ended?" ], "related": [ "crush", "jealousy", "indecision", "current-romantic-partner" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflections about competing attachments and attention; no matching historical passage supplied. These possibilities do not establish infidelity or another person's intentions. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "lovely", "title": "Lovely", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Dreaming of lovely things, brings favor to all persons connected with you.”", "aliases": [ "lovely" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about lovely stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1224", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Lovely", "text": "Dreaming of lovely things, brings favor to all persons connected with you.\n\nFor a lover to dream that his sweetheart is lovely of person and character,\nforetells for him a speedy and favorable marriage.\n\nIf through the vista of dreams you see your own fair loveliness,\nfate bids you, with a gleaming light, awake to happiness.", "locator": "Heading 1227; source lines 14325–14335", "lineStart": 14325, "lineEnd": 14335, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Dreaming of lovely things, brings favor to all persons connected with you.\n\nFor a lover to dream that his sweetheart is lovely of person and character,\nforetells for him a speedy and favorable marriage.\n\nIf through the vista of dreams you see your own fair loveliness,\nfate bids you, with a gleaming light, awake to happiness." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "lovers", "title": "Lovers", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Cielo wrote: “To see two lovers spoon is an indication of domestic trouble.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "lovers" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about lovers stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "moles-71045", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams and Moles", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "United Kingdom, J. Marshall, 1805", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71045", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "cielo-0260", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Lovers", "text": "To see two lovers spoon is an indication of\n domestic trouble.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 260; source lines 4485–4488", "lineStart": 4485, "lineEnd": 4488, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see two lovers spoon is an indication of\ndomestic trouble." }, { "id": "moles-0021", "sourceId": "moles-71045", "heading": "Lovers", "originalHeading": "(no printed heading)", "text": "To dream your lover is absent, when he is actually at home, means he\nwill neglect you; but if he is really absent, it means that he is true.", "locator": "Dreams interpreted, passage 21; source lines 170–171", "lineStart": 170, "lineEnd": 171, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "editorialNote": "The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Lovers” because that is the subject of its first clause.", "displayText": "To dream your lover is absent, when he is actually at home, means he\nwill neglect you; but if he is really absent, it means that he is true." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "lozenges", "title": "Lozenges", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of lozenges, foretells success in small matters.”", "aliases": [ "lozenges" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about lozenges stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1225", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Lozenges", "text": "To dream of lozenges, foretells success in small matters.\nFor a woman to eat or throw them away, foretells her life\nwill be harassed by little spites from the envious.", "locator": "Heading 1228; source lines 14335–14341", "lineStart": 14335, "lineEnd": 14341, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of lozenges, foretells success in small matters.\nFor a woman to eat or throw them away, foretells her life\nwill be harassed by little spites from the envious." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "lucid-dreaming", "title": "Lucid dreaming", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "Knowing it is a dream, choosing a response, and discovering what remains outside your control.", "summary": "Recognizing that you are dreaming can change how you take part, even when the setting, characters or outcome remain beyond your control.", "aliases": [ "lucid dream", "aware that i am dreaming", "knowing you are dreaming" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "Lucid dreaming means recognizing, during a dream, that the experience is a dream. That awareness can change your relationship to the scene without giving you control over it. An impossible room may become interesting instead of alarming, or remain frightening even after you recognize its imagined setting. Awareness and the response available to you are separate parts of the experience.\n\nRecognition can interrupt an assumption. You may be following an ordinary task until a familiar person appears in an impossible place, bringing the nature of the scene into focus. This can offer a personal comparison with noticing an expectation while still inside a situation. Recognizing that a rule is operating can make another response conceivable, even when the surroundings do not immediately change.\n\nAn unsuccessful attempt to alter the scene can make influence more specific. You may want to fly but only manage to walk, or try to open a door that stays shut. Curiosity about what remains possible differs from treating the attempt as a test you have failed. Choosing to observe, speak or continue an ordinary activity can give awareness a purpose apart from demonstrating a special ability.\n\nSpeaking with a dream character can make a wanted question visible. You may seek reassurance, an explanation or simply company within an unusual experience. The reply can be surprising because it is part of the dreamed encounter; it does not establish an independent person's knowledge or an accurate hidden answer. What you hoped to ask may have a clearer personal association than the character's invented authority.\n\nAwareness can also be something you choose not to use. Staying with a pleasant meal, view or conversation may feel more valuable than reshaping the dream. Losing that awareness later does not erase the earlier experience. A brief interval can matter without becoming a standard you must maintain.\n\nThe descriptive research term concerns awareness, rather than spiritual rank or complete command of a world. These original reflections follow your choices within that awareness. The separate lucid-dream journal guide discusses recording an experience; this entry offers no induction method, performance target or guarantee of control.", "traditional": "No historical account is attached to this entry. Denis and Poerio’s survey supplies descriptive research context, not causes or a ranking of dreamers. Konkoly and colleagues studied measured communication during verified REM sleep; that laboratory finding does not authenticate an individual remembered scene or validate the original reflective comparisons here.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "An impossible detail makes you recognize the dream", "reflection": "A familiar arrangement suddenly becomes impossible, changing the way you understand your position in it. This can make room for curiosity or another action. The important change may be how you participate, rather than whether the imagined room transforms." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You know it is a dream but the door will not open", "reflection": "Awareness arrives without the influence you expected. A different route, conversation or period of observation can give the scene another purpose. Frustration may concern an assumption about what recognition should allow, rather than a failure to have the right kind of dream." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You ask a character a question you have been carrying", "reflection": "The encounter gives a wanted question a listener. Reassurance, surprise or disappointment can show what you hoped the exchange would offer. The answer remains dreamed material and does not establish another person’s feelings, independent knowledge or an accurate forgotten event." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You choose to stay with an ordinary pleasant activity", "reflection": "A meal, walk or conversation remains enjoyable after you recognize the dream. Continuing can give awareness a quiet use: you value the encounter without needing to change its form. Novelty and ordinary pleasure can belong to the same experience." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A frightening scene becomes recognizable but still feels frightening", "reflection": "Knowing the setting is imagined does not instantly change its emotional force. Another response may become possible while fear remains present. The scene can distinguish understanding an experience from being able to decide exactly how it feels." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The moment of awareness passes as the story continues", "reflection": "The dream resumes without the earlier recognition remaining central. What happened during the interval can still be worth remembering. Its brevity need not turn it into an incomplete achievement or an obligation to reproduce the experience." } ], "prompts": [ "What changed when you recognized the dream?", "Which actions were available, and what continued independently?", "What did you want from the scene apart from controlling it?" ], "related": [ "flying", "nightmare", "recurring-dream", "being-unable-to-move" ], "sources": [ { "id": "denis-poerio-2017", "title": "Terror and bliss? Commonalities and distinctions between sleep paralysis, lucid dreaming, and their associations with waking life experiences", "author": "Dan Denis and Giulia L. Poerio", "url": "https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5245115/", "scope": "Primary survey and descriptive definitions; associations do not establish causes or symbolic meanings." }, { "id": "konkoly-lucid", "title": "Real-time dialogue between experimenters and dreamers during REM sleep", "author": "Karen R. Konkoly and colleagues", "url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33607035/", "scope": "Primary 2021 laboratory study with verified REM sleep and measured responses from some lucid dreamers. Supports descriptive awareness and limited laboratory communication, not universal control, symbolic meanings or confirmation of an individual home account." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s continuing English editorial delegation. Sources retain their stated scope; neither historical accounts nor general research validate these interpretations.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Awareness changes participation", "reflection": "Recognizing the setting as a dream can alter curiosity, fear or what you choose to do while the surroundings continue." }, { "title": "Influence has particular limits", "reflection": "Changing one action differs from commanding the whole scene. Observation or an ordinary conversation can remain worthwhile." }, { "title": "A question without guaranteed authority", "reflection": "A character’s response is part of the dream. 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Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0445", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Luck", "text": "To imagine in your dream that you have had excellent luck, in any\nenterprise, predicts a misfortune: if a man has had a quarrel with his\nsweetheart, and dreams that it is all made up, he may be sure that the\nquarrel will continue a great deal longer than is agreeable to him: to\na young lady, the sign is the same relative to her beau. 18.", "locator": "Heading 445; source line 3054", "lineStart": 3054, "lineEnd": 3060, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To imagine in your dream that you have had excellent luck, in any\nenterprise, predicts a misfortune: if a man has had a quarrel with his\nsweetheart, and dreams that it is all made up, he may be sure that the\nquarrel will continue a great deal longer than is agreeable to him: to\na young lady, the sign is the same relative to her beau." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "lucky", "title": "Lucky", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of being lucky, is highly favorable to the dreamer.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "lucky" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about lucky stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1226", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Lucky", "text": "To dream of being lucky, is highly favorable to the dreamer.\nFulfilment of wishes may be expected and pleasant duties will\ndevolve upon you.\n\nTo the despondent, this dream forebodes an uplifting and a\nrenewal of prosperity.", "locator": "Heading 1229; source lines 14341–14350", "lineStart": 14341, "lineEnd": 14350, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being lucky, is highly favorable to the dreamer.\nFulfilment of wishes may be expected and pleasant duties will\ndevolve upon you.\n\nTo the despondent, this dream forebodes an uplifting and a\nrenewal of prosperity." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10754", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Lucky", "heading": "Lucky", "text": "To dream that you are lucky is a dream of contrary, of misfortune (Raphael).", "lineStart": 10754, "lineEnd": 10756, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 231; NLM OCR lines 10754–10756", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10754, "lineEnd": 10756, "printedPage": 231, "printedPageEnd": 231 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Lucky. — To dream that you are lucky is a dream of con- \ntrary, of misfortune (Raphael). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "con- \ntrary", "after": "contrary", "evidenceLine": 1830 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Lucky" }, "displayText": "To dream that you are lucky is a dream of contrary, of misfortune (Raphael)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "luggage", "title": "Luggage", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "What you carry can serve a journey without all belonging in it at once.", "summary": "Luggage dreams can explore selected belongings, carrying capacity and continuity during a journey. The load differs from one particular case or bag.", "aliases": [ "luggage" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "Luggage gathers belongings chosen for a journey. In a dream, this can picture what you want to keep available while moving between arrangements: familiar routines, practical resources or connections that help a new place feel usable. A move, changed role or temporary stay may provide a parallel. The load matters through the purpose of the journey, rather than every possession being assigned one hidden meaning.\n\nBringing more than the route can accommodate can make selection difficult. Several valued things compete for limited carrying room, much like interests or responsibilities fitting into a new schedule. Leaving something behind can feel like loss even when it is no longer useful for this stage. The scene may distinguish what remains valued from what needs to be carried immediately.\n\nAn unfamiliar item among the load can picture an expectation arriving within a plan you thought you had chosen. A role or shared arrangement may include obligations nobody explained in advance. The discovery does not prove that someone intentionally added a burden while awake. Your response can make ownership and agreement visible: keep it, return it or ask who needs it.\n\nKeeping one small item accessible can give continuity a practical form. A familiar tool or personal object may matter more than the largest bag because it serves a need during the journey itself. Sharing the carrying can also change the arrangement. Support is useful when people understand what they are taking and whether the choice remains yours, rather than when ownership becomes unclear.\n\nA lighter load after the purpose becomes clear can picture selection following understanding. You may know which resources fit the next stage without declaring everything else unimportant. Leaving an item with a place or person can preserve a connection without carrying its whole history forward. Recent packing and travel may also supply the imagery directly. These original reflections concern collective traveling belongings and how they serve the journey.", "traditional": "Miller’s Luggage passage gives care, distress and loss-related forecasts, including claims about speculation, family and engagements. These are attributed period beliefs. The original reflections concern the collective belongings selected for travel, rather than a single container, and do not adopt those judgments.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Selection for a particular journey", "reflection": "Luggage can picture resources and connections kept available during change. Something may remain valuable without needing to fit this stage or be carried immediately." }, { "title": "Ownership inside a shared load", "reflection": "An unfamiliar item or a handover can make agreement uncertain. The scene may clarify whose task is included and what help each person actually accepted." }, { "title": "Continuity in a usable form", "reflection": "One accessible item can carry familiarity more effectively than a large collection. The useful link to an earlier arrangement may be practical rather than complete preservation." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You bring more belongings than the journey can accommodate", "reflection": "Too many belongings can picture valued commitments competing for the room available in a transition. A changed role or schedule may fit. The question can be what belongs in this stage, rather than which interest must become worthless." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "An unfamiliar item appears among what you chose to carry", "reflection": "An unfamiliar item can resemble an expectation included in a plan before it was discussed. You may need context to decide whether it belongs to you. The dream does not establish that another person deliberately assigned a hidden obligation." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You keep a small useful item where you can reach it", "reflection": "An accessible useful item can picture continuity that serves the journey itself. A familiar skill or routine may be enough to make a new setting manageable. Its practical place can matter more than the size of the overall load." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Another person carries part of the load by agreement", "reflection": "Agreed shared carrying can picture support that preserves ownership and choice. A group move or demanding period may fit. Knowing what each person has taken makes the help different from handing everything over without an understood arrangement." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You choose to leave an item with a place or person", "reflection": "Leaving an item with someone can picture preserving a connection without carrying every part of it into the next stage. The choice may contain affection and loss together. What remains available there can matter alongside what you take onward." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The luggage is light after you clarify the journey’s purpose", "reflection": "A lighter load after clarifying the purpose can picture selection becoming easier when the task is understood. Some things may wait or serve another journey. Relief can come from fit, rather than from rejecting the whole earlier arrangement." } ], "prompts": [ "What did the journey require me to keep available?", "Which belongings or expectations were chosen, shared or unexpectedly included?", "What remained valuable without needing to come with me now?" ], "related": [ "trunk", "valise", "baggage", "backpack", "passport" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1227" ], "scope": "Miller’s Luggage account gives unpleasant-care forecasts for luggage, self-absorbed distress for carrying it and speculation/family/engagement forecasts for loss. Exact supplied record(s): miller-1227 — Luggage (Heading 1230; source lines 14350–14361). Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence for the original reflection, a diagnosis or an actual outcome." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1227", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Luggage", "text": "To dream of luggage, denotes unpleasant cares. You will be encumbered\nwith people who will prove distasteful to you.\n\nIf you are carrying your own luggage, you will be so full of your own\ndistresses that you will be blinded to the sorrows of others.\n\nTo lose your luggage, denotes some unfortunate speculation or family\ndissensions To the unmarried, it foretells broken engagements.", "locator": "Heading 1230; source lines 14350–14361", "lineStart": 14350, "lineEnd": 14361, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of luggage, denotes unpleasant cares. You will be encumbered\nwith people who will prove distasteful to you.\n\nIf you are carrying your own luggage, you will be so full of your own\ndistresses that you will be blinded to the sorrows of others.\n\nTo lose your luggage, denotes some unfortunate speculation or family\ndissensions To the unmarried, it foretells broken engagements." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "lumber", "title": "Lumber", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of lumber, denotes many difficult tasks and but little remuneration or pleasure.”", "aliases": [ "lumber" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about lumber stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1228", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Lumber", "text": "To dream of lumber, denotes many difficult tasks and but little\nremuneration or pleasure.\n\nTo see piles of lumber burning, indicates profit from an unexpected source.\n\nTo dream of sawing lumber, denotes unwise transactions and unhappiness.", "locator": "Heading 1231; source lines 14361–14370", "lineStart": 14361, "lineEnd": 14370, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of lumber, denotes many difficult tasks and but little\nremuneration or pleasure.\n\nTo see piles of lumber burning, indicates profit from an unexpected source.\n\nTo dream of sawing lumber, denotes unwise transactions and unhappiness." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "lute", "title": "Lute", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of playing on one, is auspicious of joyful news from absent friends.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "lute" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about lute stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1229", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Lute", "text": "To dream of playing on one, is auspicious of joyful news from absent friends.\n\nPleasant occupations follow the dreaming of hearing the music\nof a lute.", "locator": "Heading 1232; source lines 14370–14377", "lineStart": 14370, "lineEnd": 14377, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of playing on one, is auspicious of joyful news from absent friends.\n\nPleasant occupations follow the dreaming of hearing the music\nof a lute." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10757", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Lute", "heading": "Lute", "text": "A dream of delightful company, happiness, success (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 10757, "lineEnd": 10759, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 231; NLM OCR lines 10757–10759", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10757, "lineEnd": 10759, "printedPage": 231, "printedPageEnd": 231 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Lute. — A dream of delightful company, happiness, success \n(Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Lute" }, "displayText": "A dream of delightful company, happiness, success (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "luxury", "title": "Luxury", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are surrounded by luxury, indicates much wealth, but dissipation and love of self will reduce your income.”", "aliases": [ "luxury" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about luxury stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1230", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Luxury", "text": "To dream that you are surrounded by luxury, indicates much wealth,\nbut dissipation and love of self will reduce your income.\n\nFor a poor woman to dream that she enjoys much luxury, denotes an early\nchange in her circumstances.", "locator": "Heading 1233; source lines 14377–14385", "lineStart": 14377, "lineEnd": 14385, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are surrounded by luxury, indicates much wealth,\nbut dissipation and love of self will reduce your income.\n\nFor a poor woman to dream that she enjoys much luxury, denotes an early\nchange in her circumstances." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "lying", "title": "Lying", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are lying to escape punishment, denotes that you will act dishonorably towards some…” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "lying", "lie" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about lying stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1231", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Lying", "text": "To dream that you are lying to escape punishment, denotes that you will act\ndishonorably towards some innocent person.\n\nLying to protect a friend from undeserved chastisement, denotes that\nyou will have many unjust criticisms passed upon your conduct,\nbut you will rise above them and enjoy prominence.\n\nTo hear others lying, denotes that they are seeking to entrap you.", "locator": "Heading 1234; source lines 14385–14394", "lineStart": 14385, "lineEnd": 14394, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are lying to escape punishment, denotes that you will act\ndishonorably towards some innocent person.\n\nLying to protect a friend from undeserved chastisement, denotes that\nyou will have many unjust criticisms passed upon your conduct,\nbut you will rise above them and enjoy prominence.\n\nTo hear others lying, denotes that they are seeking to entrap you." }, { "id": "fontaine-0430", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Lie", "text": "To dream of telling a lie about a woman, is a sign you will kiss\na black one: to dream that you lie about your business, denotes that a\ncolored man will rob you: lies generally, imagined in dreams, denote\neither injuries or caresses by colored people. 14, 64.", "locator": "Heading 430; source line 2971", "lineStart": 2971, "lineEnd": 2976, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of telling a lie about a woman, is a sign you will kiss\na black one: to dream that you lie about your business, denotes that a\ncolored man will rob you: lies generally, imagined in dreams, denote\neither injuries or caresses by colored people.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Lie” is shown on the Lying page: fontaine \"Lie\" is about telling lies" }, { "id": "noe-0307", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Lying", "text": "To tell a lie in a dream is not good, except by\nplayers and jesters, who practise it, and deceive people.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 311; source lines 1244–1245", "lineStart": 1244, "lineEnd": 1245, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To tell a lie in a dream is not good, except by\nplayers and jesters, who practise it, and deceive people." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10760", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Lying", "heading": "Lying", "text": "To dream of lying is bad except for players and those who practice it professionally (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 10760, "lineEnd": 10762, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 231; NLM OCR lines 10760–10762", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10760, "lineEnd": 10762, "printedPage": 231, "printedPageEnd": 231 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Lying. — To dream of lying is bad except for players and \nthose who practice it professionally (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Lying" }, "displayText": "To dream of lying is bad except for players and those who practice it professionally (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1231b", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Lynx", "text": "To dream of seeing a lynx, enemies are undermining your business\nand disrupting your home affairs. For a woman, this dream indicates\nthat she has a wary woman rivaling her in the affections of her lover.\nIf she kills the lynx, she will overcome her rival.", "locator": "Heading 1235; source lines 14394–14401", "lineStart": 14394, "lineEnd": 14401, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing a lynx, enemies are undermining your business\nand disrupting your home affairs. For a woman, this dream indicates\nthat she has a wary woman rivaling her in the affections of her lover.\nIf she kills the lynx, she will overcome her rival." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1232", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Lyre", "text": "To dream of listening to the music of a lyre, foretells chaste pleasures\nand congenial companionship. Business will run smoothly.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of playing on one, denotes that she will enjoy\nthe undivided affection of a worthy man.", "locator": "Heading 1236; source lines 14401–14418", "lineStart": 14401, "lineEnd": 14418, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of listening to the music of a lyre, foretells chaste pleasures\nand congenial companionship. Business will run smoothly.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of playing on one, denotes that she will enjoy\nthe undivided affection of a worthy man." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1233", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Macadamize", "text": "To dream that you see or travel on a macadamized road, is significant\nof pleasant journeys, from which you will derive much benefit.\nFor young people, this dream foretells noble aspirations.", "locator": "Heading 1237; source lines 14418–14424", "lineStart": 14418, "lineEnd": 14424, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you see or travel on a macadamized road, is significant\nof pleasant journeys, from which you will derive much benefit.\nFor young people, this dream foretells noble aspirations." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "macaroni", "title": "Macaroni", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of eating macaroni, denotes small losses.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "macaroni" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about macaroni stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1234", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Macaroni", "text": "To dream of eating macaroni, denotes small losses. To see it in large\nquantities, denotes that you will save money by the strictest economy.\nFor a young woman, this dream means that a stranger will enter her life.", "locator": "Heading 1238; source lines 14424–14430", "lineStart": 14424, "lineEnd": 14430, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of eating macaroni, denotes small losses. To see it in large\nquantities, denotes that you will save money by the strictest economy.\nFor a young woman, this dream means that a stranger will enter her life." }, { "id": "cielo-0261", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Macaroni", "text": "Eating macaroni is a sign of abundance.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 261; source lines 4488–4491", "lineStart": 4488, "lineEnd": 4491, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Eating macaroni is a sign of abundance." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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To become entangled in machinery, foretells loss\nin your business, and much unhappiness will follow.\n\nLoss from bad deals generally follows this dream." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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It promises long\nlife, riches, happy marriage, success in trade and good children. If you\nare a farmer, some accident will happen to a part of your live stock, but\nyou will have plentiful crops. If you are in lawsuit, it will determine\ngreatly in your favor." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1236", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Mad Dog", "text": "To dream of seeing a mad dog, denotes that enemies will make scurrilous\nattacks upon you and your friends, but if you succeed in killing the dog,\nyou will overcome adverse opinions and prosper greatly in a financial way.\n\n\n[117] See Dog.", "locator": "Heading 1240; source lines 14442–14451", "lineStart": 14442, "lineEnd": 14451, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing a mad dog, denotes that enemies will make scurrilous\nattacks upon you and your friends, but if you succeed in killing the dog,\nyou will overcome adverse opinions and prosper greatly in a financial way. See Dog." }, { "id": "fontaine-0446", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Mad Dog", "text": "To dream of seeing such an animal frothing at the mouth and\nrunning, is a sign you will be wrongfully accused of a dishonorable\naction or crime. 4, 12, 61.", "locator": "Heading 446; source line 3060", "lineStart": 3060, "lineEnd": 3064, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing such an animal frothing at the mouth and\nrunning, is a sign you will be wrongfully accused of a dishonorable\naction or crime." }, { "id": "noe-0338", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Mad Dog", "text": "To dream that you meet a mad dog denotes that you will be\nfortunate in any undertaking in which you are engaged, and that success\nwill crown your efforts.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 342; source lines 1344–1346", "lineStart": 1344, "lineEnd": 1346, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you meet a mad dog denotes that you will be\nfortunate in any undertaking in which you are engaged, and that success\nwill crown your efforts." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1238", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Madstone", "text": "To see a madstone applied to a wound from the fangs of some mad animal,\ndenotes that you will endeavor, to the limits of your energy,\nto shield self from the machinations of enemies, which will soon\nenvelop you with the pall of dishonorable defeat.", "locator": "Heading 1242; source lines 14462–14469", "lineStart": 14462, "lineEnd": 14469, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a madstone applied to a wound from the fangs of some mad animal,\ndenotes that you will endeavor, to the limits of your energy,\nto shield self from the machinations of enemies, which will soon\nenvelop you with the pall of dishonorable defeat." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0447", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Maggots", "text": "To dream of seeing any thing putrid and covered with maggots,\nis a sign of death; but the death may be that of your favorite dog,\ncat, or bird, though such a dream often foretells the death of a\nrelative or friend. 5.", "locator": "Heading 447; source line 3064", "lineStart": 3064, "lineEnd": 3069, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing any thing putrid and covered with maggots,\nis a sign of death; but the death may be that of your favorite dog,\ncat, or bird, though such a dream often foretells the death of a\nrelative or friend." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "magic", "title": "Magic", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of accomplishing any design by magic, indicates pleasant surprises.”", "aliases": [ "magic" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about magic stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1239", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Magic", "text": "To dream of accomplishing any design by magic, indicates pleasant surprises.\n\nTo see others practising this art, denotes profitable changes\nto all who have this dream.\n\nTo dream of seeing a magician, denotes much interesting travel\nto those concerned in the advancement of higher education,\nand profitable returns to the mercenary.\n\nMagic here should not be confounded with sorcery or spiritism. If the reader\nso interprets, he may expect the opposite to what is here forecast to follow.\nTrue magic is the study of the higher truths of Nature.", "locator": "Heading 1243; source lines 14469–14484", "lineStart": 14469, "lineEnd": 14484, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of accomplishing any design by magic, indicates pleasant surprises.\n\nTo see others practising this art, denotes profitable changes\nto all who have this dream.\n\nTo dream of seeing a magician, denotes much interesting travel\nto those concerned in the advancement of higher education,\nand profitable returns to the mercenary.\n\nMagic here should not be confounded with sorcery or spiritism. If the reader\nso interprets, he may expect the opposite to what is here forecast to follow.\nTrue magic is the study of the higher truths of Nature." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L10775", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Magician", "heading": "Magician", "text": "A dream connoting unexpected events, surprises (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 10775, "lineEnd": 10777, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 232; NLM OCR lines 10775–10777", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10775, "lineEnd": 10777, "printedPage": 232, "printedPageEnd": 232 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Magician, — A dream connoting unexpected events, sur- \nprises (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "sur- \nprises", "after": "surprises", "evidenceLine": 2244 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Magician" }, "displayText": "A dream connoting unexpected events, surprises (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "magistrate", "title": "Magistrate", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a magistrate, foretells that you will be harassed with threats of law suits and losses in your business. See Judge and Jury.”", "aliases": [ "magistrate" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about magistrate stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "judge", "jury" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1240", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Magistrate", "text": "To dream of a magistrate, foretells that you will be harassed\nwith threats of law suits and losses in your business.\n\n\n[118] See Judge and Jury.", "locator": "Heading 1244; source lines 14484–14492", "lineStart": 14484, "lineEnd": 14492, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a magistrate, foretells that you will be harassed\nwith threats of law suits and losses in your business. See Judge and Jury." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "judge", "jury" ] }, { "slug": "magnet", "title": "Magnet", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a magnet, denotes that evil influences will draw you from the path of honor.”", "aliases": [ "magnet" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about magnet stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1241", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Magnet", "text": "To dream of a magnet, denotes that evil influences will draw you\nfrom the path of honor. A woman is probably luring you to ruin.\nTo a woman, this dream foretells that protection and wealth will\nbe showered upon her.", "locator": "Heading 1245; source lines 14492–14499", "lineStart": 14492, "lineEnd": 14499, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a magnet, denotes that evil influences will draw you\nfrom the path of honor. A woman is probably luring you to ruin.\nTo a woman, this dream foretells that protection and wealth will\nbe showered upon her." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "magnifying-glass", "title": "Magnifying-glass", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To look through a magnifying-glass in your dreams, means failure to accomplish your work in a satisfactory manner.”", "aliases": [ "magnifying-glass" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about magnifying-glass stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1242", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Magnifying-glass", "text": "To look through a magnifying-glass in your dreams,\nmeans failure to accomplish your work in a satisfactory manner.\nFor a woman to think she owns one, foretells she will encourage\nthe attention of persons who will ignore her later.", "locator": "Heading 1246; source lines 14499–14506", "lineStart": 14499, "lineEnd": 14506, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To look through a magnifying-glass in your dreams,\nmeans failure to accomplish your work in a satisfactory manner.\nFor a woman to think she owns one, foretells she will encourage\nthe attention of persons who will ignore her later." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "magpie", "title": "Magpie", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a magpie, denotes much dissatisfaction and quarrels.” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "magpie" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about magpie stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "moles-71045", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams and Moles", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "United Kingdom, J. Marshall, 1805", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71045", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1243", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Magpie", "text": "To dream of a magpie, denotes much dissatisfaction and quarrels.\nThe dreamer should guard well his conduct and speech after this dream.", "locator": "Heading 1247; source lines 14506–14511", "lineStart": 14506, "lineEnd": 14511, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a magpie, denotes much dissatisfaction and quarrels.\nThe dreamer should guard well his conduct and speech after this dream." }, { "id": "luck-0159", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Magpie", "text": "A bad sign; back-biting and scandal by a false friend.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 159; source lines 3924–3926", "lineStart": 3924, "lineEnd": 3926, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "A bad sign; back-biting and scandal by a false friend." }, { "id": "moles-0040", "sourceId": "moles-71045", "heading": "Magpie", "originalHeading": "(no printed heading)", "text": "To dream you hear magpies chatter, denotes brawling and contention.", "locator": "Dreams interpreted, passage 40; source lines 226–226", "lineStart": 226, "lineEnd": 226, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "editorialNote": "The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Magpie” because that is the subject of its first clause.", "displayText": "To dream you hear magpies chatter, denotes brawling and contention." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10782", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Magpie", "heading": "Magpie", "text": "A dream of deceit (Gypsy). The bird itself symbolizes deceit and misfortune.", "lineStart": 10782, "lineEnd": 10784, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 232; NLM OCR lines 10782–10784", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10782, "lineEnd": 10784, "printedPage": 232, "printedPageEnd": 232 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Magpie. — A dream of deceit (Gypsy). The bird itself sym- \nbolizes deceit and misfortune. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "sym- \nbolizes", "after": "symbolizes", "evidenceLine": 9155 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Magpie" }, "displayText": "A dream of deceit (Gypsy). The bird itself symbolizes deceit and misfortune." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "maid", "title": "Maid", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “If you dream you are pleased with a pretty chambermaid, milkmaid, or any nice-looking young girl, whose…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "maid" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about maid stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "virgin" ], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0448", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Maid", "text": "(_See Virgin._) If you dream you are pleased with a pretty\nchambermaid, milkmaid, or any nice-looking young girl, whose occupation\ncarries with it the title of maid, it is a good omen, for it predicts\nan excellent match, and plenty of children: it also foretells, in many\ncases, that the dreamer will marry a rich wife. 75, 39.", "locator": "Heading 448; source line 3069", "lineStart": 3069, "lineEnd": 3075, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Virgin.) If you dream you are pleased with a pretty\nchambermaid, milkmaid, or any nice-looking young girl, whose occupation\ncarries with it the title of maid, it is a good omen, for it predicts\nan excellent match, and plenty of children: it also foretells, in many\ncases, that the dreamer will marry a rich wife." }, { "id": "noe-0316", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Maid", "text": "To dream you obtain a young maid,\nsignifies joy. To dream you take away a maid by force, signifies sorrow.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 320; source lines 1269–1271", "lineStart": 1269, "lineEnd": 1271, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you obtain a young maid,\nsignifies joy. To dream you take away a maid by force, signifies sorrow." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "virgin" ] }, { "slug": "makeup", "title": "Makeup", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "aliases": [ "makeup", "make-up", "cosmetics", "applying makeup", "removing makeup", "cosmetic makeup" ], "summary": "Makeup can picture chosen expression, preparation for an occasion, or pressure over how you appear. Applying and removing it can both feel comfortable.", "tagline": "Your presentation is something you can create, adapt, enjoy, or set aside.", "psychological": "Makeup can picture shaping how you present yourself for a particular setting. The action may be practical preparation, creative play, or a familiar routine. Enjoying a chosen look can fit experimenting with a role, expressing a preference, or making an occasion feel special. The appearance is not necessarily a disguise; something deliberately created can still feel like your own expression.\n\nThe occasion gives the preparation meaning. A work presentation, celebration, or reunion can make you aware of how you want to participate and be seen. Difficulty finding the right materials may resemble knowing the role you are entering while lacking a comfortable way to prepare. An elaborate look that does not suit the event can picture expectations that differ from your actual wishes.\n\nSomeone else applying makeup can bring collaboration or agency into view. Welcome help may fit sharing a creative process or accepting support with preparation. Unwanted changes can instead picture another person determining the version of you that a group will see. The tension concerns permission and fit rather than whether assistance itself is useful.\n\nSmudging, repeated application, or a look that will not stay as intended can make maintenance part of the story. You may feel required to sustain a particular presentation while other demands interrupt it. Makeup that will not come off can picture a role continuing after its occasion has ended; easy removal may offer a comfortable shift into another setting.\n\nChoosing no makeup or trying something unfamiliar can both express self-direction. The emotional result determines whether the choice feels free, exposed, playful, or pressured. Real cosmetics, photographs, performances, and daily routines can directly supply the scene, without establishing anything about honesty, confidence, or character.", "traditional": "These are original interpretations of application, removal, expression, and choice within a dreamed occasion. No verified historical passage for this broader makeup setting is cited. Rouge is a related narrower object, not evidence for these meanings; the general dream reference does not evaluate appearance or character.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A presentation you choose to create", "reflection": "A deliberate look can picture expression or preparation that feels personally meaningful. Enjoyment may center play and participation rather than concealment, even when the appearance differs from your everyday routine." }, { "title": "The occasion and the audience set expectations", "reflection": "Materials or styles that do not fit can express a gap between a setting's demands and your wishes. The scene may concern how you want to enter that particular role." }, { "title": "Who controls the presentation and its duration", "reflection": "Collaboration, imposed changes, or difficult removal can bring agency into view. A chosen adjustment may help, while a look that persists can picture expectations continuing beyond the intended occasion." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "You create an unfamiliar look and enjoy it", "reflection": "Experimentation can picture permission to show a preference or try another way of participating. A creative project or new social role may offer a parallel. The pleasure makes the look an expression you choose, rather than an automatic attempt to hide a supposedly truer self.", "slug": "scene-1" }, { "title": "You cannot find what you need before an event", "reflection": "Preparation may feel incomplete even when the occasion matters. A presentation or reunion can offer a parallel if you know how you want to appear but lack a workable route there. The missing materials make readiness practical rather than a judgment of your appearance.", "slug": "scene-2" }, { "title": "Someone applies makeup exactly as you requested", "reflection": "Responsive collaboration can picture support that helps you present an intention clearly. Working on a shared project or preparing for an unfamiliar role may feel similar. The result fits because your preferences remain part of the process, not because someone else takes over the decision.", "slug": "scene-3" }, { "title": "Someone changes your face without asking", "reflection": "A public version of you may feel shaped by expectations you did not choose. Being assigned a role or having your work presented differently can offer parallels. The tension concerns who determines what others see, rather than the imagined person's actual motives.", "slug": "scene-4" }, { "title": "The makeup will not come off after the occasion", "reflection": "A role can continue demanding maintenance after its immediate purpose has ended. Remaining available for work or carrying a formal expectation into private time may feel similar. The persistent look makes the difficulty of changing settings visible.", "slug": "scene-5" }, { "title": "You remove it comfortably around someone you trust", "reflection": "A change of presentation can picture ease across different settings. Leaving a public role behind or sharing an ordinary routine with someone may offer a parallel. Comfort makes both the earlier look and its removal legitimate, rather than requiring one to represent the only real you.", "slug": "scene-6" } ], "prompts": [ "What occasion gave the look its purpose, and did that purpose fit my wishes?", "Who chose the presentation or changed it?", "Did creating, maintaining, or removing it feel comfortable, playful, or required?" ], "related": [ "rouge", "mirror", "clothes", "being-judged" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia editorial entry with image-specific interpretations and six differentiated scenes. The reference supplies general dream background only. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "malice", "title": "Malice", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of entertaining malice for any person, denotes that you will stand low in the opinion of friends…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "malice" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about malice stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1244", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Malice", "text": "To dream of entertaining malice for any person, denotes that you will\nstand low in the opinion of friends because of a disagreeable temper.\nSeek to control your passion.\n\nIf you dream of persons maliciously using you, an enemy in friendly\ngarb is working you harm.", "locator": "Heading 1248; source lines 14511–14520", "lineStart": 14511, "lineEnd": 14520, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of entertaining malice for any person, denotes that you will\nstand low in the opinion of friends because of a disagreeable temper.\nSeek to control your passion.\n\nIf you dream of persons maliciously using you, an enemy in friendly\ngarb is working you harm." }, { "id": "noe-0314", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Malice", "text": "To dream that some one bears you malice, foretells a pleasant\nprospect in your worldly affairs; and that you will be advanced to some\nimportant station either by marriage, if you are not married, or if so,\nthrough the influence of friends.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 318; source lines 1264–1267", "lineStart": 1264, "lineEnd": 1267, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that some one bears you malice, foretells a pleasant\nprospect in your worldly affairs; and that you will be advanced to some\nimportant station either by marriage, if you are not married, or if so,\nthrough the influence of friends." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10785", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Malice", "heading": "Malice", "text": "To dream that some one bears you malice denotes a sudden advancement to an important place in the world (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 10785, "lineEnd": 10788, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 232; NLM OCR lines 10785–10788", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10785, "lineEnd": 10788, "printedPage": 232, "printedPageEnd": 232 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Malice. — To dream that some one bears you malice denotes \na sudden advancement to an important place in the world \n(Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Malice" }, "displayText": "To dream that some one bears you malice denotes a sudden advancement to an important place in the world (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "mallet", "title": "Mallet", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a mallet, denotes you will meet unkind treatment from friends on account of your ill health. Disorder in the home is indicated.”", "aliases": [ "mallet" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about mallet stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1245", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Mallet", "text": "To dream of a mallet, denotes you will meet unkind treatment from friends\non account of your ill health. Disorder in the home is indicated.", "locator": "Heading 1249; source lines 14520–14525", "lineStart": 14520, "lineEnd": 14525, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a mallet, denotes you will meet unkind treatment from friends\non account of your ill health. Disorder in the home is indicated." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "mallows", "title": "Mallows", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “To dream of eating mallows signifies exemption from trouble, as this herb renders the body soluble (Artemidorus).”", "aliases": [ "mallows" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about mallows stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. 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This is an unusually clear example of the folk lore that has made symbols and symbolism in dreams.", "lineStart": 10789, "lineEnd": 10793, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 232; NLM OCR lines 10789–10793", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10789, "lineEnd": 10793, "printedPage": 232, "printedPageEnd": 232 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Mallows. — To dream of eating mallows signifies exemption \nfrom trouble, as this herb renders the body soluble (Artemi- \ndorus). This is an unusually clear example of the folk lore \nthat has made symbols and symbolism in dreams. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "Artemi- \ndorus", "after": "Artemidorus", "evidenceLine": 485 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Mallows" }, "displayText": "To dream of eating mallows signifies exemption from trouble, as this herb renders the body soluble (Artemidorus). This is an unusually clear example of the folk lore that has made symbols and symbolism in dreams." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "malt", "title": "Malt", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of malt, betokens a pleasant existence and riches that will advance your station.”", "aliases": [ "malt" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about malt stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1246", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Malt", "text": "To dream of malt, betokens a pleasant existence and riches\nthat will advance your station.\n\nTo dream of taking malted drinks, denotes that you will interest yourself\nin some dangerous affair, but will reap much benefit therefrom.", "locator": "Heading 1250; source lines 14525–14533", "lineStart": 14525, "lineEnd": 14533, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of malt, betokens a pleasant existence and riches\nthat will advance your station.\n\nTo dream of taking malted drinks, denotes that you will interest yourself\nin some dangerous affair, but will reap much benefit therefrom." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "man", "title": "Man", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a man, if handsome, well formed and supple, denotes that you will enjoy life vastly and come…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "man" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about man stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1247", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Man", "text": "To dream of a man, if handsome, well formed and supple, denotes that\nyou will enjoy life vastly and come into rich possessions.\nIf he is misshapen and sour-visaged, you will meet disappointments\nand many perplexities will involve you.\n\nFor a woman to dream of a handsome man, she is likely to have distinction\noffered her. If he is ugly, she will experience trouble through some one whom\nshe considers a friend.", "locator": "Heading 1251; source lines 14533–14544", "lineStart": 14533, "lineEnd": 14544, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a man, if handsome, well formed and supple, denotes that\nyou will enjoy life vastly and come into rich possessions.\nIf he is misshapen and sour-visaged, you will meet disappointments\nand many perplexities will involve you.\n\nFor a woman to dream of a handsome man, she is likely to have distinction\noffered her. If he is ugly, she will experience trouble through some one whom\nshe considers a friend." }, { "id": "fontaine-0449", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Man", "text": "To dream of a man dressed in black is lucky; in white, a bad omen:\nto dream of a murdered man, is a sign of long life. To dream you meet a\nstrange man, is a sign you have a vindictive enemy. For a girl to dream\nshe sees her lover by her bedside, is a sign he will attempt some very\nimproper things. 74, 60, 7.", "locator": "Heading 449; source line 3075", "lineStart": 3075, "lineEnd": 3081, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a man dressed in black is lucky; in white, a bad omen:\nto dream of a murdered man, is a sign of long life. To dream you meet a\nstrange man, is a sign you have a vindictive enemy. For a girl to dream\nshe sees her lover by her bedside, is a sign he will attempt some very\nimproper things." }, { "id": "luck-0160", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Man", "text": "For a young girl to dream about a man is a warning against\ngossip and gossipers.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 160; source lines 3926–3929", "lineStart": 3926, "lineEnd": 3929, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a young girl to dream about a man is a warning against\ngossip and gossipers." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "man-of-war", "title": "Man-of-war", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a man-of-war, denotes long journeys and separation from country and friends, dissension in political affairs is portended.”", "aliases": [ "man-of-war", "men-of-war" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about man-of-war stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1249", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Man-of-war", "text": "To dream of a man-of-war, denotes long journeys and separation from country\nand friends, dissension in political affairs is portended.\n\nIf she is crippled, foreign elements will work damage to home interests.\n\nIf she is sailing upon rough seas, trouble with foreign powers\nmay endanger private affairs.\n\nPersonal affairs may also go awry.", "locator": "Heading 1253; source lines 14553–14565", "lineStart": 14553, "lineEnd": 14565, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a man-of-war, denotes long journeys and separation from country\nand friends, dissension in political affairs is portended.\n\nIf she is crippled, foreign elements will work damage to home interests.\n\nIf she is sailing upon rough seas, trouble with foreign powers\nmay endanger private affairs.\n\nPersonal affairs may also go awry." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "mango", "title": "Mango", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "summary": "A mango can bring pleasure, sensory memory, an awkward way to enjoy something, or a wish that remains just out of reach into focus.", "tagline": "A vivid taste, a messy pleasure, and the place it recalls.", "aliases": [ "mango", "mangoes", "mangos" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A mango enjoyed in a dream can picture pleasure that feels immediate rather than earned through a formal achievement. The taste, color, and attention it receives may contrast with a waking routine organized around usefulness. Taking time for music, seeing a friend without an agenda, or enjoying a familiar place could offer a parallel. If you feel guilty while eating, the tension may be between wanting an experience and believing it must justify itself. The fruit does not have to promise a reward for that tension to matter.\n\nJuice that spills or makes your hands sticky can introduce the inconvenience of enjoying something fully. A satisfying activity may come with cleanup, vulnerability, or an appearance that feels less controlled. Laughing about the mess creates a different scene from hiding it or being corrected in front of others. A relationship or creative effort can feel similar when pleasure requires allowing an untidy process. The comparison concerns your response to the remembered mess, not a judgment that order or spontaneity is the better way to live.\n\nA familiar taste can return a place or a person to the present. The fruit may recall childhood, a family kitchen, travel, a season, or someone who prepared it for you. Feeling comforted can picture continuity; noticing that the taste has changed may make distance and time more visible. If you try to recreate a memory for another person, the scene may hold both affection and the difficulty of sharing an experience they do not already know. That is more specific than assigning a cultural meaning to a fruit merely because it grows somewhere.\n\nReaching for a mango high above you can make access central. The desired thing may be ordinary but difficult to obtain under current conditions. Receiving help, choosing a lower fruit, or deciding that reaching is no longer worth the effort creates distinct relationships with the wish. A large stone within the fruit may similarly shape how you approach a pleasure without making it unavailable altogether. A meal or shopping memory can supply the image directly. Its taste, handling, and personal setting offer more useful clues than interpreting it as a forecast of money, fertility, or romantic success.", "traditional": "No matching historical Mango dream passage is supplied. Fruit, Peaches, or Melon passages are not borrowed to create one. The personal place and taste recalled here do not establish a shared cultural symbolism or prediction.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Pleasure without a test", "reflection": "Enjoying the fruit can picture an experience that matters without needing to produce an achievement. Guilt or ease reveals how much permission pleasure seems to require." }, { "title": "The inconvenience of enjoyment", "reflection": "Sticky hands or spilled juice can make pleasure less controlled. Your response distinguishes a welcome untidy process from unwanted exposure." }, { "title": "A taste connected to a place", "reflection": "A familiar flavor may carry a direct memory of a person, season, or setting. Comfort and distance can coexist when the remembered experience is no longer identical." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You taste a mango from a familiar place", "reflection": "The flavor brings a particular setting or relationship close again. The scene may center on continuity rather than an abstract meaning. If the place has changed, pleasure can coexist with noticing what cannot be recreated exactly." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Juice runs down your hands while others watch", "reflection": "Enjoyment becomes visible through a mess you cannot neatly contain. This may fit pleasure that feels exposed or socially awkward. Laughing together creates a different relationship from being corrected or expected to hide it." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A ripe mango hangs beyond your reach", "reflection": "A wanted experience seems available yet difficult to access. The scene may picture conditions keeping a modest wish distant. Accepting assistance or choosing another fruit changes the question from effort alone toward a workable approach." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "The taste differs from what you remember", "reflection": "An attempt to return to something familiar brings an altered experience. This can resemble a place, friendship, or activity changed by time. Disappointment does not erase the earlier pleasure, and curiosity may allow a new relationship with it." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You offer a mango and the other person refuses", "reflection": "A pleasure meaningful to you does not become meaningful through being shared automatically. The scene can explore a difference in preference or memory. Allowing refusal differs from needing acceptance to confirm the value of your own experience." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You work around the stone to enjoy the fruit", "reflection": "The central obstacle affects the method without removing all pleasure. This may fit an activity with inconvenient conditions that still feels worthwhile. Resentment or satisfaction determines whether the compromise seems manageable in this particular dream." } ], "prompts": [ "What memory or kind of pleasure made this mango distinctive?", "Did messiness add enjoyment, embarrassment, or an unwanted cost?", "Was sharing an invitation or a need for someone else to value the same experience?" ], "related": [ "fruit", "peaches", "seed", "cooking" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "manners", "title": "Manners", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing ugly-mannered persons, denotes failure to carry out undertakings through the…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "manners" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about manners stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1248", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Manners", "text": "To dream of seeing ugly-mannered persons, denotes failure to carry\nout undertakings through the disagreeableness of a person connected\nwith the affair.\n\nIf you meet people with affable manners, you will be pleasantly surprised\nby affairs of moment with you taking a favorable turn.", "locator": "Heading 1252; source lines 14544–14553", "lineStart": 14544, "lineEnd": 14553, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing ugly-mannered persons, denotes failure to carry\nout undertakings through the disagreeableness of a person connected\nwith the affair.\n\nIf you meet people with affable manners, you will be pleasantly surprised\nby affairs of moment with you taking a favorable turn." }, { "id": "fontaine-0450", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Manners", "text": "To dream of ill-mannered people, who annoy you by their\nawkwardness and selfish conduct, shows that you will shortly go on a\njourney, and be introduced to a fool. 6, 65.", "locator": "Heading 450; source line 3081", "lineStart": 3081, "lineEnd": 3085, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of ill-mannered people, who annoy you by their\nawkwardness and selfish conduct, shows that you will shortly go on a\njourney, and be introduced to a fool." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "mansion", "title": "Mansion", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are in a mansion where there is a haunted chamber, denotes sudden misfortune in the…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "mansion" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about mansion stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1250", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Mansion", "text": "To dream that you are in a mansion where there is a haunted chamber,\ndenotes sudden misfortune in the midst of contentment.\n\nTo dream of being in a mansion, indicates for you wealthy possessions.\n\nTo see a mansion from distant points, foretells future advancement.", "locator": "Heading 1254; source lines 14565–14574", "lineStart": 14565, "lineEnd": 14574, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are in a mansion where there is a haunted chamber,\ndenotes sudden misfortune in the midst of contentment.\n\nTo dream of being in a mansion, indicates for you wealthy possessions.\n\nTo see a mansion from distant points, foretells future advancement." }, { "id": "noe-0315", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Mansion", "text": "To dream that you inhabit a\nmansion, is not good; expect some calamity happening either to yourself,\nor some relative, or lover.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 319; source lines 1267–1269", "lineStart": 1267, "lineEnd": 1269, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you inhabit a\nmansion, is not good; expect some calamity happening either to yourself,\nor some relative, or lover." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "manslaughter", "title": "Manslaughter", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “For a woman to dream that she sees, or is in any way connected with, manslaughter, denotes that she will be desperately scared lest her name…”", "aliases": [ "manslaughter" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about manslaughter stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "murder" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1251", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Manslaughter", "text": "For a woman to dream that she sees, or is in any way connected with,\nmanslaughter, denotes that she will be desperately scared lest her name\nbe coupled with some scandalous sensation.\n\n\n[119] See Murder.", "locator": "Heading 1255; source lines 14574–14583", "lineStart": 14574, "lineEnd": 14583, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a woman to dream that she sees, or is in any way connected with,\nmanslaughter, denotes that she will be desperately scared lest her name\nbe coupled with some scandalous sensation. See Murder." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "murder" ] }, { "slug": "manta-ray", "title": "Manta Ray", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "summary": "A manta ray can picture unfamiliar movement, shifts in perspective, and participation that does not require directing what you encounter.", "tagline": "Movement beyond your direction.", "aliases": [ "manta ray", "manta rays" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A manta ray passing overhead while you are underwater can picture an unfamiliar change in perspective. The animal moves through a space where your usual sense of above and below has another meaning. A new role, a different setting, or learning from someone whose experience is unlike yours may offer a parallel. Fascination can be central if the encounter allows room to look without requiring an immediate response.\n\nA shadow that appears larger or stranger than the animal itself can make anticipation distinct from direct contact. A brief message, reputation, or distant impression may feel imposing before the actual situation becomes clear. When the animal comes into view, relief can follow because the encounter has a more definite form. If it still feels substantial, better information can nevertheless help you choose your relationship with it rather than react to an outline alone.\n\nTraveling alongside the ray can picture participation without control. You share movement for a time, but the creature’s direction remains its own. Supporting a colleague’s undertaking, joining a new community, or accompanying someone through change can involve that balance. Comfort differs from trying to steer an experience that you agreed only to witness. Being able to stop following lets companionship remain chosen rather than turning every encounter into a permanent obligation.\n\nRepeated circling in a restricted pool can shift attention from the moving figure to its conditions. Activity continues but has little room to become a journey. A process that repeatedly revisits the same options or an absorbing interest confined by an unchanged routine may fit. More effort within the same boundary may produce more circles rather than progress. A larger opening changes what movement can accomplish.\n\nAn approach without contact can be meaningful on its own. Curiosity need not culminate in possession, touch, or proof that you have mastered the unfamiliar. A photograph, aquarium image, story, or imagined underwater scene may also provide direct context. These readings concern the manta ray you recognized and the particular movement you dreamed; neither a generic fish interpretation nor the stingray’s different scenarios automatically supplies its meaning.", "traditional": "No directly matching historical account is attached for this specific topic. The readings here are original reflective possibilities. The NINDS source provides general background about dreams, not evidence for these symbolic comparisons.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A different viewpoint", "reflection": "An unfamiliar setting can change the relation between observer and moving figure without demanding immediate action." }, { "title": "Outline versus encounter", "reflection": "A distant impression may change when the actual presence becomes visible." }, { "title": "Participation without direction", "reflection": "Sharing movement can remain valuable when you do not control another participant’s route." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "A winglike figure passes overhead underwater", "reflection": "Your usual perspective changes while the animal moves freely. This may picture entering a setting where familiar expectations are less useful. Interest can become the central experience when there is room to observe before deciding whether closer participation is wanted." }, { "title": "The shadow differs from the animal", "reflection": "A preliminary impression does not match direct contact. This can fit an expectation shaped by incomplete information. Recognition may reduce uncertainty without making the encounter small or simple; a clearer presence can support a more deliberate choice of distance." }, { "title": "You move alongside it without steering", "reflection": "Company does not require setting the other participant’s direction. This may picture supporting an undertaking that remains someone else’s. Comfort depends on whether your own movement is also chosen, rather than whether you can make the animal follow your route." }, { "title": "It circles repeatedly in a restricted pool", "reflection": "Motion continues while the available destination remains unchanged. This can picture a process that revisits the same possibilities because its conditions stay narrow. Opening the setting creates another prospect from asking the same movement to produce a different result." }, { "title": "It approaches and passes without touching", "reflection": "The encounter allows curiosity without demanding possession or further contact. This may picture a welcome but limited exchange. Pleasure in its passing differs from disappointment that a brief approach did not become the relationship you had imagined." }, { "title": "It continues beyond view when you stop", "reflection": "Your involvement ends while another course continues. This may picture a workable limit around participation rather than failure to keep up. Remaining interested does not require following indefinitely; relief and longing can give the ending different meanings." } ], "prompts": [ "What expectation changes when the outline becomes a direct encounter?", "Where can you participate without choosing another person’s direction?", "What conditions make movement into progress rather than repetition?" ], "related": [ "stingray", "fish", "ocean", "swimming" ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "mantilla", "title": "Mantilla", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing a mantilla, denotes an unwise enterprise which will bring you into unfavorable notice.”", "aliases": [ "mantilla" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about mantilla stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1252", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Mantilla", "text": "To dream of seeing a mantilla, denotes an unwise enterprise which will bring\nyou into unfavorable notice.", "locator": "Heading 1256; source lines 14583–14588", "lineStart": 14583, "lineEnd": 14588, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing a mantilla, denotes an unwise enterprise which will bring\nyou into unfavorable notice." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "manufactory", "title": "Manufactory", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "One stage can be clear while the whole process still needs an account.", "summary": "A factory dream can explore linked work, repeated output and the support needed to keep a shared process useful. Each stage has a different responsibility.", "aliases": [ "manufactory", "factory", "factories", "manufacturing plant" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A factory joins separate tasks into a process that produces something. In a dream, this can picture shared work whose stages depend on one another. A team project, household routine or complicated preparation may offer a parallel. Your own task may be clear while the wider purpose remains uncertain. The useful question is how the work connects, rather than whether repeated activity must represent monotony or success.\n\nOne unfinished stage can hold several others in place. This can resemble a process designed as if information, time or materials always arrive when needed. A delay may expose how much the arrangement depends on conditions no individual person controls entirely. Helpful coordination differs from simply asking each participant to work harder at a stage that cannot begin yet.\n\nOutput can become detached from use. A line keeps producing objects nobody collects, or the room fills while the process continues unchanged. This may picture effort evaluated by quantity while its purpose receives less attention. The same repetition can feel satisfying when the result has a clear place and people understand what their contribution provides.\n\nA small adjustment can change how stages cooperate. You might recognize a clearer handover, a shared timetable or enough space for another person to complete their part. Being expected to keep a machine going without support creates another reading: responsibility may be assigned while the resources or decisions needed to carry it remain elsewhere. The scene does not identify who is at fault in waking life.\n\nA pause can reveal the people behind the process. Work stops and there is room to talk, revise or notice needs that movement kept out of view. You may value the productive arrangement while wanting participation to include more than maintaining its pace. Recent work, images or remembered industrial places can supply the imagery directly. These original reflections concern coordination, purpose and conditions of contribution, without forecasting business or judging a person's worth by output.", "traditional": "Miller’s Manufactory entry forecasts unusual business activity and points the reader to Factory. Its interpretation belongs to period dream lore. These original reflections use a factory as a shared process, with attention to coordination, purpose and conditions of contribution, rather than predicting economic activity.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Linked stages with shared conditions", "reflection": "A factory can picture work whose parts cannot proceed independently. Clear contribution may require usable handovers and resources, rather than each person being expected to solve the whole arrangement." }, { "title": "Output with a purpose", "reflection": "Repeated production may feel useful when its result has a place. An accumulating output can instead expose activity measured separately from what it actually serves." }, { "title": "The people behind the pace", "reflection": "A pause or need for support can make participation visible beyond maintaining movement. The arrangement may need room for explanation and revision as well as continued work." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Each station depends on another person’s unfinished task", "reflection": "An unfinished station holding others can picture a process whose stages depend on shared timing. A team or household preparation may fit. The delay can expose missing coordination without making one participant responsible for every consequence." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "The line produces more than anyone can use", "reflection": "Unused output accumulating can picture effort continuing after its practical purpose has become unclear. A growing pile of duplicated reports or a repeated routine may feel similar. Quantity may remain visible while usefulness needs another kind of attention." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You understand one stage but not where the whole product goes", "reflection": "Knowing one stage but not the destination can picture a clear assignment within an opaque process. Your contribution may matter while its larger use remains unexplained. An account of the whole arrangement can make the same work more understandable." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A small adjustment makes the shared process workable", "reflection": "A small adjustment making cooperation easier can picture a useful change in handover, space or information. The process improves through fit between stages rather than another demand for effort. The modest scale does not make the improvement unimportant." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You are expected to keep a machine going without enough support", "reflection": "Maintaining a machine without support can resemble responsibility separated from the resources needed to use it. A shared role may feel similar. The scene can clarify the conditions of the task without proving someone deliberately withheld help." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The factory stops and people have room to talk", "reflection": "A stopped factory with room to talk can picture attention becoming available to the people sustaining a process. A pause may allow questions or revision. The arrangement can remain valued while its pace no longer determines every interaction." } ], "prompts": [ "How did my stage connect with what came before and after?", "What purpose did the repeated output actually serve?", "Which support or pause made contribution more workable?" ], "related": [ "work", "machinery", "warehouse", "workshop" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1253" ], "scope": "Miller’s Manufactory account forecasts business activity and explicitly cross-references Factory; no separate Factory record is invented. Exact supplied record(s): miller-1253 — Manufactory (Heading 1257; source lines 14588–14596). Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence for the original reflection, a diagnosis or an actual outcome." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1253", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Manufactory", "text": "To dream of a large manufactory, denotes unusual activity\nin business circles.\n\n\n[120] See Factory.", "locator": "Heading 1257; source lines 14588–14596", "lineStart": 14588, "lineEnd": 14596, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a large manufactory, denotes unusual activity\nin business circles. See Factory." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "manure", "title": "Manure", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing manure, is a favorable omen.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "manure" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about manure stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1254", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Manure", "text": "To dream of seeing manure, is a favorable omen. Much good will follow\nthe dream. Farmers especially will feel a rise in fortune.", "locator": "Heading 1258; source lines 14596–14601", "lineStart": 14596, "lineEnd": 14601, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing manure, is a favorable omen. Much good will follow\nthe dream. Farmers especially will feel a rise in fortune." }, { "id": "cielo-0262", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Manure", "text": "Indicates depravity.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 262; source lines 4491–4493", "lineStart": 4491, "lineEnd": 4493, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Indicates depravity." }, { "id": "luck-0161", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Manure", "text": "Financial gain: good crops.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 161; source lines 3929–3931", "lineStart": 3929, "lineEnd": 3931, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Financial gain: good crops." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "manuscript", "title": "Manuscript", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of manuscript in an unfinished state, forebodes disappointment.”", "aliases": [ "manuscript" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about manuscript stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1255", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Manuscript", "text": "To dream of manuscript in an unfinished state, forebodes disappointment.\nIf finished and clearly written, great hopes will be realized.\n\nIf you are at work on manuscript, you will have many fears for some\ncherished hope, but if you keep the blurs out of your work you will\nsucceed in your undertakings. If it is rejected by the publishers,\nyou will be hopeless for a time, but eventually your most sanguine\ndesires will become a reality.\n\nIf you lose it, you will be subjected to disappointment.\n\nIf you see it burn, some work of your own will bring you profit\nand much elevation.", "locator": "Heading 1259; source lines 14601–14617", "lineStart": 14601, "lineEnd": 14617, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of manuscript in an unfinished state, forebodes disappointment.\nIf finished and clearly written, great hopes will be realized.\n\nIf you are at work on manuscript, you will have many fears for some\ncherished hope, but if you keep the blurs out of your work you will\nsucceed in your undertakings. If it is rejected by the publishers,\nyou will be hopeless for a time, but eventually your most sanguine\ndesires will become a reality.\n\nIf you lose it, you will be subjected to disappointment.\n\nIf you see it burn, some work of your own will bring you profit\nand much elevation." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "map", "title": "Map", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "5 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a map, or studying one, denotes a change will be contemplated in your business.” Compare 5 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "map" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about map stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1256", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Map", "text": "To dream of a map, or studying one, denotes a change will be contemplated\nin your business. Some disappointing things will occur, but much profit\nalso will follow the change.\n\nTo dream of looking for one, denotes that a sudden discontent\nwith your surroundings will inspire you with new energy,\nand thus you will rise into better conditions. For a young woman,\nthis dream denotes that she will rise into higher spheres\nby sheer ambition.", "locator": "Heading 1260; source lines 14617–14629", "lineStart": 14617, "lineEnd": 14629, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a map, or studying one, denotes a change will be contemplated\nin your business. Some disappointing things will occur, but much profit\nalso will follow the change.\n\nTo dream of looking for one, denotes that a sudden discontent\nwith your surroundings will inspire you with new energy,\nand thus you will rise into better conditions. For a young woman,\nthis dream denotes that she will rise into higher spheres\nby sheer ambition." }, { "id": "fontaine-0451", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Map", "text": "To dream of looking over a map, is a sign of an agreeable surprise\nby the arrival of some dear friend from a distance. If a girl dreams\nthis when her lover is away, he will return unexpectedly. 24, 17.", "locator": "Heading 451; source line 3085", "lineStart": 3085, "lineEnd": 3089, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of looking over a map, is a sign of an agreeable surprise\nby the arrival of some dear friend from a distance. If a girl dreams\nthis when her lover is away, he will return unexpectedly." }, { "id": "cielo-0263", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Map", "text": "To see or consult a map indicates a journey.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 263; source lines 4493–4495", "lineStart": 4493, "lineEnd": 4495, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see or consult a map indicates a journey." }, { "id": "luck-0162", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Map", "text": "News or visit from a friend abroad.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 162; source lines 3931–3933", "lineStart": 3931, "lineEnd": 3933, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "News or visit from a friend abroad." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10796", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Map", "heading": "Map", "text": "To dream of examining a map denotes that you will leave your native land (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 10796, "lineEnd": 10798, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 232; NLM OCR lines 10796–10798", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10796, "lineEnd": 10798, "printedPage": 232, "printedPageEnd": 232 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Map. — To dream of examining a map denotes that you will \nleave your native land (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Map" }, "displayText": "To dream of examining a map denotes that you will leave your native land (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "maple", "title": "Maple", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “A dream of comfort and a happy life (Gypsy). The national emblem of Canada, connoting goodness, service, etc.”", "aliases": [ "maple" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about maple stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. 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The national emblem of Canada, connoting goodness, service, etc." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "marble", "title": "Marble", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a marble quarry, denotes that you life will be a financial success, but that your social…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "marble" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about marble stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1257", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Marble", "text": "To dream of a marble quarry, denotes that you life will be\na financial success, but that your social surroundings will be\ndevoid of affection.\n\nTo dream of polishing marble, you will come into a pleasing inheritance.\n\nTo see it broken, you will fall into disfavor among your associates\nby defying all moral codes.", "locator": "Heading 1261; source lines 14629–14640", "lineStart": 14629, "lineEnd": 14640, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a marble quarry, denotes that you life will be\na financial success, but that your social surroundings will be\ndevoid of affection.\n\nTo dream of polishing marble, you will come into a pleasing inheritance.\n\nTo see it broken, you will fall into disfavor among your associates\nby defying all moral codes." }, { "id": "luck-0163", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Marble", "text": "An inheritance.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 163; source lines 3933–3935", "lineStart": 3933, "lineEnd": 3935, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "An inheritance." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "march", "title": "March", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of marching to the strains of music, indicates that you are ambitious to become a soldier or a public official, but you should…”", "aliases": [ "march" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about march stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1258", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "March", "text": "To dream of marching to the strains of music, indicates that you\nare ambitious to become a soldier or a public official, but you\nshould consider all things well before making final decision.\n\nFor women to dream of seeing men marching, foretells their inclination\nfor men in public positions. They should be careful of their reputations,\nshould they be thrown much with men.\n\nTo dream of the month of March, portends disappointing returns in business,\nand some woman will be suspicious of your honesty.", "locator": "Heading 1262; source lines 14640–14653", "lineStart": 14640, "lineEnd": 14653, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of marching to the strains of music, indicates that you\nare ambitious to become a soldier or a public official, but you\nshould consider all things well before making final decision.\n\nFor women to dream of seeing men marching, foretells their inclination\nfor men in public positions. They should be careful of their reputations,\nshould they be thrown much with men.\n\nTo dream of the month of March, portends disappointing returns in business,\nand some woman will be suspicious of your honesty." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "mare", "title": "Mare", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing mares in pastures, denotes success in business and congenial companions.”", "aliases": [ "mare" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about mare stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "horse" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1259", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Mare", "text": "To dream of seeing mares in pastures, denotes success in\nbusiness and congenial companions. If the pasture is barren,\nit foretells poverty, but warm friends. For a young woman,\nthis omens a happy marriage and beautiful children.\n\n\n[121] See Horse.", "locator": "Heading 1263; source lines 14653–14663", "lineStart": 14653, "lineEnd": 14663, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing mares in pastures, denotes success in\nbusiness and congenial companions. If the pasture is barren,\nit foretells poverty, but warm friends. For a young woman,\nthis omens a happy marriage and beautiful children. See Horse." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "horse" ] }, { "slug": "marigold", "title": "Marigold", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing marigolds, denotes contentment with frugality should be your aim.”", "aliases": [ "marigold" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about marigold stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1260", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Marigold", "text": "To dream of seeing marigolds, denotes contentment with frugality\nshould be your aim.", "locator": "Heading 1264; source lines 14663–14668", "lineStart": 14663, "lineEnd": 14668, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing marigolds, denotes contentment with frugality\nshould be your aim." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "mariner", "title": "Mariner", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are a mariner, denotes a long journey to distant countries, and much pleasure will be…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "mariner" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about mariner stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1261", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Mariner", "text": "To dream that you are a mariner, denotes a long journey to distant countries,\nand much pleasure will be connected with the trip.\n\nIf you see your vessel sailing without you, much personal discomfort\nwill be wrought you by rivals.", "locator": "Heading 1265; source lines 14668–14676", "lineStart": 14668, "lineEnd": 14676, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are a mariner, denotes a long journey to distant countries,\nand much pleasure will be connected with the trip.\n\nIf you see your vessel sailing without you, much personal discomfort\nwill be wrought you by rivals." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10812", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Mariner", "heading": "Mariner", "text": "A dream denoting voyages (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 10812, "lineEnd": 10813, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 232; NLM OCR lines 10812–10813", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10812, "lineEnd": 10813, "printedPage": 232, "printedPageEnd": 232 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Mariner. — A dream denoting voyages (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Mariner" }, "displayText": "A dream denoting voyages (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "market", "title": "Market", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "5 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are in a market, denotes thrift and much activity in all occupations.” Compare 5 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "market", "markets" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about market stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "fair" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1262", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Market", "text": "To dream that you are in a market, denotes thrift and much activity\nin all occupations.\n\nTo see an empty market, indicates depression and gloom.\n\nTo see decayed vegetables or meat, denotes losses in business.\n\nFor a young woman, a market foretells pleasant changes.", "locator": "Heading 1266; source lines 14676–14687", "lineStart": 14676, "lineEnd": 14687, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are in a market, denotes thrift and much activity\nin all occupations.\n\nTo see an empty market, indicates depression and gloom.\n\nTo see decayed vegetables or meat, denotes losses in business.\n\nFor a young woman, a market foretells pleasant changes." }, { "id": "fontaine-0452", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Market", "text": "To dream you are in a large market, where all kinds of meats\nand vegetables are sold, is a sign you will want money that it will\nbe difficult and perhaps impossible to raise; it is a bad sign for\ntradesmen and others who have notes to pay. 31, 9.", "locator": "Heading 452; source line 3089", "lineStart": 3089, "lineEnd": 3094, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are in a large market, where all kinds of meats\nand vegetables are sold, is a sign you will want money that it will\nbe difficult and perhaps impossible to raise; it is a bad sign for\ntradesmen and others who have notes to pay." }, { "id": "noe-0317", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Markets", "text": "To dream of markets filled with goods and folks, is a good\ndream to those that traffic. But riding to market signifies a short\nvoyage. If in a storm, the voyage will be difficult and the success of\nyour voyage doubtful. If in fair weather, the result will be the contrary.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 321; source lines 1271–1275", "lineStart": 1271, "lineEnd": 1275, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of markets filled with goods and folks, is a good\ndream to those that traffic. But riding to market signifies a short\nvoyage. If in a storm, the voyage will be difficult and the success of\nyour voyage doubtful. If in fair weather, the result will be the contrary." }, { "id": "cielo-0264", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Market", "text": "Going to market is a sign of a joyous event.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 264; source lines 4495–4497", "lineStart": 4495, "lineEnd": 4497, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Going to market is a sign of a joyous event." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10814", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Market", "heading": "Market", "text": "See Fair.", "lineStart": 10814, "lineEnd": 10815, "kind": "cross-reference", "locator": "Printed p. 232; NLM OCR lines 10814–10815", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10814, "lineEnd": 10815, "printedPage": 232, "printedPageEnd": 232 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Market. — See Fair. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Market" }, "displayText": "See Fair." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "fair" ] }, { "slug": "marmalade", "title": "Marmalade", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of eating marmalade, denotes sickness and much dissatisfaction For a young woman to dream of making it, denotes unhappy domestic…”", "aliases": [ "marmalade" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about marmalade stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1263", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Marmalade", "text": "To dream of eating marmalade, denotes sickness and much dissatisfaction\n\nFor a young woman to dream of making it, denotes unhappy\ndomestic associations.", "locator": "Heading 1267; source lines 14687–14694", "lineStart": 14687, "lineEnd": 14694, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of eating marmalade, denotes sickness and much dissatisfaction\n\nFor a young woman to dream of making it, denotes unhappy\ndomestic associations." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "marmot", "title": "Marmot", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing a marmot, denotes that sly enemies are approaching you in the shape of fair women.”", "aliases": [ "marmot" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about marmot stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1264", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Marmot", "text": "To dream of seeing a marmot, denotes that sly enemies are approaching\nyou in the shape of fair women.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of a marmot, foretells that temptation\nwill beset her in the future.", "locator": "Heading 1268; source lines 14694–14702", "lineStart": 14694, "lineEnd": 14702, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing a marmot, denotes that sly enemies are approaching\nyou in the shape of fair women.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of a marmot, foretells that temptation\nwill beset her in the future." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "marriage", "title": "Marriage", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "aliases": [ "marriage", "married", "being married", "married partnership" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "summary": "Marriage dreams may explore the terms of an ongoing partnership, shared responsibilities and what you understand yourself to be agreeing to.", "tagline": "The arrangement beyond the ceremony.", "psychological": "A marriage dream may place you inside an ongoing partnership, show an agreement being discussed or introduce a role you did not expect. Begin with what marriage means within the scene rather than assuming that a ceremony is its main subject. This entry follows the arrangement and responsibilities of partnership; a dream centered on guests, rituals or the event itself may give a wedding a different emphasis.\n\nAn agreement can be explicit or assumed. You might know that you are married without remembering a decision, find that each person expects different things or discuss a term that has never been stated. This could invite reflection on commitments whose meaning needs explanation. A waking comparison might involve how a household, friendship or joint project divides responsibilities. That comparison need not make every dreamed marriage a symbol for work, and it does not decide whom you should marry.\n\nShared responsibilities can make the arrangement concrete. One person may handle a task automatically, ask for a different division or discover that circumstances have changed. Notice how the discussion unfolds and whether the plan can be revised. The dream may help you describe a preferred way to make decisions without establishing how a real partner behaves. Agreement can include different abilities and interests rather than requiring identical contributions.\n\nThe identity of the partner may be familiar, unexpected or unclear. An invented spouse can make a role available in the story without revealing a hidden desire or conclusion about your identity. Explore what you know about the partnership within the dream: how you communicate, what you share and which decisions remain individual. Comfort, unfamiliarity and uncertainty may coexist without giving the relationship one definitive meaning.\n\nMarriage can also arrive through memories of conversations, households, forms or celebrations. Waking experiences and emotions can enter dreams, so recent planning or an older family arrangement may provide context. An ordinary satisfying partnership scene need not hide a problem. Record what is agreed, what is assumed and what changes when you ask a question. The reflection can describe the kind of continuing arrangement that feels fitting to you without predicting a real marriage, separation or the future of any relationship.", "traditional": "The supplied Marriage passages often concern ceremonies as well as partnership. Miller varies forecasts by contracting a marriage, attendance, guests and events, with gendered and health claims. Fontaine, Noe, the 1894 Guide, Everybody’s Book of Luck and Craig give different severe loss, fortune or unfavorable forecasts; some cross-reference Wedding or Bride. These are attributed period beliefs, not evidence of actual outcomes. The original reflection here focuses on an ongoing agreement rather than reproducing those forecasts.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Agreed and assumed terms", "reflection": "Knowing you are married may differ from knowing what each person agreed to. Explore what becomes clear when the terms are discussed, without turning an assumption into a forecast." }, { "title": "Responsibilities open to revision", "reflection": "Tasks and shared decisions can make partnership practical. Consider how an arrangement changes when circumstances or preferences change, rather than requiring equal contributions to be identical." }, { "title": "A role beyond a familiar face", "reflection": "An unfamiliar dreamed partner can place you in an invented situation. What you know about the arrangement matters without revealing a waking desire, identity or the real person’s character." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "You are already married but the terms are unclear", "reflection": "The dream begins inside a partnership, yet you do not know how decisions are made or what you have agreed to. This could invite reflection on an assumed role needing explanation. Notice what you ask and discover rather than treating the situation as a prediction of a real marriage." }, { "title": "A familiar task is divided differently", "reflection": "You discuss who will do a recurring task and find a division that differs from the old routine. The scene may bring responsibility and preference into a concrete arrangement. Record how the change is negotiated; a dreamed allocation cannot establish whether a real partner contributes fairly." }, { "title": "A joint choice leaves one preference unspoken", "reflection": "You appear to agree on a plan, then realize you have not said what you want. This might help you describe the difference between a settled decision and an adequately discussed one. Notice whether you reopen the question, without assuming that agreement requires either person to disappear." }, { "title": "An unfamiliar spouse knows the household routine", "reflection": "The partner is someone you do not recognize, while everyday life together seems established. This could let the dream explore a role through familiar tasks and invented casting. Describe how the arrangement feels; the character does not prove a hidden attraction or identify a person you will marry." }, { "title": "Changed circumstances lead to a new agreement", "reflection": "A schedule or practical condition changes, and the partnership plan needs revising. The scene might focus on adapting an ongoing commitment rather than judging its original form. Notice what remains important and what becomes negotiable; revision need not mean a real relationship is failing." }, { "title": "You choose separate activities within a shared plan", "reflection": "Each person wants time for a different interest, and the arrangement makes room for both. This may give individuality a place inside a continuing partnership. Record how the time is agreed and experienced; the dream does not prescribe one correct balance or forecast lasting compatibility." } ], "prompts": [ "What terms or responsibilities were clear, assumed or still being discussed?", "How did the partnership make room for each person’s preferences?", "Which ongoing agreement or remembered household gives the scene personal context?" ], "related": [ "wedding", "engagement", "moving-in-with-a-partner", "partner", "house", "bride" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1265" ], "scope": "Miller varies Marriage forecasts with the spouse, guests’ colors and mood, contracting marriage, attendance and unhappy events, including gendered and health/loss claims. Bride is cross-referenced. Specific supplied passages: Marriage — miller-1265 (Heading 1269; source lines 14702–14732). Historical comparison only; these attributed period beliefs do not establish outcomes, character, diagnosis, consent, desire or a universal dream meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0453" ], "scope": "Fontaine assigns funeral or death forecasts to attending a happy wedding or marrying oneself, and cross-references Wedding. Specific supplied passages: Marriage — fontaine-0453 (Heading 453; source line 3094). Historical comparison only; these attributed period beliefs do not establish outcomes, character, diagnosis, consent, desire or a universal dream meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0318" ], "scope": "Noe contrasts marrying, assisting at a wedding and lying with a newly married spouse, assigning loss, confinement, news, success and danger forecasts; the passage also addresses a sailor. Specific supplied passages: Marriage — noe-0318 (Dream section, heading 322; source lines 1275–1281). Historical comparison only; these attributed period beliefs do not establish outcomes, character, diagnosis, consent, desire or a universal dream meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0164" ], "scope": "Everybody’s Book of Luck gives an unfavorable forecast to dreaming of marrying. Specific supplied passages: Marriage — luck-0164 (Dream section, heading 164; source lines 3935–3937). Historical comparison only; these attributed period beliefs do not establish outcomes, character, diagnosis, consent, desire or a universal dream meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "guide-65367", "title": "Guide to Fortune-Telling by Dreams", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Multum in Parvo Library, Vol. I, No. 10, October 1894", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65367", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "guide-0034" ], "scope": "The 1894 Guide contrasts marrying, assisting at a wedding and lying with a newly married spouse, assigning loss, confinement, news, success and danger forecasts. Specific supplied passages: Marriage — guide-0034 (Dream section, heading 34; source lines 304–311). Historical comparison only; these attributed period beliefs do not establish outcomes, character, diagnosis, consent, desire or a universal dream meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L10816" ], "scope": "Craig assigns sickness and death forecasts to marriage without a named attribution in this specific passage. Specific supplied passages: Marriage — craig-1918:L10816 (Printed p. 232; NLM OCR lines 10816–10818). Historical comparison only; these attributed period beliefs do not establish outcomes, character, diagnosis, consent, desire or a universal dream meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "kind": "editorial", "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1265", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Marriage", "text": "For a woman to dream that she marries an old, decrepit man, wrinkled face\nand gray headed, denotes she will have a vast amount of trouble and sickness\nto encounter. If, while the ceremony is in progress, her lover passes,\nwearing black and looking at her in a reproachful way, she will be driven\nto desperation by the coldness and lack of sympathy of a friend.\n\nTo dream of seeing a marriage, denotes high enjoyment,\nif the wedding guests attend in pleasing colors and are happy;\nif they are dressed in black or other somber hues, there will\nbe mourning and sorrow in store for the dreamer.\n\nIf you dream of contracting a marriage, you will have unpleasant news\nfrom the absent.\n\nIf you are an attendant at a wedding, you will experience much\npleasure from the thoughtfulness of loved ones, and business\naffairs will be unusually promising.\n\nTo dream of any unfortunate occurrence in connection with a marriage,\nforetells distress, sickness, or death in your family.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she is a bride, and unhappy or indifferent,\nforetells disappointments in love, and probably her own sickness.\nShe should be careful of her conduct, as enemies are near her.\n\n\n[122] See Bride.", "locator": "Heading 1269; source lines 14702–14732", "lineStart": 14702, "lineEnd": 14732, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a woman to dream that she marries an old, decrepit man, wrinkled face\nand gray headed, denotes she will have a vast amount of trouble and sickness\nto encounter. If, while the ceremony is in progress, her lover passes,\nwearing black and looking at her in a reproachful way, she will be driven\nto desperation by the coldness and lack of sympathy of a friend.\n\nTo dream of seeing a marriage, denotes high enjoyment,\nif the wedding guests attend in pleasing colors and are happy;\nif they are dressed in black or other somber hues, there will\nbe mourning and sorrow in store for the dreamer.\n\nIf you dream of contracting a marriage, you will have unpleasant news\nfrom the absent.\n\nIf you are an attendant at a wedding, you will experience much\npleasure from the thoughtfulness of loved ones, and business\naffairs will be unusually promising.\n\nTo dream of any unfortunate occurrence in connection with a marriage,\nforetells distress, sickness, or death in your family.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she is a bride, and unhappy or indifferent,\nforetells disappointments in love, and probably her own sickness.\nShe should be careful of her conduct, as enemies are near her. See Bride." }, { "id": "fontaine-0453", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Marriage", "text": "(_See Wedding._) If any one should be so unfortunate as to\ndream that he or she was present at a happy and jolly wedding, it\ndenotes that they will attend a funeral; it will not necessarily be at\nthe burial of either of the persons you dreamed you saw married, but\nyou will undoubtedly be called to mourn some friend or relative. To\ndream of being married yourself, foretells your death. 2, 78, 42.", "locator": "Heading 453; source line 3094", "lineStart": 3094, "lineEnd": 3101, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Wedding.) If any one should be so unfortunate as to\ndream that he or she was present at a happy and jolly wedding, it\ndenotes that they will attend a funeral; it will not necessarily be at\nthe burial of either of the persons you dreamed you saw married, but\nyou will undoubtedly be called to mourn some friend or relative. To\ndream of being married yourself, foretells your death." }, { "id": "noe-0318", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Marriage", "text": "To dream you are married, is ominous of death, and very\nunfavorable to the dreamer. It denotes poverty, a prison, and misfortune.\nTo dream you assist at a wedding, is the forerunner of some pleasing news\nand great success. To dream of lying with your newly married husband or\nwife, threatens danger and sudden misfortunes and also that you will lose\npart of your property. To the sailor, it argues storm and shipwrecks with\na narrow escape from death.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 322; source lines 1275–1281", "lineStart": 1275, "lineEnd": 1281, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are married, is ominous of death, and very\nunfavorable to the dreamer. It denotes poverty, a prison, and misfortune.\nTo dream you assist at a wedding, is the forerunner of some pleasing news\nand great success. To dream of lying with your newly married husband or\nwife, threatens danger and sudden misfortunes and also that you will lose\npart of your property. To the sailor, it argues storm and shipwrecks with\na narrow escape from death." }, { "id": "luck-0164", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Marriage", "text": "To dream that one marries is a bad, unhappy sign.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 164; source lines 3935–3937", "lineStart": 3935, "lineEnd": 3937, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that one marries is a bad, unhappy sign." }, { "id": "guide-0034", "sourceId": "guide-65367", "heading": "Marriage", "text": "To dream you are married is ominous of death, and very\nunfavorable to the dreamer; it denotes poverty, a prison, and\nmisfortunes. To dream you assist at a wedding is the forerunner of\nsome pleasing news and great success. To dream of lying with your newly\nmarried husband or wife threatens danger and sudden misfortunes, and\nalso that you will lose a part of your property.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 34; source lines 304–311", "lineStart": 304, "lineEnd": 311, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are married is ominous of death, and very\nunfavorable to the dreamer; it denotes poverty, a prison, and\nmisfortunes. To dream you assist at a wedding is the forerunner of\nsome pleasing news and great success. To dream of lying with your newly\nmarried husband or wife threatens danger and sudden misfortunes, and\nalso that you will lose a part of your property." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10816", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Marriage", "heading": "Marriage", "text": "A dream invariably auguring sickness, death, etc", "lineStart": 10816, "lineEnd": 10818, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 232; NLM OCR lines 10816–10818", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10816, "lineEnd": 10818, "printedPage": 232, "printedPageEnd": 232 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Marriage. — A dream invariably auguring sickness, death, \netc \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Marriage" }, "displayText": "A dream invariably auguring sickness, death, etc" } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [ "bride", "wedding" ] }, { "slug": "mars", "title": "Mars", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of Mars, denotes that your life will be made miserable and hardly worth living by the cruel…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "mars" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about mars stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1266", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Mars", "text": "To dream of Mars, denotes that your life will be made miserable\nand hardly worth living by the cruel treatment of friends.\nEnemies will endeavor to ruin you.\n\nIf you feel yourself drawn up toward the planet, you will develop keen\njudgment and advance beyond your friends in learning and wealth.", "locator": "Heading 1270; source lines 14732–14741", "lineStart": 14732, "lineEnd": 14741, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of Mars, denotes that your life will be made miserable\nand hardly worth living by the cruel treatment of friends.\nEnemies will endeavor to ruin you.\n\nIf you feel yourself drawn up toward the planet, you will develop keen\njudgment and advance beyond your friends in learning and wealth." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10819", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Mars", "heading": "Mars", "text": "An unfortunate dream forecasting quarrels at home and abroad (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 10819, "lineEnd": 10821, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 232; NLM OCR lines 10819–10821", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10819, "lineEnd": 10821, "printedPage": 232, "printedPageEnd": 232 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Mars. — An unfortunate dream forecasting quarrels at home \nand abroad (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Mars" }, "displayText": "An unfortunate dream forecasting quarrels at home and abroad (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "marsh", "title": "Marsh", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of walking through marshy places, denotes illness resulting from overwork and worry.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "marsh" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about marsh stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1267", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Marsh", "text": "To dream of walking through marshy places, denotes illness resulting\nfrom overwork and worry. You will suffer much displeasure from the unwise\nconduct of a near relative.", "locator": "Heading 1271; source lines 14741–14747", "lineStart": 14741, "lineEnd": 14747, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of walking through marshy places, denotes illness resulting\nfrom overwork and worry. You will suffer much displeasure from the unwise\nconduct of a near relative." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10822", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Marsh", "heading": "Marsh", "text": "To dream of walking in a marshy country, troubled life; swamps denote sorrows and difficulties; to escape them, future comfort; to try to till a marsh, misery in spite of work (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 10822, "lineEnd": 10830, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 232–233; NLM OCR lines 10822–10830", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10822, "lineEnd": 10830, "printedPage": 232, "printedPageEnd": 233 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Marsh. — To dream of walking in a marshy country, trou- \nbled life; swamps denote sorrows and difficulties; to escape \n\n\nSYMBOLISM IN DREAMS 233 \n\n\nthem, future comfort; to try to till a marsh, misery in spite \nof work (Gypsy). \n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [ { "line": 10826, "text": "SYMBOLISM IN DREAMS 233 " } ], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "trou- \nbled", "after": "troubled", "evidenceLine": 398 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Marsh" }, "displayText": "To dream of walking in a marshy country, troubled life; swamps denote sorrows and difficulties; to escape them, future comfort; to try to till a marsh, misery in spite of work (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "martyr", "title": "Martyr", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of martyrs, denotes that false friends, domestic unhappiness and losses in affairs which concern…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "martyr" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about martyr stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1268", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Martyr", "text": "To dream of martyrs, denotes that false friends, domestic unhappiness\nand losses in affairs which concern you most.\n\nTo dream that you are a martyr, signifies the separation from friends,\nand enemies will slander you.", "locator": "Heading 1272; source lines 14747–14755", "lineStart": 14747, "lineEnd": 14755, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of martyrs, denotes that false friends, domestic unhappiness\nand losses in affairs which concern you most.\n\nTo dream that you are a martyr, signifies the separation from friends,\nand enemies will slander you." }, { "id": "noe-0323", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Martyr", "text": "If one dreams he dies for religion, that man will arrive at\ngreat honor. It signifies also that his soul will be happy hereafter.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 327; source lines 1298–1300", "lineStart": 1298, "lineEnd": 1300, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If one dreams he dies for religion, that man will arrive at\ngreat honor. It signifies also that his soul will be happy hereafter." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10833", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Martyr", "heading": "Martyr", "text": "A dream of honor and public approbation (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 10833, "lineEnd": 10835, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 233; NLM OCR lines 10833–10835", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10833, "lineEnd": 10835, "printedPage": 233, "printedPageEnd": 233 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Martyr. — A dream of honor and public approbation (Gyp- \nsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "Gyp- \nsy", "after": "Gypsy", "evidenceLine": 243 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Martyr" }, "displayText": "A dream of honor and public approbation (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "mask", "title": "Mask", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "summary": "A mask may explore chosen presentation, expression that stays fixed or the terms of putting a role aside. Its purpose need not be concealment or deceit.", "tagline": "A removable expression can open a role and limit another response.", "aliases": [ "mask", "mask or masquerade" ], "status": "REVIEW", "psychological": "A mask can give an encounter a presentation that remains separate from the face underneath. It may make a role easier to try, hold one expression in place or change how others recognize you. The dream may explore how a chosen form supports participation and where it becomes limiting. A mask used openly in a shared performance creates another scene from one imposed without a chance to decide its terms.\n\n A fixed expression can make communication awkward. A smiling mask may remain unchanged while you try to explain a concern, leaving the appearance and the contribution difficult to connect. This can resemble a role expected to stay reassuring regardless of the task. Speaking in another way, altering the mask or receiving attention beyond its surface can make the encounter more particular without treating a visible mismatch as proof of deception.\n\n Trying a role can also be welcome. A costume or performance mask may let you enter an unfamiliar activity at a chosen distance from your ordinary presentation. A waking comparison could be rehearsing a way of speaking or experimenting with a project before deciding how much to claim publicly. Being able to remove the form can make that trial useful rather than turning it into an assignment that must continue indefinitely.\n\n Fit and removal introduce practical terms. A mask that slips, restricts a view or needs help to release may require a specific adjustment before participation becomes comfortable. Requested assistance differs from another person changing it without asking. The scene can give choice a physical place without making every covering a sign that the wearer is hiding a private truth.\n\n Other people may continue addressing the mask's role after you have put it down. Clarifying the transition can become as important as removing the object. At a gathering where everyone knows that masks are being worn, identity may be understood through names, movement and conversation as well. Recent costumes, equipment, art or stories can supply direct associations. The dreamed mask does not disclose actual dishonesty or a real person's intentions; its action and agreement give it context.", "traditional": "Miller, Fontaine and Cielo frequently connect masks with misunderstanding, hypocrisy or infidelity. Craig’s Mask or Masquerade passage instead concerns attending an event and gives it a deceptive-pleasure forecast. Those are attributed period judgments, not evidence that a covering or performance reveals deceit in waking life.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A role tried by choice", "reflection": "A removable form can support an unfamiliar activity without requiring it to define every encounter. The scene can explore experimenting with presentation while retaining a practical way to put the role aside." }, { "title": "Expression that cannot change", "reflection": "A fixed mask may leave a contribution difficult to communicate. The encounter can become more useful when words, adjustment or another form of attention supplies what the surface cannot show." }, { "title": "Terms of changing or removing the form", "reflection": "Fit, permission and assistance can make removal a chosen transition. Taking the object off differs from being recognized outside its role, so both the physical and shared terms may need attention." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A smiling mask stays fixed while you explain a concern", "reflection": "The appearance does not change with the contribution you are trying to make. Another form of communication or attention may help the encounter become fuller. The scene can explore an expected presentation without making the mismatch proof that you or another person is dishonest." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A mask lets you try an unfamiliar performance", "reflection": "The form gives you a chosen way to enter an activity that might otherwise feel too exposed. Keeping the option to remove it may make experimentation useful. The scene’s meaning depends on participation and choice rather than assuming the performance hides a private truth." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "The mask fits but needs another person’s help to release", "reflection": "Removal becomes a practical task with terms of assistance. Asking, pausing or explaining what should happen can preserve your say in the transition. The encounter differs when the helper waits for agreement instead of treating the object’s fit as permission to continue." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Everyone knows the masks are part of the gathering", "reflection": "The shared arrangement allows names, movement and conversation to support recognition alongside appearance. This may explore a role that is understood openly. The masks need not imply deceit when their purpose and the participants’ ways of relating are part of the encounter." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Someone changes your mask midway through the scene", "reflection": "An appearance you had chosen becomes another person’s decision. Clarifying, restoring or accepting a limited change can give the encounter different terms. The practical question is how the role remains yours to participate in, rather than whether one expression is inherently correct." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You remove the mask but are still addressed through its role", "reflection": "The object has been put aside while a shared expectation continues. Explaining the change or taking part differently may make the transition more visible. The scene can explore how a role ends without assuming its outward sign was the only thing sustaining it." } ], "prompts": [ "What did the mask allow you to try or communicate?", "Where did its fixed form differ from the contribution you wanted to make?", "How were the terms of changing, removing or leaving its role made clear?" ], "related": [ "face", "masquerade", "uniform", "mirror", "clothes" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1269" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context only. miller-1269: Wearing, seeing, others wearing and removing masks receive misunderstanding, falsehood, infidelity and gendered admiration/modesty forecasts. This citation does not validate the original psychological reflections or predict a waking outcome." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0454" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context only. fontaine-0454: A masked person is assigned hypocrisy and gendered infidelity/engagement claims. Not evidence about real intentions, loyalty or consent. This citation does not validate the original psychological reflections or predict a waking outcome." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0265" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context only. cielo-0265: Wearing or seeing a mask is assigned hypocrisy; an attributed period judgment, not a general meaning of masks. This citation does not validate the original psychological reflections or predict a waking outcome." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L10836" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context only. craig-1918:L10836: Mask or Masquerade concerns attending an event and assigns deceptive pleasure under Craig’s broad period label. Retain that event scope alongside the physical mask account without treating it as a modern cultural or deception fact. This citation does not validate the original psychological reflections or predict a waking outcome." } ], "updated": "2026-10-13", "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection independently reviewed for content and source scope. Historical accounts remain attributed period writing. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1269", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Mask", "text": "To dream that you are wearing a mask, denotes temporary trouble,\nas your conduct towards some dear one will be misinterpreted,\nand your endeavors to aid that one will be misunderstood,\nbut you will profit by the temporary estrangements.\n\nTo see others masking, denotes that you will combat falsehood and envy.\n\nTo see a mask in your dreams, denotes some person will be\nunfaithful to you, and your affairs will suffer also.\nFor a young woman to dream that she wears a mask, foretells she\nwill endeavor to impose upon some friendly person.\n\nIf she unmasks, or sees others doing so, she will fail to gain\nthe admiration sought for. She should demean herself modestly\nafter this dream.", "locator": "Heading 1273; source lines 14755–14773", "lineStart": 14755, "lineEnd": 14773, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are wearing a mask, denotes temporary trouble,\nas your conduct towards some dear one will be misinterpreted,\nand your endeavors to aid that one will be misunderstood,\nbut you will profit by the temporary estrangements.\n\nTo see others masking, denotes that you will combat falsehood and envy.\n\nTo see a mask in your dreams, denotes some person will be\nunfaithful to you, and your affairs will suffer also.\nFor a young woman to dream that she wears a mask, foretells she\nwill endeavor to impose upon some friendly person.\n\nIf she unmasks, or sees others doing so, she will fail to gain\nthe admiration sought for. 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If a girl dreams\nthis, let her look out that her lover does not prove to be a worthless\nscamp. 13.", "locator": "Heading 455; source line 3106", "lineStart": 3106, "lineEnd": 3111, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of going to this religious celebration, is a sign that\nsome one will either cheat you or rob your house. If a girl dreams\nthis, let her look out that her lover does not prove to be a worthless\nscamp." }, { "id": "luck-0165", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Mass", "text": "(Attending Mass) Happiness and health.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 165; source lines 3937–3939", "lineStart": 3937, "lineEnd": 3939, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(Attending Mass) Happiness and health." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1272", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Mast", "text": "To dream of seeing the masts of ships, denotes long and pleasant voyages,\nthe making of many new friends, and the gaining of new possessions.\n\nTo see the masts of wrecked ships, denotes sudden changes in your\ncircumstances which will necessitate giving over anticipated pleasures.\n\nIf a sailor dreams of a mast, he will soon sail on an eventful trip.", "locator": "Heading 1276; source lines 14791–14801", "lineStart": 14791, "lineEnd": 14801, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing the masts of ships, denotes long and pleasant voyages,\nthe making of many new friends, and the gaining of new possessions.\n\nTo see the masts of wrecked ships, denotes sudden changes in your\ncircumstances which will necessitate giving over anticipated pleasures.\n\nIf a sailor dreams of a mast, he will soon sail on an eventful trip." }, { "id": "luck-0166", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Mast", "text": "To dream of tall, towering masts is a sign of prosperity.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 166; source lines 3939–3941", "lineStart": 3939, "lineEnd": 3941, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of tall, towering masts is a sign of prosperity." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "mausoleum", "title": "Mausoleum", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a mausoleum, indicates the sickness, death, or trouble of some prominent friend.”", "aliases": [ "mausoleum" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about mausoleum stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1278", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Mausoleum", "text": "To dream of a mausoleum, indicates the sickness, death, or trouble\nof some prominent friend.\n\nTo find yourself inside a mausoleum, foretells your own illness.", "locator": "Heading 1282; source lines 14838–14845", "lineStart": 14838, "lineEnd": 14845, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a mausoleum, indicates the sickness, death, or trouble\nof some prominent friend.\n\nTo find yourself inside a mausoleum, foretells your own illness." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "may", "title": "May", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of the month of May, denotes prosperous times, and pleasure for the young.”", "aliases": [ "may" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about may stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1279", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "May", "text": "To dream of the month of May, denotes prosperous times,\nand pleasure for the young.\n\nTo dream that nature appears freakish, denotes sudden sorrow\nand disappointment clouding pleasure.", "locator": "Heading 1283; source lines 14845–14853", "lineStart": 14845, "lineEnd": 14853, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of the month of May, denotes prosperous times,\nand pleasure for the young.\n\nTo dream that nature appears freakish, denotes sudden sorrow\nand disappointment clouding pleasure." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "may-bugs", "title": "May Bugs", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of May bugs, denotes an ill-tempered companion where a congenial one was expected.”", "aliases": [ "may bugs" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about may bugs stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1280", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "May Bugs", "text": "To dream of May bugs, denotes an ill-tempered companion where a congenial\none was expected.", "locator": "Heading 1284; source lines 14853–14858", "lineStart": 14853, "lineEnd": 14858, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of May bugs, denotes an ill-tempered companion where a congenial\none was expected." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "may-pole", "title": "May- Pole", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “A dream denoting love and lovers (Gypsy).”", "aliases": [ "may- pole" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about may- pole stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L10850", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "May- Pole", "heading": "May- Pole", "text": "A dream denoting love and lovers (Gypsy) ; an erotio symbol (Freud). The maypole dance and festival had its remote origin in sex- worship (Frazier).", "lineStart": 10850, "lineEnd": 10853, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 233; NLM OCR lines 10850–10853", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10850, "lineEnd": 10853, "printedPage": 233, "printedPageEnd": 233 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "May- Pole. — A dream denoting love and lovers (Gypsy) ; \nan erotio symbol (Freud). The maypole dance and festival \nhad its remote origin in sex- worship (Frazier). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "May-Pole" }, "displayCorrections": [ "erotio → erotic" ], "displayText": "A dream denoting love and lovers (Gypsy); an erotic symbol (Freud). The maypole dance and festival had its remote origin in sex- worship (Frazier).", "editorialNotes": [ "Display text corrects OCR misreads: erotio → erotic. The original transcription is retained in the source record." ] } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "mayor", "title": "Mayor", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Book of Luck wrote: “An elevation to place of dignity and respect.”", "aliases": [ "mayor" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about mayor stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "luck-0168", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Mayor", "text": "An elevation to place of dignity and respect.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 168; source lines 3943–3945", "lineStart": 3943, "lineEnd": 3945, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "An elevation to place of dignity and respect." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "meadow", "title": "Meadow", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of meadows, predicts happy reunions under bright promises of future prosperity.” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "meadow" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about meadow stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "field", "green" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1281", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Meadow", "text": "To dream of meadows, predicts happy reunions under bright promises\nof future prosperity.", "locator": "Heading 1285; source lines 14858–14863", "lineStart": 14858, "lineEnd": 14863, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of meadows, predicts happy reunions under bright promises\nof future prosperity." }, { "id": "fontaine-0456", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Meadow", "text": "(_See Field and Green._) If you dream of walking in a green and\npleasant meadow, where the grass grows regular and looks smooth, it is\nan excellent omen, for it denotes thrift and good luck generally. Such\na dream to a farmer, is a sign of good crops and plenty of money. To\nlovers, it foretells a happy and speedy marriage. 72, 6.", "locator": "Heading 456; source line 3111", "lineStart": 3111, "lineEnd": 3117, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Field and Green.) If you dream of walking in a green and\npleasant meadow, where the grass grows regular and looks smooth, it is\nan excellent omen, for it denotes thrift and good luck generally. Such\na dream to a farmer, is a sign of good crops and plenty of money. To\nlovers, it foretells a happy and speedy marriage." }, { "id": "luck-0169", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Meadow", "text": "A lucky bargain, comfort, and prosperity.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 169; source lines 3945–3947", "lineStart": 3945, "lineEnd": 3947, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "A lucky bargain, comfort, and prosperity." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10854", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Meadow", "heading": "Meadow", "text": "To dream of walking through pleasant meadows portends happiness (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 10854, "lineEnd": 10856, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 233; NLM OCR lines 10854–10856", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10854, "lineEnd": 10856, "printedPage": 233, "printedPageEnd": 233 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Meadow. — To dream of walking through pleasant meadows \nportends happiness (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Meadow" }, "displayText": "To dream of walking through pleasant meadows portends happiness (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "field", "green" ] }, { "slug": "meals", "title": "Meals", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of meals, denotes that you will let trifling matters interfere with momentous affairs and business engagements. See Eating.”", "aliases": [ "meals" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about meals stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "eating" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1282", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Meals", "text": "To dream of meals, denotes that you will let trifling matters\ninterfere with momentous affairs and business engagements.\n\n\n[123] See Eating.", "locator": "Heading 1286; source lines 14863–14871", "lineStart": 14863, "lineEnd": 14871, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of meals, denotes that you will let trifling matters\ninterfere with momentous affairs and business engagements. See Eating." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "eating" ] }, { "slug": "meanness", "title": "Meanness", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “To dream you are treated in a mean and shabby manner by anybody, is a sign you will have unexpected honors thrust upon you.”", "aliases": [ "meanness" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about meanness stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0457", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Meanness", "text": "To dream you are treated in a mean and shabby manner by\nanybody, is a sign you will have unexpected honors thrust upon you. If\na girl dreams that her lover has behaved meanly, she may be sure he\nwill do something to command her admiration. 9, 50, 51.", "locator": "Heading 457; source line 3117", "lineStart": 3117, "lineEnd": 3122, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are treated in a mean and shabby manner by\nanybody, is a sign you will have unexpected honors thrust upon you. If\na girl dreams that her lover has behaved meanly, she may be sure he\nwill do something to command her admiration." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "measles", "title": "Measles", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you have measles, denotes much worry, and anxious care will interfere with your business…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "measles" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about measles stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1283", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Measles", "text": "To dream that you have measles, denotes much worry, and anxious\ncare will interfere with your business affairs.\n\nTo dream that others have this disease, denotes that you will be troubled\nover the condition of others.", "locator": "Heading 1287; source lines 14871–14879", "lineStart": 14871, "lineEnd": 14879, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you have measles, denotes much worry, and anxious\ncare will interfere with your business affairs.\n\nTo dream that others have this disease, denotes that you will be troubled\nover the condition of others." }, { "id": "fontaine-0458", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Measles", "text": "To dream you have this troublesome disorder shows that\nyou will be fortunate, provided you engage in some disreputable or\ndishonest speculation, or in a robbery of money: but to conscientious\npeople the omen does not hold good. If a girl dreams of having the\nmeasles, it predicts that a rogue will make love to her. 33, 4.", "locator": "Heading 458; source line 3122", "lineStart": 3122, "lineEnd": 3128, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you have this troublesome disorder shows that\nyou will be fortunate, provided you engage in some disreputable or\ndishonest speculation, or in a robbery of money: but to conscientious\npeople the omen does not hold good. If a girl dreams of having the\nmeasles, it predicts that a rogue will make love to her." }, { "id": "noe-0325", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Measles", "text": "If any one dreams he hath the measles, it denotes he\nshall gain profit and wealth, but it shall be with infamy.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 329; source lines 1301–1302", "lineStart": 1301, "lineEnd": 1302, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If any one dreams he hath the measles, it denotes he\nshall gain profit and wealth, but it shall be with infamy." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "meat", "title": "Meat", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “For a woman to dream of raw meat, denotes that she will meet with much discouragement in accomplishing her…” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "meat" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about meat stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "beef" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1284", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Meat", "text": "For a woman to dream of raw meat, denotes that she will\nmeet with much discouragement in accomplishing her aims.\nIf she sees cooked meat, it denotes that others will obtain\nthe object for which she will strive.\n\n\n[124] See Beef.", "locator": "Heading 1288; source lines 14879–14889", "lineStart": 14879, "lineEnd": 14889, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a woman to dream of raw meat, denotes that she will\nmeet with much discouragement in accomplishing her aims.\nIf she sees cooked meat, it denotes that others will obtain\nthe object for which she will strive. See Beef." }, { "id": "fontaine-0459", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Meat", "text": "To dream of sweet and wholesome fresh meat is a sign you will be\ncoquetted by a lady, and perhaps fall in love with her; but if the meat\nis putrid or maggoty, it foreshadows sickness and death. 8, 16.", "locator": "Heading 459; source line 3128", "lineStart": 3128, "lineEnd": 3132, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of sweet and wholesome fresh meat is a sign you will be\ncoquetted by a lady, and perhaps fall in love with her; but if the meat\nis putrid or maggoty, it foreshadows sickness and death." }, { "id": "noe-0324", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Meat", "text": "To dream that you see the meat you have eaten, signifies loss and\ndamage.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 328; source lines 1300–1301", "lineStart": 1300, "lineEnd": 1301, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you see the meat you have eaten, signifies loss and\ndamage." }, { "id": "cielo-0266", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Meat", "text": "To eat or cook meat is a sign of a big reception.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 266; source lines 4500–4502", "lineStart": 4500, "lineEnd": 4502, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To eat or cook meat is a sign of a big reception." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "beef" ] }, { "slug": "mechanic", "title": "Mechanic", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "summary": "Mechanic dreams may explore understanding a fault, relying on expertise, or making a repair whose terms leave you involved in the process.", "tagline": "The repair matters, and so does how it is explained.", "aliases": [ "mechanic", "mechanics" ], "status": "REVIEW", "psychological": "A mechanic in a dream can make a problem seem repairable. Somebody identifies a fault, explains an adjustment or returns a machine to useful movement. The possible reading concerns having a clear relation between what is not working and what can be done about it. A stalled project, an inconvenient routine or a recent repair can offer waking comparisons without making the dream a diagnosis of a body or an actual machine.\n\nExplanation can change the experience of dependence. A mechanic who names one manageable fault makes the task different from an unexplained dismantling that leaves every part scattered. The issue may be whether expertise gives you more understanding or asks you to surrender all involvement. Helpful direction can preserve your ability to choose, while an expanding estimate may make the arrangement less predictable than the original problem.\n\nRepair also has terms of time and access. A car kept indefinitely may picture waiting for a resource you need in order to continue. A quick fix that alters how the vehicle handles can make restoration different from returning to the exact former condition. The dream may explore what you actually need the machine to do, rather than demand that it remain unchanged.\n\nBecoming the mechanic gives the dreamer another position. Working on unfamiliar machinery can picture trying a useful role while not yet understanding every part. The scene may feel satisfying when the task is small and the effect is visible. Endless repairs with no finished result can instead make responsibility expand beyond the available knowledge or time. A limited task or clear demonstration can make learning part of the role.\n\nA cooperative adjustment can provide an alternative to rescue or complete takeover. Someone shows a step while you remain involved, or the two of you agree on a limited repair that makes the next use possible. This may fit a wish for help that is specific and understandable. Recent tools, maintenance conversations or remembered machinery can supply the imagery directly. What gives the reading precision is the fault, the role assigned to each person and whether the repair makes use more available.", "traditional": "Miller’s Mechanic passage assigns changes of dwelling and more active business to seeing a mechanic, with wage advancement after mechanics work on machinery. Those are attributed fortune-telling forecasts. The original reading considers repair, explanation and dependence rather than treating machinery as a code for health, career or finances.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A bounded fault", "reflection": "A clear explanation can make a problem more manageable than a vague sense that everything is broken." }, { "title": "Expertise and involvement", "reflection": "Help may improve understanding or acquire more control than the dreamer intended to give." }, { "title": "Repair for a useful next step", "reflection": "Restoration, adaptation and ongoing maintenance can have different purposes." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A mechanic explains a simple fix", "reflection": "A named fault and manageable adjustment connect problem with action. This may picture wanting a usable account of a difficulty rather than a dramatic rescue. The explanation can matter because it leaves you able to understand what changes and why the next step is possible." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "The machine is taken apart without explanation", "reflection": "The scattered parts can make dependence larger than the fault that brought you there. This may resemble receiving help that removes your ability to follow or question the process. The scene centers retained involvement, not a rule that experts or repairs are inherently untrustworthy." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "The promised repair keeps changing in cost or time", "reflection": "The terms of help become unstable, so the arrangement itself adds difficulty. A task whose scope keeps expanding offers a comparison. A clear limit or another option would change the scene differently from merely wishing the original machine had never needed attention." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You repair an unfamiliar machine yourself", "reflection": "The unfamiliar role can make contribution possible while knowledge remains incomplete. Satisfaction may come from a small visible effect or a practical method you discover. The task gives responsibility and learning a concrete form; a clear method can make contribution possible without understanding every part at once." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The repair works but changes how the machine feels", "reflection": "The restored function arrives in a different form. This may picture adapting a routine or resource after a change rather than recreating its exact past condition. Whether the new handling fits your needs matters more than deciding that every alteration is an improvement or a loss." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You and the mechanic make a small adjustment together", "reflection": "Shared work can make help specific while leaving you a part in the process. A demonstration, explanation or limited adjustment can provide this arrangement. The scene may value maintenance that permits continued use, without requiring either total independence or complete surrender to another person’s expertise." } ], "prompts": [ "What particular fault or loss of function was being addressed?", "How did the repair change your understanding and involvement?", "What did the repaired machine need to make possible next?" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1285" ], "scope": "Historical context only. Attributed Gustavus Hindman Miller passage(s): mechanic or mechanics working on machinery assigned home/business/wage advancement forecasts. These are period beliefs, not established predictions or support for the original psychological reading." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "related": [ "car", "engine", "machinery", "garage" ], "updated": "2026-10-13", "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1285", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Mechanic", "text": "To dream of a mechanic, denotes change in your dwelling place\nand a more active business. Advancement in wages usually follows\nafter seeing mechanics at work on machinery.", "locator": "Heading 1289; source lines 14889–14895", "lineStart": 14889, "lineEnd": 14895, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a mechanic, denotes change in your dwelling place\nand a more active business. Advancement in wages usually follows\nafter seeing mechanics at work on machinery." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "medal", "title": "Medal", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of medals, denotes honors gained by application and industry.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "medal" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about medal stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1286", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Medal", "text": "To dream of medals, denotes honors gained by application and industry.\n\nTo lose a medal, denotes misfortune through the unfaithfulness of others.", "locator": "Heading 1290; source lines 14895–14901", "lineStart": 14895, "lineEnd": 14901, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of medals, denotes honors gained by application and industry.\n\nTo lose a medal, denotes misfortune through the unfaithfulness of others." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10857", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Medal", "heading": "Medal", "text": "To dream of receiving medals for good conduct denotes depravity and loss of character (Raphael) Evidently a wish dream arising from the consciousness of a guilty conscience.", "lineStart": 10857, "lineEnd": 10861, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 233; NLM OCR lines 10857–10861", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10857, "lineEnd": 10861, "printedPage": 233, "printedPageEnd": 233 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Medal. — To dream of receiving medals for good conduct \ndenotes depravity and loss of character (Raphael) Evidently \na wish dream arising from the consciousness of a guilty con- \nscience. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "con- \nscience", "after": "conscience", "evidenceLine": 190 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Medal" }, "displayText": "To dream of receiving medals for good conduct denotes depravity and loss of character (Raphael) Evidently a wish dream arising from the consciousness of a guilty conscience." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "medical-results-appearing-in-an-app", "title": "Medical results appearing in an app", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "tagline": "Seeing medical results on a screen can place access to information beside the need for explanation, privacy, and human support.", "summary": "Seeing medical results on a screen can place access to information beside the need for explanation, privacy, and human support.", "aliases": [ "patient portal results dream", "medical test results app" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "Separate the displayed result from the experience of receiving it. Were numbers unexplained, a message delayed, or a reassuring person present? A dream result cannot diagnose or rule out a condition. As reflection, the scene may concern waiting with uncertainty or being handed information without enough context. Record what you wanted to ask before assigning meaning to the dreamed numbers or colors.", "traditional": "Historical medical omens are not diagnostic tools, and a patient portal has no inherited symbolic code. This entry concerns the delivery of information, not predictions about health or a hidden interpretation of laboratory values.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "A result appears before anyone explains it", "reflection": "What did you need to understand besides the number?" }, { "title": "The app sends your result to the wrong person", "reflection": "Which boundary around personal information felt important?" }, { "title": "A clinician walks through the screen with you", "reflection": "What changed when the information became a conversation?" } ], "prompts": [ "What was known, and what remained unclear?", "Who did you want beside you when receiving the information?", "Did the dream emphasize the result, the wait, or how you were treated?" ], "related": [ "doctor", "anxiety" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia model-assisted editorial draft. Reflection questions and scenario readings are optional, individually written suggestions, not empirically validated symbol meanings. Source scope is stated with each citation. Historical comparisons identify topics, not inherited interpretations. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "medical-scans", "title": "Medical scans", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "aliases": [ "medical scan", "medical scans", "x-ray", "x ray", "x-rays", "ultrasound", "ultrasound scan", "mri scan", "ct scan" ], "summary": "Medical scans can picture seeking clearer information or depending on an image someone must interpret. Dreamed findings do not establish illness.", "tagline": "Something hard to inspect becomes visible, but visibility alone does not explain it.", "psychological": "A medical scan can picture wanting clearer information about something you cannot readily inspect. The dream turns an unknown interior into an image, giving uncertainty a shape you can look at. This may fit a decision whose important details remain hidden, a task awaiting examination, or a wish for a dependable answer. The scene need not mean that the unknown concerns your actual body.\n\nAn image can be available without being understandable. Unfamiliar shapes, changing labels, or a screen that looks different to each observer may picture information whose significance depends on interpretation. A report at work or an unclear result in a shared process can have a similar structure. More detail does not automatically provide the clarity you wanted.\n\nThe procedure can also bring agency into view. Waiting, following instructions, or choosing whether an image is shared may make the dream about how information is obtained and who controls it. Comfortable cooperation can picture a useful arrangement; being rushed or unable to ask questions may express conditions that leave little room for your perspective.\n\nA clear explanation or reassuring response can make communication as important as the image itself. You may want the person with expertise to translate what is visible into something you can actually understand. If the report never arrives, the uncertainty may persist despite completing every stage expected of you.\n\nScanning someone else changes your position toward accompaniment or interpretation. Helping them through the process can picture care within a task you cannot resolve alone. Real appointments, photographs, reports, and stories can directly supply these scenes. The interpretations are original parallels with information and participation; dreamed images, labels, or reassuring words are not clinical findings or proof of a health outcome.", "traditional": "This entry develops original readings of being imaged, viewing a scan, and trying to understand or share its result. No verified historical scan passage is cited. The general sleep reference does not interpret medical images, diagnose a condition, or establish what an actual test would show.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Wanting a clearer basis for a decision", "reflection": "A scan can picture seeking information that is not readily visible. The image gives an unknown shape, while the reason you wanted clarity identifies the particular decision or concern." }, { "title": "Visibility still requires interpretation", "reflection": "Unfamiliar images can express having data without a workable explanation. A useful response may need context and translation, rather than simply more detail or a confident label." }, { "title": "Having a say in the process", "reflection": "Instructions, waiting, and sharing an image can make agency part of obtaining information. Comfortable cooperation and unwanted pressure create different experiences even when the imagined procedure appears similar." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "You wait for a scan that keeps being delayed", "reflection": "A desired answer can depend on a process you cannot accelerate. Waiting for a review or information needed for a decision may offer parallels. The delay makes uncertainty central, without establishing that the dream points to an actual medical problem.", "slug": "scene-1" }, { "title": "You follow instructions inside an unfamiliar scanner", "reflection": "A process can require cooperation before you understand its result. Learning a new method or relying on a formal review may feel similar. Comfort and unease distinguish trusting a workable arrangement from feeling that your perspective has little room within it.", "slug": "scene-2" }, { "title": "An X-ray-like image shows unexpected objects", "reflection": "Something hidden becomes visible in a form that does not match ordinary expectations. A surprising detail in a project or an unfamiliar account of a situation may offer parallels. The dream's invented objects invite interpretation of the story, rather than interpretation as anatomy or illness.", "slug": "scene-3" }, { "title": "A moving ultrasound image is difficult to understand", "reflection": "Visible information can still lack clear significance. A changing display, report, or explanation may feel similar when you need context to use it. The scene can picture depending on translation without establishing anything about pregnancy, a body, or the outcome of a real test.", "slug": "scene-4" }, { "title": "Someone explains the image in language you understand", "reflection": "A useful answer may require communication as well as access to information. Clear feedback or a person who takes time to explain a process may offer parallels. Relief can picture uncertainty becoming workable, rather than the dreamed words proving a particular health result.", "slug": "scene-5" }, { "title": "You choose who may see the scan", "reflection": "Information can feel personal even when another person helped produce it. Deciding how to share a private account or a review may offer parallels. The scene makes permission and audience part of clarity, rather than assuming that greater visibility is always preferable.", "slug": "scene-6" } ], "prompts": [ "What did I want the image to clarify, and did seeing it provide that clarity?", "Who could interpret, explain, or share the information?", "Did the process make room for my questions and choices?" ], "related": [ "hospital", "doctor", "mirror", "medical-results-appearing-in-an-app" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia editorial entry with image-specific interpretations and six differentiated scenes. The reference supplies general dream background only. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "medicine", "title": "Medicine", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of medicine, if pleasant to the taste, a trouble will come to you, but in a short time it will…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "medicine" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about medicine stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "physic" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1287", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Medicine", "text": "To dream of medicine, if pleasant to the taste, a trouble will\ncome to you, but in a short time it will work for your good;\nbut if you take disgusting medicine, you will suffer a protracted\nillness or some deep sorrow or loss will overcome you.\n\nTo give medicine to others, denotes that you will work to injure\nsome one who trusted you.", "locator": "Heading 1291; source lines 14901–14911", "lineStart": 14901, "lineEnd": 14911, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of medicine, if pleasant to the taste, a trouble will\ncome to you, but in a short time it will work for your good;\nbut if you take disgusting medicine, you will suffer a protracted\nillness or some deep sorrow or loss will overcome you.\n\nTo give medicine to others, denotes that you will work to injure\nsome one who trusted you." }, { "id": "fontaine-0460", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Medicine", "text": "(_See Physic._) To take medicine foretells poverty, to give\nany one medicine, gain. 22, 37, 8.", "locator": "Heading 460; source line 3132", "lineStart": 3132, "lineEnd": 3135, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Physic.) To take medicine foretells poverty, to give\nany one medicine, gain." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10862", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Medicine", "heading": "Medicine", "text": "To dream of taking It with difficulty is a dream of physical distress (Gypsies and medicos agree on this dream).", "lineStart": 10862, "lineEnd": 10865, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 233; NLM OCR lines 10862–10865", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10862, "lineEnd": 10865, "printedPage": 233, "printedPageEnd": 233 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Medicine. — To dream of taking It with difficulty is a dream \nof physical distress (Gypsies and medicos agree on this \ndream). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Medicine" }, "displayText": "To dream of taking It with difficulty is a dream of physical distress (Gypsies and medicos agree on this dream)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "physic" ] }, { "slug": "meditation", "title": "Meditation", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "Sitting still inside a dream that will not sit still.", "summary": "Dreams of meditation or yoga can picture a search for calm or a struggle with it. Record whether stillness came easily and who else was in the room.", "aliases": [ "meditation", "meditating", "meditate", "yoga", "yoga class", "doing yoga", "mindfulness", "breathing exercise", "stillness", "meditation dream" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "Meditation and yoga in a dream can be oddly difficult to tell apart from the thing itself. You sit, you breathe, and the dream either grants the stillness or interrupts it. The interruptions are usually the point. Record who came in, what noise started, or which thought refused to settle, since the obstacle in the dream often names the obstacle in the day. If the stillness came easily, note that too, and describe its quality: warm, cold, heavy, or weightless. A yoga class adds other people and a teacher, and the dream may concern comparison rather than calm. Write down whether you could hold the poses, whether your body did things it cannot do awake, and whether anyone corrected you. Dreams in which you float during meditation, or in which the room dissolves, can shade into lucid or body-less experiences and are worth recording in full while the details last. If you have a waking practice, compare the dream version with your usual session and list what was different. If you have none, ask what the dream version of you was seeking, and whether a few quiet minutes might be worth trying. Finally, note how you felt on waking, because this type of dream sometimes leaves a residue of calm that is itself useful.", "traditional": "Meditation and yoga, in the sense of a deliberate practice of stillness, are not covered by any historical dream book in DreamFolia's archive. The nearest subjects the books treat are prayer and church, which Miller 1901, Fontaine 1862 and Noe 1885 among others read in their own religious and period terms; those entries have their own pages and are not transferred here. No older meaning is borrowed for this page; the reflection rests on what you remember of the breath, the room and the interruption.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "Unable to sit still in the session", "reflection": "Record what kept moving: your legs, your thoughts, or the room. Note whether anyone noticed, and name the waking concern that most closely matched the restlessness." }, { "title": "Floating above the mat", "reflection": "Write down when the lift began and whether you were frightened or pleased. Note what you could see from above, since the view can show you what the stillness was for." }, { "title": "A yoga class where everyone else is better", "reflection": "Note who was in the class and which pose defeated you. Ask whether the comparison belongs to the studio or to another part of your life where you feel behind." } ], "prompts": [ "What interrupted the stillness, and who caused it?", "Could your dream body do what your waking body can?", "What would you most like to be quiet about right now?" ], "related": [ "body", "prayer", "calm", "sleep", "lucid-dreaming", "flying" ], "sources": [], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia editorial draft written on 2026-10-12. Reflection text is an invitation to personal writing, not a validated symbol meaning. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "meerkat", "title": "Meerkat", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "summary": "A meerkat scene can explore keeping watch, sharing responsibility, and whether attention to what might happen leaves room for participation.", "tagline": "Watching is one role among others.", "aliases": [ "meerkat", "meerkats" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A meerkat keeping watch while others continue an activity can picture attention directed toward what might interrupt a shared routine. Organizing a gathering, monitoring a project, or making sure someone else can concentrate may offer parallels. The role can feel purposeful if it is chosen and recognized. If you remain outside all enjoyment because you are permanently expected to watch, responsibility may occupy more of the encounter than the activity it supports.\n\nTaking turns changes the arrangement. A shared duty no longer depends on one participant staying alert indefinitely. A team dividing administrative work or a household making care responsibilities visible can fit this image. Relief may come from knowing that attention can pass to someone else without the whole undertaking stopping. Uneasiness at handing it over can instead picture difficulty trusting a process once it is no longer under your direct observation.\n\nA blocked entrance to a small shelter makes readiness different from actual access. You may know where you want to go while finding that the expected option is unavailable. An agreed plan with missing practical resources or a familiar routine disrupted at a critical moment provides a concrete comparison. Clearing the entrance can restore choice; searching elsewhere may show that the original shelter is not the only workable destination.\n\nAn animal remaining behind when the group moves can picture a role continuing after its purpose changes. Watching an empty place may fit responsibility carried through habit rather than current need. Alternatively, staying can be a chosen preference for a different pace. The scene’s feeling distinguishes belonging that requires movement from independence that allows stillness. It does not establish that a real group has forgotten or excluded you.\n\nA watcher joining the activity can make participation possible without abolishing care. You may be able to contribute and enjoy a shared undertaking when attention is distributed fairly. A photograph, story, wildlife scene, or remembered image can supply the animal directly. The imagined lookout role supports these comparisons; it does not prove a personality trait or make constant vigilance a biological meaning assigned to the dreamer.", "traditional": "No directly matching historical account is attached for this specific topic. The readings here are original reflective possibilities. The NINDS source provides general background about dreams, not evidence for these symbolic comparisons.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Useful attention", "reflection": "Keeping watch may support an activity, while an unshared permanent role can exclude you from it." }, { "title": "Responsibility can circulate", "reflection": "Taking turns allows care to remain dependable without requiring one participant to provide it continuously." }, { "title": "Joining what you support", "reflection": "Participation can become possible when a duty no longer consumes the whole encounter." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "One meerkat watches while others are busy", "reflection": "A participant’s attention protects space for everyone else’s activity. This may picture a useful but unevenly distributed duty. Satisfaction differs from feeling permanently outside the experience; recognition and choice can change what the same role asks of you." }, { "title": "The group takes turns looking out", "reflection": "Attention passes between participants instead of belonging to one indefinitely. This can picture shared practical care in a team or household. Relief may concern dependable support, while reluctance to hand over the role can reveal uncertainty about trusting the arrangement." }, { "title": "A shelter’s entrance is blocked", "reflection": "An expected option exists but cannot be used when needed. This may fit a plan missing a practical condition. Clearing access or finding another shelter changes the scene from repeatedly relying on the same unavailable route toward restoring workable choice." }, { "title": "One animal stays when the others move", "reflection": "A role or preference continues after the group’s direction changes. This can picture responsibility retained through habit, or a chosen wish for another pace. The feeling of the separation distinguishes welcome independence from wanting contact that the current movement prevents." }, { "title": "An animal watches through your familiar window", "reflection": "A private routine becomes something observed. This may picture curiosity about how your ordinary life looks from another position. Welcome company differs from feeling unable to continue unobserved; the scene does not establish that anyone is actually monitoring you." }, { "title": "The watcher joins the shared activity", "reflection": "Care no longer requires remaining outside what it supports. This can picture a duty becoming fairly distributed or a role changing with conditions. Being able to participate may matter more than proving that you are attentive every moment." } ], "prompts": [ "What activity does your attention support, and can you participate in it?", "What changes when responsibility is shared or handed over?", "What purpose does remaining behind serve now?" ], "related": [ "marmot", "hedgehog", "animals", "hole" ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "melancholy", "title": "Melancholy", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you feel melancholy over any event, is a sign of disappointment in what was thought to be…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "melancholy" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about melancholy stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1288", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Melancholy", "text": "To dream that you feel melancholy over any event, is a sign of disappointment\nin what was thought to be favorable undertakings.\n\nTo dream that you see others melancholy, denotes unpleasant interruption\nin affairs. To lovers, it brings separation.", "locator": "Heading 1292; source lines 14911–14919", "lineStart": 14911, "lineEnd": 14919, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you feel melancholy over any event, is a sign of disappointment\nin what was thought to be favorable undertakings.\n\nTo dream that you see others melancholy, denotes unpleasant interruption\nin affairs. To lovers, it brings separation." }, { "id": "luck-0170", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Melancholy", "text": "A presage of mirth and happiness.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 170; source lines 3947–3949", "lineStart": 3947, "lineEnd": 3949, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "A presage of mirth and happiness." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "melon", "title": "Melon", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "5 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of melons, denotes ill health and unfortunate ventures in business.” Compare 5 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "melon", "melons" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about melon stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1289", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Melon", "text": "To dream of melons, denotes ill health and unfortunate ventures in business.\n\nTo eat them, signifies that hasty action will cause you anxiety.\n\nTo see them growing on green vines, denotes that present troubles\nwill result in good fortune for you.", "locator": "Heading 1293; source lines 14919–14928", "lineStart": 14919, "lineEnd": 14928, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of melons, denotes ill health and unfortunate ventures in business.\n\nTo eat them, signifies that hasty action will cause you anxiety.\n\nTo see them growing on green vines, denotes that present troubles\nwill result in good fortune for you." }, { "id": "fontaine-0461", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Melons", "text": "To dream of ripe, fine looking melons, is an excellent omen, as\nit foretells good health, good luck, and much happiness. A watermelon\nfull of black seeds denotes so much money to be paid to you. If a\nmarried woman dreams this, it promises her many children. 46.", "locator": "Heading 461; source line 3135", "lineStart": 3135, "lineEnd": 3140, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of ripe, fine looking melons, is an excellent omen, as\nit foretells good health, good luck, and much happiness. A watermelon\nfull of black seeds denotes so much money to be paid to you. If a\nmarried woman dreams this, it promises her many children." }, { "id": "noe-0335", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Melons", "text": "To dream of melons, to sick persons\nis a prognostic of recovery, by reason of their humidity or juicy\nsubstance.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 339; source lines 1336–1338", "lineStart": 1336, "lineEnd": 1338, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of melons, to sick persons\nis a prognostic of recovery, by reason of their humidity or juicy\nsubstance." }, { "id": "cielo-0267", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Melon", "text": "Signifies hope and success.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 267; source lines 4502–4504", "lineStart": 4502, "lineEnd": 4504, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Signifies hope and success." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10866", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Melons", "heading": "Melons", "text": "To a sick person this is a dream of recovery by reason of the juiciness which dispels fever (Gypsy) ; a dream originating in physical stimuli indicative of coolness and moisture after fever.", "lineStart": 10866, "lineEnd": 10870, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 233; NLM OCR lines 10866–10870", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10866, "lineEnd": 10870, "printedPage": 233, "printedPageEnd": 233 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Melons. — To a sick person this is a dream of recovery by \nreason of the juiciness which dispels fever (Gypsy) ; a dream \noriginating in physical stimuli indicative of coolness and mois- \nture after fever. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "mois- \nture", "after": "moisture", "evidenceLine": 6798 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Melons" }, "displayText": "To a sick person this is a dream of recovery by reason of the juiciness which dispels fever (Gypsy); a dream originating in physical stimuli indicative of coolness and moisture after fever." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "members", "title": "Members", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Artemidorus wrote: “FIrst, the Members signifie the Father and the Mother, the Children, the wi [illegible passage] e, the Friend the Brothers and Cosins:…”", "aliases": [ "members", "of the members" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about members stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "artemidorus-034", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of the Members.", "text": "FIrst, the Members signifie the Father and the Mother, the Children, the wi[illegible passage]e, the Friend the Brothers and Cosins: also, the force of the body; Eloquence and knowledge: for it is very fruitfull. Again, it signifies riches and possessions, because it increaseth and diminisheth. Also counsell and secrets, poverty also and ser[illegible passage]itude, also it signifies dignity, and increase of honour; and therefore when one dreames that he séeth it in its estate and placeit▪ signifies permanence of things represented and signifyed thereby: also increasing, diminishing, and redoubling of things present to all (ouely your Wife and your Friends excepted) for it takes them away, because a man may not impart their use to any.", "locator": "Book 1, encoded section 34", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription-with-gaps", "book": "1", "displayText": "FIrst, the Members signifie the Father and the Mother, the Children, the wi [illegible passage] e, the Friend the Brothers and Cosins: also, the force of the body; Eloquence and knowledge: for it is very fruitfull. Again, it signifies riches and possessions, because it increaseth and diminisheth. Also counsell and secrets, poverty also and ser [illegible passage] itude, also it signifies dignity, and increase of honour; and therefore when one dreames that he séeth it in its estate and placeit▪ signifies permanence of things represented and signifyed thereby: also increasing, diminishing, and redoubling of things present to all (ouely your Wife and your Friends excepted) for it takes them away, because a man may not impart their use to any." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "memorandum", "title": "Memorandum", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you make memoranda, denotes that you will engage in an unprofitable business, and much worry will result for you.”", "aliases": [ "memorandum" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about memorandum stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1290", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Memorandum", "text": "To dream that you make memoranda, denotes that you will engage\nin an unprofitable business, and much worry will result for you.\n\nTo see others making a memorandum, signifies that some person\nwill worry you with appeals for aid.\n\nTo lose your memorandum, you will experience a slight loss in trade.\n\nTo find a memorandum, you will assume new duties that will cause much\npleasure to others.", "locator": "Heading 1294; source lines 14928–14941", "lineStart": 14928, "lineEnd": 14941, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you make memoranda, denotes that you will engage\nin an unprofitable business, and much worry will result for you.\n\nTo see others making a memorandum, signifies that some person\nwill worry you with appeals for aid.\n\nTo lose your memorandum, you will experience a slight loss in trade.\n\nTo find a memorandum, you will assume new duties that will cause much\npleasure to others." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "memorial", "title": "Memorial", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a memorial, signifies there will be occasion for you to show patient kindness, as trouble and sickness threatens your relatives.”", "aliases": [ "memorial" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about memorial stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1291", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Memorial", "text": "To dream of a memorial, signifies there will be occasion for you to show\npatient kindness, as trouble and sickness threatens your relatives.", "locator": "Heading 1295; source lines 14941–14946", "lineStart": 14941, "lineEnd": 14946, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a memorial, signifies there will be occasion for you to show\npatient kindness, as trouble and sickness threatens your relatives." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "menagerie", "title": "Menagerie", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of visiting a menagerie, denotes various troubles.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "menagerie" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about menagerie stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1292", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Menagerie", "text": "To dream of visiting a menagerie, denotes various troubles.", "locator": "Heading 1296; source lines 14946–14950", "lineStart": 14946, "lineEnd": 14950, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of visiting a menagerie, denotes various troubles." }, { "id": "luck-0171", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Menagerie", "text": "Enemies will fail to injure: friends will be true.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 171; source lines 3949–3951", "lineStart": 3949, "lineEnd": 3951, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Enemies will fail to injure: friends will be true." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "mendicant", "title": "Mendicant", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “For a woman to dream of mendicants, she will meet with disagreeable interferences in her plans for betterment and enjoyment.”", "aliases": [ "mendicant" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about mendicant stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1293", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Mendicant", "text": "For a woman to dream of mendicants, she will meet with disagreeable\ninterferences in her plans for betterment and enjoyment.", "locator": "Heading 1297; source lines 14950–14955", "lineStart": 14950, "lineEnd": 14955, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a woman to dream of mendicants, she will meet with disagreeable\ninterferences in her plans for betterment and enjoyment." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "mending", "title": "Mending", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of mending soiled garments, denotes that you will undertake to right a wrong at an inopportune…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "mending" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about mending stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1294", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Mending", "text": "To dream of mending soiled garments, denotes that you will undertake\nto right a wrong at an inopportune moment; but if the garment be clean,\nyou will be successful in adding to your fortune.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of mending, foretells that she will be a systematic\nhelp to her husband.", "locator": "Heading 1298; source lines 14955–14964", "lineStart": 14955, "lineEnd": 14964, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of mending soiled garments, denotes that you will undertake\nto right a wrong at an inopportune moment; but if the garment be clean,\nyou will be successful in adding to your fortune.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of mending, foretells that she will be a systematic\nhelp to her husband." }, { "id": "luck-0172", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Mending", "text": "(Clothes, etc.) Unhappiness, submission to others.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 172; source lines 3951–3953", "lineStart": 3951, "lineEnd": 3953, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(Clothes, etc.) Unhappiness, submission to others." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "mercury", "title": "Mercury", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of mercury, is significant of unhappy changes through the constant oppression of enemies.”", "aliases": [ "mercury" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about mercury stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1295", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Mercury", "text": "To dream of mercury, is significant of unhappy changes through the constant\noppression of enemies. For a woman to be suffering from mercurial poison,\nforetells she will be deserted by and separated from her family.", "locator": "Heading 1299; source lines 14964–14970", "lineStart": 14964, "lineEnd": 14970, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of mercury, is significant of unhappy changes through the constant\noppression of enemies. For a woman to be suffering from mercurial poison,\nforetells she will be deserted by and separated from her family." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "mermaid", "title": "Mermaid", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Book of Luck wrote: “Bad luck and misfortune, especially to sailors and those who live by the sea.”", "aliases": [ "mermaid" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about mermaid stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "luck-0173", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Mermaid", "text": "Bad luck and misfortune, especially to sailors and those\nwho live by the sea.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 173; source lines 3953–3956", "lineStart": 3953, "lineEnd": 3956, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Bad luck and misfortune, especially to sailors and those\nwho live by the sea." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "merry", "title": "Merry", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream being merry, or in merry company, denotes that pleasant events will engage you for a time, and…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "merry" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about merry stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1296", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Merry", "text": "To dream being merry, or in merry company, denotes that pleasant events\nwill engage you for a time, and affairs will assume profitable shapes.", "locator": "Heading 1300; source lines 14970–14975", "lineStart": 14970, "lineEnd": 14975, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream being merry, or in merry company, denotes that pleasant events\nwill engage you for a time, and affairs will assume profitable shapes." }, { "id": "luck-0174", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Merry", "text": "(Being) A presage of sadness and gloom.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 174; source lines 3956–3958", "lineStart": 3956, "lineEnd": 3958, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(Being) A presage of sadness and gloom." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "meshes", "title": "Meshes", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of being entangled in the meshes of a net, or other like constructions, denotes that enemies will oppress you in time of seeming…”", "aliases": [ "meshes" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about meshes stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1297", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Meshes", "text": "To dream of being entangled in the meshes of a net, or other\nlike constructions, denotes that enemies will oppress you in time\nof seeming prosperity. To a young woman, this dream foretells that her\nenvironments will bring her into evil and consequent abandonment.\nIf she succeeds in disengaging herself from the meshes, she will\nnarrowly escape slander.", "locator": "Heading 1301; source lines 14975–14984", "lineStart": 14975, "lineEnd": 14984, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being entangled in the meshes of a net, or other\nlike constructions, denotes that enemies will oppress you in time\nof seeming prosperity. To a young woman, this dream foretells that her\nenvironments will bring her into evil and consequent abandonment.\nIf she succeeds in disengaging herself from the meshes, she will\nnarrowly escape slander." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "message", "title": "Message", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "aliases": [ "message" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1298" ], "scope": "Historical comparison only: Message — miller-1298 (Heading 1302; source lines 14984–14992). These attributed period claims do not establish diagnoses, relationships, future events or the original modern interpretation." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0175" ], "scope": "Historical comparison only: Message — luck-0175 (Dream section, heading 175; source lines 3958–3960). These attributed period claims do not establish diagnoses, relationships, future events or the original modern interpretation." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "kind": "modern", "tagline": "An intended recipient, room for a reply, and the uncertainty between sending and being understood.", "summary": "A message can explore saying something, receiving an invitation or waiting for a response. Delivery and understanding are different parts of the exchange.", "psychological": "A message can picture an exchange that continues across time or distance. Somebody has chosen words for a recipient who may encounter them later. That arrangement gives sending, receiving and waiting different places in a dream. You may want the message to inform, reassure, invite, refuse or simply make contact; the purpose can be more specific than the words you remember.\n\nA message ready to send can place intention beside commitment. While it remains a draft, several versions are still possible. Sending changes a private formulation into something another person can answer. This can resemble deciding how much to share or choosing an appropriate moment for a conversation. Relief and hesitation may coexist because contact is wanted while its response remains open.\n\nAn unreadable or incomplete message can make missing context noticeable. You may know who sent it without understanding what they need, or understand the words without knowing whether they were meant for you. A waking parallel could involve an arrangement whose instructions are available but unclear. Asking for clarification differs from repeatedly searching the same fragment for a hidden certainty.\n\nA reply that does not answer your question can put recognition and information apart. Contact has happened, yet the part you wanted received remains unresolved. Another response may show that the recipient heard a different concern. The dreamed exchange can explore that mismatch without establishing what a real person intends or feels.\n\nA message sent to the wrong recipient can picture uncertainty about the setting in which something belongs. A private concern may have entered a public channel, or a practical request may need a person with another role. Correcting the route can matter separately from changing the content. The difficulty is not automatically evidence that the message itself was wrong to express.\n\nA welcome message can also offer ordinary pleasure: an invitation, remembered phrase or small sign of company. Recent correspondence, stories and conversations can provide direct context. The dreamed wording is imagined material; it does not authenticate a communication, reveal another person's current thoughts or establish an accurate forgotten message.", "traditional": "Miller forecasts changes from receiving a message and unpleasant circumstances from sending one. Everybody’s Book of Luck assigns advancement to receiving one. These are the attached writers’ period predictions, not evidence that a dreamed message has arrived from an independent source or that sending it causes a real outcome. The original reading follows purpose, recipient, timing and response.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Intention becomes an exchange", "reflection": "A draft preserves several possible formulations. Sending gives another person room to respond without deciding how they must receive it." }, { "title": "Delivery and understanding differ", "reflection": "A message can arrive while its context or purpose remains unclear. Clarification is another action within the exchange." }, { "title": "A recipient and an appropriate setting", "reflection": "The person and channel shape what a message can do. Changing its route may matter separately from changing its words." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You keep revising a message before sending it", "reflection": "Several formulations remain possible while the exchange has not yet begun. This can picture wanting contact while trying to settle exactly how you will be understood. Sending may offer relief alongside uncertainty because the response is no longer yours to compose." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A familiar sender’s message is partly unreadable", "reflection": "Recognition offers a connection while information remains incomplete. This may resemble knowing a person or process without having enough context for the present request. A question or another channel can give the exchange a route beyond interpreting the same fragment repeatedly." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "The reply reaches you but answers another question", "reflection": "Contact occurs without resolving the part that mattered most to you. The mismatch can make clarification, acknowledgment or a different request the next task. The dreamed wording does not prove what the actual person understood or wanted to avoid." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Your message goes to the wrong recipient", "reflection": "The content and its route have become separate problems. This can picture uncertainty about where a private concern or practical request belongs. Redirecting it may preserve the purpose while changing who is able to respond." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A brief invitation arrives without any demand for an immediate answer", "reflection": "Company becomes available while your choice remains open. This can give a wanted connection a manageable pace. The pleasure may belong to being included rather than to a decision already made about whether or how to participate." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You find a message you wrote to yourself earlier", "reflection": "A former intention meets your present response. The words may still fit, feel unfamiliar or open another question. The dreamed note remains imagined material, while the difference between the earlier wish and what you want now can make a personal comparison possible." } ], "prompts": [ "What was the message intended to make possible?", "Was the difficulty about wording, recipient, context or response?", "What changed once contact had been made?" ], "related": [ "letter", "writing", "words-changing-while-you-read", "phone-not-working" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s continuing English editorial delegation. Sources retain their stated scope; neither historical accounts nor general research validate these interpretations.", "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "DreamFolia AI-assisted editorial review", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "childhood-home", "lucid-dreaming", "recurring-dream", "missing-a-flight-or-train", "unable-to-scream", "books", "cradle", "eyes", "forgetting-to-feed-a-pet", "message", "nightmare", "searching-for-a-missing-pet", "sleep" ] }, "decisionReason": "Both historical receiving/sending forecasts remain attributed. The original developed body and six scenes distinguish a draft, unclear context, a mismatched reply, recipient, invitation and a note to oneself. Dreamed wording is not authenticated communication, another person’s thoughts or an accurate forgotten message.", "reviewedSnapshot": "data/guide-linked-publication-review-2026-10-15.json", "contentSha256": "27b1506fcaf72548bbbe0242be8c1183171f99ee99ed9f04a114dbb226957040" }, "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1298", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Message", "text": "To dream of receiving a message, denotes that changes will take\nplace in your affairs.\n\nTo dream of sending a message, denotes that you will be placed\nin unpleasant situations.", "locator": "Heading 1302; source lines 14984–14992", "lineStart": 14984, "lineEnd": 14992, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of receiving a message, denotes that changes will take\nplace in your affairs.\n\nTo dream of sending a message, denotes that you will be placed\nin unpleasant situations." }, { "id": "luck-0175", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Message", "text": "(Receiving one) An advance in life.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 175; source lines 3958–3960", "lineStart": 3958, "lineEnd": 3960, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(Receiving one) An advance in life." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "metals", "title": "Metals", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “To dream of metals has different signification and interpretations according to the metal you dream of.”", "aliases": [ "metals" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about metals stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0462", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Metals", "text": "To dream of metals has different signification and\ninterpretations according to the metal you dream of. To enable our\nreaders to more readily discover the meaning of their dreams, we\nsubjoin a list of the metals with their explanations.", "locator": "Heading 462; source line 3140", "lineStart": 3140, "lineEnd": 3145, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of metals has different signification and\ninterpretations according to the metal you dream of. To enable our\nreaders to more readily discover the meaning of their dreams, we\nsubjoin a list of the metals with their explanations." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "metamorphose", "title": "Metamorphose", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing anything metamorphose, denotes that sudden changes will take place in your life, for good or bad, as the metamorphose was…”", "aliases": [ "metamorphose" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about metamorphose stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1299", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Metamorphose", "text": "To dream of seeing anything metamorphose, denotes that sudden\nchanges will take place in your life, for good or bad,\nas the metamorphose was pleasant or frightful.", "locator": "Heading 1303; source lines 14992–14998", "lineStart": 14992, "lineEnd": 14998, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing anything metamorphose, denotes that sudden\nchanges will take place in your life, for good or bad,\nas the metamorphose was pleasant or frightful." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "meteor", "title": "Meteor", "category": "Nature & elements", "aliases": [ "meteor", "meteors", "shooting star", "shooting stars", "meteorite", "meteor shower" ], "summary": "A meteor can picture a brief opportunity, a striking realization, or an interruption arriving quickly. Watching a streak differs from fearing an impact.", "psychological": "A meteor can make a dream turn toward something that appears suddenly and may be gone before you respond. A bright streak watched with delight can resemble a brief opportunity, an unexpected encounter, or a realization that changes the feel of a moment. The connection is its short, noticeable arrival. You might feel pleased simply to have seen it, or frustrated that you cannot hold on to what it offered.\n\nMaking a wish adds a desire to the scene. It can reveal what you are hoping for when the dream gives you a moment to choose. Difficulty deciding what to wish for may picture competing wants or reluctance to name a need. The wish is useful as your own expression; the meteor does not make it a promise about what will happen.\n\nA falling space rock expected to strike the ground has a different emotional structure. The distant spectacle becomes an approaching interruption, perhaps resembling news, a deadline, or a change that feels too fast to prepare for. The dream's response matters: finding shelter, warning someone, or realizing that the object has landed harmlessly changes the balance between anticipation and action. A spectacular scene need not mean an equally spectacular waking problem.\n\nFinding a fragment after the event can make the story about what remains. Something fleeting has left an object you can examine or keep, which may connect with a lesson, memory, or manageable consequence of a sudden change. A recent night-sky image, game, or film can also supply the plot. Distinguish the quick passage, the wish, and the impact rather than assigning one meaning to every bright object crossing the sky.", "traditional": "NASA distinguishes the atmospheric meteor event from a meteorite, the surviving material that reaches the ground. This page groups the dreamed streak and related rock or fragment scenes while keeping that distinction. Wishing on a shooting star may belong to your personal experience of stories and customs; here the wish expresses a desire without promising its fulfillment.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A fleeting possibility", "reflection": "A brief streak can picture an opportunity, encounter, or insight that asks for attention without remaining available indefinitely." }, { "title": "Naming a wish", "reflection": "The moment of wishing can make your own desire clear, including uncertainty when several wants compete." }, { "title": "A sudden interruption", "reflection": "An expected impact turns the scene toward preparation, surprise, and how you respond when circumstances change quickly." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "Seeing one bright streak", "reflection": "Something briefly draws your attention away from the ordinary scene. This can fit a moment of insight or an unexpected pleasure. Whether you feel satisfied to witness it or urgently try to keep it gives the image its direction.", "slug": "scene-1" }, { "title": "Making a wish before it vanishes", "reflection": "The dream gives your desire a deadline. The wish may identify a hope you have found difficult to say aloud. If you cannot choose, the scene can picture competing priorities rather than the loss of a promised reward.", "slug": "scene-2" }, { "title": "Watching a shower of meteors", "reflection": "One striking moment becomes a succession. This can resemble many ideas arriving during a creative period, or several invitations competing for limited attention. Enjoying the whole view suggests room to receive the abundance; trying to track every streak can make the scene about pressure to catch everything.", "slug": "scene-3" }, { "title": "Expecting an impact near your home", "reflection": "The distant event has become personal and immediate. This can resemble anticipating a change that may affect your routine or safety in the dream. The imagined impact does not provide evidence of an actual approaching disaster.", "slug": "scene-4" }, { "title": "A meteorite lands without damage", "reflection": "An anticipated disruption resolves into a manageable encounter. Relief can picture a worry becoming more proportionate after you see what it actually involves. Curiosity afterward may be the beginning of a different relationship with the change.", "slug": "scene-5" }, { "title": "Keeping a fallen meteorite fragment", "reflection": "A brief event leaves something tangible. The fragment can picture a lesson, memory, or consequence you want to understand after sudden news or an unexpected encounter. Keeping it with pleasure differs from feeling that the event has left you responsible for something you did not choose.", "slug": "scene-6" } ], "prompts": [ "What appeared suddenly, and how much time did I feel I had?", "If I made a wish, what did I choose or struggle to choose?", "Was the ending about witnessing, interruption, or what remained afterward?" ], "related": [ "comet", "stars", "sky", "asteroid" ], "type": "dreams", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background about dreaming and waking experiences. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." }, { "id": "nasa-meteors-meteorites", "title": "Meteors & Meteorites Facts — terminology only", "author": "NASA", "url": "https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/meteors-meteorites/facts/", "scope": "Factual terminology for meteors, meteor showers, and meteorites. Does not validate dream interpretations or the reflective meanings offered here." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia interpretation for personal reflection. Human publication review pending.", "tagline": "A brief streak, a named wish, and what remains afterward.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "mice", "title": "Mice", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "5 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of mice, foretells domestic troubles and the insincerity of friends.” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "mice", "mouse" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about mice stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "trap" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1300", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Mice", "text": "To dream of mice, foretells domestic troubles and the insincerity of friends.\nBusiness affairs will assume a discouraging tone.\n\nTo kill mice, denotes that you will conquer your enemies.\n\nTo let them escape you, is significant of doubtful struggles.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of mice, warns her of secret enemies,\nand that deception is being practised upon her. If she\nshould see a mouse in her clothing, it is a sign of scandal\nin which she will figure.", "locator": "Heading 1304; source lines 14998–15012", "lineStart": 14998, "lineEnd": 15012, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of mice, foretells domestic troubles and the insincerity of friends.\nBusiness affairs will assume a discouraging tone.\n\nTo kill mice, denotes that you will conquer your enemies.\n\nTo let them escape you, is significant of doubtful struggles.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of mice, warns her of secret enemies,\nand that deception is being practised upon her. If she\nshould see a mouse in her clothing, it is a sign of scandal\nin which she will figure." }, { "id": "miller-1344", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Mouse", "text": "For a woman to dream of a mouse, denotes that she will have an enemy\nwho will annoy her by artfulness and treachery.", "locator": "Heading 1348; source lines 15470–15475", "lineStart": 15470, "lineEnd": 15475, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a woman to dream of a mouse, denotes that she will have an enemy\nwho will annoy her by artfulness and treachery." }, { "id": "fontaine-0486", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Mouse", "text": "(_See Trap._) To dream of killing a mouse is a sign you will\ndetect a thief in stealing from you: if, in your dream, you see a\nmouse, or a number of mice, it foretells that you will soon have\nthieves in the house. For a girl to dream that she pets a mouse, shows\nthat she will have a light-fingered or dishonest lover. 75, 70.", "locator": "Heading 486; source line 3266", "lineStart": 3266, "lineEnd": 3272, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Trap.) To dream of killing a mouse is a sign you will\ndetect a thief in stealing from you: if, in your dream, you see a\nmouse, or a number of mice, it foretells that you will soon have\nthieves in the house. For a girl to dream that she pets a mouse, shows\nthat she will have a light-fingered or dishonest lover." }, { "id": "noe-0321", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Mice", "text": "To dream of mice, denotes prosperity,\nsuccess in love, and a happy marriage. For a married woman to dream of\nmice, it is a token that she will be with child shortly and that the fruit\nof her womb will become very rich and powerful.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 325; source lines 1290–1293", "lineStart": 1290, "lineEnd": 1293, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of mice, denotes prosperity,\nsuccess in love, and a happy marriage. For a married woman to dream of\nmice, it is a token that she will be with child shortly and that the fruit\nof her womb will become very rich and powerful." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10871", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Mice", "heading": "Mice", "text": "A dream of envious slanderers, also of poverty (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 10871, "lineEnd": 10873, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 233; NLM OCR lines 10871–10873", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10871, "lineEnd": 10873, "printedPage": 233, "printedPageEnd": 233 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Mice. — A dream of envious slanderers, also of poverty \n(Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Mice" }, "displayText": "A dream of envious slanderers, also of poverty (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "trap" ] }, { "slug": "microphone", "title": "Microphone", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "A voice can reach farther while its speaker still chooses the turn.", "summary": "A microphone dream can explore amplification, shared speaking and hearing yourself. Its working role differs from a device that will not mute.", "aliases": [ "microphone", "microphones" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A microphone makes a voice available beyond its ordinary range within the dream. This can picture wanting an explanation, contribution or preference to reach people who have not heard it clearly. A meeting, group activity or public role may offer a parallel. A working device can make the encounter easier rather than merely expose a problem. The important question is what the wider reach allows you to communicate.\n\nAmplification can also change scale. A small remark becomes central to the room, or a casual response receives more attention than intended. You may recognize an ordinary statement being treated as an official position. The scene can make the difference between speaking and being publicly represented visible. It does not establish that anyone has actually repeated or misused your words.\n\nPassing the microphone gives attention a sequence. You can contribute, listen and receive another turn without holding the whole discussion. This may picture a shared task in which everyone has a place but nobody must supply every answer. Keeping the microphone too long can feel comfortable or restricting, depending on whether it serves your purpose or prevents another person from participating.\n\nHearing your voice played back can create distance from the way you expected to sound. The experience may picture becoming an audience to your own account. A message can feel clearer, less personal or different from what you intended. Another person's response may help you understand that gap, while the recording remains recalled or invented dream material rather than proof about a real exchange.\n\nPutting the device down can give speaking an understandable ending. You have made your contribution and can return to a different role. Several people sharing one device can require agreement about timing and position before everyone is heard. Recent performances, calls or meetings may also provide the imagery directly. These original readings concern reach, turn-taking and representation; the nearby will-not-mute entry separately develops unwanted continuation and privacy failure.", "traditional": "No supplied historical entry specifically defines a microphone. Public speaking, singing and overhearing are adjacent actions without establishing an inherited meaning for this device. The original reflections develop amplification and chosen participation, including scenes where the microphone works normally.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Reach that serves a purpose", "reflection": "Amplification can picture a contribution becoming usable for a wider audience. The value may be being heard clearly rather than receiving more attention for its own sake." }, { "title": "A turn that can be shared", "reflection": "Passing the device can make attention available in sequence. Participation may include listening and returning, without one person holding every part of the discussion." }, { "title": "An account heard from outside", "reflection": "Playback can separate intended expression from received sound. The gap may invite perspective while the dream recording remains an imagined or remembered version of the encounter." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Your ordinary voice reaches the whole room clearly", "reflection": "A clear voice across the room can picture a useful channel for something previously hard to communicate. A group task may fit. The support matters through the contribution it makes available, rather than through exposure being inherently uncomfortable." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You pass the microphone and keep listening", "reflection": "Passing the microphone can picture a contribution with room for another person’s response. Listening does not remove your place in the encounter. A shared discussion or project may become more workable when participation has an understood sequence." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "The sound makes a small remark larger than you intended", "reflection": "A magnified small remark can picture an ordinary statement acquiring a role you did not intend. Being treated as a spokesperson may feel similar. The scene explores scale and representation without establishing that real words have been misused." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You hear your own voice played back differently", "reflection": "Unfamiliar playback can picture hearing your account from another position. The difference may be useful, unsettling or simply invented sound. It does not provide an accurate recording of a waking exchange or decide how others understood you." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Several people share one microphone by agreement", "reflection": "Sharing by agreement can picture attention organized to accommodate several voices. A clear turn may feel more useful than everybody speaking at once. The arrangement, rather than the size of the audience, can make participation possible." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You put the microphone down after your part is complete", "reflection": "Setting the device down can picture completing the role of explaining and returning to another activity. The contribution retains value after it ends. A conversation need not remain amplified for the connection or shared purpose to continue." } ], "prompts": [ "What did the microphone let my voice reach?", "How was the turn shared, continued or ended?", "What changed between the expression I intended and the account I heard?" ], "related": [ "a-microphone-that-will-not-mute", "public-speaking", "singing", "telephone" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "microscope", "title": "Microscope", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a microscope, denotes you will experience failure or small returns in your enterprises.”", "aliases": [ "microscope" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about microscope stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1301", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Microscope", "text": "To dream of a microscope, denotes you will experience failure\nor small returns in your enterprises.", "locator": "Heading 1305; source lines 15012–15017", "lineStart": 15012, "lineEnd": 15017, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a microscope, denotes you will experience failure\nor small returns in your enterprises." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "microwave", "title": "Microwave", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "A short task can still need a clear purpose and a usable ending.", "summary": "A microwave dream can explore expected speed, timed waiting and whether something is ready for its purpose. It does not assess health or equipment safety.", "aliases": [ "microwave", "microwaves", "microwave oven" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A microwave in a dream can make a task seem short and contained. You expect a few actions and a brief interval to produce something usable. This can picture relying on a familiar process for an ordinary need: a quick response, a small preparation or a routine fitted between larger commitments. The appliance matters through the expectation attached to it, rather than through speed being automatically desirable.\n\nA timer that adds time after each signal can make completion uncertain. What appeared simple keeps extending, much like a small request that acquires further requirements whenever one part is finished. The scene can expose the difference between a task described as quick and the effort it actually asks. Frustration may concern the moving endpoint more than waiting itself.\n\nSomething becoming ready while you attend elsewhere can picture support that gives your attention another place. A routine may work without requiring constant monitoring. That can feel useful if the result suits the purpose. Discovering that the task has changed more than expected can make delegation feel less clear, especially when nobody agreed what should be returned.\n\nThe signal and the result can disagree. A process announces completion while what you need remains unavailable, or something looks unimpressive yet serves the task well. This can resemble a formal milestone that does not provide practical readiness. The useful distinction may be what counts as done, not whether the method was fast enough.\n\nSeveral people wanting different outcomes in the same interval can make coordination central. A shared shortcut may stop being useful when its requirements do not fit together. Choosing another method can preserve the need while changing the timetable. Recent meals, chores or remembered appliances may supply the scene directly. These original reflections concern the domestic device and its imagined role; they do not interpret radiation, assess health, recommend equipment use or predict that a quick solution will succeed.", "traditional": "No exact Microwave appliance passage is supplied. Oven and Stove have historical owners whose forecasts are not transferred here. The original reading focuses on a timed preparation or reheating arrangement, with no claimed traditional code, radiation interpretation or practical safety advice.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "The promise of a contained task", "reflection": "A short process can picture an ordinary need given a manageable interval. Its usefulness depends on what it serves, rather than on speed alone." }, { "title": "A signal versus a usable result", "reflection": "Announced completion can differ from readiness for the purpose. The scene may bring attention to what should count as finished within the arrangement." }, { "title": "A shortcut within shared timing", "reflection": "A method can be convenient for one task while conflicting with several needs. Another route may preserve the purpose when the compressed timetable no longer fits." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You expect a simple task to finish almost immediately", "reflection": "Expecting an immediate finish can picture a small task whose familiarity makes its requirements seem definite. A routine response or preparation may fit. The feeling changes when the expected simplicity matches the result, or leaves little room for what is needed." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "The timer adds time after every signal", "reflection": "A timer repeatedly adding time can resemble a request extending after every apparent completion. The task’s label remains small while its demands grow. A clearer endpoint may matter more than finding a faster way to keep meeting changing requirements." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "An ordinary meal becomes ready while you do something else", "reflection": "An ordinary meal ready during another activity can picture useful support within a routine. Attention becomes available without abandoning the task. The result matters through whether it serves the purpose, rather than whether it required visible effort throughout." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "What seems complete still does not meet the purpose", "reflection": "A finished signal without readiness can picture a formal milestone that leaves a practical need unmet. A completed procedure or message may fit. The gap can clarify what should count as done without making the whole method worthless." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Several people want different things from the same short interval", "reflection": "Different needs in one interval can picture coordination strained by a shortcut. A shared schedule may promise convenience while allowing no room for variation. Naming the differences can become more useful than asking everybody to hurry together." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You choose another method when speed stops being useful", "reflection": "Another method can picture keeping the need while revising how it is met. Speed may have stopped serving the task. A changed route can be thoughtful rather than evidence that the original process or your effort was a failure." } ], "prompts": [ "What did I expect the short process to provide?", "Where did completion match or differ from what was usable?", "How did shared timing affect the method’s fit?" ], "related": [ "oven", "stove", "cooking", "kitchen" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "midwife", "title": "Midwife", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "Meeting the person who joins a transition.", "summary": "A dreamed midwife may bring attention to a helper’s presence, being recognized and how support joins a particular transition.", "aliases": [ "midwife", "of the midwife" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "psychological": "A midwife in a dream can make the presence of a particular helper more important than the outcome of the surrounding birth scene. You may be trying to find them, learning how to speak together or noticing when their part begins and ends. Their manner and your response can give the encounter its shape. The dreamed role does not establish anyone’s professional competence or predict a pregnancy or birth outcome.\n\nBeing recognized can change an unfamiliar setting. A midwife remembers the name you want used or speaks directly to you while others talk around the room. This may picture wanting to be addressed as a person within an important event, rather than only as somebody occupying a role. A complicated meeting or a new responsibility could offer a waking comparison if it fits your experience.\n\nTrying to find the helper can concern access instead. Several doors look alike, or everybody gives another direction. The person you want may be available somewhere while the path remains unclear. This can resemble knowing the kind of conversation you want without knowing whom to approach or how to begin it.\n\nA handover can make participation depend on timing. The midwife waits before placing a baby in your arms until you ask to receive it. This may picture having a say in when a new part becomes yours. The imagined action can feel welcome without becoming a test of readiness or a prescription for actual care.\n\nThe helper might appear far from a birth setting. In a workroom, the same figure helps you introduce something newly finished to other people. The dream’s unusual combination could make assistance with an arrival visible without reducing every midwife image to creativity. In another scene, other people summon the midwife before you have finished speaking, shifting attention to a kind of help you did not request.\n\nThe ending also matters. A midwife leaves after introducing another person, and the conversation continues differently. This can picture continuity that does not require one helper to remain in every part of a transition. Familiar encounters, stories and imagined people can directly supply the role. The useful distinction is how support becomes personal and available within the dream, rather than assuming that the title alone guarantees reassurance or danger.", "traditional": "Miller predicts sickness or distress; Fontaine predicts disclosed secrets or death for a sick dreamer. Artemidorus and Noe add hurt, liberty or sickness claims in different circumstances. Book of Luck instead predicts family increase. Craig attributes secrets and resulting hurt to Artemidorus. These period accounts concern dreamed midwives, not the competence of actual care or a medical outcome.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "The midwife remembers the name you want used", "reflection": "A small act of recognition makes an unfamiliar situation more personal. This may picture wanting your own account to remain audible within an event that has many roles and expectations. The name matters because of the dreamed exchange, rather than proving that every formal helper will understand you." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You try several similar doors before finding the midwife", "reflection": "The desired person seems available but the way to reach them is unclear. This can resemble wanting a particular conversation without knowing where it can begin. Finding the door may bring relief through access, rather than resolve every uncertainty about the event or make the helper all-knowing." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "The midwife waits until you ask before handing you the baby", "reflection": "The handover makes your participation part of its timing. This may picture receiving a new role in a way that allows your own voice, rather than having it assigned without an exchange. The scene’s welcome or hesitation concerns the imagined moment, not an assessment of actual parenting readiness." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A midwife appears in a workroom as you introduce something newly finished", "reflection": "The helper’s role moves into an unusual setting where an arrival still needs company. This may picture wanting support in bringing something into public view. The comparison is tied to that invented combination; it does not make every midwife or birth dream a metaphor for work." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Other people call the midwife before you finish describing what you want", "reflection": "Attention moves toward a form of help before your own account is complete. This may picture a mismatch between good intentions and the conversation you are trying to have. The tension can concern being heard first, without deciding that the helper or the people who called them are harmful." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The midwife introduces another helper and leaves while your conversation continues", "reflection": "Support changes hands without the whole encounter ending. This may picture continuity through a changing relationship rather than permanent dependence on one person. The new exchange can feel different while still remaining useful; the dream does not need to decide whether one helper is universally better than another." } ], "prompts": [ "What made the midwife’s presence particular, rather than interchangeable with another helper?", "How did you reach, speak to or receive something from them?", "What changed when another person joined or the midwife’s part ended?" ], "related": [ "birth", "childbed", "pregnancy", "nurse" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1302" ], "scope": "miller-1302: Miller forecasts sickness with a narrow escape from death from seeing a midwife, and distress/calumny for a young woman. This is the complete Midwife account, not a description or evaluation of actual maternity care. Exact supplied passage: Midwife — miller-1302 (Heading 1306; source lines 15017–15025). Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence of a future event, health condition, another person’s state or a universal dream meaning." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0473" ], "scope": "fontaine-0473: Fontaine forecasts revelation of secrets from a midwife and death for a sick dreamer. Its two claims and original numbered tail are retained as one period account. Exact supplied passage: Midwife — fontaine-0473 (Heading 473; source line 3186). Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence of a future event, health condition, another person’s state or a universal dream meaning." }, { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display.", "recordIds": [ "artemidorus-143" ], "scope": "artemidorus-143: The full Midwife section assigns revelation of secrets/hurt, death for the sick, liberty for those held by force, and sickness from repeated appearances to a woman not pregnant. Its extraction-from-a-container rationale is the author’s analogy, not a medical explanation. Exact supplied passage: Of the Midwife. — artemidorus-143 (Book 3, encoded section 143). Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence of a future event, health condition, another person’s state or a universal dream meaning." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0322" ], "scope": "noe-0322: Noe forecasts revelation of secrets and hurt, liberty for those held by force, and long sickness when a woman not pregnant repeatedly dreams of a midwife. Exact supplied passage: Midwife — noe-0322 (Dream section, heading 326; source lines 1293–1298). Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence of a future event, health condition, another person’s state or a universal dream meaning." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0176" ], "scope": "luck-0176: The entire Midwife account forecasts only an increase in the family. Exact supplied passage: Midwife — luck-0176 (Dream section, heading 176; source lines 3960–3962). Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence of a future event, health condition, another person’s state or a universal dream meaning." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L10874" ], "scope": "craig-1918:L10874: Craig attributes revelation of secrets and resulting hurt to Artemidorus. This is Craig’s short secondary comparison, not another independently supplied Artemidorus passage or a statement about contemporary midwives. Exact supplied passage: Midwife — craig-1918:L10874 (Printed p. 233–234; NLM OCR lines 10874–10880). Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence of a future event, health condition, another person’s state or a universal dream meaning." } ], "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Recognition within an important event", "reflection": "A chosen name or direct exchange may make the helper’s presence feel personal instead of treating you only as a role." }, { "title": "Access to a wanted kind of support", "reflection": "Finding the person and being able to begin an exchange can matter separately from their availability in the dream." }, { "title": "Participation and continuity", "reflection": "A paced handover or change of helper can make support useful without requiring one person to direct the whole transition." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1302", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Midwife", "text": "To see a midwife in your dreams, signifies unfortunate sickness\nwith a narrow escape from death.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of such a person, foretells that distress\nand calumny will attend her.", "locator": "Heading 1306; source lines 15017–15025", "lineStart": 15017, "lineEnd": 15025, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a midwife in your dreams, signifies unfortunate sickness\nwith a narrow escape from death.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of such a person, foretells that distress\nand calumny will attend her." }, { "id": "fontaine-0473", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Midwife", "text": "To see a midwife denotes revealing of secrets; to the sick, it\nis death. 18, 4.", "locator": "Heading 473; source line 3186", "lineStart": 3186, "lineEnd": 3189, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a midwife denotes revealing of secrets; to the sick, it\nis death." }, { "id": "artemidorus-143", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of the Midwife.", "text": "A Midwife séene in a dream, is revealing of secrets, and hurt; it is death to the sicke; for she alwayes pulleth out that which is contained, from her which containeth it, and layeth it on the ground: to those which are kept by force it is liberty: often séene of her which is not with childe, signifyeth sicknesse to her.", "locator": "Book 3, encoded section 143", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "3", "displayText": "A Midwife séene in a dream, is revealing of secrets, and hurt; it is death to the sicke; for she alwayes pulleth out that which is contained, from her which containeth it, and layeth it on the ground: to those which are kept by force it is liberty: often séene of her which is not with childe, signifyeth sicknesse to her." }, { "id": "noe-0322", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Midwife", "text": "To dream you\nsee a midwife, is a revealing of secrets, and signifies hurt. To those who\nare kept by force, to dream of a midwife, signifies liberty. If a woman\nthat is not with child dreameth often of seeing her, it forebodeth she\nshall have a fit of sickness, which shall be long and continuous.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 326; source lines 1293–1298", "lineStart": 1293, "lineEnd": 1298, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you\nsee a midwife, is a revealing of secrets, and signifies hurt. To those who\nare kept by force, to dream of a midwife, signifies liberty. If a woman\nthat is not with child dreameth often of seeing her, it forebodeth she\nshall have a fit of sickness, which shall be long and continuous." }, { "id": "luck-0176", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Midwife", "text": "An increase in the family.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 176; source lines 3960–3962", "lineStart": 3960, "lineEnd": 3962, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "An increase in the family." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10874", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Midwife", "heading": "Midwife", "text": "A dream denoting revelation of secrets and hurt thereby ( Artemidorus).", "lineStart": 10874, "lineEnd": 10880, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 233–234; NLM OCR lines 10874–10880", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10874, "lineEnd": 10880, "printedPage": 233, "printedPageEnd": 234 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Midwife. — A dream denoting revelation of secrets and \nhurt thereby ( Artemidorus). \n\n\n234 THE FABRIC OF DREAMS \n\n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [ { "line": 10878, "text": "234 THE FABRIC OF DREAMS " } ], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Midwife" }, "displayText": "A dream denoting revelation of secrets and hurt thereby ( Artemidorus)." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "mile-post", "title": "Mile-post", "type": "dreams", "category": "Other symbols", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream you see or pass a mile-post, foretells that you will be assailed by doubtful fears in business or love.”", "aliases": [ "mile-post" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about mile-post stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1303", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Mile-post", "text": "To dream you see or pass a mile-post, foretells that you\nwill be assailed by doubtful fears in business or love.\nTo see one down, portends accidents are threatening to give\ndisorder to your affairs.", "locator": "Heading 1307; source lines 15025–15032", "lineStart": 15025, "lineEnd": 15032, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see or pass a mile-post, foretells that you\nwill be assailed by doubtful fears in business or love.\nTo see one down, portends accidents are threatening to give\ndisorder to your affairs." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "milestone", "title": "Milestone", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Cielo wrote: “Seeing a milestone indicates a successful venture.”", "aliases": [ "milestone" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about milestone stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "cielo-0268", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Milestone", "text": "Seeing a milestone indicates a successful venture.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 268; source lines 4504–4506", "lineStart": 4504, "lineEnd": 4506, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Seeing a milestone indicates a successful venture." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "milk", "title": "Milk", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "aliases": [ "milk" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "summary": "Milk dreams may explore an ordinary provision, how a liquid is carried or portioned, and whether familiar appearances fit your preference.", "tagline": "Containing, pouring and choosing what you use.", "psychological": "Milk can give a dream a practical task involving a familiar liquid. You may carry a pitcher, open a carton, pour for someone or decide whether you want a drink. Begin with the particular use and your own experience of milk. A kitchen routine, shopping trip or feeding experience may supply direct context. The image does not establish pregnancy, health or a universal role as a caregiver.\n\nCarrying milk in an open container makes movement matter. You may slow down, choose another route or ask someone to open a door. This can resemble handling something useful whose arrangement requires care. A waking comparison might involve carrying a shared task through conditions that were designed for a different kind of load. The question can concern how you make the task workable, rather than how perfectly you avoid every spill.\n\nPouring changes the relation between a larger supply and individual cups. Different people may want different amounts, while you may be unsure when to stop. This could picture an arrangement that needs clearer requests or limits. A dream in which pouring continues after the cup is full can make the activity outlast its purpose. Pausing to ask what is needed gives a different direction from simply continuing because more remains available.\n\nPackaging can introduce another problem. A sealed carton may contain what you need while refusing to open, or a familiar label may conceal an unexpected drink. Such scenes can resemble access depending on a small practical condition, or recognizing a name before checking what it currently offers. You might change tools, seek another container or reconsider the expectation. The dreamed contents provide an image of the mismatch, not evidence that someone has deceived you.\n\nYour preference deserves room alongside those tasks. Accepting milk, choosing something else or leaving a cup untouched can each be an ordinary decision. An old bottle or remembered jug may connect the scene with a particular household without deciding whether that memory feels comforting. If milk spills, what you protect or clean first can make your priorities visible. These original possibilities concern the action, arrangement and response around the liquid, while the dream alone cannot assess your actual needs or obligations.", "traditional": "The five supplied accounts assign differing fortunes to milk. Miller distinguishes drinking, quantities, trading, giving, spills, quality, heat and bathing. Fontaine includes gendered romance, bodily milk and childbirth forecasts; Noe contrasts carrying or drinking with spilling. Cielo gives a love forecast, and Everybody’s Book of Luck adds peace, family and business claims. These are attributed period beliefs, not evidence about pregnancy, health, generosity or future events.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A usable arrangement", "reflection": "A container, route and available hands can shape what you can do with the liquid. Explore which practical change helps, rather than treating careful handling as a personality test." }, { "title": "Pouring with a purpose", "reflection": "The amount available and the amount wanted can differ. Notice who asks, who serves and when the action reaches an ending that makes sense within the scene." }, { "title": "Appearance and preference", "reflection": "A familiar package or vessel may carry a memory while its contents surprise you. Your own taste and choice give the encounter a personal direction." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "An open pitcher needs a different route", "reflection": "You carry milk through a crowded room and discover a quieter way around the furniture. This may resemble adjusting conditions around a useful task. Slowing down, changing containers or accepting help can each make the route workable; the detail is what your chosen adjustment allows." }, { "title": "Different cups require different amounts", "reflection": "You begin filling identical cups, then learn that each person wants a different portion. The scene could explore listening before distributing a shared resource. Notice how requests change the arrangement and whether your own cup receives attention; there is room for preference alongside provision." }, { "title": "The carton will not open", "reflection": "The milk is present, but its sealed top prevents the drink you intended. This can picture a small access condition delaying an otherwise possible task. Asking for a tool, trying another container or choosing something else gives the problem several endings, depending on what you wanted." }, { "title": "The milk keeps pouring after the cup is full", "reflection": "You continue tipping the container although the original cup has enough. This impossible action may make a task persist beyond its purpose. Discovering how to stop, asking what is needed or changing where the liquid goes can help you explore the terms and ending of your participation." }, { "title": "A remembered bottle contains another drink", "reflection": "You recognize a bottle from an earlier kitchen, but what comes out surprises you. The scene could connect familiarity with a changed expectation. Explore whether you try the contents, seek the milk elsewhere or value the bottle itself; the memory and present use can have different meanings." }, { "title": "A spill changes where the cups are placed", "reflection": "Milk runs across the serving surface, and you move the cups before cleaning it. This may put practical priorities into sequence: protect something, pause the task and restore a usable space. Notice who joins in and what remains possible after the interruption, without making a spill a forecast." } ], "prompts": [ "What use or preference made the milk important in this scene?", "How did the container, amount or route affect what you could do?", "Which personal routine or remembered vessel gives the encounter its particular context?" ], "related": [ "milking", "cream", "pitcher", "kitchen", "buttermilk", "breast" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1304" ], "scope": "Miller assigns milk fortunes to drinking, quantities, commerce, giving, spilling, quality, unsuccessful drinking, heat and bathing, including gendered, health and loss claims; Buttermilk is cross-referenced. Specific supplied passages: Milk — miller-1304 (Heading 1308; source lines 15032–15067). Historical comparison only; the attributed period claims do not establish outcomes or diagnoses and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0474" ], "scope": "Fontaine assigns gendered love, childbirth and money forecasts to milk or bodily milk and points to Pitcher and Breast. Specific supplied passages: Milk — fontaine-0474 (Heading 474; source line 3189). Historical comparison only; the attributed period claims do not establish outcomes or diagnoses and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0319" ], "scope": "Noe gives favorable drinking, bodily-milk and carrying fortunes, but an adverse forecast for falling and spilling it. Specific supplied passages: Milk — noe-0319 (Dream section, heading 323; source lines 1281–1285). Historical comparison only; the attributed period claims do not establish outcomes or diagnoses and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0269" ], "scope": "Cielo assigns success in love affairs to milk. Specific supplied passages: Milk — cielo-0269 (Dream section, heading 269; source lines 4506–4508). Historical comparison only; the attributed period claims do not establish outcomes or diagnoses and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0177" ], "scope": "Everybody’s Book of Luck assigns peace, family increase and a business-loss forecast for spilling. Specific supplied passages: Milk — luck-0177 (Dream section, heading 177; source lines 3962–3965). Historical comparison only; the attributed period claims do not establish outcomes or diagnoses and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "kind": "editorial", "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1304", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Milk", "text": "To dream of drinking milk, denotes abundant harvest to the farmer and\npleasure in the home; for a traveler, it foretells a fortunate voyage.\nThis is a very propitious dream for women.\n\nTo see milk in large quantities, signifies riches and health.\n\nTo dream of dealing in milk commercially, denotes great increase in fortune.\n\nTo give milk away, shows that you will be too benevolent for the good\nof your own fortune.\n\nTo spill milk, denotes that you will experience a slight loss\nand suffer temporary unhappiness at the hands of friends.\n\nTo dream of impure milk, denotes that you will be tormented\nwith petty troubles.\n\nTo dream of sour milk, denotes that you will be disturbed\nover the distress of friends.\n\nTo dream of trying unsuccessfully to drink milk, signifies that you\nwill be in danger of losing something of value or the friendship\nof a highly esteemed person.\n\nTo dream of hot milk, foretells a struggle, but the final winning\nof riches and desires.\n\nTo dream of bathing in milk, denotes pleasures and companionships\nof congenial friends.\n\n\n[125] See Buttermilk.", "locator": "Heading 1308; source lines 15032–15067", "lineStart": 15032, "lineEnd": 15067, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of drinking milk, denotes abundant harvest to the farmer and\npleasure in the home; for a traveler, it foretells a fortunate voyage.\nThis is a very propitious dream for women.\n\nTo see milk in large quantities, signifies riches and health.\n\nTo dream of dealing in milk commercially, denotes great increase in fortune.\n\nTo give milk away, shows that you will be too benevolent for the good\nof your own fortune.\n\nTo spill milk, denotes that you will experience a slight loss\nand suffer temporary unhappiness at the hands of friends.\n\nTo dream of impure milk, denotes that you will be tormented\nwith petty troubles.\n\nTo dream of sour milk, denotes that you will be disturbed\nover the distress of friends.\n\nTo dream of trying unsuccessfully to drink milk, signifies that you\nwill be in danger of losing something of value or the friendship\nof a highly esteemed person.\n\nTo dream of hot milk, foretells a struggle, but the final winning\nof riches and desires.\n\nTo dream of bathing in milk, denotes pleasures and companionships\nof congenial friends. See Buttermilk." }, { "id": "fontaine-0474", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Milk", "text": "(_See Pitcher and Breast._) Dreaming of milk predicts, to a man,\nthe love of a lady. If a newly married lady dream that she has a full\nbreast of milk, it is a sign that she will be happily delivered of a\nfine child; to an old woman, it portends much money. 45, 60.", "locator": "Heading 474; source line 3189", "lineStart": 3189, "lineEnd": 3194, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Pitcher and Breast.) Dreaming of milk predicts, to a man,\nthe love of a lady. If a newly married lady dream that she has a full\nbreast of milk, it is a sign that she will be happily delivered of a\nfine child; to an old woman, it portends much money." }, { "id": "noe-0319", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Milk", "text": "To dream you drink milk, is an\nextraordinary good sign. And to dream you see breasts of milk, signifies\nprofit. To dream you are carrying milk is a good sign, but if you fall and\nspill it, misfortune will befall you, from which it would be difficult to\nextricate yourself.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 323; source lines 1281–1285", "lineStart": 1281, "lineEnd": 1285, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you drink milk, is an\nextraordinary good sign. And to dream you see breasts of milk, signifies\nprofit. To dream you are carrying milk is a good sign, but if you fall and\nspill it, misfortune will befall you, from which it would be difficult to\nextricate yourself." }, { "id": "cielo-0269", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Milk", "text": "Dreaming of milk means success in love affairs.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 269; source lines 4506–4508", "lineStart": 4506, "lineEnd": 4508, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Dreaming of milk means success in love affairs." }, { "id": "luck-0177", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Milk", "text": "A sign of peaceful circumstances; often means an increase in\nfamily: (spilling) loss in business.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 177; source lines 3962–3965", "lineStart": 3962, "lineEnd": 3965, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "A sign of peaceful circumstances; often means an increase in\nfamily: (spilling) loss in business." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [ "buttermilk", "pitcher", "breast" ] }, { "slug": "milking", "title": "Milking", "type": "dreams", "category": "Other symbols", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of milking, and it flows in great streams from the udder, while the cow is restless and…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "milking" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about milking stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "moles-71045", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams and Moles", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "United Kingdom, J. Marshall, 1805", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71045", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1305", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Milking", "text": "To dream of milking, and it flows in great streams from the udder,\nwhile the cow is restless and threatening, signifies you will see\ngreat opportunities withheld from you, but which will result in final\nfavor for you.", "locator": "Heading 1309; source lines 15067–15074", "lineStart": 15067, "lineEnd": 15074, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of milking, and it flows in great streams from the udder,\nwhile the cow is restless and threatening, signifies you will see\ngreat opportunities withheld from you, but which will result in final\nfavor for you." }, { "id": "moles-0068", "sourceId": "moles-71045", "heading": "Milking", "originalHeading": "(no printed heading)", "text": "To dream of milking cows denotes a wealthy lover.", "locator": "Dreams interpreted, passage 68; source lines 306–306", "lineStart": 306, "lineEnd": 306, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "editorialNote": "The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Milking” because that is the subject of its first clause.", "displayText": "To dream of milking cows denotes a wealthy lover." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "milkshake", "title": "Milkshake", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "summary": "A milkshake can picture an anticipated pleasure, the conditions that make it usable, and timing that changes the occasion you wanted to enjoy.", "tagline": "A chosen pleasure has its own timing.", "aliases": [ "milkshake", "milkshakes", "milk shake", "milk shakes" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A milkshake ordered for a particular occasion can picture anticipation given a concrete form. A break after work, a celebration, or a small reward attached to finishing something may offer a parallel. The pleasure can matter because you chose it, not because it is grand or productive. If the occasion keeps moving further away, the dream may show how an ordinary enjoyment becomes dependent on conditions that never quite arrive.\n\nMelting while you wait can make that dependence visible. The expected experience changes during delay even when the object remains present. Rest taken after its useful moment or a conversation postponed until its original energy has passed can resemble the scene. Enjoying the changed drink may picture flexibility; frustration may concern having organized the pleasure around another person’s timetable. The difference is about access to the occasion rather than the food’s moral value.\n\nA decorative glass that is awkward to carry can make presentation compete with use. A desirable-looking arrangement may provide the right appearance while creating unnecessary work for its recipient. An elaborate plan, a carefully displayed achievement, or a gift with impractical conditions can fit. A simpler container may let you enjoy what was already valuable. The change does not require rejecting beauty; it can bring appearance and practical comfort into a better relationship.\n\nReceiving another flavor can separate choice from what is delivered. Welcome surprise may make the occasion more interesting. Disappointment can instead fit a modest preference overlooked because someone assumed the details were interchangeable. Being allowed to ask for another version gives you a role in the result. Gratitude for being offered something does not require pretending that every version offers the same pleasure.\n\nA straw that cannot reach the drink can make desire present while its ordinary method fails. Finishing before the celebration begins creates the reverse timing: pleasure arrives without its expected frame. A menu, an actual drink, a remembered outing, or a childhood occasion can supply direct context. These readings use the milkshake’s form and timing without inferring nutritional need or making enjoyment a prediction of future reward.", "traditional": "No directly matching historical account is attached for this specific topic. The readings here are original reflective possibilities. The NINDS source provides general background about dreams, not evidence for these symbolic comparisons.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Pleasure on your terms", "reflection": "A modest chosen enjoyment can matter without needing to justify itself through productivity." }, { "title": "Timing changes experience", "reflection": "An anticipated occasion may alter during delay, leaving room for flexibility or disappointment." }, { "title": "Presentation and usability", "reflection": "An appealing form can support pleasure or make practical access unnecessarily difficult." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "A straw cannot reach the drink", "reflection": "The desired experience is present but the usual means does not work. This may picture a modest pleasure blocked by an inconvenient arrangement. A changed tool can restore access without requiring you to abandon what you wanted or blame the desire itself." }, { "title": "The milkshake melts while you wait", "reflection": "Delay changes the occasion’s expected form. This can resemble rest or enjoyment postponed beyond its preferred moment. Flexibility and frustration give different readings, especially when the timing was set by conditions you could not easily revise." }, { "title": "You receive a different flavor", "reflection": "What is offered differs from the choice you made. This may picture a small preference overlooked in a shared arrangement. Welcome surprise differs from disappointment; being able to request another version makes appreciation compatible with having a say." }, { "title": "A decorative glass is awkward to carry", "reflection": "Presentation creates work that the simpler experience did not need. This can resemble an impressive arrangement whose conditions make enjoyment difficult. Another container may let appearance and usability coexist rather than forcing you to choose only one." }, { "title": "A chosen break keeps being interrupted", "reflection": "The pleasure remains available but its protected time does not. This may picture an ordinary preference repeatedly displaced by demands. The scene can make the interruption consequential even when the intended enjoyment was small and did not require much time." }, { "title": "You finish before the celebration begins", "reflection": "Pleasure occurs outside the frame you expected to give it meaning. This may picture wanting enjoyment now rather than after a formal milestone. Regret and satisfaction create different endings, without making either timing a universal rule for the right way to celebrate." } ], "prompts": [ "What chosen pleasure has become dependent on conditions that keep changing?", "Which form would make the experience easier to use?", "What part of the occasion gives the pleasure its meaning?" ], "related": [ "milk", "ice-cream", "drink", "breakfast" ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "mill", "title": "Mill", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a mill, indicates thrift and fortunate undertakings.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "mill" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about mill stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1306", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Mill", "text": "To dream of a mill, indicates thrift and fortunate undertakings.\n\nTo see a dilapidated mill, denotes sickness and ill fortune.\n\n[126] See Cotton Mill, etc.", "locator": "Heading 1310; source lines 15074–15082", "lineStart": 15074, "lineEnd": 15082, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a mill, indicates thrift and fortunate undertakings.\n\nTo see a dilapidated mill, denotes sickness and ill fortune. See Cotton Mill, etc." }, { "id": "fontaine-0475", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Mill", "text": "If you dream of going to a flouring-mill, where you see plenty\nof grain and flour, it is a good omen, as it shadows forth thrift and\nabundance; but to imagine in your dream that you are in any manufactory\nof cloth fabrics called a mill, is a sign of poverty and want. Girls\nwho work in such places should be careful never to dream of them. 55.", "locator": "Heading 475; source line 3194", "lineStart": 3194, "lineEnd": 3200, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream of going to a flouring-mill, where you see plenty\nof grain and flour, it is a good omen, as it shadows forth thrift and\nabundance; but to imagine in your dream that you are in any manufactory\nof cloth fabrics called a mill, is a sign of poverty and want. Girls\nwho work in such places should be careful never to dream of them." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "mill-dam", "title": "Mill-dam", "type": "dreams", "category": "Other symbols", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you see clear water pouring over a mill-dam, foretells pleasant enterprises, either of a business or social nature.”", "aliases": [ "mill-dam" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about mill-dam stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1307", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Mill-dam", "text": "To dream that you see clear water pouring over a mill-dam, foretells\npleasant enterprises, either of a business or social nature.\nIf the water is muddy or impure, you will meet with losses,\nand troubles will arise where pleasure was anticipated.\n\nIf the dam is dry, your business will assume shrunken proportions.", "locator": "Heading 1311; source lines 15082–15091", "lineStart": 15082, "lineEnd": 15091, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you see clear water pouring over a mill-dam, foretells\npleasant enterprises, either of a business or social nature.\nIf the water is muddy or impure, you will meet with losses,\nand troubles will arise where pleasure was anticipated.\n\nIf the dam is dry, your business will assume shrunken proportions." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "miller", "title": "Miller", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see a miller in your dreams, signifies your surroundings will grow more hopeful.”", "aliases": [ "miller", "millet" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about miller stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1308", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Millet", "text": "To see a miller in your dreams, signifies your surroundings will grow\nmore hopeful. For a woman to dream of a miller failing in an attempt\nto start his mill, foretells she will be disappointed in her lover's wealth,\nas she will think him in comfortable circumstances.", "locator": "Heading 1312; source lines 15091–15098", "lineStart": 15091, "lineEnd": 15098, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a miller in your dreams, signifies your surroundings will grow\nmore hopeful. For a woman to dream of a miller failing in an attempt\nto start his mill, foretells she will be disappointed in her lover's wealth,\nas she will think him in comfortable circumstances.", "editorialNote": "Miller’s printed heading reads “Millet”, but the article (source lines 15091–15096) is about seeing a miller at his mill; filed under the person, with the original heading preserved." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "mince-pies", "title": "Mince Pies", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Book of Luck wrote: “(Making) Good luck, a valuable present; (eating) good news.”", "aliases": [ "mince pies" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about mince pies stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "luck-0178", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Mince Pies", "text": "(Making) Good luck, a valuable present; (eating) good\nnews.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 178; source lines 3965–3968", "lineStart": 3965, "lineEnd": 3968, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(Making) Good luck, a valuable present; (eating) good\nnews." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "mine", "title": "Mine", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of being in a mine, denotes failure in affairs. To own a mine, denotes future wealth. See Coal Mine.”", "aliases": [ "mine" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about mine stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "colliery-or-coal-mine" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1309", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Mine", "text": "To dream of being in a mine, denotes failure in affairs.\n\nTo own a mine, denotes future wealth.\n\n\n[127] See Coal Mine.", "locator": "Heading 1313; source lines 15098–15107", "lineStart": 15098, "lineEnd": 15107, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being in a mine, denotes failure in affairs.\n\nTo own a mine, denotes future wealth. See Coal Mine." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "colliery-or-coal-mine" ] }, { "slug": "mineral", "title": "Mineral", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of minerals, denotes your present unpromising outlook will grow directly brighter.”", "aliases": [ "mineral" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about mineral stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1310", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Mineral", "text": "To dream of minerals, denotes your present unpromising outlook will grow\ndirectly brighter. To walk over mineral land, signifies distress,\nfrom which you will escape and be bettered in your surroundings.", "locator": "Heading 1314; source lines 15107–15113", "lineStart": 15107, "lineEnd": 15113, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of minerals, denotes your present unpromising outlook will grow\ndirectly brighter. To walk over mineral land, signifies distress,\nfrom which you will escape and be bettered in your surroundings." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "mineral-water", "title": "Mineral Water", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of drinking mineral water, foretells fortune will favor your efforts, and you will enjoy your opportunities to satisfy your…”", "aliases": [ "mineral water" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about mineral water stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1311", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Mineral Water", "text": "To dream of drinking mineral water, foretells fortune will favor\nyour efforts, and you will enjoy your opportunities to satisfy\nyour cravings for certain pleasures.", "locator": "Heading 1315; source lines 15113–15119", "lineStart": 15113, "lineEnd": 15119, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of drinking mineral water, foretells fortune will favor\nyour efforts, and you will enjoy your opportunities to satisfy\nyour cravings for certain pleasures." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "mining", "title": "Mining", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see mining in your dreams, denotes that an enemy is seeking your ruin by bringing up past immoralities in your life.”", "aliases": [ "mining" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about mining stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1312", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Mining", "text": "To see mining in your dreams, denotes that an enemy is seeking\nyour ruin by bringing up past immoralities in your life.\nYou will be likely to make unpleasant journeys, if you stand\nnear the mine.\n\nIf you dream of hunting for mines, you will engage in worthless pursuits.", "locator": "Heading 1316; source lines 15119–15128", "lineStart": 15119, "lineEnd": 15128, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see mining in your dreams, denotes that an enemy is seeking\nyour ruin by bringing up past immoralities in your life.\nYou will be likely to make unpleasant journeys, if you stand\nnear the mine.\n\nIf you dream of hunting for mines, you will engage in worthless pursuits." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "minister", "title": "Minister", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing a minister, denotes unfortunate changes and unpleasant journeys.”", "aliases": [ "minister" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about minister stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "preacher", "priest" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1313", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Minister", "text": "To dream of seeing a minister, denotes unfortunate changes\nand unpleasant journeys.\n\nTo hear a minister exhort, foretells that some designing person\nwill influence you to evil.\n\nTo dream that you are a minister, denotes that you will\nusurp another's rights.\n\n\n[128] See Preacher and Priest.", "locator": "Heading 1317; source lines 15128–15142", "lineStart": 15128, "lineEnd": 15142, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing a minister, denotes unfortunate changes\nand unpleasant journeys.\n\nTo hear a minister exhort, foretells that some designing person\nwill influence you to evil.\n\nTo dream that you are a minister, denotes that you will\nusurp another's rights. See Preacher and Priest." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "preacher", "priest" ] }, { "slug": "mint", "title": "Mint", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Book of Luck wrote: “An improvement in health.”", "aliases": [ "mint" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about mint stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "luck-0179", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Mint", "text": "An improvement in health.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 179; source lines 3968–3970", "lineStart": 3968, "lineEnd": 3970, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "An improvement in health." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1314", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Minuet", "text": "To dream of seeing the minuet danced, signifies a pleasant existence\nwith congenial companions.\n\nTo dance it yourself, good fortune and domestic joys are foretold.", "locator": "Heading 1318; source lines 15142–15149", "lineStart": 15142, "lineEnd": 15149, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing the minuet danced, signifies a pleasant existence\nwith congenial companions.\n\nTo dance it yourself, good fortune and domestic joys are foretold." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "minx", "title": "Minx", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a minx, denotes you will have sly enemies to overcome.”", "aliases": [ "minx" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about minx stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1316", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Mire", "text": "To dream of going through mire, indicates that your dearest wishes\nand plans will receive a temporary check by the intervention of unusual\nchanges in your surroundings.", "locator": "Heading 1320; source lines 15157–15163", "lineStart": 15157, "lineEnd": 15163, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of going through mire, indicates that your dearest wishes\nand plans will receive a temporary check by the intervention of unusual\nchanges in your surroundings." }, { "id": "noe-0326", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Mire", "text": "To dream you wade in mire and stubble,\n Foretelleth surely toil and trouble,\n Yet perseverance will not fail\n O’er toil and trouble to prevail.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 330; source lines 1302–1309", "lineStart": 1302, "lineEnd": 1309, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you wade in mire and stubble,\nForetelleth surely toil and trouble,\nYet perseverance will not fail\nO’er toil and trouble to prevail." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10888", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Mire", "heading": "Mire", "text": "An evil dream although it may be rendered harmless (Raphael).", "lineStart": 10888, "lineEnd": 10890, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 234; NLM OCR lines 10888–10890", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10888, "lineEnd": 10890, "printedPage": 234, "printedPageEnd": 234 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Mire. — An evil dream although it may be rendered harm- \nless (Raphael). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "harm- \nless", "after": "harmless", "evidenceLine": 8192 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 0.95918, "secondaryHeading": "Mire" }, "displayText": "An evil dream although it may be rendered harmless (Raphael)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "mirror", "title": "Mirror", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "summary": "A mirror may explore feedback, a changed viewpoint or the conditions of being represented. What the surface helps you see gives it a purpose.", "tagline": "A reflected view can provide information and still be partial.", "aliases": [ "mirror", "looking-glass", "of the looking-glasse", "lookingglass", "mirrors", "broken mirror", "looking glass", "mirror reflection" ], "status": "REVIEW", "psychological": "A mirror can make feedback concrete by placing a visible account of you or the surrounding scene in front of you. It may help with an ordinary task, provide a view from another angle or show an image that does not keep pace with your actions. The dream may explore how representation relates to direct experience. An accurate, usable view creates another encounter from one that attracts attention while leaving an important detail out.\n\n Timing can change the usefulness of feedback. A reflection that moves after you do may resemble an assessment based on an earlier stage of work or an old description that has not caught up with a change. Waiting, checking another view or continuing without constant inspection can give the scene different possibilities. The image need not reveal a hidden identity; its relation to the present activity may be the more practical concern.\n\n A mirror can also reveal what is outside your immediate view. Seeing something behind you may make the next turn easier, or introduce information you cannot yet place. This can resemble learning one relevant detail through another person's account. Looking directly at the setting can help distinguish what the surface shows from what you assumed about it. Neither perspective necessarily provides the whole scene on its own.\n\n A marked or fragmented surface can bring the medium into question. Cleaning a patch may improve the view, while repeatedly changing your appearance would address a different part of the task. Several pieces may show different angles rather than one complete image. A waking comparison could be comparing separate comments or records before deciding how they fit together. The dream does not turn broken glass into a forecast of harm or a diagnosis of the self.\n\n Shared use can make privacy and access important. You may need the mirror for preparation while another person controls its position or watches the image. A movable surface, enough time or an agreed use can make the task more comfortable. Everyday grooming, photographs and remembered rooms can also supply context. The mirror's angle, timing and purpose give the reflected view direction beyond judging appearance alone.", "traditional": "The seven books give varied forecasts to mirror images and damaged glass, often involving family, relationships, illness or death. Artemidorus also discusses reflected water; Craig’s Mirror heading is only a pointer to Looking-Glass. These accounts preserve period predictions and comparisons, rather than evidence that a reflection reveals private truth or anticipates harm.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Feedback with a time and purpose", "reflection": "A reflected account may help a task when it relates to what is happening now. Delayed or outdated movement can make the scene about updating information instead of accepting every representation as a complete description." }, { "title": "Another angle on the setting", "reflection": "A mirror can show a detail outside your direct view. Comparing the reflected and direct perspectives may make that information usable while preserving the limits of each angle." }, { "title": "The conditions of representation", "reflection": "Marks, fragments, position and shared use can affect what the surface shows. The scene may explore whether a view needs a change in its medium or terms, rather than a change in the person being viewed." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "The reflection moves a moment after you do", "reflection": "The image remains connected with you but seems based on an earlier instant. This may picture feedback that has not caught up with a current change. Waiting, comparing another view or continuing the task can make the delay practical without treating it as a hidden self." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A mirror shows a useful detail behind you", "reflection": "The surface supplies information that your original position did not allow. Turning or comparing the direct view can help place the detail within the wider setting. The scene may explore using another perspective without requiring it to become the only authoritative account." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Cleaning one patch restores the view", "reflection": "The difficulty belongs partly to the surface through which you are looking. A limited adjustment makes the information useful again. This may resemble improving a method of feedback rather than repeatedly altering your own work or appearance to compensate for a problem in its presentation." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Several mirror pieces show different angles", "reflection": "Each view contains a part without supplying one complete image. Comparing them may let differences become useful instead of requiring immediate agreement. The scene can explore assembling partial accounts, without making fragmented glass a verdict about your identity or a prediction of injury." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Another person controls the mirror while you prepare", "reflection": "The task depends on where the surface is placed and how long it is available. Requesting a different angle or an agreed turn may make participation easier. The encounter can concern access to a useful resource as much as the appearance being checked." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The mirror reflects the room but leaves your image absent", "reflection": "The setting remains visible while the account you expected of yourself is unavailable. This may picture a method that records surroundings without answering the personal question you brought to it. Another view or a different task can give the encounter a more usable purpose." } ], "prompts": [ "What task or question was the reflected view meant to help?", "How did its timing, angle or surface affect the information available?", "What became clearer when you compared the reflection with another perspective?" ], "related": [ "face", "hair", "photograph", "pictures", "glass" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "scope": "Attributed historical context only. miller-1218: The Looking-glass passage gives a gendered deceit/separation forecast and points to Mirror. miller-1317: Mirror images of oneself, others, animals or a lover, breaking the surface and a broken mirror receive health, fortune, death and relationship forecasts. Period writing, not evidence of an outcome. This citation does not validate the original psychological reflections or predict a waking outcome.", "recordReferences": [ { "id": "miller-1218", "heading": "Looking-glass", "locator": "Heading 1221; source lines 14240–14249" }, { "id": "miller-1317", "heading": "Mirror", "locator": "Heading 1321; source lines 15163–15186" } ], "recordIds": [ "miller-1218", "miller-1317" ] }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0441" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context only. fontaine-0441: Looking in and breaking a looking-glass, or seeing a lover, receive friendship/property, illness, death and relationship forecasts. This citation does not validate the original psychological reflections or predict a waking outcome." }, { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display.", "recordIds": [ "artemidorus-070" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context only. artemidorus-070: Book 2’s looking-glass passage distinguishes an ordinary or altered reflection, sadness, sickness, travel, parentage and viewing oneself in water through period forecasts. The transcription’s illegible gap remains; gendered/medical claims are not validated. This citation does not validate the original psychological reflections or predict a waking outcome." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0289" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context only. noe-0289: Looking in a glass is assigned children or a lover according to marital status. This citation does not validate the original psychological reflections or predict a waking outcome." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0270" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context only. cielo-0270: Seeing oneself and breaking a mirror receive wounded-pride/illness and misadventure claims. This citation does not validate the original psychological reflections or predict a waking outcome." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0180" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context only. luck-0180: Mirror scenes receive children, sweethearts and a failed-project forecast according to dreamer or reflected view. This citation does not validate the original psychological reflections or predict a waking outcome." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L10736", "craig-1918:L10891" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context only. craig-1918:L10736: Craig’s Looking-Glass paragraph combines looking from high places/windows/wells with mirror-image, family and reflected-water forecasts. Its Artemidorus attribution and ancestral-memory theory remain Craig’s statements; only the actual mirror portions are used in this page’s context. craig-1918:L10891: Cross-reference only: Mirror says See Looking-glass. This specific record supplies no independent interpretation. This citation does not validate the original psychological reflections or predict a waking outcome." } ], "updated": "2026-10-13", "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection independently reviewed for content and source scope. Historical accounts remain attributed period writing. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1218", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Looking-glass", "text": "For a woman to dream of a looking-glass, denotes that she is soon\nto be confronted with shocking deceitfulness and discrepancies,\nwhich may result in tragic scenes or separations.\n\n\n[115] See Mirror.", "locator": "Heading 1221; source lines 14240–14249", "lineStart": 14240, "lineEnd": 14249, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a woman to dream of a looking-glass, denotes that she is soon\nto be confronted with shocking deceitfulness and discrepancies,\nwhich may result in tragic scenes or separations. See Mirror.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Looking-glass” is shown on the Mirror page: looking-glass is the archaic word for mirror; Craig's Mirror record itself says \"See Looking-glass\"" }, { "id": "miller-1317", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Mirror", "text": "To dream of seeing yourself in a mirror, denotes that you will meet\nmany discouraging issues, and sickness will cause you distress\nand loss in fortune.\n\nTo see a broken mirror, foretells the sudden or violent death\nof some one related to you.\n\nTo see others in a mirror, denotes that others will act unfairly\ntowards you to promote their own interests.\n\nTo see animals in a mirror, denotes disappointment and loss in fortune.\n\nFor a young woman to break a mirror, foretells unfortunate\nfriendships and an unhappy marriage. To see her lover in a mirror\nlooking pale and careworn, denotes death or a broken engagement.\nIf he seems happy, a slight estrangement will arise, but it\nwill be of short duration.\n\n\n[129] See Glass.", "locator": "Heading 1321; source lines 15163–15186", "lineStart": 15163, "lineEnd": 15186, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing yourself in a mirror, denotes that you will meet\nmany discouraging issues, and sickness will cause you distress\nand loss in fortune.\n\nTo see a broken mirror, foretells the sudden or violent death\nof some one related to you.\n\nTo see others in a mirror, denotes that others will act unfairly\ntowards you to promote their own interests.\n\nTo see animals in a mirror, denotes disappointment and loss in fortune.\n\nFor a young woman to break a mirror, foretells unfortunate\nfriendships and an unhappy marriage. To see her lover in a mirror\nlooking pale and careworn, denotes death or a broken engagement.\nIf he seems happy, a slight estrangement will arise, but it\nwill be of short duration. See Glass." }, { "id": "fontaine-0441", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Looking-Glass", "text": "To dream of a looking-glass, is a bad omen, and\nsignifies that you will be surrounded with false friends, who will rob\nyou until your property dwindles to a shadow. To dream you see your\nface in a looking-glass is a sign of sickness. To break a looking-glass\nportends death. If a girl dreams she sees her lover in a looking-glass,\nit is a sign he will desert or seduce her. 18, 61.", "locator": "Heading 441; source line 3029", "lineStart": 3029, "lineEnd": 3036, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a looking-glass, is a bad omen, and\nsignifies that you will be surrounded with false friends, who will rob\nyou until your property dwindles to a shadow. To dream you see your\nface in a looking-glass is a sign of sickness. To break a looking-glass\nportends death. If a girl dreams she sees her lover in a looking-glass,\nit is a sign he will desert or seduce her.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Looking-glass” is shown on the Mirror page: looking-glass is the archaic word for mirror; Craig's Mirror record itself says \"See Looking-glass\"" }, { "id": "artemidorus-070", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of the Looking-Glasse.", "text": "TO be before a Looking-Glasse and to sée themselves accoring to their true shape▪ is good for him and her which would be married: for the Glasse represents to the man his Wife, and to the woman her Husband. It is good also to sad and afflicted people, for it signifieth they shall soon passe out of heavinesse, because heavi[illegible passage] men look not in a Glasse, But this dream to the sicke is death. Others by this dream have gone into a strange Country: to see himselfe in the glasse not such as he is, signifieth he shall be made father of Bastards or other mens children. But to sée himselfe more ill▪ favoured and deformed, is heavinesse and anger. As also to dreame to sée himselfe in the water, is death to the dreamer, or some familiar friend of his.", "locator": "Book 2, encoded section 70", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription-with-gaps", "book": "2", "displayText": "To be before a Looking-Glasse and to sée themselves accoring to their true shape▪ is good for him and her which would be married: for the Glasse represents to the man his Wife, and to the woman her Husband. It is good also to sad and afflicted people, for it signifieth they shall soon passe out of heavinesse, because heavi [illegible passage] men look not in a Glasse, But this dream to the sicke is death. Others by this dream have gone into a strange Country: to see himselfe in the glasse not such as he is, signifieth he shall be made father of Bastards or other mens children. But to sée himselfe more ill▪ favoured and deformed, is heavinesse and anger. As also to dreame to sée himselfe in the water, is death to the dreamer, or some familiar friend of his.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Looking-Glasse” is shown on the Mirror page: looking-glass is the archaic word for mirror; Craig's Mirror record itself says \"See Looking-glass\"" }, { "id": "noe-0289", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Lookingglass", "text": "To dream of looking in a glass,\ndenotes children to the married and to the unmarried it promises a lover\nspeedily.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 292; source lines 1185–1187", "lineStart": 1185, "lineEnd": 1187, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of looking in a glass,\ndenotes children to the married and to the unmarried it promises a lover\nspeedily.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Looking-glass” is shown on the Mirror page: looking-glass is the archaic word for mirror; Craig's Mirror record itself says \"See Looking-glass\"" }, { "id": "cielo-0270", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Mirror", "text": "To see yourself in the glass denotes wounded\n pride or sickness. To break one, misadventure.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 270; source lines 4508–4511", "lineStart": 4508, "lineEnd": 4511, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see yourself in the glass denotes wounded\npride or sickness. To break one, misadventure." }, { "id": "luck-0180", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Mirror", "text": "(Married folk dreaming) Children: (young people)\nsweethearts: (seeing own face) failure of cherished project.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 180; source lines 3970–3976", "lineStart": 3970, "lineEnd": 3976, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(Married folk dreaming) Children: (young people)\nsweethearts: (seeing own face) failure of cherished project." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10736", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Looking-Glass", "heading": "Looking-Glass", "text": "To dream of looking from high places, out of windows, or in a well denotes ambition, imagination, confused desires. Looking in a mirror, to married folk betokens children ; to the young, sweethearts ; vanity to a maid. To see oneself in water forecasts the dreamer's death or that of a friend (Artemidorus). This dream can be directly traced through ancestral memory back to the legends of mythology.", "lineStart": 10736, "lineEnd": 10743, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 231; NLM OCR lines 10736–10743", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10736, "lineEnd": 10743, "printedPage": 231, "printedPageEnd": 231 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Looking-Glass. — To dream of looking from high places, \nout of windows, or in a well denotes ambition, imagination, \nconfused desires. Looking in a mirror, to married folk betok- \nens children ; to the young, sweethearts ; vanity to a maid. To \nsee oneself in water forecasts the dreamer's death or that of \na friend (Artemidorus). This dream can be directly traced \nthrough ancestral memory back to the legends of mythology. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "betok- \nens", "after": "betokens", "evidenceLine": 9525 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Looking-Glass" }, "displayText": "To dream of looking from high places, out of windows, or in a well denotes ambition, imagination, confused desires. Looking in a mirror, to married folk betokens children; to the young, sweethearts; vanity to a maid. To see oneself in water forecasts the dreamer's death or that of a friend (Artemidorus). This dream can be directly traced through ancestral memory back to the legends of mythology.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Looking-glass” is shown on the Mirror page: looking-glass is the archaic word for mirror; Craig's Mirror record itself says \"See Looking-glass\"" }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10891", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Mirror", "heading": "Mirror", "text": "See Looking-glass.", "lineStart": 10891, "lineEnd": 10892, "kind": "cross-reference", "locator": "Printed p. 234; NLM OCR lines 10891–10892", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10891, "lineEnd": 10892, "printedPage": 234, "printedPageEnd": 234 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Mirror. — See Looking-glass. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Mirror" }, "displayText": "See Looking-glass." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [ "glass" ] }, { "slug": "miscarriage", "title": "Miscarriage", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "A difficult imagined loss can have more than one response.", "summary": "A dreamed pregnancy loss may bring difficult news, changed expectations or a need for recognition into focus without predicting an outcome.", "aliases": [ "miscarriage", "miscarrying", "losing a pregnancy", "pregnancy loss", "dream of miscarriage", "dreaming of miscarriage" ], "status": "REVIEW", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-14", "psychological": "A miscarriage dream can place a hoped-for or assumed future beside the news that it has changed. Its significance may be direct if pregnancy or loss already has a place in your life. You do not have to replace that history with a project metaphor or find a benefit in the loss. The dream cannot establish pregnancy, a medical event or an outcome, and it does not assign blame or reveal a hidden wish.\n\nSometimes the dream begins with the announcement rather than an earlier pregnancy. You are asked to respond to an event without having experienced the steps that preceded it. This may picture the difficulty of taking in information before it feels connected to your own account. Confusion can deserve space alongside sadness, rather than being treated as a failure to understand.\n\nThe surroundings can make an intimate experience feel exposed. A borrowed room has no door, or a crowd keeps moving through while you want a place to pause. The scene may concern having room for your response instead of immediately becoming available to other people. An ordinary waking comparison could be needing privacy after difficult news when the day’s activity continues around you.\n\nWords can offer recognition or feel imposed. Someone repeats the term you chose for the loss rather than correcting it or supplying an explanation. This may picture wanting company that allows your own account to remain intact. The dream’s conversation does not establish what a real person understands, but it can make the kind of exchange you value more particular.\n\nReminders may outlast the change. An expected date remains on a calendar, or objects still carry the plan they were meant to serve. Their presence can bring the difference between an imagined future and the arrangements around it into view. That difference need not become an instruction to discard, preserve or reinterpret anything while awake.\n\nYou may instead accompany another person, or feel calm during the scene and sad afterward. These positions offer different experiences of the same dreamed subject. Care can concern staying present without supplying an answer; an unfamiliar feeling can remain unfamiliar without judging your compassion. The reflection can hold the event, its surroundings and your response separately, leaving room for what matters to you without requiring one complete explanation.", "traditional": "No exact historical pregnancy-loss account is attached to this owner. The neighboring Pregnancy and Being pregnant records concern different images and do not supply miscarriage predictions or explanations. The general sleep source provides background only; the original reflection makes no clinical claim about causes, care or an actual pregnancy.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You are told about the loss without having dreamed the pregnancy beforehand", "reflection": "The announcement asks for a response before the preceding experience feels like yours. This may picture difficulty connecting news with an incomplete account. Confusion can remain part of the scene without being corrected into one expected feeling or treated as evidence that an actual event has occurred." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "The room has no private space while people keep passing through", "reflection": "The imagined loss takes place amid activity that leaves little room for your response. This can picture wanting a pause that is not continuously available to others. The surrounding movement may matter more than finding a symbolic explanation for the loss or judging whether your reaction is appropriate." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A companion uses the words you chose rather than replacing them with an explanation", "reflection": "The exchange allows your account to remain yours while another person stays involved. This may picture a form of recognition you value: company that does not require an immediate lesson or reason. Its usefulness comes from the dreamed conversation, without establishing what a real person knows or intends." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "An expected date stays on the calendar after the dream says the pregnancy has ended", "reflection": "A planned future remains visible in an object after the scene has changed. This may bring expectation and its surrounding arrangements into the same moment. The date can matter without becoming a prediction or an instruction about what you should keep, remove or feel in waking life." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You accompany another person who has experienced the loss in the dream", "reflection": "Your position is to stay with someone rather than experience the event through your own body. This may picture care that does not need a complete explanation before it can be offered. The encounter can clarify a valued form of company without telling you what an actual person needs." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You feel calm in the dream and sadness appears after waking", "reflection": "Two responses arrive at different times without cancelling each other. This may make the gap between dreamed experience and waking feeling worth considering on its own. Calmness does not measure compassion, and later sadness does not require you to reinterpret every earlier action as secretly carrying the same emotion." } ], "prompts": [ "What part of the imagined event or its uncertainty would you like to describe in your own words?", "How did the surroundings and other people allow room for your response?", "What difference did you experience between expectation, the dreamed moment and the feeling after waking?" ], "related": [ "being-pregnant", "baby", "grief", "deceased-loved-one" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Taking in an event without a full sequence", "reflection": "An announcement can arrive before the dream gives you a pregnancy story or a way to respond." }, { "title": "Room and language for your own response", "reflection": "Privacy or a chosen description can make recognition useful without requiring another person to explain the loss." }, { "title": "A changed expectation and several feelings", "reflection": "A remaining reminder, another person’s experience or a shift after waking can place different responses beside the same imagined event." } ], "detectionAliases": [ "miscarriage", "miscarrying", "losing a pregnancy", "pregnancy loss", "dream of miscarriage", "dreaming of miscarriage", "miscarriages", "loss of pregnancy" ], "detectionAliasScope": "The plural miscarriages and the phrase loss of pregnancy name the imagined loss already described by this reading. Visible lookup aliases remain unchanged. Symptoms and generic lost-baby wording are outside this detection profile; these phrases do not classify real clinical events.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "miser", "title": "Miser", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a miser, foretells you will be unfortunate in finding true happiness owing to selfishness, and…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "miser" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about miser stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1318", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Miser", "text": "To dream of a miser, foretells you will be unfortunate in finding true\nhappiness owing to selfishness, and love will disappoint you sorely.\n\nFor a woman to dream that she is befriended by a miser,\nforetells she will gain love and wealth by her intelligence\nand tactful conduct.\n\nTo dream that you are miserly, denotes that you will be obnoxious\nto others by your conceited bearing\n\nTo dream that any of your friends are misers, foretells that you\nwill be distressed by the importunities of others.", "locator": "Heading 1322; source lines 15186–15201", "lineStart": 15186, "lineEnd": 15201, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a miser, foretells you will be unfortunate in finding true\nhappiness owing to selfishness, and love will disappoint you sorely.\n\nFor a woman to dream that she is befriended by a miser,\nforetells she will gain love and wealth by her intelligence\nand tactful conduct.\n\nTo dream that you are miserly, denotes that you will be obnoxious\nto others by your conceited bearing\n\nTo dream that any of your friends are misers, foretells that you\nwill be distressed by the importunities of others." }, { "id": "fontaine-0476", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Miser", "text": "To dream of a miser is a sign of waste, loss or destruction: if\nyou see him counting and hoarding money, it foretells you will either\nlose or be robbed of some: to see him patching his clothes or his\nhouse or barn denotes a calamity, such as a robbery or a fire. 14, 62.", "locator": "Heading 476; source line 3200", "lineStart": 3200, "lineEnd": 3205, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a miser is a sign of waste, loss or destruction: if\nyou see him counting and hoarding money, it foretells you will either\nlose or be robbed of some: to see him patching his clothes or his\nhouse or barn denotes a calamity, such as a robbery or a fire." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10893", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Miser", "heading": "Miser", "text": "Like all dreams pertaining to money or hoards, this is unfavorable (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 10893, "lineEnd": 10895, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 234; NLM OCR lines 10893–10895", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10893, "lineEnd": 10895, "printedPage": 234, "printedPageEnd": 234 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Miser. — Like all dreams pertaining to money or hoards, this \nis unfavorable (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 0.96667, "secondaryHeading": "Miser" }, "displayText": "Like all dreams pertaining to money or hoards, this is unfavorable (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "misery", "title": "Misery", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “Dreaming that you are in great misery on account of some calamity that has befallen either your sweetheart, partner in life, or a relation,…”", "aliases": [ "misery" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about misery stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "noe-0337", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Misery", "text": "Dreaming that you are in\ngreat misery on account of some calamity that has befallen either your\nsweetheart, partner in life, or a relation, denotes that you may expect\nsome important event occurring, which will be deeply interesting to you.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 341; source lines 1340–1344", "lineStart": 1340, "lineEnd": 1344, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Dreaming that you are in\ngreat misery on account of some calamity that has befallen either your\nsweetheart, partner in life, or a relation, denotes that you may expect\nsome important event occurring, which will be deeply interesting to you." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "misfortune", "title": "Misfortune", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “To dream you have a misfortune denotes luck and success: thus.”", "aliases": [ "misfortune" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about misfortune stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0477", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Misfortune", "text": "To dream you have a misfortune denotes luck and success:\nthus; dreaming of the loss of money is a sign you will get some: if you\nimagine your house is burned, you will be successful in a speculation:\nif you dream of being robbed, it foretells a legacy or the finding of\nsomething valuable, &c. 41.", "locator": "Heading 477; source line 3205", "lineStart": 3205, "lineEnd": 3211, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you have a misfortune denotes luck and success:\nthus; dreaming of the loss of money is a sign you will get some: if you\nimagine your house is burned, you will be successful in a speculation:\nif you dream of being robbed, it foretells a legacy or the finding of\nsomething valuable, &c." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "missing-a-flight-or-train", "title": "Missing a flight or train", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "Missing a departure can expose the terms of the journey you were trying to join.", "summary": "A missed flight or train dream can explore preparation, shared timing and mixed feelings about a plan. What kept you from boarding matters.", "aliases": [ "missed flight", "missing flight", "missed train" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "Missing a flight or train puts your own readiness against a departure shared with other people. The vehicle leaves at a time you cannot reset simply by wanting more room. In a dream, this can picture trying to coordinate a change with conditions that do not move at your pace. A deadline, shared plan or transition may offer a parallel. The missed departure matters through where you meant to go and whether the journey was actually wanted.\n\nPacking that never finishes can make preparation consume the space needed to act. One more item, check or correction repeatedly becomes necessary. This can resemble a project whose requirements expand until beginning feels impossible, or a decision that waits for certainty no amount of preparation provides. The scene may also revisit ordinary travel stress. What keeps needing attention distinguishes careful readiness from a task that no longer has a workable end.\n\nChanging gates or unreadable information can place the obstacle outside your preparation. You may have been ready under one set of instructions only to find another applied at the last moment. A role or process with unstable expectations can feel similar. The dream need not assign blame; it can show how unclear access turns a wanted plan into repeated redirection.\n\nAnother person's timing can make shared responsibility visible. Waiting for a companion may express care, loyalty or dependence on an agreement neither person fully controls. Being blamed for the delay can sharpen the question of who was expected to coordinate everything. Watching a familiar person leave on the train can instead center separation: the journey was a way to be with them, not only a destination to reach.\n\nRelief after missing the vehicle can reveal a part of the plan you had not fully wanted. Disappointment may remain alongside it. Choosing another departure or a different route can picture keeping the purpose while revising the method. Staying behind can also be a considered ending rather than proof that a chance has expired. Recent departures and remembered timetable problems may supply the details directly. These original readings concern failure to board a particular journey, while Airport covers arrivals, pickups and the terminal as a broader place.", "traditional": "Miller’s historical Cars passage, preserved on Railway cars, explicitly forecasts thwarted prospects when a railway vehicle is missed. That narrow railway/street-car context is supplied; no airplane or airport interpretation is inferred from it. The forecast is a period belief, not evidence that a missed dream departure means an actual opportunity has expired. Its original record remains on Railway cars.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Readiness and a shared timetable", "reflection": "A missed departure can picture coordination between your preparation and conditions you do not set alone. The important mismatch may concern timing, instructions or responsibility." }, { "title": "The journey you actually wanted", "reflection": "Destination and company give the departure its purpose. Relief can coexist with disappointment when an arranged journey does not fully match your own wishes." }, { "title": "A purpose with another route", "reflection": "An alternative departure can preserve what mattered while changing the method. Revising a plan need not require recovering every detail of its original timetable." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Packing never finishes before departure", "reflection": "Endless packing can picture preparation whose requirements keep multiplying. A project or decision may feel similar when one more check postpones every start. The wanted journey and the preparation can become separate tasks." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "The gate or platform changes after you check it", "reflection": "A changed gate can resemble being ready under instructions that no longer apply. Unstable expectations may leave effort without access. The difficulty is not automatically a failure to prepare well enough." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Someone else’s timing makes you miss the vehicle", "reflection": "Another person’s delay can picture a shared plan whose timing is not yours to set alone. Care and frustration may coexist. The response to the delay helps show how responsibility was distributed." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You watch a train leave with a person you hoped to join", "reflection": "Watching someone leave can make separation the central loss. You may have wanted the journey because it meant joining that person. Their departure does not reveal how they feel about you outside the dream." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You realize you are relieved not to make the journey", "reflection": "Relief at missing a journey can picture an arrangement that was accepted without being fully wanted. Disappointment about its consequences can still remain. Mixed feelings give the missed departure a more specific meaning than simple failure." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You choose another departure or another way to travel", "reflection": "Choosing another route can picture retaining a purpose while making the plan more workable. A changed method may be slower or less familiar. What remains possible can matter more than reproducing the first departure." } ], "prompts": [ "What was the journey meant to make possible, and did I want it on those terms?", "Which part of the delay belonged to preparation, information or shared timing?", "What changed when I felt relief, stayed behind or chose another route?" ], "related": [ "being-late", "airplane", "train", "being-lost", "packing-but-never-finishing", "airport" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." }, { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-0345" ], "scope": "Adjacent comparison only: miller-0345’s sentence about missing a car and thwarted prospects occurs in its railway/street-car passage. It is not airplane or airport lore. Original record ownership remains Railway cars. Exact supplied records: miller-0345 — Cars (Heading 345; source lines 4833–4862). Historical comparison only, not evidence for the original reflective reading or an actual outcome." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s continuing English editorial delegation. Sources retain their stated scope; neither historical accounts nor general research validate these interpretations.", "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "DreamFolia AI-assisted editorial review", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "childhood-home", "lucid-dreaming", "recurring-dream", "missing-a-flight-or-train", "unable-to-scream", "books", "cradle", "eyes", "forgetting-to-feed-a-pet", "message", "nightmare", "searching-for-a-missing-pet", "sleep" ] }, "decisionReason": "Six scenes explain preparation, changed instructions, shared timing, wanted company, relief and an alternative route. The narrow Cars comparison was checked in full and remains owned by Railway cars; no airplane history or expired real-world opportunity is inferred.", "reviewedSnapshot": "data/guide-linked-publication-review-2026-10-15.json", "contentSha256": "5a10e95e75e758cba792d81e9249f6962b31a6f54b034a986039f05348cb359b" }, "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "missing-a-highway-exit", "title": "Missing a highway exit", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "Passing an exit can make one moment feel decisive. Explore the difference between a delay, a detour, and a genuinely lost opportunity.", "summary": "Passing an exit can make one moment feel decisive. Explore the difference between a delay, a detour, and a genuinely lost opportunity.", "aliases": [ "missed freeway exit dream", "driving past my turnoff" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "What prevented the turn: traffic, unclear signs, hesitation, or another person controlling the route? Notice whether the next exit existed or whether the dream exaggerated the mistake into endless distance. A missed turn need not mean you ruined a waking opportunity. It can be useful to ask how much room the scene allowed for correction, and whether you judged yourself more harshly than the actual consequences required.", "traditional": "Older crossroads and road entries do not provide a fixed moral for modern highways with limited exits. This draft does not equate every turn with destiny or treat a detour as punishment.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "Traffic prevents you from reaching the exit lane", "reflection": "Which constraints made the desired choice unavailable?" }, { "title": "A passenger blames you for the detour", "reflection": "Did their response fit the size of the problem?" }, { "title": "The next exit provides a simple route back", "reflection": "What changed when the mistake became repairable?" } ], "prompts": [ "What caused you to miss the turn?", "How serious were the actual consequences in the dream?", "Was there room to correct the route without blaming yourself?" ], "related": [ "road", "car", "cross-roads" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia model-assisted editorial draft. Reflection questions and scenario readings are optional, individually written suggestions, not empirically validated symbol meanings. Source scope is stated with each citation. Historical comparisons identify topics, not inherited interpretations. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "missing-a-video-call", "title": "Missing a video call", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "tagline": "A meeting happens elsewhere while you try to join it.", "summary": "Missing a video call can concern a lost conversation, an obligation, or exclusion from a shared moment. What you missed matters more than the software.", "aliases": [ "missing a video call" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "The obstacle gives this scene its shape: a wrong time zone, a broken link, a forgotten appointment, or a call that ended early. You might reflect on whether you felt responsible for the absence or prevented from attending. A family celebration and a work interview carry different stakes. Notice what you believed happened without you and whether the dream ever confirmed it. Your imagined consequences may be more revealing to journal about than the missed connection itself.", "traditional": "Video calls do not appear in the older archive. Comparing this scene with missing an appointment or arriving after a gathering is a present-day reading.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "Everyone had already left", "reflection": "The scene may concern timing or missing a shared moment. What did you wish you had been present to hear?" }, { "title": "The link never opened", "reflection": "You tried to attend but lacked access. Did anyone notice your effort or assume you had chosen to stay away?" }, { "title": "You forgot the call and felt relieved", "reflection": "Relief can coexist with guilt. Note what you gained by missing it and what responsibility remained." } ], "prompts": [ "Who was waiting for me, if anyone?", "What did I think my absence meant to them?", "What prevented a second chance to connect?" ], "related": [ "a-frozen-video-meeting" ], "sources": [], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection draft, written for this specific modern scene. Suggested connections are exploratory, not established dream meanings. Individual editorial review remains pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "mist", "title": "Mist", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are enveloped in a mist, denotes uncertain fortunes and domestic unhappiness.”", "aliases": [ "mist" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about mist stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1319", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Mist", "text": "To dream that you are enveloped in a mist, denotes uncertain\nfortunes and domestic unhappiness. If the mist clears away,\nyour troubles will be of short duration.\n\nTo see others in a mist, you will profit by the misfortune of others.", "locator": "Heading 1323; source lines 15201–15209", "lineStart": 15201, "lineEnd": 15209, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are enveloped in a mist, denotes uncertain\nfortunes and domestic unhappiness. If the mist clears away,\nyour troubles will be of short duration.\n\nTo see others in a mist, you will profit by the misfortune of others." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "mistake", "title": "Mistake", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “If any one dreams of being vexed, annoyed, or injured by reason of making a mistake, it shadows forth disgrace.”", "aliases": [ "mistake" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about mistake stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0478", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Mistake", "text": "If any one dreams of being vexed, annoyed, or injured by\nreason of making a mistake, it shadows forth disgrace. Mistaking one\nperson for another in your dream, denotes scandal: thus if a young girl\nshould dream that she hailed a young man as her lover, and found it was\na stranger, it shows that some malicious person will talk lightly of\nher character. 78, 16.", "locator": "Heading 478; source line 3211", "lineStart": 3211, "lineEnd": 3218, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If any one dreams of being vexed, annoyed, or injured by\nreason of making a mistake, it shadows forth disgrace. Mistaking one\nperson for another in your dream, denotes scandal: thus if a young girl\nshould dream that she hailed a young man as her lover, and found it was\na stranger, it shows that some malicious person will talk lightly of\nher character." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "mistletoe", "title": "Mistletoe", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of mistletoe, foretells happiness and great rejoicing.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "mistletoe" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about mistletoe stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1320", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Mistletoe", "text": "To dream of mistletoe, foretells happiness and great rejoicing.\n\nTo the young, it omens many pleasant pastimes\n\nIf seen with unpromising signs, disappointment will displace\npleasure or fortune.", "locator": "Heading 1324; source lines 15209–15218", "lineStart": 15209, "lineEnd": 15218, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of mistletoe, foretells happiness and great rejoicing.\n\nTo the young, it omens many pleasant pastimes\n\nIf seen with unpromising signs, disappointment will displace\npleasure or fortune." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10896", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Mistletoe", "heading": "Mistletoe", "text": "A dream of fortune and health (Gypsy). The legends attached to the plant justify this symbolism.", "lineStart": 10896, "lineEnd": 10898, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 234; NLM OCR lines 10896–10898", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10896, "lineEnd": 10898, "printedPage": 234, "printedPageEnd": 234 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Mistletoe. — A dream of fortune and health (Gypsy). The \nlegends attached to the plant justify this symbolism. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Mistletoe" }, "displayText": "A dream of fortune and health (Gypsy). The legends attached to the plant justify this symbolism." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "mocking-bird", "title": "Mocking-bird", "type": "dreams", "category": "Other symbols", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see or hear a mocking-bird, signifies you will be invited to go on a pleasant visit to friends, and your affairs will move along smoothly…”", "aliases": [ "mocking-bird" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about mocking-bird stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1321", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Mocking-bird", "text": "To see or hear a mocking-bird, signifies you will be invited to go\non a pleasant visit to friends, and your affairs will move along\nsmoothly and prosperously. For a woman to see a wounded or dead one,\nher disagreement with a friend or lover is signified.", "locator": "Heading 1325; source lines 15218–15225", "lineStart": 15218, "lineEnd": 15225, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see or hear a mocking-bird, signifies you will be invited to go\non a pleasant visit to friends, and your affairs will move along\nsmoothly and prosperously. For a woman to see a wounded or dead one,\nher disagreement with a friend or lover is signified." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "models", "title": "Models", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a model, foretells your social affairs will deplete your purse, and quarrels and regrets will follow.”", "aliases": [ "models" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about models stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1322", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Models", "text": "To dream of a model, foretells your social affairs will\ndeplete your purse, and quarrels and regrets will follow.\nFor a young woman to dream that she is a model or seeking to be one,\nforetells she will be entangled in a love affair which will give\nher trouble through the selfishness of a friend.", "locator": "Heading 1326; source lines 15225–15233", "lineStart": 15225, "lineEnd": 15233, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a model, foretells your social affairs will\ndeplete your purse, and quarrels and regrets will follow.\nFor a young woman to dream that she is a model or seeking to be one,\nforetells she will be entangled in a love affair which will give\nher trouble through the selfishness of a friend." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "molasses", "title": "Molasses", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of molasses, is a sign that some one is going to extend you pleasant hospitality, and, through its acceptance, you will meet…”", "aliases": [ "molasses" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about molasses stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1323", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Molasses", "text": "To dream of molasses, is a sign that some one is going to\nextend you pleasant hospitality, and, through its acceptance,\nyou will meet agreeable and fortunate surprises. To eat it,\nforetells that you will be discouraged and disappointed in love.\nTo have it smeared on your clothing, denotes you will have\ndisagreeable offers of marriage, and probably losses in business.", "locator": "Heading 1327; source lines 15233–15242", "lineStart": 15233, "lineEnd": 15242, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of molasses, is a sign that some one is going to\nextend you pleasant hospitality, and, through its acceptance,\nyou will meet agreeable and fortunate surprises. To eat it,\nforetells that you will be discouraged and disappointed in love.\nTo have it smeared on your clothing, denotes you will have\ndisagreeable offers of marriage, and probably losses in business." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "mold", "title": "Mold", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "aliases": [ "mould", "moldy room", "mouldy room", "mold on a wall" ], "summary": "Mold can make a changed condition noticeable. Returning growth, affected possessions, and access to its source create different possible readings.", "tagline": "A familiar surface no longer looks as it did before.", "psychological": "Mold can make an altered condition visible in a place or object you expected to remain usable. The image may connect with a task left unattended, an arrangement that has changed during an absence, or uncertainty about whether something familiar still serves its purpose. The emotional response matters: irritation about repair, sadness over a valued possession, and disgust at touching the surface lead toward different readings.\n\nFinding the growth when you reopen a stored box can picture the cost of postponement. Equipment, paperwork, or a former project may no longer be ready for use in the way you remembered. This does not require a judgment that you were careless. Priorities and available time change, and the dream may simply bring a deferred need back into view.\n\nRepeated cleaning without a lasting change can make the difference between a visible mark and its source important. A recurring task or difficulty in a shared arrangement may feel similar when each response handles the consequence but leaves its cause untouched. Being able to inspect the hidden area changes the scene toward understanding what maintains the problem.\n\nOther people’s responses can influence how manageable it feels. Being dismissed when you point out the altered surface may picture difficulty getting a practical concern heard. Receiving help can make the same discovery a shared task rather than a burden you must carry alone. The dream supplies an imagined encounter, not evidence that someone is concealing an actual problem.\n\nChoosing what to keep can involve attachment as well as function. A cherished object may be difficult to set aside even when the dream makes using it uncomfortable. Restoration, replacement, and remembrance are different possible responses. Recent household imagery can also explain the scene. A mold dream does not assess your health or the condition of your home; these readings concern the changed surface and your experience of responding to it.", "traditional": "A recent repair, stored possession, or household image may provide direct context. The interpretations here concern changed usability and the response to it. No matching historical mold passage is supplied, and the dream does not assess an actual building or health condition.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A deferred condition becomes visible", "reflection": "An altered surface may picture a need that returned to attention after a period of postponement. The scene can concern changed priorities and usability without turning the delay into a moral judgment." }, { "title": "The source differs from the visible result", "reflection": "Growth returning after cleaning can make recurring consequences visible. Access to what maintains the condition may matter more than repeatedly improving its appearance or increasing your immediate effort." }, { "title": "Attachment and function can diverge", "reflection": "An affected possession may remain meaningful while becoming difficult to use. The dream can explore care, loss, or revision without assuming that keeping a memory requires keeping its original form." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You open a box and find a valued object affected", "reflection": "Something kept for later may no longer feel available in its remembered form. Returning to an unfinished activity or old commitment can offer a parallel. Sadness may concern its meaning, while frustration may concern the work needed before it can be used." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "The same patch returns after every cleaning", "reflection": "A repeated response may not reach what maintains a difficulty. Repeatedly correcting a report while the same source data remains wrong may offer a parallel. The scene distinguishes the visible result from its cause; it does not establish a hidden physical problem in your actual surroundings." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You point out the mark but no one listens", "reflection": "A practical concern may feel difficult to make visible within a shared arrangement. Repeatedly raising a maintenance task or work issue can offer a parallel. Other people’s imagined response gives the scene its isolation without proving that their real motives are dismissive." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Someone helps you inspect behind the surface", "reflection": "Shared attention can turn a frustrating consequence into something you can understand together. A colleague investigating a recurring task or a friend helping sort stored possessions may fit. The help offers access and effort, rather than simply reassurance." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The affected space belongs to an unfamiliar house", "reflection": "An unfamiliar setting may make uncertainty central: you do not know its history or what is yours to handle. Beginning a new responsibility can feel similar. The scene may concern orientation and scope rather than an obligation to repair everything you encounter." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You preserve a photograph while letting the damaged frame go", "reflection": "A memory can remain valuable when its container changes. Revising how you keep an earlier project or relationship in your life may offer a parallel. The selection makes remembrance distinct from retaining every physical or practical part of the original arrangement." } ], "prompts": [ "What had changed since I last used the object or place?", "Was I responding to the visible result or reaching its source?", "What did I want to preserve, and in what form?" ], "related": [ "house", "cleaning", "dust", "renovation" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia interpretation with image-specific possibilities and six differentiated scenes. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "mole", "title": "Mole", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of moles, indicates secret enemies.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "mole", "moles", "of the mole" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about mole stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1324", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Moles", "text": "To dream of moles, indicates secret enemies.\n\nTo dream of catching a mole, you will overcome any opposition\nand rise to prominence.\n\nTo see moles, or such blemishes, on the person, indicates\nillness and quarrels.", "locator": "Heading 1328; source lines 15242–15252", "lineStart": 15242, "lineEnd": 15252, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of moles, indicates secret enemies.\n\nTo dream of catching a mole, you will overcome any opposition\nand rise to prominence.\n\nTo see moles, or such blemishes, on the person, indicates\nillness and quarrels.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Moles” is shown on the Mole page: both the animal; Artemidorus and Miller" }, { "id": "artemidorus-167", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of the Mole.", "text": "THe Mole signifieth a man blind by inconvenience and labor in vain, and signifies also that he which would be secret, shall be disclosed by himselfe.", "locator": "Book 3, encoded section 167", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "3", "displayText": "THe Mole signifieth a man blind by inconvenience and labor in vain, and signifies also that he which would be secret, shall be disclosed by himselfe." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "money", "title": "Money", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "What an exchange permits, and on whose terms.", "summary": "Money dreams may explore a real resource, the terms of an exchange, ownership and what makes a payment or contribution usable.", "aliases": [ "money", "cash", "coins", "coin", "currency", "bank-bills" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "psychological": "Money in a dream can remain an ordinary resource with a particular use. You may need to pay, receive an amount, decide who owns it or discover that its form does not fit the transaction. A recent bill, remembered purchase or practical concern can supply direct context. Begin with the exchange and your response; the dream does not assess your worth or direct a real financial decision.\n\nOne finite sum may fit either of two wanted purposes. You could have enough for a ticket to an occasion you want to join or a tool you want to use, while the scene will not permit both exchanges. This can resemble choosing what an available resource makes possible. A shared project might similarly require deciding which task receives limited time or attention. The dream lets you explore what you valued and how you responded; it supplies no rule for spending your actual money.\n\nReceiving money can introduce a condition. An offer may be welcome until somebody describes what they expect in return. This could give a concrete form to distinguishing assistance, acknowledgment and obligation. You might accept, ask for clarification or choose another arrangement. The dream’s exchange lets you explore your own response without establishing what the real person intends or whether an actual offer is fair.\n\nShared expenses can also reveal different ideas about contribution. One person may offer money while another brings work or something already available. The scene can make comparison useful if the group agrees on what it needs. An identical amount from everyone is only one possible arrangement. Notice who sets the terms and whether you have room to explain what you can offer; giving and keeping do not automatically decide generosity or selfishness.\n\nFinding money changes the question to ownership. A stranger may claim it, or its familiar appearance may belong to a currency you cannot use there. These situations can invite reflection on responding when access and entitlement differ. Returning it, asking where it belongs or leaving it untouched gives the scene different endings. Personal memories of earning, saving or sharing deserve room beside such comparisons. These original readings concern what the money makes possible within this encounter, while the historical fortunes and imagined transactions supply no evidence about future income or loss.", "traditional": "The six source books disagree about finding, paying and receiving money. Miller includes practical worry beside prosperity and loss forecasts; Fontaine’s Money account distinguishes denominations and exchange, while its Bank-bills passage only says See Money. Noe forecasts relationships, children and pursuits from exchanges; the 1805 Dreams and Moles contrasts receiving with finding. Cielo reverses some finding and spending fortunes, and Craig attributes an adverse claim to Raphael. These are period beliefs, not financial advice or evidence about future income.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "One sum can serve either of two wanted purposes", "reflection": "You have enough money for a ticket to an occasion you want to join or a tool for another valued task, while the scene permits only one exchange. This may picture choosing what limited resources make possible. What you value, postpone or rearrange gives the choice meaning without directing actual spending." }, { "title": "An offer acquires a condition", "reflection": "Money is offered freely at first, then someone describes an expected response. The scene may let you explore the difference between receiving help and agreeing to a task. Asking for clarity, accepting the terms or choosing another arrangement can each express a response without revealing the real giver’s intentions." }, { "title": "The group contributes in different ways", "reflection": "A shared expense brings money, work and already available items into the same discussion. This could focus on deciding what the occasion actually needs. Notice whether contributions can be explained and adjusted; comparing them need not turn into a measure of anyone’s value or character." }, { "title": "Someone claims the money you found", "reflection": "You discover money, and another person says it belongs to them. The scene can place access beside uncertainty about ownership. Asking where it came from, returning it or leaving it for the appropriate person gives you different actions, without supplying evidence that someone is dishonest outside the dream." }, { "title": "Familiar-looking notes belong to another currency", "reflection": "You recognize the design but learn that the money cannot be used in this place. This may explore carrying a resource into conditions where its usefulness changes. Seeking information, finding another means of participation or choosing another task can matter more than the apparent size of the amount." }, { "title": "You leave a payment unopened until its purpose is clear", "reflection": "An envelope is available, but you want to understand what the money acknowledges before using it. This could picture recognition or an agreement needing a clearer description. Asking, waiting or deciding on another response gives the exchange a purpose beyond simply possessing more." } ], "prompts": [ "What use or exchange made the money matter in this dream?", "How were ownership, contribution or conditions decided?", "Which actual transaction or shared arrangement offers a comparison that fits?" ], "related": [ "wallet", "purse", "credit-card", "debt", "pocketbook" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "scope": "Miller varies money fortunes with finding, paying, receiving gold, loss, deficit, theft, saving, swallowing and possession, adding a gendered disputed-currency account and an everyday caution about planning spending before payday. Specific supplied passages: Money — miller-1325 (Heading 1329; source lines 15252–15287). Historical comparison only; the attributed period claims do not establish outcomes or diagnoses and do not validate the original reflections.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1325" ] }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0047", "fontaine-0479" ], "scope": "Cross-reference only: Bank-bills says See Money and supplies no independent exchange interpretation. Fontaine varies money fortunes with finding, denomination, receiving and losing, including relationship/children claims, and points to Purse and Pocket Book. Specific supplied passages: Bank-Bills — fontaine-0047 (Heading 47; source line 1174); Money — fontaine-0479 (Heading 479; source line 3218). Historical comparison only; the attributed period claims do not establish outcomes or diagnoses and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0332" ], "scope": "Noe gives receiving, paying and losing money different relationship, children and pursuit forecasts. Specific supplied passages: Money — noe-0332 (Dream section, heading 336; source lines 1327–1332). Historical comparison only; the attributed period claims do not establish outcomes or diagnoses and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0271" ], "scope": "Cielo assigns adverse luck to finding money but success to giving or spending it. Specific supplied passages: Money — cielo-0271 (Dream section, heading 271; source lines 4511–4514). Historical comparison only; the attributed period claims do not establish outcomes or diagnoses and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "moles-71045", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams and Moles", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "United Kingdom, J. Marshall, 1805", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71045", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "moles-0054" ], "scope": "The unheaded 1805 passage gives a favorable receiving claim and a disappointment forecast for finding money. Specific supplied passages: Money — moles-0054 (Dreams interpreted, passage 54; source lines 266–267). Historical comparison only; the attributed period claims do not establish outcomes or diagnoses and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L10899" ], "scope": "Craig attributes a wholly adverse money claim to Raphael within her text; no separate Raphael source is claimed. Specific supplied passages: Money — craig-1918:L10899 (Printed p. 234; NLM OCR lines 10899–10900). Historical comparison only; the attributed period claims do not establish outcomes or diagnoses and do not validate the original reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Resources and usable terms", "reflection": "An amount can be present while its use remains uncertain. Explore what the exchange requires and how those requirements become clear in the scene." }, { "title": "Receiving with a choice", "reflection": "An offered payment or gift can bring expectations into view. Your response can distinguish assistance, acknowledgment and obligation without proving another person’s intention." }, { "title": "Ownership and contribution", "reflection": "Finding, sharing and paying place resources under different arrangements. Consider who sets the terms and what each person is able or willing to provide." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1325", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Money", "text": "To dream of finding money, denotes small worries, but much happiness.\nChanges will follow.\n\nTo pay out money, denotes misfortune.\n\nTo receive gold, great prosperity and unalloyed pleasures.\n\nTo lose money, you will experience unhappy hours in the home\nand affairs will appear gloomy.\n\nTo count your money and find a deficit, you will be worried\nin making payments.\n\nTo dream that you steal money, denotes that you are in danger\nand should guard your actions.\n\nTo save money, augurs wealth and comfort.\n\nTo dream that you swallow money, portends that you are likely\nto become mercenary.\n\nTo look upon a quantity of money, denotes that prosperity and happiness\nare within your reach.\n\nTo dream you find a roll of currency, and a young woman claims it,\nforetells you will lose in some enterprise by the interference\nof some female friend. The dreamer will find that he is\nspending his money unwisely and is living beyond his means.\nIt is a dream of caution.\n\nBeware lest the innocent fancies of your brain make a place\nfor your money before payday.", "locator": "Heading 1329; source lines 15252–15287", "lineStart": 15252, "lineEnd": 15287, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of finding money, denotes small worries, but much happiness.\nChanges will follow.\n\nTo pay out money, denotes misfortune.\n\nTo receive gold, great prosperity and unalloyed pleasures.\n\nTo lose money, you will experience unhappy hours in the home\nand affairs will appear gloomy.\n\nTo count your money and find a deficit, you will be worried\nin making payments.\n\nTo dream that you steal money, denotes that you are in danger\nand should guard your actions.\n\nTo save money, augurs wealth and comfort.\n\nTo dream that you swallow money, portends that you are likely\nto become mercenary.\n\nTo look upon a quantity of money, denotes that prosperity and happiness\nare within your reach.\n\nTo dream you find a roll of currency, and a young woman claims it,\nforetells you will lose in some enterprise by the interference\nof some female friend. The dreamer will find that he is\nspending his money unwisely and is living beyond his means.\nIt is a dream of caution.\n\nBeware lest the innocent fancies of your brain make a place\nfor your money before payday." }, { "id": "fontaine-0047", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Bank-Bills", "text": "(_See Money._)", "locator": "Heading 47; source line 1174", "lineStart": 1174, "lineEnd": 1176, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Money.)", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Bank-Bills” is shown on the Money page: fontaine Bank-Bills is only \"(See Money.)\"" }, { "id": "fontaine-0479", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Money", "text": "(_See Purse and Pocket Book._) To dream of finding money is an\nexcellent omen, as it foretells that you will soon get some: if, in\nyour dream, you see bank bills of a large denomination, or large gold\npieces, the sign is similar: to see small pieces of money is not so\ngood, though it is a pretty fair dream. To dream of receiving money\nis a good omen; in love, it foretells marriage and children. To dream\nyou lose money, is a proof you will be unsuccessful in some favorite\npursuit. 18, 4.", "locator": "Heading 479; source line 3218", "lineStart": 3218, "lineEnd": 3227, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Purse and Pocket Book.) To dream of finding money is an\nexcellent omen, as it foretells that you will soon get some: if, in\nyour dream, you see bank bills of a large denomination, or large gold\npieces, the sign is similar: to see small pieces of money is not so\ngood, though it is a pretty fair dream. To dream of receiving money\nis a good omen; in love, it foretells marriage and children. To dream\nyou lose money, is a proof you will be unsuccessful in some favorite\npursuit." }, { "id": "noe-0332", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Money", "text": "To dream of\nreceiving money, is a good omen. In love, it foretells a speedy marriage\nand many children. If you dream you lose money, it is a proof you will be\ndeceived in love, and be unsuccessful in some favorite pursuit. To dream\nyou are paying money, foretells the birth of a son destined to cut a great\nfigure in life.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 336; source lines 1327–1332", "lineStart": 1327, "lineEnd": 1332, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of\nreceiving money, is a good omen. In love, it foretells a speedy marriage\nand many children. If you dream you lose money, it is a proof you will be\ndeceived in love, and be unsuccessful in some favorite pursuit. To dream\nyou are paying money, foretells the birth of a son destined to cut a great\nfigure in life." }, { "id": "cielo-0271", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Money", "text": "To find money means bad luck; to give it away\n or spend it indicates success.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 271; source lines 4511–4514", "lineStart": 4511, "lineEnd": 4514, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To find money means bad luck; to give it away\nor spend it indicates success." }, { "id": "moles-0054", "sourceId": "moles-71045", "heading": "Money", "originalHeading": "(no printed heading)", "text": "To dream you receive money is lucky; but to dream of finding money,\ndenotes that you will meet with a very great disappointment.", "locator": "Dreams interpreted, passage 54; source lines 266–267", "lineStart": 266, "lineEnd": 267, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "editorialNote": "The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Money” because that is the subject of its first clause.", "displayText": "To dream you receive money is lucky; but to dream of finding money,\ndenotes that you will meet with a very great disappointment." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10899", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Money", "heading": "Money", "text": "Ever an evil dream (Raphael).", "lineStart": 10899, "lineEnd": 10900, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 234; NLM OCR lines 10899–10900", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10899, "lineEnd": 10900, "printedPage": 234, "printedPageEnd": 234 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Money. — Ever an evil dream (Raphael). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Money" }, "displayText": "Ever an evil dream (Raphael)." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [ "purse", "pocketbook" ] }, { "slug": "money-and-treasures", "title": "Money, and Treasures", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Artemidorus wrote: “SOme say, that to dreame of money, and all kinde of coyne is ill.”", "aliases": [ "money, and treasures", "of money, and treasures", "money", "treasures" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about money, and treasures stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "artemidorus-112", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of Money, and Treasures.", "text": "SOme say, that to dreame of money, and all kinde of coyne is ill. But I have tryed that little money of Brasse, and Bullion, signifieth heavinesse, and angry words. But money of silver, words and talk of great affayres, of gold farre greater: [illegible passage]t is also better to dream to have little silver, then much, because that one cannot employ great heapes, without payne and fare: to finde treasure hid in the earth, if the treasure be little, the evill shall be little: if great, the evils great, with anger, heavinesse, or death, for they open the earth for the dead, as well as for the treasure.", "locator": "Book 2, encoded section 112", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription-with-gaps", "book": "2", "displayText": "SOme say, that to dreame of money, and all kinde of coyne is ill. But I have tryed that little money of Brasse, and Bullion, signifieth heavinesse, and angry words. But money of silver, words and talk of great affayres, of gold farre greater: [illegible passage] t is also better to dream to have little silver, then much, because that one cannot employ great heapes, without payne and fare: to finde treasure hid in the earth, if the treasure be little, the evill shall be little: if great, the evils great, with anger, heavinesse, or death, for they open the earth for the dead, as well as for the treasure." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "monk", "title": "Monk", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing a monk, foretells dissensions in the family and unpleasant journeyings.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "monk" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about monk stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "abbot" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1326", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Monk", "text": "To dream of seeing a monk, foretells dissensions in the family\nand unpleasant journeyings. To a young woman, this dream signifies\nthat gossip and deceit will be used against her.\n\nTo dream that you are a monk, denotes personal loss and illness.", "locator": "Heading 1330; source lines 15287–15295", "lineStart": 15287, "lineEnd": 15295, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing a monk, foretells dissensions in the family\nand unpleasant journeyings. To a young woman, this dream signifies\nthat gossip and deceit will be used against her.\n\nTo dream that you are a monk, denotes personal loss and illness." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10901", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Monk", "heading": "Monk", "text": "See Abbot.", "lineStart": 10901, "lineEnd": 10902, "kind": "cross-reference", "locator": "Printed p. 234; NLM OCR lines 10901–10902", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10901, "lineEnd": 10902, "printedPage": 234, "printedPageEnd": 234 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Monk. — See Abbot. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Monk" }, "displayText": "See Abbot." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1327", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Monkey", "text": "To dream of a monkey, denotes that deceitful people will flatter\nyou to advance their own interests.\n\nTo see a dead monkey, signifies that your worst enemies will soon be removed.\n\nIf a young woman dreams of a monkey, she should insist on an early marriage,\nas her lover will suspect unfaithfulness.\n\nFor a woman to dream of feeding a monkey, denotes that she will be betrayed\nby a flatterer.", "locator": "Heading 1331; source lines 15295–15308", "lineStart": 15295, "lineEnd": 15308, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a monkey, denotes that deceitful people will flatter\nyou to advance their own interests.\n\nTo see a dead monkey, signifies that your worst enemies will soon be removed.\n\nIf a young woman dreams of a monkey, she should insist on an early marriage,\nas her lover will suspect unfaithfulness.\n\nFor a woman to dream of feeding a monkey, denotes that she will be betrayed\nby a flatterer." }, { "id": "fontaine-0480", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Monkey", "text": "To dream that you see a monkey, and are pleased with his\nantics, shows that you will make the acquaintance of a fool. For a girl\nto dream of playing with a monkey is a sign she will do something she\nis ashamed of, and perhaps lose her virtue. Monkeys are also a sign of\nlaw suits and secret enemies. 17, 6.", "locator": "Heading 480; source line 3227", "lineStart": 3227, "lineEnd": 3233, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you see a monkey, and are pleased with his\nantics, shows that you will make the acquaintance of a fool. For a girl\nto dream of playing with a monkey is a sign she will do something she\nis ashamed of, and perhaps lose her virtue. Monkeys are also a sign of\nlaw suits and secret enemies." }, { "id": "noe-0327", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Monkeys", "text": "To dream of these mischievous creatures, is ominous of evil.\nThey announce deceit in love, unfaithfulness in the married state,\nundutiful children, malicious enemies, and an attack by thieves.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 331; source lines 1309–1312", "lineStart": 1309, "lineEnd": 1312, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of these mischievous creatures, is ominous of evil.\nThey announce deceit in love, unfaithfulness in the married state,\nundutiful children, malicious enemies, and an attack by thieves." }, { "id": "cielo-0272", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Monkey", "text": "Means “Beware of getting into mischief!”", "locator": "Dream section, heading 272; source lines 4514–4516", "lineStart": 4514, "lineEnd": 4516, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Means “Beware of getting into mischief!”" }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10903", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Monkeys", "heading": "Monkeys", "text": "See Ape.", "lineStart": 10903, "lineEnd": 10904, "kind": "cross-reference", "locator": "Printed p. 234; NLM OCR lines 10903–10904", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10903, "lineEnd": 10904, "printedPage": 234, "printedPageEnd": 234 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Monkeys. — See Ape. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Monkeys" }, "displayText": "See Ape." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "apes" ] }, { "slug": "monster", "title": "Monster", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of being pursued by a monster, denotes that sorrow and misfortune hold prominent places in your…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "monster" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about monster stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1328", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Monster", "text": "To dream of being pursued by a monster, denotes that sorrow and misfortune\nhold prominent places in your immediate future.\n\nTo slay a monster, denotes that you will successfully cope with enemies\nand rise to eminent positions.", "locator": "Heading 1332; source lines 15308–15316", "lineStart": 15308, "lineEnd": 15316, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being pursued by a monster, denotes that sorrow and misfortune\nhold prominent places in your immediate future.\n\nTo slay a monster, denotes that you will successfully cope with enemies\nand rise to eminent positions." }, { "id": "noe-0331", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Monster", "text": "To see a monster in the sea is not good; but\nout of the sea every fish and great monster is good.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 335; source lines 1326–1327", "lineStart": 1326, "lineEnd": 1327, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a monster in the sea is not good; but\nout of the sea every fish and great monster is good." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10905", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Monster", "heading": "Monster", "text": "To dream of a monster or monstrous fish at sea is evil, but a monster on land is good, signifying evil enemies who will be impotent (Artemidorus).", "lineStart": 10905, "lineEnd": 10908, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 234; NLM OCR lines 10905–10908", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10905, "lineEnd": 10908, "printedPage": 234, "printedPageEnd": 234 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Monster. — To dream of a monster or monstrous fish at sea \nis evil, but a monster on land is good, signifying evil enemies \nwho will be impotent (Artemidorus). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 0.94783, "secondaryHeading": "Monster" }, "displayText": "To dream of a monster or monstrous fish at sea is evil, but a monster on land is good, signifying evil enemies who will be impotent (Artemidorus)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "monsters-or-things-against-nature", "title": "Monsters, or things against Nature", "type": "dreams", "category": "Other symbols", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Artemidorus wrote: “YOu must understand and hold in generall, that all Monsters, and impossibilities, according to the course of Nature are vain hopes of…”", "aliases": [ "monsters, or things against nature", "of monsters, or things against nature", "monsters", "things against nature" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about monsters, or things against nature stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "monuments", "title": "Monuments", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “If a sick person dreams of seeing monuments, he or she is dreaming will quickly recover.”", "aliases": [ "monuments" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about monuments stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "noe-0336", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Monuments", "text": "If a sick person dreams of seeing monuments, he\nor she is dreaming will quickly recover. For the healthy to dream of\nmonuments is a sign of good luck.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 340; source lines 1338–1340", "lineStart": 1338, "lineEnd": 1340, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If a sick person dreams of seeing monuments, he\nor she is dreaming will quickly recover. For the healthy to dream of\nmonuments is a sign of good luck." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "moon", "title": "Moon", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "What becomes visible from where you stand.", "summary": "Moon dreams may explore visibility, scale, wonder and how a changing view affects your movement or shared attention.", "aliases": [ "moon", "lunar", "crescent", "the moon", "of the moone" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "Moonlight can picture having enough information for part of a journey while the rest remains uncertain. A lit path may carry you to the next turn without revealing what follows. This can resemble beginning a conversation or project when the immediate step is clear but its eventual course is open. Continuing, finding another light and waiting give that uncertainty different places in the scene.\n\nA very large or close moon can make a familiar setting feel newly significant. Something that usually remains in the background now holds attention, much as a forthcoming change can make an ordinary evening feel different. Wonder may make the altered scale welcome. Unease may concern being unable to put it aside. The image can also be a striking visual invention without standing for a particular problem.\n\nInviting somebody to look creates a shared occasion. Their response may matter more than the sky: perhaps they pause with you, continue their task or describe a different view. This can resemble wanting company in an experience without necessarily wanting an explanation. A brief moment of attention may be the contact you hoped for.\n\nSeeing two moons when a companion sees one can give differing accounts a concrete form. Moving to another window or asking what they notice makes comparison possible. Agreement is not the only useful outcome; discovering how position changes the view may allow two experiences to remain understandable. The dreamed difference does not establish a real person's awareness or honesty.\n\nClouds can interrupt a view on which an activity depends. Waiting may be enjoyable when watching is the purpose, but frustrating if you need light to continue elsewhere. Choosing another source of illumination can preserve the journey while releasing dependence on this particular view. The same pause can therefore hold patience, disappointment or a practical adjustment.\n\nLeaving the moonlit scene gives attention an ending. You may return to company carrying a pleasant memory, or feel reluctant to resume a demanding task. Remembered nights, pictures and personal beliefs can supply direct context. Dreamed phases, colors and skies do not establish health, relationships or future events.", "traditional": "Miller and Fontaine assign fortunes to visual changes, phases and relationship roles. Artemidorus connects the moon with relatives, trade, navigation and gendered forecasts; Noe and Cielo give differing relationship or loss claims. Craig’s Crescent account includes religious imagery claims, while her longer Moon account attributes many fortunes to a National Dream Book and calls them astrological. These are attributed historical assertions, not verified cultural consensus, astronomy, health evidence or rules for interpreting phases.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "Moonlight reaches only the next part of the path", "reflection": "Enough light is available for the immediate part of a route. This can picture proceeding with a workable next step while leaving later questions open. Finding another light or choosing to wait gives uncertainty a different role without deciding the whole journey in advance." }, { "title": "A close moon changes the view from your house", "reflection": "A familiar view holds attention in an unfamiliar way. Wonder may invite a shared pause; unease may concern a presence that seems difficult to put aside. The altered scale changes the encounter without proving that a waking concern has the same objective size." }, { "title": "Your companion sees one moon while you see two", "reflection": "A shared occasion produces different accounts. Asking where your companion stood or moving together can make the difference explorable. The scene may concern how to stay in conversation when experience differs, rather than requiring one person to concede that their view was wrong." }, { "title": "Clouds cover the moon while you decide what to do", "reflection": "The activity loses a particular source of visibility. If watching is the purpose, waiting can remain worthwhile. If you want to continue a journey, another light or route may matter more. The interruption makes your dependence on this view noticeable." }, { "title": "Another window gives you a different view", "reflection": "Changing position changes what the familiar sky looks like. This can picture discovering that an account depends partly on where you approach a situation. Comparing openings may broaden the available view while still leaving you free to choose where you want to remain." }, { "title": "You leave the moonlit view and rejoin the activity", "reflection": "Attention has an interval and an ending. Returning to the people or task nearby may carry some pleasure or perspective from the pause. Reluctance to leave could instead make the contrast with the waiting activity important, without making the view an instruction." } ], "prompts": [ "What did the moon make visible or change in the scene?", "How did your position, response or company affect the experience?", "Which remembered night, image or personal association gives this particular sky its context?" ], "related": [ "sky", "clouds", "stars", "sun" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "scope": "Miller varies moon fortunes with ordinary or uncanny appearance, eclipse, new moon, two moons, dimness and red color, including gendered, war and severe health claims. Specific supplied passages: Moon — miller-1329 (Heading 1333; source lines 15316–15340). Historical comparison only; the attributed period claims do not establish outcomes or diagnoses and do not validate the original reflections.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1329" ] }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "scope": "Fontaine assigns wealth or poverty to crescent-point directions and relationship or loss forecasts to full and half moons. Specific supplied passages: Moon — fontaine-0481 (Heading 481; source line 3233). Historical comparison only; the attributed period claims do not establish outcomes or diagnoses and do not validate the original reflections.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0481" ] }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." }, { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display.", "recordIds": [ "artemidorus-096" ], "scope": "Artemidorus assigns relatives, work, trade, navigation, eyes and social/gendered roles to the moon and its appearance, including health and exposure forecasts. Specific supplied passages: Of the Moone. — artemidorus-096 (Book 2, encoded section 96). Historical comparison only; the attributed period claims do not establish outcomes or diagnoses and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0333" ], "scope": "Noe combines sudden joy and love success with adverse marriage, children and enemy claims under Moon. Specific supplied passages: Moon — noe-0333 (Dream section, heading 337; source lines 1332–1334). Historical comparison only; the attributed period claims do not establish outcomes or diagnoses and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0273" ], "scope": "Cielo distinguishes full moon, crescent and eclipse with fidelity, affection and loss forecasts. Specific supplied passages: Moon — cielo-0273 (Dream section, heading 273; source lines 4516–4520). Historical comparison only; the attributed period claims do not establish outcomes or diagnoses and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L9650", "craig-1918:L10909" ], "scope": "Craig’s Crescent account gives a successful-love forecast and claims concerning Isis, motherhood and Egyptian Christian imagery; these are historical statements in Craig, not verified religious or community consensus. Craig’s longer Moon account reports appearance, phase, gender, work and health fortunes attributed to a National Dream Book, then characterizes most presages as astrological; no separate recovered source or modern empirical validation is claimed. Specific supplied passages: Crescent — craig-1918:L9650 (Printed p. 210; NLM OCR lines 9650–9653); Moon — craig-1918:L10909 (Printed p. 234–235; NLM OCR lines 10909–10936). Historical comparison only; the attributed period claims do not establish outcomes or diagnoses and do not validate the original reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s continuing English editorial delegation. Historical accounts retain their attribution; general sleep background does not validate these interpretations.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Enough light for a next step", "reflection": "Visibility can support part of a journey without settling the whole route. Explore what you could do with the information available and what remained a choice." }, { "title": "Scale and shared attention", "reflection": "An extraordinary moon can alter how a familiar place feels. Your own response and whether you wanted company give the image a more specific direction." }, { "title": "Views that can be compared", "reflection": "Windows, positions and other people may offer different accounts of the sky. Consider how you explored those differences without assuming one view revealed a hidden truth." } ], "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "DreamFolia AI-assisted editorial review", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "bed", "bathroom", "bridge", "door", "window", "stairs", "road", "clothes", "shoes", "driving", "being-late", "crying", "running", "swimming", "river", "snow", "moon", "sun", "mountain", "fish" ] }, "decisionReason": "The revised body and six scenes develop limited light, changed scale, shared attention, differing views, interrupted visibility and an ending to a pause. All seven historical records retain their owners. 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If she sees two moons, she will lose\nher lover by being mercenary. If she sees the moon grow dim,\nshe will let the supreme happiness of her life slip for want\nof womanly tact.\n\nTo see a blood red moon, indicates war and strife, and she will see\nher lover march away in defence of his country.", "locator": "Heading 1333; source lines 15316–15340", "lineStart": 15316, "lineEnd": 15340, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing the moon with the aspect of the heavens remaining normal,\nprognosticates success in love and business affairs.\n\nA weird and uncanny moon, denotes unpropitious lovemaking,\ndomestic infelicities and disappointing enterprises of\na business character.\n\nThe moon in eclipse, denotes that contagion will ravage your community.\n\nTo see the new moon, denotes an increase in wealth and congenial\npartners in marriage.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she appeals to the moon to know\nher fate, denotes that she will soon be rewarded with marriage\nto the one of her choice. If she sees two moons, she will lose\nher lover by being mercenary. If she sees the moon grow dim,\nshe will let the supreme happiness of her life slip for want\nof womanly tact.\n\nTo see a blood red moon, indicates war and strife, and she will see\nher lover march away in defence of his country." }, { "id": "fontaine-0481", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Moon", "text": "To dream of a sharp new moon with horns pointing upwards is a\nsign you will be rich: if the horns point sideways or downward, it\nforetells poverty: seeing a full moon in your dream denotes a thrifty\nand happy marriage: a half moon shadows forth the loss of a wife or\nhusband by death or desertion. Dreaming of seeing a half moon is fatal\nto the prospects of lovers. 19, 18.", "locator": "Heading 481; source line 3233", "lineStart": 3233, "lineEnd": 3240, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a sharp new moon with horns pointing upwards is a\nsign you will be rich: if the horns point sideways or downward, it\nforetells poverty: seeing a full moon in your dream denotes a thrifty\nand happy marriage: a half moon shadows forth the loss of a wife or\nhusband by death or desertion. Dreaming of seeing a half moon is fatal\nto the prospects of lovers." }, { "id": "artemidorus-096", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of the Moone.", "text": "THe Moon is the Wife, Nurse, daughter, or Sister, of him which dreames thereof, and signifies money, riches▪ Merchandise and trafficke: also Navigation, the eyes of him which dreames, and the Master, or Mistresse. And therefore, if the Moon turn her selfe into good, and joy, it is good and honour, by those whom it represents, and on the contrary. To see himselfe in the Moon, is the son of the man, the daughter, of the woman that dreames it: this dream also is good for exchangers, usurers, and takers of receit for Uictuals. Also it is good for those which would shew themselves, and appeare, but it discloseth the hidden, and puts sicke men and Marriners in danger of theyr lives, what good or evill the Sun signifieth, the same signification hath the Moone also: but lesse or more to the woman, then to the man.", "locator": "Book 2, encoded section 96", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "2", "displayText": "THe Moon is the Wife, Nurse, daughter, or Sister, of him which dreames thereof, and signifies money, riches▪ Merchandise and trafficke: also Navigation, the eyes of him which dreames, and the Master, or Mistresse. And therefore, if the Moon turn her selfe into good, and joy, it is good and honour, by those whom it represents, and on the contrary. To see himselfe in the Moon, is the son of the man, the daughter, of the woman that dreames it: this dream also is good for exchangers, usurers, and takers of receit for Uictuals. Also it is good for those which would shew themselves, and appeare, but it discloseth the hidden, and puts sicke men and Marriners in danger of theyr lives, what good or evill the Sun signifieth, the same signification hath the Moone also: but lesse or more to the woman, then to the man.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Moone” is shown on the The moon page: archaic spelling (Artemidorus); manual map covers \"the moon\" but not \"Moone\"" }, { "id": "noe-0333", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Moon", "text": "To dream of the moon is a very favorable omen; it\ndenotes sudden joy, great success in love; but unfaithfulness in the\nmarried state, undutiful children, and malicious enemies.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 337; source lines 1332–1334", "lineStart": 1332, "lineEnd": 1334, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of the moon is a very favorable omen; it\ndenotes sudden joy, great success in love; but unfaithfulness in the\nmarried state, undutiful children, and malicious enemies." }, { "id": "cielo-0273", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Moon", "text": "To see the full moon denotes fidelity and joy;\n to see a crescent means awakening affection. 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In Egypt it is used as an emblem of the Virgin Mary by Christians.", "lineStart": 9650, "lineEnd": 9653, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 210; NLM OCR lines 9650–9653", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9650, "lineEnd": 9653, "printedPage": 210, "printedPageEnd": 210 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Crescent. — A dream interpreted as signifying successful \nlove. The symbol of Isis and of motherhood. In Egypt it is \nused as an emblem of the Virgin Mary by Christians. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Crescent" }, "displayText": "A dream interpreted as signifying successful love. The symbol of Isis and of motherhood. In Egypt it is used as an emblem of the Virgin Mary by Christians.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Crescent” is shown on the The moon page: craig Crescent is the moon symbol" }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10909", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Moon", "heading": "Moon", "text": "A brilliant moon prognosticates : to a wife, love and good health ; to a husband, increase in wealth. New moon : advancement in business ; waning, death of a great man ; a halo around the moon denotes pardon and deliverance through a female ; a red moon, voyages, pilgrimages ; dull moon, death or illness to wife, sister or female relative ; perilous journeyings, especially by sea, brain fever, eye trouble. An obscure moon becoming bright, profit to a woman, joy to a man. From clearness to obscurity, loss, sadness, misfortune to men and women. Two moons denote increase in rank and dignity; when a beautiful woman dreams of the moon, the dream forecasts high standing, dignity and admiration. To thieves, murderers, etc., it denotes justice; to invalids danger of death or shipwreck. For a young girl or widow to dream of a full, dazzling moon, the prognostication is marriage ; to a married woman, the birth of a beautiful daughter; to a man the birth of a son. A happy dream to jewelers, goldsmiths, etc. (National Dream Book). Most of these presages, it will be observed, are astrological.", "lineStart": 10909, "lineEnd": 10936, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 234–235; NLM OCR lines 10909–10936", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10909, "lineEnd": 10936, "printedPage": 234, "printedPageEnd": 235 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Moon. — A brilliant moon prognosticates : to a wife, love \nand good health ; to a husband, increase in wealth. New moon : \nadvancement in business ; waning, death of a great man ; a \nhalo around the moon denotes pardon and deliverance through \na female ; a red moon, voyages, pilgrimages ; dull moon, death \nor illness to wife, sister or female relative ; perilous journey- \nings, especially by sea, brain fever, eye trouble. An obscure \nmoon becoming bright, profit to a woman, joy to a man. From \nclearness to obscurity, loss, sadness, misfortune to men and \nwomen. Two moons denote increase in rank and dignity; \nwhen a beautiful woman dreams of the moon, the dream fore- \ncasts high standing, dignity and admiration. To thieves, mur- \nderers, etc., it denotes justice; to invalids danger of death \nor shipwreck. For a young girl or widow to dream of a \nfull, dazzling moon, the prognostication is marriage ; to a mar- \nried woman, the birth of a beautiful daughter; to a man the \nbirth of a son. A happy dream to jewelers, goldsmiths, etc. \n\n\nSYMBOLISM IN DREAMS \n\n\n235 \n\n\n(National Dream Book). 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New moon: advancement in business; waning, death of a great man; a halo around the moon denotes pardon and deliverance through a female; a red moon, voyages, pilgrimages; dull moon, death or illness to wife, sister or female relative; perilous journeyings, especially by sea, brain fever, eye trouble. An obscure moon becoming bright, profit to a woman, joy to a man. From clearness to obscurity, loss, sadness, misfortune to men and women. Two moons denote increase in rank and dignity; when a beautiful woman dreams of the moon, the dream forecasts high standing, dignity and admiration. To thieves, murderers, etc., it denotes justice; to invalids danger of death or shipwreck. For a young girl or widow to dream of a full, dazzling moon, the prognostication is marriage; to a married woman, the birth of a beautiful daughter; to a man the birth of a son. A happy dream to jewelers, goldsmiths, etc. (National Dream Book). Most of these presages, it will be observed, are astrological." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "moose", "title": "Moose", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "aliases": [ "moose", "bull moose", "cow moose", "moose calf" ], "summary": "A moose dream may focus on shared passage, the space around a large animal, or an encounter that interrupts a journey. Notice its behavior and your options.", "tagline": "A large animal in a particular place, and the room each traveller needs.", "psychological": "This entry uses the moose identified as Alces alces in the linked Alaska species profile. A moose in a dream may be memorable because of its size, antlers, unfamiliar setting, or the way it interrupts an ordinary route. Begin with the detail you recognized and the action around it. An animal standing near a road differs from one watching you across water. A recent journey, photograph, or story can be a sufficient association without needing a fixed meaning.\n\nShared passage can organize the encounter. You may wait for a moose to cross, find it occupying a doorway, or discover that your chosen path leaves little room to pass. Ask who is moving and who has stopped. A personal comparison could concern making space for a situation you did not plan. The dream does not establish that an actual person is obstructive or that a large presence must be challenged.\n\nIf antlers matter, describe their role rather than assigning them a gendered or spiritual message. They might catch in an impossible ceiling, hold something surprising, or simply help you recognize the animal from a distance. The particular effect can lead a question about fit, display, or recognition. A moose without antlers still allows a complete encounter; an omitted feature is not automatically a sign of deficiency.\n\nA calf, another adult, or several observers can alter your role. You might want to protect a route, keep a group together, or ask someone else to wait. Notice whether the responsibility feels chosen or assumed. These are imagined actions, not guidance for approaching wildlife. The dream cannot assess real danger or decide how capable you are of caring for someone.\n\nFinally, record how the meeting ends. The animal may continue while you remain still, choose another path, or turn out to be a figure in a display. Relief, disappointment, amusement and awe can lead to different reflections. Keep the account beside any waking comparison so that the moose remains a particular animal in a particular scene, rather than a code for strength, isolation or a future obstacle.", "traditional": "No historical dream-book record is attached to this topic. Alaska’s Department of Fish and Game identifies moose as members of the deer family and describes antlers as a feature carried by males. Its profile also notes regional use of the name elk; DreamFolia does not use that naming variation as an automatic lookup equivalence with its separate Elk topic. The source supports animal identification only, not an interpretation, omen, character judgment, or the original scenarios. Craig’s existing Elk record does not identify a species. Its period claims stay on that page; they are not reassigned as historical authority for Moose.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Space around a large presence", "reflection": "A road, doorway or clearing may become harder to share because of the room available. Ask what the setting allows before treating the animal’s size as a personal trait." }, { "title": "A crossing that changes the timing of your journey", "reflection": "Waiting or taking another path can change the encounter without requiring confrontation. The particular destination and your willingness to pause give the scene context." }, { "title": "Recognition and a feature that draws attention", "reflection": "Antlers, height or a familiar outline may identify the animal or become part of an impossible event. Follow what the detail does rather than assigning a fixed message to its appearance." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A moose crosses the road while your companions want to continue", "reflection": "A journey pauses for another movement. Notice whose urgency you share and whether waiting changes the group’s mood. The scene can invite reflection on timing without deciding that every interruption is an obstacle to overcome." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A moose stands quietly beside the unfamiliar house", "reflection": "A large animal becomes part of a setting you are still trying to understand. Ask whether its presence makes the place more welcoming, harder to enter or simply interesting. The feeling matters more than a general association with wildness." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Antlers catch in a ceiling that is much too low", "reflection": "The arrangement does not fit a feature that draws your attention. Notice whether anyone changes the space or expects the animal to change instead. A personal comparison might concern fit between a situation and its surroundings rather than a flaw in either." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You see a moose across a wide stretch of water", "reflection": "Distance allows observation without a direct encounter. Record whether you want to approach or prefer the view you have. The scene can explore curiosity that does not require closeness, without casting distance as loneliness." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You lose sight of a moose calf among larger figures", "reflection": "The search may center on keeping a particular member visible within a group. Notice what helps you identify it and whether anyone shares the search. The dream does not forecast loss or assess your attention to a real dependent." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "A moose-shaped display turns out to be moving", "reflection": "Something you treated as background becomes an active presence. Surprise may change what you think the setting permits. Consider the shift from an image to an encounter without using it to claim that an ordinary situation conceals danger." } ], "prompts": [ "What made you identify this animal as a moose?", "Whose movement or timing determined the space you could use?", "What changed when the animal continued, paused or came closer?" ], "related": [ "deer", "elk", "forest", "road", "river", "car" ], "sources": [ { "id": "adfg-moose", "title": "Moose species profile — animal identification, not dream interpretation", "author": "Alaska Department of Fish and Game", "url": "https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=moose.main", "scope": "General Description supports deer-family identification, the stated antler distinction and regional naming context. No population, hunting, safety, dream-symbol, personality or prediction claim is adopted." } ], "kind": "editorial", "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s delegation of editorial decisions. Animal-background sources support only their stated facts; they do not validate dream meanings.", "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "DreamFolia AI-assisted editorial review", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "ants", "bats", "caterpillar", "frogs", "grasshopper", "tiger", "turtle", "whale", "anaconda", "moose", "praying-mantis", "woodpecker" ] }, "decisionReason": "The reading identifies its Alaska species-profile scope and distinguishes crossings, antlers, distance, a calf search and an animated display. Regional elk naming does not reassign Craig’s species-unspecified Elk record or create an automatic lookup synonym.", "reviewedSnapshot": "data/animal-publication-review-2026-10-15-v2.json", "contentSha256": "0c29dde844c4b926fb80425ea44aee69fc164b9cc0d9c0476deeaf590e258443" }, "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "morgue", "title": "Morgue", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you visit a morgue searching for some one, denotes that you will be shocked by news of the death of a relative or friend.”", "aliases": [ "morgue" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about morgue stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1330", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Morgue", "text": "To dream that you visit a morgue searching for some one, denotes that you\nwill be shocked by news of the death of a relative or friend.\n\nTo see many corpses there, much sorrow and trouble will come\nunder your notice.", "locator": "Heading 1334; source lines 15340–15348", "lineStart": 15340, "lineEnd": 15348, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you visit a morgue searching for some one, denotes that you\nwill be shocked by news of the death of a relative or friend.\n\nTo see many corpses there, much sorrow and trouble will come\nunder your notice." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "morning", "title": "Morning", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see the morning dawn clear in your dreams, prognosticates a near approach of fortune and pleasure.”", "aliases": [ "morning" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about morning stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1331", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Morning", "text": "To see the morning dawn clear in your dreams, prognosticates a near\napproach of fortune and pleasure.\n\nA cloudy morning, portends weighty affairs will overwhelm you.", "locator": "Heading 1335; source lines 15348–15355", "lineStart": 15348, "lineEnd": 15355, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see the morning dawn clear in your dreams, prognosticates a near\napproach of fortune and pleasure.\n\nA cloudy morning, portends weighty affairs will overwhelm you." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "morning-glory", "title": "Morning-Glory", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “A hopeful, happy dream (Gypsy). A symbol of the resurrection (Smith).”", "aliases": [ "morning-glory" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about morning-glory stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L10941", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Morning-Glory", "heading": "Morning-Glory", "text": "A hopeful, happy dream (Gypsy). A symbol of the resurrection (Smith).", "lineStart": 10941, "lineEnd": 10943, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 235; NLM OCR lines 10941–10943", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10941, "lineEnd": 10943, "printedPage": 235, "printedPageEnd": 235 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Morning-Glory. — A hopeful, happy dream (Gypsy). A \nsymbol of the resurrection (Smith). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Morning-Glory" }, "displayText": "A hopeful, happy dream (Gypsy). A symbol of the resurrection (Smith)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "morocco", "title": "Morocco", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see morocco in your dreams, foretells that you will receive substantial aid from unexpected sources.”", "aliases": [ "morocco" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about morocco stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1332", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Morocco", "text": "To see morocco in your dreams, foretells that you will receive substantial\naid from unexpected sources. Your love will be rewarded by faithfulness.", "locator": "Heading 1336; source lines 15355–15360", "lineStart": 15355, "lineEnd": 15360, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see morocco in your dreams, foretells that you will receive substantial\naid from unexpected sources. Your love will be rewarded by faithfulness." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "morose", "title": "Morose", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “If you find yourself morose in dreams, you will awake to find the world, as far as you are concerned, going fearfully wrong.”", "aliases": [ "morose" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about morose stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1334", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Morose", "text": "If you find yourself morose in dreams, you will awake to find the world,\nas far as you are concerned, going fearfully wrong.\n\nTo see others morose, portends unpleasant occupations\nand unpleasant companions.", "locator": "Heading 1338; source lines 15374–15382", "lineStart": 15374, "lineEnd": 15382, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you find yourself morose in dreams, you will awake to find the world,\nas far as you are concerned, going fearfully wrong.\n\nTo see others morose, portends unpleasant occupations\nand unpleasant companions." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "mortgage", "title": "Mortgage", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you give a mortgage on your property, denotes that you are threatened with financial upheavals, which will throw you into…”", "aliases": [ "mortgage" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about mortgage stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1333", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Mortgage", "text": "To dream that you give a mortgage on your property, denotes that you\nare threatened with financial upheavals, which will throw you\ninto embarrassing positions.\n\nTo take, or hold one, against others, is ominous of adequate wealth\nto liquidate your obligations.\n\nTo find yourself reading or examining mortgages, denotes great possibilities\nbefore you of love or gain.\n\nTo lose a mortgage, if it cannot be found again, implies loss and worry.", "locator": "Heading 1337; source lines 15360–15374", "lineStart": 15360, "lineEnd": 15374, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you give a mortgage on your property, denotes that you\nare threatened with financial upheavals, which will throw you\ninto embarrassing positions.\n\nTo take, or hold one, against others, is ominous of adequate wealth\nto liquidate your obligations.\n\nTo find yourself reading or examining mortgages, denotes great possibilities\nbefore you of love or gain.\n\nTo lose a mortgage, if it cannot be found again, implies loss and worry." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "mortification", "title": "Mortification", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "summary": "Mortification dreams may turn a deed into a sweeping self-verdict or explore the wish to remain recognizable beyond an embarrassing act.", "tagline": "A moment can feel as though it has become your whole account.", "aliases": [ "mortification", "mortified", "feeling mortified" ], "status": "REVIEW", "psychological": "Feeling mortified in a dream can make an act seem larger than the person who performed it. A small mistake appears to settle your character, or a person whose respect matters seems unable to see anything else. The possible tension is between what happened and the sweeping verdict that follows. This differs from a merely awkward moment that can pass through a correction or a laugh.\n\nThe audience may be specific or internal to the dreamer’s expectation. An admired teacher, relative or colleague can give the scene a standard you especially want to meet. Nobody needs to react harshly for the imagined loss of regard to feel intense. A waking regret, remembered criticism or an occasion where you wanted to appear honorable can offer a comparison. The dream’s deed does not recover a forgotten offense or establish that your self-judgment is fair.\n\nTrying to repair the act can reveal what the dream considers sufficient. Replacing an object, apologizing clearly or explaining a misunderstanding may still fail if the scene keeps repeating the label afterward. That arrangement can picture difficulty separating responsibility for an event from a lasting definition of the self. Practical repair and permission to remain a whole person become different needs.\n\nHiding may temporarily remove the audience while leaving the verdict intact. A dream in which nobody knows but you cannot face them can make your own standard more central than actual exposure. Conversely, a listener who treats the mistake in proportion may let the story continue. Their response can offer an imagined alternative to either denying the act or accepting it as the only account of you.\n\nA later similar moment can also change the available response. Remaining in conversation, giving a simpler explanation or allowing yourself to learn may make dignity compatible with imperfection. This is a scene to compare with your circumstances, not proof that a lasting change has occurred. The useful reading attends to the scale of the deed, the standard it seems to violate and whether the dream permits responsibility without reducing the person to that one event.", "traditional": "Miller’s Mortification account first describes being mortified over one’s deed before valued observers and assigns social and financial forecasts. A separate archaic clause about “mortified flesh” assigns disastrous enterprises and disappointment in love. That bodily wording remains an attributed historical clause, not a medical interpretation; the original reading here develops the self-conscious emotional scene.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "An act and a whole-person verdict", "reflection": "The dream may make a mistake seem to determine everything about the person who made it." }, { "title": "Whose regard matters", "reflection": "A particular observer or your own expectation can give the deed its weight." }, { "title": "Responsibility in proportion", "reflection": "Repair can become possible without denying the event or making it a permanent identity." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A small mistake feels like it defines your whole character", "reflection": "The scene enlarges one event into an account of your entire worth or reliability. This can resemble a standard that leaves little room for ordinary error. The deed and the verdict deserve separate attention, especially when the dream provides no proportionate path beyond the mistake." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A person you admire witnesses something you regret", "reflection": "Their presence can make the imagined loss of regard more painful than the act alone. A valued mentor or relationship offers a comparison. The scene may concern what you want to remain recognizable as, rather than reveal the observer’s actual opinion of you." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Nobody knows what happened but you cannot face them", "reflection": "The verdict is sustained without an external response. This can picture the force of your own expectation about what others would think. The absence of an audience does not make the feeling unreal; it changes the question from exposure to how the imagined standard operates." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You try to repair the act while others keep repeating it", "reflection": "Repair changes the practical event while the label stays fixed. This may resemble wanting an effort acknowledged rather than being repeatedly identified with a past error. The scene distinguishes addressing a consequence from gaining room to continue as more than the person who made it." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A listener distinguishes the mistake from who you are", "reflection": "The response makes the act discussable without making it your whole identity. A patient explanation or ordinary acknowledgment can create that distinction. The dream may offer a wished-for way of being accountable while retaining dignity, rather than require denial or endless condemnation." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You face a similar moment without hiding this time", "reflection": "The same kind of event now permits a different response: a question, a correction or continued participation. The change can make imperfection less final within the story. Its value lies in the option the dream imagines, not a certification that self-conscious distress has permanently ended." } ], "prompts": [ "What deed did the dream show, and what larger verdict followed it?", "Whose regard or standard made the moment especially painful?", "What would count as proportionate responsibility without reducing you to the act?" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1335" ], "scope": "Historical context only. Attributed Gustavus Hindman Miller passage(s): feeling mortified over one’s deed before valued observers, plus a separate mortified-flesh forecast. These are period beliefs, not established predictions or support for the original psychological reading." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "related": [ "guilt", "being-judged", "disgrace", "regret" ], "updated": "2026-10-13", "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1335", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Mortification", "text": "To dream that you feel mortified over any deed committed by yourself,\nis a sign that you will be placed in an unenviable position\nbefore those to whom you most wish to appear honorable and just.\nFinancial conditions will fall low.\n\nTo see mortified flesh, denotes disastrous enterprises and\ndisappointment in love.", "locator": "Heading 1339; source lines 15382–15392", "lineStart": 15382, "lineEnd": 15392, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you feel mortified over any deed committed by yourself,\nis a sign that you will be placed in an unenviable position\nbefore those to whom you most wish to appear honorable and just.\nFinancial conditions will fall low.\n\nTo see mortified flesh, denotes disastrous enterprises and\ndisappointment in love." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "moses", "title": "Moses", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you see Moses, means personal gain and a connubial alliance which will be a source of sweet congratulation to yourself.”", "aliases": [ "moses" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about moses stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1336", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Moses", "text": "To dream that you see Moses, means personal gain and a connubial alliance\nwhich will be a source of sweet congratulation to yourself.", "locator": "Heading 1340; source lines 15392–15397", "lineStart": 15392, "lineEnd": 15397, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you see Moses, means personal gain and a connubial alliance\nwhich will be a source of sweet congratulation to yourself." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "mosquito", "title": "Mosquito", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "aliases": [ "mosquito", "mosquitoes" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "summary": "Mosquitoes can explore interrupted rest, anticipation before a nuisance is located, and a boundary that needs one particular repair.", "tagline": "A repeated interruption can make the conditions for rest matter.", "psychological": "A mosquito heard before it is seen can make a small uncertainty occupy a large part of your attention. You may stop a task to locate something that has not yet become a clear encounter. An unanswered notification or recurring background concern can feel similar. Discovering where the sound comes from changes what response is possible; anticipation alone may have left the interruption without usable limits.\n\nA mosquito entering through one gap in a screen can make an otherwise useful boundary feel incomplete. You may want a task or period of rest protected while one particular access point keeps needing attention. A practical repair differs from concluding that the entire arrangement is ineffective. If the dream repeatedly restores the gap, the issue may concern who maintains the boundary or what conditions keep changing around it.\n\nBeing bothered while everyone else rests can make your need difficult to share. Other participants may feel comfortable under conditions that do not let you settle. A household routine or shared workspace can offer a parallel when one person’s interruption is hard for the group to notice. Explaining the effect may support a change without requiring everyone to experience the same response.\n\nA single bite after a long wait can make an anticipated event finally specific. Relief at having something clear to address can coexist with discomfort. This comparison concerns the dreamed sequence; it cannot identify an actual bite, infection or health risk. Several mosquitoes arriving while you attempt to rest can instead make response feel like a job that displaces the rest itself.\n\nThe buzzing continuing after the visible mosquito is gone can separate the encounter from the attention it has organized. You may recognize remaining on alert after a practical task is finished. Checking what is actually present can permit a different ending without requiring certainty that nothing will ever interrupt you again. A recent night, sound, image or ordinary concern may supply direct context. These reflections follow interruption, particular access points and shared rest, without making mosquitoes evidence of secret enemies or assigning a dream sensation a medical cause.", "traditional": "Miller describes mosquitoes through secret-enemy and favorable killing forecasts. Craig reports a petty-enemy interpretation attributed to a tradition. These two records show period claims, not evidence of persecution, an actual health risk or a reliable explanation for dream sensations.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Anticipation needs a location", "reflection": "Finding the actual interruption can create a particular response where a background sound had left uncertainty." }, { "title": "One repair can preserve a useful boundary", "reflection": "An imperfect arrangement can remain valuable while a specific gap needs attention." }, { "title": "Rest can need shared conditions", "reflection": "A difficulty noticed by one participant can merit discussion without identical reactions from everyone." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A mosquito’s sound interrupts you before you can find it", "reflection": "Attention is caught without a usable location for response. This may picture a background concern or unanswered request. Discovering what is actually present can make the task particular, without treating every anticipated interruption as proof of a real threat." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A mosquito keeps entering through one gap in a screen", "reflection": "A boundary serves much of its purpose while one point needs repair. This can resemble time or space reserved for rest but interrupted through a particular route. Attention to that gap may help without declaring the whole arrangement ineffective or unsafe." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Others sleep comfortably while you cannot settle beside the mosquito", "reflection": "Participants have different conditions for rest. This may picture a difficulty whose effect is not obvious to everyone sharing the setting. Explaining what changes your experience can support another arrangement without requiring the group to feel identically or infer a health condition." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "One bite arrives after you have waited anxiously for it", "reflection": "An anticipated event becomes a particular encounter. This can resemble uncertainty ending while a concrete task remains. Relief and discomfort can coexist; the dream sensation does not diagnose an actual bite, infection or bodily cause for what you remembered." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Several mosquitoes arrive whenever you begin to rest", "reflection": "Responding to interruption displaces the activity you wanted to protect. This may picture a pause repeatedly becoming another job. A shared boundary or different setting can matter more than handling every interruption alone, without establishing a rule about what real insects signify." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "Buzzing seems to continue after the mosquito has left", "reflection": "The encounter and the attention it organized no longer end together. This can resemble remaining alert after a practical task is completed. Checking the present conditions may permit another ending without demanding a guarantee that no future interruption will occur." } ], "prompts": [ "What information made the interruption particular enough to address?", "Which access point or responsibility affected the boundary?", "How could your need for rest become understandable within the shared setting?" ], "related": [ "flies", "sleep", "window" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1337" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. miller-1337 — Mosquito (Heading 1341; source lines 15397–15406): Mosquitoes receive secret-enemy/patience/fortune claims; killing receives favorable obstacle/home forecasts." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L10944" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. craig-1918:L10944 — Mosquitoes (Printed p. 235; NLM OCR lines 10944–10945): Reports petty-enemy persecution lore, not an actual account of someone’s intentions." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection independently reviewed for content and source scope. Historical accounts remain attributed period writing. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1337", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Mosquito", "text": "To see mosquitoes in your dreams, you will strive in vain\nto remain impregnable to the sly attacks of secret enemies.\nYour patience and fortune will both suffer from these designing persons.\n\nIf you kill mosquitoes, you will eventually overcome obstacles\nand enjoy fortune and domestic bliss.", "locator": "Heading 1341; source lines 15397–15406", "lineStart": 15397, "lineEnd": 15406, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see mosquitoes in your dreams, you will strive in vain\nto remain impregnable to the sly attacks of secret enemies.\nYour patience and fortune will both suffer from these designing persons.\n\nIf you kill mosquitoes, you will eventually overcome obstacles\nand enjoy fortune and domestic bliss." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10944", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Mosquitoes", "heading": "Mosquitoes", "text": "Persecution from petty enemies (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 10944, "lineEnd": 10945, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 235; NLM OCR lines 10944–10945", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10944, "lineEnd": 10945, "printedPage": 235, "printedPageEnd": 235 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Mosquitoes. — Persecution from petty enemies (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Mosquitoes" }, "displayText": "Persecution from petty enemies (Gypsy)." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "moss", "title": "Moss", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of moss, denotes that you will fill dependent positions, unless the moss grows in rich soil, when…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "moss" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about moss stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1338", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Moss", "text": "To dream of moss, denotes that you will fill dependent positions,\nunless the moss grows in rich soil, when you will be favored with honors.", "locator": "Heading 1342; source lines 15406–15411", "lineStart": 15406, "lineEnd": 15411, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of moss, denotes that you will fill dependent positions,\nunless the moss grows in rich soil, when you will be favored with honors." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10946", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Moss", "heading": "Moss", "text": "A dream signifying the acquisition and hoarding of money (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 10946, "lineEnd": 10948, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 235; NLM OCR lines 10946–10948", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10946, "lineEnd": 10948, "printedPage": 235, "printedPageEnd": 235 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Moss. — A dream signifying the acquisition and hoarding of \nmoney (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Moss" }, "displayText": "A dream signifying the acquisition and hoarding of money (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "moth", "title": "Moth", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "aliases": [ "moth", "moths" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "summary": "A moth can explore a repeatedly chosen point of attention, the use of stored belongings, or an encounter that changes when its setting changes.", "tagline": "What keeps drawing attention may need another arrangement around it.", "psychological": "A moth repeatedly approaching a lamp can picture attention returning to one conspicuous point while other routes remain available. You may recognize an idea, invitation or task that keeps drawing you back without becoming easier to use. The dreamed repetition may feel absorbing or exhausting. Moving the lamp changes the arrangement, while turning it off asks what remains interesting when the original point of attraction disappears.\n\nA moth near stored clothing can make the future use of a possession uncertain. You may want to protect something for another occasion while discovering that leaving it untouched is not the same as keeping it usable. An old project or a familiar role waiting to be resumed can offer a parallel. Looking at the actual garment gives the task more precision than assuming that the visitor has damaged everything or that someone is taking from you.\n\nA moth whose patterned wings become visible only at close range can make a small encounter more particular. Something noticed initially as an interruption may offer another reason to stay with it. A routine task or overlooked contribution may become similarly detailed through direct contact. That change does not require declaring quiet or modest things inherently more valuable than conspicuous ones.\n\nIf a moth keeps circling after a door opens, the presence of an option may not be enough to make it usable. You may know that another route exists while still needing orientation or a different invitation. Creating a clearer passage changes the conditions rather than defining the visitor as unable to learn. A moth landing on a paper image of itself makes resemblance a different issue: the model remains still while the actual encounter continues.\n\nA lamp going dark just before the moth settles can let a repetitive scene acquire a stopping point. Relief may concern being able to remain without continuing the pursuit; disappointment may concern an interest losing its visible focus. Light, clothing, a picture or a recent insect encounter can provide direct context. These readings follow attention, preserved use and changing conditions; they do not infer betrayal, recklessness or an inevitable harmful attraction from the species.", "traditional": "Miller predicts worries, contracts and household quarrels. Fontaine supplies theft, slander and an enemy-death forecast from burned wings. Craig reports betrayal lore and the proverbial moth/flame association. These three Moth records are attributed historical claims, not proof of danger, motives or a universal pattern of harmful attraction. White Moth has its own separately owned passage.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Attention returns to one point", "reflection": "A repeated approach can make the arrangement around an interest more useful to examine than the interest’s supposed character." }, { "title": "Preservation includes future use", "reflection": "Stored possessions can need particular attention without making every unused object neglected or damaged." }, { "title": "An available route needs orientation", "reflection": "An open option may require clearer conditions before it becomes a practical way to move." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A moth keeps approaching the same lamp", "reflection": "Attention returns to a conspicuous point without a settled result. This may picture an idea or task repeatedly absorbing effort. Changing the surrounding arrangement can matter more than labeling the interest harmful; the dreamed movement does not establish recklessness or a personality." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A moth appears beside clothing kept for another occasion", "reflection": "Preserving a possession raises a question about its future use. This can resemble old work awaiting another stage. Checking the actual item may make the task particular, without assuming that every stored thing is damaged or that a visitor proves someone is stealing." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A small moth reveals a detailed pattern when you move closer", "reflection": "A minor interruption becomes a more particular encounter. This may picture overlooked work gaining interest through direct involvement. The changed view can matter without requiring a lesson that quiet things are always superior or that your first impression was a failure." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "The moth circles even after you open the door", "reflection": "An available option has not yet become a usable route. This can resemble a transition needing orientation rather than more possibilities. Changing the path or invitation may help without making the visitor’s delay evidence that you or someone else refuses to change." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A moth rests on a paper illustration of a moth", "reflection": "Resemblance connects a model with something that keeps moving. This may picture an account helping you recognize an encounter without fully describing its action. The actual visitor can remain different from the image, rather than needing to perform every expectation attached to it." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The lamp goes dark and the moth finally settles", "reflection": "The point organizing repeated movement disappears, and another state becomes possible. This can resemble an interest acquiring a pause after a demand ends. Relief and disappointment offer different readings; the change does not predict that a real pursuit will end well or badly." } ], "prompts": [ "What kept bringing attention back to the same point?", "Which particular condition affected the future use of what was stored?", "How did changing the setting alter the movement or stopping point?" ], "related": [ "white-moth", "light", "clothes", "butterfly" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1339" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. miller-1339 — Moth (Heading 1343; source lines 15411–15417): Moth predicts small worries, hurried unfavorable contracts and household quarrels." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0483" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. fontaine-0483 — Moth (Heading 483; source line 3249): Predicts theft/slander and an enemy’s death from wings burned in a flame." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L10952" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. craig-1918:L10952 — Moths (Printed p. 235; NLM OCR lines 10952–10955): Reports love/betrayal lore and a moth/flame proverb association." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection independently reviewed for content and source scope. Historical accounts remain attributed period writing. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1339", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Moth", "text": "To see a moth in a dream, small worries will lash you\ninto hurried contracts, which will prove unsatisfactory.\nQuarrels of a domestic nature are prognosticated.", "locator": "Heading 1343; source lines 15411–15417", "lineStart": 15411, "lineEnd": 15417, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a moth in a dream, small worries will lash you\ninto hurried contracts, which will prove unsatisfactory.\nQuarrels of a domestic nature are prognosticated." }, { "id": "fontaine-0483", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Moth", "text": "To dream of moth is a sign some one is robbing you, it also\npredicts slander by a supposed friend. To dream you see a moth burn its\nwings in a flame signifies that an enemy will die. 22.", "locator": "Heading 483; source line 3249", "lineStart": 3249, "lineEnd": 3253, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of moth is a sign some one is robbing you, it also\npredicts slander by a supposed friend. To dream you see a moth burn its\nwings in a flame signifies that an enemy will die." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10952", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Moths", "heading": "Moths", "text": "A dream of a love affair in which the dreamer will suffer betrayal (Gypsy). The proverbial moth and flame is symbolized in this dream.", "lineStart": 10952, "lineEnd": 10955, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 235; NLM OCR lines 10952–10955", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10952, "lineEnd": 10955, "printedPage": 235, "printedPageEnd": 235 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Moths. — A dream of a love affair in which the dreamer will \nsuffer betrayal (Gypsy). The proverbial moth and flame is \nsymbolized in this dream. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Moths" }, "displayText": "A dream of a love affair in which the dreamer will suffer betrayal (Gypsy). The proverbial moth and flame is symbolized in this dream." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "mother", "title": "Mother", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "The actual exchange matters more than an assumed maternal role.", "summary": "A mother can bring a particular family history into choices about closeness, care, advice and room to have a different preference.", "aliases": [ "mother", "mum", "mom", "my mother", "mother dying", "dead mother" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "A mother asking what you want to eat can make a small preference consequential. You may answer freely, return to a familiar childhood choice or discover that the meal is already decided. This can resemble negotiating how much of your present self fits an established family routine. The encounter may contain warmth and constraint together; a mother’s presence does not require comfort, conflict or any single response.\n\nA familiar voice arriving in an unfamiliar setting can bring private and public roles together. Your mother calls you by a childhood name during a work presentation, for example. You might enjoy recognition while wanting others to know you through your current role. A nickname, conversation or remembered place can supply the scene directly without turning it into evidence about what she expects now.\n\nCare can change direction. You help her finish a practical task, she declines your assistance, or both of you need someone else’s contribution. These variations can picture the terms on which support is offered and accepted. A household responsibility may offer a waking comparison when affection and capacity do not perfectly align. The dream need not assign the whole task to you or assess her actual health.\n\nAdvice introduces another choice. A familiar suggestion may suit the situation, or fit an earlier version of your life more closely than the present one. Being able to discuss or set it aside can make the relationship feel different from simply complying. If you seek advice and receive ordinary company instead, the useful question may concern whether you wanted an answer, reassurance or time together.\n\nQuiet closeness can have value without solving a problem. Sharing a room while doing separate things may express the kind of contact you enjoy or miss. If your mother has died, a remembered or invented everyday encounter can hold tenderness, anger, grief or surprise without proving communication. Relationships that were absent, difficult or distant may also appear in unfamiliar forms. These original possibilities leave room for your particular history and the amount of choice available in the scene, rather than making a mother a universal image of care or obligation.", "traditional": "Miller gives home, conversation, duty and health forecasts; Fontaine assigns contrary benefits, separation and new-sibling predictions to quarrels, affection and gifts. Noe and Craig contrast living and dead mothers through joy or adverse feeling. These four period accounts establish neither family duties nor health or future events. A particular relationship can differ greatly from the roles those books assume.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "She asks your preference but the meal is already prepared", "reflection": "The invitation to choose arrives after the practical decision. This may picture a familiar routine that needs more room for your present preferences. Appreciation and a request for another arrangement can coexist without making the dreamed meal a judgment about her intentions." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "She uses your childhood nickname in a work meeting", "reflection": "Recognition from one period enters a role with different expectations. This can resemble wanting both family familiarity and acknowledgment of your current responsibilities. The scene need not require rejecting the name or abandoning the professional setting to make that distinction useful." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You offer help and she chooses to finish the task herself", "reflection": "Care is available while the other participant retains a preference. This may picture learning what assistance is wanted rather than taking over automatically. Respecting the dreamed choice can change the encounter without deciding how capable or independent your actual mother is." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Her advice fits an earlier stage of your life", "reflection": "A familiar suggestion arrives with assumptions that no longer cover the whole situation. This can resemble wanting to explain what has changed. Discussion or a different choice may preserve the connection without requiring either complete agreement or withdrawal from the relationship." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You share a quiet room while doing separate things", "reflection": "Closeness does not demand continuous conversation or a shared task. This may express pleasure in ordinary company or a wish for contact with less pressure. Comfort depends on the particular arrangement, rather than proving that every family relationship should take this form." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "A mother who has died joins an ordinary imagined outing", "reflection": "A familiar person appears within an encounter that can combine memory and invention. This may give grief, affection or unfinished words a particular setting. The experience can matter without becoming proof of communication, a reliable memory or an instruction about what to do next." } ], "prompts": [ "What preference did the encounter allow you to express?", "How did offering or receiving care affect each person’s room to choose?", "Which form of contact mattered here: advice, activity, conversation or quiet company?" ], "related": [ "father", "sister", "childhood-home", "caring-for-an-aging-parent", "deceased-loved-one" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "scope": "miller-1340 — Mother (Heading 1344; source lines 15417–15437): Home presence, conversation, duties, frailty/death, calling and crying receive gendered family, enterprise and health forecasts. Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence validating the original reflection, a diagnosis, another person’s state or a future event.", "recordReferences": [ { "id": "miller-1340", "heading": "Mother", "locator": "Heading 1344; source lines 15417–15437" } ], "recordIds": [ "miller-1340" ] }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "scope": "fontaine-0484 — Mother (Heading 484; source line 3253): Quarrelling receives a benefit claim, affection a death/separation claim, and a present a new-sibling claim. Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence validating the original reflection, a diagnosis, another person’s state or a future event.", "recordReferences": [ { "id": "fontaine-0484", "heading": "Mother", "locator": "Heading 484; source line 3253" } ], "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0484" ] }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0334" ], "scope": "noe-0334 — Mother (Dream section, heading 338; source lines 1334–1336): A living mother is assigned joy and a dead mother misfortune. Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence validating the original reflection, a diagnosis, another person’s state or a future event." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L10949" ], "scope": "craig-1918:L10949 — Mother (Printed p. 235; NLM OCR lines 10949–10951): Craig contrasts living/dead mothers through joy/sorrow under a Gypsy attribution. Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence validating the original reflection, a diagnosis, another person’s state or a future event." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15 under the site owner’s delegation. Historical claims, where supplied, remain attributed period writing. No human or clinical review is claimed.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A preference belongs to the present", "reflection": "An established family routine can remain familiar while your current choices need a place within it." }, { "title": "Care includes the terms of acceptance", "reflection": "Offering, receiving or declining practical help can clarify capacity and choice without assigning one person every responsibility." }, { "title": "Closeness has several forms", "reflection": "Advice, shared activity and quiet company provide different kinds of contact; one need not replace all the others." } ], "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "Codex (AI-assisted editorial review)", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "a-stranger", "a-train-going-in-the-wrong-direction", "being-trapped", "being-unable-to-move", "children", "church", "current-romantic-partner", "death-of-a-friend", "elevator", "father", "forest", "hair-falling-out", "insects", "key", "locked-out", "mother", "nakedness", "phone-not-working", "rainbow", "running-but-going-nowhere", "school", "smoke", "snake-bite", "superpowers", "the-self", "the-shadow", "web" ] }, "decisionReason": "The reading permits present preferences, changed advice, offered or declined help and different forms of contact. It accommodates varied and difficult histories without making motherhood universally comforting or obligatory. 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To see your mother\ndead, signifies misfortune.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 338; source lines 1334–1336", "lineStart": 1334, "lineEnd": 1336, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To\ndream you see your own mother living, signifies joy. To see your mother\ndead, signifies misfortune." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10949", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Mother", "heading": "Mother", "text": "To dream of your mother (living) denotes joy; if she be dead, sorrow (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 10949, "lineEnd": 10951, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 235; NLM OCR lines 10949–10951", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10949, "lineEnd": 10951, "printedPage": 235, "printedPageEnd": 235 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Mother. — To dream of your mother (living) denotes joy; \nif she be dead, sorrow (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Mother" }, "displayText": "To dream of your mother (living) denotes joy; if she be dead, sorrow (Gypsy)." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "mother-in-law", "title": "Mother-in-law", "type": "dreams", "category": "Other symbols", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of your mother-in-law, denotes there will be pleasant reconciliations for you after some serious disagreement.”", "aliases": [ "mother-in-law" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about mother-in-law stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1341", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Mother-in-law", "text": "To dream of your mother-in-law, denotes there will be pleasant\nreconciliations for you after some serious disagreement.\nFor a woman to dispute with her mother-in-law, she will find\nthat quarrelsome and unfeeling people will give her annoyance.", "locator": "Heading 1345; source lines 15437–15444", "lineStart": 15437, "lineEnd": 15444, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of your mother-in-law, denotes there will be pleasant\nreconciliations for you after some serious disagreement.\nFor a woman to dispute with her mother-in-law, she will find\nthat quarrelsome and unfeeling people will give her annoyance." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "motorcycle", "title": "Motorcycle", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "Two wheels make movement immediate and balance visible.", "summary": "A motorcycle dream can combine balance, exposure, speed, and trust in a rider. Notice who steered and whether the road felt chosen or imposed.", "aliases": [ "motorcycle", "motorcycles", "motorbike", "motorbikes", "riding a motorcycle", "motorcycle dream", "motorcycle crash", "dirt bike", "scooter" ], "status": "REVIEW", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A motorcycle brings the body close to the mechanics of movement: leaning, balancing, holding on, and feeling the road. In a dream, those details can make travel thrilling or uncomfortable. Begin with your position. Steering, riding behind someone, pushing a stalled bike, and watching from a pavement are different relationships to the journey, even when the same machine appears.\n\nThe pace can help locate the experience. You may choose speed, struggle to slow down, or move carefully through a narrow route. A possible waking comparison is the balance between momentum and exposure in a plan you are pursuing. That comparison is useful only if it fits; an actual ride, daily traffic, a remembered accident scene, or a game can provide the imagery directly. Do not read the dream as a safety prediction or a test of your real riding ability.\n\nA passenger’s experience may concern trust, closeness, or lack of influence over the route. Name the rider and what you wanted from them: steadiness, a different destination, a chance to stop, or simply company. Their dreamed choices do not reveal how they act or what they intend in waking life. If you took the handlebars later, note whether that changed the feeling or only added responsibility.\n\nThe machine itself can have a distinctive role. It might start easily, feel too large, lack familiar controls, or become unexpectedly quiet. Record the specific problem and your intended destination before calling it a general sign of control. A dream ride can be ordinary transport, imaginative freedom, or an interrupted errand. Its meaning need not extend beyond the experience that stayed with you.", "traditional": "No historical account is attached to this specific motorcycle scene. Neighbouring images such as bicycles, cars, or racing concern other forms of movement and cannot supply a verified inherited reading of this vehicle. No outcome on the road is predicted from the dream.\n\nA motorcycle may be routine transport, work equipment, a hobby, or a machine you know only from images. That everyday relationship changes what is surprising: an unfamiliar route may matter more than the vehicle for a regular rider, while simply knowing how to balance may be extraordinary for someone who has never ridden. Describe the road, traffic, weather, and destination alongside the bike. Equipment such as a helmet may appear as a familiar detail or be conspicuously absent. Reflect on how its presence changed the feeling, without treating dream omissions as reliable accounts of your actual judgment or habits.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "Riding behind someone you know", "reflection": "Notice the destination and whether you could ask the rider to change pace or stop. The scene may concern shared movement or the experience of entrusting a route to someone else. It does not establish whether that person is trustworthy in waking life." }, { "title": "A motorcycle will not start", "reflection": "The interruption may be practical rather than dangerous. Describe where you wanted to go and whether waiting changed anything. A stalled engine can offer a comparison with an intention awaiting resources, or simply repeat a familiar mechanical frustration." }, { "title": "Balancing easily on an unfamiliar road", "reflection": "Confidence may be the distinctive pleasure of the dream. Record what made the road navigable and whether you wanted to keep going. The scene can imagine competence and freedom without proving a hidden ability or requiring an account of waking dissatisfaction." } ], "prompts": [ "Who chose the route and the pace?", "What did the ride let you feel that other transport would not?", "Which detail came from your actual relationship with motorcycles?" ], "related": [ "driving", "bicycle", "car", "racing", "helmet" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia expansion written on 2026-10-13, awaiting human publication review. Interpretations are conditional invitations to reflection, not validated symbolic meanings, predictions, diagnoses, or evidence about other people. Historical coverage is identified separately from original everyday context; research citations provide general context only.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "mountain", "title": "Mountain", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "aliases": [ "mountain", "mountains" ], "summary": "A mountain can suggest a demanding goal, a change in scale, or a wish for perspective. Reaching the summit is only one possible meaningful ending.", "tagline": "A large goal makes effort, limits, and the view from where you stand visible.", "psychological": "A mountain can picture a goal that feels substantial enough to organize your attention. From below, its size makes the distance between wanting and reaching visible. A qualification, long project, or major move may feel similar: the result is imaginable, but the route requires sustained effort. Admiring a mountain without climbing can instead express wonder or perspective rather than a demand to achieve something.\n\nThe ascent can give form to how that effort is unfolding. A manageable path may fit clear preparation and support. Rugged ground or increasing exhaustion may suggest that the cost is greater than you expected, or that the chosen pace does not suit your resources. This does not make ambition wrong; it brings the conditions of pursuing it into view.\n\nA summit can center recognition and the hoped-for result. Relief or satisfaction may fit completing something meaningful, while an empty or disappointing summit can picture achieving an expected milestone without receiving what you actually needed. A new goal immediately appearing beyond it may express pressure to keep proving yourself.\n\nTurning back or descending can have a purposeful reading. Leaving an unsuitable route may picture revising priorities, and a safe descent may suggest bringing an achievement back into ordinary life. Knowing how to return can be part of completing the journey, not a reversal of its value.\n\nTraveling with others introduces shared pace, differing goals, and mutual support. Crossing a pass rather than climbing a peak may suggest a practical transition whose purpose lies beyond the mountain. Real landscapes, outdoor experiences, and remembered images can also supply the scene directly; no ending needs to serve as a verdict on your ability.", "traditional": "Miller, Fontaine and Noe tie pleasant terrain or successful ascent to advancement, wealth and gendered relationship forecasts; difficult ground receives adverse readings. Craig reports fear and trouble under an Artemidorus attribution, then quotes the literary story of Kremhild warning Siegfried after dreaming of falling mountains. A narrative example is not evidence that dreams foretell death. None of these period claims establishes character, fortune or danger. The original reflection gives viewing, crossing a pass, reaching a summit and returning safely their own purposes.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A goal large enough to shape the journey", "reflection": "The mountain can picture a demanding task whose result is visible before the route is clear. Its scale makes preparation and sustained effort more important than desire alone." }, { "title": "The cost of the chosen pace", "reflection": "Exhaustion or difficult ground may suggest a mismatch between demands and resources. Changing pace or route can respond to conditions without necessarily abandoning a goal that matters." }, { "title": "Achievement, perspective, and return", "reflection": "A summit may express satisfaction or expose an unmet expectation. Descending can bring an accomplishment into daily life, while viewing the mountain may offer perspective without an obligation to climb." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "You admire the mountain from a distance", "reflection": "The scene can offer scale and perspective without requiring achievement. A demanding situation may become easier to place within a wider view. Wonder or peace makes the mountain something to appreciate, rather than an assignment you must complete.", "slug": "scene-1" }, { "title": "A clear path makes the climb manageable", "reflection": "This can picture having preparation and support suited to a substantial goal. A well-organized project or learning process may fit. The climb still requires effort, but knowing the route allows that effort to feel purposeful rather than consumed by uncertainty.", "slug": "scene-2" }, { "title": "The ground becomes steeper than you expected", "reflection": "A goal may involve costs that were not visible at the start. Expanding responsibilities, limited support, or an unsuitable pace can offer parallels. The difficult terrain makes reconsidering conditions relevant, rather than declaring that you lack determination.", "slug": "scene-3" }, { "title": "The summit feels empty after you reach it", "reflection": "A completed milestone may not provide the recognition, connection, or relief you hoped for. Finishing a qualification or project can feel similar when expectations and actual needs diverge. The achievement remains real, while its meaning may require reassessment.", "slug": "scene-4" }, { "title": "You descend safely after deciding to turn back", "reflection": "This can suggest choosing a workable limit or revising a route with better knowledge of the conditions. Leaving a demanding plan may feel disappointing and sensible at once. The safe return centers responsibility for yourself, rather than an automatic story of failure.", "slug": "scene-5" }, { "title": "Your group crosses a pass instead of climbing the peak", "reflection": "A shared journey may be directed toward what lies beyond the mountain, not toward proving you can reach its highest point. A transition with practical goals can fit. Cooperation and choosing an appropriate route matter more than individual conquest.", "slug": "scene-6" } ], "prompts": [ "Was the mountain something I chose to climb or something I felt expected to conquer?", "What did reaching the destination promise, and did it meet that need?", "Which change of pace, route, or company made the journey more workable?" ], "related": [ "climbing", "stairs", "falling", "forest" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s continuing English editorial delegation. Historical accounts retain their attribution; general sleep background does not validate these interpretations.", "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1342" ], "scope": "Historical context only: Mountain — miller-1342, Heading 1346; source lines 15444–15462. These are period fortune-telling beliefs, not evidence for the modern interpretations." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0482" ], "scope": "Historical context only: Mountain — fontaine-0482, Heading 482; source line 3240. These are period fortune-telling beliefs, not evidence for the modern interpretations." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "scope": "Attached historical comparison only: Mountains — noe-0328 (Dream section, heading 332; source lines 1312–1317). These attributed period claims and cross-references do not establish outcomes, diagnoses, cultural consensus or the original modern interpretations.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0328" ] }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "scope": "Attached historical comparison only: Mountains — craig-1918:L10956 (Printed p. 235; NLM OCR lines 10956–10965). These attributed period claims and cross-references do not establish outcomes, diagnoses, cultural consensus or the original modern interpretations.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L10956" ] }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "DreamFolia AI-assisted editorial review", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "bed", "bathroom", "bridge", "door", "window", "stairs", "road", "clothes", "shoes", "driving", "being-late", "crying", "running", "swimming", "river", "snow", "moon", "sun", "mountain", "fish" ] }, "decisionReason": "Six scenes give viewing, ascent, changed demands, an empty summit, chosen return and a shared pass distinct purposes. 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To awaken when you are at a dangerous\npoint in ascending, denotes that you will find affairs taking\na flattering turn when they appear gloomy.", "locator": "Heading 1346; source lines 15444–15462", "lineStart": 15444, "lineEnd": 15462, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a young woman to dream of crossing a mountain in company\nwith her cousin and dead brother, who was smiling, denotes she\nwill have a distinctive change in her life for the better, but there\nare warnings against allurements and deceitfulness of friends.\nIf she becomes exhausted and refuses to go further, she will be\nslightly disappointed in not gaining quite so exalted a position\nas was hoped for by her.\n\nIf you ascend a mountain in your dreams, and the way is pleasant\nand verdant, you will rise swiftly to wealth and prominence.\nIf the mountain is rugged, and you fail to reach the top,\nyou may expect reverses in your life, and should strive to overcome\nall weakness in your nature. To awaken when you are at a dangerous\npoint in ascending, denotes that you will find affairs taking\na flattering turn when they appear gloomy." }, { "id": "fontaine-0482", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Mountain", "text": "To dream of approaching beautiful smooth-looking mountains,\ndressed in verdure, denotes thrift and happiness, and that you will\nrise in the world: if the mountains look steep, rugged and rocky, it\nforeshadows difficulties and danger, which you may overcome by energy:\nto dream of successfully climbing a mountain, is a sure sign that\nsome honor awaits you, or that you will make a good deal of money:\ndifficulties in climbing show troubles and vexations in getting your\nhonors or your money. 64.", "locator": "Heading 482; source line 3240", "lineStart": 3240, "lineEnd": 3249, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of approaching beautiful smooth-looking mountains,\ndressed in verdure, denotes thrift and happiness, and that you will\nrise in the world: if the mountains look steep, rugged and rocky, it\nforeshadows difficulties and danger, which you may overcome by energy:\nto dream of successfully climbing a mountain, is a sure sign that\nsome honor awaits you, or that you will make a good deal of money:\ndifficulties in climbing show troubles and vexations in getting your\nhonors or your money." }, { "id": "noe-0328", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Mountains", "text": "To dream you see steep and craggy mountains, presages\ndifficulties in accomplishing your designs. If you ascend them and gain\nthe top, you will be successful in whatever you undertake, become very\nrich, and arrive at great honors in the state. To a maid, they denote that\nshe will marry a man who will become rich and powerful, and that her\nchildren will be people of consequence.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 332; source lines 1312–1317", "lineStart": 1312, "lineEnd": 1317, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see steep and craggy mountains, presages\ndifficulties in accomplishing your designs. If you ascend them and gain\nthe top, you will be successful in whatever you undertake, become very\nrich, and arrive at great honors in the state. To a maid, they denote that\nshe will marry a man who will become rich and powerful, and that her\nchildren will be people of consequence." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10956", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Mountains", "heading": "Mountains", "text": "A dream of heaviness, fear and trouble (Artemidorus). Thus Kremhild warns her lord Siegfried of his approaching death. \"Nay, Siegfried, I fear some mischance. Last night I dreamed an evil dream ; how that two mountains fell on thee and I saw thee no more. If thou goest thou wilt grieve me bitterly.\" Nevertheless he rode off. She never saw him alive again. — Fall of the Niehelungs.", "lineStart": 10956, "lineEnd": 10965, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 235; NLM OCR lines 10956–10965", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10956, "lineEnd": 10965, "printedPage": 235, "printedPageEnd": 235 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Mountains. — A dream of heaviness, fear and trouble \n(Artemidorus). Thus Kremhild warns her lord Siegfried of \nhis approaching death. \n\n\"Nay, Siegfried, I fear some mischance. Last night I \ndreamed an evil dream ; how that two mountains fell on thee \nand I saw thee no more. If thou goest thou wilt grieve me \nbitterly.\" Nevertheless he rode off. She never saw him alive \nagain. — Fall of the Niehelungs. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 0.99666, "secondaryHeading": "Mountains" }, "displayText": "A dream of heaviness, fear and trouble (Artemidorus). Thus Kremhild warns her lord Siegfried of his approaching death. \"Nay, Siegfried, I fear some mischance. Last night I dreamed an evil dream; how that two mountains fell on thee and I saw thee no more. If thou goest thou wilt grieve me bitterly.\" Nevertheless he rode off. She never saw him alive again. — Fall of the Niehelungs." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "mourning", "title": "Mourning", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "Giving absence a place in feeling and shared life", "summary": "Mourning may stage how loss is felt, shown or shared, including a difference between personal emotion and expected public forms.", "aliases": [ "mourning" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "Mourning in a dream can appear as a feeling, an activity or a public sign that someone or something is absent. You may wear particular clothes, join a gathering, be told that you are mourning or feel a loss whose subject remains unclear. Describe the form the dream supplies. The experience differs from the location of a cemetery, the ceremony of a funeral or an encounter with a deceased person.\n\nAn outward sign may not match your feeling. You could wear expected clothing while feeling distracted, or feel sadness in a place where nobody recognizes it. This may invite reflection on how private experience becomes visible to others. A present loss or an ordinary change might provide context, but the dream does not determine how much you cared or reveal an emotional condition from the mismatch.\n\nOther people's expectations can organize the scene. Someone may insist on a particular behavior, offer practical company or leave room for you to respond differently. Your own remembered customs and relationships give these actions their meaning. There is no single form of mourning that the dream requires you to follow, and an invented ritual cannot establish how a whole community handles loss.\n\nMourning can also coexist with ordinary activity. A meal, a joke, work or an errand may continue while the absence remains important. This need not prove disrespect, denial or completion of grief. Notice what the change in tone makes possible in the scene. Feeling relief or enjoyment does not have to cancel sadness, and sadness need not define every part of the dreamed day.\n\nThe subject of loss may shift or remain unknown. You might mourn a person, a place, an earlier role or simply know that something has gone. Keep those distinctions instead of assigning every scene to an actual death. Recent conversations, anniversaries, gatherings and fiction can supply details directly. A personal reflection can concern what you make visible, what company you want and how the absence fits among other experiences. It does not identify a required stage, diagnose your response or promise when a real loss will feel different.", "traditional": "The attached Mourning accounts mainly concern wearing mourning dress or seeing others wear it. Miller gives unfavorable loss and relationship forecasts; Fontaine and Cielo instead assign wedding-related forecasts. These period clothing-and-ritual claims do not provide a complete theory of grief, define a correct emotional response or predict an event in your family.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "You wear mourning clothes but cannot identify the loss", "reflection": "A public form is present while its subject remains uncertain. This may make expectation or participation more central than one known death. Describe what others ask of you and how the clothing feels without inventing a hidden loss to make the scene fit." }, { "title": "You feel sad while everyone around you continues an ordinary meal", "reflection": "Your private experience and the shared activity have different rhythms. This may picture wanting room for an absence that is less visible to other people. Their dreamed behavior does not establish actual indifference, and joining the meal need not cancel the sadness." }, { "title": "Someone insists that you should show more emotion", "reflection": "A visible standard is imposed on a personal response. This could fit concern about how care is recognized within a group. Notice whether you explain, comply or leave; the dreamed demand does not measure your attachment or prove that you are mourning incorrectly." }, { "title": "A companion helps with an errand without asking you to explain", "reflection": "Practical company makes part of the day easier while leaving your experience open. This may picture a form of support you recognize or would welcome. The useful act need not resolve the loss or require that you feel comforted in a particular way." }, { "title": "You laugh during the gathering and the sadness remains", "reflection": "Different emotions coexist without one erasing the other. This may invite a description of the particular moment and the company around it. The laughter does not establish disrespect, denial or recovery; it is one action within the dreamed experience rather than a verdict about grief." }, { "title": "You leave the formal gathering but continue remembering someone privately", "reflection": "A public activity ends without ending the remembered connection. This could distinguish a shared occasion from your own way of carrying an absence. Notice what you do afterward; departure does not require closure or show that the relationship has become unimportant." } ], "prompts": [ "What form did mourning take in the dream?", "How did your own feeling relate to what other people expected or offered?", "What ordinary activity remained possible alongside the absence?" ], "related": [ "funeral", "cemetery", "deceased-loved-one", "grief", "sorting-belongings-after-a-loss" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1343" ], "scope": "Historical comparison only: Miller’s account concerns wearing mourning or others wearing it and assigns unhappiness, loss and relationship-separation forecasts. Exact owned passages: Mourning — miller-1343 (Heading 1347; source lines 15462–15470). These period claims do not validate the original reflections or establish present-day outcomes." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0485" ], "scope": "Historical comparison only: Fontaine concerns mourning dress for a relative or joining people dressed in black, assigning wedding or marriage-ceremony forecasts. Exact owned passages: Mourning — fontaine-0485 (Heading 485; source line 3260). These period claims do not validate the original reflections or establish present-day outcomes." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0274" ], "scope": "Historical comparison only: Cielo assigns a wedding-invitation forecast to wearing mourning. This is a clothing-and-ritual account rather than a comprehensive account of grief. Exact owned passages: Mourning — cielo-0274 (Dream section, heading 274; source lines 4520–4523). These period claims do not validate the original reflections or establish present-day outcomes." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection independently reviewed for content and source scope. Historical accounts remain attributed period writing. Human publication review pending.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Feeling and its visible form", "reflection": "Clothing, words and behavior may show a loss differently from the emotion you experience privately." }, { "title": "Company without a prescribed response", "reflection": "Support can appear as room to participate differently, rather than a demand to display one feeling." }, { "title": "Absence alongside ordinary life", "reflection": "A meal, errand or moment of enjoyment may coexist with mourning without deciding that the loss is resolved." } ], "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1343", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Mourning", "text": "To dream that you wear mourning, omens ill luck and unhappiness.\n\nIf others wear it, there will be disturbing influences among\nyour friends causing you unexpected dissatisfaction and loss.\nTo lovers, this dream foretells misunderstanding and probable separation.", "locator": "Heading 1347; source lines 15462–15470", "lineStart": 15462, "lineEnd": 15470, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you wear mourning, omens ill luck and unhappiness.\n\nIf others wear it, there will be disturbing influences among\nyour friends causing you unexpected dissatisfaction and loss.\nTo lovers, this dream foretells misunderstanding and probable separation." }, { "id": "fontaine-0485", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Mourning", "text": "To dream that you are dressed in mourning for the death of a\nrelative, is a sign that a wedding will soon take place in your family,\nor that of some blood relation. To see people dressed in black, and be\namong them, foretells an invitation to a wedding or to be present at a\nmarriage ceremony. 32, 12.", "locator": "Heading 485; source line 3260", "lineStart": 3260, "lineEnd": 3266, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are dressed in mourning for the death of a\nrelative, is a sign that a wedding will soon take place in your family,\nor that of some blood relation. To see people dressed in black, and be\namong them, foretells an invitation to a wedding or to be present at a\nmarriage ceremony." }, { "id": "cielo-0274", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Mourning", "text": "To dream of wearing mourning indicates an\n invitation to a wedding.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 274; source lines 4520–4523", "lineStart": 4520, "lineEnd": 4523, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of wearing mourning indicates an\ninvitation to a wedding." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "mouse-trap", "title": "Mouse-trap", "type": "dreams", "category": "Other symbols", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see a mouse-trap in dreams, signifies your need to be careful of character, as wary persons have designs upon you.”", "aliases": [ "mouse-trap" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about mouse-trap stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "mice" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1345", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Mouse-trap", "text": "To see a mouse-trap in dreams, signifies your need to be careful of character,\nas wary persons have designs upon you.\n\nTo see it full of mice, you will likely fall into the hands of enemies.\n\nTo set a trap, you will artfully devise means to overcome your opponents.\n\n\n[130] See Mice.", "locator": "Heading 1349; source lines 15475–15487", "lineStart": 15475, "lineEnd": 15487, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a mouse-trap in dreams, signifies your need to be careful of character,\nas wary persons have designs upon you.\n\nTo see it full of mice, you will likely fall into the hands of enemies.\n\nTo set a trap, you will artfully devise means to overcome your opponents. See Mice." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "mice" ] }, { "slug": "mouth", "title": "Mouth", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “Dreaming of a large mouth and big lips is a sure sign you will be kissed by some one of the opposite…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "mouth" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about mouth stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0487", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Mouth", "text": "Dreaming of a large mouth and big lips is a sure sign you will\nbe kissed by some one of the opposite sex: to dream of a mouth out\nof shape, or with a hare lip, denotes to a woman that she will have\na deformed child, and to a man that he will get into a difficulty by\nmeans of his intimacy with a woman: to dream of a small mouth and thin\nlips is a sign of loud and angry words, and that some one will give you\na scolding. 27, 6, 3.", "locator": "Heading 487; source line 3272", "lineStart": 3272, "lineEnd": 3280, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Dreaming of a large mouth and big lips is a sure sign you will\nbe kissed by some one of the opposite sex: to dream of a mouth out\nof shape, or with a hare lip, denotes to a woman that she will have\na deformed child, and to a man that he will get into a difficulty by\nmeans of his intimacy with a woman: to dream of a small mouth and thin\nlips is a sign of loud and angry words, and that some one will give you\na scolding." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10966", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Mouth", "heading": "Mouth", "text": "To dream of being unable to open the mouth, danger of death (Gypsy). A dream due to physical conditions.", "lineStart": 10966, "lineEnd": 10969, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 235; NLM OCR lines 10966–10969", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10966, "lineEnd": 10969, "printedPage": 235, "printedPageEnd": 235 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Mouth. — To dream of being unable to open the mouth, \ndanger of death (Gypsy). A dream due to physical condi- \ntions. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "condi- \ntions", "after": "conditions", "evidenceLine": 165 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Mouth" }, "displayText": "To dream of being unable to open the mouth, danger of death (Gypsy). A dream due to physical conditions." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "moving", "title": "Moving", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “To dream of moving your residence or place of business, under any circumstances, is a sign of poverty: if, in your dream, you see other…”", "aliases": [ "moving" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about moving stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0488", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Moving", "text": "To dream of moving your residence or place of business, under\nany circumstances, is a sign of poverty: if, in your dream, you see\nother people moving, it foretells that some one of your relatives will\ncome to poverty, and you will have to assist him. 55.", "locator": "Heading 488; source line 3280", "lineStart": 3280, "lineEnd": 3285, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of moving your residence or place of business, under\nany circumstances, is a sign of poverty: if, in your dream, you see\nother people moving, it foretells that some one of your relatives will\ncome to poverty, and you will have to assist him." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "moving-in-with-a-partner", "title": "Moving in with a partner", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "Making a shared home usable for each person.", "summary": "Moving in with a partner may explore sharing daily space, making practical agreements and finding room for both closeness and independence.", "aliases": [ "cohabiting dream", "sharing a home with a partner" ], "status": "REVIEW", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-14", "psychological": "Moving in with a partner changes more than the address within a dream. Belongings need places, routines meet and private space becomes something to arrange. Begin with what stage the move has reached: choosing a home, arriving with boxes, unpacking or discovering how a day will work there. The scene can explore a shared arrangement even when no real move is planned, and it does not predict commitment or separation.\n\nBelongings can make the negotiation concrete. You might find room for one person's furniture but not the other's, discover duplicate objects or choose something new together. This could invite reflection on how existing habits enter a shared activity. A waking comparison might be combining projects with someone while deciding which methods to keep. Notice who proposes an arrangement and whether either person can ask for a change; a small drawer need not measure how much the relationship values you.\n\nDaily routines may matter as much as the layout. Different waking times, ways of preparing food or needs for quiet can create an opportunity to negotiate. The dream may make these differences convenient, surprising or difficult. Explore what happens when you explain a preference rather than assuming that compatible people must want identical routines. The partner's dreamed response cannot establish how they would behave in an actual home.\n\nSolitude and closeness can be part of the same arrangement. A private corner might feel welcome, imposed or not private enough. Sharing a room may be enjoyable while leaving you wanting a separate place for a particular activity. This could help you name the conditions under which spending time together feels chosen. It does not assign one correct amount of independence to a partnership.\n\nThe setting may also mix remembered homes with invented rooms. Waking experiences and emotions can enter dreams through recent packing, household conversations or an older living arrangement. Describe which details you recognize and which the dream created. A satisfying move deserves space alongside uncertainty. The useful reflection may concern where an ordinary activity belongs, how an agreement is made or what remains open to revision, rather than deciding whether you should live with a real person.", "traditional": "No historical account is attached to this particular shared-home scenario. It follows moving, arranging belongings and negotiating everyday use of a home; it does not equate living together with a wedding or prescribe one household form. The general sleep source supports waking experiences and emotions as possible dream material, without validating these original reflections or predicting how a real shared home would work.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "Your belongings have only one small drawer", "reflection": "You arrive with things you want to use, but the proposed space cannot hold them comfortably. This might make room for each person a practical question. Notice whether you ask for another arrangement, keep fewer items or find a new place; storage size does not prove the partner’s real regard." }, { "title": "Two favorite objects need the same place", "reflection": "You both want a familiar item in the same position, such as a reading chair beside the window. The scene could explore negotiating shared space while keeping personal attachments visible. Record whether you alternate, move things or choose another setup without assuming disagreement means incompatibility." }, { "title": "A quiet activity needs its own corner", "reflection": "You want to read, make something or work without joining every household conversation. The dream may help you describe what makes independent time usable in a shared home. Notice whether the space is requested, welcomed or unavailable; needing a corner does not establish emotional distance." }, { "title": "Different morning routines meet in one room", "reflection": "One person wants quiet while the other begins an activity early. This might bring everyday timing into focus rather than a large relationship verdict. Explore the arrangement you suggest and whether it can be adjusted; the dreamed response does not predict an actual partner’s willingness to cooperate." }, { "title": "You unpack into a room neither of you knows", "reflection": "The home contains an unexpected room, and you decide together how to use it. The scene could offer a possibility neither person’s existing routine already defines. Notice whose ideas become practical and what remains open, without treating the new room as a promise about the relationship’s future." }, { "title": "An arrangement is changed after you try it", "reflection": "You live with a layout for a short time and then move something that does not work as expected. This might invite reflection on revising a shared decision through experience. Record how the change is discussed; adjusting a plan need not mean the original agreement or real partnership has failed." } ], "prompts": [ "What needed a place or agreement when the move began?", "How were different routines and preferences handled?", "What made closeness and independent time feel workable or difficult in this home?" ], "related": [ "partner", "house", "moving", "roommate", "marriage" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Belongings entering a shared space", "reflection": "Furniture and everyday objects can make preferences practical. Explore what is kept, combined or moved without using an item’s size as a measure of a person’s importance." }, { "title": "Routines that can be negotiated", "reflection": "Different schedules and uses of rooms may need an arrangement rather than identical preferences. Notice the explanation, response and room to revise within the dream." }, { "title": "Independence inside closeness", "reflection": "A private place can be compatible with a shared home. Consider whether solitude and company were chosen, available or imposed, without deciding one correct household balance." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "mud", "title": "Mud", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you walk in mud, denotes that you will have cause to lose confidence in friendships, and…” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "mud" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about mud stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1346", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Mud", "text": "To dream that you walk in mud, denotes that you will have cause to lose\nconfidence in friendships, and there will be losses and disturbances\nin family circles.\n\nTo see others walking in mud, ugly rumors will reach you of some friend\nor employee. To the farmer, this dream is significant of short crops\nand unsatisfactory gains from stock.\n\nTo see mud on your clothing, your reputation is being assailed.\nTo scrape it off, signifies that you will escape the calumny of enemies.", "locator": "Heading 1350; source lines 15487–15500", "lineStart": 15487, "lineEnd": 15500, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you walk in mud, denotes that you will have cause to lose\nconfidence in friendships, and there will be losses and disturbances\nin family circles.\n\nTo see others walking in mud, ugly rumors will reach you of some friend\nor employee. To the farmer, this dream is significant of short crops\nand unsatisfactory gains from stock.\n\nTo see mud on your clothing, your reputation is being assailed.\nTo scrape it off, signifies that you will escape the calumny of enemies." }, { "id": "fontaine-0489", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Mud", "text": "To dream of getting covered with mud by having it splashed over\nyou, is a sign that you will be belied and talked about. 29.", "locator": "Heading 489; source line 3285", "lineStart": 3285, "lineEnd": 3288, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of getting covered with mud by having it splashed over\nyou, is a sign that you will be belied and talked about." }, { "id": "cielo-0275", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Mud", "text": "To find yourself in mud means the coming of wealth.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 275; source lines 4523–4525", "lineStart": 4523, "lineEnd": 4525, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To find yourself in mud means the coming of wealth." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10970", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Mud", "heading": "Mud", "text": "To dream of being covered with it denotes slander (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 10970, "lineEnd": 10972, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 235; NLM OCR lines 10970–10972", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10970, "lineEnd": 10972, "printedPage": 235, "printedPageEnd": 235 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Mud. — To dream of being covered with it denotes slander \n(Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Mud" }, "displayText": "To dream of being covered with it denotes slander (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "muff", "title": "Muff", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of wearing a muff, denotes that you will be well provided for against the vicissitudes of fortune.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "muff" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about muff stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1347", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Muff", "text": "To dream of wearing a muff, denotes that you will be well provided\nfor against the vicissitudes of fortune.\n\nFor a lover to see his sweetheart wearing a muff, denotes that a worthier\nman will usurp his place in her affections.", "locator": "Heading 1351; source lines 15500–15508", "lineStart": 15500, "lineEnd": 15508, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of wearing a muff, denotes that you will be well provided\nfor against the vicissitudes of fortune.\n\nFor a lover to see his sweetheart wearing a muff, denotes that a worthier\nman will usurp his place in her affections." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10973", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Muff", "heading": "Muff", "text": "A dream forecasting a harsh winter, lack of money (Gypsy). In this instance the subconsciousness has probably recorded weather signs of which the consciousness has taken no note.", "lineStart": 10973, "lineEnd": 10977, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 235; NLM OCR lines 10973–10977", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10973, "lineEnd": 10977, "printedPage": 235, "printedPageEnd": 235 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Muff. — A dream forecasting a harsh winter, lack of money \n(Gypsy). In this instance the subconsciousness has probably \nrecorded weather signs of which the consciousness has taken \nno note. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Muff" }, "displayText": "A dream forecasting a harsh winter, lack of money (Gypsy). In this instance the subconsciousness has probably recorded weather signs of which the consciousness has taken no note." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "mulberries", "title": "Mulberries", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see mulberries in your dreams, denotes that sickness will prevent you from obtaining your desires, and…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "mulberries" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about mulberries stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1349", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Mulberries", "text": "To see mulberries in your dreams, denotes that sickness will prevent\nyou from obtaining your desires, and you will be called upon often\nto relieve suffering.\n\nTo eat them, signifies bitter disappointments.", "locator": "Heading 1353; source lines 15517–15525", "lineStart": 15517, "lineEnd": 15525, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see mulberries in your dreams, denotes that sickness will prevent\nyou from obtaining your desires, and you will be called upon often\nto relieve suffering.\n\nTo eat them, signifies bitter disappointments." }, { "id": "fontaine-0490", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Mulberries", "text": "To dream of mulberries denotes to the maiden, a happy\nmarriage; to the married, affection and constancy. 64, 70, 3.", "locator": "Heading 490; source line 3288", "lineStart": 3288, "lineEnd": 3291, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of mulberries denotes to the maiden, a happy\nmarriage; to the married, affection and constancy." }, { "id": "noe-0329", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Mulberries", "text": "To dream of\nmulberries is of good import. To the maiden, they foretell a speedy and\nhappy marriage. To the lover, constancy and affection in his mistress.\nThey also denote wealth, honors and many children. They are particularly\nfavoring to sailors and farmers.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 333; source lines 1317–1321", "lineStart": 1317, "lineEnd": 1321, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of\nmulberries is of good import. To the maiden, they foretell a speedy and\nhappy marriage. To the lover, constancy and affection in his mistress.\nThey also denote wealth, honors and many children. They are particularly\nfavoring to sailors and farmers." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "mulberry-tree", "title": "Mulberry-Tree", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “A dream of increase of wealth, of abundance of goods (Artemidorus). A symbol of prosperity in Persia and in Italy.”", "aliases": [ "mulberry-tree" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about mulberry-tree stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. 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A symbol of prosperity in Persia and in Italy.", "lineStart": 10978, "lineEnd": 10985, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 235–236; NLM OCR lines 10978–10985", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10978, "lineEnd": 10985, "printedPage": 235, "printedPageEnd": 236 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Mulberry-Tree. — A dream of increase of wealth, of abun- \ndance of goods (Artemidorus). A symbol of prosperity in \nPersia and in Italy. \n\n\n236 THE FABRIC OF DREAMS \n\n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [ { "line": 10983, "text": "236 THE FABRIC OF DREAMS " } ], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "abun- \ndance", "after": "abundance", "evidenceLine": 9628 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Mulberry-Tree" }, "displayText": "A dream of increase of wealth, of abundance of goods (Artemidorus). A symbol of prosperity in Persia and in Italy." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "mule", "title": "Mule", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “If you dream that your are riding on a mule, it denotes that you are engaging in pursuits which will cause…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "mule" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about mule stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1350", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Mule", "text": "If you dream that your are riding on a mule, it denotes that you\nare engaging in pursuits which will cause you the greatest anxiety,\nbut if you reach your destination without interruption, you will\nbe recompensed with substantial results.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of a white mule, shows she will marry a wealthy\nforeigner, or one who, while wealthy, will not be congenial in tastes.\nIf she dreams of mules running loose, she will have beaux and admirers,\nbut no offers of marriage.\n\nTo be kicked by a mule, foretells disappointment in love and marriage.\n\nTo see one dead, portends broken engagements and social decline.", "locator": "Heading 1354; source lines 15525–15541", "lineStart": 15525, "lineEnd": 15541, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream that your are riding on a mule, it denotes that you\nare engaging in pursuits which will cause you the greatest anxiety,\nbut if you reach your destination without interruption, you will\nbe recompensed with substantial results.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of a white mule, shows she will marry a wealthy\nforeigner, or one who, while wealthy, will not be congenial in tastes.\nIf she dreams of mules running loose, she will have beaux and admirers,\nbut no offers of marriage.\n\nTo be kicked by a mule, foretells disappointment in love and marriage.\n\nTo see one dead, portends broken engagements and social decline." }, { "id": "fontaine-0492", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Mule", "text": "To dream of riding a mule, or driving one, is a sign of celibacy:\ngentlemen or ladies who dream this may safely calculate that they will\nlive single for the rest of their lives, unless some more vivid dream\nwith a favorable omen should counterbalance the influence of this\none. If married people dream of mules, it foretells that they will be\nchildless. 4, 51, 66.", "locator": "Heading 492; source line 3294", "lineStart": 3294, "lineEnd": 3301, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of riding a mule, or driving one, is a sign of celibacy:\ngentlemen or ladies who dream this may safely calculate that they will\nlive single for the rest of their lives, unless some more vivid dream\nwith a favorable omen should counterbalance the influence of this\none. If married people dream of mules, it foretells that they will be\nchildless." }, { "id": "cielo-0276", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Mule", "text": "Seeing or riding a mule is a sure sign of difficulty.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 276; source lines 4525–4527", "lineStart": 4525, "lineEnd": 4527, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Seeing or riding a mule is a sure sign of difficulty." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "murder", "title": "Murder", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see murder committed in your dreams, foretells much sorrow arising from the misdeeds of others.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "murder" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about murder stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "kill" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1351", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Murder", "text": "To see murder committed in your dreams, foretells much sorrow\narising from the misdeeds of others. Affair will assume dulness.\nViolent deaths will come under your notice.\n\nIf you commit murder, it signifies that you are engaging in some\ndishonorable adventure, which will leave a stigma upon your name.\n\nTo dream that you are murdered, foretells that enemies are secretly\nworking to overthrow you.\n\n\n[132] See Killing and kindred words.", "locator": "Heading 1355; source lines 15541–15556", "lineStart": 15541, "lineEnd": 15556, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see murder committed in your dreams, foretells much sorrow\narising from the misdeeds of others. Affair will assume dulness.\nViolent deaths will come under your notice.\n\nIf you commit murder, it signifies that you are engaging in some\ndishonorable adventure, which will leave a stigma upon your name.\n\nTo dream that you are murdered, foretells that enemies are secretly\nworking to overthrow you. See Killing and kindred words." }, { "id": "noe-0339", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Murder", "text": "To dream that you see a murder\ncommitted, indicates that you will shortly have the pleasure of welcoming\none whom you had not expected to see again in this world.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 343; source lines 1346–1348", "lineStart": 1346, "lineEnd": 1348, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you see a murder\ncommitted, indicates that you will shortly have the pleasure of welcoming\none whom you had not expected to see again in this world." }, { "id": "cielo-0277", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Murder", "text": "To witness a murder means that you will soon see an\n old friend; to dream of being murdered means caution.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 277; source lines 4527–4530", "lineStart": 4527, "lineEnd": 4530, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To witness a murder means that you will soon see an\nold friend; to dream of being murdered means caution." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "muscle", "title": "Muscle", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing your muscle well developed, you will have strange encounters with enemies, but you will succeed in surmounting their evil…”", "aliases": [ "muscle" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about muscle stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1352", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Muscle", "text": "To dream of seeing your muscle well developed, you will have strange\nencounters with enemies, but you will succeed in surmounting their evil works,\nand gain fortune.\n\nIf they are shrunken, your inability to succeed in your affairs is portended.\nFor a woman, this dream is prophetic of toil and hardships.", "locator": "Heading 1356; source lines 15556–15565", "lineStart": 15556, "lineEnd": 15565, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing your muscle well developed, you will have strange\nencounters with enemies, but you will succeed in surmounting their evil works,\nand gain fortune.\n\nIf they are shrunken, your inability to succeed in your affairs is portended.\nFor a woman, this dream is prophetic of toil and hardships." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "museum", "title": "Museum", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "An object on display can tell an account without telling the whole story.", "summary": "A museum dream can explore preserved experience, labels and choosing what deserves attention. Your relationship to the display changes the reading.", "aliases": [ "museum", "museums" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A museum selects things to preserve and places an account around them. In a dream, this can picture how experience becomes represented after its original moment has passed. A family story, completed project or earlier role may provide a parallel. The object is present, but its surroundings decide what is emphasized. Looking at it can bring continuity, curiosity or distance according to how the account fits what you remember.\n\nA familiar possession behind glass can make something personal feel publicly defined. You may recognize a contribution described through another person's categories, or a memory kept as evidence of one version of events. The display can be honoring while still leaving parts outside its frame. Wanting a different label does not require rejecting the value of preserving the object.\n\nLabels can make unfamiliar material approachable or create an interpretation before you have looked closely. An account that fails to fit may picture a description of you, a group or a past event that feels too simple. The dream does not recover a hidden historical truth. Its usefulness can lie in noticing where the presentation and your own association differ.\n\nChoosing an exhibit gives attention a route. A quiet collection may be more useful than a famous room because it allows time, space or a particular connection. Repeatedly passing the same object can picture a familiar account that remains central even when your interests change. A new path can allow another part of experience to receive attention.\n\nBeing invited to contribute an object can make preservation a decision rather than something done for you. You may want a history recognized while also wanting parts of it to remain in ordinary use. Leaving with a wish to make or do something can picture a remembered experience becoming active again. Recent visits, photographs and displays may supply the imagery directly. These original readings concern selection, interpretation and the place of a preserved account, without treating a museum as a universal storehouse of the mind.", "traditional": "Miller’s Museum passage forecasts varied striving, useful knowledge and vexation if the museum is distasteful. The original record remains attached here. Its period account does not establish that an exhibit reveals a hidden truth or predicts your position; the modern reflections examine selection, labels and attention.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "An account around a preserved object", "reflection": "A display can make one version of an experience prominent. Preservation may be valuable while its label leaves other meanings or practical uses outside the frame." }, { "title": "Attention beyond the established route", "reflection": "A less visible exhibit can offer a useful connection when a familiar path no longer fits your interests. What deserves time need not be what receives the largest audience." }, { "title": "Preserving and continuing to use", "reflection": "Contributing or retrieving an object can picture a choice about how history remains present. Recognition and active use may require different places within the account." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A familiar object appears behind display glass", "reflection": "A familiar object behind glass can picture something personal represented through a public account. An award or photograph may fit. The display may feel honoring or distant. Your ability to explain another association can matter alongside having the object preserved." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "An exhibit label tells a story you do not recognize", "reflection": "An unfamiliar label on a known object can resemble a description that does not fit your experience. A family story or former role may feel similar. The mismatch is a question about representation, not proof of a recovered historical fact." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You find a quiet collection nobody else visits", "reflection": "A quiet collection can picture finding value outside the established center of attention. An old craft or local story may fit. Space to look can make a neglected interest or less visible contribution useful without requiring public recognition." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "The route repeatedly takes you past the same exhibit", "reflection": "Repeatedly passing one exhibit can picture a familiar account continuing to organize the route. A past role may remain prominent after your interests change. Choosing another path can give a different part of experience room without erasing the first." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You are invited to contribute an object to the collection", "reflection": "Contributing an object can picture choosing how a personal history becomes available to others. You may want recognition while deciding what remains private or usable. The invitation differs from having an account assigned without your participation." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You leave wanting to use something rather than preserve it", "reflection": "Wanting to use something afterward can picture preserved experience becoming relevant to present action. An earlier skill, practical tool or abandoned interest may offer a parallel. The display can provide continuity without requiring everything valuable to remain untouched." } ], "prompts": [ "What account did the display place around the object?", "Which exhibit held my attention, and why did it differ from the expected route?", "What did I want preserved, reinterpreted or used again?" ], "related": [ "library", "pictures", "monuments", "book-store" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1353" ], "scope": "Miller’s Museum account links varied striving and useful knowledge with a forecast, then gives vexation for a distasteful museum. Exact supplied record(s): miller-1353 — Museum (Heading 1357; source lines 15565–15573). Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence for the original reflection, a diagnosis or an actual outcome." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1353", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Museum", "text": "To dream of a museum, denotes you will pass through many and varied\nscenes in striving for what appears your rightful position.\nYou will acquire useful knowledge, which will stand you in better\nlight than if you had pursued the usual course to learning.\nIf the museum is distasteful, you will have many causes for vexation.", "locator": "Heading 1357; source lines 15565–15573", "lineStart": 15565, "lineEnd": 15573, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a museum, denotes you will pass through many and varied\nscenes in striving for what appears your rightful position.\nYou will acquire useful knowledge, which will stand you in better\nlight than if you had pursued the usual course to learning.\nIf the museum is distasteful, you will have many causes for vexation." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "mushroom", "title": "Mushroom", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "summary": "A mushroom can explore unexpected growth, something discovered in an overlooked place, and making a choice when identification remains uncertain.", "tagline": "Something new in an overlooked place.", "aliases": [ "mushroom", "mushrooms" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "Mushrooms appearing where there was nothing before can picture a development you notice after it has already taken shape. An idea, a small social connection, or a practical complication may emerge outside the plan you were actively following. Surprise can feel welcome when the growth gives an overlooked place another use. If it creates work, the tension may concern an unplanned demand rather than the development being inherently unwelcome.\n\nA cluster beneath a familiar object can make attention shift toward a part of the setting that ordinary use had concealed. A routine may have consequences you did not previously examine, or a quiet possibility may become visible when something established is moved. The discovery does not prove that anyone deliberately hid it. Its force can come from finding another layer within conditions you thought you already understood.\n\nAn identification label that keeps changing can picture difficulty making a decision through categories that will not remain dependable. Advice may conflict, a description may be revised, or a new undertaking may not fit the options offered for it. Wanting clearer information differs from demanding that everything unfamiliar carry one definite meaning. If you feel able to leave the choice open, uncertainty may create room for further consideration rather than immediate pressure.\n\nBeing offered a mushroom dish can bring trust and preference into a small exchange. Accepting may feel like willing participation; declining may preserve a preference that another participant has not considered. The scene does not reveal whether a person is reliable. It can picture how much choice the offering allows. Being pressured to accept changes care into an expected demonstration, while another option can make hospitality more responsive.\n\nGrowth inside an ordinary room can make an external development part of private routine. Different shapes may attract curiosity without needing separate symbolic codes. A woodland visit, meal, illustration, gardening image, or remembered discovery can also supply direct context. These comparisons follow unexpected development, visibility, and choice. A dream does not determine the identity or edibility of actual mushrooms, and the attached historical illness and longevity forecasts are not health information.", "traditional": "Miller moralizes desire, wealth, and propriety. Fontaine predicts long life from eating mushrooms and sudden wealth followed by poverty from growing or gathering them. Craig reports death or sickness forecasts as Gypsy lore and adds an anxiety explanation. The three attached accounts contrast; none provides health, food-identification, or foraging guidance, and Craig’s explanation does not diagnose the dreamer.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Development outside the plan", "reflection": "An unexpected arrival can offer possibility or create another demand, depending on its place in the scene." }, { "title": "An overlooked layer", "reflection": "A familiar setting may reveal another aspect when ordinary assumptions or objects are moved." }, { "title": "Choice under uncertain categories", "reflection": "An unsettled label can leave room for consideration rather than require an immediate verdict." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "A cluster appears where nothing was visible", "reflection": "A development becomes noticeable after it has already taken shape. This may picture an unplanned idea or demand entering attention. Welcome discovery differs from additional work; neither feeling makes growth itself a universal sign of opportunity or trouble." }, { "title": "You find mushrooms beneath a familiar object", "reflection": "Moving something established reveals another layer of the setting. This can picture examining a routine more closely or noticing a quiet possibility. The discovery does not establish deliberate concealment; it may concern what ordinary use had kept outside your attention." }, { "title": "You accept or decline an offered dish", "reflection": "An invitation gives your preference a practical form. This may picture participation that is meaningful because it remains chosen. Pressure to accept changes the exchange toward an expected demonstration, without making the dream evidence about the offerer’s reliability." }, { "title": "Mushrooms grow inside a familiar room", "reflection": "An unexpected development enters private daily conditions. This can resemble an interest or complication reaching beyond its original setting. Curiosity and inconvenience can coexist when the routine needs adjustment, rather than requiring the arrival to be entirely welcome or entirely adverse." }, { "title": "An identification label keeps changing", "reflection": "The offered category does not remain stable enough to settle the choice. This may picture conflicting advice or revised information. Leaving the decision open creates another response from accepting a definite label solely because uncertainty feels uncomfortable." }, { "title": "Different shapes draw your attention", "reflection": "Variety makes comparison interesting without necessarily producing one preferred answer. This may picture exploring possibilities that do not fit a single model. The scene can remain about curiosity and distinction; the appearance does not provide information about actual mushrooms or physical health." } ], "prompts": [ "What became noticeable outside the plan you were actively following?", "Which familiar assumption prevents another layer from being seen?", "What would let a choice remain yours while its category is uncertain?" ], "related": [ "forest", "cooking", "roots", "earth" ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1356" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context for this topic only. Miller moralizes desire, haste for wealth, humiliation, and gendered propriety. Does not validate the original psychological reflections." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0493" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context for this topic only. Fontaine predicts long life from eating and sudden wealth followed by poverty from growing/gathering. Does not validate the original psychological reflections." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L10991" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context for this topic only. Craig attributes death/sickness forecasts to Gypsy lore and adds an anxiety/doubt explanation; this is historical wording, not a health claim. Does not validate the original psychological reflections." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1356", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Mushroom", "text": "To see mushrooms in your dreams, denotes unhealthy desires,\nand unwise haste in amassing wealth, as it may vanish in law\nsuits and vain pleasures.\n\nTo eat them, signifies humiliation and disgraceful love.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of them, foretells her defiance of propriety\nin her pursuit of foolish pleasures.", "locator": "Heading 1360; source lines 15588–15599", "lineStart": 15588, "lineEnd": 15599, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see mushrooms in your dreams, denotes unhealthy desires,\nand unwise haste in amassing wealth, as it may vanish in law\nsuits and vain pleasures.\n\nTo eat them, signifies humiliation and disgraceful love.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of them, foretells her defiance of propriety\nin her pursuit of foolish pleasures." }, { "id": "fontaine-0493", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Mushroom", "text": "To dream you eat mushrooms is a sign you will live to a good\nold age, but to dream you see them grow, or gather them, is a sign you\nwill get rich by a splendid speculation, and then get poor as suddenly\nas you got wealthy. 49, 59.", "locator": "Heading 493; source line 3301", "lineStart": 3301, "lineEnd": 3306, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you eat mushrooms is a sign you will live to a good\nold age, but to dream you see them grow, or gather them, is a sign you\nwill get rich by a splendid speculation, and then get poor as suddenly\nas you got wealthy." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10991", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Mushrooms", "heading": "Mushrooms", "text": "To dream of eating them danger of death or personal sickness to the dreamer (Gypsy). Evidently an anxiety dream, expressed in the doubt of the mushrooms.", "lineStart": 10991, "lineEnd": 10994, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 236; NLM OCR lines 10991–10994", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10991, "lineEnd": 10994, "printedPage": 236, "printedPageEnd": 236 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Mushrooms. — To dream of eating them danger of death or \npersonal sickness to the dreamer (Gypsy). Evidently an anxi- \nety dream, expressed in the doubt of the mushrooms. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "anxi- \nety", "after": "anxiety", "evidenceLine": 7231 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Mushrooms" }, "displayText": "To dream of eating them danger of death or personal sickness to the dreamer (Gypsy). Evidently an anxiety dream, expressed in the doubt of the mushrooms." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "music", "title": "Music", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "aliases": [ "music" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "summary": "Music dreams may explore a remembered sound, chosen attention, participation and how separate parts fit—or do not fit—together.", "tagline": "What you hear, choose and join.", "psychological": "Music can give a dream an atmosphere, a sequence or something to take part in. Begin by describing what you actually hear: a recognizable tune, an unfamiliar pattern, a repeated phrase, competing pieces or sound you cannot locate. Your reaction matters more than labeling all pleasant music as harmony or all unusual sound as trouble. The same music can feel welcome in one setting and intrusive in another.\n\nA familiar piece may connect with a person, place or period of your life. Ask which memory arrives and what the dream does with it. Hearing an old song while entering a new room could place a remembered experience beside a current one without declaring that they are the same. Waking experiences and emotions can enter dreams, so a song heard recently may also be enough context. Recognizing a tune does not mean its words contain an instruction or message from someone else.\n\nChoice can become central when you can select, change or stop the music. Perhaps someone else controls the playlist, a piece changes before you want it to or silence gives you room to notice something different. This could resemble choosing the conditions in which you work, rest or spend time with others. For example, a shared room may require negotiating preferences rather than agreeing on one ideal atmosphere. Explore what your request makes possible and how it is received inside the dream.\n\nParticipation introduces another set of questions. Playing with others may involve listening, taking a turn, following a pattern or trying something that does not fit yet. A missed entrance could feel embarrassing, amusing or easily repaired. The scene might help you describe coordination in a group without treating musical accuracy as a measure of your social worth. Listening can also be a chosen role rather than evidence that you are excluded.\n\nNotice the sequence if the sound changes or disappears. You may continue moving after it stops, seek its source or decide not to follow it. Such details allow several readings about attention, continuity and preference. An enjoyable piece can remain an enjoyable dream experience. Keep the reflection close to your memories and choices rather than using music to forecast household events or infer another person's feelings.", "traditional": "Miller and Noe contrast pleasing and discordant music with favorable or unfavorable forecasts. Fontaine links sweet music to joy and a lover’s gift or invitation; Cielo gives a luck claim. The 1805 Dreams and Moles passage predicts news of a near person’s marriage. Craig reports a news forecast through her own text, attributing it to Artemidorus. These are historical claims, not evidence that dream music predicts news or relationships.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A personally remembered sound", "reflection": "A tune can connect scenes with a particular memory. Explore the association without assuming a song’s words are a literal instruction or that another person sent it." }, { "title": "Attention you can choose", "reflection": "Starting, changing or stopping music may shape what is possible in the setting. Consider whose preferences are heard and whether listening is freely chosen." }, { "title": "A part in a shared sequence", "reflection": "Making music together can involve timing, listening and adjustment. A missed or different part invites reflection on the response and repair, rather than a verdict about belonging." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "A familiar tune appears in a new room", "reflection": "You recognize music associated with an earlier period while exploring an unfamiliar setting. This may place an old memory beside a current experience without equating them. Describe what the tune recalls and how the room changes your response; the lyrics need not conceal an instruction." }, { "title": "You ask for the music to change", "reflection": "A piece dominates the room, and you suggest something that fits what you are doing. The scene could focus on expressing a preference in shared space. Notice whether you negotiate, select another piece or leave; disagreement about sound does not prove a wider relationship conflict." }, { "title": "You miss an entrance and rejoin", "reflection": "While playing with others, you lose your place and find a way back into the pattern. This might help you reflect on adjustment after a small mistake. What the group does and how you respond matter more than imagined perfection; dreamed performance does not assess your real musical ability." }, { "title": "Two pieces play at once", "reflection": "Different sources produce music that you cannot easily follow together. The scene may bring competing demands on attention into focus. Record whether you move toward one source, reduce the sound or enjoy the mixture, rather than assigning every unfamiliar combination a meaning of disorder." }, { "title": "The music stops but you keep moving", "reflection": "A repeated rhythm ends, while your movement continues for a few moments. This could invite a question about continuing a pattern after its cue has changed. Notice when you choose to stop or begin something else; the dream does not establish a habit you must break." }, { "title": "You choose to listen rather than perform", "reflection": "A group offers you an instrument, but you prefer to hear the piece from your seat. This might express a role that fits your interest now. Explore whether the choice feels welcome, constrained or satisfying; listening can be participation without meaning exclusion or lack of confidence." } ], "prompts": [ "What did the music sound like, and what personal associations arrived with it?", "How much choice did you have about listening, changing or making the sound?", "What happened when the sequence continued, changed or stopped?" ], "related": [ "singing", "dancing", "musical-instruments", "headphones" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1354" ], "scope": "Miller contrasts harmonious and discordant music with pleasure, prosperity and household forecasts. Specific supplied passages: Music — miller-1354 (Heading 1358; source lines 15573–15580). Historical comparison only; these attributed period beliefs do not establish outcomes, diagnoses or a universal symbol meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0494" ], "scope": "Fontaine associates sweet music with joy and a gendered forecast of a lover’s gift or invitation; Singing is cross-referenced. Specific supplied passages: Music — fontaine-0494 (Heading 494; source line 3306). Historical comparison only; these attributed period beliefs do not establish outcomes, diagnoses or a universal symbol meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0330" ], "scope": "Noe contrasts pleasing and discordant music with news, children, affection, trouble and disappointment forecasts. Specific supplied passages: Music — noe-0330 (Dream section, heading 334; source lines 1321–1326). Historical comparison only; these attributed period beliefs do not establish outcomes, diagnoses or a universal symbol meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0278" ], "scope": "Cielo assigns luck to hearing music during sleep. Specific supplied passages: Music — cielo-0278 (Dream section, heading 278; source lines 4530–4532). Historical comparison only; these attributed period beliefs do not establish outcomes, diagnoses or a universal symbol meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "moles-71045", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams and Moles", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "United Kingdom, J. Marshall, 1805", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71045", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "moles-0039" ], "scope": "The unheaded Dreams and Moles passage pairs singing and music with news of a near friend’s or relation’s marriage. Specific supplied passages: Music — moles-0039 (Dreams interpreted, passage 39; source lines 223–224). Historical comparison only; these attributed period beliefs do not establish outcomes, diagnoses or a universal symbol meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L10995" ], "scope": "Craig gives contrary news forecasts for ravishing music and harsh sounds, attributing the claim to Artemidorus within her own text; no separately recovered Artemidorus music passage is claimed. Specific supplied passages: Music — craig-1918:L10995 (Printed p. 236; NLM OCR lines 10995–11000). Historical comparison only; these attributed period beliefs do not establish outcomes, diagnoses or a universal symbol meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "kind": "editorial", "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1354", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Music", "text": "To dream of hearing harmonious music, omens pleasure and prosperity.\n\nDiscordant music foretells troubles with unruly children,\nand unhappiness in the household.", "locator": "Heading 1358; source lines 15573–15580", "lineStart": 15573, "lineEnd": 15580, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of hearing harmonious music, omens pleasure and prosperity.\n\nDiscordant music foretells troubles with unruly children,\nand unhappiness in the household." }, { "id": "fontaine-0494", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Music", "text": "(_See Singing._) To dream of hearing strains of sweet music,\ndenotes joy and happiness. If a girl who has a lover dreams this, he\nwill surprise her either with a splendid present, or with an invitation\nto go somewhere where she will be delighted and enjoy herself much. 74,\n18.", "locator": "Heading 494; source line 3306", "lineStart": 3306, "lineEnd": 3312, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Singing.) To dream of hearing strains of sweet music,\ndenotes joy and happiness. If a girl who has a lover dreams this, he\nwill surprise her either with a splendid present, or with an invitation\nto go somewhere where she will be delighted and enjoy herself much. 74," }, { "id": "noe-0330", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Music", "text": "To dream you hear delicious\nmusic is a very favorable omen, promising joyful news from a long absent\nfriend. To married people it denotes sweet tempered children. In love it\nshows that your sweetheart is very fond of you, is good tempered, sincere\nand constant. Rough and discordant music foretells trouble, vexation and\ndisappointment.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 334; source lines 1321–1326", "lineStart": 1321, "lineEnd": 1326, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you hear delicious\nmusic is a very favorable omen, promising joyful news from a long absent\nfriend. To married people it denotes sweet tempered children. In love it\nshows that your sweetheart is very fond of you, is good tempered, sincere\nand constant. Rough and discordant music foretells trouble, vexation and\ndisappointment." }, { "id": "cielo-0278", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Music", "text": "Hearing music in your sleep is a sign of luck.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 278; source lines 4530–4532", "lineStart": 4530, "lineEnd": 4532, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Hearing music in your sleep is a sign of luck." }, { "id": "moles-0039", "sourceId": "moles-71045", "heading": "Music", "originalHeading": "(no printed heading)", "text": "To dream of singing and music, denotes you shall soon hear of the\nmarriage of some very near friend or relation.", "locator": "Dreams interpreted, passage 39; source lines 223–224", "lineStart": 223, "lineEnd": 224, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "editorialNote": "The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Music” because that is the subject of its first clause.", "displayText": "To dream of singing and music, denotes you shall soon hear of the\nmarriage of some very near friend or relation." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10995", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Music", "heading": "Music", "text": "A dream of ravishing music signifies sudden and delightful news; harsh sounds denote the contrary (Artemidorus).", "lineStart": 10995, "lineEnd": 11000, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 236; NLM OCR lines 10995–11000", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10995, "lineEnd": 11000, "printedPage": 236, "printedPageEnd": 236 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Music. — A dream of ravishing music signifies sudden and \ndelightful news; harsh sounds denote the contrary (Artemi- \ndorus). \n\nN \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [ { "line": 10999, "text": "N " } ], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "Artemi- \ndorus", "after": "Artemidorus", "evidenceLine": 485 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Music" }, "displayText": "A dream of ravishing music signifies sudden and delightful news; harsh sounds denote the contrary (Artemidorus)." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [ "singing" ] }, { "slug": "musical-instruments", "title": "Musical Instruments", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "aliases": [ "musical instruments" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "summary": "Musical instruments may explore what a resource is for, how a role fits and what experimentation can offer.", "tagline": "A means of expression before the method is settled.", "psychological": "Musical instruments in a dream may make the means of doing something more visible than its finished result. Having an instrument can feel like an invitation, an unexplained assignment or a resource you are free to explore. The important distinction may concern what you want it to make possible, rather than a fixed character trait assigned to each object.\n\nBeing given an instrument before knowing the piece can place a role ahead of its purpose. This may resemble receiving a new tool or responsibility at work without enough information about the undertaking. Excitement can coexist with uncertainty. Asking what the contribution serves is different from deciding immediately whether you are capable of making it.\n\nAn unfamiliar instrument that produces a sound you enjoy can offer curiosity before classification. Not knowing its name need not prevent a useful encounter. A waking comparison might be finding an enjoyable process whose established terminology you have not learned, or discovering a use for a resource that differs from the use you expected.\n\nAn empty case can raise a separate issue. If other participants still offer you a meaningful role, belonging may depend on something beyond possessing the expected equipment. If the empty space makes the gathering inaccessible, the missing resource may be practical. The emotional response can distinguish being welcomed into another contribution from feeling denied the means of joining.\n\nExchanging instruments so each person can make a wanted part may explore allocation rather than a hierarchy of talent. The available objects and the desired contributions do not have to match their first arrangement. This can resemble dividing a shared task according to what makes participation workable, while retaining the possibility of trying an unfamiliar role for pleasure.\n\nExperimenting with sounds without preparing a performance can make unfinished activity valuable. By contrast, controls that change as you reach for them may make the method difficult to settle, as changing instructions or an interface can do in a waking project. These possibilities concern the dream's resources and relationships. They do not measure competence or establish universal meanings for particular instruments; a specific piano, guitar or drum encounter may deserve its own more detailed reading.", "traditional": "Miller's single attached Musical Instruments account forecasts anticipated pleasures from seeing them, uncongenial company from broken instruments, and a gendered power to shape one's life. It offers no supported system of personality meanings for individual instruments. These are that edition's period forecasts, rather than established consequences or a test of a dreamer's abilities.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A resource with a clear purpose", "reflection": "Receiving equipment can precede understanding the role it is expected to serve." }, { "title": "Participation and a workable allocation", "reflection": "An invitation can depend on how available resources meet the contributions people want to make." }, { "title": "Experiment before a settled method", "reflection": "Unfinished exploration can have value, while changing controls can make a desired process hard to establish." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "An assignment before the piece is known", "reflection": "Someone gives you an instrument, but nobody explains what the group intends to play. Anticipation and uncertainty can share the scene. The resource may feel like an invitation whose purpose is still open, rather than a demand to demonstrate ability before you understand the undertaking." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Enjoying an unnamed instrument", "reflection": "You cannot name the instrument, yet you find a sound you want to explore. Curiosity may matter more than fitting the object into a known category. The encounter can give pleasure to a process before its terminology or customary use has become clear to you." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "An empty case and another role", "reflection": "The expected instrument is absent from its case, but the group offers you a different way to contribute. Welcome may survive the missing equipment. Frustration could still be meaningful if the alternative does not serve the part of the gathering you hoped to enjoy." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Exchanging instruments to fit wanted parts", "reflection": "Participants exchange instruments so each can try the contribution they prefer. The adjustment can feel generous, complicated or freeing. This scene may explore how a shared undertaking becomes workable through allocation, without treating the first arrangement as a ranking of everyone's talents." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Inventing sounds without a performance", "reflection": "Companions experiment with instruments and no finished piece is required. The activity can feel worthwhile because it is curious or companionable. Discomfort might come from wanting a clearer destination; enjoyment could come from a setting where exploration does not immediately have to become an achievement." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "Controls change as you reach for them", "reflection": "The instrument's controls change position whenever you try a method. A wanted sound remains imaginable while the means of producing it will not settle. This can resemble working with changing instructions, where the difficulty concerns a moving process rather than a verdict on your competence." } ], "prompts": [ "What did you want the instrument or collection of instruments to make possible?", "How did the available resources fit the contributions people wanted to make?", "Which kind of exploration felt worthwhile, and what would a clearer method change?" ], "related": [ "music", "piano", "guitar", "drum" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1355" ], "scope": "Seeing musical instruments forecasts anticipated pleasure, broken instruments uncongenial company, followed by a gendered life-shaping claim. It does not supply meanings for individual instrument types. Exact account: miller-1355 — Musical Instruments (Heading 1359; source lines 15580–15588). Attributed historical claims only; no forecast or symbolic meaning is validated by this citation." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1355", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Musical Instruments", "text": "To see musical instruments, denotes anticipated pleasures.\n\nIf they are broken, the pleasure will be marred by uncongenial companionship.\nFor a young woman, this dream foretells for her the power to make her life\nwhat she will.", "locator": "Heading 1359; source lines 15580–15588", "lineStart": 15580, "lineEnd": 15588, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see musical instruments, denotes anticipated pleasures.\n\nIf they are broken, the pleasure will be marred by uncongenial companionship.\nFor a young woman, this dream foretells for her the power to make her life\nwhat she will." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "musician", "title": "Musician", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “For one to dream of being a musician, who understands nothing of the art of music, is an indication that the dreamer will have peace and…”", "aliases": [ "musician" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about musician stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "noe-0341", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Musician", "text": "For one to dream of being a musician, who understands nothing\nof the art of music, is an indication that the dreamer will have peace and\ncomfort in the domestic state.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 345; source lines 1351–1355", "lineStart": 1351, "lineEnd": 1355, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For one to dream of being a musician, who understands nothing\nof the art of music, is an indication that the dreamer will have peace and\ncomfort in the domestic state." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "musk", "title": "Musk", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of musk, foretells unexpected occasions of joy, and lovers will agree and cease to be unfaithful.”", "aliases": [ "musk" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about musk stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1357", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Musk", "text": "To dream of musk, foretells unexpected occasions of joy,\nand lovers will agree and cease to be unfaithful.", "locator": "Heading 1361; source lines 15599–15604", "lineStart": 15599, "lineEnd": 15604, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of musk, foretells unexpected occasions of joy,\nand lovers will agree and cease to be unfaithful." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1358", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Mussels", "text": "To dream of water mussels, denotes small fortune, but contentment\nand domestic enjoyment.", "locator": "Heading 1362; source lines 15604–15609", "lineStart": 15604, "lineEnd": 15609, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of water mussels, denotes small fortune, but contentment\nand domestic enjoyment." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1359", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Mustache", "text": "To dream that you have a mustache, denotes that your egotism and\neffrontery will cause you a poor inheritance in worldy{sic} goods,\nand you will betray women to their sorrow.\n\nIf a woman dreams of admiring a mustache, her virtue is in danger,\nand she should be mindful of her conduct.\n\nIf a man dreams that he has his mustache shaved, he will try to turn\nfrom evil companions and pleasures, and seek to reinstate himself\nin former positions of honor.", "locator": "Heading 1363; source lines 15609–15622", "lineStart": 15609, "lineEnd": 15622, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you have a mustache, denotes that your egotism and\neffrontery will cause you a poor inheritance in worldy[sic] goods,\nand you will betray women to their sorrow.\n\nIf a woman dreams of admiring a mustache, her virtue is in danger,\nand she should be mindful of her conduct.\n\nIf a man dreams that he has his mustache shaved, he will try to turn\nfrom evil companions and pleasures, and seek to reinstate himself\nin former positions of honor." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "mustard", "title": "Mustard", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see mustard growing, and green, foretells success and joy to the farmer, and to the seafaring it…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "mustard" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about mustard stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1360", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Mustard", "text": "To see mustard growing, and green, foretells success and joy to the farmer,\nand to the seafaring it prognosticates wealth.\n\nTo eat mustard seed and feel the burning in your mouth,\ndenotes that you will repent bitterly some hasty action,\nwhich has caused you to suffer.\n\nTo dream of eating green mustard cooked, indicates the lavish\nwaste of fortune, and mental strain.\n\nFor a young woman to eat newly grown mustard, foretells that she\nwill sacrifice wealth for personal desires.", "locator": "Heading 1364; source lines 15622–15637", "lineStart": 15622, "lineEnd": 15637, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see mustard growing, and green, foretells success and joy to the farmer,\nand to the seafaring it prognosticates wealth.\n\nTo eat mustard seed and feel the burning in your mouth,\ndenotes that you will repent bitterly some hasty action,\nwhich has caused you to suffer.\n\nTo dream of eating green mustard cooked, indicates the lavish\nwaste of fortune, and mental strain.\n\nFor a young woman to eat newly grown mustard, foretells that she\nwill sacrifice wealth for personal desires." }, { "id": "fontaine-0495", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Mustard", "text": "To dream of mustard or mustard seed, is a bad omen, and\nforetells sickness and perhaps death. To dream you eat mustard, is a\nsign your sweetheart or lover is false to you. To married persons this\ndream indicates domestic quarrels. 4.", "locator": "Heading 495; source line 3312", "lineStart": 3312, "lineEnd": 3317, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of mustard or mustard seed, is a bad omen, and\nforetells sickness and perhaps death. To dream you eat mustard, is a\nsign your sweetheart or lover is false to you. To married persons this\ndream indicates domestic quarrels." }, { "id": "cielo-0279", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Mustard", "text": "Eating mustard denotes pain and trouble.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 279; source lines 4532–4534", "lineStart": 4532, "lineEnd": 4534, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Eating mustard denotes pain and trouble." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1362", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Myrrh", "text": "To see myrrh in a dream, signifies your investments will give satisfaction.\nFor a young woman to dream of myrrh, brings a pleasing surprise to her\nin the way of a new and wealthy acquaintance.", "locator": "Heading 1366; source lines 15645–15651", "lineStart": 15645, "lineEnd": 15651, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see myrrh in a dream, signifies your investments will give satisfaction.\nFor a young woman to dream of myrrh, brings a pleasing surprise to her\nin the way of a new and wealthy acquaintance." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1363", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Myrtle", "text": "To see myrtle in foliage and bloom in your dream, denotes that your desires\nwill be gratified, and pleasures will possess you.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of wearing a sprig of myrtle, foretells to her\nan early marriage with a well-to do and intelligent man.\n\nTo see it withered, denotes that she will miss happiness\nthrough careless conduct.", "locator": "Heading 1367; source lines 15651–15662", "lineStart": 15651, "lineEnd": 15662, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see myrtle in foliage and bloom in your dream, denotes that your desires\nwill be gratified, and pleasures will possess you.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of wearing a sprig of myrtle, foretells to her\nan early marriage with a well-to do and intelligent man.\n\nTo see it withered, denotes that she will miss happiness\nthrough careless conduct." }, { "id": "fontaine-0496", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Myrtle", "text": "To dream of myrtle, is a sign you will receive a declaration of\nlove. To the married it signifies domestic happiness. 3, 11, 33.", "locator": "Heading 496; source line 3317", "lineStart": 3317, "lineEnd": 3320, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of myrtle, is a sign you will receive a declaration of\nlove. To the married it signifies domestic happiness." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1365", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Nails", "text": "To see nails in your dreams, indicates much toil and small recompense.\n\nTo deal in nails, shows that you will engage in honorable work,\neven if it be lowly.\n\nTo see rusty or broken nails, indicates sickness and failure in business.", "locator": "Heading 1369; source lines 15682–15691", "lineStart": 15682, "lineEnd": 15691, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see nails in your dreams, indicates much toil and small recompense.\n\nTo deal in nails, shows that you will engage in honorable work,\neven if it be lowly.\n\nTo see rusty or broken nails, indicates sickness and failure in business." }, { "id": "fontaine-0497", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Nails", "text": "To dream that one’s nails are longer than usual, signifies\nprofit, and the contrary, loss: to dream your nails are cut off,\nsignifies loss and disgrace, and contention with friends and relations.\nIf one dreams his nails are pulled off, it threatens with misery and\naffliction, and danger of death: for a man to dream he bites his\nnails, shows quarrels and dissensions: to dream of paring your nails,\nforetells a lingering sickness. 57, 8.", "locator": "Heading 497; source line 3320", "lineStart": 3320, "lineEnd": 3328, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that one’s nails are longer than usual, signifies\nprofit, and the contrary, loss: to dream your nails are cut off,\nsignifies loss and disgrace, and contention with friends and relations.\nIf one dreams his nails are pulled off, it threatens with misery and\naffliction, and danger of death: for a man to dream he bites his\nnails, shows quarrels and dissensions: to dream of paring your nails,\nforetells a lingering sickness." }, { "id": "noe-0355", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Nails", "text": "To dream your nails\nare growing long is very good, and denotes riches, prosperity and\nhappiness; great success in love, a good, industrious husband or wife,\nwith dutiful children; it also foretells that you will suddenly receive a\nsum of money that will be of great use to you.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 360; source lines 1390–1394", "lineStart": 1390, "lineEnd": 1394, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream your nails\nare growing long is very good, and denotes riches, prosperity and\nhappiness; great success in love, a good, industrious husband or wife,\nwith dutiful children; it also foretells that you will suddenly receive a\nsum of money that will be of great use to you." }, { "id": "cielo-0280", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Nails", "text": "Metal nails mean success; finger nails denote\n misadventures.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 280; source lines 4534–4538", "lineStart": 4534, "lineEnd": 4538, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Metal nails mean success; finger nails denote\nmisadventures." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "nakedness", "title": "Nakedness", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "aliases": [ "nakedness", "naked", "nude", "nudity" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "kind": "editorial", "updated": "2026-10-15", "summary": "Nakedness may bring bodily comfort, the conditions of a setting, or a choice about covering into focus; the scene need not involve a public audience.", "tagline": "Begin with the setting and what being unclothed actually changes.", "psychological": "Nakedness in a dream makes the relation between your body and its surroundings noticeable. You may be alone, sharing an ordinary activity or only realize that you are unclothed when something else changes. Begin with the setting, the people present and your actual response. Feeling comfortable, cold, uncertain or unremarkable gives the image different directions. Being naked in public is a more specific situation; nudity alone does not establish an audience, humiliation or sexual intention.\n\nIn a familiar private place, being unclothed may simply change how warmth, water or a surface feels. That practical detail can resemble a situation in which usual protection is unnecessary, unavailable or being reconsidered. If a blanket solves the problem, the scene differs from one in which you need to leave. Comfort need not be turned into a statement about confidence, just as discomfort does not measure your worth or predict criticism.\n\nOther people can change the terms without deciding your emotion for you. Everyone may be unclothed during a routine task, while an unexpected visitor may make covering newly important. Notice whether the arrangement was shared and whether you could make a choice. A waking comparison could involve discovering that a familiar practice has different expectations in another setting. The dream does not establish consent, desire or another person's intentions.\n\nCovering can be a practical decision rather than a complete return to an earlier arrangement. You might carry a towel, accept an offered garment or decide that clothing would interfere with what you are doing. Each option gives you a different way to participate. The detail worth keeping is what protection or freedom of movement was needed, rather than assuming that every uncovered body represents the same vulnerability.\n\nSeeing someone else unclothed puts another boundary in focus. You may look away, offer privacy or continue an ordinary activity without comment. That response can be described without evaluating the other person's body or treating the dream as evidence about attraction. Recent changing, bathing or clothing experiences can be considered as personal context if relevant. Here the useful question is what the absence of clothing changed in this particular encounter, and what choices remained available.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "The setting gives the image its terms", "reflection": "Privacy, temperature, water and the task can make the absence of clothing relevant in different ways. Begin with those conditions before assigning a feeling." }, { "title": "Covering can remain a choice", "reflection": "A towel, offered garment or change of place may support participation differently. The scene can show what protection was useful without evaluating the body." }, { "title": "Another person has a boundary too", "reflection": "Looking away or making space can matter when someone else is unclothed. The response does not establish desire, consent or a hidden intention." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "You are unclothed in a familiar private room", "reflection": "With no audience present, temperature, touch or ordinary movement may matter most. This could picture a familiar arrangement in which usual protection is unnecessary or unavailable. Notice what would make the room workable rather than assume that privacy must conceal embarrassment." }, { "title": "Everyone is unclothed during an ordinary task", "reflection": "The arrangement is shared and no one makes it the central event. This may resemble participating under unfamiliar practical expectations. Your response can still differ from other people’s; a common condition does not decide comfort or consent, or reveal anyone’s intention." }, { "title": "An offered garment interferes with what you need to do", "reflection": "Covering solves one problem while restricting the task. This can picture a choice between different forms of participation or protection. Adjusting the garment, changing the activity or choosing another option gives the scene alternatives without making either choice a judgment about your body." }, { "title": "You carry a towel instead of putting on clothes", "reflection": "A limited covering leaves more than one way to take part. This may fit a situation needing a particular boundary rather than a complete retreat. Notice when you use the towel and what it changes; the object’s usefulness need not symbolize a fixed personality trait." }, { "title": "You give another unclothed person room to change", "reflection": "Your action concerns the other person’s space rather than an assessment of their appearance. This can resemble recognizing a boundary without requiring an explanation. Looking away, leaving or offering something creates different responses; the dream does not establish attraction, consent or the person’s wishes." }, { "title": "You notice your nudity only when you begin to move", "reflection": "An ordinary action makes temperature, texture or visibility newly relevant. This could picture an arrangement whose conditions become apparent through participation. Slowing down, finding covering or continuing comfortably provides different directions, without making the delayed realization evidence of carelessness or a forecast of exposure." } ], "prompts": [ "What did being unclothed change in the setting or activity?", "Which choices about covering, movement or privacy were available?", "How did your actual response differ from what you think the scene was supposed to mean?" ], "traditional": "Miller links nudity, concealment, admiration and swimming to moral, reputation and illness forecasts. Fontaine and Noe use closely similar prejudiced judgments about sex, appearance, age and skin colour; their wording is preserved as period source material, not adopted as a judgment about any body. Cielo supplies a brief danger and poverty forecast. Craig contrasts older ominous accounts with wish, erotic and social-restraint explanations attributed to unnamed students, then offers a fear theory. These are historical claims, not verified consensus, diagnoses or predictions. The original reflections here allow private, ordinary and differently felt scenes; public exposure remains a separate reading.", "related": [ "being-naked-in-public", "undress", "clothes", "bathroom", "privacy" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1366" ], "scope": "miller-1366 — Naked (Heading 1370; source lines 15691–15713): Nudity, concealment, admiration and swimming receive moral, reputation and illness claims. Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence validating the original reflection, a diagnosis, another person’s state or a future event." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0498" ], "scope": "fontaine-0498 — Nakedness (Heading 498; source line 3328): Nakedness is judged through sex, appearance, age and skin-colour prejudice, with a spouse/children forecast; those judgments are not adopted. Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence validating the original reflection, a diagnosis, another person’s state or a future event." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0342" ], "scope": "noe-0342 — Nakedness (Dream section, heading 346; source lines 1355–1359): Closely repeats Fontaine’s prejudiced sex, appearance, age and skin-colour judgments; not independent scientific confirmation. Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence validating the original reflection, a diagnosis, another person’s state or a future event." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0281" ], "scope": "cielo-0281 — Nakedness (Dream section, heading 281; source lines 4538–4540): Nakedness receives only a brief danger/poverty forecast. Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence validating the original reflection, a diagnosis, another person’s state or a future event." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L11001" ], "scope": "craig-1918:L11001 — Naked (Printed p. 236; NLM OCR lines 11001–11011): Craig contrasts ominous accounts with wish, erotic and social-restraint claims attributed to unnamed modern students, then offers a fear theory. Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence validating the original reflection, a diagnosis, another person’s state or a future event." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15 under the site owner’s delegation. Historical claims, where supplied, remain attributed period writing. No human or clinical review is claimed.", "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "Codex (AI-assisted editorial review)", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "a-stranger", "a-train-going-in-the-wrong-direction", "being-trapped", "being-unable-to-move", "children", "church", "current-romantic-partner", "death-of-a-friend", "elevator", "father", "forest", "hair-falling-out", "insects", "key", "locked-out", "mother", "nakedness", "phone-not-working", "rainbow", "running-but-going-nowhere", "school", "smoke", "snake-bite", "superpowers", "the-self", "the-shadow", "web" ] }, "decisionReason": "The developed reading allows private, comfortable, practical and differently shared scenes rather than assuming public humiliation or sexual intent. 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If she thinks herself\nill-formed, her reputation will be sullied by scandal.\nIf she dreams of swimming in clear water naked, she will enjoy\nillicit loves, but nature will revenge herself by sickness,\nor loss of charms. If she sees naked men swimming in clear water,\nshe will have many admirers. If the water is muddy, a jealous\nadmirer will cause ill-natured gossip about her.", "locator": "Heading 1370; source lines 15691–15713", "lineStart": 15691, "lineEnd": 15713, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are naked, foretells scandal and unwise engagements.\n\nTo see others naked, foretells that you will be tempted by designing\npersons to leave the path of duty. Sickness will be no small factor\nagainst your success.\n\nTo dream that you suddenly discover your nudity, and are trying to conceal it,\ndenotes that you have sought illicit pleasure contrary to your noblest\ninstincts and are desirous of abandoning those desires.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she admires her nudity,\nforetells that she will win, but not hold honest men's regard.\nShe will win fortune by her charms. If she thinks herself\nill-formed, her reputation will be sullied by scandal.\nIf she dreams of swimming in clear water naked, she will enjoy\nillicit loves, but nature will revenge herself by sickness,\nor loss of charms. If she sees naked men swimming in clear water,\nshe will have many admirers. 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For a woman to dream she sees her husband naked,\nsignifies success in her enterprises and a good number of children. 14.", "locator": "Heading 498; source line 3328", "lineStart": 3328, "lineEnd": 3335, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see a man naked, signifies fear and terror: to\ndream you see a woman naked, signifies honor and joy, provided she be\nfair-skinned and handsome; but if she is crooked, old, wrinkled, or\notherwise ill made, and black withal, it signifies shame, repentance,\nand ill luck. For a woman to dream she sees her husband naked,\nsignifies success in her enterprises and a good number of children.", "editorialNote": "Records include naked other people and naked swimming, beyond being naked in public." }, { "id": "noe-0342", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Nakedness", "text": "To dream you see a man naked, signifies fear and terror. 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Modern students, however, attribute to it a totally different significance; holding it in some instances as a wish dream, in others as an erotic dream and again as a dream symbolizing freedom from social restraint. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1367", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Napkin", "text": "To dream of a napkin, foretells convivial entertainments in which you\nwill figure prominently. For a woman to dream of soiled napkins,\nforetells that humiliating affairs will thrust themselves upon her.", "locator": "Heading 1371; source lines 15713–15719", "lineStart": 15713, "lineEnd": 15719, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a napkin, foretells convivial entertainments in which you\nwill figure prominently. 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Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0500", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Navel", "text": "If you dream that your navel is out of shape, or looks queer,\nit is a sign of misfortune in connection with the opposite sex, unless\nyou are married, in which case it denotes the birth of a child: for\nunmarried people to dream such dreams foretells trouble and disgrace.\n35, 17.", "locator": "Heading 500; source line 3338", "lineStart": 3338, "lineEnd": 3344, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream that your navel is out of shape, or looks queer,\nit is a sign of misfortune in connection with the opposite sex, unless\nyou are married, in which case it denotes the birth of a child: for\nunmarried people to dream such dreams foretells trouble and disgrace." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "navigation", "title": "Navigation", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “If one dreams that he is sailing in a boat and recreating himself without fear, he will have comfort and success in his affairs, but if the…”", "aliases": [ "navigation" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about navigation stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. 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To\ndream of being in a ship or boat, and in danger of oversetting or\nshipwreck, it is a sign of danger unless the party be a prisoner or\ncaptive, and in that case it denotes liberty and freedom.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 350; source lines 1363–1369", "lineStart": 1363, "lineEnd": 1369, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If one dreams that he is sailing in a boat and\nrecreating himself without fear, he will have comfort and success in his\naffairs, but if the water be tempestuous, it falleth out contrarily. To\ndream of being in a ship or boat, and in danger of oversetting or\nshipwreck, it is a sign of danger unless the party be a prisoner or\ncaptive, and in that case it denotes liberty and freedom." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "noe-0356", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Nectarines", "text": "To dream of\nnectarines is ominous of strife between friends, of riches to the farmer\nand tradesman, of infidelity to lovers, of children to the married, of bad\nweather to the sailor, and to the poor they announce plenty and increase\nof wages.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 361; source lines 1394–1398", "lineStart": 1394, "lineEnd": 1398, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of\nnectarines is ominous of strife between friends, of riches to the farmer\nand tradesman, of infidelity to lovers, of children to the married, of bad\nweather to the sailor, and to the poor they announce plenty and increase\nof wages." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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The shrewd interpreter might easily augur that the anxiety that roused the dream would give birth to frugality, etc., that tend to accumulate wealth.", "lineStart": 11022, "lineEnd": 11026, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 236; NLM OCR lines 11022–11026", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11022, "lineEnd": 11026, "printedPage": 236, "printedPageEnd": 236 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Need. — A dream of need denotes wealth in store (Gypsy). \nThe shrewd interpreter might easily augur that the anxiety \nthat roused the dream would give birth to frugality, etc., that \ntend to accumulate wealth. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Need" }, "displayText": "A dream of need denotes wealth in store (Gypsy). 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "needle", "title": "Needle", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "6 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To use a needle in your dream, is a warning of approaching affliction, in which you will suffer keenly the…” Compare 6 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "needle", "needles" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about needle stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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For a girl to dream that\nshe pricks herself with a needle, is a sign that her beau will attempt\nimproper liberties. 8, 49.", "locator": "Heading 503; source line 3355", "lineStart": 3355, "lineEnd": 3360, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of needles, signifies that you will be grievously\ninjured by the deceit of supposed friends. For a girl to dream that\nshe pricks herself with a needle, is a sign that her beau will attempt\nimproper liberties." }, { "id": "noe-0358", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Needle", "text": "For a female to dream she\nis busy with the needle, indicates that she is about to take a journey\neither of pleasure or necessity. For one of the male sex to dream he is\nusing the needle (except he is a tailor), forebodes a series of\ndistressing and unpleasant matters are about to harass and perplex him.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 363; source lines 1403–1409", "lineStart": 1403, "lineEnd": 1409, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a female to dream she\nis busy with the needle, indicates that she is about to take a journey\neither of pleasure or necessity. For one of the male sex to dream he is\nusing the needle (except he is a tailor), forebodes a series of\ndistressing and unpleasant matters are about to harass and perplex him." }, { "id": "cielo-0283", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Needles", "text": "Are a sign of disappointment in love.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 283; source lines 4543–4545", "lineStart": 4543, "lineEnd": 4545, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Are a sign of disappointment in love." }, { "id": "luck-0181", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Needle", "text": "Love or family quarrels: (unable to thread needle) baseless\nsuspicions causing trouble.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 181; source lines 3976–3979", "lineStart": 3976, "lineEnd": 3979, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Love or family quarrels: (unable to thread needle) baseless\nsuspicions causing trouble." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11027", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Needles", "heading": "Needles", "text": "A dream of disputes and quarrels (Gypsy). \"Needles and pins! Needles and pins! When a man marries\" — etc.", "lineStart": 11027, "lineEnd": 11035, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 236–237; NLM OCR lines 11027–11035", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11027, "lineEnd": 11035, "printedPage": 236, "printedPageEnd": 237 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Needles. — A dream of disputes and quarrels (Gypsy). \n\n\nSYMBOLISM IN DREAMS 237 \n\n\n\"Needles and pins! Needles and pins! \nWhen a man marries\" — etc. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [ { "line": 11030, "text": "SYMBOLISM IN DREAMS 237 " } ], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Needles" }, "displayText": "A dream of disputes and quarrels (Gypsy). \"Needles and pins! Needles and pins! When a man marries\" — etc." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "neigh", "title": "Neigh", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “To dream you hear horses neigh, augurs that you will have new and powerful friends, who will do you much service.”", "aliases": [ "neigh" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about neigh stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "noe-0351", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Neigh", "text": "To dream you hear horses neigh, augurs that you will have new\nand powerful friends, who will do you much service.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 355; source lines 1380–1381", "lineStart": 1380, "lineEnd": 1381, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you hear horses neigh, augurs that you will have new\nand powerful friends, who will do you much service." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "neighbor", "title": "Neighbor", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "summary": "Neighbor dreams may explore proximity, small reciprocal agreements, or the boundary between familiar community and private space.", "tagline": "Living near someone does not mean sharing every part of life.", "aliases": [ "neighbor", "neighbors", "neighbour", "neighbours" ], "status": "REVIEW", "psychological": "A neighbor in a dream can make the edge between private life and nearby community visible. The person is close enough to affect ordinary routines but may not belong inside your household or intimate circle. Borrowing an object, hearing noise through a wall or meeting in a shared passage can make that limited connection concrete. The subject may be how much access, attention or mutual help proximity creates.\n\nSmall agreements can carry considerable weight. An unreturned item or unexplained use of a common space may picture wanting clearer follow-through in an arrangement that seems too ordinary to negotiate formally. A waking comparison could be sharing facilities, handling a local inconvenience or depending on somebody for a brief favor. The dreamed neighbor’s conduct does not report the real person’s motives or behavior.\n\nReciprocal help creates another reading. A spare key, useful tool or moment of company can make nearby support available without requiring a close friendship. The value may lie in reliability at a practical scale. If the offer comes with unexpected access to your home or time, the dream can instead make the terms of help important. Warmth and a preference for privacy can coexist.\n\nVisibility can become central when a neighbor watches your movements or knows more than you expected. The scene may picture having an audience at the boundary of home, especially during a change in routine. This differs from proof of actual surveillance. A shared wall or window makes the physical closeness tangible, while your ability to close a door or speak changes how manageable the arrangement feels.\n\nNew or departing neighbors can alter a familiar place without changing the building. A stranger in the passage may make an ordinary route less predictable; somebody moving away may remove small daily recognition you had not considered important. A recent encounter, housing memory or fictional street can supply the imagery directly. The useful reading distinguishes intimacy from familiarity and asks what kind of proximity the scene allows, rather than treating every neighbor as a disguised family member or roommate.", "traditional": "Miller’s Neighbor passage forecasts lost hours through strife and gossip, with sad or angry neighbors assigned quarrels. These are attributed period claims rather than information about nearby residents. The original reading considers proximity, reciprocity and privacy; a roommate’s shared household remains a different subject.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A limited but consequential connection", "reflection": "Proximity can shape routines without making the relationship intimate." }, { "title": "Small agreements and reciprocity", "reflection": "Ordinary favors can need understandable terms and follow-through." }, { "title": "The edge of privacy", "reflection": "Shared surroundings make access and visibility practical questions." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A neighbor borrows something and does not return it", "reflection": "The ordinary favor acquires a question about follow-through. This may resemble a small arrangement whose importance becomes clear only when it is not completed. The object can represent an actual function within the dream, so the concern need not be transformed into a broad accusation of selfishness." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Someone next door offers useful help", "reflection": "The support can be valuable because it is nearby and practical. A spare tool, brief company or assistance with a shared inconvenience can have this quality. The scene may imagine reliable community without requiring the relationship to become intimate or open every household boundary." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Noise travels through the wall", "reflection": "The wall separates homes while allowing one household’s activity to affect another. This may picture a shared condition that you did not freely choose. Clearer limits or an ordinary conversation would change the arrangement differently from assuming that every disturbance expresses deliberate hostility." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A neighbor watches your movements", "reflection": "The encounter makes home feel visible to an audience just outside it. This can picture a wish for privacy or uncertainty about how much a familiar nearby person knows. The watching belongs to the dream and should remain distinct from a factual claim of surveillance." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You meet a new neighbor in a common passage", "reflection": "The passage remains familiar but its social arrangement changes. A new face can bring curiosity, caution or a welcome opening. The scene may explore how ordinary recognition develops, including the difference between sharing an address range and immediately having a shared personal history." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "A familiar neighbor moves away", "reflection": "The departure can remove a small recurring form of recognition. A greeting, routine sighting or practical favor may matter even without close friendship. The dream can make that limited connection visible while allowing the place itself to remain familiar and available." } ], "prompts": [ "What did living nearby make shared or accessible in the dream?", "Which small agreement or boundary mattered?", "What kind of connection did proximity make possible?" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1376" ], "scope": "Historical context only. Attributed Gustavus Hindman Miller passage(s): neighbors and sad/angry neighbors assigned strife/gossip/quarrels. These are period beliefs, not established predictions or support for the original psychological reading." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "related": [ "roommate", "house", "apartment", "friend" ], "updated": "2026-10-13", "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1376", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Neighbor", "text": "To see your neighbors in your dreams, denotes many profitable hours\nwill be lost in useless strife and gossip. If they appear sad,\nor angry, it foretells dissensions and quarrels.", "locator": "Heading 1380; source lines 15834–15840", "lineStart": 15834, "lineEnd": 15840, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see your neighbors in your dreams, denotes many profitable hours\nwill be lost in useless strife and gossip. If they appear sad,\nor angry, it foretells dissensions and quarrels." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "nephew", "title": "Nephew", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of your nephew, denotes you are soon to come into a pleasing competency, if he is handsome and well looking.”", "aliases": [ "nephew" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about nephew stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1377", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Nephew", "text": "To dream of your nephew, denotes you are soon to come into\na pleasing competency, if he is handsome and well looking;\notherwise, there will be disappointment and discomfort for you.", "locator": "Heading 1381; source lines 15840–15846", "lineStart": 15840, "lineEnd": 15846, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of your nephew, denotes you are soon to come into\na pleasing competency, if he is handsome and well looking;\notherwise, there will be disappointment and discomfort for you." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "nest", "title": "Nest", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "aliases": [ "nest", "bird's nest", "birds’ nests", "bird’s nest", "nests", "bird nest", "bird nests", "birds nest", "birds nests" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "summary": "A nest can explore making a usable place, respecting its occupants, or deciding what an empty or shared space is available for.", "tagline": "A place is shaped by what it needs to hold.", "psychological": "A nest can make the work of creating a usable place visible. Trying to join twigs, cloth or unfamiliar materials may feel absorbing until the structure refuses to hold. This can resemble preparing a workspace, arranging a household routine or making room for an interest. More effort is not always the missing element; a different arrangement may serve the purpose better than repeating the same method.\n\nAn occupied nest changes your role. Watching eggs or young birds can center interest and care while leaving access with the creatures already there. Wanting a closer view differs from being responsible for what happens. A waking situation in which you care about an outcome without owning every decision may fit. The presence of eggs does not establish pregnancy, family plans or a financial result.\n\nAn empty nest need not supply the same feeling. Vacancy can seem lonely, unfinished, restful or newly useful. Finding relief in available space may resemble a routine no longer organized around a former demand. Sadness can instead concern wanting the company or activity that once gave the place meaning. Neither response proves that departure, abandonment or a particular life stage has occurred.\n\nMoving the nest into a room can introduce a mismatch between your plan and its occupants’ expectations. You may intend protection while finding that the creatures continue looking for the earlier place. This can picture care whose usefulness depends on the recipient’s response. An object placed inside the nest that has no apparent use there can raise another question: a space may become available to somebody without being appropriate for every purpose.\n\nShared building makes agreement visible through the structure itself. Two people adding material in different directions can each contribute effort while working toward incompatible shapes. A joint project or household arrangement may offer a parallel. A useful place emerges through a purpose its contributors can actually share. These reflections concern the particular constructed space and its occupants, rather than a universal home or parenting code. Memories of real nests, crafts or a familiar site can supply direct context; a financial nest-egg idiom has a different subject.", "traditional": "The eight supplied Nest and Bird’s Nest passages concern bird or hen nests, contents, vacancy and damage, with conflicting forecasts. Both Miller accounts and both Craig accounts remain separate records; Fontaine, Noe, Cielo and the Book of Luck add different claims. Craig’s Artemidorus and Gypsy labels remain his attributions. These six books supply period comparisons, not eight verified meanings or evidence of family, pregnancy or financial outcomes.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Making a place serve its purpose", "reflection": "The chosen arrangement can matter more than repeating effort that does not hold." }, { "title": "Interest without ownership of the outcome", "reflection": "An occupied space can invite care while retaining its occupants’ separate needs." }, { "title": "Vacancy and shared construction", "reflection": "An empty or jointly made place can have different uses as its purposes change." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "The materials will not stay together while you build", "reflection": "The intended place remains clear while the method fails to hold its parts. This may picture preparation needing a different arrangement rather than more effort alone. The dream can make a practical mismatch visible without declaring your whole project or household unstable." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You watch an occupied nest and choose to remain at a distance", "reflection": "Interest and care continue without turning the occupants into something you possess. This can resemble wanting an outcome while respecting another person’s role in it. Distance can make the encounter workable; eggs or young birds do not establish a coming family event." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "An empty nest offers space you are glad to find", "reflection": "Vacancy feels available rather than automatically sorrowful. This may picture a former demand leaving room for another use or a pause. Relief need not erase attachment to what happened there; the empty structure does not decide which life stage it represents." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A nest brought indoors leaves its occupants searching outside", "reflection": "Your intended protection does not match the place its recipients expect. This can resemble help needing attention to another person’s response. Changing the arrangement may be more useful than insisting on its value simply because your intention was caring." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Someone stores an unrelated object inside the nest", "reflection": "A place becomes useful to one person while its original purpose is displaced. This may picture uncertainty about what shared space is available for. The particular object and the response to it distinguish welcome reuse from an intrusion into an ongoing need." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "Two builders keep extending the nest in different directions", "reflection": "Both contributors are working while their imagined structures diverge. This can picture a joint arrangement needing agreement about its purpose. A shared effort may become usable through coordination rather than by requiring one person’s labor to cancel the other’s contribution." } ], "prompts": [ "What purpose did the nest’s arrangement need to serve?", "How did its occupants or vacancy change your role?", "Which use or direction could the contributors actually share?" ], "related": [ "bird", "eggs", "chickens", "a-child-leaving-home" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1378", "miller-0219" ], "scope": "miller-1378: Bird and hen nests, vacancy, and broken/bad eggs receive enterprise, abode, absence and domestic forecasts; the whole record ends See Birds’ Nest. miller-0219: Empty Bird’s Nest, eggs, young birds and lonely/deserted young receive business, engagement, journey and sorrow forecasts. Exact supplied passages: miller-1378 — Nest (Heading 1382; source lines 15846–15863); miller-0219 — Bird's Nest (Heading 219; source lines 3644–3652). Attributed historical comparison only; these period claims do not validate the original reflection or establish real health, relationship, family or financial outcomes." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0284" ], "scope": "cielo-0284: A nest with eggs is assigned quarrel, a nest with birds good luck. Exact supplied passages: cielo-0284 — Nest (Dream section, heading 284; source lines 4545–4548). Attributed historical comparison only; these period claims do not validate the original reflection or establish real health, relationship, family or financial outcomes." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0183" ], "scope": "luck-0183: The short Nest account assigns fortunate love and family life without specifying a different nest species. Exact supplied passages: luck-0183 — Nest (Dream section, heading 183; source lines 3981–3983). Attributed historical comparison only; these period claims do not validate the original reflection or establish real health, relationship, family or financial outcomes." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L11036", "craig-1918:L9211" ], "scope": "craig-1918:L11036: Craig assigns profit/domestic happiness/love to eggs and distress to broken eggs/dead birds under his Gypsy attribution. craig-1918:L9211: Finding a bird’s nest with eggs versus an empty nest receives profit/disappointment forecasts under Craig’s Artemidorus attribution. Exact supplied passages: craig-1918:L11036 — Nest (Printed p. 237; NLM OCR lines 11036–11039); craig-1918:L9211 — Bird's Nest (Printed p. 201; NLM OCR lines 9211–9214). Attributed historical comparison only; these period claims do not validate the original reflection or establish real health, relationship, family or financial outcomes." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0073" ], "scope": "fontaine-0073: Finding Birds’ Nests is assigned good fortune; finding one without eggs/birds disappointment. Exact supplied passages: fontaine-0073 — Birds’ Nests (Heading 73; source line 1277). Attributed historical comparison only; these period claims do not validate the original reflection or establish real health, relationship, family or financial outcomes." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0067" ], "scope": "noe-0067: Finding Bird’s Nest is assigned good fortune; finding one without eggs/birds disappointment. Exact supplied passages: noe-0067 — Bird’s Nest (Dream section, heading 68; source lines 363–365). 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If they are lonely and deserted, sorrow, and folly\nof yours will cause you anxiety.", "locator": "Heading 219; source lines 3644–3652", "lineStart": 3644, "lineEnd": 3652, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see an empty bird's nest, denotes gloom and a dull outlook for business.\nWith eggs in the nest, good results will follow all engagements.\nIf young ones are in the nest, it denotes successful journeys and\nsatisfactory dealings. 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See Birds' Nest." }, { "id": "fontaine-0073", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Birds’ Nests", "text": "To dream that you find one is a good sign; to dream that\nyou find one without either eggs or birds, shows you will meet with\ngreat disappointment. 64.", "locator": "Heading 73; source line 1277", "lineStart": 1277, "lineEnd": 1281, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you find one is a good sign; to dream that\nyou find one without either eggs or birds, shows you will meet with\ngreat disappointment.", "editorialNote": "The whole passage describes a bird's nest and its contents or emptiness." }, { "id": "noe-0067", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Bird’s Nest", "text": "To dream you find\none is a good sign. To dream you find one without eggs or birds, shows you\nwill meet with great disappointments.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 68; source lines 363–365", "lineStart": 363, "lineEnd": 365, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you find\none is a good sign. To dream you find one without eggs or birds, shows you\nwill meet with great disappointments.", "editorialNote": "The whole passage describes a bird's nest and its contents or emptiness." }, { "id": "cielo-0284", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Nest", "text": "Seeing a nest with eggs denotes a quarrel. A\n nest with birds in it, good luck.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 284; source lines 4545–4548", "lineStart": 4545, "lineEnd": 4548, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Seeing a nest with eggs denotes a quarrel. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "nettles", "title": "Nettles", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “If in your dreams you walk among nettles without being stung, you will be prosperous.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "nettles" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about nettles stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. 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Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0505", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "New Year’s Present", "text": "To dream you give a New Year’s present, signifies\nyou will hear good news. To receive one, is a sign you will soon get\ninto trouble. 64, 19.", "locator": "Heading 505; source line 3366", "lineStart": 3366, "lineEnd": 3370, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you give a New Year’s present, signifies\nyou will hear good news. To receive one, is a sign you will soon get\ninto trouble." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0506", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Niagara", "text": "As every one has heard of this great cataract, and multitudes\nhave seen it, it is not strange that a good many people dream of going\nthere: such a dream is a sign that you will be embarrassed in company\nby a sensation of some kind. 13, 49, 6.", "locator": "Heading 506; source line 3370", "lineStart": 3370, "lineEnd": 3375, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "As every one has heard of this great cataract, and multitudes\nhave seen it, it is not strange that a good many people dream of going\nthere: such a dream is a sign that you will be embarrassed in company\nby a sensation of some kind." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "niece", "title": "Niece", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “For a woman to dream of her niece, foretells she will have unexpected trials and much useless worry in the near future.”", "aliases": [ "niece" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about niece stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1386", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Night", "text": "If you are surrounded by night in your dreams, you may expect unusual\noppression and hardships in business. If the night seems to be vanishing,\nconditions which hitherto seemed unfavorable will now grow bright,\nand affairs will assume prosperous phases.\n\n\n[137] See Darkness.", "locator": "Heading 1390; source lines 15923–15933", "lineStart": 15923, "lineEnd": 15933, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you are surrounded by night in your dreams, you may expect unusual\noppression and hardships in business. If the night seems to be vanishing,\nconditions which hitherto seemed unfavorable will now grow bright,\nand affairs will assume prosperous phases. See Darkness." }, { "id": "fontaine-0507", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Night", "text": "(_See Stars._) To dream of a clear beautiful night when the\nstars are shining, indicates that you will have a long and happy life\nand be very successful in all your undertakings. To dream you are\ncourting your sweetheart on such a night shows that she is true to you.\nTo dream of a cloudy night portends disasters in business, and to dream\nof a stormy night indicates sickness. 5, 19.", "locator": "Heading 507; source line 3375", "lineStart": 3375, "lineEnd": 3382, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Stars.) To dream of a clear beautiful night when the\nstars are shining, indicates that you will have a long and happy life\nand be very successful in all your undertakings. To dream you are\ncourting your sweetheart on such a night shows that she is true to you.\nTo dream of a cloudy night portends disasters in business, and to dream\nof a stormy night indicates sickness." }, { "id": "luck-0186", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Night", "text": "To dream of night presages sadness and gloom.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 186; source lines 3990–3992", "lineStart": 3990, "lineEnd": 3992, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of night presages sadness and gloom." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11049", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Night", "heading": "Night", "text": "To be suddenly overtaken by night, a sudden adversary. To walk on a dark night denotes grief, disappointment, loss. It is ominous to dream of night-birds, with the exception of the nightingale, which denotes joyful news to the dreamer, if a married woman, she will have children who will be great singers (Artemidorus). 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Onely the Bat is good to women with childe, for she layes not Egs as other Byrds do, but little ones, and beares milk where with she nourisheth her young, if these byrds are seen in a dream to enter a house to dwell there, it signifies that his house shall be desolate and forsaken of the inhabitants: he which goeth by sea or land, and sees in his dream any of these birds, he shall fall into a great tempest, or the hands of théeves.", "locator": "Book 3, encoded section 168", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription-with-gaps", "book": "3", "displayText": "THe Madge howlet, the Owl, the Bittern, the Bat, and all other night B [illegible passage] rds, crosse any enterprise or advancement of affayres: but take away feare and terrours. Onely the Bat is good to women with childe, for she layes not Egs as other Byrds do, but little ones, and beares milk where with she nourisheth her young, if these byrds are seen in a dream to enter a house to dwell there, it signifies that his house shall be desolate and forsaken of the inhabitants: he which goeth by sea or land, and sees in his dream any of these birds, he shall fall into a great tempest, or the hands of théeves.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Night Bird[illegible passage]” is shown on the Night-birds page: heading \"Of night Bird[illegible passage]\" is the night-birds topic" }, { "id": "noe-0347", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Night-birds", "text": "To dream of any kind of night-birds, as the owl, bittern\nand bat, is ominous, and those who have such dreams should undertake no\nbusiness on the day following. He that travels by sea or land, and sees in\nhis dream any of these birds, will fall into a great tempest or into the\nhands of thieves.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 351; source lines 1369–1373", "lineStart": 1369, "lineEnd": 1373, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of any kind of night-birds, as the owl, bittern\nand bat, is ominous, and those who have such dreams should undertake no\nbusiness on the day following. He that travels by sea or land, and sees in\nhis dream any of these birds, will fall into a great tempest or into the\nhands of thieves." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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A place associated with pleasure can still contain waiting, uncertainty, or a wish for quiet.\n\nThe entrance may make belonging into a visible threshold. Being welcomed, questioned, or left outside could picture uncertainty about access to a group or occasion. Clothes, tickets, or an unfamiliar rule can give that uncertainty a particular form. Notice whether you want entry because the activity appeals to you or because remaining outside feels like a judgement about your place among others.\n\nSound affects connection. Music that carries you along can offer a shared rhythm, while volume that prevents conversation may picture excitement crowding out what you want to say. A failed attempt to speak can resemble trying to be heard in a busy group. Silence inside an otherwise lively club can be equally striking, bringing attention to a gap between appearances and actual contact.\n\nDancing can make participation bodily and immediate. Moving freely may picture permission to express yourself; copying others or remaining at the edge may bring questions about performance and comfort. Watching can also be a chosen form of enjoyment. Your role in the room matters through whether you felt able to change it.\n\nCompanions and closing time add questions about pace. Losing a friend in the crowd, leaving early, or seeing the lights come on may resemble differing needs within a shared experience. Recent nights out, music, videos, or memories can supply these details directly. The scene does not establish anyone's intentions or prescribe how socially active you should be.", "traditional": "This entry contains original reflections on nightclub entry, sound, movement, and social pace. No verified historical nightclub passage is supplied. The reference supports general dream background, rather than fixed meanings about nightlife, attraction, other people’s motives, or acceptable ways of socializing.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Access and the wish to belong", "reflection": "A doorway can make group membership feel immediate: you either enter or remain outside. The conditions imposed at that threshold may resemble uncertainty about being welcome. Consider how much you wanted the actual experience and how much you wanted the recognition of admission." }, { "title": "Shared energy and actual contact", "reflection": "Music can coordinate a room while making conversation difficult. This combination may picture an occasion that feels collectively exciting yet personally disconnected. A familiar voice, quieter corner, or pause in the sound may show what made connection possible within the intensity." }, { "title": "Choosing your level of visibility", "reflection": "Dancing, watching, approaching someone, or leaving all position you differently within the room. The scene may explore how comfortably you can choose that position. Attention can feel pleasurable when welcomed and constraining when it creates pressure to keep performing a mood." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "The doorkeeper applies a rule you cannot understand", "reflection": "An unexplained entry condition can picture feeling evaluated by unfamiliar expectations. Joining an established social group may offer a parallel. Notice whether someone explains the rule, whether it changes, and whether you still want to enter; your interest need not stay fixed throughout the scene." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You dance comfortably while others watch", "reflection": "Being visible can feel like permission to express something you usually keep restrained. Enjoying the movement may echo confidence in a skill or a moment of social ease. Observe whether the watchers support, ignore, or pressure you, and whether their attention changes your rhythm." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "The music prevents a conversation you want to have", "reflection": "This may picture a shared occasion whose energy leaves little room for personal communication. A busy gathering or fast moving group discussion can feel similar. The words you tried to say and any quieter space you found can clarify what kind of contact mattered." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Your companion disappears into the crowd", "reflection": "Losing sight of someone can make different social needs visible. One person may want to explore while another wants continued company. Record whether you feel abandoned, independent, worried, or curious; the dream does not establish a real companion’s intentions or level of care." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The club is empty but the lights keep flashing", "reflection": "Activity continuing without people may picture energy that no longer has a shared purpose. It could resemble sustaining an enthusiastic appearance after an occasion has ended. The empty floor may also feel peaceful, offering space to experience the room without the demands of a crowd." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You leave while your friends remain inside", "reflection": "Choosing a different finishing time can picture attending to your own pace within a group. Rest, another interest, or satisfaction with the evening may shape the departure. Notice whether leaving feels permitted, guilty, or relieving, and whether the friendship seems able to hold that difference." } ], "prompts": [ "What made me want entry, attention, or a way out?", "How did the sound affect my ability to connect with someone?", "Could I choose my pace and visibility within the group?" ], "related": [ "dancing", "party", "music", "being-lost" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia editorial entry with image-specific interpretations and six differentiated scenes. The reference supplies general dream background only. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "nightingale", "title": "Nightingale", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are listening to the harmonious notes of the nightingale, foretells a pleasing…” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "nightingale" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about nightingale stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1388", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Nightingale", "text": "To dream that you are listening to the harmonious notes of the nightingale,\nforetells a pleasing existence, and prosperous and healthy surroundings.\nThis is a most favorable dream to lovers, and parents.\n\nTo see nightingales silent, foretells slight misunderstandings among friends.", "locator": "Heading 1392; source lines 15940–15948", "lineStart": 15940, "lineEnd": 15948, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are listening to the harmonious notes of the nightingale,\nforetells a pleasing existence, and prosperous and healthy surroundings.\nThis is a most favorable dream to lovers, and parents.\n\nTo see nightingales silent, foretells slight misunderstandings among friends." }, { "id": "fontaine-0509", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Nightingale", "text": "To dream of this bird signifies light amours; to hear it\nsing, happiness. 48.", "locator": "Heading 509; source line 3388", "lineStart": 3388, "lineEnd": 3391, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of this bird signifies light amours; to hear it\nsing, happiness." }, { "id": "noe-0348", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Nightingale", "text": "To dream of the nightingale signifieth\ngood work, and principally wedding.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 352; source lines 1373–1374", "lineStart": 1373, "lineEnd": 1374, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of the nightingale signifieth\ngood work, and principally wedding." }, { "id": "luck-0187", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Nightingale", "text": "(Hearing nightingales sing) Joyfulness, success in\nbusiness, good crops, a happy marriage to a good and faithful mate:\n(for a married woman to dream) she will have children who will become\ngreat singers.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 187; source lines 3992–3997", "lineStart": 3992, "lineEnd": 3997, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(Hearing nightingales sing) Joyfulness, success in\nbusiness, good crops, a happy marriage to a good and faithful mate:\n(for a married woman to dream) she will have children who will become\ngreat singers." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "nightmare", "title": "Nightmare", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "aliases": [ "nightmare" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1387" ], "scope": "Historical comparison only: Nightmare — miller-1387 (Heading 1391; source lines 15933–15940). These attributed period claims do not establish diagnoses, relationships, future events or the original modern interpretation." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0343" ], "scope": "Historical comparison only: Nightmare — noe-0343 (Dream section, heading 347; source lines 1359–1360). These attributed period claims do not establish diagnoses, relationships, future events or the original modern interpretation." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0188" ], "scope": "Historical comparison only: Nightmare — luck-0188 (Dream section, heading 188; source lines 3997–4001). These attributed period claims do not establish diagnoses, relationships, future events or the original modern interpretation." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L11060" ], "scope": "Historical comparison only: Nightmare — craig-1918:L11060 (Printed p. 237; NLM OCR lines 11060–11063). These attributed period claims do not establish diagnoses, relationships, future events or the original modern interpretation." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." }, { "id": "nhs-nightmares", "title": "Night terrors and nightmares", "author": "NHS", "url": "https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/night-terrors/", "scope": "Official description of remembered frightening dreams and their distinction from night terrors. Provides general health context, not an individual diagnosis, a cause for a particular dream or validation of the original reflective scenes." } ], "kind": "modern", "tagline": "The particular threat, the response it interrupts, and what remains possible within a frightening dream.", "summary": "A nightmare can leave strong fear and a remembered scene. Its particular threat, available help and changing response offer different ways to reflect.", "psychological": "A nightmare can make a threat feel immediate while you are inside the dream. After waking, you may remember a detailed story or only part of the encounter. The fear deserves room without requiring the scene to be decoded. A remembered danger does not establish that the event will occur, that someone intends harm or that the dream reveals a hidden wish.\n\nFor personal reflection, the form of the difficulty can be more useful than a single frightening object. Pursuit, losing contact, being unable to reach an exit and trying to warn someone each create different relationships between effort and what you want. A scene of being watched may concern visibility, while searching for a missing companion can center a particular bond. A comparison becomes useful when the arrangement fits an experience you recognize.\n\nAvailable help can alter the encounter without making the whole setting safe at once. Somebody may notice your effort, wait beside you or open a route you could not use alone. This can give recognition or cooperation a place within the story. The helper's dreamed response remains part of the scene; it does not determine how the actual person would behave.\n\nAn ordinary place becoming unfamiliar can give the fear another shape. A room you know may lose its usual exit, or a crowd may continue an activity without noticing the problem. The contrast can make wanted familiarity or acknowledgment especially clear. Recent images, memories and invented combinations can also contribute without every detail needing a separate symbolic meaning.\n\nA changed response matters alongside an unchanged threat. You might stop hiding long enough to ask a question, find company or decide that reaching one person is more important than finishing another task. These are possible directions for understanding the remembered encounter, not a requirement to control dreams or reenact frightening material.\n\nYou can leave details undescribed if examining them feels unwelcome. The emotional aftermath, a moment of help or simply the fact that you woke may be enough for an account. This entry offers optional reflection on remembered dream experience; the linked nightmare guide provides general health context separately from these original comparisons.", "traditional": "The NHS describes nightmares as frightening dreams from which a person may wake and remember the experience, and distinguishes them from night terrors. That description does not diagnose an individual episode. Miller, Noe, Everybody’s Book of Luck and Craig attach business, marriage, domination or gendered forecasts to their older Nightmare accounts. Those period claims neither assess health or relationships nor supply the meanings of the original examples here.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "The threat has a particular arrangement", "reflection": "Pursuit, blocked access and threatened contact interrupt different purposes. Their specific actions can offer more substance than a universal frightening-symbol code." }, { "title": "Help changes part of the encounter", "reflection": "Being noticed or accompanied can matter before every difficulty disappears. The story may include cooperation as well as fear." }, { "title": "Your account can have a chosen limit", "reflection": "A feeling, fragment or moment of help can be enough to describe. Reflection does not require replaying every frightening detail." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A familiar room no longer has the exit you expected", "reflection": "An ordinary source of orientation becomes unavailable. This can make the wish for a workable route especially clear. A window, companion or pause may change the imagined options, while the scene need not be treated as a warning about the real place." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You are pursued and someone notices your need for help", "reflection": "The encounter includes both threat and recognition. A person waiting, opening a door or keeping you company can alter what you are able to do. Their role can be explored without making the dreamed response evidence of actual loyalty or danger." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You try to reach a companion while the setting keeps changing", "reflection": "Contact remains wanted while the conditions of reaching it become unstable. This can make the particular bond more central than any one frightening location. A remembered sound or shared meeting place may give the search a different direction within the dream." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Other people continue an ordinary activity beside the frightening event", "reflection": "Your urgency and the surrounding pace no longer fit. The scene may make acknowledgment important: somebody noticing the difficulty changes the encounter differently from the activity simply ending. The dreamed indifference does not establish the intentions of real people." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A familiar threat appears but you respond differently", "reflection": "A question, a change of route or accepting company alters your part while the setting remains recognizable. The difference can matter on its own terms. It does not have to demonstrate a solved waking problem or a skill you must reproduce." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You wake with a strong feeling and only a small fragment", "reflection": "The emotional aftermath is clear while the story remains incomplete. A brief account can preserve that distinction without filling the gaps with invented certainty. You may choose to describe the feeling, a remembered helper or no further details at all." } ], "prompts": [ "What purpose did the threat interrupt, if you want to describe it?", "Did any person, route or response change part of the encounter?", "What amount of detail feels useful to keep?" ], "related": [ "being-chased", "being-trapped", "recurring-dream", "unable-to-scream", "being-unable-to-move" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s continuing English editorial delegation. Sources retain their stated scope; neither historical accounts nor general research validate these interpretations.", "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "DreamFolia AI-assisted editorial review", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "childhood-home", "lucid-dreaming", "recurring-dream", "missing-a-flight-or-train", "unable-to-scream", "books", "cradle", "eyes", "forgetting-to-feed-a-pet", "message", "nightmare", "searching-for-a-missing-pet", "sleep" ] }, "decisionReason": "Four complete historical records retain attribution and their gendered business or marriage forecasts. The original body and six scenes follow particular threat, recognition, available help, a changed response and a chosen limit on detail. NHS descriptive context is separate from interpretation and does not diagnose a condition or prescribe reenactment.", "reviewedSnapshot": "data/guide-linked-publication-review-2026-10-15.json", "contentSha256": "e08d136bf694ec5258da1c57c4e829ed207b24c49ce3a0c88ea50f0406b2e53e" }, "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1387", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Nightmare", "text": "To dream of being attacked with this hideous sensation,\ndenotes wrangling and failure in business. For a young woman,\nthis is a dream prophetic of disappointment and unmerited slights.\nIt may also warn the dreamer to be careful of her health, and food.", "locator": "Heading 1391; source lines 15933–15940", "lineStart": 15933, "lineEnd": 15940, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being attacked with this hideous sensation,\ndenotes wrangling and failure in business. For a young woman,\nthis is a dream prophetic of disappointment and unmerited slights.\nIt may also warn the dreamer to be careful of her health, and food." }, { "id": "noe-0343", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Nightmare", "text": "To dream of being ridden by the nightmare is a sign that a\nwoman so dreaming, shall be domineered over by a fool.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 347; source lines 1359–1360", "lineStart": 1359, "lineEnd": 1360, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being ridden by the nightmare is a sign that a\nwoman so dreaming, shall be domineered over by a fool." }, { "id": "luck-0188", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Nightmare", "text": "To dream of having a nightmare is a sign that the dreamer\nwill be immediately married, and (if a man) his wife will turn out a\nshrew.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 188; source lines 3997–4001", "lineStart": 3997, "lineEnd": 4001, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of having a nightmare is a sign that the dreamer\nwill be immediately married, and (if a man) his wife will turn out a\nshrew." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11060", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Nightmare", "heading": "Nightmare", "text": "To be ridden by a nightmare signifies that a woman shall suddenly marry ; that a man shall be domineered over by a fool (Artemidorus).", "lineStart": 11060, "lineEnd": 11063, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 237; NLM OCR lines 11060–11063", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11060, "lineEnd": 11063, "printedPage": 237, "printedPageEnd": 237 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Nightmare. — To be ridden by a nightmare signifies that a \nwoman shall suddenly marry ; that a man shall be domineered \nover by a fool (Artemidorus). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 0.98113, "secondaryHeading": "Nightmare" }, "displayText": "To be ridden by a nightmare signifies that a woman shall suddenly marry; that a man shall be domineered over by a fool (Artemidorus)." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "nine", "title": "Nine", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Book of Luck wrote: “To see objects or persons to the number of nine intensifies or multiplies the effect, nine being the superlative of superlatives.”", "aliases": [ "nine" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about nine stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "luck-0189", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Nine", "text": "To see objects or persons to the number of nine intensifies or\nmultiplies the effect, nine being the superlative of superlatives.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 189; source lines 4001–4004", "lineStart": 4001, "lineEnd": 4004, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see objects or persons to the number of nine intensifies or\nmultiplies the effect, nine being the superlative of superlatives." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "ninepins", "title": "Ninepins", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you play ninepins, denotes that you are foolishly wasting your energy and opportunities.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "ninepins", "nine-pins" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about ninepins stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1389", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Ninepins", "text": "To dream that you play ninepins, denotes that you\nare foolishly wasting your energy and opportunities.\nYou should be careful in the selection of companions.\nAll phases of this dream are bad.", "locator": "Heading 1393; source lines 15948–15955", "lineStart": 15948, "lineEnd": 15955, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you play ninepins, denotes that you\nare foolishly wasting your energy and opportunities.\nYou should be careful in the selection of companions.\nAll phases of this dream are bad." }, { "id": "noe-0349", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Nine-pins", "text": "To dream of playing at\nnine-pins is a sign of quarreling; if successful, you will get the better\nof your adversary; if the reverse, you will be worsted.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 353; source lines 1374–1376", "lineStart": 1374, "lineEnd": 1376, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of playing at\nnine-pins is a sign of quarreling; if successful, you will get the better\nof your adversary; if the reverse, you will be worsted." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "nobility", "title": "Nobility", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of associating with the nobility, denotes that your aspirations are not of the right nature, as…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "nobility" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about nobility stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1390", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Nobility", "text": "To dream of associating with the nobility, denotes that your aspirations\nare not of the right nature, as you prefer show and pleasures to the higher\ndevelopment of the mind.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of the nobility, foretells that she\nwill choose a lover for his outward appearance, instead of wisely\naccepting the man of merit for her protector.", "locator": "Heading 1394; source lines 15955–15965", "lineStart": 15955, "lineEnd": 15965, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of associating with the nobility, denotes that your aspirations\nare not of the right nature, as you prefer show and pleasures to the higher\ndevelopment of the mind.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of the nobility, foretells that she\nwill choose a lover for his outward appearance, instead of wisely\naccepting the man of merit for her protector." }, { "id": "fontaine-0510", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Nobility", "text": "Should anybody be so foolish as to dream that they are\ncreated a Duke, an Earl, or that they have conferred upon them any\npatent of nobility, it is a sign of shiftlessness and poverty. If a\ngirl dreams that a lord is in love with her, she will be apt to marry a\nshiftless and needy fellow. 21, 19.", "locator": "Heading 510; source line 3391", "lineStart": 3391, "lineEnd": 3397, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Should anybody be so foolish as to dream that they are\ncreated a Duke, an Earl, or that they have conferred upon them any\npatent of nobility, it is a sign of shiftlessness and poverty. If a\ngirl dreams that a lord is in love with her, she will be apt to marry a\nshiftless and needy fellow." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11064", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Nobility", "heading": "Nobility", "text": "To dream of fraternizing with them, signifies social downfall (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 11064, "lineEnd": 11066, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 237; NLM OCR lines 11064–11066", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11064, "lineEnd": 11066, "printedPage": 237, "printedPageEnd": 237 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Nobility. — To dream of fraternizing with them, signifies \nsocial downfall (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Nobility" }, "displayText": "To dream of fraternizing with them, signifies social downfall (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "noise", "title": "Noise", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “If you hear a strange noise in your dream, unfavorable news is presaged.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "noise" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about noise stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1391", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Noise", "text": "If you hear a strange noise in your dream, unfavorable news is presaged.\nIf the noise awakes you, there will be a sudden change in your affairs.", "locator": "Heading 1395; source lines 15965–15970", "lineStart": 15965, "lineEnd": 15970, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you hear a strange noise in your dream, unfavorable news is presaged.\nIf the noise awakes you, there will be a sudden change in your affairs." }, { "id": "fontaine-0511", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Noise", "text": "If you dream of hearing strange or mysterious noises, it is a\nsign that the spirit of some dead relative hovers near you, and has an\ninfluence upon your actions. 20.", "locator": "Heading 511; source line 3397", "lineStart": 3397, "lineEnd": 3401, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream of hearing strange or mysterious noises, it is a\nsign that the spirit of some dead relative hovers near you, and has an\ninfluence upon your actions." }, { "id": "luck-0190", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Noise", "text": "Hearing loud, discordant noises, particularly if their source\nis not apparent, is a bad omen.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 190; source lines 4004–4010", "lineStart": 4004, "lineEnd": 4010, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Hearing loud, discordant noises, particularly if their source\nis not apparent, is a bad omen." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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There is little good in this dream.”", "aliases": [ "noodles" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about noodles stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1392", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Noodles", "text": "To dream of noodles, denotes an abnormal appetite and desires.\nThere is little good in this dream.", "locator": "Heading 1396; source lines 15970–15975", "lineStart": 15970, "lineEnd": 15975, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of noodles, denotes an abnormal appetite and desires.\nThere is little good in this dream." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "nose", "title": "Nose", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "6 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see your own nose, indicates force of character, and consciousness of your ability to accomplish…” Compare 6 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "nose", "of the nose" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about nose stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1393", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Nose", "text": "To see your own nose, indicates force of character, and consciousness of your\nability to accomplish whatever enterprise you may choose to undertake.\n\nIf your nose looks smaller than natural, there will be failure\nin your affairs. Hair growing on your nose, indicates extraordinary\nundertakings, and that they will be carried through by sheer force\nof character, or will.\n\nA bleeding nose, is prophetic of disaster, whatever the calling\nof the dreamer may be.", "locator": "Heading 1397; source lines 15975–15988", "lineStart": 15975, "lineEnd": 15988, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see your own nose, indicates force of character, and consciousness of your\nability to accomplish whatever enterprise you may choose to undertake.\n\nIf your nose looks smaller than natural, there will be failure\nin your affairs. Hair growing on your nose, indicates extraordinary\nundertakings, and that they will be carried through by sheer force\nof character, or will.\n\nA bleeding nose, is prophetic of disaster, whatever the calling\nof the dreamer may be." }, { "id": "fontaine-0512", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Nose", "text": "To dream of big-nosed people is generally a good omen, as such\npersons are usually smart and energetic. To dream of snub noses is a\nsign of a quarrel, or that you will be abused by somebody. 48.", "locator": "Heading 512; source line 3401", "lineStart": 3401, "lineEnd": 3405, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of big-nosed people is generally a good omen, as such\npersons are usually smart and energetic. To dream of snub noses is a\nsign of a quarrel, or that you will be abused by somebody." }, { "id": "artemidorus-017", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of the Nose.", "text": "FOr to have a faire and great Nose, is good to all, for it signifies subtle[illegible passage]y of sense, providence in affaires, and acquaintance with great personages. But to have no Nose signifies the contrary. And to a sick man death, for dead mens heads have no nose. To have two noses is discord with his domesticall kindred.", "locator": "Book 1, encoded section 17", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription-with-gaps", "book": "1", "displayText": "FOr to have a faire and great Nose, is good to all, for it signifies subtle [illegible passage] y of sense, providence in affaires, and acquaintance with great personages. But to have no Nose signifies the contrary. And to a sick man death, for dead mens heads have no nose. To have two noses is discord with his domesticall kindred." }, { "id": "noe-0353", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Nose", "text": "To dream one has a fair and great nose is a good to all, for it\ndenotes prosperity in affairs, and acquaintance with rich persons.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 357; source lines 1384–1386", "lineStart": 1384, "lineEnd": 1386, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream one has a fair and great nose is a good to all, for it\ndenotes prosperity in affairs, and acquaintance with rich persons." }, { "id": "cielo-0286", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Nose", "text": "Dreaming of your own or someone’s nose denotes\n a new acquaintance.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 286; source lines 4550–4553", "lineStart": 4550, "lineEnd": 4553, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Dreaming of your own or someone’s nose denotes\na new acquaintance." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11067", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Nose", "heading": "Nose", "text": "To dream of a great, fair nose is fortunate, signifying subtlety, prominent acquaintances, great personages. Dreaming of a nose longer than ordinary promises wealth and power ; two noses augur discord and quarrels ; stopped up nose, deceit in the domestic circle (Artemidorus). The Egyptian priests believed that a wart on the nose indicated knowledge in proportion to the size of the wart (Churchward).", "lineStart": 11067, "lineEnd": 11074, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 237; NLM OCR lines 11067–11074", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11067, "lineEnd": 11074, "printedPage": 237, "printedPageEnd": 237 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Nose. — To dream of a great, fair nose is fortunate, signify- \ning subtlety, prominent acquaintances, great personages. \nDreaming of a nose longer than ordinary promises wealth and \npower ; two noses augur discord and quarrels ; stopped up nose, \ndeceit in the domestic circle (Artemidorus). The Egyptian \npriests believed that a wart on the nose indicated knowledge in \nproportion to the size of the wart (Churchward). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "signify- \ning", "after": "signifying", "evidenceLine": 2363 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 0.98773, "secondaryHeading": "Nose" }, "displayText": "To dream of a great, fair nose is fortunate, signifying subtlety, prominent acquaintances, great personages. Dreaming of a nose longer than ordinary promises wealth and power; two noses augur discord and quarrels; stopped up nose, deceit in the domestic circle (Artemidorus). The Egyptian priests believed that a wart on the nose indicated knowledge in proportion to the size of the wart (Churchward)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "nosegays", "title": "Nosegays", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “To dream of gathering and making nosegays is unlucky, showing that our hope shall wither as flowers do in a…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "nosegays", "nosegay" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about nosegays stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. 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OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "noe-0354", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Nosegays", "text": "To dream of gathering and making nosegays is unlucky, showing\nthat our hope shall wither as flowers do in a nosegay.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 358; source lines 1386–1387", "lineStart": 1386, "lineEnd": 1387, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of gathering and making nosegays is unlucky, showing\nthat our hope shall wither as flowers do in a nosegay." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11075", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Nosegay", "heading": "Nosegay", "text": "An unlucky dream prognosticating withered hopes (Artemidorus).", "lineStart": 11075, "lineEnd": 11077, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 237; NLM OCR lines 11075–11077", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11075, "lineEnd": 11077, "printedPage": 237, "printedPageEnd": 237 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Nosegay. — An unlucky dream prognosticating withered \nhopes (Artemidorus). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Nosegay" }, "displayText": "An unlucky dream prognosticating withered hopes (Artemidorus)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "nostalgia", "title": "Nostalgia", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "summary": "Nostalgia dreams may return a past atmosphere, reveal what has changed, or help you name a quality you still value.", "tagline": "A past time can return without requiring your life to return to it.", "aliases": [ "nostalgia", "nostalgic", "feeling nostalgic" ], "status": "REVIEW", "psychological": "Nostalgia in a dream can make an earlier period feel available again. An ordinary meal, familiar music or a routine journey may bring back a sense of ease, possibility or belonging. The valued thing may be the atmosphere rather than the exact people or place. A possible reading concerns wanting contact with a quality that was easier to experience then: unhurried company, play, a shared purpose or fewer explanations about who you were.\n\nThe dream’s mixture of periods can be revealing. An old friend may appear in your current kitchen, or people who never met may gather in a classroom from another time. These combinations do not need to reproduce the past accurately. They may bring several forms of familiarity into one scene. A song, photograph, anniversary or recent conversation can also supply a direct reminder without requiring a hidden reason for the return.\n\nChange can remain visible within the comfort. A beloved place may have another use, or the familiar activity may feel less satisfying when repeated by your current self. This can picture a difference between valuing what a period gave you and wanting all its conditions restored. A waking comparison might be revisiting an old interest after your responsibilities, preferences or relationships have changed.\n\nLonging and appreciation can coexist. Missing a former rhythm does not make present life worthless, and enjoying the return does not require dismissing what was difficult then. The dream may select one warm feature while leaving other parts of that time outside the scene. Its emotional force should not become proof that the earlier period was wholly better or that a remembered event occurred exactly this way.\n\nAn ending that carries something forward can offer another reading. A small object, a line of music or a manner of being with somebody may remain after you leave the old setting. The scene can imagine continuity without reversing change. If the ending only leaves sadness, that feeling can have its own place; nostalgia need not produce a lesson or a practical plan for recreating the past.", "traditional": "This is an original reading of felt connection with an earlier time. Homesickness for a place, meeting someone again and becoming young in a dream are related but different subjects. No historical Nostalgia passage is attached. Ordinary reminders can offer context without proving accurate recall or a preference for returning to a former life.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "The quality that returns", "reflection": "A period may be valued for its rhythm, companionship or possibility rather than every part of its history." }, { "title": "Comfort and changed conditions", "reflection": "A familiar place can be meaningful while no longer fitting the same role in your life." }, { "title": "Continuity without reversal", "reflection": "Something from the past can remain valuable without requiring its whole setting to be restored." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "An ordinary old routine returns in full detail", "reflection": "The routine may restore a pace or form of company you miss more than the specific event. A former commute, meal or shared activity can have this quality. The dream makes familiarity emotionally available without requiring the whole earlier period to be ideal." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A remembered place has changed while the feeling stays familiar", "reflection": "Changed surroundings can hold affection and loss at once. This may resemble revisiting a place whose role in your life has altered. Recognition remains possible, but the scene also gives change a visible form instead of pretending that everything is as it was." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Music from one period plays in your current home", "reflection": "The sound brings one period into another setting. The dream may be connecting an old feeling with something present: ease, possibility or companionship. A recent hearing of the music can also provide a straightforward reminder; the combination does not need one symbolic explanation." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "People from different stages gather together", "reflection": "The grouping creates a continuity that ordinary chronology would not permit. It may picture wanting several forms of recognition or company together. The shared activity can be more useful than deciding that every person represents unfinished business or a required reconnection." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Recreating an old activity no longer feels satisfying", "reflection": "The attempt can distinguish wanting a familiar feeling from wanting the old activity unchanged. Returning to a hobby, group or routine after life has shifted can feel similar. The mismatch allows appreciation of the past and a different present preference to coexist." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You leave the old setting with a small keepsake", "reflection": "The object can make a valued quality portable: humor, permission to play or a sense of being known. Leaving becomes different from losing every connection with that period. The scene can imagine carrying something onward while recognizing that the old setting has changed." } ], "prompts": [ "Which quality of the earlier time felt most present?", "What had changed, and what still felt familiar?", "Which parts of the earlier time felt worth returning to, and what had changed?" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "related": [ "homesick", "childhood-home", "reunion", "young" ], "updated": "2026-10-13", "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "notary", "title": "Notary", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a notary, is a prediction of unsatisfied desires, and probable lawsuits.”", "aliases": [ "notary" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about notary stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1394", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Notary", "text": "To dream of a notary, is a prediction of unsatisfied desires,\nand probable lawsuits. For a woman to associate with a notary,\nforetells she will rashly risk her reputation, in gratification\nof foolish pleasure.", "locator": "Heading 1398; source lines 15988–15995", "lineStart": 15988, "lineEnd": 15995, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a notary, is a prediction of unsatisfied desires,\nand probable lawsuits. For a woman to associate with a notary,\nforetells she will rashly risk her reputation, in gratification\nof foolish pleasure." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "november", "title": "November", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of November, augers a season of indifferent success in all affairs.”", "aliases": [ "november" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about november stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1395", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "November", "text": "To dream of November, augers a season of indifferent success\nin all affairs.", "locator": "Heading 1399; source lines 15995–16000", "lineStart": 15995, "lineEnd": 16000, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of November, augers a season of indifferent success\nin all affairs." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "nuclear-war", "title": "Nuclear war", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "A vast imagined event and a few nearby choices.", "summary": "Nuclear-war dreams may explore overwhelming scale, conflicting information and immediate choices about attention, cooperation or contact.", "aliases": [ "nuclear war", "nuclear bomb", "atomic bomb", "mushroom cloud", "nuclear explosion", "fallout", "nuclear attack" ], "status": "REVIEW", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-14", "psychological": "A nuclear-war dream can make an imagined event feel much larger than any action available to one person. The setting may change in a flash, remain ordinary beneath a warning or become a map whose scale is impossible to grasp. This can picture the difference between being affected by something and having influence over it, such as a major reorganization whose decisions are made far from your daily work.\n\nHow the danger becomes known can create another tension. An announcement may demand immediate action while nearby people carry on with their routines. Conflicting messages may make every choice seem premature. A possible waking comparison is receiving urgent information without shared understanding of what it means. The dream can explore that uncertainty without showing that an actual warning or catastrophe exists.\n\nWithin the vast event, a small task can become meaningful because it is possible to do. Passing a message, sharing a quiet moment or helping someone complete an ordinary action may restore a sense of participation. This could resemble finding a useful contribution when the broader situation cannot be personally settled. Cooperation can be satisfying in its own right, rather than a test of courage or moral priorities.\n\nAn attempt to contact someone can make the scale suddenly personal. The hoped-for exchange may concern a simple unfinished conversation, familiar company or the wish to know that a relationship remains available. If contact is made, the tone of the exchange can change the dream even while its larger setting remains unresolved. The value lies in connection, not in the imagined deadline becoming real.\n\nA quiet ending can give urgency another shape. You might find yourself back among ordinary tasks, unsure how the setting changed, or choose to stop watching a dreamed countdown. This can picture attention becoming available for what is nearby after being claimed by an overwhelming image. It does not establish that the threat was harmless or that there is a single cause for the dream.\n\nNews, fiction, games, remembered discussions and personal settings can supply the imagery directly. These are subjective original comparisons, not geopolitical information, a forecast or emergency instructions. Their useful scope is the dreamed relation between scale, knowledge and what remains possible within the immediate scene.", "traditional": "No historical account is attached to this specific nuclear-war entry. The reading concerns the subjective dreamed scene, including possible remembered media and everyday settings, rather than borrowing an interpretation from older War or Explosion passages. NINDS provides general background about waking experiences and emotion entering dreams and the unsettled function of dreaming; it does not validate these comparisons or turn dreamed dates, broadcasts or instructions into information about actual events.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "A warning arrives while everyone continues an ordinary day", "reflection": "The message demands urgency, but the surrounding people act as if nothing has changed. This can picture having information that has not yet become shared understanding, perhaps in a group facing a sudden change. The tension concerns how to communicate and decide when the people involved do not inhabit the same account of events." }, { "title": "A distant flash interrupts a familiar meal", "reflection": "An ordinary shared activity is suddenly placed beside an event of overwhelming scale. This may picture how distant news can claim attention within a personal setting. The familiar table and people may remain important because they locate the scene in everyday life rather than allowing the vast image to erase every other experience." }, { "title": "A call connects and becomes a simple conversation", "reflection": "You reach the person you wanted, but the exchange concerns familiar company rather than resolving the larger event. This can picture the value of connection when a situation is beyond either person's control. The conversation changes the experience by making contact available, even while the dreamed setting remains unresolved." }, { "title": "Strangers cooperate on one manageable task", "reflection": "The group cannot settle the imagined conflict, but people find a small action they can complete together. This may resemble sharing practical work during an uncertain period. The satisfaction comes from a contribution with a clear scope, rather than from the scene assessing courage, survival knowledge or the worth of each participant." }, { "title": "You return to an ordinary street without a clear transition", "reflection": "The dream's scale changes abruptly, and a familiar errand is again possible. This can picture attention moving from an overwhelming image toward something concrete nearby. The ordinary task may provide continuity even when the larger story has no explanation, allowing the ending to remain uncertain without making every action impossible." }, { "title": "You stop watching a countdown to sit with someone", "reflection": "The display keeps demanding attention, but remaining with a companion feels more meaningful within the scene. This may picture choosing where limited attention goes when an abstract measure dominates an encounter. The shared interval has value without requiring the dreamed number to represent a real deadline or instruction." } ], "prompts": [ "How did the dream make the event’s scale and your own influence feel different?", "What made information shared, conflicting or difficult to act on within the scene?", "Which nearby action or connection changed the experience without resolving the larger setting?" ], "related": [ "war", "apocalypse", "explosion", "shelter", "storm" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Scale beyond personal influence", "reflection": "A vast imagined event may make the difference between being affected and being able to decide visible. The reflection can concern a particular experience of limited influence without requiring a single cause or prediction." }, { "title": "Information without a shared understanding", "reflection": "An urgent message and an ordinary surrounding scene may pull attention in different directions. The tension can involve what is known, how it is communicated and what would make a choice feel workable." }, { "title": "A nearby contribution or connection", "reflection": "A small shared task or conversation can remain meaningful when the larger setting cannot be resolved. Cooperation and contact may be satisfying parts of the scene rather than measures of survival ability." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "nugget", "title": "Nugget", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “This is an English word for a lump of gold: to dream of digging a big nugget of pure gold, is a sign of wealth and honors.”", "aliases": [ "nugget" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about nugget stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0513", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Nugget", "text": "This is an English word for a lump of gold: to dream of digging\na big nugget of pure gold, is a sign of wealth and honors. Dreams\nrelative to gold or silver promise good fortune always. 4, 11, 44.", "locator": "Heading 513; source line 3405", "lineStart": 3405, "lineEnd": 3409, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "This is an English word for a lump of gold: to dream of digging\na big nugget of pure gold, is a sign of wealth and honors. Dreams\nrelative to gold or silver promise good fortune always." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "numbers", "title": "Numbers", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "aliases": [ "numbers" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "summary": "Numbers can explore what a count includes, how a label identifies you, or why a familiar sequence appears in an unfamiliar place.", "tagline": "A precise-looking figure can still depend on what is being counted.", "psychological": "Numbers in a dream can make quantity, order or identification especially noticeable. A total may matter because it seems insufficient, while a ticket number matters because somebody must recognize it. A date or address can instead carry a personal memory. These uses create different questions; a number does not have to become a universal message or a forecast of what will happen.\n\nCounting the same objects and receiving different totals can make certainty difficult to achieve. You may trust the act of checking yet remain unsure which result belongs to the task. This can resemble revisiting a decision whose assumptions have changed. Counting again and agreeing on what counts are different needs, especially when other people include items you leave out.\n\nA number used as an identifier concerns recognition rather than amount. Your queue ticket may differ from the number being called even though you believe it is your turn. A role, application or request waiting to receive acknowledgment may offer a comparison. The dreamed mismatch cannot decide whether an actual process will accept you or whether someone has deliberately overlooked you.\n\nFamiliar digits appearing in an unusual setting can bring memory into another occasion. An old address on a classroom door may make a past place feel present within a new task. What you associate with that address can be more useful than a ready-made interpretation of its individual digits. A recently seen receipt, screen or date also deserves room as direct context.\n\nMeasurement adds the question of method. The same distance can have different written values when the unit changes, without the route itself becoming longer. Digits arranged as a decorative pattern may stop being a calculation altogether. These scenes can explore whether a precise-looking expression serves the purpose you expect. They do not establish a hidden instruction, a lucky quantity or a rule about personality. The use of the number, the response it receives and your own associations guide whether a waking comparison fits.", "traditional": "Miller’s short Numbers account assigns uneasiness to unsettled business and refers readers to Figures. Craig attributes a belief in number symbolism to Freud but expressly declines to discuss the subject. Neither supplied passage defines particular digits or establishes a numerology system. The original reflection here distinguishes counting, identification, measurement and personally familiar sequences.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A count with understandable boundaries", "reflection": "A total depends on which items and methods belong to the task." }, { "title": "Recognition through a label", "reflection": "An identifying number can concern being located or acknowledged rather than being measured." }, { "title": "Familiar sequences in different uses", "reflection": "A date, address or pattern can bring personal context without a fixed digit code." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You count the same objects twice and get different totals", "reflection": "Checking offers effort without a settled result. This may resemble revisiting a decision whose assumptions keep changing. The count need not reveal a hidden message; the items included, the method and what the total is meant to accomplish give it context." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Your queue ticket differs from the number being called", "reflection": "You expect acknowledgment through a label that does not receive the response you anticipated. This can picture a request or role waiting for recognition. The scene does not decide an actual application outcome or prove that somebody intends to overlook you." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "An old address appears on the door of an unfamiliar classroom", "reflection": "A remembered sequence brings one setting into another occasion. This may picture an earlier experience becoming relevant to a new task. Your associations with that place matter more than an assumed meaning for each digit, and recently encountered numbers can supply direct imagery." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A distance receives a different number when the unit changes", "reflection": "The expression changes while the route stays the same. This may resemble a comparison needing clear criteria before the figures can be useful. A larger written value does not necessarily make the task harder or establish that one account is more truthful." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Several people disagree about which objects belong in the count", "reflection": "The problem concerns the boundary of the task rather than arithmetic alone. This can picture different accounts of responsibility or what counts as a contribution. Agreement may require understanding those terms; the dream does not decide who is actually right or more reliable." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "Digits form a decorative pattern that nobody tries to calculate", "reflection": "The marks have a visual role rather than serving as an amount. This may picture something precise-looking being enjoyed or used differently from expected. The pattern need not contain an instruction; its appearance, setting and your response can supply the relevant personal context." } ], "prompts": [ "What was the number being used to count, identify, measure or recall?", "Which assumptions made the figure useful or confusing?", "What personal association belonged to the sequence rather than to an individual digit?" ], "related": [ "counting", "calculator", "calendar", "addition", "figure" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1397" ], "scope": "miller-1397: The short Numbers account assigns uneasiness and dissatisfaction to unsettled business conditions, then cross-references Figures. It provides no meaning for a particular digit. Exact supplied passages: miller-1397 — Numbers (Heading 1401; source lines 16005–16013). Attributed historical comparison only; no forecast validates the original reflection or establishes actual health, relationships, beliefs or circumstances." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L11078" ], "scope": "craig-1918:L11078: Craig says Freud believes numbers have symbolism of their own, but expressly declines to treat the subject. This is a secondary attribution without a supplied number-specific interpretation. Exact supplied passages: craig-1918:L11078 — Numbers (Printed p. 237–238; NLM OCR lines 11078–11086). Attributed historical comparison only; no forecast validates the original reflection or establishes actual health, relationships, beliefs or circumstances." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1397", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Numbers", "text": "To dream of numbers, denotes that unsettled conditions in business\nwill cause you uneasiness and dissatisfaction.\n\n\n[138] See Figures.", "locator": "Heading 1401; source lines 16005–16013", "lineStart": 16005, "lineEnd": 16013, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of numbers, denotes that unsettled conditions in business\nwill cause you uneasiness and dissatisfaction. See Figures." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11078", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Numbers", "heading": "Numbers", "text": "Freud believes that numbers in a dream have certain symbolism of their own. The subject, however, is too exhaustive to be treated here.", "lineStart": 11078, "lineEnd": 11086, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 237–238; NLM OCR lines 11078–11086", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11078, "lineEnd": 11086, "printedPage": 237, "printedPageEnd": 238 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Numbers. — Freud believes that numbers in a dream have \n\n\n238 THE FABRIC OF DREAMS \n\n\ncertain symbolism of their own. The subject, however, is too \nexhaustive to be treated here. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [ { "line": 11081, "text": "238 THE FABRIC OF DREAMS " } ], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 0.99083, "secondaryHeading": "Numbers" }, "displayText": "Freud believes that numbers in a dream have certain symbolism of their own. The subject, however, is too exhaustive to be treated here." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [ "figure" ] }, { "slug": "numbness", "title": "Numbness", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you feel a numbness creeping over you, in your dreams, is a sign of illness, and disquieting conditions”", "aliases": [ "numbness" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about numbness stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1396", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Numbness", "text": "To dream that you feel a numbness creeping over you, in your dreams,\nis a sign of illness, and disquieting conditions", "locator": "Heading 1400; source lines 16000–16005", "lineStart": 16000, "lineEnd": 16005, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you feel a numbness creeping over you, in your dreams,\nis a sign of illness, and disquieting conditions" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1398", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Nuns", "text": "For a religiously inclined man to dream of nuns, foretells that\nmaterial joys will interfere with his spirituality.\nHe should be wise in the control of self.\n\nFor a woman to dream of nuns, foretells her widowhood, or her\nseparation from her lover. If she dreams that she is a nun,\nit portends her discontentment with present environments.\n\nTo see a dead nun, signifies despair over the unfaithfulness of loved ones,\nand impoverished fortune.\n\nFor one to dream that she discards the robes of her order,\nforetells that longing for worldly pleasures will unfit her\nfor her chosen duties.", "locator": "Heading 1402; source lines 16013–16030", "lineStart": 16013, "lineEnd": 16030, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a religiously inclined man to dream of nuns, foretells that\nmaterial joys will interfere with his spirituality.\nHe should be wise in the control of self.\n\nFor a woman to dream of nuns, foretells her widowhood, or her\nseparation from her lover. If she dreams that she is a nun,\nit portends her discontentment with present environments.\n\nTo see a dead nun, signifies despair over the unfaithfulness of loved ones,\nand impoverished fortune.\n\nFor one to dream that she discards the robes of her order,\nforetells that longing for worldly pleasures will unfit her\nfor her chosen duties." }, { "id": "fontaine-0514", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Nun", "text": "For a young girl to dream of seeing a sober-looking nun, is\na sign of celibacy; if she imagines she speaks to the nun she may\nsafely calculate on being an old maid; if a young man dreams this, it\nforetells that he will suspect his sweetheart of being untrue to him,\nand probably discard her altogether. 29, 65.", "locator": "Heading 514; source line 3409", "lineStart": 3409, "lineEnd": 3415, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a young girl to dream of seeing a sober-looking nun, is\na sign of celibacy; if she imagines she speaks to the nun she may\nsafely calculate on being an old maid; if a young man dreams this, it\nforetells that he will suspect his sweetheart of being untrue to him,\nand probably discard her altogether." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11090", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Nun", "heading": "Nun", "text": "See Abbot.", "lineStart": 11090, "lineEnd": 11091, "kind": "cross-reference", "locator": "Printed p. 238; NLM OCR lines 11090–11091", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11090, "lineEnd": 11091, "printedPage": 238, "printedPageEnd": 238 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Nun. — See Abbot. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Nun" }, "displayText": "See Abbot." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "abbot" ] }, { "slug": "nuptial", "title": "Nuptial", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “For a woman to dream of her nuptials, she will soon enter upon new engagements, which will afford her distinction, pleasure, and harmony.”", "aliases": [ "nuptial" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about nuptial stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "marriage" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1399", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Nuptial", "text": "For a woman to dream of her nuptials, she will soon enter upon\nnew engagements, which will afford her distinction, pleasure, and harmony.\n\n\n[139] See Marriage.", "locator": "Heading 1403; source lines 16030–16038", "lineStart": 16030, "lineEnd": 16038, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a woman to dream of her nuptials, she will soon enter upon\nnew engagements, which will afford her distinction, pleasure, and harmony. See Marriage." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "marriage" ] }, { "slug": "nurse", "title": "Nurse", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "summary": "Nurse dreams may explore practical care, receiving help with a say in the process, or the resources needed when you become responsible for others.", "tagline": "Care becomes useful through its form, timing and room for choice.", "aliases": [ "nurse", "nurses" ], "status": "REVIEW", "psychological": "A nurse in a dream can make care practical. Somebody explains a next step, offers ordinary comfort or stays while you wait. The value may lie in having a need noticed and made manageable rather than in a dramatic procedure. A remembered appointment, caregiving task, visit or fictional scene can supply the role directly. The dream does not diagnose illness or forecast a person’s health.\n\nReceiving care can bring relief and discomfort together. Help may be welcome while its timing, closeness or assumptions feel unfamiliar. A clear explanation can preserve your ability to participate; being moved through a process without a chance to speak can make that ability uncertain. A waking comparison could be receiving assistance during a transition or depending on someone with more information than you have.\n\nThe fit of the help matters. A small practical act may meet the actual need, while a larger offer can miss it. Quiet company, enough privacy or a simple answer may change the dream more than impressive equipment. The nurse’s role can make attention and competence imaginable, but their presence alone should not decide whether the scene felt caring. What they do provides the more useful distinction.\n\nWaiting can show a relationship between need and available resources. A nurse attending to many people may make your own request feel hard to place. Becoming the nurse yourself can create the opposite position: several needs arrive while your time or knowledge remains limited. The tension could concern wanting to contribute without being made responsible for everything. Sharing the work or narrowing the task can make attention usable without requiring one person to handle everything.\n\nA familiar person in the role may combine a known relationship with a different form of authority or care. Warmth, awkwardness and a wish for independence can each shape that encounter. The setting may also move outside a hospital, bringing a caring role into ordinary life. A useful reading attends to how help was offered, how much choice remained and whether responsibility matched the support the scene provided.", "traditional": "The four attached accounts disagree. Miller links retaining or losing a nurse and becoming one with different health/social forecasts. Fontaine’s lying-in nurse receives luck, money, crop or child forecasts; Cielo gives long life, while Craig gives sickness, sorrow and trouble. These are attributed historical beliefs. The separate Wet Nurse subject is not a synonym for this general professional role.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Practical attention", "reflection": "Ordinary comfort or explanation can matter more than a dramatic intervention." }, { "title": "Choice while receiving help", "reflection": "Support can be welcome while its terms, closeness or pace remain important." }, { "title": "The resources of a caring role", "reflection": "Becoming responsible for others can make time and manageable scope central." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A nurse explains what is about to happen", "reflection": "Information allows you to understand the process and retain a part in it. This may resemble receiving help in a situation where somebody else knows the next step. The useful change is clarity, not a claim that the dream describes appropriate real treatment." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You wait for a nurse who has many people to attend to", "reflection": "The scene places a personal need beside several competing demands. This can picture uncertainty about how to ask or whether there is room for you in an arrangement. The waiting does not predict neglect; it makes availability and communication practical parts of care." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A nurse offers help you are uncomfortable accepting", "reflection": "The help may meet a need while also making dependence visible. A recent change requiring assistance can offer a comparison. Having a say over timing, privacy or method creates a different experience from being expected to receive whatever is offered without preference." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You become the nurse without enough time or resources", "reflection": "The role assigns several needs while leaving you short of time, information or support. This may picture a responsibility whose scale exceeds its resources. The dream can make limits visible without proving that you lack care or should be able to handle every demand." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A familiar person appears in the nurse’s role", "reflection": "The known person acquires a caring or explanatory role that changes the relationship’s imagined terms. Familiarity may make help easy to receive, or make its closeness uncomfortable. The scene does not establish their actual competence; their actions and your available choices shape its value." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "Small ordinary care matters more than a dramatic procedure", "reflection": "An ordinary act can make the setting usable: company while waiting, a clearer explanation or help with a basic need. The dream may value care that fits rather than care that looks impressive. Attention becomes concrete through what it allows you to do or receive." } ], "prompts": [ "What particular need did the offered care meet or miss?", "How much choice and understanding did you retain while receiving help?", "If you carried the caring role, what resources or limits shaped it?" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1400" ], "scope": "Historical context only. Attributed Gustavus Hindman Miller passage(s): nurse retained in or leaving the home and becoming/parting as a nurse, assigned divergent health/social forecasts. These are period beliefs, not established predictions or support for the original psychological reading." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0515" ], "scope": "Historical context only. Attributed Felix Fontaine passage(s): nurse for lying-in women assigned luck/cash, crops or children according to dreamer category. These are period beliefs, not established predictions or support for the original psychological reading." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0287" ], "scope": "Historical context only. Attributed Astra Cielo passage(s): nurse assigned long life. These are period beliefs, not established predictions or support for the original psychological reading." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L11092" ], "scope": "Historical context only. Attributed Katherine Taylor Craig passage(s): nurse assigned sickness, sorrow and trouble, attributed in Craig’s text. These are period beliefs, not established predictions or support for the original psychological reading." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "related": [ "hospital", "doctor", "compassion", "wet-nurse" ], "updated": "2026-10-13", "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1400", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Nurse", "text": "To dream that a nurse is retained in your home, foretells distressing illness,\nor unlucky visiting among friends.\n\nTo see a nurse leaving your house, omens good health in the family.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she is a nurse, denotes that she will gain\nthe esteem of people, through her self-sacrifice. If she parts from a patient,\nshe will yield to the persuasion of deceit.", "locator": "Heading 1404; source lines 16038–16049", "lineStart": 16038, "lineEnd": 16049, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that a nurse is retained in your home, foretells distressing illness,\nor unlucky visiting among friends.\n\nTo see a nurse leaving your house, omens good health in the family.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she is a nurse, denotes that she will gain\nthe esteem of people, through her self-sacrifice. If she parts from a patient,\nshe will yield to the persuasion of deceit." }, { "id": "fontaine-0515", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Nurse", "text": "Dreaming of a nurse for lying-in women foreshadows luck and\nplenty of cash; to a farmer, such a dream prognosticates abundant\ncrops, and to newly married people good crops of children. 28.", "locator": "Heading 515; source line 3415", "lineStart": 3415, "lineEnd": 3419, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Dreaming of a nurse for lying-in women foreshadows luck and\nplenty of cash; to a farmer, such a dream prognosticates abundant\ncrops, and to newly married people good crops of children." }, { "id": "cielo-0287", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Nurse", "text": "Dreaming of a nurse is a sign of long life.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 287; source lines 4553–4555", "lineStart": 4553, "lineEnd": 4555, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Dreaming of a nurse is a sign of long life." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11092", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Nurse", "heading": "Nurse", "text": "To dream of a nurse denotes sickness, sorrow and trouble (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 11092, "lineEnd": 11094, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 238; NLM OCR lines 11092–11094", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11092, "lineEnd": 11094, "printedPage": 238, "printedPageEnd": 238 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Nurse. — To dream of a nurse denotes sickness, sorrow and \ntrouble (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Nurse" }, "displayText": "To dream of a nurse denotes sickness, sorrow and trouble (Gypsy)." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "nursing", "title": "Nursing", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “For a woman to dream of nursing her baby, denotes pleasant employment.”", "aliases": [ "nursing" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about nursing stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1401", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Nursing", "text": "For a woman to dream of nursing her baby, denotes pleasant employment.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of nursing a baby, foretells that she\nwill occupy positions of honor and trust.\n\nFor a man to dream of seeing his wife nurse their baby,\ndenotes harmony in his pursuits.", "locator": "Heading 1405; source lines 16049–16059", "lineStart": 16049, "lineEnd": 16059, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a woman to dream of nursing her baby, denotes pleasant employment.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of nursing a baby, foretells that she\nwill occupy positions of honor and trust.\n\nFor a man to dream of seeing his wife nurse their baby,\ndenotes harmony in his pursuits." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "nut-tree", "title": "Nut Tree", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “Dreaming that you see nut trees, signifies riches and content gained with labor and pain.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "nut tree", "nut-trees" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about nut tree stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "noe-0354b", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Nut Tree", "text": "Dreaming that you see nut trees, signifies riches and content\ngained with labor and pain. Dreaming that you find nuts that have been\nhid, signifies that you will find treasure.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 359; source lines 1387–1390", "lineStart": 1387, "lineEnd": 1390, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Dreaming that you see nut trees, signifies riches and content\ngained with labor and pain. Dreaming that you find nuts that have been\nhid, signifies that you will find treasure." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11101", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Nut-Trees", "heading": "Nut-Trees", "text": "To see nut-trees and to crack and eat their fruit signifies riches gathered at great pains. Hidden nuts denote the discovery of treasure (Artemidorus).", "lineStart": 11101, "lineEnd": 11106, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 238; NLM OCR lines 11101–11106", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11101, "lineEnd": 11106, "printedPage": 238, "printedPageEnd": 238 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Nut-Trees. — To see nut-trees and to crack and eat their \nfruit signifies riches gathered at great pains. Hidden nuts \ndenote the discovery of treasure (Artemidorus). \n\nO \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [ { "line": 11105, "text": "O " } ], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Nut-Trees" }, "displayText": "To see nut-trees and to crack and eat their fruit signifies riches gathered at great pains. Hidden nuts denote the discovery of treasure (Artemidorus)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "nutmegs", "title": "Nutmegs", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of nutmegs, is a sign of prosperity, and pleasant journeyings.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "nutmegs", "nutmeg" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about nutmegs stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1403", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Nutmegs", "text": "To dream of nutmegs, is a sign of prosperity, and pleasant journeyings.", "locator": "Heading 1407; source lines 16069–16073", "lineStart": 16069, "lineEnd": 16073, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of nutmegs, is a sign of prosperity, and pleasant journeyings." }, { "id": "noe-0345", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Nutmegs", "text": "To dream of nutmegs is a sign that many changes will overtake\nyou.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 349; source lines 1362–1363", "lineStart": 1362, "lineEnd": 1363, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of nutmegs is a sign that many changes will overtake\nyou." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11098", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Nutmeg", "heading": "Nutmeg", "text": "To eat one is a dream of sickness ; to grate one, victory despite obstacles (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 11098, "lineEnd": 11100, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 238; NLM OCR lines 11098–11100", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11098, "lineEnd": 11100, "printedPage": 238, "printedPageEnd": 238 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Nutmeg. — To eat one is a dream of sickness ; to grate one, \nvictory despite obstacles (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Nutmeg" }, "displayText": "To eat one is a dream of sickness; to grate one, victory despite obstacles (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "nuts", "title": "Nuts", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "5 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of gathering nuts, augurs successful enterprises, and much favor in love.” Compare 5 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "nuts" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about nuts stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1402", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Nuts", "text": "To dream of gathering nuts, augurs successful enterprises,\nand much favor in love.\n\nTo eat them, prosperity will aid you in grasping any desired pleasure.\n\nFor a woman to dream of nuts, foretells that her fortune will\nbe on blissful heights.", "locator": "Heading 1406; source lines 16059–16069", "lineStart": 16059, "lineEnd": 16069, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of gathering nuts, augurs successful enterprises,\nand much favor in love.\n\nTo eat them, prosperity will aid you in grasping any desired pleasure.\n\nFor a woman to dream of nuts, foretells that her fortune will\nbe on blissful heights." }, { "id": "fontaine-0516", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Nuts", "text": "To dream of nuts denotes riches and happiness; to the lover,\nsuccess; if you are gathering them, it is a good omen; but if you crack\nthem, unfavorable. 48, 6.", "locator": "Heading 516; source line 3419", "lineStart": 3419, "lineEnd": 3423, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of nuts denotes riches and happiness; to the lover,\nsuccess; if you are gathering them, it is a good omen; but if you crack\nthem, unfavorable." }, { "id": "noe-0357", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Nuts", "text": "To dream you see clusters of them denotes riches and\nhappiness. To the lover, success and a good-tempered sweetheart. If you\nare gathering them, it is not a good omen, for you will pursue some matter\nthat will not turn out to your advantage. If you crack them, the person\nwho courts you, or to whom you pay your addresses, will treat you with\nindifference, or be very unfaithful.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 362; source lines 1398–1403", "lineStart": 1398, "lineEnd": 1403, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see clusters of them denotes riches and\nhappiness. To the lover, success and a good-tempered sweetheart. If you\nare gathering them, it is not a good omen, for you will pursue some matter\nthat will not turn out to your advantage. If you crack them, the person\nwho courts you, or to whom you pay your addresses, will treat you with\nindifference, or be very unfaithful." }, { "id": "cielo-0288", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Nuts", "text": "Eating nuts denotes a voyage.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 288; source lines 4555–4557", "lineStart": 4555, "lineEnd": 4557, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Eating nuts denotes a voyage." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11095", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Nuts", "heading": "Nuts", "text": "The kernels well-filled, a dream of riches, happiness and honors; shriveled kernels denote disappointment (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 11095, "lineEnd": 11097, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 238; NLM OCR lines 11095–11097", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11095, "lineEnd": 11097, "printedPage": 238, "printedPageEnd": 238 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Nuts. — The kernels well-filled, a dream of riches, happiness \nand honors; shriveled kernels denote disappointment (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Nuts" }, "displayText": "The kernels well-filled, a dream of riches, happiness and honors; shriveled kernels denote disappointment (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1404", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Nymph", "text": "To see nymphs bathing in clear water, denotes that passionate desires will\nfind an ecstatic realization. Convivial entertainments will enchant you.\n\nTo see them out of their sphere, denotes disappointment with the world.\n\nFor a young woman to see them bathing, denotes that she will have great\nfavor and pleasure, but they will not rest strictly within the moral code.\nTo dream that she impersonates a nymph, is a sign that she is using her\nattractions for selfish purposes, and thus the undoing of men.", "locator": "Heading 1408; source lines 16073–16094", "lineStart": 16073, "lineEnd": 16094, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see nymphs bathing in clear water, denotes that passionate desires will\nfind an ecstatic realization. Convivial entertainments will enchant you.\n\nTo see them out of their sphere, denotes disappointment with the world.\n\nFor a young woman to see them bathing, denotes that she will have great\nfavor and pleasure, but they will not rest strictly within the moral code.\nTo dream that she impersonates a nymph, is a sign that she is using her\nattractions for selfish purposes, and thus the undoing of men." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "oak", "title": "Oak", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing a forest of oaks, signifies great prosperity in all conditions of life.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "oak" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about oak stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1413", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Obligation", "text": "To dream of obligating yourself in any incident, denotes that you\nwill be fretted and worried by the thoughtless complaints of others.\n\nIf others obligate themselves to you, it portends that you will win\nthe regard of acquaintances and friends.", "locator": "Heading 1417; source lines 16157–16165", "lineStart": 16157, "lineEnd": 16165, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of obligating yourself in any incident, denotes that you\nwill be fretted and worried by the thoughtless complaints of others.\n\nIf others obligate themselves to you, it portends that you will win\nthe regard of acquaintances and friends." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "obscurity", "title": "Obscurity", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “To dream that the sun is obscured denotes damage to the reputation; the moon affects the life in a lesser degree (Gypsy).”", "aliases": [ "obscurity" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about obscurity stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1414", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Observatory", "text": "To dream of viewing the heavens and beautiful landscapes from an observatory,\ndenotes your swift elevation to prominent positions and places of trust.\nFor a young woman this dream signals the realization of the highest\nearthly joys. If the heavens are clouded, your highest aims\nwill miss materialization.", "locator": "Heading 1418; source lines 16165–16173", "lineStart": 16165, "lineEnd": 16173, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of viewing the heavens and beautiful landscapes from an observatory,\ndenotes your swift elevation to prominent positions and places of trust.\nFor a young woman this dream signals the realization of the highest\nearthly joys. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "ocean", "title": "Ocean", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "Distance, support and a route across open water.", "summary": "Ocean dreams may explore scale, orientation, available support and what you choose to do across a broad expanse of water.", "aliases": [ "ocean", "sea", "seas" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "The ocean gives a dream a wide area in which distance and orientation can become important. Begin with your position: watching from land, moving through the water, traveling aboard something or looking for a coast. The same expanse may feel inviting, sufficient, unfamiliar or too large for what you want to do. Its depth and surface do not carry one fixed emotional meaning.\n\nYour purpose can make the scene specific. You might be exploring, returning, following a route, meeting someone or enjoying the view. A familiar stretch of sea could belong to an ordinary memory rather than a large metaphor. If a broader comparison is useful, connect it with the actual task: choosing a direction without a close landmark might resemble working through a project whose next stages are not yet visible. The comparison remains a question, not proof of isolation or overwhelm.\n\nSupport can change what distance allows. A vessel, companion, navigational cue or accessible place to rest may make movement workable. Notice whether you trust the arrangement within the dream, want a different form of help or prefer to remain where you are. A small craft need not be inadequate, and a large one need not feel reassuring. The dream cannot determine the resources available to you in waking life.\n\nA change in the water can create a new decision. A calmer patch may let you pause, shallower water may reveal something interesting or an approaching wave may make you change position. Explore what you actually do rather than treating calm as success and rough water as misfortune. Enjoyment, curiosity and uncertainty can coexist, especially when a familiar coast becomes an invented landscape.\n\nRecent journeys, pictures, sounds or remembered places may provide the ocean’s setting. Familiar details can make remembered places meaningful alongside the changes that the dream invents. The ocean’s scale may be less central than a conversation, object or destination you find there. Returning to land, going farther out and staying to observe give the scene different directions. Your chosen account can describe those possibilities without predicting a voyage, explaining every feeling through water or turning the sea into a universal symbol of the unconscious.", "traditional": "These Ocean and Sea passages differ within and across books. Miller, Fontaine, Noe, Cielo and Craig give varied journey, relationship, fortune and adversity forecasts; some include gendered or health claims. Fontaine’s Ocean heading only points to Sea. Craig contrasts calm and stormy conditions in her Ocean clauses; that supplied text also contains a separate sentence about offerings and vows, which is not an ocean interpretation used here. These are period beliefs, not predictions or validated readings.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "You choose a direction without a visible coast", "reflection": "A horizon is available, but no nearby landmark tells you which route to take. This might invite reflection on how you choose a next step when its later stages are not visible. Record the cues you use and your purpose, without assuming the dream means you are lost." }, { "title": "A small craft is enough for the task", "reflection": "The vessel looks modest, yet it lets you travel or rest in the way you need. The scene could focus on fit rather than size. Notice what makes the arrangement workable and where its limits appear; the dream cannot assess the actual resources of a waking undertaking." }, { "title": "A companion wants to stop somewhere else", "reflection": "You share the journey but prefer different stopping places. This may bring purpose and coordination into focus within a broad setting. Explore whether you discuss, separate or revise the route, without using the dreamed disagreement to judge the real person’s loyalty or willingness to support you." }, { "title": "Shallow water reveals an unexpected route", "reflection": "The sea becomes shallow enough to inspect or cross part of it differently. This could change a task that seemed to require one method into an opportunity to try another. Notice what you discover and choose; reduced depth does not promise easier progress or explain every feeling." }, { "title": "A passing wave changes where you wait", "reflection": "You move to another position after the water reaches the place you were using. The scene might help you describe adapting to a changing condition while keeping your purpose. Record the option you find and whether you want to continue; a wave does not forecast trouble or danger." }, { "title": "The sea is a view rather than a journey", "reflection": "You have no need to cross or enter the water and enjoy watching its changing surface. This may be an ordinary imagined pleasure or a remembered scene. 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Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "scope": "Miller varies Ocean forecasts with calm sailing, distance, waves against a ship, watching waves from shore and shallow water, assigning fortune, relationship, injury or adversity claims. Miller’s Sea passage gives isolation and unfulfilled-hope forecasts and a different gendered romantic-voyage claim; it cross-references Ocean. Specific supplied passages: Ocean — miller-1416 (Heading 1420; source lines 16180–16200); Sea — miller-1794 (Heading 1798; source lines 19977–19993). Historical comparison only; these attributed period claims do not establish outcomes, health, character, cultural consensus or a universal meaning, and do not validate the original reflections.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1416", "miller-1794" ] }, { "id": "wamsley-2010", "title": "Dreaming of a learning task is associated with enhanced sleep-dependent memory consolidation", "author": "Erin J. Wamsley and colleagues", "url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20417102/", "scope": "Primary maze-learning experiment; task-related dream reports correlated with later performance. It does not show that a dream is an accurate memory or a solution." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0521", "fontaine-0705" ], "scope": "Fontaine’s Ocean heading is only a cross-reference to Sea; it supplies no independent definition or forecast. Fontaine varies Sea forecasts with ship travel, storm/peril, seasickness and a gendered pleasant voyage, assigning money, relationship or health claims. Specific supplied passages: Ocean — fontaine-0521 (Heading 521; source line 3445); Sea — fontaine-0705 (Heading 705; source line 4414). Historical comparison only; these attributed period claims do not establish outcomes, health, character, cultural consensus or a universal meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0362", "noe-0484" ], "scope": "Noe’s Ocean passage gives gendered deceit claims and differing fortunes for activities on the ocean or an impending journey, with a tempest exception. Noe’s Sea passage gives different forecasts for walking on water or shore, fishing, travel, service, marriage and litigation, including gendered moral judgments. Specific supplied passages: Ocean — noe-0362 (Dream section, heading 367; source lines 1422–1426); Sea — noe-0484 (Dream section, heading 492; source lines 1805–1812). Historical comparison only; these attributed period claims do not establish outcomes, health, character, cultural consensus or a universal meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0374" ], "scope": "Cielo assigns a long-journey forecast to the sea. Specific supplied passages: Sea — cielo-0374 (Dream section, heading 374; source lines 4765–4767). Historical comparison only; these attributed period claims do not establish outcomes, health, character, cultural consensus or a universal meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L11129", "craig-1918:L11825" ], "scope": "Only Craig’s Ocean clauses are used for this water comparison: she calls it an ancient symbol of life and contrasts calm, stormy and smooth conditions with fortunes under a quoted Gypsy attribution. The supplied whole text also ends with a separate offerings-and-vows claim, which is not used as an ocean meaning here. Craig contrasts placid/smooth and rough/turbulent Sea with happiness or sorrow forecasts under a quoted Gypsy attribution; no cultural consensus is claimed. Specific supplied passages: Ocean — craig-1918:L11129 (Printed p. 238–239; NLM OCR lines 11129–11139); Sea — craig-1918:L11825 (Printed p. 251; NLM OCR lines 11825–11827). 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If a girl dreams of going to sea, and having\na pleasant voyage, she will marry rich, and love her husband; but\nstorms and perils point to quarrels with him. 6.", "locator": "Heading 705; source line 4414", "lineStart": 4414, "lineEnd": 4421, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of going to sea in a ship or steamer, is a sign that you\nwill be fortunate in money matters: storms and perils at sea foretell\ndifficulties which may be overcome: if you dream you are seasick, it\ndenotes continued health. If a girl dreams of going to sea, and having\na pleasant voyage, she will marry rich, and love her husband; but\nstorms and perils point to quarrels with him.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Sea” is shown on the Ocean page: ocean core entry already aliases sea; Fontaine Ocean is \"(See Sea.)\"" }, { "id": "noe-0362", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Ocean", "text": "To dream you are on the ocean with a woman, is a sign some\nfemale friend is deceitful, or that you are deceitful in some friends. It\nis unlucky to dream you swim, walk on, or catch fish in the season. But it\nis nevertheless lucky to dream of the ocean to any person about to go on a\njourney, unless, indeed, it be very tempestuous.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 367; source lines 1422–1426", "lineStart": 1422, "lineEnd": 1426, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are on the ocean with a woman, is a sign some\nfemale friend is deceitful, or that you are deceitful in some friends. It\nis unlucky to dream you swim, walk on, or catch fish in the season. But it\nis nevertheless lucky to dream of the ocean to any person about to go on a\njourney, unless, indeed, it be very tempestuous." }, { "id": "noe-0484", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Sea", "text": "To dream of walking\nupon the sea, is good to him that would travel; as also to a servant, and\nto him that would take a wife, or who hath a lawsuit. To a young man, this\ndream is love of a beautiful young woman. To a woman, it signifies she\nleads a desolate life; for the sea is like a harlot, because it hath a\nfair appearance and show, but in the end brings many to evil. To dream you\nwalk in the sea, or on the shore, or catch fish, is a bad dream.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 492; source lines 1805–1812", "lineStart": 1805, "lineEnd": 1812, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of walking\nupon the sea, is good to him that would travel; as also to a servant, and\nto him that would take a wife, or who hath a lawsuit. To a young man, this\ndream is love of a beautiful young woman. To a woman, it signifies she\nleads a desolate life; for the sea is like a harlot, because it hath a\nfair appearance and show, but in the end brings many to evil. To dream you\nwalk in the sea, or on the shore, or catch fish, is a bad dream.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Sea” is shown on the Ocean page: ocean core entry already aliases sea; Fontaine Ocean is \"(See Sea.)\"" }, { "id": "cielo-0374", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Sea", "text": "To dream of the sea is a sign of a long journey.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 374; source lines 4765–4767", "lineStart": 4765, "lineEnd": 4767, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of the sea is a sign of a long journey.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Sea” is shown on the Ocean page: ocean core entry already aliases sea; Fontaine Ocean is \"(See Sea.)\"" }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11129", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Ocean", "heading": "Ocean", "text": "The ancient symbol of life. In a dream a calm ocean augurs good, a stormy one ill, a smooth ocean denotes accomplishment in love and in life. Offerings and vows to the divinity signify a desire to return to virtue and divine love (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 11129, "lineEnd": 11139, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 238–239; NLM OCR lines 11129–11139", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11129, "lineEnd": 11139, "printedPage": 238, "printedPageEnd": 239 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Ocean. — The ancient symbol of life. In a dream a calm \nocean augurs good, a stormy one ill, a smooth ocean denotes \naccomplishment in love and in life. \n\n\nSYMBOLISM IN DREAMS 239 \n\n\nOfferings and vows to the divinity signify a desire to re- \nturn to virtue and divine love (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [ { "line": 11134, "text": "SYMBOLISM IN DREAMS 239 " } ], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "re- \nturn", "after": "return", "evidenceLine": 34 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Ocean" }, "displayText": "The ancient symbol of life. In a dream a calm ocean augurs good, a stormy one ill, a smooth ocean denotes accomplishment in love and in life. Offerings and vows to the divinity signify a desire to return to virtue and divine love (Gypsy)." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11825", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Sea", "heading": "Sea", "text": "Placid and smooth denotes happiness ; rough and turbulent, sorrow (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 11825, "lineEnd": 11827, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 251; NLM OCR lines 11825–11827", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11825, "lineEnd": 11827, "printedPage": 251, "printedPageEnd": 251 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Sea. — Placid and smooth denotes happiness ; rough and tur- \nbulent, sorrow (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "tur- \nbulent", "after": "turbulent", "evidenceLine": 11713 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Sea" }, "displayText": "Placid and smooth denotes happiness; rough and turbulent, sorrow (Gypsy).", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Sea” is shown on the Ocean page: ocean core entry already aliases sea; Fontaine Ocean is \"(See Sea.)\"" } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "october", "title": "October", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To imagine you are in October is ominous of gratifying success in your undertakings.”", "aliases": [ "october" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about october stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1417", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "October", "text": "To imagine you are in October is ominous of gratifying success\nin your undertakings. You will also make new acquaintances\nwhich will ripen into lasting friendships.", "locator": "Heading 1421; source lines 16200–16206", "lineStart": 16200, "lineEnd": 16206, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To imagine you are in October is ominous of gratifying success\nin your undertakings. You will also make new acquaintances\nwhich will ripen into lasting friendships." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "octopus", "title": "Octopus", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "summary": "An octopus may picture several demands within reach, a hold that changes character, or finding another way through a difficult space.", "tagline": "Several reaching arms, a changing appearance, and room to move.", "aliases": [ "octopus", "octopuses", "octopi", "octopus dream", "giant octopus", "being grabbed by an octopus" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "An octopus reaching toward several objects can picture attention spread across tasks that remain connected to one responsibility. Managing requests from different people, organizing a complicated project, or keeping several household routines going may offer a parallel. The scene can feel capable and inventive when each arm has room to act. If its movements interfere with one another, the tension may concern competing demands rather than a lack of effort. More reach does not necessarily create more capacity when the surroundings offer no clear place to put anything down.\n\nBeing held by the animal can bring comfort and restriction close together. A gentle grip may feel like dependable support; a hold that continues after you want to leave can picture a relationship or arrangement whose care has become difficult to refuse. The important change is whether your movement remains possible. An embrace, a group expectation, or a task that keeps acquiring new conditions may offer a personal comparison. This does not establish that another person intends control. It gives the difference between welcome contact and unavailable choice a physical scene.\n\nAn octopus slipping through a narrow opening can picture finding a method that does not resemble the route you first expected. A practical workaround, a changed approach to a conversation, or a creative solution may feel similar when direct force has not helped. Watching it move freely can be reassuring or frustrating if you remain unable to follow. The scene may concern the fit between an approach and its surroundings rather than a claim that you possess or lack the animal’s qualities. A barrier becoming passable in the dream is not proof that every waking obstacle has a hidden solution.\n\nChanging color or releasing ink can make visibility part of the encounter. Blending into a room may feel like welcome privacy, unnoticed work, or difficulty knowing where to direct your attention. A clouded view can allow escape or leave a conversation unfinished. An animal in a sink may turn the scene toward suitable conditions and practical care instead. A real animal image, aquarium visit, story, or meal can also provide direct context. The octopus remains its own subject; Squid and the fictional Kraken are not alternative names for this entry. Personal action and feeling guide the comparison without assigning a universal meaning to arms, intelligence, or camouflage.", "traditional": "No octopus-specific historical dream record is supplied in DreamFolia’s archive. Fish, Crab, Whale, and Shark passages remain on their named pages. Monterey Bay Aquarium supports distinguishing Octopus from Squid; it does not validate the original reflections or a claim that the animal reveals anyone’s personality.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Reach and competing demands", "reflection": "Several arms can picture managing connected responsibilities. Useful coordination differs from activity whose parts prevent one another from moving." }, { "title": "Support that allows departure", "reflection": "A hold may feel reassuring until it restricts a wanted movement. The change in choice matters more than treating every close contact as protection or control." }, { "title": "An approach that fits the opening", "reflection": "A narrow passage can picture trying another method when direct force fails. The scene concerns the particular route, without promising a solution to every obstacle." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Several arms reach for different objects", "reflection": "Many tasks remain within one body’s responsibility. This may fit coordination that feels capable or demands that interfere with one another. Being able to release an object changes the scene toward choice rather than endless simultaneous effort." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A gentle hold becomes difficult to leave", "reflection": "Welcome contact continues beyond the moment you want distance. The scene can picture an arrangement whose support has acquired conditions. Asking for release and receiving it creates a different relationship from having your movement ignored." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "An octopus slips through a narrow opening", "reflection": "The animal finds a route that looked unusable to you. This may picture an alternative method or frustration with your own constraints. Wonder at the movement differs from expecting yourself to reproduce it under different conditions." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Its color changes until you lose sight of it", "reflection": "A familiar shape becomes hard to distinguish from its setting. This can picture privacy, overlooked participation, or uncertainty about where to focus. Your wish to find or leave it changes how the disappearance matters." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Ink hides the way out for a moment", "reflection": "An encounter interrupts visibility and direction. The scene may resemble a conversation or task that becomes unclear under pressure. A pause that allows the view to return differs from making a definite decision while the route remains hidden." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You help an octopus leave a kitchen sink", "reflection": "A domestic setting offers too little room for the creature’s movement. This can picture adjusting conditions rather than demanding a different behavior. Help that creates a suitable route differs from keeping it nearby because its company interests you." } ], "prompts": [ "Which movements felt coordinated, and which demands interfered with one another?", "Did contact leave me free to move or require me to remain available?", "What changed when the method, visibility, or surroundings changed?" ], "related": [ "fish", "ocean", "water", "crab", "whale", "squid", "kraken" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." }, { "id": "monterey-bay-cephalopods", "title": "Cephalopods — animal identification only", "author": "Monterey Bay Aquarium", "url": "https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals-the-ocean/animals-a-to-z/cephalopods", "scope": "The Limbs section distinguishes octopus, with eight arms, from squid, with eight arms and two tentacles. Supports keeping these animal subjects separate; does not validate any dream meaning, personality analogy, or psychological conclusion." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "oculist", "title": "Oculist", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of consulting an oculist, denotes that you will be dissatisfied with your progress in life, and…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "oculist" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about oculist stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1418", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Oculist", "text": "To dream of consulting an oculist, denotes that you will be dissatisfied\nwith your progress in life, and will use artificial means of advancement.", "locator": "Heading 1422; source lines 16206–16211", "lineStart": 16206, "lineEnd": 16211, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of consulting an oculist, denotes that you will be dissatisfied\nwith your progress in life, and will use artificial means of advancement." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11126", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Oculist", "heading": "Oculist", "text": "A dream denoting some fault to repair, some evil or injury to confess (Gypsy),", "lineStart": 11126, "lineEnd": 11128, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 238; NLM OCR lines 11126–11128", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11126, "lineEnd": 11128, "printedPage": 238, "printedPageEnd": 238 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Oculist. — A dream denoting some fault to repair, some \nevil or injury to confess (Gypsy), \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Oculist" }, "displayText": "A dream denoting some fault to repair, some evil or injury to confess (Gypsy)," } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "odd-fellow", "title": "Odd Fellow", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of this order, signifies that you will have sincere friends, and misfortune will touch you but…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "odd fellow", "odd-fellow" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about odd fellow stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1419", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Odd-Fellow", "text": "To dream of this order, signifies that you will have sincere friends,\nand misfortune will touch you but lightly.\n\nTo join this order, foretells that you will win distinction\nand conjugal bliss.", "locator": "Heading 1423; source lines 16211–16219", "lineStart": 16211, "lineEnd": 16219, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of this order, signifies that you will have sincere friends,\nand misfortune will touch you but lightly.\n\nTo join this order, foretells that you will win distinction\nand conjugal bliss.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Odd-Fellow” is shown on the Odd Fellow page: same heading; hyphen variant" }, { "id": "fontaine-0522", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Odd Fellow", "text": "To dream of joining a society of this order foretells\nsickness and distress: if you are already an Odd Fellow, and dream of\nstrife in the Lodge, and that you are in danger of being turned out, it\nis a sign that you will attain a higher station in life by riches or\nhonors. 2.", "locator": "Heading 522; source line 3447", "lineStart": 3447, "lineEnd": 3453, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of joining a society of this order foretells\nsickness and distress: if you are already an Odd Fellow, and dream of\nstrife in the Lodge, and that you are in danger of being turned out, it\nis a sign that you will attain a higher station in life by riches or\nhonors." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "odor", "title": "Odor", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of inhaling sweet odors, is a sign of a beautiful woman ministering to your daily life, and successful financiering.”", "aliases": [ "odor" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about odor stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1420", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Odor", "text": "To dream of inhaling sweet odors, is a sign of a beautiful woman\nministering to your daily life, and successful financiering.\n\nTo smell disgusting odors, foretells unpleasant disagreements\nand unreliable servants.", "locator": "Heading 1424; source lines 16219–16227", "lineStart": 16219, "lineEnd": 16227, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of inhaling sweet odors, is a sign of a beautiful woman\nministering to your daily life, and successful financiering.\n\nTo smell disgusting odors, foretells unpleasant disagreements\nand unreliable servants." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "offend", "title": "Offend", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “To dream that some one has greatly offended you, is an indication that you are going a long journey to some one you greatly esteem.”", "aliases": [ "offend" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about offend stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "noe-0375", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Offend", "text": "To dream that some one has greatly offended you, is an\nindication that you are going a long journey to some one you greatly\nesteem. If you dream that you have offended some one you love, it\nsignifies that you are about to be visited by a friend whom you have not\nseen for a long time.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 381; source lines 1462–1466", "lineStart": 1462, "lineEnd": 1466, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that some one has greatly offended you, is an\nindication that you are going a long journey to some one you greatly\nesteem. If you dream that you have offended some one you love, it\nsignifies that you are about to be visited by a friend whom you have not\nseen for a long time." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "offense", "title": "Offense", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of being offended, denotes that errors will be detected in your conduct, which will cause you inward rage while attempting to…”", "aliases": [ "offense" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about offense stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1421", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Offense", "text": "To dream of being offended, denotes that errors will be detected\nin your conduct, which will cause you inward rage while attempting\nto justify yourself.\n\nTo give offense, predicts for you many struggles before reaching your aims.\n\nFor a young woman to give, or take offense, signifies that she will regret\nhasty conclusions, and disobedience to parents or guardian.", "locator": "Heading 1425; source lines 16227–16238", "lineStart": 16227, "lineEnd": 16238, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being offended, denotes that errors will be detected\nin your conduct, which will cause you inward rage while attempting\nto justify yourself.\n\nTo give offense, predicts for you many struggles before reaching your aims.\n\nFor a young woman to give, or take offense, signifies that she will regret\nhasty conclusions, and disobedience to parents or guardian." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "offer", "title": "Offer", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “For a female to dream that she has received an offer of love from one of the male sex, portends troubles and sorrows await her.”", "aliases": [ "offer" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about offer stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. 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For one to dream that she has rejected an offer of\nmarriage, betokens that she will be surprised with the news that a near\nrelative is dead and left her a large some of money." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "offer-of-marriage", "title": "Offer of Marriage", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "aliases": [ "offer of marriage" ], "status": "REVIEW", "summary": "An offer of marriage can explore being invited into a shared future, the freedom to answer and the terms that make a promise understandable.", "tagline": "An invitation can matter before an answer or a settled future exists.", "psychological": "An offer of marriage in a dream can make a possible shared future arrive as a question you are expected to answer. You may feel welcomed, hurried, uncertain or pleased by the invitation itself. The proposal’s meaning depends on what is being offered and how much room you have to respond. It does not reveal another person’s intentions or require a hidden wish for marriage.\n\nThe audience can change the question. A public proposal may make celebration available while leaving less space for hesitation or discussion. A private one can feel more personal, or leave you wanting another witness to what is promised. This can resemble responding to an important offer when others already expect a particular answer. Enjoying the attention and needing time can coexist.\n\nUnclear terms create another possibility. You agree on the word marriage but discover that each participant imagines a different place, responsibility or pace. A dream can make that mismatch practical through competing plans for a home or journey. The useful subject may be how a shared future becomes understandable, rather than whether a single answer proves enough commitment.\n\nAn unexpected proposer can make the invitation unfamiliar without making it literal. A stranger or someone from a different period may offer a role you had not considered inside the scene. You might recognize a question about partnership, belonging or a wider change such as accepting work that alters daily life. The comparison remains a possibility, not a claim that every proposal disguises another offer.\n\nThe response can also remain open. Asking for time, discussing a smaller next step or declining kindly may let choice continue alongside connection. A missing answer can feel frustrating if the other participant disappears, or comfortable when the question no longer needs immediate resolution. Recent weddings, conversations or stories may provide direct imagery. These original reflections concern the act of offering and answering, distinct from the ring as an object or the wording of a vow already made. They do not predict an engagement, the success of a marriage or what decision you should make while awake.", "traditional": "Cielo’s sole Offer of Marriage passage predicts at least a year of happiness. This brief period forecast does not establish a future engagement or relationship outcome. The original reading follows the invitation, its audience, the meaning of the offer and the freedom to answer; these can change independently of a ring or ceremony.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "An invitation leaves room for an answer", "reflection": "Being offered a shared future can matter while hesitation, discussion or refusal remain meaningful choices." }, { "title": "An audience changes the conditions", "reflection": "Celebration and public expectation can accompany the same question without determining how quickly it must be answered." }, { "title": "A shared word needs understandable terms", "reflection": "Agreement can become more particular through the place, pace and responsibilities each participant imagines." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A public proposal arrives before you are ready to answer", "reflection": "An important question is surrounded by an audience expecting completion. This may picture wanting time within a moment others already treat as settled. Appreciation and hesitation can coexist without making the dreamed response proof of your wishes about a real relationship." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You enjoy the invitation but ask for a private conversation", "reflection": "The offer matters while its setting does not yet support the exchange you want. This can resemble separating appreciation from immediate agreement. Another conversation may let questions become clearer without requiring public celebration or private discussion to be the right form for everyone." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Both people say yes but imagine different shared homes", "reflection": "One answer contains different practical futures. This may picture a word whose meaning needs more explanation, such as what changes in daily responsibilities. Comparing those expectations can matter without turning the imagined difference into evidence that a real partnership cannot work." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A stranger proposes and you ask what role is being offered", "reflection": "An unfamiliar person presents an invitation whose terms are unclear. This can resemble considering a change before knowing what participation involves. The question may be useful without requiring the stranger to represent a destined partner or the scene to disclose a hidden desire." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You decline while the conversation remains respectful", "reflection": "An answer sets a limit without ending every form of contact. This may picture wanting choice to be heard within an important offer. Relief, sadness or continued warmth can shape the encounter without proving that refusal is the decision you should make while awake." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The proposer leaves before you can ask your questions", "reflection": "The invitation remains while the exchange needed to understand it becomes unavailable. This can resemble being expected to decide with incomplete terms. The unfinished scene may clarify which questions mattered, rather than predicting withdrawal or explaining the actual person’s intentions." } ], "prompts": [ "What future was offered beyond the single word marriage?", "How did the setting affect your room to answer or ask questions?", "Which terms needed more explanation before the invitation felt understandable?" ], "related": [ "marriage", "wedding", "wedding-ring", "vow", "current-romantic-partner" ], "sources": [ { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0291" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a diagnosis, prediction or another person’s states. cielo-0291 — Offer of Marriage (Dream section, heading 291; source lines 4562–4564): An offer of marriage is assigned at least a year of happiness; the exact brief forecast does not predict happiness or establish another person’s intentions." } ], "updated": "2026-10-14", "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "cielo-0291", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Offer of Marriage", "text": "Denotes happiness for at least a year.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 291; source lines 4562–4564", "lineStart": 4562, "lineEnd": 4564, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Denotes happiness for at least a year." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "offering", "title": "Offering", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To bring or make an offering, foretells that you will be cringing and hypocritical unless you cultivate higher views of duty.”", "aliases": [ "offering" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about offering stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1422", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Offering", "text": "To bring or make an offering, foretells that you will be cringing\nand hypocritical unless you cultivate higher views of duty.", "locator": "Heading 1426; source lines 16238–16243", "lineStart": 16238, "lineEnd": 16243, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To bring or make an offering, foretells that you will be cringing\nand hypocritical unless you cultivate higher views of duty." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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If he fails\nby any means to secure a desired office he will suffer keen\ndisappointment in his affairs.\n\nTo dream that you are turned out of office, signifies loss of valuables." }, { "id": "noe-0365", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Office", "text": "To dream you are turned out of\nyour office, foretells death and loss of property. If you are in love, it\nforetells want of affection in your sweetheart and misery if you marry the\npresent object of your affection.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 370; source lines 1433–1436", "lineStart": 1433, "lineEnd": 1436, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are turned out of\nyour office, foretells death and loss of property. If you are in love, it\nforetells want of affection in your sweetheart and misery if you marry the\npresent object of your affection." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11140", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Office", "heading": "Office", "text": "To be deposed from office is a dream auguring ill, and if the dreamer be sick it presages death (Artemidorus).", "lineStart": 11140, "lineEnd": 11142, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 239; NLM OCR lines 11140–11142", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11140, "lineEnd": 11142, "printedPage": 239, "printedPageEnd": 239 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Office. — To be deposed from office is a dream auguring \nill, and if the dreamer be sick it presages death (Artemidorus). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Office" }, "displayText": "To be deposed from office is a dream auguring ill, and if the dreamer be sick it presages death (Artemidorus)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "carriage" ] }, { "slug": "one-eyed", "title": "One-Eyed", "type": "dreams", "category": "Other symbols", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see one-eyed creatures in your dreams, is portentous of an over-whelming intimation of secret intriguing against your fortune and…”", "aliases": [ "one-eyed" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about one-eyed stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1432", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "One-Eyed", "text": "To see one-eyed creatures in your dreams, is portentous of an over-whelming\nintimation of secret intriguing against your fortune and happiness.", "locator": "Heading 1436; source lines 16324–16329", "lineStart": 16324, "lineEnd": 16329, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see one-eyed creatures in your dreams, is portentous of an over-whelming\nintimation of secret intriguing against your fortune and happiness." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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To gather onions, joyful news, recovery from illness and a speedy removal (Artemidorus)." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10640", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Leeks", "heading": "Leeks", "text": "See Onions.", "lineStart": 10640, "lineEnd": 10641, "kind": "cross-reference", "locator": "Printed p. 229; NLM OCR lines 10640–10641", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10640, "lineEnd": 10641, "printedPage": 229, "printedPageEnd": 229 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Leeks. — See Onions. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Leeks" }, "displayText": "See Onions." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "opal", "title": "Opal", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “A dream of deceitful security (Gypsy). The ill-luck attributed to the gem coincides with the interpretation.”", "aliases": [ "opal" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about opal stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. 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The ill-luck attributed to the gem coincides with the interpretation.", "lineStart": 11167, "lineEnd": 11169, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 239; NLM OCR lines 11167–11169", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11167, "lineEnd": 11169, "printedPage": 239, "printedPageEnd": 239 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Opal. — A dream of deceitful security (Gypsy). The ill- \nluck attributed to the gem coincides with the interpretation. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-retain-hyphen", "before": "ill- \nluck", "after": "ill-luck", "evidenceLine": 9873 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Opal" }, "displayText": "A dream of deceitful security (Gypsy). 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This dream does not forecast profit or provide a business recommendation. It can be a way to articulate the kind of work, service, or independence you find appealing, along with the responsibility it carries.", "traditional": "Historical shop and commerce interpretations often promise gains or losses. This draft treats those predictions as historical beliefs and offers no financial meaning for the number of customers or the day’s receipts.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "The first customer asks a thoughtful question", "reflection": "What part of your offering did you most want someone to understand?" }, { "title": "Friends help arrange the space before opening", "reflection": "Which contribution made the project less solitary?" }, { "title": "You change the plan after seeing what people need", "reflection": "Did adaptation feel like compromise or discovering the real purpose?" } ], "prompts": [ "What did the business let you offer that felt personal?", "Which responsibility was exciting and which felt heavy?", "Who helped turn the idea into something usable?" ], "related": [ "business", "shop", "commerce" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia model-assisted editorial draft. Reflection questions and scenario readings are optional, individually written suggestions, not empirically validated symbol meanings. Source scope is stated with each citation. Historical comparisons identify topics, not inherited interpretations. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "opera", "title": "Opera", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of attending an opera, denotes that you will be entertained by congenial friends, and find that…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "opera" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about opera stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1434", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Opera", "text": "To dream of attending an opera, denotes that you will be entertained by\ncongenial friends, and find that your immediate affairs will be favorable.", "locator": "Heading 1438; source lines 16344–16349", "lineStart": 16344, "lineEnd": 16349, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of attending an opera, denotes that you will be entertained by\ncongenial friends, and find that your immediate affairs will be favorable." }, { "id": "fontaine-0528", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Opera", "text": "To dream of going to the opera is a sign you will travel: if you\nhear a new singer that delights you, it foretells that you will make a\nnew acquaintance on some journey: if an engaged young lady dreams of\nthe opera, her wedding journey is thus shadowed forth. 27, 55.", "locator": "Heading 528; source line 3476", "lineStart": 3476, "lineEnd": 3481, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of going to the opera is a sign you will travel: if you\nhear a new singer that delights you, it foretells that you will make a\nnew acquaintance on some journey: if an engaged young lady dreams of\nthe opera, her wedding journey is thus shadowed forth." }, { "id": "cielo-0295", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Opera", "text": "To dream of being at the opera denotes temporary pleasure.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 295; source lines 4570–4572", "lineStart": 4570, "lineEnd": 4572, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being at the opera denotes temporary pleasure." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "opium", "title": "Opium", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of opium, signifies strangers will obstruct your chances of improving your fortune, by sly and…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "opium" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about opium stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1435", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Opium", "text": "To dream of opium, signifies strangers will obstruct your chances\nof improving your fortune, by sly and seductive means.", "locator": "Heading 1439; source lines 16349–16354", "lineStart": 16349, "lineEnd": 16354, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of opium, signifies strangers will obstruct your chances\nof improving your fortune, by sly and seductive means." }, { "id": "fontaine-0529", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Opium", "text": "To dream of this drug foretells sickness and poverty: if you\nimagine that you see some one under the influence of opium, and in\ndanger of dying, it foretells a misfortune either to yourself or some\nnear relative. 64.", "locator": "Heading 529; source line 3481", "lineStart": 3481, "lineEnd": 3486, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of this drug foretells sickness and poverty: if you\nimagine that you see some one under the influence of opium, and in\ndanger of dying, it foretells a misfortune either to yourself or some\nnear relative." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1436", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Opulence", "text": "For a young woman to dream that she lives in fairy like opulence,\ndenotes that she will be deceived, and will live for a time in luxurious\nease and splendor, to find later that she is mated with shame and poverty.\nWhen young women dream that they are enjoying solid and real wealth\nand comforts, they will always wake to find some real pleasure,\nbut when abnormal or fairy-like dreams of luxury and joy seem to\nencompass them, their waking moments will be filled with disappointments;\nas the dreams are warnings, superinduced by their practicality being\nsupplanted by their excitable imagination and lazy desires, which should\nbe overcome with energy, and the replacing of practicality on her base.\nNo young woman should fill her mind with idle day dreams,\nbut energetically strive to carry forward noble ideals and thoughts,\nand promising and helpful dreams will come to her while she restores\nphysical energies in sleep.\n\n\n[142] See Wealth.", "locator": "Heading 1440; source lines 16354–16374", "lineStart": 16354, "lineEnd": 16374, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a young woman to dream that she lives in fairy like opulence,\ndenotes that she will be deceived, and will live for a time in luxurious\nease and splendor, to find later that she is mated with shame and poverty.\nWhen young women dream that they are enjoying solid and real wealth\nand comforts, they will always wake to find some real pleasure,\nbut when abnormal or fairy-like dreams of luxury and joy seem to\nencompass them, their waking moments will be filled with disappointments;\nas the dreams are warnings, superinduced by their practicality being\nsupplanted by their excitable imagination and lazy desires, which should\nbe overcome with energy, and the replacing of practicality on her base.\nNo young woman should fill her mind with idle day dreams,\nbut energetically strive to carry forward noble ideals and thoughts,\nand promising and helpful dreams will come to her while she restores\nphysical energies in sleep. See Wealth." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "wealth" ] }, { "slug": "orang-utang", "title": "Orang-utang", "type": "dreams", "category": "Other symbols", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of an orang-utang, denotes that some person is falsely using your influence to further selfish schemes.”", "aliases": [ "orang-utang" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about orang-utang stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1438", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Orang-utang", "text": "To dream of an orang-utang, denotes that some person is\nfalsely using your influence to further selfish schemes.\nFor a young woman, it portends an unfaithful lover.", "locator": "Heading 1442; source lines 16392–16398", "lineStart": 16392, "lineEnd": 16398, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of an orang-utang, denotes that some person is\nfalsely using your influence to further selfish schemes.\nFor a young woman, it portends an unfaithful lover." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "orange", "title": "Orange", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "summary": "An orange fruit may bring access, sharing, taste or the effort of preparation into view. What you do with it gives the scene its direction.", "tagline": "Peeling, portions and taste make the fruit a practical encounter.", "aliases": [ "orange", "oranges" ], "status": "REVIEW", "psychological": "An orange fruit can make access to something desirable a small, practical task. You may have to peel it, divide it, choose one from a group or reach fruit that is out of hand. These actions give the dream more direction than the fruit’s appearance alone. The scene may concern the effort before enjoyment, the way something is shared or the difference between an inviting expectation and a particular experience.\n\n Peeling gives access a visible process. A skin that opens easily differs from one that remains intact despite your effort, or from fruit that is already prepared by someone else. A waking comparison might be a useful opportunity with several preliminary steps, a task made easier by another person or a result whose preparation takes more time than you expected. What you can change about the process helps distinguish inconvenience from feeling blocked.\n\n The segments can make sharing concrete. Dividing one orange among several people may require you to choose a fair arrangement when the pieces do not match the number of recipients. Asking about preferences, finding another fruit or keeping a portion for yourself creates different possibilities. The scene may resemble allocating time, attention or a small resource without assuming that every person needs an identical share.\n\n Taste can complicate presentation. Beautiful fruit that disappoints when opened may bring expectation and experience apart; an ordinary-looking orange that you enjoy can reverse that movement. The dream may explore how you judge an offer, what information you have before accepting it and how freely you can respond afterward. A taste in a dream can also connect to a particular remembered meal, person or place.\n\n Movement and reach add their own circumstances. Fruit rolling away, arriving at the wrong place or remaining high on a tree can turn choosing into a question of timing or access. Whether you wait, ask for help, take another orange or let it go affects the scene’s meaning. This page concerns fruit being handled, grown, offered or eaten; an orange appearance on a wall or light belongs to a different color encounter.", "traditional": "The five fruit accounts disagree. Miller contrasts ripe trees with adverse forecasts about eating or slipping on peel; Fontaine assigns health to eating and esteem to sharing. Noe gives cutting oranges a grief forecast, while Cielo makes eating a sign of amusement. Craig records a tears/anxiety claim under a broad period label and explicitly calls the symbolism obscure. These conflicting period claims concern fruit; they establish neither waking outcomes nor a meaning for the hue.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Preparation and access", "reflection": "Peeling or reaching an orange may make the work before an experience tangible. The ease of preparation and the help available can distinguish a manageable preliminary task from an encounter in which the desired result keeps remaining out of reach." }, { "title": "A share that fits the people", "reflection": "The fruit’s segments can make a limited resource easy to count and divide. Different preferences or uneven portions may let the dream explore fairness as a negotiated arrangement rather than an automatic requirement that every share be identical." }, { "title": "Appearance followed by experience", "reflection": "The difference between how an orange looks and how it tastes can bring expectation into contact with direct experience. Your ability to keep, decline or choose another fruit gives the scene a practical response to that difference." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "The peel opens but leaves the fruit inaccessible", "reflection": "You complete what seemed to be the necessary preparation, yet another layer or barrier remains. The scene may resemble a task whose requirements keep extending. Asking for a different method or choosing another fruit can make access negotiable rather than dependent on endless effort." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "One orange must be divided among several people", "reflection": "The segments do not match the number of people waiting. Asking what each person wants or finding a different arrangement may make sharing more workable than counting alone. The scene can explore how a limited contribution is distributed while leaving room for your own share." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Beautiful fruit has a disappointing taste", "reflection": "The appearance promised an experience that the taste does not provide. Your response matters: continuing out of politeness differs from setting it aside or explaining the mismatch. This may resemble deciding how to respond after an appealing offer has become a more particular experience." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Oranges roll from a bag toward the wrong recipient", "reflection": "The fruit is available, but its movement complicates who receives it and when. Gathering it or allowing someone else to help can turn a simple delivery into coordination. The scene may resemble an intention that needs a clearer practical route before it reaches the intended person." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A chosen orange is high on a tree", "reflection": "You can identify the fruit you want but cannot reach it by the method available. Waiting, requesting help or selecting another orange can give the scene different relationships to a preference. Recognition of a desirable option does not settle how much effort access should require." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "An ordinary orange recalls a particular meal", "reflection": "Taste or preparation brings a specific place or person into the dream while the present setting remains different. The fruit may carry a small connection with that experience. Whether you share the association, keep it private or continue eating can shape how memory joins the current encounter." } ], "prompts": [ "What did preparing or reaching the orange require, and what choices became available?", "How did the arrangement of portions fit the people involved, including you?", "What changed between the fruit’s appearance, your expectation and the experience of it?" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1437" ], "scope": "Attributed historical fruit context only. Oranges, miller-1437, contrasts favorable ripe-tree forecasts with adverse eating forecasts, modifies the latter for flavor, gives a high fruit a spouse-choice forecast, assigns a death forecast to slipping on peel, and a profit forecast to a spouse-requested purchase. All are period claims, not real health, death, relationship or financial conclusions. No hue interpretation is supported." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0530" ], "scope": "Attributed historical fruit context only. Orange, fontaine-0530, assigns gold to abundance, health to eating, esteem to giving fruit to friends, and fortune in marriage to a lover’s gift. These are period forecasts, not support for the original psychological reading or an orange-hue interpretation." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0372" ], "scope": "Attributed historical fruit context only. Oranges, noe-0372, assigns wounds, grief and vexation to seeing and cutting fruit regardless of ripeness. The claim is preserved as A. H. Noe’s period writing, not evidence about real injuries or events and not a hue meaning." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0296" ], "scope": "Attributed historical fruit context only. Orange, cielo-0296, assigns coming amusement to eating an orange. It is an attributed period forecast, not support for a personal outcome, the original psychological reading or a hue interpretation." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L11170" ], "scope": "Attributed historical fruit context only. Oranges, craig-1918:L11170, records tears and anxiety under the book’s broad period label “Gypsy” and explicitly calls the symbolism obscure. Retain the original wording and attribution without presenting the label as evidence of a community-wide tradition, a modern cultural rule or a prediction. No hue claim is supplied." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "related": [ "fruit", "eating", "orchard", "orange-color", "orange-blossoms" ], "updated": "2026-10-13", "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1437", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Oranges", "text": "Seeing a number of orange trees in a healthy condition, bearing ripe fruit,\nis a sign of health and prosperous surroundings.\n\nTo eat oranges is signally bad. Sickness of friends or relatives\nwill be a source of worry to you. Dissatisfaction will pervade\nthe atmosphere in business circles. If they are fine and\nwell-flavored, there will be a slight abatement of ill luck.\nA young woman is likely to lose her lover, if she dreams of\neating oranges. If she dreams of seeing a fine one pitched up high,\nshe will be discreet in choosing a husband from many lovers.\n\nTo slip on an orange peel, foretells the death of a relative.\n\nTo buy oranges at your wife's solicitation, and she eats them, denotes that\nunpleasant complications will resolve themselves into profit.", "locator": "Heading 1441; source lines 16374–16392", "lineStart": 16374, "lineEnd": 16392, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Seeing a number of orange trees in a healthy condition, bearing ripe fruit,\nis a sign of health and prosperous surroundings.\n\nTo eat oranges is signally bad. Sickness of friends or relatives\nwill be a source of worry to you. Dissatisfaction will pervade\nthe atmosphere in business circles. If they are fine and\nwell-flavored, there will be a slight abatement of ill luck.\nA young woman is likely to lose her lover, if she dreams of\neating oranges. If she dreams of seeing a fine one pitched up high,\nshe will be discreet in choosing a husband from many lovers.\n\nTo slip on an orange peel, foretells the death of a relative.\n\nTo buy oranges at your wife's solicitation, and she eats them, denotes that\nunpleasant complications will resolve themselves into profit.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Oranges” is shown on the Orange page: singular/plural" }, { "id": "fontaine-0530", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Orange", "text": "To dream of having an abundance of oranges, shadows forth that\nyou will get just so much yellow gold: if you dream of eating them, it\npromises you health: if you give them to friends, it foretells that you\nwill be honored and esteemed: if a girl dreams that her lover presents\nher with fine-looking oranges, he will undoubtedly bring her a fortune\nwhen she marries. 3, 12, 36.", "locator": "Heading 530; source line 3486", "lineStart": 3486, "lineEnd": 3493, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of having an abundance of oranges, shadows forth that\nyou will get just so much yellow gold: if you dream of eating them, it\npromises you health: if you give them to friends, it foretells that you\nwill be honored and esteemed: if a girl dreams that her lover presents\nher with fine-looking oranges, he will undoubtedly bring her a fortune\nwhen she marries." }, { "id": "noe-0372", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Oranges", "text": "Dreaming that you see and cut oranges, signifies wounds, grief\nand vexation, whether they be ripe or not.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 378; source lines 1455–1456", "lineStart": 1455, "lineEnd": 1456, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Dreaming that you see and cut oranges, signifies wounds, grief\nand vexation, whether they be ripe or not.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Oranges” is shown on the Orange page: singular/plural" }, { "id": "cielo-0296", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Orange", "text": "To eat an orange is a sign of coming amusement.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 296; source lines 4572–4574", "lineStart": 4572, "lineEnd": 4574, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To eat an orange is a sign of coming amusement." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11170", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Oranges", "heading": "Oranges", "text": "A dream of tears, anxiety (Gypsy). Symbolism obscure.", "lineStart": 11170, "lineEnd": 11172, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 239; NLM OCR lines 11170–11172", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11170, "lineEnd": 11172, "printedPage": 239, "printedPageEnd": 239 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Oranges. — A dream of tears, anxiety (Gypsy). Symbolism \nobscure. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Oranges" }, "displayText": "A dream of tears, anxiety (Gypsy). Symbolism obscure.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Oranges” is shown on the Orange page: singular/plural" } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "orange-color", "title": "Orange (color)", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "Visibility can invite attention before the message is understood.", "summary": "An orange hue can explore being visibly invited into an activity, the terms of chosen attention and a vivid appearance whose message is still unclear.", "aliases": [ "orange color", "orange colour", "the color orange", "the colour orange" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "An orange-colored hallway leading toward a shared activity can picture a transition becoming conspicuous before you join it. A new team, an invitation or a project moving into public view may offer a parallel. The route can feel welcoming when the appearance belongs to an occasion you want. If it seems too insistent, the same scene may concern attention arriving before you have decided what participation will involve. This is a response to the particular dreamed setting, not an effect that orange must have on everyone.\n\nChoosing orange and then wishing to make it less visible can bring preference and exposure apart. You may like an idea in private while feeling uncertain about the attention its presentation receives. A brightly presented proposal or personal choice shared with a group could fit. Changing the shade can be an adjustment in how much is shown rather than a rejection of the original interest.\n\nAn orange tint making an unfamiliar place resemble a remembered room can give appearance a personal history. A kitchen, a poster or an earlier gathering may shape whether the new setting feels welcome. That resemblance does not make the whole place equivalent to the memory. It can offer a recognizable point while other conditions remain unfamiliar and available for discovery.\n\nA small orange rectangle drawing attention within a complicated picture can make selection concrete. One overlooked task or contribution becomes easier to notice when it receives a distinct place. If the mark draws attention away from what you wanted understood, the problem can concern how emphasis was assigned. Being seen and being understood need not arrive together.\n\nAn orange-colored banner with an unreadable message makes that gap especially clear. Something has gained visibility without providing usable information. A public announcement or confident-looking plan may have a similar structure. A hue remaining unchanged while the object’s purpose changes can instead make appearance insufficient to explain the encounter. Paint, fabric, lighting or a recent image may supply direct context. These original readings concern a visual hue; fruit, traffic behavior and physical materials have their own actions and settings.", "traditional": "These reflections concern orange as a noticed visual hue. Eating, peeling or offering an orange involves a fruit and a different encounter. No fruit forecast is used to define the color, and the general sleep reference does not validate a fixed emotional, warning or fortune meaning.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "An invitation becomes conspicuous", "reflection": "A noticeable route can bring an activity into attention before participation is settled. Welcome visibility and unwanted pressure give the same appearance different terms." }, { "title": "Preference and exposure", "reflection": "Choosing a hue does not require wanting every degree of attention that follows. Adjusting its presentation may preserve the interest while changing how publicly it is encountered." }, { "title": "Visible does not yet mean understood", "reflection": "An emphasized detail or unreadable message can separate attention from usable information. The scene may center the account needed after something becomes noticeable." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "An orange-colored hallway leads to a shared activity", "reflection": "The approach becomes noticeable before the encounter begins. This may picture an invitation or role entering public attention. Welcome anticipation differs from feeling hurried into participation; the route matters through whether you can discover its terms before joining the activity." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You choose orange but want less attention afterward", "reflection": "A preferred appearance produces a response larger than you wanted. This can fit sharing an idea that feels right privately. Adjusting how it is shown may make participation comfortable without requiring you to abandon the original preference or treat the attention as praise." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "An orange tint recalls a room from another time", "reflection": "A new place gains one personally familiar detail. This may picture recognition making a transition more approachable. Comfort or unease depends on that particular memory; the resemblance need not make the new setting reproduce every part of the earlier experience." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A small orange rectangle draws attention in a complicated picture", "reflection": "One part becomes easier to find among many details. This can resemble a contribution receiving a distinct place in shared work. Useful emphasis differs from attention diverted away from the central purpose; the arrangement gives the mark its value." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The color remains while the object’s purpose changes", "reflection": "A familiar appearance no longer supplies the same account of what is available. This may picture a role or routine acquiring another use. Discovering its actual function can matter more than assuming that a recognizable presentation means the encounter has stayed unchanged." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "An orange-colored banner has an unreadable message", "reflection": "Visibility arrives without the information needed to respond. This can resemble a confident announcement whose practical terms remain unclear. An explanation changes the encounter more directly than making the display still more conspicuous, without identifying any fixed meaning in the hue." } ], "prompts": [ "What made the visible invitation welcome, insistent or uncertain?", "How much attention did I want the chosen appearance to receive?", "What information was still needed after something became noticeable?" ], "related": [ "colors", "orange", "light", "paint-and-painting" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "detectionAliases": [ "orange color", "orange colour", "the color orange", "the colour orange" ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "orange-blossoms", "title": "Orange Blossoms", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Cielo wrote: “To see or wear orange blossoms foretells a wedding.”", "aliases": [ "orange blossoms" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about orange blossoms stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "cielo-0297", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Orange Blossoms", "text": "To see or wear orange blossoms foretells\n a wedding.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 297; source lines 4574–4577", "lineStart": 4574, "lineEnd": 4577, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see or wear orange blossoms foretells\na wedding." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "orator", "title": "Orator", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Being under the spell of an orator's eloquence, denotes that you will heed the voice of flattery to your own detriment, as you will be…”", "aliases": [ "orator" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about orator stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1439", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Orator", "text": "Being under the spell of an orator's eloquence, denotes that\nyou will heed the voice of flattery to your own detriment,\nas you will be persuaded into offering aid to unworthy people.\n\nIf a young woman falls in love with an orator, it is proof that in her loves\nshe will be affected by outward show.", "locator": "Heading 1443; source lines 16398–16407", "lineStart": 16398, "lineEnd": 16407, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Being under the spell of an orator's eloquence, denotes that\nyou will heed the voice of flattery to your own detriment,\nas you will be persuaded into offering aid to unworthy people.\n\nIf a young woman falls in love with an orator, it is proof that in her loves\nshe will be affected by outward show." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "orca", "title": "Orca", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "summary": "An orca can explore recognition at a distance, belonging within a moving group, and the difference between observing and joining a journey.", "tagline": "Belonging can keep its own course.", "aliases": [ "orca", "orcas", "killer whale", "killer whales" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "An orca traveling beside a small boat can picture two participants sharing a route under very different conditions. You may move in company without having the same resources, experience, or freedom of movement. A new team, an established community, or a friendship across changing circumstances may offer parallels. The scene can feel companionable even when the difference in scale remains obvious. If you feel unable to communicate, shared direction may not be enough to make participation feel understood.\n\nOne animal separating from a group can make belonging and personal direction visible together. A change of role may require a path different from the people who made it familiar, or a shared undertaking may produce priorities that no longer align. Separation can feel chosen, uncertain, or regrettable. The image does not prove rejection. Returning to the group and continuing independently create different possibilities without establishing which is the correct waking choice.\n\nRecognizing a distant shape only when it approaches can picture uncertainty about what kind of company or demand is arriving. An unfamiliar invitation may become concrete once its terms are explained. A known pattern of color, movement, or sound can make the encounter feel personally recognizable rather than generically impressive. Direct information can therefore change your relationship with the scene even if its scale remains substantial.\n\nA barrier that permits seeing but prevents joining can make observation feel incomplete. You may understand a process while lacking access to participate, or value a connection available only through a restricted arrangement. If the separation is welcome, it may instead let you appreciate something without accepting all its demands. The important difference concerns the participation you wanted, not a rule that boundaries should always be removed.\n\nAn impossible indoor encounter can bring a large external interest into private life. A remembered call after the animal disappears can preserve connection without continuous contact. Film, photographs, marine imagery, or a personal visit may supply the figure directly. The name killer whale does not establish aggression or identify a dangerous person; the dream’s actual movement and relationships provide the usable context.", "traditional": "No directly matching historical account is attached for this specific topic. The readings here are original reflective possibilities. The NINDS source provides general background about dreams, not evidence for these symbolic comparisons.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Company under different conditions", "reflection": "A shared route can include unequal scale or resources without removing the possibility of companionship." }, { "title": "Belonging and direction", "reflection": "Leaving a group can involve independent priorities as well as uncertainty, without proving rejection." }, { "title": "Observation versus participation", "reflection": "A boundary’s meaning depends on whether it supports the contact you want or prevents it." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "An orca travels beside a small boat", "reflection": "Two participants move together through different conditions. This can picture cooperation across unequal resources or experience. Shared direction feels more complete when your own contribution is recognized; simple proximity may leave you uncertain about whether the journey is actually shared." }, { "title": "One animal leaves a moving group", "reflection": "A separate course appears within an established connection. This may fit a change of role or priority. Chosen departure differs from losing contact unwillingly, and the scene does not establish that independence requires rejecting the group’s earlier importance." }, { "title": "A distant shape becomes recognizable", "reflection": "A general expectation gains a particular identity. This can resemble learning enough about an invitation or demand to choose your response. Recognition may bring comfort or renewed uncertainty without proving that your first impression was a reliable assessment." }, { "title": "An orca fills a familiar room with water", "reflection": "A large outside interest transforms private conditions. This may picture an undertaking entering daily life more fully than expected. Fascination and inconvenience can coexist when something valued needs more room than the routine originally allowed for it." }, { "title": "A barrier prevents the encounter you want", "reflection": "Seeing is possible while joining remains unavailable. This can fit understanding a community or process without the access needed to participate. A welcome limit creates a different reading from a restriction that keeps a valued experience permanently out of reach." }, { "title": "A familiar call remains after it disappears", "reflection": "Contact becomes intermittent rather than fully absent. This may picture a connection carried through memory or brief exchanges. Waiting anxiously for its return differs from feeling supported by what remains, without revealing another person’s actual intentions." } ], "prompts": [ "What makes a shared route feel like genuine participation?", "How does a separate direction affect your sense of belonging?", "Which boundary supports your chosen involvement, and which prevents it?" ], "related": [ "whale", "dolphin", "ocean", "boat" ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "orchard", "title": "Orchard", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "5 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Dreaming of passing through leaving and blossoming orchards with your sweetheart, omens a delightful…” Compare 5 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "orchard", "orchards" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about orchard stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1440", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Orchard", "text": "Dreaming of passing through leaving and blossoming orchards\nwith your sweetheart, omens a delightful consummation of a\nlong courtship. If the orchard is filled with ripening fruit,\nit denotes recompense for faithful service to those under masters,\nand full fruition of designs for the leaders of enterprises.\nHappy homes, with loyal husbands and obedient children, for wives.\n\nIf you are in an orchard and see hogs eating the fallen fruit,\nit is a sign that you will lose property in trying to claim\nwhat are not really your own belongings.\n\nTo gather the ripe fruit, is a happy omen of plenty to all classes.\n\nOrchards infested with blight, denotes a miserable existence,\namid joy and wealth.\n\nTo be caught in brambles, while passing through an orchard,\nwarns you of a jealous rival, or, if married, a private but large\nrow with your partner.\n\nIf you dream of seeing a barren orchard, opportunities to rise\nto higher stations in life will be ignored.\n\nIf you see one robbed of its verdure by seeming winter, it denotes that you\nhave been careless of the future in the enjoyment of the present.\n\nTo see a storm-swept orchard, brings an unwelcome guest, or duties.", "locator": "Heading 1444; source lines 16407–16437", "lineStart": 16407, "lineEnd": 16437, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Dreaming of passing through leaving and blossoming orchards\nwith your sweetheart, omens a delightful consummation of a\nlong courtship. If the orchard is filled with ripening fruit,\nit denotes recompense for faithful service to those under masters,\nand full fruition of designs for the leaders of enterprises.\nHappy homes, with loyal husbands and obedient children, for wives.\n\nIf you are in an orchard and see hogs eating the fallen fruit,\nit is a sign that you will lose property in trying to claim\nwhat are not really your own belongings.\n\nTo gather the ripe fruit, is a happy omen of plenty to all classes.\n\nOrchards infested with blight, denotes a miserable existence,\namid joy and wealth.\n\nTo be caught in brambles, while passing through an orchard,\nwarns you of a jealous rival, or, if married, a private but large\nrow with your partner.\n\nIf you dream of seeing a barren orchard, opportunities to rise\nto higher stations in life will be ignored.\n\nIf you see one robbed of its verdure by seeming winter, it denotes that you\nhave been careless of the future in the enjoyment of the present.\n\nTo see a storm-swept orchard, brings an unwelcome guest, or duties." }, { "id": "fontaine-0531", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Orchard", "text": "If, in your dream, you imagine you are in a fine orchard, and\nthe fruit looks fair and tempting, and you eat of it, it foretells\nthat you will shortly be engaged in some pleasant adventure either of\nlove or intrigue: if you see rotten, wormy, or scraggy-looking apples,\nit shows that you will be thrown into mean and low company, much to\nyour disgrace. Such dreams are bad ones for young girls. 18, 12.", "locator": "Heading 531; source line 3493", "lineStart": 3493, "lineEnd": 3500, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If, in your dream, you imagine you are in a fine orchard, and\nthe fruit looks fair and tempting, and you eat of it, it foretells\nthat you will shortly be engaged in some pleasant adventure either of\nlove or intrigue: if you see rotten, wormy, or scraggy-looking apples,\nit shows that you will be thrown into mean and low company, much to\nyour disgrace. Such dreams are bad ones for young girls." }, { "id": "noe-0374", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Orchard", "text": "To dream that you\nare in an orchard, denotes that you will become rich, that you will marry\nmuch to your advantage. For a married person to dream of being in an\norchard, shows an increase of children, who will become rich and live\nhappy. In love, it denotes affection and constancy in your sweetheart.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 380; source lines 1457–1462", "lineStart": 1457, "lineEnd": 1462, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you\nare in an orchard, denotes that you will become rich, that you will marry\nmuch to your advantage. For a married person to dream of being in an\norchard, shows an increase of children, who will become rich and live\nhappy. In love, it denotes affection and constancy in your sweetheart." }, { "id": "cielo-0298", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Orchard", "text": "To see or be in an orchard signifies a successful\n business deal.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 298; source lines 4577–4580", "lineStart": 4577, "lineEnd": 4580, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see or be in an orchard signifies a successful\nbusiness deal." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11173", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Orchards", "heading": "Orchards", "text": "Orchards in fruit is a dream of abundance; fountains therein, pleasure and great wit. Barren trees bear a contrary meaning (Artemidorus).", "lineStart": 11173, "lineEnd": 11176, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 239; NLM OCR lines 11173–11176", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11173, "lineEnd": 11176, "printedPage": 239, "printedPageEnd": 239 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Orchards. — Orchards in fruit is a dream of abundance; \nfountains therein, pleasure and great wit. Barren trees bear \na contrary meaning (Artemidorus). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Orchards" }, "displayText": "Orchards in fruit is a dream of abundance; fountains therein, pleasure and great wit. Barren trees bear a contrary meaning (Artemidorus)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "orchestra", "title": "Orchestra", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Belonging to an orchestra and playing, foretells pleasant entertainments, and your sweetheart will be faithful and cultivated.”", "aliases": [ "orchestra" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about orchestra stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1441", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Orchestra", "text": "Belonging to an orchestra and playing, foretells pleasant entertainments,\nand your sweetheart will be faithful and cultivated.\n\nTo hear the music of an orchestra, denotes that the knowledge\nof humanity will at all times prove you to be a much-liked person,\nand favors will fall unstintedly upon you.", "locator": "Heading 1445; source lines 16437–16446", "lineStart": 16437, "lineEnd": 16446, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Belonging to an orchestra and playing, foretells pleasant entertainments,\nand your sweetheart will be faithful and cultivated.\n\nTo hear the music of an orchestra, denotes that the knowledge\nof humanity will at all times prove you to be a much-liked person,\nand favors will fall unstintedly upon you." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "organ", "title": "Organ", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To hear the pealing forth of an organ in grand anthems, signifies lasting friendships and well-grounded…” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "organ" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about organ stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1442", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Organ", "text": "To hear the pealing forth of an organ in grand anthems,\nsignifies lasting friendships and well-grounded fortune.\n\nTo see an organ in a church, denotes despairing separation of families,\nand death, perhaps, for some of them.\n\nIf you dream of rendering harmonious music on an organ,\nyou will be fortunate in the way to worldly comfort, and much\nsocial distinction will be given you.\n\nTo hear doleful singing and organ accompaniment, denotes you are nearing\na wearisome task, and probable loss of friends or position.", "locator": "Heading 1446; source lines 16446–16461", "lineStart": 16446, "lineEnd": 16461, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To hear the pealing forth of an organ in grand anthems,\nsignifies lasting friendships and well-grounded fortune.\n\nTo see an organ in a church, denotes despairing separation of families,\nand death, perhaps, for some of them.\n\nIf you dream of rendering harmonious music on an organ,\nyou will be fortunate in the way to worldly comfort, and much\nsocial distinction will be given you.\n\nTo hear doleful singing and organ accompaniment, denotes you are nearing\na wearisome task, and probable loss of friends or position." }, { "id": "fontaine-0532", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Organ", "text": "To dream of hearing the solemn and enchanting music of a church\norgan is a sad omen to young girls, as it foretells their early death:\nif a gentleman dreams this, it points to the death of some young girl\nin whom he takes an interest, and perhaps to his sweetheart, if he has\none. To imagine you hear some lively tune on a street organ is also a\nbad omen, as it foretells that you will soon attend a funeral. 55, 3.", "locator": "Heading 532; source line 3500", "lineStart": 3500, "lineEnd": 3507, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of hearing the solemn and enchanting music of a church\norgan is a sad omen to young girls, as it foretells their early death:\nif a gentleman dreams this, it points to the death of some young girl\nin whom he takes an interest, and perhaps to his sweetheart, if he has\none. To imagine you hear some lively tune on a street organ is also a\nbad omen, as it foretells that you will soon attend a funeral." }, { "id": "noe-0373", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Organ", "text": "Dreaming that you\nhear the sound of an organ, signifies joy.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 379; source lines 1456–1457", "lineStart": 1456, "lineEnd": 1457, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Dreaming that you\nhear the sound of an organ, signifies joy." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11177", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Organ", "heading": "Organ", "text": "The pealing of an organ augurs happiness and prosperity (Raphael).", "lineStart": 11177, "lineEnd": 11179, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 239; NLM OCR lines 11177–11179", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11177, "lineEnd": 11179, "printedPage": 239, "printedPageEnd": 239 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Organ. — The pealing of an organ augurs happiness and \nprosperity (Raphael). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Organ" }, "displayText": "The pealing of an organ augurs happiness and prosperity (Raphael)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "organist", "title": "Organist", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see an organist in your dreams, denotes a friend will cause you much inconvenience from hasty action.”", "aliases": [ "organist" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about organist stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1443", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Organist", "text": "To see an organist in your dreams, denotes a friend will cause you much\ninconvenience from hasty action. For a young woman to dream that she\nis an organist, foretells she will be so exacting in her love that she\nwill be threatened with desertion.", "locator": "Heading 1447; source lines 16461–16468", "lineStart": 16461, "lineEnd": 16468, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see an organist in your dreams, denotes a friend will cause you much\ninconvenience from hasty action. For a young woman to dream that she\nis an organist, foretells she will be so exacting in her love that she\nwill be threatened with desertion." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "origami", "title": "Origami", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "A form can emerge through small choices without being settled at the first fold.", "summary": "Origami dreams can explore staged change, working within a material’s limits and leaving room to try another form. The folds give the scene its action.", "aliases": [ "origami", "paper folding", "folding paper into shapes" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "Origami turns a sheet into a form through successive changes. In a dream, this can picture developing something whose next possibility depends on earlier choices. A project, explanation or changing routine may offer a parallel. The starting material remains part of the result, even when its appearance becomes unfamiliar. Transformation can feel satisfying without requiring you to create everything from nothing.\n\nA fold that opens one option and closes another can make commitment concrete. You may recognize a decision whose value includes a limit: choosing one role, method or arrangement reduces room for alternatives. The scene does not have to declare that an earlier choice was wrong. What becomes possible at the next stage may be more useful to explore than imagining a form with no constraints.\n\nInstructions can provide support until they stop fitting. A missing step may leave you waiting for guidance, or offer room to try a method of your own. This can resemble learning a process whose examples do not cover the exact task you have. Cooperation can help when another person offers a perspective without insisting that there is only one acceptable final shape.\n\nUnfolding can give revision a physical route. The marks of earlier steps may remain while you try another arrangement. This may picture changing a plan without pretending the first attempt never happened. A form that repeatedly opens on its own can instead make the difference between an imagined result and an arrangement that will remain usable visible.\n\nGiving away a handmade shape can make attention more important than polish. An imperfect object may carry the time and choices that went into it. Another person's response can be welcome or uncertain without revealing their actual opinion. Recent crafts, images or remembered paper may supply the dream directly. These original readings concern staged making and revision; no animal shape, country or cultural tradition is assigned a universal dream meaning.", "traditional": "No supplied record specifically interprets origami or paper-folding art. Paper has adjacent material-specific historical accounts, which do not establish meanings for these making scenes. The present reflections do not invent Japanese or other cultural dream lore or a symbolic rule for a particular folded shape.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A form built through stages", "reflection": "Small changes can create a result whose possibilities depend on previous steps. The scene may value a developing process rather than demand a complete plan at the beginning." }, { "title": "Revision that keeps a history", "reflection": "Unfolding can make another attempt possible while traces remain. Changing the arrangement need not require treating the earlier work as worthless or pretending it did not happen." }, { "title": "A personal contribution beyond polish", "reflection": "A handmade object can carry attention through its decisions and imperfections. Sharing it may matter through the contribution itself, rather than a standard of flawless form." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "An ordinary sheet becomes a recognizable shape", "reflection": "A recognizable shape from an ordinary sheet can picture a useful form emerging from limited resources. A new explanation or arrangement may fit. The transformation can value the starting material rather than imply that ordinary beginnings were inadequate." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A fold changes what the next step can do", "reflection": "A fold changing the next options can picture a decision that makes some routes available and limits others. The tradeoff may belong to a useful choice. A constrained next step does not automatically make the earlier commitment wrong." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "The instructions stop before the form is complete", "reflection": "Instructions ending early can resemble guidance that provides a beginning but not the whole task. A new role or project may need adaptation. The unfinished example can leave uncertainty or create room for a method that fits your purpose." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You unfold the object and try another design", "reflection": "Unfolding for another design can picture revision with a visible history. The earlier work may still inform what becomes possible. Starting again need not mean beginning with no knowledge or declaring the first attempt a failure." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A shared task uses different methods to reach similar forms", "reflection": "Different methods reaching similar forms can picture cooperation that allows more than one workable route. A shared task may not require identical habits. The likeness of the result can coexist with differences in how each person contributes." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You give away a shape whose imperfections feel personal", "reflection": "Giving an imperfect shape can picture offering something made with attention rather than waiting for flawless presentation. A personal gesture or piece of work may fit. The dreamed response does not determine the recipient’s actual feelings." } ], "prompts": [ "What did one stage make possible or limit at the next?", "What remained useful from the first attempt as I revised the form?", "What did the finished or unfinished object carry beyond its appearance?" ], "related": [ "paper", "drawing", "artist", "gift" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "ornament", "title": "Ornament", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “If you wear ornaments in dreams, you will have a flattering honor conferred upon you.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "ornament" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about ornament stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1444", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Ornament", "text": "If you wear ornaments in dreams, you will have a flattering honor\nconferred upon you.\n\nIf you receive them, you will be fortunate in undertakings.\n\nGiving them away, denotes recklessness and lavish extravagance.\n\nLosing an ornament, brings the loss either of a lover, or a good situation.", "locator": "Heading 1448; source lines 16468–16479", "lineStart": 16468, "lineEnd": 16479, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you wear ornaments in dreams, you will have a flattering honor\nconferred upon you.\n\nIf you receive them, you will be fortunate in undertakings.\n\nGiving them away, denotes recklessness and lavish extravagance.\n\nLosing an ornament, brings the loss either of a lover, or a good situation." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11180", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Ornament", "heading": "Ornament", "text": "A dream denoting want and penury through extravagance ( Raphael ) .", "lineStart": 11180, "lineEnd": 11182, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 239; NLM OCR lines 11180–11182", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11180, "lineEnd": 11182, "printedPage": 239, "printedPageEnd": 239 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Ornament. — A dream denoting want and penury through \nextravagance ( Raphael ) . \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Ornament" }, "displayText": "A dream denoting want and penury through extravagance ( Raphael )." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "orphan", "title": "Orphan", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Condoling with orphans in a dream, means that the unhappy cares of others will touch your sympathies and…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "orphan", "orphans" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about orphan stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1445", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Orphan", "text": "Condoling with orphans in a dream, means that the unhappy cares\nof others will touch your sympathies and cause you to sacrifice\nmuch personal enjoyment.\n\nIf the orphans be related to you, new duties will come into your life,\ncausing estrangement from friends ant from some person held above\nmere friendly liking.", "locator": "Heading 1449; source lines 16479–16489", "lineStart": 16479, "lineEnd": 16489, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Condoling with orphans in a dream, means that the unhappy cares\nof others will touch your sympathies and cause you to sacrifice\nmuch personal enjoyment.\n\nIf the orphans be related to you, new duties will come into your life,\ncausing estrangement from friends ant from some person held above\nmere friendly liking." }, { "id": "noe-0364", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Orphans", "text": "Whoever dreams of orphans will receive profits or riches by\nthe hand of a stranger. For a man to dream of a female orphan, denotes\nthat his wife will be rich. To dream about orphans in any way is an\nexcellent dream to both sexes.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 369; source lines 1430–1433", "lineStart": 1430, "lineEnd": 1433, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Whoever dreams of orphans will receive profits or riches by\nthe hand of a stranger. For a man to dream of a female orphan, denotes\nthat his wife will be rich. To dream about orphans in any way is an\nexcellent dream to both sexes." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "ostrich", "title": "Ostrich", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of an ostrich, denotes that you will secretly amass wealth, but at the same time maintain…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "ostrich" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about ostrich stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1446", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Ostrich", "text": "To dream of an ostrich, denotes that you will secretly amass wealth,\nbut at the same time maintain degrading intrigues with women.\n\nTo catch one, your resources will enable you to enjoy travel\nand extensive knowledge.", "locator": "Heading 1450; source lines 16489–16497", "lineStart": 16489, "lineEnd": 16497, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of an ostrich, denotes that you will secretly amass wealth,\nbut at the same time maintain degrading intrigues with women.\n\nTo catch one, your resources will enable you to enjoy travel\nand extensive knowledge." }, { "id": "cielo-0299", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Ostrich", "text": "To dream of an ostrich means failure thru vanity.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 299; source lines 4580–4582", "lineStart": 4580, "lineEnd": 4582, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of an ostrich means failure thru vanity." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11183", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Ostrich", "heading": "Ostrich", "text": "Long futile conversations are here denoted (Gypsy). Coincident with the legend of the stupidity of the ostrich.", "lineStart": 11183, "lineEnd": 11190, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 239–240; NLM OCR lines 11183–11190", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11183, "lineEnd": 11190, "printedPage": 239, "printedPageEnd": 240 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Ostrich. — Long futile conversations are here denoted \n(Gypsy). Coincident with the legend of the stupidity of the \nostrich. \n\n\n240 THE FABRIC OF DREAMS \n\n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [ { "line": 11188, "text": "240 THE FABRIC OF DREAMS " } ], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 0.99454, "secondaryHeading": "Ostrich" }, "displayText": "Long futile conversations are here denoted (Gypsy). Coincident with the legend of the stupidity of the ostrich." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "otter", "title": "Otter", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "summary": "An otter can explore play beside obligation, attention that moves between places, and participation at a pace that leaves room for you.", "tagline": "Room for play within movement.", "aliases": [ "otter" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "An otter playing beside a task you are trying to finish can picture pleasure that remains available while your attention is committed elsewhere. A lively conversation during work, an interesting distraction, or an activity you postponed until everything else is complete may offer parallels. Irritation can concern timing rather than the play itself. If you welcome the interruption, the scene may give a routine another rhythm without requiring you to abandon what still needs doing.\n\nAn object carried and set down in an unexpected place can make attention move with the animal. Something that had a settled position now becomes part of another activity. A tool shared by several people, a piece of work used in an unfamiliar way, or a personal preference entering a group can fit. Recovering the object differs from wanting to keep the whole encounter under control. Its changed placement may be the practical issue rather than a loss.\n\nDiving and emerging elsewhere can picture contact that does not remain continuously visible. A colleague moves between duties, a conversation resumes after interruptions, or progress occurs while you are focused on another part of a task. Surprise at the return can feel welcome. Repeatedly searching the same place may instead make an unchanged expectation the obstacle, especially when the scene offers evidence that movement is continuing outside that view.\n\nA group’s activity may look inviting while moving at a pace you do not want to adopt. Participation can require a different role, a shorter interval, or permission to join without matching every movement. A shared pastime or a new team may offer parallels. The difference between belonging and identical rhythm can be central: being included need not mean giving up all control over your own attention.\n\nMovement between water and shore can make involvement intermittent and chosen. A boundary you can open may let curiosity become contact, while one you prefer to keep can preserve comfortable observation. A river walk, story, photograph, or wildlife memory may also supply direct context. These readings use the imagined action of the otter rather than claims about its biological habits, fixed cheerfulness, good fortune, or the character of your acquaintances.", "traditional": "Miller forecasts happiness and good fortune from otters diving and playing in clear streams, including favorable marriage claims. Craig reports disagreeable or dangerous acquaintances as attributed Gypsy lore. The two attached passages point in different directions. They document historical writing rather than a reliable prediction of fortune, relationships, or anyone’s character.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Play and obligation", "reflection": "A welcome alternative rhythm can coexist with work, while an imposed interruption changes the relationship." }, { "title": "Contact outside a fixed view", "reflection": "Movement may continue even when attention cannot follow it continuously." }, { "title": "Participation with your own pace", "reflection": "Belonging can allow a different role or interval rather than requiring identical rhythm." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "Play interrupts your concentration", "reflection": "Another rhythm becomes visible beside a task. This may picture pleasure delayed by ongoing duties, or an interruption at an inconvenient moment. Welcome and irritation create different readings; neither feeling requires judging play or work as the better way to spend attention." }, { "title": "An object is carried to an unexpected place", "reflection": "Something familiar joins another activity and loses its settled position. This can picture work or a resource used in a new way. Recovering access differs from controlling the whole encounter; the changed location need not mean permanent loss." }, { "title": "The otter emerges away from where you watched", "reflection": "Movement continues beyond your fixed view. This may resemble progress or contact that appears in another part of a shared task. Updating your expectation creates a different response from repeatedly searching only the position where the encounter first began." }, { "title": "A group’s activity feels too fast to join", "reflection": "An inviting experience has conditions that do not fit your rhythm. This may picture wanting participation without identical pace. Another role or a shorter interval can make belonging workable rather than treating the choice as full involvement or complete exclusion." }, { "title": "Moving between shore and water changes your role", "reflection": "Your position in the encounter is not continuous or fixed. This can picture alternating involvement and observation within a shared undertaking. Chosen movement creates another relationship from being repeatedly displaced when you want to remain part of the activity." }, { "title": "You can open or keep a boundary closed", "reflection": "The distance is adjustable rather than simply imposed. This may picture curiosity whose degree of involvement you can choose. Keeping the boundary can support a comfortable encounter, while opening it can make the next step an invitation rather than an obligation." } ], "prompts": [ "What alternative rhythm becomes visible beside your obligations?", "Where does an unchanged expectation make continuing movement hard to see?", "What degree of participation would let you retain your own pace?" ], "related": [ "river", "water", "fish", "animals" ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1447" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context for this topic only. Miller predicts happiness/fortune from otters diving and playing, including marriage and spousal tenderness forecasts. Does not validate the original psychological reflections." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L11191" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context for this topic only. Craig attributes disagreeable/dangerous acquaintances to Gypsy lore, in contrast to Miller’s favorable forecast. Does not validate the original psychological reflections." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1447", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Otter", "text": "To see otters diving and sporting in limpid streams is certain\nto bring the dreamer waking happiness and good fortune.\nYou will find ideal enjoyment in an early marriage, if you\nare single; wives may expect unusual tenderness from their\nspouses after this dream.", "locator": "Heading 1451; source lines 16497–16505", "lineStart": 16497, "lineEnd": 16505, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see otters diving and sporting in limpid streams is certain\nto bring the dreamer waking happiness and good fortune.\nYou will find ideal enjoyment in an early marriage, if you\nare single; wives may expect unusual tenderness from their\nspouses after this dream." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11191", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Otter", "heading": "Otter", "text": "Disagreeable and dangerous acquaintances (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 11191, "lineEnd": 11193, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 240; NLM OCR lines 11191–11193", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11191, "lineEnd": 11193, "printedPage": 240, "printedPageEnd": 240 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Otter. — Disagreeable and dangerous acquaintances (Gyp- \nsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "Gyp- \nsy", "after": "Gypsy", "evidenceLine": 243 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Otter" }, "displayText": "Disagreeable and dangerous acquaintances (Gypsy)." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "ottoman", "title": "Ottoman", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Dreams in which you find yourself luxuriously reposing upon an ottoman, discussing the intricacies of love with your sweetheart, foretells…”", "aliases": [ "ottoman" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about ottoman stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "couch" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1448", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Ottoman", "text": "Dreams in which you find yourself luxuriously reposing upon an ottoman,\ndiscussing the intricacies of love with your sweetheart, foretells that\nenvious rivals will seek to defame you in the eyes of your affianced,\nand a hasty marriage will be advised.\n\n\n[143] See Couch.", "locator": "Heading 1452; source lines 16505–16515", "lineStart": 16505, "lineEnd": 16515, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Dreams in which you find yourself luxuriously reposing upon an ottoman,\ndiscussing the intricacies of love with your sweetheart, foretells that\nenvious rivals will seek to defame you in the eyes of your affianced,\nand a hasty marriage will be advised. See Couch." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "couch" ] }, { "slug": "ouija", "title": "Ouija", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of working on an ouija board, foretells the miscarriage of plans and unlucky partnerships.”", "aliases": [ "ouija" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about ouija stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1449", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Ouija", "text": "To dream of working on an ouija board, foretells the miscarriage of plans\nand unlucky partnerships.\n\nTo fail to work, one is ominous of complications, caused by substituting\npleasure for business.\n\nIf it writes fluently, you may expect fortunate results from\nsome well-planned enterprise.\n\nIf a negro steals it, you will meet with trials and vexations past endurance.\nTo recover it, foretells that grievances will meet a favorable adjustment.", "locator": "Heading 1453; source lines 16515–16529", "lineStart": 16515, "lineEnd": 16529, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of working on an ouija board, foretells the miscarriage of plans\nand unlucky partnerships.\n\nTo fail to work, one is ominous of complications, caused by substituting\npleasure for business.\n\nIf it writes fluently, you may expect fortunate results from\nsome well-planned enterprise.\n\nIf a negro steals it, you will meet with trials and vexations past endurance.\nTo recover it, foretells that grievances will meet a favorable adjustment." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "our-predecessors-and-successors", "title": "Our Predecessors, and Successors", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Artemidorus wrote: “PRedecessors, as Grandfathers, and other ancestors, signifie care, which shall turn to good or evill, according to the order and…”", "aliases": [ "our predecessors, and successors", "of our predecessors, and successors", "our predecessors", "successors" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about our predecessors, and successors stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "artemidorus-138", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of our Predecessors, and Successors.", "text": "PRedecessors, as Grandfathers, and other ancestors, signifie care, which shall turn to good or evill, according to the order and circumstance of our dream. Our successors being but Children, is anger and pain: being greater, signifie support.", "locator": "Book 3, encoded section 138", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "3", "displayText": "PRedecessors, as Grandfathers, and other ancestors, signifie care, which shall turn to good or evill, according to the order and circumstance of our dream. Our successors being but Children, is anger and pain: being greater, signifie support." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "outer-space", "title": "Outer space", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "aliases": [ "outer space", "space", "in outer space", "space exploration" ], "summary": "Outer space can make scale, distance, and unfamiliar conditions vivid. Notice what gave you orientation, support, or room to explore.", "tagline": "An unfamiliar environment where ordinary landmarks and limits become difficult to assume.", "psychological": "Outer space changes the environment around you more radically than a journey between familiar places. Distance may be enormous, ordinary landmarks may disappear, and movement may follow rules you do not understand. The scene can picture encountering possibilities or demands beyond an established frame of reference. Awe, curiosity, exposure, and loneliness can each belong to that experience.\n\nScale can alter how you see everyday concerns. Viewing a familiar place from far away may make a disagreement seem smaller or make a valued connection stand out. Floating near an immense planet can instead emphasize vulnerability. Notice whether distance offers perspective you welcome or removes the closeness you need; a vast setting does not create the same feeling in every dream.\n\nOrientation becomes a task when there is no obvious up, down, or path. A tether, map, voice, or visible home can provide a reference point. These details may resemble the support you seek while learning an unfamiliar system or entering a new situation. Losing orientation can express uncertainty without establishing that you lack direction in waking life.\n\nProtection also becomes visible. A suit, shelter, or companion may let you explore while remaining supported. Feeling exposed can give form to concern about encountering something unfamiliar without adequate resources. Dream conditions can be impossible, including breathing comfortably without equipment. Record those conditions as part of the imagined experience rather than as rules you must explain.\n\nExploration may bring excitement about what has no ready description. Finding an unfamiliar landscape, choosing a route, or returning toward home can show different relationships to discovery. Recent science fiction, astronomy, images, or ordinary thoughts about distance can supply the setting. These reflections concern your experience of the scene; they do not establish supernatural travel or a message from a distant world.", "traditional": "This entry offers original reflections on an unfamiliar space environment, scale, orientation, and support. No verified historical outer-space passage is supplied. The cited research gives general dream context, rather than evidence for cosmic messages, supernatural experiences, or fixed meanings attached to planets and distances.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Distance that changes perspective", "reflection": "Seeing home or a familiar landscape from far away can rearrange what feels large or important. The distance may bring relief, longing, or both. Consider which connection becomes clearer and whether the wider view helps you return to an ordinary concern differently." }, { "title": "Finding a reference in unfamiliar conditions", "reflection": "A tether, voice, map, or visible destination can organize movement when ordinary landmarks disappear. The scene may explore what helps you begin in a new setting. Support can come from another person, a remembered skill, or a reference you choose for yourself." }, { "title": "Room to explore and the need for protection", "reflection": "Curiosity and exposure can coexist in a vast environment. A suit or shelter can make exploration feel possible, while missing support may draw attention to vulnerability. Notice whether protection expands what you can do or confines you more than you wanted." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You see your home from a great distance", "reflection": "A distant view can picture both perspective and attachment. An everyday concern may seem smaller while a familiar relationship becomes especially important. Notice what you recognize from afar and whether you want to approach, remain outside, or simply observe before choosing where to move." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You float without a clear direction", "reflection": "Movement without familiar coordinates can picture entering a situation whose organizing rules are not yet clear. The drift may feel peaceful or unsettling. A voice, light, or object that gives direction can reveal what kind of reference would make the imagined exploration feel more manageable." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A tether keeps you connected to shelter", "reflection": "A visible connection can picture support that permits some independence while keeping a place of return available. Learning a new activity with guidance may feel similar. Notice the tether’s length and your response to it; the same link can feel reassuring or restrictive." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You move comfortably without a protective suit", "reflection": "Impossible comfort can make unfamiliar conditions feel surprisingly accessible. The scene might picture confidence or simple dream freedom rather than exposure. Record what you could do and whether you noticed the missing protection; your reaction offers more context than importing rules from actual space travel." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You approach an immense unfamiliar planet", "reflection": "An overwhelming destination can give shape to curiosity mixed with awareness of how much remains unknown. A new field of study or a large undertaking may offer a parallel. Notice whether you feel invited, dwarfed, cautious, or eager, and what pace you choose for approaching." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You decide to turn back toward Earth", "reflection": "Returning can picture wanting connection, familiarity, or a place to make use of what you have explored. It need not cancel the value of the journey. Notice whether departure from space feels like relief, completion, regret, or the beginning of a different relationship to home." } ], "prompts": [ "How did the scale change what felt important or close?", "Which reference helped me know where I was or where I wanted to go?", "What made exploration feel supported, exposed, or freely chosen?" ], "related": [ "moon", "flying", "spaceship", "galaxy" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia editorial entry with image-specific interpretations and six differentiated scenes. The reference supplies general dream background only. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "oven", "title": "Oven", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “For a woman to dream that her baking oven is red hot, denotes that she will be loved by her own family and…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "oven" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about oven stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "baking" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1450", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Oven", "text": "For a woman to dream that her baking oven is red hot, denotes that she will\nbe loved by her own family and friends, for her sweet and unselfish nature.\nIf she is baking, temporary disappointments await her. If the oven is broken,\nshe will undergo many vexations from children and servants.", "locator": "Heading 1454; source lines 16529–16536", "lineStart": 16529, "lineEnd": 16536, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a woman to dream that her baking oven is red hot, denotes that she will\nbe loved by her own family and friends, for her sweet and unselfish nature.\nIf she is baking, temporary disappointments await her. If the oven is broken,\nshe will undergo many vexations from children and servants." }, { "id": "fontaine-0533", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Oven", "text": "(_See Baking._)", "locator": "Heading 533; source line 3507", "lineStart": 3507, "lineEnd": 3509, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Baking.)" }, { "id": "noe-0367", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Oven", "text": "If\nyou dream that you see an oven hot, it signifies change of place.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 373; source lines 1440–1442", "lineStart": 1440, "lineEnd": 1442, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If\nyou dream that you see an oven hot, it signifies change of place." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "baking" ] }, { "slug": "over-alls", "title": "Over-alls", "type": "dreams", "category": "Other symbols", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “For a woman to dream that she sees a man wearing over-alls, she will be deceived as to the real character of her lover.”", "aliases": [ "over-alls" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about over-alls stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1452", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Over-alls", "text": "For a woman to dream that she sees a man wearing over-alls,\nshe will be deceived as to the real character of her lover.\nIf a wife, she will be deceived in her husband's frequent absence,\nand the real cause will create suspicions of his fidelity.", "locator": "Heading 1456; source lines 16543–16550", "lineStart": 16543, "lineEnd": 16550, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a woman to dream that she sees a man wearing over-alls,\nshe will be deceived as to the real character of her lover.\nIf a wife, she will be deceived in her husband's frequent absence,\nand the real cause will create suspicions of his fidelity." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "overboard", "title": "Overboard", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “To fall overboard denotes poverty, imprisonment and sickness (Raphael). Obviously an anxiety dream.”", "aliases": [ "overboard" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about overboard stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L11194", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Overboard", "heading": "Overboard", "text": "To fall overboard denotes poverty, imprisonment and sickness (Raphael). Obviously an anxiety dream.", "lineStart": 11194, "lineEnd": 11196, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 240; NLM OCR lines 11194–11196", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11194, "lineEnd": 11196, "printedPage": 240, "printedPageEnd": 240 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Overboard. — To fall overboard denotes poverty, imprison- \nment and sickness (Raphael). Obviously an anxiety dream. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "imprison- \nment", "after": "imprisonment", "evidenceLine": 8211 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Overboard" }, "displayText": "To fall overboard denotes poverty, imprisonment and sickness (Raphael). Obviously an anxiety dream." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "overcoat", "title": "Overcoat", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "summary": "An overcoat may make extra preparation, protection or restricted movement tangible. Its usefulness changes with the conditions of the journey.", "tagline": "An extra layer can help and still need adjusting as conditions change.", "aliases": [ "overcoat" ], "status": "REVIEW", "psychological": "A heavy overcoat can make the scale of preparation visible. It may allow you to cross an exposed place, yet become cumbersome in a narrow passage or unnecessary once you are indoors. The dream may explore whether an arrangement fits the conditions now, rather than whether more protection is always desirable. A waking comparison could be a procedure designed for one stage of work that remains in place after that stage has ended.\n\n Weight and reach can affect movement. Long sleeves or a trailing hem may require more attention than the journey itself, while a well-fitting layer lets you continue without constant adjustment. This can resemble carrying an extensive plan, a cautious habit or a responsibility whose practical cost becomes apparent only in use. Being able to reduce a layer gives a different experience from being required to keep it regardless of its effect.\n\n An overcoat may also give a useful place to something that needs shelter. A note kept dry or an item held close can make protection specific rather than abstract. The question becomes what the layer preserves and what the journey requires. A limited safeguard for a particular need differs from wrapping every part of the activity in the same restrictions. The dream may let an ordinary precaution remain useful without making it the whole purpose of the trip.\n\n Taking the overcoat off can mark recognition that the conditions have changed. You may find a place to hang it, remain ready for another departure or discover that somebody still expects you to wear it. A waking comparison could be leaving a demanding work role at the end of a shift, or deciding which preparations can be put aside while an encounter becomes less formal. The available choice shapes the reading.\n\n Sharing a large overcoat can introduce coordination. It may keep two people together while forcing them to move at one pace, making comfort depend on an arrangement neither can manage alone. Separate layers or a clearer route can change that relationship. This topic follows the extra outer garment and its physical demands; an ordinary coat has broader questions of carrying, ownership and continuity.", "traditional": "Miller’s Overcoat account assigns contrariness to the garment, strangers’ mistakes to borrowing one, and fulfilled wishes to a handsome new overcoat. These are period forecasts. They do not establish the reliability of a stranger or the outcome of a current plan.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Preparation fitted to conditions", "reflection": "An extra layer may be helpful in one part of a journey and cumbersome in another. The scene can explore when a precaution remains useful and when its terms can be revised." }, { "title": "The cost of carrying a layer", "reflection": "Weight, length and restricted reach can make the practical demands of an arrangement visible. A useful safeguard differs from one that requires so much attention that the intended activity becomes secondary." }, { "title": "Putting one stage aside", "reflection": "Removing or hanging the overcoat may give a demanding stage a place to end. Being able to keep it available differs from being obliged to continue wearing its conditions everywhere." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A heavy overcoat catches in a narrow passage", "reflection": "The layer suits an earlier part of the journey but makes this section difficult. Adjusting it or taking another route may explore how a careful arrangement can be adapted. The obstruction matters through the movement it prevents, rather than proving the preparation was wrong." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You arrive indoors but cannot remove the overcoat", "reflection": "The setting has changed while an earlier requirement remains attached to you. The scene may resemble a role or procedure that continues after its immediate purpose ends. Permission to put the layer aside can make rest or informal participation possible." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Two overcoats are put on for one ordinary journey", "reflection": "Extra preparation begins to duplicate itself, leaving movement harder than expected. Keeping one useful layer or asking what each is meant to do can picture clarifying precautions. The dream’s response depends on whether the second layer supplies something needed or merely repeats the first." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "An inner pocket shelters one important note", "reflection": "The garment preserves a particular item while allowing the rest of the journey to continue. This can picture a limited, purposeful safeguard. The note’s association helps make the protection specific instead of treating every part of the setting as something that must be covered." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Two people share one overcoat and struggle to walk", "reflection": "The same shelter requires an agreed pace that neither person finds automatically. Waiting, coordinating steps or finding separate layers may explore the practical terms of shared support. The arrangement can be caring while still needing adjustment to fit both participants." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The weather changes after you prepared the layer", "reflection": "You can keep the overcoat available without necessarily wearing it for the whole route. The choice may concern updating preparation when the situation develops differently. Relief, reluctance or a wish to remain ready gives the adjustment a particular relationship to uncertainty." } ], "prompts": [ "Where did the extra layer help, and where did it interfere?", "What particular need was the overcoat protecting?", "How could its terms change when the journey or setting changed?" ], "related": [ "coat", "clothes", "dressing", "rain", "shelter" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1451" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context only. miller-1451: An overcoat, a borrowed one and a handsome new one receive contrariness, strangers’ mistakes and fulfilled-wish forecasts. This citation does not validate the original psychological reflections or predict a waking outcome." } ], "updated": "2026-10-13", "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection independently reviewed for content and source scope. Historical accounts remain attributed period writing. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1451", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Overcoat", "text": "To dream of an overcoat, denotes you will suffer from contrariness,\nexhibited by others. To borrow one, foretells you will be unfortunate\nthrough mistakes made by strangers. If you see or are wearing a handsome\nnew overcoat, you will be exceedingly fortunate in realizing your wishes.", "locator": "Heading 1455; source lines 16536–16543", "lineStart": 16536, "lineEnd": 16543, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of an overcoat, denotes you will suffer from contrariness,\nexhibited by others. To borrow one, foretells you will be unfortunate\nthrough mistakes made by strangers. If you see or are wearing a handsome\nnew overcoat, you will be exceedingly fortunate in realizing your wishes." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "overflow", "title": "Overflow", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “To dream that a river, or any stream, overflows its banks and surrounds your house with water, is a sign of wealth.”", "aliases": [ "overflow" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about overflow stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "flood" ], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0534", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Overflow", "text": "(_See Flood._) To dream that a river, or any stream,\noverflows its banks and surrounds your house with water, is a sign of\nwealth; that is, you will acquire riches in proportion to the quantity\nof water around, and the ground it covers: if you fancy that any one is\ndrowned in the water, it foretells a misfortune in connection with your\nriches. 9, 66, 18.", "locator": "Heading 534; source line 3509", "lineStart": 3509, "lineEnd": 3516, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Flood.) To dream that a river, or any stream,\noverflows its banks and surrounds your house with water, is a sign of\nwealth; that is, you will acquire riches in proportion to the quantity\nof water around, and the ground it covers: if you fancy that any one is\ndrowned in the water, it foretells a misfortune in connection with your\nriches." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "flood" ] }, { "slug": "overturned", "title": "Overturned", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “If a woman dreams she be overturned while riding, it is ominous that she shall be greatly distressed for a short time.”", "aliases": [ "overturned" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about overturned stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "noe-0363", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Overturned", "text": "If a woman\ndreams she be overturned while riding, it is ominous that she shall be\ngreatly distressed for a short time. For a man to have this dream, denotes\nthat some animal to which he is attached will sicken and perhaps die.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 368; source lines 1426–1430", "lineStart": 1426, "lineEnd": 1430, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If a woman\ndreams she be overturned while riding, it is ominous that she shall be\ngreatly distressed for a short time. For a man to have this dream, denotes\nthat some animal to which he is attached will sicken and perhaps die." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "owl", "title": "Owl", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "aliases": [ "owl" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "summary": "An owl can explore being observed, trying to locate an unclear sound, or revising an encounter shaped by an expectation.", "tagline": "Being seen and having enough information can become different questions.", "psychological": "An owl watching from the far side of a room can picture an audience whose response remains difficult to read. You may feel noticed without knowing whether anything is expected. Presenting work to a quiet group or entering an unfamiliar household can offer parallels. Moving closer may make contact possible, while wanting the owl to look away can make privacy the more important need. Its gaze does not reveal someone else’s judgment.\n\nHearing an owl beyond a wall can turn an indistinct concern into a question of location. A sound interrupts what you are doing, but you cannot yet identify where to respond. This may fit an unanswered request, a conversation overheard incompletely or a task that keeps drawing attention without enough information. Discovering the source changes the encounter from anticipating an unknown demand to meeting something particular.\n\nAn owl in a dark room can make the urge to understand visible. Turning on a lamp may reveal the surroundings without explaining why the visitor is there. You might recognize having more facts about a situation while still lacking an account of your role. If darkness feels comfortable, illumination can instead be an interruption of a quiet encounter you wanted to preserve. Neither setting gives the bird a fixed threatening or wise character.\n\nAn owl appearing during an ordinary daytime errand can challenge an expectation about where an image belongs. The surprise may resemble an unfamiliar interest entering a routine, or a person being encountered outside their established role. An imagined owl from a book can carry an association with study or a story, but the dream may let that association change when the creature acts differently from the picture.\n\nA motionless owl stepping down to cross your path makes observation become action. You may have organized the scene around being watched and now need to share space with a moving visitor. That shift can fit a relationship whose practical terms become clearer through an ordinary task. A recent picture, remembered call or personal experience can also explain the image directly. The readings depend on the encounter you remember rather than a species-based code.", "traditional": "Miller and Noe give adverse health, death, enemy and other forecasts; Fontaine distinguishes a roosting owl from one flying through secret-related claims, while Cielo also predicts revelations. Craig reports several omens and attributed cultural associations. These five passages establish what those books said, not a reliable warning, a medical sign or a universal wisdom symbol.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "An unreadable audience", "reflection": "Being watched can bring contact or a wish for privacy while leaving another person’s response unknown." }, { "title": "Finding the particular source", "reflection": "Locating an unclear sound can replace anticipation with information about what actually needs attention." }, { "title": "An expectation meets action", "reflection": "A familiar image can become another encounter when its setting or behavior changes." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "An owl watches quietly from across the room", "reflection": "You are visible while the observer’s response remains unclear. This may picture presenting yourself without receiving enough feedback. Moving closer and wanting privacy give the encounter different directions; the owl’s gaze cannot establish what a real audience thinks about you." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "An owl call comes from somewhere beyond a wall", "reflection": "Attention is caught by something you cannot yet locate. This can resemble an incomplete request or overheard concern. Finding where the sound belongs may make response possible, without assuming that the call contains a warning about illness, death or another person." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A lamp reveals the room but does not explain the owl’s presence", "reflection": "More surroundings become clear while the central question remains. This may picture gaining facts without understanding your role. A useful explanation differs from additional visibility; the scene does not make darkness threatening or light a guarantee of understanding." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "An owl appears during an ordinary daytime errand", "reflection": "A surprising visitor changes the terms of a familiar routine. This can fit an interest or encounter outside its expected setting. Curiosity and inconvenience create different readings, without requiring the animal to symbolize wisdom or a hidden message." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "An owl from a book behaves differently from its illustration", "reflection": "An inherited image meets an encounter it cannot fully describe. This may picture a learned expectation becoming too narrow for what is happening now. Revising the account can leave the earlier association useful without insisting that the living scene reproduce it." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The watching owl steps down and crosses your path", "reflection": "Observation becomes a practical question of sharing space. This can resemble an audience turning into a participant in an ordinary task. Making room or waiting changes the encounter more directly than continuing to interpret the visitor solely through its earlier gaze." } ], "prompts": [ "What did being watched invite or restrict in the scene?", "Which information was missing before you could respond to the sound or presence?", "How did the actual encounter differ from the image you expected?" ], "related": [ "bird", "darkness", "light", "echo" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1453" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. miller-1453 — Owl (Heading 1457; source lines 16550–16562): Calls predict death/bad news about absent people; a dead owl predicts narrow escape from illness or death; seeing an owl predicts secret maligning or enemies." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0535" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. fontaine-0535 — Owl (Heading 535; source line 3516): Roosting predicts discovery of a personal secret; flight predicts exposure of one’s own secret." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0368" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. noe-0368 — Owl (Dream section, heading 374; source lines 1442–1444): An owl at night predicts sickness, poverty, imprisonment and a perfidious male friend." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0300" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. cielo-0300 — Owl (Dream section, heading 300; source lines 4582–4585): An owl predicts the revelation of important secrets." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L11197" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. craig-1918:L11197 — Owl (Printed p. 240; NLM OCR lines 11197–11201): Reports adverse owl/hooting lore and Roman/Christian associations; this is Craig’s attributed account, not verified cultural universality." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection independently reviewed for content and source scope. Historical accounts remain attributed period writing. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1453", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Owl", "text": "To hear the solemn, unearthly sound of the muffled voice of the owl,\nwarns dreamers that death creeps closely in the wake of health and joy.\nPrecaution should be taken that life is not ruthlessly exposed to his\nunyielding grasp. Bad tidings of the absent will surely follow this dream.\n\nTo see a dead owl, denotes a narrow escape from desperate illness or death.\n\nTo see an owl, foretells that you will be secretly maligned\nand be in danger from enemies.", "locator": "Heading 1457; source lines 16550–16562", "lineStart": 16550, "lineEnd": 16562, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To hear the solemn, unearthly sound of the muffled voice of the owl,\nwarns dreamers that death creeps closely in the wake of health and joy.\nPrecaution should be taken that life is not ruthlessly exposed to his\nunyielding grasp. Bad tidings of the absent will surely follow this dream.\n\nTo see a dead owl, denotes a narrow escape from desperate illness or death.\n\nTo see an owl, foretells that you will be secretly maligned\nand be in danger from enemies." }, { "id": "fontaine-0535", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Owl", "text": "To dream of seeing one of these birds of night in a roosting\nposition, is a sign that you will discover an important secret that\nrelates to yourself: to see an owl flying foretells that some secret of\nyour own will get out. 3.", "locator": "Heading 535; source line 3516", "lineStart": 3516, "lineEnd": 3521, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing one of these birds of night in a roosting\nposition, is a sign that you will discover an important secret that\nrelates to yourself: to see an owl flying foretells that some secret of\nyour own will get out." }, { "id": "noe-0368", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Owl", "text": "To dream of this bird at night is a bad omen. It foretells\nsickness, poverty and imprisonment. It also forewarns you some male friend\nis perfidious.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 374; source lines 1442–1444", "lineStart": 1442, "lineEnd": 1444, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of this bird at night is a bad omen. It foretells\nsickness, poverty and imprisonment. It also forewarns you some male friend\nis perfidious." }, { "id": "cielo-0300", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Owl", "text": "To dream of an owl means that important secrets\n will be revealed.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 300; source lines 4582–4585", "lineStart": 4582, "lineEnd": 4585, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of an owl means that important secrets\nwill be revealed." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11197", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Owl", "heading": "Owl", "text": "Unhappiness, sickness, discontent; the hooting of an owl in a dream denotes death (Gypsy). The Romans regarded the owl as the bird of wisdom, yet it was an evil portent ; in Christian art they symbolize mourning and desolation.", "lineStart": 11197, "lineEnd": 11201, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 240; NLM OCR lines 11197–11201", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11197, "lineEnd": 11201, "printedPage": 240, "printedPageEnd": 240 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Owl. — Unhappiness, sickness, discontent; the hooting of an \nowl in a dream denotes death (Gypsy). The Romans re- \ngarded the owl as the bird of wisdom, yet it was an evil por- \ntent ; in Christian art they symbolize mourning and desolation. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "re- \ngarded", "after": "regarded", "evidenceLine": 722 }, { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "por- \ntent", "after": "portent", "evidenceLine": 433 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Owl" }, "displayText": "Unhappiness, sickness, discontent; the hooting of an owl in a dream denotes death (Gypsy). The Romans regarded the owl as the bird of wisdom, yet it was an evil portent; in Christian art they symbolize mourning and desolation." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "own-funeral", "title": "Own funeral", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "Being remembered and being understood can feel different.", "summary": "Your own funeral can explore how a life is represented, whose acknowledgment matters, or where your own voice belongs within a farewell.", "aliases": [ "my own funeral", "own funeral", "attending my own funeral", "watching my own funeral" ], "status": "REVIEW", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-14", "psychological": "Watching your own funeral in a dream can make an imagined account of your life visible. The gathering may seem to concern you while its words, guests or arrangements feel unfamiliar. Recognition, an unfinished conversation or the wish to choose how something personal is represented can matter. The scene does not predict your death or reveal how actual people will respond to losing you.\n\nAn important person missing from the gathering can make acknowledgment feel incomplete. What you wanted their presence to add may be more useful than treating the absence as evidence of their affection. An ordinary occasion where you hoped someone would notice a contribution can offer a comparison, if it fits. A real bereavement or recent funeral also deserves room without being recast as a lesson about identity.\n\nA eulogy that describes somebody you do not recognize can separate public description from your own experience. The account might be kind yet leave out what mattered to you. This can resemble a role or history being summarized on terms you would choose differently. Wanting accuracy is distinct from wanting more praise, and the imagined audience does not establish what people actually believe about you.\n\nTrying to reassure mourners without being heard gives the encounter another form. You remain able to speak while communication does not reach its intended recipient. Being invited to address the gathering instead creates room for your voice within an occasion already organized around you. These different scenes can concern the terms of participation rather than imply an afterlife message or a need to settle every relationship.\n\nChoosing a small memento or a particular piece of music can make representation practical. You may want a detail that belongs to your lived experience rather than the formal script. Leaving the service to have an ordinary conversation can return attention to continuing company. Neither choice requires a complete reinvention or a prescribed sense of closure. The imagined ceremony, its audience and your available response shape whether the dream connects with a waking concern or simply combines familiar memories in an unusual way.", "traditional": "No historical Own funeral passage is supplied for this entry. Funeral, dying and grave dreams offer neighboring subjects, but their older forecasts are not evidence for this specific imagined ceremony. The original reflection here concerns representation, acknowledgment and participation. NINDS supplies general dream background only, not a prediction or a test of these possibilities.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "An important guest is missing from the gathering", "reflection": "A presence you expected does not become available within the ceremony. This may picture wanting a particular contribution or acknowledgment. The absence is an imagined detail, not evidence of the person’s affection, and your reason for wanting them there gives it specific meaning." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "The eulogy describes a version of you that feels unfamiliar", "reflection": "The account may sound kind while leaving out something you recognize as important. This can resemble being summarized through a role that does not fully fit. Wanting accuracy differs from wanting more praise; the speech cannot establish what actual people believe about your life." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You try to reassure mourners but your words do not reach them", "reflection": "You can speak without receiving the response the conversation needs. This may picture wanting to offer comfort or clarification on terms that are not available yet. The scene does not carry an afterlife message or prove that any real relationship is beyond repair." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You choose a personal memento instead of the planned ceremonial display", "reflection": "A small detail offers a way to represent your experience more accurately. This can picture wanting a say in what an occasion presents about you. The choice need not reject every shared tradition or require a new identity; the particular object supplies its context." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The gathering unexpectedly invites you to speak at your own service", "reflection": "An occasion organized around you makes room for your own contribution. This may resemble wanting a voice alongside other people’s descriptions. What you choose to say matters without making the imagined welcome a verdict about the real audience’s understanding or acceptance." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You leave the service and talk with a companion about an ordinary task", "reflection": "The ceremonial frame gives way to continuing company and a practical subject. This may picture wanting contact beyond an account of your life. The change need not promise complete closure or imply that a farewell was insincere; both experiences can have a place." } ], "prompts": [ "Which part of the imagined account felt accurate or incomplete?", "What did a particular guest, object or choice of words add to the occasion?", "How did the ceremony leave room for your voice or continuing company?" ], "related": [ "funeral", "dying", "grave", "mourning" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "An account of life you recognize", "reflection": "Representation can feel accurate, incomplete or unfamiliar even when its tone is kind." }, { "title": "Acknowledgment on particular terms", "reflection": "A wanted presence can concern what an encounter would add without revealing actual affection." }, { "title": "A voice within the farewell", "reflection": "Participation can include choosing a detail, speaking or returning to ordinary company." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "ox", "title": "Ox", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see a well-fed ox, signifies that you will become a leading person in your community, and receive much adulation from women.”", "aliases": [ "ox" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about ox stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "cattle" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1454", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Ox", "text": "To see a well-fed ox, signifies that you will become a leading person\nin your community, and receive much adulation from women.\n\nTo see fat oxen in green pastures, signifies fortune,\nand your rise to positions beyond your expectations.\nIf they are lean, your fortune will dwindle, and your friends\nwill fall away from you.\n\nIf you see oxen well-matched and yoked, it betokens a happy and\nwealthy marriage, or that you are already joined to your true mate.\n\nTo see a dead ox, is a sign of bereavement.\n\nIf they are drinking from a clear pond, or stream, you will possess\nsome long-desired estate, perhaps it will be in the form of a lovely\nand devoted woman. If a woman she will win the embraces of her lover.\n\n\n[144] See Cattle.", "locator": "Heading 1458; source lines 16562–16584", "lineStart": 16562, "lineEnd": 16584, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a well-fed ox, signifies that you will become a leading person\nin your community, and receive much adulation from women.\n\nTo see fat oxen in green pastures, signifies fortune,\nand your rise to positions beyond your expectations.\nIf they are lean, your fortune will dwindle, and your friends\nwill fall away from you.\n\nIf you see oxen well-matched and yoked, it betokens a happy and\nwealthy marriage, or that you are already joined to your true mate.\n\nTo see a dead ox, is a sign of bereavement.\n\nIf they are drinking from a clear pond, or stream, you will possess\nsome long-desired estate, perhaps it will be in the form of a lovely\nand devoted woman. If a woman she will win the embraces of her lover. See Cattle." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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To dream you feed oxen is a good sign, but to see\noxen go to water is a bad sign." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11202", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Oxen", "heading": "Oxen", "text": "An ox in a dream signifies the yoke of obedience; a pair of fat oxen predicts a year of plenty, lean oxen threaten scarcity and famine. Oxen plowing a field presage gain and plenty (Artemidorus). See Pharaoh's dream of the kine. The ox symbolized patience, strength and sacrifice, in Christian art.", "lineStart": 11202, "lineEnd": 11208, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 240; NLM OCR lines 11202–11208", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11202, "lineEnd": 11208, "printedPage": 240, "printedPageEnd": 240 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Oxen. — An ox in a dream signifies the yoke of obedience; \na pair of fat oxen predicts a year of plenty, lean oxen threaten \nscarcity and famine. Oxen plowing a field presage gain and \nplenty (Artemidorus). See Pharaoh's dream of the kine. The \nox symbolized patience, strength and sacrifice, in Christian \nart. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Oxen" }, "displayText": "An ox in a dream signifies the yoke of obedience; a pair of fat oxen predicts a year of plenty, lean oxen threaten scarcity and famine. Oxen plowing a field presage gain and plenty (Artemidorus). See Pharaoh's dream of the kine. The ox symbolized patience, strength and sacrifice, in Christian art." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "artemidorus-057", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of Oyntments and Paintings.", "text": "TO dreame that you are annointed, and painted, is good for all, except wicked women. For men it is ill, and signifyeth shame, except to those which are accustomed to use them, as surgeons, painters, &c.", "locator": "Book 1, encoded section 57", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "1", "displayText": "To dreame that you are annointed, and painted, is good for all, except wicked women. For men it is ill, and signifyeth shame, except to those which are accustomed to use them, as surgeons, painters, &c." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1456", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Oyster Shells", "text": "To see oyster shells in your dreams, denotes that you will be frustrated\nin your attempt to secure the fortune of another.", "locator": "Heading 1460; source lines 16595–16607", "lineStart": 16595, "lineEnd": 16607, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see oyster shells in your dreams, denotes that you will be frustrated\nin your attempt to secure the fortune of another." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11213", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Oyster-Shells", "heading": "Oyster-Shells", "text": "Empty, these signify loss, disappointment, worry (Gypsy),", "lineStart": 11213, "lineEnd": 11217, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 240; NLM OCR lines 11213–11217", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11213, "lineEnd": 11217, "printedPage": 240, "printedPageEnd": 240 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Oyster-Shells. — Empty, these signify loss, disappointment, \nworry (Gypsy), \n\nP \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [ { "line": 11216, "text": "P " } ], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Oyster-Shells" }, "displayText": "Empty, these signify loss, disappointment, worry (Gypsy),", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Oyster-Shells” is shown on the Oyster Shells page: same heading; hyphen variant" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "oysters", "title": "Oysters", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "5 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “If you dream that you eat oysters, it denotes that you will lose all sense of propriety and morality in…” Compare 5 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "oysters", "oyster" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about oysters stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1455", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Oysters", "text": "If you dream that you eat oysters, it denotes that you will lose\nall sense of propriety and morality in your pursuit of low pleasures,\nand the indulgence of an insatiate thirst for gaining.\n\nTo deal in oysters, denotes that you will not be over-modest in your mode\nof winning a sweetheart, or a fortune.\n\nTo see them, denotes easy circumstances, and many children are promised you.", "locator": "Heading 1459; source lines 16584–16595", "lineStart": 16584, "lineEnd": 16595, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream that you eat oysters, it denotes that you will lose\nall sense of propriety and morality in your pursuit of low pleasures,\nand the indulgence of an insatiate thirst for gaining.\n\nTo deal in oysters, denotes that you will not be over-modest in your mode\nof winning a sweetheart, or a fortune.\n\nTo see them, denotes easy circumstances, and many children are promised you." }, { "id": "fontaine-0537", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Oysters", "text": "If, in your dream, you imagine you are eating oysters, it\ndenotes that you will have difficulties relative to money matters: but\nto rake them out of the water is a sign of money-getting: to dream of\nopening nice fat oysters for other people to eat is also a favorable\nomen, as it shows that you will have plenty of cash. 7, 53.", "locator": "Heading 537; source line 3523", "lineStart": 3523, "lineEnd": 3529, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If, in your dream, you imagine you are eating oysters, it\ndenotes that you will have difficulties relative to money matters: but\nto rake them out of the water is a sign of money-getting: to dream of\nopening nice fat oysters for other people to eat is also a favorable\nomen, as it shows that you will have plenty of cash." }, { "id": "noe-0361", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Oysters", "text": "To dream you are eating oysters, is a very favorable omen.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 366; source lines 1421–1422", "lineStart": 1421, "lineEnd": 1422, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are eating oysters, is a very favorable omen." }, { "id": "cielo-0301", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Oyster", "text": "To dream of opening an oyster denotes honor;\n eating one foretells a feast.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 301; source lines 4585–4588", "lineStart": 4585, "lineEnd": 4588, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of opening an oyster denotes honor;\neating one foretells a feast." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11209", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Oysters", "heading": "Oysters", "text": "\"To dream of opening and eating oysters shows great hunger, or a living earned through pains and difficulty.\" Artemidorus.", "lineStart": 11209, "lineEnd": 11212, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 240; NLM OCR lines 11209–11212", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11209, "lineEnd": 11212, "printedPage": 240, "printedPageEnd": 240 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Oysters. — \"To dream of opening and eating oysters shows \ngreat hunger, or a living earned through pains and difficulty.\" \nArtemidorus. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Oysters" }, "displayText": "\"To dream of opening and eating oysters shows great hunger, or a living earned through pains and difficulty.\" Artemidorus." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "pacify", "title": "Pacify", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To endeavor to pacify suffering ones, denotes that you will be loved for your sweetness of disposition.”", "aliases": [ "pacify" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about pacify stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1457", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Pacify", "text": "To endeavor to pacify suffering ones, denotes that you will be\nloved for your sweetness of disposition. To a young woman,\nthis dream is one of promise of a devoted husband or friends.\n\nPacifying the anger of others, denotes that you will labor\nfor the advancement of others.\n\nIf a lover dreams of soothing the jealous suspicions of his sweetheart,\nhe will find that his love will be unfortunately placed.", "locator": "Heading 1461; source lines 16607–16619", "lineStart": 16607, "lineEnd": 16619, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To endeavor to pacify suffering ones, denotes that you will be\nloved for your sweetness of disposition. To a young woman,\nthis dream is one of promise of a devoted husband or friends.\n\nPacifying the anger of others, denotes that you will labor\nfor the advancement of others.\n\nIf a lover dreams of soothing the jealous suspicions of his sweetheart,\nhe will find that his love will be unfortunately placed." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "packet", "title": "Packet", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing a packet coming in, foretells that some pleasant recreation is in store for you.”", "aliases": [ "packet" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about packet stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1458", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Packet", "text": "To dream of seeing a packet coming in, foretells that some pleasant\nrecreation is in store for you.\n\nTo see one going out, you will experience slight losses and disappointments.", "locator": "Heading 1462; source lines 16619–16626", "lineStart": 16619, "lineEnd": 16626, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing a packet coming in, foretells that some pleasant\nrecreation is in store for you.\n\nTo see one going out, you will experience slight losses and disappointments." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "packing-but-never-finishing", "title": "Packing but never finishing", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "Endless packing can turn departure into a series of decisions about what must come with you and what can be left behind.", "summary": "Endless packing can turn departure into a series of decisions about what must come with you and what can be left behind.", "aliases": [ "endless packing dream", "unable to finish packing" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "Look at what kept the packing unfinished: too many possessions, a changing destination, interruptions, or the fear of choosing wrongly. Excitement and reluctance can coexist. If the dream connects with a transition, name that connection specifically rather than deciding that all luggage stands for emotional baggage. The most revealing item may be the one you repeatedly unpacked or the one somebody insisted you carry.", "traditional": "The historical luggage and journey topics do not establish a universal equation between possessions and burdens. This entry’s focus on selection and preparation is an original editorial lens, especially where modern moving or travel routines shape the scene.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "The suitcase fills faster than you can close it", "reflection": "Which items seemed essential, and who decided they had to come?" }, { "title": "You keep removing the same object", "reflection": "What competing reasons made this one choice difficult?" }, { "title": "Departure is postponed while others wait", "reflection": "Was the pressure to hurry external, self-imposed, or both?" } ], "prompts": [ "What were you preparing to leave or begin?", "Which possession carried the clearest personal association?", "What would enough preparation have looked like in the dream?" ], "related": [ "luggage", "traveling", "moving" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia model-assisted editorial draft. Reflection questions and scenario readings are optional, individually written suggestions, not empirically validated symbol meanings. Source scope is stated with each citation. Historical comparisons identify topics, not inherited interpretations. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "padlock", "title": "Padlock", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “Mysteries to be solved (Gypsy). The Christian symbol of silence.”", "aliases": [ "padlock" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about padlock stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L11218", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Padlock", "heading": "Padlock", "text": "Mysteries to be solved (Gypsy). The Christian symbol of silence.", "lineStart": 11218, "lineEnd": 11220, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 240; NLM OCR lines 11218–11220", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11218, "lineEnd": 11220, "printedPage": 240, "printedPageEnd": 240 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Padlock. — Mysteries to be solved (Gypsy). The Christian \nsymbol of silence. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Padlock" }, "displayText": "Mysteries to be solved (Gypsy). The Christian symbol of silence." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "page", "title": "Page", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see a page, denotes that you will contract a hasty union with one unsuited to you.”", "aliases": [ "page" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about page stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1459", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Page", "text": "To see a page, denotes that you will contract a hasty union with one unsuited\nto you. You will fail to control your romantic impulses.\n\nIf a young woman dreams she acts as a page, it denotes that she\nis likely to participate in some foolish escapade.", "locator": "Heading 1463; source lines 16626–16634", "lineStart": 16626, "lineEnd": 16634, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a page, denotes that you will contract a hasty union with one unsuited\nto you. You will fail to control your romantic impulses.\n\nIf a young woman dreams she acts as a page, it denotes that she\nis likely to participate in some foolish escapade." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "pagoda", "title": "Pagoda", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see a pagoda in your dreams, denotes that you will soon go on a long desired journey.”", "aliases": [ "pagoda" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about pagoda stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1460", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Pagoda", "text": "To see a pagoda in your dreams, denotes that you will soon go\non a long desired journey.\n\nIf a young woman finds herself in a pagoda with her sweetheart,\nmany unforeseen events will transpire before her union is legalized.\nAn empty one, warns her of separation from her lover.", "locator": "Heading 1464; source lines 16634–16643", "lineStart": 16634, "lineEnd": 16643, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a pagoda in your dreams, denotes that you will soon go\non a long desired journey.\n\nIf a young woman finds herself in a pagoda with her sweetheart,\nmany unforeseen events will transpire before her union is legalized.\nAn empty one, warns her of separation from her lover." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "pail", "title": "Pail", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of full pails of milk, is a sign of fair prospects and pleasant associations.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "pail" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about pail stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1461", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Pail", "text": "To dream of full pails of milk, is a sign of fair prospects\nand pleasant associations.\n\nAn empty pail is a sign of famine, or bad crops.\n\nFor a young woman to be carrying a pail, denotes household employment.", "locator": "Heading 1465; source lines 16643–16652", "lineStart": 16643, "lineEnd": 16652, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of full pails of milk, is a sign of fair prospects\nand pleasant associations.\n\nAn empty pail is a sign of famine, or bad crops.\n\nFor a young woman to be carrying a pail, denotes household employment." }, { "id": "noe-0385", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Pail", "text": "To dream of milking in a dirty pail, is not a\ngood sign.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 391; source lines 1493–1494", "lineStart": 1493, "lineEnd": 1494, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of milking in a dirty pail, is not a\ngood sign." }, { "id": "cielo-0302", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Pail", "text": "To carry a pail signifies a new acquaintance.\n If full it means gain.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 302; source lines 4588–4592", "lineStart": 4588, "lineEnd": 4592, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To carry a pail signifies a new acquaintance.\nIf full it means gain." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "pain", "title": "Pain", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are in pain, will make sure of your own unhappiness.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "pain" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about pain stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1462", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Pain", "text": "To dream that you are in pain, will make sure of your own unhappiness.\nThis dream foretells useless regrets over some trivial transaction.\n\nTo see others in pain, warns you that you are making mistakes\nin your life.", "locator": "Heading 1466; source lines 16652–16660", "lineStart": 16652, "lineEnd": 16660, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are in pain, will make sure of your own unhappiness.\nThis dream foretells useless regrets over some trivial transaction.\n\nTo see others in pain, warns you that you are making mistakes\nin your life." }, { "id": "noe-0377", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Pain", "text": "To dream you are suffering great pain from toothache, headache,\nrheumatism, or in any part or your body, denotes that you are about to\nreceive some glad tidings from one who has been long absent from you.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 383; source lines 1472–1475", "lineStart": 1472, "lineEnd": 1475, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are suffering great pain from toothache, headache,\nrheumatism, or in any part or your body, denotes that you are about to\nreceive some glad tidings from one who has been long absent from you." }, { "id": "cielo-0303", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Pain", "text": "To dream of suffering pain foretells a\n sickness and a speedy recovery.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 303; source lines 4592–4595", "lineStart": 4592, "lineEnd": 4595, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of suffering pain foretells a\nsickness and a speedy recovery." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "paintbrush", "title": "Paintbrush", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "The tool can change the mark without deciding what you want to show.", "summary": "A paintbrush dream can explore expression through a chosen tool, adjusting a method and leaving room for revision. Its stroke gives the scene a specific action.", "aliases": [ "paintbrush", "paintbrushes", "paint brush", "paint brushes" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A paintbrush puts a means of expression between an intention and a surface. In a dream, the brush's size, condition or response can make the fit between your purpose and your method visible. You may recognize explaining a complex idea with a simple format, making something personal for another person or trying a skill whose results remain uneven. The tool can help shape the mark without supplying the meaning you want it to carry.\n\nA broad brush can be useful for coverage and difficult for a small detail. A fine one may offer precision while turning a large task into repeated work. This can picture a method fitted to one purpose being used for another. A workplace process or way of communicating may feel similar. Changing the tool can be a practical adjustment rather than proof that you lacked effort or skill.\n\nUnexpected marks can invite adaptation or frustration. Bristles spread, paint runs differently or a stroke does not stay within the intended area. You might recognize a plan whose materials do not respond as imagined. Using the result can picture flexibility, while being required to make every mark exact can make the task less your own. The response to variation matters as much as the variation itself.\n\nAnother person choosing the brush before hearing your design can make help and authorship uncertain. The resource may be useful while directing the work toward their expectation. A conversation about what you intend can change that arrangement. Conversely, someone offering several methods without demanding a result can leave the decision with you.\n\nSetting the brush down before the picture is finished can picture preserving room for another stage. A small later stroke may change the whole impression without requiring everything to be remade. Recent art, decoration or remembered tools can also supply the details directly. These original possibilities concern method, choice and the relationship between a mark and its purpose, rather than assigning a fixed meaning to colors or predicting the success of a creative task.", "traditional": "Miller’s Paint and Painting passage specifically predicts satisfaction with one’s occupation from using the brush oneself. That narrow historical claim offers a comparison about performing the work personally. It does not establish a meaning for the paintbrush’s shape, a different brush, or the six imagined scenes, and its forecast is not adopted.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A method fitted to the purpose", "reflection": "The brush can make the relationship between task and technique visible. A useful adjustment may concern the tool or scale rather than asking for more effort within an unsuitable method." }, { "title": "Variation you can respond to", "reflection": "An unintended mark can become material to use or a demand to correct. The scene may distinguish flexible authorship from a standard that leaves no room for the process." }, { "title": "Help that leaves authorship intact", "reflection": "Another person’s tool choice can support or narrow your intention. Understanding the design before choosing the means may make assistance more collaborative." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A broad brush makes a task easier than a fine one", "reflection": "A broad brush making work easier can picture a method whose scale finally fits the task. A simpler explanation or shared process may offer a parallel. Ease need not mean the contribution has become less thoughtful or less yours." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "The bristles leave marks you did not intend", "reflection": "Unintended bristle marks can picture materials or methods responding differently from the plan. Adaptation may create something useful, while rigid correction can dominate the task. Your freedom to decide what remains changes the experience. Another method can help without erasing the earlier attempt." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You mix a color that fits what you wanted to show", "reflection": "A fitting mixed color can picture finding a form that communicates a particular intention. Several ideas may become useful together without losing their differences. The color’s meaning comes from the scene and your associations, rather than a universal code." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Someone chooses the brush before asking about your design", "reflection": "A tool chosen before the design can resemble help that directs the work without understanding its purpose. The resource may still be useful while its terms feel narrowing. Explaining the intention can change the collaboration." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You set down the brush while the picture is still unfinished", "reflection": "Putting the brush down before completion can picture a stage with an understood pause. A project may remain valuable without requiring a final account immediately. Chosen incompleteness differs from being prevented from making the mark you wanted." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "A small stroke changes how the whole surface looks", "reflection": "One small stroke changing the surface can picture an adjustment whose effect exceeds its size. A clearer phrase or practical change may offer a parallel. The difference can be meaningful without treating the whole earlier work as inadequate." } ], "prompts": [ "What did I want to show, and did the tool fit that purpose?", "How did I respond to a mark that differed from the plan?", "Who chose the method and what room remained for my own design?" ], "related": [ "paint-and-painting", "painting", "drawing", "artist" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." }, { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1463" ], "scope": "Adjacent comparison limited to miller-1463’s clause that using the brush oneself forecasts satisfaction with one’s occupation. Other house-painting, clothing and relationship claims in that record do not substantiate this Paintbrush page. Original record ownership remains Paint and Painting. Exact supplied record(s): miller-1463 — Paint and Painting (Heading 1467; source lines 16660–16677). Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence for the original reflection, a diagnosis or an actual outcome." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "painter", "title": "Painter", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Cielo wrote: “Denotes that your business affairs will improve.”", "aliases": [ "painter" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about painter stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "cielo-0304", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Painter", "text": "Denotes that your business affairs will improve.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 304; source lines 4595–4597", "lineStart": 4595, "lineEnd": 4597, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Denotes that your business affairs will improve." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "painting", "title": "Painting", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “To dream of painting your house is a sign of sickness in the family, but at the same time thrift and…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "painting" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about painting stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0538", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Painting", "text": "To dream of painting your house is a sign of sickness in the\nfamily, but at the same time thrift and good luck in business: if,\nin your dream, you see a white house newly painted outside, you will\nprobably soon be summoned to attend a funeral: to see any other colored\nhouse newly painted, foretells that you will hear of the sickness of\na friend or relative: dreaming of beautiful paintings of landscapes,\nportraits, &c., is an omen of bad luck and poverty. 22, 11, 5.", "locator": "Heading 538; source line 3529", "lineStart": 3529, "lineEnd": 3537, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of painting your house is a sign of sickness in the\nfamily, but at the same time thrift and good luck in business: if,\nin your dream, you see a white house newly painted outside, you will\nprobably soon be summoned to attend a funeral: to see any other colored\nhouse newly painted, foretells that you will hear of the sickness of\na friend or relative: dreaming of beautiful paintings of landscapes,\nportraits, &c., is an omen of bad luck and poverty." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11221", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Painting", "heading": "Painting", "text": "A dream of painting a house denotes sickness in the family, but thrift and luck in business ; to paint beautiful landscapes, poverty and false hopes (Gypsy). 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1464", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Palace", "text": "Wandering through a palace and noting its grandeur, signifies that your\nprospects are growing brighter and you will assume new dignity.\n\nTo see and hear fine ladies and men dancing and conversing, denotes that you\nwill engage in profitable and pleasing associations.\n\nFor a young woman of moderate means to dream that she is a\nparticipant in the entertainment, and of equal social standing\nwith others, is a sign of her advancement through marriage,\nor the generosity of relatives.\n\nThis is often a very deceitful and misleading dream to the young\nwoman of humble circumstances; as it is generally induced in such\ncases by the unhealthy day dreams of her idle, empty brain.\nShe should strive after this dream, to live by honest work,\nand restrain deceitful ambition by observing the fireside counsels\nof mother, and friends.\n\n\n[145] See Opulence.", "locator": "Heading 1468; source lines 16677–16700", "lineStart": 16677, "lineEnd": 16700, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Wandering through a palace and noting its grandeur, signifies that your\nprospects are growing brighter and you will assume new dignity.\n\nTo see and hear fine ladies and men dancing and conversing, denotes that you\nwill engage in profitable and pleasing associations.\n\nFor a young woman of moderate means to dream that she is a\nparticipant in the entertainment, and of equal social standing\nwith others, is a sign of her advancement through marriage,\nor the generosity of relatives.\n\nThis is often a very deceitful and misleading dream to the young\nwoman of humble circumstances; as it is generally induced in such\ncases by the unhealthy day dreams of her idle, empty brain.\nShe should strive after this dream, to live by honest work,\nand restrain deceitful ambition by observing the fireside counsels\nof mother, and friends. See Opulence." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11226", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Palace", "heading": "Palace", "text": "A good dream foretelling wealth and dignity (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 11226, "lineEnd": 11228, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 240; NLM OCR lines 11226–11228", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11226, "lineEnd": 11228, "printedPage": 240, "printedPageEnd": 240 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Palace. — A good dream foretelling wealth and dignity \n(Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Palace" }, "displayText": "A good dream foretelling wealth and dignity (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1465", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Palisade", "text": "To dream of the palisades, denotes that you will alter well-formed plans\nto please strangers, and by so doing, you will impair your own interests.", "locator": "Heading 1469; source lines 16700–16705", "lineStart": 16700, "lineEnd": 16705, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of the palisades, denotes that you will alter well-formed plans\nto please strangers, and by so doing, you will impair your own interests." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1467", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Pall-bearer", "text": "To dream of a pall-bearer, indicates some enemy will provoke\nyour ill feeling, by constant attacks on your integrity.\nIf you see a pall-bearer, you will antagonize worthy institutions,\nand make yourself obnoxious to friends.", "locator": "Heading 1471; source lines 16713–16720", "lineStart": 16713, "lineEnd": 16720, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a pall-bearer, indicates some enemy will provoke\nyour ill feeling, by constant attacks on your integrity.\nIf you see a pall-bearer, you will antagonize worthy institutions,\nand make yourself obnoxious to friends." }, { "id": "fontaine-0539", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Pall-Bearer", "text": "For a man to dream that he is a pall-bearer at a funeral,\ndenotes that he will be married within a year: to dream of seeing\npall-bearers, is a sign you will be invited to a wedding. 49, 6.", "locator": "Heading 539; source line 3537", "lineStart": 3537, "lineEnd": 3541, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a man to dream that he is a pall-bearer at a funeral,\ndenotes that he will be married within a year: to dream of seeing\npall-bearers, is a sign you will be invited to a wedding." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1468", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Pallet", "text": "To dream of a pallet, denotes that you will suffer temporary\nuneasiness over your love affairs. For a young woman,\nit is a sign of a jealous rival.", "locator": "Heading 1472; source lines 16720–16726", "lineStart": 16720, "lineEnd": 16726, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a pallet, denotes that you will suffer temporary\nuneasiness over your love affairs. For a young woman,\nit is a sign of a jealous rival." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "palm", "title": "Palm", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “If one dreams that he sees or smells the palm, it signifies prosperity.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "palm" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about palm stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "noe-0400", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Palm", "text": "If one dreams that he sees or\nsmells the palm, it signifies prosperity. If it be a woman that dreams so,\nshe shall bear children. If it be a maid, she will be suddenly married.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 406; source lines 1528–1531", "lineStart": 1528, "lineEnd": 1531, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If one dreams that he sees or\nsmells the palm, it signifies prosperity. If it be a woman that dreams so,\nshe shall bear children. If it be a maid, she will be suddenly married." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11232", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Palm", "heading": "Palm", "text": "A dream foretelling success and prosperity, to a woman children, to a maid marriage (Artemidorus). 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The Christian emblem of victory." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "palm-tree", "title": "Palm Tree", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Palm trees seen in your dreams, are messages of hopeful situations and happiness of a high order.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "palm tree", "palm-tree" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about palm tree stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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The Scriptural symbol for the righteous and godly.", "lineStart": 11236, "lineEnd": 11247, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 240–241; NLM OCR lines 11236–11247", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11236, "lineEnd": 11247, "printedPage": 240, "printedPageEnd": 241 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Palm-Tree. — A dream foreshadowing great joy (Gypsy). \nThe sacred tree of lower Egypt, also the Tree of Life (Egyp- \n\n\nSYMBOLISM IN DREAMS \n\n\n241 \n\n\ntian). 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1469", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Palmistry", "text": "For a young woman to dream of palmistry, foretells she will be\nthe object of suspicion.\n\nIf she has her palms read, she will have many friends\nof the opposite sex, but her own sex will condemn her.\nIf she reads others' hands, she will gain distinction by her\nintelligent bearing. If a minister's hand, she will need friends,\neven in her elevation.", "locator": "Heading 1473; source lines 16726–16737", "lineStart": 16726, "lineEnd": 16737, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a young woman to dream of palmistry, foretells she will be\nthe object of suspicion.\n\nIf she has her palms read, she will have many friends\nof the opposite sex, but her own sex will condemn her.\nIf she reads others' hands, she will gain distinction by her\nintelligent bearing. If a minister's hand, she will need friends,\neven in her elevation." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "palsy", "title": "Palsy", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are afflicted with palsy, denotes that you are making unstable contracts.”", "aliases": [ "palsy" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about palsy stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1471", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Palsy", "text": "To dream that you are afflicted with palsy, denotes that you\nare making unstable contracts.\n\nTo see your friend so afflicted, there will be uncertainty\nas to his faithfulness and sickness, too, may enter your home.\n\nFor lovers to dream that their sweethearts have palsy, signifies that\ndissatisfaction over some question will mar their happiness.", "locator": "Heading 1475; source lines 16746–16757", "lineStart": 16746, "lineEnd": 16757, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are afflicted with palsy, denotes that you\nare making unstable contracts.\n\nTo see your friend so afflicted, there will be uncertainty\nas to his faithfulness and sickness, too, may enter your home.\n\nFor lovers to dream that their sweethearts have palsy, signifies that\ndissatisfaction over some question will mar their happiness." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "pancake", "title": "Pancake", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of eating pancakes, denotes that you will have excellent success in all enterprises undertaken at…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "pancake" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about pancake stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1472", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Pancake", "text": "To dream of eating pancakes, denotes that you will have excellent\nsuccess in all enterprises undertaken at this time.\n\nTo cook them, denotes that you will be economical and thrifty\nin your home.", "locator": "Heading 1476; source lines 16757–16765", "lineStart": 16757, "lineEnd": 16765, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of eating pancakes, denotes that you will have excellent\nsuccess in all enterprises undertaken at this time.\n\nTo cook them, denotes that you will be economical and thrifty\nin your home." }, { "id": "fontaine-0540", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Pancake", "text": "(_See Thick._) For a girl to dream of baking pancakes, is\na sign that some gentleman is in love with her; and if a married\nwoman has such a dream, she may be sure that some man, other than her\nhusband, admires her; to dream of eating pancakes, foretells falling in\nlove, to either sex; and if you relish them, you will be successful in\nyour love. 36.", "locator": "Heading 540; source line 3541", "lineStart": 3541, "lineEnd": 3548, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Thick.) For a girl to dream of baking pancakes, is\na sign that some gentleman is in love with her; and if a married\nwoman has such a dream, she may be sure that some man, other than her\nhusband, admires her; to dream of eating pancakes, foretells falling in\nlove, to either sex; and if you relish them, you will be successful in\nyour love." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "panda", "title": "Panda", "type": "dreams", "kind": "modern", "category": "Animals", "aliases": [ "panda", "pandas", "giant panda", "giant pandas", "panda bear" ], "summary": "A panda may bring gentleness, strength, or a wish for a less hurried space into a dream. The encounter can also challenge a familiar comforting image.", "tagline": "A comforting image, a powerful animal, and room to move at another pace.", "psychological": "A panda can bring together qualities that do not seem to belong together: a comforting appearance and a substantial physical presence. If you approach it gladly but hesitate when it comes close, the dream may be exploring affection alongside a need for distance. This can fit a commitment you welcome but cannot treat casually, such as caring for someone or taking on a valued project. The animal gives that mixture a visible form without needing to stand for a particular person.\n\nAn unhurried panda may offer a different pace from the world around it. Watching it eat while you worry about getting somewhere can make your own urgency feel conspicuous. The contrast might concern wanting meals, rest, or an ordinary task to have enough time instead of becoming another deadline. If you are trying unsuccessfully to hurry the animal, the scene could be about expecting a process to move on your schedule. Calm observation and frustrated waiting lead to different readings.\n\nIts striking markings may also invite a personal association with clear divisions. You might encounter an animal that feels gentle and intimidating, familiar and strange, at once. The useful point would be the mixed experience, rather than a rule that black and white always represent opposites. Alternatively, the pattern may simply make a beloved toy or picture recognizable.\n\nCaring for a panda can place a reassuring image inside an unfamiliar responsibility. You may feel protective while not knowing what it needs. That could fit learning to support something without assuming warmth is sufficient knowledge. A panda from a recent film, zoo visit, or childhood collection may need no metaphor at all. The encounter can be enjoyable without containing a problem to solve.", "traditional": "No matching historical panda passage is supplied for this entry. The reflections are original possibilities drawn from the dream scene, not inherited cultural meanings. A toy, photograph, conservation story, or remembered animal encounter may give the image a personal history. That context should lead the reading; a panda's appearance does not establish luck, moral character, or what another person intends.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Gentleness with weight", "reflection": "A gentle-looking animal that feels powerful up close may fit something welcome that still asks for respect, space, or responsibility. Affection and caution can coexist." }, { "title": "An unhurried pace", "reflection": "A panda continuing its quiet activity while you rush may bring a wish for sufficient time into view, or highlight frustration with a process that will not hurry." }, { "title": "More than two sides", "reflection": "Contrasting markings and mixed feelings can support a personal reading about a situation that resists a simple division. The pattern may equally be a familiar visual memory." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Watching a panda eat quietly", "reflection": "The animal continues its meal while you have somewhere else to be. The contrast can make haste, patience, or the need for an uninterrupted pause visible. If watching feels satisfying rather than frustrating, the dream may offer a valued experience of simply letting an ordinary activity take its time." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A large panda approaches you", "reflection": "You welcome the animal, then become aware of its size and closeness. This may fit a responsibility or attachment that feels both reassuring and substantial. Your preferred distance matters: comfort does not require unlimited access, and caution need not cancel affection." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A panda surrounded by onlookers", "reflection": "People crowd around while the animal has little room to continue what it was doing. The scene may concern a comforting image being asked to entertain or reassure everyone. It can invite reflection on attention that feels appreciative but becomes demanding." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Trying to care for a panda cub", "reflection": "You want to help a small animal and are uncertain what care would be appropriate. Tenderness may be clear while the practical role remains unfamiliar. This can fit a new responsibility that needs information and shared support as well as goodwill." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A panda will not move on your schedule", "reflection": "You try to lead it somewhere, but it stays occupied with another activity. The scene may explore frustration with a pace you cannot control. It may also raise a question about whether your destination and the animal’s needs belong to the same plan." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "A childhood panda toy becomes alive", "reflection": "A familiar object suddenly needs room, attention, or care. Something associated with comfort has become a relationship rather than a possession. The change may fit a cherished idea becoming more real and demanding, or simply the playful logic of a remembered toy." } ], "prompts": [ "What felt comforting about the panda, and what asked for distance or respect?", "Whose pace shaped the encounter, and how did that pace affect me?", "Did I know what the animal needed, or was I relying on its familiar appearance?" ], "related": [ "bear", "koala", "cat", "baby", "forest" ], "updated": "2026-10-13", "status": "REVIEW", "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original image-specific interpretation with alternative personal readings; no matching historical passage supplied. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "pane-of-glass", "title": "Pane of Glass", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you handle a pane of glass, denotes that you are dealing in uncertainties.”", "aliases": [ "pane of glass" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about pane of glass stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. 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If you break it, your failure will be accentuated.\n\nTo talk to a person through a pane of glass, denotes that there\nare obstacles in your immediate future, and they will cause you\nno slight inconvenience." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L11248", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Pansy", "heading": "Pansy", "text": "This dream foretells a constant sweetheart, but great poverty ; the emblem of remembrance and kind thought.", "lineStart": 11248, "lineEnd": 11250, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 241; NLM OCR lines 11248–11250", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11248, "lineEnd": 11250, "printedPage": 241, "printedPageEnd": 241 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Pansy. — This dream foretells a constant sweetheart, but \ngreat poverty ; the emblem of remembrance and kind thought. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Pansy" }, "displayText": "This dream foretells a constant sweetheart, but great poverty; the emblem of remembrance and kind thought." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "pantaloons", "title": "Pantaloons", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “If you dream you have a new pair of pantaloons, it is a sign you will be prosperous.”", "aliases": [ "pantaloons" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about pantaloons stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0541", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Pantaloons", "text": "If you dream you have a new pair of pantaloons, it is a\nsign you will be prosperous; if they do not fit, and are too tight, it\nis a sign you will be pinched in money matters; if they are dark, it\nis a sign of long life, but if light, it denotes sickness. Young girls\nshould try and not dream about pantaloons, for such an omen is very\ndangerous to them. 46, 8.", "locator": "Heading 541; source line 3548", "lineStart": 3548, "lineEnd": 3555, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream you have a new pair of pantaloons, it is a\nsign you will be prosperous; if they do not fit, and are too tight, it\nis a sign you will be pinched in money matters; if they are dark, it\nis a sign of long life, but if light, it denotes sickness. Young girls\nshould try and not dream about pantaloons, for such an omen is very\ndangerous to them." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "panther", "title": "Panther", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see a panther and experience fright, denotes that contracts in love or business may be canceled…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "panther" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about panther stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1475", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Panther", "text": "To see a panther and experience fright, denotes that contracts in love\nor business may be canceled unexpectedly, owing to adverse influences\nworking against your honor. But killing, or over-powering it,\nyou will experience joy and be successful in your undertakings.\nYour surroundings will take on fair prospects.\n\nIf one menaces you by its presence, you will have disappointments\nin business. Other people will likely recede from their promises to you.\n\nIf you hear the voice of a panther, and experience terror\nor fright, you will have unfavorable news, coming in the way\nof reducing profit or gain, and you may have social discord;\nno fright forebodes less evil.\n\nA panther, like the cat, seen in a dream, portends evil to the dreamer,\nunless he kills it.", "locator": "Heading 1479; source lines 16780–16799", "lineStart": 16780, "lineEnd": 16799, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a panther and experience fright, denotes that contracts in love\nor business may be canceled unexpectedly, owing to adverse influences\nworking against your honor. But killing, or over-powering it,\nyou will experience joy and be successful in your undertakings.\nYour surroundings will take on fair prospects.\n\nIf one menaces you by its presence, you will have disappointments\nin business. Other people will likely recede from their promises to you.\n\nIf you hear the voice of a panther, and experience terror\nor fright, you will have unfavorable news, coming in the way\nof reducing profit or gain, and you may have social discord;\nno fright forebodes less evil.\n\nA panther, like the cat, seen in a dream, portends evil to the dreamer,\nunless he kills it." }, { "id": "fontaine-0542", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Panther", "text": "To dream that you see one of these animals, and are terrified\nby it, shows that you will be disgusted at the ingratitude of a friend\nyou have served: if, in your dream, you see a tame panther, and\ncaress it, it foretells that you have some ungrateful person in your\nhousehold, (perhaps a servant,) or else a false-hearted friend. 41.", "locator": "Heading 542; source line 3555", "lineStart": 3555, "lineEnd": 3561, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you see one of these animals, and are terrified\nby it, shows that you will be disgusted at the ingratitude of a friend\nyou have served: if, in your dream, you see a tame panther, and\ncaress it, it foretells that you have some ungrateful person in your\nhousehold, (perhaps a servant,) or else a false-hearted friend." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11251", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Panther", "heading": "Panther", "text": "A dream prognosticating the approach of evil, a lawsuit (Gypsy) ; the panther is the symbol of watchfulness and alertness.", "lineStart": 11251, "lineEnd": 11254, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 241; NLM OCR lines 11251–11254", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11251, "lineEnd": 11254, "printedPage": 241, "printedPageEnd": 241 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Panther. — A dream prognosticating the approach of evil, \na lawsuit (Gypsy) ; the panther is the symbol of watchfulness \nand alertness. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Panther" }, "displayText": "A dream prognosticating the approach of evil, a lawsuit (Gypsy); the panther is the symbol of watchfulness and alertness." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "pantomime", "title": "Pantomime", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing pantomimes, denotes that your friends will deceive you.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "pantomime" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about pantomime stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1476", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Pantomime", "text": "To dream of seeing pantomimes, denotes that your friends will deceive you.\nIf you participate in them, you will have cause of offense.\nAffairs will not prove satisfactory.", "locator": "Heading 1480; source lines 16799–16805", "lineStart": 16799, "lineEnd": 16805, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing pantomimes, denotes that your friends will deceive you.\nIf you participate in them, you will have cause of offense.\nAffairs will not prove satisfactory." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11255", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Pantomime", "heading": "Pantomime", "text": "A dream denoting living among deceitful persons (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 11255, "lineEnd": 11257, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 241; NLM OCR lines 11255–11257", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11255, "lineEnd": 11257, "printedPage": 241, "printedPageEnd": 241 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Pantomime. — A dream denoting living among deceitful per- \nsons (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "per- \nsons", "after": "persons", "evidenceLine": 108 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Pantomime" }, "displayText": "A dream denoting living among deceitful persons (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "paper", "title": "Paper", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "5 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “To dream of smooth paper, is a good omen.” Compare 5 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "paper" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about paper stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "moles-71045", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams and Moles", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "United Kingdom, J. Marshall, 1805", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71045", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0543", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Paper", "text": "To dream of smooth paper, is a good omen; but if it appears\nrumpled, it will give you much pain. To dream of paper that is wet,\nsignifies success in love matters. 21, 18.", "locator": "Heading 543; source line 3561", "lineStart": 3561, "lineEnd": 3565, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of smooth paper, is a good omen; but if it appears\nrumpled, it will give you much pain. To dream of paper that is wet,\nsignifies success in love matters." }, { "id": "noe-0386", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Paper", "text": "To dream of paper is a good omen, but if it appears\nrumpled, it will give you much pain.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 392; source lines 1494–1495", "lineStart": 1494, "lineEnd": 1495, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of paper is a good omen, but if it appears\nrumpled, it will give you much pain." }, { "id": "cielo-0306", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Paper", "text": "To dream of reading a newspaper means that\n happiness will be brief.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 306; source lines 4599–4602", "lineStart": 4599, "lineEnd": 4602, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of reading a newspaper means that\nhappiness will be brief." }, { "id": "moles-0024", "sourceId": "moles-71045", "heading": "Paper", "originalHeading": "(no printed heading)", "text": "To dream you see a piece of paper in flames, denotes the party will be\nhappy in a marriage state in friends and affection.", "locator": "Dreams interpreted, passage 24; source lines 179–180", "lineStart": 179, "lineEnd": 180, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "editorialNote": "The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Paper” because that is the subject of its first clause.", "displayText": "To dream you see a piece of paper in flames, denotes the party will be\nhappy in a marriage state in friends and affection." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11258", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Paper", "heading": "Paper", "text": "To dream of white paper, innocence ; written on, chicanery; printed, good fortune; decorated, deception (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 11258, "lineEnd": 11261, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 241; NLM OCR lines 11258–11261", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11258, "lineEnd": 11261, "printedPage": 241, "printedPageEnd": 241 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Paper. — To dream of white paper, innocence ; written on, \nchicanery; printed, good fortune; decorated, deception (Gyp- \nsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "Gyp- \nsy", "after": "Gypsy", "evidenceLine": 243 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Paper" }, "displayText": "To dream of white paper, innocence; written on, chicanery; printed, good fortune; decorated, deception (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "paper-or-parchment", "title": "Paper or parchment", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “If you have occasion in your dreams to refer to, or handle, any paper or parchment, you will be threatened with losses.”", "aliases": [ "paper or parchment", "paper", "parchment" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about paper or parchment stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1478", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Parables", "text": "To dream of parables, denotes that you will be undecided as to the best\ncourse to pursue in dissenting to some business complication. To the lover,\nor young woman, this is a prophecy of misunderstandings and disloyalty.", "locator": "Heading 1482; source lines 16815–16821", "lineStart": 16815, "lineEnd": 16821, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of parables, denotes that you will be undecided as to the best\ncourse to pursue in dissenting to some business complication. To the lover,\nor young woman, this is a prophecy of misunderstandings and disloyalty." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "parachuting", "title": "Parachuting", "category": "Movement", "aliases": [ "parachuting", "parachute", "parachutes", "skydiving", "skydiver", "jumping with a parachute" ], "summary": "Parachuting may explore a deliberate leap, trust in support, or an uncertain landing. Choosing to jump changes the meaning of a descent.", "tagline": "Leaving a known position, relying on support, and meeting the place where you arrive.", "psychological": "Parachuting can turn an uncertain transition into an action you deliberately begin. You leave a known position without controlling every moment of the descent. That may fit starting a role, moving somewhere new, or making a commitment whose later details remain open. The image differs from simply losing your footing: whether you wanted to jump gives the scene an important kind of agency.\n\nEquipment and preparation can make support visible. A harness, instruction, or a canopy that opens may give the imagined leap enough structure to feel possible. This could resemble starting a demanding undertaking with useful information and people who help you settle afterward. If those arrangements are missing or unclear, the scene may concern wanting conditions that make the choice workable, rather than needing to become less cautious.\n\nBeing rushed creates another reading. Other people may insist that the moment has arrived while you still want time to understand what follows. The dream could fit a change moving faster than your willingness or a group activity whose pace has become compulsory. Declining, asking a question, or choosing later can make the decision yours again. The scene does not require jumping to count as a successful ending.\n\nThe descent itself may be pleasurable. Floating after an intense beginning can offer a personal image of a commitment becoming calmer once support is available. An unfamiliar landing place may concern adapting after a choice rather than predicting where it will lead. A film, a recent conversation, or a remembered experience can also supply the whole adventure. Difficulty opening a parachute in the dream is not a safety finding or an accident forecast. The useful reading concerns chosen movement, preparation, and what room you have to respond after leaving the starting point.", "traditional": "No matching historical parachuting passage is supplied. This entry offers original reflection on an intentional descent and the imagined support around it. Jumping, being pushed, and accidentally falling are different scenes. Equipment failure or a smooth landing in a dream does not assess real equipment, ability, or future outcomes.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A leap you can choose", "reflection": "Leaving a known position may fit beginning something whose later details remain uncertain. Willingness, hesitation, and being rushed give the transition different meanings." }, { "title": "Support makes movement possible", "reflection": "A canopy or preparation can give an unfamiliar undertaking structure. The question may concern useful information and help, rather than proving that confidence alone is sufficient." }, { "title": "Arrival does not settle everything", "reflection": "Landing somewhere unexpected can explore the adjustments that follow a choice. The imagined destination need not turn the leap into either a mistake or a guaranteed new beginning." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You choose to jump and feel ready enough", "reflection": "You accept some uncertainty while wanting the experience. This may fit beginning a course, role, or move with workable preparation rather than complete certainty. Excitement can be part of the scene without proving that a real risk is appropriate." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Others urge you to jump before you understand", "reflection": "The group's schedule takes priority over your questions. This can resemble a consequential plan advancing before you have agreed to its terms. Asking for time, declining, or receiving an explanation creates a different experience from continuing because everyone else is ready." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "The canopy opens and the pace changes", "reflection": "A fast beginning becomes a slower descent once support appears. This may offer an image of settling into a new responsibility after a difficult start. The relief concerns a changed condition in the dream, not a promise that an actual undertaking will become easy." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You cannot make the parachute open", "reflection": "The support you expected is unavailable and the scene becomes urgent. This may fit fear of starting something without a dependable arrangement, such as a new role with unclear guidance. Help appearing or another ending changes the image; it does not forecast an accident." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You land somewhere different from the plan", "reflection": "The leap ends in unfamiliar surroundings rather than the place you expected. This can explore adapting after a deliberate choice, as when a role develops differently from its description. Curiosity, disappointment, and finding a next step create different readings of the arrival." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You decide not to jump this time", "reflection": "You remain at the starting point while others continue. This may fit a preference for more time or another way to participate, such as declining one activity on a shared trip. Relief and missing the adventure can coexist without making refusal a failure." } ], "prompts": [ "Did I choose the jump, need more time, or feel pushed toward it?", "What information, equipment, or person made the imagined support believable?", "What changed after leaving the starting point or deciding to remain?" ], "related": [ "falling", "flying", "airplane", "trust", "being-lost" ], "type": "dreams", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original image-specific interpretation with distinct personal possibilities and everyday context; no matching historical passage supplied. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "parade", "title": "Parade", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “To dream of a parade of soldiers, and that you are delighted with the military display, foretells that some one will deceive you: to a…”", "aliases": [ "parade" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about parade stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0544", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Parade", "text": "To dream of a parade of soldiers, and that you are delighted\nwith the military display, foretells that some one will deceive you: to\na business man it is an omen of losses by bad debts or dull trade: to a\nyoung girl it foreshadows a gay but false lover: to a married woman it\nis a sign that her husband, though kind, will be false to his vows. 58,\n1.", "locator": "Heading 544; source line 3565", "lineStart": 3565, "lineEnd": 3572, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a parade of soldiers, and that you are delighted\nwith the military display, foretells that some one will deceive you: to\na business man it is an omen of losses by bad debts or dull trade: to a\nyoung girl it foreshadows a gay but false lover: to a married woman it\nis a sign that her husband, though kind, will be false to his vows. 58," } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "paradise", "title": "Paradise", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are in Paradise, means loyal friends, who are willing to aid you.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "paradise" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about paradise stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1479", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Paradise", "text": "To dream that you are in Paradise, means loyal friends, who are\nwilling to aid you. This dream holds out bright hopes to sailors\nor those about to make a long voyage. To mothers, this means\nfair and obedient children. If you are sick and unfortunate,\nyou will have a speedy recovery and your fortune will ripen.\nTo lovers, it is the promise of wealth and faithfulness.\n\nTo dream that you start to Paradise and find yourself bewildered and lost,\nyou will undertake enterprises which look exceedingly feasible and full\nof fortunate returns, but which will prove disappointing and vexatious.", "locator": "Heading 1483; source lines 16821–16834", "lineStart": 16821, "lineEnd": 16834, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are in Paradise, means loyal friends, who are\nwilling to aid you. This dream holds out bright hopes to sailors\nor those about to make a long voyage. To mothers, this means\nfair and obedient children. If you are sick and unfortunate,\nyou will have a speedy recovery and your fortune will ripen.\nTo lovers, it is the promise of wealth and faithfulness.\n\nTo dream that you start to Paradise and find yourself bewildered and lost,\nyou will undertake enterprises which look exceedingly feasible and full\nof fortunate returns, but which will prove disappointing and vexatious." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11262", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Paradise", "heading": "Paradise", "text": "A good dream to each according to his desire and calling (Raphael).", "lineStart": 11262, "lineEnd": 11264, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 241; NLM OCR lines 11262–11264", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11262, "lineEnd": 11264, "printedPage": 241, "printedPageEnd": 241 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Paradise. — A good dream to each according to his desire \nand calling (Raphael). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Paradise" }, "displayText": "A good dream to each according to his desire and calling (Raphael)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "paralysis", "title": "Paralysis", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Paralysis is a bad dream, denoting financial reverses and disappointment in literary attainment.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "paralysis" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about paralysis stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1480", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Paralysis", "text": "Paralysis is a bad dream, denoting financial reverses and disappointment\nin literary attainment. To lovers, it portends a cessation of affections.", "locator": "Heading 1484; source lines 16834–16839", "lineStart": 16834, "lineEnd": 16839, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Paralysis is a bad dream, denoting financial reverses and disappointment\nin literary attainment. To lovers, it portends a cessation of affections." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11265", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Paralysis", "heading": "Paralysis", "text": "A dream denoting the approach of illness (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 11265, "lineEnd": 11267, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 241; NLM OCR lines 11265–11267", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11265, "lineEnd": 11267, "printedPage": 241, "printedPageEnd": 241 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Paralysis. — A dream denoting the approach of illness \n(Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Paralysis" }, "displayText": "A dream denoting the approach of illness (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "parasol", "title": "Parasol", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a parasol, denotes, for married people, illicit enjoyments.” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "parasol" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about parasol stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "umbrella" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1481", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Parasol", "text": "To dream of a parasol, denotes, for married people, illicit enjoyments.\n\nIf a young woman has this dream, she will engage in many flirtations,\nsome of which will cause her interesting disturbances, lest her lover\nfind out her inclinations.\n\n\n[146] See Umbrella.", "locator": "Heading 1485; source lines 16839–16850", "lineStart": 16839, "lineEnd": 16850, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a parasol, denotes, for married people, illicit enjoyments.\n\nIf a young woman has this dream, she will engage in many flirtations,\nsome of which will cause her interesting disturbances, lest her lover\nfind out her inclinations. See Umbrella." }, { "id": "fontaine-0545", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Parasol", "text": "If a young woman dreams she has got a new parasol, it predicts\nfor her a new lover: if she imagines she has broken her parasol, her\nlover (if she has one) will leave her; if not, then some male friend,\nin whom she placed confidence or derived advantage, will fail her: to a\nmarried woman, dreaming of a broken parasol is a very bad omen, as it\npredicts ruin to her husband. 34.", "locator": "Heading 545; source line 3572", "lineStart": 3572, "lineEnd": 3579, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If a young woman dreams she has got a new parasol, it predicts\nfor her a new lover: if she imagines she has broken her parasol, her\nlover (if she has one) will leave her; if not, then some male friend,\nin whom she placed confidence or derived advantage, will fail her: to a\nmarried woman, dreaming of a broken parasol is a very bad omen, as it\npredicts ruin to her husband." }, { "id": "cielo-0307", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Parasol", "text": "To carry one denotes a voyage.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 307; source lines 4602–4604", "lineStart": 4602, "lineEnd": 4604, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To carry one denotes a voyage." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11268", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Parasol", "heading": "Parasol", "text": "To hold one open, a false covering; closed, a marriage (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 11268, "lineEnd": 11270, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 241; NLM OCR lines 11268–11270", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11268, "lineEnd": 11270, "printedPage": 241, "printedPageEnd": 241 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Parasol. — To hold one open, a false covering; closed, a \nmarriage (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Parasol" }, "displayText": "To hold one open, a false covering; closed, a marriage (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "umbrella" ] }, { "slug": "parcel", "title": "Parcel", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a parcel being delivered to you, denotes that you will be pleasantly surprised by the return of some absent one, or be cared for…”", "aliases": [ "parcel" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about parcel stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1482", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Parcel", "text": "To dream of a parcel being delivered to you, denotes that you\nwill be pleasantly surprised by the return of some absent one,\nor be cared for in a worldly way.\n\nIf you carry a parcel, you will have some unpleasant task to perform.\n\nTo let a parcel fall on the way as you go to deliver it,\nyou will see some deal fail to go through.", "locator": "Heading 1486; source lines 16850–16861", "lineStart": 16850, "lineEnd": 16861, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a parcel being delivered to you, denotes that you\nwill be pleasantly surprised by the return of some absent one,\nor be cared for in a worldly way.\n\nIf you carry a parcel, you will have some unpleasant task to perform.\n\nTo let a parcel fall on the way as you go to deliver it,\nyou will see some deal fail to go through." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "pardon", "title": "Pardon", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "summary": "Pardon dreams may explore release from an accusation, granting forgiveness, or changing the terms of responsibility without erasing a boundary.", "tagline": "Forgiveness can change the verdict while leaving room for judgment.", "aliases": [ "pardon", "forgiveness", "forgiving", "forgiven", "being forgiven" ], "status": "REVIEW", "psychological": "Pardon in a dream can make an accusation or offense stop determining what happens next. Somebody forgives you, a formal penalty is lifted or you release another person from a repeated judgment. The useful distinction is between what occurred, what responsibility the scene assigns and what forgiveness changes. A dream can make those relations vivid without proving that a real offense exists or that anyone is required to forgive it.\n\nSeeking pardon for something you did not do creates a different tension from acknowledging an act you recognize. The request may picture wanting relief from blame, a misunderstanding or an expectation that you must apologize to preserve a place. When there is a specific deed, replacing an object or explaining its circumstances may make practical repair more central than simply obtaining a comforting answer. Waking responsibility can be assessed with waking facts.\n\nReceiving forgiveness can bring relief while leaving questions. You may want the listener to understand your account, or find that the accusation returns despite their words. The scene can distinguish an announced release from conditions that actually allow a new interaction. A recent apology, old disagreement or story about judgment can supply context without revealing what another person privately thinks.\n\nGranting pardon gives the dreamer another role. Forgiving someone while retaining a limit may picture wanting a less hostile relation without restoring every former arrangement. Allowing another chance can feel freely chosen; being pressured to forgive can instead make control over the decision central. Forgiveness and renewed access are not necessarily the same action in the dream.\n\nSelf-directed release can have a similarly specific scale. A small mistake that no longer defines the whole story may make proportion possible, while ignoring an important consequence would produce another scene. A formal pardon by an authority can also give release a public shape. The dream need not decide a legal or moral question. Its useful subject may be how responsibility becomes limited, how a verdict stops repeating or what remains necessary after the words of forgiveness.", "traditional": "Miller describes seeking pardon for an offense, including one not committed, and receiving pardon; his forecasts differ by circumstance. Fontaine assigns asking pardon humiliation and gives a contrary governor/prison example. These are attributed fortune-telling claims. The modern reading develops their actual pardon subject without treating the forecasts as legal or relationship evidence.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "What is being released", "reflection": "An accusation, penalty and specific responsibility can be different burdens in the scene." }, { "title": "Forgiveness with a boundary", "reflection": "A less hostile relation need not restore every form of access or reliance." }, { "title": "Words and what follows", "reflection": "Announced forgiveness can differ from a workable change in the interaction." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Someone forgives you before you explain", "reflection": "The quick release may bring comfort while leaving your account unheard. This can picture wanting understanding as well as reassurance. The scene distinguishes being told that everything is fine from having a chance to describe what actually matters in the imagined event." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You ask pardon for an act you never committed", "reflection": "The request may make belonging seem dependent on accepting a blame you do not recognize. A misunderstanding or unfair expectation offers a comparison. The dream’s accusation remains part of its story; seeking relief from it does not establish an actual offense." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You forgive someone and keep a practical limit", "reflection": "The release changes how you relate without reopening every former arrangement. This may picture wanting less hostility while retaining privacy, distance or a clear agreement. The boundary gives forgiveness a particular shape instead of making it identical with unlimited renewed closeness." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A formal authority cancels a penalty", "reflection": "A public decision removes an imposed consequence. The scene can picture wanting a settled end to a process whose terms were outside your control. Its formal setting belongs to the dream; it does not forecast a legal decision or establish that any penalty is due." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Forgiveness is announced but the accusation keeps returning", "reflection": "The words of release fail to change what keeps happening. This may make consistency or follow-through more central than a single apology. The scene can explore whether an interaction becomes workable afterward, rather than require the announcement itself to settle every remaining feeling." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You stop condemning yourself for a small mistake", "reflection": "The dream changes the scale of the verdict. A mistake can remain a mistake without becoming the only account of who you are. Practical repair, perspective or a kinder response may make continuation possible, while the scene leaves actual responsibility open to ordinary waking judgment." } ], "prompts": [ "What did pardon release: blame, a consequence or a repeated self-verdict?", "What responsibility or boundary remained afterward?", "What changed in the interaction after forgiveness was expressed?" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1483" ], "scope": "Historical context only. Attributed Gustavus Hindman Miller passage(s): seeking pardon for an offense not committed or committed, and receiving pardon; predictions differ by imagined circumstance. These are period beliefs, not established predictions or support for the original psychological reading." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0546" ], "scope": "Historical context only. Attributed Felix Fontaine passage(s): asking pardon assigned humiliation/disgrace; governor pardoning a criminal assigned a contrary prison outcome. These are period beliefs, not established predictions or support for the original psychological reading." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "related": [ "guilt", "confession", "quarrel", "prison" ], "updated": "2026-10-13", "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1483", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Pardon", "text": "To dream that you are endeavoring to gain pardon for an offense\nwhich you never committed, denotes that you will be troubled,\nand seemingly with cause, over your affairs, but it will finally\nappear that it was for your advancement. If offense was committed,\nyou will realize embarrassment in affairs.\n\nTo receive pardon, you will prosper after a series of misfortunes.\n\n\n[147] See kindred words.", "locator": "Heading 1487; source lines 16861–16874", "lineStart": 16861, "lineEnd": 16874, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are endeavoring to gain pardon for an offense\nwhich you never committed, denotes that you will be troubled,\nand seemingly with cause, over your affairs, but it will finally\nappear that it was for your advancement. If offense was committed,\nyou will realize embarrassment in affairs.\n\nTo receive pardon, you will prosper after a series of misfortunes. See kindred words." }, { "id": "fontaine-0546", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Pardon", "text": "To dream of asking pardon for an offence, is a bad omen under\nany circumstances, as it foretells humiliation and disgrace: for a\ncriminal to imagine, in his dream, that the Governor has pardoned him,\nis a sign that he will not only not be pardoned, but that he will\nsuffer much remorse and unhappiness in his imprisonment. 19, 3, 40.", "locator": "Heading 546; source line 3579", "lineStart": 3579, "lineEnd": 3585, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of asking pardon for an offence, is a bad omen under\nany circumstances, as it foretells humiliation and disgrace: for a\ncriminal to imagine, in his dream, that the Governor has pardoned him,\nis a sign that he will not only not be pardoned, but that he will\nsuffer much remorse and unhappiness in his imprisonment." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "parents", "title": "Parents", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see your parents looking cheerful while dreaming, denotes harmony and pleasant associates.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "parents", "parent" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about parents stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "father", "mother" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1484", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Parents", "text": "To see your parents looking cheerful while dreaming, denotes harmony\nand pleasant associates.\n\nIf they appear to you after they are dead, it is a warning of\napproaching trouble, and you should be particular of your dealings.\n\nTo see them while they are living, and they seem to be\nin your home and happy, denotes pleasant changes for you.\nTo a young woman, this usually brings marriage and prosperity.\nIf pale and attired in black, grave disappointments will harass you.\n\nTo dream of seeing your parents looking robust and contented, denotes you are\nunder fortunate environments; your business and love interests will flourish.\nIf they appear indisposed or sad, you will find life's favors passing you\nby without recognition.\n\n\n[148] See Father and Mother.", "locator": "Heading 1488; source lines 16874–16895", "lineStart": 16874, "lineEnd": 16895, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see your parents looking cheerful while dreaming, denotes harmony\nand pleasant associates.\n\nIf they appear to you after they are dead, it is a warning of\napproaching trouble, and you should be particular of your dealings.\n\nTo see them while they are living, and they seem to be\nin your home and happy, denotes pleasant changes for you.\nTo a young woman, this usually brings marriage and prosperity.\nIf pale and attired in black, grave disappointments will harass you.\n\nTo dream of seeing your parents looking robust and contented, denotes you are\nunder fortunate environments; your business and love interests will flourish.\nIf they appear indisposed or sad, you will find life's favors passing you\nby without recognition. See Father and Mother." }, { "id": "cielo-0308", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Parent", "text": "To dream of either father or mother means good news.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 308; source lines 4604–4606", "lineStart": 4604, "lineEnd": 4606, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of either father or mother means good news." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11271", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Parents", "heading": "Parents", "text": "A dream of warning, especially if the parents be dead ; if you have been guilty of folly their visit is to rebuke and to warn you of danger (Raphael). Obviously a dream inspired by a guilty conscience, expressed through the symbolism of the subconsciousness.", "lineStart": 11271, "lineEnd": 11276, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 241; NLM OCR lines 11271–11276", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11271, "lineEnd": 11276, "printedPage": 241, "printedPageEnd": 241 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Parents. — A dream of warning, especially if the parents be \ndead ; if you have been guilty of folly their visit is to rebuke \nand to warn you of danger (Raphael). Obviously a dream in- \nspired by a guilty conscience, expressed through the symbo- \nlism of the subconsciousness. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "in- \nspired", "after": "inspired", "evidenceLine": 472 }, { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "symbo- \nlism", "after": "symbolism", "evidenceLine": 250 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Parents" }, "displayText": "A dream of warning, especially if the parents be dead; if you have been guilty of folly their visit is to rebuke and to warn you of danger (Raphael). Obviously a dream inspired by a guilty conscience, expressed through the symbolism of the subconsciousness." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "father", "mother" ] }, { "slug": "park", "title": "Park", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of walking through a well-kept park, denotes enjoyable leisure.”", "aliases": [ "park" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about park stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1485", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Park", "text": "To dream of walking through a well-kept park, denotes enjoyable leisure.\nIf you walk with your lover, you will be comfortably and happily married.\nIll-kept parks, devoid of green grasses and foliage, is ominous\nof unexpected reverses.", "locator": "Heading 1489; source lines 16895–16902", "lineStart": 16895, "lineEnd": 16902, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of walking through a well-kept park, denotes enjoyable leisure.\nIf you walk with your lover, you will be comfortably and happily married.\nIll-kept parks, devoid of green grasses and foliage, is ominous\nof unexpected reverses." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "parking-lot", "title": "Parking lot", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "A temporary space can still raise questions about access and belonging.", "summary": "A parking lot dream can explore pausing, finding room and being able to leave again. Shared space and its rules shape the experience.", "aliases": [ "parking lot", "parking lots", "car park", "car parks", "parking garage", "parking structure" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A parking lot is a place where movement pauses without necessarily ending. A vehicle is left while you do something elsewhere, with the expectation that you can return and continue. In a dream, this can picture setting aside a plan, responsibility or part of your independence for a limited time. A break between projects, a temporary assignment or waiting for a decision may provide a parallel. The pause can feel practical, relieving or difficult to trust.\n\nFinding a space makes access concrete. Many available places may let you choose comfortably; a full lot can make a simple stop feel like a competition. This can resemble trying to secure time in a crowded schedule or a place within a group whose resources are already assigned. A narrow space that technically exists but cannot accommodate your vehicle may picture an offer that leaves too little room for your actual needs.\n\nTemporary claims can be uncertain. Another person using your assigned space may evoke an agreement that was clear to you but not honored or understood by others. You might recognize shared equipment, a promised time slot or a role that keeps being reassigned. The scene does not prove that anyone is deliberately displacing you. How the conflict is handled can show whether the arrangement permits negotiation or only asks you to keep moving.\n\nDistance from the destination changes the cost of stopping. Parking far away may offer quiet and freedom from congestion, or add work you did not expect. A remote space can picture choosing a less visible role, finding rest outside a busy group, or accepting access that comes with an extra burden. Being near the entrance may feel convenient without making the space more secure or more truly yours.\n\nAn exit barrier can make departure depend on a condition that was not apparent when you entered. A fee, lost token or unrecognized payment may resemble a commitment whose ending has acquired unexpected requirements. An empty structure can instead offer space for contact, exploration or another use beyond storing cars. Familiar parking experiences may account for the setting directly. The useful question is what the pause allowed and what made resuming movement easy or difficult.", "traditional": "No supplied historical dictionary record specifically covers a shared parking lot or parking structure. Garage and vehicle headings discuss adjacent settings, but they do not supply a traditional rule for temporary spaces, permits or exit barriers. These readings are original reflections.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Room for a pause", "reflection": "A parking space can picture whether an arrangement makes a useful pause possible. Being technically allowed to stop differs from having enough room to meet your needs comfortably." }, { "title": "Temporary claims", "reflection": "Assigned or contested spaces can bring the terms of an agreement into view. The concern may be clarity and access rather than permanent ownership or another person’s intentions." }, { "title": "Conditions for leaving", "reflection": "Exit barriers can make the end of a temporary commitment feel dependent on an unexpected requirement. What was easy to enter may be harder to finish or set aside." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Every space is occupied except one you cannot enter", "reflection": "A space you cannot enter can picture an option that exists on paper but does not accommodate your needs. A too-small time slot or narrowly defined role may fit. The mismatch matters more than the number of places available." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You reserve a space for someone who never arrives", "reflection": "Holding a space for someone who never arrives can picture keeping resources ready for a plan that remains uncertain. Waiting to make a commitment until another person decides may feel similar. The unused space makes the cost of waiting visible." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Your space has been given to someone else", "reflection": "A reassigned space can resemble an agreement that no longer gives you the access you expected. Whether a correction is possible changes the reading. The dream does not establish that the displacement was intentional." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "The exit barrier will not recognize your payment", "reflection": "An unrecognized payment can picture having met a requirement without receiving permission to move on. Completing administrative work or trying to close a commitment may offer a parallel. The barrier turns recognition into the missing step." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You choose a place far from everyone else", "reflection": "Choosing an isolated place can picture wanting a pause away from shared demands. It may also make access more tiring. Comfort, distance and what you leave behind help distinguish chosen quiet from being pushed to the margins." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "An empty parking structure becomes a meeting place", "reflection": "A vacant structure becoming a meeting place can picture repurposing space that once served only a practical task. A quiet period may allow contact or experimentation. Emptiness can offer possibility as well as suggest a loss of activity." } ], "prompts": [ "What did stopping there allow me to do elsewhere?", "How much room did the available space actually give me?", "What was required before I could leave or resume the journey?" ], "related": [ "car", "forgetting-where-you-parked", "being-lost", "locked-out" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "parrot", "title": "Parrot", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "aliases": [ "parrot" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "summary": "A parrot can explore familiar words repeated in a new setting, the choice to teach or stop a phrase, and room for a response beyond performance.", "tagline": "Repeating the words can change who seems to own the conversation.", "psychological": "A parrot repeating your own sentence in front of other people can picture language becoming public after its original context has changed. A private joke, an earlier promise or a work phrase may feel different when someone else repeats it. Enjoyment can concern recognition; embarrassment can concern how the words are now being used. The dream does not establish gossip or tell you that your friends are untrustworthy.\n\nTrying to teach a parrot a new phrase can make communication feel like a task with a predetermined result. You may want an explanation to be remembered accurately, while the actual exchange offers something unexpected. A group learning a process or a relationship needing clearer language may provide waking parallels. Hearing a different phrase can be frustrating, amusing or an opening for a response you had not planned.\n\nA parrot that continues an unwanted sentence after you ask it to stop can make repetition outlast consent. A label, instruction or old account may keep circulating after its usefulness has ended. Changing the setting can alter who hears it, but you may also want the repeated account itself revised. That need concerns the particular speech in the dream rather than the animal’s supposed character.\n\nA silent parrot in a room where everyone expects entertainment reverses the terms. Presence can have value without providing a performance. You may recognize a role that feels welcome only when you keep producing a familiar response. Allowing silence can make contact less conditional, especially if the creature appears comfortable rather than distressed.\n\nA parrot borrowing several people’s voices can make authorship uncertain. An announcement might combine expectations whose sources need separating before you can decide what you actually agree with. A bird answering an ordinary question with its own unfamiliar request creates another exchange: communication begins to go both ways. Pet memories, a video or a conversation about language can supply direct imagery. These readings follow repetition, context and room to respond, without treating fluent dream speech as evidence of special knowledge or every parrot as a code for empty talk.", "traditional": "Miller links chatter, rest, teaching and other parrot scenes to social forecasts; Fontaine interprets enjoyment of chatter through flattery and relationship suspicions. Cielo predicts robbery, and Craig reports secrets/eavesdropping lore. These four passages are historical claims, not evidence of gossip, deceit, theft or anyone’s private intentions.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Words leave their original context", "reflection": "A repeated sentence can remain recognizable while acquiring another audience and different implications." }, { "title": "Repetition needs permission and revision", "reflection": "An old account can continue beyond its usefulness, making the desired change more particular than quiet alone." }, { "title": "Presence beyond performance", "reflection": "Silence or an unexpected request can leave room for contact that is not organized around a rehearsed result." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A parrot repeats a private sentence before a group", "reflection": "Familiar words receive an audience you did not originally choose. This may picture an earlier joke or promise becoming public. Enjoyment and discomfort concern its new context; the scene does not establish actual gossip or someone else’s intention to embarrass you." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "The parrot learns a different phrase from the one you taught", "reflection": "The exchange produces a response beyond your planned result. This can resemble an explanation being understood another way. Clarifying the purpose may help, while curiosity can make the difference informative rather than requiring repetition to count as complete agreement." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "The bird keeps saying a phrase you want retired", "reflection": "An account continues after its usefulness has changed. This may picture a label or instruction that needs revision. Removing the audience and changing the words are different responses; the actual request to stop matters without defining the creature as malicious." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A silent parrot is expected to entertain everyone", "reflection": "Presence is judged through a demanded performance. This can fit a role that seems welcome only when it produces a familiar response. Allowing quiet company can make room for participation without requiring either constant speech or an explanation of the silence." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The parrot combines several people’s voices in one announcement", "reflection": "A single statement carries expectations with different sources. This may picture an agreement that needs its parts separated before you choose a response. Recognizing who supplied which phrase can matter more than treating the announcement as one authoritative account." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The parrot answers your question with a request of its own", "reflection": "A rehearsed exchange becomes reciprocal. This can resemble someone introducing a need within a conversation organized around your task. Responding may require revising the agenda without assuming that the surprising speech has special knowledge about your waking life." } ], "prompts": [ "How did the repeated words change when their audience or speaker changed?", "Which phrase needed clarification, permission or revision?", "What response became possible when performance was no longer the only purpose?" ], "related": [ "bird", "echo", "letter", "words-changing-while-you-read" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1486" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. miller-1486 — Parrot (Heading 1490; source lines 16902–16916): Chatter, rest, ownership, teaching and a dead parrot receive gossip, family, relationship or friend-loss forecasts." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0547" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. fontaine-0547 — Parrot (Heading 547; source line 3585): Enjoying chatter predicts flattery and includes gendered suspicions about a fiancé." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0309" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. cielo-0309 — Parrot (Dream section, heading 309; source lines 4606–4608): Briefly predicts robbery." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L11283" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. craig-1918:L11283 — Parrot (Printed p. 241; NLM OCR lines 11283–11285): Reports secret-revelation and eavesdropping lore." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection independently reviewed for content and source scope. Historical accounts remain attributed period writing. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1486", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Parrot", "text": "Parrots chattering in your dreams, signifies frivolous employments and idle\ngossip among your friends.\n\nTo see them in repose, denotes a peaceful intermission of family broils.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she owns a parrot, denotes that her lover\nwill believe her to be quarrelsome.\n\nTo teach a parrot, you will have trouble in your private affairs.\n\nA dead parrot, foretells the loss of social friends.", "locator": "Heading 1490; source lines 16902–16916", "lineStart": 16902, "lineEnd": 16916, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Parrots chattering in your dreams, signifies frivolous employments and idle\ngossip among your friends.\n\nTo see them in repose, denotes a peaceful intermission of family broils.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she owns a parrot, denotes that her lover\nwill believe her to be quarrelsome.\n\nTo teach a parrot, you will have trouble in your private affairs.\n\nA dead parrot, foretells the loss of social friends." }, { "id": "fontaine-0547", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Parrot", "text": "To dream that you are pleased with the chattering of one of\nthese birds, is a sign that some deceitful person will flatter you: if\nan engaged young girl has such a dream, she should look sharp to the\nantecedents of her lover before marriage, as it is ten to one that he\nis not worthy of her confidence: the dream may, however, point to some\nother flatterer. 15, 2, 33.", "locator": "Heading 547; source line 3585", "lineStart": 3585, "lineEnd": 3592, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are pleased with the chattering of one of\nthese birds, is a sign that some deceitful person will flatter you: if\nan engaged young girl has such a dream, she should look sharp to the\nantecedents of her lover before marriage, as it is ten to one that he\nis not worthy of her confidence: the dream may, however, point to some\nother flatterer." }, { "id": "cielo-0309", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Parrot", "text": "To dream of a parrot foretells a robbery.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 309; source lines 4606–4608", "lineStart": 4606, "lineEnd": 4608, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a parrot foretells a robbery." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11283", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Parrot", "heading": "Parrot", "text": "This bird denotes the revelation of secrets, also eavesdropping (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 11283, "lineEnd": 11285, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 241; NLM OCR lines 11283–11285", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11283, "lineEnd": 11285, "printedPage": 241, "printedPageEnd": 241 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Parrot. — This bird denotes the revelation of secrets, also \neavesdropping (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Parrot" }, "displayText": "This bird denotes the revelation of secrets, also eavesdropping (Gypsy)." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "parsley", "title": "Parsley", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of parsley, denotes hard-earned success, usually the surroundings of the dreamer are healthful and lively.”", "aliases": [ "parsley" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about parsley stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1487", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Parsley", "text": "To dream of parsley, denotes hard-earned success, usually the surroundings\nof the dreamer are healthful and lively.\n\nTo eat parsley, is a sign of good health, but the care of a large\nfamily will be your portion.", "locator": "Heading 1491; source lines 16916–16924", "lineStart": 16916, "lineEnd": 16924, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of parsley, denotes hard-earned success, usually the surroundings\nof the dreamer are healthful and lively.\n\nTo eat parsley, is a sign of good health, but the care of a large\nfamily will be your portion." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "parsnips", "title": "Parsnips", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see or eat parsnips, is a favorable omen of successful business or trade, but love will take on unfavorable and gloomy aspects.”", "aliases": [ "parsnips" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about parsnips stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1488", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Parsnips", "text": "To see or eat parsnips, is a favorable omen of successful business or trade,\nbut love will take on unfavorable and gloomy aspects.", "locator": "Heading 1492; source lines 16924–16929", "lineStart": 16924, "lineEnd": 16929, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see or eat parsnips, is a favorable omen of successful business or trade,\nbut love will take on unfavorable and gloomy aspects." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "parting", "title": "Parting", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of parting with friends and companions, denotes that many little vexations will come into your…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "parting" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about parting stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1489", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Parting", "text": "To dream of parting with friends and companions, denotes that many little\nvexations will come into your daily life.\n\nIf you part with enemies, it is a sign of success in love and business.", "locator": "Heading 1493; source lines 16929–16936", "lineStart": 16929, "lineEnd": 16936, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of parting with friends and companions, denotes that many little\nvexations will come into your daily life.\n\nIf you part with enemies, it is a sign of success in love and business." }, { "id": "fontaine-0548", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Parting", "text": "To dream of parting from friends with regret, is a sign of\ndisappointment: if a girl dreams that her lover is going away anywhere,\nand she feels bad when he takes his leave, it predicts that he will not\n “go raving distracted with delight” the next time he comes to see her,\nand she will consequently be disappointed at his supposed coolness; but\nall this may not amount to anything more than to make her feel bad for\nthe time being. 4.", "locator": "Heading 548; source line 3592", "lineStart": 3592, "lineEnd": 3600, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of parting from friends with regret, is a sign of\ndisappointment: if a girl dreams that her lover is going away anywhere,\nand she feels bad when he takes his leave, it predicts that he will not\n “go raving distracted with delight” the next time he comes to see her,\nand she will consequently be disappointed at his supposed coolness; but\nall this may not amount to anything more than to make her feel bad for\nthe time being." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "partner", "title": "Partner", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "aliases": [ "partner" ], "status": "REVIEW", "summary": "A partner in a shared undertaking or dance can explore coordination, divided responsibility and how two contributions become usable together.", "tagline": "The counterpart’s role becomes clear through the shared activity.", "psychological": "A business partner bringing a different contribution to a joint undertaking can make cooperation more than two people doing the same task. One supplies material, another organizes access or knows how to complete a particular stage. This may resemble wanting different kinds of effort recognized within a shared purpose. The scene does not require the contributions to look equal before both can matter.\n\nA mishap can make responsibility less clear. One person drops something, misses a step or hands work over before the other is ready. You may want an explanation, a repair or reassurance that the task can continue. This can picture how a joint arrangement responds to error rather than reveal the actual person’s reliability. Blame and practical recovery may pull the encounter in different directions.\n\nDancing with a partner makes coordination visible through pace and response. The pair may move easily without a single leader, or change direction before both participants understand the cue. A shared conversation or activity can offer a comparison when one person’s timing becomes the standard. Asking to slow down can make participation possible without treating either person as unable to contribute.\n\nChoosing or changing partners creates another question. You may want continuity with a familiar counterpart while discovering that the next activity needs different skills or conditions. Being invited to join someone can feel welcome, uncertain or merely practical. A dance invitation does not automatically establish romance; the role may be defined by the activity and the amount of choice available.\n\nThe person and the arrangement need not be the same subject. A partner leaving a shared table can make their absence particular, while a continuing plan may concern how the work is reorganized. Partnership addresses that wider arrangement; a coworker is a professional peer, and a current romantic partner has a different relationship context. These original readings follow business and dance counterparts through cooperation, mistakes, cues and choices. Recent tasks or encounters may provide direct imagery. The dream supplies no evidence of a partner’s real conduct, attraction or hidden plans.", "traditional": "Miller’s Partner passage explicitly concerns a business partner dropping and mixing crockery, with loss and recovery forecasts. Fontaine’s complete passage mixes dance partners, taking a business partner and a Ball cross-reference. These two period accounts remain intact and scoped to their clauses. They do not establish business misconduct, attraction or a current romantic relationship.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Different contributions can share a purpose", "reflection": "A counterpart can supply another form of effort without either person needing to duplicate the other’s role." }, { "title": "Response matters after an error", "reflection": "Explanation, repair and blame give a mishap different consequences inside the shared activity." }, { "title": "Coordination includes usable cues", "reflection": "Pace, invitations and changes of direction can make participation easier when both people have room to respond." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Each business partner brings a different part of the project", "reflection": "The shared undertaking depends on contributions unlike in form. This may picture wanting each part recognized without using one person’s task as the measure of all effort. A workable division can matter while questions about the wider arrangement remain open." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A partner drops materials and asks how the task can continue", "reflection": "An error creates a choice between blame, explanation and repair. This can resemble wanting responsibility to remain usable after a mistake. The dreamed response may clarify what cooperation needs without assessing the actual person’s competence or predicting a business loss." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You dance easily without either person leading throughout", "reflection": "Direction passes between participants as the movement changes. This may picture reciprocal attention within a shared activity. Enjoyment can come from coordination itself, without requiring a romantic interpretation or proving that every useful partnership must divide leadership in this way." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A dance partner changes direction before the cue reaches you", "reflection": "The movement continues while one participant lacks usable information. This can resemble a conversation or task running ahead of your opportunity to respond. Another cue or pace may support participation without requiring either person to be wrong about the whole activity." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You ask to slow the dance and the pair finds another rhythm", "reflection": "A limit becomes part of coordination rather than ending the encounter. This may picture wanting your capacity recognized while remaining involved. The changed rhythm can matter without treating speed as competence or assuming that a request for adjustment weakens the connection." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The next activity requires you to choose another counterpart", "reflection": "Continuity and suitability no longer point to the same arrangement. This can resemble appreciating a familiar collaboration while noticing different needs for a new task. A changed pairing need not erase the earlier contribution or disclose a wish to reject the actual person." } ], "prompts": [ "What distinct contribution did each participant make?", "How did the response to a missed step affect cooperation?", "Which cue, pace or choice made the shared activity usable?" ], "related": [ "partnership", "dancing", "coworker", "current-romantic-partner", "argument", "ball" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1490" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a diagnosis, prediction or another person’s states. miller-1490 — Partner (Heading 1494; source lines 16936–16944): The Partner passage explicitly describes a business partner dropping/mixing crockery, predicted business loss and partial recovery after reprimand. It is not a current-romantic-partner account." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0549" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a diagnosis, prediction or another person’s states. fontaine-0549 — Partner (Heading 549; source line 3600): The full Partner passage mixes a snubbing/agreeable dance partner and taking a business partner, with love/quarrel/robbery forecasts and See Ball. Mixed clauses stay intact; neither romance nor business accusations are inferred." } ], "updated": "2026-10-14", "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1490", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Partner", "text": "To dream of seeing your business partner with a basket of crockery\non his back, and, letting it fall, gets it mixed with other crockery,\ndenotes your business will sustain a loss through the indiscriminate\ndealings of your partner. If you reprimand him for it, you will,\nto some extent, recover the loss.", "locator": "Heading 1494; source lines 16936–16944", "lineStart": 16936, "lineEnd": 16944, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing your business partner with a basket of crockery\non his back, and, letting it fall, gets it mixed with other crockery,\ndenotes your business will sustain a loss through the indiscriminate\ndealings of your partner. If you reprimand him for it, you will,\nto some extent, recover the loss." }, { "id": "fontaine-0549", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Partner", "text": "(_See Ball._) To dream that your partner in a dance slights\nor snubs you, is a sign that some one is enamored of you: this applies\nto either sex: if you dream of a particularly agreeable and attractive\npartner, it shows that you will quarrel with somebody of the opposite\nsex: for a man in business to dream of taking a partner, foretells that\nhe will be robbed. 17, 38.", "locator": "Heading 549; source line 3600", "lineStart": 3600, "lineEnd": 3607, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Ball.) To dream that your partner in a dance slights\nor snubs you, is a sign that some one is enamored of you: this applies\nto either sex: if you dream of a particularly agreeable and attractive\npartner, it shows that you will quarrel with somebody of the opposite\nsex: for a man in business to dream of taking a partner, foretells that\nhe will be robbed." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [ "ball" ] }, { "slug": "partnership", "title": "Partnership", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "aliases": [ "partnership" ], "status": "REVIEW", "summary": "A partnership can explore how a shared undertaking is formed, what each contribution means and how an arrangement adapts or ends.", "tagline": "A shared plan needs terms that fit its purpose and participants.", "psychological": "Forming a partnership around a clear purpose can make a shared undertaking feel possible. You may know what you want to make, organize or maintain together while still needing to decide who does what. This can resemble beginning a project whose promise is easier to imagine than its daily arrangements. An unfinished plan may invite useful questions rather than prove that the venture is unsuitable.\n\nContributions can be unlike in form. Time, knowledge, materials or a place to work may each matter without being easy to compare. A dream that counts only one kind of contribution can make another feel invisible. This can picture wanting a shared account of responsibility and acknowledgment. The scene does not determine the fair financial or legal terms of an actual agreement.\n\nA partnership’s purpose can change while its rules remain fixed. The group begins a new task but continues using a division designed for the earlier one. You might recognize an arrangement that needs discussion rather than more effort from the same participants. Revising one term can let continuity remain useful without requiring the whole undertaking to be abandoned.\n\nA different person taking over one role can separate the arrangement from a particular counterpart. You may value the structure while missing someone’s way of working, or discover that the original division depended on knowledge nobody else has. Partner addresses the person encountered within such activity; this subject follows the shared terms, resources and continuation of the undertaking.\n\nDissolving a partnership can also involve practical work after the ending is named. An object remains jointly useful, a task needs finishing or each participant wants a different next step. Relief, sadness and uncertainty can concern separate parts of the change. An agreed trial period creates another possibility at the beginning: cooperation need not be imagined as permanent before it can be meaningful. These original reflections follow the arrangement’s purpose and operation. They do not predict profit, measure another person’s reliability or decide an actual contract. Recent projects, conversations or stories can supply direct imagery without requiring a hidden business message.", "traditional": "Miller’s sole Partnership account gives gendered money or hidden-enterprise forecasts to formation and opposing fortunes to dissolving pleasant or unpleasant arrangements. It remains attributed period writing. The passage does not decide an actual agreement’s fairness, another person’s reliability or a future result. The original reading separates the arrangement from the person acting as a partner.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Purpose and operation need connection", "reflection": "A shared goal can be clear while the practical division of work still needs explanation." }, { "title": "Different contributions need acknowledgment", "reflection": "Useful resources may take unlike forms; one measure need not capture everything each participant supplies." }, { "title": "An arrangement can change in parts", "reflection": "Revising a role, term or duration can preserve useful cooperation while recognizing different conditions." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "The shared plan names a goal but leaves responsibilities blank", "reflection": "The purpose is understandable while its operation remains unfinished. This may picture an invitation to cooperate that needs practical questions. Clarifying one role can make participation possible without requiring the whole arrangement to be settled before any useful discussion begins." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Only one kind of contribution is counted in the arrangement", "reflection": "Time, knowledge or another resource disappears from the shared account. This can resemble wanting acknowledgment through a more complete description of the work. The scene may clarify a need without determining the fair financial terms or legal rights of a real partnership." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "The project changes but everyone follows the old division", "reflection": "An arrangement continues after the conditions it served have moved on. This may picture needing another agreement rather than simply greater effort. Revising a particular task can preserve continuity while letting the shared purpose become usable under changed circumstances." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A new participant takes over a familiar partnership role", "reflection": "The structure continues while the person occupying one part changes. This can resemble distinguishing an arrangement’s usefulness from a particular way of working together. Missing the earlier contribution may matter without making the replacement wrong or requiring the whole undertaking to end." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The partnership ends but one shared resource remains useful", "reflection": "A declared ending leaves a practical question about what still serves both participants. This may picture separating continued use from continued membership in the arrangement. A particular next step can matter without assuming that every connection must disappear at once." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You agree to try the partnership for one limited project", "reflection": "Cooperation gains a duration small enough to understand. This can resemble wanting experience before making a wider commitment. The limit may support meaningful participation without proving that uncertainty is a weakness or that an actual venture will succeed." } ], "prompts": [ "How did the shared purpose connect with the practical division?", "Which contribution was included or missed in the arrangement’s account?", "What part could change while other useful terms continued?" ], "related": [ "partner", "work", "business", "contract", "reconciliation" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1491" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a diagnosis, prediction or another person’s states. miller-1491 — Partnership (Heading 1495; source lines 16944–16955): Forming a partnership receives gendered money/hidden-enterprise claims; dissolving pleasant or unpleasant partnerships receives opposing forecasts. It concerns a shared arrangement, not another person’s actual reliability." } ], "updated": "2026-10-14", "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1491", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Partnership", "text": "To dream of forming a partnership with a man, denotes uncertain\nand fluctuating money affairs. If your partner be a woman,\nyou will engage in some enterprise which you will endeavor\nto keep hidden from friends.\n\nTo dissolve an unpleasant partnership, denotes that things will arrange\nthemselves agreeable to your desires; but if the partnership was pleasant,\nthere will be disquieting news and disagreeable turns in your affairs.", "locator": "Heading 1495; source lines 16944–16955", "lineStart": 16944, "lineEnd": 16955, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of forming a partnership with a man, denotes uncertain\nand fluctuating money affairs. If your partner be a woman,\nyou will engage in some enterprise which you will endeavor\nto keep hidden from friends.\n\nTo dissolve an unpleasant partnership, denotes that things will arrange\nthemselves agreeable to your desires; but if the partnership was pleasant,\nthere will be disquieting news and disagreeable turns in your affairs." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "partridge", "title": "Partridge", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Partridges seen in your dreams, denotes that conditions will be good in your immediate future for the…” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "partridge", "of partridges", "partridges" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about partridge stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1492", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Partridge", "text": "Partridges seen in your dreams, denotes that conditions will be\ngood in your immediate future for the accumulation of property.\n\nTo ensnare them, signifies that you will be fortunate in expectations.\n\nTo kill them, foretells that you will be successful, but much\nof your wealth will be given to others.\n\nTo eat them, signifies the enjoyment of deserved honors.\n\nTo see them flying, denotes that a promising future is before you.", "locator": "Heading 1496; source lines 16955–16969", "lineStart": 16955, "lineEnd": 16969, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Partridges seen in your dreams, denotes that conditions will be\ngood in your immediate future for the accumulation of property.\n\nTo ensnare them, signifies that you will be fortunate in expectations.\n\nTo kill them, foretells that you will be successful, but much\nof your wealth will be given to others.\n\nTo eat them, signifies the enjoyment of deserved honors.\n\nTo see them flying, denotes that a promising future is before you." }, { "id": "artemidorus-106", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of Partridges.", "text": "PArtridges signifie men and women: but most often women without conscience, ungratefull, hard.", "locator": "Book 2, encoded section 106", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "2", "displayText": "PArtridges signifie men and women: but most often women without conscience, ungratefull, hard." }, { "id": "noe-0401", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Partridges", "text": "Dreaming of partridges, is a sign that a man shall have to\ndo with women that are malicious, ungrateful, and void of conscience.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 407; source lines 1531–1533", "lineStart": 1531, "lineEnd": 1533, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Dreaming of partridges, is a sign that a man shall have to\ndo with women that are malicious, ungrateful, and void of conscience." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11286", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Partridges", "heading": "Partridges", "text": "To a man this dream connotes dealings with malicious and conscienceless women (Artemidorus). This bird has ever been held as the symbol of foolishness.", "lineStart": 11286, "lineEnd": 11289, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 241; NLM OCR lines 11286–11289", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11286, "lineEnd": 11289, "printedPage": 241, "printedPageEnd": 241 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Partridges. — To a man this dream connotes dealings with \nmalicious and conscienceless women (Artemidorus). This bird \nhas ever been held as the symbol of foolishness. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Partridges" }, "displayText": "To a man this dream connotes dealings with malicious and conscienceless women (Artemidorus). This bird has ever been held as the symbol of foolishness." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "party", "title": "Party", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of an unknown party of men assaulting you for your money or valuables, denotes that you will have…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "party" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about party stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1493", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Party", "text": "To dream of an unknown party of men assaulting you for your money\nor valuables, denotes that you will have enemies banded together against you.\nIf you escape uninjured, you will overcome any opposition, either in\nbusiness or love.\n\nTo dream of attending a party of any kind for pleasure, you will find\nthat life has much good, unless the party is an inharmonious one.", "locator": "Heading 1497; source lines 16969–16979", "lineStart": 16969, "lineEnd": 16979, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of an unknown party of men assaulting you for your money\nor valuables, denotes that you will have enemies banded together against you.\nIf you escape uninjured, you will overcome any opposition, either in\nbusiness or love.\n\nTo dream of attending a party of any kind for pleasure, you will find\nthat life has much good, unless the party is an inharmonious one." }, { "id": "fontaine-0550", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Party", "text": "To dream of giving a large and sumptuous party to your friends,\nis a sign of losses and poverty: if you imagine you go to such a party,\nit foretells that you will be asked to assist some one in distress. 77,\n18, 42.", "locator": "Heading 550; source line 3607", "lineStart": 3607, "lineEnd": 3612, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of giving a large and sumptuous party to your friends,\nis a sign of losses and poverty: if you imagine you go to such a party,\nit foretells that you will be asked to assist some one in distress. 77," } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "passenger", "title": "Passenger", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "aliases": [ "passenger" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1494" ], "scope": "Miller distinguishes passengers arriving with luggage, departing and leaving home as a passenger; the passage assigns improvement, lost-property-opportunity and dissatisfaction/change claims. Specific supplied passages: Passenger — miller-1494 (Heading 1498; source lines 16979–16987). Historical comparison only; these period beliefs do not establish outcomes or validate the original symbolic reflections." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "summary": "Being a passenger may explore receiving help, sharing a destination and the choices you retain when someone else directs the journey.", "tagline": "Your place in a journey you share.", "psychological": "Being a passenger places you inside a journey without making every movement your task. The experience can feel restful, companionable, frustrating or uncertain. Begin with what you chose: joining the trip, agreeing to the destination, selecting a seat or asking for a stop. Receiving transport does not automatically mean having no agency or needing to take control.\n\nThe relationship with whoever directs the journey can shape the scene. You might welcome a knowledgeable guide after a demanding day, or feel unable to explain where you want to go. Consider how communication works rather than assuming that the driver represents a particular person or authority. The dream cannot establish anyone's reliability in waking life.\n\nYour remaining choices deserve attention. Watching the route, speaking to other passengers, deciding when to get off or simply resting are different ways of participating. If none feels possible, ask which option you most wanted. If the scene feels comfortable, notice the arrangements that let you accept help without monitoring every detail.\n\nCompany can make the journey a social setting in its own right. Sitting beside someone familiar may matter more than the destination. An empty seat, unfamiliar group or crowded compartment can highlight your experience of inclusion and available space. Those details may come from ordinary public transport or shared trips rather than a larger statement about belonging.\n\nLuggage and boarding can emphasize the transition into another arrangement. You may need to decide what to bring, whether there is room or how much time to allow. Arriving as a passenger differs from leaving, but neither direction has an automatic favorable or unfavorable meaning. Ask what becomes possible or unavailable after the change.\n\nRecent journeys, plans and conversations about sharing responsibility may supply the scene. Keep the role distinct from driving, owning the vehicle or losing control of it. A useful reflection might concern accepting a practical favor, contributing without directing, or communicating a destination clearly. What makes this journey yours as well as someone else's, and how do you want to participate?", "traditional": "Miller gives different forecasts for passengers arriving with luggage, departing and leaving home as a passenger. The passage connects the last scene with dissatisfaction and change, but does not establish what any present relationship means. Its favorable and unfavorable predictions are period beliefs, separate from the original reflections about participation and shared travel.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Receiving help with a choice", "reflection": "Notice what you agreed to and what makes accepting transport comfortable, rather than equating help with passivity." }, { "title": "Having a say along the way", "reflection": "Requests, stops and conversations may reveal the practical ways you can participate without directing every movement." }, { "title": "Company during transition", "reflection": "Seats, fellow travelers and luggage can focus attention on what and whom you want beside you as an arrangement changes." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "Resting while a familiar person drives", "reflection": "You feel able to look out the window or sleep instead of monitoring the route. The scene may highlight the conditions that let you accept a shared task or practical favor. Ask what makes the arrangement comfortable, without treating the dream as evidence of the driver's actual reliability." }, { "title": "Knowing your destination but being unable to explain it", "reflection": "You recognize where you want to arrive, yet your request does not become clear. This might resemble difficulty communicating a preference within someone else's plan. What information or opportunity to speak would help? The scene does not prove that the person directing the trip refuses to listen." }, { "title": "Choosing a seat beside someone you want to talk with", "reflection": "Your position matters because it makes conversation possible. The journey could be a setting for company rather than a test of control. Notice what you share during the ride and whether a recent trip or wish for ordinary time together supplies the scene." }, { "title": "Missing your stop while enjoying the company", "reflection": "A conversation distracts you, and you pass the place where you meant to leave. Consider how participation in one part of a shared activity can affect another aim. What would help you enjoy the company and remember your preference, without making pleasure itself a mistake?" }, { "title": "Boarding with luggage that needs a separate space", "reflection": "You want to join the trip but must decide where your belongings can go. The scene may focus on the practical accommodation needed to participate. Which item matters for the destination, and whose help is available? Luggage need not stand for unresolved emotional weight." }, { "title": "Asking for a stop and receiving a clear response", "reflection": "You speak, the journey adjusts, and you can leave where you intended. This could make an ordinary form of agency visible within a shared plan. Notice how the request is made and received; the dream's cooperation is an experience to reflect on, not a forecast about actual people." } ], "prompts": [ "What did you choose when you joined the journey?", "How could you communicate or change your participation along the way?", "What made receiving transport or sharing company feel as it did?" ], "related": [ "driving", "car", "train", "traffic-jam", "luggage" ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1494", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Passenger", "text": "To dream that you see passengers coming in with their luggage,\ndenotes improvement in your surroundings. If they are leaving\nyou will lose an opportunity of gaining some desired property.\nIf you are one of the passengers leaving home, you will be\ndissatisfied with your present living and will seek to change it.", "locator": "Heading 1498; source lines 16979–16987", "lineStart": 16979, "lineEnd": 16987, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you see passengers coming in with their luggage,\ndenotes improvement in your surroundings. If they are leaving\nyou will lose an opportunity of gaining some desired property.\nIf you are one of the passengers leaving home, you will be\ndissatisfied with your present living and will seek to change it." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "passing-bell", "title": "Passing Bell", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To hear a passing bell, unexpected intelligence of the sorrow or illness of the absent.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "passing bell", "passing-bell" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about passing bell stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1495", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Passing Bell", "text": "To hear a passing bell, unexpected intelligence of the sorrow\nor illness of the absent.\n\nTo ring one yourself, denotes ill health and reverses.", "locator": "Heading 1499; source lines 16987–16994", "lineStart": 16987, "lineEnd": 16994, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To hear a passing bell, unexpected intelligence of the sorrow\nor illness of the absent.\n\nTo ring one yourself, denotes ill health and reverses." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11290", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Passing-Bell", "heading": "Passing-Bell", "text": "To dream of hearing it denotes the illness of the dreamer or of a near relative (Raphael).", "lineStart": 11290, "lineEnd": 11292, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 241; NLM OCR lines 11290–11292", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11290, "lineEnd": 11292, "printedPage": 241, "printedPageEnd": 241 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Passing-Bell. — To dream of hearing it denotes the illness \nof the dreamer or of a near relative (Raphael). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Passing-Bell" }, "displayText": "To dream of hearing it denotes the illness of the dreamer or of a near relative (Raphael).", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Passing-Bell” is shown on the Passing Bell page: same heading; hyphen variant" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "passion", "title": "Passion", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “To dream that you are very passionate with some one, denotes that you are likely to be afflicted with some dangerous sickness, probably unto…”", "aliases": [ "passion" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about passion stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "noe-0378", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Passion", "text": "To dream that you are very passionate with some one, denotes\nthat you are likely to be afflicted with some dangerous sickness, probably\nunto death. If you dream that some one is in a passion with you, it\nbetokens some good fortune is about to attend you.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 384; source lines 1475–1478", "lineStart": 1475, "lineEnd": 1478, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are very passionate with some one, denotes\nthat you are likely to be afflicted with some dangerous sickness, probably\nunto death. If you dream that some one is in a passion with you, it\nbetokens some good fortune is about to attend you." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "passport", "title": "Passport", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "aliases": [ "passport", "passports", "missing passport", "lost passport", "expired passport", "passport photo" ], "summary": "A passport can picture identity needing recognition before a transition. Losing it differs from discovering that its name or photograph no longer fits.", "tagline": "Who you know yourself to be must match what lets you pass into a new setting.", "psychological": "A passport can picture the point where personal identity must be recognized by a system before you can proceed. You may know who you are and where you want to go, yet still need the document to make that movement available. Applying for a role, entering a new community, or waiting for approval can have a similar structure: intention and readiness are not the only conditions.\n\nA missing passport can make dependence on one small resource feel disproportionate. Most of the journey is prepared, but one absent item interrupts everything. An unavailable reference, forgotten information, or unfinished administrative task may fit. The dream can also be a direct return to ordinary travel preparation rather than a metaphor for identity.\n\nA wrong name or unfamiliar photograph creates another tension. The document belongs to you, but its representation does not match how you recognize yourself. This may picture entering a new role while being evaluated through an older version of your experience, or feeling expected to present yourself in a form that no longer fits.\n\nAn expired passport can suggest that a previously useful form of access is no longer sufficient within the scene. A familiar credential, routine, or way of introducing yourself may need adjustment for a changed setting. Receiving a new passport can instead picture recognition catching up with a transition you have already begun.\n\nStamps or pages from earlier journeys may center continuity: past experiences form part of your account without determining where you go next. Real documents, trips, photographs, and remembered checks can also supply the image. These original readings concern dreamed access and representation, not actual permission to travel or the validity of a document.", "traditional": "This entry treats the passport as a specific identity document in an original contemporary reflection. No verified historical passport passage is used. Broader material about journeys or papers does not establish a meaning for its photograph, expiry, or presentation; the listed research provides general dream background only.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Identity awaiting recognition", "reflection": "The document can picture needing external acknowledgment before a transition becomes available. You may feel ready to proceed while approval, information, or a formal representation still determines access." }, { "title": "An older representation no longer fits", "reflection": "A wrong photograph, name, or expired document can suggest being understood through a version of yourself that does not match present circumstances. The difficulty concerns recognition, not simply direction." }, { "title": "One resource enables a larger journey", "reflection": "A missing passport can make dependence on a small item concrete. Much may be prepared while an unavailable detail interrupts movement, even when the destination remains wanted." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "The passport is missing just before departure", "reflection": "A nearly complete plan can still depend on one enabling detail. A reference, document, or decision that has not arrived may offer a parallel. The scene makes practical access central: wanting the journey and preparing most of it are not enough to start.", "slug": "scene-1" }, { "title": "The photograph looks like someone you no longer recognize", "reflection": "This can picture being represented by an older role or public image. Returning to a group after a major change or applying for work through past credentials may feel similar. The mismatch is between present identity and the account others are using.", "slug": "scene-2" }, { "title": "Your passport is expired at the checkpoint", "reflection": "A previously effective form of access may not fit a new setting. A familiar introduction, routine, or skill can seem insufficient when expectations change. The scene can explore adjustment without determining anything about the expiry or acceptability of your actual travel documents.", "slug": "scene-3" }, { "title": "You are given a new passport with your correct name", "reflection": "Recognition can catch up with a change you already understand privately. A new responsibility, changed family role, or accepted application may offer a parallel. Relief comes from the representation fitting you, rather than merely from possessing an impressive or valuable object.", "slug": "scene-4" }, { "title": "You try to use someone else's passport", "reflection": "Borrowed identity can picture entering a setting through another person's example or expectations. Taking over a role or being compared with a relative may fit. Awkwardness may concern presenting a version that gains access but does not feel like your own.", "slug": "scene-5" }, { "title": "You examine pages filled with old journey stamps", "reflection": "The document can become an account of where you have been rather than an obstacle to departure. Reviewing earlier work, moves, or relationships may feel similar. Pride or unease gives the past different weight, while empty pages leave room for a destination not yet chosen.", "slug": "scene-6" } ], "prompts": [ "What part of my identity needed recognition before I could proceed?", "Did the document fit my present experience or represent an older role?", "What small resource or approval carried unusual power over the larger journey?" ], "related": [ "missing-a-flight-or-train", "airplane", "locked-out", "an-interview-at-a-border-crossing" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia editorial entry with image-specific interpretations and six differentiated scenes. The reference supplies general dream background only. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "password", "title": "Password", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "aliases": [ "password" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1496" ], "scope": "Miller assigns influential help to a password and a separate gendered moral/standing forecast to giving it away. This predates contemporary account logins and is not evidence about digital security. Specific supplied passages: Password — miller-1496 (Heading 1500; source lines 16994–17001). Historical comparison only; these period beliefs do not establish outcomes or validate the original symbolic reflections." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "summary": "A password may focus on gaining access, showing permission and deciding what to share within a particular arrangement.", "tagline": "The condition attached to access.", "psychological": "A password in a dream is a word or sequence that allows entry, use or recognition. It may belong to a device, an account, a door or a spoken exchange. Begin with the place or activity beyond it: what do you want access to, and why does knowing the password matter? Difficulty entering does not automatically represent a hidden part of yourself.\n\nKnowing the password can create different experiences. You may feel included because someone has trusted you with it, or burdened because everyone expects you to remember it. A familiar phrase that suddenly fails may emphasize a changed arrangement rather than forgetting alone. The dream cannot assess real credentials, access rights or your ability to remember them.\n\nIf you are asked for a password you were never given, the scene could resemble an unclear requirement in a team, service or shared task. You want to participate but lack an instruction assumed to be obvious. Ask what information would make the entry understandable, rather than treating exclusion as proof that you do not belong.\n\nSharing can become the central question. Giving the word to a person may offer practical cooperation; saying it where everyone can hear may change the scope of access. Notice what you intended to share and with whom. The dream does not establish that information has actually leaked or that another person should be trusted with a real password.\n\nSometimes the sequence is less important than the process of entry. Repeated prompts, an unfamiliar interface or a rule that changes halfway through can make an ordinary task feel difficult. A possible waking comparison is a procedure whose steps are unclear or whose completion depends on other people. Keep that comparison specific to the dreamed obstacle.\n\nActual login experiences, workplace systems, games or remembered spoken passwords can supply the scene directly. Use it to reflect on conditions of participation and the amount of explanation available. What did the password permit, which part of the requirement was clear, and what form of access did you want? No dreamed sequence needs to be treated as a real credential or a message to decode.", "traditional": "Miller’s Password passage predates contemporary account logins: it gives an influential-help forecast and a separate gendered judgment about giving away the word. Those period claims do not establish character, trustworthiness or security. The original reflections consider the dreamed conditions of access without treating Miller as a source on digital systems.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Access to a particular activity", "reflection": "What lies beyond the password may matter more than the sequence, especially when you know why you want to enter." }, { "title": "Instructions assumed to be obvious", "reflection": "An unknown or changing requirement can make the amount of explanation available within an arrangement noticeable." }, { "title": "The intended reach of sharing", "reflection": "Speaking, withholding or passing along the password may focus on whom you meant to include and what participation involves." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "Being asked for a word nobody has explained", "reflection": "You reach the entrance but cannot meet a requirement that others seem to know. The scene might resemble joining a task with missing instructions. What would make participation understandable? The unknown word does not establish that you lack the qualities needed to belong." }, { "title": "A familiar password stops working", "reflection": "You enter the sequence you have always used, but access is refused. This could highlight a changed arrangement or an expectation that no longer applies. Ask what explanation you seek in the dream, without concluding that a real account is compromised or that your memory is failing." }, { "title": "Knowing the password while others wait for your help", "reflection": "People rely on you to open the shared space, and you must decide how to assist. The scene may focus on holding a practical responsibility rather than possessing special status. Notice whether giving guidance, entering the word or sharing access feels like the part you want to play." }, { "title": "Giving the word to one person in a crowded room", "reflection": "You intend a limited exchange, but the surroundings make the audience uncertain. Consider what difference that makes to your chosen sharing. The dream can clarify a preference about scope without establishing that any actual secret has been exposed or judging the recipient's character." }, { "title": "The entry rule changes halfway through", "reflection": "After completing one step, you discover another condition with no explanation. This might resemble a procedure whose endpoint feels unclear. Ask which instruction would help you proceed and what you can actually change, rather than interpreting the sequence as a test with one concealed correct answer." }, { "title": "Choosing not to enter after learning what lies beyond", "reflection": "You obtain the password, then decide the activity is not what you wanted. The scene may distinguish having permission from choosing to participate. Notice what information changes your preference; declining access need not mean fear, failure or rejection of everyone already inside." } ], "prompts": [ "What place or activity did the password give access to?", "How were the entry requirements explained or changed?", "Whom did you intend to include, and what did sharing permit?" ], "related": [ "a-forgotten-phone-password", "privacy", "door", "telephone", "phone-not-working" ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1496", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Password", "text": "To dream of a password, foretells you will have influential aid\nin some slight trouble soon to attack you. For a woman to dream\nthat she has given away the password, signifies she will endanger\nher own standing through seeking frivolous or illicit desires.", "locator": "Heading 1500; source lines 16994–17001", "lineStart": 16994, "lineEnd": 17001, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a password, foretells you will have influential aid\nin some slight trouble soon to attack you. For a woman to dream\nthat she has given away the password, signifies she will endanger\nher own standing through seeking frivolous or illicit desires." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "pasteboard", "title": "Pasteboard", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of pasteboard, denotes that unfaithful friends will deceive you concerning important matters.”", "aliases": [ "pasteboard" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about pasteboard stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1497", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Pasteboard", "text": "To dream of pasteboard, denotes that unfaithful friends will deceive\nyou concerning important matters. To cut pasteboard, you will throw\naside difficulties in your struggle to reach eminent positions.", "locator": "Heading 1501; source lines 17001–17007", "lineStart": 17001, "lineEnd": 17007, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of pasteboard, denotes that unfaithful friends will deceive\nyou concerning important matters. To cut pasteboard, you will throw\naside difficulties in your struggle to reach eminent positions." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "pastry", "title": "Pastry", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of pastry, denotes that you will be deceived by some artful person.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "pastry" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about pastry stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "pies" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1498", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Pastry", "text": "To dream of pastry, denotes that you will be deceived by some artful person.\n\nTo eat it, implies heartfelt friendships.\n\nIf a young woman dreams that she is cooking it, she will fail\nto deceive others as to her real intentions.\n\n\n[149] See Pies.", "locator": "Heading 1502; source lines 17007–17019", "lineStart": 17007, "lineEnd": 17019, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of pastry, denotes that you will be deceived by some artful person.\n\nTo eat it, implies heartfelt friendships.\n\nIf a young woman dreams that she is cooking it, she will fail\nto deceive others as to her real intentions. 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Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0551", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Pasture", "text": "(_See Cattle._) To dream of seeing cattle feeding in a\ngreen and rich pasture, foretells thrift and wealth: if the grass is\nsun-burnt and only green in patches, and the cattle look lean, the sign\nis the reverse; and such a dream denotes short crops to farmers. 6, 11,\n66.", "locator": "Heading 551; source line 3612", "lineStart": 3612, "lineEnd": 3618, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Cattle.) To dream of seeing cattle feeding in a\ngreen and rich pasture, foretells thrift and wealth: if the grass is\nsun-burnt and only green in patches, and the cattle look lean, the sign\nis the reverse; and such a dream denotes short crops to farmers. 6, 11," } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1499", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Patch", "text": "To dream that you have patches upon your clothing, denotes that you\nwill show no false pride in the discharge of obligations.\n\nTo see others wearing patches, denotes want and misery are near.\n\nIf a young woman discovers a patch on her new dress, it indicates\nthat she will find trouble facing her when she imagines her happiest\nmoments are approaching near. If she tries to hide the patches,\nshe will endeavor to keep some ugly trait in her character from her lover.\nIf she is patching, she will assume duties for which she has no liking.\n\nFor a woman to do family patching, denotes close and loving bonds\nin the family, but a scarcity of means is portended.", "locator": "Heading 1503; source lines 17019–17035", "lineStart": 17019, "lineEnd": 17035, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you have patches upon your clothing, denotes that you\nwill show no false pride in the discharge of obligations.\n\nTo see others wearing patches, denotes want and misery are near.\n\nIf a young woman discovers a patch on her new dress, it indicates\nthat she will find trouble facing her when she imagines her happiest\nmoments are approaching near. If she tries to hide the patches,\nshe will endeavor to keep some ugly trait in her character from her lover.\nIf she is patching, she will assume duties for which she has no liking.\n\nFor a woman to do family patching, denotes close and loving bonds\nin the family, but a scarcity of means is portended." }, { "id": "fontaine-0552", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Patches", "text": "For a woman to dream of patching the clothes of her husband or\nchildren, is an excellent omen, as it denotes that each patch will be a\ngood lump of money brought into the family. 5.", "locator": "Heading 552; source line 3618", "lineStart": 3618, "lineEnd": 3622, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a woman to dream of patching the clothes of her husband or\nchildren, is an excellent omen, as it denotes that each patch will be a\ngood lump of money brought into the family." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11293", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Patches", "heading": "Patches", "text": "For a woman to dream of patching her husband's or her children's garments is an excellent augury of well-being and riches (Raphael), Frugality and thrift are invariably recorded as happy omens.", "lineStart": 11293, "lineEnd": 11302, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 241–242; NLM OCR lines 11293–11302", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11293, "lineEnd": 11302, "printedPage": 241, "printedPageEnd": 242 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Patches. — For a woman to dream of patching her hus- \nband's or her children's garments is an excellent augury of \n\n\n242 THE FABRIC OF DREAMS \n\n\nwell-being and riches (Raphael), Frugality and thrift are in- \nvariably recorded as happy omens. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [ { "line": 11297, "text": "242 THE FABRIC OF DREAMS " } ], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "hus- \nband", "after": "husband", "evidenceLine": 1555 }, { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "in- \nvariably", "after": "invariably", "evidenceLine": 432 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Patches" }, "displayText": "For a woman to dream of patching her husband's or her children's garments is an excellent augury of well-being and riches (Raphael), Frugality and thrift are invariably recorded as happy omens." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "patent", "title": "Patent", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of securing a patent, denotes that you will be careful and painstaking with any task you set about to accomplish.”", "aliases": [ "patent" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about patent stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1500", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Patent", "text": "To dream of securing a patent, denotes that you will be careful\nand painstaking with any task you set about to accomplish.\nIf you fail in securing your patent, you will suffer failure\nfor the reason that you are engaging in enterprises for which you\nhave no ability.\n\nIf you buy one, you will have occasion to make a tiresome\nand fruitless journey.\n\nTo see one, you will suffer unpleasantness from illness.", "locator": "Heading 1504; source lines 17035–17048", "lineStart": 17035, "lineEnd": 17048, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of securing a patent, denotes that you will be careful\nand painstaking with any task you set about to accomplish.\nIf you fail in securing your patent, you will suffer failure\nfor the reason that you are engaging in enterprises for which you\nhave no ability.\n\nIf you buy one, you will have occasion to make a tiresome\nand fruitless journey.\n\nTo see one, you will suffer unpleasantness from illness." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1501", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Patent Medicine", "text": "To dream that you resort to patent medicine in your search for health,\ndenotes that you will use desperate measures in advancing your fortune,\nbut you will succeed, to the disappointment of the envious.\n\nTo see or manufacture patent medicines, you will rise from obscurity\nto positions above your highest imaginings.", "locator": "Heading 1505; source lines 17048–17057", "lineStart": 17048, "lineEnd": 17057, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you resort to patent medicine in your search for health,\ndenotes that you will use desperate measures in advancing your fortune,\nbut you will succeed, to the disappointment of the envious.\n\nTo see or manufacture patent medicines, you will rise from obscurity\nto positions above your highest imaginings." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "patent-right", "title": "Patent Right", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “To dream of procuring a patent for an invention of your own, shows that you will never realize anything from it: if money is to be made by…”", "aliases": [ "patent right" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about patent right stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0553", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Patent Right", "text": "To dream of procuring a patent for an invention of your\nown, shows that you will never realize anything from it: if money is\nto be made by it, some one else will get the benefit: if you dream of\ngetting a patent for some other person, it is a sign of good luck in a\nspeculation. 33, 17.", "locator": "Heading 553; source line 3622", "lineStart": 3622, "lineEnd": 3628, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of procuring a patent for an invention of your\nown, shows that you will never realize anything from it: if money is\nto be made by it, some one else will get the benefit: if you dream of\ngetting a patent for some other person, it is a sign of good luck in a\nspeculation." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "path", "title": "Path", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are walking in a narrow and rough path, stumbling over rocks and other obstructions,…” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "path", "paths" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about path stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1502", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Path", "text": "To dream that you are walking in a narrow and rough path,\nstumbling over rocks and other obstructions, denotes that you\nwill have a rough encounter with adversity, and feverish\nexcitement will weigh heavily upon you.\n\nTo dream that you are trying to find your path, foretells that you will fail\nto accomplish some work that you have striven to push to desired ends.\n\nTo walk through a pathway bordered with green grass and flowers,\ndenotes your freedom from oppressing loves.", "locator": "Heading 1506; source lines 17057–17070", "lineStart": 17057, "lineEnd": 17070, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are walking in a narrow and rough path,\nstumbling over rocks and other obstructions, denotes that you\nwill have a rough encounter with adversity, and feverish\nexcitement will weigh heavily upon you.\n\nTo dream that you are trying to find your path, foretells that you will fail\nto accomplish some work that you have striven to push to desired ends.\n\nTo walk through a pathway bordered with green grass and flowers,\ndenotes your freedom from oppressing loves." }, { "id": "fontaine-0554", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Paths", "text": "To dream you are walking in a broad, good pathway, denotes\nhealth and success; in love it shows you will meet with a sweetheart,\nwho will make you happy, but if the path is crooked it foretells\ntrouble to the dreamer. 44.", "locator": "Heading 554; source line 3628", "lineStart": 3628, "lineEnd": 3633, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are walking in a broad, good pathway, denotes\nhealth and success; in love it shows you will meet with a sweetheart,\nwho will make you happy, but if the path is crooked it foretells\ntrouble to the dreamer." }, { "id": "noe-0409", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Paths", "text": "To dream in path both straight and fair,\n Your work doth happiness declare;\n But crooked ways denote much ill\n To those who have a headstrong will.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 415; source lines 1551–1558", "lineStart": 1551, "lineEnd": 1558, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream in path both straight and fair,\nYour work doth happiness declare;\nBut crooked ways denote much ill\nTo those who have a headstrong will." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11303", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Path", "heading": "Path", "text": "To dream of a straight path denotes success and virtue, a crooked and thorny path forecasts disappointment and treachery (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 11303, "lineEnd": 11306, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 242; NLM OCR lines 11303–11306", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11303, "lineEnd": 11306, "printedPage": 242, "printedPageEnd": 242 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Path. — To dream of a straight path denotes success and vir- \ntue, a crooked and thorny path forecasts disappointment and \ntreachery (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "vir- \ntue", "after": "virtue", "evidenceLine": 911 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Path" }, "displayText": "To dream of a straight path denotes success and virtue, a crooked and thorny path forecasts disappointment and treachery (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "beggar" ] }, { "slug": "pawn-shop", "title": "Pawn-shop", "type": "dreams", "category": "Other symbols", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “If in your dreams you enter a pawn-shop, you will find disappointments and losses in your waking moments.”", "aliases": [ "pawn-shop" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about pawn-shop stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "pawnbroker", "title": "Pawnbroker", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “If you dream of pawning any of your goods at a pawnbroker’s, provided you have never patronized such a…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "pawnbroker" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about pawnbroker stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0556", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Pawnbroker", "text": "If you dream of pawning any of your goods at a\npawnbroker’s, provided you have never patronized such a place, it\nforetells that fortune is about to smile on you, and if you take\nadvantage of the circumstance, you will surely get rich. To lazy and\nshiftless people, such a dream would not be of much account. 4, 11, 22.", "locator": "Heading 556; source line 3638", "lineStart": 3638, "lineEnd": 3644, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream of pawning any of your goods at a\npawnbroker’s, provided you have never patronized such a place, it\nforetells that fortune is about to smile on you, and if you take\nadvantage of the circumstance, you will surely get rich. To lazy and\nshiftless people, such a dream would not be of much account." }, { "id": "cielo-0311", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Pawnbroker", "text": "To go to a pawnbroker signifies a serious loss.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 311; source lines 4611–4613", "lineStart": 4611, "lineEnd": 4613, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To go to a pawnbroker signifies a serious loss." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1506", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Peaches", "text": "Dreaming of seeing or eating peaches, implies the sickness of children,\ndisappointing returns in business, and failure to make anticipated\nvisits of pleasure; but if you see them on trees with foliage,\nyou will secure some desired position or thing after much striving\nand risking of health and money.\n\nTo see dried peaches, denotes that enemies will steal from you.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of gathering luscious peaches from\nwell-filled trees, she will, by her personal charms and qualifications,\nwin a husband rich in worldly goods and wise in travel.\nIf the peaches prove to be green and knotty, she will meet\nwith unkindness from relatives and ill health will steal\naway her attractions.\n\n\n[151] See Orchard.", "locator": "Heading 1510; source lines 17102–17122", "lineStart": 17102, "lineEnd": 17122, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Dreaming of seeing or eating peaches, implies the sickness of children,\ndisappointing returns in business, and failure to make anticipated\nvisits of pleasure; but if you see them on trees with foliage,\nyou will secure some desired position or thing after much striving\nand risking of health and money.\n\nTo see dried peaches, denotes that enemies will steal from you.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of gathering luscious peaches from\nwell-filled trees, she will, by her personal charms and qualifications,\nwin a husband rich in worldly goods and wise in travel.\nIf the peaches prove to be green and knotty, she will meet\nwith unkindness from relatives and ill health will steal\naway her attractions. See Orchard." }, { "id": "fontaine-0557", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Peaches", "text": "To dream of fine, ripe, yellow peaches, denotes that you will\nget just so much yellow gold, which makes this dream a splendid one\nfor gold-diggers: if the peaches you dream about are very red, or look\nsmall and wilted, it shows that your gold will turn out to be about\nhalf copper, or that your luck will not amount to much. 17, 1, 9.", "locator": "Heading 557; source line 3644", "lineStart": 3644, "lineEnd": 3650, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of fine, ripe, yellow peaches, denotes that you will\nget just so much yellow gold, which makes this dream a splendid one\nfor gold-diggers: if the peaches you dream about are very red, or look\nsmall and wilted, it shows that your gold will turn out to be about\nhalf copper, or that your luck will not amount to much." }, { "id": "noe-0387", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Peaches", "text": "Dreaming of peaches in\nseason, denotes content, health and pleasure.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 393; source lines 1495–1496", "lineStart": 1495, "lineEnd": 1496, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Dreaming of peaches in\nseason, denotes content, health and pleasure." }, { "id": "cielo-0312", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Peaches", "text": "To dream of eating peaches denotes pleasure\n and contentment.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 312; source lines 4613–4616", "lineStart": 4613, "lineEnd": 4616, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of eating peaches denotes pleasure\nand contentment." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11310", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Peaches", "heading": "Peaches", "text": "To dream of them in season denotes contentment, wealth and pleasure (Artemidorus). A Chinese symbol of longevity and good fortune ; the peach-tree was also the symbol of the Paradise of Osiris.", "lineStart": 11310, "lineEnd": 11314, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 242; NLM OCR lines 11310–11314", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11310, "lineEnd": 11314, "printedPage": 242, "printedPageEnd": 242 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Peaches. — To dream of them in season denotes content- \nment, wealth and pleasure (Artemidorus). 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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For a girl to dream of a peacock, shows that she will have\nan empty-headed fop for a lover, who will turn out to be as poor as a\nrat. 65, 54.", "locator": "Heading 558; source line 3650", "lineStart": 3650, "lineEnd": 3656, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of this proud bird, is a sign of poverty; if you\nimagine that he spreads his tail, and exhibits all his finery, so much\nthe worse. For a girl to dream of a peacock, shows that she will have\nan empty-headed fop for a lover, who will turn out to be as poor as a\nrat." }, { "id": "noe-0410", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Peacock", "text": "To dream of seeing this beautiful bird, is a very good omen.\nIt denotes great success in trade. To a man, a very beautiful wife, much\nriches, and a good place. To a maid, a good and rich husband. To a widow,\nthat she will be courted by one who will tell her very fine tales without\nbeing sincere. It also denotes prosperity by sea and a handsome wife in a\ndistant port.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 416; source lines 1558–1563", "lineStart": 1558, "lineEnd": 1563, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing this beautiful bird, is a very good omen.\nIt denotes great success in trade. To a man, a very beautiful wife, much\nriches, and a good place. To a maid, a good and rich husband. To a widow,\nthat she will be courted by one who will tell her very fine tales without\nbeing sincere. It also denotes prosperity by sea and a handsome wife in a\ndistant port." }, { "id": "cielo-0313", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Peacock", "text": "Foretells victory.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 313; source lines 4616–4618", "lineStart": 4616, "lineEnd": 4618, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Foretells victory." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11315", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Peacock", "heading": "Peacock", "text": "To see one spreading its tail denotes wealth and a handsome wife ; for a woman this is a dream forecasting the promotion of her husband to popular favor. To a young woman it symbolizes vanity and the attempted seduction by a coxcomb (Gypsy). The early Christians held it as the symbol of immortality. It was also the bird of Juno, who cursed whosoever should pluck its feathers; their children should never be well, nor should men come for their daughters ; hence the superstition attached to these feathers. 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The modern sym- \nbol of pomp and vanity. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "sym- \nbol", "after": "symbol", "evidenceLine": 2325 }, { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "sym- \nbol", "after": "symbol", "evidenceLine": 2325 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Peacock" }, "displayText": "To see one spreading its tail denotes wealth and a handsome wife; for a woman this is a dream forecasting the promotion of her husband to popular favor. To a young woman it symbolizes vanity and the attempted seduction by a coxcomb (Gypsy). The early Christians held it as the symbol of immortality. It was also the bird of Juno, who cursed whosoever should pluck its feathers; their children should never be well, nor should men come for their daughters; hence the superstition attached to these feathers. The modern symbol of pomp and vanity." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "peanut-butter", "title": "Peanut Butter", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "summary": "Peanut butter can picture attachment, distributing a limited resource, and how a useful contribution may leave effects beyond its intended place.", "tagline": "What holds together may also linger.", "aliases": [ "peanut butter" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "Peanut butter sticking to a utensil or your mouth can picture a contribution that remains attached after you want to move on. An engaging discussion may be difficult to end, a helpful role may accumulate continuing expectations, or a small practical task may leave unexpected work behind. The same adhesion can be useful when you want ingredients to stay together. The dream’s feeling distinguishes welcome connection from contact that becomes awkward to release.\n\nSpreading a small amount over a large surface can make distribution more important than the resource’s total size. Time divided between several people, attention allocated across tasks, or a limited budget shared among needs may offer parallels. A thin layer can be enough if it suits the purpose. Frustration may instead arise when every part is expected to receive more than the whole supply can provide. Changing the expectation differs from repeatedly stretching the same portion.\n\nWhat remains at the bottom of a jar can picture a resource that exists but is not conveniently accessible. Information, assistance, or a little remaining time may be available only through an awkward process. A different tool or container changes access more directly than blaming yourself for not reaching. Pleasure in using the last portion can also express attention to what would otherwise be overlooked, rather than anxiety about scarcity.\n\nA familiar comfort food refused by someone else can make preferences separate without making care unsuccessful. What reassures you may not offer the same experience to another participant. A shared routine can work better when that difference is allowed. Whole peanuts becoming a uniform paste creates another relationship with combination: parts gain a useful form while losing the possibility of being recovered separately. A collective result may carry the same tradeoff.\n\nSticky traces across unrelated objects can make the reach of an action visible. A minor task may affect the next conversation or activity even after its apparent end. A sandwich, shopping trip, kitchen memory, or actual taste may explain the image directly. These reflective comparisons concern use, attachment, and distribution; they do not infer an allergy, nutritional need, or physical condition from the dream food.", "traditional": "No directly matching historical account is attached for this specific topic. The readings here are original reflective possibilities. The NINDS source provides general background about dreams, not evidence for these symbolic comparisons.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Attachment and release", "reflection": "A useful connection can become awkward when its effects continue after the intended task ends." }, { "title": "Distribution within limits", "reflection": "A shared resource may require expectations that fit its actual amount." }, { "title": "Combining and losing separation", "reflection": "A useful whole can preserve contributions while changing how distinctly they remain available." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "The spread sticks to your mouth or utensil", "reflection": "The contact continues after you want the next movement to be easy. This may picture a discussion or role that is hard to leave. Welcome attachment creates another reading from an obligation whose lingering terms were never part of your initial agreement." }, { "title": "A small portion must cover a large surface", "reflection": "Distribution asks more of a resource than its amount comfortably provides. This can picture time or attention divided across needs. A thin layer may suit the purpose; dissatisfaction can instead concern expectations that remain unchanged while the available portion is limited." }, { "title": "The last part is difficult to reach", "reflection": "A visible resource has inconvenient access. This may resemble support or information available through an awkward system. A changed tool can alter the task more directly than greater effort, while satisfaction in the remainder can make careful use central." }, { "title": "A companion does not want your familiar comfort food", "reflection": "A shared offering meets a different preference. This can picture discovering that what reassures you does not suit everyone. Allowing another choice preserves the possibility of care without requiring the recipient to confirm your own association through identical enjoyment." }, { "title": "Whole peanuts become a uniform paste", "reflection": "Separate components gain another useful form. This may picture a collective result that no longer displays each contribution distinctly. Satisfaction in the combination differs from wanting an individual part back, without requiring one form to be universally better than the other." }, { "title": "Sticky traces remain on unrelated objects", "reflection": "A small task affects more places than intended. This can resemble continuing consequences after an activity seemed complete. Help with cleanup or a changed method gives another response from expecting the effect to disappear simply because the original purpose has ended." } ], "prompts": [ "Which connection is useful, and where does release become difficult?", "How do expectations relate to the resource being shared?", "What changes when separate contributions become one usable whole?" ], "related": [ "peanuts", "bread", "cooking", "kitchen" ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "peanuts", "title": "Peanuts", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “To dream of an abundance of ground-nuts, or peanuts, shows that you will be poor, but contented, healthy…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "peanuts" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about peanuts stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0559", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Peanuts", "text": "To dream of an abundance of ground-nuts, or peanuts, shows\nthat you will be poor, but contented, healthy and happy. If a married\nwoman in the family-way dreams of them, it is a sign she will have a\nboy. 11.", "locator": "Heading 559; source line 3656", "lineStart": 3656, "lineEnd": 3661, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of an abundance of ground-nuts, or peanuts, shows\nthat you will be poor, but contented, healthy and happy. If a married\nwoman in the family-way dreams of them, it is a sign she will have a\nboy." }, { "id": "cielo-0314", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Peanuts", "text": "To eat peanuts signifies a lawsuit.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 314; source lines 4618–4620", "lineStart": 4618, "lineEnd": 4620, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To eat peanuts signifies a lawsuit." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "pearls", "title": "Pearls", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "5 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of pearls, is a forerunner of good business and trade and affairs of social nature.” Compare 5 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "pearls", "pearl" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about pearls stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1508", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Pearls", "text": "To dream of pearls, is a forerunner of good business and trade\nand affairs of social nature.\n\nIf a young woman dreams that her lover sends her gifts of pearls,\nshe will indeed be most fortunate, as there will be occasions of\nfestivity and pleasure for her, besides a loving and faithful affianced\ndevoid of the jealous inclinations so ruinous to the peace of lovers.\nIf she loses or breaks her pearls, she will suffer indescribable\nsadness and sorrow through bereavement or misunderstandings.\nTo find herself admiring them, she will covet and strive for love\nor possessions with a pureness of purpose.", "locator": "Heading 1512; source lines 17136–17150", "lineStart": 17136, "lineEnd": 17150, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of pearls, is a forerunner of good business and trade\nand affairs of social nature.\n\nIf a young woman dreams that her lover sends her gifts of pearls,\nshe will indeed be most fortunate, as there will be occasions of\nfestivity and pleasure for her, besides a loving and faithful affianced\ndevoid of the jealous inclinations so ruinous to the peace of lovers.\nIf she loses or breaks her pearls, she will suffer indescribable\nsadness and sorrow through bereavement or misunderstandings.\nTo find herself admiring them, she will covet and strive for love\nor possessions with a pureness of purpose." }, { "id": "fontaine-0561", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Pearls", "text": "To dream of these gems, denotes poverty and misery; if a\ngirl dreams that a lover gives her a piece of jewelry set in pearls,\nit shows that he will never be well off; and if she imagines that\nhe presents her with a string or necklace of pearls, she may safely\ncalculate that he will turn out to be a wretchedly poor man. 56.", "locator": "Heading 561; source line 3666", "lineStart": 3666, "lineEnd": 3672, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of these gems, denotes poverty and misery; if a\ngirl dreams that a lover gives her a piece of jewelry set in pearls,\nit shows that he will never be well off; and if she imagines that\nhe presents her with a string or necklace of pearls, she may safely\ncalculate that he will turn out to be a wretchedly poor man." }, { "id": "cielo-0315", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Pearls", "text": "To dream of receiving or wearing pearls\n signifies tears and distress.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 315; source lines 4620–4623", "lineStart": 4620, "lineEnd": 4623, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of receiving or wearing pearls\nsignifies tears and distress." }, { "id": "luck-0191", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Pearls", "text": "Weeping and tears, hard times, worry, and treason.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 191; source lines 4010–4012", "lineStart": 4010, "lineEnd": 4012, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Weeping and tears, hard times, worry, and treason." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11326", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Pearls", "heading": "Pearls", "text": "A dream of tears (Gypsy). The jewel is also symbolical of weeping, especially to brides.", "lineStart": 11326, "lineEnd": 11328, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 242; NLM OCR lines 11326–11328", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11326, "lineEnd": 11328, "printedPage": 242, "printedPageEnd": 242 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Pearls. — A dream of tears (Gypsy). The jewel is also \nsymbolical of weeping, especially to brides. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Pearls" }, "displayText": "A dream of tears (Gypsy). The jewel is also symbolical of weeping, especially to brides." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1509", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Pears", "text": "To dream of eating pears, denotes poor success and debilitating health.\n\nTo admire the golden fruit upon graceful trees, denotes that fortune\nwill wear a more promising aspect than formerly.\n\nTo dream of gathering them, denotes pleasant surprises will follow\nquickly upon disappointment.\n\nTo preserve them, denotes that you will take reverses philosophically.\n\nBaking them, denotes insipid love and friendships.", "locator": "Heading 1513; source lines 17150–17164", "lineStart": 17150, "lineEnd": 17164, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of eating pears, denotes poor success and debilitating health.\n\nTo admire the golden fruit upon graceful trees, denotes that fortune\nwill wear a more promising aspect than formerly.\n\nTo dream of gathering them, denotes pleasant surprises will follow\nquickly upon disappointment.\n\nTo preserve them, denotes that you will take reverses philosophically.\n\nBaking them, denotes insipid love and friendships." }, { "id": "fontaine-0562", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Pears", "text": "To dream of ripe, mellow pears, portends elevation in life,\nriches, honors, and constancy in love. If a woman with child dream of\nthem, she will have a daughter. To dream of unripe, choke-pears, is a\nsign of misfortunes, and inconstancy in love. 33.", "locator": "Heading 562; source line 3672", "lineStart": 3672, "lineEnd": 3677, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of ripe, mellow pears, portends elevation in life,\nriches, honors, and constancy in love. If a woman with child dream of\nthem, she will have a daughter. To dream of unripe, choke-pears, is a\nsign of misfortunes, and inconstancy in love." }, { "id": "noe-0388", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Pears", "text": "Dreaming of pears\nwell baked, denotes great success and expedition in business.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 394; source lines 1496–1498", "lineStart": 1496, "lineEnd": 1498, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Dreaming of pears\nwell baked, denotes great success and expedition in business." }, { "id": "cielo-0316", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Pears", "text": "Eating pears means long life and happiness.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 316; source lines 4623–4625", "lineStart": 4623, "lineEnd": 4625, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Eating pears means long life and happiness." }, { "id": "luck-0192", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Pears", "text": "(Gathering them) Pleasant companionship and enjoyment:\n(eating them) sickness and possibly death.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 192; source lines 4012–4015", "lineStart": 4012, "lineEnd": 4015, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(Gathering them) Pleasant companionship and enjoyment:\n(eating them) sickness and possibly death." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11329", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Pears", "heading": "Pears", "text": "A dream denoting sickness (Raphael). It was held as an emblem of the human heart (Bayley).", "lineStart": 11329, "lineEnd": 11331, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 242; NLM OCR lines 11329–11331", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11329, "lineEnd": 11331, "printedPage": 242, "printedPageEnd": 242 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Pears. — A dream denoting sickness (Raphael). It was held \nas an emblem of the human heart (Bayley). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Pears" }, "displayText": "A dream denoting sickness (Raphael). It was held as an emblem of the human heart (Bayley)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1510", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Peas", "text": "Dreaming of eating peas, augurs robust health and the accumulation of wealth.\nMuch activity is indicated for farmers and their women folks.\n\nTo see them growing, denotes fortunate enterprises.\n\nTo plant them, denotes that your hopes are well grounded and they\nwill be realized.\n\nTo gather them, signifies that your plans will culminate in good and you\nwill enjoy the fruits of your labors.\n\nTo dream of canned peas, denotes that your brightest hopes\nwill be enthralled in uncertainties for a short season,\nbut they will finally be released by fortune.\n\nTo see dried peas, denotes that you are overtaxing your health.\n\nTo eat dried peas, foretells that you will, after much success,\nsuffer a slight decrease in pleasure or wealth.", "locator": "Heading 1514; source lines 17164–17186", "lineStart": 17164, "lineEnd": 17186, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Dreaming of eating peas, augurs robust health and the accumulation of wealth.\nMuch activity is indicated for farmers and their women folks.\n\nTo see them growing, denotes fortunate enterprises.\n\nTo plant them, denotes that your hopes are well grounded and they\nwill be realized.\n\nTo gather them, signifies that your plans will culminate in good and you\nwill enjoy the fruits of your labors.\n\nTo dream of canned peas, denotes that your brightest hopes\nwill be enthralled in uncertainties for a short season,\nbut they will finally be released by fortune.\n\nTo see dried peas, denotes that you are overtaxing your health.\n\nTo eat dried peas, foretells that you will, after much success,\nsuffer a slight decrease in pleasure or wealth." }, { "id": "fontaine-0560", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Peas", "text": "To dream of eating green peas, is a sign of health; and if\nyou imagine that you eat crooked dry peas, it foretells both health\nand thrift. If you dream of feeding any animal with dry peas, it\nforeshadows good luck. 6.", "locator": "Heading 560; source line 3661", "lineStart": 3661, "lineEnd": 3666, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of eating green peas, is a sign of health; and if\nyou imagine that you eat crooked dry peas, it foretells both health\nand thrift. If you dream of feeding any animal with dry peas, it\nforeshadows good luck." }, { "id": "cielo-0317", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Peas", "text": "To dream of peas means good fortune.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 317; source lines 4625–4627", "lineStart": 4625, "lineEnd": 4627, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of peas means good fortune." }, { "id": "luck-0193", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Peas", "text": "(Seeing them growing) Fortunate enterprises: (cooked) good and\nspeedy success and enjoyment of well-gained riches.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 193; source lines 4015–4018", "lineStart": 4015, "lineEnd": 4018, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(Seeing them growing) Fortunate enterprises: (cooked) good and\nspeedy success and enjoyment of well-gained riches." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11332", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Peas", "heading": "Peas", "text": "A dream denoting success in business (Artemidorus).", "lineStart": 11332, "lineEnd": 11334, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 242; NLM OCR lines 11332–11334", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11332, "lineEnd": 11334, "printedPage": 242, "printedPageEnd": 242 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Peas. — A dream denoting success in business (Artemido- \nrus). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "Artemido- \nrus", "after": "Artemidorus", "evidenceLine": 485 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Peas" }, "displayText": "A dream denoting success in business (Artemidorus)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1511", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Pebbles", "text": "For a young woman to dream of a pebble-strewn walk, she will be vexed\nwith many rivals and find that there are others with charms that attract\nbesides her own. She who dreams of pebbles is selfish and should cultivate\nleniency towards others' faults.", "locator": "Heading 1515; source lines 17186–17193", "lineStart": 17186, "lineEnd": 17193, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a young woman to dream of a pebble-strewn walk, she will be vexed\nwith many rivals and find that there are others with charms that attract\nbesides her own. She who dreams of pebbles is selfish and should cultivate\nleniency towards others' faults." }, { "id": "luck-0194", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Pebbles", "text": "Sorrows and troubles: (young woman dreams) she will be made\nunhappy by attractive rivals.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 194; source lines 4018–4021", "lineStart": 4018, "lineEnd": 4021, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Sorrows and troubles: (young woman dreams) she will be made\nunhappy by attractive rivals." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "pecans", "title": "Pecans", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of eating this appetizing nut, you will see one of your dearest plans come to full fruition, and seeming failure prove a prosperous…”", "aliases": [ "pecans", "pecan" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about pecans stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1512", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Pecans", "text": "To dream of eating this appetizing nut, you will see one of your dearest\nplans come to full fruition, and seeming failure prove a prosperous\nsource of gain.\n\nTo see them growing among leaves, signifies a long, peaceful existence.\nFailure in love or business will follow in proportion as the pecan is decayed.\n\nIf they are difficult to crack and the fruit is small, you will succeed\nafter much trouble and expense, but returns will be meagre.", "locator": "Heading 1516; source lines 17193–17205", "lineStart": 17193, "lineEnd": 17205, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of eating this appetizing nut, you will see one of your dearest\nplans come to full fruition, and seeming failure prove a prosperous\nsource of gain.\n\nTo see them growing among leaves, signifies a long, peaceful existence.\nFailure in love or business will follow in proportion as the pecan is decayed.\n\nIf they are difficult to crack and the fruit is small, you will succeed\nafter much trouble and expense, but returns will be meagre." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "peddler", "title": "Peddler", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “If you dream of buying things of a peddler, it is a sign that some one will cheat you, or that one of…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "peddler" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about peddler stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0563", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Peddler", "text": "If you dream of buying things of a peddler, it is a sign that\nsome one will cheat you, or that one of your debtors will mysteriously\ndisappear, which amounts to about the same thing: if a lady housekeeper\ndreams this, let her look sharp that her servants do not rob or swindle\nher in some way. 42, 13.", "locator": "Heading 563; source line 3677", "lineStart": 3677, "lineEnd": 3683, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream of buying things of a peddler, it is a sign that\nsome one will cheat you, or that one of your debtors will mysteriously\ndisappear, which amounts to about the same thing: if a lady housekeeper\ndreams this, let her look sharp that her servants do not rob or swindle\nher in some way." }, { "id": "noe-0380", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Peddler", "text": "To dream of a peddler, signifies that you have a false\nestimate of your friends’ value, and that time will show them to be\nhypocrites.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 386; source lines 1481–1483", "lineStart": 1481, "lineEnd": 1483, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a peddler, signifies that you have a false\nestimate of your friends’ value, and that time will show them to be\nhypocrites." }, { "id": "luck-0195", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Peddler", "text": "Beware of false friends.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 195; source lines 4021–4023", "lineStart": 4021, "lineEnd": 4023, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Beware of false friends." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "pedestrian", "title": "Pedestrian", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “To dream of making a long journey on foot, betokens great hardships, false friends, loss of money, unhappy marriage connections and final…”", "aliases": [ "pedestrian" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about pedestrian stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "pelican", "title": "Pelican", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a pelican, denotes a mingling of disappointments with successes.”", "aliases": [ "pelican" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about pelican stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1513", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Pelican", "text": "To dream of a pelican, denotes a mingling of disappointments with successes.\n\nTo catch one, you will be able to overcome disappointing influences.\n\nTo kill one, denotes that you will cruelly set aside the rights of others.\n\nTo see them flying, you are threatened with changes, which will impress\nyou with ideas of uncertainty as to good.", "locator": "Heading 1517; source lines 17205–17216", "lineStart": 17205, "lineEnd": 17216, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a pelican, denotes a mingling of disappointments with successes.\n\nTo catch one, you will be able to overcome disappointing influences.\n\nTo kill one, denotes that you will cruelly set aside the rights of others.\n\nTo see them flying, you are threatened with changes, which will impress\nyou with ideas of uncertainty as to good." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "pen", "title": "Pen", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "5 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a pen, foretells you are unfortunately being led into serious complications by your love of…” Compare 5 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "pen", "pens" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about pen stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1514", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Pen", "text": "To dream of a pen, foretells you are unfortunately being\nled into serious complications by your love of adventure.\nIf the pen refuses to write, you will be charged with a serious\nbreach of morality.", "locator": "Heading 1518; source lines 17216–17223", "lineStart": 17216, "lineEnd": 17223, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a pen, foretells you are unfortunately being\nled into serious complications by your love of adventure.\nIf the pen refuses to write, you will be charged with a serious\nbreach of morality." }, { "id": "fontaine-0565", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Pens", "text": "To dream of writing with a steel pen, is a sign you will get\nyourself into a bad scrape, by tattling about your friends and\nneighbors. If the pen be gold, it foreshadows good news, and success\nin business and love affairs. To dream you are making a quill pen, is\na sign you have many enemies, but that you will triumph over them, and\nbe successful in all you undertake. But this dream does not amount to\nmuch, as it is only a  “set-off” to dreaming of a pen-knife, which is a\nbad omen. 28, 6.", "locator": "Heading 565; source line 3686", "lineStart": 3686, "lineEnd": 3695, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of writing with a steel pen, is a sign you will get\nyourself into a bad scrape, by tattling about your friends and\nneighbors. If the pen be gold, it foreshadows good news, and success\nin business and love affairs. To dream you are making a quill pen, is\na sign you have many enemies, but that you will triumph over them, and\nbe successful in all you undertake. But this dream does not amount to\nmuch, as it is only a  “set-off” to dreaming of a pen-knife, which is a\nbad omen." }, { "id": "cielo-0318", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Pen", "text": "To dream of holding or writing with a pen means\n good tidings.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 318; source lines 4627–4630", "lineStart": 4627, "lineEnd": 4630, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of holding or writing with a pen means\ngood tidings." }, { "id": "luck-0196", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Pen", "text": "Avoid a friend whose example and advice are bad.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 196; source lines 4023–4025", "lineStart": 4023, "lineEnd": 4025, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Avoid a friend whose example and advice are bad." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11335", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Pen", "heading": "Pen", "text": "Adversity, loss to a business man (Gypsy). 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Prob- \nably derived from the idea that knowledge interfered with the \naccomplishment of business. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "Prob- \nably", "after": "Probably", "evidenceLine": 487 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Pen" }, "displayText": "Adversity, loss to a business man (Gypsy). Probably derived from the idea that knowledge interfered with the accomplishment of business." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "pen-knife", "title": "Pen-Knife", "type": "dreams", "category": "Other symbols", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “To dream of a pen-knife, is a bad omen, and foretells loss in trade, attacks by thieves, and unfaithfulness in love.”", "aliases": [ "pen-knife" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about pen-knife stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0564", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Pen-Knife", "text": "To dream of a pen-knife, is a bad omen, and foretells loss\nin trade, attacks by thieves, and unfaithfulness in love. 29, 47.", "locator": "Heading 564; source line 3683", "lineStart": 3683, "lineEnd": 3686, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a pen-knife, is a bad omen, and foretells loss\nin trade, attacks by thieves, and unfaithfulness in love." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "penalties", "title": "Penalties", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you have penalties imposed upon you, foretells that you will have duties that will rile you and find you rebellious.”", "aliases": [ "penalties" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about penalties stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1515", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Penalties", "text": "To dream that you have penalties imposed upon you, foretells that you\nwill have duties that will rile you and find you rebellious.\n\nTo pay a penalty, denotes sickness and financial loss.\nTo escape the payment, you will be victor in some contest.", "locator": "Heading 1519; source lines 17223–17231", "lineStart": 17223, "lineEnd": 17231, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you have penalties imposed upon you, foretells that you\nwill have duties that will rile you and find you rebellious.\n\nTo pay a penalty, denotes sickness and financial loss.\nTo escape the payment, you will be victor in some contest." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "pencil", "title": "Pencil", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of pencils, denotes favorable occupations.”", "aliases": [ "pencil" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about pencil stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1516", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Pencil", "text": "To dream of pencils, denotes favorable occupations.\nFor a young woman to write with one, foretells she will\nbe fortunate in marriage, if she does not rub out words;\nin that case, she will be disappointed in her lover.", "locator": "Heading 1520; source lines 17231–17238", "lineStart": 17231, "lineEnd": 17238, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of pencils, denotes favorable occupations.\nFor a young woman to write with one, foretells she will\nbe fortunate in marriage, if she does not rub out words;\nin that case, she will be disappointed in her lover." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "penguin", "title": "Penguin", "category": "Animals", "aliases": [ "penguin", "penguins" ], "summary": "A penguin can frame belonging, adaptation, or a contrast between awkwardness and ease. Company, isolation, land, and water lead to different readings.", "psychological": "A penguin may give a dream a vivid contrast between how a creature moves in different settings. If it seems awkward on land and at ease in water, the image can picture the importance of fit rather than ability alone. You might feel uncomfortable in one role yet competent in another, or discover that a task becomes easier when its conditions change. The contrast in the dreamed movement is more useful than labeling the animal or yourself clumsy.\n\nA group of penguins can make belonging central. Moving together, sharing a place, or recognizing one member among many may resemble finding support within a community. Being unable to tell individuals apart can also make a group feel impersonal. The dream may ask whether being part of the whole offers reassurance, hides your own preferences, or makes it difficult to find the particular connection you want.\n\nA penguin standing alone changes that emphasis. Solitude can feel peaceful, exposed, or poignant depending on the setting and your response. Approaching it to help may reflect concern about someone who seems outside the group, or a part of your own experience that feels less supported. If the animal is content on its own, the scene may question an assumption that every separation needs to be repaired.\n\nAn unexpected setting can turn the story toward adaptation. A penguin in your home or workplace might be a playful visitor, a presence whose needs do not fit the environment, or a reminder of something you have seen recently. The distinctive appearance can also carry personal associations with formal dress, a character, or a remembered journey. Follow the animal's place, companions, and movement before deciding whether the dream concerns belonging, environmental fit, or simple delight.", "traditional": "This entry offers original interpretations of the dreamed animal's setting and behavior. It does not claim that penguins share one traditional meaning or that imagined group behavior reveals a person's character. Your own experiences of films, photographs, places, and individual associations are relevant context for the image.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Finding the right conditions", "reflection": "A contrast between awkward and easy movement can picture how a setting affects your confidence and available abilities." }, { "title": "Belonging within a group", "reflection": "Togetherness can offer support or make individuality difficult to find, depending on the dreamed encounter." }, { "title": "Solitude and adaptation", "reflection": "An animal alone or out of place can bring attention to support, independence, and how an unfamiliar environment is handled." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "A penguin moves easily through water", "reflection": "The setting suits its movement. This can resemble feeling competent in practical work after struggling in a formal meeting, or finding that collaboration becomes easier in a different environment. The contrast gives the scene a reading about fit and conditions rather than a fixed judgment about ability.", "slug": "scene-1" }, { "title": "It struggles to cross the land", "reflection": "Progress depends on a setting that makes movement harder. This can resemble a role or task whose conditions do not fit your usual way of working. Patience, assistance, and an alternative route give the scene different endings.", "slug": "scene-2" }, { "title": "You stand among a large group", "reflection": "Belonging is available at the scale of a crowd. The group can feel protective or anonymous. Recognizing a companion or losing your own route may reveal whether togetherness supports your choices or makes them harder to locate.", "slug": "scene-3" }, { "title": "A penguin is alone in an open place", "reflection": "Separation becomes visible. The scene can resemble concern about someone who seems outside a group, or your own choice to step away from crowded expectations. A contented animal may question the assumption that solitude needs repair; apparent distress can make support the more useful subject.", "slug": "scene-4" }, { "title": "A penguin appears in your home", "reflection": "A distinctive visitor enters an ordinary setting. This can bring playfulness, an unexpected responsibility, or concern about whether the place suits the visitor. Welcoming it and trying to return it elsewhere create different experiences of adaptation.", "slug": "scene-5" }, { "title": "You try to find one penguin among many", "reflection": "A particular connection matters inside a larger group. This can resemble looking for a familiar person, role, or preference within a busy community. The search may be about recognition rather than about leaving the group entirely.", "slug": "scene-6" } ], "prompts": [ "Where did movement become easy or difficult?", "Did the group offer support, anonymity, or both?", "What did the isolated or unfamiliar presence seem to need, and what did I assume?" ], "related": [ "bird", "ice", "water", "polar-bear" ], "type": "dreams", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background about dreaming and waking experiences. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia interpretation for personal reflection. Human publication review pending.", "tagline": "Company, independence, and conditions that make movement easier.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "penitentiary", "title": "Penitentiary", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a penitentiary, denotes you will have engagements which will, unfortunately, result in your loss.”", "aliases": [ "penitentiary" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about penitentiary stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1517", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Penitentiary", "text": "To dream of a penitentiary, denotes you will have engagements\nwhich will, unfortunately, result in your loss. To be an inmate\nof one, foretells discontent in the home and failing business.\nTo escape from one, you will overcome difficult obstacles.", "locator": "Heading 1521; source lines 17238–17245", "lineStart": 17238, "lineEnd": 17245, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a penitentiary, denotes you will have engagements\nwhich will, unfortunately, result in your loss. To be an inmate\nof one, foretells discontent in the home and failing business.\nTo escape from one, you will overcome difficult obstacles." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "penny", "title": "Penny", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of pennies, denotes unsatisfactory pursuits.”", "aliases": [ "penny" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about penny stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1518", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Penny", "text": "To dream of pennies, denotes unsatisfactory pursuits.\nBusiness will suffer, and lovers and friends will complain\nof the smallness of affection.\n\nTo lose them, signifies small deference and failures.\n\nTo find them, denotes that prospects will advance to your improvement.\n\nTo count pennies, foretells that you will be business-like and economical.", "locator": "Heading 1522; source lines 17245–17257", "lineStart": 17245, "lineEnd": 17257, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of pennies, denotes unsatisfactory pursuits.\nBusiness will suffer, and lovers and friends will complain\nof the smallness of affection.\n\nTo lose them, signifies small deference and failures.\n\nTo find them, denotes that prospects will advance to your improvement.\n\nTo count pennies, foretells that you will be business-like and economical." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "pension", "title": "Pension", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of drawing a pension, foretells that you will be aided in your labors by friends.”", "aliases": [ "pension" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about pension stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1519", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Pension", "text": "To dream of drawing a pension, foretells that you will be aided\nin your labors by friends.\n\nTo fail in your application for a pension, denotes that you will lose\nin an undertaking and suffer the loss of friendships.", "locator": "Heading 1523; source lines 17257–17265", "lineStart": 17257, "lineEnd": 17265, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of drawing a pension, foretells that you will be aided\nin your labors by friends.\n\nTo fail in your application for a pension, denotes that you will lose\nin an undertaking and suffer the loss of friendships." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "pepper", "title": "Pepper", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of pepper burning your tongue, foretells that you will suffer from your acquaintances through…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "pepper", "peppers" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about pepper stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1521", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Pepper", "text": "To dream of pepper burning your tongue, foretells that you will suffer\nfrom your acquaintances through your love of gossip.\n\nTo see red pepper growing, foretells for you a thrifty and an independent\npartner in the marriage state.\n\nTo see piles of red pepper pods, signifies that you will aggressively\nmaintain your rights.\n\nTo grind black pepper, denotes that you will be victimized by the wiles\nof ingenious men or women. To see it in stands on the table, omens sharp\nreproaches or quarrels.\n\nFor a young woman to put it on her food, foretells that she will be deceived\nby her friends.", "locator": "Heading 1525; source lines 17270–17288", "lineStart": 17270, "lineEnd": 17288, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of pepper burning your tongue, foretells that you will suffer\nfrom your acquaintances through your love of gossip.\n\nTo see red pepper growing, foretells for you a thrifty and an independent\npartner in the marriage state.\n\nTo see piles of red pepper pods, signifies that you will aggressively\nmaintain your rights.\n\nTo grind black pepper, denotes that you will be victimized by the wiles\nof ingenious men or women. To see it in stands on the table, omens sharp\nreproaches or quarrels.\n\nFor a young woman to put it on her food, foretells that she will be deceived\nby her friends." }, { "id": "fontaine-0566", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Peppers", "text": "To dream of picking pepper-pods, foretells to married people\nsmart children, if they have any. A girl who dreams this, will have\na smart man for a lover, but he will not pet her much either as a\nsweetheart or wife. 9.", "locator": "Heading 566; source line 3695", "lineStart": 3695, "lineEnd": 3700, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of picking pepper-pods, foretells to married people\nsmart children, if they have any. A girl who dreams this, will have\na smart man for a lover, but he will not pet her much either as a\nsweetheart or wife." }, { "id": "cielo-0319", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Pepper", "text": "To dream of pepper denotes affliction.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 319; source lines 4630–4632", "lineStart": 4630, "lineEnd": 4632, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of pepper denotes affliction." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "peppermint", "title": "Peppermint", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of peppermint, denotes pleasant entertainments and interesting affairs.”", "aliases": [ "peppermint" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about peppermint stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1522", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Peppermint", "text": "To dream of peppermint, denotes pleasant entertainments\nand interesting affairs.\n\nTo see it growing, denotes that you will participate in some pleasure\nin which there will be a dash of romance.\n\nTo enjoy drinks in which there is an effusion of peppermint, denotes that\nyou will enjoy assignations with some attractive and fascinating person.\nTo a young woman, this dream warns her against seductive pleasures.", "locator": "Heading 1526; source lines 17288–17300", "lineStart": 17288, "lineEnd": 17300, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of peppermint, denotes pleasant entertainments\nand interesting affairs.\n\nTo see it growing, denotes that you will participate in some pleasure\nin which there will be a dash of romance.\n\nTo enjoy drinks in which there is an effusion of peppermint, denotes that\nyou will enjoy assignations with some attractive and fascinating person.\nTo a young woman, this dream warns her against seductive pleasures." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "perfume", "title": "Perfume", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "summary": "Perfume may bring a personal association, chosen presentation or the reach of an impression into view. The scent and the response can change separately.", "tagline": "A chosen impression can travel beyond its intended place.", "aliases": [ "perfume" ], "status": "REVIEW", "psychological": "Perfume may make an impression available before a person or object is fully in view. A familiar scent can bring a particular place or encounter into the dream, while an unfamiliar one may make you curious about its source. The association may be personal rather than shared by everyone present. The scene can explore what the impression brings with it without treating fragrance as proof that the associated person is actually present or communicating.\n\n Applying perfume introduces a chosen presentation. A modest amount may fit an occasion, or the imagined scent may become so prominent that it distracts from the activity you wanted to join. A waking comparison could be emphasizing a feature of your work until the presentation begins to overshadow its purpose. Adjusting the amount, allowing space or choosing another form of introduction can give the impression a useful scale.\n\n Other people's descriptions can make preference more complex. One participant may enjoy the scent while another wants it changed, leaving no single response that speaks for the whole group. This can resemble negotiating a shared space in which different experiences matter. A conversation about the particular setting can be more workable than deciding that one preference must establish the quality of the fragrance or the character of its wearer.\n\n A spill can make reach difficult to control. An appearance you intended to keep near you may become part of the wider room, inviting responses you did not anticipate. The dream may make the extent of an action visible rather than forecasting loss. Cleaning, adjusting or openly explaining the accident can provide different ways of continuing the encounter without requiring the original presentation to remain intact.\n\n A sealed bottle or gift can bring expectation ahead of direct experience. You may like its form while remaining unsure whether you want the scent, or appreciate the offering without wanting to wear it. Trying it on your own terms can separate the gesture from its practical fit. Recent fragrances, containers and memories can supply direct context. This topic follows imagined scent, application and association; it offers no medical effect, attraction guarantee or judgment about another person's feelings.", "traditional": "Miller assigns pleasure, admiration and adverse outcomes to smelling, applying, spilling or making perfume, and includes gendered gift and bath claims. Everybody’s Book of Luck gives a favorable success forecast. These period accounts do not establish a fragrance’s medical effects, another person’s attraction or the outcome of a present encounter.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Association before a full view", "reflection": "A scent may connect the encounter with a particular memory before its source is clear. The personal connection can matter without requiring it to be shared or treating it as evidence of a person’s real presence." }, { "title": "The scale of an impression", "reflection": "Application or an accidental spill can make presentation extend further than intended. The scene may explore how an emphasis fits its setting and what adjustment lets the main activity remain available." }, { "title": "Preference and the terms of trying", "reflection": "A gift or appealing bottle can create an expectation before the scent is experienced. Appreciation of the gesture and a choice about wearing it can remain separate without requiring the recipient to accept every proposed use." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A familiar perfume appears before its source is visible", "reflection": "The scent brings a particular association into an otherwise different setting. Looking for the source or staying with the remembered connection can give the scene different directions. The image does not establish that the associated person is really present or has sent a message." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "An intended subtle scent takes over the room", "reflection": "A chosen introduction becomes more prominent than the activity it was meant to support. Adjusting it or finding space may explore the useful scale of presentation. The dreamed intensity matters through the encounter, not as a claim about the substance’s actual effect." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Two people describe the same perfume differently", "reflection": "The shared setting contains preferences that do not align. Discussing where and how it will be used can make the arrangement more practical than deciding which description is correct. The scene leaves room for different responses without assigning them to anyone’s character." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A spill carries the fragrance beyond where you wanted it", "reflection": "An accident changes the reach of an impression. Cleaning, explaining or adapting the setting can provide different ways to continue. The dream may explore responding to an unintended consequence without requiring the spill to forecast a real loss or a failed wish." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A beautiful sealed bottle gives no sense of the scent", "reflection": "The container appeals while the experience it offers remains unknown. Trying, waiting or asking about the contents can make the decision more particular. The scene may separate an attractive presentation from the information needed before choosing whether its use fits you." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You appreciate a perfume gift without wanting to wear it", "reflection": "The gesture and the practical preference do not need to have the same answer. Explaining, trying privately or choosing another use may make the exchange more workable. The dreamed response does not reveal the giver’s actual intentions or require appreciation to be shown through wearing it." } ], "prompts": [ "What particular association arrived with the imagined scent?", "How did the impression’s reach fit the setting and activity?", "What terms let preference, appreciation and direct experience each have a place?" ], "related": [ "gift", "clothes", "beauty", "bottles", "flower" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1523" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context only. miller-1523: Smelling, applying, excessive scent, spilling, breaking a bottle, distilling, a scented bath and a gift receive pleasure, adulation, mental impairment and adverse-wish forecasts. These are period judgments, not a medical claim or evidence about real events. This citation does not validate the original psychological reflections or predict a waking outcome." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0197" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context only. luck-0197: Perfume is assigned success and happiness; an attributed period forecast, not a general scent effect. This citation does not validate the original psychological reflections or predict a waking outcome." } ], "updated": "2026-10-13", "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection independently reviewed for content and source scope. Historical accounts remain attributed period writing. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1523", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Perfume", "text": "To dream of inhaling perfume, is an augury of happy incidents.\n\nFor you to perfume your garments and person, denotes that you\nwill seek and obtain adulation.\n\nBeing oppressed by it to intoxication, denotes that excesses in joy\nwill impair your mental qualities.\n\nTo spill perfume, denotes that you will lose something which\naffords you pleasure.\n\nTo break a bottle of perfume, foretells that your most cherished\nwishes and desires will end disastrously, even while they promise\na happy culmination.\n\nTo dream that you are distilling perfume, denotes that your employments\nand associations will be of the pleasantest character.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of perfuming her bath, foretells\necstatic happenings. If she receives it as a gift from a man,\nshe will experience fascinating, but dangerous pleasures.", "locator": "Heading 1527; source lines 17300–17324", "lineStart": 17300, "lineEnd": 17324, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of inhaling perfume, is an augury of happy incidents.\n\nFor you to perfume your garments and person, denotes that you\nwill seek and obtain adulation.\n\nBeing oppressed by it to intoxication, denotes that excesses in joy\nwill impair your mental qualities.\n\nTo spill perfume, denotes that you will lose something which\naffords you pleasure.\n\nTo break a bottle of perfume, foretells that your most cherished\nwishes and desires will end disastrously, even while they promise\na happy culmination.\n\nTo dream that you are distilling perfume, denotes that your employments\nand associations will be of the pleasantest character.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of perfuming her bath, foretells\necstatic happenings. If she receives it as a gift from a man,\nshe will experience fascinating, but dangerous pleasures." }, { "id": "luck-0197", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Perfume", "text": "An augury of success and happiness.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 197; source lines 4025–4027", "lineStart": 4025, "lineEnd": 4027, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "An augury of success and happiness." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "perfumery", "title": "Perfumery", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “To dream of pleasant and delicate perfumes, foreshadows sluttish habits in a woman: if a lover dreams of perfumes in connection with the…”", "aliases": [ "perfumery" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about perfumery stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0567", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Perfumery", "text": "To dream of pleasant and delicate perfumes, foreshadows\nsluttish habits in a woman: if a lover dreams of perfumes in connection\nwith the beloved object, it shows that when he marries, he will find\nher to be a slut. A girl who dreams this, will be apt to have a\nshiftless lover. 71, 1.", "locator": "Heading 567; source line 3700", "lineStart": 3700, "lineEnd": 3706, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of pleasant and delicate perfumes, foreshadows\nsluttish habits in a woman: if a lover dreams of perfumes in connection\nwith the beloved object, it shows that when he marries, he will find\nher to be a slut. A girl who dreams this, will be apt to have a\nshiftless lover." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "perjury", "title": "Perjury", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “To dream that any one injures you by false swearing, or by perjury in court, is a sign that you will discover some friend or acquaintance…”", "aliases": [ "perjury" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about perjury stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0568", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Perjury", "text": "To dream that any one injures you by false swearing, or by\nperjury in court, is a sign that you will discover some friend or\nacquaintance to be dishonest, or guilty of a crime, or of mean conduct;\nif a girl dream this, it is a similar omen relative to her lover. 52.", "locator": "Heading 568; source line 3706", "lineStart": 3706, "lineEnd": 3711, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that any one injures you by false swearing, or by\nperjury in court, is a sign that you will discover some friend or\nacquaintance to be dishonest, or guilty of a crime, or of mean conduct;\nif a girl dream this, it is a similar omen relative to her lover." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "perspiration", "title": "Perspiration", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are in a perspiration, foretells that you will come out of some difficulty, which has…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "perspiration" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about perspiration stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1524", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Perspiration", "text": "To dream that you are in a perspiration, foretells that you\nwill come out of some difficulty, which has caused much gossip,\nwith new honors.", "locator": "Heading 1528; source lines 17324–17330", "lineStart": 17324, "lineEnd": 17330, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are in a perspiration, foretells that you\nwill come out of some difficulty, which has caused much gossip,\nwith new honors." }, { "id": "luck-0198", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Perspiration", "text": "To dream of being bathed in perspiration foretells the\ninception of some arduous task which will be successfully achieved.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 198; source lines 4027–4030", "lineStart": 4027, "lineEnd": 4030, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being bathed in perspiration foretells the\ninception of some arduous task which will be successfully achieved." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1525", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Pest", "text": "To dream of being worried over a pest of any nature, foretells that disturbing\nelements will prevail in your immediate future.\n\nTo see others thus worried, denotes that you will be annoyed\nby some displeasing development.", "locator": "Heading 1529; source lines 17330–17338", "lineStart": 17330, "lineEnd": 17338, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being worried over a pest of any nature, foretells that disturbing\nelements will prevail in your immediate future.\n\nTo see others thus worried, denotes that you will be annoyed\nby some displeasing development." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "pest-or-pestilence", "title": "Pest or Pestilence", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “A dream threatening sickness and misfortune (Gypsy).”", "aliases": [ "pest or pestilence", "pest", "pestilence" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about pest or pestilence stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. 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Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1527", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Pewter", "text": "To dream of pewter, foretells straitened circumstances.\n\n\n[153] See Dishes.", "locator": "Heading 1531; source lines 17354–17361", "lineStart": 17354, "lineEnd": 17361, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of pewter, foretells straitened circumstances. See Dishes." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1528", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Phantom", "text": "To dream that a phantom pursues you, foretells strange\nand disquieting experiences.\n\nTo see a phantom fleeing from you, foretells that trouble\nwill assume smaller proportions.\n\n\n[154] See Ghost.", "locator": "Heading 1532; source lines 17361–17372", "lineStart": 17361, "lineEnd": 17372, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that a phantom pursues you, foretells strange\nand disquieting experiences.\n\nTo see a phantom fleeing from you, foretells that trouble\nwill assume smaller proportions. See Ghost." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "ghost" ] }, { "slug": "pheasant", "title": "Pheasant", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Dreaming of pheasants, omens good fellowship among your friends.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "pheasant" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about pheasant stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1529", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Pheasant", "text": "Dreaming of pheasants, omens good fellowship among your friends.\n\nTo eat one, signifies that the jealousy of your wife will cause\nyou to forego friendly intercourse with your friends.\n\nTo shoot them, denotes that you will fail to sacrifice one selfish pleasure\nfor the comfort of friends.", "locator": "Heading 1533; source lines 17372–17382", "lineStart": 17372, "lineEnd": 17382, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Dreaming of pheasants, omens good fellowship among your friends.\n\nTo eat one, signifies that the jealousy of your wife will cause\nyou to forego friendly intercourse with your friends.\n\nTo shoot them, denotes that you will fail to sacrifice one selfish pleasure\nfor the comfort of friends." }, { "id": "cielo-0320", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Pheasant", "text": "To kill a pheasant is a sign of good luck.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 320; source lines 4632–4634", "lineStart": 4632, "lineEnd": 4634, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To kill a pheasant is a sign of good luck." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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The symbol of immortality, resurrection, the soul.", "lineStart": 11366, "lineEnd": 11368, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 243; NLM OCR lines 11366–11368", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11366, "lineEnd": 11368, "printedPage": 243, "printedPageEnd": 243 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Phoenix. — A dream of renewed health and vigor (Gypsy). \nThe symbol of immortality, resurrection, the soul. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Phoenix" }, "displayText": "A dream of renewed health and vigor (Gypsy). The symbol of immortality, resurrection, the soul." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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The particular failure matters more than assuming every silent device represents an unwilling listener.\n\nA message trapped in a draft keeps the words available while preventing their arrival. This may resemble a conversation for which you have found language but not the time or setting. If you cannot type the words at all, the difficulty may concern forming the message itself. A screen showing the wrong recipient instead introduces a question of audience, privacy or which relationship the words belong within.\n\nA call with a clear connection but no shared understanding gives the scene another direction. You may hear a voice while neither person can follow the other, or reach the right person at the wrong moment. This can resemble a channel that technically works without fitting the exchange. Repeating the same attempt may be less central than changing how or when contact is made.\n\nThe phone can also be needed for an ordinary practical task: showing a ticket, finding a route or completing an arrangement. In that version the missing connection may concern participation rather than emotional closeness. Another person offering a map or explaining the process can shift the scene toward assistance that does not depend on the device.\n\nRelief when the phone stops working deserves room too. An interruption may leave a conversation unfinished while creating wanted quiet. That can picture competing needs for availability and time away from demands without deciding which should always prevail. Actual device problems and remembered exchanges can supply direct material. None of these imagined failures reveals what an ex, partner or friend thinks, or establishes that a real message has been withheld.", "traditional": "No supplied historical passage specifically covers this modern device problem. Telephone accounts stay with the broader topic. The original reflections distinguish the message, recipient, channel and practical task; general sleep education does not validate a claim about another person’s willingness to communicate.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A finished message stays in the draft box", "reflection": "The words are settled but have not reached an audience. This may resemble waiting for a suitable opportunity rather than lacking anything to say. The scene cannot establish whether a real person wants to receive the message." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Every attempt to type changes the words", "reflection": "The channel disrupts the thought before it can be expressed. This can picture difficulty preserving what you mean while fitting a particular format. Rewriting or choosing another method offers a different emphasis from simply sending faster." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You hear a familiar voice but neither of you understands", "reflection": "Contact exists without a shared exchange. This may resemble needing different language, timing or attention for a conversation. The dreamed confusion does not reveal the other person’s actual feelings or ability to understand you." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "The screen keeps selecting the wrong recipient", "reflection": "The audience becomes uncertain while the message remains ready. This can bring privacy or the relationship addressed by the words into focus. The error need not disclose a secret preference about whom you really want." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The phone cannot display a ticket and someone helps another way", "reflection": "The practical task is blocked by one method. This may picture participation that can be supported through a different arrangement. Useful assistance matters here more than treating the device as a complete measure of independence." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The device stops ringing and you enjoy the quiet", "reflection": "Unavailable contact creates a wanted interval. This can fit balancing responsiveness with attention to another activity. Relief and an unfinished exchange can coexist without making either the sole truth about your relationships." } ], "prompts": [ "Was the difficulty forming words, delivering them, reaching the right audience or completing a task?", "What alternative method changed the encounter?", "Did disconnection feel frustrating, relieving or both?" ], "related": [ "losing-a-phone", "a-dying-phone-battery", "unable-to-scream", "being-lost", "telephone" ], "sources": [ { "id": "nichd-sleep-dreaming", "title": "What happens during sleep? — Dreaming section", "author": "Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development", "url": "https://www.nichd.nih.gov/health/topics/sleep/conditioninfo/Pages/what-happens.aspx", "scope": "Official general sleep education, Dreaming section: the purpose of dreaming remains uncertain. It does not test these original symbolic comparisons or establish another person’s intentions, a diagnosis or a prediction." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15 under the site owner’s delegation. Historical claims, where supplied, remain attributed period writing. No human or clinical review is claimed.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Words without delivery", "reflection": "A formed message can remain available even when the way to send it fails." }, { "title": "A channel that does not fit", "reflection": "Connection alone may not provide a usable moment, audience or way to understand one another." }, { "title": "Availability has competing uses", "reflection": "A phone can support participation while also making quiet difficult to keep." } ], "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "Codex (AI-assisted editorial review)", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "a-stranger", "a-train-going-in-the-wrong-direction", "being-trapped", "being-unable-to-move", "children", "church", "current-romantic-partner", "death-of-a-friend", "elevator", "father", "forest", "hair-falling-out", "insects", "key", "locked-out", "mother", "nakedness", "phone-not-working", "rainbow", "running-but-going-nowhere", "school", "smoke", "snake-bite", "superpowers", "the-self", "the-shadow", "web" ] }, "decisionReason": "The new reading distinguishes forming words, delivery, audience, mutual understanding and a practical ticket task. Relief from constant availability is a real alternative, not a forced problem reading. A failed imagined channel cannot disclose another person’s feelings or a withheld real message.", "contentSha256": "5c2bf5468c8ad60703aa8e554ac3cb5063db3a76110a9e90c009035567459e4d" }, "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "phosphorus", "title": "Phosphorus", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing phosphorus, is indicative of evanescent joys. For a young woman, it foretells a brilliant but brief success with admirers.”", "aliases": [ "phosphorus" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about phosphorus stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "photograph", "title": "Photograph", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "aliases": [ "photograph", "photography", "photographs", "photo", "photos" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "summary": "A photograph can explore an image you keep, a story attached to it, or whether another person’s representation has a place in your life.", "tagline": "A kept image need not contain the whole account.", "psychological": "A photograph encountered in a dream can give an experience a portable form. You may hold an old image, find one in a drawer or receive a picture you did not expect. Its meaning can concern what is represented and what you choose to do with that representation. A family keepsake, changed friendship or recent occasion may provide a parallel, while an actual photograph can supply the dream directly.\n\nA familiar place with an unfamiliar event in the picture can create uncertainty about the account. Recognition of the room does not make every depicted detail feel like yours. This can resemble being offered a story that uses known elements in a way you do not recognize. The dreamed image is not evidence of a hidden event or a recovered memory; its useful subject may be how you respond to an unfamiliar representation.\n\nReceiving a photograph can also bring expectations about display. A giver may want it on the wall while you prefer to keep it privately. This can picture gratitude and personal choice needing separate room. Accepting a reminder does not require giving it the same public place its sender imagines. Conversely, wanting an image visible can concern acknowledgment rather than possession of the person depicted.\n\nA label can change the story without changing the picture. A wrong name or occasion written underneath may make accuracy, attribution or family memory matter. Fading introduces another difference: a small surviving corner can still carry value even when the whole scene is unclear. Keeping a partial reminder need not mean completing every missing detail or reconstructing a certain account.\n\nFinding another image behind the visible one can make more than one version available. You might choose which to display or keep both without forcing agreement. Seeing your own posed photograph and feeling unlike its presentation can instead center how an image represents you now. These reflections concern an encountered or kept photographic image. Choosing a camera’s frame and the act of capture have their own related scope; an image’s strangeness does not establish another person’s deception, loyalty or intentions.", "traditional": "Craig’s Photograph account gives a warning about settling affairs and calls its explanation an ancient superstition; those are Craig’s assertions, not verified history or instructions. Miller’s Photography account chiefly concerns seeing, receiving and possessing images, plus having one’s own likeness made. Its deception and loyalty claims remain period forecasts. These accounts concern encountered images; Camera follows the choice of frame and the act of capture.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A representation you can respond to", "reflection": "An image can be recognizable in some parts while its account remains unfamiliar." }, { "title": "Keeping and displaying on your own terms", "reflection": "A reminder’s private value can differ from the public place another person expects." }, { "title": "A partial or differently labeled memory", "reflection": "Accuracy and value do not always require a complete, single version of an account." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A familiar room appears in a photograph of an unfamiliar event", "reflection": "Known surroundings make an unknown account feel close to you. This may picture being offered a version of an experience you cannot recognize as your own. The image invites a response to representation; it does not verify a concealed event or recovered memory." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Someone gives you a photograph and expects it to be displayed", "reflection": "A gift carries a proposed public place that you may not want to provide. This can resemble gratitude needing room alongside personal preference. Keeping the reminder privately can remain meaningful without fulfilling every expectation attached to its visible presentation." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "The label names the wrong person beneath a clear image", "reflection": "The representation stays recognizable while its attribution changes the story. This may picture wanting a contribution or memory described accurately. Correcting a name differs from rejecting the whole image; the dream does not establish that an actual account was deliberately falsified." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Only an ordinary corner remains visible in a faded photograph", "reflection": "A partial detail holds value after much of the picture becomes unclear. This can resemble a memory carried by a small setting or routine. The fragment can remain enough for a personal association without requiring every missing part to be confidently reconstructed." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Another photograph is hidden behind the one in a frame", "reflection": "Two representations occupy the same place and offer a choice about display. This may picture more than one account remaining available, even when only one is visible at a time. Discovering the second image does not prove a secret in waking life." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "Your posed photograph shows a presentation that feels unlike you", "reflection": "The image is identified as yours while its appearance does not fit your present sense of yourself. This can resemble a role or earlier account needing reconsideration. The finished picture, rather than the technical act of capture, gives the encounter its particular focus." } ], "prompts": [ "What place did you want the image to have after encountering it?", "How did a label, missing detail or another version affect its value?", "Which part of the presentation felt familiar, chosen or imposed?" ], "related": [ "camera", "portrait", "pictures", "mirror", "deceased-loved-one" ], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. 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Attributed historical comparison only; these period claims do not validate the original reflection or establish real health, relationship, family or financial outcomes." }, { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1531" ], "scope": "miller-1531: The Photography heading covers seeing, receiving and possessing photographs, plus having one’s own photograph made; the deception, loyalty and conduct forecasts remain period assertions. Exact supplied passages: miller-1531 — Photography (Heading 1535; source lines 17388–17402). Attributed historical comparison only; these period claims do not validate the original reflection or establish real health, relationship, family or financial outcomes." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. 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Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0570", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Physic", "text": "(_See Medicine._) In a dream-book published 1751, is this\nprediction:  “If any man doth dreme he taketh much physicke, it\nforetelleth a bad lyver, and a quarell with ye doctor; but a virgin\nwho dremeth this dreme, will marry ye doctor first, and quarell\nthereafter.” 37, 8.", "locator": "Heading 570; source line 3716", "lineStart": 3716, "lineEnd": 3722, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Medicine.) In a dream-book published 1751, is this\nprediction:  “If any man doth dreme he taketh much physicke, it\nforetelleth a bad lyver, and a quarell with ye doctor; but a virgin\nwho dremeth this dreme, will marry ye doctor first, and quarell\nthereafter.”" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "medicine" ] }, { "slug": "piano", "title": "Piano", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "aliases": [ "piano" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "summary": "A piano may bring intention, shared use and a valued place or history into a concrete encounter with the keys.", "tagline": "A wanted sound and the means of making room for it.", "psychological": "A piano in a dream may bring an intention into contact with a specific method: keys to reach, hands to coordinate and a place for the instrument. Pleasure can come from trying something without needing to finish a performance. Difficulty may concern the arrangement rather than your ability. The wanted sound, the available room and the people sharing it can give the encounter different purposes.\n\nKnowing the sound you want while finding an unfamiliar keyboard can place an idea ahead of its format. This might resemble knowing what a project should convey before discovering how to use its tools. Exploring a few notes can feel satisfying because it creates a beginning. Frustration may arise if you are expected to produce a complete result before the method has become usable.\n\nHands that want different endings can make two intentions visible within one activity. One may preserve a familiar phrase while the other tries a revision. A waking comparison could be wanting continuity in a valued project while also wanting to change its direction. The scene need not turn either intention into a mistake; their relationship may be what gives the dream its interest.\n\nThe piano's place can matter independently of its sound. A valued instrument that blocks a passage may pose a practical question about keeping something enjoyable within a changed room. Making a workable place differs from deciding whether it deserves to exist. Memory and use can both matter when an object occupies more space than the current arrangement accommodates.\n\nA note that continues after you lift your hands can offer welcomed resonance, or interrupt the pause you wanted before another phrase. Two people using different parts of one keyboard can instead explore allocation: each contribution needs a usable share of the same resource. These scenes concern different kinds of continuity and access, rather than a general verdict about control.\n\nA piano from a remembered room can invite a new piece instead of demanding repetition of an old one. The familiar setting may supply warmth while your present intention supplies another direction. These possibilities are personal comparisons, not tests of musical competence or forecasts of accomplishment. Recent playing, listening or moving furniture may also provide straightforward context for the instrument's presence.", "traditional": "The four accounts disagree. Miller distinguishes pleasant, discordant or sad sounds; broken, out-of-tune and old-fashioned pianos; and a gendered performance-and-love forecast. Fontaine contrasts lively hearing with buying or receiving a piano, including another gendered forecast. Cielo links playing to a wedding and buying to money from an unexpected debt. Everybody’s Book of Luck associates playing or watching with a relative's death and a funeral. These are attributed edition claims, rather than outcomes established by dreaming of a piano.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "An intention and a workable method", "reflection": "An imagined result can precede familiarity with the means of producing it." }, { "title": "Different contributions to one resource", "reflection": "Hands or players can want distinct parts without making either contribution wrong." }, { "title": "A valued object with a place and a history", "reflection": "Enjoyment, memory and practical space can shape how an instrument fits the present." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A wanted sound on an unfamiliar keyboard", "reflection": "You know the sound you want, but the keyboard is arranged differently from what you expected. Trying a few notes can create a satisfying beginning. The scene may concern finding a usable method for an existing intention, rather than proving that the intention was unrealistic." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Your hands want different endings", "reflection": "One hand continues a familiar phrase while the other reaches for a new ending. Continuity and revision can coexist within the same effort. The encounter may explore how two wanted directions relate, especially if changing the result need not erase what you valued in its beginning." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A valued piano blocks the passage", "reflection": "The piano is wanted, yet its position makes the room difficult to use. Enjoyment and practical access become separate concerns. Finding a place for it could preserve both; irritation may concern the arrangement rather than a wish to remove the valued activity from your life." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A note continues after your hands lift", "reflection": "You lift your hands, but a note keeps sounding beyond the pause you intended. Its continuation may feel beautiful or intrusive. The difference can concern whether a completed contribution is welcome to resonate, or whether another part of the activity now needs room to begin." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Two players share different parts", "reflection": "You and another player use different parts of the keyboard to make a piece together. The shared resource can support complementary contributions when each has workable space. Tension may arise from an arrangement that interrupts one part, rather than from the mere presence of another participant." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "A remembered piano invites a new piece", "reflection": "A piano from a familiar earlier room is available for something you have not played there before. Memory can provide warmth without setting every choice. The scene may let a valued part of the past support a present intention whose direction remains your own." } ], "prompts": [ "How did the available method fit the sound or result you wanted?", "What did the room or shared keyboard make possible for each contribution?", "Which part of the instrument’s history or continuing sound felt valuable to you?" ], "related": [ "music", "musical-instruments", "singing", "hand" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1533" ], "scope": "The complete Piano account distinguishes pleasant, discordant or sad sounds; broken or out-of-tune instruments; an old-fashioned piano; and a gendered difficult-performance and love outcome. Exact account: miller-1533 — Piano (Heading 1537; source lines 17410–17431). Attributed historical claims only; no forecast or symbolic meaning is validated by this citation." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0571" ], "scope": "Lively piano hearing receives domestic and thrift forecasts, buying or receiving poverty forecasts, and a girl’s new piano an adverse claim. Exact account: fontaine-0571 — Piano (Heading 571; source line 3722). Attributed historical claims only; no forecast or symbolic meaning is validated by this citation." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0321" ], "scope": "Piano playing receives a wedding forecast and buying a piano a forecast of money from an unexpected debt. Exact account: cielo-0321 — Piano (Dream section, heading 321; source lines 4634–4637). Attributed historical claims only; no forecast or symbolic meaning is validated by this citation." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0200" ], "scope": "Playing or watching piano is linked to relatives’ death and a funeral; the bibliographic edition date remains unstated. Exact account: luck-0200 — Piano (Dream section, heading 200; source lines 4033–4036). Attributed historical claims only; no forecast or symbolic meaning is validated by this citation." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1533", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Piano", "text": "To dream of seeing a piano, denotes some joyful occasion.\n\nTo hear sweet and voluptuous harmony from a piano,\nsignals success and health. If discordant music is being played,\nyou will have many exasperating matters to consider.\nSad and plaintive music, foretells sorrowful tidings.\n\nTo find your piano broken and out of tune, portends dissatisfaction\nwith your own accomplishments and disappointment in the failure\nof your friends or children to win honors.\n\nTo see an old-fashioned piano, denotes that you have, in trying moments,\nneglected the advices and opportunities of the past, and are warned\nnot to do so again.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she is executing difficult,\nbut entrancing music, she will succeed in winning an indifferent\nfriend to be a most devoted and loyal lover.", "locator": "Heading 1537; source lines 17410–17431", "lineStart": 17410, "lineEnd": 17431, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing a piano, denotes some joyful occasion.\n\nTo hear sweet and voluptuous harmony from a piano,\nsignals success and health. If discordant music is being played,\nyou will have many exasperating matters to consider.\nSad and plaintive music, foretells sorrowful tidings.\n\nTo find your piano broken and out of tune, portends dissatisfaction\nwith your own accomplishments and disappointment in the failure\nof your friends or children to win honors.\n\nTo see an old-fashioned piano, denotes that you have, in trying moments,\nneglected the advices and opportunities of the past, and are warned\nnot to do so again.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she is executing difficult,\nbut entrancing music, she will succeed in winning an indifferent\nfriend to be a most devoted and loyal lover." }, { "id": "fontaine-0571", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Piano", "text": "To dream of hearing pleasant and lively tunes on the piano, is a\nsign of thrift and domestic happiness; but if you dream of buying, or\nthat any one presents you with a piano, it foreshadows poverty; it is a\nbad omen for a girl to dream she has got a new piano. 72.", "locator": "Heading 571; source line 3722", "lineStart": 3722, "lineEnd": 3727, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of hearing pleasant and lively tunes on the piano, is a\nsign of thrift and domestic happiness; but if you dream of buying, or\nthat any one presents you with a piano, it foreshadows poverty; it is a\nbad omen for a girl to dream she has got a new piano." }, { "id": "cielo-0321", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Piano", "text": "Playing on a piano denotes a speedy wedding.\n Buying one signifies money from an unexpected debt.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 321; source lines 4634–4637", "lineStart": 4634, "lineEnd": 4637, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Playing on a piano denotes a speedy wedding.\nBuying one signifies money from an unexpected debt." }, { "id": "luck-0200", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Piano", "text": "(Playing or seeing another play) The death of relations,\nfuneral obsequies.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 200; source lines 4033–4036", "lineStart": 4033, "lineEnd": 4036, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(Playing or seeing another play) The death of relations,\nfuneral obsequies." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "pickaxe", "title": "Pickaxe", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a pickaxe, denotes a relentless enemy is working to overthrow you socially. A broken one, implies disaster to all your interests.”", "aliases": [ "pickaxe" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about pickaxe stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1534", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Pickaxe", "text": "To dream of a pickaxe, denotes a relentless enemy is working to overthrow\nyou socially. A broken one, implies disaster to all your interests.", "locator": "Heading 1538; source lines 17431–17436", "lineStart": 17431, "lineEnd": 17436, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a pickaxe, denotes a relentless enemy is working to overthrow\nyou socially. A broken one, implies disaster to all your interests." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "pickles", "title": "Pickles", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of pickles, denotes that you will follow worthless pursuits if you fail to call energy and…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "pickles" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about pickles stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1535", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Pickles", "text": "To dream of pickles, denotes that you will follow worthless pursuits if you\nfail to call energy and judgment to your aid.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of eating pickles, foretells an unambitious career.\n\nTo dream of pickles, denotes vexation in love, but final triumph.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she is eating them, or is hungry\nfor them, foretells she will find many rivals, and will be overcome\nunless she is careful of her private affairs. Impure pickles,\nindicate disappointing engagements and love quarrels.", "locator": "Heading 1539; source lines 17436–17450", "lineStart": 17436, "lineEnd": 17450, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of pickles, denotes that you will follow worthless pursuits if you\nfail to call energy and judgment to your aid.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of eating pickles, foretells an unambitious career.\n\nTo dream of pickles, denotes vexation in love, but final triumph.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she is eating them, or is hungry\nfor them, foretells she will find many rivals, and will be overcome\nunless she is careful of her private affairs. Impure pickles,\nindicate disappointing engagements and love quarrels." }, { "id": "fontaine-0572", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Pickles", "text": "If a girl dreams of eating pickles, it is a sign some old\nbachelor will kiss her: if a young man dreams of pickles, he will\nbe beloved by a maid older than himself, and probably of a sour and\ncrabbed temper. 39, 2.", "locator": "Heading 572; source line 3727", "lineStart": 3727, "lineEnd": 3732, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If a girl dreams of eating pickles, it is a sign some old\nbachelor will kiss her: if a young man dreams of pickles, he will\nbe beloved by a maid older than himself, and probably of a sour and\ncrabbed temper." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "pickpocket", "title": "Pickpocket", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a pickpocket, foretells some enemy will succeed in harassing and causing you loss.”", "aliases": [ "pickpocket" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about pickpocket stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1536", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Pickpocket", "text": "To dream of a pickpocket, foretells some enemy will succeed\nin harassing and causing you loss. For a young woman to have her\npocket picked, denotes she will be the object of some person's\nenvy and spite, and may lose the regard of a friend through\nthese evil machinations, unless she keeps her own counsel.\nIf she picks others' pockets, she will incur the displeasure\nof a companion by her coarse behavior.", "locator": "Heading 1540; source lines 17450–17460", "lineStart": 17450, "lineEnd": 17460, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a pickpocket, foretells some enemy will succeed\nin harassing and causing you loss. For a young woman to have her\npocket picked, denotes she will be the object of some person's\nenvy and spite, and may lose the regard of a friend through\nthese evil machinations, unless she keeps her own counsel.\nIf she picks others' pockets, she will incur the displeasure\nof a companion by her coarse behavior." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "picnic", "title": "Picnic", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of attending a picnic, foreshadows success and real enjoyment.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "picnic" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about picnic stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1537", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Picnic", "text": "To dream of attending a picnic, foreshadows success and real enjoyment.\n\nDreams of picnics, bring undivided happiness to the young.\n\nStorms, or any interfering elements at a picnic, implies the temporary\ndisplacement of assured profit and pleasure in love or business.\n\n\n[155] See Kindred Words.", "locator": "Heading 1541; source lines 17460–17472", "lineStart": 17460, "lineEnd": 17472, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of attending a picnic, foreshadows success and real enjoyment.\n\nDreams of picnics, bring undivided happiness to the young.\n\nStorms, or any interfering elements at a picnic, implies the temporary\ndisplacement of assured profit and pleasure in love or business. See Kindred Words." }, { "id": "fontaine-0573", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Picnic", "text": "For a young man to dream of going with a pic-nic party into\nthe woods, is a sign that some silly girl will fall in love with him:\nif a young girl dreams this, some vain fellow will probably pay her\nattentions and compliments merely to gratify his own vanity. 37, 12.", "locator": "Heading 573; source line 3732", "lineStart": 3732, "lineEnd": 3737, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a young man to dream of going with a pic-nic party into\nthe woods, is a sign that some silly girl will fall in love with him:\nif a young girl dreams this, some vain fellow will probably pay her\nattentions and compliments merely to gratify his own vanity." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "pictures", "title": "Pictures", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "5 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Pictures appearing before you in dreams, prognosticate deception and the ill will of contemporaries.” Compare 5 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "pictures", "picture" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about pictures stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "painting", "photograph" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1538", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Pictures", "text": "Pictures appearing before you in dreams, prognosticate deception\nand the ill will of contemporaries.\n\nTo make a picture, denotes that you will engage in\nsome unremunerative enterprise.\n\nTo destroy pictures, means that you will be pardoned for using\nstrenuous means to establish your rights.\n\nTo buy them, foretells worthless speculation.\n\nTo dream of seeing your likeness in a living tree, appearing and disappearing,\ndenotes that you will be prosperous and seemingly contented, but there\nwill be disappointments in reaching out for companionship and reciprocal\nunderstanding of ideas and plans.\n\nTo dream of being surrounded with the best efforts of the old\nand modern masters, denotes that you will have insatiable longings\nand desires for higher attainments, compared to which present\nsuccess will seem poverty-stricken and miserable.\n\n\n[156] See Painting and Photographs.", "locator": "Heading 1542; source lines 17472–17498", "lineStart": 17472, "lineEnd": 17498, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Pictures appearing before you in dreams, prognosticate deception\nand the ill will of contemporaries.\n\nTo make a picture, denotes that you will engage in\nsome unremunerative enterprise.\n\nTo destroy pictures, means that you will be pardoned for using\nstrenuous means to establish your rights.\n\nTo buy them, foretells worthless speculation.\n\nTo dream of seeing your likeness in a living tree, appearing and disappearing,\ndenotes that you will be prosperous and seemingly contented, but there\nwill be disappointments in reaching out for companionship and reciprocal\nunderstanding of ideas and plans.\n\nTo dream of being surrounded with the best efforts of the old\nand modern masters, denotes that you will have insatiable longings\nand desires for higher attainments, compared to which present\nsuccess will seem poverty-stricken and miserable. See Painting and Photographs." }, { "id": "fontaine-0574", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Pictures", "text": "To dream of seeing pictures is a sign of joy without profit.\n48, 7.", "locator": "Heading 574; source line 3737", "lineStart": 3737, "lineEnd": 3740, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing pictures is a sign of joy without profit." }, { "id": "noe-0411", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Pictures", "text": "To dream you are looking at beautiful\npictures, foreshows that you will be allured by false appearances into\nsome unprofitable concern, that you will waste your time on some idle\nproject, and that you will always be in pursuit of happiness without\nattaining it. In love, it denotes great pleasure in the enjoyment of the\nbeloved object. It promises a handsome wife, a good husband, and beautiful\nchildren.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 417; source lines 1563–1569", "lineStart": 1563, "lineEnd": 1569, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are looking at beautiful\npictures, foreshows that you will be allured by false appearances into\nsome unprofitable concern, that you will waste your time on some idle\nproject, and that you will always be in pursuit of happiness without\nattaining it. In love, it denotes great pleasure in the enjoyment of the\nbeloved object. It promises a handsome wife, a good husband, and beautiful\nchildren." }, { "id": "luck-0202", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Picture", "text": "To dream of painting pictures denotes that you will engage\nin some unremunerative, albeit not unpleasant, enterprise.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 202; source lines 4038–4041", "lineStart": 4038, "lineEnd": 4041, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of painting pictures denotes that you will engage\nin some unremunerative, albeit not unpleasant, enterprise." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11376", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Pictures", "heading": "Pictures", "text": "A dream of falsehood and deceit (Raphael).", "lineStart": 11376, "lineEnd": 11376, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 243; NLM OCR lines 11376–11376", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11376, "lineEnd": 11376, "printedPage": 243, "printedPageEnd": 243 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Pictures. — A dream of falsehood and deceit (Raphael). \n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Pictures" }, "displayText": "A dream of falsehood and deceit (Raphael)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "painting", "photograph" ] }, { "slug": "pier", "title": "Pier", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To stand upon a pier in your dream, denotes that you will be brave in your battle for recognition in prosperity's realm, and that you will…”", "aliases": [ "pier" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about pier stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1539", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Pier", "text": "To stand upon a pier in your dream, denotes that you will be\nbrave in your battle for recognition in prosperity's realm,\nand that you will be admitted to the highest posts of honor.\n\nIf you strive to reach a pier and fail, you will lose the distinction\nyou most coveted.", "locator": "Heading 1543; source lines 17498–17507", "lineStart": 17498, "lineEnd": 17507, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To stand upon a pier in your dream, denotes that you will be\nbrave in your battle for recognition in prosperity's realm,\nand that you will be admitted to the highest posts of honor.\n\nIf you strive to reach a pier and fail, you will lose the distinction\nyou most coveted." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "piercing", "title": "Piercing", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "A deliberate small wound that becomes an ornament.", "summary": "A piercing dream combines chosen pain, decoration and permanence. Record which part was pierced, who did it, and whether you agreed to it.", "aliases": [ "piercing", "piercings", "getting a piercing", "nose piercing", "ear piercing", "body piercing", "pierced ears", "piercing dream", "piercing falling out" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "A piercing is a small wound that someone has decided to keep. In a dream it can picture a choice to mark yourself visibly, a wish to belong to a group that wears the same signals, or a worry about damage that cannot be undone. The location carries most of the information. An ear is conventional in many places, while a lip, an eyebrow or a navel sends a different message to the people around you, and the dream may be testing how that message lands. Record whether you chose the piercing, who held the needle, and how it felt: sharp, numb, or strangely painless. A piercing done against your will belongs in a separate note, since it can picture being marked by a situation rather than choosing a mark. Then describe the jewellery. A hoop that will not close, a stud that falls out, or a hole that has healed shut can each picture a change that did not take. Compare the dream with your waking attitude to piercings, whether you have several, none, or once removed one. If a parent, partner or employer appeared in the dream and reacted, write down their words, because other people's reactions are often the real subject.", "traditional": "None of the historical dream books in DreamFolia's archive discusses piercing the body for ornament. Miller's 1901 dictionary and the older collections have entries on the needle, the bracelet and other jewellery, each with its own page and its own period beliefs, but the act of piercing is not among them and those readings are not transferred here. No older meaning is borrowed for this entry; it rests on what you remember of the needle, the place and the person who held it.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "Getting pierced somewhere unusual", "reflection": "Name the spot and write down who suggested it. Note how the people you know in waking life would react if they saw it, and whether that reaction was part of the dream's appeal or its anxiety." }, { "title": "A piercing that closes over", "reflection": "Record how you discovered the hole had healed and whether you tried to reopen it. A closed piercing can picture an identity you set aside for a while and are unsure about resuming." }, { "title": "Being pierced without consent", "reflection": "Write down who did it and what they said. Note whether you resisted, and whether the mark they left resembled anything a person or situation has imposed on you lately." } ], "prompts": [ "Where was the piercing, and who chose its location?", "What did the jewellery look like, and did it stay in?", "Whose reaction to the piercing mattered most in the dream?" ], "related": [ "needle", "tattoo", "wound", "blood", "bracelet", "face" ], "sources": [], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia editorial draft written on 2026-10-12. Reflection text is an invitation to personal writing, not a validated symbol meaning. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "pies", "title": "Pies", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of eating pies, you will do well to watch your enemies, as they are planning to injure you.” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "pies" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about pies stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "pastry" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1540", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Pies", "text": "To dream of eating pies, you will do well to watch your enemies,\nas they are planning to injure you.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of making pies, denotes that she will flirt\nwith men for pastime. She should accept this warning.\n\n\n[157] See Pastry.", "locator": "Heading 1544; source lines 17507–17518", "lineStart": 17507, "lineEnd": 17518, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of eating pies, you will do well to watch your enemies,\nas they are planning to injure you.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of making pies, denotes that she will flirt\nwith men for pastime. She should accept this warning. See Pastry." }, { "id": "fontaine-0575", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Pies", "text": "To dream of eating pie is a sign that you will soon be in want.\nTo dream you are making pies is a sign of pleasure and happiness. 38.", "locator": "Heading 575; source line 3740", "lineStart": 3740, "lineEnd": 3743, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of eating pie is a sign that you will soon be in want.\nTo dream you are making pies is a sign of pleasure and happiness." }, { "id": "noe-0389", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Pies", "text": "Dreaming of making pies is joy and profit.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 395; source lines 1498–1498", "lineStart": 1498, "lineEnd": 1498, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Dreaming of making pies is joy and profit." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11377", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Pies", "heading": "Pies", "text": "To dream of making pies augurs joy and profit (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 11377, "lineEnd": 11379, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 243; NLM OCR lines 11377–11379", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11377, "lineEnd": 11379, "printedPage": 243, "printedPageEnd": 243 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Pies. — To dream of making pies augurs joy and profit \n(Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Pies" }, "displayText": "To dream of making pies augurs joy and profit (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "pastry" ] }, { "slug": "pig", "title": "Pig", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "7 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a fat, healthy pig, denotes reasonable success in affairs.” Compare 7 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "pig", "pigs", "swine" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about pig stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "hogs" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "moles-71045", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams and Moles", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "United Kingdom, J. Marshall, 1805", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71045", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1541", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Pig", "text": "To dream of a fat, healthy pig, denotes reasonable success in affairs.\nIf they are wallowing in mire, you will have hurtful associates,\nand your engagements will be subject to reproach. This dream will bring\nto a young woman a jealous and greedy companion though the chances\nare that he will be wealthy.\n\n\n[158] See Hog.", "locator": "Heading 1545; source lines 17518–17529", "lineStart": 17518, "lineEnd": 17529, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a fat, healthy pig, denotes reasonable success in affairs.\nIf they are wallowing in mire, you will have hurtful associates,\nand your engagements will be subject to reproach. This dream will bring\nto a young woman a jealous and greedy companion though the chances\nare that he will be wealthy. See Hog." }, { "id": "fontaine-0577", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Pigs", "text": "To dream of seeing pigs is good; if you are in trade you will\nhave great increase in your business from foreign parts; if you are\nin love, your sweetheart is thereby denoted to be of a good temper,\nfaithful and sincere to you, and that if you marry you will become\nhappy. 4, 12, 48.", "locator": "Heading 577; source line 3746", "lineStart": 3746, "lineEnd": 3752, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing pigs is good; if you are in trade you will\nhave great increase in your business from foreign parts; if you are\nin love, your sweetheart is thereby denoted to be of a good temper,\nfaithful and sincere to you, and that if you marry you will become\nhappy." }, { "id": "noe-0501", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Swine", "text": "In dreams, swine denote lazy persons, who think of\nnothing but how to prey on other people’s goods; they signify also\ncovetous persons. To dream you trade in swine, signifies sickness. To\ndream you see a sow with a litter of pigs, denotes distress.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 509; source lines 1854–1859", "lineStart": 1854, "lineEnd": 1859, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "In dreams, swine denote lazy persons, who think of\nnothing but how to prey on other people’s goods; they signify also\ncovetous persons. To dream you trade in swine, signifies sickness. To\ndream you see a sow with a litter of pigs, denotes distress.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Swine” is shown on the Pig page: same animal; Noe Swine" }, { "id": "cielo-0322", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Pig", "text": "To dream of a pig is a sign of good luck.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 322; source lines 4637–4639", "lineStart": 4637, "lineEnd": 4639, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a pig is a sign of good luck." }, { "id": "luck-0201", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Pig", "text": "Good luck, reasonable success in affairs.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 201; source lines 4036–4038", "lineStart": 4036, "lineEnd": 4038, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Good luck, reasonable success in affairs." }, { "id": "moles-0032", "sourceId": "moles-71045", "heading": "Pig", "originalHeading": "(no printed heading)", "text": "To dream that your lover is driving a pig, denotes that he is of a\nheadstrong disposition, and likely to prove a drunkard.", "locator": "Dreams interpreted, passage 32; source lines 203–204", "lineStart": 203, "lineEnd": 204, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "editorialNote": "The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Pig” because that is the subject of its first clause.", "displayText": "To dream that your lover is driving a pig, denotes that he is of a\nheadstrong disposition, and likely to prove a drunkard." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11380", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Pig", "heading": "Pig", "text": "A dream both good and bad, false friends, but a faithful lover (Gypsy). Chinese lucky symbol, but regarded as an emblem of greediness.", "lineStart": 11380, "lineEnd": 11383, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 243; NLM OCR lines 11380–11383", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11380, "lineEnd": 11383, "printedPage": 243, "printedPageEnd": 243 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Pig. — A dream both good and bad, false friends, but a faith- \nful lover (Gypsy). Chinese lucky symbol, but regarded as an \nemblem of greediness. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "faith- \nful", "after": "faithful", "evidenceLine": 2176 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Pig" }, "displayText": "A dream both good and bad, false friends, but a faithful lover (Gypsy). Chinese lucky symbol, but regarded as an emblem of greediness." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "hogs" ] }, { "slug": "pigeon", "title": "Pigeon", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "aliases": [ "pigeon", "pigeons" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "summary": "Pigeons can explore a familiar public route, belonging that travels into another setting, or the terms of sharing an ordinary resource.", "tagline": "An everyday visitor can change how a familiar place is used.", "psychological": "A pigeon landing beside you on a busy platform can make an ordinary place feel briefly particular. The journey still has a timetable, but another presence gives you a reason to pause. A chance conversation during a routine task may offer a parallel. Enjoying the interruption differs from feeling that you must attend to every encounter before continuing your own route.\n\nA group of pigeons occupying the path can bring shared space into focus. You may have to slow down, move around or wait while other activity continues. A workplace corridor, household routine or public resource may become similarly crowded without anyone intending to block you. The useful question concerns how several uses can coexist, rather than turning the birds into obstructive people.\n\nRecognizing a familiar pigeon in an unfamiliar setting can picture belonging carried through a small association. A remembered routine or person may make a new location feel accessible. If you expect the entire scene to be the same, that familiar detail may also hide differences worth noticing. Recognition can offer a starting point without supplying a complete account of the new place.\n\nA pigeon arriving with an unreadable address can make a connection lack the information needed to finish it. A handover or request may reach you before its intended recipient is clear. Returning the message, finding another person or acknowledging uncertainty creates different routes. The dream does not predict news from someone absent.\n\nSharing food unevenly among pigeons can make the distribution of a modest resource more important than its total. You may want attention or assistance to reach several participants without being able to satisfy every need at once. A pigeon leaving while another remains can make participation vary within the same arrangement. Street encounters, a station visit or a remembered pet can also supply direct imagery. These possibilities follow ordinary contact, orientation and shared use. A dove recalled from a ceremony may have another personal context from a pigeon on a busy street. The actual setting gives either encounter a particular focus, without assigning wild or tame birds a code for human honesty, sexuality or domestic virtue.", "traditional": "Miller, Fontaine and Noe give favorable pigeon forecasts; Cielo distinguishes flight and rest. Everybody’s Book of Luck and Craig assign gendered moral meanings to wild/tame birds, and Craig points to Dove symbolism. These six records are attributed history, not evidence of domestic outcomes, news, honesty or anyone’s sexuality. Doves’ records remain separate.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A pause within the ordinary route", "reflection": "A passing encounter can matter while leaving your own journey and timetable intact." }, { "title": "Belonging with room for difference", "reflection": "A familiar detail can make a new setting accessible without making every condition equivalent." }, { "title": "A shared resource has recipients", "reflection": "Distribution and usable information can determine whether a modest contribution reaches its intended place." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A pigeon lands beside you while you wait for transport", "reflection": "A routine pause gains another presence. This may picture a chance encounter within an established journey. Enjoyment differs from obligation to engage; noticing the visitor can have value without requiring you to abandon the route you had already chosen." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Pigeons occupy a path used by several people", "reflection": "Different activities need room in the same place. This can resemble a household or workplace routine becoming crowded. Slowing down or finding another way may preserve your purpose without making every other participant an intentional obstacle to progress." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You recognize a familiar pigeon in an unfamiliar square", "reflection": "One association offers continuity within changed surroundings. This may picture a remembered routine helping you enter another setting. Comfort can be useful while other differences remain; familiarity with one detail does not mean that the entire encounter has stayed unchanged." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A pigeon arrives carrying a message with an unreadable address", "reflection": "A connection reaches you before its intended destination is clear. This can resemble a handover needing more information. Finding the recipient or preserving the uncertainty changes what is possible without turning the arrival into a prediction of news from someone absent." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You have a little food to distribute among many pigeons", "reflection": "The terms of sharing matter alongside the amount available. This may picture dividing assistance or attention without meeting every request at once. A workable order can support several participants without requiring the dream to decide who deserves your care." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "One pigeon leaves while another stays near the same place", "reflection": "Participants use a shared arrangement differently. This can resemble a routine that supports both brief visits and continued company. Making room for each does not require securing everyone’s presence or interpreting departure as a judgment of the place you provide." } ], "prompts": [ "What did the brief encounter add to the route you already had?", "Which familiar detail helped you enter a changed setting?", "How did information or distribution affect who could use what was offered?" ], "related": [ "bird", "doves", "train", "letter" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1542" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. miller-1542 — Pigeon (Heading 1546; source lines 17529–17542): Pigeon sounds/cotes, shooting and flight receive domestic, marriage, character, misunderstanding and absent-news claims." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0576" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. fontaine-0576 — Pigeons (Heading 576; source line 3743): Pigeons predict contentment, delight and business success." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0390" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. noe-0390 — Pigeons (Dream section, heading 396; source lines 1498–1499): Briefly calls seeing pigeons good." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0324" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. cielo-0324 — Pigeon (Dream section, heading 324; source lines 4641–4644): Flight predicts reconciliation; rest predicts success." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0203" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. luck-0203 — Pigeon (Dream section, heading 203; source lines 4041–4045): Predicts domestic comfort/external success and assigns gendered moral codes to wild/tame pigeons." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L11384" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. craig-1918:L11384 — Pigeons (Printed p. 243; NLM OCR lines 11384–11387): Reports favorable and wild/tame gendered morality claims attributed to Artemidorus, then refers to Dove symbolism." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection independently reviewed for content and source scope. Historical accounts remain attributed period writing. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1542", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Pigeon", "text": "To dream of seeing pigeons and hearing them cooing above their cotes,\ndenotes domestic peace and pleasure-giving children. For a young woman,\nthis dream indicates an early and comfortable union.\n\nTo see them being used in a shooting match, and, if you participate,\nit denotes that cruelty in your nature will show in your dealings,\nand you are warned of low and debasing pleasures.\n\nTo see them flying, denotes freedom from misunderstanding,\nand perhaps news from the absent.", "locator": "Heading 1546; source lines 17529–17542", "lineStart": 17529, "lineEnd": 17542, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing pigeons and hearing them cooing above their cotes,\ndenotes domestic peace and pleasure-giving children. For a young woman,\nthis dream indicates an early and comfortable union.\n\nTo see them being used in a shooting match, and, if you participate,\nit denotes that cruelty in your nature will show in your dealings,\nand you are warned of low and debasing pleasures.\n\nTo see them flying, denotes freedom from misunderstanding,\nand perhaps news from the absent." }, { "id": "fontaine-0576", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Pigeons", "text": "To dream of pigeons is a sign of content and delight, and\nsuccess in business. 39.", "locator": "Heading 576; source line 3743", "lineStart": 3743, "lineEnd": 3746, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of pigeons is a sign of content and delight, and\nsuccess in business." }, { "id": "noe-0390", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Pigeons", "text": "Dreaming\nyou see pigeons is good.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 396; source lines 1498–1499", "lineStart": 1498, "lineEnd": 1499, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Dreaming\nyou see pigeons is good." }, { "id": "cielo-0324", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Pigeon", "text": "Seeing a pigeon in flight means\n reconciliation; at rest denotes success.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 324; source lines 4641–4644", "lineStart": 4641, "lineEnd": 4644, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Seeing a pigeon in flight means\nreconciliation; at rest denotes success." }, { "id": "luck-0203", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Pigeon", "text": "Domestic peace and comfort, success in exterior affairs.\nWild pigeons signify dissolute women: tame pigeons, honest women and\nwives.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 203; source lines 4041–4045", "lineStart": 4041, "lineEnd": 4045, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Domestic peace and comfort, success in exterior affairs.\nWild pigeons signify dissolute women: tame pigeons, honest women and\nwives." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11384", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Pigeons", "heading": "Pigeons", "text": "A good dream. Wild pigeons signify dissolute women; tame pigeons, honest women and matrons (Artemidorus). For symbolism of pigeon see Dove.", "lineStart": 11384, "lineEnd": 11387, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 243; NLM OCR lines 11384–11387", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11384, "lineEnd": 11387, "printedPage": 243, "printedPageEnd": 243 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Pigeons. — A good dream. Wild pigeons signify dissolute \nwomen; tame pigeons, honest women and matrons (Artemido- \nrus). For symbolism of pigeon see Dove. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "Artemido- \nrus", "after": "Artemidorus", "evidenceLine": 485 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Pigeons" }, "displayText": "A good dream. Wild pigeons signify dissolute women; tame pigeons, honest women and matrons (Artemidorus). For symbolism of pigeon see Dove." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "pigsty", "title": "Pigsty", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Cielo wrote: “Indicates financial gain.”", "aliases": [ "pigsty" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about pigsty stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "cielo-0323", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Pigsty", "text": "Indicates financial gain.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 323; source lines 4639–4641", "lineStart": 4639, "lineEnd": 4641, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Indicates financial gain." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "pile", "title": "Pile", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “Dreaming that you pile anything against the wall, denotes assistance in business.”", "aliases": [ "pile" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about pile stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "pilgrim", "title": "Pilgrim", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of pilgrims, denotes that you will go on an extended journey, leaving home and its dearest objects in the mistaken idea that it…”", "aliases": [ "pilgrim" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about pilgrim stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1548", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Pineapple", "text": "To dream of pineapples, is exceedingly propitious.\nSuccess will follow in the near future, if you gather pineapples\nor eat them.\n\nTo dream that you prick your fingers while preparing a pineapple\nfor the table, you will experience considerable vexation over matters\nwhich will finally bring pleasure and success.", "locator": "Heading 1552; source lines 17588–17598", "lineStart": 17588, "lineEnd": 17598, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of pineapples, is exceedingly propitious.\nSuccess will follow in the near future, if you gather pineapples\nor eat them.\n\nTo dream that you prick your fingers while preparing a pineapple\nfor the table, you will experience considerable vexation over matters\nwhich will finally bring pleasure and success." }, { "id": "fontaine-0578", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Pineapple", "text": "To dream of this fruit is a sign of gold; if you see an\nabundance of it, you will receive plenty of gold soon after: a young\ngirl who dreams of pineapples will probably get a rich husband. 22, 9,\n78.", "locator": "Heading 578; source line 3752", "lineStart": 3752, "lineEnd": 3757, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of this fruit is a sign of gold; if you see an\nabundance of it, you will receive plenty of gold soon after: a young\ngirl who dreams of pineapples will probably get a rich husband. 22, 9," } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "pink", "title": "Pink (color)", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "summary": "A pink appearance may bring preference, presentation or a temporary trace into view. Your response and the surrounding action give it meaning.", "tagline": "The difference between an appearance you choose and one others define.", "aliases": [ "pink", "pink color", "pink colour", "the color pink", "the colour pink" ], "status": "REVIEW", "psychological": "A pink appearance may bring a preference into a setting where other people have expectations about it. Choosing the shade freely differs from being given something pink and told what that choice says about you. The dream may explore the space between liking an appearance, displaying it and accepting the description someone else attaches to it. Your own response gives these possibilities their direction.\n\n A shared choice can make that space practical. Decorating a room, selecting an invitation or adjusting a design may require several people to live with one result. If pink is the point of disagreement, the scene may resemble a waking negotiation about whose preference becomes visible. Keeping some areas separate, finding a mixed arrangement or changing the decision together can express different kinds of agreement without requiring everyone to have the same taste.\n\n An unexpected pink detail can also change recognition. A familiar tool or container may look unlike itself even though it still performs its task. This may bring function and presentation apart: what makes something useful need not be what makes it feel appropriate or yours. A waking comparison might be an effective idea dismissed because of its presentation, or a change of appearance that feels more consequential than others understand.\n\n A temporary trace creates another kind of scene. A pink outline, patch or tint that gradually disappears may make you want to preserve an encounter before it loses its visible form. Relief at its fading suggests a different concern from carefully restoring it. The dream may make permanence negotiable, allowing you to consider how much of an experience needs to remain on display and how much can remain as a personal memory.\n\n Making or naming a shade can give you a more active role. You might arrive at pink through an unexpected mixture, or disagree with someone about what the appearance should be called. The useful development is whether you can examine the result together and say what matters about it. The color need not establish an identity or relationship; a particular object, document or person retains the rest of their story in the dream.", "traditional": "Personal preferences and remembered appearances provide a starting point for this hue. General sleep background allows waking experience to enter dreams; it does not assign pink a shared gender, relationship or health meaning.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Preference and assigned description", "reflection": "A pink choice may become uncomfortable when another person uses it to define you. The scene can explore whether you want to explain a preference, keep it private or enjoy it without accepting the description attached to it." }, { "title": "An arrangement others share", "reflection": "A shared pink appearance can make different tastes visible. What each person can change, retain or choose separately may matter more than reaching one opinion about the shade. A negotiated result can leave room for several preferences." }, { "title": "A trace with a limited life", "reflection": "A fading pink mark may bring the wish to preserve or release an experience into a visible process. The response to its disappearance helps distinguish loss, welcome change and a memory that does not need an outward sign." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You negotiate a pink shared room", "reflection": "One person wants the entire room pink while another wants a smaller area. Finding separate spaces or a mixed arrangement may let the dream explore how a preference becomes shared. The outcome matters through each person’s room to participate, rather than through one supposedly correct shade." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A pink invitation comes with someone else’s description", "reflection": "The invitation appeals to you until another person explains what accepting it would supposedly say about you. That difference may make presentation and identity hard to separate. Asking about the actual event or choosing for yourself can give the scene a more specific direction." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A pink trace fades from a treasured object", "reflection": "You watch a small mark disappear from something associated with an encounter you want to remember. Restoring it or letting it go may express different relationships to that memory. The object can retain its personal importance even when the visible reminder changes." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Two people disagree about whether a shade is pink", "reflection": "The appearance stays the same while its name becomes a point of disagreement. Examining it together or allowing different descriptions may matter more than winning the label. The dream can resemble a conversation in which people need to explain what they are noticing." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "An accidental mixture becomes a pink you like", "reflection": "A mixing task goes differently from the plan, yet you find the resulting appearance appealing. Keeping it, adjusting it or concealing the accident can explore how much room a project allows for an unplanned result, especially when another person expects an exact specification." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "A pink outline makes an overlooked shape visible", "reflection": "An added outline lets you recognize a form you had passed without noticing. The appearance may work as a way of giving something an edge rather than changing its substance. This can resemble finding a presentation that helps another person see what was already there." } ], "prompts": [ "What was your own response to the pink appearance before anyone else described it?", "How did a shared choice leave room for different preferences?", "What did the temporary mark or changed appearance help you keep, recognize or release?" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "related": [ "colors", "paint-and-painting", "uniform", "gift" ], "updated": "2026-10-13", "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "detectionAliases": [ "pink color", "pink colour", "the color pink", "the colour pink" ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "pinks", "title": "Pinks", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “If a lady dreams of pinks, it foretells she will soon have a new bonnet that she will be delighted with: if a gentleman dreams of them,…”", "aliases": [ "pinks" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about pinks stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0579", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Pinks", "text": "If a lady dreams of pinks, it foretells she will soon have a new\nbonnet that she will be delighted with: if a gentleman dreams of them,\nhis wife or sweetheart will get a new bonnet that will please him.\nThat’s all. 34.", "locator": "Heading 579; source line 3757", "lineStart": 3757, "lineEnd": 3762, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If a lady dreams of pinks, it foretells she will soon have a new\nbonnet that she will be delighted with: if a gentleman dreams of them,\nhis wife or sweetheart will get a new bonnet that will please him.\nThat’s all." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1550", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Pins", "text": "To dream of pins, augurs differences and quarrels ill families.\n\nTo a young woman, they warn her of unladylike conduct towards her lover.\n\nTo dream of swallowing a pin, denotes that accidents will force\nyou into perilous conditions.\n\nTo lose one, implies a petty loss or disagreement.\n\nTo see a bent or rusty pin, signifies that you will lose esteem\nbecause of your careless ways.\n\nTo stick one into your flesh, denotes that some person will irritate you.", "locator": "Heading 1554; source lines 17604–17620", "lineStart": 17604, "lineEnd": 17620, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of pins, augurs differences and quarrels ill families.\n\nTo a young woman, they warn her of unladylike conduct towards her lover.\n\nTo dream of swallowing a pin, denotes that accidents will force\nyou into perilous conditions.\n\nTo lose one, implies a petty loss or disagreement.\n\nTo see a bent or rusty pin, signifies that you will lose esteem\nbecause of your careless ways.\n\nTo stick one into your flesh, denotes that some person will irritate you." }, { "id": "fontaine-0580", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Pins", "text": "To dream of pins signifies that you will have small troubles all\nthrough life, but no great disasters; to dream you find a pin is a sign\nof success in business; if a girl dream she is pricked with a pin, she\nmust keep a sharp look out for her lover or she may get in trouble. 3,\n71.", "locator": "Heading 580; source line 3762", "lineStart": 3762, "lineEnd": 3768, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of pins signifies that you will have small troubles all\nthrough life, but no great disasters; to dream you find a pin is a sign\nof success in business; if a girl dream she is pricked with a pin, she\nmust keep a sharp look out for her lover or she may get in trouble. 3," }, { "id": "cielo-0328", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Pins", "text": "To dream of pins is considered fortunate and means wealth.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 328; source lines 4650–4652", "lineStart": 4650, "lineEnd": 4652, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of pins is considered fortunate and means wealth." }, { "id": "luck-0205", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Pins", "text": "Differences and quarrels in families.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 205; source lines 4047–4049", "lineStart": 4047, "lineEnd": 4049, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Differences and quarrels in families." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11420", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Pins", "heading": "Pins", "text": "This dream signifies contradiction and discussion of trivial matters (Gypsy). 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "pipe", "title": "Pipe", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Pipes seen in dreams, are representatives of peace and comfort after many struggles.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "pipe" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about pipe stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1551", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Pipe", "text": "Pipes seen in dreams, are representatives of peace and comfort\nafter many struggles.\n\nSewer, gas, and such like pipes, denotes unusual thought and prosperity\nin your community.\n\nOld and broken pipe, signifies ill health and stagnation of business.\n\nTo dream that you smoke a pipe, denotes that you will enjoy the visit of an\nold friend, and peaceful settlements of differences will also take place.", "locator": "Heading 1555; source lines 17620–17633", "lineStart": 17620, "lineEnd": 17633, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Pipes seen in dreams, are representatives of peace and comfort\nafter many struggles.\n\nSewer, gas, and such like pipes, denotes unusual thought and prosperity\nin your community.\n\nOld and broken pipe, signifies ill health and stagnation of business.\n\nTo dream that you smoke a pipe, denotes that you will enjoy the visit of an\nold friend, and peaceful settlements of differences will also take place." }, { "id": "fontaine-0581", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Pipe", "text": "To dream you smoke a pipe is an omen of success in business; if\nthe pipe goes out three times it is a sign you will meet with losses.\nTo dream you break a pipe foretells a quarrel that will injure your\nprospects. 49, 7, 9.", "locator": "Heading 581; source line 3768", "lineStart": 3768, "lineEnd": 3773, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you smoke a pipe is an omen of success in business; if\nthe pipe goes out three times it is a sign you will meet with losses.\nTo dream you break a pipe foretells a quarrel that will injure your\nprospects." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11424", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Pipe", "heading": "Pipe", "text": "A dream of peace and tranquillity (Gypsy). 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1552", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Pirate", "text": "To dream of pirates, denotes that you will be exposed to the evil\ndesigns of false friends.\n\nTo dream that you are a pirate, denotes that you will fall beneath\nthe society of friends and former equals.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that her lover is a pirate, is a sign\nof his unworthiness and deceitfulness. If she is captured by pirates,\nshe will be induced to leave her home under false pretenses.", "locator": "Heading 1556; source lines 17633–17645", "lineStart": 17633, "lineEnd": 17645, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of pirates, denotes that you will be exposed to the evil\ndesigns of false friends.\n\nTo dream that you are a pirate, denotes that you will fall beneath\nthe society of friends and former equals.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that her lover is a pirate, is a sign\nof his unworthiness and deceitfulness. If she is captured by pirates,\nshe will be induced to leave her home under false pretenses." }, { "id": "fontaine-0582", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Pirate", "text": "To dream you are captured by pirates is a sign you will travel\nin foreign countries and eventually make your fortune: if a girl dreams\nthis, it foretells that she will marry a foreigner who, dying, will\nleave her a fortune. 6.", "locator": "Heading 582; source line 3773", "lineStart": 3773, "lineEnd": 3778, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are captured by pirates is a sign you will travel\nin foreign countries and eventually make your fortune: if a girl dreams\nthis, it foretells that she will marry a foreigner who, dying, will\nleave her a fortune." }, { "id": "cielo-0329", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Pirate", "text": "Foretells a fortunate adventure.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 329; source lines 4652–4654", "lineStart": 4652, "lineEnd": 4654, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Foretells a fortunate adventure." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0583", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Piss-Abed", "text": "To dream that you wet the bed in your sleep, is a sign you\nwill lose something by fire: your house may not burn, but some article\nwill either fall in the fire or be damaged by it—perhaps your servant\nmay spoil some clothing while ironing. 5, 11, 55.", "locator": "Heading 583; source line 3778", "lineStart": 3778, "lineEnd": 3783, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you wet the bed in your sleep, is a sign you\nwill lose something by fire: your house may not burn, but some article\nwill either fall in the fire or be damaged by it—perhaps your servant\nmay spoil some clothing while ironing." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "pistol", "title": "Pistol", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Seeing a pistol in your dream, denotes bad fortune, generally.” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "pistol" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about pistol stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1553", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Pistol", "text": "Seeing a pistol in your dream, denotes bad fortune, generally.\n\nIf you own one, you will cultivate a low, designing character.\n\nIf you hear the report of one, you will be made aware of some scheme\nto ruin your interests.\n\nTo dream of shooting off your pistol, signifies that you will\nbear some innocent person envy, and you will go far to revenge\nthe imagined wrong.", "locator": "Heading 1557; source lines 17645–17658", "lineStart": 17645, "lineEnd": 17658, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Seeing a pistol in your dream, denotes bad fortune, generally.\n\nIf you own one, you will cultivate a low, designing character.\n\nIf you hear the report of one, you will be made aware of some scheme\nto ruin your interests.\n\nTo dream of shooting off your pistol, signifies that you will\nbear some innocent person envy, and you will go far to revenge\nthe imagined wrong." }, { "id": "fontaine-0584", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Pistol", "text": "To dream of arming yourself with a pistol foretells that you\nwill lose _caste_, and perhaps become poor: if a girl dreams that her\nlover carries a pistol, she may be sure that he is below her in social\nlife, and therefore an unpropitious or unsuitable match. 16, 21, 57.", "locator": "Heading 584; source line 3783", "lineStart": 3783, "lineEnd": 3788, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of arming yourself with a pistol foretells that you\nwill lose caste, and perhaps become poor: if a girl dreams that her\nlover carries a pistol, she may be sure that he is below her in social\nlife, and therefore an unpropitious or unsuitable match." }, { "id": "cielo-0330", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Pistol", "text": "To carry a pistol or revolver denotes a\n change in your prospects for the better.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 330; source lines 4654–4657", "lineStart": 4654, "lineEnd": 4657, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To carry a pistol or revolver denotes a\nchange in your prospects for the better." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11431", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Pistol", "heading": "Pistol", "text": "A dream prophesying attacks from secret enemies (Gypsy). Probably a suggestion from the subconsciousness, which recognizes much that is unperceived by the conscious.", "lineStart": 11431, "lineEnd": 11434, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 244; NLM OCR lines 11431–11434", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11431, "lineEnd": 11434, "printedPage": 244, "printedPageEnd": 244 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Pistol. — A dream prophesying attacks from secret enemies \n(Gypsy). Probably a suggestion from the subconsciousness, \nwhich recognizes much that is unperceived by the conscious. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Pistol" }, "displayText": "A dream prophesying attacks from secret enemies (Gypsy). Probably a suggestion from the subconsciousness, which recognizes much that is unperceived by the conscious." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "pit", "title": "Pit", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “If you are looking into a deep pit in your dream, you will run silly risks in business ventures and will…” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "pit" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about pit stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1554", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Pit", "text": "If you are looking into a deep pit in your dream, you will run silly risks\nin business ventures and will draw uneasiness about your wooing.\n\nTo fall into a pit denotes calamity and deep sorrow.\nTo wake as you begin to feel yourself falling into the pit,\nbrings you out of distress in fairly good shape.\n\nTo dream that you are descending into one, signifies that you\nwill knowingly risk health and fortune for greater success.", "locator": "Heading 1558; source lines 17658–17670", "lineStart": 17658, "lineEnd": 17670, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you are looking into a deep pit in your dream, you will run silly risks\nin business ventures and will draw uneasiness about your wooing.\n\nTo fall into a pit denotes calamity and deep sorrow.\nTo wake as you begin to feel yourself falling into the pit,\nbrings you out of distress in fairly good shape.\n\nTo dream that you are descending into one, signifies that you\nwill knowingly risk health and fortune for greater success." }, { "id": "noe-0396", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Pit", "text": "To dream of falling into a pit, shows\nthat in some way heavy misfortune is about to attend you; that your\nsweetheart is false, and prefers another. To a sailor, it forebodes some\nsad disaster at the next port you touch at. To dream you are in a pit, and\nthat you climb out of it, foreshows that you will have many enemies and\nexperience much trouble, but that you will overcome them, marry well, and\nbecome rich; to sailors, it denotes that they will experience shipwreck,\nand be cast on a foreign shore, where they will be hospitably received,\nand marry rich and handsome wives and live at ease.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 402; source lines 1506–1514", "lineStart": 1506, "lineEnd": 1514, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of falling into a pit, shows\nthat in some way heavy misfortune is about to attend you; that your\nsweetheart is false, and prefers another. To a sailor, it forebodes some\nsad disaster at the next port you touch at. To dream you are in a pit, and\nthat you climb out of it, foreshows that you will have many enemies and\nexperience much trouble, but that you will overcome them, marry well, and\nbecome rich; to sailors, it denotes that they will experience shipwreck,\nand be cast on a foreign shore, where they will be hospitably received,\nand marry rich and handsome wives and live at ease." }, { "id": "luck-0206", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Pit", "text": "(Falling in) Disappointment in love, misfortunes, danger:\n(being in, but climbing out) a difficulty overcome.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 206; source lines 4049–4052", "lineStart": 4049, "lineEnd": 4052, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(Falling in) Disappointment in love, misfortunes, danger:\n(being in, but climbing out) a difficulty overcome." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11435", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Pit", "heading": "Pit", "text": "A dream forecasting decline of business, possible descent to want and distress ; to fall into a pit denotes misfortune and tragedy (Raphael).", "lineStart": 11435, "lineEnd": 11438, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 244; NLM OCR lines 11435–11438", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11435, "lineEnd": 11438, "printedPage": 244, "printedPageEnd": 244 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Pit. — A dream forecasting decline of business, possible de- \nscent to want and distress ; to fall into a pit denotes misfortune \nand tragedy (Raphael). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "de- \nscent", "after": "descent", "evidenceLine": 4873 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Pit" }, "displayText": "A dream forecasting decline of business, possible descent to want and distress; to fall into a pit denotes misfortune and tragedy (Raphael)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "pitch", "title": "Pitch", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “To dream that you get pitch on your person is a sign that some one has been scandalizing you by telling…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "pitch" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about pitch stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0585", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Pitch", "text": "To dream that you get pitch on your person is a sign that some\none has been scandalizing you by telling lies: a girl who dreams this,\nmay be sure that her fair fame has been questioned somewhere. 54, 14.", "locator": "Heading 585; source line 3788", "lineStart": 3788, "lineEnd": 3792, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you get pitch on your person is a sign that some\none has been scandalizing you by telling lies: a girl who dreams this,\nmay be sure that her fair fame has been questioned somewhere." }, { "id": "cielo-0331", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Pitch", "text": "Signifies “Beware of evil companions!”", "locator": "Dream section, heading 331; source lines 4657–4659", "lineStart": 4657, "lineEnd": 4659, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Signifies “Beware of evil companions!”" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "pitcher", "title": "Pitcher", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a pitcher, denotes that you will be of a generous and congenial disposition.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "pitcher" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about pitcher stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "jug" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1555", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Pitcher", "text": "To dream of a pitcher, denotes that you will be of a generous\nand congenial disposition. Success will attend your efforts.\n\nA broken pitcher, denotes loss of friends.", "locator": "Heading 1559; source lines 17670–17677", "lineStart": 17670, "lineEnd": 17677, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a pitcher, denotes that you will be of a generous\nand congenial disposition. Success will attend your efforts.\n\nA broken pitcher, denotes loss of friends." }, { "id": "fontaine-0586", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Pitcher", "text": "(_See Jug._) To dream you drink water or milk from a pitcher\nis a good omen, and signifies you will be prosperous in love and\nbusiness. To dream you spill anything out of a pitcher foretells losses\nfrom the treachery of supposed friends, and to dream you break a\npitcher portends sickness, and accident while on a journey. To dream of\nbreaking a pitcher is also a sign of bankruptcy through carelessness.\n49, 20.", "locator": "Heading 586; source line 3792", "lineStart": 3792, "lineEnd": 3800, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Jug.) To dream you drink water or milk from a pitcher\nis a good omen, and signifies you will be prosperous in love and\nbusiness. To dream you spill anything out of a pitcher foretells losses\nfrom the treachery of supposed friends, and to dream you break a\npitcher portends sickness, and accident while on a journey. To dream of\nbreaking a pitcher is also a sign of bankruptcy through carelessness." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "jug" ] }, { "slug": "pitchfork", "title": "Pitchfork", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Pitchforks in dreams, denotes struggles for betterment of fortune and great laboring, either physically or…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "pitchfork" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about pitchfork stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1556", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Pitchfork", "text": "Pitchforks in dreams, denotes struggles for betterment of fortune\nand great laboring, either physically or mentally.\n\nTo dream that you are attacked by some person using a pitchfork,\nimplies that you will have personal enemies who would not scruple\nto harm you.", "locator": "Heading 1560; source lines 17677–17686", "lineStart": 17677, "lineEnd": 17686, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Pitchforks in dreams, denotes struggles for betterment of fortune\nand great laboring, either physically or mentally.\n\nTo dream that you are attacked by some person using a pitchfork,\nimplies that you will have personal enemies who would not scruple\nto harm you." }, { "id": "cielo-0332", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Pitchfork", "text": "Means you will be punished.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 332; source lines 4659–4661", "lineStart": 4659, "lineEnd": 4661, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Means you will be punished." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11439", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Pitchfork", "heading": "Pitchfork", "text": "An evil dream save to farmers, to whom it augurs wealth through toil (Gypsy). A symbol of Satan in. Christian art.", "lineStart": 11439, "lineEnd": 11442, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 244; NLM OCR lines 11439–11442", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11439, "lineEnd": 11442, "printedPage": 244, "printedPageEnd": 244 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Pitchfork. — An evil dream save to farmers, to whom it \naugurs wealth through toil (Gypsy). A symbol of Satan in. \nChristian art. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Pitchfork" }, "displayText": "An evil dream save to farmers, to whom it augurs wealth through toil (Gypsy). A symbol of Satan in. Christian art." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "pizza", "title": "Pizza", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "summary": "Pizza dreams can explore how a shared resource is divided, whose preferences count, and whether a promised convenience actually helps.", "tagline": "One meal, several preferences, and a visible share for each person.", "aliases": [ "pizza", "pizzas" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A pizza divided among several people can make fairness visible through ordinary portions. Equal slices may feel fair until one person has already eaten, another needs more, or someone provided the whole meal. A shared budget, household arrangement, or group workload can offer a parallel when the rule is simple but the circumstances are not. The dream may concern how a share is decided rather than how much food exists. Being able to discuss the division creates a different relationship from silently accepting a portion that feels wrong.\n\nChoosing toppings can bring personal preference into a collective decision. One person’s favorite may be acceptable to everyone, or the compromise may leave nobody enjoying the result. This can fit planning a holiday, setting a team direction, or joining an activity organized around someone else’s wishes. Having separate sections may picture an arrangement that allows difference without abandoning the shared whole. Removing what you dislike can feel practical, while being criticized for doing so can turn accommodation into an expectation of uniformity.\n\nDelivery adds a promise that someone else will complete part of the work. Waiting while guests arrive may resemble relying on a service, colleague, or agreement whose timing you cannot control. If the order never appears, responsibility can return to you after you had planned around relief. If it arrives warmly and makes the gathering easier, the scene may picture receiving help that actually fits. Neither version establishes that a real promise will be kept or broken; the emotional question concerns dependence and what happens when support arrives.\n\nA leftover slice can carry a different meaning from a freshly shared meal. Reheating something familiar may picture finding satisfaction in what is already available instead of demanding a new occasion. A slice saved for someone can make care concrete through remembering their place after a gathering ends. If everyone is served except you, the meal may expose a pattern of organizing enjoyment while remaining outside it. A real order, advertisement, party, or late-night snack can also supply the image. This entry centers on division, preference, and promised convenience rather than treating pizza as a general sign of appetite or indulgence.", "traditional": "No historical Pizza dream passage is supplied. Bread, Cheese, and Pies are related ingredients or foods with their own archival scopes; none supplies a fixed pizza meaning. The interpretation concerns the arrangements shown in the remembered meal.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A fair share", "reflection": "Slices make distribution easy to see. Equal portions, unequal circumstances, and who decides can produce different readings of the same shared meal." }, { "title": "Difference within a shared choice", "reflection": "Toppings can picture personal preferences negotiated in a group. Separate sections may allow participation without requiring everyone to want an identical experience." }, { "title": "A promise of practical help", "reflection": "Delivery can turn convenience into relief or into another responsibility when it fails to arrive. The scene gives dependence and timing a concrete form." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "The last slice is divided several times", "reflection": "A limited resource must satisfy more people than expected. This can picture trying to preserve fairness while each share becomes less useful. Discussing another option differs from continuing the same division merely because it began as the rule." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Someone orders only their favorite toppings", "reflection": "A collective meal follows one person’s preferences. The scene may resemble being included in an activity without influence over its form. Enjoying the choice freely differs from feeling required to accept it to maintain company." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Different sections let everyone choose", "reflection": "The shared whole contains several preferences without demanding uniformity. This may picture a workable compromise in a household or team. The value lies in room for difference, rather than in finding one supposedly correct taste." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "The delivery never arrives while guests wait", "reflection": "A promised convenience becomes a responsibility you must explain. This can resemble planning around support that remains uncertain. Help from the guests changes the scene from performing reassurance alone toward solving the immediate problem together." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You save a slice for someone who is absent", "reflection": "A small portion keeps another person included beyond the gathering. This may picture care through remembering their place. If nobody respects the saved slice, the tension may concern whose needs the group considers present enough to matter." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You serve everyone and find your own plate empty", "reflection": "Providing the occasion leaves you outside its enjoyment. The scene can fit responsibility that absorbs the person organizing it. Someone noticing the missing portion changes the relationship toward reciprocal care rather than assumed service." } ], "prompts": [ "Who decided the portions and preferences, and could I influence that decision?", "Did outside help make the gathering easier or leave me with more responsibility?", "Was I part of enjoying the meal or only part of providing it?" ], "related": [ "bread", "cheese", "cooking", "dinner" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "places-of-assembly", "title": "Places of Assembly", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Artemidorus wrote: “PLaces of Plea, the Market, Theaters, High-wayes, and great places in a Town and Suburbs, and Churches are troubles and confusions, by…”", "aliases": [ "places of assembly", "of places of assembly" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about places of assembly stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. 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A market filled with goods and folks, is good for those which traficke, but an empty Market the contrary." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "plague", "title": "Plague", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a plague raging, denotes disappointing returns in business, and your wife or lover will lead…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "plague" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about plague stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1557", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Plague", "text": "To dream of a plague raging, denotes disappointing returns in business,\nand your wife or lover will lead you a wretched existence.\n\nIf you are afflicted with the plague, you will keep your\nbusiness out of embarrassment with the greatest maneuvering.\nIf you are trying to escape it, some trouble, which looks impenetrable,\nis pursuing you.", "locator": "Heading 1561; source lines 17686–17696", "lineStart": 17686, "lineEnd": 17696, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a plague raging, denotes disappointing returns in business,\nand your wife or lover will lead you a wretched existence.\n\nIf you are afflicted with the plague, you will keep your\nbusiness out of embarrassment with the greatest maneuvering.\nIf you are trying to escape it, some trouble, which looks impenetrable,\nis pursuing you." }, { "id": "noe-0402", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Plague", "text": "If any one dreams he hath the plague, it signifies his hidden\nstore will be discovered, and he will run the risk of losing it.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 408; source lines 1533–1535", "lineStart": 1533, "lineEnd": 1535, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If any one dreams he hath the plague, it signifies his hidden\nstore will be discovered, and he will run the risk of losing it." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1558", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Plain", "text": "For a young woman to dream of crossing a plain, denotes that she\nwill be fortunately situated, if the grasses are green and luxuriant;\nif they are arid, or the grass is dead, she will have much\ndiscomfort and loneliness.\n\n\n[159] See Prairie.", "locator": "Heading 1562; source lines 17696–17706", "lineStart": 17696, "lineEnd": 17706, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a young woman to dream of crossing a plain, denotes that she\nwill be fortunately situated, if the grasses are green and luxuriant;\nif they are arid, or the grass is dead, she will have much\ndiscomfort and loneliness. See Prairie." }, { "id": "fontaine-0587", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Plains", "text": "To dream of being on a beautiful plain signifies health,\nhappiness and riches, but portends some crosses in love. 4, 12, 48.\n\n Dreams of wandering over plains,\n Walking in cross ways and lanes,\n And being in thick woods quite lost,\n Declare that lovers shall be crost.", "locator": "Heading 587; source line 3800", "lineStart": 3800, "lineEnd": 3808, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being on a beautiful plain signifies health,\nhappiness and riches, but portends some crosses in love.\n\nDreams of wandering over plains,\nWalking in cross ways and lanes,\nAnd being in thick woods quite lost,\nDeclare that lovers shall be crost." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1559", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Plane", "text": "To dream that you use a plane, denotes that your liberality and successful\nefforts will be highly commended.\n\nTo see carpenters using their planes, denotes that you will progress\nsmoothly in your undertakings.\n\nTo dream of seeing planes, denotes congeniality and even success.\n\nA love of the real, and not the false, is portended by this dream.", "locator": "Heading 1563; source lines 17706–17718", "lineStart": 17706, "lineEnd": 17718, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you use a plane, denotes that your liberality and successful\nefforts will be highly commended.\n\nTo see carpenters using their planes, denotes that you will progress\nsmoothly in your undertakings.\n\nTo dream of seeing planes, denotes congeniality and even success.\n\nA love of the real, and not the false, is portended by this dream." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "planet", "title": "Planet", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a planet, foretells an uncomfortable journey and depressing work.”", "aliases": [ "planet" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about planet stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1560", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Planet", "text": "To dream of a planet, foretells an uncomfortable journey and depressing work.", "locator": "Heading 1564; source lines 17718–17722", "lineStart": 17718, "lineEnd": 17722, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a planet, foretells an uncomfortable journey and depressing work." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "plank", "title": "Plank", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “For a young woman to dream that she is walking across muddy water on a rotten plank, denotes that she will…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "plank" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about plank stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1561", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Plank", "text": "For a young woman to dream that she is walking across muddy water\non a rotten plank, denotes that she will feel keenly the indifference\nshown her by one she loves, or other troubles may arise;\nor her defence of honor may be in danger of collapse.\n\nWalking a good, sound plank, is a good omen, but a person will have\nto be unusually careful in conduct after such a dream.", "locator": "Heading 1565; source lines 17722–17732", "lineStart": 17722, "lineEnd": 17732, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a young woman to dream that she is walking across muddy water\non a rotten plank, denotes that she will feel keenly the indifference\nshown her by one she loves, or other troubles may arise;\nor her defence of honor may be in danger of collapse.\n\nWalking a good, sound plank, is a good omen, but a person will have\nto be unusually careful in conduct after such a dream." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11450", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Plank", "heading": "Plank", "text": "To walk a plank in your dream forewarns you of treachery (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 11450, "lineEnd": 11451, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 244; NLM OCR lines 11450–11451", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11450, "lineEnd": 11451, "printedPage": 244, "printedPageEnd": 244 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Plank. — To walk a plank in your dream forewarns you \nof treachery (Gypsy). \n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 0.98039, "secondaryHeading": "Plank" }, "displayText": "To walk a plank in your dream forewarns you of treachery (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0588", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Plants", "text": "(_See Blossom._) To dream of healthy, thriving plants is a\ngood omen, as it foretells success in life, and smart children: such a\ndream is an excellent one for lovers, as it denotes an early and happy\nmarriage. 43, 14, 7.", "locator": "Heading 588; source line 3808", "lineStart": 3808, "lineEnd": 3813, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Blossom.) To dream of healthy, thriving plants is a\ngood omen, as it foretells success in life, and smart children: such a\ndream is an excellent one for lovers, as it denotes an early and happy\nmarriage." }, { "id": "noe-0403", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Plant", "text": "Dreaming that you see a plant come out of your body, is death.\nTo dream of plants quick of growth, as the vine and the peach tree,\ndenotes that the good and evil portended shall quickly happen. But trees\nthat are slow of growing, as the oak, olive, &c., show that the good or\nevil that shall happen to us shall be long in coming.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 409; source lines 1535–1539", "lineStart": 1535, "lineEnd": 1539, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Dreaming that you see a plant come out of your body, is death.\nTo dream of plants quick of growth, as the vine and the peach tree,\ndenotes that the good and evil portended shall quickly happen. But trees\nthat are slow of growing, as the oak, olive, &c., show that the good or\nevil that shall happen to us shall be long in coming." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11452", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Plants", "heading": "Plants", "text": "See Flowers.", "lineStart": 11452, "lineEnd": 11453, "kind": "cross-reference", "locator": "Printed p. 244; NLM OCR lines 11452–11453", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11452, "lineEnd": 11453, "printedPage": 244, "printedPageEnd": 244 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Plants. — See Flowers. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Plants" }, "displayText": "See Flowers." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "blossoms", "flower" ] }, { "slug": "plants-and-trees-comming-out-of-the-body", "title": "Plants and Trees comming out of the Body", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Artemidorus wrote: “FOr to dream that any plant comes out cut of our body, is death or cutting to him.”", "aliases": [ "plants and trees comming out of the body", "of plants and trees comming out of the body" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about plants and trees comming out of the body stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "artemidorus-151", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of Plants and Trees comming out of the Body.", "text": "FOr to dream that any plant comes out cut of our body, is death or cutting to him; which is meant by that part from whence the plant arifeth.", "locator": "Book 3, encoded section 151", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "3", "displayText": "FOr to dream that any plant comes out cut of our body, is death or cutting to him; which is meant by that part from whence the plant arifeth." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1562", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Plaster", "text": "To dream of seeing walls plainly plastered, denotes that success will come,\nbut it will not be stable.\n\nTo have plaster fall upon you, denotes unmitigated disasters and disclosure.\n\nTo see plasterers at work, denotes that you will have a sufficient\ncompetency to live above penury.", "locator": "Heading 1566; source lines 17732–17742", "lineStart": 17732, "lineEnd": 17742, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing walls plainly plastered, denotes that success will come,\nbut it will not be stable.\n\nTo have plaster fall upon you, denotes unmitigated disasters and disclosure.\n\nTo see plasterers at work, denotes that you will have a sufficient\ncompetency to live above penury." }, { "id": "fontaine-0589", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Plaster", "text": "For a girl to dream of having a plaster on her person is a\nsign that some one will offer her an insult, or perhaps make an attempt\nupon her chastity: if a man dreams this, the same will probably happen\nto his wife or sweetheart. 72, 8.", "locator": "Heading 589; source line 3813", "lineStart": 3813, "lineEnd": 3818, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a girl to dream of having a plaster on her person is a\nsign that some one will offer her an insult, or perhaps make an attempt\nupon her chastity: if a man dreams this, the same will probably happen\nto his wife or sweetheart." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "plate", "title": "Plate", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “For a woman to dream of plates, denotes that she will practise economy and win a worthy husband.”", "aliases": [ "plate" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about plate stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "dish" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1563", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Plate", "text": "For a woman to dream of plates, denotes that she will practise economy and win\na worthy husband. If already married, she will retain her husband's love\nand respect by the wise ordering of his household.\n\n\n[160] See Dishes.", "locator": "Heading 1567; source lines 17742–17751", "lineStart": 17742, "lineEnd": 17751, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a woman to dream of plates, denotes that she will practise economy and win\na worthy husband. If already married, she will retain her husband's love\nand respect by the wise ordering of his household. See Dishes." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "dish" ] }, { "slug": "platypus", "title": "Platypus", "type": "dreams", "kind": "modern", "category": "Animals", "aliases": [ "platypus", "platypuses", "duck-billed platypus", "duck billed platypus" ], "summary": "A platypus may bring curiosity, unfamiliar combinations, or movement between different settings into a dream. Recognition can matter more than strangeness.", "tagline": "Something hard to classify, and the possibility of meeting it on its own terms.", "psychological": "A platypus may draw attention because its familiar-looking features do not produce a familiar whole. In a dream, trying to decide what the animal is can become more important than anything it does. This could fit an idea that crosses established categories, a role with several kinds of work, or feeling difficult to describe in the labels available to you. The image makes classification a practical problem: you can see the creature without knowing where to place it.\n\nYour reaction to that uncertainty changes the reading. Curiosity may make the encounter about allowing an unexpected combination to exist. Irritation or embarrassment at misidentifying it may concern pressure to know immediately. If someone insists the animal must be something else, the scene might echo an experience of having complexity simplified. That is a possibility about your experience, not a claim about another person's attitude.\n\nMovement between water and a bank can give the creature another role in the story. If it crosses easily while you hesitate, the dream may explore moving between settings that ask different things of you: private and public life, practical and creative work, or two communities. If the transition looks difficult, the subject may be finding a workable place. The comparison depends on the dream's movement rather than a universal meaning assigned to the species.\n\nAn animal disappearing below the surface can leave you with the limits of observation. You might enjoy following its route or become frustrated that interest does not give you complete access. That can fit learning gradually rather than forcing certainty. A remembered documentary or illustration may explain the image. An odd-looking dream animal can be entertaining in its own right; it need not reveal a hidden problem.", "traditional": "No matching historical platypus record is supplied. This entry offers original reflection on recognition, movement, and the particular encounter. A recent animal image or an earlier moment of learning its name may be especially relevant. Unfamiliar appearance is not evidence of deceit, an omen, or a fixed message about being different.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Beyond an easy label", "reflection": "Trying to classify the animal may fit a role, idea, or experience that combines several familiar elements. Curiosity can be more useful than deciding immediately which category should contain it." }, { "title": "Crossing between settings", "reflection": "An animal moving between water and land may provide a personal image for changing roles or environments. Ease and awkwardness suggest different questions about what makes the transition workable." }, { "title": "Interest without complete access", "reflection": "Following the creature until it disappears can explore how much you need to know. Enjoyment, frustration, and uncertainty differ; observation need not become possession or a complete explanation." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Trying to name an unfamiliar animal", "reflection": "You recognize several features but cannot settle on a name until someone identifies the platypus. The scene may concern uncertainty, expertise, or relief at having a useful description. If naming it makes little difference, the experience may be about curiosity rather than solving a classification problem." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Watching it cross from water to a bank", "reflection": "The animal moves between two settings while you remain in one. This can invite reflection on a role or activity that requires different conditions at different moments. Whether the crossing seems easy, exposed, or awkward gives the comparison its specific direction." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Following it beneath the surface", "reflection": "You watch closely until the animal disappears and must decide whether to wait. Interest may meet a limit on what you can see. The scene can fit learning through partial information, or the simple pleasure of an encounter that does not remain fully visible." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Finding a platypus in your home", "reflection": "An unfamiliar creature appears in a room arranged for ordinary daily life. You may be trying to make space or work out what it needs. The scene can resemble an unexpected responsibility or idea that requires different conditions from those already available." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Other people insist it is the wrong animal", "reflection": "You see a platypus while the people around you keep naming something else. The disagreement may make recognition the central issue. It can fit wanting a complex experience described accurately, without making the dream a verdict about those people’s actual ability to understand you." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "Enjoying its unusual appearance", "reflection": "You watch the animal without needing to classify, capture, or change it. This can be a scene of curiosity without pressure to make something familiar. A remembered image may explain the encounter, while the pleasure of seeing something unexpected remains worth preserving." } ], "prompts": [ "Was I trying to understand the animal, label it, care for it, or simply enjoy it?", "What changed when it moved into a different setting?", "How much uncertainty could I allow before wanting a definite answer?" ], "related": [ "water", "fish", "seahorse", "being-lost", "octopus" ], "updated": "2026-10-13", "status": "REVIEW", "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original image-specific interpretation with alternative personal readings; no matching historical passage supplied. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "play", "title": "Play", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “For a young woman to dream that she attends a play, foretells that she will be courted by a genial friend,…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "play", "plays" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about play stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "theater" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1564", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Play", "text": "For a young woman to dream that she attends a play,\nforetells that she will be courted by a genial friend,\nand will marry to further her prospects and pleasure seeking.\nIf there is trouble in getting to and from the play,\nor discordant and hideous scenes, she will be confronted\nwith many displeasing surprises.\n\n\n[161] See Theater.", "locator": "Heading 1568; source lines 17751–17763", "lineStart": 17751, "lineEnd": 17763, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a young woman to dream that she attends a play,\nforetells that she will be courted by a genial friend,\nand will marry to further her prospects and pleasure seeking.\nIf there is trouble in getting to and from the play,\nor discordant and hideous scenes, she will be confronted\nwith many displeasing surprises. See Theater." }, { "id": "noe-0397", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Plays", "text": "To dream\nyou are at play, is the forerunner of good luck. It betokens great\nhappiness in the marriage state, and success in business. To a maid, it\nshows speedy marriage with a young man, who will be very successful in\nlife, and acquire riches and honors and make her happy.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 403; source lines 1514–1518", "lineStart": 1514, "lineEnd": 1518, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream\nyou are at play, is the forerunner of good luck. It betokens great\nhappiness in the marriage state, and success in business. To a maid, it\nshows speedy marriage with a young man, who will be very successful in\nlife, and acquire riches and honors and make her happy." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "theater" ] }, { "slug": "playes-and-pastimes", "title": "Playes and Pastimes", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Artemidorus wrote: “To play with a top is pain and travaile, whereof notwithstanding shall come good.”", "aliases": [ "playes and pastimes", "of playes and pastimes" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about playes and pastimes stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "artemidorus-043", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of Playes and Pastimes.", "text": "TO play with a top is pain and travaile, whereof notwithstanding shall come good. To play at Tennis, signifieth long noyse and quarrels, and often foretels love towards a whore: for the Ball represents the whore, because it hath no stay, and it goeth through the hands of many.", "locator": "Book 1, encoded section 43", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "1", "displayText": "To play with a top is pain and travaile, whereof notwithstanding shall come good. To play at Tennis, signifieth long noyse and quarrels, and often foretels love towards a whore: for the Ball represents the whore, because it hath no stay, and it goeth through the hands of many." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "playes-games-and-instruments", "title": "Playes, Games, and Instruments", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Artemidorus wrote: “If one dreams of the trumpet, to them which would fight is good, and to those which have lost their Servants.”", "aliases": [ "playes, games, and instruments", "of playes, games, and instruments", "playes", "games", "instruments" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about playes, games, and instruments stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "artemidorus-044", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of Playes, Games, and Instruments.", "text": "IF one dreams of the trumpet, to them which would fight is good, and to those which have lost their Servants. But it revealeth secrets, by reason of the great sound, but killeth the sick, to servants it promiseth liberty: but to winde a horne is ill, and forbids to undertake any Law suit. Every Instrument which one may blow, signifieth trouble: to dream that you play the publike Cryer, may be ime[illegible passage]preted as to sound the trumpet: to play upon a Réed, or upon a Bagpipe is good to all: to sing and play upon the Harpe, at Offrings and sacrifices, is good for weddings and contracting of affinity: but ill for other affairs: to many it signifies the Gout, because of cords and nerves: to play or sée plaid Tragedies, signifyeth travail, fighting, injury, and a thousand evils. But to play merry playes, is a merry issue of affairs: to hear singing, signifyes deceit: to ride a horse nimbly is good for all, for thy horse signifyes a woman, or a friend, the ship, the Master and guide to governe, and the good friend. So then, as a man findes his horse well, so shall he do all this. The [illegible passage]art signifies as much as the horse but that to a sick person it is death, as also a chariot of 4. whéeles. To ride a horse through the town, is good for him which undertakes to play a prize, and to a sick man: for the one shall gaine the prize, and the other shall be [illegible passage]aled: but to ride out of town is quite contrary: to lead and guide Chariots through woods and desarts, is death to all at hand.", "locator": "Book 1, encoded section 44", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription-with-gaps", "book": "1", "displayText": "If one dreams of the trumpet, to them which would fight is good, and to those which have lost their Servants. But it revealeth secrets, by reason of the great sound, but killeth the sick, to servants it promiseth liberty: but to winde a horne is ill, and forbids to undertake any Law suit. Every Instrument which one may blow, signifieth trouble: to dream that you play the publike Cryer, may be ime [illegible passage] preted as to sound the trumpet: to play upon a Réed, or upon a Bagpipe is good to all: to sing and play upon the Harpe, at Offrings and sacrifices, is good for weddings and contracting of affinity: but ill for other affairs: to many it signifies the Gout, because of cords and nerves: to play or sée plaid Tragedies, signifyeth travail, fighting, injury, and a thousand evils. But to play merry playes, is a merry issue of affairs: to hear singing, signifyes deceit: to ride a horse nimbly is good for all, for thy horse signifyes a woman, or a friend, the ship, the Master and guide to governe, and the good friend. So then, as a man findes his horse well, so shall he do all this. The [illegible passage] art signifies as much as the horse but that to a sick person it is death, as also a chariot of 4. whéeles. To ride a horse through the town, is good for him which undertakes to play a prize, and to a sick man: for the one shall gaine the prize, and the other shall be [illegible passage] aled: but to ride out of town is quite contrary: to lead and guide Chariots through woods and desarts, is death to all at hand." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "playground", "title": "Playground", "category": "Places", "aliases": [ "playground", "playgrounds", "children's playground", "play area" ], "summary": "A playground may bring play, informal group rules, or a changed relationship with an earlier stage of life into focus. Pleasure and access can matter equally.", "tagline": "Room to play, a turn in the group, and equipment that may no longer fit.", "psychological": "A playground can offer an activity whose value is the experience itself. Swinging, climbing, or inventing a game may feel enjoyable without needing a useful result. That could fit wanting recreation to have a place beside work and care, especially when even free time becomes another task to perform well. If play feels difficult to allow, the scene may make an expectation of constant usefulness visible.\n\nInformal rules can create a different subject. You may be waiting for a turn, choosing a team, or trying to join a game whose rules everybody else seems to know. The playground makes belonging practical: a piece of equipment or a shared activity has room for some people and not others. This may resemble entering a new group or deciding how to make space for competing needs. A fair arrangement differs from being admitted only after proving yourself.\n\nThe equipment's fit matters too. Something that once felt large may be small at your current age, or a familiar route may require a different movement now. That contrast can explore returning to an earlier pleasure without being able to reproduce its exact form. You might still want play, adventure, or company while needing a version suited to present circumstances. It need not imply wanting to become a child again.\n\nWatching, repairing, or supervising can also place you outside the role of a participant. You may enjoy others' activity, feel excluded, or find that creating space for play has become work. The dream can distinguish caring for a shared environment from having no time to use it yourself. A remembered park, family outing, school break, or photograph may explain the setting directly. An invented playground detail is part of the dream, not reliable evidence of a forgotten event.", "traditional": "No matching historical playground passage is supplied. This is original reflection on play, turns, equipment, and a remembered or imagined shared space. Childhood associations may be pleasant, difficult, or mixed. The scene does not require a universal inner-child explanation, and the dream alone does not establish a new detail as a recovered factual memory.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Enjoyment without a useful result", "reflection": "Playing may fit a wish for activity that matters through pleasure rather than achievement. Difficulty allowing the game can instead make a demanding standard for free time visible." }, { "title": "A turn and a place", "reflection": "Games and shared equipment can show how participation is arranged. The question may be a workable rule or room for another person, rather than admission at any cost." }, { "title": "An earlier pleasure in a new form", "reflection": "Equipment that no longer fits can explore how an old interest or role meets present circumstances. Keeping the value may require a different form, rather than recreating the past exactly." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You swing and enjoy the repeated movement", "reflection": "The activity has a rhythm without a task to finish. This may fit wanting a pause that does not have to become productive, like enjoying a familiar walk or game. If the swing feels compulsory, repetition may instead concern an activity you cannot easily stop." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You wait for a turn that never comes", "reflection": "Other people keep using the same equipment while you remain ready. This can resemble wanting a fair share of time or a common resource. An agreed turn changes the scene differently from being told to wait indefinitely or leave." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "The equipment is too small for you now", "reflection": "You return to a familiar activity but cannot use it in the old way. This may explore wanting a quality of an earlier period—play, company, adventure—without needing its exact circumstances back. Finding another way to participate can be the useful change." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You are asked to organize everyone's game", "reflection": "Play becomes something you must manage before you can enjoy it. This may resemble arranging a gathering or holiday where another person's pleasure depends on your work. Sharing the organization can make room for your own participation rather than removing care altogether." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You watch from outside the play area", "reflection": "Others join an activity while you remain at a distance. Comfortable watching can be an enjoyable role; longing to enter may concern access or company. The feeling distinguishes chosen observation from a place you want but do not know how to join." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You repair a broken piece of equipment", "reflection": "You work to make a shared activity possible again. This may fit caring for the conditions that let people enjoy something together, such as restoring a common space. Satisfaction in repair differs from feeling that all preparation is yours while others only participate." } ], "prompts": [ "Did play feel freely enjoyable, judged, or like another responsibility?", "How was a turn or place in the activity decided?", "What value from the earlier setting still fits me, even if its old form does not?" ], "related": [ "childhood-home", "classmates", "school-or-exam", "friend", "garden" ], "type": "dreams", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original image-specific interpretation with distinct personal possibilities and everyday context; no matching historical passage supplied. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "pleasure", "title": "Pleasure", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of pleasure, denotes gain and personal enjoyment. See Joy.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "pleasure" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about pleasure stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "joy" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1565", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Pleasure", "text": "To dream of pleasure, denotes gain and personal enjoyment.\n\n\n[162] See Joy.", "locator": "Heading 1569; source lines 17763–17770", "lineStart": 17763, "lineEnd": 17770, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of pleasure, denotes gain and personal enjoyment. See Joy." }, { "id": "noe-0382", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Pleasure", "text": "If you dream you are enjoying great\npleasure, you may expect serious disappointment and difficulty in some\nproject that engages your mind.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 388; source lines 1486–1488", "lineStart": 1486, "lineEnd": 1488, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream you are enjoying great\npleasure, you may expect serious disappointment and difficulty in some\nproject that engages your mind." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "joy" ] }, { "slug": "plow", "title": "Plow", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a plow, signifies unusual success, and affairs will reach a pleasing culmination.” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "plow", "plough" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about plow stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "husbandry" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1566", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Plow", "text": "To dream of a plow, signifies unusual success, and affairs will reach\na pleasing culmination.\n\nTo see persons plowing, denotes activity and advancement\nin knowledge and fortune.\n\nFor a young woman to see her lover plowing, indicates that she will have\na noble and wealthy husband. Her joys will be deep and lasting.\n\nTo plow yourself, denotes rapid increase in property and joys.", "locator": "Heading 1570; source lines 17770–17783", "lineStart": 17770, "lineEnd": 17783, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a plow, signifies unusual success, and affairs will reach\na pleasing culmination.\n\nTo see persons plowing, denotes activity and advancement\nin knowledge and fortune.\n\nFor a young woman to see her lover plowing, indicates that she will have\na noble and wealthy husband. Her joys will be deep and lasting.\n\nTo plow yourself, denotes rapid increase in property and joys." }, { "id": "fontaine-0591", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Plow", "text": "(_See Husbandry._)", "locator": "Heading 591; source line 3820", "lineStart": 3820, "lineEnd": 3822, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Husbandry.)" }, { "id": "luck-0207", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Plough", "text": "A good omen in love, courtship and marriage, though the good\nmay be rather slow in coming.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 207; source lines 4052–4058", "lineStart": 4052, "lineEnd": 4058, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "A good omen in love, courtship and marriage, though the good\nmay be rather slow in coming.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Plough” is shown on the Plow page: uS/UK spelling" }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11454", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Plow", "heading": "Plow", "text": "A dream denoting wealth through industry, also marital comfort (Raphael).", "lineStart": 11454, "lineEnd": 11460, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 244–245; NLM OCR lines 11454–11460", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11454, "lineEnd": 11460, "printedPage": 244, "printedPageEnd": 245 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Plow. — A dream denoting wealth through industry, also \nmarital comfort (Raphael). \n\n\nSYMBOLISM IN DREAMS 245 \n\n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [ { "line": 11458, "text": "SYMBOLISM IN DREAMS 245 " } ], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 0.9916, "secondaryHeading": "Plow" }, "displayText": "A dream denoting wealth through industry, also marital comfort (Raphael)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0592", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Plowing", "text": "For a farmer to dream that he is plowing on smooth and even\nground, denotes heavy crops, and good luck generally: if he plows up\nstones it is all the better, but if his plow gets hitched into a rock\nor stump, it denotes vexation and trouble with his good luck. 41.", "locator": "Heading 592; source line 3822", "lineStart": 3822, "lineEnd": 3827, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a farmer to dream that he is plowing on smooth and even\nground, denotes heavy crops, and good luck generally: if he plows up\nstones it is all the better, but if his plow gets hitched into a rock\nor stump, it denotes vexation and trouble with his good luck." }, { "id": "noe-0384", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Ploughing", "text": "To dream of ploughing is good; but if the horse seems to\nsink into the ground, it portends loss of labor, dearth of corn, and ill\nharvest weather.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 390; source lines 1491–1493", "lineStart": 1491, "lineEnd": 1493, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of ploughing is good; but if the horse seems to\nsink into the ground, it portends loss of labor, dearth of corn, and ill\nharvest weather.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Ploughing” is shown on the Plowing page: uS/UK spelling" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. 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OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1567", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Plums", "text": "Plums, if they are green, unless seen on trees, are signs of personal\nand relative discomfort.\n\nTo see them ripe, denotes joyous occasions, which, however, will be\nof short duration.\n\nTo eat them, denotes that you will engage in flirtations\nand other evanescent pleasures.\n\nTo gather them, you will obtain your desires, but they will not prove\nso solid as you had imagined.\n\nIf you find yourself gathering them up from the ground, and find rotten\nones among the good, you will be forced to admit that your expectations\nare unrealized, and that there is no life filled with pleasure alone.", "locator": "Heading 1571; source lines 17783–17801", "lineStart": 17783, "lineEnd": 17801, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Plums, if they are green, unless seen on trees, are signs of personal\nand relative discomfort.\n\nTo see them ripe, denotes joyous occasions, which, however, will be\nof short duration.\n\nTo eat them, denotes that you will engage in flirtations\nand other evanescent pleasures.\n\nTo gather them, you will obtain your desires, but they will not prove\nso solid as you had imagined.\n\nIf you find yourself gathering them up from the ground, and find rotten\nones among the good, you will be forced to admit that your expectations\nare unrealized, and that there is no life filled with pleasure alone." }, { "id": "fontaine-0593", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Plums", "text": "To dream of an abundance of this fruit is a sign of health but\nyet you are liable to lose your life by an accident: if a girl dreams\nshe is presented with plums, it foretells her early death. 36, 14, 77.", "locator": "Heading 593; source line 3827", "lineStart": 3827, "lineEnd": 3831, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of an abundance of this fruit is a sign of health but\nyet you are liable to lose your life by an accident: if a girl dreams\nshe is presented with plums, it foretells her early death." }, { "id": "noe-0399", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Plums", "text": "To dream of plums, augurs but little\ngood to the dreamer; they are the forerunners of ill luck, and show loss\nof goods and reputation. They are indicative of infidelity in lovers and\nmuch vexation in the married state.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 405; source lines 1525–1528", "lineStart": 1525, "lineEnd": 1528, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of plums, augurs but little\ngood to the dreamer; they are the forerunners of ill luck, and show loss\nof goods and reputation. They are indicative of infidelity in lovers and\nmuch vexation in the married state." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11461", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Plums", "heading": "Plums", "text": "Green plums forecast sickness; ripe ones are fortunate; to dream of picking them from the ground and finding them rotten denotes false friends, poverty and disgrace. (Raphael).", "lineStart": 11461, "lineEnd": 11465, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 245; NLM OCR lines 11461–11465", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11461, "lineEnd": 11465, "printedPage": 245, "printedPageEnd": 245 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Plums. — Green plums forecast sickness; ripe ones are for- \ntunate; to dream of picking them from the ground and find- \ning them rotten denotes false friends, poverty and disgrace. \n(Raphael). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "for- \ntunate", "after": "fortunate", "evidenceLine": 7944 }, { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "find- \ning", "after": "finding", "evidenceLine": 2349 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Plums" }, "displayText": "Green plums forecast sickness; ripe ones are fortunate; to dream of picking them from the ground and finding them rotten denotes false friends, poverty and disgrace. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "pocket", "title": "Pocket", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of your pocket, is a sign of evil demonstrations against you.”", "aliases": [ "pocket" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about pocket stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1568", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Pocket", "text": "To dream of your pocket, is a sign of evil demonstrations against you.", "locator": "Heading 1572; source lines 17801–17805", "lineStart": 17801, "lineEnd": 17805, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of your pocket, is a sign of evil demonstrations against you." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1569", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Pocketbook", "text": "To find a pocketbook filled with bills and money in your dreams,\nyou will be quite lucky, gaining in nearly every instance your desire.\nIf empty, you will be disappointed in some big hope.\n\nIf you lose your pocketbook, you will unfortunately disagree with your\nbest friend, and thereby lose much comfort and real gain.", "locator": "Heading 1573; source lines 17805–17814", "lineStart": 17805, "lineEnd": 17814, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To find a pocketbook filled with bills and money in your dreams,\nyou will be quite lucky, gaining in nearly every instance your desire.\nIf empty, you will be disappointed in some big hope.\n\nIf you lose your pocketbook, you will unfortunately disagree with your\nbest friend, and thereby lose much comfort and real gain." }, { "id": "fontaine-0594", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Pocket-Book", "text": "To dream of finding a pocket-book full of money is a sign\nof riches, but if it contains no money, it foretells a disappointment:\nif you dream you lose your pocket-book, it foreshadows success in\nbusiness. 19, 78.", "locator": "Heading 594; source line 3831", "lineStart": 3831, "lineEnd": 3836, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of finding a pocket-book full of money is a sign\nof riches, but if it contains no money, it foretells a disappointment:\nif you dream you lose your pocket-book, it foreshadows success in\nbusiness." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0595", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Poet", "text": "If any young person should be so silly as to dream of writing\npoetry, it foretells poverty; and for one to dream of having a\npoetical lover or sweetheart, is a sign that they will fall in love\nwith a fool. 64, 50.", "locator": "Heading 595; source line 3836", "lineStart": 3836, "lineEnd": 3841, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If any young person should be so silly as to dream of writing\npoetry, it foretells poverty; and for one to dream of having a\npoetical lover or sweetheart, is a sign that they will fall in love\nwith a fool." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1571", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Poison", "text": "To fed that you are poisoned in a dream, denotes that some painful\ninfluence will immediately reach you.\n\nIf you seek to use poison on others, you will be guilty of base thoughts,\nor the world will go wrong for you.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she endeavors to rid herself\nof a rival in this way, she will be likely to have a deal\nof trouble in securing a lover.\n\nTo throw the poison away, denotes that by sheer force you\nwill overcome unsatisfactory conditions.\n\nTo handle poison, or see others with it, signifies that unpleasantness\nwill surround you.\n\nTo dream that your relatives or children are poisoned, you will receive\ninjury from unsuspected sources.\n\nIf an enemy or rival is poisoned, you will overcome obstacles.\n\nTo recover from the effects of poison, indicates that you\nwill succeed after worry.\n\nTo take strychnine or other poisonous medicine under the advice\nof a physician, denotes that you will undertake some affair\nfraught with danger.", "locator": "Heading 1575; source lines 17827–17857", "lineStart": 17827, "lineEnd": 17857, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To fed that you are poisoned in a dream, denotes that some painful\ninfluence will immediately reach you.\n\nIf you seek to use poison on others, you will be guilty of base thoughts,\nor the world will go wrong for you.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she endeavors to rid herself\nof a rival in this way, she will be likely to have a deal\nof trouble in securing a lover.\n\nTo throw the poison away, denotes that by sheer force you\nwill overcome unsatisfactory conditions.\n\nTo handle poison, or see others with it, signifies that unpleasantness\nwill surround you.\n\nTo dream that your relatives or children are poisoned, you will receive\ninjury from unsuspected sources.\n\nIf an enemy or rival is poisoned, you will overcome obstacles.\n\nTo recover from the effects of poison, indicates that you\nwill succeed after worry.\n\nTo take strychnine or other poisonous medicine under the advice\nof a physician, denotes that you will undertake some affair\nfraught with danger." }, { "id": "fontaine-0596", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Poison", "text": "To dream that you are poisoned is a sign you will get into bad\nor unworthy company: if you imagine that any friend or acquaintance is\npoisoned, it is a similar omen as regards them: if, in your dream, you\nthink any one has given you poison to murder you, it foretells that\nsome base proposal will be made to you. 3, 9.", "locator": "Heading 596; source line 3841", "lineStart": 3841, "lineEnd": 3847, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are poisoned is a sign you will get into bad\nor unworthy company: if you imagine that any friend or acquaintance is\npoisoned, it is a similar omen as regards them: if, in your dream, you\nthink any one has given you poison to murder you, it foretells that\nsome base proposal will be made to you." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "poker", "title": "Poker", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing a red hot poker, or fighting with one, signifies that you will meet trouble with combative energy.”", "aliases": [ "poker" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about poker stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1572", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Poker", "text": "To dream of seeing a red hot poker, or fighting with one,\nsignifies that you will meet trouble with combative energy.\n\nTo play at poker, warns you against evil company; and young women,\nespecially, will lose their moral distinctiveness if they find\nthemselves engaged in this game.", "locator": "Heading 1576; source lines 17857–17866", "lineStart": 17857, "lineEnd": 17866, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing a red hot poker, or fighting with one,\nsignifies that you will meet trouble with combative energy.\n\nTo play at poker, warns you against evil company; and young women,\nespecially, will lose their moral distinctiveness if they find\nthemselves engaged in this game." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "polar-bear", "title": "Polar Bear", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Polar bears in dreams, are prognostic of deceit, as misfortune will approach you in a seeming fair aspect.”", "aliases": [ "polar bear" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about polar bear stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "bear" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1573", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Polar Bear", "text": "Polar bears in dreams, are prognostic of deceit,\nas misfortune will approach you in a seeming fair aspect.\nYour bitterest enemies will wear the garb of friendship.\nRivals will try to supersede you.\n\nTo see the skin of one, denotes that you will successfully\novercome any opposition.\n\n\n[164] See Bear.", "locator": "Heading 1577; source lines 17866–17879", "lineStart": 17866, "lineEnd": 17879, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Polar bears in dreams, are prognostic of deceit,\nas misfortune will approach you in a seeming fair aspect.\nYour bitterest enemies will wear the garb of friendship.\nRivals will try to supersede you.\n\nTo see the skin of one, denotes that you will successfully\novercome any opposition. See Bear." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "bear" ] }, { "slug": "pole-cat", "title": "Pole-cat", "type": "dreams", "category": "Other symbols", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a pole-cat, signifies salacious scandals.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "pole-cat", "polecat" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about pole-cat stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1574", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Pole-cat", "text": "To dream of a pole-cat, signifies salacious scandals.\n\nTo inhale the odor of a pole-cat on your clothes, or otherwise smell one,\nyou will find that your conduct will be considered rude, and your affairs\nwill prove unsatisfactory.\n\nTo kill one, denotes that you will overcome formidable obstacles.", "locator": "Heading 1578; source lines 17879–17889", "lineStart": 17879, "lineEnd": 17889, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a pole-cat, signifies salacious scandals.\n\nTo inhale the odor of a pole-cat on your clothes, or otherwise smell one,\nyou will find that your conduct will be considered rude, and your affairs\nwill prove unsatisfactory.\n\nTo kill one, denotes that you will overcome formidable obstacles." }, { "id": "fontaine-0597", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Pole-Cat", "text": "If a man dream he sees one, he will marry a beautiful woman;\nif a woman, she will marry a handsome man. If this delightful animal\nmake an attack on you it is a sign you will suffer from the slander of\nenemies. 68, 2.", "locator": "Heading 597; source line 3847", "lineStart": 3847, "lineEnd": 3852, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If a man dream he sees one, he will marry a beautiful woman;\nif a woman, she will marry a handsome man. If this delightful animal\nmake an attack on you it is a sign you will suffer from the slander of\nenemies." }, { "id": "noe-0404", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Polecat", "text": "If a man\ndreams he has a polecat, he shall have some ill natured woman.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 410; source lines 1539–1541", "lineStart": 1539, "lineEnd": 1541, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If a man\ndreams he has a polecat, he shall have some ill natured woman." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "pole-star", "title": "Pole-Star", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “A dream of loyalty and devotion (Gypsy). The universal emblem of stability.”", "aliases": [ "pole-star" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about pole-star stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L11466", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Pole-Star", "heading": "Pole-Star", "text": "A dream of loyalty and devotion (Gypsy). The universal emblem of stability.", "lineStart": 11466, "lineEnd": 11468, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 245; NLM OCR lines 11466–11468", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11466, "lineEnd": 11468, "printedPage": 245, "printedPageEnd": 245 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Pole-Star. — A dream of loyalty and devotion (Gypsy). \nThe universal emblem of stability. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Pole-Star" }, "displayText": "A dream of loyalty and devotion (Gypsy). The universal emblem of stability." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "police", "title": "Police", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "summary": "Police dreams may explore authority, access to protection, or whether a rule allows a fair hearing and a proportionate response.", "tagline": "Authority changes the scene through what it permits and how it listens.", "aliases": [ "police", "policeman", "police officer", "being arrested", "arrest", "cops", "cop", "police officers", "policemen", "policewomen" ], "status": "REVIEW", "psychological": "Police in a dream can bring the question of authority into a concrete encounter. An officer may stop you, listen to a problem, enforce a rule or give you a responsibility. The important distinction is how that authority operates. Clear explanation and room to answer create a different experience from an accusation with no hearing, even when both involve the same uniform.\n\nAn arrest or accusation can make procedure central. Being charged with an act you do not recognize may picture wanting your circumstances understood before a conclusion is imposed. If the dream shows an act you acknowledge, the scene may instead concern accountability, limits or what follows a mistake. A remembered interaction, workplace review, fictional investigation or concern about an institution can provide context.\n\nSeeking police help adds another position. Being heard may make support available through an ordinary practical response. A call that fails, an address nobody understands or an officer who attends to another problem can make access to protection uncertain. The useful comparison concerns the particular barrier rather than a rule that dream authorities must be useless. Personal experience can make the uniform reassuring, frightening, mixed or simply familiar.\n\nWearing the uniform yourself shifts attention to discretion. You may need to decide how strictly to apply a rule, whose account to hear or what help you can actually provide. A waking role involving supervision, fairness or responsibility can offer a parallel without making the dream a judgment of your actual conduct. The authority may feel useful when it has clear limits and heavy when it requires answers the scene does not supply.\n\nA changing rule can make even compliance feel insecure. A calmer encounter may instead show that an explanation, pause or witness alters the process. The charge and official response belong to an imagined interaction, whose terms can be compared with waking experience. Its useful subject can be the relation between power, protection and participation: what the authority asks, what you can say and whether the response fits the event shown.", "traditional": "Miller distinguishes innocent attempted arrest from justified arrest, assigning rivalry success or unfortunate incidents. His unusual printed phrase “police on parole” is retained in the source. Fontaine assigns honor to a respectable person’s arrest and advancement to a lover taken into custody; Craig, citing Raphael, also assigns honors. These are period forecasts, not evidence of a real charge or outcome.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Authority and a hearing", "reflection": "The process can determine whether a rule feels understandable, imposed or open to response." }, { "title": "Protection that can be reached", "reflection": "Help depends on practical access and whether the actual need is understood." }, { "title": "Carrying authority yourself", "reflection": "The uniform can place responsibility and discretion with the dreamer." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You are accused without a chance to answer", "reflection": "The accusation arrives without a usable opportunity to respond. This may picture concern about a conclusion being imposed before your part is understood. The charge and the process are different elements; the dream’s claim does not establish an actual offense." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You recognize the act for which you are stopped", "reflection": "The scene can make responsibility concrete without an uncertain accusation. A mistake, boundary or obligation may be available for discussion. What follows matters: explanation, proportionate consequence and a chance to continue create a different arrangement from an unlimited judgment of character." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "An officer listens and helps with an ordinary problem", "reflection": "The response makes authority practical rather than dramatic. A clear explanation, safe route or ordinary assistance may be enough to change the scene. This can picture wanting an institution to understand the actual need instead of treating every request as a test or accusation." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You seek help but cannot make the situation understood", "reflection": "The barrier may be unclear language, an unrecognized address or attention directed elsewhere. The dream can make access to protection feel uncertain without asserting that real help is unavailable. A workable explanation or another person staying involved would change the immediate arrangement." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You wear the uniform and must choose how to apply a rule", "reflection": "The uniform gives you the decision about how a rule affects someone else. This may picture responsibility in a supervisory or shared role. The tension can concern listening, consistency and available resources rather than a desire to control or a verdict on your fairness." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "An officer enforces a rule that changes each moment", "reflection": "The shifting demand makes obedience unable to settle the encounter. This may resemble uncertainty about an institution’s expectations or a process with no stable criteria. A clear explanation would change the scene differently from simply making the dreamer more compliant." } ], "prompts": [ "What did authority permit, require or prevent in the encounter?", "What opportunities did you have to explain the event or need?", "How did the response fit the rule, responsibility or request for help?" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1575" ], "scope": "Historical context only. Attributed Gustavus Hindman Miller passage(s): innocent or justified attempted arrest and police described in the source as “on parole”; retain the unusual printed wording rather than silently changing it to patrol. These are period beliefs, not established predictions or support for the original psychological reading." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0598" ], "scope": "Historical context only. Attributed Felix Fontaine passage(s): arrest of a respectable person assigned honor; lover taken into custody assigned advancement. These are period beliefs, not established predictions or support for the original psychological reading." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L11469" ], "scope": "Historical context only. Attributed Katherine Taylor Craig passage(s): Police assigned honors to a respectable person, attributed by Craig to Raphael. These are period beliefs, not established predictions or support for the original psychological reading." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "related": [ "prison", "judge", "lawyer", "trying-to-contact-emergency-services" ], "updated": "2026-10-13", "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1575", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Police", "text": "If the police are trying to arrest you for some crime of which you\nare innocent, it foretells that you will successfully outstrip rivalry.\n\nIf the arrest is just, you will have a season of unfortunate incidents.\n\nTo see police on parole, indicates alarming fluctuations in affairs.", "locator": "Heading 1579; source lines 17889–17898", "lineStart": 17889, "lineEnd": 17898, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If the police are trying to arrest you for some crime of which you\nare innocent, it foretells that you will successfully outstrip rivalry.\n\nIf the arrest is just, you will have a season of unfortunate incidents.\n\nTo see police on parole, indicates alarming fluctuations in affairs." }, { "id": "fontaine-0598", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Police", "text": "If any respectable person dreams of being arrested by police\nofficers, it is a sign that some distinguished honor will be conferred\non him: if a young girl should dream that policemen took her lover into\ncustody, she will hear of his advancement in the world. 46, 30.", "locator": "Heading 598; source line 3852", "lineStart": 3852, "lineEnd": 3857, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If any respectable person dreams of being arrested by police\nofficers, it is a sign that some distinguished honor will be conferred\non him: if a young girl should dream that policemen took her lover into\ncustody, she will hear of his advancement in the world." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11469", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Police", "heading": "Police", "text": "To a respectable person this dream denotes honors (Raphael).", "lineStart": 11469, "lineEnd": 11471, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 245; NLM OCR lines 11469–11471", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11469, "lineEnd": 11471, "printedPage": 245, "printedPageEnd": 245 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Police. — To a respectable person this dream denotes hon- \nors (Raphael). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "hon- \nors", "after": "honors", "evidenceLine": 9833 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Police" }, "displayText": "To a respectable person this dream denotes honors (Raphael)." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "policeman", "title": "Policeman", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Cielo wrote: “Is a sure sign of impending trouble.”", "aliases": [ "policeman" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about policeman stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "cielo-0333", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Policeman", "text": "Is a sure sign of impending trouble.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 333; source lines 4661–4663", "lineStart": 4661, "lineEnd": 4663, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Is a sure sign of impending trouble." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "polishing", "title": "Polishing", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of polishing any article, high attainments will place you in enviable positions.”", "aliases": [ "polishing" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about polishing stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1576", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Polishing", "text": "To dream of polishing any article, high attainments will place\nyou in enviable positions.", "locator": "Heading 1580; source lines 17898–17903", "lineStart": 17898, "lineEnd": 17903, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of polishing any article, high attainments will place\nyou in enviable positions." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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They\ndenote that your sweetheart is of good temper, sings well, and is very\nfaithful. To the married, they show an increase of riches and children,\nand great success in trade.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 418; source lines 1569–1575", "lineStart": 1569, "lineEnd": 1575, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of pomegranates, foretells some very\nunexpected legacy, by which you will be enabled to make a fortune. They\ndenote that your sweetheart is of good temper, sings well, and is very\nfaithful. To the married, they show an increase of riches and children,\nand great success in trade." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11472", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Pomegranate", "heading": "Pomegranate", "text": "To dream of gathering them ripe denotes fortune through an influential person; unripe pomegranates foretell sickness and scandal (Gypsy). It was the Christian symbol of the resurrection and of fertility. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1582", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Poor", "text": "To dream that you, or any of your friends, appear to be poor,\nis significant of worry and losses.\n\n\n[167] See Pauper.", "locator": "Heading 1586; source lines 17949–17957", "lineStart": 17949, "lineEnd": 17957, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you, or any of your friends, appear to be poor,\nis significant of worry and losses. 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You will bow to the will of some master,\neven to that of women.\n\nTo speak to the Pope, denotes that certain high honors are in store for you.\nTo see the Pope looking sad or displeased, warns you against vice or sorrow\nof some kind." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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Wealth and friends will be hers.\nIf they are leafless and withered, she will meet with disappointments." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11484", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Poplar", "heading": "Poplar", "text": "To dream of a green poplar denotes fulfilled hopes, if withered it denotes disappointment (Gypsy). It was once held sacred to Hercules. Afterwards it symbolized the Holy Rood of the Christians (Bayley).", "lineStart": 11484, "lineEnd": 11488, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 245; NLM OCR lines 11484–11488", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11484, "lineEnd": 11488, "printedPage": 245, "printedPageEnd": 245 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Poplar. — To dream of a green poplar denotes fulfilled \nhopes, if withered it denotes disappointment (Gypsy). It \nwas once held sacred to Hercules. Afterwards it symbolized \nthe Holy Rood of the Christians (Bayley). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Poplar" }, "displayText": "To dream of a green poplar denotes fulfilled hopes, if withered it denotes disappointment (Gypsy). It was once held sacred to Hercules. Afterwards it symbolized the Holy Rood of the Christians (Bayley)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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Being, in a manner, enforced.)", "locator": "Heading 1590; source lines 17982–17995", "lineStart": 17982, "lineEnd": 17995, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Poppies seen in dreams, represents a season of seductive pleasures\nand flattering business, but they all occupy unstable foundations.\n\nIf you inhale the odor of one, you will be the victim of artful\npersuasions and flattery.\n\n(The mesmeric influence of the poppy inducts one into strange atmospheres,\nleaving materiality behind while the subjective self explores these realms\nas in natural sleep; yet these dreams do not bear truthful warnings\nto the material man. Being, in a manner, enforced.)" }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11489", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Poppy", "heading": "Poppy", "text": "A dream denoting illness to the sleeper or tidings of illness to loved ones (Gypsy). An interpretation evidently derived from the use of the poppy in the manufacture of opium, rather than from the symbolism of the blossoms.", "lineStart": 11489, "lineEnd": 11493, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 245; NLM OCR lines 11489–11493", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11489, "lineEnd": 11493, "printedPage": 245, "printedPageEnd": 245 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Poppy. — A dream denoting illness to the sleeper or tidings \nof illness to loved ones (Gypsy). An interpretation evidently \nderived from the use of the poppy in the manufacture of \nopium, rather than from the symbolism of the blossoms. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Poppy" }, "displayText": "A dream denoting illness to the sleeper or tidings of illness to loved ones (Gypsy). An interpretation evidently derived from the use of the poppy in the manufacture of opium, rather than from the symbolism of the blossoms." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1587", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Porcelain", "text": "To dream of porcelain, signifies you will have favorable opportunities\nof progressing in your affairs. To see it broken or soiled,\ndenotes mistakes will be made which will cause grave offense.", "locator": "Heading 1591; source lines 17995–18001", "lineStart": 17995, "lineEnd": 18001, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of porcelain, signifies you will have favorable opportunities\nof progressing in your affairs. To see it broken or soiled,\ndenotes mistakes will be made which will cause grave offense." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1590", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Pork", "text": "If you eat pork in your dreams, you will encounter real trouble,\nbut if you only see pork, you will come out of a conflict victoriously.\n\n\n[168] See Bacon.", "locator": "Heading 1594; source lines 18021–18029", "lineStart": 18021, "lineEnd": 18029, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you eat pork in your dreams, you will encounter real trouble,\nbut if you only see pork, you will come out of a conflict victoriously. See Bacon." }, { "id": "fontaine-0601", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Pork", "text": "(_See Bacon and Ham._)", "locator": "Heading 601; source line 3867", "lineStart": 3867, "lineEnd": 3869, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Bacon and Ham.)" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "portfolio", "title": "Portfolio", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a portfolio, denotes that your employment will not be to your liking, and you will seek a…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "portfolio" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about portfolio stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1593", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Portfolio", "text": "To dream of a portfolio, denotes that your employment will not be\nto your liking, and you will seek a change in your location.", "locator": "Heading 1597; source lines 18046–18051", "lineStart": 18046, "lineEnd": 18051, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a portfolio, denotes that your employment will not be\nto your liking, and you will seek a change in your location." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11499", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Portfolio", "heading": "Portfolio", "text": "A dream bespeaking mysteries, things hidden from sight (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 11499, "lineEnd": 11501, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 245; NLM OCR lines 11499–11501", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11499, "lineEnd": 11501, "printedPage": 245, "printedPageEnd": 245 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Portfolio. — A dream bespeaking mysteries, things hidden \nfrom sight (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Portfolio" }, "displayText": "A dream bespeaking mysteries, things hidden from sight (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "portrait", "title": "Portrait", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of gazing upon the portrait of some beautiful person, denotes that, while you enjoy pleasure, you…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "portrait" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about portrait stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "pictures", "photograph", "painting" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1594", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Portrait", "text": "To dream of gazing upon the portrait of some beautiful person,\ndenotes that, while you enjoy pleasure, you can but feel\nthe disquieting and treacherousness of such joys. Your general\naffairs will suffer loss after dreaming of portraits.\n\n\n[169] See Pictures, Photographs, and Paintings.", "locator": "Heading 1598; source lines 18051–18061", "lineStart": 18051, "lineEnd": 18061, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of gazing upon the portrait of some beautiful person,\ndenotes that, while you enjoy pleasure, you can but feel\nthe disquieting and treacherousness of such joys. Your general\naffairs will suffer loss after dreaming of portraits. See Pictures, Photographs, and Paintings." }, { "id": "fontaine-0602", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Portrait", "text": "To dream of having your portrait taken, is a sign some one\nwill compliment your good looks; but if you are dissatisfied and think\nit a bad likeness, the compliment will run in a contrary direction, and\nyou will be called frightfully ugly-looking behind your back. 12.", "locator": "Heading 602; source line 3869", "lineStart": 3869, "lineEnd": 3874, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of having your portrait taken, is a sign some one\nwill compliment your good looks; but if you are dissatisfied and think\nit a bad likeness, the compliment will run in a contrary direction, and\nyou will be called frightfully ugly-looking behind your back." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11502", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Portrait", "heading": "Portrait", "text": "A dream forecasting long life to the person represented, especially if the portrait be painted on wood. To receive or to give one away, treason (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 11502, "lineEnd": 11505, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 245; NLM OCR lines 11502–11505", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11502, "lineEnd": 11505, "printedPage": 245, "printedPageEnd": 245 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Portrait. — A dream forecasting long life to the person rep- \nresented, especially if the portrait be painted on wood. To \nreceive or to give one away, treason (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "rep- \nresented", "after": "represented", "evidenceLine": 292 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Portrait" }, "displayText": "A dream forecasting long life to the person represented, especially if the portrait be painted on wood. To receive or to give one away, treason (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "pictures", "photograph", "painting" ] }, { "slug": "possession", "title": "Possession", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "An unfamiliar force seems to take over a familiar self.", "summary": "A possession dream can make control of your body or voice feel uncertain. Explore the dreamed loss of agency without assuming a supernatural cause.", "aliases": [ "possession", "possessed", "being possessed", "demonic possession", "exorcism", "exorcist", "something inside me", "losing control of my body", "speaking in another voice" ], "status": "REVIEW", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A possession dream may involve an altered voice, actions you cannot stop, a presence inside the body, or watching someone else become unfamiliar. Start with the actual change. Did you remain aware of yourself, see the scene from outside, or simply know that another force was in control? These versions create different experiences of agency and recognition.\n\nThe imagery can come from religious language, family stories, films, games, or your own beliefs. Record the association that belongs to you without assuming that the dream verifies it. A compelling experience of an outside force does not establish supernatural activity or diagnose a condition. If you seek a personal comparison, it may involve feeling swept along by expectations, unfamiliar with a reaction, or unable to choose a role. Such comparisons are tentative and need not explain the whole scene.\n\nNotice whether the dream force was hostile, protective, absurd, or undefined. Possession in a frightening story can differ from a scene where a borrowed voice gives you confidence or makes everyone laugh. Likewise, observing someone else change does not reveal that person’s intentions or character. Describe their dream actions separately from anything you know about them while awake.\n\nWhat restored choice, if anything, can be an important detail. You might speak your name, receive help, leave a room, or discover that the force was part of a performance. The outcome is not a test of willpower or spiritual strength. If the scene occurred around waking and included immobility or a sensed presence, note those observations as context; this page cannot identify their cause from a dream description.", "traditional": "No historical account is attached to this specific possession scene. Nearby historical subjects involving devils, spirits, or religious figures cannot verify the cause of an individual dream. A spiritual interpretation may be part of your own perspective, but it is not presented here as established truth.\n\nThe preserved research citation concerns reported sleep experiences and their associations. It supplies general descriptive context, not proof of possession, a personal diagnosis, or a symbolic key. An event entirely within a dream and a sensation remembered near awakening are different observations; keep the timing clear if you can. For everyday context, identify any story that supplied the scene’s rules: a changed voice, special phrase, ritual, or visual effect. Recognising a narrative source can coexist with taking the fear seriously. You can describe the experience without accepting the story’s explanation as a waking fact.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "Your voice changes without permission", "reflection": "The unfamiliar sound can make loss of expression the centre of the dream. Record what was said and whether you could still communicate in another way. The voice does not reveal a hidden identity or establish that an outside being spoke through you." }, { "title": "Someone you know becomes unfamiliar", "reflection": "Describe the specific change in action or manner, not just the label possessed. The scene may explore uncertainty about recognition, or follow a fictional convention. It is not evidence that the real person is dangerous, deceptive, or under a supernatural influence." }, { "title": "A companion helps you regain choice", "reflection": "Notice what their presence made possible: speaking, moving, deciding, or leaving. Support may be the most useful part of the scene to keep. The dream outcome does not measure spiritual power; it can simply show an imagined return to agency." } ], "prompts": [ "What changed about your body, voice, or ability to choose?", "Which story or belief supplied the dream’s explanation?", "What, if anything, helped you feel like yourself again?" ], "related": [ "being-unable-to-move", "unable-to-scream", "haunted-house", "ghost", "being-watched" ], "sources": [ { "id": "denis-poerio-2017", "title": "Terror and bliss? Commonalities and distinctions between sleep paralysis, lucid dreaming, and their associations with waking life experiences", "author": "Dan Denis and Giulia L. Poerio", "url": "https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5245115/", "scope": "Primary survey and descriptive definitions; associations do not establish causes or symbolic meanings." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia expansion written on 2026-10-13, awaiting human publication review. Interpretations are conditional invitations to reflection, not validated symbolic meanings, predictions, diagnoses, or evidence about other people. Historical coverage is identified separately from original everyday context; research citations provide general context only.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "post-office", "title": "Post-office", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a post-office, is a sign of unpleasant tidings. and ill luck generally.”", "aliases": [ "post-office" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about post-office stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1597", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Post-office", "text": "To dream of a post-office, is a sign of unpleasant tidings.\nand ill luck generally.", "locator": "Heading 1601; source lines 18079–18084", "lineStart": 18079, "lineEnd": 18084, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a post-office, is a sign of unpleasant tidings.\nand ill luck generally." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "postage", "title": "Postage", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of postage stamps, denotes system and remuneration in business.”", "aliases": [ "postage" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about postage stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1595", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Postage", "text": "To dream of postage stamps, denotes system and remuneration in business.\n\nIf you try to use cancelled stamps, you will fall into disrepute.\n\nTo receive stamps, signifies a rapid rise to distinction.\n\nTo see torn stamps, denotes that there are obstacles in your way.", "locator": "Heading 1599; source lines 18061–18071", "lineStart": 18061, "lineEnd": 18071, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of postage stamps, denotes system and remuneration in business.\n\nIf you try to use cancelled stamps, you will fall into disrepute.\n\nTo receive stamps, signifies a rapid rise to distinction.\n\nTo see torn stamps, denotes that there are obstacles in your way." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "postal-address", "title": "Postal address", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "aliases": [ "postal address", "street address", "mailing address", "home address" ], "summary": "A postal address can explore where you can be reached, how a familiar place is identified and who receives information about your location.", "tagline": "Being reachable can involve a place, a format and a choice of audience.", "psychological": "A postal address can make being reachable more specific than simply wanting contact. A person or parcel needs a destination, and a few written details decide where the encounter belongs. In a dream, this may bring attention to which part of your life you want someone to approach: a present home, a workplace or a place that feels like yours despite an unfamiliar name. The address concerns the location of contact; the message being delivered is a separate part of the scene.\n\nAn old home address appearing automatically can place an earlier version of your life inside a current task. You may still remember its details easily while no longer living by its routines. Starting a new job while being recognized through an old role can feel similar. Affection for the place and frustration at being sent back there can coexist, without requiring a return or making the old home a mistake.\n\nKnowing the route but being unable to state the address creates a gap between familiarity and information someone else can use. You can picture the doorway, yet cannot fill in the requested line. This may resemble understanding a task through experience while struggling to explain it to a newcomer. A missing apartment number creates a different problem: the general destination is known, but the final detail that distinguishes you has disappeared. A shared title may likewise identify a group without describing your particular contribution.\n\nChoosing between two usable addresses can concern the setting you want for an encounter. Giving a work address may make the contact practical; giving a home address may make it personal. Neither choice has a fixed emotional meaning. An address displayed to a whole room when only one person needed it can instead make the audience unexpectedly large, turning a routine detail into a question about access.\n\nAn unfamiliar address leading to a welcome can offer a pleasant alternative: connection need not always depend on returning to a known place. A new group or changed routine may feel hospitable before it becomes familiar. Recent mail, forms or moving plans can also supply the image directly. The useful distinction is how the destination was known, chosen or shared, rather than treating its numbers as a hidden instruction.", "traditional": "This entry concerns a postal or street destination. No verified historical passage is attached for that qualified scope. Public speaking and a post-office setting are neighboring subjects, and their historical accounts do not supply an address interpretation.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Where contact belongs", "reflection": "An address can place an encounter in a particular part of your life rather than make you available in every setting." }, { "title": "Familiarity someone else can use", "reflection": "Knowing a place and supplying its precise identifying details can become different tasks." }, { "title": "A chosen audience", "reflection": "A destination can be shared for one purpose while feeling too personal for another audience." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A form keeps filling in the address of a former home", "reflection": "The familiar details arrive before your present situation has a place on the page. This can resemble being understood through an earlier role even after your life has changed. Warm memories may remain valuable while the repeated address makes it difficult to express where you belong now." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You know the way home but cannot tell someone the street address", "reflection": "Your knowledge works as a lived route rather than a line another person can follow. This may picture a skill that feels natural until you are asked to explain it. The difficulty concerns making experience shareable, rather than proving that you have lost your connection with the place." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "The street and building are correct but the apartment number is missing", "reflection": "The destination identifies a larger place without locating your particular doorway. A group label or shared job title may feel similar when it leaves your own contribution unclear. The missing detail can make recognition more specific without requiring you to reject the group around you." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Your home address appears on a screen for everyone to see", "reflection": "Information intended to help one person reach you becomes available to a larger audience. This can picture an ordinary detail changing meaning through its setting. The tension may be about choosing who receives access, even when the address itself feels familiar and unremarkable." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "An unfamiliar postal address leads to a welcoming place", "reflection": "The written destination introduces somewhere you have not learned through habit, yet arrival feels comfortable. This can picture a new connection becoming usable before it feels fully familiar. Welcome may come through the encounter itself rather than through a long history with the location." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You choose between your home and work addresses for the same delivery", "reflection": "Both destinations would work, but they place the encounter in different parts of your life. This can resemble choosing the context for contact rather than choosing whether contact is wanted. A practical boundary may let the exchange happen comfortably without making one place more authentic than the other." } ], "prompts": [ "What place did the address identify, and how did that place fit your present life?", "How did the written details help or hinder someone reaching the intended destination?", "Who received the address, and what difference did that audience make?" ], "related": [ "letter", "post-office", "house", "privacy" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "postman", "title": "Postman", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a postman, denotes that hasty news will more frequently be of a distressing nature than…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "postman" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about postman stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "letter-carrier" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1596", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Postman", "text": "To dream of a postman, denotes that hasty news will more frequently\nbe of a distressing nature than otherwise.\n\n\n[170] See Letter Carrier.", "locator": "Heading 1600; source lines 18071–18079", "lineStart": 18071, "lineEnd": 18079, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a postman, denotes that hasty news will more frequently\nbe of a distressing nature than otherwise. See Letter Carrier." }, { "id": "cielo-0334", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Postman", "text": "Indicates good news, from abroad.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 334; source lines 4663–4665", "lineStart": 4663, "lineEnd": 4665, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Indicates good news, from abroad." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "letter-carrier" ] }, { "slug": "pot", "title": "Pot", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a pot, foretells that unimportant events will work you vexation.”", "aliases": [ "pot" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about pot stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1598", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Pot", "text": "To dream of a pot, foretells that unimportant events will work you vexation.\nFor a young woman to see a boiling pot, omens busy employment of pleasant and\nsocial duties. To see a broken or rusty one, implies that keen disappointment\nwill be experienced by you.", "locator": "Heading 1602; source lines 18084–18091", "lineStart": 18084, "lineEnd": 18091, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a pot, foretells that unimportant events will work you vexation.\nFor a young woman to see a boiling pot, omens busy employment of pleasant and\nsocial duties. To see a broken or rusty one, implies that keen disappointment\nwill be experienced by you." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "pot-herbs", "title": "Pot-Herbs", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “To dream that you see pot herbs, especially such as have a strong smell, signifies a discovery of hidden…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "pot-herbs", "pot herbs" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about pot-herbs stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0604", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Praise", "text": "To dream that any one praises or flatters you, is a sign of\nscandal: if a girl dreams that her lover praises her good looks or\namiability, she bad better discard him as a false-hearted person who\ncares nothing about her, but is merely flattering his own vanity. 35,\n17.", "locator": "Heading 604; source line 3878", "lineStart": 3878, "lineEnd": 3884, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that any one praises or flatters you, is a sign of\nscandal: if a girl dreams that her lover praises her good looks or\namiability, she bad better discard him as a false-hearted person who\ncares nothing about her, but is merely flattering his own vanity. 35," } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "prayer", "title": "Prayer", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of saying prayers, or seeing others doing so, foretells you will be threatened with failure,…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "prayer", "prayers" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about prayer stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1605", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Prayer", "text": "To dream of saying prayers, or seeing others doing so,\nforetells you will be threatened with failure, which will take\nstrenuous efforts to avert.", "locator": "Heading 1609; source lines 18142–18148", "lineStart": 18142, "lineEnd": 18148, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of saying prayers, or seeing others doing so,\nforetells you will be threatened with failure, which will take\nstrenuous efforts to avert." }, { "id": "fontaine-0605", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Prayer", "text": "To dream of prayer, or of joining in a prayer with others, is a\nsign you will ask a favor of some one who will refuse you: if you dream\nof hearing prayers at church, or in any public place, it shows that\nyou will be requested to do something which you will refuse to do, and\nthereby make an enemy. 34, 77.", "locator": "Heading 605; source line 3884", "lineStart": 3884, "lineEnd": 3890, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of prayer, or of joining in a prayer with others, is a\nsign you will ask a favor of some one who will refuse you: if you dream\nof hearing prayers at church, or in any public place, it shows that\nyou will be requested to do something which you will refuse to do, and\nthereby make an enemy." }, { "id": "noe-0394", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Prayers", "text": "To dream you\noffer up prayers and supplications to God, signifies happiness.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 400; source lines 1503–1505", "lineStart": 1503, "lineEnd": 1505, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you\noffer up prayers and supplications to God, signifies happiness." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "prayers-and-requests", "title": "Prayers and Requests", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Artemidorus wrote: “PRayers and requests, of alms, all beggars, poore, and miserable, are care and anger to those which dreame thereof, for none requesteth…”", "aliases": [ "prayers and requests", "of prayers and requests" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about prayers and requests stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "artemidorus-157", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of Prayers and Requests.", "text": "PRayers and requests, of alms, all beggars, poore, and miserable, are care and anger to those which dreame thereof, for none requesteth of another without affliction, and none that are afflicted have reason and consideration: by reason whereof they are importunate, and cause trouble and hindrance: and if they receive money for almes, it is a signe of great perill and hurt, and death to the Dreamer, or to some friend of his. Poor folks or Beggars entring into the house, and carrying away any thing, whether they steale it, or it be given them, signifie very great adversity.", "locator": "Book 3, encoded section 157", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "3", "displayText": "PRayers and requests, of alms, all beggars, poore, and miserable, are care and anger to those which dreame thereof, for none requesteth of another without affliction, and none that are afflicted have reason and consideration: by reason whereof they are importunate, and cause trouble and hindrance: and if they receive money for almes, it is a signe of great perill and hurt, and death to the Dreamer, or to some friend of his. Poor folks or Beggars entring into the house, and carrying away any thing, whether they steale it, or it be given them, signifie very great adversity." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "praying-mantis", "title": "Praying mantis", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "aliases": [ "praying mantis", "praying mantises", "mantis", "mantises", "mantid", "mantids" ], "summary": "A praying mantis dream may draw attention to a long still moment, a sudden movement, or the difference between watching and being watched.", "tagline": "A folded stance, a deliberate pause, and the instant the encounter changes.", "psychological": "Begin with the particular way the praying mantis becomes noticeable. You might find it on a leaf, watch it turn toward you, or realize that a shape you took for a plant is moving. Describe what you saw before choosing an association. A remembered photograph, a garden encounter, or an interest in the animal may provide enough context without a hidden message.\n\nStillness can take several forms within a dream. It may seem calm, attentive, difficult to read, or frustrating when you want something to happen. Ask what you are waiting for and whether the animal appears to share your expectation. A possible personal comparison concerns a pause before acting, but the scene does not require a general lesson about patience or a verdict about someone else's motives.\n\nA sudden movement changes that first impression. The mantis might reach toward an object, turn its head, or move to a different perch just as you approach. Record how the movement affects your own next step. Surprise may bring curiosity as well as discomfort. The animal's action need not become proof of hidden aggression in a waking relationship.\n\nThe name and folded posture may bring a personal spiritual association to mind. If that happens, distinguish your own connection from what the dream establishes. You can explore a remembered practice, a value, or an image of concentration without declaring that the creature delivered a religious instruction. Another dreamer may have no spiritual association at all with the same stance.\n\nScale and setting can also alter the encounter. An enormous mantis in a small room creates a different problem from a tiny one on a drawing. A leaf-shaped figure that turns out to be a toy changes what you can infer about its actions. Preserve those shifts and the feelings they leave. This entry concerns the insect; a mantis shrimp is a different subject, and merely remembering an insect-like outline does not settle its identity.", "traditional": "No historical dream-book passage is attached to this topic. Smithsonian’s Q?rius account of mantids describes still waiting in many species and the folded forelegs that can look like a prayer-like stance at rest. Those are animal-background observations. They do not show that an insect prays, validate a spiritual message, or establish the meaning of a remembered dream. The examples here are original reflection possibilities, with personal belief left to the reader.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Stillness with an expectation attached", "reflection": "A pause may feel peaceful or tense depending on what you want to happen next. Describe that expectation instead of assuming that stillness always means patience." }, { "title": "A small movement changes the encounter", "reflection": "A turn, reach or shift of perch may alter your own next action. The timing can offer a personal question without proving hidden intent." }, { "title": "An association you recognize as your own", "reflection": "A name or posture may recall a practice, picture or value. Keeping that connection personal allows it to be meaningful without becoming a claim of universal or supernatural instruction." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A mantis turns toward you while remaining on the leaf", "reflection": "The encounter changes through attention rather than a change of place. Notice whether you feel watched, welcomed or simply curious. The scene can invite a question about observation without establishing that anyone in waking life is monitoring you." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You wait for the mantis to move before beginning your task", "reflection": "The animal’s stillness has become part of your own timing. Ask whether you chose to pause or made action depend on a signal you cannot predict. The reflection can concern that particular condition without prescribing haste or patience." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A mantis reaches toward the object you are studying", "reflection": "Two forms of attention meet around the same detail. Record whether you make room, withdraw the object or continue watching. A possible comparison concerns a shared focus rather than a fixed meaning of rivalry." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A large mantis occupies the chair at your desk", "reflection": "The animal has changed the scale and use of an ordinary place. Notice what arrangement would let your activity continue. The scene can explore accommodation or surprise without declaring that a waking responsibility is too large for you." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A folded leaf becomes the insect you thought you saw", "reflection": "An outline becomes an identifiable moving creature. Record the detail that changes your understanding and any uncertainty that remains. The scene may invite curiosity about recognition, rather than a claim that appearances are generally deceptive." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You draw a mantis and it steps off the page", "reflection": "An image becomes an encounter with choices of its own. Wonder, amusement or concern may change how you relate to the drawing. A personal association with an idea becoming active can remain a question rather than a promised future event." } ], "prompts": [ "What were you waiting to see, and why did that moment matter?", "Which movement changed your own next step?", "What association with the name or posture belongs to your own experience?" ], "related": [ "insects", "grasshopper", "garden", "leaves", "spider" ], "sources": [ { "id": "smithsonian-mantids", "title": "About Mantids: Feeding — animal background, not symbolic evidence", "author": "Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History — Q?rius", "url": "https://qrius.si.edu/taxonomy/term/11865", "scope": "Supports only the stated observations about many mantids waiting still and folded forelegs at rest. Does not establish prayer, supernatural significance, dream interpretation, or the behavior in the original scenarios." } ], "kind": "editorial", "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s delegation of editorial decisions. Animal-background sources support only their stated facts; they do not validate dream meanings.", "detectionAliases": [ "praying mantis", "praying mantises", "mantid", "mantids", "mantis insect", "mantis on a leaf", "mantis on leaf" ], "detectionAliasScope": "Lookup includes common insect names. Automatic detection uses qualified praying-mantis or mantid phrases so a bare mantis in mantis shrimp does not tag this insect, and praying alone does not identify an animal.", "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "DreamFolia AI-assisted editorial review", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "ants", "bats", "caterpillar", "frogs", "grasshopper", "tiger", "turtle", "whale", "anaconda", "moose", "praying-mantis", "woodpecker" ] }, "decisionReason": "The insect reading distinguishes stillness, attention, scale and an image becoming active. Smithsonian supports only scoped animal background. Personal religious associations stay optional, mantis shrimp remains separate, and neither prayer nor supernatural instruction is asserted as fact.", "reviewedSnapshot": "data/animal-publication-review-2026-10-15-v2.json", "contentSha256": "69aebde488f5fa340b6b451589dcfcbb48813777de767db77b091c62eb72b28a" }, "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "preacher", "title": "Preacher", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a preacher, denotes that your ways are not above reproach, and your affairs will not move evenly.”", "aliases": [ "preacher" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about preacher stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1606", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Preacher", "text": "To dream of a preacher, denotes that your ways are not above reproach,\nand your affairs will not move evenly.\n\nTo dream that you are a preacher, foretells for you losses in business,\nand distasteful amusements will jar upon you.\n\nTo hear preaching, implies that you will undergo misfortune.\n\nTo argue with a preacher, you will lose in some contest.\n\nTo see one walk away from you, denotes that your affairs will move\nwith new energy. If he looks sorrowful, reproaches will fall\nheavily upon you.\n\nTo see a long-haired preacher, denotes that you are shortly to have disputes\nwith overbearing and egotistical people.", "locator": "Heading 1610; source lines 18148–18167", "lineStart": 18148, "lineEnd": 18167, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a preacher, denotes that your ways are not above reproach,\nand your affairs will not move evenly.\n\nTo dream that you are a preacher, foretells for you losses in business,\nand distasteful amusements will jar upon you.\n\nTo hear preaching, implies that you will undergo misfortune.\n\nTo argue with a preacher, you will lose in some contest.\n\nTo see one walk away from you, denotes that your affairs will move\nwith new energy. If he looks sorrowful, reproaches will fall\nheavily upon you.\n\nTo see a long-haired preacher, denotes that you are shortly to have disputes\nwith overbearing and egotistical people." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "precipice", "title": "Precipice", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of standing over a yawning precipice, portends the threatenings of misfortunes and calamities.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "precipice", "precipices" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about precipice stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "abyss", "pit" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1607", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Precipice", "text": "To dream of standing over a yawning precipice, portends the threatenings\nof misfortunes and calamities.\n\nTo fall over a precipice, denotes that you will be engulfed in disaster.\n\n\n[171] See Abyss and Pit.", "locator": "Heading 1611; source lines 18167–18177", "lineStart": 18167, "lineEnd": 18177, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of standing over a yawning precipice, portends the threatenings\nof misfortunes and calamities.\n\nTo fall over a precipice, denotes that you will be engulfed in disaster. See Abyss and Pit." }, { "id": "noe-0407", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Precipices", "text": "Dreaming that you see great precipices, signifies much\ninjury to person and goods.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 413; source lines 1548–1549", "lineStart": 1548, "lineEnd": 1549, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Dreaming that you see great precipices, signifies much\ninjury to person and goods." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11526", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Precipice", "heading": "Precipice", "text": "To fall over, personal injury (Artemidorus).", "lineStart": 11526, "lineEnd": 11527, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 246; NLM OCR lines 11526–11527", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11526, "lineEnd": 11527, "printedPage": 246, "printedPageEnd": 246 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Precipice. — To fall over, personal injury (Artemidorus). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Precipice" }, "displayText": "To fall over, personal injury (Artemidorus)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "abyss", "pit" ] }, { "slug": "predecessors", "title": "Predecessors", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “Dreaming of your predecessors, as grandfathers and other ancestors, signifies care.”", "aliases": [ "predecessors" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about predecessors stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "noe-0395", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Predecessors", "text": "Dreaming of your predecessors, as grandfathers and other\nancestors, signifies care.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 401; source lines 1505–1506", "lineStart": 1505, "lineEnd": 1506, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Dreaming of your predecessors, as grandfathers and other\nancestors, signifies care." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "pregnancy", "title": "Pregnancy", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "A developing situation has more than one participant.", "summary": "Pregnancy dreams may explore shared expectations, conflicting information and how an anticipated change fits into ordinary life.", "aliases": [ "pregnancy", "to be big with child" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "psychological": "A pregnancy situation can bring several people, plans and expectations together before anything is settled. You might be pregnant, hear about someone else’s pregnancy or find that everybody is discussing a future you have not chosen how to describe. The image may connect with reproductive experience or family conversations. It need not stand for a project, and it does not establish pregnancy or predict an outcome.\n\nOther people’s announcements can place your experience under a public description. Someone may tell a room you are pregnant while you are trying to explain another part of your life. This could resemble a label becoming so important to an audience that it overshadows your own account. The issue may be having a voice within a change, rather than wanting either secrecy or attention in every situation.\n\nDates and preparations can introduce uncertainty about timing. Several calendars show different expected dates, leaving people to organize around incompatible information. This may picture difficulty coordinating an anticipated event when nobody shares the same account. A waking comparison could be a family plan whose assumptions have changed without the arrangements being updated.\n\nHelp can become complicated when it arrives as somebody else’s complete plan. A group prepares a room or makes decisions without asking the pregnant person what matters to them. The scene may distinguish practical enthusiasm from participation in deciding what the help is for. It can also feel reassuring when the arrangement is welcomed, rather than necessarily portraying interference.\n\nPregnancy may remain one part of an otherwise ordinary day. You continue a familiar hobby, travel with friends or talk about something unrelated while it stays quietly present. This can allow a developing situation to coexist with other interests. By contrast, comparing two pregnancies at different stages may make different rhythms visible without requiring one person to be ahead or behind.\n\nSometimes there is only a report: you hear about a pregnancy but never meet the person or see a bodily change. The dream then gives you information to respond to rather than an experience of carrying. This broader situation overlaps with Being pregnant, which explores embodied anticipation and responsibility. Here the surrounding conversations, knowledge and shared preparations offer another starting point, while your own association remains more useful than a universal story about growth.", "traditional": "Miller attaches marital and sexual-status judgments to pregnancy, including adverse family forecasts and a safe-delivery assurance. Fontaine predicts gifts, business profit or sudden marriage. The whole Artemidorus account varies wealth, household, health and loss forecasts by circumstances and includes delivery. These conflicting period claims do not assess a pregnancy or establish a universal meaning.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Someone announces your pregnancy while you are explaining a different part of your life", "reflection": "A public label interrupts the account you wanted to give. This may picture wanting to remain an active speaker within an anticipated change. What matters can be the chance to describe your own experience, rather than assuming you must welcome the announcement or keep everything private." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Several calendars show incompatible expected dates", "reflection": "Plans are being made without a shared account of timing. This may resemble coordinating a family event when different people are using different assumptions. The calendars can make uncertainty visible; choosing the clearest display in the dream does not establish an actual date or medical information." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A group prepares a room without asking what the pregnant person wants", "reflection": "Enthusiasm produces a complete arrangement before its recipient has a say. This may picture the difference between receiving help and helping shape it. The room could feel reassuring or restrictive according to the dreamed interaction; the preparation itself does not decide whether the support is useful." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Pregnancy remains quietly present while you enjoy an ordinary hobby", "reflection": "The anticipated change shares space with a familiar interest instead of replacing the whole day. This can picture continuity alongside a new situation. Enjoyment may come from still having room for several parts of life, without requiring the dream to prove a particular wish or readiness for parenthood." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Two pregnant people at different stages enjoy the same gathering", "reflection": "Different rhythms appear together without becoming one timetable. This may picture sharing an experience while allowing each person another pace or perspective. Comparison can feel interesting, uncomfortable or simply unnecessary; the difference does not determine that somebody is behind or following the wrong path." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You hear a pregnancy report but never meet the person it concerns", "reflection": "The scene gives you information rather than direct access to the experience. This may bring your position as listener, relative or distant acquaintance into focus. Responding to the report can matter without filling in a bodily scene or assuming what the absent person actually feels." } ], "prompts": [ "Who described the pregnancy situation, and how much room was there for another account?", "What information did the dream give you, and what remained assumed or unknown?", "How did the anticipated change fit alongside the other activities or relationships in the scene?" ], "related": [ "being-pregnant", "birth", "midwife", "baby", "a-pregnancy-test-with-an-unclear-result" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1608" ], "scope": "miller-1608: Miller forecasts marital unhappiness and disparages children from a dreamed pregnancy, assigns scandal/adversity by virgin status, then predicts safe delivery and renewed strength when the dreamer is actually pregnant. These status-dependent judgments and assurances remain period claims. Exact supplied passage: Pregnancy — miller-1608 (Heading 1612; source lines 18177–18186). Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence of a future event, health condition, another person’s state or a universal dream meaning." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0606" ], "scope": "fontaine-0606: Fontaine forecasts a handsome gift or a share of a husband’s business profit from dreamed pregnancy when not actually pregnant, and sudden marriage for a girl. The printed passage includes a numbered lottery tail. Exact supplied passage: Pregnancy — fontaine-0606 (Heading 606; source line 3890). Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence of a future event, health condition, another person’s state or a universal dream meaning." }, { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display.", "recordIds": [ "artemidorus-003" ], "scope": "artemidorus-003: The whole To be big with child section varies wealth, pain, relationship, illness, death, debt relief, disclosure and loss forecasts by financial position, spouse, occupation and other circumstances. It includes both pregnancy and delivery, favorable claims for merchants/sailors/ship owners, and a closing parental-loss claim. These forecasts do not support a medical or modern metaphorical conclusion. Exact supplied passage: To be big with child. — artemidorus-003 (Book 1, encoded section 3). Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence of a future event, health condition, another person’s state or a universal dream meaning." } ], "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Having a voice within an expectation", "reflection": "A public announcement or prepared plan can place your own account beside what other people assume." }, { "title": "Coordinating incomplete information", "reflection": "Conflicting dates or reports can make shared understanding a different task from waiting for an outcome." }, { "title": "One change within a wider life", "reflection": "An ordinary activity or different pace can give an anticipated situation room without making it the whole identity of everyone involved." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1608", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Pregnancy", "text": "For a woman to dream that she is pregnant, denotes she will be unhappy\nwith her husband, and her children will be unattractive.\n\nFor a virgin, this dream omens scandal and adversity.\nIf a woman is really pregnant and has this dream, it prognosticates\na safe delivery and swift recovery of strength.", "locator": "Heading 1612; source lines 18177–18186", "lineStart": 18177, "lineEnd": 18186, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a woman to dream that she is pregnant, denotes she will be unhappy\nwith her husband, and her children will be unattractive.\n\nFor a virgin, this dream omens scandal and adversity.\nIf a woman is really pregnant and has this dream, it prognosticates\na safe delivery and swift recovery of strength.", "editorialNote": "Optional structure requested by parent: generic sourced term alongside existing specific reflective core. The semantic overlap here is not itself an error." }, { "id": "fontaine-0606", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Pregnancy", "text": "For a woman to dream that she is pregnant when she is not,\nis a sign of some special good fortune; she will either have a handsome\npresent, or else her husband will be lucky in some business transaction\nand give her a part of the money: if a girl dreams this, it foretells\nthat she will get married about as sudden as if the dream were a\nreality. 4, 11, 44.", "locator": "Heading 606; source line 3890", "lineStart": 3890, "lineEnd": 3897, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a woman to dream that she is pregnant when she is not,\nis a sign of some special good fortune; she will either have a handsome\npresent, or else her husband will be lucky in some business transaction\nand give her a part of the money: if a girl dreams this, it foretells\nthat she will get married about as sudden as if the dream were a\nreality.", "editorialNote": "Optional structure requested by parent: generic sourced term alongside existing specific reflective core. The semantic overlap here is not itself an error." }, { "id": "artemidorus-003", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "To be big with child.", "text": "IF any one being poore, dream that he is great with child, he shall become rich, and shall gather a great deale of mony. If hee be rich hee shall bee in pain and care. Hee which hath a wife shall loose her, having no more need that she shall beare children. He which hath no wife shal have a gentle one. To others it signifieth sicknes. But to be big with child and then to be delivered, is all one, for it meanes that the sick person shall dye quickly. But to him that is poor and indebted, induring pain and misery, it is an end & a discharge of all his present evils, also this dreame revealeth secrets. This dreame is crosse to rich usurers, factors, and all such as are in authority, for that which they had before, they shall loose. But to Merchants and Sailers, or to them which have ships this dream is good. To many after this dream, hath hapned losse of parent.", "locator": "Book 1, encoded section 3", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "1", "displayText": "If any one being poore, dream that he is great with child, he shall become rich, and shall gather a great deale of mony. If hee be rich hee shall bee in pain and care. Hee which hath a wife shall loose her, having no more need that she shall beare children. He which hath no wife shal have a gentle one. To others it signifieth sicknes. But to be big with child and then to be delivered, is all one, for it meanes that the sick person shall dye quickly. But to him that is poor and indebted, induring pain and misery, it is an end & a discharge of all his present evils, also this dreame revealeth secrets. This dreame is crosse to rich usurers, factors, and all such as are in authority, for that which they had before, they shall loose. But to Merchants and Sailers, or to them which have ships this dream is good. To many after this dream, hath hapned losse of parent.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “To be big with child” is shown on the Pregnancy page: artemidorus \"To be big with child\" is pregnancy" } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "present", "title": "Present", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To receive presents in your dreams, denotes that you will be unusually fortunate. 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Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1609", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Present", "text": "To receive presents in your dreams, denotes that you will\nbe unusually fortunate.\n\n\n[172] See Gifts.", "locator": "Heading 1613; source lines 18186–18194", "lineStart": 18186, "lineEnd": 18194, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To receive presents in your dreams, denotes that you will\nbe unusually fortunate. See Gifts." }, { "id": "fontaine-0607", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Present", "text": "(_See Gift._) To dream of receiving a present, is usually\na sign of disappointment; but if a married woman dreams that she is\npresented with fruit, it shows that she will soon become pregnant: if\na girl imagines she is presented by her lover with gold jewelry, it\npredicts that he covets the possession of her person rather than her\nheart. 64, 21.", "locator": "Heading 607; source line 3897", "lineStart": 3897, "lineEnd": 3904, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Gift.) To dream of receiving a present, is usually\na sign of disappointment; but if a married woman dreams that she is\npresented with fruit, it shows that she will soon become pregnant: if\na girl imagines she is presented by her lover with gold jewelry, it\npredicts that he covets the possession of her person rather than her\nheart." }, { "id": "cielo-0336", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Present", "text": "Dreaming of receiving gifts denotes a loss.\n To make a present means success.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 336; source lines 4668–4671", "lineStart": 4668, "lineEnd": 4671, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Dreaming of receiving gifts denotes a loss.\nTo make a present means success." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0608", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Preserves", "text": "To dream that you make or eat them, foretells the\nacquisition of much money and property, also health and happiness. 3,\n33, 9.", "locator": "Heading 608; source line 3904", "lineStart": 3904, "lineEnd": 3908, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you make or eat them, foretells the\nacquisition of much money and property, also health and happiness. 3," }, { "id": "cielo-0337", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Preserves", "text": "To make or eat preserves indicates loss\n of time and money.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 337; source lines 4671–4674", "lineStart": 4671, "lineEnd": 4674, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To make or eat preserves indicates loss\nof time and money." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0609", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Pretty Girl", "text": "For a young man to dream of admiring a pretty girl, is a\nsign he will marry a simpleton: if a girl dreams she has a nice and\npretty-looking lover, she will be apt to take up with a putty-head.\nHere is an ancient rhyming prediction: 4, 13.\n\n To dream you love a girl who’s pretty,\n Foretells that you’ll in sorrow part;\n But if you dream she’s wise and witty,\n She’ll be the darling of your heart!", "locator": "Heading 609; source line 3908", "lineStart": 3908, "lineEnd": 3918, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a young man to dream of admiring a pretty girl, is a\nsign he will marry a simpleton: if a girl dreams she has a nice and\npretty-looking lover, she will be apt to take up with a putty-head.\nHere is an ancient rhyming prediction:\n\nTo dream you love a girl who’s pretty,\nForetells that you’ll in sorrow part;\nBut if you dream she’s wise and witty,\nShe’ll be the darling of your heart!" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "prick", "title": "Prick", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “If a lady dreams of pricking her finger while sewing, she must put it in her mouth on awaking, and make a wish, and she will realize it…”", "aliases": [ "prick" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about prick stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "pins", "briars" ], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0610", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Prick", "text": "If a lady dreams of pricking her finger while sewing, she must\nput it in her mouth on awaking, and make a wish, and she will realize\nit within one month, provided it relates to love matters: a wish of any\nother kind will doubtless come true some time or other, as the omen is\nan excellent one: if a lady dreams she pricks herself with a pin, the\nomen is not so good. (_See Pin and Briar._) 498.", "locator": "Heading 610; source line 3918", "lineStart": 3918, "lineEnd": 3925, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If a lady dreams of pricking her finger while sewing, she must\nput it in her mouth on awaking, and make a wish, and she will realize\nit within one month, provided it relates to love matters: a wish of any\nother kind will doubtless come true some time or other, as the omen is\nan excellent one: if a lady dreams she pricks herself with a pin, the\nomen is not so good. (See Pin and Briar.) 498." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1610", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Priest", "text": "A priest is an augury of ill, if seen in dreams.\n\nIf he is in the pulpit, it denotes sickness and trouble for the dreamer.\n\nIf a woman dreams that she is in love with a priest,\nit warns her of deceptions and an unscrupulous lover.\nIf the priest makes love to her, she will be reproached for her\nlove of gaiety and practical joking.\n\nTo confess to a priest, denotes that you will be subjected\nto humiliation and sorrow.\n\nThese dreams imply that you have done, or will do,\nsomething which will bring discomfort to yourself or relatives.\nThe priest or preacher is your spiritual adviser, and any dream of his\nprofessional presence is a warning against your own imperfections.\nSeen in social circles, unless they rise before you as spectres,\nthe same rules will apply as to other friends.\n\n\n[173] See Preacher.", "locator": "Heading 1614; source lines 18194–18218", "lineStart": 18194, "lineEnd": 18218, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "A priest is an augury of ill, if seen in dreams.\n\nIf he is in the pulpit, it denotes sickness and trouble for the dreamer.\n\nIf a woman dreams that she is in love with a priest,\nit warns her of deceptions and an unscrupulous lover.\nIf the priest makes love to her, she will be reproached for her\nlove of gaiety and practical joking.\n\nTo confess to a priest, denotes that you will be subjected\nto humiliation and sorrow.\n\nThese dreams imply that you have done, or will do,\nsomething which will bring discomfort to yourself or relatives.\nThe priest or preacher is your spiritual adviser, and any dream of his\nprofessional presence is a warning against your own imperfections.\nSeen in social circles, unless they rise before you as spectres,\nthe same rules will apply as to other friends. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "preacher" ] }, { "slug": "primrose", "title": "Primrose", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of this little flower starring the grass at your feet, is an omen of joys laden with comfort and…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "primrose", "primroses" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about primrose stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1611", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Primrose", "text": "To dream of this little flower starring the grass at your feet,\nis an omen of joys laden with comfort and peace.", "locator": "Heading 1615; source lines 18218–18223", "lineStart": 18218, "lineEnd": 18223, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of this little flower starring the grass at your feet,\nis an omen of joys laden with comfort and peace." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11528", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Primroses", "heading": "Primroses", "text": "A dream foretelling sickness, sorrow, death (Raphael).", "lineStart": 11528, "lineEnd": 11530, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 246; NLM OCR lines 11528–11530", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11528, "lineEnd": 11530, "printedPage": 246, "printedPageEnd": 246 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Primroses. — A dream foretelling sickness, sorrow, death \n(Raphael). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Primroses" }, "displayText": "A dream foretelling sickness, sorrow, death (Raphael)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "printer", "title": "Printer", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see a printer in your dreams, is a warning of poverty, if you neglect to practice economy and cultivate energy.”", "aliases": [ "printer" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about printer stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1612", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Printer", "text": "To see a printer in your dreams, is a warning of poverty,\nif you neglect to practice economy and cultivate energy.\nFor a woman to dream that her lover or associate is a printer,\nforetells she will fail to please her parents in the selection\nof a close friend.", "locator": "Heading 1616; source lines 18223–18231", "lineStart": 18223, "lineEnd": 18231, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a printer in your dreams, is a warning of poverty,\nif you neglect to practice economy and cultivate energy.\nFor a woman to dream that her lover or associate is a printer,\nforetells she will fail to please her parents in the selection\nof a close friend." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "printing-office", "title": "Printing Office", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To be in a printing office in dreams, denotes that slander and contumely will threaten you To run a printing office is indicative of hard…”", "aliases": [ "printing office" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about printing office stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1613", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Printing Office", "text": "To be in a printing office in dreams, denotes that slander and contumely\nwill threaten you\n\nTo run a printing office is indicative of hard luck.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that her sweetheart is connected\nwith a printing office, denotes that she will have a lover\nwho is unable to lavish money or time upon her, and she will\nnot be sensible enough to see why he is so stingy.", "locator": "Heading 1617; source lines 18231–18243", "lineStart": 18231, "lineEnd": 18243, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To be in a printing office in dreams, denotes that slander and contumely\nwill threaten you\n\nTo run a printing office is indicative of hard luck.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that her sweetheart is connected\nwith a printing office, denotes that she will have a lover\nwho is unable to lavish money or time upon her, and she will\nnot be sensible enough to see why he is so stingy." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "prison", "title": "Prison", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "aliases": [ "prison", "imprisoned", "prison cell", "locked in a cell", "serving a sentence" ], "kind": "modern", "summary": "A prison can suggest imposed limits, accountability, or a role that is hard to leave. An open cell changes the question from confinement to choice.", "tagline": "The scene makes the rules, the authority, and the route to release visible.", "psychological": "A prison can picture a restriction that feels organized around rules rather than around a single obstacle. You may know what you are allowed to do but have little say in why those limits exist. A demanding work arrangement, prolonged obligation, or role that leaves no space for other priorities may feel similar. The walls make the difference between having responsibilities and feeling unable to choose concrete.\n\nImprisonment without an understood reason can suggest being judged against unclear standards. You may be trying to satisfy expectations without knowing how success is determined. A familiar sentence with an endpoint creates another reading: accepting a consequence, completing an obligation, or enduring a defined difficult period can feel more manageable because release has terms.\n\nAn unlocked cell can bring the source of restriction into question. An old expectation or assumption may continue shaping your actions after circumstances have changed. Leaving may still require confidence, resources, or permission you do not feel able to give yourself. The open door does not make the difficulty imaginary; it changes what kind of support the scene seems to require.\n\nVisiting someone in prison can picture caring within limits. You may want to help but cannot take over the conditions another person faces. Being a guard instead makes your own part in enforcing a rule visible, perhaps within work or a shared responsibility. Compassion and accountability can pull in different directions.\n\nRelease can feel hopeful, disorienting, or incomplete if ordinary life beyond the walls is unfamiliar. Real institutional experiences, news, and stories are also direct context. These original comparisons concern agency and obligation; a prison dream does not establish guilt or a legal outcome.", "traditional": "Miller's Prison passage assigns an unfavorable forecast to confinement and a favorable one to release. Fontaine's 1862 entry reverses much of that framing, calling imprisonment an omen of honor while qualifying the claim through moral judgments.\n\nTheir disagreement makes the image unsuitable as a simple favorable-or-unfavorable code. The original modern interpretation distinguishes being restricted, understanding a sentence, visiting, enforcing rules, and leaving. Each role has a different relationship to choice, rather than deriving a forecast from the presence of walls alone.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Rules that leave little room for choice", "reflection": "The prison can picture an obligation whose boundaries are clear but whose terms you cannot influence. The tension concerns agency within a structured arrangement, not merely having difficult work." }, { "title": "Judgment or a defined responsibility", "reflection": "An unexplained sentence can suggest unclear expectations, while a known endpoint may make an obligation manageable. Understanding the rule changes how confinement is experienced even when the restriction remains." }, { "title": "Release requires more than an open door", "reflection": "A cell may be unlocked while leaving still feels difficult. Changed circumstances can require new resources, confidence, or a different relationship with expectations before greater freedom becomes usable." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "You are imprisoned without knowing the charge", "reflection": "This can picture trying to answer expectations whose standards remain unclear. An unexplained criticism or process without transparent rules may offer a parallel. The frustration centers not knowing what would satisfy the judgment, rather than admitting that the judgment is deserved.", "slug": "scene-1" }, { "title": "The cell door is open but you remain inside", "reflection": "A restriction may continue through habit, uncertainty, or a lack of usable alternatives after circumstances change. An old role can feel hard to leave even when permission exists. The scene suggests examining what release requires, rather than assuming the open door resolves everything.", "slug": "scene-2" }, { "title": "You know the sentence and when it ends", "reflection": "A difficult obligation can feel more manageable when its terms are defined. Completing training, handling a temporary workload, or waiting through an agreed period may fit. The endpoint gives endurance a structure, even if you still dislike the present limitation.", "slug": "scene-3" }, { "title": "You visit someone you care about", "reflection": "The scene can picture offering connection without being able to remove another person's constraints. A limited caregiving role or support across distance may fit. Being a visitor makes both affection and the boundaries of your influence visible.", "slug": "scene-4" }, { "title": "You work as a guard", "reflection": "Your role may involve enforcing rules that affect other people's freedom. Managing a task, maintaining a boundary, or carrying institutional responsibility could feel similar. The scene can explore tension between fairness, empathy, and duties you are expected to uphold.", "slug": "scene-5" }, { "title": "You leave prison but do not know where to go", "reflection": "Release may create space before a new direction becomes clear. Finishing an obligation or leaving a restrictive role can bring relief alongside uncertainty. The challenge has shifted from enduring limits to building an ordinary life that uses the freedom now available.", "slug": "scene-6" } ], "prompts": [ "What rule limited me, and did I understand its reason or endpoint?", "Where did I have choice, even if I could not change the whole arrangement?", "What would make release usable: support, direction, permission, or practical resources?" ], "related": [ "jail", "police", "being-trapped", "locked-out" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia editorial expansion with image-specific interpretations and six differentiated scenes. Historical context is attributed to actual source passages. Human publication review pending.", "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1614" ], "scope": "Historical context only: Prison — miller-1614, Heading 1618; source lines 18243–18254. These are period fortune-telling beliefs, not evidence for the modern interpretations." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0612" ], "scope": "Historical context only: Prison — fontaine-0612, Heading 612; source line 3930. These are period fortune-telling beliefs, not evidence for the modern interpretations." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "scope": "Preserved attribution for the catalogue historical records from this source. Not cited as evidence for this original modern interpretation.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L11531" ] }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1614", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Prison", "text": "To dream of a prison, is the forerunner of misfortune in every instance,\nif it encircles your friends, or yourself.\n\nTo see any one dismissed from prison, denotes that you will\nfinally overcome misfortune.\n\n\n[174] See Jail.", "locator": "Heading 1618; source lines 18243–18254", "lineStart": 18243, "lineEnd": 18254, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a prison, is the forerunner of misfortune in every instance,\nif it encircles your friends, or yourself.\n\nTo see any one dismissed from prison, denotes that you will\nfinally overcome misfortune. See Jail." }, { "id": "fontaine-0612", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Prison", "text": "(_See Jail._) To dream you are put in prison, foretells that\nhonor awaits you: but this omen does not apply to rogues or dishonest\npeople, though such a dream by them favors their desires: if a girl\ndreams that her lover has gone to prison, she will soon hear of his\nadvancement. 46.", "locator": "Heading 612; source line 3930", "lineStart": 3930, "lineEnd": 3936, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Jail.) To dream you are put in prison, foretells that\nhonor awaits you: but this omen does not apply to rogues or dishonest\npeople, though such a dream by them favors their desires: if a girl\ndreams that her lover has gone to prison, she will soon hear of his\nadvancement." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11531", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Prison", "heading": "Prison", "text": "A dream of contrary denoting happiness, hope, etc. (Raphael). Evidently many of these interpretations trace their derivation to the days of the early Christians when persecution and humiliation were borne with joy and hope.", "lineStart": 11531, "lineEnd": 11535, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 246; NLM OCR lines 11531–11535", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11531, "lineEnd": 11535, "printedPage": 246, "printedPageEnd": 246 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Prison. — A dream of contrary denoting happiness, hope, \netc. (Raphael). Evidently many of these interpretations trace \ntheir derivation to the days of the early Christians when per- \nsecution and humiliation were borne with joy and hope. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "per- \nsecution", "after": "persecution", "evidenceLine": 10502 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Prison" }, "displayText": "A dream of contrary denoting happiness, hope, etc. (Raphael). Evidently many of these interpretations trace their derivation to the days of the early Christians when persecution and humiliation were borne with joy and hope." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [ "jail" ] }, { "slug": "prisoners", "title": "Prisoners", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “To dream of seeing prisoners executed, is a good dream, signifies a boldness of courage and a very clear conscience.”", "aliases": [ "prisoners" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about prisoners stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "noe-0408", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Prisoners", "text": "To dream of seeing prisoners\nexecuted, is a good dream, signifies a boldness of courage and a very\nclear conscience.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 414; source lines 1549–1551", "lineStart": 1549, "lineEnd": 1551, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing prisoners\nexecuted, is a good dream, signifies a boldness of courage and a very\nclear conscience." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "privacy", "title": "Privacy", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "aliases": [ "privacy" ], "status": "REVIEW", "summary": "Privacy can explore who has access, when sharing is chosen and how personal space can coexist with the connection you want.", "tagline": "Access can have a person, purpose, timing and limit.", "psychological": "A room that becomes shared before you are ready can make privacy a question of timing. You may want contact later while needing a moment to finish something alone. This can resemble moving between work and personal life, preparing an explanation or simply wanting rest. The wish for space need not mean rejection of the people outside it; the scene can make the conditions of access more particular.\n\nInformation can change audience in the dream. A message intended for one person appears on a public screen, or an ordinary page is read before you choose to show it. You might recognize wanting a say in how an experience is represented. Surprise can concern lost choice rather than the content being shameful. The dreamed disclosure does not establish an actual breach or what anyone knows while awake.\n\nAn invitation can also grow beyond its original terms. You welcome one person who brings others, and the private encounter becomes a group activity. This may picture needing an agreement to stay understandable as circumstances change. Asking for another setting or time can preserve the contact you wanted without making every invitation permission for unrestricted participation.\n\nSolitude creates another possibility when the only private place is far from the company you enjoy. You may want a pause without becoming isolated, or conversation without making everything available to an audience. A household or shared workplace can offer a comparison when privacy and belonging require more than choosing one over the other. A smaller space or limited exchange may suit the purpose better.\n\nYour role can change when you approach someone else’s private space. Overhearing an unfinished conversation may leave you with curiosity but no full account. Asking, withdrawing or waiting can give the scene different terms without turning curiosity into proof of wrongdoing. Recent rooms, messages or ordinary routines may supply direct imagery. These original reflections follow access, purpose and timing across personal space and information. They are broader than a particular toilet or public-exposure scene, and they do not infer secrets, actual violations or another person’s motives from an imagined boundary.", "traditional": "Miller’s Privacy passage gives intrusion forecasts and gendered cautions about private affairs, a spouse or lover’s privacy and conversation. The complete record remains attributed period writing; it does not establish that anyone has intruded or concealed something. The original reflection follows the person, purpose and timing of access, including privacy chosen alongside wanted contact.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Access has a useful time", "reflection": "Wanting a pause can preserve another encounter rather than reject it." }, { "title": "Sharing includes the audience and purpose", "reflection": "The meaning of disclosure can change when information reaches people or settings you did not choose." }, { "title": "Privacy and connection can coexist", "reflection": "A particular limit can support company while leaving some space, time or information personal." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "People enter a room before you finish something alone", "reflection": "Contact arrives before the moment you wanted for preparation or rest has ended. This may picture needing another pace rather than rejecting company. A clear pause can preserve both activities without requiring complete availability whenever someone else is ready to enter." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A message for one person appears on a public screen", "reflection": "The audience changes before you choose how to share the account. This can resemble wanting control over context or representation. The particular content may matter, but the exposure need not prove shame, a real breach or what other people actually know." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You invite one person and they bring a group", "reflection": "The terms of an encounter expand beyond the contact you expected. This may picture an invitation needing clearer limits as circumstances change. Another place or time can preserve the wanted connection without making the original welcome permission for every form of participation." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "The only private room is far from the company you want", "reflection": "Solitude becomes available at the cost of contact you also value. This can resemble needing a smaller pause or different arrangement instead of choosing between total openness and isolation. The scene can clarify what the space should allow, rather than make privacy itself a problem." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You overhear part of another person’s private conversation", "reflection": "Information arrives without its whole account or an invitation to participate. This may picture curiosity meeting a limit. Asking or leaving can give the encounter different terms; the partial exchange does not establish a secret, wrongdoing or the real speaker’s intentions." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "A private page becomes ready to share at a time you choose", "reflection": "A boundary changes through your decision rather than disappearing automatically. This can resemble letting an account become public when its audience and purpose feel usable. Chosen sharing can matter without requiring every private experience eventually to be disclosed or every limit to remain permanent." } ], "prompts": [ "Who had access, for what purpose and at whose chosen time?", "How did a different audience change the meaning of sharing?", "What arrangement could allow privacy alongside the contact you wanted?" ], "related": [ "a-toilet-with-no-privacy", "being-naked-in-public", "secret", "a-screen-sharing-mistake", "door" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1615" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a diagnosis, prediction or another person’s states. miller-1615 — Privacy (Heading 1619; source lines 18254–18263): Intrusion into privacy receives overbearing-people forecasts and gendered cautions about private affairs, a spouse/lover’s privacy and conversation. It does not prove an intrusion or establish what another person knows." } ], "updated": "2026-10-14", "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1615", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Privacy", "text": "To dream that your privacy suffers intrusion, foretells you\nwill have overbearing people to worry you. For a woman,\nthis dream warns her to look carefully after private affairs.\nIf she intrudes on the privacy of her husband or lover,\nshe will disabuse some one's confidence, if not careful\nof her conversation.", "locator": "Heading 1619; source lines 18254–18263", "lineStart": 18254, "lineEnd": 18263, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that your privacy suffers intrusion, foretells you\nwill have overbearing people to worry you. For a woman,\nthis dream warns her to look carefully after private affairs.\nIf she intrudes on the privacy of her husband or lover,\nshe will disabuse some one's confidence, if not careful\nof her conversation." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "prize", "title": "Prize", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “To dream of drawing a prize in the lottery, is a sign of poverty and misery: if you dream that you bought a lottery ticket with a majority…”", "aliases": [ "prize" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about prize stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0613", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Prize", "text": "To dream of drawing a prize in the lottery, is a sign of poverty\nand misery: if you dream that you bought a lottery ticket with a\nmajority of odd numbers on it, you may perchance be successful with\nthose numbers, but even numbers are worthless in dreams. To dream of\ngetting prizes in any way is a bad omen. 4, 11, 44.", "locator": "Heading 613; source line 3936", "lineStart": 3936, "lineEnd": 3942, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of drawing a prize in the lottery, is a sign of poverty\nand misery: if you dream that you bought a lottery ticket with a\nmajority of odd numbers on it, you may perchance be successful with\nthose numbers, but even numbers are worthless in dreams. To dream of\ngetting prizes in any way is a bad omen." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "prize-fight", "title": "Prize Fight", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see a prize fight in your dreams, denotes your affairs will give you trouble in controlling them.”", "aliases": [ "prize fight" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about prize fight stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1616", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Prize Fight", "text": "To see a prize fight in your dreams, denotes your affairs will give\nyou trouble in controlling them.", "locator": "Heading 1620; source lines 18263–18268", "lineStart": 18263, "lineEnd": 18268, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a prize fight in your dreams, denotes your affairs will give\nyou trouble in controlling them." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1617", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Prize Fighter", "text": "For a young woman to see a prize fighter, foretells she will have pleasure\nin fast society, and will give her friends much concern about her reputation.", "locator": "Heading 1621; source lines 18268–18273", "lineStart": 18268, "lineEnd": 18273, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a young woman to see a prize fighter, foretells she will have pleasure\nin fast society, and will give her friends much concern about her reputation." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "procession", "title": "Procession", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a procession, denotes that alarming fears will possess you relative to the fulfilment of…” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "procession" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about procession stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1618", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Procession", "text": "To dream of a procession, denotes that alarming fears will\npossess you relative to the fulfilment of expectations.\nIf it be a funeral procession, sorrow is fast approaching,\nand will throw a shadow around pleasures.\n\nTo see or participate in a torch-light procession, denotes that you\nwill engage in gaieties which will detract from your real merit.", "locator": "Heading 1622; source lines 18273–18283", "lineStart": 18273, "lineEnd": 18283, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a procession, denotes that alarming fears will\npossess you relative to the fulfilment of expectations.\nIf it be a funeral procession, sorrow is fast approaching,\nand will throw a shadow around pleasures.\n\nTo see or participate in a torch-light procession, denotes that you\nwill engage in gaieties which will detract from your real merit." }, { "id": "fontaine-0614", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Procession", "text": "To dream of seeing a long military or civic procession,\nis a sign that some of your friends will come to poverty and ask your\nassistance; if you imagine that you are in such a procession yourself,\nit foretells that you will either make a loss, or be very short of\nmoney. 2.", "locator": "Heading 614; source line 3942", "lineStart": 3942, "lineEnd": 3948, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing a long military or civic procession,\nis a sign that some of your friends will come to poverty and ask your\nassistance; if you imagine that you are in such a procession yourself,\nit foretells that you will either make a loss, or be very short of\nmoney." }, { "id": "cielo-0339", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Procession", "text": "To watch a parade or procession means\n success in love.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 339; source lines 4677–4680", "lineStart": 4677, "lineEnd": 4680, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To watch a parade or procession means\nsuccess in love." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11536", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Procession", "heading": "Procession", "text": "To see one in a dream denotes happiness and joy to come (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 11536, "lineEnd": 11538, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 246; NLM OCR lines 11536–11538", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11536, "lineEnd": 11538, "printedPage": 246, "printedPageEnd": 246 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Procession. — To see one in a dream denotes happiness and \njoy to come (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Procession" }, "displayText": "To see one in a dream denotes happiness and joy to come (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "profanation", "title": "Profanation", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “Misery and future misfortune are herein denoted (Gypsy).”", "aliases": [ "profanation" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about profanation stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. 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OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L11539", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Profanation", "heading": "Profanation", "text": "Misery and future misfortune are herein denoted (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 11539, "lineEnd": 11541, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 246; NLM OCR lines 11539–11541", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11539, "lineEnd": 11541, "printedPage": 246, "printedPageEnd": 246 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Profanation. — Misery and future misfortune are herein de- \nnoted (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "de- \nnoted", "after": "denoted", "evidenceLine": 9589 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Profanation" }, "displayText": "Misery and future misfortune are herein denoted (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1619", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Profanity", "text": "To dream of profanity, denotes that you will cultivate those traits\nwhich render you coarse and unfeeling toward your fellow man.\n\nTo dream that others use profanity, is a sign that you will be injured\nin some way, and probably insulted also.", "locator": "Heading 1623; source lines 18283–18291", "lineStart": 18283, "lineEnd": 18291, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of profanity, denotes that you will cultivate those traits\nwhich render you coarse and unfeeling toward your fellow man.\n\nTo dream that others use profanity, is a sign that you will be injured\nin some way, and probably insulted also." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "profit", "title": "Profit", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of profits, brings success in your immediate future. 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Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1620", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Profits", "text": "To dream of profits, brings success in your immediate future.\n\n\n[175] See Gain.", "locator": "Heading 1624; source lines 18291–18298", "lineStart": 18291, "lineEnd": 18298, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of profits, brings success in your immediate future. See Gain.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Profits” is shown on the Profit page: singular/plural" }, { "id": "fontaine-0615", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Profit", "text": "If a man dreams that he made a large and liberal profit by any\ntransaction or speculation, it foretells losses and disaster. 48, 16.", "locator": "Heading 615; source line 3948", "lineStart": 3948, "lineEnd": 3951, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If a man dreams that he made a large and liberal profit by any\ntransaction or speculation, it foretells losses and disaster." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "gain" ] }, { "slug": "promenade", "title": "Promenade", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of promenading, foretells that you will engage in energetic and profitable pursuits.”", "aliases": [ "promenade" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about promenade stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1621", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Promenade", "text": "To dream of promenading, foretells that you will engage in energetic\nand profitable pursuits.\n\nTo see others promenading, signifies that you will have rivals\nin your pursuits.", "locator": "Heading 1625; source lines 18298–18306", "lineStart": 18298, "lineEnd": 18306, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of promenading, foretells that you will engage in energetic\nand profitable pursuits.\n\nTo see others promenading, signifies that you will have rivals\nin your pursuits." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "promise", "title": "Promise", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “To dream of broken promises on the part of a friend, is a sign that he will confer a benefit on you: if a girl dreams that her lover has…”", "aliases": [ "promise" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about promise stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0616", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Promise", "text": "To dream of broken promises on the part of a friend, is a sign\nthat he will confer a benefit on you: if a girl dreams that her lover\nhas broken his promise to marry, it foreshadows a speedy performance of\nthe ceremony. 3.", "locator": "Heading 616; source line 3951", "lineStart": 3951, "lineEnd": 3956, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of broken promises on the part of a friend, is a sign\nthat he will confer a benefit on you: if a girl dreams that her lover\nhas broken his promise to marry, it foreshadows a speedy performance of\nthe ceremony." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "promotion", "title": "Promotion", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "aliases": [ "promotion", "job promotion", "being promoted", "promoted at work" ], "summary": "A promotion can join recognition with changed duties and relationships. Notice what the new role actually gives and asks of you.", "tagline": "A change in role that can feel rewarding, demanding, or unexpectedly unfamiliar.", "psychological": "A promotion changes your position within an organization while keeping you connected to it. The scene may combine recognition with new expectations, authority, or distance from familiar colleagues. Begin with what actually changes: a title, workspace, task, uniform, or access to a different room. The feeling can be mixed even when everyone in the dream treats the announcement as good news.\n\nRecognition may give form to wanting your contribution seen. Applause, a personal explanation, or a quiet announcement can offer different kinds of acknowledgement. You might recognize the wish from sustained work whose effort has become ordinary to others. Notice whether the dream values something you care about or rewards a part of your activity that you would prefer not to keep doing.\n\nNew responsibilities can make the promotion feel like a test of capacity. A large office with no tools, an unfamiliar team, or instructions you never receive may picture a gap between status and support. Feeling curious or excited about the tasks can be equally significant. The dream can explore readiness as an experience without measuring your actual qualification for a role.\n\nRelationships may shift when authority changes. A friend who now reports to you, colleagues who celebrate warmly, or a group that grows distant can give form to questions about remaining connected while taking a different position. You may be imagining how to hold responsibility without losing an established way of belonging.\n\nAn unwanted promotion can reveal the difference between being recognized and receiving something you want. A new role might offer visibility while removing a task you enjoy. Conversely, a modest change can feel deeply satisfying when it fits your interests. Recent announcements, ambitions, conversations, or stories about work can supply the setting. The dream does not predict advancement or advise what to accept in actual employment.", "traditional": "This entry contains original reflections on recognition, changed duties, and relationships within an imagined promotion. No verified historical promotion passage is used. The research reference offers general dream context and does not predict advancement, judge professional readiness, or support employment advice.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Recognition that fits your contribution", "reflection": "Being selected can make the wish to have effort acknowledged concrete. Consider what the announcement praises and whether you recognize yourself in that account. A welcome title may feel meaningful through the work it honors, while an inaccurate explanation can complicate the pleasure of recognition." }, { "title": "Status and support arriving together", "reflection": "The new role can reveal a relationship between responsibility and the means available to carry it. Tools, instructions, and helpful colleagues may make the change inviting. Their absence may picture concern about being expected to perform before conditions allow you to learn." }, { "title": "Belonging after a change in position", "reflection": "A promotion can rearrange familiar relationships even when everyone stays in the same organization. The scene may explore how authority, closeness, and shared history coexist. Notice which connections continue, which feel altered, and whether the changed role gives you room to remain yourself." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Your promotion is announced in front of everyone", "reflection": "A public announcement can picture wanting a contribution recognized while also feeling the weight of collective expectations. Applause may feel welcoming or exposing. Record what people are told about you and what you are expected to do next; recognition can introduce a new task as well as celebration." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "The new office contains no equipment", "reflection": "Status without practical resources can picture responsibility arriving faster than support. A shared project begun without clear tools or instructions may feel similar. Notice whether you can ask for what is missing and whether someone helps, rather than treating the empty office as proof of incapacity." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A friend becomes someone you must supervise", "reflection": "A changed reporting relationship can make questions about closeness and authority visible. Giving feedback to someone you care about may offer a parallel beyond employment. The interaction matters more than the title: notice whether warmth, disagreement, and responsibility can still coexist in the scene." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You receive a grand title for an unwanted task", "reflection": "Recognition paired with work you dislike can picture being valued in a direction that does not fit your interests. The praise may be pleasant while the role feels restrictive. Record what you would lose or gain through the changed activity, without making the dream into an employment recommendation." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You quietly choose to remain in your current role", "reflection": "Staying can picture valuing a familiar activity or a pace that suits you. It might bring relief, regret, or uncertainty about how others will respond. Notice what made the existing role attractive; the dream can explore that preference without deciding what choice would suit waking circumstances." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "Your new team welcomes you and explains the work", "reflection": "A supported transition may picture the wish for recognition accompanied by a usable place to begin. Patient instructions and introductions can make responsibility feel shared. Consider which gesture creates ease: being trusted, being allowed to ask questions, or discovering that unfamiliar colleagues are approachable." } ], "prompts": [ "What changed besides my title, and which change mattered most?", "Did the recognition describe a contribution I actually valued?", "What support and relationships came with the new responsibilities?" ], "related": [ "job-interview", "boss", "elevator", "office" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia editorial entry with image-specific interpretations and six differentiated scenes. The reference supplies general dream background only. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "property", "title": "Property", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you own vast property, denotes that you will be successful in affairs, and gain friendships.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "property" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about property stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "wealth" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1622", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Property", "text": "To dream that you own vast property, denotes that you will be successful\nin affairs, and gain friendships.\n\n\n[176] See Wealth.", "locator": "Heading 1626; source lines 18306–18314", "lineStart": 18306, "lineEnd": 18314, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you own vast property, denotes that you will be successful\nin affairs, and gain friendships. See Wealth." }, { "id": "fontaine-0617", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Property", "text": "To dream of the loss of property, is a sign of good luck, and\nyou may calculate to acquire as much as you dreamed was lost, for such\ndreams always work contrariwise. 45, 1, 14.", "locator": "Heading 617; source line 3956", "lineStart": 3956, "lineEnd": 3960, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of the loss of property, is a sign of good luck, and\nyou may calculate to acquire as much as you dreamed was lost, for such\ndreams always work contrariwise." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1623", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Prostitute", "text": "To dream that you are in the company of a prostitute, denotes that you\nwill incur the righteous scorn of friends for some ill-mannered conduct.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of a prostitute, foretells that\nshe will deceive her lover as to her purity or candor.\nThis dream to a married woman brings suspicion of her husband\nand consequent quarrels.\n\n\n[177] See Harlot.", "locator": "Heading 1627; source lines 18314–18327", "lineStart": 18314, "lineEnd": 18327, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are in the company of a prostitute, denotes that you\nwill incur the righteous scorn of friends for some ill-mannered conduct.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of a prostitute, foretells that\nshe will deceive her lover as to her purity or candor.\nThis dream to a married woman brings suspicion of her husband\nand consequent quarrels. See Harlot." }, { "id": "fontaine-0618", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Prostitute", "text": "For a young man to dream of associating with prostitutes,\nis a sign of poverty and disgrace: if he dreams of seeing these girls\nanywhere, it foretells misfortune or bad luck: for a girl to dream of\nthem, is a sign that her chastity is in danger. 35, 9.", "locator": "Heading 618; source line 3960", "lineStart": 3960, "lineEnd": 3965, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a young man to dream of associating with prostitutes,\nis a sign of poverty and disgrace: if he dreams of seeing these girls\nanywhere, it foretells misfortune or bad luck: for a girl to dream of\nthem, is a sign that her chastity is in danger." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "proud", "title": "Proud", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "summary": "Proud dreams may explore satisfaction in a valued effort, shared recognition, or the distance created when status becomes a hierarchy.", "tagline": "Pride can appreciate an effort or place people above and below.", "aliases": [ "proud", "pride", "feeling proud", "proud people" ], "status": "REVIEW", "psychological": "Feeling proud in a dream can bring an effort or relationship into a satisfying view. A small result matters, somebody you care about develops a skill or you recognize work that previously seemed ordinary. The feeling may concern appreciating what was done rather than proving superiority. A waking milestone, useful contribution or moment of recognition can offer a comparison without making the dream a measure of your overall worth.\n\nPride directed toward another person can hold several experiences together. Their independence may be welcome while also changing your place in the relationship. A child or companion completing something without your help can bring affection, surprise and a wish to remain connected. The scene may be about appreciating their agency rather than claiming the result as your own.\n\nEncountering a proud person gives the dream another position. Somebody’s manner may make a hierarchy visible: who is listened to, whose work counts and who seems permitted to belong. If their pride feels distancing, the subject may be the way status organizes the interaction. If it feels warm and inclusive, their satisfaction can invite shared appreciation instead. The title alone should not decide which arrangement is present.\n\nPublic praise can complicate the feeling. Recognition may be welcome while its account of your contribution feels too large or too narrow. A dream in which you share credit can make pride more satisfying by bringing other efforts into view. A rivalrous scene may instead make the result valuable only while somebody else ranks below you. Those different terms are more informative than declaring pride inherently good or bad.\n\nLosing a title while retaining respect for the work can separate external standing from a valued activity. An unnoticed accomplishment can do the same when its usefulness remains clear. The dream does not establish a stable character trait or predict advancement. It may let you consider what deserves appreciation, how recognition is offered and whether satisfaction creates room for others. Recent celebrations, compliments or encounters with an impressive person can also supply the scene directly.", "traditional": "Fontaine’s Proud account concerns proud people who disgust the dreamer, assigning advancement and a lover-related marriage forecast. Those class and relationship assumptions are retained as period claims. The original reading also develops personal and shared proud feeling without turning the historical prediction into a modern character rule.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Appreciating an effort", "reflection": "A useful or valued result can matter apart from ranking above another person." }, { "title": "Pride that includes another", "reflection": "Recognition can widen to acknowledge separate agency and shared contribution." }, { "title": "Status and distance", "reflection": "A proud manner can make hierarchy central, depending on how the encounter actually works." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You feel proud of a small private result", "reflection": "The accomplishment may have a scale that matters mainly to you. Finishing a repair, learning a small skill or honoring a commitment can offer a comparison. The absence of applause allows satisfaction to rest on the work’s value rather than public standing." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Someone you care about succeeds independently", "reflection": "Their achievement can bring affection and a changed need for your involvement. The scene may explore appreciating another person’s growing agency while remaining connected. Mixed sadness or surprise need not cancel pride; it can make the relationship’s transition more visible." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A proud person treats you as beneath them", "reflection": "The manner creates a hierarchy before any useful conversation occurs. This may picture concern about whose contribution or presence is permitted to matter. The dream’s conduct is more specific than the label proud: distance, dismissal or recognition would each create a different interaction." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Praise makes you proud and uneasy at once", "reflection": "The praise may fit your effort while assigning an appearance you do not fully recognize. A compliment tied to future expectations can have similar mixed terms. The scene separates appreciating recognition from being comfortable with every role or standard that accompanies it." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Sharing credit makes the result more satisfying", "reflection": "Acknowledging several contributions can make the result feel more accurate and satisfying. This may fit a project where coordination mattered as much as individual effort. Pride becomes shared appreciation rather than a need to preserve sole ownership of the achievement." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "A title is lost but your respect for the work remains", "reflection": "The lost title removes one public measure while leaving the activity’s value available. This can picture continuity through a change of role or recognition. The scene distinguishes respect for what you do from a requirement to hold the same status for that respect to remain." } ], "prompts": [ "What effort, quality or connection felt worth appreciating?", "How did the proud feeling affect your connection with other people?", "What value remained if public recognition changed?" ], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0619" ], "scope": "Historical context only. Attributed Felix Fontaine passage(s): proud people who disgust the dreamer assigned advancement; lover scene assigned a rich/distinguished marriage. These are period beliefs, not established predictions or support for the original psychological reading." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "related": [ "boasting", "applause", "success", "graduation" ], "updated": "2026-10-13", "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0619", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Proud", "text": "To dream of proud people who disgust you, foretells that you\nwill rise in the world: a girl who dreams this of her lover, will\nprobably marry a rich or distinguished man. 3, 32, 13.", "locator": "Heading 619; source line 3965", "lineStart": 3965, "lineEnd": 3969, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of proud people who disgust you, foretells that you\nwill rise in the world: a girl who dreams this of her lover, will\nprobably marry a rich or distinguished man." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "prunes", "title": "Prunes", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “A dream denoting health and joy; dried foretell vexations (Gypsy).”", "aliases": [ "prunes" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about prunes stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L11542", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Prunes", "heading": "Prunes", "text": "A dream denoting health and joy; dried foretell vexations (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 11542, "lineEnd": 11544, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 246; NLM OCR lines 11542–11544", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11542, "lineEnd": 11544, "printedPage": 246, "printedPageEnd": 246 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Prunes. — A dream denoting health and joy; dried foretell \nvexations (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Prunes" }, "displayText": "A dream denoting health and joy; dried foretell vexations (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "public-aquarium", "title": "Public aquarium", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "A viewing window gives access while showing where the boundary remains.", "summary": "A public aquarium dream can explore observing from a boundary, choosing a route and how displays shape attention. It differs from caring for a private tank.", "aliases": [ "public aquarium", "public aquariums", "visiting an aquarium", "aquarium visit" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A public aquarium arranges encounters through windows, paths and displays. In a dream, you may see a large world while remaining outside the conditions in which it exists. This can picture curiosity about an experience you are observing rather than directly entering. A new field, another person's work or a place unfamiliar to you may provide a parallel. The boundary can make access comfortable without giving you the whole perspective.\n\nA small viewing window can hold an expansive scene. You may recognize knowing that more is present than one frame can show. A conversation or account may reveal a useful part of a situation while leaving its wider arrangement unseen. Looking longer can deepen attention, but it does not automatically remove that limit. Another window may offer a different view instead of a complete one.\n\nLabels can guide attention or fail to fit what appears. A description may tell you what to expect while the scene remains unclear or unexpectedly different. This can resemble receiving categories before having enough experience to judge them. The question may be how the information helps you look, rather than whether its confident presentation settles every detail.\n\nFollowing someone else's route can make your interests secondary to a shared plan. You may enjoy being guided, or pass an exhibit you wanted to stay with. A quieter display can become more meaningful than the popular attraction because it allows time and a workable position. This can fit discovering a useful question outside what a group treats as most impressive.\n\nA vanished viewing boundary can change observation into participation within the dream. Curiosity, comfort or concern may arise when distance no longer organizes the encounter. It does not establish anything about actual animals or their care. Real visits, images and conversations can also supply the setting directly. These reflections concern a public venue and its arrangement of attention; the Fish entry separately develops private-tank maintenance, and unqualified aquarium can refer to either setting.", "traditional": "No supplied historical passage specifically describes a public aquarium visit. A private fish tank and a venue arranged for visitors provide different settings. These original reflections concern the visit and its viewing conditions; animal forecasts do not establish what the venue means or what real animals need.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A useful but partial view", "reflection": "A window can make an unfamiliar scene approachable while leaving much beyond the frame. The boundary may support attention without becoming a complete account." }, { "title": "Information that shapes looking", "reflection": "Labels can give a starting point or impose an expectation that does not fit what you see. The encounter may value noticing the difference rather than accepting a category automatically." }, { "title": "A route for your own curiosity", "reflection": "Popular displays and a companion’s pace can organize the visit. Choosing where to remain may give a quieter interest room without needing the whole group to agree." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You watch a vast habitat through a small viewing window", "reflection": "A vast habitat through a small window can picture a useful glimpse whose limits remain clear. A conversation or new field may feel similar. The view can encourage curiosity without making you responsible for understanding everything beyond it." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "An information sign describes something you cannot see", "reflection": "A label without a visible example can resemble information that supplies a category before an experience becomes clear. You may need another perspective or more time. The confident description does not itself establish what the encounter means." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You spend the whole visit following somebody else’s route", "reflection": "Following another route can picture participation guided by someone else’s interests. That may feel helpful or leave your own questions unattended. Your ability to pause or rejoin gives the guidance its practical and emotional shape." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "The viewing boundary disappears without alarm", "reflection": "A disappearing boundary can picture an observed experience becoming more immediate. Participation may feel welcome or require a different response than watching. The dream does not establish a real animal-care issue or tell you what should happen outside it." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A quiet exhibit becomes more interesting than the popular one", "reflection": "A quieter exhibit holding attention can picture finding value outside the option most people prioritize. A less visible interest or question may become clearer with space. Its usefulness need not depend on attracting the largest audience." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You leave with a different question from the one you brought", "reflection": "Leaving with a different question can picture an encounter changing what you want to understand. The visit may be useful without providing a final answer. A new direction of curiosity can matter more than completing every display on the route." } ], "prompts": [ "What did the boundary let me observe while keeping me outside?", "How did labels or another person’s route shape my attention?", "Which question became clearer or changed during the visit?" ], "related": [ "fish", "zoological-garden", "ocean", "water" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "public-house", "title": "Public House", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “To dream of keeping a public house denotes extremes financially; to drink in one, sickness, poverty, imprisonment for debt (Gypsy).”", "aliases": [ "public house" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about public house stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L11545", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Public House", "heading": "Public House", "text": "To dream of keeping a public house denotes extremes financially; to drink in one, sickness, poverty, imprisonment for debt (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 11545, "lineEnd": 11548, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 246; NLM OCR lines 11545–11548", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11545, "lineEnd": 11548, "printedPage": 246, "printedPageEnd": 246 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Public House. — To dream of keeping a public house de- \nnotes extremes financially; to drink in one, sickness, poverty, \nimprisonment for debt (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "de- \nnotes", "after": "denotes", "evidenceLine": 7951 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Public House" }, "displayText": "To dream of keeping a public house denotes extremes financially; to drink in one, sickness, poverty, imprisonment for debt (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "public-speaking", "title": "Public speaking", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "Having something to say is different from being able to say it.", "summary": "A public-speaking dream can explore visibility, preparation, or having a voice. Notice what you wanted to say and how the audience responded.", "aliases": [ "giving a speech", "speech", "making a speech", "presentation", "presenting", "speaking in public", "talking in front of a crowd", "giving a talk", "lecture" ], "status": "REVIEW", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "Start with the purpose of the speech. Were you explaining something, defending a decision, entertaining a crowd, or speaking because somebody called your name? A clear message with failed equipment differs from working equipment and no idea what to say. Identifying what was actually missing can keep the dream from becoming a general verdict about confidence.\n\n Describe the audience and its behaviour. Colleagues, relatives, strangers, and people from several periods of your life may create different expectations. Did they listen, interrupt, leave, or wait kindly? Sometimes the feared reaction never happens: you struggle at the lectern while the room remains patient. Include that difference between your internal pressure and the response you actually saw.\n\n Consider the material the dream could have borrowed. An upcoming presentation, a remembered school assembly, a meeting where you were interrupted, or a recording you recently watched can supply the stage. If you are thinking about a waking situation, ask whether its resemblance lies in preparation, exposure, responsibility, or the wish to make a point. The dream does not establish that a real event will go badly or well.\n\n Write down any remembered words, including odd or unfinished ones. A speech that becomes a song, a language nobody understands, or a topic you never intended may make the act of speaking more important than the message. Notice whether you found another way to reach people: conversation, gesture, drawing, or abandoning the stage. Those choices can be useful reflections on expression without treating fluent speech as proof of worth or difficulty as personal failure.", "traditional": "The historical Orator and Pulpit entries do not provide a modern public-speaking meaning. Miller’s Orator account concerns being influenced by a speaker’s eloquence, while his Pulpit account forecasts trouble from the setting. These records address different roles: listening to persuasion, occupying a religious platform, and speaking before an audience should not be collapsed into one image.\n\n The source comparisons show how a place or role could receive a fixed forecast in an older dream book. They do not explain your audience, test your ability, or predict the reception of a real talk. DreamFolia names the comparison so that the limits of the connection remain visible.\n\n In everyday life, speaking publicly can involve teaching, testimony, celebration, persuasion, or reporting a fact. The stakes depend on the setting and your relationship to the listeners. A contemporary reflection therefore begins with what you hoped to communicate and what conditions made that possible, rather than importing a historical judgement about a platform.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "You speak without preparation", "reflection": "Identify what you were expected to know and who imposed the expectation. Being surprised by a task differs from choosing to improvise; an unexpectedly successful speech may also belong in the interpretation." }, { "title": "The microphone fails", "reflection": "The message may remain clear even when the means of delivering it disappear. Did you seek another way to speak, receive help, or give up? Focus on the interruption rather than judging the quality of your voice." }, { "title": "The audience responds warmly", "reflection": "Describe what made the exchange work: a familiar subject, permission to pause, or interested listeners. The dream may provide an encouraging image without promising that a future audience will behave the same way." } ], "prompts": [ "What did I want the listeners to understand?", "Which reaction occurred, and which did I merely expect?", "What helped or hindered communication besides my own preparation?" ], "related": [ "being-judged", "forgetting-your-lines-on-stage", "a-microphone-that-will-not-mute", "school-or-exam" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "scope": "Historical comparison: Orator (Heading 1443; source lines 16398–16407); Pulpit (Heading 1632; source lines 18367–18374). These period accounts do not establish a present-day outcome or validate the personal reflections on this page.", "recordReferences": [ { "id": "miller-1439", "heading": "Orator", "locator": "Heading 1443; source lines 16398–16407" }, { "id": "miller-1628", "heading": "Pulpit", "locator": "Heading 1632; source lines 18367–18374" } ], "recordIds": [ "miller-1439", "miller-1628" ] } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection expanded on October 13, 2026. Historical readings are attributed period beliefs; proposed personal connections are exploratory. Human publication review remains pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "public-transport-suddenly-suspended", "title": "Public transport suddenly suspended", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "A suspended service can turn a familiar route into a shared problem of access, timing, and finding another way to continue.", "summary": "A suspended service can turn a familiar route into a shared problem of access, timing, and finding another way to continue.", "aliases": [ "train service canceled dream", "bus route suspended dream" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "What depended on the journey: work, care, a meeting, or simply getting home? Distinguish frustration with a system from blame toward yourself for being delayed. The scene may reflect routine travel uncertainty. It can also invite questions about who has alternatives when shared infrastructure stops working. Notice whether travelers compete for limited options or help each other reach different destinations.", "traditional": "Historical train and journey themes do not fully describe reliance on scheduled public networks. This draft makes no prediction of a blocked life path; the obstacle belongs to the dreamed transport situation.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "The last service is canceled without an announcement", "reflection": "What made lack of information as difficult as the delay?" }, { "title": "Travelers organize a shared ride", "reflection": "How did cooperation change the range of available choices?" }, { "title": "You discover a slower route that still works", "reflection": "What mattered more in the end: speed, certainty, or company?" } ], "prompts": [ "Why did this particular journey matter?", "Who had access to alternatives and who did not?", "What information would have helped you decide what to do?" ], "related": [ "railroad", "delay", "missing-a-flight-or-train" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia model-assisted editorial draft. Reflection questions and scenario readings are optional, individually written suggestions, not empirically validated symbol meanings. Source scope is stated with each citation. Historical comparisons identify topics, not inherited interpretations. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "publican", "title": "Publican", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a publican, denotes that you will have your sympathies aroused by some one in a desperate condition, and you will diminish your…”", "aliases": [ "publican" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about publican stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1624", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Publican", "text": "To dream of a publican, denotes that you will have your sympathies aroused\nby some one in a desperate condition, and you will diminish your own gain\nfor his advancement. To a young woman, this dream brings a worthy lover;\nbut because of his homeliness she will trample on his feelings unnecessarily.", "locator": "Heading 1628; source lines 18327–18334", "lineStart": 18327, "lineEnd": 18334, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a publican, denotes that you will have your sympathies aroused\nby some one in a desperate condition, and you will diminish your own gain\nfor his advancement. To a young woman, this dream brings a worthy lover;\nbut because of his homeliness she will trample on his feelings unnecessarily." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "publisher", "title": "Publisher", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a publisher, foretells long journeys and aspirations to the literary craft.”", "aliases": [ "publisher" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about publisher stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. 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OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L12526", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Whelp", "heading": "Whelp", "text": "A dream of domestic happiness (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12526, "lineEnd": 12527, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 264; NLM OCR lines 12526–12527", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12526, "lineEnd": 12527, "printedPage": 264, "printedPageEnd": 264 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Whelp. — A dream of domestic happiness (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Whelp" }, "displayText": "A dream of domestic happiness (Gypsy).", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Whelp” is shown on the Pup page: same concept (Craig Whelp)" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "puppet", "title": "Puppet", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "Strings, hands and the question of who is moving whom.", "summary": "A puppet dream can picture control, performance or a voice borrowed from someone else. Note whether you held the strings or hung from them.", "aliases": [ "puppet", "puppets", "marionette", "marionettes", "puppet show", "puppet dream", "being a puppet", "puppeteer", "hand puppet", "ventriloquist dummy" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "A puppet moves because someone else decides it should. Dreaming of one can picture the suspicion that your words or actions are being directed from elsewhere, by a boss, a family script, or a habit so old it feels like a hand inside you. It can also picture the opposite position: you as the operator, trying to make a figure act convincingly for an audience. Begin by locating yourself. Were you the puppet, the puppeteer, or a spectator? Describe the puppet's face, since a frozen smile or empty eyes often carry the dream's mood. If strings were visible, record how many and where they led. A puppet that begins to move on its own, or that turns to look at you, shifts the dream from control to uncanniness, and it is worth noting the moment that change happened. Puppets from childhood television or a theatre you visited may appear with surprising accuracy, so write down whether the figure was familiar. Consider what the puppet said. A borrowed voice is a common feature of these dreams, and the question of whose voice it was may lead somewhere useful. Then ask which waking situation currently feels scripted, and who you believe is holding the strings.", "traditional": "Puppets and marionettes are absent from the historical dream books in DreamFolia's archive. Miller's 1901 dictionary has a short entry for the jumping-jack, a toy worked by a string, and entries for the doll and for the mask, but each of those is its own page, written for its own object, and none is reinterpreted here as a reading of puppets. The older French and Greek sources do not mention them at all. The puppet page borrows no older meaning from any of them.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "Being moved by strings you cannot see", "reflection": "Write down what your body did without your consent and whether anyone noticed. Note where the strings seemed to lead, and name the person or obligation that first comes to mind when you follow them." }, { "title": "Working a puppet for an audience", "reflection": "Record who was watching and whether the performance went well. Ask what the puppet said that you would not have said in your own voice, and whether the audience knew the difference." }, { "title": "A puppet that turns and looks at you", "reflection": "Note the exact moment it stopped being a toy. Describe its expression and what you did next, since the shift from object to presence often marks the dream's real concern." } ], "prompts": [ "Were you the puppet, the hand, or the audience?", "Whose voice came out of the puppet's mouth?", "Which part of your week has felt scripted by someone else?" ], "related": [ "doll", "mask", "theater", "jumping-jack", "masquerade", "children" ], "sources": [], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia editorial draft written on 2026-10-12. Reflection text is an invitation to personal writing, not a validated symbol meaning. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "purchases", "title": "Purchases", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of purchases usually augurs profit and advancement with pleasure.”", "aliases": [ "purchases" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about purchases stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1633", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Purchases", "text": "To dream of purchases usually augurs profit and advancement with pleasure.", "locator": "Heading 1637; source lines 18413–18417", "lineStart": 18413, "lineEnd": 18417, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of purchases usually augurs profit and advancement with pleasure." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "purity-of-the-air", "title": "Purity of the Air", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “The dream of pure air is supposedly lucky; of bad air, the reverse may be said (Gypsy). Obviously this interpretation has a physical basis.”", "aliases": [ "purity of the air" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about purity of the air stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L11555", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Purity of the Air", "heading": "Purity of the Air", "text": "The dream of pure air is supposedly lucky; of bad air, the reverse may be said (Gypsy). Obviously this interpretation has a physical basis.", "lineStart": 11555, "lineEnd": 11558, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 246; NLM OCR lines 11555–11558", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11555, "lineEnd": 11558, "printedPage": 246, "printedPageEnd": 246 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Purity of the Air. — The dream of pure air is supposedly \nlucky; of bad air, the reverse may be said (Gypsy). Obvi- \nously this interpretation has a physical basis. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "Obvi- \nously", "after": "Obviously", "evidenceLine": 380 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Purity of the Air" }, "displayText": "The dream of pure air is supposedly lucky; of bad air, the reverse may be said (Gypsy). Obviously this interpretation has a physical basis." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "purple", "title": "Purple (color)", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "A personally chosen appearance can change a familiar encounter.", "summary": "Purple as a noticed or chosen hue can explore an unfamiliar version of a routine, a preference made visible and recognition that changes with context.", "aliases": [ "purple", "purple color", "purple colour", "the color purple", "the colour purple" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A purple doorway inside an otherwise familiar room can picture a particular difference becoming inviting. The room still belongs to your ordinary life, but one feature offers another way of entering it. Trying a creative role within familiar work or finding a new interest in an established routine may feel similar. Curiosity can matter more than whether the color is unusual to anyone else. An association with a remembered room or object can also give that doorway a very personal significance.\n\nChoosing purple clothing when others expect another shade can make a preference publicly visible. You may recognize introducing yourself in a way that feels comfortable privately but needs explanation within a group. Enjoyment can express room to choose; reluctance can concern the attention that follows the choice. The color itself does not establish independence or a personality. The dream gives that particular appearance terms through the response it receives.\n\nA purple line continuing across separate pages can make scattered work feel connected. A design idea, an unfinished conversation or several projects may share a detail you recognize as your own. Following the line can be satisfying without requiring every page to become identical. If the mark seems imposed, the same connection may feel like being expected to make unrelated experiences fit one account.\n\nA deep purple surface becoming pale can change how emphatic an appearance feels while leaving its outline intact. A proposal may become less conspicuous after revision, or a familiar role may feel different when its public presentation changes. Relief and disappointment suggest different relationships with that change. Matching a remembered shade can instead make continuity the task: you want a specific association to remain recognizable in a new setting.\n\nOther people naming the same hue differently can bring shared labels and personal recognition apart. Agreement may help communication without deciding what the appearance means to you. Clothing, art, lighting or a recent image may supply direct context. These original readings follow chosen appearance, continuity and response within the particular scene; they do not assign purple a royal, spiritual or psychological rank.", "traditional": "These are original reflections about a noticed or chosen purple hue. A personal remembered association may fit one scene and miss another. No historical purple-color interpretation is used here. The sleep reference supplies general dreaming background and does not validate a symbolic meaning.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A familiar setting admits another version", "reflection": "One differently colored feature can make a known routine available for new curiosity. Its significance can come from your particular association and what the opening allows." }, { "title": "A preference becomes visible", "reflection": "Choosing an appearance can bring private comfort into a shared encounter. Welcome attention and pressure to justify the choice give the same hue different terms." }, { "title": "Recognition across changed contexts", "reflection": "A repeated mark or remembered shade can connect experiences without making them identical. A shared label may be useful while leaving personal associations distinct." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A purple doorway appears in a room you know", "reflection": "One feature makes an ordinary setting available for another kind of entry. This may picture a new interest within familiar work or home life. Welcome curiosity differs from unease about the change; the personally recognizable association gives the color its particular force." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You choose purple clothing against another expectation", "reflection": "A preference becomes part of how you are encountered publicly. This can fit a role whose presentation feels right to you but unfamiliar to a group. Enjoyment and unwanted attention create different readings, without turning the shade into evidence of your personality." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A purple line joins several unfinished pages", "reflection": "A repeated detail gives separate pieces a connection. This may picture a creative idea or continuing question appearing across several tasks. Following it willingly differs from feeling that unrelated work must be made to fit one account merely because the mark repeats." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A deep purple surface becomes pale", "reflection": "The appearance becomes less emphatic while its shape remains. This can resemble a proposal or public role changing after revision. Relief suggests room to participate more comfortably; disappointment can concern losing a detail that had made your contribution feel recognizable." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You try to match a remembered purple shade", "reflection": "Recognition depends on a particular detail rather than any broadly similar appearance. This may picture preserving an association while moving into a new setting. An approximate match can be enough or feel incomplete, depending on what that remembered detail meant to you." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "People give different names to the same hue", "reflection": "A shared view produces different descriptions. This can picture communication that needs a common label without requiring identical associations. Explaining what you recognize may make the exchange workable; the dream does not establish one person’s perception as a universal symbolic truth." } ], "prompts": [ "What personal association made this particular purple appearance recognizable?", "How did making the preference visible change the encounter?", "What connection did I want to preserve without making every part identical?" ], "related": [ "colors", "clothes", "paint-and-painting", "light" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "detectionAliases": [ "purple color", "purple colour", "the color purple", "the colour purple" ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "purse", "title": "Purse", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "aliases": [ "purse" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "summary": "A purse can explore what you carry, how it stays accessible, or the place private belongings receive during a shared occasion.", "tagline": "Carrying something and having it ready can be different needs.", "psychological": "A purse in a dream can make the practical terms of carrying personal belongings unusually visible. It may be a small money case or a familiar bag, with a clasp, strap or recognizable mark. The experience can concern readiness, comfort or how private contents accompany you into a shared setting. The purse’s value or fullness need not measure your worth or predict your finances.\n\nA clasp that resists opening when you need something can make preparation feel present but unusable at the required moment. This may resemble having an answer or useful item while the arrangement for reaching it is awkward. A hurried exchange gives that difficulty different terms from quietly opening the purse at home. The relevant tension can be access rather than a lack of resources.\n\nA strap that keeps slipping can make the way you carry something demand attention of its own. The bag may contain exactly what you need while its design no longer fits the activity. This can resemble a useful responsibility requiring better supporting conditions. Adjusting how it is carried differs from deciding that its contents are unnecessary or that the burden must always be endured.\n\nA transparent purse introduces presentation. You may like seeing everything clearly, or prefer to choose which belongings other people can see. A shared occasion where you want participation alongside privacy may offer a comparison. The dream cannot establish an actual intrusion or another person’s interest in your possessions.\n\nAn empty purse on an outing where nothing is needed can feel pleasantly light. Carrying it may preserve a familiar routine without requiring it to be filled. Meeting someone with an identical purse instead makes recognition depend on a scratch, history or personal detail that distinguishes yours. Leaving the purse in an agreed place while joining an activity gives it another role: belongings remain available without accompanying every movement. These possibilities concern the container and its place within the occasion. They can fit an ordinary memory of packing or carrying as readily as a broader question about preparedness, privacy or the terms of participation.", "traditional": "The five Purse accounts disagree about full, empty, found and lost purses. Miller favors a purse filled with diamonds and bills; Fontaine and Noe give several favorable forecasts, while Cielo reverses some full/empty outcomes. Craig assigns happiness or sickness under a quoted Gypsy attribution. These are period claims, not financial, relationship or health evidence. The original reflection concerns carrying and access rather than adopting their forecasts.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Preparedness with usable access", "reflection": "Having something with you can differ from being able to reach it when the occasion requires." }, { "title": "A carrying arrangement that fits", "reflection": "The container’s design can support or interrupt an activity even when its contents are useful." }, { "title": "Belongings within a shared occasion", "reflection": "Privacy, recognition and a chosen place for possessions can shape participation." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "The clasp will not open during a hurried exchange", "reflection": "You have brought what is needed, but reaching it takes longer than the occasion allows. This may picture preparation needing a workable means of access. The purse makes the difference between possessing an answer and being able to offer it at the right moment concrete." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "The strap keeps slipping while the contents remain useful", "reflection": "The difficulty belongs to the carrying arrangement rather than to what you have brought. This can resemble a useful responsibility needing better support. Changing the way you carry it may preserve the activity, giving comfort a place alongside readiness instead of treating inconvenience as inevitable." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A transparent purse makes its contents visible at a gathering", "reflection": "Private belongings accompany you on unusually visible terms. The scene may explore enjoying an orderly display or wanting a choice about what is presented. The particular contents can connect with a preference about participation: being part of an occasion need not make every detail public." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "An empty purse feels light on an outing that requires nothing from it", "reflection": "The familiar container accompanies you without adding a task. This can picture preparedness as a comforting routine rather than an obligation to carry more. The pleasure comes from the fit between the outing and what is needed, allowing empty space to be useful in its own way." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Two identical purses are distinguished by a familiar worn mark", "reflection": "A personal history supplies recognition when appearance alone does not. This may picture knowing which arrangement belongs to you through use and experience rather than its label. The worn detail can be reassuring, connecting something ordinary with continuity without requiring the object to look new." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You leave the purse in an agreed place while joining an activity", "reflection": "The belongings stay available without following every movement. This can picture participation supported by a practical arrangement outside the activity itself. Having a place to return to may make joining easier, while the choice concerns how possessions accompany the occasion rather than their apparent value." } ], "prompts": [ "What needed to be carried, and how easy was it to reach?", "How did the purse’s design or appearance affect the occasion?", "What made keeping it with you or placing it elsewhere feel useful?" ], "related": [ "pocketbook", "wallet", "money", "cash" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1634" ], "scope": "miller-1634: A purse containing diamonds and new bills receives harmonious-company and affection forecasts, then the account cross-references Pocket-book. Specific complete passages: Purse — miller-1634 (Heading 1638; source lines 18417–18426). Attributed period comparison only; these claims do not validate the original reflection or establish actual outcomes, character, health or relationships." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0625" ], "scope": "fontaine-0625: Finding an empty versus well-filled purse receives disappointment versus favorable fortune; large gold pieces or bills receive wealth-through-marriage/inheritance forecasts. Specific complete passages: Purse — fontaine-0625 (Heading 625; source line 3995). Attributed period comparison only; these claims do not validate the original reflection or establish actual outcomes, character, health or relationships." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0398" ], "scope": "noe-0398: Finding versus losing a purse receives happiness, prosperity, affection, marriage, friendship-loss or favorable-adventure forecasts, with a different loss-of-sweetheart claim for sailors. Specific complete passages: Purse — noe-0398 (Dream section, heading 404; source lines 1518–1525). Attributed period comparison only; these claims do not validate the original reflection or establish actual outcomes, character, health or relationships." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0341" ], "scope": "cielo-0341: Empty versus full purses receive gift versus serious-loss forecasts, contrasting with the other accounts. Specific complete passages: Purse — cielo-0341 (Dream section, heading 341; source lines 4682–4685). Attributed period comparison only; these claims do not validate the original reflection or establish actual outcomes, character, health or relationships." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L11559" ], "scope": "craig-1918:L11559: Craig assigns happiness to finding a full purse and sickness to losing one under Craig’s quoted historical label “Gypsy”. This does not authenticate a cultural or health rule. Specific complete passages: Purse — craig-1918:L11559 (Printed p. 246; NLM OCR lines 11559–11561). Attributed period comparison only; these claims do not validate the original reflection or establish actual outcomes, character, health or relationships." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1634", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Purse", "text": "To dream of your purse being filled with diamonds and new bills,\ndenotes for you associations where ``Good Cheer'' is the watchword,\nand harmony and tender loves will make earth a beautiful place.\n\n\n[179] See Pocket-book.", "locator": "Heading 1638; source lines 18417–18426", "lineStart": 18417, "lineEnd": 18426, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of your purse being filled with diamonds and new bills,\ndenotes for you associations where “Good Cheer” is the watchword,\nand harmony and tender loves will make earth a beautiful place. See Pocket-book." }, { "id": "fontaine-0625", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Purse", "text": "To dream of finding an empty purse, shadows forth\ndisappointment; if the purse has plenty of money in it, your luck will\nbe excellent—the more money, the better fortune: if it has in it large\ngold pieces, or large bills, you will become rich either by marriage or\ninheritance. 78.", "locator": "Heading 625; source line 3995", "lineStart": 3995, "lineEnd": 4001, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of finding an empty purse, shadows forth\ndisappointment; if the purse has plenty of money in it, your luck will\nbe excellent—the more money, the better fortune: if it has in it large\ngold pieces, or large bills, you will become rich either by marriage or\ninheritance." }, { "id": "noe-0398", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Purse", "text": "To dream\nof finding a purse, is a very favorable omen. It denotes great happiness,\nand unlooked for prosperity. In love, it is the sure token of a speedy\nmarriage, and of being dearly beloved by the object of your affection. To\ndream you lose your purse, shows the loss of a friend. In other respects,\nit denotes that some pleasant adventure is about to happen to you, by\nwhich you will be the gainer; to the sailor, it denotes the loss of his\nsweetheart whilst at sea.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 404; source lines 1518–1525", "lineStart": 1518, "lineEnd": 1525, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream\nof finding a purse, is a very favorable omen. It denotes great happiness,\nand unlooked for prosperity. In love, it is the sure token of a speedy\nmarriage, and of being dearly beloved by the object of your affection. To\ndream you lose your purse, shows the loss of a friend. In other respects,\nit denotes that some pleasant adventure is about to happen to you, by\nwhich you will be the gainer; to the sailor, it denotes the loss of his\nsweetheart whilst at sea." }, { "id": "cielo-0341", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Purse", "text": "An empty purse denotes that you will soon receive a\n present; a full purse signifies a serious loss.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 341; source lines 4682–4685", "lineStart": 4682, "lineEnd": 4685, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "An empty purse denotes that you will soon receive a\npresent; a full purse signifies a serious loss." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11559", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Purse", "heading": "Purse", "text": "To find a full purse denotes happiness; to dream of losing one, sickness (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 11559, "lineEnd": 11561, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 246; NLM OCR lines 11559–11561", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11559, "lineEnd": 11561, "printedPage": 246, "printedPageEnd": 246 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Purse. — To find a full purse denotes happiness; to dream of \nlosing one, sickness (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Purse" }, "displayText": "To find a full purse denotes happiness; to dream of losing one, sickness (Gypsy)." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [ "pocketbook" ] }, { "slug": "putty", "title": "Putty", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of working in putty, denotes that hazardous chances will be taken with fortune.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "putty" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about putty stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1635", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Putty", "text": "To dream of working in putty, denotes that hazardous chances\nwill be taken with fortune.\n\nIf you put in a window-pane with putty, you will seek fortune\nwith poor results.", "locator": "Heading 1639; source lines 18426–18434", "lineStart": 18426, "lineEnd": 18434, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of working in putty, denotes that hazardous chances\nwill be taken with fortune.\n\nIf you put in a window-pane with putty, you will seek fortune\nwith poor results." }, { "id": "fontaine-0626", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Putty", "text": "To dream of putty, is a sign of poverty: puttying up holes\nforetells losses—the larger the hole, the more extensive the loss. If\nyou are putting glass into a window with putty, it foretells that you\nwill soon remove into a meaner place than you now occupy. 6, 4.", "locator": "Heading 626; source line 4001", "lineStart": 4001, "lineEnd": 4006, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of putty, is a sign of poverty: puttying up holes\nforetells losses—the larger the hole, the more extensive the loss. If\nyou are putting glass into a window with putty, it foretells that you\nwill soon remove into a meaner place than you now occupy." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "puzzle", "title": "Puzzle", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “To dream of bothering your brains with a puzzle, foretells frivolity.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "puzzle" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about puzzle stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0627", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Puzzle", "text": "To dream of bothering your brains with a puzzle, foretells\nfrivolity; if you succeed, you will do something that works to your\ndisadvantage: if you imagine that the puzzle puzzles you, it is a sign\nthat some silly person will do you an unintentional injury. 21, 17.", "locator": "Heading 627; source line 4006", "lineStart": 4006, "lineEnd": 4011, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of bothering your brains with a puzzle, foretells\nfrivolity; if you succeed, you will do something that works to your\ndisadvantage: if you imagine that the puzzle puzzles you, it is a sign\nthat some silly person will do you an unintentional injury." }, { "id": "noe-0383", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Puzzle", "text": "If you dream that you are\npuzzled with some intricate matter, and cannot unravel the mystery, be\nsure that some one is about to confer a great favor on you.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 389; source lines 1488–1491", "lineStart": 1488, "lineEnd": 1491, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream that you are\npuzzled with some intricate matter, and cannot unravel the mystery, be\nsure that some one is about to confer a great favor on you." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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A long slope or series of levels can picture effort that remains useful even before an endpoint is reached. A comfortable ledge may matter because it allows rest or a wider view. A waking comparison could be learning something through several stages, where stopping to understand a step is more valuable than moving as quickly as possible toward a visible goal.\n\nThe monument's outside and inside can offer different relationships to access. An impressive outline may be easy to recognize while an entrance remains hard to find. This could resemble admiring an institution or undertaking without yet understanding how to participate. Finding an ordinary, usable space inside can instead make something that seemed remote feel approachable.\n\nA small constructed model can bring the same form close enough to change. A base that will not support the next layer may picture needing a workable foundation before adding more, such as clarifying a project's materials or agreement. Turning the model can reveal several faces of an arrangement that looked settled from one angle. The useful reading comes from the dreamed construction, not a claim about the shape's hidden energy.\n\nBeing near a pyramid without climbing it can also be satisfying. Viewing a familiar structure, enjoying its scale or sharing the sight with someone may give the dream its purpose without a problem to solve. Travel images, lessons, building projects and museum models can supply its appearance directly.\n\nThis entry concerns a solid form or recognizable structure used in the scene. A flat triangular mark belongs to a different action, and the presence of a monument does not authenticate historical knowledge. Its support, space, approach and use provide the original comparisons here rather than a universal geometric code.", "traditional": "Miller forecasts changes, a long journey while climbing, an unsuitable husband for a young woman, and increased learning from studying ancient pyramids. Craig records grandeur, wealth and achievement at the top under her book's period 'Gypsy' attribution. These supplied passages concern structures; they do not establish a community's shared belief, a universal meaning for triangular forms, hidden powers or future success. The modern model and spatial comparisons here are original reflections.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Support and narrowing choices", "reflection": "A broad base and smaller upper space can give different stages different possibilities. The dreamed form may help explore what supports a project and what becomes more specific as it develops." }, { "title": "Approach before participation", "reflection": "Recognizing a monument does not necessarily provide an entrance or a useful place inside. The scene can distinguish admiration of a structure from finding how to take part in what it offers." }, { "title": "A structure you can work with", "reflection": "Building or turning a small model can make an imposing form adjustable. Its value may lie in seeing how parts relate, rather than in reaching a highest point or uncovering a hidden code." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "You enjoy the sight of a pyramid from open ground", "reflection": "The structure is impressive without requiring you to enter or climb it. This can picture satisfaction in encountering something of interest, perhaps from travel, study or a shared memory. Appreciation may be the whole experience; distance does not have to stand for exclusion or an unfinished ambition." }, { "title": "You pause on a wide level while climbing", "reflection": "The resting place gives you room to look around before deciding whether to continue. This could picture learning or progress that benefits from an interval of understanding, rather than constant upward movement. The ledge makes stopping a usable part of the route instead of treating every pause as lost progress." }, { "title": "The top is too narrow for everyone who arrived together", "reflection": "A shared ascent ends at a place that cannot accommodate the group in the same way. This may picture a plan becoming too narrowly defined for all its participants. Choosing another meeting place or taking turns makes the spatial limit something to negotiate, rather than a verdict about who deserves the highest position." }, { "title": "You walk around the outside looking for an entrance", "reflection": "The outline is clear, but the route into the structure is not. This can picture interest in an institution or project whose practical entry remains uncertain. Finding information about access serves a different need from admiring the exterior, making participation distinct from recognizing an impressive form." }, { "title": "A small model needs a steadier base", "reflection": "The upper layers keep shifting until you alter what supports them. This could picture the practical terms a project needs before expansion, such as clear materials or agreement about responsibilities. Working on the foundation makes the next step possible without treating the pyramid as a fixed code for power or success." }, { "title": "Inside, an ordinary chamber feels unexpectedly comfortable", "reflection": "The monument's exterior suggested grandeur, but its dreamed interior provides a quiet and usable space. This may picture finding a manageable place within something that seemed remote or intimidating. The change comes from participation becoming concrete, rather than from discovering supernatural knowledge or a promised achievement." } ], "prompts": [ "How did the structure’s base, sides or upper space affect what you could do?", "What changed between recognizing the pyramid and finding a way to use or approach it?", "Which part of the form felt satisfying, adjustable or worth taking time with?" ], "related": [ "triangle", "mountain", "museum", "stairs" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1636" ], "scope": "Miller forecasts changes from pyramids, prolonged travel before gratification from climbing, an unsuitable husband for a young woman, and learning from studying ancient pyramids. The supplied interpretation concerns structures. Specific supplied passages: Pyramid — miller-1636 (Heading 1640; source lines 18434–18454). Historical comparison only; these attributed period claims do not validate the original reflections or establish outcomes, diagnoses or universal symbolic meanings." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. 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Human publication review is pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1636", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Pyramid", "text": "To dream of pyramids, denotes that many changes will come to you.\n\nIf you scale them, you will journey along before you find the gratification\nof desires. For the young woman, it prognosticates a husband who is in\nno sense congenial.\n\nTo dream that you are studying the mystery of the ancient pyramids,\ndenotes that you will develop a love for the mysteries of nature,\nand you will become learned and polished.", "locator": "Heading 1640; source lines 18434–18454", "lineStart": 18434, "lineEnd": 18454, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of pyramids, denotes that many changes will come to you.\n\nIf you scale them, you will journey along before you find the gratification\nof desires. For the young woman, it prognosticates a husband who is in\nno sense congenial.\n\nTo dream that you are studying the mystery of the ancient pyramids,\ndenotes that you will develop a love for the mysteries of nature,\nand you will become learned and polished." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11562", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Pyramid", "heading": "Pyramid", "text": "A dream of grandeur and wealth; to be on top of one augurs great achievement (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 11562, "lineEnd": 11570, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 246–247; NLM OCR lines 11562–11570", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11562, "lineEnd": 11570, "printedPage": 246, "printedPageEnd": 247 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Pyramid. — A dream of grandeur and wealth; to be on top \nof one augurs great achievement (Gypsy). \n\n\nSYMBOLISM IN DREAMS 247 \n\n\nQ \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [ { "line": 11566, "text": "SYMBOLISM IN DREAMS 247 " }, { "line": 11569, "text": "Q " } ], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Pyramid" }, "displayText": "A dream of grandeur and wealth; to be on top of one augurs great achievement (Gypsy)." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "quack", "title": "Quack", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “To dream that you are under the care of quacks, is unfortunate, and foretells to the person dreaming that he beware of these nuisances in…”", "aliases": [ "quack" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about quack stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1637", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Quack Doctor", "text": "To see a quack doctor in your dreams, denotes you will be alarmed\nover some illness and its improper treatment.", "locator": "Heading 1641; source lines 18454–18459", "lineStart": 18454, "lineEnd": 18459, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a quack doctor in your dreams, denotes you will be alarmed\nover some illness and its improper treatment." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1638", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Quack Medicine", "text": "To dream you take quack medicine, shows that you are growing morbid under\nsome trouble, and should overcome it by industrious application to duty.\nTo read the advertisement of it, foretells unhappy companions will wrong\nand distress you.", "locator": "Heading 1642; source lines 18459–18466", "lineStart": 18459, "lineEnd": 18466, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you take quack medicine, shows that you are growing morbid under\nsome trouble, and should overcome it by industrious application to duty.\nTo read the advertisement of it, foretells unhappy companions will wrong\nand distress you." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "quadrille", "title": "Quadrille", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of dancing a quadrille, foretells that some pleasant engagement will occupy your time. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1641", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Quail", "text": "To see quails in your dream, is a very favorable omen, if they are alive;\nif dead, you will undergo serious ill luck.\n\nTo shoot quail, foretells that ill feelings will be shown by you\nto your best friends.\n\nTo eat them, signifies extravagance in your personal living.", "locator": "Heading 1645; source lines 18480–18490", "lineStart": 18480, "lineEnd": 18490, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see quails in your dream, is a very favorable omen, if they are alive;\nif dead, you will undergo serious ill luck.\n\nTo shoot quail, foretells that ill feelings will be shown by you\nto your best friends.\n\nTo eat them, signifies extravagance in your personal living." }, { "id": "fontaine-0628", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Quail", "text": "To dream of these birds is a good omen: if you imagine you see\nyoung quail feeding, it is a sign of thrift, particularly to farmers:\nto be successful in shooting them in the proper season, also foretells\ngood luck and success in any undertaking. 76, 14.", "locator": "Heading 628; source line 4011", "lineStart": 4011, "lineEnd": 4016, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of these birds is a good omen: if you imagine you see\nyoung quail feeding, it is a sign of thrift, particularly to farmers:\nto be successful in shooting them in the proper season, also foretells\ngood luck and success in any undertaking." }, { "id": "noe-0414", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Quails", "text": "Dreaming of quails signifies bad\nnews.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 420; source lines 1576–1577", "lineStart": 1576, "lineEnd": 1577, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Dreaming of quails signifies bad\nnews." }, { "id": "cielo-0342", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Quail", "text": "To see a quail denotes responsibilities in the family.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 342; source lines 4685–4688", "lineStart": 4685, "lineEnd": 4688, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a quail denotes responsibilities in the family." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1642", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Quaker", "text": "To dream of a Quaker, denotes that you will have faithful friends\nand fair business. If you are one, you will deport yourself\nhonorably toward an enemy.\n\nFor a young woman to attend a Quaker meeting, portends that she\nwill by her modest manners win a faithful husband who will provide\nwell for her household.", "locator": "Heading 1646; source lines 18490–18500", "lineStart": 18490, "lineEnd": 18500, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a Quaker, denotes that you will have faithful friends\nand fair business. If you are one, you will deport yourself\nhonorably toward an enemy.\n\nFor a young woman to attend a Quaker meeting, portends that she\nwill by her modest manners win a faithful husband who will provide\nwell for her household." }, { "id": "fontaine-0629", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Quaker", "text": "To dream of business intercourse with genuine broad-brims,\nis a sign you will make a bad bargain. If, in your dream, you see a\nconcourse of quakers, it foretells that you will not be fortunate in\nbusiness matters. This omen is supposed to be predicated on the fact\nthat the Quakers monopolize all the good chances when they are around.\n24, 30.", "locator": "Heading 629; source line 4016", "lineStart": 4016, "lineEnd": 4023, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of business intercourse with genuine broad-brims,\nis a sign you will make a bad bargain. If, in your dream, you see a\nconcourse of quakers, it foretells that you will not be fortunate in\nbusiness matters. This omen is supposed to be predicated on the fact\nthat the Quakers monopolize all the good chances when they are around." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1643", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Quarantine", "text": "To dream of being in quarantine, denotes that you will be placed\nin a disagreeable position by the malicious intriguing of enemies.", "locator": "Heading 1647; source lines 18500–18505", "lineStart": 18500, "lineEnd": 18505, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being in quarantine, denotes that you will be placed\nin a disagreeable position by the malicious intriguing of enemies." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "moles-71045", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams and Moles", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "United Kingdom, J. Marshall, 1805", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71045", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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To be at a quilting party is good.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 425; source lines 1587–1589", "lineStart": 1587, "lineEnd": 1589, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are quilting, foretells to an unmarried\nfemale that she will soon be wedded. It is also a good and lucky dream to\na man. To be at a quilting party is good." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1652", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Quilts", "text": "To dream of quilts, foretells pleasant and comfortable circumstances.\nFor a young woman, this dream foretells that her practical and wise\nbusiness-like ways will advance her into the favorable esteem of a man\nwho will seek her for a wife.\n\nIf the quilts are clean, but having holes in them, she will win\na husband who appreciates her worth, but he will not be the one\nmost desired by her for a companion. If the quilts are soiled,\nshe will bear evidence of carelessness in her dress and manners,\nand thus fail to secure a very upright husband.", "locator": "Heading 1656; source lines 18579–18592", "lineStart": 18579, "lineEnd": 18592, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of quilts, foretells pleasant and comfortable circumstances.\nFor a young woman, this dream foretells that her practical and wise\nbusiness-like ways will advance her into the favorable esteem of a man\nwho will seek her for a wife.\n\nIf the quilts are clean, but having holes in them, she will win\na husband who appreciates her worth, but he will not be the one\nmost desired by her for a companion. If the quilts are soiled,\nshe will bear evidence of carelessness in her dress and manners,\nand thus fail to secure a very upright husband." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "quinces", "title": "Quinces", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “To dream of quinces, is an excellent omen: if you imagine you are gathering quinces from trees full of…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "quinces", "quince" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about quinces stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0634", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Quinces", "text": "To dream of quinces, is an excellent omen: if you imagine you\nare gathering quinces from trees full of fine-looking, yellow ones, it\npredicts that you will get just so much yellow gold, which will be a\nfortune. 49, 6.", "locator": "Heading 634; source line 4040", "lineStart": 4040, "lineEnd": 4045, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of quinces, is an excellent omen: if you imagine you\nare gathering quinces from trees full of fine-looking, yellow ones, it\npredicts that you will get just so much yellow gold, which will be a\nfortune." }, { "id": "noe-0418", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Quinces", "text": "To dream of quinces, is favorable to the dreamer. If\nyou are in prison, you will be shortly liberated; if you are in trouble, a\nchange will take place that will relieve you from it; if you are sick, you\nwill soon recover; if you are in love, you will marry and become rich and\nhappy.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 424; source lines 1583–1587", "lineStart": 1583, "lineEnd": 1587, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of quinces, is favorable to the dreamer. If\nyou are in prison, you will be shortly liberated; if you are in trouble, a\nchange will take place that will relieve you from it; if you are sick, you\nwill soon recover; if you are in love, you will marry and become rich and\nhappy." }, { "id": "cielo-0345", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Quince", "text": "To dream of fresh or preserved quinces denotes a scandal.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 345; source lines 4693–4695", "lineStart": 4693, "lineEnd": 4695, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of fresh or preserved quinces denotes a scandal." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "quinine", "title": "Quinine", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of quinine, denotes you will soon be possessed of great happiness, though your prospects for much wealth may be meager.”", "aliases": [ "quinine" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about quinine stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1653", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Quinine", "text": "To dream of quinine, denotes you will soon be possessed of\ngreat happiness, though your prospects for much wealth may be meager.\nTo take some, foretells improvement in health and energy.\nYou will also make new friends, who will lend you commercial aid.", "locator": "Heading 1657; source lines 18592–18599", "lineStart": 18592, "lineEnd": 18599, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of quinine, denotes you will soon be possessed of\ngreat happiness, though your prospects for much wealth may be meager.\nTo take some, foretells improvement in health and energy.\nYou will also make new friends, who will lend you commercial aid." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "quinsy", "title": "Quinsy", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of being afflicted with this disease, denotes discouraging employments. To see others with it, sickness will cause you much anxiety.”", "aliases": [ "quinsy" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about quinsy stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1654", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Quinsy", "text": "To dream of being afflicted with this disease,\ndenotes discouraging employments.\n\nTo see others with it, sickness will cause you much anxiety.", "locator": "Heading 1658; source lines 18599–18606", "lineStart": 18599, "lineEnd": 18606, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being afflicted with this disease,\ndenotes discouraging employments.\n\nTo see others with it, sickness will cause you much anxiety." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "quiver", "title": "Quiver", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “For either sex, if unmarried, to dream of a quiver, is prognostic of success in love.”", "aliases": [ "quiver" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about quiver stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "noe-0420", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Quiver", "text": "For either sex, if\nunmarried, to dream of a quiver, is prognostic of success in love; but to\nthe married, it is a token of uneasiness to the dreamer.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 426; source lines 1589–1591", "lineStart": 1589, "lineEnd": 1591, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For either sex, if\nunmarried, to dream of a quiver, is prognostic of success in love; but to\nthe married, it is a token of uneasiness to the dreamer." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "quoits", "title": "Quoits", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "5 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To play at quoits in dreams, foretells low engagements and loss of good employment.” Compare 5 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "quoits" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about quoits stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1655", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Quoits", "text": "To play at quoits in dreams, foretells low engagements and loss\nof good employment. To lose, portends of distressing conditions.", "locator": "Heading 1659; source lines 18606–18616", "lineStart": 18606, "lineEnd": 18616, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To play at quoits in dreams, foretells low engagements and loss\nof good employment. To lose, portends of distressing conditions." }, { "id": "fontaine-0635", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Quoits", "text": "If a man dreams he is playing quoits, it is a sign he will soon\nhave a quarrel. If a woman dreams she is playing quoits, it foretells\nshe will have much trouble through life. To dream of quoits, is not a\ngood omen to lovers. 57, 3.", "locator": "Heading 635; source line 4045", "lineStart": 4045, "lineEnd": 4050, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If a man dreams he is playing quoits, it is a sign he will soon\nhave a quarrel. If a woman dreams she is playing quoits, it foretells\nshe will have much trouble through life. To dream of quoits, is not a\ngood omen to lovers." }, { "id": "noe-0421", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Quoits", "text": "If\nwoman dreams she is playing at quoits, it denotes that she will have some\ndisagreeable and laborious undertaking to go through. To a man, it is a\nsign of quarreling. Quoits were always considered a harbinger of ill luck\nby the gipsies.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 427; source lines 1591–1595", "lineStart": 1591, "lineEnd": 1595, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If\nwoman dreams she is playing at quoits, it denotes that she will have some\ndisagreeable and laborious undertaking to go through. To a man, it is a\nsign of quarreling. Quoits were always considered a harbinger of ill luck\nby the gipsies." }, { "id": "cielo-0346", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Quoits", "text": "A warning not to gamble.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 346; source lines 4695–4697", "lineStart": 4695, "lineEnd": 4697, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "A warning not to gamble." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11596", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Quoits", "heading": "Quoits", "text": "A dream signifying losses, a change in circumstances (Raphael). \"If you can make a heap of all your winnings And risk them on a game of pitch and toss . . .\" — Kipling.", "lineStart": 11596, "lineEnd": 11605, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 247; NLM OCR lines 11596–11605", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11596, "lineEnd": 11605, "printedPage": 247, "printedPageEnd": 247 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Quoits. — A dream signifying losses, a change in circum- \nstances (Raphael). \n\n\"If you can make a heap of all your winnings \nAnd risk them on a game of pitch and toss . . .\" \n\n— Kipling. \n\nR \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [ { "line": 11604, "text": "R " } ], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "circum- \nstances", "after": "circumstances", "evidenceLine": 789 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Quoits" }, "displayText": "A dream signifying losses, a change in circumstances (Raphael). \"If you can make a heap of all your winnings And risk them on a game of pitch and toss...\" — Kipling." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "rabbit", "title": "Rabbit", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "summary": "Rabbit dreams can explore quick retreat, gentle contact, growing responsibilities, or deciding what makes a sheltered space feel safe.", "tagline": "A close companion, a sudden movement, and a place to retreat.", "aliases": [ "rabbit", "rabbits" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A rabbit that approaches and then darts away can picture contact that remains tentative. A new friendship, a delicate conversation, or a task you are still learning may feel similar when progress is interrupted by uncertainty. Wanting to keep the animal close differs from enjoying each brief approach. If it returns without being pursued, the scene may make patience feel useful. If the chase becomes the main activity, a wish for connection may have turned into a need to control when it happens.\n\nHolding a calm rabbit can bring gentleness and responsibility together. The encounter may recall an actual pet or picture caring for something that benefits from attention without pressure. A small project or a quieter relationship can offer a parallel when its value does not depend on visible achievement. Feeling unable to put the animal down can create another reading: affection may have become a role that leaves little space for other needs. The dream does not determine whether someone is dependent on you; it makes the experience of holding and releasing concrete.\n\nSeveral rabbits appearing where you expected one can picture responsibilities multiplying faster than the arrangement around them changes. More participants, new details in a plan, or several small demands can make a previously manageable task feel different. Delight at the animals may coexist with concern about space and care. The image need not be turned into a pregnancy or fertility message. Its useful feature is the relationship between growing numbers and what the enclosure, routine, or available help can support.\n\nA rabbit finding shelter can center on a wanted retreat rather than on avoidance as a failure. A quiet corner, familiar home, or pause from company may provide conditions in which the animal becomes comfortable enough to return. If the shelter traps it, protection has a different cost. A remembered garden, childhood story, pet, or real sighting may also supply the image directly. Rabbit and Hare remain separate named entries, even where historical authors cross-reference them. The animal’s movement, your approach, and the role of shelter offer more specific reflection than assigning a fixed meaning to color, quickness, or the number of young.", "traditional": "The attached authors disagree: Miller links rabbits with favorable conditions and family joy, Cielo assigns disappointment to a running rabbit, and several books give marriage or children forecasts. Craig’s Rabbit entry only points to Hare. These period beliefs are retained for comparison; the dream does not establish pregnancy, fertility, fidelity, or future family events.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Contact at a tentative pace", "reflection": "Approach followed by retreat can picture an encounter that needs room. Pursuing contact differs from allowing the other participant to return voluntarily." }, { "title": "Gentle care with limits", "reflection": "Holding can feel affectionate or difficult to end. The ability to put the animal down distinguishes manageable responsibility from care that occupies every available moment." }, { "title": "More needs within the same space", "reflection": "Several rabbits can make a growing task concrete. Delight and practical concern may coexist without turning numbers into a family prediction." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A rabbit approaches and suddenly runs away", "reflection": "Brief contact ends before you expect it to. This may picture tentative connection or an uncertain beginning. Waiting for another approach differs from making pursuit the condition of continuing the encounter." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A rabbit rests calmly in your arms", "reflection": "The hold feels gentle and wanted. This can recall real affection or picture care that suits a small responsibility. Being able to place it somewhere comfortable changes whether closeness remains a choice or becomes an obligation." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Many rabbits appear in a small enclosure", "reflection": "The number of needs has changed while the space has not. This may fit discovering additional parts of a task. Enjoyment can coexist with concern about how the arrangement will support everyone inside it." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "One disappears into a sheltered corner", "reflection": "A retreat creates distance without necessarily ending the relationship. The scene can picture a pause that permits comfort or recovery of attention. Blocking the exit changes shelter into containment and gives the same space another function." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You try to rescue a rabbit that resists your help", "reflection": "Your intention to protect does not make contact feel safe to the animal. This can resemble offering care in a form that is not welcome. A quieter approach or another route changes the conditions rather than forcing reassurance." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "A rabbit returns after you stop pursuing it", "reflection": "Contact resumes when pressure is reduced. This may picture a connection with more room for choice. The return is part of the dream’s sequence, rather than a promise that waiting will produce a particular waking response." } ], "prompts": [ "Did the rabbit’s retreat feel like a wanted pause, rejection, or simple movement?", "Could I offer care while leaving both of us room to continue other activity?", "What changed in the surroundings when the number of rabbits grew?" ], "related": [ "hare", "pet", "mice", "forest" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1656" ], "scope": "Attached historical comparison only: Rabbit — miller-1656 (Heading 1660; source lines 18616–18629): Rabbits, white rabbits, and frolicking receive favorable-condition, fidelity, and children’s-joy forecasts; a Hare cross-reference is attached. These period assertions are preserved as attributed archival material; they neither validate this original modern reflection nor establish an outcome." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0636" ], "scope": "Attached historical comparison only: Rabbits — fontaine-0636 (Heading 636; source line 4050): The source predicts children including twins or triplets. These period assertions are preserved as attributed archival material; they neither validate this original modern reflection nor establish an outcome." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0443" ], "scope": "Attached historical comparison only: Rabbits — noe-0443 (Dream section, heading 449; source lines 1659–1663): Being among rabbits receives family/marriage forecasts; shooting receives sorrow/distress. These period assertions are preserved as attributed archival material; they neither validate this original modern reflection nor establish an outcome." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0347" ], "scope": "Attached historical comparison only: Rabbit — cielo-0347 (Dream section, heading 347; source lines 4697–4700): A running rabbit is assigned disappointment. These period assertions are preserved as attributed archival material; they neither validate this original modern reflection nor establish an outcome." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0208" ], "scope": "Attached historical comparison only: Rabbit — luck-0208 (Dream section, heading 208; source lines 4058–4060): White and black rabbits receive success and worry, respectively. These period assertions are preserved as attributed archival material; they neither validate this original modern reflection nor establish an outcome." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L11606" ], "scope": "Attached historical comparison only: Rabbit — craig-1918:L11606 (Printed p. 247; NLM OCR lines 11606–11607): Cross-reference only: See Hare; no independent Rabbit definition. These period assertions are preserved as attributed archival material; they neither validate this original modern reflection nor establish an outcome." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1656", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Rabbit", "text": "To dream of rabbits, foretells favorable turns in conditions,\nand you will be more pleased with your gains than formerly.\n\nTo see white rabbits, denotes faithfulness in love, to the married or single.\n\nTo see rabbits frolicing about, denotes that children will contribute\nto your joys.\n\n\n[182] See Hare.", "locator": "Heading 1660; source lines 18616–18629", "lineStart": 18616, "lineEnd": 18629, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of rabbits, foretells favorable turns in conditions,\nand you will be more pleased with your gains than formerly.\n\nTo see white rabbits, denotes faithfulness in love, to the married or single.\n\nTo see rabbits frolicing about, denotes that children will contribute\nto your joys. See Hare." }, { "id": "fontaine-0636", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Rabbits", "text": "To dream of these animals, foretells many small children: if\na newly married woman dreams of them it is a sign that she will have\ntwins or triplets within a year: such a dream will not be very pleasant\nto a young girl unless she means to marry right sudden, for rabbits do\nnot predict anything else but breeding children. 44, 13.", "locator": "Heading 636; source line 4050", "lineStart": 4050, "lineEnd": 4056, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of these animals, foretells many small children: if\na newly married woman dreams of them it is a sign that she will have\ntwins or triplets within a year: such a dream will not be very pleasant\nto a young girl unless she means to marry right sudden, for rabbits do\nnot predict anything else but breeding children." }, { "id": "noe-0443", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Rabbits", "text": "To dream that you are among rabbits, denotes that, if you are\na married person, you will have a numerous family of healthy children. For\na single person to dream of being among rabbits, indicates a speedy\nmarriage. To dream you are shooting rabbits, foretells sorrow and distress\nto the dreamer.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 449; source lines 1659–1663", "lineStart": 1659, "lineEnd": 1663, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are among rabbits, denotes that, if you are\na married person, you will have a numerous family of healthy children. For\na single person to dream of being among rabbits, indicates a speedy\nmarriage. To dream you are shooting rabbits, foretells sorrow and distress\nto the dreamer." }, { "id": "cielo-0347", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Rabbit", "text": "A running rabbit is a sign of disappointment.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 347; source lines 4697–4700", "lineStart": 4697, "lineEnd": 4700, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "A running rabbit is a sign of disappointment." }, { "id": "luck-0208", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Rabbit", "text": "(White) Success: (black) worry.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 208; source lines 4058–4060", "lineStart": 4058, "lineEnd": 4060, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(White) Success: (black) worry." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11606", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Rabbit", "heading": "Rabbit", "text": "See Hare.", "lineStart": 11606, "lineEnd": 11607, "kind": "cross-reference", "locator": "Printed p. 247; NLM OCR lines 11606–11607", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11606, "lineEnd": 11607, "printedPage": 247, "printedPageEnd": 247 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Rabbit. — See Hare. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Rabbit" }, "displayText": "See Hare." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [ "hare" ] }, { "slug": "raccoon", "title": "Raccoon", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a raccoon, denotes you are being deceived by the friendly appearance of enemies.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "raccoon" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about raccoon stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1657", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Raccoon", "text": "To dream of a raccoon, denotes you are being deceived by the friendly\nappearance of enemies.", "locator": "Heading 1661; source lines 18629–18634", "lineStart": 18629, "lineEnd": 18634, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a raccoon, denotes you are being deceived by the friendly\nappearance of enemies." }, { "id": "fontaine-0637", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Raccoon", "text": "To dream of simply treeing a raccoon, is a good omen, for you\nwill probably either gain a sum of money, or have it left to you as a\nlegacy: if you imagine that you shoot the animal, and he falls to the\nground, this will spoil the luck; you should stop dreaming as soon as\nthe ’coon is up the tree. 61, 12.", "locator": "Heading 637; source line 4056", "lineStart": 4056, "lineEnd": 4062, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of simply treeing a raccoon, is a good omen, for you\nwill probably either gain a sum of money, or have it left to you as a\nlegacy: if you imagine that you shoot the animal, and he falls to the\nground, this will spoil the luck; you should stop dreaming as soon as\nthe ’coon is up the tree." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11608", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Raccoon", "heading": "Raccoon", "text": "To dream of a raccoon is a sign of rain (Gypsy). The Ainos pray to the skulls of these animals during drought to bring on rain; to increase the storm they don gloves and caps of raccoon skin and dance (Frazer).", "lineStart": 11608, "lineEnd": 11612, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 247; NLM OCR lines 11608–11612", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11608, "lineEnd": 11612, "printedPage": 247, "printedPageEnd": 247 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Raccoon. — To dream of a raccoon is a sign of rain (Gypsy). \nThe Ainos pray to the skulls of these animals during drought \nto bring on rain; to increase the storm they don gloves and \ncaps of raccoon skin and dance (Frazer). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Raccoon" }, "displayText": "To dream of a raccoon is a sign of rain (Gypsy). The Ainos pray to the skulls of these animals during drought to bring on rain; to increase the storm they don gloves and caps of raccoon skin and dance (Frazer)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "race", "title": "Race", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "aliases": [ "race", "races", "of the race" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1658" ], "scope": "Miller assigns competition or favorable-outcome forecasts to entering or winning a race. Specific supplied passages: Race — miller-1658 (Heading 1662; source lines 18634–18640). Historical comparison only; these attributed period claims do not establish outcomes, health, character, cultural consensus or a universal meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0638" ], "scope": "Fontaine contrasts winning or losing a foot race with attending a horse race through success, disappointment or poverty forecasts; Run is cross-referenced. Specific supplied passages: Races — fontaine-0638 (Heading 638; source line 4062). Historical comparison only; these attributed period claims do not establish outcomes, health, character, cultural consensus or a universal meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display.", "recordIds": [ "artemidorus-045" ], "scope": "Artemidorus gives a favorable running claim with a severe health-related exception for reaching the end of a race. Specific supplied passages: Of the race. — artemidorus-045 (Book 1, encoded section 45). Historical comparison only; these attributed period claims do not establish outcomes, health, character, cultural consensus or a universal meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0348" ], "scope": "Cielo assigns success to witnessing a race. Specific supplied passages: Race — cielo-0348 (Dream section, heading 348; source lines 4700–4702). Historical comparison only; these attributed period claims do not establish outcomes, health, character, cultural consensus or a universal meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0209", "luck-0210" ], "scope": "Everybody’s Book of Luck gives a favorable winning-race forecast with an exception for sick people. Everybody’s Book of Luck’s separate Races passage assigns loss through trickery or swindling. Specific supplied passages: Race — luck-0209 (Dream section, heading 209; source lines 4060–4063); Races — luck-0210 (Dream section, heading 210; source lines 4063–4065). Historical comparison only; these attributed period claims do not establish outcomes, health, character, cultural consensus or a universal meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L11613" ], "scope": "Craig reports a health-differentiated Race forecast through her own attribution to Artemidorus; no claim of derivation from the specific 1644 translation is made. Specific supplied passages: Race — craig-1918:L11613 (Printed p. 247; NLM OCR lines 11613–11615). Historical comparison only; these attributed period claims do not establish outcomes, health, character, cultural consensus or a universal meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "summary": "A race dream may explore a contest’s purpose, starting conditions, measures of progress and your chosen role in a competitive event.", "tagline": "What is being compared, and on what terms.", "psychological": "A race places movement or performance inside a contest. Begin with the event as you experienced it: taking part, waiting to start, watching, helping someone or trying to understand the result. This subject concerns a competitive event rather than racial identity. A dreamed race can involve running, vehicles or another imagined activity, and winning or losing does not forecast the outcome of a real undertaking.\n\nStarting conditions can make comparison feel clear or questionable. You might know the route while others do not, join after the start or find that participants have different resources. This could invite reflection on what makes a measure of progress useful. A waking comparison might be comparing projects that began at different times or evaluating work without a shared definition of the task. The dream does not prove that your actual circumstances are unfair.\n\nProgress may be counted in a way you did not expect. Speed, distance, turns, arrival order or a changing finish line can alter what you are trying to achieve. Notice whether the measure fits the event and whether you can ask about it. A result may feel satisfying, irrelevant or incomplete. The reaction could help you name what you wanted recognized without treating a number or placing as a verdict about your worth.\n\nParticipation includes more than trying to be first. You may enjoy the movement, choose to pace alongside someone or decide not to finish under the current terms. Watching can bring attention to a particular participant, the route or the way the event is organized. An imagined horse can change whether you are riding, following a participant or watching from the side.\n\nWaking experiences and emotions can enter dreams through sport, competitions, deadlines, media and remembered events. The understood rules and their changes can give your chosen competitive role its particular terms. An enjoyable contest can remain enjoyable; disappointment can be described without forecasting failure. The useful reflection may concern a comparison you want to make, a measure that needs clarification or a chosen way to participate, rather than a universal rule that success requires defeating others.", "traditional": "Miller and Fontaine assign different fortunes to participating, winning, losing or attending a horse race. Cielo gives a favorable forecast for witnessing a race. Everybody’s Book of Luck has separate Race and Races passages with differing claims. Artemidorus gives a severe health-related exception to a running forecast; Craig reports a similar health distinction through her own attribution to Artemidorus. These period beliefs do not predict outcomes, health or the value of competition.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Terms before comparison", "reflection": "The starting point, resources and understood route may affect what the contest means in the dream. Describe those conditions without assuming that every waking comparison is unfair." }, { "title": "A measure that fits the event", "reflection": "A finish line or placing can matter differently from completing the activity you wanted. Explore what was counted and what you wished to recognize." }, { "title": "A chosen competitive role", "reflection": "Participating, observing, helping and withdrawing offer different experiences. A dreamed result need not determine your worth or require a lesson about winning." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "You join after the start has already happened", "reflection": "The event is underway before you understand where to begin. This might bring starting conditions into focus more than speed itself. Notice whether you seek instructions, enter at an agreed point or watch instead; the dream does not prove that a real opportunity has passed you by." }, { "title": "The finish line moves as you approach", "reflection": "You make progress toward a clear endpoint, but the target changes before you arrive. The scene could invite reflection on how a task is defined and revised. Record who changes it and what you choose next, without assuming that every changed requirement is designed to frustrate you." }, { "title": "Different routes receive the same placing", "reflection": "Participants follow unlike paths, yet the result treats them as if the activity were identical. This may help you examine the usefulness of a particular comparison. Describe which differences mattered in the dream rather than treating its result as evidence about an actual competition or organization." }, { "title": "You choose to pace beside another participant", "reflection": "Being first becomes less important than sharing a portion of the event at a workable speed. The scene could give company or another purpose room inside a contest. Notice how the choice fits what you want; it does not establish an obligation to sacrifice a real goal." }, { "title": "You watch a race without wanting to enter", "reflection": "A participant or changing position holds your attention while you remain an observer. This might be remembered entertainment or interest in how an event unfolds. Record what you follow and why, without assuming watching means exclusion, fear or a wish to compete yourself." }, { "title": "You finish but care about something the result misses", "reflection": "The event gives you a placing, while you value a different part of what happened. This may distinguish external measurement from an experience you want to describe. Notice what satisfied or disappointed you; a dreamed win or loss does not forecast your future or measure your character." } ], "prompts": [ "What made this activity a contest, and how were its terms understood?", "What was counted or compared, and what mattered to you?", "How did your preferred role change during the event?" ], "related": [ "running", "stadium", "horse", "walking", "run" ], "kind": "editorial", "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1658", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Race", "text": "To dream that you are in a race, foretells that others will aspire\nto the things you are working to possess, but if you win in the race,\nyou will overcome your competitors.", "locator": "Heading 1662; source lines 18634–18640", "lineStart": 18634, "lineEnd": 18640, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are in a race, foretells that others will aspire\nto the things you are working to possess, but if you win in the race,\nyou will overcome your competitors." }, { "id": "fontaine-0638", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Races", "text": "(_See Run._) To dream of running a race on foot and winning\nit, is a sign of success in any undertaking—losing it, foretells\ndisappointment. If you dream of going to a horse-race, it predicts\npoverty and shiftlessness. 46, 7.", "locator": "Heading 638; source line 4062", "lineStart": 4062, "lineEnd": 4067, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Run.) To dream of running a race on foot and winning\nit, is a sign of success in any undertaking—losing it, foretells\ndisappointment. If you dream of going to a horse-race, it predicts\npoverty and shiftlessness." }, { "id": "artemidorus-045", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of the race.", "text": "FOr to run is good to all, except to sick persons, when they dream they come well to the end of their race, for it signifies that shortly they shall come to the end of their life.", "locator": "Book 1, encoded section 45", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "1", "displayText": "FOr to run is good to all, except to sick persons, when they dream they come well to the end of their race, for it signifies that shortly they shall come to the end of their life." }, { "id": "cielo-0348", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Race", "text": "To witness a race denotes success in life.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 348; source lines 4700–4702", "lineStart": 4700, "lineEnd": 4702, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To witness a race denotes success in life." }, { "id": "luck-0209", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Race", "text": "To see oneself winning a race is a good omen, except to sick\npersons.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 209; source lines 4060–4063", "lineStart": 4060, "lineEnd": 4063, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see oneself winning a race is a good omen, except to sick\npersons." }, { "id": "luck-0210", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Races", "text": "Bad luck: losses by trickery and swindling of low persons.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 210; source lines 4063–4065", "lineStart": 4063, "lineEnd": 4065, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Bad luck: losses by trickery and swindling of low persons." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11613", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Race", "heading": "Race", "text": "A good dream to well persons, to the sick a speedy termination to the race of life is denoted (Artemidorus).", "lineStart": 11613, "lineEnd": 11615, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 247; NLM OCR lines 11613–11615", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11613, "lineEnd": 11615, "printedPage": 247, "printedPageEnd": 247 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Race. — A good dream to well persons, to the sick a speedy \ntermination to the race of life is denoted (Artemidorus). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Race" }, "displayText": "A good dream to well persons, to the sick a speedy termination to the race of life is denoted (Artemidorus)." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [ "run" ] }, { "slug": "racing", "title": "Racing", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “To dream you are running a race, is a token of good.”", "aliases": [ "racing" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about racing stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "noe-0435", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Racing", "text": "To dream you are running a race,\nis a token of good; presages much success in life, and that you will\nspeedily hear some joyful news. In love, it denotes that you will conquer\nall your rivals, and be happy in the union with the object of your\naffections. To dream you are riding a race, shows disappointment and\nanger, bad success in trade and in love. To a married woman, it denotes\nthe loss of her husband’s affections, and that her children will be in\ntrouble.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 441; source lines 1630–1637", "lineStart": 1630, "lineEnd": 1637, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are running a race,\nis a token of good; presages much success in life, and that you will\nspeedily hear some joyful news. In love, it denotes that you will conquer\nall your rivals, and be happy in the union with the object of your\naffections. To dream you are riding a race, shows disappointment and\nanger, bad success in trade and in love. To a married woman, it denotes\nthe loss of her husband’s affections, and that her children will be in\ntrouble." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1659", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Rack", "text": "To dream of a rack, denotes the uncertainty of the outcome of some engagement\nwhich gives you much anxious thought.", "locator": "Heading 1663; source lines 18640–18645", "lineStart": 18640, "lineEnd": 18645, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a rack, denotes the uncertainty of the outcome of some engagement\nwhich gives you much anxious thought." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1661", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Radish", "text": "To dream of seeing a bed of radishes growing, is an omen of good luck.\nYour friends will be unusually kind, and your business will prosper.\n\nIf you eat them, you will suffer slightly through the thoughtlessness\nof some one near to you.\n\nTo see radishes, or plant them, denotes that your anticipations\nwill be happily realized.", "locator": "Heading 1665; source lines 18652–18663", "lineStart": 18652, "lineEnd": 18663, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing a bed of radishes growing, is an omen of good luck.\nYour friends will be unusually kind, and your business will prosper.\n\nIf you eat them, you will suffer slightly through the thoughtlessness\nof some one near to you.\n\nTo see radishes, or plant them, denotes that your anticipations\nwill be happily realized." }, { "id": "fontaine-0639", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Radishes", "text": "To dream of this vegetable, signifies that a secret will be\ndiscovered, which will occasion a muss in the family. To a girl, it is\na sign she will lose her beau, and to a lover, it foreshadows he will\nbe  “cut out” by some other nice young man. 38, 13.", "locator": "Heading 639; source line 4067", "lineStart": 4067, "lineEnd": 4072, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of this vegetable, signifies that a secret will be\ndiscovered, which will occasion a muss in the family. To a girl, it is\na sign she will lose her beau, and to a lover, it foreshadows he will\nbe  “cut out” by some other nice young man." }, { "id": "noe-0423", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Radishes", "text": "To dream of radishes signifies a discovery of secrets or\ndomestic jars. To lovers they foretell misfortune.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 429; source lines 1599–1600", "lineStart": 1599, "lineEnd": 1600, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of radishes signifies a discovery of secrets or\ndomestic jars. To lovers they foretell misfortune." }, { "id": "cielo-0349", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Radish", "text": "To pick or eat a radish denotes a secret\n which you will shortly learn.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 349; source lines 4702–4705", "lineStart": 4702, "lineEnd": 4705, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To pick or eat a radish denotes a secret\nwhich you will shortly learn." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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If you dream that you are in a great rage in\nconsequence of a mishap, or disagreeable event, it is a sign that some\npleasant episode in connection therewith will occur to put you in an\nexcellent humor, as such dreams work contrariwise." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "railing", "title": "Railing", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing railings, denotes that some person is trying to obstruct your pathway in love or business.”", "aliases": [ "railing" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about railing stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1665", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Railing", "text": "To dream of seeing railings, denotes that some person is trying\nto obstruct your pathway in love or business.\n\nTo dream of holding on to a railing, foretells that some desperate chance will\nbe taken by you to obtain some object upon which you have set your heart.\nIt may be of love, or of a more material form.", "locator": "Heading 1669; source lines 18694–18703", "lineStart": 18694, "lineEnd": 18703, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing railings, denotes that some person is trying\nto obstruct your pathway in love or business.\n\nTo dream of holding on to a railing, foretells that some desperate chance will\nbe taken by you to obtain some object upon which you have set your heart.\nIt may be of love, or of a more material form." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "railroad", "title": "Railroad", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "5 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “If you dream of a railroad, you will find that your business will need close attention, as enemies are…” Compare 5 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "railroad", "railway" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about railroad stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1666", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Railroad", "text": "If you dream of a railroad, you will find that your business will need\nclose attention, as enemies are trying to usurp you.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of railroads, she will make a journey\nto visit friends, and will enjoy some distinction.\n\nTo see an obstruction on these roads, indicates foul play in your affairs.\n\nTo walk the cross ties of a railroad, signifies a time of worry\nand laborious work.\n\nTo walk the rails, you may expect to obtain much happiness from your skilful\nmanipulation of affairs.\n\nTo see a road inundated with clear water, foretells that pleasure will wipe\nout misfortune for a time, but it will rise, phoenix like, again.", "locator": "Heading 1670; source lines 18703–18722", "lineStart": 18703, "lineEnd": 18722, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream of a railroad, you will find that your business will need\nclose attention, as enemies are trying to usurp you.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of railroads, she will make a journey\nto visit friends, and will enjoy some distinction.\n\nTo see an obstruction on these roads, indicates foul play in your affairs.\n\nTo walk the cross ties of a railroad, signifies a time of worry\nand laborious work.\n\nTo walk the rails, you may expect to obtain much happiness from your skilful\nmanipulation of affairs.\n\nTo see a road inundated with clear water, foretells that pleasure will wipe\nout misfortune for a time, but it will rise, phoenix like, again." }, { "id": "fontaine-0644", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Railroad", "text": "To dream of traveling by railroad, foretells to people who\nkeep house that they will break up their establishment: to young\npersons it indicates the loss of their home: to lovers it is a sign\nthat if they marry they will not keep house long, if at all. 3, 11, 33.", "locator": "Heading 644; source line 4092", "lineStart": 4092, "lineEnd": 4097, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of traveling by railroad, foretells to people who\nkeep house that they will break up their establishment: to young\npersons it indicates the loss of their home: to lovers it is a sign\nthat if they marry they will not keep house long, if at all." }, { "id": "cielo-0350", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Railroad", "text": "A token that you will change your residence soon.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 350; source lines 4705–4707", "lineStart": 4705, "lineEnd": 4707, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "A token that you will change your residence soon." }, { "id": "luck-0212", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Railway", "text": "A journey: (accident) a break in friendship.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 212; source lines 4067–4069", "lineStart": 4067, "lineEnd": 4069, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "A journey: (accident) a break in friendship.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Railway” is shown on the Railroad page: same concept; Craig uses Railway" }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11627", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Railway", "heading": "Railway", "text": "A dream of change (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 11627, "lineEnd": 11628, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 248; NLM OCR lines 11627–11628", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11627, "lineEnd": 11628, "printedPage": 248, "printedPageEnd": 248 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Railway, — A dream of change (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Railway" }, "displayText": "A dream of change (Gypsy).", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Railway” is shown on the Railroad page: same concept; Craig uses Railway" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "railway-cars", "title": "Railway cars", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing cars, denotes journeying and changing in quick succession.”", "aliases": [ "railway cars", "cars", "railway car", "train car", "train cars", "street car", "street cars", "sleeping car", "sleeping cars" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about railway cars stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "detectionAliases": [ "railway cars", "railway car", "train car", "train cars", "street car", "street cars", "sleeping car", "sleeping cars" ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0345", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cars", "text": "To dream of seeing cars, denotes journeying and changing in quick succession.\nTo get on one shows that travel which you held in contemplation will be made\nunder different auspices than had been calculated upon.\n\nTo miss one, foretells that you will be foiled in an attempt\nto forward your prospects.\n\nTo get off of one, denotes that you will succeed with some interesting\nschemes which will fill you with self congratulations.\n\nTo dream of sleeping-cars, indicates that your struggles to amass\nwealth is animated by the desire of gratifying selfish and lewd\nprinciples which should be mastered and controlled.\n\nTo see street-cars in your dreams, denotes that some person is actively\ninterested in causing you malicious trouble and disquiet.\n\nTo ride on a car, foretells that rivalry and jealousy will\nenthrall your happiness.\n\nTo stand on the platform of a street-car while it is running, denotes you\nwill attempt to carry on an affair which will be extremely dangerous,\nbut if you ride without accident you will be successful.\n\nIf the platform is up high, your danger will be more apparent,\nbut if low, you will barely accomplish your purpose.", "locator": "Heading 345; source lines 4833–4862", "lineStart": 4833, "lineEnd": 4862, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing cars, denotes journeying and changing in quick succession.\nTo get on one shows that travel which you held in contemplation will be made\nunder different auspices than had been calculated upon.\n\nTo miss one, foretells that you will be foiled in an attempt\nto forward your prospects.\n\nTo get off of one, denotes that you will succeed with some interesting\nschemes which will fill you with self congratulations.\n\nTo dream of sleeping-cars, indicates that your struggles to amass\nwealth is animated by the desire of gratifying selfish and lewd\nprinciples which should be mastered and controlled.\n\nTo see street-cars in your dreams, denotes that some person is actively\ninterested in causing you malicious trouble and disquiet.\n\nTo ride on a car, foretells that rivalry and jealousy will\nenthrall your happiness.\n\nTo stand on the platform of a street-car while it is running, denotes you\nwill attempt to carry on an affair which will be extremely dangerous,\nbut if you ride without accident you will be successful.\n\nIf the platform is up high, your danger will be more apparent,\nbut if low, you will barely accomplish your purpose.", "editorialNote": "Passage explicitly includes sleeping cars, street cars and railway platforms; should not inherit modern car meaning." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "rain", "title": "Rain", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "Weather changes an activity before it becomes a metaphor.", "summary": "Rain dreams may feel soothing, disruptive, or exposing. Notice where you were sheltered, what changed, and whether you wanted it to stop.", "aliases": [ "rain", "raining", "raindrop", "drizzle", "shower" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "Rain has a practical effect on the dream's setting. It may cool a garden, delay a journey, soak your clothes, or become a sound heard from bed. Start with what you were doing when it began. Gentle rain does not have to mean sadness, and a downpour can feel welcome if you have been waiting for it. Your preference in the scene gives the weather context.\n\nShelter changes the experience. Watching through a window may make the rain comforting or keep you from something you want outside. Walking without cover may feel exposing, playful, or inconvenient. Notice who shares the weather and whether anyone offers an umbrella or a place to wait. You might reflect on support or permission to pause, but those comparisons should fit your actual feelings.\n\nRain can bring sensory memory into focus: the smell of a familiar street, water on a roof, mud on shoes, or a wet uniform from childhood. Include these details before searching for an abstract meaning. A recent forecast, journey, film, or sound may explain why the weather appeared. If the dream felt like an old place, the memory may matter more than the rain's intensity.\n\nThe aftermath can shift the question. A canceled event differs from a cleared sky, a leak that needs attention, or plants finally getting water. Ask what changed because of the rain and what remained unfinished. You can use the scene to explore relief or disruption without expecting a corresponding event while awake. Even the wish for the rain to continue deserves to be recorded.", "traditional": "Miller's Rain entry gives favorable readings to a clear shower and rain heard on a roof, while treating stormy rain as unfavorable. His many variations also connect shelter, leaks, wet clothes, and social expectations with forecasts. Fontaine's 1862 entry contrasts gentle rain with a violent storm, although his stormy forecast includes eventual success after trouble. These are historical dictionary claims about fortune.\n\nThe actual passages support attention to setting and intensity, but not a reliable rule about luck or relationships. They also show why selecting one line from an old book can conceal qualifications elsewhere. This entry's questions about interruption, shelter, sensory memory, and relief are original editorial comparisons. Rain may help an activity or hinder it, and the dreamer's response may reverse the expected mood. Neither author's forecast is needed to decide what this particular shower felt like to you.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "Rain sounds on the roof while you stay inside", "reflection": "The sound may offer comfort or emphasize being kept apart from something outside. Record whether the room feels secure and whether anyone shares it. A familiar roof or remembered evening can be a concrete starting point for reflection.", "slug": "scene-1" }, { "title": "A downpour interrupts an outdoor event", "reflection": "Ask what the event meant to you and whether the interruption feels disappointing or welcome. Who adapts, blames, or offers shelter may shape the scene. The weather can invite a question about flexibility without predicting that plans will fail.", "slug": "scene-2" }, { "title": "You walk in rain without wanting cover", "reflection": "Being wet may feel playful, freeing, or simply ordinary. Notice whether you chose to keep walking and what you were approaching. The scene's positive feeling can matter more than cultural expectations that rain should stand for sorrow.", "slug": "scene-3" } ], "prompts": [ "What activity did the rain change or make possible?", "How did shelter, clothing, and company affect my experience?", "Which sensory detail connects the weather with a real memory?" ], "related": [ "storm", "water", "flood", "house" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "scope": "Historical comparison only: Rain — miller-1667, Heading 1671; source lines 18722–18760. These period beliefs do not establish a dream meaning or prediction.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1667" ] }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "scope": "Historical comparison only: Rain — fontaine-0645, Heading 645; source line 4097. These period beliefs do not establish a dream meaning or prediction.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0645" ] }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0424" ], "scope": "Attached historical material only: Rain — noe-0424 (Dream section, heading 430; source lines 1600–1604). A shower receives favorable relationship forecasts; a heavy thunderstorm receives a theft warning. This citation preserves the attributed archival material; it does not substantiate the original modern reflection or establish a present-day outcome." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0351" ], "scope": "Attached historical material only: Rain — cielo-0351 (Dream section, heading 351; source lines 4707–4709). Rain is assigned reconciliation with an enemy. This citation preserves the attributed archival material; it does not substantiate the original modern reflection or establish a present-day outcome." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0213" ], "scope": "Attached historical material only: Rain — luck-0213 (Dream section, heading 213; source lines 4069–4072). Rain receives favorable inheritance, prosperity, and crop forecasts; a heavy storm receives difficulty forecasts. This citation preserves the attributed archival material; it does not substantiate the original modern reflection or establish a present-day outcome." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L11629", "craig-1918:L11908" ], "scope": "Attached historical material only: Rain — craig-1918:L11629 (Printed p. 248; NLM OCR lines 11629–11631); Shower — craig-1918:L11908 (Printed p. 253; NLM OCR lines 11908–11909). Craig records trouble varying in intensity with the rain dream. A cross-reference from Shower to Rain, with no independent Shower definition. This citation preserves the attributed archival material; it does not substantiate the original modern reflection or establish a present-day outcome." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia expansion written for this topic. Historical passages are attributed period beliefs; modern reflections are possibilities rather than established meanings. Human publication review pending.", "detectionAliases": [ "rain", "raining", "raindrop", "drizzle" ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1667", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Rain", "text": "To be out in a clear shower of rain, denotes that pleasure will be enjoyed\nwith the zest of youth, and prosperity will come to you.\n\nIf the rain descends from murky clouds, you will feel alarmed\nover the graveness of your undertakings.\n\nTo see and hear rain approaching, and you escape being wet, you will succeed\nin your plans, and your designs will mature rapidly.\n\nTo be sitting in the house and see through the window a downpour of rain,\ndenotes that you will possess fortune, and passionate love will be requited.\n\nTo hear the patter of rain on the roof, denotes a realization of domestic\nbliss and joy. Fortune will come in a small way.\n\nTo dream that your house is leaking during a rain, if the water is clear,\nforetells that illicit pleasure will come to you rather unexpectedly;\nbut if filthy or muddy, you may expect the reverse, and also exposure.\n\nTo find yourself regretting some duty unperformed while listening to the rain,\ndenotes that you will seek pleasure at the expense of another's sense\nof propriety and justice.\n\nTo see it rain on others, foretells that you will exclude friends\nfrom your confidence.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of getting her clothes wet and soiled while\nout in a rain, denotes that she will entertain some person indiscreetly,\nand will suffer the suspicions of friends for the unwise yielding\nto foolish enjoyments.\n\nTo see it raining on farm stock, foretells disappointment in business,\nand unpleasantness in social circles.\n\nStormy rains are always unfortunate.", "locator": "Heading 1671; source lines 18722–18760", "lineStart": 18722, "lineEnd": 18760, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To be out in a clear shower of rain, denotes that pleasure will be enjoyed\nwith the zest of youth, and prosperity will come to you.\n\nIf the rain descends from murky clouds, you will feel alarmed\nover the graveness of your undertakings.\n\nTo see and hear rain approaching, and you escape being wet, you will succeed\nin your plans, and your designs will mature rapidly.\n\nTo be sitting in the house and see through the window a downpour of rain,\ndenotes that you will possess fortune, and passionate love will be requited.\n\nTo hear the patter of rain on the roof, denotes a realization of domestic\nbliss and joy. Fortune will come in a small way.\n\nTo dream that your house is leaking during a rain, if the water is clear,\nforetells that illicit pleasure will come to you rather unexpectedly;\nbut if filthy or muddy, you may expect the reverse, and also exposure.\n\nTo find yourself regretting some duty unperformed while listening to the rain,\ndenotes that you will seek pleasure at the expense of another's sense\nof propriety and justice.\n\nTo see it rain on others, foretells that you will exclude friends\nfrom your confidence.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of getting her clothes wet and soiled while\nout in a rain, denotes that she will entertain some person indiscreetly,\nand will suffer the suspicions of friends for the unwise yielding\nto foolish enjoyments.\n\nTo see it raining on farm stock, foretells disappointment in business,\nand unpleasantness in social circles.\n\nStormy rains are always unfortunate." }, { "id": "fontaine-0645", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Rain", "text": "To dream of a gentle rain is a good omen, as it foretells success\nin any undertaking: if you dream of a violent rain-storm accompanied\nby wind and thunder and lightning, it predicts much trouble and\nmisfortune, though ultimate success in your undertakings. 21, 72.", "locator": "Heading 645; source line 4097", "lineStart": 4097, "lineEnd": 4102, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a gentle rain is a good omen, as it foretells success\nin any undertaking: if you dream of a violent rain-storm accompanied\nby wind and thunder and lightning, it predicts much trouble and\nmisfortune, though ultimate success in your undertakings." }, { "id": "noe-0424", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Rain", "text": "To dream of\nbeing in a shower of rain, is particularly favorable to lovers. It denotes\nconstancy, affection and sweet temper. If it be very heavy rain,\naccompanied by thunder and lightning, then expect to be assailed by\nthieves.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 430; source lines 1600–1604", "lineStart": 1600, "lineEnd": 1604, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of\nbeing in a shower of rain, is particularly favorable to lovers. It denotes\nconstancy, affection and sweet temper. If it be very heavy rain,\naccompanied by thunder and lightning, then expect to be assailed by\nthieves." }, { "id": "cielo-0351", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Rain", "text": "Is a sign of reconciliation with an enemy.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 351; source lines 4707–4709", "lineStart": 4707, "lineEnd": 4709, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Is a sign of reconciliation with an enemy." }, { "id": "luck-0213", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Rain", "text": "A lucky omen: an inheritance, prosperity, good crops: (heavy\nstorm) troubles and difficulties.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 213; source lines 4069–4072", "lineStart": 4069, "lineEnd": 4072, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "A lucky omen: an inheritance, prosperity, good crops: (heavy\nstorm) troubles and difficulties." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11629", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Rain", "heading": "Rain", "text": "Trouble, heavy, or not, according to the dream (Raphael).", "lineStart": 11629, "lineEnd": 11631, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 248; NLM OCR lines 11629–11631", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11629, "lineEnd": 11631, "printedPage": 248, "printedPageEnd": 248 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Rain. — Trouble, heavy, or not, according to the dream \n(Raphael). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Rain" }, "displayText": "Trouble, heavy, or not, according to the dream (Raphael)." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11908", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Shower", "heading": "Shower", "text": "See Rain.", "lineStart": 11908, "lineEnd": 11909, "kind": "cross-reference", "locator": "Printed p. 253; NLM OCR lines 11908–11909", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11908, "lineEnd": 11909, "printedPage": 253, "printedPageEnd": 253 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Shower. — See Rain. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Shower" }, "displayText": "See Rain.", "editorialNote": "Craig explicitly refers this weather heading to Rain." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "rain-showers", "title": "Rain showers", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are in a shower, foretells that you will derive exquisite pleasure in the study of creation and the proper placing of…”", "aliases": [ "rain showers", "shower", "rain shower", "shower of rain", "showers of rain" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about rain showers stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "rain" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "detectionAliases": [ "rain shower", "rain showers", "shower of rain", "showers of rain" ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1837", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Shower", "text": "To dream that you are in a shower, foretells that you will derive\nexquisite pleasure in the study of creation and the proper placing\nof selfish pleasures.\n\n\n[207] See Rain.", "locator": "Heading 1841; source lines 20417–20426", "lineStart": 20417, "lineEnd": 20426, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are in a shower, foretells that you will derive\nexquisite pleasure in the study of creation and the proper placing\nof selfish pleasures. See Rain.", "editorialNote": "Source explicitly cross-references Rain; this is not a bathroom shower." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [ "rain" ] }, { "slug": "rainbow", "title": "Rainbow", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "A brief view can matter without promising what comes next.", "summary": "A rainbow can explore a moment of contrast, shared wonder or an opportunity that cannot be held still. Its appearance does not guarantee a better outcome.", "aliases": [ "rainbow", "of the rain-bow", "rainbows", "double rainbow", "rainbow in the sky" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "A rainbow in a dream can make a brief difference in an otherwise familiar view feel worth noticing. Color appears across a grey sky, an ordinary journey pauses or another person asks you to look. This may picture relief, curiosity or a small event that changes your attention without resolving the whole situation. A personal association with hope can matter without turning the image into a promise that circumstances will improve.\n\nIts timing can give the scene a particular shape. Appearing after a difficult journey may let pleasure arrive beside tiredness. Seeing one before a storm, by contrast, can hold uncertainty and beauty together without fitting a neat sequence of hardship followed by reward. The dream’s arrangement can be considered as it is rather than corrected to match an expected meaning.\n\nSharing the view brings another question into focus. Someone may join your delight, be unable to see what you point toward or prefer to keep moving. This can resemble wanting an experience acknowledged without needing everybody to respond in the same way. A difference of attention does not establish a difference in affection or sensitivity.\n\nTrying to reach the rainbow can make the relation between a view and a destination important. It may remain appealing while changing position whenever you approach. A useful comparison might concern an aim defined more by an image than by practical conditions of arrival. Enjoying the sight from where you stand gives another possible response; an experience need not be possessed to have value.\n\nA fading rainbow can put duration ahead of certainty. You might miss a photograph yet retain the encounter, or feel pressure to preserve a moment before it changes. An indoor reflection, remembered picture or personally meaningful flag can supply different direct associations. Name any such connection in your own context instead of assigning one meaning to all readers. The image can remain significant without predicting health, fortune, partnership or the end of a difficulty.", "traditional": "The seven attached accounts disagree. Miller, Fontaine and Cielo give favorable forecasts; Noe adds travel, loyalty and business claims. The early English Artemidorus translation and Everybody’s Book of Luck distinguish sides, while Craig combines directional and fortune claims with a contrary assertion attributed to unnamed modern interpreters. These period rules do not establish future health, relationships or outcomes, and Craig’s summary is not independently verified consensus.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A rainbow appears while the difficult journey continues", "reflection": "Pleasure arrives without removing every demand. This may picture a moment of relief that can coexist with unfinished work. The contrast need not promise that the journey will now become easy or rewarding." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You point toward it but your companion cannot see it", "reflection": "Your attention and another person’s view do not align. This can resemble wanting something important acknowledged while accepting that the experience is not identical for everyone. Their dreamed response does not measure their actual care." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "It shifts farther away whenever you approach", "reflection": "An appealing view does not behave like a reachable destination. This may bring attention to an aim whose practical terms remain unclear. Stopping to look or choosing another route can change what the encounter asks of you." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "It fades before you can take a photograph", "reflection": "The experience changes before you preserve it in the desired form. This can picture valuing a moment whose record is incomplete. Missing the image need not erase the pleasure or make your memory a perfect substitute." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A small rainbow reflection crosses an ordinary room", "reflection": "The striking detail appears inside a familiar setting. This may make room for noticing something without needing a grand transformation. A remembered object or light effect can also be a direct association, if it fits your account." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You see two arcs and feel unsure which one to follow", "reflection": "An unexpected variation turns a view into a choice. This can picture pressure to use or explain an experience that might simply be observed. The number of arcs does not supply a reliable rule about fortune or decisions." } ], "prompts": [ "What changed in your attention when the rainbow appeared?", "Did you want to share it, reach it or preserve it?", "Which personal association matters here, without becoming a promise?" ], "related": [ "rain", "sun", "sky", "clouds", "storm", "light" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1668" ], "scope": "miller-1668 — Rainbow (Heading 1672; source lines 18760–18772): Rainbow position/appearance is assigned favorable crop, relationship and undertaking forecasts. Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence validating the original reflection, a diagnosis, another person’s state or a future event." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0646" ], "scope": "fontaine-0646 — Rainbow (Heading 646; source line 4102): Brilliance is assigned health, prosperity, marriage and gendered gift/lover forecasts. Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence validating the original reflection, a diagnosis, another person’s state or a future event." }, { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display.", "recordIds": [ "artemidorus-098" ], "scope": "artemidorus-098 — Of the Rain-bow. (Book 2, encoded section 98): The early English Rain-bow passage distinguishes right/left by the sun and claims benefit for affliction. Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence validating the original reflection, a diagnosis, another person’s state or a future event." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0437" ], "scope": "noe-0437 — Rainbow (Dream section, heading 443; source lines 1638–1642): Rainbow receives travel, fortune, news, loyalty, marriage and foreign-trade predictions. Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence validating the original reflection, a diagnosis, another person’s state or a future event." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0352" ], "scope": "cielo-0352 — Rainbow (Dream section, heading 352; source lines 4709–4712): Rainbow is assigned better days and a favorable omen. Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence validating the original reflection, a diagnosis, another person’s state or a future event." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0214" ], "scope": "luck-0214 — Rainbow (Dream section, heading 214; source lines 4072–4076): Rainbow is assigned changes of life/residence and directional fortunes, with a prejudiced idiom in the left-side claim. Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence validating the original reflection, a diagnosis, another person’s state or a future event." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L11632" ], "scope": "craig-1918:L11632 — Rainbow (Printed p. 248; NLM OCR lines 11632–11641): Craig combines direction/class/health/family-fortune claims under Artemidorus attribution, then asserts a contrary failure rule for unnamed modern interpreters. Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence validating the original reflection, a diagnosis, another person’s state or a future event." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15 under the site owner’s delegation. Historical claims, where supplied, remain attributed period writing. No human or clinical review is claimed.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A change in attention", "reflection": "A brief contrast can bring pleasure or curiosity without settling the whole situation." }, { "title": "Wonder can be shared differently", "reflection": "Another person may value the encounter without responding in exactly the same way." }, { "title": "Seeing differs from possessing", "reflection": "A meaningful view need not become a destination or a moment you can keep unchanged." } ], "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "Codex (AI-assisted editorial review)", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "a-stranger", "a-train-going-in-the-wrong-direction", "being-trapped", "being-unable-to-move", "children", "church", "current-romantic-partner", "death-of-a-friend", "elevator", "father", "forest", "hair-falling-out", "insects", "key", "locked-out", "mother", "nakedness", "phone-not-working", "rainbow", "running-but-going-nowhere", "school", "smoke", "snake-bite", "superpowers", "the-self", "the-shadow", "web" ] }, "decisionReason": "The new reading distinguishes a brief contrast, attention shared differently, an unreachable view and a fading record. 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The fruits of the raspberry were miniature hearts and for this reason were christened the berries of Eraspe, or Father Eros (Bayley).", "lineStart": 11646, "lineEnd": 11650, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 248; NLM OCR lines 11646–11650", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11646, "lineEnd": 11650, "printedPage": 248, "printedPageEnd": 248 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Raspberries. — To dream of eating them, remorse and sor- \nrow (Raphael). The fruits of the raspberry were miniature \nhearts and for this reason were christened the berries of \nEraspe, or Father Eros (Bayley). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "sor- \nrow", "after": "sorrow", "evidenceLine": 7771 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Raspberries" }, "displayText": "To dream of eating them, remorse and sorrow (Raphael). The fruits of the raspberry were miniature hearts and for this reason were christened the berries of Eraspe, or Father Eros (Bayley)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "rat-trap", "title": "Rat-trap", "type": "dreams", "category": "Other symbols", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of falling into a rat-trap, denotes that you will be victimized and robbed of some valuable object.”", "aliases": [ "rat-trap" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about rat-trap stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "mouse-trap" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1679", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Rat-trap", "text": "To dream of falling into a rat-trap, denotes that you will be victimized\nand robbed of some valuable object.\n\nTo see an empty one, foretells the absence of slander or competition.\n\nA broken one, denotes that you will be rid of unpleasant associations.\n\nTo set one, you will be made aware of the designs of enemies,\nbut the warning will enable you to outwit them.\n\n\n[185] See Mouse-trap.", "locator": "Heading 1683; source lines 18856–18871", "lineStart": 18856, "lineEnd": 18871, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of falling into a rat-trap, denotes that you will be victimized\nand robbed of some valuable object.\n\nTo see an empty one, foretells the absence of slander or competition.\n\nA broken one, denotes that you will be rid of unpleasant associations.\n\nTo set one, you will be made aware of the designs of enemies,\nbut the warning will enable you to outwit them. See Mouse-trap." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "mouse-trap" ] }, { "slug": "rat", "title": "Rats", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "A pet and an unexpected visitor ask different questions.", "summary": "A rat dream may involve intrusion, affection, or curiosity. Your experience with the animal and what it did are the clearest starting points.", "aliases": [ "rat", "rats" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "Start with how you know rats. A loved pet, an unwelcome animal in a kitchen, and an unfamiliar creature viewed through glass can evoke very different feelings. Describe its size, behavior, and location. Did it approach you, avoid you, take food, or simply exist nearby? Your first response may reveal an association, but it need not decide the whole account.\n\nIf the rat appeared where you did not expect it, the setting may matter more than the animal. A cupboard, bedroom, office, or public street introduces a specific question about what belongs there. You might explore discomfort with an intrusion or concern about maintaining a space, if those associations fit. A recent sighting, household conversation, or film may also account for the image without implying a hidden threat.\n\nAffection and curiosity are equally valid responses. Caring for a rat or watching it explore may recall a real animal or bring small-scale attention into view. Notice whether you were trying to protect it from someone else's reaction. The scene could invite reflection on caring for something that others judge differently, but it does not establish that your values are misunderstood.\n\nIf you chased, caught, or fled the rat, record the outcome and your feeling afterward. Did relief arrive, or did you regret how you responded? Avoid assigning the rat to a supposedly untrustworthy person solely because old dictionaries make that connection. The actions in the dream are material for personal reflection, not evidence about a neighbor's character or someone else's intentions.", "traditional": "Miller's Rats entry predicts deception by neighbors and treats catching or killing rats as defeating rivals. Fontaine's 1862 Rats passage associates the animals and their gnawing with theft, adding moralizing advice for young women. These claims document the authors' hostile fortune-telling associations; they do not demonstrate that a dream animal identifies a dishonest person.\n\nThe historical framing is especially limiting for a dream about a pet, affection, or observation without fear. Those experiences should not be forced into an omen of betrayal simply because the animal has the same name. This entry's original comparison asks how a creature is received in a particular space and what the dreamer actually does. An unwelcome visitor and a cared-for companion can share an appearance while producing opposite concerns. The supplied historical records remain available as period material, while the modern questions leave room for personal experience and ordinary memory.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "A rat runs through the kitchen", "reflection": "Notice whether food, cleanliness, surprise, or the animal's escape is central. The room gives the scene a practical context. A question about maintaining your space may fit, but a remembered sighting can be sufficient without a story about betrayal.", "slug": "scene-1" }, { "title": "You hold a pet rat calmly", "reflection": "Focus on trust, texture, and the care you provide rather than assuming fear. Does someone else react differently? The scene may recall a real animal or invite reflection on an attachment that matters to you regardless of another person's response.", "slug": "scene-2" }, { "title": "You hear gnawing but cannot find the animal", "reflection": "An unseen source of sound can make uncertainty the main experience. Record what you imagine and whether the sound is ever explained. The dream may explore an unresolved irritation, but it does not prove that someone is secretly taking from you.", "slug": "scene-3" } ], "prompts": [ "What experience with rats shaped my reaction?", "What did the animal actually do, apart from what I expected?", "How did the location change whether its presence felt welcome?" ], "related": [ "cat", "cockroach", "spider", "house", "mice", "trap" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "scope": "Historical comparison only: Rat — miller-1678, Heading 1682; source lines 18843–18856. These period beliefs do not establish a dream meaning or prediction.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1678" ] }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "scope": "Historical comparison only: Rats — fontaine-0651, Heading 651; source line 4132. These period beliefs do not establish a dream meaning or prediction.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0651" ] }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0425" ], "scope": "Attached historical material only: Rats — noe-0425 (Dream section, heading 431; source lines 1604–1607). Rats and the outcome of an attack receive enemy, difficulty, and misfortune forecasts. This citation preserves the attributed archival material; it does not substantiate the original modern reflection or establish a present-day outcome." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0353" ], "scope": "Attached historical material only: Rat — cielo-0353 (Dream section, heading 353; source lines 4712–4714). The rat image receives a warning about secret enemies. This citation preserves the attributed archival material; it does not substantiate the original modern reflection or establish a present-day outcome." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0215" ], "scope": "Attached historical material only: Rat — luck-0215 (Dream section, heading 215; source lines 4076–4078). The rat image receives a treachery forecast, while a white rat receives a favorable fortune forecast. This citation preserves the attributed archival material; it does not substantiate the original modern reflection or establish a present-day outcome." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L11651" ], "scope": "Attached historical material only: Rats — craig-1918:L11651 (Printed p. 248; NLM OCR lines 11651–11654). Craig records enemy-and-loss forecasts for rats and a favorable forecast for killing them. This citation preserves the attributed archival material; it does not substantiate the original modern reflection or establish a present-day outcome." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia expansion written for this topic. Historical passages are attributed period beliefs; modern reflections are possibilities rather than established meanings. Human publication review pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1678", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Rat", "text": "To dream of rats, denotes that you will be deceived, and injured\nby your neighbors. Quarrels with your companions is also foreboded.\n\nTo catch rats, means you will scorn the baseness of others,\nand worthily outstrip your enemies.\n\nTo kill one, denotes your victory in any contest.\n\n\n[184] See Mice.", "locator": "Heading 1682; source lines 18843–18856", "lineStart": 18843, "lineEnd": 18856, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of rats, denotes that you will be deceived, and injured\nby your neighbors. Quarrels with your companions is also foreboded.\n\nTo catch rats, means you will scorn the baseness of others,\nand worthily outstrip your enemies.\n\nTo kill one, denotes your victory in any contest. See Mice." }, { "id": "fontaine-0651", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Rats", "text": "(_See Trap and Mouse._) To dream of rats is a sign that thieves\nare around: if you see any of these animals, it shows that some friend\nwill be robbed, but if you hear them gnawing, you will suffer a loss\nfrom robbery yourself. If a girl, who has a lover, dreams of rats, she\nhad better be careful and not let him be too free with her person, or\nhe may rob her of that which cannot be restored. 54, 21.", "locator": "Heading 651; source line 4132", "lineStart": 4132, "lineEnd": 4139, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Trap and Mouse.) To dream of rats is a sign that thieves\nare around: if you see any of these animals, it shows that some friend\nwill be robbed, but if you hear them gnawing, you will suffer a loss\nfrom robbery yourself. If a girl, who has a lover, dreams of rats, she\nhad better be careful and not let him be too free with her person, or\nhe may rob her of that which cannot be restored." }, { "id": "noe-0425", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Rats", "text": "To dream of seeing rats is a sign of having many\nenemies. If you are attacked by rats, and get the better, it betokens you\nwill overcome your difficulties. If they should tear you, and make you run\naway, then expect some heavy misfortune.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 431; source lines 1604–1607", "lineStart": 1604, "lineEnd": 1607, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing rats is a sign of having many\nenemies. If you are attacked by rats, and get the better, it betokens you\nwill overcome your difficulties. If they should tear you, and make you run\naway, then expect some heavy misfortune." }, { "id": "cielo-0353", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Rat", "text": "Beware of secret enemies.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 353; source lines 4712–4714", "lineStart": 4712, "lineEnd": 4714, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Beware of secret enemies." }, { "id": "luck-0215", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Rat", "text": "Treachery from inferiors: (white rat) good fortune.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 215; source lines 4076–4078", "lineStart": 4076, "lineEnd": 4078, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Treachery from inferiors: (white rat) good fortune." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11651", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Rats", "heading": "Rats", "text": "Many enemies through whom the dreamer will suffer losses, trouble and anxiety. To kill rats, however, is a good dream (Raphael).", "lineStart": 11651, "lineEnd": 11654, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 248; NLM OCR lines 11651–11654", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11651, "lineEnd": 11654, "printedPage": 248, "printedPageEnd": 248 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Rats. — Many enemies through whom the dreamer will suf- \nfer losses, trouble and anxiety. To kill rats, however, is a \ngood dream (Raphael). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "suf- \nfer", "after": "suffer", "evidenceLine": 8031 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Rats" }, "displayText": "Many enemies through whom the dreamer will suffer losses, trouble and anxiety. To kill rats, however, is a good dream (Raphael)." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [ "mice", "trap" ] }, { "slug": "rattan-cane", "title": "Rattan Cane", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a rattan cane, foretells that you will depend largely upon the judgment of others, and you should cultivate independence in…”", "aliases": [ "rattan cane" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about rattan cane stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1680", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Rattan Cane", "text": "To dream of a rattan cane, foretells that you will depend largely\nupon the judgment of others, and you should cultivate independence\nin planning and executing your own affairs.", "locator": "Heading 1684; source lines 18871–18877", "lineStart": 18871, "lineEnd": 18877, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a rattan cane, foretells that you will depend largely\nupon the judgment of others, and you should cultivate independence\nin planning and executing your own affairs." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "rattle", "title": "Rattle", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing a baby play with its rattle, omens peaceful contentment in the home, and enterprises will be honorable and full of gain.”", "aliases": [ "rattle" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about rattle stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1681", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Rattle", "text": "To dream of seeing a baby play with its rattle, omens peaceful contentment\nin the home, and enterprises will be honorable and full of gain.\nTo a young woman, it augurs an early marriage and tender cares of her own.\n\nTo give a baby a rattle, denotes unfortunate investments.", "locator": "Heading 1685; source lines 18877–18885", "lineStart": 18877, "lineEnd": 18885, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing a baby play with its rattle, omens peaceful contentment\nin the home, and enterprises will be honorable and full of gain.\nTo a young woman, it augurs an early marriage and tender cares of her own.\n\nTo give a baby a rattle, denotes unfortunate investments." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "raven", "title": "Raven", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "aliases": [ "raven", "ravens" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "summary": "A raven can explore a returning presence, an unfamiliar use of a remembered voice, or an encounter whose destination remains uncertain.", "tagline": "A recurring visitor can be recognized without being granted special authority.", "psychological": "A raven returning to the same perch can picture continuity whose purpose remains open. The repeated presence might be comforting, distracting or something you simply notice. A continuing conversation, a remembered place or an unfinished interest may feel similar when it reappears without asking for the same response every time. Familiarity does not require an urgent message, and repetition does not decide what action you should take.\n\nA raven speaking in a voice you recognize can bring memory and the present encounter together. The voice may make the scene feel close while its words seem unlike the person you remember. You might recognize an old expectation taking another form, or language from an earlier relationship entering a new decision. The dreamed voice cannot tell you another person’s intention or establish contact with someone absent.\n\nA raven holding a message you cannot read can make attention precede usable information. You may know that something seems addressed to you without knowing what response is possible. A vague invitation or a role with unclear terms can offer parallels. Waiting for clarification differs from filling the gap with a dramatic explanation simply because the visitor is striking.\n\nFollowing a raven away from your intended route can instead turn uncertainty into movement. Curiosity may open another encounter, while unease may concern letting an external cue choose your direction. If the bird stops and you decide where to go next, following has become an opportunity to exercise judgment rather than surrender it. No species name determines whether the path is wise.\n\nAn unfamiliar household treating a raven as threatening when you feel at ease can make personal association different from a shared story. Explaining your experience may create room for another response. A raven remaining near you during an unspoken farewell can also picture company while a transition has no complete account yet. A book, image or actual encounter may supply these scenes directly. These possibilities follow recurrence, remembered voices and unsettled communication. The association belongs to this visitor’s action and the setting in which it appears, rather than turning a dark bird into a forecast.", "traditional": "Miller supplies unfavorable forecasts and a Crow reference. Fontaine’s Raven record is only “See Crow,” not an independent interpretation. Noe, Cielo and Everybody’s Book of Luck give adverse predictions; Craig reports named lore and symbolic associations. These six records remain attributed period writing, not evidence of betrayal, misfortune, cultural universality or contact.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Continuity without a compulsory message", "reflection": "A returning presence can offer recognition while leaving its purpose and your response open." }, { "title": "A remembered voice changes setting", "reflection": "Familiar language can enter another encounter without revealing the speaker’s actual intentions." }, { "title": "Clarification before direction", "reflection": "An unread message or uncertain route may need an account that the striking visitor cannot itself provide." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A raven returns to the same perch after each interruption", "reflection": "Continuity remains available while the surrounding activity changes. This may picture a conversation or interest you can revisit without responding identically each time. Comfort differs from feeling summoned; repeated appearance alone does not establish an urgent instruction or prediction." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "The raven speaks in a familiar person’s voice", "reflection": "Memory enters an encounter through an unexpected form. This can resemble an earlier expectation affecting a present choice. The closeness of the voice may matter, while its words remain dream material rather than evidence of what that person thinks or wants." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A raven holds a message whose writing cannot be read", "reflection": "Attention arrives before information becomes usable. This may picture an invitation or responsibility with unclear terms. Waiting for an explanation can preserve choice without requiring you to invent a dramatic meaning for the gap or treat the bird as a messenger." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Following a raven takes you away from your intended route", "reflection": "Curiosity changes the direction of movement. This can fit an interest opening another possibility or an external cue displacing your purpose. Deciding where to go after the bird stops can make the next step yours without condemning the earlier detour." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A household fears the raven while you feel comfortable beside it", "reflection": "A shared story and a personal association produce different responses. This may picture an encounter assessed through expectations that do not fit your experience. Explaining what feels familiar can support another arrangement without proving that either response defines the creature." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "A raven stays nearby during a farewell that has no words", "reflection": "Company remains while the transition lacks a complete account. This may picture allowing a goodbye its unfinished feeling. The visitor can be part of remembered companionship without establishing contact, predicting a death or deciding how quickly an actual loss should be understood." } ], "prompts": [ "What kind of continuity did the returning presence provide?", "How did the familiar voice relate to the words or setting you encountered?", "What needed clarification before you wanted to follow, answer or leave?" ], "related": [ "bird", "crow", "letter", "farewell" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1682" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. miller-1682 — Raven (Heading 1686; source lines 18885–18894): Raven receives adverse fortune/surroundings and relationship predictions; includes See Crow." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0652" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. fontaine-0652 — Raven (Heading 652; source line 4139): Contains only See Crow; no independent Raven interpretation." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0439" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. noe-0439 — Ravens (Dream section, heading 445; source lines 1645–1649): Ravens receive mischief, infidelity, marriage and shipwreck forecasts." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0354" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. cielo-0354 — Raven (Dream section, heading 354; source lines 4714–4716): A raven croak predicts misfortune." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0216" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. luck-0216 — Raven (Dream section, heading 216; source lines 4078–4081): Raven predicts adverse business, lover or marital outcomes." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L11655" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. craig-1918:L11655 — Raven (Printed p. 248; NLM OCR lines 11655–11660): Reports named mischief, infidelity, knowledge, Apollo and misfortune associations; no separate editions or cultural verification are invented." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection independently reviewed for content and source scope. Historical accounts remain attributed period writing. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1682", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Raven", "text": "To dream of a raven, denotes reverse in fortune and\ninharmonious surroundings. For a young woman, it is implied\nthat her lover will betray her.\n\n\n[186] See Crow.", "locator": "Heading 1686; source lines 18885–18894", "lineStart": 18885, "lineEnd": 18894, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a raven, denotes reverse in fortune and\ninharmonious surroundings. For a young woman, it is implied\nthat her lover will betray her. See Crow." }, { "id": "fontaine-0652", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Raven", "text": "(_See Crow._)", "locator": "Heading 652; source line 4139", "lineStart": 4139, "lineEnd": 4141, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Crow.)" }, { "id": "noe-0439", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Ravens", "text": "To dream you see a raven, is a very unfavorable omen. It\ndenotes mischief and adversity. In love, it shows falsehood; to the\nmarried, they forebode much mischief, through the adultery of your\nconjugal partner. To the sailor, they betoken shipwreck and much distress\non a foreign shore.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 445; source lines 1645–1649", "lineStart": 1645, "lineEnd": 1649, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see a raven, is a very unfavorable omen. It\ndenotes mischief and adversity. In love, it shows falsehood; to the\nmarried, they forebode much mischief, through the adultery of your\nconjugal partner. To the sailor, they betoken shipwreck and much distress\non a foreign shore." }, { "id": "cielo-0354", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Raven", "text": "To hear a raven croak portends misfortune.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 354; source lines 4714–4716", "lineStart": 4714, "lineEnd": 4716, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To hear a raven croak portends misfortune." }, { "id": "luck-0216", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Raven", "text": "Bad luck to the business man, disappointment to the lover,\nseparation to the married.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 216; source lines 4078–4081", "lineStart": 4078, "lineEnd": 4081, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Bad luck to the business man, disappointment to the lover,\nseparation to the married." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11655", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Raven", "heading": "Raven", "text": "A bad dream, trouble and mischief brewing (Raphael). Conjugal infidelity (Gypsy). A symbol of knowledge (Hartmann) ; the raven was once dedicated to Apollo; modern symbolism, however, regards this bird as an omen of misfortune (Hulme).", "lineStart": 11655, "lineEnd": 11660, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 248; NLM OCR lines 11655–11660", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11655, "lineEnd": 11660, "printedPage": 248, "printedPageEnd": 248 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Raven. — A bad dream, trouble and mischief brewing (Raph- \nael). Conjugal infidelity (Gypsy). A symbol of knowledge \n(Hartmann) ; the raven was once dedicated to Apollo; modern \nsymbolism, however, regards this bird as an omen of misfor- \ntune (Hulme). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "Raph- \nael", "after": "Raphael", "evidenceLine": 1365 }, { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "misfor- \ntune", "after": "misfortune", "evidenceLine": 8032 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Raven" }, "displayText": "A bad dream, trouble and mischief brewing (Raphael). Conjugal infidelity (Gypsy). A symbol of knowledge (Hartmann); the raven was once dedicated to Apollo; modern symbolism, however, regards this bird as an omen of misfortune (Hulme)." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [ "crow" ] }, { "slug": "razor", "title": "Razor", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a razor, portends disagreements and contentions over troubles.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "razor" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about razor stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1683", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Razor", "text": "To dream of a razor, portends disagreements and contentions over troubles.\n\nTo cut yourself with one, denotes that you will be unlucky in some deal\nwhich you are about to make.\n\nFighting with a razor, foretells disappointing business,\nand that some one will keep you harassed almost beyond endurance.\n\nA broken or rusty one, brings unavoidable distress.", "locator": "Heading 1687; source lines 18894–18906", "lineStart": 18894, "lineEnd": 18906, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a razor, portends disagreements and contentions over troubles.\n\nTo cut yourself with one, denotes that you will be unlucky in some deal\nwhich you are about to make.\n\nFighting with a razor, foretells disappointing business,\nand that some one will keep you harassed almost beyond endurance.\n\nA broken or rusty one, brings unavoidable distress." }, { "id": "luck-0217", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Razor", "text": "An unhappy portent: love quarrels.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 217; source lines 4081–4086", "lineStart": 4081, "lineEnd": 4086, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "An unhappy portent: love quarrels." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "reading", "title": "Reading", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "Making use of words already present", "summary": "Reading may concern taking in a particular text, choosing what to attend to and deciding how its words fit the task or relationship around it.", "aliases": [ "reading", "unreadable text", "unable to read dream text", "reading unreadable text" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "Reading gives a dream an existing text to encounter. You may follow a story, consult instructions, skim a notice or speak words aloud for somebody else. Each action has a different purpose. Begin with what you were trying to learn or experience, including whether the words were clear. This entry concerns taking in text; producing it belongs to writing, while text that changes between looks creates a separate problem of consistency.\n\nA clear page can still be difficult to use. You might understand every sentence but not know why it was given to you, or find that the information concerns another situation. This could resemble receiving a detailed explanation that does not answer your actual question. The issue may be relevance rather than ability. A dreamed reading task does not measure intelligence or determine how well you understand a real document.\n\nChoosing how closely to read can become important. Skimming for a single detail differs from enjoying a passage without a practical goal. A current obligation may encourage you to search for an answer while leaving little room for curiosity. Conversely, a pleasant story may offer an interval outside the demands around it. These are possibilities grounded in the action, not a rule that fiction or serious reading produces one particular emotion.\n\nReading aloud brings another person into the text. You may try to make a passage understandable, receive help with an unfamiliar phrase or feel that the audience wants a different message. This could fit explaining information to a group without controlling the original words. Notice whether you can pause, ask about the meaning or choose not to continue.\n\nThe ending can reveal how much authority the page has. You might set it aside, verify a detail elsewhere or keep reading despite finding nothing useful. A recent book, form, message, instruction or conversation may supply direct context. An indistinct page need not be a universal property of dreams or a hidden warning. Preserve what you actually understood and what remained uncertain. The useful reflection may concern your purpose, the text's relevance and the choice you have about how to use it.\n\nAn unclear page that stays unchanged can shift the task from interpreting words to obtaining a usable view. You may move closer, seek another copy or ask someone to read it aloud. This could resemble information being present but inaccessible in its current form. The difficulty is separate from words that alter between looks.", "traditional": "The owned Reading accounts disagree. Miller distinguishes reading, others reading, giving a reading and indistinct text; Fontaine and Noe offer favorable forecasts, while Cielo moralizes reading a book as laziness. Craig associates romance and serious books with different outcomes under an Artemidorus attribution. These period claims do not measure your ability or validate the original reflections.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "You skim a long page looking for one departure time", "reflection": "A narrow practical question organizes your attention. This may resemble searching through information whose volume exceeds what you need. Notice whether the time is present and usable; difficulty finding it need not mean that you cannot understand the rest of the page." }, { "title": "You enjoy a story without knowing how it will end", "reflection": "Reading becomes an experience rather than a search for a result. This could fit wanting room for interest without immediate usefulness. The story's actual events and your response matter more than treating pleasure in reading as a promised romantic or financial outcome." }, { "title": "You understand the instructions but they describe another task", "reflection": "The text is clear while its relevance is wrong. This may resemble being given information that does not address your circumstances. Asking for the appropriate instructions can change the situation without making the mismatch a measure of your competence or willingness to cooperate." }, { "title": "You read aloud and someone asks what a sentence means", "reflection": "Repeating the words does not complete the shared task. This could fit communicating information that needs discussion rather than simple delivery. Notice whether you explore the sentence together, guess or admit uncertainty; understanding can remain open without requiring an immediate authoritative answer." }, { "title": "A page remains indistinct while you try to read it", "reflection": "The page stays unchanged, yet the words remain difficult to make out. This may picture needing a usable view before interpretation can begin. Moving closer, seeking another copy or asking for a reading aloud changes access without turning the difficulty into a verdict about ability." }, { "title": "You stop reading when the page no longer serves your purpose", "reflection": "Attention becomes a choice rather than an obligation to finish. This could fit recognizing that a document or explanation has given what you need, or cannot answer the question. Notice whether stopping brings relief, uncertainty or another useful source of information." } ], "prompts": [ "What did you want from the text before you began reading?", "Which words were understandable, useful or uncertain?", "How did your purpose or attention change as you read?" ], "related": [ "writing", "books", "library", "words-changing-while-you-read", "alphabet" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1684" ], "scope": "Historical comparison only: Miller forecasts accomplishment from reading, friendliness from others reading, literary cultivation from giving or discussing a reading, and worry or disappointment from indistinct or incoherent reading. Exact owned passages: Reading — miller-1684 (Heading 1688; source lines 18906–18919). These period claims do not validate the original reflections or establish present-day outcomes." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0653" ], "scope": "Historical comparison only: Fontaine assigns favorable love and trade forecasts to reading; painful or irksome reading is said to require exertion before success. Exact owned passages: Reading — fontaine-0653 (Heading 653; source line 4141). These period claims do not validate the original reflections or establish present-day outcomes." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0429" ], "scope": "Historical comparison only: Noe assigns favorable love, wealth and trade forecasts specifically to reading an agreeable book. Exact owned passages: Reading — noe-0429 (Dream section, heading 435; source lines 1617–1619). These period claims do not validate the original reflections or establish present-day outcomes." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0355" ], "scope": "Historical comparison only: Cielo characterizes reading a book as a sign of being too lazy to succeed. This moralizing forecast conflicts with several neighboring historical accounts. Exact owned passages: Reading — cielo-0355 (Dream section, heading 355; source lines 4716–4719). These period claims do not validate the original reflections or establish present-day outcomes." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L11661" ], "scope": "Historical comparison only: Craig associates reading romance with joy and serious books with wisdom, attributing these distinctions to Artemidorus; this remains Craig’s printed account. Exact owned passages: Reading — craig-1918:L11661 (Printed p. 248; NLM OCR lines 11661–11663). These period claims do not validate the original reflections or establish present-day outcomes." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection independently reviewed for content and source scope. Historical accounts remain attributed period writing. Human publication review pending.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "The purpose of attention", "reflection": "Reading for an answer and reading for interest can organize the same page differently." }, { "title": "Clarity versus usefulness", "reflection": "Understandable words may still fail to answer the question that brought you to them." }, { "title": "Text and its audience", "reflection": "Reading aloud can make interpretation and communication part of the action without giving you ownership of the words." } ], "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1684", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Reading", "text": "To be engaged in reading in your dreams, denotes that you will excel\nin some work, which appears difficult.\n\nTo see others reading, denotes that your friends will be kind,\nand are well disposed.\n\nTo give a reading, or to discuss reading, you will cultivate\nyour literary ability.\n\nIndistinct, or incoherent reading, implies worries and disappointments.", "locator": "Heading 1688; source lines 18906–18919", "lineStart": 18906, "lineEnd": 18919, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To be engaged in reading in your dreams, denotes that you will excel\nin some work, which appears difficult.\n\nTo see others reading, denotes that your friends will be kind,\nand are well disposed.\n\nTo give a reading, or to discuss reading, you will cultivate\nyour literary ability.\n\nIndistinct, or incoherent reading, implies worries and disappointments." }, { "id": "fontaine-0653", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Reading", "text": "To dream you are reading, indicates you will be successful in\nyour love; in trade, it is particularly propitious; but if it appear to\nbe painful or irksome to read, it signifies that you shall not succeed\nwithout exertion, 65, 2.", "locator": "Heading 653; source line 4141", "lineStart": 4141, "lineEnd": 4146, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are reading, indicates you will be successful in\nyour love; in trade, it is particularly propitious; but if it appear to\nbe painful or irksome to read, it signifies that you shall not succeed\nwithout exertion," }, { "id": "noe-0429", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Reading", "text": "To dream you are reading an agreeable book, shows\nyou will be successful in love, and that you will become rich. In trade,\nit is propitious.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 435; source lines 1617–1619", "lineStart": 1617, "lineEnd": 1619, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are reading an agreeable book, shows\nyou will be successful in love, and that you will become rich. In trade,\nit is propitious." }, { "id": "cielo-0355", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Reading", "text": "To dream of reading a book is a sign that\n you are too lazy to succeed.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 355; source lines 4716–4719", "lineStart": 4716, "lineEnd": 4719, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of reading a book is a sign that\nyou are too lazy to succeed." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11661", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Reading", "heading": "Reading", "text": "To dream of reading romance indicates joy ; serious books, wisdom (Artemidorus).", "lineStart": 11661, "lineEnd": 11663, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 248; NLM OCR lines 11661–11663", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11661, "lineEnd": 11663, "printedPage": 248, "printedPageEnd": 248 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Reading. — To dream of reading romance indicates joy ; seri- \nous books, wisdom (Artemidorus). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "seri- \nous", "after": "serious", "evidenceLine": 3538 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Reading" }, "displayText": "To dream of reading romance indicates joy; serious books, wisdom (Artemidorus)." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "reaping", "title": "Reaping", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing reapers busy at work at their task, denotes prosperity and contentment.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "reaping", "reapers", "reapers or reaping" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about reaping stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "harvest" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1685", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Reapers", "text": "To dream of seeing reapers busy at work at their task,\ndenotes prosperity and contentment. If they appear to be going\nthrough dried stubble, there will be a lack of good crops,\nand business will consequently fall off.\n\nTo see idle ones, denotes that some discouraging event will come\nin the midst of prosperity.\n\nTo see a broken reaping machine, signifies loss of employment,\nor disappointment in trades.\n\n\n[187] See Mowing.", "locator": "Heading 1689; source lines 18919–18935", "lineStart": 18919, "lineEnd": 18935, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing reapers busy at work at their task,\ndenotes prosperity and contentment. If they appear to be going\nthrough dried stubble, there will be a lack of good crops,\nand business will consequently fall off.\n\nTo see idle ones, denotes that some discouraging event will come\nin the midst of prosperity.\n\nTo see a broken reaping machine, signifies loss of employment,\nor disappointment in trades. See Mowing.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Reapers” is shown on the Reaping page: same topic" }, { "id": "fontaine-0654", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Reaping", "text": "(_See Harvest._) To dream of reaping grain is an excellent\nomen, as it foretells thrift and abundance, as well as plenty of money\nin gold; this applies to a prolific field of ripe yellow grain; if the\ngrain is meagre and looks rusty, the sign is entirely different, as it\nbetokens scarcity and penury. 4, 11, 44.", "locator": "Heading 654; source line 4146", "lineStart": 4146, "lineEnd": 4152, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Harvest.) To dream of reaping grain is an excellent\nomen, as it foretells thrift and abundance, as well as plenty of money\nin gold; this applies to a prolific field of ripe yellow grain; if the\ngrain is meagre and looks rusty, the sign is entirely different, as it\nbetokens scarcity and penury." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11664", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Reapers or Reaping", "heading": "Reapers or Reaping", "text": "Prosperity according to what ye shall have sown (Artemidorus).", "lineStart": 11664, "lineEnd": 11666, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 248; NLM OCR lines 11664–11666", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11664, "lineEnd": 11666, "printedPage": 248, "printedPageEnd": 248 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Reapers or Reaping. — Prosperity according to what ye \nshall have sown (Artemidorus). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Reapers or Reaping" }, "displayText": "Prosperity according to what ye shall have sown (Artemidorus).", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Reapers or Reaping” is shown on the Reaping page: same topic" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "harvest" ] }, { "slug": "receipt", "title": "Receipt", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "aliases": [ "receipt", "receipts", "sales receipt", "payment receipt", "purchase receipt" ], "summary": "A receipt can explore what remains after an exchange, whether its record fits your experience and when proof becomes useful or unnecessary.", "tagline": "A completed exchange can leave a record with another purpose.", "psychological": "A receipt can give a completed exchange a second life as a record. The item may be in your hands and the occasion over, while a small piece of paper remains to explain what happened. In a dream, this can bring attention to the difference between an experience and the account kept of it. The receipt may be useful, tedious, comforting or simply incidental. Its presence does not make every ordinary purchase a question about wealth.\n\nAn unexpectedly long receipt for one small item can make documentation feel larger than the event. This may resemble having to explain a simple decision in excessive detail, or seeing an ordinary task acquire a trail of administration. An almost blank receipt creates a different tension: the experience is clear to you, yet its record supplies too little for another person to understand. Length and usefulness are not necessarily the same thing.\n\nA receipt with someone else’s purchase on it can place another occasion in your hands. You may want your own exchange represented, or be unsure why you are carrying a document that does not belong to it. Being assigned a task you did not perform can feel similar. The dreamed mismatch does not establish a real billing error or another person’s conduct; it makes ownership of the account noticeable.\n\nNeeding the receipt to exchange an item brings a completed choice back into discussion. You possess what you bought, but reconsideration depends on a record of how it reached you. This can picture wanting room to revise a decision without erasing the fact that it was made. A receipt found much later can serve another purpose: a date or ordinary item recalls an outing whose meaning was never captured by the printed total. The practical paper becomes a prompt for memory.\n\nThrowing the receipt away while enjoying the item offers a simpler ending. You may feel that the experience is enough and that keeping its proof adds nothing you want. Relief differs from discarding something you still hoped to use. Recent shopping, sorting or returns can directly supply the document. These original reflections concern a sales or payment receipt, rather than an invoice requesting payment, an admission ticket or the older phrase receipt of money meaning that money is received.", "traditional": "No verified historical passage is attached for a transaction receipt document. The supplied archive’s literal receipt references mean receiving money. Cash and Cashier already explore particular receipt encounters; these reflections develop the document’s later uses and its relation to the completed exchange.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "The event and its account", "reflection": "A printed record can represent an exchange well, incompletely or in a form that feels disproportionate." }, { "title": "A choice that can be revisited", "reflection": "Keeping proof may preserve the possibility of returning to a completed decision." }, { "title": "What remains worth keeping", "reflection": "A receipt can become a memory cue, a practical tool or a record that no longer serves you." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "One small purchase produces an extraordinarily long receipt", "reflection": "The record grows beyond the size of the action it describes. This can resemble a simple choice acquiring more explanation or administration than expected. Amusement may keep the excess light, while weariness may concern the effort required to account for something already understood." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "The receipt is nearly blank although you remember the exchange", "reflection": "Your experience is clear but the printed account gives another person little to work with. This may picture a contribution that happened without being adequately described. The absence can matter through recognition or practical use, rather than prove that the exchange itself was incomplete." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You are handed a receipt for someone else’s purchase", "reflection": "A record appears in your possession without matching the action you took. This can resemble being asked to explain an occasion or responsibility that belongs elsewhere. The useful tension is locating your part in the account, rather than assuming the mistaken paper reveals real deception." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You need the receipt to exchange an item you no longer want", "reflection": "A finished choice becomes open to revision, but a record is needed to reconnect it with the original occasion. This can picture wanting a decision to remain revisitable. The document supports reconsideration without requiring the earlier choice to have been foolish or the new preference permanent." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "An old receipt recalls an enjoyable ordinary outing", "reflection": "A date or small item brings back more of the occasion than its printed amount describes. This can picture finding personal significance in a practical trace. The paper may hold an association through memory without having preserved the whole encounter or a message you were meant to discover." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You discard the receipt and happily use what you bought", "reflection": "The item continues to serve you after its record is released. This may picture allowing a completed choice to become an experience rather than something continually explained. The ease belongs to having no further purpose for the paper, not to a rule that keeping evidence is unnecessary." } ], "prompts": [ "What did the receipt record, and how closely did its account fit the exchange you experienced?", "What later use, memory or possibility made the document worth keeping?", "How did having, replacing or releasing the receipt change your relationship to the completed choice?" ], "related": [ "cash", "cashier", "credit-card", "ticket" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "receiving-a-scholarship", "title": "Receiving a scholarship", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "tagline": "A scholarship can make an opportunity feel reachable while raising questions about recognition, conditions, and permission to accept support.", "summary": "A scholarship can make an opportunity feel reachable while raising questions about recognition, conditions, and permission to accept support.", "aliases": [ "scholarship award dream", "funding for study dream" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "Was the award expected, surprising, competitive, or offered because of a particular need? Notice whether excitement arrived with worry about deserving it or fulfilling obligations. The dream does not predict an award. Reflection can focus on what becomes possible with resources and whether you can accept help without converting it into an impossible demand to prove yourself constantly.", "traditional": "Historical gifts and educational success entries do not define who deserves financial support. This draft makes no omen of the award amount or giver; it considers the opportunity and its stated conditions.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "The award covers exactly the obstacle that stopped you", "reflection": "What could you now attempt that previously felt inaccessible?" }, { "title": "You discover demanding conditions attached", "reflection": "Which expectations felt fair, and which changed the nature of the opportunity?" }, { "title": "You share the news with someone who believed in you", "reflection": "What kind of recognition mattered beyond the money?" } ], "prompts": [ "What specific possibility did the support open?", "Were its conditions clear?", "Could you receive it without feeling you owed perfection?" ], "related": [ "education", "gift", "college" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia model-assisted editorial draft. Reflection questions and scenario readings are optional, individually written suggestions, not empirically validated symbol meanings. Source scope is stated with each citation. Historical comparisons identify topics, not inherited interpretations. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "receiving-an-eviction-notice", "title": "Receiving an eviction notice", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "An eviction notice puts belonging and permission to remain under pressure. The dream cannot establish the status of your actual housing.", "summary": "An eviction notice puts belonging and permission to remain under pressure. The dream cannot establish the status of your actual housing.", "aliases": [ "evicted in a dream", "eviction letter dream" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "Record who issued the notice, whether a reason was given, and what time you had to respond. The scene can invite reflection on conditional belonging or real housing stress, but it should not turn insecurity into a claim about personal worth. Your practical response matters: searching for documents, seeking an ally, or protecting possessions may reveal what support you wanted in that moment.", "traditional": "The historical banishment and property topics come from different institutions and power arrangements. They do not supply legal guidance or an omen about tenancy; this entry treats the notice as a particular dreamed event.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "The notice arrives without an explanation", "reflection": "What made it difficult to answer a decision whose basis you could not see?" }, { "title": "Your name is wrong on the document", "reflection": "Did you question the authority of a claim that did not match the facts?" }, { "title": "Neighbors help you make a plan", "reflection": "What kind of solidarity changed the feeling of being displaced?" } ], "prompts": [ "Was the threatened loss a physical place, community, or sense of security?", "Who appeared to have authority over your belonging?", "What support was available or missing?" ], "related": [ "tenant", "rent", "banishment" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia model-assisted editorial draft. Reflection questions and scenario readings are optional, individually written suggestions, not empirically validated symbol meanings. Source scope is stated with each citation. Historical comparisons identify topics, not inherited interpretations. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "receiving-an-overdue-apology", "title": "Receiving an overdue apology", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "An apology you once wanted may bring comfort, skepticism, or renewed grief. Notice what the words do and do not repair.", "summary": "An apology you once wanted may bring comfort, skepticism, or renewed grief. Notice what the words do and do not repair.", "aliases": [ "someone apologizes to me in a dream", "long awaited apology" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "Write the actual apology if you remember it, rather than substituting what you wish was said. Was responsibility acknowledged specifically, or was the speaker asking you to move on? The dream can give space to a desired conversation, but it does not reveal the real person’s current intentions or oblige you to reconnect. Your response may show how your needs have changed since the original event.", "traditional": "Forgiveness has distinct meanings in different ethical and religious traditions. This draft does not present reconciliation as a universal duty or an apology dream as a promise that the waking person will return.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "They name exactly what hurt you", "reflection": "What did accurate acknowledgment make possible emotionally?" }, { "title": "You discover you no longer need their apology", "reflection": "What has changed in the importance of their judgment?" }, { "title": "The apology contains another demand", "reflection": "What boundary becomes visible when repair has conditions?" } ], "prompts": [ "Which part of the apology felt believable?", "What remained unresolved after hearing it?", "Did the dream change what you need, or only let you imagine receiving it?" ], "related": [ "pardon", "revenge", "friend" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia model-assisted editorial draft. Reflection questions and scenario readings are optional, individually written suggestions, not empirically validated symbol meanings. Source scope is stated with each citation. Historical comparisons identify topics, not inherited interpretations. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "reception", "title": "Reception", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of an entertainment where there is music and dancing, you will have pleasant tidings of the absent, and enjoy health and prosperity.”", "aliases": [ "reception", "entertainment" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about reception stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-0720", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Entertainment", "text": "To dream of an entertainment where there is music and dancing, you will\nhave pleasant tidings of the absent, and enjoy health and prosperity.\nTo the young, this is a dream of many and varied pleasures and the high\nregard of friends.", "locator": "Heading 720; source lines 8540–8547", "lineStart": 8540, "lineEnd": 8547, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of an entertainment where there is music and dancing, you will\nhave pleasant tidings of the absent, and enjoy health and prosperity.\nTo the young, this is a dream of many and varied pleasures and the high\nregard of friends.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Entertainment” is shown on the Reception page: miller Reception says \"See Entertainment\"" }, { "id": "miller-1686", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Reception", "text": "To dream of attending a reception, denotes that you will\nhave pleasant engagements. Confusion at a reception will\nwork you disquietude.\n\n\n[188] See Entertainment.", "locator": "Heading 1690; source lines 18935–18944", "lineStart": 18935, "lineEnd": 18944, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of attending a reception, denotes that you will\nhave pleasant engagements. Confusion at a reception will\nwork you disquietude. See Entertainment." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "reconciliation", "title": "Reconciliation", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "summary": "Reconciliation dreams may explore renewed contact, changed terms after conflict, or peaceful understanding without restoring former closeness.", "tagline": "Meeting again and repairing a relationship are different events.", "aliases": [ "reconciliation", "reconciling", "reconciled" ], "status": "REVIEW", "psychological": "Reconciliation can make a dream about what becomes possible after a rupture. Two people begin speaking, share a task or recognize each other’s account of an old disagreement. The meaningful change may be quite modest: a chance to finish a sentence, a workable agreement or an ordinary meal that no longer requires taking sides. The dream does not establish that someone else wants contact or that a real relationship should be renewed.\n\nA meeting alone does not settle what has changed. A warm embrace followed by the same old argument can picture wanting familiarity while lacking different terms. An apology that opens a longer conversation may make understanding central rather than treat the words as a complete repair. A current group disagreement, a remembered exchange or a fictional reunion can offer material without proving a particular hidden wish.\n\nRenewed cooperation can differ from renewed intimacy. Working together comfortably while retaining distance may fit imagining a limited arrangement: sharing information, handling a practical responsibility or treating each other courteously. This can be valuable even when former closeness is not restored. The scene may be exploring how much connection feels possible, rather than requiring an all-or-nothing return.\n\nBoundaries can become especially important when reconciliation is presented as a demand. Someone may insist that making peace requires forgetting every disagreement or giving up your own account. The tension could concern whether belonging allows difference. A helper who gives both people room to speak changes the conditions without deciding whose version is the whole truth.\n\nA peaceful separation can also follow repair. Understanding what happened may make departure less hostile rather than make the relationship continue. Conversely, an unresolved ending may leave the wish for a conversation intact. The dream can hold several forms of renewal—closeness, cooperation, recognition or simply an ending with less conflict. A useful reading attends to the particular change that occurred and what remained different afterward, rather than assuming that reconciliation means returning to the exact former relationship.", "traditional": "This original reading distinguishes renewed participation from merely meeting again or receiving pardon for an offense. No historical Reconciliation account is attached here. Family gatherings, shared work, reminders of a disagreement or stories about repair can provide context; the dream cannot decide the terms of a real reconnection.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "What actually changes", "reflection": "An apology, hearing or practical agreement may begin repair without completing it." }, { "title": "Connection with new terms", "reflection": "Cooperation and recognition need not require former intimacy or unlimited access." }, { "title": "A less hostile ending", "reflection": "Understanding may support continued contact or a peaceful separation." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "An apology begins a conversation rather than ending it", "reflection": "The words create an opening for questions, explanation or a different shared account. This may picture wanting more than a formula that ends discussion. The scene makes listening part of repair, while leaving the real person’s wishes and readiness outside the dream’s knowledge." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You cooperate on a task without becoming close again", "reflection": "A shared job may become possible without a full return to intimacy. A practical responsibility after conflict offers a comparison. The dream can explore a limited, usable connection whose value comes from its terms rather than from recreating every part of the former relationship." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A warm reunion happens while the old disagreement remains", "reflection": "Comfort and unresolved difference can occupy the same encounter. The familiar warmth may express something valued, while the returning dispute shows what has not changed in the scene. The dream need not choose between denying the affection and pretending that repair is complete." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Someone insists reconciliation means forgetting every limit", "reflection": "The demand can make peace conditional on surrendering your account or preferences. This may picture concern about whether a renewed place permits difference. The terms matter as much as the wish for connection; the dream does not require every offered reunion to be accepted." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A third person helps both sides be heard", "reflection": "The helper changes the conversation’s structure rather than declares a winner. Each person gains time, clarity or a chance to respond. The scene may value conditions that make understanding possible, while leaving the actual disagreement more complicated than a single judgment." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You part peacefully after understanding each other", "reflection": "Understanding can alter how a relationship ends without making it continue. The departure may hold sadness and relief together. The scene distinguishes recognition from reunion: something is repaired in the exchange, even if the people move toward different lives afterward." } ], "prompts": [ "What changed between the people after the rupture?", "Which terms allowed renewed contact without erasing a boundary?", "What form did renewed connection or understanding take?" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "related": [ "reunion", "pardon", "quarrel", "trust" ], "updated": "2026-10-13", "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "recurring-dream", "title": "Recurring dream", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "A returning setting or dilemma, a changed response, and room for a pleasant repetition.", "summary": "A recurring dream can repeat a scene, place or dilemma. Comparing what changes may be as useful as identifying what returns.", "aliases": [ "recurring dreams", "recurrent dream", "same dream again" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "A recurring dream can make a familiar arrangement recognizable before you know what will happen next. The repeated element might be an entire journey, the same room or a particular difficulty appearing in different places. These forms of repetition can carry different personal associations. A repeated school corridor need not mean the same thing as repeatedly being unable to find the right classroom.\n\nA stable setting can make a changed response easier to notice. You may return to the same locked gate but ask for help this time, or choose another destination rather than wait outside. This can offer a comparison with approaching a familiar situation differently. The change belongs to the dreamed encounter; it does not by itself prove that a waking problem has been solved or must now be acted on.\n\nA repeated dilemma can also make the roles around it visible. Perhaps you are always expected to organize the journey while companions keep changing. The recognizable part may be carrying the same responsibility, rather than a code hidden in each vehicle or location. A waking parallel has substance when its particular arrangement fits your experience, not simply because a scene has returned.\n\nPleasant recurrence deserves equal room. An invented garden, a welcoming neighborhood or a conversation you enjoy can be a place you like returning to. Interest and continuity can make it meaningful without requiring a concealed conflict. A familiar place may also change enough to become worth exploring again, much as returning to a favorite story can reveal another detail.\n\nAn unchanged ending may feel frustrating, comforting or simply recognizable. Your expectation of repetition can become part of the scene: you may anticipate an obstacle, prepare for it or discover that it no longer appears. The difference between what returns and what you expected to return can give the account its particular direction.\n\nResearch on reported recurring dreams and waking needs describes associations, with differing findings across studies. It does not make repetition a diagnosis, prophecy or command. The original comparisons here concern the pattern you remember, its changes and the experience of meeting it again.", "traditional": "No historical passage is attached. Weinstein, Campbell and Vansteenkiste compared self-reported need experiences and dream reports. Their thematic findings differed between the recurring-dream survey and daily-diary study; correlations do not establish the cause or required interpretation of an individual dream. The original scenes here are reflective examples, not outcomes tested in that research.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "The same obstacle appears in different buildings", "reflection": "The scenery changes while the difficulty remains recognizable. This can make a repeated arrangement of effort, permission or responsibility stand out. The common action may offer a more useful comparison than treating each building as a separate coded message." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You return to a familiar welcoming place", "reflection": "A known route or room offers company, enjoyment or the pleasure of recognition. The return can have value through what you do there. Its recurrence need not mean that something is wrong or that another explanation must be found." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A familiar gate is still locked but you ask for help", "reflection": "The obstacle remains while your response changes. An available companion or a new question alters the encounter without instantly removing the difficulty. This can make cooperation part of a familiar situation rather than measure whether you have finally passed a test." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You expect the usual ending and discover another route", "reflection": "Anticipation has become part of the story, but the scene does not follow it completely. Surprise can make an overlooked option visible. The dreamed alternative can be explored on its own terms without turning it into a prediction or a required waking decision." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The dream returns after a long interval", "reflection": "Recognition connects a present encounter with an earlier remembered account. Similarities may sit beside changed people, responsibilities or feelings. The interval can make contrast useful; it does not establish that the same real circumstances or hidden cause have returned." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You recognize a repeated role while companions change", "reflection": "You remain responsible for preparing, guiding or waiting as different people enter the scene. The stable role can be more noticeable than the changing cast. A personal comparison may concern that distribution of effort without treating the dream as evidence about anyone’s intentions." } ], "prompts": [ "Which part repeats: the setting, action, role or feeling?", "What changed in your response or in the available help?", "What was enjoyable or worth returning to, if anything?" ], "related": [ "nightmare", "being-chased", "childhood-home", "school-or-exam" ], "sources": [ { "id": "weinstein-2018", "title": "Linking psychological need experiences to daily and recurring dreams", "author": "Netta Weinstein, Rachel Campbell, and Maarten Vansteenkiste", "url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29391655/", "scope": "Two self-report correlational studies comparing need experiences and reported recurring or daily dreams. The thematic association in Study 1 did not replicate in Study 2. Does not establish causation, a diagnosis or a universal interpretation for repetition." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s continuing English editorial delegation. Sources retain their stated scope; neither historical accounts nor general research validate these interpretations.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "What actually returns", "reflection": "A repeated place, action and dilemma are different patterns. Their specific arrangement gives comparison more substance than repetition alone." }, { "title": "A familiar scene with a changed response", "reflection": "Another action, companion or ending can become noticeable against a stable background. Change need not carry a verdict about waking progress." }, { "title": "Continuity without an assumed conflict", "reflection": "Pleasant imagined places can be worth revisiting. Familiarity can offer interest or comfort without requiring an unresolved problem." } ], "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "DreamFolia AI-assisted editorial review", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "childhood-home", "lucid-dreaming", "recurring-dream", "missing-a-flight-or-train", "unable-to-scream", "books", "cradle", "eyes", "forgetting-to-feed-a-pet", "message", "nightmare", "searching-for-a-missing-pet", "sleep" ] }, "decisionReason": "The expanded body distinguishes repeated setting, dilemma, role, expectation and pleasant continuity. Six scenes make changed responses visible without requiring an unresolved problem, a diagnosis or a solved task. The source scope accurately records different thematic findings across the two correlational studies.", "reviewedSnapshot": "data/guide-linked-publication-review-2026-10-15.json", "contentSha256": "a843fd00eab8f06ef694d9d5e6565bf6940acd4bcccf6d2b4c61dfacf3813edd" }, "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "red", "title": "Red (color)", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "summary": "A red detail may make something conspicuous, mark a choice or change a boundary. Its role in the scene matters more than a fixed emotion code.", "tagline": "What becomes visible when a particular detail turns red.", "aliases": [ "red", "red color", "red colour", "the color red", "the colour red" ], "status": "REVIEW", "psychological": "A red detail may make one part of a dream difficult to overlook. A small mark can become the center of a quiet room, while a red surface covering everything can make distinctions harder to see. The useful question is what the appearance changed: where you looked, what you chose, who noticed you or how you understood a boundary. An intense hue can accompany several different feelings.\n\n Marks can give attention a destination. A red correction on a page might feel like a helpful indication, an accusation or an unfinished task, depending on who made it and what followed. This can resemble a waking situation in which one comment overshadows a larger piece of work. If you could still see the unmarked parts, the dream may leave room for a more proportionate view of that feedback.\n\n Choosing red can make a preference public. Painting a door, selecting a fabric or wearing a badge may let you show a decision before you have explained it. The scene changes if you welcome that visibility, feel exposed by it or discover that someone else selected the appearance for you. A waking comparison might be announcing a plan, presenting a design or accepting a role whose outward sign attracts more attention than expected.\n\n Red lines or patches can also organize space. A line you cross willingly differs from one that moves whenever you approach. If nobody explains what a mark requires, the tension may concern unclear terms rather than the hue. When the dream includes an actual traffic signal, injury or named red object, that event adds its own information; its action should remain part of the reading.\n\n A changing red appearance can make commitment less settled. Covering a mark, restoring a faded patch or finding that two people use the same red sign differently may bring revision or coordination into view. Personal memories of a particular red item can matter here: a school pen, a family door or a chosen jacket gives the hue a specific history. The scene becomes clearer when that association is considered alongside what you were able to do.", "traditional": "A familiar red item can carry the history of a particular place, task or choice. General sleep background allows waking experiences and emotion to enter dreams; it does not establish a shared anger, love or danger meaning for a red appearance.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A detail given priority", "reflection": "When one red mark takes over your attention, the dream may explore how a small part comes to represent a larger situation. Whether you can return to the surrounding details helps distinguish useful focus from an absorbing concern." }, { "title": "A visible commitment", "reflection": "A chosen red appearance may make a preference easier for others to recognize. The difference between choosing it yourself and having it assigned can bring consent, presentation or the wish to explain your decision into the scene." }, { "title": "Marks with changing terms", "reflection": "Lines and labels matter through what they permit. A clear, stable mark can support a next step; a moving or unexplained one may picture difficulty understanding the terms of a task. The hue alone supplies no instruction." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "One red mark on a crowded page", "reflection": "A single red correction may pull your attention away from everything that worked on the page. If you can place it beside the other details, the scene may resemble finding a useful size for criticism rather than letting one remark define the whole effort." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A red line moves as you approach", "reflection": "A boundary that shifts whenever you reach it may make the terms of participation hard to understand. Your response matters: stopping, asking who placed it or finding another entrance can express different ways of dealing with a rule whose requirements keep changing." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You choose a red door for a shared space", "reflection": "Making the entrance red may give a shared place an appearance you want others to notice. Agreement, surprise or resistance from the other users can make the scene about how a visible decision becomes a shared one, rather than about decoration alone." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A small red stain travels between belongings", "reflection": "A mark that transfers from one item to another can make the consequences of a minor action feel hard to contain. Whether you hide, clean or openly explain it may resemble deciding how to handle a mistake that affects more than your own task." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You cover a red sign and cannot find the place", "reflection": "Removing the conspicuous sign may reduce attention but also remove a useful point of recognition. This can picture the cost of making a choice less visible: the scene may ask how to keep orientation or identity while changing the way something is presented." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "Two red badges authorize different tasks", "reflection": "The same appearance may mean different things to two people, leaving each expecting the other to act. Explaining the assignments can become more useful than inspecting the badges. The dream may bring a waking coordination problem into a small, visible misunderstanding." } ], "prompts": [ "What did the red appearance change about attention or action in the scene?", "Who chose or placed the red detail, and how did that affect your response?", "What particular red item or mark from your own experience gives this hue a more specific association?" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "related": [ "colors", "paint-and-painting", "traffic-light", "blood" ], "updated": "2026-10-13", "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "detectionAliases": [ "red color", "red colour", "the color red", "the colour red" ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "reeds", "title": "Reeds", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “To dream of seeing them near the water warns you to be decisive if you would succeed (Gypsy).”", "aliases": [ "reeds" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about reeds stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L11667", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Reeds", "heading": "Reeds", "text": "To dream of seeing them near the water warns you to be decisive if you would succeed (Gypsy). The scriptural metaphor uses them to symbolize weakness.", "lineStart": 11667, "lineEnd": 11670, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 248; NLM OCR lines 11667–11670", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11667, "lineEnd": 11670, "printedPage": 248, "printedPageEnd": 248 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Reeds. — To dream of seeing them near the water warns you \nto be decisive if you would succeed (Gypsy). The scriptural \nmetaphor uses them to symbolize weakness. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Reeds" }, "displayText": "To dream of seeing them near the water warns you to be decisive if you would succeed (Gypsy). The scriptural metaphor uses them to symbolize weakness." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "refrigerator", "title": "Refrigerator", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see a refrigerator in your dreams, portends that your selfishness will offend and injure some one who endeavors to gain an honest…”", "aliases": [ "refrigerator" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about refrigerator stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1687", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Refrigerator", "text": "To see a refrigerator in your dreams, portends that your selfishness will\noffend and injure some one who endeavors to gain an honest livelihood.\n\nTo put ice in one, brings the dreamer into disfavor.", "locator": "Heading 1691; source lines 18944–18951", "lineStart": 18944, "lineEnd": 18951, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a refrigerator in your dreams, portends that your selfishness will\noffend and injure some one who endeavors to gain an honest livelihood.\n\nTo put ice in one, brings the dreamer into disfavor." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "register", "title": "Register", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that some one registers your name at a hotel for you, denotes you will undertake some work which will be finished by others.”", "aliases": [ "register" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about register stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1688", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Register", "text": "To dream that some one registers your name at a hotel for you,\ndenotes you will undertake some work which will be finished by others.\n\nIf you register under an assumed name, you will engage in some guilty\nenterprise which will give you much uneasiness of mind.", "locator": "Heading 1692; source lines 18951–18959", "lineStart": 18951, "lineEnd": 18959, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that some one registers your name at a hotel for you,\ndenotes you will undertake some work which will be finished by others.\n\nIf you register under an assumed name, you will engage in some guilty\nenterprise which will give you much uneasiness of mind." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "regret", "title": "Regret", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "Another possible route can remain meaningful after a choice is made.", "summary": "Regret may explore an alternative choice, a missed possibility, or the mixed cost of a decision without assuming that you did something wrong.", "aliases": [ "regret", "feeling regret" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "Regret can turn an alternative into a place you almost reach. A different road remains visible, a train leaves just before you decide, or an old choice can suddenly be made again. The dream may give form to wondering what another possibility could have offered. That is different from guilt about harming someone. A decision can have a cost even when it was reasonable and even when the imagined alternative would also have had limits.\n\nThe part you want to change can reveal the actual subject. You might wish for a different outcome, a kinder way of speaking, more time before choosing, or the chance to include someone who was left out. Those wishes do not all require reversing the original decision. For example, leaving a role may still feel right while the abrupt farewell feels unfinished. The dream can separate the choice from the way it was carried out.\n\nAttempts to undo the scene may picture wanting certainty after uncertainty has already passed. You return to a desk, change an answer, or discover that the previous version is inaccessible. That could fit repeatedly reviewing a consequential choice using information you did not have at the time. An imagined replay can expose that unequal comparison. The dream does not provide access to a real alternative future or tell you that another path would have worked better.\n\nA second chance creates another reading. If you hesitate again, the difficulty may lie in choosing among competing values rather than correcting one obvious mistake. If you choose differently with ease, the scene may picture a preference becoming clearer. If you make the same choice, it may hold both conviction and sadness about what could not accompany it. None of these endings supplies a decision rule for waking life.\n\nRegret may also arise when an opportunity simply passes. There may be no wrong act or person to blame, only an experience that remains wanted. A recent transition, a reminder of a former place, or hearing how someone else's life developed can provide ordinary material. The useful comparison is specific: what was lost, what remained possible, and what you wanted from the imagined route. Regret can acknowledge a valued possibility without declaring your present life a mistake.", "traditional": "No verified historical regret passage is supplied. Guilt and Indecision are related but distinct: this entry concerns looking back at a possibility, not proof of wrongdoing or an inability to make a current choice.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A possibility with continuing value", "reflection": "The road not taken may represent a preference that still matters. Its value does not establish that choosing it would have produced a better life." }, { "title": "The choice versus its manner", "reflection": "Regret can concern how an ending happened rather than whether it was wanted. A different farewell or explanation may be the wish the scene makes visible." }, { "title": "Looking back with new information", "reflection": "A replay can compare an earlier choice against knowledge acquired later. The scene may reveal that uneven standard without deciding what you should have done." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "A different route remains just within sight", "reflection": "The scene gives the alternative a visible location. It may picture a valued possibility you did not choose, while leaving its actual consequences unknown." }, { "title": "You repeat a farewell more carefully", "reflection": "The ending remains, but its manner changes. This may fit wishing for recognition or kindness around a transition without wanting the original relationship or role restored." }, { "title": "You try to revise an old answer", "reflection": "New information makes the earlier version look inadequate. The scene may concern judging a past decision with knowledge that was unavailable when you made it." }, { "title": "A second chance brings the same hesitation", "reflection": "The alternatives still have competing costs. This can make the dream about a difficult tradeoff rather than a single correct choice you failed to discover." }, { "title": "You make the same choice and still feel sad", "reflection": "Conviction and loss coexist. The scene may acknowledge something you valued without requiring you to treat the decision as wrong." }, { "title": "An opportunity passes without anyone at fault", "reflection": "The missed experience remains wanted even though no harm or error occurred. The feeling may concern time, timing, or a possibility that cannot be fully substituted." } ], "prompts": [ "What exactly did I want to change: the choice, its outcome, or how it happened?", "What information did I have then, compared with what I know now?", "Which value appears in the imagined alternative, and is it still available in another form?" ], "related": [ "guilt", "indecision", "relief", "disappointment" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "reindeer", "title": "Reindeer", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a reindeer, signifies faithful discharge of duties, and remaining staunch to friends in their adversity.”", "aliases": [ "reindeer" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about reindeer stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1689", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Reindeer", "text": "To dream of a reindeer, signifies faithful discharge of duties,\nand remaining staunch to friends in their adversity.\n\nTo drive them, foretells that you will have hours of bitter anguish,\nbut friends will attend you.", "locator": "Heading 1693; source lines 18959–18967", "lineStart": 18959, "lineEnd": 18967, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a reindeer, signifies faithful discharge of duties,\nand remaining staunch to friends in their adversity.\n\nTo drive them, foretells that you will have hours of bitter anguish,\nbut friends will attend you." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "rejection", "title": "Rejection", "category": "Emotions & situations", "aliases": [ "rejection", "being rejected", "rejected", "feeling rejected" ], "summary": "Rejection may bring belonging, evaluation, or a difficult boundary into focus. Being refused and choosing to refuse can lead to different readings.", "tagline": "Wanting entry, meeting a limit, and deciding what the answer means to you.", "psychological": "Rejection puts a wish and an answer in the same scene. You want to join, offer something, or become close, and another person or system says no. If the refusal feels much larger than the request, the dream may be exploring how easily an outcome becomes a judgment about your value. An application, creative submission, or invitation can carry a hope for recognition as well as its practical purpose. The image brings that extra stake into view.\n\nThe process can matter as much as the answer. Clear criteria and an explanation create a different experience from being dismissed without a hearing. If the rules keep changing, the scene may concern having no reliable way to know what is wanted. That can resemble trying to satisfy conflicting expectations at work or in a group. The subject is not necessarily fear of criticism; it may be a wish for a fair opportunity to participate.\n\nRejection by someone familiar can give attachment a more personal shape. A friend turning away may evoke missing contact, remembering an earlier exclusion, or worrying about where you fit during a change. A recent awkward conversation can also supply the scene. The dream's refusal is an imagined interaction, not information about how that person feels. The feeling deserves attention without making the imagined answer a relationship fact.\n\nBeing the person who refuses opens another reading. Relief might fit discovering that you can decline a role, request, or closeness you do not want. Regret may concern the cost of a boundary or a wish to say no with more care. An ending in which you find another place to belong could explore flexibility after disappointment, while an unfinished refusal may simply leave hurt. The dream does not have to turn rejection into an opportunity. Its useful subject may be the particular wish, standard, or limit made visible.", "traditional": "No historical passage directly matching this rejection context is supplied. This entry offers original reflection on belonging, evaluation, and refusal. A remembered application, exclusion, or conversation may provide ordinary context. The important distinctions are what was refused, how the answer was given, and whether you could respond; a refusal in a dream does not predict another person's decision.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "An outcome feels personal", "reflection": "A refused request may carry a larger wish for recognition or belonging. This reading fits the moment when one answer begins to feel like a judgment about your whole worth." }, { "title": "Wanting a fair hearing", "reflection": "Unclear or changing criteria can make the scene about access to a fair process. The need may be understandable standards or a chance to explain, rather than guaranteed acceptance." }, { "title": "Permission to refuse", "reflection": "Saying no yourself may explore a boundary and its emotional cost. Relief and regret can coexist when declining something protects a preference but also changes an interaction." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A group will not let you join", "reflection": "You arrive ready to participate but are left outside. This may fit uncertainty about belonging during a move, a new role, or a changed friendship circle. A visible rule makes access the issue; unexplained exclusion may make the wish to be recognized more central." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Your work is returned without explanation", "reflection": "Something you made is dismissed before anyone discusses it. The scene may concern wanting effort to receive a fair hearing, especially after a review or submission. A revision you can understand differs from a verdict that gives you no usable next step." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A familiar person pulls away", "reflection": "You reach for conversation or closeness and the person becomes unavailable. This can give shape to a fear of distance or a remembered disappointment. The useful subject is the connection you wanted in the scene, rather than a conclusion about the person's current feelings." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You decline an invitation", "reflection": "Someone offers entry or company and you choose not to go. Relief may fit a wanted limit on social demands; sadness may concern missing an experience despite needing distance. The dream can explore a choice without deciding whether every refusal should feel comfortable." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A refusal leads you toward another place", "reflection": "After being turned away, you find somewhere you can participate differently. The change may explore having more than one route to a valued activity or connection. Disappointment can remain meaningful even when the dream offers another possibility." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The rejection concerns the wrong name or application", "reflection": "You discover that the answer was meant for somebody else or based on incorrect information. The scene may separate a procedure from personal worth. It can fit wanting your actual circumstances understood rather than continuing to explain yourself within a mistaken account." } ], "prompts": [ "What was I asking for, and what extra hope did that request carry?", "Did the answer come through a fair process, changing rules, or no explanation?", "If I was the one refusing, what did the boundary protect and what did it cost?" ], "related": [ "being-ignored", "being-excluded-from-a-gathering", "being-judged", "breakup", "job-interview" ], "type": "dreams", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflection on distinct social scenes and possible personal connections; no matching historical passage supplied. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "relations", "title": "Relations", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “If you dream of being annoyed at home by your relations, it is a sign that you will be the subject of much scandal: if, on the contrary,…”", "aliases": [ "relations" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about relations stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0655", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Relations", "text": "If you dream of being annoyed at home by your relations,\nit is a sign that you will be the subject of much scandal: if, on the\ncontrary, you imagine that your relatives visit you and give you great\npleasure by their society, it foretells that you are talked about a\ngood deal, but always with respect and veneration. 70.", "locator": "Heading 655; source line 4152", "lineStart": 4152, "lineEnd": 4158, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream of being annoyed at home by your relations,\nit is a sign that you will be the subject of much scandal: if, on the\ncontrary, you imagine that your relatives visit you and give you great\npleasure by their society, it foretells that you are talked about a\ngood deal, but always with respect and veneration." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "relief", "title": "Relief", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "aliases": [ "relief", "feeling relieved", "relieved", "sense of relief" ], "summary": "Relief can picture a demand ending, support arriving, or permission to stop bracing. What becomes possible afterward gives the release its meaning.", "tagline": "Something you were carrying no longer requires the same effort.", "psychological": "Relief can make a dream about the moment effort is no longer required in the same way. A threat ends, a task is finished, someone arrives to help, or you discover that an obligation never belonged to you. The feeling may fit a real transition, but it can also express a wish for one: less uncertainty, a settled decision, or time in which you do not have to remain ready for the next demand.\n\nWhat produces the release gives the interpretation precision. Finding a lost object can picture recovering access or continuity. Hearing that a difficult task has been canceled may express the value of being freed from an expectation, even when the task once seemed desirable. Finishing it yourself creates another reading, centered on completion and competence rather than permission from someone else.\n\nRelief after confessing, refusing, or explaining can suggest that maintaining a particular presentation had become the heavier burden. Saying you do not know, declining an unsuitable role, or naming a need may feel uncomfortable before creating more room. The dream can give that shift an emotional form without deciding which waking action you should take.\n\nShared relief can bring connection into view. A group exhaling together may picture responsibility becoming distributed or uncertainty becoming something you no longer face alone. Feeling relieved while others remain tense can instead make differing priorities or the limits of your role important.\n\nThe period after the release matters too. Calm may open into pleasure, while emptiness can suggest that a long-standing demand had also organized your attention. Recent good news, remembered endings, or a story can supply the feeling directly. Relief in a dream does not guarantee an external problem has ended; it can show what its ending would make available.", "traditional": "This entry offers original interpretations of the emotional release shown in a dream. No verified historical passage is being assigned to relief. The background source concerns dreaming generally; the meaning developed here depends on which demand ends and what the dream makes possible afterward.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A demand no longer needs the same effort", "reflection": "The release can picture completion, permission, or discovering that responsibility is shared. What has stopped requiring vigilance identifies the particular burden, rather than making relief a general promise." }, { "title": "Being able to stop maintaining an appearance", "reflection": "Relief after an admission or refusal can express the cost of concealing uncertainty or needs. Greater room may come from being represented more honestly, rather than resolving every circumstance." }, { "title": "The space after an ending", "reflection": "Calm or emptiness can reveal how much a demand organized your attention. A finished task may create room for pleasure, adjustment, or deciding what now deserves effort." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "A feared event is canceled", "reflection": "This can picture the value of being released from an expectation you have been preparing to meet. A meeting, performance, or obligation may offer a parallel. The relief can reveal the cost of anticipation, even if you also wanted some part of the event.", "slug": "scene-1" }, { "title": "You complete a task and nobody needs anything else", "reflection": "A clear endpoint can picture wanting work to be finished rather than continually revised. Submitting a project or completing a household task may fit. The absence of another request makes completion usable: you can stop instead of proving the result again.", "slug": "scene-2" }, { "title": "Someone arrives and shares the responsibility", "reflection": "Help can picture relief through distribution rather than disappearance of the task. A colleague taking part or a relative handling an agreed duty may offer a parallel. The problem remains, but it no longer consumes the same amount of your individual effort.", "slug": "scene-3" }, { "title": "You admit you cannot do something and feel calm", "reflection": "This can picture being freed from maintaining an expectation that did not fit your capacity or wishes. Declining extra work or acknowledging uncertainty may feel similar. Calm suggests that the effort of appearing able had become more demanding than the admission.", "slug": "scene-4" }, { "title": "Everyone feels relieved at the same moment", "reflection": "Shared release can picture a group becoming able to stop managing the same uncertainty. A settled move, completed collaboration, or resolved misunderstanding may fit. The company makes the ending collective, rather than leaving you alone to judge whether the pressure is really over.", "slug": "scene-5" }, { "title": "After the relief, you do not know what to do", "reflection": "A burden may have supplied structure as well as pressure. Finishing a long project or leaving a demanding role can create unfamiliar space. The scene can hold genuine release alongside the need to find a new rhythm, without making the relief less real.", "slug": "scene-6" } ], "prompts": [ "What exactly stopped requiring effort, and who made that change possible?", "Was I relieved by completion, permission, shared help, or an honest admission?", "What did the space afterward allow me to want or do?" ], "related": [ "being-chased", "crying", "hug", "being-trapped" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia editorial entry with image-specific interpretations and six differentiated scenes. The reference supplies general dream background only. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "religion", "title": "Religion", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “If you dream of discussing religion and feel religiously inclined, you will find much to mar the calmness of your life, and business will…”", "aliases": [ "religion" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about religion stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1690", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Religion", "text": "If you dream of discussing religion and feel religiously inclined,\nyou will find much to mar the calmness of your life, and business\nwill turn a disagreeable front to you.\n\nIf a young woman imagines that she is over religious, she will disgust\nher lover with her efforts to act ingenuous innocence and goodness.\n\nIf she is irreligious and not a transgressor, it foretells that she will have\nthat independent frankness and kind consideration for others, which wins\nfor women profound respect, and love from the opposite sex as well as her own;\nbut if she is a transgressor in the eyes of religion, she will find that there\nare moral laws, which, if disregarded, will place her outside the pale\nof honest recognition. She should look well after her conduct. If she\nweeps over religion, she will be disappointed in the desires of her heart.\nIf she is defiant, but innocent of offence, she will shoulder burdens bravely,\nand stand firm against deceitful admonitions.\n\nIf you are self-reproached in the midst of a religious excitement,\nyou will find that you will be almost induced to give up your own\npersonality to please some one whom you hold in reverent esteem.\n\nTo see religion declining in power, denotes that your life\nwill be more in harmony with creation than formerly.\nYour prejudices will not be so aggressive.\n\nTo dream that a minister in a social way tells you that he has given\nup his work, foretells that you will be the recipient of unexpected\ntidings of a favorable nature, but if in a professional and warning way,\nit foretells that you will be overtaken in your deceitful intriguing,\nor other disappointments will follow.\n\n(These dreams are sometimes fulfilled literally in actual life.\nWhen this is so, they may have no symbolical meaning.\nReligion is thrown around men to protect them from vice, so when\nthey propose secretly in their minds to ignore its teachings,\nthey are likely to see a minister or some place of church worship\nin a dream as a warning against their contemplated action.\nIf they live pure and correct lives as indicated by the church,\nthey will see little of the solemnity of the church or preachers.)", "locator": "Heading 1694; source lines 18967–19009", "lineStart": 18967, "lineEnd": 19009, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream of discussing religion and feel religiously inclined,\nyou will find much to mar the calmness of your life, and business\nwill turn a disagreeable front to you.\n\nIf a young woman imagines that she is over religious, she will disgust\nher lover with her efforts to act ingenuous innocence and goodness.\n\nIf she is irreligious and not a transgressor, it foretells that she will have\nthat independent frankness and kind consideration for others, which wins\nfor women profound respect, and love from the opposite sex as well as her own;\nbut if she is a transgressor in the eyes of religion, she will find that there\nare moral laws, which, if disregarded, will place her outside the pale\nof honest recognition. She should look well after her conduct. If she\nweeps over religion, she will be disappointed in the desires of her heart.\nIf she is defiant, but innocent of offence, she will shoulder burdens bravely,\nand stand firm against deceitful admonitions.\n\nIf you are self-reproached in the midst of a religious excitement,\nyou will find that you will be almost induced to give up your own\npersonality to please some one whom you hold in reverent esteem.\n\nTo see religion declining in power, denotes that your life\nwill be more in harmony with creation than formerly.\nYour prejudices will not be so aggressive.\n\nTo dream that a minister in a social way tells you that he has given\nup his work, foretells that you will be the recipient of unexpected\ntidings of a favorable nature, but if in a professional and warning way,\nit foretells that you will be overtaken in your deceitful intriguing,\nor other disappointments will follow.\n\n(These dreams are sometimes fulfilled literally in actual life.\nWhen this is so, they may have no symbolical meaning.\nReligion is thrown around men to protect them from vice, so when\nthey propose secretly in their minds to ignore its teachings,\nthey are likely to see a minister or some place of church worship\nin a dream as a warning against their contemplated action.\nIf they live pure and correct lives as indicated by the church,\nthey will see little of the solemnity of the church or preachers.)" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "religious", "title": "Religious", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “For any one to dream of becoming religious, foretells that they will be cheated or swindled in some way, as such a dream works…”", "aliases": [ "religious" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about religious stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0656", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Religious", "text": "For any one to dream of becoming religious, foretells that\nthey will be cheated or swindled in some way, as such a dream works\ncontrariwise: if you dream that a minister, or any religious person,\nexhorts you to become pious, you had better look out sharp, for some\nrogue is around, contriving how to victimize you. 54.", "locator": "Heading 656; source line 4158", "lineStart": 4158, "lineEnd": 4164, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For any one to dream of becoming religious, foretells that\nthey will be cheated or swindled in some way, as such a dream works\ncontrariwise: if you dream that a minister, or any religious person,\nexhorts you to become pious, you had better look out sharp, for some\nrogue is around, contriving how to victimize you." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "remote-control", "title": "Remote control", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "aliases": [ "remote control", "remote controls", "remote controller", "tv remote", "television remote" ], "summary": "A remote control can picture indirect influence, a shared choice, or an action that does not produce its intended response. Who holds it matters.", "tagline": "A small action is meant to change something beyond your immediate reach.", "psychological": "A remote control can picture expecting a simple action to affect a larger setting. A button should change the channel, volume, or movement without requiring you to handle the object directly. This can fit a request, instruction, or decision whose result depends on a system or another person responding. The scene makes the connection between intention and effect visible.\n\nA working remote may suggest having a useful degree of choice. You can make a room more comfortable, stop an interruption, or select what you want to attend to. If the buttons do nothing, the issue may be influence that is unavailable rather than an unclear preference. A message that does not alter an arrangement or a process that ignores your input can feel similar.\n\nAn unexpected response creates another reading. The wrong object moves, the volume increases when you want quiet, or the screen changes to something unrelated. This can picture an instruction being interpreted differently from its purpose. The difficulty lies in translation between what you asked for and what actually happens.\n\nSharing the remote brings competing needs into view. A room may require agreement about pace, attention, or comfort. Holding it firmly can feel protective or excessive; handing it over can express cooperation or giving up a preference you wanted considered. Ownership does not by itself settle whether the arrangement is fair.\n\nA remote that controls impossible things can make the wish for a simpler response vivid. Pausing a conversation or rewinding a moment may picture wanting more time to understand or revise an encounter. Real devices, games, and shared viewing can also supply the object directly. These original comparisons do not assume that influence over a setting means wanting control over other people.", "traditional": "These original interpretations concern an indirect control device, its responses, and choices within a shared setting. No verified historical remote-control passage is cited. The general sleep reference does not establish another person's responsiveness or intentions; the dreamed relation between a button and its effect provides the useful comparison.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Intention depends on a response", "reflection": "A button can picture a request or decision that needs something beyond your direct action to change. Failed response may concern unavailable influence rather than uncertainty about what you want." }, { "title": "A shared setting needs shared choice", "reflection": "Who holds the remote can bring pace, comfort, and attention into view. Cooperation or reluctant surrender changes whether passing control feels like useful sharing or losing a valued preference." }, { "title": "Wanting a moment to be adjustable", "reflection": "An impossible pause or rewind can picture a wish for time to reconsider an encounter. The scene may express wanting a clearer response rather than wanting unrestricted power over others." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "You press a button and nothing changes", "reflection": "A clear request may not be affecting the arrangement you depend on. Asking for a revised schedule or using a process that ignores feedback can offer parallels. The scene makes the gap between knowing what you want and having a workable means to change it concrete.", "slug": "scene-1" }, { "title": "The remote changes the wrong device", "reflection": "Your input can produce action without serving its purpose. An instruction applied to the wrong task or a request understood in another way may feel similar. The unexpected response highlights translation and connection, rather than simply whether you possess control.", "slug": "scene-2" }, { "title": "Another person chooses every setting in a shared room", "reflection": "A common environment may be organized around one person's preferences. A team rhythm or household routine can feel similar when others have little say over comfort or attention. The scene can picture wanting your needs included without establishing the real person's intention.", "slug": "scene-3" }, { "title": "You and someone else take turns using it", "reflection": "Shared choice can make differing preferences workable. Alternating tasks, agreeing on downtime, or negotiating a common routine may offer parallels. The device gives cooperation a concrete form, especially when neither person must abandon their preference permanently for the arrangement to function.", "slug": "scene-4" }, { "title": "You rewind a conversation to hear it again", "reflection": "A moment may feel too quick to understand or respond to fully. Reviewing feedback or wishing for another chance to explain a decision can feel similar. Rewinding pictures the desire for processing time, rather than proving that the first encounter contained a hidden message.", "slug": "scene-5" }, { "title": "You find the matching remote among several others", "reflection": "Many possible tools can still require the one that fits a particular task. Locating the right contact, permission, or method may offer parallels. The relief comes from a suitable connection between input and result, rather than from having more devices or choices in general.", "slug": "scene-6" } ], "prompts": [ "What did I want to change, and did the response match that intention?", "Whose preferences shaped the shared setting?", "Did I need influence, cooperation, or more time to understand a moment?" ], "related": [ "television", "phone-not-working", "video-games", "robot" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia editorial entry with image-specific interpretations and six differentiated scenes. The reference supplies general dream background only. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "renovation", "title": "Renovation", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "aliases": [ "remodeling", "remodelling", "home renovation", "renovating" ], "summary": "Renovation can picture revising a familiar arrangement while preserving what matters. Disruption, discoveries, and choices about what stays shape the reading.", "tagline": "A familiar place is being altered rather than replaced entirely.", "psychological": "Renovation begins with something that already exists. Unlike making a wholly new place, it requires deciding what to preserve while changing what no longer works. This can picture revising a routine, relationship arrangement, or role with an established history. The question is not only what you want next, but which parts of the familiar structure still support you and deserve a place in the revised plan.\n\nTemporary disruption can make a wanted change difficult to inhabit. Furniture is moved, familiar rooms are unavailable, and ordinary tasks need another route. A new schedule or shared responsibility may feel similar while people adjust. Frustration during that interval does not necessarily mean the change was unwanted. The dream can give attention to the practical cost of living inside a transition.\n\nRemoving a surface can reveal something previously unnoticed. A hidden room, old decoration, or damaged section may picture learning more about an arrangement you thought you understood. Revisiting a long-standing routine can expose both useful possibilities and work that had been postponed. The discovery changes what needs attention; it does not establish that something concealed in waking life will be revealed.\n\nChoice and ownership matter. Revising a room yourself differs from finding that someone else has altered it without consultation. A shared plan may be welcome while still needing agreement about how personal space is used. Keeping a familiar detail can make a change feel continuous with your life rather than imposed from outside it.\n\nCompletion gives the disruption a purpose. A room that becomes easier to use can picture adaptation that meets present needs. Endless work can instead make the promised result feel unavailable. Actual repairs or decorating plans may also supply the setting directly. Notice what became more usable, what remained recognizable, and whether you had a meaningful say in the process.", "traditional": "Repairs, decorating, and changing a familiar routine can supply direct context for this setting. These original readings keep preservation and disruption distinct. No historical renovation passage is presented as evidence that a hidden discovery or outcome will occur.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Change with a history to preserve", "reflection": "An existing place can picture an arrangement that still has value while needing revision. The work may involve keeping useful parts rather than treating the past as something that must disappear." }, { "title": "Living inside a temporary disruption", "reflection": "Moved furniture and unavailable rooms can make the practical costs of change visible. An adjustment period may feel difficult even when the desired result remains worthwhile and freely chosen." }, { "title": "A say in what changes", "reflection": "Ownership and consultation can shape the reading. An agreed alteration differs from one imposed without asking, especially when the familiar place holds personal routines, memories, or room for your needs." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You keep an old feature while updating the room", "reflection": "Continuity may make a wanted change easier to accept. Revising a routine while retaining a valued habit offers a parallel. The old detail remains useful or meaningful, so progress does not require you to lose every sign of the earlier arrangement." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "All the rooms are temporarily difficult to use", "reflection": "A transition may disrupt several ordinary tasks at once. Adjusting to a new schedule or shared responsibility can feel similar. The scene makes the interval demanding, while the expected result and available alternatives determine whether the disruption feels manageable." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Removing wallpaper reveals a forgotten doorway", "reflection": "Reviewing a familiar arrangement may make another option visible. An old skill or overlooked way of sharing a task can offer a parallel. The discovery expands what you can consider without proving that an actual hidden opportunity exists outside the dream." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Someone changes your room without consulting you", "reflection": "An alteration may feel intrusive when it ignores your participation. New expectations at work or changes to shared domestic routines can fit. The issue is the terms of the change, rather than an assumption that every unfamiliar arrangement is unwelcome." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The work is finished and the room functions better", "reflection": "Adaptation may feel effective because it meets a present need. A revised division of tasks or simpler routine can offer a parallel. The benefit is practical: the familiar setting remains recognizable while supporting an activity that previously felt awkward." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The renovation restarts every time it seems complete", "reflection": "A promised endpoint may keep moving. Repeated revisions to a plan or standards that change after you meet them can feel similar. Whether the next alteration has a clear purpose helps distinguish useful refinement from a process that leaves no room to live with the result." } ], "prompts": [ "What needed to change, and what did I want to preserve?", "How did the disruption affect ordinary life in the dream?", "Did I have a say in the revised arrangement?" ], "related": [ "house", "construction", "ceiling", "door" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia interpretation with image-specific possibilities and six differentiated scenes. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "rent", "title": "Rent", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you rent a house, is a sign that you will enter into new contracts, which will prove…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "rent" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about rent stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1691", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Rent", "text": "To dream that you rent a house, is a sign that you will enter\ninto new contracts, which will prove profitable.\n\nTo fail to rent out property, denotes that there will be much\ninactivity in business.\n\nTo pay rent, signifies that your financial interest will be satisfactory.\n\nIf you can't pay your rent, it is unlucky for you, as you will see a falling\noff in trade, and social pleasures will be of little benefit.", "locator": "Heading 1695; source lines 19009–19022", "lineStart": 19009, "lineEnd": 19022, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you rent a house, is a sign that you will enter\ninto new contracts, which will prove profitable.\n\nTo fail to rent out property, denotes that there will be much\ninactivity in business.\n\nTo pay rent, signifies that your financial interest will be satisfactory.\n\nIf you can't pay your rent, it is unlucky for you, as you will see a falling\noff in trade, and social pleasures will be of little benefit." }, { "id": "fontaine-0657", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Rent", "text": "To dream of paying your rent foretells that you will get some\nmoney unexpectedly; but if you dream that you owe it, without having\nthe money to pay, and are worried in consequence, it foreshadows a loss\nof property. 3.", "locator": "Heading 657; source line 4164", "lineStart": 4164, "lineEnd": 4169, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of paying your rent foretells that you will get some\nmoney unexpectedly; but if you dream that you owe it, without having\nthe money to pay, and are worried in consequence, it foreshadows a loss\nof property." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "reprieve", "title": "Reprieve", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To be under sentence in a dream and receive a reprieve, foretells that you will overcome some difficulty…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "reprieve" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about reprieve stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1692", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Reprieve", "text": "To be under sentence in a dream and receive a reprieve, foretells that you\nwill overcome some difficulty which is causing you anxiety.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that her lover has been reprieved,\ndenotes that she will soon hear of some good luck befalling him,\nwhich will be of vital interest to her.", "locator": "Heading 1696; source lines 19022–19031", "lineStart": 19022, "lineEnd": 19031, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To be under sentence in a dream and receive a reprieve, foretells that you\nwill overcome some difficulty which is causing you anxiety.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that her lover has been reprieved,\ndenotes that she will soon hear of some good luck befalling him,\nwhich will be of vital interest to her." }, { "id": "fontaine-0658", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Reprieve", "text": "If a criminal under sentence of death dream of a reprieve or\npardon, he may make up his mind that it is all over with him; and if\nany friend, who is interested in his fate, dreams this, it amounts to\nabout the same thing. 76, 5.", "locator": "Heading 658; source line 4169", "lineStart": 4169, "lineEnd": 4174, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If a criminal under sentence of death dream of a reprieve or\npardon, he may make up his mind that it is all over with him; and if\nany friend, who is interested in his fate, dreams this, it amounts to\nabout the same thing." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "reptile", "title": "Reptile", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “If a reptile attacks you in a dream, there will be trouble of a serious nature ahead for you.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "reptile" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about reptile stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1693", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Reptile", "text": "If a reptile attacks you in a dream, there will be trouble\nof a serious nature ahead for you. If you succeed in killing it,\nyou will finally overcome obstacles.\n\nTo see a dead reptile come to life, denotes that disputes\nand disagreements, which were thought to be settled, will be\nrenewed and pushed with bitter animosity.\n\nTo handle them without harm to yourself, foretells that you\nwill be oppressed by the ill humor and bitterness of friends,\nbut you will succeed in restoring pleasant relations.\n\nFor a young woman to see various kinds of reptiles, she will have many\nconflicting troubles. Her lover will develop fancies for others.\nIf she is bitten by any of them, she will be superseded by a rival.", "locator": "Heading 1697; source lines 19031–19049", "lineStart": 19031, "lineEnd": 19049, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If a reptile attacks you in a dream, there will be trouble\nof a serious nature ahead for you. If you succeed in killing it,\nyou will finally overcome obstacles.\n\nTo see a dead reptile come to life, denotes that disputes\nand disagreements, which were thought to be settled, will be\nrenewed and pushed with bitter animosity.\n\nTo handle them without harm to yourself, foretells that you\nwill be oppressed by the ill humor and bitterness of friends,\nbut you will succeed in restoring pleasant relations.\n\nFor a young woman to see various kinds of reptiles, she will have many\nconflicting troubles. Her lover will develop fancies for others.\nIf she is bitten by any of them, she will be superseded by a rival." }, { "id": "fontaine-0659", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Reptile", "text": "To dream of any animal that is called a reptile, such as\nsnakes, toads, alligators, and the like, is a sign of a quarrel: if you\nimagine you are bitten, it shows that you will come out second best,\nor badly injured either in person or reputation. If a girl dreams of a\nreptile, let her look sharp that her lover don’t play her false. 34, 3.", "locator": "Heading 659; source line 4174", "lineStart": 4174, "lineEnd": 4180, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of any animal that is called a reptile, such as\nsnakes, toads, alligators, and the like, is a sign of a quarrel: if you\nimagine you are bitten, it shows that you will come out second best,\nor badly injured either in person or reputation. If a girl dreams of a\nreptile, let her look sharp that her lover don’t play her false." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11682", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Reptile", "heading": "Reptile", "text": "Anger, quarrels, bitterness, while to a maid this dream denotes a false lover.", "lineStart": 11682, "lineEnd": 11684, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 249; NLM OCR lines 11682–11684", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11682, "lineEnd": 11684, "printedPage": 249, "printedPageEnd": 249 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Reptile. — Anger, quarrels, bitterness, while to a maid this \ndream denotes a false lover. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Reptile" }, "displayText": "Anger, quarrels, bitterness, while to a maid this dream denotes a false lover." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "rescue", "title": "Rescue", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of being rescued from any danger, denotes that you will be threatened with misfortune, and will…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "rescue" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about rescue stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1694", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Rescue", "text": "To dream of being rescued from any danger, denotes that you will be threatened\nwith misfortune, and will escape with a slight loss.\n\nTo rescue others, foretells that you will be esteemed for your good deeds.", "locator": "Heading 1698; source lines 19049–19056", "lineStart": 19049, "lineEnd": 19056, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being rescued from any danger, denotes that you will be threatened\nwith misfortune, and will escape with a slight loss.\n\nTo rescue others, foretells that you will be esteemed for your good deeds." }, { "id": "fontaine-0660", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Rescue", "text": "If you dream of rescuing anyone from peril, it is a sign you\nwill rise in the world, either by means of increased wealth, or new\nhonors: to dream that you are rescued from drowning or from any other\nmode of death, shows that you will go into some successful business\nspeculation with a partner. To lovers, such a dream foretells a speedy\nand happy union. 64, 9.", "locator": "Heading 660; source line 4180", "lineStart": 4180, "lineEnd": 4187, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream of rescuing anyone from peril, it is a sign you\nwill rise in the world, either by means of increased wealth, or new\nhonors: to dream that you are rescued from drowning or from any other\nmode of death, shows that you will go into some successful business\nspeculation with a partner. To lovers, such a dream foretells a speedy\nand happy union." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "resign", "title": "Resign", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you resign any position, signifies that you will unfortunately embark in new enterprises.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "resign" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about resign stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1695", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Resign", "text": "To dream that you resign any position, signifies that you will unfortunately\nembark in new enterprises.\n\nTo hear of others resigning, denotes that you will\nhave unpleaasant{sic} tidings.", "locator": "Heading 1699; source lines 19056–19064", "lineStart": 19056, "lineEnd": 19064, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you resign any position, signifies that you will unfortunately\nembark in new enterprises.\n\nTo hear of others resigning, denotes that you will\nhave unpleaasant[sic] tidings." }, { "id": "fontaine-0661", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Resign", "text": "If a person who holds an office, or a trust of any kind,\ndreams of resigning, it is a sign of advancement: to any one who cannot\nbe advanced, it shows that he will rise above his present position in\nsociety. 41, 17.", "locator": "Heading 661; source line 4187", "lineStart": 4187, "lineEnd": 4192, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If a person who holds an office, or a trust of any kind,\ndreams of resigning, it is a sign of advancement: to any one who cannot\nbe advanced, it shows that he will rise above his present position in\nsociety." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "restaurant", "title": "Restaurant", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "aliases": [ "restaurant", "restaurants", "dining in a restaurant", "restaurant meal" ], "summary": "Ordering, service, company, and the bill can bring choices and expectations into view. Notice what made the meal feel welcoming or difficult.", "tagline": "A meal where your wishes meet other people, shared rules, and an eventual exchange.", "psychological": "A restaurant brings a private appetite into a public arrangement. You choose within a menu, communicate a request, wait for someone else to prepare it, and share space with strangers. The scene may picture how comfortable you feel expressing a preference when meeting it depends on other people. Being hungry yet unable to order can fit uncertainty about what you want or hesitation about asking.\n\nService adds a question about recognition. A waiter who remembers your order, ignores you, or brings something unexpected changes the emotional structure of the meal. These details might connect with feeling understood, overlooked, or cared for in a relationship or shared task. Notice whether you correct the mistake, accept it, laugh, or feel unable to speak; your response belongs in the reading alongside the plate.\n\nThe table can make social position visible. A reserved place may feel reassuring, while arriving after everyone has started could bring embarrassment or exclusion. Dining alone can offer privacy, pleasure, loneliness, or a welcome interval away from demands. The number of people does not determine the feeling. Who chose the company and how much room you had may matter more.\n\nPayment can give shape to expectations about reciprocity. A changing bill or disagreement over who pays might resemble an arrangement whose cost or obligations feel unclear. An ordinary price can also be simply an ordinary dream detail. Record what you believed the meal entitled each person to receive or require.\n\nIf you work in the restaurant, attention may shift toward coordinating many needs at once. Empty kitchens, impatient tables, or a calm service can picture the experience of providing for others. Recent meals, hospitality work, hunger, or familiar restaurant stories can supply the setting without requiring a symbolic explanation.", "traditional": "This entry offers original reflections on restaurant choices, service, company, and payment. No verified historical restaurant interpretation is supplied. The research reference provides general dream background and does not establish a fixed meaning for a meal, a bill, or another person’s behavior.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Making a preference known", "reflection": "Ordering combines wanting something with making that wish understandable to another person. A clear request, an unreadable menu, or an order you never place can offer different ways of picturing confidence, uncertainty, or hesitation about asking for attention." }, { "title": "A place among other people", "reflection": "A restaurant table gives belonging a physical form: a seat, shared conversation, and room for your plate. Consider whether the arrangement was chosen, imposed, or negotiable. Solitude may feel nourishing when you wanted it and painful when you expected company." }, { "title": "The terms of an exchange", "reflection": "Service and payment can picture expectations about what each participant contributes. A welcoming meal may feel balanced, while an expanding bill or an impossible workload can express a cost that seems difficult to see or contain. Begin with the actual exchange shown." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "The menu changes whenever you decide", "reflection": "This may picture a choice whose available options keep shifting. You might recognize the feeling from a plan that is repeatedly revised or from discovering new preferences while deciding. Notice whether the changes are frustrating or inviting; uncertainty and curiosity can inhabit the same menu." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You receive a dish you did not order", "reflection": "An unwanted dish can make a mismatch between request and response concrete. A misunderstood message or help offered in an unsuitable form may feel similar. Your reaction matters: correcting the order, enjoying the surprise, or silently accepting it suggests different relationships to the mismatch." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Everyone has a seat except you", "reflection": "The absent place may picture uncertainty about your role in a group. Arriving during an established conversation or joining a project with unclear responsibilities can offer parallels. Notice who notices your arrival and whether a chair appears; the scene may also contain an available welcome." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You serve every table yourself", "reflection": "Multiple orders can picture responsibilities competing for the same limited attention. The strain may resemble organizing a family event or carrying several shared tasks. Look for whether anyone assists, whether the customers are patient, and whether providing the meal feels satisfying alongside the work." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The bill keeps gaining extra items", "reflection": "An expanding bill may give form to an exchange whose expectations feel difficult to define. A small favor becoming an ongoing obligation can have a similar emotional shape. Record which charges seemed surprising and how the group responded, without treating the amount as a financial forecast." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You enjoy a quiet meal alone", "reflection": "A solitary table can picture having time and space to attend to your own preferences. It may echo a wanted pause after sustained company or work. Notice the taste, pace, and atmosphere: feeling comfortable alone offers a different starting point from waiting for someone who never arrives." } ], "prompts": [ "What did I want to order, and how easily could I communicate it?", "How did the table arrangement affect my sense of welcome or privacy?", "What did each person seem expected to give, receive, or pay?" ], "related": [ "cooking", "dinner", "party", "money" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia editorial entry with image-specific interpretations and six differentiated scenes. The reference supplies general dream background only. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "resurrection", "title": "Resurrection", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are resurrected from the dead, you will have some great vexation, but will eventually gain your desires.”", "aliases": [ "resurrection" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about resurrection stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1696", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Resurrection", "text": "To dream that you are resurrected from the dead, you will have\nsome great vexation, but will eventually gain your desires.\nTo see others resurrected, denotes unfortunate troubles will\nbe lightened by the thoughtfulness of friends", "locator": "Heading 1700; source lines 19064–19071", "lineStart": 19064, "lineEnd": 19071, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are resurrected from the dead, you will have\nsome great vexation, but will eventually gain your desires.\nTo see others resurrected, denotes unfortunate troubles will\nbe lightened by the thoughtfulness of friends" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "resuscitate", "title": "Resuscitate", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are being resuscitated, denotes that you will have heavy losses, but will eventually…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "resuscitate" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about resuscitate stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1697", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Resuscitate", "text": "To dream that you are being resuscitated, denotes that you will\nhave heavy losses, but will eventually regain more than you lose,\nand happiness will attend you.\n\nTo resuscitate another, you will form new friendships, which will give\nyou prominence and pleasure.", "locator": "Heading 1701; source lines 19071–19080", "lineStart": 19071, "lineEnd": 19080, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are being resuscitated, denotes that you will\nhave heavy losses, but will eventually regain more than you lose,\nand happiness will attend you.\n\nTo resuscitate another, you will form new friendships, which will give\nyou prominence and pleasure." }, { "id": "fontaine-0662", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Resuscitate", "text": "To dream of resuscitating a drowned person, foretells that\nyou will engage in some enterprise that attracts public attention: if\nthe person thus brought to life is a female, it shadows forth marriage\nwith a lady of public fame. 16, 9, 78.", "locator": "Heading 662; source line 4192", "lineStart": 4192, "lineEnd": 4197, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of resuscitating a drowned person, foretells that\nyou will engage in some enterprise that attracts public attention: if\nthe person thus brought to life is a female, it shadows forth marriage\nwith a lady of public fame." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "retirement", "title": "Retirement", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "aliases": [ "retirement", "retire", "retiring from work", "retirement celebration" ], "summary": "Retirement can picture a changed role, routine, and use of time. Notice how chosen or imposed timing affects what you leave and carry forward.", "tagline": "Changing the place work occupies while discovering what can give the day its shape.", "psychological": "Retirement changes the place of working life within a day. In a dream, it may arrive as a planned departure, a welcome celebration, or the discovery that tomorrow has no familiar schedule. The scene can explore a transition in role or attention at any stage of life. Its timing may also be imposed, bringing a question about agency beside the skills and relationships that continue. Its usefulness does not depend on your age or on treating retirement as an ending of activity.\n\nLeaving a role can make identity more visible. Being thanked for your contribution may feel affirming, while being described only through a job title can feel incomplete. You might recognize a wish to retain the useful parts of an experience without having it define every part of you. Notice what you carry away: knowledge, friendships, tools, relief, or something the dream invents.\n\nTime can become a new form of choice. An open morning may offer room for interests that had little space, yet also remove cues that once made the day easy to organize. A blank calendar can feel spacious, uncertain, or both. The scene may resemble any change that asks you to choose a routine rather than receive one from an established role.\n\nRelationships can continue in a different arrangement. Colleagues visiting socially, a shared project outside work, or someone still expecting immediate availability can give form to questions about connection and boundaries. Remaining interested in people or skills does not settle how much of the former schedule you want to keep.\n\nNew activities may place curiosity beside the transition. Learning something unfamiliar, making a quiet breakfast, or taking a journey can show different uses of available time. Recent conversations, celebrations, or changes in responsibilities can supply the image directly. The dream can help describe what a changed routine feels like without forecasting an actual departure or recommending retirement decisions.", "traditional": "These are original reflections on changing working roles, daily structure, and continuing interests. No verified historical retirement passage is supplied. The research reference offers general dream context and does not connect the image with a particular age, life endpoint, or appropriate employment or financial decision.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Keeping a contribution beyond its title", "reflection": "A departure can separate what you learned or gave from the role that organized it. A gift, familiar skill, or continuing friendship may make that distinction tangible. Consider what remains meaningful when the title is no longer the main description of your day." }, { "title": "Choosing the shape of available time", "reflection": "An open calendar can offer freedom while removing familiar prompts for activity. The scene may explore how you want to use attention when established duties no longer decide for you. Pleasure, uncertainty, and curiosity can coexist as you begin to form a different rhythm." }, { "title": "Continuing connection on different terms", "reflection": "Leaving a working role can change how relationships are arranged without removing them. Invitations, shared interests, and expectations of availability may show which connections you want to retain. Notice whether the dream allows contact to become chosen rather than built into a fixed schedule." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You choose a departure date and feel satisfied", "reflection": "Choosing when to leave can picture readiness to give one activity a different place in your life. Completing a project or changing a long established routine may feel similar. Notice what makes the date satisfying and what you imagine becoming possible after it." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "The farewell speech describes more than your job", "reflection": "Being recognized through kindness, interests, or shared moments can picture a wish for a fuller account of your contribution. The praise may feel touching or surprising. Consider which detail you recognize as your own and whether the occasion leaves room for identities beyond the role." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Your first free morning has no plan", "reflection": "An unstructured morning can make the relationship between freedom and direction visible. You might enjoy deciding slowly or miss familiar cues about what comes next. Record how the open time feels and which small action gives the day a beginning, rather than treating uncertainty as failure." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Former colleagues visit for an ordinary meal", "reflection": "Contact outside the workplace can picture wanting a relationship to continue in a less prescribed form. Shared conversation may feel warm, awkward, or newly interesting. Notice whether work dominates the meal or other subjects become available; the change in setting can alter what connects you." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You begin learning an unfamiliar skill", "reflection": "Starting as a beginner can picture curiosity finding room beside an established history of competence. A class, instrument, or craft may feel playful or exposing. Observe whether experience helps, whether you can ask questions, and whether learning feels valuable without needing to become another formal role." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "Your departure date is announced before you choose it", "reflection": "An imposed date can picture a role transition whose timing leaves little room for your own preferences. Removal from a project or a reassignment of responsibility may feel similar. Notice what remains valued—skills, relationships, interests—and whether the scene allows your response to be heard." } ], "prompts": [ "What did I want to leave, and what did I want to carry forward?", "How did available time feel once the familiar schedule changed?", "Which relationships or interests continued in a form I could choose?" ], "related": [ "returning-to-work-after-retirement", "office", "promotion", "being-fired" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia editorial entry with image-specific interpretations and six differentiated scenes. The reference supplies general dream background only. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "returning-home-after-an-evacuation", "title": "Returning home after an evacuation", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "Returning to a building and feeling at home can take different forms.", "summary": "Returning after evacuation can explore access, familiar routines, help with boundaries, and the pace at which a place becomes usable again.", "aliases": [ "homecoming after disaster dream", "returning to evacuated home" ], "status": "REVIEW", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-14", "psychological": "Returning home after an evacuation can bring the encounter’s attention to what remains and what you want to resume. The imagined danger may already be over while the place still feels different. This can picture returning to a routine after interruption, absence or a changed responsibility. For somebody with direct experience of displacement, the remembered place and practical loss may matter without needing a symbolic lesson or a reassuring ending.\n\nAn intact room can be unfamiliar because its ordinary activity has not returned. The furniture may be recognizable while the expected conversation, meal or quiet time is missing. This can make belonging depend on use and company as well as a building’s appearance. Finding the structure unchanged does not oblige you to feel settled immediately.\n\nAccess can expose a different expectation. An old key not fitting a changed door may picture an earlier way of entering a routine no longer working. Another invitation or arrangement might be available, but can require recognition that the place has changed. The scene concerns the terms of return rather than proving that you have lost your home or are unwelcome to an actual person.\n\nA small object can restore an ordinary action for a moment. Using an unchanged cup or finding a familiar cushion may let continuity appear through something practical. That moment need not resolve everything else. Neighbors restoring a shared path can instead make belonging visible through contribution: people can create a usable connection while each private home still has different needs.\n\nHelp can also introduce questions about choice. Someone rearranging your room while you are grateful for support may make the boundary between assistance and authority visible. Choosing when to return gives the pace another form. An open door need not require you to resume every previous activity at once. These reflections concern the aftermath and the terms of inhabiting a place again, distinct from an immediate escape or weather event. Relief, grief, uncertainty and attachment can coexist; the dream does not forecast recovery or require damage to become a personal lesson.", "traditional": "No matching historical return-after-evacuation passage is supplied. Home, ruin and disaster accounts remain under their own owners and are not borrowed as predictions about property or recovery. The existing sleep citation supplies only general dream background. These original reflections concern the terms and pace of return, with room for direct memories of displacement rather than a required symbolic or hopeful account.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "The building is intact but the rooms feel unfamiliar", "reflection": "Appearance has returned before the ordinary activity or company you expected. This may picture belonging depending on more than a structure. The gap can remain meaningful without requiring gratitude to erase uncertainty or proving that the place is permanently lost to you." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Your old key no longer fits the changed front door", "reflection": "A former way of entering does not work under the present arrangement. This can resemble returning to a routine whose terms have changed. Another invitation may be possible without making the old key’s failure evidence that you are actually unwanted or excluded." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "An unchanged cup lets you make an ordinary drink again", "reflection": "A small practical action restores familiarity for a moment. This may picture continuity carried through use rather than complete restoration. The cup can matter while other parts remain unsettled; its survival does not guarantee a favorable outcome or resolve every loss." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Neighbors work together to restore the shared path", "reflection": "Belonging appears through contribution to something between homes. This can resemble reconnecting with people through a usable common task. The shared route may help without requiring everybody’s private space, needs or experience of the interruption to become the same." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A helpful visitor rearranges your room without asking", "reflection": "Support changes the place in a way you did not choose. This may picture gratitude needing room alongside a boundary about authority. Appreciating assistance can coexist with wanting a say in the arrangement; the dream does not establish an actual violation." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The door is open but you choose to return more slowly", "reflection": "Access becomes available before you want to resume everything inside. This can picture setting a pace for reconnection with a routine or place. A delayed return need not mean rejection; the next usable step may be smaller than the whole former life." } ], "prompts": [ "What ordinary use or company made the place feel familiar?", "How had the terms of access or help changed?", "Which pace of return gave your needs room alongside attachment?" ], "related": [ "house", "childhood-home", "flood", "earthquake", "homesick" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Use and belonging beyond the intact structure", "reflection": "Recognizable rooms may need ordinary activity or company before they feel like home." }, { "title": "Access under changed terms", "reflection": "A former key or routine can stop working while another arrangement remains possible." }, { "title": "Help and the pace of return", "reflection": "Assistance can be welcome alongside a need for choice about space and timing." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "returning-to-a-dream-after-waking", "title": "Returning to a dream after waking", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "Falling asleep again can seem to continue an earlier dream. Track what remained, what changed, and how certain the connection feels.", "summary": "Falling asleep again can seem to continue an earlier dream. Track what remained, what changed, and how certain the connection feels.", "aliases": [ "continuing a dream after waking", "reentering a dream" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "Treat the apparent continuation as a remembered experience rather than proof that the dream carried on while you were awake. Were you hoping to finish something, return to someone, or escape a disturbing ending? The second scene may share a feeling without sharing a plot. Record the interval awake and the two scenes separately; that preserves useful differences that can vanish when the night is retold as one seamless story.", "traditional": "This entry makes no claim of returning to a shared spirit world. The meaning of continuation here is narrative and personal; cultural beliefs about dream journeys would need their own named source and context.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "You return to a pleasant conversation", "reflection": "What felt unfinished enough that you wanted to go back?" }, { "title": "The same setting returns with different people", "reflection": "Was familiarity reassuring even though the story changed?" }, { "title": "You try to resume the dream but another begins", "reflection": "How did the new scene relate to the feeling you carried into sleep?" } ], "prompts": [ "What do you remember from before and after the waking interval?", "Did you want the dream to continue?", "Which change distinguishes the second scene from a replay?" ], "related": [ "sleep", "awake", "dreams" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia model-assisted editorial draft. Reflection questions and scenario readings are optional, individually written suggestions, not empirically validated symbol meanings. Source scope is stated with each citation. Historical comparisons identify topics, not inherited interpretations. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "returning-to-work-after-retirement", "title": "Returning to work after retirement", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "tagline": "Returning to an old job after retirement can place a familiar identity beside new freedoms, changed routines, and the question of being needed.", "summary": "Returning to an old job after retirement can place a familiar identity beside new freedoms, changed routines, and the question of being needed.", "aliases": [ "retirement job dream", "back at work after retiring" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "The dream may feel satisfying if your skill still has a place, or intrusive if others assume you remain available. Notice whether you returned by choice and whether the workplace had changed. This need not mean you regret retirement or should return to employment. Reflection can hold both attachment to a former role and the wish to decide how much of it belongs in your present life.", "traditional": "Historical labor and age entries do not determine the value of a life after paid work. This draft avoids equating usefulness with employment or treating a return as a prediction about livelihood.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "Your old desk is waiting exactly as you left it", "reflection": "Did familiarity feel welcoming or like time had stopped?" }, { "title": "No one remembers the system you once managed", "reflection": "What did the changed workplace ask you to release?" }, { "title": "You help briefly and then leave on your own terms", "reflection": "What boundary allowed contribution without reclaiming the whole role?" } ], "prompts": [ "Who initiated the return?", "What part of the old role did you miss or resist?", "What did leaving again feel like?" ], "related": [ "work", "pension", "old-man-or-woman" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia model-assisted editorial draft. Reflection questions and scenario readings are optional, individually written suggestions, not empirically validated symbol meanings. Source scope is stated with each citation. Historical comparisons identify topics, not inherited interpretations. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "reunion", "title": "Reunion", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "A meeting again can restore something while showing what has changed.", "summary": "A reunion can explore recognition after time apart, changed roles, differing memories and the kind of connection worth carrying into the present.", "aliases": [ "reunion", "reunited", "meeting again", "seeing an old friend", "class reunion", "school reunion", "family reunion", "reuniting with an ex", "seeing someone from the past", "homecoming" ], "status": "REVIEW", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-14", "psychological": "A reunion that feels immediately easy can bring back a way of being together rather than the whole earlier period. A joke needs no explanation, or an ordinary conversation continues as though it never stopped. This may picture missing a quality of company that still feels usable. The meeting need not mean you want every old circumstance restored or that an actual reunion would unfold with the same ease.\n\nRecognition can instead arrive unevenly. You know a former classmate, relative or companion who does not recognize the person you have become. A name badge carrying an old description may make that difference visible. This can resemble wanting an earlier connection to acknowledge present choices. Explaining yourself, enjoying the old reference or setting it aside create different encounters without revealing the person’s real opinion.\n\nShared memories may not match. Around a reunion table, people tell several versions of an occasion, and you must decide where your account belongs. The scene can explore how a group holds continuity while its members have separate experiences. A remembered place mixed with a current room can do something similar. The dream does not determine accurate memory simply because one version feels especially vivid.\n\nThe scale of the meeting matters. A class reunion, family gathering or homecoming celebration can offer many connections at once while leaving little time for the one conversation you wanted. Choosing a smaller exchange may let participation become more particular. Meeting a former romantic partner can likewise concern what has changed between roles, without requiring a renewed relationship or an explanation of every past difficulty.\n\nParting gives the return another shape. You exchange details, choose to keep the meeting brief or discover that the gathering continues after you leave. Connection may be worth enjoying without promising future contact. A dreamed reunion with someone who has died can combine grief, comfort and invented activity without proving communication. Photos, anniversaries or recent reminders may supply imagery directly. These original readings concern an actual meeting-again event in the scene; a familiar or old friend appearing alone does not automatically establish that event.", "traditional": "This reflection concerns meeting again after separation or within a reunion gathering. Recognition, changed roles and parting guide the reading. The retained NINDS reference supplies general dream background only; it does not establish a reunion meaning. The encounter cannot verify a living person’s wish to reconnect or communication from someone who has died.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Conversation with a former companion resumes with immediate ease", "reflection": "A familiar rhythm returns without much explanation. This may picture a quality of company you enjoy or miss rather than a wish to restore every earlier circumstance. The dreamed ease can matter while an actual future meeting remains uncertain and open." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A reunion name badge describes you through an old role", "reflection": "Recognition arrives with an account that no longer fits every part of your life. This can resemble wanting your present choices acknowledged alongside shared history. Explaining the change or keeping a familiar reference can each make the encounter useful in another way." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "People at the reunion tell different versions of one event", "reflection": "A group shares the occasion while remembering it differently. This may picture making room for your account without requiring everyone to adopt it. The dreamed stories can clarify belonging or perspective, but their vividness does not decide which recollection is accurate." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A large gathering leaves little time for one desired conversation", "reflection": "Many available connections compete with a particular exchange. This can resemble choosing where attention matters most within a family or group occasion. A brief conversation or another time can preserve participation without making every missed encounter a rejection." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You meet a former partner and choose a limited shared activity", "reflection": "The return has terms that differ from the earlier relationship. This may picture appreciating one connection while keeping changed roles visible. Enjoyment, awkwardness or distance can shape the scene without requiring renewed romance or revealing what the actual person wants." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You part again after an ordinary reunion with someone who died", "reflection": "The imagined return includes another ending. This may give grief and the value of company a particular rhythm, including comfort or unfinished words. The meeting can be worth remembering without proving communication or requiring the ending to supply a message." } ], "prompts": [ "What quality returned, and what had changed around it?", "How did recognition make room for your present life?", "What made the meeting or its ending feel sufficient?" ], "related": [ "friend", "deceased-loved-one", "childhood-home", "ex-partner", "absence" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A quality of company can return", "reflection": "Familiar ease can remain meaningful without recreating the whole earlier relationship or period." }, { "title": "Recognition can include present change", "reflection": "An earlier connection can need room for current choices rather than only the role other participants remember." }, { "title": "A meeting can have a chosen ending", "reflection": "Enjoying a return and choosing separate next steps can coexist without turning the encounter into an obligation." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "revelation", "title": "Revelation", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a revelation, if it be of a pleasant nature, you may expect a bright outlook, either in business or love.”", "aliases": [ "revelation" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about revelation stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1698", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Revelation", "text": "To dream of a revelation, if it be of a pleasant nature,\nyou may expect a bright outlook, either in business or love;\nbut if the revelation be gloomy you will have many discouraging\nfeatures to overcome.", "locator": "Heading 1702; source lines 19080–19087", "lineStart": 19080, "lineEnd": 19087, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a revelation, if it be of a pleasant nature,\nyou may expect a bright outlook, either in business or love;\nbut if the revelation be gloomy you will have many discouraging\nfeatures to overcome." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "revenge", "title": "Revenge", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of taking revenge, is a sign of a weak and uncharitable nature, which if not properly governed,…” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "revenge" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about revenge stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1699", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Revenge", "text": "To dream of taking revenge, is a sign of a weak and uncharitable nature,\nwhich if not properly governed, will bring you troubles and loss of friends.\n\nIf others revenge themselves on you, there will be much to fear from enemies.", "locator": "Heading 1703; source lines 19087–19094", "lineStart": 19087, "lineEnd": 19094, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of taking revenge, is a sign of a weak and uncharitable nature,\nwhich if not properly governed, will bring you troubles and loss of friends.\n\nIf others revenge themselves on you, there will be much to fear from enemies." }, { "id": "fontaine-0663", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Revenge", "text": "To dream of revenging an injury, is a sign of disgrace: if, in\nyour dream, you imagine that you have caused any one to be locked up in\nprison from motives of revenge, it predicts that you yourself will be\nimprisoned for some degrading act. 74, 50.", "locator": "Heading 663; source line 4197", "lineStart": 4197, "lineEnd": 4202, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of revenging an injury, is a sign of disgrace: if, in\nyour dream, you imagine that you have caused any one to be locked up in\nprison from motives of revenge, it predicts that you yourself will be\nimprisoned for some degrading act." }, { "id": "cielo-0356", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Revenge", "text": "Denotes a speedy repentance.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 356; source lines 4719–4721", "lineStart": 4719, "lineEnd": 4721, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Denotes a speedy repentance." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11688", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Revenge", "heading": "Revenge", "text": "To dream of taking revenge prognosticates a bed of sickness for the dreamer (Raphael).", "lineStart": 11688, "lineEnd": 11690, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 249; NLM OCR lines 11688–11690", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11688, "lineEnd": 11690, "printedPage": 249, "printedPageEnd": 249 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Revenge. — To dream of taking revenge prognosticates a bed \nof sickness for the dreamer (Raphael). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Revenge" }, "displayText": "To dream of taking revenge prognosticates a bed of sickness for the dreamer (Raphael)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "revival", "title": "Revival", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream you attend a religious revival, foretells family disturbances and unprofitable engagements.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "revival" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about revival stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "religion" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1700", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Revival", "text": "To dream you attend a religious revival, foretells family disturbances\nand unprofitable engagements.\n\nIf you take a part in it, you will incur the displeasure of friends\nby your contrary ways.\n\n\n[189] See Religion.", "locator": "Heading 1704; source lines 19094–19105", "lineStart": 19094, "lineEnd": 19105, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you attend a religious revival, foretells family disturbances\nand unprofitable engagements.\n\nIf you take a part in it, you will incur the displeasure of friends\nby your contrary ways. See Religion." }, { "id": "fontaine-0664", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Revival", "text": "To dream of a religious revival, or of being where a great\nmany people are holding a revival meeting, is a sign that you will go\ninto a disreputable public place and lose _caste_: if you take part in\nthe meeting, it foretells that you will come to disgrace, as all such\ndreams work contrariwise. 13, 57.", "locator": "Heading 664; source line 4202", "lineStart": 4202, "lineEnd": 4208, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a religious revival, or of being where a great\nmany people are holding a revival meeting, is a sign that you will go\ninto a disreputable public place and lose caste: if you take part in\nthe meeting, it foretells that you will come to disgrace, as all such\ndreams work contrariwise." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "religion" ] }, { "slug": "revolver", "title": "Revolver", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “For a young woman to dream that she sees her sweetheart with a revolver, denotes that she will have a serious disagreement with some friend,…”", "aliases": [ "revolver" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about revolver stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "pistol", "gun" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1701", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Revolver", "text": "For a young woman to dream that she sees her sweetheart with a revolver,\ndenotes that she will have a serious disagreement with some friend,\nand probably separation from her lover.\n\n\n[190] See Pistol, Firearms, etc.", "locator": "Heading 1705; source lines 19105–19114", "lineStart": 19105, "lineEnd": 19114, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a young woman to dream that she sees her sweetheart with a revolver,\ndenotes that she will have a serious disagreement with some friend,\nand probably separation from her lover. See Pistol, Firearms, etc." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "pistol", "gun" ] }, { "slug": "reward", "title": "Reward", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “To dream of receiving a reward for any act which is a public benefit, such as detecting a criminal, is a sign that you will have honors…”", "aliases": [ "reward" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about reward stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0665", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Reward", "text": "To dream of receiving a reward for any act which is a public\nbenefit, such as detecting a criminal, is a sign that you will have\nhonors conferred upon you: if you dream of getting a reward for finding\nmoney or other property, it foreshadows good fortune and riches. 41.", "locator": "Heading 665; source line 4208", "lineStart": 4208, "lineEnd": 4213, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of receiving a reward for any act which is a public\nbenefit, such as detecting a criminal, is a sign that you will have\nhonors conferred upon you: if you dream of getting a reward for finding\nmoney or other property, it foreshadows good fortune and riches." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "rheumatism", "title": "Rheumatism", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To feel rheumatism attacking you in a dream, foretells unexpected delay in the accomplishment of plans.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "rheumatism" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about rheumatism stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1702", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Rheumatism", "text": "To feel rheumatism attacking you in a dream, foretells unexpected\ndelay in the accomplishment of plans.\n\nTo see others so afflicted brings disappointments.", "locator": "Heading 1706; source lines 19114–19121", "lineStart": 19114, "lineEnd": 19121, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To feel rheumatism attacking you in a dream, foretells unexpected\ndelay in the accomplishment of plans.\n\nTo see others so afflicted brings disappointments." }, { "id": "fontaine-0666", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Rheumatism", "text": "To dream of this painful disease, is an omen of health:\nif you imagine a friend is thus afflicted, it shows that he will soon\noffer to do you a favor, or benefit you in some way. 52, 16.", "locator": "Heading 666; source line 4213", "lineStart": 4213, "lineEnd": 4217, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of this painful disease, is an omen of health:\nif you imagine a friend is thus afflicted, it shows that he will soon\noffer to do you a favor, or benefit you in some way." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "rhinestones", "title": "Rhinestones", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of rhinestones, denotes pleasures and favors of short duration.”", "aliases": [ "rhinestones" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about rhinestones stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1703", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Rhinestones", "text": "To dream of rhinestones, denotes pleasures and favors of short duration.\nFor a young woman to dream that a rhinestone proves to be a diamond,\nforetells she will be surprised to find that some insignificant act\non her part will result in good fortune.", "locator": "Heading 1707; source lines 19121–19128", "lineStart": 19121, "lineEnd": 19128, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of rhinestones, denotes pleasures and favors of short duration.\nFor a young woman to dream that a rhinestone proves to be a diamond,\nforetells she will be surprised to find that some insignificant act\non her part will result in good fortune." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "rhinoceros", "title": "Rhinoceros", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you see a rhinoceros, foretells you will have a great loss threatening you, and that you…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "rhinoceros" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about rhinoceros stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1704", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Rhinoceros", "text": "To dream that you see a rhinoceros, foretells you will have a great\nloss threatening you, and that you will have secret troubles.\nTo kill one, shows that you will bravely overcome obstacles.", "locator": "Heading 1708; source lines 19128–19134", "lineStart": 19128, "lineEnd": 19134, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you see a rhinoceros, foretells you will have a great\nloss threatening you, and that you will have secret troubles.\nTo kill one, shows that you will bravely overcome obstacles." }, { "id": "fontaine-0667", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Rhinoceros", "text": "To dream of this East India animal, denotes success to the\nman of business, but disappointment in love matters; but to dream they\ninjure you, is unfavorable to the dreamer. If you dream you see one\ndead, you’ll soon leave a relative. 47.", "locator": "Heading 667; source line 4217", "lineStart": 4217, "lineEnd": 4222, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of this East India animal, denotes success to the\nman of business, but disappointment in love matters; but to dream they\ninjure you, is unfavorable to the dreamer. If you dream you see one\ndead, you’ll soon leave a relative." }, { "id": "noe-0441", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Rhinoceros", "text": "To dream\nof this East India animal, denotes success to the man of business, but\ndisappointment in love matters. But to dream they injure you, is\nunfavorable to the dreamer. If you dream you see one dead, you will soon\nlose a relative.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 447; source lines 1652–1656", "lineStart": 1652, "lineEnd": 1656, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream\nof this East India animal, denotes success to the man of business, but\ndisappointment in love matters. But to dream they injure you, is\nunfavorable to the dreamer. If you dream you see one dead, you will soon\nlose a relative." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "rhubarb", "title": "Rhubarb", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of rhubarb growing, denotes that pleasant entertainments will occupy your time for a while.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "rhubarb" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about rhubarb stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1705", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Rhubarb", "text": "To dream of rhubarb growing, denotes that pleasant entertainments\nwill occupy your time for a while.\n\nTo cook it, foretells spirited arguments in which you will lose a friend.\n\nTo eat it, denotes dissatisfaction with present employment.", "locator": "Heading 1709; source lines 19134–19143", "lineStart": 19134, "lineEnd": 19143, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of rhubarb growing, denotes that pleasant entertainments\nwill occupy your time for a while.\n\nTo cook it, foretells spirited arguments in which you will lose a friend.\n\nTo eat it, denotes dissatisfaction with present employment." }, { "id": "noe-0442", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Rhubarb", "text": "If a person dreams that he handles good\nrhubarb, he will be taken into favor with those he was not on good terms\nwith before; but to dream of the dried Turkey rhubarb, denotes sickness.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 448; source lines 1656–1659", "lineStart": 1656, "lineEnd": 1659, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If a person dreams that he handles good\nrhubarb, he will be taken into favor with those he was not on good terms\nwith before; but to dream of the dried Turkey rhubarb, denotes sickness." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "rib", "title": "Rib", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing ribs, denotes poverty and misery.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "rib", "ribs" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about rib stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1706", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Rib", "text": "To dream of seeing ribs, denotes poverty and misery.", "locator": "Heading 1710; source lines 19143–19147", "lineStart": 19143, "lineEnd": 19147, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing ribs, denotes poverty and misery." }, { "id": "noe-0430", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Ribs", "text": "If one dreams he hath his upper ribs broken or\nsunk, he will have some dissensions with his wife. If he dreams his lower\nribs are broken, he will be afflicted by his female relations and kindred.\nIf one dreams his limbs are grown longer and stronger than ordinary, he\nwill take delight in his wife.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 436; source lines 1619–1623", "lineStart": 1619, "lineEnd": 1623, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If one dreams he hath his upper ribs broken or\nsunk, he will have some dissensions with his wife. If he dreams his lower\nribs are broken, he will be afflicted by his female relations and kindred.\nIf one dreams his limbs are grown longer and stronger than ordinary, he\nwill take delight in his wife." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "ribbon", "title": "Ribbon", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Seeing ribbons floating from the costume of any person in your dreams, indicates you will have gay and…” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "ribbon", "ribbons" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about ribbon stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "moles-71045", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams and Moles", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "United Kingdom, J. Marshall, 1805", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71045", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1707", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Ribbon", "text": "Seeing ribbons floating from the costume of any person in your dreams,\nindicates you will have gay and pleasant companions, and practical cares\nwill not trouble you greatly.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of decorating herself with ribbons,\nshe will soon have a desirable offer of marriage, but frivolity may\ncause her to make a mistake. If she sees other girls wearing ribbons,\nshe will encounter rivalry in her endeavors to secure a husband.\nIf she buys them, she will have a pleasant and easy place in life.\nIf she feels angry or displeased about them, she will find that\nsome other woman is dividing her honors and pleasures with her\nin her social realm.", "locator": "Heading 1711; source lines 19147–19162", "lineStart": 19147, "lineEnd": 19162, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Seeing ribbons floating from the costume of any person in your dreams,\nindicates you will have gay and pleasant companions, and practical cares\nwill not trouble you greatly.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of decorating herself with ribbons,\nshe will soon have a desirable offer of marriage, but frivolity may\ncause her to make a mistake. If she sees other girls wearing ribbons,\nshe will encounter rivalry in her endeavors to secure a husband.\nIf she buys them, she will have a pleasant and easy place in life.\nIf she feels angry or displeased about them, she will find that\nsome other woman is dividing her honors and pleasures with her\nin her social realm." }, { "id": "fontaine-0668", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Ribbons", "text": "For a girl to dream that she has got new, and beautiful\nribbons on her bonnet or dress, is a sign some one will flatter her to\nher disadvantage: if she does not like the ribbon, it shows that she\nwill hear of some scandal relative to herself; and if the ribbon is\nred, the scandal will impeach her chastity. 39, 6.", "locator": "Heading 668; source line 4222", "lineStart": 4222, "lineEnd": 4228, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a girl to dream that she has got new, and beautiful\nribbons on her bonnet or dress, is a sign some one will flatter her to\nher disadvantage: if she does not like the ribbon, it shows that she\nwill hear of some scandal relative to herself; and if the ribbon is\nred, the scandal will impeach her chastity." }, { "id": "cielo-0357", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Ribbons", "text": "To dream of wearing ribbons is a sign of a\n visit from one you love.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 357; source lines 4721–4724", "lineStart": 4721, "lineEnd": 4724, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of wearing ribbons is a sign of a\nvisit from one you love." }, { "id": "moles-0030", "sourceId": "moles-71045", "heading": "Ribbon", "originalHeading": "(no printed heading)", "text": "To dream of ribbons and gay plumes of feathers, denotes increase of\nfortune.", "locator": "Dreams interpreted, passage 30; source lines 197–198", "lineStart": 197, "lineEnd": 198, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "editorialNote": "The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Ribbon” because that is the subject of its first clause.", "displayText": "To dream of ribbons and gay plumes of feathers, denotes increase of\nfortune." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "ribs-and-the-navill", "title": "Ribs and the Navill", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Artemidorus wrote: “ALl the Ribs, and the inner side of the belly containing the bowels to the privities, is force of body, and abundance of goods and…”", "aliases": [ "ribs and the navill", "of the ribs and the navill" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about ribs and the navill stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "artemidorus-032", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of the Ribs and the Navill.", "text": "ALl the Ribs, and the inner side of the belly containing the bowels to the privities, is force of body, and abundance of goods and riches: if they séem diseased, they signifie diseases of the body, and consumption of the purse. The Navill is losse of father and mother to such as have them, and to others banishment.", "locator": "Book 1, encoded section 32", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "1", "displayText": "ALl the Ribs, and the inner side of the belly containing the bowels to the privities, is force of body, and abundance of goods and riches: if they séem diseased, they signifie diseases of the body, and consumption of the purse. The Navill is losse of father and mother to such as have them, and to others banishment." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "rice", "title": "Rice", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "aliases": [ "rice" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "summary": "Rice dreams may explore scale, preparation, careful attention and how a quantity becomes something usable for a particular purpose.", "tagline": "A quantity and its use can ask different questions.", "psychological": "Rice can appear as a bag of grains, a prepared dish, something being sorted or a scattered quantity that refuses to stay contained. These forms give you different tasks. Begin with what you are trying to do and how the rice fits the occasion. A meal, cooking experience or remembered household practice may provide direct context. The dream does not establish health, fertility or a financial outcome.\n\nA large quantity of small grains can make scale noticeable. You might try to count each grain when a simple measure would serve the task, or divide a modest amount among more bowls than expected. This can resemble deciding which details need individual attention and which can be handled through an arrangement. A shared project may offer a comparison. Your dream response can concern the method you choose, rather than the quantity measuring how fortunate or capable you are.\n\nPreparation changes what is ready for use. Rice may be available in a form that requires further work, while the people waiting imagine that the meal is complete. This can picture different understandings of what has been provided. Explaining the remaining steps, changing the dish or asking others to join the preparation gives the scene possible endings. The image need not tell you whether a real plan will succeed.\n\nSorting can have its own purpose. You may remove unfamiliar objects, keep different grains apart or discover that nobody agrees on what belongs in the bowl. This can explore criteria being applied to a particular task. A useful question is whose distinction matters and what the sorting makes possible. The dream does not turn unusual contents into evidence about the safety of actual food or the character of another person.\n\nOwnership and movement can also matter. A labeled sack may belong to someone else, while a small opening lets grains escape as you try to relocate it. Returning the bag, finding a better container or changing the load can focus attention on responsibility through a practical action. Personal memories of rice dishes or preparation deserve room without being treated as universal cultural codes. These reflections concern the work, arrangement and choices within the dream, including the possibility of simply enjoying a familiar meal.", "traditional": "Miller varies his rice forecasts with eating, quality and cooking; Fontaine distinguishes eating and quantities by the dreamer’s location. Noe gives an instruction forecast, and Cielo connects eating or throwing rice with a friend’s marriage. Craig repeats an instruction claim attributed within her text to Artemidorus and adds cultural assertions. These are supplied historical accounts, not verified cultural consensus or evidence about health, marriage, wisdom or future events.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Scale and the chosen method", "reflection": "Counting, measuring and dividing can ask different amounts of attention. Explore which method fits the actual task instead of reading quantity as a fixed fortune code." }, { "title": "A stage still to complete", "reflection": "Available grains and a finished dish are different forms of provision. Notice who understands the remaining work and how you decide to take part in it." }, { "title": "Criteria and responsibility", "reflection": "Sorting or returning a labeled bag can make the terms of a task visible. The useful comparison follows what your action makes possible in the scene." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "You count grains before filling a bowl", "reflection": "You try to count the rice individually although the task is to prepare a portion. This could picture a method demanding more detail than its purpose requires. Measuring, asking about the needed amount or continuing because the counting matters can each give your attention a different direction." }, { "title": "The guests expect a meal from an unopened bag", "reflection": "Rice is present, but it has not been prepared while people wait to eat. The scene may reveal different assumptions about what is already available. Explaining the remaining work, sharing preparation or choosing another dish lets the group’s expectations meet the actual stage of the task." }, { "title": "No one agrees on what to remove", "reflection": "You are sorting a bowl of rice, and different people point to different pieces as unwanted. This can explore a task whose criteria remain unsettled. Asking about the intended dish or dividing the work gives the disagreement a practical focus rather than turning it into a judgment about anyone." }, { "title": "A sack carries someone else’s name", "reflection": "You bring rice to a shared place and notice a label identifying another owner. The scene could concern the terms on which a resource became available. Returning it, asking permission or discovering why it was sent gives your responsibility a specific form within the dream." }, { "title": "Grains escape while you move the container", "reflection": "Rice slips through a small opening each time you carry the bag across the room. This may focus on an arrangement that makes a useful task harder to complete. Finding another container, repairing the opening or moving less at once gives the problem different possible endings." }, { "title": "A familiar rice dish is prepared another way", "reflection": "You recognize the meal’s name, but its texture or arrangement differs from the version you remember. This could place a personal custom beside a new preference. Trying it, asking about the preparation or making your familiar version offers choices without declaring one method culturally correct for everyone." } ], "prompts": [ "What form was the rice in, and what task did that create?", "How were quantities, criteria or remaining preparation decided?", "Which personal meal or shared task makes a useful comparison?" ], "related": [ "cooking", "eating", "grain", "kitchen" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1708" ], "scope": "Miller varies rice forecasts with seeing, eating, impurity and cooking, including friendship, health, harvest and gendered duty/wealth claims. Specific supplied passages: Rice — miller-1708 (Heading 1712; source lines 19162–19176). Historical comparison only; the attributed period claims do not establish outcomes or diagnoses and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0669" ], "scope": "Fontaine assigns health to eating rice and different journey or gain forecasts to quantities according to the dreamer’s location. Specific supplied passages: Rice — fontaine-0669 (Heading 669; source line 4228). Historical comparison only; the attributed period claims do not establish outcomes or diagnoses and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0431" ], "scope": "Noe assigns abundance of instruction to eating rice. Specific supplied passages: Rice — noe-0431 (Dream section, heading 437; source lines 1623–1624). Historical comparison only; the attributed period claims do not establish outcomes or diagnoses and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0358" ], "scope": "Cielo forecasts a close friend’s marriage from eating or throwing rice. Specific supplied passages: Rice — cielo-0358 (Dream section, heading 358; source lines 4724–4727). Historical comparison only; the attributed period claims do not establish outcomes or diagnoses and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L11691" ], "scope": "Craig repeats an instruction forecast attributed within her text to Artemidorus and adds cultural statements about rice and wisdom; these are Craig’s reported claims, not verified community consensus or a separately recovered Artemidorus rice account. Specific supplied passages: Rice — craig-1918:L11691 (Printed p. 249; NLM OCR lines 11691–11695). Historical comparison only; the attributed period claims do not establish outcomes or diagnoses and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "kind": "editorial", "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1708", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Rice", "text": "Rice is good to see in dreams, as it foretells success and warm friendships.\nProsperity to all trades is promised, and the farmer will be blessed with\na bounteous harvest.\n\nTo eat it, signifies happiness and domestic comfort.\n\nTo see it mixed with dirt or otherwise impure, denotes sickness\nand separation from friends.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of cooking it, shows she will soon assume\nnew duties, which will make her happier, and she will enjoy wealth.", "locator": "Heading 1712; source lines 19162–19176", "lineStart": 19162, "lineEnd": 19176, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Rice is good to see in dreams, as it foretells success and warm friendships.\nProsperity to all trades is promised, and the farmer will be blessed with\na bounteous harvest.\n\nTo eat it, signifies happiness and domestic comfort.\n\nTo see it mixed with dirt or otherwise impure, denotes sickness\nand separation from friends.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of cooking it, shows she will soon assume\nnew duties, which will make her happier, and she will enjoy wealth." }, { "id": "fontaine-0669", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Rice", "text": "To dream of eating rice, denotes health: if you imagine that you\nsee large quantities of rice, it foretells to one who does not live in\na rice country, a successful and pleasant journey; and to those who\nlive there, it predicts gain and riches. 12, 2, 24.", "locator": "Heading 669; source line 4228", "lineStart": 4228, "lineEnd": 4233, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of eating rice, denotes health: if you imagine that you\nsee large quantities of rice, it foretells to one who does not live in\na rice country, a successful and pleasant journey; and to those who\nlive there, it predicts gain and riches." }, { "id": "noe-0431", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Rice", "text": "To dream of eating rice, denotes\nabundance of instruction.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 437; source lines 1623–1624", "lineStart": 1623, "lineEnd": 1624, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of eating rice, denotes\nabundance of instruction." }, { "id": "cielo-0358", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Rice", "text": "To dream of eating or throwing rice denotes,\n the marriage of an intimate friend.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 358; source lines 4724–4727", "lineStart": 4724, "lineEnd": 4727, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of eating or throwing rice denotes,\nthe marriage of an intimate friend." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11691", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Rice", "heading": "Rice", "text": "To dream of eating rice denotes abundance of instruction (Artemidorus), Certain legends and traditions of Western Europe associate rice with wisdom; sages were held to live upon it, the yogis of India, etc.", "lineStart": 11691, "lineEnd": 11695, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 249; NLM OCR lines 11691–11695", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11691, "lineEnd": 11695, "printedPage": 249, "printedPageEnd": 249 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Rice, — To dream of eating rice denotes abundance of in- \nstruction (Artemidorus), Certain legends and traditions of \nWestern Europe associate rice with wisdom; sages were held \nto live upon it, the yogis of India, etc. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "in- \nstruction", "after": "instruction", "evidenceLine": 1847 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 0.98507, "secondaryHeading": "Rice" }, "displayText": "To dream of eating rice denotes abundance of instruction (Artemidorus), Certain legends and traditions of Western Europe associate rice with wisdom; sages were held to live upon it, the yogis of India, etc." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "riches", "title": "Riches", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are possessed of riches, denotes that you will rise to high places by your constant…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "riches", "rich" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about riches stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "wealth" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1709", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Riches", "text": "To dream that you are possessed of riches, denotes that you will rise to high\nplaces by your constant exertion and attention to your affairs.\n\n\n[191] See Wealth.", "locator": "Heading 1713; source lines 19176–19184", "lineStart": 19176, "lineEnd": 19184, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are possessed of riches, denotes that you will rise to high\nplaces by your constant exertion and attention to your affairs. See Wealth." }, { "id": "fontaine-0670", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Rich", "text": "To dream you are rich or that you have inherited a fortune, is\na sign of poverty and bad luck; but if you imagine that some one pays\nyou large sums of money enough to make you rich, your dream will be\nrealized so far that you will acquire property. If a person dreams that\na legacy is paid to him in money, it has an entirely different meaning\nfrom a dream that you are enriched from a legacy, but do not see the\nmoney. 15, 3.", "locator": "Heading 670; source line 4233", "lineStart": 4233, "lineEnd": 4241, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are rich or that you have inherited a fortune, is\na sign of poverty and bad luck; but if you imagine that some one pays\nyou large sums of money enough to make you rich, your dream will be\nrealized so far that you will acquire property. If a person dreams that\na legacy is paid to him in money, it has an entirely different meaning\nfrom a dream that you are enriched from a legacy, but do not see the\nmoney." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11696", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Riches", "heading": "Riches", "text": "A dream of the contrary (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 11696, "lineEnd": 11697, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 249; NLM OCR lines 11696–11697", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11696, "lineEnd": 11697, "printedPage": 249, "printedPageEnd": 249 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Riches. — A dream of the contrary (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 0.97872, "secondaryHeading": "Riches" }, "displayText": "A dream of the contrary (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "wealth" ] }, { "slug": "riddles", "title": "Riddles", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are trying to solve riddles, denotes you will engage in some enterprise which will try your patience and employ your money.”", "aliases": [ "riddles" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about riddles stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1710", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Riddles", "text": "To dream that you are trying to solve riddles, denotes you will engage\nin some enterprise which will try your patience and employ your money.\n\nThe import of riddles is confusion and dissatisfaction.", "locator": "Heading 1714; source lines 19184–19191", "lineStart": 19184, "lineEnd": 19191, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are trying to solve riddles, denotes you will engage\nin some enterprise which will try your patience and employ your money.\n\nThe import of riddles is confusion and dissatisfaction." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "ride", "title": "Ride", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "5 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of riding is unlucky for business or pleasure.” Compare 5 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "ride", "riding" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about ride stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "carriage", "stage-coach", "gig" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1711", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Ride", "text": "To dream of riding is unlucky for business or pleasure.\nSickness often follows this dream.\n\nIf you ride slowly, you will have unsatisfactory results in your undertakings.\n\nSwift riding sometimes means prosperity under hazardous conditions.", "locator": "Heading 1715; source lines 19191–19200", "lineStart": 19191, "lineEnd": 19200, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of riding is unlucky for business or pleasure.\nSickness often follows this dream.\n\nIf you ride slowly, you will have unsatisfactory results in your undertakings.\n\nSwift riding sometimes means prosperity under hazardous conditions." }, { "id": "fontaine-0671", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Riding", "text": "(_See Carriage, Stage-coach, and Gig._) To dream you are\nriding, if it be with a woman, is unfortunate: in trade, decay of\nbusiness; in love, disappointments; but if it be with men, then, by\ncare, the reverse of these things will happen. Riding in a railcar, or\na stage, foretells success in business matters. 6, 12, 72.", "locator": "Heading 671; source line 4241", "lineStart": 4241, "lineEnd": 4247, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Carriage, Stage-coach, and Gig.) To dream you are\nriding, if it be with a woman, is unfortunate: in trade, decay of\nbusiness; in love, disappointments; but if it be with men, then, by\ncare, the reverse of these things will happen. Riding in a railcar, or\na stage, foretells success in business matters.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Riding” is shown on the Ride page: same topic" }, { "id": "noe-0426", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Riding", "text": "To dream you are\nriding, if it be with a woman, is very fortunate. If you are in trade,\nbusiness will decay.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 432; source lines 1607–1609", "lineStart": 1607, "lineEnd": 1609, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are\nriding, if it be with a woman, is very fortunate. If you are in trade,\nbusiness will decay.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Riding” is shown on the Ride page: same topic" }, { "id": "cielo-0359", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Ride", "text": "To ride with either men or women denotes coming trouble.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 359; source lines 4727–4729", "lineStart": 4727, "lineEnd": 4729, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To ride with either men or women denotes coming trouble." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11698", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Riding", "heading": "Riding", "text": "A dream of good fortune (Raphael). An erotic dream (Freud, Jung). Legends and tradition generally justify Raphael's interpretation.", "lineStart": 11698, "lineEnd": 11701, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 249; NLM OCR lines 11698–11701", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11698, "lineEnd": 11701, "printedPage": 249, "printedPageEnd": 249 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Riding. — A dream of good fortune (Raphael). An erotic \ndream (Freud, Jung). Legends and tradition generally justify \nRaphael's interpretation. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Riding" }, "displayText": "A dream of good fortune (Raphael). An erotic dream (Freud, Jung). Legends and tradition generally justify Raphael's interpretation.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Riding” is shown on the Ride page: same topic" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "carriage", "stage-coach", "gig" ] }, { "slug": "riding-in-a-self-driving-vehicle", "title": "Riding in a self-driving vehicle", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "Following a journey managed by a system.", "summary": "A self-driving vehicle can focus on handing an ongoing task to a system, checking its instructions and choosing when to intervene.", "aliases": [ "autonomous car dream", "driverless vehicle dream" ], "status": "REVIEW", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-14", "psychological": "Riding in a self-driving vehicle places the task of movement with a system rather than a visible human driver. Your role may involve entering a destination, watching instructions, deciding whether to intervene or enjoying time for something else. Begin with the relationship between your request and the system's response. The dream cannot establish the capability or safety of an actual vehicle.\n\nA clear destination with an unexpected route may highlight the difference between choosing a goal and understanding how it will be reached. You might accept the detour because the explanation makes sense, or feel unsettled when none is offered. That comparison could resemble using software, a delivery process or a service whose steps are mostly out of view.\n\nAttention can become the central question. If you keep watching the controls despite having handed over the task, consider what would let you rest comfortably. If you forget the journey entirely, notice how the dream shows that return of attention. Neither vigilance nor relaxation proves a personality trait or determines whether delegation is sensible.\n\nThe interface can give agency a specific form. You may be able to change the destination but not the speed, request a stop or choose between automatic and manual operation. Those distinctions might help describe a present arrangement where some decisions remain yours and others follow preset rules. Limited controls do not automatically mean complete helplessness.\n\nOther passengers may understand the system differently. One knows how to ask for a stop; another expects you to explain every movement. The scene could bring out how responsibility is shared when a process appears to run itself. Notice which instructions are available and whether anyone actually agreed to monitor the journey.\n\nRecent news, demonstrations, conversations or experiences with automated services can supply the imagery without a larger symbolic claim. Keep the reflection on the dreamed arrangement, rather than imagined facts about technology. What did you ask the system to do, how could you check or change that request, and which part of the task did you want to set aside?", "traditional": "No historical self-driving-vehicle account is supplied here. The NINDS background concerns only waking experiences and emotions entering dreams. The original reflections address a contemporary imagined arrangement of instructions and delegation; they do not borrow older carriage forecasts or validate claims about automated transport.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "Entering a destination and receiving a clear route", "reflection": "The system explains the journey, and you can decide whether to accept it. This might highlight the conditions under which handing off a task feels comfortable. Notice what the explanation provides, without reading the dreamed interface as evidence that any actual automated vehicle works this way." }, { "title": "The system follows a destination entered by someone else", "reflection": "You discover that the trip serves another passenger's earlier request. The scene could focus on checking whose preferences a shared process currently follows. Can you discuss or change the instruction? The mismatch does not prove that a real service or person disregards what you want." }, { "title": "Wanting a stop but not finding the control", "reflection": "The vehicle continues while you search the interface. This might resemble using an arrangement whose ordinary operation is clear but whose interruption is not. Ask what guidance would help and whether anyone else knows, rather than assuming the absence of a button means you have no choices." }, { "title": "Enjoying an activity while the vehicle handles the journey", "reflection": "You read, talk or watch the view without managing every movement. The scene may emphasize what becomes possible when a task is delegated. Identify the activity you value and the conditions that allow it; relaxation in the dream is not an assessment of real transport safety." }, { "title": "Receiving more monitoring requests than expected", "reflection": "The vehicle asks you to confirm each turn after promising an automatic journey. Consider a present tool or service that still requires substantial attention. What part of the task has actually been handed over? The scene can clarify expectations without implying that automation is inherently helpful or unhelpful." }, { "title": "Choosing manual operation for one part of the route", "reflection": "You take over briefly and later return the task to the system. The scene could explore a flexible division of responsibility rather than an all-or-nothing choice. Notice why that section felt different and what information supported the decision, without treating intervention as the universally correct response." } ], "prompts": [ "What instruction did you give the system, and what did it do with it?", "Which choices or controls were available during the ride?", "How did handing over the task affect your attention and other activities?" ], "related": [ "passenger", "driving", "car", "traffic-jam", "driving-out-of-control" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Choosing the goal versus managing the steps", "reflection": "An entered destination and an unexplained route may separate your preference from the process used to carry it out." }, { "title": "Available controls", "reflection": "Stops, route changes and manual options can show precisely which decisions remain available within a delegated task." }, { "title": "Who monitors the process", "reflection": "Passengers and instructions may reveal different expectations about attention and responsibility when a system seems to operate itself." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "riding-school", "title": "Riding School", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To attend a riding school, foretells some friend will act falsely by you, but you will throw off the vexing influence occasioned by it.”", "aliases": [ "riding school" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about riding school stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1712", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Riding School", "text": "To attend a riding school, foretells some friend will act falsely by you,\nbut you will throw off the vexing influence occasioned by it.", "locator": "Heading 1716; source lines 19200–19205", "lineStart": 19200, "lineEnd": 19205, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To attend a riding school, foretells some friend will act falsely by you,\nbut you will throw off the vexing influence occasioned by it." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "ring", "title": "Ring", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "A small object can have a particular fit, history and purpose.", "summary": "A ring can explore fit, ownership, chosen value and the terms of a gift or promise. Its use matters more than a fixed code for jewellery.", "aliases": [ "ring", "rings", "engagement ring", "losing a ring", "ring falling off" ], "status": "REVIEW", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-14", "psychological": "A ring that slips while you carry something can make a small mismatch interfere with an ordinary task. You may want to keep the object without spending the whole encounter checking it. This can resemble an arrangement that has personal value but needs a practical adjustment. A tight ring or one that catches on equipment gives another question about use; discomfort does not automatically make the object a symbol of a costly commitment.\n\nOwnership can matter apart from value. A borrowed ring may fit comfortably while remaining someone else’s, and a found ring may be attractive without making its next destination clear. You might recognize a resource whose usefulness does not settle the terms on which you hold it. Returning, asking or keeping it within the dream creates different choices without measuring your actual character.\n\nA damaged stone can leave the band usable while changing the appearance you expected. You may want repair, prefer the altered form or discover that its history matters more than a perfect surface. A possession, completed piece of work or familiar role can offer a waking comparison. The dreamed material and color do not establish wealth, worth or a universal emotional meaning.\n\nA ring offered as an engagement token can make a possible promise tangible before its terms are understood. You may like the object while wanting another conversation about what accepting it means. A different gift can concern appreciation rather than marriage at all. The ring’s stated role matters: an explicitly identified wedding band has a more specific context than jewellery, a gift or a possible future promise.\n\nChoosing among several rings can also bring use and display apart. One looks impressive but gets in the way; another suits the activity without attracting attention. That difference may picture selecting what supports your purpose rather than what appears valuable to an imagined audience. Recent objects, images or handling a real ring can provide direct context. These original possibilities follow fit, ownership, alteration and choice. They neither predict a relationship outcome nor make a lost ring evidence of infidelity, illness or a coming loss.", "traditional": "The seven Ring records contain mixed enterprise, marriage, conflict, loss and health forecasts; they do not share one favorable rule. Craig’s complete passage combines wedding-band claims with a general ring-on-finger claim, while the two unheaded 1805 passages assign marriage or loss forecasts to specific ring scenes. These are attributed period writings, not predictions or evidence of loyalty. The separately identified Wedding Ring has its own specific account.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A ring repeatedly slips while you carry an ordinary object", "reflection": "A small mismatch keeps interrupting the larger task. This may picture wanting to preserve something valued while making its practical use easier. An adjustment can matter without turning the ring into a universal sign of commitment or the slipping into a forecast of loss." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A borrowed ring fits comfortably but you do not know when to return it", "reflection": "Use is easy while ownership leaves a question. This can resemble a resource whose value does not explain its terms. Asking or arranging a return may make the encounter clearer without requiring you to treat borrowed help as either permanent possession or unwanted obligation." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You find a ring and look for a mark identifying its owner", "reflection": "An attractive object arrives with an unfinished account of where it belongs. This may picture wanting information before deciding what to keep. The chosen search can make ownership particular without turning the dreamed decision into a measure of your real honesty or deservingness." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A stone falls out while the band remains usable", "reflection": "The expected appearance changes without every purpose disappearing. This can resemble a possession or piece of work whose history remains meaningful after alteration. Repair, continued use or another form may each matter, rather than a perfect surface being the only acceptable result." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "An engagement ring is offered before the promise is explained", "reflection": "An object makes a possible commitment visible while its terms remain unclear. This may picture appreciation alongside a need for conversation. Liking or accepting the ring inside the dream does not establish a waking wish to marry or verify the giver’s actual intention." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You choose a plain ring that suits the task over one that catches on things", "reflection": "Appearance and practical use point toward different options. This can resemble selecting an arrangement that supports your activity without needing to impress an audience. The chosen form may matter through function and preference, rather than proving that display or ornament is always unnecessary." } ], "prompts": [ "How did the ring fit the activity rather than only the finger?", "What was known about ownership and the terms of keeping or accepting it?", "Which value remained when appearance or the object’s stated role changed?" ], "related": [ "wedding-ring", "offer-of-marriage", "gold", "jewels", "necklace" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1713" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a diagnosis, prediction or another person’s states. miller-1713 — Ring (Heading 1717; source lines 19205–19219): Wearing, breaking, receiving and seeing rings receive enterprise/prosperity, conflict/separation and gendered lover-devotion forecasts. No fixed jewellery meaning or relationship fact is established." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0672" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a diagnosis, prediction or another person’s states. fontaine-0672 — Ring (Heading 672; source line 4247): Having/giving/finding rings receives gendered wedding and within-a-year marriage predictions. These are not promises of an actual engagement or marriage." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0427" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a diagnosis, prediction or another person’s states. noe-0427 — Ring (Dream section, heading 433; source lines 1609–1615): A ring on/off a finger receives union, evil/death, pregnancy-child-difficulty and lover-warning claims. These are unsupported period forecasts, not family, clinical or loyalty evidence." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0360" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a diagnosis, prediction or another person’s states. cielo-0360 — Ring (Dream section, heading 360; source lines 4729–4732): Receiving a ring is assigned gain; placing it on another’s finger marital trouble. The opposite forecasts do not establish the terms of any real exchange." }, { "id": "moles-71045", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams and Moles", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "United Kingdom, J. Marshall, 1805", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71045", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "moles-0004", "moles-0016" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a diagnosis, prediction or another person’s states. moles-0004 — Ring (Dreams interpreted, passage 4; source lines 120–122): An unheaded 1805 passage combines a gold ring placed on a finger and a garter tied on a leg as marriage forecasts. Both clauses and its assigned historical heading remain intact. moles-0016 — Ring (Dreams interpreted, passage 16; source lines 156–157): An unheaded 1805 passage assigns a broken/falling gold ring loss of a lover or dear friend. No real loss is predicted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L11702" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a diagnosis, prediction or another person’s states. craig-1918:L11702 — Ring (Printed p. 249; NLM OCR lines 11702–11709): Craig’s Ring passage mixes a broken/tight wedding band with death/illness forecasts, placing a ring on a finger with marriage, and general amulet-of-affection/home assertions. The whole mixed record stays at Ring; reported Raphael claims and all-times assertions are not independently verified." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Fit belongs to the activity", "reflection": "An object can be personally valuable while needing a practical adjustment to serve the task." }, { "title": "Use and ownership are different questions", "reflection": "A borrowed or found ring can be useful or attractive without making its terms of possession clear." }, { "title": "Chosen value can exceed appearance", "reflection": "History, function and the meaning of a gift can matter separately from an impressive or perfect surface." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1713", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Ring", "text": "To dream of wearing rings, denotes new enterprises in which you\nwill be successful.\n\nA broken ring, foretells quarrels and unhappiness in the married state,\nand separation to lovers.\n\nFor a young woman to receive a ring, denotes that worries\nover her lover's conduct will cease, as he will devote himself\nto her pleasures and future interest.\n\nTo see others with rings, denotes increasing prosperity and many new friends.", "locator": "Heading 1717; source lines 19205–19219", "lineStart": 19205, "lineEnd": 19219, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of wearing rings, denotes new enterprises in which you\nwill be successful.\n\nA broken ring, foretells quarrels and unhappiness in the married state,\nand separation to lovers.\n\nFor a young woman to receive a ring, denotes that worries\nover her lover's conduct will cease, as he will devote himself\nto her pleasures and future interest.\n\nTo see others with rings, denotes increasing prosperity and many new friends." }, { "id": "fontaine-0672", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Ring", "text": "For a lady to dream that a gentleman presents her with a ring, or\nthat she has a ring belonging to a gentleman, is a sign of a wedding.\nIf a young man dreams that he has got a lady’s ring, the omen is\nsimilar. To dream of finding a ring, foretells that the person finding\nit will marry within a year. 4, 20.", "locator": "Heading 672; source line 4247", "lineStart": 4247, "lineEnd": 4253, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a lady to dream that a gentleman presents her with a ring, or\nthat she has a ring belonging to a gentleman, is a sign of a wedding.\nIf a young man dreams that he has got a lady’s ring, the omen is\nsimilar. To dream of finding a ring, foretells that the person finding\nit will marry within a year." }, { "id": "noe-0427", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Ring", "text": "To dream of a ring is favorable, if it be on\nyour finger. If you are in love, expect to be speedily united to the\nperson on whom you have placed your affections. To dream your ring falls\noff your finger, betokens evil, also the death of some near friend. To a\nwoman with child, it shows that the child with which she is pregnant will\nencounter many difficulties, and be far from being happy. To a maiden, it\nis a warning to beware of her present lover.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 433; source lines 1609–1615", "lineStart": 1609, "lineEnd": 1615, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a ring is favorable, if it be on\nyour finger. If you are in love, expect to be speedily united to the\nperson on whom you have placed your affections. To dream your ring falls\noff your finger, betokens evil, also the death of some near friend. To a\nwoman with child, it shows that the child with which she is pregnant will\nencounter many difficulties, and be far from being happy. To a maiden, it\nis a warning to beware of her present lover." }, { "id": "cielo-0360", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Ring", "text": "To receive one means a gain; to place one on\n the finger of another denotes marital trouble.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 360; source lines 4729–4732", "lineStart": 4729, "lineEnd": 4732, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To receive one means a gain; to place one on\nthe finger of another denotes marital trouble." }, { "id": "moles-0004", "sourceId": "moles-71045", "heading": "Ring", "originalHeading": "(no printed heading)", "text": "To dream one presents you with a gold ring, and puts it on your finger,\nor ties on your garter on your right leg, it foreshews speedy marriage\nto either party.", "locator": "Dreams interpreted, passage 4; source lines 120–122", "lineStart": 120, "lineEnd": 122, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "editorialNote": "The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Ring” because that is the subject of its first clause.", "displayText": "To dream one presents you with a gold ring, and puts it on your finger,\nor ties on your garter on your right leg, it foreshews speedy marriage\nto either party." }, { "id": "moles-0016", "sourceId": "moles-71045", "heading": "Ring", "originalHeading": "(no printed heading)", "text": "To dream a gold ring breaks, and falls from your finger, denotes the\nloss of a lover, or some dear friend.", "locator": "Dreams interpreted, passage 16; source lines 156–157", "lineStart": 156, "lineEnd": 157, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "editorialNote": "The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Ring” because that is the subject of its first clause.", "displayText": "To dream a gold ring breaks, and falls from your finger, denotes the\nloss of a lover, or some dear friend." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11702", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Ring", "heading": "Ring", "text": "For a woman to dream that her wedding ring breaks augurs the death of her husband; if it presses her finger the dream forecasts the illness of her husband or of some of his family. To dream that some one draws a ring on the dreamer's finger denotes marriage (Raphael). In all times the ring has been held as an amulet of affection and of home, its suggestion in a dream is therefore obvious.", "lineStart": 11702, "lineEnd": 11709, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 249; NLM OCR lines 11702–11709", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11702, "lineEnd": 11709, "printedPage": 249, "printedPageEnd": 249 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Ring. — For a woman to dream that her wedding ring breaks \naugurs the death of her husband; if it presses her finger the \ndream forecasts the illness of her husband or of some of his \nfamily. To dream that some one draws a ring on the dreamer's \nfinger denotes marriage (Raphael). In all times the ring has \nbeen held as an amulet of affection and of home, its suggestion \nin a dream is therefore obvious. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 0.97097, "secondaryHeading": "Ring" }, "displayText": "For a woman to dream that her wedding ring breaks augurs the death of her husband; if it presses her finger the dream forecasts the illness of her husband or of some of his family. To dream that some one draws a ring on the dreamer's finger denotes marriage (Raphael). In all times the ring has been held as an amulet of affection and of home, its suggestion in a dream is therefore obvious." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "ringworms", "title": "Ringworms", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of having ringworms appear on you, you will have a slight illness, and some exasperating difficulty in the near future.”", "aliases": [ "ringworms" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about ringworms stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1714", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Ringworms", "text": "To dream of having ringworms appear on you, you will have a slight illness,\nand some exasperating difficulty in the near future.\n\nTo see them on others, beggars and appeals for charity will beset you.", "locator": "Heading 1718; source lines 19219–19226", "lineStart": 19219, "lineEnd": 19226, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of having ringworms appear on you, you will have a slight illness,\nand some exasperating difficulty in the near future.\n\nTo see them on others, beggars and appeals for charity will beset you." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "riot", "title": "Riot", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of riots, foretells disappointing affairs.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "riot" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about riot stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1715", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Riot", "text": "To dream of riots, foretells disappointing affairs.\n\nTo see a friend killed in a riot, you will have bad luck\nin all undertakings, and the death, or some serious illness,\nof some person will cause you distress.", "locator": "Heading 1719; source lines 19226–19234", "lineStart": 19226, "lineEnd": 19234, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of riots, foretells disappointing affairs.\n\nTo see a friend killed in a riot, you will have bad luck\nin all undertakings, and the death, or some serious illness,\nof some person will cause you distress." }, { "id": "fontaine-0673", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Riot", "text": "To dream of a public tumult or riot, is a sign of scarcity and\nbad crops to farmers, and dull business to tradesmen and mechanics:\nif any friend or relative is injured in the riot, you or they will\nprobably suffer from misfortune, but if they are successful and pacify\nthe crowd, it foretells that you will overcome your difficulties. 2.", "locator": "Heading 673; source line 4253", "lineStart": 4253, "lineEnd": 4259, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a public tumult or riot, is a sign of scarcity and\nbad crops to farmers, and dull business to tradesmen and mechanics:\nif any friend or relative is injured in the riot, you or they will\nprobably suffer from misfortune, but if they are successful and pacify\nthe crowd, it foretells that you will overcome your difficulties." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "rising", "title": "Rising", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of rising to high positions, denotes that study and advancement will bring you desired wealth.”", "aliases": [ "rising" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about rising stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1716", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Rising", "text": "To dream of rising to high positions, denotes that study and advancement\nwill bring you desired wealth.\n\nIf you find yourself rising high into the air, you will come into unexpected\nriches and pleasures, but you are warned to be careful of your engagements,\nor you may incur displeasing prominence.", "locator": "Heading 1720; source lines 19234–19243", "lineStart": 19234, "lineEnd": 19243, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of rising to high positions, denotes that study and advancement\nwill bring you desired wealth.\n\nIf you find yourself rising high into the air, you will come into unexpected\nriches and pleasures, but you are warned to be careful of your engagements,\nor you may incur displeasing prominence." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "rival", "title": "Rival", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream you have a rival, is a sign that you will be slow in asserting your rights, and will lose favor…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "rival" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about rival stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1717", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Rival", "text": "To dream you have a rival, is a sign that you will be slow in asserting\nyour rights, and will lose favor with people of prominence.\n\nFor a young woman, this dream is a warning to cherish the love\nshe already holds, as she might unfortunately make a mistake\nin seeking other bonds.\n\nIf you find that a rival has outwitted you, it signifies that you\nwill be negligent in your business, and that you love personal ease\nto your detriment.\n\nIf you imagine that you are the successful rival, it is good for\nyour advancement, and you will find congeniality in your choice\nof a companion.", "locator": "Heading 1721; source lines 19243–19260", "lineStart": 19243, "lineEnd": 19260, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you have a rival, is a sign that you will be slow in asserting\nyour rights, and will lose favor with people of prominence.\n\nFor a young woman, this dream is a warning to cherish the love\nshe already holds, as she might unfortunately make a mistake\nin seeking other bonds.\n\nIf you find that a rival has outwitted you, it signifies that you\nwill be negligent in your business, and that you love personal ease\nto your detriment.\n\nIf you imagine that you are the successful rival, it is good for\nyour advancement, and you will find congeniality in your choice\nof a companion." }, { "id": "fontaine-0674", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Rival", "text": "For a lover to dream that he has a rival who annoys him, is a\nsign that he is in high favor with his sweetheart; such a dream to a\nyoung lady has a similar omen, and she has only to name the happy day\nto settle the matter to her mind. 1, 70.", "locator": "Heading 674; source line 4259", "lineStart": 4259, "lineEnd": 4264, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a lover to dream that he has a rival who annoys him, is a\nsign that he is in high favor with his sweetheart; such a dream to a\nyoung lady has a similar omen, and she has only to name the happy day\nto settle the matter to her mind." }, { "id": "cielo-0361", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Rival", "text": "To dream of a rival is a sign that you will\n quarrel with the one you love best.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 361; source lines 4732–4735", "lineStart": 4732, "lineEnd": 4735, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a rival is a sign that you will\nquarrel with the one you love best." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "river", "title": "River", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "summary": "A river can picture a route with its own movement, a crossing between distinct sides, or deciding how to travel within changing conditions.", "tagline": "A moving channel, two banks, and more than one way to continue.", "aliases": [ "river" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "A river can give a journey a direction that is already present before you choose how to travel. A current may help you reach a destination, carry you past it, or make movement against it feel demanding. A changing workplace, a family transition, or a plan with established deadlines may offer a parallel when conditions set part of the pace. Traveling with the current can feel practical rather than passive if it takes you where you want to go. If the destination differs, the question becomes how much influence your method allows within that movement.\n\nThe banks make crossing different from simply continuing downstream. You may want to reach a place directly opposite while the water keeps adding sideways movement. This can resemble a transition that seems straightforward in description but requires resources, timing, or help in practice. A bridge, boat, shallow crossing, or companion creates a particular route rather than a generic test of courage. Reaching the far side may bring relief and unfamiliarity together: completing the passage does not determine how the new setting will feel once you arrive.\n\nWalking along a bank allows participation without entering the channel. You can follow movement while retaining stable footing and the ability to stop. This may fit observing a change, supporting another person’s journey, or keeping enough distance to make your own decisions. A bank that narrows can make the conditions of that distance less workable. If you repeatedly try to keep the river beside you while the path turns away, the scene may concern a wish to maintain contact even when your route has another direction.\n\nA divided channel can make several continuations visible. One branch may look easier while another remains familiar, or companions may choose different paths without either route being clearly wrong. A dry riverbed reverses the image: the shape of a journey remains after the expected movement disappears. This can picture a process whose usual momentum has stopped and now needs another approach. A real crossing, map, photograph, or remembered riverside may also supply direct context. This entry concerns channel, banks, course, and transport; general Water is the medium, while Lake’s enclosed setting offers a different relationship with movement and distance.", "traditional": "Six sources disagree about river conditions: Miller links muddy movement to contention, while Noe assigns disturbed or muddy water a riches forecast. Fontaine emphasizes crossings; Cielo and Moles add change or gain predictions. Craig offers a river-as-life analogy. These attributed period beliefs do not establish success, danger, or a fixed modern reading.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Direction within existing movement", "reflection": "A current can help or divert a journey. Your destination and method distinguish chosen use of conditions from being carried beyond what you wanted." }, { "title": "A crossing between two sides", "reflection": "Banks make a transition concrete. The available route and what awaits across it matter more than assuming the crossing is a universal test." }, { "title": "Distance that still permits contact", "reflection": "Walking beside a river can picture following change without entering every part of it. A stable bank supports attention while leaving room for your own pace." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A boat carries you downstream toward your destination", "reflection": "Existing movement works with the direction you chose. This may picture using available conditions rather than fighting them. Comfort differs from being unable to stop, even when the route initially appears useful." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "The current carries you past the place you wanted", "reflection": "Movement continues while your intended stopping point disappears behind you. This can resemble a process whose pace reduces your influence. Finding a landing changes the scene toward recovering choice within conditions you did not fully set." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You cross to a clearly different bank", "reflection": "The passage connects two places rather than merely continuing along one route. This may picture a transition requiring practical means. Relief on arrival can coexist with uncertainty about what the new side now asks of you." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You follow a path along the riverbank", "reflection": "Stable footing lets you keep the moving water in view without entering it. This can picture involvement at a useful distance. If the path turns away, wanting to remain beside the river may conflict with your own direction." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The channel divides and companions choose another branch", "reflection": "The shared journey no longer has only one continuation. This may picture differing priorities without a clear winner. Discussing the separation creates another relationship from interpreting every different route as abandonment." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You reach a riverbed with no moving water", "reflection": "The shape of the expected route remains while its usual momentum is absent. This can picture a process that has stopped under changed conditions. Exploring the bed differs from waiting indefinitely for the previous movement to return." } ], "prompts": [ "Did the river’s direction help my journey or take me past a chosen destination?", "Was I crossing between banks, traveling along the channel, or watching from beside it?", "What route, transport, or companion made movement possible?" ], "related": [ "water", "bridge", "rapids", "waterfall", "lake", "swimming" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1718" ], "scope": "Attached historical comparison only: River — miller-1718 (Heading 1722; source lines 19260–19281): Clear/flowing, muddy/tumultuous, overflowing, corpses visible, and empty rivers receive pleasure/prosperity, contention, business/reputation, gloom, or ill-health forecasts. These period assertions are preserved as attributed archival material; they neither validate this original modern reflection nor establish an outcome." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0675" ], "scope": "Attached historical comparison only: River — fontaine-0675 (Heading 675; source line 4264): Clear or muddy crossings receive fortune, difficulties-overcome, travel, and marriage predictions. These period assertions are preserved as attributed archival material; they neither validate this original modern reflection nor establish an outcome." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0440" ], "scope": "Attached historical comparison only: River — noe-0440 (Dream section, heading 446; source lines 1649–1652): Clear/smooth river is assigned happiness/success; disturbed, muddy or yellow water is assigned riches, contrasting with several other authors. These period assertions are preserved as attributed archival material; they neither validate this original modern reflection nor establish an outcome." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0362" ], "scope": "Attached historical comparison only: River — cielo-0362 (Dream section, heading 362; source lines 4735–4738): Seeing a river is linked to changed conditions; falling in receives an enemies warning. These period assertions are preserved as attributed archival material; they neither validate this original modern reflection nor establish an outcome." }, { "id": "moles-71045", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams and Moles", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "United Kingdom, J. Marshall, 1805", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71045", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "moles-0043" ], "scope": "Attached historical comparison only: River — moles-0043 (Dreams interpreted, passage 43; source lines 235–236): A spring growing into a river or lake receives riches and preferment forecasts. These period assertions are preserved as attributed archival material; they neither validate this original modern reflection nor establish an outcome." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L11710" ], "scope": "Attached historical comparison only: River — craig-1918:L11710 (Printed p. 249; NLM OCR lines 11710–11715): Rapid/muddy versus calm/clear rivers are assigned difficulty versus happiness/prosperity; Craig then presents a river-as-human-life analogy. These period assertions are preserved as attributed archival material; they neither validate this original modern reflection nor establish an outcome." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s continuing English editorial delegation. Historical accounts retain their attribution; general sleep background does not validate these interpretations.", "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "DreamFolia AI-assisted editorial review", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "bed", "bathroom", "bridge", "door", "window", "stairs", "road", "clothes", "shoes", "driving", "being-late", "crying", "running", "swimming", "river", "snow", "moon", "sun", "mountain", "fish" ] }, "decisionReason": "The developed reading distinguishes existing current, crossing between banks, following at a distance, divided continuations and an absent current. All six source scopes identify the actual passages, including Noe’s muddy-water riches claim that contradicts other writers. 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If a girl dreams this, it is a sign she will\ntravel somewhere and get a rich husband. 34, 20.", "locator": "Heading 675; source line 4264", "lineStart": 4264, "lineEnd": 4270, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of crossing a large and clear river, foretells\na splendid fortune: if the water is muddy or riled, it predicts\ndifficulties, but they will be overcome provided you get safe over the\nriver without accident. If a girl dreams this, it is a sign she will\ntravel somewhere and get a rich husband." }, { "id": "noe-0440", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "River", "text": "To dream you see a flowing river, and that\nthe waters are smooth and clear, presages happiness and success in life.\nIf the water appears disturbed and muddy, or has a yellow tinge, then it\ndenotes that you will acquire considerable riches.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 446; source lines 1649–1652", "lineStart": 1649, "lineEnd": 1652, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see a flowing river, and that\nthe waters are smooth and clear, presages happiness and success in life.\nIf the water appears disturbed and muddy, or has a yellow tinge, then it\ndenotes that you will acquire considerable riches." }, { "id": "cielo-0362", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "River", "text": "To see a river denotes a change in your condition;\n to fall into one means “Beware of your enemies!”", "locator": "Dream section, heading 362; source lines 4735–4738", "lineStart": 4735, "lineEnd": 4738, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a river denotes a change in your condition;\nto fall into one means “Beware of your enemies!”" }, { "id": "moles-0043", "sourceId": "moles-71045", "heading": "River", "originalHeading": "(no printed heading)", "text": "To dream you see a little spring increase to a river or lake, signifies\nan increase of riches and great preferment in the world.", "locator": "Dreams interpreted, passage 43; source lines 235–236", "lineStart": 235, "lineEnd": 236, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "editorialNote": "The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “River” because that is the subject of its first clause.", "displayText": "To dream you see a little spring increase to a river or lake, signifies\nan increase of riches and great preferment in the world." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11710", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "River", "heading": "River", "text": "To see a broad, rapid and muddy river is a dream denoting difficulties ; calm and clear augurs happiness and prosperity (Raphael). 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The river is usually taken as a symbol of human life and represented as smooth or turbulent according to the nature of the occurrences." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "road", "title": "Road", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "aliases": [ "road" ], "summary": "A road can suggest direction, the conditions of progress, or how a plan changes along the way. Company and route matter as much as destination.", "tagline": "The way forward has a surface, alternatives, and other travelers.", "psychological": "A road can picture a direction that connects where you are with somewhere you intend to go. A familiar route may fit a plan you understand or a routine that still serves you. An unknown road can suggest entering work, a relationship arrangement, or a stage of life without knowing its full course. The scene becomes specific through the destination and whether you chose the journey.\n\nRoad conditions make the cost of progress visible. Rough ground, narrow passage, or repeated obstacles can resemble a task whose practical demands are greater than expected. A smooth surface may suggest having enough support, but ease can also feel dull if the route no longer leads somewhere you value. Progress and satisfaction are separate questions.\n\nA fork can give form to competing priorities. Choosing one road means accepting that another will remain unexplored, at least for now. A detour may fit adapting after new information or a changed circumstance, while returning to the same junction can picture decisions repeatedly postponed. The image concerns how choices are organized, rather than identifying a correct option.\n\nTraveling with others can connect direction with belonging. Matching another person's pace may feel companionable or restrictive; separating can express different needs within a valued relationship. A road leading back to a familiar place may instead bring continuity or an old expectation into view.\n\nA blocked road is not the same as no destination. It may picture a particular method becoming unavailable while the goal remains worthwhile. Finding another route can suggest flexibility rather than abandonment. Daily journeys, remembered landscapes, maps, and travel plans also provide direct sources for the image, without requiring it to stand for your whole life.", "traditional": "Miller contrasts a rough unknown road with one bordered by trees and flowers, and assigns family or business forecasts to company and losing the route. Craig’s Road item only directs the reader to Path; it supplies no independent account here. These are historical writing and a historical cross-reference, not evidence of a partner’s fidelity, future fortune or a correct decision. The original reading separates terrain, company and direction, allowing a difficult route to lead somewhere that still matters.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A direction you are choosing", "reflection": "A road can picture a plan connecting present circumstances with a desired place. Familiarity may support confidence, while an unknown route can make commitment precede a complete view of the journey." }, { "title": "The practical cost of progress", "reflection": "Rough or narrow ground can express demands built into a task. Easy travel may suggest support, but whether the destination still matters remains a separate question from the route's comfort." }, { "title": "Choice, adaptation, and company", "reflection": "Forks and detours can picture priorities changing, while shared travel brings pace and belonging into view. Another route may preserve the goal even when the original method is blocked." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "A familiar road leads somewhere unexpected", "reflection": "This can picture a routine producing a change you had not anticipated. A job, friendship, or household arrangement may remain recognizable while its destination shifts. Surprise may be welcome or unsettling, depending on whether the new direction serves what you want.", "slug": "scene-1" }, { "title": "A rough road makes progress slow", "reflection": "The terrain can express practical demands that were easy to overlook when choosing the goal. Repeated administrative steps, limited resources, or a difficult learning process may fit. Slow movement need not mean lack of commitment; the conditions require more effort.", "slug": "scene-2" }, { "title": "You stop at a fork with two appealing routes", "reflection": "Competing good possibilities can make choosing harder than avoiding a clearly unwanted option. Two roles, plans, or priorities may each offer something valuable. The scene can express the cost of commitment: selecting one route leaves another possibility untested.", "slug": "scene-3" }, { "title": "A blocked road sends you on a detour", "reflection": "This can picture adapting the means while keeping the destination. A changed schedule, unavailable resource, or revised agreement may require another approach. Frustration may concern added effort, while relief can come from discovering that the goal remains accessible.", "slug": "scene-4" }, { "title": "Your companion wants to travel at another pace", "reflection": "A shared plan may require negotiating different needs rather than assuming matching speed. A relationship change, group task, or family journey can feel similar. Staying together and moving comfortably may both matter, creating a tension the road makes visible.", "slug": "scene-5" }, { "title": "The road brings you back to where you began", "reflection": "Returning can suggest an unresolved choice or a repeated pattern, but can also offer a useful reassessment. Revisiting a role or plan after gaining experience may change what you want from it. The return's feeling distinguishes being stuck from coming back with perspective.", "slug": "scene-6" } ], "prompts": [ "Was the destination mine, shared, or simply assumed?", "Which part of the road resembled the actual conditions of a current task?", "What did a detour, companion, or return change about the journey?" ], "related": [ "path", "car", "being-lost", "bridge" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s continuing English editorial delegation. Historical accounts retain their attribution; general sleep background does not validate these interpretations.", "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1719" ], "scope": "Historical context only: Road — miller-1719, Heading 1723; source lines 19281–19294. These are period fortune-telling beliefs, not evidence for the modern interpretations." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. 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These attributed period claims and cross-references do not establish outcomes, diagnoses, cultural consensus or the original modern interpretations.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L11716" ] }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "DreamFolia AI-assisted editorial review", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "bed", "bathroom", "bridge", "door", "window", "stairs", "road", "clothes", "shoes", "driving", "being-late", "crying", "running", "swimming", "river", "snow", "moon", "sun", "mountain", "fish" ] }, "decisionReason": "Six scenes separate changed destination, terrain, appealing alternatives, a detour, a companion’s pace and a return. Craig’s attached Road item is accurately identified as a Path cross-reference only. 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If friends accompany you,\nyou will be successful in building an ideal home, with happy children\nand faithful wife, or husband.\n\nTo lose the road, foretells that you will make a mistake in deciding\nsome question of trade, and suffer loss in consequence.", "locator": "Heading 1723; source lines 19281–19294", "lineStart": 19281, "lineEnd": 19294, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Traveling over a rough, unknown road in a dream, signifies new undertakings,\nwhich will bring little else than grief and loss of time.\n\nIf the road is bordered with trees and flowers, there will be some\npleasant and unexpected fortune for you. If friends accompany you,\nyou will be successful in building an ideal home, with happy children\nand faithful wife, or husband.\n\nTo lose the road, foretells that you will make a mistake in deciding\nsome question of trade, and suffer loss in consequence." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11716", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Road", "heading": "Road", "text": "See Path,", "lineStart": 11716, "lineEnd": 11717, "kind": "cross-reference", "locator": "Printed p. 249; NLM OCR lines 11716–11717", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11716, "lineEnd": 11717, "printedPage": 249, "printedPageEnd": 249 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Road. — See Path, \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Road" }, "displayText": "See Path," } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [ "path" ] }, { "slug": "roast", "title": "Roast", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see or eat roast in a dream, is an omen of domestic infelicity and secret treachery.”", "aliases": [ "roast" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about roast stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1720", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Roast", "text": "To see or eat roast in a dream, is an omen of domestic infelicity\nand secret treachery.", "locator": "Heading 1724; source lines 19294–19299", "lineStart": 19294, "lineEnd": 19299, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see or eat roast in a dream, is an omen of domestic infelicity\nand secret treachery." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "robin", "title": "Robin", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “To dream of seeing robins around your house, is a good omen, as it foretells abundance to farmers and success to any one.”", "aliases": [ "robin" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about robin stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0677", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Robin", "text": "To dream of seeing robins around your house, is a good omen, as\nit foretells abundance to farmers and success to any one; if you do not\nsee them, but hear them trilling, it foreshadows sickness, and perhaps\ndeath. 6.", "locator": "Heading 677; source line 4272", "lineStart": 4272, "lineEnd": 4277, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing robins around your house, is a good omen, as\nit foretells abundance to farmers and success to any one; if you do not\nsee them, but hear them trilling, it foreshadows sickness, and perhaps\ndeath." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "robot", "title": "Robot", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "aliases": [ "robot", "robots", "robot helper", "robot companion", "being a robot" ], "summary": "A robot can picture delegated work, routine, or a role governed by instructions. Helpful cooperation differs from being expected to function mechanically.", "tagline": "A task takes bodily form, making effort, instructions, and room for choice visible.", "psychological": "A robot can picture work becoming a visible helper rather than an invisible expectation. It can carry, sort, build, or accompany you, giving a task a physical presence. A helpful robot may fit wanting practical support, sharing repetitive duties, or having enough room to concentrate on a different part of a project. The relief comes from what gets done, not a claim about actual machine intelligence.\n\nA robot that follows instructions too literally can make the difference between rules and needs concrete. It may complete the stated action while missing the purpose. A workplace procedure that satisfies a checklist without helping the task, or an agreement whose wording does not fit present circumstances, can feel similar. Adjusting the instructions may represent learning to communicate the context as well as the command.\n\nBeing a robot yourself creates another reading. Repeated movements may feel efficient and calm, or leave little room to respond differently. This can fit a demanding routine in which performance matters more than your preferences. The image does not mean that you lack feelings; it makes the terms of a role visible through how much choice the dream allows.\n\nA robot taking your place can bring identity and recognition into view. You may wonder whether a role values your individual contribution or only the output. A friendly companion can instead picture connection outside familiar expectations, particularly when its manner feels attentive rather than impersonal.\n\nMalfunction, repair, or an agreed pause can shift the scene toward making support workable. Stories, toys, workplace tools, and images can supply the robot directly. These original readings concern an embodied device and its actions, rather than forecasting replacement or assigning one nature to artificial intelligence.", "traditional": "The entry develops original interpretations of an embodied device performing tasks, following instructions, or offering company. No verified historical robot passage is cited. The general research source does not validate conclusions about actual artificial intelligence; the dreamed robot's role and available choices are the basis of the reflection.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Practical support becomes visible", "reflection": "A helper can picture wanting effort shared or repetitive tasks handled dependably. Its usefulness lies in the work it makes available to you, rather than in a fixed meaning for machinery." }, { "title": "Instructions do not capture the whole need", "reflection": "Literal action can express a gap between a rule and its purpose. The scene may concern communicating context, adjusting a procedure, or making a formal arrangement responsive to actual circumstances." }, { "title": "A role with room for individuality", "reflection": "Being mechanical or being replaced can picture uncertainty about what a task recognizes in you. Comfortable cooperation and friendly company offer alternatives to treating every robot as impersonal or threatening." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "A robot takes over an exhausting household task", "reflection": "Practical support can picture relief through shared effort. Having a repetitive duty handled reliably may create time for rest or a task that needs your particular attention. The robot's usefulness depends on what it makes possible, rather than implying that all responsibility should disappear.", "slug": "scene-1" }, { "title": "It completes the instruction but misses the purpose", "reflection": "A checklist can be satisfied while the actual need remains unmet. A rigid work process or arrangement that ignores changing circumstances may feel similar. The scene makes context important: a technically completed action may not amount to the help you were expecting.", "slug": "scene-2" }, { "title": "You perform the same movement as a robot", "reflection": "A role may organize your behavior so tightly that variation feels unavailable. Repetitive work or a routine governed by other people's expectations can offer parallels. Calm efficiency and frustration give different readings to the same movement, depending on how much choice you want.", "slug": "scene-3" }, { "title": "A robot occupies your familiar place at work", "reflection": "This can picture uncertainty about whether the role recognizes your experience or only its output. A changing team or task may prompt similar questions about contribution. The imagined replacement does not forecast employment changes; it makes recognition and identity part of the scene.", "slug": "scene-4" }, { "title": "A robot companion listens patiently", "reflection": "Company without familiar social demands can picture wanting room to speak or explore an idea. A patient conversation or an unusual source of support may offer a parallel. The dreamed warmth keeps companionship distinct from assumptions that a mechanical appearance must mean emotional distance.", "slug": "scene-5" }, { "title": "You and the robot agree on a pause", "reflection": "Useful support can include a limit rather than constant activity. Revising a work rhythm or making a shared routine manageable may fit. The agreement makes cooperation responsive to needs, instead of defining success as uninterrupted performance.", "slug": "scene-6" } ], "prompts": [ "What task or company did the robot make available?", "Did the instructions serve the actual purpose, or only repeat a rule?", "How much choice and recognition did my role allow?" ], "related": [ "computer", "remote-control", "boss", "video-games" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia editorial entry with image-specific interpretations and six differentiated scenes. The reference supplies general dream background only. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "rocket", "title": "Rocket", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see a rocket ascending in your dream, foretells sudden and unexpected elevation, successful wooing, and…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "rocket" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about rocket stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1721", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Rocket", "text": "To see a rocket ascending in your dream, foretells sudden and\nunexpected elevation, successful wooing, and faithful keeping\nof the marriage vows.\n\nTo see them falling, unhappy unions may be expected.", "locator": "Heading 1725; source lines 19299–19307", "lineStart": 19299, "lineEnd": 19307, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a rocket ascending in your dream, foretells sudden and\nunexpected elevation, successful wooing, and faithful keeping\nof the marriage vows.\n\nTo see them falling, unhappy unions may be expected." }, { "id": "fontaine-0678", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Rocket", "text": "To dream of seeing rockets flying in the air, foretells joy and\ngladness at some event about to happen: to married people it denotes\nthe birth of a child, or the marriage of a daughter if they have one\nold enough. If a young girl dreams of seeing a rocket, she needn’t\ntrouble herself further, as her speedy marriage is certain. 15.", "locator": "Heading 678; source line 4277", "lineStart": 4277, "lineEnd": 4283, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing rockets flying in the air, foretells joy and\ngladness at some event about to happen: to married people it denotes\nthe birth of a child, or the marriage of a daughter if they have one\nold enough. If a young girl dreams of seeing a rocket, she needn’t\ntrouble herself further, as her speedy marriage is certain." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11721", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Rocket", "heading": "Rocket", "text": "A dream denoting momentary triumph (Gypsy). See old proverb of \"going up like a rocket and coming down like a stick.\"", "lineStart": 11721, "lineEnd": 11729, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 249–250; NLM OCR lines 11721–11729", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11721, "lineEnd": 11729, "printedPage": 249, "printedPageEnd": 250 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Rocket, — A dream denoting momentary triumph (Gypsy). \n\n\n250 THE FABRIC OF DREAMS \n\n\nSee old proverb of \"going up like a rocket and coming down \nlike a stick.\" \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [ { "line": 11724, "text": "250 THE FABRIC OF DREAMS " } ], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Rocket" }, "displayText": "A dream denoting momentary triumph (Gypsy). See old proverb of \"going up like a rocket and coming down like a stick.\"" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "rocking-chair", "title": "Rocking-chair", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Rocking-chairs seen in dreams, bring friendly intercourse and contentment with any environment.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "rocking-chair" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about rocking-chair stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "chair" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1722", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Rocking-chair", "text": "Rocking-chairs seen in dreams, bring friendly intercourse and contentment\nwith any environment.\n\nTo see a mother, wife, or sweetheart in a rocking chair,\nis ominous of the sweetest joys that earth affords.\n\nTo see vacant rocking-chairs, forebodes bereavement or estrangement.\nThe dreamer will surely merit misfortune in some form.", "locator": "Heading 1726; source lines 19307–19318", "lineStart": 19307, "lineEnd": 19318, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Rocking-chairs seen in dreams, bring friendly intercourse and contentment\nwith any environment.\n\nTo see a mother, wife, or sweetheart in a rocking chair,\nis ominous of the sweetest joys that earth affords.\n\nTo see vacant rocking-chairs, forebodes bereavement or estrangement.\nThe dreamer will surely merit misfortune in some form." }, { "id": "fontaine-0679", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Rocking-Chair", "text": "(_See Chair._)", "locator": "Heading 679; source line 4283", "lineStart": 4283, "lineEnd": 4285, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Chair.)" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "chair" ] }, { "slug": "rocks", "title": "Rocks", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of rocks, denotes that you will meet reverses, and that there will be discord and general…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "rocks", "rock" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about rocks stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "stone", "mountain" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1723", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Rocks", "text": "To dream of rocks, denotes that you will meet reverses,\nand that there will be discord and general unhappiness.\n\nTo climb a steep rock, foretells immediate struggles\nand disappointing surroundings.\n\n\n[192] See Stones.", "locator": "Heading 1727; source lines 19318–19329", "lineStart": 19318, "lineEnd": 19329, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of rocks, denotes that you will meet reverses,\nand that there will be discord and general unhappiness.\n\nTo climb a steep rock, foretells immediate struggles\nand disappointing surroundings. See Stones." }, { "id": "fontaine-0680", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Rocks", "text": "(_See Mountain._)", "locator": "Heading 680; source line 4285", "lineStart": 4285, "lineEnd": 4287, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Mountain.)" }, { "id": "cielo-0364", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Rock", "text": "Sure sign of annoyance and loss.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 364; source lines 4741–4743", "lineStart": 4741, "lineEnd": 4743, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Sure sign of annoyance and loss." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "stone", "mountain" ] }, { "slug": "rod", "title": "Rod", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “A dream of sadness (Gypsy). 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OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L11730", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Rod", "heading": "Rod", "text": "A dream of sadness (Gypsy). See scriptural symbolism. Erotic symbol (Freud).", "lineStart": 11730, "lineEnd": 11732, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 250; NLM OCR lines 11730–11732", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11730, "lineEnd": 11732, "printedPage": 250, "printedPageEnd": 250 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Rod. — A dream of sadness (Gypsy). See scriptural symbo- \nlism. Erotic symbol (Freud). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "symbo- \nlism", "after": "symbolism", "evidenceLine": 250 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Rod" }, "displayText": "A dream of sadness (Gypsy). See scriptural symbolism. Erotic symbol (Freud)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "rogue", "title": "Rogue", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see or think yourself a rogue, foretells you are about to commit some indiscretion which will give your friends uneasiness of mind.”", "aliases": [ "rogue" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about rogue stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "rogues-gallery", "title": "Rogue's Gallery", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are in a rogue's gallery, foretells you will be associated with people who will fail to appreciate you.”", "aliases": [ "rogue's gallery" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about rogue's gallery stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1725", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Rogue's Gallery", "text": "To dream that you are in a rogue's gallery, foretells you will\nbe associated with people who will fail to appreciate you.\nTo see your own picture, you will be overawed by a tormenting enemy.", "locator": "Heading 1729; source lines 19338–19344", "lineStart": 19338, "lineEnd": 19344, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are in a rogue's gallery, foretells you will\nbe associated with people who will fail to appreciate you.\nTo see your own picture, you will be overawed by a tormenting enemy." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "roller-coaster", "title": "Roller coaster", "category": "Movement", "aliases": [ "roller coaster", "roller coasters", "rollercoaster", "rollercoasters", "riding a roller coaster" ], "summary": "A roller coaster may explore a chosen thrill, a course you cannot direct, or intensity that lasts too long. Wanting the ride matters as much as its speed.", "tagline": "A fixed course, sudden changes, and whether the excitement still feels chosen.", "psychological": "A roller coaster combines entering by choice with movement you cannot direct once the ride begins. That may fit a commitment whose overall direction you accepted but whose pace or immediate turns belong to a system: a demanding course, a large project, or an event with several stages. The image makes that difference concrete. Wanting the experience and wanting more control over one part of it can coexist.\n\nIts repeated changes can give intensity a rhythm. You may anticipate a drop, enjoy it, then immediately face another climb. This could resemble a period of quickly changing demands, where finishing one difficult moment does not yet mean rest. If the pattern feels exhilarating, however, the same movement may express appetite for adventure or the pleasure of meeting a challenge. Speed alone cannot decide whether the dream concerns overload.\n\nThe people beside you can make different responses visible. One rider laughs while another wants to stop, and you may feel pressured to match their excitement or worry. A group project or shared trip can produce a similar mismatch in what feels enjoyable or manageable. The scene may concern room for your own response rather than a test of courage or an accurate portrait of the other riders.\n\nPreparation and the ending can change the whole encounter. An explained route and comfortable seat differ from boarding before you understand what follows. A ride that will not end may make a stopping point the missing condition; stepping off and freely choosing another turn creates a different experience of agency. A recent visit, video, or remembered anticipation may supply the ride directly. The dream does not predict a mechanical problem or measure whether you handle real risks well. Its useful subject may be the course, intensity, and choice available within the imagined experience.", "traditional": "No matching historical roller-coaster passage is supplied. These are original readings of a modern ride, its fixed route, and the experience of choosing or continuing it. Rising and dropping are not assigned fortunes of success or failure. The dream's pace, company, and available ending distinguish pleasure from pressure.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Choosing a course, not every turn", "reflection": "Entering willingly may fit a commitment whose broad purpose you want but whose immediate pace you cannot direct. The image can make partial control visible without requiring total control." }, { "title": "Thrill or too much intensity", "reflection": "Repeated rises and drops may feel enjoyable or exhausting. The useful distinction is whether the changing demands sustain excitement or leave no room for a pause." }, { "title": "A stopping point that remains yours", "reflection": "Leaving or choosing another ride can explore agency after an intense experience. An endless course may instead make the absence of a workable ending the central problem." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Waiting for the first climb", "reflection": "Anticipation fills the scene before anything dramatic happens. This may resemble preparing for a presentation or new commitment and imagining its most difficult moment. Excitement and dread can appear together; the wait may carry more meaning than the drop itself." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You board before the route is explained", "reflection": "The ride starts while you still want information about what follows. This can fit accepting a role whose practical terms are not clear. A chance to ask or step off changes the encounter differently from being expected to continue without understanding the course." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Other riders react very differently", "reflection": "Some laugh while others become quiet or ask to stop. This may reflect different limits within a shared experience, such as a demanding group trip. Wanting room for your response can matter more than deciding which person has the correct level of enthusiasm." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "The ride is fast and satisfying", "reflection": "The turns arrive quickly, but you enjoy following them. This may be an adventure about a chosen challenge or a period of activity that feels absorbing. It need not hide a crisis merely because the movement would look alarming from outside." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The coaster keeps going after you want to leave", "reflection": "Every apparent ending leads into another circuit. This may fit a project or obligation that renews its demands without a clear pause. The missing condition can be an agreed endpoint, rather than stronger effort or an ability to enjoy the intensity indefinitely." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You step off and choose whether to ride again", "reflection": "The experience ends and the next turn is optional. This can explore making a choice after learning what the activity actually asks of you. Returning, resting, or leaving may each be meaningful, depending on whether the earlier ride felt wanted or excessive." } ], "prompts": [ "Did I choose the ride, and which parts of its course could I influence?", "Was the changing intensity enjoyable, tiring, or different from what I expected?", "What made the ending usable, or prevented it from being an ending?" ], "related": [ "amusement-park", "falling", "elevator", "being-trapped", "flying" ], "type": "dreams", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original image-specific interpretation with distinct personal possibilities and everyday context; no matching historical passage supplied. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "roman-candle", "title": "Roman Candle", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see Roman candles while dreaming, is a sign of speedy attainment of coveted pleasures and positions.”", "aliases": [ "roman candle" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about roman candle stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "rocket" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1726", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Roman Candle", "text": "To see Roman candles while dreaming, is a sign of speedy attainment\nof coveted pleasures and positions.\n\nTo imagine that you have a loaded candle and find it empty,\ndenotes that you will be disappointed with the possession\nof some object which you have long striven to obtain.\n\n\n[193] See Rocket.", "locator": "Heading 1730; source lines 19344–19356", "lineStart": 19344, "lineEnd": 19356, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see Roman candles while dreaming, is a sign of speedy attainment\nof coveted pleasures and positions.\n\nTo imagine that you have a loaded candle and find it empty,\ndenotes that you will be disappointed with the possession\nof some object which you have long striven to obtain. See Rocket." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "rocket" ] }, { "slug": "roof", "title": "Roof", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "aliases": [ "roof" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1727" ], "scope": "Miller distinguishes standing on a roof, fearing a fall, a collapsing roof, repair/building and sleeping there, assigning success, position, calamity, fortune, security and health forecasts. Specific supplied passages: Roof — miller-1727 (Heading 1731; source lines 19356–19369). Historical comparison only; these period beliefs do not establish outcomes or validate the original symbolic reflections." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L11733" ], "scope": "Craig's short Roof passage assigns command and dignity under a period cultural label; this is a printed attribution, not a verified contemporary cultural rule. Specific supplied passages: Roof — craig-1918:L11733 (Printed p. 250; NLM OCR lines 11733–11734). Historical comparison only; these period beliefs do not establish outcomes or validate the original symbolic reflections." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "summary": "A roof can bring attention to shelter, exposure and the work of maintaining the part of a place that meets the outside.", "tagline": "Where shelter meets exposure.", "psychological": "A roof sits between the rooms you occupy and the weather outside. In a dream, that position can make shelter and exposure easy to notice. Being beneath a sound roof, repairing a gap and standing on top are different experiences. Start with where you are and what the roof allows, rather than assigning height a fixed meaning of success.\n\nUnderneath, you may notice what keeps an ordinary activity possible. A roof that covers a busy household could reflect arrangements that work quietly in the background. If one corner remains open, consider a practical detail you have not yet accommodated: time for rest, a clear responsibility or a place to put something important. A dream gap does not predict damage.\n\nOn top, the roof becomes a surface for looking outward or being seen. A broad view might feel useful when you are comparing possibilities. The same position could feel awkward if you cannot reach the stairs or prefer not to attract attention. How you arrived there and whether you chose to remain can change the reading.\n\nRepair scenes can emphasize a task that supports other tasks. You might be keeping a shared project workable without receiving much notice, or deciding how much effort to spend on an arrangement that many people use. Enjoying the work differs from being expected to repair everything alone. Notice who can help and what counts as finished.\n\nThe dream may also separate shelter from possession. Sharing a roof with unfamiliar people can feel companionable, crowded or provisional. A roof extending beyond your own house might invite a question about the reach of your responsibilities: whom do you want to include, and where does that invitation become difficult to maintain?\n\nRecent rain, building work, photographs of city roofs or concern about a real property can supply the scene directly. These ordinary associations deserve consideration before larger comparisons. Choose a specific feature: a dry patch, a missing tile, an open view or a route down. What does that feature change for the people there, and what arrangement would help you feel settled?", "traditional": "Miller links standing on, repairing, sleeping on and seeing a collapsing roof to different success, security and calamity forecasts. Craig’s short Roof entry gives command and dignity claims under a period cultural label. These attributed historical statements do not establish what a roof dream predicts or validate a rule connecting height with achievement.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Shelter as practical support", "reflection": "Notice which ordinary activities remain possible beneath the roof, and what a gap actually interrupts." }, { "title": "Perspective and exposure", "reflection": "Standing on top may offer a view, unwanted visibility or a difficult route down, depending on your position and choice." }, { "title": "Maintaining what others rely on", "reflection": "Repair scenes can give a concrete form to shared upkeep, available help and the question of when a task is sufficient." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "Rain entering through one missing tile", "reflection": "Most of the house remains dry, but one activity has to move. The scene might highlight a limited practical problem that deserves attention without making the whole arrangement unusable. Notice whether you find a temporary solution, ask for help or keep treating the small gap as everything." }, { "title": "A wide view from a roof you chose to climb", "reflection": "You can see several streets or buildings and feel interested rather than hurried. Perhaps stepping back from a crowded routine would help you compare options. The dream's useful feature is your chosen perspective; height alone does not establish greater status, insight or future success." }, { "title": "Being on a roof with no clear way down", "reflection": "You are visible and cannot locate the stairs or ladder. Consider whether a public commitment has become harder to step away from than expected. What route or assistance would make the position manageable? The scene need not predict a fall or prove that your choices were mistaken." }, { "title": "Repairing the roof while a gathering continues below", "reflection": "You work above the sounds of people enjoying the house. This might resemble a supporting role whose effort is easy to overlook. Notice whether you feel satisfied, excluded or overburdened; the same task can express chosen care or a wish for a more shared arrangement." }, { "title": "Sharing shelter at the edge of a roof", "reflection": "You shift position so that another person can stay dry too. The scene may explore how to make room without losing the protection you need yourself. Ask what would expand the workable space rather than assuming that care always requires discomfort or that inclusion must feel easy." }, { "title": "A finished roof that you can leave alone", "reflection": "After checking the repair, you return to an ordinary room. That transition may highlight being able to stop maintaining something once it works. If the satisfaction stands out, compare it with a waking responsibility where you would like a clear ending and permission to turn toward another activity." } ], "prompts": [ "Where were you in relation to the roof, and what did that position allow?", "What did the roof protect or expose in this particular scene?", "How did you decide whether the work or position was manageable?" ], "related": [ "house", "ceiling", "rain", "ladder", "stairs" ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1727", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Roof", "text": "To find yourself on a roof in a dream, denotes unbounded success.\nTo become frightened and think you are falling, signifies that,\nwhile you may advance, you will have no firm hold on your position.\n\nTo see a roof falling in, you will be threatened with a sudden calamity.\n\nTo repair, or build a roof, you will rapidly increase your fortune.\n\nTo sleep on one, proclaims your security against enemies\nand false companions. Your health will be robust.", "locator": "Heading 1731; source lines 19356–19369", "lineStart": 19356, "lineEnd": 19369, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To find yourself on a roof in a dream, denotes unbounded success.\nTo become frightened and think you are falling, signifies that,\nwhile you may advance, you will have no firm hold on your position.\n\nTo see a roof falling in, you will be threatened with a sudden calamity.\n\nTo repair, or build a roof, you will rapidly increase your fortune.\n\nTo sleep on one, proclaims your security against enemies\nand false companions. Your health will be robust." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11733", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Roof", "heading": "Roof", "text": "A dream indicating command and dignity (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 11733, "lineEnd": 11734, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 250; NLM OCR lines 11733–11734", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11733, "lineEnd": 11734, "printedPage": 250, "printedPageEnd": 250 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Roof. — A dream indicating command and dignity (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Roof" }, "displayText": "A dream indicating command and dignity (Gypsy)." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "roof-corner", "title": "Roof Corner", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see a person dressed in mourning sitting on a roof corner, foretells there will be unexpected and dismal failures in your business.”", "aliases": [ "roof corner" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about roof corner stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1728", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Roof Corner", "text": "To see a person dressed in mourning sitting on a roof corner,\nforetells there will be unexpected and dismal failures\nin your business.\n\nAffairs will appear unfavorable in love.", "locator": "Heading 1732; source lines 19369–19377", "lineStart": 19369, "lineEnd": 19377, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a person dressed in mourning sitting on a roof corner,\nforetells there will be unexpected and dismal failures\nin your business.\n\nAffairs will appear unfavorable in love." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "rooks", "title": "Rooks", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of rooks, denotes that while your friends are true, they will not afford you the pleasure and…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "rooks", "rook" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about rooks stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1729", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Rooks", "text": "To dream of rooks, denotes that while your friends are true,\nthey will not afford you the pleasure and contentment for which\nyou long, as your thoughts and tastes will outstrip their humble\nconception of life.\n\nA dead rook, denotes sickness or death in your immediate future.", "locator": "Heading 1733; source lines 19377–19386", "lineStart": 19377, "lineEnd": 19386, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of rooks, denotes that while your friends are true,\nthey will not afford you the pleasure and contentment for which\nyou long, as your thoughts and tastes will outstrip their humble\nconception of life.\n\nA dead rook, denotes sickness or death in your immediate future." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11735", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Rook", "heading": "Rook", "text": "A dream auguring business promptly concluded (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 11735, "lineEnd": 11737, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 250; NLM OCR lines 11735–11737", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11735, "lineEnd": 11737, "printedPage": 250, "printedPageEnd": 250 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Rook. — A dream auguring business promptly concluded \n(Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Rook" }, "displayText": "A dream auguring business promptly concluded (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "roommate", "title": "Roommate", "category": "People", "aliases": [ "roommate", "roommates", "room mate", "flatmate", "flatmates", "housemate", "housemates" ], "summary": "A roommate may make shared space, everyday cooperation, or competing routines visible. Living together can feel companionable while still needing boundaries.", "tagline": "A home shared with another person, and enough room for both lives to work.", "psychological": "A roommate brings another person's daily life into the space where you expect to rest and manage your own routines. A dream may make that overlap concrete through a kitchen, bathroom, bedroom door, or shared object. If the home works comfortably, the scene could fit wanting ordinary companionship without constant demands. If every task requires negotiation, it may concern the effort of sharing conditions that neither person can arrange alone.\n\nDivision of work offers a specific reading. Dirty dishes, a bill, a missing supply, or a repair can make fairness practical rather than abstract. You might be wanting contributions acknowledged, responsibilities agreed on, or enough information to coordinate. The dream can borrow a familiar roommate for that situation even when the current question belongs to a family, workplace, or shared project. It does not establish that the actual person is careless or unfair.\n\nPrivacy introduces another distinction. A closed door can support rest without rejecting the people outside it; an unannounced guest can feel welcome or intrusive depending on the arrangement. The scene may explore how much access feels comfortable and whether a boundary can be expressed without making the home hostile. Companionship and a wish for solitude can belong to the same encounter.\n\nAn unfamiliar or former roommate may give the arrangement a different meaning. Someone new moving in can resemble adapting to a changed role or obligation, while an old roommate may bring back a period of independence, limited resources, or shared pleasure. A departure can bring relief alongside concern about losing company or practical support. Recent household events may explain the image directly. The most useful reading concerns how the space and responsibilities were shared, rather than turning every person in a house into a symbol of yourself.", "traditional": "No matching historical passage about a peer roommate arrangement is supplied. This entry offers original reflection on shared domestic space, routines, privacy, and cooperation. A roommate is not automatically an intimate partner, family member, or renter under your authority. The dream's household roles and agreements provide the context, including arrangements that differ from your actual home.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Sharing conditions, not every preference", "reflection": "A common home may make different routines meet. The question can be whether the arrangement leaves each person enough room, rather than expecting identical habits or constant togetherness." }, { "title": "Practical fairness", "reflection": "A bill, chore, or repair can make contribution visible. The scene may fit wanting clear responsibilities or acknowledgment, without identifying the actual roommate as responsible for a waking problem." }, { "title": "Closeness with privacy", "reflection": "A door, guest, or shared room can explore access. Welcome company and a wish for solitude can coexist when boundaries allow participation as well as rest." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "The chores are left for you again", "reflection": "A shared task becomes yours without discussion. This may fit wanting responsibility and contribution made explicit, whether at home or in another collaboration. An agreement that changes the division of work creates a different ending from continuing silently until the task is finished." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Your roommate brings guests without warning", "reflection": "The home becomes social when you expected quiet. This can explore an arrangement that does not leave enough room for different needs. Enjoying the company may instead make the scene about a welcome surprise; advance notice and choice distinguish the possible readings." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Your bedroom door will not stay closed", "reflection": "The shared home offers no reliable private space. The scene may make a wish for uninterrupted rest or control over access visible. A closed door that works can shift the experience toward boundaries that support living together rather than complete separation." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You cook or organize the home together", "reflection": "Ordinary tasks acquire a comfortable rhythm, with each person making a useful contribution. This can be an image of company that does not need a special event to feel worthwhile. If coordination becomes rigid, the same task may concern having too little room for another method." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A roommate is moving out", "reflection": "The arrangement changes, and you may feel freer while anticipating an empty room or more responsibility. This can explore a practical transition as well as attachment. Relief does not cancel affection, and sadness does not establish that the previous arrangement should continue." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "A stranger becomes your roommate overnight", "reflection": "Someone shares your home before you understand the new arrangement. The scene may fit adjusting to an obligation or role whose terms are unclear. Asking about space, routines, or access can be more central than inventing a hidden identity for the unfamiliar person." } ], "prompts": [ "Which space, routine, or resource required an agreement between us?", "What contribution or boundary did I want made explicit?", "Did sharing the home offer ordinary company, practical support, pressure, or some combination?" ], "related": [ "house", "moving-in-with-a-partner", "bathroom", "locked-out", "coworker" ], "type": "dreams", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflection on distinct social scenes and possible personal connections; no matching historical passage supplied. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1730", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Rooster", "text": "To dream of a rooster, foretells that you will be very successful\nand rise to prominence, but you will allow yourself to become\nconceited over your fortunate rise.\n\nTo see roosters fighting, foretells altercations and rivals.\n\n\n[194] See Chickens.", "locator": "Heading 1734; source lines 19386–19397", "lineStart": 19386, "lineEnd": 19397, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a rooster, foretells that you will be very successful\nand rise to prominence, but you will allow yourself to become\nconceited over your fortunate rise.\n\nTo see roosters fighting, foretells altercations and rivals. See Chickens." }, { "id": "fontaine-0152", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Cock", "text": "(_See Rooster._) To dream you see a cock in the house, is a\ngood sign to those who would marry; to hear a cock crow denotes great\nprosperity. 19, 10.", "locator": "Heading 152; source line 1601", "lineStart": 1601, "lineEnd": 1605, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Rooster.) To dream you see a cock in the house, is a\ngood sign to those who would marry; to hear a cock crow denotes great\nprosperity.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Cock” is shown on the Rooster page: same bird; archaic/modern word" }, { "id": "fontaine-0681", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Rooster", "text": "(_See Cock._) If a girl dreams of hearing a cock crow, it\nforetells that she will soon have a new lover; if a lover dreams this,\nit is a sign that he has a formidable rival: if a married man or woman\ndreams of roosters, it shows that some outsider is enamored of the\nwife. 10, 19.", "locator": "Heading 681; source line 4287", "lineStart": 4287, "lineEnd": 4293, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Cock.) If a girl dreams of hearing a cock crow, it\nforetells that she will soon have a new lover; if a lover dreams this,\nit is a sign that he has a formidable rival: if a married man or woman\ndreams of roosters, it shows that some outsider is enamored of the\nwife." }, { "id": "cielo-0112", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Cock", "text": "A crowing cock denotes sudden trouble.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 112; source lines 4128–4130", "lineStart": 4128, "lineEnd": 4130, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "A crowing cock denotes sudden trouble.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Cock” is shown on the Rooster page: same bird; archaic/modern word" }, { "id": "craig-1918:L9598", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Cock", "heading": "Cock", "text": "A dream denoting pride, success and power, combined with watchfulness (Gypsy) ; modern symbol of vigilance, formerly held sacred to the sun; the herald of Apollo.", "lineStart": 9598, "lineEnd": 9601, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 209; NLM OCR lines 9598–9601", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 9598, "lineEnd": 9601, "printedPage": 209, "printedPageEnd": 209 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Cock. — A dream denoting pride, success and power, com- \nbined with watchfulness (Gypsy) ; modern symbol of vigi- \nlance, formerly held sacred to the sun; the herald of Apollo. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "com- \nbined", "after": "combined", "evidenceLine": 815 }, { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "vigi- \nlance", "after": "vigilance", "evidenceLine": 9902 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Cock" }, "displayText": "A dream denoting pride, success and power, combined with watchfulness (Gypsy); modern symbol of vigilance, formerly held sacred to the sun; the herald of Apollo.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Cock” is shown on the Rooster page: same bird; archaic/modern word" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "chickens", "ladder-the-step-a-case-a-milstone-a-pestle-and-the-cock" ] }, { "slug": "roots", "title": "Roots", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing roots of plants or trees, denotes misfortune, as both business and health will go into…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "roots", "root" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about roots stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1731", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Roots", "text": "To dream of seeing roots of plants or trees, denotes misfortune,\nas both business and health will go into decline.\n\nTo use them as medicine, warns you of approaching illness or sorrow.", "locator": "Heading 1735; source lines 19397–19404", "lineStart": 19397, "lineEnd": 19404, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing roots of plants or trees, denotes misfortune,\nas both business and health will go into decline.\n\nTo use them as medicine, warns you of approaching illness or sorrow." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11738", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Root", "heading": "Root", "text": "To dream of eating them denotes mental disorder (Gypsy). See tradition of Nebuchadnezzar.", "lineStart": 11738, "lineEnd": 11740, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 250; NLM OCR lines 11738–11740", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11738, "lineEnd": 11740, "printedPage": 250, "printedPageEnd": 250 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Root. — To dream of eating them denotes mental disorder \n(Gypsy). See tradition of Nebuchadnezzar. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Root" }, "displayText": "To dream of eating them denotes mental disorder (Gypsy). See tradition of Nebuchadnezzar.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Root” is shown on the Roots page: both plant roots" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "ropes", "title": "Ropes", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Ropes in dreams, signify perplexities and complications in affairs, and uncertain love making.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "ropes", "cords" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about ropes stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1732", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Ropes", "text": "Ropes in dreams, signify perplexities and complications in affairs,\nand uncertain love making.\n\nIf you climb one, you will overcome enemies who are working to injure you.\n\nTo decend{sic} a rope, brings disappointment to your most sanguine moments.\n\nIf you are tied with them, you are likely to yield to love contrary\nto your judgment.\n\nTo break them, signifies your ability to overcome enmity and competition.\n\nTo tie ropes, or horses, denotes that you will have power to control others\nas you may wish.\n\nTo walk a rope, signifies that you will engage in some\nhazardous speculation, but will surprisingly succeed.\nTo see others walking a rope, you will benefit by the fortunate\nventures of others.\n\nTo jump a rope, foretells that you will startle your associates\nwith a thrilling escapade bordering upon the sensational.\n\nTo jump rope with children, shows that you are selfish and overbearing;\nfailing to see that children owe very little duty to inhuman parents.\nTo catch a rope with the foot, denotes that under cheerful conditions\nyou will be benevolent and tender in your administrations.\n\nTo dream that you let a rope down from an upper window to people below,\nthinking the proprietors would be adverse to receiving them into the hotel,\ndenotes that you will engage in some affair which will not look exactly\nproper to your friends, but the same will afford you pleasure and interest.\nFor a young woman, this dream is indicative of pleasures which do not bear\nthe stamp of propriety.", "locator": "Heading 1736; source lines 19404–19441", "lineStart": 19404, "lineEnd": 19441, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Ropes in dreams, signify perplexities and complications in affairs,\nand uncertain love making.\n\nIf you climb one, you will overcome enemies who are working to injure you.\n\nTo decend[sic] a rope, brings disappointment to your most sanguine moments.\n\nIf you are tied with them, you are likely to yield to love contrary\nto your judgment.\n\nTo break them, signifies your ability to overcome enmity and competition.\n\nTo tie ropes, or horses, denotes that you will have power to control others\nas you may wish.\n\nTo walk a rope, signifies that you will engage in some\nhazardous speculation, but will surprisingly succeed.\nTo see others walking a rope, you will benefit by the fortunate\nventures of others.\n\nTo jump a rope, foretells that you will startle your associates\nwith a thrilling escapade bordering upon the sensational.\n\nTo jump rope with children, shows that you are selfish and overbearing;\nfailing to see that children owe very little duty to inhuman parents.\nTo catch a rope with the foot, denotes that under cheerful conditions\nyou will be benevolent and tender in your administrations.\n\nTo dream that you let a rope down from an upper window to people below,\nthinking the proprietors would be adverse to receiving them into the hotel,\ndenotes that you will engage in some affair which will not look exactly\nproper to your friends, but the same will afford you pleasure and interest.\nFor a young woman, this dream is indicative of pleasures which do not bear\nthe stamp of propriety." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11741", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Ropes", "heading": "Ropes", "text": "To dream of being led by ropes warns you against making any contracts with others (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 11741, "lineEnd": 11743, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 250; NLM OCR lines 11741–11743", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11741, "lineEnd": 11743, "printedPage": 250, "printedPageEnd": 250 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Ropes. — To dream of being led by ropes warns you against \nmaking any contracts with others (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Ropes" }, "displayText": "To dream of being led by ropes warns you against making any contracts with others (Gypsy)." }, { "id": "miller-0507", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Cords", "text": "[44] See Rope.", "locator": "Heading 507; source lines 6349–6354", "lineStart": 6349, "lineEnd": 6354, "kind": "cross-reference", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "See Rope." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "rosebush", "title": "Rosebush", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see a rosebush in foliage but no blossoms, denotes prosperous circumstances are enclosing you.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "rosebush" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about rosebush stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1733", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Rosebush", "text": "To see a rosebush in foliage but no blossoms, denotes prosperous\ncircumstances are enclosing you. To see a dead rosebush,\nforetells misfortune and sickness for you or relatives.", "locator": "Heading 1737; source lines 19441–19447", "lineStart": 19441, "lineEnd": 19447, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a rosebush in foliage but no blossoms, denotes prosperous\ncircumstances are enclosing you. To see a dead rosebush,\nforetells misfortune and sickness for you or relatives." }, { "id": "cielo-0366", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Rosebush", "text": "Denotes a constant lover.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 366; source lines 4746–4748", "lineStart": 4746, "lineEnd": 4748, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Denotes a constant lover." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "rosemary", "title": "Rosemary", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Rosemary, if seen in dreams, denotes that sadness and indifference will cause unhappiness in homes where…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "rosemary" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about rosemary stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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To the lover, infidelity in the\nsweetheart.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 434; source lines 1615–1617", "lineStart": 1615, "lineEnd": 1617, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To the married,\nforetell the loss of their children. To the lover, infidelity in the\nsweetheart." }, { "id": "cielo-0365", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Rose", "text": "This is always a sign of good luck. White\n roses signify constancy; red, an offer of marriage.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 365; source lines 4743–4746", "lineStart": 4743, "lineEnd": 4746, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "This is always a sign of good luck. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0685", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Rowing", "text": "To dream of rowing a boat in clear water, is a sign of\ngood luck generally: if the water is muddy, it shows trouble and\ndifficulties which may be overcome; if a lover dreams of rowing a boat\nwith his lady-love in it, he will doubtless make a happy match, 20.", "locator": "Heading 685; source line 4305", "lineStart": 4305, "lineEnd": 4310, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of rowing a boat in clear water, is a sign of\ngood luck generally: if the water is muddy, it shows trouble and\ndifficulties which may be overcome; if a lover dreams of rowing a boat\nwith his lady-love in it, he will doubtless make a happy match," }, { "id": "noe-0445", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Rowing", "text": "To dream that you are\nrowing in a boat, signifies that you will be successful in love and\nbusiness.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 451; source lines 1665–1667", "lineStart": 1665, "lineEnd": 1667, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are\nrowing in a boat, signifies that you will be successful in love and\nbusiness." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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If the garments\nare ragged or torn, you should be cautious in your conduct,\nas scandal is ready to attack your reputation.\n\nTo dream of using ``rubber'' as a slang term, foretells that you\nwill be easy to please in your choice of pleasure and companions.\n\nIf you find that your limbs will stretch like rubber, it is a sign\nthat illness is threatening you, and you are likely to use deceit\nin your wooing and business.\n\nTo dream of rubber goods, denotes that your affairs will be conducted\non a secret basis, and your friends will fail to understand your conduct\nin many instances.", "locator": "Heading 1744; source lines 19509–19528", "lineStart": 19509, "lineEnd": 19528, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being clothed in rubber garments, is a sign that you\nwill have honors conferred upon you because of your steady\nand unchanging stand of purity and morality. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "rudder", "title": "Rudder", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a rudder, you will soom[sic] make a pleasant journey to foreign lands, and new friendships…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "rudder" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about rudder stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1743", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Rudder", "text": "To dream of a rudder, you will soom{sic} make a pleasant journey\nto foreign lands, and new friendships will be formed.\n\nA broken rudder, augurs disappointment and sickness.", "locator": "Heading 1747; source lines 19538–19545", "lineStart": 19538, "lineEnd": 19545, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a rudder, you will soom[sic] make a pleasant journey\nto foreign lands, and new friendships will be formed.\n\nA broken rudder, augurs disappointment and sickness." }, { "id": "fontaine-0686", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Rudder", "text": "To dream of a broken rudder in a boat or vessel in which you\nare sailing, foretells that one of the persons who you imagine are in\nthe boat, will be drowned, or come to a sudden death. 27, 75.", "locator": "Heading 686; source line 4310", "lineStart": 4310, "lineEnd": 4314, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a broken rudder in a boat or vessel in which you\nare sailing, foretells that one of the persons who you imagine are in\nthe boat, will be drowned, or come to a sudden death." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "ruins", "title": "Ruins", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of ruins, signifies broken engagements to lovers, distressing conditions in business, destruction…” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "ruins", "ruin" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about ruins stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1744", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Ruins", "text": "To dream of ruins, signifies broken engagements to lovers,\ndistressing conditions in business, destruction to crops,\nand failing health.\n\nTo dream of ancient ruins, foretells that you will travel extensively,\nbut there will be a note of sadness mixed with the pleasure in the realization\nof a long-cherished hope. You will feel the absence of some friend.", "locator": "Heading 1748; source lines 19545–19555", "lineStart": 19545, "lineEnd": 19555, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of ruins, signifies broken engagements to lovers,\ndistressing conditions in business, destruction to crops,\nand failing health.\n\nTo dream of ancient ruins, foretells that you will travel extensively,\nbut there will be a note of sadness mixed with the pleasure in the realization\nof a long-cherished hope. You will feel the absence of some friend." }, { "id": "fontaine-0687", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Ruin", "text": "If you dream that you are looking at old ruins, or castles, or\nbuildings, it is a sign you will travel in distant countries: to dream\nof the ruins of a house that has been burnt down, foretells that you\nwill experience a loss of property: if, in your dream, you see the\nruins of a house that has fallen down, it denotes the death of a friend\nor acquaintance. 5, 12, 60.", "locator": "Heading 687; source line 4314", "lineStart": 4314, "lineEnd": 4321, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream that you are looking at old ruins, or castles, or\nbuildings, it is a sign you will travel in distant countries: to dream\nof the ruins of a house that has been burnt down, foretells that you\nwill experience a loss of property: if, in your dream, you see the\nruins of a house that has fallen down, it denotes the death of a friend\nor acquaintance." }, { "id": "cielo-0367", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Ruins", "text": "To explore a ruin denotes a pleasant surprise.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 367; source lines 4748–4750", "lineStart": 4748, "lineEnd": 4750, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To explore a ruin denotes a pleasant surprise." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11756", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Ruins", "heading": "Ruins", "text": "A dream of contrary denoting unexpected gains (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 11756, "lineEnd": 11758, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 250; NLM OCR lines 11756–11758", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11756, "lineEnd": 11758, "printedPage": 250, "printedPageEnd": 250 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Ruins. — A dream of contrary denoting unexpected gains \n(Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Ruins" }, "displayText": "A dream of contrary denoting unexpected gains (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "rum", "title": "Rum", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of drinking rum, foretells that you will have wealth, but will lack moral refinement, as you will lean to gross pleasures.”", "aliases": [ "rum" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about rum stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. 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Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0688", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Run", "text": "(_See Race._) To dream of running swift, is a sign of good success\nin your undertakings; but if you stumble or fall, it denotes accidents\nor misfortune: if you imagine that you see people run, while you are\nstill, it foretells disappointment. 7.", "locator": "Heading 688; source line 4321", "lineStart": 4321, "lineEnd": 4326, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Race.) To dream of running swift, is a sign of good success\nin your undertakings; but if you stumble or fall, it denotes accidents\nor misfortune: if you imagine that you see people run, while you are\nstill, it foretells disappointment." }, { "id": "noe-0446", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Run", "text": "For a man to dream that he would run, and yet cannot\nlift up his feet, shows he hath an earnest desire to accomplish somewhat,\nwhich he will find very difficult. When a sick person dreams he runs, it\nis a good sign.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 452; source lines 1667–1672", "lineStart": 1667, "lineEnd": 1672, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a man to dream that he would run, and yet cannot\nlift up his feet, shows he hath an earnest desire to accomplish somewhat,\nwhich he will find very difficult. When a sick person dreams he runs, it\nis a good sign." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11759", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Running", "heading": "Running", "text": "A fortunate dream of advantageous journeys and elevation in rank unless the dreamer fall, in which case misfortune is denoted (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 11759, "lineEnd": 11762, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 250; NLM OCR lines 11759–11762", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11759, "lineEnd": 11762, "printedPage": 250, "printedPageEnd": 250 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Running. — A fortunate dream of advantageous journeys \nand elevation in rank unless the dreamer fall, in which case \nmisfortune is denoted (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 0.98182, "secondaryHeading": "Running" }, "displayText": "A fortunate dream of advantageous journeys and elevation in rank unless the dreamer fall, in which case misfortune is denoted (Gypsy).", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Running” is shown on the Run page: same topic; existing correction created Running for the Miller record" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "race" ] }, { "slug": "running", "title": "Running", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "aliases": [ "running", "haste" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1746" ], "scope": "Miller varies Running forecasts with company, stumbling, solitary running, escape from danger, watching others escape and animals running, assigning fortune, reputation or loss claims. Specific supplied passages: Running — miller-1746 (Heading 1750; source lines 19563–19581). Historical comparison only; these attributed period claims do not establish outcomes, health, character, cultural consensus or a universal meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0338" ], "scope": "Fontaine’s Haste heading is only a cross-reference to Running and Walking; it supplies no independent definition or prediction. Specific supplied passages: Haste — fontaine-0338 (Heading 338; source line 2493). Historical comparison only; these attributed period claims do not establish outcomes, health, character, cultural consensus or a universal meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "summary": "Running dreams may explore pace, direction, company and the choice to continue or stop, without making speed a measure of your worth.", "tagline": "A pace chosen for a particular purpose.", "psychological": "Running can picture the pace at which you are pursuing something, but the purpose of moving changes the reading. Reaching a place, enjoying a route, keeping company and escaping are different activities. A run without a deadline may express pleasure in an ability or a familiar rhythm. A rushed journey can instead make the relationship between effort and purpose more noticeable.\n\nAn enjoyable pace can resemble a way of working that leaves enough attention for the activity itself. A project may begin to feel manageable after its tasks fall into a workable order. Ease here comes from the arrangement as well as effort. When you adjust speed to speak with a companion, the purpose becomes maintaining contact while continuing, rather than reaching the finish first.\n\nA shortcut that takes you away from the destination can give speed a cost. This might fit completing tasks quickly while losing touch with the reason they mattered, or agreeing to a convenient plan that leads somewhere you did not choose. Returning to the longer route can preserve that purpose. Enjoying the unexpected route would create another reading: the journey has changed what you want from it.\n\nAn unexplained deadline can picture urgency that has become detached from an understood obligation. Hurrying may continue even when you cannot name whom you are meeting. Questioning the deadline can turn movement toward discovering a purpose. This differs from knowingly running late for a wanted occasion, where arrival and the response afterward remain central.\n\nCompany brings a choice about participation. Matching a group may feel companionable until its pace prevents conversation or attention to the surroundings. Joining later, separating for part of the route or agreeing on a meeting place can give both connection and independence room. Watching others pass may also be an enjoyable position of its own.\n\nSlowing to look at something can give the run a useful ending. A new interest changes what the route offers. Actual exercise, journeys and remembered events may supply the imagery directly; dreamed speed or difficulty does not measure real fitness, worth or future success.", "traditional": "Miller’s Running passage assigns different fortune, reputation and loss forecasts to running with others, alone, from danger, watching escape and seeing animals run. Fontaine’s Haste heading is only a cross-reference to Running and Walking; it supplies no independent prediction. These are period source accounts rather than evidence about ability or outcomes. The original reflection follows pace, purpose and participation without adopting a code of advancement through speed.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Pace that fits a purpose", "reflection": "Speed may help or interrupt what you want to do. Consider whether the pace was chosen and adjustable rather than using it to assess discipline or worth." }, { "title": "Direction and the experience of moving", "reflection": "A route can be valuable because of where it leads or how it feels to use it. Describe what changes when you choose a shortcut, another path or a pause." }, { "title": "Company and participation", "reflection": "Matching, separating and watching are different arrangements. Explore how you wanted to take part without assuming the real person’s departure or speed reveals their feelings." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "A familiar run is enjoyable without a deadline", "reflection": "An enjoyable run can picture an activity whose pace suits its purpose. Familiarity leaves attention available for the surroundings rather than constant self-checking. The satisfaction may belong to movement itself, or to finding a rhythm that lets a sustained task feel more manageable." }, { "title": "You adjust your pace to keep a conversation going", "reflection": "Changing speed lets company become part of the activity. This can resemble adjusting a working pace so an exchange remains possible. Whether both people make room for the conversation distinguishes shared coordination from one person always carrying the effort of staying together." }, { "title": "A shortcut leads away from the place you wanted", "reflection": "A faster route changes what you are approaching. This can picture efficiency becoming disconnected from a wanted purpose. Returning may preserve the original aim; enjoying the unexpected place may reveal that the journey has given you another worthwhile direction." }, { "title": "You question the deadline that made you hurry", "reflection": "The pressure to arrive remains after its purpose becomes unclear. A repeated demand may have become familiar enough to keep directing your effort. Pausing to name the occasion can give the urgency a question rather than automatically giving it more speed." }, { "title": "You watch others run and choose how to join", "reflection": "Watching gives participation a point of choice. Attraction to the group may coexist with liking your own position. Joining later or arranging to meet elsewhere can keep connection available while allowing a different pace or purpose for your own movement." }, { "title": "You slow to walk after noticing something nearby", "reflection": "A new interest changes what the route offers. Slowing can preserve attention for a person, view or object that would otherwise pass unnoticed. The run has supplied access to something valuable, and continuing at the same pace is no longer its only possible use." } ], "prompts": [ "What gave the running a purpose in this scene?", "How did pace, route or company affect your choices?", "What made continuing, slowing or stopping feel fitting?" ], "related": [ "walking", "race", "being-chased", "running-but-going-nowhere" ], "kind": "editorial", "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s continuing English editorial delegation. Historical accounts retain their attribution; general sleep background does not validate these interpretations.", "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "DreamFolia AI-assisted editorial review", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "bed", "bathroom", "bridge", "door", "window", "stairs", "road", "clothes", "shoes", "driving", "being-late", "crying", "running", "swimming", "river", "snow", "moon", "sun", "mountain", "fish" ] }, "decisionReason": "The revised body and six scenes explain workable pace, conversation, a shortcut changing purpose, an unexplained deadline, chosen participation and attention that changes the journey. Repeated recording instructions and warnings are reduced. 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If you stumble or fall,\nyou will lose property and reputation.\n\nRunning alone, indicates that you will outstrip your friends in the race\nfor wealth, and you will occupy a higher place in social life.\n\nIf you run from danger, you will be threatened with losses,\nand you will despair of adjusting matters agreeably.\nTo see others thus running, you will be oppressed by the threatened\ndownfall of friends.\n\nTo see stock running, warns you to be careful in making new trades\nor undertaking new tasks.", "locator": "Heading 1750; source lines 19563–19581", "lineStart": 19563, "lineEnd": 19581, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of running in company with others, is a sign that you\nwill participate in some festivity, and you will find that your\naffairs are growing towards fortune. If you stumble or fall,\nyou will lose property and reputation.\n\nRunning alone, indicates that you will outstrip your friends in the race\nfor wealth, and you will occupy a higher place in social life.\n\nIf you run from danger, you will be threatened with losses,\nand you will despair of adjusting matters agreeably.\nTo see others thus running, you will be oppressed by the threatened\ndownfall of friends.\n\nTo see stock running, warns you to be careful in making new trades\nor undertaking new tasks.", "editorialNote": "Historical running record describes successful running as well as stumbling; broader than running but going nowhere." }, { "id": "fontaine-0338", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Haste", "text": "(_See Running and Walking._)", "locator": "Heading 338; source line 2493", "lineStart": 2493, "lineEnd": 2495, "kind": "cross-reference", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Running and Walking.)" } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [ "walking" ] }, { "slug": "running-but-going-nowhere", "title": "Running but going nowhere", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "Effort and visible progress stop matching.", "summary": "Running without getting anywhere can explore effort, an unclear measure of progress or a route that keeps changing. 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The comparison becomes more precise when the obstacle and the expectation remain separate.\n\nOther people can make the pace feel public. A group may wait, race ahead or ask why you have not arrived, even when they cannot see the resistance. This can bring attention to how performance is judged. Being offered a different route may instead make cooperation available. Their imagined speed does not measure your actual ability or establish that you must match their timetable.\n\nStopping can change what the scene reveals. You may discover a moving walkway, a repeated loop or that you have been practicing rather than traveling. This does not mean stopping is the right response to every waking difficulty. It can show how the meaning of effort depends on understanding the arrangement in which it occurs.\n\nRunning in place with enjoyment gives another possibility: movement itself may be wanted, without a destination to reach. Frustration then belongs to a different version of the image rather than to running alone. Actual exercise, games and travel can supply direct associations. Keep uncertainty around waking or bodily immobility separate from symbolic interpretation; this entry does not explain an episode’s physical cause. The reflection concerns the relation between effort, route and the result you were seeking.", "traditional": "No supplied historical passage specifically explains running while making no progress. The broader Running topic and bodily immobility have distinct scopes. These are original comparisons about effort and the terms of arrival, not a diagnosis, an evaluation of fitness or evidence that a real undertaking must fail.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "The finish line moves each time you approach", "reflection": "The condition of completion changes while your effort continues. This may resemble a task whose expectations are repeatedly revised. The moving target gives a more specific comparison than a judgment that you never finish anything." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Your legs move but the air feels thick", "reflection": "The same intended movement produces less distance under altered conditions. This can picture effort constrained by the arrangement around a task. The scene does not assess strength or explain an experience at the edge of waking." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You pass the same tree after every turn", "reflection": "The route loops while appearing to continue. This may resemble returning to the same issue through different attempts. Recognizing the repeated landmark can change the question from how fast to move to how the route is organized." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Others ask why you are late without seeing the resistance", "reflection": "An expected result is judged apart from the conditions of reaching it. This can make a wish for those conditions to be understood visible. 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No human or clinical review is claimed.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Effort without a recognizable result", "reflection": "The scene can make the chosen measure of progress more important than the amount of activity." }, { "title": "Changing terms of arrival", "reflection": "A moving destination and a resistant route obstruct progress in different ways." }, { "title": "Movement can have its own purpose", "reflection": "Practice or pleasure can make running worthwhile without a distant finish." } ], "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "Codex (AI-assisted editorial review)", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "a-stranger", "a-train-going-in-the-wrong-direction", "being-trapped", "being-unable-to-move", "children", "church", "current-romantic-partner", "death-of-a-friend", "elevator", "father", "forest", "hair-falling-out", "insects", "key", "locked-out", "mother", "nakedness", "phone-not-working", "rainbow", "running-but-going-nowhere", "school", "smoke", "snake-bite", "superpowers", "the-self", "the-shadow", "web" ] }, "decisionReason": "The developed reading distinguishes effort, changed conditions, a looping route and a finish that moves. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "rust", "title": "Rust", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of rust on articles, old pieces of tin, or iron, is significant of depression of your surroundings.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "rust" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about rust stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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That may fit applying for a role, explaining a transition, or trying to describe work that has little formal recognition.\n\nWhat appears on the page changes the reading. An old achievement may occupy most of the space while recent effort is absent, making a previous identity feel more visible than your present one. A list of titles without the work behind them can picture being described through status rather than experience. Conversely, a clear example of something you actually did may bring relief because the account becomes concrete. These are possible comparisons, not evidence that a real application is inadequate.\n\nAn invented qualification or unfamiliar job can create uncertainty about ownership. You may be expected to defend a claim you did not make, or find that somebody has rewritten the document to make you more impressive. That can resemble pressure to present yourself in a way that attracts approval but loses accuracy. The dream does not uncover dishonesty or a forgotten qualification. Its question may concern whether you can recognize yourself in the account being offered.\n\nThe reader gives the document another context. They may focus on a small gap, overlook practical experience, or ask about something you considered ordinary. This can picture uncertainty about which criteria an evaluator will use. A patient conversation changes the scene by letting the page become a starting point rather than a complete verdict. If you are reading somebody else's résumé, the subject may instead be how much you assume from a compressed description.\n\nThe document can also become simpler. You remove an outdated role, make room for an unrecognized contribution, or choose a version that serves one specific purpose. That may picture accepting that a useful account is selective without making the omitted parts worthless. Recent applications, profile updates, introductions, or workplace conversations can provide ordinary material. The original reflection concerns the fit between experience and representation; a dream résumé cannot determine employability, verify credentials, or predict a hiring decision.", "traditional": "No verified historical résumé or curriculum-vitae passage is supplied. The modern job-application document is the intended sense here, rather than the verb meaning to continue. The interpretations are original reflections on representation and evaluation.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Experience represented accurately", "reflection": "A document may make recognition into something editable. The useful question can be whether the account explains an actual contribution rather than merely adding impressive labels." }, { "title": "An earlier role still occupying space", "reflection": "An old achievement may remain central after your work has changed. The scene can picture wanting your present experience to become visible alongside its history." }, { "title": "A page as a starting point", "reflection": "An evaluator who asks for context can make a short account less final. Conversation may matter when important experience cannot be conveyed by a list alone." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "Your résumé lists a job you never held", "reflection": "You are asked to recognize or defend an invented account. The scene may concern pressure to fit an impressive image, without establishing dishonesty in any actual application." }, { "title": "An old achievement takes up most of the page", "reflection": "Earlier experience remains visible while recent work disappears. This may picture a former identity continuing to define how you are introduced after your priorities have changed." }, { "title": "There is no space for work that mattered to you", "reflection": "A useful contribution does not fit the available categories. The scene may make the limits of a formal account visible rather than deciding that the omitted work lacks value." }, { "title": "Someone rewrites the document without asking", "reflection": "The account becomes more polished but less yours. This may explore help that improves presentation while reducing your say in what is claimed." }, { "title": "A reader asks about an ordinary detail", "reflection": "Something you considered minor becomes a point of interest. The scene may make context and concrete experience more useful than anticipating every possible criterion in advance." }, { "title": "You remove an outdated role and the page feels clearer", "reflection": "A shorter account fits the current purpose better. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1754", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Sage", "text": "To dream of sage, foretells thrift and economy will be practised by your\nservants or family. 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To suffer shipwracke, the ship being overwhelmed or broken, is most dangerous to all, except those which are detained by force, for to them it signifyeth releasing and liberty. It is alwayes best to saile in a great ship which hath charge. Also, it is better to saile by sea, then by land. To have a minde to saile and not to be able, is hinderance of affayres: to see from the land, ships on the sea sailing at their ease, is good for all: and signifieth to travail, or to return from travail, or Messengers and newes from sea. Ships going fro[illegible passage] [illegible passage] Haven to sea, signifye goods and slow a[illegible passage]yres, but arriving to the Haven, the contrary: for the artificiall haven signifyeth alwayes our friends and benefactors: the Rocks those whom we love by constraint: the anchors surety, but hinderance of voyages: the ropes which keep the ship at land, are debts and impediments: the mast signifieth the master of the house, or Galley: to see any part of the ship on fire and burn, signifyes danger, lest she break on that side, or danger to him which by that side of the ship is meant.", "locator": "Book 2, encoded section 85", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription-with-gaps", "book": "2", "displayText": "To dream to sail well, is good for all, but to be in a tempest upon the River or Sea, is ill, and signifyeth heavinesse and danger. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1757", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Salad", "text": "To dream of eating salad, foretells sickness and disagreeable\npeople around you.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of making it, is a sign that her lover\nwill be changeable and quarrelsome.", "locator": "Heading 1761; source lines 19667–19675", "lineStart": 19667, "lineEnd": 19675, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of eating salad, foretells sickness and disagreeable\npeople around you.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of making it, is a sign that her lover\nwill be changeable and quarrelsome." }, { "id": "cielo-0369", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Salad", "text": "Means “Beware of embarrassment!”", "locator": "Dream section, heading 369; source lines 4754–4756", "lineStart": 4754, "lineEnd": 4756, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Means “Beware of embarrassment!”" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "salamander", "title": "Salamander", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “A dream of assurance that neither man nor elements can harm you (Gypsy). See tradition concerning salamanders.”", "aliases": [ "salamander" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about salamander stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L11790", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Salamander", "heading": "Salamander", "text": "A dream of assurance that neither man nor elements can harm you (Gypsy). See tradition concerning salamanders.", "lineStart": 11790, "lineEnd": 11793, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 251; NLM OCR lines 11790–11793", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11790, "lineEnd": 11793, "printedPage": 251, "printedPageEnd": 251 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Salamander. — A dream of assurance that neither man nor \nelements can harm you (Gypsy). See tradition concerning \nsalamanders. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Salamander" }, "displayText": "A dream of assurance that neither man nor elements can harm you (Gypsy). See tradition concerning salamanders." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "salmon", "title": "Salmon", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Dreaming of salmon, denotes that much good luck and pleasant duties will employ your time.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "salmon" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about salmon stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1758", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Salmon", "text": "Dreaming of salmon, denotes that much good luck and pleasant duties\nwill employ your time.\n\nFor a young woman to eat it, foretells that she will marry a cheerful man,\nwith means to keep her comfortable.", "locator": "Heading 1762; source lines 19675–19683", "lineStart": 19675, "lineEnd": 19683, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Dreaming of salmon, denotes that much good luck and pleasant duties\nwill employ your time.\n\nFor a young woman to eat it, foretells that she will marry a cheerful man,\nwith means to keep her comfortable." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11794", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Salmon", "heading": "Salmon", "text": "A dream denoting division and strike in the family (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 11794, "lineEnd": 11796, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 251; NLM OCR lines 11794–11796", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11794, "lineEnd": 11796, "printedPage": 251, "printedPageEnd": 251 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Salmon. — A dream denoting division and strike in the fam- \nily (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "fam- \nily", "after": "family", "evidenceLine": 2739 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Salmon" }, "displayText": "A dream denoting division and strike in the family (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "salt", "title": "Salt", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Salt is an omen of discordant surroundings when seen in dreams.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "salt" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about salt stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1759", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Salt", "text": "Salt is an omen of discordant surroundings when seen in dreams.\nYou will usually find after dreaming of salt that everything goes awry,\nand quarrels and dissatisfaction show themselves in the family circle.\n\nTo salt meat, portends that debts and mortgages will harass you.\n\nFor a young woman to eat salt, she will be deserted by her lover for a more\nbeautiful and attractive girl, thus causing her deep chagrin.", "locator": "Heading 1763; source lines 19683–19694", "lineStart": 19683, "lineEnd": 19694, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Salt is an omen of discordant surroundings when seen in dreams.\nYou will usually find after dreaming of salt that everything goes awry,\nand quarrels and dissatisfaction show themselves in the family circle.\n\nTo salt meat, portends that debts and mortgages will harass you.\n\nFor a young woman to eat salt, she will be deserted by her lover for a more\nbeautiful and attractive girl, thus causing her deep chagrin." }, { "id": "cielo-0370", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Salt", "text": "To dream of using salt means a rapid recovery of\n a sick friend; to spill salt denotes disappointment.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 370; source lines 4756–4759", "lineStart": 4756, "lineEnd": 4759, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of using salt means a rapid recovery of\na sick friend; to spill salt denotes disappointment." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11797", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Salt", "heading": "Salt", "text": "Wisdom is here foretold (Gypsy). Salt is the symbol of wisdom, and of wit. See Attic Salt, etc.", "lineStart": 11797, "lineEnd": 11798, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 251; NLM OCR lines 11797–11798", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11797, "lineEnd": 11798, "printedPage": 251, "printedPageEnd": 251 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Salt. — Wisdom is here foretold (Gypsy). Salt is the \nsymbol of wisdom, and of wit. See Attic Salt, etc. \n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Salt" }, "displayText": "Wisdom is here foretold (Gypsy). Salt is the symbol of wisdom, and of wit. See Attic Salt, etc." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "saltpeter", "title": "Saltpeter", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of saltpeter, denotes change in your living will add loss to some unconquerable grief.”", "aliases": [ "saltpeter" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about saltpeter stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1760", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Saltpeter", "text": "To dream of saltpeter, denotes change in your living will add\nloss to some unconquerable grief.", "locator": "Heading 1764; source lines 19694–19699", "lineStart": 19694, "lineEnd": 19699, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of saltpeter, denotes change in your living will add\nloss to some unconquerable grief." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "salve", "title": "Salve", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of salve, denotes you will prosper under adverse circumstances and convert enemies into friends.”", "aliases": [ "salve" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about salve stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1761", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Salve", "text": "To dream of salve, denotes you will prosper under adverse circumstances\nand convert enemies into friends.", "locator": "Heading 1765; source lines 19699–19704", "lineStart": 19699, "lineEnd": 19704, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of salve, denotes you will prosper under adverse circumstances\nand convert enemies into friends." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "samples", "title": "Samples", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of receiving merchandise samples, denotes improvement in your business.”", "aliases": [ "samples" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about samples stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1762", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Samples", "text": "To dream of receiving merchandise samples, denotes improvement\nin your business. For a traveling man to lose his samples,\nimplies he will find himself embarrassed in business affairs,\nor in trouble through love engagements. For a woman to dream\nthat she is examining samples sent her, denotes she will have\nchances to vary her amusements.", "locator": "Heading 1766; source lines 19704–19713", "lineStart": 19704, "lineEnd": 19713, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of receiving merchandise samples, denotes improvement\nin your business. For a traveling man to lose his samples,\nimplies he will find himself embarrassed in business affairs,\nor in trouble through love engagements. For a woman to dream\nthat she is examining samples sent her, denotes she will have\nchances to vary her amusements." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "sand", "title": "Sand", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of sand, is indicative of famine and losses.”", "aliases": [ "sand" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about sand stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1763", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Sand", "text": "To dream of sand, is indicative of famine and losses.", "locator": "Heading 1767; source lines 19713–19717", "lineStart": 19713, "lineEnd": 19717, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of sand, is indicative of famine and losses." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "sandstorm", "title": "Sandstorm", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "aliases": [ "sandstorm", "sandstorms", "sand storm", "sand storms" ], "summary": "Wind-driven sand can interrupt visibility, contact, and direction. Notice what reference or shelter remained available while the view changed.", "tagline": "A moving cloud of sand that obscures familiar landmarks and makes exposure immediate.", "psychological": "A sandstorm puts loose material into the air until the landscape becomes difficult to see. Wind, stinging particles, obscured landmarks, and the search for cover give it a specific texture. In a dream, the scene may picture trying to orient yourself while information or demands arrive too quickly to distinguish. Begin with what actually interfered with your view and movement.\n\nReduced visibility can make uncertainty practical. You might still know the destination but be unable to see the route, or find that familiar signs disappear. A confusing discussion or rapidly changing plan can offer a waking parallel. The storm's intensity does not establish the seriousness of a real situation; it gives the imagined difficulty a visible and bodily form.\n\nExposure adds a question about what can reach you. Sand against skin, entering a room, or coating equipment may picture intrusion into a space you expected to remain usable. Notice whether the discomfort is physical, social, or mainly about losing a clear view. Protection can feel relieving even when the storm continues outside.\n\nContact may become difficult when people disappear from sight or voices are lost in the wind. Holding a hand, following a shared signal, or reaching shelter together can picture support that remains available despite incomplete information. Being alone may instead make self orientation central. The presence of companions changes the experience through what they actually do.\n\nWhen the air clears, the landscape may be recognizable, altered, or newly covered. Cleaning away deposited sand can give form to the work left after an intense interruption. You may also simply enjoy the returning view. Recent weather, travel, films, or images of desert landscapes can supply the setting directly. The reflection concerns visibility, contact, and exposure in the dream rather than forecasting conflict or weather.", "traditional": "These are original reflections on wind-driven sand, visibility, exposure, and contact. No verified historical sandstorm passage is supplied. The research reference gives general dream context and does not predict weather, identify a coming conflict, or provide instructions for an actual storm.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Direction when landmarks disappear", "reflection": "A destination may remain wanted even when the route becomes hard to see. The scene can picture uncertainty about how to proceed amid changing information. Notice which reference remains usable and whether the dream allows waiting, asking, or moving with another person." }, { "title": "A boundary against unwanted intrusion", "reflection": "Sand entering clothing, a room, or equipment can make exposure concrete. Cover may offer relief without removing the surrounding storm. Consider what you wanted to keep available or protected and whether the boundary provides enough space to remain comfortable while conditions change." }, { "title": "Connection through an obscured view", "reflection": "A hand, voice, or agreed signal may preserve contact when sight becomes unreliable. Such details can picture support within uncertainty. Look at what the connection enables and whether each person can still contribute to finding a direction or a place to pause." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A familiar landmark disappears in the moving sand", "reflection": "Losing a known reference can picture uncertainty when an established plan becomes difficult to follow. The destination may still matter even though its route is obscured. Notice whether another sign, memory, or person helps orient you, and whether the storm changes how urgently you want to continue." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Sand enters a room you thought was closed", "reflection": "A permeable boundary can picture demands reaching into a space reserved for rest or concentration. The intrusion might resemble interruptions that remain noticeable even after you try to shut them out. Observe what becomes affected and whether any part of the room remains comfortable and usable." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You hold someone’s hand while the view disappears", "reflection": "Contact maintained through uncertainty can picture support that does not require a complete explanation of what lies ahead. The hand may feel reassuring or restrictive depending on who leads. Notice whether you can communicate changes of pace and whether both people have a say in the direction." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "The wind covers the screen of your navigation device", "reflection": "A tool becoming unreadable can picture difficulty using information you expected to rely on. A crowded stream of updates may feel similar. Observe whether the screen can be cleared or another reference becomes available; the device’s failure can shift attention toward how orientation is shared." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You wait in shelter while others want to continue", "reflection": "Different responses to uncertainty can picture a group negotiating pace and exposure. Waiting may feel welcome, frustrating, or socially difficult. Record why each person wants to move or pause and whether discussion is possible; the dream does not establish which waking choice would be correct." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The air clears and you brush sand from your belongings", "reflection": "Clearing residue after the view returns can picture the remaining work of an intense interruption. A task may be manageable again while still needing attention. Notice which belongings matter enough to clean and whether the restored landscape feels familiar, changed, or newly open." } ], "prompts": [ "Which landmark, message, or tool became difficult to use?", "What did I want shelter to protect or keep available?", "How did contact with another person affect my ability to find a pace or direction?" ], "related": [ "storm", "sand", "desert", "being-lost" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia editorial entry with image-specific interpretations and six differentiated scenes. The reference supplies general dream background only. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "sandwich", "title": "Sandwich", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "summary": "A sandwich can picture how parts fit together, whose preferences shape a shared result, and provision for a journey that may change.", "tagline": "Different parts, one usable whole.", "aliases": [ "sandwich", "sandwiches" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A sandwich whose layers keep slipping can picture an arrangement with useful parts that do not stay connected. A project may have good ideas, resources, and willing participants while lacking a method that lets them work together. Adding another layer may make the difficulty larger rather than solve it. Holding the food differently or simplifying the filling can resemble changing the process so that what is already available becomes usable.\n\nThe contents make preferences visible. A sandwich assembled without asking you may provide something substantial while missing what you actually wanted. A shared schedule, a gift of practical help, or a plan made on your behalf can offer parallels. Gratitude for the effort does not require satisfaction with every detail. Being able to change the filling makes the arrangement more participatory than accepting the finished version because someone else has already done the work.\n\nA packed sandwich can picture provision made before a journey begins. You cannot know every later condition, but you bring something intended to support you away from familiar resources. An unexpectedly long trip may make the portion feel inadequate, much as a task can require more time or support than its initial description suggested. Dividing it carefully, finding another source, or sharing with a companion creates different relationships with limited provision.\n\nA label bearing another person’s name can make care and ownership uncertain. You may have prepared for yourself yet feel obliged to use the resource for someone else, or find yourself receiving support whose intended recipient is unclear. The scene can concern whether needs have a distinct place in a shared arrangement. Opening the sandwich and finding an unexpected filling adds a gap between the promise and what can actually be used.\n\nPreparing your own portion after making others’ meals can picture bringing a neglected preference back into a process you helped create. Satisfaction may come from completing the arrangement rather than withdrawing care. A lunchbox, café visit, hurried meal, or childhood memory can also provide direct context. These readings concern assembly, choice, and portable support, without treating particular ingredients as a universal code or judging the food’s value.", "traditional": "No directly matching historical account is attached for this specific topic. The readings here are original reflective possibilities. The NINDS source provides general background about dreams, not evidence for these symbolic comparisons.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Connection between useful parts", "reflection": "An arrangement may need a workable method rather than another addition." }, { "title": "Preferences inside provision", "reflection": "Receiving effort or support can coexist with wanting a say in the result." }, { "title": "Preparing for changed conditions", "reflection": "A portable resource can support a journey while leaving room to revise an initial estimate." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "The layers will not stay together", "reflection": "Each part is available but the whole is awkward to use. This may picture a project lacking a method of coordination. Simplifying or rearranging the layers can change the difficulty more directly than adding still another contribution to the unstable structure." }, { "title": "The packed meal bears someone else’s name", "reflection": "A resource prepared for a journey has an uncertain owner. This can picture care whose recipient or terms were assumed rather than discussed. Feeling entitled, reluctant, or responsible creates different readings without proving that anyone has taken what belongs to you." }, { "title": "Every ingredient was chosen without you", "reflection": "A complete result provides little room for your preference. This may resemble help arranged on your behalf. Appreciation for another person’s work can coexist with wanting changes; being allowed to alter the filling makes the provision more genuinely usable." }, { "title": "A small sandwich must last a longer journey", "reflection": "The initial provision no longer fits the undertaking’s duration. This may picture a task requiring more resources than expected. Finding additional support or revising the route creates another response from treating the original portion as a test of personal endurance." }, { "title": "The filling differs from what was promised", "reflection": "The description and usable contents do not agree. This can resemble relying on an arrangement that provides a different experience once opened. Curiosity gives another reading from disappointment, and the mismatch does not by itself establish deliberate deception." }, { "title": "You prepare your own portion after making others’ meals", "reflection": "Your preference gains a place inside a process you helped sustain. This may picture completing care by including yourself. The satisfaction can concern a workable arrangement for everyone rather than making generosity and personal provision competing obligations." } ], "prompts": [ "Which useful parts need a better way to stay connected?", "Where would a say in the contents make support more usable?", "What provision needs revision because the journey has changed?" ], "related": [ "bread", "breakfast", "cooking", "kitchen" ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1765", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Sapphire", "text": "To dream of sapphire, is ominous of fortunate gain, and to woman,\na wise selection in a lover.", "locator": "Heading 1769; source lines 19723–19728", "lineStart": 19723, "lineEnd": 19728, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of sapphire, is ominous of fortunate gain, and to woman,\na wise selection in a lover." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1767", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Sardonyx", "text": "To dream of sardonyx, signifies gloomy surroundings will\nbe cleared away by your energetic overthrow of poverty.\nFor a woman, this dream denotes an increase in her possessions,\nunless she loses or throws them away, then it might imply\na disregard of opportunities to improve her condition.", "locator": "Heading 1771; source lines 19737–19745", "lineStart": 19737, "lineEnd": 19745, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of sardonyx, signifies gloomy surroundings will\nbe cleared away by your energetic overthrow of poverty.\nFor a woman, this dream denotes an increase in her possessions,\nunless she loses or throws them away, then it might imply\na disregard of opportunities to improve her condition." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "sash", "title": "Sash", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of wearing a sash, foretells that you will seek to retain the affections of a flirtatious person.”", "aliases": [ "sash" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about sash stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1768", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Sash", "text": "To dream of wearing a sash, foretells that you will seek to retain\nthe affections of a flirtatious person.\n\nFor a young woman to buy one, she will be faithful to her lover,\nand win esteem by her frank, womanly ways.", "locator": "Heading 1772; source lines 19745–19753", "lineStart": 19745, "lineEnd": 19753, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of wearing a sash, foretells that you will seek to retain\nthe affections of a flirtatious person.\n\nFor a young woman to buy one, she will be faithful to her lover,\nand win esteem by her frank, womanly ways." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "satan", "title": "Satan", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of Satan, foretells that you will have some dangerous adventures, and you will be forced to use strategy to keep up honorable…”", "aliases": [ "satan" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about satan stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "devil" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1769", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Satan", "text": "To dream of Satan, foretells that you will have some dangerous adventures,\nand you will be forced to use strategy to keep up honorable appearances.\n\nTo dream that you kill him, foretells that you will desert wicked\nor immoral companions to live upon a higher plane.\n\nIf he comes to you under the guise of literature, it should be heeded\nas a warning against promiscuous friendships, and especially flatterers.\n\nIf he comes in the shape of wealth or power, you will fail to use\nyour influence for harmony, or the elevation of others.\n\nIf he takes the form of music, you are likely to go down before his wiles.\n\nIf in the form of a fair woman, you will probably crush every kindly\nfeeling you may have for the caresses of this moral monstrosity.\n\nTo feel that you are trying to shield yourself from satan, denotes that you\nwill endeavor to throw off the bondage of selfish pleasure, and seek to give\nothers their best deserts.\n\n\n[197] See Devil.", "locator": "Heading 1773; source lines 19753–19779", "lineStart": 19753, "lineEnd": 19779, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of Satan, foretells that you will have some dangerous adventures,\nand you will be forced to use strategy to keep up honorable appearances.\n\nTo dream that you kill him, foretells that you will desert wicked\nor immoral companions to live upon a higher plane.\n\nIf he comes to you under the guise of literature, it should be heeded\nas a warning against promiscuous friendships, and especially flatterers.\n\nIf he comes in the shape of wealth or power, you will fail to use\nyour influence for harmony, or the elevation of others.\n\nIf he takes the form of music, you are likely to go down before his wiles.\n\nIf in the form of a fair woman, you will probably crush every kindly\nfeeling you may have for the caresses of this moral monstrosity.\n\nTo feel that you are trying to shield yourself from satan, denotes that you\nwill endeavor to throw off the bondage of selfish pleasure, and seek to give\nothers their best deserts. 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OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L11799", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Satin", "heading": "Satin", "text": "A dream of joy, profit, etc. (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 11799, "lineEnd": 11799, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 251; NLM OCR lines 11799–11799", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11799, "lineEnd": 11799, "printedPage": 251, "printedPageEnd": 251 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Satin. — A dream of joy, profit, etc. (Gypsy). \n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Satin" }, "displayText": "A dream of joy, profit, etc. (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1770", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Sausage", "text": "To dream of making sausage, denotes that you will be successful\nin many undertakings.\n\nTo eat them, you will have a humble, but pleasant home.", "locator": "Heading 1774; source lines 19779–19786", "lineStart": 19779, "lineEnd": 19786, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of making sausage, denotes that you will be successful\nin many undertakings.\n\nTo eat them, you will have a humble, but pleasant home." }, { "id": "fontaine-0693", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Sausages", "text": "To dream of eating fried sausages, foretells that you\nwill come in contact with some person who is very poor, and will be\ndisagreeable to you: a girl who dreams this, will be very sure to get a\nshiftless and needy lover, and perhaps marry him if she is in much of a\nhurry to get married. 38, 16.", "locator": "Heading 693; source line 4344", "lineStart": 4344, "lineEnd": 4350, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of eating fried sausages, foretells that you\nwill come in contact with some person who is very poor, and will be\ndisagreeable to you: a girl who dreams this, will be very sure to get a\nshiftless and needy lover, and perhaps marry him if she is in much of a\nhurry to get married." }, { "id": "cielo-0371", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Sausage", "text": "Is a sign of affliction or sickness.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 371; source lines 4759–4761", "lineStart": 4759, "lineEnd": 4761, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Is a sign of affliction or sickness." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "noe-0448", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Saviour", "text": "To dream that you behold the Saviour of mankind\nsuffering on the cross, denotes that you will be annoyed by some vile\naspersions on your character, but will eventually vindicate yourself\nsuccessfully, and be honored and respected by all whose opinion you value.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 454; source lines 1673–1677", "lineStart": 1673, "lineEnd": 1677, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you behold the Saviour of mankind\nsuffering on the cross, denotes that you will be annoyed by some vile\naspersions on your character, but will eventually vindicate yourself\nsuccessfully, and be honored and respected by all whose opinion you value." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "saw", "title": "Saw", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you use a hand-saw, indicates an energetic and busy time, and cheerful home life.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "saw" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about saw stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1771", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Saw", "text": "To dream that you use a hand-saw, indicates an energetic and busy time,\nand cheerful home life.\n\nTo see big saws in machinery, foretells that you will superintend\na big enterprise, and the same will yield fair returns.\nFor a woman, this dream denotes that she will be esteemed,\nand her counsels will be heeded.\n\nTo dream of rusty or broken saws, denotes failure and accidents.\n\nTo lose a saw, you will engage in affairs which will culminate in disaster.\n\nTo hear the buzz of a saw, indicates thrift and prosperity.\n\nTo find a rusty saw, denotes that you will probably restore your fortune.\n\nTo carry a saw on your back, foretells that you will carry large,\nbut profitable, responsibilities.", "locator": "Heading 1775; source lines 19786–19807", "lineStart": 19786, "lineEnd": 19807, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you use a hand-saw, indicates an energetic and busy time,\nand cheerful home life.\n\nTo see big saws in machinery, foretells that you will superintend\na big enterprise, and the same will yield fair returns.\nFor a woman, this dream denotes that she will be esteemed,\nand her counsels will be heeded.\n\nTo dream of rusty or broken saws, denotes failure and accidents.\n\nTo lose a saw, you will engage in affairs which will culminate in disaster.\n\nTo hear the buzz of a saw, indicates thrift and prosperity.\n\nTo find a rusty saw, denotes that you will probably restore your fortune.\n\nTo carry a saw on your back, foretells that you will carry large,\nbut profitable, responsibilities." }, { "id": "cielo-0372", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Saw", "text": "Portends a satisfactory end in your affairs.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 372; source lines 4761–4763", "lineStart": 4761, "lineEnd": 4763, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Portends a satisfactory end in your affairs." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1772", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Sawdust", "text": "To dream of sawdust, signifies that grievous mistakes will cause\nyou distress and quarreling in your home.", "locator": "Heading 1776; source lines 19807–19812", "lineStart": 19807, "lineEnd": 19812, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of sawdust, signifies that grievous mistakes will cause\nyou distress and quarreling in your home." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "sawing", "title": "Sawing", "type": "dreams", "category": "Other symbols", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “To dream of sawing wood, or boards, foretells that you will do something that you will afterwards regret: if a young fellow dreams this,…”", "aliases": [ "sawing" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about sawing stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "scab-leprosie-and-itch", "title": "Scab, Leprosie▪ and Itch", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Artemidorus wrote: “SCabs, Leprosie, and Itch▪ are signes of Honour and Riches to the poore, to the rich and mighty they are Offices and Dignities.”", "aliases": [ "scab, leprosie▪ and itch", "of the scab, leprosie▪ and itch", "scab", "leprosie▪", "itch" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about scab, leprosie▪ and itch stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "artemidorus-152", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of the Scab, Leprosie▪ and Itch.", "text": "SCabs, Leprosie, and Itch▪ are signes of Honour and Riches to the poore, to the rich and mighty they are Offices and Dignities. It is also revealing of secrets. But to see another leprous and scabby, is anger and care: For all ugly and ill favoured things, make sad their spirit which looke on them▪", "locator": "Book 3, encoded section 152", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "3", "displayText": "SCabs, Leprosie, and Itch▪ are signes of Honour and Riches to the poore, to the rich and mighty they are Offices and Dignities. It is also revealing of secrets. But to see another leprous and scabby, is anger and care: For all ugly and ill favoured things, make sad their spirit which looke on them▪" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "scabbard", "title": "Scabbard", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a scabbard, denotes some misunderstanding will be amicably settled.”", "aliases": [ "scabbard" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about scabbard stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1773", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Scabbard", "text": "To dream of a scabbard, denotes some misunderstanding will be\namicably settled. If you wonder where your scabbard can be,\nyou will have overpowering difficulties to meet.", "locator": "Heading 1777; source lines 19812–19818", "lineStart": 19812, "lineEnd": 19818, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a scabbard, denotes some misunderstanding will be\namicably settled. If you wonder where your scabbard can be,\nyou will have overpowering difficulties to meet." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "scabs", "title": "Scabs", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “To dream you are covered with scabs, is the sure forerunner of great success and riches.”", "aliases": [ "scabs" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about scabs stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "scaffold", "title": "Scaffold", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a scaffold, denotes that you will undergo keen disappointment in failing to secure the object…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "scaffold" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about scaffold stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "gallows" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1774", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Scaffold", "text": "To dream of a scaffold, denotes that you will undergo keen disappointment\nin failing to secure the object of your affection.\n\nTo ascend one, you will be misunderstood and censured by your friends\nfor some action, which you never committed.\n\nTo decend one, you will be guilty of wrong doing, and you\nwill suffer the penalty.\n\nTo fall from one, you will be unexpectedly surprised while engaged\nin deceiving and working injury to others.", "locator": "Heading 1778; source lines 19818–19832", "lineStart": 19818, "lineEnd": 19832, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a scaffold, denotes that you will undergo keen disappointment\nin failing to secure the object of your affection.\n\nTo ascend one, you will be misunderstood and censured by your friends\nfor some action, which you never committed.\n\nTo decend one, you will be guilty of wrong doing, and you\nwill suffer the penalty.\n\nTo fall from one, you will be unexpectedly surprised while engaged\nin deceiving and working injury to others." }, { "id": "fontaine-0695", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Scaffold", "text": "To dream of going upon a high scaffold, shows that you will\nrise in the world: if, in your dream, you imagine that you fall from a\nscaffold, or from any high place, it shadows forth a misfortune that\nwill make you poorer: a girl who dreams of climbing upon a scaffold,\nwill positively marry a rich man, or one of distinction, who is far\nabove her in position. 33, 7.", "locator": "Heading 695; source line 4355", "lineStart": 4355, "lineEnd": 4362, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of going upon a high scaffold, shows that you will\nrise in the world: if, in your dream, you imagine that you fall from a\nscaffold, or from any high place, it shadows forth a misfortune that\nwill make you poorer: a girl who dreams of climbing upon a scaffold,\nwill positively marry a rich man, or one of distinction, who is far\nabove her in position." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11801", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Scaffold", "heading": "Scaffold", "text": "See Gallows.", "lineStart": 11801, "lineEnd": 11802, "kind": "cross-reference", "locator": "Printed p. 251; NLM OCR lines 11801–11802", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11801, "lineEnd": 11802, "printedPage": 251, "printedPageEnd": 251 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Scaffold. — See Gallows. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Scaffold" }, "displayText": "See Gallows." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "gallows" ] }, { "slug": "scalded", "title": "Scalded", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of being scalded, portends that distressing incidents will blot out pleasurable anticipations.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "scalded", "scalding" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about scalded stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1776", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Scalding", "text": "To dream of being scalded, portends that distressing incidents\nwill blot out pleasurable anticipations.", "locator": "Heading 1780; source lines 19840–19845", "lineStart": 19840, "lineEnd": 19845, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being scalded, portends that distressing incidents\nwill blot out pleasurable anticipations.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Scalding” is shown on the Scalded page: same topic (Noe/Fontaine)" }, { "id": "fontaine-0696", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Scalded", "text": "To dream of being scalded with hot water, is usually a sign of\ninjuries by the elements; it may foretell losses by floods, by fire, or\nby winds, or by thunder-storms: if you dream of scalding your tongue\nwith hot tea, it is a sign that you will scandalize a neighbor with\nsome ill-natured remark. 3, 12, 36.", "locator": "Heading 696; source line 4362", "lineStart": 4362, "lineEnd": 4368, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being scalded with hot water, is usually a sign of\ninjuries by the elements; it may foretell losses by floods, by fire, or\nby winds, or by thunder-storms: if you dream of scalding your tongue\nwith hot tea, it is a sign that you will scandalize a neighbor with\nsome ill-natured remark." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "scaldhead", "title": "Scaldhead", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see any one with a scaldhead in your dreams, there will be uneasiness felt over the sickness or absence of some one near to you.”", "aliases": [ "scaldhead" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about scaldhead stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1775", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Scaldhead", "text": "To see any one with a scaldhead in your dreams, there will be uneasiness\nfelt over the sickness or absence of some one near to you.\n\nIf you dream that your own head is thus afflicted, you are in danger\nof personal illness or accidents.", "locator": "Heading 1779; source lines 19832–19840", "lineStart": 19832, "lineEnd": 19840, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see any one with a scaldhead in your dreams, there will be uneasiness\nfelt over the sickness or absence of some one near to you.\n\nIf you dream that your own head is thus afflicted, you are in danger\nof personal illness or accidents." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "scales", "title": "Scales", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of weighing on scales, portends that justice will temper your conduct, and you will see your…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "scales" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about scales stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1777", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Scales", "text": "To dream of weighing on scales, portends that justice will temper\nyour conduct, and you will see your prosperity widening.\n\nFor a young woman to weigh her lover, the indications are that she will find\nhim of solid worth, and faithfulness will balance her love.", "locator": "Heading 1781; source lines 19845–19853", "lineStart": 19845, "lineEnd": 19853, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of weighing on scales, portends that justice will temper\nyour conduct, and you will see your prosperity widening.\n\nFor a young woman to weigh her lover, the indications are that she will find\nhim of solid worth, and faithfulness will balance her love." }, { "id": "fontaine-0697", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Scales", "text": "To dream you are weighing any article, is a good omen, and\nsignifies that you will be happy and long-lived; but to dream you see\nanother using the scales, is a sign you will be ruined by law-suits.\n68, 40.", "locator": "Heading 697; source line 4368", "lineStart": 4368, "lineEnd": 4373, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are weighing any article, is a good omen, and\nsignifies that you will be happy and long-lived; but to dream you see\nanother using the scales, is a sign you will be ruined by law-suits." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "scandal", "title": "Scandal", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are an object of scandal, denotes that you are not particular to select good and true…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "scandal" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about scandal stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1778", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Scandal", "text": "To dream that you are an object of scandal, denotes that you\nare not particular to select good and true companions, but rather\nenjoy having fast men and women contribute to your pleasure.\nTrade and business of any character will suffer dulness\nafter this dream.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she discussed a scandal, foretells that\nshe will confer favors, which should be sacred, to some one who\nwill deceive her into believing that he is honorably inclined.\nMarriage rarely follows swiftly after dreaming of scandal.", "locator": "Heading 1782; source lines 19853–19866", "lineStart": 19853, "lineEnd": 19866, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are an object of scandal, denotes that you\nare not particular to select good and true companions, but rather\nenjoy having fast men and women contribute to your pleasure.\nTrade and business of any character will suffer dulness\nafter this dream.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she discussed a scandal, foretells that\nshe will confer favors, which should be sacred, to some one who\nwill deceive her into believing that he is honorably inclined.\nMarriage rarely follows swiftly after dreaming of scandal." }, { "id": "noe-0449", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Scandal", "text": "To dream that you are scandalized by one from whom you\nexpected different treatment, is an indication that you will be the\nrecipient of a legacy from a distant relative from whom you did not expect\nanything of the kind.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 455; source lines 1677–1680", "lineStart": 1677, "lineEnd": 1680, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are scandalized by one from whom you\nexpected different treatment, is an indication that you will be the\nrecipient of a legacy from a distant relative from whom you did not expect\nanything of the kind." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "scar", "title": "Scar", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "A healed mark can carry a history without keeping the whole event present.", "summary": "A scar dream can explore continuity, aftermath and how much of a past experience you choose to make visible. It differs from a fresh wound.", "aliases": [ "scar", "scars", "healed scar", "healed scars", "scarring" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A scar in a dream can make an earlier event visible without replaying the event itself. The mark may picture something that remains part of your account even when the immediate demand has passed. A changed relationship, a difficult project or a decision with lasting consequences may provide a waking parallel. This does not mean every scar represents emotional hurt; a familiar bodily detail may simply help the dream make you recognizable.\n\nRecognizing the mark can express continuity. You know something about where you have been, even if your current circumstances differ. The feeling may be affectionate, matter-of-fact, uncomfortable or proud. That range matters because a remaining trace does not have to keep the original experience active. A story you can now tell calmly differs from one you feel compelled to explain whenever another person notices it.\n\nA scar missing from your reflection can make recognition uncertain. The absence may feel freeing if you no longer want an old experience to define how people approach you. It may feel disorienting if the mark was part of what confirmed your continuity through change. Starting a new role after a demanding period may hold a similar tension: wanting room for a new account without erasing what shaped the previous one.\n\nSomeone asking about a healed mark turns aftermath into a question of access. You may want to share its story, decline or offer only part of it. This can resemble deciding how much personal history belongs in a new friendship or workplace. Curiosity can feel caring without creating an obligation to disclose. Feeling reduced to the mark instead may picture a conversation in which a past event overshadows the person you are now.\n\nAn impossible pattern or a similar scar on another dream person can invite comparison. A remembered route, shared experience or repeated phrase may become the association that gives the mark meaning. Similarity does not establish that two people have had the same history. The dream is not evidence about healing, health, hidden trauma or another person's experience. These original readings stay with the scar as a visible trace, the meaning you give it and the choice of what to carry into the present.", "traditional": "In the supplied English Artemidorus edition, the Wound passage explicitly describes new recovered skin called a “skar” and assigns it an end to evils. That precise healed-mark clause is an adjacent historical comparison, not a validated meaning or recovery forecast. The original record artemidorus-147 remains attached to Wound; the Scar page distinguishes aftermath and identity from current injury.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A trace without a replay", "reflection": "A healed mark can picture an earlier experience remaining part of your account without requiring the whole event to return. Its emotional weight may have changed even while it remains recognizable." }, { "title": "Continuity through change", "reflection": "Recognizing or losing a familiar mark can bring a changing identity into view. You may want a new account while still valuing what connects it to earlier experience." }, { "title": "Choosing the story’s audience", "reflection": "Someone noticing a scar can make personal history a question of access. Sharing, declining or telling part of the story can each preserve a useful boundary." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You recognize a familiar healed scar", "reflection": "Recognizing an old mark can picture continuity without renewed urgency. You may feel connected to an earlier period while no longer living by its immediate demands. The feeling toward the mark helps distinguish ordinary recognition from ongoing preoccupation." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "An old scar is missing from your reflection", "reflection": "A missing scar can picture relief from an old label or uncertainty about what still identifies you. A new setting may offer room for another account. The absence need not mean that the earlier experience has been erased." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Someone asks about a mark and you choose what to tell", "reflection": "Being asked about a mark can resemble deciding who receives a personal history and in what form. Interest can be welcome without requiring full disclosure. Your choice gives the conversation its boundary." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A scar appears as an impossible pattern", "reflection": "An impossible pattern can picture a personal association made visible. It may resemble a route, object or phrase linked to an earlier event. That resemblance offers a possible connection rather than a hidden code." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You show a healed mark comfortably in public", "reflection": "Showing a mark comfortably can picture being able to include part of your history without making it the whole account. A conversation after change may feel similar. Comfort does not establish a medical or emotional outcome." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "Another person carries a mark resembling yours", "reflection": "A similar mark on another person can picture recognition of a shared theme while differences remain. A comparable responsibility or transition may offer a parallel. The dream cannot establish their actual history." } ], "prompts": [ "What remained present through the mark, and what no longer needed to be replayed?", "How did seeing or losing the scar affect my sense of continuity?", "What story did I choose to share, with whom and on what terms?" ], "related": [ "wound", "skin", "tattoo", "face", "bandages" ], "sources": [ { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display.", "recordIds": [ "artemidorus-147" ], "scope": "Adjacent healed-mark comparison only: artemidorus-147’s clause about recovered new skin called skar and its attributed end-of-evils forecast. Other wound clauses are outside this Scar page’s historical claim; original record ownership remains Wound. Exact supplied records: artemidorus-147 — Of a wound. (Book 3, encoded section 147). Historical comparison only, not evidence for the original reflective reading or an actual outcome." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "scarcity", "title": "Scarcity", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of scarcity, foretells sorrow in the household and failing affairs.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "scarcity" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about scarcity stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1779", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Scarcity", "text": "To dream of scarcity, foretells sorrow in the household and failing affairs.", "locator": "Heading 1783; source lines 19866–19870", "lineStart": 19866, "lineEnd": 19870, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of scarcity, foretells sorrow in the household and failing affairs." }, { "id": "fontaine-0698", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Scarcity", "text": "To dream of a scarcity of anything is a sign that some of\nthe article dreamed about is on its way to you; as if a farmer were to\ndream of a scarcity of hay, it shows that his next hay crop will be\nvery abundant; or, if a girl should dream of a scarcity of compliments,\nshe will probably be overwhelmed by them from gentlemen, when she next\ngoes into company. 27, 9.", "locator": "Heading 698; source line 4373", "lineStart": 4373, "lineEnd": 4380, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a scarcity of anything is a sign that some of\nthe article dreamed about is on its way to you; as if a farmer were to\ndream of a scarcity of hay, it shows that his next hay crop will be\nvery abundant; or, if a girl should dream of a scarcity of compliments,\nshe will probably be overwhelmed by them from gentlemen, when she next\ngoes into company." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "scarecrow", "title": "Scarecrow", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “A dream denoting dishonest friends (Gypsy).”", "aliases": [ "scarecrow" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about scarecrow stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L11803", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Scarecrow", "heading": "Scarecrow", "text": "A dream denoting dishonest friends (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 11803, "lineEnd": 11804, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 251; NLM OCR lines 11803–11804", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11803, "lineEnd": 11804, "printedPage": 251, "printedPageEnd": 251 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Scarecrow. — A dream denoting dishonest friends (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Scarecrow" }, "displayText": "A dream denoting dishonest friends (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "scared", "title": "Scared", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “To dream that you are scared by some frightful spectacle, denotes that you will be shortly overjoyed by hearing some pleasing intelligence from…”", "aliases": [ "scared" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about scared stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "noe-0450", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Scared", "text": "To dream that you are scared by some\nfrightful spectacle, denotes that you will be shortly overjoyed by hearing\nsome pleasing intelligence from one whom you dearly love.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 456; source lines 1680–1683", "lineStart": 1680, "lineEnd": 1683, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are scared by some\nfrightful spectacle, denotes that you will be shortly overjoyed by hearing\nsome pleasing intelligence from one whom you dearly love." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "scarlet-fever", "title": "Scarlet Fever", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of scarlet fever, foretells you are in danger of sickness, or in the power of an enemy.”", "aliases": [ "scarlet fever" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about scarlet fever stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1780", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Scarlet Fever", "text": "To dream of scarlet fever, foretells you are in danger of sickness,\nor in the power of an enemy. To dream a relative dies suddenly with it,\nforetells you will be overcome by villainous treachery.", "locator": "Heading 1784; source lines 19870–19876", "lineStart": 19870, "lineEnd": 19876, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of scarlet fever, foretells you are in danger of sickness,\nor in the power of an enemy. To dream a relative dies suddenly with it,\nforetells you will be overcome by villainous treachery." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "sceptre", "title": "Sceptre", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To imagine in your dreams that you wield a sceptre, foretells that you will be chosen by friends to positions of trust, and you will not…”", "aliases": [ "sceptre" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about sceptre stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1781", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Sceptre", "text": "To imagine in your dreams that you wield a sceptre, foretells that you\nwill be chosen by friends to positions of trust, and you will not disappoint\ntheir estimate of your ability.\n\nTo dream that others wield the sceptre over you, denotes that you will seek\nemployment under the supervision of others, rather than exert your energies\nto act for yourself.", "locator": "Heading 1785; source lines 19876–19886", "lineStart": 19876, "lineEnd": 19886, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To imagine in your dreams that you wield a sceptre, foretells that you\nwill be chosen by friends to positions of trust, and you will not disappoint\ntheir estimate of your ability.\n\nTo dream that others wield the sceptre over you, denotes that you will seek\nemployment under the supervision of others, rather than exert your energies\nto act for yourself." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "school", "title": "School", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "Returning to a whole learning environment", "summary": "A school setting may revisit routines, access, belonging and earlier roles, with different possibilities from an exam or a single classroom.", "aliases": [ "school" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "A school can bring a whole organized day back into view: the bell, corridors, shared rules, familiar people and the expectation that you belong somewhere at a certain time. A dream centered on this setting may explore how a larger system arranges your life. This differs from an exam that tests an answer or a classroom that organizes one lesson. Start with where you were going and what made the building recognizable.\n\nReturning at your present age can put old habits beside current choices. You might still wait for permission to leave despite knowing that you are an adult. This could resemble following an inherited work routine after its purpose has changed. Feeling younger can instead make a particular memory more immediate. Neither version proves that you are stuck in the past or that a forgotten event has been recovered.\n\nThe school's public and private spaces can matter differently. A busy corridor offers movement and contact; a staff-only door limits access; a quiet courtyard provides an interval between demands. A present organization may offer a useful comparison if you know where to go but remain unsure where you are allowed. Notice who explains the rules and whether those rules make the place easier to use.\n\nPeople can return without keeping their original roles. A former classmate may now lead the group, or someone from your present life may wait by an old locker. This can put several experiences of belonging into one environment. It need not recreate what those people actually think or turn the entire school into a verdict about popularity.\n\nAn abandoned school, a changed entrance or an unexpectedly welcoming return can shift the focus toward what remains available. Perhaps a familiar place still offers something useful without requiring you to resume every old obligation. Actual visits, a child's school arrangements, local news and remembered journeys can supply direct material. The most useful reflection may concern how you move through the institution, including any space where you can pause or choose another route.", "traditional": "Miller's School passage varies its forecasts across attendance, remembered youth, teaching and returning to a childhood school. Fontaine predicts advancement through study, while Noe connects failed lessons with an undertaking not understood. Craig repeats a learning-difficulty comparison under an Artemidorus attribution. These are distinct period claims, not a test of aptitude or a prediction about your present institution.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "The bell rings but nobody tells you where to go", "reflection": "A familiar cue starts a routine without supplying a destination. This may resemble a workplace or group whose schedule is clear while your role remains uncertain. Notice whether you find information, follow others or decide that the bell need not govern your next step." }, { "title": "You return as an adult who still needs permission to leave", "reflection": "Old rules remain active despite your changed age. The scene may picture an inherited expectation that feels compulsory after its practical reason has ended. Your response can distinguish a useful routine from a rule you now have room to question." }, { "title": "A staff-only door opens and someone welcomes you", "reflection": "Access changes within a place you already know. This could fit a new responsibility or invitation to understand how a group works behind its ordinary routine. Being admitted need not mean greater worth; it may simply change the information available to you." }, { "title": "Your present colleagues wait beside your childhood locker", "reflection": "People from different periods meet at a personally familiar location. The mixture may bring an earlier way of joining a group into a current setting. Their actual dreamed behavior matters more than assuming that your present workplace repeats your former school experience." }, { "title": "The school is closed but its courtyard remains accessible", "reflection": "Part of the institution is unavailable while another space still offers room to be there. This may picture keeping a useful memory, friendship or practice after a formal role has ended. Record whether the remaining space feels sufficient, disappointing or unexpectedly peaceful." }, { "title": "You take a different exit from the one you remember", "reflection": "A familiar building permits an unfamiliar departure. The scene may explore making a present choice within an old pattern, such as changing how you leave work or respond to a group. What lies beyond the exit can matter more than whether the route is correct." } ], "prompts": [ "Which part of the school made it feel like the place you knew?", "How did your age and role affect the rules you followed?", "What current routine, memory or relationship comes to mind when you recall your route?" ], "related": [ "classroom", "school-or-exam", "high-school", "school-teacher", "school-bus" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1782" ], "scope": "miller-1782 — School (Heading 1786; source lines 19886–19900): School attendance, teaching and a childhood return receive literary, material and discouragement forecasts. Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence validating the original reflection, a diagnosis, another person’s state or a future event." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0699" ], "scope": "fontaine-0699 — School (Heading 699; source line 4380): School attendance and study receive advancement claims; learning difficulty is assigned trouble followed by advancement. Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence validating the original reflection, a diagnosis, another person’s state or a future event." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0483" ], "scope": "noe-0483 — School (Dream section, heading 491; source lines 1803–1805): School with inability to recite lessons is compared to an undertaking not understood. Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence validating the original reflection, a diagnosis, another person’s state or a future event." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L11805" ], "scope": "craig-1918:L11805 — School (Printed p. 251; NLM OCR lines 11805–11808): Craig repeats a learning-difficulty/undertaking comparison under an Artemidorus attribution; not an independently authenticated original passage. Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence validating the original reflection, a diagnosis, another person’s state or a future event." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15 under the site owner’s delegation. Historical claims, where supplied, remain attributed period writing. No human or clinical review is claimed.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "The shape of the day", "reflection": "Bells, corridors and permissions can picture how an institution arranges time and access, if a current routine offers a useful parallel." }, { "title": "Past and present roles", "reflection": "Returning with present knowledge may place an earlier habit beside a choice you can make differently now." }, { "title": "Belonging across spaces", "reflection": "Knowing a building and feeling welcome in it can be separate experiences; the people and doors make that difference concrete." } ], "kind": "editorial", "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "Codex (AI-assisted editorial review)", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "a-stranger", "a-train-going-in-the-wrong-direction", "being-trapped", "being-unable-to-move", "children", "church", "current-romantic-partner", "death-of-a-friend", "elevator", "father", "forest", "hair-falling-out", "insects", "key", "locked-out", "mother", "nakedness", "phone-not-working", "rainbow", "running-but-going-nowhere", "school", "smoke", "snake-bite", "superpowers", "the-self", "the-shadow", "web" ] }, "decisionReason": "The developed reading treats a whole institution, permission, routes and changing roles separately from an exam or classroom. It gives current-adult choices and usable spaces rather than a verdict about being stuck in childhood. 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Someone chooses the route and departure time, while passengers arrange themselves within a shared vehicle. The dream may begin at a stop, on board or at the destination. Its practical issue might be getting there, traveling with familiar people or being responsible for another passenger. Keep that action distinct from the classroom experience waiting at the end.\n\nMissing the bus can expose dependence on a particular arrangement. You may have no alternative, receive an unexpected ride or realize that the destination no longer matters. This could resemble a routine whose timing is set by other people. The dream does not establish that you are late in life or will miss an opportunity; the available next step makes the missed departure specific.\n\nSeating can bring a remembered social journey back into view. A place beside a friend, an empty row or a bag occupying the only seat creates different forms of company and access. A present commute or group activity may offer a comparison, but actual school travel can supply the details directly. Notice what the other passengers do instead of assuming that a bus always reproduces a fixed social hierarchy.\n\nWatching a child board changes your position from passenger to someone handing over part of a journey. You may want information about the route or find that you cannot remain alongside the vehicle. Parenting, coordinating an outing or trusting a shared arrangement could be useful context if those experiences fit. The scene is not evidence about a real child's safety or a driver's intentions.\n\nDriving makes the destination and other people's participation your immediate responsibility. You might know the route but struggle with where to stop, or have cooperative passengers while the road is unfamiliar. Responsibility and having complete information need not coincide. Recent transport arrangements, family conversations and earlier rides may contribute ordinary material. The journey home can matter as much as the trip to school: it may restore privacy, change company or leave the day unfinished. Reflect on who sets the route, who needs a place and what happens at the stopping point.", "traditional": "No exact School bus passage is attached. Omnibus, School and School Teacher are adjacent historical subjects with their own owners, not a combined authority for this journey. The original reflection concerns school-linked transport; the general sleep source supplies background only and does not validate a transport symbol code.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "The bus leaves while you are at the correct stop", "reflection": "Your location fits the arrangement, but its timing does not. This may resemble a routine that offers little room for an ordinary delay. Notice what alternative you find; the missed departure does not decide that a real opportunity has been lost." }, { "title": "A friend keeps a seat for you on an otherwise crowded bus", "reflection": "Another passenger makes participation easier through a specific action. This could fit wanting familiar company within a shared routine. Record whether you welcome the place and the conversation; being included does not require every part of the journey to feel comfortable." }, { "title": "You watch a child board and cannot follow alongside", "reflection": "The journey passes partly into another arrangement. This may resemble handing over responsibility while wanting enough information to understand what happens next. The dream's uncertainty concerns the imagined handover; it does not establish danger to a real child or misconduct by the driver." }, { "title": "You drive but the passenger list names unfamiliar stops", "reflection": "Responsibility arrives before the route is fully understood. This could fit coordinating a group with needs you have not yet been shown. Asking, checking or revising the route can matter more than treating unfamiliar information as proof that you cannot lead the journey." }, { "title": "The bus reaches school and you discover you are not expected there", "reflection": "The vehicle completes its route while your purpose has changed. This may picture following a familiar routine beyond the point where it fits your present role. Notice whether you stay, explain the mismatch or choose another destination instead of calling the journey wasted." }, { "title": "The ride home is quiet after a crowded morning journey", "reflection": "The same vehicle holds a different rhythm at the day's end. This could fit wanting space to recover from a shared activity or noticing how company changes over time. The silence may feel restful or lonely; its effect belongs to the particular scene." } ], "prompts": [ "What connected the journey specifically with school?", "Who arranged the route, timing and stopping places?", "How did your role change between waiting, boarding and arriving?" ], "related": [ "school", "bus-stop", "omnibus", "children", "being-late" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection independently reviewed for content and source scope. Historical accounts remain attributed period writing. Human publication review pending.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A schedule set by others", "reflection": "Boarding and missing a departure can make dependence on a shared arrangement concrete." }, { "title": "Company during the journey", "reflection": "Seats and passenger behavior may bring a particular experience of inclusion, privacy or remembered friendship." }, { "title": "Responsibility at the stop", "reflection": "Driving or watching someone board can center the practical handover between one person's role and another's." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "school-or-exam", "title": "School or an exam", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "Showing what you know under particular conditions", "summary": "A dreamed exam may explore a standard, preparation, fairness and how you respond when knowledge must be demonstrated.", "aliases": [ "exam", "exams", "test" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "An exam gives a dream a task whose answer will be judged under particular conditions. The setting may be school, but the central action is demonstrating what you know to somebody else. A paper, practical exercise or spoken answer creates a different demand. If no assessment appears, the broader school setting may offer the better starting point. Record the actual requirement before turning the scene into a general judgment about your worth.\n\nPreparation can be uneven. You may know one section well while another concerns a subject you never studied. That can resemble a work review or interview that extends beyond what you expected to explain. The mismatch might concern the instructions rather than your knowledge. A dream's difficulty does not measure a real skill, and an effortless answer does not guarantee a waking result.\n\nThe rules can shape the pressure as much as the questions. A clock nobody can see, contradictory instructions or an examiner who changes the required method can make fairness central. A current process may feel similar if its standard becomes clear only after you have acted. Notice whether the dream offers clarification, an alternative format or permission to challenge a condition.\n\nOther participants may provide useful information, comparison or distraction. Watching someone finish early can change your pace even when their task is different. A quiet encouragement might help you return to your own answer. These interactions need not establish that you are behind other people; they can show how attention moves between the task and its audience.\n\nWhat happens after the test matters too. You may receive no grade, discover the qualification is unnecessary or leave satisfied with an answer that remains unmarked. This can separate doing the work from obtaining confirmation. Actual exams, professional assessments, forms and remembered school experiences may supply direct context. A useful personal reading might concern the standard you accept, the preparation you had and the response available under pressure. It need not declare that you are inadequate, secretly exceptional or required to prove yourself again.", "traditional": "No exact historical passage is attached to this combined entry. Nearby School and School Teacher passages have their own source owners and period forecasts; they are not evidence for a specific examination result. The original reflection focuses on assessment conditions, with the general sleep source supplying only background about waking experience and emotion.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "An exam begins in a subject you never studied", "reflection": "The demand extends beyond your preparation. This may resemble an interview or review whose scope was not explained beforehand. Notice whether you seek clarification or attempt an answer; the scene need not make an unfamiliar question evidence that you lack useful knowledge." }, { "title": "You know the answer but the required method keeps changing", "reflection": "Knowledge and the permitted way of showing it come apart. This could fit a process whose standards remain unsettled after work begins. The difficulty may belong to the shifting instruction, rather than prove that the answer or the person giving it is inadequate." }, { "title": "Another candidate finishes early and you rush your own work", "reflection": "Someone else's pace alters your attention without revealing how their task compares. The scene may resemble a deadline made more urgent by observation. Notice whether you return to your own requirement or keep treating another person's visible speed as the standard." }, { "title": "The examiner lets you demonstrate instead of writing an answer", "reflection": "The conditions change while the underlying skill remains relevant. This may picture a more useful way to communicate what you understand. The dream can explore fit between knowledge and format without declaring a hidden ability or promising favorable treatment in an actual assessment." }, { "title": "You complete the paper but no mark is ever returned", "reflection": "Effort ends without the expected confirmation. This may resemble waiting for feedback after a review or decision. Record whether you can recognize the work yourself, continue waiting or question the process; lack of a dreamed grade does not establish failure." }, { "title": "You learn that the qualification is no longer required", "reflection": "The test's authority changes when its practical purpose disappears. This could fit an old expectation that still attracts effort after your circumstances have changed. Leaving, finishing for interest or keeping the result as a personal milestone gives the ending a different emphasis." } ], "prompts": [ "What was the exam asking you to demonstrate?", "How did its rules affect the way you could answer?", "What mattered to you once the assessment ended or changed?" ], "related": [ "school", "homework", "an-online-exam-watched-by-a-proctor", "graduation", "being-judged" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s delegation of editorial decisions. Historical forecasts remain attributed period claims; these reflections are not predictions or clinical assessments.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "The standard being applied", "reflection": "The task and its rules can reveal a particular expectation rather than a general verdict on ability." }, { "title": "Preparation versus demand", "reflection": "An unfamiliar requirement may concern missing context or changed scope as much as confidence." }, { "title": "Work beyond the grade", "reflection": "Finishing, receiving a mark and deciding whether the qualification still matters can be separate events." } ], "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "DreamFolia AI-assisted editorial review", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "do what its best I have no idea", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "snake", "teeth-falling-out", "being-chased", "flying", "falling", "being-naked-in-public", "cheating", "school-or-exam", "death" ] }, "decisionReason": "The six scenes distinguish unfamiliar subject matter, changing standards, comparison, alternative demonstration and feedback. It addresses assessment conditions without diagnosing inadequacy or predicting grades.", "reviewedSnapshot": "data/common-dream-publication-review-2026-10-15-v2.json", "contentSha256": "64a39e417a60e310a29270b2bb71e1382ee8ff9d040deb3d61e59e6f18907b8f" }, "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "school-teacher", "title": "School Teacher", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "The person responsible for a school lesson", "summary": "A school teacher may place a specific adult inside the routines, subjects and responsibilities of formal schooling.", "aliases": [ "school teacher" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A school teacher can make the personal side of an organized lesson visible. Someone keeps the class moving, chooses materials, records attendance and responds when a student needs something different. This page focuses on the person acting within a school day. A more general teacher dream might concern coaching or guidance elsewhere; here the academic setting and its practical responsibilities give the encounter its particular shape.\n\nA recognizable teacher brings individual memories rather than one standard authority role. Their voice, way of handing back work or habit of noticing quiet students can matter more than their job title. A dream may combine that remembered manner with a present task. This does not reveal what the real person thinks now or prove that your memory of them has one settled meaning.\n\nThe teacher may manage competing needs. They can follow the planned lesson, pause for a student, deal with missing materials or leave an instruction that nobody understands. A current group project might offer a comparison if one person has to maintain the schedule while attending to individual circumstances. Notice what the teacher actually prioritizes, including practical help that is less visible than praise or criticism.\n\nReceiving your own work can make recognition specific. A careful comment, an unread page or another student's name on the paper creates a different encounter. These details may fit a waking situation in which feedback needs to show that someone attended to what you contributed. They need not establish that a real authority has approved or dismissed you.\n\nBeing the school teacher yourself can place you between a lesson plan and an unpredictable group. You might distribute materials, manage the bell or discover that the class needs something the official task leaves out. Parenting, training and coordinating a shared activity may supply useful parallels, but the classroom responsibility remains the dreamed action. Recent school contact, remembered lessons and conversations about education can contribute direct material. The useful question is how this person attends to the lesson and its people, rather than whether teachers always symbolize judgment.", "traditional": "Miller's School Teacher passage predicts quiet learning and amusement from seeing one, and literary or other success from being one. It is a short period forecast, not evidence about a real teacher's intentions or a learner's future. This reflection stays with the person and responsibilities of the school encounter.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "The teacher returns your work with another student's name", "reflection": "Your contribution appears under a different identity. This may resemble feedback that misses whose effort is being discussed. Notice whether the teacher corrects the mistake and reads the work itself; recognition involves more than simply receiving a favorable mark." }, { "title": "A teacher notices that you lack the materials for the lesson", "reflection": "Practical access becomes visible before performance is judged. The scene may fit wanting a person in charge to see what participation actually requires. The offered help matters through its usefulness, rather than proving that you need rescuing or lack ability." }, { "title": "The lesson continues while one student's question goes unanswered", "reflection": "Keeping the schedule and responding to a person come into tension. This could resemble a group whose pace makes a genuine need easy to overlook. Your position as questioner, observer or teacher changes what you can do within that tension." }, { "title": "A former teacher lets you see their lesson notes", "reflection": "A familiar adult becomes visible through preparation rather than only classroom performance. This may picture understanding the work behind somebody's guidance or discovering that authority also relies on planning. The notes are dreamed material, not factual knowledge about the actual person's private life." }, { "title": "You are the teacher and the class needs a different activity", "reflection": "Responsibility includes noticing when the planned task does not serve the group. The scene may resemble coordinating people whose needs have changed. Your adjustment can be useful without proving that the original plan was wrong or that every person requires the same approach." }, { "title": "The bell ends a conversation before you receive your work", "reflection": "An institutional boundary interrupts a personal exchange. This may fit feedback constrained by timing rather than deliberate disregard. Notice whether you arrange another moment, take the work yourself or leave with uncertainty; each ending gives the unfinished encounter a different shape." } ], "prompts": [ "What specific behavior made the school teacher recognizable?", "How did the teacher balance the lesson with the people in it?", "What kind of attention did your work or participation receive?" ], "related": [ "teacher", "school", "classroom", "homework", "blackboard" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1783" ], "scope": "Historical comparison only: Miller forecasts quiet learning and amusement from seeing a school teacher and desired literary or other success from being one. Exact owned passages: School Teacher — miller-1783 (Heading 1787; source lines 19900–19906). These period claims do not validate the original reflections or establish present-day outcomes." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection independently reviewed for content and source scope. Historical accounts remain attributed period writing. Human publication review pending.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A particular remembered manner", "reflection": "The teacher's individual behavior may matter more than an abstract idea of authority." }, { "title": "One lesson, several needs", "reflection": "Keeping a school day moving can coexist with noticing somebody whose circumstances do not fit the plan." }, { "title": "Attention to contributed work", "reflection": "Feedback can make the difference between being evaluated in general and having a particular effort understood." } ], "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1783", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "School Teacher", "text": "To dream of a school teacher, denotes you are likely to enjoy learning\nand amusements in a quiet way. If you are one, you are likely to reach\ndesired success in literary and other works.", "locator": "Heading 1787; source lines 19900–19906", "lineStart": 19900, "lineEnd": 19906, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a school teacher, denotes you are likely to enjoy learning\nand amusements in a quiet way. If you are one, you are likely to reach\ndesired success in literary and other works." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "scissors", "title": "Scissors", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of scissors is an unlucky omen.” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "scissors" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about scissors stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1784", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Scissors", "text": "To dream of scissors is an unlucky omen; wives will be jealous\nand distrustful of their husbands, and sweethearts will quarrel\nand nag each other into crimination and recrimination.\nDulness will overcast business horizons.\n\nTo dream that you have your scissors sharpened, denotes that you\nwill work to do that which will be repulsive to your feelings.\n\nTo break them, there will be quarrels, and probable separations for you.\n\nTo lose them, you will seek to escape from unpleasant tasks.", "locator": "Heading 1788; source lines 19906–19920", "lineStart": 19906, "lineEnd": 19920, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of scissors is an unlucky omen; wives will be jealous\nand distrustful of their husbands, and sweethearts will quarrel\nand nag each other into crimination and recrimination.\nDulness will overcast business horizons.\n\nTo dream that you have your scissors sharpened, denotes that you\nwill work to do that which will be repulsive to your feelings.\n\nTo break them, there will be quarrels, and probable separations for you.\n\nTo lose them, you will seek to escape from unpleasant tasks." }, { "id": "fontaine-0700", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Scissors", "text": "To dream of a pair of scissors, is a sign of a marriage; if\na girl dreams of them she will positively be married within a year:\nto a married woman such a dream is a bad omen, as it denotes some gay\nseducer will flatter her, and probably succeed in enticing her from the\npath of virtue. Here is an old prediction in rhyme: 47.\n\n To dream of scissors—a full pair,\n Tells a fair maid that soon she’ll marry;\n But to a wife it doth declare\n Her chastity will e’en miscarry!", "locator": "Heading 700; source line 4386", "lineStart": 4386, "lineEnd": 4397, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a pair of scissors, is a sign of a marriage; if\na girl dreams of them she will positively be married within a year:\nto a married woman such a dream is a bad omen, as it denotes some gay\nseducer will flatter her, and probably succeed in enticing her from the\npath of virtue. Here is an old prediction in rhyme: 47.\n\nTo dream of scissors—a full pair,\nTells a fair maid that soon she’ll marry;\nBut to a wife it doth declare\nHer chastity will e’en miscarry!" }, { "id": "cielo-0373", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Scissors", "text": "Denotes that a friend will become an enemy.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 373; source lines 4763–4765", "lineStart": 4763, "lineEnd": 4765, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Denotes that a friend will become an enemy." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11809", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Scissors", "heading": "Scissors", "text": "A dream forecasting marriage to a young girl, but very evil for a married woman (Gypsy). 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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If you fail to kill it,\nyou will suffer loss from an enemy's attack." }, { "id": "noe-0447", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Scorpions", "text": "To dream you see scorpions, signifies ill luck and\nmisfortunes.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 453; source lines 1672–1673", "lineStart": 1672, "lineEnd": 1673, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see scorpions, signifies ill luck and\nmisfortunes." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11813", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Scorpions", "heading": "Scorpions", "text": "Misfortunes through secret enemies (Gypsy). Ancient symbol of War (Churchward).", "lineStart": 11813, "lineEnd": 11815, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 251; NLM OCR lines 11813–11815", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11813, "lineEnd": 11815, "printedPage": 251, "printedPageEnd": 251 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Scorpions. — Misfortunes through secret enemies (Gypsy). \nAncient symbol of War (Churchward). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Scorpions" }, "displayText": "Misfortunes through secret enemies (Gypsy). Ancient symbol of War (Churchward)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1791", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Sculptor", "text": "To dream of a sculptor, foretells you will change from your present\nposition to one less lucrative, but more distinguished.\n\nFor a woman to dream that her husband or lover is a sculptor,\nforetells she will enjoy favors from men of high position.", "locator": "Heading 1795; source lines 19957–19965", "lineStart": 19957, "lineEnd": 19965, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a sculptor, foretells you will change from your present\nposition to one less lucrative, but more distinguished.\n\nFor a woman to dream that her husband or lover is a sculptor,\nforetells she will enjoy favors from men of high position." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "scum", "title": "Scum", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of scum, signifies disappointment will be experienced by you over social defeats.”", "aliases": [ "scum" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about scum stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1792", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Scum", "text": "To dream of scum, signifies disappointment will be experienced by you\nover social defeats.", "locator": "Heading 1796; source lines 19965–19970", "lineStart": 19965, "lineEnd": 19970, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of scum, signifies disappointment will be experienced by you\nover social defeats." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "scythe", "title": "Scythe", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a scythe, foretells accidents or sickness will prevent you from attending to your affairs, or…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "scythe" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about scythe stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "husbandry" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1793", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Scythe", "text": "To dream of a scythe, foretells accidents or sickness will\nprevent you from attending to your affairs, or making journeys.\nAn old or broken scythe, implies separation from friends,\nor failure in some business enterprise.", "locator": "Heading 1797; source lines 19970–19977", "lineStart": 19970, "lineEnd": 19977, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a scythe, foretells accidents or sickness will\nprevent you from attending to your affairs, or making journeys.\nAn old or broken scythe, implies separation from friends,\nor failure in some business enterprise." }, { "id": "fontaine-0704", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Scythe", "text": "(_See Husbandry._)", "locator": "Heading 704; source line 4412", "lineStart": 4412, "lineEnd": 4414, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Husbandry.)" }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11822", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Scythe", "heading": "Scythe", "text": "The loss of a friend through death (Gypsy). Mediaeval emblem of death.", "lineStart": 11822, "lineEnd": 11824, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 251; NLM OCR lines 11822–11824", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11822, "lineEnd": 11824, "printedPage": 251, "printedPageEnd": 251 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Scythe. — The loss of a friend through death (Gypsy). \nMediaeval emblem of death. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Scythe" }, "displayText": "The loss of a friend through death (Gypsy). Mediaeval emblem of death." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "husbandry" ] }, { "slug": "sea-foam", "title": "Sea Foam", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “For a woman to dream of sea foam, foretells that indiscriminate and demoralizing pleasures will distract her from the paths of rectitude.”", "aliases": [ "sea foam" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about sea foam stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1795", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Sea Foam", "text": "For a woman to dream of sea foam, foretells that indiscriminate and\ndemoralizing pleasures will distract her from the paths of rectitude.\nIf she wears a bridal veil of sea foam, she will engulf herself in material\npleasure to the exclusion of true refinement and innate modesty.\nShe will be likely to cause sorrow to some of those dear to her,\nthrough their inability to gratify her ambition.", "locator": "Heading 1799; source lines 19993–20002", "lineStart": 19993, "lineEnd": 20002, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a woman to dream of sea foam, foretells that indiscriminate and\ndemoralizing pleasures will distract her from the paths of rectitude.\nIf she wears a bridal veil of sea foam, she will engulf herself in material\npleasure to the exclusion of true refinement and innate modesty.\nShe will be likely to cause sorrow to some of those dear to her,\nthrough their inability to gratify her ambition." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "sea-turtle", "title": "Sea turtle", "type": "dreams", "kind": "modern", "category": "Animals", "aliases": [ "sea turtle", "sea turtles", "marine turtle", "marine turtles" ], "summary": "A sea turtle may bring a long journey, protective space, or movement between shore and water into a dream. The marine setting changes the reading.", "tagline": "A protected traveler, the edge of the sea, and movement that fits its surroundings.", "psychological": "A sea turtle can give a journey a different rhythm from the people watching it. If it moves slowly across sand while you want it to reach the water, the dream may bring urgency together with respect for a pace you cannot simply change. This can fit waiting for a transition to become workable, such as a move, a recovery of ordinary routines, or a difficult shared task. The question is what conditions help movement, not whether slowness is a failure.\n\nThe shift between shore and sea may be the most meaningful part of the encounter. A creature that seems awkward in one place can look at ease in another. That could resonate with being capable in a suitable environment but uncomfortable under different expectations. Starting work in a new setting or joining unfamiliar company may make that contrast recognizable. If the turtle remains stranded, the scene may concern finding access to the conditions where its abilities can be used.\n\nA shell offers another personal association: having protection that travels with you. The turtle can remain part of the scene while continuing its own movement and keeping a comfortable distance. That may fit a boundary that allows participation without making you constantly available. If the shell feels heavy or damaged in the dream, the image may instead concern the cost or uncertainty of an arrangement meant to provide security. The useful distinction is whether protection supports the journey or makes it harder.\n\nHelping the animal may bring attachment and autonomy together. Freeing it from a barrier differs from trying to keep it nearby after it can leave. That can fit support whose purpose is another creature's movement rather than ongoing dependence. A swim, beach visit, documentary, or remembered conservation scene may also explain the image. This entry concerns the marine encounter, so the water, shoreline, distance, and freedom to continue matter more than a generic turtle meaning.", "traditional": "No historical passage specifically matching this sea-turtle context is supplied. This is original reflection on a marine encounter, distinct from the broader Turtle entry. Memories of a shore, an underwater image, or an animal needing space may provide context. Neither the shell nor the journey supplies a fixed longevity forecast, spiritual message, or prediction about another life.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A pace suited to the journey", "reflection": "A turtle approaching the sea may fit patient progress or a difficult transition. Its movement becomes meaningful through the conditions around it, rather than a judgment that faster is better." }, { "title": "Protection while continuing", "reflection": "A shell can support a personal association with boundaries that travel with you. The question is whether protection allows movement and participation, or feels burdensome in this particular dream." }, { "title": "Helping without keeping", "reflection": "Removing a barrier and watching the turtle depart can explore support that restores movement. Pleasure and sadness may coexist when successful care no longer keeps the creature beside you." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Swimming alongside a sea turtle", "reflection": "You follow the animal through open water and share its pace. This may be a scene of companionship without constant conversation or of movement that feels sustainable. If keeping up becomes difficult, the question can shift toward finding a pace that allows both of you room." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A turtle trying to reach the sea", "reflection": "It crosses sand while the water seems far away. Your urgency may concern the distance, exposure, or a wish to help it into a suitable place. The scene can fit a transition that needs practical support rather than encouragement to move faster." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "The shell seems too heavy for the journey", "reflection": "The animal tries to move through water or across the shore while its shell becomes an unusual weight. This can fit an arrangement that protects something valuable but also costs effort to maintain. Finding support may matter more than discarding the protection or insisting the journey continue unchanged." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Small turtles crossing a crowded beach", "reflection": "Several creatures need a route while people and objects interrupt it. The scene may bring attention to shared responsibility and limits on what one helper can manage. Finding a clear passage differs from trying to carry every turtle yourself or supervising every step." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A sea turtle caught in a net", "reflection": "You see movement interrupted by something tangled around the animal. This can resemble a workable ability constrained by an arrangement that no longer serves it. Helping may make the scene about removing an obstacle, while an impossible rescue may center on needing assistance yourself." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "It swims away after you help", "reflection": "Once the obstacle is gone, the animal moves beyond reach. Relief may coexist with missing its company. The encounter can explore care whose success is another creature’s independence, rather than treating departure as proof that your help was unvalued." } ], "prompts": [ "Where did the turtle seem able to move comfortably, and what made another place difficult?", "Did its protection support movement and participation, or become a burden in the scene?", "Was my help meant to let it continue its journey or to keep it close?" ], "related": [ "turtle", "ocean", "beach", "water", "coral-reef" ], "updated": "2026-10-13", "status": "REVIEW", "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original image-specific interpretation with alternative personal readings; no matching historical passage supplied. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "seahorse", "title": "Seahorse", "type": "dreams", "kind": "modern", "category": "Animals", "aliases": [ "seahorse", "seahorses", "sea horse", "sea horses" ], "summary": "A seahorse may bring anchoring, delicate movement, or an unexpected familiar shape into a dream. Support can feel useful or become a constraint.", "tagline": "A small traveler, a point to hold, and the difference between support and restriction.", "psychological": "A seahorse holding onto a plant or another object may make support unusually visible. Something small has a point from which to remain steady while the water around it changes. This could fit a routine, relationship, or practical arrangement that gives you enough stability during an unsettled period. The useful connection is specific: one familiar activity or dependable place may help without controlling the whole situation.\n\nHolding on can feel different when the dream requires movement. A seahorse unable to release its grip might resemble continuing an arrangement that once helped but now limits the next step. If letting go feels dangerous, the scene could concern not having another usable point of support yet. Neither reading means every attachment should be abandoned. The image gives a form to the question of when an anchor steadies you and when it keeps you somewhere you no longer want to remain.\n\nScale and close observation offer another reading. A tiny animal may be easy to overlook until you see its outline and movement clearly. This can resonate with giving a modest idea or quiet pleasure enough attention, instead of judging it by size or immediate usefulness. If it becomes enormous in the dream, that change may simply bring an unfamiliar creature into view rather than turn it into a threat.\n\nThe name and shape can also connect familiarity with a surprising setting. Something that reminds you of a horse is moving in water with a very different pace and role. That may fit encountering a familiar quality in an unexpected form, such as finding courage in gentleness or useful company without much conversation. An aquarium visit, illustration, or remembered ornament may supply the creature directly. The dream does not need an inherited meaning to make this small encounter absorbing.", "traditional": "No matching historical seahorse passage is supplied. The Horse and Fish topics do not establish a meaning for this different animal. This entry offers original possibilities about the encounter's scale, movement, and points of support. A personal memory of seeing a seahorse is more useful than inventing cultural authority or a forecast from its unusual shape.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A workable anchor", "reflection": "A seahorse holding a stable point in changing water can fit a modest but useful source of support. The anchor need not solve everything to make movement or waiting manageable." }, { "title": "When support limits movement", "reflection": "A grip that cannot be released may fit an arrangement that once helped but now restricts the next step. Fear of leaving can instead mean another foothold is still needed." }, { "title": "Attention to something small", "reflection": "A tiny creature becoming clear through close observation may explore making room for a quiet interest or possibility. Its small scale does not decide how much the encounter can matter." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A seahorse holds onto a plant", "reflection": "The animal remains steady while surrounding water moves. This can be a personal image of a routine or place that gives enough stability during change. Whether the grip feels comfortable or strained distinguishes support that works from support that is barely sufficient." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A current pulls it away from its anchor", "reflection": "The seahorse loses the point it was holding and moves somewhere it did not choose. This may fit a change that disrupts a familiar arrangement. Finding another place to settle can shift attention from the loss itself to what makes the next position workable." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A seahorse in a very small container", "reflection": "You can see the animal closely, but its available movement is limited. This may explore whether keeping something manageable has made its space too small. It can also concern uncertainty about care; affectionate attention does not automatically explain what the creature needs." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Two seahorses share one support", "reflection": "The animals remain near the same plant or object. This may make shared resources or different needs within companionship visible. Ease suggests enough room for both; crowding can raise a question about an arrangement without declaring that a real relationship is in conflict." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A giant seahorse passes you underwater", "reflection": "The creature is far larger than expected and its shape dominates the view. The change may make a small interest feel worth noticing, or produce a playful spectacle. Fear could instead center on scale and distance, rather than anything threatening the animal actually does." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You discover one only after looking closely", "reflection": "What first seemed like a plant or shadow becomes an animal. The scene may fit recognizing a quiet possibility once you stop judging the setting at a glance. Surprise can be enjoyable without meaning that something important has been hidden from you." } ], "prompts": [ "What did the seahorse hold onto, and did that connection help it stay or prevent it leaving?", "How did the surrounding water change the encounter?", "What became noticeable only when I gave this small creature more attention?" ], "related": [ "fish", "ocean", "water", "coral-reef", "platypus" ], "updated": "2026-10-13", "status": "REVIEW", "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original image-specific interpretation with alternative personal readings; no matching historical passage supplied. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "seal", "title": "Seal", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you see seals, denotes that you are striving for a place above your power to maintain.”", "aliases": [ "seal" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about seal stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1796", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Seal", "text": "To dream that you see seals, denotes that you are striving for a place\nabove your power to maintain.\n\nDreams of seals usually show that the dreamer has high aspirations\nand discontent will harass him into struggles to advance his position.", "locator": "Heading 1800; source lines 20002–20010", "lineStart": 20002, "lineEnd": 20010, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you see seals, denotes that you are striving for a place\nabove your power to maintain.\n\nDreams of seals usually show that the dreamer has high aspirations\nand discontent will harass him into struggles to advance his position." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "seamstress", "title": "Seamstress", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see a seamstress in a dream, portends you will be deterred from making pleasant visits by unexpected luck.”", "aliases": [ "seamstress" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about seamstress stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1797", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Seamstress", "text": "To see a seamstress in a dream, portends you will be deterred\nfrom making pleasant visits by unexpected luck.", "locator": "Heading 1801; source lines 20010–20015", "lineStart": 20010, "lineEnd": 20015, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a seamstress in a dream, portends you will be deterred\nfrom making pleasant visits by unexpected luck." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "seaport", "title": "Seaport", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of visiting a seaport, denotes that you will have opportunities of traveling and acquiring knowledge, but there will be some who…”", "aliases": [ "seaport" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about seaport stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1798", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Seaport", "text": "To dream of visiting a seaport, denotes that you will have opportunities\nof traveling and acquiring knowledge, but there will be some who will object\nto your anticipated tours.", "locator": "Heading 1802; source lines 20015–20021", "lineStart": 20015, "lineEnd": 20021, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of visiting a seaport, denotes that you will have opportunities\nof traveling and acquiring knowledge, but there will be some who will object\nto your anticipated tours." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "searching-for-a-missing-pet", "title": "Searching for a missing pet", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "A particular bond, uncertain directions, and the help that makes a search shared.", "summary": "Searching for a pet can explore attachment, uncertainty and shared responsibility. The particular bond gives the search its meaning.", "aliases": [ "lost pet dream", "looking for my missing dog", "looking for my missing cat" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "Searching for a missing pet can picture wanting contact with a familiar companion while not knowing where to direct your effort. The bond makes the search more particular than looking for a lost possession. You may want to know the animal is comfortable, resume a shared routine or hear a recognizable sound. The dream does not establish that an actual pet is missing or at risk.\n\nA familiar place that no longer helps you find the animal can make changed conditions noticeable. You may search the usual resting spot and discover that the room or route has altered. This can resemble trying to preserve continuity while moving home or changing a daily arrangement. The difficulty may concern no longer having useful cues, rather than having lost the bond itself.\n\nHearing the pet without reaching it can place recognition beside uncertain access. A sound behind a door offers another task from a sound that seems to move through several streets. The former may concern a barrier; the latter may concern choosing among unreliable directions. Finding somebody who can open the door or describe what they heard changes the kind of help needed.\n\nA search shared with other people can make responsibility less solitary. Explaining the pet's familiar habits gives others something particular to look for. Their presence may feel reassuring or make your concern more visible than you wanted. Accepting help can involve trusting a shared purpose without giving every participant the same role.\n\nFinding another animal can bring your particular attachment into focus. General company is available while the companion you wanted remains absent. Warmth toward the newcomer can coexist with continuing the search. The scene need not force a choice between valuing what is present and missing what is specific to this relationship.\n\nA pet returning on its own changes effort into reunion. Relief may be followed by curiosity, a wish to hold it close or an ordinary return to the day. A search for a pet who has died can instead give longing a remembered form; it does not establish a visitation or require a particular ending to grief. Recent journeys, memories and stories may also supply the details directly.", "traditional": "No historical passage is attached to this particular search for a companion. Animal and lost-property archives retain their own subjects. General dream background does not establish the cause of this scene or validate its original reflective comparisons, and no direction, sound or dreamed return is treated as a forecast.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "The pet is absent from its usual resting place", "reflection": "A familiar cue no longer provides the expected contact. This can picture trying to maintain a valued routine under changed conditions. The altered place may deserve attention alongside the absence, especially if another route or new information becomes available." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You hear the pet behind a closed door", "reflection": "Recognition is available while access is not. A key, another person or a different entrance changes the task from searching everywhere toward reaching a particular place. The dreamed sound does not identify a real location or establish an actual problem." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Neighbors divide the search into different routes", "reflection": "The effort becomes shared and organized. Explaining familiar habits may let others help while keeping your knowledge of the companion important. Relief or exposure can give the same arrangement different personal associations." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You find another animal while still looking for yours", "reflection": "Company is present without being the particular reunion you wanted. Care for the newcomer can sit beside continued longing. The scene may make the specificity of an attachment visible without requiring available companionship to replace it." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The pet returns without following the route you searched", "reflection": "Your effort and the reunion have not followed the same path. Relief may include accepting that not every part of an encounter is yours to direct. The return can give the search an ending without making its route a prediction or a rule about actual animals." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You search for a pet from an earlier period of your life", "reflection": "The familiar bond appears through an activity of looking and remembering. Longing may sit beside affection for a routine you once shared. The invented search does not establish communication from a deceased animal or prescribe how you should feel about the loss." } ], "prompts": [ "What did you most want the reunion to make possible?", "Which cue, barrier or direction shaped the search?", "How did help or the pet’s return change your part in the scene?" ], "related": [ "pet", "dog", "cat", "being-lost", "rescue" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s continuing English editorial delegation. Sources retain their stated scope; neither historical accounts nor general research validate these interpretations.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Finding a particular companion", "reflection": "The animal’s own habits and the relationship you remember give the search a purpose beyond obtaining any company." }, { "title": "Recognition and access", "reflection": "A familiar sound can be recognizable while its location or the route remains uncertain. Different obstacles call for different kinds of imagined help." }, { "title": "A search that can be shared", "reflection": "Other people may carry parts of the effort. Support, visibility and responsibility can change together as the scene develops." } ], "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "DreamFolia AI-assisted editorial review", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "childhood-home", "lucid-dreaming", "recurring-dream", "missing-a-flight-or-train", "unable-to-scream", "books", "cradle", "eyes", "forgetting-to-feed-a-pet", "message", "nightmare", "searching-for-a-missing-pet", "sleep" ] }, "decisionReason": "Six scenes distinguish a familiar cue, a barrier, shared routes, another animal, an independent return and a bond from an earlier period. The developed reading follows particular attachment and access without forecasting loss, identifying a real location or claiming communication from a deceased animal.", "reviewedSnapshot": "data/guide-linked-publication-review-2026-10-15.json", "contentSha256": "86b125ff03149df1bed87435971d7c93d1eaacbe978ea3ec6b43a9d9c8d634b3" }, "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "seat", "title": "Seat", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To think, in a dream, that some one has taken your seat, denotes you will be tormented by people calling…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "seat" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about seat stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1799", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Seat", "text": "To think, in a dream, that some one has taken your seat,\ndenotes you will be tormented by people calling on you for aid.\nTo give a woman your seat, implies your yielding to some\nfair one's artfulness.", "locator": "Heading 1803; source lines 20021–20028", "lineStart": 20021, "lineEnd": 20028, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To think, in a dream, that some one has taken your seat,\ndenotes you will be tormented by people calling on you for aid.\nTo give a woman your seat, implies your yielding to some\nfair one's artfulness." }, { "id": "noe-0455", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Seat", "text": "To dream that one has fallen from\nhis seat, and would fain get into it again signifies that whatever office\nor employment he is in, he shall be displaced from it, and not be able to\nrecover it again.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 461; source lines 1692–1695", "lineStart": 1692, "lineEnd": 1695, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that one has fallen from\nhis seat, and would fain get into it again signifies that whatever office\nor employment he is in, he shall be displaced from it, and not be able to\nrecover it again." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "seat-belt", "title": "Seat belt", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "A chosen protection can feel reassuring or leave too little room.", "summary": "A seat belt dream can explore protection, trust and limits within a shared journey. Its fit and whether you chose it change the reading.", "aliases": [ "seat belt", "seat belts", "seatbelt", "seatbelts", "safety belt" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A seat belt joins protection with restraint. Within a dream journey, it may help you feel able to participate while limiting how freely you move. This can picture a commitment, agreement or precaution that makes a shared situation manageable. Clear procedures in a new role or a boundary in a relationship may provide a parallel. The useful distinction is whether the limit serves something you value or remains in place after that purpose has changed.\n\nFastening the belt can be an act of choosing readiness. You may want to begin but first need a condition that allows you to relax into the journey. This can resemble asking for clarity before accepting a task or confirming an arrangement before depending on it. A buckle you cannot find makes the missing condition concrete. The delay may concern access to reassurance rather than simply fear of moving forward.\n\nFit matters because protection is personal in its effects. A belt that accommodates your position can picture an agreement that leaves enough room to participate comfortably. One that tightens regardless of what you do can resemble a rule whose demands continue expanding. You may be included in a plan but find its terms difficult to inhabit. The dream's discomfort does not determine whether any waking safeguard is useful or appropriate.\n\nChecking another person's belt can bring care into view. You might feel responsible for making a shared departure workable, much as you confirm that a team has the information or resources it needs. That care differs from deciding everything on another person's behalf. Their response can show whether help is welcome, whether responsibilities are shared, or whether you are carrying a check that somebody else could do.\n\nRemaining fastened after arrival can picture a restriction that has outlasted the task it supported. A commitment may have ended while its habits still organize your choices. Unfastening then may feel like recovering room, while opening the belt during a wanted journey may feel unsettling. Recent travel can also supply the image directly. A dream seat belt does not predict an accident, assess actual safety or give instructions about protective equipment; these reflections follow its role in the imagined arrangement.", "traditional": "No supplied historical dictionary passage specifically covers a seat belt. These are original reflections on its combination of fastening, protection and limited movement. They do not adopt an omen from another protective object or imply an actual safety outcome.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Protection that supports participation", "reflection": "A chosen limit can make a shared situation feel workable enough to enter. The belt’s value in the scene depends on what it allows as well as what it restricts." }, { "title": "The fit of an agreement", "reflection": "A belt that fits or tightens can picture whether the terms of a commitment leave room for your needs. Being included does not necessarily mean being comfortably accommodated." }, { "title": "Care and responsibility", "reflection": "Checking another person’s fastening can show how preparation is shared. Help may support their choice or become a responsibility you feel unable to put down." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You cannot find the buckle before departure", "reflection": "A missing buckle can picture a condition you need before committing that remains out of reach. Clear information or an agreed limit may offer a parallel. The journey may be wanted even while readiness is incomplete." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "The belt fits comfortably and you can relax", "reflection": "A comfortable fastening can picture reassurance that lets you stop monitoring every part of an arrangement. A dependable agreement or shared preparation may fit. The support gives you room to participate rather than merely hold still." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A fastened belt feels too tight", "reflection": "A tightening belt can resemble a protective arrangement whose terms feel increasingly difficult to meet. The concern may be the fit of a rule rather than opposition to all limits. What movement you lose gives the pressure a specific shape." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You check whether another passenger is secured", "reflection": "Checking another passenger can picture helping a shared plan become workable. Their response matters: welcomed assistance differs from being expected to manage every detail alone. The dream need not cast care as control." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The belt holds you after the journey has ended", "reflection": "A belt remaining fastened after arrival can picture habits of restriction continuing beyond their original task. Finishing a commitment may leave its routines behind. The scene can make the moment of release as important as departure." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You decide to wait rather than travel unfastened", "reflection": "Choosing to wait before traveling can picture keeping a condition you consider necessary instead of accepting pressure to proceed. A delayed decision may preserve room to act thoughtfully. This is a reflective comparison, not equipment or safety advice." } ], "prompts": [ "What did the fastening allow me to feel or do?", "Where did protection become a restriction that no longer fit?", "Whose readiness did I feel responsible for checking?" ], "related": [ "car", "driving-out-of-control", "backseat", "life-jacket" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "seaweed", "title": "Seaweed", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "summary": "Seaweed can picture movement with surrounding conditions, an unwanted tangle, or something that feels different when it reaches shore.", "tagline": "A moving underwater shape, a tangle, and what the water leaves behind.", "aliases": [ "seaweed", "seaweeds" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "Seaweed moving with the water can picture participating in conditions you do not set entirely yourself. The fronds may bend comfortably as a current passes, rather than struggling to remain in one position. A changing schedule, a shared project, or an unfamiliar social setting may offer a parallel when adapting feels workable without requiring control over every movement. If the dream shows the plant being pulled away, the same surroundings may feel too strong to remain connected within. The difference is between flexibility that supports continued life and movement that breaks an attachment.\n\nA strand wrapping around your foot changes the relationship from observation to interrupted movement. Something soft can become difficult to ignore because it catches at the moment you want to continue. This may resemble a minor administrative requirement, an unresolved conversation, or a recurring obligation that complicates an otherwise straightforward transition. Pulling harder can make the tangle feel tighter in the dream, while slowing down or receiving help may create room to separate it. The scene concerns a particular impediment, not proof that another person is secretly holding you back.\n\nSeaweed washed onto a familiar shore can bring material from another setting into ordinary space. It may be a welcome sign of the sea or an unwanted residue that changes a place you expected to use. A visit, conversation, or finished period can similarly leave something behind after the main experience has passed. Keeping a strand as a reminder differs from wanting the beach cleared immediately. What remains can be meaningful without being a message sent from the water or evidence that you should preserve every trace.\n\nEating seaweed in a prepared dish gives the image another context. Something that seems strange as a drifting plant may feel familiar and useful within a meal, or the reverse may happen when preparation removes what you recognized. This can picture a change in setting altering how you relate to an experience. A swim, beach walk, meal, aquarium image, or tangled object can also provide direct memory context. Kelp, nori, and general algae are not treated as identical names for every scene; the remembered form, setting, and action matter more than a universal marine-plant meaning.", "traditional": "No historical Seaweed dream passage is supplied. Moss and general Plants concern different scopes. The original reflections distinguish underwater movement, tangling, shore residue, and a prepared meal; no ocean message or cultural symbolism is inferred.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Flexibility with an attachment", "reflection": "Moving with surrounding water can picture adjustment that still leaves a place of your own. Being pulled free creates a different relationship from bending while remaining connected." }, { "title": "A small tangle that changes movement", "reflection": "A soft strand can become a significant obstacle through where it catches. The scene may center on a recurring complication rather than on an inherently hostile force." }, { "title": "What reaches an ordinary shore", "reflection": "Washed-up material may be a valued reminder or unwanted residue. Its setting and your wish to keep or clear it determine what remains meaningful." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Long fronds move while their base stays in place", "reflection": "The surroundings change without removing the plant’s attachment. This may picture adapting within a continuing relationship or role. Ease differs from feeling forced to follow every movement regardless of your own position." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A strand catches your foot as you swim", "reflection": "A small contact interrupts an intended route. The scene can resemble a recurring complication during a transition. Slowing to untangle it differs from continuing to struggle while the attachment becomes harder to understand." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Seaweed covers a familiar beach", "reflection": "Material from the water changes a place expected to be usable. This may picture residue after an event or conversation. Feeling pleased by the trace differs from wanting ordinary access restored as soon as possible." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You eat it as part of a familiar meal", "reflection": "A shape associated with the sea has become an ordinary ingredient. This can picture a new setting making an unfamiliar experience usable. Your taste and comfort matter more than assigning the food a fixed cultural meaning." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You clear strands from a blocked opening", "reflection": "Removing accumulated material restores movement through a small space. The scene may fit practical maintenance after interruptions. Keeping the passage clear differs from needing to remove every sign of the surrounding environment." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "Seaweed forms a quiet underwater shelter", "reflection": "The plant becomes a place that offers cover rather than a tangle. This can picture support within moving conditions. Feeling able to leave freely distinguishes temporary refuge from a space whose protection depends on remaining hidden." } ], "prompts": [ "Did the movement let me remain connected or pull me away from a place of my own?", "Was the seaweed an obstacle, shelter, ingredient, or reminder?", "What changed when it moved between water, shore, and ordinary life?" ], "related": [ "plants", "water", "ocean", "sea-foam" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "secret", "title": "Secret", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “If a young girl dreams that a friend has intrusted her with an important secret, it is a sign that the friend will become her enemy: if…”", "aliases": [ "secret" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about secret stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0706", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Secret", "text": "If a young girl dreams that a friend has intrusted her with an\nimportant secret, it is a sign that the friend will become her enemy:\nif her lover tells her a secret, they will surely quarrel within a\nweek; if she dreams of disclosing a secret to a friend, she will be\nmuch vexed at some scandal that is afloat respecting her. 4, 2, 8.", "locator": "Heading 706; source line 4421", "lineStart": 4421, "lineEnd": 4427, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If a young girl dreams that a friend has intrusted her with an\nimportant secret, it is a sign that the friend will become her enemy:\nif her lover tells her a secret, they will surely quarrel within a\nweek; if she dreams of disclosing a secret to a friend, she will be\nmuch vexed at some scandal that is afloat respecting her." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "secret-order", "title": "Secret Order", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of any secret order, denotes a sensitive and excited organism, and the owner should cultivate practical and unselfish ideas and…”", "aliases": [ "secret order" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about secret order stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1800", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Secret Order", "text": "To dream of any secret order, denotes a sensitive and excited organism,\nand the owner should cultivate practical and unselfish ideas and they may soon\nhave opportunities for honest pleasures, and desired literary distinctions.\n\nThere is a vision of selfish and designing friendships for one who joins\na secret order.\n\nYoung women should heed the counsel of their guardians,\nlest they fall into discreditable habits after this dream.\n\nIf a young woman meets the head of the order, she should oppose\nwith energy and moral rectitude against allurements that are\nset brilliantly and prominently before those of her sex.\nFor her to think her mother has joined the order, and she is\nusing her best efforts to have her mother repudiate her vows,\ndenotes that she will be full of love for her parents, yet will\nwring their hearts with anguish by thoughtless disobedience.\n\nTo see or hear that the leader is dead, foretells severe strains,\nand trials will eventually end in comparative good.", "locator": "Heading 1804; source lines 20028–20051", "lineStart": 20028, "lineEnd": 20051, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of any secret order, denotes a sensitive and excited organism,\nand the owner should cultivate practical and unselfish ideas and they may soon\nhave opportunities for honest pleasures, and desired literary distinctions.\n\nThere is a vision of selfish and designing friendships for one who joins\na secret order.\n\nYoung women should heed the counsel of their guardians,\nlest they fall into discreditable habits after this dream.\n\nIf a young woman meets the head of the order, she should oppose\nwith energy and moral rectitude against allurements that are\nset brilliantly and prominently before those of her sex.\nFor her to think her mother has joined the order, and she is\nusing her best efforts to have her mother repudiate her vows,\ndenotes that she will be full of love for her parents, yet will\nwring their hearts with anguish by thoughtless disobedience.\n\nTo see or hear that the leader is dead, foretells severe strains,\nand trials will eventually end in comparative good." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "security-camera", "title": "Security camera", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "aliases": [ "security camera", "security cameras", "surveillance camera", "surveillance cameras", "cctv camera", "security footage" ], "summary": "A security camera can picture visibility, the wish for a reliable record, or control over who sees events. Watching footage differs from being recorded.", "tagline": "An experience becomes something that can be watched, replayed, or interpreted by others.", "psychological": "A security camera can picture the feeling that an action continues to be available for evaluation after the moment has passed. You are not only participating; there may be a record someone can inspect. This can fit work reviewed against a standard, a conversation you keep replaying, or concern about how an ordinary mistake will look without its surrounding context.\n\nBeing recorded and operating the camera create different positions. A camera pointed at you may make visibility feel involuntary. Sitting at a monitoring screen can instead suggest responsibility for noticing what happens, perhaps in a task where others expect you to catch problems before they grow. The scene may concern the burden of observation rather than suspicion alone.\n\nFootage can give form to a wish for a dependable account. You may want to establish what happened or recover a detail that would clarify a disagreement. A recording that is missing, distorted, or repeatedly changes can picture frustration when evidence does not provide the certainty you expected. Seeing only part of an event makes interpretation as important as the image itself.\n\nA blind spot can be reassuring privacy or an uncomfortable gap in oversight. The distinction depends on what you are trying to protect. Choosing who may access a recording can likewise make boundaries central: shared information may support cooperation, while unlimited access can feel intrusive.\n\nA camera that reveals something kind or ordinary can soften the expectation that review will be hostile. Real cameras, recorded meetings, films, and memories can supply the scene directly. These original readings concern visibility and accounts of events; the dream does not establish actual monitoring or another person's intentions.", "traditional": "The interpretation focuses on dreamed monitoring, replay, ownership, and access to a record. No verified historical security-camera passage is cited. The general sleep reference is background only; it does not identify a watcher or establish the truth of anything shown in imagined footage.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "An action remains available for evaluation", "reflection": "Recording can picture concern about how a moment will look afterward. A reviewed task or repeated memory may feel exposed when the surrounding circumstances seem less visible than the action." }, { "title": "A record that promises certainty", "reflection": "Footage can represent wanting a dependable account. Missing or partial images may express frustration when evidence does not settle the question, especially if interpretation remains controlled by someone else." }, { "title": "Observation, privacy, and responsibility", "reflection": "Operating the camera can picture an obligation to notice, while a blind spot can offer privacy or uncertainty. Access changes whether shared visibility feels useful, burdensome, or intrusive." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "A camera follows every movement you make", "reflection": "This can picture feeling continuously available for evaluation. A closely reviewed task or pressure to maintain a composed appearance may offer a parallel. The camera makes ordinary movement feel reportable, while the dream does not establish that anyone is actually monitoring you.", "slug": "scene-1" }, { "title": "You monitor several screens at once", "reflection": "Observation can become a responsibility larger than one person's attention. Coordinating work or keeping track of several family needs may feel similar. The screens make the expectation to catch every problem concrete, particularly when no one else helps interpret what you see.", "slug": "scene-2" }, { "title": "The recording you need is missing", "reflection": "A desired explanation can depend on an account that is unavailable. Trying to clarify a disagreement or recover the details of a shared decision may offer parallels. The gap makes uncertainty harder to resolve, rather than proving that someone deliberately removed evidence.", "slug": "scene-3" }, { "title": "The footage shows only part of an event", "reflection": "A fragment can feel vulnerable to an interpretation that misses context. A brief message, edited presentation, or isolated mistake may be understood differently from the full experience. The scene can picture wanting your actions considered within the circumstances that gave them meaning.", "slug": "scene-4" }, { "title": "You find a place outside the camera's view", "reflection": "A blind spot can picture wanted privacy within a setting that expects visibility. Taking time away from review or keeping a personal concern outside work may fit. Relief and unease distinguish a protected interval from worry about a gap in information.", "slug": "scene-5" }, { "title": "A replay shows people treating you kindly", "reflection": "The record can challenge an expectation of harsh evaluation. Remembering a supportive conversation or discovering that a task was received well may offer a parallel. The scene can express room for a less threatening account without revealing what real people privately think.", "slug": "scene-6" } ], "prompts": [ "Was I being recorded, interpreting a record, or responsible for observing others?", "What did I expect the footage to prove, and what context was missing?", "Who controlled access, and did visibility feel useful or intrusive?" ], "related": [ "camera", "being-watched", "being-judged", "computer" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia editorial entry with image-specific interpretations and six differentiated scenes. The reference supplies general dream background only. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "seducer", "title": "Seducer", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “For a young woman to dream of being seduced, foretells that she will be easily influenced by showy persons.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "seducer" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about seducer stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1801", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Seducer", "text": "For a young woman to dream of being seduced, foretells that she\nwill be easily influenced by showy persons.\n\nFor a man to dream that he has seduced a girl, is a warning for him\nto be on his guard, as there are those who will falsely accuse him.\nIf his sweetheart appears shocked or angry under these proposals,\nhe will find that the woman he loves is above reproach.\nIf she consents, he is being used for her pecuniary pleasures.", "locator": "Heading 1805; source lines 20051–20062", "lineStart": 20051, "lineEnd": 20062, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a young woman to dream of being seduced, foretells that she\nwill be easily influenced by showy persons.\n\nFor a man to dream that he has seduced a girl, is a warning for him\nto be on his guard, as there are those who will falsely accuse him.\nIf his sweetheart appears shocked or angry under these proposals,\nhe will find that the woman he loves is above reproach.\nIf she consents, he is being used for her pecuniary pleasures." }, { "id": "fontaine-0707", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Seducer", "text": "If a young woman dreams that her lover’s conduct is that of a\ngay seducer, she will find him to be very sincere in his attachment:\na married woman who dreams that she is over-persuaded by a seducer\nto yield to his desires, will come to much honor, as such dreams\nwork contrariwise. If a man dreams of seducing a virtuous girl, it\nforeshadows that he will be disgraced. 35, 8.", "locator": "Heading 707; source line 4427", "lineStart": 4427, "lineEnd": 4434, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If a young woman dreams that her lover’s conduct is that of a\ngay seducer, she will find him to be very sincere in his attachment:\na married woman who dreams that she is over-persuaded by a seducer\nto yield to his desires, will come to much honor, as such dreams\nwork contrariwise. If a man dreams of seducing a virtuous girl, it\nforeshadows that he will be disgraced." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "seed", "title": "Seed", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seed, foretells increasing prosperity, though present indications appear unfavorable.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "seed" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about seed stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "seeing-yourself", "title": "Seeing yourself", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "Meeting your own double in a dream splits you in two. Note which one you were.", "summary": "Dreams of meeting a double, a twin, or a second version of yourself raise the question of which one you were and what the other knew. Record that first.", "aliases": [ "seeing myself", "my double", "doppelganger", "doppelgänger", "meeting myself", "another version of me", "a second me", "two of me", "my twin self" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "This entry is about meeting yourself as a separate person, not about the third-person viewpoint covered under Watching yourself in a dream. Begin by settling which one you were: the one who recognised the other, or the one being looked at. Then record how the double differed. Younger, older, better dressed, calmer, angrier, living a life you did not choose, or identical down to the clothes. Differences are usually the point, and a double who is doing well can be as unsettling as one who is in trouble. Note what passed between you. Conversation, avoidance, an attempt to merge, a chase, or simple mutual staring each give the dream a different weight. Meeting your double can be a way to picture a decision with two live options, a part of yourself you keep separate from daily life, or the strain of behaving one way at work and another at home. Ask whether anyone else in the dream could tell you apart, and whether you wanted them to. If the double replaced you, consider what in your life currently feels like it could be done by a version of you with less feeling in it. Write down anything the other self said; such lines are often the most direct speech a dream produces.", "traditional": "None of the dream books in DreamFolia's archive describes meeting one's own double, so no older meaning is carried over. The nearest material concerns reflections. The Artemidorus 1644 translation holds that seeing yourself true to your shape in a glass is good for those who wish to marry, while seeing yourself otherwise than you are, or deformed, brings trouble. Miller 1901 reads your own reflection as discouraging issues and sickness; Cielo 1917 as wounded pride. Miller finds security and contentment in dreaming of twins. These remain period conventions about mirrors and twins, not about a second self.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "Your double is living in your house and nobody notices the difference", "reflection": "A seamless replacement can picture the fear that your presence is interchangeable. Ask what the double did differently, if anything, and whether being unnoticed felt like loss or like a chance to leave." }, { "title": "You meet a younger or older version of yourself in the street", "reflection": "A self from another age may carry a message or simply pass by. Note what they were doing and wearing, and whether they seemed to know things you have forgotten or things you have not yet learned." }, { "title": "You and your double argue about a decision", "reflection": "Two selves disputing one choice is a dream version of deliberation. Record each side's argument as fairly as you can, and notice which self you were rooting for by the time you woke." } ], "prompts": [ "How did the other you differ from you, and which of you did you inhabit?", "Did the double speak, and what did it say?", "Is there a choice or a divided role in your life that the two selves might be acting out?" ], "related": [ "watching-yourself-in-a-dream", "mirror", "twins", "the-shadow", "the-self", "ghost" ], "sources": [], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia editorial draft written on 2026-10-12. Reflection text is an invitation to personal writing, not a validated symbol meaning. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "segar", "title": "Segar", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “To dream you are smoking a segar, is a sign you will have misfortunes and troubles with your business matters: if you imagine the fire of…”", "aliases": [ "segar" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about segar stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "tobacco" ], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0708", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Segar", "text": "(_See Tobacco._) To dream you are smoking a segar, is a sign you\nwill have misfortunes and troubles with your business matters: if you\nimagine the fire of your segar goes out, it is a sign you will meet\nwith losses: in love matters this dream is a bad omen. 49, 7, 9.", "locator": "Heading 708; source line 4434", "lineStart": 4434, "lineEnd": 4439, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Tobacco.) To dream you are smoking a segar, is a sign you\nwill have misfortunes and troubles with your business matters: if you\nimagine the fire of your segar goes out, it is a sign you will meet\nwith losses: in love matters this dream is a bad omen." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "tobacco" ] }, { "slug": "sending-a-text-to-the-wrong-person", "title": "Sending a text to the wrong person", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "tagline": "Your words reach an audience you did not choose.", "summary": "A text sent to the wrong person can expose a private thought or cross a social boundary. Notice the recipient, the words, and your attempt to repair it.", "aliases": [ "sending a text to the wrong person" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "This scene often offers a concrete question about audience: who was allowed to hear those words, and who was not? An affectionate message, complaint, joke, or confidential detail creates a different problem. You might reflect on managing different relationships or wanting greater control over how you are understood. The dream does not prove that you secretly wanted the recipient to know. Ordinary memories of messaging mistakes can be sufficient context.", "traditional": "A misdirected letter offers a possible comparison. Applying an older account to instant messaging would be a modern interpretation, not an inherited rule for this mistake.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "The recipient was someone you had criticized", "reflection": "Focus on the gap between private speech and what you felt able to say directly. Was repair possible?" }, { "title": "You deleted it before it was read", "reflection": "The relief may depend on regaining control. Record whether you trusted the deletion or kept checking." }, { "title": "The recipient responded kindly", "reflection": "The feared consequence did not happen in the dream. Notice whether you accepted their response or remained embarrassed." } ], "prompts": [ "What made these words private?", "What consequence did I expect, and what actually happened?", "Did I explain, apologize, hide, or continue the conversation?" ], "related": [ "a-screen-sharing-mistake" ], "sources": [], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection draft, written for this specific modern scene. Suggested connections are exploratory, not established dream meanings. Individual editorial review remains pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "sentinel", "title": "Sentinel", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “A dream of personal security (Gypsy).”", "aliases": [ "sentinel" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about sentinel stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L11831", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Sentinel", "heading": "Sentinel", "text": "A dream of personal security (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 11831, "lineEnd": 11832, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 251; NLM OCR lines 11831–11832", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11831, "lineEnd": 11832, "printedPage": 251, "printedPageEnd": 251 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Sentinel. — A dream of personal security (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Sentinel" }, "displayText": "A dream of personal security (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1803", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Sentry", "text": "To dream of a sentry, denotes that you will have kind protectors,\nand your life will be smoothly conducted.", "locator": "Heading 1807; source lines 20067–20072", "lineStart": 20067, "lineEnd": 20072, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a sentry, denotes that you will have kind protectors,\nand your life will be smoothly conducted." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "separation", "title": "Separation", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “If a woman dreams that she is about to live separate from her husband, it promises that she will shortly…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "separation" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about separation stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0709", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Separation", "text": "If a woman dreams that she is about to live separate from\nher husband, it promises that she will shortly find herself in the\nfamily way: such a dream to a man is a sign that some woman or girl,\nother than his wife, is in love with him. 26, 17.", "locator": "Heading 709; source line 4439", "lineStart": 4439, "lineEnd": 4444, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If a woman dreams that she is about to live separate from\nher husband, it promises that she will shortly find herself in the\nfamily way: such a dream to a man is a sign that some woman or girl,\nother than his wife, is in love with him." }, { "id": "noe-0451", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Separation", "text": "To dream of being separated from one whom you highly esteem\nand value, betokens much enjoyment to the dreamer from an unexpected\nsource.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 457; source lines 1683–1685", "lineStart": 1683, "lineEnd": 1685, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being separated from one whom you highly esteem\nand value, betokens much enjoyment to the dreamer from an unexpected\nsource." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "sepulchre", "title": "Sepulchre", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “To dream of a sepulchre is a sign of great good to the dreamer.”", "aliases": [ "sepulchre" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about sepulchre stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "noe-0489", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Sepulchre", "text": "To\ndream of a sepulchre is a sign of great good to the dreamer.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 497; source lines 1822–1824", "lineStart": 1822, "lineEnd": 1824, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To\ndream of a sepulchre is a sign of great good to the dreamer." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "seraglio", "title": "Seraglio", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “Feebleness of disposition and inactivity are here indicated (Gypsy).”", "aliases": [ "seraglio" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about seraglio stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. 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OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L11833", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Seraglio", "heading": "Seraglio", "text": "Feebleness of disposition and inactivity are here indicated (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 11833, "lineEnd": 11839, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 251–252; NLM OCR lines 11833–11839", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11833, "lineEnd": 11839, "printedPage": 251, "printedPageEnd": 252 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Seraglio. — Feebleness of disposition and inactivity are \nhere indicated (Gypsy). \n\n\n252 THE FABRIC OF DREAMS \n\n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [ { "line": 11837, "text": "252 THE FABRIC OF DREAMS " } ], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Seraglio" }, "displayText": "Feebleness of disposition and inactivity are here indicated (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L11840", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Seraphim", "heading": "Seraphim", "text": "A dream of spiritual exaltation, piety (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 11840, "lineEnd": 11841, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 252; NLM OCR lines 11840–11841", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11840, "lineEnd": 11841, "printedPage": 252, "printedPageEnd": 252 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Seraphim. — A dream of spiritual exaltation, piety (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Seraphim" }, "displayText": "A dream of spiritual exaltation, piety (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "serenade", "title": "Serenade", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To hear a serenade in your dream, you will have pleasant news from absent friends, and your anticipations will not fail you.”", "aliases": [ "serenade" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about serenade stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1804", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Serenade", "text": "To hear a serenade in your dream, you will have pleasant news\nfrom absent friends, and your anticipations will not fail you.\n\nIf you are one of the serenaders, there are many delightful things\nin your future.", "locator": "Heading 1808; source lines 20072–20080", "lineStart": 20072, "lineEnd": 20080, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To hear a serenade in your dream, you will have pleasant news\nfrom absent friends, and your anticipations will not fail you.\n\nIf you are one of the serenaders, there are many delightful things\nin your future." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "sermon", "title": "Sermon", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Cielo wrote: “To hear a long sermon denotes mental trouble.”", "aliases": [ "sermon" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about sermon stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "cielo-0375", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Sermon", "text": "To hear a long sermon denotes mental trouble.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 375; source lines 4767–4769", "lineStart": 4767, "lineEnd": 4769, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To hear a long sermon denotes mental trouble." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "servant", "title": "Servant", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a servant, is a sign that you will be fortunate, despite gloomy appearances.” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "servant", "servants" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about servant stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "domestics" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1806", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Servant", "text": "To dream of a servant, is a sign that you will be fortunate,\ndespite gloomy appearances. Anger is likely to precipitate\nyou into useless worries and quarrels.\n\nTo discharge one, foretells regrets and losses.\n\nTo quarrel with one in your dream, indicates that you will, upon waking,\nhave real cause for censuring some one who is derelict in duty.\n\nTo be robbed by one, shows that you have some one near you,\nwho does not respect the laws of ownership.", "locator": "Heading 1810; source lines 20089–20103", "lineStart": 20089, "lineEnd": 20103, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a servant, is a sign that you will be fortunate,\ndespite gloomy appearances. Anger is likely to precipitate\nyou into useless worries and quarrels.\n\nTo discharge one, foretells regrets and losses.\n\nTo quarrel with one in your dream, indicates that you will, upon waking,\nhave real cause for censuring some one who is derelict in duty.\n\nTo be robbed by one, shows that you have some one near you,\nwho does not respect the laws of ownership." }, { "id": "fontaine-0710", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Servants", "text": "(_See Domestics._) To dream that you are robbed by your\nservants, is a sign that some one among them that you think the most\nof is deceiving you: if, in your dream, you imagine you have had your\nsilver stolen by a servant, it shows that you will have a difficulty,\nand discharge one who will be replaced by a dishonest person. 71, 40,\n11.", "locator": "Heading 710; source line 4444", "lineStart": 4444, "lineEnd": 4451, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Domestics.) To dream that you are robbed by your\nservants, is a sign that some one among them that you think the most\nof is deceiving you: if, in your dream, you imagine you have had your\nsilver stolen by a servant, it shows that you will have a difficulty,\nand discharge one who will be replaced by a dishonest person. 71, 40," }, { "id": "cielo-0376", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Servant", "text": "Dreaming of a servant means “Beware of being\n over-confident!”", "locator": "Dream section, heading 376; source lines 4769–4772", "lineStart": 4769, "lineEnd": 4772, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Dreaming of a servant means “Beware of being\nover-confident!”" }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11854", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Servants", "heading": "Servants", "text": "Secret enemies ; to hear them talk, scandal, suspicion (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 11854, "lineEnd": 11856, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 252; NLM OCR lines 11854–11856", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11854, "lineEnd": 11856, "printedPage": 252, "printedPageEnd": 252 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Servants. — Secret enemies ; to hear them talk, scandal, sus- \npicion (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "sus- \npicion", "after": "suspicion", "evidenceLine": 4390 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Servants" }, "displayText": "Secret enemies; to hear them talk, scandal, suspicion (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "domestics" ] }, { "slug": "sewing", "title": "Sewing", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of sewing on new garments, foretells that domestic peace will crown your wishes.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "sewing" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about sewing stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1807", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Sewing", "text": "To dream of sewing on new garments, foretells that domestic peace\nwill crown your wishes.", "locator": "Heading 1811; source lines 20103–20108", "lineStart": 20103, "lineEnd": 20108, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of sewing on new garments, foretells that domestic peace\nwill crown your wishes." }, { "id": "cielo-0377", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Sewing", "text": "Means someone is plotting against you.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 377; source lines 4772–4774", "lineStart": 4772, "lineEnd": 4774, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Means someone is plotting against you." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "sex-and-intimacy", "title": "Sex and intimacy", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "The quality of closeness and your room to choose.", "summary": "An intimacy dream may explore closeness, communication and privacy without proving desire, consent, identity or another person’s feelings.", "aliases": [ "sex", "sex dream", "sexual dream", "intimacy", "making love", "sleeping with someone", "sex with an ex", "sex with a stranger", "sex with a coworker", "sex with a friend", "erotic dream", "intimate dream" ], "status": "REVIEW", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-14", "psychological": "An intimacy dream can leave tenderness, pleasure, discomfort, surprise or several feelings together. You can reflect without describing explicit details. Start with what made the encounter intimate: shared attention, touch, conversation, privacy or the feeling of being close. A familiar partner and an unexpected person may appear in similar scenes, but the dream's casting does not establish a waking desire, intention or conclusion about your identity.\n\nCommunication can make the scene more specific than the person's name. You might feel understood without speaking, struggle to express a preference or discover that the mood changes after a simple question. This could invite reflection on how an interaction becomes comfortable for you. A waking comparison might be wanting enough time to explain a small preference rather than assuming someone already knows it. The dream cannot reveal what the real person would say or want.\n\nChoice deserves attention within the dreamed encounter. Did you want to continue, pause, change the situation or leave? An unwanted scene does not imply that you wanted it, and you need not find a positive explanation for it. Your dreamed response is not a test of how you should react in waking life. You may record only the feeling, the moment it changed or what would have made the scene different, at a level of detail you choose.\n\nPrivacy can shape closeness as much as contact. A door opening, a change of location or an audience appearing may redirect attention from the encounter to the conditions around it. Conversely, restoring privacy might allow an ordinary conversation to continue. Notice what kind of participation the new setting makes possible, without treating a dream interruption as evidence of an actual privacy violation.\n\nThe experience after the encounter can also matter. You may want conversation, separate space, an explanation or nothing further. These possibilities do not give one correct meaning to intimacy. Waking experiences and emotions can enter dreams, including memories, recent conversations and fictional scenes. Keep those sources alongside the possibility of an imaginative experience that remains unresolved. The reflection can describe the kind of closeness or choice that mattered without directing you to pursue anyone, disclose private details or change a real relationship.", "traditional": "No historical record is attached to this specific broad intimacy topic. Its reflections are original possibilities, not an inherited code or a conclusion about desire, consent, fidelity or identity. The sleep source supplies general background about waking experiences and emotions entering dreams; it does not validate these readings. You can reflect through feelings, setting or communication without reproducing intimate details or treating the dream as an instruction.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "Closeness feels easy with an unfamiliar person", "reflection": "The encounter feels warm even though the person is not someone you recognize. This may leave attention on the qualities of the interaction rather than a specific relationship. Describe what felt easy at a comfortable level of detail; the scene does not establish a hidden wish or identity." }, { "title": "You ask to slow or change the encounter", "reflection": "A preference becomes important, and you express it within the dream. The scene might help you describe the pace or kind of attention you wanted. Notice what changes afterward, without using the dreamed response to judge how you would or should act in a real situation." }, { "title": "A door opens and the focus changes", "reflection": "An interruption turns a private exchange into a question about who can see or hear you. This could make the setting more important than the encounter. Record whether you move, speak or restore a boundary; the dream does not show that your actual privacy has been violated." }, { "title": "The words you want are hard to communicate", "reflection": "You have a preference or question but cannot convey it in the way you intended. This might invite reflection on what would make an exchange clearer. You can record the missing communication without explicit details, and the scene provides no evidence about the real person’s willingness to listen." }, { "title": "The encounter is unwanted and you want distance", "reflection": "You may describe only the discomfort and the space you wanted afterward. The dream does not imply consent or hidden desire, and it need not be translated into a positive lesson. Notice any available change in the scene without treating your dreamed response as a real-life test." }, { "title": "After closeness you want an ordinary conversation", "reflection": "The encounter ends, and what matters next is talking, sitting together or sharing a practical activity. This might help you name the kind of continuity you wanted. The after-scene can be meaningful without making the intimacy a promise about a real relationship or an obligation to act." } ], "prompts": [ "What quality of closeness or distance mattered at the level of detail you want to record?", "How did communication, choice or the setting change the experience?", "What memory, recent conversation or imagined scene may have supplied material?" ], "related": [ "kiss", "ex-partner", "a-stranger", "embrace", "love" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "How the interaction felt", "reflection": "Describe closeness through attention, conversation and feeling at your chosen level of detail. A pleasant, uncomfortable or mixed experience need not prove a waking wish." }, { "title": "Communication and available choice", "reflection": "The ability to ask, pause or change the scene may be important to your account. A dreamed response does not determine real consent or measure how you should respond to an actual situation." }, { "title": "Conditions around privacy", "reflection": "Location and interruptions can change what becomes possible. Explore the setting you wanted without assuming that a dream audience reveals an actual privacy breach." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "shadow", "title": "Shadow", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "The outline changes with the light.", "summary": "Shadow dreams may explore visibility, uncertainty or an altered impression of yourself, depending on the light and what casts the shape.", "aliases": [ "shadow", "shadows", "cast shadow", "my shadow", "own shadow", "a shadow", "the shadow" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A cast shadow shows a shape while withholding much of its detail. In a dream, that difference can make the outline more important than the object or person producing it. A familiar coat may become a threatening figure in dim light; a tiny object may occupy an enormous part of a wall. The image can offer a comparison with an impression that has grown beyond the information available to you. The actual source of the shadow changes that reading.\n\nYour own shadow can make your presence visible in an indirect way. A shape that follows comfortably may feel like company or evidence of belonging in the setting. One that looks unlike you may make a public impression, role or recent change feel unfamiliar. This is a reflection on an image, rather than a test of your identity. A missing shadow can feel freeing, puzzling or lonely depending on whether you wanted to be noticed.\n\nThe direction and movement of light matter. A shadow that shrinks when a lamp moves can picture a change in perspective making something less imposing. Moving into shade may offer welcome rest from exposure, while being unable to see a doorway can make the same dimness obstructive. Those experiences are different even when the visual material looks similar. Familiar lighting, films or an ordinary walk can also supply the image.\n\nWho controls the light may be the scene's central relationship. Adjusting it yourself gives you a way to investigate; someone repeatedly switching it off can interrupt that access. An outline that moves before its owner does may create uncertainty about which impression to trust. The ending may resolve that question by revealing an ordinary source, or leave you with an unresolved shape.\n\nA literal shadow does not automatically invoke the Jungian shadow archetype. That separate theoretical lens concerns qualities a person finds difficult to acknowledge, and it may or may not interest you. Begin here with what was visible, what remained hidden and how the change in light affected the scene.", "traditional": "This page covers cast shadows and changes in lighting. No exact Shadow historical heading is attached from the supplied archive. The separate Jungian Shadow page identifies an optional theoretical lens; its framework is not evidence that an ordinary silhouette has a particular psychological meaning.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "An impression without detail", "reflection": "The outline may carry more certainty or threat than the object producing it." }, { "title": "Being indirectly visible", "reflection": "Your shadow can make presence noticeable without showing your whole appearance." }, { "title": "A movable perspective", "reflection": "A change in the light can change the shape, scale or comfort of the scene." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Your shadow is much larger than you", "reflection": "An enlarged outline may make your influence or the attention on you seem greater than your immediate action. A small decision with a large audience offers a waking comparison. Pride, playfulness and unease create different readings; size alone does not identify a threat." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A frightening shadow comes from an ordinary object", "reflection": "Discovering a coat, branch or chair changes the relationship between impression and source. The scene may resemble learning what was behind an unsettling assumption. Relief is meaningful, but continued unease can show that knowing the source did not settle every feeling." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Your shadow looks unlike your body", "reflection": "The difference can make the impression you leave seem unfamiliar. A new role, photograph or other person's description may offer a comparison. The particular alteration matters: looking older, wearing different clothes or moving differently each creates its own question about recognition." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You cannot find your own shadow", "reflection": "Its absence can make presence feel less grounded or less exposed. Wanting proof that you belong differs from enjoying a moment without attention. Notice whether the missing outline was disturbing before someone commented on it, or only became a problem through their response." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You move a lamp and the shadow shrinks", "reflection": "A practical adjustment gives you another way to view the same object. The dream may picture checking an impression rather than accepting its first scale. If another shadow appears, the change may reveal complexity instead of offering a simple resolution." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "A shadow moves while its source stays still", "reflection": "The outline no longer supplies reliable information about what casts it. That mismatch may resemble receiving inconsistent signals, or simply a striking dream effect. Your attempt to investigate, leave or play with the movement gives the event more meaning than its strangeness alone." } ], "prompts": [ "What cast the shadow, and when did you learn that?", "How did changing the light alter the feeling of the scene?", "What kind of visibility did you want for your own outline?" ], "related": [ "light", "darkness", "window", "the-shadow", "ghost" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "shakers", "title": "Shakers", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing members of the sect called Shakers in a dream, denotes that you will change in your business, and feel coldness growing…”", "aliases": [ "shakers" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about shakers stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1808", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Shakers", "text": "To dream of seeing members of the sect called Shakers in a dream,\ndenotes that you will change in your business, and feel coldness\ngrowing towards your sweetheart.\n\nIf you imagine you belong to them, you will unexpectedly renounce\nall former ties, and seek new pleasures in distant localities.", "locator": "Heading 1812; source lines 20108–20117", "lineStart": 20108, "lineEnd": 20117, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing members of the sect called Shakers in a dream,\ndenotes that you will change in your business, and feel coldness\ngrowing towards your sweetheart.\n\nIf you imagine you belong to them, you will unexpectedly renounce\nall former ties, and seek new pleasures in distant localities." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "shaking-hands", "title": "Shaking Hands", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “For a young woman to dream that she shakes hands with some prominent ruler, foretells she will be…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "shaking hands" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about shaking hands stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "moles-71045", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams and Moles", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "United Kingdom, J. Marshall, 1805", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71045", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1809", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Shaking Hands", "text": "For a young woman to dream that she shakes hands with some prominent ruler,\nforetells she will be surrounded with pleasures and distinction\nfrom strangers. If she avails herself of the opportunity,\nshe will stand in high favor with friends. If she finds she must\nreach up to shake hands, she will find rivalry and opposition.\nIf she has on gloves, she will overcome these obstacles.\n\nTo shake hands with those beneath you, denotes you will\nbe loved and honored for your kindness and benevolence.\nIf you think you or they have soiled hands, you will find\nenemies among seeming friends.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of shaking hands with a decrepit old man,\nforetells she will find trouble where amusement was sought.", "locator": "Heading 1813; source lines 20117–20134", "lineStart": 20117, "lineEnd": 20134, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a young woman to dream that she shakes hands with some prominent ruler,\nforetells she will be surrounded with pleasures and distinction\nfrom strangers. If she avails herself of the opportunity,\nshe will stand in high favor with friends. If she finds she must\nreach up to shake hands, she will find rivalry and opposition.\nIf she has on gloves, she will overcome these obstacles.\n\nTo shake hands with those beneath you, denotes you will\nbe loved and honored for your kindness and benevolence.\nIf you think you or they have soiled hands, you will find\nenemies among seeming friends.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of shaking hands with a decrepit old man,\nforetells she will find trouble where amusement was sought." }, { "id": "moles-0059", "sourceId": "moles-71045", "heading": "Shaking hands", "originalHeading": "(no printed heading)", "text": "To dream of shaking hands, signifies to both sexes, courtship and love.", "locator": "Dreams interpreted, passage 59; source lines 283–283", "lineStart": 283, "lineEnd": 283, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "editorialNote": "The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Shaking hands” because that is the subject of its first clause.", "displayText": "To dream of shaking hands, signifies to both sexes, courtship and love." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "shakspeare", "title": "Shakspeare", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of Shakspeare, denotes that unhappiness and dispondency will work much anxiety to momentous affairs, and love will be stripped of…”", "aliases": [ "shakspeare" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about shakspeare stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1810", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Shakspeare", "text": "To dream of Shakspeare, denotes that unhappiness and dispondency\nwill work much anxiety to momentous affairs, and love will be stripped\nof passion's fever.\n\nTo read Shakspeare's works, denotes that you will unalterably\nattach yourself to literary accomplishments.", "locator": "Heading 1814; source lines 20134–20143", "lineStart": 20134, "lineEnd": 20143, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of Shakspeare, denotes that unhappiness and dispondency\nwill work much anxiety to momentous affairs, and love will be stripped\nof passion's fever.\n\nTo read Shakspeare's works, denotes that you will unalterably\nattach yourself to literary accomplishments." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "shampoo", "title": "Shampoo", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing shampooing going on, denotes that you will engage in undignified affairs to please others To have your own head…”", "aliases": [ "shampoo" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about shampoo stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1811", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Shampoo", "text": "To dream of seeing shampooing going on, denotes that you will engage\nin undignified affairs to please others\n\nTo have your own head shampooed, you will soon make a secret trip,\nin which you will have much enjoyment, if you succeed in keeping\nthe real purport from your family or friends.", "locator": "Heading 1815; source lines 20143–20152", "lineStart": 20143, "lineEnd": 20152, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing shampooing going on, denotes that you will engage\nin undignified affairs to please others\n\nTo have your own head shampooed, you will soon make a secret trip,\nin which you will have much enjoyment, if you succeed in keeping\nthe real purport from your family or friends." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "shamrock", "title": "Shamrock", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “Good health, longevity, some say a journey by water (Gypsy).”", "aliases": [ "shamrock" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about shamrock stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L11857", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Shamrock", "heading": "Shamrock", "text": "Good health, longevity, some say a journey by water (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 11857, "lineEnd": 11859, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 252; NLM OCR lines 11857–11859", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11857, "lineEnd": 11859, "printedPage": 252, "printedPageEnd": 252 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Shamrock. — Good health, longevity, some say a journey \nby water (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Shamrock" }, "displayText": "Good health, longevity, some say a journey by water (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "shanty", "title": "Shanty", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a shanty, denotes that you will leave home in the quest of health. This also warns you of decreasing prosperity.”", "aliases": [ "shanty" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about shanty stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1812", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Shanty", "text": "To dream of a shanty, denotes that you will leave home in the quest\nof health. This also warns you of decreasing prosperity.", "locator": "Heading 1816; source lines 20152–20157", "lineStart": 20152, "lineEnd": 20157, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a shanty, denotes that you will leave home in the quest\nof health. This also warns you of decreasing prosperity." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "sharing-a-community-garden-harvest", "title": "Sharing a community garden harvest", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "A shared harvest makes growth visible alongside cooperation, credit, access, and the question of who benefits from collective effort.", "summary": "A shared harvest makes growth visible alongside cooperation, credit, access, and the question of who benefits from collective effort.", "aliases": [ "community garden dream", "sharing vegetables from a garden" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "Notice who planted, maintained, picked, and received the food. Abundance may feel joyful, but it can also expose differences in contribution or need. The dream offers a way to reflect on sharing without calculating every relationship as a transaction. If you garden in waking life, specific seasonal work may be direct context. The size of a crop does not predict prosperity or reward virtue.", "traditional": "Historical harvest interpretations often connect yield with fortune. This draft does not adopt that forecast; a community garden adds contemporary questions about shared land, labor, and distribution.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "There is enough produce for people who could not help grow it", "reflection": "How did the group balance contribution with need?" }, { "title": "Someone takes credit for everyone’s work", "reflection": "Which effort did you want recognized?" }, { "title": "You share a modest crop and plan the next season", "reflection": "What counted as success beyond quantity?" } ], "prompts": [ "Who had a voice in how the harvest was shared?", "What work had remained invisible?", "Did abundance mean having more or having enough together?" ], "related": [ "garden", "harvest", "vegetables" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia model-assisted editorial draft. Reflection questions and scenario readings are optional, individually written suggestions, not empirically validated symbol meanings. Source scope is stated with each citation. Historical comparisons identify topics, not inherited interpretations. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "sharing-a-temporary-shelter", "title": "Sharing a temporary shelter", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "A temporary shelter brings safety together with shared space, unfamiliar routines, privacy, and the need to rely on others.", "summary": "A temporary shelter brings safety together with shared space, unfamiliar routines, privacy, and the need to rely on others.", "aliases": [ "temporary emergency shelter dream", "sleeping in an evacuation center" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "Was the shelter welcoming, crowded, orderly, or confusing? Notice whether its rules protected people or made ordinary needs hard to meet. The dream may reflect concern about displacement or a broader question about accepting support. It does not mean you are destined to lose your home. Keep material conditions in view rather than treating discomfort as evidence that you cannot tolerate closeness.", "traditional": "Historic refuge and lodging topics reflect different forms of hospitality and dependence. This draft does not portray needing shelter as failure or the person providing it as automatically trustworthy.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "A stranger makes room for your belongings", "reflection": "What small gesture helped you feel you could stay?" }, { "title": "You cannot find a private place to change", "reflection": "Which need remained unmet even though immediate danger had passed?" }, { "title": "Residents agree on a workable routine", "reflection": "How did having a voice in the rules change shared living?" } ], "prompts": [ "What kind of safety did the shelter provide?", "Which needs still required attention?", "Did you have a say in how the space was shared?" ], "related": [ "shelter", "crowd", "privacy" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia model-assisted editorial draft. Reflection questions and scenario readings are optional, individually written suggestions, not empirically validated symbol meanings. Source scope is stated with each citation. Historical comparisons identify topics, not inherited interpretations. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "shark", "title": "Sharks", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "Separate the animal's actions from the danger you expected.", "summary": "A shark dream may involve fear, fascination, or watchful distance. Its behavior and your position in the water give the image context.", "aliases": [ "shark", "sharks" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "Describe what the shark did before deciding what it represented. It may pass beneath a boat, circle at a distance, approach, attack, or rest behind aquarium glass. The behavior and your access to safety change the scene. Someone fascinated by marine life may experience the same image differently from someone whose associations come mainly from frightening films.\n\nA visible shark can make uncertainty concrete without behaving aggressively. Notice whether you could see the whole animal or only a fin, and whether another person helped you understand the situation. If the dream fits a waking concern, you might reflect on what is known and what is imagined. It does not identify a dangerous person or show that your suspicions about someone are correct.\n\nAn attack scene may center escape, protection, or a sudden change in what felt safe. Record what you tried and whether the water, distance, or other people made action easier. Your dream response need not be a judgment of courage. A vividly frightening scene may draw from a remembered story or image, especially when the animal's behavior is unlike anything you have personally experienced.\n\nIf observation or fascination dominates, ask what holds your attention. Seeing a shark peacefully from a secure place could invite curiosity about something impressive but unfamiliar. A recent aquarium visit, wildlife program, beach trip, or conversation can be direct context. The ending—moving away, watching longer, or losing sight of the shark—may tell you more about this experience than choosing one meaning for the species.", "traditional": "Miller's Sharks passage casts the animals as formidable enemies and assigns unfavorable forecasts to pursuit or nearby swimming, while reading a dead shark as renewed prosperity. Fontaine's 1862 Shark entry points in the opposite direction: seeing one is described as favorable because danger will be escaped, and capturing it is linked to money. These supplied passages are historical fortune-telling claims.\n\nTheir disagreement matters because a shark sighting cannot reliably be treated as either warning or reassurance through these books. Both authors turn an animal encounter into a forecast, but neither establishes that a dream reveals another person's intentions. This entry instead offers original questions about distance, observation, expected danger, and available action. A shark behind glass and a shark in open water differ through the dreamer's situation, not because one fixed code assigns a future outcome. Your own exposure to the animal and its imagery remains essential context.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "A fin moves nearby but does not approach", "reflection": "The incomplete view may make expectation more powerful than visible behavior. Notice what you imagine and whether the animal ever comes closer. The scene can explore uncertainty without establishing that a hidden threat exists in your waking surroundings.", "slug": "scene-1" }, { "title": "You observe a shark through aquarium glass", "reflection": "A clear boundary can allow curiosity where open water might create fear. Ask what draws you to watch and whether the glass feels dependable. A real visit or documentary may be the simplest context for the encounter.", "slug": "scene-2" }, { "title": "You help someone out of the water", "reflection": "The focus may shift from your fear to cooperation or responsibility. Record whether help is shared and whether the other person wants it. The scene can invite a question about care under pressure without predicting harm to them.", "slug": "scene-3" } ], "prompts": [ "What did the shark actually do, and what did I expect it to do?", "Which boundary or resource changed my sense of safety?", "Where do my strongest associations with sharks come from?" ], "related": [ "ocean", "water", "being-chased", "drowning" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "scope": "Historical comparison only: Shark — miller-1813, Heading 1817; source lines 20157–20170. These period beliefs do not establish a dream meaning or prediction.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1813" ] }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "scope": "Historical comparison only: Shark — fontaine-0711, Heading 711; source line 4451. These period beliefs do not establish a dream meaning or prediction.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0711" ] }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L11860" ], "scope": "Attached historical material only: Shark — craig-1918:L11860 (Printed p. 252; NLM OCR lines 11860–11862). Craig records an enemy association and a ruin forecast if a shark eats the dreamer. This citation preserves the attributed archival material; it does not substantiate the original modern reflection or establish a present-day outcome." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia expansion written for this topic. Historical passages are attributed period beliefs; modern reflections are possibilities rather than established meanings. Human publication review pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1813", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Shark", "text": "To dream of sharks, denotes formidable enemies.\n\nTo see a shark pursuing and attacking you, denotes that unavoidable\nreverses will sink you into dispondent foreboding.\n\nTo see them sporting in clear water, foretells that while you are basking\nin the sunshine of women and prosperity, jealousy is secretly, but surely,\nworking you disquiet, and unhappy fortune.\n\nTo see a dead one, denotes reconciliation and renewed prosperity.", "locator": "Heading 1817; source lines 20157–20170", "lineStart": 20157, "lineEnd": 20170, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of sharks, denotes formidable enemies.\n\nTo see a shark pursuing and attacking you, denotes that unavoidable\nreverses will sink you into dispondent foreboding.\n\nTo see them sporting in clear water, foretells that while you are basking\nin the sunshine of women and prosperity, jealousy is secretly, but surely,\nworking you disquiet, and unhappy fortune.\n\nTo see a dead one, denotes reconciliation and renewed prosperity." }, { "id": "fontaine-0711", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Shark", "text": "To dream of seeing a shark in the water, is an excellent omen,\nas it foretells that you will escape a great danger that menaces you:\nif you dream of capturing the shark, you will soon thereafter get a big\nlump of money. Catching fish of any kind foretells money-getting. 31.", "locator": "Heading 711; source line 4451", "lineStart": 4451, "lineEnd": 4456, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing a shark in the water, is an excellent omen,\nas it foretells that you will escape a great danger that menaces you:\nif you dream of capturing the shark, you will soon thereafter get a big\nlump of money. Catching fish of any kind foretells money-getting." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11860", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Shark", "heading": "Shark", "text": "This dream denotes an enemy; if the shark eats you, the enemy will ruin you (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 11860, "lineEnd": 11862, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 252; NLM OCR lines 11860–11862", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11860, "lineEnd": 11862, "printedPage": 252, "printedPageEnd": 252 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Shark. — This dream denotes an enemy; if the shark eats \nyou, the enemy will ruin you (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Shark" }, "displayText": "This dream denotes an enemy; if the shark eats you, the enemy will ruin you (Gypsy)." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "shave", "title": "Shave", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To merely contemplate getting a shave, in your dream, denotes you will plan for the successful development…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "shave", "shaving" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about shave stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1814", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Shave", "text": "To merely contemplate getting a shave, in your dream, denotes you\nwill plan for the successful development of enterprises,\nbut will fail to generate energy sufficient to succeed.", "locator": "Heading 1818; source lines 20170–20176", "lineStart": 20170, "lineEnd": 20176, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To merely contemplate getting a shave, in your dream, denotes you\nwill plan for the successful development of enterprises,\nbut will fail to generate energy sufficient to succeed." }, { "id": "miller-1815", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Shaving", "text": "To dream that you are being shaved, portends that you will let\nimposters defraud you.\n\nTo shave yourself, foretells that you will govern your own business\nand dictate to your household, notwithstanding that the presence\nof a shrew may cause you quarrels.\n\nIf your face appears smooth, you will enjoy quiet, and your conduct\nwill hot be questioned by your companions. If old and rough,\nthere will be many squalls or, the matrimonial sea.\n\nIf your razor is dull and pulls your face, you will give your friends\ncause to criticize your private life.\n\nIf your beard seems gray, you will be absolutely devoid of any sense\nof justice to those having claims upon you.\n\nFor a woman to see men shaving, foretells that her nature will become\nsullied by indulgence in gross pleasures.\n\nIf she dreams of being shaved, she will assume so much masculinity that men\nwill turn from her in disgust.", "locator": "Heading 1819; source lines 20176–20201", "lineStart": 20176, "lineEnd": 20201, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are being shaved, portends that you will let\nimposters defraud you.\n\nTo shave yourself, foretells that you will govern your own business\nand dictate to your household, notwithstanding that the presence\nof a shrew may cause you quarrels.\n\nIf your face appears smooth, you will enjoy quiet, and your conduct\nwill hot be questioned by your companions. If old and rough,\nthere will be many squalls or, the matrimonial sea.\n\nIf your razor is dull and pulls your face, you will give your friends\ncause to criticize your private life.\n\nIf your beard seems gray, you will be absolutely devoid of any sense\nof justice to those having claims upon you.\n\nFor a woman to see men shaving, foretells that her nature will become\nsullied by indulgence in gross pleasures.\n\nIf she dreams of being shaved, she will assume so much masculinity that men\nwill turn from her in disgust.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Shaving” is shown on the Shave page: same topic" }, { "id": "fontaine-0712", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Shave", "text": "For a man to dream that he is shaving, is a sign he will get in\ndebt: to dream that any one shaved you in a bargain, foretells that\nsome debt will be paid to you which you had given up as lost. 5, 7, 54.", "locator": "Heading 712; source line 4456", "lineStart": 4456, "lineEnd": 4460, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a man to dream that he is shaving, is a sign he will get in\ndebt: to dream that any one shaved you in a bargain, foretells that\nsome debt will be paid to you which you had given up as lost." }, { "id": "noe-0469", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Shaving", "text": "To dream you are being shaved, or that your head\nhas been shaved, is a very unfavorable omen; in love, it denotes treachery\nand disappointment; and in the married state, infidelity and discord. To\nthe tradesman, it denotes loss of goods and business; to the sailor, an\nunpleasant and stormy voyage; to the farmer, it prefigures bad crops and\ndiseases amongst his live stock.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 477; source lines 1740–1745", "lineStart": 1740, "lineEnd": 1745, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are being shaved, or that your head\nhas been shaved, is a very unfavorable omen; in love, it denotes treachery\nand disappointment; and in the married state, infidelity and discord. To\nthe tradesman, it denotes loss of goods and business; to the sailor, an\nunpleasant and stormy voyage; to the farmer, it prefigures bad crops and\ndiseases amongst his live stock.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Shaving” is shown on the Shave page: same topic" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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I therefore adde by the hands of a Barber, because if any man shaves himself, it betokens suddain heavinesse, or very ill luck. Moreover to be scratched with nailes to him that is in debt, it betokens that he shall acquit himself: to others it foretels hurt by them which scratch them.", "locator": "Book 1, encoded section 11", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription-with-gaps", "book": "1", "displayText": "FOr to sée himself powld all the head, is good for Jesters that use to make men laugh, and to such as are commonly shaved, to all other it is evill. For it betokens as much as nakednes and barrenuesse, if it bring not greater evils and more at hand. To Navigators it is evident shipwrack, to sick persons great perill, and yet not death, for such as escape a shipwrack, and recover after great sicknesse shave themselves, but not the dead. To be powled by a Barber is good [illegible passage] to all in generall, for surely no ma [illegible passage] b [illegible passage] ing in any dangerous estate, will powle themselves, séeing th [illegible passage] se only regard such outward ornaments of the head which are without sorrow or want. I therefore adde by the hands of a Barber, because if any man shaves himself, it betokens suddain heavinesse, or very ill luck. Moreover to be scratched with nailes to him that is in debt, it betokens that he shall acquit himself: to others it foretels hurt by them which scratch them.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “To see himself powled or shaved” is shown on the Shaving page: archaic \"powled or shaved\"" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "moles-71045", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams and Moles", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "United Kingdom, J. Marshall, 1805", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71045", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. 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To dream you\nsee them dispersing, and running away from you, shows that pretended\nfriends are endeavoring to do you an injury, and that your children will\nmeet with persecution and great troubles. In love, such a dream shows your\nsweetheart to be fickle and little calculated to make you happy. To dream\nyou see sheep shearing, is indicative of loss of property and the\naffections of the person you love; also of your liberty. To dream you are\nshearing them yourself, shows that you will gain an advantage over some\nperson who meant to harm you, and that you will get the better of\ndifficulties and marry the object of your affection.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 478; source lines 1745–1755", "lineStart": 1745, "lineEnd": 1755, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see a flock of\nsheep feeding, is a very favorable omen; it denotes success. To dream you\nsee them dispersing, and running away from you, shows that pretended\nfriends are endeavoring to do you an injury, and that your children will\nmeet with persecution and great troubles. In love, such a dream shows your\nsweetheart to be fickle and little calculated to make you happy. To dream\nyou see sheep shearing, is indicative of loss of property and the\naffections of the person you love; also of your liberty. To dream you are\nshearing them yourself, shows that you will gain an advantage over some\nperson who meant to harm you, and that you will get the better of\ndifficulties and marry the object of your affection." }, { "id": "cielo-0378", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Sheep", "text": "Denotes gain in business.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 378; source lines 4774–4776", "lineStart": 4774, "lineEnd": 4776, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Denotes gain in business." }, { "id": "moles-0033", "sourceId": "moles-71045", "heading": "Sheep", "originalHeading": "(no printed heading)", "text": "To dream you are among sheep, means repose from trouble. 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To gather them, merry \nmaking and sport (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Shell-Fish" }, "displayText": "To find shells empty, loss of time and credit; to find them full, hope of success. To gather them, merry making and sport (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1821", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Shells", "text": "To walk among and gather shells in your dream, denotes extravagance.\nPleasure will leave you naught but exasperating regrets and memories.\n\n\n[201] See Mussels and Oysters.", "locator": "Heading 1825; source lines 20246–20254", "lineStart": 20246, "lineEnd": 20254, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To walk among and gather shells in your dream, denotes extravagance.\nPleasure will leave you naught but exasperating regrets and memories. See Mussels and Oysters." }, { "id": "fontaine-0715", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Shell", "text": "(_See Oysters and Clams._) To dream you find an empty shell is a\nsign you will meet with losses in business, but if, in your dream, you\nimagine the shell to be full, it foretells you will be successful in\nall your undertakings. If you dream you are opening any kind of shell\nfish for others to eat it foreshadows that you will have plenty of\nfunds. 19, 53.", "locator": "Heading 715; source line 4468", "lineStart": 4468, "lineEnd": 4475, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Oysters and Clams.) To dream you find an empty shell is a\nsign you will meet with losses in business, but if, in your dream, you\nimagine the shell to be full, it foretells you will be successful in\nall your undertakings. If you dream you are opening any kind of shell\nfish for others to eat it foreshadows that you will have plenty of\nfunds." }, { "id": "cielo-0379", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Shell", "text": "A sea shell is a sign of success; a cannon shell,\n a sign of bad luck.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 379; source lines 4776–4779", "lineStart": 4776, "lineEnd": 4779, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "A sea shell is a sign of success; a cannon shell,\na sign of bad luck." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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Here the interpretation is easily \ntraceable to early Christian persecution, when shelter and food \nwere refused to the elect. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "shel- \nter", "after": "shelter", "evidenceLine": 11872 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Shelter" }, "displayText": "To dream of seeking shelder against rain denotes secret trouble; to fly from a storm, evil to come; to find shelter prognosticates misery and despair; to have it refused, triumph and joy (Gypsy). Here the interpretation is easily traceable to early Christian persecution, when shelter and food were refused to the elect." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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Christ, it will be remembered, was called the \"Good Shepherd.\"", "lineStart": 11879, "lineEnd": 11882, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 252; NLM OCR lines 11879–11882", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11879, "lineEnd": 11882, "printedPage": 252, "printedPageEnd": 252 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Shepherd. — To dream of being a shepherd is a dream de- \nnoting great piety and charity (Gypsy). Christ, it will be \nremembered, was called the \"Good Shepherd.\" \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "de- \nnoting", "after": "denoting", "evidenceLine": 9090 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Shepherd" }, "displayText": "To dream of being a shepherd is a dream denoting great piety and charity (Gypsy). Christ, it will be remembered, was called the \"Good Shepherd.\"" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1825", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Sheriff", "text": "To dream of seeing a sheriff, denotes that you will suffer great uneasiness\nover the uncertain changes which loom up before you.\n\nTo imagine that you are elected sheriff or feel interested in the office,\ndenotes that you will participate in some affair which will afford you\nneither profit nor honor.\n\nTo escape arrest, you will be able to further engage in illicit affairs.\n\n\n[203] See Bailiff and Police.", "locator": "Heading 1829; source lines 20280–20294", "lineStart": 20280, "lineEnd": 20294, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing a sheriff, denotes that you will suffer great uneasiness\nover the uncertain changes which loom up before you.\n\nTo imagine that you are elected sheriff or feel interested in the office,\ndenotes that you will participate in some affair which will afford you\nneither profit nor honor.\n\nTo escape arrest, you will be able to further engage in illicit affairs. See Bailiff and Police." }, { "id": "fontaine-0716", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Sheriff", "text": "If you dream the sheriff is after you with a writ, or a\nwarrant, and that you dodge and escape him, it is a sign of bad luck\nand losses; but if he arrests and locks you up in prison, it foretells\nthat some good fortune is coming. Soon after such a dream you will be\nlucky in anything you undertake. 62, 21.", "locator": "Heading 716; source line 4475", "lineStart": 4475, "lineEnd": 4481, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream the sheriff is after you with a writ, or a\nwarrant, and that you dodge and escape him, it is a sign of bad luck\nand losses; but if he arrests and locks you up in prison, it foretells\nthat some good fortune is coming. Soon after such a dream you will be\nlucky in anything you undertake." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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To dream of being shipwrecked and losing your property,\nforetells good luck in business matters, but quarrels in love affairs.\n29, 8.", "locator": "Heading 718; source line 4483", "lineStart": 4483, "lineEnd": 4491, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing a ship under full sail, while you stand on the\nshore, is a sign you will soon fall in love with a pretty girl, who\nwill favor your addresses; but if you see this ship while you are on\nthe water in some other vessel, it shows that your sweetheart will be\njealous of you. To dream of being shipwrecked and losing your property,\nforetells good luck in business matters, but quarrels in love affairs." }, { "id": "noe-0485", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Ship", "text": "To dream of seeing ships freighted with goods, denotes\nprosperity. 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Also the \nChristian symbol of hope, etc. \n\n\nSYMBOLISM IN DREAMS 253 \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [ { "line": 11888, "text": "SYMBOLISM IN DREAMS 253 " } ], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Ship" }, "displayText": "A dream of hopes and plans, fulfilled according to the fate of the dream bark in question (Gypsy). Also the Christian symbol of hope, etc." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "shipwreck", "title": "Shipwreck", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “To dream you suffer shipwreck, the ship being overwhelmed, is dangerous to all, except to those detained by…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "shipwreck" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about shipwreck stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "moles-71045", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams and Moles", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "United Kingdom, J. Marshall, 1805", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71045", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "noe-0466", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Shipwreck", "text": "To dream\nyou suffer shipwreck, the ship being overwhelmed, is dangerous to all,\nexcept to those detained by force. To them it signifies liberty.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 473; source lines 1733–1735", "lineStart": 1733, "lineEnd": 1735, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream\nyou suffer shipwreck, the ship being overwhelmed, is dangerous to all,\nexcept to those detained by force. To them it signifies liberty." }, { "id": "moles-0029", "sourceId": "moles-71045", "heading": "Shipwreck", "originalHeading": "(no printed heading)", "text": "To dream you are cast away in a shipwreck, denotes losses in goods and\nestate.", "locator": "Dreams interpreted, passage 29; source lines 194–195", "lineStart": 194, "lineEnd": 195, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "editorialNote": "The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Shipwreck” because that is the subject of its first clause.", "displayText": "To dream you are cast away in a shipwreck, denotes losses in goods and\nestate." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "shirt", "title": "Shirt", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "summary": "A shirt may make everyday presentation, a small repair or a borrowed role concrete. Its fit and fastenings matter through what you need to do.", "tagline": "An ordinary garment can hinge on one small adjustment.", "aliases": [ "shirt" ], "status": "REVIEW", "psychological": "A shirt may bring an everyday way of presenting yourself into a task that requires movement, contact or being seen. Its details can make the scene specific: an uncomfortable collar, a missing button, a name stitched inside or a sleeve that gets in the way. These features may picture a small mismatch between what you are wearing outwardly and what the current activity actually needs.\n\n A fastening can make a modest adjustment feel unusually consequential. You may be able to take part once one button is replaced, or find that repeated attempts to align the front leave the shirt crooked. This can resemble correcting a small part of a message or routine before you feel comfortable presenting it. The response of other people matters: practical assistance creates a different experience from being judged through the unfinished detail alone.\n\n Borrowing a shirt can bring another person's conditions into contact with your own. It might let you enter an occasion, provide comfort or leave you checking how carefully you must treat it. Wearing a name or emblem that is not yours can make recognition more complicated. A waking comparison might be temporarily carrying a colleague's task or representing a group while still needing a clear place for your own responsibilities.\n\n Wear and marks can introduce a question of care. Repairing a familiar shirt may preserve an association that buying a replacement would not. A stain can matter because it disrupts a presentation, because it records an enjoyable activity or because someone insists it must be concealed. The dream's use of the garment helps distinguish these readings; damage does not automatically make the entire object or encounter a failure.\n\n Comfort can change participation. A shirt that permits an easy reach differs from one that requires you to keep checking its position. This can make a role's practical fit tangible without grading your body or defining your character. Recent clothing, a specific workday or a remembered person may supply the garment directly. The shirt's usefulness, ownership and small working details give the image more direction than an appearance label alone.", "traditional": "Miller and Fontaine give adverse forecasts to damaged, missing or even newly stylish shirts. Craig contrasts torn and intact shirts under an attributed period claim. These accounts attach judgments to clothing conditions; they do not establish illness, loyalty or reputation from a dreamed garment.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A small part of a larger presentation", "reflection": "A button, collar or seam may become the obstacle between preparation and participation. The scene can explore whether that detail needs repair or has been given more influence than the task requires." }, { "title": "Borrowed conditions", "reflection": "Another person’s shirt can make temporary support useful while raising questions about ownership, care or representation. The terms of wearing it matter more than assuming a borrowed appearance erases your own role." }, { "title": "Keeping a familiar item useful", "reflection": "Repair can preserve a personal association while adapting the garment to present use. The important distinction is what you want to retain and what can change without losing the reason the shirt matters." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "One missing button stops your departure", "reflection": "The shirt is otherwise usable, but one fastening feels essential before you can leave. Repairing it, adapting the closure or going ahead can give the scene different limits on preparation. Other people’s responses may help show how much influence that detail has gained." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A borrowed shirt carries another person’s name", "reflection": "The garment provides what you need, yet its label makes people address you as someone else. This may picture temporarily representing another role. Explaining the arrangement or keeping a visible part of your own identity can make the support more workable." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A tight collar interrupts a conversation", "reflection": "You can speak but remain occupied with adjusting the collar. The scene may make a practical discomfort compete with the encounter you want. Loosening it or being allowed a different garment can picture a small change that restores attention to participation." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You mend a familiar shirt instead of replacing it", "reflection": "Repair keeps an item connected with an earlier person or experience available for present use. The effort may concern continuity rather than saving appearances. Which parts can be altered and which must remain recognizable helps give that care a specific purpose." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A mark records an activity you enjoyed", "reflection": "The shirt carries a visible trace of the day, and another person asks you to remove it. Wanting to keep or clean it can express different relationships to the experience. The mark may be inconvenient without making the activity or wearer less worthy." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "An inside-out shirt still lets you finish the task", "reflection": "The appearance is unconventional, but the garment supports what you need to do. Correcting it later or continuing may explore which standard matters at this stage. The scene differs if the reversed form creates a genuine obstacle rather than only attracting comment." } ], "prompts": [ "Which small detail changed how easily you could participate?", "What did wearing, borrowing or repairing the shirt make possible?", "How did a visible mark or label affect recognition without defining the whole encounter?" ], "related": [ "clothes", "dressing", "buttons", "sewing", "laundry" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1827" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context only. miller-1827: Putting on, losing, tearing and soiling a shirt receive infidelity, disgrace, misfortune and disease forecasts. Period claims, not evidence of conduct or illness. This citation does not validate the original psychological reflections or predict a waking outcome." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0719" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context only. fontaine-0719: A ragged buttonless shirt receives a poverty forecast; a new stylish shirt receives a public-embarrassment forecast. This citation does not validate the original psychological reflections or predict a waking outcome." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L11893" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context only. craig-1918:L11893: Torn, deliberately torn and intact shirts receive slander, indiscretion and success forecasts under Craig’s broad period attribution. No community-wide rule is established. This citation does not validate the original psychological reflections or predict a waking outcome." } ], "updated": "2026-10-13", "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection independently reviewed for content and source scope. Historical accounts remain attributed period writing. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1827", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Shirt", "text": "To dream of putting on your shirt, is a sign that you will estrange\nyourself from your sweetheart by your faithless conduct.\n\nTo lose your shirt, augurs disgrace in business or love.\n\nA torn shirt, represents misfortune and miserable surroundings.\n\nA soiled shirt, denotes that contagious diseases will confront you.", "locator": "Heading 1831; source lines 20314–20325", "lineStart": 20314, "lineEnd": 20325, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of putting on your shirt, is a sign that you will estrange\nyourself from your sweetheart by your faithless conduct.\n\nTo lose your shirt, augurs disgrace in business or love.\n\nA torn shirt, represents misfortune and miserable surroundings.\n\nA soiled shirt, denotes that contagious diseases will confront you." }, { "id": "fontaine-0719", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Shirt", "text": "To dream that your shirt is ragged and without buttons, is\na sign of poverty: if you imagine that you have a new shirt, with\na stylish bosom, it foretells some disagreeable adventure in which\nyour self-esteem will be keenly wounded, such as being placed in a\nridiculous position before ladies, or before company in public. 44, 18.", "locator": "Heading 719; source line 4491", "lineStart": 4491, "lineEnd": 4497, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that your shirt is ragged and without buttons, is\na sign of poverty: if you imagine that you have a new shirt, with\na stylish bosom, it foretells some disagreeable adventure in which\nyour self-esteem will be keenly wounded, such as being placed in a\nridiculous position before ladies, or before company in public." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11893", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Shirt", "heading": "Shirt", "text": "A torn shirt denotes slander; to tear it yourself, indiscretion ; a whole and good shirt is a dream of success (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 11893, "lineEnd": 11896, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 253; NLM OCR lines 11893–11896", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11893, "lineEnd": 11896, "printedPage": 253, "printedPageEnd": 253 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Shirt. — A torn shirt denotes slander; to tear it yourself, \nindiscretion ; a whole and good shirt is a dream of success \n(Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Shirt" }, "displayText": "A torn shirt denotes slander; to tear it yourself, indiscretion; a whole and good shirt is a dream of success (Gypsy)." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "shirt-studs", "title": "Shirt-studs", "type": "dreams", "category": "Other symbols", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of shirt-studs, foretells you will struggle to humor your pride, and will usually be successful.”", "aliases": [ "shirt-studs" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about shirt-studs stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1828", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Shirt-studs", "text": "To dream of shirt-studs, foretells you will struggle to humor your pride,\nand will usually be successful. If they are diamonds, and the center one\nis larger than the others, you will enjoy wealth, or have an easy time,\nsurrounded by congenial friends.", "locator": "Heading 1832; source lines 20325–20332", "lineStart": 20325, "lineEnd": 20332, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of shirt-studs, foretells you will struggle to humor your pride,\nand will usually be successful. If they are diamonds, and the center one\nis larger than the others, you will enjoy wealth, or have an easy time,\nsurrounded by congenial friends." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "shoemaker", "title": "Shoemaker", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see a shoemaker in your dream, warns you that indications are unfavorable to your advancement.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "shoemaker" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about shoemaker stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1829", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Shoemaker", "text": "To see a shoemaker in your dream, warns you that indications are\nunfavorable to your advancement. For a woman to dream that her\nhusband or lover is a shoemaker, foretells competency will be hers;\nher wishes will be gratified.", "locator": "Heading 1833; source lines 20332–20339", "lineStart": 20332, "lineEnd": 20339, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a shoemaker in your dream, warns you that indications are\nunfavorable to your advancement. For a woman to dream that her\nhusband or lover is a shoemaker, foretells competency will be hers;\nher wishes will be gratified." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11897", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Shoemaker", "heading": "Shoemaker", "text": "To dream that you are a shoemaker or even that you see one augurs a life of toil and difficulty (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 11897, "lineEnd": 11899, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 253; NLM OCR lines 11897–11899", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11897, "lineEnd": 11899, "printedPage": 253, "printedPageEnd": 253 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Shoemaker. — To dream that you are a shoemaker or even \nthat you see one augurs a life of toil and difficulty (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Shoemaker" }, "displayText": "To dream that you are a shoemaker or even that you see one augurs a life of toil and difficulty (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "shoes", "title": "Shoes", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "aliases": [ "shoes" ], "summary": "Shoes can suggest readiness, comfort within a role, or the support needed to keep moving. A poor fit changes the cost of an otherwise chosen path.", "tagline": "The journey depends partly on what carries and protects your feet.", "psychological": "Shoes can picture the practical support you need to move through a situation. They do not choose the destination, but they affect whether the journey is comfortable or difficult. Suitable footwear may fit feeling prepared for a new task or having resources that match its demands. Missing or unsuitable shoes can instead express wanting to participate without feeling properly equipped.\n\nFit gives the image a specific connection with roles and expectations. Tight shoes may resemble a job, social occasion, or routine that looks appropriate from outside but becomes uncomfortable to inhabit. Shoes that are too large can picture growing into responsibility before it feels natural. An enjoyable new pair can suggest trying a different direction without needing to abandon continuity altogether.\n\nLosing one shoe can make balance and completeness central. One necessary part of a plan may be missing while everything else is ready. Walking barefoot by choice is different: it may suggest simplicity, closeness to a place, or relief from maintaining an appearance. Exposure becomes a problem when the ground or the situation makes protection necessary.\n\nSomeone else's shoes can bring another person's route or example into view. Borrowing may feel supportive, like using advice or a shared resource, or awkward, like being expected to meet a standard shaped for someone else. Repairing familiar shoes can picture preserving a way of proceeding that still matters to you.\n\nThese comparisons depend on what the footwear allows and how it feels. Real shopping, long walks, foot comfort, dressing for an event, and memories of a favorite pair can also supply the scene directly. The dream does not determine which role or journey you should choose.", "traditional": "Miller and Fontaine turn condition, fit, loss and laces into social, health or relationship forecasts. Noe connects bare feet with illness and lunar timing; Cielo predicts a journey. The 1894 Guide mixes new or worn footwear with wealth, marriage, fidelity and children, while the 1805 Dreams and Moles forecasts poverty from old or fallen shoes. Craig reports mostly unsuccessful journeys for new shoes but comfort and honor for traveling barefoot, under a Raphael attribution. These conflicting historical beliefs do not assess a body, a partner or a real journey. The original reading follows practical support, fit and the freedom to choose how to proceed.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Prepared for the actual terrain", "reflection": "Suitable shoes can picture having support that matches a task. Missing or inappropriate footwear may suggest a gap between wanting to participate and having the practical means to do so." }, { "title": "An expectation that fits badly", "reflection": "Tight or oversized shoes can make a role's discomfort concrete. A position may look right publicly while constraining you, or require adjustment before its responsibilities feel natural." }, { "title": "Your route or someone else's example", "reflection": "Borrowing, repairing, or choosing different shoes can picture how you proceed. Another person's pair may offer support, while a familiar pair can preserve a useful way of moving forward." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "New shoes pinch during an important event", "reflection": "A promising role or opportunity may come with uncomfortable expectations. An interview, new workplace, or formal family occasion could fit. The difficulty is inhabiting the presentation comfortably, rather than deciding that the event or the new shoes are inherently wrong.", "slug": "scene-1" }, { "title": "You cannot find one shoe before leaving", "reflection": "This can picture a plan that is nearly ready but still depends on one missing element. A document, agreement, or practical resource may offer a parallel. The single absence interrupts balance and timing even though most of your preparation is complete.", "slug": "scene-2" }, { "title": "You walk barefoot comfortably through familiar ground", "reflection": "Chosen bare feet can suggest relief from formality or a wish for a simpler relationship with a place. Returning home, leaving a demanding role for the evening, or enjoying an old routine may fit. Comfort makes simplicity more central than vulnerability.", "slug": "scene-3" }, { "title": "You wear someone else's oversized shoes", "reflection": "The scene can picture trying to meet expectations shaped by another person's experience. Taking over their role or being compared with their confidence may feel similar. The size makes room for growth, but can also make the present task less manageable.", "slug": "scene-4" }, { "title": "You repair an old pair before continuing", "reflection": "Repair can suggest preserving a familiar approach because it still supports your needs. Revisiting a skill, restoring a routine, or making an existing arrangement workable may fit. The value lies in continued usefulness, rather than replacing something simply because it is old.", "slug": "scene-5" }, { "title": "Your shoes are unsuitable for the terrain", "reflection": "Formal shoes on a rough path or heavy boots in a delicate setting can picture a mismatch between preparation and actual conditions. A plan may need adjustment after new information arrives. The obstacle concerns suitability, not necessarily lack of effort or commitment.", "slug": "scene-6" } ], "prompts": [ "What did the terrain or occasion require from these shoes?", "Did the fit resemble a role I am inhabiting or preparing to enter?", "Was I missing support, borrowing an example, or choosing a simpler way to proceed?" ], "related": [ "boots", "clothes", "road", "running-but-going-nowhere" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s continuing English editorial delegation. Historical accounts retain their attribution; general sleep background does not validate these interpretations.", "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1830" ], "scope": "Historical context only: Shoes — miller-1830, Heading 1834; source lines 20339–20364. These are period fortune-telling beliefs, not evidence for the modern interpretations." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0720" ], "scope": "Historical context only: Shoes — fontaine-0720, Heading 720; source line 4497. These are period fortune-telling beliefs, not evidence for the modern interpretations." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "scope": "Attached historical comparison only: Shoes — noe-0486 (Dream section, heading 494; source lines 1814–1817). These attributed period claims and cross-references do not establish outcomes, diagnoses, cultural consensus or the original modern interpretations.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0486" ] }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "scope": "Attached historical comparison only: Shoes — cielo-0381 (Dream section, heading 381; source lines 4782–4784). These attributed period claims and cross-references do not establish outcomes, diagnoses, cultural consensus or the original modern interpretations.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0381" ] }, { "id": "guide-65367", "title": "Guide to Fortune-Telling by Dreams", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Multum in Parvo Library, Vol. I, No. 10, October 1894", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65367", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "scope": "Attached historical comparison only: Shoes — guide-0035 (Dream section, heading 35; source lines 311–318). These attributed period claims and cross-references do not establish outcomes, diagnoses, cultural consensus or the original modern interpretations.", "recordIds": [ "guide-0035" ] }, { "id": "moles-71045", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams and Moles", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "United Kingdom, J. 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If you dream that one of your shoes has a hole\nin it, it foretells that your sweetheart will offend you by favoring\na supposed rival: if a girl dreams this, her lover will be jealous\nof her: for a young man to dream that he has lost a shoe-string, is\na sign that he will be kissed by a lady with whom he had no previous\nacquaintance." }, { "id": "noe-0486", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Shoes", "text": "To dream of losing one’s shoes and walking\nbarefooted, signifies pain in the feet and sickness. It also denotes loss\nof reproaches to those of a sanguine complexion, and more especially if\nthis dream comes to you in the first days of the moon.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 494; source lines 1814–1817", "lineStart": 1814, "lineEnd": 1817, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of losing one’s shoes and walking\nbarefooted, signifies pain in the feet and sickness. It also denotes loss\nof reproaches to those of a sanguine complexion, and more especially if\nthis dream comes to you in the first days of the moon." }, { "id": "cielo-0381", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Shoes", "text": "Denote a speedy journey.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 381; source lines 4782–4784", "lineStart": 4782, "lineEnd": 4784, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Denote a speedy journey." }, { "id": "guide-0035", "sourceId": "guide-65367", "heading": "Shoes", "text": "To dream you have a new pair of shoes denotes much success in\nlife and triumph over your enemies; in love, a speedy marriage and\ninfidelity. In the married state, an increase of children. To dream\nyour shoes are worn out and bad, shows decay in circumstances and loss\nof friends; in love, it foretells the infidelity of your lover, who\nwill marry another.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 35; source lines 311–318", "lineStart": 311, "lineEnd": 318, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you have a new pair of shoes denotes much success in\nlife and triumph over your enemies; in love, a speedy marriage and\ninfidelity. In the married state, an increase of children. To dream\nyour shoes are worn out and bad, shows decay in circumstances and loss\nof friends; in love, it foretells the infidelity of your lover, who\nwill marry another." }, { "id": "moles-0014", "sourceId": "moles-71045", "heading": "Shoes", "originalHeading": "(no printed heading)", "text": "To dream one’s shoes fall off, or are old and torn, denotes poverty and\ndistress.", "locator": "Dreams interpreted, passage 14; source lines 150–151", "lineStart": 150, "lineEnd": 151, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "editorialNote": "The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Shoes” because that is the subject of its first clause.", "displayText": "To dream one’s shoes fall off, or are old and torn, denotes poverty and\ndistress." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11900", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Shoes", "heading": "Shoes", "text": "To dream of wearing a new pair denotes many journeys; generally unsuccessful; to travel without shoes means comfort and honor as you pass through life (Raphael).", "lineStart": 11900, "lineEnd": 11903, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 253; NLM OCR lines 11900–11903", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11900, "lineEnd": 11903, "printedPage": 253, "printedPageEnd": 253 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Shoes. — To dream of wearing a new pair denotes many \njourneys; generally unsuccessful; to travel without shoes \nmeans comfort and honor as you pass through life (Raphael). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Shoes" }, "displayText": "To dream of wearing a new pair denotes many journeys; generally unsuccessful; to travel without shoes means comfort and honor as you pass through life (Raphael)." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [ "boots" ] }, { "slug": "shooting", "title": "Shooting", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you see or hear shooting, signifies unhappiness between married couples and sweethearts…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "shooting" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about shooting stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "pistol" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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To the lover, it shows a mistress kind\nand good humored, who will make him an excellent and notable wife. To the\ntradesman and farmer, success and riches. To the sailor, wealth acquired\nin a distant country. But if you dream you kill little or no game, then it\npresages bad luck, and disappointment in love. To dream you are shooting\nwith a bow and arrow, is a very favorable dream, particularly to the lover\nand tradesman.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 486; source lines 1781–1788", "lineStart": 1781, "lineEnd": 1788, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are out shooting, is very\nfavorable, if you kill much game. To the lover, it shows a mistress kind\nand good humored, who will make him an excellent and notable wife. To the\ntradesman and farmer, success and riches. To the sailor, wealth acquired\nin a distant country. But if you dream you kill little or no game, then it\npresages bad luck, and disappointment in love. To dream you are shooting\nwith a bow and arrow, is a very favorable dream, particularly to the lover\nand tradesman." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11904", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Shooting", "heading": "Shooting", "text": "To dream of shooting a bird augurs accomplishment of purpose ; to shoot and miss is ominous ; to shoot a bird of prey forecasts triumph over enemies (Raphael).", "lineStart": 11904, "lineEnd": 11907, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 253; NLM OCR lines 11904–11907", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11904, "lineEnd": 11907, "printedPage": 253, "printedPageEnd": 253 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Shooting. — To dream of shooting a bird augurs accom- \nplishment of purpose ; to shoot and miss is ominous ; to shoot \na bird of prey forecasts triumph over enemies (Raphael). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "accom- \nplishment", "after": "accomplishment", "evidenceLine": 10130 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Shooting" }, "displayText": "To dream of shooting a bird augurs accomplishment of purpose; to shoot and miss is ominous; to shoot a bird of prey forecasts triumph over enemies (Raphael)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "store" ] }, { "slug": "shopping-mall", "title": "Shopping mall", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "Many possible choices can become a place you have to move through.", "summary": "A shopping mall dream can explore competing choices, social visibility and finding a way through an environment that keeps offering more.", "aliases": [ "shopping mall", "shopping malls", "mall", "malls", "shopping center", "shopping centre" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A shopping mall places many invitations along the same route. Every store presents something you might want, while corridors keep the next possibility in view. In a dream, this can picture a situation in which choosing feels harder because alternatives remain close at hand. Courses, roles, purchases or versions of yourself may seem available at once. Enjoyable browsing differs from being unable to leave because every turn produces another reason to stay.\n\nThe mall is also a social place. You might meet friends, watch other people, or feel visible without being known. This can resemble participating in a group whose expectations are expressed through appearance, taste or where you spend your time. A relaxed visit without buying anything may picture enjoying company without having to prove membership through a transaction. Feeling watched while you compare prices can instead center the pressure to make your means or preferences look different.\n\nFinding a store is not the same as reaching it. A desired place behind glass, across a broken walkway, or on a floor you cannot access can picture an option that looks available but lacks a workable route. You may recognize an opportunity whose requirements are unclear or a social space where entry appears easier for others. The obstacle matters more than assuming you secretly do not want what you came for.\n\nAn abandoned mall may join remembered activity with a changed present. A familiar place that once promised excitement now holds shuttered entrances and empty corridors. This can fit returning to an interest, group or ambition after its context has altered. The emptiness can feel like loss, but it can also remove distractions and make room to notice what you actually wanted. The dream need not turn every closed store into a failed opportunity.\n\nLeaving without a purchase can give a useful ending to a scene organized around invitation. You may have discovered that the visit was for company, curiosity or comparison rather than acquisition. This can resemble declining a role after learning more or deciding that an attractive option does not meet your needs. A recent outing can explain the setting directly. The reflective question is what the mall asked you to choose, display or continue seeking.", "traditional": "No supplied historical entry specifically addresses a multi-store shopping mall. Shop, Store and Market are adjacent archive headings with different commercial settings. The modern reflections here use the mall’s choices, circulation and social space rather than borrowing their fortune forecasts.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Keeping alternatives nearby", "reflection": "A mall can picture decisions made harder by continued exposure to other options. Browsing may be a pleasure or a way of postponing a choice whose limits feel uncomfortable." }, { "title": "Visible participation", "reflection": "A shared commercial setting can bring appearance, company and spending into the same scene. Belonging may come through contact, or feel tied to displaying the right choices." }, { "title": "Finding a workable route", "reflection": "Seeing a wanted place without reaching it can distinguish attraction from access. The important issue may be the missing connection rather than uncertainty about what you want." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Every floor offers another store but no exit", "reflection": "An endlessly expanding mall can resemble a decision in which each comparison produces more alternatives. Looking for a course or changing role may fit. If exploration feels enjoyable, abundance may be welcome rather than an obstacle." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You meet friends and never buy anything", "reflection": "Meeting friends without shopping can picture connection that does not require a purchase or performance. Time together may be the point of the visit. Pressure to buy would change the scene toward conditions placed on belonging." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A familiar mall has been abandoned", "reflection": "An abandoned familiar mall can hold memories of a period whose shared activity has changed. Revisiting an old ambition or group may feel similar. Empty space may allow a new use as well as make the change visible." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You can see a wanted store but cannot reach it", "reflection": "A visible but unreachable store can picture an appealing option without a practical path to it. Eligibility rules, unclear steps or missing support may offer a parallel. Wanting it and being able to reach it are separate questions." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The shopping center contains an unexpected home", "reflection": "A home inside the mall can bring private needs into a public field of choices. You may be trying to find rest or continuity while expectations keep circulating around you. The home’s comfort changes whether the combination feels useful or exposed." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You leave without buying what drew you there", "reflection": "Leaving without the wanted purchase can picture revising a choice after seeing it closely. An offer may remain attractive while no longer fitting your needs. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1835", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Shoulder", "text": "To dream of seeing naked shoulders, foretells that happy changes will make\nyou look upon the world in a different light than formerly.\n\nTo see your own shoulders appearing thin, denotes that you will depend upon\nthe caprices of others for entertainment and pleasure.", "locator": "Heading 1839; source lines 20403–20411", "lineStart": 20403, "lineEnd": 20411, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing naked shoulders, foretells that happy changes will make\nyou look upon the world in a different light than formerly.\n\nTo see your own shoulders appearing thin, denotes that you will depend upon\nthe caprices of others for entertainment and pleasure." }, { "id": "artemidorus-029", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of the Shoulders.", "text": "SHoulders thicke and fleshly are good to all men▪ excepting them onely that are imprisoned: to the first, it signifies much strength and prosperity: to the other, that they shall be long in captivity: if the shoulders be diseased, lean, or broken, it signifies the contrary to all before said, and oft times foretels the death, or sicknesse of brethren.", "locator": "Book 1, encoded section 29", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "1", "displayText": "SHoulders thicke and fleshly are good to all men▪ excepting them onely that are imprisoned: to the first, it signifies much strength and prosperity: to the other, that they shall be long in captivity: if the shoulders be diseased, lean, or broken, it signifies the contrary to all before said, and oft times foretels the death, or sicknesse of brethren." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "shovel", "title": "Shovel", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see a shovel in a dream, signifies laborious but withal pleasant work will be undertaken.”", "aliases": [ "shovel" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about shovel stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1836", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Shovel", "text": "To see a shovel in a dream, signifies laborious but withal\npleasant work will be undertaken. A broken or old one,\nimplies frustration of hopes.", "locator": "Heading 1840; source lines 20411–20417", "lineStart": 20411, "lineEnd": 20417, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a shovel in a dream, signifies laborious but withal\npleasant work will be undertaken. A broken or old one,\nimplies frustration of hopes." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "taking-a-shower", "title": "Shower", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "aliases": [ "shower", "showers", "taking a shower", "take a shower", "having a shower", "in the shower", "showering", "a shower not working", "the shower does not work", "the shower doesn't work" ], "detectionAliases": [ "taking a shower", "take a shower", "having a shower", "in the shower", "a shower not working", "the shower does not work", "the shower doesn't work" ], "kind": "editorial", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "summary": "A shower may focus on a private pause, the conditions needed for washing, or whether a routine leaves you ready for what comes next.", "tagline": "Washing can depend on more than turning on the water.", "psychological": "A shower in a dream places an ordinary washing routine within conditions that may need your attention. Water, temperature, time and privacy can make the same act feel refreshing, rushed or difficult to finish. Begin with what you were trying to do and how the shower actually worked. This subject concerns washing under running water, rather than a bathroom as a whole setting or an outdoor rain shower.\n\nFeeling refreshed afterward can give the scene a pause between activities. You might wash after a demanding task and feel ready to do something else, while a hurried shower may leave the first activity unfinished in another way. A waking comparison could involve a familiar routine that helps you mark the end of one part of the day. The dream does not establish that you have been morally cleansed or that an unwanted feeling must disappear.\n\nThe controls can make an ordinary task unexpectedly uncertain. Water may stop once you have everything ready, or its temperature may change without your choosing it. This could resemble relying on a familiar arrangement whose working conditions have altered. Checking a control, asking for another space or deciding to stop gives the difficulty different directions. Notice what you can change within the scene rather than assuming that the interruption describes a permanent lack of control.\n\nObjects around the shower can matter as much as the water. There may be nowhere dry for your clothes, or a towel might be available only outside a space you want to keep private. These details can picture a task whose supporting conditions have been overlooked. Preparing another place or requesting time could make participation easier. An interruption by someone else changes the situation, but does not establish their waking intentions or your desired level of closeness.\n\nFinishing, stopping or choosing another shower gives the routine an ending. You may leave before you feel ready because another task calls, or discover that a less familiar arrangement works better. Record what remained unfinished and what became possible afterward. If a recent washing routine or remembered place seems relevant, it can provide your own context. The useful focus is how washing, preparation and a private pause fit this particular scene, without turning the image into a universal promise of renewal.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A pause between activities", "reflection": "Washing can mark an ending when you feel refreshed, or leave a task unsettled when time is short. Follow your actual response rather than assume renewal." }, { "title": "The routine depends on its conditions", "reflection": "Water, temperature, storage and a towel can make preparation workable or incomplete. A familiar task may reveal a requirement that has not yet been met." }, { "title": "Privacy and timing can be negotiated", "reflection": "Another person, a shared room or a competing task can change the available pause. What you can request or choose gives the scene different directions." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "The water will not start after you finish preparing", "reflection": "The task is ready in every way except the condition it depends on. This may resemble a routine meeting an overlooked practical requirement. Checking, seeking another shower or changing your plans gives the interruption alternatives without treating it as a prediction or a permanent personal limitation." }, { "title": "The temperature changes without you touching the controls", "reflection": "A familiar arrangement behaves differently while you are using it. This can picture conditions changing after a task has begun. Adjusting, pausing or choosing another space makes your response concrete; the dreamed change does not establish that another person controls your waking life." }, { "title": "There is nowhere dry to leave your clothes", "reflection": "The washing itself is available while its supporting arrangement is incomplete. This could resemble a task prepared around one action without considering what surrounds it. Making space or keeping one item outside can address a specific requirement rather than make the whole routine unusable." }, { "title": "Someone needs the shared space before you have finished", "reflection": "Another task changes how much time or privacy remains. This may explore negotiating a pause within an arrangement other people also use. Asking, stopping or finding another space gives the encounter different endings without establishing the person’s intentions or deciding what level of closeness you want." }, { "title": "You leave the shower feeling ready for another activity", "reflection": "The routine creates a noticeable ending to what came before. This can fit a personal pause that helps you approach another task differently. What feels complete matters more than assigning washing a universal cleansing meaning or assuming that every unwanted thought should have disappeared." }, { "title": "A less familiar shower works better than the usual one", "reflection": "A different arrangement meets the task’s requirements more easily. This may picture discovering another way to support a familiar routine. Notice what actually improves: time, water, room or privacy. The change need not mean that every established practice must be abandoned or that unfamiliarity itself is better." } ], "prompts": [ "What were you trying to finish or prepare for by taking the shower?", "Which conditions made washing and privacy workable or difficult?", "How did you feel or act when the routine ended?" ], "traditional": "This reading concerns washing under running water. A bathroom setting, washing in a bath and outdoor rain can involve different activities and questions. No historical bathing passage is supplied for this entry. NINDS provides general background about dreaming; it does not validate these original reflections about washing, routine or privacy.", "related": [ "bath", "bathroom", "water", "privacy", "nakedness" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background about dreaming only. It does not test or validate the washing, routine, privacy or other original symbolic reflections proposed on this page." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "shrew", "title": "Shrew", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a shrew, foretells that you will have a task to keep some friend in a cheerful frame of mind, and that you will unfit yourself…”", "aliases": [ "shrew" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about shrew stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1838", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Shrew", "text": "To dream of a shrew, foretells that you will have a task to keep\nsome friend in a cheerful frame of mind, and that you will unfit\nyourself for the experiences of everyday existence.", "locator": "Heading 1842; source lines 20426–20432", "lineStart": 20426, "lineEnd": 20432, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a shrew, foretells that you will have a task to keep\nsome friend in a cheerful frame of mind, and that you will unfit\nyourself for the experiences of everyday existence." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "shrimp", "title": "Shrimp", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “A dream of grief and distraction.”", "aliases": [ "shrimp" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about shrimp stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L11910", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Shrimp", "heading": "Shrimp", "text": "A dream of grief and distraction.", "lineStart": 11910, "lineEnd": 11910, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 253; NLM OCR lines 11910–11910", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11910, "lineEnd": 11910, "printedPage": 253, "printedPageEnd": 253 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Shrimp. — A dream of grief and distraction. \n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Shrimp" }, "displayText": "A dream of grief and distraction." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "shroud", "title": "Shroud", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a shroud, denotes sickness and its attendant distress and anxiety, coupled with the…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "shroud" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about shroud stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "corpse" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1839", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Shroud", "text": "To dream of a shroud, denotes sickness and its attendant distress and anxiety,\ncoupled with the machinations of the evil-minded and false friends.\nBusiness will threaten decline after this dream.\n\nTo see shrouded corpses, denotes a multitude of misfortunes.\n\nTo see a shroud removed from a corpse, denotes that quarrels\nwill result in alienation.", "locator": "Heading 1843; source lines 20432–20443", "lineStart": 20432, "lineEnd": 20443, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a shroud, denotes sickness and its attendant distress and anxiety,\ncoupled with the machinations of the evil-minded and false friends.\nBusiness will threaten decline after this dream.\n\nTo see shrouded corpses, denotes a multitude of misfortunes.\n\nTo see a shroud removed from a corpse, denotes that quarrels\nwill result in alienation." }, { "id": "fontaine-0721", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Shroud", "text": "(_See Corpse._) To dream of a shroud is a sign of a wedding:\nto see, in your dream, a woman laid out in her shroud, foretells to a\nyoung person that he or she will either be present at a marriage, or\nwill become a victim of Cupid’s archery. 39, 11.", "locator": "Heading 721; source line 4504", "lineStart": 4504, "lineEnd": 4509, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Corpse.) To dream of a shroud is a sign of a wedding:\nto see, in your dream, a woman laid out in her shroud, foretells to a\nyoung person that he or she will either be present at a marriage, or\nwill become a victim of Cupid’s archery." }, { "id": "cielo-0382", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Shroud", "text": "To dream of a shroud is a very bad omen and\n often signifies death.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 382; source lines 4784–4787", "lineStart": 4784, "lineEnd": 4787, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a shroud is a very bad omen and\noften signifies death." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "corpse" ] }, { "slug": "shrubs", "title": "Shrubs", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “Love and happiness are augured by this dream (Gypsy).”", "aliases": [ "shrubs" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about shrubs stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L11911", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Shrubs", "heading": "Shrubs", "text": "Love and happiness are augured by this dream (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 11911, "lineEnd": 11913, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 253; NLM OCR lines 11911–11913", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11911, "lineEnd": 11913, "printedPage": 253, "printedPageEnd": 253 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Shrubs. — Love and happiness are augured by this dream \n(Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Shrubs" }, "displayText": "Love and happiness are augured by this dream (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "sibyl", "title": "Sibyl", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “To consult a sibyl denotes deception and ill-founded fears; to dream of being one forecasts the disclosure of future events (Gypsy).”", "aliases": [ "sibyl" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about sibyl stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L11914", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Sibyl", "heading": "Sibyl", "text": "To consult a sibyl denotes deception and ill-founded fears; to dream of being one forecasts the disclosure of future events (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 11914, "lineEnd": 11917, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 253; NLM OCR lines 11914–11917", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11914, "lineEnd": 11917, "printedPage": 253, "printedPageEnd": 253 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Sibyl. — To consult a sibyl denotes deception and ill-founded \nfears; to dream of being one forecasts the disclosure of future \nevents (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Sibyl" }, "displayText": "To consult a sibyl denotes deception and ill-founded fears; to dream of being one forecasts the disclosure of future events (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "sickness", "title": "Sickness", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "Dreams of sickness can echo the body, a worry, or a role as the one who tends.", "summary": "Sickness dreams include your own illness, a relative in bed, and nursing a stranger. Note the symptoms the dream chose and any real ailment behind them.", "aliases": [ "sickness", "of sicknesse", "illness", "being ill", "being sick", "disease", "getting sick" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "Sickness dreams sit close to the body, and that is the first place to look. A rising temperature, a sore throat, an upset stomach, or the early hours of a real infection can all be felt before they are recognised, and the dreaming mind may dramatise them as a hospital, a bed you cannot leave, or a diagnosis delivered by a stranger. If the dream recurs with the same symptom, it is reasonable to mention it to a doctor, without assuming the dream knows anything. Beyond the body, illness in a dream can picture a loss of capacity: being unable to work, to keep up, to be relied upon. Note whether you were the sick one or the carer. Dreams of tending a sick parent, partner, or child are common among people already doing that in waking life, and the dream often adds a twist, a wound that will not close, a medicine that spills, that shows where the strain is. Dreams of your own illness being ignored by others, or of nobody believing you are unwell, can be a way of picturing a need that is not being taken seriously. Write down the named disease if the dream gave one, since that word often links to something read, heard, or feared recently.", "traditional": "Six archive books cover sickness. The 1644 Artemidorus translation says it is good only for captives and the very poor, since it thins and quickens the body, and otherwise means idleness and lack of work; dreaming of a sick friend, he adds, concerns the friend rather than the dreamer. Noe (1885) repeats the idleness reading and calls comforting the sick profitable. Miller (1901) sees family trouble and real illness. Fontaine (1862) reverses it: recovering from a long sickness brings bad luck, dying of one brings fortune. Cielo (1917) calls illness always a bad sign; Craig (1918) pairs it with imprisonment, and attending the sick with joy. Period beliefs, not diagnoses.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "Being diagnosed by a stranger with a disease you do not recognise", "reflection": "Record the name the dream gave, even if it was nonsense, and the stranger's manner. Then check whether a health story, a test, or a relative's news has been on your mind." }, { "title": "Nursing a sick relative whose condition keeps changing", "reflection": "Note what you were doing for them and what kept going wrong. Carers often dream of the task slipping; writing the specific failure can show where the real strain sits." }, { "title": "Being ill and nobody believing you", "reflection": "Write down who dismissed you and what you were trying to say. Then ask whether a need of yours, not necessarily medical, has gone unheard recently." } ], "prompts": [ "Were you the sick one or the one caring, and did the roles swap?", "Do you have any real symptom today that could have entered the dream?", "What was the illness called, and where did you last hear that word?" ], "related": [ "hospital", "doctor", "fever", "a-fever-dream", "medicine", "nurse", "disease" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. 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Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1840", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Sickness", "text": "To dream of sickness, is a sign of trouble and real sickness in your family.\nDiscord is sure to find entrance also.\n\nTo dream of your own sickness, is a warning to be unusually cautious\nof your person.\n\nTo see any of your family pale and sick, foretells that some\nevent will break unexpectedly upon your harmonious hearthstone.\nSickness is usually attendant upon this dream.", "locator": "Heading 1844; source lines 20443–20455", "lineStart": 20443, "lineEnd": 20455, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of sickness, is a sign of trouble and real sickness in your family.\nDiscord is sure to find entrance also.\n\nTo dream of your own sickness, is a warning to be unusually cautious\nof your person.\n\nTo see any of your family pale and sick, foretells that some\nevent will break unexpectedly upon your harmonious hearthstone.\nSickness is usually attendant upon this dream." }, { "id": "fontaine-0722", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Sickness", "text": "(_See Disease._) If you dream you have had a long sickness,\nand are recovering, it foretells bad luck and difficulties: should\nyou imagine that you are sick and are going to die, the omen is the\nreverse, for some good fortune awaits you: if a girl dreams that she is\nsick abed, and her lover visits her, it foretells a smooth courtship\nand happy marriage. 2.", "locator": "Heading 722; source line 4509", "lineStart": 4509, "lineEnd": 4516, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Disease.) If you dream you have had a long sickness,\nand are recovering, it foretells bad luck and difficulties: should\nyou imagine that you are sick and are going to die, the omen is the\nreverse, for some good fortune awaits you: if a girl dreams that she is\nsick abed, and her lover visits her, it foretells a smooth courtship\nand happy marriage." }, { "id": "artemidorus-132", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of Sicknesse.", "text": "TO be sick, is good onely to those which are in captivity or great poverty, for sicknesse makes active and lean, and diminisheth the booy: to others it is great idlenesse and want of work. It is the same case to dream that you visit a sick man, which you know signifyeth that the event shall happen to to him, not to the dreamer: For we hold, that our friends, neighbours, and familiars, are the fantasies and images which represent things that are to befall us. Especially, I have observed that all the good or evill things which the soul would signifie to us betimes, and of greater importance, she brings and represents them in our own person: but those things which she denounceth more slowly, and of lesse apparance, she represents them by some other.", "locator": "Book 3, encoded section 132", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "3", "displayText": "To be sick, is good onely to those which are in captivity or great poverty, for sicknesse makes active and lean, and diminisheth the booy: to others it is great idlenesse and want of work. It is the same case to dream that you visit a sick man, which you know signifyeth that the event shall happen to to him, not to the dreamer: For we hold, that our friends, neighbours, and familiars, are the fantasies and images which represent things that are to befall us. Especially, I have observed that all the good or evill things which the soul would signifie to us betimes, and of greater importance, she brings and represents them in our own person: but those things which she denounceth more slowly, and of lesse apparance, she represents them by some other.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Sicknesse” is shown on the Sickness page: archaic spelling (Artemidorus)" }, { "id": "noe-0452", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Sickness", "text": "To dream one is sick, signifies idleness and want of\nwork. To dream one comforts the sick, and prescribes them medicine,\ndenotes profit and felicity.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 458; source lines 1685–1687", "lineStart": 1685, "lineEnd": 1687, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream one is sick, signifies idleness and want of\nwork. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1841", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Side", "text": "To dream of seeing only the side of any object, denotes that some person\nis going to treat your honest proposals with indifference.\n\nTo dream that your side pains you, there will be vexations in your affairs\nthat will gall your endurance.\n\nTo dream that you have a fleshy, healthy side, you will be successful\nin courtship and business.", "locator": "Heading 1845; source lines 20455–20466", "lineStart": 20455, "lineEnd": 20466, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing only the side of any object, denotes that some person\nis going to treat your honest proposals with indifference.\n\nTo dream that your side pains you, there will be vexations in your affairs\nthat will gall your endurance.\n\nTo dream that you have a fleshy, healthy side, you will be successful\nin courtship and business." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "siege", "title": "Siege", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “For a young woman to dream that she is in a siege, and sees cavalry around her, denotes that she will have serious drawbacks to enjoyments,…”", "aliases": [ "siege" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about siege stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "sieve", "title": "Sieve", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a sieve, foretells some annoying transaction will soon be made by you, which will probably be…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "sieve" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about sieve stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1843", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Sieve", "text": "To dream of a sieve, foretells some annoying transaction will soon be made\nby you, which will probably be to your loss. If the meshes are too small,\nyou will have the chance to reverse a decision unfavorable to yourself.\nIf too large, you will eventually lose what you have recently acquired.", "locator": "Heading 1847; source lines 20473–20480", "lineStart": 20473, "lineEnd": 20480, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a sieve, foretells some annoying transaction will soon be made\nby you, which will probably be to your loss. If the meshes are too small,\nyou will have the chance to reverse a decision unfavorable to yourself.\nIf too large, you will eventually lose what you have recently acquired." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11921", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Sieve", "heading": "Sieve", "text": "A dream of waste and want (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 11921, "lineEnd": 11922, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 253; NLM OCR lines 11921–11922", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11921, "lineEnd": 11922, "printedPage": 253, "printedPageEnd": 253 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Sieve. — A dream of waste and want (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Sieve" }, "displayText": "A dream of waste and want (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1844", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Sigh", "text": "To dream that you are sighing over any trouble or sad event,\ndenotes that you will have unexpected sadness, but some redeeming\nbrightness in your season of trouble.\n\nTo hear the sighing of others, foretells that the misconduct\nof dear friends will oppress you with a weight of gloom.", "locator": "Heading 1848; source lines 20480–20489", "lineStart": 20480, "lineEnd": 20489, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are sighing over any trouble or sad event,\ndenotes that you will have unexpected sadness, but some redeeming\nbrightness in your season of trouble.\n\nTo hear the sighing of others, foretells that the misconduct\nof dear friends will oppress you with a weight of gloom." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "guide-65367", "title": "Guide to Fortune-Telling by Dreams", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Multum in Parvo Library, Vol. I, No. 10, October 1894", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65367", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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To dream you are\nclothed in silk, foretells that you will do honors in the state, and\nbecome rich, but that you will quarrel with a rich neighbor, who will\nendeavor to do you mischief. For a married woman to dream of being dressed\nin a silk gown, shows her husband is fond of a harlot, who will go near to\nruin him. If a maiden dreams of it, she will speedily see her lover.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 487; source lines 1788–1795", "lineStart": 1788, "lineEnd": 1795, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see silk, either in pieces or for\nsewing, signifies prosperity and success in undertakings. To dream you are\nclothed in silk, foretells that you will do honors in the state, and\nbecome rich, but that you will quarrel with a rich neighbor, who will\nendeavor to do you mischief. For a married woman to dream of being dressed\nin a silk gown, shows her husband is fond of a harlot, who will go near to\nruin him. If a maiden dreams of it, she will speedily see her lover." }, { "id": "guide-0036", "sourceId": "guide-65367", "heading": "Silk", "text": "To dream you see silk, either in pieces or for sewing, signifies\nprosperity and success in undertakings; to the lover, it denotes a\nsweetheart of an industrious disposition, good tempered, and very\nfaithful; in trade, it foretells increase of business, by means of\nwomen. To be clothed in silk foretells honors and riches, but you will\nquarrel with a rich neighbor, who will endeavor to do you mischief.\nFor a married woman to dream of being dressed in a silk gown, shows\nher husband is fond of some one who will nearly ruin him. 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If a maiden\ndreams of it, she will speedily see her lover." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11923", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Silk", "heading": "Silk", "text": "To be clad in silk augurs honor; to trade in silk, profit (Artemidorus).", "lineStart": 11923, "lineEnd": 11925, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 253; NLM OCR lines 11923–11925", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11923, "lineEnd": 11925, "printedPage": 253, "printedPageEnd": 253 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Silk. — To be clad in silk augurs honor; to trade in silk, \nprofit (Artemidorus). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Silk" }, "displayText": "To be clad in silk augurs honor; to trade in silk, profit (Artemidorus)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "silkworm", "title": "Silkworm", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “If you dream of a silkworm, you will engage in a very profitable work, which will also place you in a prominent position.”", "aliases": [ "silkworm" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about silkworm stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1846", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Silkworm", "text": "If you dream of a silkworm, you will engage in a very profitable work,\nwhich will also place you in a prominent position.\n\nTo see them dead, or cutting through their cocoons, is a sign\nof reverses and trying times.", "locator": "Heading 1850; source lines 20499–20507", "lineStart": 20499, "lineEnd": 20507, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream of a silkworm, you will engage in a very profitable work,\nwhich will also place you in a prominent position.\n\nTo see them dead, or cutting through their cocoons, is a sign\nof reverses and trying times." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "silver", "title": "Silver", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "summary": "Silver as a material can explore a resource’s usable form, a valued object brought into daily life, or care that preserves its particular history.", "tagline": "Value depends on what the object can do.", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "aliases": [ "silver" ], "psychological": "Silver coins or a solid piece of metal can picture a resource given a form you can hold, divide, keep, or exchange. A practical opportunity, stored effort, or an object with personal history may offer parallels. The scene becomes more specific through what you need the resource to do. A valuable-looking piece that cannot be used for the intended task creates another experience from a modest amount that fits it well. The dream does not predict actual wealth or loss.\n\nA large silver bar offered for a small exchange can make scale the practical difficulty. Enough may be present in total while its form prevents convenient use. A substantial commitment available only as one indivisible package or help that cannot match the immediate need can resemble the scene. Another unit or arrangement changes access more directly than simply obtaining more of the same resource. Quantity and usability are different questions.\n\nSilver household objects can bring value into ordinary activity. Using an inherited spoon or plate for an everyday meal may picture allowing something valued to support present life rather than remain reserved for display. If the object’s history feels important, use can create warmth and responsibility together. Leaving it locked away may preserve it while limiting the purpose you wanted it to serve. Neither choice automatically shows correct or careless care.\n\nPolishing an engraved object can make improvement and preservation pull in different directions. The surface may become brighter while a meaningful trace disappears in the dream. Revising old work or restoring a familiar possession can offer parallels when making something look renewed risks removing what made it particular. A more limited adjustment can protect both present usefulness and a connection with its earlier form.\n\nGiving a silver object another person cannot comfortably use can make appreciation different from fit. Their preference or practical need may matter more than the gift’s apparent status. Coins, tableware, a keepsake, shopping, or a remembered exchange can supply direct context. This entry concerns material and objects understood as silver; a surface merely colored silver belongs to the separate hue scope. Appearance alone does not establish the substance or worth of an actual object.", "traditional": "Six records from five books remain attached. Miller discusses money and silverware; Fontaine gives household-object and coin forecasts, plus a separate “See Metals” cross-reference. Noe contrasts gathering and eating silver. The 1894 Guide gives interpersonal, financial, and child forecasts; Craig reports revelation lore and attributes a knowledge emblem to Bayley. These are historical claims, not financial guidance, cultural facts, or proof of the original reflections.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A resource in usable units", "reflection": "A sufficient total can still need another form before it fits a practical exchange or task." }, { "title": "Value in ordinary use", "reflection": "A treasured object can support daily life or remain protected under conditions that limit access." }, { "title": "Care that keeps a trace", "reflection": "Improving appearance can conflict with preserving the particular history that makes an object meaningful." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "You find a few silver coins with a practical use", "reflection": "The resource fits an immediate task rather than promising unlimited wealth. This may picture a modest opportunity whose usefulness is clear. Keeping, sharing, or exchanging it creates different relations with what is available; the discovery does not forecast financial events." }, { "title": "A silver bar cannot be divided for a small exchange", "reflection": "The total may be substantial while its form does not fit the immediate need. This can resemble a resource offered as an indivisible package. Another unit or arrangement changes usability more directly than requiring greater gratitude for the amount already present." }, { "title": "Inherited silverware becomes part of an ordinary meal", "reflection": "Something treasured supports present activity instead of remaining only a display. This may picture carrying a valued connection into daily use. Warmth and responsibility can coexist, especially when its history matters alongside the practical purpose it now serves." }, { "title": "Polishing removes an engraving you wanted to keep", "reflection": "An improvement in one aspect takes away another particular value. This can picture revising or restoring something without enough room for its earlier trace. A more limited adjustment may fit better than making the brightest appearance the only measure of successful care." }, { "title": "A silver gift does not fit the recipient’s needs", "reflection": "Apparent value does not make the offering easy to use. This may picture care whose form misses another person’s preference or conditions. Appreciation and asking for a different arrangement can coexist; the dreamed response does not reveal an actual person’s gratitude or character." }, { "title": "A silver object stays locked away when you want to use it", "reflection": "Protection preserves the item while preventing the purpose you had for it. This can resemble a resource with restrictive terms. Permission or a changed arrangement alters access, without requiring preservation and everyday usefulness to be treated as permanently opposing values." } ], "prompts": [ "What did the silver resource need to make possible in the scene?", "How did its form or terms affect whether it could be used?", "Which particular trace mattered when you cared for, displayed, or shared the object?" ], "related": [ "metals", "coins", "jewels", "silver-color" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1847" ], "scope": "Attributed Silver material/object context only. Miller warns about reliance on money and gives claims about finding silver money and worries from silverware. Does not validate a hue code, the original psychological reflections, or any prediction about the dreamer." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0469", "fontaine-0724" ], "scope": "Attributed Silver material/object context only. fontaine-0469 forecasts marriage from household silver gifts, poverty from buying them, and monetary gains from silver dollars or bars. fontaine-0724 contains only See Metals and supplies no independent Silver interpretation. Does not validate a hue code, the original psychological reflections, or any prediction about the dreamer." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0487" ], "scope": "Attributed Silver material/object context only. Noe supplies deceit/loss from gathering silver, advantage from seeing silver eaten, and anger from eating it. Does not validate a hue code, the original psychological reflections, or any prediction about the dreamer." }, { "id": "guide-65367", "title": "Guide to Fortune-Telling by Dreams", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Multum in Parvo Library, Vol. I, No. 10, October 1894", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65367", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "guide-0037" ], "scope": "Attributed Silver material/object context only. The 1894 Guide supplies friend/lover, monetary, legal, prison, and child forecasts. These are period claims, not evidence of finances, relationships, health, or a child’s sex or future. Does not validate a hue code, the original psychological reflections, or any prediction about the dreamer." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L11926" ], "scope": "Attributed Silver material/object context only. Craig reports revelation lore attributed to Gypsy tradition and a knowledge emblem attributed to Bayley; no separate Bayley edition or cultural evidence is attached. Does not validate a hue code, the original psychological reflections, or any prediction about the dreamer." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1847", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Silver", "text": "To dream of silver, is a warning against depending too largely on money\nfor real happiness and contentment.\n\nTo find silver money, is indicative of shortcomings in others.\nHasty conclusions are too frequently drawn by yourself for your own\npeace of mind.\n\nTo dream of silverware, denotes worries and unsatisfied desires.", "locator": "Heading 1851; source lines 20507–20518", "lineStart": 20507, "lineEnd": 20518, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of silver, is a warning against depending too largely on money\nfor real happiness and contentment.\n\nTo find silver money, is indicative of shortcomings in others.\nHasty conclusions are too frequently drawn by yourself for your own\npeace of mind.\n\nTo dream of silverware, denotes worries and unsatisfied desires." }, { "id": "fontaine-0469", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Silver", "text": "To dream that you are presented with spoons, or\nany silver plate for household use, foretells that you or some near\nrelative, will shortly marry: if you dream of buying these articles, it\nis a sign of poverty: to dream of silver dollars, or bars of silver,\nused in commerce, is a sign that you will gain money either by a legacy\nor speculation. 49, 6.", "locator": "Heading 469; source line 3168", "lineStart": 3168, "lineEnd": 3175, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are presented with spoons, or\nany silver plate for household use, foretells that you or some near\nrelative, will shortly marry: if you dream of buying these articles, it\nis a sign of poverty: to dream of silver dollars, or bars of silver,\nused in commerce, is a sign that you will gain money either by a legacy\nor speculation." }, { "id": "fontaine-0724", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Silver", "text": "(_See Metals._)", "locator": "Heading 724; source line 4523", "lineStart": 4523, "lineEnd": 4525, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Metals.)" }, { "id": "noe-0487", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Silver", "text": "If one\ndreams he gathers up silver, it signifies deceit and loss; to see silver\neaten, denotes great advantage; to eat silver, signifies wrath and anger.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 495; source lines 1817–1820", "lineStart": 1817, "lineEnd": 1820, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If one\ndreams he gathers up silver, it signifies deceit and loss; to see silver\neaten, denotes great advantage; to eat silver, signifies wrath and anger." }, { "id": "guide-0037", "sourceId": "guide-65367", "heading": "Silver", "text": "To dream of this valuable metal shows that false friends are\nabout you, and will attempt your ruin; in love, it denotes falsehood\nin your sweetheart. To receive or pick up pieces of silver money, if\nthey are small, denotes want and a prison; if they are quarters, they\nindicate the receipt of a small sum of money, and the acquisition of\nsome new friends; but if they are half-dollars or dollars, they denote\nmisery, a prison and failure in your undertakings, disappointment in\nyour love, and loss of law-suits, attacks from thieves and bankruptcy\nin trade. If a woman with child dreams of silver, it shows she will\nhave a girl, but the child will grow poor.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 37; source lines 328–339", "lineStart": 328, "lineEnd": 339, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of this valuable metal shows that false friends are\nabout you, and will attempt your ruin; in love, it denotes falsehood\nin your sweetheart. To receive or pick up pieces of silver money, if\nthey are small, denotes want and a prison; if they are quarters, they\nindicate the receipt of a small sum of money, and the acquisition of\nsome new friends; but if they are half-dollars or dollars, they denote\nmisery, a prison and failure in your undertakings, disappointment in\nyour love, and loss of law-suits, attacks from thieves and bankruptcy\nin trade. If a woman with child dreams of silver, it shows she will\nhave a girl, but the child will grow poor." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11926", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Silver", "heading": "Silver", "text": "A dream auguring unsuspected revelation (Gypsy). Silver is the emblem of knowledge (Bayley).", "lineStart": 11926, "lineEnd": 11928, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 253; NLM OCR lines 11926–11928", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11926, "lineEnd": 11928, "printedPage": 253, "printedPageEnd": 253 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Silver. — A dream auguring unsuspected revelation (Gyp- \nsy). Silver is the emblem of knowledge (Bayley). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "Gyp- \nsy", "after": "Gypsy", "evidenceLine": 243 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Silver" }, "displayText": "A dream auguring unsuspected revelation (Gypsy). Silver is the emblem of knowledge (Bayley)." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [ "metals" ] }, { "slug": "silver-color", "title": "Silver (color)", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "The surroundings can change how an appearance is received.", "summary": "A silver-colored appearance can explore response to surroundings, a quietly visible contribution and expectations about what a surface should show.", "aliases": [ "silver color", "silver colour", "the color silver", "the colour silver", "silver colored", "silver coloured" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A silver-colored fabric taking on the room’s other hues can picture a presentation shaped by the setting around it. Your contribution may be recognizable one way in a familiar group and another way in a new team. Adaptation can feel useful when it helps participation. If the original appearance becomes hard to find, the same scene may concern wanting a particular preference or part of your work to remain visible within a shared result.\n\nA silver-colored chair looking unfamiliar from another position can make recognition depend on the encounter rather than the object alone. An established role may seem different when you approach it as a visitor, or a routine may reveal another aspect when someone else uses it. Moving around the chair changes your view without needing to decide that its first appearance was false. Several positions can supply useful information.\n\nA silver mark organizing a busy page can offer a quiet distinction. Something does not need to dominate the whole scene to help you find what matters. A small contribution, an orderly handover or one clarified question may fit. If the mark is difficult to see, the practical problem can concern whether its form actually communicates the distinction it was intended to provide.\n\nA matte silver-colored surface that someone expects to shine can make another person’s expectation separate from your own preference. You may value a restrained presentation while the group expects a more noticeable performance. Being able to explain its purpose can make the difference negotiable. The dream does not establish that one style is more honest or useful in every setting.\n\nAn apparently blank silver area becoming distinct beside a white object can make comparison reveal what was already present. Replacing silver color with a more emphatic finish can instead remove a nuance you wanted retained. Fabric, paint, a design or a remembered surface may also supply direct context. These original readings concern changing views and degrees of visibility. The appearance does not establish silver metal, coins, a health condition or the promise implied by an idiom such as silver lining.", "traditional": "This reflection treats a silver-colored appearance as a visual detail. Metal, money and household silver have different practical contexts, and an idiom can carry another meaning again. No historical Silver forecast is used as a hue rule. The general sleep reference does not validate these symbolic possibilities.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A presentation responds to its surroundings", "reflection": "An appearance can change within a shared setting while some original contribution remains. Useful adaptation differs from wanting a personally recognizable part preserved." }, { "title": "Several positions inform recognition", "reflection": "A familiar object may show another aspect when the viewer or setting changes. A revised view need not make the earlier one false or complete." }, { "title": "A quiet distinction needs usable visibility", "reflection": "A restrained mark can organize attention without dominating it. Its purpose depends on whether the actual contrast makes the intended difference recognizable." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Silver-colored fabric seems to borrow the room’s hues", "reflection": "A presentation becomes partly shaped by its surroundings. This may picture a contribution adapting within a new group. Enjoying the shared effect differs from wanting one particular quality to remain recognizable; the dream does not decide how much adaptation a real role requires." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A silver-colored chair looks unfamiliar from another side", "reflection": "A changed position provides another account of something established. This can resemble encountering a familiar role through someone else’s use of it. Moving to another view may support understanding without requiring you to treat the first impression as a mistake." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A silver mark sorts a busy page into usable parts", "reflection": "A small distinction helps organize attention. This may picture a clarified question or handover making complex work manageable. Its usefulness comes from the actual arrangement, rather than needing a large display or a fixed meaning attached to a particular color." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Someone expects a matte silver surface to shine", "reflection": "The appearance meets a demand different from the purpose you chose. This can picture a quiet contribution being assessed through expectations of performance. Explaining its use may make the difference negotiable, without turning restraint or shine into a universal measure of value." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A silver area becomes visible beside a white object", "reflection": "Comparison reveals a distinction that was difficult to notice alone. This may picture a contribution gaining recognition through another point of reference. What changes is its visibility within the arrangement, rather than proof that something meaningful was absent before the comparison appeared." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "A silver-colored detail is replaced by a more emphatic finish", "reflection": "A presentation becomes more noticeable while losing a nuance you valued. This can resemble a revision making work clearer for one audience but less personally recognizable. Keeping a detail or offering another view can preserve difference without demanding that the whole change be reversed." } ], "prompts": [ "What part of the appearance came from its surroundings, and what did I want retained?", "How did a changed position alter recognition of the familiar object?", "Which distinction needed enough visibility to serve its purpose?" ], "related": [ "colors", "silver", "mirror", "paint-and-painting" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "detectionAliases": [ "silver color", "silver colour", "the color silver", "the colour silver", "silver colored", "silver coloured" ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "singing", "title": "Singing", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "aliases": [ "singing" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "summary": "Singing may give a wanted message, shared presence or chosen role a form that words alone do not offer.", "tagline": "A voice, a message and the company around it.", "psychological": "Singing in a dream may give something you want to express an enjoyable form, or make a prepared message feel less personal. The words, melody and listener can point in different directions. A song offered freely to one person has a different emotional purpose from a chorus you are expected to join. Pleasure, hesitation and surprise can all belong to the same encounter.\n\nChanging a familiar verse could bring authorship into an inherited form. Perhaps you know the greeting expected at a family occasion but want it to acknowledge the person actually present. In a working setting, the comparison might be a prepared presentation whose wording no longer fits your purpose. Keeping the melody while changing the words allows continuity and revision to coexist.\n\nA wordless hum can offer company without a completed explanation. Waiting beside someone and singing quietly may express a wish to remain present while neither of you knows what to say. That possibility differs from a song demanding a response. Warmth might come from sharing time rather than delivering a polished message or resolving the situation.\n\nJoining a chorus can raise a practical question about your part. A line that feels uncomfortable to sing may resemble a group contribution whose wording or range does not suit you. Wanting a different part need not cancel enjoyment of the group. The dream may make room for negotiating participation while keeping the connection you value.\n\nAudience can change the experience. A song intended for a small room that suddenly carries outside may bring delight at being heard, concern about privacy, or both. Similarly, a recognizable voice singing unfamiliar words can combine comfort with uncertainty. Recognition does not establish what the person wants or turn the song into a verified message from them.\n\nThe occasion also matters. Being asked for a triumphant song when you want a gentler one can place public celebration beside a need for care. These are possible comparisons with your own circumstances, rather than tests of confidence or musical ability. A recently heard song may supply the setting directly; its place in the dream can still reveal what kind of expression or company you wanted there.", "traditional": "The six attached editions offer differing forecasts. Miller contrasts hearing singing, happy self-singing, sad notes and ribald songs. Fontaine contrasts solemn choral and lively solo singing through adverse forecasts. Noe distinguishes self-singing from hearing voices, instruments or birds; Cielo calls singing a sign of waking vexation. Guide to Fortune-Telling by Dreams links self-singing and hearing merrymaking to different news and relationship outcomes. Craig attributes its lamentation account to Raphael. These are attributed period interpretations, rather than established outcomes of a singing dream.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Words that fit your purpose", "reflection": "Changing a verse can retain a shared form while giving the message your own intention." }, { "title": "Company without complete speech", "reflection": "A hum may make presence meaningful before there is an explanation or resolution." }, { "title": "A part and an audience you can choose", "reflection": "The requested role and the reach of the voice can affect how welcome participation feels." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Changing the prepared verse", "reflection": "You replace a familiar verse so it addresses the person actually listening. This can bring relief at making a shared form personal, or tension about departing from expectations. The useful question may concern what the changed words allow the encounter to acknowledge." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Humming while waiting", "reflection": "You and a companion wait without clear news, and a quiet hum makes the time feel companionable. The pleasure may lie in staying together without forcing an explanation. Unease could instead arise if the sound covers something you wanted to hear or discuss." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A chorus part that does not fit", "reflection": "The group is welcoming, but the part assigned to you feels uncomfortable to sing. Connection and a need for adjustment can exist together. This scene may concern how a shared undertaking could accommodate your contribution without requiring every participant to use the same range." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A private song travels outside", "reflection": "A song meant for the people in a small room reaches an unexpected audience beyond it. Being heard can feel expansive, exposed or mixed. The changed reach may matter more than the quality of the song, especially if its intended intimacy was part of its meaning." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A gentler song for the occasion", "reflection": "Others request a triumphant song, while you want one that offers gentler company. The two choices can represent different needs within the same occasion. Choosing a tone may concern whom the event serves and what kind of response feels appropriate to you." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "A familiar voice with unfamiliar words", "reflection": "You recognize the singer, but the words surprise you. Familiarity may make the encounter comforting while the new message leaves questions open. The scene can explore the difference between recognizing someone and understanding an exchange, without establishing the actual person's intentions." } ], "prompts": [ "What did you want the song to make possible between you and its listener?", "How did the chosen words or assigned part fit your purpose?", "Which kind of company or audience felt welcome, and what shaped that feeling?" ], "related": [ "music", "dancing", "musical-instruments", "concert" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1849" ], "scope": "Hearing singing forecasts cheerful company and absent news; happy self-singing is qualified by jealousy, sad notes by an adverse turn, and ribald songs by waste. Exact account: miller-1849 — Singing (Heading 1853; source lines 20523–20536). Attributed historical claims only; no forecast or symbolic meaning is validated by this citation." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0725" ], "scope": "Solemn choral singing receives death or lovers’ loss forecasts; a lively solo receives sorrow, explicitly not necessarily death. Exact account: fontaine-0725 — Singing (Heading 725; source line 4525). Attributed historical claims only; no forecast or symbolic meaning is validated by this citation." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0490" ], "scope": "Self-singing is linked to weeping; hearing voices or instruments to consolation or recovery; bird singing to joy in love. Exact account: noe-0490 — Singing (Dream section, heading 498; source lines 1824–1828). Attributed historical claims only; no forecast or symbolic meaning is validated by this citation." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0384" ], "scope": "Singing is given a forecast of waking vexation. Exact account: cielo-0384 — Singing (Dream section, heading 384; source lines 4789–4791). Attributed historical claims only; no forecast or symbolic meaning is validated by this citation." }, { "id": "guide-65367", "title": "Guide to Fortune-Telling by Dreams", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Multum in Parvo Library, Vol. I, No. 10, October 1894", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65367", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "guide-0038" ], "scope": "Self-singing is linked to melancholy news and adverse love or trade claims; hearing singing or merrymaking to absent news and liberty. Exact account: guide-0038 — Singing (Dream section, heading 38; source lines 339–346). Attributed historical claims only; no forecast or symbolic meaning is validated by this citation." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L11929" ], "scope": "The lamentation and distress claim is explicitly attributed to Raphael; no separate Raphael text is attached. Exact account: craig-1918:L11929 — Singing (Printed p. 253; NLM OCR lines 11929–11932). Attributed historical claims only; no forecast or symbolic meaning is validated by this citation." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1849", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Singing", "text": "To hear singing in your dreams, betokens a cheerful spirit\nand happy companions. You are soon to have promising news\nfrom the absent.\n\nIf you are singing while everything around you gives promise of happiness,\njealousy will insinuate a sense of insincerity into your joyousness.\nIf there are notes of sadness in the song, you will be unpleasantly\nsurprised at the turn your affairs will take.\n\nRibald songs, signifies gruesome and extravagant waste.", "locator": "Heading 1853; source lines 20523–20536", "lineStart": 20523, "lineEnd": 20536, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To hear singing in your dreams, betokens a cheerful spirit\nand happy companions. You are soon to have promising news\nfrom the absent.\n\nIf you are singing while everything around you gives promise of happiness,\njealousy will insinuate a sense of insincerity into your joyousness.\nIf there are notes of sadness in the song, you will be unpleasantly\nsurprised at the turn your affairs will take.\n\nRibald songs, signifies gruesome and extravagant waste." }, { "id": "fontaine-0725", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Singing", "text": "To dream of singing solemn music in a choir, is a sign of\nthe death of a young girl who is your esteemed friend or relative: to\nlovers, such a dream foretells the loss of sweethearts: if you imagine\nyou are singing some lively tune by yourself, it is a sign of sorrow,\nthough it may not be connected with any death. 34, 18.", "locator": "Heading 725; source line 4525", "lineStart": 4525, "lineEnd": 4531, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of singing solemn music in a choir, is a sign of\nthe death of a young girl who is your esteemed friend or relative: to\nlovers, such a dream foretells the loss of sweethearts: if you imagine\nyou are singing some lively tune by yourself, it is a sign of sorrow,\nthough it may not be connected with any death." }, { "id": "noe-0490", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Singing", "text": "If any one dreams he sings, it signifies he will be affected\nand weep. To dream you hear singing or playing upon instruments, signifies\nconsolation in adversity, recovery of health to those that are sick. To\ndream you hear birds sing, signifies love, joy and delight.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 498; source lines 1824–1828", "lineStart": 1824, "lineEnd": 1828, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If any one dreams he sings, it signifies he will be affected\nand weep. To dream you hear singing or playing upon instruments, signifies\nconsolation in adversity, recovery of health to those that are sick. To\ndream you hear birds sing, signifies love, joy and delight." }, { "id": "cielo-0384", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Singing", "text": "To sing in your sleep denotes vexation when awake.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 384; source lines 4789–4791", "lineStart": 4789, "lineEnd": 4791, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To sing in your sleep denotes vexation when awake." }, { "id": "guide-0038", "sourceId": "guide-65367", "heading": "Singing", "text": "To dream you are singing shows that you will hear shortly\nsome very melancholy news; to the lover, your sweetheart is bad\ntempered and unfaithful; to the tradesman, losses by sharpers. To dream\nthat you only hear singing and merry making shows that you will have\nsome agreeable news from a person long absent; if you are in a prison,\nit foretells you will speedily regain your liberty.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 38; source lines 339–346", "lineStart": 339, "lineEnd": 346, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are singing shows that you will hear shortly\nsome very melancholy news; to the lover, your sweetheart is bad\ntempered and unfaithful; to the tradesman, losses by sharpers. To dream\nthat you only hear singing and merry making shows that you will have\nsome agreeable news from a person long absent; if you are in a prison,\nit foretells you will speedily regain your liberty." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11929", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Singing", "heading": "Singing", "text": "A dream of contrary, a dream of lamentation; to sing yourself signifies your own trouble, to hear others sing denotes distress among friends (Raphael).", "lineStart": 11929, "lineEnd": 11932, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 253; NLM OCR lines 11929–11932", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11929, "lineEnd": 11932, "printedPage": 253, "printedPageEnd": 253 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Singing. — A dream of contrary, a dream of lamentation; \nto sing yourself signifies your own trouble, to hear others \nsing denotes distress among friends (Raphael). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Singing" }, "displayText": "A dream of contrary, a dream of lamentation; to sing yourself signifies your own trouble, to hear others sing denotes distress among friends (Raphael)." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "single", "title": "Single", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “For married persons to dream that they are single, foretells that their union will not be harmonious, and…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "single" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about single stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1848", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Single", "text": "For married persons to dream that they are single, foretells that their union\nwill not be harmonious, and constant despondency will confront them.", "locator": "Heading 1852; source lines 20518–20523", "lineStart": 20518, "lineEnd": 20523, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For married persons to dream that they are single, foretells that their union\nwill not be harmonious, and constant despondency will confront them." }, { "id": "fontaine-0726", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Single", "text": "If a married woman dreams that she is single, and that\nattentions are being paid to her by a beau, it foretells that her\nhusband has become captivated by a new love, and will probably be false\nto his vows: the omen is similar to a married man who dreams that he is\neither a bachelor or widower. 69, 72.", "locator": "Heading 726; source line 4531", "lineStart": 4531, "lineEnd": 4537, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If a married woman dreams that she is single, and that\nattentions are being paid to her by a beau, it foretells that her\nhusband has become captivated by a new love, and will probably be false\nto his vows: the omen is similar to a married man who dreams that he is\neither a bachelor or widower." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "single-combat", "title": "Single Combat", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Artemidorus wrote: “SIngle Combat signifieth noyse or Law suits, which resemble the paines and labour of the Combatants:…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "single combat", "of single combat" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about single combat stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "artemidorus-094", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of single Combat.", "text": "SIngle Combat signifieth noyse or Law suits, which resemble the paines and labour of the Combatants: the Armes of him which flyeth, signifie to go to Law: of him which pursueth, signifie to call one to law. Sometimes I have knowne that this dreame hath many times forefold Marriages.", "locator": "Book 2, encoded section 94", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "2", "displayText": "SIngle Combat signifieth noyse or Law suits, which resemble the paines and labour of the Combatants: the Armes of him which flyeth, signifie to go to Law: of him which pursueth, signifie to call one to law. Sometimes I have knowne that this dreame hath many times forefold Marriages." }, { "id": "noe-0466b", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Single Combat", "text": "To dream of a single combat, signifies lawsuits and marriages.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 474; source lines 1735–1737", "lineStart": 1735, "lineEnd": 1737, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a single combat, signifies lawsuits and marriages." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "sinkhole", "title": "Sinkhole", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "summary": "A sinkhole can picture ordinary ground becoming unreliable, a gap others do not notice, or the need to change a route when conditions change.", "tagline": "A familiar surface gives way in one particular place.", "aliases": [ "sinkhole", "sinkholes", "sink hole", "sink holes" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A sinkhole opening in an ordinary road can picture discovering that a familiar arrangement no longer supports the movement you expected. A process that fails after years of use, a changed household agreement, or a plan whose practical basis has disappeared may offer a parallel. The striking feature is the contrast between an apparently usable surface and the space beneath it. The dream does not establish that something in waking life is secretly unsound. It gives a changed assumption a visible location and shows how you respond when continuing as before becomes difficult.\n\nNoticing a small opening before anyone else can make acknowledgment central. You may feel responsible for explaining a concern while others continue using the road. This can resemble recognizing a problem in shared work without yet having language or evidence that others understand. If people stop and help assess the scene, responsibility becomes collective. If you keep widening the hole to prove it exists, attention may shift toward the cost of needing recognition. The dream alone cannot determine whether your real concern is accurate or being ignored.\n\nStanding safely at the edge can introduce a useful distance from disruption. You can see the opening without being inside it, which may allow curiosity, grief, or practical planning instead of immediate escape. A changed role or a finished period may similarly require observing what has become unavailable before choosing another route. Watching others cross easily can make your own hesitation feel isolating, while a clearly shared detour can turn the gap into something navigable. The distance and available choices give the scene its meaning.\n\nA sinkhole beneath a familiar room can make disruption feel intimate rather than public. Objects, routines, or memories seem to lose their usual place, and deciding what can be carried away may become the central action. The loss may concern continuity even when no person is harmed. Finding another floor or a stable neighboring room can picture adjusting conditions rather than restoring the original arrangement at any cost. A news image, road closure, game, or remembered hole may also supply the scene. This entry focuses on localized ground giving way; a general abyss or earthquake need not carry the same sequence or personal comparison.", "traditional": "No historical passage specifically naming a sinkhole is supplied. Abyss, Hole, and Earthquake records have related shapes or ground imagery but do not establish sinkhole lore. This original reading concerns changed support, acknowledgment, and routes; it makes no structural or disaster prediction.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A changed basis for ordinary movement", "reflection": "A familiar surface giving way can picture an arrangement that no longer supports its expected use. The contrast matters more than assigning every deep hole the same meaning." }, { "title": "A concern that needs acknowledgment", "reflection": "Noticing a gap others pass can explore explaining an unfamiliar problem. Their response and how responsibility is shared change the scene." }, { "title": "A route after disruption", "reflection": "A detour can picture adapting to changed conditions without requiring the old path to become usable immediately. Observation may create room for a workable choice." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A familiar road opens in front of you", "reflection": "The expected route becomes unavailable at a specific point. This may picture discovering a changed condition within an otherwise ordinary plan. Finding another way differs from repeatedly trying the same road because it worked before." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You notice a narrow gap that others ignore", "reflection": "Attention to a small change leaves you uncertain how to explain it. The scene can resemble wanting a concern acknowledged. A shared inspection changes the responsibility without proving that the dream identifies a real hidden defect." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "The opening widens while everyone argues", "reflection": "Debate continues while the available space changes. This may picture a situation where agreement arrives more slowly than practical conditions require. Taking a temporary route together creates another response from needing the argument resolved first." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You stand safely at the edge and look down", "reflection": "Distance allows observation of something that would feel different from inside it. The scene may picture assessing disruption after immediate pressure has passed. Curiosity, sadness, or relief can coexist without requiring a descent." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A room drops away beneath its furniture", "reflection": "The setting of a routine no longer supports familiar objects. This can picture a change that feels personal because it removes an ordinary place. Choosing what to carry elsewhere differs from needing everything restored in its original position." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "A new path goes around the sinkhole", "reflection": "Movement becomes possible through an altered route. The scene may picture an adjustment that accepts changed conditions without forgetting what happened. Relief differs from frustration when the new path adds effort or separates companions." } ], "prompts": [ "What ordinary movement or routine depended on the ground that opened?", "Was I trying to understand the gap, make others notice it, or move around it?", "What remained usable once the original route changed?" ], "related": [ "hole", "abyss", "ground", "earthquake" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "siren", "title": "Siren", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “Domestic entanglements are denoted by this dream (Gypsy).”", "aliases": [ "siren" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about siren stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L11933", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Siren", "heading": "Siren", "text": "Domestic entanglements are denoted by this dream (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 11933, "lineEnd": 11935, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 253; NLM OCR lines 11933–11935", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11933, "lineEnd": 11935, "printedPage": 253, "printedPageEnd": 253 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Siren. — Domestic entanglements are denoted by this dream \n(Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Siren" }, "displayText": "Domestic entanglements are denoted by this dream (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "sister", "title": "Sister", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "aliases": [ "sister", "sisters" ], "status": "REVIEW", "summary": "A sister can bring shared family history, separate identities and changing closeness into a particular conversation, task or remembered place.", "tagline": "Shared history does not require identical memories or lives.", "psychological": "A sister telling a familiar family story differently can make shared history less uniform than you expected. You recognize the occasion but remember another detail or meaning. This may resemble discovering that two people can belong to the same past without carrying the same account of it. The dreamed difference need not decide which recollection is accurate or reveal a hidden family truth.\n\nSharing something that once belonged to both of you creates a practical question. A room, keepsake or family task may now have different uses in your lives. You might want continuity, a fair division or acknowledgment of what you contributed. The scene can fit a change in responsibilities when an old arrangement no longer suits everyone equally. Agreement can allow separate choices without treating difference as disloyalty.\n\nMeeting your sister outside the familiar family setting can show another part of the relationship. You attend her imagined performance, introduce her to a group or discover a skill you did not associate with her. Curiosity may concern who she is beyond a role you remember. Feeling overlooked can instead bring your own wish for recognition into view. Neither response measures either person’s actual success or value.\n\nDifferent ages can make the encounter uneven. You appear as children while discussing a current responsibility, or she seems older while the room remains unchanged. Such combinations can picture a family role persisting after its circumstances have changed. A request for help may then feel familiar but need another answer. The relationship can include affection, distance, cooperation or conflict without requiring a standard account of sibling rivalry.\n\nA quiet visit can also make ordinary company the main subject. You may enjoy being understood through small references, or feel that too much is being assumed without explanation. If a sister has died, a dreamed meeting can combine grief and remembered familiarity with invented conversation. Recent contact, family objects or shared places can supply the imagery directly. These reflections concern your particular sister and the exchange available, leaving room for relationships that were absent, newly formed or very different from the closeness you expected.", "traditional": "Fontaine assigns a sister’s appearance family-death, long-life and favorable-love forecasts, with a Brothers cross-reference. Noe’s Sisters passage explicitly includes deceased brothers and sisters and predicts long life. Both are attributed period accounts. They neither predict a family loss nor verify communication or lifespan; the original reading does not require a particular kind of sibling relationship.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "One past can support different accounts", "reflection": "Shared history can remain meaningful without identical recollections, interpretations or present wishes." }, { "title": "An old arrangement can need new terms", "reflection": "Rooms, objects and responsibilities once shared may now need a division that recognizes separate lives." }, { "title": "A family role is only part of a person", "reflection": "Encountering a sister in another setting can invite curiosity or a wish for recognition beyond familiar expectations." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Your sister remembers a family occasion differently", "reflection": "A shared event supports two accounts rather than one settled story. This may picture making room for another viewpoint while keeping your own experience present. The difference can be discussed without requiring the dream to determine an accurate memory or reveal a family secret." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You decide how to divide a keepsake once shared", "reflection": "Continuity becomes a practical choice about use and ownership. This can resemble an earlier arrangement needing terms suited to separate lives. Keeping, exchanging or sharing access can carry different meanings without making one decision the correct measure of affection." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You see her doing something unfamiliar outside the family", "reflection": "Another setting gives a familiar person a different role. This may express curiosity about a part of her life or your wish to be recognized similarly. The dreamed ability does not establish her actual circumstances or require comparison to decide either person’s value." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You are children discussing an adult responsibility", "reflection": "An earlier relationship pattern enters a task with present demands. This can resemble feeling expected to answer as you once did despite changed capacity. Clarifying what each participant can now do may matter more than recreating the old division of help." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A quiet visit depends on jokes that need no explanation", "reflection": "Recognition makes ordinary company enjoyable or surprisingly effortless. This may return a valued form of familiarity without demanding a dramatic message. If the assumptions feel limiting instead, the same scene can clarify something you want to explain in your own words." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "A sister who has died appears in a newly invented conversation", "reflection": "Familiar company meets words or events you do not remember having shared. This may give grief or a wished-for exchange a particular form. The encounter can have personal value without proving communication or supplying knowledge about her actual wishes." } ], "prompts": [ "What part of the shared history differed between your accounts?", "How did the arrangement recognize separate present lives?", "Which familiar role changed when the setting or ages changed?" ], "related": [ "family", "mother", "father", "friend", "deceased-loved-one", "brothers" ], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0727" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a diagnosis, prediction or another person’s states. fontaine-0727 — Sister (Heading 727; source line 4537): Seeing a sister receives family-death, long-life and favorable-love forecasts and an explicit See Brothers cross-reference. No lifespan or family fact is established." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0468" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a diagnosis, prediction or another person’s states. noe-0468 — Sisters (Dream section, heading 476; source lines 1739–1740): The Sisters record explicitly includes deceased brothers and sisters and predicts long life. Its full mixed-sibling wording stays intact; no communication or longevity evidence is inferred." } ], "updated": "2026-10-14", "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0727", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Sister", "text": "(_See Brothers._) To dream you see your sister denotes a speedy\ndeath in your family, and that the dreamer will be long-lived: if you\nare in love, it is a favorable omen. 24, 8.", "locator": "Heading 727; source line 4537", "lineStart": 4537, "lineEnd": 4541, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Brothers.) To dream you see your sister denotes a speedy\ndeath in your family, and that the dreamer will be long-lived: if you\nare in love, it is a favorable omen." }, { "id": "noe-0468", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Sisters", "text": "To dream you see your deceased brothers and sisters, signifies\nlong life.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 476; source lines 1739–1740", "lineStart": 1739, "lineEnd": 1740, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see your deceased brothers and sisters, signifies\nlong life." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [ "brothers" ] }, { "slug": "skate", "title": "Skate", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are skating on ice, foretells that you are in danger of losing employment, or valuable articles.”", "aliases": [ "skate" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about skate stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1850", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Skate", "text": "To dream that you are skating on ice, foretells that you\nare in danger of losing employment, or valuable articles.\nIf you break through the ice, you will have unworthy friends\nto counsel you.\n\nTo see others skating, foretells that disagreeable people will connect\nyour name in scandal with some person who admires you.\n\nTo see skates, denotes discord among your associates.\n\nTo see young people skating on roller skates, foretells that you\nwill enjoy good health, and feel enthusiastic over the pleasures\nyou are able to contribute to others.", "locator": "Heading 1854; source lines 20536–20552", "lineStart": 20536, "lineEnd": 20552, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are skating on ice, foretells that you\nare in danger of losing employment, or valuable articles.\nIf you break through the ice, you will have unworthy friends\nto counsel you.\n\nTo see others skating, foretells that disagreeable people will connect\nyour name in scandal with some person who admires you.\n\nTo see skates, denotes discord among your associates.\n\nTo see young people skating on roller skates, foretells that you\nwill enjoy good health, and feel enthusiastic over the pleasures\nyou are able to contribute to others." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "skateboarding", "title": "Skateboarding", "category": "Movement", "aliases": [ "skateboarding", "skateboard", "skateboards", "skateboarder", "skatepark" ], "summary": "Skateboarding may explore responsive balance, practice, or making a route through ordinary space. The surface and room to choose your pace matter.", "tagline": "A moving board, small changes in the surface, and a route you can keep adjusting.", "psychological": "Skateboarding can make balance something you adjust while moving rather than a position you achieve once. A dream may feel absorbing because you keep responding without needing to stop the whole activity. This could fit learning a role, improvising within a project, or using a familiar skill in changing conditions. A smooth ride can offer pleasure in responsiveness, while constant correction may make the effort more visible.\n\nThe ground can matter as much as your movement. A small crack, loose object, or crowded pavement may interrupt a route that looked usable. That can resemble a task repeatedly slowed by modest but consequential obstacles: missing information, an unsuitable tool, or an arrangement that does not leave enough space. The image can distinguish difficulty in the conditions from a judgment that you are simply not capable.\n\nPractice introduces another subject. Repeating a move willingly differs from being watched and expected to succeed immediately. You may want a place where attempts do not become public verdicts. A new creative activity or a practical skill learned beside others could provide a waking parallel. If an audience feels encouraging, the scene may instead give recognition a useful role rather than make visibility itself the problem.\n\nSpeed and company can change how chosen the activity remains. A slope or group may carry you faster than you intended, while an alternate route allows you to keep participating differently. Stopping or finding a quieter place can be part of the journey rather than its failure. A remembered ride, street, game, or video may explain the scene directly. This entry concerns a board, surface, and changing route; it does not measure athletic ability or transfer the meaning of ice or roller skating automatically to the activity.", "traditional": "No matching historical skateboarding passage is supplied. These are original possibilities about a board, shared surfaces, practice, and pace. Ice or roller skates use different arrangements and are separate subjects. A dream's successful maneuver, damaged board, or fall does not predict real performance or establish a mechanical fault.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Balance while conditions change", "reflection": "A responsive ride may fit applying a skill without having every next moment planned. Satisfaction and exhausting correction suggest different relationships to the activity." }, { "title": "Small obstacles with large effects", "reflection": "A crack or narrow path may make an otherwise workable task difficult. The useful question can be space, information, or support, rather than a verdict about competence." }, { "title": "Room to practice", "reflection": "A quiet place or encouraging company may allow imperfect attempts. Being required to perform immediately creates a different scene from choosing to learn at a workable pace." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You ride comfortably through familiar streets", "reflection": "The board changes how you use an ordinary route. This may fit bringing a practiced skill or fresh interest into daily life, rather than needing a dramatic change of destination. Enjoyment can be the scene's main subject without a hidden problem." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Small cracks interrupt every attempt", "reflection": "Minor obstacles keep stopping progress even though the route seems straightforward. This can resemble a practical task slowed by repeated details or missing information. A smoother area may change the experience more than expecting yourself to use greater effort on the same surface." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Others choose a steep route you do not want", "reflection": "The shared activity moves toward a pace that feels unsuitable. This may fit wanting company without accepting every part of a group's plan. Choosing another path or agreeing to meet later can preserve participation while leaving your preference room." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "The board will not respond as expected", "reflection": "Movement feels unlike the equipment you thought you had. This may explore a method or tool that does not fit a task, such as unfamiliar software or a changed procedure. The dreamed difficulty is not a test of your ability or a real fault report." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "People watch while you try something new", "reflection": "Practice becomes visible before you feel ready for evaluation. This can fit learning a skill in a public or professional setting. Patient encouragement may support another attempt; a demand for immediate success can make the conditions, rather than the maneuver, the central pressure." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You find a clear place to practice", "reflection": "The same action becomes workable when there is enough room and less interference. This may give form to wanting protected time for learning or creative work. The change comes from conditions that support attempts, not necessarily a sudden improvement in talent." } ], "prompts": [ "Was balance absorbing, comfortable, or constant effort in this setting?", "Which surface, tool, or interruption affected the route?", "Could I choose a pace and place that allowed practice rather than immediate performance?" ], "related": [ "skate", "falling", "skiing", "being-judged", "car" ], "type": "dreams", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original image-specific interpretation with distinct personal possibilities and everyday context; no matching historical passage supplied. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "skating", "title": "Skating", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “To dream of skating over smooth ice, and gliding along without much effort, is a sign of success and…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "skating" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about skating stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0728", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Skating", "text": "To dream of skating over smooth ice, and gliding along without\nmuch effort, is a sign of success and good luck: if you are skating\nwith ladies, it foretells that your love matters will go smoothly; if\nthe ice be broken or lumpy, it denotes difficulties; and if you imagine\nyou fall down, you will probably experience a misfortune or have great\ntrouble. 4, 7, 28.", "locator": "Heading 728; source line 4541", "lineStart": 4541, "lineEnd": 4548, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of skating over smooth ice, and gliding along without\nmuch effort, is a sign of success and good luck: if you are skating\nwith ladies, it foretells that your love matters will go smoothly; if\nthe ice be broken or lumpy, it denotes difficulties; and if you imagine\nyou fall down, you will probably experience a misfortune or have great\ntrouble." }, { "id": "cielo-0385", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Skating", "text": "To dream of skating is a sign of success.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 385; source lines 4791–4793", "lineStart": 4791, "lineEnd": 4793, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of skating is a sign of success." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "skeleton", "title": "Skeleton", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing a skeleton, is prognostic of illness, misunderstanding and injury at the hands of…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "skeleton" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about skeleton stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1851", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Skeleton", "text": "To dream of seeing a skeleton, is prognostic of illness, misunderstanding and\ninjury at the hands of others, especially enemies.\n\nTo dream that you are a skeleton, is a sign that you are suffering\nunder useless worry, and should cultivate a milder disposition.\n\nIf you imagine that one haunts you, there will soon come to you\na shocking accident or death, or the trouble may take the form\nof financial disaster.", "locator": "Heading 1855; source lines 20552–20564", "lineStart": 20552, "lineEnd": 20564, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing a skeleton, is prognostic of illness, misunderstanding and\ninjury at the hands of others, especially enemies.\n\nTo dream that you are a skeleton, is a sign that you are suffering\nunder useless worry, and should cultivate a milder disposition.\n\nIf you imagine that one haunts you, there will soon come to you\na shocking accident or death, or the trouble may take the form\nof financial disaster." }, { "id": "cielo-0386", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Skeleton", "text": "The vision of a skeleton usually signifies\n a change for the better.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 386; source lines 4793–4796", "lineStart": 4793, "lineEnd": 4796, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "The vision of a skeleton usually signifies\na change for the better." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11936", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Skeleton", "heading": "Skeleton", "text": "A dream of horror, fright (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 11936, "lineEnd": 11936, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 253; NLM OCR lines 11936–11936", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11936, "lineEnd": 11936, "printedPage": 253, "printedPageEnd": 253 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Skeleton. — A dream of horror, fright (Gypsy). \n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Skeleton" }, "displayText": "A dream of horror, fright (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "skiing", "title": "Skiing", "category": "Movement", "aliases": [ "skiing", "ski", "skis", "skier", "skiers", "ski slope", "ski lift" ], "summary": "Skiing may explore a chosen descent, suitable equipment, or a route whose difficulty changes. Your pace and available alternatives shape the experience.", "tagline": "Choosing a slope, finding support, and adjusting as the terrain changes.", "psychological": "Skiing can make direction clear while leaving the path demanding: you are moving down a slope and must adjust as you go. That may fit a chosen undertaking where deciding to begin does not settle every next step. Learning a role, completing a project, or moving through a planned transition can require ongoing judgment. A smooth descent may offer the pleasure of responding well; an awkward one may make preparation or conditions more central.\n\nThe route's difficulty can change the meaning of the choice. A slope that looks manageable from above may become unexpectedly steep, narrow, or crowded. This could resemble discovering that a task asks for more than its description suggested. Having another route or the ability to stop makes a different scene from being expected to continue simply because you started. Descent is not automatically an image of failure or loss of status.\n\nEquipment can give support a practical form. Boots that restrict movement, skis that respond comfortably, or missing instructions may resemble the fit between a person and the tools offered for a task. More effort does not solve every mismatch. A guide who explains options can make uncertainty manageable, while a group that insists on one pace may make participation feel pressured.\n\nA lift or a waiting area introduces stages where the system carries you rather than you choosing each movement. That may fit preparing for an activity through arrangements outside your immediate control. Returning to a resting place can complete the experience instead of cancelling it. A remembered trip, lesson, film, or interest may supply direct context. The dream does not measure athletic ability or prescribe how to manage a real slope. It can explore a particular combination of choice, pace, equipment, and room to adapt.", "traditional": "No matching historical skiing passage is supplied. These are original possibilities about a chosen route, changing terrain, equipment, and shared activity. A general fall or climb does not explain this whole scene. The direction of travel is not assigned a fortune, and an imagined difficulty does not assess real skiing skill.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Choosing and then adjusting", "reflection": "A descent may fit an undertaking whose overall direction is chosen but whose next turns still need judgment. Smooth movement and changing difficulty lead to different readings." }, { "title": "Tools that fit the task", "reflection": "Boots, skis, and instructions can make support concrete. Difficulty may concern the equipment or conditions provided, rather than needing to try harder within an unsuitable arrangement." }, { "title": "Room for another route", "reflection": "An alternate slope, a pause, or a rest area can make participation flexible. The question may be whether a chosen activity still allows changes in pace and direction." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "The marked route becomes unexpectedly difficult", "reflection": "A slope changes after you commit to it. This may fit a task whose actual demands differ from the initial explanation. An alternate route or room to ask for guidance can make adaptation more useful than proving you can continue under any conditions." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A smooth descent feels enjoyable", "reflection": "Your movement and the terrain fit well enough to leave room for pleasure. This can offer an image of using a skill without constant evaluation, as when a familiar task becomes absorbing. Enjoyment need not turn the ride into a forecast of success." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Your boots or skis make movement awkward", "reflection": "The equipment restricts the action it was meant to support. This may resemble learning with an unsuitable tool or procedure. Changing the fit, receiving an explanation, or choosing another method gives a different ending from deciding the difficulty is entirely your fault." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "The group chooses a slope you do not want", "reflection": "Company becomes pressure to use the same route. This may fit wanting to join a shared activity without accepting every part of the group's plan. Being able to meet later or select a different path can preserve company while leaving room for your preference." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The lift stops before the activity begins", "reflection": "Preparation reaches a stage carried by a system that no longer moves. This may resemble waiting on a handover, transport, or information before a task can continue. The scene can make dependence visible without showing that a real arrangement is about to fail." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You fall, pause, and decide what comes next", "reflection": "An interrupted descent gives you a moment to reconsider pace or route. This may fit a setback that need not decide the whole undertaking. Wanting another attempt differs from needing rest; the available choice matters more than making persistence the only successful ending." } ], "prompts": [ "Did the route I chose match what I encountered after starting?", "What equipment, information, or company helped or limited movement?", "Could I change the pace, choose another slope, or rest without losing my place in the activity?" ], "related": [ "snow", "falling", "climbing", "skateboarding", "being-late" ], "type": "dreams", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original image-specific interpretation with distinct personal possibilities and everyday context; no matching historical passage supplied. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "skin", "title": "Skin", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "The surface can make visibility, contact and change tangible.", "summary": "Skin dreams can explore boundaries, recognition and contact. Changes in the dream are imagery, not evidence about your health.", "aliases": [ "skin", "my skin", "skin dream", "skin peeling", "peeling skin", "skin falling off", "rash", "itchy skin", "something under my skin", "shedding skin" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "Skin in a dream can make the boundary between private experience and visible presence tangible. A surface changes, someone notices or a touch feels welcome or intrusive. These actions can picture how much access other people have to you in a particular setting. A new role, an exposed piece of work or a conversation about something personal may offer a parallel. The possible meaning comes from the change and your response, not from a universal code for skin.\n\nA visible change can give shape to something that feels difficult to keep private. You may recognize an emotion showing during a conversation or a concern becoming noticeable through altered participation. Other people's attention can feel considerate or exposing. The scene does not establish what they think while awake. Their reaction within the dream helps distinguish wanting acknowledgment from wanting space to decide when and how to explain.\n\nPeeling or shedding can picture a change in what you no longer want to carry on the surface. A role that once fit may now feel restrictive, or a familiar presentation may leave little room for another account of yourself. Relief differs from feeling that a protective layer is being removed too soon. What appears beneath it may feel recognizable, unfamiliar or simply ordinary; renewal is only one possible reading, not an automatic outcome.\n\nAn unexpected material or something moving below the surface can picture difficulty recognizing an experience through familiar categories. You may feel that an apparently simple situation contains more activity than other people can see. It can also be a vivid invention without a waking parallel. The dreamer's belief about what is happening matters more than assigning a hidden cause, and the imagery does not identify anything about the actual body.\n\nContact changes the boundary into a relationship. Choosing whether someone touches you can picture deciding what closeness is welcome, on what terms and with whom. Feeling comfortable in unfamiliar-looking skin can instead emphasize continuity despite a changed presentation. Recent sensations, mirrors, stories or remembered appearances may supply the details directly. Dream skin changes cannot diagnose a condition or predict a health outcome; these reflections stay with visibility, recognition and the imagined experience of contact.", "traditional": "The supplied archive has no exact Skin heading, but adjacent material is present. In the English Artemidorus edition, Wound explicitly describes recovered new skin called a “skar” and forecasts an end to evils. That specific period clause concerns a healed mark; it does not establish meanings for the Skin page’s peeling, contact or under-surface scenes. It remains attached to Wound.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A boundary made visible", "reflection": "Skin imagery can picture how private experience becomes available to others. The scene may concern who notices and how much explanation you choose to provide." }, { "title": "A changing presentation", "reflection": "An altered outer layer can bring a role or way of appearing into question. Relief, exposure and continuity are different possibilities, depending on how the change feels." }, { "title": "Contact on chosen terms", "reflection": "Touch can give closeness a concrete form. Comfort and permission help distinguish a welcome connection from access that does not fit your wishes." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "An outer layer peels away and the feeling changes", "reflection": "Peeling accompanied by relief can picture setting down a presentation that has become restrictive. If the change feels premature, exposure becomes the stronger reading. The image does not identify a bodily process or promise renewal." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A change becomes visible when other people arrive", "reflection": "A visible change as people arrive can picture concern about when something private becomes noticeable. Their reaction may offer acknowledgment or make you feel observed. The dream does not establish their actual opinion." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You feel comfortable in skin that looks unfamiliar", "reflection": "Comfort in an unfamiliar appearance can picture continuity that does not depend on looking exactly as expected. A new role or setting may fit. You may remain recognizable to yourself while changing what other people see." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Something seems to move beneath the surface", "reflection": "Movement below the surface can picture an experience that feels more complicated than it appears. It may also be a vivid imagined sensation. No hidden physical cause or clinical meaning can be inferred from the dream image." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A familiar surface becomes a material you did not expect", "reflection": "An unexpected material can picture a changed relationship to how you appear or respond. A hard surface may feel protective or restricting according to its use. Its meaning is personal, rather than an automatic rule about the material." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You choose whether another person can touch you", "reflection": "Choosing who can touch you can picture setting the terms of closeness. The decision may concern welcome, timing or company rather than rejecting all contact. The response to your choice shapes the relationship." } ], "prompts": [ "What changed at the boundary between what I felt and what others could see?", "Did the altered surface feel exposing, protective, familiar or freeing?", "How did I choose the terms of contact or explanation?" ], "related": [ "wound", "tattoo", "face", "complexion" ], "sources": [ { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display.", "recordIds": [ "artemidorus-147" ], "scope": "Adjacent context only: artemidorus-147 explicitly mentions recovered new skin called skar and gives it an end-of-evils forecast. It supports correcting a blanket claim of historical silence, not interpretations of the wider Skin scenes. Original record ownership remains Wound. Exact supplied records: artemidorus-147 — Of a wound. (Book 3, encoded section 147). Historical comparison only, not evidence for the original reflective reading or an actual outcome." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "skull", "title": "Skull", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of skulls grinning at you, is a sign of domestic quarrels and jars.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "skull" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about skull stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1852", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Skull", "text": "To dream of skulls grinning at you, is a sign of domestic quarrels and jars.\nBusiness will feel a shrinkage if you handle them.\n\nTo see a friend's skull, denotes that you will receive injury\nfrom a friend because of your being preferred to him.\n\nTo see your own skull, denotes that you will be the servant of remorse.", "locator": "Heading 1856; source lines 20564–20574", "lineStart": 20564, "lineEnd": 20574, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of skulls grinning at you, is a sign of domestic quarrels and jars.\nBusiness will feel a shrinkage if you handle them.\n\nTo see a friend's skull, denotes that you will receive injury\nfrom a friend because of your being preferred to him.\n\nTo see your own skull, denotes that you will be the servant of remorse." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11937", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Skull", "heading": "Skull", "text": "A dream denoting penance (Gypsy). 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "sky", "title": "Sky", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of the sky, signifies distinguished honors and interesting travel with cultured companions, if…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "sky" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about sky stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "heaven", "illumination" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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Otherwise, it portends\nblasted expectations, and trouble with women.\n\nTo dream of floating in the sky among weird faces and animals,\nand wondering all the while if you are really awake, or only dreaming,\nforetells that all trouble, the most excruciating pain,\nthat reach even the dullest sense will be distilled into one drop\ncalled jealousy, and will be inserted into your faithful love,\nand loyalty will suffer dethronement.\n\nTo see the sky turn red, indicates that public disquiet and rioting\nmay be expected.\n\n\n[208] See Heaven and Illumination.", "locator": "Heading 1857; source lines 20574–20593", "lineStart": 20574, "lineEnd": 20593, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of the sky, signifies distinguished honors and interesting travel\nwith cultured companions, if the sky is clear. Otherwise, it portends\nblasted expectations, and trouble with women.\n\nTo dream of floating in the sky among weird faces and animals,\nand wondering all the while if you are really awake, or only dreaming,\nforetells that all trouble, the most excruciating pain,\nthat reach even the dullest sense will be distilled into one drop\ncalled jealousy, and will be inserted into your faithful love,\nand loyalty will suffer dethronement.\n\nTo see the sky turn red, indicates that public disquiet and rioting\nmay be expected. See Heaven and Illumination." }, { "id": "fontaine-0729", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Sky", "text": "A clear sky denotes a marriage, speedy, and happy; a red sky,\nincrease of wealth; if you ascend into the sky, you may look for much\nhonor; a cloudy sky shows misfortune. 2, 11, 24.", "locator": "Heading 729; source line 4548", "lineStart": 4548, "lineEnd": 4552, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "A clear sky denotes a marriage, speedy, and happy; a red sky,\nincrease of wealth; if you ascend into the sky, you may look for much\nhonor; a cloudy sky shows misfortune." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11944", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Sky", "heading": "Sky", "text": "To see it clear and blue denotes health and prosperity; cloudy, troubles in proportion to the clouds (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 11944, "lineEnd": 11946, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 254; NLM OCR lines 11944–11946", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11944, "lineEnd": 11946, "printedPage": 254, "printedPageEnd": 254 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Sky. — To see it clear and blue denotes health and prosper- \nity; cloudy, troubles in proportion to the clouds (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "prosper- \nity", "after": "prosperity", "evidenceLine": 8161 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Sky" }, "displayText": "To see it clear and blue denotes health and prosperity; cloudy, troubles in proportion to the clouds (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "heaven", "illumination" ] }, { "slug": "slander", "title": "Slander", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are slandered, is a sign of your untruthful dealings with ignorance.”", "aliases": [ "slander" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about slander stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1854", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Slander", "text": "To dream that you are slandered, is a sign of your untruthful\ndealings with ignorance.\n\nIf you slander any one, you will feel the loss of friends through selfishness.", "locator": "Heading 1858; source lines 20593–20600", "lineStart": 20593, "lineEnd": 20600, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are slandered, is a sign of your untruthful\ndealings with ignorance.\n\nIf you slander any one, you will feel the loss of friends through selfishness." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "slang", "title": "Slang", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “To use slang in a dream augurs pleasure followed by regret (Gypsy).”", "aliases": [ "slang" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about slang stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L11947", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Slang", "heading": "Slang", "text": "To use slang in a dream augurs pleasure followed by regret (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 11947, "lineEnd": 11949, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 254; NLM OCR lines 11947–11949", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11947, "lineEnd": 11949, "printedPage": 254, "printedPageEnd": 254 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Slang. — To use slang in a dream augurs pleasure followed \nby regret (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Slang" }, "displayText": "To use slang in a dream augurs pleasure followed by regret (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "slaughter", "title": "Slaughter", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Artemidorus wrote: “To sée people sacrificed or kild, is good; for it is a signe that our businesse is accomplisht, or near the end.”", "aliases": [ "slaughter", "of slaughter" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about slaughter stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "artemidorus-128", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of Slaughter.", "text": "TO sée people sacrificed or kild, is good; for it is a signe that our businesse is accomplisht, or near the end.", "locator": "Book 3, encoded section 128", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "3", "displayText": "To sée people sacrificed or kild, is good; for it is a signe that our businesse is accomplisht, or near the end." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "slaughter-house", "title": "Slaughter-house", "type": "dreams", "category": "Other symbols", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a slaughter-house, denotes that you will be feared more than loved by your sweetheart or…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "slaughter-house" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about slaughter-house stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "butcher" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1855", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Slaughter-house", "text": "To dream of a slaughter-house, denotes that you will be\nfeared more than loved by your sweetheart or mistress.\nYour business will divulge a private drain, and there will\nbe unkind insinuations.\n\n\n[209] See Butcher.", "locator": "Heading 1859; source lines 20600–20610", "lineStart": 20600, "lineEnd": 20610, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a slaughter-house, denotes that you will be\nfeared more than loved by your sweetheart or mistress.\nYour business will divulge a private drain, and there will\nbe unkind insinuations. See Butcher." }, { "id": "fontaine-0730", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Slaughter-House", "text": "To dream of being in an empty slaughter-house, shows\nthat you are in danger, but can avoid it by precaution. To see animals\nslaughtered is a good sign, if the blood flow freely; if the blood does\nnot flow, you will meet with some accident. 26, 12.", "locator": "Heading 730; source line 4552", "lineStart": 4552, "lineEnd": 4557, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being in an empty slaughter-house, shows\nthat you are in danger, but can avoid it by precaution. To see animals\nslaughtered is a good sign, if the blood flow freely; if the blood does\nnot flow, you will meet with some accident." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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These attributed period claims do not establish diagnoses, relationships, future events or the original modern interpretation." }, { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display.", "recordIds": [ "artemidorus-060" ], "scope": "Historical comparison only: To sleepe. — artemidorus-060 (Book 1, encoded section 60). These attributed period claims do not establish diagnoses, relationships, future events or the original modern interpretation." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0459" ], "scope": "Historical comparison only: Sleep — noe-0459 (Dream section, heading 466; source lines 1712–1715). These attributed period claims do not establish diagnoses, relationships, future events or the original modern interpretation." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0387" ], "scope": "Historical comparison only: Sleep — cielo-0387 (Dream section, heading 387; source lines 4796–4799). These attributed period claims do not establish diagnoses, relationships, future events or the original modern interpretation." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "kind": "modern", "tagline": "An imagined pause, the expectations around it, and the choice to return to an activity.", "summary": "Dreaming of sleep can explore permission to pause, remaining available to others or returning to an activity after an imagined rest.", "psychological": "Dreaming that you are going to sleep can picture a pause in participation. An activity continues around you while you become less available to it. That may feel welcome after sustained effort, awkward during a conversation or difficult when another task seems to require attention. The dream's imagined sleeping is an action within its story rather than a measurement of how much rest your body actually received.\n\nPreparing to sleep while a task remains unfinished can make the terms of stopping noticeable. You may believe one more message, check or handover is necessary before you can leave the activity. This can resemble work whose completion never seems to create a dependable ending. A clear agreement that somebody else will continue can give the pause a different foundation from simply trying to ignore the remaining demands.\n\nSleeping comfortably while other people remain nearby can picture being part of company without having to contribute continually. A familiar household or trusted group may offer that association. The valuable part may be permission to stop performing for a while. An unfamiliar gathering can instead make reduced availability feel exposed, even if nothing adverse happens in the scene.\n\nWatching somebody else sleep places you in another role. You may enjoy quiet company, wait for a conversation or feel responsible for maintaining a situation until they return. The same pause is shared differently when you can take a turn resting too. Wanting them awake may concern connection or an unanswered practical question rather than a judgment about their effort.\n\nAn apparent waking inside a continuing dream can give resumption an unexpected second stage. You may start an ordinary morning and later recognize that it was still part of the imagined story. The remembered sequence can be described without using it to determine a sleep stage or a medical condition. What you expected to return to may offer a personal association.\n\nA recent journey, another person's nap or an ordinary bedtime routine can supply direct context. The original reflections here follow stopping, waiting, shared availability and beginning again. Bed explores the place and support for rest, while lucid dreaming concerns recognizing a dream as it happens.", "traditional": "Miller assigns relationship or health forecasts to different sleeping places and companions. The translated Artemidorus account and Noe contrast ordinary sleep with relief for someone expecting danger, and include severe claims about particular places; Cielo calls dreamed sleep false security. These are attributed historical assertions rather than assessments of real sleep, health or safety. 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Comfort may picture permission to stop contributing continually. Unease can make the expectations of availability more noticeable without establishing that the actual group is unsafe." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Every unfinished task postpones the moment you can sleep", "reflection": "A pause seems possible only after another requirement is met. This can resemble work with no dependable stopping point. A specific handover or an agreed ending changes the arrangement differently from making one more effort within the same open-ended demand." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Someone keeps quiet company while you rest", "reflection": "Another person’s presence does not require an immediate response. The scene can picture connection that leaves room for reduced availability. The imagined reassurance may be valuable without determining how the actual person feels or would behave." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You remain awake while a companion sleeps", "reflection": "The pause gives you a different role: waiting, enjoying quiet company or maintaining an activity. A change of turns can make responsibility shared. Wanting the person awake may concern a particular conversation rather than a general belief that they are doing too little." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You seem to wake and begin the day inside the dream", "reflection": "An expected return to ordinary activity becomes another part of the imagined sequence. The details you begin attending to may offer a personal association. The remembered account alone does not confirm a sleep stage, diagnose a condition or establish that a waking event occurred." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You finish a short imagined rest and rejoin the activity", "reflection": "The pause has an ending that lets participation resume. This can picture stopping as part of continuing rather than a permanent withdrawal. What feels different on return may concern the activity’s pace, the available company or your freedom to choose how to take part." } ], "prompts": [ "What made pausing feel permitted, difficult or exposed?", "How was availability shared between you and other people?", "What did returning to the activity make possible?" ], "related": [ "bed", "nightmare", "lucid-dreaming", "childhood-home", "being-late" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s continuing English editorial delegation. 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To sléepe in the Church to the sicke is health, to the sound man, si[illegible passage]esse, or great businesse. To sléepe in the way, or in the Churchyard, is death to the sick: and hinderance to others.", "locator": "Book 1, encoded section 60", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription-with-gaps", "book": "1", "displayText": "To dreame that you sléep or slumber, signifyes impeachment of affaires, and is ill to all, except those which are in doubt or expectation of some danger, for this dream delivers them from paine and care: but to dream that you wake againe, importeth action and operations. To sléepe in the Church to the sicke is health, to the sound man, si [illegible passage] esse, or great businesse. To sléepe in the way, or in the Churchyard, is death to the sick: and hinderance to others.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “To sleepe” is shown on the Sleep page: archaic \"To sleepe\"" }, { "id": "noe-0459", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Sleep", "text": "To dream you sleep or slumber, is evil\nto all, except to those who are in doubt or expectation of some danger,\nfor this delivers them from pain and care. To dream you sleep in a\nchurchyard, is death to the sick and hindrance to others.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 466; source lines 1712–1715", "lineStart": 1712, "lineEnd": 1715, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you sleep or slumber, is evil\nto all, except to those who are in doubt or expectation of some danger,\nfor this delivers them from pain and care. To dream you sleep in a\nchurchyard, is death to the sick and hindrance to others." }, { "id": "cielo-0387", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Sleep", "text": "To dream that you are asleep indicates false\n security, and is a sign to be cautious.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 387; source lines 4796–4799", "lineStart": 4796, "lineEnd": 4799, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are asleep indicates false\nsecurity, and is a sign to be cautious." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "sleigh", "title": "Sleigh", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see a sleigh in your dreams, foretells you will fail in some love adventure, and incur the displeasure of a friend.”", "aliases": [ "sleigh" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about sleigh stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1857", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Sleigh", "text": "To see a sleigh in your dreams, foretells you will fail in\nsome love adventure, and incur the displeasure of a friend.\nTo ride in one, foretells injudicious engagements will be entered\ninto by you.", "locator": "Heading 1861; source lines 20631–20638", "lineStart": 20631, "lineEnd": 20638, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a sleigh in your dreams, foretells you will fail in\nsome love adventure, and incur the displeasure of a friend.\nTo ride in one, foretells injudicious engagements will be entered\ninto by you." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "sleigh-ride", "title": "Sleigh-Ride", "type": "dreams", "category": "Other symbols", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “To dream of a sleigh-ride, where the sleighing is good, and the sleigh glides free and noiseless, is an excellent omen, as it foretells…”", "aliases": [ "sleigh-ride" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about sleigh-ride stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0732", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Sleigh-Ride", "text": "To dream of a sleigh-ride, where the sleighing is good,\nand the sleigh glides free and noiseless, is an excellent omen, as it\nforetells success and good fortune generally, particularly to farmers:\nbut if you imagine the sleighing is poor, and that the runners screech\non the ground, it foretells trouble and unhappiness. Young men who\ndream of sleigh-riding with girls, stopping at taverns, drinking,\ngetting the girls boozy, and then performing unnamable pranks, are thus\nforewarned that they will be poor and shiftless, as such dreams are\ncertain omens of misery and disgrace. 67, 46.", "locator": "Heading 732; source line 4565", "lineStart": 4565, "lineEnd": 4575, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a sleigh-ride, where the sleighing is good,\nand the sleigh glides free and noiseless, is an excellent omen, as it\nforetells success and good fortune generally, particularly to farmers:\nbut if you imagine the sleighing is poor, and that the runners screech\non the ground, it foretells trouble and unhappiness. Young men who\ndream of sleigh-riding with girls, stopping at taverns, drinking,\ngetting the girls boozy, and then performing unnamable pranks, are thus\nforewarned that they will be poor and shiftless, as such dreams are\ncertain omens of misery and disgrace." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "sliding", "title": "Sliding", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of sliding, portends disappointments in affairs, and sweethearts will break vows.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "sliding" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about sliding stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "ice" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1858", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Sliding", "text": "To dream of sliding, portends disappointments in affairs,\nand sweethearts will break vows.\n\nTo slide down a hillside covered with green grass, foretells that you\nwill be deceived into ruin by flattering promises.", "locator": "Heading 1862; source lines 20638–20646", "lineStart": 20638, "lineEnd": 20646, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of sliding, portends disappointments in affairs,\nand sweethearts will break vows.\n\nTo slide down a hillside covered with green grass, foretells that you\nwill be deceived into ruin by flattering promises." }, { "id": "fontaine-0733", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Sliding", "text": "(_See Ice._) To dream of sliding on smooth ice, foretells good\nluck: if a girl dreams that a young man assists her in sliding, and\nthat she enjoys it, she will soon get an agreeable lover: ragged or wet\nice, or holes in the ice, foreshadow difficulties. If a girl dreams\nof falling down on the ice, and that her lover falls with her, and\novertops her, they may as well go to the parson at once, and have the\nknot tied, as it is a sure thing to happen. 4, 28.", "locator": "Heading 733; source line 4575", "lineStart": 4575, "lineEnd": 4583, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Ice.) To dream of sliding on smooth ice, foretells good\nluck: if a girl dreams that a young man assists her in sliding, and\nthat she enjoys it, she will soon get an agreeable lover: ragged or wet\nice, or holes in the ice, foreshadow difficulties. If a girl dreams\nof falling down on the ice, and that her lover falls with her, and\novertops her, they may as well go to the parson at once, and have the\nknot tied, as it is a sure thing to happen." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11953", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Sliding", "heading": "Sliding", "text": "A dream of success; to fall, however, connotes misfortune; to be tripped denotes an enemy (Raphael). See typical dreams.", "lineStart": 11953, "lineEnd": 11956, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 254; NLM OCR lines 11953–11956", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11953, "lineEnd": 11956, "printedPage": 254, "printedPageEnd": 254 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Sliding. — A dream of success; to fall, however, connotes \nmisfortune; to be tripped denotes an enemy (Raphael). See \ntypical dreams. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Sliding" }, "displayText": "A dream of success; to fall, however, connotes misfortune; to be tripped denotes an enemy (Raphael). See typical dreams." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "ice" ] }, { "slug": "slighted", "title": "Slighted", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of slighting any person or friend, denotes that you will fail to find happiness, as you will cultivate a morose and repellent…”", "aliases": [ "slighted" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about slighted stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1859", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Slighted", "text": "To dream of slighting any person or friend, denotes that you\nwill fail to find happiness, as you will cultivate a morose\nand repellent bearing.\n\nIf you are slighted, you will have cause to bemoan your unfortunate position.", "locator": "Heading 1863; source lines 20646–20654", "lineStart": 20646, "lineEnd": 20654, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of slighting any person or friend, denotes that you\nwill fail to find happiness, as you will cultivate a morose\nand repellent bearing.\n\nIf you are slighted, you will have cause to bemoan your unfortunate position." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "slip-or-fall", "title": "Slip or Fall", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Cielo wrote: “Indicates a rise in position.”", "aliases": [ "slip or fall", "slip", "fall" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about slip or fall stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "cielo-0388", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Slip or Fall", "text": "Indicates a rise in position.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 388; source lines 4799–4801", "lineStart": 4799, "lineEnd": 4801, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Indicates a rise in position." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "slippers", "title": "Slippers", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of slippers, warns you that you are about to perform an unfortunate alliance or intrigue.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "slippers", "slipper" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about slippers stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1860", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Slippers", "text": "To dream of slippers, warns you that you are about to perform\nan unfortunate alliance or intrigue. You are likely to find\nfavor with a married person which will result in trouble,\nif not scandal.\n\nTo dream that your slippers are much admired, foretells that you\nwill be involved in a flirtation, which will suggest disgrace.", "locator": "Heading 1864; source lines 20654–20664", "lineStart": 20654, "lineEnd": 20664, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of slippers, warns you that you are about to perform\nan unfortunate alliance or intrigue. You are likely to find\nfavor with a married person which will result in trouble,\nif not scandal.\n\nTo dream that your slippers are much admired, foretells that you\nwill be involved in a flirtation, which will suggest disgrace." }, { "id": "cielo-0389", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Slipper", "text": "Is significant of comfort and satisfaction.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 389; source lines 4801–4803", "lineStart": 4801, "lineEnd": 4803, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Is significant of comfort and satisfaction." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "sloth", "title": "Sloth", "type": "dreams", "kind": "modern", "category": "Animals", "aliases": [ "sloth", "sloths", "a sloth", "sloth animal" ], "summary": "A sloth may make pace, rest, or holding on visible in a dream. Slow movement can feel steady or frustrating without being a judgment about laziness.", "tagline": "A different pace, a secure hold, and deciding what needs to hurry.", "psychological": "A slowly moving sloth can put two schedules into the same scene: the animal's pace and the pace you think events should have. If you feel impatient, the dream may resemble waiting for an answer, learning a skill, or working through a change that cannot be accelerated by wanting it finished. If watching feels restful, the same image could bring a wish for less pressure. Neither reading makes the animal a label for a lazy person.\n\nSteadiness is another possibility. A sloth holding a branch while the surroundings shift may make support and balance more important than speed. That can fit a period in which keeping one commitment or routine is already meaningful work. You may be comparing quiet continuity with visible achievement. The image allows a question about what makes a slower approach workable, including enough support and a place where it is not constantly interrupted.\n\nSlow movement can become distressing when the dream requires urgency. A road must be crossed, a branch is giving way, or someone demands that the animal hurry. Here the subject may be a mismatch between need and available time. That is different from enjoying rest. You might want help, a safer route, or an expectation that takes limits into account, rather than more effort from the creature.\n\nCarrying the sloth may feel protective or may turn another pace into your responsibility. Waiting beside it can feel companionable; dragging it onward can create conflict. An unexpectedly quick animal may challenge the story you had formed about it. The image could also come directly from a favorite video, toy, or encounter. The useful subject is the relationship between pace, support, and the task, rather than a moral assessment of how quickly anyone lives.", "traditional": "No matching historical passage about the animal is supplied. The word sloth also has a moralized everyday meaning, but this entry keeps that separate from the creature in the dream. These are original possibilities about pace and support. A slow animal does not establish a character flaw, a diagnosis, or a rule that every delay should be welcomed.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Whose pace counts?", "reflection": "A slowly moving animal may make an expected schedule visible. Patience, frustration, and relief lead to different readings about time, pressure, and how much the task can be hurried." }, { "title": "Steadiness before speed", "reflection": "Holding a branch or maintaining a careful position may fit quiet continuity. The useful subject can be enough support to keep going, rather than producing faster visible progress." }, { "title": "A mismatch that needs help", "reflection": "Slowness during an urgent scene may concern unsuitable conditions or limited time. The question can be what support or safer route is needed, without blaming the animal or yourself." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Waiting while a sloth crosses your path", "reflection": "You cannot continue until the animal moves, and waiting changes the mood of the journey. This can fit a delay that challenges your schedule. Whether you become calmer, more impatient, or willing to choose another route distinguishes rest from frustration." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Resting beside a sloth", "reflection": "Nothing requires either of you to move quickly. The quiet may feel companionable or strangely difficult to allow. This can offer a personal image of rest without performance, especially if the main tension comes from your own wish to make the pause useful." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A branch bends beneath it", "reflection": "The animal remains attached while its support becomes uncertain. The scene may bring attention to the conditions that make steadiness possible. A wish to provide another branch or more room can resemble wanting practical support for a commitment rather than demanding faster movement." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Carrying a sloth somewhere urgent", "reflection": "You take responsibility for moving the animal on your timetable. This may fit trying to help while also feeling burdened by the pace of a shared task. The creature’s comfort and your urgency can both matter; neither determines whose need should automatically prevail." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The sloth suddenly moves quickly", "reflection": "An animal you expected to be slow acts with surprising speed. The shift may challenge an assumption about ability or timing, or simply delight you. What changes is your expectation: the scene need not become a lesson about hidden productivity or the value of hurrying." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "A sloth settles in your workplace", "reflection": "The animal continues quietly while everyone else demands movement or results. It may make competing ideas about effort visible: calm persistence, needed rest, or frustration at a mismatch. The image does not identify a coworker as lazy or explain another person’s behavior." } ], "prompts": [ "Did the animal’s pace feel restful, steady, frustrating, or unsafe in this particular setting?", "What support made staying or moving possible?", "Was I allowing a different pace, or making myself responsible for changing it?" ], "related": [ "forest", "koala", "running-but-going-nowhere", "being-late", "being-trapped" ], "updated": "2026-10-13", "status": "REVIEW", "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original image-specific interpretation with alternative personal readings; no matching historical passage supplied. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "small-of-the-leg-the-feet-and-the-heel", "title": "Small of the Leg, the Feet, and the Heel", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Artemidorus wrote: “THe small of the Leg, the Féet, and the Héels, have as it were the same signification as the Knées.”", "aliases": [ "small of the leg, the feet, and the heel", "of the small of the leg, the feet, and the heel", "small of the leg", "feet", "heel" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about small of the leg, the feet, and the heel stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "artemidorus-037", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of the small of the Leg, the Feet, and the Heel.", "text": "THe small of the Leg, the Féet, and the Héels, have as it were the same signification as the Knées. To have many Feet is good for Merchants and Masters of Ships, for they shall command many men: and it signifies rest to the Master himselfe: this dream is good for a poore man, to the rich it is sicknesse. Many men by this dream have lost their sight, and Malefactors having it, have béene imprisoned: to put their Feet in the fire is ill too, and signifyeth losse of goods, children, and servants: to such as undertake a wager of running it is good, for they shall run swiftly, as if they had fire on their feet.", "locator": "Book 1, encoded section 37", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "1", "displayText": "THe small of the Leg, the Féet, and the Héels, have as it were the same signification as the Knées. To have many Feet is good for Merchants and Masters of Ships, for they shall command many men: and it signifies rest to the Master himselfe: this dream is good for a poore man, to the rich it is sicknesse. Many men by this dream have lost their sight, and Malefactors having it, have béene imprisoned: to put their Feet in the fire is ill too, and signifyeth losse of goods, children, and servants: to such as undertake a wager of running it is good, for they shall run swiftly, as if they had fire on their feet." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "smallpox", "title": "Smallpox", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see people with smallpox in your dream, denotes unexpected and shocking sickness, and probably contagion.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "smallpox", "small-pox" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about smallpox stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "sores" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1861", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Smallpox", "text": "To see people with smallpox in your dream, denotes unexpected\nand shocking sickness, and probably contagion. You will meet\nfailure in accomplishing your designs.", "locator": "Heading 1865; source lines 20664–20670", "lineStart": 20664, "lineEnd": 20670, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see people with smallpox in your dream, denotes unexpected\nand shocking sickness, and probably contagion. You will meet\nfailure in accomplishing your designs." }, { "id": "fontaine-0734", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Small-Pox", "text": "(_See Sores._) To dream that you have this disease,\nforetells health and good fortune: if a lover should be so ungallant,\nas to imagine that his sweetheart is thus afflicted, it is a sign that\nhe will marry a great beauty; if she happens to be a beauty, it will be\nall right, of course; if not, he will look out for number two. 41, 32.", "locator": "Heading 734; source line 4583", "lineStart": 4583, "lineEnd": 4589, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Sores.) To dream that you have this disease,\nforetells health and good fortune: if a lover should be so ungallant,\nas to imagine that his sweetheart is thus afflicted, it is a sign that\nhe will marry a great beauty; if she happens to be a beauty, it will be\nall right, of course; if not, he will look out for number two." }, { "id": "noe-0491", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Small-pox", "text": "To dream one is full of the small-pox, denotes profit and\nwealth without infamy.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 499; source lines 1828–1829", "lineStart": 1828, "lineEnd": 1829, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream one is full of the small-pox, denotes profit and\nwealth without infamy." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "sores" ] }, { "slug": "smock", "title": "Smock", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “If a girl dreams that she has a ragged undergarment, it foretells that some rich greenhorn will try to seduce her, and failing, will offer…”", "aliases": [ "smock" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about smock stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "linen" ], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0735", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Smock", "text": "(_See Linen._) If a girl dreams that she has a ragged\nundergarment, it foretells that some rich greenhorn will try to seduce\nher, and failing, will offer her marriage: if she dreams that she has\na good supply of beautiful worked undergarments, it is a sign that she\nwill sigh in vain for a lover; if she imagines that a gentleman gives\nher a new smock, she will be in danger of losing her chastity. 12.", "locator": "Heading 735; source line 4589", "lineStart": 4589, "lineEnd": 4596, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Linen.) If a girl dreams that she has a ragged\nundergarment, it foretells that some rich greenhorn will try to seduce\nher, and failing, will offer her marriage: if she dreams that she has\na good supply of beautiful worked undergarments, it is a sign that she\nwill sigh in vain for a lover; if she imagines that a gentleman gives\nher a new smock, she will be in danger of losing her chastity." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "linen" ] }, { "slug": "smoke", "title": "Smoke", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "The visible effect can arrive before its cause is clear.", "summary": "Smoke can explore obscured information, a sign whose source is uncertain or an activity changing the shared air. The dream cannot identify a real threat.", "aliases": [ "smoke" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "Smoke in a dream can make an effect visible while leaving its source unclear. A haze crosses a room, a thin trail rises beyond a wall or a familiar activity fills more space than expected. This can picture trying to understand a situation from incomplete signs. A useful comparison may concern information, atmosphere or the effects of a shared task; the image alone does not identify a real danger or an untrustworthy person.\n\nVisibility gives the scene practical stakes. You may know the room but lose the path across it, hear a companion without seeing them or be unable to tell whether the smoke is increasing. This can resemble having enough information to notice a difficulty without enough to judge its extent. Asking what remains clear may be more useful than supplying the most alarming explanation.\n\nA known source changes the encounter. Smoke from cooking or a workshop may accompany something wanted while requiring a different arrangement. The question becomes how the activity shares space with other needs. Someone dismissing your discomfort can make acknowledgment important; someone opening a route or explaining the task may turn the scene toward cooperation.\n\nWatching smoke at a distance can put interpretation itself into view. You may assume an event, find another explanation or wait for more detail. This can resemble deciding how much a sign warrants before acting. Curiosity and uncertainty can remain together without making every visible trace a warning or turning caution into proof of a hidden threat.\n\nSmoke that clears can reveal a room differently from your expectation. An object may be closer, a person absent or the original task still unfinished. Relief need not settle every question. Recent cooking, journeys, photographs or stories may also supply direct material. The strongest reflection follows what was obscured, what you inferred and what changed when more of the scene became available. That keeps the imagined atmosphere distinct from evidence about an actual event or another person’s motives.", "traditional": "Miller assigns doubts, fear and deception forecasts; Fontaine assigns quarrels or sexualized relationship claims to a smoke-filled room. Cielo distinguishes smoking a cigar from chimney smoke, with different forecasts. Craig gives a brief false-glory claim under a Gypsy attribution. These four period accounts are not evidence of an actual fire, health condition, deception or future event.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You recognize the room but cannot see its doorway", "reflection": "Familiarity does not provide a usable route under changed conditions. This may picture needing information before a normal task can continue. The particular missing view matters more than assigning the smoke one general meaning." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A thin trail rises beyond a wall and you cannot see the source", "reflection": "You have a sign without its explanation. This can bring attention to how much you infer from incomplete information. Waiting, asking or finding another view creates different possibilities without establishing a real threat." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Cooking fills a shared room and someone opens another route", "reflection": "A wanted activity has an inconvenient effect that can be accommodated. This may picture practical cooperation rather than blame. Changing the setting can matter more than deciding that either the activity or your discomfort is wrong." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A companion can hear you but you cannot see each other", "reflection": "Contact remains available through one channel while another is obscured. This can resemble coordinating with incomplete information. Describing locations or waiting together changes the encounter without supplying a fixed rule about relationships." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You disagree about whether the haze is getting thicker", "reflection": "The same uncertain sign supports different estimates. This may picture wanting a shared basis for deciding what to do. The dreamed disagreement cannot establish which person is trustworthy or how they would respond to an actual event." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The smoke clears and the room differs from what you imagined", "reflection": "New information revises the account you were forming. This can make room for relief, surprise or another unfinished question. What you now see matters more than defending the explanation made while the view was limited." } ], "prompts": [ "What was visible, and what did you infer beyond it?", "Was the source known, uncertain or different from your expectation?", "What changed the shared space or made the next action clearer?" ], "related": [ "fire", "fog", "chimney", "cooking", "being-lost" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1862" ], "scope": "miller-1862 — Smoke (Heading 1866; source lines 20670–20677): Smoke is assigned doubts/fears and victimization by flattery. Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence validating the original reflection, a diagnosis, another person’s state or a future event." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0736" ], "scope": "fontaine-0736 — Smoke (Heading 736; source line 4596): A smoke-filled room receives quarrel and sexualized relationship forecasts. Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence validating the original reflection, a diagnosis, another person’s state or a future event." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0390" ], "scope": "cielo-0390 — Smoke (Dream section, heading 390; source lines 4803–4807): Smoking a cigar is assigned extravagant expectations; chimney smoke gains from new efforts. These are distinct actions. Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence validating the original reflection, a diagnosis, another person’s state or a future event." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L11957" ], "scope": "craig-1918:L11957 — Smoke (Printed p. 254; NLM OCR lines 11957–11958): Smoke receives only a false-glory claim under a Gypsy attribution. Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence validating the original reflection, a diagnosis, another person’s state or a future event." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15 under the site owner’s delegation. Historical claims, where supplied, remain attributed period writing. No human or clinical review is claimed.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "An effect before an explanation", "reflection": "Something noticeable may still leave its source and extent uncertain." }, { "title": "A shared atmosphere", "reflection": "An activity can affect other participants even when its purpose is understood." }, { "title": "What becomes visible afterward", "reflection": "Clearing smoke can revise an expectation without resolving every question." } ], "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "Codex (AI-assisted editorial review)", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "a-stranger", "a-train-going-in-the-wrong-direction", "being-trapped", "being-unable-to-move", "children", "church", "current-romantic-partner", "death-of-a-friend", "elevator", "father", "forest", "hair-falling-out", "insects", "key", "locked-out", "mother", "nakedness", "phone-not-working", "rainbow", "running-but-going-nowhere", "school", "smoke", "snake-bite", "superpowers", "the-self", "the-shadow", "web" ] }, "decisionReason": "The original reading distinguishes observation from inference, known from unknown sources and shared effects from motives. Clearing smoke can revise an imagined account without identifying a real threat or deceiver. 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Several ideas become a proposal, different experiences shape a decision, or several people’s preferences enter a shared routine. Blending may feel satisfying when the combined form works better than the pieces alone. If the particular ingredients matter to you, the same process can make their disappearance unsettling. A useful whole does not necessarily keep every contribution visibly distinct.\n\nWanting one ingredient back after blending makes timing central to choice. Something available for separate consideration before commitment is harder to recover afterward. A joint plan or a published piece of work may offer a parallel when revision now requires changing the whole result. The dream need not mean that the decision was wrong. It can picture the difference between choosing inputs and adapting once those inputs have become an arrangement with its own form.\n\nA color different from what you expected makes combination more than simple addition. Each component can be familiar while their interaction produces a surprise. A new group may feel unlike any member’s previous routine, or an experiment may generate another direction from the one originally intended. Curiosity allows the unexpected result to be considered on its own terms. Disappointment may instead concern a specific effect that the mixture was supposed to preserve.\n\nA blender that will not start can make readiness different from an operational process. The ingredients are gathered, but the step that connects them is unavailable. A plan with resources but no workable method can fit. Adding more ingredients does not resolve that missing mechanism. If the recipe keeps changing, the difficulty may instead concern reaching a point when enough has been chosen and the process can begin.\n\nA drink too thick for its straw can picture a result that exists but does not suit the means of using it. Another tool may be enough; more drastic changes are not always necessary. Food preparation, a menu, a remembered drink, or a recent image can supply direct context. The smoothie is not a health assessment. These readings concern combination, commitment, and usable form rather than a nutritional meaning assigned to particular ingredients.", "traditional": "No directly matching historical account is attached for this specific topic. The readings here are original reflective possibilities. The NINDS source provides general background about dreams, not evidence for these symbolic comparisons.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Combination changes identity", "reflection": "Separate contributions can become a useful whole while losing their individual visibility." }, { "title": "Choosing before and after commitment", "reflection": "Revising a finished mixture differs from selecting its parts while they remain separate." }, { "title": "A usable process", "reflection": "Gathered resources need a working method and a form that fits how the result will be used." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "Separate ingredients become a uniform drink", "reflection": "The contributions gain a shared form. This may picture collaboration producing something none of the parts supplied alone. Satisfaction in the result differs from wanting each ingredient to remain recognizable; the tradeoff concerns combination rather than a fixed symbolic value for the contents." }, { "title": "The blended color is unexpected", "reflection": "Familiar inputs produce a result unlike the original picture. This can fit an experiment or shared undertaking developing another character. Curiosity lets the result be considered directly, while disappointment may concern a particular effect you had wanted the combination to preserve." }, { "title": "The blender will not start", "reflection": "The resources are gathered but the connecting process is unavailable. This may picture preparation without a workable next step. Finding a method changes the scene more directly than adding further ingredients to a machine that still cannot use what is present." }, { "title": "The drink is too thick for the straw", "reflection": "A finished resource does not fit its means of access. This can resemble useful information delivered in an inconvenient form. Another tool may resolve the difficulty without requiring you to reject the whole result or assume the underlying work was wasted." }, { "title": "Every arrival changes the recipe", "reflection": "The plan keeps absorbing new requirements before completion. This may picture a shared task without an agreed stopping point. Enjoying the experimentation differs from wanting the original choice to hold long enough for a usable result to emerge." }, { "title": "You want an ingredient back after blending", "reflection": "A component cannot readily regain its earlier separate form. This can picture the changed terms of revision after commitment. The wish does not establish a wrong decision; it may make the difference between reconsidering inputs and adapting a finished arrangement visible." } ], "prompts": [ "What useful whole is emerging from separate contributions?", "Which choice feels different before and after commitment?", "What tool, process, or ingredients would make the result usable?" ], "related": [ "drink", "fruit", "milk", "cooking" ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "snail", "title": "Snail", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Snails crawling in your dream, signifies that unhealthful conditions surround you.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "snail", "snails" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about snail stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1864", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Snail", "text": "Snails crawling in your dream, signifies that unhealthful\nconditions surround you.\n\nTo step on them, denotes that you will come in contact\nwith disagreeable people.", "locator": "Heading 1868; source lines 20751–20759", "lineStart": 20751, "lineEnd": 20759, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Snails crawling in your dream, signifies that unhealthful\nconditions surround you.\n\nTo step on them, denotes that you will come in contact\nwith disagreeable people." }, { "id": "cielo-0391", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Snail", "text": "A crawling snail is a sign of coming dishonor.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 391; source lines 4807–4809", "lineStart": 4807, "lineEnd": 4809, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "A crawling snail is a sign of coming dishonor." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11959", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Snail", "heading": "Snail", "text": "To see a snail in your dream foretells honorable promotion ; if it shows its horns it denotes infidelity, adultery, want of chastity, etc. (Artemidorus). The symbol of sexual power (Bayley).", "lineStart": 11959, "lineEnd": 11963, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 254; NLM OCR lines 11959–11963", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11959, "lineEnd": 11963, "printedPage": 254, "printedPageEnd": 254 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Snail. — To see a snail in your dream foretells honorable \npromotion ; if it shows its horns it denotes infidelity, adultery, \nwant of chastity, etc. (Artemidorus). The symbol of sexual \npower (Bayley). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Snail" }, "displayText": "To see a snail in your dream foretells honorable promotion; if it shows its horns it denotes infidelity, adultery, want of chastity, etc. (Artemidorus). The symbol of sexual power (Bayley)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "snake-bite", "title": "Snake bite", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "An imagined encounter becomes an interruption with a specific point of contact.", "summary": "A snake bite in a dream can explore a sudden interruption, a crossed limit or the response to being hurt. Its details do not reveal betrayal or predict harm.", "aliases": [ "snake bite", "bitten by a snake", "snakebite", "snake biting me", "snake bit me", "snake bites", "bitten by snake" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "A snake bite in a dream can change an encounter from watching something to having your own activity interrupted. A hand stops reaching, a foot cannot take the next step or an ordinary journey becomes focused on what just happened. This can picture a particular limit or hurt becoming difficult to overlook. The bite does not identify a disloyal person, establish poisoning or predict an injury outside the dream.\n\nWhat happened before contact gives the scene direction. Accidentally stepping near a snake differs from approaching it deliberately or being bitten while trying to help it leave. These arrangements can resemble different relations to a difficult task: encountering an unexpected problem, accepting an uncertain risk or finding that assistance has limits. They are possible comparisons, not judgments that the dreamer caused or deserved a harm.\n\nThe location can make the interruption concrete without supplying a universal body code. A bitten hand may stop a task that needs touch; a bitten foot may change a journey. Ask what the affected movement would have accomplished in the scene. The practical consequence can be more informative than assigning every hand to work or every foot to direction in advance.\n\nThe response after the bite may become the main event. Someone believes you, dismisses the interruption, offers practical company or supplies an explanation that does not fit what you saw. This can bring attention to how you want an experience acknowledged. The helper’s role belongs to the dream and does not evaluate a real person’s care or medical competence.\n\nA snake that withdraws immediately creates a different ending from one that remains close. You may be concerned with the aftermath rather than an ongoing encounter. A painless or impossible bite can also leave uncertainty about what changed at all. Images from wildlife, stories and remembered encounters may provide direct context. Keep the dreamed sequence, your felt response and any later comparison distinct; none needs to become proof that someone has secretly harmed you.", "traditional": "Miller’s Snakes passage explicitly assigns enemy and business-injury claims to bites; Serpents gives a broader adverse account, and Bite adds irreversible-work and enemy-loss claims. Fontaine’s Snake and Bite passages assign enemies, slander, jealousy and sorrow. These five cited passages remain with their existing owners; they are historical comparison, not evidence of betrayal, poisoning, illness or a future injury.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "The snake bites your hand while you reach for an object", "reflection": "A wanted task stops at the point of contact. This may picture discovering a limit while trying to obtain or use something. What the hand was doing matters more than a fixed rule about that part of the body." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A bite stops you taking the next step on a path", "reflection": "The encounter changes the journey’s immediate terms. This can resemble an interruption that requires attention before continuing. It does not establish that your destination is wrong or that a real obstacle will appear." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You are bitten while trying to guide the snake away", "reflection": "Helping includes contact you did not expect. This may picture a task whose limits need clearer terms. The imagined outcome does not mean that kindness causes harm or that you deserved the interruption." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Someone listens while you explain the sequence", "reflection": "Acknowledgment comes before a ready-made interpretation. This can give attention to wanting an experience understood in its particular order. The listener’s dreamed care does not measure the response an actual person will provide." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The snake leaves and your attention remains on the bite", "reflection": "The encounter is over while its effect still occupies the scene. This may picture an aftermath that deserves attention without requiring the original difficulty to remain present. The continued focus does not prove an ongoing threat." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You expect a wound but cannot find any sign of the bite", "reflection": "The remembered contact and the visible result do not match. This can picture uncertainty about what changed rather than a hidden injury. The gap can remain unresolved without diagnosing the body or turning expectation into evidence." } ], "prompts": [ "What activity did the contact interrupt?", "What happened before the bite, without adding blame or a future forecast?", "Which response afterward fitted the experience you were trying to describe?" ], "related": [ "snake", "bite", "being-attacked", "being-chased" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "scope": "miller-1805 — Serpents (Heading 1809; source lines 20080–20089): The adjacent Serpents account gives adverse surroundings/disappointment claims and cross-references Snakes/Reptiles. miller-1863 — Snakes (Heading 1867; source lines 20677–20751): The adjacent Snakes account explicitly assigns bites enemy/business-injury claims among many other period forecasts. miller-0225 — Bite (Heading 225; source lines 3690–3697): The adjacent Bite account gives adverse, irreversible-work and enemy-loss claims. Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence validating the original reflection, a diagnosis, another person’s state or a future event.", "recordReferences": [ { "id": "miller-1805", "heading": "Serpents", "locator": "Heading 1809; source lines 20080–20089" }, { "id": "miller-1863", "heading": "Snakes", "locator": "Heading 1867; source lines 20677–20751" }, { "id": "miller-0225", "heading": "Bite", "locator": "Heading 225; source lines 3690–3697" } ], "recordIds": [ "miller-1805", "miller-1863", "miller-0225" ] }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "scope": "fontaine-0737 — Snake (Heading 737; source line 4601): The adjacent Snake account assigns enemies, slander, quarrels and a gendered loyalty warning. fontaine-0075 — Bite (Heading 75; source line 1284): The adjacent Bite account assigns jealousy and sorrow. Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence validating the original reflection, a diagnosis, another person’s state or a future event.", "recordReferences": [ { "id": "fontaine-0737", "heading": "Snake", "locator": "Heading 737; source line 4601" }, { "id": "fontaine-0075", "heading": "Bite", "locator": "Heading 75; source line 1284" } ], "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0737", "fontaine-0075" ] } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15 under the site owner’s delegation. Historical claims, where supplied, remain attributed period writing. No human or clinical review is claimed.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Contact interrupts an activity", "reflection": "The particular action stopped by the bite can give a more precise reading than a general threat." }, { "title": "The approach has context", "reflection": "Accident, curiosity and trying to help create different encounters without assigning blame." }, { "title": "Acknowledgment after the event", "reflection": "A response that fits the interruption can matter more than an explanation offered too quickly." } ], "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "Codex (AI-assisted editorial review)", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "a-stranger", "a-train-going-in-the-wrong-direction", "being-trapped", "being-unable-to-move", "children", "church", "current-romantic-partner", "death-of-a-friend", "elevator", "father", "forest", "hair-falling-out", "insects", "key", "locked-out", "mother", "nakedness", "phone-not-working", "rainbow", "running-but-going-nowhere", "school", "smoke", "snake-bite", "superpowers", "the-self", "the-shadow", "web" ] }, "decisionReason": "The new reading develops the particular activity interrupted, different approaches without blame and acknowledgment after contact. It cannot establish betrayal, poisoning or future injury. The five cited adjacent passages were read and retain their actual Snake/Serpents/Bite owners, with forecasts explicitly limited.", "contentSha256": "dbc5508703fc94f12cf7f467135da1bdef90228fa6594a2e0df4605b38319af7" }, "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "snake", "title": "Snakes", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "A hidden worry. A sharp encounter. A skin you are ready to leave behind.", "summary": "A snake can give shape to vigilance, a sharp boundary, or a change you are growing into. Fear, fascination, and the encounter lead to different readings.", "aliases": [ "snake", "snakes", "serpent", "serpents", "snake, serpent" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "A snake changes a scene simply by being there. You may stop, scan the ground, protect someone, or watch with fascination. That shift in attention is a useful starting point: the dream can make you alert to something whose importance you feel before you fully understand it. The same animal can become a threat or a compelling presence, so your response gives the image its direction.\n\n A hidden snake can give shape to uncertainty. Perhaps a conversation has become tense without an explanation, a deadline is approaching without a clear plan, or a decision keeps drawing your attention. The parallel is the effort of watching for what might happen next. If the snake never attacks, the dream's strongest subject may be anticipation: the strain of staying ready for a problem rather than the problem itself.\n\n A bite makes that uncertainty sudden and concrete. It can resemble a cutting comment, an unwelcome demand, or a surprise in a place you expected to feel comfortable. Where the bite stops you matters: an injured hand interrupts work or touch; an injured foot changes whether you can leave. These are practical connections within the scene. The animal's appearance cannot tell you which person caused a waking difficulty or whether anyone intends harm.\n\n Shedding skin offers a different reading. The image makes growth visible as a separation from something that once fitted. It may resonate with leaving a role, changing how you present yourself, or realizing that an old way of coping has become restrictive. Watching the process calmly can suggest readiness; feeling disgust or grief can make the change more ambivalent. Renewal can involve losing familiarity as well as gaining space.\n\n A peaceful snake can bring curiosity, confidence, or respect for something powerful. Handling it comfortably might resemble becoming familiar with a task or part of yourself that once felt intimidating. Keeping your distance may feel equally right: interest does not require closeness. Someone who knows snakes well may simply be revisiting an ordinary encounter; a recent image or story can also supply the animal. Choose the reading that explains the emotional movement of your dream, including the details that do not fit it.", "traditional": "Miller's Snakes and Fontaine's Snake entries make the animal a figure of enemies, slander, and disputes. Their predictions are preserved in the archive below. Reading them beside a calm or admired snake reveals the limits of those authors' suspicious interpretation.\n\n Katherine Taylor Craig's 1918 Serpent entry collects a wider set of associations, including temptation, erotic readings, wisdom, time, and a staff linked with health. These are claims Craig records, rather than evidence that one meaning fits every culture or dream. The contrast offers a useful historical question: does the snake feel like danger to avoid, power to respect, or a change unfolding? Your own encounter decides which comparison has something to offer.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A snake is hidden in your home", "reflection": "Something unfamiliar has entered a place associated with comfort or privacy. This can resemble a concern that follows you home or a boundary that feels less secure than before. If you cannot locate the snake, the uncertainty itself may be what makes the scene difficult." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A snake bites you", "reflection": "A sudden sting can echo an encounter that felt sharper than expected: criticism, a demanding request, or an abrupt change. Look at what the bite prevented you from doing and whether help arrived. That consequence gives the image more precision than a general reading of betrayal." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A snake sheds its skin", "reflection": "The dream makes transition visible. It may connect with a role, habit, or presentation of yourself that no longer fits. A clean separation can feel satisfying; struggling to emerge can make the scene about the difficult middle of change rather than its finished result." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "The snake is calm and you are curious", "reflection": "The encounter feels approachable. This can fit growing familiarity with something once intimidating, or an interest you have not yet explored. The animal’s calmness and your willingness to watch matter more here than an inherited association with danger." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "There are snakes everywhere", "reflection": "One manageable encounter becomes an environment you cannot relax in. The scene can give form to many small worries, competing demands, or the exhausting need to check every step. Escaping to clear ground may make relief and space the most useful parts of the dream." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You drive the snake away or kill it", "reflection": "The action can frame an attempt to end a disturbance or reclaim space. Satisfaction, regret, and continued fear produce different endings: did removing the snake resolve the tension, or did it remain? The dreamed action need not express a wish to harm an animal or person." } ], "prompts": [ "What held my attention before the snake appeared?", "Where in my life do I feel alert, intruded upon, or ready for change?", "Did the ending bring relief, curiosity, regret, or more uncertainty?" ], "related": [ "snake-bite", "being-chased", "spider", "water", "reptile" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "scope": "Historical comparison only: Snakes — miller-1863, Heading 1867; source lines 20677–20751. These period beliefs do not establish a dream meaning or prediction.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1863" ] }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "scope": "Historical comparison only: Snake — fontaine-0737, Heading 737; source line 4601. These period beliefs do not establish a dream meaning or prediction.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0737" ] }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "scope": "Historical comparison: Craig’s Serpent entry, printed p. 252, NLM OCR lines 11842–11853 (craig-1918:L11842). Cultural and theoretical associations are reported as Craig’s claims, not independently verified meanings.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L11842" ] }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0456", "noe-0480" ], "scope": "Attached historical material only: Serpent — noe-0456 (Dream section, heading 462; source lines 1695–1700); Snakes — noe-0480 (Dream section, heading 488; source lines 1795–1799). A moving, attacking, or killed serpent receives danger, illness, and enemy-related forecasts. Snakes and killing a snake receive prison, danger, relationship, and other outcome forecasts. This citation preserves the attributed archival material; it does not substantiate the original modern reflection or establish a present-day outcome." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0392" ], "scope": "Attached historical material only: Snake — cielo-0392 (Dream section, heading 392; source lines 4809–4812). The snake image receives a treason claim and caution about trust. This citation preserves the attributed archival material; it does not substantiate the original modern reflection or establish a present-day outcome." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0218" ], "scope": "Attached historical material only: Snake, Serpent — luck-0218 (Dream section, heading 218; source lines 4086–4088). Snake and Serpent receive bad-luck, sickness, and lifespan forecasts. This citation preserves the attributed archival material; it does not substantiate the original modern reflection or establish a present-day outcome." }, { "id": "moles-71045", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams and Moles", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "United Kingdom, J. Marshall, 1805", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71045", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "moles-0007", "moles-0061" ], "scope": "Attached historical material only: Serpents — moles-0007 (Dreams interpreted, passage 7; source lines 130–131); Serpents — moles-0061 (Dreams interpreted, passage 61; source lines 287–288). A serpent or insect bite is assigned harm from enemies. A serpent bite is assigned danger from concealed enemies. This citation preserves the attributed archival material; it does not substantiate the original modern reflection or establish a present-day outcome." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s delegation of editorial decisions. Historical forecasts remain attributed period claims; these reflections are not predictions or clinical assessments.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Vigilance", "reflection": "A concealed or unpredictable snake can make the scene about staying alert: an unresolved concern has your attention before you know exactly what to do with it." }, { "title": "A boundary becomes visible", "reflection": "A bite or unwanted closeness can give a sharp form to intrusion, surprise, or the need for more space. The important clue is what the encounter interrupted." }, { "title": "Outgrowing an old role", "reflection": "Shedding skin can be an image for change that has become necessary. The old covering once protected you; leaving it behind may feel freeing, uncomfortable, or both." } ], "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "DreamFolia AI-assisted editorial review", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "do what its best I have no idea", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "snake", "teeth-falling-out", "being-chased", "flying", "falling", "being-naked-in-public", "cheating", "school-or-exam", "death" ] }, "decisionReason": "The reading distinguishes vigilance, contact, change and calm curiosity through six scenes. The period enemy forecasts remain attributed and do not identify a real adversary.", "reviewedSnapshot": "data/common-dream-publication-review-2026-10-15-v2.json", "contentSha256": "be14155b1a94a2dc9590e57423f75a0f2d845b699c29b91b6476067c2c36a16f" }, "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1805", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Serpents", "text": "To dream of serpents, is indicative of cultivated morbidity\nand depressed surroundings. There is usually a disappointment\nafter this dream.\n\n\n[199] See Snakes and Reptiles.", "locator": "Heading 1809; source lines 20080–20089", "lineStart": 20080, "lineEnd": 20089, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of serpents, is indicative of cultivated morbidity\nand depressed surroundings. There is usually a disappointment\nafter this dream. See Snakes and Reptiles." }, { "id": "miller-1863", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Snakes", "text": "For a woman to dream that a dead snake is biting her, foretells she\nwill suffer from malice of a pretended friend.\n\nTo dream of snakes, is a foreboding of evil in its various forms and stages.\n\nTo see them wriggling and falling over others, foretells struggles\nwith fortune and remorse.\n\nTo kill them, you will feel that you have used every opportunity\nof advancing your own interests, or respecting that of others.\nYou will enjoy victory over enemies.\n\nTo walk over them, you will live in constant fear of sickness, and selfish\npersons will seek to usurp your place in your companion's life.\n\nIf they bite you, you will succumb to evil influences, and enemies\nwill injure your business.\n\nTo dream that a common spotted snake approaches you from green herbs,\nand you quickly step aside as it passes you, and after you had forgotten\nthe incident to again see it approaching and growing in dimensions\nas it nears you, finally taking on the form of an enormous serpent;\nif you then, after frantic efforts, succeed in escaping its attack,\nand altogether lose sight of it, it foretells that you will soon\nimagine you are being disobeyed and slighted, and things will go on\nfrom bad to worse. Sickness, uneasiness and unkindness will increase\nto frightful proportions in your mind; but they will adjust themselves\nto a normal basis, and by the putting aside of imaginary trouble,\nand masterfully shouldering duties, you will be contented and repaid.\n\nTo dream that a snake coils itself around you and darts its tongue out at you,\nis a sign that you will be placed in a position where you will be powerless\nin the hands of enemies, and you will be attacked with sickness.\n\nTo handle them, you will use strategy to aid in overthrowing opposition.\n\nTo see hairs turn into snakes, foretells that seeming insignificant\nincidents will make distressing cares for you.\n\nIf snakes turn into unnatural shapes, you will have troubles which will\nbe dispelled if treated with indifference, calmness and will power.\n\nTo see or step on snakes while wading or bathing, denotes that there\nwill be trouble where unalloyed pleasure was anticipated.\n\nTo see them bite others, foretells that some friend will be injured\nand criticised by you.\n\nTo see little snakes, denotes you will entertain persons\nwith friendly hospitality who will secretly defame you and work\nto overthrow your growing prospects.\n\nTo see children playing with them, is a sign that you will be\nnonplussed to distinguish your friends from your enemies.\nFor a woman to think a child places one on the back of her head,\nand she hears the snake's hisses, foretells that she will be\npersuaded to yield up some possession seemingly for her good,\nbut she will find out later that she has been inveigled\ninto an intrigue in which enemies will tantalize her.\nTo see snakes raising up their heads in a path just behind\nyour friend, denotes that you will discover a conspiracy\nwhich has been formed to injure your friend and also yourself.\nTo think your friend has them under control, denotes that\nsome powerful agency will be employed in your favor to ward\noff evil influences.\n\nFor a woman to hypnotize a snake, denotes your rights will be assailed,\nbut you will be protected by law and influential friends.\n\n\n[210] See Serpents and Reptiles.", "locator": "Heading 1867; source lines 20677–20751", "lineStart": 20677, "lineEnd": 20751, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a woman to dream that a dead snake is biting her, foretells she\nwill suffer from malice of a pretended friend.\n\nTo dream of snakes, is a foreboding of evil in its various forms and stages.\n\nTo see them wriggling and falling over others, foretells struggles\nwith fortune and remorse.\n\nTo kill them, you will feel that you have used every opportunity\nof advancing your own interests, or respecting that of others.\nYou will enjoy victory over enemies.\n\nTo walk over them, you will live in constant fear of sickness, and selfish\npersons will seek to usurp your place in your companion's life.\n\nIf they bite you, you will succumb to evil influences, and enemies\nwill injure your business.\n\nTo dream that a common spotted snake approaches you from green herbs,\nand you quickly step aside as it passes you, and after you had forgotten\nthe incident to again see it approaching and growing in dimensions\nas it nears you, finally taking on the form of an enormous serpent;\nif you then, after frantic efforts, succeed in escaping its attack,\nand altogether lose sight of it, it foretells that you will soon\nimagine you are being disobeyed and slighted, and things will go on\nfrom bad to worse. Sickness, uneasiness and unkindness will increase\nto frightful proportions in your mind; but they will adjust themselves\nto a normal basis, and by the putting aside of imaginary trouble,\nand masterfully shouldering duties, you will be contented and repaid.\n\nTo dream that a snake coils itself around you and darts its tongue out at you,\nis a sign that you will be placed in a position where you will be powerless\nin the hands of enemies, and you will be attacked with sickness.\n\nTo handle them, you will use strategy to aid in overthrowing opposition.\n\nTo see hairs turn into snakes, foretells that seeming insignificant\nincidents will make distressing cares for you.\n\nIf snakes turn into unnatural shapes, you will have troubles which will\nbe dispelled if treated with indifference, calmness and will power.\n\nTo see or step on snakes while wading or bathing, denotes that there\nwill be trouble where unalloyed pleasure was anticipated.\n\nTo see them bite others, foretells that some friend will be injured\nand criticised by you.\n\nTo see little snakes, denotes you will entertain persons\nwith friendly hospitality who will secretly defame you and work\nto overthrow your growing prospects.\n\nTo see children playing with them, is a sign that you will be\nnonplussed to distinguish your friends from your enemies.\nFor a woman to think a child places one on the back of her head,\nand she hears the snake's hisses, foretells that she will be\npersuaded to yield up some possession seemingly for her good,\nbut she will find out later that she has been inveigled\ninto an intrigue in which enemies will tantalize her.\nTo see snakes raising up their heads in a path just behind\nyour friend, denotes that you will discover a conspiracy\nwhich has been formed to injure your friend and also yourself.\nTo think your friend has them under control, denotes that\nsome powerful agency will be employed in your favor to ward\noff evil influences.\n\nFor a woman to hypnotize a snake, denotes your rights will be assailed,\nbut you will be protected by law and influential friends. See Serpents and Reptiles." }, { "id": "fontaine-0737", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Snake", "text": "To dream of snakes is a sign of an enemy, or that some one is\nslandering you; it also denotes quarrels and angry disputes: if an\nengaged young lady dreams of them, she had better ascertain positively\nwhether her lover is all right before she marries him. 47, 50.", "locator": "Heading 737; source line 4601", "lineStart": 4601, "lineEnd": 4606, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of snakes is a sign of an enemy, or that some one is\nslandering you; it also denotes quarrels and angry disputes: if an\nengaged young lady dreams of them, she had better ascertain positively\nwhether her lover is all right before she marries him." }, { "id": "noe-0456", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Serpent", "text": "To dream you see a serpent turning and\nwinding himself, signifies danger and imprisonment. It denotes also\nsickness and hatred. To dream you kill a serpent, is a sign that you will\novercome your enemies. To dream of beating serpents is very good, and if a\nserpent approaching near to do you harm, but does it not, it is a sign\nthat some ill woman shall be disappointed in her designs.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 462; source lines 1695–1700", "lineStart": 1695, "lineEnd": 1700, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see a serpent turning and\nwinding himself, signifies danger and imprisonment. It denotes also\nsickness and hatred. To dream you kill a serpent, is a sign that you will\novercome your enemies. To dream of beating serpents is very good, and if a\nserpent approaching near to do you harm, but does it not, it is a sign\nthat some ill woman shall be disappointed in her designs." }, { "id": "noe-0480", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Snakes", "text": "To dream you see snakes and serpents, shows that you will be\nimprisoned, and encounter many dangers. If you are in love, your\nsweetheart will be false; to dream you kill a snake, shows you will\novercome difficulties and enemies and be successful in love, trade or\nfarming, but unsuccessful at sea.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 488; source lines 1795–1799", "lineStart": 1795, "lineEnd": 1799, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see snakes and serpents, shows that you will be\nimprisoned, and encounter many dangers. If you are in love, your\nsweetheart will be false; to dream you kill a snake, shows you will\novercome difficulties and enemies and be successful in love, trade or\nfarming, but unsuccessful at sea." }, { "id": "cielo-0392", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Snake", "text": "Denotes treason, and is a caution to be\n careful whom you trust.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 392; source lines 4809–4812", "lineStart": 4809, "lineEnd": 4812, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Denotes treason, and is a caution to be\ncareful whom you trust." }, { "id": "luck-0218", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Snake, Serpent", "text": "Bad luck, sickness, short life.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 218; source lines 4086–4088", "lineStart": 4086, "lineEnd": 4088, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Bad luck, sickness, short life.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Snake, Serpent” is shown on the Snakes page: book of Luck \"Snake, Serpent\" heading" }, { "id": "moles-0007", "sourceId": "moles-71045", "heading": "Serpents", "originalHeading": "(no printed heading)", "text": "To dream you are stung or bitten by serpents or insects, denotes\nmischief to come from malicious and private enemies.", "locator": "Dreams interpreted, passage 7; source lines 130–131", "lineStart": 130, "lineEnd": 131, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "editorialNote": "The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Serpents” because that is the subject of its first clause.", "displayText": "To dream you are stung or bitten by serpents or insects, denotes\nmischief to come from malicious and private enemies." }, { "id": "moles-0061", "sourceId": "moles-71045", "heading": "Serpents", "originalHeading": "(no printed heading)", "text": "To dream you are bit by a serpent, signifies some danger will befal you\nby secret and subtile enemies.", "locator": "Dreams interpreted, passage 61; source lines 287–288", "lineStart": 287, "lineEnd": 288, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "editorialNote": "The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Serpents” because that is the subject of its first clause.", "displayText": "To dream you are bit by a serpent, signifies some danger will befal you\nby secret and subtile enemies." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11842", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Serpent", "heading": "Serpent", "text": "A dream of temptation and of evil (Gypsy). Obviously the dream interpreters of modern times have accepted the Christian and Jewish symbolism, rather than that of more remote antiquity. Freud and Jung, however, revert to more primitive times and interpret this as an erotic dream. Raphael interprets the serpent dream as one of \"a deadly enemy bent on your ruin; to kill one denotes success over your enemy.\" The serpent was the ancient Egyptian symbol of wisdom and of the sun; curled in a circle it represented time without end ; twisted around a staff, it denoted health. \"More subtle thou art than any beast of the field\" (Bible).", "lineStart": 11842, "lineEnd": 11853, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 252; NLM OCR lines 11842–11853", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11842, "lineEnd": 11853, "printedPage": 252, "printedPageEnd": 252 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Serpent. — A dream of temptation and of evil (Gypsy). Ob- \nviously the dream interpreters of modern times have accepted \nthe Christian and Jewish symbolism, rather than that of more \nremote antiquity. Freud and Jung, however, revert to more \nprimitive times and interpret this as an erotic dream. Raph- \nael interprets the serpent dream as one of \"a deadly enemy \nbent on your ruin; to kill one denotes success over your \nenemy.\" The serpent was the ancient Egyptian symbol of \nwisdom and of the sun; curled in a circle it represented time \nwithout end ; twisted around a staff, it denoted health. \"More \nsubtle thou art than any beast of the field\" (Bible). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "Ob- \nviously", "after": "Obviously", "evidenceLine": 380 }, { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "Raph- \nael", "after": "Raphael", "evidenceLine": 1365 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Serpent" }, "displayText": "A dream of temptation and of evil (Gypsy). Obviously the dream interpreters of modern times have accepted the Christian and Jewish symbolism, rather than that of more remote antiquity. Freud and Jung, however, revert to more primitive times and interpret this as an erotic dream. Raphael interprets the serpent dream as one of \"a deadly enemy bent on your ruin; to kill one denotes success over your enemy.\" The serpent was the ancient Egyptian symbol of wisdom and of the sun; curled in a circle it represented time without end; twisted around a staff, it denoted health. \"More subtle thou art than any beast of the field\" (Bible)." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11964", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Snake", "heading": "Snake", "text": "See Serpent.", "lineStart": 11964, "lineEnd": 11965, "kind": "cross-reference", "locator": "Printed p. 254; NLM OCR lines 11964–11965", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11964, "lineEnd": 11965, "printedPage": 254, "printedPageEnd": 254 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Snake. — See Serpent. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Snake" }, "displayText": "See Serpent." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [ "reptile" ] }, { "slug": "snares", "title": "Snares", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Artemidorus wrote: “SNares, and detaining, impeachment and sicknesse: to servants they are loyalty, honour, and authority, for which the unthankefull shall…”", "aliases": [ "snares", "of snares" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about snares stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "artemidorus-107", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of Snares.", "text": "SNares, and detaining, impeachment and sicknesse: to servants they are loyalty, honour, and authority, for which the unthankefull shall be deposed. To those which are not maried, they are weddings: to those which have no children they are a signe that they shall hade.", "locator": "Book 2, encoded section 107", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "2", "displayText": "SNares, and detaining, impeachment and sicknesse: to servants they are loyalty, honour, and authority, for which the unthankefull shall be deposed. To those which are not maried, they are weddings: to those which have no children they are a signe that they shall hade." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "sneeze", "title": "Sneeze", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you sneeze, denotes that hasty tidings will cause you to change your plans.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "sneeze", "sneezing" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about sneeze stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1865", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Sneeze", "text": "To dream that you sneeze, denotes that hasty tidings will cause\nyou to change your plans.\n\nTo see or hear others sneeze, some people will bore you with visits.", "locator": "Heading 1869; source lines 20759–20766", "lineStart": 20759, "lineEnd": 20766, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you sneeze, denotes that hasty tidings will cause\nyou to change your plans.\n\nTo see or hear others sneeze, some people will bore you with visits." }, { "id": "fontaine-0738", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Sneeze", "text": "To dream you sneeze, is a sign of long life. 55.", "locator": "Heading 738; source line 4606", "lineStart": 4606, "lineEnd": 4608, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you sneeze, is a sign of long life." }, { "id": "cielo-0393", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Sneezing", "text": "Is a sign of long life.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 393; source lines 4812–4814", "lineStart": 4812, "lineEnd": 4814, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Is a sign of long life.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Sneezing” is shown on the Sneeze page: same topic" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1866", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Snouts", "text": "To dream of snouts, foretells dangerous seasons for you.\nEnemies are surrounding you, and difficulties will be numerous.", "locator": "Heading 1870; source lines 20766–20771", "lineStart": 20766, "lineEnd": 20771, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of snouts, foretells dangerous seasons for you.\nEnemies are surrounding you, and difficulties will be numerous." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "snow", "title": "Snow", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "A familiar place under changed conditions.", "summary": "Snow dreams may explore changed visibility, a covered route, traces of movement and the choices a different landscape makes available.", "aliases": [ "snow", "snowing", "snowfall", "snowstorm", "blizzard", "snowed in" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "Snow can picture a familiar place becoming different enough to need another approach. A road still connects the same buildings, but its usual markings disappear. This can resemble returning to a task after its instructions, people or working conditions have changed. Recognition of the destination remains while the accustomed means of reaching it becomes less available.\n\nA cleared strip can make a limited but useful opening visible. You may not need the entire landscape restored before continuing with one particular activity. Completing a small part of a complicated arrangement, or receiving help with a single obstacle, could feel similar. Whether the path fits your destination matters more than how impressive the cleared area looks.\n\nFootprints give movement a visible history. Following another person's tracks can offer company or borrowed guidance; finding your own tracks can make a way back possible. Fresh snow that erases them may bring frustration about losing a record of progress. Relief could suggest a different reading, such as enjoying a place without every previous movement remaining visible.\n\nMelting changes what can be found and used. An object left beneath the covering may become available again when conditions alter, much as an earlier interest can become practical after time or resources change. Thaw can also make a previously firm route awkward. A change in conditions need not benefit every activity equally.\n\nPlaying in snow gives the material another purpose. Making a figure with someone can resemble a shared activity valued for the making rather than a final achievement. Keeping a fragile shape intact may matter for a while even when both participants know it will change. Pleasure and impermanence can belong to the same scene.\n\nSnow indoors makes an ordinary room strangely unfamiliar. The invented covering may interrupt its usual function or offer a new one, such as playing where work normally happens. Recent weather, photographs and remembered journeys can provide direct associations. The imagined landscape does not establish actual weather, health or a moral value for clean, dirty or melting snow.", "traditional": "The supplied Snow forecasts conflict. Miller varies his claims with storms, melting, dirt, scenery, play and being snowbound, including health and gendered judgments. Fontaine gives different fortunes for covering, walking, eating, patchiness and a storm. Noe, Cielo, Everybody’s Book of Luck and Craig add prosperity, visitor, journey or adversity claims. These are attributed period beliefs, not evidence about health, character, actual weather or future events.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "A familiar path is hidden under fresh snow", "reflection": "The destination remains familiar while its usual cues disappear. This can picture returning to an arrangement whose practical conditions have changed. A landmark, companion or alternative route can make knowledge of the place useful in a different way." }, { "title": "Someone has cleared a narrow usable route", "reflection": "A limited opening supports a particular activity without restoring the entire landscape. This may resemble receiving one piece of help that makes a next step possible. Its usefulness depends on where it leads and whether it fits what you need to carry or do." }, { "title": "Your tracks disappear behind you", "reflection": "The route remains in your experience while its visible record fades. Frustration may concern showing progress or finding a way back. Relief can give the same change another meaning: continuing without every earlier movement having to remain on display." }, { "title": "Melting snow reveals something you left", "reflection": "An earlier object becomes available as the conditions for finding it change. A paused interest or unfinished task may offer a parallel. Wanting to use it now differs from simply being glad to recognize it; rediscovery can permit a choice rather than create an obligation." }, { "title": "You make something without needing a destination", "reflection": "The covering becomes material for enjoyment. Making a shape alone or together can give the scene a purpose independent of travel. Its fragility may be part of the pleasure, allowing care for something temporary without requiring that it be preserved forever." }, { "title": "Snow appears in a remembered indoor place", "reflection": "A remembered room becomes unfamiliar through an impossible covering. The change may interrupt its usual demands or open another activity, such as playing in a place associated with work. What remains usable can matter alongside the surprise of what no longer functions normally." } ], "prompts": [ "What did the snow change about a place or activity you recognized?", "How did routes, help or traces affect your choices?", "Which weather memory, image or changed routine offers a useful comparison?" ], "related": [ "winter", "ice", "thaw", "walking", "sleigh-ride" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1867" ], "scope": "Miller varies Snow forecasts with seeing snow, a storm, eating, dirt, melting, a window view, mountains, sunlight, sleighing, snowballing and being snowbound, including health and gendered claims. Specific supplied passages: Snow — miller-1867 (Heading 1871; source lines 20771–20808). Historical comparison only; these attributed period claims do not establish outcomes, health, character, cultural consensus or a universal meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0739" ], "scope": "Fontaine varies Snow forecasts with clean covering, walking, eating, dirty or patchy melt and a storm, assigning pleasure, journey, health, trouble or success claims; Sleigh-Ride and Thaw are cross-referenced. Specific supplied passages: Snow — fontaine-0739 (Heading 739; source line 4608). Historical comparison only; these attributed period claims do not establish outcomes, health, character, cultural consensus or a universal meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0492" ], "scope": "Noe gives a favorable omen to ground covered with snow. Specific supplied passages: Snow — noe-0492 (Dream section, heading 500; source lines 1829–1830). Historical comparison only; these attributed period claims do not establish outcomes, health, character, cultural consensus or a universal meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0394" ], "scope": "Cielo assigns a visitor forecast to falling snow. Specific supplied passages: Snow — cielo-0394 (Dream section, heading 394; source lines 4814–4817). Historical comparison only; these attributed period claims do not establish outcomes, health, character, cultural consensus or a universal meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0219" ], "scope": "Everybody’s Book of Luck assigns success, money or harvest to snow and difficult-journey or hostility forecasts to eating it or being lost in it. Specific supplied passages: Snow — luck-0219 (Dream section, heading 219; source lines 4088–4092). Historical comparison only; these attributed period claims do not establish outcomes, health, character, cultural consensus or a universal meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L11966" ], "scope": "Craig contrasts snow with a snowstorm through prosperity or difficulties followed by escape under a quoted Gypsy attribution; no cultural consensus is claimed. Specific supplied passages: Snow — craig-1918:L11966 (Printed p. 254; NLM OCR lines 11966–11969). Historical comparison only; these attributed period claims do not establish outcomes, health, character, cultural consensus or a universal meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s continuing English editorial delegation. Historical accounts retain their attribution; general sleep background does not validate these interpretations.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Cues under a covering", "reflection": "Snow may change what you can recognize or follow. Explore the particular route or view rather than giving the covering a universal meaning of pause or concealment." }, { "title": "Conditions for an activity", "reflection": "Depth, a cleared path and available help can change effort. The dream may invite a practical comparison without assessing your real strength or the outcome of a journey." }, { "title": "Traces and changing use", "reflection": "Tracks, melt and newly exposed surfaces can alter how the place is used. 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There always follows\nmore or less discouragement after this dream.\n\nIf you eat snow, you will fail to realize ideals.\n\nTo see dirty snow, foretells that your pride will be humbled,\nand you will seek reconciliation with some person whom you held\nin haughty contempt.\n\nTo see it melt, your fears will turn into joy.\n\nTo see large, white snowflakes falling while looking through a window,\nforetells that you will have an angry interview with your sweetheart,\nand the estrangement will be aggravated by financial depression.\n\nTo see snow-capped mountains in the distance, warns you that your longings\nand ambitions will bring no worthy advancement.\n\nTo see the sun shining through landscapes of snow, foretells that you\nwill conquer adverse fortune and possess yourself of power.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of sleighing, she will find much opposition\nto her choice of a lover, and her conduct will cause her much ill-favor.\n\nTo dream of snowballing, denotes that you will have to struggle\nwith dishonorable issues, and if your judgment is not well grounded,\nyou will suffer defeat.\n\nIf snowbound or lost, there will be constant waves of ill luck breaking\nin upon you.", "locator": "Heading 1871; source lines 20771–20808", "lineStart": 20771, "lineEnd": 20808, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see snow in your dreams, denotes that while you have no real misfortune,\nthere will be the appearance of illness, and unsatisfactory enterprises.\n\nTo find yourself in a snow storm, denotes sorrow and disappointment\nin failure to enjoy some long-expected pleasure. There always follows\nmore or less discouragement after this dream.\n\nIf you eat snow, you will fail to realize ideals.\n\nTo see dirty snow, foretells that your pride will be humbled,\nand you will seek reconciliation with some person whom you held\nin haughty contempt.\n\nTo see it melt, your fears will turn into joy.\n\nTo see large, white snowflakes falling while looking through a window,\nforetells that you will have an angry interview with your sweetheart,\nand the estrangement will be aggravated by financial depression.\n\nTo see snow-capped mountains in the distance, warns you that your longings\nand ambitions will bring no worthy advancement.\n\nTo see the sun shining through landscapes of snow, foretells that you\nwill conquer adverse fortune and possess yourself of power.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of sleighing, she will find much opposition\nto her choice of a lover, and her conduct will cause her much ill-favor.\n\nTo dream of snowballing, denotes that you will have to struggle\nwith dishonorable issues, and if your judgment is not well grounded,\nyou will suffer defeat.\n\nIf snowbound or lost, there will be constant waves of ill luck breaking\nin upon you." }, { "id": "fontaine-0739", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Snow", "text": "(_See Sleigh-Ride and Thaw._) To dream that the ground is covered\nwith clean, white snow, is a sign of joy and pleasure: if you walk in\nit, it foretells that you will go on a pleasant journey; to eat it,\ndenotes health: if the snow is dirty, or melted in patches, you will\nhave troubles, but they will not amount to much. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1868", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Snuff", "text": "To dream of snuff, signifies your enemies are seducing the confidence of\nyour friends. For a woman to use it in her dreams, foretells complications\nwhich will involve her separation from a favored friend.", "locator": "Heading 1872; source lines 20808–20814", "lineStart": 20808, "lineEnd": 20814, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of snuff, signifies your enemies are seducing the confidence of\nyour friends. 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Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0741", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Snuffers", "text": "(_See Candles._) To dream of snuffing out a candle, is a sign\nof a death in the family: if you imagine that you snuff it too short,\nwithout putting it out, it foretells that you will do something that\nwill make a female friend shed tears. 40.", "locator": "Heading 741; source line 4618", "lineStart": 4618, "lineEnd": 4623, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Candles.) To dream of snuffing out a candle, is a sign\nof a death in the family: if you imagine that you snuff it too short,\nwithout putting it out, it foretells that you will do something that\nwill make a female friend shed tears." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "candles" ] }, { "slug": "soap", "title": "Soap", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "5 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of soap, foretells that friendships will reveal interesting entertainment.” Compare 5 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "soap" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about soap stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1869", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Soap", "text": "To dream of soap, foretells that friendships will reveal\ninteresting entertainment. Farmers will have success in\ntheir varied affairs.\n\nFor a young woman to be making soap, omens a substantial and satisfactory\ncompetency will be hers.", "locator": "Heading 1873; source lines 20814–20823", "lineStart": 20814, "lineEnd": 20823, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of soap, foretells that friendships will reveal\ninteresting entertainment. Farmers will have success in\ntheir varied affairs.\n\nFor a young woman to be making soap, omens a substantial and satisfactory\ncompetency will be hers." }, { "id": "fontaine-0742", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Soap", "text": "Signifies trouble in business, but it will soon depart. 66, 3, 11.", "locator": "Heading 742; source line 4623", "lineStart": 4623, "lineEnd": 4625, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Signifies trouble in business, but it will soon depart." }, { "id": "cielo-0395", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Soap", "text": "Denotes pleasant revelations.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 395; source lines 4817–4819", "lineStart": 4817, "lineEnd": 4819, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Denotes pleasant revelations." }, { "id": "luck-0220", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Soap", "text": "A way out of pressing difficulties will present itself.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 220; source lines 4092–4094", "lineStart": 4092, "lineEnd": 4094, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "A way out of pressing difficulties will present itself." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11970", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Soap", "heading": "Soap", "text": "A dream of transient worries (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 11970, "lineEnd": 11971, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 254; NLM OCR lines 11970–11971", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11970, "lineEnd": 11971, "printedPage": 254, "printedPageEnd": 254 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Soap. — A dream of transient worries (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Soap" }, "displayText": "A dream of transient worries (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "soccer", "title": "Soccer", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "kind": "modern", "aliases": [ "soccer game", "playing soccer", "soccer match", "association football game" ], "detectionAliases": [ "soccer game", "playing soccer", "soccer match", "association football game" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "summary": "Soccer dreams may explore passing routes, direction and a chosen role in coordinated play, without making the result a forecast or verdict.", "tagline": "Routes across the field and a role within them.", "psychological": "This reading concerns soccer gameplay, also called association football, rather than every sport described by the word football. Begin with what you are doing in the game: sending a pass, moving into space, keeping goal, watching play or trying to understand a change of direction. The actions provide a more specific starting point than assigning all sport to competition, teamwork or a wish to win.\n\nDistance can make coordination visible. You might direct the ball toward someone’s current position or toward a place they are moving to, while your own route changes after the pass. This could invite reflection on work that continues through several people’s actions. A waking comparison might be handing over a task while the next person prepares a different part. The dream does not prove that the real group is coordinated or failing to cooperate.\n\nDirection gives movement a purpose. A goal may be easy to locate, obscured or suddenly on the side you did not expect. Explore which cues you use and whether anyone explains the change. If you cannot tell where to aim, the question may concern understanding an activity’s purpose rather than trying harder. An invented field can also be an interesting setting without requiring a larger problem behind it.\n\nRoles create different kinds of participation. Keeping goal, supporting movement up the field and taking an attempt yourself may each feel chosen, familiar or imposed. Notice what the role lets you see and do. Asking to change position could express a preference within the dreamed game, not a failure to support others. Being a spectator can be an enjoyable role rather than evidence that you are left out.\n\nPlay may stop or restart in a way that changes your next action. A signal, another player’s movement or a newly available route can matter more than the final score. Waking experiences and emotions can enter dreams through sport, media and remembered games. Direction, positions and available choices can make an otherwise familiar game work on different terms. A pleasant or puzzling game can remain an imaginative experience, and its result cannot determine your real sporting ability, future success or place within a relationship or group.", "traditional": "This original reading follows soccer’s game actions and roles. The word football can refer to different games, so the activity you experienced matters; the field as a place or the ball as an object may have another focus. No historical interpretation is claimed here. The general sleep reference supports waking experiences and emotions as possible dream material, without validating these readings or predicting a contest’s outcome.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A route that continues through others", "reflection": "A pass may depend on where another player is going rather than where they are now. Explore the timing and information shared in the scene without judging a real group’s cooperation." }, { "title": "Direction before greater effort", "reflection": "Knowing where the play is heading may be more important than movement alone. Describe the cues you use and how they change instead of treating confusion as a failed test." }, { "title": "A role with a particular view", "reflection": "Different positions make different actions available. Consider which role you wanted and what you could see from it, without making participation a measure of loyalty or worth." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "You pass toward the space a player is moving into", "reflection": "The intended receiver has not reached the place where you send the ball. This may make anticipation within a shared sequence concrete. Notice which cue you follow and what happens next; the dream does not prove that another person will understand or carry forward your waking plans." }, { "title": "The goals are difficult to distinguish", "reflection": "You can move and pass, but you are unsure which direction gives the play its purpose. This might invite a question about understanding a task before adding effort. Record the signs or explanation you seek, without treating the scene as evidence that you lack a real-life goal." }, { "title": "Keeping goal gives you a different view", "reflection": "From a particular position, you watch how the play approaches and decide when to respond. The scene could focus on the responsibilities and limits of a chosen role. Describe what you can see and change, without assuming that goalkeeper imagery means you must protect a real person." }, { "title": "A signal stops play while you keep moving", "reflection": "Others pause, but you continue for a moment before realizing the game has changed. This may bring attention to a shared cue and the chance to adjust. Notice what you do once you understand it; the scene does not establish that you ignore rules or people in waking life." }, { "title": "You ask to try a different position", "reflection": "The role you have been given does not fit the action you want to take, and you discuss a change. This could give preference room within coordinated play. Record whether the arrangement changes and how it feels; asking for another role need not imply disloyalty or incompatibility." }, { "title": "A sequence of passes is enjoyable without a score", "reflection": "The game’s pleasure comes from continued movement between players rather than reaching a counted result. This may be an imagined or remembered activity with value in its own process. Describe what makes the sequence work, without turning cooperation into a guarantee about a real group or future outcome." } ], "prompts": [ "How did you understand the game’s direction and your role?", "What information or timing helped a pass or change in play work?", "Which remembered game, watched scene or shared undertaking provides personal context?" ], "related": [ "ball", "stadium", "locker-room", "running" ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "socialist", "title": "Socialist", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see a socialist in your dreams, your unenvied position among friends and acquaintances is predicted.”", "aliases": [ "socialist" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about socialist stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1870", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Socialist", "text": "To see a socialist in your dreams, your unenvied position among\nfriends and acquaintances is predicted. Your affairs will be\nneglected for other imaginary duties.", "locator": "Heading 1874; source lines 20823–20829", "lineStart": 20823, "lineEnd": 20829, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a socialist in your dreams, your unenvied position among\nfriends and acquaintances is predicted. Your affairs will be\nneglected for other imaginary duties." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "soda-fountain", "title": "Soda Fountain", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of being at a soda fountain, denotes pleasure and profit after many exasperating experiences.”", "aliases": [ "soda fountain" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about soda fountain stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1871", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Soda Fountain", "text": "To dream of being at a soda fountain, denotes pleasure and profit\nafter many exasperating experiences.\n\nTo treat others to this and other delectable iced drinks; you will be\nrewarded in your efforts, though the outlook appears full of contradictions.\nInharmonious environments, and desired results will be forthcoming.", "locator": "Heading 1875; source lines 20829–20838", "lineStart": 20829, "lineEnd": 20838, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being at a soda fountain, denotes pleasure and profit\nafter many exasperating experiences.\n\nTo treat others to this and other delectable iced drinks; you will be\nrewarded in your efforts, though the outlook appears full of contradictions.\nInharmonious environments, and desired results will be forthcoming." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "sold", "title": "Sold", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you have sold anything, denotes that unfavorable business will worry you.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "sold" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about sold stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1874", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Sold", "text": "To dream that you have sold anything, denotes that unfavorable business\nwill worry you.", "locator": "Heading 1878; source lines 20854–20859", "lineStart": 20854, "lineEnd": 20859, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you have sold anything, denotes that unfavorable business\nwill worry you." }, { "id": "noe-0460", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Sold", "text": "To\ndream of being sold, or set up for sale, is fair to those who wish to\nchange their condition and to those who are in poverty and servitude. But\nto the rich, and the sick, and those who are placed in honor and\nauthority, it is ill.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 467; source lines 1715–1719", "lineStart": 1715, "lineEnd": 1719, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To\ndream of being sold, or set up for sale, is fair to those who wish to\nchange their condition and to those who are in poverty and servitude. But\nto the rich, and the sick, and those who are placed in honor and\nauthority, it is ill." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "soldiers", "title": "Soldiers", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see soldiers marching in your dreams, foretells for you a period of flagrant excesses, but at the same…” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "soldiers", "soldier" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about soldiers stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1875", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Soldiers", "text": "To see soldiers marching in your dreams, foretells for you a period\nof flagrant excesses, but at the same time you will be promoted\nto elevations above rivals.\n\nTo see wounded soldiers, is a sign of the misfortune of\nothers causing you serious complications in your affairs.\nYour sympathy will outstrip your judgment.\n\nTo dream that you are a worthy soldier, you will have literal\nfulfilment of ideals. Women are in danger of disrepute if they\nfind themselves dreaming of soldiers.", "locator": "Heading 1879; source lines 20859–20873", "lineStart": 20859, "lineEnd": 20873, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see soldiers marching in your dreams, foretells for you a period\nof flagrant excesses, but at the same time you will be promoted\nto elevations above rivals.\n\nTo see wounded soldiers, is a sign of the misfortune of\nothers causing you serious complications in your affairs.\nYour sympathy will outstrip your judgment.\n\nTo dream that you are a worthy soldier, you will have literal\nfulfilment of ideals. Women are in danger of disrepute if they\nfind themselves dreaming of soldiers." }, { "id": "noe-0461", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Soldiers", "text": "To see soldiers in your dream, shows\ntroubles, persecution and lawsuits. To the lover, they denote that the\nobject of your affections will be obliged to quit the present place of\nresidence by command of a father, on your account. To the tradesman, they\npresage loss of goods and quarrels with creditors. To dream they are\npursuing you, shows that you will be imprisoned and meet with heavy\nlosses, and be much disliked by your rich neighbors; this is one of those\ndreams after which the dreamer is advised to change quarters.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 468; source lines 1719–1727", "lineStart": 1719, "lineEnd": 1727, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see soldiers in your dream, shows\ntroubles, persecution and lawsuits. To the lover, they denote that the\nobject of your affections will be obliged to quit the present place of\nresidence by command of a father, on your account. To the tradesman, they\npresage loss of goods and quarrels with creditors. To dream they are\npursuing you, shows that you will be imprisoned and meet with heavy\nlosses, and be much disliked by your rich neighbors; this is one of those\ndreams after which the dreamer is advised to change quarters." }, { "id": "cielo-0396", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Soldier", "text": "To meet a soldier is a sign of a coming quarrel.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 396; source lines 4819–4821", "lineStart": 4819, "lineEnd": 4821, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To meet a soldier is a sign of a coming quarrel." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11972", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Soldiers", "heading": "Soldiers", "text": "Abandonment of present employment is augured in this dream, losses through the change as well as fighting and serious contentions (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 11972, "lineEnd": 11975, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 254; NLM OCR lines 11972–11975", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11972, "lineEnd": 11975, "printedPage": 254, "printedPageEnd": 254 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Soldiers. — Abandonment of present employment is augured \nin this dream, losses through the change as well as fighting \nand serious contentions (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Soldiers" }, "displayText": "Abandonment of present employment is augured in this dream, losses through the change as well as fighting and serious contentions (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "somnambulist", "title": "Somnambulist", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To imagine while dreaming that you are a somnambulist, portends that you will unwittingly consent to some agreement of plans which will…”", "aliases": [ "somnambulist" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about somnambulist stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1876", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Somnambulist", "text": "To imagine while dreaming that you are a somnambulist, portends that you\nwill unwittingly consent to some agreement of plans which will bring you\nanxiety or ill fortune.", "locator": "Heading 1880; source lines 20873–20879", "lineStart": 20873, "lineEnd": 20879, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To imagine while dreaming that you are a somnambulist, portends that you\nwill unwittingly consent to some agreement of plans which will bring you\nanxiety or ill fortune." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "son", "title": "Son", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of your son, if you have one, as being handsome and dutiful, foretells that he will afford you…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "son" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about son stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1872", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Son", "text": "To dream of your son, if you have one, as being handsome and dutiful,\nforetells that he will afford you proud satisfaction, and will aspire\nto high honors. If he is maimed, or suffering from illness or accident,\nthere is trouble ahead for you.\n\nFor a mother to dream that her son has fallen to the bottom of a well,\nand she hears cries, it is a sign of deep grief, losses and sickness.\nIf she rescues him, threatened danger will pass away unexpectedly.", "locator": "Heading 1876; source lines 20838–20849", "lineStart": 20838, "lineEnd": 20849, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of your son, if you have one, as being handsome and dutiful,\nforetells that he will afford you proud satisfaction, and will aspire\nto high honors. If he is maimed, or suffering from illness or accident,\nthere is trouble ahead for you.\n\nFor a mother to dream that her son has fallen to the bottom of a well,\nand she hears cries, it is a sign of deep grief, losses and sickness.\nIf she rescues him, threatened danger will pass away unexpectedly." }, { "id": "noe-0463", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Son", "text": "To dream that a man talks with his son,\nsignifies some damage that will suddenly accrue to him.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 470; source lines 1728–1729", "lineStart": 1728, "lineEnd": 1729, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that a man talks with his son,\nsignifies some damage that will suddenly accrue to him." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "soot", "title": "Soot", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “If you see soot in your dreams, it means that you will meet with ill success in your affairs. 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Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1873", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Soot", "text": "If you see soot in your dreams, it means that you will meet with ill success\nin your affairs. Lovers will be quarrelsome and hard to please.", "locator": "Heading 1877; source lines 20849–20854", "lineStart": 20849, "lineEnd": 20854, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you see soot in your dreams, it means that you will meet with ill success\nin your affairs. Lovers will be quarrelsome and hard to please." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1877", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Sorcerer", "text": "To dream of a sorcerer, foretells your ambitions will undergo\nstrange disappointments and change.", "locator": "Heading 1881; source lines 20879–20884", "lineStart": 20879, "lineEnd": 20884, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a sorcerer, foretells your ambitions will undergo\nstrange disappointments and change." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "sores", "title": "Sores", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing sores, denotes that illness will cause you loss and mental distress.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "sores" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about sores stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1878", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Sores", "text": "To dream of seeing sores, denotes that illness will cause you\nloss and mental distress.\n\nTo dress a sore, foretells that your personal wishes and desires\nwill give place to the pleasure of others.\n\nTo dream of an infant having a deep sore so that you can see the bone,\ndenotes that distressing and annoying incidents will detract from your plans,\nand children will be threatened with contagion.\n\nTo dream of sores on yourself, portends early decay of health\nand impaired mentality. Sickness and unsatisfactory business\nwill follow this dream.", "locator": "Heading 1882; source lines 20884–20900", "lineStart": 20884, "lineEnd": 20900, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing sores, denotes that illness will cause you\nloss and mental distress.\n\nTo dress a sore, foretells that your personal wishes and desires\nwill give place to the pleasure of others.\n\nTo dream of an infant having a deep sore so that you can see the bone,\ndenotes that distressing and annoying incidents will detract from your plans,\nand children will be threatened with contagion.\n\nTo dream of sores on yourself, portends early decay of health\nand impaired mentality. Sickness and unsatisfactory business\nwill follow this dream." }, { "id": "fontaine-0744", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Sores", "text": "To dream of your body being covered with blotches, shows that a\ngreat fortune will fall to you. To have the arms full of sores, shows\nill success in business. 19, 74.", "locator": "Heading 744; source line 4627", "lineStart": 4627, "lineEnd": 4631, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of your body being covered with blotches, shows that a\ngreat fortune will fall to you. To have the arms full of sores, shows\nill success in business." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "sorting-belongings-after-a-loss", "title": "Sorting belongings after a loss", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "Sorting someone’s possessions can make grief tangible through ordinary objects and decisions about what to keep, share, or release.", "summary": "Sorting someone’s possessions can make grief tangible through ordinary objects and decisions about what to keep, share, or release.", "aliases": [ "clearing possessions after a death", "sorting a deceased relatives things" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "Focus on one object and the memory attached to it. You may feel protective of an item others see as trivial, or surprised by relief at letting something go. The dream does not prescribe a timetable for grief or make keeping possessions the measure of love. Notice whether the sorting was chosen, hurried, or interrupted; having control over the process may matter more than the final decision.", "traditional": "The archive’s inheritance and mourning entries do not decide the right way to maintain a bond after loss. This draft makes no claim that the deceased requested the disposal or preservation of an object.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "A mundane item becomes impossible to discard", "reflection": "What particular moment made this object different from similar things?" }, { "title": "Family members want different keepsakes", "reflection": "Could different memories coexist without one person being more devoted?" }, { "title": "You give an object to someone who will use it", "reflection": "Did continued use feel like loss, continuity, or both?" } ], "prompts": [ "Which object held the strongest association?", "Who controlled the pace of sorting?", "What did you want to preserve besides the physical item?" ], "related": [ "deceased-loved-one", "mourning", "inheritance" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia model-assisted editorial draft. Reflection questions and scenario readings are optional, individually written suggestions, not empirically validated symbol meanings. Source scope is stated with each citation. Historical comparisons identify topics, not inherited interpretations. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "soul", "title": "Soul", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing your soul leaving your body, signifies you are in danger of sacrificing yourself to useless designs, which will dwarf…”", "aliases": [ "soul" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about soul stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1879", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Soul", "text": "To dream of seeing your soul leaving your body, signifies you\nare in danger of sacrificing yourself to useless designs,\nwhich will dwarf your sense of honor and cause you to become\nmercenary and uncharitable.\n\nFor an artist to see his soul in another, foretells he will gain distinction\nif he applies himself to his work and leaves off sentimental ro^les.\n\nTo imagine another's soul is in you, denotes you will derive solace\nand benefit from some stranger who is yet to come into your life.\n\nFor a young woman musician to dream that she sees another young\nwoman on the stage clothed in sheer robes, and imagining it is\nher own soul in the other person, denotes she will be outrivaled\nin some great undertaking.\n\nTo dream that you are discussing the immortality of your soul,\ndenotes you will improve opportunities which will aid you\nin gaining desired knowledge and pleasure of intercourse\nwith intellectual people.", "locator": "Heading 1883; source lines 20900–20923", "lineStart": 20900, "lineEnd": 20923, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing your soul leaving your body, signifies you\nare in danger of sacrificing yourself to useless designs,\nwhich will dwarf your sense of honor and cause you to become\nmercenary and uncharitable.\n\nFor an artist to see his soul in another, foretells he will gain distinction\nif he applies himself to his work and leaves off sentimental ro^les.\n\nTo imagine another's soul is in you, denotes you will derive solace\nand benefit from some stranger who is yet to come into your life.\n\nFor a young woman musician to dream that she sees another young\nwoman on the stage clothed in sheer robes, and imagining it is\nher own soul in the other person, denotes she will be outrivaled\nin some great undertaking.\n\nTo dream that you are discussing the immortality of your soul,\ndenotes you will improve opportunities which will aid you\nin gaining desired knowledge and pleasure of intercourse\nwith intellectual people." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "soup", "title": "Soup", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "aliases": [ "soup" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "summary": "Soup dreams may explore a combined result, room for individual preferences, and what happens when a prepared meal is used differently.", "tagline": "A mixture can have more than one workable form.", "psychological": "Soup places separate ingredients within a shared preparation. In a dream, you might make it, receive a bowl or try to discover what is already in the pot. Those positions involve different kinds of knowledge and choice. Your own recipes and meals can provide direct context; the dream does not require soup to represent comfort, recovery or a particular kind of relationship.\n\nMaking a soup can bring decisions about a combined result into view. Several people may contribute ingredients while having different ideas about the finished meal. This could resemble a shared draft or project in which adding something useful does not settle how the whole should work. You may discuss the recipe, divide the preparation or discover a version everybody can use. The question concerns agreement through the result, rather than assigning each ingredient a fixed symbolic role.\n\nOnce soup has been served, your access to its parts changes. You may want something beneath the surface, find that the bowl is awkward or be unable to identify a familiar taste. This could picture encountering an arrangement after its components have already been combined. Asking how it was prepared differs from changing it yourself. A possible waking comparison is receiving a completed account whose choices you need to understand before taking part.\n\nIndividual additions can offer another arrangement. A common broth with separate toppings may let people share a meal while retaining preferences. Conversely, receiving the components separately when you expected a finished soup can make the remaining work apparent. These scenes can explore which decisions belong together and which can remain personal. Neither sameness nor difference automatically makes the gathering better.\n\nTiming also matters through participation. A bowl may wait while a conversation continues, or the food may be ready before anybody has a place to sit. You might decide to eat, pause the story or change how the meal is served. That sequence can resemble coordinating an available result with the circumstances in which people can use it. Waking memories and emotions can enter dreams, including a recent recipe or familiar kitchen. Keep those possibilities beside the original comparisons; an enjoyable bowl can remain an enjoyable meal without becoming a remedy or an instruction.", "traditional": "Miller’s sole attached Soup account gives comfort and marriage forecasts, including a gendered claim about preparing soup and a separate oyster-soup quarrel and reconciliation forecast. It supplies no established theory of ingredients, nutrition or recovery. The original reflections concern the dreamed preparation and participation; the historical predictions remain attributed period beliefs.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Choices within a combined result", "reflection": "Contributors can agree to take part while imagining different finished meals. Consider how the preparation gives their preferences a form, and what remains open to discussion." }, { "title": "Understanding what is already prepared", "reflection": "Receiving a mixture can leave some of its choices hidden from view. Asking, tasting or changing the arrangement gives you different ways to participate in the dream." }, { "title": "Sharing without identical preferences", "reflection": "A common base and separate additions can support more than one way of eating together. Explore which choices you wanted to share and which you wanted to retain." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "Contributors imagine different recipes", "reflection": "Everyone brings an ingredient, but their descriptions of the intended soup differ. This could picture collaboration needing a shared purpose as well as contributions. Discussing the result, preparing separate pots or choosing another recipe offers different ways to make the effort useful to the people involved." }, { "title": "The ingredient you want is beyond reach", "reflection": "A deep bowl contains something you want to taste, but your utensil cannot reach it comfortably. The scene may focus on access to part of a prepared result. Changing the bowl, asking someone to serve or choosing another portion gives the difficulty a practical and specific direction." }, { "title": "A shared broth has separate additions", "reflection": "The same soup is offered to everyone, with several things each person may add. This can explore having common ground while keeping room for individual preferences. Notice which choices you make and how the arrangement feels; agreement need not require everybody to end with an identical bowl." }, { "title": "A familiar taste has no identifiable ingredient", "reflection": "You recognize something in the soup but cannot see where it comes from. This might resemble noticing a familiar influence within a result you did not prepare. Asking about the recipe or accepting the uncertainty can lead to different responses, without turning recognition into proof of a hidden event." }, { "title": "The soup arrives as separate components", "reflection": "You expect a finished bowl, but the liquid and ingredients are placed before you separately. This can make the remaining preparation visible. Choosing how to combine them, asking for the intended meal or enjoying them separately may help you explore which part of an arrangement you want to complete." }, { "title": "The bowl waits while the story continues", "reflection": "You are ready to eat, but a conversation keeps the meal waiting. The scene could concern coordination between an available result and people’s attention. Pausing the story, beginning to eat or changing the occasion offers different priorities; the useful question is how you wanted to participate." } ], "prompts": [ "What part of preparing, receiving or eating the soup mattered most?", "How were combined choices and personal preferences handled?", "Which meal or shared project offers a comparison that fits the actual scene?" ], "related": [ "eating", "cooking", "kitchen", "vegetables" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1880" ], "scope": "Miller gives comfort and marriage forecasts for soup, a gendered forecast for making it and a quarrel/reconciliation forecast for oyster soup made with sweet milk. Specific supplied passages: Soup — miller-1880 (Heading 1884; source lines 20923–20936). Historical comparison only; the attributed period claims do not establish outcomes or diagnoses and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "kind": "editorial", "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1880", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Soup", "text": "To dream of soup, is a forerunner of good tidings and comfort.\n\nTo see others taking soup, foretells that you will have many good\nchances to marry.\n\nFor a young woman to make soup, signifies that she will not be compelled\nto do menial work in her household, as she will marry a wealthy man.\n\nTo drink oyster soup made of sweet milk, there will be quarrels\nwith some bad luck, but reconciliations will follow.", "locator": "Heading 1884; source lines 20923–20936", "lineStart": 20923, "lineEnd": 20936, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of soup, is a forerunner of good tidings and comfort.\n\nTo see others taking soup, foretells that you will have many good\nchances to marry.\n\nFor a young woman to make soup, signifies that she will not be compelled\nto do menial work in her household, as she will marry a wealthy man.\n\nTo drink oyster soup made of sweet milk, there will be quarrels\nwith some bad luck, but reconciliations will follow." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "sovereign", "title": "Sovereign", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a sovereign, denotes increasing prosperity and new friends.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "sovereign" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about sovereign stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1881", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Sovereign", "text": "To dream of a sovereign, denotes increasing prosperity and new friends.", "locator": "Heading 1885; source lines 20936–20940", "lineStart": 20936, "lineEnd": 20940, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a sovereign, denotes increasing prosperity and new friends." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11976", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Sovereign", "heading": "Sovereign", "text": "To dream that you are a sovereign indicates disgrace (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 11976, "lineEnd": 11978, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 254; NLM OCR lines 11976–11978", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11976, "lineEnd": 11978, "printedPage": 254, "printedPageEnd": 254 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Sovereign. — To dream that you are a sovereign indicates \ndisgrace (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Sovereign" }, "displayText": "To dream that you are a sovereign indicates disgrace (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "sow", "title": "Sow", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “To dream of a sow with a large litter of pigs, denotes abundance to a farmer, but is a sign of ill-health to a tradesman or mechanic: if a…”", "aliases": [ "sow" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about sow stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0745", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Sow", "text": "To dream of a sow with a large litter of pigs, denotes abundance\nto a farmer, but is a sign of ill-health to a tradesman or mechanic: if\na girl dreams this, it foretells that she will soon marry a man in bad\nhealth. 4, 12, 48.", "locator": "Heading 745; source line 4631", "lineStart": 4631, "lineEnd": 4636, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a sow with a large litter of pigs, denotes abundance\nto a farmer, but is a sign of ill-health to a tradesman or mechanic: if\na girl dreams this, it foretells that she will soon marry a man in bad\nhealth." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "sowing", "title": "Sowing", "type": "dreams", "category": "Other symbols", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are sowing seed, foretells to the farmer fruitful promises, if he sows in new ploughed…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "sowing" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about sowing stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1882", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Sowing", "text": "To dream that you are sowing seed, foretells to the farmer fruitful promises,\nif he sows in new ploughed soil.\n\nTo see others sowing, much business activity is portended,\nwhich will bring gain to all.", "locator": "Heading 1886; source lines 20940–20948", "lineStart": 20940, "lineEnd": 20948, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are sowing seed, foretells to the farmer fruitful promises,\nif he sows in new ploughed soil.\n\nTo see others sowing, much business activity is portended,\nwhich will bring gain to all." }, { "id": "luck-0221", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Sowing", "text": "An indication of doubtful enterprises.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 221; source lines 4094–4096", "lineStart": 4094, "lineEnd": 4096, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "An indication of doubtful enterprises." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "spaceship", "title": "Spaceship", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "aliases": [ "spaceship", "spaceships", "space ship", "space shuttle", "spacecraft" ], "summary": "A spaceship can picture unfamiliar travel sustained by a crew, shared systems, and a destination. Your role aboard shapes the experience.", "tagline": "A vehicle carrying people and resources through conditions beyond their ordinary world.", "psychological": "A spaceship contains the means of moving through an unfamiliar environment. Its cabins, crew, controls, supplies, and destination make the journey possible. In a dream, this may picture a project or transition that depends on several coordinated parts. Identify your role aboard first: passenger, navigator, engineer, captain, or someone who never learns why they have joined.\n\nThe crew can make interdependence visible. Trusting others to manage systems may feel reassuring, while receiving contradictory instructions can create uncertainty. You might recognize the feeling from a shared undertaking in which no one person can do everything. Notice whether you understand your contribution and whether questions are welcome; the relationship among people matters alongside the vehicle itself.\n\nControls can bring responsibility into a concrete place. A clear console, an unfamiliar display, or a course that changes after you touch a button can picture different experiences of influence. Having authority without knowing how a system works may feel exposing. Watching an able crew handle the journey can instead let you attend to curiosity, rest, or observation.\n\nThe enclosed interior may balance shelter with limited space. A comfortable cabin can provide stability while the surrounding environment remains strange. A locked door or cramped passage can picture restrictions within an arrangement that also offers protection. Record whether you wanted more room, greater access, or reassurance that the systems were working.\n\nA destination gives the journey a question beyond movement alone. You may be approaching something wanted, traveling without a clear purpose, or choosing whether to return. Docking with another ship can introduce cooperation or a new connection. Recent films, games, technical images, and stories of exploration can supply the vehicle directly. The dream can help describe an imagined shared journey without forecasting travel or demonstrating unusual abilities.", "traditional": "These are original reflections on an imagined space vehicle, its crew, systems, and destination. No verified historical spaceship passage is supplied. The reference supports general dream background and does not validate extraterrestrial contact, predict journeys, or establish fixed meanings for a vehicle’s controls.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A journey maintained by several people", "reflection": "A spaceship makes shared dependence tangible through crew members with different tasks. The scene may explore whether cooperation feels understood and trustworthy. Consider what each person is managing and whether your own contribution has a clear place within the larger undertaking." }, { "title": "Influence through unfamiliar controls", "reflection": "Buttons, displays, and navigation panels can give the ability to affect a course a visible form. Being given control may feel exciting or exposing depending on available knowledge and support. Observe whether the dream lets you learn, ask, or share responsibility for operating the system." }, { "title": "Shelter with limits on movement", "reflection": "The interior protects passengers while defining where they can go. A cabin may feel secure, cramped, or both. The scene can explore an arrangement that provides resources while restricting options, especially through whether doors, shared spaces, and routes remain accessible." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You join a crew without knowing your assignment", "reflection": "An unclear role can picture participation in a shared undertaking whose expectations have not been explained. The crew may welcome you while still leaving you unsure what to do. Notice who gives guidance and whether observation or a small initial task makes the journey easier to understand." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "The controls use symbols you cannot read", "reflection": "Unfamiliar controls can make influence depend on knowledge you have not yet gained. A new tool or process may offer a parallel. Observe whether the symbols become understandable, whether someone explains them, and whether you feel pressured to act before you can orient yourself." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Your cabin feels safe while space looks immense", "reflection": "A protected interior can picture support that makes a large unknown tolerable. The view may bring awe without removing comfort. Consider which part of the cabin creates security: a familiar object, reliable systems, another person, or enough room to rest while the journey continues." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A corridor closes before you reach the other crew", "reflection": "Blocked access can picture difficulty reaching information or assistance inside a shared system. It may resemble being part of a group while unable to contact the people managing another part. Notice whether an alternative route or message becomes available and how the crew responds." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You dock with another spaceship", "reflection": "Joining two vehicles can picture cooperation between previously separate groups or projects. The arrival may feel welcome, crowded, or uncertain. Observe what passes between the ships and whether the connection improves the journey; shared access can offer help while introducing unfamiliar people and expectations." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You change the destination with the crew’s agreement", "reflection": "A jointly chosen course can picture a plan becoming more suitable after discussion. The change may bring relief, excitement, or concern about leaving an earlier aim behind. Notice how agreement happens and whether everyone’s contribution remains visible as the vehicle begins moving in a new direction." } ], "prompts": [ "What was my role aboard, and did I understand it?", "Which people or systems made the journey feel possible?", "Did the destination and interior give me the freedom or shelter I wanted?" ], "related": [ "outer-space", "rocket", "airplane", "being-trapped" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia editorial entry with image-specific interpretations and six differentiated scenes. The reference supplies general dream background only. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "spade", "title": "Spade", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a kind of shovel called spade, denotes that you will have work to complete, which will give…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "spade" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about spade stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1883", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Spade", "text": "To dream of a kind of shovel called spade, denotes that you will have work\nto complete, which will give you much annoyance in superintending.\n\nIf you dream of cards named spades, you will be enticed into follies\nwhich will bring you grief and misfortune.\n\nFor a gambler to dream that spades are trumps, means that unfortunate\ndeals will deplete his winnings.", "locator": "Heading 1887; source lines 20948–20959", "lineStart": 20948, "lineEnd": 20959, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a kind of shovel called spade, denotes that you will have work\nto complete, which will give you much annoyance in superintending.\n\nIf you dream of cards named spades, you will be enticed into follies\nwhich will bring you grief and misfortune.\n\nFor a gambler to dream that spades are trumps, means that unfortunate\ndeals will deplete his winnings." }, { "id": "luck-0222", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Spade", "text": "To dream of using a spade is a sign that the dreamer will\ncommit indiscretions which he will endeavor to hide.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 222; source lines 4096–4099", "lineStart": 4096, "lineEnd": 4099, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of using a spade is a sign that the dreamer will\ncommit indiscretions which he will endeavor to hide." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11979", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Spade", "heading": "Spade", "text": "A dream of futile toil (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 11979, "lineEnd": 11980, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 254; NLM OCR lines 11979–11980", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11979, "lineEnd": 11980, "printedPage": 254, "printedPageEnd": 254 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Spade. — A dream of futile toil (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Spade" }, "displayText": "A dream of futile toil (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "sparrow", "title": "Sparrow", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of sparrows, denotes that you will be surrounded with love and comfort, and this will cause you…” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "sparrow", "sparrows" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about sparrow stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1884", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Sparrow", "text": "To dream of sparrows, denotes that you will be surrounded with love\nand comfort, and this will cause you to listen with kindly interest\nto tales of woe, and your benevolence will gain you popularity.\n\nTo see them distressed or wounded, foretells sadness.", "locator": "Heading 1888; source lines 20959–20967", "lineStart": 20959, "lineEnd": 20967, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of sparrows, denotes that you will be surrounded with love\nand comfort, and this will cause you to listen with kindly interest\nto tales of woe, and your benevolence will gain you popularity.\n\nTo see them distressed or wounded, foretells sadness." }, { "id": "noe-0453", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Sparrows", "text": "To dream you see sparrows\njumping about your door step, is a sign of good fortune attending any\nproject you may set your mind on accomplishing.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 459; source lines 1687–1689", "lineStart": 1687, "lineEnd": 1689, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see sparrows\njumping about your door step, is a sign of good fortune attending any\nproject you may set your mind on accomplishing." }, { "id": "luck-0223", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Sparrow", "text": "Troubles: (many) an early journey: (sparrow struggling to\nescape) a foreboding of mischief.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 223; source lines 4099–4102", "lineStart": 4099, "lineEnd": 4102, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Troubles: (many) an early journey: (sparrow struggling to\nescape) a foreboding of mischief." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11981", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Sparrows", "heading": "Sparrows", "text": "A good fortune will attend whatever you have in view after this dream (Raphael).", "lineStart": 11981, "lineEnd": 11983, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 254; NLM OCR lines 11981–11983", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11981, "lineEnd": 11983, "printedPage": 254, "printedPageEnd": 254 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Sparrows. — A good fortune will attend whatever you have \nin view after this dream (Raphael). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Sparrows" }, "displayText": "A good fortune will attend whatever you have in view after this dream (Raphael)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "speaking-a-language-no-one-understands", "title": "Speaking a language no one understands", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "When others cannot understand your language, the difficulty may lie in translation, patience, or whether anyone tries to meet you halfway.", "summary": "When others cannot understand your language, the difficulty may lie in translation, patience, or whether anyone tries to meet you halfway.", "aliases": [ "language barrier dream", "speaking an unknown language" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "Was the language one you actually know, an invented language, or speech that only felt meaningful in the dream? Separate inability to translate from refusal to listen. The scene can help you examine communication across different backgrounds without assuming foreignness means danger or isolation. Notice gestures, drawings, or shared actions that worked when words did not; understanding may have taken a different form.", "traditional": "Historical language entries may privilege particular languages or rank speakers. This draft does not adopt those hierarchies. Any comparison with a story about confused speech would require a named tradition rather than a universal moral.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "You explain a simple need but receive blank looks", "reflection": "What practical response would have helped before perfect translation?" }, { "title": "A stranger understands a gesture", "reflection": "What allowed cooperation without shared words?" }, { "title": "You understand everyone but cannot answer in their language", "reflection": "Was the strain in comprehension, expression, or unequal expectations?" } ], "prompts": [ "Was anyone willing to slow down and try another method?", "What did you most need understood?", "Did the scene evoke a particular place or stage of learning?" ], "related": [ "interpreter", "voice", "talking" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia model-assisted editorial draft. Reflection questions and scenario readings are optional, individually written suggestions, not empirically validated symbol meanings. Source scope is stated with each citation. Historical comparisons identify topics, not inherited interpretations. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "spear", "title": "Spear", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “A dream of suffering at the hands of enemies (gypsy).”", "aliases": [ "spear" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about spear stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L11984", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Spear", "heading": "Spear", "text": "A dream of suffering at the hands of enemies (gypsy). A symbol of the Passion, the spear was also worshiped as the emblem of the god Mars. Freud attributes an erotic meaning to this dream.", "lineStart": 11984, "lineEnd": 11988, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 254; NLM OCR lines 11984–11988", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11984, "lineEnd": 11988, "printedPage": 254, "printedPageEnd": 254 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Spear. — A dream of suffering at the hands of enemies \n(gypsy). A symbol of the Passion, the spear was also wor- \nshiped as the emblem of the god Mars. Freud attributes \nan erotic meaning to this dream. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "wor- \nshiped", "after": "worshiped", "evidenceLine": 9148 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Spear" }, "displayText": "A dream of suffering at the hands of enemies (gypsy). A symbol of the Passion, the spear was also worshiped as the emblem of the god Mars. Freud attributes an erotic meaning to this dream." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "spectacles", "title": "Spectacles", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of spectacles, foretells that strangers will cause changes in your affairs.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "spectacles" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about spectacles stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1885", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Spectacles", "text": "To dream of spectacles, foretells that strangers will cause changes\nin your affairs. Frauds will be practised on your credulity.\n\nTo dream that you see broken spectacles, denotes estrangement\ncaused by fondness for illegal pleasures.", "locator": "Heading 1889; source lines 20967–20975", "lineStart": 20967, "lineEnd": 20975, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of spectacles, foretells that strangers will cause changes\nin your affairs. Frauds will be practised on your credulity.\n\nTo dream that you see broken spectacles, denotes estrangement\ncaused by fondness for illegal pleasures." }, { "id": "luck-0224", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Spectacles", "text": "Be on guard against persons trying to deceive.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 224; source lines 4102–4104", "lineStart": 4102, "lineEnd": 4104, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Be on guard against persons trying to deceive." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11989", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Spectacles", "heading": "Spectacles", "text": "To dream of wearing them, disgrace, low spirits (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 11989, "lineEnd": 11991, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 254; NLM OCR lines 11989–11991", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11989, "lineEnd": 11991, "printedPage": 254, "printedPageEnd": 254 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Spectacles. — To dream of wearing them, disgrace, low \nspirits (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Spectacles" }, "displayText": "To dream of wearing them, disgrace, low spirits (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "spectre", "title": "Spectre", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “Few dreams are more certain of good luck to the dreamer, than to dream of spectres.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "spectre" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about spectre stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "noe-0488", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Spectre", "text": "Few dreams are more certain of good luck to the dreamer, than\nto dream of spectres. It prognosticates business to the merchant, work for\nthe artist and mechanic, and marriage to the maiden.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 496; source lines 1820–1822", "lineStart": 1820, "lineEnd": 1822, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Few dreams are more certain of good luck to the dreamer, than\nto dream of spectres. It prognosticates business to the merchant, work for\nthe artist and mechanic, and marriage to the maiden." }, { "id": "luck-0225", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Spectre", "text": "An omen of misfortune and disaster.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 225; source lines 4104–4106", "lineStart": 4104, "lineEnd": 4106, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "An omen of misfortune and disaster." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "speeding", "title": "Speeding", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "Faster than you meant to go, and not sure the brakes will answer.", "summary": "Speeding dreams can picture momentum, lost control or the thrill of excess. Note who was driving, whether the brakes worked, and what you were late for.", "aliases": [ "speeding", "speeding dream", "driving too fast", "going too fast", "speeding ticket", "out of control car", "cannot slow down", "losing control of the car", "speeding car" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "Speeding dreams come in two kinds that feel very different from inside. In one, you press the pedal and enjoy it; the road opens and nothing can catch you. In the other, the speed is happening to you, the brakes are soft or missing, and every bend arrives too soon. Record which kind you had, because the first can picture appetite and the second can picture a situation that has gathered pace beyond your say. Then note the vehicle and the driver. A car you own, a borrowed one, or a vehicle you have never driven each change the sense of responsibility, and a driver who is not you deserves a sentence of their own. Write down whether anyone else was in the car, what they said, and whether they asked you to slow down. Police, cameras and tickets introduce the question of being caught, so note whether you were stopped and what the penalty was. Consider what you were late for, if anything. Finally, compare the dream with your waking week: a deadline brought forward, a relationship moving quickly, a decision being rushed. Speed in a dream is rarely about the car, and the honest answer to 'what has recently accelerated?' is usually the thread worth following.", "traditional": "Speeding as an offence, or as the experience of a vehicle moving too fast, has no entry in the historical dream books in DreamFolia's archive. Miller 1901 has entries for the automobile and for driving, and Noe 1885 has one for racing, each with its own period beliefs; those are kept on their own pages rather than stretched to cover a modern road at speed. No older meaning is borrowed for this entry; it draws only on the details you remember of the pedal, the brakes and the road.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "The brakes do nothing", "reflection": "Record when you first noticed and what you tried instead: the handbrake, the gears, steering for the verge. Note what was ahead of you, since the thing you were about to hit is often the clearest clue." }, { "title": "Being pulled over for speeding", "reflection": "Write down who stopped you and what they said. Note whether you argued, and what you were rushing toward when the lights appeared behind you." }, { "title": "Enjoying the speed", "reflection": "Note who was with you and whether they shared the pleasure. Ask what in waking life is currently exhilarating in the same way, and whether anyone has asked you to ease off." } ], "prompts": [ "Were you driving, and did the brakes answer?", "What were you late for, or running from?", "What has sped up in your life this month?" ], "related": [ "driving", "car", "racing", "accident", "police", "road" ], "sources": [], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia editorial draft written on 2026-10-12. Reflection text is an invitation to personal writing, not a validated symbol meaning. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "spice", "title": "Spice", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of spice, foretells you will probably damage your own reputation in search of pleasure.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "spice" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about spice stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1886", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Spice", "text": "To dream of spice, foretells you will probably damage your own reputation\nin search of pleasure. 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A symbol of the passion and death of Christ.", "lineStart": 11992, "lineEnd": 11994, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 254; NLM OCR lines 11992–11994", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11992, "lineEnd": 11994, "printedPage": 254, "printedPageEnd": 254 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Spice. — A sad dream (Gypsy). A symbol of the passion \nand death of Christ. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Spice" }, "displayText": "A sad dream (Gypsy). A symbol of the passion and death of Christ." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "spider", "title": "Spiders", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "aliases": [ "spider", "spiders", "web", "spider-web" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "summary": "Spiders can explore proximity, observing work in progress, and the terms of making room for a living creature alongside your own task.", "tagline": "A moving creature and the structure around it create different encounters.", "psychological": "A spider crossing a table while you work can make a small moving presence change the use of an ordinary surface. You may want to finish your task and also allow the visitor a route. A brief interruption or another person’s practical need can have a similar shape. Waiting, moving an object or relocating the spider can each express a different arrangement without revealing a fixed attitude toward control.\n\nA spider inside a cuff brings the encounter close to the body. The difficulty may concern being unable to see clearly while wanting distance restored. An unexpected closeness in a conversation or an obligation carried into private time can offer parallels. That comparison remains optional; a dream spider does not establish contamination, an actual threat or a medical condition.\n\nWatching a spider build can make another participant’s work visible without requiring you to direct it. You may admire the developing structure while noticing that its position affects your own use of the room. A shared workspace may need the same distinction between valuing a contribution and accepting every placement. Moving a necessary object can interrupt the construction, making care and practical change pull in different directions.\n\nBecoming caught in strands changes observation into restricted movement. The useful question may concern which part prevents the action you want: one sleeve, a doorway or the whole route. A particular disentangling task can resemble revising a complicated arrangement without deciding that all your connections form a trap. The spider’s actual presence and behavior remain separate details.\n\nA giant spider keeping its distance can instead challenge an expectation that size must imply approach. Your initial fear may change when the encounter offers a clear boundary. Protecting a spider while reluctantly moving its web makes preservation and access distinct choices again. Recent housekeeping, images or actual encounters may supply the scene directly. These original readings center an active creature and its relation to the setting. An abandoned, dusty cobweb and a web with no visible animal have their own subjects; no universal manipulation or personality code is required.", "traditional": "Miller’s two distinct records concern Spider and Spider-web. Fontaine, Cielo and Everybody’s Book of Luck give money, work and other forecasts; Fontaine also makes an unsupported miscarriage claim. Craig reports named fortune/character associations and a headache theory. These six historical records validate no prediction, personality code or diagnosis; The cited learning experiment provides memory-research context only, not evidence for spider meanings.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Proximity changes the practical need", "reflection": "A creature on a shared surface differs from one inside clothing; the needed boundary depends on the actual location." }, { "title": "Another participant’s work has a place", "reflection": "Appreciating a developing structure can coexist with negotiating its position within a space you also use." }, { "title": "A particular restriction can be changed", "reflection": "Strands, scale and distance can create separate problems rather than one global image of being trapped." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A spider crosses the table where you are working", "reflection": "A small visitor changes how the surface can be used. This may picture an interruption with practical needs of its own. 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Respect for the activity does not require leaving every surrounding condition unchanged or assigning the creature a work ethic." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "One sleeve catches in strands while the rest of the route is open", "reflection": "A limited restriction interrupts an available action. This can resemble one part of an arrangement needing revision. Carefully changing that connection may be enough, without treating the entire relationship or task as a trap or inferring someone’s intention to control you." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A giant spider remains at a comfortable distance", "reflection": "Scale and approach no longer supply the same account of the encounter. This may picture an impressive concern becoming manageable through a clear boundary. The changed feeling belongs to this scene; size does not establish danger or an actual person’s power over you." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You protect a spider while moving the web from a doorway", "reflection": "Care and access require different adjustments. This can resemble preserving a contribution while changing where it belongs. A workable arrangement may support both purposes without making all relocation harmful or every existing structure something that must remain untouched." } ], "prompts": [ "What boundary did the spider’s actual location make useful?", "How did its activity affect a space or task you also used?", "Which particular strand, placement or expectation needed to change?" ], "related": [ "cobweb", "web", "wasp", "beetles" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. miller-1887 — Spider (Heading 1891; source lines 20981–21015): Spider activity, building, killing, bites, size and pursuit receive labor, home, money, health, relationship and other forecasts. miller-1888 — Spider-web (Heading 1892; source lines 21015–21019): Separate Spider-web record predicts pleasant associations and fortunate ventures; raw record stays under Spiders as originally attached.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1887", "miller-1888" ] }, { "id": "wamsley-2010", "title": "Dreaming of a learning task is associated with enhanced sleep-dependent memory consolidation", "author": "Erin J. Wamsley and colleagues", "url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20417102/", "scope": "Primary maze-learning experiment; task-related dream reports correlated with later performance. It does not show that a dream is an accurate memory or a solution." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0746" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. fontaine-0746 — Spider (Heading 746; source line 4636): Approach/descent before the face predicts money; a large spider for a married woman has an unsupported miscarriage forecast." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0397" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. cielo-0397 — Spider (Dream section, heading 397; source lines 4821–4824): A spider spinning predicts business success." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0226" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. luck-0226 — Spider (Dream section, heading 226; source lines 4106–4108): Assigns good luck/success to a spider and an adverse killing omen." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L11995" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. craig-1918:L11995 — Spiders (Printed p. 254–255; NLM OCR lines 11995–12009): Reports Raphael money lore, Pavitt character symbolism and Schemer’s headache theory; no separate source or empirical validation is invented." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s continuing delegation of English editorial decisions. 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To imagine that you are running from a large spider,\ndenotes you will lose fortune in slighting opportunities.\nIf you kill the spider you will eventually come into fair estate.\nIf it afterwards returns to life and pursues you, you will be\noppressed by sickness and wavering fortunes.\n\nFor a young woman to dream she sees gold spiders crawling around her,\nforetells that her fortune and prospect for happiness will improve,\nand new friends will surround her.", "locator": "Heading 1891; source lines 20981–21015", "lineStart": 20981, "lineEnd": 21015, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a spider, denotes that you will be careful and energetic\nin your labors, and fortune will be amassed to pleasing proportions.\n\nTo see one building its web, foretells that you will be happy\nand secure in your own home.\n\nTo kill one, signifies quarrels with your wife or sweetheart.\n\nIf one bites you, you will be the victim of unfaithfulness and will suffer\nfrom enemies in your business.\n\nIf you dream that you see many spiders hanging in their webs around you,\nforetells most favorable conditions, fortune, good health and friends.\n\nTo dream of a large spider confronting you, signifies that your elevation\nto fortune will be swift, unless you are in dangerous contact.\n\nTo dream that you see a very large spider and a small one coming\ntowards you, denotes that you will be prosperous, and that you\nwill feel for a time that you are immensely successful; but if\nthe large one bites you, enemies will steal away your good fortune.\nIf the little one bites you, you will be harassed with little spites\nand jealousies. 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If a married woman dreams of seeing a\nlarge spider, it foretells that she will have a miscarriage, which she\nwill not be sorry for. 72, 16.", "locator": "Heading 746; source line 4636", "lineStart": 4636, "lineEnd": 4643, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you see a spider coming toward you, is a sign\nthat some one will soon pay you money: if you imagine that the spider\nspins down before your face, the omen is similar, for you will make a\ngood lot of money in some way. If a married woman dreams of seeing a\nlarge spider, it foretells that she will have a miscarriage, which she\nwill not be sorry for." }, { "id": "cielo-0397", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Spider", "text": "To see a spider spinning its web denotes\n success in business.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 397; source lines 4821–4824", "lineStart": 4821, "lineEnd": 4824, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a spider spinning its web denotes\nsuccess in business." }, { "id": "luck-0226", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Spider", "text": "Good luck, successful schemes: (killing one) a very bad omen.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 226; source lines 4106–4108", "lineStart": 4106, "lineEnd": 4108, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Good luck, successful schemes: (killing one) a very bad omen." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L11995", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Spiders", "heading": "Spiders", "text": "To dream of a spider foretells money; for a spider to spin its web before your face augurs a fortune (Raphael). The spider is the symbol of shrewdness, perseverance and foresight (Pavitt). Schemer holds that to dream of seeing the upper part of a room covered with spiders is a symptom of headache.", "lineStart": 11995, "lineEnd": 12009, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 254–255; NLM OCR lines 11995–12009", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 11995, "lineEnd": 12009, "printedPage": 254, "printedPageEnd": 255 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Spiders. — To dream of a spider foretells money; for a \n\n\nSYMBOLISM IN DREAMS \n\n\n255 \n\n\nspider to spin its web before your face augurs a fortune \n(Raphael). The spider is the symbol of shrewdness, perse- \nverance and foresight (Pavitt). 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1890", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Spirit or Specter", "text": "To see spirits in a dream, denotes that some unexpected trouble will\nconfront you. If they are white-robed, the health of your nearest friend\nis threatened, or some business speculation will be disapproving.\nIf they are robed in black, you will meet with treachery and unfaithfulness.\n\nIf a spirit speaks, there is some evil near you, which you might avert\nif you would listen to the counsels of judgment.\n\nTo dream that you hear spirits knocking on doors or walls,\ndenotes that trouble will arise unexpectedly.\n\nTo see them moving draperies, or moving behind them, is a warning to hold\ncontrol over your feelings, as you are likely to commit indiscretions.\nQuarrels are also threatened.\n\nTo see the spirit of your friend floating in your room,\nforetells disappointment and insecurity.\n\nTo hear music supposedly coming from spirits, denotes unfavorable\nchanges and sadness in the household.", "locator": "Heading 1894; source lines 21024–21047", "lineStart": 21024, "lineEnd": 21047, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see spirits in a dream, denotes that some unexpected trouble will\nconfront you. If they are white-robed, the health of your nearest friend\nis threatened, or some business speculation will be disapproving.\nIf they are robed in black, you will meet with treachery and unfaithfulness.\n\nIf a spirit speaks, there is some evil near you, which you might avert\nif you would listen to the counsels of judgment.\n\nTo dream that you hear spirits knocking on doors or walls,\ndenotes that trouble will arise unexpectedly.\n\nTo see them moving draperies, or moving behind them, is a warning to hold\ncontrol over your feelings, as you are likely to commit indiscretions.\nQuarrels are also threatened.\n\nTo see the spirit of your friend floating in your room,\nforetells disappointment and insecurity.\n\nTo hear music supposedly coming from spirits, denotes unfavorable\nchanges and sadness in the household." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1892", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Spleen", "text": "To dream of spleen, denotes that you will have a misunderstanding\nwith some party who will injure you.", "locator": "Heading 1896; source lines 21053–21058", "lineStart": 21053, "lineEnd": 21058, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of spleen, denotes that you will have a misunderstanding\nwith some party who will injure you." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "splendor", "title": "Splendor", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you live in splendor, denotes that you will succeed to elevations, and will reside in a…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "splendor" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about splendor stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1893", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Splendor", "text": "To dream that you live in splendor, denotes that you will succeed\nto elevations, and will reside in a different state to the one\nyou now occupy.\n\nTo see others thus living, signifies pleasure derived from the interest\nthat friends take in your welfare.", "locator": "Heading 1897; source lines 21058–21067", "lineStart": 21058, "lineEnd": 21067, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you live in splendor, denotes that you will succeed\nto elevations, and will reside in a different state to the one\nyou now occupy.\n\nTo see others thus living, signifies pleasure derived from the interest\nthat friends take in your welfare." }, { "id": "noe-0494", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Splendor", "text": "To dream that you\nare surrounded with great splendor, and living luxuriously, is an\nindication that you will soon be laid on a bed of affliction and perhaps\ndeath.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 502; source lines 1835–1838", "lineStart": 1835, "lineEnd": 1838, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you\nare surrounded with great splendor, and living luxuriously, is an\nindication that you will soon be laid on a bed of affliction and perhaps\ndeath." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "splinter", "title": "Splinter", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of splinters sticking into your flesh, denotes that you will have many vexations from members of your family or from jealous rivals.”", "aliases": [ "splinter" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about splinter stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "sponges", "title": "Sponges", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Sponges seen in a dream, denote that deception is being practised upon you.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "sponges", "sponge" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about sponges stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1895", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Sponges", "text": "Sponges seen in a dream, denote that deception is being practised upon you.\n\nTo use one in erasing, you will be the victim of folly.", "locator": "Heading 1899; source lines 21076–21082", "lineStart": 21076, "lineEnd": 21082, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Sponges seen in a dream, denote that deception is being practised upon you.\n\nTo use one in erasing, you will be the victim of folly." }, { "id": "cielo-0399", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Sponge", "text": "Is a sign of greed and avarice.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 399; source lines 4827–4829", "lineStart": 4827, "lineEnd": 4829, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Is a sign of greed and avarice." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "spools", "title": "Spools", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of spools of thread, indicates some long and arduous tasks, but which when completed will meet your most sanguine expectations.”", "aliases": [ "spools" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about spools stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1896", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Spools", "text": "To dream of spools of thread, indicates some long and arduous tasks,\nbut which when completed will meet your most sanguine expectations.\nIf they are empty, there will be disappointments for you.", "locator": "Heading 1900; source lines 21082–21088", "lineStart": 21082, "lineEnd": 21088, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of spools of thread, indicates some long and arduous tasks,\nbut which when completed will meet your most sanguine expectations.\nIf they are empty, there will be disappointments for you." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "spools-of-thread", "title": "Spools of Thread", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “A dream of many serious worries (Gypsy).”", "aliases": [ "spools of thread" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about spools of thread stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. 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OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L12014", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Spools of Thread", "heading": "Spools of Thread", "text": "A dream of many serious worries (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12014, "lineEnd": 12016, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 255; NLM OCR lines 12014–12016", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12014, "lineEnd": 12016, "printedPage": 255, "printedPageEnd": 255 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Spools of Thread. — A dream of many serious worries \n(Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Spools of Thread" }, "displayText": "A dream of many serious worries (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "spring", "title": "Spring", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that spring is advancing, is a sign of fortunate undertakings and cheerful companions.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "spring" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about spring stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "spur", "title": "Spur", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of wearing spurs, denotes that you will engage in some unpleasant controversy.”", "aliases": [ "spur" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about spur stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1899", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Spur", "text": "To dream of wearing spurs, denotes that you will engage\nin some unpleasant controversy.\n\nTo see others with them on, foretells that enmity is working you trouble.", "locator": "Heading 1903; source lines 21108–21115", "lineStart": 21108, "lineEnd": 21115, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of wearing spurs, denotes that you will engage\nin some unpleasant controversy.\n\nTo see others with them on, foretells that enmity is working you trouble." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "spy", "title": "Spy", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that spies are harassing you, denotes dangerous quarrels and uneasiness.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "spy" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about spy stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1900", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Spy", "text": "To dream that spies are harassing you, denotes dangerous\nquarrels and uneasiness.\n\nTo dream that you are a spy, denotes that you will make unfortunate ventures.", "locator": "Heading 1904; source lines 21115–21122", "lineStart": 21115, "lineEnd": 21122, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that spies are harassing you, denotes dangerous\nquarrels and uneasiness.\n\nTo dream that you are a spy, denotes that you will make unfortunate ventures." }, { "id": "cielo-0400", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Spy", "text": "To dream of a spy means “Beware of idle rumors!”", "locator": "Dream section, heading 400; source lines 4829–4831", "lineStart": 4829, "lineEnd": 4831, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a spy means “Beware of idle rumors!”" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "spy-glass", "title": "Spy-glass", "type": "dreams", "category": "Other symbols", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are looking through a spy-glass, denotes that changes will soon occur to your…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "spy-glass" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about spy-glass stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1901", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Spy-glass", "text": "To dream that you are looking through a spy-glass, denotes that changes\nwill soon occur to your disadvantage.\n\nTo see a broken or imperfect one, foretells unhappy dissensions\nand loss of friends.", "locator": "Heading 1905; source lines 21122–21130", "lineStart": 21122, "lineEnd": 21130, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are looking through a spy-glass, denotes that changes\nwill soon occur to your disadvantage.\n\nTo see a broken or imperfect one, foretells unhappy dissensions\nand loss of friends." }, { "id": "fontaine-0747", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Spy-Glass", "text": "To dream of looking through one of these instruments and\nobserving objects at a distance, is a sign that you will enlarge your\npossessions; if you are a farmer, you will add to your farm; if a man\nof business, enlarge your business, &c.; but to a poor devil who hasn’t\ngot much of anything, it predicts that he will increase his family for\nthe want of something else to enlarge. 14.", "locator": "Heading 747; source line 4643", "lineStart": 4643, "lineEnd": 4650, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of looking through one of these instruments and\nobserving objects at a distance, is a sign that you will enlarge your\npossessions; if you are a farmer, you will add to your farm; if a man\nof business, enlarge your business, &c.; but to a poor devil who hasn’t\ngot much of anything, it predicts that he will increase his family for\nthe want of something else to enlarge." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "squall", "title": "Squall", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of squalls, foretells disappointing business and unhappiness.”", "aliases": [ "squall" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about squall stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1902", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Squall", "text": "To dream of squalls, foretells disappointing business and unhappiness.", "locator": "Heading 1906; source lines 21130–21134", "lineStart": 21130, "lineEnd": 21134, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of squalls, foretells disappointing business and unhappiness." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "squid", "title": "Squid", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "summary": "Squid dreams can explore a brief encounter, obscured information, coordinated movement, or a creature whose setting changes your response.", "tagline": "A sudden movement, a clouded view, and the encounter before it disappears.", "aliases": [ "squid", "squids" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A squid that darts out of view can picture an experience that becomes difficult to examine just as you notice it. A brief conversation, an idea that arrived while you were busy, or an opportunity whose conditions changed quickly may offer a parallel. The dream may leave you with the feeling of almost making contact rather than a clear encounter. Following eagerly differs from feeling relieved that it has moved away. Its departure can concern the timing of your attention without proving that something important was deliberately withheld.\n\nInk clouding the water can make the limits of a view concrete. You know there was an animal nearby, but the surroundings no longer let you see what it does next. This may resemble trying to understand a situation through information that becomes less clear after an exchange. Waiting for the water to clear creates a different response from deciding immediately what the hidden movement must mean. If the cloud feels like a welcome pause, the scene may instead picture gaining privacy or room to leave an uncomfortable interaction. The animal’s action does not establish another person’s intentions.\n\nSeveral squid moving together can bring attention to a pace shared by a group. You may watch from outside, follow easily, or struggle to remain alongside them. A team, family plan, or social activity can offer a parallel when coordination feels inviting or when its speed leaves little room for your own needs. One animal separating from the group may make a different direction possible. The scene can explore participation without reducing the creatures to a fixed message about conformity or belonging.\n\nA squid appearing in a sink, room, or prepared meal changes its relationship to you through the setting. An animal that moves comfortably in water may seem stranded in a domestic place, turning curiosity toward restoring suitable conditions. Seeing it as food may recall an ordinary meal or create a conflict between forms you relate to differently. A documentary, aquarium visit, game, or cooking memory can supply the image directly. This entry is distinct from Octopus and from the fictional Kraken: shared marine features do not require identical dream readings. The remembered movement, visibility, and encounter provide the basis for reflection, rather than turning the animal’s anatomy into a symbolic code.", "traditional": "No squid-specific historical dream passage is supplied. General Fish passages are not stretched into one. Monterey Bay Aquarium distinguishes squid from octopus as animal subjects; that identification does not supply symbolic meanings. A fictional sea monster named Kraken belongs to a separate context.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "An encounter before it disappears", "reflection": "Sudden movement can picture a brief chance for attention or contact. Wanting to follow differs from welcoming the distance it creates." }, { "title": "A view that becomes unclear", "reflection": "Ink may make uncertainty or privacy visible. Waiting, pursuing, or leaving creates different relationships with the same interruption to sight." }, { "title": "A group’s pace", "reflection": "Several animals moving together can picture coordination that includes or outpaces you. Your own room to alter direction matters more than a fixed group meaning." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A squid darts away as you approach", "reflection": "Contact ends before you can understand what interested you. This may fit a brief exchange or idea you could not fully examine. Curiosity differs from pressure to catch something merely because it has left." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Ink clouds the water around you", "reflection": "The view becomes unclear during an encounter. The scene may picture missing information or a pause that offers privacy. Waiting for visibility to return differs from filling the gap with a definite account of someone else’s motives." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Several squid move together beside your boat", "reflection": "Their shared direction forms a pace you can observe without controlling. This can picture a group process that feels coordinated or difficult to join. Your ability to continue independently changes whether their company is welcome." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "One squid leaves the group and takes another direction", "reflection": "An individual course becomes visible beside coordinated movement. This may picture a preference that differs from a shared plan. Following the separate animal differs from keeping pace with the group, especially if either choice feels like losing valued company." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You find a stranded squid and seek help", "reflection": "Concern shifts attention from its behavior to the conditions around it. This can picture support requiring practical resources beyond your own effort. Other people’s response changes whether responsibility feels cooperative or overwhelming." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "A prepared dish recalls a living creature", "reflection": "Two ways of encountering the same named animal meet in the scene. This may bring a personal memory or preference into a routine meal. Comfort, curiosity, or reluctance can matter without assigning a moral conclusion to the dream." } ], "prompts": [ "What interested me before the squid moved or the view changed?", "Did uncertain visibility feel frustrating, frightening, or like useful privacy?", "How did the setting affect whether I wanted to follow, watch, help, or leave?" ], "related": [ "octopus", "fish", "water", "ocean", "kraken" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." }, { "id": "monterey-bay-cephalopods", "title": "Cephalopods — animal identification only", "author": "Monterey Bay Aquarium", "url": "https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals-the-ocean/animals-a-to-z/cephalopods", "scope": "The Limbs section distinguishes octopus, with eight arms, from squid, with eight arms and two tentacles. Supports keeping these animal subjects separate; does not validate any dream meaning, personality analogy, or psychological conclusion." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "squinting", "title": "Squinting", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you see some person with squinting eyes, denotes that you will be annoyed with unpleasant…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "squinting" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about squinting stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "eyes" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1903", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Squinting", "text": "To dream that you see some person with squinting eyes, denotes that you\nwill be annoyed with unpleasant people.\n\nFor a man to dream that his sweetheart, or some good-looking girl,\nsquints her eyes at him, foretells that he is threatened with loss\nby seeking the favors of women. For a young woman to have this dream\nabout men, she will be in danger of losing her fair reputation.", "locator": "Heading 1907; source lines 21134–21144", "lineStart": 21134, "lineEnd": 21144, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you see some person with squinting eyes, denotes that you\nwill be annoyed with unpleasant people.\n\nFor a man to dream that his sweetheart, or some good-looking girl,\nsquints her eyes at him, foretells that he is threatened with loss\nby seeking the favors of women. For a young woman to have this dream\nabout men, she will be in danger of losing her fair reputation." }, { "id": "fontaine-0748", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Squinting", "text": "(_See Eye._) If a girl dreams of seeing a good-looking young\nman who squints, it is a sign that some one has fallen in love with\nher, and only waits an opportunity to demonstrate his passion: if a\ngentleman dreams that his sweetheart squints, it foretells that she is\nthinking about some one else rather than him, and would not break her\nheart if he refused to  “come to tea.” 49.", "locator": "Heading 748; source line 4650", "lineStart": 4650, "lineEnd": 4657, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Eye.) If a girl dreams of seeing a good-looking young\nman who squints, it is a sign that some one has fallen in love with\nher, and only waits an opportunity to demonstrate his passion: if a\ngentleman dreams that his sweetheart squints, it foretells that she is\nthinking about some one else rather than him, and would not break her\nheart if he refused to  “come to tea.”" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "eyes" ] }, { "slug": "squirrel", "title": "Squirrel", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing squirrels, denotes that pleasant friends will soon visit you.” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "squirrel" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about squirrel stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "animals" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1904", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Squirrel", "text": "To dream of seeing squirrels, denotes that pleasant friends will soon\nvisit you. You will see advancement in your business also.\n\nTo kill a squirrel, denotes that you will be unfriendly and disliked.\n\nTo pet one, signifies family joy.\n\nTo see a dog chasing one, foretells disagreements and\nunpleasantness among friends.", "locator": "Heading 1908; source lines 21144–21156", "lineStart": 21144, "lineEnd": 21156, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing squirrels, denotes that pleasant friends will soon\nvisit you. You will see advancement in your business also.\n\nTo kill a squirrel, denotes that you will be unfriendly and disliked.\n\nTo pet one, signifies family joy.\n\nTo see a dog chasing one, foretells disagreements and\nunpleasantness among friends." }, { "id": "fontaine-0749", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Squirrel", "text": "To dream of these animals is a sign of good fortune; they\ndenote abundant crops to a farmer, and success to any one: if a man\ndreams of being bitten by a squirrel, it foretells that he will lose\nsomething by robbery; if he catches the animal when it bites him, and\nputs it in a cage, the omen is different, for he will have a piece of\ngood luck—though a robbery may be mixed up in it. 21.", "locator": "Heading 749; source line 4657", "lineStart": 4657, "lineEnd": 4664, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of these animals is a sign of good fortune; they\ndenote abundant crops to a farmer, and success to any one: if a man\ndreams of being bitten by a squirrel, it foretells that he will lose\nsomething by robbery; if he catches the animal when it bites him, and\nputs it in a cage, the omen is different, for he will have a piece of\ngood luck—though a robbery may be mixed up in it." }, { "id": "noe-0458", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Squirrel", "text": "To dream of a squirrel, shows\nthat enemies are endeavoring to slander your reputation. To the lover, it\nshows your sweetheart is of a bad temper, and much given to drinking. If\nyou have a lawsuit, it will surely be decided against you. If you are in\ntrade, sharpers will endeavor to defraud you, and you will quarrel with\nyour principal creditor.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 465; source lines 1707–1712", "lineStart": 1707, "lineEnd": 1712, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a squirrel, shows\nthat enemies are endeavoring to slander your reputation. To the lover, it\nshows your sweetheart is of a bad temper, and much given to drinking. If\nyou have a lawsuit, it will surely be decided against you. If you are in\ntrade, sharpers will endeavor to defraud you, and you will quarrel with\nyour principal creditor." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12018", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Squirrel", "heading": "Squirrel", "text": "See Animals.", "lineStart": 12018, "lineEnd": 12019, "kind": "cross-reference", "locator": "Printed p. 255; NLM OCR lines 12018–12019", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12018, "lineEnd": 12019, "printedPage": 255, "printedPageEnd": 255 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Squirrel. — See Animals. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Squirrel" }, "displayText": "See Animals." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "animals" ] }, { "slug": "stable", "title": "Stable", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a stable, is a sign of fortune and advantageous surroundings.” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "stable" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about stable stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1905", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Stable", "text": "To dream of a stable, is a sign of fortune and advantageous surroundings.\n\nTo see a stable burning denotes successful changes, or it may be seen\nin actual life.", "locator": "Heading 1909; source lines 21156–21163", "lineStart": 21156, "lineEnd": 21163, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a stable, is a sign of fortune and advantageous surroundings.\n\nTo see a stable burning denotes successful changes, or it may be seen\nin actual life." }, { "id": "fontaine-0750", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Stable", "text": "To dream of a stable denotes hospitality and good\nentertainment. 2, 11.", "locator": "Heading 750; source line 4664", "lineStart": 4664, "lineEnd": 4667, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a stable denotes hospitality and good\nentertainment." }, { "id": "cielo-0401", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Stable", "text": "To dream of a stable denotes a welcome.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 401; source lines 4831–4833", "lineStart": 4831, "lineEnd": 4833, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a stable denotes a welcome." }, { "id": "luck-0228", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Stable", "text": "Prepare for the visit of a true friend.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 228; source lines 4110–4112", "lineStart": 4110, "lineEnd": 4112, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Prepare for the visit of a true friend." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "stadium", "title": "Stadium", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "aliases": [ "stadium", "stadiums", "sports stadium", "stadium crowd" ], "summary": "A stadium can magnify shared excitement, public evaluation, or your position in a group. Notice the view from where you stood.", "tagline": "A large shared space that changes how participation, attention, and affiliation feel.", "psychological": "A stadium gives individual activity a large public frame. A game, performance, or ceremony happens in one area while many people watch from elsewhere. The separation between field and seats may picture different ways of taking part: acting, observing, supporting, or waiting to be recognized. Your position and the view it provides can be more informative than the result of the event.\n\nThe crowd can amplify a feeling through shared sound and movement. Joining a cheer may offer belonging or exhilaration, while cheering alone can make difference within a group conspicuous. You might recognize the experience from agreeing with colleagues, supporting a cause, or finding that your preferences differ from those around you. Notice whether collective energy helps you express yourself or makes your own response difficult to hear.\n\nA scoreboard can give evaluation a simple visible form. Numbers, names, or changing rules may resemble wanting clear feedback in an activity that actually has several measures of success. An unfair score can picture frustration with how effort is recognized. Record what was counted and who accepted the result; the displayed number is an element of the dream, rather than a forecast.\n\nSeating and access make proximity concrete. A distant seat may feel peaceful or disappointing, while standing on the field can bring exposure, opportunity, or a wish to return to the stands. Searching for your section might resemble trying to understand your role in a large organization or shared project.\n\nAn empty stadium changes the scale of attention. It may give room to recover after collective excitement or make an expected audience conspicuously absent. Cleaning up after the event can bring focus to the work that continues when recognition has moved elsewhere. Familiar broadcasts, live events, and memories of a particular venue can contribute directly to the setting.", "traditional": "These are original reflections on a stadium’s audience, field, seating, and scorekeeping. No verified historical stadium passage is supplied. General dream research does not establish what a crowd or score predicts, or whether a dreamer should join a competition or organization.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A personal response within a crowd", "reflection": "Shared cheering can make affiliation physically vivid, while an opposite reaction can make difference equally visible. The scene may explore how your own preference relates to group energy. Consider whether the crowd offers support, absorbs your voice, or leaves room for disagreement." }, { "title": "The position from which you participate", "reflection": "Seats, aisles, and the field establish different kinds of access and visibility. A distant view may offer perspective or feel excluding. Being placed at the center may feel welcome or exposing. The meaning depends on the role you wanted and could actually choose." }, { "title": "What becomes publicly counted", "reflection": "A scoreboard can simplify an experience into a result everyone sees. That may picture wanting recognition or frustration with an incomplete measure. Look at what the score rewards, what it leaves out, and whether people can question how the display was produced." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Your name appears on the scoreboard", "reflection": "A public display can picture an aspect of your life becoming available for collective evaluation. The name might bring pride, surprise, or pressure. Notice what accompanies it and whether the measure seems relevant; visibility and a meaningful account of your effort can be separate experiences." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You support the opposite team from everyone nearby", "reflection": "A solitary cheer may make a difference in preference feel larger than usual. It can resemble liking an unpopular idea or disagreeing during a group decision. Observe whether people accept your response, challenge it, or never notice; the dream may provide more room than you expect." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "The stands are empty but cheering continues", "reflection": "Sound without an audience can picture expectations that persist after their original setting has changed. You may feel encouraged by remembered support or pressured by an imagined public. Consider where the sound seems to come from and whether the empty space brings freedom, loneliness, or uncertainty." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You stand on the field before a huge audience", "reflection": "Being at the center can magnify the feeling of having an activity watched. A presentation or shared responsibility may offer a parallel. Record what you are expected to do, whether you have the necessary tools, and whether the audience feels curious, supportive, or demanding." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You cannot find the section on your ticket", "reflection": "A definite place that remains inaccessible may picture having a role without clear instructions for reaching it. Joining a large project can feel similar. Signs, stewards, and other spectators may show whether guidance is available and whether asking for it changes the search." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You collect litter after the spectators leave", "reflection": "The quiet work after an event can picture responsibility that continues beyond public excitement. Completing details after a successful group effort may feel similar. 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If you are in a\nstage-coach and it turns over without injuring you, you will be lucky\nin your speculations; if you dream you are killed by the fall, you must\nexpect misfortune. (See Riding and Coach.)" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1908", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Stain", "text": "To see stain on your hands, or clothing, while dreaming,\nforetells that trouble over small matters will assail you.\n\nTo see a stain on the garments of others, or on their flesh,\nforetells that some person will betray you.", "locator": "Heading 1912; source lines 21173–21181", "lineStart": 21173, "lineEnd": 21181, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see stain on your hands, or clothing, while dreaming,\nforetells that trouble over small matters will assail you.\n\nTo see a stain on the garments of others, or on their flesh,\nforetells that some person will betray you." }, { "id": "fontaine-0752", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Stain", "text": "For a girl to dream of stains on her dress, is a sign of\nscandal: if she imagines that the stains are in front, she will be\naccused of an improper intimacy with a gentleman; if on the right\nsleeve, it will be insinuated that she took what did not belong to her;\nif on the left sleeve, some one will be disparaging her veracity. 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The destination gives the effort meaning.\n\nA staircase that lengthens or steepens can picture expectations increasing as you meet them. A promotion that adds demands faster than support, or a project whose finish keeps moving, offers a concrete parallel. The image can express fatigue with the process rather than lack of ambition. A landing may provide an important alternative: progress can include a pause without abandoning the route.\n\nLevels can also bring hierarchy into view. Going upstairs to meet someone may fit approaching authority or entering a role that feels less familiar. Descending to a basement can instead suggest returning to foundations, finding stored material, or looking at something previously left out of view. Moving downward need not mean failure; it may be the movement required to retrieve what you need.\n\nMissing steps and crowded stairways introduce dependence on conditions. 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To see one with the rabies,\nforetells that wealthy surroundings will cause you to assume arrogance,\nwhich will be distasteful to your friends, and your pleasures\nwill be deceitful.", "locator": "Heading 1915; source lines 21202–21214", "lineStart": 21202, "lineEnd": 21214, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a stallion, foretells prosperous conditions are approaching you,\nin which you will hold a position which will confer honor upon you.\n\nTo dream you ride a fine stallion, denotes you will rise to position\nand affluence in a phenomenal way; however, your success will warp\nyour morality and sense of justice. To see one with the rabies,\nforetells that wealthy surroundings will cause you to assume arrogance,\nwhich will be distasteful to your friends, and your pleasures\nwill be deceitful." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "stammer", "title": "Stammer", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you stammer in your conversation, denotes that worry and illness will threaten your enjoyment.”", "aliases": [ "stammer" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about stammer stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "standard-bearer", "title": "Standard-bearer", "type": "dreams", "category": "Other symbols", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are a standard-bearer, denotes that your occupation will be pleasant, but varied.”", "aliases": [ "standard-bearer" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about standard-bearer stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. 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It also shows that you are about to receive a letter\ncontaining some pleasant news." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "starling", "title": "Starling", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “A dream invariably bringing happiness and success (Gypsy).”", "aliases": [ "starling" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about starling stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. 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If they are dull or red, there is trouble\nand misfortune ahead.\n\nTo see a shooting or falling star, denotes sadness and grief.\n\nTo see stars appearing and vanishing mysteriously, there will be some strange\nchanges and happenings in your near future.\n\nIf you dream that a star falls on you, there will be a bereavement\nin your family.\n\nTo see them rolling around on the earth, is a sign of formidable danger\nand trying times.", "locator": "Heading 1918; source lines 21229–21246", "lineStart": 21229, "lineEnd": 21246, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of looking upon clear, shining stars, foretells good\nhealth and prosperity. If they are dull or red, there is trouble\nand misfortune ahead.\n\nTo see a shooting or falling star, denotes sadness and grief.\n\nTo see stars appearing and vanishing mysteriously, there will be some strange\nchanges and happenings in your near future.\n\nIf you dream that a star falls on you, there will be a bereavement\nin your family.\n\nTo see them rolling around on the earth, is a sign of formidable danger\nand trying times." }, { "id": "fontaine-0753", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Stars", "text": "(_See Night._) To dream of seeing multitudes of bright stars\nin a clear sky, is a sign (to a lady) that she will have a great many\nchildren, and troops of good friends: to a man of business, such a\ndream denotes as many customers as he sees stars in a clear sky. If a\ngirl dreams of seeing stars, and notices one or more to be brighter\nthan the rest, those bright ones are lovers, and the small ones are her\nchildren or friends. 4, 19.", "locator": "Heading 753; source line 4682", "lineStart": 4682, "lineEnd": 4690, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Night.) To dream of seeing multitudes of bright stars\nin a clear sky, is a sign (to a lady) that she will have a great many\nchildren, and troops of good friends: to a man of business, such a\ndream denotes as many customers as he sees stars in a clear sky. If a\ngirl dreams of seeing stars, and notices one or more to be brighter\nthan the rest, those bright ones are lovers, and the small ones are her\nchildren or friends." }, { "id": "artemidorus-097", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of the Starres.", "text": "TO see all the starres clear and fayre, is good for a travailer, and for all businesse, and for secrets, in which they agrée not with the Sunne or Moone. Those stars or Planets, which are causes of cold, signifye anger and dangers, but those which cause fayre and calme weather, are prosperity and Riches. Those which are the cause of the winter shortest day, are change into evill: or the worst of the Summers shortest day into good or better. Such stars as vanish and goe out of the skie, are poverty, and forsaking to the rich: for you must imagine that the skie signifyes the house of him that dreams, the stars, his goods and possessions: to the poore this dream signifies death. It is only good for them which have attempted some great evils: whosoeuer dreams that the starres vanish out of the skie, his hayres shall fall from his head. Starres falling upon the earth, or vanishing, is losse of parents, or friends, great or little, according to the quality of the starres. To rob the stars is not good, for it hath faln out, that after this dream, the dreamers thereof have committed sacriledge and for it, have been apprehended and punished. To eat the stars also is not good, except to Astrologians, and Sooth-sayers, to whom it signifieth gain, to others death: to sée the starres under the eaves of thē house, is that the house shall be forsaken, consumed, or burnt, or that the master of the house shal die: the comets, beams and burning rayes, and other like things, séen in a dream, signifie as their nature.", "locator": "Book 2, encoded section 97", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "2", "displayText": "To see all the starres clear and fayre, is good for a travailer, and for all businesse, and for secrets, in which they agrée not with the Sunne or Moone. Those stars or Planets, which are causes of cold, signifye anger and dangers, but those which cause fayre and calme weather, are prosperity and Riches. Those which are the cause of the winter shortest day, are change into evill: or the worst of the Summers shortest day into good or better. 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To eat the stars also is not good, except to Astrologians, and Sooth-sayers, to whom it signifieth gain, to others death: to sée the starres under the eaves of thē house, is that the house shall be forsaken, consumed, or burnt, or that the master of the house shal die: the comets, beams and burning rayes, and other like things, séen in a dream, signifie as their nature.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Starres” is shown on the Stars page: archaic spelling (Artemidorus); already overridden to Nature & elements" }, { "id": "noe-0493", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Stars", "text": "To dream you see stars clear and fair, is\ngood for a traveler, for it shows prosperity and advantage to a voyage or\njourney, also good news; but, on the contrary, to see them dusky and\npale-colored, signifies all sorts of mischief. Seeing the stars vanish and\ndisappear, signifies poverty, vexation and disturbing cares to those that\nare rich, and death to those that are poor.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 501; source lines 1830–1835", "lineStart": 1830, "lineEnd": 1835, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see stars clear and fair, is\ngood for a traveler, for it shows prosperity and advantage to a voyage or\njourney, also good news; but, on the contrary, to see them dusky and\npale-colored, signifies all sorts of mischief. Seeing the stars vanish and\ndisappear, signifies poverty, vexation and disturbing cares to those that\nare rich, and death to those that are poor." }, { "id": "cielo-0402", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Stars", "text": "To dream of a star means happiness; a shooting-star,\n gain of money.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 402; source lines 4833–4836", "lineStart": 4833, "lineEnd": 4836, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a star means happiness; a shooting-star,\ngain of money." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12028", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Stars", "heading": "Stars", "text": "See Planets.", "lineStart": 12028, "lineEnd": 12029, "kind": "cross-reference", "locator": "Printed p. 255; NLM OCR lines 12028–12029", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12028, "lineEnd": 12029, "printedPage": 255, "printedPageEnd": 255 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Stars. — See Planets. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Stars" }, "displayText": "See Planets." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1916", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Statues", "text": "To see statues in dreams, signifies estrangement from a loved one.\nLack of energy will cause you disappointment in realizing wishes.", "locator": "Heading 1920; source lines 21254–21259", "lineStart": 21254, "lineEnd": 21259, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see statues in dreams, signifies estrangement from a loved one.\nLack of energy will cause you disappointment in realizing wishes." }, { "id": "fontaine-0754", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Statue", "text": "To dream of marble statues is a sign of advancement; those who\nimagine that they see beautiful statuary will be sure to rise above\ntheir present position in society. 3, 13.", "locator": "Heading 754; source line 4690", "lineStart": 4690, "lineEnd": 4694, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of marble statues is a sign of advancement; those who\nimagine that they see beautiful statuary will be sure to rise above\ntheir present position in society." }, { "id": "artemidorus-166", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of Statues.", "text": "BRasen statues being very big, séen moving in a dreame, are riches and revenews: But excéeding great ones, and moving like Monsters, are great terrours and perils: because one cannot see them without frighting. Statues also represent Magistrates and Governors of the Town, and in this case, whatsoever they shall do or say, shall befall the said personages.", "locator": "Book 3, encoded section 166", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "3", "displayText": "BRasen statues being very big, séen moving in a dreame, are riches and revenews: But excéeding great ones, and moving like Monsters, are great terrours and perils: because one cannot see them without frighting. Statues also represent Magistrates and Governors of the Town, and in this case, whatsoever they shall do or say, shall befall the said personages." }, { "id": "noe-0464", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Statues", "text": "To\ndream of seeing brazen statues moving, signifies riches. But to dream you\nsee great statues moving, like monsters, denotes terror and perils.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 471; source lines 1729–1732", "lineStart": 1729, "lineEnd": 1732, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To\ndream of seeing brazen statues moving, signifies riches. But to dream you\nsee great statues moving, like monsters, denotes terror and perils." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "stealing", "title": "Stealing", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of stealing, or of seeing others commit this act, foretells bad luck and loss of character.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "stealing" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about stealing stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "thief" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1917", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Stealing", "text": "To dream of stealing, or of seeing others commit this act,\nforetells bad luck and loss of character.\n\nTo be accused of stealing, denotes that you will be misunderstood\nin some affair, and suffer therefrom, but you will eventually find\nthat this will bring you favor.\n\nTo accuse others, denotes that you will treat some person\nwith hasty inconsideration.", "locator": "Heading 1921; source lines 21259–21271", "lineStart": 21259, "lineEnd": 21271, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of stealing, or of seeing others commit this act,\nforetells bad luck and loss of character.\n\nTo be accused of stealing, denotes that you will be misunderstood\nin some affair, and suffer therefrom, but you will eventually find\nthat this will bring you favor.\n\nTo accuse others, denotes that you will treat some person\nwith hasty inconsideration." }, { "id": "fontaine-0755", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Stealing", "text": "(_See Thief._) If you dream of being robbed, it is a sign\nthat you will make a good speculation of some kind; to dream of\nstealing any particular article yourself, foretells that you will soon\nwant just that thing; thus, if you imagine that you steal money, you\nwill be badly in want of some. 49, 16.", "locator": "Heading 755; source line 4694", "lineStart": 4694, "lineEnd": 4700, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Thief.) If you dream of being robbed, it is a sign\nthat you will make a good speculation of some kind; to dream of\nstealing any particular article yourself, foretells that you will soon\nwant just that thing; thus, if you imagine that you steal money, you\nwill be badly in want of some." }, { "id": "noe-0495", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Stealing", "text": "To dream that you are accused of stealing something,\nis an indication that you will have a handsome present given you.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 503; source lines 1838–1840", "lineStart": 1838, "lineEnd": 1840, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are accused of stealing something,\nis an indication that you will have a handsome present given you." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "thief" ] }, { "slug": "steel", "title": "Steel", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “To break a piece in a dream, shows that you will overcome your enemies.”", "aliases": [ "steel" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about steel stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "metals" ], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0470", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Steel", "text": "To break a piece in a dream, shows that you will\novercome your enemies; if you only touch it, your position in life is\nsecure; if you try to bend it, and cannot, you will meet with many\nserious accidents. 41, 50.", "locator": "Heading 470; source line 3175", "lineStart": 3175, "lineEnd": 3180, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To break a piece in a dream, shows that you will\novercome your enemies; if you only touch it, your position in life is\nsecure; if you try to bend it, and cannot, you will meet with many\nserious accidents." }, { "id": "fontaine-0756", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Steel", "text": "(_See Metals._)", "locator": "Heading 756; source line 4700", "lineStart": 4700, "lineEnd": 4702, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Metals.)" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "metals" ] }, { "slug": "steeple", "title": "Steeple", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see a steeple rising from a church, is a harbinger of sickness and reverses.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "steeple" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about steeple stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "tower" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1918", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Steeple", "text": "To see a steeple rising from a church, is a harbinger of\nsickness and reverses.\n\nA broken one, points to death in your circle, or friends.\n\nTo climb a steeple, foretells that you will have serious difficulties,\nbut will surmount them.\n\nTo fall from one, denotes losses in trade and ill health.", "locator": "Heading 1922; source lines 21271–21283", "lineStart": 21271, "lineEnd": 21283, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a steeple rising from a church, is a harbinger of\nsickness and reverses.\n\nA broken one, points to death in your circle, or friends.\n\nTo climb a steeple, foretells that you will have serious difficulties,\nbut will surmount them.\n\nTo fall from one, denotes losses in trade and ill health." }, { "id": "fontaine-0757", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Steeple", "text": "(_See Tower._) To dream of going up to the top of a steeple,\nand looking off at a distance, is a sign that you will increase your\nproperty or effects: if a girl dreams this, it foretells that she will\nmarry above her present position. 6.", "locator": "Heading 757; source line 4702", "lineStart": 4702, "lineEnd": 4707, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Tower.) To dream of going up to the top of a steeple,\nand looking off at a distance, is a sign that you will increase your\nproperty or effects: if a girl dreams this, it foretells that she will\nmarry above her present position." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "tower" ] }, { "slug": "step-parent", "title": "Step-parent", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "A family relationship can have its own place, pace, and history.", "summary": "A step-parent may bring questions of belonging, guidance, and family roles into view. Closeness can grow without replacing another relationship.", "aliases": [ "step-parent", "step parent", "step parents", "stepparent", "stepparents", "stepmother", "stepfather", "step mother", "step father" ], "status": "REVIEW", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A step-parent taking part in an ordinary family scene can make the question of belonging concrete. There may be a place at the table, a familiar routine to share, or an introduction that feels easy or awkward. This can fit adjusting to a changed household or reconsidering where someone belongs in your present family life. A welcome encounter may express established affection just as readily as a wish for greater closeness.\n\nGuidance and authority offer another reading. A step-parent teaching you something, setting a rule, or asking for your help creates a particular arrangement of roles. You might be comfortable accepting practical support while wanting more say over personal decisions. Planning a holiday, sharing a home, or responding to advice about work could provide a waking parallel. The issue may be the fit of the role in that scene rather than whether the relationship is good or bad overall.\n\nCloseness can also bring several loyalties into the same room. Enjoying time with a step-parent while another parent watches may make you aware of how you distribute attention or how you imagine your affection being received. Birthdays and family gatherings can require room for several important relationships. Feeling comfortable with everyone present supports a reading of connection that does not require choosing one person over another.\n\nThe age of the relationship matters. A longstanding step-parent who quietly helps may carry the same familiarity as any trusted family member. A newly introduced figure may bring the uncertainty of learning someone's habits. If you have no step-parent, the dream may imagine how a new relationship could become part of an existing group, as happens when relatives form new partnerships.\n\nWhat changes during the encounter is especially useful. An unwanted title may become negotiable, advice may turn into cooperation, or an awkward introduction may give way to shared laughter. These developments can offer possible ways of understanding belonging, boundaries, and affection in the dream's particular family arrangement.", "traditional": "No matching historical step-parent passage has been supplied for this entry. This is original everyday context drawn from family introductions, shared routines, longstanding bonds, and changes in household relationships. The term alone supplies no character judgment: the dream's actions and your history with the person determine which reflections may be useful.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A place in the family", "reflection": "A seat, invitation, or shared routine can make belonging visible. Warmth may reflect an established bond; awkwardness may fit learning how a newer relationship enters family life." }, { "title": "Guidance with room for choice", "reflection": "Teaching, rules, and advice create different roles. Consider where practical support feels welcome and where you want your own decisions to carry more weight." }, { "title": "Room for several relationships", "reflection": "Affection toward a step-parent can coexist with attachment to other family members. A shared gathering may explore how attention and loyalty make room for everyone important to you." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Your step-parent saves you a place at dinner", "reflection": "A chair is waiting and you join the conversation comfortably. This may express belonging through ordinary inclusion, like being remembered in a holiday plan. If the seat feels imposed or unfamiliar, the question may instead concern whether the offered place fits how you see yourself." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "They teach you a practical skill", "reflection": "You repair something, cook, or learn a route together. Enjoyment may fit support that grows through shared activity rather than a formal family title. Frustration with constant correction could resemble receiving useful advice in a manner that leaves too little room for your approach." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Several parents attend the same celebration", "reflection": "You move between them without finding an easy place to settle. This may resemble dividing attention at a birthday or important milestone. If everyone joins the occasion comfortably, the scene can instead offer an experience of several relationships being present without competing for your loyalty." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Someone insists that you use a different family title", "reflection": "The conversation turns on what you should call your step-parent. This may fit wanting language that matches the relationship's actual closeness, as when introducing family members to friends. Agreeing on a name together could shift the scene toward recognition that develops through negotiation." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Your step-parent asks for your help", "reflection": "You become the person who knows how to handle a task. This may resemble a family role changing as you gain experience or return home as an adult. Satisfaction suggests mutual contribution; resentment may concern feeling expected to provide more than you can comfortably offer." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "A stranger is introduced as your new step-parent", "reflection": "You must learn about someone who has suddenly joined the family. Curiosity may fit openness to a relative's new relationship or a changed group arrangement. Feeling rushed could center on wanting time to become familiar before accepting the closeness others already assume." } ], "prompts": [ "What action gave this person a place in the family: inclusion, guidance, naming, or shared work?", "Which kind of closeness felt natural, and which role seemed to need more time or negotiation?", "Could I value this relationship while leaving room for my other family attachments?" ], "related": [ "parents", "family", "mother", "father" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflections with everyday context; no matching historical passage supplied. General sleep research does not validate these symbol readings. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "step-sister", "title": "Step-sister", "type": "dreams", "category": "Other symbols", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a step-sister, denotes you will have unavoidable care and annoyance upon you.”", "aliases": [ "step-sister" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about step-sister stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1920", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Step-sister", "text": "To dream of a step-sister, denotes you will have unavoidable care\nand annoyance upon you.", "locator": "Heading 1924; source lines 21296–21301", "lineStart": 21296, "lineEnd": 21301, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a step-sister, denotes you will have unavoidable care\nand annoyance upon you." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "steps", "title": "Steps", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you ascend steps, denotes that fair prospects will relieve former anxiety.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "steps" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about steps stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "stairs" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1919", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Steps", "text": "To dream that you ascend steps, denotes that fair prospects\nwill relieve former anxiety.\n\nTo decend them, you may look for misfortune.\n\nTo fall down them, you are threatened with unexpected failure\nin your affairs.\n\n\n[211] See Stairs.", "locator": "Heading 1923; source lines 21283–21296", "lineStart": 21283, "lineEnd": 21296, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you ascend steps, denotes that fair prospects\nwill relieve former anxiety.\n\nTo decend them, you may look for misfortune.\n\nTo fall down them, you are threatened with unexpected failure\nin your affairs. See Stairs." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12033", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Steps", "heading": "Steps", "text": "To walk up steps is a dream auguring success in love, a happy marriage and a rise in life (Raphael),", "lineStart": 12033, "lineEnd": 12035, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 255; NLM OCR lines 12033–12035", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12033, "lineEnd": 12035, "printedPage": 255, "printedPageEnd": 255 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Steps. — To walk up steps is a dream auguring success in \nlove, a happy marriage and a rise in life (Raphael), \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Steps" }, "displayText": "To walk up steps is a dream auguring success in love, a happy marriage and a rise in life (Raphael)," } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "stairs" ] }, { "slug": "stethoscope", "title": "Stethoscope", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a stethoscope, foretells calamity to your hopes and enterprises. There will be troubles and recriminations in love.”", "aliases": [ "stethoscope" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about stethoscope stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1921", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Stethoscope", "text": "To dream of a stethoscope, foretells calamity to your hopes and enterprises.\nThere will be troubles and recriminations in love.", "locator": "Heading 1925; source lines 21301–21306", "lineStart": 21301, "lineEnd": 21306, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a stethoscope, foretells calamity to your hopes and enterprises.\nThere will be troubles and recriminations in love." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "sticks", "title": "Sticks", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of sticks, is an unlucky omen.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "sticks", "stick" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about sticks stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1922", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Sticks", "text": "To dream of sticks, is an unlucky omen.", "locator": "Heading 1926; source lines 21306–21310", "lineStart": 21306, "lineEnd": 21310, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of sticks, is an unlucky omen." }, { "id": "fontaine-0758", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Stick", "text": "To hold a stick foretells mourning; to use it as a prop,\ninstability of fortune; to any one with it shows that you are\ncharitable; to receive a beating with one, predicts you will better\nyour position in life. 7, 7[TN: illegible].", "locator": "Heading 758; source line 4707", "lineStart": 4707, "lineEnd": 4712, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To hold a stick foretells mourning; to use it as a prop,\ninstability of fortune; to any one with it shows that you are\ncharitable; to receive a beating with one, predicts you will better\nyour position in life. 7, 7[TN: illegible]." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "stillborn", "title": "Stillborn", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a stillborn infant, denotes that some distressing incident will come before your notice.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "stillborn" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about stillborn stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1923", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Stillborn", "text": "To dream of a stillborn infant, denotes that some distressing\nincident will come before your notice.", "locator": "Heading 1927; source lines 21310–21315", "lineStart": 21310, "lineEnd": 21315, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a stillborn infant, denotes that some distressing\nincident will come before your notice." }, { "id": "fontaine-0759", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Stillborn", "text": "If a woman dreams that she gives birth to a stillborn child,\nit foretells that her next child will be an uncommon bright one: a\nchildless woman who dreams this, will realize her fondest hopes. 49, 77.", "locator": "Heading 759; source line 4712", "lineStart": 4712, "lineEnd": 4716, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If a woman dreams that she gives birth to a stillborn child,\nit foretells that her next child will be an uncommon bright one: a\nchildless woman who dreams this, will realize her fondest hopes." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "stilts", "title": "Stilts", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of walking on stilts, denotes that your fortune is in an insecure condition.”", "aliases": [ "stilts" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about stilts stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1924", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Stilts", "text": "To dream of walking on stilts, denotes that your fortune is\nin an insecure condition.\n\nTo fall from them, or feel them break beneath you, you will be precipitated\ninto embarrassments by trusting your affairs to the care of others.", "locator": "Heading 1928; source lines 21315–21323", "lineStart": 21315, "lineEnd": 21323, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of walking on stilts, denotes that your fortune is\nin an insecure condition.\n\nTo fall from them, or feel them break beneath you, you will be precipitated\ninto embarrassments by trusting your affairs to the care of others." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "sting", "title": "Sting", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To feel that any insect stings you in a dream, is a foreboding of evil and unhappiness.” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "sting", "stings" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about sting stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1925", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Sting", "text": "To feel that any insect stings you in a dream, is a foreboding\nof evil and unhappiness.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she is stung, is ominous of sorrow\nand remorse from over-confidence in men.", "locator": "Heading 1929; source lines 21323–21331", "lineStart": 21323, "lineEnd": 21331, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To feel that any insect stings you in a dream, is a foreboding\nof evil and unhappiness.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she is stung, is ominous of sorrow\nand remorse from over-confidence in men." }, { "id": "fontaine-0760", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Sting", "text": "To dream of being stung by a bee or wasp, foretells an injury\nby unjust and scandalous reports: a young lady who dreams that a bee\nstings her, will probably have her chastity questioned. 64, 18.", "locator": "Heading 760; source line 4716", "lineStart": 4716, "lineEnd": 4720, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being stung by a bee or wasp, foretells an injury\nby unjust and scandalous reports: a young lady who dreams that a bee\nstings her, will probably have her chastity questioned." }, { "id": "noe-0465", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Stings", "text": "To dream of stings, signifies grief and care. To many, they\nhave signified love and injuries by wicked persons.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 472; source lines 1732–1733", "lineStart": 1732, "lineEnd": 1733, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of stings, signifies grief and care. To many, they\nhave signified love and injuries by wicked persons." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12036", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Sting", "heading": "Sting", "text": "By a bee, wasp or hornet injury by a wicked person (Raphael),", "lineStart": 12036, "lineEnd": 12038, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 255; NLM OCR lines 12036–12038", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12036, "lineEnd": 12038, "printedPage": 255, "printedPageEnd": 255 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Sting. — By a bee, wasp or hornet injury by a wicked person \n(Raphael), \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Sting" }, "displayText": "By a bee, wasp or hornet injury by a wicked person (Raphael)," } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "stingray", "title": "Stingray", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "summary": "A stingray may bring a partly hidden presence, a quiet encounter, or uncertainty about where to step into a dream.", "tagline": "Movement below the surface, and the space between caution and curiosity.", "aliases": [ "stingray", "stingrays" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A stingray moving beneath clear water can picture becoming aware of something you could not see from a distance. The encounter may fit recognizing a possibility after a situation becomes easier to understand: an unfamiliar role begins to look workable, or someone’s quiet contribution becomes visible. If the animal simply passes, curiosity can be more relevant than danger. Watching its movement without needing to catch or direct it may make the dream about allowing an unfamiliar experience its own course.\n\nWhen the water conceals the bottom, the same animal can become part of uncertainty about where to place your feet. Entering an arrangement before its conditions are clear, or deciding what to do with incomplete information, may offer a parallel. The image does not establish that a hidden threat exists. It gives an uncertain step a concrete setting. Remaining still, finding clearer water, or accepting another route creates a different reading from repeatedly moving while hoping the uncertainty will disappear.\n\nA glass boundary can change the relationship again. Seeing a ray in an aquarium may allow interest because contact is limited and the whole scene can be observed. That can fit learning about an unfamiliar subject in conditions that feel manageable. If the barrier prevents the animal’s movement, your attention may shift from personal safety to the cost of containment. The meaning of protection depends on whose freedom is supported and whose is reduced, rather than treating any boundary as automatically reassuring.\n\nA dream sting can make an encounter unexpectedly consequential, particularly if the animal had seemed still or remote. This might resemble a conversation or minor task that leaves a stronger impression than you anticipated. It does not diagnose an injury or predict one. Helping a stranded animal gives the scene a different direction: conditions, rather than its character, become the problem. A swim, beach memory, aquarium visit, or documentary may also account for the image. This entry concerns the stingray you recognized; a manta ray, a shark, and a generic fish need not receive the same interpretation simply because they occupy water.", "traditional": "No Stingray passage is supplied in DreamFolia’s historical archive. Fish and Shark entries concern different scopes and are not borrowed as stingray predictions. These are original comparisons grounded in the visibility, distance, contact, and setting of the recalled animal.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Quiet discovery", "reflection": "A ray passing beneath clear water can picture noticing something unfamiliar without having to control it. Interest or calm may be more central than fear." }, { "title": "An uncertain next step", "reflection": "Hidden footing can make missing information tangible. Pausing or finding another route may matter more than assuming that caution reflects weakness." }, { "title": "Whose boundary helps", "reflection": "Aquarium glass or a barrier can create reassuring distance while limiting another creature’s movement. The scene can hold both functions at once." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A stingray glides beneath clear water", "reflection": "You can see its path while it continues without approaching. This may fit understanding something previously unfamiliar. Quiet observation allows curiosity without requiring contact, ownership, or a conclusion about what the animal intends." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You cannot see what rests in the sand", "reflection": "The bottom conceals the shape that interests or worries you. The scene can picture making a decision with incomplete conditions. A clearer view changes the problem more directly than repeatedly imagining what might be hidden." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A ray passes close and continues away", "reflection": "Expected contact does not become an attack or interruption. Relief may picture an encounter that leaves room for both participants. If you feel disappointed, the scene may instead concern wanting acknowledgment from something independent of you." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Aquarium glass separates you from the animal", "reflection": "The clear barrier allows detailed attention without direct contact. It may fit learning within manageable limits. If the enclosure feels cramped, attention can shift toward whether an arrangement that reassures observers adequately supports what it contains." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A sudden sting interrupts a crossing", "reflection": "An unexpected consequence changes how you relate to the water. This can resemble a small interaction leaving a stronger impression than anticipated. Receiving help or reaching shore alters the scene toward recovery of choice rather than continued exposure." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You help a stranded ray reach water", "reflection": "The animal’s difficulty concerns its surroundings rather than a hostile intention. The scene may picture support through restoring workable conditions. Other helpers and the available route change whether care feels shared or beyond one person’s capacity." } ], "prompts": [ "How much of the animal and its surroundings could I actually see?", "Did distance support curiosity, limit movement, or leave me uncertain?", "What changed when contact happened or a workable route appeared?" ], "related": [ "fish", "shark", "water", "ocean" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "stockings", "title": "Stockings", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "5 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of stockings, denotes that you will derive pleasure from dissolute companionship.” Compare 5 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "stockings", "stocking" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about stockings stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "knitting" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1926", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Stockings", "text": "To dream of stockings, denotes that you will derive pleasure\nfrom dissolute companionship.\n\nFor a young woman to see her stockings ragged, or worn,\nforetells that she will be guilty of unwise, if not immoral conduct.\nTo dream that she puts on fancy stockings, she will be fond\nof the attention of men, and she should be careful to whom she\nshows preference. If white ones appear to be on her feet,\nshe is threatened with woeful disappointment or illness.\n\n\n[212] See Knitting.", "locator": "Heading 1930; source lines 21331–21346", "lineStart": 21331, "lineEnd": 21346, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of stockings, denotes that you will derive pleasure\nfrom dissolute companionship.\n\nFor a young woman to see her stockings ragged, or worn,\nforetells that she will be guilty of unwise, if not immoral conduct.\nTo dream that she puts on fancy stockings, she will be fond\nof the attention of men, and she should be careful to whom she\nshows preference. If white ones appear to be on her feet,\nshe is threatened with woeful disappointment or illness. See Knitting." }, { "id": "fontaine-0761", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Stockings", "text": "To dream of cotton-stockings, foretells moderate happiness;\nof silk, poverty. To take them off, denotes the reception of money.\nStockings with holes in them, signify the loss of property. 47, 71.", "locator": "Heading 761; source line 4720", "lineStart": 4720, "lineEnd": 4724, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of cotton-stockings, foretells moderate happiness;\nof silk, poverty. To take them off, denotes the reception of money.\nStockings with holes in them, signify the loss of property." }, { "id": "noe-0497", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Stockings", "text": "For a female to dream that she is\ndarning stockings, denotes that she will be gladdened by hearing of\nsomething to her advantage. For a person to dream of having lost his or\nher stockings, is an indication that trouble and distress will assail the\ndreamer.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 505; source lines 1842–1846", "lineStart": 1842, "lineEnd": 1846, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a female to dream that she is\ndarning stockings, denotes that she will be gladdened by hearing of\nsomething to her advantage. For a person to dream of having lost his or\nher stockings, is an indication that trouble and distress will assail the\ndreamer." }, { "id": "cielo-0403", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Stocking", "text": "To put on or take off a stocking denotes a\n change in your fortune.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 403; source lines 4836–4839", "lineStart": 4836, "lineEnd": 4839, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To put on or take off a stocking denotes a\nchange in your fortune." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12039", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Stockings", "heading": "Stockings", "text": "To lose a dream of distress and trouble ; holes warn you to guard your conduct (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12039, "lineEnd": 12041, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 255; NLM OCR lines 12039–12041", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12039, "lineEnd": 12041, "printedPage": 255, "printedPageEnd": 255 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Stockings. — To lose a dream of distress and trouble ; holes \nwarn you to guard your conduct (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Stockings" }, "displayText": "To lose a dream of distress and trouble; holes warn you to guard your conduct (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "knitting" ] }, { "slug": "stone", "title": "Stone", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see stones in your dreams, foretells numberless perplexities and failures.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "stone", "stones" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about stone stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "rocks" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1927", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Stone", "text": "To see stones in your dreams, foretells numberless perplexities and failures.\n\nTo walk among rocks, or stones, omens that an uneven and rough\npathway will be yours for at least a while.\n\nTo make deals in ore-bearing rock lands, you will be\nsuccessful in business after many lines have been tried.\nIf you fail to profit by the deal, you will have disappointments.\nIf anxiety is greatly felt in closing the trade, you will succeed\nin buying or selling something that will prove profitable to you.\n\nSmall stones or pebbles, implies that little worries and vexations\nwill irritate you.\n\nIf you throw a stone, you will have cause to admonish a person.\n\nIf you design to throw a pebble or stone at some belligerent person,\nit denotes that some evil feared by you will pass because of your untiring\nattention to right principles.\n\n\n[213] See Rock.", "locator": "Heading 1931; source lines 21346–21371", "lineStart": 21346, "lineEnd": 21371, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see stones in your dreams, foretells numberless perplexities and failures.\n\nTo walk among rocks, or stones, omens that an uneven and rough\npathway will be yours for at least a while.\n\nTo make deals in ore-bearing rock lands, you will be\nsuccessful in business after many lines have been tried.\nIf you fail to profit by the deal, you will have disappointments.\nIf anxiety is greatly felt in closing the trade, you will succeed\nin buying or selling something that will prove profitable to you.\n\nSmall stones or pebbles, implies that little worries and vexations\nwill irritate you.\n\nIf you throw a stone, you will have cause to admonish a person.\n\nIf you design to throw a pebble or stone at some belligerent person,\nit denotes that some evil feared by you will pass because of your untiring\nattention to right principles. See Rock." }, { "id": "cielo-0404", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Stones", "text": "To dream of throwing stones denotes suffering.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 404; source lines 4839–4841", "lineStart": 4839, "lineEnd": 4841, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of throwing stones denotes suffering." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "rocks" ] }, { "slug": "stone-mason", "title": "Stone Mason", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see stone masons at work while dreaming, foretells disappointment.”", "aliases": [ "stone mason" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about stone mason stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1928", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Stone Mason", "text": "To see stone masons at work while dreaming, foretells disappointment.\n\nTo dream that you are a stone mason, portends that your labors will\nbe unfruitful, and your companions will be dull and uncongenial.", "locator": "Heading 1932; source lines 21371–21378", "lineStart": 21371, "lineEnd": 21378, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see stone masons at work while dreaming, foretells disappointment.\n\nTo dream that you are a stone mason, portends that your labors will\nbe unfruitful, and your companions will be dull and uncongenial." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "storage-battery", "title": "Storage Battery", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a storage battery, opportune speculations will return you handsome gains.”", "aliases": [ "storage battery" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about storage battery stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1929", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Storage Battery", "text": "To dream of a storage battery, opportune speculations will return\nyou handsome gains.", "locator": "Heading 1933; source lines 21378–21383", "lineStart": 21378, "lineEnd": 21383, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a storage battery, opportune speculations will return\nyou handsome gains." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "store", "title": "Store", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a store filled with merchandise, foretells prosperity and advancement.”", "aliases": [ "store" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about store stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1930", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Store", "text": "To dream of a store filled with merchandise, foretells\nprosperity and advancement.\n\nAn empty one, denotes failure of efforts and quarrels.\n\nTo dream that your store is burning, is a sign of renewed activity\nin business and pleasure.\n\nIf you find yourself in a department store, it foretells that much pleasure\nwill be derived from various sources of profit.\n\nTo sell goods in one, your advancement will be accelerated by your energy\nand the efforts of friends.\n\nTo dream that you sell a pair of soiled, gray cotton gloves to a woman,\nforetells that your opinion of women will place you in hazardous positions.\nIf a woman has this dream, her preference for some one of the male sex\nwill not be appreciated very much by him.", "locator": "Heading 1934; source lines 21383–21404", "lineStart": 21383, "lineEnd": 21404, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a store filled with merchandise, foretells\nprosperity and advancement.\n\nAn empty one, denotes failure of efforts and quarrels.\n\nTo dream that your store is burning, is a sign of renewed activity\nin business and pleasure.\n\nIf you find yourself in a department store, it foretells that much pleasure\nwill be derived from various sources of profit.\n\nTo sell goods in one, your advancement will be accelerated by your energy\nand the efforts of friends.\n\nTo dream that you sell a pair of soiled, gray cotton gloves to a woman,\nforetells that your opinion of women will place you in hazardous positions.\nIf a woman has this dream, her preference for some one of the male sex\nwill not be appreciated very much by him." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "stork", "title": "Stork", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Cielo wrote: “Seeing a stork means loss thru robbery.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "stork" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about stork stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "cielo-0405", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Stork", "text": "Seeing a stork means loss thru robbery.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 405; source lines 4841–4843", "lineStart": 4841, "lineEnd": 4843, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Seeing a stork means loss thru robbery." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12042", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Stork", "heading": "Stork", "text": "A dream of change, possibly loss (Gypsy). Evidently the interpretation antedates the German interpretation of the symbol.", "lineStart": 12042, "lineEnd": 12045, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 255; NLM OCR lines 12042–12045", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12042, "lineEnd": 12045, "printedPage": 255, "printedPageEnd": 255 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Stork. — A dream of change, possibly loss (Gypsy). Evi- \ndently the interpretation antedates the German interpretation \nof the symbol. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "Evi- \ndently", "after": "Evidently", "evidenceLine": 1238 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Stork" }, "displayText": "A dream of change, possibly loss (Gypsy). Evidently the interpretation antedates the German interpretation of the symbol." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "storm", "title": "Storms", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "Describe the weather's effect, then the shelter you found or wanted.", "summary": "Storm dreams can center disruption, intensity, or shared shelter. Notice what the weather changes and which actions remain possible.", "aliases": [ "storm", "thunder", "lightning" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A storm is made of separate details: wind, rain, thunder, lightning, darkness, and changes in the landscape. Name the one that shaped your experience most. Watching a storm approach differs from being caught in it or discovering damage afterward. Were you traveling, protecting a place, waiting with others, or enjoying the force from a secure room?\n\nThe scene may offer a comparison with an intense disagreement or unpredictable period if that fits your life. Be precise about the resemblance rather than calling all stormy weather inner conflict. Loud noise could center interruption, wind could make movement difficult, and darkness could limit what you can see. A recent weather event, film, forecast, or remembered night can be direct context as well.\n\nShelter makes the dream's resources visible. A sturdy room, a shared umbrella, a damaged roof, or no accessible building creates a different balance between exposure and support. Notice whether you choose the shelter, whether someone welcomes you, and whether you can help another person. The dream's conditions do not prove that you are unprotected while awake; they describe what safety looked like within this scene.\n\nThe end can be as specific as the storm itself. Clearing skies may feel reassuring or reveal work that remains. A storm that passes without damage may leave you wondering why you were afraid; one that you watch with fascination may hold excitement rather than distress. Include these differences. An intense landscape does not require a dramatic explanation or establish that an upheaval is about to occur.", "traditional": "Miller's Storm entry gives an unfavorable forecast to an approaching storm and softens it if the storm passes. Fontaine's 1862 Storm passage also connects devastating weather with trouble, while distinguishing violent rain from gentle showers and mixing favorable and unfavorable outcomes. These are supplied examples of period fortune-telling organized around severity and duration.\n\nThe passages document a habit of mapping difficult weather onto difficult fortunes, not a reliable link between dreams and events. A sheltered observer, a worker caught outdoors, and someone excited by lightning can have very different experiences that the short forecasts cannot capture. This entry's original contextual comparison asks what the weather interrupted, which resources were available, and how the scene changed afterward. A passing storm need not promise resolution, and a continuing storm need not announce trouble. Your memories of real weather and your particular response remain central.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "You watch lightning from a secure room", "reflection": "The boundary may let you experience awe as well as caution. Notice whether the room feels dependable and whether anyone shares your view. A question about intensity at a comfortable distance may fit better than one about conflict.", "slug": "scene-1" }, { "title": "You search for shelter while wind blocks your path", "reflection": "Describe the practical obstacle and the places you consider safe. Does someone help you find a route, or do you improvise? The scene can explore navigating disruption without proving that you lack support in your waking circumstances.", "slug": "scene-2" }, { "title": "You return outside after the storm passes", "reflection": "Clearing weather may reveal relief, damage, or an unchanged landscape. What do you inspect first, and what can wait? The aftermath may offer a question about recovery or simply reflect a familiar routine after real bad weather.", "slug": "scene-3" } ], "prompts": [ "Which feature of the storm affected me most, and how?", "What made a shelter feel available or dependable?", "What changed after the worst weather, if anything?" ], "related": [ "rain", "tornado", "flood", "earthquake", "hurricane", "hail", "snow" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "scope": "Historical comparison only: Storm — miller-1931, Heading 1935; source lines 21404–21414. These period beliefs do not establish a dream meaning or prediction.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1931" ] }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "scope": "Historical comparison only: Storm — fontaine-0762, Heading 762; source line 4724. These period beliefs do not establish a dream meaning or prediction.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0762" ] }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0496" ], "scope": "Attached historical material only: Storm — noe-0496 (Dream section, heading 504; source lines 1840–1842). Exposure to a violent storm is assigned reconciliation with a person in disagreement. This citation preserves the attributed archival material; it does not substantiate the original modern reflection or establish a present-day outcome." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0406" ], "scope": "Attached historical material only: Storm — cielo-0406 (Dream section, heading 406; source lines 4843–4845). Being caught in a storm is assigned vexation. This citation preserves the attributed archival material; it does not substantiate the original modern reflection or establish a present-day outcome." }, { "id": "moles-71045", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams and Moles", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "United Kingdom, J. Marshall, 1805", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71045", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "moles-0048" ], "scope": "Attached historical material only: Storm — moles-0048 (Dreams interpreted, passage 48; source lines 249–250). Storms and a troubled sky are assigned anger. This citation preserves the attributed archival material; it does not substantiate the original modern reflection or establish a present-day outcome." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L12046" ], "scope": "Attached historical material only: Storm — craig-1918:L12046 (Printed p. 255; NLM OCR lines 12046–12047). Craig records serious misfortunes that will pass. This citation preserves the attributed archival material; it does not substantiate the original modern reflection or establish a present-day outcome." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia expansion written for this topic. Historical passages are attributed period beliefs; modern reflections are possibilities rather than established meanings. Human publication review pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1931", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Storm", "text": "To see and hear a storm approaching, foretells continued sickness,\nunfavorable business, and separation from friends, which will cause\nadded distress. If the storm passes, your affliction will not\nbe so heavy.\n\n\n[214] See Hurricane and Rain.", "locator": "Heading 1935; source lines 21404–21414", "lineStart": 21404, "lineEnd": 21414, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see and hear a storm approaching, foretells continued sickness,\nunfavorable business, and separation from friends, which will cause\nadded distress. If the storm passes, your affliction will not\nbe so heavy. See Hurricane and Rain." }, { "id": "fontaine-0762", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Storm", "text": "(_See Rain, Hail and Snow._) To dream of a devastating storm,\nforetells losses and trouble: a violent rain-storm denotes that you\nwill have good luck, but that misfortunes will nevertheless injure your\nprospects: gentle showers promise the luck without the adverse omen.\n21, 72.", "locator": "Heading 762; source line 4724", "lineStart": 4724, "lineEnd": 4730, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Rain, Hail and Snow.) To dream of a devastating storm,\nforetells losses and trouble: a violent rain-storm denotes that you\nwill have good luck, but that misfortunes will nevertheless injure your\nprospects: gentle showers promise the luck without the adverse omen." }, { "id": "noe-0496", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Storm", "text": "To dream that you are exposed to a violent storm, denotes that a\nreconciliation is about to take place between you and one with whom you\nhave been at variance.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 504; source lines 1840–1842", "lineStart": 1840, "lineEnd": 1842, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are exposed to a violent storm, denotes that a\nreconciliation is about to take place between you and one with whom you\nhave been at variance." }, { "id": "cielo-0406", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Storm", "text": "Being caught in a storm denotes coming vexation.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 406; source lines 4843–4845", "lineStart": 4843, "lineEnd": 4845, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Being caught in a storm denotes coming vexation." }, { "id": "moles-0048", "sourceId": "moles-71045", "heading": "Storm", "originalHeading": "(no printed heading)", "text": "To dream of storms and a troubled sky, denotes that the person will get\nanger.", "locator": "Dreams interpreted, passage 48; source lines 249–250", "lineStart": 249, "lineEnd": 250, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "editorialNote": "The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Storm” because that is the subject of its first clause.", "displayText": "To dream of storms and a troubled sky, denotes that the person will get\nanger." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12046", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Storm", "heading": "Storm", "text": "Heavy misfortunes which will vanish (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12046, "lineEnd": 12047, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 255; NLM OCR lines 12046–12047", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12046, "lineEnd": 12047, "printedPage": 255, "printedPageEnd": 255 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Storm. — Heavy misfortunes which will vanish (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Storm" }, "displayText": "Heavy misfortunes which will vanish (Gypsy)." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [ "hurricane", "rain", "hail", "snow" ] }, { "slug": "stove", "title": "Stove", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “To dream of a stove is a sign of wealth, if there be a fire in it; but if cold, a sign of poverty.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "stove" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about stove stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0763", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Stove", "text": "To dream of a stove is a sign of wealth, if there be a fire in\nit; but if cold, a sign of poverty. 8, 60.", "locator": "Heading 763; source line 4730", "lineStart": 4730, "lineEnd": 4733, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a stove is a sign of wealth, if there be a fire in\nit; but if cold, a sign of poverty." }, { "id": "cielo-0407", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Stove", "text": "Sitting near a stove is an indication of comfort\n and wealth.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 407; source lines 4845–4848", "lineStart": 4845, "lineEnd": 4848, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Sitting near a stove is an indication of comfort\nand wealth." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "strange-place", "title": "Strange Place", "type": "dreams", "category": "Other symbols", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “To dream of being in a strange place, denotes a good legacy from a relation while in prison.”", "aliases": [ "strange place" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about strange place stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "noe-0456b", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Strange Place", "text": "To dream of being in a strange place, denotes a good legacy from\na relation while in prison. To the lover, they show inconstancy and want\nof affection in the object of your love. To the sailor, sickness on the\nnext voyage.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 463; source lines 1700–1704", "lineStart": 1700, "lineEnd": 1704, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being in a strange place, denotes a good legacy from\na relation while in prison. To the lover, they show inconstancy and want\nof affection in the object of your love. To the sailor, sickness on the\nnext voyage." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "strange-room", "title": "Strange Room", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Cielo wrote: “Coming into a strange room denotes the solving of a mystery.”", "aliases": [ "strange room" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about strange room stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "cielo-0408", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Strange Room", "text": "Coming into a strange room denotes the\n solving of a mystery.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 408; source lines 4848–4851", "lineStart": 4848, "lineEnd": 4851, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Coming into a strange room denotes the\nsolving of a mystery." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "a-stranger", "title": "Stranger", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "An unfamiliar person changes the terms of an encounter.", "summary": "A stranger can bring uncertainty, welcome, privacy or a different role into a dream. The encounter matters more than a fixed hidden identity.", "aliases": [ "stranger", "strangers", "unknown person", "a stranger" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "A stranger can make an encounter possible before you know what to expect from the other person. Someone offers directions, shares a table or interrupts a conversation, and you have to respond without a familiar history to guide you. This can resemble joining a new group or negotiating an unfamiliar role. The unknown identity leaves room for curiosity as well as caution; unfamiliarity alone does not make the person threatening.\n\nBeing welcomed by a stranger may give attention to a form of contact that asks little explanation of you. You can talk about an interest without being placed in an established family or work role. If that feels relieving, the useful comparison may concern being met as you are now. If the welcome feels intrusive, the scene instead raises the terms on which you want contact.\n\nA stranger who blocks your way introduces a particular difficulty. Perhaps they insist on an instruction, occupy a doorway or ask a question you do not wish to answer. The action can resemble an expectation you have not agreed to. It need not reveal an enemy, identify a real person or establish that an unfamiliar group is unsafe.\n\nNot recognizing someone who recognizes you creates a different imbalance. They know a name or story while you lack the same information. This can picture wanting context before accepting a role another person gives you. Alternatively, a face without a remembered identity may simply remain an incomplete part of the dream.\n\nAn unknown companion can also make ordinary company available: waiting for a bus, watching the rain or working side by side. Consider what you were able to do together and whether either person could leave. The stranger need not turn into a hidden part of yourself for that arrangement to be worth considering. Their identity can stay unresolved while the particular exchange becomes clear.", "traditional": "Fontaine assigns new-love, pregnancy and paternity forecasts to a stranger’s kiss, with gendered assumptions. Craig gives a brief honor-and-success forecast for seeing a stranger. These two period accounts do not reveal a real person’s identity, intentions or a future relationship. The original reflection follows the encounter itself.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A stranger offers directions and lets you decide", "reflection": "Help is available without taking over your journey. This may fit wanting enough information to make your own choice in an unfamiliar situation. 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OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1936", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Struggling", "text": "To dream of struggling, foretells that you will encounter\nserious difficulties, but if you gain the victory in your struggle,\nyou will also surmount present obstacles.", "locator": "Heading 1940; source lines 21455–21461", "lineStart": 21455, "lineEnd": 21461, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of struggling, foretells that you will encounter\nserious difficulties, but if you gain the victory in your struggle,\nyou will also surmount present obstacles." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12056", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Struggling", "heading": "Struggling", "text": "With a burglar or in a dangerous place, a dream denoting attainment of honor; the struggle to obtain mastery denotes recovery from illness, to dream of being overcome in a struggle forecasts death during the next illness, which is probably near at hand (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12056, "lineEnd": 12066, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 255–256; NLM OCR lines 12056–12066", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12056, "lineEnd": 12066, "printedPage": 255, "printedPageEnd": 256 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Struggling. — With a burglar or in a dangerous place, a \ndream denoting attainment of honor; the struggle to obtain \nmastery denotes recovery from illness, to dream of being \n\n\n256 THE FABRIC OF DREAMS \n\n\novercome in a struggle forecasts death during the next illness, \nwhich is probably near at hand (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [ { "line": 12061, "text": "256 THE FABRIC OF DREAMS " } ], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Struggling" }, "displayText": "With a burglar or in a dangerous place, a dream denoting attainment of honor; the struggle to obtain mastery denotes recovery from illness, to dream of being overcome in a struggle forecasts death during the next illness, which is probably near at hand (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1938", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Stumps", "text": "To dream of a stump, foretells you are to have reverses and will depart\nfrom your usual mode of living. To see fields of stumps, signifies you\nwill be unable to defend yourself from the encroachments of adversity.\nTo dig or pull them up, is a sign that you will extricate yourself from\nthe environment of poverty by throwing off sentiment and pride and meeting\nthe realities of life with a determination to overcome whatever opposition\nyou may meet.", "locator": "Heading 1942; source lines 21467–21477", "lineStart": 21467, "lineEnd": 21477, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a stump, foretells you are to have reverses and will depart\nfrom your usual mode of living. To see fields of stumps, signifies you\nwill be unable to defend yourself from the encroachments of adversity.\nTo dig or pull them up, is a sign that you will extricate yourself from\nthe environment of poverty by throwing off sentiment and pride and meeting\nthe realities of life with a determination to overcome whatever opposition\nyou may meet." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "subway", "title": "Subway", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "Knowing the destination does not always tell you how to transfer.", "summary": "A subway dream can explore finding a route through a shared system. Transfers, maps and the place you emerge give the journey its focus.", "aliases": [ "subway", "subways", "metro", "underground train", "subway station", "metro station" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A subway joins separate places through a system you cannot see in full from one platform. In a dream, this can picture navigating an arrangement whose connections matter more than any single step. A course sequence, a large organization or a move involving several practical stages may provide a parallel. You may know where you want to arrive while still needing to learn which line, transfer or entrance makes the route workable.\n\nA map offers an overview that the immediate surroundings cannot provide. If it is useful, the dream may picture gaining a structure that makes a complicated task manageable. If the map names every destination but leaves the connections unclear, it can resemble information that describes possibilities without explaining access. A changing map may fit advice or procedures that do not remain stable long enough for you to act on them.\n\nTransfers make continuity depend on leaving one arrangement for another. A platform that never meets the connecting line can picture a plan whose stages look compatible until you try to join them. Qualifications that do not transfer, schedules that fail to overlap or teams using different systems may feel similar. A smooth transfer can instead express relief at discovering that separate parts of your life can work together without starting again from the beginning.\n\nTravel underground can limit the landmarks available along the way. This may resemble proceeding through a process whose intermediate results are hard to judge. Trusting the route differs from feeling carried without enough information. A shared carriage can offer ordinary company, anonymity or pressure to match the crowd. You may be able to choose where you stand even while the system determines when everyone moves.\n\nEmerging onto a street makes the destination concrete. A familiar ride ending somewhere unexpected can picture discovering what an established process actually leads to, rather than what its label suggested. The new surroundings may be disappointing, inviting or simply unfamiliar. Recent commuting and remembered stations may also explain the details directly. The original reading follows navigation, connection and arrival within a public system; the broader question of joining a life course belongs with Train.", "traditional": "No exact Subway or Metro heading appears in the supplied historical catalogue. Railroad, Railway cars and Underground cover adjacent tracks, vehicles or below-ground places. They do not establish symbolic meanings for modern transit maps, transfers or station exits.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Finding connections", "reflection": "A subway can picture a task whose stages must connect before the destination becomes reachable. The challenge may be joining available routes rather than deciding what you want." }, { "title": "Trust with limited landmarks", "reflection": "Travel without visible streets can resemble moving through a process whose intermediate progress is hard to assess. Useful information and reliable stopping points can change how that uncertainty feels." }, { "title": "Where the system takes you", "reflection": "Emerging somewhere unexpected can reveal the difference between a familiar procedure and its actual result. Arrival makes the consequences concrete enough to reconsider the route." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Your transfer connects platforms that do not meet", "reflection": "Platforms that do not connect can picture stages of a plan that fail to join in practice. Different schedules or incompatible requirements may fit. The difficulty is a missing link rather than necessarily an unsuitable destination." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You emerge at an unfamiliar street after a familiar ride", "reflection": "An unfamiliar street after a familiar ride can picture discovering an unexpected result from a routine process. Its welcome or discomfort changes whether the surprise feels like opportunity or a mismatch needing attention." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A map shows the destination but no route reaches it", "reflection": "A destination without a route can resemble being shown possible outcomes without instructions for reaching them. An application or training system may feel similar. Information becomes useful only when it provides a connection you can take." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You move with the crowd through a crowded station", "reflection": "Moving with a station crowd can picture adapting your pace to a shared process. The crowd may give orientation or make individual choice difficult. Whether you can step aside or ask for help changes your position within it." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The platform is quiet and you have time to choose", "reflection": "A quiet platform can picture enough space to consider a route without pressure from others. A pause between commitments may offer a parallel. Quiet may support choice even when it also makes the uncertainty more noticeable." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The station you need is announced under another name", "reflection": "A renamed stop can picture a familiar need hidden by unfamiliar terminology. A changed role or institution may require translating what you already know. Recognition matters more than treating the new label as an entirely new destination." } ], "prompts": [ "Which connection made the destination reachable or unreachable?", "What information did I trust when I could not see the route?", "How did the place I emerged compare with where I thought I was going?" ], "related": [ "train", "tunnel", "being-lost", "public-transport-suddenly-suspended" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "success", "title": "Success", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "summary": "Success dreams may explore completion, the measure of achievement, or the difference between recognition and a result that actually matters to you.", "tagline": "A result can be impressive without supplying what you wanted.", "aliases": [ "success", "achievement", "achievements", "accomplishment" ], "status": "REVIEW", "psychological": "Success in a dream can make effort feel as though it has reached an answer. Work is finished, a prize arrives or something difficult becomes possible. The important distinction is between achieving a result and receiving what you expected the result to provide. Quiet satisfaction may center on useful completion. An impressive award that feels empty may make recognition less important than a wish that remains unmet.\n\nThe measure of success can belong to different people. A crowd may celebrate something you do not value, while a modest outcome feels meaningful to you alone. A waking project, assessment or personal milestone can offer a comparison. The dream may bring an inherited standard into view without declaring that external measures are always wrong. A clear public standard and your own purpose can agree, differ or remain unresolved.\n\nOwnership also matters. Receiving credit for work you did not do can picture being recognized in a way that does not match your actual contribution. Succeeding with a team can make different roles visible rather than turn the result into a solitary victory. Sharing the outcome may feel generous, satisfying or difficult if your part seems to disappear. These distinctions are more useful than assuming that every successful dream expresses a wish to outrank others.\n\nCompletion can create another responsibility. A prize may come with public attention, or finishing one project may leave you unsure how to use the time afterward. The scene can explore a transition from pursuit to living with its result. A waking change that brings both opportunity and new demands may fit, but recent celebrations or fictional competitions can supply the imagery too.\n\nAn alternative success can change the whole ending. You might value a task that helps somebody more than the prestigious win, or feel proud that a process was fair even when the result was small. The dream does not promise a real achievement or predict failure. It can help make the measure visible: what was completed, whose account counted and whether the outcome served the purpose that made the effort worthwhile.", "traditional": "Noe’s 1885 Success passage assigns a successful enterprise news of an esteemed person’s death. Craig’s 1918 account calls success a contrary dream signifying failure. These incompatible period forecasts remain attributed records, not expectations for waking events. The original reading here considers completion, value and recognition.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "The measure of a result", "reflection": "A public reward and a personally useful outcome can point to different forms of achievement." }, { "title": "Credit and contribution", "reflection": "A result may be owned, shared or assigned in a way that does not match the work." }, { "title": "After the finish", "reflection": "Completion can create time, uncertainty or another responsibility rather than end every demand." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You finish work and feel quietly satisfied", "reflection": "The result can matter because it completes something useful, even if nobody applauds. A finished practical job or personal commitment offers a waking comparison. The quiet satisfaction separates the value of completion from a requirement that it become visible or competitive." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "An award arrives for work you did not do", "reflection": "The reward recognizes a version of your contribution that feels unfamiliar. This may picture concern about being seen accurately, or pressure to maintain an appearance you did not create. The problem is not necessarily the size of the prize but its relation to the work." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A team succeeds while each person contributes differently", "reflection": "Different contributions can remain visible within a shared result. A cooperative project or household task can offer a comparison. Satisfaction may come from coordination rather than superiority; discomfort could instead concern whether recognition is distributed in a way that matches people’s actual parts." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You reach a goal and feel unexpectedly empty", "reflection": "The destination provides less than the anticipation promised. This may picture reaching a milestone that does not settle a separate need for rest, connection or purpose. The achievement can remain real within the scene while its emotional effect is more complicated than celebration." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A modest result matters more than a prestigious win", "reflection": "The modest outcome may fit the purpose of the effort better than an admired award. A useful repair, shared experience or manageable commitment can have this quality. The dream can make your own measure visible without requiring every public standard to lose value." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "Success creates a new responsibility you did not expect", "reflection": "The completed task opens another role instead of providing an ending. This may resemble a promotion, qualification or project that brings new expectations. The scene asks what the result now requires, allowing relief about completion and uncertainty about what follows to coexist." } ], "prompts": [ "What did you expect the successful result to provide?", "Whose measure of achievement counted in the dream?", "What became possible or necessary after the task was complete?" ], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0498" ], "scope": "Historical context only. Attributed A. H. Noe passage(s): successful enterprise is assigned news of a respected person’s death. These are period beliefs, not established predictions or support for the original psychological reading." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L12067" ], "scope": "Historical context only. Attributed Katherine Taylor Craig passage(s): Success is labeled a contrary dream predicting failure, attributed in Craig’s text. These are period beliefs, not established predictions or support for the original psychological reading." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "related": [ "graduation", "applause", "disappointment", "mountain" ], "updated": "2026-10-13", "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "noe-0498", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Success", "text": "To dream that you have been successful in some\nenterprise in which you have been engaged, denotes that you will hear of\nsome person’s death whom you highly esteemed.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 506; source lines 1846–1848", "lineStart": 1846, "lineEnd": 1848, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you have been successful in some\nenterprise in which you have been engaged, denotes that you will hear of\nsome person’s death whom you highly esteemed." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12067", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Success", "heading": "Success", "text": "A dream of contrary signifying failure (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12067, "lineEnd": 12068, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 256; NLM OCR lines 12067–12068", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12067, "lineEnd": 12068, "printedPage": 256, "printedPageEnd": 256 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Success. — A dream of contrary signifying failure (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Success" }, "displayText": "A dream of contrary signifying failure (Gypsy)." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "suckle", "title": "Suckle", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see the young taking suckle, denotes contentment and favorable conditions for success is unfolding to…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "suckle" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about suckle stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "nursing", "wet-nurse" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1939", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Suckle", "text": "To see the young taking suckle, denotes contentment and favorable\nconditions for success is unfolding to you.\n\n\n[215] See Nursing.", "locator": "Heading 1943; source lines 21477–21485", "lineStart": 21477, "lineEnd": 21485, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see the young taking suckle, denotes contentment and favorable\nconditions for success is unfolding to you. See Nursing." }, { "id": "fontaine-0767", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Suckle", "text": "(_See Wet-Nurse._) If a married woman dreams of suckling a\nchild, it foretells that she will soon give birth to another; should\na bachelor dream of seeing a child suckled, he had better make up his\nmind that he will soon have a young lady’s board to pay, whether he\nmarries or not; but as the latter would be the better course let him be\nlooking round for a wife at once. A married man who dreams this, will\nsoon become a happy father. 7, 9, 63.", "locator": "Heading 767; source line 4744", "lineStart": 4744, "lineEnd": 4752, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Wet-Nurse.) If a married woman dreams of suckling a\nchild, it foretells that she will soon give birth to another; should\na bachelor dream of seeing a child suckled, he had better make up his\nmind that he will soon have a young lady’s board to pay, whether he\nmarries or not; but as the latter would be the better course let him be\nlooking round for a wife at once. A married man who dreams this, will\nsoon become a happy father." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "nursing", "wet-nurse" ] }, { "slug": "suffocating", "title": "Suffocating", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are suffocating, denotes that you will experience deep sorrow and mortification at the conduct of some one you love.”", "aliases": [ "suffocating" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about suffocating stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "smoke" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1940", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Suffocating", "text": "To dream that you are suffocating, denotes that you will experience\ndeep sorrow and mortification at the conduct of some one you love.\nYou should be careful of your health after this dream.\n\n\n[216] See Smoke.", "locator": "Heading 1944; source lines 21485–21494", "lineStart": 21485, "lineEnd": 21494, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are suffocating, denotes that you will experience\ndeep sorrow and mortification at the conduct of some one you love.\nYou should be careful of your health after this dream. See Smoke." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "smoke" ] }, { "slug": "sugar", "title": "Sugar", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of sugar, denotes that you will be hard to please in your domestic life, and will entertain…” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "sugar" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about sugar stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1941", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Sugar", "text": "To dream of sugar, denotes that you will be hard to please\nin your domestic life, and will entertain jealousy while\nseeing no cause for aught but satisfaction and secure joys.\nThere may be worries, and your strength and temper taxed\nafter this dream.\n\nTo eat sugar in your dreams, you will have unpleasant matters to contend\nwith for a while, but they will result better than expected.\n\nTo price sugar, denotes that you are menaced by enemies.\n\nTo deal in sugar and see large quantities of it being delivered to you,\nyou will barely escape a serious loss.\n\nTo see a cask of sugar burst and the sugar spilling out,\nforetells a slight loss.\n\nTo hear a negro singing while unloading sugar, some seemingly insignificant\naffair will bring you great benefit, either in business or social states.", "locator": "Heading 1945; source lines 21494–21516", "lineStart": 21494, "lineEnd": 21516, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of sugar, denotes that you will be hard to please\nin your domestic life, and will entertain jealousy while\nseeing no cause for aught but satisfaction and secure joys.\nThere may be worries, and your strength and temper taxed\nafter this dream.\n\nTo eat sugar in your dreams, you will have unpleasant matters to contend\nwith for a while, but they will result better than expected.\n\nTo price sugar, denotes that you are menaced by enemies.\n\nTo deal in sugar and see large quantities of it being delivered to you,\nyou will barely escape a serious loss.\n\nTo see a cask of sugar burst and the sugar spilling out,\nforetells a slight loss.\n\nTo hear a negro singing while unloading sugar, some seemingly insignificant\naffair will bring you great benefit, either in business or social states." }, { "id": "fontaine-0768", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Sugar", "text": "To dream of sugar denotes purity: if a lover dreams that his\nsweetheart presents him with white loaf-sugar, it shows that her\naffection for him is pure and disinterested; it is therefore a good\nsign for him to dream of taking tea with her, as she would naturally\nput such sugar in his tea: to dream of sugar of any kind, or sugar\ncandy, is an excellent omen. 19, 48.\n\nAn old prediction runs as follows:\n\n Dreams of sugar and sweetmeat,\n Or drinking wine with pleasure great,\n And all dreams pleasant in condition,\n Show sports of love, and love’s fruition.", "locator": "Heading 768; source line 4752", "lineStart": 4752, "lineEnd": 4766, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of sugar denotes purity: if a lover dreams that his\nsweetheart presents him with white loaf-sugar, it shows that her\naffection for him is pure and disinterested; it is therefore a good\nsign for him to dream of taking tea with her, as she would naturally\nput such sugar in his tea: to dream of sugar of any kind, or sugar\ncandy, is an excellent omen.\n\nAn old prediction runs as follows:\n\nDreams of sugar and sweetmeat,\nOr drinking wine with pleasure great,\nAnd all dreams pleasant in condition,\nShow sports of love, and love’s fruition." }, { "id": "cielo-0411", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Sugar", "text": "Denotes want and suffering.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 411; source lines 4855–4857", "lineStart": 4855, "lineEnd": 4857, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Denotes want and suffering." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12069", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Sugar", "heading": "Sugar", "text": "To dream of swallowing a quantity of sugar denotes that privation is about to beset you (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12069, "lineEnd": 12071, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 256; NLM OCR lines 12069–12071", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12069, "lineEnd": 12071, "printedPage": 256, "printedPageEnd": 256 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Sugar. — To dream of swallowing a quantity of sugar de- \nnotes that privation is about to beset you (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "de- \nnotes", "after": "denotes", "evidenceLine": 7951 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Sugar" }, "displayText": "To dream of swallowing a quantity of sugar denotes that privation is about to beset you (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "sugar-tongs", "title": "Sugar-tongs", "type": "dreams", "category": "Other symbols", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of sugar-tongs, foretells that disagreeable tidings of wrong-doings will be received by you.”", "aliases": [ "sugar-tongs" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about sugar-tongs stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1942", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Sugar-tongs", "text": "To dream of sugar-tongs, foretells that disagreeable tidings\nof wrong-doings will be received by you.", "locator": "Heading 1946; source lines 21516–21521", "lineStart": 21516, "lineEnd": 21521, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of sugar-tongs, foretells that disagreeable tidings\nof wrong-doings will be received by you." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "suicide", "title": "Suicide", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To commit suicide in a dream, foretells that misfortune will hang heavily over you.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "suicide" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about suicide stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1943", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Suicide", "text": "To commit suicide in a dream, foretells that misfortune will hang\nheavily over you.\n\nTo see or hear others committing this deed, foretells that the failure\nof others will affect your interests.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that her lover commits suicide, her disappointment\nby the faithlessness of her lover is accentuated.", "locator": "Heading 1947; source lines 21521–21532", "lineStart": 21521, "lineEnd": 21532, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To commit suicide in a dream, foretells that misfortune will hang\nheavily over you.\n\nTo see or hear others committing this deed, foretells that the failure\nof others will affect your interests.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that her lover commits suicide, her disappointment\nby the faithlessness of her lover is accentuated." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12072", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Suicide", "heading": "Suicide", "text": "A dream denoting misfortunes brought about by yourself (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12072, "lineEnd": 12074, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 256; NLM OCR lines 12072–12074", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12072, "lineEnd": 12074, "printedPage": 256, "printedPageEnd": 256 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Suicide. — A dream denoting misfortunes brought about by \nyourself (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Suicide" }, "displayText": "A dream denoting misfortunes brought about by yourself (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "sulphur", "title": "Sulphur", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of sulphur, warns you to use much discretion in your dealings, as you are threatened with foul play.”", "aliases": [ "sulphur" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about sulphur stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1944", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Sulphur", "text": "To dream of sulphur, warns you to use much discretion in your dealings,\nas you are threatened with foul play.\n\nTo see sulphur burning, is ominous of great care attendant upon your wealth.\n\nTo eat sulphur, indicates good health and consequent pleasure.", "locator": "Heading 1948; source lines 21532–21541", "lineStart": 21532, "lineEnd": 21541, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of sulphur, warns you to use much discretion in your dealings,\nas you are threatened with foul play.\n\nTo see sulphur burning, is ominous of great care attendant upon your wealth.\n\nTo eat sulphur, indicates good health and consequent pleasure." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "sun", "title": "Sun", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "The light, your position and what you can do.", "summary": "Sun dreams may explore what changing light makes visible, where you choose to stand and how the sun’s position affects your activity.", "aliases": [ "sun", "of the sunne", "sunrise", "sunset", "sunshine", "sunlight", "the sun" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "Sunlight can picture the conditions that make an activity possible rather than a fixed promise of success. A path appears as dawn reaches the ground, while glare can conceal the detail on a sign. Both scenes involve abundant light, yet they offer different kinds of access. The task and your position determine whether more illumination actually helps.\n\nWaiting for sunrise can resemble waiting for usable information or an agreed starting condition. Once you can see the route, a decision becomes practical. It may still require effort or leave later stages uncertain. A scene in which you enjoy dawn without going anywhere has another purpose: a welcome interval can matter without needing to introduce a new project or stage of life.\n\nMoving into shade can give continuing an activity a more comfortable setting. Work may remain worthwhile while its surrounding pace, exposure or demands need adjustment. This can fit asking for quieter space to concentrate or choosing a gentler setting for a conversation. Warmth might instead be what you seek after a distant or impersonal encounter. The chosen conditions give the movement its meaning.\n\nSharing a place brings different preferences together. One person wants a sunny seat while another wants shade, and the group must decide where to gather. A workable arrangement may include nearby separate positions or a change after a while. The scene can make accommodation visible without requiring either preference to be the correct one.\n\nA sun that stays fixed can picture reliance on a cue that no longer changes. You may be waiting for an expected moment before allowing yourself to leave or begin. Finding another way to decide shifts the action from watching the sky to choosing a next step. Two suns can similarly make familiar directions uncertain, giving orientation a role within the invented setting.\n\nSunset may create a last opportunity to enjoy a view or finish a particular activity. Wanting to stay and wanting to return can coexist. Photographs, remembered rooms and ordinary changes of daylight can also contribute directly. These original comparisons do not turn a dreamed sky into evidence of health, fortune or future events.", "traditional": "The supplied Sun accounts vary. Miller distinguishes sunrise, noon, sunset, clouds and an eclipse; Fontaine and Noe assign differing fortunes to brightness, rising, setting and obscuration. Artemidorus gives social, secrecy, travel, fire and severe health forecasts. Cielo, the 1805 Dreams and Moles and Craig add favorable or contrasting claims, and Craig calls the sun a symbol of light and wisdom. These are attributed period beliefs, not universal symbolism or evidence of future outcomes.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "Sunrise reveals a path you were waiting to see", "reflection": "A needed cue becomes available, making a next step practical. This can resemble waiting for information or an agreed condition before proceeding. The route still has to be chosen and used; the change of light makes action possible rather than promising its result." }, { "title": "You move the activity into shade", "reflection": "The purpose remains while you alter its setting. This can picture making a task more sustainable through quieter space or less exposure. Company may adjust with you, negotiate another position or continue separately; those arrangements give comfort a particular social context." }, { "title": "Glare hides the detail you need", "reflection": "Abundant light prevents the detail from being useful. Moving or changing the angle can matter more than trying harder to look. This may resemble information that becomes understandable only after its presentation or surrounding conditions change." }, { "title": "The sun stays in place while you wait", "reflection": "An expected cue stops changing while you continue to wait. This can picture relying on an occasion or permission that has become indefinite. Choosing another basis for the next step changes your relationship to the delay, even if the invented sky remains fixed." }, { "title": "Two suns cast different shadows", "reflection": "Familiar directions no longer settle the route. Comparing the two shadows can make your choice of reference visible. The scene may resemble working with competing cues while still needing a practical next step; it need not represent two people or a conflict between them." }, { "title": "Sunset changes the view before you leave", "reflection": "A wanted view is changing while another part of the evening awaits you. Enjoying the last light and choosing when to leave can hold both purposes together. The scene may concern a useful ending to attention rather than an unwanted ending to something else." } ], "prompts": [ "What activity made the sun’s position or light important?", "How did visibility or your chosen place change during the scene?", "Which remembered sky, room or practical situation offers a personal comparison?" ], "related": [ "moon", "sky", "light", "eclipse", "stars" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1945" ], "scope": "Miller varies forecasts with clear sunrise, noon, sunset, sun through clouds and a strange or eclipsed appearance, assigning prosperity, ambition, decline or temporary adversity claims. Specific supplied passages: Sun — miller-1945 (Heading 1949; source lines 21541–21559). Historical comparison only; these attributed period claims do not establish outcomes, health, character, cultural consensus or a universal meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0769" ], "scope": "Fontaine varies forecasts with being dazzled, brightness, red or smoky appearance, sunrise and sunset, assigning fortune, mishap or trouble claims. Specific supplied passages: Sun — fontaine-0769 (Heading 769; source line 4766). Historical comparison only; these attributed period claims do not establish outcomes, health, character, cultural consensus or a universal meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display.", "recordIds": [ "artemidorus-095" ], "scope": "Artemidorus varies Sun forecasts with appearance, direction, setting, secrecy, social position, a sun entering a house, its speech, rays and giving or taking objects, including severe eye, health, family-loss and fire claims. Specific supplied passages: Of the Sunne. — artemidorus-095 (Book 2, encoded section 95). Historical comparison only; these attributed period claims do not establish outcomes, health, character, cultural consensus or a universal meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0475" ], "scope": "Noe varies Sun forecasts with shining, rising, setting and cloud cover, assigning wealth, position, relationship fidelity, news, trade or danger claims. Specific supplied passages: Sun — noe-0475 (Dream section, heading 483; source lines 1766–1773). Historical comparison only; these attributed period claims do not establish outcomes, health, character, cultural consensus or a universal meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0412" ], "scope": "Cielo assigns luck and a happy-future forecast to the sun. Specific supplied passages: Sun — cielo-0412 (Dream section, heading 412; source lines 4857–4860). Historical comparison only; these attributed period claims do not establish outcomes, health, character, cultural consensus or a universal meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "moles-71045", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams and Moles", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "United Kingdom, J. Marshall, 1805", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71045", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "moles-0057" ], "scope": "The 1805 Dreams and Moles passage assigns prosperity to sunlight shining brightly in a house. Specific supplied passages: Sun — moles-0057 (Dreams interpreted, passage 57; source lines 277–278). Historical comparison only; these attributed period claims do not establish outcomes, health, character, cultural consensus or a universal meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L12079" ], "scope": "Craig contrasts seeing, rising, setting and an overcast sun with success, news or trouble forecasts under a quoted Gypsy attribution, then calls the sun a symbol of light and wisdom; no cultural consensus is claimed. Specific supplied passages: Sun — craig-1918:L12079 (Printed p. 256; NLM OCR lines 12079–12083). Historical comparison only; these attributed period claims do not establish outcomes, health, character, cultural consensus or a universal meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s continuing English editorial delegation. Historical accounts retain their attribution; general sleep background does not validate these interpretations.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "What becomes visible", "reflection": "Light may change access to a particular path, object or view. Explore the difference without treating illumination as proof of truth or every shadow as something hidden." }, { "title": "A position that fits the activity", "reflection": "Shade, warmth and glare can shape where you want to stand. Your preferred conditions may offer a practical comparison rather than a verdict about openness or avoidance." }, { "title": "An expectation changed by the sky", "reflection": "A fixed, doubled or displaced sun can alter the scene’s sense of time or direction. Describe what you do with that change rather than assigning an omen." } ], "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "DreamFolia AI-assisted editorial review", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "bed", "bathroom", "bridge", "door", "window", "stairs", "road", "clothes", "shoes", "driving", "being-late", "crying", "running", "swimming", "river", "snow", "moon", "sun", "mountain", "fish" ] }, "decisionReason": "The revised body and six scenes explain useful light, chosen shade, obstructing glare, reliance on an unchanged cue, competing reference points and an evening pause. Seven historical records stay attributed; their severe medical, family and fire forecasts do not become a universal symbol code or evidence of future events.", "reviewedSnapshot": "data/common-life-publication-review-2026-10-15.json", "contentSha256": "77e7fe7439df30271c211e166fe6362e875e790ede269efb0e0e20e5fdd4972c" }, "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1945", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Sun", "text": "To dream of seeing a clear, shining sunrise, foretells joyous\nevents and prosperity, which give delightful promises.\n\nTo see the sun at noontide, denotes the maturity of ambitions\nand signals unbounded satisfaction.\n\nTo see the sunset, is prognostic of joys and wealth passing their zenith,\nand warns you to care for your interests with renewed vigilance.\n\nA sun shining through clouds, denotes that troubles and difficulties\nare losing hold on you, and prosperity is nearing you.\n\nIf the sun appears weird, or in an eclipse, there will be stormy\nand dangerous times, but these will eventually pass, leaving your\nbusiness and domestic affairs in better forms than before.", "locator": "Heading 1949; source lines 21541–21559", "lineStart": 21541, "lineEnd": 21559, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing a clear, shining sunrise, foretells joyous\nevents and prosperity, which give delightful promises.\n\nTo see the sun at noontide, denotes the maturity of ambitions\nand signals unbounded satisfaction.\n\nTo see the sunset, is prognostic of joys and wealth passing their zenith,\nand warns you to care for your interests with renewed vigilance.\n\nA sun shining through clouds, denotes that troubles and difficulties\nare losing hold on you, and prosperity is nearing you.\n\nIf the sun appears weird, or in an eclipse, there will be stormy\nand dangerous times, but these will eventually pass, leaving your\nbusiness and domestic affairs in better forms than before." }, { "id": "fontaine-0769", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Sun", "text": "To dream that the sun blinds you, foretells that you will be\noverwhelmed with good fortune: to see a beautiful bright sun, is a sign\nof success in anything you may undertake: a red sun denotes mishaps\nand accidents: if the sun looks dim and smoky, it foreshadows trouble\nand difficulties. To dream of seeing the sun rise brings good news and\nluck; the setting sun, misfortune. 2, 10, 20.", "locator": "Heading 769; source line 4766", "lineStart": 4766, "lineEnd": 4773, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that the sun blinds you, foretells that you will be\noverwhelmed with good fortune: to see a beautiful bright sun, is a sign\nof success in anything you may undertake: a red sun denotes mishaps\nand accidents: if the sun looks dim and smoky, it foreshadows trouble\nand difficulties. To dream of seeing the sun rise brings good news and\nluck; the setting sun, misfortune." }, { "id": "artemidorus-095", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of the Sunne.", "text": "TO dream the Sun riseth shining and clear, is good to all, and also setting so; it signifyeth gaine, operation, protection, and liberty to servants, but to such as would be secret is ill, for it discloses and discovers all. In like sort, if it rise towards the East, it reléeveth the sicke after he hath béene very low, and signifies that sore eyes shall not make blinde the patient, and the returne of him which is farre off. Also it is good for him which would travaile towards the East, to others in all affayrs it is crosse. If the Sun séemes to rise in the South or North, you must judge thus; the Sun being darke or bloudy, or as it were murmuring with anger or heate, is ill to all, and signifieth sorenesse of eyes, sicknesse, and children. And yet it hath béene found good to them which are in doubt, and which would be secret: the Sun descending upon the earth or any house, is a signe of danger by fire. Entring the Chamber and threatning, is great sicknesse or burning. But if it speaketh or maketh any good signe, it is abundance of goods. The Sun vanishing away, or hiding and absenting it self, is ill to all, except to those that would be secret; most often it is losse of sight, or death of a childe: it is alwayes better to sée the Sun-beames entring the house, then the Sun it selfe, for the beames are abundance of goods, the sun abundance of evils, which one cannot suffer, no more then he can endure the light or great heate of the Sun neare him. The Sun giving or stealing away any thing, is losse and danger.", "locator": "Book 2, encoded section 95", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "2", "displayText": "To dream the Sun riseth shining and clear, is good to all, and also setting so; it signifyeth gaine, operation, protection, and liberty to servants, but to such as would be secret is ill, for it discloses and discovers all. In like sort, if it rise towards the East, it reléeveth the sicke after he hath béene very low, and signifies that sore eyes shall not make blinde the patient, and the returne of him which is farre off. Also it is good for him which would travaile towards the East, to others in all affayrs it is crosse. If the Sun séemes to rise in the South or North, you must judge thus; the Sun being darke or bloudy, or as it were murmuring with anger or heate, is ill to all, and signifieth sorenesse of eyes, sicknesse, and children. And yet it hath béene found good to them which are in doubt, and which would be secret: the Sun descending upon the earth or any house, is a signe of danger by fire. Entring the Chamber and threatning, is great sicknesse or burning. But if it speaketh or maketh any good signe, it is abundance of goods. The Sun vanishing away, or hiding and absenting it self, is ill to all, except to those that would be secret; most often it is losse of sight, or death of a childe: it is alwayes better to sée the Sun-beames entring the house, then the Sun it selfe, for the beames are abundance of goods, the sun abundance of evils, which one cannot suffer, no more then he can endure the light or great heate of the Sun neare him. The Sun giving or stealing away any thing, is losse and danger.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Sunne” is shown on the Sun page: archaic spelling (Artemidorus)" }, { "id": "noe-0475", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Sun", "text": "To dream you see the sun shine, shows acquisition of riches, and\nenjoyment of honorable posts in the state; also success to the lover. To\ndream you see the sun rise, promises fidelity in your sweetheart and good\nnews from friends. To dream you see the sun set, shows infidelity in your\nsweetheart, and disgraceful news. To the tradesman, loss of business. To\ndream you see the sun under a cloud, foretells many hardships and troubles\nabout to befall you, and that you will encounter some great danger.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 483; source lines 1766–1773", "lineStart": 1766, "lineEnd": 1773, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see the sun shine, shows acquisition of riches, and\nenjoyment of honorable posts in the state; also success to the lover. To\ndream you see the sun rise, promises fidelity in your sweetheart and good\nnews from friends. To dream you see the sun set, shows infidelity in your\nsweetheart, and disgraceful news. To the tradesman, loss of business. To\ndream you see the sun under a cloud, foretells many hardships and troubles\nabout to befall you, and that you will encounter some great danger." }, { "id": "cielo-0412", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Sun", "text": "To dream of the sun is always lucky and portends\n a happy future.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 412; source lines 4857–4860", "lineStart": 4857, "lineEnd": 4860, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of the sun is always lucky and portends\na happy future." }, { "id": "moles-0057", "sourceId": "moles-71045", "heading": "Sun", "originalHeading": "(no printed heading)", "text": "To dream the sun shines bright in your house, foretells very great\nprosperity.", "locator": "Dreams interpreted, passage 57; source lines 277–278", "lineStart": 277, "lineEnd": 278, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "editorialNote": "The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Sun” because that is the subject of its first clause.", "displayText": "To dream the sun shines bright in your house, foretells very great\nprosperity." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12079", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Sun", "heading": "Sun", "text": "To see the sun is a dream of success ; the sun rising denotes good news ; a setting sun is bad, while for the sun to be overcast augurs troubles and changes (Gypsy). The invariable symbol of light and wisdom.", "lineStart": 12079, "lineEnd": 12083, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 256; NLM OCR lines 12079–12083", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12079, "lineEnd": 12083, "printedPage": 256, "printedPageEnd": 256 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Sun. — To see the sun is a dream of success ; the sun rising \ndenotes good news ; a setting sun is bad, while for the sun to \nbe overcast augurs troubles and changes (Gypsy). The in- \nvariable symbol of light and wisdom. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "in- \nvariable", "after": "invariable", "evidenceLine": 5953 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Sun" }, "displayText": "To see the sun is a dream of success; the sun rising denotes good news; a setting sun is bad, while for the sun to be overcast augurs troubles and changes (Gypsy). The invariable symbol of light and wisdom." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "sundial", "title": "Sundial", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “A dream denoting wasted time (Gypsy).”", "aliases": [ "sundial" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about sundial stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L12084", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Sundial", "heading": "Sundial", "text": "A dream denoting wasted time (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12084, "lineEnd": 12085, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 256; NLM OCR lines 12084–12085", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12084, "lineEnd": 12085, "printedPage": 256, "printedPageEnd": 256 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Sundial. — A dream denoting wasted time (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Sundial" }, "displayText": "A dream denoting wasted time (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "sunglasses", "title": "Sunglasses", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "Changing what you can see also changes what other people can see of you.", "summary": "Sunglasses dreams can explore brightness, a chosen presentation and how direct an encounter feels. The lenses do not reveal anyone’s intentions or health.", "aliases": [ "sunglasses", "sun glasses" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "Sunglasses change a visible surface as well as the view through it. In a dream, this can picture managing how much of an encounter you receive and how much of yourself is available to others. A bright busy setting may become comfortable, while a close conversation may feel less direct. The same pair can therefore support participation or create distance according to what you are doing and what the setting asks.\n\nRelief from brightness can resemble reducing the intensity of a situation without leaving it entirely. You may recognize finding a quieter role at an event or a way to participate in a busy group without attending to every demand. The glasses do not have to represent concealment. Their usefulness may lie in making the scene manageable enough to remain in it.\n\nKeeping them on during a conversation can make presentation a chosen boundary. You might want contact while retaining some room before explaining your feelings. This can fit entering a new setting or discussing something personal at a pace you can use. Removing them may picture wanting a more direct exchange. Neither action proves that openness or privacy is always the better response.\n\nLenses that obscure a needed detail can show a method continuing after its purpose has changed. A habit that helped reduce pressure may also make a current question harder to understand. The scene can invite attention to the fit between protection and the task, without judging the habit as wholly good or bad. Another person recognizing you despite the changed appearance can bring continuity apart from presentation.\n\nLending the pair can make a useful boundary a shared resource. You may help another person participate while needing another way to meet your own needs. Recent weather, images or familiar objects may provide the scene directly. These reflections concern the imagined use and visibility of darkened eyewear; sunglasses in a dream do not assess eyesight or health, establish secrecy or disclose what another person actually intends.", "traditional": "No exact Sunglasses passage is supplied. Spectacles, Eyeglass and Goggles have separate historical owners, but their forecasts do not define this dark-lens scene. The original reflections concern brightness, presentation and chosen distance, without transferring a general eyewear omen.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Participation at a manageable intensity", "reflection": "Darkened lenses can picture a way to stay in a setting while receiving less of its intensity. The support may serve engagement rather than withdrawal or concealment." }, { "title": "A presentation you can choose", "reflection": "Keeping or removing the glasses can bring timing and visibility into an encounter. Contact and room for privacy may both matter, depending on the company and purpose." }, { "title": "A boundary that still fits", "reflection": "Lenses useful in one setting may obscure what another task needs. The scene can distinguish a current fit from an earlier purpose without judging all protection as restrictive." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "The glasses make a bright setting comfortable", "reflection": "Comfort in a bright setting can picture reducing intensity enough to participate. A busy group or event may offer a parallel. The glasses can support remaining present, rather than automatically represent hiding or refusing contact." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You keep them on while speaking to someone close", "reflection": "Keeping the glasses on with someone close can picture wanting connection with room to choose how visible your response becomes. A personal conversation may feel similar. Privacy can be deliberate without establishing mistrust or concealed wrongdoing." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You remove them so an exchange feels more direct", "reflection": "Removing them can picture choosing a more direct encounter when its conditions feel workable. A changed conversation or familiar company may fit. The action gains meaning through your choice, not through a rule that visible eyes prove honesty." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "The lenses obscure what you need to see", "reflection": "Obscured detail can picture a useful boundary no longer fitting the question in front of you. A habit may reduce pressure while also limiting information. Changing the method can be specific to this task rather than a rejection of protection." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Someone recognizes you despite the changed appearance", "reflection": "Recognition despite changed appearance can picture continuity that does not depend on presenting yourself in one familiar way. A new setting may allow another aspect of you to be seen. The response belongs to the dream, not an actual opinion." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You lend the pair while keeping another way to view the scene", "reflection": "Lending the pair can picture sharing a resource while reconsidering your own needs. Help may be welcome without making your comfort irrelevant. Another way to see or participate can let support remain collaborative rather than a sacrifice required of one person." } ], "prompts": [ "What did the lenses make more manageable or harder to see?", "How much of my response did I choose to make visible?", "How did the boundary fit the setting or need to change?" ], "related": [ "spectacles", "goggles", "eyes", "face" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "sunshade", "title": "Sunshade", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing young girls carrying sunshades, foretells prosperity and exquisite delights.”", "aliases": [ "sunshade" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about sunshade stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1946", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Sunshade", "text": "To dream of seeing young girls carrying sunshades, foretells prosperity\nand exquisite delights.\n\nA broken one, foretells sickness and death to the young.", "locator": "Heading 1950; source lines 21559–21566", "lineStart": 21559, "lineEnd": 21566, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing young girls carrying sunshades, foretells prosperity\nand exquisite delights.\n\nA broken one, foretells sickness and death to the young." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "supermarket", "title": "Supermarket", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "Finding what sustains everyday life can be different from wanting more.", "summary": "A supermarket dream can explore everyday needs, choosing among substitutes and provisioning for yourself or other people.", "aliases": [ "supermarket", "supermarkets", "grocery store", "grocery stores" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A supermarket organizes ordinary needs into aisles and choices. You enter expecting to find something usable, not necessarily something remarkable. In a dream, that task can picture trying to meet basic requirements while attention is drawn toward many alternatives. Time to eat, a workable routine, practical support or enough resources for a household may provide waking parallels. The item you came for helps distinguish what is necessary from what is merely attractive.\n\nSearching for a familiar product in unfamiliar aisles can resemble a need that remains clear while the way to meet it has changed. A person you once relied on may be unavailable, a routine may no longer work, or a familiar system may have been rearranged. An acceptable substitute can picture flexibility without erasing the original preference. Being told that every replacement is unsuitable can make the problem feel less like abundance and more like a choice that never becomes useful.\n\nShopping for other people brings their needs into your own route. Several lists may conflict, require extra stops or leave little room for what you wanted. This can fit coordinating a household or a shared project in which remembering everybody’s requirements falls to one person. A manageable list can express care that has a clear form. Repeated revisions can picture an arrangement where attention is expected but priorities never settle.\n\nFull shelves may still leave you unable to assemble a meal. This can resemble having plenty of information, equipment or offers without a combination that meets your actual task. The issue is compatibility rather than simple scarcity. Conversely, a few ordinary ingredients that fit together can picture discovering a sufficient plan after a period of overcomparison. Satisfaction may come from finding what works rather than from choosing the most impressive option.\n\nAt checkout, choices become a commitment. An unrecognized item or changing total can picture difficulty translating your needs into terms a system accepts. A queue can bring patience, fairness or the order of attention into view. Direct memories of shopping, budgets and household arrangements may supply the details without a symbolic explanation. The dream cannot establish future prices or financial outcomes; its value here lies in showing how provision, choice and responsibility felt.", "traditional": "No exact Supermarket heading appears in the supplied archive. Market includes historical food-and-trading passages, but these do not establish meanings for self-service aisles, lists or checkout. This entry offers original reflections on those modern arrangements.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Needs with a changing route", "reflection": "Searching the aisles can picture a familiar requirement whose usual solution has become harder to find. A substitute may express adaptation if it remains useful for the need you actually have." }, { "title": "Provisioning for others", "reflection": "Several shopping lists can give care a practical form while revealing who carries coordination. The work may feel satisfying, unequal or difficult because priorities keep changing." }, { "title": "Enough that fits together", "reflection": "A useful combination matters more than a full shelf. The scene can distinguish an abundance of options from resources that actually meet the task in front of you." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You cannot find the ordinary item you came for", "reflection": "A missing ordinary item can picture a simple need becoming unexpectedly difficult to meet. An altered routine or unavailable source of help may fit. Finding a workable substitute changes the focus toward adaptation." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Your shopping list changes every time you read it", "reflection": "A changing list can resemble expectations that revise themselves after you begin meeting them. Coordinating relatives or a shared project may offer a parallel. The repeated change matters more than assuming you forgot something important." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Shelves are full but nothing suits your needs", "reflection": "Full but unusable shelves can picture options that look abundant yet fail to match your requirements. Many offers or instructions may feel similar when none fits the actual problem. The missing fit gives the scene its tension." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You shop for several people with conflicting lists", "reflection": "Conflicting lists can make the work of reconciling other people’s preferences visible. You may feel useful or pulled in several directions. Whether your own needs remain on the list helps distinguish shared care from being left out." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The checkout cannot identify what you are buying", "reflection": "An item the checkout cannot recognize can picture a need that does not fit the categories a process allows. Asking for help under rigid rules may feel similar. A helpful person changes the scene toward translation and access." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You find a simple meal after searching the aisles", "reflection": "Finding a simple workable meal can picture sufficiency after a period of complication. A manageable plan or ordinary support may meet the need without being impressive. Relief belongs to the fit between resources and purpose." } ], "prompts": [ "What did I need to bring home, and for whom?", "Which choice became useful rather than merely available?", "Where did my own needs fit among the lists and requirements?" ], "related": [ "market", "food-prices-changing-as-you-shop", "eating", "money", "customer", "shopping-mall" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "superpowers", "title": "Superpowers", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "An unusual ability changes what you can do and what others expect.", "summary": "Superpowers in dreams can explore freedom, participation, privacy or responsibility. The ability’s limits and uses give different readings.", "aliases": [ "superpowers", "superpower", "super powers", "superhero", "being a superhero", "super strength", "invisibility", "being invisible", "super speed", "telekinesis", "magic powers", "having powers", "special abilities" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "Superpowers in a dream can change one ordinary limit: distance, visibility, strength, time or the need to explain yourself. The change can make a wanted activity suddenly possible. Flying across a gap differs from moving an object without touching it, just as becoming invisible differs from being ignored. The useful comparison concerns what the ability lets you do and whether that is what you actually want.\n\nA power that works only in certain conditions can make freedom feel dependent on a rule. You may need quiet to lift something, company to fly or a place where nobody watches. This can resemble having a useful skill without the conditions in which you can use it. The dream does not establish a hidden real ability or evaluate how much potential you ought to fulfill.\n\nOther people’s expectations can turn a welcome capacity into an assigned job. Being able to help once may become a demand to solve every problem. This can picture the difference between enjoying competence and being made responsible for more than you choose. A smaller contribution or another person’s participation can change the arrangement without requiring you to abandon the ability.\n\nInvisibility gives privacy a particular form. It may let you move without interruption while also preventing the contact you want. Super-speed can create a similar tradeoff: a task finishes quickly, but companions cannot share its pace. These scenes can hold several wanted things together rather than making every power a simple image of confidence or control.\n\nAn ability that stops working may shift attention from the exceptional method to an ordinary alternative. Asking for help, using a tool or waiting can remain possible. Conversely, a power used only for pleasure may need no task or audience to justify it. Games, films and creative interests can supply direct imagery too. The dream can be enjoyed or considered through these original comparisons without proving that you must become extraordinary, rescue others or master every imagined rule.", "traditional": "No supplied historical passage specifically covers the modern group of abilities described here. Flying, magic and wings have separate scopes. The reflections are original comparisons about what an imagined capacity permits; neither general sleep education nor the dream establishes real supernatural powers or obligations.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You become invisible but your friend cannot find you", "reflection": "Privacy also removes a route to wanted contact. This can picture two needs that do not fit the same arrangement perfectly. Choosing when to be seen gives a different reading from assuming invisibility means only escape." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You lift a heavy object only when others stop watching", "reflection": "The ability depends on conditions in the scene. This may resemble wanting room to use a skill without scrutiny. It does not establish suppressed potential or require treating every audience as an obstacle." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Everyone expects you to solve another problem after you help once", "reflection": "A useful contribution becomes an expanding assignment. This can bring attention to the terms of responsibility. Sharing the task or choosing a limit differs from being unwilling to help at all." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Super-speed completes the journey before your companions arrive", "reflection": "An advantage changes the possibility of traveling together. This may picture the cost of a pace others cannot share. Waiting or returning can matter as much as the speed itself, without making one pace morally better." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The power fails and an ordinary tool works instead", "reflection": "The task remains possible through another method. This can make flexibility more important than preserving an exceptional role. The imagined failure need not evaluate your real ability or mean that help is only a last resort." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You use the ability for an enjoyable activity nobody sees", "reflection": "Pleasure does not depend on a rescue, result or audience. This may give attention to experimentation or play for its own sake. The experience can matter without turning the power into a duty you should pursue outside the dream." } ], "prompts": [ "Which ordinary limit did the power change?", "What became possible, and what new cost or expectation appeared?", "Did you want a result, company, privacy or simply the experience?" ], "related": [ "flying", "running-but-going-nowhere", "being-unable-to-move", "magic", "wings" ], "sources": [ { "id": "nichd-sleep-dreaming", "title": "What happens during sleep? — Dreaming section", "author": "Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development", "url": "https://www.nichd.nih.gov/health/topics/sleep/conditioninfo/Pages/what-happens.aspx", "scope": "Official general sleep education, Dreaming section: the purpose of dreaming remains uncertain. It does not test these original symbolic comparisons or establish another person’s intentions, a diagnosis or a prediction." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15 under the site owner’s delegation. Historical claims, where supplied, remain attributed period writing. No human or clinical review is claimed.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "One limit changes", "reflection": "A particular ability can make a wanted activity possible without removing every constraint." }, { "title": "Competence and assigned duty", "reflection": "Being able to contribute differs from being responsible for every outcome." }, { "title": "A useful power has tradeoffs", "reflection": "Privacy, speed and control can affect company or participation in different ways." } ], "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "Codex (AI-assisted editorial review)", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "a-stranger", "a-train-going-in-the-wrong-direction", "being-trapped", "being-unable-to-move", "children", "church", "current-romantic-partner", "death-of-a-friend", "elevator", "father", "forest", "hair-falling-out", "insects", "key", "locked-out", "mother", "nakedness", "phone-not-working", "rainbow", "running-but-going-nowhere", "school", "smoke", "snake-bite", "superpowers", "the-self", "the-shadow", "web" ] }, "decisionReason": "The reading follows a specific ability’s use, conditions, tradeoffs and others’ expectations, including privacy that prevents contact and speed that separates companions. It includes play without an audience or rescue duty. It establishes no real supernatural ability or obligation to be exceptional.", "contentSha256": "9f47465c7d37a096774de478734cfd93e76fa85c302cf97c3c8d7130d285b7e3" }, "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "supper", "title": "Supper", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Cielo wrote: “To sit at supper means the news of a birth in the family.”", "aliases": [ "supper" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about supper stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "cielo-0413", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Supper", "text": "To sit at supper means the news of a birth\n in the family.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 413; source lines 4860–4863", "lineStart": 4860, "lineEnd": 4863, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To sit at supper means the news of a birth\nin the family." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "supreme", "title": "Supreme", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “To dream you have supreme command over any place, is unfortunate, particularly if the person is sick and helpless.”", "aliases": [ "supreme" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about supreme stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "surfing", "title": "Surfing", "category": "Movement", "aliases": [ "surfing", "surf", "surfer", "surfboard", "surfboards", "riding a wave" ], "summary": "Surfing may give shape to timing, balance, and responding to conditions you cannot direct. Chosen challenge and pressure to keep up are different experiences.", "tagline": "Finding a moment to move, responding while in motion, and choosing when to return.", "psychological": "Surfing puts your action inside conditions that continue moving independently of you. In a dream, you may wait, catch a wave, adjust your balance, or decide to return to shore. That can fit work that requires response rather than complete control: joining a project as information arrives, making use of an opening, or adapting a plan when circumstances shift. The wave need not represent emotion; its timing and movement may be the useful features.\n\nA satisfying ride may explore participation that feels absorbing and well timed. You contribute something without needing to hold the whole situation still. If the movement becomes too fast or arrives before you are ready, the scene may instead concern being asked to act with insufficient preparation. A deadline or opportunity that feels rushed could provide a waking parallel. The difference is whether the challenge remains something you want to join.\n\nBalance makes resources and adjustment visible. A suitable board and room to move differ from equipment that will not support your position. The scene could fit learning a new task with useful tools, or struggling because the method does not fit the circumstances. Falling off and trying again may concern practice; repeatedly being forced back onto the board could turn the same action into an expectation you cannot decline.\n\nOther surfers and the shore can shape the choice. Company may provide encouragement or a pace you feel required to match. Watching from land might be an enjoyable position, while leaving the water can make a pause meaningful rather than a defeat. A remembered lesson, trip, video, or ordinary interest may explain the activity directly. The dream does not test your real ability or recommend taking a risk. Its useful subject may be timing, support, and whether participation remains chosen.", "traditional": "No matching historical surfing passage is supplied. This entry offers original reflection on a particular activity rather than transferring general water forecasts to it. The board, wave, timing, and route back to shore give the encounter its shape. A personal association may be useful without turning the sea into a universal code.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Timing without total control", "reflection": "Waiting and moving with a wave may fit responding to an opening you cannot produce on demand. The question can be readiness and participation, rather than controlling every condition." }, { "title": "Support while adjusting", "reflection": "A board and usable space can make balance possible. Difficulty may concern unsuitable tools or conditions, not simply a shortage of courage or effort." }, { "title": "A challenge that stays chosen", "reflection": "Company, speed, and a route to shore can affect whether the activity remains welcome. Returning or watching may be valid parts of the scene, as well as riding." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You catch a wave at a satisfying moment", "reflection": "The movement and your response come together without feeling forced. This may fit joining a task or conversation when the conditions feel workable. Enjoyment can concern responsive participation, rather than a promise that a waking opportunity will arrive or succeed." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A wave arrives before you are ready", "reflection": "You are still arranging the board when movement demands a response. This can resemble being asked to begin a new responsibility before receiving useful preparation. Finding room to pause or another attempt may matter more than keeping pace with the first opening." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You wait but the water stays flat", "reflection": "Preparation has no immediate occasion to be used. This may fit waiting for information or an opportunity after doing your part. Peaceful waiting and frustrated watching suggest different relationships to the pause; the dream does not prove that your preparation is wasted." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "The board does not support your position", "reflection": "It is too small, awkward, or unlike what you expected. This may explore a method or resource that does not fit a task, such as unfamiliar equipment at work. Changing the support gives a different reading from treating difficulty as proof that you cannot learn." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You fall and freely choose another attempt", "reflection": "The interruption is followed by a usable return to the activity. This may fit practice in which an imperfect attempt leaves room to learn. If continuing feels compulsory, however, the scene may concern pressure to persist rather than the pleasure of another try." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "Others continue while you return to shore", "reflection": "You stop participating without making their choices for them. This can explore a limit on your own time, energy, or interest, as during a shared trip. Relief and missing the activity can coexist; leaving need not mean the experience was unwanted from the start." } ], "prompts": [ "Was I waiting for conditions, responding to them, or being pushed to act before I was ready?", "What support made adjustment possible while moving?", "Could I choose another attempt, watch, or return to shore?" ], "related": [ "ocean", "water", "swimming", "falling", "beach" ], "type": "dreams", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original image-specific interpretation with distinct personal possibilities and everyday context; no matching historical passage supplied. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "surgeon", "title": "Surgeon", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a surgeon, denotes you are threatened by enemies who are close to you in business.”", "aliases": [ "surgeon" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about surgeon stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1947", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Surgeon", "text": "To dream of a surgeon, denotes you are threatened by enemies who are close\nto you in business. For a young woman, this dream promises a serious illness\nfrom which she will experience great inconvenience.", "locator": "Heading 1951; source lines 21566–21572", "lineStart": 21566, "lineEnd": 21572, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a surgeon, denotes you are threatened by enemies who are close\nto you in business. For a young woman, this dream promises a serious illness\nfrom which she will experience great inconvenience." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "surgery", "title": "Surgery", "category": "Body & self", "aliases": [ "surgery", "having surgery", "an operation", "being operated on", "surgical procedure" ], "summary": "Surgery may give shape to a deliberate change, dependence on care, or wanting a problem addressed directly. Choice and preparation change the reading.", "tagline": "An intervention, the room to consent, and what support is available during change.", "psychological": "Surgery makes change an intervention rather than something that simply happens over time. In a dream, something is to be removed, repaired, or altered through a concentrated action. That may resemble wanting a persistent problem addressed directly: revising an established way of working, ending an arrangement that no longer fits, or asking for specialist help. The image does not mean you are broken or need a real procedure; it can make the hoped-for scale of change visible.\n\nChoice and information give that intervention different meanings. A procedure you understand and want differs from being told that it will happen before you can ask questions. The scene could fit a consequential decision where others have expertise or authority but your own preferences still matter. A career change, reorganization, or unfamiliar responsibility may provide a waking parallel if the tension concerns preparation and participation rather than the body itself.\n\nDepending on other people can become especially concrete when you cannot manage the task and receive care at the same time. A supportive team may offer an image of being able to pause while others hold responsibility. An empty room or unanswered question may instead bring attention to wanting a clearer arrangement. Those dreamed conditions describe the support you experienced inside the scene, not the competence or intentions of an actual clinician.\n\nThe scale of the response matters too. A large intervention for a small concern may resemble feeling that one flaw requires your whole plan to change. A modest adjustment that brings relief can offer a different image of what is enough. Afterward, rest, company, or pressure to resume ordinary tasks may shift the subject toward what follows a chosen change. A remembered procedure, conversation, or film can also provide direct context, without a symbolic reading or a finding about your health.", "traditional": "No historical passage specifically supporting these surgery readings is supplied. This is original reflection on an imagined intervention, information, choice, and care. The procedure's details may come from personal experience or a story. They do not diagnose a condition, establish a need for treatment, or predict how a real procedure would go.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Wanting a direct intervention", "reflection": "Removing or repairing something may fit a wish to address a persistent difficulty rather than keep working around it. The image makes the desired scale of change concrete." }, { "title": "Expertise with room for choice", "reflection": "Being informed and asked differs from receiving a decision already made. The scene may concern participation in a consequential change, even when another person has useful expertise." }, { "title": "Support during and after change", "reflection": "An intervention can require you to stop doing other tasks. The useful question may be who shares responsibility, and whether the changed situation leaves room to settle." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You wait for a procedure you chose", "reflection": "You know why you are there but still want time to ask practical questions. This may fit preparing for a chosen change, such as a new role, whose details remain uncertain. Willingness and unease can coexist without making the decision a mistake." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "The procedure is announced without explanation", "reflection": "Others begin arranging an intervention before you understand or agree to it. The scene may resemble plans being made on your behalf at work or home. Having a usable chance to ask, decline, or slow the process makes agency the central distinction." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A team explains what will happen", "reflection": "The room becomes less uncertain when people give information and allow questions. This may offer an image of support that makes an unfamiliar undertaking workable. The comfort concerns the dream's interaction and does not assess an actual professional or forecast a medical outcome." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You try to keep working during the operation", "reflection": "Another task demands your attention while you are receiving care. This can resemble wanting to change something important without allowing any pause in ordinary obligations. Help with the competing work may matter more than proving you can manage both roles at once." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "An impossible object is removed", "reflection": "The procedure produces a book, clock, or tangled cord that could not ordinarily be inside you. Its familiar function may give the imagined intervention a personal subject: an expectation, deadline, or complicated responsibility. The fantasy is not evidence of a bodily problem." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "Afterward, you have a quiet room and company", "reflection": "The intervention ends and someone stays nearby while other tasks wait. This may express a wish for time and support after a major adjustment, such as settling into new circumstances. Relief can concern the care available, rather than a promised cure or completed transformation." } ], "prompts": [ "What was the intervention meant to change, and did that purpose make sense to me?", "Could I ask questions, choose, decline, or change the pace?", "What responsibilities waited or were shared while I received support?" ], "related": [ "hospital", "blood", "medical-scans", "trust", "being-unable-to-move" ], "type": "dreams", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original image-specific interpretation with distinct personal possibilities and everyday context; no matching historical passage supplied. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "surgical-instruments", "title": "Surgical Instruments", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see surgical instruments in a dream, foretells dissatisfaction will be felt by you at the indiscreet manner a friend manifests toward you.”", "aliases": [ "surgical instruments" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about surgical instruments stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1948", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Surgical Instruments", "text": "To see surgical instruments in a dream, foretells dissatisfaction will be felt\nby you at the indiscreet manner a friend manifests toward you.", "locator": "Heading 1952; source lines 21572–21577", "lineStart": 21572, "lineEnd": 21577, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see surgical instruments in a dream, foretells dissatisfaction will be felt\nby you at the indiscreet manner a friend manifests toward you." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "surprise", "title": "Surprise", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “To dream that you surprise any one, denotes good luck to the dreamer and great success in trade.”", "aliases": [ "surprise" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about surprise stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "noe-0472", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Surprise", "text": "To dream that you surprise\nany one, denotes good luck to the dreamer and great success in trade.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 480; source lines 1757–1759", "lineStart": 1757, "lineEnd": 1759, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you surprise\nany one, denotes good luck to the dreamer and great success in trade." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "sushi", "title": "Sushi", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "summary": "Sushi can picture careful composition, unfamiliar expectations, or the difference between appreciating a finished result and producing it.", "tagline": "Small composed pieces, visible craft, and room to ask.", "aliases": [ "sushi" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A plate of carefully arranged sushi can picture a result whose small details matter to how the whole is received. Preparing a presentation, hosting a gathering, or submitting work for close inspection may offer a parallel. The arrangement can feel satisfying when attention serves what you want to make. If moving a single piece seems to ruin everything, the scene may instead give form to pressure around maintaining a flawless appearance. The tension is between meaningful care and a standard that makes the result difficult to enjoy.\n\nBeing offered an unfamiliar meal can bring curiosity and social expectations together. You may want to try it while being uncertain about the ingredients or how others expect you to eat. Joining a new group or learning an unfamiliar process can feel similar when questions seem embarrassing. A welcoming explanation can turn uncertainty into participation; impatience can make the same invitation feel like a test. This reading concerns your position within the remembered encounter, not a judgment about a culture or a fixed meaning attached to its food.\n\nMaking the pieces yourself shifts attention from the finished display to the work that holds it together. A roll that falls apart may picture a plan whose components make sense separately but have not yet become a workable whole. More practice, a changed method, or cooperation can alter that experience. If someone keeps correcting your hands, the difficulty may concern supervision as much as skill. Successful preparation can bring pleasure through learning how a complex result is made rather than simply being given approval for it.\n\nSmall portions can also make attention deliberate. Choosing one piece at a time may fit approaching a large experience in manageable steps, or enjoying differences that disappear when everything is treated as one category. If another person rushes you through the meal, the scene can contrast their pace with your wish to understand it. The food may also come directly from a restaurant visit, a familiar routine, or an image seen recently. Raw fish is not assumed to be present or treated as an exact synonym. The useful question is how the pieces were offered, made, and received, without converting taste or texture into a medical or spiritual message.", "traditional": "No historical Sushi dream passage is supplied. The Rice and Fish entries concern different subjects and are not combined to invent sushi lore. These original reflections concern preparation, presentation, unfamiliarity, and the recalled meal; no cultural code is asserted.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Care and the finished display", "reflection": "Small details can make a result satisfying or difficult to enjoy under scrutiny. The scene distinguishes purposeful craft from an appearance that must never change." }, { "title": "An invitation that allows questions", "reflection": "An unfamiliar meal can picture entering a new setting. Welcome explanations differ from being expected to know the rules without asking." }, { "title": "Learning how parts hold together", "reflection": "Making a roll can explore turning separate components into something workable. A changed method or shared effort may matter more than immediate approval." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Every piece is arranged with exact spacing", "reflection": "Order gives the meal a deliberate shape. This may fit satisfaction in careful work or pressure around maintaining a presentation. Whether anyone is allowed to begin eating distinguishes usable care from a display too fragile to enjoy." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You are offered a meal you do not recognize", "reflection": "Participation involves uncertainty about ingredients or expectations. The scene can resemble entering an unfamiliar group. Being allowed to ask questions changes the encounter toward welcome rather than a test of knowledge you were never given." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A roll falls apart while you make it", "reflection": "Separate ingredients fail to remain a workable whole. This may fit learning a method or assembling a plan with several components. Help that changes the process differs from criticism that only identifies the unsuccessful result." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Someone corrects every movement of your hands", "reflection": "Preparation becomes difficult under continuous supervision. The scene may picture a task where another person’s standards leave little space to learn. Clear guidance followed by room to practice creates a different relationship from constant interruption." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You enjoy choosing pieces at your own pace", "reflection": "The small portions allow attention to differences within the meal. This may fit approaching a larger experience through manageable choices. A slower pace can be satisfying when it belongs to you rather than being judged against someone else’s timetable." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The piece differs from the label beside it", "reflection": "The experience does not match the description that guided your choice. This can picture finding that a category or promise leaves out important details. Asking for clarification differs from assuming that every unfamiliar offering is deceptive." } ], "prompts": [ "Did careful arrangement help me enjoy the meal or make it feel untouchable?", "Could I ask about unfamiliar details without losing my place in the group?", "Was learning supported through useful guidance or interrupted through constant correction?" ], "related": [ "rice", "fish", "cooking", "dinner" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "swallow", "title": "Swallow", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "5 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of swallows, is a sign of peace and domestic harmony.” Compare 5 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "swallow", "swallows" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about swallow stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "moles-71045", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams and Moles", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "United Kingdom, J. Marshall, 1805", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71045", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1949", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Swallow", "text": "To dream of swallows, is a sign of peace and domestic harmony.\n\nTo see a wounded or dead one, signifies unavoidable sadness.", "locator": "Heading 1953; source lines 21577–21583", "lineStart": 21577, "lineEnd": 21583, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of swallows, is a sign of peace and domestic harmony.\n\nTo see a wounded or dead one, signifies unavoidable sadness." }, { "id": "fontaine-0770", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Swallows", "text": "To dream of these birds, is a good omen, as it foretells\nhealth and abundant crops to farmers: if you dream of killing a\nswallow, it is a sign of a misfortune; if you catch the bird, you will\nhave splendid luck and get plenty of money; but if, after capturing,\nyou dream you let him go, a fortune will slip through your fingers. 25.", "locator": "Heading 770; source line 4773", "lineStart": 4773, "lineEnd": 4779, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of these birds, is a good omen, as it foretells\nhealth and abundant crops to farmers: if you dream of killing a\nswallow, it is a sign of a misfortune; if you catch the bird, you will\nhave splendid luck and get plenty of money; but if, after capturing,\nyou dream you let him go, a fortune will slip through your fingers." }, { "id": "noe-0476", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Swallows", "text": "To dream of these harbingers of summer is a very favorable\nomen. They denote success in trade and riches to the dreamer. In love,\nthey denote a speedy marriage with the object of your affections.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 484; source lines 1773–1776", "lineStart": 1773, "lineEnd": 1776, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of these harbingers of summer is a very favorable\nomen. They denote success in trade and riches to the dreamer. In love,\nthey denote a speedy marriage with the object of your affections." }, { "id": "moles-0049", "sourceId": "moles-71045", "heading": "Swallow", "originalHeading": "(no printed heading)", "text": "To dream of the chattering of swallows, denotes sickness or other\ninfirmities.", "locator": "Dreams interpreted, passage 49; source lines 252–253", "lineStart": 252, "lineEnd": 253, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "editorialNote": "The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Swallow” because that is the subject of its first clause.", "displayText": "To dream of the chattering of swallows, denotes sickness or other\ninfirmities." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12086", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Swallow", "heading": "Swallow", "text": "News from afar is forecast by this dream: a swallow's nest, domestic happiness (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12086, "lineEnd": 12088, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 256; NLM OCR lines 12086–12088", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12086, "lineEnd": 12088, "printedPage": 256, "printedPageEnd": 256 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Swallow. — News from afar is forecast by this dream: a \nswallow's nest, domestic happiness (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Swallow" }, "displayText": "News from afar is forecast by this dream: a swallow's nest, domestic happiness (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "swallow-and-nightingall", "title": "Swallow and Nightingall", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Artemidorus wrote: “THe Swallow signifieth no evill, if she makes no attempt, which denounceth some evil: or if she appeare in no other then her naturall…”", "aliases": [ "swallow and nightingall", "of the swallow and nightingall" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about swallow and nightingall stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "artemidorus-117", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of the Swallow and Nightingall.", "text": "THe Swallow signifieth no evill, if she makes no attempt, which denounceth some evil: or if she appeare in no other then her naturall colour: but she signifieth good work, and principally weddings, and musicke, and promiseth a husw[illegible passage]ely wife, and a house keeper: for the Swallow liveth and makes her Nest with us under the same roofe: the Nightingall signifyeth as the Swallow: only lesse good, for he is not so familiar with us.", "locator": "Book 2, encoded section 117", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription-with-gaps", "book": "2", "displayText": "THe Swallow signifieth no evill, if she makes no attempt, which denounceth some evil: or if she appeare in no other then her naturall colour: but she signifieth good work, and principally weddings, and musicke, and promiseth a husw [illegible passage] ely wife, and a house keeper: for the Swallow liveth and makes her Nest with us under the same roofe: the Nightingall signifyeth as the Swallow: only lesse good, for he is not so familiar with us." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "swamp", "title": "Swamp", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To walk through swampy places in dreams, foretells that you will be the object of adverse circumstances.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "swamp" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about swamp stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "marsh" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1950", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Swamp", "text": "To walk through swampy places in dreams, foretells that you will be\nthe object of adverse circumstances. Your inheritance will be uncertain,\nand you will undergo keen disappointments in your love matters.\n\nTo go through a swamp where you see clear water and green growths,\nyou will take hold on prosperity and singular pleasures, the obtaining\nof which will be attended with danger and intriguing.\n\n\n[217] See Marsh.", "locator": "Heading 1954; source lines 21583–21596", "lineStart": 21583, "lineEnd": 21596, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To walk through swampy places in dreams, foretells that you will be\nthe object of adverse circumstances. Your inheritance will be uncertain,\nand you will undergo keen disappointments in your love matters.\n\nTo go through a swamp where you see clear water and green growths,\nyou will take hold on prosperity and singular pleasures, the obtaining\nof which will be attended with danger and intriguing. See Marsh." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12089", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Swamp", "heading": "Swamp", "text": "To dream of getting into a swamp foretells vexations through lack of money.", "lineStart": 12089, "lineEnd": 12091, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 256; NLM OCR lines 12089–12091", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12089, "lineEnd": 12091, "printedPage": 256, "printedPageEnd": 256 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Swamp. — To dream of getting into a swamp foretells vexa- \ntions through lack of money. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "vexa- \ntions", "after": "vexations", "evidenceLine": 10343 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Swamp" }, "displayText": "To dream of getting into a swamp foretells vexations through lack of money." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "marsh" ] }, { "slug": "swan", "title": "Swan", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "aliases": [ "swan" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "summary": "A swan can explore chosen distance, an imposing appearance, and whether contact fits what you want from a living encounter.", "tagline": "An impressive visitor can remain a separate creature.", "psychological": "A swan across a lake can give a living encounter a distance you choose. Watching its movement from the bank may feel satisfying without requiring an approach. A person you admire, a place you enjoy visiting, or an occasion you prefer to observe may offer a waking parallel. The bird need not become an image of elegance or a particular person; your position and the available contact give this scene its shape.\n\nAn impressive appearance can coexist with an awkward exchange. You might expect the swan to welcome you and find that it moves away, or discover that a splendid setting offers nowhere comfortable to stand. This can picture the difference between liking an image and finding a workable relationship with it. Attraction to a presentation does not decide whether closer participation would suit your present needs.\n\nA swan entering a familiar room changes the encounter again. The scene may make an admired visitor difficult to accommodate within ordinary routines. You can want its company while recognizing that the setting asks something different from both of you. A recent invitation, guest or unfamiliar responsibility may fit that comparison. Making room is different from abandoning every other use of the place.\n\nCompany can alter what you notice. Someone wanting to hurry past while you watch the swan creates a question about shared pace. Two people can value the outing differently without either preference being wrong. A swan leaving while you continue searching for it can instead center an ending: an enjoyable encounter may have mattered without remaining continuously available.\n\nAn unexpectedly ordinary task beside the bird can be equally useful. Picking up your dropped bag while it stays nearby may bring attention back to something practical after an absorbing view. The encounter can include admiration, unease, amusement or indifference. Color, song and species identification are details of your particular dream, not character, morality or death codes. Memories of actual birds, pictures or a familiar shoreline may provide direct context alongside these optional reflections.", "traditional": "Five supplied accounts disagree about swans through color, movement, song and other scenes. Miller, Fontaine and Noe attach contrasting fortune or health forecasts; Cielo instead assigns delay in reaching desires. Craig adds Raphael and cultural attributions that remain Craig’s claims, not independently verified traditions. None establishes a moral meaning for color, an actual health condition or a future death.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Distance chosen for the encounter", "reflection": "Watching can have value without making approach or possession its necessary completion." }, { "title": "Appearance and workable company", "reflection": "An impressive presence may need different terms from an ordinary routine." }, { "title": "Different uses of a shared outing", "reflection": "Another person’s pace can change the encounter without deciding what you should enjoy." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You watch a swan from the opposite bank", "reflection": "The view feels sufficient even though a closer approach is possible. This may picture enjoying an interest without needing a larger role in it. A chosen distance can support attention rather than express failure to make contact or a hidden fear of closeness." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "The swan moves away when you offer company", "reflection": "An expected welcome does not arrive, and you must decide whether to keep approaching. This can resemble liking a presentation while finding that the actual exchange needs different terms. The dreamed response does not establish another person’s feelings or intentions." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A swan enters a room used for ordinary tasks", "reflection": "An impressive visitor shares space with practical routines that still need to happen. This may picture wanting something welcome while considering how to accommodate it. Company can matter without requiring every other use of the room or day to disappear." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Your companion wants to leave while you keep watching", "reflection": "The outing holds different interests for the two of you. This can make shared pace visible, especially when one person’s pause delays another plan. Finding an arrangement differs from proving that either person appreciates the scene in the right way." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The swan leaves and you keep looking for it", "reflection": "The encounter has ended while your attention remains with it. This may fit wanting a valued experience to continue or finding its ending hard to place. What happened can retain meaning without the bird’s return becoming a promise or a requirement." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You retrieve a dropped bag beside the watching swan", "reflection": "A practical task interrupts an absorbing view without destroying it. This may picture returning attention to an ordinary need after admiration has taken most of the space. The bird can remain impressive while your own activity becomes important again." } ], "prompts": [ "What distance let the encounter feel interesting or workable?", "How did an appearance compare with the exchange you actually wanted?", "Which practical need or companion’s preference changed your attention?" ], "related": [ "bird", "water", "lake", "feathers" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1951" ], "scope": "miller-1951: White swans on placid water, black swans near clear water, a dead swan and flying swans receive different prosperity/pleasure/discontent forecasts. Exact supplied passages: miller-1951 — Swan (Heading 1955; source lines 21596–21607). Attributed historical comparison only; these period claims do not validate the original reflection or establish real health, relationship, family or financial outcomes." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0771" ], "scope": "fontaine-0771: White and black swans receive contrasting wealth/sorrow forecasts; swan song is assigned a death omen. Exact supplied passages: fontaine-0771 — Swan (Heading 771; source line 4779). Attributed historical comparison only; these period claims do not validate the original reflection or establish real health, relationship, family or financial outcomes." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0499" ], "scope": "noe-0499: Seeing a swan is assigned joy, secrets and health; singing receives a death forecast. Exact supplied passages: noe-0499 — Swan (Dream section, heading 507; source lines 1848–1850). Attributed historical comparison only; these period claims do not validate the original reflection or establish real health, relationship, family or financial outcomes." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0414" ], "scope": "cielo-0414: A swan is assigned delay in reaching desires. Exact supplied passages: cielo-0414 — Swan (Dream section, heading 414; source lines 4863–4866). Attributed historical comparison only; these period claims do not validate the original reflection or establish real health, relationship, family or financial outcomes." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L12092" ], "scope": "craig-1918:L12092: Craig reports white/black fortune distinctions under Raphael and makes sacred-bird, hypocrisy, Norse and Eastern European claims. These are Craig’s assertions, not independently authenticated traditions. Exact supplied passages: craig-1918:L12092 — Swan (Printed p. 256; NLM OCR lines 12092–12098). Attributed historical comparison only; these period claims do not validate the original reflection or establish real health, relationship, family or financial outcomes." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1951", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Swan", "text": "To dream of seeing white swans floating upon placid waters,\nforetells prosperous outlooks and delightful experiences.\n\nTo see a black swan, denotes illicit pleasure, if near clear water.\n\nA dead swan, foretells satiety and discontentment\n\nTo see them flying, pleasant anticipations will be realized soon.", "locator": "Heading 1955; source lines 21596–21607", "lineStart": 21596, "lineEnd": 21607, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing white swans floating upon placid waters,\nforetells prosperous outlooks and delightful experiences.\n\nTo see a black swan, denotes illicit pleasure, if near clear water.\n\nA dead swan, foretells satiety and discontentment\n\nTo see them flying, pleasant anticipations will be realized soon." }, { "id": "fontaine-0771", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Swan", "text": "To dream of a white swan, signifies riches; a black one, domestic\nsorrow. Its song denotes death. 9, 18.", "locator": "Heading 771; source line 4779", "lineStart": 4779, "lineEnd": 4782, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a white swan, signifies riches; a black one, domestic\nsorrow. Its song denotes death." }, { "id": "noe-0499", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Swan", "text": "To see a swan in\nyour dream, signifies joy, revealing of secrets and health to the dreamer;\nbut if it sings, it foretells death.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 507; source lines 1848–1850", "lineStart": 1848, "lineEnd": 1850, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a swan in\nyour dream, signifies joy, revealing of secrets and health to the dreamer;\nbut if it sings, it foretells death." }, { "id": "cielo-0414", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Swan", "text": "Means that it will be long before you reach\n your desires.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 414; source lines 4863–4866", "lineStart": 4863, "lineEnd": 4866, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Means that it will be long before you reach\nyour desires." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12092", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Swan", "heading": "Swan", "text": "A white swan denotes wealth and happiness; a black one, grief (Raphael). A sacred bird of the ancients, though a mediaeval symbol of hypocrisy as the swan has white feathers and black meat. In the Norse legends, however, they were held as sacred and are thus held in Eastern Europe of to-day.", "lineStart": 12092, "lineEnd": 12098, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 256; NLM OCR lines 12092–12098", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12092, "lineEnd": 12098, "printedPage": 256, "printedPageEnd": 256 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Swan. — A white swan denotes wealth and happiness; a \nblack one, grief (Raphael). A sacred bird of the ancients, \nthough a mediaeval symbol of hypocrisy as the swan has white \nfeathers and black meat. In the Norse legends, however, they \nwere held as sacred and are thus held in Eastern Europe of \nto-day. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Swan" }, "displayText": "A white swan denotes wealth and happiness; a black one, grief (Raphael). A sacred bird of the ancients, though a mediaeval symbol of hypocrisy as the swan has white feathers and black meat. In the Norse legends, however, they were held as sacred and are thus held in Eastern Europe of to-day." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "swastika", "title": "Swastika", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Cielo wrote: “Is a sign of good luck.”", "aliases": [ "swastika" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about swastika stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "cielo-0415", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Swastika", "text": "Is a sign of good luck.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 415; source lines 4866–4868", "lineStart": 4866, "lineEnd": 4868, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Is a sign of good luck." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "swearing", "title": "Swearing", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of swearing, denotes some unpleasant obstructions in business.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "swearing" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about swearing stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "blasphemy" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1952", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Swearing", "text": "To dream of swearing, denotes some unpleasant obstructions in business.\nA lover will have cause to suspect the faithfulness of his affianced\nafter this dream.\n\nTo dream that you are swearing before your family, denotes that disagreements\nwill soon be brought about by your unloyal conduct.", "locator": "Heading 1956; source lines 21607–21616", "lineStart": 21607, "lineEnd": 21616, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of swearing, denotes some unpleasant obstructions in business.\nA lover will have cause to suspect the faithfulness of his affianced\nafter this dream.\n\nTo dream that you are swearing before your family, denotes that disagreements\nwill soon be brought about by your unloyal conduct." }, { "id": "fontaine-0772", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Swearing", "text": "(_See Blasphemy._) To dream that you hear violent\naltercations and profane swearing, is a sign that you will lose caste,\nand go down in the world: if a man dreams that in his anger he curses\nand swears, it foretells that he will come to poverty. 72, 4.", "locator": "Heading 772; source line 4782", "lineStart": 4782, "lineEnd": 4787, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Blasphemy.) To dream that you hear violent\naltercations and profane swearing, is a sign that you will lose caste,\nand go down in the world: if a man dreams that in his anger he curses\nand swears, it foretells that he will come to poverty." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "blasphemy" ] }, { "slug": "sweeping", "title": "Sweeping", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of sweeping, denotes that you will gain favor in the eyes of your husband, and children will find…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "sweeping" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about sweeping stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1953", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Sweeping", "text": "To dream of sweeping, denotes that you will gain favor in the eyes\nof your husband, and children will find pleasure in the home.\n\nIf you think the floors need sweeping, and you from some cause\nneglect them, there will be distresses and bitter disappointments\nawaiting you in the approaching days.\n\nTo servants, sweeping is a sign of disagreements and suspicion\nof the intentions of others.", "locator": "Heading 1957; source lines 21616–21628", "lineStart": 21616, "lineEnd": 21628, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of sweeping, denotes that you will gain favor in the eyes\nof your husband, and children will find pleasure in the home.\n\nIf you think the floors need sweeping, and you from some cause\nneglect them, there will be distresses and bitter disappointments\nawaiting you in the approaching days.\n\nTo servants, sweeping is a sign of disagreements and suspicion\nof the intentions of others." }, { "id": "fontaine-0773", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Sweeping", "text": "For a girl to dream of sweeping the house, foretells that a\nlover will soon make his appearance: if a married woman dreams this, it\nshows that some outsider is charmed with her, and may venture to make\ndishonorable proposals. 39, 12.", "locator": "Heading 773; source line 4787", "lineStart": 4787, "lineEnd": 4792, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a girl to dream of sweeping the house, foretells that a\nlover will soon make his appearance: if a married woman dreams this, it\nshows that some outsider is charmed with her, and may venture to make\ndishonorable proposals." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1955", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Sweet Oil", "text": "Sweet oil in dreams, implies considerate treatment will be withheld\nfrom you in some unfortunate occurrence.", "locator": "Heading 1959; source lines 21643–21648", "lineStart": 21643, "lineEnd": 21648, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Sweet oil in dreams, implies considerate treatment will be withheld\nfrom you in some unfortunate occurrence." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "sweet-taste", "title": "Sweet Taste", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of any kind of a sweet taste in your mouth, denotes you will be praised for your pleasing conversation and calm demeanor in a time…”", "aliases": [ "sweet taste" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about sweet taste stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1956", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Sweet Taste", "text": "To dream of any kind of a sweet taste in your mouth, denotes you\nwill be praised for your pleasing conversation and calm demeanor\nin a time of commotion and distress.\n\nTo dream that you are trying to get rid of a sweet taste,\nforetells that you will oppress and deride your friends,\nand will incur their displeasure.", "locator": "Heading 1960; source lines 21648–21658", "lineStart": 21648, "lineEnd": 21658, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of any kind of a sweet taste in your mouth, denotes you\nwill be praised for your pleasing conversation and calm demeanor\nin a time of commotion and distress.\n\nTo dream that you are trying to get rid of a sweet taste,\nforetells that you will oppress and deride your friends,\nand will incur their displeasure." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "sweetheart", "title": "Sweetheart", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that your sweetheart is affable and of pleasing physique, foretells that you will woo a woman who…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "sweetheart", "sweethearts" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about sweetheart stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "lovers", "hug", "kiss" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1954", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Sweetheart", "text": "To dream that your sweetheart is affable and of pleasing physique,\nforetells that you will woo a woman who will prove a joy to your pride\nand will bring you a good inheritance. If she appears otherwise, you will\nbe discontented with your choice before the marriage vows are consummated.\nTo dream of her as being sick or in distress, denotes that sadness will\nbe intermixed with joy.\n\nIf you dream that your sweetheart is a corpse, you will have a long\nperiod of doubt and unfavorable fortune.\n\n\n[218] See Lover, Hugging, and Kissing.", "locator": "Heading 1958; source lines 21628–21643", "lineStart": 21628, "lineEnd": 21643, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that your sweetheart is affable and of pleasing physique,\nforetells that you will woo a woman who will prove a joy to your pride\nand will bring you a good inheritance. If she appears otherwise, you will\nbe discontented with your choice before the marriage vows are consummated.\nTo dream of her as being sick or in distress, denotes that sadness will\nbe intermixed with joy.\n\nIf you dream that your sweetheart is a corpse, you will have a long\nperiod of doubt and unfavorable fortune. See Lover, Hugging, and Kissing." }, { "id": "noe-0500", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Sweethearts", "text": "If a man dreams of\nhis sweetheart that is absent, and she seems to be more fair than usual,\nit is a sign she is chaste or constant; but if she looks black or sickly,\nyou may be assured she hath broken her faith and has become altogether\ninconstant.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 508; source lines 1850–1854", "lineStart": 1850, "lineEnd": 1854, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If a man dreams of\nhis sweetheart that is absent, and she seems to be more fair than usual,\nit is a sign she is chaste or constant; but if she looks black or sickly,\nyou may be assured she hath broken her faith and has become altogether\ninconstant." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12099", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Sweetheart", "heading": "Sweetheart", "text": "To dream that he or she is well and smiling denotes purity and constancy; pale or ailing, the reverse (Raphael).", "lineStart": 12099, "lineEnd": 12102, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 256; NLM OCR lines 12099–12102", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12099, "lineEnd": 12102, "printedPage": 256, "printedPageEnd": 256 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Sweetheart, — To dream that he or she is well and smil- \ning denotes purity and constancy; pale or ailing, the reverse \n(Raphael). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "smil- \ning", "after": "smiling", "evidenceLine": 2593 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Sweetheart" }, "displayText": "To dream that he or she is well and smiling denotes purity and constancy; pale or ailing, the reverse (Raphael)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "lovers", "hug", "kiss" ] }, { "slug": "swelling", "title": "Swelling", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you see yourself swollen, denotes that you will amass fortune, but your egotism will interfere with your enjoyment.”", "aliases": [ "swelling" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about swelling stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "diving", "bath" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1957", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Swelling", "text": "To dream that you see yourself swollen, denotes that you will amass fortune,\nbut your egotism will interfere with your enjoyment.\n\nTo see others swollen, foretells that advancement will meet\nwith envious obstructions.\n\nSwimming.[219]\n\nTo dream of swimming, is an augury of success if you find\nno discomfort in the act. If you feel yourself going down,\nmuch dissatisfaction will present itself to you.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she is swimming with a girl friend\nwho is an artist in swimming, foretells that she will be loved\nfor her charming disposition, and her little love affairs will be\ncondoned by her friends.\n\nTo swim under water, foretells struggles and anxieties.\n\n\n[219] See Diving and Bathing.", "locator": "Heading 1961; source lines 21658–21682", "lineStart": 21658, "lineEnd": 21682, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you see yourself swollen, denotes that you will amass fortune,\nbut your egotism will interfere with your enjoyment.\n\nTo see others swollen, foretells that advancement will meet\nwith envious obstructions.\n\nSwimming.\n\nTo dream of swimming, is an augury of success if you find\nno discomfort in the act. If you feel yourself going down,\nmuch dissatisfaction will present itself to you.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she is swimming with a girl friend\nwho is an artist in swimming, foretells that she will be loved\nfor her charming disposition, and her little love affairs will be\ncondoned by her friends.\n\nTo swim under water, foretells struggles and anxieties. See Diving and Bathing." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "diving", "bath" ] }, { "slug": "swimming", "title": "Swimming", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "Moving through water asks how effort and support work together.", "summary": "Swimming dreams can explore effort, pacing and chosen direction. A sustainable stroke feels different from a race or carrying more than you can manage.", "aliases": [ "swimming", "swim", "swam", "swimming dream" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "Swimming makes movement depend on a continuing relationship between effort and the surrounding water. In a dream, this can picture working within conditions you can influence but cannot remove. A demanding project, a shared transition or an unfamiliar responsibility may offer a waking parallel. Your stroke, pace and direction show how you are participating. The same water can feel workable when you find a rhythm and exhausting when every movement becomes a struggle to maintain it.\n\nA sustainable stroke can picture adapting your effort to the task rather than simply increasing it. You may recognize finding a workable routine after trying to meet every demand at once. Faster movement is not automatically better if it leaves no room to continue. Slowing down can feel like confidence in your own pace, or frustration when another person expects you to keep up. The difference belongs to what the journey requires and how freely you choose the rhythm.\n\nSwimming toward someone who keeps moving can make contact depend on a changing distance. A conversation, shared plan or relationship may seem close enough to reach until its terms shift again. Continuing may express care or leave you doing all the work of connection. A person coming toward you changes the arrangement into mutual effort. The image cannot establish another person's intentions; it makes the movement between you visible within the scene.\n\nCarrying an object while swimming adds a demand that interferes with the action needed to proceed. This can resemble protecting a possession, role or responsibility while adapting to change. Setting it down may allow freer movement, but the cost can matter if the object is valued. Finding another way to carry it can picture support that lets care and progress coexist. The useful question is what the load prevents and what you want to preserve.\n\nFloating between stretches of activity can offer a form of support that does not require constant propulsion. Staying near shore can make a limit chosen rather than imposed. Enjoying movement without racing may picture participation no longer organized around comparison. Actual swimming memories and recent water imagery can also supply the details directly. These reflections follow the activity of moving, resting and choosing through water; the separate Water entry explores the broader conditions of the medium.", "traditional": "The five attached historical accounts differ: Fontaine predicts favorable fortune, Noe and Craig distinguish the head above or below water, Cielo assigns enjoyment, and The Interpretation of Dreams and Moles links pleasurable swimming in tossing water with overcoming difficulty. These are attributed period forecasts. The original reading does not infer fortune or capacity from a dream stroke.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Effort that can continue", "reflection": "Swimming can picture adjusting pace to a task whose conditions remain around you. A workable rhythm may matter more than maximum speed or continual proof of effort." }, { "title": "The movement between people", "reflection": "Approaching somebody through water can make the effort of connection visible. A changing distance differs from both people moving toward a shared meeting." }, { "title": "Support within the activity", "reflection": "Rest, a chosen limit or help with a load can change how movement becomes possible. Support need not remove the whole task to make it more workable." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You find a sustainable stroke after tiring", "reflection": "Finding a sustainable stroke can picture a routine that finally fits the conditions of a demanding task. Your effort becomes usable rather than merely greater. The improvement may concern coordination, not a judgment about personal strength." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You swim toward a person who keeps moving away", "reflection": "An ever-receding person can picture contact that requires repeated adjustment from you. A shifting shared plan may fit. Their actual intentions remain unknown; the scene shows how the distance and effort felt." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You choose to stay near shore rather than follow a group", "reflection": "Remaining near shore can picture choosing the extent of participation that suits you. A group may prefer another route without making yours inadequate. Whether the limit is chosen or forced gives it meaning." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You float between periods of active swimming", "reflection": "Alternating floating and movement can picture using support between periods of effort. A shared responsibility or planned pause may feel similar. Rest becomes part of continuing rather than an interruption that must be justified." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You must carry an object while you swim", "reflection": "Carrying an object can picture trying to preserve something while adapting to change. Its value may explain why releasing it is difficult. Another carrying method can make continuity and movement compatible." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You stop racing and enjoy moving at your own pace", "reflection": "Leaving the race while still swimming can picture valuing an activity apart from comparison. Learning or work may remain meaningful at your own pace. The scene can change what counts as participation without abandoning it." } ], "prompts": [ "What pace let me continue, and whose expectations changed it?", "What did I want to reach or preserve while moving?", "Where did support, rest or a chosen limit change the effort?" ], "related": [ "water", "swimming-pool", "drowning", "ocean" ], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0774" ], "scope": "Preserves this author’s attached period dream-book account; the entry’s context compares attributed beliefs rather than adopting forecasts. Exact supplied records: fontaine-0774 — Swimming (Heading 774; source line 4792). Historical comparison only, not evidence for the original reflective reading or an actual outcome." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0477" ], "scope": "Preserves this author’s attached period dream-book account; the entry’s context compares attributed beliefs rather than adopting forecasts. Exact supplied records: noe-0477 — Swimming (Dream section, heading 485; source lines 1776–1781). Historical comparison only, not evidence for the original reflective reading or an actual outcome." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0416" ], "scope": "Preserves this author’s attached period dream-book account; the entry’s context compares attributed beliefs rather than adopting forecasts. Exact supplied records: cielo-0416 — Swimming (Dream section, heading 416; source lines 4868–4870). Historical comparison only, not evidence for the original reflective reading or an actual outcome." }, { "id": "moles-71045", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams and Moles", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "United Kingdom, J. Marshall, 1805", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71045", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "moles-0002" ], "scope": "Preserves this author’s attached period dream-book account; the entry’s context compares attributed beliefs rather than adopting forecasts. Exact supplied records: moles-0002 — Swimming (Dreams interpreted, passage 2; source lines 114–115). Historical comparison only, not evidence for the original reflective reading or an actual outcome." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. 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Historical accounts retain their attribution; general sleep background does not validate these interpretations.", "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "DreamFolia AI-assisted editorial review", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "bed", "bathroom", "bridge", "door", "window", "stairs", "road", "clothes", "shoes", "driving", "being-late", "crying", "running", "swimming", "river", "snow", "moon", "sun", "mountain", "fish" ] }, "decisionReason": "Three themes and six scenes explain sustainable effort, changing distance, a chosen limit, floating support, a valued load and leaving comparison behind. All five historical accounts retain explicit scopes. 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To dream you are swimming with your head under\nwater, shows that you will experience some great trouble and hear some\nvery unpleasant news from a person you thought dead. In trade, it shows\nloss of business.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 485; source lines 1776–1781", "lineStart": 1776, "lineEnd": 1781, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are swimming, with your head above the water,\ndenotes great success in your undertakings, whether they be in love,\ntrade, sea or farming. To dream you are swimming with your head under\nwater, shows that you will experience some great trouble and hear some\nvery unpleasant news from a person you thought dead. In trade, it shows\nloss of business." }, { "id": "cielo-0416", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Swimming", "text": "Is a sign of sure enjoyment.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 416; source lines 4868–4870", "lineStart": 4868, "lineEnd": 4870, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Is a sign of sure enjoyment." }, { "id": "moles-0002", "sourceId": "moles-71045", "heading": "Swimming", "originalHeading": "(no printed heading)", "text": "To dream one swims with pleasure in tossing water, denotes overcoming\nsome difficult matter you have in hand.", "locator": "Dreams interpreted, passage 2; source lines 114–115", "lineStart": 114, "lineEnd": 115, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "editorialNote": "The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Swimming” because that is the subject of its first clause.", "displayText": "To dream one swims with pleasure in tossing water, denotes overcoming\nsome difficult matter you have in hand." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12103", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Swimming", "heading": "Swimming", "text": "With the head above water, success; the head under water, denotes misfortune; to sink forecasts ruin (Raphael),", "lineStart": 12103, "lineEnd": 12106, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 256; NLM OCR lines 12103–12106", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12103, "lineEnd": 12106, "printedPage": 256, "printedPageEnd": 256 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Swimming. — With the head above water, success; the head \nunder water, denotes misfortune; to sink forecasts ruin \n(Raphael), \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Swimming" }, "displayText": "With the head above water, success; the head under water, denotes misfortune; to sink forecasts ruin (Raphael)," } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "swimming-pool", "title": "Swimming pool", "category": "Places", "aliases": [ "swimming pool", "swimming pools", "public pool", "indoor pool", "outdoor swimming pool" ], "summary": "A swimming pool may explore chosen immersion, shared space, or a setting whose rules seem clear. Depth, access, and company make the experience specific.", "tagline": "Water with edges, room to choose your pace, and other people sharing the space.", "psychological": "A swimming pool gives water visible edges, designated areas, and an expected way to enter or leave. If that arrangement feels reassuring, the dream may fit wanting a manageable space for an experience that feels less predictable elsewhere. A class, scheduled activity, or agreed routine can provide similar conditions: you can participate without having to invent the whole setting. The pool's boundaries matter more here than a general equation between water and emotion.\n\nAn unexpected depth, moving edge, or missing ladder can challenge those expectations. Something presented as straightforward turns out to require different resources. This may resemble accepting a task under one set of terms and discovering another after you begin. If you can find a shallow area or ask for help, the scene may explore adapting the arrangement rather than abandoning participation altogether.\n\nOther swimmers bring pace and visibility into focus. A quiet lane differs from crowded water, a race, or people watching from the deck. You may want company, room to practice, or freedom from being evaluated. Feeling uncomfortable about entering can concern access, clothing, or preparation as well as swimming itself. The specific obstacle helps distinguish wanting privacy from wanting a clearer method or enough space.\n\nAn empty or unusable pool can make an anticipated pleasure unavailable. You arrive prepared for rest or activity and find maintenance, a closure, or no water. That might fit plans depending on a shared resource you cannot control. A pleasant swim, meanwhile, can simply give the dream a scene of movement at a workable pace. A recent visit, childhood memory, lesson, or photograph may supply direct context. The dream does not measure swimming ability or predict a water emergency; it can explore the setting that made participation comfortable or difficult.", "traditional": "No matching historical swimming-pool passage is supplied. This entry offers original context about bounded water, recreation, access, and shared facilities. A pool differs from an ocean, river, or flood because the dream may involve designed edges and rules. Those details do not establish a universal meaning or a real safety finding.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A manageable place to participate", "reflection": "Visible edges, lanes, and exits may fit wanting clear conditions for an activity. The boundaries can support involvement without requiring you to control the entire experience." }, { "title": "The terms change after entry", "reflection": "Unexpected depth or an unavailable exit may resemble a task that differs from its description. Finding another area or support can make adaptation the subject rather than failure." }, { "title": "Company and enough room", "reflection": "Other swimmers may offer shared pleasure, comparison, or crowding. The useful distinction is whether their presence gives you a rhythm to join or prevents the pace you want." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "The depth is different from its marking", "reflection": "You enter expecting to stand comfortably and discover that the bottom is farther away. This may fit a commitment requiring more than you were told. Reaching another area or getting a clear explanation can shift the scene toward adapting to changed terms." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You have a quiet lane to yourself", "reflection": "The water leaves enough room to move at your own pace. This can express a workable balance of participation and privacy, like practicing a skill without constant comparison. Enjoyment may remain an ordinary remembered pleasure rather than a problem that needs interpretation." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "The pool is crowded and you cannot move freely", "reflection": "Other people's activity repeatedly interrupts yours. This may resemble sharing a limited resource or trying to rest where everyone's needs overlap. Finding an agreed place or another time differs from assuming that company itself is the difficulty." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You cannot find a way to change or enter", "reflection": "The water is available, but a locked room, missing clothing, or confusing entrance prevents participation. The scene may concern practical access rather than the activity. A helpful explanation can matter more than overcoming a presumed fear of swimming." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You arrive and find the pool empty", "reflection": "A planned activity cannot happen because its basic condition is missing. This may fit depending on a shared space, tool, or service that becomes unavailable. Disappointment and inventing another plan create different endings without making the closure a forecast." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You feel watched during an ordinary swim", "reflection": "People on the deck appear interested in every movement. This may give practice the pressure of performance, as when a learning task becomes public. Welcome encouragement and unwanted evaluation differ, even if the physical activity is the same." } ], "prompts": [ "Which edge, exit, depth, or rule made participation feel manageable or uncertain?", "Did I want company, a shared rhythm, or enough room to move alone?", "Was the difficulty in the water, or in gaining access to the activity?" ], "related": [ "water", "swimming", "drowning", "ocean", "being-naked-in-public" ], "type": "dreams", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original image-specific interpretation with distinct personal possibilities and everyday context; no matching historical passage supplied. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "swiss-cheese", "title": "Swiss Cheese", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of Swiss cheese, foretells that you will come into possession of substantial property, and healthful amusements will be enjoyed.”", "aliases": [ "swiss cheese" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about swiss cheese stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1958", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Swiss Cheese", "text": "To dream of Swiss cheese, foretells that you will come into possession\nof substantial property, and healthful amusements will be enjoyed.", "locator": "Heading 1962; source lines 21682–21687", "lineStart": 21682, "lineEnd": 21687, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of Swiss cheese, foretells that you will come into possession\nof substantial property, and healthful amusements will be enjoyed." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "switch", "title": "Switch", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a switch, foretells changes and misfortune.”", "aliases": [ "switch" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about switch stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1959", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Switch", "text": "To dream of a switch, foretells changes and misfortune.\n\nA broken switch, foretells disgrace and trouble.\n\nTo dream of a railroad switch, denotes that travel will cause\nyou much loss and inconvenience.\n\nTo dream of a switch, signifies you will meet discouragements\nin momentous affairs.", "locator": "Heading 1963; source lines 21687–21699", "lineStart": 21687, "lineEnd": 21699, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a switch, foretells changes and misfortune.\n\nA broken switch, foretells disgrace and trouble.\n\nTo dream of a railroad switch, denotes that travel will cause\nyou much loss and inconvenience.\n\nTo dream of a switch, signifies you will meet discouragements\nin momentous affairs." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "swoon", "title": "Swoon", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “To dream you see a person swoon is unfortunate to the maid.”", "aliases": [ "swoon" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about swoon stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "noe-0481", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Swoon", "text": "To dream you see a person\nswoon is unfortunate to the maid. To the married, it is a sign they will\nbecome rich and prosperous. To those who are nervous it is bad.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 489; source lines 1799–1802", "lineStart": 1799, "lineEnd": 1802, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see a person\nswoon is unfortunate to the maid. To the married, it is a sign they will\nbecome rich and prosperous. To those who are nervous it is bad." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "sword", "title": "Sword", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you wear a sword, indicates that you will fill some public position with honor.” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "sword" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about sword stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1960", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Sword", "text": "To dream that you wear a sword, indicates that you will fill\nsome public position with honor.\n\nTo have your sword taken from you, denotes your vanquishment in rivalry.\n\nTo see others bearing swords, foretells that altercations will be\nattended with danger.\n\nA broken sword, foretells despair.", "locator": "Heading 1964; source lines 21699–21711", "lineStart": 21699, "lineEnd": 21711, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you wear a sword, indicates that you will fill\nsome public position with honor.\n\nTo have your sword taken from you, denotes your vanquishment in rivalry.\n\nTo see others bearing swords, foretells that altercations will be\nattended with danger.\n\nA broken sword, foretells despair." }, { "id": "fontaine-0775", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Sword", "text": "To dream of having a sword, is a sign of poverty: if you dream\nof seeing a man flourish one of these weapons, it foretells you will\nmake a loss. A young girl who imagines her lover wears a sword, had\nbetter give up all ideas of silks and satins, and learn how to cook and\nwash, for she will be a poor man’s wife. 17.", "locator": "Heading 775; source line 4799", "lineStart": 4799, "lineEnd": 4805, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of having a sword, is a sign of poverty: if you dream\nof seeing a man flourish one of these weapons, it foretells you will\nmake a loss. A young girl who imagines her lover wears a sword, had\nbetter give up all ideas of silks and satins, and learn how to cook and\nwash, for she will be a poor man’s wife." }, { "id": "cielo-0417", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Sword", "text": "To dream of wearing one is a sign of honor;\n to be wounded with one is a sign of misfortune.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 417; source lines 4870–4873", "lineStart": 4870, "lineEnd": 4873, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of wearing one is a sign of honor;\nto be wounded with one is a sign of misfortune." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12107", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Sword", "heading": "Sword", "text": "To wear one is a dream denoting authority ; to be cut with one, humiliation (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12107, "lineEnd": 12109, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 256; NLM OCR lines 12107–12109", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12107, "lineEnd": 12109, "printedPage": 256, "printedPageEnd": 256 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Sword. — To wear one is a dream denoting authority ; to be \ncut with one, humiliation (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Sword" }, "displayText": "To wear one is a dream denoting authority; to be cut with one, humiliation (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "sybil", "title": "Sybil", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a sybil, foretells that you will enjoy assignations and other demoralizing pleasures.”", "aliases": [ "sybil" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about sybil stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1961", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Sybil", "text": "To dream of a sybil, foretells that you will enjoy assignations\nand other demoralizing pleasures.", "locator": "Heading 1965; source lines 21711–21716", "lineStart": 21711, "lineEnd": 21716, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a sybil, foretells that you will enjoy assignations\nand other demoralizing pleasures." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "sycamore", "title": "Sycamore", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “To dream you see this tree, denotes jealousy to the married; and to the virgin, she shall shortly be married.”", "aliases": [ "sycamore" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about sycamore stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "noe-0473", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Sycamore", "text": "To dream you see this tree, denotes jealousy to the married;\nand to the virgin, she shall shortly be married.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 481; source lines 1759–1760", "lineStart": 1759, "lineEnd": 1760, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see this tree, denotes jealousy to the married;\nand to the virgin, she shall shortly be married." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "symphony", "title": "Symphony", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of symphonies, heralds delightful occupations. See Music.”", "aliases": [ "symphony" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about symphony stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "music" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1962", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Symphony", "text": "To dream of symphonies, heralds delightful occupations.\n\n\n[220] See Music.", "locator": "Heading 1966; source lines 21716–21723", "lineStart": 21716, "lineEnd": 21723, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of symphonies, heralds delightful occupations. See Music." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "music" ] }, { "slug": "synagogue", "title": "Synagogue", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a synagogue, foretells that you have enemies powerfully barricading your entrance into fortune's realms.”", "aliases": [ "synagogue" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about synagogue stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "church" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1963", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Synagogue", "text": "To dream of a synagogue, foretells that you have enemies\npowerfully barricading your entrance into fortune's realms.\nIf you climb to the top on the outside, you will overcome\noppositions and be successful.\n\nIf you read the Hebrew inscription on a synagogue, you will meet disaster,\nbut will eventually rebuild your fortunes with renewed splendor.\n\n\n[221] See Church.", "locator": "Heading 1967; source lines 21723–21736", "lineStart": 21723, "lineEnd": 21736, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a synagogue, foretells that you have enemies\npowerfully barricading your entrance into fortune's realms.\nIf you climb to the top on the outside, you will overcome\noppositions and be successful.\n\nIf you read the Hebrew inscription on a synagogue, you will meet disaster,\nbut will eventually rebuild your fortunes with renewed splendor. See Church." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "church" ] }, { "slug": "syringe", "title": "Syringe", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a syringe, denotes that false alarm of the gravity of a relative's condition will reach you.”", "aliases": [ "syringe" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about syringe stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1964", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Syringe", "text": "To dream of a syringe, denotes that false alarm of the gravity\nof a relative's condition will reach you. To see a broken one,\nforetells you are approaching a period of ill health or worry\nover slight mistakes in business.", "locator": "Heading 1968; source lines 21736–21754", "lineStart": 21736, "lineEnd": 21754, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a syringe, denotes that false alarm of the gravity\nof a relative's condition will reach you. To see a broken one,\nforetells you are approaching a period of ill health or worry\nover slight mistakes in business." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "table", "title": "Table", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "aliases": [ "table" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "summary": "Table dreams may explore a shared surface, room to participate and the arrangements that support a meal, task or conversation.", "tagline": "What the surface makes possible.", "psychological": "A table provides a surface around which a dream can arrange people, objects and activities. Start with its actual use: eating, working, displaying something, negotiating or simply taking up space. A bare table may feel available rather than empty; a crowded one may feel welcoming or impossible to use. The scene's arrangement is more informative than assigning furniture a fixed meaning of family, wealth or agreement.\n\nPosition can shape participation. You might have a seat but be unable to reach the shared objects, find a place beside someone or discover that the table separates you from a conversation. This could resemble a situation where being included formally differs from being able to contribute. A waking example might be a meeting with a seat for everyone but little opportunity to speak. Notice what changes when you move a chair, pass an object or suggest a different arrangement.\n\nThe surface can hold incompatible uses. Work papers may cover the place set for dinner, or an art project may need the room someone else wants for a game. This might help you describe competing activities rather than a conflict between the people themselves. Clearing the table can feel like making room, erasing progress or ending an interval too soon. Ask what remains usable and who decides what is removed.\n\nStability can make the furniture itself important. A wobbling table that steadies when its load is rearranged might invite reflection on the conditions supporting a task. You could change the setup, share the load or choose another surface. This is a possible practical comparison, not a prediction that a household or relationship will break. A table moving by itself might instead create curiosity, inconvenience or a new position from which to act.\n\nFamiliarity also matters. Scratches, a particular cloth or a place setting can recall a room or gathering without representing every relationship in it. Waking experiences and emotions can enter dreams, so a recent meal, repair or workspace may be enough context. Record what you used the table for, what arrangement you inherited and what you changed. An enjoyable gathering or satisfying task can be a complete reading without requiring an underlying problem.", "traditional": "Miller varies his table forecasts with setting, clearing, cloths, movement, damage and people’s actions around the surface. Cielo assigns abundance to sitting at a table, and Everybody’s Book of Luck gives comfort, prosperity and marriage forecasts for sitting there. These are older attributed beliefs, not evidence that a table predicts money, relationships or household events.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A place to participate", "reflection": "A seat, an accessible surface and a chance to contribute are different kinds of inclusion. Compare the actual arrangement with what you wanted to do at the table." }, { "title": "Uses sharing one surface", "reflection": "The table may hold activities that need different kinds of space. Explore what was moved, left or cleared and whether that choice supported the next task." }, { "title": "Support that can be adjusted", "reflection": "A stable or awkward table can focus attention on practical conditions. Changing a load, position or support may be more relevant than interpreting damage as a forecast." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "You have a seat but cannot reach anything", "reflection": "The shared food or materials sit beyond your reach, although a place has been set for you. This may invite reflection on participation that needs a practical adjustment. Notice whether you ask someone to pass things, move your chair or suggest another layout; formal inclusion need not be enough." }, { "title": "Work papers cover the dinner places", "reflection": "A task has spread across the surface just as people arrive to eat. The scene could bring competing uses of time and space into focus. Explore who decides what moves and whether the work can continue elsewhere, without turning the arrangement into a judgment about anyone’s priorities." }, { "title": "A wobble stops when you move the load", "reflection": "The table shakes until you redistribute what is on it. This might resemble changing the conditions of a task rather than trying harder within the same setup. Record what you move and who helps; the dream is not a prediction about the stability of your home or relationships." }, { "title": "Someone clears your unfinished project", "reflection": "You return to find the table ready for a different activity, while your work has been put away. The scene may highlight timing, permission or how unfinished efforts are respected. Notice where the project went and what you ask for next before assuming it represents rejection." }, { "title": "The table slides to a new position", "reflection": "The furniture moves and changes how everyone can sit or work around it. This could open a question about an arrangement you had taken for granted. Describe what becomes easier or harder in the new position; unusual motion need not carry a supernatural explanation or forecast." }, { "title": "A familiar mark recalls another gathering", "reflection": "A scratch or stain on the surface brings a particular meal or person to mind. The dream may connect an ordinary object with a specific memory. Explore what you do at the table now and what differs from that remembered occasion, rather than making the furniture stand for every family relationship." } ], "prompts": [ "What activity made the table important in this dream?", "How did the arrangement affect what you and others could do?", "What did you want to keep, move, share or clear from its surface?" ], "related": [ "chair", "kitchen", "restaurant", "desk" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1965" ], "scope": "Miller assigns forecasts to setting, empty or cleared tables, cloths, movement, damage, people standing or sitting on the surface, and table-rapping or writing. Specific supplied passages: Table — miller-1965 (Heading 1969; source lines 21754–21784). Historical comparison only; these attributed period beliefs do not establish outcomes, diagnoses or a universal symbol meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0418" ], "scope": "Cielo assigns abundance to sitting at a table. Specific supplied passages: Table — cielo-0418 (Dream section, heading 418; source lines 4873–4876). Historical comparison only; these attributed period beliefs do not establish outcomes, diagnoses or a universal symbol meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0230" ], "scope": "Everybody’s Book of Luck assigns comfort, prosperity and a happy marriage to sitting at a table. Specific supplied passages: Table — luck-0230 (Dream section, heading 230; source lines 4118–4121). Historical comparison only; these attributed period beliefs do not establish outcomes, diagnoses or a universal symbol meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "kind": "editorial", "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1965", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Table", "text": "To dream of setting a table preparatory to a meal, foretells happy unions\nand prosperous circumstances.\n\nTo see empty tables, signifies poverty or disagreements.\n\nTo clear away the table, denotes that pleasure will soon assume\nthe form of trouble and indifference.\n\nTo eat from a table without a cloth, foretells that you will be possessed\nof an independent disposition, and the prosperity or conduct of others\nwill give you no concern.\n\nTo see a table walking or moving in some mysterious way,\nforetells that dissatisfaction will soon enter your life,\nand you will seek relief in change.\n\nTo dream of a soiled cloth on a table, denotes disobedience from servants\nor children, and quarreling will invariably follow pleasure.\n\nTo see a broken table, is ominous of decaying fortune.\n\nTo see one standing or sitting on a table, foretells that to obtain\ntheir desires they will be guilty of indiscretions.\n\nTo see or hear table-rapping or writing, denotes that you will undergo change\nof feelings towards your friends, and your fortune will be threatened.\nA loss from the depreciation of relatives or friends is indicated.", "locator": "Heading 1969; source lines 21754–21784", "lineStart": 21754, "lineEnd": 21784, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of setting a table preparatory to a meal, foretells happy unions\nand prosperous circumstances.\n\nTo see empty tables, signifies poverty or disagreements.\n\nTo clear away the table, denotes that pleasure will soon assume\nthe form of trouble and indifference.\n\nTo eat from a table without a cloth, foretells that you will be possessed\nof an independent disposition, and the prosperity or conduct of others\nwill give you no concern.\n\nTo see a table walking or moving in some mysterious way,\nforetells that dissatisfaction will soon enter your life,\nand you will seek relief in change.\n\nTo dream of a soiled cloth on a table, denotes disobedience from servants\nor children, and quarreling will invariably follow pleasure.\n\nTo see a broken table, is ominous of decaying fortune.\n\nTo see one standing or sitting on a table, foretells that to obtain\ntheir desires they will be guilty of indiscretions.\n\nTo see or hear table-rapping or writing, denotes that you will undergo change\nof feelings towards your friends, and your fortune will be threatened.\nA loss from the depreciation of relatives or friends is indicated." }, { "id": "cielo-0418", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Table", "text": "To sit at a table denotes abundance.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 418; source lines 4873–4876", "lineStart": 4873, "lineEnd": 4876, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To sit at a table denotes abundance." }, { "id": "luck-0230", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Table", "text": "(Sitting at) A sign of comfort and prosperity, a happy\nmarriage.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 230; source lines 4118–4121", "lineStart": 4118, "lineEnd": 4121, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(Sitting at) A sign of comfort and prosperity, a happy\nmarriage." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "table-cloth", "title": "Table-Cloth", "type": "dreams", "category": "Other symbols", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “To dream of a dirty table-cloth foretells that you will have plenty to eat.”", "aliases": [ "table-cloth" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about table-cloth stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0776", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Table-Cloth", "text": "To dream of a dirty table-cloth foretells that you will\nhave plenty to eat. 51.", "locator": "Heading 776; source line 4805", "lineStart": 4805, "lineEnd": 4808, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a dirty table-cloth foretells that you will\nhave plenty to eat." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "tablet", "title": "Tablet", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “A dream forecasting remarkable events (Gypsy).”", "aliases": [ "tablet" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about tablet stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "tacks", "title": "Tacks", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of tacks, means to you many vacations and quarrels.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "tacks", "tack" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about tacks stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1966", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Tacks", "text": "To dream of tacks, means to you many vacations and quarrels.\n\nFor a woman to drive one, foretells she will master unpleasant rivalry.\n\nIf she mashes her finger while driving it, she will be distressed\nover unpleasant tasks", "locator": "Heading 1970; source lines 21784–21793", "lineStart": 21784, "lineEnd": 21793, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of tacks, means to you many vacations and quarrels.\n\nFor a woman to drive one, foretells she will master unpleasant rivalry.\n\nIf she mashes her finger while driving it, she will be distressed\nover unpleasant tasks" }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12125", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Tack", "heading": "Tack", "text": "A dream of quarrels and enmity (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12125, "lineEnd": 12126, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 257; NLM OCR lines 12125–12126", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12125, "lineEnd": 12126, "printedPage": 257, "printedPageEnd": 257 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Tack. — A dream of quarrels and enmity (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Tack" }, "displayText": "A dream of quarrels and enmity (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "tadpole", "title": "Tadpole", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of tadpoles, foretells uncertain speculation will bring cause for uneasiness in business.”", "aliases": [ "tadpole" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about tadpole stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1967", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Tadpole", "text": "To dream of tadpoles, foretells uncertain speculation will bring cause\nfor uneasiness in business. For a young woman to see them in clear water,\nforetells she will form a relation with a wealthy but immoral man.", "locator": "Heading 1971; source lines 21793–21799", "lineStart": 21793, "lineEnd": 21799, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of tadpoles, foretells uncertain speculation will bring cause\nfor uneasiness in business. For a young woman to see them in clear water,\nforetells she will form a relation with a wealthy but immoral man." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "tail", "title": "Tail", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing only the tail of a beast, unusual annoyance is indicated where pleasures seemed assured.”", "aliases": [ "tail" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about tail stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1968", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Tail", "text": "To dream of seeing only the tail of a beast, unusual annoyance is indicated\nwhere pleasures seemed assured.\n\nTo cut off the tail of an animal, denotes that you will suffer misfortune\nby your own carelessness.\n\nTo dream that you have the tail of a beast grown on you,\ndenotes that your evil ways will cause you untold distress,\nand strange events will cause you perplexity.", "locator": "Heading 1972; source lines 21799–21811", "lineStart": 21799, "lineEnd": 21811, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing only the tail of a beast, unusual annoyance is indicated\nwhere pleasures seemed assured.\n\nTo cut off the tail of an animal, denotes that you will suffer misfortune\nby your own carelessness.\n\nTo dream that you have the tail of a beast grown on you,\ndenotes that your evil ways will cause you untold distress,\nand strange events will cause you perplexity." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "tailor", "title": "Tailor", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a tailor, denotes that worries will arise on account of some journey to be made.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "tailor" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about tailor stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1969", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Tailor", "text": "To dream of a tailor, denotes that worries will arise on account\nof some journey to be made.\n\nTo have a misunderstanding with one, shows that you will be disappointed\nin the outcome of some scheme.\n\nFor one to take your measure, denotes that you will have\nquarrels and disagreements.", "locator": "Heading 1973; source lines 21811–21822", "lineStart": 21811, "lineEnd": 21822, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a tailor, denotes that worries will arise on account\nof some journey to be made.\n\nTo have a misunderstanding with one, shows that you will be disappointed\nin the outcome of some scheme.\n\nFor one to take your measure, denotes that you will have\nquarrels and disagreements." }, { "id": "fontaine-0777", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Tailor", "text": "If a girl dreams that she has a tailor for her beau, and is\npleased with him, it is a sign that she will marry a softly sort of\na fellow, who will allow her to be both master and mistress after\nmarriage. Here is a popular rhyme in illustration: 19, 70.\n\n The maid who dreams a tailor she would wed,\n Will marry one who’ll be a log in bed;\n And she’ll be master, too, of all his riches,\n And, in the vulgar parlance,  “wear the breeches!”", "locator": "Heading 777; source line 4808", "lineStart": 4808, "lineEnd": 4818, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If a girl dreams that she has a tailor for her beau, and is\npleased with him, it is a sign that she will marry a softly sort of\na fellow, who will allow her to be both master and mistress after\nmarriage. Here is a popular rhyme in illustration:\n\nThe maid who dreams a tailor she would wed,\nWill marry one who’ll be a log in bed;\nAnd she’ll be master, too, of all his riches,\nAnd, in the vulgar parlance,  “wear the breeches!”" }, { "id": "cielo-0419", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Tailor", "text": "Is a portent of unfaithfulness.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 419; source lines 4876–4878", "lineStart": 4876, "lineEnd": 4878, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Is a portent of unfaithfulness." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "talisman", "title": "Talisman", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you wear a talisman, implies you will have pleasant companions and enjoy favors from the rich.”", "aliases": [ "talisman" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about talisman stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1970", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Talisman", "text": "To dream that you wear a talisman, implies you will have\npleasant companions and enjoy favors from the rich.\nFor a young woman to dream her lover gives her one, denotes she\nwill obtain her wishes concerning marriage.", "locator": "Heading 1974; source lines 21822–21829", "lineStart": 21822, "lineEnd": 21829, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you wear a talisman, implies you will have\npleasant companions and enjoy favors from the rich.\nFor a young woman to dream her lover gives her one, denotes she\nwill obtain her wishes concerning marriage." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "talking", "title": "Talking", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of talking, denotes that you will soon hear of the sickness of relatives, and there will be…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "talking" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about talking stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1971", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Talking", "text": "To dream of talking, denotes that you will soon hear of the sickness\nof relatives, and there will be worries in your affairs.\n\nTo hear others talking loudly, foretells that you will be accused\nof interfering in the affairs of others. To think they are talking\nabout you, denotes that you are menaced with illness and disfavor.", "locator": "Heading 1975; source lines 21829–21838", "lineStart": 21829, "lineEnd": 21838, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of talking, denotes that you will soon hear of the sickness\nof relatives, and there will be worries in your affairs.\n\nTo hear others talking loudly, foretells that you will be accused\nof interfering in the affairs of others. To think they are talking\nabout you, denotes that you are menaced with illness and disfavor." }, { "id": "noe-0502", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Talking", "text": "To dream that you are talking loudly of some matter or person\nwith whom you are not on the most friendly terms, signifies that troubles\nare about to visit you. To dream that some person is talking about you, is\nan indication that you will be gladdened by having a proposal made to you\nthat will be to your interest to agree to.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 510; source lines 1859–1863", "lineStart": 1859, "lineEnd": 1863, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are talking loudly of some matter or person\nwith whom you are not on the most friendly terms, signifies that troubles\nare about to visit you. To dream that some person is talking about you, is\nan indication that you will be gladdened by having a proposal made to you\nthat will be to your interest to agree to." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "talking-while-muted", "title": "Talking while muted", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "tagline": "You are speaking, but your participation is not reaching the room.", "summary": "Talking while muted can separate effort from being heard. Notice whether someone helped you join in, overlooked you, or kept speaking over the gap.", "aliases": [ "talking while muted" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "You may remember giving a careful answer only to discover that none of it reached the meeting. That can offer a concrete way to describe wasted effort, missing feedback, or uncertainty about your place in a group. But the dream can also arise from the everyday habit of forgetting a mute button. The turning point matters: being gently invited to repeat yourself creates a different experience from losing your opportunity altogether.", "traditional": "This is a modern version of interrupted communication. The archive has no established interpretation for a mute button or a video meeting.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "Someone noticed and helped", "reflection": "The correction may have restored participation rather than exposed failure. How did their tone affect you?" }, { "title": "Your chance to speak passed", "reflection": "Consider what made that contribution important. Was there another route to share it?" }, { "title": "You stayed muted deliberately", "reflection": "Silence may have become a choice. Notice whether it protected your attention, your privacy, or something you were not ready to say." } ], "prompts": [ "What was I trying to contribute?", "Did I want attention, understanding, or a practical response?", "What happened when I finally became audible?" ], "related": [ "a-microphone-that-will-not-mute", "a-frozen-video-meeting" ], "sources": [], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection draft, written for this specific modern scene. Suggested connections are exploratory, not established dream meanings. Individual editorial review remains pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "tall", "title": "Tall", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “If a young lady dreams that her beau is a very tall man, it is a sign that her future husband will be a “wee bit of a fellow,” and not of…”", "aliases": [ "tall" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about tall stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0778", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Tall", "text": "If a young lady dreams that her beau is a very tall man, it is a\nsign that her future husband will be a  “wee bit of a fellow,” and not\nof much account. 4.", "locator": "Heading 778; source line 4818", "lineStart": 4818, "lineEnd": 4822, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If a young lady dreams that her beau is a very tall man, it is a\nsign that her future husband will be a  “wee bit of a fellow,” and not\nof much account." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "tallow", "title": "Tallow", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of tallow, forebodes that your possessions of love and wealth will quickly vanish.”", "aliases": [ "tallow" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about tallow stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1972", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Tallow", "text": "To dream of tallow, forebodes that your possessions of love and wealth\nwill quickly vanish.", "locator": "Heading 1976; source lines 21838–21843", "lineStart": 21838, "lineEnd": 21843, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of tallow, forebodes that your possessions of love and wealth\nwill quickly vanish." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "tamarinds", "title": "Tamarinds", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “To dream of tamarinds shows much vexation and uneasiness through a woman, bad success in trade, a rainy…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "tamarinds" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about tamarinds stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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In love, it\ndenotes disappointment.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 520; source lines 1887–1890", "lineStart": 1887, "lineEnd": 1890, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of tamarinds denotes\nvexation and uneasiness through a woman, bad success in trade, a rainy\nseason and news from beyond the sea that is disagreeable. In love, it\ndenotes disappointment." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12127", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Tamarinds", "heading": "Tamarinds", "text": "Rain or news and trouble through a woman (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12127, "lineEnd": 12129, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 257; NLM OCR lines 12127–12129", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12127, "lineEnd": 12129, "printedPage": 257, "printedPageEnd": 257 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Tamarinds. — Rain or news and trouble through a woman \n(Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Tamarinds" }, "displayText": "Rain or news and trouble through a woman (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "tambourine", "title": "Tambourine", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a tambourine, signifies you will have enjoyment in some unusual event which will soon take…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "tambourine" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about tambourine stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1974", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Tank", "text": "To dream of a tank, foretells you will be prosperous and satisfied beyond\nyour expectations. To see a leaking tank, denotes loss in your affairs.", "locator": "Heading 1978; source lines 21848–21853", "lineStart": 21848, "lineEnd": 21853, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a tank, foretells you will be prosperous and satisfied beyond\nyour expectations. To see a leaking tank, denotes loss in your affairs." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1975", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Tannery", "text": "To dream of a tannery, denotes contagion and other illness.\nLoss in trade is portended.\n\nTo dream that you are a tanner, denotes that you will have to engage in work\nwhich is not to your taste, but there will be others dependent upon you.\n\nTo buy leather from a tannery, foretells that you will be successful\nin your undertakings, but will not make many friends.", "locator": "Heading 1979; source lines 21853–21864", "lineStart": 21853, "lineEnd": 21864, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a tannery, denotes contagion and other illness.\nLoss in trade is portended.\n\nTo dream that you are a tanner, denotes that you will have to engage in work\nwhich is not to your taste, but there will be others dependent upon you.\n\nTo buy leather from a tannery, foretells that you will be successful\nin your undertakings, but will not make many friends." }, { "id": "fontaine-0780", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Tannery", "text": "To dream of being in a tannery is a sign of health and riches:\nif a girl dreams that her beau is a tanner, she will probably get a\ngood husband, and one who is well off, and will live to a good old age,\nfor your tanners are usually tough customers. 52, 7.", "locator": "Heading 780; source line 4827", "lineStart": 4827, "lineEnd": 4832, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being in a tannery is a sign of health and riches:\nif a girl dreams that her beau is a tanner, she will probably get a\ngood husband, and one who is well off, and will live to a good old age,\nfor your tanners are usually tough customers." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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For reflection, the most useful question may be what happens when something normally taken for granted suddenly needs verification or collective repair.", "traditional": "Historical water readings often assign moral qualities to clear or dirty water. This draft does not equate contamination with personal impurity; it treats a public resource as a practical and shared condition.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "You learn about the warning after filling a glass", "reflection": "What was difficult about receiving important information late?" }, { "title": "A neighbor shares a safe supply", "reflection": "How did reciprocity affect the feeling of vulnerability?" }, { "title": "Instructions contradict one another", "reflection": "What made a source of guidance trustworthy enough to act on?" } ], "prompts": [ "What information did you need before using the water?", "Who had alternatives available?", "Was the central feeling disgust, uncertainty, anger, or dependence?" ], "related": [ "water", "thirst", "dirt" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia model-assisted editorial draft. Reflection questions and scenario readings are optional, individually written suggestions, not empirically validated symbol meanings. Source scope is stated with each citation. Historical comparisons identify topics, not inherited interpretations. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1976", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Tape", "text": "To dream of tape, denotes your work will be wearisome and unprofitable.\nFor a woman to buy it, foretells she will find misfortune laying\noppression upon her.", "locator": "Heading 1980; source lines 21864–21870", "lineStart": 21864, "lineEnd": 21870, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of tape, denotes your work will be wearisome and unprofitable.\nFor a woman to buy it, foretells she will find misfortune laying\noppression upon her." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "tapestry", "title": "Tapestry", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing rich tapestry, foretells that luxurious living will be to your liking, and if the tapestries are not worn or ragged, you…”", "aliases": [ "tapestry" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about tapestry stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "tapeworm", "title": "Tapeworm", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream you see a tapeworm, or have one, denotes disagreeable prospects for health or for pleasure.”", "aliases": [ "tapeworm" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about tapeworm stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1978", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Tapeworm", "text": "To dream you see a tapeworm, or have one, denotes disagreeable\nprospects for health or for pleasure.", "locator": "Heading 1982; source lines 21879–21884", "lineStart": 21879, "lineEnd": 21884, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see a tapeworm, or have one, denotes disagreeable\nprospects for health or for pleasure." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "tar", "title": "Tar", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “If you see tar in dreams, it warns you against pitfalls and designs of treacherous enemies.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "tar" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about tar stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1979", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Tar", "text": "If you see tar in dreams, it warns you against pitfalls and designs\nof treacherous enemies.\n\nTo have tar on your hands or clothing, denotes sickness and grief.", "locator": "Heading 1983; source lines 21884–21891", "lineStart": 21884, "lineEnd": 21891, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you see tar in dreams, it warns you against pitfalls and designs\nof treacherous enemies.\n\nTo have tar on your hands or clothing, denotes sickness and grief." }, { "id": "fontaine-0781", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Tar", "text": "To dream of tar is a sign you will travel by water: if you dream\nyou get it on your hands or clothes, it shows that you will have\ndifficulties; and to imagine you accidentally seat yourself on tar, and\nget stuck to the seat, foretells that you will be detained against your\nwill in some foreign country. 12, 6, 72.", "locator": "Heading 781; source line 4832", "lineStart": 4832, "lineEnd": 4838, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of tar is a sign you will travel by water: if you dream\nyou get it on your hands or clothes, it shows that you will have\ndifficulties; and to imagine you accidentally seat yourself on tar, and\nget stuck to the seat, foretells that you will be detained against your\nwill in some foreign country." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12133", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Tar", "heading": "Tar", "text": "Travels by water; on the hands, difficulty (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12133, "lineEnd": 12134, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 257; NLM OCR lines 12133–12134", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12133, "lineEnd": 12134, "printedPage": 257, "printedPageEnd": 257 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Tar. — Travels by water; on the hands, difficulty (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Tar" }, "displayText": "Travels by water; on the hands, difficulty (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "tarantula", "title": "Tarantula", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see a tarantula in your dream, signifies enemies are about to overwhelm you with loss.”", "aliases": [ "tarantula" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about tarantula stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1980", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Tarantula", "text": "To see a tarantula in your dream, signifies enemies are about to overwhelm you\nwith loss. To kill one, denotes you will be successful after much ill-luck.", "locator": "Heading 1984; source lines 21891–21896", "lineStart": 21891, "lineEnd": 21896, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a tarantula in your dream, signifies enemies are about to overwhelm you\nwith loss. To kill one, denotes you will be successful after much ill-luck." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "target", "title": "Target", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a target, foretells you will have some affair demanding your attention from other more pleasant ones.”", "aliases": [ "target" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about target stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1981", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Target", "text": "To dream of a target, foretells you will have some affair\ndemanding your attention from other more pleasant ones.\nFor a young woman to think she is a target, denotes her reputation\nis in danger through the envy of friendly associates.", "locator": "Heading 1985; source lines 21896–21903", "lineStart": 21896, "lineEnd": 21903, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a target, foretells you will have some affair\ndemanding your attention from other more pleasant ones.\nFor a young woman to think she is a target, denotes her reputation\nis in danger through the envy of friendly associates." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "tarts", "title": "Tarts", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “To dream one makes tarts, signifies joy and delight.”", "aliases": [ "tarts" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about tarts stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "noe-0522", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Tarts", "text": "To dream\none makes tarts, signifies joy and delight.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 530; source lines 1922–1923", "lineStart": 1922, "lineEnd": 1923, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream\none makes tarts, signifies joy and delight." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "tassels", "title": "Tassels", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see tassels in a dream, denotes you will reach the height of your desires and ambition.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "tassels" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about tassels stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1982", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Tassels", "text": "To see tassels in a dream, denotes you will reach the height\nof your desires and ambition. 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For a young woman to lose them,\ndenotes she will undergo some unpleasant experience." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12135", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Tassels", "heading": "Tassels", "text": "A dream denoting delight (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12135, "lineEnd": 12136, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 257; NLM OCR lines 12135–12136", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12135, "lineEnd": 12136, "printedPage": 257, "printedPageEnd": 257 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Tassels. — A dream denoting delight (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Tassels" }, "displayText": "A dream denoting delight (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "tattoo", "title": "Tattoo", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "A chosen mark can keep its place while its meaning changes.", "summary": "Tattoo dreams can explore chosen identity, commitment and who gets to define a visible mark. Consent and changing meaning shape the reading.", "aliases": [ "tattoo", "tattoos", "getting a tattoo", "tattooing" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A tattoo in a dream can make an identity, commitment or association visible. The mark may feel deliberately chosen, unexpectedly imposed or so familiar that you hardly notice it. This can picture how a role, relationship or personal decision becomes part of the way others recognize you. The design matters through your own connection with it; there is no fixed meaning for a flower, name or pattern merely because it appears as body art.\n\nChoosing a design can express wanting to give a lasting form to something you value. A new role, a creative intention or a relationship to a place may offer a waking parallel. Feeling sure about the mark differs from choosing under pressure to belong. An unfinished design can leave the decision open, making room to revise an account rather than prove that you already know its final form.\n\nA familiar tattoo whose meaning has changed can picture continuity without sameness. You may still value the period or person connected with a choice while no longer wanting it to explain you completely. This can fit revisiting an old commitment after circumstances have altered. The mark remaining visible does not require the original interpretation to remain unchanged. Wanting to cover or adapt it can represent making the account usable now rather than rejecting the whole past.\n\nA tattoo appearing without permission gives authorship a different shape. You may recognize an expectation or label attached to you before you had a say in it. A group description, public role or family story may feel similarly difficult to correct. The dream does not establish that someone is intentionally defining you while awake. Your ability to speak, alter the mark or choose its audience can make a response visible within the scene.\n\nShowing a design to someone who misunderstands it can picture a gap between intended meaning and received meaning. Making a mark for another person places responsibility for that translation in your hands. Their wishes matter more than what you think would represent them well. A recent tattoo, photograph or conversation may also supply the image directly. These original reflections concern choice, visibility and interpretation; the mark does not reveal character, health, morality or a future outcome.", "traditional": "Miller’s attached Tattoo passage gives different absence, jealousy and estrangement forecasts for a tattooed body, seeing tattoos on others and being a tattooist. These are his period dictionary claims, preserved with attribution. The original reflections discuss authorship and changing meaning without adopting the forecasts or their judgments about body art.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Giving a choice visible form", "reflection": "A tattoo can picture a decision or association made recognizable. The feeling changes when the design is freely chosen, tentative or selected to meet somebody else’s expectation." }, { "title": "Continuity with a changed meaning", "reflection": "A familiar mark can remain part of your account while its meaning changes. Updating that relationship need not require treating the original choice as worthless." }, { "title": "Who defines the mark", "reflection": "Consent and interpretation bring authorship into view. Intended meaning may differ from what others see, leaving you to decide how much explanation or revision you want." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You choose a design that no longer fits its original meaning", "reflection": "A design that has changed meaning can picture a commitment whose place in your life needs a new account. You may value its history without wanting the old interpretation to define the present. Adaptation differs from erasing everything." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A tattoo appears without your permission", "reflection": "An unchosen mark can picture a role or label that seems attached before you have a say. Your response matters: challenging it, adapting it or deciding who sees it creates different possibilities. The dream does not prove a waking intention." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A familiar mark disappears from your reflection", "reflection": "A missing familiar tattoo can picture relief from a visible account or uncertainty about continuity. A new setting may make either feeling plausible. What you miss or welcome about the absence distinguishes the reading." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You show a meaningful design to someone who misunderstands it", "reflection": "A misunderstood design can resemble trying to communicate a choice whose meaning others read differently. Explanation may help or feel like another demand. The gap is between intended and received meaning, not necessarily between truth and deceit." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You make a mark for another person", "reflection": "Making another person’s mark can picture responsibility for representing somebody else. A shared project or public description may fit. Listening to what they want changes the task from imposing your account to helping express theirs." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "An unfinished design leaves room for a later choice", "reflection": "An unfinished design can picture leaving a decision open while still beginning to give it form. A developing role or project may offer a parallel. The open area can feel useful rather than simply incomplete." } ], "prompts": [ "What did the design mean to me before anyone else interpreted it?", "Who chose the mark, and what room did I have to alter its meaning or visibility?", "Which part of an earlier commitment still belonged in my current account?" ], "related": [ "piercing", "skin", "body-swap", "makeup" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1983" ], "scope": "Preserves this author’s attached period dream-book account; the entry’s context compares attributed beliefs rather than adopting forecasts. Exact supplied records: miller-1983 — Tattoo (Heading 1987; source lines 21909–21920). Historical comparison only, not evidence for the original reflective reading or an actual outcome." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1983", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Tattoo", "text": "To see your body appearing tattooed, foretells that some difficulty\nwill cause you to make a long and tedious absence from your home.\n\nTo see tattooes on others, foretells that strange loves will make\nyou an object of jealousy.\n\nTo dream you are a tattooist, is a sign that you will estrange yourself\nfrom friends because of your fancy for some strange experience.", "locator": "Heading 1987; source lines 21909–21920", "lineStart": 21909, "lineEnd": 21920, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see your body appearing tattooed, foretells that some difficulty\nwill cause you to make a long and tedious absence from your home.\n\nTo see tattooes on others, foretells that strange loves will make\nyou an object of jealousy.\n\nTo dream you are a tattooist, is a sign that you will estrange yourself\nfrom friends because of your fancy for some strange experience." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "taxes", "title": "Taxes", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you pay your taxes, foretells you will succeed in destroying evil influences rising around you.”", "aliases": [ "taxes" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about taxes stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1984", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Taxes", "text": "To dream that you pay your taxes, foretells you will\nsucceed in destroying evil influences rising around you.\nIf others pay them, you will be forced to ask aid of friends.\nIf you are unable to pay them, you will be unfortunate in\nexperiments you are making.", "locator": "Heading 1988; source lines 21920–21928", "lineStart": 21920, "lineEnd": 21928, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you pay your taxes, foretells you will\nsucceed in destroying evil influences rising around you.\nIf others pay them, you will be forced to ask aid of friends.\nIf you are unable to pay them, you will be unfortunate in\nexperiments you are making." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "tea", "title": "Tea", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "aliases": [ "tea" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "summary": "Tea dreams may invite reflection on waiting, preference, serving and how you choose to spend a shared or private interval.", "tagline": "Time to steep, choose and take part.", "psychological": "Tea can make time and attention tangible in a dream. The leaves may be steeping, a cup may be waiting for you or someone may insist on a particular way of serving it. Start with your own experience of tea. It could be a frequent drink, an occasional invitation, something you do not enjoy or a detail from a remembered household; none of these associations applies to everyone.\n\nIf the scene involves waiting for tea to be ready, consider what happens during that interval. You might enjoy the preparation, keep checking it or leave before you can taste it. A possible waking comparison is giving a conversation, decision or piece of work enough time to develop. Waiting can also be inconvenient or unnecessary in the dream. The point is to describe your response, not conclude that tea instructs you to be patient.\n\nServing can focus attention on how preferences are expressed. Someone may ask how you take your tea, prepare it without consulting you or offer several unfamiliar choices. This could connect with being considered as an individual, learning what someone else likes or feeling expected to accept a routine. For example, a family visit may include a small custom you value while also leaving room to choose differently. Declining a cup need not carry a judgment about the host.\n\nA gathering around tea can create an interval with its own expectations: conversation, a formal welcome or simply sitting together. Notice who pours and who gets to take part. If you keep refilling everyone else's cups, the dream might bring your role as a host into view. If no one speaks, silence might feel companionable or uncomfortable; the tea does not decide which reading fits.\n\nSmall sensory details can change the experience. A familiar blend tasting different might highlight an expectation that no longer fits, while finding the tea you chose could be an ordinary pleasure. Waking memories and emotions can enter dreams, so a recent drink, visit or remembered method of brewing remains a reasonable possibility. Record the sequence from preparation to participation. Your choice of pace, taste and company is more informative than assigning the drink a universal promise of calm, health or harmony.", "traditional": "The supplied tea passages conflict. Fontaine gives favorable domestic and relationship forecasts, while Miller varies his claims with brewing, company, dregs, spills and an empty chest. Cielo and Everybody’s Book of Luck give trouble or health forecasts. Craig presents a financial claim under her own historical attribution. These are period accounts, not assurances about relationships, money, health or the effect of drinking tea.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "An interval with a pace", "reflection": "Steeping, waiting and drinking mark different stages of the dream. Consider what you did with the interval and whether the pace felt chosen, imposed or simply familiar." }, { "title": "Preferences made visible", "reflection": "How the tea is chosen and prepared may let you explore whether a small preference is heard. Your own taste matters more than a supposedly universal meaning attached to a blend or serving custom." }, { "title": "Hosting and participating", "reflection": "Pouring for others can be enjoyable or can keep you outside the gathering. Examine the actual arrangement, including whether you wanted to serve, join the conversation or leave." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "You leave before the tea has steeped", "reflection": "You watch the pot for a while, then decide to go before drinking anything. This might bring a question about waiting versus moving on into focus. Compare the particular reason you left with a current decision; the scene does not automatically mean you should become more patient." }, { "title": "Someone asks exactly how you like it", "reflection": "A host listens to your preference and changes the preparation accordingly. The scene could draw attention to being considered in a small, concrete way. Notice whether accepting that care feels easy, unfamiliar or unnecessary, without using the dream to judge the real host’s intentions." }, { "title": "You keep pouring and miss the conversation", "reflection": "Every cup needs refilling just as someone begins to speak to you. This might help you examine the balance between hosting and participating. Your next choice matters: asking someone else to pour, pausing the task or continuing because you enjoy it leads to different reflections." }, { "title": "The familiar blend tastes different", "reflection": "You expect a remembered flavor, but the tea does not match it. This could connect with a familiar custom that feels changed in a new setting. Describe the difference and your response; a disappointing taste does not forecast trouble, and enjoying the change is equally possible." }, { "title": "Tea is offered during a difficult conversation", "reflection": "You are discussing something important when a cup is placed between you. The gesture may create a welcome pause, interrupt your point or belong to an ordinary routine. Explore its effect on the conversation rather than assuming that a warm drink resolves tension." }, { "title": "You choose a quiet cup on your own", "reflection": "A busy gathering continues nearby, but you take your tea to a separate seat. This might express a chosen interval, a wish to observe or enjoyment of the drink itself. Record what you could hear and whether you wanted to rejoin; solitude need not imply loneliness." } ], "prompts": [ "How did the pace of making or drinking tea affect the scene?", "What preferences were expressed, and how were they received?", "Which personal visit, custom or interval does the experience bring to mind?" ], "related": [ "teacups", "coffee", "kitchen", "restaurant" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1985" ], "scope": "Miller assigns different remorse, social, relationship, household and visitor forecasts to brewing, company, dregs, spilling, an empty tea chest and wanting tea. Specific supplied passages: Tea — miller-1985 (Heading 1989; source lines 21928–21947). Historical comparison only; these attributed period beliefs do not establish outcomes, diagnoses or a universal symbol meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0783" ], "scope": "Fontaine gives thrift, domestic and relationship forecasts for drinking tea or a tea party, including a gendered assurance about a lover. Specific supplied passages: Tea — fontaine-0783 (Heading 783; source line 4840). Historical comparison only; these attributed period beliefs do not establish outcomes, diagnoses or a universal symbol meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0420" ], "scope": "Cielo associates drinking tea with confusion and trouble. Specific supplied passages: Tea — cielo-0420 (Dream section, heading 420; source lines 4878–4880). Historical comparison only; these attributed period beliefs do not establish outcomes, diagnoses or a universal symbol meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0231" ], "scope": "Everybody’s Book of Luck assigns trouble, sleeplessness and health forecasts to tea. Specific supplied passages: Tea — luck-0231 (Dream section, heading 231; source lines 4121–4123). Historical comparison only; these attributed period beliefs do not establish outcomes, diagnoses or a universal symbol meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L12137" ], "scope": "Craig gives a financial forecast for tea under her own historical ethnic attribution; this is not evidence of community consensus. Specific supplied passages: Tea — craig-1918:L12137 (Printed p. 257; NLM OCR lines 12137–12138). Historical comparison only; these attributed period beliefs do not establish outcomes, diagnoses or a universal symbol meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "kind": "editorial", "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1985", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Tea", "text": "To dream that you are brewing tea, foretells that you will be guilty\nof indiscreet actions, and will feel deeply remorseful.\n\nTo see your friends drinking tea, and you with them, denotes that social\npleasures will pall on you, and you will seek to change your feelings\nby serving others in their sorrows.\n\nTo see dregs in your tea, warns you of trouble in love,\nand affairs of a social nature.\n\nTo spill tea, is a sign of domestic confusion and grief.\n\nTo find your tea chest empty, unfolds much disagreeable gossip and news.\n\nTo dream that you are thirsty for tea, denotes that you will be surprised\nwith uninvited guests.", "locator": "Heading 1989; source lines 21928–21947", "lineStart": 21928, "lineEnd": 21947, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are brewing tea, foretells that you will be guilty\nof indiscreet actions, and will feel deeply remorseful.\n\nTo see your friends drinking tea, and you with them, denotes that social\npleasures will pall on you, and you will seek to change your feelings\nby serving others in their sorrows.\n\nTo see dregs in your tea, warns you of trouble in love,\nand affairs of a social nature.\n\nTo spill tea, is a sign of domestic confusion and grief.\n\nTo find your tea chest empty, unfolds much disagreeable gossip and news.\n\nTo dream that you are thirsty for tea, denotes that you will be surprised\nwith uninvited guests." }, { "id": "fontaine-0783", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Tea", "text": "To dream of drinking tea, or being present at a tea-party, is a\nsign of thrift and domestic happiness: a girl who dreams of meeting her\nlover at such a party, or of drinking tea with him, may be sure that\nhe’s all right, and she can close her matrimonial bargain with him at\nonce without any risk. 61, 19.", "locator": "Heading 783; source line 4840", "lineStart": 4840, "lineEnd": 4846, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of drinking tea, or being present at a tea-party, is a\nsign of thrift and domestic happiness: a girl who dreams of meeting her\nlover at such a party, or of drinking tea with him, may be sure that\nhe’s all right, and she can close her matrimonial bargain with him at\nonce without any risk." }, { "id": "cielo-0420", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Tea", "text": "To drink tea means beware of confusion and trouble.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 420; source lines 4878–4880", "lineStart": 4878, "lineEnd": 4880, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To drink tea means beware of confusion and trouble." }, { "id": "luck-0231", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Tea", "text": "Trouble that will cause sleeplessness and bad health.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 231; source lines 4121–4123", "lineStart": 4121, "lineEnd": 4123, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Trouble that will cause sleeplessness and bad health." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12137", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Tea", "heading": "Tea", "text": "A dream denoting encumbered finances (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12137, "lineEnd": 12138, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 257; NLM OCR lines 12137–12138", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12137, "lineEnd": 12138, "printedPage": 257, "printedPageEnd": 257 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Tea. — A dream denoting encumbered finances (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Tea" }, "displayText": "A dream denoting encumbered finances (Gypsy)." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "teacher", "title": "Teacher", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "The lesson and the way it is taught can carry different meanings.", "summary": "A teacher may picture learning, assessment, remembered authority, or the wish for an explanation that leaves you room to understand.", "aliases": [ "teacher", "teachers", "my old teacher", "professor", "lecturer", "tutor", "instructor", "school teacher in a dream", "being a teacher" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A teacher can place you in a relationship with knowledge and authority. In a dream, someone explains, grades, demonstrates, or waits for an answer, making the conditions of learning visible. A patient explanation may picture wanting an unfamiliar task to become approachable. A test without context may instead make the scene about being assessed before you have had a fair chance to prepare. The subject is how understanding becomes possible, not a fixed judgment about intelligence.\n\nA real former teacher arrives with an individual history. You may remember encouragement, embarrassment, a favored subject, or the expectation that you should already know. A current problem staged in that classroom can bring an earlier response beside a present situation. For example, learning a new work process may feel like being called on before the lesson is finished. The dreamed teacher does not show what the actual person now thinks of you.\n\nAn invented teacher may make a role more important than a face. They can represent someone who has information you need, a standard you do not understand, or a way of explaining you wish were available. That is an original comparison, not a universal code. The subject taught also matters: practicing a skill differs from repeating a statement whose meaning remains unclear. A scene can value understanding over giving the answer that earns approval.\n\nBeing the teacher reverses the responsibility. You may enjoy helping someone grasp an idea, or feel expected to explain a subject you have barely learned yourself. This could fit mentoring, parenting, training, or making your work understandable to another person. Students who do not listen may picture a mismatch in timing or purpose, rather than prove that your explanation is inadequate. A learner asking a useful question can turn performance into collaboration.\n\nThe relationship can also become more equal. You disagree respectfully, explain a detail the teacher missed, or discover that both of you need to investigate. This may picture authority that supports inquiry rather than ending it. Recent study, tutorials, conversations, and old school memories can supply direct material. The lesson's clarity, the pressure to perform, and the experience of being understood can lead to different readings of the same classroom.", "traditional": "Miller's 1901 School Teacher account forecasts quiet learning for seeing a teacher and success for being one; his School account connects teaching with literary ambition and practical constraints. Noe's 1885 School passage and Craig's 1918 School account associate difficulty with lessons or learning with an undertaking not understood. These are attributed period interpretations, not evidence about your aptitude or the truth of dreamed instruction.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Enough explanation to learn", "reflection": "A teacher may make unfamiliar material approachable or assume knowledge too soon. The scene can picture wanting conditions that allow understanding rather than merely a correct answer." }, { "title": "A remembered pattern of authority", "reflection": "A former teacher can bring a particular history into a current setting. That individual association may matter more than the general educational role." }, { "title": "Sharing knowledge without performing certainty", "reflection": "Being the teacher may expose responsibility for explaining. Questions and collaboration can make the task different from proving you know everything." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "A former teacher gives you a new task", "reflection": "An earlier relationship appears around a present demand. The scene may join remembered expectations to current learning, while the person's dreamed response remains separate from their actual views." }, { "title": "A patient explanation makes the subject understandable", "reflection": "The conditions of learning change. This may picture wanting enough context and time rather than needing to appear capable before you have been shown how something works." }, { "title": "A test arrives before the lesson", "reflection": "Assessment takes precedence over preparation. The scene may make fairness and access to information central, instead of deciding that a difficult answer measures your worth." }, { "title": "You teach something you are still learning", "reflection": "Others rely on an explanation before you feel ready. This may resemble a mentoring or work role that would become more manageable with shared information and permission to name uncertainty." }, { "title": "A learner's question improves your explanation", "reflection": "The exchange becomes collaborative rather than one directional. The scene may picture knowledge becoming useful through context, not simply through holding an authoritative position." }, { "title": "You and the teacher disagree without ending the lesson", "reflection": "Different views remain open to discussion. This may explore inquiry that preserves connection and choice rather than requiring either submission or rejection of the whole relationship." } ], "prompts": [ "Was the teacher a particular person, and what history did they bring?", "What was being taught or assessed, and were the conditions fair?", "Did the encounter allow questions, disagreement, and time to understand?" ], "related": [ "school-teacher", "school-or-exam", "school", "being-judged" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1783", "miller-1782" ], "scope": "Historical comparison only: School Teacher — miller-1783 (Heading 1787; source lines 19900–19906). These are attributed period claims, not verified predictions or support for the original psychological reflections. Historical comparison only: School — miller-1782 (Heading 1786; source lines 19886–19900). These are attributed period claims, not verified predictions or support for the original psychological reflections." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0483" ], "scope": "Historical comparison only: School — noe-0483 (Dream section, heading 491; source lines 1803–1805). These are attributed period claims, not verified predictions or support for the original psychological reflections." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L11805" ], "scope": "Historical comparison only: School — craig-1918:L11805 (Printed p. 251; NLM OCR lines 11805–11808). These are attributed period claims, not verified predictions or support for the original psychological reflections." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "teaching-a-class-you-did-not-prepare-for", "title": "Teaching a class you did not prepare for", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "tagline": "Teaching without preparation can put concern for learners beside the pressure to appear capable and respond in the moment.", "summary": "Teaching without preparation can put concern for learners beside the pressure to appear capable and respond in the moment.", "aliases": [ "unprepared teacher dream", "teaching an unfamiliar class" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "What did the students need, and how much warning had you been given? An unexpected assignment may say more about the dream’s demands than your competence. You might notice a fear of letting others down, but also the resources you can use when a plan fails. The students’ curiosity, prior knowledge, or willingness to collaborate can matter more than delivering a flawless performance.", "traditional": "Older schoolmaster and learning entries often rely on fixed hierarchies. This draft does not make the teacher’s authority unquestionable or treat uncertainty as disgrace; learning can include asking and discovering together.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "You are handed a subject you have never studied", "reflection": "What support should have accompanied the responsibility?" }, { "title": "A student asks a question you cannot answer", "reflection": "Could honesty preserve trust in the room?" }, { "title": "The class builds an activity together", "reflection": "What did shared participation offer beyond your original plan?" } ], "prompts": [ "What did the learners actually need from you?", "Was the expectation reasonable given the preparation available?", "What helped you remain connected when certainty was absent?" ], "related": [ "school-teacher", "learning", "a-presentation-with-blank-slides" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia model-assisted editorial draft. Reflection questions and scenario readings are optional, individually written suggestions, not empirically validated symbol meanings. Source scope is stated with each citation. Historical comparisons identify topics, not inherited interpretations. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "teacups", "title": "Teacups", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of teacups, foretells that affairs of enjoyment will be attended by you.”", "aliases": [ "teacups" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about teacups stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1986", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Teacups", "text": "To dream of teacups, foretells that affairs of enjoyment will be\nattended by you. For a woman to break or see them broken, omens her\npleasure and good fortune will be marred by a sudden trouble.\nTo drink wine from one, foretells fortune and pleasure will be\ncombined in the near future.", "locator": "Heading 1990; source lines 21947–21955", "lineStart": 21947, "lineEnd": 21955, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of teacups, foretells that affairs of enjoyment will be\nattended by you. For a woman to break or see them broken, omens her\npleasure and good fortune will be marred by a sudden trouble.\nTo drink wine from one, foretells fortune and pleasure will be\ncombined in the near future." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "teakettle", "title": "Teakettle", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream you see a teakettle, implies sudden news which will be likely to distress you.”", "aliases": [ "teakettle" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about teakettle stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1987", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Teakettle", "text": "To dream you see a teakettle, implies sudden news which will be likely\nto distress you. For a woman to pour sparkling, cold water from a teakettle,\nshe will have unexpected favor shown her.", "locator": "Heading 1991; source lines 21955–21961", "lineStart": 21955, "lineEnd": 21961, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see a teakettle, implies sudden news which will be likely\nto distress you. For a woman to pour sparkling, cold water from a teakettle,\nshe will have unexpected favor shown her." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "teapots", "title": "Teapots", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “If a person dream of teapots they will soon form new friendships.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "teapots", "teapot" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about teapots stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "tears", "title": "Tears", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "7 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are in tears, denotes that some affliction will soon envelope you.” Compare 6 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "tears", "tear" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about tears stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1988", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Tears", "text": "To dream that you are in tears, denotes that some affliction\nwill soon envelope you.\n\nTo see others shedding tears, foretells that your sorrows will affect\nthe happiness of others,", "locator": "Heading 1992; source lines 21961–21969", "lineStart": 21961, "lineEnd": 21969, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are in tears, denotes that some affliction\nwill soon envelope you.\n\nTo see others shedding tears, foretells that your sorrows will affect\nthe happiness of others," }, { "id": "fontaine-0784", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Tears", "text": "To dream of shedding tears of sympathy, is a sign that some one\nis in love with you; this applies to both sexes, but more particularly\nto girls who cry easy: if you imagine you cry from grief, some good\nfortune awaits you, and you will have riches in proportion to the tears\nshed: if you dream that you shed tears from vexation, it shows that you\nwill experience a loss just in proportion to the tears, or that some\none will injure your prospects by circulating a scandal. 14.", "locator": "Heading 784; source line 4846", "lineStart": 4846, "lineEnd": 4854, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of shedding tears of sympathy, is a sign that some one\nis in love with you; this applies to both sexes, but more particularly\nto girls who cry easy: if you imagine you cry from grief, some good\nfortune awaits you, and you will have riches in proportion to the tears\nshed: if you dream that you shed tears from vexation, it shows that you\nwill experience a loss just in proportion to the tears, or that some\none will injure your prospects by circulating a scandal." }, { "id": "noe-0504", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Tears", "text": "To dream that you are shedding tears from\nsome heavy trouble, denotes that you will be speedily removed to a\nsituation in which you will enjoy much happiness.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 512; source lines 1865–1867", "lineStart": 1865, "lineEnd": 1867, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are shedding tears from\nsome heavy trouble, denotes that you will be speedily removed to a\nsituation in which you will enjoy much happiness." }, { "id": "cielo-0421", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Tears", "text": "To shed tears foretells joy and sympathy.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 421; source lines 4880–4882", "lineStart": 4880, "lineEnd": 4882, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To shed tears foretells joy and sympathy." }, { "id": "luck-0232", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Tear", "text": "To dream of tearing paper while reading is a sign that\nbusiness perplexities will be smoothed away.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 232; source lines 4123–4126", "lineStart": 4123, "lineEnd": 4126, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of tearing paper while reading is a sign that\nbusiness perplexities will be smoothed away." }, { "id": "luck-0233", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Tears", "text": "A presage of great joy and merriment.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 233; source lines 4126–4128", "lineStart": 4126, "lineEnd": 4128, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "A presage of great joy and merriment." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12141", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Tears", "heading": "Tears", "text": "A dream of contrary denoting joy (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12141, "lineEnd": 12142, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 257; NLM OCR lines 12141–12142", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12141, "lineEnd": 12142, "printedPage": 257, "printedPageEnd": 257 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Tears.— A dream of contrary denoting joy (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Tears" }, "displayText": "A dream of contrary denoting joy (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "teasing", "title": "Teasing", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To find yourself teasing any person while dreaming, denotes that you will be loved and sought after…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "teasing" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about teasing stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1989", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Teasing", "text": "To find yourself teasing any person while dreaming, denotes that you will\nbe loved and sought after because of your cheerful and amiable manners.\nYour business will be eventually successful.\n\nTo dream of being teased, denotes that you will win the love of merry\nand well-to-do persons.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of being teased, foretells that she will\nform a hasty attachment, but will not be successful in consummating\nan early marriage.", "locator": "Heading 1993; source lines 21969–21982", "lineStart": 21969, "lineEnd": 21982, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To find yourself teasing any person while dreaming, denotes that you will\nbe loved and sought after because of your cheerful and amiable manners.\nYour business will be eventually successful.\n\nTo dream of being teased, denotes that you will win the love of merry\nand well-to-do persons.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of being teased, foretells that she will\nform a hasty attachment, but will not be successful in consummating\nan early marriage." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12143", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Teasing", "heading": "Teasing", "text": "To tease denotes trouble and sickness ; to dream of being teased, good news (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12143, "lineEnd": 12145, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 257; NLM OCR lines 12143–12145", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12143, "lineEnd": 12145, "printedPage": 257, "printedPageEnd": 257 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Teasing. — To tease denotes trouble and sickness ; to dream \nof being teased, good news (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Teasing" }, "displayText": "To tease denotes trouble and sickness; to dream of being teased, good news (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "teeth", "title": "Teeth", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "8 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “An ordinary dream of teeth augurs an unpleasant contact with sickness, or disquieting people.” Compare 8 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "teeth", "of the teeth" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about teeth stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "moles-71045", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams and Moles", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "United Kingdom, J. Marshall, 1805", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71045", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1990", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Teeth", "text": "An ordinary dream of teeth augurs an unpleasant contact with sickness,\nor disquieting people.\n\nIf you dream that your teeth are loose, there will be failures\nand gloomy tidings.\n\nIf the doctor pulls your tooth, you will have desperate illness, if not fatal;\nit will be lingering.\n\nTo have them filled, you will recover lost valuables after much uneasiness.\n\nTo clean or wash your teeth, foretells that some great struggle\nwill be demanded of you in order to preserve your fortune.\n\nTo dream that you are having a set of teeth made, denotes that severe\ncrosses will fall upon you, and you will strive to throw them aside.\n\nIf you lose your teeth, you will have burdens which will crush your pride\nand demolish your affairs.\n\nTo dream that you have your teeth knocked out, denotes sudden misfortune.\nEither your business will suffer, or deaths or accidents will come\nclose to you.\n\nTo examine your teeth, warns you to be careful of your affairs,\nas enemies are lurking near you.\n\nIf they appear decayed and snaggled, your business or health\nwill suffer from intense strains.\n\nTo dream of spitting out teeth, portends personal sickness,\nor sickness in your immediate family.\n\nImperfect teeth is one of the worst dreams. It is full of mishaps\nfor the dreamer. A loss of estates, failure of persons to carry\nout their plans and desires, bad health, depressed conditions\nof the nervous system for even healthy persons.\n\nFor one tooth to fall out, foretells disagreeable news; if two,\nit denotes unhappy states that the dreamer will be plunged\ninto from no carelessness on his part. 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It is full of mishaps\nfor the dreamer. A loss of estates, failure of persons to carry\nout their plans and desires, bad health, depressed conditions\nof the nervous system for even healthy persons.\n\nFor one tooth to fall out, foretells disagreeable news; if two,\nit denotes unhappy states that the dreamer will be plunged\ninto from no carelessness on his part. If three fall out,\nsickness and accidents of a very serious nature will follow.\n\nSeeing all the teeth drop out, death and famine usually will prevail.\nIf the teeth are decayed and you pull them out, the same, only yourself,\nis prominent in the case.\n\nTo dream of tartar or any deposit falling off of the teeth and leaving them\nsound and white, is a sign of temporary indisposition, which will pass,\nleaving you wiser in regard to conduct, and you will find enjoyment\nin the discharge of duty.\n\nTo admire your teeth for their whiteness and beauty, foretells that\npleasant occupations and much happiness will be experienced through\nthe fulfilment of wishes.\n\nTo dream that you pull one of your teeth and lose it,\nand feeling within your mouth with your tongue for the cavity,\nand failing to find any, and have a doctor for the same,\nbut to no effect, leaving the whole affair enveloped in mystery,\ndenotes that you are about to enter into some engagement which\ndoes not exactly please you, and which you decide to ignore,\nbut will later take it up and secretly prosecute it to your own\ndisquieting satisfaction and under the suspicion of friends.\n\nTo dream that a dentist cleans your teeth perfectly,\nand the next morning you find them rusty, foretells you will\nbelieve your interest secure concerning some person or position,\nbut you will find that they have succumbed to the blandishments\nof an artful man or woman.", "editorialNote": "Records cover healthy/growing/filled/extracted teeth as well as loss; preserve narrower teeth-falling-out core." }, { "id": "fontaine-0785", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Teeth", "text": "To dream you lose your teeth, denotes the loss of friends,\ntroubles, and misfortunes; to the lover it shows the loss of your\nsweetheart’s affections: to dream you cut a new tooth, denotes the\nbirth of a child who will make a figure in the world. 33, 11, 2.", "locator": "Heading 785; source line 4854", "lineStart": 4854, "lineEnd": 4859, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you lose your teeth, denotes the loss of friends,\ntroubles, and misfortunes; to the lover it shows the loss of your\nsweetheart’s affections: to dream you cut a new tooth, denotes the\nbirth of a child who will make a figure in the world.", "editorialNote": "Records cover healthy/growing/filled/extracted teeth as well as loss; preserve narrower teeth-falling-out core." }, { "id": "artemidorus-021", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of the Teeth.", "text": "THe upper téeth signifie the best kindred of the house, and the lower teeth signifie the inferiour. For you must know that the mouth representeth the house, the teeth inhabitants. Those of the right side the men, the other the women. Or otherwise, the right, signifie the elder, the left the yonger: the eye téeth, them of middle age: the great téeth the old folks. Wherefore what kinde of téeth soever a man dreams he loseth, he shall lose some such personage as that tooth signifieth. But when the téeth signifyeth losse of goods: by the great téeth are méant hidden treasures; by the other, a vessell or some other thing of little importance. To such as are in debt, what kinde of tooth soever fals out it certifies them, that they shal acquit themselves: the téeth falling all at one blow, signifieth that the house shall be forsaken and abandoned of all inhabitants. For such as are Sick, to dreame that any tooth or téeth fall out, signifieth long sickenesse, but without death. It were better for him to dreame that he should lose all his teeth, for then he should recover the sooner. For a servant to have no téeth is a signe of liberty: to Merchants good gaine of their merchandises, charges and traffickes: téeth which seem to grow in such sort as if the one would excéed the other, signifie sedition in the house, or if they seem to move though they fall not out: those which have black teeth, or rotten broken teeth and dreame they lose them, shall be delivered from their evils and anger. Also by this dream, some have lost their old folkes: to have téeth of gold is good for such as study to speak well, to others it is hurt in their house by fire: to other sickenesse by abundance of choller: to have their téeth of waxe, its suddain death: to have them of leade or tynn, it is also shame and dishonour: of glasse or wood, violent death: of Silver, you shall get mony by eloquence: to the rich, it is great expence in hospitality and necessary provision: to dreame to lose his teeth and recover others, is change of estate into good or evill, according to the quality of teeth: to dreame his teeth are in his hand or bosome, is losse of Children: to grate his teeth against his tongue, is to end his paines and miseries by his Eloquence.", "locator": "Book 1, encoded section 21", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "1", "displayText": "THe upper téeth signifie the best kindred of the house, and the lower teeth signifie the inferiour. For you must know that the mouth representeth the house, the teeth inhabitants. Those of the right side the men, the other the women. Or otherwise, the right, signifie the elder, the left the yonger: the eye téeth, them of middle age: the great téeth the old folks. Wherefore what kinde of téeth soever a man dreams he loseth, he shall lose some such personage as that tooth signifieth. But when the téeth signifyeth losse of goods: by the great téeth are méant hidden treasures; by the other, a vessell or some other thing of little importance. To such as are in debt, what kinde of tooth soever fals out it certifies them, that they shal acquit themselves: the téeth falling all at one blow, signifieth that the house shall be forsaken and abandoned of all inhabitants. For such as are Sick, to dreame that any tooth or téeth fall out, signifieth long sickenesse, but without death. It were better for him to dreame that he should lose all his teeth, for then he should recover the sooner. For a servant to have no téeth is a signe of liberty: to Merchants good gaine of their merchandises, charges and traffickes: téeth which seem to grow in such sort as if the one would excéed the other, signifie sedition in the house, or if they seem to move though they fall not out: those which have black teeth, or rotten broken teeth and dreame they lose them, shall be delivered from their evils and anger. Also by this dream, some have lost their old folkes: to have téeth of gold is good for such as study to speak well, to others it is hurt in their house by fire: to other sickenesse by abundance of choller: to have their téeth of waxe, its suddain death: to have them of leade or tynn, it is also shame and dishonour: of glasse or wood, violent death: of Silver, you shall get mony by eloquence: to the rich, it is great expence in hospitality and necessary provision: to dreame to lose his teeth and recover others, is change of estate into good or evill, according to the quality of teeth: to dreame his teeth are in his hand or bosome, is losse of Children: to grate his teeth against his tongue, is to end his paines and miseries by his Eloquence.", "editorialNote": "Records cover healthy/growing/filled/extracted teeth as well as loss; preserve narrower teeth-falling-out core." }, { "id": "noe-0513", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Teeth", "text": "To dream you lose a tooth, denotes the\nloss of some friend by death, and that troubles and misfortunes are about\nto attend you. To dream you cut new teeth, denotes the birth of a child,\nwho will make a great figure in the world.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 521; source lines 1890–1893", "lineStart": 1890, "lineEnd": 1893, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you lose a tooth, denotes the\nloss of some friend by death, and that troubles and misfortunes are about\nto attend you. To dream you cut new teeth, denotes the birth of a child,\nwho will make a great figure in the world." }, { "id": "cielo-0422", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Teeth", "text": "To dream of losing your teeth foretells the\n death of a friend or the loss of money.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 422; source lines 4882–4885", "lineStart": 4882, "lineEnd": 4885, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of losing your teeth foretells the\ndeath of a friend or the loss of money." }, { "id": "luck-0234", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Teeth", "text": "In a dream teeth denote relatives, the two front teeth\nrepresenting children, brothers or sisters, and others are distant\nrelations. Losing a tooth is a sign of death of a relative: the loss of\nall in any way means that the dreamer will outlive all his family.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 234; source lines 4128–4133", "lineStart": 4128, "lineEnd": 4133, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "In a dream teeth denote relatives, the two front teeth\nrepresenting children, brothers or sisters, and others are distant\nrelations. Losing a tooth is a sign of death of a relative: the loss of\nall in any way means that the dreamer will outlive all his family." }, { "id": "moles-0013", "sourceId": "moles-71045", "heading": "Teeth", "originalHeading": "(no printed heading)", "text": "To dream your eyes or teeth fall out, denotes sickness or death of\nchildren, or some intimate friend or relation.", "locator": "Dreams interpreted, passage 13; source lines 147–148", "lineStart": 147, "lineEnd": 148, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "editorialNote": "The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Teeth” because that is the subject of its first clause.", "displayText": "To dream your eyes or teeth fall out, denotes sickness or death of\nchildren, or some intimate friend or relation." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12146", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Teeth", "heading": "Teeth", "text": "To dream of loose teeth denotes personal sickness ; to lose a tooth denotes the death of a friend or relative ; for all the teeth to fall out forecasts your own death (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12146, "lineEnd": 12149, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 257; NLM OCR lines 12146–12149", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12146, "lineEnd": 12149, "printedPage": 257, "printedPageEnd": 257 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Teeth. — To dream of loose teeth denotes personal sick- \nness ; to lose a tooth denotes the death of a friend or relative ; \nfor all the teeth to fall out forecasts your own death (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "sick- \nness", "after": "sickness", "evidenceLine": 2187 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Teeth" }, "displayText": "To dream of loose teeth denotes personal sickness; to lose a tooth denotes the death of a friend or relative; for all the teeth to fall out forecasts your own death (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "teeth-falling-out", "title": "Teeth falling out", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "A familiar part of you becomes unstable, visible, or ready to change.", "summary": "Losing teeth can suggest shaken confidence, exposure, or difficulty holding things together. A painless loss can also picture a welcome change.", "aliases": [ "molar", "molars", "losing teeth", "teeth fall out", "teeth fell out", "losing a tooth", "lost a tooth", "teeth crumbling", "teeth breaking", "loose teeth" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "Teeth falling out can suggest that something you rely on no longer feels secure. Teeth are fixed parts of your everyday appearance and ability to function; when they loosen or crumble, the dream makes instability immediate and hard to conceal. One reading is shaken confidence in a role, skill, or arrangement that previously felt dependable. Starting a demanding job, losing a familiar source of support, or discovering that a carefully organized plan is fragile could fit this image. The emphasis is on losing reliability rather than on loss in general.\n\nWhen the dream centers on your smile or other people's reactions, exposure may be the stronger theme. A change inside your mouth becomes a change in how you appear, with little opportunity to prepare. This can fit the experience of being seen before you feel ready: meeting new colleagues, returning to a group after a difficult period, or trying to maintain composure when your circumstances have changed. Hiding the missing teeth suggests a gap between the impression you want to give and the vulnerability you feel; nobody reacting can instead picture permission to be imperfect.\n\nTeeth falling out while you speak can give form to losing confidence in your words. You have something to say, but the very act of saying it becomes unreliable. This could fit explaining a mistake, confronting someone whose approval matters, or fearing that an important announcement will come apart under questioning. A mouthful of broken pieces can also picture having too much to express at once: the message is present, but it cannot emerge in a manageable form.\n\nWhen chewing or ordinary functioning is the problem, the dream may concern capacity rather than appearance. Tasks that were once straightforward suddenly demand effort. Taking on work while also caring for family, or trying to manage several responsibilities with fewer resources, offers a concrete parallel. Trying to push the teeth back into place can represent the wish to restore the old arrangement quickly, even when circumstances have changed.\n\nA painless tooth loss or new teeth growing afterward supports another reading: transition rather than collapse. Childhood tooth loss provides a familiar model in which something must change before a new form can arrive. Leaving an established role may feel both disorienting and necessary. Recent dental appointments, photographs, conversations, and memories of loose teeth are also direct sources for the image; these interpretations are possibilities, not forecasts or health assessments.", "traditional": "The catalogue's Teeth heading does contain explicit tooth-loss passages. In the 1644 English translation attributed to Robert Wood, Artemidorus compares the mouth to a household and teeth to its occupants, then varies his forecasts by tooth, occupation, and circumstances. Some losses receive favorable readings, including release from debt or servitude. Miller's Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted gives tooth loss darker associations with damaged pride and disrupted affairs, and assigns different outcomes to different numbers of lost teeth.\n\nThese are contrasting historical fortune-telling systems, not evidence for the death omens sometimes attached to this image. Their useful contribution is the contrast between loss as disruption and loss as release. The modern interpretations above are original comparisons grounded in the dream's actions.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Teeth crumble while you make an announcement", "reflection": "This scene can picture fear that your words will not hold up once spoken. An explanation at work, a difficult request, or news you have rehearsed may feel clear privately but fragile in front of others. Crumbling makes that loss of composure physical." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You hide the gaps while everyone looks at you", "reflection": "One reading is anxiety about a change becoming public before you are ready to explain it. The gaps may stand for an altered role, a setback, or a vulnerable part of your appearance. Concealment suggests that managing the impression matters as much as the loss itself." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "One tooth falls out and you feel relief", "reflection": "A small, painless loss can suggest release from something already unstable. It may fit leaving a role you have outgrown or ending an arrangement that took effort to maintain. The relief makes this a transition scene rather than a picture of everything falling apart." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "All your teeth fall into your hands at once", "reflection": "Holding the pieces can picture trying to preserve a life arrangement while several supports seem to give way together. Losing income alongside routine, or moving away from both familiar work and friends, could fit. Keeping the teeth suggests attachment to what made the old structure feel intact." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Someone pulls out a tooth you wanted to keep", "reflection": "The central issue may be who gets to decide what changes. A decision made over your objections, an imposed new responsibility, or advice that feels too forceful can resemble this scene. The removal brings dependence and agency into sharper focus than appearance alone." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "New teeth grow after the old ones fall", "reflection": "Replacement shifts the image toward adapting to a new version of yourself. A promotion, a changed family role, or returning to learning may require letting familiar competence give way to a less practiced form. The new teeth offer continuity through change, especially if their arrival feels welcome." } ], "prompts": [ "Where has something I relied on become less dependable, and which part of the tooth-loss scene resembles that change?", "Was the greatest difficulty being seen, speaking, or functioning—and where is that exact pressure present in my life?", "What did I want to preserve or release, and how did the dream's ending change that wish?" ], "related": [ "hair-falling-out", "mirror", "unable-to-scream", "being-naked-in-public" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." }, { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display.", "scope": "Historical comparison of tooth loss only; catalogue heading Teeth, artemidorus-021, Book 1, encoded section 21. Period fortune-telling beliefs, not evidence for a prediction or for the modern interpretations.", "recordIds": [ "artemidorus-021" ] }, { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "scope": "Historical comparison of tooth loss only; catalogue heading Teeth, miller-1990, Heading 1994; source lines 21982–22055. Period fortune-telling beliefs, not evidence for a prediction or for the modern interpretations.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1990" ] } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s delegation of editorial decisions. Historical forecasts remain attributed period claims; these reflections are not predictions or clinical assessments.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A dependable part of life feels fragile", "reflection": "Loose or crumbling teeth can picture confidence in a role, skill, or support becoming unstable. The unsettling feature is that something you depended on no longer holds in place." }, { "title": "Vulnerability becomes visible", "reflection": "A changed smile can suggest being seen before you feel ready. Hiding your mouth may express pressure to maintain a composed appearance while your circumstances or confidence are changing." }, { "title": "Words are difficult to carry through", "reflection": "Losing teeth while speaking can picture an explanation, request, or disagreement that feels hard to deliver. The image joins having something to say with losing trust in how it will emerge." }, { "title": "Change makes room for another identity", "reflection": "Painless loss or replacement teeth can suggest a transition that feels necessary as well as unfamiliar. The childhood pattern of losing and regrowing teeth makes room for growth alongside vulnerability." } ], "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "DreamFolia AI-assisted editorial review", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "do what its best I have no idea", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "snake", "teeth-falling-out", "being-chased", "flying", "falling", "being-naked-in-public", "cheating", "school-or-exam", "death" ] }, "decisionReason": "The reading differentiates appearance, speech, capacity and welcome transition. The historical tooth-loss passages are scoped to their actual owners, and the text rejects health and death forecasts.", "reviewedSnapshot": "data/common-dream-publication-review-2026-10-15-v2.json", "contentSha256": "f325156587ee7ea588be89c69b35810f01a85070c0a4e4c456725c66f2c6310f" }, "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "telegram", "title": "Telegram", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you receive a telegram, denotes that you will soon receive tidings of an unpleasant character.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "telegram" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about telegram stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1991", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Telegram", "text": "To dream that you receive a telegram, denotes that you\nwill soon receive tidings of an unpleasant character.\nSome friend is likely to misrepresent matters which are of much\nconcern to you.\n\nTo send a telegram is a sign that you will be estranged from some one holding\na place near you, or business will disappoint you.\n\nIf you are the operator sending these messages, you will be affected\nby them only through the interest of others.\n\nTo see or be in a telegraph office, foretells unfortunate engagements.", "locator": "Heading 1995; source lines 22055–22070", "lineStart": 22055, "lineEnd": 22070, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you receive a telegram, denotes that you\nwill soon receive tidings of an unpleasant character.\nSome friend is likely to misrepresent matters which are of much\nconcern to you.\n\nTo send a telegram is a sign that you will be estranged from some one holding\na place near you, or business will disappoint you.\n\nIf you are the operator sending these messages, you will be affected\nby them only through the interest of others.\n\nTo see or be in a telegraph office, foretells unfortunate engagements." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12150", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Telegram", "heading": "Telegram", "text": "You will go on a very long journey after this dream (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12150, "lineEnd": 12152, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 257; NLM OCR lines 12150–12152", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12150, "lineEnd": 12152, "printedPage": 257, "printedPageEnd": 257 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Telegram.— You will go on a very long journey after this \ndream (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Telegram" }, "displayText": "You will go on a very long journey after this dream (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "telegraph", "title": "Telegraph", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “To dream of one denotes tidings from abroad, in a short space of time, and still more speedily if you think the telegraph is at work.”", "aliases": [ "telegraph" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about telegraph stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0786", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Telegraph", "text": "To dream of one denotes tidings from abroad, in a short\nspace of time, and still more speedily if you think the telegraph is at\nwork. 47, 10, 78.", "locator": "Heading 786; source line 4859", "lineStart": 4859, "lineEnd": 4863, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of one denotes tidings from abroad, in a short\nspace of time, and still more speedily if you think the telegraph is at\nwork." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "telephone", "title": "Telephone", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "A phone connects people while also holding parts of your ordinary life.", "summary": "A phone may picture chosen contact, availability, personal memories, or the access and privacy gathered in a device you carry.", "aliases": [ "telephone", "telephones", "phone", "phones", "mobile phone", "mobile phones", "cell phone", "cell phones", "cellphone", "cellphones", "smartphone", "smartphones" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A telephone or mobile phone can make contact into something you can initiate, accept, pause, or end. An ordinary call may picture wanting a direct exchange after information has passed through other people. Hearing a familiar voice can make recognition more important than the words spoken. If you choose not to answer, the scene may instead concern when you want to be available. A working phone can therefore carry a useful reading without any malfunction.\n\nMessages introduce a different pace. You can compose before speaking, reread what was sent, or leave an exchange for later. This could fit wanting time to put an experience into words, or uncertainty about how much immediacy a relationship expects. A stream of notifications may make several people or tasks seem present at once, while silencing them can give one chosen activity room. The dreamed messages do not reveal what an actual person thinks or establish an obligation to reply.\n\nA smartphone also holds things that belong to particular moments: photographs, notes, saved conversations, tickets, and contact details. Showing a photograph may picture wanting someone to share a memory rather than simply hear about it. An old message beside a present conversation can make continuity or changed circumstances visible. The contents are recalled or invented dream material, not recovered evidence about another person or a hidden event.\n\nMaps, tickets, and practical apps can make the device a point of access. A phone that helps you find a route may picture having a usable next step rather than knowing the entire journey. Presenting a ticket can make permission to enter concrete. The same object then connects, remembers, and enables action, which may resemble how several parts of daily life depend on one tool. Presenting the ticket may make recognition more central than movement: someone accepts that you have a place there.\n\nPrivacy matters when the device changes hands. Lending a phone may feel like sharing a manageable resource, while a visible private conversation can make the boundary between help and disclosure less clear. Being able to close a screen or choose what to show changes that encounter. Recent calls, browsing, photographs, travel tasks, and interruptions can supply direct material. The original reflection stays with the function used, the person or task it served, and whether access and availability remained choices you could make.", "traditional": "Miller's 1901 Telephone account forecasts troubling encounters, rivalry, or gossip according to a voice conversation's details. It predates smartphones and does not discuss apps, stored photographs, maps, or mobile messages. Those modern functions are covered through original reflection, not attributed to the historical passage or treated as predictions.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Contact you can choose", "reflection": "Answering, calling and ending an exchange give availability a practical form. A working device may picture access to someone while leaving room to decide the timing." }, { "title": "A personal collection of moments", "reflection": "Photographs and saved words can make memory immediately shareable. The scene may join an earlier connection to a present context without proving a hidden fact." }, { "title": "Access gathered in one object", "reflection": "Maps, tickets and practical tools can make the phone a point of entry or direction. Privacy becomes important when sharing that access also exposes personal information." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "You have an ordinary call with a familiar voice", "reflection": "The exchange feels direct and recognizable. This may picture wanting contact without intermediaries, or recreate the quality of a remembered conversation rather than deliver a hidden message." }, { "title": "You choose to silence several notifications", "reflection": "The device still works, but availability becomes selective. The scene may give room to one activity or relationship without requiring every incoming demand to be answered at once." }, { "title": "You show someone a stored photograph or message", "reflection": "A memory becomes an object you can share. This may picture wanting another person to understand a particular moment, while the dreamed contents remain separate from verifiable waking records." }, { "title": "A map or digital ticket helps you continue", "reflection": "The phone provides a usable direction or point of access. The scene may explore having enough information for the next step rather than complete control of the whole journey." }, { "title": "You lend the phone with private information visible", "reflection": "Sharing a practical resource also exposes another part of life. This may make a boundary around disclosure important, especially if you were not asked what could be opened." }, { "title": "You finish the exchange and put the phone away", "reflection": "Contact has served its purpose and can end. The scene may picture availability with an understandable limit, rather than connection that must remain active to retain its value." } ], "prompts": [ "Which function mattered: calling, messaging, remembering, finding a route, or gaining access?", "Could I choose when and with whom I was available?", "What was shared deliberately, and what felt private?" ], "related": [ "phone-not-working", "a-phone-ringing-endlessly", "a-dying-phone-battery", "email" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1992" ], "scope": "Historical comparison only: Telephone — miller-1992 (Heading 1996; source lines 22070–22079). These are attributed period claims, not verified predictions or support for the original psychological reflections." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1992", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Telephone", "text": "To dream of a telephone, foretells you will meet strangers\nwho will harass and bewilder you in your affairs.\nFor a woman to dream of talking over one, denotes she will have\nmuch jealous rivalry, but will overcome all evil influences.\nIf she cannot hear well in conversing over one, she is threatened\nwith evil gossip, and the loss of a lover.", "locator": "Heading 1996; source lines 22070–22079", "lineStart": 22070, "lineEnd": 22079, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a telephone, foretells you will meet strangers\nwho will harass and bewilder you in your affairs.\nFor a woman to dream of talking over one, denotes she will have\nmuch jealous rivalry, but will overcome all evil influences.\nIf she cannot hear well in conversing over one, she is threatened\nwith evil gossip, and the loss of a lover.", "editorialNote": "Record covers telephone conversation generally; preserve phone-not-working core." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "telescope", "title": "Telescope", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a telescope, portends unfavorable seasons for love and domestic affairs, and business will be…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "telescope" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about telescope stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "spy-glass" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1993", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Telescope", "text": "To dream of a telescope, portends unfavorable seasons for love\nand domestic affairs, and business will be changeable and uncertain.\n\nTo look at planets and stars through one, portends for you\njourneys which will afford you much pleasure, but later cause\nyou much financial loss.\n\nTo see a broken telescope, or one not in use, signifies that matters\nwill go out of the ordinary with you, and trouble may be expected.", "locator": "Heading 1997; source lines 22079–22091", "lineStart": 22079, "lineEnd": 22091, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a telescope, portends unfavorable seasons for love\nand domestic affairs, and business will be changeable and uncertain.\n\nTo look at planets and stars through one, portends for you\njourneys which will afford you much pleasure, but later cause\nyou much financial loss.\n\nTo see a broken telescope, or one not in use, signifies that matters\nwill go out of the ordinary with you, and trouble may be expected." }, { "id": "fontaine-0787", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Telescope", "text": "(_See Spy-Glass._) To dream of looking through a telescope\nat a distance over farm lands, is a sign you will either purchase a\nfarm or inherit one: if you dream of looking at the stars, it shows\nthat you will rise in the world—if at the moon, and you are delighted\nwith the view, it predicts for you great riches. 7, 14.", "locator": "Heading 787; source line 4863", "lineStart": 4863, "lineEnd": 4869, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Spy-Glass.) To dream of looking through a telescope\nat a distance over farm lands, is a sign you will either purchase a\nfarm or inherit one: if you dream of looking at the stars, it shows\nthat you will rise in the world—if at the moon, and you are delighted\nwith the view, it predicts for you great riches." }, { "id": "noe-0510", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Telescope", "text": "For a person\nto dream of looking through a telescope at some distant object, is an\nindication that the dreamer will shortly receive a letter from a friend\nin a far-distant country.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 518; source lines 1880–1883", "lineStart": 1880, "lineEnd": 1883, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a person\nto dream of looking through a telescope at some distant object, is an\nindication that the dreamer will shortly receive a letter from a friend\nin a far-distant country." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "spy-glass" ] }, { "slug": "television", "title": "Television", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "An event reaches you through a frame and a room of viewers.", "summary": "A television dream can frame news, familiar programmes, or an image of yourself. Notice what was shown, who chose it, and how close you felt.", "aliases": [ "television", "televisions", "tv", "t.v.", "watching tv", "watching television", "tv dream", "television screen", "being on tv", "broken tv" ], "status": "REVIEW", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "Television puts a frame between the viewer and what is happening. In a dream, that distance can feel safe, frustrating, entertaining, or strangely porous. Describe what was on the screen: news, a remembered programme, a scene from your own life, or an image with no obvious story. Then notice whether you remained a viewer or somehow entered the broadcast.\n\nThe people in the room can change the experience as much as the content. Watching alone may allow absorption or create unease; sharing a programme may involve companionship, arguments about the channel, or uncertainty about everyone’s reaction. If you appeared on screen, describe who watched and what they actually did. The dream does not establish public opinion of you or predict exposure.\n\nControl deserves attention. A remote that works, refuses to respond, or changes only the volume gives different options. An unwanted image that returns may offer a comparison with attention you find difficult to redirect, but it can also follow a familiar suspense convention or repeat material recently watched. Keep those ordinary sources alongside any personal interpretation. You need not treat every persistent image as evidence of a hidden concern.\n\nA dream broadcast can sound authoritative while inventing events, quotations, and facts. Record the differences from what you know rather than trusting the presentation. If a childhood programme brought warmth, explore the viewing routine and company it recalled. If the screen became blank, notice what happened in the room afterward. The point of interest may be the broadcast, the audience, or the possibility of turning toward something outside the frame.", "traditional": "No historical account is attached to this specific television scene. Theatre, performers, and newspapers are related cultural images but do not establish an inherited interpretation of a home screen or broadcast. No dream report is treated as reliable news or a prediction.\n\nEveryday viewing can supply characters, dialogue, visual rhythms, and the layout of a room. A programme watched recently may return almost unchanged while the companions or emotional tone differ. Those differences can make the dream personal without requiring the programme to carry a concealed message. Note whether you chose the content, encountered it accidentally, or could not stop it. Also distinguish an actual show from a dream invention that merely felt familiar. A fabricated news report or a clip of yourself can be persuasive within the dream while remaining something the scene created.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "Seeing yourself in a broadcast", "reflection": "Describe what the televised version did and how the viewers responded. The scene may explore being seen, curiosity about your own image, or an invented performance. It cannot reveal what an actual audience thinks or establish that you will appear publicly." }, { "title": "The channel returns to one image", "reflection": "Notice whether you tried to change it and what made the repetition unwelcome or interesting. A possible comparison is attention caught on a topic, but the device may also be borrowed storytelling. Record the image before assigning it a personal cause." }, { "title": "Turning the television off to talk", "reflection": "The choice shifts attention from the screen to the room. Describe who was present and what conversation became possible. The scene may help you identify a desired form of connection, or simply bring an imagined evening to an ordinary close." } ], "prompts": [ "What did the frame make easier or harder to experience?", "Who chose the programme, and who watched with you?", "What happened outside the screen that deserved equal attention?" ], "related": [ "theater", "newspaper", "mirror", "computer", "a-celebrity" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia expansion written on 2026-10-13, awaiting human publication review. Interpretations are conditional invitations to reflection, not validated symbolic meanings, predictions, diagnoses, or evidence about other people. Historical coverage is identified separately from original everyday context; research citations provide general context only.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "tempest", "title": "Tempest", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of tempests, denotes that you will have a siege of calamitous trouble, and friends will treat you…” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "tempest", "tempests" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about tempest stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "storm", "tornado" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1994", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Tempest", "text": "To dream of tempests, denotes that you will have a siege of\ncalamitous trouble, and friends will treat you with indifference.\n\n\n[222] See Storms and Cyclones.", "locator": "Heading 1998; source lines 22091–22099", "lineStart": 22091, "lineEnd": 22099, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of tempests, denotes that you will have a siege of\ncalamitous trouble, and friends will treat you with indifference. See Storms and Cyclones." }, { "id": "fontaine-0788", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Tempest", "text": "(_See Storm._) To dream of long-continuing and great tempests,\nsignifies affliction, troubles, dangers, losses and perils; to the\npoor, repose. 57, 8.", "locator": "Heading 788; source line 4869", "lineStart": 4869, "lineEnd": 4873, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Storm.) To dream of long-continuing and great tempests,\nsignifies affliction, troubles, dangers, losses and perils; to the\npoor, repose." }, { "id": "noe-0517", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Tempests", "text": "To dream you are in a storm or tempest, shows\nthat you will after many difficulties arrive at great happiness; that you\nwill become rich and marry well. For a lover to dream of being in a\ntempest, denotes that he will have rivals, over whom, after a great deal\nof vexation, he will triumph. It also foretells that you will receive some\ngood news from a long absent friend, who will overcome many difficulties.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 525; source lines 1901–1907", "lineStart": 1901, "lineEnd": 1907, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are in a storm or tempest, shows\nthat you will after many difficulties arrive at great happiness; that you\nwill become rich and marry well. For a lover to dream of being in a\ntempest, denotes that he will have rivals, over whom, after a great deal\nof vexation, he will triumph. It also foretells that you will receive some\ngood news from a long absent friend, who will overcome many difficulties." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12153", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Tempest", "heading": "Tempest", "text": "See Storm.", "lineStart": 12153, "lineEnd": 12154, "kind": "cross-reference", "locator": "Printed p. 257; NLM OCR lines 12153–12154", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12153, "lineEnd": 12154, "printedPage": 257, "printedPageEnd": 257 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Tempest. — See Storm. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Tempest" }, "displayText": "See Storm." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "storm", "tornado" ] }, { "slug": "temptation", "title": "Temptation", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "summary": "Temptation dreams may explore a wanted possibility, the terms of an attractive offer, or a choice that leaves desire and limits together.", "tagline": "Wanting something and choosing its terms are different acts.", "aliases": [ "temptation", "tempted", "feeling tempted" ], "status": "REVIEW", "psychological": "Temptation in a dream can place a wanted possibility beside a reason to hesitate. An appealing offer promises pleasure, ease, attention or escape, while another preference or commitment gives it a cost. The useful subject is the bargain the scene creates. A dream can let you experience attraction without establishing a waking intention to accept it or revealing a hidden moral failure.\n\nThe source of the limit matters. A freely chosen commitment differs from an unexplained rule that makes an ordinary pleasure feel forbidden. A group may treat joining as proof of loyalty, or a person may offer kindness only if you surrender another choice. These arrangements can picture pressure as well as desire. A purchase, invitation, remembered dilemma or fictional offer can provide waking comparisons without a single universal meaning.\n\nThe attractive thing may stand for a concrete need rather than the whole offer. Food can provide comfort, a glamorous position can provide recognition, and a shortcut can promise relief from effort. If accepting it introduces an unwanted demand, the dream may separate the need from the particular method of meeting it. That gives the scene more precision than a simple contest between good and bad.\n\nRefusal can leave desire intact. Feeling disappointed after saying no may make the cost of a limit visible without making the decision wrong. Likewise, accepting an offer and finding it unsatisfying can show a gap between promise and experience. The dreamer’s response helps distinguish genuine enjoyment, compliance and the wish to end pressure.\n\nAn alternative can change the structure. You may discover a less burdensome way to rest, receive attention or join an activity. Another person may explain the terms, making a choice easier rather than removing every uncertainty. The dream need not end with triumph over desire. It can explore how wanting, choice and consequences are held together, including when the rule itself needs closer examination. Recent small decisions or an imagined opportunity may be sufficient context for the scene.", "traditional": "Miller’s Temptation passage assigns surrounding temptations trouble with an envious person and resisting them success against opposition. Those forecasts belong to his fortune-telling account. The original reading distinguishes attraction, the terms of an offer and a chosen limit without treating dream desire as evidence of actual plans or misconduct.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "The bargain rather than the object alone", "reflection": "An offer may meet a need while attaching a cost that changes its value." }, { "title": "A chosen or imposed limit", "reflection": "The source of the rule can matter as much as the strength of attraction." }, { "title": "Desire after a decision", "reflection": "Refusal, acceptance and another method can each leave a different relation to what was wanted." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "An appealing offer has a hidden condition", "reflection": "The promise makes the offer attractive before its terms become clear. This may resemble an invitation or shortcut that supplies one wanted thing while taking away another. The scene can separate the value of the need from the full arrangement offered to meet it." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You refuse something while still wanting it", "reflection": "The decision does not erase the appeal. A chosen commitment or practical limit can have a similar emotional cost. The dream may make room for wanting something without taking every available route to it, rather than require refusal to feel effortless or morally triumphant." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A group pressures you to join what attracts them", "reflection": "Joining may promise acceptance as well as the activity itself. The temptation can therefore include a wish to belong, especially when refusing seems to threaten your place. The group’s terms help distinguish freely shared pleasure from an attractive experience made difficult to decline." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "An ordinary harmless pleasure feels forbidden", "reflection": "The prohibition may organize the scene more strongly than the object warrants. A routine comfort or harmless preference can feel laden with unexplained consequence. The dream may explore whose rule is being followed, without establishing that every feeling of guilt describes a real wrongdoing." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You accept the offer and the pleasure is disappointing", "reflection": "The result supplies less than the anticipation promised. This may picture the difference between wanting a particular experience and wanting what you imagined it would provide. Disappointment can clarify the need without making the dreamed acceptance evidence of an actual intention." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You find another way to meet the same wish", "reflection": "An alternative can keep the underlying wish while changing its cost. Rest without abandoning a commitment, or company without an unwanted bargain, offers a comparison. The scene moves beyond a simple yes-or-no contest by making the terms of satisfaction more flexible." } ], "prompts": [ "What did the attractive possibility promise to provide?", "Whose rule or commitment created the limit?", "What other terms or methods could meet the wish that attracted you?" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1995" ], "scope": "Historical context only. Attributed Gustavus Hindman Miller passage(s): surrounding temptations assigned interpersonal trouble; resisting assigned success against opposition. These are period beliefs, not established predictions or support for the original psychological reading." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "related": [ "guilt", "indecision", "cheating", "pardon" ], "updated": "2026-10-13", "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1995", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Temptation", "text": "To dream that you are surrounded by temptations, denotes that\nyou will be involved in some trouble with an envious person\nwho is trying to displace you in the confidence of friends.\nIf you resist them, you will be successful in some affair\nin which you have much opposition.", "locator": "Heading 1999; source lines 22099–22107", "lineStart": 22099, "lineEnd": 22107, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are surrounded by temptations, denotes that\nyou will be involved in some trouble with an envious person\nwho is trying to displace you in the confidence of friends.\nIf you resist them, you will be successful in some affair\nin which you have much opposition." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "tenant", "title": "Tenant", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “For a landlord to see his tenant in a dream, denotes he will have business trouble and vexation.”", "aliases": [ "tenant" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about tenant stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1996", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Tenant", "text": "For a landlord to see his tenant in a dream, denotes he will have\nbusiness trouble and vexation. To imagine you are a tenant,\nforetells you will suffer loss in experiments of a business character.\nIf a tenant pays you money, you will be successful in some engagements.", "locator": "Heading 2000; source lines 22107–22114", "lineStart": 22107, "lineEnd": 22114, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a landlord to see his tenant in a dream, denotes he will have\nbusiness trouble and vexation. To imagine you are a tenant,\nforetells you will suffer loss in experiments of a business character.\nIf a tenant pays you money, you will be successful in some engagements." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "tenpins", "title": "Tenpins", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "kind": "editorial", "aliases": [ "tenpins", "ten-pins", "tenpin bowling", "ten-pin bowling", "ten pin bowling" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "summary": "Tenpins can explore aiming within a shared game, adapting to what remains and enjoying participation beyond a score. The particular turn matters.", "tagline": "A roll, a changing arrangement and your place in the game.", "psychological": "Playing tenpins in a dream can give an effort a clear, immediate destination: you release a ball toward an arrangement of pins and see what changes. This may picture pleasure in a task with a visible response, or frustration when the result does not fit the movement you intended. The game’s particular conditions matter more than treating every roll as a judgment of your success elsewhere.\n\nAn enjoyable turn can simply be participation in a wanted activity. Other people may appreciate the roll while the score remains secondary to the company. This can resemble sharing a hobby, joining an informal occasion or trying something without needing it to become an achievement. A good scene does not require a hidden problem beneath its pleasure.\n\nWhen one pin remains, the next effort meets a changed arrangement. Repeating the original aim may feel less useful than responding to what is now in front of you. A waking comparison could be finishing one part of a project after its larger stage has been completed. The remaining pin need not represent a person, obstacle or quality according to a fixed symbolic system.\n\nPins reset before your ball reaches them can make the terms of the turn difficult to hold. You are acting toward an arrangement that changes before the response becomes available. This may resemble work whose criteria are revised while it is underway. The difficulty concerns the timing of the task rather than establishing that your effort or skill is inadequate.\n\nTurn-taking brings the company into view. Waiting may offer conversation and anticipation, or become frustrating when nobody acknowledges whose turn it is. A score assigned to somebody else can make recognition a separate question from enjoying the roll itself. Choosing to watch can instead preserve a wanted place in the gathering without requiring you to play. A familiar game or remembered outing can supply direct context. These original readings concern a particular tenpins activity and its relationships; they do not predict a game result, establish anyone’s character or turn pin-fall into an omen.", "traditional": "Miller’s Tenpins account assigns discredit and losses to playing, employment loss to watching others, and later sorrow to a young woman’s successful game. Fontaine’s Ten-Pins passage ties playing and particular pin-fall to disgrace, death and loss. These are attributed period forecasts, not consequences established by a dream. The original reflection follows effort, changing turns and participation in the game.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "An effort with a visible response", "reflection": "A roll may offer an understandable task or enjoyment without becoming a verdict on life outside the game." }, { "title": "A turn whose conditions change", "reflection": "Remaining pins and premature resetting can make adaptation or continuity more relevant than repeating an initial aim." }, { "title": "Participation beyond the score", "reflection": "Company, recognition and choosing a role can matter alongside the result of a turn." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "A satisfying roll is enjoyed by the people playing with you", "reflection": "The turn offers pleasure through a clear action and a shared response. This may picture enjoying a wanted activity without needing the score to prove something about your worth. The company can make an ordinary attempt memorable, and the good scene need not conceal a difficulty to be useful." }, { "title": "One pin remains for the next roll", "reflection": "The arrangement has changed, so the next effort has a more particular task. This may picture adjusting to the remaining part of an undertaking rather than repeating its original approach. The comparison follows what is left to do, without assigning loneliness, an adversary or a fixed meaning to one pin." }, { "title": "The pins reset before your ball reaches them", "reflection": "The task changes before your action can receive its response. This may picture an arrangement revised while you are already working toward it, such as a project whose criteria keep moving. The frustration concerns continuity between effort and result, rather than the game establishing your actual ability or future outcome." }, { "title": "Waiting for a turn becomes part of an enjoyable conversation", "reflection": "Your place in the gathering continues while somebody else plays. This may picture participation that includes anticipation and company as well as taking action. The waiting can be worthwhile in its own form; it does not have to represent exclusion, lost opportunity or a demand to be constantly productive." }, { "title": "The displayed score assigns your roll to another player", "reflection": "Recognition has become separate from the action you experienced. This may picture wanting an account to acknowledge a contribution without making that account the sole purpose of the activity. The scene concerns the dreamed attribution; it does not establish that someone has actually taken credit for your work." }, { "title": "You choose to watch and remain welcome in the gathering", "reflection": "The occasion has room for a role beyond playing. This may picture enjoying an activity through company or attention without needing to take every available turn. A wanted change of role can retain belonging, rather than the spectator position proving passivity, disapproval or an outcome in another area of life." } ], "prompts": [ "What did the particular roll or turn make possible for you?", "How did a changed arrangement affect the effort you wanted to make?", "What mattered about your place in the gathering apart from its score?" ], "related": [ "ninepins", "ball", "race", "locker-room" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-1997" ], "scope": "Playing is given a discredit, money-loss and friendship-loss forecast; seeing others play is linked to pleasure in people the author disparages and likely employment loss; a young woman’s successful game receives a light-pleasure and later-sorrow forecast. Specific supplied passage: miller-1997 — Tenpins (Heading 2001; source lines 22114–22126). Attributed period claims only; this source does not validate the original reflections or establish actual events, health or character." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0789" ], "scope": "Playing receives a disgrace forecast; the centre pin falling is linked to a player’s death, and many pins falling to loss for all the players. The trailing numbers belong to the original fortune-telling text, not an original modern interpretation. Specific supplied passage: fontaine-0789 — Ten-Pins (Heading 789; source line 4873). Attributed period claims only; this source does not validate the original reflections or establish actual events, health or character." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1997", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Tenpins", "text": "If you dream at playing at tenpins, you will doubtless soon\nengage in some affair which will bring discredit upon your name,\nand you will lose your money and true friendship.\n\nTo see others engaged in this dream, foretells that you will find\npleasure in frivolous people and likely lose employment.\n\nFor a young woman to play a successful game of tenpins, is an omen\nof light pleasures, but sorrow will attend her later.", "locator": "Heading 2001; source lines 22114–22126", "lineStart": 22114, "lineEnd": 22126, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream at playing at tenpins, you will doubtless soon\nengage in some affair which will bring discredit upon your name,\nand you will lose your money and true friendship.\n\nTo see others engaged in this dream, foretells that you will find\npleasure in frivolous people and likely lose employment.\n\nFor a young woman to play a successful game of tenpins, is an omen\nof light pleasures, but sorrow will attend her later." }, { "id": "fontaine-0789", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Ten-Pins", "text": "To dream of playing ten-pins, foretells disgrace; if the\ncentre pin falls, one of the players will die; if many pins fall, all\nof the players will suffer loss. 10, 2, 20.", "locator": "Heading 789; source line 4873", "lineStart": 4873, "lineEnd": 4877, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of playing ten-pins, foretells disgrace; if the\ncentre pin falls, one of the players will die; if many pins fall, all\nof the players will suffer loss." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "tent", "title": "Tent", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of being in a tent, foretells a change in your affairs.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "tent" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about tent stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1998", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Tent", "text": "To dream of being in a tent, foretells a change in your affairs.\n\nTo see a number of tents, denotes journeys with unpleasant companions.\n\nIf the tents are torn or otherwise dilapidated, there will be\ntrouble for you.", "locator": "Heading 2002; source lines 22126–22135", "lineStart": 22126, "lineEnd": 22135, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being in a tent, foretells a change in your affairs.\n\nTo see a number of tents, denotes journeys with unpleasant companions.\n\nIf the tents are torn or otherwise dilapidated, there will be\ntrouble for you." }, { "id": "cielo-0423", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Tent", "text": "To dream of being under a tent denotes a quarrel.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 423; source lines 4885–4887", "lineStart": 4885, "lineEnd": 4887, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being under a tent denotes a quarrel." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12204", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Tent", "heading": "Tent", "text": "A dream of war or a quarrel close at hand (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12204, "lineEnd": 12204, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 258; NLM OCR lines 12204–12204", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12204, "lineEnd": 12204, "printedPage": 258, "printedPageEnd": 258 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Tent. — A dream of war or a quarrel close at hand (Gypsy). \n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Tent" }, "displayText": "A dream of war or a quarrel close at hand (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "terror", "title": "Terror", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you feel terror at any object or happening, denotes that disappointments and loss will envelope you.”", "aliases": [ "terror" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about terror stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-1999", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Terror", "text": "To dream that you feel terror at any object or happening,\ndenotes that disappointments and loss will envelope you.\n\nTo see others in terror, means that unhappiness of friends\nwill seriously affect you.", "locator": "Heading 2003; source lines 22135–22143", "lineStart": 22135, "lineEnd": 22143, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you feel terror at any object or happening,\ndenotes that disappointments and loss will envelope you.\n\nTo see others in terror, means that unhappiness of friends\nwill seriously affect you." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "text", "title": "Text", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of hearing a minister reading his text, denotes that quarrels will lead to separation with some friend.”", "aliases": [ "text" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about text stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2000", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Text", "text": "To dream of hearing a minister reading his text, denotes that quarrels\nwill lead to separation with some friend.\n\nTo dream that you are in a dispute about a text, foretells unfortunate\nadventures for you.\n\nIf you try to recall a text, you will meet with unexpected difficulties.\n\nIf you are repeating and pondering over one, you will have great obstacles\nto overcome if you gain your desires.", "locator": "Heading 2004; source lines 22143–22156", "lineStart": 22143, "lineEnd": 22156, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of hearing a minister reading his text, denotes that quarrels\nwill lead to separation with some friend.\n\nTo dream that you are in a dispute about a text, foretells unfortunate\nadventures for you.\n\nIf you try to recall a text, you will meet with unexpected difficulties.\n\nIf you are repeating and pondering over one, you will have great obstacles\nto overcome if you gain your desires." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "texting-an-ex", "title": "Texting an ex", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "tagline": "An earlier relationship appears through a present-day channel.", "summary": "Texting an ex can revisit a conversation, a former version of yourself, or a familiar way of relating. It does not tell you whether to reconnect.", "aliases": [ "texting an ex" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "Write what you wanted from the exchange: an apology, an answer, ordinary company, recognition, or simply the return of a familiar routine. The ex in the dream may be remembered accurately, blended with someone else, or responding unlike the person you knew. Compare the feeling during the chat with the feeling afterward. Curiosity, tenderness, anger, and relief can coexist without forming an instruction to take action in waking life.", "traditional": "Former partners appear in older accounts of dreams, but a text exchange has no single inherited meaning. This entry uses your remembered relationship and conversation as context.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "You wrote but did not send", "reflection": "The act of composing may have mattered on its own. What became easier to say without receiving a response?" }, { "title": "They replied as if nothing had changed", "reflection": "Familiarity can feel comforting or unsettling. Which parts of your present life disappeared from the conversation?" }, { "title": "The reply gave you an ending", "reflection": "Notice what made the exchange feel complete. That feeling belongs to the dream; it does not establish their waking intentions." } ], "prompts": [ "What did I want from the exchange that I can name precisely?", "How was this version of them different from my memory?", "What feeling stayed after the conversation ended?" ], "related": [ "an-unsent-message", "being-left-on-read" ], "sources": [], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection draft, written for this specific modern scene. Suggested connections are exploratory, not established dream meanings. Individual editorial review remains pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "thatch", "title": "Thatch", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you thatch a roof with any quickly, perishable material, denotes that sorrow and discomfort will surround you.”", "aliases": [ "thatch" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about thatch stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2001", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Thatch", "text": "To dream that you thatch a roof with any quickly, perishable material,\ndenotes that sorrow and discomfort will surround you.\n\nIf you find that a roof which you have thatched with straw is leaking,\nthere will be threatenings of danger, but by your rightly directed energy\nthey may be averted.", "locator": "Heading 2005; source lines 22156–22165", "lineStart": 22156, "lineEnd": 22165, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you thatch a roof with any quickly, perishable material,\ndenotes that sorrow and discomfort will surround you.\n\nIf you find that a roof which you have thatched with straw is leaking,\nthere will be threatenings of danger, but by your rightly directed energy\nthey may be averted." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "thaw", "title": "Thaw", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing ice thawing, foretells that some affair which has caused you much worry will soon give…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "thaw" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about thaw stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2002", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Thaw", "text": "To dream of seeing ice thawing, foretells that some affair which has caused\nyou much worry will soon give you profit and pleasure.\n\nTo see the ground thawing after a long freeze,\nforetells prosperous circumstances.", "locator": "Heading 2006; source lines 22165–22173", "lineStart": 22165, "lineEnd": 22173, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing ice thawing, foretells that some affair which has caused\nyou much worry will soon give you profit and pleasure.\n\nTo see the ground thawing after a long freeze,\nforetells prosperous circumstances." }, { "id": "fontaine-0790", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Thaw", "text": "To dream of a thaw, and walking in splashy snow, foretells\ntrouble and losses: if a young fellow dreams that he walks through\nsplashy snow to go a courting, it is a sign that he will quarrel with\nhis sweetheart. 34, 18.", "locator": "Heading 790; source line 4877", "lineStart": 4877, "lineEnd": 4882, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a thaw, and walking in splashy snow, foretells\ntrouble and losses: if a young fellow dreams that he walks through\nsplashy snow to go a courting, it is a sign that he will quarrel with\nhis sweetheart." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "the-anima-and-animus", "title": "The Anima & Animus", "type": "archetypes", "category": "Archetypes", "tagline": "An encounter with an unfamiliar inner perspective.", "summary": "In Jungian analytical psychology, the anima & animus offers a lens for reflection. It is a theory, not a universal dream diagnosis.", "aliases": [ "anima & animus" ], "status": "DRAFT", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "Jungian analytical psychology uses archetypal images to explore patterns of experience. An encounter with an unfamiliar inner perspective. This is a historical theoretical lens rather than a proven code for reading every dream. Begin with the particular person, image, or scene in your dream. Your response can complicate or contradict the theory, and that is useful information.", "traditional": "Archetypal readings compare dream images with motifs in myth and storytelling. The Anima & Animus can provide a name for a recurring kind of encounter, but similarities across stories do not erase cultural differences. Avoid assuming that every character or image belongs to one category.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "Meeting a figure", "reflection": "Which quality stood out to you?" }, { "title": "Becoming the figure", "reflection": "What felt different about being this version of yourself?" }, { "title": "An unexpected change", "reflection": "What shifted in the story?" } ], "prompts": [ "Which quality feels both unfamiliar and compelling?", "What detail resists a neat explanation?", "How would you describe this image in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "the-great-mother", "title": "The Great Mother", "type": "archetypes", "category": "Archetypes", "tagline": "Care, protection, and the complicated experience of dependence.", "summary": "In Jungian analytical psychology, the great mother offers a lens for reflection. It is a theory, not a universal dream diagnosis.", "aliases": [ "great mother" ], "status": "DRAFT", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "Jungian analytical psychology uses archetypal images to explore patterns of experience. Care, protection, and the complicated experience of dependence. This is a historical theoretical lens rather than a proven code for reading every dream. Begin with the particular person, image, or scene in your dream. Your response can complicate or contradict the theory, and that is useful information.", "traditional": "Archetypal readings compare dream images with motifs in myth and storytelling. The Great Mother can provide a name for a recurring kind of encounter, but similarities across stories do not erase cultural differences. Avoid assuming that every character or image belongs to one category.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "Meeting a figure", "reflection": "Which quality stood out to you?" }, { "title": "Becoming the figure", "reflection": "What felt different about being this version of yourself?" }, { "title": "An unexpected change", "reflection": "What shifted in the story?" } ], "prompts": [ "What kind of care do you need, and what kind can you offer?", "What detail resists a neat explanation?", "How would you describe this image in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "the-hero", "title": "The Hero", "type": "archetypes", "category": "Archetypes", "tagline": "Courage, a challenge, and the support behind a journey.", "summary": "In Jungian analytical psychology, the hero offers a lens for reflection. It is a theory, not a universal dream diagnosis.", "aliases": [ "hero" ], "status": "DRAFT", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "Jungian analytical psychology uses archetypal images to explore patterns of experience. Courage, a challenge, and the support behind a journey. This is a historical theoretical lens rather than a proven code for reading every dream. Begin with the particular person, image, or scene in your dream. Your response can complicate or contradict the theory, and that is useful information.", "traditional": "Archetypal readings compare dream images with motifs in myth and storytelling. The Hero can provide a name for a recurring kind of encounter, but similarities across stories do not erase cultural differences. Avoid assuming that every character or image belongs to one category.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "Meeting a figure", "reflection": "Which quality stood out to you?" }, { "title": "Becoming the figure", "reflection": "What felt different about being this version of yourself?" }, { "title": "An unexpected change", "reflection": "What shifted in the story?" } ], "prompts": [ "Where might courage mean accepting help?", "What detail resists a neat explanation?", "How would you describe this image in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "rat-and-weasell", "title": "The Rat and Weasell", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Artemidorus wrote: “THe Rat signifies the servant: it is good to see many playing and sporting.”", "aliases": [ "the rat and weasell" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about the rat and weasell stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "artemidorus-139", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "The Rat and Weasell.", "text": "THe Rat signifies the servant: it is good to see many playing and sporting. But the Weasell signifieth a bad and wicked Wife, or Law, or Death, or gaine: according to her doings, goings▪ or commings.", "locator": "Book 3, encoded section 139", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "3", "displayText": "THe Rat signifies the servant: it is good to see many playing and sporting. But the Weasell signifieth a bad and wicked Wife, or Law, or Death, or gaine: according to her doings, goings▪ or commings." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "the-self", "title": "The Self", "type": "archetypes", "category": "Archetypes", "tagline": "An optional Jungian lens for considering a life with several parts.", "summary": "The Self offers a Jungian lens for considering different parts of a person together. Original dream examples keep this framework open to alternatives.", "aliases": [ "self", "Jungian Self", "Self archetype", "the Self archetype", "a Self archetype" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "The Self can be used as an optional Jungian lens for considering how different aspects of a person belong within a larger account. The APA Dictionary describes several uses of self across psychology; its Jung reference concerns individuation. The separate individuation definition identifies a theoretical process of developing an integrated personality. These definitions identify a framework, not a test that assigns one meaning to a dream image.\n\nThrough this lens, a scene may be interesting because it brings different roles into the same place. Imagine a house where a room for quiet work opens onto a shared kitchen. Wanting both concentration and company need not be treated as a contradiction to eliminate. An original reflection might ask how the two activities can have usable space rather than decide which is the true you.\n\nA center in the scene can provide a meeting place without controlling every part. A table may gather different participants while leaving their preferences distinct. If the table requires everybody to sit in an identical way, the scene may instead make the cost of forced agreement visible. Calling an arrangement whole should not hide the details or differences that make it difficult to inhabit.\n\nA missing room or unfinished structure can invite another question: what has not yet found a place in the account you are considering? That might be an interest, responsibility or ordinary need you have left outside a familiar role. It can also be an incomplete dream setting. The framework does not require every gap to reveal a hidden part of personality or a necessary developmental stage.\n\nKeep the possibility that another explanation fits better. A house may recall a recent visit; a shared table may concern an actual gathering. A circle or balanced arrangement does not establish psychological completion, and a disorderly setting does not measure personal failure. The useful outcome is a more particular account of the different wants or roles you recognize, including differences that remain unresolved, rather than a label that settles who you really are.", "traditional": "The APA entries define self broadly and individuation within Jung’s theory. They support identifying this optional framework only. The house, rooms and table comparisons are original examples, not authenticated Jungian symbol rules, a diagnostic instrument or evidence that a person has reached a stage of psychological completion.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A quiet room and a lively kitchen share one house", "reflection": "Different wanted activities have adjacent places. Through this optional lens, the arrangement may help consider how concentration and company can coexist. A recent building or ordinary household plan remains another possible association." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Different figures gather at a table without agreeing", "reflection": "A shared place does not require identical preferences. This can picture coordination that allows several views to remain visible. The framework need not make the table a universal symbol or decide that each figure represents part of you." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "The center is orderly but nobody can sit comfortably", "reflection": "An attractive arrangement does not fit its participants. This may bring the cost of forced harmony into view. Calling the scene integrated would miss the practical detail that gives it tension." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You discover a room whose use remains undecided", "reflection": "The setting contains a possibility without an assigned role. This may help explore an interest or need not yet fitted into a familiar account. It can also remain an unfinished detail rather than evidence of a hidden personality part." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A balanced circle breaks apart and the activity becomes easier", "reflection": "Symmetry and usefulness separate within the scene. This can picture an arrangement that works better with change or difference. A disrupted shape does not establish psychological damage, just as balance does not prove completion." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The framework adds little and a recent gathering explains the scene", "reflection": "An ordinary association can fit better than the theoretical lens. Keeping that alternative makes interpretation revisable. Understanding the concept does not require accepting it as the explanation for this dream or your identity." } ], "prompts": [ "Which different roles or wants were actually present in the scene?", "Did the arrangement make room for difference or require sameness?", "What does this lens clarify, and what does another explanation handle better?" ], "related": [ "the-shadow", "house", "circle", "mask" ], "sources": [ { "id": "apa-self", "title": "APA Dictionary of Psychology — self", "author": "American Psychological Association", "url": "https://dictionary.apa.org/self", "scope": "Professional reference definition with several uses of self, including Jung’s connection with individuation. Defines terminology only; does not establish the original house/table examples or a dream-symbol test." }, { "id": "apa-individuation", "title": "APA Dictionary of Psychology — individuation", "author": "American Psychological Association", "url": "https://dictionary.apa.org/individuation", "scope": "The Jung-specific definition describes a theoretical process of developing an integrated personality. Does not diagnose development, validate symbol rules or establish a stage of completion." } ], "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Several roles in one account", "reflection": "Different interests or responsibilities can be considered together without declaring only one authentic." }, { "title": "Coordination without sameness", "reflection": "A shared center can allow differences or impose an agreement that does not fit." }, { "title": "An unfinished account stays open", "reflection": "A gap can be explored without turning it into proof of a hidden identity or developmental requirement." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15 under the site owner’s delegation. Historical claims, where supplied, remain attributed period writing. No human or clinical review is claimed.", "detectionAliases": [ "Jungian Self", "Self archetype", "the Self archetype", "a Self archetype" ], "detectionAliasScope": "Qualified Jungian concept phrases only. Ordinary self, self portrait and self-description are not literal journal detections of this optional theoretical lens.", "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "Codex (AI-assisted editorial review)", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "a-stranger", "a-train-going-in-the-wrong-direction", "being-trapped", "being-unable-to-move", "children", "church", "current-romantic-partner", "death-of-a-friend", "elevator", "father", "forest", "hair-falling-out", "insects", "key", "locked-out", "mother", "nakedness", "phone-not-working", "rainbow", "running-but-going-nowhere", "school", "smoke", "snake-bite", "superpowers", "the-self", "the-shadow", "web" ] }, "decisionReason": "The rewritten archetype reading identifies APA’s multiple self uses and Jung-specific individuation definition, then labels house/room/table examples as original optional comparisons. It allows ordinary explanations and unresolved differences without diagnosing integration. Qualified detection excludes literal self-portrait language while preserving lookup for the existing term.", "contentSha256": "bc43b9571a7dd44f28aaf526bdfadbbc47119720c93f5117ab9b98ec8209aa13" }, "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "the-shadow", "title": "The Shadow", "type": "archetypes", "category": "Archetypes", "tagline": "An optional lens for meeting a disowned quality.", "summary": "The Jungian shadow is an optional lens for reflecting on qualities you reject in yourself, including strengths you find hard to claim.", "aliases": [ "Jungian shadow", "shadow archetype", "shadow self", "Jungian shadow archetype", "the shadow archetype", "a shadow archetype", "the shadow self", "a shadow self" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "Within Jungian analytical psychology, the shadow names qualities that a person's conscious self finds unacceptable. The APA definition allows those qualities to be positive or negative: an unclaimed strength can belong to this theoretical picture as readily as an unwanted feeling. This is one framework for reflection, not a validated dictionary code that identifies what a dream must mean. A cast shadow on a wall belongs first to the literal Shadow page.\n\nIf you choose this lens, start with a specific quality in a dream figure rather than its frightening appearance. Someone may be demanding, playful, proud, dependent or openly angry. The useful question is whether you recognize a tension between that quality and how you think you are allowed to behave. A character you dislike might resemble a real person, a fictional role or an ordinary disagreement; there is no need to insist it secretly represents you.\n\nAn admired figure can create a similar tension. Watching someone speak confidently while you remain silent might bring an unclaimed ability into view. Conversely, being given a role you do not want can show that the quality is unsuitable for your present circumstances. Curiosity does not require adopting every trait or treating every impulse as a good guide to action. You can consider a feeling while keeping the limits that matter to you.\n\nThe encounter's arrangement adds detail. Arguing across a closed door makes contact difficult; cooperating on a task allows a quality to have a practical role. Being forced to imitate a character differs from choosing to hear them out. These are original ways of considering a scene through the framework, rather than established outcomes of a particular image.\n\nYour response may also contradict the theory. A character may remain clearly separate from you, or the dream may make more sense as a memory of conflict. Keep that possibility available. The most useful result is a more precise description of a quality, its appeal and its cost, rather than a label that explains every unfamiliar figure in advance.", "traditional": "The APA Dictionary of Psychology identifies the shadow within Jungian analytical psychology. It supplies the concept definition only. The scene reflections here are original examples of using that lens; the cited definition does not verify them, diagnose a condition or establish that a dream figure represents a hidden part of you.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A quality you reject", "reflection": "The lens asks about a specific trait or feeling, rather than assuming an entire character is your hidden self." }, { "title": "A strength you cannot claim", "reflection": "Admiration can bring an ability into view that feels incompatible with your usual role." }, { "title": "Contact with limits", "reflection": "Considering a quality need not mean acting on it or accepting every behavior associated with it." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A disliked figure expresses anger you conceal", "reflection": "Through this optional lens, the openly expressed feeling may contrast with your usual rule for yourself. The detail worth considering is what the anger responds to and how it is expressed. Recognizing frustration does not require accepting the figure's aggression or declaring the figure part of you." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You admire someone who takes up space confidently", "reflection": "The figure may make a wanted ability easier to imagine. This lens could help explore why expressing confidence feels unavailable in your ordinary role. It also remains possible that the person is simply someone you admire, without representing an unrecognized inner character." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You argue with a figure across a closed door", "reflection": "The door makes the encounter indirect and keeps each side separate. Considering the figure's specific quality may clarify what you want to hear and what you want to limit. The dream does not require opening the door or treating resistance as a failure." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You cooperate with an unfamiliar figure on a task", "reflection": "Shared work gives a trait a concrete use instead of making it an abstract good or bad quality. Playfulness might make experimentation possible; insistence might protect a detail. Evaluate what the behavior actually contributes and where it becomes uncomfortable, if you choose this lens." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You are forced to become someone you dislike", "reflection": "Being compelled changes the encounter from curiosity to loss of choice. Even within this framework, you do not need to call the imposed role your true self. A demand to behave against your preferences may offer a more direct comparison than a theory of hidden identity." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The figure remains separate after you hear them", "reflection": "Listening does not erase a difference between you. The scene may let you understand a motive while maintaining a boundary. If the Jungian lens adds little, describing that relationship in ordinary terms can be a useful result rather than a missed interpretation." } ], "prompts": [ "Which specific quality made the figure difficult or attractive to meet?", "What, if anything, does this lens clarify compared with another explanation?", "What part of the quality could you consider while keeping your own boundaries?" ], "related": [ "the-self", "mask", "shadow", "devil", "possession" ], "sources": [ { "id": "apa-jungian-shadow", "title": "APA Dictionary of Psychology — shadow in Jungian analytical psychology", "author": "American Psychological Association", "url": "https://dictionary.apa.org/shadow", "scope": "Defines the shadow as a concept within Jungian analytical psychology, including rejected positive or negative qualities. Does not establish the symbolic interpretations or effectiveness of the original reflective exercises on this page." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15 under the site owner’s delegation. Historical claims, where supplied, remain attributed period writing. No human or clinical review is claimed.", "kind": "editorial", "detectionAliases": [ "Jungian shadow", "shadow archetype", "shadow self", "Jungian shadow archetype", "the shadow archetype", "a shadow archetype", "the shadow self", "a shadow self" ], "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "Codex (AI-assisted editorial review)", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "a-stranger", "a-train-going-in-the-wrong-direction", "being-trapped", "being-unable-to-move", "children", "church", "current-romantic-partner", "death-of-a-friend", "elevator", "father", "forest", "hair-falling-out", "insects", "key", "locked-out", "mother", "nakedness", "phone-not-working", "rainbow", "running-but-going-nowhere", "school", "smoke", "snake-bite", "superpowers", "the-self", "the-shadow", "web" ] }, "decisionReason": "The developed body matches the directly read APA concept definition, including rejected positive as well as negative qualities. It offers an optional lens that can fail to fit and preserves distinction from a literal cast shadow. The scene examples are original; no recovered identity, diagnosis or treatment effect is asserted.", "contentSha256": "adb55383303be80099d92463fc7649cb8accc9b55b01ace835a76de4558bf369" }, "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "the-trickster", "title": "The Trickster", "type": "archetypes", "category": "Archetypes", "tagline": "Disruption, play, and a different way through a problem.", "summary": "In Jungian analytical psychology, the trickster offers a lens for reflection. It is a theory, not a universal dream diagnosis.", "aliases": [ "trickster" ], "status": "DRAFT", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "Jungian analytical psychology uses archetypal images to explore patterns of experience. Disruption, play, and a different way through a problem. This is a historical theoretical lens rather than a proven code for reading every dream. Begin with the particular person, image, or scene in your dream. Your response can complicate or contradict the theory, and that is useful information.", "traditional": "Archetypal readings compare dream images with motifs in myth and storytelling. The Trickster can provide a name for a recurring kind of encounter, but similarities across stories do not erase cultural differences. Avoid assuming that every character or image belongs to one category.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "Meeting a figure", "reflection": "Which quality stood out to you?" }, { "title": "Becoming the figure", "reflection": "What felt different about being this version of yourself?" }, { "title": "An unexpected change", "reflection": "What shifted in the story?" } ], "prompts": [ "What assumption could you gently turn upside down?", "What detail resists a neat explanation?", "How would you describe this image in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "theater", "title": "Theater", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "A live performance can make watching and participating exchange places.", "summary": "A theater dream can explore roles, audience response and the distance between a script and an encounter. The live exchange gives the venue its focus.", "aliases": [ "theater", "theatre", "theaters", "theatres", "live theater", "live theatre" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A theater brings a performance into a shared room. In a dream, the actors, audience and stage can make roles visible: somebody presents an account while others respond. This can picture a meeting, group occasion or relationship in which expectations shape what each person is supposed to do. Watching can be pleasurable without requiring you to take a role. Being called onto the stage changes the task from receiving the performance to participating in it.\n\nAn unexpectedly close seat can make distance uncertain. You may want a view while finding that the performance now addresses you directly. This can resemble observing a discussion that suddenly includes your experience or expects an answer. A direct invitation can feel welcome; a role assigned without context can make the same contact difficult to use.\n\nKnowing the lines can picture preparation that gives a public task structure. Missing them can center unclear expectations rather than simply lack of ability. You might recognize a role whose purpose has been explained while its practical demands remain assumed. Another performer offering a cue can change the arrangement into collaboration without requiring you to understand the whole script alone.\n\nThe audience's response may affect the performance while not deciding its value. Laughter, silence or applause can feel accurate or mismatched. This can fit being seen through a response that does not capture what you intended. The dream crowd cannot reveal how real people assess you. Its actions provide the imagined terms of the encounter.\n\nStage and audience changing places can make a familiar division less fixed. Somebody usually receiving the account may begin shaping it, while a performer gets room to listen. Leaving after your part can offer an ending that preserves contribution without requiring permanent performance. Recent shows, conversations or memories can supply the scene directly. These original reflections concern live roles and exchange; Cinema separately develops a projected film watched within a venue.", "traditional": "Miller differentiates attending, performing, vaudeville, opera and audience conduct through several forecasts. Fontaine’s Theatre account gives romantic-rivalry omens, while Cielo predicts sadness or loss. All three exact accounts remain attached and attributed as period beliefs, without establishing a real audience’s judgment, relationship outcome or hazard.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A role inside the encounter", "reflection": "A live stage can make participation visible. The meaning changes when you choose a part, receive a clear invitation or discover expectations already assigned to you." }, { "title": "Distance that can change", "reflection": "A close seat or direct address can move an observer into the exchange. Welcome participation differs from exposure without enough context to respond." }, { "title": "A response beyond your intention", "reflection": "An audience can receive a performance differently from how it was meant. The scene may make recognition and representation separate questions without turning the crowd into waking evidence." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You watch a performance from an unexpectedly close seat", "reflection": "An unexpectedly close seat can picture observing a matter that now feels personally immediate. A group discussion may fit. The increased access can be welcome or make distance harder to choose, depending on what the performance asks of you." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A performer addresses you directly", "reflection": "A performer addressing you can picture an invitation into a previously observed encounter. The question may feel useful when there is room to respond. A demanded role without context changes the same attention into pressure." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You discover you have a role before knowing the lines", "reflection": "A role before the lines are known can resemble responsibility assigned before preparation becomes usable. A work or family task may fit. A cue from someone else can turn uncertain performance into a shared arrangement." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "The audience responds while the performance keeps changing", "reflection": "Audience response during a changing performance can picture feedback becoming part of the encounter. Its fit with your intention matters more than whether it is loud or quiet. The dream supplies no evidence of an actual audience’s judgment." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The stage and audience exchange places", "reflection": "Stage and audience exchanging places can picture a fixed role becoming open to revision. Someone usually explaining may listen, while another person contributes. The change can make participation more reciprocal without erasing the value of different positions." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You leave after your part rather than staying for every scene", "reflection": "Leaving after your part can picture an understood ending to a public role. A contribution may remain useful when you no longer occupy the center. Staying for every later scene need not be the condition for having participated meaningfully." } ], "prompts": [ "How did my position shift between watching and performing?", "What made the role chosen, clear or unexpectedly assigned?", "How did the response relate to what I meant to present?" ], "related": [ "applause", "audition", "public-speaking", "actor-and-actress" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-2003" ], "scope": "Miller distinguishes attending, playing a role, vaudeville, opera, audience response and escaping a theater, with different forecasts. Exact supplied record(s): miller-2003 — Theater (Heading 2007; source lines 22173–22190). Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence for the original reflection, a diagnosis or an actual outcome." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0791" ], "scope": "Fontaine’s Theatre account predicts changed romantic preference after attending with or observing a sweetheart. Exact supplied record(s): fontaine-0791 — Theatre (Heading 791; source line 4882). Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence for the original reflection, a diagnosis or an actual outcome." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0424" ], "scope": "Cielo’s Theater account gives sadness or loss for being at a theater. Exact supplied record(s): cielo-0424 — Theater (Dream section, heading 424; source lines 4887–4890). Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence for the original reflection, a diagnosis or an actual outcome." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2003", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Theater", "text": "To dream of being at a theater, denotes that you will have much\npleasure in the company of new friends. Your affairs will be\nsatisfactory after this dream. If you are one of the players,\nyour pleasures will be of short duration.\n\nIf you attend a vaudeville theater, you are in danger of losing\nproperty through silly pleasures. If it is a grand opera,\nyou will succeed in you wishes and aspirations.\n\nIf you applaud and laugh at a theater, you will sacrifice duty\nto the gratification of fancy.\n\nTo dream of trying to escape from one during a fire or other excitement,\nforetells that you will engage in some enterprise, which will be hazardous.", "locator": "Heading 2007; source lines 22173–22190", "lineStart": 22173, "lineEnd": 22190, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being at a theater, denotes that you will have much\npleasure in the company of new friends. Your affairs will be\nsatisfactory after this dream. If you are one of the players,\nyour pleasures will be of short duration.\n\nIf you attend a vaudeville theater, you are in danger of losing\nproperty through silly pleasures. If it is a grand opera,\nyou will succeed in you wishes and aspirations.\n\nIf you applaud and laugh at a theater, you will sacrifice duty\nto the gratification of fancy.\n\nTo dream of trying to escape from one during a fire or other excitement,\nforetells that you will engage in some enterprise, which will be hazardous." }, { "id": "fontaine-0791", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Theatre", "text": "For a young man to dream of taking his sweetheart to the\ntheatre, is a sign that she will favor a new beau: if he dreams\nof going to the theatre alone, and seeing his lady-love among the\naudience, it shows that she has already seen and spoken to a gentleman\nthat she likes better than him: if a lady dreams this of her beau, the\nomen is similar. 2, 4, 8.", "locator": "Heading 791; source line 4882", "lineStart": 4882, "lineEnd": 4889, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a young man to dream of taking his sweetheart to the\ntheatre, is a sign that she will favor a new beau: if he dreams\nof going to the theatre alone, and seeing his lady-love among the\naudience, it shows that she has already seen and spoken to a gentleman\nthat she likes better than him: if a lady dreams this of her beau, the\nomen is similar.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Theatre” is shown on the Theater page: uS/UK spelling" }, { "id": "cielo-0424", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Theater", "text": "Being at a theater is a sign of coming\n sadness or loss.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 424; source lines 4887–4890", "lineStart": 4887, "lineEnd": 4890, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Being at a theater is a sign of coming\nsadness or loss." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "theft-sacriledge-and-lying", "title": "Theft, Sacriledge, and Lying", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Artemidorus wrote: “To dreame that one steales is not good, except to him which would deceive an other.”", "aliases": [ "theft, sacriledge, and lying", "of theft, sacriledge, and lying", "theft", "sacriledge", "lying" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about theft, sacriledge, and lying stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "artemidorus-122", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of theft, Sacriledge, and Lying.", "text": "TO dreame that one steales is not good, except to him which would deceive an other. By how much rirher, and safely garded the thing is, which one dreames he steales, so much the greater danger it is to the dreamer, for it is likely the dreame subiects the dreamer, to the same paine, that the law doth theeues. To commit a sacriledge in a dreame, is most ill to all, except to Sacrificers, and Prophets, for by custome they receive, and devide che first fruites, of oblations, and are alwaies nourished by their Gods, and take not all openly. To tell a lie in a dreame, is not good, except to Players, and iesters, which practise it: it is lesse evill to lie to strangers, then to his owne countrymen, for it signifieth great missfortunes, yea though one dreame to lie to his friends, in things of very small importance.", "locator": "Book 3, encoded section 122", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "3", "displayText": "To dreame that one steales is not good, except to him which would deceive an other. By how much rirher, and safely garded the thing is, which one dreames he steales, so much the greater danger it is to the dreamer, for it is likely the dreame subiects the dreamer, to the same paine, that the law doth theeues. To commit a sacriledge in a dreame, is most ill to all, except to Sacrificers, and Prophets, for by custome they receive, and devide che first fruites, of oblations, and are alwaies nourished by their Gods, and take not all openly. To tell a lie in a dreame, is not good, except to Players, and iesters, which practise it: it is lesse evill to lie to strangers, then to his owne countrymen, for it signifieth great missfortunes, yea though one dreame to lie to his friends, in things of very small importance." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "thermometer", "title": "Thermometer", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of looking at a thermometer, denotes unsatisfactory business, and disagreements in the home.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "thermometer" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about thermometer stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2004", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Thermometer", "text": "To dream of looking at a thermometer, denotes unsatisfactory business,\nand disagreements in the home.\n\nTo see a broken one, foreshadows illness. If the mercury seems\nto be falling, your affairs will assume a distressing shape.\nIf it is rising, you will be able to throw off bad conditions\nin your business.", "locator": "Heading 2008; source lines 22190–22200", "lineStart": 22190, "lineEnd": 22200, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of looking at a thermometer, denotes unsatisfactory business,\nand disagreements in the home.\n\nTo see a broken one, foreshadows illness. If the mercury seems\nto be falling, your affairs will assume a distressing shape.\nIf it is rising, you will be able to throw off bad conditions\nin your business." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12205", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Thermometer", "heading": "Thermometer", "text": "A dream denoting fever or some sudden change in the temperature (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12205, "lineEnd": 12206, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 258; NLM OCR lines 12205–12206", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12205, "lineEnd": 12206, "printedPage": 258, "printedPageEnd": 258 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Thermometer. — A dream denoting fever or some sudden \nchange in the temperature (Gypsy). \n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Thermometer" }, "displayText": "A dream denoting fever or some sudden change in the temperature (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "thief", "title": "Thief", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of being a thief and that you are pursued by officers, is a sign that you will meet reverses in…” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "thief", "robber", "thieves", "robbery" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about thief stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "stealing" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2005", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Thief", "text": "To dream of being a thief and that you are pursued by officers,\nis a sign that you will meet reverses in business, and your social\nrelations will be unpleasant.\n\nIf you pursue or capture a thief, you will overcome your enemies.\n\n\n[223] See Stealing.", "locator": "Heading 2009; source lines 22200–22211", "lineStart": 22200, "lineEnd": 22211, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being a thief and that you are pursued by officers,\nis a sign that you will meet reverses in business, and your social\nrelations will be unpleasant.\n\nIf you pursue or capture a thief, you will overcome your enemies. See Stealing." }, { "id": "fontaine-0792", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Thief", "text": "(_See Stealing._) To dream that thieves break into your house\nand rob you, is a sign of honor or profit—the greater the robbery, the\nmore extensive will be your good fortune: if you dream that you catch a\nthief and deliver him over to the officers of justice, it denotes that\nyou will have trouble in connection with your good fortune. 49, 16, 3.", "locator": "Heading 792; source line 4889", "lineStart": 4889, "lineEnd": 4895, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Stealing.) To dream that thieves break into your house\nand rob you, is a sign of honor or profit—the greater the robbery, the\nmore extensive will be your good fortune: if you dream that you catch a\nthief and deliver him over to the officers of justice, it denotes that\nyou will have trouble in connection with your good fortune." }, { "id": "cielo-0363", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Robber", "text": "To be attacked by robbers is a sign of\n victory over a rival.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 363; source lines 4738–4741", "lineStart": 4738, "lineEnd": 4741, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To be attacked by robbers is a sign of\nvictory over a rival.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Robber” is shown on the Thief page: same concept" }, { "id": "luck-0235", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Thieves", "text": "A warning against gossipers and tattlers.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 235; source lines 4133–4135", "lineStart": 4133, "lineEnd": 4135, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "A warning against gossipers and tattlers." }, { "id": "fontaine-0676", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Robbery", "text": "(_See Thief and Stealing._)", "locator": "Heading 676; source line 4270", "lineStart": 4270, "lineEnd": 4272, "kind": "cross-reference", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Thief and Stealing.)" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "stealing" ] }, { "slug": "thigh", "title": "Thigh", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing your thigh smooth and white, denotes unusual good luck and pleasure.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "thigh", "thighs" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about thigh stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "thimble", "title": "Thimble", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “If you use a thimble in your dreams, you will have many others to please besides yourself.” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "thimble" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about thimble stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. 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To see an old or broken one,\ndenotes that you are about to act unwisely in some momentous affair.\n\nTo receive or buy a new thimble, portends new associations in which you\nwill find contentment.\n\nTo dream that you use an open end thimble, but find that it is closed,\ndenotes that you will have trouble, but friends will aid you in escaping\nits disastrous consequences.", "locator": "Heading 2011; source lines 22222–22238", "lineStart": 22222, "lineEnd": 22238, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you use a thimble in your dreams, you will have many others\nto please besides yourself. If a woman, you will have your own\nposition to make.\n\nTo lose one, foretells poverty and trouble. To see an old or broken one,\ndenotes that you are about to act unwisely in some momentous affair.\n\nTo receive or buy a new thimble, portends new associations in which you\nwill find contentment.\n\nTo dream that you use an open end thimble, but find that it is closed,\ndenotes that you will have trouble, but friends will aid you in escaping\nits disastrous consequences." }, { "id": "cielo-0425", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Thimble", "text": "Denotes hard work to achieve success.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 425; source lines 4890–4892", "lineStart": 4890, "lineEnd": 4892, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Denotes hard work to achieve success." }, { "id": "luck-0236", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Thimble", "text": "The loss of employment.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 236; source lines 4135–4137", "lineStart": 4135, "lineEnd": 4137, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "The loss of employment." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12212", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Thimble", "heading": "Thimble", "text": "A dream denoting a vain search after work (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12212, "lineEnd": 12214, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 258; NLM OCR lines 12212–12214", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12212, "lineEnd": 12214, "printedPage": 258, "printedPageEnd": 258 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Thimble. — A dream denoting a vain search after work \n(Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Thimble" }, "displayText": "A dream denoting a vain search after work (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2012", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Throat", "text": "To dream of seeing a well-developed and graceful throat,\nportends a rise in position.\n\nIf you feel that your throat is sore, you will be deceived in your estimation\nof a friend, and will have anxiety over the discovery.", "locator": "Heading 2016; source lines 22274–22282", "lineStart": 22274, "lineEnd": 22282, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing a well-developed and graceful throat,\nportends a rise in position.\n\nIf you feel that your throat is sore, you will be deceived in your estimation\nof a friend, and will have anxiety over the discovery." }, { "id": "fontaine-0795", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Throat", "text": "For a married woman to dream that her throat is sore, or\nswelled, or out of order, is a sign she is in the family way; and a\ngirl who dreams this had better be careful and keep pretty clear of the\nyoung fellows, for fear of accidents. 60, 18.", "locator": "Heading 795; source line 4908", "lineStart": 4908, "lineEnd": 4913, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a married woman to dream that her throat is sore, or\nswelled, or out of order, is a sign she is in the family way; and a\ngirl who dreams this had better be careful and keep pretty clear of the\nyoung fellows, for fear of accidents." }, { "id": "noe-0507", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Throat", "text": "If any one dreams his throat is cut, he will be\ninjured by some person or other. If he dreams he cuts the throat of\nanother, he will do himself some great injury.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 515; source lines 1871–1873", "lineStart": 1871, "lineEnd": 1873, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If any one dreams his throat is cut, he will be\ninjured by some person or other. If he dreams he cuts the throat of\nanother, he will do himself some great injury." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "throne", "title": "Throne", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “If you dream of sitting on a throne, you will rapidly rise to favor and fortune.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "throne" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about throne stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2013", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Throne", "text": "If you dream of sitting on a throne, you will rapidly rise\nto favor and fortune.\n\nTo descend from one, there is much disappointment for you.\n\nTo see others on a throne, you will succeed to wealth through\nthe favor of others.", "locator": "Heading 2017; source lines 22282–22292", "lineStart": 22282, "lineEnd": 22292, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream of sitting on a throne, you will rapidly rise\nto favor and fortune.\n\nTo descend from one, there is much disappointment for you.\n\nTo see others on a throne, you will succeed to wealth through\nthe favor of others." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12239", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Throne", "heading": "Throne", "text": "A dream connoting credit, renown, honor (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12239, "lineEnd": 12241, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 259; NLM OCR lines 12239–12241", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12239, "lineEnd": 12241, "printedPage": 259, "printedPageEnd": 259 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Throne. — A dream connoting credit, renown, honor (Gyp- \nsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "Gyp- \nsy", "after": "Gypsy", "evidenceLine": 243 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Throne" }, "displayText": "A dream connoting credit, renown, honor (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "thumb", "title": "Thumb", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing a thumb, foretells that you will be the favorite of artful persons and uncertain fortune.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "thumb" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about thumb stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2014", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Thumb", "text": "To dream of seeing a thumb, foretells that you will be the favorite\nof artful persons and uncertain fortune.\n\nIf you are suffering from a sore thumb, you will lose\nin business, and your companions will prove disagreeable.\nTo dream that you have no thumb, implies destitution and loneliness.\nIf it seems unnaturally small, you will enjoy pleasure for a time.\nIf abnormally large, your success will be rapid and brilliant.\n\nA soiled thumb indicates gratification of loose desires.\nIf the thumb has a very long nail, you are liable to fall\ninto evil through seeking strange pleasures.", "locator": "Heading 2018; source lines 22292–22307", "lineStart": 22292, "lineEnd": 22307, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing a thumb, foretells that you will be the favorite\nof artful persons and uncertain fortune.\n\nIf you are suffering from a sore thumb, you will lose\nin business, and your companions will prove disagreeable.\nTo dream that you have no thumb, implies destitution and loneliness.\nIf it seems unnaturally small, you will enjoy pleasure for a time.\nIf abnormally large, your success will be rapid and brilliant.\n\nA soiled thumb indicates gratification of loose desires.\nIf the thumb has a very long nail, you are liable to fall\ninto evil through seeking strange pleasures." }, { "id": "fontaine-0796", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Thumb", "text": "If a girl dreams that her beau hurts her by pinching her thumb,\nit is a sign that if she marries him she will have to get her own\nliving, and help to support him besides: for a man to dream of losing\nhis thumb, or of an injury to it, foretells poverty—on the contrary, to\ndream of a big thumb denotes much wealth. 36, 5.", "locator": "Heading 796; source line 4913", "lineStart": 4913, "lineEnd": 4919, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If a girl dreams that her beau hurts her by pinching her thumb,\nit is a sign that if she marries him she will have to get her own\nliving, and help to support him besides: for a man to dream of losing\nhis thumb, or of an injury to it, foretells poverty—on the contrary, to\ndream of a big thumb denotes much wealth." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "thunder", "title": "Thunder", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "5 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of hearing thunder, foretells you will soon be threatened with reverses in your business.” Compare 5 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "thunder" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about thunder stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "lightning" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2015", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Thunder", "text": "To dream of hearing thunder, foretells you will soon be threatened\nwith reverses in your business.\n\nTo be in a thunder shower, denotes trouble and grief are close to you.\n\nTo hear the terrific peals of thunder, which make the earth quake,\nportends great loss and disappointment.", "locator": "Heading 2019; source lines 22307–22317", "lineStart": 22307, "lineEnd": 22317, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of hearing thunder, foretells you will soon be threatened\nwith reverses in your business.\n\nTo be in a thunder shower, denotes trouble and grief are close to you.\n\nTo hear the terrific peals of thunder, which make the earth quake,\nportends great loss and disappointment." }, { "id": "fontaine-0797", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Thunder", "text": "To dream of heavy thunder denotes large crops to farmers: to\ntradesmen, mechanics, or speculators, it foretells a big business, or\na successful speculation: if you are terrified by thunder, so much the\nbetter. 51.", "locator": "Heading 797; source line 4919", "lineStart": 4919, "lineEnd": 4924, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of heavy thunder denotes large crops to farmers: to\ntradesmen, mechanics, or speculators, it foretells a big business, or\na successful speculation: if you are terrified by thunder, so much the\nbetter." }, { "id": "noe-0514", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Thunder", "text": "To dream of\nthunder, signifies affliction to the rich, but to the poor repose.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 522; source lines 1893–1895", "lineStart": 1893, "lineEnd": 1895, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of\nthunder, signifies affliction to the rich, but to the poor repose." }, { "id": "cielo-0429", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Thunder", "text": "To dream of a thunderstorm denotes danger\n or death to a friend.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 429; source lines 4898–4901", "lineStart": 4898, "lineEnd": 4901, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a thunderstorm denotes danger\nor death to a friend." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12242", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Thunder", "heading": "Thunder", "text": "See Lightning (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12242, "lineEnd": 12243, "kind": "cross-reference", "locator": "Printed p. 259; NLM OCR lines 12242–12243", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12242, "lineEnd": 12243, "printedPage": 259, "printedPageEnd": 259 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Thunder. — See Lightning (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Thunder" }, "displayText": "See Lightning (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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It denotes success in trade, good crops to the farmer and\na speedy and happy marriage to the lover. If you are soliciting a place,\nyou will obtain it; if you have a lawsuit, you will gain it. It also\nindicates speedy news from a far distant country." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "ticket", "title": "Ticket", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "Having permission to enter is different from wanting what lies inside.", "summary": "A ticket dream can explore access, commitment and proof of permission. The event or journey it admits you to gives the object its purpose.", "aliases": [ "ticket", "tickets", "admission ticket", "entry ticket", "train ticket", "concert ticket", "flight ticket", "flight tickets", "travel ticket", "travel tickets" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A ticket connects a particular person with permission to enter, attend or travel. In a dream, it can picture an opportunity made concrete enough to use: a place has been offered, a journey arranged or an expectation set aside for you. A role, invitation or agreed plan may provide a waking parallel. Possessing the ticket does not settle whether you want what it makes available. Access and choice remain different parts of the scene.\n\nAn unexpected event or destination printed on the ticket can make a commitment feel assigned rather than chosen. You may recognize an arrangement others consider suitable while it does not match your own purpose. A changing destination can resemble terms that shift after you agree. Reading the ticket closely may express a wish to understand what participation actually involves, not merely to receive permission.\n\nBeing refused entry despite holding a valid-looking pass can picture a gap between what was promised and what a system recognizes. A qualification, completed task or invitation may seem sufficient until another condition appears. This can feel frustrating without proving that the refusal is intentional or unfair in waking life. A helpful attendant can shift the scene toward finding a way to translate or confirm what you already have.\n\nAn extra ticket introduces another person's participation. Choosing whom to invite can picture deciding who belongs in an experience you value, or whose company would change its meaning. Giving the ticket away can also release a commitment that no longer fits. Generosity differs from feeling obliged to surrender your own place. The other person's response and your feeling afterward help distinguish sharing an opportunity from disappearing from it.\n\nAfter admission, the ticket may lose its importance. You no longer have to keep proving your right to be there and can participate in the event itself. This can resemble settling into a role after repeated checks or feeling welcomed beyond an initial qualification. Ordinary journeys and invitations may supply the object directly. These reflections concern admission and travel tickets; a penalty notice centers obligation, while a lottery ticket centers chance, and neither is treated as the same dream image.", "traditional": "No exact Ticket heading is supplied for this admission-and-travel scope. The readings here are original reflections on access, proof and commitment. Penalty notices and lottery tickets remain different senses; no lucky number, financial forecast or future admission is inferred.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Access and desire", "reflection": "A ticket can make an opportunity usable without making it wanted. Permission, readiness and the choice to participate may need to be considered separately." }, { "title": "A promise a system recognizes", "reflection": "Refused admission can picture a gap between an agreement and the conditions applied to it. The scene may center recognition rather than whether you deserve a place." }, { "title": "Sharing or releasing a place", "reflection": "An extra or unwanted ticket can bring another person into a choice. Giving it away may express generosity, changed priorities or pressure to surrender an opportunity." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Your ticket names an event you did not choose", "reflection": "An assigned event can picture an opportunity chosen for you rather than by you. A role or invitation may look suitable to others while missing your own purpose. The feeling toward the destination distinguishes surprise from obligation." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You have a ticket but the attendant will not accept it", "reflection": "A refused ticket can resemble having met the stated conditions without receiving the access expected. Unclear requirements may offer a parallel. Finding somebody willing to examine the pass can change the scene toward recognition." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You receive an extra ticket and decide whom to invite", "reflection": "An extra ticket can picture deciding whom you want beside you in an experience. A shared project or invitation may fit. Choice can feel generous, difficult or weighted by expectations about who should be included." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "The printed destination changes while you read it", "reflection": "Changing printed details can resemble a commitment whose terms shift after you accept it. The difficulty is maintaining an informed choice. A wanted journey can become uncertain without the desire itself having disappeared." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You give away a ticket you no longer want", "reflection": "Giving away an unwanted ticket can picture releasing a place that no longer fits your priorities. Relief differs from feeling pressured to give up something you still wanted. The decision and its aftermath matter together." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You enter successfully and no longer need to hold the ticket", "reflection": "No longer holding the pass after entry can picture moving from proving eligibility to participating. A new role or group may finally feel usable without repeated checks. The object’s fading importance can be part of feeling included." } ], "prompts": [ "What did the ticket permit, and did I want that particular event or journey?", "What made my permission recognized or questioned?", "How did sharing, surrendering or using the ticket change my place in the experience?" ], "related": [ "passport", "theater", "train", "missing-a-flight-or-train", "speeding", "airport", "bus-stop" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "tickle", "title": "Tickle", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of being tickled, denotes insistent worries and illness.”", "aliases": [ "tickle" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about tickle stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2016", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Tickle", "text": "To dream of being tickled, denotes insistent worries and illness.\n\nIf you tickle others, you will throw away much enjoyment through\nweakness and folly.", "locator": "Heading 2020; source lines 22317–22324", "lineStart": 22317, "lineEnd": 22324, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being tickled, denotes insistent worries and illness.\n\nIf you tickle others, you will throw away much enjoyment through\nweakness and folly." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "ticks", "title": "Ticks", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream you see ticks crawling on your flesh, is a sign of impoverished circumstances and ill health.”", "aliases": [ "ticks" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about ticks stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2017", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Ticks", "text": "To dream you see ticks crawling on your flesh, is a sign of impoverished\ncircumstances and ill health. Hasty journeys to sick beds may be made.\n\nTo mash a tick on you, denotes that you will be annoyed\nby treacherous enemies.\n\nTo see in your dreams large ticks on stock, enemies are endeavoring\nto get possession of your property by foul means.", "locator": "Heading 2021; source lines 22324–22335", "lineStart": 22324, "lineEnd": 22335, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see ticks crawling on your flesh, is a sign of impoverished\ncircumstances and ill health. Hasty journeys to sick beds may be made.\n\nTo mash a tick on you, denotes that you will be annoyed\nby treacherous enemies.\n\nTo see in your dreams large ticks on stock, enemies are endeavoring\nto get possession of your property by foul means." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "tiger", "title": "Tiger", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "A powerful animal, the distance you choose, and the terms of sharing a place.", "summary": "A tiger dream may bring a powerful presence, shared space, or uncertainty about approach into focus. Compare its behavior with your actual response.", "aliases": [ "tiger" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "kind": "editorial", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "A tiger may appear as a familiar animal from a photograph, a figure in a story, or an unexpected presence in an ordinary place. Start with what it actually does. Walking past you, sleeping at a station, and pursuing you are different encounters. The animal’s size does not automatically identify an enemy or reveal an inner power you are required to claim.\n\nDistance can organize the scene. You may observe from somewhere secure, discover that the tiger is nearer than you thought, or choose to approach while others stay back. Notice what you want from the encounter and which options remain available. If you connect this with a demanding person or situation, keep that comparison tentative; the dream cannot establish another person’s intentions.\n\nA cage, fence, room or doorway adds questions about access. Who placed the barrier, and which side feels limiting? A protected observer can become responsible for opening a passage, or an animal may leave without needing your help. These details can invite reflection on how an arrangement contains a difficult encounter. They do not make control or escape the only useful endings.\n\nA young tiger or an injured animal can shift your role toward care within the dream. Record what help you looked for and whether the responsibility was shared. Feeling affection alongside caution need not become a contradiction to solve. An imagined rescue is not an instruction to handle a real wild animal, and difficulty helping in a dream is not evidence of neglect.\n\nThe tiger may also become a drawing, a costume, or a pattern that you first mistook for an animal. Such changes can be playful or unsettling. A possible question concerns the difference between an impression and the thing producing it. Preserve the sequence and the feeling that changes with it, rather than deciding that the original fear or admiration must have been unjustified.", "traditional": "Miller varies his forecasts according to advance, attack, escape, cages and tiger skins. Fontaine casts both an angry tiger and a quiet one as warnings about allegedly treacherous people. Cielo and Craig also give enemy and danger forecasts. These four attributed accounts document older assertions; they cannot identify a present adversary, determine whether someone is safe, or promise success after a violent dream ending. The original reflections here keep behavior and distance open to more than one personal association.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A tiger sleeps beside the station platform", "reflection": "A powerful presence is close to an ordinary journey without actively pursuing anyone. Notice whether you wait, walk past or miss a departure while watching. The question may concern what captures your attention rather than an unavoidable threat." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A tiger follows at the same distance whatever pace you choose", "reflection": "Changing speed does not change the relation between you. This can invite a question about an encounter that remains present despite your efforts to outrun it. Record possible exits and helpers without assuming that a real person is pursuing you." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You stand outside a cage and cannot decide whether to open it", "reflection": "A barrier creates an action you are unsure you want to take. Ask who expects you to decide and what each possible ending would change. The scene does not prescribe releasing or controlling a difficult waking situation." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A young tiger is waiting in a room you need to use", "reflection": "Affection, caution and a practical task occupy the same place. Notice what help you seek and whether another arrangement becomes available. The dream can explore responsibility that has arrived unexpectedly without forecasting a real duty." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The tiger turns away and you continue on separate paths", "reflection": "An encounter ends through different directions rather than confrontation. Record whether you feel relieved, disappointed or curious about where it goes. The ending can remain meaningful without proving that an enemy has been defeated." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "A striped curtain first appears to be a tiger", "reflection": "A pattern becomes an animal-shaped impression before the setting is clear. Notice which detail changes your view and what feeling remains afterward. 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Does not validate the original reflections or establish health, character, luck or future events.", "recordIds": [ "miller-2018" ] }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "scope": "Historical belief only; supplied passage: Tiger — Heading 798; source line 4924. Does not validate the original reflections or establish health, character, luck or future events.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0798" ] }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "scope": "Historical belief only; supplied passage: Tiger — Dream section, heading 430; source lines 4901–4903. Does not validate the original reflections or establish health, character, luck or future events.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0430" ] }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "scope": "Historical belief only; supplied passage: Tiger — Printed p. 259; NLM OCR lines 12246–12248. Does not validate the original reflections or establish health, character, luck or future events.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L12246" ] } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s delegation of editorial decisions. Complete historical accounts retain their attribution and do not establish present-day forecasts.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A powerful presence at a particular distance", "reflection": "The animal’s behavior and your position can make room for caution, fascination or welcome company. Size alone does not determine which feeling belongs to the scene." }, { "title": "Access shaped by a barrier", "reflection": "A cage, fence or threshold may protect, restrict or simply organize movement. Ask whose route becomes possible when the arrangement changes." }, { "title": "The role you take in the encounter", "reflection": "Watching, leaving, helping and approaching ask different things of you. The scene may invite reflection on that chosen or assigned role rather than on a fixed tiger meaning." } ], "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "DreamFolia AI-assisted editorial review", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "ants", "bats", "caterpillar", "frogs", "grasshopper", "tiger", "turtle", "whale", "anaconda", "moose", "praying-mantis", "woodpecker" ] }, "decisionReason": "Distance, barriers, assigned care, separate routes and a mistaken outline make the six encounters distinct. 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If it attacks you, failure will bury you in gloom.\nIf you succeed in warding it off, or killing it, you will be extremely\nsuccessful in all your undertakings.\n\nTo see one running away from you, is a sign that you will overcome opposition,\nand rise to high positions.\n\nTo see them in cages, foretells that you will foil your adversaries.\n\nTo see rugs of tiger skins, denotes that you are in the way to enjoy\nluxurious ease and pleasure." }, { "id": "fontaine-0798", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Tiger", "text": "To dream of seeing one of these animals in a rage, is a sign\nthat you have a treacherous friend who will endanger your reputation:\nto see, in your dream, a sleeping or quiet tiger, foretells that you\nwill soon make the acquaintance of a treacherous or unworthy person. If\na girl dreams this, she had better be suspicious of the next young man\nwho offers her his attentions. 59, 62.", "locator": "Heading 798; source line 4924", "lineStart": 4924, "lineEnd": 4931, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing one of these animals in a rage, is a sign\nthat you have a treacherous friend who will endanger your reputation:\nto see, in your dream, a sleeping or quiet tiger, foretells that you\nwill soon make the acquaintance of a treacherous or unworthy person. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2020", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Timber", "text": "To see timber in your dreams, is an augury of prosperous times\nand peaceful surroundings.\n\nIf the timber appears dead, there are great disappointments for you.\n\n\n[225] See Forest.", "locator": "Heading 2024; source lines 22356–22366", "lineStart": 22356, "lineEnd": 22366, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see timber in your dreams, is an augury of prosperous times\nand peaceful surroundings.\n\nIf the timber appears dead, there are great disappointments for you. See Forest." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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Going forward tends to be sparser, with unfamiliar streets or older versions of people you love. Then ask whether you could change anything. Some dreamers intervene, warn someone, or undo a choice; others are stuck as observers, able to see but not touch. The difference can be a way to picture how much influence you currently feel over the direction of your life. A trip to the past may be prompted by anniversaries, old photographs, a reunion, or a decision that has reopened an earlier one. A trip forward can follow planning, uncertainty about a move, or simple curiosity about how things turn out. Record who you met in the other time and whether they recognised you, since recognition or its absence often carries the strongest feeling in the dream. Notice also the mechanism, if there was one: a door, a machine, a sudden cut. Dreams rarely explain their physics, and the device you dreamed can be as telling as the destination.", "traditional": "Time travel as an idea postdates most of DreamFolia's archive, and no book in it describes a journey into another era, so no older meaning is borrowed. The closest entries are about time itself. The Artemidorus 1644 translation makes a clock stand for actions and attempts, with a falling or broken clock as serious danger. Fontaine 1862 and Noe 1885 both hold that hearing a clock strike promises a speedy marriage and that counting the morning hours is luckier than counting the afternoon ones. Miller 1901 reads dreaming of the future as a call for careful reckoning. These remain period conventions.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "You return to a childhood home and warn your younger self", "reflection": "Record the warning word for word. What you chose to tell a younger you may be the clearest statement of what you wish someone had told you, and whether the child listened is a second clue." }, { "title": "You arrive decades ahead and nobody knows you", "reflection": "A future in which you are unrecognised can picture worry about being forgotten or about losing a place you hold now. Ask whether you searched for anyone in particular, and what you found." }, { "title": "You travel back to change one event and it happens anyway", "reflection": "An unchangeable past can be a hard dream to wake from. 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In brief, it is ever ill when it is otherwise then custome, for it signifyeth ill issue of enterprises and affairs: to be washed with water naturally hot, is a signe of health to the sick, of hinderance of affayres to the whole. It is good to dreame that you wash in Fountaines, Ponds, and current waters, and in fair and cléer flouds but not to swim, for that were a signe of Danger or Sicknesse.", "locator": "Book 1, encoded section 49", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "1", "displayText": "FOr to wash and bath himself in Baths and hot Houses, signifyes riches and prosperity, and health to the sick. But to wash and bathe himself contrary to the common use, as in his Clothes, is evill, and betokeneth Sicknesse and great anger. Tis ill to a poor man, if he be too couragious to wash himself, and if he have many which rub him, for it foretels long Sicknesse. In like sort it is evill to the rich if he be alone, and have no body to aid him. In generall it is bad for all, not to swear or to sée the bath in an open place, or to find no water in it. In brief, it is ever ill when it is otherwise then custome, for it signifyeth ill issue of enterprises and affairs: to be washed with water naturally hot, is a signe of health to the sick, of hinderance of affayres to the whole. It is good to dreame that you wash in Fountaines, Ponds, and current waters, and in fair and cléer flouds but not to swim, for that were a signe of Danger or Sicknesse." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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Notwithstanding, to those that are very low, and near theyr end, it is recovery of health, and continuance therein. For the kéeping, represents life which shalbe prolonged: but deliverance, dissolution, and losse, is quite contrary, and death: to enter into prison, and captivity of bonds, either willingly, or by force, is great sicknesse, or anger. Sergeants and Hangmen are captivity, heavinesse, and revealing of secrets, to malefactors." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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To kisse the dead, to him which is sick, signifies death: to him which is in health, it forbids him to speake of his affayres at that present, because h[illegible passage] hath kissed the mouth of the dead: notwithstanding, if the dead party hath béene ou[illegible passage] pleasant and private friend, it hindreth not a whit, either to speak or undertake any thing.", "locator": "Book 2, encoded section 64", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription-with-gaps", "book": "2", "displayText": "To dreame you are going out of the house in the morning, and are not hin [illegible passage] red nor stopt, is good: for it signifyes [illegible passage] our businesse shall have good issue: but not to be able to get out, nor finde issue out of the house, is hinderance to those that would travail, and impeachment of affayrs, an [illegible passage] long sicknesse to the sick. 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But to see other mens children is good when they are faire and well favoured, for this signifieth that a good and happy time is at hand.", "locator": "Book 1, encoded section 4", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "1", "displayText": "To dreame that you see or have children of your own and not other mens, is ill to man and wife. For it foretels care and heavinesse for necessaries, without the which children cannot bee nourished. But the male children bring good successe, daughters bring an end worse then the beginning, for they are married with a dowry. I know a man which dream't that he had a daughter borne, and hee borrowed mony for interest; and on the contrary side I knew another, which dream't that hee buried his daughter deceased, and it fel out that hee was constrained to pay a debt for which he was bound. So then his daughter made agreement with the debt. But to see other mens children is good when they are faire and well favoured, for this signifieth that a good and happy time is at hand." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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This dreame signifies thus much, if besides that Head which one holds in his hands, he seems to have another naturall head of his own, else not.", "locator": "Book 1, encoded section 27", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "1", "displayText": "If one dreames that he hath his Head betweene his Hands, it is good for him that hath neither Wife nor Children, and to him that desires the returne of any one farre off. And besides, if one be carefull to kembe and trim this Head, which he seems to hold between his Hands, it is a signe that he shall dispose well of his businesse, have an end of his evils and adversities. This dreame signifies thus much, if besides that Head which one holds in his hands, he seems to have another naturall head of his own, else not." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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Many desiring Offices and places of credit, after this dreame have obtained them: to dream you have the head of a Dog, Horse, or Asse, or such four footed beast, is servitude, paine, and misery: to have a birds head, argues one shall not stay long in his Country.", "locator": "Book 1, encoded section 26", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "1", "displayText": "To have the head of a Lion, a Wolfe, a Panther, or an Elephant, in stead of his own is good: for he which attempteth things beyond his power and hath this dreams, shall attaine to great dignitie and honour. Many desiring Offices and places of credit, after this dreame have obtained them: to dream you have the head of a Dog, Horse, or Asse, or such four footed beast, is servitude, paine, and misery: to have a birds head, argues one shall not stay long in his Country." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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If contrariwise the left side of his head be without hayr, it is losse of Co [illegible passage]ns and allyes. For the Head signifyeth the kindred, the right side the male, the left the female, and so through all the body. To have all the hinder part of the Head naked is good for him which goes to law, for him that is fearfull▪ for him that is shut up and detained by force, for he shal flie and escape, noting that one cannot catch him by the hayr f[illegible passage]ying.", "locator": "Book 1, encoded section 10", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription-with-gaps", "book": "1", "displayText": "To have wooll in stead of Hayres, foretels long sicknes and fantasies, and t [illegible passage] e itch. Also if having this wooll on his head he shall think that it is naturall unto him, if the hayrs seeme to be changed into any other thing, we must guesse accordingly; that is, according to the thing whereunto we think them changed. To seeme to be without hayre about the face, betokeneth sudden shame, hindrance of present affairs. But to see the hinder part of the Head in that sort is poverty, and ill luck in [illegible passage] age. If any one hath the right side of his Head shaved and naked he shall lose all his male kindred, and if he have done, he shall sustain hurt. If contrariwise the left side of his head be without hayr, it is losse of Co [illegible passage] ns and allyes. For the Head signifyeth the kindred, the right side the male, the left the female, and so through all the body. To have all the hinder part of the Head naked is good for him which goes to law, for him that is fearfull▪ for him that is shut up and detained by force, for he shal flie and escape, noting that one cannot catch him by the hayr f [illegible passage] ying." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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Likewise, if a Batcheler dreames this dreame when he goeth about to obtain his Mistresse, it foretelleth that he shall assuredly obtain her.", "locator": "Book 1, encoded section 61", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "1", "displayText": "He that dreameth he takes his leave of any one and biddeth him farewell, it is good, if he hath a Son, Friend, or Kinsman, undertaking a voyage at Sea, or making a journey into the Country; for it foretelleth they shall have a speedy return, and good successe in their undertakings. Also, if any one séemeth to bid you farewell, it is good for him that dreameth it, if he hath a suit in Law, or if he undertaketh any designe that may bring in profit. Likewise, if a Batcheler dreames this dreame when he goeth about to obtain his Mistresse, it foretelleth that he shall assuredly obtain her." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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To a yong man, this dream is love of a delightfull woman, to a woman it is dissolute life of her body, for the Sea is like to a harlot, because it hath a fair appearance and show, but in the end she brings many to evill: this dream is good to all those which live and make profit upon the people, and which govern any publike matter; for they shall have great honour and profit: For the sea is like a multitude, by reason of the disorder and confusion of the waves.", "locator": "Book 3, encoded section 131", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "3", "displayText": "FOr to walke upon the Sea, to him which would travell, as also to a servant and him which would take a Wife: the one shall enjoy his Wife, and the other shall have his master at his own pleasure, it is also good for him which hath a law suit, for the Sea represents the Judge, which handles some well, and others ill: and the woman, by reason of the moistnes: and the Lord, by reason of the might. To a yong man, this dream is love of a delightfull woman, to a woman it is dissolute life of her body, for the Sea is like to a harlot, because it hath a fair appearance and show, but in the end she brings many to evill: this dream is good to all those which live and make profit upon the people, and which govern any publike matter; for they shall have great honour and profit: For the sea is like a multitude, by reason of the disorder and confusion of the waves." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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Notwithstanding, there is difference between tooles, those which cleave and break, signifie discord, and hurt, those which unite and binde signifie profit, marriage, or allyance: but hindrance of voyages: those which scoure or smooth, appease strife: those which addresse and compasse, signifie revealing of secrets, as you may sée in Geometricians.", "locator": "Book 1, encoded section 41", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "1", "displayText": "FOr to work in Iron, and strike upon the Anvile, signifieth noise and suits in law: the like we must judge in all other arts of the persons which dreame them. And we must understand that it signifies as much as to sée the tradesmen working: or their shops and tooles, as to see himselfe use the same Art. Notwithstanding, there is difference between tooles, those which cleave and break, signifie discord, and hurt, those which unite and binde signifie profit, marriage, or allyance: but hindrance of voyages: those which scoure or smooth, appease strife: those which addresse and compasse, signifie revealing of secrets, as you may sée in Geometricians." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "to-write-with-the-left-hand", "title": "To write with the left Hand", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Artemidorus wrote: “WRiting with the left hand, is to make some secret circumvention, to cunny-catch, deceive, or defame any one.”", "aliases": [ "to write with the left hand" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about to write with the left hand stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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It shows enemies\nand disappointment among friends. To the lover, it denotes infidelity in\nyour sweetheart. In trade, loss by swindlers and spoiling of goods. To\ndream you kill a toad, denotes that you will overcome an enemy and\ndiscover a person who is robbing you and in whom you place great\nconfidence.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 527; source lines 1911–1917", "lineStart": 1911, "lineEnd": 1917, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you\nsee these venomous reptiles, argues ill to the dreamer. It shows enemies\nand disappointment among friends. To the lover, it denotes infidelity in\nyour sweetheart. In trade, loss by swindlers and spoiling of goods. To\ndream you kill a toad, denotes that you will overcome an enemy and\ndiscover a person who is robbing you and in whom you place great\nconfidence." }, { "id": "cielo-0431", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Toads", "text": "Dreaming of a toad means you will be disgusted\n with something that will happen to you.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 431; source lines 4903–4906", "lineStart": 4903, "lineEnd": 4906, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Dreaming of a toad means you will be disgusted\nwith something that will happen to you." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12155", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Toad", "heading": "Toad", "text": "A dream denoting a malicious enemy; to kill one, success, triumph (Gypsy). 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2023", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Tobacco", "text": "To dream of tobacco, denotes success in business affairs,\nbut poor returns in love.\n\nTo use it, warns you against enemies and extravagance.\n\nTo see it growing, foretells successful enterprises.\nTo see it dry in the leaf, ensures good crops to farmers,\nand consequent gain to tradesmen.\n\nTo smoke tobacco, denotes amiable friendships.", "locator": "Heading 2027; source lines 22385–22398", "lineStart": 22385, "lineEnd": 22398, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of tobacco, denotes success in business affairs,\nbut poor returns in love.\n\nTo use it, warns you against enemies and extravagance.\n\nTo see it growing, foretells successful enterprises.\nTo see it dry in the leaf, ensures good crops to farmers,\nand consequent gain to tradesmen.\n\nTo smoke tobacco, denotes amiable friendships." }, { "id": "fontaine-0800", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Tobacco", "text": "For a boy to dream of chewing tobacco, is a sign of poverty,\nas rum and tobacco-chewing go together: to dream of smoking foretells\nwaste, but is not exactly an omen of poverty, though waste always\nprecedes that state. The best way is not to dream of using tobacco at\nall. If you dream of seeing large piles of tobacco, it is a sign of bad\nluck and loss in some speculation. To dream you take snuff is a bad\nomen in love affairs, but if you dream you sneeze when you take it, it\nis a sign of long life. 49, 7, 55.", "locator": "Heading 800; source line 4938", "lineStart": 4938, "lineEnd": 4947, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a boy to dream of chewing tobacco, is a sign of poverty,\nas rum and tobacco-chewing go together: to dream of smoking foretells\nwaste, but is not exactly an omen of poverty, though waste always\nprecedes that state. The best way is not to dream of using tobacco at\nall. If you dream of seeing large piles of tobacco, it is a sign of bad\nluck and loss in some speculation. To dream you take snuff is a bad\nomen in love affairs, but if you dream you sneeze when you take it, it\nis a sign of long life." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "toddy", "title": "Toddy", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of taking a toddy, foretells interesting events will soon change your plan of living.”", "aliases": [ "toddy" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about toddy stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2025", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Toddy", "text": "To dream of taking a toddy, foretells interesting events will soon change\nyour plan of living.", "locator": "Heading 2029; source lines 22404–22409", "lineStart": 22404, "lineEnd": 22409, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of taking a toddy, foretells interesting events will soon change\nyour plan of living." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "tofu", "title": "Tofu", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "summary": "Tofu may picture adapting within a setting, an overlooked practical contribution, or finding conditions that let something useful hold its shape.", "tagline": "Adaptable material, chosen texture, and the work that makes it useful.", "aliases": [ "tofu", "bean curd" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "Tofu taking on the flavor of a dish can picture participating in a setting whose character comes from several contributions. This may fit working within a team, settling into a shared home, or joining an activity where your role supports rather than dominates the result. Adaptation can feel satisfying when it is chosen and leaves room for your own preferences. If you cannot recognize any contribution of your own, the same image may concern accommodating others until participation begins to feel like disappearance. The dream does not establish a personality trait; it gives that tension a concrete meal.\n\nA plain block dismissed before it is prepared can make an overlooked contribution visible. Something may seem uninteresting when judged outside the conditions that make it useful. Administrative work, reliable equipment, or a quiet person’s effort can offer a parallel. Discovering that the dish depends on it may bring appreciation for support that does not attract attention on its own. If you are expected to provide that support indefinitely without acknowledgment, usefulness and frustration can be present together.\n\nHandling tofu that breaks apart can center on matching the method to the material. More force may make the task harder rather than producing the result you want. A delicate conversation, an early draft, or a plan still taking shape may feel similar when it needs a different kind of attention from a familiar robust task. A firmer piece that withstands handling creates another possibility: finding conditions suited to what you are trying to do. These are comparisons with the dream’s texture, not instructions for judging your body or another person’s strength.\n\nUsing tofu as a replacement can bring choice and expectation into the same scene. You may welcome a change, accept it reluctantly, or feel misled because the meal was described differently. Choosing the ingredient together differs from someone deciding for you and demanding the same response. The emotional issue may be whether change is discussed rather than whether the substitute is inherently better. A shopping trip, dietary routine, cooking memory, or recent conversation can supply the image directly. Its role in the preparation matters more than assigning a health or moral meaning to eating it.", "traditional": "No Tofu or Bean Curd historical dream passage is supplied. Beans and Cheese are different foods and are not treated as substitutes for historical evidence. This original reading addresses the dream’s preparation, texture, adaptation, and choice without dietary judgment.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Adaptation with a place of your own", "reflection": "Taking on a dish’s flavor can picture participation that supports a shared result. It feels different when your own preferences remain welcome than when they become impossible to identify." }, { "title": "An overlooked contribution", "reflection": "A plain ingredient may become useful through its setting and preparation. The scene can bring supporting work into view without requiring it to become the center of attention." }, { "title": "A method suited to the material", "reflection": "Breakage may suggest a mismatch between handling and conditions. Changing the approach can matter more than applying additional force to something still taking shape." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A block breaks apart whenever you lift it", "reflection": "The intended method does not suit what you are handling. This may fit a fragile plan or conversation approached with too much pressure. A gentler tool or shared help changes the task without declaring the material worthless." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "The tofu takes on the dish’s vivid flavor", "reflection": "One component becomes part of a combined result. This can picture welcome adaptation within a group. Enjoying the flavor differs from feeling that your own contribution has become indistinguishable because only others decide what belongs." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Someone rejects it before the meal is prepared", "reflection": "A contribution is judged before its intended use can be seen. The scene may resemble useful work dismissed because it lacks immediate appeal. Being allowed to demonstrate its role creates a different experience from continually defending its existence." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A substitute arrives without being discussed", "reflection": "An expected meal changes through another person’s decision. This can picture an adjustment you might accept if you had influence over it. The tension may concern assumed agreement more than the ingredient itself." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You choose a firmness that works for the dish", "reflection": "The conditions suit the task rather than forcing an unsuitable material to perform. This may picture finding a manageable role or method. Confidence comes from the fit between approach and purpose, rather than from proving toughness." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The finished dish depends on a quiet ingredient", "reflection": "The contribution becomes visible through how it supports everything else. This can picture appreciation for practical work that is easy to overlook. Recognition may be welcome without requiring the supporting role to become a performance." } ], "prompts": [ "Did adaptation feel chosen, useful, or like losing my own place?", "What preparation made an overlooked ingredient matter?", "Was the difficulty in the material, the handling, or a change made without my agreement?" ], "related": [ "beans", "cooking", "vegetables", "dinner" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2033", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Torch", "text": "To dream of seeing torches, foretells pleasant amusement\nand favorable business.\n\nTo carry a torch, denotes success in love making or intricate affairs.\nFor one to go out, denotes failure and distress.\n\n\n[226] See Lantern and Lamp.", "locator": "Heading 2037; source lines 22473–22484", "lineStart": 22473, "lineEnd": 22484, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing torches, foretells pleasant amusement\nand favorable business.\n\nTo carry a torch, denotes success in love making or intricate affairs.\nFor one to go out, denotes failure and distress. See Lantern and Lamp." }, { "id": "fontaine-0805", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Torch", "text": "To see a bright torch-light at a distance in a dark night, and\ngo toward it, foretells a successful journey; but if you stumble by the\nway you will experience an accident: to dream of carrying a lighted\ntorch at night, is a sign that some distant friend will pay you a\nvisit. 20.", "locator": "Heading 805; source line 4967", "lineStart": 4967, "lineEnd": 4973, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a bright torch-light at a distance in a dark night, and\ngo toward it, foretells a successful journey; but if you stumble by the\nway you will experience an accident: to dream of carrying a lighted\ntorch at night, is a sign that some distant friend will pay you a\nvisit." }, { "id": "noe-0508", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Torch", "text": "To dream of\nholding a burning torch in the hand, is a good sign to those that are\nyoung, for it signifies they shall enjoy their loves, accomplish their\ndesigns, overcome their enemies, and gain honor and good from all persons.\nTo dream you see a torch extinguished or darkened, signifies sadness,\nsickness and poverty.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 516; source lines 1873–1878", "lineStart": 1873, "lineEnd": 1878, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of\nholding a burning torch in the hand, is a good sign to those that are\nyoung, for it signifies they shall enjoy their loves, accomplish their\ndesigns, overcome their enemies, and gain honor and good from all persons.\nTo dream you see a torch extinguished or darkened, signifies sadness,\nsickness and poverty." }, { "id": "cielo-0432", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Torch", "text": "Denotes an invitation to a wedding.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 432; source lines 4906–4908", "lineStart": 4906, "lineEnd": 4908, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Denotes an invitation to a wedding." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12173", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Torches", "heading": "Torches", "text": "See Fire, Candles, etc.", "lineStart": 12173, "lineEnd": 12177, "kind": "cross-reference", "locator": "Printed p. 257–258; NLM OCR lines 12173–12177", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12173, "lineEnd": 12177, "printedPage": 257, "printedPageEnd": 258 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Torches.— See Fire, Candles, etc. \n\n\n258 THE FABRIC OF DREAMS \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [ { "line": 12176, "text": "258 THE FABRIC OF DREAMS " } ], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Torches" }, "displayText": "See Fire, Candles, etc." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "lantern", "lamp", "fire", "candles" ] }, { "slug": "torpedo", "title": "Torpedo", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “A dream foretelling a shocking discovery (Gypsy).”", "aliases": [ "torpedo" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about torpedo stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. 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OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L12178", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Torpedo", "heading": "Torpedo", "text": "A dream foretelling a shocking discovery (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12178, "lineEnd": 12180, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 258; NLM OCR lines 12178–12180", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12178, "lineEnd": 12180, "printedPage": 258, "printedPageEnd": 258 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Torpedo. — A dream foretelling a shocking discovery \n(Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Torpedo" }, "displayText": "A dream foretelling a shocking discovery (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "torrent", "title": "Torrent", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are looking upon a rushing torrent, denotes that you will have unusual trouble and…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "torrent" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about torrent stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2035", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Torrent", "text": "To dream that you are looking upon a rushing torrent, denotes that you\nwill have unusual trouble and anxiety.", "locator": "Heading 2039; source lines 22493–22498", "lineStart": 22493, "lineEnd": 22498, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are looking upon a rushing torrent, denotes that you\nwill have unusual trouble and anxiety." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12181", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Torrent", "heading": "Torrent", "text": "To wade in one, sorrows, adversity ; to be caught in one, danger of lawsuits (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12181, "lineEnd": 12183, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 258; NLM OCR lines 12181–12183", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12181, "lineEnd": 12183, "printedPage": 258, "printedPageEnd": 258 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Torrent. — To wade in one, sorrows, adversity ; to be caught \nin one, danger of lawsuits (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Torrent" }, "displayText": "To wade in one, sorrows, adversity; to be caught in one, danger of lawsuits (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "tortilla", "title": "Tortilla", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "summary": "A tortilla as flatbread can explore flexible structure, limits on what an arrangement can hold, and choosing how separate parts belong together.", "tagline": "A flexible form still has limits.", "aliases": [ "tortilla", "tortillas" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A tortilla that will not close around its filling can picture an arrangement expected to contain more than its form allows. A short meeting may be assigned several unresolved issues, or a simple routine may accumulate extra demands until it becomes difficult to use. The ingredients can all be worthwhile while still needing another structure. Reducing the load or changing the presentation differs from interpreting the failure to close as your own inability to cope.\n\nA broken seam makes a limit visible during use. Something seemed flexible enough in preparation but could not sustain the actual arrangement. A plan that works on paper may need revision once everyone participates. Frustration may concern how late the difficulty becomes clear. Unfolding the wrap can create access to its separate parts, making the problem more manageable without requiring the first design to succeed unchanged.\n\nWanting the empty flatbread can picture a preference for a simple foundation rather than the complete package others expect. A modest beginning may suit you better than an elaborate plan, or an ordinary task may be satisfying without additional goals attached. The scene can express sufficiency rather than deprivation. If someone insists that you add filling, the tension may concern whose idea of completeness governs a choice you wanted to make yourself.\n\nMaking a round that does not match the expected shape can bring standards into the practical work. An uneven result may still do what you need, much as a first attempt or personally adapted routine can be useful without resembling a model exactly. Rejection of a workable result can make appearance more influential than purpose. Satisfaction instead permits the form to answer the task rather than an imagined flawless version.\n\nA stack cooling after people have moved on can picture effort whose timing missed the occasion it was intended to support. The work still exists, but its next use may need another plan. Food preparation, a meal, or remembered handling can also explain the image directly. This entry concerns the flatbread sense of tortilla; an egg-and-potato dish has a different context. The comparisons follow containment, flexibility, and choice rather than a cultural meaning assigned to the food.", "traditional": "No directly matching historical account is attached for this specific topic. The readings here are original reflective possibilities. The NINDS source provides general background about dreams, not evidence for these symbolic comparisons.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Capacity and form", "reflection": "A flexible arrangement can still need a limit or another structure when its demands increase." }, { "title": "Simplicity as a preference", "reflection": "A foundation may be enough without accepting another person’s idea of a complete package." }, { "title": "Purpose and appearance", "reflection": "A useful form can differ from a model without losing its practical value." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "The tortilla cannot close around its filling", "reflection": "Several worthwhile parts exceed the structure intended to hold them. This may picture an overloaded routine or meeting. Another form or a smaller load can make the arrangement usable without turning the difficulty into a judgment about your capacity." }, { "title": "An overfilled wrap breaks at the seam", "reflection": "A limit becomes clear only when the arrangement is used. This can resemble a plan needing revision after real demands arrive. Opening the wrap creates another way to handle the contents rather than repeatedly asking the same seam to contain them." }, { "title": "You want the bread without filling", "reflection": "The simple foundation is the preferred result. This may picture satisfaction with a modest beginning or ordinary task. An insistence on adding more changes the scene toward whose standards define completeness, rather than proving that the simpler choice lacks something essential." }, { "title": "A handmade round does not match the model", "reflection": "The result has a different form from the expected example. This can picture adapting a process through direct experience. If it remains usable, the tension may concern appearance taking priority over purpose; satisfaction allows the task to set its own standard." }, { "title": "The stack cools after everyone leaves", "reflection": "Effort is ready after the occasion it was meant to support has changed. This may fit a contribution affected by timing rather than quality. Finding another use creates a different response from treating the missed moment as making all the work meaningless." }, { "title": "You unfold a wrap and choose its parts", "reflection": "The finished package becomes separable again. This can picture reconsidering an arrangement that presented itself as one indivisible commitment. Keeping some parts while changing others may make participation more workable than accepting or rejecting the entire package at once." } ], "prompts": [ "What needs another structure rather than more effort within the same one?", "Which simple foundation would be enough for you?", "Where does a useful result differ from the appearance expected of it?" ], "related": [ "bread", "cooking", "kitchen", "baking" ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2036", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Torture", "text": "To dream of being tortured, denotes that you will undergo disappointment\nand grief through the machination of false friends.\n\nIf you are torturing others, you will fail to carry out well-laid\nplans for increasing your fortune.\n\nIf you are trying to alleviate the torture of others, you will succeed\nafter a struggle in business and love.", "locator": "Heading 2040; source lines 22498–22509", "lineStart": 22498, "lineEnd": 22509, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being tortured, denotes that you will undergo disappointment\nand grief through the machination of false friends.\n\nIf you are torturing others, you will fail to carry out well-laid\nplans for increasing your fortune.\n\nIf you are trying to alleviate the torture of others, you will succeed\nafter a struggle in business and love." }, { "id": "noe-0509", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Torture", "text": "To dream that you are undergoing some\ntorture from false accusation, denotes that you will be blessed with much\nhappiness and contentment in your future life.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 517; source lines 1878–1880", "lineStart": 1878, "lineEnd": 1880, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are undergoing some\ntorture from false accusation, denotes that you will be blessed with much\nhappiness and contentment in your future life." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2037", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Tourist", "text": "To dream that you are a tourist, denotes that you will engage in some\npleasurable affair which will take you away from your usual residence.\n\nTo see tourists, indicates brisk but unsettled business and anxiety in love.", "locator": "Heading 2041; source lines 22509–22516", "lineStart": 22509, "lineEnd": 22516, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are a tourist, denotes that you will engage in some\npleasurable affair which will take you away from your usual residence.\n\nTo see tourists, indicates brisk but unsettled business and anxiety in love." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "tower", "title": "Tower", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing a tower, denotes that you will aspire to high elevations.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "tower" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about tower stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "ladder", "steeple" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2038", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Tower", "text": "To dream of seeing a tower, denotes that you will aspire to high elevations.\nIf you climb one, you will succeed in your wishes, but if the tower crumbles\nas you descend, you will be disappointed in your hopes.\n\n\n[228] See Ladder.", "locator": "Heading 2042; source lines 22516–22525", "lineStart": 22516, "lineEnd": 22525, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing a tower, denotes that you will aspire to high elevations.\nIf you climb one, you will succeed in your wishes, but if the tower crumbles\nas you descend, you will be disappointed in your hopes. See Ladder." }, { "id": "fontaine-0806", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Tower", "text": "(_See Steeple._) To dream of going upon a high tower, and\nlooking off on a beautiful landscape, foretells that you will acquire\nland either by purchase or inheritance: if you look off upon the water,\nit is a sign of a journey by sea, during which you will acquire riches:\nif birds are flying around the tower, they foretell so many troubles.\n58.", "locator": "Heading 806; source line 4973", "lineStart": 4973, "lineEnd": 4980, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Steeple.) To dream of going upon a high tower, and\nlooking off on a beautiful landscape, foretells that you will acquire\nland either by purchase or inheritance: if you look off upon the water,\nit is a sign of a journey by sea, during which you will acquire riches:\nif birds are flying around the tower, they foretell so many troubles." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12187", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Tower", "heading": "Tower", "text": "To ascend a tower signifies reverses of fortune (Gypsy). Interpretation corresponds with the aversion of the Hebrews for towers, an example of which is instanced in the Tower of Babel.", "lineStart": 12187, "lineEnd": 12191, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 258; NLM OCR lines 12187–12191", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12187, "lineEnd": 12191, "printedPage": 258, "printedPageEnd": 258 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Tower. — To ascend a tower signifies reverses of fortune \n(Gypsy). Interpretation corresponds with the aversion of \nthe Hebrews for towers, an example of which is instanced \nin the Tower of Babel. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Tower" }, "displayText": "To ascend a tower signifies reverses of fortune (Gypsy). Interpretation corresponds with the aversion of the Hebrews for towers, an example of which is instanced in the Tower of Babel." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "ladder", "steeple" ] }, { "slug": "toys", "title": "Toys", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see toys in dreams, foretells family joys, if whole and new, but if broken, death will rend your heart with sorrow.”", "aliases": [ "toys" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about toys stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2039", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Toys", "text": "To see toys in dreams, foretells family joys, if whole and new,\nbut if broken, death will rend your heart with sorrow.\n\nTo see children at play with toys, marriage of a happy nature is indicated.\n\nTo give away toys in your dreams, foretells you will be ignored\nin a social way by your acquaintances.", "locator": "Heading 2043; source lines 22525–22535", "lineStart": 22525, "lineEnd": 22535, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see toys in dreams, foretells family joys, if whole and new,\nbut if broken, death will rend your heart with sorrow.\n\nTo see children at play with toys, marriage of a happy nature is indicated.\n\nTo give away toys in your dreams, foretells you will be ignored\nin a social way by your acquaintances." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "trade", "title": "Trade", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of trading, denotes fair success in your enterprise. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "tradesmen", "title": "Tradesmen", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “To dream you see those you employ at work, signifies that they are honest in their dealings with you.”", "aliases": [ "tradesmen" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about tradesmen stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "noe-0505", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Tradesmen", "text": "To dream\nyou see those you employ at work, signifies that they are honest in their\ndealings with you. To dream you work yourself, betokens a happy contented\nlife.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 513; source lines 1867–1870", "lineStart": 1867, "lineEnd": 1870, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream\nyou see those you employ at work, signifies that they are honest in their\ndealings with you. To dream you work yourself, betokens a happy contented\nlife." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "traffic-jam", "title": "Traffic jam", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "When everyone's movement affects yours.", "summary": "A traffic jam may give a concrete form to waiting within a shared system, changing plans and distinguishing delay from your own effort.", "aliases": [ "traffic jam", "stuck in traffic", "traffic", "gridlock", "cars not moving", "congestion", "road blocked by traffic", "stuck on the motorway", "stuck on the highway" ], "status": "REVIEW", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-14", "psychological": "A traffic jam in a dream places your movement inside a system shared with other people. You may know where you want to go and be ready to travel, yet the road offers little room. Start with the experience of waiting and what the delay interrupts. Being stuck in a queue does not automatically mean that you are avoiding progress.\n\nThe surrounding conditions can make the scene specific. A jam with a clear explanation and expected end differs from a silent line where nobody knows what has happened. The first may emphasize patience within a known process; the second might resemble waiting for a reply, approval or shared decision without useful information. Ask what you wanted to know.\n\nYour available actions matter. You might contact someone, change your destination, enjoy conversation or try a side road. If none is possible, the scene could make limited options noticeable. If you keep changing lanes without moving farther, consider whether extra effort is helping or simply adding another demand to an already constrained situation.\n\nOther travelers can reveal different relationships to the same delay. One person becomes restless while another welcomes the pause; a passenger worries about being late while you no longer need to hurry. Those contrasts might help clarify competing schedules or expectations. The dream does not establish that your preferred response is the correct one for everyone.\n\nReaching the front of the queue can change the reading. A visible obstruction might call for coordination rather than individual speed. A road that opens without explanation may bring relief while leaving uncertainty unresolved. Notice whether you continue toward the original destination or decide that the delay has changed what is worthwhile.\n\nActual commutes, roadworks, crowded events and waiting for services can supply a traffic jam directly. Keep the comparison grounded in a particular shared process, not a judgment that your whole life is blocked. What part of the delay belongs to the arrangement around you, what can you communicate or change, and what would make waiting more understandable?", "traditional": "No historical traffic-jam passage is supplied for this entry. The NINDS citation provides only general dream background on waking experience and emotion. These original reflections consider delay within a shared route; they do not validate a universal meaning for congestion or predict travel problems.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "Waiting with a clear explanation of the road closure", "reflection": "You know why traffic has stopped and what needs to happen next. The scene may emphasize a manageable delay within a larger process. Notice whether information changes your response, and compare it with a current wait where a clear update would make uncertainty easier to understand." }, { "title": "A motionless queue with no visible cause", "reflection": "Nobody can explain why the vehicles are stopped. This might resemble waiting for a shared decision or reply without knowing its stage. Ask what information you sought in the dream; the absence of an explanation does not establish that a real process has failed or that someone is withholding it." }, { "title": "Changing lanes repeatedly without getting farther", "reflection": "Each gap looks promising, but the overall queue remains the same. Consider whether a current waiting situation attracts extra effort that changes little. The dream may help you distinguish useful action from restless activity, without making initiative itself mistaken or assuming that staying still is always better." }, { "title": "Calling ahead to adjust an appointment", "reflection": "You cannot move the traffic, but you can explain the delay and change the arrangement. The scene may highlight communication as an available action within limited circumstances. Notice whether the revised plan feels workable, rather than measuring your agency only by how quickly the vehicle moves." }, { "title": "A passenger welcomes the pause you dislike", "reflection": "Someone enjoys the conversation or view while you watch the clock. The contrast might make different needs within a shared schedule noticeable. What do you each want from the journey, and can both preferences be acknowledged? Neither response proves that one person understands the situation better." }, { "title": "The road opens after you reconsider the destination", "reflection": "Movement becomes possible just as you decide that another stop would suit you better. The scene could explore a plan changing during a wait. Ask what prompted the revision and whether it felt chosen, without treating the opening road as a promise about a future opportunity." } ], "prompts": [ "What did the delay interrupt, and how much did that matter?", "What explanation or information was available while you waited?", "Which actions changed the situation or your experience of it?" ], "related": [ "car", "driving", "passenger", "being-late", "road" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Delay within a shared system", "reflection": "The queue may distinguish readiness to move from the conditions that make movement possible for everyone." }, { "title": "Information while waiting", "reflection": "Knowing the cause and likely next step can create a different experience from being left without an explanation." }, { "title": "Effort that changes something", "reflection": "Calls, changed plans and lane changes invite a concrete look at which actions help within the available space." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "traffic-light", "title": "Traffic light", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "A signal can coordinate a shared move or leave permission unclear.", "summary": "Traffic light dreams can explore permission, timing and conflicting instructions. What changes when you stop or proceed gives the signal its meaning.", "aliases": [ "traffic light", "traffic lights", "traffic signal", "traffic signals", "stoplight", "stoplights" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A traffic light turns a shared situation into a sequence: stop now, proceed later, make room for somebody else. In a dream, its changing instruction can picture the difference between wanting to act and knowing that the conditions allow it. You may recognize waiting for approval, choosing the right moment in a conversation or coordinating a decision with other people. The signal matters because movement depends on an agreed rule rather than desire alone.\n\nA red light on an otherwise empty road can make a restriction feel difficult to understand. There may be no visible conflict, yet you are still expected to wait. This can resemble a procedure whose purpose has become unclear or an old agreement that continues after its original circumstances have changed. Following it may feel reassuring, frustrating or chosen out of consideration for consequences you cannot see. The dream does not settle whether a waking rule is fair.\n\nA green light need not remove hesitation. Being permitted to proceed while wanting more time can picture an offer arriving before your own decision is ready. A role, invitation or change may be available without being suitable at that moment. If others urge you forward, the scene can bring permission and pressure close together. Moving because the signal allows it differs from moving because you have chosen the direction.\n\nContradictory signals give incompatible expectations a visible form. Two authorities may each ask for something that cannot happen together, or a relationship may offer welcome in one moment and withdrawal in the next. The particular conflict is more useful than assuming you cannot make decisions. A signal that changes too quickly can picture coordination built around a pace that leaves some people unable to complete their part.\n\nControlling the light places you in another role. You decide whose movement is delayed and whose turn comes next, which may resemble allocating attention or coordinating a group. That responsibility can be satisfying or uncomfortable when every person wants to proceed first. A recent junction, game or journey may also provide the imagery directly. These reflections concern rules, timing and participation, rather than forecasts of road events or judgments about how to drive.", "traditional": "No supplied historical entry specifically interprets traffic lights. Cross Roads names a junction rather than a changing signal. This entry offers original reflections on coordinated movement; red, amber and green are not treated as universal psychological codes or predictions.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Permission and readiness", "reflection": "A signal can separate external permission from your own readiness to act. An available chance may still need a personal decision about direction, timing or fit." }, { "title": "Conflicting instructions", "reflection": "Contradictory lights can picture expectations that cannot be satisfied together. The obstacle may be the arrangement of demands rather than inability to choose." }, { "title": "A turn within a shared process", "reflection": "Signals organize whose movement comes next. Waiting or controlling the light can bring fairness, pace and responsibility for other people into view." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "The light stays red on an empty road", "reflection": "An enduring red light without visible traffic can picture a restriction whose purpose is hard to understand. A delayed approval or outdated rule may fit. The absence of an obvious obstacle does not itself prove the restriction is meaningless." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Several lights give contradictory signals", "reflection": "Opposing instructions can resemble being answerable to people who ask for incompatible actions. A shared project or household decision may offer a parallel. Finding a consistent rule changes the scene toward workable coordination." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Everyone moves while your light is still red", "reflection": "Other people moving while you remain stopped can picture unequal timing or uncertainty about whose rules apply. Their movement may feel tempting, unfair or irrelevant to your own task. The dream does not establish intentional disadvantage." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "The light turns green and you choose to wait", "reflection": "Choosing to wait after permission arrives can picture reserving the right to decide whether an option suits you. An offer need not become an obligation immediately. The pause may be considered rather than a failure to act." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You control the signal for other people", "reflection": "Controlling the signal can picture allocating turns, time or attention within a group. The task may feel useful or expose the impossibility of satisfying everyone at once. How you choose the next turn gives the responsibility its shape." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The light changes before everyone can cross", "reflection": "A signal changing too soon can picture a shared process paced for only some participants. A deadline that leaves others behind may feel similar. The unfinished crossing centers coordination rather than simply impatience." } ], "prompts": [ "What was the signal allowing, delaying or asking me to coordinate?", "Was my own readiness different from the permission I received?", "Whose movement depended on the timing of the change?" ], "related": [ "road", "traffic-jam", "speeding", "driving-test" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "tragedy", "title": "Tragedy", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a tragedy, foretells misunderstandings and grievious disappointments.”", "aliases": [ "tragedy" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about tragedy stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2041", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Tragedy", "text": "To dream of a tragedy, foretells misunderstandings\nand grievious disappointments.\n\nTo dream that you are implicated in a tragedy, portends that a calamity\nwill plunge you into sorrow and peril.", "locator": "Heading 2045; source lines 22540–22548", "lineStart": 22540, "lineEnd": 22548, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a tragedy, foretells misunderstandings\nand grievious disappointments.\n\nTo dream that you are implicated in a tragedy, portends that a calamity\nwill plunge you into sorrow and peril." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "train", "title": "Train", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "aliases": [ "train" ], "summary": "A train can suggest joining a shared plan, following a set direction, or depending on timing you do not control. Your role changes the reading.", "tagline": "The journey has a route and rhythm larger than any one passenger.", "psychological": "A train can picture joining a course of events that is already organized. Its track and timetable make travel possible, but also limit how freely you can change direction. Being comfortably on board may fit trusting a workable plan, entering an established team, or accepting support from a process you do not personally manage. You can move forward without steering every part.\n\nGoing to the wrong destination brings a different tension: participation is easy, but the plan may not serve what you want. This can fit continuing a career path, family arrangement, or project because it has momentum. Wanting to get off may express a wish to reconsider the direction rather than fear of travel itself. An unavailable stop can make that change feel dependent on timing.\n\nSharing a carriage can bring collective expectations into view. A comfortable group may suggest belonging, while a crowd that gives you no space can picture keeping pace with others at the cost of your own needs. Moving between carriages may express looking for a better position within the same overall commitment, rather than abandoning the journey.\n\nDriving the train shifts the focus toward responsibility for a shared route. Your decisions affect others, but the track still sets boundaries. This may fit leading a task with inherited constraints or carrying responsibility for coordination. A train moving without rails can give form to uncertainty about a process that seems to continue despite missing foundations.\n\nActual commuting, travel plans, station announcements, and remembered journeys can also supply the scene. These original comparisons are about direction, coordination, and your part in them, rather than forecasts of a real journey.", "traditional": "Miller's Train passage predicts journeys and changes from different railway scenes. A train moving smoothly without rails receives a mixed forecast, and traveling with an unpleasant companion becomes a warning about wasted time and money.\n\nThe passage shows attention to direction, support, and company, but remains historical fortune-telling. The modern interpretation develops those practical features as possible parallels with organized plans and shared commitments. A dream passenger's limited control can feel reassuring or restrictive; the old forecast does not decide which experience fits.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Trusting an organized plan", "reflection": "A train's route can picture accepting a process that carries you forward without constant steering. Comfortable travel may fit having useful support, clear structure, or a shared commitment." }, { "title": "Momentum without the right destination", "reflection": "Being on the wrong train can suggest continuing because a plan is established, even when its direction no longer suits you. Finding a stop becomes a question about timing and choice." }, { "title": "Your place within a collective journey", "reflection": "A carriage can picture how much space and belonging a shared plan allows. Changing your position or taking responsibility for the route creates different relationships to the same commitment." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "The train takes you toward a destination you want", "reflection": "Comfortable passage can suggest that a plan has become workable enough to trust. A settled routine, supportive team, or coordinated move may fit. The train provides forward movement without requiring you to personally control every stage of the journey.", "slug": "scene-1" }, { "title": "You realize you boarded the wrong train", "reflection": "This may picture noticing that an established course no longer matches your priorities. Continuing work, a relationship arrangement, or a project through habit can offer a parallel. The central question becomes how to change direction while already participating.", "slug": "scene-2" }, { "title": "The train passes every place you want to get off", "reflection": "An unavailable stop can express difficulty finding a workable moment to change course. Obligations may keep extending, or a transition may depend on someone else's schedule. Your wish is clear, while the system's timing prevents an immediate decision from taking effect.", "slug": "scene-3" }, { "title": "You move to another carriage", "reflection": "Changing carriages can picture seeking a better place within an existing commitment. A different role, quieter environment, or more compatible group may meet your needs without requiring departure. The journey remains shared, while your conditions of participation become more suitable.", "slug": "scene-4" }, { "title": "You drive a train full of passengers", "reflection": "Responsibility may extend beyond your own destination. Coordinating a household, leading a team, or carrying others through a change can fit. The track also limits your options, so the scene can combine leadership with constraints you did not create.", "slug": "scene-5" }, { "title": "The train moves smoothly without any rails", "reflection": "This can picture a process continuing even though its foundations seem unclear. A plan may function better than expected, or its apparent stability may feel hard to trust. Wonder and fear give different readings to the same absence of an ordinary support.", "slug": "scene-6" } ], "prompts": [ "Did the shared route serve my destination or only carry me along?", "What could I change as passenger or driver, and what was fixed?", "How did my place among the other travelers affect the journey?" ], "related": [ "missing-a-flight-or-train", "railroad", "being-late", "road" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s continuing delegation of English editorial decisions. Historical accounts remain attributed period claims; the cited memory study does not validate these interpretations.", "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-2042" ], "scope": "Historical context only: Train — miller-2042, Heading 2046; source lines 22548–22565. These are period fortune-telling beliefs, not evidence for the modern interpretations." }, { "id": "wamsley-2010", "title": "Dreaming of a learning task is associated with enhanced sleep-dependent memory consolidation", "author": "Erin J. Wamsley and colleagues", "url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20417102/", "scope": "Primary maze-learning experiment; task-related dream reports correlated with later performance. It does not show that a dream is an accurate memory or a solution." } ], "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "DreamFolia AI-assisted editorial review", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "water", "house", "dog", "cat", "being-pregnant", "ex-partner", "deceased-loved-one", "fire", "spider", "being-lost", "ocean", "flood", "wedding", "baby", "train", "car", "wolf" ] }, "decisionReason": "The developed body and six scenes explain organized support, wrong destination, unavailable stops, changing carriages, shared responsibility and missing rails. 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Those circumstances matter more than the fact of replacement. You may want your work preserved while also wanting freedom from it. Notice whether your contribution was acknowledged and whether the learner treated your knowledge with care. The dream does not forecast job loss or require reading another person as a rival.", "traditional": "The archive’s successor and employment themes come from older social structures. This modern handover reflection does not assign victory to the incoming person or failure to the departing one.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "The learner improves something you taught them", "reflection": "Could their success feel like continuity as well as displacement?" }, { "title": "You are asked to explain years of work in one hour", "reflection": "What part of your contribution was being underestimated?" }, { "title": "You hand over a clear guide and leave calmly", "reflection": "What made completion feel possible?" } ], "prompts": [ "Had you chosen to leave this role?", "What knowledge did you most want respected?", "What did you hope would continue without requiring your presence?" ], "related": [ "employee", "resign", "our-predecessors-and-successors" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia model-assisted editorial draft. Reflection questions and scenario readings are optional, individually written suggestions, not empirically validated symbol meanings. Source scope is stated with each citation. Historical comparisons identify topics, not inherited interpretations. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "traitor", "title": "Traitor", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see a traitor in your dream, foretells you will have enemies working to despoil you.”", "aliases": [ "traitor" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about traitor stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2043", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Traitor", "text": "To see a traitor in your dream, foretells you will have enemies working\nto despoil you. If some one calls you one, or if you imagine yourself one,\nthere will be unfavorable prospects of pleasure for you.", "locator": "Heading 2047; source lines 22565–22571", "lineStart": 22565, "lineEnd": 22571, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a traitor in your dream, foretells you will have enemies working\nto despoil you. If some one calls you one, or if you imagine yourself one,\nthere will be unfavorable prospects of pleasure for you." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "trampoline", "title": "Trampoline", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "Every rise depends on a return to the same supporting surface.", "summary": "A trampoline dream can explore repeated effort, support and shared rhythm. The return to the surface matters as much as the height of each bounce.", "aliases": [ "trampoline", "trampolines", "bouncing on a trampoline" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A trampoline turns repeated contact into another rise. In a dream, this can picture an activity that depends on returning to a reliable base rather than escaping it once and for all. Practice, a recurring project or a routine that restores energy may offer a waking parallel. A satisfying rhythm can express trust that the next movement does not have to be invented from nothing. The support beneath you is part of what makes the lift possible.\n\nRising higher than intended can make momentum feel separate from your original choice. A small commitment may keep producing larger expectations, or enthusiasm may gather a pace you did not plan. The height can be exhilarating as well as unsettling. What matters is whether you can influence the next landing and decide how to continue. Greater height does not automatically represent greater success.\n\nEffort without a responsive surface brings a different tension. You may push harder while receiving little lift, much like trying to develop a skill without useful feedback or maintaining a project whose support has weakened. The scene can make the relationship between your effort and the arrangement visible. It need not mean that you should always try more; sometimes the missing response belongs to the conditions around the activity.\n\nAnother person's bounce changes your timing even when you are trying to keep a steady rhythm. This can resemble shared work in which one person's urgency affects everyone else's pace. A coordinated bounce may instead picture enjoyable cooperation that creates more lift than separate effort. The distinction is whether both people can adapt, rather than assuming shared movement necessarily takes control away from you.\n\nStepping off requires a moment when motion can settle. Being unable to find it may picture a repeating demand that makes stopping feel difficult despite the activity once being chosen. Making room for another person can offer an ending organized around sharing rather than exhaustion. Recent play, films or memories may also supply the image directly. The reflections concern repetition, response and choice within an imagined activity; they do not assess physical ability, predict injury or prescribe how to use a trampoline.", "traditional": "No exact Trampoline passage is supplied in the archive. Jumping and Leaping discuss different actions, without establishing a historical meaning for a spring-supported repeating bounce. These original readings distinguish shared rhythm and support from flying or a single leap.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Returning to a source of lift", "reflection": "Repeated contact can picture a routine or base that supports renewed effort. Returning need not mean failing to progress; it may be part of what makes the movement sustainable." }, { "title": "Momentum beyond the first choice", "reflection": "Increasing height can make an activity gather consequences or expectations beyond its beginning. Excitement and uncertainty may coexist as the pace becomes harder to set." }, { "title": "A rhythm shared with others", "reflection": "Another person’s movement can amplify or disrupt your own. Cooperation depends on room to adapt, rather than everyone keeping one person’s pace." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Each bounce rises higher than you intended", "reflection": "Unexpectedly increasing height can picture a commitment gathering momentum faster than anticipated. Enthusiasm or expanding expectations may fit. Enjoyment differs from feeling unable to choose what happens after the next landing." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You enjoy a steady rhythm alone", "reflection": "A steady solitary rhythm can picture an activity whose repetition is satisfying in itself. Practice or a restorative routine may offer a parallel. The recurring return can feel supportive rather than like being stuck." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Another person’s bounce changes your timing", "reflection": "Another person changing your bounce can resemble shared work whose pace depends on both participants. Coordinated movement may add energy; abrupt timing may leave you continually adjusting. Their responsiveness helps distinguish the two." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "The surface barely responds despite your effort", "reflection": "A surface that barely responds can picture effort meeting inadequate support or feedback. A project may require more than determination alone. The scene directs attention to the arrangement as well as how hard you are trying." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You cannot find the moment to step off", "reflection": "No moment to step off can picture a once-chosen activity becoming difficult to interrupt. Repeating responsibilities may fill the space where a pause would fit. Wanting to stop differs from no longer valuing the activity." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You choose to make room for someone else", "reflection": "Making room for someone else can picture sharing a useful resource without needing to maximize your own turn. A cooperative handover or mentoring role may fit. Whether the change feels chosen shapes the ending." } ], "prompts": [ "What provided the response that lifted me again?", "When did the rhythm feel chosen, shared or beyond my control?", "What would have allowed the movement to settle or make room for someone else?" ], "related": [ "jumping", "flying", "roller-coaster", "playground" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "transfiguration", "title": "Transfiguration", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of the transfiguration, foretells that your faith in man's own nearness to God will raise you above trifling opinions, and elevate…”", "aliases": [ "transfiguration" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about transfiguration stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "transmutation-of-the-person", "title": "Transmutation of the person", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Artemidorus wrote: “To be changed from little to great, and from great again to bigger, so that you excéed not reason is good, for it is increase of…”", "aliases": [ "transmutation of the person", "of the transmutation of the person" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about transmutation of the person stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "artemidorus-039", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of the transmutation of the person.", "text": "TO be changed from little to great, and from great again to bigger, so that you excéed not reason is good, for it is increase of businesse and goods: but to be greater then common vse, is death. Also it is ill for an old man to be changed into a yong man, or a yong man into a childe, for they shall change to a worse estate: but the contrary is good, for they shall come to a better estate. To dream to be a woman, is good for a poore man, and a servant: for the first shall finde those which will cherish him as a woman, and the second shall have lesse paine: but to a rich man, it is ill; especially, if he have government of any publike thing, it takes away his office and authority, because women must kéepe the house. To such as exercise bodily labour, it is sicknesse: for women are commonly weaker then men. If a woman dream that she is a man, and she be not married, she shall have a husband, or if she have no children, she shall have a sonne, or shall be some way changed into the nature of a man: but if she be both married, and have a sonne, she shall be a Widdow. To a Maid servant it signifies she shall have great servitude, and undergo pain as a man. It is good for a harlot, for she shall leave her wicked courses. Again, if a poor man or woman dreame that they are made all of gold, they shall be rich: but if they be rich, they shall be circumvented. For gold and silver have us Spies: to a sick person it is death. To be of brasse is good for a Warriour and a servant: for the one shall have Victory and a Statue erected, and the other shall have liberty. To dreame that you are of Iron, foretelleth infinite miseries. To be all of Earth betokeneth death, except such as live by earth; as Potters. To be of Stone, is to receive blows and wounds: if one dream he is changed into the shape of a Beast, he must judge according to the beasts nature, and of that I will intreat in the Second Books, in my discourse of the Chase. I have observed, that it is good for all to dream they are fair, and of good grace, and strong, and yet without excéeding common custome: for to be too faire, too brave, and too strong, is as much as to be ill favoured, faint hearted, and weak, which things signifie death to the Sick, and to Lovers ill successe, and attachment for treason.", "locator": "Book 1, encoded section 39", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "1", "displayText": "To be changed from little to great, and from great again to bigger, so that you excéed not reason is good, for it is increase of businesse and goods: but to be greater then common vse, is death. Also it is ill for an old man to be changed into a yong man, or a yong man into a childe, for they shall change to a worse estate: but the contrary is good, for they shall come to a better estate. To dream to be a woman, is good for a poore man, and a servant: for the first shall finde those which will cherish him as a woman, and the second shall have lesse paine: but to a rich man, it is ill; especially, if he have government of any publike thing, it takes away his office and authority, because women must kéepe the house. To such as exercise bodily labour, it is sicknesse: for women are commonly weaker then men. If a woman dream that she is a man, and she be not married, she shall have a husband, or if she have no children, she shall have a sonne, or shall be some way changed into the nature of a man: but if she be both married, and have a sonne, she shall be a Widdow. To a Maid servant it signifies she shall have great servitude, and undergo pain as a man. It is good for a harlot, for she shall leave her wicked courses. Again, if a poor man or woman dreame that they are made all of gold, they shall be rich: but if they be rich, they shall be circumvented. For gold and silver have us Spies: to a sick person it is death. To be of brasse is good for a Warriour and a servant: for the one shall have Victory and a Statue erected, and the other shall have liberty. To dreame that you are of Iron, foretelleth infinite miseries. To be all of Earth betokeneth death, except such as live by earth; as Potters. To be of Stone, is to receive blows and wounds: if one dream he is changed into the shape of a Beast, he must judge according to the beasts nature, and of that I will intreat in the Second Books, in my discourse of the Chase. I have observed, that it is good for all to dream they are fair, and of good grace, and strong, and yet without excéeding common custome: for to be too faire, too brave, and too strong, is as much as to be ill favoured, faint hearted, and weak, which things signifie death to the Sick, and to Lovers ill successe, and attachment for treason." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "trap", "title": "Trap", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of setting a trap, denotes that you will use intrigue to carry out your designs If you are caught…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "trap" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about trap stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "trap-door", "title": "Trap-door", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “To see some one emerging from a trap-door is a dream of a secret divulged; shut down it denotes mystery, hidden treasures, etc. (Gypsy).”", "aliases": [ "trap-door" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about trap-door stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. 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OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L12195", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Trap-door", "heading": "Trap-door", "text": "To see some one emerging from a trap-door is a dream of a secret divulged ; shut down it denotes mystery, hidden treasures, etc. (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12195, "lineEnd": 12198, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 258; NLM OCR lines 12195–12198", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12195, "lineEnd": 12198, "printedPage": 258, "printedPageEnd": 258 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Trap-door. — To see some one emerging from a trap-door \nis a dream of a secret divulged ; shut down it denotes mystery, \nhidden treasures, etc. (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Trap-door" }, "displayText": "To see some one emerging from a trap-door is a dream of a secret divulged; shut down it denotes mystery, hidden treasures, etc. (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2046", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Traveling", "text": "To dream of traveling, signifies profit and pleasure combined.\nTo dream of traveling through rough unknown places, portends\ndangerous enemies, and perhaps sickness. Over bare or rocky steeps,\nsignifies apparent gain, but loss and disappointment will swiftly follow.\nIf the hills or mountains are fertile and green, you will be eminently\nprosperous and happy.\n\nTo dream you travel alone in a car, denotes you may possibly\nmake an eventful journey, and affairs will be worrying.\nTo travel in a crowded car, foretells fortunate adventures,\nand new and entertaining companions.\n\n\n[229] See Journey.", "locator": "Heading 2050; source lines 22596–22613", "lineStart": 22596, "lineEnd": 22613, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of traveling, signifies profit and pleasure combined.\nTo dream of traveling through rough unknown places, portends\ndangerous enemies, and perhaps sickness. Over bare or rocky steeps,\nsignifies apparent gain, but loss and disappointment will swiftly follow.\nIf the hills or mountains are fertile and green, you will be eminently\nprosperous and happy.\n\nTo dream you travel alone in a car, denotes you may possibly\nmake an eventful journey, and affairs will be worrying.\nTo travel in a crowded car, foretells fortunate adventures,\nand new and entertaining companions. See Journey." }, { "id": "fontaine-0808", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Traveling", "text": "To dream of traveling by railroad or steamboat is a very\ngood omen, as it denotes thrift and success in your business; but if\nyou dream you are journeying in your own private coach, it foreshadows\npoverty in the end, though you may have temporary good luck: if you\ndream you have crossed the ocean, and find yourself in a foreign\ncountry, you may be sure that good fortune will attend all your\nbusiness transactions. 6, 11, 66.", "locator": "Heading 808; source line 4985", "lineStart": 4985, "lineEnd": 4993, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of traveling by railroad or steamboat is a very\ngood omen, as it denotes thrift and success in your business; but if\nyou dream you are journeying in your own private coach, it foreshadows\npoverty in the end, though you may have temporary good luck: if you\ndream you have crossed the ocean, and find yourself in a foreign\ncountry, you may be sure that good fortune will attend all your\nbusiness transactions." }, { "id": "noe-0515", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Traveling", "text": "If one dreams that he is traveling through a wood and that\nhe sticketh in the briars and bushes, it betokens many troubles and\nhindrances. To travel over high hills and mountains and rocky places,\nsignifies advancement, but with much difficulty obtained.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 523; source lines 1895–1898", "lineStart": 1895, "lineEnd": 1898, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If one dreams that he is traveling through a wood and that\nhe sticketh in the briars and bushes, it betokens many troubles and\nhindrances. To travel over high hills and mountains and rocky places,\nsignifies advancement, but with much difficulty obtained." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12199", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Traveling", "heading": "Traveling", "text": "through a wood a dream of trouble and hindrances; uphill, advancement with difficulty (Raphael).", "lineStart": 12199, "lineEnd": 12201, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 258; NLM OCR lines 12199–12201", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12199, "lineEnd": 12201, "printedPage": 258, "printedPageEnd": 258 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Traveling through a wood a dream of trouble and hin- \ndrances; uphill, advancement with difficulty (Raphael). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "hin- \ndrances", "after": "hindrances", "evidenceLine": 10522 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Traveling" }, "displayText": "through a wood a dream of trouble and hindrances; uphill, advancement with difficulty (Raphael)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2047", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Tray", "text": "To see trays in your dream, denotes your wealth will be foolishly\nwasted, and surprises of unpleasant nature will shock you.\nIf the trays seem to be filled with valuables, surprises will come\nin the shape of good fortune.", "locator": "Heading 2051; source lines 22613–22620", "lineStart": 22613, "lineEnd": 22620, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see trays in your dream, denotes your wealth will be foolishly\nwasted, and surprises of unpleasant nature will shock you.\nIf the trays seem to be filled with valuables, surprises will come\nin the shape of good fortune." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "guide-65367", "title": "Guide to Fortune-Telling by Dreams", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Multum in Parvo Library, Vol. I, No. 10, October 1894", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65367", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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It shows that you will be\nbetrayed by some one whom you make your bosom friend; that your sweetheart\nis unfaithful and grossly deceives you; and should you not be able to\ncarry it away, then it denotes that you will have some very heavy loss,\nand that you will be waylaid by robbers, who will ill-treat you.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 531; source lines 1923–1929", "lineStart": 1923, "lineEnd": 1929, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you find\na treasure in the earth, is very ominous. It shows that you will be\nbetrayed by some one whom you make your bosom friend; that your sweetheart\nis unfaithful and grossly deceives you; and should you not be able to\ncarry it away, then it denotes that you will have some very heavy loss,\nand that you will be waylaid by robbers, who will ill-treat you." }, { "id": "cielo-0433", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Treasure", "text": "Finding a treasure or a heap of money\n indicates a disappointment.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 433; source lines 4908–4911", "lineStart": 4908, "lineEnd": 4911, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Finding a treasure or a heap of money\nindicates a disappointment." }, { "id": "guide-0040", "sourceId": "guide-65367", "heading": "Treasure", "text": "To dream you find a treasure in the earth is very ominous;\nit shows that you will be betrayed by your bosom friend; your\nsweetheart is unfaithful and deceives you; if you should not be able\nto carry it away, you will have some very heavy losses; if you have\nlawsuit it will go against you by the treachery of your attorney.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 40; source lines 350–356", "lineStart": 350, "lineEnd": 356, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you find a treasure in the earth is very ominous;\nit shows that you will be betrayed by your bosom friend; your\nsweetheart is unfaithful and deceives you; if you should not be able\nto carry it away, you will have some very heavy losses; if you have\nlawsuit it will go against you by the treachery of your attorney." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12255", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Treasure", "heading": "Treasure", "text": "To find treasure is a dream of success (Gypsy). One of the few dreams involving material gain that is not a dream of contrary, the reason probably lies in the fact that treasure and its discovery so frequently figures as the traditional reward of virtue in the fairy stories and in mythology.", "lineStart": 12255, "lineEnd": 12261, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 259; NLM OCR lines 12255–12261", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12255, "lineEnd": 12261, "printedPage": 259, "printedPageEnd": 259 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Treasure. — To find treasure is a dream of success (Gypsy). \nOne of the few dreams involving material gain that is not \na dream of contrary, the reason probably lies in the fact \nthat treasure and its discovery so frequently figures as the \ntraditional reward of virtue in the fairy stories and in myth- \nology. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "myth- \nology", "after": "mythology", "evidenceLine": 252 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Treasure" }, "displayText": "To find treasure is a dream of success (Gypsy). One of the few dreams involving material gain that is not a dream of contrary, the reason probably lies in the fact that treasure and its discovery so frequently figures as the traditional reward of virtue in the fairy stories and in mythology." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "trees", "title": "Trees", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "summary": "Trees may picture a continuing structure, growth within existing limits, a wider view, or a change whose effects remain after one decisive action.", "tagline": "A rooted structure, its branches, and the room beneath them.", "aliases": [ "trees", "of trees" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A familiar tree can picture continuity through periods when the surroundings change. Its trunk and branches may remain recognizable while leaves, light, and the people nearby differ. A long-standing relationship, a home routine, or work carried across several stages of life may offer a parallel. Returning to the tree can feel reassuring or reveal how much has changed around an unchanged reference. The image need not represent ancestry or a whole life; one particular tree may carry a direct personal memory that matters more than any general symbolism.\n\nClimbing can turn a continuing structure into a way to gain perspective. A view from above may help you see paths or surroundings that are difficult to understand from the ground. This can resemble stepping back from a complicated task or finding another position from which to consider a choice. If you cannot descend, the wider view has acquired a cost: a position chosen for clarity may leave you less able to participate. Reaching a higher branch does not have to mean ambition, status, or achievement when the action may simply concern seeing differently.\n\nA tree whose branches press against a building can make growth and fit conflict. Something valued has developed beyond the arrangement originally made for it. A project, friendship, or family routine may need more space without being unwanted. Making room, cutting a branch, or refusing any change creates different relationships with that tension. The scene can hold care and practical limits together rather than assuming that unrestricted growth is always healthy or that every cut means destruction.\n\nA fallen or felled tree changes more than its own shape: shade, access, and the familiar view may all change. This can picture the consequences of a decision that appears singular but reorganizes an ordinary place. Relief at an open path differs from sadness about losing shelter. A new shoot in an old trunk may make continuity possible without restoring the same form. A childhood place, garden, drawing, or recently seen tree can supply the image directly. The individual structure and your actions distinguish this entry from Forest’s routes through a landscape; no species, season, or condition is treated as a fixed prediction.", "traditional": "Eight sources assign different forecasts to foliage, climbing, cutting, withering, and fruit. Artemidorus’s “Of Trees” also distinguishes species and occupations, with transcription gaps retained. Cielo offers a brief encouragement, while other authors predict gain or loss. These are attributed historical comparisons, not universal codes for tree condition or future events.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A continuing reference", "reflection": "A familiar tree can remain recognizable while its surroundings change. Returning may offer reassurance or make the passage between different periods more visible." }, { "title": "A different position for seeing", "reflection": "Climbing can picture gaining perspective. A view that helps you act differs from a position that leaves you unable to return or participate." }, { "title": "Growth and the available space", "reflection": "Branches can outgrow an existing arrangement. The scene may explore making room or accepting a limit while continuing to value what has developed." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You return to a tree from an earlier home", "reflection": "A familiar structure connects two periods without making their surroundings identical. This may picture continuity through a direct memory. Comfort differs from sadness when the place it once sheltered has changed." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Climbing gives you a clear view of several paths", "reflection": "A changed position makes choices visible that were unclear below. This can resemble gaining perspective on a complicated task. The ability to descend and use the view distinguishes helpful distance from withdrawal that prevents participation." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You reach a high branch and cannot climb down", "reflection": "A position chosen for a wider view becomes restrictive. The scene may picture a role or decision whose conditions are harder to revise than expected. Assistance that makes descent possible changes the relationship from achievement alone toward usable support." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Branches press against a familiar building", "reflection": "Valued growth no longer fits its original space. This can picture a project or relationship requiring an adjusted arrangement. Making room differs from assuming the growth must stop simply because the existing structure remains unchanged." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A tree is cut down and the whole place feels different", "reflection": "One action removes shelter, changes access, or opens a view. The scene may picture consequences that extend beyond a single decision. Relief and grief can coexist when a practical change also removes something familiar." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "A new shoot appears on an old trunk", "reflection": "A continuing structure acquires another form of growth. This can picture finding a possibility within something you thought finished. Its value lies in the particular new direction, rather than a promise that every loss will be restored." } ], "prompts": [ "What did this particular tree make familiar, sheltered, or possible?", "Did a higher position help me return and act, or make descent difficult?", "What needed more room, and what changed when part of the tree was removed?" ], "related": [ "forest", "roots", "leaves", "plants", "blossoms" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-2049" ], "scope": "Attached historical comparison only: Trees — miller-2049 (Heading 2053; source lines 22628–22644): Foliage, death, climbing, felling, and uprooting receive hope, sorrow, elevation, waste, or unhappiness forecasts. These period assertions are preserved as attributed archival material; they neither validate this original modern reflection nor establish an outcome." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0809" ], "scope": "Attached historical comparison only: Trees — fontaine-0809 (Heading 809; source line 4993): Flourishing trees and climbing are linked to riches and distinction; Blossom cross-reference. These period assertions are preserved as attributed archival material; they neither validate this original modern reflection nor establish an outcome." }, { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display.", "recordIds": [ "artemidorus-087" ], "scope": "Attached historical comparison only: Of Trees. — artemidorus-087 (Book 2, encoded section 87): Of Trees treats species and occupations separately; illegible gaps remain. These period assertions are preserved as attributed archival material; they neither validate this original modern reflection nor establish an outcome." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0516" ], "scope": "Attached historical comparison only: Trees — noe-0516 (Dream section, heading 524; source lines 1898–1901): Felling, climbing, withering, and fruit-bearing receive loss, honor, deceit, and gain forecasts. These period assertions are preserved as attributed archival material; they neither validate this original modern reflection nor establish an outcome." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0434" ], "scope": "Attached historical comparison only: Trees — cielo-0434 (Dream section, heading 434; source lines 4911–4913): A short exhortation to keep up courage. These period assertions are preserved as attributed archival material; they neither validate this original modern reflection nor establish an outcome." }, { "id": "guide-65367", "title": "Guide to Fortune-Telling by Dreams", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Multum in Parvo Library, Vol. I, No. 10, October 1894", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65367", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "guide-0041" ], "scope": "Attached historical comparison only: Trees — guide-0041 (Dream section, heading 41; source lines 356–364): Blossoming, climbing, and cutting receive marriage, fortune, honor, and death forecasts. These period assertions are preserved as attributed archival material; they neither validate this original modern reflection nor establish an outcome." }, { "id": "moles-71045", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams and Moles", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "United Kingdom, J. Marshall, 1805", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71045", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "moles-0028" ], "scope": "Attached historical comparison only: Trees — moles-0028 (Dreams interpreted, passage 28; source lines 191–192): A withered tree sprouting is linked to children in old age. These period assertions are preserved as attributed archival material; they neither validate this original modern reflection nor establish an outcome." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L12262" ], "scope": "Attached historical comparison only: Trees — craig-1918:L12262 (Printed p. 259; NLM OCR lines 12262–12264): Foliage, felling, and climbing are assigned happiness, loss through death, and toil. These period assertions are preserved as attributed archival material; they neither validate this original modern reflection nor establish an outcome." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2049", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Trees", "text": "To dream of trees in new foliage, foretells a happy consummation of hopes\nand desires. Dead trees signal sorrow and loss.\n\nTo climb a tree is a sign of swift elevation and preferment.\n\nTo cut one down, or pull it up by the roots, denotes that you\nwill waste your energies and wealth foolishly.\n\nTo see green tress newly felled, portends unhappiness coming unexpectedly\nupon scenes of enjoyment, or prosperity.\n\n\n[230] See Forest.", "locator": "Heading 2053; source lines 22628–22644", "lineStart": 22628, "lineEnd": 22644, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of trees in new foliage, foretells a happy consummation of hopes\nand desires. Dead trees signal sorrow and loss.\n\nTo climb a tree is a sign of swift elevation and preferment.\n\nTo cut one down, or pull it up by the roots, denotes that you\nwill waste your energies and wealth foolishly.\n\nTo see green tress newly felled, portends unhappiness coming unexpectedly\nupon scenes of enjoyment, or prosperity. See Forest." }, { "id": "fontaine-0809", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Trees", "text": "(_See Blossom._) To dream of green and flourishing trees is an\nexcellent omen, as it foretells riches—the larger the trees, the better\nthe fortune: if you dream of climbing into a high tree, you will not\nonly be rich, but will come to great distinction. If a girl should\ndream of seeing her lover up a tree, she will marry a wealthy and\ndistinguished man. 4.", "locator": "Heading 809; source line 4993", "lineStart": 4993, "lineEnd": 5000, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Blossom.) To dream of green and flourishing trees is an\nexcellent omen, as it foretells riches—the larger the trees, the better\nthe fortune: if you dream of climbing into a high tree, you will not\nonly be rich, but will come to great distinction. If a girl should\ndream of seeing her lover up a tree, she will marry a wealthy and\ndistinguished man." }, { "id": "artemidorus-087", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of Trees.", "text": "THe Oaks are people, and also folks, the Olive trée, is the wife, the combat, principality and liberty, and therefore it is good to see it flourishing well, bearing fayr and ripe fruit in season: to beate downe Olives, is good for all but servants: to gather olives on the ground, or tread upon them, is pain and anger: the Bay tr[illegible passage]e is a rich and fayr wife, it is also ill successe of affayrs, because it is bitter: but as for physitions Poets, and Divines, it is good for their art. The Cypresse trée, is patience, and lingring. Pine trees, and bodyes of fyrre tress, have reference to Patrons and Mariners, because that thereof men make ships and also Rosen: to others it signifyeth sloth, and feare. Orange trées, Pomegranate trees, Apple trées, and Pear trées, must be accounted of as their fruits, wherof we spoke in our first book, in the spéech of meates. Pine trées, black Poplars, Elmes, Ashes, and other such like, are good onely for Soldiers, Joyners, and Carpenters. To others they are povertie, because they are trees without fruit. Béech and Myrtle trées, are wanton women, and are good for those which would undertake any such businesse, and for the sick, to others they are paine and labour.", "locator": "Book 2, encoded section 87", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription-with-gaps", "book": "2", "displayText": "THe Oaks are people, and also folks, the Olive trée, is the wife, the combat, principality and liberty, and therefore it is good to see it flourishing well, bearing fayr and ripe fruit in season: to beate downe Olives, is good for all but servants: to gather olives on the ground, or tread upon them, is pain and anger: the Bay tr [illegible passage] e is a rich and fayr wife, it is also ill successe of affayrs, because it is bitter: but as for physitions Poets, and Divines, it is good for their art. The Cypresse trée, is patience, and lingring. Pine trees, and bodyes of fyrre tress, have reference to Patrons and Mariners, because that thereof men make ships and also Rosen: to others it signifyeth sloth, and feare. Orange trées, Pomegranate trees, Apple trées, and Pear trées, must be accounted of as their fruits, wherof we spoke in our first book, in the spéech of meates. Pine trées, black Poplars, Elmes, Ashes, and other such like, are good onely for Soldiers, Joyners, and Carpenters. To others they are povertie, because they are trees without fruit. Béech and Myrtle trées, are wanton women, and are good for those which would undertake any such businesse, and for the sick, to others they are paine and labour." }, { "id": "noe-0516", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Trees", "text": "To\ndream that you fell trees, signifies loss; to dream you are climbing them,\nsignifies future honor. To see withered trees, deceit; to see trees bear\nfruit, gain.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 524; source lines 1898–1901", "lineStart": 1898, "lineEnd": 1901, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To\ndream that you fell trees, signifies loss; to dream you are climbing them,\nsignifies future honor. To see withered trees, deceit; to see trees bear\nfruit, gain." }, { "id": "cielo-0434", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Trees", "text": "Dreaming of trees denotes “Keep up your courage.”", "locator": "Dream section, heading 434; source lines 4911–4913", "lineStart": 4911, "lineEnd": 4913, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Dreaming of trees denotes “Keep up your courage.”" }, { "id": "guide-0041", "sourceId": "guide-65367", "heading": "Trees", "text": "To dream you see trees in blossom denotes a happy marriage\nwith the present object of your affections, and many children who will\ndo extremely well in life; to the tradesman it denotes success in\nbusiness. To dream you are climbing trees denotes that you will make a\nfortune, and rise to honors and dignities in the State. To dream you\nare cutting down trees foretells the death of a near relation or dear\nfriend.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 41; source lines 356–364", "lineStart": 356, "lineEnd": 364, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see trees in blossom denotes a happy marriage\nwith the present object of your affections, and many children who will\ndo extremely well in life; to the tradesman it denotes success in\nbusiness. To dream you are climbing trees denotes that you will make a\nfortune, and rise to honors and dignities in the State. To dream you\nare cutting down trees foretells the death of a near relation or dear\nfriend." }, { "id": "moles-0028", "sourceId": "moles-71045", "heading": "Trees", "originalHeading": "(no printed heading)", "text": "To dream you see a withered tree sprouting out, denotes children in old\nage.", "locator": "Dreams interpreted, passage 28; source lines 191–192", "lineStart": 191, "lineEnd": 192, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "editorialNote": "The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Trees” because that is the subject of its first clause.", "displayText": "To dream you see a withered tree sprouting out, denotes children in old\nage." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12262", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Trees", "heading": "Trees", "text": "In foliage, joy and happiness ; cut down, loss of friends through death; climbing trees, toil uphill (Raphael).", "lineStart": 12262, "lineEnd": 12264, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 259; NLM OCR lines 12262–12264", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12262, "lineEnd": 12264, "printedPage": 259, "printedPageEnd": 259 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Trees. — In foliage, joy and happiness ; cut down, loss of \nfriends through death; climbing trees, toil uphill (Raphael). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Trees" }, "displayText": "In foliage, joy and happiness; cut down, loss of friends through death; climbing trees, toil uphill (Raphael)." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [ "forest", "blossoms" ] }, { "slug": "trenches", "title": "Trenches", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see trenches in dreams, warns you of distant treachery.”", "aliases": [ "trenches" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about trenches stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "ditch" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2050", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Trenches", "text": "To see trenches in dreams, warns you of distant treachery.\nYou will sustain loss if not careful in undertaking new enterprises,\nor associating with strangers.\n\nTo see filled trenches, denotes many anxieties are gathering around you.\n\n\n[231] See Ditch.", "locator": "Heading 2054; source lines 22644–22655", "lineStart": 22644, "lineEnd": 22655, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see trenches in dreams, warns you of distant treachery.\nYou will sustain loss if not careful in undertaking new enterprises,\nor associating with strangers.\n\nTo see filled trenches, denotes many anxieties are gathering around you. See Ditch." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "ditch" ] }, { "slug": "triangle", "title": "Triangle", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "aliases": [ "triangle" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "summary": "A triangle can explore connections between positions, a piece whose form does not fit its task, or a direction created by its orientation.", "tagline": "Three positions can be connected without having the same perspective.", "psychological": "A triangle in a dream can make the relationship between positions unusually visible. You may trace its edges, try to fit a triangular piece somewhere or follow a pointed sign. The shape can matter through what you do with it rather than through a fixed meaning assigned to the number three. It does not establish a romantic rivalry or reveal a hidden three-person relationship.\n\nA route linking three corners can create several possible ways to reach a destination. Taking one side may leave another place unvisited, even when the whole outline remains familiar. This can resemble choosing an order for connected tasks or deciding which encounter needs attention first. The route need not tell you that one of three people must be excluded.\n\nA triangular piece that will not fit a square opening can make the form of a contribution differ from the available space. You might try another position, alter the arrangement or find a task for which the piece is useful. This can resemble a request that assumes a particular kind of answer. Failure to fit one opening need not become a judgment about the value of the piece or your ability.\n\nThree connected sides supporting an object can make a relationship practical within the scene. The object depends on an arrangement rather than on one isolated point. A line that stops before meeting the last corner creates a different question about connection: the intended outline is clear while one meeting remains unfinished. These are imagined structures, not instructions about building or proof that three conditions are always necessary.\n\nPeople positioned at different corners may notice different parts of the same scene. Exchanging descriptions can reveal perspective without requiring anyone to abandon their position. A triangular sign that turns while keeping its shape instead changes direction through orientation. These possibilities concern connection, fit and use; a recent diagram, sign, game or drawing can also supply direct context. The positions, available movement and purpose of the form guide whether a waking comparison fits. No general rule makes a triangle a warning of separation or decides what any actual relationship needs.", "traditional": "Miller’s sole Triangle passage predicts separation from friends and disagreement in love. It does not identify a three-person relationship or provide a geometry-based explanation. The forecast remains attributed period writing. The original reflection here distinguishes routes, fitting a piece, connected supports, differing viewpoints and the orientation of a sign.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Connected positions with different priorities", "reflection": "A route can link several places while still requiring a chosen order or focus." }, { "title": "Fit between a form and its use", "reflection": "A piece can be useful without matching every opening or expectation." }, { "title": "Perspective and direction within a stable shape", "reflection": "Connection does not make every viewpoint identical, and orientation can change an otherwise familiar form." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You choose a route between three corners without visiting them in order", "reflection": "The connected outline permits more than one sequence. This may picture tasks or encounters whose order needs attention. Choosing one side need not mean rejecting a person or losing a relationship; the intended destination and what each corner offers give the route context." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A triangular piece will not fit the square opening provided", "reflection": "The available form and expected space do not match. This can picture a contribution needing different terms rather than more force or effort. Failure to fit one opening does not make the piece worthless; another arrangement or purpose may change the imagined task." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Three connected sides hold up an object in the scene", "reflection": "Support comes from a relationship between parts rather than one point alone. This may picture an arrangement needing coordination to serve its purpose. The invented structure is not building advice or proof that every waking task requires exactly three people, resources or conditions." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "The last drawn line stops before reaching the remaining corner", "reflection": "The intended outline is recognizable while one connection remains unfinished. This can picture an exchange or task having clear direction without a completed meeting. The gap need not predict separation; what prevents the line from reaching and what response is available shape the experience." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "People at different corners describe different parts of the same view", "reflection": "Their positions make different details available. This may picture an exchange becoming useful through sharing perspectives rather than requiring everyone to see the same thing immediately. The scene does not decide which person is truthful or create a fixed rule about three-way relationships." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "A triangular sign rotates and points somewhere different without changing shape", "reflection": "Orientation changes the instruction you receive from a familiar form. This can picture a task or message needing its setting understood before it becomes useful. The direction is an imagined feature, not guidance about an actual route or a hidden command you must follow." } ], "prompts": [ "What positions, edges or points were connected within the scene?", "How did the shape fit the use or expectation placed on it?", "What changed when a viewpoint or direction shifted?" ], "related": [ "circle", "drawing", "construction", "arrow" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-2051" ], "scope": "miller-2051: Triangle receives friend-separation and love-disagreement forecasts. No particular three-person arrangement is specified. Exact supplied passages: miller-2051 — Triangle (Heading 2055; source lines 22655–22660). Attributed historical comparison only; no forecast validates the original reflection or establishes actual health, relationships, beliefs or circumstances." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2051", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Triangle", "text": "To dream of a triangle, foretells separation from friends,\nand love affairs will terminate in disagreements.", "locator": "Heading 2055; source lines 22655–22660", "lineStart": 22655, "lineEnd": 22660, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a triangle, foretells separation from friends,\nand love affairs will terminate in disagreements." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "tripe", "title": "Tripe", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see tripe in a dream, means sickness and danger.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "tripe" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about tripe stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2052", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Tripe", "text": "To see tripe in a dream, means sickness and danger.\n\nTo eat tripe, denotes that you will be disappointed in some serious matter.", "locator": "Heading 2056; source lines 22660–22666", "lineStart": 22660, "lineEnd": 22666, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see tripe in a dream, means sickness and danger.\n\nTo eat tripe, denotes that you will be disappointed in some serious matter." }, { "id": "fontaine-0810", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Tripe", "text": "If a woman dreams of cleaning tripe, it foretells that she will\neither be untrue to her husband or an outrage will be perpetrated upon\nher: to dream of eating tripe is about as bad, for it shows to a man\nthat he will be engaged in some affair with a female (not his wife)\nwhich will bring him to disgrace. 28, 9.", "locator": "Heading 810; source line 5000", "lineStart": 5000, "lineEnd": 5006, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If a woman dreams of cleaning tripe, it foretells that she will\neither be untrue to her husband or an outrage will be perpetrated upon\nher: to dream of eating tripe is about as bad, for it shows to a man\nthat he will be engaged in some affair with a female (not his wife)\nwhich will bring him to disgrace." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "triplets", "title": "Triplets", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing triplets, foretells success in affairs where failure was feared.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "triplets" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about triplets stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2053", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Triplets", "text": "To dream of seeing triplets, foretells success in affairs\nwhere failure was feared.\n\nFor a man to dream that his wife has them, signifies a pleasant\ntermination to some affair which has been long in dispute.\n\nTo hear newly-born triplets crying, signifies disagreements\nwhich will be hastily reconciled to your pleasure.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she has triplets, denotes that she will suffer\nloss and disappointment in love, but will succeed to wealth.", "locator": "Heading 2057; source lines 22666–22680", "lineStart": 22666, "lineEnd": 22680, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing triplets, foretells success in affairs\nwhere failure was feared.\n\nFor a man to dream that his wife has them, signifies a pleasant\ntermination to some affair which has been long in dispute.\n\nTo hear newly-born triplets crying, signifies disagreements\nwhich will be hastily reconciled to your pleasure.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she has triplets, denotes that she will suffer\nloss and disappointment in love, but will succeed to wealth." }, { "id": "fontaine-0811", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Triplets", "text": "If a woman dreams that she gives birth to three children at\none parturition, it foretells riches and honors: if a husband dreams\nthat his wife is so delivered, the omen is the same: if any one dreams\nof seeing triplets who are healthy and well-formed, it foretells good\nluck and success, particularly in love matters. 46, 5.", "locator": "Heading 811; source line 5006", "lineStart": 5006, "lineEnd": 5012, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If a woman dreams that she gives birth to three children at\none parturition, it foretells riches and honors: if a husband dreams\nthat his wife is so delivered, the omen is the same: if any one dreams\nof seeing triplets who are healthy and well-formed, it foretells good\nluck and success, particularly in love matters." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "tripod", "title": "Tripod", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “A dream of unveiling the future, of uncertainty (Gypsy). Obviously derived from the tripod upon which the oracles were seated when forecasting.”", "aliases": [ "tripod" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about tripod stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L12272", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Tripod", "heading": "Tripod", "text": "A dream of unveiling the future, of uncertainty (Gypsy). Obviously derived from the tripod upon which the oracles were seated when forecasting.", "lineStart": 12272, "lineEnd": 12275, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 259; NLM OCR lines 12272–12275", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12272, "lineEnd": 12275, "printedPage": 259, "printedPageEnd": 259 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Tripod. — A dream of unveiling the future, of uncertain- \nty (Gypsy). Obviously derived from the tripod upon which \nthe oracles were seated when forecasting. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "uncertain- \nty", "after": "uncertainty", "evidenceLine": 10042 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Tripod" }, "displayText": "A dream of unveiling the future, of uncertainty (Gypsy). Obviously derived from the tripod upon which the oracles were seated when forecasting." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "trophy", "title": "Trophy", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see trophies in a dream, signifies some pleasure or fortune will come to you through the endeavors of mere acquaintances.”", "aliases": [ "trophy" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about trophy stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2054", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Trophy", "text": "To see trophies in a dream, signifies some pleasure or fortune\nwill come to you through the endeavors of mere acquaintances.\nFor a woman to give away a trophy, implies doubtful\npleasures and fortune.", "locator": "Heading 2058; source lines 22680–22687", "lineStart": 22680, "lineEnd": 22687, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see trophies in a dream, signifies some pleasure or fortune\nwill come to you through the endeavors of mere acquaintances.\nFor a woman to give away a trophy, implies doubtful\npleasures and fortune." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "trousers", "title": "Trousers", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "summary": "Trousers may make freedom of movement, the load you carry or the fit of a practical role tangible. The activity gives the garment its context.", "tagline": "Movement and carrying can matter more than appearance.", "aliases": [ "trousers" ], "status": "REVIEW", "psychological": "Trousers that let you move easily may make a practical arrangement feel workable. A pair that catches, tightens or drags can turn an ordinary walk or seated task into a negotiation. The dream may give a role's fit a physical form: what seemed adequate while standing still may need adjustment when you try to act. A waking comparison could be a plan that looks complete but becomes awkward in use.\n\n The relation between two legs can make coordination concrete. One side may move freely while the other remains caught, or each leg may lead toward a different doorway. This can resemble parts of a task proceeding at different speeds or commitments that do not yet share a direction. Slowing down, releasing one obstruction or choosing a clearer route provides different possibilities from forcing both parts to move together.\n\n Pockets introduce a separate concern. They may hold exactly what the next activity needs, become burdened with irrelevant objects or conceal an item you cannot find when asked for it. This can picture how preparation and carrying affect access. Bringing every previous responsibility into a new setting differs from taking the few resources that fit it. Discovering what can be left behind may make movement easier without discarding anything important.\n\n Fit and condition can also affect being seen. A seam that opens only when you bend may make a particular action feel exposed, while another person noticing the issue calmly can keep the task manageable. An arrangement for privacy, a repair or a different pair can make the scene about accommodation rather than humiliation. The dreamed garment provides no verdict about the value of your body.\n\n Choosing trousers for a specific task can bring purpose ahead of a preferred appearance. You might keep a familiar pair for an ordinary journey or find that an unfamiliar one makes the work easier. The important development is how freely you can adjust what you wear and carry. Recent clothing routines, pockets or a practical mishap can supply the image without requiring a moral message.", "traditional": "Miller assigns dishonorable temptation to trousers and fascination to wearing them inside out. These are his period judgments about clothing. They do not establish a dreamer’s conduct or turn an unusual way of wearing the garment into a moral or identity code.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Fit tested through activity", "reflection": "The garment may seem suitable until you walk, sit or bend. The scene can make the difference between an arrangement’s appearance and its practical use tangible, including which adjustments are available." }, { "title": "Coordinating different parts", "reflection": "Uneven movement can give separate demands different speeds or directions. The encounter becomes more specific through how you release an obstruction, wait or decide which route the whole activity will follow." }, { "title": "What belongs in the pockets", "reflection": "The things carried can support or obstruct the next task. A pocketful of earlier obligations differs from a modest set of resources that can be found when needed." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "One trouser leg catches while the other moves freely", "reflection": "Progress is uneven even though you intended one movement. The scene may resemble parts of a task that need different attention. Releasing the obstruction or slowing the freer side can make coordination more useful than treating the delay as a failure of effort." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "The pockets contain objects from several earlier jobs", "reflection": "Everything seems potentially useful, yet the load makes the present task harder. Sorting or setting items aside can explore what needs to travel with you now. An object kept deliberately has a different place from a responsibility carried only because it was already there." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A seam opens only when you bend for a task", "reflection": "The difficulty appears during a useful action rather than while you are simply standing. Privacy, help or a repair may let the work continue. The scene can concern adapting a practical arrangement without making the mishap a judgment on your body or competence." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Long cuffs keep dragging along a route", "reflection": "The garment fits one expectation but interferes with the journey. Adjusting its length or choosing another pair can picture adapting a plan to the conditions of use. Keeping the original form matters differently when it preserves a preference than when it prevents the intended movement." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You find the needed item in a modest pocket", "reflection": "A small resource is available at the moment it is useful, without requiring a large load. This can picture preparation that fits its purpose. The scene’s satisfaction may concern access and timing rather than the amount of equipment or responsibility you are carrying." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "Two doorways pull each leg toward a different destination", "reflection": "The garment gives competing directions an awkward shared form. Choosing, pausing or finding a common route can make the dream about coordinating commitments. The difficulty need not mean either destination is wrong; it may concern attempting both through one movement at the same time." } ], "prompts": [ "What changed when you moved, sat or bent rather than standing still?", "Which carried objects helped the current task, and which made it harder?", "How could the separate demands find a workable pace or direction?" ], "related": [ "clothes", "dressing", "pocket", "sewing", "walking" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-2055" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context only. miller-2055: Trousers and putting them on inside out receive temptation/dishonor and fascination claims. These do not establish actual conduct. This citation does not validate the original psychological reflections or predict a waking outcome." } ], "updated": "2026-10-13", "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection independently reviewed for content and source scope. Historical accounts remain attributed period writing. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2055", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Trousers", "text": "To dream of trousers, foretells that you will be tempted\nto dishonorable deeds.\n\nIf you put them on wrong side out, you will find that a fascination\nis fastening its hold upon you.", "locator": "Heading 2059; source lines 22687–22695", "lineStart": 22687, "lineEnd": 22695, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of trousers, foretells that you will be tempted\nto dishonorable deeds.\n\nIf you put them on wrong side out, you will find that a fascination\nis fastening its hold upon you." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "trout", "title": "Trout", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing trout, is significant of growing prosperity.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "trout" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about trout stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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It is stated in some of the books that to newly married people\nsuch a dream foretells the birth of a child, but I have been unable\nto verify this, because most young married people will have children\nwhether they dream of trout or not. 29, 5.", "locator": "Heading 812; source line 5012", "lineStart": 5012, "lineEnd": 5019, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of catching trout is an excellent omen, as it foretells\nthat you will get money—the larger the trout, the more cash you will\nreceive. It is stated in some of the books that to newly married people\nsuch a dream foretells the birth of a child, but I have been unable\nto verify this, because most young married people will have children\nwhether they dream of trout or not." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12276", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Trout", "heading": "Trout", "text": "A dream denoting money, the larger the trout the more the money (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12276, "lineEnd": 12278, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 259; NLM OCR lines 12276–12278", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12276, "lineEnd": 12278, "printedPage": 259, "printedPageEnd": 259 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Trout. — A dream denoting money, the larger the trout the \nmore the money (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Trout" }, "displayText": "A dream denoting money, the larger the trout the more the money (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "trowel", "title": "Trowel", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a trowel, denotes you will experience reaction in unfavorable business, and will vanquish poverty.”", "aliases": [ "trowel" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about trowel stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "trumpet", "title": "Trumpet", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a trumpet, denotes that something of unusual interest is about to befall you.” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "trumpet" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about trumpet stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2058", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Trumpet", "text": "To dream of a trumpet, denotes that something of unusual interest\nis about to befall you.\n\nTo blow a trumpet, signifies that you will gain your wishes.", "locator": "Heading 2062; source lines 22714–22721", "lineStart": 22714, "lineEnd": 22721, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a trumpet, denotes that something of unusual interest\nis about to befall you.\n\nTo blow a trumpet, signifies that you will gain your wishes." }, { "id": "fontaine-0813", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Trumpet", "text": "To dream you hear the sound of a trumpet, is a bad omen, and\ndenotes trouble and misfortune; to the tradesman it presages the loss\nof business; to the farmer, bad crops; to the lover, insincerity in the\nobject of your affections. 46, 9.", "locator": "Heading 813; source line 5019", "lineStart": 5019, "lineEnd": 5024, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you hear the sound of a trumpet, is a bad omen, and\ndenotes trouble and misfortune; to the tradesman it presages the loss\nof business; to the farmer, bad crops; to the lover, insincerity in the\nobject of your affections." }, { "id": "noe-0521", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Trumpet", "text": "To dream you hear the\nsound of a trumpet is a bad omen, and denotes troubles and misfortunes. To\nthe tradesman, it presages loss of business; to the farmer, bad crops; to\nthe lover, insincerity in the object of his affections.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 529; source lines 1919–1922", "lineStart": 1919, "lineEnd": 1922, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you hear the\nsound of a trumpet is a bad omen, and denotes troubles and misfortunes. To\nthe tradesman, it presages loss of business; to the farmer, bad crops; to\nthe lover, insincerity in the object of his affections." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12279", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Trumpet", "heading": "Trumpet", "text": "To blow denotes triumph over enemies ; to hear one denotes coming trouble (Raphael). Invariably the symbol of triumph.", "lineStart": 12279, "lineEnd": 12286, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 259–260; NLM OCR lines 12279–12286", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12279, "lineEnd": 12286, "printedPage": 259, "printedPageEnd": 260 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Trumpet. — To blow denotes triumph over enemies ; to hear \none denotes coming trouble (Raphael). Invariably the symbol \nof triumph. \n\n\n26o THE FABRIC OF DREAMS \n\n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [ { "line": 12284, "text": "26o THE FABRIC OF DREAMS " } ], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Trumpet" }, "displayText": "To blow denotes triumph over enemies; to hear one denotes coming trouble (Raphael). 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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To pack your trunk,\ndenotes that you will soon go on a pleasant trip.\n\nTo see the contents of a trunk thrown about in disorder, foretells quarrels,\nand a hasty journey from which only dissatisfaction will accrue.\n\nEmpty trunks foretell disappointment in love and marriage.\n\nFor a drummer to check his trunk, is an omen of advancement and comfort.\nIf he finds that his trunk is too small for his wares, he will soon\nhear of his promotion, and his desires will reach gratification.\nFor a young woman to dream that she tries to unlock her trunk\nand can't, signifies that she will make an effort to win some\nwealthy person, but by a misadventure she will lose her chance.\nIf she fails to lock her trunk, she will be disappointed in making\na desired trip.", "locator": "Heading 2063; source lines 22721–22740", "lineStart": 22721, "lineEnd": 22740, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of trunks, foretells journeys and ill luck. To pack your trunk,\ndenotes that you will soon go on a pleasant trip.\n\nTo see the contents of a trunk thrown about in disorder, foretells quarrels,\nand a hasty journey from which only dissatisfaction will accrue.\n\nEmpty trunks foretell disappointment in love and marriage.\n\nFor a drummer to check his trunk, is an omen of advancement and comfort.\nIf he finds that his trunk is too small for his wares, he will soon\nhear of his promotion, and his desires will reach gratification.\nFor a young woman to dream that she tries to unlock her trunk\nand can't, signifies that she will make an effort to win some\nwealthy person, but by a misadventure she will lose her chance.\nIf she fails to lock her trunk, she will be disappointed in making\na desired trip." }, { "id": "fontaine-0814", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Trunk", "text": "To dream of a full trunk, shows the necessity of economy; an\nempty one, signifies that you may expect to receive money. 39, 62, 1.", "locator": "Heading 814; source line 5024", "lineStart": 5024, "lineEnd": 5027, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a full trunk, shows the necessity of economy; an\nempty one, signifies that you may expect to receive money." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12287", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Trunk", "heading": "Trunk", "text": "Full it shows economy, empty it denotes extravagance (Raphael),", "lineStart": 12287, "lineEnd": 12289, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 260; NLM OCR lines 12287–12289", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12287, "lineEnd": 12289, "printedPage": 260, "printedPageEnd": 260 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Trunk. — Full it shows economy, empty it denotes ex- \ntravagance (Raphael), \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "ex- \ntravagance", "after": "extravagance", "evidenceLine": 9961 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Trunk" }, "displayText": "Full it shows economy, empty it denotes extravagance (Raphael)," } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2061", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Trusts", "text": "To dream of trusts, foretells indifferent success in trade or law.\n\nIf you imagine you are a member of a trust, you will be successful\nin designs of a speculative nature.", "locator": "Heading 2065; source lines 22745–22752", "lineStart": 22745, "lineEnd": 22752, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of trusts, foretells indifferent success in trade or law.\n\nIf you imagine you are a member of a trust, you will be successful\nin designs of a speculative nature." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "trying-to-contact-emergency-services", "title": "Trying to contact emergency services", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "tagline": "An emergency call focuses on whether help can be reached and understood. The dream itself does not establish an actual emergency.", "summary": "An emergency call focuses on whether help can be reached and understood. The dream itself does not establish an actual emergency.", "aliases": [ "cannot call emergency services", "emergency number not working in a dream" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "Identify the obstacle precisely: forgotten numbers, inability to explain the location, an indifferent operator, or a working line that brings help. Each makes a different question about support available. The scene may draw on recent news or lived experience, but it does not demonstrate that you secretly want harm or that people will fail you. Keep reflection centered on the help you sought and how the response affected you.", "traditional": "Historic calls for rescue and modern emergency systems share the need for assistance, but the institutional expectations are different. This draft does not turn a failed call into a traditional forecast of abandonment.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "You cannot make the dispatcher understand the address", "reflection": "What information felt impossible to communicate when time mattered?" }, { "title": "You reach a person who stays on the line", "reflection": "Did being accompanied change your sense of what was manageable?" }, { "title": "Everyone assumes someone else has called", "reflection": "What happened when responsibility was spread across the group?" } ], "prompts": [ "What kind of help did you need?", "Was the barrier technical, interpersonal, or uncertainty about what to say?", "What response would have made you feel heard?" ], "related": [ "phone-not-working", "rescue", "danger" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia model-assisted editorial draft. Reflection questions and scenario readings are optional, individually written suggestions, not empirically validated symbol meanings. Source scope is stated with each citation. Historical comparisons identify topics, not inherited interpretations. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "tsunami", "title": "Tsunamis", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "The scene’s scale changes the choices available.", "summary": "A giant incoming wave can explore changed scale, limited choices, a witness’s wish to communicate, or continuity in an altered place.", "aliases": [ "tsunami", "tidal wave", "giant wave" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "psychological": "A giant incoming wave can make a familiar shore seem too small for what is approaching. Seeing it from a high window creates a different encounter from moving with others at ground level. The image can picture a demand whose scale changes your available choices, such as a large shared task or rapid transition. It may also come from remembered events, news or fiction; its size does not establish an actual disaster or an emotional condition.\n\nThe witness’s role can center communication. You may see the wave clearly while nobody answers your call. This can resemble having information or concern you want to share before deciding what action belongs to you. Being heard and being able to control the event are different wishes. The dream does not require you to have prevented everything that happens.\n\nLimited time can make ordinary choices unusually difficult. Trying to pack a small bag while every item seems essential can picture priorities competing for the same available space. Leaving the bag can shift the emphasis toward being allowed to act without completing every decision first. These are comparisons with the dreamed task, not instructions about real emergencies or a judgment of what you should value.\n\nMoving with companions can make pace and coordination more important than the wave itself. Somebody may need a different route, or the group may keep changing direction to remain together. A shared plan with different needs may fit that structure. Where cooperation is impossible, the scene need not become evidence that you have failed someone.\n\nImpossible boundaries and unfamiliar arrivals can also reshape the account. A wave stopping at an invisible line may create a pause whose usefulness matters more than explaining its physics. Being carried somewhere unplanned can give help a form you did not choose. Returning to an altered shore and recognizing one ordinary bench can center continuity without requiring the whole landscape to remain familiar. These original reflections concern the giant-wave encounter and its particular choices. No matching historical tsunami passage is supplied, and a flood or ocean record is not automatically evidence for this image.", "traditional": "No matching historical tsunami account is supplied. Flood, ocean and other water passages retain their own owners rather than becoming borrowed tsunami history. The existing NINDS citation provides general background about dreams and waking experience, not evidence for the scene’s meanings or any prediction. The original reflections concern scale, perspective, coordination and continuity within the imagined giant-wave encounter.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You see the wave from a high window but your call goes unanswered", "reflection": "Your view becomes a concern you want to communicate. This may picture needing acknowledgment before understanding your own role. Being unheard can matter without making you responsible for controlling the whole imagined event or proving that actual companions are ignoring a danger." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You abandon a small bag after every item seems essential", "reflection": "Limited space turns preparation into competing priorities. This can resemble a task needing action before every choice feels complete. Leaving the bag may create movement rather than establish disregard for what matters; the dream does not prescribe priorities for a real emergency." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Your group changes its pace to remain together", "reflection": "The shared route has to accommodate different capacities and wishes. This may picture coordination during a transition whose demands are uneven. The scene can center how people stay connected without treating speed, separation or difficulty as a measure of anyone’s actual care." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "The wave stops at an invisible line and gives you a pause", "reflection": "The impossible boundary changes what you can do next. This may picture needing an interval within something that feels large, rather than a prediction that events will halt. The pause’s use can matter without assigning the boundary a supernatural or scientific explanation." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The water carries you to an unfamiliar roof where someone helps", "reflection": "Arrival happens by a route you did not choose, and another person changes the next step. This can resemble receiving support through an unexpected arrangement. The dreamed help does not guarantee an outcome; its value lies in what becomes possible in this particular encounter." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "An altered shoreline still contains a bench you recognize", "reflection": "One ordinary detail remains familiar after the larger scene changes. This may picture continuity carried by a small routine or memory. Recognition can coexist with loss or uncertainty without requiring the entire place to recover its earlier appearance or meaning." } ], "prompts": [ "How did your position change what you could see or choose?", "What did communication, company or an available pause make possible?", "Which familiar detail retained value in the changed setting?" ], "related": [ "ocean", "waves", "beach", "flood", "returning-home-after-an-evacuation" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Scale changes the available choices", "reflection": "A large event can narrow a task without defining the seriousness of waking circumstances." }, { "title": "A witness’s wish to communicate", "reflection": "Wanting to be heard differs from being able or required to control an event." }, { "title": "Continuity beyond the intended route", "reflection": "An unfamiliar arrival or surviving detail can offer a next encounter without restoring the whole setting." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "tub", "title": "Tub", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing a tub full of water, denotes domestic contentment.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "tub" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about tub stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2062", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Tub", "text": "To dream of seeing a tub full of water, denotes domestic contentment.\nAn empty tub proclaims unhappiness and waning of fortune.\n\nA broken tub, foretells family disagreements and quarrels.", "locator": "Heading 2066; source lines 22752–22759", "lineStart": 22752, "lineEnd": 22759, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing a tub full of water, denotes domestic contentment.\nAn empty tub proclaims unhappiness and waning of fortune.\n\nA broken tub, foretells family disagreements and quarrels." }, { "id": "fontaine-0815", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Tub", "text": "To dream of a tub is a bad omen: if it be filled with water, you\nhave evil to fear; an empty tub signifies trouble; and to run against\none, sorrow. 46, 9.", "locator": "Heading 815; source line 5027", "lineStart": 5027, "lineEnd": 5031, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a tub is a bad omen: if it be filled with water, you\nhave evil to fear; an empty tub signifies trouble; and to run against\none, sorrow." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12290", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Tub", "heading": "Tub", "text": "Always a bad dream ; filled with water it denotes evil ; empty it augurs misfortune; to run against a tub, grief, sorrow, etc. (Raphael).", "lineStart": 12290, "lineEnd": 12293, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 260; NLM OCR lines 12290–12293", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12290, "lineEnd": 12293, "printedPage": 260, "printedPageEnd": 260 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Tub. — Always a bad dream ; filled with water it denotes evil ; \nempty it augurs misfortune; to run against a tub, grief, sor- \nrow, etc. (Raphael). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "sor- \nrow", "after": "sorrow", "evidenceLine": 7771 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Tub" }, "displayText": "Always a bad dream; filled with water it denotes evil; empty it augurs misfortune; to run against a tub, grief, sorrow, etc. (Raphael)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "tulips", "title": "Tulips", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “To dream of these beautiful flowers is a sign of abundance: if you imagine you see a garden full of them belonging to yourself, it…”", "aliases": [ "tulips" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about tulips stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0816", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Tulips", "text": "To dream of these beautiful flowers is a sign of abundance: if\nyou imagine you see a garden full of them belonging to yourself, it\nforetells that you will become rich and distinguished: if a girl dreams\nthat her lover presents her with tulips, she will undoubtedly marry\nwell, and probably her husband will be wealthy. 48.", "locator": "Heading 816; source line 5031", "lineStart": 5031, "lineEnd": 5037, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of these beautiful flowers is a sign of abundance: if\nyou imagine you see a garden full of them belonging to yourself, it\nforetells that you will become rich and distinguished: if a girl dreams\nthat her lover presents her with tulips, she will undoubtedly marry\nwell, and probably her husband will be wealthy." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "tumble", "title": "Tumble", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you tumble off of any thing, denotes that you are given to carelessness, and should strive…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "tumble" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about tumble stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "fall" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2063", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Tumble", "text": "To dream that you tumble off of any thing, denotes that you are given\nto carelessness, and should strive to be prompt with your affairs.\n\nTo see others tumbliing,{sic} is a sign that you will profit\nby the negligence of others.", "locator": "Heading 2067; source lines 22759–22767", "lineStart": 22759, "lineEnd": 22767, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you tumble off of any thing, denotes that you are given\nto carelessness, and should strive to be prompt with your affairs.\n\nTo see others tumbliing,[sic] is a sign that you will profit\nby the negligence of others." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12294", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Tumble", "heading": "Tumble", "text": "See Fall.", "lineStart": 12294, "lineEnd": 12295, "kind": "cross-reference", "locator": "Printed p. 260; NLM OCR lines 12294–12295", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12294, "lineEnd": 12295, "printedPage": 260, "printedPageEnd": 260 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Tumble. — See Fall. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Tumble" }, "displayText": "See Fall." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "fall" ] }, { "slug": "tumbler", "title": "Tumbler", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “To dream you break a tumbler, is prognostic of secrets being discovered that have long remained a mystery.”", "aliases": [ "tumbler" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about tumbler stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "tunnel", "title": "Tunnel", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "A bounded passage can offer a route without showing every part of it.", "summary": "A tunnel dream can explore a route partly unseen, shared passage and the room to reconsider. The exit and your choices give it a particular direction.", "aliases": [ "tunnel", "tunnels" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A tunnel defines a route while limiting the surrounding view. In a dream, this can picture proceeding through a task or transition whose intermediate stages are less visible than its beginning and intended end. A qualification, complicated project or move may offer a parallel. The passage can feel useful because it gives direction, or restrictive because there are few places to change the arrangement once you enter.\n\nA distant visible exit can make purpose clear while completion remains hard to judge. You may recognize a task that appears nearly finished but keeps revealing further work. The scene may concern the relationship between effort and an endpoint, rather than simply a fear of being confined. A short passage arriving sooner than expected can instead picture discovering a workable connection after anticipating more difficulty.\n\nRoom to pass introduces other people. Two travelers needing the same narrow section can make cooperation a practical question. A group responsibility may require sequence, patience or a different position before both can continue. Being accompanied can offer reassurance while also changing the pace. The desired arrangement may be enough room for separate needs, not a requirement that one person lead or surrender the whole route.\n\nA side opening can bring choice into a path that seemed fixed. It may resemble discovering an alternative method while already committed to a task. Reconsidering does not have to erase the effort that brought you there. A person providing light can make continuation easier without deciding the destination for you.\n\nThe exit's surroundings matter too. An unfamiliar place may be welcoming, disappointing or simply require orientation. Reaching it can change uncertainty from how to continue into what to do next. Actual travel, buildings or remembered stories can also supply the scene directly. These original readings follow passage, perspective and available choices; a tunnel is not evidence of hidden trauma, a universal unconscious symbol or an illness or misfortune approaching.", "traditional": "Miller’s Tunnel account gives adverse forecasts for several forms of passage, approaching trains, collapse and looking inside. Craig assigns temporary anxiety and misfortune. Both exact accounts remain attached as period beliefs. They do not establish a diagnosis, relationship outcome or a universal interpretation of a bounded passage.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A route with limited perspective", "reflection": "A tunnel can picture a direction whose intermediate stages are hard to assess. The same boundary may provide a useful path or leave too little room to reconsider." }, { "title": "Space shared in sequence", "reflection": "A narrow section can make coordination necessary before several people proceed. The task may concern accommodating different needs rather than deciding who deserves the whole passage." }, { "title": "Choice inside an existing commitment", "reflection": "A side route or helpful light can change what continuation requires. Revising the method may remain possible after effort has already been invested." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You can see the exit but it stays distant", "reflection": "A visible exit staying distant can picture work whose finish appears clear but keeps requiring another stage. A project may feel similar. The scene can clarify the endpoint’s terms rather than turn confinement into its only meaning." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "The passage gives you a shorter route than expected", "reflection": "An unexpectedly short passage can picture a connection becoming more workable than anticipated. A simpler method, useful explanation or newly available connection may fit. Relief can concern the route’s adequacy without making every earlier hesitation a mistake." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Two people need to move through the same narrow section", "reflection": "Sharing a narrow section can picture a task that needs coordination before everybody moves. A sequence may serve both people better than trying to proceed at once. Each person’s purpose can remain important within a temporary constraint." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You find a side opening and reconsider the route", "reflection": "A side opening can picture another method becoming visible after a commitment begins. The option may preserve the purpose while changing the route. Choosing it need not declare the effort already made pointless or wasted." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You pause while another traveler provides light", "reflection": "Pausing for another person’s light can picture usable support within uncertainty. Their contribution may let you continue without taking over the whole journey. The scene can value help that leaves your direction and choices available." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The exit opens into an unfamiliar but usable place", "reflection": "An unfamiliar usable exit can picture reaching a new stage whose routines are not yet established. Completion may bring another kind of orientation. The unknown place need not make arrival either total success or renewed failure." } ], "prompts": [ "What made the bounded route useful or restrictive?", "How did company or another opening change my choices?", "What became possible at the exit, and what still needed orientation?" ], "related": [ "subway", "road", "cave", "being-lost" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-2064" ], "scope": "Miller distinguishes tunnel passage, an approaching train, car travel, collapse and looking into a tunnel, giving business, relationship, ill-health and adversity forecasts. Exact supplied record(s): miller-2064 — Tunnel (Heading 2068; source lines 22767–22783). Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence for the original reflection, a diagnosis or an actual outcome." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L12296" ], "scope": "Craig’s Tunnel account gives temporary anxiety and misfortune as an attributed period interpretation. Exact supplied record(s): craig-1918:L12296 — Tunnel (Printed p. 260; NLM OCR lines 12296–12298). Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence for the original reflection, a diagnosis or an actual outcome." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2064", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Tunnel", "text": "To dream of going through a tunnel is bad for those in business\nand in love.\n\nTo see a train coming towards you while in a tunnel, foretells ill health\nand change in occupation.\n\nTo pass through a tunnel in a car, denotes unsatisfactory business,\nand much unpleasant and expensive travel.\n\nTo see a tunnel caving in, portends failure and malignant enemies.\n\nTo look into one, denotes that you will soon be compelled to face\na desperate issue.", "locator": "Heading 2068; source lines 22767–22783", "lineStart": 22767, "lineEnd": 22783, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of going through a tunnel is bad for those in business\nand in love.\n\nTo see a train coming towards you while in a tunnel, foretells ill health\nand change in occupation.\n\nTo pass through a tunnel in a car, denotes unsatisfactory business,\nand much unpleasant and expensive travel.\n\nTo see a tunnel caving in, portends failure and malignant enemies.\n\nTo look into one, denotes that you will soon be compelled to face\na desperate issue." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12296", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Tunnel", "heading": "Tunnel", "text": "To be in one, a dream of temporary anxiety and misfortune (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12296, "lineEnd": 12298, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 260; NLM OCR lines 12296–12298", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12296, "lineEnd": 12298, "printedPage": 260, "printedPageEnd": 260 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Tunnel. — To be in one, a dream of temporary anxiety and \nmisfortune (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Tunnel" }, "displayText": "To be in one, a dream of temporary anxiety and misfortune (Gypsy)." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "turf", "title": "Turf", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a racing turf, signifies that you will have pleasure and wealth at your command, but your morals will be questioned by your most…”", "aliases": [ "turf" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about turf stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2065", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Turf", "text": "To dream of a racing turf, signifies that you will have pleasure\nand wealth at your command, but your morals will be questioned\nby your most intimate friends.\n\nTo see a green turf, indicates that interesting affairs will\nhold your attention.", "locator": "Heading 2069; source lines 22783–22792", "lineStart": 22783, "lineEnd": 22792, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a racing turf, signifies that you will have pleasure\nand wealth at your command, but your morals will be questioned\nby your most intimate friends.\n\nTo see a green turf, indicates that interesting affairs will\nhold your attention." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "turkey", "title": "Turkey", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "5 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing turkeys, signifies abundant gain in business, and favorable crops to the farmer.” Compare 5 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "turkey", "turkeys" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about turkey stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2066", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Turkey", "text": "To dream of seeing turkeys, signifies abundant gain in business,\nand favorable crops to the farmer.\n\nTo see them dressed for the market, denotes improvement in your affairs.\n\nTo see them sick, or dead, foretells that stringent circumstances\nwill cause your pride to suffer.\n\nTo dream you eat turkey, foretells some joyful occasion approaching.\n\nTo see them flying, denotes a rapid transit from obscurity to prominence.\nTo shoot them as game, is a sign that you will unscrupulously amass wealth.", "locator": "Heading 2070; source lines 22792–22807", "lineStart": 22792, "lineEnd": 22807, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing turkeys, signifies abundant gain in business,\nand favorable crops to the farmer.\n\nTo see them dressed for the market, denotes improvement in your affairs.\n\nTo see them sick, or dead, foretells that stringent circumstances\nwill cause your pride to suffer.\n\nTo dream you eat turkey, foretells some joyful occasion approaching.\n\nTo see them flying, denotes a rapid transit from obscurity to prominence.\nTo shoot them as game, is a sign that you will unscrupulously amass wealth." }, { "id": "fontaine-0817", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Turkey", "text": "To dream of seeing a flock of turkeys denotes to a tradesman,\nor a farmer, that he will have a transaction which will bring him in a\nconsiderable sum in ready money: if a lover who is about to be married\ndreams of turkeys, he will find that his sweetheart has got a marriage\nportion in ready money. 72, 15.", "locator": "Heading 817; source line 5037", "lineStart": 5037, "lineEnd": 5043, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing a flock of turkeys denotes to a tradesman,\nor a farmer, that he will have a transaction which will bring him in a\nconsiderable sum in ready money: if a lover who is about to be married\ndreams of turkeys, he will find that his sweetheart has got a marriage\nportion in ready money." }, { "id": "noe-0525", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Turkey", "text": "To dream you\nsee a turkey strutting about, is a sign you will overcome your enemies. To\ndream you see or are amongst a drove of turkeys, betokens success in your\nundertakings about this time. To dream of dead turkeys denotes that you\nwill encounter trouble that you will soon surmount.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 533; source lines 1933–1937", "lineStart": 1933, "lineEnd": 1937, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you\nsee a turkey strutting about, is a sign you will overcome your enemies. To\ndream you see or are amongst a drove of turkeys, betokens success in your\nundertakings about this time. To dream of dead turkeys denotes that you\nwill encounter trouble that you will soon surmount." }, { "id": "cielo-0435", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Turkey", "text": "To dream of a turkey is a sign of plenty.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 435; source lines 4913–4915", "lineStart": 4913, "lineEnd": 4915, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a turkey is a sign of plenty." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12299", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Turkeys", "heading": "Turkeys", "text": "A dream denoting triumph over enemies (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12299, "lineEnd": 12301, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 260; NLM OCR lines 12299–12301", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12299, "lineEnd": 12301, "printedPage": 260, "printedPageEnd": 260 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Turkeys. — A dream denoting triumph over enemies (Gyp- \nsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "Gyp- \nsy", "after": "Gypsy", "evidenceLine": 243 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Turkeys" }, "displayText": "A dream denoting triumph over enemies (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "turkish-baths", "title": "Turkish Baths", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of taking a Turkish bath, foretells that you will seek health far from your home and friends, but you will have much pleasurable…”", "aliases": [ "turkish baths" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about turkish baths stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2067", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Turkish Baths", "text": "To dream of taking a Turkish bath, foretells that you will seek health far\nfrom your home and friends, but you will have much pleasurable enjoyment\n\nTo see others take a Turkish bath, signifies that pleasant companions\nwill occupy your attention.", "locator": "Heading 2071; source lines 22807–22815", "lineStart": 22807, "lineEnd": 22815, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of taking a Turkish bath, foretells that you will seek health far\nfrom your home and friends, but you will have much pleasurable enjoyment\n\nTo see others take a Turkish bath, signifies that pleasant companions\nwill occupy your attention." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "turnips", "title": "Turnips", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "5 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see turnips growing, denotes that your prospects will brighten, and that you will be much elated over…” Compare 5 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "turnips", "turnip" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about turnips stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2068", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Turnips", "text": "To see turnips growing, denotes that your prospects will brighten,\nand that you will be much elated over your success.\n\nTo eat them is a sign of ill health. To pull them up, denotes that you\nwill improve your opportunities and your fortune thereby.\n\nTo eat turnip greens, is a sign of bitter disappointment.\nTurnip seed is a sign of future advancement.\n\nFor a young woman to sow turnip seed, foretells that she will inherit\ngood property, and win a handsome husband.", "locator": "Heading 2072; source lines 22815–22829", "lineStart": 22815, "lineEnd": 22829, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see turnips growing, denotes that your prospects will brighten,\nand that you will be much elated over your success.\n\nTo eat them is a sign of ill health. To pull them up, denotes that you\nwill improve your opportunities and your fortune thereby.\n\nTo eat turnip greens, is a sign of bitter disappointment.\nTurnip seed is a sign of future advancement.\n\nFor a young woman to sow turnip seed, foretells that she will inherit\ngood property, and win a handsome husband." }, { "id": "fontaine-0818", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Turnip", "text": "To dream of turnips signifies the discovery of secrets and\ndomestic quarrels. 29, 52.", "locator": "Heading 818; source line 5043", "lineStart": 5043, "lineEnd": 5046, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of turnips signifies the discovery of secrets and\ndomestic quarrels." }, { "id": "noe-0524", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Turnips", "text": "To dream of being in a turnip field, or that you see this\nwholesome vegetable, denotes acquisition of riches, and high employments\nin the state. To the lover, they augur great fidelity and an exceedingly\ngood temper in your sweetheart, and that if you marry you will be very\nhappy, have fine children and thrive in the world.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 532; source lines 1929–1933", "lineStart": 1929, "lineEnd": 1933, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being in a turnip field, or that you see this\nwholesome vegetable, denotes acquisition of riches, and high employments\nin the state. To the lover, they augur great fidelity and an exceedingly\ngood temper in your sweetheart, and that if you marry you will be very\nhappy, have fine children and thrive in the world." }, { "id": "cielo-0436", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Turnips", "text": "Denote disappointment and annoyance.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 436; source lines 4915–4917", "lineStart": 4915, "lineEnd": 4917, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Denote disappointment and annoyance." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12302", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Turnips", "heading": "Turnips", "text": "A field of riches; to the lover, a faithful sweetheart (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12302, "lineEnd": 12304, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 260; NLM OCR lines 12302–12304", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12302, "lineEnd": 12304, "printedPage": 260, "printedPageEnd": 260 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Turnips. — A field of riches; to the lover, a faithful sweet- \nheart (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "sweet- \nheart", "after": "sweetheart", "evidenceLine": 4148 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Turnips" }, "displayText": "A field of riches; to the lover, a faithful sweetheart (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "turnstile", "title": "Turnstile", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "A passage with conditions, a movement counted, and the pace at which a group can enter.", "summary": "Turnstiles may explore conditions for access, individual steps within a shared journey, or the difference between admission and participation.", "aliases": [ "turnstile", "turnstiles", "turn stile", "turn stiles" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "A turnstile makes a boundary into a particular movement. You may be allowed through, need something before entering or discover that the mechanism has already turned without you. This can resemble an arrangement in which access depends on a small but specific condition: a pass, an agreed step or the right moment to join. A station, venue or remembered journey may supply the scene directly.\n\nA ticket that works differently from what you expected can make the terms of entry central. Having the correct pass but not knowing where to use it differs from arriving without one. A workplace procedure or unfamiliar group activity could offer a parallel. The difficulty may concern information and timing, rather than whether you deserve to be there or have prepared well enough in every respect.\n\nOne-at-a-time movement can put a group’s togetherness under pressure. A companion may pass ahead while you remain outside, or wait while you search for something. This can picture the coordination required when a shared journey includes individual steps. Being briefly separated does not settle whether the relationship is secure; the important change may be how you find each other afterward.\n\nThe opening can also fail to fit what accompanies you. A bag, musical instrument or parcel may make an otherwise simple passage awkward. This could resemble entering a role whose procedures do not account for something you need to bring. Another gate or a helpful handover can change the arrangement without making the possession itself a burden that must be abandoned.\n\nAn open turnstile can feel welcoming, confusing or unnecessary. You may have prepared to prove permission and then find no check, or discover that entering does not explain what to do next. The dream can distinguish admission from participation. These original comparisons concern access and coordination within the scene. They do not establish legal entitlement, predict exclusion or tell you to bypass a real boundary; your purpose and the available alternatives give the passage its personal significance.", "traditional": "No historical account is attached to this original entry. The cited learning experiment supplies memory-research context, not a tested meaning for this image or evidence that a dream predicts an event.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A particular condition for entry", "reflection": "A pass or sequence can make access depend on one practical requirement. Understanding that requirement differs from proving your worth." }, { "title": "A shared journey with individual steps", "reflection": "One person may move while another waits. Separation, help and meeting again can make coordination more important than the barrier alone." }, { "title": "Admission and participation", "reflection": "Getting through creates access without necessarily explaining the next activity. The scene may concern what lets you take part once inside." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Your ticket works only after someone shows you where to place it", "reflection": "A useful resource needs one practical piece of information. The scene can resemble a process becoming manageable through explanation. Receiving that help may matter more than deciding that the initial difficulty shows you were unprepared or unwelcome." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Your companion passes through while your bag catches", "reflection": "A shared route briefly separates people because its opening does not fit what one carries. This can bring timing and assistance into focus. Waiting, handing over the bag or meeting at another point creates different ways to continue together." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "The turnstile turns but you remain on the same side", "reflection": "A completed movement has not produced the access you expected. This might picture following a procedure without reaching its intended result. The useful question may concern which step actually changes the situation, rather than repeating the movement more quickly." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You find an open gate beside the busy turnstiles", "reflection": "An alternative arrangement makes the same destination available differently. The scene can explore noticing another route after concentrating on a particular procedure. Whether you ask, wait or use the opening gives the imagined access its own context." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You enter easily and do not know where to go next", "reflection": "Permission has been resolved while participation remains unclear. This can resemble beginning a role with access but little orientation. A sign, companion or ordinary first task may be more useful now than further reassurance that you can enter." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You wait inside so another person can finish the entry process", "reflection": "Your own movement pauses to preserve company. The scene may picture coordination after different people meet different requirements. Waiting can feel chosen or imposed; the feeling helps distinguish a welcome shared pace from a condition you want to discuss." } ], "prompts": [ "What particular condition made entry possible or difficult?", "Who moved with you, waited or became separated?", "What did you need after you were allowed inside?" ], "related": [ "gate", "ticket", "train", "fence", "door" ], "sources": [ { "id": "wamsley-2010", "title": "Dreaming of a learning task is associated with enhanced sleep-dependent memory consolidation", "author": "Erin J. Wamsley and colleagues", "url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20417102/", "scope": "Primary maze-learning experiment; task-related dream reports correlated with later performance. It does not show that a dream is an accurate memory or a solution." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s continuing English editorial delegation. The memory study is general context, not validation of these interpretations.", "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "DreamFolia AI-assisted editorial review", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "aisle", "ambulance", "bakery", "binoculars", "backstage", "birdbath", "birdhouse", "beehive", "billboard", "bookmark", "turnstile", "antlers", "armchair", "bathrobe" ] }, "decisionReason": "Six scenes distinguish a practical entry condition, individual steps within a shared journey, a handover and participation after admission. The reading does not determine entitlement, predict exclusion or instruct bypassing real access controls.", "reviewedSnapshot": "data/everyday-publication-review-2026-10-15.json", "contentSha256": "3bca961cfe621952cd4ed63ccae860e760740ee1dfe7ebd245a8fdef5001f79d" }, "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "turpentine", "title": "Turpentine", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of turpentine, foretells your near future holds unprofitable and discouraging engagements.”", "aliases": [ "turpentine" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about turpentine stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2069", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Turpentine", "text": "To dream of turpentine, foretells your near future holds unprofitable\nand discouraging engagements. For a woman to dream that she binds\nturpentine to the wound of another, shows she will gain friendships\nand favor through her benevolent acts.", "locator": "Heading 2073; source lines 22829–22836", "lineStart": 22829, "lineEnd": 22836, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of turpentine, foretells your near future holds unprofitable\nand discouraging engagements. For a woman to dream that she binds\nturpentine to the wound of another, shows she will gain friendships\nand favor through her benevolent acts." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "turquoise", "title": "Turquoise", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a torquoise,[sic] foretells you are soon to realize some desire which will greatly please your relatives.”", "aliases": [ "turquoise" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about turquoise stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2070", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Turquoise", "text": "To dream of a torquoise,{sic} foretells you are soon to realize\nsome desire which will greatly please your relatives. For a woman\nto have one stolen, foretells she will meet with crosses in love.\nIf she comes by it dishonestly, she must suffer for yielding to hasty\nsusceptibility in love.", "locator": "Heading 2074; source lines 22836–22844", "lineStart": 22836, "lineEnd": 22844, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a torquoise,[sic] foretells you are soon to realize\nsome desire which will greatly please your relatives. For a woman\nto have one stolen, foretells she will meet with crosses in love.\nIf she comes by it dishonestly, she must suffer for yielding to hasty\nsusceptibility in love." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "turtle", "title": "Turtle", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "The pace of one creature, a shelter it carries, and the place it chooses to continue.", "summary": "A turtle may bring a particular pace, a protected space, or movement between settings to mind. Notice what it could do and what you wanted to happen.", "aliases": [ "turtle" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "kind": "editorial", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "Describe the particular turtle before choosing an association. You may watch it cross a path, see it moving through water, or carry an impossible tiny animal in a large room. Some dreams focus on a shell, others on a route or a wait. A remembered encounter, an illustration, or a practical concern about a pet may be the most direct context.\n\nIf the turtle moves slowly in your dream, ask whose schedule makes that pace matter. You may have nowhere else to be, want to reach another place, or feel watched by people who expect you to hurry. A possible personal comparison concerns allowing a process its own time. That is different from assuming you always move too slowly or should tolerate every delay.\n\nA shell may become central because the animal withdraws, because you are curious about what is inside, or because the shape provides an imagined shelter. Notice what you can and cannot observe. Waiting nearby can feel different from trying to force a response. These possibilities invite questions about access and privacy without turning the turtle into a diagnosis of withdrawal or a fixed symbol of emotional defense.\n\nMovement between places creates another focus. A turtle that seems awkward on one surface may move easily when the setting changes. The dream can offer a comparison about the fit between a task and its environment, if you recognize one. It does not establish that you are incapable in a particular role or tell you where you belong. Describe the change before assigning a judgment.\n\nWhen care becomes the task, record what you try and which help is available. An animal that is too large for a container or too small to find again may make the arrangement itself the problem. The dreamed solution need not become real animal-care advice. A useful ending may be recognizing what you do not know, sharing a responsibility, or simply watching the turtle continue without your intervention.", "traditional": "Miller associates turtles with enjoyment and business improvement, and includes a separate soup forecast. Fontaine assigns longevity and marriage predictions; Cielo gives a luck claim. Craig’s supplied Turtle item is only “See Tortoise,” a cross-reference rather than a developed interpretation. No missing Tortoise passage is supplied here or silently borrowed from another topic. These four records preserve what the books actually contain. Their claims cannot predict lifespan, a relationship outcome, financial results or luck, and they do not validate the original reading.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A turtle crosses the path while others ask you to hurry", "reflection": "Two different paces meet at one point. Notice whether you want to wait or feel required to make the crossing happen faster. The scene can invite a question about schedules without deciding that one pace is always correct." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "The turtle draws into its shell when you speak", "reflection": "The response changes what you can observe. Waiting, moving away or trying a quieter approach creates a different encounter. A personal comparison about access can remain tentative; the animal does not prove that someone is withholding an answer." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A turtle moves easily once it reaches the water", "reflection": "The change of setting alters the remembered movement. Notice whether your own concern changes too. This may offer a comparison about finding suitable conditions, rather than a rule that all difficulty should be solved by leaving." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You find an empty shell beside the route", "reflection": "The shelter remains while the creature’s whereabouts are uncertain. Record what you actually know and which story you begin to supply. The image can open a question about an absence or a remembered form without establishing that a loss has occurred." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A turtle grows too large for the container you chose", "reflection": "An arrangement no longer fits the thing you wanted it to hold. 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Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "scope": "Historical belief only; supplied passage: Turtle — Dream section, heading 437; source lines 4917–4919. Does not validate the original reflections or establish health, character, luck or future events.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0437" ] }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "scope": "Historical belief only; supplied passage: Turtle — Printed p. 260; NLM OCR lines 12305–12306. Does not validate the original reflections or establish health, character, luck or future events.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L12305" ] } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s delegation of editorial decisions. Complete historical accounts retain their attribution and do not establish present-day forecasts.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A pace made important by a schedule", "reflection": "Slow movement within the scene may feel welcome or inconvenient. Ask which destination or expectation turns pace into a question." }, { "title": "A protected space and permission to approach", "reflection": "Withdrawing, waiting and watching provide different kinds of access. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2077", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Ugly", "text": "To dream that you are ugly, denotes that you will have a difficulty\nwith your sweetheart, and your prospects will assume a depressed shade.\n\nIf a young woman thinks herself ugly, she will conduct herself\noffensively toward her lover, which will probably cause a break\nin their pleasant associations.", "locator": "Heading 2081; source lines 22893–22902", "lineStart": 22893, "lineEnd": 22902, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are ugly, denotes that you will have a difficulty\nwith your sweetheart, and your prospects will assume a depressed shade.\n\nIf a young woman thinks herself ugly, she will conduct herself\noffensively toward her lover, which will probably cause a break\nin their pleasant associations." }, { "id": "noe-0530", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Ugly", "text": "For a person to dream of being ugly or deformed,\nindicates that the dreamer will be surprised by hearing from a long absent\nfriend a communication of a pleasing and gratifying nature.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 538; source lines 1946–1949", "lineStart": 1946, "lineEnd": 1949, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a person to dream of being ugly or deformed,\nindicates that the dreamer will be surprised by hearing from a long absent\nfriend a communication of a pleasing and gratifying nature." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2078", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Ulcer", "text": "To see an ulcer in your dream, signifies loss of friends and removal\nfrom loved ones. 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Evidently attributable to the idea that ulcers, boils, etc., clear the system." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "umbrella", "title": "Umbrella", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "A portable shelter can help you move while still needing room for everyone beneath it.", "summary": "Umbrella dreams can explore temporary shelter, shared support and a protection’s fit. Borrowing or damage does not reveal another person’s intentions.", "aliases": [ "umbrella", "umbrellas" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "An umbrella gives shelter that moves with you. In a dream, this can picture a temporary arrangement that makes continued participation manageable: a boundary, practical support or an agreement suited to a demanding period. A busy group activity or a difficult transition may offer a parallel. The cover can be useful without changing the whole surrounding situation, and protection does not have to mean remaining in one place.\n\nCoverage can become a question of capacity. Several people expect to stay beneath a space designed for fewer, or one person's direction leaves somebody else exposed within the scene. This can resemble support stretched across conflicting needs. The problem may be the arrangement's fit rather than anyone being undeserving of care. A different route or another contribution can change what sharing requires.\n\nBorrowing or lending brings agreement into the object. You may welcome help, worry about returning it or feel that the exchange carries an unspoken obligation. A support freely offered differs from one whose terms become apparent only afterward. The dreamed transaction does not establish whether a real person is reliable or likely to betray you. It shows the relationship to help as the scene imagined it.\n\nAn umbrella opened under a clear sky can make its purpose uncertain. A precaution that once helped may continue after the conditions change, or preparation may feel reassuring even when it is not immediately needed. Neither reading requires declaring the object useless. What it permits or restricts in the present scene can clarify why you keep it open.\n\nClosing the cover can picture an ending to a temporary boundary when it no longer serves the task. A damaged or inadequate umbrella may instead invite another arrangement. Actual weather, journeys and familiar objects can also provide the imagery directly. These original reflections follow coverage, movement and chosen help, without predicting danger, weather, romance or the intentions of the people borrowing or lending.", "traditional": "The four attached accounts disagree: Miller gives several trouble and fortune forecasts, Fontaine romance or escaped danger, Cielo prosperity or being loved, and Craig shelter and peace. These are attributed period claims. Their differences do not establish that borrowing, lending or damage reveals a real relationship outcome.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Shelter that supports movement", "reflection": "An umbrella can picture a boundary or resource that lets an activity continue under demanding conditions. It need not remove the surrounding difficulty to remain useful." }, { "title": "Shared coverage with different needs", "reflection": "A limited space can make coordination necessary. The arrangement may need another contribution or route when people cannot all move in the same way." }, { "title": "A protection with a useful duration", "reflection": "Opening or closing the cover can bring changing conditions into view. A precaution may serve one period without needing to organize every later encounter." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "The umbrella gives you room to continue a wanted journey", "reflection": "Shelter during a wanted journey can picture support that makes participation possible. A temporary boundary or practical agreement may fit. The usefulness lies in what it allows you to continue, rather than in removing every surrounding demand." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Two people share it while needing different directions", "reflection": "Sharing while needing different directions can picture care complicated by separate purposes. A group plan may support company for one stage but not the same ending. Coordination can matter more than expecting one person to follow the other indefinitely." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "The cover is too small for everyone expected beneath it", "reflection": "Insufficient cover can picture a resource expected to meet more needs than it can accommodate. The mismatch may belong to the arrangement, not the people seeking support. Another contribution can change the task without devaluing the existing help." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You open it under a clear sky and reconsider its purpose", "reflection": "An open umbrella in clear conditions can picture a precaution continuing beyond its original purpose. It may offer reassurance or limit an otherwise workable encounter. What it now allows helps distinguish preparation from a boundary that needs revision." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Someone offers theirs without requiring yours in return", "reflection": "A freely offered umbrella can picture help whose terms leave your choice intact. Accepting support does not have to create an unlimited return obligation. The scene explores the imagined exchange, not the giver’s actual reliability or intentions." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You close it once the shelter is no longer useful", "reflection": "Closing the cover can picture a useful ending to temporary protection. A boundary may have served its period and now leave room for another way of participating. The change need not make the earlier need for shelter excessive or mistaken." } ], "prompts": [ "What did the shelter let me continue?", "How well did the shared cover fit each person’s needs?", "What terms or duration made the support feel workable?" ], "related": [ "rain", "storm", "shelter", "life-jacket" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-2079" ], "scope": "Miller differentiates carrying, others carrying, borrowing, lending, losing, damage, leakage and a new umbrella, with conflicting trouble/fortune/relationship forecasts. Exact supplied record(s): miller-2079 — Umbrella (Heading 2083; source lines 22910–22932). Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence for the original reflection, a diagnosis or an actual outcome." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0821" ], "scope": "Fontaine assigns romance to acquiring a new umbrella and escaped danger to buying one. Exact supplied record(s): fontaine-0821 — Umbrella (Heading 821; source line 5055). Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence for the original reflection, a diagnosis or an actual outcome." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0439" ], "scope": "Cielo assigns prosperity to borrowing and being loved to carrying an umbrella in a storm. Exact supplied record(s): cielo-0439 — Umbrella (Dream section, heading 439; source lines 4921–4925). Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence for the original reflection, a diagnosis or an actual outcome." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L12316" ], "scope": "Craig’s Umbrella account labels the image sheltered and peaceful and separately calls it an Eastern symbol of distinction; neither is adopted as a universal meaning. Exact supplied record(s): craig-1918:L12316 — Umbrella (Printed p. 260; NLM OCR lines 12316–12318). Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence for the original reflection, a diagnosis or an actual outcome." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2079", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Umbrella", "text": "To dream of carrying an umbrella, denotes that trouble and annoyances\nwill beset you.\n\nTo see others carrying them, foretells that you will be appealed\nto for aid by charity.\n\nTo borrow one, you will have a misunderstanding, perhaps, with a warm friend.\n\nTo lend one, portends injury from false friends. To lose one,\ndenotes trouble with some one who holds your confidence.\n\nTo see one torn to pieces, or broken, foretells that you will\nbe misrepresented and maligned.\n\nTo carry a leaky one, denotes that pain and displeasure will be felt by you\ntowards your sweetheart or companions.\n\nTo carry a new umbrella over you in a clear shower, or sunshine,\nomens exquisite pleasure and prosperity.", "locator": "Heading 2083; source lines 22910–22932", "lineStart": 22910, "lineEnd": 22932, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of carrying an umbrella, denotes that trouble and annoyances\nwill beset you.\n\nTo see others carrying them, foretells that you will be appealed\nto for aid by charity.\n\nTo borrow one, you will have a misunderstanding, perhaps, with a warm friend.\n\nTo lend one, portends injury from false friends. To lose one,\ndenotes trouble with some one who holds your confidence.\n\nTo see one torn to pieces, or broken, foretells that you will\nbe misrepresented and maligned.\n\nTo carry a leaky one, denotes that pain and displeasure will be felt by you\ntowards your sweetheart or companions.\n\nTo carry a new umbrella over you in a clear shower, or sunshine,\nomens exquisite pleasure and prosperity." }, { "id": "fontaine-0821", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Umbrella", "text": "If a young girl dreams that she has got a new umbrella, it\nforetells a new lover: if a married woman dreams this, it is a sign\nthat some other gentleman besides her husband is enamored of her. A\nman who dreams of buying an umbrella will have a narrow escape from\nthreatened danger. 70, 30, 1.", "locator": "Heading 821; source line 5055", "lineStart": 5055, "lineEnd": 5061, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If a young girl dreams that she has got a new umbrella, it\nforetells a new lover: if a married woman dreams this, it is a sign\nthat some other gentleman besides her husband is enamored of her. A\nman who dreams of buying an umbrella will have a narrow escape from\nthreatened danger." }, { "id": "cielo-0439", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Umbrella", "text": "To borrow one denotes prosperity; to carry\n one in a storm, you will be beloved.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 439; source lines 4921–4925", "lineStart": 4921, "lineEnd": 4925, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To borrow one denotes prosperity; to carry\none in a storm, you will be beloved." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12316", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Umbrella", "heading": "Umbrella", "text": "A dream denoting a sheltered and peaceful life (Gypsy). Eastern symbol of distinction.", "lineStart": 12316, "lineEnd": 12318, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 260; NLM OCR lines 12316–12318", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12316, "lineEnd": 12318, "printedPage": 260, "printedPageEnd": 260 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Umbrella. — A dream denoting a sheltered and peaceful life \n(Gypsy). Eastern symbol of distinction. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Umbrella" }, "displayText": "A dream denoting a sheltered and peaceful life (Gypsy). Eastern symbol of distinction." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "uncle", "title": "Uncle", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “If you see your uncle in a dream, you will have news of a sad character soon.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "uncle" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about uncle stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2080", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Uncle", "text": "If you see your uncle in a dream, you will have news of a sad character soon.\n\nTo dream you see your uncle prostrated in mind, and repeatedly\nhave this dream, you will have trouble with your relations\nwhich will result in estrangement, at least for a time.\n\nTo see your uncle dead, denotes that you have formidable enemies.\n\nTo have a misunderstanding with your uncle, denotes\n\nthat your family relations will be unpleasant, and illness\nwill be continually present.", "locator": "Heading 2084; source lines 22932–22947", "lineStart": 22932, "lineEnd": 22947, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you see your uncle in a dream, you will have news of a sad character soon.\n\nTo dream you see your uncle prostrated in mind, and repeatedly\nhave this dream, you will have trouble with your relations\nwhich will result in estrangement, at least for a time.\n\nTo see your uncle dead, denotes that you have formidable enemies.\n\nTo have a misunderstanding with your uncle, denotes\n\nthat your family relations will be unpleasant, and illness\nwill be continually present." }, { "id": "cielo-0440", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Uncle", "text": "To dream of an uncle denotes an advantageous marriage.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 440; source lines 4925–4927", "lineStart": 4925, "lineEnd": 4927, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of an uncle denotes an advantageous marriage." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "uncle-or-aunt", "title": "Uncle, or Aunt", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “A dream denoting family quarrels (Gypsy). Evidently attributable to the proverbial wicked uncle and guardian.”", "aliases": [ "uncle, or aunt", "uncle", "aunt" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about uncle, or aunt stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L12319", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Uncle, or Aunt", "heading": "Uncle, or Aunt", "text": "A dream denoting family quarrels (Gypsy). Evidently attributable to the proverbial wicked uncle and guardian.", "lineStart": 12319, "lineEnd": 12322, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 260; NLM OCR lines 12319–12322", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12319, "lineEnd": 12322, "printedPage": 260, "printedPageEnd": 260 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Uncle, or Aunt. — A dream denoting family quarrels (Gyp- \nsy). Evidently attributable to the proverbial wicked uncle and \nguardian. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "Gyp- \nsy", "after": "Gypsy", "evidenceLine": 243 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Uncle, or Aunt" }, "displayText": "A dream denoting family quarrels (Gypsy). Evidently attributable to the proverbial wicked uncle and guardian." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "underground", "title": "Underground", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of being in an underground habitation, you are in danger of losing reputation and fortune.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "underground", "under ground" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about underground stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "car" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2081", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Underground", "text": "To dream of being in an underground habitation, you are in danger\nof losing reputation and fortune.\n\nTo dream of riding on an underground railway, foretells that you\nwill engage in some peculiar speculation which will contribute\nto your distress and anxiety.\n\n\n[233] See Cars, etc.", "locator": "Heading 2085; source lines 22947–22959", "lineStart": 22947, "lineEnd": 22959, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being in an underground habitation, you are in danger\nof losing reputation and fortune.\n\nTo dream of riding on an underground railway, foretells that you\nwill engage in some peculiar speculation which will contribute\nto your distress and anxiety. See Cars, etc." }, { "id": "fontaine-0822", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Under Ground", "text": "To dream that you go down under ground, whether into a\nwell, a deep cellar or vault, or a cave, denotes your early death; but\nif you dream that you are digging in the ground, and are in a hole\nwhich you have dug, the omen is different, for it denotes riches and\nlong life. 5, 9, 45.", "locator": "Heading 822; source line 5061", "lineStart": 5061, "lineEnd": 5067, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you go down under ground, whether into a\nwell, a deep cellar or vault, or a cave, denotes your early death; but\nif you dream that you are digging in the ground, and are in a hole\nwhich you have dug, the omen is different, for it denotes riches and\nlong life.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Under Ground” is shown on the Underground page: same heading; hyphen variant" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "car" ] }, { "slug": "undertaker", "title": "Undertaker", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “For a single person to dream of seeing an undertaker enter the house, and attend to the mournful obsequies of…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "undertaker" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about undertaker stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "noe-0531", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Undertaker", "text": "For a single person to dream of seeing an undertaker enter\nthe house, and attend to the mournful obsequies of a funeral, denotes that\nthe dreamer will be married in a short time. For a married person to dream\nof seeing an undertaker attending to his duties, is an indication that his\nfamily will be increased in a short time.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 539; source lines 1949–1955", "lineStart": 1949, "lineEnd": 1955, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a single person to dream of seeing an undertaker enter\nthe house, and attend to the mournful obsequies of a funeral, denotes that\nthe dreamer will be married in a short time. For a married person to dream\nof seeing an undertaker attending to his duties, is an indication that his\nfamily will be increased in a short time." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12323", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Undertaker", "heading": "Undertaker", "text": "A dream forecasting a wedding (Gypsy),", "lineStart": 12323, "lineEnd": 12323, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 260; NLM OCR lines 12323–12323", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12323, "lineEnd": 12323, "printedPage": 260, "printedPageEnd": 260 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Undertaker. — A dream forecasting a wedding (Gypsy), \n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Undertaker" }, "displayText": "A dream forecasting a wedding (Gypsy)," } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "undress", "title": "Undress", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "summary": "Undressing may explore ending a role, changing conditions of privacy or choosing the pace of a transition. The action and available choice matter.", "tagline": "Leaving one arrangement needs room for the next step.", "aliases": [ "undress" ], "status": "REVIEW", "psychological": "Undressing can make the end of an activity or role a physical transition. A work garment comes off, a formal appearance is put aside or a layer is removed so another task can begin. Relief can concern no longer needing to maintain the earlier arrangement. If the process is interrupted, the dream may make that transition difficult to complete rather than giving undressing one fixed meaning of exposure or intimacy.\n\n Privacy can give the action usable terms. Being alone with enough time differs from someone entering before you are ready or expecting an immediate change. A waking comparison might be needing a space between professional and personal encounters, or wanting time to decide what part of an experience to share. Closing a door, asking for a pause or receiving respectful help can make the transition more manageable.\n\n Removing layers may reveal how much preparation or presentation has accumulated. One garment can lead to another, leaving the task surprisingly long. This can resemble setting aside several responsibilities before rest becomes available. The dream may let you choose which layer actually needs removing now, rather than making complete openness a requirement. Keeping a useful part can have its own purpose without preventing the change you want.\n\n A difficult fastening introduces dependence. Help can make removal possible while leaving you a say in its pace, or feel intrusive if the helper assumes the right to continue without asking. This can picture support that needs a clearer agreement. An encounter involving another person undressing also depends on what happens in the scene, including whether assistance is requested and how each participant responds.\n\n A missing replacement can make leaving the earlier arrangement seem risky. You may know what no longer fits but not yet have the next form ready. A waiting space or a temporary garment creates a different experience from being hurried into an unwanted choice. The scene does not establish waking desire or consent; it can be considered through the particular transition, privacy and choices you actually encountered.", "traditional": "Miller and Fontaine attach scandal, secrets and sexual or moral judgments to undressing in different company. These period claims do not disclose a dreamer’s desire, another person’s intentions or private behavior. The remembered action and its terms remain more particular than those forecasts.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "An activity allowed to end", "reflection": "Taking off a garment may give an earlier task a stopping point. The transition can become useful when there is room to leave its requirements behind without needing the next arrangement settled immediately." }, { "title": "Privacy and pace", "reflection": "Time, space and the ability to ask for a pause can make undressing a chosen transition. An interrupted or hurried process raises different questions from a comfortable change made on your own terms." }, { "title": "Help that respects the agreement", "reflection": "Assistance may solve a fastening or practical obstacle while preserving choice. The scene changes when the helper assumes the right to decide the pace or extent of the transition." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You remove work clothes in a quiet private room", "reflection": "The earlier activity has ended, and the space allows its visible requirements to be put aside. Relief or reluctance may explore how that transition feels. The scene can concern leaving a role without requiring the clothing’s removal to carry a sexual meaning." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Someone enters before you are ready to finish changing", "reflection": "A private process becomes shared sooner than you intended. Asking for time or closing the space may make the terms clearer. The dream can picture an interrupted transition without proving that the person has crossed a boundary in waking life." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Each removed layer reveals another underneath", "reflection": "Putting the earlier arrangement aside takes longer than expected. This may resemble accumulated responsibilities between work and rest. Deciding which layer needs attention now can create a usable transition instead of requiring every part to be removed before anything else becomes possible." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A fastening requires help to release", "reflection": "Another person can make the practical change possible, but the pace still matters to you. Requested assistance gives a different encounter from help that continues without agreement. The scene may explore how support preserves participation when a task cannot be completed alone." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You are ready to change but no replacement is available", "reflection": "The earlier garment no longer suits the next task, while another option has not arrived. Waiting, finding a temporary arrangement or delaying the transition can explore room between stages. The difficulty concerns access and timing rather than an obligation to accept the first offered replacement." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "Another person asks you to help them change", "reflection": "The request defines a particular task within the encounter. Listening, clarifying or declining can give the scene different terms for care. The dreamed action does not establish either participant’s real desire; what assistance was requested matters more than assuming intimacy from the image alone." } ], "prompts": [ "What earlier task or appearance was being put aside?", "How did privacy, time and the ability to pause affect the transition?", "What terms made assistance welcome, awkward or unnecessary?" ], "related": [ "dressing", "clothes", "privacy", "being-naked-in-public", "sex-and-intimacy" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-2082" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context only. miller-2082: Undressing oneself, a ruler undressed and other people undressed receive scandal, sadness and illicit-pleasure forecasts. Period claims do not establish consent, desire or real behavior. This citation does not validate the original psychological reflections or predict a waking outcome." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0823" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context only. fontaine-0823: A spouse undressing and undressing publicly or alone receive wantonness, slander and secret-discovery claims. These are period judgments, not private facts. This citation does not validate the original psychological reflections or predict a waking outcome." } ], "updated": "2026-10-13", "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection independently reviewed for content and source scope. Historical accounts remain attributed period writing. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2082", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Undress", "text": "To dream that you are undressing, foretells, scandalous gossip\nwill overshadow you.\n\nFor a woman to dream that she sees the ruler of her country undressed,\nsignifies sadness will overtake anticipated pleasures.\nShe will suffer pain through the apprehension of evil to those\ndear to her.\n\nTo see others undressed, is an omen of stolen pleasures,\nwhich will rebound with grief.", "locator": "Heading 2086; source lines 22959–22972", "lineStart": 22959, "lineEnd": 22972, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are undressing, foretells, scandalous gossip\nwill overshadow you.\n\nFor a woman to dream that she sees the ruler of her country undressed,\nsignifies sadness will overtake anticipated pleasures.\nShe will suffer pain through the apprehension of evil to those\ndear to her.\n\nTo see others undressed, is an omen of stolen pleasures,\nwhich will rebound with grief." }, { "id": "fontaine-0823", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Undress", "text": "To see your wife undress, signifies wantonness; to undress in\nthe presence of others, slander; to undress in your room alone, the\ndiscovery of secrets. 48, 3.", "locator": "Heading 823; source line 5067", "lineStart": 5067, "lineEnd": 5071, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see your wife undress, signifies wantonness; to undress in\nthe presence of others, slander; to undress in your room alone, the\ndiscovery of secrets." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "unfortunate", "title": "Unfortunate", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are unfortunate, is significant of loss to yourself, and trouble for others.”", "aliases": [ "unfortunate" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about unfortunate stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2083", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Unfortunate", "text": "To dream that you are unfortunate, is significant of loss to yourself,\nand trouble for others.", "locator": "Heading 2087; source lines 22972–22977", "lineStart": 22972, "lineEnd": 22977, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are unfortunate, is significant of loss to yourself,\nand trouble for others." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "unguent", "title": "Unguent", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “To use, a dream of profit (Gypsy).”", "aliases": [ "unguent" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about unguent stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L12324", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Unguent", "heading": "Unguent", "text": "To use, a dream of profit (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12324, "lineEnd": 12324, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 260; NLM OCR lines 12324–12324", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12324, "lineEnd": 12324, "printedPage": 260, "printedPageEnd": 260 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Unguent. — To use, a dream of profit (Gypsy). \n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Unguent" }, "displayText": "To use, a dream of profit (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "unicorn", "title": "Unicorn", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “A dream of righteousness (Gypsy). Ancient emblem of purity.”", "aliases": [ "unicorn" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about unicorn stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L12325", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Unicorn", "heading": "Unicorn", "text": "A dream of righteousness (Gypsy). Ancient emblem of purity.", "lineStart": 12325, "lineEnd": 12327, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 260; NLM OCR lines 12325–12327", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12325, "lineEnd": 12327, "printedPage": 260, "printedPageEnd": 260 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Unicorn. — A dream of righteousness (Gypsy). Ancient \nemblem of purity. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Unicorn" }, "displayText": "A dream of righteousness (Gypsy). Ancient emblem of purity." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "uniform", "title": "Uniform", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "summary": "A uniform may make an assigned role, shared expectation or permission to participate visible. Recognition and practical responsibility can differ.", "tagline": "Being recognized for a role does not settle what the role requires.", "aliases": [ "uniform" ], "status": "REVIEW", "psychological": "A uniform can make a role recognizable before you have explained what you can do. In a dream, that recognition may welcome you into a group, place unfamiliar expectations on you or make a change of role difficult to show. The scene may explore the relationship between a visible assignment and its practical requirements. A clear task with appropriate support feels different from being treated as ready merely because you are dressed for it.\n\n Group membership can offer structure. Knowing where to go, receiving the same instructions as others or having an agreed place in a shared activity may make participation easier. This can resemble beginning work with understandable responsibilities or entering a community whose arrangements leave you room to learn. The useful quality is the clarity of the terms, rather than a promise that identical appearance makes every participant trustworthy or alike.\n\n A mismatch can bring expectations into view. The uniform might belong to a previous job, another department or a role you have never held. People may ask you to carry out a task that its appearance suggests. A waking comparison could be being assigned responsibility through an outdated description or through one visible achievement. Asking for guidance or correcting the assignment can make recognition more accurate without requiring you to abandon participation altogether.\n\n Removing the uniform can become a task of its own. If it remains on after a shift ends, a role may continue to occupy encounters where you wanted a different kind of presence. Having somewhere to change gives that transition a practical place. A small personal alteration within an accepted uniform can instead leave individuality visible while shared responsibilities remain clear. These are different ways of negotiating what the role carries beyond its immediate use.\n\n Several identical uniforms can conceal different assignments until the participants compare them. The dream may make coordination depend on conversation rather than outward sameness. Recent work, ceremonies, fiction or familiar clothing can also supply the image. A dreamed uniform creates no real credential or authority; its meaning becomes more specific through the task, access and choices allowed within the scene.", "traditional": "Miller gives uniforms social, relationship and governmental forecasts under several period assumptions. Cielo assigns honors to wearing one, while Craig records glory and celebrity claims. These accounts preserve historical expectations around visible roles; they do not establish credentials, competence or another person’s intentions.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "An assignment with usable terms", "reflection": "A recognizable role can support participation when its task and available help are clear. The same appearance creates another experience when people assume it supplies knowledge or permission you have not been given." }, { "title": "Recognition that needs updating", "reflection": "An old or unfamiliar uniform may make others address you through a role that does not fit the current situation. Clarifying responsibilities can give recognition more accuracy without making it necessary to withdraw entirely." }, { "title": "A place for the role to end", "reflection": "Changing out of the uniform may separate a particular responsibility from other encounters. An accepted personal alteration offers another option: keeping the role while allowing a preference to remain visible." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "An unfamiliar uniform brings a task you have not learned", "reflection": "People assume the clothing means you know what to do. Asking for instruction or correcting the assignment may explore the difference between visible responsibility and actual preparation. The scene changes when the role includes support rather than requiring an appearance of certainty." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "The group gives you clear instructions and a place", "reflection": "The uniform accompanies understandable responsibilities instead of replacing explanation. This may picture participation made easier by a shared arrangement. Knowing what you can ask, do or decline can matter more than whether your appearance matches every other member exactly." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "An old uniform makes someone assign your former role", "reflection": "A remembered appearance draws an expectation from an earlier stage of work or life. Explaining the change can become part of entering the present setting. The garment may carry history without requiring you to resume every responsibility associated with it." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Identical uniforms hide different assignments", "reflection": "The participants look alike but have separate tasks that need coordination. Comparing instructions can make the differences useful instead of surprising. The dream may resemble a project in which shared presentation has been mistaken for agreement about who is responsible for what." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The uniform remains on after the shift has ended", "reflection": "A completed task continues to shape how others approach you. Finding a place to change or stating that the assignment has ended may let another kind of encounter begin. The scene can make a role’s stopping point practical rather than merely announced." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "A permitted alteration makes the uniform feel more like yours", "reflection": "A small change leaves the shared role recognizable while giving a personal preference room. This may explore participation that allows individuality within clear requirements. The arrangement differs from either removing every sign of membership or needing every participant to make the same alteration." } ], "prompts": [ "What responsibilities and support came with the uniform?", "How did others’ recognition fit the role you actually had in the scene?", "What let the assignment end or leave room for a personal preference?" ], "related": [ "clothes", "dressing", "police", "teacher", "work" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-2084" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context only. miller-2084: Seeing or wearing uniforms receives support, gendered relationship/scandal, diplomatic/family disruption and absence forecasts according to the scene. No real authority, credentials or relationship conclusion is supplied. This citation does not validate the original psychological reflections or predict a waking outcome." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0442" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context only. cielo-0442: Wearing a uniform is assigned coming honors. This citation does not validate the original psychological reflections or predict a waking outcome." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L12328" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context only. craig-1918:L12328: A uniform receives glory, valor and celebrity claims under Craig’s broad period attribution; not a cultural rule or credential. This citation does not validate the original psychological reflections or predict a waking outcome." } ], "updated": "2026-10-13", "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection independently reviewed for content and source scope. Historical accounts remain attributed period writing. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2084", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Uniform", "text": "To see a uniform in your dream, denotes that you will have influential\nfriends to aid you in obtaining your desires.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she wears a uniform,\nforetells that she will luckily confer her favors upon\na man who appreciated them, and returns love for passion.\nIf she discards it, she will be in danger of public scandal\nby her notorious love for adventure.\n\nTo see people arrayed in strange uniforms, foretells the disruption\nof friendly relations with some other Power by your own government.\nThis may also apply to families or friends. To see a friend\nor relative looking sad while dressed in uniform, or as a soldier,\npredicts ill fortune or continued absence.", "locator": "Heading 2088; source lines 22977–22994", "lineStart": 22977, "lineEnd": 22994, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a uniform in your dream, denotes that you will have influential\nfriends to aid you in obtaining your desires.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she wears a uniform,\nforetells that she will luckily confer her favors upon\na man who appreciated them, and returns love for passion.\nIf she discards it, she will be in danger of public scandal\nby her notorious love for adventure.\n\nTo see people arrayed in strange uniforms, foretells the disruption\nof friendly relations with some other Power by your own government.\nThis may also apply to families or friends. To see a friend\nor relative looking sad while dressed in uniform, or as a soldier,\npredicts ill fortune or continued absence." }, { "id": "cielo-0442", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Uniform", "text": "To wear a uniform is a sign of coming honors.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 442; source lines 4930–4932", "lineStart": 4930, "lineEnd": 4932, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To wear a uniform is a sign of coming honors." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12328", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Uniform", "heading": "Uniform", "text": "A dream of glory, valor, celebrity (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12328, "lineEnd": 12328, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 260; NLM OCR lines 12328–12328", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12328, "lineEnd": 12328, "printedPage": 260, "printedPageEnd": 260 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Uniform. — A dream of glory, valor, celebrity (Gypsy). \n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Uniform" }, "displayText": "A dream of glory, valor, celebrity (Gypsy)." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "united-states-mail-box", "title": "United States Mail Box", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see a United States mail box, in a dream, denotes that you are about to enter into transactions which will be claimed to be illegal.”", "aliases": [ "united states mail box" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about united states mail box stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2085", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "United States Mail Box", "text": "To see a United States mail box, in a dream, denotes that you\nare about to enter into transactions which will be claimed\nto be illegal.\n\nTo put a letter in one, denotes you will be held responsible\nfor some irregularity of another.", "locator": "Heading 2089; source lines 22994–23003", "lineStart": 22994, "lineEnd": 23003, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a United States mail box, in a dream, denotes that you\nare about to enter into transactions which will be claimed\nto be illegal.\n\nTo put a letter in one, denotes you will be held responsible\nfor some irregularity of another." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "unknown", "title": "Unknown", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of meeting unknown persons, foretells change for good, or bad as the person is good looking, or ugly, or deformed.”", "aliases": [ "unknown" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about unknown stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "mystery" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2086", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Unknown", "text": "To dream of meeting unknown persons, foretells change for good,\nor bad as the person is good looking, or ugly, or deformed.\n\nTo feel that you are unknown, denotes that strange things will cast\na shadow of ill luck over you.\n\n\n[234] See Mystery.", "locator": "Heading 2090; source lines 23003–23014", "lineStart": 23003, "lineEnd": 23014, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of meeting unknown persons, foretells change for good,\nor bad as the person is good looking, or ugly, or deformed.\n\nTo feel that you are unknown, denotes that strange things will cast\na shadow of ill luck over you. See Mystery." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "mystery" ] }, { "slug": "urgent", "title": "Urgent", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are supporting an urgent petition, is a sign that you will engage in some affair which will need fine financiering to…”", "aliases": [ "urgent" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about urgent stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2087", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Urgent", "text": "To dream that you are supporting an urgent petition, is a sign that you\nwill engage in some affair which will need fine financiering to carry\nit through successfully.", "locator": "Heading 2091; source lines 23014–23020", "lineStart": 23014, "lineEnd": 23020, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are supporting an urgent petition, is a sign that you\nwill engage in some affair which will need fine financiering to carry\nit through successfully." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "urinal", "title": "Urinal", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a urinal, disorder will predominate in your home.”", "aliases": [ "urinal" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about urinal stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2088", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Urinal", "text": "To dream of a urinal, disorder will predominate in your home.", "locator": "Heading 2092; source lines 23020–23024", "lineStart": 23020, "lineEnd": 23024, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a urinal, disorder will predominate in your home." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "urine", "title": "Urine", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing urine, denotes ill health will make you disagreeable and unpleasant with your friends.”", "aliases": [ "urine" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about urine stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2089", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Urine", "text": "To dream of seeing urine, denotes ill health will make you disagreeable\nand unpleasant with your friends.\n\nTo dream that you are urinating, is an omen of bad luck,\nand trying seasons to love.", "locator": "Heading 2093; source lines 23024–23032", "lineStart": 23024, "lineEnd": 23032, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing urine, denotes ill health will make you disagreeable\nand unpleasant with your friends.\n\nTo dream that you are urinating, is an omen of bad luck,\nand trying seasons to love." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "urn", "title": "Urn", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of an urn, foretells you will prosper in some respects, and in others disfavor will be apparent.” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "urn" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about urn stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2090", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Urn", "text": "To dream of an urn, foretells you will prosper in some respects,\nand in others disfavor will be apparent. To see broken urns,\nunhappiness will confront you.", "locator": "Heading 2094; source lines 23032–23038", "lineStart": 23032, "lineEnd": 23038, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of an urn, foretells you will prosper in some respects,\nand in others disfavor will be apparent. To see broken urns,\nunhappiness will confront you." }, { "id": "noe-0529", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Urn", "text": "To dream of this vessel has a happy signification, for it\nforetells the marriage either of yourself, a near relative or a dear\ncompanion.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 537; source lines 1944–1946", "lineStart": 1944, "lineEnd": 1946, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of this vessel has a happy signification, for it\nforetells the marriage either of yourself, a near relative or a dear\ncompanion." }, { "id": "cielo-0443", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Urn", "text": "If it contains flowers it means a speedy marriage of\n someone in your family. Empty, it means a loss.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 443; source lines 4932–4935", "lineStart": 4932, "lineEnd": 4935, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If it contains flowers it means a speedy marriage of\nsomeone in your family. Empty, it means a loss." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12329", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Urn", "heading": "Urn", "text": "A dream of death (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12329, "lineEnd": 12332, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 260; NLM OCR lines 12329–12332", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12329, "lineEnd": 12332, "printedPage": 260, "printedPageEnd": 260 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Urn. — A dream of death (Gypsy). \n\nV \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [ { "line": 12331, "text": "V " } ], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Urn" }, "displayText": "A dream of death (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "using-an-unfamiliar-virtual-avatar", "title": "Using an unfamiliar virtual avatar", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "An unfamiliar avatar can offer room to explore appearance, anonymity, ability, and how others respond when your presentation changes.", "summary": "An unfamiliar avatar can offer room to explore appearance, anonymity, ability, and how others respond when your presentation changes.", "aliases": [ "different avatar dream", "virtual avatar changing identity" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "Notice whether you selected the avatar or were assigned it. A different body or voice may feel playful, affirming, awkward, or irrelevant to what you were doing. You do not have to infer a fixed identity from a single dream. Compare your own comfort with the reactions of other characters, and ask whether the setting gave you more choice over how you were seen.", "traditional": "Modern avatars draw on many visual conventions, but this draft does not equate them with a universal mask or soul image. Any relation to a particular cultural figure would need to follow that figure’s own context.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "You choose a body that feels unexpectedly comfortable", "reflection": "Which quality of the experience felt like a better fit?" }, { "title": "The platform assigns an appearance you cannot change", "reflection": "How did lack of choice affect your willingness to participate?" }, { "title": "Friends recognize you despite the new appearance", "reflection": "What remained recognizable beyond the visible form?" } ], "prompts": [ "Had you chosen the avatar yourself?", "What did it let you express or do?", "Whose response shaped your comfort most?" ], "related": [ "mask", "the-self" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia model-assisted editorial draft. Reflection questions and scenario readings are optional, individually written suggestions, not empirically validated symbol meanings. Source scope is stated with each citation. Historical comparisons identify topics, not inherited interpretations. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2091", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Usurer", "text": "To find yourself a usurer in your dreams, foretells that you will\nbe treated with coldness by your associates, and your business\nwill decline to your consternation.\n\nIf others are usurers, you will discard some former friend\non account of treachery.", "locator": "Heading 2095; source lines 23038–23047", "lineStart": 23038, "lineEnd": 23047, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To find yourself a usurer in your dreams, foretells that you will\nbe treated with coldness by your associates, and your business\nwill decline to your consternation.\n\nIf others are usurers, you will discard some former friend\non account of treachery." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "usurper", "title": "Usurper", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are a usurper, foretells you will have trouble in establishing a good title to property.”", "aliases": [ "usurper" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about usurper stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2092", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Usurper", "text": "To dream that you are a usurper, foretells you will have trouble\nin establishing a good title to property.\n\nIf others are trying to usurp your rights, there will be a struggle\nbetween you and your competitors, but you will eventually win.\n\nFor a young woman to have this dream, she will be a party to a spicy rivalry,\nin which she will win.", "locator": "Heading 2096; source lines 23047–23066", "lineStart": 23047, "lineEnd": 23066, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are a usurper, foretells you will have trouble\nin establishing a good title to property.\n\nIf others are trying to usurp your rights, there will be a struggle\nbetween you and your competitors, but you will eventually win.\n\nFor a young woman to have this dream, she will be a party to a spicy rivalry,\nin which she will win." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "vaccinated", "title": "Vaccinated", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of being vaccinated, foretells that your susceptibility to female charms will be played upon to…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "vaccinated", "vaccinate" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about vaccinated stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2093", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Vaccinate", "text": "To dream of being vaccinated, foretells that your susceptibility\nto female charms will be played upon to your sorrow.\n\nTo dream that others are vaccinated, shows you will fail to find contentment\nwhere it is sought, and your affairs will suffer decline in consequence.\n\nFor a young woman to be vaccinated on her leg, foreshadows her\nundoing through treachery.", "locator": "Heading 2097; source lines 23066–23077", "lineStart": 23066, "lineEnd": 23077, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being vaccinated, foretells that your susceptibility\nto female charms will be played upon to your sorrow.\n\nTo dream that others are vaccinated, shows you will fail to find contentment\nwhere it is sought, and your affairs will suffer decline in consequence.\n\nFor a young woman to be vaccinated on her leg, foreshadows her\nundoing through treachery.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Vaccinate” is shown on the Vaccinated page: same topic (Miller/Fontaine)" }, { "id": "fontaine-0824", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Vaccinated", "text": "To dream of being vaccinated foretells good health; and if\nyou imagine that you have a large sore on your arm from vaccination, it\nis a sign that you will present to some one a liberal gift, and receive\nmuch honor. 49.", "locator": "Heading 824; source line 5071", "lineStart": 5071, "lineEnd": 5076, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being vaccinated foretells good health; and if\nyou imagine that you have a large sore on your arm from vaccination, it\nis a sign that you will present to some one a liberal gift, and receive\nmuch honor." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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A satisfying dream can simply show a task becoming manageable with an appropriate tool.\n\nAn attachment too large for a narrow space can bring scale into view. Most of the room may be ready while the one place that matters remains untouched. A broad procedure that overlooks a particular request can offer a parallel. Wanting a more precise approach differs from demanding that every surface become perfect; the scene can concern one specific need the current method does not reach.\n\nA cord that stops at a doorway can make access depend on where support begins. The next part of a task is visible but beyond the arrangement you have. A project limited by permissions or a routine tied to one place might feel similar. Frustration need not mean unwillingness to work. The physical limit can make a dependency concrete when effort alone does not change it.\n\nFinding a wanted object inside the collecting container introduces selection after removal. A button, tiny toy, or familiar scrap may have traveled with the dust without becoming unwanted itself. This can resemble useful material disappearing during a larger cleanup of files or belongings. Recovering it gives the scene a different ending from indiscriminately reversing the whole task.\n\nTracks left on the floor can make completed effort visible, whether the marks feel satisfying or oddly performative. A cleaner moving by itself along an old route can instead picture a routine that keeps doing what it knows while present needs lie elsewhere. Turning the machine off when the chosen area is ready gives the activity a boundary. These readings concern tool fit, reach, selection, and completion; the separate Cleaning page develops care and shared maintenance more broadly. They do not make dust evidence of moral failure or the dream a health or equipment assessment.", "traditional": "This qualified appliance topic has no attached historical record. Sweeping and Dust retain their own full period accounts; their forecasts are not transferred to the device. The background citation supports general context only, and the bare word vacuum can describe a different subject.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A method fits a particular need", "reflection": "Attachments and scale can make one area reachable or leave it outside a broad routine. Precision may concern the actual task rather than an absolute standard of cleanliness." }, { "title": "The reach of available support", "reflection": "A cord or route can show where an arrangement stops being useful. A visible next step may depend on conditions beyond your own effort." }, { "title": "Selection and a stopping point", "reflection": "Gathering material does not make every collected thing unwanted. Recovering something valued and finishing the intended area give removal specific limits." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "The attachment cannot fit the gap you want to clean", "reflection": "The tool handles broad surfaces but misses the particular space you care about. This may picture a general procedure overlooking a specific request. A more precise approach can serve that need without turning the whole room into a demand for faultless appearance or endless improvement." }, { "title": "The cord stops you at a doorway", "reflection": "The task continues beyond the support currently available. This can resemble work whose next stage requires access or permission rather than additional effort. The visible limit may help explain frustration in the dream without assigning it to laziness or treating the wanted task as impossible." }, { "title": "You find a wanted button inside the collecting container", "reflection": "Something valuable has traveled with material you intended to remove. This could picture a useful detail lost during a larger sorting task. Recovering the button makes selection possible after the fact; you do not have to undo every change in order to keep one thing." }, { "title": "The cleaner leaves clear tracks across an already usable carpet", "reflection": "Your effort creates visible evidence of activity. Satisfaction can fit wanting a completed task to be recognized; unease may concern making the work look convincing after its practical purpose is met. The carpet’s condition and your response distinguish acknowledgment from an appearance that has become another task." }, { "title": "The cleaner moves by itself along an old route", "reflection": "An established routine continues while another area now needs attention. This may resemble a familiar process running on earlier assumptions. Choosing a new route within the dream can bring habit into contact with the present task, rather than making familiarity itself a problem." }, { "title": "You turn the machine off when the chosen area is ready", "reflection": "The task ends at the place you intended to make usable. This can picture accepting a specific result and returning to another activity. Relief may come from having an agreed boundary, especially if someone else expects the working tool to justify continuing into every neighboring room." } ], "prompts": [ "Which particular area or result did you want the tool to reach?", "What belonged with the material being removed, and what did you want to retain?", "How did the task acquire a stopping point that made sense to you?" ], "related": [ "cleaning", "sweeping", "dust", "carpet" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "vagabond", "title": "Vagabond", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “Sudden journeyings or changes from place to place (Gypsy).”", "aliases": [ "vagabond" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about vagabond stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. 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OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L12333", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Vagabond", "heading": "Vagabond", "text": "Sudden journeyings or changes from place to place (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12333, "lineEnd": 12339, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 260–261; NLM OCR lines 12333–12339", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12333, "lineEnd": 12339, "printedPage": 260, "printedPageEnd": 261 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Vagabond, — Sudden journeyings or changes from place to \nplace (Gypsy). \n\n\nSYMBOLISM IN DREAMS 261 \n\n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [ { "line": 12337, "text": "SYMBOLISM IN DREAMS 261 " } ], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Vagabond" }, "displayText": "Sudden journeyings or changes from place to place (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "vagrant", "title": "Vagrant", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are a vagrant, portends poverty and misery.”", "aliases": [ "vagrant" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about vagrant stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2094", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Vagrant", "text": "To dream that you are a vagrant, portends poverty and misery.\nTo see vagrants is a sign of contagion invading your community.\nTo give to a vagrant, denotes that your generosity will be applauded.", "locator": "Heading 2098; source lines 23077–23083", "lineStart": 23077, "lineEnd": 23083, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are a vagrant, portends poverty and misery.\nTo see vagrants is a sign of contagion invading your community.\nTo give to a vagrant, denotes that your generosity will be applauded." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2102", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Vault", "text": "To dream of a vault, denotes bereavement and other misfortune.\nTo see a vault for valuables, signifies your fortune will\nsurprise many, as your circumstances will appear to be meagre.\nTo see the doors of a vault open, implies loss and treachery\nof people whom you trust.", "locator": "Heading 2106; source lines 23134–23142", "lineStart": 23134, "lineEnd": 23142, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a vault, denotes bereavement and other misfortune.\nTo see a vault for valuables, signifies your fortune will\nsurprise many, as your circumstances will appear to be meagre.\nTo see the doors of a vault open, implies loss and treachery\nof people whom you trust." }, { "id": "fontaine-0826", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Vault", "text": "An unexpected estate will fall to you, if you dream of a vault.\n21, 18.", "locator": "Heading 826; source line 5081", "lineStart": 5081, "lineEnd": 5084, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "An unexpected estate will fall to you, if you dream of a vault." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0827", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Veal", "text": "To dream of veal being roasted is good; but boiled, shows\nsickness; and raw, a great disappointment; particularly to those who\nhave recently formed an attachment or any new connection. 48, 2.", "locator": "Heading 827; source line 5084", "lineStart": 5084, "lineEnd": 5088, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of veal being roasted is good; but boiled, shows\nsickness; and raw, a great disappointment; particularly to those who\nhave recently formed an attachment or any new connection." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "vegetables", "title": "Vegetables", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of eating vegetables, is an omen of strange luck.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "vegetables" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about vegetables stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2103", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Vegetables", "text": "To dream of eating vegetables, is an omen of strange luck.\nYou will think for a time that you are tremendously successful,\nbut will find to your sorrow that you have been grossly imposed upon.\n\nWithered, or decayed vegetables, bring unmitigated woe and sadness.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she is preparing vegetables for dinner,\nforetells that she will lose the man she desired through pique,\nbut she will win a well-meaning and faithful husband.\nHer engagements will be somewhat disappointing.", "locator": "Heading 2107; source lines 23142–23155", "lineStart": 23142, "lineEnd": 23155, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of eating vegetables, is an omen of strange luck.\nYou will think for a time that you are tremendously successful,\nbut will find to your sorrow that you have been grossly imposed upon.\n\nWithered, or decayed vegetables, bring unmitigated woe and sadness.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she is preparing vegetables for dinner,\nforetells that she will lose the man she desired through pique,\nbut she will win a well-meaning and faithful husband.\nHer engagements will be somewhat disappointing." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12355", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Vegetables", "heading": "Vegetables", "text": "To dream of eating them denotes sickness (Raphael).", "lineStart": 12355, "lineEnd": 12357, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 261; NLM OCR lines 12355–12357", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12355, "lineEnd": 12357, "printedPage": 261, "printedPageEnd": 261 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Vegetables. — To dream of eating them denotes sickness \n(Raphael). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Vegetables" }, "displayText": "To dream of eating them denotes sickness (Raphael)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "vehicle", "title": "Vehicle", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "aliases": [ "vehicle", "vehicles" ], "status": "REVIEW", "kind": "editorial", "updated": "2026-10-14", "summary": "An unidentified vehicle can focus on what a journey can carry, who has access, and whether the available means suits the task.", "tagline": "What the journey needs may become clear before the vehicle does.", "psychological": "A vehicle in a dream may remain unidentified while its function is clear: it carries people, belongings or something that needs to reach another place. Begin with what you know about its capacity, condition and use. A named car, train or boat can offer a more specific reading. When the type stays uncertain, the dream may still make boarding, loading, choosing or leaving the vehicle a concrete task without requiring you to invent a missing detail.\n\nCapacity can organize the scene. Everyone may fit until one important item needs space, or the vehicle may have ample room but no usable entrance. This could resemble a plan whose resources exist while one practical requirement has not been met. Changing the load, making another trip or finding access gives the problem different directions. The available space does not automatically measure your ability or the value of a passenger.\n\nCondition matters through what the vehicle allows you to do. A damaged one might still support a short journey, while an apparently intact one may not move when needed. A present project can similarly require you to discover which function is actually available. Repair, another route or another means of travel can be considered within the dream. An image of damage is not evidence of a real accident, illness or failing enterprise.\n\nChoosing, buying or giving up a vehicle can shift the emphasis from movement to the terms of access. You might acquire something useful but find that maintaining it changes the task, or let someone else use it while you travel differently. A waking parallel could involve taking responsibility for a resource whose demands became clearer after accepting it. The choice is more specific through those demands than through a prediction of improved or declining status.\n\nWho can enter or remain aboard also matters. A journey can continue while someone needs a stop, or a change of passengers can make the next stage possible. Notice whether you can explain what is needed and whether the arrangement changes. These original possibilities concern a means of carrying or travel and the choices around it. They do not assume that an unidentified vehicle is a car, that you were driving, or that every departure represents the same life transition.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Capacity meets a specific requirement", "reflection": "People, belongings and access can make different demands on the same vehicle. The useful question is what the dreamed task required, not what capacity universally represents." }, { "title": "Condition is discovered through use", "reflection": "A vehicle can look ready while one function remains unavailable. Repair or another means of travel can give the task a different direction without predicting real failure." }, { "title": "Access brings terms of participation", "reflection": "Choosing, maintaining, boarding or giving up a vehicle can make an agreement concrete. Follow who can take part and what responsibility accompanies use." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "Everyone fits until an important item needs space", "reflection": "The arrangement works for the people but not the complete task. This may resemble a plan meeting one requirement while missing another. Changing the load or making another trip provides alternatives without treating the item or a passenger as inherently less important." }, { "title": "A roomy vehicle has an entrance you cannot use", "reflection": "Capacity exists while access remains unresolved. This can resemble a resource that is theoretically available but cannot yet support participation. Finding another entrance, asking for help or changing the journey gives the obstacle different endings; size alone does not settle whether the arrangement is useful." }, { "title": "A damaged vehicle can still complete a short journey", "reflection": "Its condition limits the task without making every use impossible. This could picture choosing what an available resource can reasonably do. Stopping sooner, repairing one part or changing transport can matter more than treating visible damage as a forecast of a real accident or loss." }, { "title": "An intact-looking vehicle will not move when needed", "reflection": "Appearance and usable function come apart at a particular moment. This may resemble discovering a missing condition after a plan seemed ready. Checking the obstacle, finding assistance or choosing another means gives you possible actions without diagnosing failure in yourself or predicting an unsuccessful project." }, { "title": "You acquire a vehicle with unexpected maintenance needs", "reflection": "Access comes with a responsibility that was not obvious at first. This can explore the terms of accepting a useful resource. Negotiating help, learning its upkeep or choosing differently gives the agreement a practical focus, rather than predicting that acquisition changes your social standing." }, { "title": "You give up the vehicle and continue another way", "reflection": "The journey remains possible while its means changes. This could resemble releasing one arrangement without abandoning the purpose it served. Notice what becomes easier or harder and who travels with you; giving something up does not automatically establish loss, freedom or a single kind of transition." } ], "prompts": [ "What needed to be carried or made possible by the vehicle?", "Which requirement did its access, capacity or condition meet or miss?", "How did choosing another arrangement change the journey?" ], "traditional": "Miller’s Vehicle passage discusses riding, being thrown from one, seeing a broken vehicle, buying and selling. It attaches loss, illness, unpleasant news, failure and changes in position to those scenes. These are the book’s forecasts, not evidence about health, real accidents, finances or the dreamer’s future. The passage does not identify a particular vehicle type. Its text is retained here rather than treated as a car account or support for the original capacity, access and participation reflections.", "related": [ "car", "driving", "passenger", "road", "train" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-2104" ], "scope": "Historical comparison only: Miller2104 discusses riding, being thrown from, a broken vehicle, buying and selling, with period loss/illness/news/status forecasts. It names no specific vehicle type and validates none of the original reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2104", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Vehicle", "text": "To ride in a vehicle while dreaming, foretells threatened loss, or illness.\n\nTo be thrown from one, foretells hasty and unpleasant news.\nTo see a broken one, signals failure in important affairs.\n\nTo buy one, you will reinstate yourself in your former position.\nTo sell one, denotes unfavorable change in affairs.", "locator": "Heading 2108; source lines 23155–23165", "lineStart": 23155, "lineEnd": 23165, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To ride in a vehicle while dreaming, foretells threatened loss, or illness.\n\nTo be thrown from one, foretells hasty and unpleasant news.\nTo see a broken one, signals failure in important affairs.\n\nTo buy one, you will reinstate yourself in your former position.\nTo sell one, denotes unfavorable change in affairs.", "editorialNote": "General vehicle heading not restricted to cars." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "veil", "title": "Veil", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "aliases": [ "veil" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "summary": "Veil dreams may explore chosen visibility, the practical effects of a covering and how a familiar object fits an occasion or personal preference.", "tagline": "Choosing how a covering changes contact.", "psychological": "A veil can change the relationship between seeing, being seen and moving through a setting. A thin layer may soften attention without preventing contact; a dense or shifting one may obstruct the task you want to do. This can picture the practical terms of visibility, such as preferring a quiet arrival to immediate attention. Covering does not by itself establish secrecy, dishonesty or submission.\n\nChoosing the veil can make the scene about having a say in presentation. You might welcome a familiar covering, enjoy its texture or feel comfortable participating without being fully exposed to a group's gaze. A waking comparison could be selecting how much personal information to share in a new setting. The comfort comes from a form that fits your preference, rather than from hiding something that must be revealed.\n\nDifficulty seeing through it gives another reading. Fabric drifting over your eyes or catching on an object may resemble an arrangement intended to help that now interferes with action. A formal role might come with expectations that make an ordinary task awkward. Adjusting or removing the veil can represent changing the conditions of participation instead of rejecting the entire occasion.\n\nOther people's involvement can change the meaning further. Someone lifting the veil before you are ready may make the timing of contact central. A freely chosen lift can feel like joining an exchange more directly. These are different dreamed experiences of choice; they do not establish the motives or conduct of an actual person.\n\nAn old veil can also hold a relationship with memory. Repairing, shortening or wearing it differently may resemble keeping something inherited while finding a use that suits you. Preserving every detail need not be the only way to value it. A tear can be a practical problem, an unwanted change or a detail you are content to leave visible, depending on the scene.\n\nWedding, mourning, fashion, performance and personally familiar practices can provide distinct contexts. Recent clothing choices or remembered photographs may supply the image directly. The useful comparison concerns what this particular covering allows or interrupts, without assigning a universal meaning to its colour or deciding what anyone should wear.", "traditional": "Miller assigns deception, relationship, change and trouble forecasts to wearing, losing, damaging or discarding veils, with separate bridal and mourning clauses. Cielo assigns marriage to a white veil and death or separation to a black one. Craig lists modesty and hidden-things interpretations under her period source labels and adds women's submission to men. These attributed claims do not make a covering evidence of dishonesty, obedience, identity or future events.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A chosen degree of visibility", "reflection": "A covering can make contact comfortable when it fits your preferences. Its value may lie in the way you participate, rather than in a presumption that less visibility means concealment." }, { "title": "Changing an obstructive arrangement", "reflection": "If fabric interferes with sight or movement, the dream may picture a form that no longer serves its task. Adjustment can make participation easier without requiring rejection of the whole occasion." }, { "title": "Making an inherited object your own", "reflection": "A familiar veil may connect memory with present use. Repairing or changing it can explore continuity through adaptation, rather than treating exact preservation as the only form of respect." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "You choose a sheer veil for a quiet gathering", "reflection": "The light covering lets you feel comfortable while remaining part of the room. This can picture selecting a manageable degree of visibility, such as joining a new group without immediately sharing everything about yourself. The pleasure concerns a wanted form of participation, rather than evidence that anything is being concealed." }, { "title": "Wind keeps pushing the veil across your eyes", "reflection": "An accessory that initially suited the occasion now makes a simple task difficult. This may resemble expectations or procedures interfering with work they were meant to support. Securing or setting it aside changes the practical conditions, allowing you to continue without treating the disruption as a character flaw." }, { "title": "You lift the veil to meet someone directly", "reflection": "You choose the moment when the covering no longer feels useful and begin a clearer exchange. This can picture readiness to participate with fewer layers of presentation, such as speaking plainly after a formal introduction. The important change is your chosen timing, rather than a requirement that openness is always preferable." }, { "title": "Someone lifts it before you are ready", "reflection": "Another person's action changes how visible you are while you are still deciding. This may picture wanting more control over the timing of contact or disclosure within a shared occasion. Asking for the covering back or pausing the exchange restores a choice that the scene had moved past." }, { "title": "You alter an inherited veil so it fits your activity", "reflection": "A familiar object becomes usable after a small change in length or fastening. This can picture keeping a connection with a person or occasion while allowing its form to suit present needs. Adaptation makes the memory available in everyday use, rather than confining its value to exact preservation." }, { "title": "You leave a small tear visible instead of repairing it", "reflection": "The veil remains useful, and the imperfect detail no longer seems to require attention. This could picture accepting an object or presentation that serves its purpose without meeting an immaculate image. The ease comes from deciding what matters for the occasion, rather than assuming damage predicts loss or reveals deception." } ], "prompts": [ "How did the veil change what you could see, do or share?", "What made the degree and timing of visibility feel right for you?", "How did a familiar covering connect remembered meaning with its present use?" ], "related": [ "wedding-dress", "mask", "privacy", "mourning" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-2105" ], "scope": "Miller varies deception, relationship, change, profit and trouble forecasts across wearing, seeing others wear, damaging, losing or discarding veils, and separate bridal/mourning situations; several claims are explicitly gendered. Specific supplied passages: Veil — miller-2105 (Heading 2109; source lines 23165–23192). Historical comparison only; these attributed period claims do not validate the original reflections or establish outcomes, diagnoses or universal symbolic meanings." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0444" ], "scope": "Cielo assigns a marriage proposal to wearing a white veil and death or separation to a black veil. Specific supplied passages: Veil — cielo-0444 (Dream section, heading 444; source lines 4935–4939). Historical comparison only; these attributed period claims do not validate the original reflections or establish outcomes, diagnoses or universal symbolic meanings." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L12358" ], "scope": "Craig attributes modesty to her printed 'Gypsy' label and hidden things to Tarot, then adds the submission of woman to man. This records the book's labels and gendered assertion, not a verified shared community belief or a current rule. Specific supplied passages: Veil — craig-1918:L12358 (Printed p. 261; NLM OCR lines 12358–12361). Historical comparison only; these attributed period claims do not validate the original reflections or establish outcomes, diagnoses or universal symbolic meanings." } ], "kind": "editorial", "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2105", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Veil", "text": "To dream that you wear a veil, denotes that you will not be perfectly sincere\nwith your lover, and you will be forced to use stratagem to retain him.\n\nTo see others wearing veils, you will be maligned and defamed\nby apparent friends.\n\nAn old, or torn veil, warns you that deceit is being thrown around\nyou with sinister design.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she loses her veil, denotes that her lover\nsees through her deceitful ways and is likely to retaliate with the same.\n\nTo dream of seeing a bridal veil, foretells that you will make a successful\nchange in the immediate future, and much happiness in your position.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she wears a bridal veil, denotes that she will\nengage in some affair which will afford her lasting profit and enjoyment.\nIf it gets loose, or any accident befalls it, she will be burdened with\nsadness and pain.\n\nTo throw a veil aside, indicates separation or disgrace.\n\nTo see mourning veils in your dreams, signifies distress and trouble,\nand embarrassment in business.", "locator": "Heading 2109; source lines 23165–23192", "lineStart": 23165, "lineEnd": 23192, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you wear a veil, denotes that you will not be perfectly sincere\nwith your lover, and you will be forced to use stratagem to retain him.\n\nTo see others wearing veils, you will be maligned and defamed\nby apparent friends.\n\nAn old, or torn veil, warns you that deceit is being thrown around\nyou with sinister design.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she loses her veil, denotes that her lover\nsees through her deceitful ways and is likely to retaliate with the same.\n\nTo dream of seeing a bridal veil, foretells that you will make a successful\nchange in the immediate future, and much happiness in your position.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she wears a bridal veil, denotes that she will\nengage in some affair which will afford her lasting profit and enjoyment.\nIf it gets loose, or any accident befalls it, she will be burdened with\nsadness and pain.\n\nTo throw a veil aside, indicates separation or disgrace.\n\nTo see mourning veils in your dreams, signifies distress and trouble,\nand embarrassment in business." }, { "id": "cielo-0444", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Veil", "text": "To wear a white veil means a proposal of marriage;\n a black veil indicates death or separation.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 444; source lines 4935–4939", "lineStart": 4935, "lineEnd": 4939, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To wear a white veil means a proposal of marriage;\na black veil indicates death or separation." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12358", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Veil", "heading": "Veil", "text": "A dream of modesty (Gypsy). Symbol of hidden things (Tarot). Symbol also of the submission of woman to man.", "lineStart": 12358, "lineEnd": 12361, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 261; NLM OCR lines 12358–12361", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12358, "lineEnd": 12361, "printedPage": 261, "printedPageEnd": 261 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Veil. — A dream of modesty (Gypsy). Symbol of hidden \nthings (Tarot). Symbol also of the submission of woman to \nman. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Veil" }, "displayText": "A dream of modesty (Gypsy). Symbol of hidden things (Tarot). Symbol also of the submission of woman to man." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "vein", "title": "Vein", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see your veins in a dream, insures you against slander, if they are normal.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "vein", "veins" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about vein stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2106", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Vein", "text": "To see your veins in a dream, insures you against slander,\nif they are normal.\n\nTo see them bleeding, denotes that you will have a great sorrow\nfrom which there will be no escape.\n\nTo see them swollen, you will rise hastily to distinction\nand places of trust.", "locator": "Heading 2110; source lines 23192–23203", "lineStart": 23192, "lineEnd": 23203, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see your veins in a dream, insures you against slander,\nif they are normal.\n\nTo see them bleeding, denotes that you will have a great sorrow\nfrom which there will be no escape.\n\nTo see them swollen, you will rise hastily to distinction\nand places of trust." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12362", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Veins", "heading": "Veins", "text": "A dream of trouble and of sorrows (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12362, "lineEnd": 12363, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 261; NLM OCR lines 12362–12363", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12362, "lineEnd": 12363, "printedPage": 261, "printedPageEnd": 261 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Veins. — A dream of trouble and of sorrows (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Veins" }, "displayText": "A dream of trouble and of sorrows (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "velvet", "title": "Velvet", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of velvet, portends very successful enterprises.” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "velvet" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about velvet stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2107", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Velvet", "text": "To dream of velvet, portends very successful enterprises.\nIf you wear it, some distinction will be conferred upon you.\n\nTo see old velvet, means your prosperity will suffer from your extreme pride.\n\nIf a young woman dreams that she is clothed in velvet garments,\nit denotes that she will have honors bestowed upon her,\nand the choice between several wealthy lovers.", "locator": "Heading 2111; source lines 23203–23214", "lineStart": 23203, "lineEnd": 23214, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of velvet, portends very successful enterprises.\nIf you wear it, some distinction will be conferred upon you.\n\nTo see old velvet, means your prosperity will suffer from your extreme pride.\n\nIf a young woman dreams that she is clothed in velvet garments,\nit denotes that she will have honors bestowed upon her,\nand the choice between several wealthy lovers." }, { "id": "fontaine-0828", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Velvet", "text": "If a lady dreams of new velvet dresses, it foretells poverty:\nvelvet cushions, slippers or bonnets, are signs of waste and want. 36,\n18.", "locator": "Heading 828; source line 5088", "lineStart": 5088, "lineEnd": 5092, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If a lady dreams of new velvet dresses, it foretells poverty:\nvelvet cushions, slippers or bonnets, are signs of waste and want. 36," }, { "id": "noe-0536", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Velvet", "text": "To dream you trade\nwith a stranger in velvet and other silks, is a sign of profit and joy.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 544; source lines 1964–1966", "lineStart": 1964, "lineEnd": 1966, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you trade\nwith a stranger in velvet and other silks, is a sign of profit and joy." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12364", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Velvet", "heading": "Velvet", "text": "Honor and riches (Artemidorus).", "lineStart": 12364, "lineEnd": 12365, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 261; NLM OCR lines 12364–12365", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12364, "lineEnd": 12365, "printedPage": 261, "printedPageEnd": 261 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Velvet. — Honor and riches (Artemidorus). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Velvet" }, "displayText": "Honor and riches (Artemidorus)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "vending-machine", "title": "Vending machine", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "aliases": [ "vending machine", "vending machines" ], "summary": "A vending machine can explore a ready-made offer, the last step between choosing and receiving, or a small need met without a lengthy encounter.", "tagline": "Choosing from a display is one step; receiving something useful is another.", "psychological": "A vending machine can make a small want seem easy to satisfy. An offer is visible, a button names the choice and something is supposed to arrive without a lengthy conversation. In a dream, that compact exchange can picture the pleasure of convenience or the limits of a ready-made selection. A short break, an ordinary comfort or an uncomplicated way to finish one task may provide a waking comparison. The machine’s particular offer matters more than treating every payment as a measure of your resources.\n\nSelecting one item and receiving another can separate a clear intention from the result a process supplies. This may resemble asking for a particular kind of help and receiving the standard response instead. The surprise might be welcome if the alternative proves useful. Disappointment can concern the mismatch itself rather than the apparent value of what comes out.\n\nAn item hanging just above the collection tray creates a different frustration: the choice and payment have happened, yet the final step remains unavailable. A piece of work almost ready for use can feel similar when one small practical connection is still missing. The proximity makes waiting difficult because success looks close, without showing how a real task will end.\n\nCoins returned when nothing is dispensed can give the exchange a clear stopping point. Walking away comfortably may picture allowing one route not to work, rather than repeatedly trying to force the available mechanism to meet the need. If every button offers the same unwanted item, the issue is narrower choice: the display promises variety while supplying no useful alternative. Declining the offer can be an active preference, not an inability to choose.\n\nAn extra item that you freely share can make convenience social. A small unexpected surplus becomes an occasion for company, without the dream forecasting a gain or advising a purchase. A vending machine inside a private room can offer another pleasant possibility: a familiar comfort is within easy reach, with no public pace to negotiate. It may also feel oddly impersonal where you expected care from a person. Memories of machines, breaks or travel can supply the scene directly. The readings here concern automated dispensing; a cashier, an ATM, a chance game and a machine accusing you after checkout have different purposes.", "traditional": "No verified historical vending-machine account is attached. These original reflections concern automated selection and dispensing. The general background citation does not establish a meaning for a displayed product, a payment or the machine’s response.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A ready-made offer", "reflection": "A visible menu can make choosing convenient while limiting what the encounter can provide." }, { "title": "The final step to receiving", "reflection": "A selection may be clear even when the delivered result or last practical connection does not fit." }, { "title": "A small comfort in its setting", "reflection": "Ease, sharing and privacy can change what an ordinary dispensed item contributes to the occasion." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You choose one item and the machine dispenses another", "reflection": "Your intention is specific while the available response supplies something different. This can resemble receiving a standard answer to a particular request. Surprise may become pleasure if the alternative fits, or remain frustrating when the process has not understood what made the original choice useful." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "The chosen item stops just above the collection tray", "reflection": "The exchange has nearly reached its usable ending, but one small connection remains. This may picture work that looks complete while still needing a practical handover. The visible closeness can intensify impatience without making repeated effort or waiting the only possible response within the dream." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "The machine returns your coins and you leave comfortably", "reflection": "Nothing is dispensed, yet the attempt ends clearly and you are free to continue elsewhere. This can picture accepting that one convenient route does not meet the occasion. The comfort comes from a finite attempt rather than from proving that the original want was unimportant." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "The machine supplies an extra item and you share it", "reflection": "A small surplus turns a solitary exchange into a moment of company. This may picture enjoying an ordinary benefit more when someone else can take part. Freely sharing differs from being expected to surrender it, and the scene’s pleasure need not depend on a financial gain." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Every button offers the same item that you do not want", "reflection": "The display presents several places to choose while the available result never changes. This can resemble alternatives that differ in appearance but leave the same need unmet. Declining the offer may express a clear preference, even when the machine makes continuing to press buttons seem easier." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "A vending machine quietly supplies a favorite item in your bedroom", "reflection": "An ordinary comfort becomes available in a private setting without a queue or explanation. This can picture enjoying a small need being easy to meet. The machine’s convenience may feel restful, while a wish for human company would give the same impersonal service a different emotional place." } ], "prompts": [ "What did the machine offer, and how well did that offer meet what you wanted?", "How did the difference between selecting and receiving affect the encounter?", "What changed through the setting, another person’s company or choosing to leave?" ], "related": [ "cashier", "coins", "shopping-mall", "a-self-checkout-accusing-you-of-an-error" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "veneer", "title": "Veneer", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are veneering, denotes that you will systematically deceive your friends, your speculations will be of a misleading nature.”", "aliases": [ "veneer" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about veneer stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2108", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Veneer", "text": "To dream that you are veneering, denotes that you will systematically deceive\nyour friends, your speculations will be of a misleading nature.", "locator": "Heading 2112; source lines 23214–23219", "lineStart": 23214, "lineEnd": 23219, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are veneering, denotes that you will systematically deceive\nyour friends, your speculations will be of a misleading nature." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "venison", "title": "Venison", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “To dream of eating venison is a sign that you will travel: if you imagine you see large saddles of…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "venison" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about venison stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0829", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Venison", "text": "To dream of eating venison is a sign that you will travel: if\nyou imagine you see large saddles of venison in market, it foretells a\njourney for business purposes which will be profitable. 42, 70.", "locator": "Heading 829; source line 5092", "lineStart": 5092, "lineEnd": 5096, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of eating venison is a sign that you will travel: if\nyou imagine you see large saddles of venison in market, it foretells a\njourney for business purposes which will be profitable." }, { "id": "noe-0544", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Venison", "text": "To dream\nabout venison, denotes change in affairs. To dream you eat of it,\nsignifies misfortune.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 552; source lines 1981–1983", "lineStart": 1981, "lineEnd": 1983, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream\nabout venison, denotes change in affairs. To dream you eat of it,\nsignifies misfortune." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "ventriloquist", "title": "Ventriloquist", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a ventriloquist, denotes that some treasonable affair is going to prove detrimental to your interest.”", "aliases": [ "ventriloquist" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about ventriloquist stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2109", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Ventriloquist", "text": "To dream of a ventriloquist, denotes that some treasonable affair\nis going to prove detrimental to your interest.\n\nIf you think yourself one, you will not conduct yourself honorably\ntowards people who trust you.\n\nFor a young woman to dream she is mystified by the voice of a ventriloquist,\nforetells that she will be deceived into illicit adventures.", "locator": "Heading 2113; source lines 23219–23230", "lineStart": 23219, "lineEnd": 23230, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a ventriloquist, denotes that some treasonable affair\nis going to prove detrimental to your interest.\n\nIf you think yourself one, you will not conduct yourself honorably\ntowards people who trust you.\n\nFor a young woman to dream she is mystified by the voice of a ventriloquist,\nforetells that she will be deceived into illicit adventures." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "veranda", "title": "Veranda", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of being on a veranda, denotes that you are to be successful in some affair which is giving you anxiety.”", "aliases": [ "veranda" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about veranda stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2110", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Veranda", "text": "To dream of being on a veranda, denotes that you are to be successful\nin some affair which is giving you anxiety.\n\nFor a young woman to be with her lover on a veranda, denotes her early\nand happy marriage.\n\nTo see an old veranda, denotes the decline of hopes, and disappointment\nin business and love.", "locator": "Heading 2114; source lines 23230–23241", "lineStart": 23230, "lineEnd": 23241, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being on a veranda, denotes that you are to be successful\nin some affair which is giving you anxiety.\n\nFor a young woman to be with her lover on a veranda, denotes her early\nand happy marriage.\n\nTo see an old veranda, denotes the decline of hopes, and disappointment\nin business and love." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "vermin", "title": "Vermin", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "5 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Vermin crawling in your dreams, signifies sickness and much trouble.” Compare 5 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "vermin" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about vermin stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "locust" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2111", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Vermin", "text": "Vermin crawling in your dreams, signifies sickness and much trouble.\nIf you succeed in ridding yourself of them, you will be fairly successful,\nbut otherwise death may come to you, or your relatives.\n\n\n[235] See Locust.", "locator": "Heading 2115; source lines 23241–23250", "lineStart": 23241, "lineEnd": 23250, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Vermin crawling in your dreams, signifies sickness and much trouble.\nIf you succeed in ridding yourself of them, you will be fairly successful,\nbut otherwise death may come to you, or your relatives. See Locust." }, { "id": "fontaine-0830", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Vermin", "text": "To dream of any kind of vermin, is ominous of ill-luck and\nenemies, especially if they are in the house, or near the fireplace;\nbut if out of the house, they are unimportant. 27, 62.", "locator": "Heading 830; source line 5096", "lineStart": 5096, "lineEnd": 5100, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of any kind of vermin, is ominous of ill-luck and\nenemies, especially if they are in the house, or near the fireplace;\nbut if out of the house, they are unimportant." }, { "id": "noe-0532", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Vermin", "text": "To dream that you are surrounded and attacked by vermin, some\ncreeping over your body, and others assailing you in various parts of your\nframe, signifies that you will be gladdened and rejoiced to learn that you\nhave become entitled to the possession of considerable property through\nthe death of a relative.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 540; source lines 1955–1959", "lineStart": 1955, "lineEnd": 1959, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are surrounded and attacked by vermin, some\ncreeping over your body, and others assailing you in various parts of your\nframe, signifies that you will be gladdened and rejoiced to learn that you\nhave become entitled to the possession of considerable property through\nthe death of a relative." }, { "id": "cielo-0445", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Vermin", "text": "Denotes plenty and prosperity.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 445; source lines 4939–4941", "lineStart": 4939, "lineEnd": 4941, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Denotes plenty and prosperity." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12366", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Vermin", "heading": "Vermin", "text": "A dream denoting sickness (Gypsy). A typical dream in alcohol addicts.", "lineStart": 12366, "lineEnd": 12368, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 261; NLM OCR lines 12366–12368", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12366, "lineEnd": 12368, "printedPage": 261, "printedPageEnd": 261 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Vermin. — A dream denoting sickness (Gypsy). A typical \ndream in alcohol addicts. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Vermin" }, "displayText": "A dream denoting sickness (Gypsy). A typical dream in alcohol addicts." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "locust" ] }, { "slug": "vertigo", "title": "Vertigo", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you have vertigo, foretells you will have loss in domestic happiness, and your affairs will be under gloomy outlooks.”", "aliases": [ "vertigo" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about vertigo stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2112", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Vertigo", "text": "To dream that you have vertigo, foretells you will have loss in\ndomestic happiness, and your affairs will be under gloomy outlooks.", "locator": "Heading 2116; source lines 23250–23255", "lineStart": 23250, "lineEnd": 23255, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you have vertigo, foretells you will have loss in\ndomestic happiness, and your affairs will be under gloomy outlooks." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "vessels", "title": "Vessels", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of vessels, denotes labor and activity. See Ships and similar words.”", "aliases": [ "vessels" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about vessels stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "ship" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2113", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Vessels", "text": "To dream of vessels, denotes labor and activity.\n\n\n[236] See Ships and similar words.", "locator": "Heading 2117; source lines 23255–23262", "lineStart": 23255, "lineEnd": 23262, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of vessels, denotes labor and activity. See Ships and similar words." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "ship" ] }, { "slug": "vexation", "title": "Vexation", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “To dream of being much vexed, foretells the reverse, and that you will shortly be much pleased.”", "aliases": [ "vexation" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about vexation stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0831", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Vexation", "text": "To dream of being much vexed, foretells the reverse, and that\nyou will shortly be much pleased. 33, 61.", "locator": "Heading 831; source line 5100", "lineStart": 5100, "lineEnd": 5103, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being much vexed, foretells the reverse, and that\nyou will shortly be much pleased." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "vexed", "title": "Vexed", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “If you are vexed in your dreams, you will find many worries scattered through your early awakening.”", "aliases": [ "vexed" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about vexed stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2114", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Vexed", "text": "If you are vexed in your dreams, you will find many worries scattered\nthrough your early awakening.\n\nIf you think some person is vexed with you, it is a sign that you\nwill not shortly reconcile some slight misunderstanding.", "locator": "Heading 2118; source lines 23262–23270", "lineStart": 23262, "lineEnd": 23270, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you are vexed in your dreams, you will find many worries scattered\nthrough your early awakening.\n\nIf you think some person is vexed with you, it is a sign that you\nwill not shortly reconcile some slight misunderstanding." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "viands", "title": "Viands", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “To see them denotes idleness; to eat, sickness (Gypsy).”", "aliases": [ "viands" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about viands stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L12369", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Viands", "heading": "Viands", "text": "To see them denotes idleness; to eat, sickness (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12369, "lineEnd": 12371, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 261; NLM OCR lines 12369–12371", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12369, "lineEnd": 12371, "printedPage": 261, "printedPageEnd": 261 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Viands. — To see them denotes idleness; to eat, sickness \n(Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Viands" }, "displayText": "To see them denotes idleness; to eat, sickness (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "vicar", "title": "Vicar", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a vicar, foretells that you will do foolish things while furious with jealousy and envy.”", "aliases": [ "vicar" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about vicar stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2115", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Vicar", "text": "To dream of a vicar, foretells that you will do foolish things\nwhile furious with jealousy and envy.\n\nFor a young woman to dream she marries a vicar, foretells that she\nwill fail to awake reciprocal affection in the man she desires,\nand will live a spinster, or marry to keep from being one.", "locator": "Heading 2119; source lines 23270–23279", "lineStart": 23270, "lineEnd": 23279, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a vicar, foretells that you will do foolish things\nwhile furious with jealousy and envy.\n\nFor a young woman to dream she marries a vicar, foretells that she\nwill fail to awake reciprocal affection in the man she desires,\nand will live a spinster, or marry to keep from being one." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "vice", "title": "Vice", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are favoring any vice, signifies you are about to endanger your reputation, by letting evil persuasions entice you.”", "aliases": [ "vice" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about vice stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2116", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Vice", "text": "To dream that you are favoring any vice, signifies you are about to endanger\nyour reputation, by letting evil persuasions entice you.\n\nIf you see others indulging in vice, some ill fortune will engulf\nthe interest of some relative or associate.", "locator": "Heading 2120; source lines 23279–23287", "lineStart": 23279, "lineEnd": 23287, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are favoring any vice, signifies you are about to endanger\nyour reputation, by letting evil persuasions entice you.\n\nIf you see others indulging in vice, some ill fortune will engulf\nthe interest of some relative or associate." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "victim", "title": "Victim", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are the victim of any scheme, foretells that you will be oppressed and over-powered by your enemies.”", "aliases": [ "victim" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about victim stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2117", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Victim", "text": "To dream that you are the victim of any scheme, foretells that\nyou will be oppressed and over-powered by your enemies.\nYour family relations will also be strained.\n\nTo victimize others, denotes that you will amass wealth dishonorably\nand prefer illicit relations, to the sorrow of your companions.", "locator": "Heading 2121; source lines 23287–23296", "lineStart": 23287, "lineEnd": 23296, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are the victim of any scheme, foretells that\nyou will be oppressed and over-powered by your enemies.\nYour family relations will also be strained.\n\nTo victimize others, denotes that you will amass wealth dishonorably\nand prefer illicit relations, to the sorrow of your companions." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "victory", "title": "Victory", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you win a victory, foretells that you will successfully resist the attacks of enemies, and…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "victory" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about victory stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2118", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Victory", "text": "To dream that you win a victory, foretells that you will successfully resist\nthe attacks of enemies, and will have the love of women for the asking.", "locator": "Heading 2122; source lines 23296–23301", "lineStart": 23296, "lineEnd": 23301, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you win a victory, foretells that you will successfully resist\nthe attacks of enemies, and will have the love of women for the asking." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12372", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Victory", "heading": "Victory", "text": "Over opponents a dream of success (Raphael).", "lineStart": 12372, "lineEnd": 12372, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 261; NLM OCR lines 12372–12372", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12372, "lineEnd": 12372, "printedPage": 261, "printedPageEnd": 261 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Victory. — Over opponents a dream of success (Raphael). \n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Victory" }, "displayText": "Over opponents a dream of success (Raphael)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "victuals", "title": "Victuals", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “To dream of victuals and that you eat a variety of them, signifies loss.”", "aliases": [ "victuals" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about victuals stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "noe-0539", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Victuals", "text": "To dream of victuals and that you eat a\nvariety of them, signifies loss.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 547; source lines 1970–1971", "lineStart": 1970, "lineEnd": 1971, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of victuals and that you eat a\nvariety of them, signifies loss." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "video-games", "title": "Video games", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "kind": "modern", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "aliases": [ "video game", "video games", "computer game", "computer games", "online game", "online games", "video gaming" ], "summary": "Video games can picture learning through attempts, navigating designed rules, or trying another role. Cooperation and the ability to pause change the reading.", "tagline": "The world has rules, feedback, and a role you can inhabit or alter.", "psychological": "A video game can picture an activity whose goals and feedback are more visible than those of ordinary life. You may know what counts as success, see progress, and try again after a setback. Enjoying a difficult level can fit practicing a skill or experimenting within clear limits. Frustration may instead express wanting that clarity from a task whose expectations remain vague outside the dream.\n\nRestarting changes the meaning of failure. Another attempt can suggest room to learn without making one result final. A level that resets despite everything you have achieved creates a different experience: your effort is erased rather than developed. Repeated revisions at work or a responsibility that returns to its starting point can have a similar structure.\n\nAn avatar gives you a role that can differ from familiar expectations. Playing someone with new abilities may picture curiosity about being more assertive, visible, or independent. An avatar you cannot control can instead express distance between what you intend and what others see happening. The role is part of the dream's exploration, not proof of a concealed identity or desire.\n\nMultiplayer scenes bring cooperation, competition, and recognition into view. Shared strategy can resemble a task made easier by complementary contributions. Teammates who ignore the plan may make coordination the issue, while spectators can turn play into performance for an audience.\n\nThe ability to pause or leave is also distinctive. A game that enters your room or continues when you want to stop can picture demands crossing into private time. Designing the game yourself may shift attention toward choosing workable rules. Recent play, stories, and screens can directly provide the setting without requiring a wider symbolic interpretation.", "traditional": "These are original readings of interactive digital play, including avatars, feedback, restarting, and cooperation. No verified historical passage is used for those mechanisms. A broader Games entry does not establish meanings for this specific setting, and the general sleep source is not evidence of a clinical or causal interpretation of gaming.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Clear feedback and room to try again", "reflection": "A level can picture learning through a visible goal and repeated attempts. A useful restart allows development, while erased progress can express effort that never seems to count." }, { "title": "Exploring or struggling with a role", "reflection": "An avatar can make another way of acting available. Enjoying new abilities may express experimentation, while unreliable control can picture difficulty making your intentions visible through the role." }, { "title": "Shared rules and the freedom to stop", "reflection": "Cooperation can make a challenge manageable, while shifting rules or an unavailable pause can turn play into obligation. The setting becomes different when participation is no longer chosen." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "You master a difficult level after several attempts", "reflection": "This can picture effort becoming useful through practice rather than instant success. Learning a tool, returning to a skill, or preparing a presentation may offer parallels. The game makes feedback visible, allowing each attempt to contribute instead of becoming a verdict on your ability.", "slug": "scene-1" }, { "title": "The rules change whenever you approach the goal", "reflection": "A task can feel impossible when its conditions move faster than your progress. A changing brief or unexplained review standard may fit. The frustration centers the system's instability, rather than a lack of effort or willingness to learn its earlier rules.", "slug": "scene-2" }, { "title": "You and friends solve a challenge together", "reflection": "Cooperation can picture discovering how different contributions support the same outcome. A shared project or household task may feel similar when roles are understood. Enjoyment comes from coordinated action, while disagreement about strategy can expose a need to negotiate participation.", "slug": "scene-3" }, { "title": "Your avatar can do something you struggle to do", "reflection": "A role with different abilities can picture trying a less familiar way of acting. Speaking directly, taking initiative, or entering a group confidently may fit. The avatar provides room to imagine that capacity without proving that the dream reveals a hidden or superior self.", "slug": "scene-4" }, { "title": "The game continues when you try to pause", "reflection": "An activity can become a demand when stopping is unavailable. Work that reaches into evenings or a task without an accepted endpoint may offer parallels. The failed pause makes freedom over participation central, rather than treating persistence as either automatically good or automatically harmful.", "slug": "scene-5" }, { "title": "You design the game's world and rules", "reflection": "Creating the structure can picture wanting a more workable relationship between effort and outcome. Planning a project or revising a shared routine may feel similar. The pleasure may come from making expectations understandable, while too much control can make cooperation with others difficult.", "slug": "scene-6" } ], "prompts": [ "Were the rules understandable, changing, or chosen by me?", "Did another attempt develop progress or erase what I had already achieved?", "How did the role, teammates, or ability to stop affect my participation?" ], "related": [ "games", "computer", "superpowers", "being-trapped" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia editorial entry with image-specific interpretations and six differentiated scenes. The reference supplies general dream background only. Human publication review pending.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "village", "title": "Village", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are in a village, denotes that you will enjoy good health and find yourself fortunately…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "village" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about village stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "city" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2126", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Viper", "text": "To dream of a viper, foretells that calamities are threatening you.\nTo dream that a many-hued viper, and capable of throwing itself into\nmany pieces, or unjointing itself, attacks you, denotes that your\nenemies are bent on your ruin and will work unitedly, yet apart,\nto displace you.", "locator": "Heading 2130; source lines 23373–23381", "lineStart": 23373, "lineEnd": 23381, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a viper, foretells that calamities are threatening you.\nTo dream that a many-hued viper, and capable of throwing itself into\nmany pieces, or unjointing itself, attacks you, denotes that your\nenemies are bent on your ruin and will work unitedly, yet apart,\nto displace you." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12400", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Viper", "heading": "Viper", "text": "Enemies who strive to injure you, an unfaithful partner (Gypsy). 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Things will be reversed for a while with you.\nYou will have changes in your business and private life seemingly bad,\nbut eventually good for all concerned.\n\nThe Supreme Will is always directed toward the ultimate good of the race.", "locator": "Heading 2133; source lines 23412–23433", "lineStart": 23412, "lineEnd": 23433, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you have a strange vision, denotes that you will be unfortunate\nin your dealings and sickness will unfit you for pleasant duties.\n\nIf persons appear to you in visions, it foretells uprising and strife\nof families or state.\n\nIf your friend is near dissolution and you are warned in a vision,\nhe will appear suddenly before you, usually in white garments.\nVisions of death and trouble have such close resemblance,\nthat they are sometimes mistaken one for the other.\n\nTo see visions of any order in your dreams, you may look for unusual\ndevelopments in your business, and a different atmosphere and surroundings\nin private life. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "visitor", "title": "Visitor", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Cielo wrote: “To dream of a visit foreshadows trouble; if others visit you, loneliness.”", "aliases": [ "visitor" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about visitor stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "cielo-0452", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Visitor", "text": "To dream of a visit foreshadows trouble; if\n others visit you, loneliness.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 452; source lines 4954–4957", "lineStart": 4954, "lineEnd": 4957, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a visit foreshadows trouble; if\nothers visit you, loneliness." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "vitriol", "title": "Vitriol", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “If you see vitriol in your dreams, it is a token of some innocent person being censured by you.”", "aliases": [ "vitriol" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about vitriol stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2130", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Vitriol", "text": "If you see vitriol in your dreams, it is a token of some innocent\nperson being censured by you.\n\nTo throw it on people, shows you will bear malice towards parties\nwho seek to favor you.\n\nFor a young woman to have a jealous rival throw it in her face,\nforetells that she will be the innocent object of some person's hatred.\nThis dream for a business man, denotes enemies and much persecution.", "locator": "Heading 2134; source lines 23433–23445", "lineStart": 23433, "lineEnd": 23445, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you see vitriol in your dreams, it is a token of some innocent\nperson being censured by you.\n\nTo throw it on people, shows you will bear malice towards parties\nwho seek to favor you.\n\nFor a young woman to have a jealous rival throw it in her face,\nforetells that she will be the innocent object of some person's hatred.\nThis dream for a business man, denotes enemies and much persecution." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "voice", "title": "Voice", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of hearing voices, denotes pleasant reconciliations, if they are calm and pleasing.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "voice", "voices" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about voice stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2131", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Voice", "text": "To dream of hearing voices, denotes pleasant reconciliations,\nif they are calm and pleasing; high-pitched and angry voices,\nsignify disappointments and unfavorable situations.\n\nTo hear weeping voices, shows that sudden anger will cause you to inflict\ninjury upon a friend.\n\nIf you hear the voice of God, you will make a noble effort to rise higher\nin unselfish and honorable principles, and will justly hold the admiration\nof high-minded people.\n\nFor a mother to hear the voice of her child, is a sign of approaching misery,\nperplexity and grievous doubts.\n\nTo hear the voice of distress, or a warning one calling to you,\nimplies your own serious misfortune or that of some one close to you.\nIf the voice is recognized, it is often ominous of accident or illness,\nwhich may eliminate death or loss.", "locator": "Heading 2135; source lines 23445–23466", "lineStart": 23445, "lineEnd": 23466, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of hearing voices, denotes pleasant reconciliations,\nif they are calm and pleasing; high-pitched and angry voices,\nsignify disappointments and unfavorable situations.\n\nTo hear weeping voices, shows that sudden anger will cause you to inflict\ninjury upon a friend.\n\nIf you hear the voice of God, you will make a noble effort to rise higher\nin unselfish and honorable principles, and will justly hold the admiration\nof high-minded people.\n\nFor a mother to hear the voice of her child, is a sign of approaching misery,\nperplexity and grievous doubts.\n\nTo hear the voice of distress, or a warning one calling to you,\nimplies your own serious misfortune or that of some one close to you.\nIf the voice is recognized, it is often ominous of accident or illness,\nwhich may eliminate death or loss." }, { "id": "cielo-0453", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Voice", "text": "To dream of hearing a voice means that absent\n ones are thinking of you.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 453; source lines 4957–4960", "lineStart": 4957, "lineEnd": 4960, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of hearing a voice means that absent\nones are thinking of you." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12408", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Voices", "heading": "Voices", "text": "A dream of merry voices connotes distress and weeping; wailing voices, joy and merriment (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12408, "lineEnd": 12410, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 262; NLM OCR lines 12408–12410", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12408, "lineEnd": 12410, "printedPage": 262, "printedPageEnd": 262 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Voices. — A dream of merry voices connotes distress and \nweeping; wailing voices, joy and merriment (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Voices" }, "displayText": "A dream of merry voices connotes distress and weeping; wailing voices, joy and merriment (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "volcano", "title": "Volcano", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "summary": "A volcano can explore a substantial possibility that remains quiet, choosing distance from an unfolding change, and living with a changed landmark.", "tagline": "A familiar landmark can become active.", "aliases": [ "volcano" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "Waiting beside a volcano that does not erupt can picture attention organized around a possibility rather than an event. A difficult discussion, an ambitious undertaking, or a major transition may feel substantial while remaining inactive. The quiet can be reassuring if it lets ordinary life continue. If waiting consumes the whole scene, the possibility may shape your time more than anything it has actually done. The dream does not establish that an eruption or conflict is imminent.\n\nWatching an eruption from a chosen distance can give a different relationship with intensity. You may be able to witness a powerful change without entering every consequence directly. Following a major project, considering another person’s transition, or exploring a demanding creative interest can offer parallels. Awe can be as relevant as concern. Comfortable observation differs from exclusion if you wanted to participate but could not reach the unfolding event.\n\nApproaching an opening makes involvement adjustable. Each step changes what is visible and how much contact the experience allows. This can resemble learning enough about a demanding opportunity to decide how closely you want to engage. Turning back need not cancel your interest. A chosen limit can preserve room to think, while pressure from others to approach can make the scene about proving readiness rather than discovering what suits you.\n\nAn eruption interrupting a familiar route can picture a change that affects plans beyond its immediate source. A decision in one part of a household or organization may require several people to find another method. The route remains a legitimate goal even when the original way becomes unavailable. A familiar mountain with an altered landscape can similarly make continuity and change coexist: the landmark is recognizable while its practical surroundings no longer work in the same way.\n\nA miniature volcano inside a room can bring a large imagined process into an intimate setting. Fascination, inconvenience, or a wish to contain it create different readings. A remembered landscape, model, film, or science lesson may also provide direct context. This entry concerns the landform, anticipation, eruption, and changed setting; Lava’s material and flow offer another perspective without supplying a fixed code for every volcano.", "traditional": "Miller forecasts disputes and reputational trouble, including a gendered judgment of a woman’s motives. Craig supplies a family-dispute account attributed to Gypsy lore. Noe instead predicts liberty for prisoners and peace or happiness for others. These three attached accounts disagree and do not establish an approaching conflict, a character judgment, or a future outcome.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Possibility before event", "reflection": "A quiet substantial presence may allow ordinary life or keep attention suspended around what could happen." }, { "title": "Chosen involvement", "reflection": "Distance can support observation, while approach and retreat remain adjustable forms of participation." }, { "title": "A changed landmark", "reflection": "Continuity can remain recognizable even when the routes around it need revision." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "You wait beside a volcano that does not erupt", "reflection": "A possibility remains central without becoming an event. This may picture attention suspended around a major discussion or change. Reassurance differs from exhausting expectation; the quiet does not establish that something hidden must eventually break into action." }, { "title": "An eruption is visible from a chosen distance", "reflection": "Intensity can be witnessed without entering all its consequences. This may fit observing a substantial undertaking or transition. Awe and concern can coexist, while a distance imposed against your wishes changes the scene toward participation you wanted but could not obtain." }, { "title": "You approach an opening and choose a limit", "reflection": "More contact remains possible without being compulsory. This can picture learning the terms of a demanding opportunity. Turning back may preserve room for another decision rather than prove fear or cancel the interest that brought you closer." }, { "title": "An eruption interrupts an ordinary route", "reflection": "A large change affects a practical journey beyond its immediate source. This can resemble a decision reshaping several routines. Another route may preserve the destination, allowing adaptation without requiring the original method to remain available under changed conditions." }, { "title": "The mountain is familiar after its landscape changes", "reflection": "A recognizable landmark remains while its surroundings work differently. This may picture continuity after a substantial transition. Familiarity can offer orientation, but it need not make every old route suitable or every new condition immediately comfortable." }, { "title": "A miniature volcano appears in a household room", "reflection": "A large imagined process becomes part of intimate daily conditions. This can picture fascination or pressure entering private life in concentrated form. Trying to observe, move, or contain it gives different relationships with the same unusual presence." } ], "prompts": [ "What substantial possibility holds attention without yet becoming an event?", "Which degree of involvement feels chosen?", "What remains familiar while the routes around it change?" ], "related": [ "lava", "mountain", "earthquake", "storm" ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-2132" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context for this topic only. Miller predicts disputes and reputational trouble and includes a gendered judgment of a woman’s motives. Does not validate the original psychological reflections." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0545" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context for this topic only. Noe instead forecasts liberty for prisoners and peace/happiness for others. Does not validate the original psychological reflections." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L12411" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context for this topic only. Craig attributes family disputes and fights to Gypsy lore. Does not validate the original psychological reflections." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2132", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Volcano", "text": "To see a volcano in your dreams, signifies that you will be\nin violent disputes, which threaten your reputation as a fair\ndealing and honest citizen.\n\nFor a young woman, it means that her selfishness and greed will lead\nher into intricate adventures.", "locator": "Heading 2136; source lines 23466–23475", "lineStart": 23466, "lineEnd": 23475, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a volcano in your dreams, signifies that you will be\nin violent disputes, which threaten your reputation as a fair\ndealing and honest citizen.\n\nFor a young woman, it means that her selfishness and greed will lead\nher into intricate adventures." }, { "id": "noe-0545", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Volcano", "text": "To dream about volcanos forbodes liberty\nto a person in prison, and peace and happiness to those out of it.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 553; source lines 1983–1986", "lineStart": 1983, "lineEnd": 1986, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream about volcanos forbodes liberty\nto a person in prison, and peace and happiness to those out of it." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12411", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Volcano", "heading": "Volcano", "text": "Family jars, disturbances, fights (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12411, "lineEnd": 12412, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 262; NLM OCR lines 12411–12412", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12411, "lineEnd": 12412, "printedPage": 262, "printedPageEnd": 262 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Volcano. — Family jars, disturbances, fights (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Volcano" }, "displayText": "Family jars, disturbances, fights (Gypsy)." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "volunteer", "title": "Volunteer", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "A contribution has a different shape when participation is chosen.", "summary": "Volunteering may explore a contribution you choose, a shared need, or the point where freely offered help becomes an assumed obligation.", "aliases": [ "volunteer", "volunteering" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A volunteer may bring choice into an image of work. You offer time or effort because a task matters, because you want to participate, or because someone needs a manageable kind of help. In a dream, that can picture a contribution whose value is not measured entirely by payment or formal status. Sorting a few objects, helping at an event, or staying for one conversation may feel meaningful because the action is freely offered.\n\nThe reason for joining can change the interpretation. You may care about the shared purpose, want companionship, hope to learn, or feel unable to decline when everyone else agrees. These motives can coexist, but they create different pressures. A scene in which participation is assumed before you answer may expose a boundary around choice. It does not decide whether a waking organization or person is exploiting you; the useful subject is how the dream arranged consent and responsibility.\n\nCoordination can make the help effective or leave effort without a place. Several people share clear tasks, while in another scene you arrive willing and nobody explains what is needed. This could resemble wanting to be useful without wanting to guess at every expectation. A small defined task may bring more satisfaction than an impressive role with no support. Receiving direction does not have to remove your say in how much you can contribute.\n\nBeing helped by a volunteer reverses the position. Gratitude can coexist with embarrassment about receiving something offered without repayment. The scene may picture allowing another person to contribute without immediately balancing the exchange. If the help feels intrusive, what matters may be whether you were asked and whether the arrangement preserves your choices. Freely offered help is not automatically suitable help.\n\nAn ending can make the voluntary nature clear. You finish, leave, or discover that another person has taken over, and the contribution remains valued. In contrast, an endless task may picture concern becoming an obligation with no understood limit. Recent community activity, favors, news stories, or memories of shared work can provide ordinary material. The dream need not tell you to give more. It can explore which purpose mattered, what contribution was actually possible, and whether participating allowed the needs of both helpers and recipients to count.", "traditional": "No verified historical volunteer passage is supplied. Charity and Work are related archive topics, but donating money and carrying out labor do not by themselves define freely chosen unpaid participation. The present interpretations are original reflections.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Contribution by choice", "reflection": "A task may feel meaningful because you decide to participate. The scene can clarify the purpose you value without treating participation as a moral requirement." }, { "title": "Willingness with a workable role", "reflection": "Clear direction and shared tasks can turn concern into useful action. A defined contribution may matter more than assuming responsibility for the whole situation." }, { "title": "An ending that respects the offer", "reflection": "Completing or leaving a role can preserve its value. Endless expansion may make the difference between a favor and an obligation visible." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "You choose a small useful task", "reflection": "The contribution is modest but has a clear purpose. This may picture satisfaction in doing what fits your capacity rather than needing to prove commitment through a larger sacrifice." }, { "title": "People assume you will join before asking", "reflection": "The role is described as voluntary but assigned in advance. The scene may expose uncertainty about whether you can decline without losing acceptance." }, { "title": "Several helpers divide the work clearly", "reflection": "Cooperation makes the task manageable. This can picture a shared purpose that does not require one person to carry every practical need." }, { "title": "You arrive willing but nobody knows what is needed", "reflection": "Effort has no clear destination. The scene may make information and coordination more important than simply being available for longer." }, { "title": "A volunteer helps you without requiring repayment", "reflection": "Receiving becomes its own experience. The scene may explore allowing support to count without immediately turning it into a debt, provided your preferences remain respected." }, { "title": "You finish your part and leave calmly", "reflection": "The contribution ends without losing its value. This may picture a limit that allows care, participation and other parts of your life to coexist." } ], "prompts": [ "What made me want to participate, and could I freely decline?", "Was there a clear task that fit my time and ability?", "What counted as a sufficient contribution within the dream?" ], "related": [ "charity", "work", "trust" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "vomit", "title": "Vomit", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of vomiting, is a sign that you will be afflicted with a malady which will threaten invalidism,…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "vomit", "vomiting" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about vomit stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2133", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Vomit", "text": "To dream of vomiting, is a sign that you will be afflicted with a malady\nwhich will threaten invalidism, or you will be connected with a racy scandal.\n\nTo see others vomiting, denotes that you will be made aware of the false\npretenses of persons who are trying to engage your aid.\n\nFor a woman to dream that she vomits a chicken, and it hops off, denotes she\nwill be disappointed in some pleasure by the illness of some relative.\nUnfavorable business and discontent are also predicted.\n\nIf it is blood you vomit, you will find illness a hurried and\nunexpected visitor. You will be cast down with gloomy forebodings,\nand children and domesticity in general will ally to work you discomfort.", "locator": "Heading 2137; source lines 23475–23491", "lineStart": 23475, "lineEnd": 23491, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of vomiting, is a sign that you will be afflicted with a malady\nwhich will threaten invalidism, or you will be connected with a racy scandal.\n\nTo see others vomiting, denotes that you will be made aware of the false\npretenses of persons who are trying to engage your aid.\n\nFor a woman to dream that she vomits a chicken, and it hops off, denotes she\nwill be disappointed in some pleasure by the illness of some relative.\nUnfavorable business and discontent are also predicted.\n\nIf it is blood you vomit, you will find illness a hurried and\nunexpected visitor. You will be cast down with gloomy forebodings,\nand children and domesticity in general will ally to work you discomfort." }, { "id": "fontaine-0836", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Vomiting", "text": "To dream of vomiting is usually a sign of health: if you\nimagine that you vomit up worms, it foretells that you will have good\nluck in preventing a loss, or a robbery. 14, 65.", "locator": "Heading 836; source line 5118", "lineStart": 5118, "lineEnd": 5122, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of vomiting is usually a sign of health: if you\nimagine that you vomit up worms, it foretells that you will have good\nluck in preventing a loss, or a robbery.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Vomiting” is shown on the Vomit page: same topic" }, { "id": "noe-0543", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Vomit", "text": "To dream of vomiting, whether of blood, meat or phlegm,\nsignifies to the poor, profit, to the rich, hurt.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 551; source lines 1980–1981", "lineStart": 1980, "lineEnd": 1981, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of vomiting, whether of blood, meat or phlegm,\nsignifies to the poor, profit, to the rich, hurt." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "vomiting-of-bloud-and-of-cholerick-and-melancholy-humours", "title": "Vomiting of Bloud, and of cholerick and melancholy humours", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Artemidorus wrote: “For to vomit much bloud, and of a good colour, is good for him which is poore, for he shall get store of money.”", "aliases": [ "vomiting of bloud, and of cholerick and melancholy humours", "of vomiting of bloud, and of cholerick and melancholy humours", "vomiting of bloud", "cholerick", "melancholy humours" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about vomiting of bloud, and of cholerick and melancholy humours stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. 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To vomit fleagme (be the humor chollerick or melancholly) is good for him which is in misery, anguish, or sicknesse: for it foretels and end of all his evils, To vomit meate signifyeth hurt: also, to vomit his bowels, foretels the death of children to father and mother, and to them which have no children, the losse of the dearest thing they have among theyr goods: to a sick person it is death.", "locator": "Book 1, encoded section 22", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription-with-gaps", "book": "1", "displayText": "For to vomit much bloud, and of a good colour, is good for him which is poore, for he shall get store of money. It is also very good for him which hath no children, and whose kindred are in a strange Country: the first shall see a childe of his own: the other, his kindred returning home: to carrie Bloud, is not good for him that would be hidden: to vomit corrupt bloud, [illegible passage] [illegible passage] is sicknesse to all: to cast a little bloud in spitting, foretels sedition as I have known by experience. To vomit fleagme (be the humor chollerick or melancholly) is good for him which is in misery, anguish, or sicknesse: for it foretels and end of all his evils, To vomit meate signifyeth hurt: also, to vomit his bowels, foretels the death of children to father and mother, and to them which have no children, the losse of the dearest thing they have among theyr goods: to a sick person it is death." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2134", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Vote", "text": "If you dream of casting a vote on any measure, you will be engulfed\nin a commotion which will affect your community.\n\nTo vote fraudulently, foretells that your dishonesty will overcome\nyour better inclinations.", "locator": "Heading 2138; source lines 23491–23499", "lineStart": 23491, "lineEnd": 23499, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you dream of casting a vote on any measure, you will be engulfed\nin a commotion which will affect your community.\n\nTo vote fraudulently, foretells that your dishonesty will overcome\nyour better inclinations." }, { "id": "fontaine-0837", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Vote", "text": "To dream you are voting, is bad, particularly to a sick person:\nfor a newly married woman to dream of voting, is a sure sign that her\nfirst child will be a boy, who will come to great honors. 9.", "locator": "Heading 837; source line 5122", "lineStart": 5122, "lineEnd": 5126, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are voting, is bad, particularly to a sick person:\nfor a newly married woman to dream of voting, is a sure sign that her\nfirst child will be a boy, who will come to great honors." }, { "id": "noe-0537", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Vote", "text": "To dream you are voting is bad, particularly to sick persons. For\na newly-married woman to dream of voting, is a sure sign her first child\nwill be a boy, who will come to great honors.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 545; source lines 1966–1968", "lineStart": 1966, "lineEnd": 1968, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are voting is bad, particularly to sick persons. For\na newly-married woman to dream of voting, is a sure sign her first child\nwill be a boy, who will come to great honors." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "vow", "title": "Vow", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "aliases": [ "vow" ], "status": "REVIEW", "summary": "A vow can explore the words of a commitment, who chose them, what fulfillment requires and how a promise fits changed circumstances.", "tagline": "A stated commitment has words, an audience and a practical reach.", "psychological": "Making a vow in your own words can give a commitment a particular shape. You may choose a promise you understand rather than repeat a formula whose meaning is unclear. This can resemble wanting an agreement to reflect what you can actually offer. The scene’s tone matters: a freely chosen pledge differs from words demanded before you have time to consider them.\n\nAn audience can add recognition or pressure. Witnesses may make a private intention feel acknowledged, or expect certainty where you still have questions. A religious, wedding or other formal setting can supply personal associations without giving the vow one universal meaning. The useful distinction may concern who the words serve and whether you have room to explain them.\n\nA promise can also acquire an unexpectedly wide reach. You agree to one task and discover that the vow is treated as permission to request everything around it. This can resemble a commitment whose practical limits were never made clear. Clarifying what was promised differs from refusing all responsibility. The dream need not make complete availability the only measure of sincerity.\n\nKeeping one promise while being unable to keep another creates a different problem. Two commitments compete for the same time, resources or attention. The scene may picture needing a sequence, another person’s contribution or a discussion of changed conditions. Difficulty does not establish that you are untrustworthy, and the dream cannot determine what an actual moral or religious obligation requires.\n\nHearing another person’s vow can bring your expectations into view. You may want shared words, a practical demonstration or time to understand what the promise means. An old vow sounding different after circumstances change may likewise invite reflection on how continuity and revision can coexist. A recent ceremony, conversation, story or personal commitment may supply imagery directly. These original possibilities concern stating and living with a promise, distinct from receiving an offer of marriage or handling a ring. They leave the interpretation of actual obligations and another person’s sincerity outside what the dream can verify.", "traditional": "Miller varies forecasts across making, hearing, religiously taking and breaking vows. Fontaine and Noe separately print the same brief adverse judgment about a broken vow; Craig contrasts broken and fulfilled vows through misfortune and success lore. These four complete accounts remain attributed period writing. They do not establish moral character, religious duties or future consequences.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "The words have a chosen meaning", "reflection": "A formula and a personal statement can carry different degrees of understanding and participation." }, { "title": "A commitment has a practical reach", "reflection": "Promising one contribution need not make every surrounding demand part of the same agreement." }, { "title": "Continuity can include discussion", "reflection": "Changed conditions or competing promises can make clarification important without automatically erasing a commitment’s value." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You replace a repeated formula with words you understand", "reflection": "The statement becomes more closely connected to what you intend to offer. This may picture wanting participation rather than mere performance inside a commitment. The chosen wording can matter without requiring every formal phrase to be empty or every personal promise to be sufficient." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Witnesses expect a vow before your questions are answered", "reflection": "Public recognition arrives alongside pressure for completion. This can resemble an agreement moving faster than your understanding of it. Asking for another moment may preserve the importance of the commitment while making room for what the words actually require." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A promise of one task is treated as a promise of everything", "reflection": "The commitment’s reach grows beyond the contribution named. This may picture unclear limits around a useful agreement. Describing what was offered can support responsibility without turning complete availability into the only acceptable proof that you meant the vow." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Two vows require you to be in different places at once", "reflection": "Commitments compete for a resource that cannot serve both at the same time. This can resemble needing another sequence or conversation about changed conditions. The conflict may clarify practical limits without defining your character or deciding which waking obligation must take priority." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Someone makes a vow and you ask what it means in practice", "reflection": "The words are available while their everyday consequences remain unclear. This may picture wanting an understandable agreement rather than reassurance alone. A particular example can make the promise discussable without allowing the dream to verify the speaker’s actual sincerity." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "An old vow uses the same words in a changed setting", "reflection": "Continuity of language meets circumstances that no longer fit every earlier assumption. This can resemble wanting a commitment to remain meaningful through revision or clarification. The changed scene does not automatically cancel the promise or determine how a real vow should be interpreted." } ], "prompts": [ "Which words were chosen, repeated or left unclear?", "What practical contribution did the vow include, and where did its reach change?", "How could changed conditions become discussable without erasing what mattered in the promise?" ], "related": [ "offer-of-marriage", "wedding-ring", "trust", "partnership", "religion" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-2136" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a diagnosis, prediction or another person’s states. miller-2136 — Vow (Heading 2140; source lines 23510–23520): Making/hearing vows receives business/love-unfaithfulness complaints; church vows receive an integrity forecast; breaking/ignoring vows receives adverse dealings forecasts. Religious, moral and personal facts are not established." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0838" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a diagnosis, prediction or another person’s states. fontaine-0838 — Vow (Heading 838; source line 5126): Making and breaking a vow is called bad to all. The record supplies only this short period judgment, not particular consequences." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0535" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a diagnosis, prediction or another person’s states. noe-0535 — Vow (Dream section, heading 543; source lines 1963–1964): Making and breaking a vow is called bad to all, in the same brief formulation as Fontaine. It is separately preserved history, not independent empirical confirmation." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L12413" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a diagnosis, prediction or another person’s states. craig-1918:L12413 — Vow (Printed p. 262; NLM OCR lines 12413–12415): Craig reports broken/fulfilled vow misfortune/success lore under a period tradition label; this is not evidence of moral character or a future result." } ], "updated": "2026-10-14", "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2136", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Vow", "text": "To dream that you are making or listening to vows, foretells complaint will\nbe made against you of unfaithfulness in business, or some love contract.\nTo take the vows of a church, denotes you will bear yourself with unswerving\nintegrity through some difficulty.\n\nTo break or ignore a vow, foretells disastrous consequences\nwill attend your dealings.", "locator": "Heading 2140; source lines 23510–23520", "lineStart": 23510, "lineEnd": 23520, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are making or listening to vows, foretells complaint will\nbe made against you of unfaithfulness in business, or some love contract.\nTo take the vows of a church, denotes you will bear yourself with unswerving\nintegrity through some difficulty.\n\nTo break or ignore a vow, foretells disastrous consequences\nwill attend your dealings." }, { "id": "fontaine-0838", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Vow", "text": "To dream that you have made a vow and broken it, is bad to all.\n21, 78.", "locator": "Heading 838; source line 5126", "lineStart": 5126, "lineEnd": 5129, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you have made a vow and broken it, is bad to all." }, { "id": "noe-0535", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Vow", "text": "To dream that you have\nmade a vow and broken it, is bad to all.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 543; source lines 1963–1964", "lineStart": 1963, "lineEnd": 1964, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you have\nmade a vow and broken it, is bad to all." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12413", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Vow", "heading": "Vow", "text": "If broken, the dream denotes misfortune; fulfilled, success (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12413, "lineEnd": 12415, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 262; NLM OCR lines 12413–12415", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12413, "lineEnd": 12415, "printedPage": 262, "printedPageEnd": 262 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Vow. — If broken, the dream denotes misfortune; fulfilled, \nsuccess (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Vow" }, "displayText": "If broken, the dream denotes misfortune; fulfilled, success (Gypsy)." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "voyage", "title": "Voyage", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To make a voyage in your dreams, foretells that you will receive some inheritance besides that which your…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "voyage" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about voyage stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2137", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Voyage", "text": "To make a voyage in your dreams, foretells that you will receive\nsome inheritance besides that which your labors win for you.\n\nA disastrous voyage brings incompetence, and false loves.", "locator": "Heading 2141; source lines 23520–23527", "lineStart": 23520, "lineEnd": 23527, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To make a voyage in your dreams, foretells that you will receive\nsome inheritance besides that which your labors win for you.\n\nA disastrous voyage brings incompetence, and false loves." }, { "id": "cielo-0454", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Voyage", "text": "Is a sign of a coming event that will alter\n your conditions.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 454; source lines 4960–4963", "lineStart": 4960, "lineEnd": 4963, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Is a sign of a coming event that will alter\nyour conditions." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "vulture", "title": "Vulture", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of vultures, signifies that some scheming person is bent on injuring you, and will not succeed…” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "vulture", "vultures" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about vulture stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. 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Here the symbolism of the Scriptures is obvious; ancient Hebrews held the vulture in abhorrence, while in Egypt it was the symbol of maternity and of the protection of Isis.", "lineStart": 12416, "lineEnd": 12423, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 262; NLM OCR lines 12416–12423", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12416, "lineEnd": 12423, "printedPage": 262, "printedPageEnd": 262 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Vulture. — An evil dream of persons seeking to destroy \nyour reputation, malevolent rivalry, revenge (Gypsy). 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2139", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Wading", "text": "If you wade in clear water while dreaming, you will partake of evanescent,\nbut exquisite joys. If the water is muddy, you are in danger of illness,\nor some sorrowful experiences.\n\nTo see children wading in clear water is a happy prognostication,\nas you will be favored in your enterprises.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of wading in clear foaming water,\nshe will soon gain the desire nearest her heart.\n\n\n[237] See Bathing.", "locator": "Heading 2143; source lines 23546–23561", "lineStart": 23546, "lineEnd": 23561, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you wade in clear water while dreaming, you will partake of evanescent,\nbut exquisite joys. If the water is muddy, you are in danger of illness,\nor some sorrowful experiences.\n\nTo see children wading in clear water is a happy prognostication,\nas you will be favored in your enterprises.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of wading in clear foaming water,\nshe will soon gain the desire nearest her heart. See Bathing." }, { "id": "fontaine-0840", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Wading", "text": "If a girl dreams of wading in clear water, it is a sign that\nshe will soon marry, and be delighted with her husband’s embraces: if\nshe imagines that the water is rily or muddy, it foretells that she\nwill enjoy the pleasures of illicit love. If a man dreams of wading,\nit denotes that he will be engaged in some intrigue with a female—the\ndeeper the water, the more difficult the realization of his wishes:\nmuddy water denotes loose women. 20, 16.", "locator": "Heading 840; source line 5132", "lineStart": 5132, "lineEnd": 5140, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If a girl dreams of wading in clear water, it is a sign that\nshe will soon marry, and be delighted with her husband’s embraces: if\nshe imagines that the water is rily or muddy, it foretells that she\nwill enjoy the pleasures of illicit love. If a man dreams of wading,\nit denotes that he will be engaged in some intrigue with a female—the\ndeeper the water, the more difficult the realization of his wishes:\nmuddy water denotes loose women." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12424", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Wading", "heading": "Wading", "text": "For a girl to dream of wading in clear water denotes a speedy marriage; in muddy water, illicit connections (Raphael).", "lineStart": 12424, "lineEnd": 12427, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 262; NLM OCR lines 12424–12427", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12424, "lineEnd": 12427, "printedPage": 262, "printedPageEnd": 262 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Wading. — For a girl to dream of wading in clear water de- \nnotes a speedy marriage; in muddy water, illicit connections \n(Raphael). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "de- \nnotes", "after": "denotes", "evidenceLine": 7951 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Wading" }, "displayText": "For a girl to dream of wading in clear water denotes a speedy marriage; in muddy water, illicit connections (Raphael)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "bath" ] }, { "slug": "wafer", "title": "Wafer", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Wafer, if seen in a dream, purports an encounter with enemies.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "wafer" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about wafer stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2141", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Wafer", "text": "Wafer, if seen in a dream, purports an encounter with enemies.\nTo eat one, suggests impoverished fortune.\n\nFor a young woman to bake them, denotes that she will be tormented\nand distressed by fears of remaining in the unmarried state.", "locator": "Heading 2145; source lines 23566–23574", "lineStart": 23566, "lineEnd": 23574, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Wafer, if seen in a dream, purports an encounter with enemies.\nTo eat one, suggests impoverished fortune.\n\nFor a young woman to bake them, denotes that she will be tormented\nand distressed by fears of remaining in the unmarried state." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12428", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Wafer", "heading": "Wafer", "text": "Good news close at hand (Gypsy). Despite the universally evil interpretation given to men of the church, the consecrated objects of the worship seem to be held in a certain reverence.", "lineStart": 12428, "lineEnd": 12432, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 262; NLM OCR lines 12428–12432", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12428, "lineEnd": 12432, "printedPage": 262, "printedPageEnd": 262 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Wafer. — Good news close at hand (Gypsy). Despite the \nuniversally evil interpretation given to men of the church, the \nconsecrated objects of the worship seem to be held in a certain \nreverence. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Wafer" }, "displayText": "Good news close at hand (Gypsy). Despite the universally evil interpretation given to men of the church, the consecrated objects of the worship seem to be held in a certain reverence." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "wager", "title": "Wager", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of making a wager, signifies that you will resort to dishonest means to forward your schemes.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "wager" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about wager stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2142", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Wager", "text": "To dream of making a wager, signifies that you will resort to dishonest\nmeans to forward your schemes.\n\nIf you lose a wager, you will sustain injury from base connections\nwith those out of your social sphere.\n\nTo win one, reinstates you in favor with fortune.\n\nIf you are not able to put up a wager, you will be discouraged\nand prostrated by the adverseness of circumstances.", "locator": "Heading 2146; source lines 23574–23587", "lineStart": 23574, "lineEnd": 23587, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of making a wager, signifies that you will resort to dishonest\nmeans to forward your schemes.\n\nIf you lose a wager, you will sustain injury from base connections\nwith those out of your social sphere.\n\nTo win one, reinstates you in favor with fortune.\n\nIf you are not able to put up a wager, you will be discouraged\nand prostrated by the adverseness of circumstances." }, { "id": "noe-0569", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Wager", "text": "To dream you have laid a wager on some matter in dispute, or on\nsome event that has to come off, denotes that you are in danger of being\nsubjected to a serious accident, and that through the interposition and\ncourage of a friend you are permitted to escape with only a slight injury.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 577; source lines 2074–2078", "lineStart": 2074, "lineEnd": 2078, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you have laid a wager on some matter in dispute, or on\nsome event that has to come off, denotes that you are in danger of being\nsubjected to a serious accident, and that through the interposition and\ncourage of a friend you are permitted to escape with only a slight injury." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "wages", "title": "Wages", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Wages, if received in dreams, brings unlooked for good to persons engaging in new enterprises.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "wages" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about wages stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2143", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Wages", "text": "Wages, if received in dreams, brings unlooked for good to persons\nengaging in new enterprises.\n\nTo pay out wages, denotes that you will be confounded by dissatisfaction.\n\nTo have your wages reduced, warns you of unfriendly interest\nthat is being taken against you.\n\nAn increase of wages, suggests unusual profit in any undertaking.", "locator": "Heading 2147; source lines 23587–23599", "lineStart": 23587, "lineEnd": 23599, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Wages, if received in dreams, brings unlooked for good to persons\nengaging in new enterprises.\n\nTo pay out wages, denotes that you will be confounded by dissatisfaction.\n\nTo have your wages reduced, warns you of unfriendly interest\nthat is being taken against you.\n\nAn increase of wages, suggests unusual profit in any undertaking." }, { "id": "noe-0570", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Wages", "text": "For a workingman to dream that he has had his wages reduced,\nsignifies that he is about to be removed to a more lucrative situation. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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If she drives\nacross a clear stream of water, she will enjoy adventure without\nbringing opprobrium upon herself.\n\nA broken wagon represents distress and failure.", "locator": "Heading 2148; source lines 23599–23627", "lineStart": 23599, "lineEnd": 23627, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a wagon, denotes that you will be unhappily mated,\nand many troubles will prematurely age you.\n\nTo drive one down a hill, is ominous of proceedings which will fill\nyou with disquiet, and will cause you loss.\n\nTo drive one up hill, improves your worldly affairs.\n\nTo drive a heavily loaded wagon, denotes that duty will hold you\nin a moral position, despite your efforts to throw her off.\n\nTo drive into muddy water, is a gruesome prognostication,\nbringing you into a vortex of unhappiness and fearful foreboding.\n\nTo see a covered wagon, foretells that you will be encompassed\nby mysterious treachery, which will retard your advancement.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she drives a wagon near\na dangerous embankment, portends that she will be driven\ninto an illicit entanglement, which will fill her with terror,\nlest she be openly discovered and ostracised. If she drives\nacross a clear stream of water, she will enjoy adventure without\nbringing opprobrium upon herself.\n\nA broken wagon represents distress and failure." }, { "id": "cielo-0455", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Wagon", "text": "Denotes ease and pleasure.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 455; source lines 4963–4966", "lineStart": 4963, "lineEnd": 4966, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Denotes ease and pleasure." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12433", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Wagon", "heading": "Wagon", "text": "See Cart.", "lineStart": 12433, "lineEnd": 12434, "kind": "cross-reference", "locator": "Printed p. 262; NLM OCR lines 12433–12434", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12433, "lineEnd": 12434, "printedPage": 262, "printedPageEnd": 262 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Wagon. — See Cart. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Wagon" }, "displayText": "See Cart." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2145", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Wagtail", "text": "To see a wagtail in a dream, foretells that you will be the victim\nof unpleasant gossip, and your affairs will develop unmistakable loss.", "locator": "Heading 2149; source lines 23627–23632", "lineStart": 23627, "lineEnd": 23632, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a wagtail in a dream, foretells that you will be the victim\nof unpleasant gossip, and your affairs will develop unmistakable loss." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2146", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Waif", "text": "To dream of a waif, denotes personal difficulties, and especial\nill-luck in business.", "locator": "Heading 2150; source lines 23632–23637", "lineStart": 23632, "lineEnd": 23637, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a waif, denotes personal difficulties, and especial\nill-luck in business." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2147", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Wail", "text": "A wail falling upon your ear while in the midst of a dream,\nbrings fearful news of disaster and woe.\n\nFor a young woman to hear a wail, foretells that she will be deserted\nand left alone in distress, and perchance disgrace.\n\n\n[238] See Weeping.", "locator": "Heading 2151; source lines 23637–23648", "lineStart": 23637, "lineEnd": 23648, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "A wail falling upon your ear while in the midst of a dream,\nbrings fearful news of disaster and woe.\n\nFor a young woman to hear a wail, foretells that she will be deserted\nand left alone in distress, and perchance disgrace. See Weeping." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "weeping" ] }, { "slug": "waist-and-shirt-waist", "title": "Waist and Shirt-Waist", "type": "dreams", "category": "Other symbols", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a round full waist, denotes that you will be favored by an agreeable dispensation of fortune.”", "aliases": [ "waist and shirt-waist" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about waist and shirt-waist stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2148", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Waist and Shirt-Waist", "text": "To dream of a round full waist, denotes that you will be favored\nby an agreeable dispensation of fortune.\n\nA small, unnatural waist, foretells displeasing success\nand recriminating disputes.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of a nice, ready-made shirt-waist, denotes\nthat she will win admiration through her ingenuity and pleasing manners.\n\nTo dream that her shirt-waist is torn, she will be censured for her\nillicit engagements. If she is trying on a shirt-waist, she will encounter\nrivalry in love, but if she succeeds in adjusting the waist to her person,\nshe will successfully combat the rivalry and win the object of her love.", "locator": "Heading 2152; source lines 23648–23664", "lineStart": 23648, "lineEnd": 23664, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a round full waist, denotes that you will be favored\nby an agreeable dispensation of fortune.\n\nA small, unnatural waist, foretells displeasing success\nand recriminating disputes.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of a nice, ready-made shirt-waist, denotes\nthat she will win admiration through her ingenuity and pleasing manners.\n\nTo dream that her shirt-waist is torn, she will be censured for her\nillicit engagements. If she is trying on a shirt-waist, she will encounter\nrivalry in love, but if she succeeds in adjusting the waist to her person,\nshe will successfully combat the rivalry and win the object of her love." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2149", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Waiter", "text": "To dream of a waiter, signifies you will be pleasantly entertained\nby a friend. To see one cross or disorderly, means offensive people\nwill thrust themselves upon your hospitality.", "locator": "Heading 2153; source lines 23664–23670", "lineStart": 23664, "lineEnd": 23670, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a waiter, signifies you will be pleasantly entertained\nby a friend. To see one cross or disorderly, means offensive people\nwill thrust themselves upon your hospitality." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "waiting-at-a-baggage-carousel", "title": "Waiting at a baggage carousel", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "A baggage carousel can make arrival feel incomplete while you wait for the things you expected to travel with you.", "summary": "A baggage carousel can make arrival feel incomplete while you wait for the things you expected to travel with you.", "aliases": [ "baggage carousel dream", "suitcase never arriving at airport" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "Notice what you believed was in the missing bag and whether you could leave without it. The scene may concern delayed arrival, dependence on an impersonal system, or simply a recent travel experience. Do not assume every bag represents emotional baggage. Being surrounded by other people collecting their possessions can add comparison: your journey may feel unfinished even when others seem ready to move on.", "traditional": "Older luggage and journey entries predate modern baggage systems. This draft does not apply a loss omen to the carousel; it focuses on the particular relationship between arrival, possessions, and onward plans.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "Everyone collects a bag except you", "reflection": "What became harder when other people appeared ready to leave?" }, { "title": "Your bag appears with someone else’s label", "reflection": "What evidence helped you decide what was yours?" }, { "title": "You leave a claim and continue without it", "reflection": "What did you truly need immediately, and what could wait?" } ], "prompts": [ "What did you believe you could not continue without?", "Was anyone waiting for you outside the baggage area?", "How did the delay change the meaning of arriving?" ], "related": [ "luggage", "traveling" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia model-assisted editorial draft. Reflection questions and scenario readings are optional, individually written suggestions, not empirically validated symbol meanings. Source scope is stated with each citation. Historical comparisons identify topics, not inherited interpretations. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "wake", "title": "Wake", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you attend a wake, denotes that you will sacrifice some important engagement to enjoy some…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "wake" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about wake stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2150", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Wake", "text": "To dream that you attend a wake, denotes that you will sacrifice\nsome important engagement to enjoy some ill-favored assignation.\n\nFor a young woman to see her lover at a wake, foretells that she\nwill listen to the entreaties of passion, and will be persuaded\nto hazard honor for love.", "locator": "Heading 2154; source lines 23670–23679", "lineStart": 23670, "lineEnd": 23679, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you attend a wake, denotes that you will sacrifice\nsome important engagement to enjoy some ill-favored assignation.\n\nFor a young woman to see her lover at a wake, foretells that she\nwill listen to the entreaties of passion, and will be persuaded\nto hazard honor for love." }, { "id": "fontaine-0841", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Wake", "text": "To dream of going to a wake where drinking and howling is\ngoing on, is a sign of poverty and misery: if a girl dreams this, it\nforetells her speedy marriage with a man who will turn out to be a\nmiserable drunkard. If a young man dreams of seeing his sweetheart at a\nwake, he had better back out from the bargain, as she will never be of\nmuch account, and may become a drunkard. 8.", "locator": "Heading 841; source line 5140", "lineStart": 5140, "lineEnd": 5147, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of going to a wake where drinking and howling is\ngoing on, is a sign of poverty and misery: if a girl dreams this, it\nforetells her speedy marriage with a man who will turn out to be a\nmiserable drunkard. If a young man dreams of seeing his sweetheart at a\nwake, he had better back out from the bargain, as she will never be of\nmuch account, and may become a drunkard." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12435", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Wake", "heading": "Wake", "text": "To dream of attending, denotes scandalous assertions (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12435, "lineEnd": 12437, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 262; NLM OCR lines 12435–12437", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12435, "lineEnd": 12437, "printedPage": 262, "printedPageEnd": 262 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Wake. — To dream of attending, denotes scandalous asser- \ntions (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "asser- \ntions", "after": "assertions", "evidenceLine": 901 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Wake" }, "displayText": "To dream of attending, denotes scandalous assertions (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "walk", "title": "Walk", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Book of Luck wrote: “(Alone and slowly) A sign of poverty and sadness: (fast) success in a desired object: (through fire) danger: (on water or on the sea)…”", "aliases": [ "walk" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about walk stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "luck-0238", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Walk", "text": "(Alone and slowly) A sign of poverty and sadness: (fast)\nsuccess in a desired object: (through fire) danger: (on water or on\nthe sea) bad luck: (with somebody else) enjoyment of comfort and\ncompanionship: (girl to walk with her lover) a comfortable and happy\nmarriage.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 238; source lines 4144–4150", "lineStart": 4144, "lineEnd": 4150, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(Alone and slowly) A sign of poverty and sadness: (fast)\nsuccess in a desired object: (through fire) danger: (on water or on\nthe sea) bad luck: (with somebody else) enjoyment of comfort and\ncompanionship: (girl to walk with her lover) a comfortable and happy\nmarriage." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "guide-65367", "title": "Guide to Fortune-Telling by Dreams", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Multum in Parvo Library, Vol. I, No. 10, October 1894", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65367", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2151", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Walking", "text": "To dream of walking through rough brier, entangled paths, denotes that you\nwill be much distressed over your business complications, and disagreeable\nmisunderstandings will produce coldness and indifference.\n\nTo walk in pleasant places, you will be the possessor of fortune and favor.\n\nTo walk in the night brings misadventure, and unavailing\nstruggle for contentment.\n\nFor a young woman to find herself walking rapidly in her dreams,\ndenotes that she will inherit some property, and will possess\na much desired object.\n\n\n[239] See Wading.", "locator": "Heading 2155; source lines 23679–23697", "lineStart": 23679, "lineEnd": 23697, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of walking through rough brier, entangled paths, denotes that you\nwill be much distressed over your business complications, and disagreeable\nmisunderstandings will produce coldness and indifference.\n\nTo walk in pleasant places, you will be the possessor of fortune and favor.\n\nTo walk in the night brings misadventure, and unavailing\nstruggle for contentment.\n\nFor a young woman to find herself walking rapidly in her dreams,\ndenotes that she will inherit some property, and will possess\na much desired object. See Wading." }, { "id": "fontaine-0842", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Walking", "text": "To dream you are walking in a dirty and muddy place,\nforetells sickness and vexation: in love, it denotes bad temper and\ndisappointment. 47.", "locator": "Heading 842; source line 5147", "lineStart": 5147, "lineEnd": 5151, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are walking in a dirty and muddy place,\nforetells sickness and vexation: in love, it denotes bad temper and\ndisappointment." }, { "id": "noe-0546", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Walking", "text": "To dream one is walking in the dirt, or among thorns,\nsignifies sickness. To dream one is walking in the water, or some torrent,\nsignifies adversity and grief.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 554; source lines 1986–1988", "lineStart": 1986, "lineEnd": 1988, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream one is walking in the dirt, or among thorns,\nsignifies sickness. To dream one is walking in the water, or some torrent,\nsignifies adversity and grief." }, { "id": "guide-0042", "sourceId": "guide-65367", "heading": "Walking", "text": "To dream you are walking in a dirty, muddy place foretells\nsickness and vexation; to the lover it denotes your sweetheart to be\nbad tempered and unfaithful; to the tradesman it foretells dishonest\nservants, and loss of goods by fire.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 42; source lines 364–369", "lineStart": 364, "lineEnd": 369, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are walking in a dirty, muddy place foretells\nsickness and vexation; to the lover it denotes your sweetheart to be\nbad tempered and unfaithful; to the tradesman it foretells dishonest\nservants, and loss of goods by fire." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12438", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Walking", "heading": "Walking", "text": "In the dirt, sickness ; in water, grief ; in the night, trouble (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12438, "lineEnd": 12440, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 262; NLM OCR lines 12438–12440", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12438, "lineEnd": 12440, "printedPage": 262, "printedPageEnd": 262 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Walking. — In the dirt, sickness ; in water, grief ; in the \nnight, trouble (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Walking" }, "displayText": "In the dirt, sickness; in water, grief; in the night, trouble (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "wading" ] }, { "slug": "walking-stick", "title": "Walking Stick", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see a walking stick in a dream, foretells you will enter into contracts without proper deliberation, and will consequently suffer reverses.”", "aliases": [ "walking stick" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about walking stick stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2152", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Walking Stick", "text": "To see a walking stick in a dream, foretells you will enter into contracts\nwithout proper deliberation, and will consequently suffer reverses.\nIf you use one in walking, you will be dependent upon the advice of others.\nTo admire handsome ones, you will entrust your interest to others,\nbut they will be faithful.", "locator": "Heading 2156; source lines 23697–23705", "lineStart": 23697, "lineEnd": 23705, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a walking stick in a dream, foretells you will enter into contracts\nwithout proper deliberation, and will consequently suffer reverses.\nIf you use one in walking, you will be dependent upon the advice of others.\nTo admire handsome ones, you will entrust your interest to others,\nbut they will be faithful." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "wallet", "title": "Wallet", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "aliases": [ "wallet" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "summary": "Wallet dreams may explore access to personal items, what you choose to carry and how a private container is kept or entrusted.", "tagline": "What you carry, keep and can reach.", "psychological": "A wallet gathers small personal items into something you carry. In a dream, its significance may lie in access and arrangement rather than in the amount of money it holds. Start with what you need from it: a card, a receipt, a photograph, cash or simply the wallet itself. The scene may concern identification, a transaction, a memory or the practical annoyance of finding the right compartment.\n\nIf you open the wallet at a crucial moment, notice whether its contents fit the task. An old card might no longer work; a needed item might be buried behind things you kept for other reasons. This could resemble maintaining routines or tools after your circumstances change. A waking comparison might be trying to use an outdated document or discovering that a familiar process requires something new. The dream does not predict financial trouble or identity loss.\n\nSorting a wallet can focus on what earns a place in daily life. You may remove receipts, keep a small reminder or find that everything has been organized for you. These choices can invite reflection on usefulness, attachment and privacy. An object that another person considers unnecessary might matter to you because of its history. Conversely, carrying something out of habit does not mean you must continue to keep it.\n\nLoss and recovery can be explored through the actual sequence. Where did you last use the wallet, what became unavailable and what did you do next? A search may involve retracing steps, asking someone or finding an alternative. If another person holds it for you, the scene could concern entrusting private belongings or accepting practical help. It does not establish whether anyone is trustworthy in waking life.\n\nA wallet's appearance can also be familiar for straightforward reasons. You may remember an older one, a gift or a pocket you checked recently. Waking experiences and emotions can enter dreams, and an ordinary errand may account for the image. Record the item you sought, the access you had and the choice that followed. The useful question may be about keeping a personal arrangement current or protecting a preference, rather than treating every wallet as a universal symbol of wealth or self-worth.", "traditional": "Miller’s supplied Wallet passage predicts pleasant responsibilities from seeing wallets and unfavorable results from an old or soiled one. It does not develop a general theory of lost identification, spending or privacy. The passage is preserved as an attributed period belief, not evidence about finances, character or future events; the reflections here explore the dream’s own actions and contents.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Access at the needed moment", "reflection": "Consider which item you were trying to reach and what made it available or unavailable. The task may help you identify a practical comparison without forecasting loss." }, { "title": "Carrying by choice", "reflection": "Sorting contents can distinguish what is useful now from what you keep for personal reasons. Neither a full nor an empty wallet measures your worth." }, { "title": "Private belongings and assistance", "reflection": "Who handles the wallet can affect the scene’s sense of privacy or convenience. Explore permission and response without judging the real person’s reliability from a dream." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "The card you need is behind old receipts", "reflection": "You open the wallet during a transaction and must sort through saved papers to find the right card. This might resemble a useful item becoming hard to reach within an outdated arrangement. Notice whether you reorganize, ask for time or use another option; inconvenience does not forecast financial trouble." }, { "title": "An old card no longer fits the task", "reflection": "You confidently offer a card, then discover that the dream’s process requires something different. The scene could help you reflect on a routine that has changed while your preparation stayed familiar. Explore how you respond and what information you need rather than treating it as identity loss." }, { "title": "You keep a small photograph while sorting", "reflection": "You remove several unnecessary items but choose to leave a photograph in place. This may bring practical use and personal attachment into the same decision. Record whose image it is and why you keep it in the dream; the choice need not imply unresolved grief or dependence." }, { "title": "Someone offers to hold your wallet", "reflection": "A person suggests keeping the wallet while your hands are occupied. The scene might focus on permission, convenience or privacy. Notice what you agree to and whether you want it back afterward; the dream cannot establish the person’s real trustworthiness or reveal an intention to take anything." }, { "title": "You retrace an ordinary route to find it", "reflection": "After noticing the wallet is missing, you revisit places where you used it. This could invite reflection on reconstructing a sequence rather than assuming a mysterious loss. Describe what each stop makes available and whether you ask for help, find it or choose an alternative way forward." }, { "title": "A found wallet contains none of your things", "reflection": "You recover a wallet that looks right, but its contents belong to someone else. The scene may distinguish recognizing a container from recognizing what makes it yours. Explore whether you return it, search again or use its appearance as a clue; it does not prove confusion about your waking identity." } ], "prompts": [ "Which item or use made the wallet matter at that moment?", "How were access, privacy or permission handled in the dream?", "What do its contents connect with in your present routines or personal memories?" ], "related": [ "money", "credit-card", "passport", "purse" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-2153" ], "scope": "Miller predicts pleasant responsibilities from seeing wallets and unfavorable results from an old or soiled one. Specific supplied passages: Wallet — miller-2153 (Heading 2157; source lines 23705–23711). Historical comparison only; these attributed period beliefs do not establish outcomes, diagnoses or a universal symbol meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "kind": "editorial", "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2153", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Wallet", "text": "To see wallets in a dream, foretells burdens of a pleasant\nnature will await your discretion as to assuming them.\nAn old or soiled one, implies unfavorable results from your labors.", "locator": "Heading 2157; source lines 23705–23711", "lineStart": 23705, "lineEnd": 23711, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see wallets in a dream, foretells burdens of a pleasant\nnature will await your discretion as to assuming them.\nAn old or soiled one, implies unfavorable results from your labors." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "walls", "title": "Walls", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "6 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you find a wall obstructing your progress, you will surely succumb to ill-favored influences…” Compare 6 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "walls", "wall" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about walls stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2154", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Walls", "text": "To dream that you find a wall obstructing your progress,\nyou will surely succumb to ill-favored influences and lose\nimportant victories in your affairs.\n\nTo jump over it, you will overcome obstacles and win your desires.\nTo force a breach in a wall, you will succeed in the attainment\nof your wishes by sheer tenacity of purpose.\n\nTo demolish one, you will overthrow your enemies.\nTo build one, foretells that you will carefully lay plans\nand will solidify your fortune to the exclusion of failure,\nor designing enemies.\n\nFor a young woman to walk on top of a wall, shows that her future\nhappiness will soon be made secure. For her to hide behind\na wall, denotes that she will form connections that she will\nbe ashamed to acknowledge. If she walks beside a base wall.\nshe will soon have run the gamut of her attractions, and will\nlikely be deserted at a precarious time.", "locator": "Heading 2158; source lines 23711–23733", "lineStart": 23711, "lineEnd": 23733, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you find a wall obstructing your progress,\nyou will surely succumb to ill-favored influences and lose\nimportant victories in your affairs.\n\nTo jump over it, you will overcome obstacles and win your desires.\nTo force a breach in a wall, you will succeed in the attainment\nof your wishes by sheer tenacity of purpose.\n\nTo demolish one, you will overthrow your enemies.\nTo build one, foretells that you will carefully lay plans\nand will solidify your fortune to the exclusion of failure,\nor designing enemies.\n\nFor a young woman to walk on top of a wall, shows that her future\nhappiness will soon be made secure. For her to hide behind\na wall, denotes that she will form connections that she will\nbe ashamed to acknowledge. If she walks beside a base wall.\nshe will soon have run the gamut of her attractions, and will\nlikely be deserted at a precarious time." }, { "id": "fontaine-0843", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Walls", "text": "To dream you are walking on, or climbing over walls, denotes\nsome dangerous enterprise, trouble, and vexation: if you get down\nwithout the wall falling, or hurting yourself, you will succeed; if\nnot, be disappointed. 71, 4.", "locator": "Heading 843; source line 5151", "lineStart": 5151, "lineEnd": 5156, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are walking on, or climbing over walls, denotes\nsome dangerous enterprise, trouble, and vexation: if you get down\nwithout the wall falling, or hurting yourself, you will succeed; if\nnot, be disappointed." }, { "id": "noe-0559", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Walls", "text": "To dream you are walking on a crazy, old and narrow wall,\ndenotes that you will engage in some very dangerous enterprise that will\ncause you much trouble and vexation. If you get down without hurting\nyourself, or the wall’s falling, then you will succeed. If the wall should\nfall whilst you are upon it, you will be disappointed. If you are walking\nbetween walls and the passage is very narrow and difficult, you will be\nengaged in some quarrel, or disagreeable affair, from which it will\nrequire great circumspection and caution on your part to disengage\nyourself. But if you get from between them safe, you will settle well in\nlife, marry an agreeable partner, have children and become rich and happy.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 567; source lines 2022–2032", "lineStart": 2022, "lineEnd": 2032, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are walking on a crazy, old and narrow wall,\ndenotes that you will engage in some very dangerous enterprise that will\ncause you much trouble and vexation. If you get down without hurting\nyourself, or the wall’s falling, then you will succeed. If the wall should\nfall whilst you are upon it, you will be disappointed. If you are walking\nbetween walls and the passage is very narrow and difficult, you will be\nengaged in some quarrel, or disagreeable affair, from which it will\nrequire great circumspection and caution on your part to disengage\nyourself. But if you get from between them safe, you will settle well in\nlife, marry an agreeable partner, have children and become rich and happy." }, { "id": "cielo-0456", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Wall", "text": "Seeing a wall over which you cannot climb\n means prosperity after much effort.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 456; source lines 4966–4969", "lineStart": 4966, "lineEnd": 4969, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Seeing a wall over which you cannot climb\nmeans prosperity after much effort." }, { "id": "luck-0239", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Wall", "text": "Many obstacles in realizing a future plan: (climbing over or\ndestroying) obstacles successfully surmounted: (jumping over) joy and\nhappiness.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 239; source lines 4150–4154", "lineStart": 4150, "lineEnd": 4154, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Many obstacles in realizing a future plan: (climbing over or\ndestroying) obstacles successfully surmounted: (jumping over) joy and\nhappiness." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12441", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Walls", "heading": "Walls", "text": "To dream of them as an impassable barrier denotes difficulties in the family; narrow walls denote danger; to ascend without injury denotes success (Raphael).", "lineStart": 12441, "lineEnd": 12444, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 262; NLM OCR lines 12441–12444", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12441, "lineEnd": 12444, "printedPage": 262, "printedPageEnd": 262 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Walls. — To dream of them as an impassable barrier de- \nnotes difficulties in the family; narrow walls denote danger; \nto ascend without injury denotes success (Raphael). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "de- \nnotes", "after": "denotes", "evidenceLine": 7951 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Walls" }, "displayText": "To dream of them as an impassable barrier denotes difficulties in the family; narrow walls denote danger; to ascend without injury denotes success (Raphael)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "walnut", "title": "Walnut", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of walnuts, is an omen significant of prolific joys and favors.” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "walnut", "walnuts" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about walnut stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. 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If you have children, your\neldest son will marry a woman who will make him very unhappy. In love, it\nforetells infidelity and disappointment. To the seaman, storms and\nshipwreck. To the tradesman, loss of goods and reputation through a\nconfidential servant.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 574; source lines 2057–2062", "lineStart": 2057, "lineEnd": 2062, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of walnuts,\nportends difficulties and misfortunes in life. If you have children, your\neldest son will marry a woman who will make him very unhappy. In love, it\nforetells infidelity and disappointment. To the seaman, storms and\nshipwreck. To the tradesman, loss of goods and reputation through a\nconfidential servant." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12445", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Walnuts", "heading": "Walnuts", "text": "To see or eat them, a sign of trouble and difficulty (Artemidorus).", "lineStart": 12445, "lineEnd": 12451, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 262–263; NLM OCR lines 12445–12451", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12445, "lineEnd": 12451, "printedPage": 262, "printedPageEnd": 263 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Walnuts. — To see or eat them, a sign of trouble and dif- \nficulty (Artemidorus). \n\n\nSYMBOLISM IN DREAMS 263 \n\n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [ { "line": 12449, "text": "SYMBOLISM IN DREAMS 263 " } ], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "dif- \nficulty", "after": "difficulty", "evidenceLine": 1079 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Walnuts" }, "displayText": "To see or eat them, a sign of trouble and difficulty (Artemidorus)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L12452", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Walrus", "heading": "Walrus", "text": "To dream of a walrus denotes a wasted life (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12452, "lineEnd": 12454, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 263; NLM OCR lines 12452–12454", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12452, "lineEnd": 12454, "printedPage": 263, "printedPageEnd": 263 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Walrus. — To dream of a walrus denotes a wasted life \n(Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Walrus" }, "displayText": "To dream of a walrus denotes a wasted life (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "waltz", "title": "Waltz", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see the waltz danced, foretells that you will have pleasant relations with a cheerful and adventuresome…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "waltz" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about waltz stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2156", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Waltz", "text": "To see the waltz danced, foretells that you will have pleasant\nrelations with a cheerful and adventuresome person.\n\nFor a young woman to waltz with her lover, denotes that she will be\nthe object of much admiration, but none will seek her for a wife.\nIf she sees her lover waltzing with a rival, she will overcome\nobstacles to her desires with strategy. If she waltzes with\na woman, she will be loved for her virtues and winning ways.\nIf she sees persons whirling in the waltz as if intoxicated,\nshe will be engulfed so deeply in desire and pleasure that it\nwill be a miracle if she resists the impassioned advances of her\nlover and male acquaintances.", "locator": "Heading 2160; source lines 23744–23759", "lineStart": 23744, "lineEnd": 23759, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see the waltz danced, foretells that you will have pleasant\nrelations with a cheerful and adventuresome person.\n\nFor a young woman to waltz with her lover, denotes that she will be\nthe object of much admiration, but none will seek her for a wife.\nIf she sees her lover waltzing with a rival, she will overcome\nobstacles to her desires with strategy. If she waltzes with\na woman, she will be loved for her virtues and winning ways.\nIf she sees persons whirling in the waltz as if intoxicated,\nshe will be engulfed so deeply in desire and pleasure that it\nwill be a miracle if she resists the impassioned advances of her\nlover and male acquaintances." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12455", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Waltz", "heading": "Waltz", "text": "A dream denoting wasted time (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12455, "lineEnd": 12456, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 263; NLM OCR lines 12455–12456", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12455, "lineEnd": 12456, "printedPage": 263, "printedPageEnd": 263 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Waltz. — A dream denoting wasted time (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Waltz" }, "displayText": "A dream denoting wasted time (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "waltzing", "title": "Waltzing", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “To dream you are waltzing with some agreeable partner, is an indication that you will be subjected to some unpleasant treatment from one from…”", "aliases": [ "waltzing" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about waltzing stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "noe-0572", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Waltzing", "text": "To dream\nyou are waltzing with some agreeable partner, is an indication that you\nwill be subjected to some unpleasant treatment from one from whom you\nexpected nothing but kindness.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 580; source lines 2084–2087", "lineStart": 2084, "lineEnd": 2087, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream\nyou are waltzing with some agreeable partner, is an indication that you\nwill be subjected to some unpleasant treatment from one from whom you\nexpected nothing but kindness." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "want", "title": "Want", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are in want, denotes that you have unfortunately ignored the realities of life, and…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "want" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about want stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2157", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Want", "text": "To dream that you are in want, denotes that you have unfortunately\nignored the realities of life, and chased folly to her stronghold\nof sorrow and adversity.\n\nIf you find yourself contented in a state of want, you will bear\nthe misfortune which threatens you with heroism, and will see\nthe clouds of misery disperse.\n\nTo relieve want, signifies that you will be esteemed for your\ndisinterested kindness, but you will feel no pleasure in well doing.", "locator": "Heading 2161; source lines 23759–23772", "lineStart": 23759, "lineEnd": 23772, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are in want, denotes that you have unfortunately\nignored the realities of life, and chased folly to her stronghold\nof sorrow and adversity.\n\nIf you find yourself contented in a state of want, you will bear\nthe misfortune which threatens you with heroism, and will see\nthe clouds of misery disperse.\n\nTo relieve want, signifies that you will be esteemed for your\ndisinterested kindness, but you will feel no pleasure in well doing." }, { "id": "noe-0551", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Want", "text": "For a person to dream that he or she comes to sudden\nwant in temporal things, denotes that an unexpected good fortune awaits\nthem by the death of a wealthy relative or the success of some speculation\nor business bargain.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 559; source lines 2001–2004", "lineStart": 2001, "lineEnd": 2004, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a person to dream that he or she comes to sudden\nwant in temporal things, denotes that an unexpected good fortune awaits\nthem by the death of a wealthy relative or the success of some speculation\nor business bargain." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "war", "title": "War", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "Name your position within the conflict before looking for a metaphor.", "summary": "War dreams may revisit witnessed images, memories, or questions about safety and allegiance. Your role in the scene gives it context.", "aliases": [ "war", "battle", "soldier", "soldiers", "of warre, of the army, and election of men at armes" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "War can be a literal part of memory, family history, work, or recently encountered news. Begin with that context rather than assuming the scene hides an internal battle. Were you a civilian, a soldier, an observer, someone seeking shelter, or a person trying to bring others home? A distant event and a conflict at your own door create different relationships to the scene.\n\nIf a comparison with waking conflict seems useful, keep it specific. An argument, a divided group, or pressure to take sides may resemble one aspect of the dream. That does not make an ordinary disagreement equivalent to war or prove that you secretly want confrontation. The imagery may also come from a film, game, historical account, or an experience whose meaning is already direct.\n\nNotice the actions available to you. Carrying supplies, searching for a relative, obeying an order, refusing a role, and negotiating a passage each center a different question. Who defined the sides, and did those labels make sense? A scene that demands allegiance may invite reflection on belonging or authority, while a scene about protecting someone may focus on care and limits.\n\nThe ending matters even if no resolution arrives. A ceasefire, reunion, escape, or continued uncertainty can leave different feelings. Record what safety looked like and whether you could recognize everyday life beyond the conflict. A war dream does not forecast violence or establish anyone's political intentions. You may describe it carefully without forcing painful or unfamiliar events into a tidy symbolic explanation.", "traditional": "Miller's War entry maps war and defeat onto unfavorable business and domestic conditions, while assigning favorable outcomes to victory. Fontaine's 1862 War passage associates marching troops and battle with family quarrels, making a visible battle an especially public dispute. These supplied examples show historical dictionary writers converting large-scale conflict into forecasts about household and commercial life.\n\nThat conversion is a period interpretive practice, not evidence that every war dream stands for an argument or predicts unrest. It can also obscure a dreamer's real exposure to war and the specificity of personal or inherited memories. This entry's original questions begin with role, setting, available action, and what safety meant in the scene. A person taking part and a person searching for shelter should not be given the same account merely because conflict surrounds them. The old forecasts do not establish the future of a family, business, or country.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "You seek shelter with unfamiliar people", "reflection": "The scene may center shared safety rather than taking sides. Notice how trust develops and whether resources are shared. A question about cooperation may fit, but recent reporting or personal memory can be direct context without further symbolism.", "slug": "scene-1" }, { "title": "You receive an order you do not understand", "reflection": "Unclear authority may shape the experience more than combat itself. What are you expected to do, and can you ask or refuse? The scene can invite reflection on obligation without revealing a hidden desire for confrontation or obedience.", "slug": "scene-2" }, { "title": "You search for someone after a ceasefire", "reflection": "Reconnection may be the central action once immediate conflict stops. Record whether the search ends and what ordinary detail makes the place recognizable. The dream may hold a wish for continuity without predicting a reunion or a person's circumstances.", "slug": "scene-3" } ], "prompts": [ "What real images or memories could place war in this dream?", "Which role was assigned to me, and what choices remained?", "What did safety or ordinary life look like beyond the conflict?" ], "related": [ "nuclear-war", "apocalypse", "being-attacked", "house" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "scope": "Historical comparison only: War — miller-2158, Heading 2162; source lines 23772–23787. These period beliefs do not establish a dream meaning or prediction.", "recordIds": [ "miller-2158" ] }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "scope": "Historical comparison only: War — fontaine-0845, Heading 845; source line 5159. These period beliefs do not establish a dream meaning or prediction.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0845" ] }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." }, { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display.", "recordIds": [ "artemidorus-093" ], "scope": "Attached historical material only: Of Warre, of the Army, and Election of men at Armes. — artemidorus-093 (Book 2, encoded section 93). The passage assigns different outcomes to war, military equipment, and recruiting soldiers, varying its forecasts by occupation and circumstances. This citation preserves the attributed archival material; it does not substantiate the original modern reflection or establish a present-day outcome." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0547" ], "scope": "Attached historical material only: War — noe-0547 (Dream section, heading 555; source lines 1988–1989). War is assigned trouble and danger. This citation preserves the attributed archival material; it does not substantiate the original modern reflection or establish a present-day outcome." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0457" ], "scope": "Attached historical material only: War — cielo-0457 (Dream section, heading 457; source lines 4969–4971). War is assigned peace and prosperity. This citation preserves the attributed archival material; it does not substantiate the original modern reflection or establish a present-day outcome." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L12457" ], "scope": "Attached historical material only: War — craig-1918:L12457 (Printed p. 263; NLM OCR lines 12457–12458). Craig records danger of persecution as a war-dream forecast. This citation preserves the attributed archival material; it does not substantiate the original modern reflection or establish a present-day outcome." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia expansion written for this topic. Historical passages are attributed period beliefs; modern reflections are possibilities rather than established meanings. Human publication review pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2158", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "War", "text": "To dream of war, foretells unfortunate conditions in business,\nand much disorder and strife in domestic affairs.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that her lover goes to war, denotes that she\nwill hear of something detrimental to her lover's character.\n\nTo dream that your country is defeated in war, is a sign that it\nwill suffer revolution of a business and political nature.\nPersonal interest will sustain a blow either way.\n\nIf of victory you dream, there will be brisk activity along business lines,\nand domesticity will be harmonious.", "locator": "Heading 2162; source lines 23772–23787", "lineStart": 23772, "lineEnd": 23787, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of war, foretells unfortunate conditions in business,\nand much disorder and strife in domestic affairs.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that her lover goes to war, denotes that she\nwill hear of something detrimental to her lover's character.\n\nTo dream that your country is defeated in war, is a sign that it\nwill suffer revolution of a business and political nature.\nPersonal interest will sustain a blow either way.\n\nIf of victory you dream, there will be brisk activity along business lines,\nand domesticity will be harmonious." }, { "id": "fontaine-0845", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "War", "text": "To dream that war exists, and that you see bodies of troops\nmarching, foretells quarrels and troubles in your family, if you have\none, and if not, among your relatives: if you imagine you see a battle,\nthe omen is still worse, as the quarrel will probably become public and\nnotorious. 4, 6, 24.", "locator": "Heading 845; source line 5159", "lineStart": 5159, "lineEnd": 5165, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that war exists, and that you see bodies of troops\nmarching, foretells quarrels and troubles in your family, if you have\none, and if not, among your relatives: if you imagine you see a battle,\nthe omen is still worse, as the quarrel will probably become public and\nnotorious." }, { "id": "artemidorus-093", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of Warre, of the Army, and Election of men at Armes.", "text": "WAr, and affayres of war, are troubles and anger to all, excepting Captains and souldiers, and such as live by it, for to such it is gaine. Arms which cover the body are great surety, as the Buckler, Helmet, Corslet, and such like: other which one tosses and brandishes, as the Pike, the Lance, the Arrow and Dart, signifye debate and sedition: the Woodknife or Sword, is courage, force, and vertue: the Buckler and Helmet, have also reference to the wife, who shall be eyther fayre and rich, or poore and ill favoured, according to the quality of the harnesse. To chuse men of war or souldiers to the battaile, is death to those which are some way sick, and often to old folkes: to others it is businesse and angers, change of place, flights and voyages, to the idle and poore, it is work and profit, which shall befall them, for the souldier is not idle, nor without praise: to a servant it is honour and estimation.", "locator": "Book 2, encoded section 93", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "2", "displayText": "WAr, and affayres of war, are troubles and anger to all, excepting Captains and souldiers, and such as live by it, for to such it is gaine. Arms which cover the body are great surety, as the Buckler, Helmet, Corslet, and such like: other which one tosses and brandishes, as the Pike, the Lance, the Arrow and Dart, signifye debate and sedition: the Woodknife or Sword, is courage, force, and vertue: the Buckler and Helmet, have also reference to the wife, who shall be eyther fayre and rich, or poore and ill favoured, according to the quality of the harnesse. To chuse men of war or souldiers to the battaile, is death to those which are some way sick, and often to old folkes: to others it is businesse and angers, change of place, flights and voyages, to the idle and poore, it is work and profit, which shall befall them, for the souldier is not idle, nor without praise: to a servant it is honour and estimation.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Warre, of the Army, and Election of men at Armes” is shown on the War page: artemidorus war section" }, { "id": "noe-0547", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "War", "text": "To dream of war and affairs of war,\nsignifies trouble and danger.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 555; source lines 1988–1989", "lineStart": 1988, "lineEnd": 1989, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of war and affairs of war,\nsignifies trouble and danger." }, { "id": "cielo-0457", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "War", "text": "To dream of war denotes peace and prosperity.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 457; source lines 4969–4971", "lineStart": 4969, "lineEnd": 4971, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of war denotes peace and prosperity." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12457", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "War", "heading": "War", "text": "A dream warning of danger of persecution (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12457, "lineEnd": 12458, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 263; NLM OCR lines 12457–12458", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12457, "lineEnd": 12458, "printedPage": 263, "printedPageEnd": 263 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "War. — A dream warning of danger of persecution (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "War" }, "displayText": "A dream warning of danger of persecution (Gypsy)." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "warbling", "title": "Warbling", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “Of birds, assured success (Gypsy).”", "aliases": [ "warbling" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about warbling stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. 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OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L12459", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Warbling", "heading": "Warbling", "text": "Of birds, assured success (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12459, "lineEnd": 12460, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 263; NLM OCR lines 12459–12460", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12459, "lineEnd": 12460, "printedPage": 263, "printedPageEnd": 263 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Warbling. — Of birds, assured success (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Warbling" }, "displayText": "Of birds, assured success (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "moles-71045", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams and Moles", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "United Kingdom, J. Marshall, 1805", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71045", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. 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If a woman dream she\nis washing clothes, it is a sign she will hear good news within\ntwenty-four hours." }, { "id": "noe-0548", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Washing", "text": "For a man to dream he washes or\nbathes himself in baths or hot-houses, signifies riches, prosperity and\nhealth to the sick. But to dream he washes or bathes himself contrary to\nthe common custom, or in his clothes, is evil and betokeneth sickness and\ngreat danger. To dream that you were in fountains, ponds or current water,\nand in fair and clear floods, is good, but not that you swim, for that is\na sign of danger and sickness. Washing is a sure sign of removal.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 556; source lines 1989–1996", "lineStart": 1989, "lineEnd": 1996, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a man to dream he washes or\nbathes himself in baths or hot-houses, signifies riches, prosperity and\nhealth to the sick. But to dream he washes or bathes himself contrary to\nthe common custom, or in his clothes, is evil and betokeneth sickness and\ngreat danger. To dream that you were in fountains, ponds or current water,\nand in fair and clear floods, is good, but not that you swim, for that is\na sign of danger and sickness. Washing is a sure sign of removal." }, { "id": "cielo-0458", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Washing", "text": "Washing your clothes denotes that a\n misunderstanding will soon pass away.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 458; source lines 4971–4974", "lineStart": 4971, "lineEnd": 4974, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Washing your clothes denotes that a\nmisunderstanding will soon pass away." }, { "id": "moles-0012", "sourceId": "moles-71045", "heading": "Washing", "originalHeading": "(no printed heading)", "text": "To dream you are washing your hands, and the dirt comes clean off,\nsignifies you shall perform some great enterprize.", "locator": "Dreams interpreted, passage 12; source lines 144–145", "lineStart": 144, "lineEnd": 145, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "editorialNote": "The 1805 text prints this passage without a heading; DreamFolia files it under “Washing” because that is the subject of its first clause.", "displayText": "To dream you are washing your hands, and the dirt comes clean off,\nsignifies you shall perform some great enterprize." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12464", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Washing", "heading": "Washing", "text": "To dream of washing oneself denotes good after an illness, a change for the better (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12464, "lineEnd": 12466, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 263; NLM OCR lines 12464–12466", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12464, "lineEnd": 12466, "printedPage": 263, "printedPageEnd": 263 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Washing. — To dream of washing oneself denotes good \nafter an illness, a change for the better (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Washing" }, "displayText": "To dream of washing oneself denotes good after an illness, a change for the better (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "wash-bowl", "bath" ] }, { "slug": "washing-machine", "title": "Washing machine", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "A recurring cycle can give work a boundary or keep its ending out of reach.", "summary": "A washing machine dream can explore delegation, shared capacity and a recurring task’s completion. The load and cycle shape the reading.", "aliases": [ "washing machine", "washing machines" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A washing machine carries part of an everyday task through an organized cycle. In a dream, this can picture handing a routine over to a process while keeping a role in preparing, checking or completing it. A household arrangement, administrative task or shared system may offer a parallel. Relief can come from work having a usable structure, rather than from all responsibility disappearing.\n\nLoading makes selection important. You choose what belongs together, what can wait and how much the arrangement can accommodate. This can resemble deciding which tasks fit one period or which commitments should remain separate. A manageable load can express a workable boundary. Trying to include everything at once may make completion harder even when each item matters.\n\nA cycle that restarts can picture a task whose endpoint keeps moving. One stage finishes only for another correction or requirement to begin. You may recognize work that never becomes available for use because it remains in preparation. The difficulty can concern the arrangement's definition of complete, not simply impatience with ordinary waiting.\n\nBelongings mixed across people can make shared responsibility unclear. Something entrusted to the process returns as your task, or your own things become difficult to identify. This can fit a group system in which ownership is lost as work passes through it. An unexpected result may feel useful or disappointing according to what you needed the cycle to provide.\n\nA shared machine always occupied by someone else makes support available in principle while access remains uncertain. A clear turn can change the experience without requiring a separate resource for every participant. Finishing one load before adding another can picture completion that leaves room for future work. Recent chores and remembered objects may also supply the imagery directly. These original readings concern capacity, delegation and a usable endpoint, not moral purity, health, appliance repair or a prediction about household events.", "traditional": "No exact Washing Machine passage is supplied. Laundry and Washing preserve historical garment/body-washing accounts with their own forecasts. This original entry focuses on the machine’s shared capacity and recurring cycle, without transferring those predictions or offering real-use instructions.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A process you can delegate to", "reflection": "The machine can picture support with preparation and follow-through still attached. Handing over one stage need not mean surrendering your place in the task." }, { "title": "A load that fits", "reflection": "Selection can make limited capacity useful. The scene may distinguish something manageable now from a demand to include every valued item or responsibility at once." }, { "title": "Completion that stays recognizable", "reflection": "A restarting cycle can expose an endpoint that keeps changing. A usable finish matters when work is meant to return to ordinary activity rather than remain permanently in preparation." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You finish loading and finally have time for another task", "reflection": "Finishing the load and turning to another task can picture a useful handover within a routine. A shared system may let your attention move without abandoning the work. The process provides support while a later stage still has an understood place." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "The cycle restarts each time it seems complete", "reflection": "A repeatedly restarting cycle can picture preparation that never counts as complete. Revised requirements or recurring corrections may fit. The concern may be the moving endpoint rather than unwillingness to give an ordinary task enough time." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Someone’s belongings are mixed with yours", "reflection": "Mixed belongings can resemble a shared process that leaves ownership unclear. You may be asked to sort what was not originally your responsibility. A clear agreement can make the same cooperation feel manageable rather than permanently entangled." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "The finished load comes back in an unexpected form", "reflection": "An unexpected finished load can picture a process changing something beyond what you intended to delegate. The result may be useful or feel unlike yours. What you wanted returned helps distinguish welcome transformation from a mismatch." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A shared machine is always occupied by another person", "reflection": "An occupied shared machine can picture a resource that exists but is hard to access when needed. A schedule or agreed turn may matter more than its availability alone. The dream can make coordination part of the practical task." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You choose a manageable load rather than everything at once", "reflection": "A chosen manageable load can picture giving a routine enough room to finish. Tasks deferred may remain valuable without belonging in this cycle. The boundary can support completion rather than signify that you care less about what waits." } ], "prompts": [ "What did I hand over, and what part remained mine to complete?", "How was the load selected and its capacity shared?", "What made the cycle count as finished or begin again?" ], "related": [ "laundry", "cleaning", "clothes", "washing" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "wasp", "title": "Wasp", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "aliases": [ "wasp", "wasps" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "summary": "A wasp can explore room around a shared resource, a hidden interruption, or the gap between another person’s alarm and your own response.", "tagline": "A small visitor can make the terms of access suddenly important.", "psychological": "A wasp near the food at a gathering can picture a boundary that needs attention while the occasion continues. You may want to protect an ordinary activity without allowing one interruption to organize the entire group. A conversation becoming tense over a practical issue can offer a parallel. Moving a glass or changing where people sit differs from ending the gathering; the visitor does not prove that someone there is an enemy.\n\nA wasp under an overturned glass can make containment feel temporarily useful while leaving the next step unresolved. The situation may seem controlled, yet another route is needed before the object can be used again. A paused argument or a task put aside can have a similar structure. Restoring access is different from keeping the interruption indefinitely enclosed.\n\nHearing a wasp before finding it can make anticipation interrupt work. You know that something is nearby but cannot yet respond to its location. An unclear request or background concern may feel similar. Discovering that it is beyond a closed window changes what is required; the sound alone had left several possibilities open.\n\nA wasp inside equipment you need can instead create a very particular delay. The helmet, bag or tool may be ordinary, but its immediate use no longer feels straightforward. A neglected practical check may fit this comparison without turning the animal into a forecast of injury. Time spent making the arrangement usable can support the activity you actually want.\n\nIf others panic while you feel able to give the wasp space, the scene can concern different thresholds for participation. Explaining an arrangement may be more useful than persuading everyone to feel identically. A wasp leaving without a sting can let a feared sequence stop before its anticipated ending. Pictures, outdoor meals or an actual encounter may supply direct context. These original readings follow proximity, access and coordinated response, without equating a sting with envy, treating calm as superior or claiming that the dream establishes a real threat.", "traditional": "Miller, Noe, Everybody’s Book of Luck and Craig connect wasps or stings with adverse enemy claims; Cielo gives annoyance/disappointment. Fontaine instead predicts abundance and a favorable marriage from a mud-wasp sting, with a Sting reference. These six conflicting period accounts do not establish envy, relationships, danger or an outcome.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A boundary serves the continuing occasion", "reflection": "Adjusting access around a resource can protect the purpose without making the interruption the whole event." }, { "title": "Containment is a temporary arrangement", "reflection": "Pausing a problem can create time while leaving a route or explanation still needed." }, { "title": "Different responses need coordination", "reflection": "Participants can need another arrangement without agreeing on the same level of alarm." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A wasp hovers near food during a gathering", "reflection": "An ordinary occasion needs a practical boundary. This may picture an interruption whose response should leave room for the gathering itself. Changing where the food is placed can differ from ending participation, without treating the creature or another guest as an enemy." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A wasp is trapped under the glass you want to use", "reflection": "Containment helps briefly while keeping a resource unavailable. This can resemble a paused conflict or deferred task. Finding another route may resolve more than leaving the problem enclosed; the scene does not decide that every restriction is either protective or harmful." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You hear a wasp but discover it beyond a closed window", "reflection": "Anticipation changes when the actual location becomes clear. This may picture a background concern requiring less intervention than expected. Information can restore use of the room without proving that your initial caution was wrong or that every unclear sound needs immediate action." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A wasp is inside equipment needed for your next activity", "reflection": "A small detail delays a particular action. This can fit a tool or process needing attention before use. Making the arrangement workable preserves your purpose; the dream does not establish an actual hazard or predict what will happen during the activity." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Others panic while you want to make room around the wasp", "reflection": "Participants have different conditions for remaining involved. This may picture explaining a practical boundary without requiring identical feelings. A shared arrangement can be useful while uncertainty remains; neither alarm nor ease proves someone’s character or judgment correct in waking life." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The wasp leaves before the sting you anticipated", "reflection": "An expected sequence does not reach its imagined ending. This can resemble discovering that a difficult encounter can stop without further escalation. Relief may matter through that interruption, without treating the departure as a promise that real conflicts will resolve themselves." } ], "prompts": [ "What part of the occasion did you want the boundary to preserve?", "Which information or route was still needed after the situation was contained?", "How could different responses share a workable arrangement?" ], "related": [ "bees", "sting", "insects", "picnic" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-2167" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. miller-2167 — Wasp (Heading 2171; source lines 23862–23871): Seeing, stings and killing receive enemy/envy/rights forecasts." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0849" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. fontaine-0849 — Wasp (Heading 849; source line 5182): Includes See Sting, predicts abundance particularly for growers, and a favorable marriage from a girl’s mud-wasp sting." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0554" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. noe-0554 — Wasps (Dream section, heading 562; source lines 2010–2011): A wasp sting predicts vexation/trouble from envious people." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0459" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. cielo-0459 — Wasps (Dream section, heading 459; source lines 4974–4976): Briefly predicts annoyance and disappointment." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0241" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. luck-0241 — Wasps (Dream section, heading 241; source lines 4157–4159): Predicts troubles from envious people." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L12467" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. craig-1918:L12467 — Wasps (Printed p. 263; NLM OCR lines 12467–12469): Reports an Artemidorus-attributed envious-enemy interpretation of a sting." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection independently reviewed for content and source scope. Historical accounts remain attributed period writing. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2167", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Wasp", "text": "Wasps, if seen in dreams, denotes that enemies will scourge\nand spitefully villify you.\n\nIf one stings you, you will feel the effect of envy and hatred.\nTo kill them, you will be able to throttle your enemies,\nand fearlessly maintain your rights.", "locator": "Heading 2171; source lines 23862–23871", "lineStart": 23862, "lineEnd": 23871, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Wasps, if seen in dreams, denotes that enemies will scourge\nand spitefully villify you.\n\nIf one stings you, you will feel the effect of envy and hatred.\nTo kill them, you will be able to throttle your enemies,\nand fearlessly maintain your rights." }, { "id": "fontaine-0849", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Wasp", "text": "(_See Sting._) To dream of wasps denotes thrift and abundance,\nparticularly to farmers and those who have fruit-trees. If a girl\ndreams that she is stung by a mud-wasp, it foretells that she will\nmarry a gentleman who will love her dearly. 62, 18.", "locator": "Heading 849; source line 5182", "lineStart": 5182, "lineEnd": 5187, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Sting.) To dream of wasps denotes thrift and abundance,\nparticularly to farmers and those who have fruit-trees. If a girl\ndreams that she is stung by a mud-wasp, it foretells that she will\nmarry a gentleman who will love her dearly." }, { "id": "noe-0554", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Wasps", "text": "To dream that you are stung by wasps, signifies\nvexation and trouble by envious persons.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 562; source lines 2010–2011", "lineStart": 2010, "lineEnd": 2011, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are stung by wasps, signifies\nvexation and trouble by envious persons." }, { "id": "cielo-0459", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Wasps", "text": "Are a sign of annoyance and disappointment.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 459; source lines 4974–4976", "lineStart": 4974, "lineEnd": 4976, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Are a sign of annoyance and disappointment." }, { "id": "luck-0241", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Wasps", "text": "Vexation and troubles caused by envious persons.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 241; source lines 4157–4159", "lineStart": 4157, "lineEnd": 4159, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Vexation and troubles caused by envious persons." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12467", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Wasps", "heading": "Wasps", "text": "To dream of being stung by wasps, a dream denoting envious enemies (Artemidorus).", "lineStart": 12467, "lineEnd": 12469, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 263; NLM OCR lines 12467–12469", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12467, "lineEnd": 12469, "printedPage": 263, "printedPageEnd": 263 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Wasps. — To dream of being stung by wasps, a dream denot- \ning envious enemies (Artemidorus). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "denot- \ning", "after": "denoting", "evidenceLine": 9090 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Wasps" }, "displayText": "To dream of being stung by wasps, a dream denoting envious enemies (Artemidorus)." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [ "sting" ] }, { "slug": "waste", "title": "Waste", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of wandering through waste places, foreshadows doubt and failure, where promise of success was…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "waste" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about waste stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2168", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Waste", "text": "To dream of wandering through waste places, foreshadows doubt and failure,\nwhere promise of success was bright before you.\n\nTo dream of wasting your fortune, denotes you will be unpleasantly\nencumbered with domestic cares.", "locator": "Heading 2172; source lines 23871–23879", "lineStart": 23871, "lineEnd": 23879, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of wandering through waste places, foreshadows doubt and failure,\nwhere promise of success was bright before you.\n\nTo dream of wasting your fortune, denotes you will be unpleasantly\nencumbered with domestic cares." }, { "id": "fontaine-0850", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Waste", "text": "To dream of waste is a sign of beggary, provided you are the\ncause of the waste; but if you feel bad and try to prevent it, the omen\nis one of losses, which may not end in beggary. 29, 17.", "locator": "Heading 850; source line 5187", "lineStart": 5187, "lineEnd": 5191, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of waste is a sign of beggary, provided you are the\ncause of the waste; but if you feel bad and try to prevent it, the omen\nis one of losses, which may not end in beggary." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "watch", "title": "Watch", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "aliases": [ "watch", "wristwatch", "wristwatches", "wrist watch", "wrist watches", "pocket watch", "pocket watches" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "summary": "Watch dreams may explore a chosen reference for time, its usefulness, and the terms of carrying or receiving a personal object.", "tagline": "A timepiece can guide an action without deciding its meaning.", "psychological": "A watch in this entry is a timepiece you carry, wear, receive or consult. In a dream, it may give a reference for an event while also remaining a personal object with a particular history. Begin with what you need it for and whether you can use it. The supplied detailed accounts concern that object; merely watching something is a different activity and does not establish this subject.\n\nChecking a watch can bring a shared expectation into view. You may look for confirmation that a meeting should begin, while others continue under another understanding. This could resemble needing agreement about a reference rather than simply moving faster. Comparing information, asking about the arrangement or deciding what you can do while waiting gives the scene different directions. The displayed number does not predict a date or reveal how much time you have in life.\n\nThe watch’s physical fit can create another task. A broken strap may leave you holding something normally carried without attention, or a face may show marks you cannot interpret. This can picture a useful reference requiring a new method of handling or reading it. A familiar process at work or home may offer a comparison if its conditions have changed. The question concerns what would make the object usable for this purpose.\n\nAn inherited or gifted watch can have value beyond its display. You may appreciate its connection with someone while preferring another way to organize the occasion. Accepting the object does not require adopting every expectation around its use. A dream gift can make gratitude and preference available together without proving anything about the real giver’s intention or calling for a particular response outside the dream.\n\nPutting the watch away can also give its role an ending. A task may be complete, or you may choose to spend an interval without consulting the display. That can resemble a reference having served its purpose rather than a rejection of responsibility. Remembered watches, a recent appointment or an ordinary glance at your wrist may supply direct context. These original comparisons follow use, agreement and the object’s personal history; an imagined fault or loss does not forecast business results, illness or another person’s reliability.", "traditional": "Miller gives timepiece fortunes for seeing, checking, damage, loss, theft and gifts. Fontaine’s gold-watch account assigns different fortunes to buying, receiving and losing it and points to Clock. Cielo mentions disappointment and using time; Everybody’s Book of Luck and Craig provide short gain or success claims with little scene detail. These are attributed period beliefs, not established deadlines, investment guidance or predictions.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A reference people can share", "reflection": "Consulting the display can matter through what is meant to happen next. Explore how agreement about the occasion relates to the information the watch provides." }, { "title": "A useful object under changed conditions", "reflection": "Its strap, face or position can affect how you carry and read it. The practical adjustment may be more informative than assigning damage a fixed meaning." }, { "title": "Personal value and chosen use", "reflection": "A gift or inherited watch can retain a connection while you choose how to use it. Gratitude, memory and preference can have room within the same encounter." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "The display advances while the meeting waits", "reflection": "You check the watch as the expected gathering remains undecided. This could focus on an arrangement needing agreement beyond a displayed time. Asking what the others expect, finding a useful activity or choosing to leave gives the interval different purposes rather than measuring your personal worth." }, { "title": "A broken strap leaves the watch in your hand", "reflection": "You want to carry on with an activity but must find another way to keep the watch available. The scene may picture a familiar reference needing a practical adjustment. Putting it safely aside, changing its place or accepting help can make the next task workable within the dream." }, { "title": "An inherited watch has an unfamiliar face", "reflection": "You recognize who owned the object, but its marks are different from the display you expected. This can bring a valued connection beside a new reading task. Asking how it works or keeping it for its history allows memory and usefulness to have different places." }, { "title": "Two timepieces disagree about the occasion", "reflection": "Your watch and the clock in the room show different times, while people prepare to begin. This could explore how a shared task needs an agreed reference. Comparing information, asking about the plan or proceeding under another arrangement makes the disagreement usable without turning it into a prediction." }, { "title": "You put the watch away after finishing", "reflection": "The activity reaches an ending, and you stop checking the display before joining something else. This may let you explore a reference having served its purpose. Notice what becomes available afterward and whether the pause feels chosen; putting an object aside need not mean abandoning responsibility." }, { "title": "A gifted watch arrives with suggested instructions", "reflection": "Someone offers a watch and describes exactly how they hope you will use it. This could put appreciation beside your own preference about the occasion. Asking about the suggestion, choosing another use or keeping the object for its connection gives the exchange more than one possible response." } ], "prompts": [ "What did you need the timepiece to make possible?", "How did its condition or reference relate to the arrangement around you?", "What personal memory, gift or recent occasion gives this particular watch its context?" ], "related": [ "clock", "calendar", "appointment" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-2169" ], "scope": "Miller explicitly describes a timepiece, its time, crystal, breakage, loss, theft and gift, assigning business, reputation and domestic fortunes. Specific supplied passages: Watch — miller-2169 (Heading 2173; source lines 23879–23895). Historical comparison only; the attributed period claims do not establish outcomes or diagnoses and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0851" ], "scope": "Fontaine describes buying, receiving and losing a gold timepiece with different poverty or business fortunes and points to Clock. Specific supplied passages: Watch — fontaine-0851 (Heading 851; source line 5191). Historical comparison only; the attributed period claims do not establish outcomes or diagnoses and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0460" ], "scope": "Cielo assigns disappointment and a caution about the use of time to Watch; no detailed object scene is supplied. Specific supplied passages: Watch — cielo-0460 (Dream section, heading 460; source lines 4976–4979). Historical comparison only; the attributed period claims do not establish outcomes or diagnoses and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0242" ], "scope": "Everybody’s Book of Luck supplies only a short gains, money and prosperity claim under Watch, without independent scene detail. Specific supplied passages: Watch — luck-0242 (Dream section, heading 242; source lines 4159–4161). Historical comparison only; the attributed period claims do not establish outcomes or diagnoses and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L12470" ], "scope": "Craig supplies only a brief success claim under Watch with her historical ethnic attribution; the passage does not describe the watching verb or a specific object scene. Specific supplied passages: Watch — craig-1918:L12470 (Printed p. 263; NLM OCR lines 12470–12471). Historical comparison only; the attributed period claims do not establish outcomes or diagnoses and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "kind": "editorial", "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2169", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Watch", "text": "To dream of a watch, denotes you will be prosperous in\nwell-directed speculations. To look at the time of one,\nyour efforts will be defeated by rivalry. To break one,\nthere will be distress and loss menacing you.\n\nTo drop the crystal of one, foretells carelessness,\nor unpleasant companionship. For a woman to lose one,\nsignifies domestic disturbances will produce unhappiness.\nTo imagine you steal one, you will have a violent enemy who will\nattack your reputation.\n\nTo make a present of one, denotes you will suffer your interest\nto decline in the pursuance of undignified recreations.", "locator": "Heading 2173; source lines 23879–23895", "lineStart": 23879, "lineEnd": 23895, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a watch, denotes you will be prosperous in\nwell-directed speculations. To look at the time of one,\nyour efforts will be defeated by rivalry. To break one,\nthere will be distress and loss menacing you.\n\nTo drop the crystal of one, foretells carelessness,\nor unpleasant companionship. For a woman to lose one,\nsignifies domestic disturbances will produce unhappiness.\nTo imagine you steal one, you will have a violent enemy who will\nattack your reputation.\n\nTo make a present of one, denotes you will suffer your interest\nto decline in the pursuance of undignified recreations." }, { "id": "fontaine-0851", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Watch", "text": "(_See Clock._) If you dream of buying a gold watch, it is a\nsign of poverty; but if you imagine that you are presented with one,\nit foretells good luck and money-getting: to dream of losing your gold\nwatch is also a good omen, as it denotes success in business. 42, 11.", "locator": "Heading 851; source line 5191", "lineStart": 5191, "lineEnd": 5196, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Clock.) If you dream of buying a gold watch, it is a\nsign of poverty; but if you imagine that you are presented with one,\nit foretells good luck and money-getting: to dream of losing your gold\nwatch is also a good omen, as it denotes success in business." }, { "id": "cielo-0460", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Watch", "text": "To dream of a watch means disappointment, and\n is a caution to use your time to better advantage.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 460; source lines 4976–4979", "lineStart": 4976, "lineEnd": 4979, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a watch means disappointment, and\nis a caution to use your time to better advantage." }, { "id": "luck-0242", "sourceId": "luck-55082", "heading": "Watch", "text": "Gains, money, prosperity.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 242; source lines 4159–4161", "lineStart": 4159, "lineEnd": 4161, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Gains, money, prosperity." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12470", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Watch", "heading": "Watch", "text": "A good dream, success (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12470, "lineEnd": 12471, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 263; NLM OCR lines 12470–12471", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12470, "lineEnd": 12471, "printedPage": 263, "printedPageEnd": 263 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Watch. — A good dream, success (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Watch" }, "displayText": "A good dream, success (Gypsy)." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [ "clock" ] }, { "slug": "watching-yourself-in-a-dream", "title": "Watching yourself in a dream", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "Seeing yourself as if from outside can invite reflection on perspective, distance, or recognition without deciding what it signifies.", "summary": "Seeing yourself as if from outside can invite reflection on perspective, distance, or recognition without deciding what it signifies.", "aliases": [ "third person dream", "seeing yourself from outside in a dream" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "Describe the viewpoint before interpreting it. Were you watching a version of yourself on a stage, moving through a room, or acting like a character in a film? Distance can feel protective, alienating, funny, or simply normal within the dream. A third-person viewpoint during sleep does not establish a waking dissociative condition. Notice whether you could understand the observed self’s feelings or only judge their actions.", "traditional": "Images of doubles and souls leaving bodies appear in varied traditions, but this page does not collapse them into one explanation. Seeing yourself from outside is described as dream perspective, with any spiritual reading kept separate.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "You watch yourself make a difficult choice", "reflection": "Were you compassionate toward that version of you or more critical than usual?" }, { "title": "The observed self does not notice you", "reflection": "Did that distance feel like freedom, exclusion, or ordinary storytelling?" }, { "title": "You move back into the scene", "reflection": "What becomes possible when you participate again?" } ], "prompts": [ "Where was the viewpoint in relation to your dreamed body?", "Could you feel what the observed person felt?", "Whose standards shaped your reaction to what you saw?" ], "related": [ "mirror", "the-self" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia model-assisted editorial draft. Reflection questions and scenario readings are optional, individually written suggestions, not empirically validated symbol meanings. Source scope is stated with each citation. Historical comparisons identify topics, not inherited interpretations. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "watchman", "title": "Watchman", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “To dream of calling in one, gives confidence: to see a person taken to prison by a watchman, shows that…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "watchman" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about watchman stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0852", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Watchman", "text": "To dream of calling in one, gives confidence: to see a\nperson taken to prison by a watchman, shows that you must be careful\nin conducting your business. If the watchman take hold of you, it is a\nvery good sign. To see many watchmen together, signifies the loss of\nmoney. 67, 52.", "locator": "Heading 852; source line 5196", "lineStart": 5196, "lineEnd": 5202, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of calling in one, gives confidence: to see a\nperson taken to prison by a watchman, shows that you must be careful\nin conducting your business. If the watchman take hold of you, it is a\nvery good sign. To see many watchmen together, signifies the loss of\nmoney." }, { "id": "cielo-0461", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Watchman", "text": "To see a watchman denotes a trifling loss.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 461; source lines 4979–4981", "lineStart": 4979, "lineEnd": 4981, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a watchman denotes a trifling loss." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12472", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Watchman", "heading": "Watchman", "text": "Loss through thieves, a dream of warning (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12472, "lineEnd": 12474, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 263; NLM OCR lines 12472–12474", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12472, "lineEnd": 12474, "printedPage": 263, "printedPageEnd": 263 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Watchman. — Loss through thieves, a dream of warning \n(Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Watchman" }, "displayText": "Loss through thieves, a dream of warning (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "water", "title": "Water", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "The water's conditions make a changing situation something you can feel.", "summary": "Water can picture emotional intensity, uncertain depth, or changing control. Its movement and your way of entering it shape the interpretation.", "aliases": [ "water" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "Water can give physical form to an emotional situation: something you are moving through, being supported by, or struggling to contain. A calm pool may fit a sense of spaciousness, while turbulent water can resemble competing demands or a conversation that keeps changing direction. The connection comes from the experience of the water, not a rule that water always means emotion. Calmness can feel empty, and waves can feel exhilarating when you welcome their energy.\n\nA current makes control a central question. Being carried downstream can picture circumstances moving faster than your ability to choose: a new job that rapidly expands, family plans made around you, or a change already underway. Swimming with the current may instead suggest cooperation with that movement. Floating comfortably can represent trusting support or allowing yourself a break from directing everything. The difference is whether the motion feels chosen, manageable, or imposed.\n\nDepth and visibility can express uncertainty. Clear water lets you see where you might step; muddy water hides the footing, so every move requires more trust. This can fit making a decision with incomplete information, such as accepting a role whose expectations remain unclear. Deep water may picture an unfamiliar experience that requires more than your usual skills. Being able to swim changes that reading from helplessness toward confidence in handling what you cannot fully see.\n\nWater crossing a boundary can suggest that a concern no longer stays where you intended to keep it. An overflowing sink or water rising through a house gives a concrete shape to work spilling into evenings, private tension affecting a shared space, or several small demands becoming difficult to contain. Chosen immersion is different: entering a bath or pool can picture willingness to engage with something you previously watched from a distance.\n\nCrossing a river places a desired change on the far bank. The dream may join wanting a new situation with uncertainty about how to reach it. Moving to another city, leaving a familiar routine, or approaching a difficult conversation could fit the image. A bridge, companion, or boat represents an available means within the scene; being unable to cross can center missing preparation or support rather than lack of desire.\n\nDrinking, washing, or resting beside water can suggest replenishment rather than a challenge. Refreshing water may fit a wish for simpler needs to be met after a demanding period; washing can picture setting down the residue of a task or encounter. A familiar swimming place may also be a straightforward memory. Recent weather, household tasks, travel, and water sounds can contribute directly to the scene, so a symbolic reading is strongest when its particular action resembles your experience.", "traditional": "Miller's Water entry in Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted favors clear water and gives muddy or rising water ominous forecasts. He changes the reading according to whether a person drinks, plays, falls into water, or tries to remove it. Fontaine's 1862 Golden Wheel Dream-book likewise contrasts clear and troubled water, but makes an inaccessible crossing about beginning an undertaking without securing its means.\n\nThese are historical fortune-telling claims, not validated meanings. The useful distinction is between water's appearance and the dreamer's task: a crossing asks about access, while drinking asks about a need. The interpretations above develop that distinction as an original reflective approach rather than adopting either author's forecasts.\n\nNoe and the 1894 Guide give drinking adverse business and relationship forecasts, whereas Cielo calls water in any form favorable. The Book of Luck varies its claims by condition and task, including an unsupported severe illness forecast; Craig repeats a clear-versus-muddy contrast under a period cultural label. These additional accounts remain separately attributed. None assesses health, determines fidelity or establishes a future event.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You float comfortably in a still pool", "reflection": "Comfortable floating can suggest being supported without having to manage every movement. It may fit relief after responsibility has been shared or a wish to stop proving you can handle everything alone. If the stillness feels dull instead, the same setting may picture a routine that lacks movement." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A current carries you somewhere you did not choose", "reflection": "The scene can express a change already underway that leaves little room to set the pace. Rapidly expanding responsibilities or another person's timetable may offer a parallel. Finding a way to steer, land, or swim with the current shifts the reading toward recovering choice within that movement." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You step into muddy water and cannot see the bottom", "reflection": "Hidden footing can picture uncertainty about what a next step will require. Accepting an unclear offer, navigating conflicting accounts, or entering unfamiliar work could fit. Hesitation makes sense within this reading because the obstacle is missing information, rather than simply a lack of courage." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Water rises inside your house despite your efforts", "reflection": "Rising water can suggest that a concern has exceeded the space or effort available to contain it. Work invading home time or repeated family demands may offer concrete parallels. Trying to bail it out while the source continues can picture managing consequences without reaching what keeps producing them." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You reach the other side of a river", "reflection": "A completed crossing can picture making a transition that required a workable route, not just a wish to leave. The means matters: a companion may emphasize shared effort, a boat practical resources, and swimming your own capacity. The far bank can feel welcoming or unfamiliar even after progress." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You drink clear water after searching for it", "reflection": "The central theme may be meeting a basic need after a period of effort. Relief can resemble finally getting time, reassurance, or a straightforward answer. Because drinking is the action, replenishment is a stronger reading here than interpreting the water mainly as uncertainty or a boundary." } ], "prompts": [ "Which part of the situation resembled the water most: its pace, depth, visibility, or ability to stay contained?", "Was I choosing the movement, adapting to it, or trying to stop it—and where does that same relationship exist while awake?", "What did I need the water or the far bank to provide, and what made that need easier or harder to meet?" ], "related": [ "ocean", "flood", "rain", "drowning", "river", "lake", "swimming" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "scope": "Historical comparison only: Water — miller-2170, Heading 2174; source lines 23895–23934. These period beliefs do not establish a dream meaning or prediction.", "recordIds": [ "miller-2170" ] }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "scope": "Historical comparison only: Water — fontaine-0853, Heading 853; source line 5202. These period beliefs do not establish a dream meaning or prediction.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0853" ] }, { "id": "wamsley-2010", "title": "Dreaming of a learning task is associated with enhanced sleep-dependent memory consolidation", "author": "Erin J. Wamsley and colleagues", "url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20417102/", "scope": "Primary maze-learning experiment; task-related dream reports correlated with later performance. It does not show that a dream is an accurate memory or a solution." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0552" ], "scope": "Attached historical material only: Water — noe-0552 (Dream section, heading 560; source lines 2004–2007). Drinking water is assigned adverse business and relationship forecasts. This citation preserves the attributed archival material; it does not substantiate the original modern reflection or establish a present-day outcome." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0462" ], "scope": "Attached historical material only: Water — cielo-0462 (Dream section, heading 462; source lines 4981–4984). Water is assigned improvement in circumstances. This citation preserves the attributed archival material; it does not substantiate the original modern reflection or establish a present-day outcome." }, { "id": "luck-55082", "title": "Everybody’s Book of Luck", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Whitman Publishing Company edition; date not stated in transcription", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55082", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "luck-0243" ], "scope": "Attached historical material only: Water — luck-0243 (Dream section, heading 243; source lines 4161–4174). The entry gives different comfort, illness, danger, loss, and luck forecasts according to water condition, location, carrying, and drinking. This citation preserves the attributed archival material; it does not substantiate the original modern reflection or establish a present-day outcome." }, { "id": "guide-65367", "title": "Guide to Fortune-Telling by Dreams", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Multum in Parvo Library, Vol. I, No. 10, October 1894", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65367", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "guide-0043" ], "scope": "Attached historical material only: Water — guide-0043 (Dream section, heading 43; source lines 369–374). Drinking water is assigned adverse business and relationship forecasts. This citation preserves the attributed archival material; it does not substantiate the original modern reflection or establish a present-day outcome." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L12475" ], "scope": "Attached historical material only: Water — craig-1918:L12475 (Printed p. 263; NLM OCR lines 12475–12477). Craig records contrary favorable and unfavorable forecasts for clear or muddy drinking water. This citation preserves the attributed archival material; it does not substantiate the original modern reflection or establish a present-day outcome." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s continuing delegation of English editorial decisions. Historical accounts remain attributed period claims; the cited memory study does not validate these interpretations.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Feeling inside a changing situation", "reflection": "The water's conditions can make an emotional atmosphere tangible. Calmness, turbulence, or rising levels may resemble how manageable a situation feels, especially when that feeling matches the dream's particular activity." }, { "title": "Control, cooperation, and support", "reflection": "A current can picture movement you did not initiate; swimming with it may suggest adaptation. Comfortable floating offers another possibility: trusting support instead of needing to direct every part of the experience." }, { "title": "Uncertainty beneath the surface", "reflection": "Hidden footing or unexpected depth can resemble decisions made without full information. Clear water makes the next step visible, while an ability to swim can shift uncertainty toward confidence rather than helplessness." }, { "title": "A concern crossing its usual boundary", "reflection": "Overflow can picture a demand spreading into places you wanted to protect. Water in a house may fit work entering private time, while chosen immersion can suggest willingness to engage more fully." } ], "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "DreamFolia AI-assisted editorial review", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "water", "house", "dog", "cat", "being-pregnant", "ex-partner", "deceased-loved-one", "fire", "spider", "being-lost", "ocean", "flood", "wedding", "baby", "train", "car", "wolf" ] }, "decisionReason": "Six scenes and four themes distinguish support, imposed movement, hidden footing, overflow, crossing and replenishment. 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The next evening I\nhad a delightful male caller, but he remained beyond the time\nprescribed by mothers and I was severely censured for it.''\nThe blue water and fairy white boat were the disappointing\nprospects in the symbol.", "locator": "Heading 2174; source lines 23895–23934", "lineStart": 23895, "lineEnd": 23934, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of clear water, foretells that you will joyfully realize\nprosperity and pleasure.\n\nIf the water is muddy, you will be in danger and gloom will\noccupy Pleasure's seat.\n\nIf you see it rise up in your house, denotes that you will struggle\nto resist evil, but unless you see it subside, you will succumb\nto dangerous influences.\n\nIf you find yourself baling it out, but with feet growing wet,\nforeshadows trouble, sickness, and misery will work you\na hard task, but you will forestall them by your watchfulness.\nThe same may be applied to muddy water rising in vessels.\n\nTo fall into muddy water, is a sign that you will make many bitter mistakes,\nand will suffer poignant grief therefrom.\n\nTo drink muddy water, portends sickness, but drinking it clear\nand refreshing brings favorable consummation of fair hopes.\n\nTo sport with water, denotes a sudden awakening to love and passion.\n\nTo have it sprayed on your head, denotes that your passionate\nawakening to love will meet reciprocal consummation.\n\nThe following dream and its allegorical occurrence in actual life\nis related by a young woman student of dreams:\n\n“Without knowing how, I was (in my dream) on a boat,\nI waded through clear blue water to a wharfboat, which I found\nto be snow white, but rough and splintry. The next evening I\nhad a delightful male caller, but he remained beyond the time\nprescribed by mothers and I was severely censured for it.”\nThe blue water and fairy white boat were the disappointing\nprospects in the symbol." }, { "id": "fontaine-0853", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Water", "text": "To dream of being on the water, is good, if the water be clear;\nbut if muddy or troubled, the reverse. To see a wide expanse of water,\nover or on which you wish to get, but cannot, shows that you are\nabout to embark in some undertaking without first securing the means\nof success. (_See Bathing, Fountain, Pump, Pitcher, River, Rowing,\nSailing, Swimming, Thirst, Washing and Well._) 42, 18.", "locator": "Heading 853; source line 5202", "lineStart": 5202, "lineEnd": 5209, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being on the water, is good, if the water be clear;\nbut if muddy or troubled, the reverse. To see a wide expanse of water,\nover or on which you wish to get, but cannot, shows that you are\nabout to embark in some undertaking without first securing the means\nof success. (See Bathing, Fountain, Pump, Pitcher, River, Rowing,\nSailing, Swimming, Thirst, Washing and Well.)" }, { "id": "noe-0552", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Water", "text": "To dream you are drinking water, denotes\ngreat trouble and adversity. In trade loss of business and being arrested;\nto the lover, it shows your sweetheart is false, prefers another, and will\nnever marry you.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 560; source lines 2004–2007", "lineStart": 2004, "lineEnd": 2007, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are drinking water, denotes\ngreat trouble and adversity. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2173", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Water Lily", "text": "To dream of a water lily, or to see them growing, foretells there\nwill be a close commingling of prosperity and sorrow or bereavement.", "locator": "Heading 2177; source lines 23948–23953", "lineStart": 23948, "lineEnd": 23953, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a water lily, or to see them growing, foretells there\nwill be a close commingling of prosperity and sorrow or bereavement." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "water-bearer", "title": "Water-Bearer", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see water-carriers passing in your dreams, denotes that your prospects will be favorable in fortune,…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "water-bearer", "water-carrier" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about water-bearer stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2171", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Water-carrier", "text": "To see water-carriers passing in your dreams, denotes that your\nprospects will be favorable in fortune, and love will prove\nno laggard in your chase for pleasure.\n\nIf you think you are a water-carrier, you will rise above\nyour present position.", "locator": "Heading 2175; source lines 23934–23943", "lineStart": 23934, "lineEnd": 23943, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see water-carriers passing in your dreams, denotes that your\nprospects will be favorable in fortune, and love will prove\nno laggard in your chase for pleasure.\n\nIf you think you are a water-carrier, you will rise above\nyour present position.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Water-carrier” is shown on the Water-Bearer page: water-bearer and water-carrier are the same role" }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12478", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Water-Bearer", "heading": "Water-Bearer", "text": "Always a good dream (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12478, "lineEnd": 12479, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 263; NLM OCR lines 12478–12479", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12478, "lineEnd": 12479, "printedPage": 263, "printedPageEnd": 263 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Water-Bearer. — Always a good dream (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Water-Bearer" }, "displayText": "Always a good dream (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "waterfall", "title": "Waterfall", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "summary": "A waterfall can picture a threshold in continuing movement, a powerful sound that fills attention, or a view that changes across a curtain of water.", "tagline": "A visible drop within a movement that continues.", "aliases": [ "waterfall" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A waterfall can picture a change whose movement has become difficult to reverse once it reaches a particular point. A decision already put into practice, a transition with a clear before and after, or work moving from preparation into public use may offer a parallel. Standing upstream can feel different from watching below: one position centers the approach, while the other centers what happens after the drop. The dream does not establish that an event is inevitable. Its useful feature is the relationship between continuing movement and a threshold you can see.\n\nWatching falling water from firm ground may bring awe rather than urgency. Something powerful can matter without requiring you to manage it or join its movement. A large shared project, a performance, or a changing place may evoke a similar mixture of fascination and distance. If the view offers relief, observing may be a wanted pause from responsibility. If you feel left out, the same position can make participation seem remote. The setting helps distinguish appreciation from the wish to become part of what is happening.\n\nThe sound can fill the scene so completely that conversation becomes difficult. This may picture a dominant activity or concern occupying attention even when other people remain nearby. You might feel comfortably enclosed by the noise, or frustrated that ordinary communication no longer reaches across it. Moving farther away can change the conditions more directly than repeatedly speaking louder. This comparison concerns attention and contact in the dream, not a claim about a hidden psychological state or the effect of actual sound on your health.\n\nGoing behind a curtain of water can make visibility and privacy central. The same movement that looks imposing from outside may shelter a quieter place within the dream. You can remain close to the event while having another relationship with it. If the space has no usable exit, refuge can become restrictive. A trip, photograph, film, remembered sound, or water feature may also supply the image directly. This entry concerns the vertical fall, the positions around it, and what its sound or curtain changes; River and Rapids have different movement contexts, and general Water need not answer every part of this scene.", "traditional": "Miller’s attached Waterfall passage predicts fulfillment of a desire and favorable fortune. It is retained as an attributed period belief, not evidence that a waterfall dream promises success. The original reflection concerns threshold, distance, sound, and visibility.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A visible threshold", "reflection": "A drop can make a before and after concrete within continuing movement. Your position around it distinguishes approaching a change from responding after it." }, { "title": "Power without personal responsibility", "reflection": "Watching from a workable distance can offer wonder or relief. Feeling excluded changes the same view toward wanting participation." }, { "title": "A curtain that alters contact", "reflection": "Sound and falling water can interrupt conversation or create privacy. Their role depends on whether the altered contact feels welcome and whether you can leave." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You watch a waterfall from firm ground", "reflection": "The movement is powerful without requiring your direct involvement. This may picture appreciating a large event from a workable distance. Relief at observing differs from wanting to join something that feels unavailable from your position." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You stand above the point where the water drops", "reflection": "The scene makes a threshold visible before the movement crosses it. This can picture a transition from preparation into action. Having room to step aside differs from feeling carried toward a point you did not choose." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You arrive below the fall after its movement has passed", "reflection": "The view centers what happens after the drop rather than how to prevent it. This may resemble responding to a decision already enacted. Finding a usable place downstream changes the focus toward adjustment within the new conditions." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "The sound prevents a conversation", "reflection": "A dominant movement occupies attention while another person remains nearby. The scene can picture difficulty maintaining contact beside a large concern. Moving to another place differs from repeatedly expecting the same conditions to allow a clearer exchange." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A quiet space appears behind the falling water", "reflection": "The curtain creates another relationship with the powerful scene. This may picture privacy close to an activity that otherwise fills your attention. A usable exit distinguishes a chosen refuge from a hidden place that becomes restrictive." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The waterfall becomes only a thin trickle", "reflection": "An expected force appears smaller than remembered or imagined. This can picture reassessing the scale of an event. Disappointment differs from relief, depending on whether you wanted its energy or feared being overwhelmed by it." } ], "prompts": [ "Was I approaching the drop, watching it, or finding a place afterward?", "Did distance let me appreciate the movement or leave me wanting participation?", "What did the sound or curtain of water change about contact and privacy?" ], "related": [ "water", "river", "rapids", "flood" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-2172" ], "scope": "Attached historical comparison only: Waterfall — miller-2172 (Heading 2176; source lines 23943–23948): Miller predicts securing the dreamer’s wildest desire and favorable fortune/progress. These period assertions are preserved as attributed archival material; they neither validate this original modern reflection nor establish an outcome." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2172", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Waterfall", "text": "To dream of a waterfall, foretells that you will secure your wildest desire,\nand fortune will be exceedingly favorable to your progress.", "locator": "Heading 2176; source lines 23943–23948", "lineStart": 23943, "lineEnd": 23948, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a waterfall, foretells that you will secure your wildest desire,\nand fortune will be exceedingly favorable to your progress." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "watermelons", "title": "Watermelons", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "watermelons", "watermelon" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about watermelons stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "melon" ], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0854", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Watermelons", "text": "(_See Melons._)", "locator": "Heading 854; source line 5209", "lineStart": 5209, "lineEnd": 5211, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Melons.)" }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12482", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Watermelon", "heading": "Watermelon", "text": "A dream of sickness (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12482, "lineEnd": 12483, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 263; NLM OCR lines 12482–12483", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12482, "lineEnd": 12483, "printedPage": 263, "printedPageEnd": 263 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Watermelon. — A dream of sickness (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Watermelon" }, "displayText": "A dream of sickness (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "melon" ] }, { "slug": "watermill", "title": "Watermill", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “To dream of being in a water-mill is a favorable omen.”", "aliases": [ "watermill" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about watermill stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "waves", "title": "Waves", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of waves, is a sign that you hold some vital step in contemplation, which will evolve much…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "waves" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about waves stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "ocean" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2174", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Waves", "text": "To dream of waves, is a sign that you hold some vital step in contemplation,\nwhich will evolve much knowledge if the waves are clear; but you will make\na fatal error if you see them muddy or lashed by a storm.\n\n\n[241] See Ocean and Sea.", "locator": "Heading 2178; source lines 23953–23962", "lineStart": 23953, "lineEnd": 23962, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of waves, is a sign that you hold some vital step in contemplation,\nwhich will evolve much knowledge if the waves are clear; but you will make\na fatal error if you see them muddy or lashed by a storm. See Ocean and Sea." }, { "id": "noe-0571", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Waves", "text": "To dream that you are on the sea-shore, and\nsurrounded by the waves, is an indication that you will be shortly placed\nin very difficult and distressing circumstances, out of which it will\nrequire all your energy and perseverance to escape.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 579; source lines 2081–2084", "lineStart": 2081, "lineEnd": 2084, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are on the sea-shore, and\nsurrounded by the waves, is an indication that you will be shortly placed\nin very difficult and distressing circumstances, out of which it will\nrequire all your energy and perseverance to escape." }, { "id": "cielo-0463", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Waves", "text": "To see waves at sea denotes that someone is\n trying to take advantage of you.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 463; source lines 4984–4987", "lineStart": 4984, "lineEnd": 4987, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see waves at sea denotes that someone is\ntrying to take advantage of you." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "ocean" ] }, { "slug": "wax", "title": "Wax", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “A dream denoting an unstable character, doubt on the part of the dreamer (Gypsy).”", "aliases": [ "wax" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about wax stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2176", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Way", "text": "To dream you lose your way, warns you to disabuse your mind\nof lucky speculations, as your enterprises threaten failure\nunless you are painstaking in your management of affairs.\n\n\n[242] See Road and Path.", "locator": "Heading 2180; source lines 23970–23979", "lineStart": 23970, "lineEnd": 23979, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you lose your way, warns you to disabuse your mind\nof lucky speculations, as your enterprises threaten failure\nunless you are painstaking in your management of affairs. See Road and Path." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "road", "path" ] }, { "slug": "wealth", "title": "Wealth", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are possessed of much wealth, foretells that you will energetically nerve yourself to…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "wealth" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about wealth stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2177", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Wealth", "text": "To dream that you are possessed of much wealth, foretells that you\nwill energetically nerve yourself to meet the problems of life\nwith that force which compells success.\n\nTo see others wealthy, foretells that you will have friends who will come\nto your rescue in perilous times.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she is associated with wealthy people,\ndenotes that she will have high aspirations and will manage to enlist\nsome one who is able to further them.", "locator": "Heading 2181; source lines 23979–23992", "lineStart": 23979, "lineEnd": 23992, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are possessed of much wealth, foretells that you\nwill energetically nerve yourself to meet the problems of life\nwith that force which compells success.\n\nTo see others wealthy, foretells that you will have friends who will come\nto your rescue in perilous times.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she is associated with wealthy people,\ndenotes that she will have high aspirations and will manage to enlist\nsome one who is able to further them." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12490", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Wealth", "heading": "Wealth", "text": "A dream forecasting sickness, even death (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12490, "lineEnd": 12492, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 263; NLM OCR lines 12490–12492", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12490, "lineEnd": 12492, "printedPage": 263, "printedPageEnd": 263 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Wealth. — A dream forecasting sickness, even death (Gyp- \nsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "Gyp- \nsy", "after": "Gypsy", "evidenceLine": 243 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Wealth" }, "displayText": "A dream forecasting sickness, even death (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "weasel", "title": "Weasel", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see a weasel bent on a marauding expedition in your dreams, warns you to beware of the friendships of…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "weasel" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about weasel stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2178", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Weasel", "text": "To see a weasel bent on a marauding expedition in your dreams,\nwarns you to beware of the friendships of former enemies,\nas they will devour you at an unseemly time.\n\nIf you destroy them, you will succeed in foiling deep schemes\nlaid for your defeat.", "locator": "Heading 2182; source lines 23992–24001", "lineStart": 23992, "lineEnd": 24001, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a weasel bent on a marauding expedition in your dreams,\nwarns you to beware of the friendships of former enemies,\nas they will devour you at an unseemly time.\n\nIf you destroy them, you will succeed in foiling deep schemes\nlaid for your defeat." }, { "id": "noe-0555", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Weasel", "text": "To dream of weasels,\nshows a man in love with some ill-natured woman, by whom he will be\nensnared, or some domestic who will cajole his master by subtlety.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 563; source lines 2011–2014", "lineStart": 2011, "lineEnd": 2014, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of weasels,\nshows a man in love with some ill-natured woman, by whom he will be\nensnared, or some domestic who will cajole his master by subtlety." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "weather", "title": "Weather", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of the weather, foretells fluctuating tendencies in fortune.”", "aliases": [ "weather" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about weather stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. 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Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2179", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Weather", "text": "To dream of the weather, foretells fluctuating tendencies in fortune.\nNow you are progressing immensely, to be suddenly confronted with doubts\nand rumblings of failure.\n\nTo think you are reading the reports of a weather bureau,\nyou will change your place of abode, after much weary deliberation,\nbut you will be benefited by the change.\n\nTo see a weather witch, denotes disagreeable conditions\nin your family affairs.\n\nTo see them conjuring the weather, foretells quarrels in the home\nand disappointment in business.", "locator": "Heading 2183; source lines 24001–24017", "lineStart": 24001, "lineEnd": 24017, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of the weather, foretells fluctuating tendencies in fortune.\nNow you are progressing immensely, to be suddenly confronted with doubts\nand rumblings of failure.\n\nTo think you are reading the reports of a weather bureau,\nyou will change your place of abode, after much weary deliberation,\nbut you will be benefited by the change.\n\nTo see a weather witch, denotes disagreeable conditions\nin your family affairs.\n\nTo see them conjuring the weather, foretells quarrels in the home\nand disappointment in business." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "weathercock", "title": "Weathercock", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “This dream denotes fickle friends (Artemidorus).”", "aliases": [ "weathercock" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about weathercock stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L12499", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Weathercock", "heading": "Weathercock", "text": "This dream denotes fickle friends (Artemidorus).", "lineStart": 12499, "lineEnd": 12501, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 263; NLM OCR lines 12499–12501", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12499, "lineEnd": 12501, "printedPage": 263, "printedPageEnd": 263 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Weathercock.— This dream denotes fickle friends (Arte- \nmidorus). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "Arte- \nmidorus", "after": "Artemidorus", "evidenceLine": 485 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Weathercock" }, "displayText": "This dream denotes fickle friends (Artemidorus)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "weaving", "title": "Weaving", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are weaving, denotes that you will baffle any attempt to defeat you in the struggle for…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "weaving" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about weaving stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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The practical action matters more than a fixed claim that every web means entrapment or deceit.\n\nCrossing a web unexpectedly can turn a clear route into a collection of small interruptions. This may resemble a task with details you did not see until you began moving through it. Feeling annoyed differs from fearing that you cannot leave. The scene’s actual resistance can remain small even if your attention becomes fully occupied by removing it.\n\nWatching a web being built gives another emphasis. Several light connections may create a usable structure without any one strand carrying the whole task. A collaborative project, careful plan or developing skill might offer a comparison if that pattern fits. The spider’s activity belongs to the imagined scene; it need not carry a hidden instruction or reveal a real person’s strategy.\n\nA damaged web can bring maintenance into focus. 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Whether the alternative feels workable gives the scene its particular meaning." } ], "prompts": [ "What did the web connect, support, catch or obstruct?", "When did the structure become noticeable?", "Did repairing, removing or going around it change what you wanted to do?" ], "related": [ "spider", "insects", "door", "thread", "being-trapped" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-2181" ], "scope": "miller-2181 — Web (Heading 2185; source lines 24026–24033): Webs receive deceitful-friend loss forecasts; a non-elastic web resistance to envious people. Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence validating the original reflection, a diagnosis, another person’s state or a future event." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15 under the site owner’s delegation. Historical claims, where supplied, remain attributed period writing. No human or clinical review is claimed.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Small links with a larger effect", "reflection": "A fine structure may connect or support several parts of a task." }, { "title": "An interruption discovered through movement", "reflection": "A route can seem clear until its less visible details become relevant." }, { "title": "Maintenance or another use", "reflection": "Repairing, removing and leaving a web create different relations to an existing arrangement." } ], "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "Codex (AI-assisted editorial review)", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "a-stranger", "a-train-going-in-the-wrong-direction", "being-trapped", "being-unable-to-move", "children", "church", "current-romantic-partner", "death-of-a-friend", "elevator", "father", "forest", "hair-falling-out", "insects", "key", "locked-out", "mother", "nakedness", "phone-not-working", "rainbow", "running-but-going-nowhere", "school", "smoke", "snake-bite", "superpowers", "the-self", "the-shadow", "web" ] }, "decisionReason": "The new physical-web reading distinguishes a fine support structure, an interruption, changed visibility and different maintenance choices. It does not infer deceit or extend Miller’s passage to the internet. The one attached period passage and its non-elastic-web qualification are explicitly scoped.", "contentSha256": "2ba0f6d13cefab575f1a07e8fbd66490cc5adad7286ea792f039c833eb0f4031" }, "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2181", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Web", "text": "To dream of webs, foretells deceitful friends will work you loss\nand displeasure. If the web is non-elastic, you will remain firm\nin withstanding the attacks of the envious persons who are seeking\nto obtain favors from you.", "locator": "Heading 2185; source lines 24026–24033", "lineStart": 24026, "lineEnd": 24033, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of webs, foretells deceitful friends will work you loss\nand displeasure. If the web is non-elastic, you will remain firm\nin withstanding the attacks of the envious persons who are seeking\nto obtain favors from you." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "wedding", "title": "Wedding", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "The event, the participants and your part in it.", "summary": "A wedding dream may explore taking part in a shared event, choosing its form and finding room for your role among others’ expectations.", "aliases": [ "wedding", "a wedding", "of weddings", "wedding ceremony", "attending a wedding", "getting married" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "A wedding gathers people around an event with a particular sequence and set of roles. Begin with whose ceremony it is and what you are doing there: making a public promise, attending, arranging the room or trying to find someone. These experiences need not carry the same meaning. The wedding may recall a recent invitation, planning conversation or remembered celebration rather than predict a marriage or reveal a hidden wish.\n\nThe event's form can make the dream specific. You might recognize the participants while finding that the words, music or customs do not fit what you expected. This could invite reflection on how you take part in an occasion whose shape was partly chosen by others. A waking comparison might be organizing a family gathering while deciding which inherited details still matter to you. Notice what you accept, change or ask to understand; unfamiliarity alone need not mean the event is wrong.\n\nYour role may change during the ceremony. Being asked to speak unexpectedly differs from being unable to join because you are still preparing things. A dream could bring recognition, responsibility or the opportunity to participate into view. Someone arranging every detail might enjoy that work, want more help or wish to become a guest for a while. Explore the actual choice rather than assuming that an organizing role always hides resentment.\n\nOther people's presence can affect the occasion without establishing their waking feelings. A missing person, an unfamiliar guest or a seat beside someone you did not expect may alter how the celebration feels. Consider what you hoped that person would contribute and what happens in their absence. The dream cannot tell you that a real relationship is approved, opposed or destined to change.\n\nAn interruption can reveal which parts of the event remain useful. The ceremony might become simpler, move elsewhere or continue after a pause. Relief, disappointment and pleasure can coexist. An invitation, planning conversation or feelings about a shared occasion may provide direct context; a joyful celebration can remain a satisfying imagined event. Record the sequence, your part and what made the occasion feel yours or shared. The question may concern participation and presentation rather than the longer-term terms of a marriage.", "traditional": "The supplied Wedding passages mix ceremony and marriage. Miller, Fontaine, Noe, Cielo, the 1894 Guide and Craig assign differing event, relationship, residence or severe loss forecasts; some include gendered judgments. Artemidorus connects marriage with dowry, affairs and contracts as well as severe health forecasts. These attributed period beliefs do not establish future events or other people’s feelings. Here the original reflection follows the experienced ceremony and participation rather than predicting a partnership.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "The ceremony uses words you did not choose", "reflection": "You recognize the occasion but hear a prepared speech that does not express what you want to say. This might bring the public form of a personal choice into focus. Notice whether you revise, question or continue the wording; the dream does not decide the validity of a real commitment." }, { "title": "Your place is beside an unexpected guest", "reflection": "You find a seat, but the person beside you changes how you experience the celebration. The scene could draw attention to participation in an unfamiliar social arrangement. Record the actual interaction and what becomes easier or harder without assuming the guest represents a hidden attraction or conflict." }, { "title": "You are still arranging things when the event begins", "reflection": "The ceremony starts while you are finishing a practical task outside the room. This might help you describe the difference between supporting an occasion and joining it. Notice whether you ask for help, leave the task or enjoy completing it; preparing does not automatically mean being excluded." }, { "title": "A pause leads to a simpler ceremony", "reflection": "Something interrupts the planned sequence, and the participants continue with fewer details. This could invite reflection on what makes an occasion meaningful when its form changes. Record what is kept and what you miss; a simpler dream event does not instruct you to change real wedding plans." }, { "title": "A person you expected never arrives", "reflection": "You keep looking for someone while the event continues without them. The scene may center the contribution you hoped they would make rather than the ceremony itself. Explore whether you wait, contact them or join what is happening; absence in a dream cannot establish their waking priorities." }, { "title": "The celebration ends and you choose to stay", "reflection": "Guests leave, but you remain to talk, rest or help clear the room. This might give the end of a shared occasion its own significance. Notice what you want from the remaining time and company; staying need not imply reluctance to move on or responsibility for everyone else." } ], "prompts": [ "What part were you taking in the event, and how did it change?", "Which details made the occasion feel fitting, unfamiliar or chosen by others?", "What invitation, celebration or shared project gives this particular gathering context?" ], "related": [ "marriage", "engagement", "wedding-dress", "wedding-clothes", "being-late", "bride" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "scope": "Miller assigns forecasts to attendance, secret or approved weddings, parental objections, a lover marrying another and mourning dress, including gendered reputation and severe health/loss claims. Marriage and Bride are cross-referenced. Specific supplied passages: Wedding — miller-2182 (Heading 2186; source lines 24033–24068). Historical comparison only; these attributed period beliefs do not establish outcomes, character, diagnosis, consent, desire or a universal dream meaning, and do not validate the original reflections.", "recordIds": [ "miller-2182" ] }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "scope": "Fontaine assigns funeral and death forecasts to a festive wedding or a kiss involving the bride, contrasting a cited 1808 account with his preferred direction of the kiss. Marriage is cross-referenced. Specific supplied passages: Wedding — fontaine-0855 (Heading 855; source line 5211). Historical comparison only; these attributed period beliefs do not establish outcomes, character, diagnosis, consent, desire or a universal dream meaning, and do not validate the original reflections.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0855" ] }, { "id": "wamsley-2010", "title": "Dreaming of a learning task is associated with enhanced sleep-dependent memory consolidation", "author": "Erin J. Wamsley and colleagues", "url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20417102/", "scope": "Primary maze-learning experiment; task-related dream reports correlated with later performance. It does not show that a dream is an accurate memory or a solution." }, { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display.", "recordIds": [ "artemidorus-116" ], "scope": "Artemidorus connects marriage with dowry, business, old affairs, separation, children and a sale contract, including severe health forecasts. A visible illegible gap remains in the supplied transcription. Specific supplied passages: Of Weddings. — artemidorus-116 (Book 2, encoded section 116). Historical comparison only; these attributed period beliefs do not establish outcomes, character, diagnosis, consent, desire or a universal dream meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0549" ], "scope": "Noe varies forecasts by illness and marrying a maid or by the proposed woman’s appearance, including death, discontent and joy claims. Specific supplied passages: Wedding — noe-0549 (Dream section, heading 557; source lines 1996–1998). Historical comparison only; these attributed period beliefs do not establish outcomes, character, diagnosis, consent, desire or a universal dream meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0464" ], "scope": "Cielo assigns a funeral forecast to attending a wedding and a residence-change forecast to one’s own wedding. Specific supplied passages: Wedding — cielo-0464 (Dream section, heading 464; source lines 4987–4991). Historical comparison only; these attributed period beliefs do not establish outcomes, character, diagnosis, consent, desire or a universal dream meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "guide-65367", "title": "Guide to Fortune-Telling by Dreams", "author": "Anonymous", "edition": "Multum in Parvo Library, Vol. I, No. 10, October 1894", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65367", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "guide-0044" ], "scope": "The 1894 Guide assigns death, property-loss and disappointment forecasts to being married or attending a wedding, especially for lovers. Specific supplied passages: Wedding — guide-0044 (Dream section, heading 44; source lines 374–378). Historical comparison only; these attributed period beliefs do not establish outcomes, character, diagnosis, consent, desire or a universal dream meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L12504" ], "scope": "Craig assigns funeral or death forecasts to a wedding under her own historical ethnic attribution; this is not evidence of cultural consensus. Specific supplied passages: Wedding — craig-1918:L12504 (Printed p. 263; NLM OCR lines 12504–12506). Historical comparison only; these attributed period beliefs do not establish outcomes, character, diagnosis, consent, desire or a universal dream meaning, and do not validate the original reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s continuing delegation of English editorial decisions. Historical accounts remain attributed period claims; the cited memory study does not validate these interpretations.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "The form of the occasion", "reflection": "The order, words and customs can make an event feel fitting or unfamiliar. Explore which details you chose and which you inherited without assuming there is one correct wedding form." }, { "title": "A role with room to participate", "reflection": "Speaking, witnessing and preparing make different demands. Consider whether you could take part in the way you wanted and how that role changed during the event." }, { "title": "A gathering you can describe", "reflection": "Guests, absences and seating may change the atmosphere. Their dreamed presence supplies a scene to reflect on, not evidence of the real people’s approval or intentions." } ], "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "DreamFolia AI-assisted editorial review", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "water", "house", "dog", "cat", "being-pregnant", "ex-partner", "deceased-loved-one", "fire", "spider", "being-lost", "ocean", "flood", "wedding", "baby", "train", "car", "wolf" ] }, "decisionReason": "Six scenes develop ceremony wording, guests, preparation, simplification, absence and the event’s ending. All seven historical accounts remain attributed with their gendered and severe loss claims identified as period beliefs. The dreamed ceremony does not validate or forecast a real partnership.", "reviewedSnapshot": "data/common-reading-publication-review-2026-10-15.json", "contentSha256": "f64c058fff985b2644408fbd4cc10d196f7ecb86a8cd8af85c3f9d15b3eab3ea" }, "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2182", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Wedding", "text": "To attend a wedding in your dream, you will speedily find\nthat there is approaching you an occasion which will cause you\nbitterness and delayed success.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that her wedding is a secret is decidedly\nunfavorable to character. It imports her probable downfall.\n\nIf she contracts a worldly, or approved marriage, signifies she\nwill rise in the estimation of those about her, and anticipated\npromises and joys will not be withheld.\n\nIf she thinks in her dream that there are parental objections,\nshe will find that her engagement will create dissatisfaction\namong her relatives. For her to dream her lover weds another,\nforetells that she will be distressed with needless fears,\nas her lover will faithfully carry out his promises.\n\nFor a person to dream of being wedded, is a sad augury, as death will\nonly be eluded by a miracle. If the wedding is a gay one and there\nare no ashen, pale-faced or black-robed ministers enjoining solemn vows,\nthe reverses may be expected.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she sees some one at her wedding dressed\nin mourning, denotes she will only have unhappiness in her married life.\nIf at another's wedding, she will be grieved over the unfavorable fortune\nof some relative or friend. She may experience displeasure or illness\nwhere she expected happiness and health. The pleasure trips of others\nor her own, after this dream, may be greatly disturbed by unpleasant\nintrusions or surprises.\n\n\n[243] See Marriage and Bride.", "locator": "Heading 2186; source lines 24033–24068", "lineStart": 24033, "lineEnd": 24068, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To attend a wedding in your dream, you will speedily find\nthat there is approaching you an occasion which will cause you\nbitterness and delayed success.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that her wedding is a secret is decidedly\nunfavorable to character. It imports her probable downfall.\n\nIf she contracts a worldly, or approved marriage, signifies she\nwill rise in the estimation of those about her, and anticipated\npromises and joys will not be withheld.\n\nIf she thinks in her dream that there are parental objections,\nshe will find that her engagement will create dissatisfaction\namong her relatives. For her to dream her lover weds another,\nforetells that she will be distressed with needless fears,\nas her lover will faithfully carry out his promises.\n\nFor a person to dream of being wedded, is a sad augury, as death will\nonly be eluded by a miracle. If the wedding is a gay one and there\nare no ashen, pale-faced or black-robed ministers enjoining solemn vows,\nthe reverses may be expected.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she sees some one at her wedding dressed\nin mourning, denotes she will only have unhappiness in her married life.\nIf at another's wedding, she will be grieved over the unfavorable fortune\nof some relative or friend. She may experience displeasure or illness\nwhere she expected happiness and health. The pleasure trips of others\nor her own, after this dream, may be greatly disturbed by unpleasant\nintrusions or surprises. See Marriage and Bride." }, { "id": "fontaine-0855", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Wedding", "text": "(_See Marriage._) To dream of being at a jolly wedding, is a\nsign of a funeral: if you imagine that you kiss the bride, it foretells\nthe death of a dear friend or relative. In an old dream-book, published\n1808, it is stated that to dream of kissing the bride, is a sign of\nyour own death, but on referring to the best authorities, I find it is\nnecessary to dream that the bride should herself be the kissing party,\nand that an impressive kiss from her on the occasion denotes the death\nof the person kissed. 42, 78, 2.", "locator": "Heading 855; source line 5211", "lineStart": 5211, "lineEnd": 5220, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Marriage.) To dream of being at a jolly wedding, is a\nsign of a funeral: if you imagine that you kiss the bride, it foretells\nthe death of a dear friend or relative. In an old dream-book, published\n1808, it is stated that to dream of kissing the bride, is a sign of\nyour own death, but on referring to the best authorities, I find it is\nnecessary to dream that the bride should herself be the kissing party,\nand that an impressive kiss from her on the occasion denotes the death\nof the person kissed." }, { "id": "artemidorus-116", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of Weddings.", "text": "SEeing that marige and death have some affinity, as the one signifying the other, I purpose in this place to speake thereof: To mary a Maid, to him which is sick is deathe it is good for him which would enterprise any good businesse▪ for he shall have good issue: and he which hopeth for any good, shall obtain it: for he which marieth gets some good or dowry by his wife: to others it is trouble and divulgation: for without this men make no Weddings: but if one takes an old woman, he shall pursure not new, but old affayres, not without profit: if any one sees his wife maried to another, it is change of affayrs and actions, or else separation: if the woman dreams she is maried to any other then her husband, she shall be separated from him, or sée him dead, as some say. But I have found this not always true, but onely when the wife is not with childe, or hath no children, or hath no inheritance to fell: for if she be with childe, she shall beare a sonne whom she shall see married, and by this meanes, not her selfe but her sonne shall be maried to another. And [illegible passage]he which hath any good to sell, shall sell it and shal make a contract of covenant, as one doth for mariage.", "locator": "Book 2, encoded section 116", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription-with-gaps", "book": "2", "displayText": "SEeing that marige and death have some affinity, as the one signifying the other, I purpose in this place to speake thereof: To mary a Maid, to him which is sick is deathe it is good for him which would enterprise any good businesse▪ for he shall have good issue: and he which hopeth for any good, shall obtain it: for he which marieth gets some good or dowry by his wife: to others it is trouble and divulgation: for without this men make no Weddings: but if one takes an old woman, he shall pursure not new, but old affayres, not without profit: if any one sees his wife maried to another, it is change of affayrs and actions, or else separation: if the woman dreams she is maried to any other then her husband, she shall be separated from him, or sée him dead, as some say. But I have found this not always true, but onely when the wife is not with childe, or hath no children, or hath no inheritance to fell: for if she be with childe, she shall beare a sonne whom she shall see married, and by this meanes, not her selfe but her sonne shall be maried to another. And [illegible passage] he which hath any good to sell, shall sell it and shal make a contract of covenant, as one doth for mariage." }, { "id": "noe-0549", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Wedding", "text": "For a man that is sick to dream that he is wedded to a maid,\nshows he shall die quickly. If any one dream he is wedded to a deformed\nwoman, it signifies discontent. If to a handsome woman, joy.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 557; source lines 1996–1998", "lineStart": 1996, "lineEnd": 1998, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a man that is sick to dream that he is wedded to a maid,\nshows he shall die quickly. If any one dream he is wedded to a deformed\nwoman, it signifies discontent. If to a handsome woman, joy." }, { "id": "cielo-0464", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Wedding", "text": "To dream that you are at a wedding is often\n a sign of a funeral; if at your own wedding, it\n means a change of residence.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 464; source lines 4987–4991", "lineStart": 4987, "lineEnd": 4991, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are at a wedding is often\na sign of a funeral; if at your own wedding, it\nmeans a change of residence." }, { "id": "guide-0044", "sourceId": "guide-65367", "heading": "Wedding", "text": "To dream of being married, or at a wedding, is a very\nunfavorable dream, especially for lovers; it denotes the death of\nsome dear friend or relation, with loss of property and severe\ndisappointment.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 44; source lines 374–378", "lineStart": 374, "lineEnd": 378, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being married, or at a wedding, is a very\nunfavorable dream, especially for lovers; it denotes the death of\nsome dear friend or relation, with loss of property and severe\ndisappointment." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12504", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Wedding", "heading": "Wedding", "text": "A dream denoting a funeral ; if the dreamer be ill, his own death is denoted (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12504, "lineEnd": 12506, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 263; NLM OCR lines 12504–12506", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12504, "lineEnd": 12506, "printedPage": 263, "printedPageEnd": 263 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Wedding. — A dream denoting a funeral ; if the dreamer be \nill, his own death is denoted (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Wedding" }, "displayText": "A dream denoting a funeral; if the dreamer be ill, his own death is denoted (Gypsy)." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [ "marriage", "bride" ] }, { "slug": "wedding-clothes", "title": "Wedding Clothes", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "summary": "Wedding clothes may bring a shared occasion’s roles, preparation or personal history into view. The garments and participation can change together.", "tagline": "Several participants can dress for one event under different expectations.", "aliases": [ "wedding clothes" ], "status": "REVIEW", "psychological": "Wedding clothes can make participation in a shared occasion visible before the event has begun. A guest's outfit, clothing for a person with a particular task or several garments laid out together can raise different concerns from a single bridal dress. The dream may explore how individual needs fit a collective arrangement: who has a role, what preparation is expected and whether the occasion leaves room for different ways of taking part.\n\n Coordination can become the practical task. Clothes may be ready while the people, venue or instructions are not. This can resemble a project whose visible presentation is complete before its working arrangements have been settled. Comparing assignments or clarifying what the event requires can give readiness more substance than matching everyone's appearance. A shared occasion need not demand identical preferences to have a usable form.\n\n Clothing with a family or personal history can bring earlier occasions into the present one. Borrowing an outfit may make a connection available while raising questions about fit, alteration or care. A waking comparison could be adapting an inherited way of celebrating to current participants. Keeping one detail deliberately differs from being expected to repeat the entire earlier arrangement because it belongs to the garment's history.\n\n Damage or disorder may make priorities visible. Helping another participant adjust their outfit can delay your own preparation, while deciding that a mark need not stop the event may make participation more important than an untouched presentation. The response depends on what the clothes enable and how much room the group allows for practical mishaps. The dream does not grade a real relationship through the condition of ceremonial clothing.\n\n Unused wedding clothes can leave the occasion open rather than completed. A postponed event, changed role or decision to keep the garments for another use can bring commitment and its outward signs apart. Recent preparations, photographs or remembered gatherings may also supply the image directly. This topic follows the broader clothing arrangement around an occasion; a particular wedding dress has its own questions of selection, movement and public presentation.", "traditional": "Miller assigns pleasing social participation to wedding clothes and the loss of a close connection to soiled or disordered garments. This is one period account of ceremonial clothing. It does not establish whether a real event, marriage or relationship will succeed or fail.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Participation before the event", "reflection": "Garments can make roles visible before practical arrangements are clear. The scene may explore what readiness requires beyond an appearance that seems prepared." }, { "title": "An earlier occasion carried forward", "reflection": "Borrowed or familiar wedding clothes can preserve a connection while needing adaptation. Which details remain and which can change helps distinguish personal continuity from an obligation to repeat a former event." }, { "title": "The event and its outward signs", "reflection": "Clothes can be ready, damaged or unused while participation remains undecided. The dream can separate a ceremony’s presentation from the choices and working arrangements that give it a particular purpose." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Everyone has wedding clothes but no clear assignment", "reflection": "The group looks prepared while nobody knows who should do what. Clarifying the tasks may make the occasion workable more directly than adjusting appearances again. This can resemble a shared undertaking whose visible readiness has overtaken its practical coordination." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A family outfit needs alteration for this occasion", "reflection": "The garment carries a valued connection but does not yet serve the current participant comfortably. Permission to adapt it can make history usable. Keeping one recognizable detail may offer continuity without requiring the entire earlier arrangement to be repeated." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You help another guest while your own preparation waits", "reflection": "Care for one participant competes with your place in the event. Shared assistance or a revised schedule may allow both needs to matter. The scene can explore how participation includes practical support without assigning every difficulty to the person who first notices it." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A visible mark does not stop the gathering", "reflection": "The clothes carry a mishap, yet the people continue the occasion in a way you find acceptable. This may explore an event’s capacity to include imperfection. The mark matters differently when it obstructs a task than when it only changes an expected presentation." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The garments remain unused after the event changes", "reflection": "A visible sign of preparation is still present while its original purpose has shifted. Keeping, returning or adapting the clothing can give the change a practical response. The scene need not decide that the preparation was wasted or that a future occasion is promised." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "Different outfits allow different ways of taking part", "reflection": "The participants share the event without requiring one form of dress. This may picture an arrangement that preserves roles and preferences together. Its usefulness comes from how people can act within it, rather than assuming outward variety either guarantees harmony or prevents belonging." } ], "prompts": [ "What role did each garment support within the shared occasion?", "Which earlier association was worth retaining, and what needed adaptation?", "How did the group’s practical arrangements make room for participation?" ], "related": [ "wedding-dress", "wedding", "clothes", "dressing", "family" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-2183" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context only. miller-2183: Wedding clothes in orderly versus soiled/disordered condition receive social-participation and relationship-loss forecasts. General ceremonial clothing, not a specific wedding-dress fit or actual marriage prediction. This citation does not validate the original psychological reflections or predict a waking outcome." } ], "updated": "2026-10-13", "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection independently reviewed for content and source scope. Historical accounts remain attributed period writing. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2183", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Wedding Clothes", "text": "To see wedding clothes, signifies you will participate in pleasing\nworks and will meet new friends. To see them soiled or in disorder,\nforetells you will lose close relations with some much-admired person.", "locator": "Heading 2187; source lines 24068–24074", "lineStart": 24068, "lineEnd": 24074, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see wedding clothes, signifies you will participate in pleasing\nworks and will meet new friends. To see them soiled or in disorder,\nforetells you will lose close relations with some much-admired person." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "wedding-dress", "title": "Wedding dress", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "summary": "A wedding dress may make a visible role’s fit, room for choice or practical movement concrete. The dreamed garment does not judge a real relationship.", "tagline": "A ceremonial garment still needs to let its wearer act.", "aliases": [ "wedding dress", "wedding gown", "bridal gown", "bridal dress", "trying on a wedding dress", "wearing a wedding dress", "wedding dress torn", "wedding dress stained", "buying a wedding dress", "wedding dress doesn't fit", "wedding dress does not fit", "ill-fitting wedding dress" ], "status": "REVIEW", "psychological": "A wedding dress can give a visible role a form you must actually wear and move in. Choosing it, trying it on or managing it during an event may make the relationship between presentation and participation concrete. A gown admired while you stand still creates another experience from one that lets you sit, walk and take part comfortably. A waking comparison could be an expected public role whose appearance is easier to approve than its practical terms.\n\n Choice can become crowded by other people's criteria. One person values a particular style, another its history and another how it will look in pictures. If those descriptions leave out your use of the garment, the scene may explore wanting a say in a decision that is visibly yours. Explaining a practical need or selecting a different option can make participation more specific than trying to satisfy every observer at once.\n\n An inherited or borrowed dress can give history a physical place. Its association may be welcome while its fit or conditions of care need changing. A waking comparison might be carrying a family practice into a current occasion without repeating every earlier expectation. An agreed alteration can preserve the connection and allow a present preference. Being forbidden to change any part creates a different relationship with the same history.\n\n A stain, tear or caught train can turn attention toward what the event allows. A repair that keeps the occasion moving differs from treating a visible mishap as a reason everything must stop. Other participants may offer practical help, make the mark more conspicuous or barely notice it. Their dreamed reactions belong to the scene; they do not establish their actual judgments or the condition of a real relationship.\n\n Wearing the dress in an ordinary place can make the role unusually visible. You may enjoy the contrast, find movement difficult or want another form of dress for that activity. Recent fittings, plans, photographs and personal memories can also supply direct context. This specific garment topic follows choice, history and use; a general white or ill-fitting dress does not become a wedding garment from appearance alone.", "traditional": "This original entry follows a particular wedding garment’s selection and use. Neighboring wedding-clothes and ceremony topics offer other points for reflection; they do not decide the garment’s fit, a stain’s meaning or a relationship’s future. General NINDS sleep background allows personal waking experiences to be considered as possible dream material without validating a wedding-dress meaning.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Fit tested by participation", "reflection": "A dress may satisfy a visual expectation yet need changes before it supports the occasion. Movement and practical use can give a role’s fit more substance than approval of its appearance alone." }, { "title": "A choice with many observers", "reflection": "Several people can supply criteria while the wearer needs room to explain their own purpose. The scene may explore how a visibly personal decision remains collaborative without becoming governed entirely by others’ preferences." }, { "title": "History available for adaptation", "reflection": "A familiar dress can preserve a connection while requiring alterations. Keeping an association and changing a practical feature can coexist when the terms allow a present wearer to participate." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "The dress fits while standing but not while sitting", "reflection": "The garment meets one visible standard yet prevents an ordinary part of participation. An alteration or different option may explore how a role needs to fit action as well as presentation. The dreamed mismatch is not a measure of your body’s worth." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Every observer recommends a dress for a different reason", "reflection": "Several criteria compete while your own use of the garment remains unclear. Explaining a need or choosing one priority may give the decision a workable shape. The scene can explore having a say without requiring every other participant to share your exact preference." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A stain appears but the ceremony continues comfortably", "reflection": "The event allows an imperfect presentation without losing its purpose. This may picture room for a practical mishap within a visible role. Acceptance differs from being forced to ignore a problem that actually prevents participation; what can continue gives the mark its context." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "The dress’s train catches and someone offers useful help", "reflection": "Movement becomes a shared practical task rather than a private failure of preparation. Requested help or a small adjustment may let the occasion continue. The encounter can explore assistance that preserves your place in the event instead of taking over the role." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "An inherited dress cannot be altered to fit your plans", "reflection": "A valued connection arrives with conditions that limit present use. Clarifying permission or retaining only an agreed feature can create different responses. The scene may make the terms of carrying history more important than deciding whether the earlier garment is admirable." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You wear the wedding dress on an ordinary bus journey", "reflection": "A ceremonial appearance changes the demands of an everyday task. Enjoying its visibility, struggling with space or choosing to change clothes gives the scene different purposes. The contrast may explore moving between roles without requiring the journey to reveal a wish or prediction about marriage." } ], "prompts": [ "What did the dress let you do, and what practical change was needed?", "Which criteria were yours, and how much room did you have to explain them?", "What history or association could remain while the garment adapted to the present occasion?" ], "related": [ "wedding-clothes", "wedding", "clothes", "dressing", "tailor" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "updated": "2026-10-13", "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection independently reviewed for content and source scope. Historical accounts remain attributed period writing. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "wedding-ring", "title": "Wedding Ring", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "aliases": [ "wedding ring" ], "status": "REVIEW", "summary": "A wedding ring can explore how a named commitment is worn, recognized, temporarily set aside or given another form without deciding a real marriage’s future.", "tagline": "A named band can carry a personal history as well as a public role.", "psychological": "An explicitly identified wedding ring can make a commitment visible within an ordinary activity. You may wear it comfortably, find that someone addresses you only through the married role or feel that the object’s meaning has changed in another setting. This can resemble wanting a valued connection recognized without allowing it to describe every part of you. The scene depends on this band’s named role rather than treating every ring as marital.\n\nRemoving the band for a practical task can separate an object from the promise associated with it. You may put it somewhere secure and continue, or spend the encounter checking whether it can be returned. This can picture wanting an adjustment that preserves continuity. Temporary removal does not establish rejection, secrecy or a real intention to end a marriage.\n\nA lost band can make the search particular. You might want the exact familiar object, a replacement that serves its role or time to decide what part of its history matters. Finding an identical ring that feels unfamiliar can bring memory apart from appearance. A changed possession or ritual may offer a waking comparison when continuity is more than having the same visible form.\n\nAnother person’s response can alter the encounter. They may recognize the band’s history, assume it tells them everything about your relationship or ask whose ring it is. The useful question may concern what you want acknowledged and what remains private. Someone else wearing or holding the band in the dream does not reveal infidelity or transfer the actual commitment to them.\n\nChoosing how visibly to wear a wedding band can also make public recognition and personal meaning different needs. You may enjoy showing it, prefer another way to carry it or discover that the occasion requires an explanation. The scene can explore a chosen expression rather than judge how a real marriage should be displayed. If you are not married, the dream can invent that role without supplying a hidden history or an instruction to adopt it. Recent ceremonies, objects or conversations may supply direct imagery. These original possibilities follow the named band, its particular history and use, leaving actual relationship facts and future events open.", "traditional": "Miller’s Wedding Ring passage assigns favorable protection or fidelity to a bright band, sadness and death to loss or breakage, and a moral judgment to seeing another person wear one. These are period forecasts, not a measure of a marriage or evidence of infidelity. The original reflection follows an explicitly named wedding band; general jewellery and engagement tokens can have different contexts.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A visible role does not describe everything", "reflection": "Recognition of a commitment can coexist with other activities, identities and preferences." }, { "title": "The object and its associated promise can differ", "reflection": "A practical adjustment or a changed band can raise questions about continuity without automatically ending the meaning attached to it." }, { "title": "History and appearance contribute differently", "reflection": "A familiar form can be replaced while its memories, uses and chosen significance remain another part of the encounter." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "People address you only through the role signaled by the wedding band", "reflection": "One visible commitment becomes the whole introduction. This may picture wanting the connection acknowledged while leaving room for other parts of your life. Explaining the activity or preference at hand can make the encounter wider without requiring you to reject the band’s meaning." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You remove the wedding band to complete a practical task", "reflection": "The object is set aside while another activity becomes possible. This can resemble an adjustment that preserves a valued connection rather than discards it. The place you choose for the band may matter through care and continuity, not as evidence of secret rejection." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You search for the lost band but find an identical unfamiliar one", "reflection": "Appearance returns while the particular history feels absent. This may picture distinguishing an object’s form from the experiences attached to it. A replacement, continued search or pause can each have meaning without the loss predicting a death, betrayal or relationship ending." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A familiar person holds the band and asks whose story it carries", "reflection": "Ownership and meaning need words rather than being obvious from the object. This can resemble wanting another person to recognize a particular history. The question may support explanation without allowing their dreamed possession of the ring to reveal a real romantic involvement." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You choose to carry the wedding band out of sight for one occasion", "reflection": "Personal meaning and public display take different forms. This may picture deciding how a commitment participates in a particular setting. Privacy can remain compatible with valuing the connection, without turning concealment or visibility into the correct expression for every real marriage." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You are not married but the dream gives you a remembered wedding band", "reflection": "A role arrives with a history invented inside the scene. This can make assumptions about commitment, recognition or belonging tangible. The imagined familiarity need not prove a hidden wish, an actual marriage memory or a future event you are meant to pursue." } ], "prompts": [ "What did this specifically named band make visible in the encounter?", "How did a change in use affect the meaning associated with it?", "Which part of its history mattered beyond appearance or public display?" ], "related": [ "ring", "marriage", "vow", "wedding", "current-romantic-partner" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-2184" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a diagnosis, prediction or another person’s states. miller-2184 — Wedding Ring (Heading 2188; source lines 24074–24085): A bright wedding ring receives protection/fidelity claims, a lost/broken band sadness/death claims, and another person’s band a vows/illicit-pleasure judgment. This specific band account is not a forecast or evidence about marriage." } ], "updated": "2026-10-14", "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2184", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Wedding Ring", "text": "For a woman to dream her wedding ring is bright and shining,\nforetells that she will be shielded from cares and infidelity.\n\nIf it should be lost or broken, much sadness will come into her life\nthrough death and uncongeniality.\n\nTo see a wedding ring on the hand of a friend, or some other person,\ndenotes that you will hold your vows lightly and will court illicit pleasure.", "locator": "Heading 2188; source lines 24074–24085", "lineStart": 24074, "lineEnd": 24085, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a woman to dream her wedding ring is bright and shining,\nforetells that she will be shielded from cares and infidelity.\n\nIf it should be lost or broken, much sadness will come into her life\nthrough death and uncongeniality.\n\nTo see a wedding ring on the hand of a friend, or some other person,\ndenotes that you will hold your vows lightly and will court illicit pleasure." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "wedge", "title": "Wedge", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a wedge, denotes you will have trouble in some business arrangements which will be the cause of your separation from relatives.”", "aliases": [ "wedge" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about wedge stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2185", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Wedge", "text": "To dream of a wedge, denotes you will have trouble in some business\narrangements which will be the cause of your separation from relatives.\n\nSeparation of lovers or friends may also be implied.", "locator": "Heading 2189; source lines 24085–24092", "lineStart": 24085, "lineEnd": 24092, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a wedge, denotes you will have trouble in some business\narrangements which will be the cause of your separation from relatives.\n\nSeparation of lovers or friends may also be implied." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "wedlock", "title": "Wedlock", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are in the bonds of an unwelcome wedlock, denotes you will be unfortunately implicated in a disagreeable affair.”", "aliases": [ "wedlock" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about wedlock stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2186", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Wedlock", "text": "To dream that you are in the bonds of an unwelcome wedlock, denotes you\nwill be unfortunately implicated in a disagreeable affair.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she is dissatisfied with wedlock,\nforetells her inclinations will persuade her into scandalous escapades.\n\nFor a married woman to dream of her wedding day, warns her to fortify\nher strength and feelings against disappointment and grief.\nShe will also be involved in secret quarrels and jealousies.\nFor a woman to imagine she is pleased and securely cared for in wedlock,\nis a propitious dream.", "locator": "Heading 2190; source lines 24092–24106", "lineStart": 24092, "lineEnd": 24106, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are in the bonds of an unwelcome wedlock, denotes you\nwill be unfortunately implicated in a disagreeable affair.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she is dissatisfied with wedlock,\nforetells her inclinations will persuade her into scandalous escapades.\n\nFor a married woman to dream of her wedding day, warns her to fortify\nher strength and feelings against disappointment and grief.\nShe will also be involved in secret quarrels and jealousies.\nFor a woman to imagine she is pleased and securely cared for in wedlock,\nis a propitious dream." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "weeding", "title": "Weeding", "type": "dreams", "category": "Other symbols", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are weeding, foretells that you will have difficulty in proceeding with some work which…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "weeding" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about weeding stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2187", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Weeding", "text": "To dream that you are weeding, foretells that you will have difficulty\nin proceeding with some work which will bring you distinction.\n\nTo see others weeding, you will be fearful that enemies will\nupset your plans.", "locator": "Heading 2191; source lines 24106–24114", "lineStart": 24106, "lineEnd": 24114, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are weeding, foretells that you will have difficulty\nin proceeding with some work which will bring you distinction.\n\nTo see others weeding, you will be fearful that enemies will\nupset your plans." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12507", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Weeding", "heading": "Weeding", "text": "A dream of health, wealth and happiness (Raphael).", "lineStart": 12507, "lineEnd": 12513, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 263–264; NLM OCR lines 12507–12513", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12507, "lineEnd": 12513, "printedPage": 263, "printedPageEnd": 264 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Weeding.— A dream of health, wealth and happiness (Raph- \nael). \n\n\n264 THE FABRIC OF DREAMS \n\n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [ { "line": 12511, "text": "264 THE FABRIC OF DREAMS " } ], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "Raph- \nael", "after": "Raphael", "evidenceLine": 1365 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Weeding" }, "displayText": "A dream of health, wealth and happiness (Raphael)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "weeds", "title": "Weeds", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “A dream of much labor and small benefit (Gypsy).”", "aliases": [ "weeds" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about weeds stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. 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OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L12514", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Weeds", "heading": "Weeds", "text": "A dream of much labor and small benefit (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12514, "lineEnd": 12514, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 264; NLM OCR lines 12514–12514", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12514, "lineEnd": 12514, "printedPage": 264, "printedPageEnd": 264 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Weeds. — A dream of much labor and small benefit (Gypsy). \n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Weeds" }, "displayText": "A dream of much labor and small benefit (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "weeping", "title": "Weeping", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “Weeping in your dreams, foretells ill tidings and disturbances in your family.” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "weeping", "of weeping" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about weeping stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2188", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Weeping", "text": "Weeping in your dreams, foretells ill tidings and disturbances\nin your family.\n\nTo see others weeping, signals pleasant reunion after\nperiods of saddened estrangements. This dream for a young\nwoman is ominous of lovers' quarrels, which can only reach\nreconciliation by self-abnegation.\n\nFor the tradesman, it foretells temporary discouragement and reverses.", "locator": "Heading 2192; source lines 24114–24126", "lineStart": 24114, "lineEnd": 24126, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Weeping in your dreams, foretells ill tidings and disturbances\nin your family.\n\nTo see others weeping, signals pleasant reunion after\nperiods of saddened estrangements. This dream for a young\nwoman is ominous of lovers' quarrels, which can only reach\nreconciliation by self-abnegation.\n\nFor the tradesman, it foretells temporary discouragement and reverses." }, { "id": "artemidorus-113", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of Weeping.", "text": "TO weepe and grieve, whether it be for any friend departed, or for any cause, it is joy, and myrth, for some good act, and not without reason: for our spirit hath some affinity and resemblance with the exteriour ayre, which invyroneth us. As therefore ayre is always subject to change from fayre weather to tempests, and from tempests to fayre weather and a calm, so it is likely that our spirit changeth from heavinesse to joy, and again from ioy to heavinesse. And therefore also to be merry, is a signe of heavinesse. But the party must have some cause of sadnesse, otherwise to be sad without cause, were a signe you should be sad for a cause.", "locator": "Book 2, encoded section 113", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "2", "displayText": "To weepe and grieve, whether it be for any friend departed, or for any cause, it is joy, and myrth, for some good act, and not without reason: for our spirit hath some affinity and resemblance with the exteriour ayre, which invyroneth us. As therefore ayre is always subject to change from fayre weather to tempests, and from tempests to fayre weather and a calm, so it is likely that our spirit changeth from heavinesse to joy, and again from ioy to heavinesse. And therefore also to be merry, is a signe of heavinesse. But the party must have some cause of sadnesse, otherwise to be sad without cause, were a signe you should be sad for a cause." }, { "id": "noe-0560", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Weeping", "text": "To dream one weeps or grieves, whether it be for a friend\ndeparted or any other cause, is joy and mirth.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 568; source lines 2032–2033", "lineStart": 2032, "lineEnd": 2033, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream one weeps or grieves, whether it be for a friend\ndeparted or any other cause, is joy and mirth." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12515", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Weeping", "heading": "Weeping", "text": "A dream of joy (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12515, "lineEnd": 12516, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 264; NLM OCR lines 12515–12516", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12515, "lineEnd": 12516, "printedPage": 264, "printedPageEnd": 264 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Weeping. — A dream of joy (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Weeping" }, "displayText": "A dream of joy (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2189", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Weevil", "text": "To dream of weevils, portends loss in trade and falseness in love.", "locator": "Heading 2193; source lines 24126–24130", "lineStart": 24126, "lineEnd": 24130, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of weevils, portends loss in trade and falseness in love." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2190", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Weighing", "text": "To dream of weighing, denotes that you are approaching a prosperous period,\nand if you set yourself determinedly toward success you will victoriously\nreap the full fruition of your labors.\n\nTo weigh others, you will be able to subordinate them to your interest.\n\nFor a young woman to weigh with her lover, foretells that he will be ready\nat all times to comply with her demands.", "locator": "Heading 2194; source lines 24130–24141", "lineStart": 24130, "lineEnd": 24141, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of weighing, denotes that you are approaching a prosperous period,\nand if you set yourself determinedly toward success you will victoriously\nreap the full fruition of your labors.\n\nTo weigh others, you will be able to subordinate them to your interest.\n\nFor a young woman to weigh with her lover, foretells that he will be ready\nat all times to comply with her demands." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "welcome", "title": "Welcome", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you receive a warm welcome into any society, foretells that you will become distinguished among your acquaintances and will…”", "aliases": [ "welcome" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about welcome stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2192", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Welcome", "text": "To dream that you receive a warm welcome into any society,\nforetells that you will become distinguished among your\nacquaintances and will have deference shown you by strangers.\nYour fortune will approximate anticipation.\n\nTo accord others welcome, denotes your congeniality and warm nature\nwill be your passport into pleasures, or any other desired place.", "locator": "Heading 2196; source lines 24162–24172", "lineStart": 24162, "lineEnd": 24172, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you receive a warm welcome into any society,\nforetells that you will become distinguished among your\nacquaintances and will have deference shown you by strangers.\nYour fortune will approximate anticipation.\n\nTo accord others welcome, denotes your congeniality and warm nature\nwill be your passport into pleasures, or any other desired place." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "well", "title": "Well", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are employed in a well, foretells that you will succumb to adversity through your…” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "well" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about well stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2191", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Well", "text": "To dream that you are employed in a well, foretells that you\nwill succumb to adversity through your misapplied energies.\nYou will let strange elements direct your course.\n\nTo fall into a well, signifies that overwhelming despair will possess you.\nFor one to cave in, promises that enemies' schemes will overthrow your own.\n\nTo see an empty well, denotes you will be robbed of fortune if you\nallow strangers to share your confidence.\n\nTo see one with a pump in it, shows you will have opportunities\nto advance your prospects.\n\nTo dream of an artesian well, foretells that your splendid resources\nwill gain you admittance into the realms of knowledge and pleasure.\n\nTo draw water from a well, denotes the fulfilment of ardent desires.\nIf the water is impure, there will be unpleasantness.", "locator": "Heading 2195; source lines 24141–24162", "lineStart": 24141, "lineEnd": 24162, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are employed in a well, foretells that you\nwill succumb to adversity through your misapplied energies.\nYou will let strange elements direct your course.\n\nTo fall into a well, signifies that overwhelming despair will possess you.\nFor one to cave in, promises that enemies' schemes will overthrow your own.\n\nTo see an empty well, denotes you will be robbed of fortune if you\nallow strangers to share your confidence.\n\nTo see one with a pump in it, shows you will have opportunities\nto advance your prospects.\n\nTo dream of an artesian well, foretells that your splendid resources\nwill gain you admittance into the realms of knowledge and pleasure.\n\nTo draw water from a well, denotes the fulfilment of ardent desires.\nIf the water is impure, there will be unpleasantness." }, { "id": "fontaine-0856", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Well", "text": "To dream of looking into a deep well, is a sign you will find a\ntreasure: if you dream of falling into a deep well, it foretells your\ndeath: if you imagine you draw clear water from a well, and drink it,\nyou will surely have good fortune of some kind. 7, 14, 77.", "locator": "Heading 856; source line 5220", "lineStart": 5220, "lineEnd": 5225, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of looking into a deep well, is a sign you will find a\ntreasure: if you dream of falling into a deep well, it foretells your\ndeath: if you imagine you draw clear water from a well, and drink it,\nyou will surely have good fortune of some kind." }, { "id": "noe-0567", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Well", "text": "If a young man dreams that he draws water\nout of a well, it signifies a speedy marriage to a fair maid, who will\nbring him a portion. If the water be troubled, he will be disturbed by\nher, and suddenly fall sick. If he seems to give to others clear well\nwater to drink, it denotes that he will enrich them. But if the water be\ntroubled, he will afflict them. If he dreams that he sees a person fall\ninto a well, it signifies that the person dreamed of shall die quickly.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 575; source lines 2062–2069", "lineStart": 2062, "lineEnd": 2069, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If a young man dreams that he draws water\nout of a well, it signifies a speedy marriage to a fair maid, who will\nbring him a portion. If the water be troubled, he will be disturbed by\nher, and suddenly fall sick. If he seems to give to others clear well\nwater to drink, it denotes that he will enrich them. But if the water be\ntroubled, he will afflict them. If he dreams that he sees a person fall\ninto a well, it signifies that the person dreamed of shall die quickly." }, { "id": "cielo-0465", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Well", "text": "To draw water from a well means success in\n your undertakings.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 465; source lines 4991–4994", "lineStart": 4991, "lineEnd": 4994, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To draw water from a well means success in\nyour undertakings." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "welsh-rarebits", "title": "Welsh Rarebits", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of preparing or eating Welsh rarebits, denotes that your affairs will assume a complicated state, owing to your attention being…”", "aliases": [ "welsh rarebits" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about welsh rarebits stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2193", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Welsh Rarebits", "text": "To dream of preparing or eating Welsh rarebits, denotes that your affairs\nwill assume a complicated state, owing to your attention being absorbed\nby artful women and enjoyment of neutral fancies.", "locator": "Heading 2197; source lines 24172–24178", "lineStart": 24172, "lineEnd": 24178, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of preparing or eating Welsh rarebits, denotes that your affairs\nwill assume a complicated state, owing to your attention being absorbed\nby artful women and enjoyment of neutral fancies." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "wet", "title": "Wet", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are wet, denotes that a possible pleasure may involve you in loss and disease.”", "aliases": [ "wet" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about wet stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2194", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Wet", "text": "To dream that you are wet, denotes that a possible pleasure\nmay involve you in loss and disease. You are warned to avoid\nthe blandishments of seemingly well-meaning people.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she is soaking wet, portends that she\nwill be disgracefully implicated in some affair with a married man.", "locator": "Heading 2198; source lines 24178–24187", "lineStart": 24178, "lineEnd": 24187, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are wet, denotes that a possible pleasure\nmay involve you in loss and disease. You are warned to avoid\nthe blandishments of seemingly well-meaning people.\n\nFor a young woman to dream that she is soaking wet, portends that she\nwill be disgracefully implicated in some affair with a married man." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "wet-nurse", "title": "Wet Nurse", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are a wet nurse, denotes that you will be widowed or have the care of the aged, or…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "wet nurse", "wet-nurse" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about wet nurse stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2195", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Wet Nurse", "text": "To dream that you are a wet nurse, denotes that you will be widowed\nor have the care of the aged, or little children.\n\nFor a woman to dream that she is a wet nurse, signifies that she\nwill depend on her own labors for sustenance.", "locator": "Heading 2199; source lines 24187–24195", "lineStart": 24187, "lineEnd": 24195, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are a wet nurse, denotes that you will be widowed\nor have the care of the aged, or little children.\n\nFor a woman to dream that she is a wet nurse, signifies that she\nwill depend on her own labors for sustenance." }, { "id": "fontaine-0857", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Wet-Nurse", "text": "To dream of seeing a wet-nurse suckling a child, is a\nsign of venery: to a married man it foretells that he will break his\nmarriage vows; and to unmarried girls it denotes shame. 7, 9, 63.", "locator": "Heading 857; source line 5225", "lineStart": 5225, "lineEnd": 5229, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing a wet-nurse suckling a child, is a\nsign of venery: to a married man it foretells that he will break his\nmarriage vows; and to unmarried girls it denotes shame.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Wet-Nurse” is shown on the Wet Nurse page: same heading; hyphen variant" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "whale", "title": "Whale", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "A large presence, a partial view, and the distance from which you can meet it.", "summary": "A whale dream may focus on scale, a brief surface encounter, or the route shared by a boat and an unseen animal. Begin with your position and response.", "aliases": [ "whale", "whales" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "kind": "editorial", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "A whale may be visible only for a moment, move beside a boat, or appear in a place far too small to contain it. Begin with your own position: on shore, in the water, above the scene, or somewhere impossible. Wonder, alarm, companionship and curiosity lead to different reflections even when the animal is very large.\n\nA partial view can be central. You may see a back, a movement beneath the surface, or a tail as the whale disappears. Record what you saw separately from what you imagined remained below. A possible question concerns how you respond to something you cannot view all at once. The dream does not establish a hidden truth simply because part of the animal remains unseen.\n\nIf a boat is present, compare its route with the whale’s movement. They may travel alongside one another, cross paths, or need more distance. You might explore the fit between a planned journey and a larger presence that does not follow the same schedule. Keep that comparison specific. The animal is not automatically an obstacle, an adviser, or a measure of how important a waking concern should be.\n\nA whale in shallow water or on land may turn your role toward looking for help. Notice who shares the task, what information is available, and whether the setting changes while you decide. An imagined rescue can explore responsibility without becoming real wildlife-rescue advice. Failure to resolve the scene does not show that you have failed a person who depends on you.\n\nSize can also change during the dream. A tiny whale in a bowl or one that fills a familiar room may be playful, tender or difficult to accommodate. Ask what the setting permits and what would need to change. A film, illustration, sea journey or remembered conversation may provide ordinary context. Your own association can remain enough without treating the encounter as a spiritual instruction or a forecast of danger, wealth or status.", "traditional": "Miller makes different forecasts for a whale approaching, being destroyed, or overturning a ship. Fontaine also links danger and wealth to the encounter and its violent ending. Noe offers a favorable status and longevity prediction for riding a whale; Craig gives a danger warning. These four complete accounts document contrasting period claims. They cannot forecast a journey, lifespan, financial result or social position, and they give no reason to harm an animal. The original reflections keep the dreamer’s position, the route and the feeling separate from those predictions.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A whale travels beside the boat without approaching it", "reflection": "Two routes remain close while allowing room for each. Notice whether company changes how the journey feels. The scene can invite a question about companionship that does not require control or an immediate explanation." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You see only the tail before the whale disappears", "reflection": "A brief encounter leaves much of the animal unseen. Record whether you wanted another view or were content with the moment. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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In love, it argues a completion of your most\nsanguine wishes and foretells much happiness, with fine children, when you\nmarry. If you have a lawsuit, you will gain it and you will be successful\nin all your undertakings.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 569; source lines 2033–2038", "lineStart": 2033, "lineEnd": 2038, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see\nor are walking in a field of wheat, is a very favorable omen, and denotes\ngreat prosperity and riches. In love, it argues a completion of your most\nsanguine wishes and foretells much happiness, with fine children, when you\nmarry. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2200", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Whetstone", "text": "To dream of a whetstone, is significant of sharp worries and close attention\nis needed in your own affairs, if you avoid difficulties.\n\nYou are likely to be forced into an uncomfortable journey.", "locator": "Heading 2204; source lines 24250–24257", "lineStart": 24250, "lineEnd": 24257, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a whetstone, is significant of sharp worries and close attention\nis needed in your own affairs, if you avoid difficulties.\n\nYou are likely to be forced into an uncomfortable journey." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "whip", "title": "Whip", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a whip, signifies unhappy dissensions and unfortunate and formidable friendships.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "whip" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about whip stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2201", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Whip", "text": "To dream of a whip, signifies unhappy dissensions and unfortunate\nand formidable friendships.", "locator": "Heading 2205; source lines 24257–24262", "lineStart": 24257, "lineEnd": 24262, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a whip, signifies unhappy dissensions and unfortunate\nand formidable friendships." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12528", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Whip", "heading": "Whip", "text": "To dream of whipping an animal denotes sorrow to you; to dream of being whipped augurs scandal (Gypsy). A symbol of martyrdom.", "lineStart": 12528, "lineEnd": 12531, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 264; NLM OCR lines 12528–12531", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12528, "lineEnd": 12531, "printedPage": 264, "printedPageEnd": 264 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Whip. — To dream of whipping an animal denotes sorrow \nto you; to dream of being whipped augurs scandal (Gypsy). \nA symbol of martyrdom. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Whip" }, "displayText": "To dream of whipping an animal denotes sorrow to you; to dream of being whipped augurs scandal (Gypsy). A symbol of martyrdom." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "whirlpool", "title": "Whirlpool", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a whirlpool, denotes that great danger is imminent in your business, and, unless you are…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "whirlpool" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about whirlpool stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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The dreams of whirling or of being whirled are readily attributable to physical causes, headaches, vertigo, etc.", "lineStart": 12532, "lineEnd": 12536, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 264; NLM OCR lines 12532–12536", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12532, "lineEnd": 12536, "printedPage": 264, "printedPageEnd": 264 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Whirlpool. — A dream warning you of danger, physical or \notherwise (Gypsy). The dreams of whirling or of being \nwhirled are readily attributable to physical causes, headaches, \nvertigo, etc. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Whirlpool" }, "displayText": "A dream warning you of danger, physical or otherwise (Gypsy). The dreams of whirling or of being whirled are readily attributable to physical causes, headaches, vertigo, etc." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "whirlwind", "title": "Whirlwind", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are in the path of a whirlwind, foretells that you are confronting a change which…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "whirlwind" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about whirlwind stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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For physical causes see Whirlpool.", "lineStart": 12537, "lineEnd": 12539, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 264; NLM OCR lines 12537–12539", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12537, "lineEnd": 12539, "printedPage": 264, "printedPageEnd": 264 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Whirlwind. — Heavy troubles (Gypsy). For physical \ncauses see Whirlpool. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Whirlwind" }, "displayText": "Heavy troubles (Gypsy). For physical causes see Whirlpool." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "whiskers", "title": "Whiskers", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “If a man dreams that he has very long whiskers or beard, it foretells that he will commit some folly in connection with a female.”", "aliases": [ "whiskers" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about whiskers stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0860", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Whiskers", "text": "If a man dreams that he has very long whiskers or beard, it\nforetells that he will commit some folly in connection with a female;\nto a married man it shows that he will appear ridiculous from neglect\nof his wife and attentions to other women who flatter him; to a single\nman, that he will lose caste by foolish, though perhaps not criminal\nconduct toward silly girls. 78.", "locator": "Heading 860; source line 5236", "lineStart": 5236, "lineEnd": 5243, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If a man dreams that he has very long whiskers or beard, it\nforetells that he will commit some folly in connection with a female;\nto a married man it shows that he will appear ridiculous from neglect\nof his wife and attentions to other women who flatter him; to a single\nman, that he will lose caste by foolish, though perhaps not criminal\nconduct toward silly girls." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "whisky", "title": "Whisky", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of whisky in bottles, denotes that you will be careful of your interests, protecting them with energy and watchfulness, thereby…”", "aliases": [ "whisky" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about whisky stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2204", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Whisky", "text": "To dream of whisky in bottles, denotes that you will be careful\nof your interests, protecting them with energy and watchfulness,\nthereby adding to their proportion.\n\nTo drink it alone, foretells that you will sacrifice your friends\nto your selfishness.\n\nTo destroy whisky, you will lose your friends by your ungenerous conduct.\n\nWhisky is not fraught with much good. Disappointment in some form\nwill likely appear.\n\nTo see or drink it, is to strive and reach a desired object after\nmany disappointments. If you only see it, you will never obtain\nthe result hoped and worked for.", "locator": "Heading 2208; source lines 24279–24297", "lineStart": 24279, "lineEnd": 24297, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of whisky in bottles, denotes that you will be careful\nof your interests, protecting them with energy and watchfulness,\nthereby adding to their proportion.\n\nTo drink it alone, foretells that you will sacrifice your friends\nto your selfishness.\n\nTo destroy whisky, you will lose your friends by your ungenerous conduct.\n\nWhisky is not fraught with much good. Disappointment in some form\nwill likely appear.\n\nTo see or drink it, is to strive and reach a desired object after\nmany disappointments. If you only see it, you will never obtain\nthe result hoped and worked for." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "whisper", "title": "Whisper", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of whispering, denotes that you will be disturbed by the evil gossiping of people near you.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "whisper", "whispering" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about whisper stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2205", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Whispering", "text": "To dream of whispering, denotes that you will be disturbed by the evil\ngossiping of people near you.\n\nTo hear a whisper coming to you as advice or warning, foretells that you\nstand in need of aid and counsel.", "locator": "Heading 2209; source lines 24297–24305", "lineStart": 24297, "lineEnd": 24305, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of whispering, denotes that you will be disturbed by the evil\ngossiping of people near you.\n\nTo hear a whisper coming to you as advice or warning, foretells that you\nstand in need of aid and counsel.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Whispering” is shown on the Whisper page: same topic" }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12540", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Whisper", "heading": "Whisper", "text": "To dream of whispering or hearing a whisper denotes scandal (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12540, "lineEnd": 12542, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 264; NLM OCR lines 12540–12542", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12540, "lineEnd": 12542, "printedPage": 264, "printedPageEnd": 264 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Whisper. — To dream of whispering or hearing a whisper \ndenotes scandal (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Whisper" }, "displayText": "To dream of whispering or hearing a whisper denotes scandal (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2206", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Whistle", "text": "To hear a whistle in your dream, denotes that you will be shocked by some\nsad intelligence, which will change your plans laid for innocent pleasure.\n\nTo dream that you are whistling, foretells a merry occasion in which you\nexpect to figure largely. This dream for a young woman indicates indiscreet\nconduct and failure to obtain wishes is foretold.", "locator": "Heading 2210; source lines 24305–24314", "lineStart": 24305, "lineEnd": 24314, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To hear a whistle in your dream, denotes that you will be shocked by some\nsad intelligence, which will change your plans laid for innocent pleasure.\n\nTo dream that you are whistling, foretells a merry occasion in which you\nexpect to figure largely. This dream for a young woman indicates indiscreet\nconduct and failure to obtain wishes is foretold." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "white", "title": "White (color)", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "summary": "White as an appearance can explore room for a first contribution, a small mark given large attention, or an unfinished surface others call complete.", "tagline": "A clear surface can hold different expectations.", "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "aliases": [ "white", "white color", "white colour", "the color white", "the colour white" ], "psychological": "A wide white surface waiting for a first mark can picture an opportunity whose form has not yet been settled. A new project, an empty schedule, or a role without an established routine may offer parallels. The space can feel inviting when you are free to begin modestly. If every first mark seems impossible to revise, the same opening may make expectation more influential than the practical task of starting.\n\nA tiny mark becoming the center of attention on an otherwise white surface can give an ordinary contribution disproportionate visibility. A small error displayed in a presentation or one personal preference within a formal arrangement can resemble the scene. The mark may be welcome evidence that someone has begun, rather than damage to an ideal surface. Your reaction helps distinguish a usable beginning from a demand that appearance remain untouched.\n\nAn object painted white over earlier decoration can picture a reset that changes how its history is shown. A room prepared for another use or work revised for a different audience may fit. Relief can concern a fresh arrangement, while regret can concern details lost beneath it. The new surface does not prove that the earlier one was wrong. A choice about what to retain can make continuity possible without requiring everything to stay visible.\n\nSomeone declaring an empty white page complete can create a different tension. The appearance meets their standard while the content you wanted remains absent. A polished plan with an unaddressed practical step offers a waking comparison. Conversely, being asked to add more when the simple result already does what you need can make sufficiency difficult to defend. The scene's task gives the surface its meaning, rather than blankness alone.\n\nWhite detail within a colorful room can also become an anchor that is recognizable without competing with every surrounding feature. A remembered page, object, garment, or design may supply direct context. This entry concerns an appearance, not bright illumination, snow, a wedding outcome, or a category of people. White supplies no purity or health verdict. A useful reading follows what can be added, what remains visible, and whose expectations define completion.", "traditional": "No standalone White hue account is attached. White-clothing, White Moth, and White Lead passages retain their original subjects and historical attribution. Their forecasts do not establish a general purity, illness, or fortune code. 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Invitation differs from pressure to make the first step perfect; a modest mark can start the process without deciding every later detail." }, { "title": "A tiny mark receives everyone’s attention", "reflection": "One small detail becomes more visible than the larger result. This can resemble a contribution or mistake receiving disproportionate scrutiny. Welcome evidence of a beginning gives another reading from assuming the mark has damaged everything merely because the surrounding surface was untouched." }, { "title": "You repaint a decorated object white", "reflection": "A reset changes which parts of the earlier appearance remain available. This may picture preparing something for another use or audience. Relief and regret can coexist; retaining a particular detail offers another response from preserving or covering the entire history at once." }, { "title": "An empty white page is called finished", "reflection": "Appearance satisfies one standard while expected content is missing. This may resemble a polished plan that leaves a practical need unaddressed. Asking what the page must actually provide can change the scene from accepting its surface as sufficient evidence of completion." }, { "title": "Others demand more from a simple result", "reflection": "The current form serves your purpose but does not match another expectation. This may picture having to justify a modest preference or bounded task. The disagreement concerns what completion requires, rather than proving that simplicity is always better or that elaboration is unnecessary." }, { "title": "One white detail anchors a colorful room", "reflection": "A distinct feature gives attention somewhere to return without replacing the surrounding variety. This can picture a useful reference point within a busy arrangement. Its value depends on what it helps you recognize, rather than a universal promise of clarity or goodness from the hue." } ], "prompts": [ "What made a first contribution feel welcome or difficult to begin?", "How did attention change the scale of a small mark?", "What needed to be present before the result felt complete to you?" ], "related": [ "colors", "black", "paper", "light", "clothes" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "detectionAliases": [ "white color", "white colour", "the color white", "the colour white" ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "white-lead", "title": "White Lead", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of white lead, denotes relatives or children are in danger because of your carelessness. Prosperity will be chary of favor.”", "aliases": [ "white lead" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about white lead stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2207", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "White Lead", "text": "To dream of white lead, denotes relatives or children are in danger\nbecause of your carelessness. Prosperity will be chary of favor.", "locator": "Heading 2211; source lines 24314–24319", "lineStart": 24314, "lineEnd": 24319, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of white lead, denotes relatives or children are in danger\nbecause of your carelessness. Prosperity will be chary of favor." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "white-moth", "title": "White Moth", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "aliases": [ "white moth" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "summary": "A white moth can explore keeping track of a particular visitor, recognizing it against changed surroundings, or protecting detail without restricting movement.", "tagline": "A distinctive appearance helps recognition while leaving the encounter open.", "psychological": "A white moth visible against a dark wall can make a small moving detail easy to recognize within a larger scene. You may have one contribution or concern clearly in view while other parts of a task remain less particular. If the moth moves onto a pale curtain and becomes difficult to see, its presence has not necessarily ended; the conditions of recognition have changed. That comparison can fit work or a relationship whose visibility depends on the setting.\n\nTrying to photograph the moth while it keeps moving can bring a record of the encounter apart from the encounter itself. You may want a clear account before the visitor leaves, while the attempt to secure one uses the time you could spend watching. A fleeting opportunity or moment with someone can have a similar tension. The scene does not require a perfect image before the experience counts as something you had.\n\nA mark appearing on the moth’s white wing can make a particular difference seem more significant because of the surrounding surface. You may want to restore the expected appearance, or find that the mark helps you recognize this visitor among others. An altered possession or revised piece of work may offer parallels. The color does not make the mark wrongdoing, contamination or evidence about health.\n\nSeveral white moths that look alike can make familiarity depend on movement rather than appearance alone. You may recognize one through the place it chooses or the way it approaches you in the dream. A category can help orientation without deciding that every participant has the same need. A protective case makes another question visible when preserving the appearance prevents the creature’s movement.\n\nA white paper moth beside the living visitor can also separate a clear representation from an unpredictable encounter. You may enjoy both while needing a different kind of participation with each. A recent image, fabric pattern or actual sighting can supply direct context. These original possibilities keep the creature’s recognized appearance and actual action together. White does not establish safety, wrongdoing or a character judgment. A whole monochrome scene has a different scale.", "traditional": "Only Miller’s White Moth passage is attached. It predicts sickness, wrong-doing accusations, unrequited wishes and deaths from several movements. These are unsupported period forecasts, not warnings, diagnoses or evidence of guilt. No general Moth or white-color record is reassigned to this distinct historical owner.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Visibility depends on the surroundings", "reflection": "A remembered visitor can remain present while a changed background makes it harder to distinguish." }, { "title": "Recognition can exceed a perfect record", "reflection": "A moving encounter may retain value without becoming the complete representation you wanted to secure." }, { "title": "Preserving appearance allows movement", "reflection": "Keeping a particular detail intact can need conditions that also leave room for the living visitor’s activity." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A white moth moves from a dark wall onto a pale curtain", "reflection": "Recognition changes with the background while the visitor continues. This may picture a contribution becoming less visible in another setting. A different point of reference can help without requiring you to assume that something meaningful disappeared when it became harder to distinguish." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You try to photograph a white moth that will not stay still", "reflection": "Securing an account competes with time inside the encounter. This can resemble a fleeting moment you want clearly preserved. Watching and making a record offer different forms of participation; the experience need not become a perfect image before it matters." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A mark appears on one white wing", "reflection": "A small difference becomes conspicuous against the surrounding appearance. This may picture revision altering a familiar object or account. Restoring the surface and using the mark for recognition create different possibilities, without turning whiteness or a blemish into a moral or medical sign." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Several white moths look alike but one approaches differently", "reflection": "Recognition depends on action as well as appearance. This can resemble participants sharing a role while having different ways of meeting you. A useful category need not determine every need, and the dream does not require a correct biological identification to explore that difference." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A case protects the white moth’s wings but limits its movement", "reflection": "Preservation makes another purpose difficult to fulfill. This may picture an arrangement keeping a valued appearance intact while restricting activity. More room or a different form of care can support both needs without treating all protection as harmful or all change as loss." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "A white paper moth sits beside the living visitor", "reflection": "A clear representation and a moving encounter share the scene. This can resemble an explanation that helps recognition while leaving actual participation unpredictable. Valuing the model does not require the visitor to reproduce it or make its appearance a universal symbol." } ], "prompts": [ "How did the surroundings affect recognition of the particular visitor?", "What mattered in the encounter beyond securing a clear image of it?", "Which conditions could preserve the detail while allowing movement?" ], "related": [ "moth", "white", "photograph", "dreaming-in-black-and-white" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-2208" ], "scope": "Attributed period writing only; does not validate these original reflections, a prediction, species personality or diagnosis. miller-2208 — White Moth (Heading 2212; source lines 24319–24330): White moth, nocturnal flight, settling/disappearance receive illness, wrongdoing-accusation, wish and death claims. None are endorsed." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection independently reviewed for content and source scope. Historical accounts remain attributed period writing. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2208", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "White Moth", "text": "To dream of a white moth, foretells unavoidable sickness,\nthough you will be tempted to accuse yourself or some other\nwith wrong-doing, which you think causes the complaint.\nFor a woman to see one flying around in the room at night,\nforebodes unrequited wishes and disposition which will\neffect the enjoyment of other people. To see a moth flying\nand finally settling upon something, or disappearing totally,\nforeshadows death of friends or relatives.", "locator": "Heading 2212; source lines 24319–24330", "lineStart": 24319, "lineEnd": 24330, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a white moth, foretells unavoidable sickness,\nthough you will be tempted to accuse yourself or some other\nwith wrong-doing, which you think causes the complaint.\nFor a woman to see one flying around in the room at night,\nforebodes unrequited wishes and disposition which will\neffect the enjoyment of other people. To see a moth flying\nand finally settling upon something, or disappearing totally,\nforeshadows death of friends or relatives." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "whitewash", "title": "Whitewash", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are whitewashing, foretells that you will seek to reinstate yourself with friends by…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "whitewash" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about whitewash stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2209", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Whitewash", "text": "To dream that you are whitewashing, foretells that you will seek\nto reinstate yourself with friends by ridding yourself of offensive\nhabits and companions.\n\nFor a young woman, this dream is significant of well-laid plans\nto deceive others and gain back her lover who has been estranged\nby her insinuating bearing toward him.", "locator": "Heading 2213; source lines 24330–24340", "lineStart": 24330, "lineEnd": 24340, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are whitewashing, foretells that you will seek\nto reinstate yourself with friends by ridding yourself of offensive\nhabits and companions.\n\nFor a young woman, this dream is significant of well-laid plans\nto deceive others and gain back her lover who has been estranged\nby her insinuating bearing toward him." }, { "id": "fontaine-0862", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Whitewash", "text": "To dream of having your house or place of business\nwhitewashed, is an excellent omen, as it promises you good health,\nand a good name and repute among your friends: if a woman dreams of\nwhitewashing her house, or any part of it, it foretells that she will\nhave a son who will be distinguished, or that some act of hers will\nattract public attention. 42, 77.", "locator": "Heading 862; source line 5245", "lineStart": 5245, "lineEnd": 5252, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of having your house or place of business\nwhitewashed, is an excellent omen, as it promises you good health,\nand a good name and repute among your friends: if a woman dreams of\nwhitewashing her house, or any part of it, it foretells that she will\nhave a son who will be distinguished, or that some act of hers will\nattract public attention." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "whortleberries", "title": "Whortleberries", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “For a girl to dream of picking these berries in abundance, is a sign she will marry very young and get a good husband, though not a rich…”", "aliases": [ "whortleberries" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about whortleberries stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0864", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Whortleberries", "text": "For a girl to dream of picking these berries in\nabundance, is a sign she will marry very young and get a good husband,\nthough not a rich one: to dream of eating whortleberries, denotes\nhealth. 69, 30.", "locator": "Heading 864; source line 5257", "lineStart": 5257, "lineEnd": 5262, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a girl to dream of picking these berries in\nabundance, is a sign she will marry very young and get a good husband,\nthough not a rich one: to dream of eating whortleberries, denotes\nhealth." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "widow", "title": "Widow", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are a widow, foretells that you will have many troubles through malicious persons.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "widow" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about widow stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2210", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Widow", "text": "To dream that you are a widow, foretells that you will have many troubles\nthrough malicious persons.\n\nFor a man to dream that he marries a widow, denotes he will see\nsome cherished undertaking crumble down in disappointment.", "locator": "Heading 2214; source lines 24340–24348", "lineStart": 24340, "lineEnd": 24348, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are a widow, foretells that you will have many troubles\nthrough malicious persons.\n\nFor a man to dream that he marries a widow, denotes he will see\nsome cherished undertaking crumble down in disappointment." }, { "id": "fontaine-0865", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Widow", "text": "If a girl dreams that she is a widow, it foretells that she will\nhave many lovers: such a dream to a married woman, denotes that some\nman beside her husband is in love with her. 38, 60.", "locator": "Heading 865; source line 5262", "lineStart": 5262, "lineEnd": 5266, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If a girl dreams that she is a widow, it foretells that she will\nhave many lovers: such a dream to a married woman, denotes that some\nman beside her husband is in love with her." }, { "id": "noe-0573", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Widow", "text": "For a newly married woman to\ndream that she is a widow, signifies that she will be blessed with comfort\nand happiness in domestic life and be the mother of dutiful and obedient\nchildren.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 581; source lines 2087–2090", "lineStart": 2087, "lineEnd": 2090, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a newly married woman to\ndream that she is a widow, signifies that she will be blessed with comfort\nand happiness in domestic life and be the mother of dutiful and obedient\nchildren." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "widowhood", "title": "Widowhood", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “A dream of satisfaction, joy (Gypsy).”", "aliases": [ "widowhood" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about widowhood stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L12543", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Widowhood", "heading": "Widowhood", "text": "A dream of satisfaction, joy (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12543, "lineEnd": 12544, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 264; NLM OCR lines 12543–12544", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12543, "lineEnd": 12544, "printedPage": 264, "printedPageEnd": 264 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Widowhood. — A dream of satisfaction, joy (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Widowhood" }, "displayText": "A dream of satisfaction, joy (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "wife", "title": "Wife", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of your wife, denotes unsettled affairs and discord in the home.” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "wife" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about wife stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. 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If a woman dreams she is married to another man, it\nis the same.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 558; source lines 1998–2001", "lineStart": 1998, "lineEnd": 2001, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If a\nman dreams he sees his wife married to another, it denotes change of\naffairs or condition. If a woman dreams she is married to another man, it\nis the same." }, { "id": "cielo-0468", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Wife", "text": "If a man dreams that his wife is married to another\n it is a sign of a quarrel that may be serious.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 468; source lines 4999–5002", "lineStart": 4999, "lineEnd": 5002, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If a man dreams that his wife is married to another\nit is a sign of a quarrel that may be serious." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12545", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Wife", "heading": "Wife", "text": "To a woman this dream augurs that she will never be one ; to a man this predicts his wife's illness and recovery (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12545, "lineEnd": 12548, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 264; NLM OCR lines 12545–12548", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12545, "lineEnd": 12548, "printedPage": 264, "printedPageEnd": 264 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Wife. — To a woman this dream augurs that she will never \nbe one ; to a man this predicts his wife's illness and recovery \n(Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Wife" }, "displayText": "To a woman this dream augurs that she will never be one; to a man this predicts his wife's illness and recovery (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "wig", "title": "Wig", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream you wear a wig, indicates that you will soon make an unpropitious change.” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "wig" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about wig stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2212", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Wig", "text": "To dream you wear a wig, indicates that you will soon make\nan unpropitious change.\n\nTo lose a wig, you will incur the derision and contempt of enemies.\nTo see others wearing wigs, is a sign of treachery entangling you.", "locator": "Heading 2216; source lines 24358–24366", "lineStart": 24358, "lineEnd": 24366, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you wear a wig, indicates that you will soon make\nan unpropitious change.\n\nTo lose a wig, you will incur the derision and contempt of enemies.\nTo see others wearing wigs, is a sign of treachery entangling you." }, { "id": "fontaine-0866", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Wig", "text": "To dream of wearing a wig is a good omen to a bald bachelor, as\nit foretells that some lady has a design to catch the poor fellow, and\nwill not scruple as to the means she uses to accomplish it: if a young\nman dreams of wearing a wig, it is a sign that he will sleep with his\nsweetheart before he marries her. 3, 6, 69.", "locator": "Heading 866; source line 5266", "lineStart": 5266, "lineEnd": 5272, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of wearing a wig is a good omen to a bald bachelor, as\nit foretells that some lady has a design to catch the poor fellow, and\nwill not scruple as to the means she uses to accomplish it: if a young\nman dreams of wearing a wig, it is a sign that he will sleep with his\nsweetheart before he marries her." }, { "id": "noe-0574", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Wig", "text": "For one who has no lack of hair to dream that he wears a\nwig, signifies that he will be compelled to stand before a judge in a\ncourt of law, either as a criminal or as a witness.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 582; source lines 2090–2092", "lineStart": 2090, "lineEnd": 2092, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For one who has no lack of hair to dream that he wears a\nwig, signifies that he will be compelled to stand before a judge in a\ncourt of law, either as a criminal or as a witness." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12549", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Wig", "heading": "Wig", "text": "A dream warning the dreamer of peril ahead (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12549, "lineEnd": 12551, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 264; NLM OCR lines 12549–12551", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12549, "lineEnd": 12551, "printedPage": 264, "printedPageEnd": 264 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Wig. — A dream warning the dreamer of peril ahead (Gyp- \nsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "Gyp- \nsy", "after": "Gypsy", "evidenceLine": 243 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Wig" }, "displayText": "A dream warning the dreamer of peril ahead (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "wild", "title": "Wild", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are running about wild, foretells that you will sustain a serious fall or accident.”", "aliases": [ "wild" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about wild stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2213", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Wild", "text": "To dream that you are running about wild, foretells that you will sustain\na serious fall or accident.\n\nTo see others doing so, denotes unfavorable prospects will cause\nyou worry and excitement.", "locator": "Heading 2217; source lines 24366–24374", "lineStart": 24366, "lineEnd": 24374, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are running about wild, foretells that you will sustain\na serious fall or accident.\n\nTo see others doing so, denotes unfavorable prospects will cause\nyou worry and excitement." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "wild-boar", "title": "Wild Boar", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “The wild boar, in dreams, signifies a furious enemy, well furnished with all things necessary.”", "aliases": [ "wild boar" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about wild boar stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. 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And thus, if any one dreams he has hunted or taken a\nwild boar, he will chase or take some enemy that hath the same qualities\nas the wild boar." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2214", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Wild Man", "text": "To see a wild man in your dream, denotes that enemies will openly\noppose you in your enterprises. To think you are one foretells\nyou will be unlucky in following out your designs.", "locator": "Heading 2218; source lines 24374–24380", "lineStart": 24374, "lineEnd": 24380, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a wild man in your dream, denotes that enemies will openly\noppose you in your enterprises. To think you are one foretells\nyou will be unlucky in following out your designs." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "wild-cat", "title": "Wild-Cat", "type": "dreams", "category": "Other symbols", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “A warning to beware of enemies who have gained your confidence (Gypsy).”", "aliases": [ "wild-cat" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about wild-cat stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L12552", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Wild-Cat", "heading": "Wild-Cat", "text": "A warning to beware of enemies who have gained your confidence (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12552, "lineEnd": 12554, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 264; NLM OCR lines 12552–12554", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12552, "lineEnd": 12554, "printedPage": 264, "printedPageEnd": 264 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Wild-Cat. — A warning to beware of enemies who have \ngained your confidence (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Wild-Cat" }, "displayText": "A warning to beware of enemies who have gained your confidence (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "wilderness", "title": "Wilderness", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “A warning that the dreamer's friends will prove false and that he must keep his own counsel (Gypsy).”", "aliases": [ "wilderness" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about wilderness stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L12555", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Wilderness", "heading": "Wilderness", "text": "A warning that the dreamer's friends will prove false and that he must keep his own counsel (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12555, "lineEnd": 12557, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 264; NLM OCR lines 12555–12557", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12555, "lineEnd": 12557, "printedPage": 264, "printedPageEnd": 264 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Wilderness. — A warning that the dreamer's friends will \nprove false and that he must keep his own counsel (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Wilderness" }, "displayText": "A warning that the dreamer's friends will prove false and that he must keep his own counsel (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "wildlife-returning-to-a-city", "title": "Wildlife returning to a city", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "Wild animals in ordinary urban spaces can invite wonder, unease, and questions about how people share a place with other life.", "summary": "Wild animals in ordinary urban spaces can invite wonder, unease, and questions about how people share a place with other life.", "aliases": [ "wild animals returning to city dream", "urban wildlife dream" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "Specify the species and what it was actually doing. An animal resting in an empty street creates a different scene from one struggling to find food. Your response may connect to habitat, changed routines, or a personal encounter, but the animal need not be assigned a message. Notice whether the city seemed more alive, less predictable, or both, and whose needs were accommodated.", "traditional": "Historical animal omens differ by species and author. This draft does not turn urban wildlife into a single sign of renewal or danger; it asks about the particular coexistence shown in the dream.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "Birds nest in a place usually crowded with people", "reflection": "What changed when familiar human activity receded?" }, { "title": "An animal crosses a road while traffic waits", "reflection": "How did the scene make room for a different pace?" }, { "title": "You watch from a respectful distance", "reflection": "Could attention feel meaningful without touching, feeding, or controlling the animal?" } ], "prompts": [ "Which animal was present, and what did it need?", "How had the city changed around it?", "Did you feel invited to observe or responsible to act?" ], "related": [ "city", "bird", "wild" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia model-assisted editorial draft. Reflection questions and scenario readings are optional, individually written suggestions, not empirically validated symbol meanings. Source scope is stated with each citation. Historical comparisons identify topics, not inherited interpretations. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "will", "title": "Will", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "aliases": [ "will" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "summary": "A will document can explore what you want to leave, who is included, or how an earlier intention relates to a present choice.", "tagline": "A formal account can differ from the meaning people give it.", "psychological": "A will document in a dream can turn an intention into something others are expected to read. You may try to write it, find an earlier version or discover a distribution you do not recognize. This can picture wanting a choice to remain understandable beyond the moment it is made. Family memories, a conversation about inheritance or an ordinary story may supply direct context. The dreamed document does not determine legal rights or predict anyone’s death.\n\nWhat you want to leave can be more than a list of objects. A blank page may remain empty while you think about a habit, place or form of care you hope somebody remembers. This can resemble trying to give a practical account to something whose value is personal. The difficulty need not imply that you lack possessions, purpose or affection.\n\nInclusion and exclusion create different encounters. Finding your name missing may bring attention to acknowledgment, while being named for a role you do not want can center an expectation. These comparisons concern your response to the imagined arrangement. The dream does not establish what an actual relative intends, what you deserve to inherit or whether a real document exists.\n\nAn earlier will differing from present wishes can make time visible in the choice. You may recognize the former intention while no longer wanting its arrangement. This can resemble a promise or responsibility needing reconsideration after circumstances change. Giving one object to two people can instead expose different ideas about value: one wants to use it, another wants to preserve a memory attached to it.\n\nAn unreadable document can give others apparent authority while leaving you unable to understand the account. Wanting clearer terms is different from accepting a conclusion simply because it sounds formal. Choosing conversation instead of finishing the page may give intention another way to become shared. These original reflections concern the dreamed document, its audience and the meanings attached to it. They provide no legal instructions, advice about preparing an actual will or evidence of real entitlement. The ordinary auxiliary word will and a question about determination have different subjects from this historical document owner.", "traditional": "The four supplied Will accounts concern a document and its making or treatment. Miller assigns trials, disputes, business loss or deceit to different actions. Fontaine assigns long life and adds a marriage forecast; Noe gives a favorable claim with an adverse pregnancy exception. Craig contrasts making one’s own with another person’s will. These exact period accounts are not legal guidance, health evidence or predictions about lifespan, pregnancy, inheritance or another person’s intentions.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "An intention given a readable form", "reflection": "A practical account can be difficult when the value you want to leave is personal." }, { "title": "Inclusion and unwanted expectations", "reflection": "Being named or omitted can concern acknowledgment rather than actual entitlement." }, { "title": "A past arrangement and present meaning", "reflection": "An earlier intention may remain recognizable while its terms no longer fit." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "The page stays blank while you try to describe what matters", "reflection": "An intention resists becoming a simple list of possessions. This may picture wanting a habit, relationship or place remembered in a usable form. The difficulty need not imply a lack of value or supply advice about drafting an actual legal document." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Your name is missing from the imagined list", "reflection": "The arrangement makes acknowledgment feel absent. This can resemble wanting your place in a family or shared history recognized. The dreamed omission does not establish actual exclusion, another person’s intentions or any right to inherit a particular object or amount." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "An earlier will describes choices you no longer want", "reflection": "A former intention remains visible while present circumstances ask something different. This may picture reconsidering a promise or responsibility without denying its earlier meaning. The scene concerns a changed arrangement and supplies no evidence about a real document’s terms or legal effect." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "One object is left to two people who value it differently", "reflection": "The same item serves a practical purpose for one person and a memory for another. This can picture an arrangement needing clearer meaning than simple ownership provides. The dream does not decide which claim is legally valid or whose attachment should prevail." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Others announce the meaning of a will you cannot read", "reflection": "Formal language seems to give authority while understanding is unavailable to you. This may picture wanting clearer terms before accepting an account. The scene does not reveal an actual dispute, deception or entitlement, and it cannot interpret a real document for you." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You pause writing and invite a conversation about the intention", "reflection": "The purpose receives attention through company before the page is complete. This can resemble wanting an account to become shared rather than merely final. 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Exact supplied passages: fontaine-0867 — Will (Heading 867; source line 5272). Attributed historical comparison only; these period claims do not validate the original reflection or establish real health, relationship, family or financial outcomes." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0564" ], "scope": "noe-0564: Making a will is assigned long life/happiness, except for a pregnancy-specific adverse labor forecast. Exact supplied passages: noe-0564 — Will (Dream section, heading 572; source lines 2051–2055). Attributed historical comparison only; these period claims do not validate the original reflection or establish real health, relationship, family or financial outcomes." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L12558" ], "scope": "craig-1918:L12558: Making one’s own versus another’s will receives melancholy versus profit forecasts under Craig’s Gypsy attribution. 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For the wind to blow you along against your wishes,\nportends failure in business undertakings and disappointments in love.\nIf the wind blows you in the direction you wish to go you will find\nunexpected and helpful allies, or that you have natural advantages\nover a rival or competitor.", "locator": "Heading 2221; source lines 24400–24416", "lineStart": 24400, "lineEnd": 24416, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of the wind blowing softly and sadly upon you, signifies that great\nfortune will come to you through bereavement.\n\nIf you hear the wind soughing, denotes that you will wander in estrangement\nfrom one whose life is empty without you.\n\nTo walk briskly against a brisk wind, foretells that you will courageously\nresist temptation and pursue fortune with a determination not easily\nput aside. For the wind to blow you along against your wishes,\nportends failure in business undertakings and disappointments in love.\nIf the wind blows you in the direction you wish to go you will find\nunexpected and helpful allies, or that you have natural advantages\nover a rival or competitor." }, { "id": "artemidorus-100", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of the Windes.", "text": "GEntle windes are good, violent, are wicked, and evill people: troublesome tempests of winde, are perils and troubles.", "locator": "Book 2, encoded section 100", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "2", "displayText": "GEntle windes are good, violent, are wicked, and evill people: troublesome tempests of winde, are perils and troubles." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12565", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Wind", "heading": "Wind", "text": "A moderate breeze is a dream of joyful tidings; strong- winds augur crosses in love and in all matters (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12565, "lineEnd": 12572, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 264–265; NLM OCR lines 12565–12572", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12565, "lineEnd": 12572, "printedPage": 264, "printedPageEnd": 265 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Wind. — A moderate breeze is a dream of joyful tidings; \n\n\nSYMBOLISM IN DREAMS 265 \n\n\nstrong- winds augur crosses in love and in all matters (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [ { "line": 12568, "text": "SYMBOLISM IN DREAMS 265 " } ], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Wind" }, "displayText": "A moderate breeze is a dream of joyful tidings; strong- winds augur crosses in love and in all matters (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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You will see your fairest wish go down in despair.\nFruitless endeavors will be your portion.\n\nTo see closed windows is a representation of desertion.\nIf they are broken, you will be hounded by miserable suspicions\nof disloyalty from those you love.\n\nTo sit in a window, denotes that you will be the victim of folly.\nTo enter a house through a window, denotes that you will be found out\nwhile using dishonorable means to consummate a seemingly honorable purpose.\n\nTo escape by one, indicates that you will fall into a trouble\nwhose toils will hold you unmercifully close.\n\nTo look through a window when passing and strange objects appear,\nforetells that you will fail in your chosen avocation and lose\nthe respect for which you risked health and contentment.", "locator": "Heading 2223; source lines 24423–24444", "lineStart": 24423, "lineEnd": 24444, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see windows in your dreams, is an augury of fateful culmination\nto bright hopes. You will see your fairest wish go down in despair.\nFruitless endeavors will be your portion.\n\nTo see closed windows is a representation of desertion.\nIf they are broken, you will be hounded by miserable suspicions\nof disloyalty from those you love.\n\nTo sit in a window, denotes that you will be the victim of folly.\nTo enter a house through a window, denotes that you will be found out\nwhile using dishonorable means to consummate a seemingly honorable purpose.\n\nTo escape by one, indicates that you will fall into a trouble\nwhose toils will hold you unmercifully close.\n\nTo look through a window when passing and strange objects appear,\nforetells that you will fail in your chosen avocation and lose\nthe respect for which you risked health and contentment." }, { "id": "cielo-0469", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Window", "text": "Looking out of a window is a sign of bad luck.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 469; source lines 5002–5004", "lineStart": 5002, "lineEnd": 5004, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Looking out of a window is a sign of bad luck." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12575", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Window", "heading": "Window", "text": "To sit at one forecasts slanderous reports; to see a light in one, knowledge (Gypsy). The symbol of knowledge (Hartmann).", "lineStart": 12575, "lineEnd": 12578, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 265; NLM OCR lines 12575–12578", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12575, "lineEnd": 12578, "printedPage": 265, "printedPageEnd": 265 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Window. — To sit at one forecasts slanderous reports; to \nsee a light in one, knowledge (Gypsy). The symbol of knowl- \nedge (Hartmann). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "knowl- \nedge", "after": "knowledge", "evidenceLine": 577 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Window" }, "displayText": "To sit at one forecasts slanderous reports; to see a light in one, knowledge (Gypsy). The symbol of knowledge (Hartmann)." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "window-blinds", "title": "Window blinds", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "A view and a boundary you can adjust.", "summary": "Window-blind dreams may explore privacy, controlled light or a view available only in part. Adjusting the slats changes what can be seen.", "aliases": [ "window blinds", "blinds", "slatted blinds", "venetian blinds", "roller blind", "roller blinds" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "Window blinds allow a view and a degree of privacy to change without moving the window itself. In a dream, opening, closing or adjusting them can make control over visibility the central action. You may want more light, less attention or a better look outside. The same closed blind can feel restful or confining depending on whether you chose its position and what you hoped to see.\n\nSlats offer partial access. Looking through a narrow gap can make a situation feel observable but difficult to understand fully. The dream may resemble receiving fragments of information or wanting to watch without being noticed. A wider view might clarify the scene, but it can also expose your position. That trade-off distinguishes blinds from a broken window or a solid wall: the boundary has adjustable terms.\n\nA jammed mechanism changes the relationship to those terms. Trying to open a blind that stays closed may picture wanting access while a practical arrangement resists you. One that will not shut may make privacy feel unavailable. A recent problem with a window, a sleeping room or glare can also supply the image; no symbolic comparison is required if the literal context fits well.\n\nWho operates the blind may matter more than its color or material. Someone closing it while you look outside can interrupt your view. Opening it together may make a shared space comfortable for both people. Having to ask permission to adjust it can bring ownership or differing preferences into the scene. A boundary that works for one person may leave another feeling exposed or excluded.\n\nThe light entering the room supplies another detail. Striped light can divide a space into visible and hidden areas, while a rolled-up blind can reveal an unexpectedly ordinary scene. If nothing changes outside, the action itself may still matter: you chose how much contact with the setting you wanted. This page covers window coverings, including slatted and roller blinds; loss of sight belongs to the separate Blindness page.", "traditional": "No exact historical Blinds record is attached for window coverings. The archive heading Blind concerns eyesight and is consolidated under Blindness. These original reflections concern a window covering's adjustable view, light and privacy, without borrowing the historical eyesight forecasts.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "How much to reveal", "reflection": "Opening or closing the covering changes access to a view and exposure to others." }, { "title": "A partial view", "reflection": "Slats or gaps can make information available in fragments." }, { "title": "Who controls the adjustment", "reflection": "A shared mechanism can become a small but meaningful negotiation about comfort and privacy." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You open the blinds and the room fills with light", "reflection": "The adjustment changes the room without requiring you to leave it. This may picture wanting a clearer or more connected setting. Warmth and welcome differ from glare or unwanted attention; more light is not automatically a better ending for the person inside." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You close the blinds to rest", "reflection": "Closing the view can make the room feel available for your own needs. A wish for privacy or a pause from demands offers a comparison. If you can still choose to open them, the boundary may feel temporary and adjustable rather than isolating." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You watch outside through a narrow gap", "reflection": "The gap makes observation possible while limiting how much of the situation you can see. This may resemble receiving fragments of information or preferring a little distance. Concern about being noticed adds another question: whether watching is comfortable, necessary or difficult to admit." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "The blinds will not close when someone looks in", "reflection": "The mechanism prevents a boundary you are trying to set. The scene may picture a practical difficulty protecting time, space or attention. The observer's behavior matters: a casual glance differs from continued watching after you make your wish for privacy clear." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Another person closes the blinds while you look out", "reflection": "Someone else changes the terms of your contact with the outside. This may bring differing needs in a shared space into view. Whether you can explain your preference, reopen the covering or find another window changes the balance between interruption and negotiation." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "Light through the slats makes changing patterns", "reflection": "The covering shapes light rather than simply excluding it. The dream may draw attention to how a boundary creates detail, rhythm or play in an ordinary room. Pleasure in the pattern gives a different reading from finding the stripes distracting or hard to ignore." } ], "prompts": [ "What kind of view, light, or privacy were you trying to create?", "Who could adjust the covering, and whose preference mattered?", "How did partial visibility change the feeling of the scene?" ], "related": [ "window", "curtains", "light", "house", "shadow" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "wine", "title": "Wine", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of drinking wine, forebodes joy and consequent friendships.” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "wine" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about wine stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2220", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Wine", "text": "To dream of drinking wine, forebodes joy and consequent friendships.\n\nTo dream of breaking bottles of wine, foretells that your love\nand passion will border on excess.\n\nTo see barrels of wine, prognosticates great luxury. To pour\nit from one vessel into another, signifies that your enjoyments\nwill be varied and you will journey to many notable places.\n\nTo dream of dealing in wine denotes that your occupation will be remunerative.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of drinking wine, indicates she will marry\na wealthy gentleman, but withal honorable.", "locator": "Heading 2224; source lines 24444–24460", "lineStart": 24444, "lineEnd": 24460, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of drinking wine, forebodes joy and consequent friendships.\n\nTo dream of breaking bottles of wine, foretells that your love\nand passion will border on excess.\n\nTo see barrels of wine, prognosticates great luxury. To pour\nit from one vessel into another, signifies that your enjoyments\nwill be varied and you will journey to many notable places.\n\nTo dream of dealing in wine denotes that your occupation will be remunerative.\n\nFor a young woman to dream of drinking wine, indicates she will marry\na wealthy gentleman, but withal honorable." }, { "id": "fontaine-0869", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Wine", "text": "To dream of drinking wine is a sign of poverty: if a lover dreams\nthat his sweetheart treats him to a glass of wine, it foretells that\nshe will be an unthrifty wife. 39.", "locator": "Heading 869; source line 5280", "lineStart": 5280, "lineEnd": 5284, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of drinking wine is a sign of poverty: if a lover dreams\nthat his sweetheart treats him to a glass of wine, it foretells that\nshe will be an unthrifty wife." }, { "id": "cielo-0470", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Wine", "text": "To dream of drinking wine means a disappointment;\n to become intoxicated means disgrace.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 470; source lines 5004–5007", "lineStart": 5004, "lineEnd": 5007, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of drinking wine means a disappointment;\nto become intoxicated means disgrace." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12579", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Wine", "heading": "Wine", "text": "To dream of drinking, health, wealth, etc. (Gypsy). To dream of drinking in moderation might well imply strength and refreshment through sensory stimuli. Some dream interpreters translate this as a forecast of the dreamer's marriage.", "lineStart": 12579, "lineEnd": 12584, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 265; NLM OCR lines 12579–12584", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12579, "lineEnd": 12584, "printedPage": 265, "printedPageEnd": 265 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Wine. — To dream of drinking, health, wealth, etc. (Gypsy). \nTo dream of drinking in moderation might well imply strength \nand refreshment through sensory stimuli. Some dream in- \nterpreters translate this as a forecast of the dreamer's mar- \nriage. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "in- \nterpreters", "after": "interpreters", "evidenceLine": 110 }, { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "mar- \nriage", "after": "marriage", "evidenceLine": 4610 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Wine" }, "displayText": "To dream of drinking, health, wealth, etc. (Gypsy). To dream of drinking in moderation might well imply strength and refreshment through sensory stimuli. Some dream interpreters translate this as a forecast of the dreamer's marriage." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "wine-cellar", "title": "Wine-cellar", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a wine-cellar, foretells superior amusements or pleasure will come in your way, to be disposed of at your bidding.”", "aliases": [ "wine-cellar" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about wine-cellar stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2221", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Wine-cellar", "text": "To dream of a wine-cellar, foretells superior amusements or pleasure\nwill come in your way, to be disposed of at your bidding.", "locator": "Heading 2225; source lines 24460–24465", "lineStart": 24460, "lineEnd": 24465, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a wine-cellar, foretells superior amusements or pleasure\nwill come in your way, to be disposed of at your bidding." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "wine-glass", "title": "Wine-glass", "type": "dreams", "category": "Other symbols", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a wine-glass, foretells that a disappointment will affect you seriously, as you will fail to see anything pleasing until shocked…”", "aliases": [ "wine-glass" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about wine-glass stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2222", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Wine-glass", "text": "To dream of a wine-glass, foretells that a disappointment will affect\nyou seriously, as you will fail to see anything pleasing until shocked\ninto the realization of trouble.", "locator": "Heading 2226; source lines 24465–24471", "lineStart": 24465, "lineEnd": 24471, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a wine-glass, foretells that a disappointment will affect\nyou seriously, as you will fail to see anything pleasing until shocked\ninto the realization of trouble." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "wings", "title": "Wings", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "aliases": [ "wings" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "summary": "Wings can explore an available movement, an unfamiliar capacity, visible equipment, or how you make room for another way of moving.", "tagline": "Having a capacity and using it are different encounters.", "psychological": "Having wings in a dream can make a possibility feel physically present before you know what to do with it. You may carry them through an ordinary day rather than immediately fly. This can picture a new capacity, opportunity or role whose use is not yet settled. A promotion, unfamiliar tool or freedom in your schedule may offer a parallel, while the dreamed wings can also remain a memorable invention with no required waking equivalent.\n\nThe way they fit matters. Folding large wings to sit beside someone creates a question about accommodating a capacity within company. You need not choose between hiding it completely and allowing it to occupy every space. Finding a workable position can picture letting an opportunity have a place alongside other commitments. The scene concerns the arrangement, not proof that you have unusual power or suppressed potential.\n\nBorrowed or decorative wings create different expectations. Equipment offered for a performance may make you visibly suited to a role without providing the movement you expected. This can resemble being given a title or appearance before the necessary resources arrive. Enjoying the costume can instead make imagination and play sufficient; function need not be the only reason to wear it.\n\nA creature with damaged wings may change watching into a question about help. You could want to assist while not knowing what would be useful, or find that another helper already has a role. This can picture respecting the limits of an unfamiliar responsibility. The dream supplies an imagined encounter, not an instruction for handling a real animal or evidence of anyone’s condition.\n\nMovement remains a choice even when the wings work. Taking a ground route with a companion can center the journey you share rather than the fastest available passage. One wing moving differently from the other may make coordination visible: a new ability can need an arrangement that fits its actual parts. Wings concern what is attached, offered or accommodated in the scene. Flight is a related action with its own encounter; neither image guarantees escape, advancement or a fixed spiritual identity.", "traditional": "Miller’s single Wings account distinguishes having wings from seeing bird wings, assigning journey-related fears to the first and wealth or honor to the second. These are attributed period forecasts. It supplies no verified rule about a person’s capacities, another traveler’s safety or a spiritual identity. The original readings below concern the dreamed appendage and the choices made around its use.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A capacity before a chosen use", "reflection": "Something available can remain undecided rather than demand immediate performance." }, { "title": "Making room alongside company", "reflection": "Accommodating a new possibility can concern shared space and existing commitments." }, { "title": "Appearance, equipment and actual movement", "reflection": "A role’s visible form can differ from the resources or action you expected." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You have wings but continue an ordinary activity", "reflection": "A new possibility is present without immediately deciding the day’s action. This may picture an opportunity whose use needs time or context. Continuing a familiar task can remain a choice rather than proof that you have failed to realize a hidden potential." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You fold your wings to sit comfortably beside someone", "reflection": "The capacity remains yours while its position changes for company. This can resemble giving an opportunity a place alongside another commitment. Adjustment need not erase what is available; it may make sharing a particular space more workable for both of you." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Someone offers decorative wings for a performance", "reflection": "The equipment supplies an appearance but not the movement you expected. This may picture a role whose title and resources differ. If the performance itself feels satisfying, imagination may be the purpose; the costume does not need to become a failed promise of flight." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A winged creature needs help and another helper is present", "reflection": "Watching becomes an unfamiliar responsibility that can be shared. This may fit wanting to assist without knowing what form of care is useful. The other helper can alter your role without making your concern insufficient or the imagined injury a real warning." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Working wings are available but you walk with a companion", "reflection": "A faster or solitary route is possible while a shared ground journey still matters. This may picture choosing the company or pace that serves an occasion. The unused movement need not establish fear of change or a refusal of freedom." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "Your two wings move at different paces", "reflection": "A capacity works unevenly and asks for coordination within its own parts. This can resemble resources arriving with different limits or expectations. Finding a usable rhythm may matter more than forcing the whole arrangement to perform as if its parts were identical." } ], "prompts": [ "What use did you want from the wings before movement began?", "How did company or equipment alter the capacity’s place in the scene?", "Which pace or route served the encounter you actually wanted?" ], "related": [ "flying", "bird", "feathers", "door" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-2223" ], "scope": "miller-2223: Having wings is assigned fears for someone on a long journey; seeing bird wings is assigned overcoming adversity and gaining wealth/honor. Exact supplied passages: miller-2223 — Wings (Heading 2227; source lines 24471–24479). Attributed historical comparison only; these period claims do not validate the original reflection or establish real health, relationship, family or financial outcomes." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2223", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Wings", "text": "To dream that you have wings, foretells that you will experience grave\nfears for the safety of some one gone on a long journey away from you.\n\nTo see the wings of fowls or birds, denotes that you will finally\novercome adversity and rise to wealthy degrees and honor.", "locator": "Heading 2227; source lines 24471–24479", "lineStart": 24471, "lineEnd": 24479, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you have wings, foretells that you will experience grave\nfears for the safety of some one gone on a long journey away from you.\n\nTo see the wings of fowls or birds, denotes that you will finally\novercome adversity and rise to wealthy degrees and honor." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "winter", "title": "Winter", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of winter, is a prognostication of ill-health and dreary prospects for the favorable progress of fortune.”", "aliases": [ "winter" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about winter stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2224", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Winter", "text": "To dream of winter, is a prognostication of ill-health\nand dreary prospects for the favorable progress of fortune.\nAfter this dream your efforts will not yield satisfactory results.", "locator": "Heading 2228; source lines 24479–24485", "lineStart": 24479, "lineEnd": 24485, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of winter, is a prognostication of ill-health\nand dreary prospects for the favorable progress of fortune.\nAfter this dream your efforts will not yield satisfactory results." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "wire", "title": "Wire", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of wire, denotes that you will make frequent but short journeys which will be to your…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "wire" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about wire stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "witch", "title": "Witch", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of witches, denotes that you, with others, will seek adventures which will afford hilarious…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "witch" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about witch stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2227", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Witch", "text": "To dream of witches, denotes that you, with others,\nwill seek adventures which will afford hilarious enjoyment,\nbut it will eventually rebound to your mortification.\nBusiness will suffer prostration if witches advance upon you,\nhome affairs may be disappointing.", "locator": "Heading 2231; source lines 24504–24512", "lineStart": 24504, "lineEnd": 24512, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of witches, denotes that you, with others,\nwill seek adventures which will afford hilarious enjoyment,\nbut it will eventually rebound to your mortification.\nBusiness will suffer prostration if witches advance upon you,\nhome affairs may be disappointing." }, { "id": "fontaine-0870", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Witch", "text": "To dream of a witch foretells that you will leave your home\nand sojourn among strangers: if the witch attempts to injure you, it\ndenotes that you will be dependent upon strangers for your support. No\nintelligent person believes in witches, yet a great many dream of them,\nand the above is the horoscope of such a dream. 17.", "locator": "Heading 870; source line 5284", "lineStart": 5284, "lineEnd": 5290, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a witch foretells that you will leave your home\nand sojourn among strangers: if the witch attempts to injure you, it\ndenotes that you will be dependent upon strangers for your support. No\nintelligent person believes in witches, yet a great many dream of them,\nand the above is the horoscope of such a dream." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "witchcraft", "title": "Witchcraft", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “For a person to dream that he has been to visit a supposed fortune-teller, denotes that misfortune shall…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "witchcraft" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about witchcraft stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "noe-0575", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Witchcraft", "text": "For a\nperson to dream that he has been to visit a supposed fortune-teller,\ndenotes that misfortune shall befall him, unpleasantness in his family,\ntreachery in his place of business and deception in those he supposed his\nbest friends.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 583; source lines 2092–2096", "lineStart": 2092, "lineEnd": 2096, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "For a\nperson to dream that he has been to visit a supposed fortune-teller,\ndenotes that misfortune shall befall him, unpleasantness in his family,\ntreachery in his place of business and deception in those he supposed his\nbest friends." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12592", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Witchcraft", "heading": "Witchcraft", "text": "Misfortune to the dreamer and his family (Gypsy), An interpretation made for the possible purpose of inspiring a wholesome awe of the black art.", "lineStart": 12592, "lineEnd": 12595, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 265; NLM OCR lines 12592–12595", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12592, "lineEnd": 12595, "printedPage": 265, "printedPageEnd": 265 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Witchcraft. — Misfortune to the dreamer and his family \n(Gypsy), An interpretation made for the possible purpose \nof inspiring a wholesome awe of the black art. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Witchcraft" }, "displayText": "Misfortune to the dreamer and his family (Gypsy), An interpretation made for the possible purpose of inspiring a wholesome awe of the black art." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "witness", "title": "Witness", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you bear witness against others, signifies you will have great oppression through slight causes.”", "aliases": [ "witness" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about witness stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "wizard", "title": "Wizard", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a wizard, denotes you are going to have a big family, which will cause you much inconvenience as well as displeasure.”", "aliases": [ "wizard" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about wizard stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2229", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Wizard", "text": "To dream of a wizard, denotes you are going to have a big family,\nwhich will cause you much inconvenience as well as displeasure.\nFor young people, this dream implies loss and broken engagements.", "locator": "Heading 2233; source lines 24521–24527", "lineStart": 24521, "lineEnd": 24527, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a wizard, denotes you are going to have a big family,\nwhich will cause you much inconvenience as well as displeasure.\nFor young people, this dream implies loss and broken engagements." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "wolf", "title": "Wolves", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "A distant howl and a companion at your side create different encounters.", "summary": "Wolf dreams can involve caution, companionship, or watching a group. Distance, behavior, and your own animal associations guide reflection.", "aliases": [ "wolf", "wolves" ], "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "psychological": "A wolf can make the distance between familiarity and wildness feel important. It may look enough like a dog to invite closeness while remaining unfamiliar in the dream. A watchful animal at the edge of the woods can therefore hold curiosity and caution together: you want to understand what is there without knowing what an approach will ask of you. Someone accustomed to wolves may have a very different association, so the encounter matters more than an inherited story about danger.\n\nWhen the wolf watches without attacking, the scene may give shape to being observed or evaluating a situation yourself. You could recognize the feeling of entering a group whose expectations are unclear, beginning a task before you know its demands, or waiting for someone else's response. The animal's stillness leaves room for anticipation. If it approaches gently and you relax, the movement may resemble discovering that an unfamiliar situation is more manageable than expected. If you remain comfortable at a distance, curiosity and a boundary can coexist.\n\nA pack changes the encounter from one presence to a group. Being surrounded can feel like protection, pressure, or exclusion, depending on whether the wolves make room for you. This can fit a question about belonging: perhaps joining would offer support while also requiring you to move with others. Watching the pack leave may bring loneliness, freedom, or admiration rather than a single message about rejection. The important distinction is whether their togetherness is something you want, fear, or simply witness.\n\nWalking beside a calm wolf can give companionship an unexpected form. A quality that first seemed intimidating becomes something you can share space with. This may resemble growing confidence in a demanding role, becoming comfortable with directness, or finding an ally outside a familiar circle. An injured wolf creates another tension: you may want to help while knowing that closeness feels uncertain. The dream can put care and limits in the same scene without requiring one to erase the other.\n\nPursuit brings the question back to movement and escape. A wolf that follows every turn can resemble a concern that stays present however you rearrange your day, while finding shelter can make relief the decisive moment. An unseen howl leaves more space for imagination: the sound may feel like a call, a warning, or company across a distance. Stories, games, wildlife programs, or memories of a pet can supply the image directly. None of these encounters identifies another person's loyalty or intentions; choose a comparison that fits the changing relationship between you and the animal.", "traditional": "Miller's Wolf entry treats the animal as a sign of an untrustworthy employee and its howl as a secret alliance against the dreamer. Fontaine's 1862 Wolf passage links pursuit with being cheated and adds warnings about a young woman's lover. These supplied texts document suspicion and moralizing advice in particular historical dictionaries; they do not reveal anyone's character through a dream.\n\nThat hostile framing has limited relevance to a scene about observation or companionship. It should not be used to convert an unfamiliar animal into an accusation against someone in waking life. This entry offers an original contextual comparison between distance, approach, and one's position near a group. Whether that comparison concerns caution, belonging, or curiosity depends on the scene and your experience. The old forecasts remain attributed period material, while the reflection leaves room for memories and associations that differ from the authors' assumptions.\n\nCielo adds a poverty forecast and makes an attack favorable to defeating enemies. Craig's supplied Wolf item is only a cross-reference to Lion, Fox and other entries; it supplies no independent Wolf interpretation. Preserving that limited record does not supply a missing argument or make neighboring animals interchangeable. Neither the forecasts nor the cross-reference can identify another person's intentions.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "A wolf watches from the edge of the woods", "reflection": "The encounter remains unresolved while each of you stays in place. It may fit cautious attention to a new person, role, or situation. Wanting to approach differs from wanting it to leave; either response gives the distance a purpose without establishing an actual threat." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "You walk beside a calm wolf", "reflection": "Something initially unfamiliar becomes a companion. This can fit gaining confidence with a demanding task or finding support where you did not expect it. If others object while you feel safe, the scene may also place your own experience beside their assumptions." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You hear a howl but cannot see its source", "reflection": "The sound leaves you to imagine who or what is nearby. An answering howl can bring company into an empty landscape; silence afterward can sharpen isolation or uncertainty. Whether you answer, hide, or keep walking distinguishes a wish for connection from a need for distance." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A pack surrounds you", "reflection": "Their arrangement can feel protective or restrictive. Being allowed to move freely differs from having every exit blocked. A comparison with belonging may fit if group support currently comes with expectations; relief on leaving can matter as much as acceptance by the group." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "A wolf pursues you and you find shelter", "reflection": "The repeated approach can give form to a concern that keeps returning despite attempts to avoid it. Shelter changes the scene by creating time or separation. If the wolf waits outside, temporary relief and an unfinished encounter remain present together." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You try to help an injured wolf", "reflection": "Concern draws you closer while uncertainty may hold you back. The scene can fit caring for someone or something without knowing how much help you can offer. Receiving assistance, being refused, or choosing to stay nearby creates different relationships between compassion and your own limits." } ], "prompts": [ "What did the wolf actually do that shaped my response?", "Which story, animal, or memory influenced the encounter?", "How did distance or the presence of a group change what I wanted?" ], "related": [ "dog", "bear", "being-chased", "a-stranger", "lion", "fox" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "scope": "Historical comparison only: Wolf — miller-2230, Heading 2234; source lines 24527–24536. These period beliefs do not establish a dream meaning or prediction.", "recordIds": [ "miller-2230" ] }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "scope": "Historical comparison only: Wolf — fontaine-0871, Heading 871; source line 5290. These period beliefs do not establish a dream meaning or prediction.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0871" ] }, { "id": "wamsley-2010", "title": "Dreaming of a learning task is associated with enhanced sleep-dependent memory consolidation", "author": "Erin J. Wamsley and colleagues", "url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20417102/", "scope": "Primary maze-learning experiment; task-related dream reports correlated with later performance. It does not show that a dream is an accurate memory or a solution." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0471" ], "scope": "Attached historical material only: Wolf — cielo-0471 (Dream section, heading 471; source lines 5007–5010). Seeing or being attacked by a wolf receives poverty or enemy-defeat forecasts. This citation preserves the attributed archival material; it does not substantiate the original modern reflection or establish a present-day outcome." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. 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This citation preserves the attributed archival material; it does not substantiate the original modern reflection or establish a present-day outcome." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s continuing delegation of English editorial decisions. Historical accounts remain attributed period claims; the cited memory study does not validate these interpretations.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Curiosity with a boundary", "reflection": "An unfamiliar wolf can hold interest and caution together. Approaching, waiting, or keeping a comfortable distance can each be a fitting response to something you do not yet know." }, { "title": "Your place near a group", "reflection": "A pack can make belonging tangible: there may be support, pressure to move together, or space you cannot enter. Your wish to join or leave gives the group its meaning." }, { "title": "Companionship and care", "reflection": "A calm or injured wolf can move the scene beyond threat. Connection may grow alongside uncertainty, and helping may raise a question about the limits that let you remain present." } ], "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "DreamFolia AI-assisted editorial review", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "water", "house", "dog", "cat", "being-pregnant", "ex-partner", "deceased-loved-one", "fire", "spider", "being-lost", "ocean", "flood", "wedding", "baby", "train", "car", "wolf" ] }, "decisionReason": "Six scenes distinguish observation, companionship, unseen sound, group boundaries, pursuit and care. 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To hear the howl of a wolf, discovers to you a secret\nalliance to defeat you in honest competition.", "locator": "Heading 2234; source lines 24527–24536", "lineStart": 24527, "lineEnd": 24536, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a wolf, shows that you have a thieving person in your employ,\nwho will also betray secrets.\n\nTo kill one, denotes that you will defeat sly enemies who seek to overshadow\nyou with disgrace. To hear the howl of a wolf, discovers to you a secret\nalliance to defeat you in honest competition." }, { "id": "fontaine-0871", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Wolf", "text": "To dream of being chased by one of these animals, foretells that\nyou will be cheated in a trade or bargain: if a girl dreams of being\nfrightened by a wolf, it shows that her lover (if she has one) is a\nbad man, and she had better discard him; if she has no lover, some\nblack-hearted fellow will try to make her acquaintance. 45.", "locator": "Heading 871; source line 5290", "lineStart": 5290, "lineEnd": 5296, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being chased by one of these animals, foretells that\nyou will be cheated in a trade or bargain: if a girl dreams of being\nfrightened by a wolf, it shows that her lover (if she has one) is a\nbad man, and she had better discard him; if she has no lover, some\nblack-hearted fellow will try to make her acquaintance." }, { "id": "cielo-0471", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Wolf", "text": "To see a wolf is a sign of coming poverty. To\n be attacked by a wolf the defeat of your enemies.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 471; source lines 5007–5010", "lineStart": 5007, "lineEnd": 5010, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a wolf is a sign of coming poverty. To\nbe attacked by a wolf the defeat of your enemies." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12596", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Wolf", "heading": "Wolf", "text": "See Lion, Fox, etc.", "lineStart": 12596, "lineEnd": 12597, "kind": "cross-reference", "locator": "Printed p. 265; NLM OCR lines 12596–12597", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12596, "lineEnd": 12597, "printedPage": 265, "printedPageEnd": 265 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Wolf. — See Lion, Fox, etc. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Wolf" }, "displayText": "See Lion, Fox, etc." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [ "lion", "fox" ] }, { "slug": "woman", "title": "Woman", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Cielo wrote: “To dream of a fair woman, beware of deceit; an ugly woman, beware of scandal.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "woman" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about woman stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "women", "title": "Women", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of women, foreshadows intrigue.”", "aliases": [ "women" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about women stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2231", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Women", "text": "To dream of women, foreshadows intrigue.\n\nTo argue with one, foretells that you will be outwitted and foiled.\n\nTo see a dark-haired woman with blue eyes and a pug nose,\ndefinitely determines your withdrawal from a race in which you stood\na showing for victory. If she has brown eyes and a Roman nose,\nyou will be cajoled into a dangerous speculation. If she has auburn\nhair with this combination, it adds to your perplexity and anxiety.\nIf she is a blonde, you will find that all your engagements will\nbe pleasant and favorable to your inclinations.", "locator": "Heading 2235; source lines 24536–24550", "lineStart": 24536, "lineEnd": 24550, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of women, foreshadows intrigue.\n\nTo argue with one, foretells that you will be outwitted and foiled.\n\nTo see a dark-haired woman with blue eyes and a pug nose,\ndefinitely determines your withdrawal from a race in which you stood\na showing for victory. If she has brown eyes and a Roman nose,\nyou will be cajoled into a dangerous speculation. If she has auburn\nhair with this combination, it adds to your perplexity and anxiety.\nIf she is a blonde, you will find that all your engagements will\nbe pleasant and favorable to your inclinations." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2234", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Wood-pile", "text": "To dream of a wood-pile, denotes unsatisfactory business\nand misunderstandings in love.", "locator": "Heading 2238; source lines 24567–24572", "lineStart": 24567, "lineEnd": 24572, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a wood-pile, denotes unsatisfactory business\nand misunderstandings in love." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "woodchuck", "title": "Woodchuck", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “To dream of catching one of these animals, is a sign that you will be robbed, and that the thief will be detected: if you imagine you kill…”", "aliases": [ "woodchuck" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about woodchuck stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0872", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Woodchuck", "text": "To dream of catching one of these animals, is a sign that\nyou will be robbed, and that the thief will be detected: if you imagine\nyou kill the woodchuck, you will probably recover your stolen property.\n36, 19.", "locator": "Heading 872; source line 5296", "lineStart": 5296, "lineEnd": 5301, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of catching one of these animals, is a sign that\nyou will be robbed, and that the thief will be detected: if you imagine\nyou kill the woodchuck, you will probably recover your stolen property." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "wooden-shoe", "title": "Wooden Shoe", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a wooden shoe, is significant of lonely wanderings and penniless circumstances. Those in love will suffer from unfaithfulness.”", "aliases": [ "wooden shoe" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about wooden shoe stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2232", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Wooden Shoe", "text": "To dream of a wooden shoe, is significant of lonely wanderings and\npenniless circumstances. Those in love will suffer from unfaithfulness.", "locator": "Heading 2236; source lines 24550–24555", "lineStart": 24550, "lineEnd": 24555, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a wooden shoe, is significant of lonely wanderings and\npenniless circumstances. Those in love will suffer from unfaithfulness." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "woodpecker", "title": "Woodpecker", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "aliases": [ "woodpecker", "woodpeckers", "wood pecker", "wood peckers" ], "summary": "A woodpecker dream may make a repeated sound, a chosen surface, or a small opening important. Notice what you hear, see, and want to continue.", "tagline": "A repeated sound, the surface carrying it, and the opening it leaves.", "psychological": "A woodpecker dream may begin as a sound you cannot place. You may follow it to a tree, discover the bird near a familiar room, or see movement without hearing anything. Record what identified the animal and which part of the encounter held your attention. A recent observation, recording, or remembered picture can provide a direct association without requiring a symbolic explanation.\n\nRepetition can affect your own activity in different ways. A sound may help you find a place, interrupt concentration, or become a rhythm you enjoy. Ask what you wanted to do while it continued. A possible personal comparison concerns a repeated request or a task you keep returning to, if a specific waking situation fits. The dream does not prove that persistence is always helpful or that an interruption must be ignored.\n\nThe surface matters too. A tree trunk, a window frame, a metal roof or an impossible musical object changes what the action produces. Notice whether you focus on the bird, the sound, or the effect on that particular place. The distinction can help you separate the action you observed from a later conclusion about its purpose.\n\nAn opening can become another focus. You might look into a hole, see something emerge, or want the bird to stop before it reaches a space you use. A possible question concerns access created gradually or the point where a small repeated action becomes consequential. Keep the outcome in view rather than assuming every hole reveals something hidden about you.\n\nFinally, record when the rhythm stops or changes. Silence might feel welcome, leave you searching for the bird, or make you notice another sound. A woodpecker that becomes a toy, a tap at a door, or a mark on a drawing adds its own surprise. These shifts can offer several personal associations. The animal-background source distinguishes real bird activities; it does not determine the meaning of a dream sound or verify that a dreamed action serves the same purpose.", "traditional": "No historical dream-book record is attached to this topic. Cornell Lab of Ornithology distinguishes loud, rapid drumming used in communication from quieter feeding pecks; seeing pecking does not by itself identify its purpose. This supplies animal context, not a rule that a woodpecker dream announces a message or foretells an event. The original reflections ask what the remembered sound and its interruption meant to the dreamer, while leaving a waking bird’s behavior and a dream interpretation as different questions.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A rhythm beside your own activity", "reflection": "A repeated sound can support attention, interrupt it or provide a direction. Ask what you were doing and which effect mattered in this scene." }, { "title": "The surface changes what an action produces", "reflection": "A small movement can sound or feel different depending on where it occurs. Notice the relation between the action, its setting and the consequence you observe." }, { "title": "A small opening becomes available", "reflection": "A hole or gap may change access without revealing everything beyond it. The scene can invite a question about gradual change while leaving the unseen part uncertain." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You follow a tapping sound and find a woodpecker high above you", "reflection": "The sound gives you a direction before you see its source. Record whether finding the bird resolves curiosity or leaves another question. The scene can concern locating an interruption without requiring a hidden message behind it." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A woodpecker taps the wall while you try to write", "reflection": "Two repeated activities occupy the same setting. Notice whether you stop, find another place or begin working with the rhythm. A possible comparison concerns how you negotiate an interruption rather than whether one task is more deserving." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "The bird changes surfaces and the sound becomes much louder", "reflection": "A similar movement has a different effect in another place. Ask which change you actually noticed and how you responded. The scene can invite reflection on an arrangement that amplifies an action, without judging the action itself as good or bad." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "A small hole opens and you can see light beyond it", "reflection": "Repetition has changed access to a space, but only a little is visible. Notice whether you want to look closer, continue your own work or leave the opening alone. The image does not establish a hidden memory or a truth you must uncover." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The tapping stops just as you decide to answer it", "reflection": "Your intended response arrives after the sound has ended. Relief, disappointment or a wish for another signal can create different reflections. Keep the timing as remembered instead of making the bird responsible for a clear instruction." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "A wooden toy bird begins to make the sound you remembered", "reflection": "A familiar object supplies an unexpected moving or sounding presence. Notice whether recognition makes the scene more playful or more puzzling. An ordinary memory of a toy may be enough, while an optional comparison can remain open." } ], "prompts": [ "Which part of the sound or movement first drew your attention?", "What difference did the chosen surface make?", "What became visible or possible after the rhythm changed?" ], "related": [ "bird", "forest", "nest", "door", "window" ], "sources": [ { "id": "cornell-woodpecker-drumming", "title": "How to Recognize Woodpeckers by Their Drumming Sounds — animal context", "author": "Cornell Lab of Ornithology — All About Birds", "url": "https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/how-to-recognize-woodpeckers-by-their-drumming-sounds/", "scope": "Supports only the distinction between loud rapid communication drumming and quieter feeding pecks, described in How and Why Do Woodpeckers Drum? Does not validate dream symbolism, hidden messages, the original scenarios, or claims about the dreamer." } ], "kind": "editorial", "status": "PUBLISHED", "updated": "2026-10-15", "editorialNote": "Original reflection with AI-assisted editorial review on 2026-10-15, following the site owner’s delegation of editorial decisions. Animal-background sources support only their stated facts; they do not validate dream meanings.", "publicationReview": { "reviewType": "delegated-ai", "humanApproved": false, "decision": "publish", "reviewer": "DreamFolia AI-assisted editorial review", "reviewedAt": "2026-10-15", "delegation": { "source": "user", "instruction": "Yes—use your judgment for future English batches", "delegatedAt": "2026-10-15", "scopeSlugs": [ "ants", "bats", "caterpillar", "frogs", "grasshopper", "tiger", "turtle", "whale", "anaconda", "moose", "praying-mantis", "woodpecker" ] }, "decisionReason": "Rhythm, surfaces, access, silence and a toy bird give six distinct encounters. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2233", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Woods", "text": "To dream of woods, brings a natural change in your affairs.\nIf the woods appear green, the change will be lucky.\nIf stripped of verdure, it will prove calamitous.\n\nTo see woods on fire, denotes that your plans will reach\nsatisfactory maturity. Prosperity will beam with favor upon you.\n\nTo dream that you deal in firewood, denotes that you will win\nfortune by determined struggle.", "locator": "Heading 2237; source lines 24555–24567", "lineStart": 24555, "lineEnd": 24567, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of woods, brings a natural change in your affairs.\nIf the woods appear green, the change will be lucky.\nIf stripped of verdure, it will prove calamitous.\n\nTo see woods on fire, denotes that your plans will reach\nsatisfactory maturity. Prosperity will beam with favor upon you.\n\nTo dream that you deal in firewood, denotes that you will win\nfortune by determined struggle." }, { "id": "fontaine-0873", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Woods", "text": "(_See Grove and Picnic._)", "locator": "Heading 873; source line 5301", "lineStart": 5301, "lineEnd": 5303, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Grove and Picnic.)" }, { "id": "noe-0562", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Wood", "text": "To dream you are cutting or chopping\nwood, clearly shows that you will be happy in your family, and become rich\nand respectable in life. To dream you are carrying wood upon your back,\nshows that you will rise to affluence by your industry, but that your\npartner will be of a bad temper and your children undutiful. If you dream\nyou are walking or sitting alone in an extensive wood by a running stream,\nit denotes that you will quickly fall in love, and also that you will be\noften married. To dream that you are walking or sitting there with a\nworthy object of your affections, betokens your speedy union, which will\nprove so felicitous that you will be called “the happy couple.”", "locator": "Dream section, heading 570; source lines 2038–2048", "lineStart": 2038, "lineEnd": 2048, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are cutting or chopping\nwood, clearly shows that you will be happy in your family, and become rich\nand respectable in life. To dream you are carrying wood upon your back,\nshows that you will rise to affluence by your industry, but that your\npartner will be of a bad temper and your children undutiful. If you dream\nyou are walking or sitting alone in an extensive wood by a running stream,\nit denotes that you will quickly fall in love, and also that you will be\noften married. To dream that you are walking or sitting there with a\nworthy object of your affections, betokens your speedy union, which will\nprove so felicitous that you will be called “the happy couple.”" }, { "id": "cielo-0473", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Woods", "text": "To walk thru the woods is a sure sign of success.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 473; source lines 5013–5015", "lineStart": 5013, "lineEnd": 5015, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To walk thru the woods is a sure sign of success." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "grove", "picnic" ] }, { "slug": "wool", "title": "Wool", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of wool, is a pleasing sign of prosperous opportunities to expand your interests.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "wool" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about wool stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2235", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Wool", "text": "To dream of wool, is a pleasing sign of prosperous opportunities\nto expand your interests.\n\nTo see soiled, or dirty wool, foretells that you will seek employment\nwith those who detest your principles.", "locator": "Heading 2239; source lines 24572–24580", "lineStart": 24572, "lineEnd": 24580, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of wool, is a pleasing sign of prosperous opportunities\nto expand your interests.\n\nTo see soiled, or dirty wool, foretells that you will seek employment\nwith those who detest your principles." }, { "id": "noe-0563", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Wool", "text": "To dream you are buying or selling wool, denotes prosperity and\ngreat affluence, by means or industry and trade. To the lover, it is a\nfavorable omen. Your sweetheart is thereby shown to be of an amiable\ndisposition, very constant and deeply in love with you.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 571; source lines 2048–2051", "lineStart": 2048, "lineEnd": 2051, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are buying or selling wool, denotes prosperity and\ngreat affluence, by means or industry and trade. To the lover, it is a\nfavorable omen. Your sweetheart is thereby shown to be of an amiable\ndisposition, very constant and deeply in love with you." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12600", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Wool", "heading": "Wool", "text": "To buy or to sell, a dream of prosperity and abundance (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12600, "lineEnd": 12602, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 265; NLM OCR lines 12600–12602", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12600, "lineEnd": 12602, "printedPage": 265, "printedPageEnd": 265 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Wool. — To buy or to sell, a dream of prosperity and \nabundance (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Wool" }, "displayText": "To buy or to sell, a dream of prosperity and abundance (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "words-changing-while-you-read", "title": "Words changing while you read", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "tagline": "Trying to use a message that will not stay the same", "summary": "If dreamed text changes between looks, the scene may concern relying on information that will not remain stable long enough to use.", "aliases": [ "text changing in a dream", "words changing while reading", "text changes while reading" ], "status": "REVIEW", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "When words change while you read, the dream can make using information difficult even if each version is understandable. A sentence says one thing and then another, a name alters or a sign will not remain consistent between looks. This page concerns that change within the scene. An unfamiliar alphabet or a simply unclear page presents a different problem; neither automatically belongs to the same experience.\n\nThe text's purpose gives the change its stakes. A contract affects what you believe you accepted, a direction affects where you go and a personal note affects what you think somebody is saying. This could resemble a waking process whose terms keep shifting, if that comparison fits. It can also come from recent editing, multiple versions of a document or an invented dream sequence without a recognizable waking parallel.\n\nTrying to preserve a version can become the main action. You may copy the words, photograph a page or ask somebody else to look with you. The dream might frustrate those attempts or let a fragment remain. Notice whether you are seeking practical accuracy, agreement with another reader or confidence in your own recollection. None of those efforts makes the final remembered sentence a hidden authoritative message.\n\nOther people can respond differently to the change. Someone may insist that the wording was always the same, or notice another version without agreeing about which one to use. This can picture difficulty establishing a shared reference rather than prove that anybody is deceiving you. Your response might involve checking, pausing or deciding not to act until the information is usable.\n\nYou may also stop trying to solve the text and attend to the surrounding action. A person waiting nearby or a place you already recognize can matter independently of the words. This is an optional reading, not a demand to ignore a message that felt significant. Changing text is not assumed to happen in all dreams, reveal a biological mechanism or reliably test whether you are asleep. Describe the versions and uncertainties you actually remember. Their effect on your choices can be more useful than choosing one version as the dream's true instruction.", "traditional": "No exact historical passage is attached for words changing between readings. Historical Reading and Writing accounts concern adjacent actions, so their forecasts are not treated as authority for text instability. The general sleep source does not establish a universal rule about dream text or validate a test of whether somebody is dreaming.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "A contract changes after you think you have agreed to it", "reflection": "The terms no longer match the decision already made. This may resemble concern about an arrangement whose requirements shift, if one comes to mind. Notice whether you pause or seek clarification; the dream does not establish that a real agreement contains deception." }, { "title": "A direction sign points somewhere different on each return", "reflection": "Information fails to provide a stable route. This could fit a process whose guidance changes as you try to follow it. Record whether the surroundings offer another landmark; the moving sign need not decide that you are directionless in every part of life." }, { "title": "A personal note changes its tone before you finish", "reflection": "The same imagined message offers incompatible experiences of connection. This may picture uncertainty about what words mean to you, rather than reveal the writer's actual intentions. Preserve the versions you recall and the response each produced without selecting one as a verified message." }, { "title": "You copy the sentence but your copy changes too", "reflection": "An attempt to preserve information becomes part of the instability. This could resemble wanting confirmation that remains hard to obtain. Notice whether you continue checking, involve another person or stop; repeated checking in the scene does not establish a clinical condition or a waking obligation." }, { "title": "Another reader sees different words on the same page", "reflection": "A shared object does not provide a shared account. This may fit uncertainty about which information people are using in a group. Comparing what each sees can be the central action without proving that either person lies or that one interpretation must be authoritative." }, { "title": "You leave the changing instructions and speak directly to the waiting person", "reflection": "Attention moves from unstable wording to an interaction that can continue without it. This may picture finding another way to understand a situation. Notice what the conversation supplies; the shift need not make the text meaningless or guarantee that direct contact resolves everything." } ], "prompts": [ "Which versions of the text do you actually remember?", "What action depended on the wording remaining consistent?", "How did you respond when a stable account was unavailable?" ], "related": [ "reading", "writing", "letter", "alphabet", "dictionary" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection independently reviewed for content and source scope. Historical accounts remain attributed period writing. Human publication review pending.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "The stake of each version", "reflection": "A changed name, direction and agreement affect different actions even when the same instability occurs." }, { "title": "Seeking a shared reference", "reflection": "Copying or involving another reader may center the need for information that people can use together." }, { "title": "Choice while certainty is absent", "reflection": "Pausing, checking or attending elsewhere can change the scene without identifying a final hidden message." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "work", "title": "Work", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "aliases": [ "work" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "summary": "Work can explore the terms of a task, the place your contribution receives, or how an effort reaches an ending.", "tagline": "Effort and a useful outcome can require different conditions.", "psychological": "Work in a dream can make a task, responsibility or wish to participate feel concrete. It may resemble paid employment, household effort, voluntary work or an invented assignment. What you are trying to accomplish matters more than treating every work scene as an account of your career. A familiar task can provide direct context without becoming a forecast of success or failure.\n\nInstructions that change after each completed step can make effort continue without an agreed ending. This may resemble wanting clearer terms about what counts as sufficient. Working harder and understanding the task are different needs; the dreamed activity does not measure your real competence or prove that someone is deliberately making demands impossible.\n\nA contribution that nobody uses can create another mismatch. You may have completed the requested object or report while the shared activity has moved elsewhere. This can picture wanting effort to have a useful place rather than merely receive praise. Finding out what is still needed differs from deciding that everything you did was worthless.\n\nWorking alongside others can change the available resources. One person may hold something steady while another finds a tool, making a task possible through coordination. Looking for a place to begin work instead centers access and role: you might want to join before knowing which contribution is yours. Actual unemployment, a recent change or an unfamiliar responsibility deserves room without being forced into a symbolic lesson.\n\nA job appearing on a kitchen table can make one activity occupy space needed for another. This may resemble an arrangement whose boundaries or supporting conditions need attention. Deciding to stop while others continue raises a different question about endings. Your part can feel complete before the whole occasion is finished, or remain unsettled despite the hour. These original reflections concern the dreamed effort and its terms. They do not prescribe a career decision, diagnose exhaustion or establish what an employer thinks of you. The specific outcome, available help and effect of stopping guide whether a waking comparison is useful, rather than assuming that persistence or withdrawal is always the correct response.", "traditional": "The four Work accounts disagree about effort. Miller assigns favorable outcomes to working, watching others work and seeking work; Cielo also favors hard work. Fontaine and Craig attach sickness to work fatigue while predicting business success from seeing others work. Fontaine cross-references Harvest, and Craig adds right/left-hand fortune claims under a Gypsy attribution. These are attributed period forecasts, not evidence that effort guarantees prosperity or that a dreamed task assesses health, employment prospects or character.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Effort with understandable terms", "reflection": "A task can need an agreed purpose and ending alongside the energy put into it." }, { "title": "A contribution that has a usable place", "reflection": "Participation can depend on access, coordination and what is actually needed." }, { "title": "Boundaries and different endings", "reflection": "Your part of an activity can have terms distinct from the whole occasion." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Each completed step brings a different set of instructions", "reflection": "The task keeps moving after you meet the latest requirement. This may picture wanting a clearer account of what is sufficient. More effort and better terms are different needs; the dream does not establish incompetence or another person’s deliberate attempt to frustrate you." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "The thing you finished has no place in the shared activity", "reflection": "An effort exists without the use you expected it to receive. This can resemble wanting a contribution to be practical rather than merely praised. The mismatch need not make the work worthless; the changed purpose and available response give it particular terms." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A task becomes possible when other workers coordinate different roles", "reflection": "No single person supplies every condition the activity needs. This may picture responsibility becoming workable through cooperation and usable information. Depending on another role need not erase your contribution or prove that you could not manage a different task independently." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You want to begin work but cannot find a clear role", "reflection": "Participation is wanted before its practical terms are available. This can resemble a new responsibility or a direct concern about access to work. The scene does not predict employment, and a real work change need not be replaced by a symbolic lesson." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Reports cover the kitchen table during a household meal", "reflection": "One activity occupies space another occasion also needs. This may picture boundaries or supporting arrangements becoming visible through a practical conflict. Clearing, sharing or moving the task gives different possibilities without declaring that work and home must always stay separate." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "You stop your task while others continue working nearby", "reflection": "Your ending differs from the timing of the wider activity. This can resemble deciding which responsibility is complete and which remains unsettled. Stopping need not prove indifference or failure, and continuing need not be treated as the only way to show commitment." } ], "prompts": [ "What purpose and ending did the task seem to have?", "How did your contribution receive a usable place or shared support?", "Which condition made continuing, changing or stopping feel appropriate?" ], "related": [ "labor", "boss", "coworker", "office", "being-fired", "harvest" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-2236" ], "scope": "miller-2236: Working hard, seeing others work and looking for work receive success, hopeful conditions and unexpected-benefit forecasts. Exact supplied passages: miller-2236 — Work (Heading 2240; source lines 24580–24590). Attributed historical comparison only; no forecast validates the original reflection or establishes actual health, relationships, beliefs or circumstances." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0874" ], "scope": "fontaine-0874: The Work account cross-references Harvest and assigns sickness to tired hard work versus business success to seeing people work. Exact supplied passages: fontaine-0874 — Work (Heading 874; source line 5303). Attributed historical comparison only; no forecast validates the original reflection or establishes actual health, relationships, beliefs or circumstances." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0474" ], "scope": "cielo-0474: The short Work account assigns prosperity to hard work. Exact supplied passages: cielo-0474 — Work (Dream section, heading 474; source lines 5015–5017). Attributed historical comparison only; no forecast validates the original reflection or establishes actual health, relationships, beliefs or circumstances." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L12603" ], "scope": "craig-1918:L12603: Craig assigns illness versus business success to work fatigue versus others working, and contrasts right/left-hand fortune under a Gypsy attribution. These are attributed forecasts, not verified cultural or health rules. Exact supplied passages: craig-1918:L12603 — Work (Printed p. 265; NLM OCR lines 12603–12607). Attributed historical comparison only; no forecast validates the original reflection or establishes actual health, relationships, beliefs or circumstances." } ], "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2236", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Work", "text": "To dream that you are hard at work, denotes that you will win\nmerited success by concentration of energy.\n\nTo see others at work, denotes that hopeful conditions will surround you.\n\nTo look for work, means that you will be benefited by\nsome unaccountable occurrence.", "locator": "Heading 2240; source lines 24580–24590", "lineStart": 24580, "lineEnd": 24590, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are hard at work, denotes that you will win\nmerited success by concentration of energy.\n\nTo see others at work, denotes that hopeful conditions will surround you.\n\nTo look for work, means that you will be benefited by\nsome unaccountable occurrence." }, { "id": "fontaine-0874", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Work", "text": "(_See Harvest._) To dream that you were working hard, and are\nvery tired, is a sign of sickness: if you imagine that you see men at\nwork, it foretells a successful business. 77.", "locator": "Heading 874; source line 5303", "lineStart": 5303, "lineEnd": 5307, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Harvest.) To dream that you were working hard, and are\nvery tired, is a sign of sickness: if you imagine that you see men at\nwork, it foretells a successful business." }, { "id": "cielo-0474", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Work", "text": "Dreaming of hard work denotes prosperity.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 474; source lines 5015–5017", "lineStart": 5015, "lineEnd": 5017, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Dreaming of hard work denotes prosperity." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12603", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Work", "heading": "Work", "text": "To be tired from work, a dream of sickness; to see men at work denotes success in business ; to work with the right hand signifies good fortune, with the left embarrassment (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12603, "lineEnd": 12607, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 265; NLM OCR lines 12603–12607", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12603, "lineEnd": 12607, "printedPage": 265, "printedPageEnd": 265 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Work. — To be tired from work, a dream of sickness; to see \nmen at work denotes success in business ; to work with the \nright hand signifies good fortune, with the left embarrassment \n(Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Work" }, "displayText": "To be tired from work, a dream of sickness; to see men at work denotes success in business; to work with the right hand signifies good fortune, with the left embarrassment (Gypsy)." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [ "harvest" ] }, { "slug": "work-judged-by-an-automated-score", "title": "Work judged by an automated score", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "tagline": "An automated score can make a complex effort feel reduced to a number. Notice what the system counts and what it overlooks.", "summary": "An automated score can make a complex effort feel reduced to a number. Notice what the system counts and what it overlooks.", "aliases": [ "algorithmic performance score dream", "automated workplace rating" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "Describe the metric before assigning it meaning. Did speed count more than care, visibility more than preparation, or completion more than quality? The dream may offer a way to reflect on evaluation that seems detached from context. It does not prove that an employer is secretly scoring you. A high score can also be uncomfortable if it rewards behavior you do not value.", "traditional": "Historical measures and scales provide only a broad comparison with assessment. This is a new editorial reflection on automated management; the number has no inherited numerological or predictive meaning here.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "Your score falls while you help a colleague", "reflection": "Which valuable action became invisible to the measurement?" }, { "title": "You reach the target by doing work you dislike", "reflection": "What did success according to the system cost you?" }, { "title": "You explain an exception to a human reviewer", "reflection": "What context changed the meaning of the number?" } ], "prompts": [ "What exactly was being counted?", "Did the score reflect your own standards?", "Was there a way to question the result?" ], "related": [ "employee", "scales" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia model-assisted editorial draft. Reflection questions and scenario readings are optional, individually written suggestions, not empirically validated symbol meanings. Source scope is stated with each citation. Historical comparisons identify topics, not inherited interpretations. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "work-house", "title": "Work-house", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream that you are in a workhouse denotes that some event will work you harm and loss. See Prison.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "work-house", "work house" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about work-house stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "prison" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2237", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Work house", "text": "To dream that you are in a workhouse denotes that some event\nwill work you harm and loss.\n\n\n[244] See Prison.", "locator": "Heading 2241; source lines 24590–24598", "lineStart": 24590, "lineEnd": 24598, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are in a workhouse denotes that some event\nwill work you harm and loss. See Prison.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Work house” is shown on the Work-house page: same heading; hyphen variant" }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12608", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Work-house", "heading": "Work-house", "text": "To dream of being in one denotes a legacy (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12608, "lineEnd": 12610, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 265; NLM OCR lines 12608–12610", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12608, "lineEnd": 12610, "printedPage": 265, "printedPageEnd": 265 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Work-house. — To dream of being in one denotes a legacy \n(Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Work-house" }, "displayText": "To dream of being in one denotes a legacy (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "prison" ] }, { "slug": "working-while-on-holiday", "title": "Working while on holiday", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "tagline": "Work entering a holiday can test whether being away is enough to feel unavailable, rested, or entitled to use your time differently.", "summary": "Work entering a holiday can test whether being away is enough to feel unavailable, rested, or entitled to use your time differently.", "aliases": [ "working on vacation dream", "holiday interrupted by work" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "Distinguish an actual urgent request from checking in because you fear being absent. The dream might reflect a real workload or an internal expectation, and both can be present. Notice who interrupts the holiday and how your companions respond. The reflective issue is not whether you are bad at relaxing, but what conditions would make time away believable and supported.", "traditional": "Historical holiday and work entries predate constant remote access. This draft does not moralize rest as laziness or constant availability as virtue; it examines a particular boundary around time.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "You answer messages while others go exploring", "reflection": "What did staying available seem to protect or cost?" }, { "title": "Your workplace closes the request without you", "reflection": "Could you trust that things might continue in your absence?" }, { "title": "You put the device away and enjoy the afternoon", "reflection": "What allowed the boundary to hold?" } ], "prompts": [ "Was the work requested or self-initiated?", "What did you fear might happen if you remained unavailable?", "Who supported your right to time away?" ], "related": [ "holiday", "an-overflowing-inbox" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia model-assisted editorial draft. Reflection questions and scenario readings are optional, individually written suggestions, not empirically validated symbol meanings. Source scope is stated with each citation. Historical comparisons identify topics, not inherited interpretations. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "workshop", "title": "Workshop", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To see workshops in your dreams, foretells that you will use extraordinary schemes to undermine your…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "workshop", "work-shop" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about workshop stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2238", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Workshop", "text": "To see workshops in your dreams, foretells that you will use\nextraordinary schemes to undermine your enemies.", "locator": "Heading 2242; source lines 24598–24603", "lineStart": 24598, "lineEnd": 24603, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see workshops in your dreams, foretells that you will use\nextraordinary schemes to undermine your enemies." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12611", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Work-shop", "heading": "Work-shop", "text": "A dream of thrift and wealth (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12611, "lineEnd": 12612, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 265; NLM OCR lines 12611–12612", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12611, "lineEnd": 12612, "printedPage": 265, "printedPageEnd": 265 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Work-shop, — A dream of thrift and wealth (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Work-shop" }, "displayText": "A dream of thrift and wealth (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "worms", "title": "Worms", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "5 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of worms, denotes that you will be oppressed by the low intriguing of disreputable persons.” Compare 5 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "worms" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about worms stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "grub" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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If she kills or throws\nthem off, she will shake loose from the material lethargy and seek\nto live in morality and spirituality.\n\nTo use them in your dreams as fish bait, foretells that by your ingenuity\nyou will use your enemies to good advantage.", "locator": "Heading 2243; source lines 24603–24616", "lineStart": 24603, "lineEnd": 24616, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of worms, denotes that you will be oppressed by the low intriguing\nof disreputable persons.\n\nFor a young woman to dream they crawl on her, foretells that her\naspirations will always tend to the material. If she kills or throws\nthem off, she will shake loose from the material lethargy and seek\nto live in morality and spirituality.\n\nTo use them in your dreams as fish bait, foretells that by your ingenuity\nyou will use your enemies to good advantage." }, { "id": "fontaine-0875", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Worms", "text": "(_See Grub._) To dream of fish-worms, such as are dug in\nthe garden, is a sign of health and good fortune; dreaming of any\ndestructive worms foretells sickness and losses: if you dream that\nworms spin down from a tree and light upon you, it denotes difficulties\nand bad luck. 65, 4, 70.", "locator": "Heading 875; source line 5307", "lineStart": 5307, "lineEnd": 5313, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Grub.) To dream of fish-worms, such as are dug in\nthe garden, is a sign of health and good fortune; dreaming of any\ndestructive worms foretells sickness and losses: if you dream that\nworms spin down from a tree and light upon you, it denotes difficulties\nand bad luck." }, { "id": "noe-0576", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Worms", "text": "To dream that you see a great number of worms in\nyour path, is an indication that the death of either yourself or of some\none dear to you may shortly be expected. For a young woman to dream that\nshe has trod upon a worm that was crawling in her path, signifies that the\nengagement between her and her lover will be in danger of being broken off\nthrough the machinations of a jealous rival, but eventually a\nreconciliation will be accomplished.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 584; source lines 2096–2102", "lineStart": 2096, "lineEnd": 2102, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you see a great number of worms in\nyour path, is an indication that the death of either yourself or of some\none dear to you may shortly be expected. For a young woman to dream that\nshe has trod upon a worm that was crawling in her path, signifies that the\nengagement between her and her lover will be in danger of being broken off\nthrough the machinations of a jealous rival, but eventually a\nreconciliation will be accomplished." }, { "id": "cielo-0475", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Worms", "text": "Seeing worms is a sign of coming ill health.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 475; source lines 5017–5019", "lineStart": 5017, "lineEnd": 5019, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Seeing worms is a sign of coming ill health." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12613", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Worms", "heading": "Worms", "text": "To dream of seeing them in the path augurs death to the dreamer or to his friends (Gypsy), Mediaeval symbol of death and decay.", "lineStart": 12613, "lineEnd": 12616, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 265; NLM OCR lines 12613–12616", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12613, "lineEnd": 12616, "printedPage": 265, "printedPageEnd": 265 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Worms. — To dream of seeing them in the path augurs death \nto the dreamer or to his friends (Gypsy), Mediaeval symbol \nof death and decay. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Worms" }, "displayText": "To dream of seeing them in the path augurs death to the dreamer or to his friends (Gypsy), Mediaeval symbol of death and decay." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "grub" ] }, { "slug": "wormwood", "title": "Wormwood", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “A dream predicting bitter trials (Gypsy). Ancient symbol of bitterness.”", "aliases": [ "wormwood" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about wormwood stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L12617", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Wormwood", "heading": "Wormwood", "text": "A dream predicting bitter trials (Gypsy). 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "wound", "title": "Wound", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "What matters can be the hurt, the response or the room to acknowledge it.", "summary": "A wound dream can explore felt hurt, acknowledgment and receiving care. The scene’s response matters more than an assumed hidden injury.", "aliases": [ "wound", "of a wound", "wounds" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A wound in a dream makes a hurt or interruption visible within the scene. It may picture the effect of a difficult encounter, a setback or work that has cost more than you expected. A recent injury, story or remembered image may also provide the detail directly. The useful question is what the wound changes: your ability to continue, how others respond or what you feel able to say. It does not need to stand for an undiscovered emotional event.\n\nAn injury nobody acknowledges can picture a gap between what an experience cost you and what the surrounding arrangement recognizes. You might continue a demanding task while others assume nothing has changed, or find that a disagreement ends before its effect has been discussed. The dream does not establish deliberate disregard. It gives the gap a form you can compare with your own experience if the connection fits.\n\nWhere the wound appears can link it to an action or role. A hand you need for a task or a part exposed during a conversation may make the interruption specific. That association comes from what you were doing, not a fixed dictionary meaning for a body part. Different waking experiences can fit the same image, and a frightening scene need not provide an accurate account of any of them.\n\nReceiving care introduces choice and relationship. Someone may offer help that lets you pause, or insist on a response that does not meet what you wanted. Acknowledgment can matter even when the other person cannot undo the event. Helping someone whose hurt is difficult to see can picture attention to a cost that is not obvious, without making you responsible for discovering or repairing everything they experience.\n\nContinuing as if nothing happened can picture an expectation to keep functioning despite an interruption. You may feel determined, unable to stop or simply absorbed in the task. A transition to a healed mark gives the past event a different presence: a trace remains while the immediate demand changes. The separate Scar page develops that aftermath. 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The gap may be between felt cost and recognized cost." }, { "title": "Care that leaves a choice", "reflection": "Help can matter through whether it responds to what you need and allows you a say. Acknowledgment may be useful even when the earlier event cannot be undone." }, { "title": "From interruption to a trace", "reflection": "A healed mark can give an earlier event a different presence. The scene may distinguish current demands from a history that remains recognizable without needing to be replayed." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You notice a wound nobody else acknowledges", "reflection": "An unnoticed wound can picture a cost that remains unacknowledged while a task continues. A demanding project or unsettled disagreement may fit. The image does not establish that other people intend to ignore you." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "A wound appears in a place linked to a remembered task", "reflection": "A wound linked to a remembered task can picture an interruption whose meaning depends on what you were doing. A particular responsibility may give the location its association. No universal body-part code is needed." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Someone offers care and you choose whether to accept", "reflection": "An offer of care can picture being given room to pause or participate differently. Your ability to accept, decline or explain matters. Help that responds to your wishes feels different from someone deciding the response for you." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You are wounded but continue a task as if nothing happened", "reflection": "Continuing without a response can picture a role in which interruption seems difficult to acknowledge. Determination and lack of permission to stop are different readings. The feeling of choice helps distinguish them." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You help someone whose hurt is hard to see", "reflection": "Helping with an unseen hurt can picture attention to a cost that is not obvious within a shared task. Care can remain limited and collaborative. You are not required to infer another person’s actual hidden experience." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The wound becomes a healed mark that you recognize", "reflection": "A wound becoming a familiar mark can picture an earlier event remaining part of your account while its immediate demands change. Recognition may feel ordinary, welcome or uncomfortable. The scene does not assess healing or predict recovery." } ], "prompts": [ "What did the wound change about my activity or participation?", "Which response did I want, and what response was actually offered?", "Did the scene center a present interruption or a trace of something earlier?" ], "related": [ "blood", "hospital", "skin", "surgery" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-2240" ], "scope": "Preserves this author’s attached period dream-book account; the entry’s context compares attributed beliefs rather than adopting forecasts. Exact supplied records: miller-2240 — Wound (Heading 2244; source lines 24616–24627). Historical comparison only, not evidence for the original reflective reading or an actual outcome." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0876" ], "scope": "Preserves this author’s attached period dream-book account; the entry’s context compares attributed beliefs rather than adopting forecasts. Exact supplied records: fontaine-0876 — Wound (Heading 876; source line 5313). Historical comparison only, not evidence for the original reflective reading or an actual outcome." }, { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display.", "recordIds": [ "artemidorus-147" ], "scope": "Preserves this author’s attached period dream-book account; the entry’s context compares attributed beliefs rather than adopting forecasts. Exact supplied records: artemidorus-147 — Of a wound. (Book 3, encoded section 147). Historical comparison only, not evidence for the original reflective reading or an actual outcome." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0568" ], "scope": "Preserves this author’s attached period dream-book account; the entry’s context compares attributed beliefs rather than adopting forecasts. Exact supplied records: noe-0568 — Wounds (Dream section, heading 576; source lines 2069–2074). Historical comparison only, not evidence for the original reflective reading or an actual outcome." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L12620" ], "scope": "Preserves this author’s attached period dream-book account; the entry’s context compares attributed beliefs rather than adopting forecasts. Exact supplied records: craig-1918:L12620 — Wounds (Printed p. 265–266; NLM OCR lines 12620–12628). Historical comparison only, not evidence for the original reflective reading or an actual outcome." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2240", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Wound", "text": "To dream that you are wounded, signals distress and an unfavorable\nturn in business.\n\nTo see others wounded, denotes that injustice will be accorded\nyou by your friends.\n\nTo relieve or dress a wound, signifies that you will have occasion\nto congratulate yourself on your good fortune.", "locator": "Heading 2244; source lines 24616–24627", "lineStart": 24616, "lineEnd": 24627, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are wounded, signals distress and an unfavorable\nturn in business.\n\nTo see others wounded, denotes that injustice will be accorded\nyou by your friends.\n\nTo relieve or dress a wound, signifies that you will have occasion\nto congratulate yourself on your good fortune." }, { "id": "fontaine-0876", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Wound", "text": "To dream that you are wounded by being stabbed or shot by an\nenemy, foretells losses and poverty; if the wounds are accidental, it\nstill denotes losses, though your general fortune may not be affected.\n13, 42.", "locator": "Heading 876; source line 5313", "lineStart": 5313, "lineEnd": 5318, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are wounded by being stabbed or shot by an\nenemy, foretells losses and poverty; if the wounds are accidental, it\nstill denotes losses, though your general fortune may not be affected." }, { "id": "artemidorus-147", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of a wound.", "text": "FOr to dream to be wounded in the stomack or hart; to young folkes signifieth love, to old, griefs and heavinesse: in the palm of the right hand, is debt and warre, by reason of the signe which is made thereby, but new skin recovered in the wound which one cals a skar, is an end an issue of evils.", "locator": "Book 3, encoded section 147", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "3", "displayText": "FOr to dream to be wounded in the stomack or hart; to young folkes signifieth love, to old, griefs and heavinesse: in the palm of the right hand, is debt and warre, by reason of the signe which is made thereby, but new skin recovered in the wound which one cals a skar, is an end an issue of evils.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “A wound” is shown on the Wound page: artemidorus \"Of a wound\" is the general wound topic" }, { "id": "noe-0568", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Wounds", "text": "To dream you are wounded, is a very favorable omen, especially\nif it be with a sword. To the lover, it denotes success in your amours,\nand with an agreeable partner, who will be faithful and affectionate. To\nthe tradesman, profit; and to the farmer, increase in his cattle and\nplentiful crops. To the sailor, a profitable voyage, with success in love.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 576; source lines 2069–2074", "lineStart": 2069, "lineEnd": 2074, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you are wounded, is a very favorable omen, especially\nif it be with a sword. To the lover, it denotes success in your amours,\nand with an agreeable partner, who will be faithful and affectionate. To\nthe tradesman, profit; and to the farmer, increase in his cattle and\nplentiful crops. To the sailor, a profitable voyage, with success in love." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12620", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Wounds", "heading": "Wounds", "text": "A dream denoting affliction of the wounded parts (Gypsy). Interpretation coincides with that of modem writers.", "lineStart": 12620, "lineEnd": 12628, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 265–266; NLM OCR lines 12620–12628", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12620, "lineEnd": 12628, "printedPage": 265, "printedPageEnd": 266 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Wounds. — A dream denoting affliction of the wounded parts \n\n\n266 THE FABRIC OF DREAMS \n\n\n(Gypsy). 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Interpretation coincides with that of modem writers." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "wrastling", "title": "Wrastling", "type": "dreams", "category": "Movement", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Artemidorus wrote: “FOr to wrastle with any parent, signifyes strife with him.”", "aliases": [ "wrastling", "of wrastling" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about wrastling stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "artemidorus-A25906", "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams", "author": "Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood", "edition": "1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription", "url": "https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A25906", "rights": "The TCP transcription explicitly grants CC0 1.0 Universal reuse. Marked illegible gaps remain visible; long-s is normalized for display." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "artemidorus-047", "sourceId": "artemidorus-A25906", "heading": "Of Wrastling.", "text": "FOr to wrastle with any parent, signifyes strife with him. And among such as are at strife already, he which dreames he is superiour, shall vanquish, if they strive not for beritage, for in such a controversie it were better to be beaten: to wrastle with a stranger, is danger of sicknes: if a man fight with a child and he throw him upon the ground, he shall lose some friend by death, if he be beaten, he shall have mockery, and sicknes. It is good for a litle child to wrastle with a man, for he shall do great matters, more then one would think. But if he wrastle or combat with a Champion, this dream is not good for him. To wrastle with death, betokens sicknes or debate, and suits in law with the children or heyres of dead men. But it is good alwayes for the rich man, to think or dream that he is in Authority.", "locator": "Book 1, encoded section 47", "kind": "topic", "quality": "transcription", "book": "1", "displayText": "FOr to wrastle with any parent, signifyes strife with him. And among such as are at strife already, he which dreames he is superiour, shall vanquish, if they strive not for beritage, for in such a controversie it were better to be beaten: to wrastle with a stranger, is danger of sicknes: if a man fight with a child and he throw him upon the ground, he shall lose some friend by death, if he be beaten, he shall have mockery, and sicknes. It is good for a litle child to wrastle with a man, for he shall do great matters, more then one would think. But if he wrastle or combat with a Champion, this dream is not good for him. To wrastle with death, betokens sicknes or debate, and suits in law with the children or heyres of dead men. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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See other like words." }, { "id": "noe-0578", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Wreck", "text": "To dream that you are witnessing the wreck of some vessel at a\nshort distance from the sea-shore, is an indication that one in whom you\nreposed great confidence will deceive you.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 586; source lines 2105–2107", "lineStart": 2105, "lineEnd": 2107, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are witnessing the wreck of some vessel at a\nshort distance from the sea-shore, is an indication that one in whom you\nreposed great confidence will deceive you." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12632", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Wreck", "heading": "Wreck", "text": "A dream of misfortunes to come (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12632, "lineEnd": 12633, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 266; NLM OCR lines 12632–12633", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12632, "lineEnd": 12633, "printedPage": 266, "printedPageEnd": 266 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Wreck. — A dream of misfortunes to come (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Wreck" }, "displayText": "A dream of misfortunes to come (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "wren", "title": "Wren", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “To dream that one of these musical little birds makes her nest anywhere on your premises, is a sign of…” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "wren", "marten" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about wren stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0877", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Wren", "text": "To dream that one of these musical little birds makes her nest\nanywhere on your premises, is a sign of joy and riches; a girl who\ndreams this will make a happy match, though perhaps not a rich one, as\nthe riches only come to the family that lives in the house. 1, 73.", "locator": "Heading 877; source line 5318", "lineStart": 5318, "lineEnd": 5323, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that one of these musical little birds makes her nest\nanywhere on your premises, is a sign of joy and riches; a girl who\ndreams this will make a happy match, though perhaps not a rich one, as\nthe riches only come to the family that lives in the house." }, { "id": "noe-0565", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Wren", "text": "To dream of this little bird is good, as the wren is noted\nfor its innocence; the person so dreaming is certain of having a noble\nfriend. But to dream you kill it, is bad.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 573; source lines 2055–2057", "lineStart": 2055, "lineEnd": 2057, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of this little bird is good, as the wren is noted\nfor its innocence; the person so dreaming is certain of having a noble\nfriend. But to dream you kill it, is bad." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L10831", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Marten", "heading": "Marten", "text": "See Wren.", "lineStart": 10831, "lineEnd": 10832, "kind": "cross-reference", "locator": "Printed p. 233; NLM OCR lines 10831–10832", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 10831, "lineEnd": 10832, "printedPage": 233, "printedPageEnd": 233 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Marten. — See Wren. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Marten" }, "displayText": "See Wren." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0878", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Wrinkles", "text": "If a lady dreams that her face has become wrinkled, it is a\nsign that some one is, or has been, praising her good looks; an old\nbachelor who dreams this,  “had better believe” that some young lady is\nin love with him, for there is no accounting for taste. 66, 4.", "locator": "Heading 878; source line 5323", "lineStart": 5323, "lineEnd": 5328, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If a lady dreams that her face has become wrinkled, it is a\nsign that some one is, or has been, praising her good looks; an old\nbachelor who dreams this,  “had better believe” that some young lady is\nin love with him, for there is no accounting for taste." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12634", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Wrinkles", "heading": "Wrinkles", "text": "To dream of seeing them in your own face promises a green old age (Raphael).", "lineStart": 12634, "lineEnd": 12636, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 266; NLM OCR lines 12634–12636", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12634, "lineEnd": 12636, "printedPage": 266, "printedPageEnd": 266 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Wrinkles. — To dream of seeing them in your own face \npromises a green old age (Raphael). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Wrinkles" }, "displayText": "To dream of seeing them in your own face promises a green old age (Raphael)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "wrist", "title": "Wrist", "type": "dreams", "category": "Body & self", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “If a girl dreams that her wrist is large or mis-shapen, it foretells that she will come to poverty after…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "wrist" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about wrist stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. 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A draft may be easy to begin until you try to explain a difficult detail, or become clearer through crossing something out. This could resemble preparing a message whose tone and purpose matter. The unfinished sentence need not establish a hidden truth or a failure to communicate; it can picture the work of deciding what you mean.\n\nAn audience can influence the page before anyone reads it. You may imagine a particular person's reaction, write more formally than you want or leave out a detail you are unsure about sharing. A current conversation, application or handover could provide a parallel. The dream does not reveal the recipient's actual response. It may help describe what you expect writing to make possible or difficult between you.\n\nCopying and composing are different responsibilities. Reproducing another person's words may be straightforward until they ask you to sign as their author. A dictated passage can make your hand responsible for a message you did not choose. Conversely, working together on a page may let several contributions become visible. Notice whose wording, name and decisions remain on the final version.\n\nThe material process can also matter: a pen stops, a page is too small or a saved draft cannot be found. These details may reflect ordinary recent experience rather than a symbolic blockage. Keep the actual difficulty separate from assumptions about your creativity or ability. Sending, keeping, revising or discarding the writing provides different endings. A useful reflection can concern how thought becomes shareable and where you retain choice. Historical letter-writing forecasts do not make a dreamed message an instruction to contact somebody or proof that another person wants to hear from you.", "traditional": "Miller assigns unfavorable forecasts to writing and related scenes; Fontaine and Cielo distinguish letters, blots or books, while Noe gives a brief verse about granting and refusing. 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The choice not to send need not establish avoidance; consider what keeping the note actually allows." }, { "title": "Someone dictates a passage but asks you to sign your name", "reflection": "Producing the page and owning its message come apart. This may resemble responsibility being assigned for decisions you did not make. Notice whether you clarify authorship, alter the wording or refuse the signature; the scene does not establish another person's real intentions." }, { "title": "The pen stops halfway through an otherwise clear thought", "reflection": "A practical tool interrupts a message whose purpose remains understandable. This could fit an ordinary disruption that is easy to confuse with inability to express yourself. Finding another tool or continuing later changes the conditions rather than deciding whether the thought has value." }, { "title": "You and another person write different parts of the same page", "reflection": "Several contributions need an arrangement that preserves their relationship. This may resemble collaborative work in which voices can complement or obscure one another. Notice how you join the sections and mark responsibility; shared authorship need not require identical wording or complete agreement." }, { "title": "You find an old draft and write a different ending", "reflection": "Earlier words remain available without determining the new version. This could picture revisiting a message, project or understanding from changed circumstances. The difference between endings can be useful to describe without treating the old draft as a recovered factual record or the new one as destiny." } ], "prompts": [ "What did you want the writing to make possible?", "How did the intended audience affect the words you chose?", "What happened between forming the draft and deciding what to do with it?" ], "related": [ "reading", "letter", "homework", "blackboard", "alphabet", "pen", "accounts" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-2243" ], "scope": "Historical comparison only: Miller forecasts damaging mistakes from writing, blame or lawsuit embarrassment from seeing writing, and an enemy-related warning from trying to read strange writing; he also refers to Letters. Exact owned passages: Writing — miller-2243 (Heading 2247; source lines 24644–24665). These period claims do not validate the original reflections or establish present-day outcomes." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0880" ], "scope": "Historical comparison only: Fontaine refers to Pen and Accounts, then assigns returning-friend or lover forecasts to writing letters and an illness forecast to making a blot. Exact owned passages: Writing — fontaine-0880 (Heading 880; source line 5334). These period claims do not validate the original reflections or establish present-day outcomes." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "noe-0579" ], "scope": "Historical comparison only: Noe’s brief verse links writing with nerve and acts of granting, denying, giving or refusing; it supplies no general alphabet-character interpretation. Exact owned passages: Writing — noe-0579 (Dream section, heading 587; source lines 2107–2112). These period claims do not validate the original reflections or establish present-day outcomes." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted.", "recordIds": [ "cielo-0476" ], "scope": "Historical comparison only: Cielo assigns another person’s wish to hear from the dreamer to writing a letter and a fame forecast to writing a book. Exact owned passages: Writing — cielo-0476 (Dream section, heading 476; source lines 5019–5022). These period claims do not validate the original reflections or establish present-day outcomes." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution.", "recordIds": [ "craig-1918:L12640" ], "scope": "Historical comparison only: Craig assigns a letter-related surprise forecast to Writing and labels the account Gypsy. That is her historical attribution, not a verified universal cultural tradition. Exact owned passages: Writing — craig-1918:L12640 (Printed p. 266; NLM OCR lines 12640–12644). These period claims do not validate the original reflections or establish present-day outcomes." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection independently reviewed for content and source scope. Historical accounts remain attributed period writing. Human publication review pending.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Choosing what the words do", "reflection": "A private note, explanation and message can give writing different purposes and stakes." }, { "title": "Authorship and responsibility", "reflection": "Copying, dictation and collaboration may separate whose hand produces a page from whose decisions it expresses." }, { "title": "A draft's possible endings", "reflection": "Keeping, revising and handing over can each describe a different relationship with the thought you have formed." } ], "kind": "editorial", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2243", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Writing", "text": "To dream that you are writing, foretells that you will make a mistake\nwhich will almost prove your undoing.\n\nTo see writing, denotes that you will be upbraided for your careless\nconduct and a lawsuit may cause you embarrassment.\n\nTo try to read strange writing, signifies that you will escape\nenemies only by making no new speculation after this dream.\n\n\n[246] See Letters.", "locator": "Heading 2247; source lines 24644–24665", "lineStart": 24644, "lineEnd": 24665, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream that you are writing, foretells that you will make a mistake\nwhich will almost prove your undoing.\n\nTo see writing, denotes that you will be upbraided for your careless\nconduct and a lawsuit may cause you embarrassment.\n\nTo try to read strange writing, signifies that you will escape\nenemies only by making no new speculation after this dream. See Letters." }, { "id": "fontaine-0880", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Writing", "text": "(_See Pen and Accounts._) To dream of writing a letter,\nforetells that absent friends are about to visit you: if a girl dreams\nof writing a love-letter, it is a sign that her lover will soon return\nand clasp her in his arms, if she allows any such familiarities. To\ndream you make a blot while writing, is a sign of sickness. 14.", "locator": "Heading 880; source line 5334", "lineStart": 5334, "lineEnd": 5340, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Pen and Accounts.) To dream of writing a letter,\nforetells that absent friends are about to visit you: if a girl dreams\nof writing a love-letter, it is a sign that her lover will soon return\nand clasp her in his arms, if she allows any such familiarities. To\ndream you make a blot while writing, is a sign of sickness." }, { "id": "noe-0579", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Writing", "text": "Dreaming of writing ever means nerve;\n ’Twill grant or deny, will give or refuse.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 587; source lines 2107–2112", "lineStart": 2107, "lineEnd": 2112, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Dreaming of writing ever means nerve;\n’Twill grant or deny, will give or refuse." }, { "id": "cielo-0476", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Writing", "text": "To dream of writing a letter indicates that someone is\n anxious to hear from you; writing a book, foretells fame.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 476; source lines 5019–5022", "lineStart": 5019, "lineEnd": 5022, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of writing a letter indicates that someone is\nanxious to hear from you; writing a book, foretells fame." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12640", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Writing", "heading": "Writing", "text": "A dream promising surprise through a letter (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12640, "lineEnd": 12644, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 266; NLM OCR lines 12640–12644", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12640, "lineEnd": 12644, "printedPage": 266, "printedPageEnd": 266 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Writing. — A dream promising surprise through a letter \n(Gypsy). \n\nY \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [ { "line": 12643, "text": "Y " } ], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Writing" }, "displayText": "A dream promising surprise through a letter (Gypsy)." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [ "letter", "pen", "accounts" ] }, { "slug": "xmas", "title": "Xmas", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Cielo wrote: “To dream of Christmas is a happy omen, and means success in love.”", "aliases": [ "xmas" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about xmas stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. 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Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2244", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Yacht", "text": "To see a yacht in a dream, denotes happy recreation away\nfrom business and troublesome encumbrances. A stranded one,\nrepresents miscarriage of entertaining engagements.", "locator": "Heading 2248; source lines 24665–24671", "lineStart": 24665, "lineEnd": 24671, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a yacht in a dream, denotes happy recreation away\nfrom business and troublesome encumbrances. A stranded one,\nrepresents miscarriage of entertaining engagements." }, { "id": "fontaine-0881", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Yacht", "text": "To dream you see a yacht under full sail, while you are on\nshore, is a sign you will soon fall in love with a pretty maid, or\nwidow. To dream you are sailing in a yacht with a pleasant breeze, is a\ngood omen, and denotes success in business, and to lovers, happiness.\nDreams of sailing on smooth water are good to all persons, but to dream\nthe weather is stormy, predicts quarrels and strife. (_See Ship and\nBoat._) 71, 29.", "locator": "Heading 881; source line 5340", "lineStart": 5340, "lineEnd": 5348, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you see a yacht under full sail, while you are on\nshore, is a sign you will soon fall in love with a pretty maid, or\nwidow. To dream you are sailing in a yacht with a pleasant breeze, is a\ngood omen, and denotes success in business, and to lovers, happiness.\nDreams of sailing on smooth water are good to all persons, but to dream\nthe weather is stormy, predicts quarrels and strife. (See Ship and\nBoat.)" }, { "id": "cielo-0478", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Yacht", "text": "To dream of being on a yacht denotes an\n important letter soon to be received.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 478; source lines 5026–5030", "lineStart": 5026, "lineEnd": 5030, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of being on a yacht denotes an\nimportant letter soon to be received." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12645", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Yacht", "heading": "Yacht", "text": "To see one in clear, smooth water, success; in stormy seas, the reverse is signified.", "lineStart": 12645, "lineEnd": 12647, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 266; NLM OCR lines 12645–12647", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12645, "lineEnd": 12647, "printedPage": 266, "printedPageEnd": 266 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Yacht. — To see one in clear, smooth water, success; in \nstormy seas, the reverse is signified. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Yacht" }, "displayText": "To see one in clear, smooth water, success; in stormy seas, the reverse is signified." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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Sickness will prevent them from their usual labors.", "locator": "Heading 2252; source lines 24690–24698", "lineStart": 24690, "lineEnd": 24698, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If you yawn in your dreams, you will search in vain for\nhealth and contentment.\n\nTo see others yawning, foretells that you will see some of your friends\nin a miserable state. Sickness will prevent them from their usual labors." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12651", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Yawning", "heading": "Yawning", "text": "A warning to beware of surprises (Gypsy),", "lineStart": 12651, "lineEnd": 12651, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 266; NLM OCR lines 12651–12651", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12651, "lineEnd": 12651, "printedPage": 266, "printedPageEnd": 266 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Yawning. — A warning to beware of surprises (Gypsy), \n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Yawning" }, "displayText": "A warning to beware of surprises (Gypsy)," } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "yearn", "title": "Yearn", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To feel in a dream that you are yearning for the presence of anyone, denotes that you will soon hear comforting tidings from your absent…”", "aliases": [ "yearn" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about yearn stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2249", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Yearn", "text": "To feel in a dream that you are yearning for the presence of anyone,\ndenotes that you will soon hear comforting tidings from your absent friends.\n\nFor a young woman to think her lover is yearning for her, she will have\nthe pleasure of soon hearing some one making a long-wished-for proposal.\nIf she lets him know that she is yearning for him, she will be left alone\nand her longings will grow apace.", "locator": "Heading 2253; source lines 24698–24708", "lineStart": 24698, "lineEnd": 24708, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To feel in a dream that you are yearning for the presence of anyone,\ndenotes that you will soon hear comforting tidings from your absent friends.\n\nFor a young woman to think her lover is yearning for her, she will have\nthe pleasure of soon hearing some one making a long-wished-for proposal.\nIf she lets him know that she is yearning for him, she will be left alone\nand her longings will grow apace." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "yeast", "title": "Yeast", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Noe wrote: “If a young housewife dreams that she is kneading bread with yeast, she may conclude that she will be the…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "yeast" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about yeast stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "noe-0581", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Yeast", "text": "If a\nyoung housewife dreams that she is kneading bread with yeast, she may\nconclude that she will be the mother of a large family of children.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 589; source lines 2114–2118", "lineStart": 2114, "lineEnd": 2118, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If a\nyoung housewife dreams that she is kneading bread with yeast, she may\nconclude that she will be the mother of a large family of children." }, { "id": "cielo-0479", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Yeast", "text": "Is a sign of abundance.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 479; source lines 5030–5032", "lineStart": 5030, "lineEnd": 5032, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "Is a sign of abundance." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12652", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Yeast", "heading": "Yeast", "text": "A dream symbolizing the stirring of discontent (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12652, "lineEnd": 12654, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 266; NLM OCR lines 12652–12654", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12652, "lineEnd": 12654, "printedPage": 266, "printedPageEnd": 266 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Yeast. — A dream symbolizing the stirring of discontent \n(Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Yeast" }, "displayText": "A dream symbolizing the stirring of discontent (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "yellow", "title": "Yellow", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "summary": "A yellow detail may help identify a task, change how something is presented or complicate a gift. Its usefulness depends on the dreamed situation.", "tagline": "A conspicuous cue is useful only when its purpose is clear.", "aliases": [ "yellow", "yellow color", "yellow colour", "the color yellow", "the colour yellow" ], "status": "REVIEW", "psychological": "A yellow detail may give you a way to identify something, or make its appearance more noticeable than its purpose. A note, a thread and a gift can all be yellow while doing very different work in the dream. The useful starting point is how the appearance affected a task or encounter: what it helped you locate, what it obscured or what another person expected you to understand from it.\n\n A cue can lose its usefulness when it appears everywhere. If yellow notes cover an entire set of instructions, you may no longer know which part deserves attention. This can resemble a waking situation in which every request is presented as a priority. Removing some marks, arranging them in order or asking what each one means gives the dream different ways to recover distinctions rather than simply adding more emphasis.\n\n Presentation can change under different conditions. An object may appear yellow in one part of a room and look different when brought closer or placed elsewhere. If that changes your judgment, the scene may explore how a setting influences what you think you are being shown. A waking comparison might be evaluating a proposal after seeing a fuller description or discovering that an attractive presentation left out something relevant.\n\n A yellow item offered by another person can make the terms of an exchange important. Being told it is a gift, a loan or a sign of membership creates different expectations around the same object. Its personal association may help explain why you want it or hesitate to accept. The color does not settle those terms; the giver’s explanation and your ability to respond make the encounter more specific.\n\n Yellow may also give an ordinary contribution a recognizable form. A visible thread in a repair or flowers placed beside an unfinished task can point to work that might otherwise be overlooked. The scene may let appearance support a practical purpose without making the whole task conspicuous. Personal memories of yellow labels, clothing or rooms can bring further context, while a named yellow bird or an actual traffic signal retains its own subject and action.", "traditional": "Fontaine’s 1862 account assigns receiving gold to a presented yellow article and a rich-marriage forecast to yellow flowers from a lover. These are attributed period beliefs about gifts, rather than evidence about finances or a relationship. The particular exchange in your dream can be considered on its own terms.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Too many priorities", "reflection": "When every detail is marked yellow, emphasis may stop separating the important parts. The dream can explore how requests are ordered and what lets you recover a useful distinction between one task and another." }, { "title": "Conditions of presentation", "reflection": "A yellow appearance that changes with your position may make judgment provisional. Comparing views or asking for fuller information can become more useful than treating the first presentation as a complete account of the object." }, { "title": "An exchange with explicit terms", "reflection": "A yellow item can become central to a gift or loan without supplying the meaning of that exchange by itself. The giver’s explanation, your preference and any conditions of acceptance help show how much choice the encounter allows." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Yellow notes cover the instructions", "reflection": "Each note seems intended to help, but together they make the original task hard to read. Sorting or removing them may explore how to recover a workable order among competing requests. The scene changes when you can ask which mark actually requires a response." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Yellow light changes the item being inspected", "reflection": "An object seems to have one appearance until you carry it into another part of the room. The change may make you reconsider a first impression. Comparing conditions can picture wanting fuller information before deciding whether a presentation fits the thing being offered." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "A yellow loan is suddenly called a gift", "reflection": "You accept the item under one agreement, then hear that the terms are different. Its familiar appearance may make the change especially noticeable. Clarifying what is expected, returning it or accepting the new arrangement can express different ways of responding to an uncertain exchange." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Yellow flowers point out an unfinished repair", "reflection": "Flowers are placed beside a practical task instead of being offered as decoration. They may give an overlooked job a visible place in the room. Your reaction can distinguish an inviting reminder from a gesture that makes the unfinished work feel publicly exposed." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "Yellow route marks return you to the beginning", "reflection": "You follow what seems to be a helpful sequence but arrive where you started. The scene may make a procedure’s usefulness uncertain. Checking the marks, asking who placed them or choosing a new route can explore whether familiar guidance still serves the current task." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "A yellow thread remains visible in a successful repair", "reflection": "The object works again, although the thread makes the repair noticeable. Keeping or concealing it may concern how a contribution is acknowledged. The dream can allow useful work to have a visible trace without requiring the result to look untouched or effortless." } ], "prompts": [ "What did the yellow detail help you identify, and what became harder to distinguish?", "How did a change in presentation or lighting affect your judgment?", "What terms, preferences or practical uses gave the yellow item its place in the encounter?" ], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries.", "recordIds": [ "fontaine-0882" ], "scope": "Attributed historical context only. Yellow, fontaine-0882, assigns receiving gold to a presented yellow article and a rich-marriage forecast to yellow flowers from a lover. These are the author’s period money and relationship claims, not established outcomes or support for the original psychological reflections. The distinct Yellow Bird record is not cited or moved." }, { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "related": [ "colors", "gift", "flower", "yellow-bird" ], "updated": "2026-10-13", "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "detectionAliases": [ "yellow color", "yellow colour", "the color yellow", "the colour yellow" ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0882", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Yellow", "text": "To dream of having any yellow article presented to you, is\na sign you will get gold: if a girl dreams that her lover gives her\nyellow flowers, it foretells that she will marry rich. 60, 41.", "locator": "Heading 882; source line 5348", "lineStart": 5348, "lineEnd": 5352, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of having any yellow article presented to you, is\na sign you will get gold: if a girl dreams that her lover gives her\nyellow flowers, it foretells that she will marry rich." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "yellow-bird", "title": "Yellow Bird", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "aliases": [ "yellow bird" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-14", "summary": "Yellow-bird dreams may explore a detail that catches your attention, identifying one moving creature and the feeling of a particular encounter.", "tagline": "One vivid detail within a living encounter.", "psychological": "A yellow bird can become memorable because one colour lets a small moving creature stand out from its surroundings. The contrast might make the encounter feel cheerful, surprising, distracting or difficult to ignore. This could resemble a brief detail that changes how you experience an ordinary day, such as something of interest becoming visible during a familiar journey. Yellow does not supply a fixed emotional meaning or identify the bird's species.\n\nKeeping sight of one bird among others can make recognition the task. Its colour may help you follow the same creature as the group changes position. A possible waking comparison is trying to retain one useful thread within many shifting details. The dream's interest can lie in continuity rather than in the colour carrying a message.\n\nChanges in light can complicate that recognition. A bird that looks yellow in one place may appear different as it moves. This could picture an initial impression becoming less settled when the surrounding conditions change, such as reconsidering an object or arrangement after seeing it elsewhere. Uncertainty about appearance need not mean deception; it may simply leave more than one description possible.\n\nThe bird's movement adds an independent part to the scene. It may approach, leave, remain nearby or take a route different from the one you expect. Making an opening and allowing it to choose where to go can resemble offering room without controlling the response. Enjoying its company without trying to keep it can also be a satisfying experience rather than a hidden problem.\n\nA still or struggling bird may bring concern into focus because the vivid detail remains while movement changes. This can give a concrete form to attending to something you cannot immediately resolve. The image does not establish an animal's actual condition, another person's character or an impending loss.\n\nA bird remembered from a photograph, garden, story or recent encounter may directly supply the image, with the colour helping it remain recognizable. The original reflection keeps appearance, movement and response together. A scene about the hue itself can be explored separately; this entry concerns a particular dreamed creature whose yellow appearance mattered to the encounter.", "traditional": "Miller's Yellow Bird passage forecasts fear of a future event from a moving bird and suffering for another person's 'wild folly' from a sick or dead one. These adverse forecasts and the attribution of blame belong to Miller's period interpretation; they are not judgments about anyone's character or evidence of future harm. The original reading considers how colour, movement and personal associations change the encounter.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A small detail that changes attention", "reflection": "A vivid contrast can make an ordinary encounter pleasurable or distracting. The relevant comparison is how attention changes in the scene, rather than a universal emotional code for yellow." }, { "title": "Recognition while conditions change", "reflection": "Colour may help identify one bird within a moving group, then become uncertain in different light. The scene can explore continuity or a revisable impression without turning uncertainty into proof of deception." }, { "title": "Company without control", "reflection": "A bird's own movement can make welcome different from keeping it close. Offering room, enjoying its presence or facing unresolved concern may give the encounter meaning without predicting any outcome." } ], "scenarios": [ { "title": "A yellow bird brightens a plain windowsill", "reflection": "The brief visitor makes a familiar setting more interesting, and you enjoy watching without needing to act. This can picture pleasure in a small interruption to routine, such as a detail that restores curiosity during an ordinary day. The satisfaction belongs to the encounter rather than to a promise attached to its colour." }, { "title": "You follow one yellow bird within a moving flock", "reflection": "The colour helps you recognize the same creature as the group rearranges itself. This may picture holding onto a useful thread while other details shift, as when following one idea through a busy discussion. Recognition gives continuity without requiring the bird to represent a specific person or carry a hidden message." }, { "title": "Its apparent colour changes in another patch of light", "reflection": "The bird you recognized looks different after it moves, making your first description less certain. This can picture an impression becoming open to revision when its setting changes. A new view may add information without making the earlier view dishonest or requiring one appearance to settle the whole encounter." }, { "title": "You make an opening and the bird chooses another route", "reflection": "You offer a clear way through, but the creature moves elsewhere. This may picture making space without controlling how it is used, such as offering an invitation whose response remains another person's choice. The scene can separate a useful gesture from the expectation that it must produce one particular result." }, { "title": "A bird from an old photograph appears in the room", "reflection": "The colour and outline recall a specific image, now placed in a living encounter. This can picture a remembered detail becoming available in a different setting, perhaps with pleasure or surprise. The connection is to the recalled image and its associations, rather than evidence that a message has arrived from outside the dream." }, { "title": "The yellow bird remains still while others move away", "reflection": "Its unchanged colour keeps it noticeable, but the lack of movement makes the encounter uncertain. This may picture giving attention to a concern that has no immediate solution. Staying nearby or seeking help within the dream can make care concrete without turning stillness into a forecast of illness, loss or blame." } ], "prompts": [ "How did the bird’s colour affect attention or recognition within the encounter?", "What changed when the creature moved, stayed or appeared in different light?", "Which remembered image or small experience helps explain why this particular bird stood out?" ], "related": [ "bird", "yellow", "wings", "cage" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-2250" ], "scope": "Miller forecasts fear of a future event from a yellow bird flitting about, and suffering for another's 'wild folly' from a sick or dead yellow bird. Specific supplied passages: Yellow Bird — miller-2250 (Heading 2254; source lines 24708–24715). Historical comparison only; these attributed period claims do not validate the original reflections or establish outcomes, diagnoses or universal symbolic meanings." } ], "kind": "editorial", "editorialNote": "Original reflections for personal exploration. Sources are identified on this page. Human publication review is pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2250", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Yellow Bird", "text": "To see a yellow bird flitting about in your dreams, foretells that some\ngreat event will cast a sickening fear of the future around you.\nTo see it sick or dead, foretells that you will suffer for\nanother's wild folly.", "locator": "Heading 2254; source lines 24708–24715", "lineStart": 24708, "lineEnd": 24715, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To see a yellow bird flitting about in your dreams, foretells that some\ngreat event will cast a sickening fear of the future around you.\nTo see it sick or dead, foretells that you will suffer for\nanother's wild folly." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "yew-tree", "title": "Yew Tree", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a yew tree, is a forerunner of illness and disappointment.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "yew tree", "yew-tree" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about yew tree stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2251", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Yew Tree", "text": "To dream of a yew tree, is a forerunner of illness and disappointment.\nIf a young woman sits under one, she will have many fears to rend her over\nher fortune and the faithfulness of her lover. If she sees her lover\nstanding by one, she may expect to hear of his illness, or misfortune.\nTo admire one, she will estrange herself from her relatives by a mesalliance.\n\nTo visit a yew tree and find it dead and stripped of its foliage,\npredicts a sad death in your family. Property will not console\nfor this loss.", "locator": "Heading 2255; source lines 24715–24727", "lineStart": 24715, "lineEnd": 24727, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a yew tree, is a forerunner of illness and disappointment.\nIf a young woman sits under one, she will have many fears to rend her over\nher fortune and the faithfulness of her lover. If she sees her lover\nstanding by one, she may expect to hear of his illness, or misfortune.\nTo admire one, she will estrange herself from her relatives by a mesalliance.\n\nTo visit a yew tree and find it dead and stripped of its foliage,\npredicts a sad death in your family. Property will not console\nfor this loss." }, { "id": "noe-0580", "sourceId": "noe-53879", "heading": "Yew Tree", "text": "To dream of a yew tree, is an indication of the funeral of a\nvery aged person, by whose death the dreamer will derive some benefit or\nprotecting hand among the relations of the deceased person.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 588; source lines 2112–2114", "lineStart": 2112, "lineEnd": 2114, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a yew tree, is an indication of the funeral of a\nvery aged person, by whose death the dreamer will derive some benefit or\nprotecting hand among the relations of the deceased person." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12655", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Yew-tree", "heading": "Yew-tree", "text": "A dream denoting honor and great wealth. (Gypsy). A sacred tree amongst the Romans and the early Britons, who prized it especially in the manufacture of bows.", "lineStart": 12655, "lineEnd": 12658, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 266; NLM OCR lines 12655–12658", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12655, "lineEnd": 12658, "printedPage": 266, "printedPageEnd": 266 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Yew-tree. — A dream denoting honor and great wealth. \n(Gypsy). A sacred tree amongst the Romans and the early \nBritons, who prized it especially in the manufacture of bows. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Yew-tree" }, "displayText": "A dream denoting honor and great wealth. (Gypsy). A sacred tree amongst the Romans and the early Britons, who prized it especially in the manufacture of bows.", "editorialNote": "The source heading “Yew-tree” is shown on the Yew Tree page: same heading; hyphen variant" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "yield", "title": "Yield", "type": "dreams", "category": "Emotions & situations", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream you yield to another's wishes, denotes that you will throw away by weak indecision a great opportunity to elevate yourself.”", "aliases": [ "yield" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about yield stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2252", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Yield", "text": "To dream you yield to another's wishes, denotes that you will throw\naway by weak indecision a great opportunity to elevate yourself.\n\nIf others yield to you, exclusive privileges will be accorded\nyou and you will be elevated above your associates.\n\nTo receive poor yield for your labors, you may expect cares and worries.", "locator": "Heading 2256; source lines 24727–24737", "lineStart": 24727, "lineEnd": 24737, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream you yield to another's wishes, denotes that you will throw\naway by weak indecision a great opportunity to elevate yourself.\n\nIf others yield to you, exclusive privileges will be accorded\nyou and you will be elevated above your associates.\n\nTo receive poor yield for your labors, you may expect cares and worries." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "yogurt", "title": "Yogurt", "type": "dreams", "category": "Food & plants", "summary": "Yogurt dreams can explore a private routine, small choices within a familiar pattern, or a container whose contents differ from expectation.", "tagline": "A contained portion, a familiar beginning, and the choice of what to add.", "aliases": [ "yogurt", "yoghurt" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "A pot of yogurt can picture a modest part of daily life that has a defined place and portion. Eating it quietly before other demands begin may resemble protecting a short routine that makes the day feel your own. A walk, a few minutes of reading, or a familiar breakfast can matter through repetition rather than novelty. If someone interrupts or takes the pot, the dream may make a small loss of private time concrete. The limited size does not make the experience unimportant; it can show how little room a valued habit actually requires.\n\nAdding fruit or another flavor can bring personal choice into an established pattern. You keep something familiar while changing how it feels today. Adjusting a work routine, arranging your space, or bringing a preference into a shared household may offer a parallel. If another person insists that only one version is acceptable, the tension may concern control over a small decision. Having many options can instead become tiring when a simple beginning turns into another task to evaluate.\n\nOpening a sealed container creates a moment when expectation meets direct experience. The contents may be pleasing, strange, empty, or different from the label. This can picture discovering what an apparently simple arrangement actually provides once you rely on it. An empty pot may feel like disappointment in a small promised comfort rather than a dramatic betrayal. If you repeatedly inspect the container instead of eating, the dream can make uncertainty about an ordinary choice more central than the food itself.\n\nA spoon that cannot reach the bottom can picture effort prevented by an inconvenient design. The resource is visible but difficult to use, much as information may exist in an awkward system or support may be offered in a form that creates more work. Changing the container differs from blaming yourself for not reaching. Spilled yogurt can similarly turn a brief routine into an unexpected cleanup, especially when the morning was already crowded. These scenes do not reveal the quality of actual food or a digestive condition. A real breakfast, shopping trip, remembered taste, or packaging image may explain the dream directly; personal routine and access provide the useful context here.", "traditional": "No historical Yogurt or Yoghurt dream passage is supplied. Milk, Cream, and Custard have different archival subjects and are not transferred here. The reflections concern the container, portion, routine, and choices shown in the dream rather than medical or dietary claims.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "A small routine of your own", "reflection": "A contained portion can picture a brief habit that gives daily life a familiar beginning. Interruption can make the value of that ordinary space visible." }, { "title": "Choice within familiarity", "reflection": "Adding a flavor may explore changing an established pattern without abandoning it. Shared expectations differ from having no influence over even a small preference." }, { "title": "Access that is harder than it looks", "reflection": "A spoon and awkward container can make a visible resource difficult to use. Changing the arrangement may matter more than putting more effort into the same method." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You eat quietly before the day begins", "reflection": "A modest routine occupies protected time before other demands arrive. This may picture pleasure in a familiar beginning. An interruption changes the scene toward how much control you have over that small space." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "Someone takes the pot you had saved", "reflection": "A limited comfort disappears because another person does not recognize your claim to it. The scene can fit a small preference overlooked in a shared routine. Replacing it or acknowledging the loss creates different responses." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Every added flavor creates another decision", "reflection": "Personalizing a simple meal becomes a chain of choices. This may resemble making an ordinary task unnecessarily demanding. Satisfaction in experimenting differs from wanting a familiar option that does not require more evaluation." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "The sealed container is empty when opened", "reflection": "A promised portion provides less than its appearance suggested. This can picture disappointment in a modest expectation. Asking for another option differs from remaining attached to the container because it looked complete." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "The spoon cannot reach what remains", "reflection": "The resource is visible but its design makes access awkward. This may fit support or information offered in an inconvenient form. A changed tool or container can alter the problem more directly than repeated unsuccessful effort." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "Yogurt spills during a hurried breakfast", "reflection": "A brief routine becomes another task at a crowded moment. The scene may picture frustration with timing rather than the food’s meaning. Someone helping with cleanup changes the pressure from solitary responsibility toward practical support." } ], "prompts": [ "What did this small routine provide before anything interrupted it?", "Were additions welcome choices or another demand to manage?", "Did the container’s appearance match what I could actually use?" ], "related": [ "milk", "cream", "breakfast", "fruit" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "kind": "modern", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "yoke", "title": "Yoke", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing a yoke, denotes that you will unwillingly conform to the customs and wishes of others.” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "yoke" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about yoke stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2253", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Yoke", "text": "To dream of seeing a yoke, denotes that you will unwillingly\nconform to the customs and wishes of others.\n\nTo yoke oxen in your dreams, signifies that your judgment and\ncounsels will be accepted submissively by those dependent upon you.\nTo fail to yoke them, you will be anxious over some prodigal friend.", "locator": "Heading 2257; source lines 24737–24746", "lineStart": 24737, "lineEnd": 24746, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing a yoke, denotes that you will unwillingly\nconform to the customs and wishes of others.\n\nTo yoke oxen in your dreams, signifies that your judgment and\ncounsels will be accepted submissively by those dependent upon you.\nTo fail to yoke them, you will be anxious over some prodigal friend." }, { "id": "fontaine-0883", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Yoke", "text": "To dream of seeing sleek and healthy cattle yoked together and\nacting in harmony, is a sign of a happy marriage: if a girl dreams\nthis, she will be apt to put her own neck in Hymen’s yoke before a\ngreat while. To imagine you see yoked cattle wrangling, and trying to\nget their necks out of the yoke, foretells matrimonial troubles, though\nit still denotes wedlock to the unmarried. 6, 11.", "locator": "Heading 883; source line 5352", "lineStart": 5352, "lineEnd": 5359, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing sleek and healthy cattle yoked together and\nacting in harmony, is a sign of a happy marriage: if a girl dreams\nthis, she will be apt to put her own neck in Hymen’s yoke before a\ngreat while. To imagine you see yoked cattle wrangling, and trying to\nget their necks out of the yoke, foretells matrimonial troubles, though\nit still denotes wedlock to the unmarried." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12659", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Yoke", "heading": "Yoke", "text": "To dream of wearing a yoke denotes anger (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12659, "lineEnd": 12660, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 266; NLM OCR lines 12659–12660", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12659, "lineEnd": 12660, "printedPage": 266, "printedPageEnd": 266 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Yoke. — To dream of wearing a yoke denotes anger (Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Yoke" }, "displayText": "To dream of wearing a yoke denotes anger (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "young", "title": "Young", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing young people, is a prognostication of reconciliation of family disagreements and…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "young" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about young stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2254", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Young", "text": "To dream of seeing young people, is a prognostication of reconciliation\nof family disagreements and favorable times for planning new enterprises.\n\nTo dream that you are young again, foretells that you will make mighty\nefforts to recall lost opportunities, but will nevertheless fail.\n\nFor a mother to see her son an infant or small child again,\nforetells that old wounds will be healed and she will take on her\nyouthful hopes and cheerfulness. If the child seems to be dying,\nshe will fall into ill fortune and misery will attend her.\n\nTo see the young in school, foretells that prosperity and usefulness\nwill envelope you with favors.", "locator": "Heading 2258; source lines 24746–24760", "lineStart": 24746, "lineEnd": 24760, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of seeing young people, is a prognostication of reconciliation\nof family disagreements and favorable times for planning new enterprises.\n\nTo dream that you are young again, foretells that you will make mighty\nefforts to recall lost opportunities, but will nevertheless fail.\n\nFor a mother to see her son an infant or small child again,\nforetells that old wounds will be healed and she will take on her\nyouthful hopes and cheerfulness. If the child seems to be dying,\nshe will fall into ill fortune and misery will attend her.\n\nTo see the young in school, foretells that prosperity and usefulness\nwill envelope you with favors." }, { "id": "fontaine-0884", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Young", "text": "If an old or middle aged person dreams that they are young, it\nforetells their death: for a young person to dream that he or she is a\nchild, the omen is similar; but to dream _of youths_, is a sign that\nyou will live to a great age. 69, 4.", "locator": "Heading 884; source line 5359", "lineStart": 5359, "lineEnd": 5364, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "If an old or middle aged person dreams that they are young, it\nforetells their death: for a young person to dream that he or she is a\nchild, the omen is similar; but to dream of youths, is a sign that\nyou will live to a great age." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12661", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Young", "heading": "Young", "text": "To dream of becoming youthful denotes a faithful and loving husband or wife (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12661, "lineEnd": 12665, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 266; NLM OCR lines 12661–12665", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12661, "lineEnd": 12665, "printedPage": 266, "printedPageEnd": 266 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Young. — To dream of becoming youthful denotes a faith- \nful and loving husband or wife (Gypsy). \n\nZ \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [ { "line": 12664, "text": "Z " } ], "hyphenationRepairs": [ { "type": "join-linebreak-remove-hyphen", "before": "faith- \nful", "after": "faithful", "evidenceLine": 2176 } ], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Young" }, "displayText": "To dream of becoming youthful denotes a faithful and loving husband or wife (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "your-location-visible-to-everyone", "title": "Your location visible to everyone", "type": "dreams", "category": "Work & digital", "tagline": "Public location sharing can turn ordinary movement into a question of consent, safety, accountability, or the wish to be found.", "summary": "Public location sharing can turn ordinary movement into a question of consent, safety, accountability, or the wish to be found.", "aliases": [ "location sharing dream", "everyone can track me on a map" ], "status": "DRAFT", "kind": "modern", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "Who could see the map, and had you chosen to share it? Being found by a trusted person may feel very different from being monitored by someone whose access you do not want. Note whether you tried to hide, explain, or change permissions. The dream is not evidence that your real device is tracking you without consent. Reflection can stay with the distinction between chosen connection and unwanted scrutiny.", "traditional": "Historical spying and pursuit entries do not directly cover persistent digital location records. This draft makes no traditional claim about a moving dot, map pin, or the direction you travel.", "scenarios": [ { "title": "A friend uses the map to reach you safely", "reflection": "What made being visible feel supportive in this relationship?" }, { "title": "Someone questions every place you stop", "reflection": "When did sharing information become having to justify yourself?" }, { "title": "You switch sharing off and feel uncertain", "reflection": "What balance between privacy and connection were you trying to choose?" } ], "prompts": [ "Who had access to your location?", "Had that access been freely agreed?", "Did you want to be found, accompanied, or left alone?" ], "related": [ "map", "privacy" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia model-assisted editorial draft. Reflection questions and scenario readings are optional, individually written suggestions, not empirically validated symbol meanings. Source scope is stated with each citation. Historical comparisons identify topics, not inherited interpretations. Individual editorial review is required before publication.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "youth", "title": "Youth", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Cielo wrote: “An old person dreaming of being young means a reunion with an absent friend.”", "aliases": [ "youth" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about youth stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "cielo-0480", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Youth", "text": "An old person dreaming of being young means a reunion\n with an absent friend. A young girl dreaming of a youth can\n prepare for a speedy marriage.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 480; source lines 5032–5036", "lineStart": 5032, "lineEnd": 5036, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "An old person dreaming of being young means a reunion\nwith an absent friend. A young girl dreaming of a youth can\nprepare for a speedy marriage." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "yule-log", "title": "Yule Log", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a yule log, foretells that your joyous anticipations will be realized by your attendance at great festivities.”", "aliases": [ "yule log" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about yule log stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2254b", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Yule Log", "text": "To dream of a yule log, foretells that your joyous anticipations\nwill be realized by your attendance at great festivities.", "locator": "Heading 2259; source lines 24760–24774", "lineStart": 24760, "lineEnd": 24774, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of a yule log, foretells that your joyous anticipations\nwill be realized by your attendance at great festivities." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "zebra", "title": "Zebra", "type": "dreams", "category": "Animals", "tagline": "4 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of a zebra, denotes that you will be interested in varying and fleeting enterprises.” Compare 4 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "zebra" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about zebra stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "zenith", "title": "Zenith", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of the zenith, foretells elaborate prosperity, and your choice of suitors will be successful.”", "aliases": [ "zenith" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about zenith stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. 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No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "cielo-54774", "title": "Fortunes and Dreams", "author": "Astra Cielo", "edition": "New York, George Sully, 1917", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54774", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2257", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Zephyr", "text": "To dream of soft zephyrs, denotes that you will sacrifice fortune\nto obtain the object of your affection and will find reciprocal\naffection in your wooing.\n\nIf a young woman dreams that she is saddened by the whisperings\nof the zephyrs, she will have a season of disquietude by the compelled\nabsence of her lover.", "locator": "Heading 2262; source lines 24788–24798", "lineStart": 24788, "lineEnd": 24798, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of soft zephyrs, denotes that you will sacrifice fortune\nto obtain the object of your affection and will find reciprocal\naffection in your wooing.\n\nIf a young woman dreams that she is saddened by the whisperings\nof the zephyrs, she will have a season of disquietude by the compelled\nabsence of her lover." }, { "id": "cielo-0482", "sourceId": "cielo-54774", "heading": "Zephyr", "text": "To embroider or crochet with zephyr or wool\n denotes a meeting with a person who will love you.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 482; source lines 5040–5046", "lineStart": 5040, "lineEnd": 5046, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To embroider or crochet with zephyr or wool\ndenotes a meeting with a person who will love you." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12669", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Zephyr", "heading": "Zephyr", "text": "Inconstancy is augured by this dream (Gypsy). A symbol of lightness and fickleness.", "lineStart": 12669, "lineEnd": 12671, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 266; NLM OCR lines 12669–12671", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12669, "lineEnd": 12671, "printedPage": 266, "printedPageEnd": 266 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Zephyr. — Inconstancy is augured by this dream (Gypsy). \nA symbol of lightness and fickleness. \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Zephyr" }, "displayText": "Inconstancy is augured by this dream (Gypsy). A symbol of lightness and fickleness." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "zinc", "title": "Zinc", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To work with or to see zinc in your dreams, indicates substantial and energetic progress.” Compare 2 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "zinc" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about zinc stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2258", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Zinc", "text": "To work with or to see zinc in your dreams, indicates substantial\nand energetic progress. Business will assume a brisk tone\nin its varying departments.\n\nTo dream of zinc ore promises the approach of eventful success.", "locator": "Heading 2263; source lines 24798–24806", "lineStart": 24798, "lineEnd": 24806, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To work with or to see zinc in your dreams, indicates substantial\nand energetic progress. Business will assume a brisk tone\nin its varying departments.\n\nTo dream of zinc ore promises the approach of eventful success." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12675", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Zinc", "heading": "Zinc", "text": "A dream connoting the distrust of friends (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12675, "lineEnd": 12683, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 266–267; NLM OCR lines 12675–12683", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12675, "lineEnd": 12683, "printedPage": 266, "printedPageEnd": 267 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Zinc. — A dream connoting the distrust of friends (Gypsy). \n\n\nSYMBOLISM IN DREAMS \n\n\n267 \n\n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [ { "line": 12678, "text": "SYMBOLISM IN DREAMS " }, { "line": 12681, "text": "267 " } ], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Zinc" }, "displayText": "A dream connoting the distrust of friends (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "zink", "title": "Zink", "type": "dreams", "category": "Nature & elements", "tagline": "2 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “To dream of this metal denotes happiness and prosperity to the dreamer. 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Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "metals" ] }, { "slug": "zither", "title": "Zither", "type": "dreams", "category": "Objects & events", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Craig wrote: “A message from a lover is augured by this dream (Gypsy).”", "aliases": [ "zither" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about zither stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. 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OCR transcription retains historical claims and author attribution." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "craig-1918:L12684", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Zither", "heading": "Zither", "text": "A message from a lover is augured by this dream (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12684, "lineEnd": 12686, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 267; NLM OCR lines 12684–12686", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12684, "lineEnd": 12686, "printedPage": 267, "printedPageEnd": 267 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Zither. — A message from a lover is augured by this dream \n(Gypsy). \n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Zither" }, "displayText": "A message from a lover is augured by this dream (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "zodiac", "title": "Zodiac", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "3 historical accounts to explore.", "summary": "Miller wrote: “To dream of the zodiac is a prognostication of unparalleled rise in material worth, but also indicates…” Compare 3 historical dream books.", "aliases": [ "zodiac" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about zodiac stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source." }, { "id": "noe-53879", "title": "The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller", "author": "A. H. Noe", "edition": "New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53879", "rights": "Project Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Complete source and Gutenberg licence retained. No worldwide clearance is asserted." }, { "id": "craig-1918", "title": "The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern", "author": "Katherine Taylor Craig", "edition": "New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition", "url": "https://archive.org/details/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov", "rights": "Original United States edition published in 1918; the original text is public domain in the USA because copyright has expired. Edition date is documented by NLM metadata and the original title/copyright pages. No worldwide clearance is asserted. 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To a woman,\nthat she will wed a foreigner who is deeply skilled in astronomy.", "locator": "Dream section, heading 590; source lines 2118–2124", "lineStart": 2118, "lineEnd": 2124, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of the twelve signs of the zodiac, shows to a man that\nhe will be a great traveler, and sail once around the world. To a woman,\nthat she will wed a foreigner who is deeply skilled in astronomy." }, { "id": "craig-1918:L12687", "sourceId": "craig-1918", "originalHeading": "Zodiac", "heading": "Zodiac", "text": "To dream of the twelve signs of the zodiac shows a great traveler, and predicts a voyage around the world (Gypsy).", "lineStart": 12687, "lineEnd": 12691, "kind": "definition", "locator": "Printed p. 267; NLM OCR lines 12687–12691", "sourceLocator": { "type": "ocr-lines", "url": "https://archive.org/download/00920120R.nlm.nih.gov/00920120R_djvu.txt", "lineStart": 12687, "lineEnd": 12691, "printedPage": 267, "printedPageEnd": 267 }, "quality": "ocr-transcription", "rawText": "Zodiac. — To dream of the twelve signs of the zodiac \nshows a great traveler, and predicts a voyage around the world \n(Gypsy). \n\n\n", "normalization": { "whitespace": "collapsed", "removedLayout": [], "hyphenationRepairs": [], "unresolvedHyphenation": [] }, "comparison": { "secondaryFile": "craig1918-google-comparison.txt", "normalizedCharacterAgreement": 1.0, "secondaryHeading": "Zodiac" }, "displayText": "To dream of the twelve signs of the zodiac shows a great traveler, and predicts a voyage around the world (Gypsy)." } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. 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The useful connection lies in repetition and endurance: you can complete one task without feeling that the larger situation is finished. A quiet room or a companion who takes the next watch may therefore carry the dream's strongest sense of relief.\n\nSurvival rules can make responsibility unusually concrete. There may be too little food, one safe doorway, or a vehicle with room for only part of the group. These details can fit the discomfort of dividing limited time and energy when several needs feel legitimate. If you keep checking every entrance while others sleep, the dream may put you in charge of maintaining safety. If someone shares supplies without demanding payment or obedience, it can instead show cooperation making an impossible situation more manageable.\n\nRecognizing a familiar person among the zombies changes the story. A face remains while conversation, affection, or responsiveness seems unavailable. This may resonate with distance in a relationship, missing someone, or feeling unable to reach them through an established routine. Trying to speak can keep attachment alive inside the frightening scene; fleeing can hold self-protection alongside grief. The dreamed transformation provides no evidence about that person's actual intentions or character. A photograph, recent viewing, or shared joke may also explain why they appeared.\n\nBeing a zombie yourself reverses the usual position. You may move automatically, follow a crowd, or know what you want while being unable to communicate it. The scene can offer a comparison with going through motions that have lost their personal purpose, or with feeling seen as a role rather than heard as a person. Still having thoughts or kindness inside the transformation complicates the image: your experience continues even when others respond only to the label. This is a possible reading of the scene, not a judgment that you lack feeling.\n\nThe same dream can be an inventive adventure. Building an absurd barricade, discovering an unexpected escape, or laughing with allies may make ingenuity and play more important than distress. A game, film, costume, or conversation can supply its plot and visual rules. What your version changes gives the reflection its direction: who remains recognizable, whether rest becomes possible, and whether people cooperate or turn against one another. The monster alone does not settle the meaning; the human possibilities that remain can explain why this particular story mattered.", "traditional": "This entry has no verified historical dream-book passage for zombies. Accounts of the dead or ghosts concern different images and do not establish a traditional meaning for this modern scene. No claim about religious practice, folklore, or supernatural events is needed to reflect on the dream.\n\nEveryday context can begin with the particular story you recognise. Some fictional zombies are nearly mindless crowds; others retain relationships, speech, or individual wishes. Your dream may borrow one of these conventions or invent its own. A recent survival game can provide the building, the route, and even the inventory while your own concerns supply the companions. Record the source if you remember it, then identify the details that were yours: whom you protected, what counted as safety, and whether anyone could still respond to kindness.", "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "You barricade a familiar building", "reflection": "The setting turns general danger into protecting a particular part of your life. Working alone may resemble being responsible for keeping everyone else comfortable or safe. Others helping, or an entrance that finally holds, can make shared effort and a pause the scene's important result." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "The crowd returns after every escape", "reflection": "Each successful move buys time without bringing an ending. This can fit recurring demands that make completion hard to feel. Finding somewhere the crowd cannot reach changes the question from how to keep running to what would let you stop." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "You recognize someone among the zombies", "reflection": "Recognition may turn fear into hesitation, grief, or compassion. Speaking and receiving no answer differs from discovering that the person still knows you. The dream can explore felt distance or attachment without revealing the real person's thoughts." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "Strangers cooperate and share supplies", "reflection": "The crisis becomes manageable because responsibility is distributed. Someone standing watch while you rest can make receiving help central. If sharing feels tense or conditional, the scene may instead concern what you must give up to belong to the group." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "You become a zombie but remain aware", "reflection": "You still have an inner experience while others see only a frightening role. This may fit feeling unheard, moving through routines automatically, or being reduced to one aspect of yourself. A person who listens can change the ending by restoring recognition rather than defeating a monster." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The zombie chase feels like a game", "reflection": "Excitement, inventive tools, and laughter may be the point of the scene. It can reflect pleasure in problem-solving or a familiar fictional adventure. Notice whether you freely explore or suddenly lose that freedom; a shift from play to exhaustion gives the story a different emotional movement." } ], "prompts": [ "What rule did the dream use to separate a person from a zombie?", "What did you need most: rest, supplies, recognition, or companionship?", "Which details came from a story you know, and which surprised you?" ], "related": [ "being-chased", "apocalypse", "deceased-loved-one", "ghost" ], "sources": [ { "id": "ninds-understanding-sleep", "title": "Understanding Sleep — general dream context, not a symbol interpretation", "author": "National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke", "url": "https://www.ninds.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/understanding-sleep.pdf", "scope": "General background: waking experiences and emotion can enter dreams; the function of dreaming is not settled. Does not test or validate this entry’s symbolic reflections." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia expansion written on 2026-10-13, awaiting human publication review. Interpretations are conditional invitations to reflection, not validated symbolic meanings, predictions, diagnoses, or evidence about other people. Historical coverage is identified separately from original everyday context; research citations provide general context only.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Demands without a finish", "reflection": "A crowd that returns after every escape can resemble effort without a clear stopping point. A chance to rest may matter more than winning one confrontation." }, { "title": "Recognition survives a change", "reflection": "A familiar face in the crowd can bring attachment, grief, or compassion into a frightening scene. What you can still share changes the experience of separation." }, { "title": "Shared resources and room to act", "reflection": "Supplies, shelter, and improvised solutions make cooperation tangible. The story can explore how responsibility is shared or become an imaginative adventure with unexpected allies." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "zoological-garden", "title": "Zoological Garden", "type": "dreams", "category": "Places", "tagline": "Different living encounters can invite different responses.", "summary": "A zoo dream can explore varied encounters, visitors’ different reactions and a change from watching to responsibility. One approach may not suit every scene.", "aliases": [ "zoological garden", "zoo", "zoos", "zoological gardens" ], "status": "REVIEW", "updated": "2026-10-13", "psychological": "Several living encounters give a zoo dream its setting. One animal may welcome your attention while another continues an activity of its own. This can picture entering a group whose participants have different needs and ways of responding. A new workplace, a family gathering or a shared undertaking may offer a parallel. The variety matters because one successful approach may not suit every encounter; curiosity can remain useful when a single explanation does not.\n\nAn animal changing its activity when you approach makes your presence part of the scene. The encounter no longer feels like an image available to inspect without effect. You might recognize a conversation that changes when you join, or work that takes another direction once your contribution becomes visible. Interest, surprise and awkwardness create different readings. The imagined response does not reveal the motives of a real person or the behavior of an actual species.\n\nOther visitors can receive the same encounter differently. A companion feels comfortable close by while you want more room, or your excitement meets their wish to move on. This can resemble sharing an occasion without sharing every preference. Making room for different reactions may allow company to continue without requiring one participant to provide the correct feeling for everyone.\n\nBeing mistaken for a keeper changes visiting into responsibility. Someone hands you an unfinished task before explaining what is needed. A helpful role at work or home may similarly develop expectations beyond the contribution you initially offered. Clear information and another person's assistance can make the role workable. Being able to decline matters when observing was the participation you had chosen.\n\nAn animal joining the visitors can make a familiar division unexpectedly negotiable. Animals watching you in return can shift attention toward what it feels like to be the subject of curiosity. Recent visits, stories or wildlife images may supply direct context. These original comparisons follow varied imagined exchanges and changing roles; they do not turn a dream into facts about animal care, welfare or character.", "traditional": "Miller’s Zoological Garden passage predicts alternating fortunes and knowledge through travel. These are attributed period forecasts. The original reflections explore varied living encounters, visitors’ reactions and a change from watching to responsibility, without making predictions or inferring actual animal behavior from a dream.", "interpretationThemes": [ { "title": "Several encounters, several responses", "reflection": "A shared setting can include different needs and ways of responding. Finding a useful approach does not require applying the same expectation to every participant." }, { "title": "Company with different reactions", "reflection": "Visitors may receive the same encounter differently. Shared participation can allow separate preferences for closeness, activity and attention." }, { "title": "A visitor becomes part of the exchange", "reflection": "An assigned care role or returned observation can change watching into participation. Clear terms matter when the encounter begins asking something of you." } ], "scenarios": [ { "slug": "scene-1", "title": "Several animals invite incompatible responses at once", "reflection": "Competing invitations can picture a group whose needs cannot be met through one response. A household or team may fit. Choosing where to participate can remain considerate without requiring you to satisfy every invitation at once or judge one encounter as the only important one." }, { "slug": "scene-2", "title": "An animal changes its activity when you approach", "reflection": "A changed activity can picture discovering that your presence affects a shared situation. Joining a conversation or contributing to work may feel similar. Surprise can invite another exchange without making the imagined animal’s response evidence of anyone’s actual motives or habits." }, { "slug": "scene-3", "title": "Visitors prefer different distances from the same encounter", "reflection": "Different preferred distances can picture company that does not require identical comfort. A shared outing or unfamiliar group may fit. Allowing room for several responses changes the encounter from proving which reaction is correct toward finding participation each person can actually use." }, { "slug": "scene-4", "title": "You are handed an unfinished keeper’s task", "reflection": "An unexpected keeper’s task can resemble responsibility growing beyond the contribution you offered. Information or assistance may make the role workable. Being allowed to decline creates another reading from assuming you must accept every need because you happened to be present when it appeared." }, { "slug": "scene-5", "title": "An animal joins the visitors’ group", "reflection": "An animal joining the group can picture a familiar division becoming less fixed. Someone usually observed or represented may begin contributing directly. Welcome curiosity differs from uncertainty about new terms; the dream creates an imagined exchange rather than a conclusion about real animals." }, { "slug": "scene-6", "title": "The animals watch you in return", "reflection": "Returned observation can picture becoming the subject of attention after expecting only to watch. A new group or public role may offer a parallel. Enjoyment and self-consciousness support different readings, without making the dream crowd evidence of how real people judge you." } ], "prompts": [ "Which encounters needed different responses rather than one shared approach?", "How did companions’ reactions affect the visit without deciding my own response?", "What changed when watching became a role that asked something of me?" ], "related": [ "menagerie", "cage", "garden", "wild" ], "sources": [ { "id": "miller-926", "title": "Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream", "author": "Gustavus Hindman Miller", "edition": "Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/926", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. No worldwide clearance is asserted. Gutenberg licence retained in the raw source.", "recordIds": [ "miller-2260" ], "scope": "Miller’s Zoological Garden account forecasts alternating fortunes and knowledge through travel. Exact supplied record(s): miller-2260 — Zoological Garden (Heading 2265; source lines 24823–24831). Attributed historical comparison only; not evidence for the original reflection, a diagnosis or an actual outcome." } ], "editorialNote": "Original DreamFolia reflection reviewed for content and source fidelity. Interpretations are possibilities, not validated symbolic codes. Human publication review pending.", "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "miller-2260", "sourceId": "miller-926", "heading": "Zoological Garden", "text": "To dream of visiting zoological gardens, denotes that you will\nhave a varied fortune. Sometimes it seems that enemies will\noverpower you and again you stand in the front rank of success.\nYou will also gain knowledge by travel and sojourn in foreign countries.", "locator": "Heading 2265; source lines 24823–24831", "lineStart": 24823, "lineEnd": 24831, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "To dream of visiting zoological gardens, denotes that you will\nhave a varied fortune. Sometimes it seems that enemies will\noverpower you and again you stand in the front rank of success.\nYou will also gain knowledge by travel and sojourn in foreign countries." } ], "sourceCrossReferences": [] }, { "slug": "zouave", "title": "Zouave", "type": "dreams", "category": "People", "tagline": "1 historical account to explore.", "summary": "Fontaine wrote: “To dream you see Zouaves, as well as other soldiers and armed men, denotes, that you will have quarrels and trouble in your family, if you…”", "aliases": [ "zouave", "soldier’s drum" ], "status": "ARCHIVE", "kind": "historical", "updated": "2026-10-12", "psychological": "", "traditional": "", "scenarios": [], "prompts": [ "Which detail about zouave stayed with you?", "Does any of the historical reading fit your experience, or does it miss the feeling of the dream?", "What personal association would you add in your own words?" ], "related": [ "parade", "procession" ], "sources": [ { "id": "fontaine-60045", "title": "The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller", "author": "Felix Fontaine", "edition": "1862", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60045", "rights": "Gutenberg identifies this edition as public domain in the USA. Gutenberg licence retained; unrelated fortune-telling material excluded from entries." } ], "historicalRecords": [ { "id": "fontaine-0886", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Zouave", "text": "(_See Parade._) To dream you see Zouaves, as well as other\nsoldiers and armed men, denotes, that you will have quarrels and\ntrouble in your family, if you have one, and if you have not, among\nyour relatives: to the single man, this dream foreshadows that his\nsweetheart loves another better than himself; and to the maiden it\nsignifies her lover will try and seduce her. 58, 1, 77.", "locator": "Heading 886; source line 5370", "lineStart": 5370, "lineEnd": 5377, "kind": "dictionary", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Parade.) To dream you see Zouaves, as well as other\nsoldiers and armed men, denotes, that you will have quarrels and\ntrouble in your family, if you have one, and if you have not, among\nyour relatives: to the single man, this dream foreshadows that his\nsweetheart loves another better than himself; and to the maiden it\nsignifies her lover will try and seduce her." }, { "id": "fontaine-0743", "sourceId": "fontaine-60045", "heading": "Soldier’s Drum", "text": "(_See Zouave, Parade and Procession._)", "locator": "Heading 743; source line 4625", "lineStart": 4625, "lineEnd": 4627, "kind": "cross-reference", "quality": "transcription", "displayText": "(See Zouave, Parade and Procession.)" } ], "editorialNote": "Attributed historical writing. Historical claims are not established predictions or universal psychological meanings.", "sourceCrossReferences": [ "parade", "procession" ] } ] }